60 years ago Clarence Henderson joined other young black men at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to demand service.
Henderson's activism inspired many to seek change. Now, he's doing it again. Standing in front of a mural created to honor his courage he spoke to the GOP Convention Wednesday night:
NFL Star Jack Brewer Endorses Trump: "My Eight Year Old Reminds Me ALL Lives Matter"
HENDERSON: 60 years ago segregation was legal and enforced. The simple act of sitting at a lunch counter could lead to physical harm, jail time or worse. I know from personal experience walking into Woolworth department store on November 2, 1960, it was unlike any day I had experienced before. My friends have been denied service because of the color of their skin. We knew it wasn't right. When we went back the next day, I didn't know whether I would come out in a vertical or prone position, in handcuffs or on a stretcher or even in a body bag. By sitting down to order a cup of coffee, we challenged injustice. We knew it was necessary, but we didn't know what would happen. We faced down the kkk. We were cursed at and called all kinds of names. They threatened to kill us and some of us were arrested, but it was worth it. Our actions inspired similar protests throughout the south against racial injustice. In the end segregation was abolished and our country moved a step closer to true equality for all. That is what actual peaceful protest can accomplish.
America is not perfect. We are always improving, but the great thing about this country is it is not where you come from, it is where you are going. I was born on what some would call the wrong side of the tracks. I don't even have a birth certificate. I never attended an integrated school, and I am the only one out of my family who graduated from college, an hbcu. I am a civil rights activist and I am a republican. I support Donald Trump. If that sounds strange, you don't know your history. There was a republican party that passed the 13th amendment, abolishing slavery. It was the republican party that passed the 14th amendment giving black men citizenship. It was the republican party that passed the 15th amendment, giving black men the right to vote. Freedom is a powerful thing. Americans, voters all over the country who the media has tried to convince to conform to the same democratic talking points. You know what that will get you? The same old results. Joe Biden said if you don't vote for him, you are not black. To that I say if you do vote for Biden, you don't know history.
Donald trump is not a politician . He is a leader. Politicians are a dime a dozen very leaders are priceless. -- a dime a dozen. Leaders are priceless. Their record number of jobs he created for the black community and the investment he drove into our neighborhoods with tax incentives and opportunity zones. So are the lives he restored by passing criminal justice reform where 91% of the inmates released are black. These achievements demonstrate Donald Trump truly cares about lack lives. His policies show his heart. He has done more for black Americans in four years than Joe Biden has done in 50. Donald trump is offering real and lasting change and unprecedented opportunity to rise, a country that embraces the spirit of the civil rights movement of the 1960's, a place where people are judged by the content of their character, talent and ability, not by the color of their skin. This is the america I was fighting for 60 years ago. This is the america Donald Trump is fighting for today. Let's all join in this fight for reelecting Donald Trump on November 3. Thank you.
Jack Brewer: (01:14)
In America, it has no resemblance to president Trump and I’m fed up with the way he’s portrayed in the media, who refuse to acknowledge what he’s actually done for the black community. It’s confusing the minds of our innocent children. Before I left to come deliver this message, my energetic eight year old son, Jackson, stopped me and said, “Dad, can you please just tell everyone that all lives need to matter and that God loves everyone?” In that moment, I realized that my eight year old had figured out what so many adults have seemed to forget; we are not as divided as our politics suggest. At some point, for the sake of our children, the policies must take priority over the personalities. So because you have an issue with president Trump’s tone, you’re going to allow Biden and Harris to deny underserved black and brown children school of choice?
Jack Brewer: (02:13)
Are we so offended by the president’s campaign slogan, make America great again, that we’re going to ignore that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have collectively been responsible for locking up countless black men for nonviolent crimes? Are you going to allow the media to lie to you by falsely claiming that he said there are very fine white supremacists in Charlottesville? He didn’t say that, it’s a lie, and ignore the so called black lives matter organization that openly on their website, called for the destruction of the nuclear family. My fellow Americans, our families need each other. We need black fathers in the homes with their wives and children. The future of our communities depend on it. I’m blessed to be able to run inner city youth programs and to also teach in prisons across America. The inmates in my federal prison program literally receive days off their sentence just for attending my class.
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