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Cory Booker with the real life based case for reparations. Redlining made real.
Cory Bookers family story is amazing. White people we need to really listen here. Really understand what this means. #Reparations2020
Pt 3. Booker ripping a speech into a new dimension.
Pt 4 Cory Booker digs in to how it was his parents were blue to buy a house despite rampant racial discrimination.
Pt 5 Booker finds the people who helped his parents get around a racist realtor to buy their home.
Pt 6 Booker, the bridge, his home. Lessons from Selma.
Pt 7 “average foot soldiers” in the civil rights movement get a lot done. sweat. Tears. Blood. Hard work.
Pt 8 Bookers dream. What a speech. What a man. What a heart.
Pt 8 Breaking news in 1965. Bloody Sunday. Marchers beaten when they tried to kneel and pray. The nation is stunned. Some people act. Their actions create change.
Booker gives a speech like no one else can. He worth watching. He’s worth your time.
