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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 weren't there if not outright kicking them out. it feels like we're sort of back in a fight over whether or not black people are going to have full access to public spaces. >> yeah. i think that's right. i think, you know, it's important for us to acknowledge the way this makes us feel and the internalization that can happen. i also think it's important for us to ackno...

[ applause ] >> i can see the tears in your eyes welling up right now. >> it hurts, it does hurt. i'm not so much angry, i just feel like when is -- when will i feel important? when will i be important to you? and i'm 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 they're 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 counters, pretending they weren't...

>> it hurts, it does hurt. i'm not so much angry, i just feel like when is -- when will i feel important? when will i be important to you? and i'm 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 they're 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 counters, pretending they weren't there if not outright kicking them out. it feels like we're sort of ba...

I don't think you're 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 think that people have lost that message in the civil rights movement, they see the marches, they kn...

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. don't question some of the great priorities of our democratic government? >> i think that was the largest piece of it, but it went before that when he came to fight for fair housing and when he w...