But it is a high, i started today giving a eulogy for my aunt, who great was born and raised in des moines. I am not the first in my family to be at the iowa state fair. Loreay the lord goes, goes, my grandmother and great , and that they took second prize to Shirley Temple back then. [laughter] sen. Booker i will not saying, but i am proud of those iowa roots. As i said at the eulogy this morning when we buried a 100yearold iowan, the story of the states the story of the country. My family came here, they were called miners in alabama, and they moved to a town called buxton, iowa. Many of you know buxton because there is a book that calls it the american utopia. There was a time in the late 1800s when blacks migrating from the south and european immigrants joined together in an integrated town well before its time. It is evidence of the best of who we are as a nation. Struggling black and white who went down into a out of theto dig earth their american dream. We are all americans. We
Aunt, who great was born and raised in des moines. I am not the first in my family to be at the iowa state fair. Loreay the lord goes, goes, my grandmother and great , and that they took second prize to Shirley Temple back then. [laughter] sen. Booker i will not saying, but i am proud of those iowa roots. As i said at the eulogy this morning when we buried a 100yearold iowan, the story of the states the story of the country. My family came here, they were called miners in alabama, and they moved to a town called buxton, iowa. Many of you know buxton because there is a book that calls it the american utopia. There was a time in the late 1800s when blacks migrating from the south and european immigrants joined together in an integrated town well before its time. It is evidence of the best of who we are as a nation. Struggling black and white who went down into a out of theto dig earth their american dream. We are all americans. We all come from humble backgrounds. In that town, the spiri