They have engaged in the fastest rollback of black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended reconstruction in 1877. 1/3, 1/3 of African Americans in the Congress seats are being threatened. They're doing it to Jim Clyburn in South Carolina, to Bennie Thompson in Mississippi and across Alabama and the South. And we are not speaking up loudly enough, strongly enough against a court that is really rolling back civil rights. (08:23–08:31)
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Asserts that African American congressional seats in South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and the South are being targeted.
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