As we approach America's 250th anniversary, we find ourselves at a defining generational moment. We are living through an unprecedented assault on black people. People. This administration is pushing out black workers, disenfranchising and silencing black voters, further threatening the lives of black mamas with a growing black maternal morbidity crisis, undermining and rolling back black progress and black power, and might I add, weaponizing a Department of justice against black leadership. They are not just trying to take us back to Jim Crow. They are trying to take us even further back to pre reconstruction at a time when our basic humanity was denied. (00:57–01:27)
CLAIM
Asserts that the current administration is negatively impacting black communities in multiple ways.
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