00:00 - Talk about

00:01 - your perspective from

00:03 - as an elected official

00:05 - and

00:06 - and when it comes to america to fifty and reflecting on the history of it all.

00:11 - It is it is appropriate to have

00:14 - the celebration here in Philadelphia.

00:17 - Because

00:18 - not only is this the birthplace

00:20 - of

00:21 - this

00:21 - this this city and this community

00:24 - also represents so much

00:26 - of the struggle that triumph the tragedy.

00:29 - The.

00:31 - The the successes

00:33 - and failures

00:35 - of our democracy the story of the triumph of.

00:39 - Many of our ancestors were enslaved the story of the.

00:44 - Overcoming

00:45 - of the indigenous people

00:48 - and.

00:49 - Their problems but still their successes as well

00:53 - i

00:54 - it is it's important to have the conversation here and hopefully.

00:59 - Will remain and it.

01:00 - Being in the constitution centre

01:03 - the important documents.

01:05 - In the

01:06 - two blocks away from independence.

01:09 - Hall

01:10 - and what was

01:11 - what was addressed there

01:13 - a block away from the president's house

01:15 - and that history that reality

01:18 - i support now we have this conversation.

01:22 - I think it's also important that we not sugar coat

01:24 - any of this

01:25 - and that we'd be honest with one another.

01:28 - As we strive all strive to if you will create a more perfect union.

01:33 - What are you doing in your district you represent parts of Philadelphia

01:38 - how are you commemorating to fifty in

01:41 - your district

01:42 - voter registration.

01:44 - The best way the best way

01:46 - to celebrate

01:47 - two fifty america to fifty Pennsylvania to fifty

01:51 - is to make sure

01:53 - people are registered to vote

01:55 - to make sure also

01:57 - that

01:58 - the stories

01:59 - that need to be told a part of america

02:02 - are in fact whole that we lift up

02:04 - the historic markers

02:06 - from communities that struggled so hard to be a part of the American story the

02:12 - American dream the fact that the first.

02:15 - Female legislator crystal beard faucet

02:18 - is from west Philadelphia an African American woman

02:20 - that story

02:22 - needs to

02:23 - be told.

02:24 - In all kinds of stories like that

02:27 - we must make sure we complete

02:29 - the picture.

02:30 - That it's in great detail.

02:33 - Not just a sketch

02:34 - the detail

02:36 - lies.

02:38 - In fact in many respects the detail lies even in the tragedy

02:42 - with the glory can be.

02:44 - Sandra Hughes thank you very much.