Love this bit of Gillum thinking in his interview with Trevor Noah of The Daily Show.

You can tell he was heavily influenced and motivated by Barack Obama. From Tallahassee City Commission in 2003 as Tallahassee’s youngest commissioner to mayor in 2014…and now running for Governor.

One thing for sure, he is more a thinker and a better wordsmith than the Orange Puff Ball in the White House who calls him corrupt.

I’ll tell you, I think there is something pretty amazing that the south might be led by the same people that once built the south. I think there is connection through struggle, um, I think there is something powerful, that having come from a community, that um, has been so often neglected, so often, um, um, young know, put at the pit, you know, of the nation if you will, not always respected, in fact for a long time not respected for our contributions and to now be in a place where you can take that kind of historic pain, that kind of historic suffering and to not be angry about what happened and to say, you know what, let’s move forward together.

I do think there is something, um, that connects me to the history of this state and the history of the south in a way that allows me to talk about these issues differently and to help move and progress not only people of color, along through it there will be celebration without a doubt, but also those who may have been historically on the other side of that, the children’s the children’s children of…

Complete YouTube video interview…

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