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Hakeem Jeffries: “If LSU is for it, we're against it. If the University of…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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CBC & NAACP Call on Athletes to Boycott Public Colleges In States Hostile to Voting Rights

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… elsewhere until these racially gerrymandered maps in the south are reversed, buried in the ground, never to rise again. With respect to the SCORE act, our position has been clear. If LSU is for it, we're against it. If the University of Alabama is for it, we're against it. If Ole Miss is for it, we're against it. If the University of South Carolina is for it, we're against it. If the University of Tennessee is for it, we're against it. And if the SEC schools are for it, we are against it. And we will continue to stand against it because we're standing on the side of liberty and justice for all. And silence in this moment is complicity. (11:57–12:28)

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Asserts opposition to the SCORE act if supported by certain SEC schools.

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