“So while you’re fighting for a seat at the table, I’ll be down in Atlanta building my own.”
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“ meant that there were Confederate soldiers on that base, plotting and planning on how to keep 3.9 million Negroes enslaved, and now that land is owned by one Negro,” he said in his BET speech.
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