Stacey Abrams: ‘Democracy Cannot Win Again Unless the Entire Nation Comes Together to, for the Second Time, Fight for Black and Brown Folks in the South’

ABRAMS: “And it started to work. And then in 1975, there was an expansion of the Voting Rights Act that said that using racial issues and language issues to exclude Native Americans, Asian Americans, that that was also unlawful. And so while black people have always been the centrifuge of fighting for democracy, this is something that implicates everyone. The work that we do at the 10 steps campaign is about making sure that we see the whole map, that we understand all of the pieces that make our democracy work. But to your point, that map that you show is no longer just black and white. This is black and white and brown, but more than half of black Americans live in the states that we’re looking at. And so what we have to understand is that if they are capable of stripping power from that population, Democrats can’t win again. Progressives can’t win again.”

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Stacey Abrams: ‘Democracy Cannot Win Again Unless the Entire Nation Comes Together to, for the Second Time, Fight for Black and Brown Folks in the South’‘This is something that implicates everyone’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:ABRAMS: “And it started to work. And then in 1975, there was an expansion of the Voting Rights Act that said that using racial issues and language issues to exclude Native Americans, Asian Americans, that that was also unlawful. And so while black people have always been the centrifuge of fighting for democracy, this is something that implicates everyone. The work that we do at the 10 steps campaign is about making sure that we see the whole map, that we understand all of the pieces that make our democracy work. But to your point, that map that you show is no longer just black and white. This is black and white and brown, but more than half of black Americans live in the states that we’re looking at. And so what we have to understand is that if they are capable of stripping power from that population, Democrats can’t win again. Progressives can’t win again.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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