When people ask how we got here, this pair's failure to lead and act in that moment will be part of the answer. [View all]

Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime
@Sen_JoeManchin and @kyrstensinema will go down in history as two of the people who stood at the doorway and blocked the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act when democracy and Black political power were under assault.

History teaches us what happens when leaders choose political comfort over moral courage. The Hayes Tilden Compromise ended Reconstruction and unleashed nearly a century of disenfranchisement, terror, and the systematic destruction of Black political power across the South.

Different era. Different names. Same devastating consequences.

When people ask how we got here, their failure to lead and act in that moment will be part of the answer.

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