1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 3: Mister speaker, I rise today to oppose this rule and 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 3: to support the previous question and the democracy. The right 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 3: to vote is the most powerful non voluntary we have. 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 3: Many people march and protested for the right to vote. 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:34,279 Speaker 3: Some gave a little blood, and others lost their lives. 9 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 3: Some of you have heard me say that the right 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 3: to vote is precious, almost sacred. In my hearts of hearts, 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 3: I believe that we should make it simple and convenient 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 3: for all of our citizens to be part of the 13 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 3: democratic process. It should not matter well you're black or white, Latino, Asian, American, 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 3: a Native Americans. We should be able to participate in 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 3: the democratic process. On March seventh, nineteen sixty five, I 16 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 3: gave a little blood on the Ethnic Pitters Bridge for 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 3: the right to vote before the Voting Rights Act of 18 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five. Is pious. Some people had to count 19 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: the number above us and the bar of soap, the 20 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 3: number of jellybeans in a jar, and all across from America. Today, 21 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 3: when people go out to attempt to vote. They're standing 22 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 3: long in movable lines. That's not right, it's not fair, 23 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 3: and it's not just. We can do better, and we 24 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 3: must do better. We have a mall abigation, a mission, 25 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 3: and a mandate to empower all of the American people, 26 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 3: not just a select few. We must do what is right, 27 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: what's fair, and what is just. Today democracy is on attack. 28 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: I force it within and forces abroad. We need to 29 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: fix it, and fix it now. For these reasons, I'm 30 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 3: proud to insponse to Hr twelve, the Voter Empowerment Act, 31 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 3: with my friends and my colleagues. It is a good deal, 32 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 3: a necessary deal, and a patriotic deal to protect and 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 3: to preserve our voting system. I urge each and every 34 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 3: one of you to support the previous question and I 35 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: yeel back. Thank you, missing mc governor. 36 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all. I'm Angela Rai. I'm hosting today's solo 37 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: pod on voting rights. Voting rights where So. Just last 38 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: week the Supreme Court issued and a decision we talked 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: about on the podcast last week in Louisiana versus Calais, 40 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,399 Speaker 1: a decision that single handedly eliminated the Voting Rights Act 41 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty five. This just on the other side 42 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: of its sixtieth anniversary last year, sixty years later, sixty 43 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: one years later. John Roberts, not John Lewis, has been 44 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: in our lifelong quest since he was a young man 45 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: in the Department of Justice to end and eliminate the 46 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act. 47 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 4: The Saint John Roberts, by the way that. 48 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: In the Shelby Versus Holder decision in twenty thirteen, says, 49 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,119 Speaker 1: don't worry about Section five that were taken away from 50 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: you here everybody. Section five was a section in the 51 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: bill that ensured that states who had a pattern in 52 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: practice of discriminating against voters they had to send in 53 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: their plans right to be pre cleared by the Justice Department, 54 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: by the Civil Rights Division and the Justice Department, they 55 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: would have to send in their max They would have 56 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: to send in their plans to say we're ensuring that 57 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: people have unfettered access to the ballot box. Well, John Roberts, 58 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: along with his colleagues in twenty thirteen and Shelby Versus Holders, say, 59 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: you know, we're really beyond that. Racism no longer exists 60 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: in this country and people can vote fairly. And the 61 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: evidence of that they didn't say this, but this is 62 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: the subtext. The evidence of that is, y'all had your 63 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: first black president in two thousand and eight. 64 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 4: Right, So instead of. 65 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: Protecting people's right to vote, especially in the South, we're 66 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: gonna eliminate this provision. And we're actually gonna ask Congress 67 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: to go back to the drawing board, reauthorize a Voting 68 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: Rights Act, and ensure that this is now modernized, that 69 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: it's no longer reflecting on the United States history that 70 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: existed in nineteen sixty five. 71 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 4: It's time to modernize that. 72 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: Never mind the fact that this was just reauthorized in 73 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: two thousand and six, two years before Barack Obama went 74 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: his election, and he said, and if all else fails, 75 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: you still have section two of the Voting Rights Act, 76 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: where there's some elements of a preclearance section. It's not 77 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: specific to the South, but states can still submit their 78 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: plans there. Well, let me just stop for just a 79 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: moment and say, I want us to look at what 80 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 1: happened in two thousand and six. 81 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 4: In two thousand and six. 82 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: There was a Republican member of Congress named John I'm sorry, 83 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: James Sinson Brenner. James Sinson Brenner or Jim Sinson Brenner, 84 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee at the time. 85 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: James Sinson Brenner was a Republican from Wisconsin, and yet 86 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: James Sinson Brenner in two thousand and six introduced HR nine. 87 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: It was the Fanny Lou Hamer Rosa, Parks and Coreta 88 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 89 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Let me tell you all something. 90 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: In two thousand and six, this vote passed the Senate. 91 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 1: This bill passed the Senate by a ninety eight to 92 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: zero vote, a unanimous vote for the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization. 93 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: In two thousand and six, in the House where James 94 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: Cinson Rinner was again the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 95 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: this vote, this vote was three ninety to thirty three. 96 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: Three hundred and ninety members of Congress voted for the 97 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: Fannie Louhamer Rosa, Parks and Correta Scott King Voting Rights 98 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: Excuse me, Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act. Two 99 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: years goes by, and there's a major change in this country. 100 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 1: Two years goes by, and there's a black man who 101 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: runs for president who says, yes, we can and hope 102 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: and change we can believe in. And two more years 103 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: goes by. In twenty ten, there is the rise of 104 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: the Tea Party. In twenty ten, there is a mass 105 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: movement by an organization called ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, 106 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: to push for voter ID bills and to push for 107 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: the short of early voting and. 108 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 4: To make it hard for people, harder for people. 109 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: To vote absentee because in the minds of some of 110 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: the people in this country, they decided that there was 111 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: no way that a black man could win for president 112 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: unless they cheated. So now all of a sudden, voter 113 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: fraud became an issue. And you heard advocates, civil rights 114 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: advocates that want to protect voting rights say that these bills, 115 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: the voter ID bills in particular, particular in which more 116 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: than a hundred of these bills were introduced in state 117 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: legislatures across the country. You heard voting rights advocates say, 118 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: this is a solution in search of a problem. 119 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 4: Right. 120 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: So, in twenty thirteen, the Supreme Court, here's the Shelby 121 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: versus Holder case, where I just told you what John 122 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: Roberts says, don't worry about section five because we still 123 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: have section two. And there were other advocates that stood 124 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: up to say, you know, this is going to become 125 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: a problem. And around this time Reverend Jackson, God rest 126 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: his soul, lifted up his voice to say something he'd 127 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: been saying for some time. But Reverend Jackson really went 128 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: on a tour to cities to enforce just how important 129 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: and how necessary a constitutional amendment for the right to 130 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: vote is, because he knew that this Voting Rights Act 131 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: energy would soon shift, that the bipartisan way in which 132 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act had been passed since nineteen sixty 133 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: sixty five would shift right. So this is what Reverend 134 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: Jackson said when he visited Ohio today. 135 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 2: August six, nineteen to five, Wilder Rights Act was signed 136 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 2: a full film of muhammad Yah commitment. Prior to nineteen five, 137 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 2: because states controlled the process and suppressed the vote, blue 138 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 2: blacks could not vote, Men about from South, White women 139 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 2: couldnot serve in jurors. Eighteen year olds could not vote. 140 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 2: You couldn't vote on college campus, federal absentee, or go 141 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 2: home to vote. You cannot vote by language. The felleral 142 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: government intervene to assure Americans the right to vote. But 143 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 2: today we have still the state's rights schemes to suppress 144 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 2: the vote. It means in Hamilton County they're trying to 145 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: move early vote to the outskirts of town to make 146 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 2: it more difficult. In North Carolina, it means voting from 147 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 2: college campuses. In Texas means you can vote with the 148 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 2: gun registration, another student of registration. We need the amendment 149 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 2: to the Constitution right we should be a fundamental right 150 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 2: to vote. We needed amendmit the Constitution. I have one election. 151 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 2: Now we have fifty elections, fifty state separate and nonepal election. 152 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: We should have one uniform system of voting for federal 153 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 2: elections for all Americans. 154 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: Reverend Jackson for a long time talked about how this 155 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: fundamental right to vote was key. He talked about this 156 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: constitutional amendment often. But when this happened with Shelby versus Holder, 157 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: when the voting rights, the voter ID bills started popping up, 158 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: he started using his voice even louder. And I remember, 159 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: being a younger professional, thinking, we don't have to spend 160 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: this much time talking. 161 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 4: About the right to vote anymore. We have it, We 162 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 4: got it. Locked. 163 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: There are other things we got to focus on, access 164 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: to capital, making sure that black contractors can keep their 165 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: doors open, ensuring that there are all of these other 166 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: things that we focus on. That black people are paid 167 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: the same thing as their white counterparts. That when black 168 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: people go to buy homes, that their interest rates are 169 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: the same as their white counterparts, That they don't reduce 170 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: the value of the home because the black family lives there. 171 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 4: We can live wherever we want, drive the cars we want. 172 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: To drive, right that we can be admitted to the 173 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: schools we want to be admitted to. Affirmative action is 174 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: really the thing that's hanging in the balance, is what 175 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: I thought. But when you lived through fighting for the 176 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and the 177 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: Fair Housing Act, certainly you know just how fragile it is. 178 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: And that is what Reverend tried to remind us. That 179 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: that is what John Lewis tried to remind us about. 180 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: And these are the things that we took for granted. 181 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: And now here we are in the throes of a battle, 182 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: not for the soul of America, but we for what 183 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 1: we know we deserve and is rightfully ours in this country. 184 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: So I just want to sit here just for a second, 185 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 1: because I think this is important. So we talked about 186 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: Shelby versus Holder, Louisiana versus Calais. We spent a lot 187 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: of time on the podcast just last week. But last 188 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: night something happened. Something happened that really, y'all was. 189 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 4: Jarring to me. 190 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: Last week there were members of Congress who said that, yeah, 191 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: they made this decision in Louisiana versus Calais, but you know, 192 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: no states are are gonna move, no states are gonna 193 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: do anything this quickly. After all, it takes the Supreme 194 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: Court thirty days at least for this decision really to 195 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: become finalized. So this decision was challenged by the Supreme 196 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: Court or to the Supreme Court about when it would 197 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: take effect. Because right now Louisiana has an election going 198 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: on April first. Folks who are in the military fighting 199 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: overseas or stationed overseas already got their ballots if they're 200 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: registered to vote in Louisiana in the primary, already got 201 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: their ballots. Absentee ballots have already gone out because it's 202 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: May fifth. Well, last night the Supreme Court said, I 203 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: know what we normally do, but this time it's different 204 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: because we don't want people to be voting under an 205 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: unconstitutional map. We think that having two black representatives in 206 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: Congress for a state that is one third black is unconstitutional. 207 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: So we actually think this Supreme Court decision should go 208 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: into effect even sooner. We think it should be immediate. 209 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: We know what we normally say, what we normally do, 210 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: but there is no rhyme or reason for these people 211 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: despite the fact that an election is already happening. You're 212 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: talking about unconstitutional already happening. We want to disenfranchise all 213 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: of those people. Throw out these ballads and agree with 214 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: what Donald Trump said on true Social Let's pull that up. 215 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: We want to go ahead and be superpartisan, highly political. 216 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: We want to side with Donald Trump. Can we pull 217 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: up that truth Social post from Donald Trump. I'm gonna 218 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: read it. He says, we cannot allow there to be 219 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: an election that is conducted on unconstitutionally simply for the 220 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: convenience of state legislatures. He says, if they have to 221 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: vote twice, so be it. He says, if they have 222 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: to vote twice, so be it. The man that complains 223 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: constantly about voter fraud is telling you that if you 224 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: have to vote twice, so be it. He says, we 225 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: should demand that state legislatures do what the Supreme Court 226 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: says must be done. That is more important than administrative convenience. 227 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: Is the right to vote a mere administrative convenience? 228 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 4: I don't think so. 229 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 230 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: twenty House seats in the upcoming midterms. 231 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 4: President Donald J. 232 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: Trump, so he's celebrating a victory where he stacked the 233 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: deck against people. 234 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 4: Let me go personal for y'all for just a moment. 235 00:14:48,640 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 5: We can pull that down. 236 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if you all have ever been in 237 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: a toxic relationship, And shout out to our good friend 238 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: and sister Tiffany Cross, whose book has dropped today. If 239 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: y'all haven't haven't picked it up, pick it up. And 240 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: she's talking about a toxic relationship with the country, her career, 241 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: and with a man that she loved. So I just 242 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: want to go here for just a second in honor 243 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: a tif today. So, if you've ever been in a 244 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: toxic relationship, one where you didn't feel heard, you say 245 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again, and they pretend 246 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: not to hear you, and then you say you know 247 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: what I'm done. I'm finally going to leave this thing. Right, 248 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: you leave, and the person. 249 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 4: Who never heard you finally heard everything you said. They 250 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 4: finally get it. 251 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: They understanding, light bulb goes off, They're with you, all 252 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: of a sudden, they get it right. This is what 253 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: America has done to Black people historically. They haven't heard us. 254 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: They treated us like we don't matter. They make it 255 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: hard for us. We are in a toxic, abusive, emotionally psychologically, 256 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: mentally abusive, and sometimes physically abusive relationship with this country. 257 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: They have done everything in their power to make it 258 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: harder for us to vote, all the while telling us 259 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: that our issues don't matter, that our bodies don't matter, 260 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: that our personhood certainly does not matter. And yet Donald 261 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: Trump tells you the quiet part out loud. He says 262 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud. He says that if this 263 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: all goes right, there will be twenty new Republican seats 264 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: for the midterms. Because the only way this fool could 265 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: win an election is to stack the deck against us, 266 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: the most powerful people on the planet. 267 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 4: That's the only way he can win. And so while our. 268 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: Folks are struggling to fight against you know, what frankly 269 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: is an uphill battle. Our folks still haven't given up. 270 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: So the Supreme Court last night said this decision will 271 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: come go into effect immediately. Last week, before the decision 272 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: came out, the Mississippi governor said he was using his 273 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: state constitutional authority to call a special session. Louisiana said 274 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: they would immediately redraw maps. Right now, it's looking like 275 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: Cleo Fields would retain his seat. Why Troy Carter would 276 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: lose his seat? Alabama is speaking up and they went 277 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: into session yesterday. I want to roll the clip of 278 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: the protests that happened outside because I don't want us 279 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: to lose all of our hope we do. 280 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 5: What do we do? You run in a fun bank? 281 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 6: Thanks Now, last week the Supreme Court ruled in the 282 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 6: case of Louisiana versus Klais. And while some may try 283 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 6: to complicate it, we know what it is. 284 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 4: It is a strategic attempt to. 285 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 6: Erase the voting rights at which we know is our 286 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 6: strongest protection against disenfranchisement, protections that were not given protection 287 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 6: is that will vote for what here in Alabama. 288 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 4: And so the people don't tell the. 289 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 6: Truth that the decision opened the door of our house 290 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 6: where politicians will try to redraw maps. 291 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 4: They gonna try, but the people ain't gonna let me. 292 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: So there is a protest outside of Alabama and today 293 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: Tennessee because Tennessee is also called a special session. Tennessee's 294 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: special session would eliminate the sole majority minority district there 295 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: is in the whole state of Tennessee that represents Memphis. 296 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: This is the scene outside of Tennessee State Legislature today. 297 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 4: He he, I think this. 298 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: Is so important because what this shows is a different 299 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: type of solidarity. I would just want to take a 300 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:57,959 Speaker 1: moment to shout out all the white people. For everybody 301 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: who's listening to the audio of this podcast, you didn't see, 302 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: but there's lots of white people outside in Alabama and 303 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: in Tennessee. I imagine they'll show up in Mississippi when 304 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: it's time. I believe Louisiana protests for the most part, 305 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: will be held tomorrow. 306 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 4: This is important, y'all. It is all hands on deck. 307 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,719 Speaker 1: It's not just black people who will be impacted by 308 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: the disenfranchisement of voters. There are brown people, there are 309 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: Asian people, there are white people. Everyone who can't get 310 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: an ID as they continue to change these laws. These 311 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: folks are also impacted. So I want us to be 312 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: mindful of a lot of that. Now, one other place 313 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: that I want to go, and then we're going to 314 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: end today because this is a deep dive type of 315 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: a situation. There's so much here, Project twenty twenty five. 316 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: In Project twenty twenty five, there is an entire chapter 317 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: on the Federal Elections Commission. The man who wrote that section, 318 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: Nicholet's pull up the clip the headline, how Trump's Justice 319 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: Department will achieve more honest elections Hans van Hans vond spacals. 320 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 4: Listen his name, I can't read it. 321 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:13,360 Speaker 1: Hans von Spakkovski spec you guys, I should have got 322 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: to phonetics. I'm sorry, I'll not have pronounce his name. Hey, 323 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: how win his name anyway? Because I'm mad at him now. 324 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: This man wrote a whole chapter in Project twenty twenty 325 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: five about the various things that they could do to make. 326 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 4: It harder for people to vote. 327 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: One thing they talked about, according to a fact sheet 328 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Civil and Human Rights, 329 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: is criminalizing the voting system. Project twenty twenty five would 330 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: shift responsibility for prosecuting election related offenses from the Civil 331 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: Rights Division to the Criminal Division. Nick, we can drop 332 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: that headline if you want. They also talked about allowing 333 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 1: the proliferation of online misinformation and disinformation relating to elections. 334 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five would end ongoing federal efforts by 335 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security to combat online disinformation. And 336 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: we've seen that they have said that they are going 337 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: to send ice to polling places, that they are going 338 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: to have DHS working on investigations around voter fraud. That 339 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: is not the purpose of the investigation's division at DHS. 340 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: They also talk about in Project twenty twenty five requiring 341 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 1: state and local recipients of DHS. Again, that's the Department 342 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security grant funding to meet certain preconditions for eligibility, 343 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: such as a commitment to total total information sharing, allowing 344 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: access to Department of Motor Vehicle and voter registration databases, 345 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 1: state run elections being intimidated by the Department of Homeland 346 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: Security for what purpose. Finally, Project twenty twenty five talks 347 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: about federal agencies designated as voter registration agencies as Mission CREEP. 348 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 1: They said that President Biden signing an executive order to 349 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: provide spaces for voter registration inside agencies overstepped and even 350 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: though it was designed to promote voter registration, they. 351 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 4: Thought it went too far. 352 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: Why because y'all we talk about this toxic, abusive relationship 353 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: with this country. They want to select few to have 354 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: political power. They want political power to belong in the 355 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: hands of a select few, because they think if you 356 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: lift up your voice, if you cast your vote, that 357 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: they lose power. This is a power graph where racism 358 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: is at the center and the heart of it, just 359 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: like it was during Jim Crow, just like it was 360 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: during the years in which our people were enslaved in 361 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: this country. So on this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 362 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: of this country, we have to do side what we 363 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: actually stand for. We spend a lot of time and 364 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: I talk about this in speeches all the time in 365 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence talking about life, liberty and the 366 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness. But there's another key element of what 367 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: we are required to do based on what it says 368 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: on paper, and that is if when the government no 369 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 1: longer serves the interests of the people, we have the 370 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: right to alter or to abolish it. And I think 371 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: we're getting pretty damn close to abolition. That is a 372 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: place where my people have always found freedom. And again 373 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't going to end with despair. So 374 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: let me tell y'all from my chicken scratch. We had 375 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: a mass meeting last week right on the other side 376 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: of this court decision. The first thing that I'm going 377 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: to suggest, it's happening already. Shout out to the Legal 378 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: Defense Fund that has a model bill for legislators to 379 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: use to protect the civil rights. 380 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 4: Of our voting rights in states. 381 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 1: I would encourage state legislators, whether you think you're at 382 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: risk or not, whether you live in a blue state, 383 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: a red state, of purple state, I don't care if 384 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: it's a green state, please introduce this measure as soon 385 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: as you're able to file bills in the state legislature. 386 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: You can go to naacp LDF dot org for more 387 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: infrigantation on that bill. 388 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 4: Please file that right away. 389 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: Second, I'm encouraging clergy and our churches and our denominations. 390 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 4: And every other. 391 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: Place of religious worship. Please have a voter registration drive. 392 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: Every single time your people are gathered register to vote. 393 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: I know you're saying, why Angela reregistering the vote. When 394 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: they're taking the right to vote away, I want to 395 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: scare the hell out of them. They're busy scaring us. 396 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: We need to register in mass every time you can. 397 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: If you're in a sorority or fraternity and some other 398 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: secret society, the Masons, whatever you are in, people to vote. 399 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: The next time y'all gather for a parade, a party, 400 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: the club, the strip club, wherever it is, register people 401 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: to vote. I know I started with the clergy and 402 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: ended up at the strip club. I don't know how 403 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: it happens. Blame it on add but register to vote 404 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: anytime we are gathered, okay, where two or three are gathered, 405 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: registered to vote. The third thing that I would suggest 406 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: is that lawyers, you identify the plaintiffs who have been 407 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: disenfranchised by the actions taken by these state legislators. 408 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 4: Legislators. 409 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: I know the Supreme Court is not on our side 410 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: right now, but consciences can be shifted. 411 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 4: There's a speech from Reverend Jackson. 412 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: I didn't play that today, but I probably should have, 413 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: where he talks about Rosa Parks was not on the 414 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: right side of the law, but she was morally correct, 415 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: and over times, over time, the politics shifted. 416 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 4: Fanny lou Hamer. 417 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: Was not on the side of the law, but she 418 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: was morally right, and over time the politics shifted. We 419 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: the people of conscience, have to shift the consciousness of 420 00:25:59,400 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: this country. 421 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 4: We have always done that. 422 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: It is heavy labor, it is hard labor, but it's 423 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: labor that we have to engage in. 424 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 5: No less. 425 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: The fourth thing that I will suggest shout out to 426 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: my brothers, Vince Evans and Rashad Robinson who talked about 427 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: the imperative nature of economic boycotts. Right now, there are 428 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,360 Speaker 1: companies that are headquartered in these states and they are 429 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: turning a blind eye to this immoral activity, this illegal 430 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,479 Speaker 1: this illegal legislation that is being forced down the throats 431 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: of the people. It is time for economic boycott. When 432 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 1: you look at what reverend when Reverend doctor Martin Luther 433 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: King did as he was in Memphis when he was 434 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: shot and killed. The day before he was shot and killed, 435 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: he delivered a speech I've been to the mountaintop, and 436 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: in that speech he talked about he literally calls out 437 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: Reverend Jackson's name is a name and asked for the 438 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: names of the corporations they are boycotting. At the time 439 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 1: to stand in solidarity with the sanitation workers. We need 440 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: to do some of that. The fifth thing. 441 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 4: Labor all, our labor unions. 442 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 1: Just the other day they changed their actions for May Day, 443 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: which was May first, to focus on voting rights. That 444 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: cannot be the end of the matter, y'all. That was 445 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 1: the beginning. What is our next action? We need to 446 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 1: hear from our labor union brothers, sisters, and siblings. The 447 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: sixth thing is this litigation, y'all, is not cheap. Support 448 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: organizations like the NAACP, where I'm a lifetime member. Support 449 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: organizations like NAACPLDA, where I've considered myself an honorary board member. 450 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: They are doing the work. There are several other organizations 451 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 1: on the ground in Louisiana, in Tennessee, in Alabama. 452 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 4: Black voters matter, y'all. They are tired. 453 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: They need the support of the people in terms of 454 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: boots on the ground and resources to fund this work. 455 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,719 Speaker 1: We've got to keep it going. In addition to that, 456 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: the seventh thing is structural. We have to ensure structural change. 457 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 1: I just talked about the right to alter or abolish it. 458 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: Now is the time is my sister Latasha Brown said 459 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: to fight for reparations. Now is the time for us 460 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,880 Speaker 1: to ensure that we expect and the court we see, 461 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: This Supreme Court is not on our side. It needs 462 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: to be expanded to represent the minds in the hearts 463 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: of the people in this country. 464 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,639 Speaker 4: We need to abolish the electoral college. 465 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 1: You're talking about Louisiana, knowing that a third of the 466 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: population is black, trying to dial us back to the 467 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: three fifth Compromises seventeen eighty seven and say, actually, hold 468 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: my beer, We're gonna take you down to one fifth. 469 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: We don't need that type of representation. We want one person, 470 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: one vote. We do not want you to speak for us. 471 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: And then the final thing is we want to engage 472 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: in a counter action on the fourth of July. Frederick 473 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: Douglass once asked, what to the slave is the fourth 474 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: of July? And we got to ask the same question 475 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: right now, y'all. In twenty twenty six, as we commemorate 476 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: or they commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 477 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: this country, what do we want this country to be 478 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: on the. 479 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 4: Fourth of July this year? 480 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: I want all of us outside to hit the streets 481 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: to reimagine a country that would actually meet our needs 482 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: that would actually serve our people. That isn't just asking 483 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: and clamoring for a vote, but ensures that people all 484 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: over the country, regardless of their zip code, have clean 485 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: drinking water, are paid a livable wage, live in a 486 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: home where they feel safe, can feed their families, can 487 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: afford healthcare, can afford to see the doctor proactively, not 488 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: just when something is wrong. That is the country we 489 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: need to fight for. That is what we need to 490 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: go and hit the streets for on the fourth of July. 491 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: So let us begin our counter actions right now to 492 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: celebrating this country. I'm not celebrating where we are. It's 493 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,479 Speaker 1: a crying shame where we are. We are living in 494 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: a nightmare. This is not the American dream. So let 495 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: us on the fourth establish the dream that we seek. 496 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: Become the people that we know we have the right 497 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: in every We owe our ancestors to becoming we owe 498 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: future generations to becoming those people. So yes, the right 499 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: to vote is sacred. The right to exist is so 500 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: much more sacred. We've got to fight for both. I 501 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: would say happy birthday to America, but America is not 502 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: showing me it's best life. 503 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 5: Right now, We'll come home, y'all. 504 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:10,120 Speaker 7: Mister Chairman, and to the Credentials Committee. My name is 505 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 7: missus Fanny lou Hamer. 506 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 5: That was the thirty first of. 507 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 7: August in nineteen sixty two, that eighteen of us traveled 508 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 7: twenty six miles to the county courthouse in Indonola to 509 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 7: try to register to become first class citizens. We was 510 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 7: met in Indonola by policeman highway patrolums and they only 511 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 7: allowed two of us in to take the literacy test 512 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 7: at the time. After we had taken this test and 513 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 7: started back to Rouseville, we were held up by the 514 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 7: city police and the state highway patrolers and carried back 515 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 7: to Indonola while the bus driver was charged that day 516 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 7: of driving a bus the wrong color. After we paid 517 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 7: the fine among us, we continued on to Rooseville and 518 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 7: Reverend Jess Funny carried me four miles in the rural 519 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 7: area where I had worked as a timekeeper and sharecropper 520 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 7: for eighteen years. I was met there by my children 521 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,719 Speaker 7: that told me the plantation owner was angry because I 522 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 7: had gone down tried to register. After they told him, 523 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 7: my husband came and said the plantation owner was raising 524 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 7: kane because I had tried to register, and before he 525 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 7: quit talking, the plantation owner came and said, Fanny Luda, 526 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 7: you know, did Pap tell you what I said? And 527 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 7: I said yes, sir. He said, well, I mean that 528 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 7: said if you don't go down and withdraw your registration, 529 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 7: you'll have to leave. Said then if you go down 530 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 7: and withdrawal so you still might have to go to court. 531 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 3: We are not ready for. 532 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 7: That in Mississippi. And I addressed him and told him 533 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 7: that I didn't try to register for you. I tried 534 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 7: to register for myself. I had to leave that same night. 535 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 7: On the tenth of September nineteen sixty two, sixteen bullets 536 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 7: were siding to the home of mister and missus Robert 537 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 7: Tucker for me. That same night two girls were shot 538 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 7: in Rouseville, Mississippi. Also, mister Joe mc donald's house was 539 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 7: shot in and June the ninth, nineteen sixty three, I 540 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 7: had attendant of voter registration workshop was returning back to 541 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 7: Mississiptts ten of us was chalned by the conton little 542 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 7: trailway bus when we got to wine on A, Mississippi, 543 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 7: which is Montgomery County four. The people got off to 544 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 7: use the washroom and two of the people to use 545 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 7: the restaurant. Two of the people wanted to use the washing. 546 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 7: The fall people that had gone in to use the 547 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 7: restaurant was all and out during this time. 548 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 8: Out of the hearing have been hearing testimony by Mississipanni 549 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 8: ul Kimber, who was a candidate for Congress number in 550 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,800 Speaker 8: the second District of Mississippi and the Democratic Crime where 551 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 8: she lost. 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