Ari Berman
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elect a black member of Congress that will advocate for their interests.
It will almost certainly elect a white Republican who is not likely to advocate for their interests because it has gone from a majority black district to one that is overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly pro-Trump, much like the rest of Louisiana.
And the same thing is going to happen throughout the South.
There are states that have multiple
majority black districts in which maybe the state only eliminated one of them.
But there are states that have only one majority black district, for example, Mississippi.
And Republicans have already vowed to eliminate those districts as well.
And that's why I say you could have states where the black population is 30 or 40 percent, but black voters will have no ability to
to elect their candidates of choice.
And that really undermines the entire spirit of the Voting Rights Act because the Voting Rights Act of 1965 wasn't just about giving African Americans or other racial minority groups the right to vote.
It was about making their right to vote effective, giving them real political power.
And the way that you gain real political power is not just being able to cast a ballot, but ultimately being able to vote for politicians that are going to advocate for your interests.
And my fear is that we are returning to a politics of Jim Crow in the South.
We are returning to a politics of white supremacy in the South.
the decision destroying the Voting Rights Act doesn't just weaken the country's most important civil rights law.
It really weakens the entire project of multiracial democracy.
We've just celebrated the 250th anniversary of America.
And we're talking about where are we as a country.
And we're talking about ideas, founding ideas, like all men are created equal.
And if you look at politics in the South right now, in the wake of the destruction of the Voting Rights Act,
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