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Well, What was 1-6 like for you?

What happened to you that day?

When I saw the noose hanging up there, it was really strange for me because I just worked with Lee Daniels on the United States versus Billy Holliday, where she was singing, you know, strange fruit based on the lynchings that she had seen.

And then I also thought about, I just read the book The Devil, you know, and that, the lynchings that he talked about,

the 5,000 or so lynchings before the Civil War.

And I'm thinking, and looking at that noose and looking at them, I said, well, they say that that's supposed to be for Pence, that they're going to hang him.

But I wonder, I wonder, first of all, if they're going to hang a white man.

And secondly, I wonder how many of us they would hang if we showed up and got in the way.

I just thought that, yeah, certainly I would have been killed.

Maxine Waters has been an incredibly important congressperson for a very long time.

I could not wait to talk to her about raising the minimum wage, getting COVID relief out to people,

and just how she is able to find success as a congressperson.

Couldn't wait to do this conversation. It's Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Toray show.

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