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Wicked Radio 4-30: Racial Gerrymandering Ban -Who's Most Upset Tells Us Everything · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: I really honestly try to put these together and get
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  Speaker 1: it out of politics. Yes, it's news, commentary, news for
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  Speaker 1: normal people. I just try to get everybody ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: You make your own decisions, But I mean, good lord,
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking about a Supreme Court decision. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's about jerry mandering racial districts. You can't get anything
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  Speaker 1: more political than that. But it's still important when you
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  Speaker 1: ask the right questions. You got to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: it means. It actually truly is, and I understand that
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  Speaker 1: it's complicated by design. No of the heads of most people,
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  Speaker 1: it truly has one of the most consequential decisions we've
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  Speaker 1: ever had in our country that broke down yesterday. How
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  Speaker 1: do you know and what does it mean? You gotta
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  Speaker 1: go by who's most upset about this? Basically, the decision
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  Speaker 1: said you can't draw voting districts congressional districts made up
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  Speaker 1: specifically based on race. It should be common sense, right,
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that? Can you that? Why would people
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  Speaker 1: be so upset about it? You got to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what it means for you to figure out who's most
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  Speaker 1: upset about it. Like, here's one reaction that happened to
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  Speaker 1: this decision yesterday on the Florida House. Florida seems totally
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  Speaker 1: rational to me. God more on Florida in just a second,
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  Speaker 1: because that's a key part of this whole thing, because
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  Speaker 1: they move very quickly to start this, and many people
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  Speaker 1: will say that Florida started this whole argument. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see, but it matters. But you got to ask
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  Speaker 1: the right question. So what does all this mean? And
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  Speaker 1: where do we go from here? We'll get to it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll break it down for normal people. Extra find a
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  Speaker 1: Wicked radio, the live stream podcast, x YouTube, Facebook audio podcast,
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Let's get right to it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you think about Ted Cruz. My gut
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  Speaker 1: instinct is I think a lot of you, if you're
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  Speaker 1: following me, probably like Ted. But even if let's take
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  Speaker 1: like Ted Cruz's personality out of it or his record,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, you can't deny the fact that Ted
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  Speaker 1: Cruz is one of the brightest constitutional minds in America.
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  Speaker 1: He is a constitutional expert. He just is. He's a
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  Speaker 1: He's a legal mind that's really, really sharp. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: he did one of the best jobs yesterday as they
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  Speaker 1: tried to find everybody explaining the Skota's decision yesterday, Ted
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  Speaker 1: Cruz broke it down probably the best of anybody, because
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  Speaker 1: he understands it the best of anybody. Let's take it
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 2: What the court concluded is that it is not permissible
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  Speaker 2: for elected politicians to jerrymander based on race, to draw
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  Speaker 2: a black seat or a white seat, or an Hispanic seat,
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  Speaker 2: that when government draws distinctions based on race, that is
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  Speaker 2: contrary to the Constitution. I think that question is absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 2: As Chief Justice Roberts wrote in a previous case, it
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  Speaker 2: is a sordid business that's divving us up by race.
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  Speaker 2: He also said, the best way to stop discriminating on
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  Speaker 2: race is to stop discriminating based on race.
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  Speaker 1: And I think in most people, normal people, you, me,
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  Speaker 1: everybody else who could blame us for saying hold on, wait,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't do that anyway. So what's the big deal?
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  Speaker 1: Hold on? Yeah, you could until he has today. You
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  Speaker 1: absolutely completely could create congressional districts how you'd vote in
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  Speaker 1: there based on race. In other words, it was completely legal.
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  Speaker 1: And this whole court case came from the State of
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana fighting against the NAACP and back and forth about
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  Speaker 1: these exact racial lines, back and forth until the Court
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  Speaker 1: made a decision yesterday. Basically, this is what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: So you'd have a state, pick any state, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd have pockets maybe metro pockets, urban pockets, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it was, of minorities. So they would say Democrat party
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  Speaker 1: would say, because they were, you know, most heavily lean
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  Speaker 1: you know on minorities for their voting numbers, they'd take
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  Speaker 1: that pocket and they would draw a district around it. Right,
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  Speaker 1: let's take like Alabama. I'm just taking that as an example.
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  Speaker 1: You know, outside of Montgomery, very very you know, urban
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  Speaker 1: area with a lot of minorities there, so they draw
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  Speaker 1: district for it. So of course you'd get a congressional
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  Speaker 1: representative from that district who would be from that party,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd have all these pockets of these racially drawn lines,
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  Speaker 1: and it would happen in every state in the Union, everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: based on race. And this is what happened. This is
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  Speaker 1: what happening, What was happening until yesterday when the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court struck that down. Here's where we go from here.
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  Speaker 1: Now all these states, not all of them, are saying
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  Speaker 1: we now have the legal right to change everything. Now
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  Speaker 1: we can go back to the way it was meant
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  Speaker 1: to be with the actual Voting Rights Act in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty five and say, no, we're just making it on population.
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  Speaker 1: Back to color blind districts for voting districts. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: this doesn't get a district just because it has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of black folks. This gets a voting district because
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  Speaker 1: it has a lot of people in general, not black,
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  Speaker 1: not white, not a Native American, not Asian, not nothing,
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  Speaker 1: just people. The way it was supposed to be. And
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  Speaker 1: you still may be thinking, but that's what we were doing. No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. That's the problem. A little bit of here.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Google, look at your favorite AI, look at
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  Speaker 1: Wikipedia even believe it or not, or I happened to
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  Speaker 1: Cherry Pickett from Grok WHOA, what changed? What the hell changed?
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  Speaker 1: You've probably had this discussion before at some point in
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  Speaker 1: your life, where you said you look at voting maps.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes usually after elections, they pop up and it says,
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  Speaker 1: for example, the first Reagan election, I think he won
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  Speaker 1: almost every county, every state in the entire nation, except
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  Speaker 1: like a pocket in Minneapolis or something like that. And
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, and you go and any compare
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  Speaker 1: it to us, where it's all divided in sall crazy,
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  Speaker 1: county by county, district by district, and you're like, what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you what happened, and when it happened.
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  Speaker 1: It happened in nineteen ninety two for a little I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to become a history professor here, God knows,
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  Speaker 1: but you can do your own research on this. So
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five, the Voting Rights Act was enacted, right,
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  Speaker 1: which said just that you can't draw congressional lines based
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  Speaker 1: on race. It's by definition racist, right, And from nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty five, for decades we went along going like that,
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  Speaker 1: and things seem to make more sense, seem to until
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two came along and they actually took the
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  Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act and they twisted it to actually make
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  Speaker 1: it racist, to make it legal, and modified it to
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  Speaker 1: make it so that you can create individual racially based
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  Speaker 1: voting districts. Nineteen ninety two, a Second who was in
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  Speaker 1: charge of nineteen ninety two, oh Congress passed and President
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  Speaker 1: George H. W. Bush more on him at a Second
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  Speaker 1: signed the Voting Rights Language Assistant Act of nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: And this opened up the door for all this racial
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  Speaker 1: jurymann and key changes. It extended language, it expanded coverage,
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  Speaker 1: it expanded all this stuff, and they used it for
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  Speaker 1: an excuse because now it's wide open to create these
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  Speaker 1: racially jerymandered voting districts. That's what happened since nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: So if you've ever asked the question, what the hell
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  Speaker 1: happened to the voting districts in this country, if you
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  Speaker 1: ever look at the maps, you know, election by election,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happened. Well, what they did in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: two just determined to be unconstitutional and it's massive. One
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  Speaker 1: of the reactions. We'll go back to that crazy lady
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  Speaker 1: on the Florida House floor from yesterday with the bullhorn.
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  Speaker 1: But more specifically, look how twisted the news anchors were.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't understand why they were, just I guess
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  Speaker 1: they didn't expect this decision. But this has been going
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  Speaker 1: back in the courts for like ever. This has been
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  Speaker 1: a long time coming. Look at this CNN reporter who
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  Speaker 1: explains exactly what it means, had to because she was
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  Speaker 1: caught off guard, had to truthfully say what this actually means.
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  Speaker 1: Here she was yesterday What the.
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  Speaker 3: Court did today was to say, if you're going to
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  Speaker 3: try to challenge vote dilution, and vote dilution is real.
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  Speaker 3: Lower court judges have found it to be real. Lower
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  Speaker 3: court judges who have been appointed by Republican presidents have
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  Speaker 3: found it to be a real problem, particularly in the South,
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  Speaker 3: but other places too. And what's going to happen is fine,
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  Speaker 3: just identifying vote dilution will not be enough to get
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  Speaker 3: a map changed. The challenges are going to have to
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  Speaker 3: say that there are no race neutral reasons for this,
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  Speaker 3: and that's hired, especially because of the partisan alignment between
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  Speaker 3: whites generally voting Republican and blacks generally being affiliated with the.
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  Speaker 1: Death What she just admitted there was all the arguments
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  Speaker 1: going forward because of a Supreme Court's decision was you
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  Speaker 1: have no argument to change of voting districts. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this particular area over here because we have more black
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  Speaker 1: people or Native Americans or anything, because so we need
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  Speaker 1: to make a whole district over here just to represent them.
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  Speaker 1: No more, it just goes by population. Colorblind voting districts
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  Speaker 1: seems like common sense, doesn't it, Oh, until you involve politics,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what happened. So you can imagine. So you've
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  Speaker 1: got CNN people freaking out about it. But how about
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  Speaker 1: this guy. How about the guy that actually pushed for
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  Speaker 1: Virginia to try to redistrict anything else. Now that's held
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  Speaker 1: up in the courts too, But Virginia just jerry mandered.
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  Speaker 1: Remember they had that whole state referendum. It went ten
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  Speaker 1: to one Democratic districts over this. They say it's a
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  Speaker 1: response to what's happening in Florida. But here's the guy,
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries, that pushed for all this in the first
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  Speaker 1: Now he's upset about it, but look what he says changes.
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  Speaker 1: It goes just beyond all this political crap and all
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  Speaker 1: these voting districts. Listen to what he says from his
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  Speaker 1: own words, perfect union.
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  Speaker 4: And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone.
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  Speaker 4: Diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone,
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  Speaker 4: the Voting Rights Act largely gone. But guess what, extremists,
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  Speaker 4: we're still here and we're not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So it just called you if you're against special privileges
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  Speaker 1: for people because of their skin color, if you're against DEI,
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  Speaker 1: which we've known now for years has been racist against
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  Speaker 1: one particular group of people, white people. If you're against that,
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  Speaker 1: he calls you an extremist, that's what. So now he's
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  Speaker 1: all upset about that. But this was the same guy
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago who was ailing the
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  Speaker 1: victory in Virginia to make to Jerrymander exactly what just
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  Speaker 1: happened ten to one. This was the guy just two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: Our message to Florida Republicans is f around and find
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  Speaker 4: out if.
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  Speaker 1: They go down. Okay, I think you just found out
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  Speaker 1: exactly because this is just now speaking Florida specifically. So
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  Speaker 1: it seems to be this fight between Rohn de sand
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  Speaker 1: As heavy D the governor of Florida, who has said
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  Speaker 1: before he says, if you're going to do that in Virginia, fine,
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  Speaker 1: look at Florida if you ever open up the courts
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  Speaker 1: and make the case that we can actually make our
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  Speaker 1: voting districts based on population only, completely color blind, completely
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  Speaker 1: on the up and up, which is what the Voting
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  Speaker 1: Rights Act was supposed to be in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty five, We're probably going to gain four
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  Speaker 1: Republican seats in the state of Florida because that's actually
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  Speaker 1: how it's going to work out throughout the entire southeast,
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  Speaker 1: all of these regions, all of these regions will gain
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  Speaker 1: Republican seats because that's actually how the voting population looks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in reality, as opposed to what they've been
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  Speaker 1: pushing for years. So sure enough, here we are Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Probably maybe by the time you listener watch this on replay,
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  Speaker 1: Dessantus may be voting, maybe signing into law, because it's
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  Speaker 1: on his desk as of in real time, as of
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  Speaker 1: this live stream. It's on his desk right now to
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  Speaker 1: do exactly that. Now that the Supreme Court has made
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  Speaker 1: it all okay, he can actually make the voting congressional
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  Speaker 1: districts in the state of Florida based on population and
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  Speaker 1: not race. He's gonna sign that. So Florida stands to
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  Speaker 1: gain four seats now. But that reaction was pretty predictable yesterday. Again,
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  Speaker 1: just to go back to this lady, this is another
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  Speaker 1: FLICS of Florida representative. How does she feel about this?
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  Speaker 1: What's the general reaction now of politics? Democrat politicians sane
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  Speaker 1: and calm to me, I don't know what you guys
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  Speaker 1: are complaining about. You think this is all based on
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  Speaker 1: politics and power. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the santus. That's what's happening there. So that's what's
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee, also jumped into action. She
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  Speaker 1: is calling for in her home state. She's calling for
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  Speaker 1: the congressional district lines to be redrawn again based on
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  Speaker 1: what population and not just racial jerrymandering. That's happening too.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll leave you with a warning though, don't think
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  Speaker 1: that this is just gonna happen and make it all
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  Speaker 1: on the up and up, because the Supreme Court says so,
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  Speaker 1: because you still got a lot of people in if
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  Speaker 1: you're on the red team, you get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in the Republican Party who are too whimpy to
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  Speaker 1: do anything about it. You want an example, immediately after this,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama Governor k Ivy, who's on the red team. She's
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  Speaker 1: a Republican. She has rejected already a special session to
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  Speaker 1: redraw their lines in Alabama. Alabama one of the states
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  Speaker 1: that really could benefit from actually doing this on the
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  Speaker 1: up and up based on population and not racial pockets,
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  Speaker 1: making these creating these new congressional districts has already rejected it.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana could have redrawn their lines and they rejected a
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  Speaker 1: special referendum session. They rejected that too, just about I
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  Speaker 1: think a month two months ago, so they did it too.
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  Speaker 1: Don't jump up and down and think that every single
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  Speaker 1: state like Florida and Tennessee is all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: going to do things the right way and base their
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  Speaker 1: congressional districts on population colorblind population. Because they may not
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  Speaker 1: have the guts to do it, but at least the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court is saying that's the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: You would think it's common sense. I know, it's freaking
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  Speaker 1: crazy how this happens sometimes, but that's the best example
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  Speaker 1: of all. If you ever go back to and like
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  Speaker 1: they always get published right after some kind of a
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  Speaker 1: major election, right people like I don't know, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you could say Fox News in general, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the political sites actually go through and they publish
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  Speaker 1: a map when all the numbers are in county by county,
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  Speaker 1: district by district, and then you look at the whole
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  Speaker 1: map of the US and red or blue or purple
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  Speaker 1: and how people voted or whatever. Compare the early ninety
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  Speaker 1: before nineteen ninety two to now, whereas whole pockets of
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  Speaker 1: people like this instead of this scattered, splattered paint. And
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  Speaker 1: you wonder what happened there? Not changing the Voting Rights
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  Speaker 1: Act is what happened. But noarra, going back to this,
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  Speaker 1: it's complicated. I get it. I hate talking about Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court decisions. I hate talking about only politics. I like
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  Speaker 1: to talk about current events and how it affects all
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  Speaker 1: of us asking the right questions. But this one is
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  Speaker 1: massively huge, massively huge. It may affect things going on forever.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest threats to the people who
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  Speaker 1: have been jerremandering racially jurymandering congressional districts for years. It
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  Speaker 1: threatens their direct power. So you know what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: If they happen to get the midterms in their favor,
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna do everything they possibly can to swing this back.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna do everything they possibly can do find another
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  Speaker 1: way to gain power. These are politicians, These are power pigs.
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  Speaker 1: It's what they do. And again, I keep on saying this,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of us have learned. That's the
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  Speaker 1: good news. A lot of us has learned. It's not
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  Speaker 1: Republican versus Democrat. It's not. Look at the example. George H. W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush signed it to law, the Revision of the Voting
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  Speaker 1: Rights Act in nineteen ninety two. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He was a Republican, was he not? No? This is
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  Speaker 1: the political power class versus normal people like us. There's
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  Speaker 1: one giant uniparty up there and then there's us. Don't
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  Speaker 1: just go by political lines, but with the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: making this decision, it makes it a whole lot easier
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  Speaker 1: and fairer to get representation based on population and not
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  Speaker 1: racial lines. It's unbelievable that this has happened for this
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  Speaker 1: many years, decades, and it finally got fixed decades. It's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna swing back anytime soon anyway. Thanks for finding me.
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  Speaker 1: less complicated, but no less important. It's a big deal again.
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  Speaker 1: The big takeaway you want to find out really what
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  Speaker 1: really anything? But specifically, this Supreme Court decision means you'll
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  Speaker 1: get your answer in who's freaking out about it the most?
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  Speaker 1: Those people are upset, and by those people I mean
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  Speaker 1: radical Democrats. So you might want to take this as
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