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walkingman

(11,218 posts)
4. I'm white and I grew up in the Deep South under Jim Crow.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 05:31 PM
Oct 2025

It took blood, sweat, and tears for decades to get the Voting Rights Act.

In today's society it expands beyond Black people to include Latinos, women, LGBTQ+, and even people with disabilities. It revels itself with mass incarceration, voter suppression, attacks on women and LGBTQ+ rights, economic inequality, discriminatory environmental policies (notice where polluting industries are built?).

I personally think, in hindsight, that it would have been worthwhile for the filibuster to have been eliminated during the Obama administration in order to pass the "John Lewis Voting Rights Act".

I hope I'm wrong, but I would not be surprised if the entire Southern political landscape will likely be dominated by the GOP with radical racial gerrymandering.

Never underestimate nasty white people - history has shown us this over and over.
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