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Listen: Week of September 24, 2020
Transcript
What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Reverend Stanley Sims. I'm currently the Executive Director of Health, which stands for Helping Entrepreneurs, Leverage Prosperity. I got selected to attend the March on Washington on August 28th to advocate of our causes in the Black community to express my three minutes on that platform, 57 years that Martin Luther King stood there. And so just that and alone was breathtaking. I was just so emotional. I really couldn't read the words on the paper. So I just trashed. And I remember saying, today, the last shall be first. We are next in line for better schools. We're next in line for better housing. We are next in line for fair wages and fair pay because we're causing good trouble. What I walked away from is, you are worthy. I heard you, others heard you. Go back to your respect. Go back to your respectable places and know that you are not alone. If you need me, you now know where I am. That day in Washington was so profound. As bold as I am, I was just so lost in the moment. My name is Reverend Stanley Sims. I am a small business owner and executive director of Help, which stands for Helping Entrepreneurs, Leverage, Prosperity. You're listening to voices that inspire.
Stanley Sims - We're Causing Good Trouble
The Rev. Stanley Sims, who is Executive Director of Helping Entrepreneurs Leverage Prosperity (HELP) and a small business owner, was invited to the March on Washington. In this segment, he recites some of the words he spoke at the March this year. As bold as he believes he is, Mr. Sims explains how he felt lost in the moment during his experience there.