1960, this great iconic champion of human rights, of civil rights, of voting rights, was being stopped in this jail so he couldn t keep on his work expanding those rights. here we are 2023, a guy who is about as far as close to being the opposite of dr. king as i can think of would be donald trump. and donald trump is the opponent of those civil rights and human rights and voting rights. and he proved that in what he tried to do in georgia, thank god he s being brought to justice, and where is it happening? the fulton county jail. you know, life has turned around, the cycle has turned. and as dr. king, i think, would say, the arc of the moral universe may be long, but tonight it seems to be at least in fulton county, bending toward justice. you see, this is why it s great to have a historian friend
around, and also a real friend will tease your later segment. we have bernice king on the show tonight. this is a real friend and also my friend and big brother, reverend al sharpton. a perfect place to bring you in. yeah, there is so much resnns to this happening in georgia, rev. you think about the fact georgia passed these laws to do run-offs to make it harder for black folks to get elected in that state, and yet fani willis is here. she was elected, and because she was elected, this black woman is bringing justice to trump in a way nobody else was willing to do, including making him take a mugshot. and i want you to ruminate on that last piece of what michael beschloss said. i think it s a perfect place to come in. donald trump s supporters including marjorie greene, she represents that part of georgia, are trying to use his booking photo as some sort of badge of honor, and making their own fake booking photos. as if they are like the civil rights workers in the 1960s who
georgia went for john kennedy by a larger margin than any other state in the united states? 65%. and they weren t doing it because they were for civil rights. these were basically racist white democrats because african americans by and large could not vote. and they were saying to kennedy, we re electing you to keep segregating the country. and can i say one very quick note about the march on washington? sure. in the end, 1960, 60 years ago this weekend, and rev, i m so glad you re doing what you re doing this weekend. kennedy was afraid to attend the march on washington. he was invited, it was across the street, but he was terrified it would seem too radical and it would hurt him politically, so he listened to dr. king s speech, i have a dream, through an open window upstairs at the white house. and underneath the platform is those speakers were speaking, kennedy and bobby kennedy, his
in the courtroom. i believe the media has filed rule 22s to allow cameras and the judge has allowed that. and it will give not only the country but the other defendants, the codefendants a sneak peek at the state s case. so we ll see the state still wants to make out that conspiracy, the whole the enterprise. so a lot of the evidence that are mostly relevant towards the defendants who are not yet on trial, will still be able to see that play out against the two that have filed the speeda trial demand. very quickly, one question each for michael and reverend sharpton. for you, michael, you have been one of the people pushing to see these trials televised. could georgia give us what we need in terms of seeing the evidence put on trial in front of the american people? georgia should lead the way. some of the most important civil rights struggles, as all of us know, took place in georgia. and i was talking about georgia in 1960, did you know that
as you know, the injunctive released when the constitution, no rights were violated. the justice department been able to do that, if they would ve been able to do that for george floyd, had they not set the stage for that kind of demand at the march on washington. we have to do the same thing today in protest, any march, any demonstration, we ve got to be clear on our demands. succinct and clear. so it s not missed. it has to be a collective. on that demand, at the bottom it says support does not necessarily support the march. it s not necessarily an endorsement of every demand listed. so it says to me, at least that group that initially they weren t altogether, as you know, historically, and double acp, they didn t sign on, but when it came time for the march, everyone was on board, and for the most part, most of the