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Jun 20, 2020, 5 tweets

Rev. Al Sharpton takes the stage. #Tulsa #JUNETEENTH2020.

Sharpton: “they tell their children that Lincoln freed the slaves. The fact is the slaves freed Lincoln.”

Sharpton said he’s confused when people talk about “make America great again,” a nod to Trump’s campaign slogan. “Give me a date when America was great for everybody?”

Greatness, he said, is Blacks, whites, Asians and original Americans marching all over the country against the tear gas and bullets. “We won’t bend, we won’t bend, we won’t give up,” he says.

Sharpton again delivers a searing rebuke of Trump (as he did in Floyd’s eulogy). “We’re not violent, we’re fighting violence,” he says.

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