Justin Jones: The Assault On Multiracial Democracy in the South
5/20/202653 min
Tennessee is on the front lines of the racialized politics that has resurfaced in the South since SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act. Its Jim Crow legislature stripped the people of Memphis of congressional representation for their majority-black city, and Democratic legislators have been punished for protesting the move. The state is looking less like a democracy by the day. Meanwhile, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana are also working on dismantling black political power in their states. Plus, Trump is the anti-farmer president, Stephen Miller is still running an immigration crackdown, and Tim sees promising signs in Tom Massie’s loss in Kentucky.
Tennessee's Rep. Justin Jones joins Tim Miller.
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Tim Miller· Host1:03
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Uh, we are gonna get to my guy, Justin Jones, here in a minute and talk a lot about what's going on in Tennessee and, uh, across the Deep South