Leadership Quote by Corrine Brown

Two months out from an election, Corrine Brown is doing what seasoned politicians do when the procedural starts masquerading as the inevitable: she yanks the debate out of the weeds and into the country’s moral bloodstream. “So here we are” is stage-setting language, an exasperated roll call of shared reality, meant to recruit listeners into a collective witness. The ticking clock of “just two months away” isn’t incidental; it frames voting rules as an emergency, not a policy seminar.

The phrase “modern day Jim Crow” is the deliberate jolt. Brown isn’t claiming Florida has literally returned to the 1890s; she’s invoking the architecture of Jim Crow - ostensibly neutral rules designed to sort and suppress - and daring opponents to argue about symptoms while she names the disease. It’s also a strategic moral shortcut: once the Jim Crow analogy lands, the burden shifts. The question becomes not “Are these election policies efficient?” but “Who do they punish, and why is that acceptable?”

Her “more and more examples” signals an evidentiary drumbeat without bogging down in details, a rhetorical move that suggests pattern rather than isolated controversy. The subtext is about power: that voting access isn’t being managed, it’s being engineered, with predictable racial and class outcomes.

Context matters: Florida is a perennial knife-edge state where tiny rule changes can swing national results. Brown’s line tries to make voter restriction politically radioactive by tying it to an American tradition most people insist they’ve renounced.