unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled
as you were approaching that moment dr. king wrote, you deplore the demonstrations that ar happening in birmingham, but you have that expressed simila concerns for the condition that brought the protest int being in the first place and i thought about bein expelled i thought about tha they were trying to expel us for a protest and we wer talking about the conditions that brought us to the protest in the first place that was the conditions of weapons of war slaying our children and terrorizing our schools and our communities. the conditions that would make it so the nra has ultimate voice or not the people of tennessee. the conditions in which we worship guns at the expense of our children in that letter dr. king talk about creative tension he talks about you creat attention, you aren t acting peacefully while we were nonviolent w were creating tension becaus we re trying to force conversation there comes a time when weight becomes never. where weight becomes delayin justice, delaying