other rural parts of our state or country, i want them to know that there will come a time, they re welcome a time where they found people that accept them, they will find people who love them. i have immediate family members who were supportive and loved me, and who welcomed me and took me as i was. like i said, to representative basye, i had folks who are outwardly cotton supportive, but when asked to decide to court a public policy, decided to treat me like a second-class citizen. just know, there are so many places where that is not the case. please, before you do anything else wait and reach out for help. there are so many resources. there are so many people that want to help. there are so many people they want to be there for you. just know that there are people in public office, people i work with in the state of missouri, people all across the country who are doing everything they can every day to make sure that
county, the kids that have not made it out, who have not escaped from this kind of bigotry. what do you want those kids to know about what their future can be? i do think about them every day, every single day, i think about them. whether they are in hickory county or dallas county or some other rural parts of our state or country, i want them to know that there will come a time, there will come a time where they found people that accept them, they will find people who love them. i have immediate family members who were supportive and loved me, and who welcomed me and took me as i was. like i said, to representative basye, i had folks who are outwardly supportive, but when asked to decide in the court of public policy, decided to treat me like a second-class citizen. just know, there are so many places where that is not the case.
and you re just as concerned as i am and you re someone who is anti-abortion for yourself but pro choice for other women like i am, then look at what your state is doing. they re putting out ballot initiatives and trying to create a second class citizen, and that scares me for our democracy. it is absolutely anti-democratic. and juanita, by the way, the people that are going to be affected by these laws most, what is hanning most, right, abortions in the state of texas by race, 38.8% were hispanic. 27.9% were black. 26% were white. and 7% were other racial and ethnic groups. these are not these are disenfranchised people that are going to be affected most by these restriktdive abortion laws in the state. it shouldn t surprise anyone that lizel herrera was a latino woman who was targeted at one of the most vulnerable points in
times, he was left to die in the middle of the street and there were at least a dozen members of the chicago police department who were standing there, and not a single police officer rendered aid. they reduced this boy to a second-class citizen by saying that, no matter what happened to him and how he suffered, we re not gonna take his suffering into consideration. that is not how the justice system in this country was designed to be. if you are wrong, you should pay for what you ve done. reporter: the question now is, will that payment end with this sentence having been served? or will there be new federal charges? a spokesperson for the department of justice acknowledged receiving the letter from the naacp, along with a similar one from both of illinois s u.s. senators and says the department is currently reviewing the information. don.