Rev. Clementa Pinckney talks about black political participation

Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a senior pastor and South Carolina state senator, was one of the nine people to die in Wednesday night’s shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston.

In the 2012 documentary, “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,” Pinckney was asked why black political participation mattered. Here’s what he said:

“We don’t have the privilege to say our vote doesn’t count, because history tells us differently.”

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