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In US news and current events today, racism has corrupted U.S. democracy from the very start, former Obama speechwriter David Litt argues.

The Black Lives Matter movement is the most urgent reckoning yet America has with its racist past and present. David Litt, Obama speechwriter argues, the racism at the core of America has corrupted our entire democracy. Systemic racism and structural racism have infested every aspect of our nation, from the Constitution to widespread voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression, and the filibuster tactic used in the Unisted States Congress to quash laws by a ruling party that had fewer votes than their opposition. Barack Obama speechwriter David Litt, Democracy In One Book Or Less author, argues that there is a desperate need for true, structural change.

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