RUSH EXCERPT:JONES: "That’s exactly. It, brother Velshi. And, you know, I just get goosebumps hearing what you’re saying. I just got back from reverend Jesse Jackson’s funeral in Chicago. We lost another freedom rider and Elder doctor bernard Lafayette, who was the architect who did the groundwork for the selma Voting Rights Act, which we celebrate today, bloody Sunday. And so what we’re seeing is we’re seeing this kairos moment where so many of those elders we talk about in the civil rights movement are passing at a time where this administration is dismantling that infrastructure, dismantling every institutional win that we saw during the civil rights movement. And so it’s upon us to pick up that torch and say that the civil rights movement is not just in history books, but it’s a movement that calls us to pick up that torch and to push forward against the new generations of bull connors and and George Wallace’s that we face today in our government. It requires us to stand up and to speak up and to let them know that we’re not gonna let anyone turn us around, and to really give breath to what democracy means in this country. You know, we’re celebrating 250 years of America. But for multiracial democracy. Democracy is only 60 years young in this country. Real democracy is only 60 years young in this country. And it was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb threats through the smack of Billy clubs and the blasts of fire hoses. That was the cost of democracy. But it was something that these young people, mainly young people, were willing to pay and to and to push forward toward that vision of what America ought to be."
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