Only. If you are an africanamerican in america and you are under 50, your number is 202 7488000. For the black viewers 50 and. Ver, 202 7488001 keep in mind, you can always and we at 202 7488003 are always reading on social facebooktwitter and on at facebook. Com cspan. Once again we are talking about yesterdays march on washington which have been here in the nations capital. Conversations and revolved around some of the same issues that they talked about 57 years ago. In fact, here is reverend al sharpton who was on the National Mall yesterday talking about why the march needed to happen again. We did not come to start trouble, we came to stop trouble. You act like it is no trouble to shoot us in the back. You act like it is no trouble to put a chokehold on us while we scream i cant breathe 11 times. You act like it is no trouble to hold a man down on the ground until you squeeze the life out of him. It is time for a new conversation. , why did they have the march at lincolns memorial
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You are on the cspan radio app. Continues. Host we are back and we are joined by Ohio State University professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries, who is here to give us some Historical Perspective on the march on washington and the rights in the United States. Professor jeffries, good morning. Guest good morning. You. To be with host thank you so much for being with us. First, lets get your impressions of yesterdays march on washington and how it original. O the guest it was very interesting, because there are certainly a lot of parallels. Certainly in terms of what was being asked of the nation as a whole, what was being asked of the government. The march on washington that we saw yesterday was essentially organized around this idea of a justice,t to racial specifically focusing on ending Police Violence. Think abouten we the original march on washington in 1963, we only focus on that portion of dr. Kings speech that focuses on his imagining a different future, a different america, in the second
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