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The Boycott, The Mistrial, and The Weed Rules · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The NAACP is urging black athletes to rethink playing for
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  Speaker 1: southern schools over voting rights.
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  Speaker 2: The silence of these institutions is complicity.
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  Speaker 1: And a mistrial motion taking center stage today in the
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Elementary school shooting trial law. They can't ask questions
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  Speaker 1: of the businesses, and TSA is changing the rules for travelers.
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  Speaker 1: Harry and Weed will explain. The page does not give
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  Speaker 1: details on the specific reason for this rule change. It's Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: May twenty first from the Black Effects Podcast Network. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown. This is front page and here are today's
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  Speaker 1: biggest stories plus today on the headlines. We didn't take
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  Speaker 1: seriously enough the Supreme Court ruling from twenty thirteen. That's
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  Speaker 1: behind everything happening right now. Stay with me. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a parent with a child being recruited right now, if
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  Speaker 1: your son is hoping to play college football or basketball,
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  Speaker 1: if your family is looking at schools like Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: or Texas, the NAACP wants you to start asking a
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  Speaker 1: brand new question before signing day, not just how big
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  Speaker 1: the stadium is, not just about the nil money and
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  Speaker 1: not about playing time, but whether the state your child
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  Speaker 1: is about to spend four years in respects their right
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  Speaker 1: to vote because the NAACP just launched a new campaign
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  Speaker 1: urging black athletes and their families to reconsider attending public
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  Speaker 1: universities in states they say are weakening black voting rights.
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  Speaker 1: The campaign is called out of Bounds, and it's aimed
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  Speaker 1: directly at some of the biggest college sport programs in America.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking SEC country schools making hundreds of millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars every year, powered largely by black athletes on the field.
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  Speaker 1: N DOUAACP president Derek Johnson says schools should not profit
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  Speaker 1: from black talent while staying silent as black political power
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  Speaker 1: is reduced in those same states. And now the Congressional
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  Speaker 1: Black HAWKUS is backing that effort too. Here's House Minority
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  Speaker 1: Leader Hakim Jeffries.
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  Speaker 2: This is an unprecedented moment featuring an unprecedented attack on
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  Speaker 2: black political representation, and therefore it requires an unprecedented response.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. We are here standing in solidarity with the
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  Speaker 2: NAACP and its call for athletes to boycott institutions within
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  Speaker 2: the SEC that belong to states that have unleashed these
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  Speaker 2: Jim Crow like racially oppressive tactics, and we believe that
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  Speaker 2: the silence of these institutions is complicity.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the other side of this debate that I
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  Speaker 1: think people are struggling with. Is this too much to
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  Speaker 1: put on a seventeen or eighteen year old kid, Because
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  Speaker 1: once you move past the headlines and the politics, the
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  Speaker 1: reality is for a lot of these athletes, football and
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  Speaker 1: basketballs are not hobbies. They're exits, they're opportunities. The nil
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  Speaker 1: money at schools like Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, Florida can
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  Speaker 1: be life changing. The TV exposure is bigger, the facilities
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  Speaker 1: are bigger, the NFL and the NBA pipeline is bigger. Now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: people immediately say HBCUs and I understand why Dion Sanders
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  Speaker 1: showed what was possible at Jackson State, and for a
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  Speaker 1: moment it felt like the culture was shifting. But when
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  Speaker 1: Dion left, it also felt like a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: momentum left too. So now the real question becomes, can
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs realistically compete right now with the money, the exposure,
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  Speaker 1: the professional opportunities these powerhouse schools offer. And if the
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  Speaker 1: answer is not fully just yet, is it fair to
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  Speaker 1: ask a teenager to potentially sacrifice part of their own
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  Speaker 1: future for a political fight. Here's one perspective that's getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of attention online.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, we have to acknowledge the hipocrisy of
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  Speaker 3: these states that use black bodies as economic engines. On
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  Speaker 3: Saturdays and on Sundays, they're taking away their votes, of
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  Speaker 3: their mems, of their big mamas, of all their family members.
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  Speaker 3: So that part of it is real, and that part
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  Speaker 3: of it we cannot deny. Also, at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's really rough to speak
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  Speaker 3: out to these eighteen year olds and ask them to
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  Speaker 3: make these decisions When I was eighteen, I was seventeen
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  Speaker 3: actually to make the decision. I had studied so hard
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  Speaker 3: and so long to figure out what it was for
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  Speaker 3: me to get to Tennessee and then not only not
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  Speaker 3: only that, but the main pipeline to get to the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: So my main mission at that age was trying to
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  Speaker 3: get to the NFL. I think it's really difficult. These
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  Speaker 3: are real issues that need to be addressed, but I
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  Speaker 3: think it's difficult for me to push on these eighteen
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  Speaker 3: year olds, these nineteen year olds, to get them to
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  Speaker 3: make a decision of this magnitude at such a young.
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  Speaker 1: Age, And that's the part of the conversation I think
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  Speaker 1: is complicated because on one side, the NAACP is asking
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  Speaker 1: black athletes to think about political power and community responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: But on the other side, some families are thinking, my
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  Speaker 1: child has one shot, and I honestly do not know
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  Speaker 1: where the easy answer is here. So I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear from you guys on this one. Send me your
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  Speaker 1: take on this. If you're a parent, coach, former athlete,
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  Speaker 1: current student, or just someone with an opinion, send me
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  Speaker 1: a voice memo, keep it to thirty seconds, or email
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  Speaker 1: me at front page with Mimi at gmail dot com,
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  Speaker 1: or you can DM me your voice note as well
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  Speaker 1: at Mimi Brown TV. Tell me where you stand the
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  Speaker 1: question again, should black athletes think twice about playing for
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  Speaker 1: schools in state's accused of attacking black voter rights? Or
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  Speaker 1: is that too much to put on teenagers just trying
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  Speaker 1: to build a future for themselves and their families. I'll
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  Speaker 1: play the best voice memos on next Thursday's show. Day
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  Speaker 1: three of the doctor Ebenie Parker trial wrapped Wednesday in
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  Speaker 1: Newport News, Virginia, and by the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors had officially rested their case, So if you miss
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's episode and you're just catching Parker is the former
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  Speaker 1: assistant principal accused of failing to act before six year
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  Speaker 1: old student brought a gun into Richneck Elementary School and
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  Speaker 1: shot first grade teacher Abby's werner back in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: She now faces eight felony child abuse charges end up
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  Speaker 1: to forty years in prison, and Wednesday may have been
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  Speaker 1: one of the most important days of the trial so far.
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  Speaker 1: So first, the defense tried to stop the trial altogether.
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  Speaker 1: Parker's attorneys asked the judge for a mistrial after a
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  Speaker 1: jurer reportedly asks other jurors whether they should see clarification
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  Speaker 1: on testimony they had heard in court. The jurors think
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  Speaker 1: this matter are actually the trials of fact, and from
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  Speaker 1: the law, they.
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  Speaker 2: Can't ask questions of the witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: The defense called it juror misconduct, but the judge disagreed
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  Speaker 1: and denied the motion, allowing the trial to continue. Then
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  Speaker 1: came the prosecution's biggest moment of the day. Jurors watched
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  Speaker 1: a recorded zoom interview conducted just days after the shooting
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  Speaker 1: between Parker and the school's district hr director. In the video,
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  Speaker 1: Parker claimed that the teacher, Abby z Warner, never directly
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  Speaker 1: told her she believed the child had a gun or
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  Speaker 1: that she felt unsafe.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Warner never came to me and said anything about
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  Speaker 2: her family.
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  Speaker 3: That the student had a weapon, or did she felt unsafe.
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  Speaker 1: She did, but jewors heard very different testimony earlier this
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  Speaker 1: week from Zurner herself. We played that here. The prosecution
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  Speaker 1: also highlighted another key moment from the interview when Parker
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  Speaker 1: said the school had quote never searched a student. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: then pointed directly to the district's own handbook, which states
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  Speaker 1: that school administrators do have the authority to search students
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  Speaker 1: when there's reasonable suspicion Drewors also heard emotional testimony from
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  Speaker 1: parents whose children were inside the classroom during the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Recently when she inspected counseling.
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  Speaker 1: They said that she has depression, anxiety, some agase, said
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  Speaker 1: school awiteness, just those general anxiousness.
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  Speaker 2: Just extreme fear.
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  Speaker 1: Now the prosecution's case is over, the defense is expected
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  Speaker 1: to continue presenting its case on Thursday, with closing arguments
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  Speaker 1: possibly coming before the end of the week. Every Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: on front page, we pull back to look at a
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  Speaker 1: story that was treated us small at the time, but
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  Speaker 1: ended up shaping the world we live in right now.
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  Speaker 1: Today's pick. June twenty fifth, twenty thirteen. That was the
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  Speaker 1: day the US Supreme Court handed down a major decision
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  Speaker 1: in a case called Shelby County versus Holder, and a
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  Speaker 1: five to four ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a
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  Speaker 1: key part of the Voting Rights Act, known as Section
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  Speaker 1: five or pre clearance. States with long histories of racial
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  Speaker 1: discrimination in voting, mostly in the South, used to have
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  Speaker 1: to get federal approval before changing voting laws or redistricting maps.
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  Speaker 1: After that ruling, they no longer had to so. At
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  Speaker 1: the time, some people thought the ruling was mostly about
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  Speaker 1: legal procedure. Civil rights groups though they warned it would
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  Speaker 1: weaken protections for black voters. Others argued the law was
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  Speaker 1: just outdated. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority
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  Speaker 1: opinion that quote things have changed in the South. But
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  Speaker 1: fast forward to now, twelve years later, Tennessee just carved
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  Speaker 1: up Memphis, Alabama is moving to eliminate a black congressional seat.
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana redrew its maps, Virginia voters approved a new map,
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  Speaker 1: and the Supreme Court threw it out, and just this week,
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  Speaker 1: the NAACP launched a campaign urging black athletes to rethink
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  Speaker 1: attending schools in states tied to these voting rights battles.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of states at the center of today's fights
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  Speaker 1: were once covered under that exact section of the Voting
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  Speaker 1: Rights Act. So this isn't really a history story. It's
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  Speaker 1: a now story, because whether people agree with the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court decision or not, the ripple effects are still playing
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  Speaker 1: out across the country today. That's your throwback Thursday. If
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  Speaker 1: you're flying somewhere this summer and planning on traveling with
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  Speaker 1: medical marijuana or cannabis products, there's a new TSA update
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  Speaker 1: that you should know about. The TSA quietly changed the
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  Speaker 1: wording on its website about marijuana. The agency removed older
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  Speaker 1: language that specifically highlighted marijuana as illegal under federal law.
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  Speaker 3: This was all updated April twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The page does not give details on the amount of
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  Speaker 1: medical marijuana allowed per person on a flight or the
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  Speaker 1: specific reason for this rule change. In its place, TSA
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  Speaker 1: now says its officers are focused on security threats, not
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  Speaker 1: actively searching for drugs. But here's the important part. TSA
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  Speaker 1: also says if agents happen to find marijuana during screening,
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  Speaker 1: they can still refer the matter to local law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: so this does not mean marijuana is suddenly legal to
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  Speaker 1: fly with. In fact, major airlines including Delta, American, United,
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  Speaker 1: and Southwest still prohibit marijuana on their planes, even in
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  Speaker 1: states where recreational or medical cannabis is legal, and depending
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  Speaker 1: on where you're flying, local laws may be completely different
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  Speaker 1: once you land. So while TSA may not be looking
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  Speaker 1: for weeds specifically, traveling with marijuana is still legally tricky,
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  Speaker 1: especially across state lines. That's your front page. I'm Mi
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  Speaker 1: me Brown. This podcast is brought to you by The
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