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Understand how much further we have to go. we are in a space right now with the soul of our democracy as americans is up for grabs. when you talk about what it's to be black america today, we have lawmakers who are playing politics without humanity. when you think about dr. king's legacy and what it's to fight for equality and racial justice, it really drives home the point of let's stop playing around with this. let's stop playing the game of politics and legislation when you were talking about the true and real existence of incorporating our community and our people into the everyday fabric ...

Saying they're trying to kill you with covid. it is open now but so offensive and disgusting and disgraceful the way they try to recruit, literally recruit one line from dr. king to make him the bearer, sort of the label that they put on this. go ahead. i'll let you talk. >> and let's use a different line, how about that. let's use a line from dr. king's last essay. he wrote it before he was killed and then it was published several months after. in that essay he said the largest part of white america is poisoned by racism and here's the key, which is as native to our soil as pine trees, sage b...

To be honest, i know it's -- it tough for people to watch because they're bomb bored with so much what we consider bad news. look what happened with the synagogue and big lie but we need to drive this message home especially on a day like today and what is happening with our democracy when it comes to voting rights in this country. >> i get a lot of reaction from viewers who, you know, a lot of them will say i don't want to talk about this anymore. they're sick of the chaos of the trump years. they feel like it just gives him oxygen to talk about him but the truth is you can't just ignore this...

King spoke about. i can tell you at the inauguration saturday, walking through the crowd, talking with people, republicans, democrats, independents, many of them were pleased to see us coming together. america needs that more than anything else. i think in king's instance, he wasn't a republican. he wasn't a democrat. he wasn't confined to being a preacher or marches or demonstrations. he was a philosopher. he studied. one of the things i like, do not just be concerned with numbers. numbers will eventually add up to zero. that's why it's so important for people that would not be in office toda...

They stand. >> dr. king's son martin luther king iii not letting the president off the hook. >> if you can deliver an infrastructure bill for bridges, you can deliver voting rights for americans. if you do not there is no bridge in this nation that can hold the weight of that failure. >> then there is georgia senator raphael warnock, the current pastor of the baptist church where king served as pastor. he's framing a 1965 moment referring to the voting rights act of 1965, which was gutted by the supreme court almost nine years ago. >> this is a 1965 moment because what they've done is they rem...