the color be saga does highlight how hard it is to prosecute in such cases from an outside perspective, like you've got with the me to movement. you've got so many women. it's not about not believing them. it's just that when you're in involved in the legal system, they really do require certain protocol which is a real inhibition in this particular situation. it seems to me that what's happening is they really can't prove certain things in such circumstances when you have an accusation or harassment based on things that have to do with. he said, she said they have to be prepared for the consequences of how much can they attached to the proof and the condition and whether or not the other party, the accused party will concede to the accusation

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good evening hawk water's loading restrictions are nothing new when america deciding who boats and who does it was a key component of the democracy. the u. s. was founded on the right to choose. your elected leadership was left to wealthy white men. women couldn't vote, people of color couldn't vote. slave couldn't vote fast forward to the 15th amendment. ratified 870 m theory. it extended voting rights to men of all races. but in practice, black for excluded with poll taxes, literacy test grandfather closet and intimidation. in the decades and generations to follow, black americans will continue to fight for voting rights that fight. let them bloodied beaten and murdered, but is always a pressed on civil rights icons like martin luther king junior in w. c. p. activists cheney shorter and goodman, mega rivers and countless others died. so people who looked like me could have

a chance to have their ballot counted the voting rights act of 1965 was set to clarify, civil rights and building access. president johnson aimed to overcome the legal barrier state and local governments used to block the black boat. but that vital piece of legislation is now only a shell of its former self parson gerrymandering. kicking voters, all voting rolls, removing, pulling places and communities of color. border id lot and other impediments are becoming law all over again. georgia, texas, florida, nevada, and more have all implemented jim crow, 2.0, voters suppression laws. and for day the u. s. supreme court in a 63 opinion uphill jim crow in rejecting a voting rights challenge to arizona election laws. this is a very important ruling that has reverberating effects for the voting rights movement. were activists like stacy abrams and latasha brown are working tirelessly

to protect voting rights. the supreme court further diluted section 2 of the voting rights act. ensuring that discriminatory and re space law at the state level will continue to determine who can vote and who can't. well, congress step up and save democracy, core element, or continue the sins of the past and allows things to restrict voting based on race . it's time we start watching the hawks. if you want to know what's going on, a city water rush, well, let me show you what we always, the roy gross, right? math grade this late. they make the steps manipulate, so math, put these weapons. so hope you're welcome. everybody watching the hawks. i'm myisha cross. joining me now is voting rights expert attorney and political strategist, chris bruce. glad to have you again, chris, chris. happy to be here. me should. thank you. well, chris, today was

a big day. i don't have to tell you about it. i'm sure your phones been off the hook and you've been working round the clock. but the aftermath of today's supreme court decision in upholding arizona's boating law. it sending shock waves across the country. civil rights leaders, activists, attorneys, and advocates like yourself are no stranger to voters oppression, laws in the fight, the ongoing fight to up in them. how does today's decision affect your work and what does it mean for voting rights for people of color? well, like you said in your opening, it hurts all of us altogether. it doesn't matter if you're black or white or any other, you're an american. this is going to make it harder for you to vote altogether. so this is one of the times that throughout history, when black people had laws put against them, they stepped up. and they found ways around it to make sure that their voices were heard. and to make sure that they can actually make it to the ballot box. so this type of situation altogether will overcome it. but it really decries into what's

next. what can we do? what can congress do? and what shape of america will be left? in chris to that point, president biden released the statement on the arizona decision today saying, quote, in a span of 8 years, the court has now done severe damage to 2 of the most important provisions of the voting rights act of 1965, a law that took years of struggle and strife to secure what are your thoughts, chris, on buying the statement and will the supreme court decision force congress to move on legislation like before the people act and the john lewis, the voting rights act. where there you go. by the statement should have been, we are going to make the, for the people act in the dog with what rights act, a priority of this administration and not sleep until is actually pass. that's what the people of america me, that's what african americans need. and that's where it is going forward. so yes, the supreme court has severely got it again,

the voting rights act. and it leaves 2 other ramifications of other laws that may be challenged later on. such as eliminating sunday voting or doing other ballot restricting type of measures. so a less we have federal oversight altogether with h r one and h r for these states, especially the minorities in these states are going to have problems with minorities voting. and the supreme court is saying that is just okay, so really what we should be looking at again, elections matter. a very conservative supreme court came up with this with very conservative rhetoric about voter fraud being a priority within these type of situation when there's still no voter fraud that's been felt. so a less we actually do something about this spring court and getting federal legislation to oversee the states is going to get worse. not better. and chris, i think that there is a lot of agreement, especially from democrats and those who are fighting the civil rights pillar at

this point to get voting rights access for minorities across the country. with that being said, though, what is the important here of the filibuster? and we've had you on before, and we've talked about this in depth for a little bit. but when we talk about the job with voting rights act and we talk about the for the people act, the vote just aren't there. with that. how important is it to get rid of the filibuster, or indeed create some type of opening to override it, in this case, to ensure that voting rights are protected. right, and i know, you know, the issue and i know your audience knows the issue. i will always go and cast this at the votes. are there 50 plus the vice president who says that we can pass it? that's in the united states constitution was not in the united states constitution is what you said filibuster. and that is the problem that we're facing us right now . laws that were set up to specifically deny black people the right to vote and had been used in different tools or any way. but it comes back again to black. you will

be a full american in this country. it is still being used today in that way, and we need to do away with it. so what you said in your opening, people like you are suffering from things that have been done in the past to again, stop. you are making it harder for you to vote. and chris, i don't have to tell you this. i know that you understand the all politics is local . a lot of what we're seeing in this case, just like what we saw in the generations prior to us and our grandparents actually had to fight through our actions. they've been taken to the state level states themselves or creating these voting impediments. what does that say to voters within the states themselves about what they need to do to ensure that more states don't pick, don't pick up these types of restricted, restrictive boat or loss? see now that's where we are gone. so now you have clearance from the supreme court saying, oh, well, the state's interest in preventing voter fraud outweighs whatever overall disparate

impact the law has. so just as a leader is basically going and telling other state legislatures, especially conservative legislators. it's okay that you disenfranchised white people. it's okay that you make it harder for people to vote altogether because you have a special interest in preventing voter fraud when the fraud really comes into disenfranchising by people altogether. we know that local legislators have already introduced these water suppression bill some past and some states like georgia, some of just the introducing others. so in 2022, during the mid term elections, you can honestly expect a lot more of the suppression tactics in law's being half altogether on the local level. people just seem to be aware, they need to know how to get around these voting laws. and again, i have a lot more job security because this country continues to implement in a whole graces policy. and chris, as you alluded to a little bit earlier,

the in the supreme court, this decision is a very awful decision, but it fell 63 along ideological lines. conservative doing what they do, best, upholding white supremacy. but just as atlanta kagan to sit is worth noting here, she said, quote, may be something that bowers depression is a relic of story. and so the need for a poem section to have coming gone. but congress gets to make that call because it hasn't done so. this court to duty is to apply the law as it's written. what are your thoughts about that, chris? what i'm glad just skating was in the sand. i think she could have gone even further. so yes, it is up to congress to actually look at these type of laws and protect those. they have not been doing their job or job where people, especially people of color, have voted in record numbers to send them to congress, specifically for this issue. and yet is still be in battle right now. justice came a supreme court justice where the lifetime appointment,

writing the descent should have gone further of telling her colleagues, this is wrong. and we need to continue to stop doing the wrong thing and actually work on making the right to vote more accessible to others. so justin, katy and i appreciate her descent. but i also appreciate more types of foreign language, say, states be on the look out. you should not be passing these type of laws and also more adamant language to congress to fix this problem immediately in christmas bills without saying but the move to push so many voter disenfranchisement laws have been a direct result of trump big lie of election brought in 2020 election and the one that had been carried by the republican party and state republican party across the country stoking republican war, is over election integrity largely in states where the minority vote, black, brown, native americans, strongly went for joe, biting that has really cause a lot of bees with all that is basically the backdrop of these restrictive boating

laws that have come about over the past year. last month, the brennan center for justice reported that 22 new voting laws have been enacted in 389 proposed in 48 states. 48 of the 50 following the 2020 election. trump actions, the republicans actions the parties, actions have had consequences, destroying a major cornerstone democracy. chris, in all honesty and i know that you're going to give it to a straight. can we undo that? if not, if we cannot do this it's, we must undo it. there's no other way our democracy is at a crossroads at this time. and if we do not do this, then it's just going to get worse. and it's going to get worse into undoing other policies that have tried to protect minorities within this country altogether. so i like how you're framing everything going into the specifics of where these laws

are being passed, how many are being passed and what we are actually going to go face in the future. but we can't lie down. and i know our ancestors didn't lie down. they were facing threats of violence killings, murders in dealing with their jobs. everything else were actually in a position where we do have the resources to fight back. but what you have said before is right to conservative. have had this messaging that has caught on so much around the country that they're going to continue as we continue to pass these type of law to the point. whereas penetrated. and they've used the same type of language in the supreme court in supreme court opinion. the highest court of our land is now using messaging a voter fraud. when again, there are no examples of voter fraud, even war. so we're still seeing the ramifications of the trumpet, ministration and concern is trying to hold onto power even when minorities and what

is right is losing. we can overcome this though, and it does start on the local level. but it starts with communication and it starts with education. i couldn't agree with you more and i know you're doing the work there in georgia as well as partnering with organizations across the country to ensure not only that, people know what's happening in terms of the voter restriction laws, but also putting the power back in the hands of the people. thanks so much for joining us 1st, bruce. thank you. and as we go to break, remember that you can also start watching the hawk on demand through the portable tv app available on all platform. coming up, i'll be joined by patients, murray, a survivor of the whole night club mass shooting. they to, to watching the news. the news, the news

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that we can't trust the police. we can't trust the government. we can't trust anyone except ourselves. to protect ourselves in the gun violence is the norm in america. it's really such a high point that it's expected just like the sun rises and sets daily. so does gun violence as a recurring event. death told mt, so the fear and anger at the lack of movement on gun reform. every time gun reforms reach congress, they're slapped down by republicans. background checks. no red flag loss. no. closing the gun show loophole. now, what about closing the boyfriend loophole? that's a no go to well, how about limiting access

a high capacity weapons that make mash shootings a lot more dangerous and increase the depth to exponentially no. can't do that either. it violates the right to bear arms conservative say. earlier this month, the united states commemorated the post like clubs shooting on june 12th 20165 years ago. oh mama, teen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mash shooting in orlando, florida. the tragic shooting at a popular game nightclub led to a firestorm of theory, and what many believe will be gun reforms again? no dice. last week president joe biden find a law to memorialize victims of the post night club massacre. in his statement, spite, instead quote, may a president never have to find another monument like this. but survivors of gun violence are living monuments of pain, fear, anxiety, survivors, guilt, and trying to put the pieces of their lives back together. one of those survivors,

patients, murray joins us live today. murray is an entrepreneur, author, an outreach director for the gun violence survivors foundation. she's also a survivor of the nightclubs shooting. welcome patient. thank you for having me. thank you so much for joining us. patience. i'll be honest with you, this is a hard interview to conduct knowing everything that you've been through reading some of the expert from your book. i applaud you for everything that you've done since the 4th night club shooting, as well as the messages that you give to others. the driver of gun violence. you've experienced something i can't even put into words. honestly, the pulls nightclubs shooting was among our most tragic mass shooting in american history. you were there. you were in the bathroom taking cover as disastrous growth . you were shot yourself. now, 5 years out of that event and the commit following the commemoration and the many media look back that have happened since. what do you think people need to know about that day? ultimately,

people need to know that the route of the issue isn't the route of the issue. the person that owns the route, the issue is the lack of love that we're constantly seeing. and people who go into a club and cure 49. and 2 people like a child who goes to school, children, their classmates, that's the issue. and sometimes we get wrapped up in the base about gun reform prevention. we know we know what needs to happen. we know what needs to happen. we know we need to be done yet. nothing happens, but they're still survivors of gun violence and people who have been inspected. i've done balance that a lot in the process of the shipping as a native, chicago, and a a agree with you wholeheartedly. i've lost a lease at this point. 17 been peace of mind. young kids to community violence and you're right. a lot of people don't think about their survivor. they don't think

about the families, the friend the classroom that will have one less child. and i think that those types of those types of situations are just so detrimental to communities, to families, and we have to remember them and what they're going through patient. you've written a book focusing on learning to live after tragedy. you explained trauma, anxiety, p t s d survivor guilt, but also finding love and piecing your life back together. can you describe why your autobiography was so important for you to write and what you hope other gun violence survivors can gain from your experience? there's a power in telling your own story. i think we need more trauma informed approaches to the way that you're going to allocation people who solicit survivors or even i think that we need to shift that empowerment of survive if they're on themselves because of their food. about that, there's something healing about that. and i heard the viper and i didn't the

anything to visionary officer for the balance survivors foundation and art our bounder chris actually tragically passed away. and this is kind of been a position that's been thrown out to me, but i'm so ready to speak on this because survivors need someone in their corner being there advocate because there's so many people fighting for the law and fighting for the restriction on the gun itself, but everybody's forgetting the person who was injured by a gun. those people are left behind. those people are forgotten. so if you feel unseen, if you feel forgotten and undershirt at the gun pound survivor or a person who has been affected by gun violence, gps foundations here for you and patients. i know you have an event coming up. i believe it's later today where you're going to be speaking on, on being a gun violence survivor, but also on some of the steps to reach to reach some level of clarity and putting things back together. can you tell our audience a little bit about that of it?

yes, so is actually going to be on clubhouse in, on our facebook life. foundation on facebook. and i'm actually going to be speaking to survivors everywhere. so just join join the live if you want to chime in, join it on clubhouse and we'll let you in the group. it's about the unmet needs. and i know personally, we need funding for gun valid survivors. and there are so many issue that follow an actual shooting and so many different scenarios that could take place that we just can't generalize. you know, guns balance as just mass shooting, match, shootings only account for one percent of gonzales in america, in african americans. and the most effective by gun violence in america, i'm an african american, but i'm also a mass shooting survivors. so i can see that complexity was sharing my story, uncertain platforms, but i can't not talk about it because of the part of my identity. and i'm grateful

for this opportunity to lead the balance of ivers foundation in the direction of informing the public on trauma formed approaches to survivors, interest funding for survivors who are left behind and process your or your patient . your life story is this such a testament to who you are and the work that you're doing and how, how you care about gun violence survivors. but also the, as you spoke of these unmet needs that are often left out of the conversation after not only mass shootings, but also the community balance that we see the domestic violence that we see. and all of these other associated gun violence events. we know that you're with the gun violence of virus foundation and that you do great work there. can you share a little bit about what that looks like for you day to day and why this type of work meant so much you following your own experience, it pulls thank you for making for them to duction to that because i don't do anything that special i think i'm still learning how to become a leader,

and i think that's my transparency and letting people know that this is a position that i've been sent to someone died. and i have to step up and take over a mission that nobody seems to care about. you know, everybody cares about the guys. everybody wants to do the heated debates. but when you talk about the balance of ivory, it's like, oh, we'll pray for them. but with the actual access to, you know, medical or is the access to mitchell healthcare or spiritual resources. i think changing your mind from a victim mentality to a champion mindset it's very essential for survive is a balance. but we don't talk about that, nor did we have research for that, nor do we find that. so what i'm doing now is trying to bring awareness. i think people need to just see it from a different perspective. and if i can help do that, i'm on it to do that, but i'm still learning how to believe. well, you are a great spokesperson and a strong leader. you need to give yourself more credit. as you know,

gun violence is the persistent problem and you've talked about it and you talked about it on this show a little bit earlier at the top as it relates to mass shooting, being a much smaller percentage of the overall done violence in the us. we're talking about community violence mean a lot more prevalent, especially in our communities of color. are there any policy goals? you mentioned health care access, mental health supports and things like that, or the specific policy goals or areas that you think are necessary not only to stop the violence, but also to help those who suffer from it to get back on track. i think that from what i witnessed in a match shooting that was basically war. right. and i think people in communities who are undisturbed, often experienced these parallels of war. and i think it's very necessary for gunbar survivors to have access to veteran assistance programs and funding because it is p t s d is trauma and know the trauma didn't occur on a foreign land. it may have happened in america, but it still trauma. that is

a war. so we need access to those resources and access to those programs that can help combat that p t d and all of the symptoms that come along with that. and we just can't assume that just because especially survivors of color are criminal because they have experience. and i think that everybody deserves to have the right to have this re told to tell their own story and also to have access to resources to combat those p t. s. the symptoms that follow. thanks so much for joining us. precious app patients. i'm sorry, and i hope to have you back on again. you're, you're such an inspiration to us all. thank you. thank you. and that is our show for you today. i'm myisha cross. thanks so much for watching the hogs have a great day and night. everyone. ah

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