And much as they did in the 1890 Mississippi Constitution, as Andrew Johnson did when he became the President of the United States, they pretend race neutrality to disguise what is very clearly racial animus. And we know that Race neutrality was the pretext for the voting laws that passed during Jim Crow. Every one of the voting laws were technically race neutral. Right. It's just, oh, if your grandfather could vote. Oh, can you pass this test? Anyone could pass that. Exactly. (04:10–04:17)
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