00:00Hello New Orleans! Hello Georgia! Hello Texas! Hello Mississippi! Hello New
00:19York! Hello Maryland! Remember one thing, our rights are on the line. Our safety is on
00:39the line. Our future is on the line. Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! This man knows something about voting. The Reverend Al Sharpton has been working to support our communities for decades.
01:09Thank you. You don't often hear the thank you. Thank you Rev. Hello black folks! Any black folks in the house? Let me say this. We are celebrating 30 years of the Essence Music Festival and I've been on this stage every year for
01:3930 years. And no matter what they have done to us, we've come back to New Orleans every year black and strong. Look how beautiful we are!
01:57But they are trying to take away a lot of our rights. In the last year, they've hurt the Voting Rights Act. They've taken away women's rights to choose. They've taken away affirmative action. They're saying that we're not coming out to vote. They're trying to act like this is an argument between two old white men on who gonna be president.
02:24Can you imagine a 78-year-old? Can you imagine a 78-year-old guy calling an 81-year-old guy old? They both old.
02:31The question is who's on our side. So what Essence is saying, and we all are joining in the civil rights community, is no matter how much they count us out on this November, we gonna paint the polls black.
02:53We gonna turn this thing upside down. We turned around slavery. We turned around Jim Crow. We turned around apartheid. We gonna turn up in 24 and paint the polls black.
03:15buff.
03:17sell the people whom you're calling black.
03:18全然 JOHNS
03:20Come on. Help me one more time. Paint the polls!
03:25paint the polls NOW!
03:30create the polls
03:32paint the polls
03:38paint the polls
03:40All right, God bless you.
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