Oprah Winfrey has “always tried to stay out of the political fray,” her friend CBS host Gayle King said Wednesday. But the 70-year-old legendary TV personality decided to speak at the Democratic Convention this year because, according to King, “she feels there’s a lot at stake.”
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00:00Like Ruby Bridges and her friends, Leona and Gail, the New Orleans Four, they were called.
00:16They broke barriers and they paid dearly for it, but it was the grace and guts and courage
00:24of women like Tessie Prevost Williams that paved the way for another young girl who nine
00:31years later became part of the second class to integrate the public schools in Berkeley,
00:40California.
00:41And soon and very soon, soon and very soon, we're going to be teaching our daughters
00:54and sons about how this child of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, two idealistic,
01:02energetic immigrants, immigrants, how this child grew up to become the 47th president
01:17of the United States.
01:21We are not so different from our neighbors.
01:24When a house is on fire, we don't ask about the homeowner's race or religion.
01:29We don't wonder who their partner is or how they voted, no.
01:35We just try to do the best we can to save them.
01:38And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady, well, we try to get that cat out
01:57too.
01:58And let us choose inclusion over retribution.
02:03Let us choose common sense over nonsense, because that's the best of America.
02:19And let us choose the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday.
02:27We won't go back.
02:29We won't be set back, pushed back, bullied back, kicked back.
02:34We're not going back.
02:36We're not going back.
02:40We're not going back.
02:44So, let us choose.
02:48Let us choose truth.
02:51Let us choose honor.
02:54And let us choose joy.
02:57Because that's the best of America.
03:02But more than anything else, let us choose freedom.
03:07Why?
03:08Because that's the best of America.
03:11We're all Americans, and together let's all choose Kamala Harris.