in north carolina, after the election where kay hagan lost by less than two percentage points, it is interesting that after the election everybody went and moved on. the impediments had already been baked into the cake. let's move on, and i'm, no, not by your organization, but then i looked at texas, where you have 600,000 people at a minimum not being able to vote and it is as if that becomes the norm. i think all of us agree that we cannot allow that to become the norm. we are better than that. i want to hear from dr. west. >> testing, testing. i just want to say that there is simply no other figure in american culture who is as close to martin luther king junior -- and i think this is very important. we live in a culture where everybody is for sale. what i see in brother barber is a spiritual integrity and commitment to public life, and he is willing to be faithful unto death. that is very rare among our politicians, among our public figures, and i say this precisely because making a connection between voter suppression on the one hand, but then the larger agenda that includes the