there? there are a lot of americans around the there? there are a lot of americans around the country there? there are a lot of americans around the country who there? there are a lot of americans around the country who were - there? there are a lot of americansl around the country who were looking at this around the country who were looking at this and around the country who were looking at this and seeing racism is edge that races at this and seeing racism is edge that races are being minnock elated. the president says it isjim crow 20 the president says it isjim crow 20 my the president says it isjim crow 2.0. my parents had to deal with poll taxes 2.0. my parents had to deal with poll taxes and literacy taxes. i look poll taxes and literacy taxes. i look at poll taxes and literacy taxes. i look at this and say, this is not 1960s. look at this and say, this is not 1960s. we look at this and say, this is not 1960s, we are in 2022 and we need to stop trying 19
was push back. recall the jim crow laws and poll taxes and literacy tests and intimidation and violence. it is nice to think that is all in the past. history is a continuum. the design whose aim is not to encourage every qualified voter to vote, but impede those of suspected by where they live and where they are from and how much they make or the color of their skin to vote for one party or another. republicans are trying to prevent democrats from voting, to gain or maintain power. last year, 19 states enacted voter restriction laws over widespread voter fraud that did not exist. the 2020 election has been litigated and reviewed and audits have been done. none turned up widespread voter
we were supposed to have in congressional maps. we have the largest black population of any state in the country. and now, there is not one predominant black congressional district of the 38 that texas holds. so we as the latino population that have been we outpaced white growth in the state by 11 to 1, we thought we were going to gain possibly two congressional seats where we would be able to really have a say in what the issues were across the state and what solutions we wanted at the federal level. didn t get that. so these maps and the gerrymandering we see, we have to understand, again, that these are the same old tools of literacy tests and poll taxes repackaged with the same purpose, to deny communities of color and my family from being able to determine what happens in our state. organizations like yours that are trying to get people to the polls in spite of all that s happening. christina, thank you. we appreciate it. coming up, an effort to save lives 93 a talk point fo
towns. jim clark had the reputation of being one of the strongest and meanest sheriffs in the south. selma did everything to prevent people from voting. they closed the registration office when black people showed up. when they kept it open, they gave them the voting applications and then said there was something wrong and they would tear it up and throw it in the trash can. literacy tests and poll taxes and the very creative work of segregationists in the deep south to prevent people of color from voting. these people are just so vicious. they intimidated every voter here, you would get a parking ticket if you tried to vote and all that kind of stuff. we were not thinking tactfully about losing. if we started a voting rights march in selma, we could get the
the nightmare. mad as hell, pam gaskin, a story about this. she grew up watching her father pay poll taxes for himself and other african americans in galveston county. this is stuff we fought 50, 60 years ago. she said she downloaded a form. it was an old form. then she filed the new form and was told she had the wrong driver s license number because she had moved at one point. this is the challenge. and the question is, why? you know, again, going back to georgia when republicans were changing the law and journalists at my paper and others would ask, why are you doing it, they really didn t have a clear reason. you know, and it often seemed to go back to misinformation and disinformation by people who did not want to accept that donald trump is no longer president. so we re making it harder for people to vote and a lot of times the people who are most affected are voters of color. they are younger voters. they are newer voters. less frequent voters. but why? and that is, i think,