wonderful producers put together a quick montage. this isn t the way trump wants to be seen today, but this is the way he s going to be seen today. take a look. in many cases they re waving the american flag, and they love our country. some of them went in and they re hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know. they have great relationships. the crowd was unbelievable, and i mentioned the word love. the love the love in the air, i ve never seen anything like it. the people were very angry. because it s common sense. it s common sense. if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? treason! treason! we love you. you re very special. you ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel.
really rich white christian men and their wives, many with inherited wealth, a small merchant class and lots and lots of poor people and people of color, mainly black people who were de facto unequal. indeed until the 20th century which many consider to be the great american century. women couldn t vote, black men could vote on paper but faced everything from local trickery to lynching to stop them. immigrants were routinely routed to urban ghettos and ramped segregation and a free for all for industrialests to exploit ununionized workers and drill and mine and pollute at will. by the end of that century, largely due to progressive democratic presidents, democratic legislative super majorities despite the dixie cats and forward looking supreme court justices a lot about america changed. and most people think it changed for the better. but not everyone agrees that the
your last hit. so now we come to this point where our democracy is in peril and where the fact that our democracy was in peril in 2020 did not stop black and brown voters and asian american and native american voters from coming out in record numbers, which is why the 2020 presidential election was the election with the highest vote turnout ever in the history of this country. not since 1900 because in 1900 black people couldn t vote and women couldn t vote. ever in the history of this country. not only did 5 million black people turn out to vote in november 2020 in georgia, 4.5 million of that 5 million showed up for the special election on january 5th, which is why you can t talk about january 6th without talking about january 5th because january 5th showed once again that this power was a transformative power. it didn t just elect joe biden by this incredible margin, it also resulted in the election of the first black senator from georgia since reconstruction and only the second jew
playback! woo the feel great hit of the holidays is still in theaters. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah. and on friday, you watch at home too. time to show the world what we re made of. activating piggy power. to me the true patriots were the more than 150 americans who peacefully expressed their vote at the ballot box. the election workers who protected the integrity of the vote. and the heroes who defended this capitol. you can t love your country only when you win.
moment than the rights guaranteed to black voters under the 15th amendment. it was gratifies to hear president biden say several weeks ago this legislation must pass and if the filibuster must go, it must go. president biden and vice president harris are going to be in atlanta next tuesday. i m looking forward to seeing what they re going to say. they re going to be talking about voting. every person has to understand the stakes of this as you do, joy, as really the states not just about black and brown people, but it s about american democracy itself. you know, again, it s not sunday, you re going to get an amen on this. the only thing that matters is whether or not we have access to the vote, and you cannot avoid and escape the fact that antiblackness and this rage against the right of black people to vote and our willingness and our eagerness to exercise that vote is at the heart of this threat to democracy. sherrilyn ifill, you are a national treasure my sister, you