Continues next on cnn [the Beatles Revolution plays] [screaming] you say you want a revolution well, you know all chanting peace now we all want to change the world were tired of fulltime jobs for parttime income. You tell me that its evolution well, you know i know nonviolence will work. We all want to change the world is this what you want to do . Destroy the country . Ill destroy a whole bunch of yall. But when you talk about destruction the american embassy is under siege. Dont you know that you can Count Me Out the countrys Going to get a new president next january. Dont you know its Gonna be all right we are planning today new marches. All right not knowing where they are is the worst. Just hoping to stay alive, day to day. All right i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. All right no question about it, this was a bombshell, politically. All right i dont plan to drop out. All right i think itll be a Good thing for the party. We want to de
Afterwards is a a weekly interw program with relevant guest hosts anything top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All afterwards programs are available as podcasts. Reverend sharpton i dont want to start this conversation about your book by quoting something you wrote towards the end of your book which i think its a great jumping off point for this conversation pick you write i tell everyone the hardest job of being a preacher is to eulogize a life that someone who did nothing. My friends it is hardest to eulogize the lifeblood of the country who did nothing and then political and its a so i beg of you, give me something to work with. When your time comes understand before the family as they prepare to take you to god, let there be Something Worthy come something of merit that you did for your fellow man that helped to lift them. The name of your book as we all know is rise up. Talk more about that. Why it is imperative completely its imperative for people to give folks like y
Claims he could have died from his own covid infection. Not yet confirming that he is negative tor the virus. And casing spike in parts of northeast and 11 states in the middle of the country see record rates of infection and. And one of the oldest state fairs is maintaining the tradition while keeping patrons today. But we begin with todays eye opener. Youre world in 90 seconds. It is a Tropical Storm so it continues to elongate and it weakens but still the threat of rain, still the threat of storm surge. Hurricane delta roared ashore friday evening at category 2. Now it is weakened to a Tropical Storm. I think the story becomes how active it has been in the gulf of mexico this year. Despite the arrest of 13 man charged with planning to kidnap her, givenen whitmer said the threats against her havent stopped. I feel very good, i feel strong. President trump stopped taking coronavirus related medications midday on friday. I havent even found out numbers or anything yet but ive been rete
To the life of one of the iconic figures of not just the Civil Rights Movement, but of the ways and Means Committee. I sat next to john lewis for 25 years on the ways and Means Committee and i must tell you, he was the bravest, most gentle person i ever met. He nearly lost his life in pursuit of justice and confronted some of the darkest society at the Edmund Pettus bridge as a very young man. But he never lost faith in what america could become. During those many conversations, and he offered a tutorial to me about the life and the legend that he had offered to america, his unyielding optimism and hope lifted the spirits of his fellow members of congress and the American People in our nations most trying moments. With quiet strength, grace and love, he shouldered unthinkable burdens and changed this world for the better. Through it all, he was unfailingly humble, selfless and kind and i must say, and i was commenting a moment ago to some colleagues on the committee, if he was in the r
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,