And as angry as I am about that, I'm even more worried about the second argument, the race neutral argument, because that's the more insidious one, because we forget that Jim Crow voting laws were also described as race neutral. In fact, they were. They passed these laws and they applied to everyone. Jim Crow, when it came to voting, applied to everyone, but it only hurt black voters because … (05:39–05:44)
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