We are back with Kerry Washington.
Sadly, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed
Friday, and, boy oh boy, that's again part of 2020, not great.
She was incredible.
I want to share what you tweeted.
"Her rest is earned.
It's our turn to fight."
[CLAPPING]
Yep.
[CLAPPING AND CHEERING]
I was thinking-- I was like why--
it feels like we're losing so many of our heroes this year,
John Lewis and Chadwick Boseman.
And it just is like how is this possible?
And I really do think there's something about the idea
that we're being invited to realize that our heroes are
human, which means that we all have the capacity
to be the heroes of our communities
and our lives and our story.
The time for hero worship is maybe coming to an end,
and it's time for us to all stand up and serve.
These singular people can't shoulder all the weight.
Yep.
[CLAPPING AND CHEERING]
Well said.
You produced a documentary called "The Fight" about ACLU,
where she worked.
It was amazing.
That was--
Thank you.
So, yeah, she--
I don't know if a lot of people know this,
but she started the Women's Rights
Project at the office of--
at the ACLU that was fighting for women's rights.
She started that-- RBG--
and she really laid the groundwork
for such extraordinary work for women, equality for women.
And so we had this unprecedented access into the ACLU
for the past four years, where we
were fighting today's superheroes, who
have been following in the footsteps of Ruth Bader
Ginsburg fighting for all of our rights.
They're covering cases on immigrants' rights and trans
rights, and it's just really-- voting
rights, which are so important right now, obviously.
So it's a really important documentary,
especially if you have friends or family who are on the fence.
And they don't really understand what's
at stake right now when it comes to the Supreme Court
and when it comes to civil rights and civil liberties
in this country.
It's a great documentary to watch with friends and family.
Absolutely, it's called "The Fight."
And you are here--
And it's on Hulu.
Sorry.
It's on Hulu, "The Fight."
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But you're here to promote voting,
because I don't know how anyone who is alive today
doesn't understand what's at stake here.
This is the most important time, I think, in history
where we are right now.
So it's important to come up with a voting plan.
What is your voting plan?
Well, I want to say this.
I want to say the reason why a lot of people
don't understand what's at stake is because there's actually
a very organized effort to get people to doubt elections,
to doubt their own power.
There's all this messaging out there
to make people feel like their vote doesn't matter.
But what we have to remember is the way
to fight voter suppression, the way
to make sure that our votes matter is to vote.
We have to make sure that all that
work they're doing to make us feel small doesn't work,
and that we come out and vote.
And having a voting plan this year
is so important, because this isn't Election Day.
I've been saying this is "Election Season."
We have-- in some places, voting is open now,
and I know I'm voting early.
A lot of people, you should vote early to avoid long lines.
It's a really exciting time too for us
to make our voices be heard and have
some opportunity for change.
Yes.
[CLAPPING]
We can't let what's happening-- in a lot of places,
there's a lot of voter suppression,
and we have to be really aware of that
and learn everything you can.
We are not shooting on Election Day,
because we want to give everyone who works here time to go vote.
So that's how important we feel it is.
Everybody here--
[CLAPPING]
--is going to vote.
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God!
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