Thread by @TheSWPrincess

Today, @SenDougJones gave the civil rights speech our country needed.

Inspired by Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, it spoke to why we MUST keep this momentum going.

Please - watch & share. THREAD: 1/8
#JonesMLKspeech #BlackLivesMatter

"...my greatest
concern is that these good people will get distracted.

It’s easy to be
overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problem.

It is easy to not know
where to begin but it is not enough to simply agree any longer, to have a conversation."
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"The last few months have made the truths of
being black in America clear to all.

We have watched somewhat helplessly as a pandemic killed black people at the rate of almost two and half times that of other Americans."
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"Then in the course of this pandemic as we were seeing the truths of the system and society that had been easy to pretend did not really exist, on our screens came a video of a black man being killed with the knee of a police officer on the back of his neck."
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"Perhaps even more than the dogs or fire hoses in Birmingham or the beatings on the Edmund Pettus
Bridge in Selma Alabama, the video of George Floyd’s last moments were a confluence of events that gave our nation an image of itself that it could no longer bear."
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"As a people, as a Congress, we cannot let this moment pass.

Surely reforms are
needed, but the greater need is to... make a dramatic change in the nature and character of our institutions toward a more just government and society."
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"As we focus on heeding Dr. King’s call to action written in 1963 we should also
listen to his words written just 3 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act... in his 1967 book "Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community"...
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"I will tell you as a son of the South, the Deep South, that we should not lose this moment.

We in the South have been at the center of this divide for too long and we can be at the center of healing it and leading the nation to a more just society."
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