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The documentary film crew subpoenaed by the January 6 committee interviewed former Vice President Mike Pence on January 12, 2021, a day before the House of Representatives voted to impeach
Unsincere. the 15th amendment was passed giving black men the right to vote. for many, though, victory was short lived as white mob violence became widespread and soon segregation replaced slavery in the south for a century. that's why the tools that were used, voter intimidation, voter suppression, election subversion, resonate to this day. it's also a timely reminder that even rights enshrined in the constitution can be rolled back if they are not enforced on a local level. look, every child is born innocent but every citizen needs to understand the history of our country, the good, the bad ...
It's freudian projection in so many ways. and it's also an echo of the past, where we saw the disenfranchisement of black men -- remember black women didn't get the vote with the 15th amendment. but when we saw the disenfranchisement of black man at the collapse of radical reconstruction, some of the same margins were being made. some of the same arguments were being made. we need to understand voter suppression, voter nullification, all the things we are seeing now as an extension of january 6th. remember, judge luttig said there's an ongoing revolution within the constitutional crisis taking...
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And that's a big thing that's hard for me to deal with. yeah, that's probably the biggest one. >> it's like you're not getting fully seen? >> right. yeah. >> reconstruction has been the most contested question in america's historical memory. reconstruction is a period of time that begins immediately after the war. 10 to 12 years, when america had to truly reinvent itself. 14th amendment puts equal protection of the law into the u.s. constitution. and the right to vote for black men in the 15th amendment, was a constitutional and a legal revolution. and some black spokesmen by the 1890s, at the...