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Making Concerns Clear and Paving a Path toward Equality on 60 Minutes on 6/7/2020

Quote from Sherrily Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense Team, Speaks Out Comprehensively on 60 Minutes

on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 02:01

 

Bill Whitaker: After all you have witnessed about race relations in the United States, what gives you hope?
 
Sherrilyn Ifill: Well, I don't know of anything in the history of black people in this country, in which I've read some account in which it ended with, "And then they gave up." That's just not what we do. I know that we work for the future of our children, and our grandchildren, and their children. That's our obligation."--excerpt from the 60 Minutes program June 7, 2020 interview with Bill Whitaker.

Sherrily Ifill insists that the President and leadership in the United States needs