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Vincent Perez: “We have not seen a map this deliberately engineered by skin…”

Featuring: Vincent Perez, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 77

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'It Is Shameful': TX Lawmaker Vincent Perez Accuses GOP Of 'Racial Disparities' In Redistricted Map

Published | Video Starts at 02:36

Any claim to the otherwise is either misunderstanding the racial realities of this map or is deliberately misrepresenting the truth. And neither approach is worthy of this chamber. We have not seen a map this deliberately engineered by skin color since the days that brought Americans to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s. Marches to protest laws designed to sideline black voters. Marches that helped to bring about the Voting Rights act just months later. (02:36–02:47)

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Asserts that the map is the most racially engineered since the 1960s civil rights marches.

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