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## Transcript

Like Ruby Bridges and her friends, Leona and Gail. The New Orleans four, they were called. They broke barriers, and they paid dearly for it. But it was the grace and guts and courage of women like Tessie Prevos Williams that paved the way for another young girl who nine years later became part of the second class to integrate the public schools in Berkeley, California. And soon and very soon. Soon and very soon, we're going to be teaching our daughters and sons about how this child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, two idealistic, energetic immigrants immigrants. How this child grew up to become the 47th president of the United States.

We are not so different from our neighbors. When a house is on fire, we don't ask about the homeowners race or religion. We don't wonder who their partner is or how they voted. No. We just try to do the best we can to save them. And if the pas place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, Well, we try to get that cat out, too. And let us choose inclusion over retribution. Let us choose common sense. O none sense. Because that's the best of America. And let us choose the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday. We won't go back. We won't be set back, pushed back, bullied back, kicked back.

We're not going back. Not going back. And not going back. So, let us choose. Let us choose truth. Let us choose honor, and let us choose Because that's the best of America. But more than anything else, let us choose freedom. Why? Because that's the best of America. We're all Americans. And together, let's all choose Kamala ara

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