Cory Booker: “They are perfectly, with surgical like precision, drawing…”

“And what they're doing in effect is eviscerating African American leadership from the very states that were doing it back in the post Reconstruction period. And so you cannot ignore that truth. They are perfectly, with surgical like precision, drawing maps to cut out any black representation that they can. And that to me, dredges up a history of, of our martyrs of this nation for our democracy. People who were lynched, beaten, disappeared, like Goodman, Cheney and Schwarner.” (04:20–04:28)

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