Cornell Belcher on Voting Laws: ‘We’re Fighting the Remnants of the Civil War’

‘They are becoming less able to compete for minority voters and have no choice but in fact to deny these voters their rights’

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BELCHER: "Well, and I actually wrote a book about this. You saw some of it with the realization of Obama. The president of the most diverse majority in our history. The mayor made a point I was going to make here. Look, you’re losing elections in Georgia by, you know, Carter got, lost by 200 — 203,000. None in 2014. Not a tremendous amount of votes and the take 50,000 new voters out of that and it goes a long way in preserving that. But states like Georgia and Florida, which I know you’ll talk about a little later also, they’re becoming ground zero in this fight for America’s future, because they are becoming ground zero for the changing demographics of the country. Georgia will turn majority/minority before the majority of America does, right? And Florida and Georgia and places in the old confederacy, that brown and black power is being realized and the Republican Party is shrinking not expanding. They are becoming less able to compete for minority voters and have no choice but in fact to deny these voters their rights. We’re finding the remnants of the civil war here and I’m afraid, Joy, it will get worse before gets better because they won’t let go of power."

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