of slaves from the bradley plantation in escambia county alabama. slavery reconstruction, the civil rights movement, this is my family's story of humanity that was saturated with injustice and the dehumanization what is so near to about the story's not only does my family know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own it, and there are members of my family living on it as a free people who have property rights to it, codify and protected by the rule of law. when the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once slaves on a piece of property and actually own the property that they were living on. so this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes, of course we notice the progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not to many countries in the world where you would see subdominant cultures rise to that level, that status just a few generations of the movements like the civil rights movement. i personally am delighted to think about what is it about this country, what is it about our founding

escambia county is the county that my family's plantation was. and so i stand here before you as a descendant of slaves from the bradley plantation in escambia county, alabama. slavery, reconstruction, jim crow, the civil rights movement, this is my family's story of struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom in a context and a culture that was saturated with injustice and dehumanization. now, what's so amazing about this narrative, this story is that not only does my family know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own it. and there are members of my family currently living on it as free people who have property rights to it, codified and protected by the rule of law. now, how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once slaves on a piece of property, a few generations later actually own the property? that they were living on? they were being end -- enslaved on? so this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes, of course, we notice the progress in our country by having a black family in i

about this narrative about the story is not only does my family know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own at and there are members of my family currently living on that as free people who have property rights to it, codify and protected by will fall. how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once sleeves on a piece of property a few generations lately own the property that they were living on that they were being in sleeve on -- enslaved on. yes, of course we noticed progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not too many countries around the world where you would see subdominant cultures rise to that level, that status and just a few generations after movements like the civil rights movement. it's amazing to me that -- and all i personally am delighted to think about what is it about this country, what is it about our founding principles that allow someone like myself to be a descendant of slaves, to be standing in front of a group of people having earned a ph.d., standing in front of the herit

escambia bay, east bay in pensacola, florida.'s been such a bad situation that they've brought in some state experts to research and find out. there's been a lot of speculation. people are saying, could this have something to do with the oil spill that happened there? what's going on that all these -- they're seeing just a fraction once they started harvesting these in october that normally they'd get somewhere between 500 and 1,000 pounds every time they go and grab them. guess how much they're getting a day? >> how many. >> like not even 100. that's what they're lucky to get. researchers have gone in there and done testing. unfortunately the results are inconclusive. they've been able to rule out things like environmental problems. it's not the oil spill. they've been able to rule out disease. they don't know for sure. they're hoping to have more answers in the next week. a lot of the suppliers here, they're kind of telling us they think it's going to be bad for maybe four to five years before they're able to restore some of th

escambia bay, east bay in pensacola, florida.y it's been such a bad situation that they've brought in some state experts to research and find out. there's been a lot of speculation. people are saying, could this have something to do with the oil spill that happened there? what's going on that all these -- they're seeing just a fraction once they started harvesting these in october that normally they'd get somewhere between 500 and 1,000 pounds every time they go and grab them. guess how much they're getting a day? >> how many. >> like not even 100. that's what they're lucky to get. researchers have gone in there and done testing. unfortunately the results are inconclusive. they've been able to rule out things like environmental problems. it's not the oil spill. they've been able to rule out disease. they don't know for sure. they're hoping to have more answers in the next week. a lot of the suppliers here, they're kind of telling us they think it's going to be bad for maybe four to five years before they're able to restore some o