vote in the mississippi primary tomorrow. it s illegal. no, it is not. it s definitely not illegal for anybody to vote in the mississippi primary tomorrow unless they cast a democratic vote in the lightly attended democratic primary in mississippi on june 3rd. if you just say broadly it s illegal for democrats to vote tomorrow, maybe you might dissuade from democrats from voting tomorrow. desperate times apparently call for desperate measures. or the same old racist politics call for the same old racist measures. even when it is a runoff like this and not a general election, apparently this stuff they think will work. and it is kind of amazing timing. i mean, outside of this senate race in mississippi, the past week in mississippi has pretty much been dominated by the fact that we are right now at the 50 year anniversary of mississippi freedom summer in 1964. at the end of last week, we sent producers to meridian, mississippi, to the grave site of james chaney of chaney, goodman and sc
unless they cast a democratic vote in the lightly attended democratic primary in mississippi on june 3rd. if you just say broadly it s illegal for democrats to vote tomorrow, maybe you might dissuade from democrats from voting tomorrow. desperate times apparently call for desperate measures. or the same old racist politics call for the same old racist measures. even when it is a runoff like this and not a general election, apparently this stuff they think will work. and it is kind of amazing timing. i mean, outside of this senate race in mississippi, the past week in mississippi has pretty much been dominated by the fact that we are right now at the 50 year anniversary of mississippi freedom summer in 1964. at the end of last week, we sent producers to meridian, mississippi, to the grave site of james chaney of chaney, goodman and schwerner. that exact same weekend, the 50 year anniversary of the murder of those three civil rights workers in mississippi, that exact same weekend,
were very different back then. smith was a democrat and caro says smith s southern democrats were conservative and racist and powerful. the southerners controlled congress, and there was the civil rights was boiling up on the streets of the south, there were so many heroes there. 1964 is the summer when cheney and goodman and schwerner were killed. it s the summer where all the fire hoses were being turned on the little children. they re rolling that little girl down the street. it was horrible. but the civil rights bill was a movement. the civil rights democrats didn t care what the national sentiment was. in their state, if it was a senator, the voters didn t care for that. they liked their stand against civil rights. johnson had a secret weapon he would wield called a discharge petition. if a majority of house members signed it, the floundering civil rights act would have to be
addition to sort of owning the kind of dormant power that we have, what we also have to really be clear about is that we ve had the antidote to massive voter suppression for at least 50 years. what we learned from freedom summer, what we learned from chaney, goodman, and schwerner who were killed 50 years ago this weekend, the an dote to massive voter suppression is massive voter registration. we as progressives have to get back into having that conversation. that the time has come for us to invest in massive voter registration again in the south. because not just the numbers of unregistered black voters, but unregistered brown voters, unregistered asian voters, and also increasingly young voters. right. young whites who just simply are not as kind of hung up on race, you know, perhaps as their grandparents or their great-grandparents. what is the lesson to you about freedom summer?
but what we also have in addition to sort of owning the kind of dormant power that we have, what we also have to really be clear about is that we ve had the antidote to massive voter suppression for at least 50 years. what we learned from freedom summer, what we learned from chaney, goodman, and schwerner who were killed 50 years ago this weekend, the an dote to massive voter suppression is massive voter registration. we as progressives have to get back into having that conversation. that the time has come for us to invest in massive voter registration again in the south. because not just the numbers of unregistered black voters, but unregistered brown voters, unregistered asian voters, and also increasingly young voters. right. young whites who just simply are not as kind of hung up on