SiriusXM host Karen Hunter delivered a sharp assessment of the state of voting rights in the United States.
Speaking on “The Karen Hunter Show,” the award-winning journalist recalled a conversation with civil rights attorney Lurie Daniel Favors, who she said was “distraught” over the direction of voting access. “
“There’s so much happening,” Hunter said, adding that the current furor has been years in the making.
Hunter suggested that many Americans had grown complacent after earlier civil rights gains. “We thought the fight was over,” she shared. “We are the beneficiaries of their good work. But the fight is probably eternal.”
Pulling on history, she contended that large-scale participation in movements has often been limited. “The vast majority of Black people were not marching,” she said of the civil rights era. “They were not out in the streets. They were not even trying to vote themselves. Why? Because it was a lot of violence around that.”
According to Hunter, those mechanics still shape political engagement today, asserting that voting rights have never been fully secure. “This voting rights thing has been happening since it became an amendment,” she said. “They never intended for it to be a permanent thing.”
Hunter also directed criticism at nonvoters. “Ninety million of you sat home,” Hunter said. “You didn’t vote, you ain’t voting, you don’t care.”
Recalling her own commentary in 2015, she said, “I’m voting for the Supreme Court. The next president is going to have one, two, maybe three picks.”
“They had a plan all along,” she noted. “Do you have a plan?”
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