Ro Khanna: “South Carolina showed the nation that they could stand up…”

“Obviously, we're still heading into the midterm elections here, but what do you hope to accomplish by attending there? I'm honored to be invited by Mr. Clyburn. I'm particularly honored to be invited now, when South Carolina showed the nation that they could stand up for freedom and black Americans right to freely choose their own representatives. I'm going to make two points. That you have a modern day Dred Scott court that is taking away black Americans right to freely choose their representatives and that we …” (05:52–06:02)

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