but miraculously the project was completed the main church resembles the one in orangeburg that was torn down in soviet times the design of the orthodox school was copied from a nineteenth century diary as for the administrative building it was inspired by a picture in a book of fairy tales by alexander pushkin. the cushions dast house it's across the road it is big enough to accommodate father nicholas incredibly large family of seventy children. as a young boy drowned over a family with many children. a modest wife and enough money to buy her a nice dress. and then i married and bought a dress. at the moon. we had no kids of our own. so we went to an orphanage to adopt some young children. just took away the ones that were offered and we had no idea how children should be cared for so on no occasion we doctored five kids. and as time went by we realized that we could care for them for. a couple more i said to my wife but then we ended up adopting a servant. with. daddy . daddy. i was one of the several kids that they had taken then i asked him what shall i call you. he said call us fat

niki's taught about a traditionally all-black school in orangeburg county. business centered in the heart of the black community. so at some point in nikki haley's life she decide, and we jooerk, she wanted to be a white methodist woman so i'm glad to see her embracing her immigrant my neither roots. >> can i make a small tangent here? to me, nothing better shows the social construction of race than nikki haley, right? i was thinking about this when i saw her at the rnc. anyone turning on would say, this is a white woman, right? it calls to mind how constructed our conceptions of what is whiteness and what is blackness. >> and it does seem to me a big deal that we have a black senator from south carolina. >> it's a huge deal that we have a black senator from south carolina. from, you know, the deep south? who is a man, by the way, that got elected with 70% of the vote and with the high percentage of the vote in a 70% white district to congress. would we be having this conversation if tim scott wasn't a conservative? probably not. still, although less so toda

today representing this of carolina house of representatives where she's been a representative from orangeburg county district 66 for over 21 years. she's also the first african-american woman in orange county ever selected the statewide office. thanks for joining us today. the floor is yours and any stick to a written statement will be made a part of the record. >> thank you, senator. good morning and thank you as well and to the ranking member grassley and all the other members of this committee. i really appreciate you all have in this hearing, and i hear really to paint a face on a lot of information that you have led to hopefully make this real so that you understand as you deliberate the importance of the voting rights act that there are actual people who are affected by this. i am here in my capacity as a federal legislator to talk specifically about south carolina and about the implementation of the voting rights act and how i want to offer two examples to show how important it is. first of course are our efforts to enjoy it to the voter i.d. bill. the ranking member talked about a com