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“It Is Absolutely Unconscionable.” Cleo Fields, Roland Blast Southern Attacks on Black Votes
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8:19Now PlayingCleo Fields and Roland Martin warned that Southern Republicans and the Supreme Court are helping dismantle Black voting power while voters are already casting ballots.
Cleo Fields and Roland Martin blasted Republican-led efforts across Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina that they say are targeting Black political power and representation. Fields condemned attempts to discard ballots already cast in Louisiana while warning that attacks on Black voting rights are spreading across the South through redistricting fights and Supreme Court rulings. The segment framed the moment as a coordinated political assault on Black participation in democracy and called for mass voter mobilization through Freedom Summer 2026. Both Fields and Martin warned viewers that congressional seats, legislatures, school boards, and local political power are all at stake.
🔥 Cleo Fields blasted efforts to discard ballots already cast in Louisiana
🔥 Roland Martin warned Southern Republicans are targeting Black political power
🔥 The Supreme Court was accused of helping Republicans weaken Black representation
🔥 Freedom Summer 2026 was launched as a national voter mobilization effort
🔥 “It is just absolutely unconscionable to say the least.”
🔥 “This is an anti-black agenda that they are executing in our faces.”
🔥 “The people who've already voted in the election, we just going to discard those votes.”
🔥 “The issue is whether or not a person who looks like me will have the mere opportunity to serve in Congress.”
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