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Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership

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Speaker 1: with Resent Choice Medium.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Welcome home. Y'all, Welcome to episode forty eight of Native

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Speaker 1: Lamb Pod. It's so good to be home. We're coming

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Speaker 1: to you live from the atl Shorty.

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Speaker 3: We are live in.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta for spell House homecoming. Well that's part of the celebration.

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Speaker 1: We got another celebration. I'll tell you all about it later,

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Speaker 1: but it's so good to be here Atlanta. And we

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Speaker 1: have a live audience here. So we're gonna kick off

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Speaker 1: the show right away and bring in my co host.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tiffany Cross here with Andrew Gillham and the fabulous

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Speaker 1: Angela Ry. What's up Angela fabulous tore in a mood today, y'all.

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Speaker 4: So we just came in here, and Andrew is I'm.

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Speaker 5: In a spirit of unity for all HBCU.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, Just so.

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Speaker 3: We're really clear.

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Speaker 6: Andrew came in here represent his set, this ganggang all day.

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Speaker 4: He said, to hell with.

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Speaker 7: Comings, and you're from an HBC. You you reap your HBC,

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Speaker 7: You not the HBC.

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Speaker 6: I just am saying, I am us, Are you evoking

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Speaker 6: my birthday weekend an honorary rattler, shout out to all

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Speaker 6: the HBCUs.

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Speaker 1: But we do want to honor Spellman and Morehouse. How

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Speaker 1: many people want to Spellman the more House in the audience?

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Speaker 8: Kay?

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Speaker 1: Okay, y'all, well can they hall in the yard right now?

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Speaker 1: But we got a few folks in here, so thank

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Speaker 1: y'all for being here.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Well, we have such a great show today.

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Speaker 6: The one thing that I want to just highlight in

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Speaker 6: this moment is the election. We did a Professional Development

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Speaker 6: Program call with the group of young people that we

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Speaker 6: train and shout out to the Professional Development program students

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Speaker 6: are here, Janey and Kirsten and then Lolo who is

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Speaker 6: a graduate of that program who is our booking producer,

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Speaker 6: research producer, Utility player m VP, and I want to

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Speaker 6: just acknowledge we did this call. We talked about how

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Speaker 6: were feeling about the election, what are the vibes? There

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Speaker 6: were tears shed, there was a conversation had about what

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Speaker 6: folks were really feeling the angst. We have a student

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Speaker 6: who talked about being in an area where they are

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Speaker 6: actively recruiting for the KKK in North Carolina. Yeah, and

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Speaker 6: it's just it's fascinating to see the dichotomy of existence

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Speaker 6: right now, like there couldn't be a stark contrast.

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Speaker 4: You think there might be some active KKK members in here.

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Speaker 5: No, I want to know how feel feeling about the upcoming.

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Speaker 4: A member of the KKK raise your about to go down?

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Speaker 9: Why are you pointing me?

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm gonna say anything.

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Speaker 7: I think I would love to know of the group

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Speaker 7: that is as symbol here, how many of you all

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Speaker 7: are feeling confident right now? By showing hand, it's pretty

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Speaker 7: confident about the outcome that you desired. Okay, that are

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Speaker 7: at the opposite end of that, which is not very

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Speaker 7: confident about the and then always feeling sort of in

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Speaker 7: the middle like I'm nervous.

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Speaker 3: I'm nervous.

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Speaker 5: I believe I'm nervod God, You're gonna come through.

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Speaker 1: So not what I mean. About a third of the

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Speaker 1: room said they feel confident about what do y'all think?

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Speaker 1: About sixty percent of the room said they're not confident,

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Speaker 1: and the remainder said they you.

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Speaker 6: Know, I don't know add it up, but y'all thirty seven.

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Speaker 4: That's great, tips up to one and fifty.

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Speaker 7: But I think about a third is split across the

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Speaker 7: across the space.

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Speaker 1: I feel confident, y'all gonna just tell y'all, I feel confident.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the sheer will of black women are

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Speaker 1: going to carry her across the line. I believe and

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Speaker 1: trust in our counterparts, our brothers. I know y'all gonna

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Speaker 1: be right there with us to carry her across the line.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just time. It's time. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: consuming polls that come out every five minutes and one

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Speaker 1: consuming this media narrative that's been trying to divide our community,

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Speaker 1: if you because none of that matters. If we just

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Speaker 1: focus on what we have to do, and we get

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Speaker 1: out the vote, and we cast our ballots and we

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Speaker 1: make sure big Mama and Untie and cousin and little

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Speaker 1: JJ and everybody else cast their ballots, I just feel

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Speaker 1: like we're gonna win. I really did.

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Speaker 7: I think the I think when we started looking at

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Speaker 7: polls and reading everybody else's opinion about what's going to

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Speaker 7: which is when you have that instinct to do it,

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Speaker 7: text the relative who you're relatively unclear about whether or

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Speaker 7: not they're going to vote. Uh, pick up the phone.

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Speaker 10: Call.

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Speaker 5: I know, it's very strange when your phone rings. I

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Speaker 11: I'm like, who is calling?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because there are other ways to communicate.

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Speaker 4: But neither he don't communicate those ways.

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Speaker 5: Pick up the phone and call somebody.

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Speaker 7: But because it doesn't really help us, it doesn't ease

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Speaker 7: our nerves to read these polls.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't frankly, further inform us when reading everybody's opinion,

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Speaker 7: because it's just that an opinion. And if we're that

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Speaker 7: concerned and we think that democracy is that much at stake,

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Speaker 7: let's text somebody and make sure they get out to

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Speaker 7: vote on election day instead of in that spiral, because

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Speaker 7: it can take you down reading some of the stuff.

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Speaker 12: Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I think Georgia. I'm so proud of Georgia because Georgia

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Speaker 1: is officially a purple state. And I get tired of

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Speaker 1: people saying, well, you know, the South is read and

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Speaker 1: the South is Republican, and I always say it only

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Speaker 1: is till it ain't. And I think the people in

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Speaker 1: Georgia have shown this new coalition of voters that you

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Speaker 1: know what I love about this area is black folks

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Speaker 1: ain't the niche vote. Black folks are the base vote,

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Speaker 1: so you need to pass through black folks to advance

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Speaker 1: in a lot of elections. And I hope that this

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Speaker 1: casts a wide shadow of influence over the rest of

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Speaker 1: the country, as by twenty twenty or twenty forty four

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Speaker 1: there will be no racial majority. So I think this

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Speaker 1: is a good habit for us to get into owning

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Speaker 6: So normally at the top of every show, you all know,

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Speaker 6: we say welcome home, y'all, and we are in a

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Speaker 6: city that well, tip can claim it. You can kind

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Speaker 6: of claim it, but you do the people out today

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Speaker 6: where I know you're rather but there's somebody, there's somebody

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Speaker 6: also welcome us home. That is none other than the

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Speaker 6: fifty ninth Mayor of Atlanta, Cassine Reid, who has joined us.

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Speaker 6: So we were welcome Mayor Reid, former mayor, some of

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Speaker 6: y'alls forever Mayor. We want to we want to welcome

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Speaker 6: him home so he can walk up us home right back.

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Speaker 6: And also can we give a shout out to Ryan

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Speaker 6: at the gathering spot.

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Speaker 4: Ryan Wilson.

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Speaker 6: We love you, Thank you for welcoming us home. Thank

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Speaker 6: you for everything you're doing in this election. Ryan is

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Speaker 6: gonna come up to Ryan, come up. Why don't you

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Speaker 6: go ahead and come up now, cause that's where I

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Speaker 6: record every just so you guys. Let me tell y'all

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Speaker 6: how down for the cause. Ryan Wilson is. We were

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Speaker 6: trying to figure out a studio space in DC for

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Speaker 4: I'm about to go to them under the busch.

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Speaker 6: iHeart told us that they had a studio that we

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Speaker 4: They couldn't do it.

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Speaker 6: And I was like, Ryan, don't y'all have a space,

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Speaker 6: And Ryan was like, not only do we have a space,

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Speaker 6: Tiffany is going to be welcome to record there every

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Speaker 6: single week and he has done that. And so we

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Speaker 6: are so grateful for you for the gatherings by family.

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Speaker 6: So welcome home, y'all. We would like to get all welcome.

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Speaker 13: Mare Well, I mean, I heard the conversation before I

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Speaker 13: very important that folks in my space and everybody talk

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Speaker 13: about that. The Republicans are running a confidence game on us.

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Speaker 13: They did the same thing in twenty when Biden was running.

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Speaker 13: All the consternation, all of the flooded poles. Trump got

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Speaker 13: all the consternation, all the talk, all the chatter. These

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Speaker 13: can't be there straight up. So if we get out

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Speaker 13: on ourselves on this stage. Let's beat these people. We

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Speaker 13: need to finish this. And I don't want us to

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Speaker 13: feel like this isn't in our hands. It's totally in

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Speaker 13: step further than just saying, you know, we're gonna get

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Speaker 13: our folks who we know should vote. All of us

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Speaker 13: were involved in re electing President Obama, all of us.

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Speaker 13: I remember all of you on the trail, and that's

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Speaker 13: the election that meant the most of him because everybody

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Speaker 13: seven percent, and no president had.

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Speaker 11: Been elected with unemployment being.

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Speaker 13: Above seven percent, and the Republicans did everything they could

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Speaker 13: to keep unemployment above seven percent. They wouldn't send money

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Speaker 13: in New Jersey with Chris Christy, right, and we beat

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Speaker 13: by tens of votes across thousands of precincts.

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Speaker 11: It's the same game.

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Speaker 13: So we need to identify five people, ten people, fifteen people,

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Speaker 13: twenty people, and let's get real about it. They're real specific,

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Speaker 13: actually calling them, make sure that they actually vote. Every

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Speaker 13: person that you've ever done a favor for, anybody that

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Speaker 13: owes you some money.

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Speaker 5: They may not answer.

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Speaker 11: You know how it? Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 11: Y'all know how it is when people owe you money.

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Speaker 13: Right, anybody that you've done something for, call them and

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Speaker 13: tell them you need help.

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Speaker 11: Our democracy is at risk.

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Speaker 13: And you got a woman in Kamala Harris who's doing

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Speaker 13: every single thing she's supposed to do, every ridiculous hurdle

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Speaker 13: they've placed in front of her. She's not talking to

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Speaker 13: depress enough she needed to do to debate, She's not

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Speaker 13: talking to ordinary. Everything she's done, she's doing it, and

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Speaker 13: so when I got the call to be with this

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Speaker 13: extraordinary group of people, I stop whatever I'm doing.

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Speaker 11: Every time you get a chance to talk talk.

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Speaker 13: Last night, we had one hundred people in the yard

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Speaker 11: It became a whole nother thing.

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Speaker 13: Right, Oh yeah, yeah, he's saying forever my lady and

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Speaker 3: Y'all know.

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Speaker 13: But the point I'm making is, y'all, we can do

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Speaker 13: anything for twelve days. Black people can do anything for

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Speaker 13: twelve days. Give it to this woman, give it to her.

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Speaker 4: I want to come to you, Ryan, and then I.

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Speaker 11: That's my welcome, y'all.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's it.

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Speaker 6: That is a good welcome because the welcome is action oriented.

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Speaker 6: We also close every show with a.

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Speaker 6: You have also not only utilized this space as a

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Speaker 5: Look, look, I agree with the mayor.

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Speaker 11: Until the first.

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Speaker 6: So I want to take this moment now. There's somebody

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Speaker 4: We're bringing Erica Campbell to the stage to join us.

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Speaker 15: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Testing one two, testing one two.

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Speaker 16: Okay, we're good.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Welcome home America.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, welcome home.

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Speaker 16: I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 16: Absolutely honored, Absolutely honored.

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Speaker 4: I want to have this.

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Speaker 6: We do family talk a lot on our podcast, and

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Speaker 4: But I'm about to do what I hate.

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Speaker 6: He talked about the other side championing killing the unborn,

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Speaker 6: I know you've been working hard for the Harris campaign.

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Speaker 6: You have a conference today, and you stopped what you

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Speaker 6: So thank you.

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Speaker 4: You're really laying it all online.

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Speaker 6: Can you weigh in here and what you think we

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Speaker 15: I understand at the core of what abortion is people

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Speaker 16: Okay, I get that, But.

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Speaker 15: So some people do choose to do the wrong thing,

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Speaker 16: And I know I'm gonna get in trouble for this.

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Speaker 15: They already go to our churches, they already sing, they're

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Speaker 7: Thank you, miss Erica for taking time being with us.

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Speaker 13: Because hope requires courage, and people like to be a

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Speaker 11: It's a force multiplier.

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Speaker 11: Small margin, and to let people know.

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Speaker 13: When we walking around barbershops, some beauty Pauls tell her

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Speaker 11: What did Trump do? It changes the room.

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Speaker 13: And I'm not on the bandwagon a bashing black men,

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Speaker 11: Men we own sisters. Stop it. You don't even need

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Speaker 13: The President Obama, the President Obama ran black women, wasn't

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Speaker 11: So let's not have a sophisticated conversation. I got a mama,

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Speaker 11: Over with, y'all won't have to worry about voting anymore.

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Speaker 13: Right, Come on now, So Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Mech's going home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for real, Right, he.

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Speaker 11: Did his time.

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Speaker 13: I'm for all of the talk. When they marched Kwame

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Speaker 11: So that's what I came here to be, you know,

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Speaker 13: I got three more of these today.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for your service, mister Mayor. Tim.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to pick up on what you said

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Speaker 1: They can't deny us in her policies. She had a

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Speaker 1: whole policy roll out just for y'all. You ain't doing

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Speaker 1: us a favor by voting for her. We are locked

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Speaker 1: arms as a community. There is no other community on

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Speaker 1: this earth like black folks. When they try to divide

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Speaker 1: us and talk about how violent we are, all these

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Speaker 1: things ain't no. You dropped me in any neighbor. I

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Speaker 1: can go to all y'all's house with Thanksgiving and I

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Speaker 1: know the rules. You know that matters. You know, black women,

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Speaker 1: we could have a whole conversation and not utter a word.

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Speaker 1: Y'all know you get that. Look right, see was already

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Speaker 1: on cue exactly those things matter. So I love your

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Speaker 1: words may or read, but I just want to make

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Speaker 1: that clear to brothers. All this talk about black men

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Speaker 1: doing this black man, I've never believed it. I never

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Speaker 1: doubted y'all for one second because I know y'all, because

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Speaker 1: y'all are mean. I want to.

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Speaker 4: Ask you all before you before you head out what

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Speaker 4: your most.

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Speaker 6: Significant issue was. If you had the privilege to be

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Speaker 6: a single issue voter in this election, what would be

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Speaker 6: your most important issue.

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Speaker 14: We talk a lot about small business here, and there's

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Speaker 14: some real important reasons why. Right, ninety six percent of

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Speaker 14: our businesses don't employ anybody. Forty five percent of black

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Speaker 14: folks in Atlanta have delinquent debt. And I got in

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Speaker 14: trouble for saying this a couple months ago, but it's

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Speaker 14: the truth. If you think about it, right, this is

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Speaker 14: spell Houses homecoming weekend, and it's an important occasion. Shout

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Speaker 14: out y'all.

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Speaker 11: The didn't let me.

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Speaker 14: But when you think about it, no matter where you graduate,

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Speaker 14: right PWR or HBCU, unfortunately you were probably going to

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Speaker 14: work at a PWI. And that's because too many of

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Speaker 14: our businesses don't employ anybody. Right, So the research is

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Speaker 14: very clear. Right, if we were to get more businesses

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Speaker 14: in our community to a place where they were employing

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Speaker 14: more people in our community, that that is and to

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Speaker 14: expand the pie moment, that's good for everybody. So that's

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Speaker 14: what we're talking about in this election. We've got to

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Speaker 14: get access to capital to our businesses. We've got to

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Speaker 14: make sure that we're not just talking about starting, but

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Speaker 14: we're also talking about scaling, knowing that if we do

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Speaker 14: that effectively, our neighborhoods will be better personally. You will

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Speaker 14: see the impact, right because in this city, I know

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Speaker 14: a lot of people were doing really well. All of

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Speaker 14: those people are still going to go to a table

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Speaker 14: in a couple of weeks where statistically there's going to

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Speaker 14: be poverty at the table. So we've got to get

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Speaker 14: to a place where we have the opportunity. I heard

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Speaker 14: from one of our investors one time. He was like, look,

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Speaker 14: there's only two ways to make money in America. You

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Speaker 14: have to own something or you have to invest in something.

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Speaker 14: Most black folks are not doing either one of those

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Speaker 14: two things right now. So it's hard to put it

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Speaker 14: down to one issue, but it connects to so many

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Speaker 14: of the other things that we're trying to combat every

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Speaker 14: single day because our businesses are too small.

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Speaker 11: I love y'all.

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Speaker 14: I'm actually about to go talk about the same thing

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Speaker 14: in North Carolina. So if you know anybody in Durham tonight,

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Speaker 14: tell them that we're doing what we're called Economic Freedom Talks,

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Speaker 14: and we're having this discussion talking about what's on the table,

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Speaker 14: but come back and see to GGS. I appreciate y'all, y'all, thank.

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Speaker 4: You, mister Mayor.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna come to you because I got a two

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Speaker 6: parter for you, Erica before you go to this conference.

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Speaker 11: Yes, mineus. I like living in the democracy.

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Speaker 13: I like being able to vote, and going to Tiffany's point,

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Speaker 13: the fact of the matter is, just when we about

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Speaker 13: to be able to run stuff, they want to change democracy.

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Speaker 13: So as the country moves towards being where no one

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Speaker 13: has a majority, right, we want to change the game.

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Speaker 13: So I'm voting for a democracy fairer is harder. The

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Speaker 13: more rights people have, the harder it is. And they're

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Speaker 13: offering a Hitler based alternative.

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Speaker 11: Thanks, So that's mine. I like democracy, I like being

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Speaker 11: able to vote.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 15: I would say education, I would say, why aren't we

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Speaker 15: teaching taxes in high school? Why aren't we talking about

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Speaker 15: economics and you know, while we teach government and the

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Speaker 15: different branches, and they don't even teach that anymore. They

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Speaker 15: don't write in cursive anymore. Like there's so many things

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Speaker 15: that they don't teach that would equip them to.

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Speaker 16: Be prepared for what is to come.

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Speaker 15: Why aren't we teaching them empathy and compassion and different

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Speaker 15: things like that in our education system which is so broken.

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Speaker 15: I went to public school, so I get it, and

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Speaker 15: my kids are even in public school. With all that

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Speaker 15: I do, and so when I see things, I say things.

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Speaker 15: So I would be voting for education.

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Speaker 6: So the last question I every year, and I know

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Speaker 6: you guys have to run off. I just have been

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Speaker 6: watching the souls to the polls efforts. Yes, I've been

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Speaker 6: watching faith leaders fight. We just talked about one of

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Speaker 6: the discussions that's not most recently. I would love for

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Speaker 6: you to issue just a call to action for believers

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Speaker 6: at home and for those in the audience to that.

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Speaker 6: I think all these folks are going to vote, have

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Speaker 6: already voted. But what's the thing that you're saying. This

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Speaker 6: is what I need for you to do as you

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Speaker 6: get ready to take your faith behind to the polls.

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Speaker 16: Yes, yes, I stay behind you.

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Speaker 15: I would say, if you have a church and your

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Speaker 15: church is in a community and that community is struggling,

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Speaker 15: you need to vote. If your parishioners are struggling financially,

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Speaker 15: you need to vote. If you're seniors in your church

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Speaker 15: are struggling with social security and don't have what they need.

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Speaker 16: You need to vote.

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Speaker 15: So you need faith, but you also need to take

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Speaker 15: that faith and put in an action outside the church.

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Speaker 15: You don't become a believer to just sit in the

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Speaker 15: building you come in to. You become a believer to

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Speaker 15: go out to the world to teach people, to help people,

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Speaker 15: encourage people. And so that's why believers should vote. Take

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Speaker 15: your faith, feel self to the polls and vote.

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Speaker 1: Can I ask real quick that one quick question before

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Speaker 1: the mayor leaves. I think there is a growing concern

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Speaker 1: out there in the country, especially among black folks, that

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Speaker 1: when Vice President becomes President elect Harris, how insufferable will

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Speaker 1: Howard alumni be across the.

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Speaker 11: Oh my god, you already know, you already know.

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Speaker 13: I mean, you won't be able to go nowhere without here.

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Speaker 13: You know, you know it's gonna be terrible. We'll discuss

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Speaker 13: this good.

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Speaker 5: All over the catcher.

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Speaker 6: You will take y'all being insufferable for our freedom while

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Speaker 6: we are thank you much to see read into Erica

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Speaker 6: Campbell having wonderful conferences.

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Speaker 9: Everybody, welcome y'all.

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Speaker 6: Okay, while we're transitioning, we have our next panelists coming

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Speaker 6: up from the A. C.

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Speaker 8: O U.

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Speaker 6: I want to just remind you all that you are

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Speaker 6: welcome to come to this center mic to raise any

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Speaker 6: question or comment to the audience, so feel free, or

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Speaker 6: to our panelists into each other to the audience, so

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Speaker 6: feel free to come up. When you do come up,

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Speaker 6: make sure that you say your name and where you're

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Speaker 6: from in true n LP fashion. Joining us now is

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Speaker 6: Andrea Young, who is the executive director of a c

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Speaker 6: o U in Georgia. She is doing some tremendous work

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Speaker 6: which we are going to hear about. And one of

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Speaker 6: my favorite things is the legacy that is sitting before us.

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Speaker 6: This is the daughter of Ambassador Andy Young. So thank

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Speaker 6: you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Listen, oh, listen to all that.

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Speaker 4: If everybody's excited about that, I love it.

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Speaker 10: And I hate to say about another Howard, So yes,

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Speaker 10: the Howard people.

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Speaker 12: To say nothing to you.

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Speaker 10: Here, right, Howard is here, So yes. And and that

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Speaker 10: was our you know, one of our mayors. You know,

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Speaker 10: we've had black men for a long time in the city.

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Speaker 10: That's kind of how we roll so and all about

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Speaker 10: empowerment and as he said, democracy, because democracy is how

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Speaker 10: we got here.

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Speaker 7: Yes, No, I was just gonna say Speter. First of all,

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Speaker 7: thank for the work that you do. I'm a monthly

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Speaker 7: member contributor.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, of course.

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Speaker 7: But you all, we've been saying for a long time

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Speaker 7: the most important election, the most important election. I gotta

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Speaker 7: imagine that when we're faced with the potential of a

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Speaker 7: fascist on the other side, that for the ACLUES, this

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Speaker 7: has really.

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Speaker 5: Got to be.

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Speaker 7: You know, we're at a death con you know, death

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Speaker 7: Con five at this point, and you.

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Speaker 10: Know, just to say we are meeting NonStop and preparing.

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Speaker 12: We have all the legal papers ready.

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Speaker 10: You know, we saw you know, what happens in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 10: and you know we are prepared and we're working, you know,

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Speaker 10: in advance. I mean here in Georgia and in every

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Speaker 10: battleground state, the ACLU is working to make sure people

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Speaker 10: can vote unhindered. You know, that they don't change the

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Speaker 10: in the middle of the game, and that afterwards the

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Speaker 10: votes get counted, they get certified, they get sent up

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Speaker 10: to Washington, you know, to to be for the Electoral College.

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Speaker 10: So we're working on all fronts, all across the country,

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Speaker 10: and especially with the focus on the battleground states.

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Speaker 7: We love that and I would just ask for the

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Speaker 7: ACOU what would you all what do you fear most

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Speaker 7: in the changing of our democracy should there be a

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Speaker 7: Trump two point zero.

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, I came to Georgia during segregation, so

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Speaker 10: you know, I don't have to imagine I remember, you know,

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Speaker 10: because really, you know, Langston Hughes said Jim Crow is

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Speaker 10: a fascist regime, right, so we know and our grandparents know,

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Speaker 10: you know what, you know what this could look like.

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Speaker 12: And you know, the ASILU.

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Speaker 10: Was very involved in stopping the family separation policy. You know,

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Speaker 10: so people who will do that, we don't know how

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Speaker 10: low they can go.

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Speaker 4: I want to ask you.

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Speaker 6: You all have been instrumental in the state election board's

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Speaker 6: recent hand counting rule, and you all are fighting the

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Speaker 6: good fight, whether we know it or not. I would

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Speaker 6: love for you to talk a little bit about that.

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Speaker 6: We talked about it on our podcast as well. Thank

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Speaker 6: you to hear from someone on the front lines. I

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Speaker 6: think is really really important to our listeners.

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So, you know, the ACLU is working on the right

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Speaker 10: to vote twenty four to seven, three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 10: five days. We don't just do it in election years.

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Speaker 10: So we've been monitoring the election boards every month when

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Speaker 10: they meet. We have volunteers that go we monitor the

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Speaker 10: state election Board. We go in the legislature to try

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Speaker 10: to keep them from changing the rules. So they change

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Speaker 10: the rules to make the state Election Board essentially a MAGA,

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Speaker 10: you know, advocacy group, and uh, we had to. They

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Speaker 10: came up with about seven rules that would have made

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Speaker 10: it easy to prevent certification of the of the vote

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Speaker 10: in Georgia. So we you know, we sued and were

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Speaker 10: able to actually get to rules. Two different judge judges

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Speaker 10: ruled Judge mcberney and Judge Tom Cox, who uh, who's

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Speaker 10: basically smacked down seven of them and said they were

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Speaker 10: out acting outside of their authority.

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Speaker 12: And so the.

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Speaker 10: Rules that were in place during the primary will pretty

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Speaker 10: much be the rules under which we are operating this election.

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Speaker 10: But it takes relentless, relentless effort to you know, as

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Speaker 10: the church folks say, the devil is busy, and so

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Speaker 10: it takes a relentless effort to to to keep access

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Speaker 10: to the to the ballot. So at the a c

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Speaker 10: l U, we believe voting should be easy for for

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Speaker 10: everyone and and you know, everyone votes and you accept

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Speaker 10: the result.

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Speaker 12: That's democracy.

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Speaker 10: Now that Georgia only fifty two percent of Georgia voters

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Speaker 10: self identify us white. So, as Mary Reid said, you

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Speaker 10: know now that you see, you know, this real opportunity

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Speaker 10: for you know, we've already elected you know, Senator Warnock,

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Speaker 10: Senator Astov statewide that are folks who are pro choice,

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Speaker 10: pro democracy, interested in criminal legal reform, uh, you know,

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Speaker 10: interested in you know, access to capital for you know,

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Speaker 10: communities of color. Now that we've elected those kinds of

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Speaker 10: leaders that you know there is that possibility.

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Speaker 12: Let's keep this going. And and politics.

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Speaker 10: Is how you and voting is how you make the

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Speaker 10: folks who make decisions be responsive to your priorities.

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Speaker 12: I want to.

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Speaker 1: Ask some some local issues here. I really appreciate the

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Speaker 1: point you made about Atlanta having black mayors. Atlanta always

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Speaker 1: has a black mayor, and it's been shaky a few

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Speaker 1: times a few elections. But my mother worked for Bill Campbell.

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Speaker 1: My grandmother grew up not far from here. I went

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Speaker 1: to elementary school, middle school, high school here, So this

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Speaker 1: city means a lot. I haven't lived here in over

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Speaker 1: twenty five years. When I left, it was not the

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Speaker 1: demographics that I see now. Atlanta is important because I

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Speaker 1: think it's a message to every city in Mississippi, every

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Speaker 1: city in Alabama, every city in Arkansas. What have you

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Speaker 1: seen happen here that harnesses black power in a way

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Speaker 1: where we are flexing this political muscle now that other

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Speaker 1: cities perhaps can mimit.

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Speaker 10: So I think, you know, one of the things I

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Speaker 10: look at is in the in terms of the agency

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Speaker 10: of the black community is what Manor Jackson's grandfather called

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Speaker 10: the book, the ballot and the book. Right, So we

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Speaker 10: have the education, you use your political power, and you

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Speaker 10: use that for economic power.

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Speaker 12: And while you know, as they.

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Speaker 10: Said, we're not where we need to be, and of

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Speaker 10: course all of this has been taking place. You're working

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Speaker 10: against a state, you know, that doesn't believe in even

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Speaker 10: medicaid expansion. You're working against the federal government that has

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Speaker 10: withdrawn resources for housing. You know, there's no such thing

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Speaker 10: as welfare, the kinds of things that used to sustain

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Speaker 10: people and allow them to move up. So we're working

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Speaker 10: against you know, some very difficult national and state trends.

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Speaker 10: But it's that kind of understanding. But one of the

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Speaker 10: things you do with your political power is, as Ryan said,

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Speaker 10: you you want to create the opportunity for economic power.

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Speaker 10: But at the same time, if you have economic power.

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Speaker 10: You know, Black folk have always created wealth, but we

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Speaker 10: don't keep it unless we have the political power to defend,

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Speaker 10: defend our businesses, defend our communities, you know, and defend

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Speaker 10: our access to you know, our ability really to prosper

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Speaker 10: because you know, in the in the south, uh, you know,

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Speaker 10: if you get too upp aty, somebody will come, you know,

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Speaker 10: burn your stuff down in the past.

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Speaker 6: Right, you know, one of the things that we address

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Speaker 6: at the top is the inks that some folks are

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Speaker 6: feeling about this election. You're doing the work that would

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Speaker 6: hopefully prevent us as a collective from experiencing that type

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Speaker 6: of inks. What can this audience do? And you all

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Speaker 6: are still welcome to ask questions. I am very surprised

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Speaker 6: because normally NLP fan be all up into mic and

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Speaker 6: in the camera. So please ask questions with this genius

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Speaker 6: we have seen here, this wonderful attorney. So I would

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Speaker 6: love to hear what you think folks can do to

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Speaker 6: prevent that inks? Well, how can they support a c

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Speaker 6: O you What are the things that we should be

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Speaker 6: doing right?

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Speaker 10: Well, as Andrew said, we do we we do take

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Speaker 10: individual donations and you know, our monthly supporters, and it's

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Speaker 10: actually because we are supported by individuals, not by big

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Speaker 10: mega We don't get corporate government, which means we are

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Speaker 10: independent and we work for the people. And you know

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Speaker 10: we will you know, we will persist, but people have

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Speaker 10: to vote right, we and we have to talk people

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Speaker 10: through their anxieties and concerns. You heard, you know, some

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Speaker 10: of the things Cassim had to say that, you know,

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Speaker 10: we have to help folks understand that while Trump put

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Speaker 10: his name on the check, it was the Black Caucus

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Speaker 10: that got that check, right, it was it was the efforts.

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Speaker 10: It was you know, he he he wasn't trying to

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Speaker 10: give that money to votes. You have to help people understand.

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Speaker 10: I think President Obama said, you know that was my

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Speaker 10: economy that you inherited, right, help people really understand that.

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Speaker 12: What the realities are.

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Speaker 10: And there is a lot of disinformation, a lot of

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Speaker 10: very intentional we know we've heard that you know, Russia,

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Speaker 10: China and Iran are all trying to throw this to

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Speaker 10: Donald Trump. Why is that? You know, we are the

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Speaker 10: example of a multi racial, multicultural democracy. There's so much

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Speaker 10: more that we can do and we're not you know,

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Speaker 10: as we said, let's you know, we have you know,

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Speaker 10: understand so really talking to people, meeting with them where

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Speaker 10: they are asking them what is really important to them.

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Speaker 10: Sometimes people think that, I don't know, have they heard

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Speaker 10: about the one million public servants that got loan forgiveness?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 10: And of course, you know, reproductive rights understand that that

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Speaker 10: when they when they.

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Speaker 12: Struck down Roe v.

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Speaker 10: Wade, they didn't just say you can't have an abortion.

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Speaker 10: They also struck down the law that says the government

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Speaker 10: can't sterilize you.

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Speaker 12: Right.

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Speaker 10: And so this thing of reproductive choice and freedom goes

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Speaker 10: both ways. Right, if the government can tell you that

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Speaker 10: you have to continue your pregnancy, they can tell you

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Speaker 10: that you can't have a pregnancy. And we know that

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Speaker 10: this has happened to Black women in the past.

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Speaker 12: You know, So.

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Speaker 10: This this thing when we talk about reproductive justice. You know,

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Speaker 10: Black women disproportionately die from maternal uh. You know, maternal health.

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Speaker 10: Infant mortality is still was too high in our community

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Speaker 10: before Roe v. Way.

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Speaker 12: Now that they've struck down Road v.

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Speaker 10: Way, they are undermining the ability of women to get

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Speaker 10: reproductive health care. We see maternal mortality and infant mortality

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Speaker 10: going up in you know in you know this very

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Speaker 10: not because the ability isn't there to save people's lives,

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Speaker 10: but because the government is saying and tying the hands

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Speaker 10: of physicians when they are trying to deliver health care.

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Speaker 1: You have a question. Yes, yes, Brandon Carter.

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Speaker 17: I live here in Atlanta, and my question is a

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Speaker 17: lot of people feel that Trump's presidency was retribution for

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Speaker 17: Obama's election twenty twenty.

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Speaker 11: We know January sixth.

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Speaker 17: Was retribution for Biden's and then all of the court

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Speaker 17: of all of the laws that were passed was because

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Speaker 17: of that.

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Speaker 11: Do you feel that there's going to be a retribution win?

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Speaker 11: Harris wins.

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Speaker 10: Now if we keep voting, you know, I mean people,

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Speaker 10: you know, there was a big outpouring. People came out

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Speaker 10: and voted for Obama, and you have to keep it going.

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Speaker 12: So we talk.

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Speaker 10: We also at the ACLU have a saying called Hope,

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Speaker 10: Vote Advocate.

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Speaker 12: You know, voting is the beginning.

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Speaker 10: You then have to advocate, you know, for the things

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Speaker 10: that you want your elected officials to do, and we

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Speaker 10: have to keep voting. I think Spelman has a thing

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Speaker 10: about for donations, like every woman every year like don't.

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Speaker 12: Just give on your you know, your alumni year.

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Speaker 10: And it's the same thing we have to vote every year.

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Speaker 10: We can't just vote every four years. We didn't we

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Speaker 10: even with Obama, he didn't keep the Congress that he

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Speaker 10: needed to let him continue his agenda.

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Speaker 12: So we we are.

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Speaker 10: I mean, the only reason this is even a discussion

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Speaker 10: is because we have the electoral college, which is rooted

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Speaker 10: in you know, the defensive slavery. But if you look

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Speaker 10: at the popular vote, you know Hillary won the popular vote, right,

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Speaker 10: and so based on the popular vote, George Bush shouldn't

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Speaker 10: have been president and Trump shouldn't have been president if

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Speaker 10: we had a system where the popular vote winner was one.

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Speaker 12: So yes. So the thing is is that we just

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Speaker 12: have to keep at it.

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Speaker 10: There will always be pushback, but the but I think

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Speaker 10: the people who believe in a fair and just and

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Speaker 10: multiracial America, I believe are the majority. But we have

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Speaker 10: to believe it and we have to keep voting like it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for you. I think there will

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Speaker 1: be retribution. I get your point about keep voting and

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Speaker 1: political retribution, but I am fully raised for political violence

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Speaker 1: in this country. When President Kamala Harris wins, I think

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Speaker 1: we've already seen evidence of that, and as black folks,

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Speaker 1: we already know how violent white people can be when

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Speaker 1: they don't get their way, So I'm very raceed for

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Speaker 1: what will come next.

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Speaker 7: I also think there'll be political policy retribution. I think

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Speaker 7: the Senate is probably going to go Republican. They already

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Speaker 7: stole the Supreme Court seat from Obama a year out

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Speaker 7: from the election, yet they gave one four or three

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Speaker 7: to Trump and one within weeks a few months of

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Speaker 7: the election. I think they're going to be poised to

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Speaker 7: prevent her from moving her agenda on day zero. The

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Speaker 7: people who we are in bed with for the purposes

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Speaker 7: of getting her elected, these former Trumpers who are now

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Speaker 7: never Trumpers or whomever. I mean, they've already got the

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Speaker 7: opinion pages written for when she gets there. This is

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Speaker 7: what we thought we would get. She's more liberal than

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Speaker 7: we expected she, you know, so I think we should

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Speaker 7: gear up for that to the point, which is why

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Speaker 7: we have to keep voting and keep supporting her, because

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Speaker 7: that is already I think.

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Speaker 10: But you know, Beyonce is going to Texas now, Colin

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Speaker 10: already is.

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Speaker 12: You know, uh.

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Speaker 10: In Florida, the you know, abortion issue is on the ballot.

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Speaker 10: That has always brought out, you know, voters who believe

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Speaker 10: in in freedom. So you know, I, uh, you know,

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Speaker 10: I'm an optimist till they till they capt the votes.

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Speaker 4: Hear that, and we have another question, and tell us

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Speaker 4: your name and where you're from, sir.

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Speaker 18: Afternoon, Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 11: My name is Earl West.

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Speaker 18: I'm from Seattle, Washington, twelve six.

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Speaker 19: Garfield class of eighty four, same as your brother.

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Speaker 4: Same as my brother and my daddy, my brothers. Have

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Speaker 4: you talked to him, I haven't talked to him.

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Speaker 9: I have talked to him.

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Speaker 18: I was with your father at our one hundred year

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Speaker 18: reunion up in Seattle, so I do have a picture

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Speaker 18: of that. But my comment in question, my comment will

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Speaker 18: probably will lead to a question.

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Speaker 19: But uh, just the other day I was over at.

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Speaker 18: A black owned boutique and in line talking to some

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Speaker 18: brothers the importance of voting, and one of them was

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Speaker 18: a libertarian, which was confusing to me because you had

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Speaker 18: a black owned boutique.

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Speaker 11: Ironic.

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Speaker 18: But it's more of information and how information is being

884
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Speaker 18: gathered and distributed and where we can find it information

885
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Speaker 18: because I'm having to combat the information out there just

886
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Speaker 18: by talking to some of the brothers, because I don't

887
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 18: believe that the black man thing is real because I

888
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 18: have moms, sisters, aunts and every nephew's nieces. So I

889
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 18: have to vote as a as the poet and lyricists

890
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 18: and UH sports expert once said, we vote based on

891
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 18: harm reduction, you know so sports knowledge. You know, I

892
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 18: got you you know so, So the way I vote

893
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 18: is based on what I have in my family. But

894
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Speaker 18: is there a way as far as getting the information

895
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Speaker 18: out and making sure that I'm speaking the truth to

896
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Speaker 18: these young brothers to make sure I am pointing them

897
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Speaker 18: in the right direction, because I see that a lot

898
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Speaker 18: sometimes everywhere I go, I make sure that I vote.

899
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 18: I tell the people that work for me, you take

900
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 18: the day off, go vote whatever you need to do.

901
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Speaker 18: So if there's a way that I can get that

902
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Speaker 18: information and get that information to the people, that would

903
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Speaker 18: be a good thing for me.

904
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Speaker 4: I love for you to answer.

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Speaker 10: You know, our website a c l uga dot org

906
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Speaker 10: has all the information about you know, links to where.

907
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Speaker 12: To vote, how to vote.

908
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Speaker 10: You know, we have talking you know, different issue on points,

909
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 10: but particularly right now, it's just the you know, getting

910
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 10: the getting the where to go. And I appreciate your

911
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 10: point about harm reduction because you know, we do a

912
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Speaker 10: lot of that right now. And uh, and it's real, right,

913
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Speaker 10: it makes a difference.

914
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Speaker 19: And why don't I see like.

915
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 18: The comments that JD Van said about Trump on the

916
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Speaker 18: air twenty four seven? You know, I mean, there are

917
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Speaker 18: some things that I think we should be saying and

918
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 18: seeing that though Republicans have said about this guy, and.

919
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 19: Why don't we see these things twenty four seven?

920
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Speaker 11: It just baffles.

921
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Speaker 6: Me, you know, I'm gonna tell you, Leonard and I

922
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 6: did CNN last night, and yeah, they ended up going viral,

923
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Speaker 6: and part of it was honestly a continuation of the

924
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Speaker 6: conversation we had on our podcast. We talked about fascism

925
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Speaker 6: and if Andrew, of course, you've already mentioned today that

926
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Speaker 6: Jim Crow is a form of fascism, and so one

927
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Speaker 6: of the things that I brought up was I remember

928
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Speaker 6: being on air, and this is getting to to your point,

929
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Speaker 6: being on air, and I said that Donald Trump was racist.

930
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Speaker 6: It was one of the first times I think that

931
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Speaker 6: it's been said on cable news. And Anderson was moderating

932
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Speaker 6: the conversation.

933
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Speaker 4: He was like, well, what are you basing that on?

934
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Speaker 6: I'm like his history, So I started running things down.

935
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Speaker 6: But it was a very tense moment on air, not

936
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Speaker 6: just with Anderson, but with the whole panel, because oh,

937
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Speaker 6: you can't say that, I dare say that, Yes I can.

938
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Speaker 4: Here are all the facts.

939
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Speaker 6: So I brought up the point that when Kamala Harris

940
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Speaker 6: was asked at the town hall if she thought Donald

941
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Speaker 6: Trump was a fascist, not is he a fascist, but

942
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Speaker 6: if she thought he was a fascist, it got so

943
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Speaker 6: so much more press attention than the fact that her

944
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Speaker 6: chief of staff, the former Department of Homeland Security secretary,

945
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Speaker 6: said that he is a fascist and defined the terms.

946
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Speaker 4: So that is one of the things that we should

947
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Speaker 4: be saying.

948
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Speaker 6: I also want to acknowledge we are saying in a

949
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Speaker 6: lot and that's why we did our podcast the way

950
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Speaker 6: we did. We went through and defined what fascism is,

951
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Speaker 6: examples of fascism. These guys go overseas a lot more

952
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Speaker 6: than me and their commentary. I stay domestic as much

953
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Speaker 6: as I can. It's enough going on over here. But

954
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Speaker 6: they are brilliant at this. They talk about the ways

955
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Speaker 6: in which we've seen fascism historically and through other parts

956
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Speaker 6: of the world. We have to emphasize that people are like,

957
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 6: it can't get worse, Yes it can.

958
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Speaker 4: It absolutely can so well.

959
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Speaker 1: I want to say about the news urn because I

960
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Speaker 1: think that's a significant thing. You know, that's my constant

961
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Speaker 1: beef the cable news. Y'all have seen like they have

962
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Speaker 1: centered a shrinking demographic. They center the interest and comfort

963
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Speaker 1: of conservative white folks. They have no interests in centering us,

964
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Speaker 1: and that's why we've seen their numbers continue to decline

965
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Speaker 1: over the years, and media has become more democratized so

966
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Speaker 1: other people have a voice. The sad part about that

967
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Speaker 1: is that opens up a door for a lot of

968
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Speaker 1: misinformation and disinformation, and so we don't see a lot

969
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Speaker 1: of the just actual facts because they have a vested

970
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Speaker 1: interest in feeding you all this narrative where you have

971
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: angst around this election. So what do you do when

972
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: you wake up? You want to put on CNN and

973
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Speaker 1: watch that all day to see what this poll said

974
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Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock. Maybe it's gonna say something different at noon.

975
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Speaker 1: They have turned the news platform into reality television. Let's

976
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Speaker 1: go find somebody to say it's raining outside, and then

977
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Speaker 1: let's go find somebody to say it's sunny outside, as

978
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Speaker 1: though they themselves are not reporters to say, we can

979
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Speaker 1: demonstrably say it is a sunny day, it is not raining.

980
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Speaker 1: They treat both of these sentiments and statements as though

981
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Speaker 1: they are facts when they are clearly not. There's also

982
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Speaker 1: a comfort right, less than six percent of all newsroom

983
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Speaker 1: staff is black. And so when you have all of

984
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Speaker 1: these people and they say, well, my my grandmother voted

985
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Speaker 1: for Trump, she likes Trump, and she's not a bad person. Ps.

986
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 1: Yes she is, my auntie, my mom, my dad did

987
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: all these things she's not about. Yes they are. And

988
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 1: so they extend humanity to these folks in a way

989
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Speaker 1: that they can never extend to us. We can get

990
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: shot right on camera and they still got to be

991
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: the perfect victim. It's still a question. We have to

992
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Speaker 1: die in spectacular ways to pierce the white narrative of

993
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: what's happened to us. But when it comes to their policies,

994
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: their platform, they got all the humanity in the world.

995
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Speaker 1: So I discourage people. Really, I am more of a

996
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Speaker 1: reader now than I am a watcher. Watch Joy Ree

997
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: please every night on MSNBUC at seven pm. She is

998
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: holding it down. But outside of that, I don't see

999
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 1: a lot of truly intellectual discourse from these people who

1000
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Speaker 1: get so many of our eyes and our viewership and

1001
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Speaker 1: our dollars.

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Speaker 5: So just two quick things. One on Partifany's point on

1003
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Speaker 5: the media.

1004
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Speaker 7: One of the strategies with fashion in its earliest stages

1005
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Speaker 7: is the assassination of facts so that no one becomes

1006
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Speaker 7: the arbiter of what is true in what is false.

1007
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 7: And now you don't have a source that we can

1008
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Speaker 7: call a main source, because everybody's a main source.

1009
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 9: The stuff you.

1010
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 7: Get on your feed, the stuff through social media, somebody's

1011
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 7: snapchat video to you becomes a primary source. So the

1012
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 7: assault on facts is number one. And who introduced that

1013
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 7: in large form, Donald Trump, when they began with alternative facts.

1014
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 5: Oh, that's just another way to see it.

1015
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 7: And we adopted that there are now alternative facts as

1016
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 7: a legitimate form of describing another set of facts not

1017
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 7: true fascism.

1018
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 5: And then to the point of when we speak.

1019
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 7: About Iran and Russia foreign actor's intrusion in our elections,

1020
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 7: it's not that they're sending missiles and bombs and folks

1021
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 7: into our country. They're taking what exists in our country

1022
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 7: as natural rifts between communities, between a people's and then

1023
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 7: they are exploding those rifks and what push notifications you

1024
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 7: get what information, what shows up as as whatever in

1025
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 7: your Instagram and you're like, I ain't followed this person,

1026
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 7: but they're still showing up in your in your fees.

1027
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 7: That's the they have. They have sophisticated technology where they

1028
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 7: are they are deliberately interfering with what you see on

1029
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 7: your screen. So when we talk about black men, they're

1030
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 7: not making it up. What they hear, what they heard,

1031
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 7: what they thought were facts. It is being deliberately sent

1032
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 7: to them in oversaturated form so that it becomes a

1033
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 7: fat the truth.

1034
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I want to give you the opportunity to any

1035
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 6: partnering words. I know you have to go and we're

1036
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 6: bringing up our next panel, but before you do, yeah,

1037
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Speaker 6: I just.

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Speaker 12: Went, well, thank you for doing this. I'm you know, I.

1039
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Speaker 10: You can't say enough about how important this election is.

1040
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 10: And one of the things, you know, one of the

1041
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 10: things we do, of course, is defend the right to

1042
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 10: free speech and the right to protest, and so understand

1043
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 10: that we can disagree with the president Harris, you won't

1044
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 10: be able to disagree with the President Trump. And he's

1045
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 10: already promised to send the military, to send the National

1046
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 10: Guard after people who don't agree with him and support him.

1047
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 10: So if nothing else, you know, understand that the freedoms

1048
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 10: that we had to fight for the kind of demonstrations

1049
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 10: that we saw with the George Floyd, the Women's March,

1050
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 10: we had to fight for the right to do that,

1051
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 10: and that is also a right along with reproductive rights,

1052
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 10: along with voting rights.

1053
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 12: That are on the ballot right now, because voting is.

1054
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 10: Happening in Georgia, North Carolina right now. So please participate

1055
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 10: and take five friends.

1056
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Speaker 4: From Aco you.

1057
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Speaker 6: We are so grateful for your partnership and for being

1058
00:53:58,480 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 6: here today.

1059
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, thank you.

1060
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Speaker 1: Thank you.

1061
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

1062
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 6: We now have the opportunity to welcome to the stage

1063
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Speaker 6: some additional women champions and queens joining us from the

1064
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Speaker 6: UH from from Georgia. She is a Democratic Member of

1065
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 6: Congress and a CBC member, so she's CBC fan. This

1066
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 6: is Congresswoman to Kima Williams. We also have someone who's

1067
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 6: becoming a legend before our eyes, fighting the good fight

1068
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 6: to ensure access to capital and equity for businesses and

1069
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 6: business owners who look like us, as Arian Simone from

1070
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Speaker 6: the Fearless Fund.

1071
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Speaker 4: She got some fans in here and certainly not look

1072
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 4: at them and.

1073
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Speaker 3: You're look at this.

1074
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 4: I knew it, no problem. We love y'all. Y'all got

1075
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 4: to set down now.

1076
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Speaker 6: We also have joining us our good friend and sister

1077
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Speaker 6: Kimberlee Blackwell, who runs a Marsham marketing company PMM agency

1078
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 6: and is a business strategist extraordinaire dimples. Hello everybody, Hello,

1079
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Speaker 6: thank you all for joining us.

1080
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Speaker 4: Nikim, I want to start with you.

1081
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Speaker 6: You sit on financial services, you are dealing with kitchen

1082
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 6: table issues every day, and Committee. I know that we

1083
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 6: did a round table with you with Arian. I want

1084
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 6: you to talk about the fight that we're up against,

1085
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 6: particularly if Democrats don't take over the house. What does

1086
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 6: it look like for people who are just trying to

1087
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 6: make ends meet, who are trying to access capital, who

1088
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 6: think DEEI doesn't mean didn't earn it, but actually means diversity,

1089
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 6: equity and inclusion are abundantly important.

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Speaker 20: Absolutely well, hellover one and welcome to Georgia's fighting fifth

1091
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Speaker 20: Congressional District. I am Congresswoman Nikima william and so happy

1092
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 20: to be here having this conversation with people that I've

1093
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 20: been in this fight with and it is still ongoing.

1094
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Speaker 12: Y'all.

1095
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Speaker 20: So, as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, y'all,

1096
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Speaker 20: I've been in Congress for two years, well, two sessions,

1097
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Speaker 20: two terms, and my first year in Congress, I was

1098
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Speaker 20: appointed to the very powerful House Financial Services Committee, and

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Speaker 20: one of my subcommittees was the Subcommittee.

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Speaker 4: On Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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Speaker 20: And I served on that committee for two years under

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Speaker 20: the leadership of my chairwoman, Joyce Baty, and then, y'all,

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Speaker 20: I got re elected to my second term in Congress

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Speaker 20: and Democrats were no longer in control. And the first

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Speaker 20: thing that they did in our organizational meeting is.

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Speaker 4: They got rid of the entire subcommittee.

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Speaker 20: So there is no longer a subcommittee on diversity equity

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Speaker 20: inclusion in the House Financial Services Committee. And we looked

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Speaker 20: at our chairman and we asked, well, what was this about,

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Speaker 20: and he said, well, we're going to include it in

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Speaker 20: everything that we do. But we all know that means

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Speaker 20: it is not going to be included in nothing. And

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Speaker 20: then we are under attack at every angle. And I'm

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Speaker 20: sure you'll hear more about that shortly, But in the

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Speaker 20: House Financial Services Committee, where everything that you can think

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Speaker 20: of that impacts us building generational wealth and our financial

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Speaker 20: well being in this country, especially as black people goes

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Speaker 20: through that committee. Housing is in that committee, every banking

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Speaker 20: industry that you can think of, not just traditional banks,

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Speaker 20: but fintech, and now we're writing the rules of the

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Speaker 20: road when it comes to digital assets and what that

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Speaker 20: looks like. All goes through this committee with no lens

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Speaker 20: for DEI because that entire committee was gotten rid of.

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Speaker 20: So as we're going through this election cycle, we got

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Speaker 20: eleven days, but who's counting? I am but eleven days,

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Speaker 20: and here in battleground Georgia, we understand.

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Speaker 4: What's at stake.

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Speaker 20: So when we talk about our freedoms being on the ballot,

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Speaker 20: it includes our economic freedom. It includes our ability to

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Speaker 20: build that general racial wealth so that we can close

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Speaker 20: the racial wealth gap that is so persistent in this country,

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Speaker 20: even here in Atlanta, where we are the mecca for

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Speaker 20: black people coming to build wealth. I moved here from

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Speaker 20: rural Alabama. Shout out to my HBC utility of college.

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Speaker 20: Moved here after college looking for the opportunity that I

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Speaker 20: knew the leaders before me, like my predecessor. I don't

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Speaker 20: know if Andrew is still here, but Ambassador Andrew Young,

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Speaker 20: who held the seat before Congressman John Lewis, and so

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Speaker 20: moved here looking for this opportunity and now knowing that

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Speaker 20: my city is leading the country in the racial wealth gap,

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Speaker 20: and there are so many forces trying to keep us there.

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Speaker 4: But we know that in eleven.

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Speaker 20: Days we have options on the ballot. We have work

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Speaker 20: to do to make sure that we are victorious.

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Speaker 4: And when I.

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Speaker 20: Show up to the polls, because I haven't banked my

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Speaker 20: vote yet, but I have a plan. So when I

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Speaker 20: show up and cast my vote, my vote for Kamala

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Speaker 20: Harris is a vote for our future, a vote for

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Speaker 20: our economic freedom. Because when we're disbanding committees like DEI

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Speaker 20: in the House Financial Services Committee, it is quite telling

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Speaker 20: where the Republicans in this country are and what they

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Speaker 20: think about us being able to close that racial wealth

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Speaker 20: gap and build generational wealth within our communities.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for that, congress Woman, and we're extremely proud

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Speaker 7: of you. Another person we were proud of is Arian,

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Speaker 7: the rattling community all over but I think all over

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Speaker 7: the country we've born witness to your fight. And I

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Speaker 7: say your fight, but I know it's your fight on.

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Speaker 5: Behalf of all of us. Right. We hope to see

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Speaker 5: you in Detroit last week. What up?

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Speaker 21: Though?

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Speaker 5: We were there and your.

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Speaker 4: Home is every Can y'all leave the mic sign because

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Speaker 4: this is a very interacting podcast. Let's leave the mic sign.

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Speaker 22: You guys are going to every city I've lived in. Yes,

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Speaker 22: my hometown Detroit, my home here and fam.

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Speaker 5: You the real home.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he's not biased, but.

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Speaker 7: Arian, I want you to talk about a lot of

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Speaker 7: us that follow the ebbs and flows of this fight.

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Speaker 7: I'd love for you to give this audience and our

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Speaker 7: listenership an update on where we are as relationship protecting

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Speaker 7: women's accesship.

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Speaker 3: I'm Marian Simone.

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Speaker 22: I'm CEO of the Fearless Fund, where the nation's first

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Speaker 22: venture capital fund that's built by women of color for

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Speaker 22: women of color. And literally we had opposition way before

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Speaker 22: a lawsuit. So I want people to understand that when

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Speaker 22: people see that this lawsuit is over, they're like, oh,

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Speaker 22: she can breathe. Yeah, to an extent. To an extent,

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Speaker 22: the opposition still exists. Women of color are the most

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Speaker 22: founded entrepreneur demographic, just the least funded, receiving only zero

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Speaker 22: point three nine percent of venture capital funds. The industry

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Speaker 22: has ran ninety two percent white male. Now that doesn't

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Speaker 22: even include any other men, like as far as other races,

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Speaker 22: ninety two percent white male. So that just shows you

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Speaker 22: due to the numbers, there's opposition.

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Speaker 4: Way before a court case.

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Speaker 22: Right now, our case is permanently dismissed. Thank god, that's

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Speaker 22: a collap.

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Speaker 16: Thank you, Lord said.

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Speaker 22: Thank you Lord, because she was in plenty of meetings

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Speaker 22: with us and plenty of the late nights strategizing. So literally,

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Speaker 22: even as soon as this week, we've been dealing with

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Speaker 22: people trying to shut our fun down conversations Angela, I

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Speaker 22: have you have to even inform you of this is

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Speaker 22: still a situation just because you don't see it in

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Speaker 22: a lawsuit. The enemies of equity and equality are real,

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Speaker 22: and they have a problem with us running this business.

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Speaker 22: Prior to the Fearless Fund existing, a black woman's average

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Speaker 22: fundraise was only thirty thousand dollars. And we are still

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Speaker 22: cutting seven figure checks. We came on the scene cutting

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Speaker 22: them and we're still cutting them, and it is very disruptive.

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Speaker 22: It's just very disruptive. But right now, legally we're good.

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Speaker 22: But honestly, this is not a matter of where the

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Speaker 22: private sector should be having to defend this.

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Speaker 4: This is more of a policy issue.

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Speaker 22: That's what it is at its core, which is why

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Speaker 22: I was so excited when.

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Speaker 3: Kind of Swimming Williams was on the panel. I said,

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Speaker 3: wait a minute.

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Speaker 4: I showed him out to do list. I said, at

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Speaker 4: the top of it was, I said, you're on my

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Speaker 4: call is today.

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Speaker 3: I said, we'll chat right after this.

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Speaker 4: But really it's because that's what it is. It's a

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Speaker 4: policy issue.

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Speaker 22: There was a time, as we all know, when slavery

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Speaker 22: was legal, you know, but that doesn't mean it's right.

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Speaker 22: So we have to fix some of our policies in

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Speaker 22: order to protect marginalized communities so that everybody can achieve

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Speaker 22: the American dream er.

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Speaker 1: I just want to pick up on something that you said,

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Speaker 1: because I think it's so important to understand those numbers

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Speaker 1: when it comes to when you have a business idea

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Speaker 1: and you go to get funded. There was research that

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Speaker 1: came out, I think twenty eighteen on rate my VC.

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Speaker 1: So you talked about the numbers of who is on

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Speaker 1: the other side of that table. The number of black

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Speaker 1: people at that time who were vcs was less than

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Speaker 1: point two percent, and those white boys were they were

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Speaker 1: making it rain on anybody with an idea, and you

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Speaker 1: watch their businesses crumble time after time, black businesses had

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Speaker 1: to struggle and they were thriving. This research found that

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Speaker 1: because of black businesses getting denied, that the United States

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Speaker 1: missed out on multi billion dollars in economic opportunity. Racism

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Speaker 1: does not pay. So thank you for what you do.

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Speaker 22: And I'll think one second, and I know we got

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Speaker 22: to get to Kim, but I want people to understand

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Speaker 22: how this industry actually works. So the largest investor in

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Speaker 22: private equity and venture capital the industry I work in,

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Speaker 22: are pension funds. I work in a sixty two trillion

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Speaker 22: dollar industry. So on the ground floor you have pension funds.

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Speaker 6: You say that number again, sixty two trillion dollars, trillion trilli,

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Speaker 6: not billions trillions.

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Speaker 22: So on the ground floor you have these pension funds

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Speaker 22: that are the largest investors. You're talking teachers, you're talking firefighters,

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Speaker 22: you're talking police officers, ground floor right here. Then that

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Speaker 22: money goes up to the sixty two trillion dollar industry

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Speaker 22: that is controlled by ninety two percent white men. That

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Speaker 22: then goes into the white startups, and it very rarely

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Speaker 22: makes us all the way down in a circle back

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Speaker 22: to the people of color who are very much, so

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Speaker 22: highly populated, and the teachers, the police officers, and the

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Speaker 22: fire workers and everybody else where this money was made

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Speaker 22: off of. So if you know any public workers or

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Speaker 22: anybody with pension funds, you'd tell them, Hey, if you're

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Speaker 22: going to put my money somewhere, it has to come

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Speaker 22: back to my community.

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Speaker 14: You know.

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Speaker 4: Kim. I love that arian You said that it is

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Speaker 4: a public policy issue, and it is.

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Speaker 6: But one of the things that we know is that

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Speaker 6: public policy doesn't change without pressure. So I love that

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Speaker 6: you're up here, Kim, in part because of your own

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Speaker 6: role on boards. The important role that boards played. That

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Speaker 6: is also politics, right y'all are voting members of an

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Speaker 6: entity that control how dollars are spent for a corporation.

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Speaker 6: Please for a moment talk about the very significant role

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Speaker 6: that board members play in shifting corporate policy and how

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Speaker 6: that impacts groups like what Arianne has started with Fearless Bud.

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Speaker 23: Okay, so one, thank you all for having me. I

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Speaker 23: will tell you that in the same way that we

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Speaker 23: have public policy, there's governance. As Angela mentioned in the

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Speaker 23: cor in Corporate America and the Private Spector. I'm a

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Speaker 23: twenty five year old year young founder founded my business

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Speaker 23: right out of college scaled it to a multimillion dollar enterprise,

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Speaker 23: Thank you Jesus. But what that being said, some of

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Speaker 23: my primary partners are of Corporate America. And so when

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Speaker 23: you look at where and how we are discussing DI now,

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Speaker 23: and I'm gonna kind of throw a little bit in

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Speaker 23: here that might be kind of an interesting twist because

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Speaker 23: while I certainly believe in the commitment to d unequivocally,

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Speaker 23: I want us to also remember it's chestnut checkers, and

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Speaker 23: sometimes I think that we need to make sure that

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Speaker 23: we're looking at the commitment rather than the merchandising. And

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Speaker 23: so for me to your point as it relates to duty,

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Speaker 23: when I'm sitting in a board seat or when I'm

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Speaker 23: advising to chairman of Fortune one hundred of the C suite,

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Speaker 23: we are looking at it from a standpoint of inclusion

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Speaker 23: and commitment. I don't need to necessarily see DEI. I

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Speaker 23: don't need to see those words. I do need to

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Speaker 23: see the business plan. I do need to see the accountability,

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Speaker 23: and most importantly, I want us to be able to

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Speaker 23: show the business value to where and how those things

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Speaker 23: are reached. Because I'm going to tell y'all in anything

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Speaker 23: by way of what doesn't get measured won't matter. So

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Speaker 23: for me, it's about how are we accounting to to

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Speaker 23: the metrics and measurement and outcomes, because what we know

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Speaker 23: is that inclusion is good business. This week in Atlanta

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Speaker 23: is the National Minority Supplier Development Council Conference. I'm certified

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Speaker 23: as a minority women business enterprise. I'm certified as a

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Speaker 23: women's business enterprise. With that said, Magic Johnson hosted something

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Speaker 23: this week with that. He had Tony Wrestler, one of

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Speaker 23: the owners of the Hawks, who stood before as the

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Speaker 23: title sponsor, to say that in all of his enterprises

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Speaker 23: he's looking at where and how inclusion is good business.

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Speaker 23: When you talk to Derek Johnson and others, again, I

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Speaker 23: want us to look at where and how we play

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Speaker 23: the game. You know, Angela introduced me as a strategist,

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Speaker 23: and all.

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Speaker 16: Of this becomes strategic.

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Speaker 23: Sometimes we are a little bit lost in the tactics

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Speaker 23: of things and we need to stay at the macro.

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Speaker 23: But with Angela's comment, we have to have seats at

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Speaker 23: the table. And after George Floyd, you did see a

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Speaker 23: spike and increase by way of representation of many on

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Speaker 23: boards whether it was women, black Latino, and I want

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Speaker 23: to say this to our Latino brothers and sisters too.

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Speaker 23: You know, you talk about where and how we are

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Speaker 23: underrepresented and under marginalized. When I'm going out and doing

1323
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Speaker 23: campaigns as it relates to building business strategies for corporations,

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Speaker 23: it's harder sometimes to find.

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Speaker 4: Them in the leadership seats.

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Speaker 23: So you know, we have to look at this as

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Speaker 23: a collective force and get out of the game of

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Speaker 23: marginalizing all these different verticals and understand that the power

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Speaker 23: is really in the collaboration and making sure that the

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Speaker 23: representation and the accounta But because you can't go in

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 23: there scared, see you and those folks who on me

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Speaker 23: and I operate from a spirit of humility, but I

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Speaker 23: also understand where and how when I'm in the room

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Speaker 23: and at the table, operate from the side of making

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Speaker 23: sure that right is discussed.

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Speaker 4: I don't have to lead.

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Speaker 23: They can see that I'm a black woman, but we

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01:09:15,479 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 23: need to discuss in the sense of business and what

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Speaker 23: is right and be able to show that as business leaders,

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Speaker 23: and that's how we begin and continue to move the needle.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you bringing up the Latino community Kim, because

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Speaker 1: we have had this discussion on our podcast routinely what

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Speaker 1: we see happening in some communities across the country. I

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Speaker 1: hate to see any of us use the white man's

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Speaker 1: the oppressor's tools or language. This country has not been

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Speaker 1: kind to any community of color. In twenty forty four,

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01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: there will be no racial majority, so we can win

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Speaker 1: together or we could lose divided. And I think we

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Speaker 1: have to acknowledge that one we talk about this as well.

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Speaker 1: The Latino community for the first time has eclipsed to

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Speaker 1: Black community in terms of eligible voters, not registered voters,

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01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,760
Speaker 1: but eligible voters, of course, and I will acknowledge their

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01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: anti black sentiments in every community, but more often than not,

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Speaker 1: we are trying to work together. So I just as

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01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: they make migrant crime an issue, which is not an issue.

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Speaker 1: It's significally going. This is a lie of fallacy when

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Speaker 1: they try to divide us, when they make us fight

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01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 1: over resources, we're literally fighting each other over crumbs while

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Speaker 1: they're sitting across watching that happen, eating a steak. So

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure when you hear those

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Speaker 1: kinds of sentiments, please combat it, Please say that that's

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01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: not our enemy. That's our ally and the fred Hampton approached,

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Speaker 1: that's why he was so powerful and killed by the state.

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Speaker 1: The fred Hampton approach said, let me go tell you everybody,

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Speaker 1: including poor white people, how we can work together. So

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Speaker 1: shout out to you for acknowledging saying that you had

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Speaker 1: a question, so right, you didn't have a another guy,

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Speaker 1: I had a question. I went back to a seat.

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Speaker 1: So I want you to think, y'all.

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Speaker 4: We have to get through this guy into it.

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Speaker 1: But come on, come on up.

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Speaker 23: The only other thing I wanted to add because I

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01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 23: think as we look at the segmentation and I'm wearing

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Speaker 23: this sweatshirt today that represents all of the black female

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Speaker 23: leaders as it relates to Fortune one hundred CEOs and

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01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 23: they sit and lead as directors of some of the

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Speaker 23: largest global brands that we know. It's also understanding too,

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Speaker 23: let's not leave out white women. And I say that

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Speaker 23: because we haven't really talked about that as much.

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Speaker 22: No, they laughing as this there's a podcast.

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Speaker 5: You haven't been interrupted yet. I'm impressed. Well, you said, you.

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Speaker 23: Know, we have to look at and she used the

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Speaker 23: word ally. In my world, and especially in the space

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Speaker 23: of business, I'm looking for accomplice, you know, because to me,

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01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 23: you gotta be willing to go out there. And I

1386
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 23: was reading some articles and there's all this stuff out

1387
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Speaker 23: there about where and how you know, Jamie Diamond is

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01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 23: privately supporting candidate Eggs and Bill Gates just gave fifty

1389
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Speaker 23: million to you know, candidate Eggs and all of these

1390
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Speaker 23: things being said, there is a principle in courageous leadership, right,

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Speaker 23: and I think too as we look at where our

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01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 23: great sister Jotikah Joetaica Edie sparked this whole catalyst around

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Speaker 23: building community. To your point, Tiffany, we really need to

1394
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Speaker 23: hone in. They started the you know, white women for Kamala.

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Speaker 23: You know same white women are underrepresented in leadership in

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Speaker 23: corporate America. We need to find those commonalities to look

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Speaker 23: at it for in the standpoint, by way of policy

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01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:59,160
Speaker 23: and by way of protocol and where and how we

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01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 23: are changing thing systemic, inequities systemic and that's work, and

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Speaker 23: that's work that means that we have to do it together.

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Speaker 4: We better find them commonalities.

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Speaker 6: After they find this chastising real quick, let me come

1403
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:15,760
Speaker 6: here for this question, all right, So then yeah, just

1404
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 6: say your name and where you're from. And then y'all

1405
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:18,679
Speaker 6: we are over time on this panel.

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Speaker 4: We love y'all. We're gonna keep talking about this, but

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Speaker 4: I do want to come here.

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Speaker 11: How y'all doing.

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Speaker 24: My name is Mario Raised, originally from the Bronx New York,

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Speaker 24: calling Atlanta home in.

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Speaker 9: New York's everywhere home to Atlanta.

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Speaker 11: Thank you.

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Speaker 24: I actually sit really knee deep in the trenches in Atlanta.

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01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 24: When it comes to black men, I'm a board member

1415
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Speaker 24: here at TGS, I'm a board member with on Google,

1416
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 24: I'm a board member with black Man Lab, and I

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01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 24: see about one thousand men faces weekly.

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Speaker 11: And one of the.

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Speaker 24: Things that has come up time and time again, so

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Speaker 24: I'm gonna respectfully disagree with you brother that you guys

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01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 24: have to fight very hard for the black male vote

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01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 24: and it's because they feel betrayed by the Democratic Party.

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01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 24: They don't feel like they represent them. And I also

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01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 24: feel like this they've been taking for granted. So how

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01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:08,559
Speaker 24: can I, sitting in front of them, combat a lot

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Speaker 24: of the misinformation that they've been fed time and time again.

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Speaker 24: And just a follow up comment, I am Afro Latino.

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01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 24: You know Bronx Bodiquehaile all day that being said, I.

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Speaker 24: Colorism is pervasive in every community, of course, and I

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Speaker 24: have to constantly remind my Latino brothers and sisters that

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01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 24: just because their skin may be lighter don't mean that

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Speaker 24: white privilege extends to them.

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Speaker 9: And I'm often combatd with that.

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Speaker 24: Furthermore, especially obviously black women, notwithstanding a lot of women

1435
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:48,160
Speaker 24: in the Caucasian and Latino community are scared and don't

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01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 24: believe America is ready for a female president.

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Speaker 9: And I look at that kind of as cutting your nose.

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01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 24: Off despite your face, right, And I guess my biggest

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01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 24: question first is how do I come back to misinformation?

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Speaker 24: Is there just a simple website where I could.

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Speaker 1: See Well, I want to ask you, because you said

1442
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 1: black men feel betrayed by the Democratic Party. I want

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01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 1: to be clear. We are not mouthpieces for the Democratic understand,

1444
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 1: but I am.

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Speaker 4: A sure woman of our state Democratic woman to ever

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Speaker 4: hold this position.

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Speaker 20: And I hired the first black man to ever be

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01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 20: the executive director of our state Democratic Party. And Kevin

1449
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:29,240
Speaker 20: raise your hand, Kevin is here with us today.

1450
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:31,719
Speaker 4: Are not overlooked on our watch.

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01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,000
Speaker 20: I am married to a black man, I'm raising my

1452
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 20: nine year old son to be a black man, and

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01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 20: this is something we're in this together. I hear it

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01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 20: all the time, and my pushback is, we're showing up

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01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 20: to do the work, and it shows in the work

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01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 20: that we're doing, not just the word of mouth that

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01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 20: you'll hear in an election cycle. And I hear you, Angela,

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01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:51,120
Speaker 20: We're over time, and so I would love to connect

1459
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 20: you with Kevin so that we can get you those resources.

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01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 24: Said something really specific that I want to touch on.

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Speaker 24: You said, you show up and a lot of times,

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Speaker 24: these great handles show up behind the gate, so people

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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 24: can't afford the gathering spots, so they're not privy to

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Speaker 24: this conversation.

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Speaker 4: And Ryan opened it up for everyone.

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Speaker 20: So shut up to Washington Park on two days ago

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01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,640
Speaker 20: with the community for a barbecue and ballacy that with

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01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 20: that the story not showing up here at the gathering spot,

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01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:21,799
Speaker 20: I mean open events for the community.

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Speaker 4: I represent this community. I live in Southwest.

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Speaker 20: Atlanta, and every day I am leading into in this

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Speaker 20: community for the people that I serve.

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Speaker 4: And I know that I cannot do this alone. It

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Speaker 4: takes whole communities and.

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Speaker 24: That includes this is such a big disconnect, and I

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01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 24: would like to say I would like to offer myself

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Speaker 24: to help men that thank you.

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01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:40,680
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do black men feel because I think this

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Speaker 1: is such an important point you're making. I want to

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Speaker 1: hear what do black men feel that they've been left

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Speaker 1: out of or disrespected.

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Speaker 24: By, but from the Democratic Party. I want to hear

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01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 24: everything about, you know, financial progress, the way that the

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01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 24: nuclear family is now propagated by because they feel this

1485
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 24: LGBTQ agenda that's being hijacked by the Democratic Party. These

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Speaker 24: are conversations that I've heard seriously, and a lot of

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Speaker 24: times black men say.

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Speaker 9: What I've heard also is that they will hold their vote.

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Speaker 24: In protest, which obviously, again is cutting your nose despite

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01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 24: your face. So I want to be out here as

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01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:24,480
Speaker 24: a mouthpiece to help bridge these gaps in communication and misinformation.

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Speaker 11: So that's just the first of all.

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01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:29,799
Speaker 5: Everything you said, it resonates.

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01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:31,400
Speaker 4: And the resident black man on the stage.

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01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 7: We're not a monolith and we shouldn't be fighting a

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01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 7: battle against what one person's experiences versus your own. And

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Speaker 7: that extends to you, which is, uh, you're not every

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01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 7: black man. Uh uh bronx bodiqua is what you said.

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Speaker 7: But I know this much, there's not the gentleman that

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Speaker 7: you're coming into contact with aren't lying about what they

1501
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 7: feel their experiences with the Democratic Party.

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01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 5: They're speaking it as they have experienced it.

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01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 7: And the truth is is that until Kamala Harris, I've

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01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 7: never seen a president of the United States or candidate

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01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:11,799
Speaker 7: put out an agenda specifically for black men. Never ever

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01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 7: within the Democratic Party, it's been a third rail by

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01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 7: and large that the campaigns and candidates haven't gone to

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01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 7: put black men first. In to name it, my philosophy

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01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:25,679
Speaker 7: with when you don't call something a thing, it ain't

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01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 7: a thing.

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Speaker 5: It is. How I tell you, one of my kids

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01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:28,200
Speaker 5: are at the pool.

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Speaker 7: If everybody's watching, ain't nobody watching, which means I have

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01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 7: to name it.

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Speaker 5: I'm watching my three children as they play. So what

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01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:38,280
Speaker 5: I would say is that, yeah, we have problems within

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01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party.

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01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 7: Yes there are champions who are trying to change that,

1519
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 7: but Kamala Harris, as a candidate standalone right now for president,

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01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:48,759
Speaker 7: has prioritized us and she's done it over the black

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01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 7: man president.

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Speaker 5: And I say that with.

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Speaker 7: Respect of Barack Obama, because when he was asked what's

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01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 7: the black agenda, he said, my agenda for America is

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Speaker 7: the black agenda. And guess what there's an a black

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01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 7: person I know that didn't benefit from health care when

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Speaker 7: he changes.

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Speaker 5: So in some ways he's right.

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Speaker 7: But also in some ways the third rail wouldn't allow

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Speaker 7: him to call out Look at what he said, what

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01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:10,640
Speaker 7: about Skip Gates coming in contact, He had to have

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Speaker 7: a bear summit.

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Speaker 5: It still came up on the short end of that.

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Speaker 7: Look at what happened with Donald Trump, what he called

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01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 7: him out is not an American, he's Birtherism and all

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01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:20,360
Speaker 7: that shit. It broke my heart when the President of

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Speaker 7: the United States, at least his public birth certificate.

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Speaker 11: Broke my heart.

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01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:26,680
Speaker 7: It still does when I think about it. Right, So,

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Speaker 7: but the point is that we are making progress. We're

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01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 7: in We're not the perfect, but we are in the

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01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 7: pursuit of the better, in pursuit of the perfect. Kamala

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01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 7: Harris is not the person we are to take our

1544
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 7: angst out on. She actually is in alignment with what

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01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,120
Speaker 7: it is that we believe ought to be the case.

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01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,799
Speaker 7: And we also shouldn't take our anks out against LGBTQ folks,

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01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 7: black women, and the other folks that they tend to

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01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 7: put us hit us against, because that's all deficit mentality.

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Speaker 5: That's what white people have gifted us.

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Speaker 9: I agree with your whole heartedly.

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Speaker 24: And one of the things I've noticed that the squeaky

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01:19:57,160 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 24: wheels get the greased so they're the loudest. The those

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01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 24: complaints are resound louder than the solutions and the actual policies.

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01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,759
Speaker 24: And a lot of times we speak in echo chambers.

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01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,599
Speaker 24: We speak to those that understand, that communicate on a

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01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 24: certain level, versus the brothers that feel like because they

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01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 24: can't understand and there is that disconnect, they automatically feel abandoned.

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Speaker 7: But that's why we're talking with you, because the attention

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01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 7: is is that you may have access to rooms that

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01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 7: they won't have, so that you can take information back

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01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 7: that they otherwise won't get access to. And I'll just

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01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 7: simply say, there isn't a There is not a single

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01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 7: website you can go to and get all of the debunking.

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Speaker 5: It all depends on what the attack is.

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Speaker 4: That one.

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Speaker 5: It all depends on what the attack is. But I

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Speaker 5: guarantee you.

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Speaker 4: You cancl you toe.

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Speaker 6: But sorry, Andrew, really quick, I wasn't talking about acl

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Speaker 6: There's a gentleman.

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Speaker 4: I don't know where he went. His name is Evan.

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Speaker 4: He oh, Evan, where do you mean, I've been telling

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01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 4: you to come up in Evan. I texted you and

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01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 4: said come up here, Evan. Evan talked to this. What's

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01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 4: your name?

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01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 11: Brother, Mario?

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Speaker 6: Mario Evan is working on a Fullton County specific website

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01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:07,639
Speaker 6: that deals with misinformation and how to combat is can

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01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 6: you Wave Evan?

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Speaker 4: He works for congress Woman macmeth as well.

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Speaker 6: But the reason why this is important, what happened with

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01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 6: Nakima is important. What happened with Andrew and what he's

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01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:19,599
Speaker 6: saying is important. Nakima and Andrew have had to take

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01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:23,799
Speaker 6: on the party themselves. This isn't just like, let's be honest,

1585
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 6: because we can't. What we can't do is win them

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01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 6: over with lies. What the honest truth is. Democratic Party

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01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 6: got just as many racists in it as the Republican Party.

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01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 6: They also got fascism and other Now the folks, at

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Speaker 6: least on our side, I think, are at least amenable

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01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 6: to changing, in part because nothing, no power does it

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01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 6: concedes nothing without a demand. They've been demanding. He demanded

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Speaker 6: when he was running for governor. He demanded as mayor,

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Speaker 6: he demanded as a commissioner, that those are the kinds

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01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 6: of things that happen if we don't get in the

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01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 6: room and say, oh no, no, this is going to

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01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 6: change on my watch, it won't.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 6: I submit to you that it's a hell of a

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01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 6: lot easier to do it within the Democratic Party than

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Speaker 6: to be having that fight with the Republican Party.

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Speaker 4: We gotta be well.

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01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 9: Things was much better under Jim Crow.

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Speaker 4: Okay, y'all know who I'm talking. Mom will leave me alone.

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01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna hijack.

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01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 1: I appreciate your question. Thank you for that.

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01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 4: We gotta you, guys, We gotta really get to this. Yes,

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01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:20,720
Speaker 4: Evan talked to him, and come really quick, tell us

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01:22:20,720 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 4: about his website.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then oh yeah, we'll go to your question

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01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 1: as soon as you're gonna tell us about.

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Speaker 4: This because it was about this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, informational quick, go ahead.

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Speaker 25: Oh hello everyone, Hello, wonderful panel. Apologies for being late.

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Speaker 25: I kind of got lost in viewer mode. Love you, guys.

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Speaker 25: I I am with Watch the Vote at L is

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01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:43,879
Speaker 25: a collaboration between the Black Cross founded by Gail Brooks

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Speaker 25: and George the Georgia Institute of Technology for their specific

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01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:50,760
Speaker 25: school for People and Technology. So what we have been

1619
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:53,599
Speaker 25: doing is we have created a system where We use

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01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 25: both machine learning and humans to track all the social

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01:22:57,240 --> 01:23:00,040
Speaker 25: media sites, so not just Facebook, not just Instagram. We

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01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,479
Speaker 25: also have accounts on True Social, We also have accounts

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Speaker 25: on TikTok And basically what we'll be doing is we'll

1624
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 25: be doing real time fact checking on any tweet, any video,

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01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:14,439
Speaker 25: or any type of source that's sharing misinformation specifically for

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01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 25: the Fulden County area, so we will be sending it

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Speaker 25: directly to Fulton County's communications team. This project started because

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01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 25: you know, eighty five percent of people this election feel

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01:23:23,479 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 25: like very scared of misinformation and a plug for the podcast.

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Speaker 25: I actually got inspired to be a part of the

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01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 25: project and helped start the project because of this podcast.

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Speaker 25: I think on your third episode, miss Rye played a

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01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 25: video about Biden being an AI deep fake, and I

1634
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 25: ended up calling my friends at tech in Fulden County

1635
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 25: and we were able to get it together. But yeah,

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Speaker 25: so follow us at watch the v ATL if you

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01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 25: want Fulton County specific information, we'll have it in real time.

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01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 25: We're also looking for partners so other people that when

1639
01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 25: we have these reports about misinformation, we can get it

1640
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:57,559
Speaker 25: shared out widely as a way, you know, kind of

1641
01:23:57,560 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 25: taking a medical approach and a quarantine approach to it.

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Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, Welcome home, Welcome Home.

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Speaker 26: My favorite podcast is twenty twenty four.

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01:24:09,040 --> 01:24:09,759
Speaker 11: I love you guys.

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01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 26: As a certified financial social worker, I appreciate all the

1646
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 26: great work that you ladies do. I want to talk

1647
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 26: about picking back a conversation before as a social worker.

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01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:23,360
Speaker 26: My name is Basilisa Moreno. I'm also a Bronx bodyco

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01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 26: I live in Delaware. Now we talk about I had

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01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 26: the unfortunate having conversations of.

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Speaker 9: Working explaining.

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01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:43,679
Speaker 26: Severely mentally ill clients back in twenty eighteen when Donald

1653
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:47,400
Speaker 26: Trump cut food stamps. But why don't we talk about that?

1654
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:52,559
Speaker 26: Why don't we use the language in twenty twenty when

1655
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 26: his disastrous COVID response and say he's got blood on

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01:24:57,320 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 26: his hands, He's killed a million people, one of them

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Speaker 26: being my mom, one of them being ten clients when

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01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 26: I worked in New York City. Why don't we have

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01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 26: these conversations. Why don't we have the conversations of people

1660
01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 26: are actually experiencingly like worse after COVID and the aftermath

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01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:21,800
Speaker 26: of COVID. That's one of my biggest problems with the

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01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:23,879
Speaker 26: Biden administration, as much as.

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Speaker 5: I was riding with bout it all the way.

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Speaker 26: Until election day and now the Harris, I'm still all

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01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 26: the way. I still have the image in my hand

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01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 26: as a Bronx bod Equa and him shooting fake ass

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01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 26: free throws on the island, Like what the hell are

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01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:42,280
Speaker 26: you doing? We don't even have electricity having to call

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01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 26: my family or try to reach my family. They don't

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01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 26: even have electricity, and having like guys I went to

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Speaker 26: high school with that are Hispanic and like voting for

1672
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 26: Trump high school friends who are black brothers that went

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01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:57,559
Speaker 26: to high school, we're voting for trouble. Like what are

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01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 26: y'all doing? Fellow social because licensed social works that called

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01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 26: them out. I was like, you need to have your

1676
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:08,639
Speaker 26: license revoked if you vote that for that guy.

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Speaker 5: What are y'all doing?

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01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:13,639
Speaker 26: Why don't we have these conversations? That's all I wanted

1679
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 26: to say, thank you, thank you, and.

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01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: Our condolences on the loss of your mother and our

1681
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: gratitude for the work that you continue to do.

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Speaker 7: So thank you for having those conversations, smartpactful.

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01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 9: From you ladies.

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Speaker 6: We gotta do a part two or this. We did

1685
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:29,640
Speaker 6: not have enough time, and yeah, we talked me so

1686
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 6: much time. But thank you all so much. We're gonna

1687
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,519
Speaker 6: getting your sister just in one moment. Thank you all

1688
01:26:34,560 --> 01:26:35,000
Speaker 6: so much.

1689
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:38,080
Speaker 4: We are gonna bring up now if we can't give

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Speaker 4: a round of applause. First to the Keema, Thank you, Arian,

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Speaker 4: thank you for your work.

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Speaker 9: Queens.

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01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 4: We got a few more queens. They're joining us on

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01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:55,559
Speaker 4: the stage.

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01:26:55,600 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 6: We have Alicia Garza, who is the founder of Black

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Speaker 6: Futures Lab. We have Latasha Brown, co founder of Black

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01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:06,680
Speaker 6: Voters Matter, and Aaron Haynes, a podcast host called The

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Speaker 6: Amendment and also as they hug and kiss and not

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01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 6: walk up here, Aaron is also editor at Large of

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Speaker 6: The Nineteenth.

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01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:18,800
Speaker 4: They're gonna just say my time. I'm gonna take my time.

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01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 4: Y'all want late.

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01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 6: Oh, they're gonna walk over here and also disrupt apartment

1704
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 6: last time, y'all come over here and hug.

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01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 4: Just stay till the end, Praise the Lord. Y'all gonna

1706
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:28,679
Speaker 4: keep going.

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01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, you know what's just ask your question

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01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:36,760
Speaker 6: because they're not even sitting down Jesus, Yes, ma'am, you're naming.

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01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 12: Where you're from.

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Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, before Albert Sanders, Albert Sanders is leaving.

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Speaker 1: I just want to give a shout out to Albert Sanders.

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Speaker 1: Real quick, Albert.

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Speaker 4: Sanders, we shouted you out on the podcast with Jibber Sanders.

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01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 4: What are you doing to make sure that black people

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01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:53,920
Speaker 4: vote this selection? All the things he said, except and

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01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 4: running out of the podcast. Okay, we'll still send us

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01:27:57,040 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 4: your notes my friends.

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Speaker 27: Okay, yes, ma'am, Okay, I was trying to lower this.

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01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:02,640
Speaker 27: I'm so sure it was a little tall for me,

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01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 27: so you'll fix it. So my name is Littoria Whitehead.

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Speaker 27: I'm originally from Jacksonville, Florida, but I've been here for

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01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:12,679
Speaker 27: a little over twenty years and I'm not a family rattler,

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01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 27: but I'm a cau Clarkland University panther a long time.

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01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:25,680
Speaker 27: Oh okay, okay, So my question was actually for the

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Speaker 27: wonderful congress woman. I wanted to know in her opinion,

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Speaker 27: do you think we're talking enough about environmental injustices during

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01:28:33,680 --> 01:28:37,720
Speaker 27: this election cycle, which is connected to jobs and poverty

1728
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 27: and transportation and housing as well. And we do talk

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01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 27: about climate change climate justice, which is under the umbrella

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Speaker 27: of environmental justice, I would argue, but I think that

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01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 27: a lot of people think that the environment is something

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01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,720
Speaker 27: so pristine and out there, and it's not. It is

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01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:59,479
Speaker 27: connected to your child getting asthma and the pollution in

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Speaker 27: your environment in Flint case study. And so when you

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Speaker 27: look at the environmental injustices, these disparities, these are the

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Speaker 27: majority of people of color and low income populations. So

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01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 27: that's a part of our everyday lives when you walk

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Speaker 27: out your door, your grocery stores, what you don't have

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01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 27: and what we call the built environment. And I think

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01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 27: a lot of people are not directly connected to that.

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Speaker 27: And I'm just wondering what you thought about this election

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01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:30,479
Speaker 27: cycle that we are we talking enough about what we

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Speaker 27: call environmental injustices.

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Speaker 4: And I'm so happy to.

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01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 14: See all of you.

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01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,680
Speaker 1: We definitely talk about it, Welcome home. We definitely talk

1747
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 1: about it, but it's not under the headline environmental justice.

1748
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:44,519
Speaker 1: But with that hurricane coverage, that is environmental justice yesterday.

1749
01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:47,200
Speaker 1: There are over one hundred and thirty five million people

1750
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:49,640
Speaker 1: in this country who mostly look like us, who do

1751
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: not have access to clean drinking water. If there were

1752
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:55,240
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five million white folks who didn't

1753
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: have access to clean drinking water, it would be breaking

1754
01:29:57,600 --> 01:30:00,680
Speaker 1: news to this day every day until it's result when

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01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:05,960
Speaker 1: we talk about uh, like heavy rains and flooding, even

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01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:09,439
Speaker 1: outside of hurricanes, is weather that is environmental injustice. So

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01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 1: we may not be using those terms, which we definitely

1758
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:14,880
Speaker 1: should be, but we definitely in news, they definitely talk

1759
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 1: about it. They don't talk about issues that impact us disproportionately.

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01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 1: That's the challenge.

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01:30:19,520 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 16: Yeah, and that is the piece.

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01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:21,360
Speaker 12: Yeah.

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01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have three lovely guests who have joined us. Natasha,

1764
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 6: part of your work, you think about Black Voters Matter

1765
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 6: and how you all started Hurricane Katrina. And I think

1766
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 6: this goes hand in hand with what Tip was just

1767
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 6: bringing up. And tell me your name against sister Littoria,

1768
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,560
Speaker 6: what Latoria was just addressing with environmental justice, talk to

1769
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:44,000
Speaker 6: us about the important work that you all are doing

1770
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,200
Speaker 6: every day, sis what you're hearing on the ground. We

1771
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:48,640
Speaker 6: got into a good conversation with this brother earlier, as

1772
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 6: with Mario.

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Speaker 21: I just want to say, hey, y'all, we welcome to

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Speaker 21: the Atlanta So two things I wanted to say really

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01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 21: related to what you just the system on what you

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01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 21: just shared.

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Speaker 28: One, well, let me let me let me do it

1778
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 28: backwards so we don't hear a lot about environmental justice.

1779
01:31:09,160 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 28: Part of my organization is doing work. We have a

1780
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:14,640
Speaker 28: campaign that we're doing called the Block is Hot, and

1781
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:18,080
Speaker 28: that's our environmental justice because we've got to connect environmental

1782
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 28: justice for many people, it feels or when you start

1783
01:31:20,479 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 28: talking about the environment, particularly the six major environmental organizations,

1784
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,320
Speaker 28: they made it where it was like the protection of

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01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:30,760
Speaker 28: the trees, and we need trees, right, But people in

1786
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:32,879
Speaker 28: their day to day lives they're like, yeah, I understand

1787
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:37,600
Speaker 28: the trees, but I'm like I'm suffering. And so part

1788
01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 28: of our organization we've done work and continue to do

1789
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 28: this work. We did this Block is Hot because down

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01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 28: in South Georgia, people had electric bills that were six, seven,

1791
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:51,800
Speaker 28: eight hundred dollars and they didn't make the connection of

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01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:55,760
Speaker 28: how the climate change is impacting them and impacting their pocketbooks.

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01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 28: And so that's why we did this particular kind of

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01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 28: education campaign around it. The connection to Hurricane Katrine. I'm

1795
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:05,760
Speaker 28: from the Guff Coast a lot of my life and

1796
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:07,799
Speaker 28: so part of before Black Govters Batle.

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01:32:07,680 --> 01:32:09,360
Speaker 3: Was started, Black Voters Battle was started.

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01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 28: It wasn't necessarily organization, but we did a lot of

1799
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:16,759
Speaker 28: hurricane relief because ultimately, what is happening in the Guff

1800
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:19,439
Speaker 28: coast is that the guff water. As the water is

1801
01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:22,960
Speaker 28: getting warmer and warmer, you're having more intensified storms. And

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01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:24,880
Speaker 28: so you're going to have a more frequency of storms

1803
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 28: and they're going more intensified. And I know my brother

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01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 28: Andrew can speak to that. But the second part that

1805
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 28: I wanted to raise to your point is part of

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01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 28: right now, if I were to ask people kind of,

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01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:40,920
Speaker 28: let's look at the top three issues that are dominating

1808
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:44,759
Speaker 28: the political landscape, what we're not really realizing is that

1809
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:48,200
Speaker 28: many of those issues have already been predetermined by some folks,

1810
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:49,560
Speaker 28: and we're hearing.

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01:32:49,280 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 5: It over and over and over and over again.

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01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:56,960
Speaker 28: And one issue would be how they framed abortion. You

1813
01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:59,840
Speaker 28: would think that everybody in America get up every day

1814
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:01,839
Speaker 28: thinking about, oh my god, what is about abortion?

1815
01:33:02,280 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 9: Right now?

1816
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 28: That's a real valid issue, right, but it is framed

1817
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 28: because it really was an artificial issue in terms of

1818
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:14,040
Speaker 28: frame to actually take downv way, but it was also

1819
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:18,400
Speaker 28: to listit a particular kind of emotional response from folks,

1820
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 28: right so that people make a divided line on this

1821
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:23,880
Speaker 28: particular one issue. And I'm saying that because oftentimes the

1822
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:26,880
Speaker 28: issues that we're hearing are not issues that you're hearing

1823
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:27,719
Speaker 28: from the ground.

1824
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:29,759
Speaker 4: Or that people are really making their main issue.

1825
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:31,519
Speaker 28: I can talk to people on the ground right now

1826
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:33,240
Speaker 28: for five minutes, and I can tell you they listen to.

1827
01:33:33,479 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 28: I can almost tell you what podcasts they listen to.

1828
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:37,439
Speaker 28: I can tell you what network they listen to. I

1829
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 28: can tell you whether they read or not right.

1830
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 9: And so part of.

1831
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:43,080
Speaker 28: It is because oftentimes what we're seeing as issues and

1832
01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:46,760
Speaker 28: what we're responding to, we're responding to because those there

1833
01:33:46,760 --> 01:33:49,840
Speaker 28: are folks who are planting particular kind of ideas and

1834
01:33:49,920 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 28: issues and priorities of ideas and issues. The black male

1835
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:56,360
Speaker 28: thing right around, black men are going to have this

1836
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:59,560
Speaker 28: exodus one. It's racist as hell. I'll tell you in

1837
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:01,920
Speaker 28: terms of just the very foundation of that, and I'll

1838
01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:05,960
Speaker 28: tell you why I say that. What's really interesting about

1839
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 28: that is that it's it's it's framed as with us

1840
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 28: as if all of a sudden, because what we white

1841
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 28: folks will do is they'll columbus us when they discover something,

1842
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 28: then all of a sudden, it just created. It just

1843
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 28: was founded, right, So, oh my god, the black men

1844
01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:22,840
Speaker 28: are upset and they're a disillusion hell. Black men have

1845
01:34:22,920 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 28: been upset like what you're talking about this ain't the

1846
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:28,000
Speaker 28: first election cycle, right, This ain't the first time we've

1847
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:30,800
Speaker 28: been disillusioned. Matter of fact, black folks in general don't

1848
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:34,320
Speaker 28: necessarily excited about politics in America. That's not what we're

1849
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:36,920
Speaker 28: excited about. We know all of them, like we just

1850
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:39,880
Speaker 28: we're doing the best we can a survive. We're clear, right,

1851
01:34:40,200 --> 01:34:42,439
Speaker 28: And I'm saying that because I think it's framed as

1852
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:45,599
Speaker 28: if it's like, you know, Columbus discovered America, right, even

1853
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:47,280
Speaker 28: though the folks was already here, like.

1854
01:34:47,400 --> 01:34:49,040
Speaker 16: Oh there's black disillusionment.

1855
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:52,120
Speaker 28: Oh it must be because of Kamala Harris, And then

1856
01:34:52,160 --> 01:34:56,120
Speaker 28: that becomes the narrative, that is, and then it's becomes

1857
01:34:56,240 --> 01:35:00,120
Speaker 28: an analysis about black men and this this black I'm

1858
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 28: at the top of the ticket. If there was real

1859
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:05,600
Speaker 28: genuine interest, you would really get to the bottom of

1860
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:09,800
Speaker 28: an analysis of why black men are frustrated, right, and

1861
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:11,600
Speaker 28: why it is valid for them to frustrat it. But

1862
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:13,479
Speaker 28: you want to talk about d you want to talk

1863
01:35:13,479 --> 01:35:16,599
Speaker 28: about is coma. And then unfortunately, because of us don't read,

1864
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:19,040
Speaker 28: some of us don't read, and some of us are

1865
01:35:19,040 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 28: really getting our information in our thoughts not really having

1866
01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 28: a critical analysis. We're taking what they're saying, and then

1867
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:27,120
Speaker 28: we're responding. Now, now you got black folks.

1868
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:28,800
Speaker 4: Running around saying that stop.

1869
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:31,920
Speaker 28: It, y'all, stop it, right, unless you're literally talking to

1870
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:35,760
Speaker 28: people and really doing this work and getting down to it.

1871
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:37,719
Speaker 28: Part of what we do a black vote is matter.

1872
01:35:37,760 --> 01:35:40,080
Speaker 28: Part of our work is really around listening. When we

1873
01:35:40,120 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 28: first started, for seven months, Cliff and I it was

1874
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 28: the only two we literally went to seven states and

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01:35:45,040 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 28: listen to folks. And so I'm saying that, and normally

1876
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 28: I hate to say it, but this is the truth. Normally,

1877
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:52,639
Speaker 28: the first answer people give us.

1878
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:54,000
Speaker 16: Ain't never the real answer.

1879
01:35:54,479 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 5: It's really not.

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01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:58,519
Speaker 28: People would give you the quickest answer because we like

1881
01:35:58,560 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 28: to perceive.

1882
01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:00,919
Speaker 11: As we're small and we thoughtful.

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01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:03,080
Speaker 28: And so when we hear people on TV, when we

1884
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:05,639
Speaker 28: see folks on the podcast where we read something, then

1885
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 28: if I give you I just heard over and over

1886
01:36:08,479 --> 01:36:11,559
Speaker 28: and over and over again that black men don't want

1887
01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 28: to support this system. So I've heard that over and

1888
01:36:14,080 --> 01:36:17,320
Speaker 28: over again. I'm not really sat down and had an

1889
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:19,919
Speaker 28: analysis or even really sat with that for a minute.

1890
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:22,000
Speaker 28: So when you come to me and put a microphone

1891
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:24,479
Speaker 28: in my face, guess what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna

1892
01:36:24,520 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 28: repeat the same thing that I've heard, I've seen on

1893
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:29,439
Speaker 28: the internet that I've heard because I'm not really using

1894
01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:31,760
Speaker 28: a critical analysis or thought around that. I'm raising that

1895
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 28: because I think sometimes we're perpetuating something that really is

1896
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:39,639
Speaker 28: not rooted in the real analysis. Is riddy And what's

1897
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,720
Speaker 28: the quickest and the easiest kind of pundit point that

1898
01:36:42,720 --> 01:36:45,639
Speaker 28: we've gotten that some of this stuff has been placed

1899
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:48,680
Speaker 28: in this in the some of this, y'all, all of

1900
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:52,120
Speaker 28: these polls coming out from folks that we don't even know.

1901
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 28: You're doing a sampling pole of millions of folks with

1902
01:36:54,200 --> 01:36:55,719
Speaker 28: two hundred people come.

1903
01:36:55,560 --> 01:36:58,120
Speaker 9: On, right, And so a lot of that.

1904
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:01,400
Speaker 28: There are poles, There are information that's literally being injected

1905
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,800
Speaker 28: in our communities. And then we respond, we take it,

1906
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:07,040
Speaker 28: we run with it, because what they're really doing is

1907
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:08,880
Speaker 28: exploiting our pain, because the truth of the matter is

1908
01:37:08,920 --> 01:37:11,600
Speaker 28: we are disillusion The truth of the matter it is

1909
01:37:11,600 --> 01:37:14,240
Speaker 28: black men are upset, but they being upset now y'all

1910
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:15,640
Speaker 28: just paying attention, and all of a sudden they just

1911
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 28: got upset because you're paying attention, right, and you're paying

1912
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 28: attention because you're forced to pay attention because now you're

1913
01:37:21,160 --> 01:37:24,080
Speaker 28: face to deal with gender and race. We've never had

1914
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 28: a circumstance in the presidential election that we had to

1915
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:29,720
Speaker 28: deal with gender and race, dealing with gender and race

1916
01:37:29,880 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 28: just at the very just the best of the fact

1917
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 28: that there's a black woman at the top of the ticket.

1918
01:37:34,320 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 28: So my point is we've got to have a little

1919
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:39,680
Speaker 28: bit deeper analysis around when people are coming to us

1920
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 28: with that information, what's the source of it, and why

1921
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 28: are you bringing it to me?

1922
01:37:43,479 --> 01:37:45,040
Speaker 9: Because now all of a sudden, you care about black

1923
01:37:45,040 --> 01:37:45,599
Speaker 9: men being.

1924
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 4: Upset, and so that's the thing.

1925
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 6: I want to go here for a moment, and at

1926
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:54,400
Speaker 6: LEASTI I want to come to you because there's also

1927
01:37:54,520 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 6: another issue, the folks who dedicate their time and efforts

1928
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:02,719
Speaker 6: and their own resources to ensure that black voices, Black

1929
01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:05,240
Speaker 6: voices are heard and black people are listening to to

1930
01:38:05,439 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 6: what LB was just saying, I think it's so important

1931
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:11,559
Speaker 6: you founded Black Futures Lab to do just that. There

1932
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:13,719
Speaker 6: was a black Did you guys hear about the Black census?

1933
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,040
Speaker 6: Raise your hand if you heard about the Black Senses?

1934
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:18,760
Speaker 3: So this okay, so.

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01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:20,519
Speaker 4: A lot of people in here, how many of y'all

1936
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 4: took the Black Senses don't lie. I'm gonna find out.

1937
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna look up your names on it. I'm just winning.

1938
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:26,639
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do that.

1939
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:29,439
Speaker 6: But I think that it's important to just pause here

1940
01:38:29,479 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 6: for a moment to acknowledge that when black people do

1941
01:38:32,200 --> 01:38:35,519
Speaker 6: things for black folks, to ensure that black voices are

1942
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 6: heard and that black people's needs are met on a

1943
01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:43,919
Speaker 6: policy level, we don't damn participate. Okay, Hello, lights, Alicia,

1944
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:45,160
Speaker 6: can you just weigh in on this.

1945
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:48,080
Speaker 4: I think it's important that'sring me in. Wait, hold on?

1946
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:48,800
Speaker 9: Can her mic?

1947
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:51,760
Speaker 4: Can we please turn all these mics on? All right now?

1948
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:55,840
Speaker 4: Please no hell because you can hear me.

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01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:58,080
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, like hold it like this?

1950
01:38:58,200 --> 01:38:59,439
Speaker 5: Okay, there you go that.

1951
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 4: Sorry, y'all, I'm.

1952
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:01,800
Speaker 1: Gonna get real.

1953
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 4: Eric being rock, Come on, hi, y'all get afternoon.

1954
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 5: All right.

1955
01:39:07,280 --> 01:39:09,120
Speaker 29: We can talk about the Black Census, we can talk

1956
01:39:09,120 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 29: about the Black Futures lab.

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01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 4: But I just want to.

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01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:17,960
Speaker 29: Say thank you, Natasha, because I think there is both

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Speaker 29: a conversation about what we need to be doing with

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Speaker 29: each other to stay connected, to stay focused, and to

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Speaker 29: stay unified. There's also a conversation about what onslaught we

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Speaker 29: deal with every single day. And that misinformation disinformation stuff

1963
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:36,800
Speaker 29: is a real thing and we all getting caught up

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Speaker 29: in it. So I want to appreciate you for raising that,

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Speaker 29: and I want to appreciate you for raising it and

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Speaker 29: saying not what you're going to do about it, but

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Speaker 29: what can we do about it? I think you know,

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Speaker 29: when we talk about the environmental racism thing, which where

1969
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Speaker 29: I want to sit that we got people out here

1970
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Speaker 29: saying there was no hurricane.

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Speaker 3: No, no, we literally we.

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Speaker 29: Have people out here saying that that was made up too.

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Speaker 29: So I want to sit us inside of like a

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Speaker 29: powerful vision for how we get free by having each

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Speaker 29: other's back and staying connected. And that's really what the

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Speaker 29: Black Futures Lab is about. I started that organization to

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Speaker 29: be a political home for black people, to be a

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Speaker 29: space where black folks can come, not have to know everything,

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Speaker 29: not have to be you know, rocket scientists.

1980
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Speaker 3: But be able to get in a place where.

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Speaker 29: You can get informed, where you can fight together for

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Speaker 29: the things that we want and the things that we

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Speaker 29: need on our terms, not created by somebody else's agenda

1984
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Speaker 29: for us. And the Black Census was our first project

1985
01:40:46,240 --> 01:40:50,240
Speaker 29: that was an opportunity for us to say, Okay, the

1986
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Speaker 29: Democratic Party is not going to speak for black folks.

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Speaker 16: We can speak for ourselves.

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Speaker 29: We reach two hundred and eleven thousand black folks with

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Speaker 29: that Black Census. That's the largest survey of black people

1990
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Speaker 29: that's ever been done in this country's history. Let me

1991
01:41:06,520 --> 01:41:09,840
Speaker 29: say that again, that's ever been done in this country's history.

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Speaker 29: But at two hundred and eleven thousand black people, can

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Speaker 29: you believe that we've never done that before? That We've

1994
01:41:17,800 --> 01:41:20,519
Speaker 29: never talked to two hundred and eleven thousand black people

1995
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Speaker 29: from all fifty states, inside of jail, in prison, outside

1996
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Speaker 29: of jail in prison, all kind of backgrounds that you

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Speaker 29: can think of. Can you imagine that we haven't done

1998
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Speaker 29: that before? And from that survey, what we did was

1999
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:37,400
Speaker 29: we didn't tell you what to say, how to say it, whatever.

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Speaker 1: We just asked, what do you care about?

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Speaker 29: How do you see these people, how are you relating

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Speaker 29: to these people?

2003
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Speaker 3: What are the issues that you care about?

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Speaker 29: And I can tell you we said a year ago

2005
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Speaker 29: the number one issue for black folks.

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Speaker 3: Is the economy.

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Speaker 29: We said this a year ago, we said it four

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Speaker 29: years ago, and people like, what is the most important

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Speaker 29: issue for black people?

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Speaker 10: Is it?

2011
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Speaker 29: We We were like, no, it's the economy, second most

2012
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Speaker 29: important issue for black folks, gun violence, third most important

2013
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 29: issue for black folks. Housing, affordable, accessible, quality housing. Now,

2014
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Speaker 29: those aren't the sexy things that people like to talk about,

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Speaker 29: but those are the things that we go to sleep

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Speaker 29: thinking about every night, and those are the things that

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Speaker 29: we wake up thinking about every day. And so then

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Speaker 29: the question becomes, okay, well, now you've got that information,

2019
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Speaker 29: what do you do with it? Well, we turned it

2020
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Speaker 29: into a policy agenda. We turned it into a Black agenda.

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Speaker 29: We've done it twice. Now, go to Blacktothefuture dot org

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01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:44,360
Speaker 29: and you can see the Black Agenda that was designed

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01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,639
Speaker 29: from the Black census. That is all stuff that we

2024
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 29: said we care about. And then what we did was

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01:42:50,080 --> 01:42:52,000
Speaker 29: we just dug in and said, okay, well, what laws

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Speaker 29: can you make around this? Okay, laws about how we

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Speaker 29: care for each other? How many y'all are caring for

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Speaker 29: parents and kids? Okay, that's a lot of us parents

2029
01:43:04,640 --> 01:43:08,840
Speaker 29: and kids. Okay, there's a lot of us out here

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01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:10,920
Speaker 29: right who are trying to figure out how do I

2031
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Speaker 29: pay my mortgage, how do I even get a place

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Speaker 29: where I can rent. There's a lot of us out

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01:43:15,600 --> 01:43:18,559
Speaker 29: here actually talking about abortion but it's not our tenth

2034
01:43:18,600 --> 01:43:21,880
Speaker 29: issue because the way we're talking about it is, I

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01:43:21,920 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 29: got to have money to raise a family. I got

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Speaker 29: to have money for health care. And then when we

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Speaker 29: go and try to access health care, there's.

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Speaker 3: Just one clinic with one doctor.

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Speaker 4: When we go and.

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Speaker 29: Try to access health care, right, we can't get it.

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Speaker 29: Why Well, the governor in this state don't want to

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Speaker 29: accept federal dollars so that the rest of us can

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01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:46,920
Speaker 29: have health care.

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Speaker 4: That's a real thing.

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Speaker 29: So we started this project in this organization to fight

2046
01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:56,080
Speaker 29: for us on our terms. We don't always have to

2047
01:43:56,080 --> 01:43:59,200
Speaker 29: be a part of the conversation that people shape. For us,

2048
01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:02,320
Speaker 29: always have to be inside of that comment. Do you

2049
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 29: like Kamala or do night like Kamala? That's not the

2050
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:09,120
Speaker 29: conversation that people are having. The conversation people are having

2051
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Speaker 29: is why is gas so high? Why can't I get

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Speaker 29: toilet paper at the supermarket? Why is there no supermarket

2053
01:44:15,920 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 29: in my neighborhood. So we got to stay in the

2054
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Speaker 29: right conversation.

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Speaker 4: We got to stay in.

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Speaker 29: The right story, and the Black Futures librially helps to

2057
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Speaker 29: try to do that.

2058
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Speaker 4: Speaking of stories, you gotta go ahead.

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Speaker 1: No, I was a saying thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I'm not doing a good job at it today. I'm

2061
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Speaker 4: like we over time, Aaron.

2062
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Speaker 6: I want to come to you because Alicia brought up stories,

2063
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Speaker 6: just so you all know that the three down there

2064
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Speaker 6: and Tiff and I Andrew can be honorary since he

2065
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:43,519
Speaker 6: got his Rattler shirt on, and we do claim our brothers.

2066
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Speaker 6: We do not disconnect from our brothers, but we represent

2067
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Speaker 6: half of the Machetes.

2068
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Speaker 4: For those of whose listening a podcast, you heard.

2069
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Speaker 6: About us Ganggang all day, Aaron, So I want to

2070
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Speaker 6: come to you. Speaking of stories, Aaron is one of

2071
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Speaker 6: the funniest writers in history, right, It's the best funny

2072
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:03,800
Speaker 6: text and tweets and all the things. I can't wait

2073
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Speaker 6: till she go to Hollywood and breaks away from the nineteenth.

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Speaker 4: You should be a Hollywood writer. She really is that good.

2075
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Speaker 6: So if she's unfiltered today, y'all might get some of

2076
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Speaker 6: it in her answered, Aaron, you're talking to Mike.

2077
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Speaker 4: Why you whisper it?

2078
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:19,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, but are you reading the journalism?

2079
01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:19,560
Speaker 10: No?

2080
01:45:19,640 --> 01:45:22,760
Speaker 30: I mean yes, I'm hilarious, but I mean I got

2081
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 30: a newsletter, I got a podcast.

2082
01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:25,479
Speaker 3: I'm not hearing these elections story.

2083
01:45:25,520 --> 01:45:27,400
Speaker 4: When you were hugging. You didn't hear any of it,

2084
01:45:27,439 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 4: but I did say all of that in your intro. Man,

2085
01:45:29,840 --> 01:45:31,920
Speaker 4: So I want to come to you though, speaking of

2086
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:33,280
Speaker 4: the stories.

2087
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:36,200
Speaker 3: I'm writing stories when I'm not cracking jokes. It's true.

2088
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:39,160
Speaker 4: Yes, she writes the stories, all the stories.

2089
01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:44,320
Speaker 6: So can you tell me the headline that you envision

2090
01:45:44,360 --> 01:45:47,080
Speaker 6: writing the night of the election.

2091
01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:52,160
Speaker 3: I can tell you the headline she would have.

2092
01:45:52,280 --> 01:45:53,160
Speaker 4: Let me get to my question.

2093
01:45:53,240 --> 01:45:55,599
Speaker 30: You see the headline that the headline that is in

2094
01:45:55,640 --> 01:45:58,800
Speaker 30: my mind that I cannot write on election day.

2095
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:00,920
Speaker 3: And this is regardless of who is y'all aint gonna

2096
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:01,679
Speaker 3: believe this shit.

2097
01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:04,559
Speaker 12: Either way.

2098
01:46:05,240 --> 01:46:08,320
Speaker 3: Either way, it goes like that could.

2099
01:46:08,040 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 30: Be a headline that someone could use. I don't know

2100
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 30: if it's going to show up somewhere. If it does,

2101
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:14,960
Speaker 30: just know you heard it here first. No, but I mean.

2102
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Speaker 3: That's actually a real thing.

2103
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:23,160
Speaker 12: Actually, that's where I'm at.

2104
01:46:23,160 --> 01:46:23,800
Speaker 3: That's where I'm at.

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01:46:23,840 --> 01:46:25,559
Speaker 12: Today's out people, That's where I'm at.

2106
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:29,480
Speaker 3: But no, I mean, look, I think.

2107
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Speaker 30: I am reminded listening to both Alicia and Latasha. We

2108
01:46:36,479 --> 01:46:38,879
Speaker 30: have to listen to voters in this moment. I love elections,

2109
01:46:38,920 --> 01:46:41,920
Speaker 30: I love covering elections. I love you know, covering candidates,

2110
01:46:42,040 --> 01:46:45,719
Speaker 30: but hearing from voters about the things that they care about,

2111
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:49,120
Speaker 30: about what their daily lives are like, and how that

2112
01:46:49,280 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 30: is impacting how they may or may not participate right

2113
01:46:52,520 --> 01:46:55,639
Speaker 30: at the ballot box, Like that matters, and that is

2114
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Speaker 30: not what we are seeing in too much of our journalism,

2115
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:00,679
Speaker 30: which is literally the reason that the Night eighteenth exists.

2116
01:47:00,800 --> 01:47:00,960
Speaker 8: Right.

2117
01:47:01,400 --> 01:47:03,120
Speaker 3: We started our newsroom.

2118
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Speaker 30: Four years ago, a week before the Iowa CAUCUSUS this

2119
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Speaker 30: is now our second presidential election, and listening to voters

2120
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Speaker 30: about the things that.

2121
01:47:10,120 --> 01:47:10,679
Speaker 3: They care about.

2122
01:47:10,760 --> 01:47:14,160
Speaker 30: Yes, we'll tell you that the economy is the top

2123
01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:18,599
Speaker 30: issue for people that we are centering, women, people of color,

2124
01:47:18,760 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 30: LGBTQ plus people, the disabled community, the caregiving community, listening

2125
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 30: to those people about the things that are affecting their

2126
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Speaker 30: daily lives.

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Speaker 3: And also, what do.

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Speaker 30: You mean when you say the economy is your number

2129
01:47:30,240 --> 01:47:33,559
Speaker 30: one issue? Because that looks different for different people. We

2130
01:47:33,680 --> 01:47:37,639
Speaker 30: have an economy, we have an environment and gender reporter.

2131
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:42,120
Speaker 30: Why because we know that gender is I mean, people

2132
01:47:42,120 --> 01:47:45,200
Speaker 30: are disproportionately impacted by gender as it comes to the environment.

2133
01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:48,879
Speaker 30: Everybody's environment is not created equal, right, and your environment

2134
01:47:49,400 --> 01:47:52,360
Speaker 30: sucks in a lot of cases depending on where you live.

2135
01:47:52,520 --> 01:47:56,679
Speaker 30: We're talking about hurricanes Hell, Flint, Michigan is still not solved. Right.

2136
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Speaker 30: That is in centering to Latasha's point, not just nature

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Speaker 30: or buildings, which is what the majority of white folks

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Speaker 30: who are ps, the majority of the people who cover

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Speaker 30: the environment in journalism, that's what.

2140
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Speaker 3: They care about.

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Speaker 30: People of color care about the people that are being

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Speaker 30: impacted by climate change. And so that's what we mean

2143
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Speaker 30: we talk about. We can't talk about environmental justice for

2144
01:48:20,680 --> 01:48:24,000
Speaker 30: a building, right, we need to talk about what that

2145
01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:28,920
Speaker 30: means in terms of people. The reproductive rights issue that

2146
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Speaker 30: Alicia mentioned right like that is we are talking about

2147
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Speaker 30: reproductive rights is an economic issue. That is what we

2148
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Speaker 30: are hearing from people. We are talking about abortion. What

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Speaker 30: does it mean when a clinic closes for people in

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Speaker 30: the LGBTQ community who are getting gender firm and care,

2151
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Speaker 30: they can't get that care because that clinic has gone.

2152
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Speaker 3: Now, what does it mean when you have abortion?

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Speaker 17: Man?

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Speaker 30: People are flooding into other states, flooding into the er.

2155
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Speaker 30: Now are people who may or may not have insurance

2156
01:48:58,840 --> 01:49:00,760
Speaker 30: who need to show up at the r can't get

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Speaker 30: in because they can't be seen because this abortion ban

2158
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Speaker 30: is sending people in droves to states where it's still

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Speaker 30: safe to get care.

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Speaker 3: You don't know that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 30: You wouldn't know a lot of that stuff watching cable

2162
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:18,240
Speaker 30: news right now, reading a lot of the stories in

2163
01:49:18,280 --> 01:49:22,760
Speaker 30: some legacy traditional mainstream outlets, because those people are not

2164
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Speaker 30: spending time with people on the ground, They're not hearing

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Speaker 30: from people on the ground, and so that matters. And

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Speaker 30: that is where the Nineteenth has remained focused in this election.

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Speaker 30: And that is I mean, like, we just have to

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Speaker 30: continue to talk about the issues. And that is beyond

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Speaker 30: election day. By the way, right as people are governing,

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Speaker 30: whoever we elect on November fifth, like, paying attention to

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Speaker 30: how they govern, making sure that they govern in the

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Speaker 30: interest of the emerging small d democratic majority of this

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Speaker 30: country matters And so those are the kinds of stories

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Speaker 30: that we are committed to tell. We know that race

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Speaker 30: and gender are not just a storyline of our politics

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Speaker 30: and democracy. They are the storyline. And so that is

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Speaker 30: that is what we are committed to. I'm sorry that

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Speaker 30: that wasn't funnier. I'll be funnier on that.

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Speaker 9: You started.

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Speaker 4: You start off funny, So do you guys know where

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Speaker 4: over time, so we really quickly.

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Speaker 2: Well come, well come, welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Speaker 6: Miss Lawrence, my good friend, Miss Lawrence is gonna ask

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Speaker 6: a question, make a statement. But we have Quentin James,

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Speaker 6: who is I'm here from the Collective Pack.

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Speaker 4: What are you telling me?

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Speaker 17: Oh?

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Speaker 4: John Taylor is here as well. John Taylor is joining us, right?

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Speaker 4: Is that what's happening? Okay, ladies, I love you, we

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Speaker 4: need lady love you.

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Speaker 1: We're out of here.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: When one of y'all say, we got two of them,

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Speaker 4: two of them got to sit down up like, well

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Speaker 4: all right, no, I.

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Speaker 5: Don't say y'all can say that then stage, I'll move

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Speaker 5: to the neee he.

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Speaker 4: Said, don't leave, but you just got to get off

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Speaker 4: the stage. Please. We love y'all. We need these shares

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Speaker 4: for John Taylor, who is the co founder of Blackmail Initiative. Y'all,

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Speaker 4: we have to be done in six minutes. What are

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Speaker 4: you telling me? But yes, and Quentin, nobody is obedient.

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Speaker 4: You can stay up here. Alicia says she's gonna stay

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Speaker 4: right here. Okay, I love you says that is just fine.

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Speaker 4: You are always welcome. They can they won Hi, John

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Speaker 4: and Quinton, Hello, Okay, so you're closing us out. What

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Speaker 4: y'all gouts say something to it?

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Speaker 11: If you haven't, oh, I'll be real quick.

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Speaker 5: My name is Quintin James.

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Speaker 31: I'm the co founder and president of the Collective Pack,

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Speaker 31: also the Votes to Live Action Fund and Votes Live Foundation.

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Speaker 11: I got a resource for you all.

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Speaker 31: A lot of people are talking about who to vote for,

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Speaker 31: why to vote and all that, and that's really important.

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Speaker 31: I have a resource for you all. Please go to

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Speaker 31: vote to Live dot org. We're providing free ride share

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Speaker 31: vouchers folks to go and vote early round trip uber

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Speaker 31: go go early between now and election day. That's what

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Speaker 31: I'm here to say. All right, make your voice heard

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Speaker 31: however you think you need to do, but show up

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Speaker 31: and vote right now. We are running about three percentage

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Speaker 31: points behind in Georgia in terms of our black early

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Speaker 31: voting targets.

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Speaker 5: So is this specific to Georgia or is it.

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Speaker 31: It's in about ten states? But here in Georgia it's

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Speaker 31: live now some states don't.

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Speaker 5: Can you say the ten? Just because yes?

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Speaker 31: Again votes live dot org. We are running this program

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Speaker 31: in Florida, in Georgia and North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona,

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01:52:43,560 --> 01:52:46,320
Speaker 31: and Nevada and also Maryland. So any one of those

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Speaker 31: states go to votes who live dot org you can

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Speaker 31: get a free voucher to go and vote early between

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Speaker 31: now and.

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Speaker 6: November fifth, John, you have are you're coming at this

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Speaker 6: from a unique man. Of course, we just had Latasha

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Speaker 6: Brown on the stage who also is involved in canvassing

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01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:03,840
Speaker 6: efforts getting out and talking to our folks. Please talk

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Speaker 6: to the audience and to us a little bit about

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Speaker 6: some of the tremendous canvassing efforts that you're engaged in.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, good afternoon, everybody.

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Speaker 17: First of all, I'm John Taylor Black mel Initiative fun founder,

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01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 17: co founder Black Men Bill number of networks that we

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Speaker 17: do on ACRON around the country. In this moment, I

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Speaker 17: have about six hundred and fifty canvas was on the

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Speaker 17: ground right now. They've been kicking since July first. We

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Speaker 17: knocked over one hundred and fourteen thousand doors for the primary,

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Speaker 17: had over twenty two thousand conversations with voters in Georgia.

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Speaker 17: As of today, we have done nine hundred and five

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Speaker 17: thousand attempts on doors, not just in Atlanta, Columbus, Macon, Millageville, Augusta,

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Speaker 17: ALLBENNI majority of my crew we call them way In's.

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01:53:48,320 --> 01:53:50,679
Speaker 17: They're young black folks on the ground under the age

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Speaker 17: of thirty. My director and number two of the organization

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Speaker 17: is twenty five years old. He's not here right now

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Speaker 17: because he's doing a voter or L's Voter or die

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Speaker 17: Bus tour with Marvin Ban and them. So the reality

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Speaker 17: is we've talked about one hundred ninety five thousand Black men,

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Speaker 17: women people of color across the state of Georgia. These

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Speaker 17: are black men and women and people of color who

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Speaker 17: are listed as infrequent, low propensity, low value voters. I

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Speaker 17: don't mean the not one hundred and ninety five thousand

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Speaker 17: people we talk to. That's them too, I mean the

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Speaker 17: six hundred and fifty canvassers that we employ. We are

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Speaker 17: proving that black men are not apathetic, we're not lazy,

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Speaker 17: we're not disengaged.

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Speaker 11: Not only do we care, but we're critical thinkers. The

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Speaker 11: other thing, thank you.

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Speaker 17: Tasha, because I love Natasha Brown like fat folks love cake.

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Speaker 17: It is one thing to drive a wedge into our

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Speaker 17: community and say black men and black women have a

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Speaker 17: problem with each other. It is another thing to tell

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Speaker 17: the lie that we don't show up for each other.

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Speaker 17: Latasha Brown been showing up since for brothers, since brother's

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Speaker 17: been here. Black men care about black women. We support

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Speaker 17: and respect the leadership of black women. We all came

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Speaker 17: from a sister. We know what it means to be

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Speaker 17: in right relationship with a sister. These brothers that are

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Speaker 17: on doors knocking having these conversations are not afraid of

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Speaker 17: what it looks like to have a black.

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Speaker 11: Woman as president.

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Speaker 17: My grandmama been telling me what to do my whole life,

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Speaker 17: and she ain't never told me wrong.

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Speaker 11: Black women have great knowledge and wisdom.

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Speaker 17: That is not the same as black men not trusting

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Speaker 17: systemically the problems that we face.

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Speaker 11: In a country where it does not matter who's president,

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Speaker 11: we die. It does not matter who elected. We go

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Speaker 11: to jail.

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Speaker 17: It does not matter who gets elected or appointed to Congress.

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Speaker 17: We still get arrested. No matter where I go, handcuffs

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Speaker 17: follow me. Not because I'm a danger, a threat, a problem, aggressive,

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Speaker 17: or any of those things. It's because the narrative is

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Speaker 17: that somehow I'm a problem. So no matter how articulate, beautiful, powerful,

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Speaker 17: intelligent we are, we find ourselves on the wrong side

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Speaker 17: and out in with this. Never in the history or

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Speaker 17: running have you ever seen six people in a foot race,

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Speaker 17: and the second person in the foot race is the

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Speaker 17: one that you boom.

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Speaker 11: Well, that's what y'all do to black men.

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Speaker 17: Not y'all in this room, but as a society structurally,

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Speaker 17: black men have been the second largest progressive voting block

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Speaker 17: since the inception of voting for us in this country.

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Speaker 17: Yet somehow we're always the reason and the problem.

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Speaker 11: We don't win. It's not us.

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Speaker 17: So our message is there's nothing wrong with black men.

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Speaker 17: As a matter of fact, there's everything right about us.

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Speaker 17: And when we connect with sisters, there's everything great about us.

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Speaker 17: And when we do the work that we do on

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Speaker 17: the ground, not only will we break a million doors,

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Speaker 17: but we will turn out. Because it's sixty seven percent

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Speaker 17: strong approval from our data, it's another fifteen percent week

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Speaker 17: to moderate approval.

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Speaker 19: If you do maths.

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Speaker 17: She broke eighty four y'all, less than five percent undecided.

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Speaker 11: Y'all, I'm not telling you.

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Speaker 17: About what some poster said. That's one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 17: five thousand conversations you could take.

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Speaker 11: To the bank.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Really quickly, we have a former

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Speaker 4: Congressman Cedric Richmond here. Sedric, can you just join us

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Speaker 4: really quickly. We're having this really important black men moment.

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Speaker 6: John, that was divine which you just shared. I just

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Speaker 6: want to acknowledge that as well. Thank you so much

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Speaker 6: for your work. Congressman Cedric Richmond for Congressman, also a

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Speaker 6: White House senior advisor. Be careful, please don't slide off

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Speaker 6: that stage.

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Speaker 4: That scared me.

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Speaker 6: He is a co chair of Kamala Harris's campaign, and

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Speaker 6: I just wanted you to give us some closing words

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Speaker 6: before we wrap up.

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Speaker 12: Is you ever mine?

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Speaker 11: First all, let me thank you all for what you do.

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Speaker 32: Good to see Andrew and Tiffany and Tiffany, But I

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Speaker 32: was gonna say at some point I was gonna say

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Speaker 32: something specific about Andrew because we were talking about brothers

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Speaker 32: and knocking doors. I went down the campaign for Andrew

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Speaker 32: because I believe in him and his leadership and what

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Speaker 32: he has done. So thank you for everything in Tiffany

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Speaker 32: and Angela, y'all are my bantering partners. We argue like

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Speaker 32: sister and brother because we love each other like sister

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Speaker 32: and brother. Let me just thank you all for what

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Speaker 32: you're doing and thank you for having me. Look, this

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Speaker 32: is gonna be a close race. We always said it was.

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Speaker 19: Going to be close. But the struggle in the fight

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Speaker 19: for us, it's what we've always done.

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Speaker 32: I will tell you don't get too excited or interested

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Speaker 32: in polling because the first part of a poll is

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Speaker 32: you have to predict who's going to show up. And

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Speaker 32: they never predict we're going to show up. But when

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Speaker 32: you see people in this room like this, you know

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Speaker 32: we're going to show up. And I have since I've

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Speaker 32: been running for office since nineteen ninety nine, I have

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01:59:04,200 --> 01:59:06,920
Speaker 32: one way of telling when we're gonna have turnout, high turnout.

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01:59:07,480 --> 01:59:10,800
Speaker 32: I get older black men and black women come up

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Speaker 32: to me and whisper in my eart Cedria, what are

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Speaker 32: we gonna do about turnout. When they're doing that, it

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Speaker 32: means they're also calling their daughters and their grandkids and

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Speaker 32: they're saying, go out and vote, and you will see

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Speaker 32: that excitement. But what we've seen in this race is

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Speaker 32: just the climax of foolishness. We keep holding Kamala Harris

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Speaker 32: to some standard of she needs to be, you know,

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Speaker 32: at genius level.

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Speaker 11: And she's running against it.

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Speaker 32: Kids stuck in his terrible threes that just keeps making

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Speaker 32: stuff up. I mean it is when I say climax

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Speaker 32: and foolishness.

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Speaker 11: It's crazy.

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Speaker 32: This dude's on TV tumbo. I'm not going to tax

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Speaker 32: overtime pay. But in Project twenty twenty five they said

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Speaker 32: I'm gonna get rid of overtime. So you're actually right,

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Speaker 32: you're not going to overtime paid because you're gonna get

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Speaker 32: rid of it. He said, I have concepts of a plan,

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Speaker 32: and all of a sudden, no matter what Kamala Harris does,

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Speaker 32: they're just gonna keep moving the goalposts. But the truth

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Speaker 32: of the matter is we're not trying to please the

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Speaker 32: political pundits. What we're trying to do is answer the

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Speaker 32: Janet Jackson question of what have you done for me lately?

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Speaker 32: And the answer to that is, we've increased black wealth

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Speaker 32: by sixty and forty thousand new homeowners. We've created a

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Speaker 32: bunch of jobs, not black jobs, we created sixteen million jobs,

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Speaker 32: and we've closed the racial wealth gap.

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Speaker 19: Now we still have a long long way to go.

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Speaker 19: And then the other question is what's in it for me?

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Speaker 11: Why bother?

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Speaker 32: And so when we talk about black males and we

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Speaker 32: talk about black women, we owe them answering the question.

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Speaker 19: Why bother? And what's in it for me it is.

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Speaker 32: There's nothing wrong with challenging your elected officials in saying,

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Speaker 32: what's in it for me, what's in it for my

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Speaker 32: common unity, what's.

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Speaker 11: In it for my family?

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Speaker 32: And so that's what you heard from black men, and

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Speaker 32: rightfully so they should ask, and rightfully so we produced

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Speaker 32: an agenda to answer their question because they deserve the

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Speaker 32: respect of knowing. And so in closing, that's why I

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Speaker 32: think it's gonna be a close race, but I think

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Speaker 32: we're gonna win, and in fact, I would not be

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Speaker 32: surprised if we won all of the battleground states. So

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Speaker 32: you know, I'm bullish on Georgia, and that's because I'm

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Speaker 32: a more house man. I'm bullish on North Carolina, especially

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Speaker 32: if you look at the Baffoon running for governor there.

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Speaker 32: I'm bullish on Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. But guess what, We're

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Speaker 32: gonna go to Arizona, Nevada, and we're gonna win there too.

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Speaker 32: So I'm not telling you all to do like my

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Speaker 32: family's doing and start texting about out inauguration tickets and stuff,

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Speaker 32: because you never go by the drapes and cut the

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Speaker 32: grass before the closing. So we have to close this election,

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Speaker 32: and my grandmother would always say, the law will auter

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Speaker 32: your steps, but you got to move your feet. And

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Speaker 32: so come election day, we're going to have to make

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Speaker 32: us move our feet. And for those who didn't vote early,

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Speaker 32: we're going have to show up and show out on

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Speaker 32: election day and look, vote early. You know, back in

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Speaker 32: the day in Louisiana, we would say vote early and

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Speaker 32: vote often. And I want anybody accuse me of saying that,

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Speaker 32: I'm just telling you what the politicians used to say.

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Speaker 32: But the fact that you're here should give you some

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Speaker 32: comfort that we know the stakes of this election. And

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Speaker 32: I just want to thank this group for all of

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Speaker 32: the work they do, not just during election time, because

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Speaker 32: this is the easy time, but to bring real conversations,

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Speaker 32: real guest and facts and passion in and out straight

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Speaker 32: to the black community with no filter is important.

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Speaker 11: And so thank you all for what you're doing.

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Speaker 32: Look, offering yourself a public service is never easy, and

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Speaker 32: to do that, we do it for kids, families and

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Speaker 32: people will never ever know. But it's not about politics,

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Speaker 32: it's not about profits, it's not even about party.

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Speaker 19: It's about purpose.

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Speaker 32: And at some point somebody is going to be appreciative

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Speaker 32: that the Lord allowed me to walk this earth. And

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Speaker 32: that's how Kamala Harris feels. She wakes up every day

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Speaker 32: fighting and for anybody you know who really questions her,

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Speaker 32: she is HBCU through and through. Whoa slow down? I mean,

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Speaker 32: that's why I didn't name the HBCU. She is HBCU

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Speaker 32: threw and through and she can fight with the.

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Speaker 19: Best of them.

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Speaker 32: So, like my grandpa used to say, if you see

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Speaker 32: her fighting a bear, help the bear because she's gonna

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Speaker 32: be all right.

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Speaker 11: So let's go out and help her. Let's win this election.

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Speaker 1: That bear alone.

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Speaker 11: I didn't say help for orange bear.

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Speaker 19: I just said help no bears.

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Speaker 22: Please.

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Speaker 5: A beautiful place to end, y'all.

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Speaker 7: I know it's felt like rapid fire, but can we

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Speaker 7: give it up for this closing panel and stuff conversation,

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Speaker 7: And we also want to thank our listeners who are

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Speaker 7: on the other side of these cameras.

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Speaker 17: You know.

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Speaker 7: Uh they say polls are predictive, but the only one

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Speaker 7: that matters, right is election day. Uh, those that are counted.

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Speaker 7: I remember being running fifth out of fifth the weekend

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Speaker 7: before the primary election in Florida and being one out

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Speaker 7: of five on election night at its close. So we

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Speaker 7: get to determine who who wins, who becomes the next president,

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Speaker 7: and we'll fight whatever fight is necessary. After that, y'all,

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Speaker 7: there's only one thing left to do is say.

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Speaker 1: Wait, wait one second, we have another Oh we have

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Speaker 1: a special I thought say we had a bether guest.

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Speaker 1: We might have no ho, I think we do and

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Speaker 1: we don't. Maybe you guys don't know. But tomorrow is

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Speaker 1: Angela Rye's birthday.

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Speaker 5: Happy birthday.

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Speaker 1: Oh and some of our Machete sisters could not be

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Speaker 1: here today, but they could not let the day go

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Speaker 1: by without wishing her a happy birthday. So let's roll

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Speaker 1: that tape.

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Speaker 8: Angie Rye, Happy birthday, girl, wishing you the most fabulous, fun,

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Speaker 8: fierce and phenomenal birthday ever because you deserve it, because

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Speaker 8: you are such a dear sister, friend, so genuine. So

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Speaker 8: they're not just for your people, but for the people.

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Speaker 8: So I just respect and love and adore you so much.

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Speaker 1: You know, Hey, sister, I hope that you're having the

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Speaker 1: very best day.

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Speaker 12: We love you so much.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry I can't be there in person to celebrate

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Speaker 3: your birthday.

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Speaker 33: But Angela, you are chief of staff to the Blacks,

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Speaker 33: just like Tiffany says all the time, but you are

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Speaker 33: also chief of staff to so many of our hearts.

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Speaker 33: You make us feel loved and mothered, cared for, and

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Speaker 33: always thought about.

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Speaker 9: We love you, We love you, We love you.

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Speaker 3: Happy Birthday.

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Speaker 34: I love you so much, sister. I think that you

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Speaker 34: deserve to be celebrated for your excellence every single day

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Speaker 34: of the year. But because today is your special born day,

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Speaker 34: I am celebrating you. I am saying I'm so bummed

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Speaker 34: I cannot be there, but I love you big, I

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Speaker 34: love you deep. I love you hard like we go together.

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Speaker 12: So five, So God that you're aundlive.

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Speaker 5: Hey, you look real great. So people are gonna hate.

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Speaker 12: Hey, keep doing what you do because they really needed you. Hey,

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Speaker 12: this is your year.

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Speaker 11: So that's toasting.

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Speaker 4: Cheer wo.

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Speaker 5: Website lady, other birthday.

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Speaker 12: We love you, Angela.

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Speaker 3: You are such a beautiful person inside and out.

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Speaker 30: You do so much for the culture, for your family,

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02:07:01,160 --> 02:07:05,160
Speaker 30: inspire assault to be better people, and I just pray

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Speaker 30: that you have the happiest birthday.

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Speaker 8: I love you.

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Speaker 35: What's going on Native lamp Pod family. It is your cousin,

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Speaker 35: doctor David J. John's Angela, Teresa Rye. I'm so very

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Speaker 35: thankful for the gift of you. I pray that this

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Speaker 35: next turn around the sun brings you an abundance of everything, love, joy,

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Speaker 35: everything that you've been dreaming of.

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Speaker 11: And that's some because you deserve that and more. I

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Speaker 11: love you.

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Speaker 19: I look forward to celebrating with you soon.

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Speaker 1: Now we're doing that. We don't do that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, happy bir.

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Speaker 36: Yeahe early happy Yeah, happy Boday.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we gotta love you.

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Speaker 1: Let yourday about.

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Speaker 4: Twenty minutes, says somebody else got to be in this room.

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Speaker 4: You ain't got your goe.

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Speaker 3: You got to get and we thank you you all.

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Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all. Thank you so much. That is go vote, go,

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Speaker 1: go vote.

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Speaker 4: Thank you y'all. I love you, dee. Thank you. My

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Speaker 4: birthdays tomorrow so I'll do this all again tomorrow. Thanks.

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Speaker 37: Thank you for joining the Natives intentional with the info

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Speaker 37: and all of the latest rock gulum and cross connective

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Speaker 37: to the statements that you leave on our socials. Thank

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Speaker 37: you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice is clear,

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Speaker 37: So grateful it took to execute rooms. Thank you for serve,

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Speaker 37: defend and protect the truth.

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Speaker 3: He went the pace.

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Speaker 11: We welcome home to all of the natives.

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Speaker 3: We thank you Welcome Home, y'all.

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