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Would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break noncitizen stores and midnight raids and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution. writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government. >> sean: all lies, all attempts to scare, intimidate the american people. after what you just saw, democrats were able to block the nomination. that is how we now have ended up with the term "being a borked." the oxford english dictionary describes as "obstruct someone by syst...

Abortions and blacks would sit at segerated lunch counters and police could break down doors. school children would not be taught about evolution. >> sean: all lies. democrats blocked the nomination. thats the term of being boreked. defaming or vilifying them. lets fast forward a couple of years later. the confirmmation of now supreme court justice clarence thomas. democrats rolled out his former colleague hill to make sexual harassment allegations against him. it became so nasty, justice thomas...

Radicalized the white right in the south. and the other was the 62 school prayer decision. im sure you had people in pensacola, that would tell you it that the beginning of the end of america -- >> fluoride. >> was 1962. >> okay, okay, prayer in school. but fluoride was a close second. >> it was on those posters. >> by the way, theres some people that dont know that. that used to be the great john birch conspiracy, they were putting fluoride in your water and it was going to mess up your brain. ...

Nose to the grindstone fellow. when this becomes personnel and people take it away from the public venues of an hall or a speech in public and take it into peoples homeless and make it so a person like pam bondi cant go see a movie and my daughter cant get to the appetizer because the manager tosses her out and tells her to leave. thats the kind of thing we saw at lunch counters in the 60s. i thought we were never going to see that again. its sad. >> laura: she didnt want to make a big stink, bu...

Brilliant beyond brilliant, but no screaming kind of guy. nose to the grindstone fellow. when this becomes personnel and people take it away from the public venues of a tow hall or a speech in public and take it into peoples homeless and make it so a person like pam bondi cant go see a movie and my daughter cant get to the appetizer because the manager tosses her out and tells her to leave. thats the kind of thing we saw at lunch counters in the 60s. i thought we were never going to see that aga...

Letting me share. it does help. >> thank you for your story. thank you. this feels like the public accommodations when you look at the old black-and-white videos. it was ignoring the person at the lunch counters, pretending they werent there if not outright kicking them out. it feels like were sort of back in a fight over whether or not black people are going to have full access to public spaces. >> yeah. i think thats right. i think, you know, its important for us to acknowledge the way this ma...

[ applause ] >> i can see the tears in your eyes welling up right now. >> it hurts, it does hurt. im not so much angry, i just feel like when is -- when will i feel important? when will i be important to you? and im not looking for gratification, but i just feel like a child, you know? as a child how do we help our little girls feel like theyre important? thank you for letting me share, it does help. >> thank you for your story. this feels like the public accommodations when you look at the old ...

>> it hurts, it does hurt. im not so much angry, i just feel like when is -- when will i feel important? when will i be important to you? and im not looking for gratification, but i just feel like a child, you know? as a child how do we help our little girls feel like theyre important? thank you for letting me share, it does help. >> thank you for your story. this feels like the public accommodations when you look at the old black-and-white videos. it was ignoring the person at the lunch counter...

I dont think youre ever prepared for something like that. and the night that -- the night before medgar was killed, we had a very teary conversation. and he told me, you take care of my children. i have done that, but i continue to carry his memory forth. i continue to do that to this day. i fight furiously so that he will be remembered for all he did and all he gave. >> sometimes people ask, what can i do, what can i do. voting is the fundamental right that generates all other rights. do you th...

Died -- this is one of the things we try to rez rukt in this issue, this idea that people would like to forget that martin luther king at his death was one of the more unpopular people in america. my question is was when it pivoted against vietnam, when he made militarism, was that the moment when a lot of white liberals and white democrats said, oh, this guy has gone too far. lunch counters are fine. dont question some of the great priorities of our democratic government? >> i think that was th...