Are unable to afford the care in that hospital. Louise brown and all of us stand for guaranteed highquality universal health care for every single american meeting their stories with our action and our commitment. And then in buford with queen ket who described the challenge they face in the low country every time that it rains, it floods. They are burying the brunt of Climate Change, not caused by god or mother nature, but you was a, our emissions, our inkhakis in the face of the facts. So when she tells us her story, let us meet that with our commitment to free ourselves from a dependence on fossil fuels, to embrace renewable
energy technology and keep this planet from warming so much that it is uninhabitable for the generations that follow. [ cheers ] and then right here in columbia, walking the grounds of the state house with the House Minority leader who tells me that if we cannot pull down the statue that honors ben tillman, a White Nationalist terrorist, then we should at least
nationalist terrorist with the blood of many african-americans on his hands. yet he s a venerated position. why don t we talk about people like robert smalls who command diedre a confederate ship, ran his americans to safety and came back and served as a congressman not just during reconstruction but after reconstruction, almost uniquely amongst african-american legislators. so i want to make sure everyone s story is included in our national story and we tell the full story of america. it s the only way you right the injustices people have experienced, and it s the only way you get on the right course on the big challenges we face, health care, more inclusive economy, or confronting climate change before it s too late. when you talk about tillman and others that have the ugly racist background and the original sin of slavery here in this country, how do you respond to vice president biden s statement that many of called on
energy technology and keep this planet from warming so much that it is uninhabitable for the generations that follow. [ cheers ] and then right here in columbia, walking the grounds of the state house with the house minority leader who tells me that if we cannot pull down the statue that honors ben tillman, a white nationalist terrorist, then we should at least tell the full story of what he did to the people of his state and make sure that we elevate the stories of those on whose backs the wealth and the greatness and the success of this country was built in the first place. it is only when we tell everyone s story that this country is going to live to its full potential. it is only by bringing everyone in that we defeat donald trump and bring this country together and achieve our true success as
instance, you re not on a stage, elevated, or kept part. you re with the people you want to serve, listening to them. today i want to be with the people here in this convention hall and reflect back all the stories that have been shared with me along the way. struggles that people are going through, but also their aspirations and the way we re going to overcome this together. so south carolina s been very inspiring to me and i wanted to reflect some of that back at the convention. you told stories of different people and different things that are represented around the state and you didn t bite your tongue about calling people that had been racist or that had been backwards and exploitative, and you told the stories of cities around south carolina. absolutely. i was talking about being here in columbia, on the state house grounds seeing a monument to ben pill tillman who was a white