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to be a black man in america means having the weight of the world on your shoulders. it forces a different outlook, it gives a different perspective. it is being often talked about, but rarely being spoken to. it means being your brothers keeper. don t move, a vote. standing tall, proud, and unapologetic. navigating america as a black man comes with a different style, a cadence, a rhythm that s all our own. but at this moment, more than anything, it means challenging the status quo and remaking politics in our own image. from the street corner to capitol hill. what do you have to lose? look, what do you have to lose? it s a moment where we defined our narrative for ourselves. where we get to say who we are. what we believe and what matters most. i am trymaine lee, a journalist and storyteller, who has spent nearly two decades telling our truth. and i am charles coleman jr., a civil rights attorney whose passion for the voices and the issues o ....
is it about him? i really think he has a heart for the common man. he s not with the status quo. eight years later and the media still treating trump voters like zoo animals. what s your message to iran? don t, don t, don t, don t. jesse: guess what? they didn t, and now three americans are dead. along the way we discovered secret chinese staging hotels embedded with an illegal alien caravan that rode the next san train of death. a look inside a migrant caravan where biden s approval rating is a hundred percent. [chanting biden] we re drinking a hundred beers and a hundred vodkas. jesse: it was the end of the korean war and soldiers returned home. the new york times dropped the bombshell. some g.i. captives fear converted was the headline. it was the government s biggest nightmare come true. american prisoners of war were coming home converted by communist brainwashers. the story kicked the cia into high gear. just weeks into his job as cia direc ....
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered ....
people as the central players shush, don t tell them. well, cats out of the bag. it s happening. i think it happened today. thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added ....
and trump administration. and the immigration law is taking effect into florida. we could have extreme consequences. just one of 200 new laws in the state that could change peoples lives. that is coming up. lgbtq rights advocates are condemning one of yesterday s key decisions from the supreme court. the court sided with a colorado web designer who said she had a first amendment right to refuse service to same-sex couples. in the majority opinion justice gorsuch wrote the tolerance, not coercion, is our nations answer. the first amendment envisions the united states of a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands. in her dissenting opinion justice sotomayor called the decision heartbreaking. compared it to discrimination that blacks faced before the civil rights movement. she writes, quote, the immediate symbolic effect to the decision is to marquise and that means for a second class status. in this w ....