people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and lyndon johnson, then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. that was byron donalds suggesting there were positive aspects to jim crow. he joins me tonight. plus, president biden is in normandy on the 80th anniversary of d.-day, delivering a stark warning about the state of democracy. and the grandson of a key member of the black panther party, david hilliard, is pushing back against a video of hilliard saying allegedly that he supports trump, saying it is misleading. and that grandson joins me later. but we begin tonight with the 80th anniversary of d-day, the day some 156,000 allied soldiers arrived on the beaches of normandy, charging head on into nazi gun fire, land mines, and barbed wire. pushing the occupying nazi era germans out of normandy and then out of the rest of france. the invasion marked a definitive turning p
people would some say like black people and say i love your name, your voice, for s.h., sweetheart, you are my choice. cynthia s father brought two friends to the howard home and demanded to see willy. despite his mother s pleading, the men dragged willy away and kidnapped willy s father from work. the men drove the two howards to the embankment of a river, bound willy s hands and feet, stood him at the edge of the water, and told him to either jump or be shot. willy jumped into the cold water below and drowned while his father was forced to watch at gunpoint. willy s dead body was pulled from the river the next day. you said that during the jim crow era, the importance of having a black man in the home was to protect his family and to protect his wife. i actually spoke with somebody who lived through jim crow. her name is myrlie evers williams. she quoted to me a man named charles silverman who wrote in crisis in black and white that in 1890, the year the
the definition of jim crow, so we know what we re talking about. jim crow laws were laws and statutes that legalized segregation. they existed from the post civil war era. they were meant to marginalize african americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs. get an education and other opportunities. those who attempted to defy jim crow laws often faced arrest and death. now i want to talk about something that happened during this era. you said what you were talking about was the presence of the black father in the home to protect his wife and family. in 1943, in the state that you represent, in florida, a young man named willy james howard who was 15 years old, was lynched. during christmas of 1943, willy howard sent cards to all his coworkers at the van priest dime store in live oak, florida. unlike the other cards, willy s card to cynthia goff, a white store employee, revealed a youthful crush. it expressed hope that white