Stacey Abrams: Trump Administration Is ‘Trying to Legalize the Restoration of Jim Crow’

ABRAMS: "Eugene, and I want to say thank you to all of you for the coverage you’re giving this. And I want to start by saying the power is the point. We’re not powerless. In fact, we are so not powerless that they are trying to legalize the restoration of Jim Crow. That’s what’s happening here, because our power was working. We had laws across this country that allowed black and brown citizens to be fully realized. As members of this society, we have the Americans with disabilities act, the fair labor standards act, we have FMLA. We used to have bodily autonomy for women. We were on the way to a multiracial, multiethnic, multigenerational, pluralistic democracy and the racist, fascist leadership that starts in the White House but extends to the Supreme Court members of Congress and to the state and local level. They’re angry about that. They’re angry about the power that the people hold.”

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Stacey Abrams: Trump Administration Is ‘Trying to Legalize the Restoration of Jim Crow’‘We’re not powerless’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:ABRAMS: "Eugene, and I want to say thank you to all of you for the coverage you’re giving this. And I want to start by saying the power is the point. We’re not powerless. In fact, we are so not powerless that they are trying to legalize the restoration of Jim Crow. That’s what’s happening here, because our power was working. We had laws across this country that allowed black and brown citizens to be fully realized. As members of this society, we have the Americans with disabilities act, the fair labor standards act, we have FMLA. We used to have bodily autonomy for women. We were on the way to a multiracial, multiethnic, multigenerational, pluralistic democracy and the racist, fascist leadership that starts in the White House but extends to the Supreme Court members of Congress and to the state and local level. They’re angry about that. They’re angry about the power that the people hold.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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