Jim Clyburn

They are trying to get this count stopped so they can get this election thrown into the House of Representatives just like was done in 1876.

And when that happened, that is what started the end to Reconstruction.

That's what started

the beginning of Jim Crow.

I said, that is what is happening here.

So then I got serious about doing this book.

And then when my communications director retired in the middle of doing the book, she said to me, I'm going to retire, but I want you to finish this book.

You write, I'll do the copy editing, I'll do the footnotting.

You just write and send me what you've written.

And that's what led to the book.

And that's what led to this production that's going to be released on November 11th.

Well, when I was growing up, my dad was a minister, and we often talked about me following him into the ministry.

And of course, I didn't know what my dad was doing, but we had, among the rules we had to live by, one was every morning before breakfast, we had to recite a Bible verse.

And then every evening before retiring to bed,

we had to share with him and my mother a colored event.

We didn't have TV, so you had to read the afternoon newspapers when it was delivered to our home.

And that was a requirement.

Finish your homework, then let's talk about this colored event.

And so I grew up with all of that.

And I used to watch my dad.