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The Michael Berry Show

Shiela Jackson Lee Wants You to Call Her What Now?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The Michael Berry Show

0:02.0

Sheila Jackson Lee along with other members of the congressional black caucus

0:08.1

Are demanding a federal crown act is called because they say there is race-based discrimination

0:19.3

against people wearing their natural hair.

0:25.0

She-Jack declared herself yesterday,

0:28.0

The Hair Lady, calling the Crown Act the latest Civil Rights Fight, adding that on civil rights blacks have none.

0:39.0

She also wants Joe Biden to implement the Crown Act via Executive Fiat since it has failed legislatively in the past.

0:48.6

You can call me the Hair Lady if you want to. I can tell you when my children saw me, Senator Booker coming with a

0:57.8

cone, they wanted the Crown Act to be implemented a decade or so ago to make sure

1:05.0

Audrey that they didn't have to deal with any comb that I might have for their

1:10.9

hair. And so the Crown Act is long overdue for most children,

1:18.0

whoever they are, whatever their background.

1:23.0

And so I start the question,

1:28.2

I start the question, whose business is it?

1:40.4

Whose business is it? Whose business is it. When we are now in a world of everyone asking the question, it is my body. Well it is my hair. It is my body. Well it is my hair. It is my body. It is my words. It is my human feeling. It is my definition of who I am.

1:56.7

It is my respect. And so I'm here today. I know that it's gotten a little warm, but I'm here today because here we are with another fighting civil rights fight if you will to be able to define

2:08.3

our body as we so define it and the reason for that is that they're now using the opposite and that is not

2:17.9

your own civil liberties. They're using the fact that you are now under control of losing civil liberties and losing

2:29.5

your civil rights.

2:32.3

We have none.

2:34.0

And they dare us to exert our civil rights.

2:37.0

It's a...

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