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Where there was this discourse about the difference between intention and impact, is really important. most of us who work on studies of race and racism have said for a long time that we actually should be looking primarily at desperate impact. if you can prove that these policies make it harder for people of color to go vote, we don't actually need to know about your intention. what we know is that you act in ways that make the world harder for black and brown people to participate in democracy. but what is also true, and i think what is most infuriating, is that in this case we also know tha...

Ways to make it harder for black and brown people to participate in democracy. what is also true and what i think is most infuriating is that in this case, we also know that they meet the intentionality standard. they are not just acting in ways that are having bad impact. they are actually intentionally doing so. and we have a real problem in this country where most of the folks who are racist want to openly, brazenly be racist, they just don't want to be called racist. and you don't need to be a federal court to know what racism is. we all know what it is. and these folks were being called o...