I wanted to repost this to remind us of the history we are about to make and the millions of Americans who never thought they would see this day.
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While we get caught up in the aspects of winning the campaign lets not forget the historical nature of this moment. A moment we live in. Where we can tell our children I was there. Sometimes I imagine how it must have felt to hear Malcolm, Martin, Bobby or John. What it was like to hear FDR's Fireside chats. Imagine living through events like legalized segregation, Brown v. Board of Ed, Loving v Virginia Commonwealth, The Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, The Civil Rights Act and the March on Washington. Imagine living through the deaths of Malcolm, Martin, Medgar Evers, Bobby K., John K., James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Emmett Till, Viola Fauver, Samuel Younge, Jonathan Daniels, and many others... Imagine what this moment means to people who lived through that time in history. Some who never thought they would ever see the day...
Here are some of their reactions to this moment in history
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