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28 00:01:35,375 --> 00:01:37,542 What happened after Selma? 29 00:01:41,753 --> 00:01:46,470 - Selma has been locked into the American imagination 30 00:01:46,470 --> 00:01:50,505 as this place of voting rights strength. 31 00:01:50,505 --> 00:01:54,380 But what gets missed is it freezes Selma in time. 32 00:01:54,380 --> 00:01:57,870 And so you don't see what happened to Selma afterwards. 33 00:01:57,870 --> 00:02:00,611 You don't see the massive white flight. 34 00:02:00,611 --> 00:02:03,750 You don't see the shutting down of the businesses. 35 00:02:03,750 --> 00:02:06,691 You don't see the massive unemployment. 36 00:02:06,691 --> 00:02:10,016 You don't see the kind of economic despair 37 00:02:10,016 --> 00:02:12,256 that has happened in Selma. 38 00:02:12,256 --> 00:02:16,094 So yes, that power of the right to vote, 39 00:02:16,094 --> 00:02:19,671 but that's not the fully story of Selma. 40 00:02:19,671 --> 00:02:23,308 And that kind of resentment and retrenchment 41 00:02:23,308 --> 00:02:24,921 that we see happening in Selma, 42 00:02:24,921 --> 00:02:27,985 the decay that we see happening there. 43 00:02:27,985 --> 00:02:31,152 You get a wealthy white area in Selma, 44 00:02:32,009 --> 00:02:34,830 and then you get the rest of Selma. 45 00:02:34,830 --> 00:02:37,265 That is so indicative of the United States 46 00:02:37,265 --> 00:02:39,091 of America right now. 47 00:02:39,091 --> 00:02:41,310 It looks like it's working. 48 00:02:41,310 --> 00:02:43,183 I mean we see that we have elections, 49 00:02:43,183 --> 00:02:44,896 we see that people go to the polls, 50 00:02:44,896 --> 00:02:46,942 we see that people cast their ballots, 51 00:02:46,942 --> 00:02:49,502 we see the kind of horse race 52 00:02:49,502 --> 00:02:52,457 as the percentage of the votes are coming in 53 00:02:52,457 --> 00:02:53,961 and they're tallying up, 54 00:02:53,961 --> 00:02:57,766 and so it looks like it's all working. 55 00:02:57,766 --> 00:02:58,849 But it's not. 56 00:03:01,418 --> 00:03:02,964 - [Narrator] It's not working because, 57 00:03:02,964 --> 00:03:06,516 like Selma, the right to vote has decayed over the years 58 00:03:06,516 --> 00:03:08,919 through legislative maneuvering in order to disenfranchise 59 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,961 massive portions of the population. 60 00:03:10,961 --> 00:03:13,055 The same population that was fighting 61 00:03:13,055 --> 00:03:17,032 for those very rights all the way back in 1965. 62 00:03:17,032 --> 00:03:18,632 The unspoken reality is that America 63 00:03:18,632 --> 00:03:22,253 was always a country by white people for white people. 64 00:03:22,253 --> 00:03:24,583 But as a nation that is becoming browner, 65 00:03:24,583 --> 00:03:28,269 an existential threat to the established order. 66 00:03:28,269 --> 00:03:29,714 It's also important to understand 67 00:03:29,714 --> 00:03:32,669 that voter suppression is not driven by party, 68 00:03:32,669 --> 00:03:35,432 it is driven by ideology. 69 00:03:35,432 --> 00:03:38,472 And with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, 70 00:03:38,472 --> 00:03:41,949 the Republican party saw a political opportunity that, 71 00:03:41,949 --> 00:03:45,502 to its own detriment, couldn't resist. 72 00:03:45,502 --> 00:03:49,379 - As the Republicans wooed the southern Democrats in, 73 00:03:49,379 --> 00:03:51,277 what they thought they were doing 74 00:03:51,277 --> 00:03:54,856 was getting additional representatives in the south 75 00:03:54,856 --> 00:03:58,296 that could help them in Congress with the votes 76 00:03:58,296 --> 00:04:01,404 to be able to push forward a conservative agenda. 77 00:04:01,404 --> 00:04:04,272 Y'know, small government, et cetera. 78 00:04:04,272 --> 00:04:08,290 But when you woo the toxin of white supremacy in, 79 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:10,251 it cannot be contained. 80 00:04:10,251 --> 00:04:14,001 It is a virus, it is toxic, and it took over. 81 00:04:18,112 --> 00:04:19,259 - [Narrator] The party of Lincoln 82 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:21,964 had a tenuous control of the south, at best. 83 00:04:21,964 --> 00:04:24,979 That was enforced by the military during Reconstruction. 84 00:04:24,979 --> 00:04:27,346 More than 1,500 African American men 85 00:04:27,346 --> 00:04:29,207 held office throughout the south. 86 00:04:29,207 --> 00:04:32,626 But the gains made after 247 years of slavery 87 00:04:32,626 --> 00:04:36,423 would be nullified with the Compromise of 1877, 88 00:04:36,423 --> 00:04:38,867 a backroom deal allowing Rutherford B. Hayes, 89 00:04:38,867 --> 00:04:41,282 a Republican, to be president, 90 00:04:41,282 --> 00:04:44,293 and for the removal of federal troops from the south, 91 00:04:44,293 --> 00:04:46,847 ceding it back to the Democrats who, in turn, 92 00:04:46,847 --> 00:04:49,676 starting with the 1890 Mississippi constitution, 93 00:04:49,676 --> 00:04:52,650 would usher in Jim Crow and segregation. 94 00:04:52,650 --> 00:04:54,935 The signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 95 00:04:54,935 --> 00:04:57,106 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 96 00:04:57,106 --> 00:04:59,229 by a Democratic president caused a shift 97 00:04:59,229 --> 00:05:01,350 in party allegiance among white voters 98 00:05:01,350 --> 00:05:04,954 who felt their segregationist way of life was under attack. 99 00:05:04,954 --> 00:05:09,288 The staunchly Democratic south would become Republican. 100 00:05:09,288 --> 00:05:12,038 (birds chirping) 101 00:05:13,191 --> 00:05:15,871 - [Joanne] All these stores were thrivin'. 102 00:05:15,871 --> 00:05:19,570 We had Ben and Kay, we had Butler's Shoes, 103 00:05:19,570 --> 00:05:24,403 we had Zales, we had all those chain stores was down here. 104 00:05:25,756 --> 00:05:28,255 It was a thrivin' community. 105 00:05:28,255 --> 00:05:30,311 This used to be a shoe store 106 00:05:30,311 --> 00:05:33,721 and I had a bad experience in there 107 00:05:33,721 --> 00:05:36,888 'cause I tried on shoes and didn't know it. 108 00:05:36,888 --> 00:05:39,721 I wasn't supposed to try on shoes. 109 00:05:41,189 --> 00:05:43,951 We were standin' in front of Carter's drug store, 110 00:05:43,951 --> 00:05:47,269 it's still in Selma today, alive and well, 111 00:05:47,269 --> 00:05:49,850 but at that time Carter's had a lunch counter. 112 00:05:49,850 --> 00:05:51,134 And I wanted to sit there, 113 00:05:51,134 --> 00:05:52,666 but my grandmother said I couldn't. 114 00:05:52,666 --> 00:05:56,250 She said colored children, that's what we were called, 115 00:05:56,250 --> 00:05:59,745 can't sit there at the counter, it's the law. 116 00:05:59,745 --> 00:06:01,946 It didn't stop me from wanting to sit there. 117 00:06:01,946 --> 00:06:05,247 Every time I pass by it, be peepin' in that window, 118 00:06:05,247 --> 00:06:08,626 watchin' those white kids spinnin' around on those stools 119 00:06:08,626 --> 00:06:10,949 and it looked like so much fun. 120 00:06:10,949 --> 00:06:12,859 Well, one day my grandmother was talkin' 121 00:06:12,859 --> 00:06:15,205 to one of her friends at front of the store 122 00:06:15,205 --> 00:06:19,544 and I was doin' what I always do, peepin' that window, 123 00:06:19,544 --> 00:06:21,283 wishin' it was me. 124 00:06:21,283 --> 00:06:23,104 This particular day my grandmother noticed 125 00:06:23,104 --> 00:06:24,694 and she leaned over my shoulder, 126 00:06:24,694 --> 00:06:27,901 she pointed through the window to the counter, 127 00:06:27,901 --> 00:06:31,677 she said when we get our freedom, you can do that too. 128 00:06:31,677 --> 00:06:34,701 I became a freedom fighter that day. 129 00:06:34,701 --> 00:06:38,298 - Voter suppression is not just a southern phenomenon. 130 00:06:38,298 --> 00:06:40,743 It allows them a level of comfort, 131 00:06:40,743 --> 00:06:43,463 some level of patting oneself on the back 132 00:06:43,463 --> 00:06:45,383 to go oh, those southerners. 133 00:06:45,383 --> 00:06:47,300 But this is nationwide. 134 00:06:48,858 --> 00:06:52,441 It is doggone near from sea to shining sea. 135 00:06:53,941 --> 00:06:57,061 We see it in Wisconsin, we see it in North Dakota, 136 00:06:57,061 --> 00:07:01,311 we see it as well in Alabama, in Florida, in Texas. 137 00:07:02,762 --> 00:07:06,179 We see it in Kansas, we see it in Ohio, 138 00:07:06,179 --> 00:07:09,748 we see it in Michigan, we see it in Pennsylvania. 139 00:07:09,748 --> 00:07:13,520 Pennsylvania's not the south, Michigan is not the south. 140 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,181 Ohio is not the south. 141 00:07:16,181 --> 00:07:19,898 - [Narrator] In fact, 33 states, 2/3 of the country, 142 00:07:19,898 --> 00:07:21,662 have some form of voter suppression 143 00:07:21,662 --> 00:07:24,722 under the guise of protecting the integrity of the vote. 144 00:07:24,722 --> 00:07:26,176 But as history has shown, 145 00:07:26,176 --> 00:07:29,354 voter suppression has never been about integrity, 146 00:07:29,354 --> 00:07:30,864 but about preserving the right to vote 147 00:07:30,864 --> 00:07:33,130 exclusively for whites. 148 00:07:33,130 --> 00:07:34,445 Following the Civil War, 149 00:07:34,445 --> 00:07:36,112 the 15th Amendment prohibited the barring 150 00:07:36,112 --> 00:07:38,688 of anyone from the right to vote based on race, 151 00:07:38,688 --> 00:07:41,210 color, or previous condition of servitude. 152 00:07:41,210 --> 00:07:42,514 To get around that, 153 00:07:42,514 --> 00:07:44,809 states used societally imposed conditions 154 00:07:44,809 --> 00:07:48,727 instead of race as the litmus test to vote. 155 00:07:48,727 --> 00:07:51,829 The poll tax and literacy test. 156 00:07:51,829 --> 00:07:54,266 Newly freed African Americans had no money, 157 00:07:54,266 --> 00:07:56,663 and only 3% could read or write. 158 00:07:56,663 --> 00:07:58,224 And if that didn't work, 159 00:07:58,224 --> 00:08:01,480 then there was always the tools of terror. 160 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,347 As Mississippi senator Theodore Bilbo often stated, 161 00:08:04,347 --> 00:08:06,665 the best way to keep an n-word from voting 162 00:08:06,665 --> 00:08:09,888 was to visit him the night before. 163 00:08:09,888 --> 00:08:12,965 By 1940, in places like Mississippi, 164 00:08:12,965 --> 00:08:16,370 Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina, 165 00:08:16,370 --> 00:08:19,008 more than half of the African American adults 166 00:08:19,008 --> 00:08:21,794 had less than five years of formal education. 167 00:08:21,794 --> 00:08:23,824 It's not too hard to imagine, then, 168 00:08:23,824 --> 00:08:26,585 that only 3% of all black adults in the south 169 00:08:26,585 --> 00:08:28,362 were eligible to vote. 170 00:08:28,362 --> 00:08:30,359 Underfunding black education, 171 00:08:30,359 --> 00:08:33,560 poverty, voter intimidation, and outright murder 172 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:36,118 had laid waste to the 15th Amendment. 173 00:08:36,118 --> 00:08:39,036 In Selma, it resulted in less than 1% 174 00:08:39,036 --> 00:08:41,927 of the African American population registered to vote 175 00:08:41,927 --> 00:08:45,177 in a city that was over 50% black. 176 00:08:47,861 --> 00:08:50,741 - [Joanne] And did you know that these streets, 177 00:08:50,741 --> 00:08:52,491 you see the sidewalk? 178 00:08:53,386 --> 00:08:55,803 And see how it's up and down? 179 00:08:56,976 --> 00:08:58,941 Well, the white people walked up top, 180 00:08:58,941 --> 00:09:01,800 black people walked on the bottom. 181 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,115 And those benches, that used to be the only place 182 00:09:04,115 --> 00:09:08,018 in Selma that black people could sit. 183 00:09:08,018 --> 00:09:09,768 All that was allowed. 184 00:09:10,691 --> 00:09:13,941 They had nowhere to go to the bathroom. 185 00:09:16,042 --> 00:09:17,870 That's a good question. 186 00:09:17,870 --> 00:09:21,787 Voting rights, where are we with voting rights? 187 00:09:22,754 --> 00:09:25,981 Man, that voting must be awfully valuable, I promise you, 188 00:09:25,981 --> 00:09:27,353 'cause every time I turn around, 189 00:09:27,353 --> 00:09:30,700 somebody tryin' to take somethin' from it. 190 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:34,037 Some people think that we had the right to vote, 191 00:09:34,037 --> 00:09:38,517 everything would be, it was, after that was fine, right? 192 00:09:38,517 --> 00:09:39,350 It wasn't. 193 00:09:40,477 --> 00:09:42,672 Even after that, for every gain that we made, 194 00:09:42,672 --> 00:09:44,861 we had to fight for it, even today. 195 00:09:44,861 --> 00:09:48,391 So let's just get rid of that thought that, 196 00:09:48,391 --> 00:09:52,308 and then we ended up African American president 197 00:09:53,557 --> 00:09:56,178 and you know the world, the whole world has changed. 198 00:09:56,178 --> 00:09:57,357 No. 199 00:09:57,357 --> 00:09:59,160 - In that 2016 election, 200 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,827 black voter turnout had declined by 7%. 201 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,181 Now this was a close election. 202 00:10:07,181 --> 00:10:09,877 And the narrative that we received 203 00:10:09,877 --> 00:10:13,072 was y'know black people just didn't show up. 204 00:10:13,072 --> 00:10:14,328 And you know why they didn't show up? 205 00:10:14,328 --> 00:10:16,698 'Cause they just weren't feelin' Hillary. 206 00:10:16,698 --> 00:10:20,482 Y'know, Hillary is uh, she's Hillary. 207 00:10:20,482 --> 00:10:22,781 She doesn't have Obama's charisma, 208 00:10:22,781 --> 00:10:26,621 she doesn't have his magic, she doesn't have his skills, 209 00:10:26,621 --> 00:10:28,701 and she know she's Hillary. 210 00:10:28,701 --> 00:10:31,034 So they just didn't show up. 211 00:10:33,661 --> 00:10:37,058 Well, that's not quite accurate. 212 00:10:37,058 --> 00:10:40,252 This was the first election in 50 years, 213 00:10:40,252 --> 00:10:42,018 presidential election in 50 years 214 00:10:42,018 --> 00:10:45,365 without the protections of the Voting Rights Act. 215 00:10:45,365 --> 00:10:47,032 - [Narrator] To really understand this, 216 00:10:47,032 --> 00:10:48,992 we have to go back to the 2000 election 217 00:10:48,992 --> 00:10:51,322 between Al Gore and George W. Bush. 218 00:10:51,322 --> 00:10:54,157 While the carnival atmosphere of Florida's hanging chads 219 00:10:54,157 --> 00:10:56,717 dangle like a specter over the election results, 220 00:10:56,717 --> 00:10:58,328 the real danger was lurking 221 00:10:58,328 --> 00:11:01,279 nearly 800 miles away in St. Louis, Missouri. 222 00:11:01,279 --> 00:11:04,383 It was there that Senator Kit Bond cried voter fraud 223 00:11:04,383 --> 00:11:07,193 after Democrats protested the illegal purging 224 00:11:07,193 --> 00:11:09,437 of nearly 50,000 registered voters. 225 00:11:09,437 --> 00:11:11,154 It would become the rallying cry 226 00:11:11,154 --> 00:11:15,437 that would plant the seed for massive voter suppression. 227 00:11:15,437 --> 00:11:17,520 - So in this legislation, 228 00:11:18,554 --> 00:11:21,997 with the reality of all that had happened 229 00:11:21,997 --> 00:11:24,475 with machines that didn't work, 230 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:27,176 with intimidation and no place to complain, 231 00:11:27,176 --> 00:11:30,074 this law was putting in place 232 00:11:30,074 --> 00:11:34,936 ways to deal with that debacle, the reality of that debacle. 233 00:11:34,936 --> 00:11:39,336 He added, Kit Bond insisted on adding the fiction 234 00:11:39,336 --> 00:11:42,717 of voter fraud into federal law. 235 00:11:42,717 --> 00:11:47,437 And that meant that now you had sitting in federal law 236 00:11:47,437 --> 00:11:50,662 that states could require voter ID. 237 00:11:50,662 --> 00:11:53,965 - Which was the poison pill. - Which was the poison pill. 238 00:11:53,965 --> 00:11:55,639 - [Narrator] But voter ID would only be one 239 00:11:55,639 --> 00:11:57,397 of many levers which a party could pull 240 00:11:57,397 --> 00:12:00,596 to suppress the vote and change the results. 241 00:12:00,596 --> 00:12:02,018 Combined with voter purging, 242 00:12:02,018 --> 00:12:04,658 mass incarceration, gerrymandering, 243 00:12:04,658 --> 00:12:07,101 and the closing and moving of polling locations, 244 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:11,492 this lethal cocktail would alter our democracy. 245 00:12:11,492 --> 00:12:13,518 (birds chirping) 246 00:12:13,518 --> 00:12:16,553 - [Joanne] When I look at some of these trees, 247 00:12:16,553 --> 00:12:19,284 I just wish they could talk. 248 00:12:19,284 --> 00:12:23,867 I can see my ancestors really strong up at these trees. 249 00:12:25,221 --> 00:12:26,883 It's sad, this whole place, 250 00:12:26,883 --> 00:12:30,088 this whole thing is makin' me sad. 251 00:12:30,088 --> 00:12:31,671 Was this necessary? 252 00:12:35,021 --> 00:12:37,021 When I say that, I mean, 253 00:12:38,291 --> 00:12:41,299 (somber music) 254 00:12:41,299 --> 00:12:44,966 why did it take a war to make people realize 255 00:12:52,251 --> 00:12:54,168 that we should be free? 256 00:12:56,975 --> 00:12:59,837 People ask us why we livin' in the past, 257 00:12:59,837 --> 00:13:02,237 that was then and this is now. 258 00:13:02,237 --> 00:13:04,715 Okay, what's different? 259 00:13:04,715 --> 00:13:06,485 I'm not in the street watchin', 260 00:13:06,485 --> 00:13:07,880 I don't see much different. 261 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,686 We're fighting for the right to vote in then. 262 00:13:11,686 --> 00:13:16,078 We were fighting for basic human rights then. 263 00:13:16,078 --> 00:13:19,686 Aren't we still doin' the same thing now. 264 00:13:19,686 --> 00:13:21,044 So don't tell me it was then. 265 00:13:21,044 --> 00:13:23,887 It might be then for you, 266 00:13:23,887 --> 00:13:28,841 but see I have not, if you progress, you forgot to take me. 267 00:13:28,841 --> 00:13:31,583 - Barack Obama, a black man, 268 00:13:31,583 --> 00:13:35,569 was elected president of the United States. 269 00:13:35,569 --> 00:13:37,823 Now, one of the things that we hear, 270 00:13:37,823 --> 00:13:40,425 because this was repeated at 2012, 271 00:13:40,425 --> 00:13:44,484 one of the things we hear is how racist can America be? 272 00:13:44,484 --> 00:13:47,865 We elected a black man twice to the White House. 273 00:13:47,865 --> 00:13:50,365 Well, it's not quite accurate. 274 00:13:51,319 --> 00:13:52,345 Because wouldn't that have said 275 00:13:52,345 --> 00:13:55,103 it means how racist can white Americans be 276 00:13:55,103 --> 00:13:57,145 because we white Americans elected 277 00:13:57,145 --> 00:13:59,566 a black man twice to the White House. 278 00:13:59,566 --> 00:14:02,162 But the majority of whites who have voted 279 00:14:02,162 --> 00:14:05,663 have not voted for a Democratic candidate 280 00:14:05,663 --> 00:14:07,746 for president since 1964. 281 00:14:09,298 --> 00:14:11,036 - [Narrator] Barack Obama brought 15 million 282 00:14:11,036 --> 00:14:12,786 new voters to the polls. 283 00:14:12,786 --> 00:14:15,106 They were overwhelmingly African American, 284 00:14:15,106 --> 00:14:18,860 Asian American, Hispanic, young, and poor. 285 00:14:18,860 --> 00:14:20,786 A coalition that would be the hit list 286 00:14:20,786 --> 00:14:23,540 for what would become voter suppression laws. 287 00:14:23,540 --> 00:14:27,311 By 2012, over 180 bills restricting voting rights 288 00:14:27,311 --> 00:14:29,311 appeared in 41 states. 289 00:14:29,311 --> 00:14:31,759 Senator Lindsey Graham at the 2012 Republican 290 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:33,695 National Convention said out loud 291 00:14:33,695 --> 00:14:35,583 what everyone was thinking. 292 00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:38,073 The demographic race we're losing badly, 293 00:14:38,073 --> 00:14:41,593 Republicans were not generating enough angry white guys 294 00:14:41,593 --> 00:14:44,476 to stay in business for the long term. 295 00:14:44,476 --> 00:14:46,132 The landmark Shelby versus Holder 296 00:14:46,132 --> 00:14:50,233 Supreme Court decision in 2013 changed elections forever. 297 00:14:50,233 --> 00:14:53,092 It ruled Section 4(b) unconstitutional. 298 00:14:53,092 --> 00:14:56,175 Section 4(b) of 1965 Voting Rights Act 299 00:14:56,175 --> 00:14:58,310 required free clearance for those states 300 00:14:58,310 --> 00:15:00,311 that wanted to implement any changes 301 00:15:00,311 --> 00:15:03,092 or that demonstrated a history of racial bias. 302 00:15:03,092 --> 00:15:06,149 Chief Justice Roberts wrote that our country has changed, 303 00:15:06,149 --> 00:15:09,151 and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, 304 00:15:09,151 --> 00:15:12,087 Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes 305 00:15:12,087 --> 00:15:14,975 to remedy that problems speaks to current conditions 306 00:15:14,975 --> 00:15:17,946 and that Congress' reasoning for Section 4(b) 307 00:15:17,946 --> 00:15:20,149 was based on 40 year old facts, 308 00:15:20,149 --> 00:15:23,605 having no logical relationship to the present day 309 00:15:23,605 --> 00:15:27,088 and thus is not responsive to current needs. 310 00:15:27,088 --> 00:15:29,171 In short, racism is over. 311 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:36,160 - So, in the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, 312 00:15:36,208 --> 00:15:39,984 it came out in evidence that from 19, 313 00:15:39,984 --> 00:15:43,890 starting in 1982 that the Department of Justice 314 00:15:43,890 --> 00:15:47,473 had stopped over 700 attempts by the states 315 00:15:49,728 --> 00:15:53,811 to implement racially discriminatory voting laws. 316 00:15:55,424 --> 00:15:59,341 So all pre-clearance stopped over 700 attempts. 317 00:16:00,563 --> 00:16:02,805 So when John Roberts is looking 318 00:16:02,805 --> 00:16:06,314 saying ah that discrimination is a thing of the past, 319 00:16:06,314 --> 00:16:08,930 we're talking in the 21st century 320 00:16:08,930 --> 00:16:12,339 where there is evidence before the U.S. Supreme Court 321 00:16:12,339 --> 00:16:14,208 about racial discrimination. 322 00:16:14,208 --> 00:16:16,958 And the court chose to ignore it. 323 00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:22,603 Two hours, with just two hours after the Shelby County 324 00:16:22,603 --> 00:16:25,643 vee Holder decision is implemented, 325 00:16:25,643 --> 00:16:30,643 boom Texas right off the bat implements its voter ID law. 326 00:16:30,827 --> 00:16:32,534 (somber music) 327 00:16:32,534 --> 00:16:34,900 - [Narrator] Texas voter ID law SB 14 328 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:36,840 allowed for a limited number of IDs, 329 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,046 which white people are more likely to carry. 330 00:16:40,046 --> 00:16:42,507 In particular, a gun license. 331 00:16:42,507 --> 00:16:44,491 But it also included a drivers license, 332 00:16:44,491 --> 00:16:46,789 which sounds innocuous enough until you realize 333 00:16:46,789 --> 00:16:50,876 that nearly 1/3 of the counties in Texas do not have a DMV, 334 00:16:50,876 --> 00:16:53,977 including some that are heavily minority. 335 00:16:53,977 --> 00:16:56,592 For many, it would require a 250 mile 336 00:16:56,592 --> 00:17:00,212 round trip visit to the DMV to obtain in ID. 337 00:17:00,212 --> 00:17:03,669 Nearly 600,000 black, Latino, or poor voters 338 00:17:03,669 --> 00:17:07,154 who were already registered did not have required ID, 339 00:17:07,154 --> 00:17:08,808 in addition to one million 340 00:17:08,808 --> 00:17:11,502 who were not registered also lacked it. 341 00:17:11,502 --> 00:17:13,307 And because any language providing reimbursement 342 00:17:13,307 --> 00:17:15,736 by the state was stripped out of the bill, 343 00:17:15,736 --> 00:17:19,653 voter ID in Texas became a modern day poll tax. 344 00:17:21,168 --> 00:17:25,568 The voter ID law in Texas was not an isolated incident. 345 00:17:25,568 --> 00:17:27,051 According to the state of Indiana, 346 00:17:27,051 --> 00:17:29,192 only 1% of the eligible population 347 00:17:29,192 --> 00:17:31,349 did not have the required identification 348 00:17:31,349 --> 00:17:34,232 which amounted to 43,000 citizens. 349 00:17:34,232 --> 00:17:37,029 However, an independent study found the number 350 00:17:37,029 --> 00:17:41,107 was not 1%, but 16%, and that whites 351 00:17:41,107 --> 00:17:43,851 were 11.5 percentage points more likely 352 00:17:43,851 --> 00:17:47,201 than African Americans to already have the acceptable ID. 353 00:17:47,201 --> 00:17:48,843 But in places like Marion County, 354 00:17:48,843 --> 00:17:52,085 where 200,000 of the state's black population lives, 355 00:17:52,085 --> 00:17:54,384 there was a catch 22 at play. 356 00:17:54,384 --> 00:17:56,064 To get the required ID, 357 00:17:56,064 --> 00:17:58,029 you had to have a birth certificate. 358 00:17:58,029 --> 00:17:59,768 And to get the birth certificate, 359 00:17:59,768 --> 00:18:02,144 you needed the required ID. 360 00:18:02,144 --> 00:18:05,387 In Georgia, HB 244 required an ID 361 00:18:05,387 --> 00:18:07,442 from the Department of Driver Services, 362 00:18:07,442 --> 00:18:10,603 but 1/3 of the state's counties did not have a bureau. 363 00:18:10,603 --> 00:18:12,643 And in Atlanta, with a population 364 00:18:12,643 --> 00:18:14,965 exceeding 480,000 residents, 365 00:18:14,965 --> 00:18:17,765 of which nearly 60% are people of color, 366 00:18:17,765 --> 00:18:19,947 there was not a single office. 367 00:18:19,947 --> 00:18:21,835 North Carolina's voter registration 368 00:18:21,835 --> 00:18:26,064 amongst African Americans increased 51% in the 21st century. 369 00:18:26,064 --> 00:18:30,043 And their voter turnout rate in the 2008 and 2012 elections 370 00:18:30,043 --> 00:18:31,947 were higher than that of whites, 371 00:18:31,947 --> 00:18:33,537 so Republican legislators learned 372 00:18:33,537 --> 00:18:37,483 which IDs favored white voters and required at those. 373 00:18:37,483 --> 00:18:40,040 Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote that the law 374 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,694 clearly had a discriminatory intent. 375 00:18:42,694 --> 00:18:45,620 In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker promoted a bill 376 00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:47,895 that would require an ID and then went about 377 00:18:47,895 --> 00:18:50,939 closing motor vehicle offices in Democratic areas, 378 00:18:50,939 --> 00:18:53,317 but extending the hours in those areas 379 00:18:53,317 --> 00:18:55,376 that favored Republicans. 380 00:18:55,376 --> 00:18:57,477 As author Jeremiah Goulka observed, 381 00:18:57,477 --> 00:19:00,936 this was in a state in which half of blacks and Hispanics 382 00:19:00,936 --> 00:19:03,496 are estimated to lack a driver's license 383 00:19:03,496 --> 00:19:05,165 and 1/4 of its DMV offices 384 00:19:05,165 --> 00:19:07,569 are open less than one day per month. 385 00:19:07,569 --> 00:19:10,613 In Alabama, after their voter ID law was passed, 386 00:19:10,613 --> 00:19:12,209 it wasn't Governor Robert Bentley 387 00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:14,367 who came up with the idea to close the DMVs 388 00:19:14,367 --> 00:19:18,016 in 31 predominantly black counties as a way to save money, 389 00:19:18,016 --> 00:19:21,599 but Rebecca Mason's, his aide and mistress. 390 00:19:22,979 --> 00:19:25,141 When challenged, Bentley finally agreed 391 00:19:25,141 --> 00:19:29,391 to allow those offices to open for one day a month. 392 00:19:30,801 --> 00:19:32,677 (somber music) 393 00:19:32,677 --> 00:19:35,427 (birds chirping) 394 00:19:46,412 --> 00:19:50,133 - [Joanne] Green Street Baptist Church is a church that, 395 00:19:50,133 --> 00:19:53,649 a historic church in African American community 396 00:19:53,649 --> 00:19:58,449 and to just let that beautiful old church just go, 397 00:19:58,449 --> 00:19:59,846 it's horrific. 398 00:19:59,846 --> 00:20:03,929 But there's also the rest of the town that is in, 399 00:20:05,070 --> 00:20:07,879 looks like Green Street too in a lot of places. 400 00:20:07,879 --> 00:20:10,098 If we continue on this road, 401 00:20:10,098 --> 00:20:12,931 the road we're goin' as of today, 402 00:20:12,931 --> 00:20:15,230 I don't know how Selma's gonna survive. 403 00:20:15,230 --> 00:20:17,813 What's goin' on with this yard? 404 00:20:19,507 --> 00:20:22,507 All of this is poverty, all of this. 405 00:20:24,492 --> 00:20:25,325 It's sad. 406 00:20:28,083 --> 00:20:30,456 It was a thriving community 407 00:20:30,456 --> 00:20:33,289 and when we had mass white flight, 408 00:20:35,369 --> 00:20:36,869 white people left. 409 00:20:37,747 --> 00:20:42,747 They left the houses, put up for sale signs some of 'em, 410 00:20:43,246 --> 00:20:45,041 some of 'em rented the houses 411 00:20:45,041 --> 00:20:49,427 and then didn't even bother to keep them up. 412 00:20:49,427 --> 00:20:52,569 Y'know, they're not here anymore so it doesn't matter. 413 00:20:52,569 --> 00:20:55,209 And then they tell the world that you ran it down 414 00:20:55,209 --> 00:20:58,531 when you didn't, it was already runnin' down. 415 00:20:58,531 --> 00:21:03,364 I can't, in all fairness, blame white flight on everything 416 00:21:04,272 --> 00:21:07,547 that even when you're downtrodden, 417 00:21:07,547 --> 00:21:12,067 you don't have to live like you're downtrodden. 418 00:21:12,067 --> 00:21:15,427 You don't have to, you pick up the trash. 419 00:21:15,427 --> 00:21:17,790 You don't put trash in your yard. 420 00:21:17,790 --> 00:21:19,331 Now, it'll be a month or so 421 00:21:19,331 --> 00:21:21,585 before the city just come and pick that up. 422 00:21:21,585 --> 00:21:23,333 That's ridiculous. 423 00:21:23,333 --> 00:21:27,388 Look at this house, it has so much character. 424 00:21:27,388 --> 00:21:28,221 Dang. 425 00:21:32,701 --> 00:21:34,545 - [Narrator] Alabama's poverty is striking 426 00:21:34,545 --> 00:21:37,244 and ranked near the bottom of every index. 427 00:21:37,244 --> 00:21:40,364 While 14% of whites live below the poverty line, 428 00:21:40,364 --> 00:21:42,898 that number jumps to 34% for Latinos 429 00:21:42,898 --> 00:21:45,699 and 31% for African Americans. 430 00:21:45,699 --> 00:21:48,475 In nearly half of Alabama's black belt counties, 431 00:21:48,475 --> 00:21:49,999 the conditions are those you would find 432 00:21:49,999 --> 00:21:51,797 during the Great Depression. 433 00:21:51,797 --> 00:21:53,829 A United Nations report on extreme poverty 434 00:21:53,829 --> 00:21:55,591 found large portions of the black belt 435 00:21:55,591 --> 00:21:58,034 had no waste disposal infrastructure. 436 00:21:58,034 --> 00:22:02,538 For the poor, registering to vote is extremely difficult. 437 00:22:02,538 --> 00:22:04,813 Alabama ranks 48th in the nation 438 00:22:04,813 --> 00:22:07,130 for inner city transportation in a state 439 00:22:07,130 --> 00:22:10,871 with a rural population of 844,000. 440 00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:13,053 Nearly 14% of black households 441 00:22:13,053 --> 00:22:18,034 compared to 4% of whites do not have access to a vehicle. 442 00:22:18,034 --> 00:22:19,954 The state pretended to solve the problem 443 00:22:19,954 --> 00:22:22,151 by allowing for online registration, 444 00:22:22,151 --> 00:22:24,559 but 56% of the rural population 445 00:22:24,559 --> 00:22:27,450 does not have access to the internet. 446 00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:29,154 A mobile registration unit was created 447 00:22:29,154 --> 00:22:32,250 but issued only 5,070 voter cards 448 00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:35,611 out of the 250,000 they knew would be required. 449 00:22:35,611 --> 00:22:39,159 In addition, they also closed nearly 7% of their precincts. 450 00:22:39,159 --> 00:22:42,068 And despite African Americans making up 71% of those 451 00:22:42,068 --> 00:22:44,830 who hold a government issued public housing ID, 452 00:22:44,830 --> 00:22:47,498 it was excluded on the approved list. 453 00:22:47,498 --> 00:22:49,279 According to Alabama's Secretary of State, 454 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:52,562 John Merril, the problem was very clear. 455 00:22:52,562 --> 00:22:55,089 If you're too sorry or lazy to get up off your rear 456 00:22:55,089 --> 00:22:56,791 and to go register to vote, 457 00:22:56,791 --> 00:22:59,347 or to register electronically and then go vote, 458 00:22:59,347 --> 00:23:01,938 then you don't deserve that privilege. 459 00:23:01,938 --> 00:23:05,529 Of course, voting is not a privilege in America. 460 00:23:05,529 --> 00:23:07,431 It is a right. 461 00:23:07,431 --> 00:23:09,848 (soft music) 462 00:23:14,725 --> 00:23:17,731 - And again, this is gonna sound really reasonable, 463 00:23:17,731 --> 00:23:20,726 and that would be that periodically, 464 00:23:20,726 --> 00:23:22,811 the Secretary of State would go through 465 00:23:22,811 --> 00:23:25,311 and remove those who had died, 466 00:23:26,246 --> 00:23:29,046 because you don't want dead folk voting, 467 00:23:29,046 --> 00:23:31,947 who would remove those who had moved out of the district. 468 00:23:31,947 --> 00:23:33,649 So say you had been in Georgia 469 00:23:33,649 --> 00:23:35,321 and now you move to California, 470 00:23:35,321 --> 00:23:36,906 you shouldn't be on the rolls in Georgia 471 00:23:36,906 --> 00:23:38,807 if you're livin' in California now. 472 00:23:38,807 --> 00:23:41,233 So again, it sounds reasonable. 473 00:23:41,233 --> 00:23:44,021 And it says that you can't be removed 474 00:23:44,021 --> 00:23:46,201 simply because you haven't voted. 475 00:23:46,201 --> 00:23:47,783 Reasonable. 476 00:23:47,783 --> 00:23:52,783 But that reasonableness in the hands of secretaries of state 477 00:23:55,202 --> 00:23:57,452 has created massive damage. 478 00:23:59,156 --> 00:24:00,700 - [Narrator] The damage is staggering. 479 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,929 Between the 2012 and 2016 election, 480 00:24:03,929 --> 00:24:05,884 16 million voters were purged, 481 00:24:05,884 --> 00:24:07,868 which represents a 33% increase 482 00:24:07,868 --> 00:24:10,719 between the 2008 and 2012 elections. 483 00:24:10,719 --> 00:24:12,622 In the run up to the 2018 election, 484 00:24:12,622 --> 00:24:15,303 Georgia became the epicenter over voter purges 485 00:24:15,303 --> 00:24:17,244 and their use it or lose it laws 486 00:24:17,244 --> 00:24:20,204 because the person in charge of controlling who gets to vote 487 00:24:20,204 --> 00:24:23,023 was one of the candidates running for governor. 488 00:24:23,023 --> 00:24:25,063 The then Secretary of State Brian Kemp 489 00:24:25,063 --> 00:24:27,783 purged nearly 1.2 million names from the rolls. 490 00:24:27,783 --> 00:24:29,383 On the eve of the election, 491 00:24:29,383 --> 00:24:33,506 his office lost the registrations of 40,000 Georgians 492 00:24:33,506 --> 00:24:36,303 and placed 85,000 more under investigation 493 00:24:36,303 --> 00:24:39,266 of which only 25 were found to have problems. 494 00:24:39,266 --> 00:24:42,177 The majority of these new voters were people of color. 495 00:24:42,177 --> 00:24:44,672 In the end, Kemp defeated his Democratic rival, 496 00:24:44,672 --> 00:24:47,672 Stacey Abrams, by just 54,723 votes. 497 00:24:49,671 --> 00:24:51,880 Purging of voter rolls went supernova 498 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,511 when Kris Kobach became Kansas' Secretary of State in 2011 499 00:24:55,511 --> 00:24:57,212 and inherited a little known program 500 00:24:57,212 --> 00:24:59,271 called Interstate Crosscheck. 501 00:24:59,271 --> 00:25:02,567 Today, Crosscheck is used in over 30 states. 502 00:25:02,567 --> 00:25:04,311 It cross-references the names, 503 00:25:04,311 --> 00:25:07,548 birth dates, and the last four digits of 45 million 504 00:25:07,548 --> 00:25:09,810 registered voters' social security numbers. 505 00:25:09,810 --> 00:25:12,627 Over seven million names have been flagged by the system. 506 00:25:12,627 --> 00:25:17,027 In 2016, Kobach's office rejected more ballots than Florida, 507 00:25:17,027 --> 00:25:20,953 whose population is seven times larger than Kansas. 508 00:25:20,953 --> 00:25:25,378 What makes Crosscheck so dangerous is how inaccurate it is. 509 00:25:25,378 --> 00:25:28,975 Researchers have found that it has a 99% error rate 510 00:25:28,975 --> 00:25:30,783 and a unique feature in the system 511 00:25:30,783 --> 00:25:32,749 allows it to single out people of color 512 00:25:32,749 --> 00:25:35,810 who predominantly don't vote Republican. 513 00:25:35,810 --> 00:25:38,418 - How it works is most of the states, 514 00:25:38,418 --> 00:25:42,189 many of the states don't bother with social security. 515 00:25:42,189 --> 00:25:43,746 They don't bother with date of birth, 516 00:25:43,746 --> 00:25:45,370 they don't bother with suffix, 517 00:25:45,370 --> 00:25:46,845 and they really don't quite bother 518 00:25:46,845 --> 00:25:48,466 with your middle name either. 519 00:25:48,466 --> 00:25:52,250 They do some variation of your first name. 520 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:55,417 They really hone in on that last name. 521 00:25:58,092 --> 00:26:00,466 But there's a problem with that. 522 00:26:00,466 --> 00:26:03,557 Minorities are overrepresented 523 00:26:03,557 --> 00:26:05,666 in terms of common last names. 524 00:26:05,666 --> 00:26:07,426 In terms of common last names, 525 00:26:07,426 --> 00:26:11,143 minorities are at 85 of the top 100 526 00:26:11,143 --> 00:26:14,525 most common names in the United States. 527 00:26:14,525 --> 00:26:17,426 For instance, if your last name is Washington, 528 00:26:17,426 --> 00:26:22,322 there's almost a 90% chance that you're African American. 529 00:26:22,322 --> 00:26:25,186 If your last name is Hernandez, 530 00:26:25,186 --> 00:26:28,983 there's over a 90% chance that you're Hispanic. 531 00:26:28,983 --> 00:26:31,165 If your last name is Lee, 532 00:26:31,165 --> 00:26:34,582 over a 90% chance that you're Asian. 533 00:26:37,021 --> 00:26:40,221 - There was a time that in my life 534 00:26:40,221 --> 00:26:41,984 that I didn't even entertain the thought 535 00:26:41,984 --> 00:26:43,811 of talkin' to white people, y'know. 536 00:26:43,811 --> 00:26:46,258 They were just non-entities to me. 537 00:26:46,258 --> 00:26:48,695 If I had to interact with any, 538 00:26:48,695 --> 00:26:51,743 it was on a different level that I, 539 00:26:51,743 --> 00:26:54,818 they were over there and I was over here. 540 00:26:54,818 --> 00:26:57,751 And even when I was in the Army, right? 541 00:26:57,751 --> 00:27:00,751 That I had all these white officers. 542 00:27:02,971 --> 00:27:06,341 I worked, when I was in the Army, 543 00:27:06,341 --> 00:27:10,674 I worked for JAG, I was a 71 Delta legal clerk then. 544 00:27:11,751 --> 00:27:16,450 Most of the officers that I worked for were white. 545 00:27:16,450 --> 00:27:19,293 And I generally liked some of them 546 00:27:19,293 --> 00:27:23,783 but then if one said somethin' that I didn't, 547 00:27:23,783 --> 00:27:26,866 that could be misconstrued as racist, 548 00:27:29,170 --> 00:27:31,087 my antenna would go up. 549 00:27:32,210 --> 00:27:34,436 Forrest's memory has been tainted 550 00:27:34,436 --> 00:27:37,810 by the accusations started by a northern newspaper 551 00:27:37,810 --> 00:27:41,562 during the war that he had ordered the execution 552 00:27:41,562 --> 00:27:46,035 of black troops captured at Fort Pillow in Tennessee. 553 00:27:46,035 --> 00:27:47,846 It was also rumored that he organized 554 00:27:47,846 --> 00:27:52,846 the Ku Klux Klan resistance to reconstruction after the war. 555 00:27:53,102 --> 00:27:55,206 Several Congressional inquiries 556 00:27:55,206 --> 00:27:59,263 produced no credible evidence to support either accusation 557 00:27:59,263 --> 00:28:03,239 and no charges were ever brought against Forrest. 558 00:28:03,239 --> 00:28:08,239 Having accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and savior in 1875, 559 00:28:09,083 --> 00:28:12,083 he was called home October 29, 1877. 560 00:28:16,941 --> 00:28:17,774 Okay. 561 00:28:19,386 --> 00:28:22,859 Okay, first of all, I don't think, 562 00:28:22,859 --> 00:28:25,577 see this is what I call that history 563 00:28:25,577 --> 00:28:28,497 that they tell their versions, y'know? 564 00:28:28,497 --> 00:28:29,895 - [Narrator] After the Civil War, 565 00:28:29,895 --> 00:28:31,708 the 13th Amendment abolished slavery 566 00:28:31,708 --> 00:28:33,514 except as a form of punishment. 567 00:28:33,514 --> 00:28:37,018 The master was replaced with a carceral state. 568 00:28:37,018 --> 00:28:38,497 Under the Black Codes, 569 00:28:38,497 --> 00:28:40,375 African Americans were arrested 570 00:28:40,375 --> 00:28:42,623 on the simplest of offenses. 571 00:28:42,623 --> 00:28:45,877 In 1868, Florida created a law to disenfranchise 572 00:28:45,877 --> 00:28:47,719 those with a felony conviction. 573 00:28:47,719 --> 00:28:50,907 By 1906, every state across the south 574 00:28:50,907 --> 00:28:53,074 banned felons from voting. 575 00:28:54,337 --> 00:28:58,670 - Felony disfranchisement has a long sordid history. 576 00:28:59,832 --> 00:29:01,916 Let's talk about Alabama. 577 00:29:01,916 --> 00:29:06,153 Alabama and its Jim Crow Constitution of 1901 578 00:29:06,153 --> 00:29:08,692 crafted a language in there that said 579 00:29:08,692 --> 00:29:12,458 if you have been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude, 580 00:29:12,458 --> 00:29:14,839 you have lost your right to vote. 581 00:29:14,839 --> 00:29:18,919 Alabama refused to define moral turpitude. 582 00:29:18,919 --> 00:29:20,916 And so, you have a conviction 583 00:29:20,916 --> 00:29:24,999 but you don't quite know if it's moral turpitude or not. 584 00:29:24,999 --> 00:29:28,436 Are you going to risk voting and getting hit 585 00:29:28,436 --> 00:29:32,772 with another felony because you decided to vote? 586 00:29:32,772 --> 00:29:34,199 - [Narrator] In 2017, 587 00:29:34,199 --> 00:29:37,015 Alabama finally defined moral turpitude. 588 00:29:37,015 --> 00:29:40,295 But by that time, 15% of African American adults, 589 00:29:40,295 --> 00:29:43,091 or one out of every seven, could not vote 590 00:29:43,091 --> 00:29:45,829 because of felony disenfranchisement. 591 00:29:45,829 --> 00:29:48,027 Over six million Americans can't vote 592 00:29:48,027 --> 00:29:49,870 because of felony convictions. 593 00:29:49,870 --> 00:29:53,134 1.7 million of them are in Florida, 594 00:29:53,134 --> 00:29:54,792 where an amendment to Florida's constitution 595 00:29:54,792 --> 00:29:58,066 was passed in 2018 to reverse this practice 596 00:29:58,066 --> 00:30:00,814 only to have the Republican dominated legislature 597 00:30:00,814 --> 00:30:03,151 act contrary to the will of the people 598 00:30:03,151 --> 00:30:05,510 and kept it from happening. 599 00:30:05,510 --> 00:30:10,177 - 40% of black adult men in Florida could not vote. 600 00:30:11,715 --> 00:30:16,382 Over 20% of black adults in Florida could not vote. 601 00:30:17,336 --> 00:30:21,152 Now Florida would count the heads of all of those people 602 00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:22,731 when it came to the census, 603 00:30:22,731 --> 00:30:25,054 which would then lead to the number of representatives 604 00:30:25,054 --> 00:30:27,965 the state would have in Congress. 605 00:30:27,965 --> 00:30:31,882 But none of those heads have the right to vote, 606 00:30:33,352 --> 00:30:36,296 to be able to choose their representatives. 607 00:30:36,296 --> 00:30:39,272 It was like the 3/5 clause all over again. 608 00:30:39,272 --> 00:30:42,275 And let's be clear that what is driving 609 00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:47,025 this massive felony disfranchisement is the war on drugs. 610 00:30:50,174 --> 00:30:52,997 - I'm standin' on the last piece of the original cement 611 00:30:52,997 --> 00:30:56,814 where the march from Selma to Montgomery left from. 612 00:30:56,814 --> 00:30:59,397 Bloody Sunday, March 7th, 1965. 613 00:31:00,355 --> 00:31:03,438 And I been tryin' to fight to save it 614 00:31:04,449 --> 00:31:07,241 because I think it's important 615 00:31:07,241 --> 00:31:11,126 that this history was bad, so I have to find a way 616 00:31:11,126 --> 00:31:12,956 to connect the children to it 617 00:31:12,956 --> 00:31:15,308 without just pointing out here and say that 618 00:31:15,308 --> 00:31:18,985 that's where, y'know, that's where the march left from. 619 00:31:18,985 --> 00:31:21,828 Big deal, they just see another empty space, right? 620 00:31:21,828 --> 00:31:26,207 But I bring the children here and I stand them here 621 00:31:26,207 --> 00:31:29,647 and I instruct them pick up a rock, 622 00:31:29,647 --> 00:31:32,129 then I make them hold it up in the air 623 00:31:32,129 --> 00:31:36,296 and say and then I identify at least three of 'em. 624 00:31:37,465 --> 00:31:39,606 Oh, that's John Lewis' rock, 625 00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:42,268 you do know how John Lewis is, right? 626 00:31:42,268 --> 00:31:44,463 Sometimes they know, sometimes they don't. 627 00:31:44,463 --> 00:31:46,159 Give me a teaching opportunity. 628 00:31:46,159 --> 00:31:48,166 Oh, John Lewis was a congressman, 629 00:31:48,166 --> 00:31:51,868 is a congressman now but I knew John Lewis 54 years ago 630 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,726 when he stood on that same rock you're holdin'. 631 00:31:54,726 --> 00:31:56,268 He was the president of SNCC, 632 00:31:56,268 --> 00:31:58,748 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 633 00:31:58,748 --> 00:32:01,119 Look at you holdin' that history in your hand. 634 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:03,815 You must be a history maker, too. 635 00:32:03,815 --> 00:32:05,704 When you feel like you can't do anything, 636 00:32:05,704 --> 00:32:09,741 go pick up that rock and hold it in your hand 637 00:32:09,741 --> 00:32:12,157 and take from it the strength of the ordinary people 638 00:32:12,157 --> 00:32:14,965 who stood on that same rock and made history 639 00:32:14,965 --> 00:32:19,082 that not only changed this little town, but America. 640 00:32:19,082 --> 00:32:21,926 And then get up off your behinds and do somethin' about it. 641 00:32:21,926 --> 00:32:23,122 Is that clear? 642 00:32:23,122 --> 00:32:26,061 And they all answer yes ma'am. 643 00:32:26,061 --> 00:32:28,478 (soft music) 644 00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:37,279 - Gerrymandering is as old as the nation itself. 645 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:43,093 But the way that it has basically come onto steroids 646 00:32:44,658 --> 00:32:48,787 in the 21st century is absolutely frightening. 647 00:32:48,787 --> 00:32:50,155 - [Narrator] Gerrymandering has always 648 00:32:50,155 --> 00:32:51,582 been about party and race. 649 00:32:51,582 --> 00:32:55,050 Every 10 years after the census, district maps are redrawn 650 00:32:55,050 --> 00:32:56,990 based on the number of representatives. 651 00:32:56,990 --> 00:32:58,577 In its simplest form, 652 00:32:58,577 --> 00:33:01,265 redistricting would work as follows. 653 00:33:01,265 --> 00:33:03,297 Let's say you have 100 voters 654 00:33:03,297 --> 00:33:05,862 and you need to split them into 10 districts. 655 00:33:05,862 --> 00:33:07,598 If you split them up evenly, 656 00:33:07,598 --> 00:33:09,380 you would have 10 competitive districts 657 00:33:09,380 --> 00:33:11,118 that could go either way. 658 00:33:11,118 --> 00:33:13,337 However, what if you simply put 659 00:33:13,337 --> 00:33:15,860 all of your competitor's voters into one district 660 00:33:15,860 --> 00:33:18,958 and then split yours into the other nine? 661 00:33:18,958 --> 00:33:21,797 Obviously, your opponent would win their one district 662 00:33:21,797 --> 00:33:23,473 but you would win the other nine 663 00:33:23,473 --> 00:33:25,801 and thus be able to make all the rules. 664 00:33:25,801 --> 00:33:29,275 In an ideal world, districts are drawn fairly. 665 00:33:29,275 --> 00:33:32,687 But we don't live in an ideal world. 666 00:33:32,687 --> 00:33:34,753 President Benjamin Harrison called gerrymandering 667 00:33:34,753 --> 00:33:37,894 political robbery, and he was right. 668 00:33:37,894 --> 00:33:41,387 Both parties do it, that's nothing new. 669 00:33:41,387 --> 00:33:44,273 But in 2010, when Republicans gained control 670 00:33:44,273 --> 00:33:48,179 of the legislature in the governor's office in 26 states, 671 00:33:48,179 --> 00:33:50,204 everything changed. 672 00:33:50,204 --> 00:33:52,139 Aided by computer-driven software, 673 00:33:52,139 --> 00:33:55,214 gerrymandering went to a whole new level. 674 00:33:55,214 --> 00:33:57,579 Districts were now drawn down the block level, 675 00:33:57,579 --> 00:33:59,587 and even to the houses on the block. 676 00:33:59,587 --> 00:34:01,793 Districts were drawn to pack and stack segments 677 00:34:01,793 --> 00:34:04,603 of the population in order to dilute their voting power 678 00:34:04,603 --> 00:34:06,427 and suppress voter turnout. 679 00:34:06,427 --> 00:34:09,998 Paul Weyrich with the American Legislative Exchange Council, 680 00:34:09,998 --> 00:34:13,627 or ALEC, which helped craft voter suppression legislation, 681 00:34:13,627 --> 00:34:15,526 was blunt in his reasoning. 682 00:34:15,526 --> 00:34:17,649 I don't want everyone to vote. 683 00:34:17,649 --> 00:34:19,953 The Republican party's leverage in the election 684 00:34:19,953 --> 00:34:24,953 quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. 685 00:34:25,319 --> 00:34:28,236 Texas is a minority majority state. 686 00:34:29,117 --> 00:34:31,702 45% of the population is white, 687 00:34:31,702 --> 00:34:34,344 but they control 70% of the districts. 688 00:34:34,344 --> 00:34:36,836 And similar results are found in Michigan, 689 00:34:36,836 --> 00:34:40,335 Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Florida, 690 00:34:40,335 --> 00:34:43,914 all because of the some of the craziest gerrymandering ever. 691 00:34:43,914 --> 00:34:47,535 The Louisiana Second District, Texas 35th, 692 00:34:47,535 --> 00:34:51,711 Illinois Fourth, Florida Fifth, Maryland's Third, 693 00:34:51,711 --> 00:34:55,434 and North Carolina's infamous 12th District. 694 00:34:55,434 --> 00:34:59,034 In fact, of the 10 most egregious gerrymandered districts, 695 00:34:59,034 --> 00:35:02,451 North Carolina leads the pack with three. 696 00:35:03,510 --> 00:35:06,260 (birds chirping) 697 00:35:07,135 --> 00:35:09,718 (somber music) 698 00:35:16,061 --> 00:35:17,892 - I'm tired of people beating us down 699 00:35:17,892 --> 00:35:20,559 and tryin' to act like we're not 700 00:35:25,575 --> 00:35:29,377 the same just because my skin is dark 701 00:35:29,377 --> 00:35:32,871 and some of my other brothers and sisters 702 00:35:32,871 --> 00:35:37,371 may be white doesn't mean that God didn't make me too. 703 00:35:40,290 --> 00:35:43,986 And I don't think God made it a joke, okay? 704 00:35:43,986 --> 00:35:47,691 And the sooner we realize that we all human beings, 705 00:35:47,691 --> 00:35:49,024 the better this world will be. 706 00:35:49,024 --> 00:35:50,995 - The studies are really clear on this. 707 00:35:50,995 --> 00:35:53,580 When you're white, generally what happens 708 00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:56,236 is that whites in white neighborhoods 709 00:35:56,236 --> 00:36:00,753 have to wait in line the least amount of time to vote. 710 00:36:00,753 --> 00:36:02,808 And so it looks like ah, you go in, 711 00:36:02,808 --> 00:36:06,350 you show an ID 'cause everybody has an ID, 712 00:36:06,350 --> 00:36:07,438 you go cast your ballots, 713 00:36:07,438 --> 00:36:11,988 you're in and out in what, five minutes, six minutes? 714 00:36:11,988 --> 00:36:16,521 If you're a minority, however, again the studies are clear. 715 00:36:16,521 --> 00:36:19,938 If you're black and you're in a black neighborhood, 716 00:36:19,938 --> 00:36:24,258 you have the longest amount of time to wait to vote. 717 00:36:24,258 --> 00:36:27,379 And that is because there are fewer machines 718 00:36:27,379 --> 00:36:31,118 that actually work that have been assigned to your precinct. 719 00:36:31,118 --> 00:36:32,769 There are fewer poll workers. 720 00:36:32,769 --> 00:36:35,427 In short, there are fewer resources 721 00:36:35,427 --> 00:36:38,480 put into minority precincts. 722 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,299 And so with fewer resources, 723 00:36:40,299 --> 00:36:44,379 the line just grows and grows and grows. 724 00:36:44,379 --> 00:36:48,365 And so here in Georgia, for instance, in our last election, 725 00:36:48,365 --> 00:36:52,578 the average wait was about three hours to vote. 726 00:36:52,578 --> 00:36:53,934 It looks like it's working, 727 00:36:53,934 --> 00:36:57,126 it looks like everybody has the same opportunity. 728 00:36:57,126 --> 00:36:59,959 They don't and that is deliberate. 729 00:37:00,923 --> 00:37:02,381 - [Narrator] One of those tricks 730 00:37:02,381 --> 00:37:05,846 is the restrictions placed on polling stations themselves. 731 00:37:05,846 --> 00:37:07,848 African American and Latino voters 732 00:37:07,848 --> 00:37:10,311 have traditionally been early voters. 733 00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:12,541 Legislators in places like Ohio, 734 00:37:12,541 --> 00:37:15,206 Indiana, North Carolina, and Florida 735 00:37:15,206 --> 00:37:17,862 have reduced the availability of early voting. 736 00:37:17,862 --> 00:37:20,667 13 states including Alabama 737 00:37:20,667 --> 00:37:23,526 do not have any early voting at all. 738 00:37:23,526 --> 00:37:25,392 In Ohio, the Secretary of State 739 00:37:25,392 --> 00:37:29,021 allowed for only one early polling station per county. 740 00:37:29,021 --> 00:37:32,381 That might work for the 6,000 people of Pickaway County, 741 00:37:32,381 --> 00:37:34,853 which is nearly 95% white. 742 00:37:34,853 --> 00:37:36,486 But in Hamilton County, 743 00:37:36,486 --> 00:37:38,566 home to the state's third largest city, 744 00:37:38,566 --> 00:37:41,083 the majority minority city of Cincinnati, 745 00:37:41,083 --> 00:37:43,686 one polling station for 800,000 people 746 00:37:43,686 --> 00:37:45,633 just isn't gonna cut it. 747 00:37:45,633 --> 00:37:47,218 In Indiana's 92 counties, 748 00:37:47,218 --> 00:37:51,298 only three have populations larger than 325,000 residents. 749 00:37:51,298 --> 00:37:54,100 62% of all African Americans in Indiana 750 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:58,525 live in two of the three counties, Marion and Lake. 751 00:37:58,525 --> 00:38:00,605 It probably comes as no surprise, then, 752 00:38:00,605 --> 00:38:02,422 that former governor Mike Pence 753 00:38:02,422 --> 00:38:05,463 and the Republican-led legislature decided 754 00:38:05,463 --> 00:38:08,981 that counties with a population over 325,000 755 00:38:08,981 --> 00:38:11,142 were restricted to one polling station 756 00:38:11,142 --> 00:38:13,700 unless the bipartisan county election board 757 00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:17,063 unanimously voted to have more. 758 00:38:17,063 --> 00:38:20,253 Smaller white counties have no such restrictions. 759 00:38:20,253 --> 00:38:22,034 But closing early polling stations 760 00:38:22,034 --> 00:38:24,834 is just one way to restrict access to the vote. 761 00:38:24,834 --> 00:38:27,556 Moving the location is effective, as well. 762 00:38:27,556 --> 00:38:29,991 North Carolina moved nearly 1/3 of those 763 00:38:29,991 --> 00:38:31,991 in predominantly black areas. 764 00:38:31,991 --> 00:38:34,011 Studies have shown that voting by black voters 765 00:38:34,011 --> 00:38:36,391 drops .5% for every tenth of a mile 766 00:38:36,391 --> 00:38:38,221 the polling station is moved. 767 00:38:38,221 --> 00:38:40,597 It's estimated that 19,000 black voters 768 00:38:40,597 --> 00:38:43,930 were kept from voting using this method. 769 00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:49,863 - [Joanne] I need people to understand this. 770 00:38:49,863 --> 00:38:51,696 This history happened. 771 00:38:52,581 --> 00:38:55,872 And we can't go back and erase it. 772 00:38:55,872 --> 00:38:58,706 But what came out of that history 773 00:38:58,706 --> 00:39:02,077 and where do we take it from there? 774 00:39:02,077 --> 00:39:05,893 Sometimes I think I'm marchin' over that bridge again 775 00:39:05,893 --> 00:39:09,259 or definitely gonna have to march over there again 776 00:39:09,259 --> 00:39:11,099 to make a change. 777 00:39:11,099 --> 00:39:16,014 But we need each other, we're not goin' anywhere. 778 00:39:16,014 --> 00:39:19,950 We're not movin' forward when you try to hurt us, 779 00:39:19,950 --> 00:39:22,198 a whole segment of people. 780 00:39:22,198 --> 00:39:24,854 You're not movin' forward, you just think you are. 781 00:39:24,854 --> 00:39:27,160 And it's gonna always be that unrest 782 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,174 and that craziness you have to deal with 783 00:39:30,174 --> 00:39:33,757 when the power is not distributed properly. 784 00:39:35,351 --> 00:39:37,336 And that's what most movements are about, 785 00:39:37,336 --> 00:39:39,169 distribution of power. 786 00:39:40,932 --> 00:39:43,662 - One of the things that we began to understand 787 00:39:43,662 --> 00:39:46,996 in the movement, during the Civil Rights movement, 788 00:39:46,996 --> 00:39:50,549 was that as long as somebody was not free, 789 00:39:50,549 --> 00:39:52,974 none of us were free. 790 00:39:52,974 --> 00:39:54,790 That hasn't changed. 791 00:39:54,790 --> 00:39:56,233 That hasn't changed. 792 00:39:56,233 --> 00:39:58,270 When we're talking about what is happening 793 00:39:58,270 --> 00:40:02,633 with voter suppression where we get representatives 794 00:40:02,633 --> 00:40:04,654 who are unrepresentative. 795 00:40:04,654 --> 00:40:07,030 We get members in a democracy 796 00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:10,824 who are not responsible to that democracy. 797 00:40:10,824 --> 00:40:12,852 None of us are free. 798 00:40:12,852 --> 00:40:14,229 - [Narrator] Of the one billion votes 799 00:40:14,229 --> 00:40:17,092 cast between 2000 and 2014, 800 00:40:17,092 --> 00:40:20,190 there were 31 reported incidents of voter fraud. 801 00:40:20,190 --> 00:40:23,353 These included false claims by the loser. 802 00:40:23,353 --> 00:40:25,252 The incident rate of voter fraud 803 00:40:25,252 --> 00:40:28,502 is between .0003% and .0025%. 804 00:40:30,734 --> 00:40:35,270 In 2016, there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud. 805 00:40:35,270 --> 00:40:38,700 In short, voter fraud is a false flag narrative 806 00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:40,567 designed to suppress and disenfranchise 807 00:40:40,567 --> 00:40:42,091 specific bodies of the electorate 808 00:40:42,091 --> 00:40:45,931 in order to maintain the status quo in a changing America. 809 00:40:45,931 --> 00:40:48,842 Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton 810 00:40:48,842 --> 00:40:51,669 by nearly three million votes in 2016. 811 00:40:51,669 --> 00:40:56,419 Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin made him president. 812 00:40:57,293 --> 00:40:59,531 If Hillary won those three states, 813 00:40:59,531 --> 00:41:04,531 which Obama won in 2008 and 2012, she would be president. 814 00:41:04,813 --> 00:41:06,456 But she didn't. 815 00:41:06,456 --> 00:41:08,539 Voter suppression worked. 816 00:41:09,614 --> 00:41:11,675 The most striking results are in Wisconsin 817 00:41:11,675 --> 00:41:13,371 where the voting rates of African Americans 818 00:41:13,371 --> 00:41:18,371 dropped to less than 50% in 2016 from 78% in 2012. 819 00:41:19,813 --> 00:41:23,048 This decline was more than four times the national average. 820 00:41:23,048 --> 00:41:25,109 Wisconsin is 92% white. 821 00:41:25,109 --> 00:41:29,117 There's 348,308 African American citizens 822 00:41:29,117 --> 00:41:32,272 make up just 6.1% of the population. 823 00:41:32,272 --> 00:41:34,709 Nearly 70% of Wisconsin's black population 824 00:41:34,709 --> 00:41:36,352 lives in Milwaukee. 825 00:41:36,352 --> 00:41:38,949 65% are of voting age. 826 00:41:38,949 --> 00:41:43,104 In the 2016 election, 50,000 fewer votes were cast 827 00:41:43,104 --> 00:41:46,635 in Milwaukee as a result of voter suppression. 828 00:41:46,635 --> 00:41:50,468 Donald J. Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes. 829 00:41:54,935 --> 00:41:57,437 - Obama said yes we can. 830 00:41:57,437 --> 00:42:01,070 And we saw what happened in that 2008 election. 831 00:42:01,070 --> 00:42:04,408 Today, we have to say yes we will. 832 00:42:04,408 --> 00:42:08,991 It is upon us to stand up and fight for this democracy. 833 00:42:09,854 --> 00:42:10,854 Yes we will. 834 00:42:12,517 --> 00:42:16,818 It is that determination that had 11 year old Joanne Bland 835 00:42:16,818 --> 00:42:19,151 on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. 836 00:42:20,349 --> 00:42:25,349 This was a little girl well before she could be able to vote 837 00:42:26,033 --> 00:42:29,450 willing to put it on the line to be free. 838 00:42:30,388 --> 00:42:32,596 That's a freedom fighter. 839 00:42:32,596 --> 00:42:33,596 Yes we will. 840 00:42:34,699 --> 00:42:36,939 That's how we get the democracy we deserve, 841 00:42:36,939 --> 00:42:38,850 not the one that they're trying to foist upon us. 842 00:42:38,850 --> 00:42:40,936 ♪ Oh yeah ♪ 843 00:42:40,936 --> 00:42:43,914 ♪ Hold on ♪ 844 00:42:43,914 --> 00:42:46,972 ♪ Hold on to the family ♪ 845 00:42:46,972 --> 00:42:49,556 ♪ Lay low ♪ 846 00:42:49,556 --> 00:42:52,634 ♪ Lay low in the valley ♪ 847 00:42:52,634 --> 00:42:55,371 ♪ We roll ♪ 848 00:42:55,371 --> 00:43:00,283 ♪ We like when the family stay strong ♪ 849 00:43:00,283 --> 00:43:01,587 ♪ Stay strong y'all ♪ 850 00:43:01,587 --> 00:43:04,132 ♪ Stay strong at the rally ♪ 851 00:43:04,132 --> 00:43:05,276 ♪ Hold on ♪ 852 00:43:05,276 --> 00:43:06,349 ♪ Listen up ♪ 853 00:43:06,349 --> 00:43:07,786 ♪ Selma's disintegratin' ♪ 854 00:43:07,786 --> 00:43:09,247 ♪ Half a century waitin' ♪ 855 00:43:09,247 --> 00:43:10,687 ♪ And we still patient ♪ 856 00:43:10,687 --> 00:43:12,127 ♪ The old plantation ♪ 857 00:43:12,127 --> 00:43:13,584 ♪ Still runs the nation ♪ 858 00:43:13,584 --> 00:43:16,465 ♪ Voter registration turn to frustration ♪ 859 00:43:16,465 --> 00:43:17,887 ♪ Massive carceration ♪ 860 00:43:17,887 --> 00:43:19,202 ♪ Go ahead put them in ♪ 861 00:43:19,202 --> 00:43:20,751 ♪ But we gon' be here for a while ♪ 862 00:43:20,751 --> 00:43:22,279 ♪ Checkin' out gerrymanderin' ♪ 863 00:43:22,279 --> 00:43:24,977 ♪ Used to be poll tax and literacy tests ♪ 864 00:43:24,977 --> 00:43:26,142 ♪ Now it's redistrictin' ♪ 865 00:43:26,142 --> 00:43:27,895 ♪ I mean look at this mess ♪ 866 00:43:27,895 --> 00:43:30,035 ♪ Hold on ♪ 867 00:43:30,035 --> 00:43:33,155 ♪ Hold on to the family ♪ 868 00:43:33,155 --> 00:43:35,850 ♪ Law low ♪ 869 00:43:35,850 --> 00:43:38,890 ♪ Lay low in the valley ♪ 870 00:43:38,890 --> 00:43:41,651 ♪ We roll ♪ 871 00:43:41,651 --> 00:43:45,875 ♪ You like when the families stay strong ♪ 872 00:43:45,875 --> 00:43:47,867 ♪ Yeah stay strong y'all ♪ 873 00:43:47,867 --> 00:43:50,355 ♪ Stay strong at the rally ♪ 874 00:43:50,355 --> 00:43:51,614 ♪ Hold on ♪ 875 00:43:51,614 --> 00:43:54,115 ♪ It's a town of white flight and retributions ♪ 876 00:43:54,115 --> 00:43:56,804 ♪ The dark folks been strugglin' for decades refutin' ♪ 877 00:43:56,804 --> 00:43:58,056 ♪ Used to be Jim Clark ♪ 878 00:43:58,056 --> 00:43:59,576 ♪ Now it's the new Jim Crow ♪ 879 00:43:59,576 --> 00:44:01,016 ♪ We used to see him spark ♪ 880 00:44:01,016 --> 00:44:02,654 ♪ Now the lights dim low ♪ 881 00:44:02,654 --> 00:44:04,574 ♪ Looks different but the same ol' endin' ♪ 882 00:44:04,574 --> 00:44:06,193 ♪ Keep folks out of the polls ♪ 883 00:44:06,193 --> 00:44:07,221 ♪ Same folks winnin' ♪ 884 00:44:07,221 --> 00:44:08,878 ♪ Matter of fact, it's sickenin' ♪ 885 00:44:08,878 --> 00:44:10,958 ♪ That these folks can still get away ♪ 886 00:44:10,958 --> 00:44:14,035 ♪ With this nonsense, yeah I'm talkin' 'bout today ♪ 887 00:44:14,035 --> 00:44:16,254 ♪ Hold on ♪ 888 00:44:16,254 --> 00:44:19,198 ♪ Hold on to the family ♪ 889 00:44:19,198 --> 00:44:22,094 ♪ Lay low ♪ 890 00:44:22,094 --> 00:44:25,176 ♪ Lay low in the valley ♪ 891 00:44:25,176 --> 00:44:27,893 ♪ We roll ♪ 892 00:44:27,893 --> 00:44:32,893 ♪ You like when the families stay strong ♪ 893 00:44:33,574 --> 00:44:36,638 ♪ Stay strong at the rally ♪ 894 00:44:36,638 --> 00:44:37,806 ♪ Hold on ♪ 895 00:44:37,806 --> 00:44:39,829 ♪ They wanna maintain the status quo ♪ 896 00:44:39,829 --> 00:44:42,949 ♪ As America becomes brown again they sayin' no ♪ 897 00:44:42,949 --> 00:44:45,749 ♪ They even mad at area of the mermaid chieftan ♪ 898 00:44:45,749 --> 00:44:48,685 ♪ Imagine what they gon' do when the vote is as deep ♪ 899 00:44:48,685 --> 00:44:50,186 ♪ We movin' towards apartheid ♪ 900 00:44:50,186 --> 00:44:51,542 ♪ We even some sticks ♪ 901 00:44:51,542 --> 00:44:54,524 ♪ Arranged as a failed democracy filled with hate ♪ 902 00:44:54,524 --> 00:44:57,488 ♪ The same race-dated tactics apply your eyes ♪ 903 00:44:57,488 --> 00:45:00,205 ♪ While the sin of slavery we still tryin' to hide ♪ 904 00:45:00,205 --> 00:45:01,070 ♪ Won't need to hide ♪ 905 00:45:01,070 --> 00:45:03,232 ♪ Votin' ain't even a privilege, it's a right ♪ 906 00:45:03,232 --> 00:45:06,069 ♪ Folks were shot, killed, jailed, and beat in this plight ♪ 907 00:45:06,069 --> 00:45:08,504 ♪ Are we sick and tired of bein' sick and tired ♪ 908 00:45:08,504 --> 00:45:09,337 ♪ It's time now ♪ 909 00:45:09,337 --> 00:45:12,092 ♪ For us to take a stand and fight this crime now ♪ 910 00:45:12,092 --> 00:45:14,974 ♪ You got to stand for somethin' or you'll fall for anything ♪ 911 00:45:14,974 --> 00:45:17,809 ♪ We are the people and justice is the very thing ♪ 912 00:45:17,809 --> 00:45:18,642 ♪ We want ♪ 913 00:45:18,642 --> 00:45:20,618 ♪ Yes we can gotta be yes we will ♪ 914 00:45:20,618 --> 00:45:23,376 ♪ So let's make a play before the rest is killed ♪ 915 00:45:23,376 --> 00:45:25,178 ♪ This isn't a game that we're playin' ♪ 916 00:45:25,178 --> 00:45:26,593 ♪ Don't let 'em play you ♪ 917 00:45:26,593 --> 00:45:27,766 ♪ Step out the arena ♪ 918 00:45:27,766 --> 00:45:29,199 ♪ Tell your family stay true ♪ 919 00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:30,032 ♪ Yes ♪ 920 00:45:30,032 --> 00:45:32,237 ♪ And we need each other to survive and grow ♪ 921 00:45:32,237 --> 00:45:33,281 ♪ After Selma there is hope ♪ 922 00:45:33,281 --> 00:45:34,935 ♪ We gonna reap what we sow ♪ 923 00:45:34,935 --> 00:45:37,399 ♪ I know ♪ 924 00:45:37,399 --> 00:45:40,199 ♪ My Jesus will save me ♪ 925 00:45:40,199 --> 00:45:43,138 ♪ Follow ♪ 926 00:45:43,138 --> 00:45:46,082 ♪ My Lord til I can't breathe ♪ 927 00:45:46,082 --> 00:45:48,940 ♪ I go ♪ 928 00:45:48,940 --> 00:45:51,977 ♪ Wherever he takes me ♪ 929 00:45:51,977 --> 00:45:54,700 ♪ He won't ♪ 930 00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:57,577 ♪ Won't ever forsake me ♪ 931 00:45:57,577 --> 00:45:59,827 ♪ Hold on ♪