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Mike Lee: “This coming from the party of Jim Crow, the party that…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 25th

Published | Video Starts at 1:42:23

It's not just disturbing. It's not just insensitive. That's racist. Some refer to it as the soft bigotry of low expectations. There's nothing soft about this bigotry. It's just bigoted. And This coming from the party of Jim Crow, the party that pioneered and designed Jim Crow. the party that designed this system of laws throughout the Southern United States to systematically hatefully exclude African Americans from public life and much of private life, to segregate them. (1:42:23–1:42:29)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party historically designed Jim Crow laws.

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