And I knew that my district, which is a VRA district, a section 2 district that they just, you know, obliterated in the Supreme Court, meant that it was a black district. Okay. The way that these districts were created historically is historically, you had to have 50% of the citizen voting age population be a specific race for it to be a tier one seat. so that that particular group of people could elect the representative that they saw fit, which isn't necessarily always a black person, but the black people get to decide, right? (1:00:53–1:01:07)
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