How African Americans in Kentucky are Making History

Heritage Explains

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4.7 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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As we come to the end of Black History Month, OJ Oleka, Kentucky's Deputy State Treasurer and Chief of Staff, tells the inspiring story about how conservative policies are reshaping the landscape for minorities in his state and how these ideas can be a model for the rest of the US.

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0:00.0	Whatever it is that you want to do, black boy, black girl, whatever it is that you want to achieve, you can.
0:09.0	You can do anything you want to because you are somebody's son, you are somebody's daughter, but you are an American.
0:16.5	And in this country, this country, nothing should stop you from achieving your success.
0:22.6	From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains.
0:53.1	The Commonwealth of Kentucky made a big change in 2015. The Commonwealth of Kentucky made a big change in 2015.
0:57.0	They elected Matt Bevin as governor.
1:01.0	And he had a lot of work to do to live up to the conservative issues he campaigned on.
1:06.0	The only problem?
1:08.0	Democrats controlled the Kentucky House.
1:13.1	So we went to work.
1:17.4	And it's time to change the people you send to Frankfurt.
1:21.7	I ask for you to elect conservatives this November.
1:23.3	Flip the house.
1:24.9	Flip the house. Republicans made history
1:30.3	when they took control of the Kentucky House for the first time in nearly 100 years.
1:36.3	They quickly started tackling issues like right to work,
1:40.3	pushing for school choice, reducing regulations, and passing pro-life legislation.
1:47.0	If we don't pass right to work, we will lose out on the Volvos who just passed us by and went to South Carolina.
1:53.1	We can't afford it. A union job is only good if it actually exists. And increasingly in the state of Kentucky,
2:00.0	they don't exist.
2:01.5	We've got to reverse that tide.
2:03.1	We've got to start being a state that is attractive to job creators to be able to come here.
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