GA county wants to close 75% of Black polling locations.

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3. This must be the newest Republican plan for winning elections.

The fact that they have the chutzpah to publically suggest such a clearly discriminatory scheme makes it very clear that racism runs deep and is universally accepted by the majority of the population. This would require the complicity and conspiracy of the education system, the religious community, the political powers, the press and broadcast media, the financial sector, and even the business community.

These problems will never be addressed at a local or even state level. The federal government must redo and modernize the Civil Rights Act to bring an end to the 21st century version of Jim Crow.