18 June 2020, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
So I had intended to get up here and talk about how racist Robert E. Lee was. But I'm going to talk about you [madam] sitting over there shopping while we talking about Robert E. Lee. This a picture of you shopping. While we talking about racism and history in this country. Only white members of this board got up while we were up here talking too, because you don't give a damn and it's clear, but I'm going to tell you what the slaves, my ancestors, said about Robert E. Lee, since you don't know history, sister. Let me tell you that they said when he got the plantation, after he got off the field with 27,000 people dying at Gettysburg, tiny Robert E. Lee was a brutal slave master. Not only did when he whooped the slaves, he said, lay it on them hard. After he said, lay it on him hard, he said, put Brian on a sort of burner.
That's what Robert E. Lee did. And you set your arrogant self in here and sit on there shopping while the pain and the hurt of the people of this community is on display. Because you don't give a damn and you should resign. You should have resigned two years ago when you choked a white man in his house. You should have resigned two weeks ago when you got on TV and said foolishness, and you should walk out of here and resign and never come back because you are the example of racism in this community. You are horrible, not to the rest of the board. You have an obligation to the people in this community. And 81% of them are black. And do you need a Klan rally outside Mr. Goldade before you end it, because holding it up means that you put that building in jeopardy.
You do, sir, because all over the country, they burning stuff down. And black folks in this city have stood with protestors. I ain't seen you elected officials out there with them, making sure that nothing goes South in Baton Rouge. It's been folks in this community who give a damn, not just when it's comfortable, but every time and four years ago, we came down here. Mr. Drake, they said you a good man. Be a good man. Black folks say you a good man. White folks say you a good man. Your legacy is attached to tonight, brother, your legacy. Now, let me say to the black members of the board, it's the most solidarity I've seen out of y'all FL. Let's keep it there. Let's stand on this moving forward. Because we don't need to apologise for Connie Evelyn. She showed you who she was when she was sitting next to you while you were talking shopping.
You don't need another example. Now, when do we, as Baton Rouge, stop being in 1856. If you want to name the building after somebody, how about PBS Pitch Back, the first black governor of the state of Louisiana, when he was governor during reconstruction, you want another name? Oscar Dunn, who was the Lieutenant governor of the state of Louisiana in the 1860s that gave the right for Derrius Landis and Don Collins and Evelyn where Jackson and Tramell. I want to give you, you want to name it after somebody from reconstruction. Name it after the people who fought for Appalachian of Civic. If you want to name it after somebody, I know the right people. The people who on the right side of history. But it's your ancestor that the school is named after. So you holding onto your heritage, but we built this joint for free and we've done begging you to do what's right.
Speaker 1: Thank you sir. Next.