Speaker 1: I'm Jesse Junior walking forward to the Jesse Jackson Junior
show up on BLA Talk fifteen eighty yesterday walk Haigan Boy.
I delivered the speech that I'm word at Martin Luther
King Junior's speech on April fourth, nineteen sex seven that
he titled Beyond Vietnam, Time to Break the Silence. I
titled my speech Beyond Venezuela A Time to Break the Silence.
I hope it was inspiring to people that were in attendance.
It's also available on my Facebook page, Jesse Jackson Junior.
It's got a little check next to my name Jesse
Jackson Junior Facebook page. You'll see the you scroll down,
you'll see the Beyond Venezuela speech. I want to share
with you very quickly before I bring up our Tenacious
Tuesday host Barber arn Wine. How I concluded, I concluded
with a how Doctor Howard Thurman began and opened his book.
He talked about his family in the deep Ryal South,
having pulled together all of the moneies that they could
find because they wanted one child in the Jim Crow
era as sharecroppers to be able to go to school
and to go to college. So they pulled together their
pennies and their nickels and their quarters, and they bought
doctor Thurman a ticket, a ticket on a train to
Daytona Fort, Florida, where they were allowing colored children to
be talked. Doctor Thurman took his ticket, and he took
his trunk, and he put all of his important items
of his life, the broken pieces of his life, his memories,
and he put them all in a trunk and he
aded to the train station. And when he got there,
he presented his ticket, but the ticket agent or the
conductor refused to let his bag on the train, the
train of all the bag with all of his memories.
So he went over into the corner of the train
station and he began crying. It was a devastating moment
for him because he had lost hope. He had concluded
that he was not going to go to college because
he did not want to leave his trunk. So, staring
deep into a puddle of tears and saliva and yes, mucus,
he was drained. Everything was draining. When he wiped away
the tears from his eyes, and he looked up and
he saw a rustic, old pair of brown, beat up
boots and he looked from the floor and kept looking
up and saw a man standing there and overalls that
were tattered as well, and the young the old man
said to him, boy was wrong with you? And he said,
I got a ticket to go to Daytona to go
to school and go to college. But I can't take
my trunk. I don't have a ticket for my trunk,
so I've changed my mind. I'm not going to go.
The man reached into his pocket, pulled out a little
leather sack with a drawstring, and pulled out a few
coins and went to the ticket agent and he bought
a ticket for Howard Thurman's bag is trunk. Howard Thurman
dedicated his book to that man. When he got on
that train, he walked to the back of the train,
and all he remembers is the man walking in the
opposite direction on the train tracks as the train was
pulling away. He said he never got the man's name.
He dedicated his book with Head and Heart to a
man that he called the Stranger, and he thanked him
for restoring his hope. Doctor Howard Thurman would go on
to become a spiritual leader and guide to the late
Martin Luther King Junior, And in this moment, I can't
help but think that we need to pay more attention
to the strangers in our lives, those who are nameless
and faceless, because in my opinion, the stranger is God.
God intervened in Howard Thurman's life at just the right time,
and he went on to become the architect of our
liberation faith. I'm very honored in this hour. The Barbara Arnwine,
President and founder the Transformative Justice Coalition, internationally renowned for
contributions on critical justice issues, including the passage of the
landmark Civil Rights Act of nineteen ninety one and the
two thousand and six reauthorization provisions of the Voting Rights Act,
is our very special guest, Attorney Arnwine, Welcome forward to
the Jesse Jackson Junior Show.
Speaker 2: It's great to be here.
Speaker 3: Good evening, good afternoon. It's just wonderful to be here.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful that you're here, doctor Arnwine. Attorney
Barbara Arnwine, tell us what's going on in the world
and what we should be focusing on.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, thank you for that Howard Thurman story.
I had never heard that one, and it's beautiful and
it's so instructive to all of us about the importance
of strangers. You know, in the Biblical times, it was
considered simple right to treat strangers poorly and you were
required to show some so uh, you know, care compassion
for strangers. That's why the road of Somarthia, right, it
is always talked about in the uh you know, in
the biblical tradition. Uh So that's just so powerful. I
just loved that story.
Speaker 2: And he was going to Daytona. So what he was going.
Speaker 3: To to uh be you know at one of the
amazing you know schools that we know we're founded, you know,
thereby you know, some of our incredible you know leaders.
Speaker 2: So it's it's just quite quite the story.
Speaker 3: I I have been, of course, thinking about doctor King.
Speaker 2: And Coretta Scott King.
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about them with such a passion this
week because last week your president decided to disrespect everybody right.
The first thing he did was he declared, uh publicly
that the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four nineties
and the Voting Rights Act in nineteen sixty five fair
housing activ.
Speaker 1: And information that worked.
Speaker 2: By his timing, by he would use this opportunity so
close to this holiday to make such a races statement.
And folks, the.
Speaker 3: Reason why I say is it's ridiculous is that if
you know anything about employment law, which is you know,
a big part of the nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act,
the Title seven, you'll know that it's helped too.
Speaker 1: Your show on k Bilge Look fifteen eighty, we're going
to talk about Trump and what he did last week
with Barbara Arnwe more on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty when
we come forward. Our very special guest on Tenacious Tuesday
is Barbara Arnwine, the president and founder of the Transformative
Justice Coalition. Just before we came forward, you were talking
about the president's speech and comments that he made. I
believe he also tweeted it as well. Yes, a direct
attacked on nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act, the Voting
Rights Act, as well as the open housing legislation. Yes,
jewels of the civil rights movement.
Speaker 3: And he was making it very clear that he was
playing the zero sum game. He was telling white Americas
that somehow these acts had harmed them, that they were
quote bad for white people.
Speaker 2: He lied.
Speaker 3: He lied because first of all, his comments were just
meant to be racially divisive he was trying to make
white people resent black people and make impositive himself with
somehow their great white Hope, the great Savior.
Speaker 2: But his premise is just factually inaccurate.
Speaker 3: Because white women were some of the biggest benefish series
of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four because
it covered race, age, national origin, sex.
Speaker 2: So people got to understand that.
Speaker 3: It also required Entitled seven that any job criteria had
to be job related.
Speaker 2: Guess who that benefited, not just white women, it benefited
white men. Think about it.
Speaker 3: When I grew up, if you wanted to be a
police officer, they insisted that you be what at least
five eleven six feet tall, and it was you know quote.
They felt that was more intimidating to people on the street.
So even white men who were shorter than that couldn't
get a job, not get a job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to share that. I would have shared
that because Dad and I often laugh at that particular
application of the law. Yes, let me expound upon that.
Do you realize that short white men could not be
state troopers in Alabama and and Texas and louis in
Georgia and the Deep South because they were short? Right?
They had a requirement and you had to be six
feet plus or taller and top more over people in
order to be a state trooper. Now, what kind of
qualification is that other than that the Civil Rights Act
of nineteen sixty four and that subsequent legislation laid the
foundation for them to have a claim of discrimination based
on their height or base their weight. Doesn't just benefit
black people. It made America better.
Speaker 3: It made so many need people better, including American with disabilities,
because people had all these rights, They had all these
really bizarre notions about who was best for jobs, and
they had nothing to do with their capabilities and their abilities.
And so, you know, prior to the pre nineteen sixty
four civil rights era was one of massive non meritocracy,
massive non you know competence in you know, uh, you know, incompetence,
and people just don't understand that.
Speaker 2: And so you know, he just totally missed, miss talked
that era. You know, by the way, when we were
talking about howd Thurman I was, it was Mary.
Speaker 3: McLeod mccoon's university that he probably was headed to the
Daytona Beach.
Speaker 2: How I just had to you know, put that up.
Speaker 3: Of course, during the break because Mary McLeod was so amazing,
uh and so committed to education your people.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm thinking also that uh that, Barbara, we
have to give some consideration in light of our reflection
on Martin Luther King Junior, that what's taking place in
South America, from Cuba to Haiti, to Colombia to Venezuela,
even the attacks on Nigeria and now the president's desire
to it feeling it feels inevitable that he's going to
provide some kind of military action in Greenland. Barbara, bring
us up to date on your thoughts on that.
Speaker 3: Yes, a couple of things everyone. First of all, I
wish I had a picture and Gena, if you do,
please share it. Doctor Martin Luther King getting his Nobel
Peace Prize, uh, because somebody else we know don't.
Speaker 2: Have one, losing his little mind over.
Speaker 4: It and even even playing geo political politics on the
basis of does he get a little Nobel prize try
to steal somebody else's right?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: So I just want people to understand that, you know,
one of my favorite speeches is, in fact doctor King's
acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize Peace Prize why is
that important? Please go listen to that speech. He talks
about that. You know, he talks in at length about
the fact that he's accepting that prize not for himself,
but he's accepting it for all the people who suffered
and fought for the for civil rights, all the people
who were in the streets. He talks about those who
were killed, He talks about those who were maimed and injured.
He talks about the water hosing of you know people
by these evil you know forces, police forces. He talks
about the beings. He talks about all of that, and
he said, these are the people, this is who I
accept this award for because they're the ones who get.
Speaker 2: All this work, and I'm just a figurehead, a spokesperson.
Speaker 3: He's very clear about it. He also takes his time
in that speech to talk about the truth. You know,
what he's called many times the three triplets of evil,
and that's racism, militarism, and materialism. Yes, and he spends
a lot of time on militarism and American colonialism and
European colonialism, and he even talks about the struggle against
apartheid in South Africa, and that speech he talks about
humanity's need to stop being so you know, greedy, you know,
and enslaving. People are pressing people because you want their resources, right,
you want their mineral resources. He talks about this, and
he talks about the cruelty of your colonial and settler behavior.
Speaker 2: So I won't go read that speech because when you
read the speech or you.
Speaker 3: Listen to it, you realize what Deveezuela is about, because
that brings it fully home.
Speaker 2: I mean you're like, you know, as they said the law,
I had to connect it up, you know, because you're like,
where's she going with all this?
Speaker 3: Because you know that militarism is what is driving the US.
Is that you know, we quote have military power. I
want everybody to know something. Who is the largest military
force in the world.
Speaker 2: Think about it, Think.
Speaker 1: About the United States? The United States by multiples? No, no, okay.
Speaker 3: No, it's I mean, and I understand that if you
go nation by nation, yes, the combined forces of NATAL
are the largest military force in the whole world. I mean,
that's what everybody misses. Why do you think he's attacking Greenland?
Speaker 2: It's for the resources.
Speaker 3: I you know, told you guys months ago, a year ago,
about Peter till it is worn in Greenland and all
this madness and uh and about you know jd Vance,
who's depending on teal and why he was the first
trip he took what was to Greenland and all of this.
But there's another thing that we got to understand, the
unraveling of Natal. Who benefits from the unraveling a natal?
It's not just the US occupying Greenland.
Speaker 2: Who benefits from.
Speaker 6: The unraveling of Natal?
Speaker 2: Mm one pool ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Pu. You know, bro, let me ask you
a question about about that same speech, since we're right
there at beyond a time to speak. Yes, I did
a little research. You can google it, and I hope
that the listeners will google it. Ask the question, what
was the Dow Jones industrial average at the end of
nineteen eighty It should say four or four four hundred
and four. Ask what the Dow Jones industrial average was
at the hour of Martin Luther King Junior's death. Should
be around seven I think one thousand. I think one thousand.
At the beginning of the Reagan administration, the Dow Jones
industrial average seven thousand. At the end of the Obama administration,
the Dow Jones industrial average nineteen thousand, and this is
the indicator for the US economy today. Today. Last Friday,
the Dow Jones closed at forty nine thousand.
Speaker 6: That's correct.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to say this because I believe we
have reached a tipping point Historically, in this two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution
has guided the economy in the direction of human rights
that benefit all of the American people. It has benefited
people around the world, but it's certainly prioritize the American people.
The new technology which doctor King also talks about in
that speech, computers and machinery have now reached the point
that the profit maximization system of the United States does
not need people any longer in order to maximize profit.
So when the down Jones hits sixty thousand and some
of us celebrate, or seventy thousand or eighty thousand, a
smaller number of people are going to be operating the
most efficient businesses in human history, and they don't need
people to operate them. That's a real problem, yes, or civilization.
That's a problem for our moral code. Making revolution in
the United States inevitable as people can't get a sand
and can't get a lot of red, and can't afford
their mortgages, and can't afford to put their children through school.
When our quality inevitability until the Congress of the United States,
the Senate, the courts reign the economic system in in
the direction of human rights for all of the American people.
Speaker 3: Barbara, Oh, you said it.
Speaker 2: You said it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if people saw it, but
please look up Elon Musk's his speech from last week
where he talks about this very issue and he tells
people has learned to tell people don't save up for retirement.
Speaker 2: Did you see that?
Speaker 1: That's what he said.
Speaker 3: He said, don't save up for retirement because you know,
we're gonna have robots doing everything and everybody's gonna be okay.
And I'm going, huh, how what what are.
Speaker 2: You talking about?
Speaker 3: You know, all of this stuff, because he but he
was talking about this people. Every time the unemployment rate
goes up, the dow goes up. It's it's one of
those you know things. They don't they don't listen. They're
not about everybody being employed. They're about you know, making
as much money as they can. They're so happy about
this whole Venezuela madness. And you know, there's a little
bit on the fence about Greenland because they know what
it means if natal disbands or you know, gets shredded.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot, you know, going on there.
Speaker 3: But I just think that in this country, I was
reading these stats, we have what three hundred and thirty
plus million people, twenty two million of those folks, I
have a networth of at least a million dollar, and
nine hundred and two people are billionaires. Nine hundred and
two people in the United States are billionaires.
Speaker 2: Come on, think about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the upward tift of income and wealth in that
direction has us constantly battling with members of our representatives,
of our House of Representatives, asking for more and more benefits.
Remember now, the Affordable Care Act, which covers forty four
million people. Yes, are people who work every day but
can't afford healthcare. So the Affordable Care Act directs healthcare
in the direction of more coverage. Yes, we need dental,
we need vision, we need hearing. The Affordable Care Act
does not cover a lot, but it wasn't meant just
to be static. It was meant to be improved upon
and expanded to include more coverage so that more working
Americans could experience the benefits of the system. Yes, the
supplemental Nutrition Assistance program. Yes, we're working one, two and
three jobs and still can't afford to eat. These numbers
are going to expand, and they're going to expand drastically.
If in fact, we do not have a government of
for and by the people, not a government of for
and by computers and algorithms, but for the people, were people.
Speaker 7: And government of all the guards, of all of ours,
all of guards, all of guards.
Speaker 3: All they care about is making money. I mean, come on,
they're going to support making anybody.
Speaker 1: That's all they do. I'm Jesse Jackson Junior listening to
the Jesse Jackson Junior Show on KBL Talk fifteen eighty more.
When we come forward with Barbara on Wine or did
the Jesse Jackson Junior Show, We're on the grind with
Barbara arn Wine and Barbara before we return to the conversation,
we're still waiting for the Kalai decision. Yes, are you
at it shortly? Are you expecting it this week or
maybe next week?
Speaker 2: No, it's not clear.
Speaker 3: They did issue two other decisions today. Then they were yes,
and they were a unanimous decisions. So the court so
non we're voting, but it's telling that they did issue
that means what they've issued our five decisions now, so
it's everybody is on their pins and needles over Trump
versus Cook argument tomorrow, the oral argument.
Speaker 2: In that case.
Speaker 3: Will you know Trump versus Lisa Cook, That argument will
be tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But and people are just talking about the tariff's case.
So it may be.
Speaker 3: Remember when the court does something that is absolutely horrific
that they know is gonna make people scream and holler
and go to the polls and vote and just be outraged.
They hold those decisions until until the very last opinion
issuing date of the term usually you know, July first
or whatever, because they know people aren't paying attention.
Speaker 1: So we've got a minute, Barbara, Since we got a minute,
I want we want to go to a clip based
on our last conversation h that Genia was able to
pull up. Based upon your request.
Speaker 5: Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mister President, Excellences, ladies and gentlemen,
I accept the Nobel for peace. At a moment when
twenty two million Negroes of the United States are engaged
in a creative battle to end the long night of
racial injustice. I accept this award on behalf of a
civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a
majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign
of freedom and a rule of justice. I'm mindful that
only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children crying out for
brotherhood were answered with fire, snarling dogs, and even death.
I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young
people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized
and murdered. I'm mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts
my people and chains him to the lowest rung of
the economic latter. Therefore, I must ask why this prize
is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed
to unrelenting struggle, to a movement which has not yet
won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence
of the Nobel Prize. After contemplation, I conclude that this award,
which I receive on behal for that movement, is a
profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial
political and moral questions of our time, the need for
man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence
and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of
the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated
that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral
force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later, all
the peoples of the world will have to discover a
way to live together in peace and thereby transform this
pending cosmic elogy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. This
is to be achieved. Man must evolve for all human
conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The
foundation of such a method is love.
Speaker 3: My my life.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Gina Barbara.
Speaker 1: We've never had a leader like that. The tone, the tenor,
the audience, the mobile community was paying attention to our
movement and our struggle at that hour. I'm wondering, in
this moment if the great dissenters in the United States
and the great resistance movement that exists within the United
States can pick up the mantle of the tone and
the tenor of Doctor King's mass demand for nonviolent action.
At an hour when our very liberties are at stake.
Speaker 6: Barbara, my bye, mine, buye my.
Speaker 8: I mean that speech gives me chills. I'm sorry, it
just gives me chills to think about it, because just
look at you have the contrast of values.
Speaker 3: Right. You got a president in the White House who
is proud to take somebody else's mobile prize, who wants
everything that he never worked for, who is detegrating the people?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: I want to do a shout out if you allow
me to some young people who last week were brutally
treated in North Carolina as they fought to just get
a polling site on their campus. I want to talk
about the students of North Carolina, A and t am
and your dad's college, your college college, and my sister.
Speaker 6: There you go, there you go.
Speaker 2: So they had a petitioned their local county government for.
Speaker 3: A polling site for early vote I mean, for you know,
the primaries, and they were told no.
Speaker 2: So they took it to the North Carolin on a
Board of Elections meeting.
Speaker 3: And guess what they did. Those those people, these grown
people appointed by the UH, by the UH, not the governor,
because they stole that and gave it to I believe
to the auditor.
Speaker 2: And that power to a point. And these folks sat
there and had the nerve to say, I wanna can't
I wanna vote. That's a good Yeah, I wanna vote.
Speaker 9: Making fun of the students, mocking them, making fun of
them so and I could tell from our radio show
earlier today when they were on that that hurt them.
Speaker 2: It dispirited them.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're gonna have to pick up on this one.
We come forward. I'm Jesse Jackson Junior on k A
Talk fifteen eighty. Goaggi's I'm Jesse Jackson Junior, forward with Barbara.
On one Jesse showed us final second this hour with
Attorney Barbara arn Wine. It's tenacious Tuesdays on the Jay
Lunch Club. Right here on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty our
very special guest, Barbara Arnwine is the president and founder
of the Transformative Justice Coalition. Barbara, have to take care
of a few householding issues here first. How can we
support you in your work?
Speaker 3: You can go to TJ Coalition dot org, TJ Coalition
dot RG. And I want to thank everybody who gives them.
You know, the donations have ranged from ten dollars, twenty
five fifty whatever you know. We just want people to
know we appreciate it, and so please do give to
Tjcoalition dot org because, as I was just saying before
we went to the break, voter suppression is up and
running definitely. In North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Forty five years ago. Forty five years ago or maybe
forty two years ago, when I was a student of
North Carolina, AG registered Scott Hall, we registered Cooper Hall,
we registered Barbie Hall, we registered Alex Haley Hall. We
registered all the students to vote, and at that time
there were about forty two hundred students at A and
T's campus. Forty two We made the County Board of
Elections put a polling place in the student union there
you go, student union, which has now been replaced with
a new magnificent facility, and they put polling places there.
In fact, in that race between Howard Cobel and Howard Britt,
Howard Britt lost the election by sixty votes, was entirely
registered to vote. Britt's campaign chose to land a helicopter
at UNCG University of North Carolina in Greensboro on the
day of the election, where no students were registered to vote.
That was the White school had he landed it on
A and t's campus, he would not have lost that
election by sixty votes and generrated the excitement on our
campus given that we had registered the students to vote.
We fought to have a polling place on our campus.
And it's just amazing for me to hear that, you know,
forty two forty years later, A and T, with more
than twenty thousand students, many of whom live in cities
all across this country, have registered in great numbers to
vote in North Carolina. The loss wherever you spent the
last three nights in a row is where you live.
And they registered in North Carolina. And the North Carolina
Board of Elections does not want to have a polling
place at A and T's campus. Why because their votes
can shape not only national election in North Carolina. A
and T has enough students to determine who the mayor
of Greensboro.
Speaker 2: Is right and so.
Speaker 3: And for that very reason, they've banned all they've banned
UNC Greensboro, as you mentioned, and they've banned you know,
polling sites and all of them.
Speaker 2: They don't want students to vote.
Speaker 3: This is cletand Mitchell's madness about you know, we if
we're going to win, we got to suppress the vote
to students because they're.
Speaker 2: Too quote liberal and they're voting.
Speaker 6: Listen.
Speaker 2: The other thing they did was that they killed sols
to the polls.
Speaker 3: Voting in several counties. They also relocated polling places to
very very difficult locations.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 3: I want you to think, if you're a student at
eight at A and T, you have to walk to
this polling place. Their nearest polling place is a twenty
five to thirty minute walk away. You know what this
means and how oppressive this is. And don't be telling
me about oh, well they got all.
Speaker 2: These buses and stuff. No, it's not that.
Speaker 3: It's just rome what they did, and they did make
a mockery of the students. So I want to call
out Xavian Davis, Anayah Marshall, Kayla Jackson, mister Olu Ruth.
Speaker 2: And all the students who they throughout get ready for this.
Speaker 3: When the students protested, they threw them out of the They.
Speaker 2: Had enforcably removed from the meeting.
Speaker 3: So I want people to understand that these students.
Speaker 2: They're not giving up.
Speaker 3: They're going to keep on pushing until they get their
polling place. But I want to understand that they are
walking in doctor Kington's tradition, They're walking in your desk tradition,
They're walking in Alan Baker's tradition, and the Fannieluhamer.
Speaker 2: And everyone else.
Speaker 3: So this week, of all weeks, you know, I want
us to show some love to the students at North Carolina. Ante.
Speaker 1: We may have to walk in march right down Market
Street the entire campus to the voter location you got
it in city Hall and vote in person. We need
to prepare a massive march of registered Aggie's you got it,
walk about a mind well in the middle of the
street to cast our ballot, which is and are our rights? Barbara.
We have about four minutes to close. Please your word
of hope.
Speaker 3: Yes, a couple of things everyone. This Friday, you know
today was the nation was the walk out on fascist
uh and many people did it.
Speaker 2: We're grateful to them.
Speaker 3: It was very you know, DC based, But I'm also
grateful to the Women's March that made this happen. But
on Friday there's a national call for a general strike
and they're asking people because of the murders of not
only Renee Good, but Keith Porter and so many others,
and the maining and the occupation of our cities by
ice UH and UH the other you know, unlawful police
UH tactics, including racial profiling.
Speaker 2: They're asking for people.
Speaker 3: Every We're to walk out of your jobs, walk out
of schools, don't buy anything, just a day of strike.
So this is the first national attempt to have a
general strike. And I hope that people will take this
to heart and that you will do what you can
in this moment, because doctor King did everything you can
and that he could in the moment.
Speaker 1: Give us that date again for the idea of a
national strike.
Speaker 2: That date Friday, January the twenty third.
Speaker 1: Right, did January twenty third be ready? What is expected
of us to not go to work that day or
to not not do.
Speaker 3: Anything, not go not to We don't want people you know, shopping,
we don't want people you know.
Speaker 2: Going to school. We don't want people going to work.
We want people to.
Speaker 3: Gather and talk and reflect and talk about how we
preserve our democracy. We want people to study doctor King,
to study all of the efforts of nonviolent resistance and
the world. And we want people to make their voices
heard on you know on social media and let folks
know what they're doing, but make them pay.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: The reality is the business sector is unconsortably quiet. But
oh but one thing you should note a number of
the Minnesota businesses have nonced they are just gonna close
on Friday.
Speaker 2: They're not even going to open Friday, They're just gonna close.
Speaker 3: So I just think, you know, the business sector has
a lot to do with what's going on.
Speaker 2: These oler guards. It's all about money.
Speaker 3: That's all they care about, all nine hundred and two
of them in the United States. Plus, I think it's
just imperative that we the people, you know, take our
future into our hands, which is all Doctor King never
asked us to do.
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location and at this place at this time in the
history of our nation. I'm Jesse Jackson Junior. You've been
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until I see you again next week.
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Speaker 1: Don't get it nothing done, don't let it happen. I'm
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