people in brazil robert anderson makes it very clear that brazil is. the 2nd largest african country in the world the only country where as more people of african descent brazil is my jury. in certain neighborhoods however it's simply being young black and poor it can get you shot dead in the middle of the street over the past decade the rio police have been carrying out regular raids in the favelas on the pretext of ridding slums of time these operations have made brazil the won't leader in police violence against the black population. supersede the it took for them would always be paul block for valid people well never see is any other way. it is good for them we're all criminals people stare at us because of our hair. because of our we live there prejudiced but it's tough because they've got the power and will always be a minority community. and with. 130 years after the abolition of slavery africa brazilians are still by far the country's poorest community 2nd class citizens in a world divided along color lines. i think it's very important for peop

as author carrol anderson explained, chief justice roberts has long been an opponent of the voting rights act and in shelby county he used arguments that have been carefully crafted over several decades to eviscerate the voting rights act. without the constraints of the voting rights act, states with long histories of discrimination ramped up voter suppression from racist voter i.d. laws to eliminating early voting to purging voter rolls and closing voting places. in the six years following the shelby county decision, for example, states previously subjected to preclearance under the voting rights act closed at least 1,688 polling sites. texas alone closed 750 polling places. the clotured had -- closures had their intended effect. a study at harvard university found minority voters are six times more likely than white voters to wait longer than an hour to vote. longer waits impose greater costs for voting of minorities and deters them from voting in future elections. we saw the impact of these policies just last week on super tuesday. we saw inordinately long lines in minority precincts.