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Laws in place and you had to pass a literacy test and read a complicated passage from shakespeare to vote, he could argue that's not racist because, you know, if you -- if a white or a black person or anybody can read this complicated passage from shakespeare, they can vote. if bubbles are in a bar of soap. if that had been in place in '82 and you can't show it's a substantial difference to say guess the bubbles in the soap, those laws never said black in them. they never said race in them. they never said any race in them, they said tell us how many bubbles are in the soap and they only asked...

Governments away from them which were multiracial in nature. that happened in wilmington, north carolina, white people just storming the town hall, taking it over, which i imagine you probably have not heard a lot about, because it's not really taught in schools. arms coups happened all over the south. then of course there were the jim crow laws which studiously explicitly avoided mentioning race. that's why we had literacy test and grandfather clause and name how many jelly beans are in the jar, laws that made it almost impossible functionally to vote despite the right being enshrined in the ...

Good decisions and bad decisions, but instead are simply heroic, then what you have is you're not able to explain how we got here, what we're dealing with. and it's what allows the mitch mcconnells to say we don't need a voting rights act, because we can't discriminate on the basis of race. that is to ignore that on the basis of race that you get race neutral language targeted at african-americans using the vestiges of slavery, using poverty, using wealthlessness. with the literacy test, it was using the systemic denial of education. what we ended up with in 1940 as the u.s. was getting ready ...

Fight the laws in every state while allowing the party to benefit from it. that's what he wants. and the nonchalance, the pretending that it doesn't matter, is so similar to what we heard from supporters of jim crow like segregationist senator james eastland from mississippi in 1957. listen to him. >> we have no voting qualifications based on race. >> under those circumstances -- >> not at all. and anybody who is qualified can vote. i would like to see if just what we have, that everyone who is qualified should vote. >> qualified by reason of? >> our qualifications that are written in the law ...

Heard from supporters of jim crow like segregationist senator james eastland from mississippi in 1957. listen to him. >> we have no voting qualifications based on race. >> under those circumstances -- >> not at all. and anybody who is qualified can vote. i would like to see if just what we have, that everyone who is qualified should vote. >> qualified by reason of? >> our qualifications that are written in the law that apply to all races alike. >> and you think that no tougher literacy test should be given to a negro than a white? >> inarguably. >> you know what was asking the questions? boy, ...