Look at a Church Service thats about to begin. Brown chapel ame church, john lewis family is beginning to arrive and those who will pay their respects today as well. This will be an hour of emotional memories, as you might imagine, of the life that was extraordinary of an american, his body will follow the route of bloody sunday. On his way back march 7, 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement. Congressman lewis described what happened that day and its impact all these days later. Lets watch together. Selma, help free and liberate not just american south, we help liberate our country. As a nation, weve come a great distance. White, colored signs are gone. The only place we would see those signs today would be in a book, in a museum, on a sled owe. We still have a distance to travel before we lay down the burden of race. I thought i was going to die on this bridge. Somehow, some way, god almighty almighty can i give up now . If can i give in . Can i give many in . Keep the fait
It is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. The development of the temoak inof the telegraph came 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were saying. There is that. There is also just the fact that it is a
The first is a little disturbing. It is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. The development of the temoak of the telegraph came in 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were saying. There is that. There
Achievements. More than 1000 cadets receive their commission as Second Lieutenants in the u. S. Army. At the ceremony, the president was accompanied by luke tenet general darrell williams. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, accompanied by the president of the United States military academy. , order arms. Ladies and gentlemen, the chaplain will now offer this mornings invocation. God, gather here on the plane and online to celebrate the graduation of the class of 2020. We lead expresses their worldview that leaders of the future have a responsibility to have a vision and to see that for without a, vision, the people perish. So make us, lord, instruments of pride and, that all prejudice macys, where there is darkness, let us bring light. Ande there is despair, hope life. Where there is confusion, clarity. Where there is hatred, charity. Help us desire list to be ,nderstood then to understand and with this vision, to renew the spirit of our land. Amen. Cadets, take
National standards and significant training. You should be accredited to be a police officer. Any profession that allows you to use lethal force, there should be very significant training. Rep. Clyburn nobody is going to defund the police. We can restructure the Police Forces restructure, reimagine policing. That is what we are going to do. The fact of the matter is the police have a role to play. What we have got to do is make sure that that role is one that meets the times. One that responds to these communities that they operate in. I did not grow up in fear of police, even in a segregated environment. We never feared the police. Now, i do a sudden, fear the police. Young blacks fear the police. Why . Because we have built in a is responding, once again, to brown v. Board of education and Everything Else with it. When i was growing up, we did not have black policemen. I remember when the first black i wouldnt say defund, deconstruct our police. Washington journal cspans washington j