Stacey Abrams: “The Voting Rights Act said, no, we meant it, and now we're…”

“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 Voting Rights Act said, no, we meant it, and now we're going to make you do it. And so there are two big pieces. Section five, which said that if you're going to pass any laws that made it harder to vote, you had to get permission.” (06:45–06:51)

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