Speaker 1: Native lamb Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership
Speaker 1: with Reisent Choice Media.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 4: Welcome.
Speaker 3: This is Native Lampod. It is day two of Live
Speaker 3: from the Ship.
Speaker 5: We are at the DNC, happy to be here. We
Speaker 5: had an incredible show yesterday. We are your hosts Angela Rye,
Speaker 5: Tiffany Cross, and Andrew Gillam.
Speaker 3: And this is episode thirty four.
Speaker 4: Thirty four. It is thirty four.
Speaker 3: This is episode this episode is the same age as me.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, so that would be not true.
Speaker 3: Eight years since last night.
Speaker 5: Aria, No, I'm just saying, welcome home, y'all. We are
Speaker 5: thrilled to be here. We have an incredible show. But
Speaker 5: before we get into to today's show, I would love
Speaker 5: to hear about you all's highlights from last night at
Speaker 5: the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 1: Wait, do you mean highlights from like what happened as
Speaker 1: a convention or just highlights from our time here in Chicago.
Speaker 4: Maybe the convention?
Speaker 3: Has there been so many Yes, that is crazy about
Speaker 3: what happened to that man.
Speaker 1: We have a story for you that will tell another time.
Speaker 1: But there was something that happened yesterday, So be sure
Speaker 1: to tune in the data lampard every time we broadcast.
Speaker 3: Yes when we we have to escape the city. So I.
Speaker 1: Hi, Jamie Harrison is saying, hello, big chair of the
Speaker 1: d what we did.
Speaker 3: I know you're coming on tomorrow.
Speaker 1: For our viewers at home, Jamie Harrison is the chair
Speaker 1: of the Democratic National Convention. He's got an amazing job.
Speaker 1: Dinner National Committee. Forgive me, he's done an amazing job
Speaker 1: the past couple of years. He as you may remember,
Speaker 1: is out of South Carolina, ran for Senate and now
Speaker 1: he chairs the d n C.
Speaker 3: So we're honored to be here with him.
Speaker 1: Angela moderated an event with him earlier this week, so
Speaker 1: he'll be on tomorrow.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be on tomorrow. He's gonna be on tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And I know investments for helping us win stuff they
Speaker 4: can't see.
Speaker 1: But we have a whole audience that's standing here in
Speaker 1: front of us watching. So we want to shout these
Speaker 1: guys out for being here, being loyal native Lampine UH fans.
Speaker 1: But I want to say the highlight for me yesterday
Speaker 1: was definitely Joe Biden. His There were so many moments
Speaker 1: but when he closed out and said, like America, I've
Speaker 1: given you everything, I can't. Yes, I don't want to say.
Speaker 1: I was in somebody's room watching this, having some snacks,
Speaker 1: and I saw a little tear come out of somebody's eyes.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, who stopping.
Speaker 3: Stopping You guys sad time out.
Speaker 5: I am so pissed off right now. You guys watched
Speaker 5: this together and didn't tell me.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me just say this is.
Speaker 4: No let your food from the lobby, and you went
Speaker 4: up to your room.
Speaker 5: Well, and I shouldn't have done that because I got
Speaker 5: in the elevator.
Speaker 6: But we'll story.
Speaker 1: My god, but I was not planning to go to Andrew's.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it too, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I just had.
Speaker 5: Me over here in time out and plussy versus Ferguson's seversation.
Speaker 3: Over here, we have a lot of yellow.
Speaker 4: Alert, Yellow girl alert, yellow girl alert.
Speaker 5: Myself there, you can shop by myself.
Speaker 3: Everybody's so confused. It's fine, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Angela was on the call handling business. She's been responsible
Speaker 1: for the production, doing so many things. I was one
Speaker 1: of my from Andrew and I were exhausted, and I
Speaker 1: told Andrew I didn't want anything to eat, and he
Speaker 1: were he did.
Speaker 3: He ordered me something.
Speaker 1: Anyway, he ordered me a salad and he was like,
Speaker 1: do you want to I'm coming to your room there
Speaker 1: to watch Biden and so I think Andrew was ready
Speaker 1: to go to sleep.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we watched and at the end of.
Speaker 1: The speed I looked over to Andrew and it was
Speaker 1: a little single Denzels here rolling down.
Speaker 3: That's a singlenzels here.
Speaker 5: Okay, So what was your highlight, Andrew, Andrew tips highlight?
Speaker 4: Was you crying sometimes?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 4: You yawned?
Speaker 3: Yes, and you know we yawned in this feed.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, it was over. I was
Speaker 4: going to be over. But in truth, I was touched
Speaker 4: sincerely by one the love the almost five minute ovation
Speaker 4: that Democrats gave to Joe Biden last night. It was
Speaker 4: it was so due, it was so merited. I said
Speaker 4: it yesterday, I said to Get today that I think
Speaker 4: he committed the most selfless act in politics. I think
Speaker 4: that I certainly can remember during my lifetime. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: it still has Donald Trump flamoxt because he didn't think
Speaker 4: it was possible for the most powerful person in the
Speaker 4: world to say, you know what, I'm gonna step back
Speaker 4: when they have an opportunity to stay there. So that
Speaker 4: was really that was really touching. I thought Hillary Clinton's
Speaker 4: although we didn't get to hear it all, I saw
Speaker 4: some of the you know, the recap of it. I
Speaker 4: thought it was a really powerful address given by her.
Speaker 4: And we talked Yesterda about whether or not she might
Speaker 4: feel some sort of way being at this convention where
Speaker 4: she previously was challenged by Trump. Unfortunately the election I'll
Speaker 4: come was what it was. And then to now see
Speaker 4: Kamala another woman in this position where she's competing to
Speaker 4: vanquish this great enemy of ours with a great chance
Speaker 4: of being able to do so, she showed up for
Speaker 4: her and I love that.
Speaker 5: I will say very briefly my highlight yesterday in addition
Speaker 5: to sitting here with Congressman Thompson, who is just a legend,
Speaker 5: and the question Siviny asked him to just pull out
Speaker 5: like the best of him and like knowing y'all, I
Speaker 5: don't know if y'all really know. He does not like
Speaker 5: to do press that much, and he was like, I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna be here, y'all. A Macari and Derek and
Speaker 5: that was fantastic. I will also say I love to
Speaker 5: see Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Lauren Underwood, the women who are
Speaker 5: undergirding this party, this convention, a new generation.
Speaker 3: You're talking about passing the torch in real time.
Speaker 5: Seeing that happen over and over again throughout last night
Speaker 5: was incredible. I think you really saw them embody what
Speaker 5: it really means to be a big tent.
Speaker 3: Tonight's theme is a.
Speaker 5: Bold vision for America's future, and I think we'll see
Speaker 5: more of that, and of course to help us talk
Speaker 5: about that future and how we continue to to not
Speaker 5: just honor, but to support and to build infrastructure in
Speaker 5: communities of color and to the rising majority. As Tiffany
Speaker 5: Cross always says, is Latasha Brown.
Speaker 7: Voters matter.
Speaker 3: We would love beautiful of Native Lampid.
Speaker 5: We are thrilled to have Latasha Brown joining you.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: As if you watch news, if you follow politics closely,
Speaker 1: you know Latasha very well.
Speaker 3: She has an amazing voice.
Speaker 1: But what I love about Latasha is you cannot tell
Speaker 1: the story of America without talking about Latasha Brown and
Speaker 1: the work that she does. We don't want to leave
Speaker 1: out cliff Albright as well as our partner and co
Speaker 1: founder of Black Voters Matter. But Latasha, you show up
Speaker 1: when nobody calls.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 1: When Hurricane Katrina happened, nobody asked you. You just sprung
Speaker 1: into action and you love everybody. But you love black
Speaker 1: folks like you love yourself.
Speaker 4: And it is just the body of the sister spirit. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: bring it, but in a young that's missionary. That's right.
Speaker 3: Woman like Ethereal Spirits, she's an impact, she's our deity.
Speaker 5: But she's definitely yes herself, Yes, and an evangelist, warrior,
Speaker 5: all the things.
Speaker 3: Only depression depression.
Speaker 4: Welcome, says thank you.
Speaker 6: I am at the Native Pod.
Speaker 8: I'm just happy to be here in Native This is
Speaker 8: our land, this is out and I feel that, I
Speaker 8: feel the spirit.
Speaker 6: I'm so proud of y'all. I love each and every
Speaker 6: one of you.
Speaker 8: Like every week I'm listening because I was like, listen,
Speaker 8: let me get grounded, let me get right. I was like, Angela,
Speaker 8: gonna bring some fire and get some spice on it.
Speaker 8: They're typically gonna like, look, well, I'm just saying, and literally,
Speaker 8: my brother is always I'm gonna be the voice of
Speaker 8: reason until I.
Speaker 5: I love that you are doing the people's work, and
Speaker 5: it is always our honor not only to lift you
Speaker 5: up and to encourage you, but anytime you've call on us,
Speaker 5: we want to be there with you. I'll never forget
Speaker 5: And t If I hope you don't mind me telling
Speaker 5: this story. We're on the other side of you know what,
Speaker 5: MSNBC digitive and we knew there was no other place
Speaker 5: we should be but in Atlanta, next to you, working
Speaker 5: with you, and I remember, like the people that you
Speaker 5: pour into, pouring back into Tiffany talk about why the
Speaker 5: work of black voters matter is so critical, especially in
Speaker 5: a moment like this.
Speaker 8: You know, I think that it's important for us to
Speaker 8: recognize that if change is to happen, if we're going
Speaker 8: to have the nation that we desire, we deserve and
Speaker 8: we're going to have to create it.
Speaker 6: So we've got to generate it.
Speaker 8: And the way that we generated, we're gonna have to
Speaker 8: generate it. Really, it has to be strategy. We need strategy, right,
Speaker 8: But it's not just been strategy that's moved us forward.
Speaker 8: It's been spirit. It's been strategy in the spirit, the
Speaker 8: spirit and the ancestors, the spirit of resistance, the spirit
Speaker 8: of freedom, the spirit of love like loving each other
Speaker 8: when we haven't had anything else, when we didn't have money,
Speaker 8: when we didn't have land, when we didn't have kind
Speaker 8: of the politics, what we had is we had this
Speaker 8: sense of self and the love of each other that
Speaker 8: would actually take us through. And so for us with
Speaker 8: Voters Matter, we wanted to create an organization that was
Speaker 8: unapologetic about being black. Right we ride around in a
Speaker 8: big bus, a fifty eight foot bus and say we're
Speaker 8: in the blackest bus in America. We wanted to own
Speaker 8: and affirm that and not just say that we're participating
Speaker 8: in the election because we're really not an election group.
Speaker 6: We're a power building group.
Speaker 8: We're real clear that all the work that we're doing
Speaker 8: is really about how do we build power for black folks.
Speaker 8: And when people are talking about voting, yes, voting is
Speaker 8: one key, you know, and is a very very powerful tool,
Speaker 8: but it's also a space of when you own your agency.
Speaker 8: There's something about voting that's really about owning your agency
Speaker 8: that if a decision is being made about me and mine,
Speaker 8: I need to be a part of that process. Right
Speaker 8: that that's fundamentally you know, And also we've got to
Speaker 8: have this space around. When people are actually hurting and
Speaker 8: harming our communities, there has to be a consequence. So
Speaker 8: you can't continue to serve in the office and hurt
Speaker 8: and harm us. We've got to send a message loud
Speaker 8: and clear like this, this ain't going down like that, right.
Speaker 8: But also to create space, create space if there's nothing
Speaker 8: else for harm reduction, to reduce the harm happening to us,
Speaker 8: to actually work collectively together and really move towards a vision,
Speaker 8: a collective vision. So that's the work that we do
Speaker 8: and that's why we do it. You know, if you
Speaker 8: want to the three things, I call it three ms.
Speaker 8: The three things we do is money, it's movement building.
Speaker 6: And it's message.
Speaker 8: In the last seven years, we've really been blessed. One
Speaker 8: of the things that we always would sit around and
Speaker 8: were like, how could we invest in black communities. We've
Speaker 8: invested over forty I think as of now, I think
Speaker 8: it's over forty one million dollar and black leg grassroot
Speaker 8: groups in the last six years.
Speaker 7: In the last six years to do power building.
Speaker 8: That's everything from reparations, organizing around reparations, to organizing around
Speaker 8: police accountability, to actually do an election work, to referendums.
Speaker 8: At the end of the day, how black communities define.
Speaker 6: What power building is for them.
Speaker 8: We want to be in alignment with them and support
Speaker 8: them around that. In addition that, we also know that
Speaker 8: the message matters. That's why I'm so happy you all
Speaker 8: are doing this podcast. We need black media, We need
Speaker 8: places like this. I want if I had all the
Speaker 8: money in the world right when I hear the lottery,
Speaker 8: I promise y'all that my first investment is going to
Speaker 8: be this podcast right there right because the world needs
Speaker 8: to hear your voices. You all have clarity, and I'm
Speaker 8: just really really grateful to be in relationship with you.
Speaker 9: You know what.
Speaker 4: I just first of all, everything you said cosan, love, love, love,
Speaker 4: that whole investment piece at the end, they're truth.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I have to tell you I am in
Speaker 4: all of your mission vision and the fact that you're
Speaker 4: defining yourself outside of any election cycle. So often donors
Speaker 4: and media and others like to put organizing in the
Speaker 4: black community and the bucket of election turnout and what's
Speaker 4: happening with the black vote and the da da da
Speaker 4: da dad, and you're saying, no, no, no, that's not
Speaker 4: the box that we're We're not in an anty box.
Speaker 4: And what I have to say as a person who
Speaker 4: had run for office and have gone into communities where
Speaker 4: we have felt really disempowered, really not invested in, really
Speaker 4: not seeing it's groups and efforts like yours who were
Speaker 4: there before the election after the election, putting pieces back
Speaker 4: together and renewing in people a belief a system that
Speaker 4: they're not some commodity to be traded on, but rather
Speaker 4: we're an investment to be made. We are a community
Speaker 4: that gives, we feel, we love, we breathe, we have disappointments,
Speaker 4: we have ups, we have downs. And what you're doing
Speaker 4: is you're helping. You're helping to give that greater credibility,
Speaker 4: and hopefully what it will do is recruit greater investment
Speaker 4: in our community that is there outside of anybody's election cycle.
Speaker 4: Because if we do that work and people start to
Speaker 4: believe that that's how change gets created, that this is
Speaker 4: an element of the change that we're trying to see,
Speaker 4: then I have to believe that we won't need the
Speaker 4: investment of these short term voter registration turn out projects. Why,
Speaker 4: because the work will be there three sixty five and
Speaker 4: I'm just curious before we go to our other bad
Speaker 4: age so over year is that how are you experiencing
Speaker 4: the donor class as it relates to investing in that kind.
Speaker 8: Of move largely white male donor for very part of
Speaker 8: what we actually decided that when we started the organization,
Speaker 8: and I just want to be honest, Cliff and I
Speaker 8: we always tell the story we quit our jobs and
Speaker 8: we started the organization. We had the idea that we
Speaker 8: wanted to create. The name is actually Black Voters Matter Fund.
Speaker 8: We were very intentional from the beginning that has organizers
Speaker 8: for multiple decades. That part of the challenge we had
Speaker 8: sometimes when there was an election or there wasn't there
Speaker 8: was an election happening, but if the candidate than not
Speaker 8: invest in the campaign or a party, there were no resources.
Speaker 6: But it mattered, it mattered who.
Speaker 8: Was found a commissioner, it mattered who the sheriff was,
Speaker 8: but there were no resources available if the party or
Speaker 8: a candidate wasn't putting in there. And we were like,
Speaker 8: our power should not be tied into whether a candidate
Speaker 8: believes that that is important enough. We've got to find
Speaker 8: a way that the candidate that we're running for, the
Speaker 8: candidate that we're doing our work for the candidate that
Speaker 8: is ongoing is black power. We wanted to be very
Speaker 8: intentional about being black. That's what our colors are. Our
Speaker 8: colors ain't red, white, and blue. I know that this
Speaker 8: is pretty around, is pretty right, but our colors are red, black.
Speaker 3: And green.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 8: That we wanted to literally lift up and have a
Speaker 8: foundation around black liberation and be unapologetic with it. And
Speaker 8: so that our alignment wasn't with a political party or
Speaker 8: political candidate. Our alignment was really around how do we
Speaker 8: help black folks as they define build power in their
Speaker 8: local communities. And if we do that enough and we're
Speaker 8: connecting that enough and we get black folks just to
Speaker 8: believe in their own power just that point black period.
Speaker 8: If black people believe in our own power, what we
Speaker 8: have shown is we will change this nation.
Speaker 6: We have everything that we have stood in.
Speaker 8: The space of our power, even whether whether we had
Speaker 8: the majority of numbers or not, right, we have created change.
Speaker 6: And so that's what we wanted to literally build off
Speaker 6: the rich.
Speaker 8: History of that, the real history of struggle, a spirit,
Speaker 8: a strategy, and putting those things together really to advance
Speaker 8: not just black liberation for us because I actually fundamentally
Speaker 8: believe that all people will actually benefit from black liberation.
Speaker 8: If you lift up those communities that are on the fringes,
Speaker 8: those communities that have been marginalized, then it has always
Speaker 8: made life better for all of us. We black folks
Speaker 8: fight for housing, our white kind of parts. Everybody been
Speaker 8: in the fits from housing. So that's what our venson is,
Speaker 8: that's our dream, and we're just really grateful to be
Speaker 8: in service of the ancestors. We are grateful to be
Speaker 8: in service of our people. We are grateful to go
Speaker 8: around and say in this space right now, baby be clear, bowl,
Speaker 8: beautiful and black, to get.
Speaker 3: On the road with you.
Speaker 5: We have some work to do, including always building black
Speaker 5: power and speaking of red, black and green.
Speaker 3: Look at them over here. Cunningham, activist, writer and a
Speaker 3: friend of ours. We are part of a machete's crew.
Speaker 3: Were waiting for one more to join us, she said, Brittany,
Speaker 3: we are so thrilled for you to be here.
Speaker 1: You're an activists out of Missouri. You also served on
Speaker 1: a council or the President Barack Obama. You do a
Speaker 1: lot of social commentating, but also a lot of work
Speaker 1: on the ground.
Speaker 3: Still.
Speaker 1: Preaching, and hell a lot of preaching, and she and
Speaker 1: Latasha both do some amazing singing.
Speaker 3: But she's also as a one said a Machety member.
Speaker 3: So thank you for being here.
Speaker 11: But you know, I thought I'm a little bit mad
Speaker 11: because I love you all so much. But the agreement
Speaker 11: was that if I was going to do Native Lampire.
Speaker 3: I could not speak after Latasha. The word has been misinformation.
Speaker 11: Benediction has been prayed, the collection play has been passed
Speaker 11: right everybody out in the vestibule.
Speaker 1: Now it's the letter.
Speaker 3: Every time, every time she delivers a sermon.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really happy you're joining us on separate because
Speaker 1: one I just love when we all get to be
Speaker 1: together as our sister circle. We were in Mexico together
Speaker 1: a few weeks. You can check some of our thirst
Speaker 1: traps if you like.
Speaker 9: But.
Speaker 6: Specific for.
Speaker 4: Yourself, thank you.
Speaker 3: I try to stand the part.
Speaker 1: What is the task for people watching at home right now?
Speaker 1: Because I think you know, I was just talking to
Speaker 1: one of the mayors earlier saying this was a the
Speaker 1: plot line here was so unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It rivals a Tyler Perry plot. This we're in a movie.
Speaker 1: I said, this is ridiculous. It's just not believable. But
Speaker 1: yet here we are when the country turn like that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even a month ago that Vice President Harris
Speaker 1: is now our nominee.
Speaker 3: So for all the people who were a bit.
Speaker 1: Apathetic, who are now excited and hopeful, what beyond that
Speaker 1: hope and excitement do people need to be doing right
Speaker 1: now to make this a decisive win.
Speaker 3: I love this question because it's action oriented.
Speaker 11: And Natasha and I were together last night having a
Speaker 11: conversation about organizing with some folks.
Speaker 3: Listen, you're let's be honest about it.
Speaker 5: Message, but don't worry. But they did the same thing.
Speaker 5: They watched the space together. You really feel like I'm
Speaker 5: in the middle.
Speaker 3: You as an amattle girl, and you the.
Speaker 6: Youngest, so you know you already Kitchen, I do it.
Speaker 11: Can we talk about that at some point because nobody
Speaker 11: acknowledges that, but it's true. I get a real rough
Speaker 11: But this is the right question, right because we often
Speaker 11: are talking about a lot of the things that we
Speaker 11: are dealing with, the trauma that we endure, the ways
Speaker 11: we've had to survive and be creative and innovative, and
Speaker 11: yet we often don't have the time left to be imaginative,
Speaker 11: to be strategic to actually dream up the world that
Speaker 11: we deserve and say, let's plan backwards from it and
Speaker 11: figure out how we get there together, because it's not
Speaker 11: freedom if we don't get there together.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 11: So, I really think that this question about action is
Speaker 11: so important. But the action starts within. You actually have
Speaker 11: to begin to take the time to expand your imagination.
Speaker 11: Like sit outside for five minutes, stare at the sky
Speaker 11: and say, like, if I'm truly going to be my
Speaker 11: ancestor's wildest dreams, then how wild can my dreams get?
Speaker 11: Because there are a lot of folks for whom this
Speaker 11: week and the culmination of it, and the nomination of
Speaker 11: Vice President Harris to the ticket will be their wildest dreams.
Speaker 3: But guess what we hear?
Speaker 11: Yea, So now you've got to go dream bigger. Now
Speaker 11: we have to go id eight further. Now we have
Speaker 11: to go expand. So I think that that's the first
Speaker 11: thing we do. The second thing that we do, in particular,
Speaker 11: is we have honest conversations with one another. There is
Speaker 11: a tendency in our community to say go vote because
Speaker 11: I said so, yeah, to say go vote because I
Speaker 11: literally has watched somebody say I'll put you over my
Speaker 11: knee and spank you, And I was like, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think you should be telegrown people that a.
Speaker 11: But also like, when is the last time somebody ever
Speaker 11: condescended you into anything that's right? Like when somebody said
Speaker 11: to you when you were an actual child people, As
Speaker 11: an actual child.
Speaker 3: You rebella. So what we're going to do as an adult? Exactly?
Speaker 11: There is a reason why people are feeling squeezed out.
Speaker 11: There is a reason why folks are saying, well, you
Speaker 11: told me four years ago is the most important election
Speaker 11: in my life time, and now you're telling me again
Speaker 11: you said that eight years ago, So how is it
Speaker 11: the most important every time?
Speaker 6: I thought that was last time?
Speaker 3: Exactly Exactly.
Speaker 11: So we have to acknowledge where people are and then
Speaker 11: encourage them, as Latasha has been saying, to actually dig
Speaker 11: deep and reach into our own power.
Speaker 3: I'm not a person who likes to leave any tool
Speaker 3: or power on the table.
Speaker 11: Like if I'm trying to get something done for my son,
Speaker 11: for y'all nephew, then I'm gonna go come on and
Speaker 11: back to make it happen. Why would I not do
Speaker 11: that for my people? Why would I not vote and protest.
Speaker 11: Why would I not protest and strategize. Why would I
Speaker 11: not strategize and use content and media like I'm not
Speaker 11: leaving nothing on the table for our freedom.
Speaker 3: I refuse to do that.
Speaker 11: And that's the kind of activity that we have to
Speaker 11: decide to be engaged in every single day.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 5: I just want to tell y'all real quick, while the
Speaker 5: show's going on. This is actually one of my favorite
Speaker 5: parts of the Democratic National Convention. But it's real special today.
Speaker 5: The roll call is happening right now.
Speaker 12: I love it.
Speaker 5: And Ritt, while you were talking about imagination, you saw
Speaker 5: Wes Moore holding Mike like a hip hop artist.
Speaker 3: Governor, No, it was.
Speaker 5: Dope Governor Wes Moore, our black governor from from Maryland,
Speaker 5: but our black governor because we ain't got enough, okay,
Speaker 5: saying that Maryland is committing its votes to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: What a historic moment.
Speaker 5: You talk about imagination all the time, You talk about
Speaker 5: it all the time. They're also holding everybody, including our
Speaker 5: dear sister Aaron, So talk about imagination that is.
Speaker 1: But can we just take a moment to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: though yes, said this historic candidate at the first black
Speaker 1: woman president or the president Alex because I speaking into
Speaker 1: existence Holidasha you, I hope you don't mind me violating
Speaker 1: our confidentiality agreement and.
Speaker 6: Talking about.
Speaker 1: Yes o Latasha, what about the hell is fine? But Natasha,
Speaker 1: we were all at the Machete group chat. We were
Speaker 1: in there and we talked eight thousands. Have you missed
Speaker 1: the group chat for an hour? You come back in
Speaker 1: a SI.
Speaker 3: This is worth violating. And she on the stage with
Speaker 3: three when we were talking about.
Speaker 1: The chances for vice president here and Latasha wrote this,
Speaker 1: I'm like this is going in my book. It was
Speaker 1: a dissertation where Latasha was saying, essentially, we are spiritual
Speaker 1: beings having a human experience and it's just time. There
Speaker 1: was no other option that it is time the work
Speaker 1: that black women have done. And you I can't echo
Speaker 1: your words as beautifully and poetically and lyrically as you do,
Speaker 1: but I've read that and got teary. I because there
Speaker 1: is no other option other than for this to happen.
Speaker 1: We talk about the dream and the hope of the slave,
Speaker 1: and some would argue the dream and the hope of
Speaker 1: the enslaves was not to succeed here in America, but
Speaker 1: to go home, back to our roots. And here we
Speaker 1: have a convergence, a confluence of all of that happening.
Speaker 1: We have gone to the motherland together and now we
Speaker 1: have this bridge of the enslaved everywhere. She is the
Speaker 1: daughter of immigrants. Yes, people don't realize that the enslaved
Speaker 1: were also in Jamaica.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: We are reaching across continents, We are reaching across nations
Speaker 1: and leading the way here in America.
Speaker 11: And I'm just I have goosebumps so for for what
Speaker 11: gives you because I share that spirit with you, what
Speaker 11: gives you that.
Speaker 1: Self assured, unshaken faith that the wind is at our back.
Speaker 3: Now this is going to.
Speaker 7: Happen because we're here, like and I need people to
Speaker 7: sit in it.
Speaker 4: We are here.
Speaker 8: We are literally the children, the great great great grandchildren
Speaker 8: of those who they're they were so our families, our
Speaker 8: ancestors were so dehumanized, they weren't even considered full human beings,
Speaker 8: right that to be able to read right here we
Speaker 8: are literally running colleges, creating colleges, establishing them.
Speaker 6: Were her hair.
Speaker 4: Come hair?
Speaker 3: Okay, no, no, no, that's.
Speaker 7: That's already.
Speaker 1: By two additional machete members. Part of our Machete group chat.
Speaker 1: We have the amazing Carrie Champion.
Speaker 3: You all know Ferry Champion. She has done amazing work
Speaker 3: in media, in sports.
Speaker 1: She's constantly calling me asked me to explain something sports
Speaker 1: related to her. It's exhausting, but she is amazing. You've
Speaker 1: seen Carrie everywhere. I call her the cat Walk Assassin.
Speaker 1: You can see why and be my sister in journalism.
Speaker 1: Aaron Haynes, I know you all see her, and so
Speaker 1: many people tell me how much they enjoy Aaron Haynes,
Speaker 1: who is the face of the nineteenth Please check out
Speaker 1: her newsletter in that platform. But so many people Aaron
Speaker 1: always tell me how amazed think you are on television,
Speaker 1: And I was telling Angela on the way here. I'm like,
Speaker 1: they don't even know the real Errand because as great
Speaker 1: as she is on.
Speaker 3: MSN at.
Speaker 11: The swats air, she is the wittiest and funniest in
Speaker 11: our group, but also just so smart. Your scope on
Speaker 11: things so it is.
Speaker 3: I just feel like this is a dream, wrong call,
Speaker 3: just a technical thing. Who are you brand me and
Speaker 3: carrying that you can lift up your little you're sharing.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry my fickness is pushing you out.
Speaker 6: You're just one.
Speaker 3: You don't have to tell people that let's start.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Aaron and will work our way down Aaron.
Speaker 1: As as a journalist, you take a difference of things.
Speaker 1: What what does this moment mean for you? Because I
Speaker 1: feel like some people enter this space as a journalist,
Speaker 1: some people enter this space as a woman, some people
Speaker 1: enter this space as a black person.
Speaker 3: Where are you right now?
Speaker 6: In what order?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I mean, look, you got to unmute. Listen to black women.
Speaker 6: I'm speaking.
Speaker 3: I'm speaking exactly from freaking to the d n C.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 9: Here we go.
Speaker 3: He's not kidding.
Speaker 13: I mean, listen, I'm all of those things obviously at once.
Speaker 13: I bring all those lived identities to who I am
Speaker 13: as a journalist. Don't apologize for that, but you know,
Speaker 13: I really thought about, you know, boarding my plane in
Speaker 13: Chicago on Sunday. Sunday was the one hundred and fourth
Speaker 13: anniversary of the nineteenth Amendment, which is the amendment for
Speaker 13: which my newsroom is named. Uh an amendment which guaranteed
Speaker 13: the right for some but not all, women.
Speaker 6: The right to vote.
Speaker 13: Hello, we had to fight twice as hard or even
Speaker 13: longer before we had our full access to the franchise.
Speaker 13: We're still fighting, our access to this democracy still being challenged.
Speaker 13: You see that we could have seen that this week
Speaker 13: coming into this convention, right, which could have been a
Speaker 13: contested convention, open convention. That's not what we're seeing here.
Speaker 13: We are seeing a Democratic party that is unified behind
Speaker 13: a black woman who could become the first woman president
Speaker 13: of the United States. That is not a moment that
Speaker 13: we necessarily saw coming when we started the nineteenth four
Speaker 13: almost five years ago. Literally the nineteen started after the
Speaker 13: twenty sixteen election, when we saw these tired tropes around electability,
Speaker 13: around readiness, around ambition, and we knew that there was
Speaker 13: a different way to talk about women, to talk about
Speaker 13: our leadership, to talk about gender and our politics in
Speaker 13: this country, in the emerging small de democracy that you
Speaker 13: talked about much, Tiffany, that you continue to talk about.
Speaker 13: So yeah, I mean, I come to a convention where
Speaker 13: the diversity that I'm seeing in the arena is reflected
Speaker 13: on stage as well as in the audience. That's not
Speaker 13: something that I saw just a month ago at the
Speaker 13: Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: That is striking to me.
Speaker 13: I think we know it's real, but to see it
Speaker 13: happening to see it in reality, a true representative democracy
Speaker 13: really in this arena, and abortion, which we knew was
Speaker 13: on the ballot, was on stage last night. That's still
Speaker 13: remarkable to think about. So, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 13: as a journalist, this is just a remarkable moment to
Speaker 13: cover as a black woman. I am thinking about everybody
Speaker 13: from Shirley Chisholm to Jesse Jackson to I mean, just
Speaker 13: so many people that paved the way for this moment
Speaker 13: to be possible. Mignon Moore, Donna Brazil, Lea Daughtry, Yolanda Carro,
Speaker 13: I mean all just front and center in this moment.
Speaker 13: They helped to manifest the moment which we now find ourselves.
Speaker 13: And as a journalist, I mean, I can't not mention
Speaker 13: them in this conversation. So yeah, there's a lot there.
Speaker 13: And obviously the Nineteenth is feeling pretty good about, you know,
Speaker 13: the idea that we had four years ago, because it's
Speaker 13: all on full display this week.
Speaker 1: And your combridge is constantly beautiful.
Speaker 5: God also the host of the Amendment podcast, which we
Speaker 5: didn't say, And speaking of podcast hosts, we also have.
Speaker 3: Carrie Chamber a podcast hosts.
Speaker 5: The podcast host, but we also have Carrie Champion here.
Speaker 5: What I love about you being here, Carrie is this
Speaker 5: isn't something where you had to come.
Speaker 3: You felt compelled to come.
Speaker 5: I know you have that headset on, but if you
Speaker 5: don't mind picking up that mike, we love to talk
Speaker 5: to you about what.
Speaker 3: Made you want to be here. And Andrew Gillham, just
Speaker 3: because the women are occupied with six of these seats,
Speaker 3: I need a way in here, a double.
Speaker 14: Dutch first, second, first, first and foremost, thank you guys
Speaker 14: for having me. I was just with I'm standing I
Speaker 14: just want to talk about my machetes for a minute.
Speaker 14: I'm standing out front. I'm waiting for someone to bring
Speaker 14: me a cidential and who do I see just walk
Speaker 14: up on me and it was like, no, I got
Speaker 14: you follow me, I have a pass. We so are
Speaker 14: in sync with one another. Of all the people that
Speaker 14: I could see standing in front of the United Center,
Speaker 14: Aaron walks up on me and gives me of all
Speaker 14: the people, and it was just like, I love you
Speaker 14: so much. I love this, I love the sisterhood.
Speaker 4: I love what you all are doing.
Speaker 14: You all know that, Andrew, I love you, and I
Speaker 14: love I love Britt because she's letting one of my butt.
Speaker 4: Cheeks just come to.
Speaker 14: It is yet holding on. This is the workout for
Speaker 14: the day. So I am a CNN contributor, but I
Speaker 14: did not have to come. But I was like, if
Speaker 14: I missed this moment, I miss I miss Barock's moment.
Speaker 14: But if I missed this moment, this to me felt
Speaker 14: so substantial and so bigger than us. And I felt
Speaker 14: like this appointment in which Kamala Harris has in this
Speaker 14: moment felt divine. It is a testimony to everything can
Speaker 14: happen in a in a blink of any of overnight.
Speaker 14: My God is so real, and so I was able
Speaker 14: to witness what happened to this woman three, four or
Speaker 14: five months ago. Nobody could have told me this is
Speaker 14: where we would be, And in an instant, I am
Speaker 14: sitting here and I'm all like, this is a testimony
Speaker 14: to those who believe and who have chosen. So what's
Speaker 14: meant for you is meant for you, and no one
Speaker 14: can take it away from you. And I'm watching in
Speaker 14: real time, and so I had to be here because
Speaker 14: I live that. I believe that we all do. We've
Speaker 14: been in these moments and it's something special in my world.
Speaker 4: Of sports.
Speaker 14: As we all know, I said this, it's not an
Speaker 14: accident where you have these two entities where women's athletics
Speaker 14: is taken off in a way in which we have
Speaker 14: never seen before. And then when we look at women
Speaker 14: in the world fighting, and we're saying, and I've said
Speaker 14: this before, not on my damn watch, you want to
Speaker 14: take away these things bit by bit. You played your hand,
Speaker 14: you over played your hand. And now we are here
Speaker 14: and we are righteous, and we are taking back what
Speaker 14: is ours. There is this idea in sports that everyone
Speaker 14: needs a good a good story, a good rivalry story,
Speaker 14: always needs a really good person, and they need the foil, right,
Speaker 14: they need a good athlete and they need a foil.
Speaker 14: But in this instance, women, black women are the foil.
Speaker 14: We are taking it and we're taking it back. You
Speaker 14: thought you were the superhero, but the story is ours.
Speaker 14: And I am so grateful to be here. And I'm
Speaker 14: more excited because I thought I was coming on tomorrow,
Speaker 14: but since you guys have me on to day, I'm
Speaker 14: just hanging out but checking off.
Speaker 5: Well, we are so grateful, y'all. We promise, y'all, we
Speaker 5: need it. Only about five minutes of your time, so
Speaker 5: We're gonna let y'all head on out. Natasha got people.
Speaker 3: To seeing things to do. We got some other guests
Speaker 3: coming up. But we are so so grateful for you. Yes,
Speaker 3: you're welcome.
Speaker 4: Let me put eyes on you all. It is really
Speaker 4: really really beautiful fold to see this. Uh, this sisterhood,
Speaker 4: This sisterhood, y'all have created a monkst incredible black women
Speaker 4: who are doing it big, doing it bad. Aeron, so
Speaker 4: proud for you of you.
Speaker 5: No take Edie is joining us as Aaron is the party.
Speaker 5: Joe take a Edie is the founder of Win with
Speaker 5: Black Women and as she is also as she hugs Aaron,
Speaker 5: coming up here, come sit by me.
Speaker 3: Joe comes in by me.
Speaker 5: Joe, I know that Andrew, Andrew got some things to say.
Speaker 5: He got some reflections from last time too, So I
Speaker 5: want you to bring in Joe take. As she puts
Speaker 5: her headphones on.
Speaker 10: Win.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 4: Everybody around the globe probably by now knows who you are,
Speaker 4: given the fact that Joe take it on that what.
Speaker 4: Four weeks ago, decided that she was going to host
Speaker 4: UH the welcoming fundraiser for Kamala Harris as she was
Speaker 4: basically named endorsed by Joe Biden on that Sunday, that
Speaker 4: faithful Sunday, when he decided he would no longer pursued
Speaker 4: the Democratic nomination for re election to the presidency. And
Speaker 4: then everybody started hearing about this Black Women's Call that
Speaker 4: was going to take place, that almost near forty that
Speaker 4: had been taking place, but we didn't know it right.
Speaker 4: The rest of the world didn't know what you had
Speaker 4: envisioned and created four years prior. And so we got
Speaker 4: invited into this space, just very briefly to get a
Speaker 4: glimpse at the kind of power that you have been
Speaker 4: manifesting for four years with this group, made very evident
Speaker 4: and obvious for anyone to see when y'all pulled forty
Speaker 4: thousand women together on a phone call, Black women the
Speaker 4: initial call. Then we had black men, and we had
Speaker 4: the white sisters, and then we had what do we bros?
Speaker 4: What do we call the white guys? So I'm understating
Speaker 4: the power of it, your taker, But I'd love for
Speaker 4: you to want just vision back to four years ago
Speaker 4: and what you thought about what you envisioned, and men
Speaker 4: bring us forward to like how did all these calls
Speaker 4: come together?
Speaker 1: Can I tell you, Joe Teka our comments, and we
Speaker 1: can probably see people are saying, I am I was
Speaker 1: one of the.
Speaker 3: Forty four thousand. So there are people who are so fighted.
Speaker 15: Sorry good, yeah, yeah, you know, I think in order
Speaker 15: to go back four years, we probably have to go
Speaker 15: back sixty years, okay, right, because when with black women
Speaker 15: was born out of the lineage of the work, the struggle,
Speaker 15: the fight of black women who came before us that
Speaker 15: poured into the next generation of Black women, who poured
Speaker 15: into the next generation of Black women, who poured into
Speaker 15: the next generation, the colored girls.
Speaker 16: Because four years ago, we all as.
Speaker 15: Black women were collectively outraged by the narrative, the sexism
Speaker 15: and the racism that had entered the conversation as it
Speaker 15: related to who was going to be vice president. Every
Speaker 15: single capable woman black woman that was being named was
Speaker 15: facing racist, sexist, ad hominal attacks, and we as black
Speaker 15: women were all outrage.
Speaker 16: I picked up the phone. I called Mignon Moore.
Speaker 15: Before I had called Mignon, I had saw a Facebook
Speaker 15: video by Bishop Leodatri and I called Mignon. I said, Mignyon,
Speaker 15: what are y'all gonna do? Meaning the Colored girls? Mignon said,
Speaker 15: what are y'all gonna do? She meant, what are you, Tiffany, Angela, Brittany, Latasha, Shavon,
Speaker 15: all of us, what are we gonna do? And so
Speaker 15: it took me twenty minutes to sit there and gather myself.
Speaker 15: After I got gathered by Mignon Moore, and I put
Speaker 15: out an email and I send that email to sixty
Speaker 15: five sister friends from every sector that I had had
Speaker 15: the opportunity to work, of which two of those sister
Speaker 15: friends are.
Speaker 16: Sitting right here on the stage, Angela Rai.
Speaker 15: And Tiffany Cross. And the first person to reply back
Speaker 15: to that email, I believe was Yolanda Carraway and then
Speaker 15: Donna Brazil. So it's something about the colored girls who
Speaker 15: were mentored by doctor Dorothy Irene Hyatt, who was mentored
Speaker 15: by A Sicily Tyson. And so you think about that night,
Speaker 15: the first night August second, I believe August first, that
Speaker 15: we came together. It was ninety of us and we said,
Speaker 15: right then, not on our watch, they will not speak
Speaker 15: on black women in this way. And then we went
Speaker 15: on to say that there needed to be a black
Speaker 15: woman at the top of the ticket, and we said
Speaker 15: it's time. But what we also said that we were
Speaker 15: going to continue to do the work. And I think
Speaker 15: the important part of it is that black women have
Speaker 15: always done the work when no one was looking. Always
Speaker 15: and when with black women over the last four years,
Speaker 15: we would not be who we are today or then
Speaker 15: had it not been for women that paid the way
Speaker 15: or mentored us to be in position to have the
Speaker 15: courage and conviction to.
Speaker 16: Continue the work. And that has been so important.
Speaker 15: And over the last four years it's been sisters like
Speaker 15: Tiffany and Angela to say yes, who say like, we're
Speaker 15: not just in the political arena with women, with black women.
Speaker 15: We have fought for black women anytime racism is sexism
Speaker 15: has been hurled their way, whether or not it's a
Speaker 15: sister that is, you know, unlawfully detained in a Russian
Speaker 15: prison and that we need to lift our voices collectively
Speaker 15: and break our home, or if they're putting racist attacks
Speaker 15: against a young, beautiful black woman who is the Little Mermaid.
Speaker 15: We said we're gonna buy out one hundred theaters, and
Speaker 15: so that's the work that we've been doing. So on
Speaker 15: July twenty first, our meeting was already set. Black Women
Speaker 15: was already gonna meet. We just needed to shift the agenda,
Speaker 15: and I think that's the importance. All we had to
Speaker 15: do was shift the agenda. The meeting was already set.
Speaker 15: Sisters caught on fire. And it's important to know. We
Speaker 15: had forty four thousand on zoom. Bless it be a
Speaker 15: black woman, because our zoom opened up at ten pm
Speaker 15: that night and that's.
Speaker 16: Where we grew.
Speaker 15: But we had fift the thousand other black women. There
Speaker 15: were thirty thousand in clubhouse. There were ten thousand on
Speaker 15: a conference call line. And that just shows that black
Speaker 15: women would figure out what we need to do anywhere anyhow.
Speaker 15: And the last thing that I would say is that
Speaker 15: that fundraising link Star Jones dropped that fundraising link at
Speaker 15: eleven twenty pm.
Speaker 16: Wow, and by one a m. We had raised one
Speaker 16: point six million dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: You bad know that we made.
Speaker 3: We are bad black women.
Speaker 4: But I just want to exclamation mark this point, which
Speaker 4: was the meeting was already said. We just had to
Speaker 4: pivot the agenda, y'all. The other way to say that
Speaker 4: is when you when you stay ready, you don't have
Speaker 4: to get ready.
Speaker 15: Speaking of that, my President President ready to say we've
Speaker 15: been joined.
Speaker 17: The President, welcome the delta Sigma Theater president, Miss Elsie
Speaker 17: Cook Holmes, who is one of the forty four thousand
Speaker 17: and that that j'll take us called upon it and
Speaker 17: including one of the original sixty.
Speaker 3: So we wanted to be here.
Speaker 5: I thought that it was really important, y'all know, I'm
Speaker 5: about to say some a little reckless. It was really
Speaker 5: important for people that show colors and signs to know
Speaker 5: that colors and signs have united. They have united behind
Speaker 5: at Aka Nominee and I love to see it. I
Speaker 5: got to spend some time with you a President Homes
Speaker 5: at the mid Western Regional Conference at Delta, and to
Speaker 5: watch how many of you are are supporting Kamala Hairs
Speaker 5: without reservation, which is beautiful to see.
Speaker 18: I will tell you we are excited and this is
Speaker 18: a moment of unity. This is a moment of unity.
Speaker 18: To your point, regardless of what colors you wear, one
Speaker 18: of our divine nine sisters is a candidate for the
Speaker 18: United States President, and so it is so awesome. We
Speaker 18: certainly and Delta are pleased and proud that she is
Speaker 18: following the footsteps of our sorrow Shirley Chisholm, who in
Speaker 18: nineteen seventy two broke ground at a time when she
Speaker 18: really had to bring her.
Speaker 6: Own chair to have that seat at the table.
Speaker 18: But look where we are fifty two years later, and
Speaker 18: it shouldn't have taken fifty two years, but we are
Speaker 18: here and we are meeting the moment collectively. Joe Taka
Speaker 18: has done amazing work since twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: But what started with such a few has.
Speaker 18: Grown to a movement and I think that everyone is
Speaker 18: following in those footsteps. And we from a D nine perspective,
Speaker 18: Delta Sigma Theta has been doing this work a long time.
Speaker 18: All of our organizations have and we know what's going
Speaker 18: to take all of us, and we are all in love.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people in the comments and
Speaker 1: welcome and thank you for being here. With that, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are asking Joe take like how did
Speaker 1: you do this so quickly? And you just explained this work,
Speaker 1: what's happening? You have been in this in four years,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's so important to note for people.
Speaker 3: Some people get in this for the glory. Some people
Speaker 3: get in this to tell a story. Some people get
Speaker 3: in this.
Speaker 1: To hop on a hashtag and build a plat form
Speaker 1: and not a community. You were an organizer, you were
Speaker 1: part of the NAACP at staff. You and I have
Speaker 1: known each other for a long time. You know what
Speaker 1: I always say about you, and I can't pass this
Speaker 1: opportunity to say, I think Joe take is one of
Speaker 1: the most beautiful people y'all. I'm so her cheekbones and
Speaker 1: I think one of the most Yeah, well, people are
Speaker 1: people are noticing, people are noticing. And you also what
Speaker 1: people may not know about you. You have an amazing
Speaker 1: singing voice. Just you bless us with your melodic tombre
Speaker 1: of your voice all the time.
Speaker 3: But if you could speak to the people who.
Speaker 1: Who maybe hop on that hashtag activism and just press
Speaker 1: them to do a little more, especially at this moment,
Speaker 1: in this time for people. If I was live during
Speaker 1: the Civil rights movement, I would whatever you're doing now
Speaker 1: is what you would have been doing.
Speaker 3: So what's your piece of advice for them?
Speaker 16: You know, my advice is that movement work is not
Speaker 16: like a microwave.
Speaker 15: We we can't just pop it in the microwave like
Speaker 15: you do a bag of popcorn and just pop your
Speaker 15: way to freedom and to a movement. The work is consistent, Often,
Speaker 15: the work is hard, and the work often happens most
Speaker 15: importantly when no one is looking.
Speaker 16: And I think that is the part that in this
Speaker 16: moment right now.
Speaker 15: Yes we can use a hashtag, but we actually have
Speaker 15: to put boots on the ground.
Speaker 16: We actually have to talk to voters.
Speaker 15: We cannot just assume that we're going to win this
Speaker 15: election on zoom. Yes we can meet on zoom, but
Speaker 15: we actually got to get on doors. We got to
Speaker 15: get in community. We have to meet people where they are,
Speaker 15: and we have to meet people everywhere. That is what
Speaker 15: it is going to take to win this election. That
Speaker 15: is how movements have always been won. It's consistency. It's consistency,
Speaker 15: and it happens over time. It's never overnight. It's never overnight. Yes,
Speaker 15: people may find out about you overnight, but the work
Speaker 15: is never overnight. And that's what it's gonna take for
Speaker 15: us in this next you know.
Speaker 19: And beyond that you've already shown up, and beyond seventy seven,
Speaker 19: yes speaking of seventy seven, so so matter presid I'm
Speaker 19: gonna ask you to just open up the window a
Speaker 19: little bit into the kind of incredible organizing that members
Speaker 19: of D nine organizations I'm.
Speaker 4: Very familiar, specifically with with Delta's my unfortunate to be
Speaker 4: married to one my sisters won my auntie one the
Speaker 4: reds all around, Yes, yes, highly influenced by them. And
Speaker 4: what I know is that whether there's a black woman
Speaker 4: at the top of the ticket in a in a
Speaker 4: race or not, you all have a deeply invested interest
Speaker 4: in ensuring that our community stays awake and stays organized.
Speaker 4: I'd like to hear you if you would, if it's
Speaker 4: possible to just illuminate for us, how what kind of
Speaker 4: ways in which should people expect to see deltas at
Speaker 4: the alumni alumni level as well as on community uh
Speaker 4: and university campuses. How can we andnticipation seeing them organized?
Speaker 4: If y'all listening and seeing and y'all haven't heard the news,
Speaker 4: I'm sure y'all already heard from your your present around
Speaker 4: how y'all organized it. But tell the rest of us
Speaker 4: what can we expect to see when the full breath,
Speaker 4: weight and scope of your membership gets to work around
Speaker 4: activating voter registration and turnout.
Speaker 6: Absolutely so, first of all, to your point, we are
Speaker 6: not new to this.
Speaker 18: We are truly true to this, and we have been
Speaker 18: since nineteen thirteen when we fought for women's suffrage at
Speaker 18: the time that black folks could not.
Speaker 6: Could not vote.
Speaker 18: But fast forward to now, we are educating voters, We're
Speaker 18: mobilizing voters. We're making sure that voters are registered, that
Speaker 18: they check their registration status so that they won't be
Speaker 18: surprised when they go to the polls to cast their balots.
Speaker 18: We're making sure that the vote is protected and doing
Speaker 18: that through a number of ways. We have trained our
Speaker 18: members throughout our regional conference cycles this summer, and we
Speaker 18: have additional ways to train our members as well as
Speaker 18: the community.
Speaker 6: And we're brought in that to the Divine nine not
Speaker 6: only on.
Speaker 18: Election registration, education and mobilization, but that all important voter
Speaker 18: protection amassing lawyers, pole watchers, pole monitors, making sure that
Speaker 18: we have that army of individuals who can be prepared to.
Speaker 6: Make sure that our vote is protected.
Speaker 18: And we've taken this step further in Delta in terms
Speaker 18: of three lawsuits to make sure that there's over thirty
Speaker 18: states have passed laws that make it more difficult instead
Speaker 18: of easier, to vote.
Speaker 6: And so as a result of that in Georgia.
Speaker 18: In Texas into as a coplaintive into two lawsuits with
Speaker 18: LDF and we're just entering in one in Mississippi, and
Speaker 18: it's around fighting the law that make it more difficult
Speaker 18: to vote to try to roll back those laws. And
Speaker 18: we're being proactive in other states as well, because it's
Speaker 18: absolutely critical that we know that you.
Speaker 3: Are have so much to do and we're so grateful
Speaker 3: that you are have joined us.
Speaker 5: And before we have you on step off, I just
Speaker 5: want to make sure you have the opportunity to say
Speaker 5: hello to our good.
Speaker 3: Friend, Congresswoman Ayana Presley of the amazing I love you,
Speaker 3: great to see you, and we love you. Joe Tak.
Speaker 16: Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 15: Before I go, I do want to say one thing,
Speaker 15: and it's so important, and I want to be on
Speaker 15: the record saying this. People talk about the forty four thousand,
Speaker 15: the extra fifty thousand that we had elsewhere, they talk
Speaker 15: about women with black women, But it's important to note
Speaker 15: that that right after that call, the very next day,
Speaker 15: the very next day, who had our backs black men,
Speaker 15: black men, And that's so important. And now there's been
Speaker 15: hundreds and hundreds of zoom and zooms all over, but
Speaker 15: it's so important. People try to often defide us as
Speaker 15: a people that black women winning with black women means
Speaker 15: that we can't win with black men. But we are
Speaker 15: winning together as people, and I feel like we're more
Speaker 15: united than we ever have been. And I think in
Speaker 15: this moment, we think about Shirley Chisholm, and we think
Speaker 15: about how she said, if they don't give you a
Speaker 15: seat at.
Speaker 16: The table, bring a folding share.
Speaker 15: But what I dare say is that in this moment
Speaker 15: right now, black people are leading, Black women are leading,
Speaker 15: and we are building a new table and we're making
Speaker 15: sure everybody has.
Speaker 3: A seat at the table.
Speaker 18: We're doing that from a D nine perspective as well,
Speaker 18: all across. So we've got five fraternities focus heavily on
Speaker 18: this work, the fource sororities focused heavily on this work,
Speaker 18: partnering with Joe Taker, partnering with n C and W
Speaker 18: broad strategies to make sure that we are all in together.
Speaker 18: And our hashtag is D nine Stronger Together, because we
Speaker 18: know it's going to take every single one of us
Speaker 18: to make sure that we bring this home, have.
Speaker 5: A seat at our table, and we will see y'all soon.
Speaker 5: We can't wait to see y'all seventy seven.
Speaker 3: Days and up until then, it's good y'all. Welcome home
Speaker 3: to our congress Woman.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We're joined now by Congressman Ayana Pressley. She is the
Speaker 1: first black woman to represent Boston in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 1: So another historic candidate during this time that we are
Speaker 1: making history here at the DNC. I have to we
Speaker 1: love you, Joe Taco. We thank you, Madam President. I
Speaker 1: have to tell you, guys, when you saw me the
Speaker 1: last time we were together on set, I was broadcasting
Speaker 1: from Martha's vineyard and I camped out at the congress
Speaker 1: Woman's home every day. I was trying to get Angela
Speaker 1: to come up there with me and Andrew. So at
Speaker 1: some point we will do a podcast, we hope, and
Speaker 1: from the Congressman. But we're so happy to have you.
Speaker 1: But honestly, because you yourself were a historic candidate, you
Speaker 1: took the office that belonged to Congress on the shurelytism
Speaker 1: in Congress. What does this moment mean to you to
Speaker 1: watch another black woman ascend to the highest heights of
Speaker 1: the United States government?
Speaker 6: All right, I'm feeling this on so many levels.
Speaker 20: So first and foremost, actually, the dress that I'm wearing
Speaker 20: was is a custom piece inspired by a Shirley Chishlm dress. Wow.
Speaker 20: And so even though it is quite warm, that is
Speaker 20: why I'm wearing it in this full circle moment. And
Speaker 20: also though I have the humbling honor of being the
Speaker 20: congresswoman representing the mass Chists seventh which includes the city
Speaker 20: of Boston, as the first woman of color, black woman,
Speaker 20: well personal color period to represent the comonwealth in the House.
Speaker 20: But a lot of people don't know Chicago is the
Speaker 20: city that raised me. So it is full circle in
Speaker 20: every way. And it is I won't call it a
Speaker 20: surreal experience because I think that denies us that it's real.
Speaker 3: It is attainable.
Speaker 20: So it is heady to be on the precipice of
Speaker 20: this historic moment when black women have been the backbone
Speaker 20: of the Democratic Party, have been at the front line
Speaker 20: of ushering in every great movement throughout history.
Speaker 3: For us to take our.
Speaker 20: Rightful place at the top of this ticket, uh, it is.
Speaker 20: It is long overdue. And everyone just keeps saying how
Speaker 20: joyful they feel, how hopeful they feel, and yeah, it's
Speaker 20: an incredible experience. And then to be here with you all, yes, yes,
Speaker 20: So it's like welcome home time too.
Speaker 4: Since street. We jumped off text like, hey, I got you.
Speaker 4: That was amazing, that was awesome. The worst thing that
Speaker 4: I didn't respond after, you know, but.
Speaker 20: Also shout out to Boston because your theme song, you know,
Speaker 20: one of the many incredible creatives and we have the
Speaker 20: city of Boston.
Speaker 3: We are actually being joined and well, he's handshaking.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's coming up right now, the colleague, Yes,
Speaker 5: your colleague, Congressman Hakim Jeffries, who is the Democratic leader
Speaker 5: in the House.
Speaker 6: I think he is.
Speaker 20: He walking, he's here because we have to get people
Speaker 20: to understand that we're going to do everything to ensure
Speaker 20: that Kamala Harris is Madam President.
Speaker 3: But she has got to have a Democratic.
Speaker 6: Majority in the House.
Speaker 20: We have to grow our numbers in the Senate in
Speaker 20: order to advance this agenda for more just America of
Speaker 20: freedom and that's about the future. So it's so important
Speaker 20: that the Democrats get that gavel back and that a
Speaker 20: King Jeffries is our speaker to fully advance this agenda.
Speaker 20: Kamala can do it alone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just y'all have y'all Democrats have been incredible
Speaker 4: the way y'all have held the line. The Republicans couldn't
Speaker 4: get together anyway these last couple of months that they've
Speaker 4: been in charge. But I'm curious to know, is there
Speaker 4: give us the prognosis on whether or not you think
Speaker 4: you all will have the opportunity to win back the
Speaker 4: House where we're.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely so, I'm you know.
Speaker 20: A national surrogate for the Vice President was recently in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 20: critical battleground state, and I was so.
Speaker 3: Encouraged by what I saw there.
Speaker 20: First of all, knocking doors many Republicans that said they
Speaker 20: do plan to vote for Kamala. Secondly, in that eighteen
Speaker 20: to thirty five demographic, again a constituency that had been
Speaker 20: there was a huge enthusiasm gap that no longer exists.
Speaker 20: People said, I just feel again more hopeful Kamala's future focused,
Speaker 20: and I feel that I'm a part of something important.
Speaker 20: Women from every age and walk of life, and this
Speaker 20: is the thing that black women do uniquely. We want
Speaker 20: to acknowledge the power of this representation. It is transformative
Speaker 20: and it is meaningful. But everyone sees themselves reflected in
Speaker 20: Black women. So because we live in intersectionality, her story
Speaker 20: is the story of multitudes, and so it is a
Speaker 20: deeply re is it vision for our countries, centering the
Speaker 20: humanity and dignity of every person of every family model,
Speaker 20: in contrast to institutionalized Trumpism in Project twenty twenty five,
Speaker 20: which will cause harm to everyone who calls this country home.
Speaker 20: Control every aspect of your life from your bedroom to
Speaker 20: your womb, dismantle the federal government and our democracy as
Speaker 20: we know it. In contrast to Kamala Harris and Tim Walls,
Speaker 20: who are about your freedoms, you know, preserving your freedoms,
Speaker 20: expanding your freedoms, and about the future. So I think
Speaker 20: with this economic agenda they've just rolled out, they show
Speaker 20: that they have not forgotten the plot. They see the people,
Speaker 20: and they want to mitigate the harm and the struggles
Speaker 20: of everyday people. But they also want to meet you
Speaker 20: at your aspiration. And that's the joy part. That is
Speaker 20: the joy part. Every great movement requires three things imagination, strategy,
Speaker 20: and stamina. And I see all of that being animated
Speaker 20: in real time, and we are going to get her
Speaker 20: across that finish line and into the Oval Office.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: We absolutely love it. Hire somebody, We love you. We
Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us. We know you
Speaker 3: got to keep running and then listen history marriage.
Speaker 21: I want you all to know this is one of
Speaker 21: the baddest women serving in the United States House of Representative,
Speaker 21: one of my favorites.
Speaker 10: She holds it.
Speaker 21: Down district for the Commonwealth, for the nation, and it's
Speaker 21: honor for me just to be able to serve with,
Speaker 21: get to know and be friends with the great.
Speaker 20: So I am so grateful for your leadership and thank
Speaker 20: you for being a family. You appreciate it. You know
Speaker 20: Boston loves a king because he has some k Verdian roots.
Speaker 20: Come on back, Rose on.
Speaker 3: The ground, Well we are. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 5: First of all, thank you so much for being here
Speaker 5: with us today. We know that your team has literally
Speaker 5: been like she got five minutes. You know you got
Speaker 5: a run.
Speaker 3: We thank you and it's my hunter too to be able.
Speaker 5: As Anna said Frint family, Haqim Jeffries has been family
Speaker 5: from I'd say day zero, I'm irin Andrew, you're not
Speaker 5: on mute in the middle of my intro, thank you.
Speaker 5: Hakim Jeffries came in to see us when he was
Speaker 5: coming into Congress, and one of my favorite moments was
Speaker 5: as a staff person him just being like, Okay, what
Speaker 5: do I need to do.
Speaker 3: Who do I need to know?
Speaker 5: And because of his genuine intellectual curiosity, I know. I
Speaker 5: was like, this dude is going to be speaker, and
Speaker 5: we are on the eve of that dream. And it's
Speaker 5: really knowing that that will come to pass. I want
Speaker 5: to know, in the middle of your history making journey
Speaker 5: now as Democratic leader in the House.
Speaker 3: And where we are today, how does it feel.
Speaker 21: Well, Azela is great to be with you, I could
Speaker 21: say here in Chicago, of course, this amazing team, Uh,
Speaker 21: your heir in Chicago. It's joyful, it's aspirational. Uh, it's
Speaker 21: you find, it's electrifying. But we also know that there's
Speaker 21: a mission ahead of us over the next few months,
Speaker 21: and the other side can be diabolical. Yeah, and so
Speaker 21: we you know, we're here to thank President Biden, of
Speaker 21: course for his work he's passed the torch, to celebrate
Speaker 21: and elevate Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, but then to
Speaker 21: make sure that we're doing the work necessary so that
Speaker 21: they're successful in November, that we do take back the
Speaker 21: gavels in the United States House, and that we do
Speaker 21: what's necessary to.
Speaker 10: Hold the Senate.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's so important. It's going to be a lot
Speaker 3: of people who will lose their minds.
Speaker 1: Congressman, and we when we have a black woman president,
Speaker 1: a black House speaker, black governors elected, more black mayors elected,
Speaker 1: and it really speaks to our ancestors built this country
Speaker 1: for free. That's a phrase I came up with myself. Originally.
Speaker 3: She saw that for me to see Angelus is all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: And to finally see our work, the fruits of our
Speaker 1: labor come together at this moment. A lot of people,
Speaker 1: I don't think necessarily understands the role of the Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House, because that is a title that you
Speaker 1: are about to assume. Because we speak things into existence on.
Speaker 3: This podcast, I can what is the role of the
Speaker 3: House Speaker?
Speaker 21: Well, you know, I'll say that it's been an honor
Speaker 21: to stand on the shoulders of Nancy Pelosi, Senny Hory,
Speaker 21: and Jim Clyburn, you know who were legendary leaders. Of course,
Speaker 21: Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the United States House
Speaker 21: of Representatives, she'll go down in history, we believe is
Speaker 21: the greatest speaker of all time, along with you know
Speaker 21: Stenny who did his thing, and of course the great
Speaker 21: legendary Jim Clyburn and they all collectively actually made the
Speaker 21: decision to pass the torch to the next generation of
Speaker 21: Democrats in the House last year, and as a result,
Speaker 21: Petere Aguilar, Catherine Clark and myself now is House Democratic Leader.
Speaker 21: The role of Speaker, of course done incredibly well, you
Speaker 21: know by Nancy Pelosi, really is a constitutional officer in
Speaker 21: the House of Representatives who presides over the House, determines
Speaker 21: the agenda, make sure that legislation moves through the House
Speaker 21: actually can get out of the House and hopefully make
Speaker 21: it through the Senate and become law. And also, depending
Speaker 21: on which party the Speaker is a member of at
Speaker 21: that given point in time, is also responsible for making
Speaker 21: sure politically, you know, things go right and that you're
Speaker 21: interacting with the other branches of government, you know, particularly
Speaker 21: the President, the Vice President, as well as the Senate.
Speaker 3: It's a crucial role. I just want to give a
Speaker 3: quick shout out before I toss it to Andrew.
Speaker 1: I know your wonderful, amazing intellectual brother, Hassan Jeffries, doctor
Speaker 1: Hassan Jeffries. I met Hassan and when I met hassign
Speaker 1: over in the nineties, over twenty years ago, you were
Speaker 1: running for office then, so you have been a public servant.
Speaker 3: Your whole life.
Speaker 10: This is like a family affairs.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to give a shout out to the
Speaker 1: men of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated as well, because
Speaker 1: we were just talking about the importance of the fraternities
Speaker 1: in this work and you are a member along with
Speaker 1: your brother.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Speaker to be. I have marveled from
Speaker 4: Afar down in Florida at the way you have been
Speaker 4: able to manage and keep a very vast ideologically ranged
Speaker 4: caucus together. I mean the fact that you all have
Speaker 4: held on some of the votes that have come been
Speaker 4: put to the floor, that you have in many ways
Speaker 4: performed as the Speaker of the House and delivering very
Speaker 4: key legislation that could have otherwise been off the table
Speaker 4: or otherwise undermined.
Speaker 3: More effective than the active absolutely more effected.
Speaker 4: Because he delivers. I just got to ask a lot
Speaker 4: of folks around the country are nervous around the kinds
Speaker 4: of tactics that may be taken to either uncertify not
Speaker 4: certify put spoke, you know, obstructions in the wheel in
Speaker 4: order to delay the Congress's ability to do what is
Speaker 4: your ceremonial. But also constitutional responsibility to count the votes,
Speaker 4: the Electoral College votes, so on and so forth, and
Speaker 4: certify the presidency. Please tell us that there are scenario planning,
Speaker 4: there are stop gaps in the way, fel safes that
Speaker 4: can ensure that if we are out here encouraging people
Speaker 4: to go vote, they do their job, that when it
Speaker 4: comes to you all that we can rely on some
Speaker 4: protection that this election will not be stolen, will not
Speaker 4: be undermined by the other side, but that people can
Speaker 4: have some relative reliability on our democracy.
Speaker 21: Well, Andrew, great to see you, thank you for your
Speaker 21: public service. And it is a very important question. I
Speaker 21: think the good news is, first of all, we got
Speaker 21: to make sure all the reasons that you articulated, all
Speaker 21: of the uncertainty. Because whoever holds the gavels, whoever is
Speaker 21: in the majority on January sixth, which is the date
Speaker 21: set forth in the Constitution to certify the election. The
Speaker 21: new Congress is sworn in on January third, meaning whoever
Speaker 21: is in the majority as a result of the November
Speaker 21: election will have the ability to decide whether to certify
Speaker 21: or not. And there's an open question if the Republicans
Speaker 21: continue to hold the majority because so many of their
Speaker 21: members are election deniers and have chosen simply to bend
Speaker 21: the need to Donald Trump, who has already trying to
Speaker 21: lay the groundwork to claim, falsely if he loses or
Speaker 21: when he loses, that the election was stolen.
Speaker 10: So we got to take back the House. That's important.
Speaker 21: But we actually did act legislatively and passed a bill
Speaker 21: called the Electoral Reform count Act in two thousand and
Speaker 21: twenty two that did two important things. One, it may
Speaker 21: clear that the vice president's role is only ceremonial important
Speaker 21: now the good in this particular situation, of course, the
Speaker 21: vice president is Kamala Harris. But for future elections, we've
Speaker 21: made it clear that no one can do what Donald
Speaker 21: Trump tried to do in bullying Mike Pence to unilaterally
Speaker 21: declare the election invalid and toss the electoral votes over
Speaker 21: to him. But perhaps the second, yet most important part
Speaker 21: of that legislation is it used to be the case
Speaker 21: that it only took one member out of all four
Speaker 21: hundred and thirty five to object to the election in
Speaker 21: the House and one member out of one hundred to
Speaker 21: object in the Senate.
Speaker 10: That's all that was required.
Speaker 21: And then you can create this whole scenario where shenanigans
Speaker 21: and games can be played, and that's what was set
Speaker 21: in motion. On January sixth of twenty twenty one. We
Speaker 21: changed that so now it requires at least twenty percent
Speaker 21: of the House and twenty percent of the Senate, so
Speaker 21: that means at least a little over eighty members have
Speaker 21: to object. Now, you know, on the other side of
Speaker 21: the out you might be able to get to that
Speaker 21: number in the House, but we don't think you can
Speaker 21: get to that number in the Senate because there still
Speaker 21: are enough traditional Republicans but we don't believe will go
Speaker 21: along with Donald Trump's shenanigans to try to undermine the results.
Speaker 21: And so this is an example of legislation actually being
Speaker 21: advanced in response to a crisis that puts us in
Speaker 21: a much stronger position.
Speaker 4: Well, the best feel safe, y'all if you didn't catch
Speaker 4: it at the beginning of the answer is to put
Speaker 4: Democrats back in charge the House representative That commercial.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 5: The other thing that I think is really important about
Speaker 5: the role of the speaker. You talk about the Democratic
Speaker 5: Party being a big tent party all the time, so.
Speaker 3: Your job is not going to be very easy.
Speaker 5: You have people across the ideological spectrum. You know that
Speaker 5: and have experienced that as the Democratic leader as well.
Speaker 5: Talk about some of the things that you will have
Speaker 5: to do to get people on the same page and
Speaker 5: some of the big picture ideas you have in that role.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna use as a personal example. He is my
Speaker 5: leader too, And I texted him when I was.
Speaker 3: Like, when did everybody got an indorse come? He knows it,
Speaker 3: and he was like, let me be leader for a day.
Speaker 4: I was like, bye, right, I'm sure that happened an hour.
Speaker 3: After spouting I was it was.
Speaker 5: But I but I think that it's important because you're
Speaker 5: going to deal with people who are throwing tantrums. I'm
Speaker 5: one of them sometimes, and you're going to be dealing
Speaker 5: with folks who are like, I know the best way
Speaker 5: I can follow me? How do you bring everybody together?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, it's a great question.
Speaker 21: And you know, I think one we've adopted a philosophy
Speaker 21: and approach and this is something that I learned from
Speaker 21: Jim Clyburn that unity is different than unanimity.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 21: And the House Democratic Caucus represents the gorgeous mosaic of
Speaker 21: the American people with the closest institution to the American
Speaker 21: people by design and on the House Democratic caucuside, we
Speaker 21: have incredible diversity across every possible measure. But that means
Speaker 21: with people who have different life experiences, different perspectives, different constituencies,
Speaker 21: they may take a different view on a given issue
Speaker 21: or two. But we're not expecting unanimity. We are, however,
Speaker 21: expecting unity, which means that we're united around these principles
Speaker 21: of fighting for justice, fighting for freedom, putting people over politics,
Speaker 21: and so we can have our family discussions, which we
Speaker 21: often do.
Speaker 10: Sometimes they're exuberant. We prefer them to be private, not public.
Speaker 21: But once we get through those family discussions, we find
Speaker 21: the highest common denominator. And this is what we've done
Speaker 21: throughout the entire Congress in order to get to the
Speaker 21: best possible result for the American people.
Speaker 4: Now, there will always be some folks who will say, well.
Speaker 21: You didn't go far enough, and our general view, learning
Speaker 21: from our civil rights legends right who went through a
Speaker 21: similar process as they were working through the Civil Rights Act,
Speaker 21: the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act, that
Speaker 21: sometimes you just have to live to fight another day. Yeah,
Speaker 21: but we're all united in terms of where we want
Speaker 21: to go.
Speaker 4: Not make the perfect the enemy of the good, which
Speaker 4: oftentimes too often happens the speaker to be. We know
Speaker 4: that your time is extremely valuable. I just got to
Speaker 4: throw you some crazy love over his oratory. Yes, I
Speaker 4: mean I've been moved on occasion where this stuff should
Speaker 4: be for process. Yes, And I keep getting The Congressman
Speaker 4: gets up and begins to speak, and he evokes history,
Speaker 4: and he evokes emotion, and he connects and weaves together
Speaker 4: such an incredibly diverse set of experiences of the American
Speaker 4: people to bring all of us into investment and whatever
Speaker 4: it is that they're attempting to do. It's it is.
Speaker 4: It is a power. We're yes, But more than anything,
Speaker 4: it is a blessing. And I'm so glad that you've
Speaker 4: been imbued with it because I think it's an essential
Speaker 4: part of what allows you to be the kind of
Speaker 4: uh successful speaker that I think you've already shown yourself to.
Speaker 3: Be by here a little hip hop every Now.
Speaker 1: That's why my quick favorite quote from the Congressman is
Speaker 1: during the impeachment hearings and a Republican member said, I
Speaker 1: just don't know why we're here, and the Congressman stood
Speaker 1: up and answered him and.
Speaker 11: Listed innumerable reasons why we were here, uh and and
Speaker 11: laid out a beautifully argued case. And at the end
Speaker 11: he said, so, if you don't know, Brooklyn is always
Speaker 11: in the house.
Speaker 6: And we love it.
Speaker 3: Literally, I love you on this podcast. We're championedlations.
Speaker 21: This is amazing podcast. Gratulations are all the success. And
Speaker 21: you know, Angela and Tiffany Andrew appreciate you all.
Speaker 10: Family.
Speaker 3: You don't let you be leader for a day, but
Speaker 3: tomorrow you got to be. Mister Speaker.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic. I love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 4: Man. I'm so proud of if I came. I mean, yes,
Speaker 4: I heard him first in Florida when he came down
Speaker 4: and did some some organizing work. Yeah, throughout the race
Speaker 4: and so on and so forth. But his leadership is incredible.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I we're now saying goodbye. If you're.
Speaker 22: Definitely be interesting, how we all we make sure we
Speaker 22: hunt race.
Speaker 3: Really quickly.
Speaker 1: The California role call happened while we had mister Speaker on,
Speaker 1: which is symbolic because of course this is Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris home States, where she has won more elections than
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So It's an honor to see that history unfold.
Speaker 3: And this suit is fly child. Yes, and her suit
Speaker 3: is amazing. Handla's gonna bring in Uh. Ted her next
Speaker 3: guest Andela.
Speaker 5: Our dear friend Ted James has joined us. Ted James
Speaker 5: has been a State rep in Louisiana. He has worked
Speaker 5: for the Small Business Administration in this administration. He is
Speaker 5: running for mayor and baton rouge and he is Uh.
Speaker 5: He's a dear friend of ours. My favorite thing to
Speaker 5: say about Ted is when the people need something.
Speaker 3: They're done. They do one thing and it's two words
Speaker 3: all Ted. That is when your brother just left the
Speaker 3: set as well.
Speaker 10: I love it.
Speaker 3: Given too much. We've been talking about the D nine
Speaker 3: and the all shouting you.
Speaker 10: Out, so let me tell you something.
Speaker 23: It was such an honor to walk up and see
Speaker 23: my three dear friends and thank you all for always
Speaker 23: elevating our voices.
Speaker 4: And I'm honored to be here. But to see the
Speaker 4: next peak of the house. Yeah, a good cap a
Speaker 4: man was also heartwarming. Yeah, I bet, I bet I
Speaker 4: bet tad you you've been at the legislative level making moves.
Speaker 4: Your reputation is far outside of the state of Louisiana
Speaker 4: outside of Baton Rouge. But we know that that community
Speaker 4: has shaped the person that you are, the wonderful public servant.
Speaker 4: And I know we've got listeners and viewers down there,
Speaker 4: y'all show ted some great love. You're going from the
Speaker 4: legislature now back to the local Now. I'm welcoming you
Speaker 4: because I'm I'm a man of the local level. I
Speaker 4: know you're tell us. Tell us what has animated your
Speaker 4: desire to make your way from the state level of
Speaker 4: governing on behalf of your community to now being Mayor Andrew.
Speaker 23: I'll tell you it's the opportunity in their administration to
Speaker 23: travel across the country. And I watched other mayors do
Speaker 23: what I watched you do, raise the quality of life
Speaker 23: through investing in small businesses there. Baton Rouge is very
Speaker 23: similar to Talent Has in that the two major universities,
Speaker 23: one Southern University, how to amplify that HBCU culture through
Speaker 23: making sure that those young people have entrepreneurship opportunities where
Speaker 23: they decide to stay in Baton Rouge and I leave
Speaker 23: for opportunities other places.
Speaker 4: I love that. I love that, and so tell us
Speaker 4: what's the shake for those who don't know. Give us
Speaker 4: the lay of the land. What when's the primary? When's
Speaker 4: the general?
Speaker 23: What's the what's the Louisiana We have open primers. We
Speaker 23: call them jungle primier. So we are all running on
Speaker 23: November fifth, and the top two vote getters will go
Speaker 23: December seventh, unless one of us receive fifty percent of
Speaker 23: the vot plus one. I'm working to receive fifty percent
Speaker 23: plus one. But if not, we go to a runoff
Speaker 23: in December.
Speaker 4: So I didn't realize, y'all. So y'all go beyond the November.
Speaker 4: That's right, okay, okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: So you know a lot of people we think you're
Speaker 1: a superstar. Some of our audience are not familiar with you.
Speaker 1: If somebody does not live in in Baton Rouge, I'm
Speaker 1: curious your thoughts on.
Speaker 3: Why they matter. But before you answer that, I see Angela.
Speaker 1: Has you all saw Angela Leaf said she went and
Speaker 1: grabbed us another member of Congress. We are joined now
Speaker 1: by Congressman Gregory Meeks out of New York. He serves
Speaker 1: on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Angela, in her capacity
Speaker 1: as a former executive director of the Congressional Black Hawk,
Speaker 1: is worked very closely with Congressman Gregory Meeks, so it's.
Speaker 3: Wonderful to be doing by you. He's also the chair
Speaker 3: of the Congressional black Hawk is Pack.
Speaker 6: He walked by yesterday.
Speaker 3: I was like, today, we're snatching him. I'm probably gonna
Speaker 3: get in trouble. Just stand, but I was like, I
Speaker 3: need it. For three minutes.
Speaker 5: I just wanted mister Meeks in the middle of Ted
Speaker 5: talking about the importance of electoral politics running for overs himself.
Speaker 5: Mister Meeks, you fight every day to ensure that our
Speaker 5: numbers incre We are a strong sixty. Now, CBC members,
Speaker 5: I want you to talk about why it's so important
Speaker 5: to invest in entities like.
Speaker 3: The Congressional black Hawk as Pack, shameless plug. I sit
Speaker 3: on the board so I chair.
Speaker 23: No.
Speaker 12: Look, what we're talking about is having real power in America.
Speaker 12: What we're talking about is making a game change. And
Speaker 12: this is why this is a historic moment. You talk
Speaker 12: about sixty. Now, what happens with that sixty We're going
Speaker 12: to have at least five members when we take back
Speaker 12: to the majority in the House. We're going to have
Speaker 12: five members of the CBC that will be chairs of
Speaker 12: full committees. You look at people like Bennie Thompson from
Speaker 12: Mississippi being Chair of Homeland Security. We talk about education
Speaker 12: and we want to make sure that we got real history.
Speaker 12: Bobby Scott from Virginia will be Chair of Education and Labor.
Speaker 12: We talk about how black farmers have been robbed and
Speaker 12: no justice. David Scott from Georgia will be Chair of
Speaker 12: the Agriculture Committee. We talk about financial services, which is
Speaker 12: really important.
Speaker 10: You talk about all the finance in the world, sins
Speaker 10: the Maxine. Now Maxine will be Chair.
Speaker 12: Of the Financial Services Committee, and your little brother here
Speaker 12: I will be Chair of the House Foreign Fans Committee,
Speaker 12: and over thirty one members of the CBC will be
Speaker 12: chairs of major subcommittees. So we are talking about investing
Speaker 12: in the CBC. We are talking about setting the policies
Speaker 12: for the United States of America and getting justice for
Speaker 12: many people across. You know, we're talking about if we're
Speaker 12: talking about voting rights, if we're talking about criminal justice reform,
Speaker 12: if we're talking.
Speaker 10: About creating wealth and reducing the wealth gap. That's what
Speaker 10: this is all about.
Speaker 12: And making this, you know, a statement that then turns
Speaker 12: into reality. But to me, this is doctor King's dream.
Speaker 12: It's a good time to be alive today right now
Speaker 12: when you look at the fact, you know, I can
Speaker 12: tell you at me and my age, many individuals did
Speaker 12: not think that we would see another person of color
Speaker 12: being president.
Speaker 10: One thing that I will say that Don Da Khan
Speaker 10: was right about.
Speaker 12: You know what we look at when I see Barack
Speaker 12: Obama and now I see Kamala Harris. I know where
Speaker 12: a black job is?
Speaker 7: This president of.
Speaker 10: Black job.
Speaker 4: That what this is really all about.
Speaker 10: It's about real power, yes, and make it a difference.
Speaker 5: Black jobs do not have it without black packs.
Speaker 3: So I just wanted to get you on your first
Speaker 3: shout out, so thank you. Does he have to run
Speaker 3: right now? I want to ask one quick.
Speaker 23: Wife, sorry, Congressman, want another member from Ben Rouge and
Speaker 23: Cleo Field, get him.
Speaker 10: That's right him and quite easy. You know they bring
Speaker 10: a lot of history.
Speaker 1: Congressman, I want to ask one quick question. We had
Speaker 1: your colleague, Congressman Bennie Thompson on yesterday, the ranking member
Speaker 1: on Homeland Security, and he spoke about how oftentimes foreign
Speaker 1: policy issues are not the top of the list of
Speaker 1: priorities for people, especially in our community, who are juggling
Speaker 1: so much from how to pay the mortgage to keeping
Speaker 1: their kids save to you know, sending kids to school.
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious because you serve on the Foreign
Speaker 1: Awaces Committee. It is crucial, a crucial committee because what
Speaker 1: happens overseas very much impact what happens here from a
Speaker 1: budget standpoint to policy. What would you say going into
Speaker 1: this new cycle, this election cycle is the chief issue
Speaker 1: when it comes to foreign policy.
Speaker 10: Well, there's a number of them. First and foremost.
Speaker 12: You know, when you talk about the situation that's happening,
Speaker 12: whether it's the Middle East, it is really important that
Speaker 12: we deal with that, to deal with what we're talking
Speaker 12: about with the challenges with China.
Speaker 10: But I'll tell you what we don't talk about enough
Speaker 10: that should be on the front burner. What's happening in Sedan, Yes.
Speaker 12: You know where you have more people dying every day
Speaker 12: and it's not anyone's talking about it. And so when
Speaker 12: I become the chair again, that becomes on the front
Speaker 12: burner to talk about what's happening in Haiti, is you
Speaker 12: know something that's really important that looked like us, That
Speaker 12: makes a difference when you look even at brisk going
Speaker 12: on where there's more black people than any place else
Speaker 12: in the world other than the continent of Africa is
Speaker 12: Brazil and how they are affected with reference to dealing
Speaker 12: with the issues in Venezuela, and then you talk that
Speaker 12: deals with this migrant crisis that you're talking about, so
Speaker 12: we've got to deal with those.
Speaker 10: It's those issues are on the on the front burner,
Speaker 10: and it's all.
Speaker 12: Interconnected because when you have the war like in Ukraine,
Speaker 12: a lot of people don't understand what happens there is
Speaker 12: when you talk about uh food and food shortages with
Speaker 12: the Black Sea because of that war is blocking some
Speaker 12: of the passage, which brings up the price of food
Speaker 12: and thereby causes inflation. It's all interconnected because the world
Speaker 12: now is much smaller than it used to be and
Speaker 12: we are living with a global economy. We're talking about
Speaker 12: the fact that each you know, when you talk about
Speaker 12: food chains, which gets in if they're shut down in
Speaker 12: effect success you talk about energy, that's a global issue
Speaker 12: of which we got to deal in trade in the
Speaker 12: cost of gas. That is you know, some people look
Speaker 12: at it as just something that's far away, but it
Speaker 12: is domestic because it affects us domestically each in every day,
Speaker 12: and that's why you got to consider looking at foreign policy,
Speaker 12: and it's even and it's harder to talk about diplomacy
Speaker 12: as opposed to going to war. And what we try
Speaker 12: to do is to try to make sure that we're
Speaker 12: talking about doing things in a diplomatic way, because then
Speaker 12: it is cheaper than having to go to war that
Speaker 12: costs American people.
Speaker 4: That's what that's why you are in forigm relations, that's
Speaker 4: why you're about to be the chair game. Because that
Speaker 4: was one of the most accessible explanations I've heard as
Speaker 4: to why when folks say, all I see is all
Speaker 4: our money going overseas someplace else, and that's what they
Speaker 4: summarize foreign policy to be. But when you talk about
Speaker 4: gas prices and you talk about the prices serial because
Speaker 4: we can't be that's right, or you talk about blockades
Speaker 4: that then raise the costs because of the shortages, low supply,
Speaker 4: high demand, higher prime in place, it is so these
Speaker 4: are the I hope that we continue to talk about
Speaker 4: it in that way because folks large in our community.
Speaker 4: When you when you have need yourself, it's very hard
Speaker 4: to then see what are your tax dollars being used
Speaker 4: to fill another need when in fact what looks obvious
Speaker 4: may not be so obviously and.
Speaker 10: What we learned from the pandemic. If somebody is sick
Speaker 10: someplace else in the world, that come here.
Speaker 12: So it's important to make sure that we are working
Speaker 12: with others so that it keeps us safe and.
Speaker 10: Healthy because they are safe and healthy.
Speaker 12: So all of that is interconnected, and that's why we've
Speaker 12: got to make sure that we stay involved and understand
Speaker 12: what's taking place in a final fair situation, what you're
Speaker 12: doing on.
Speaker 3: We wish you well, but I just want to shout
Speaker 3: how Alpha by alphab return.
Speaker 4: Shouted them out rest of the week.
Speaker 3: We are so grateful to Ted Jay, the congressman chair,
Speaker 3: to be in here.
Speaker 24: With you.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 4: And while the Congressman is making transition, I'm gonna welcome
Speaker 4: up another mayor to talk to Tay. I hope you're staying.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 7: Melvin Carter.
Speaker 3: Oh, we're welcoming Melvin Carter to the to the stays.
Speaker 1: And we had to be brief because we had a
Speaker 1: long I don't know what, just so that we have
Speaker 1: a long line to guests.
Speaker 3: So we have Adrian waiting as well, So hi, mister mayor,
Speaker 3: we he might want to come on this side.
Speaker 4: Over there, so y'all. We're just inviting. We're just inviting
Speaker 4: in the mayor of the Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is
Speaker 4: the first African American ever to be elected to that position.
Speaker 4: First a lot of first and he's a member of
Speaker 4: Alpha Pi Alpha.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 4: I just mentioned that the Beta new chapter at Florida
Speaker 4: A and M University, which also suggests to me that
Speaker 4: he is a rattler. Y'll, so Melvin put those earphones on.
Speaker 4: Uh all right, so I know your time is them
Speaker 4: and you just missed that. Yeah, that's you missed that
Speaker 4: incredible introduction that I just gave of you. Is that, yes,
Speaker 4: right before Adrian shropshid. I appreciate and so we just
Speaker 4: want you to tell a little bit of the people
Speaker 4: what you're working on over there in Minnesota. Man, with
Speaker 4: your governor leaving that there may be something coming.
Speaker 7: Down and governor is about to be my gun.
Speaker 4: Understand she l t too.
Speaker 6: Always started I even got on.
Speaker 3: I'm not on your side.
Speaker 7: That's right. It's good to see y'all man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: We're just trying to do our best in Minnesota.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 25: One of the things that you know this really well
Speaker 25: at somebody who served as mayor. We've learned a model
Speaker 25: of of like city building, the centers around stuff. It's buildings,
Speaker 25: it's streets and stuff like that. In Saint Paul, when
Speaker 25: my dad was growing up, they bulldozed seven hundred people's
Speaker 25: homes to lay a street because that's how our values were.
Speaker 25: So our goal is just to say, when we say
Speaker 25: we believe in people, we're just gonna go all in
Speaker 25: on betting on our folks. Whether that's piloting guaranteed income,
Speaker 25: whether that's starting fifty dollars to start a college savings
Speaker 25: account for every child born in our city, whether that's
Speaker 25: raised in the minimum wage, giving people up to one
Speaker 25: hundred and ten thousand dollars and forgivable financing and purchase
Speaker 25: of home or renovating existing home, just going all in
Speaker 25: on our folks, y'all.
Speaker 4: He said a lot right there, because he's a man
Speaker 4: who understands what time restraints mean. But guaranteed minimum income
Speaker 4: piloting that program in his city, right, that's a huge
Speaker 4: deal for a lot of people all across America. And
Speaker 4: the Brothers being innovative with that all of his own,
Speaker 4: I gotta say we also joined by another incredible human
Speaker 4: I'm gonna let your church.
Speaker 5: Sire is the executive director of Black pat We are
Speaker 5: so honored, Adrian, to be partnered with you.
Speaker 3: We are looking forward to work with you beyond.
Speaker 5: This convention for the next seventy seven days and if
Speaker 5: it needs to be seventy seven years. Are so grateful
Speaker 5: for everything you're doing. You are killing it, You've been
Speaker 5: killing it. I just got a shout out she from
Speaker 5: the West coast.
Speaker 10: To us.
Speaker 3: You know, there was just a roll call on the
Speaker 3: floor of unity.
Speaker 10: We're not doing that.
Speaker 4: I get it, I get it.
Speaker 5: But Adrian, can you please tell our listeners because I
Speaker 5: think it's so important. Congressman Weeks was just here talking
Speaker 5: about the role of the Congressional black Hawk is Pack talking.
Speaker 3: About how important it is.
Speaker 5: And I have those sixty seats, the thirty plus members
Speaker 5: who will be chairs of so committees should the Democrats
Speaker 5: take over the House in the fall, and so I
Speaker 5: would love for you to talk about the important work
Speaker 5: that Black Pack is doing and how folks listening and
Speaker 5: watching at home can get involved.
Speaker 23: Yeah.
Speaker 24: So I'm one of the things that you said that
Speaker 24: is so import and as we have seventy seven days, yes,
Speaker 24: but we got a lot of people to talk to, Okay,
Speaker 24: and so when we think about you know, whether it
Speaker 24: is knocking on doors, which we're doing in the battleground
Speaker 24: states across the country, having conversations which we've been doing
Speaker 24: for months, and you know, we had the little change
Speaker 24: at the top of the ticket, and suddenly it is
Speaker 24: like the change, this guy's kind of opened up, right,
Speaker 24: And so I think that you you see, like the
Speaker 24: excitement is real, the energy is real among like across
Speaker 24: our elders, our younger people. But the job is not done.
Speaker 24: We still have a single job, and we still need
Speaker 24: to reach a lot of people. So there are a
Speaker 24: lot of folks who don't understand who the vice president is.
Speaker 24: They want to understand her record. You still have a
Speaker 24: lot of people who are saying I might vote third party, right,
Speaker 24: I'm not sure if I'm going to say. So. You
Speaker 24: still have the folks who are saying I might stay home.
Speaker 24: And so we have to reach all of those people.
Speaker 24: And we have this truncated timeline. We talk about seventy
Speaker 24: seven days, but we know that the ballots go out
Speaker 24: in North Carolina on September sixth, and then they go
Speaker 24: out in Pennsylvania and they guess, well, people will how
Speaker 24: balance in their hands and they will be voting, and
Speaker 24: we need to get the information to it. So our job,
Speaker 24: in all of our job, but certainly blackpacked job, is
Speaker 24: to make sure we're delivering the information, whether it's on
Speaker 24: the doors, whether it's in business and businesses and communities,
Speaker 24: whether it's on the radio, and delivering the message, whether
Speaker 24: it's digitally, whether it's mail, whatever. Is to make sure
Speaker 24: that we are talking to people, making sure that they
Speaker 24: understand the stakes. Because people do understand the stakes, they
Speaker 24: know that it's a democracy or dictatorship.
Speaker 3: People get all of that right.
Speaker 24: They also feel right now and this is the great part,
Speaker 24: is that there's history at stake right now as well,
Speaker 24: and people are ready to make history. And so I
Speaker 24: think that you know, we need to keep people motivated.
Speaker 24: We need to ride this wave coming out of the convention,
Speaker 24: but we also need to do the work that needs
Speaker 24: to be done, the hard work to make sure that
Speaker 24: people turn out. Motivation is not a vote, it is,
Speaker 24: so we need to make sure that people who are
Speaker 24: motivated find themselves to the ballot box. And then obviously
Speaker 24: we need to make sure that the votes are counted
Speaker 24: and that the election is certified on they.
Speaker 1: They ran outside of an election cycle, because you know,
Speaker 1: some people it's like what the congressional back clock is.
Speaker 1: For example, some people think as a legislative body that's
Speaker 1: there to solve or address issues related to black people, you.
Speaker 3: Know, and it's a bit more complex than that.
Speaker 1: So outside of an election year, what exactly is the
Speaker 1: role of black pack, what's the significance and is there
Speaker 1: a call to action? Is there a way for our
Speaker 1: audience to support uplift get involved in a tangible way.
Speaker 24: Well, So the reality is that there is never outside
Speaker 24: an election cycle, all right, So every year that there is.
Speaker 3: An election, so we talk.
Speaker 24: I mean, this is we get excited about the presidential
Speaker 24: and we should, but there's down ballot races this cycle
Speaker 24: as well, that people need to pay attention to their
Speaker 24: congressional races, their state races. But we know that every
Speaker 24: year is an election, and whether it is your city
Speaker 24: council or is your mayor or is your school board.
Speaker 3: There is something that people should be painted.
Speaker 24: There was someone about to make a decision about your life,
Speaker 24: and so we ask people to stay engaged. We try
Speaker 24: and make sure that people stay engaged in all the
Speaker 24: elections across you know, after the big ones. But we
Speaker 24: also want to make sure that people are engaged in
Speaker 24: the legislative fights, because sometimes we elect our friends to
Speaker 24: office and then we just leave them on their own
Speaker 24: right if we don't stay there to support them and say, well, here,
Speaker 24: we're gonna help you. We're gonna push you when we
Speaker 24: need to push you right, and we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 24: show up for you when you need us to show
Speaker 24: up for you. So we want to make sure people
Speaker 24: stay in gaged in the legislative advocacy.
Speaker 6: People can suit.
Speaker 24: We are recruiting volunteers right now in a big way obviously,
Speaker 24: for people to do both virtual volunteer work and also
Speaker 24: to do the volunteer work in their local community.
Speaker 3: So if folks want to.
Speaker 24: Get involved, they can go to our website blackpack dot
Speaker 24: com and sign up to volunteers.
Speaker 4: But before you jump off the stage, because I know you,
Speaker 4: they get pulled every direction. You have a unique perspective
Speaker 4: to offer to the listeners, which is you are a
Speaker 4: mayor in the state Liesten where the next Vice President
Speaker 4: of the United States is coming from. As as governor,
Speaker 4: what should we know about Tim Wallas that we don't know.
Speaker 25: First of all, you should know I am the mayor
Speaker 25: of the city that our next vice president lives in.
Speaker 7: Just let's just that's to be well done, That's right.
Speaker 25: So you know, listen to Governor and I've worked really
Speaker 25: closely together over the past four or five years or so.
Speaker 25: You know, it's no secret that Minnesota, as has the
Speaker 25: rest of the world, been through a whole lot. And
Speaker 25: let me tell you, he's just been a consistent person.
Speaker 25: What you see is what you get, whether he's on
Speaker 25: the stage at a rally or whether he's you know, uh,
Speaker 25: you know, in the neighborhood, you know, talking to folks
Speaker 25: on the block. Just an incredible person who has who
Speaker 25: connects with people individually, who does the tough right thing
Speaker 25: when it's time to have a tough conversation. He's somebody
Speaker 25: I believe in wholeheartedly. And I'm excited to see him
Speaker 25: as our vice president.
Speaker 4: I love that. Well, we can't wait to see what
Speaker 4: happens next for you as well, sir.
Speaker 1: Yes, we've been joined finally parents with You're gonna use
Speaker 1: this Mike Terrence Woodberry, who runs Hit Strategies of polling
Speaker 1: firm and his week reference your work constantly on Native
Speaker 1: land pod and the amazing work that you're doing. You're
Speaker 1: also doing polling work for this can pain uh for
Speaker 1: President Alex We call her Kamala Harris. So thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us, and thank you before you we welcome officially.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Adrian, and thank you, mister Mayor. And Adrian's
Speaker 3: I understand with us.
Speaker 6: Mister Mayor.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to find somebody take a picture for me.
Speaker 4: She's gonna get she's gonna do it.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, But in the meantime, sorry, I'm learning to
Speaker 5: mute these. I didn't want you to hop off, Adrian.
Speaker 5: I actually I was looking most forward to this part
Speaker 5: of the conversation where Terrence is present and you are
Speaker 5: in part because I feel like we got our collective
Speaker 5: start together, you know, like in real life.
Speaker 3: And that's right before Terrence was doing work on Andrew's campaign.
Speaker 5: I really got to know Terrence when he was working
Speaker 5: with Cornell Belcher brilliant corners and we all work together
Speaker 5: with s C. I you doing some of the same
Speaker 5: kind of work, Terrence. Since then, you've done some incredible
Speaker 5: work and even its Adrian, I would love for you
Speaker 5: all to talk about the importance of that work, the
Speaker 5: importance of that synergy, even if y'all ain't contracted right now,
Speaker 5: because you can't you with the official official now he
Speaker 5: big time, Adrian, Hey, big time, Can you talk about
Speaker 5: the importance of laying that groundwork?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 9: Look, men, me and Adrian been on this journey for
Speaker 9: a long time.
Speaker 10: Agrient.
Speaker 9: You remember we were actually focus grouping the name Black
Speaker 9: Black Pack. I think, I think, in fact, we had
Speaker 9: we had I remember one responding a focus group said
Speaker 9: to us when we were talking about putting together a
Speaker 9: black agenda and what it takes to put together a
Speaker 9: black agenda, And I said, well, tell me how you
Speaker 9: like it.
Speaker 7: They said, well, I mean I just.
Speaker 10: Want mind you to all black.
Speaker 4: I like it like my coffee, he said.
Speaker 7: He said, can we just call it the Coffee Party?
Speaker 9: I love that we are, you know, And since then
Speaker 9: we have kept our finger on the pust of black voters.
Speaker 9: You know, we are in We've done over seventy focus
Speaker 9: groups this year. We've we've conducted over two dozen polls.
Speaker 9: And one thing that I was that I was picking
Speaker 9: up early even in the research we were doing with
Speaker 9: Blackpack was the the role that perception of power plays
Speaker 9: in how black voters precede themselves. Look posters often use
Speaker 9: a proxy like motivation or enthusiasm to.
Speaker 7: Determine who's actually going to vote.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 9: Well, one thing we've learned in these focus groups is
Speaker 9: that not all black folks are voting enthusiastically. Right at
Speaker 9: A young man tell me the Philadelphia focus group that
Speaker 9: voting for him is like taking out the trash.
Speaker 7: He won't always want to do it, but if you
Speaker 7: don't do it.
Speaker 4: Then shit starts to stinker out here. Yeah, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 9: So that young man, he don't sound that he's going
Speaker 9: to vote enthusiastically, but he gonna take the trashot on
Speaker 9: the election day.
Speaker 7: And so we've been measuring perceptions of power.
Speaker 10: Here's what that looks like.
Speaker 9: We ask this question on every poll that Hit Strategies does,
Speaker 9: regardless of how often you vote, how much power does
Speaker 9: your vote have to make a difference in your community.
Speaker 9: The higher they rate those perceptions of power, the more
Speaker 9: likely they are to vote.
Speaker 10: And what we are seeing right.
Speaker 9: Now in the last four weeks is a level of power,
Speaker 9: of collective power that is.
Speaker 10: Being express as being demonstrated.
Speaker 9: And I do expect that to drive a still election day.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm curious because you know, I on this show often
Speaker 1: say the polls do not matter. I think they matter
Speaker 1: to campaigns. I don't think it's a healthy exercise to
Speaker 1: constantly berate the public with polls. You know it matters
Speaker 1: most as a candidate.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: I also think it's how you interpret the information from
Speaker 1: the polls. What week did you ask this question? What
Speaker 1: was the specific question asked? What did the focus group
Speaker 1: look like? Was there a black person posing these questions
Speaker 1: to a room full of light?
Speaker 4: Very important right there?
Speaker 1: Sometimes are communicating with our communities. Looks very different for
Speaker 1: people who are suspicious about the.
Speaker 3: Polls, who you know, don't believe the polls.
Speaker 1: What would you say to naysayers like me? And I
Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of people out there.
Speaker 9: Look first, I want to I think what Tiffany means
Speaker 9: when she says that polling doesn't matter.
Speaker 10: I think what she's think.
Speaker 9: I don't want to men explain Tiffany at all. I
Speaker 9: think what Tiffany means is that poles can't tell you
Speaker 9: who's going to win today.
Speaker 10: And that is true.
Speaker 9: Polls right now are not predictive of who the winner
Speaker 9: of this is just because someone's up two points today
Speaker 9: or down two points tomorrow. That ain't predict Hello, listen,
Speaker 9: and so and so what we are doing at his
Speaker 9: strategies is, you know, maintaining keeping our finger on the posse,
Speaker 9: following that trend line, understanding what people are hearing, what's
Speaker 9: what's resonating, and what's not. You know, we started hit
Speaker 9: strategies to correct the record on on on what is
Speaker 9: being misrepresented and underrepresenting our polling, and far too often
Speaker 9: that's black folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, can I just jump in.
Speaker 24: I think we should talk about sample sizing these polls,
Speaker 24: right and so I think the party like polls are
Speaker 24: instructive right there. They help us understand what we need
Speaker 24: to do. They point out the problems that we have
Speaker 24: and how we can address them. But we know that
Speaker 24: some of the larger poles just have sall sample sizes
Speaker 24: of black voters, right and then and then draw conclusions
Speaker 24: about what broadly black voters think from a really tiny
Speaker 24: set of folks. And I think that that's part of
Speaker 24: the things that one of the things that people need
Speaker 24: to understand is that we should polls are interesting. No
Speaker 24: one should be following the polls like they're being asked
Speaker 24: to follow the polls right now is actually they're actually
Speaker 24: not helpful.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 9: Well, I do want to tell you one thing that
Speaker 9: we're seeing in the polls right now, because you know,
Speaker 9: regardless of the sample size, there are some trends that
Speaker 9: are undeniable right and what we have seen in the
Speaker 9: last four weeks is the ability of Kamala Harris to
Speaker 9: consolidate the Democratic coalition more quickly than I ever imagined possible.
Speaker 9: She's doing twelve points better with women voters, fifteen points
Speaker 9: better with young voters, and twenty two points better with
Speaker 9: the black voters.
Speaker 6: Twenty two points.
Speaker 4: Wow, in four weeks.
Speaker 9: We still have work to do. I'm not ready to
Speaker 9: call her president elect yet because we got work to do.
Speaker 9: We have work to do, but we are The trend
Speaker 9: line is going in the right way, and a lot
Speaker 9: of that is being powered by black voters can work.
Speaker 5: One of our favorite political worker bees public Servants extraordinariy
Speaker 5: the only elected official to ever submit a comment.
Speaker 10: To Nate.
Speaker 5: Governor Girl Gil Chris, our good friend from Michigan.
Speaker 3: How you doing, brothers, well, y'all.
Speaker 26: Happy to be here with you. Is such an honor
Speaker 26: and a privilege. And now I was on my phone
Speaker 26: talking to y'all and now we're here to DNC. Talking
Speaker 26: to y'all is great, we.
Speaker 3: Phone, now we're here.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're so thankful because Angela, we didn't know that
Speaker 1: you were going to come on. And angel said, I
Speaker 1: have a surprise, a surprise guest coming on.
Speaker 3: And we saw you. We were thrilled to have you.
Speaker 3: This is so exciting.
Speaker 1: I want to ask because I remember when Big Gretch
Speaker 1: as we call her affectionately, who I believe we will
Speaker 1: see tomorrow. I'm so Governor Gretchen Whitmer out of Michigan
Speaker 1: will be joining us tomorrow. But I remember covering your
Speaker 1: campaign from a distance, seeing the the You're the first
Speaker 1: black lieutenant governor. Yes, so all these historic candidates who
Speaker 1: have ascended to power at this time, and we've been
Speaker 1: consistently asking people, As another historic candidate, what does this
Speaker 1: moment mean to you? To be serving in government when
Speaker 1: the country is poised to be led by a black.
Speaker 26: Woman, It is incredibly inspiring. Look, Kamala Harris, she has
Speaker 26: made history in every single victory that she has and
Speaker 26: I think what that's a demonstration of is She's never
Speaker 26: won alone. She has always thought about how to create
Speaker 26: more space and opportunity to kick these doors down so
Speaker 26: more of us can walk through them, and all of
Speaker 26: us who are intellected service we should have that same
Speaker 26: kind of energy. And so for me, I don't want
Speaker 26: to be amazing. I don't want to be singular. I
Speaker 26: want to be the door opener. I want to be
Speaker 26: the person who inspires the next person to go even farther,
Speaker 26: who's even hungrier and more ambitious, like tupac'saire. Right, you
Speaker 26: ain't got to be scared about me. You got to
Speaker 26: worry about the one coming after me.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 26: They not gonna take no, They're not gonna ask no questions.
Speaker 6: Yeah right.
Speaker 26: I think the same kind of thing needs to be
Speaker 26: the kind of just spirit that we bring to the service,
Speaker 26: that you know, we can make things happen. That when
Speaker 26: we organize and we work together, we can bring everybody
Speaker 26: into the conversation, everybody to the table, everybody to the room,
Speaker 26: And when we include more people in decision making, we
Speaker 26: make better choices.
Speaker 4: I love that, Lieutenant Governor, when you are you know,
Speaker 4: we all heard early on in y'all's administration, the whole
Speaker 4: plot to you know, guess kidnap the governor and all
Speaker 4: this kind of insane stuff that's happening in the state
Speaker 4: of Michigan. I'm curious to know, as a brother, as
Speaker 4: you go out to various parts of the state, I'm
Speaker 4: assuming showing up in places where you're not expected, but
Speaker 4: you remind them that you're the governor for the entire state,
Speaker 4: not just for a portion of the state. How are
Speaker 4: you received. How do you find yourself being able to
Speaker 4: talk to folks who not are just ideologically different, but
Speaker 4: as people may reject your very being. Yeah, what does
Speaker 4: that feel like? What is that like? And how do
Speaker 4: you if it's possible to bridge, how do you go
Speaker 4: about bridging?
Speaker 26: So Yeah, unfortunately I have experienced the same level of
Speaker 26: death threat to me to my family. Look, we had
Speaker 26: the pregame for January sixth, on April thirtieth of twenty
Speaker 26: twenty in the state of Michigan. In the weeks after that,
Speaker 26: there were men with long guns that line the sidewalks
Speaker 26: that walked up to the Capitol or I had to
Speaker 26: go to preside over the state Senate. I'm walking through
Speaker 26: there like it's a start and lineup. You know what
Speaker 26: I'm saying at a basketball game, we walked through and
Speaker 26: everybody's on the side. So unfortunate left had to deal
Speaker 26: with that suspicious packages under my vehicles, these content things
Speaker 26: that that mail are sent to my home, my parents
Speaker 26: home being swatted last week, like these kinds of things happened.
Speaker 26: But to answer your question, Andrew, when I go to
Speaker 26: places like Escanaba, Michigan, which is in the western part
Speaker 26: of the Upper Peninsula Michigan, I was there this past
Speaker 26: Thursday for the up State Fair to talk to farmers
Speaker 26: about why they need to have access to a dream
Speaker 26: of health and wealth, just like everybody else in Michigan
Speaker 26: needs to have access to that dream. They say thank
Speaker 26: you because they don't expect a six eight dark skinned
Speaker 26: brother from Detroit to be up there asking them questions.
Speaker 7: About rabbits du rights.
Speaker 26: But I also go to the ur Peninsula more than
Speaker 26: any state elected officials going through their peninsula in twenty years,
Speaker 26: and moved there four times a year for multiple days.
Speaker 26: That's because because I think all of us need to
Speaker 26: understand that we are all in this together. I think
Speaker 26: that's the biggest difference frankly between us and our opponents
Speaker 26: that their vision for the future is so small that
Speaker 26: it can't include all of us. It can't include black folks,
Speaker 26: it can't include women, it can't include young people, it
Speaker 26: can't in clue elders, it can't include the lgbt Q
Speaker 26: plus community. And so by showing up, you show people
Speaker 26: that you respect them enough to serve them. And I
Speaker 26: think you got to.
Speaker 7: Respect people to serve them.
Speaker 16: Well.
Speaker 1: People are I just want to say, people are shouting
Speaker 1: you out, all the people joining us, thank you all
Speaker 1: for watching at home. That they're saying they love Garland Gilchrist,
Speaker 1: but they're saying he might be in Michigan, but he
Speaker 1: has Bullet County, Alabama roots.
Speaker 26: Yeah, my mother's people are from Union Springs, Alabama. I
Speaker 26: spend about a month every summer as a kid playing
Speaker 26: in the red dirt down there in Alabama.
Speaker 10: And that's all good.
Speaker 7: That's all good.
Speaker 3: Are YouTube soda?
Speaker 9: I love it well.
Speaker 5: We are so grateful to all of you, like not
Speaker 5: just we started the show with Natasha Brown talking about
Speaker 5: building black power. It is so poetic and so necessary
Speaker 5: and divine that we're talking about that at the At
Speaker 5: the close of our show, Adrian Shropshire with Black Pack
Speaker 5: y'all is it black Pats dot Com, Lieutenant Governor Garland
Speaker 5: Gil Chris and our friends Terrence Woodbury from the whole
Speaker 5: God's right every time, the coffee party, the black party,
Speaker 5: all the things.
Speaker 6: We love it.
Speaker 3: But yes, we appreciate y'all. Thank you so much. We
Speaker 3: can't wait to celebrate with y'all this week so much
Speaker 3: history makers. Welcome home.
Speaker 9: You guys.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we'll see you.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell y'all, Angela Tiff, what a incredible set
Speaker 4: of guests here.
Speaker 3: I feel like I can't.
Speaker 6: I'm going to come out.
Speaker 4: You want me to, We got you, We got a text.
Speaker 4: I gotta see you man. All right, this brother impressive.
Speaker 4: I just got to say, this is my my, my,
Speaker 4: my first time hearing tenant governor in long form.
Speaker 5: Taking Why didn't sound like we were saying about the
Speaker 5: same Damn you don't want to Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Make my comment.
Speaker 3: Got sit down somewhere, covered by the table. You'll be
Speaker 3: covered by the table. But this was my first time
Speaker 3: split y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she don't want to show everybody everything. But but
Speaker 4: in real time, y'all, this is my first time with
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Governor Gil Chris hearing him in long form interview
Speaker 4: in impressive rock with heavy impressive brother. Yeah, and I
Speaker 4: just can't wait to see with the future holes because
Speaker 4: you know, big Wretch is she bad? And I see
Speaker 4: that there may be some political wins that may shift. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because we need our best talent on the field, from
Speaker 4: the cabinet to governors to who's in the Senate, in
Speaker 4: the House, and I will predict all of us will
Speaker 4: need to keep our eyes out on the lieutenant governor
Speaker 4: to see what.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you asked them about the kidnapping plot.
Speaker 1: I do want to say we're speaking before we hear
Speaker 1: from the Obama's. I don't believe Michelle right later. It's
Speaker 1: because some of you all may be watching this tomorrow,
Speaker 1: So forgive us if you're watching this tomorrow. But what
Speaker 1: do you guys, what significance do the Obamas still play
Speaker 1: on a national political stage at this point?
Speaker 3: You ruffle some feathers, which a comment. I did ruffle
Speaker 3: some feathers, and I don't regret it.
Speaker 5: I think you know, tonight is a remarkable opportunity as
Speaker 5: we are in Chicago, which is is where Michelle Obama
Speaker 5: and Barack Obama have long made their home. This is
Speaker 5: where history is made for him, and I think today
Speaker 5: could be a turning point that I would have liked
Speaker 5: to see a lot sooner, but I would I cannot
Speaker 5: wait for Michelle Obama's speech.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait for Barack Obama's speech, because.
Speaker 5: What I do know is they have the power of
Speaker 5: the spoken and written word on their side, and they
Speaker 5: have the opportunity to pass, to continue passing the torch.
Speaker 5: Right we know last night on the floor, Joe Biden
Speaker 5: didn't really use opportunity to pass the torch to Kamala
Speaker 5: Harrison in the way that I thought. I felt like
Speaker 5: last night's no. I was surprised I didn't get to
Speaker 5: say this y'all earlier because we had to run. But
Speaker 5: I actually thought that last night was a State of
Speaker 5: the Union part too, like y'all will kick me off
Speaker 5: the valley, y'all will catch all these accomplishments.
Speaker 3: Now, he did a great job. I was gonna say
Speaker 3: he did a great job, so say.
Speaker 5: You always are child, But I was going to say,
Speaker 5: you know, to me, he did a great job of
Speaker 5: saying And when they said thank you, Joe, he was like,
Speaker 5: and thank Kamala too.
Speaker 3: But I'm just talking about the expectation I had was.
Speaker 5: That he was going to tell them everything he knew
Speaker 5: about Kamala Harris. He was going to tell them about
Speaker 5: all the things that was in her portfolio where she shined,
Speaker 5: and focus on those accomplishments.
Speaker 3: I'm not faulting him. I understand why he did what
Speaker 3: he did.
Speaker 5: But tonight, Barack Obama, after being our actual first black
Speaker 5: president of the United States, has the opportunity to show
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris and her support base what it takes and
Speaker 5: why he will be someone who should roll up his
Speaker 5: sleeves and get his ass do really like I said,
Speaker 5: and this could be the first one. I want this
Speaker 5: to be the test case. And for him to show me.
Speaker 3: Proved to me all was wrong. Barack Obama proved.
Speaker 5: To me that that call add that y'all did was
Speaker 5: you know, just because the schedule didn't work, proved to
Speaker 5: me to not friend after fifty years.
Speaker 1: In service and government. I do think that President Biden
Speaker 1: earned his time to say this is what I've done.
Speaker 1: I think his time like I don't think it was
Speaker 1: his job in that moment to talk about her. I
Speaker 1: think other people have been doing that in their speeches.
Speaker 1: I think she will have to do that and make
Speaker 1: her case for the American people. And I would love
Speaker 1: to hear from her to talk about, you know, her
Speaker 1: accomplishments and you know, let the American people know what
Speaker 1: she's done. I'm also curious because I'm like you, Angel,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from forever flowus Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3: For it was it four years ago.
Speaker 1: When she told us when they go that may have
Speaker 1: been longer, twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, when they go low,
Speaker 1: we go high. And I do wonder eight years later,
Speaker 1: where she stands on that message.
Speaker 4: Yes, I don't think she'll reform it tonight, but.
Speaker 3: I would be mad if she didn't war with black women.
Speaker 1: And you know, my warning call and battle cry to
Speaker 1: my sisters is you do not ever want to be
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of black women. And I think
Speaker 1: people look to her specifically for messaging sometimes more often
Speaker 1: than not.
Speaker 3: We wanted to hear from her before we did.
Speaker 4: I do, and I'll tell you why because I think
Speaker 4: one I think she comes off as one thousand percent
Speaker 4: sincere in every word that crosses her lips, whether it's
Speaker 4: true or not, it's the feeling that I get the
Speaker 4: other thing from the video that they did. The endorsement video,
Speaker 4: she said, I just got to say to my sister,
Speaker 4: which was Coke, Yes, we know that, we understood, we
Speaker 4: need to pivot. In the conversation that took place, She's like, girl,
Speaker 4: if I could tell you direct, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 4: I think she's going to bring that level. I think
Speaker 4: she's going to bring that level of lived experience of
Speaker 4: what it means to be an accomplished lawyer black woman
Speaker 4: who's just at the top of your game, almost seemingly
Speaker 4: without even trying, right, But I know it is with
Speaker 4: a lot of effort, a lot of work, a lot
Speaker 4: of preparation.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 4: I don't want to dismiss what it requires to be
Speaker 4: at the level that they are at, but there is
Speaker 4: so much more that they share in common than what
Speaker 4: I think devised their experience. And I think that's what
Speaker 4: we're going to see a full thought lay into, which
Speaker 4: is every word I think is going to be buttressed
Speaker 4: and supported by that shared experience from women who grew
Speaker 4: up on different sides of the country, who different you know, parents,
Speaker 4: different upbring different background, but as professional Black women in America,
Speaker 4: what it has meant to be to get to the
Speaker 4: top of your game when everybody is calling for you.
Speaker 24: You know.
Speaker 3: The other thing is tonight.
Speaker 5: We talked about the Obama speaking tonight, but there's also
Speaker 5: another really important speech, and I think the one it
Speaker 5: adds to the point you were making that there are
Speaker 5: other folks who also need to make the case.
Speaker 3: For Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5: There's one particular person who has been a powerful surrogate
Speaker 5: for her, who has corrected people on the pronunciation of
Speaker 5: her name, and he reminded the American people that if
Speaker 5: you can't pronounce it, don't worry because after November you
Speaker 5: can call her mad and Vice President.
Speaker 3: That I mean Madam president. She's mad and vice president now.
Speaker 5: But the person who said you can just call her
Speaker 5: Madam president is none other than her husband, Doug im
Speaker 5: Hoffin will also be in the stage tonight.
Speaker 4: I don't think we've heard enough from him, right. I
Speaker 4: think people still they by her side. But the man's
Speaker 4: got his own lived experience.
Speaker 5: It's powerful of himself, a wonderful, brilliant political strategy, is
Speaker 5: a brilliant lawyer. I think that he is going to
Speaker 5: be powerful tonight, and I think he might end up
Speaker 5: being a secret weapon in somebody that people slept on.
Speaker 3: I really do to ask you, guys. I want to
Speaker 3: point out that Ken Chanel is speaking right now, and
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: The former CEO of an American restaurant of the few
Speaker 5: black ones we had a full fortune five vener company,
Speaker 5: and I I don't quite know.
Speaker 3: Why he's speaking. I can't.
Speaker 1: We can't hear him. We can only see him on screen.
Speaker 1: But you and I talked about the fact that he
Speaker 1: would be taking the podium tonight. So but my point
Speaker 1: in saying that is you can catch him later in
Speaker 1: the clips because right now we're speaking, and to stay
Speaker 1: tuned to Native Land Pod Major Yet no disrespect to
Speaker 1: Ken Chanelt, but you were you were making a point
Speaker 1: about Doug m.
Speaker 3: Hoff. And I want to ask you, guys, do you
Speaker 3: think that.
Speaker 1: Black men can receive Doug im Hoff because the first
Speaker 1: time Vice President Senator Harris ran there were people anyway.
Speaker 4: Even if even if they don't, even if they don't,
Speaker 4: I believe that black men receive her. I am you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes y'all, y'all, we're gonna be here nothing.
Speaker 6: Move on.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying is talk about.
Speaker 6: Believe.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, we cannot we can. Can I just ask
Speaker 3: the audience.
Speaker 5: Can we evolve? Do we we can't evolve? I mean,
Speaker 5: I forgive people from the standpoint of Andrew.
Speaker 6: Is still trying to make them.
Speaker 4: Point.
Speaker 3: I want to I want to come back, brother.
Speaker 5: I love you, but just know that this is paid
Speaker 5: up pay back from that Fox News interview, that thank
Speaker 5: you moment, Andrew. I just want to say, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I forgive people, and I can love you from a distance,
Speaker 5: and you're welcome to vote on this ticket. But one
Speaker 5: thing I will never forget is when I was at
Speaker 5: the National Action Network conference and her ass got up
Speaker 5: there and said that at the name of Donald Trump,
Speaker 5: every niche a bell. So I'm glad that somebody gave
Speaker 5: Omarosa a credential to come to this conference, to this convention,
Speaker 5: and for her to be taking pictures of the podcast.
Speaker 5: And I hope that she's I hope that she live
Speaker 5: streaming so she can hear this. Shout out girl, post
Speaker 5: a picture and see the comments. Because I will never
Speaker 5: forget you're doing that. Andrew was making a great point
Speaker 5: about the importance.
Speaker 9: Of no.
Speaker 3: I know, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Here seven minutes.
Speaker 3: Over time, because we want to hear you.
Speaker 4: We're not going over to this simple You said whether
Speaker 4: or not black man can receive him in this way,
Speaker 4: And my point was, it doesn't matter if we do
Speaker 4: or don't we receive her. And I think that it
Speaker 4: is enough to be for her that we will show up,
Speaker 4: show out, vote, and see her elevated to the presidency.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a petty negro somewhere who may
Speaker 4: harbor whatever resentment may exist as a relationship. What you
Speaker 4: know what I think, y'all? Are I think us this woman?
Speaker 4: I think you might. You might.
Speaker 3: Anybody.
Speaker 4: Don't keep your I don't know anybody will take much
Speaker 4: attention from y'all. Y'all have your.
Speaker 3: Taking pictures. It was weird.
Speaker 4: She could be a fan of the show, ain't the one?
Speaker 11: You know what?
Speaker 4: Y'all? We wanted to be with you and say one
Speaker 4: thing that you to your point.
Speaker 6: Wait, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Point. I was gonna make so last night Steve Kerr
Speaker 3: was on the stage. No no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no noall. Coach Yes played with Michael Jordans for the Bulls. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: which when which coach? Which team does he coach? Now
Speaker 3: he's he coaches for the NBA team. This one the
Speaker 3: Yes exactly which one is that is that the Golden State.
Speaker 3: So he won the championship. That's true. To point. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we know that because I want to save the
Speaker 3: last day anyway to point here, my coach, Okay, the
Speaker 3: point is this, you guys. Last night, during his speech, Andrew,
Speaker 3: this is important.
Speaker 5: During his speech, he did this to Donald Trump, which
Speaker 5: is what Steph Curry does when he hits them three.
Speaker 3: You should notice, Tiff, you're watching them.
Speaker 4: But I just like.
Speaker 5: That means like good night night. He said, Donald Trump,
Speaker 5: go go go night night in November. Right, So here's
Speaker 5: yes on this during his speech last night. Here's the point.
Speaker 3: Here's the point. I think black men.
Speaker 5: Who have the ability to be persuaded by white men
Speaker 5: who have done powerful things and have been good allies
Speaker 5: in black spaces will receive Doug im Hoff just like
Speaker 5: they received received Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr has been a
Speaker 5: fantastic ally. He stood with us on black issues. He
Speaker 5: stood with the team during the the.
Speaker 3: Unrest surrounding George Floyd, and been a.
Speaker 5: Fierce fighter by Jamie We love you, Gotta see Jamie
Speaker 5: Harrison tomorrow. He's been a fierce protector of black rights.
Speaker 5: And racial justice in this in these really treacherous times.
Speaker 5: So yes, I think Doug im Hoff will be received
Speaker 5: like all right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's anything that can stop.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's.
Speaker 4: This hands I know, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just need to wipe it off. My apologize for
Speaker 3: and you made a few minutes ago.
Speaker 4: I was trying to make the point, make.
Speaker 3: You're a lyingt okay right out the word tell.
Speaker 4: Us there, tell us that you got four minutes to
Speaker 4: make there, that's it.
Speaker 3: Why when you are a lying Okay?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 5: Can I ask you a question? What was your highlight
Speaker 5: from the podcast today? We have so many great guests,
Speaker 5: so many amazing conversations. Speaker, Yeah, I love collaborate on that,
Speaker 5: or well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want to say I'm I'm so excited.
Speaker 4: I'm a legislative I really do. Yeah, I'm a lover
Speaker 4: of the house in the sense that I think it's
Speaker 4: it is part of the greatest deliberative body country. At
Speaker 4: least it once was. Now it is. Lot y'all is
Speaker 4: writing confetti on us. I think they're trying to this.
Speaker 5: Is what happens when people piss on us and tell
Speaker 5: us to bring us back full circle.
Speaker 4: Today that the power of the speaker, Yes, what this
Speaker 4: man well encompass in his being and is all the
Speaker 4: way clear about the fact that he is in service. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I love it. It's beautiful. It's not ego, not tripping.
Speaker 4: He knows that he is there. He could not hold
Speaker 4: the Democratic call because the way that he has these
Speaker 4: last two years without being acutely aware that he is
Speaker 4: in service in that position to others. And I love
Speaker 4: the fact that the ego, if it exists, it comes
Speaker 4: out at the right times as a tool and not
Speaker 4: to make him a tool. He uses it as a tool.
Speaker 5: I have to say to and Andrew that my highlight
Speaker 5: today was starting the show, well, yeah, with the machetes,
Speaker 5: but also Natasha Brown talking about building black political power,
Speaker 5: and we literally at every turn in the show had
Speaker 5: that confirmation, whether it was from Delta Sigma Theater or
Speaker 5: when with Black Women or Black Pack and the work
Speaker 5: that Terrence is doing it every turn there are people
Speaker 5: who are in public service themselves or working to facilitate
Speaker 5: opportunities for the next generation of public servants who are black.
Speaker 5: That was so powerful to me and I loved being
Speaker 5: able to share that space with y'all and for.
Speaker 4: Their listeners, you know, the folks who tune in, who
Speaker 4: are real faithful to be able to expose them to
Speaker 4: those voices that they can hear from directly, because so
Speaker 4: many times people have jaded views of people in politics
Speaker 4: who are elected officials. And I feel like, just in
Speaker 4: the last two days and we're not even done, we're
Speaker 4: halfway at the point, right that we've been able to
Speaker 4: set in front of folks, not the mystery of the individual,
Speaker 4: but the person. And you get a flavor for who
Speaker 4: they are, they come, what they're doing, and that they're
Speaker 4: working on your behalf. And I hope that it renews
Speaker 4: in some people a sense of encouraged believe that everybody
Speaker 4: ain't bad who's in this game. In fact, more often
Speaker 4: than not, if we take take a look a long
Speaker 4: enough look, we see more good. Yeah, we see a
Speaker 4: lot more good than bad.
Speaker 1: And yes, I think anytime that I get to share
Speaker 1: space with Latasha, I was telling her partner earlier, I
Speaker 1: get so jealous of anytime somebody else gets Vlatasha's time
Speaker 1: when I'm talking to her and she starts talking to
Speaker 1: you know, her auntie or her her niece and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, you know, if I'm like, like I want
Speaker 1: to just spend time. I want to have lunch in something,
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, my sister friend from so and
Speaker 1: so going to join and someone, you know, Like I
Speaker 1: just want my time with her because she really is
Speaker 1: an impath, a visionary. And we talk about politics on
Speaker 1: this show, but Latasha has poured into all of us
Speaker 1: on such a deep personal level. And if I can
Speaker 1: bottle her up and give her away for Christmas.
Speaker 3: I would do it. And it would be price.
Speaker 5: Probably, But I do want to say Andrew made a
Speaker 5: good point as we get ready to close out the show,
Speaker 5: Ti if we only have two days left, it's going
Speaker 5: by so fast. But you guys tomorrow, I mean, my
Speaker 5: only call to action is that y'all tune in the
Speaker 5: next two days. Tomorrow is historic for Native Lampid. Tomorrow
Speaker 5: we will be live streaming still, but we are in
Speaker 5: collaboration with The Breakfast Club, the number one morning show
Speaker 5: in the country, and we'll be joined by our good
Speaker 5: brother and friends, Charlemagne and the God also known as
Speaker 5: Lenard Michelvey.
Speaker 3: So are we is the Breakfast Club? Like are we
Speaker 3: airing as the Breakfast Club? We are airing at our
Speaker 3: Native lampod and the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, so like in the morning it will be
Speaker 5: so we're still live streaming, yes, and they are also
Speaker 5: taping for the Breakfast Club the next morning, so it
Speaker 5: will air on Thursday morning and Friday morning on the
Speaker 5: Breakfast Club. We will still be streaming tomorrow. We hope
Speaker 5: that y'all will tune.
Speaker 3: In Who's on tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Oh, you'll got to go to our Instagram page which
Speaker 5: is at Native lampod and all of our social handles
Speaker 5: are at Native lampid to see who our guests will be.
Speaker 1: Well, the rumor is that Beyonce or Taylor Swift is coming.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still the rumor. Is Beyonce
Speaker 1: joining us on sets?
Speaker 4: I have change.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're ready days until the election.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Last morning, Thank you for joining the Natives Attentional with.
Speaker 2: The info and all of the latest red gulum and
Speaker 2: cross connective to the statements that you leave on our socials.
Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice
Speaker 2: is clear, so grateful it took the execute roles. Thank
Speaker 2: you for serve, defend and protect the truth and in
Speaker 2: pat Well walking.
Speaker 7: Home to all of the natives, we thank you.
Speaker 3: Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 1: Welcome Native Lampard is a production of iHeart Radio in
Speaker 1: partnership with Reason Choice Media. For more podcasts iHeartRadio, visit
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to
Speaker 1: your favorite shows,