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...member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Bond struggled to get black voting districts recognized by Congress...
Accordingly, Bond's speech focused on the idea of "fairness" in controversial topics like minority voting districts, affirmative action and representation...
...Bond began with the premise that "fairness" has not been achieved in society...
...would be foolish to assume that three decades since the Civil Rights movement have lifted white supremacy from any aspect of American life", Bond said...
With that belief, Bond reached back to 1965, when, as an activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he first began to struggle for "the just spoils of a virtuous and victorious war [the Civil Rights movement]", majority black voting districts and affirmative action...