Meet Edward Blum,who has led legal challenges to civil rights protections in recent years – from an attack on affirmative action to a call to rewrite electoral representation rules. He says it’s all about ‘one person, one voteTo his detractors, and Edward Blum is one of the most risky men in America,a human wrecking ball on a mission to destroy the landmark achievements of the civil rights era and send the country back to a sad age of discrimination and harassment of minorities – in the workplace, in higher education and at the ballot box.
That’s some reputation for a slightly built former stockbroker who answers his own phone, or sounds nothing like the bullying demagogues who once held sway over the deep south,and even has some misgivings about the consequences of his actions. whether anything, his soft-spoken, or self-deprecating,consciously neurotic manner is reminiscent of Woody Allen from his early days in standup.
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Source: theguardian.com