the future hopefully about good news. thank you for coming on today. great to have you and thank you all so much for joining us, seeing a news night with abby. the loop starts right now race, america, and a fiery debate over jim crow in the stalls yeah, that s tonight. on this time good evening. i m abby phillip in new york and i want to get right to it tonight. one of donald trump s vice presidential contenders, congressman byron donalds. he made some comments that has a lot of you take in a lot of democrats fired up. i m gonna speak with him, live in just a couple of minutes but here are the original remarks they were made as a part part of a pitch to black voters in philadelphia. and i want you to hear it in its full context. listen girl with my mom my dad about things don t work out as an adult i ll look at my father and i say grow i don t know what happened. when you want father and i love here. i don t know what happened. i wasn t what i m going to say it is gro
the parties realigned black folks were republicans when the republican party party was the party of lincoln, the party of abolition, and the party of anti-slavery and human rights. that s the foundation of the republican party. the republican party switched and became politically realigned because the democratic party embrace the civil rights era, right? i think about those years, those are the years between the new deal and the great society. by 1960, around 70% of black people vote for john f. kennedy and they vote for kennedy in part because kennedy helps martin luther king junior get out of jail by phone and coretta scott king, and also so having his brother foam, the judge in georgia, and martin luther king sr, says he s going to he s got a bushel full of votes for john f. kennedy by 1964, over 95% of black people vote for lbj. and that s a few
Communities celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with acts of service, prayer services and parades - and presidential politics on people's minds.