Hakeem Jeffries: ‘Everybody Has a Stake in Preserving a Multiracial Democracy as Part of the Effort to Preserve American Exceptionalism’

JEFFRIES: "It’s certainly everybody’s fight. Listen, doctor king once eloquently made the observation that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And that’s the reality of what we confront right now. So it is everybody’s fight to show up and stand up and speak up. Now, the American journey has always been characterized by moments of progress, followed by moments of backlash. And then a new generation of Americans have to show up, stand up, speak up, fight, get into good trouble to usher in an era of progress. We went from the progress of emancipation to the backlash of Jim Crow, the progress of the civil rights movement, to the backlash of mass incarceration, the progress of electing Barack Obama to the backlash that has resulted in the elevation of Donald Trump, MAGA extremism, and this behavior that we’re seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States to throw the American south back into the Jim Crow era. So it’s going to take an all hands on deck effort. And everybody has a stake in preserving a multiracial democracy as part of the effort to preserve American exceptionalism."

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Hakeem Jeffries: ‘Everybody Has a Stake in Preserving a Multiracial Democracy as Part of the Effort to Preserve American Exceptionalism’‘As we move forward into our next 250 years’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:JEFFRIES: "It’s certainly everybody’s fight. Listen, doctor king once eloquently made the observation that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And that’s the reality of what we confront right now. So it is everybody’s fight to show up and stand up and speak up. Now, the American journey has always been characterized by moments of progress, followed by moments of backlash. And then a new generation of Americans have to show up, stand up, speak up, fight, get into good trouble to usher in an era of progress. We went from the progress of emancipation to the backlash of Jim Crow, the progress of the civil rights movement, to the backlash of mass incarceration, the progress of electing Barack Obama to the backlash that has resulted in the elevation of Donald Trump, MAGA extremism, and this behavior that we’re seeing coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States to throw the American south back into the Jim Crow era. So it’s going to take an all hands on deck effort. And everybody has a stake in preserving a multiracial democracy as part of the effort to preserve American exceptionalism."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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