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<v Speaker 1>I was down in the dog, down in the dog.

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<v Speaker 1>I was down in the dog. Now living with the truth.

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<v Speaker 2>God got to change y'all, walking and prove I'm rolling

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<v Speaker 2>like a line. I ain't playing to say, brunching down

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<v Speaker 2>on the mic, putting friend his place.

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<v Speaker 3>AM smelling the freedom.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm smelling the freedom my friend bedream for me is

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<v Speaker 2>I'll never be simple.

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<v Speaker 1>A bright line, boat with the bible a tag, speak

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<v Speaker 1>the boot in the.

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<v Speaker 2>Truth, eating the pack as the gem, bright, bringing light

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<v Speaker 2>to the fight.

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<v Speaker 1>Tune in now as the room.

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<v Speaker 2>To the Knight Right Line Podcast with esg Right, Richard Faith,

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<v Speaker 2>courageous of bait, as brave.

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<v Speaker 1>As a line, and I'm telling you now rush still doubt,

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<v Speaker 1>don't let me find out. I'm spelling the freedom of smelling.

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<v Speaker 3>Read on my friend, be drifting me.

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<v Speaker 2>Sall never be sip, speach right mind, bowl with the

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<v Speaker 2>bable attack, speak the truth in the boot, lean them

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<v Speaker 2>back right line.

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<v Speaker 1>Good day, everyone, and welcome back to the Bright Wine Podcast,

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<v Speaker 1>where we take a closer look in the stories that

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<v Speaker 1>shape history and their impact on society today. I'm your host,

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<v Speaker 1>ssg old Friend. Once again, call me just don't call

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<v Speaker 1>me too late for somebody that HBSc Home Baked Savory

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<v Speaker 1>CHICKENJFC ain't got nothing on it. And in this episode,

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<v Speaker 1>we're unpacking one of the most infamous cases of anti

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<v Speaker 1>Semitism in America's history the early twentieth century, the case

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<v Speaker 1>of Leo Frank. Let us pray their father, all praises

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<v Speaker 1>to the most High, our God that hates the wicked

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<v Speaker 1>every day, our God, we worship him, and he will

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<v Speaker 1>lead us down the yellow brick road the freedom and safety.

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<v Speaker 3>Won't he do it?

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<v Speaker 1>Our God that is supreme. We give you unlimited thanks.

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<v Speaker 1>We give you jubilant glory. We give you efficient honor.

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<v Speaker 1>We give you essential worship and galvanizing praise. And we

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<v Speaker 1>do so by the way of our provider, our keeper,

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<v Speaker 1>the light that shines in the dark, the victory, the

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<v Speaker 1>right hand of God.

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<v Speaker 3>In which the world calls Jesus Christ. Amen. All praises,

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<v Speaker 3>all praises.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes trouble will flee if you would just open your mouths.

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<v Speaker 1>In the Book of Proverbs, chapter twenty eight, verse one,

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<v Speaker 1>the wicked flee when no man pursue it, but the

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<v Speaker 1>righteous are bold as a lion. There was a man

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<v Speaker 1>back in nineteen twenty six named Leo Franks a pervert.

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<v Speaker 1>He forced himself upon the innocenus he murdered. This story

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<v Speaker 1>is about more than just a crime and a trial.

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<v Speaker 1>It's about systematic racism, discrimination, the dangers of prejudice, mob mentality,

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<v Speaker 1>and the ad l It's also a reminder of why

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<v Speaker 1>history matters and how past events still echo in today's world.

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<v Speaker 1>The tragic case of Mary Fagin on August on April

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<v Speaker 1>twenty sixth, nineteen thirteen, That day was Confederate Memorial Holiday.

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<v Speaker 1>Throughout the South, Leo Franks, coming from the North to

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<v Speaker 1>run factories in the South, was vialified as a Jewish businessman.

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<v Speaker 1>He married into a prominent Jewish family, and he was

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<v Speaker 1>the president of the city of Atlanti's benign Ruth Lodge

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<v Speaker 1>for Advocacy Wink Wink. The South already had deep suspicions

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<v Speaker 1>of outsiders get a rope, but on the holiday. On

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<v Speaker 1>that holiday, Leo Franks went to work anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>The factory was closed to his customers.

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<v Speaker 1>And had only an office boy and the janitor, James Connedy,

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<v Speaker 1>who testified against Frank, that was working that day, so

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<v Speaker 1>Frank was alone. When an employee married Fagan, a Southern

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<v Speaker 1>girl of humble forefathers.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay came in to pick up her wages.

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<v Speaker 1>The next morning, she was found murgered in the basement

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<v Speaker 1>of the factory the National Pencil Company, Her bloody body

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<v Speaker 1>found face down on a pile of rubbish. The evidence

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<v Speaker 1>and witnesses testimonies linked Frank to Fagan's death. One day later,

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<v Speaker 1>he was arrested and eventually tried and convicted. What made

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<v Speaker 1>this trial even more controversial was the climate which it

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<v Speaker 1>took place. Prejudice trying to say that the black man's

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<v Speaker 1>testimony holds no way against Leo Frank's testimony, and at

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<v Speaker 1>the same time the lynchion of Frank caused the two

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<v Speaker 1>groups to identify more closely with one another, when in actuality,

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<v Speaker 1>the Blacks had a different set of identifying barriers. Black

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<v Speaker 1>folks got lynched on the daily like planes falling out of.

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<v Speaker 3>Sky these days.

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<v Speaker 1>On the other hand, a stuck justification that the Jewish

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<v Speaker 1>were not antyhumanely treated. Although they were denied, they were

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<v Speaker 1>also given that an open invitation with humane obstacles to cross,

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<v Speaker 1>and a continuous promise stated by the statue of Liberty

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<v Speaker 1>full poem engraved on the outside of the bottom floor

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<v Speaker 1>of lady liberty that says, give me your tire ur,

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<v Speaker 1>you're poor. Number two, your huddle up masses yearning to

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<v Speaker 1>breathe free. That don't sound like the cream of the

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<v Speaker 1>crop to me. Number three, the richest refuse of your

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<v Speaker 1>teaming shows. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

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<v Speaker 3>You invite trouble.

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<v Speaker 1>Now you want to send them back, m hypocritical. Number four,

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<v Speaker 1>send these homeless tempests tossed to me, be careful what

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<v Speaker 1>you wish for. And number five, I lift my lamp

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<v Speaker 1>beside the golden door. Why maybe because back then, in

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<v Speaker 1>that colonial era, industrialization and getting away from the agriculture,

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<v Speaker 1>a band of the South helped Westford expansion through the

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<v Speaker 1>gateway arch in Saint Louis to show me state by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, let's give a big, big, big shout out

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<v Speaker 1>to Saint Louis up in there for show. Show you're right,

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<v Speaker 1>show not. I was born and raised the loup.

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<v Speaker 3>Baby.

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<v Speaker 1>You know it's said, how quickly in this society we

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<v Speaker 1>have amnesia. I mean, notice how up to this point

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<v Speaker 1>in history there's a little concern about a thirteen year old.

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<v Speaker 1>How old a thirteen year old forced molestation and murder?

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<v Speaker 1>Let us sink in now The role of anti Semitism

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<v Speaker 1>was when Georgia's Governor, John Slaton commuted Frank's death sentences

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<v Speaker 1>to life in prison that outraged board over zero. Frank's

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<v Speaker 1>case sent shockwaves through Georgia and soon became a national headline.

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<v Speaker 1>The riotings of the Knights of the Mary Fagin played

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<v Speaker 1>a significant role in reviving the KKK because the society

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<v Speaker 1>was demonstrating coping with the effects of industrialization, immigration and urbanization,

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<v Speaker 1>which with their urbanization.

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<v Speaker 3>Excuse me at it's water.

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<v Speaker 1>Which would go on to target Jews, Negroes, and immigrants.

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<v Speaker 1>The case spurred juris leaders to establish the ADL in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen thirteen. By many hostile heated tensions several in particular,

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<v Speaker 1>throughout the trial, the media and public opinion were heavily

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<v Speaker 1>influenced by antisemic, anti Semitic rhetorics. The prosecution played into

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<v Speaker 1>the presides, portraying Frank acid and moral outsider. The atmosphere

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<v Speaker 1>was continuously heated that the mob outside of the courthouse

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<v Speaker 1>shouted threats against Jews, and the news magazine repeatedly demanded

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<v Speaker 1>the execution of the filthy pervert.

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<v Speaker 3>From New York.

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<v Speaker 1>For Frank's defense, his lawyer asked, who is this man,

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<v Speaker 1>James Connley drunken line any word that not like Negro?

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<v Speaker 1>The accuser James Connedy, who said that Frank had ordered

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<v Speaker 1>him to conceal the girl's body in the basement after

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<v Speaker 1>a minute he had killed her when she resisted his advances.

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<v Speaker 3>Frank denied the charges.

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<v Speaker 1>It was his word against Connedy's, the word of a

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<v Speaker 1>supervisor against a poor laborer who had previously served time

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<v Speaker 1>in prison for petty theft. For what petty theft? No

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<v Speaker 1>for rape, petty theafth, No for murder, petty death. Leo

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<v Speaker 1>Frank got his two siscen and wondered, how can a

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<v Speaker 1>Southern woman of impeachable character who spoke on his behalf

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<v Speaker 1>could be disbelieved while the drapery, of course, using an

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<v Speaker 1>N word it's not like Negro, could be accepted as

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<v Speaker 1>the whole damn truth. Meanwhile, the local newspaper who the

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<v Speaker 1>local newspaper accused the Jewish risk folks for determining that

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<v Speaker 1>no aristocrat like Leo Franks should die for.

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<v Speaker 3>The death of a working class gentile.

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<v Speaker 1>They were so worried about mass hysteria generated the nation

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<v Speaker 1>Jewish population community rallied and immobilized behind a condemned man,

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<v Speaker 1>hoping to upset the verdict on appeal. Even a noted

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<v Speaker 1>advertising executives spent one hundred thousand dollars in personal funds

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<v Speaker 1>and took a year off from his agency to rally

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<v Speaker 1>for Frank.

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<v Speaker 3>So, therefore.

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<v Speaker 1>Leo Frank's legal team feared for his life, as rightful

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<v Speaker 1>was he. So a group of men later known as

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<v Speaker 1>the Knights of Mary Fangs stormed in the prison, kidnapped

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<v Speaker 1>Franks list him on August seventeen, nineteen fifteen, in Marietta, Georgia.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh I passed through there before.

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<v Speaker 1>In the South in nineteen thirteen, nothing ever happened like

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<v Speaker 1>this before under such circumstanders, What do we do?

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<v Speaker 3>What do we do?

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<v Speaker 1>Scrambling, swapping that flies, scratching their heads. This act was

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<v Speaker 1>not just about vengeance.

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<v Speaker 3>It was about It was a.

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<v Speaker 1>Statement fueled by deep seated hatred and the refusals to

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<v Speaker 1>sell the biased justice that didn't align with the malash murder.

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<v Speaker 1>Malitious murder. Leo Frank was the catalyst for the creation

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<v Speaker 1>of the ad L Anti Defamation Lead, which mission statement

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<v Speaker 1>reads the ADL's court mission is to fight anti Semitism

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<v Speaker 1>and work to secure justice.

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<v Speaker 3>For all, treatment for all.

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<v Speaker 1>Regardless of their background or identity. Let me ask the

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<v Speaker 1>list the listening audience this, how does Mary Fakin that

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<v Speaker 1>forever would be always thirteen year old great great grandchild

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<v Speaker 1>feel or her great great grandchildren feel about the faith

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<v Speaker 1>and the law to protect the perpetrator of their great

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<v Speaker 1>late grandmother at the age of thirteen and nineteen thirteen,

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<v Speaker 1>more than one hundred years ago. What would you say

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<v Speaker 1>that bygones be bygones. Let me pose a question to

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<v Speaker 1>the listening audience. Let me pose this, how can you

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<v Speaker 1>tell the difference between a jeke in order to discriminate

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<v Speaker 1>against them? Is it a certain color or augmentation or pigmentation?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that the society factor? Let me humbly ask the

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<v Speaker 1>listening audience this, how would you feel your child, who

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<v Speaker 1>may not be responsible enough to work, yet only thirteen

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<v Speaker 1>year old baby girl gets fourth upon and murdered and

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<v Speaker 1>the killer gets their sentence communists to a LFE sentence

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<v Speaker 1>from the extreme maximum punishment of the law to just imprisonment.

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<v Speaker 1>Why only because the family is high rate is extremely

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<v Speaker 1>mad as the killer as they should be. Also, Frank

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<v Speaker 1>was posthumously pardoned in nineteen eighty six. Now how would

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<v Speaker 1>you feel about that? Well? Know well it happened. And

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<v Speaker 1>in the closing, the Leo Frank case reminds us that

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<v Speaker 1>history has a way of a repeating itself when lessons

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<v Speaker 1>aren't learned, aren't learned. Misinformation and fear can corrupt justice,

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<v Speaker 1>but awareness and action can change that. So what can

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<v Speaker 1>we do? Challenge racism at all forms of hate when

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<v Speaker 1>we see them, Educate ourselves and others about historical and

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<v Speaker 1>so they don't happen again. If this episode resonates with you,

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<v Speaker 1>share it with others. Let's continue the conversation and work

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<v Speaker 1>toward where just isn't determined by bias. It's still not

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<v Speaker 1>too late. We learn something new every day until next time.

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<v Speaker 1>Be a bowld lion. Rule like a lion, Intense like

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<v Speaker 1>a lion, Great like a lion, Home like a lion,

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<v Speaker 1>trenchet like a lion. Good night, everyone sst shallowamb

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<v Speaker 2>Sett