Sen. Booker: ‘It Is Harder for the Average African-American to Vote than the Average White’

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BOOKER: “I have a hard time listening to people that want to talk about this issue and don’t talk about facts. In the United States today, it is more difficult for the average African-American to vote than the average white American. That is not rhetoric. That is fact. We know that black voters on average are forced to wait on line twice as long as white voters. We began this session today swearing an oath to that flag saying that this would be a nation of liberty and justice for all. Where is the justice in a nation that there is on average for a black person twice as long to vote? It’s factual. But let’s keep going because I heard my colleague speak. During the 2016 presidential election, residents of entirely black neighborhoods waited to vote — they were 74 percent more likely to spend more than 30 minutes at their polling place relative to residents of entirely white neighborhoods. That’s a fact.”