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Our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles. We know that while weve come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. And we are living with the regular eas of slavery and jim row and racial compression that takes over every part of life and weve seen it the past several months in such a stark and striking fashion. Covid19 pandemic, a twin crisis, both a Public Health crisis and economic crisis has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted in an adverse fashion the africanamerican community. In terms of pain and suffering and economic dislocat...

Karen bass, and several other members of the black caucus who you will be hearing from momentarily. Thank you for joining us on this emergency town hall meeting, living while black in america, 401 years later after our ancestors were first brought to the shores of america in shackles, we now that while we have come a long way in this country, we still have a long way to go. We are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continued to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. ...

Here are their remarks. Good morning. Good morning. As we gather today, first let thank all of our honorees that we are saluting this year. It is important on king day that we do things in the spirit of dr. King. Mr. Sharpton dr. King as a federal holiday was a result in and of itself of struggle. So we do not take it as a day off. We take it as a day on. To do something in the spirit of human rights and civil rights that dr. King stood for. The National Action network started 28 years ago on those principles and weve been blessed to partner with martin who thought to spend this federal holida...