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For the reauthorization of the voting rights act in 2006 and now will not vote for it. our democracy is fragile as you have said but it only change in democracy that occurs is when the american people demand it and we must continue to demand it. >> this as a republican party trying to explain why not one of the 50 gop senators appears willing to support the actions necessary to protect this right this time around. >> when the senate reauthorized that law a decade ago it passed 98-0. why don't republicans including yourself support restoring the voting acts now? >> the supreme court decided, th...

The first african elected but the first democratically elected president of south africa. that's important. democracy and justice ask truth made a big difference. >> robin, i keep coming back to this and mentioned a couple times, i'm fascinated how he began to see himself and it was critical for him to see -- start to see himself as an african first, not just as a member of his ethnic group in the area that he was born as a hossa but as an african and in that way was able to overcome efforts by the white regime because they wanted groups to be divided. they wanted didn't ethnic groups, zulus a...