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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let's do something different. Want some inspiration? I know this is like not typically the way that we start things, but I don't know. Complain. Go ahead. Send me your complaints. |
0:16.7 | Governor J.B. Pritzker is the governor of Illinois. He gave his State of the State speech today. |
0:22.6 | And I'm going to show you some of it. |
0:24.0 | I'm showing you about three minutes of it. |
0:25.3 | And I know this is a little bit of a weird thing |
0:26.7 | to put at the top of a national newscast. |
0:28.8 | But I just, you know what? |
0:30.6 | I think this is really something, |
0:31.8 | and I think you should watch it. |
0:33.2 | This is from the end of his state of the state today. Check it out. |
0:45.8 | As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois, once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. |
0:50.4 | In 1978, Nazis decided that they wanted to march there. |
0:56.6 | The leaders of that march knew that the images of swastika-clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish |
1:01.7 | population, so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German |
1:06.5 | concentration camps. The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the |
1:13.6 | Supreme Court. I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly, but I know the history intimately |
1:19.3 | and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. |
1:27.0 | Here's what I've learned. |
1:28.7 | The root that tears apart your house's foundation begins as a seed, |
1:34.5 | a seed of distrust and hate and blame. |
1:38.5 | The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago |
1:42.5 | didn't arrive overnight. |
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