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Whoopi Goldberg Claims ‘Black People Still Are Where We Were Under The Emancipation Proclamation’

Goldberg made her remarks throughout a dialogue on the left-leaning present’s Tuesday program.

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Goldberg: ‘I nonetheless really feel like instantly black folks nonetheless are the place we had been below the Emancipation Proclamation’

Goldberg mentioned to Schumer, “You vowed to name a vote on main voting rights laws in time for Martin Luther King Day subsequent week. I simply need – I wish to ask you this as a result of it’s irritating me to the nth diploma.”

“Why are we nonetheless speaking about my proper as an American to vote?” requested Goldberg.

Goldberg then introduced up the Emancipation Proclamation.

“I nonetheless really feel like instantly black folks nonetheless are the place we had been below the Emancipation Proclamation,” Goldberg mentioned. “What is occurring? Why are we nonetheless combating this manner? What’s – what’s going to alter?”

Schumer replied, “You’re 100% proper, and it’s not simply staying the identical. It’s going to worsen if we don’t do one thing.”

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Schumer: ‘They’re aiming it at folks of coloration’

“What occurred is that this, Donald Trump unfold the large lie that the election was fraudulent,” Schumer added. “After all, it wasn’t. He had no proof, however state legislatures, solely Republicans, very partisan, no Democrats, at the moment are making it more durable for folks to vote based mostly on that false huge lie that the election was fraudulent.”

Schumer mentioned that racial minorities had been being focused.

“However they’re not aiming it at all people,” Schumer mentioned. “They’re aiming it at folks of coloration. They’re aiming it at poor folks. They’re aiming it at college students. They’re aiming it on the aged. They’re aiming it on the disabled.”