Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we're in

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down

Down, down

She break it down, down, down, down she break it down down down down down down down down down down it's been a while

because I have been laid out with the flu you'll notice as I've already explained to our urban

view home base here that I will be speaking probably slower

than you've ever heard me speak before because I'm still catching my voice and still returning to

my full speed. So enjoy this slow-Lurie version while you can because she ain't going to be here on

Monday. Okay. That's all we got to say about that. I want us to imagine that the Civil Rights Act of

1964 does not exist. The 1964 Civil Rights Act is basically the federal piece of legislation that says you cannot be racist in public. You cannot be racist when it comes to the distribution of public resources, meaning if you are racist as hell, but you own a hospital, you cannot be racist when it comes to your hospital resources. You can be as racist as you want to be, but if you own a store, you cannot be racist and who you allow to access your store. Racism in public was prohibited when it came to hotels and banks and hospitals and apartments and all of these sorts of things. And that happened as a result of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Before that legislation was passed into law, we were in Jim Crow. We were in Jim Crow.

The reason this matters is because on this day in history, our good friends at the Equal Justice Initiative remind us that on this day in history in 1877, the president withdrew all

federal troops from the last Southern State House, which ended this project known as

Reconstruction. Reconstruction was this 12-year period that took place at the end of the Civil War.

And on orders of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877, those federal troops left Louisiana.

And that withdrawal meant that the end of reconstruction was there.

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