voting rights act passed in nineteen sixty-five action is a movie speech by
lyndon johnson twenty past that
uh... it's the eleven and one show you guys
you know obviously
images if i were to a different country
we saw the cold water fountains the civil rights act that just been passed
uh... and it was a bloody struggle to get there
and that struggle was in mid process and and there was a jim crow laws and
uh... voting by black clothes word discouraged enough under different ways
in the south and other portions
of the country's law if you don't know the voting rights act section five also
applies
so some portions of california new york new hampshire florida etcetera
such as the south and i'm sick fortis some drinks out
um... but it is all across the country where we had a repair pattern of racial
discrimination and that's what lyndon johnson was fighting back against today
brown her freedom
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it's ever been on prominent better
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hand making changes
and today
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the way the layers and major issue
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period and mentioned by
so s very powerful start now people say hey listen countries change what society
sixty five
of course it has now we wish they did it change more but
just in this last election we just saw
that there was an attempt to get minority civil lance
a few voter i_d_ laws et cetera now with the non-existent issue a four a fraud
in fact one of the counties is to try to do it by uh... quite often is shelby
county alabama
who brought the case to the supreme court
the supreme court heard today
and just inside of my or uh...
what have the irony of show detailed bama
bring this
when it just department had to regulate back in two thousand they which knocked
out long ago
telling them that they were doing rations from a nation
again where they had
done at at new way at a new scheme there
were at the white that all the black legislators in that area
were wonderful courses that turn out to be
and i was ruled a legal so they're a little heard about that not get medicine
that as recently as two thousand six along with the bush administration
totally controlled republican congress
the voting rights act was reaffirmed for the next twenty five years and the boat
wasn't even remotely close
it was three hundred ninety two thirty three in the house
and the senate was unanimous what does that ever happened ninety eight to
nothing
but today when the supreme court was deciding whether that was fun
constitutional
by the way the same conservatives who say all judicial activism can overturn
what congress sent
with that ninety-two nothing in the senate right
like our it overturned that would have declared unconstitutional
based on what
so now of course scalia says that likes dash feminism sell a democracy
he justified engane without boat or not paying attention that book
payless admit the voting rights act missile still lovely name
with politicians go boating and spat
five so i spent a lot proceeds from our chrissy i don't believe in any of that
crap
uh... so obviously they felt they had to go that way even though
they must feel otherwise
really well they had a funny way of showing it
says it was a unanimous vote in the senate
perhaps justice scalia
people are not quite as racist as you are
even republicans during the bush administration
to give you a sense that race is justice chris he called the voting rights act
a perpetuation
of racial entitlement
said that in court today
they get a lot of this perspective
he thinks blind people having the same i devote as white people is rachel
entitlement
now he is not entitled to vote in any of their way that he pleases all his life
minorities what i have the same rights buck there they go again wanting their
rights entitlement
unbelievable so my or
challenged
the plaintiffs in the case
she said do you agree with that characterization of the racial
entitlements
reelecting
they try to avoid it once you repeat the question
amyloid
it one phrase about what even challenge entail bell wouldnt put it that way
penelas who brought the case
now you know we're in trouble just chief justice john roberts also said quote is
the government submission to the citizens in the south or more racist
than the citizens of north
the section five applies
more to the south although it is across the country as i said
uh... and i have an easy answer to justice roberts question
we also saw 'cause for instance the hearth
doesn't mean that there isn't differences among the north
and then it is an institutional it doesn't mean that everybody in the south
as racist and doesn't mean that things haven't gotten better
is it a surprise to you that alabama and mississippi has slightly more racist
the rest of the country
well this is a price to you then you'll be shocked by these numbers
in this election cycle in twenty twelve pdt
during a republican primaries
cast likely g_o_p_ voters that's not all state
is like the republican voters in those states
shoot interracial marriage
be legal
twenty one percent alabama said no it should be illegal interracial marriage
in mississippi nec twenty nine percent
of likely republican voters
so that interracial marriage
should be the legal
sack and tell just as roberts
is a little bit worrisome in the south and there is in the north
come on
it doesn't mean that everybody in the south is guilty doesn't mean you should
assume the races
that's ridiculous
but has there been that history and those that remain more so there
obviously it does
so it's something that we should look out for
so my or also added
some partial southern change you're counting i should say pretty much has it
referring to shelby county
under any formula congress could devise
it wants to look after alabama
i think that's hilarious
fishes pointing out
you were the most recent violator of this law
so
of all the place in the world
we should cover you to make sure that you don't disarray has black people
if we devised any law it would include alabama is specifically shelby john
but we're in a world trouble because justice kennedy was prolly deciding vote
said quote
the marshall plan was very good to but times change
in other words he said now
that racism traces and
that was in the whole days times change
what is right what motivates agnew's alone
world trouble about to go down in looks like based on
at least the questions the comments by the justices today
and n_b_c_'s top legal correspondent pete williams agrees this is quote i
think it's safe to say but there are five oh it's a strike down either one or
both parts
of the voting rights act
it was nice while it lasted
look it's not to say
the our situation this country in terms of race
hasn't gotten better since nineteen sixty five of corset pass right
but if you think
it's mission accomplished and their no more racial issues
his simply have not been paying attention
what's happening in this country
you have been paying attention the numbers
and to the actual efforts of places like shelby county alabama to make sure the
blacks do not vote inm
the same percentages that whites do that's why oftentimes black districts
will have longer lines
that's why they do the voter i_d_ laws cus
uh... twenty five south african americans in this country
don't have
photo i_d_'s
and that's the whole point of those laws so in fact if you think about it this
way
if these guys
didn't want to discriminate
why would they bother bring this loss in the first place
one of the voting rights act bother you
if you didn't have a plan
to discriminate against minorities and vote
it wouldn't bother you at all right
kazi never
run into that issue
the reality is that bothers you 'cause you'd like to be free to discriminate
injustice coolly and others look like they're about to help you