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Hakeem Jeffries: “[Universities in states with racially oppressive Jim…”

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

Published | Video Starts at 27:46

As it relates to institutions that are housed in states that are experiencing a dramatic return to racially oppressive Jim Crow like tactics, these universities [Universities in states with racially oppressive Jim Crow-like tactics] should feel compelled to speak up, not because of their athletic programs, but because it's the right thing to do. here in the United States of America. And we're going to continue to press that case. And these athletes who will make their individual decisions along with their families and their pastors and their community members. (27:46–28:12)

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Asserts that universities in states with racially oppressive tactics should speak up for the right reasons.

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