"we are all concerned about mass incarceration in the country today. If you want to know how we got there, right now what we’re doing, with people like Jeff Sessions and that guy in the White House, is how we got there. And they’re trying to ensure that we go back there, in part because it’s going to affect primarily, negatively affect, black people and brown people in this country. When I say “racist,” I mean when people who support policies and their behaviors are in such a way that one group disproportionately is unjustly treated. And that’s what we have going on right now. So when we have Jeff Sessions saying this sort of thing, the consequences will be racial discrimination. And he’s supporting that kind of policy or that action. That makes him a racist."
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Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born 24 December 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 84th Attorney General of the United States from 2017 to 2018. Sessions served as the junior United States senator from Alabama from 1997 until 2017, and is a member of the Republican Party. From 1981 to 1993, he served as [[w:United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama|U.S
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