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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - Tina Knowles-Lawson and Leigh Chapman on the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, News, Daily News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Tina Knowles-Lawson and Leigh Chapman discuss their work with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights to ensure safe and accessible elections for all Americans. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.5

Now!

0:04.5

Mrs. Tina, Lee Chapman, welcome to the Daily Social Distance and Show.

0:08.5

Thank you. Thank you for having us.

0:10.4

Thank you.

0:11.2

Mrs. Tina, I'm going to start with you.

0:13.6

You penned an open letter to some of the most powerful people in this country.

0:19.0

And in it, you shared so many emotions that many Americans share, many mothers share,

0:26.1

and many black mothers share specifically.

0:28.7

It was emotional, it was powerful, and the gist of it was, the government needs to dedicate

0:33.9

money to making sure that everybody has access to voting in the November General Election.

0:40.6

That was a big step for you to take.

0:42.1

What did you hope to achieve from an open letter?

0:44.8

Well, I was helping with the help of the mothers of the movement and the leadership conference

0:51.9

and some of my friends who signed on to the letter to just make some noise about it and

0:58.7

bring attention and awareness to it because quite honestly, until I started working with

1:04.6

the leadership conference on, and I still vote, I didn't even realize that there was

1:09.6

a field on the table and that it had been approved way back in May by the House of Representative

1:16.2

but it was sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk and I just feel like it's all right to that

1:21.7

money to create a safe environment for people to go out and do their civic duty.

1:27.4

You shouldn't have to choose between the two.

1:30.2

So it was really important and hopefully it brought its shine to light on that for people

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