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Speaker 1: A peacemaker guy says, blessed are the peacemakers, and he
Speaker 1: is one of them. He is the executive director of
Speaker 1: the Congressional Black Caucus. Vincent Evans is joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hello Vincent, Hello Angela Raie. I'm so glad you joined me.
Speaker 1: We have been laboring for and with the people.
Speaker 3: All week.
Speaker 1: It sounds like we may have a sound issue. I
Speaker 1: don't think Vince can hear us. Vince, can you hear me?
Speaker 4: I can hear you now, I could hear you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think we're still live. So we're just
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and keep rowing. This is the hood
Speaker 1: Welcome to Native Lampard The Hood Edition.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on all right. I blame
Speaker 3: mercury being a retrogravance.
Speaker 1: But I'm so glad that you're here with me today,
Speaker 1: in part because in so many ways, you know, we're
Speaker 1: always working together. We don't get paid to work together,
Speaker 1: but we are always going to do work for the culture.
Speaker 1: And one thing that's just been heavy on my spirit is,
Speaker 1: you know, watching the fallout from Target. One thing that
Speaker 1: I love about our friendship, our relationship and so many
Speaker 1: of our comrades is we have an agreement not to
Speaker 1: do harm.
Speaker 3: And I think it's so important.
Speaker 1: Even we disagree vehemently on tactics, vehemently on time, vehemently
Speaker 1: on what the end goal might be, it is so
Speaker 1: important that we as a community agree not to do harm.
Speaker 1: And the number of hits that I'm watching our people
Speaker 1: take who we're just trying to do something, Vince, Like
Speaker 1: whether we agree on whether the thing should end, what
Speaker 1: the thing should be called, who's doing it, who's leading why?
Speaker 1: Like we just should commend the fact that people wanted
Speaker 1: to do something. Now, the thing I wanted to flag
Speaker 1: for you, Vince, is has Target said anything yet perfect.
Speaker 3: But guess what, we all mad at each other?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: Vin, This is the trick of the devil. It's a distraction.
Speaker 3: So I just I wanted you to be.
Speaker 1: Here as my brother and my friend, to remind us
Speaker 1: all the most important thing that in times like this,
Speaker 1: as difficult as it may be, it is most important
Speaker 1: that we stick together. Then we figure out our path
Speaker 1: and we remember who the actual boogeyman is. The boogeyman
Speaker 1: is not just Target, it's everybody that thinks like target.
Speaker 1: It is the folks who sit in corporate boardrooms who
Speaker 1: are ending DEI saying we belong what are we belonging to?
Speaker 3: Friends? What are we belonging to? Two friends? And Vince?
Speaker 3: That goes all the way to the ballot box.
Speaker 1: So today you and I are talking about the Save Act, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about that because it's the
Speaker 1: mentality that is it's a mentality that is pervasive throughout
Speaker 1: all of these corporations, throughout all of the cabinets, the
Speaker 1: cabinet secretaries, all of these agencies and departments run by
Speaker 1: the federal government, sadly all across states throughout this country.
Speaker 1: The ones that have been putting forth voter suppression measures,
Speaker 1: as you know since twenty ten. So Vince, let's back
Speaker 1: right into this talk to us about what the Save
Speaker 1: Act is.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. I see it as a law
Speaker 5: that is all about voter suppression. I don't know what
Speaker 5: the other folks out there who are pushing it seed.
Speaker 5: As you know, the first thing I say is whenever
Speaker 5: a bill's title is save America, that is a red
Speaker 5: like what are we saving America from? We need to
Speaker 5: save America from the people who are pushing this law. Look,
Speaker 5: this is nothing more than as we first so many
Speaker 5: leaders say, Jim Crow two point zero, it is a
Speaker 5: bill that is designed to prevent people from casting their ballet.
Speaker 5: You and I know that the franchise, the right to
Speaker 5: vote is the most sacred things we have, and this
Speaker 5: bill is set to ensure that people who get up
Speaker 5: every day, go to work every day, and want to
Speaker 5: have an opportunity to engage in their democracy, want to
Speaker 5: have an opportunity to vote for people who they believe
Speaker 5: are pushing forward the issues that are important to them,
Speaker 5: that they don't have that opportunity. So that is at
Speaker 5: its core what the Save Act is. I don't care
Speaker 5: what anybody tells you it's a bad piece of legislation,
Speaker 5: it should not being acted, and it will do more
Speaker 5: harm than good.
Speaker 3: And I think this is the part right.
Speaker 1: So we know that this bill passed the House last year,
Speaker 1: and then the Senate received this bill from the House,
Speaker 1: of course, which is how this normally goes. It passed
Speaker 1: very narrow, with two hundred and twenty votes to two
Speaker 1: hundred and eight votes. And I wonder what you think
Speaker 1: is going to happen in the Senate. I think it's
Speaker 1: important people to understand it is on the Senate floor
Speaker 1: this week, starting today. This is the Safeguard American Voter
Speaker 1: Eligibility Act.
Speaker 3: So, Vince, what do you think is going to happen
Speaker 3: in the Senate?
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see.
Speaker 5: The Senate I think started debating this within the last
Speaker 5: couple of hours or a set to. We'll see about
Speaker 5: the debate this week. What we do know is this,
Speaker 5: the Save America Act, as the so called Save America Act,
Speaker 5: is going to make it harder and more difficult for
Speaker 5: people to be able to cast their valid If you're
Speaker 5: a woman who's ever changed your name, which a lot
Speaker 5: of women who have been married have done, it's going
Speaker 5: to make it almost impossible. If you're an individual who
Speaker 5: does not have access to a passport, and you've got
Speaker 5: to now either go buy a passport, or you've got
Speaker 5: to go get your driver's license per plus or birth certificate.
Speaker 5: That's not always easy for folks. There are a lot
Speaker 5: of hurdles. If you're a college student who's ever moved
Speaker 5: away from home to go to college and has a
Speaker 5: new address, it's going to make it more difficult, difficult
Speaker 5: for you. So there are a whole class of groups
Speaker 5: of individuals out there across the country who would be impacted.
Speaker 5: And you know, the Republicans are saying that this is
Speaker 5: going to ensure that there are no non citizens voting
Speaker 5: in American election. Here's the facts. We all know the facts.
Speaker 5: You know the facts, Angela, I know the fact. Everybody
Speaker 5: knows the facts. There is not widespread fraud in our
Speaker 5: elections today.
Speaker 4: There just isn't.
Speaker 5: Every single audit and study out there has come back
Speaker 5: and said the same thing. The amount of non citizens
Speaker 5: voting in American elections is like er point zero zero
Speaker 5: zero one percent. It's small, it's negligible. And the fact
Speaker 5: of the matter is this, it is already illegal in
Speaker 5: this country for non citizen to vote. So this is
Speaker 5: nothing more of the say back is nothing more than
Speaker 5: a stoke called set of solutions in search of a problem.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: And they've been saying that same phrase since the first
Speaker 1: version of voter ID bills, since the first version of
Speaker 1: voter ID bills, more than one hundred past House I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: state based legislatures starting in twenty ten and twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: And what I think is so important for our audience
Speaker 1: to know, Vince, is that all of this changed after
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: What happened in two.
Speaker 4: Thousand and eight, What happened? What happened? What happened? You
Speaker 4: know what happened. I know what happened. I know about president.
Speaker 1: And they said, you know, this whole idea about bipartisan
Speaker 1: voting rights, Hell with that.
Speaker 3: Actually, we don't want to see this happen anymore.
Speaker 1: And so what used to be the Voting Rights Reauthorization
Speaker 1: Act every Congress that would pass overwhelmingly with both sides
Speaker 1: of the House supporting, All of a sudden, it became
Speaker 1: a democratic idea all of a sudden, voting fraud.
Speaker 3: Voter fraud was an issue, all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: People need needed to be ID in the voting booth,
Speaker 1: and these voter ID measures have become even more restrictive
Speaker 1: because what they're saying now is that your license is
Speaker 1: not sufficient. Let's roll this clip from Representative Teresa Fernandez,
Speaker 1: who represents New Mexico's third congressional district.
Speaker 6: Can you take out your driver's license? Mister Scott has
Speaker 6: his out. If you took your years out, I'm looking
Speaker 6: at mine. What we're talking about here is does your
Speaker 6: driver's license tell us where you were born? It does not?
Speaker 4: Does it?
Speaker 6: No, mister Scott, youwards doesn't either. Because what we're talking
Speaker 6: about is registration. You cannot use this ID to register
Speaker 6: to vote under your bill?
Speaker 3: Is that correct? You could not use your ID?
Speaker 6: That would be an accurate sayment, Chairman Styles, Do you
Speaker 6: have a passport?
Speaker 3: I personally, do you do have a pass pas? Part
Speaker 3: of the rough Americans?
Speaker 6: You're roughly fifty percent of Americans have a passport. Because
Speaker 6: you try, about fifty percent of Americans don't travel internationally.
Speaker 3: They don't have that money. Is that right?
Speaker 6: One of the reasons you have to have a certain
Speaker 6: amount of money to be able to travel internationally. To
Speaker 6: get that passport, to pay for that passport.
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 4: There is a charge there.
Speaker 6: There is a test passport. Twenty point twenty one point
Speaker 6: three million American citizens a vote in age don't have
Speaker 6: ready access to citizenship documents. This is ready access. We
Speaker 6: already discussed earlier the fact that this bill. You have
Speaker 6: changed the enactment day of this bill to go infect
Speaker 6: as soon as it is signed into law. And if
Speaker 6: that happens, then this twenty one point three million American
Speaker 6: citizens who might not be prepared for a future in
Speaker 6: a few weeks. In terms of Texas, who might want
Speaker 6: to They're excited about the race, they're excited about the
Speaker 6: Republicans senators who are wanting to at each other. I'm
Speaker 6: battling it out. They're excited about the Democrat primaries. They
Speaker 6: want to get involved, they want to register to vote.
Speaker 6: They might be on one of the twenty one point
Speaker 6: three million Americans who don't have ready access to citizenship documents.
Speaker 6: That's what we are concerned about, is that by rushing
Speaker 6: this into law, you were going to prevent so many
Speaker 6: people from being able to register to vote.
Speaker 3: And that's been acceptable.
Speaker 6: When you say how many immigrants are too many voting?
Speaker 3: I would ask.
Speaker 6: I'd flip the question and ask you how many eligible
Speaker 6: citizens are you worried about being turned away because you
Speaker 6: were rushing something like this into law.
Speaker 4: You care.
Speaker 3: So good now viz.
Speaker 1: Twenty one point three million Americans, and I think that's
Speaker 1: probably really conservative.
Speaker 3: I want to give you this one example.
Speaker 1: So my mom was renewing her passport and something came
Speaker 1: up where she like however her birth certificate was initially written,
Speaker 1: it wasn't going to work. And the reason why it
Speaker 1: wasn't going to work for her to get her passport
Speaker 1: again is because her they had inverted her middle name
Speaker 1: and her so her middle name was first, her her
Speaker 1: first name was her middle name. That for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it was fine the first time she was getting her passport.
Speaker 1: The second reason the second time it wasn't. So we're
Speaker 1: not considering the people who may be going back to,
Speaker 1: you know, get a passport again their passports York expiration.
Speaker 1: Normally they tell you six months out it's time to
Speaker 1: get a new passport, and Vince, we're also not thinking
Speaker 1: about the people who are terrified to go to this
Speaker 1: Department of State under this authoritarian regime, worried that if
Speaker 1: they bring a passport to get renewed, that they may
Speaker 1: not get the thing back and be stuck here or
Speaker 1: be told they're not a citizen if they don't have
Speaker 1: the proper documentation. The other thing that I think is
Speaker 1: as jarring is I don't think folks realize for our
Speaker 1: elders in the South who are eighty and older.
Speaker 3: In certain parts of the South and real parts of
Speaker 3: the South.
Speaker 1: The birth certificates don't even match the standards for what
Speaker 1: you need to be able to get your passport. Vince,
Speaker 1: I have a copy now of my Social Security card.
Speaker 1: I don't know where the real one is. My mama
Speaker 1: didn't trust me with it. So how long does it
Speaker 1: take to get a Social Security card under this regime?
Speaker 4: That's exactly right, Do you know what I mean? Yep.
Speaker 5: There are a number of hurdles that they could throw
Speaker 5: up at any point. I used to work for someone
Speaker 5: who because of the year they were born and where
Speaker 5: they were born in the rural part of my state
Speaker 5: in Florida, it was unclear whether the birth certificate they
Speaker 5: had because it was written down in a bible. That's
Speaker 5: how they actually found out when they were born. It
Speaker 5: was unclear when they went to get documents. They always
Speaker 5: had troubble making certain that it couldn't get verified, and
Speaker 5: they had to go to this lineage process. It was
Speaker 5: rife with complications. There are so many to the point
Speaker 5: that you just made, particularly in the South, but frankly
Speaker 5: across the country who have similar stories, who have similar
Speaker 5: stories like that of your mom, who even if they
Speaker 5: are all well intended, they do everything, they are waiting
Speaker 5: at the mercy of the government to give them the
Speaker 5: things that they would need. So if the Department of
Speaker 5: State or or agencies across the government said, well, you know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna get it to you, but we're not gonna
Speaker 5: get it in time for you to vote, that obviously
Speaker 5: presents a problem. And again, like the congresswoman said, they're
Speaker 5: trying to do this before the November elections.
Speaker 4: Why why would you need to rush it so fast?
Speaker 3: And that's the thing too.
Speaker 1: My biggest concern is because Donald Trump would like to
Speaker 1: sign an executive order where he federalizes these midterm elections,
Speaker 1: to federalizes elections period. He would then have all the
Speaker 1: power if the Supreme Court doesn't do the right thing.
Speaker 1: And it's a fifty to fifty, maybe a sixty forty
Speaker 1: if they'll do the right thing or not. If they
Speaker 1: don't take action, then that means all of that power
Speaker 1: and control all of his.
Speaker 3: Cabinet and go to all of the departments. That is scary.
Speaker 5: He has made clear in recent days that this is
Speaker 5: his number one priority. The President of the United States
Speaker 5: of America has said he will not sign anymore legislation
Speaker 5: until he gets the Safe Act to his debt. And
Speaker 5: as you know, Angela, this is bigger than just one bill.
Speaker 5: This is about to your earlier point, who was elected
Speaker 5: in two thousand and eight, what we've seen since then
Speaker 5: shall be the older gutting Section five of the Voting
Speaker 5: Rights ACK. Now Section two of the Voting Rights ACK
Speaker 5: is being considered before the United States Supreme Court. We'll
Speaker 5: get a ruling, hopefully here in June. I'm worried about
Speaker 5: what that ruling will say. And all of this is
Speaker 5: an attempt to roll back progress that we've made. It's
Speaker 5: all calculated, it's all been thought out, no question about it.
Speaker 5: This is just another step and what they've told us
Speaker 5: they were going to do.
Speaker 1: There's a video that I want you to see from
Speaker 1: Queen Latifa, and she says something that many of us
Speaker 1: say often, but I think it's important for us to
Speaker 1: remember it in this particular moment.
Speaker 3: Let's roll that clip.
Speaker 7: Well, if the vote wasn't worth something, they wouldn't be
Speaker 7: trying to keep you from voting. So I feel the
Speaker 7: same way about womanhood. If we weren't so powerful, there
Speaker 7: wouldn't be.
Speaker 8: Such a push to keep us in a place.
Speaker 1: I think that's important too right now, Vince, because one
Speaker 1: of the key groups, key constituencies that will be impacted
Speaker 1: by the Save Act, by Make Elections Great Again.
Speaker 3: Act are women. And what's crazy about it is, what's.
Speaker 1: The percentage of women that voted for Donald Trump?
Speaker 4: White women?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet you hadn't see this coming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna hurt their own voters.
Speaker 5: This isn't a bill that's going to affect Democratic women
Speaker 5: or black women. It's going to hurt their voters. I
Speaker 5: think I heard members say earlier today that the top
Speaker 5: ten states of individuals who do not have passport are
Speaker 5: what we call quote unquote red states. So this will
Speaker 5: hurt their own voters, no question about it.
Speaker 3: It blows me away.
Speaker 1: I got to say that one of the things that
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for is that people will find the energy
Speaker 1: to reach out to the senator, their senators. I know
Speaker 1: it's really hard, and I'm saying this as someone who
Speaker 1: worked on the hill who has struggled to see the
Speaker 1: impacts of the calls we're making, have making a difference,
Speaker 1: because the Republican senators are so terrified of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: that they're not seeming to do the right thing. So
Speaker 1: what is the thing that you would recommend, you know,
Speaker 1: Joe blow from down the street, or remember Joe the
Speaker 1: plumber would what would you tell Joe the plumber to do?
Speaker 1: What about let me think of John Tay, John Tata plumber.
Speaker 1: What would you tell him to do if he was
Speaker 1: making that call to his senator?
Speaker 6: Ben.
Speaker 5: Look, I think all of us have to pick up
Speaker 5: the phone on this one to call lawmakers and tell
Speaker 5: our very own lived experience. But we saw what two
Speaker 5: or three two days ago, and Dallas is unacceptable. I
Speaker 5: was so struck by the people who were going into
Speaker 5: the polls, trying to cast a ballot, trying to do
Speaker 5: the right thing, walking out and being told that they
Speaker 5: could not. That is not an anomaly in this country,
Speaker 5: to be clear, even without the say back, we already
Speaker 5: have voter suppression in this country. Hundreds of bills have
Speaker 5: been passed over the last couple of years in state
Speaker 5: legislatures across this country, as you rightly point out, that
Speaker 5: are already making it more difficult for people to vote.
Speaker 5: So folks just have to call and tell their own
Speaker 5: real experience. This is one of those times where we
Speaker 5: probably all have our own experience at the voting boot
Speaker 5: where we show rowed up something wasn't right. We were
Speaker 5: told one thing, it was really another thing. So folks
Speaker 5: really should that. There are a lot of times we
Speaker 5: tell people to call their legislation. This is one where
Speaker 5: you've got a personal story, you can pull it up
Speaker 5: really quickly and tell people how it would directly affect you.
Speaker 1: It's so important, and Vince, I'm so grateful for you
Speaker 1: taking the time today to come and explain this. I
Speaker 1: do worry that this bill may pass the Senate, and
Speaker 1: I'm concerned, based on what we saw.
Speaker 3: With the big hella ugly bill, that people.
Speaker 1: Just lack courage in this moment, and so I want
Speaker 1: us to also not just call, but for those of
Speaker 1: us who pray and our spiritual people like believe that
Speaker 1: something bigger and greater can happen. Especially, my heart goes
Speaker 1: out to these tsos, the TSA workers who are at
Speaker 1: work right now.
Speaker 3: When I was.
Speaker 1: Traveling just this past week, Vince, I told I, try
Speaker 1: to make it a point to tell them. Sadly, I've
Speaker 1: had to do it a lot lately because it's been
Speaker 1: shut down after shut down after thak So. I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, I just want to thank you all for working.
Speaker 1: I know you don't have to. And one of them,
Speaker 1: the gentleman, looked at me and he said, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be here much longer. I just can't afford
Speaker 1: to work and not be paid. I have to go
Speaker 1: make money to pay my bills. So when you see one,
Speaker 1: you know, give him a love offering, and give him
Speaker 1: a love offering.
Speaker 3: Don't just say thank you.
Speaker 1: Maybe you got an extra hundred dollars in your passion,
Speaker 1: an extra twenty like we need to be loving on
Speaker 1: these folks.
Speaker 3: Should it be our responsibility?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: But is it? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Because we have an irresponsible president in the White House,
Speaker 1: and I just you know, he's a He regularly is
Speaker 1: engaging in a dere election of duty, and sadly, his
Speaker 1: cabinet is a bunch of yes folks. Who will not
Speaker 1: challenge him back. So here we are in a war
Speaker 1: that is not ours. Here we are defunding people who
Speaker 1: need that paycheck, who are hourly workers. Here we are
Speaker 1: ready to snatch people's voting rights away in the two
Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country, returning back to
Speaker 1: what it knows best. Jim Crow, disenfranchisement and oppression. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if we ever left that, So mint
Speaker 1: any party words before we've closed.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you everything you just said. It's so true,
Speaker 5: and I know it comes from a place of love.
Speaker 5: We've got a lot of work to do. You know,
Speaker 5: when people say to me America is better than this
Speaker 5: these days, I say, I'm not certain that she is.
Speaker 5: I'm not certain that we are better than We can
Speaker 5: be better than this, but right now we are not
Speaker 5: better than this. So people of good will got to
Speaker 5: keep fighting. I'm keeping the faith like you are, and
Speaker 5: we just keep pushing every day. It is a fight
Speaker 5: every single day.
Speaker 3: As Reverend Jackson would say, Vincent, keep hope.
Speaker 4: Alive, Keep hope alive.
Speaker 3: We got to say, well, I appreciate you, thank you. Mention.
Speaker 1: We are going to close out our show with a
Speaker 1: woman who is brilliant. It is Women's History Month, and
Speaker 1: for that I will be celebrating black women every day.
Speaker 3: All day.
Speaker 1: And there is a woman who is a mentor to
Speaker 1: one of my mentors, Congressman Benny Gordon Thompson. She is
Speaker 1: the legendary and fearless Fanny lou Hamer. She reminded us
Speaker 1: of the importance of the black vote representation, ensuring that
Speaker 1: our voices were heard even in the face of difficulty
Speaker 1: and against all odds.
Speaker 3: She will close out our show today.
Speaker 9: Welcome home, y'all, mister Chalmer, and to the Credentials Committee.
Speaker 9: It was the thirty first of all us in nineteen
Speaker 9: sixty two that eighteen of us travel twenty six miles
Speaker 9: to the county courthouse in Innonola to try to registers
Speaker 9: to become first class citizens. We was met in Indanola
Speaker 9: by policeman.
Speaker 8: The President Ndon Johnson. He's not afraid of Martin Luther
Speaker 8: King's testimony. He's afraid of fame this testimony, and so
Speaker 8: he decides that the country should not see her testify alive.
Speaker 10: Johnson is in the White House and he convened an
Speaker 10: impromptu press conference to will return to this scene in
Speaker 10: Atlantic City.
Speaker 6: But now we switched for the White House, and NBC's
Speaker 6: Robert Carewski.
Speaker 2: Nows and gentlemen, the President of the United States on
Speaker 2: this day nine months ago.
Speaker 10: He did it knowing that they would break away, thinking
Speaker 10: he might announce who his choice of vice president was
Speaker 10: going to be. Instead, he gets up there and he announces.
Speaker 10: Get this, he announces that it's nine months to the
Speaker 10: day since since Governor Connolly, who was there, was shot
Speaker 10: along with President Kenny. So he announced a nine month anniversary,
Speaker 10: and everybody's scratching their heads, thank you very much, and
Speaker 10: then he leaves. By that time, Vanny lou Hamer's testimony
Speaker 10: was over. However, it backfired on Johnson because it became
Speaker 10: a story that she had been taken off television and
Speaker 10: in the news that night and for days afterwards, they
Speaker 10: replayed her testimony.
Speaker 2: I was carried to the county jail and put in
Speaker 2: the booking room. They left some of the people in
Speaker 2: the booking room and began to place us in sail.
Speaker 8: She had Mississippi in her bones. One of the king
Speaker 8: or the Snickfield secretaries. They couldn't do what Thanheima did.
Speaker 8: It couldn't be a sharecropper and express what it meant right,
Speaker 8: and that's Whatheima did.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't too long for both three wife men
Speaker 2: came to myself. One of these men was stayed highway
Speaker 2: for throat.
Speaker 9: He said, we got to make you wish.
Speaker 3: You were dead.
Speaker 11: I was carried out of that cell into another cell
Speaker 11: where they had two Negro prisoners. The state Highway patrolman
Speaker 11: ordered the first negro to take the black jack. The
Speaker 11: first Negro prisoner ordered me by orders from the State
Speaker 11: Highway patrolling for me to lay down on a bunk
Speaker 11: bed on my face, and I laid on my face.
Speaker 11: The first Negro began to beat, and I was beat
Speaker 11: by the first Negro until he was exhausted. I was
Speaker 11: holding my hands behind that at that time on the
Speaker 11: left side because I suffered from polio when I was
Speaker 11: six years old. After the first negro had beat until
Speaker 11: he was exhausted, the State Highway patrolman or of the
Speaker 11: second Negro.
Speaker 3: To take the black jack.
Speaker 11: The second Negro began to beat and I began to
Speaker 11: work my seat and the State Highway patrolling order the
Speaker 11: first negro had beat the set on my feet to
Speaker 11: keep it from working.
Speaker 7: My feet.
Speaker 11: I began to scream, and one white man got up
Speaker 11: and began to beat me in my head and tell
Speaker 11: me at the hud. One white man, my dress had
Speaker 11: worked up high. He walked over and pulled my dress.
Speaker 11: I pulled my dress down, and he pulled my dress
Speaker 11: back up. I was in jail when Medica Ells was murdered.
Speaker 11: All of this is on account we want to register
Speaker 11: to become first class citizens.
Speaker 7: And if the.
Speaker 11: Freedom Democratic Party is not seated, now I question America.
Speaker 11: It's s America, the line of the friend in the
Speaker 11: home of the brains. While we have to sleep with
Speaker 11: our telephones off of the hook because our lives be
Speaker 11: threatened daily because we won't Callia.
Speaker 8: It be some human beings in America.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I will just say, please make sure that you call
Speaker 1: the US Senate two zero two two two four three
Speaker 1: one two one. Call your senator. Call a senator where
Speaker 1: your mother or your father is. Call a senator where
Speaker 1: you have a cousin or a loved one. Call the
Speaker 1: Senator and let them know that it is so important
Speaker 1: that they vote no against the Save Act. It is
Speaker 1: mission critical. In this hour, we have seen things get worse.
Speaker 1: We keep saying it can get worse. I keep thinking
Speaker 1: that we are testing the bounds to find out if
Speaker 1: we really believe it will get worse.
Speaker 3: It can, y'all.
Speaker 1: We have to act at some point, your conscience, your
Speaker 1: heart has to be pricked to act. But again, welcome home, y'all.
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