just imagine if you could be fed
in churchy language if you could be full
off of a two-minute sermon
that's what we got yesterday when the
reverend
doctor also senator raphael
warnock gave his first speech his maiden
speech
on the senate floor talking about
voting rights and the importance of
every american
to be invested in this and to fight for
this justice
he had all kinds of gems including
the line one of my favorite lines voting
is a type of prayer
that's what he said oh so good but the
sermon
closed how about getting everything you
need in two minutes
it's worth it two minutes raphael
warnock check it out
and so as i close and nobody believes a
preacher when he says as i close
let me say that i as a man of faith
i believe that democracy
is the political enactment of a
spiritual idea
the sacred worth of all human beings
the notion that we all have within us a
spark of the divine then a right
to participate in the shaping of our
destiny
reinhold niebuhr was right
humanity's capacity for justice makes
democracy possible
but humanity's inclination to injustice
makes democracy necessary
john lewis understood that and was
beaten on a bridge defending it
amelia boynton like so many women not
mentioned nearly enough
was gassed on that same bridge
a white woman named viola luiso was
killed
mega evils was murdered in his own
driveway
schwerner cheney and goodman two jews
and an african-american standing up
for that sacred idea of democracy also
paid the ultimate price
and we in this body
would be stopped and stymied bipartisan
politics
short-term political gain
senate procedure
i say let's get this done no matter what
i urge my colleagues to pass these two
bills
strengthen and lengthen the courts of
our democracy secure our credibility as
the premier voice for freedom-loving
people
and democratic movements all over the
world
and win the future for all of our
children
mr president i yield the floor
[Applause]
come on man you gotta you gotta hit him
with the doors of the church all open
come
take up an offering after that that's
right just the kings you know you i mean
if anybody was prepared for that it was
him so
well but go ahead what was uh no no you
got something you want to get all good
no no i don't have okay you just
wanted to okay mike mike
it's yeah as i i was talking i was
texting with uh gary
carter one of our producers last night
actually it was early this morning go to
bed gary
um but i was texting with him and i said
it's almost unfair
to have rafael warnock
a preacher giving public
he was made for this it's almost unfair
when you hear him speak this is
just what he does it's incredible
and gary pointed out he's not even the
most
eloquent preacher in the history of the
ebenezer baptist church and he's still
amazing and we know of course not who
the most eloquent
is by the way and he was the good part
martin luther king jr this is this is
this is another awesome part i actually
caught his fellow georgia senator
john ossoff on lawrence o'donnell last
night don't sleep on john ossoff
all right like john is like he's like an
associate pastor
he's that pastor that like when the
pastor decides he's preaching
once every blue moon let john also take
them
and the church be on fire be like yo
in another church you could be the guy
not this one but in another church you
could be the guy like he
john ossoff is i like that dude man i
like him a lot
um but no he i mean listen man
that's let's talk about the subject but
let's talk about the subject matter
though
yeah it's
it's encouraging to listen to him and
it's encouraging
to know that the fight is being waged by
people that's capable and as honorable
as rafael warnock and others
you know in sports we we use this word a
lot often times talking about
quarterbacks
in their second or third year
michael i told you a long time ago i got
so it irked me when i first heard it
because i
knew that it was worthless and it irks
me now
the term racial reckoning we're
regressing
racially in this country we're having a
racial regression
not progression regression we're going
backward
in many respects the fact that there are
dozens of states
and i'm probably underselling it uh i've
lost track of count
who are proposing voter
restriction bills
and all of it we're talking about trump
they're over 200 bills
i think they're about 250. 200 total 250
bills
and how many states but it's not
everybody
it's not everybody's not in every state
but i think they're like 250
to between 200 and 250. yeah gotcha
thank you
so and then that's just voting
there are 78 state legislature bills by
my last count in 28 states
and 50 sports bills uh anti-trans bills
out there the gop
the right we got to find another
direction because the right feels it
feels wrong to call
a party who's so wrong about so many
things the right
but the right is
forcibly trying to push back against
any social gains whatsoever
it's like we know that trump was a
response to barack obama
trump's defeat they're not going quietly
and retreating into their corner they
are
actively trying to turn back
the clock not just roll back progress
but turn back the clock
to the good old days as many of them
would call it
when we were to we were intimidated
uh if we wanted to vote or beaten when
we wanted to vote
as rafael warnock just just talked about
i'm just connecting
the voting rights fight which is still
going on
with and let me try let me try to
piece these things together if you don't
mind michael because i told you i want
to come back to
the the six asian women and eight dead
uh in georgia yesterday or day before
yesterday we talked about yesterday
and just how
things as as subtle and as simple
and so obvious and and the
there is progress in this in this regard
as we call it out on the spot
the sheriff who yesterday suggested that
robert aaron long was having a bad day
wow and we even talked about this
yesterday
about robert airline blaming a sex
addict addiction
for his desire to specifically
murder asian women we do so many
gymnastics when it comes
to trying to divorce race from we will
never
truly address the race problem
when there are so many people who
consciously or subconsciously
do everything they can to divorce race
from the from
from these from these issues from these
tragedies right
you know what i'm saying like we people
try so hard the sheriff did it yesterday
and of course
the sheriff that that had anti chinese
american and
uh t-shirts on facebook why the hell was
he still a sheriff in the first place
like if we knew that now you knew that
then
so it was okay for him to be the sheriff
then but now that he said something
offensive in light of a tragedy now all
of a sudden it's controversy like this
is who he was
and he's in a position of authority but
i digress momentarily
point being is we try
we they try so hard it never
fails to humanize and sympathize
with white terrorists and murders
like you know we say when i heard him
say it was he was having a bad day i
said sounds about white
it's like we try so hard to humanize
these these terrorists and these
murderers
and never view the humanity of the
victims involved in this case it's asian
women
oh no it wasn't race it was it was it
was a sex it was a sexual addiction
okay they just so happened to kill six
asian women right
you know forgetting about the
sexualization
of asian women in general in multiple
locations
to do it again in florida and intended
to go in florida on his way to florida
yeah you know and so when i see
he's having a bad day when had that
had that individual had the shooter had
the shooter
been black muslim brown
hispanic even probably wouldn't have
been taken alive and certainly would not
have been
uh sympathized with as though he just
had a bad day
because when it comes to black people
it's representative or indicative
of who we are by nature
and therefore justification for
over criminalizing and over over
policing us
like in short we out of control
let them tell it and so
just yesterday i'm just like damn dude
like
it never it never fails whether it's a
victim of police brutality
being tried in the media the victim
putting on trump
being put on trial in the media or in
this case
the killer being humanized it's like bro
we can't even it's
it's it's by the book you want to talk
about a playbook it never
fails where every time something like
this happened it only
it reveals just how far we have to go
or just how just it reveals how much
people
just don't even want to go don't just no
matter what we'll not recognize not see
the humanity
in non-white people it just
every time it always reveals more about
us
about us like it's like
the the killer is guilty of murder of a
hate crime
and in mainstream america
white america is guilty of perpetuating
this racist system one comment
one remark one dismissal at a time
it never fails i was i was so
he was having a bad day how could you
have any bad
days i mean how many bad days black
people have in this country how many
bad days asian people have in this
country how many bad days hispanic
people have in this country
how many bad days a bad day
he had a bad day like that i mean that's
awful
he said nothing surprised me anymore
that's that that like i was like
that's what it so that's what it is it's
a bunch of bad so we've just
we've been stringing together centuries
of bad days is what you're telling me
right that's what we've been doing
centuries there's a whole
a never-ending continuum of bad days
gotcha copy that so yeah i think there's
i think there's no i love i love rafael
warnock's speech i love his speech yeah
but the fact that he is
advocating and against
these jim crow like voter laws voting
laws is just
it's discouraging given where we were
told
yeah we were going to go this summer
yeah look
oh absolutely it's discouraging
yet encouraging that it's raphael
warnock
and john ossoff in position to do it
yeah just a mat okay imagine imagine how
you would feel
if if we're talking about the same old
same old so he he's pointed out
yesterday in his speech and he pointed
out a couple of things that you
mentioned too
it was a brilliant speech the whole
thing listen to it i i tell you if you
get a chance
out there it's about 22 minutes it is
worth every single minute you spend on
it
but one of the things he mentioned in
that speech mike before i get to my
other point
one thing he mentioned was
during that time during time of flat out
unapologetic
segregation um
one of the white governors of georgia
was asked how do you how are you going
to intimidate
how are you going to keep black people
from voting
and warnock said he wrote down
the segregationists wrote down on a
piece of paper one word
and what was the word pistols
and so yeah he is very aware
of his current of his context he's very
aware
of the history uh in georgia and his
place uh at this time being a man
for a time such as this uh to quote the
book of esther
i i think i'm encouraged by his
his steadiness i'm encouraged by his
intelligence i'm encouraged by his
ability to inspire other people
and i'm going to be i'm very clear when
i say other people i'm not talking about
inspiring other politicians because look
we we're never
going to get to where we need to be if
we're looking
for other politicians to get on board
with rafael warnock
like there will be some people there
some people there who are applauding
people from the other party
who are applaud him probably go up to
him dap
him up that was great and then and then
vote and then vote the same way
voter gets the stimulus package yeah
it's really gonna take
uh people listening to what he has to
say being
uh being having the ability to reflect
having the ability to be honest
about their own opinions their own
biases
and working through them this is not a
um
this is not an impossible task this is
not some magic trick
it just really takes some work you got
to have the ability
and the willingness to reflect everybody
where am i where where am i strong where
am i weak where do i need to improve
and go out and do it so i i like i like
rapio warnock because he is somebody
who can inspire people to do that we'll
see we'll see if it happens but i think
it will
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