legislation. the full menu of options should be on the table. 80% of americans want stricter background checks. they want to make sure that our kids are safe. and it doesn t matter whether your democrat or republican, but if you re republican, you should be in lockstep with democrats that s how we fix this problem, how we keep our kids safe, make sure we have another buffalo, make sure we have and we don t have another, buffalo we don t have another uvalde, texas. talking about the shooting strategy in pittsburgh. these things need to stop. there is no good reason why we can t have stricter gun, laws of laws that protect our children, people of, color american from gun violence. danielle, talking about gun laws and not being able to get that, through one thing we have seen as laws that impede voting rights. we have nine new laws in six states that makes it more difficult for people to vote
the eulogy yesterday for one of the victims of the race massacre here in buffalo, and then today, for the funeral of mr. whitfield. i think of how many funerals we will have to attend, how many eulogies that i will have to do and others will do. then i know, every once in a while, if you keep fighting, you can win. that is why the vice president of the united states walked in, and i looked at her as a black woman sitting in that c, and the about how black women like my mother could not even vote until they were in their late 30s in the deep south. we can win. kamala harris is an example of that. when i look at the executive order signed by president joe biden this week in the lighthouse, as the families of
old black woman, who lived through jim crow, to raise children, one became a fire commissioner here in buffalo. let me share with you some of with the vice president had to say. what happened here in buffalo, in texas, in atlanta, in orlando, what happened at the synagogues, and so this is a moment that requires all good people, all god loving people, to stand up and say we will not stand for this, enough is enough. and as she spoke, and others spoke, and i gave the eulogy, we also remembered the 19 children, children that were killed in uvalde, texas. since uvalde happens since the
i have things there to say as well. you can find new things and exciting stuff that s in the works on instagram, twitter, facebook, and tiktok. politicsnation with rev. al sharpton live in buffalo, new york is next. good evening and welcome to politicsnation. we are live from buffalo, new york, where today was the funeral services for 86 year old ruth witfield. and at this funeral, the last of the ten victims killed by an admitted white supremacist, in fact, had written his own 180 pages, and winds to the tops
moments from now the first future ral service will fin for one of the ten people killed in the racist attack in buffalo, new york. we re also getting new details at this hour about who the alleged mass shooter revealed his plans to in an online chat room just 30 minutes before the attack. let s get over to brian todd live in buffalo, and brian, this is the first of what sadly will be ten funerals in the wake of this funeral. what are you hearing there? reporter: right. it s an emotional and somber day in buffalo. the first funerals beginning in just minutes. the first one starting at about noon is that for hayward patterson, the deacon of the state tabernacle church.