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when my mother’s dying bed at 92 years
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old former share cropper her last words
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where do not let them take our folks
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away from us we are witnessing a tidal
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wave of voter suppression around the
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country and Georgia which is becoming
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ground zero campus illegally removing
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people from Georgia’s voters list and my
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vote will not be counted my vote was not
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counted old people who can’t vote those
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young people who can’t vote there’s
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people in every county who can’t both
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I’m not gonna be able to vote myself
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target people of color poor people the
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elderly with him wherever I rise to vote
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good like anybody else this is systemic
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if you look at what has happened across
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this country 40 states have passed some
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kind of law to make it more difficult
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for people to look at Alabama Arkansas
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North Carolina Ohio hands North Dakota
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Michigan Wisconsin and Georgia which is
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becoming ground zero we are not going to
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let them take from us without
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grandparents and parents fought and
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suffered and died to give us in the
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first place we are here to resist an Ivy
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law that is undemocratic
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unconstitutional and immoral her last
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words were do not let them take our
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votes away from us
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