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Here is an impassioned speech given by Rep. John J. Deberry Jr., a Democrat from Memphis, Tenn., speaking on August 12, 2020, in the 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

I rise because I continue to hear references to what I saw in growing up in this country, and growing up in the state of Tennessee, as I walked with my father, and worked with my father here in t...