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Reliable internet is the most critical on-ramp to the digital economy and yet many are not included. In fact 38 percent of Black households in the rural south do not have broadband access. The discussion will center around the impact of broadband access for Black consumers and Black businesses and how the digital divide must be bridged. (AT&T).
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00:00What should folks do when they go home?
00:02Well, I think first thing you need to do is clearly organize in your area to not only tell them to vote,
00:11but to have an agenda that says that the black community, given this under siege point that we're at,
00:18must be specific about access to broadband, must support what Reverend Shafon is talking about.
00:25Many of us are going to be in Washington August 26th, raising these issues for the anniversary of March on Washington.
00:32Sixty years later, look at where we are.
00:35Sixty years after Dr. King went to Lincoln Memorial, we're going back saying they just killed affirmative action.
00:42They just killed student loans.
00:44We are not fulfilling the dream yet.
00:49We need to be, we can't let them outmarch us.
00:52People talk about what we got from marching.
00:54The fact you checked in a hotel in New Orleans didn't have to go to the college side of town.
00:59That's what we got.
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