>> You can not change things
sitting at home
thinking that your vote doesn’t matter.
On March 7th 1965,
on Bloody Sunday,
when we got to the foot
of the bridge,
all you could see
was these people in blue.
All along the sides
was people sitting up there
with their Confederate flags,
yelling their hateful sayings.
I heard this pop pop sound,
and then all of a sudden
there was tear gas.
I heard the n-word twice.
Somebody grabbed me from behind.
This person hit me
right over my right eye.
He pushed me forward
and I managed to get up
and I started running
into a cloud of tear gas.
That night, I had seven stitches
over my right eye
and 28 in the back of my head.
[♫ Andra Day - ‘Rise Up’]
>> It showed that we, as a people,
we could work together
and we could bring about change.
People died for you
to have it,
people were jailed and beaten
for you to have that right.
Go to the polls
on November the 8th.
You have a right.
You need to use it.
