bobby scott from the commonwealth of virginia. bennie thompson from mississippi is our chairman. thank you. [applause] and keith adelson from minnesota. [applause] >> i am just yelling at her because she took all the time. i am co-director of an organization called advancement project. we are the next generation civil rights organization that believes the change will happen from the grassroots up. what we do is support grass- roots movements to work for racial justice. as you can see, from all that you have heard so far, in 2008, turnout among african- americans, latinos, and young voters was up. in 2010, we sat home. and others were planning. in 2010, there was a sweep of state legislatures by the republican party. i want to say that i am from a non-partisan organization, so i'm just telling you the facts. so in in 2010, when they took over the state legislatures, they moved very quickly in 2011 to redistrict themselves into power for 20-30 years. in 2011, they quickly also moved to put in place new rules around voting because they saw the changing demographics in this country and they saw that we could actual