Can Stacy walk through the math of how states with large black populations have so little representation for their black citizens? I feel an undercurrent recently where people are blaming the targets of voter suppression rather than the perpetrators. The 15th amendment said that you could not prohibit the right to vote based on race, creed, or color. Well, the problem was that there were a lot of black people living in a place that had just lost a war. (06:19–06:25)
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