Michele Norris on Colom’s Senate Win in Miss.: Can We Take a Moment and Marinate in the Fact That This Is Happening

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NORRIS: "You know, I am some of us at this table are older than the Voting Rights Act itself. You know, when we talk about voting rights, we really have to talk about voter suppression and the lengths to which they went in Mississippi to make sure that people never, ever had this kind of power and the violence that was used and the extreme measures that that people went through to make sure that young people could never vote, that old people could never vote, and poll taxes, people were beaten. People were sent to parchman, you know, a place that you would expect to see in Siberia or someplace like that. And so for him to, to have a moment like this and that he was robbed of the opportunity in some ways, to enjoy the victory on election night, because it’s been clear for days that she was not going to be able to do this. But as the old folks say, when it’s right, it’s right on time. You know that this happens in his own moment, in his own way. And he sort of clapped into victory. And that the fact that it happens in Mississippi and that he’ll go to Washington with a strong message of balancing affordability and also holding people accountable because they have to do both."