couldn t they see the humanity in tyre? and then finally for his son, turn to your neighbor and ask, why couldn t they see the humanity in tyre? because we have to make sure they see us as human beings and once we acknowledge that we re human beings, worthy of respect and justice, then we have the god given right to say, i am a human being and i deserve justice, not just any justice, but equal justice and that s what we re going to get for tyre nichols, equal justice.
this way we have one right after another as we and we seriously i know some family have to catch a plane. we need to be expeditious. we re grateful for your presence. protocol has been established to this family. when i say his name, say tyre. say his name. tyre. say his name. tyre. that s some africa that ways of knowing, ancestors say as long as you say someone s name, they should never die. there s not too much i can add other than this to this family we will see him again. i was at first african in savannah, georgia, doing a workshop. i was in the administrative assistant s office and i realized i needed something to
tell em. in the city that they slayed the dreamer, what has happened to the dream? in the city where the dreamer laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes. and you watch him and you were too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s
[ applause ] i d just like to say to my friends, rodney and rowvaughn, and the entire family, that we are soldiers, and we re in this army. we re fighting a fight that seems oftentimes unwinnable. but what i got as i sat here and listened was on that day of january 7th, tyre got drafted, unknowingly, into a service as a secret agent. he was drafted as a secret agent for a secret mission that he had no idea that he d been drafted for. but just like any soldier before they go off to war, to do battle, they want to go and do something that they love, so he went away to take some pictures. but on his way home, the battle was already afoot.
project my presentation. so i ran to best buy. i had the associate pastor take me. and we took longer than they had expected, but i left my book bag in the administrative assistant s office. when i got back, she said i thought you d never come back. i said, did you look around? she said no. i said, had you looked around intently, you would have saw i left something. and that signified that at some point you would see me again. i know he s in the hands of god. i know he s in the ancestral realm, but look around intently. he s left something. he s left a child. he s left brothers and sisters. he s left a mother and a father. he s left activists and organizers and community members. and i believe every time we raise our voice for love and justice and power, we will see tyre again. may the family find comfort in these words.