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So let’s imagine this is Sesame Street, and you have a bunch of muppets that walk around and talk and count things and raise pigeons and whatever.

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“Well,” I’ve often heard in the past week, “if Congress does not replace the provisions that the Supreme Court struck down in the VRA then in ten years, no one of color will be able to vote anywhere in the country.” That is not true.

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This is the culture that we are fighting, a history of discrimination that is still very much a reality today.

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Anyone with even a vague connection to reality knows that present-day echoes of the Jim Crow South are vibrantly alive, and have even extended their impact to other minority groups.