The Central Park 5 join Rev. Al Sharpton on stage at the DNC: 'Trump loves to fan the racial flames'

thank you thank you thank you good evening I stand before you as the president of National Action Network we do not endorse candidates but we report where candidates stand on criminal justice economic empowerment Health Equity and other issues on one side of this race is Donald Trump a fellow New Yorker I've known for 40 years only once once in that time did he take a position on racial issues he spent a small fortune on full page ads calling for the execution of five innocent young teenagers [Applause] well I'm going to bring them out in a minute but and you'll hear from them tonight because they were not executed they're here to continue to fight but it was there that I saw Trump love to Fan racial Fame flames on the other side is a woman that I've walked with in Selma Alabama to commemorate the the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday camela Harris spoke to me that day about unity and passing bills all I ever heard from Donald Trump was how he can get an advantage I see one candidate who wants to protect the right to vote while the other has tried to cook up 11,000 votes in Georgia I see a candidate who with Joe Biden brought leaders to the White House to confront violent hatred running against a man who said neonazis in Charlottesville will F people I see a candidate who has sought to reform and uphold the law and a man who wrongly assumes his mugshot appeals to Black Americans I worked with camela Harris in every job she's had she has consistently committed to making government work for those of us who've been disadvantaged all Donald Trump has been consistent about is making himself richer and sowing division to get that done this man sat right here in Chicago a few few weeks ago refusing to apologize for claims that migrants were taking black jobs well in November we going to show him when blacks do their job and we are going to join with whites and Browns and Asians and we going to do a job on those that have done a job on us tonight we are going to realize shley chism's dream 52 years ago I was one of the youth directors in her campaign for president and 52 years after she was told to sit down I know she's watching us tonight as a black woman stands up to accept the nomination for president of the United States we have fought too hard for women to be told to get out of the kitchen we are now on our way to the Oval Office we won't go back we fought hard we fought hard for lgbtq loved ones to get out the closet we won't go back we fought hard for the right to choose the right to education we suffered and died and bled went to jail to get the right to vote we won't go back [Applause] so we must be committed no matter how the Supreme Court tries to roll back on civil rights no matter what the amount of money they have we are are here because others fought and suffered for us and we vowed tonight we won't go back this November we will go forward to fulfill the promise of a just and fair nation and let me say as we transition I'm a preacher and in SS it says weeping may endure for night but joy comes in the morning we've endured January 6 we've enjoyed conspiracy theories we've endured lies and areas of Darkness but if we stay together black white Latina Asian Indian American if we stay together joy joy joy joy come in the m i want to now since I was a teenager I was mentored by Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Jackson taught us to fight for w right and now I want to bring out some young men that I fought for I referred to them then they were known as the Central Park five now they are the exonerated five Raymond Raymond Santana Kevin Richardson Yousef Salam Ki Weiss the exonerated f w we W go back good evening people my name is Cory wise 35 years ago my friends and I were in in prison for a crime we did not commit our youth was stolen from us every day as we walked into court courtroom people screamed at us threatened us because of Donald Trump he spent 45 $85,000 on a full page ad in the in the New York Times calling for our [Applause] execution we we were innocent kids but we but we all but we serve a total of 41 years in prison Reverend Al shop stood with us now I'm proud to stand with him today vice president commas Harris has also worked to make things fairer I know she will do the same as president now prove that message I Love These Guys these are my brothers these are my brothers yes indeed America I am Yousef Salam a New York city councilman representing my hometown of Harlem that's right man representing my hometown of Harlem USA and listen as my friend Cory wise just said 45 wanted us un alive he wanted us dead today we are exonerated Because the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it that guy says he still stands by the original guilty [Music] verdict he dismisses the scientific evidence rather than admit he was wrong he has never changed and he never will that man thinks that hate is the animating force in America it is not we have the constitutional right to vote in fact it is a human right so let us use it I want you to walk with us I want you to march with us I want you to vote with us and together and let me tell you this is going to be so beautiful and together on November 5th we will Usher in kamla Harris and Tim Walls into the White House so I want to do this when I say when they I want you to say see us when they see us when they see us when they see us America will finally say goodbye to that hateful man we will say what I have said after seven long years of wrongful incarceration free at last free at last free at last thank God Almighty we are free at last God bless you and God bless the United States of America [Applause]