00:00So you're talking about one turn of the century, and if you go back a century before that,
00:05we know that when black people were emancipated, there were civil rights statutes that came not
00:10too soon after that, that were immediately opposed. So even though we had just come out of
00:17centuries of slavery, they were already saying, and when I say they, I mean not only lawmakers,
00:25but the Supreme Court of the United States said in the 18th century, there has to be a point where
00:32or in the 1800s, there has to be a point where black people stop being the special favorites of
00:39the law. We had, we've still had marks of shackles on our wrists. We still had literal people who had
00:47been enslaved with wealth on their back from a whip being told that they were the special favorites
00:54of the law. And so I bring us back to that history just to say, we have always faced opposition
01:01whenever there's been even a bit of progress, because this country was never meant for black
01:07people to succeed. And yet, and yet, we have done so. We have protected ourselves and many others
01:17by fighting for this country to be a actual democracy with the passage of the Voting Rights
01:24Act of 1965 that we're celebrating the 60th anniversary of this year. We have done those
01:30things. And so the question I think we need to be asking ourselves is in that complicated back and
01:37forth, in that history of resistance and resilience that we possess, what do the next 25 years look like?
01:55I hope you enjoyed.
01:59Congratulations.
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