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

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody. This episode is a replay of

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Speaker 3: one of our interviews from our live stream as a

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Speaker 3: Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual Legislative Conference. If you want

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Speaker 3: to listen to or watch the full stream, check out

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Speaker 3: the links in the episode description. You can also find

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Speaker 3: a full list of all the guests we interviewed. Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 3: We are welcoming up Congresswoman Evac Clark. She is the

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Speaker 3: incoming chair for the Congressional Black Caucust. She's been in

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Speaker 3: congressional leadership, a long time Chris woman, and she is extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: We first met while she was on the Homeland Security

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Speaker 3: Committee as a freshman, and watching her rise has been

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Speaker 3: my greatest privilege and honor. Congressoman Clark, thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for being here with us today.

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Speaker 1: I want to add that she's one of the most

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Speaker 1: fashionable members Yes Congress as well. Has always been super

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Speaker 1: fly and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.

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Speaker 1: And on a personal note of privilege, you have always

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Speaker 1: been so supportive of me, So I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you publicly for that. So we love you, and happy welcome.

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Speaker 2: Home, Welcome, wonderful. It's such an honor to be with you.

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Speaker 2: And I do want to make a correction. I am

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Speaker 2: the first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and

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Speaker 2: I'm seeking the support of my colleagues will message of

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Speaker 2: the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Speaker 4: But you know you put it.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's what I know. Here's what I know, and

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Speaker 3: I want to say this to you, of course, that

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Speaker 3: race is not partisan, and also we're in the clear here.

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Speaker 3: What I want to say to you to your face,

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Speaker 3: Miss Clark, is as long as I worked on the

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Speaker 3: hill and even after, I know how long you've served diligently,

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Speaker 3: how much you love your colleagues, how much you love

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Speaker 3: the culture, how much you love your constituents, how much

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Speaker 3: you adore our community, and so I am confident that

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Speaker 3: you will be the next share of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Speaker 3: And I know I've seen your service, you know firsthand,

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Speaker 3: And I loved laboring with you because you made everything

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Speaker 3: fun and we still worked hard, but you always kept

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Speaker 3: a smile on your face, and I'm grateful for that.

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Speaker 3: And for your sisterhood too.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: My sister sat Andrew is such a pleasure.

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Speaker 4: It's good to be with you. I was gonna tell you.

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Speaker 4: I told Congressman mixing Waters when we were.

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Speaker 5: Together at the DNC, how growing up in Florida, in Gainesville,

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Speaker 5: how I didn't know my member of Congress and there

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Speaker 5: was a white male at the time, and how because

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Speaker 5: of her advocacy, I always felt like she was my

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Speaker 5: member of Congress. You're the next member of Congress who

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Speaker 5: really puts puts it in the mold of I don't

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Speaker 5: have to be a New York resident in your district

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Speaker 5: to know that you're out there fighting for us.

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Speaker 4: And so I know our listeners feel that way.

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Speaker 5: I know I personally feel that way, and I just

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Speaker 5: I'm thankful for your leadership and high time that a

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Speaker 5: voice like yours helms again the CBC.

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Speaker 2: I wanted, Oh, thank you, thank you all so very much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I love my people. At the baseline,

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Speaker 2: it starts with the love of your people, and you

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Speaker 2: will go, you know, through the fire to make sure

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Speaker 2: that they are safe, they are protected, they are thriving.

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Speaker 4: That's real.

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Speaker 2: In this society.

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Speaker 3: You do that every day. I want to ask you.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're talking about this selection in less partisan

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Speaker 3: ways because you know, we want to protect the five o'

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Speaker 3: one C three status of the Foundation. But one thing

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Speaker 3: I wanted to raise is there are a lot of

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Speaker 3: concerns impacting our community specifically going into this election. And

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Speaker 3: we're not talking about who to go for necessarily right now,

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Speaker 3: but I think we all want to preserve democracy. There

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Speaker 3: are a lot of threats at stake in you for

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Speaker 3: a long time, cybersecurity has been your bread and butter,

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Speaker 3: you know that space. What are you most concerned about

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Speaker 3: for black folks going into this selection site? Absolutely, I'm

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Speaker 3: concerned that our extreme, you know, devotion to social media

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Speaker 3: can permeate our thoughts, and so oftentimes what we're seeing

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Speaker 3: is not accurate, their deep fakes. You technology used to deceive,

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Speaker 3: intentionally deceive people.

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Speaker 2: That can be visual and it can be audio as well,

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Speaker 2: And this will be the first election where this technology

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Speaker 2: is that the fingertips of the average everyday American not

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Speaker 2: to mention foreign advices. And so I'm just concerned, given

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Speaker 2: the tone and tenor of this particular election cycle. Some

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Speaker 2: that there will be those types of disruptions to our election.

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be information regarding candidates. It

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Speaker 2: could be your polling side is closed.

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Speaker 1: Right right, yep, the day of the election. And it's

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Speaker 1: interesting you bring that up because it shows how powerful

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Speaker 1: we are as a people in this country first, but

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Speaker 1: second as a voting block, because we are disproportionately targeted

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Speaker 1: by misinformation and disinformation, I would argue, perhaps second only

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Speaker 1: to the Lasino community. And a lot of these outlets

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Speaker 1: don't have Native Spanish speakers to help dispute some of

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Speaker 1: the disinformation. So we want to encourage our viewers out

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Speaker 1: there share responsibly, consume information responsibly. What are some things

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Speaker 1: that you would encourage people to do, like how if

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Speaker 1: you know, how how do they make sure that they're

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Speaker 1: not consuming misinformation and disinformation? And what role is the

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Speaker 1: congressional black castus?

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Speaker 2: And you take the same device provides us the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to fact check. Yes, right, So don't just receive content

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Speaker 2: and not then do some a little do legits around it,

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Speaker 2: because if it doesn't sound right, it probably isn't right,

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Speaker 2: And oftentimes we know that the information we receive can

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Speaker 2: be flawed, and we don't want to inadvertently participate in

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Speaker 2: the spread of that. And that's what generative AI can

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Speaker 2: do in the blink of an eye. So I want

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Speaker 2: to encourage our folks to use that same device. When

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Speaker 2: you receive something on social media to investigate, you do

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Speaker 2: your own fact checking.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you have you considered. I know you've got to bounce.

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Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 5: Have you considered the feeling what the work becomes if

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Speaker 5: you are negotiating as CBC chair with a black woman

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Speaker 5: president who's overly qualified and all the other good stuff.

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Speaker 5: But I just I don't want us to sit in

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Speaker 5: a moment that we're not at yet. But I would

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Speaker 5: love to hear your pre thought.

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Speaker 2: Extraordinarily excited about First of all, what the Biden Harris

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Speaker 2: administration has already done. They've made monumental investments, and the

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Speaker 2: CBC has been a major part of negotiating those investments,

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Speaker 2: knowing that the need for those investments to hit our

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Speaker 2: communities is paramount, and that we're turning the page.

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Speaker 3: We are already.

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Speaker 5: Turning the page.

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Speaker 2: The question is will we go back, will all of

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Speaker 2: those investments be dismantled and we say no, it won't.

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Speaker 2: We say not on our watch. And just knowing that this,

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Speaker 2: I want to say, sister, is a new generation. Both

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Speaker 2: of us were born in the same year. I won't

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Speaker 2: go into those details, but you can google it, use.

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Speaker 4: Your Google machine.

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Speaker 2: We were birth born as beneficiaries of the civil rights movement.

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Speaker 2: We were not you know, young people that marched or

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Speaker 2: the young people that were host We were the beneficiaries.

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Speaker 2: And that meant that, you know, the world was our

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Speaker 2: oyster because our ancestors truly did what needed to be

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Speaker 2: doe to get to be done in order to advance

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Speaker 2: our communities. We now have someone with that frame to

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Speaker 2: move us forward, and certainly among CBC members, we've got

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Speaker 2: a intergenerational body and that is a unique blend in

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Speaker 2: this century. We are, I believe, at the precipice of

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Speaker 2: manifesting a whole new paradigm of a civil society. It

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Speaker 2: already exists. They are those who are in denial about

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Speaker 2: the existence. But as a result of what our answers

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Speaker 2: us is that we probably have the most educated Black

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Speaker 2: is major work that has to be telling because we

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Speaker 2: got to raise the bar and I think that's where

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Speaker 2: the fear that we are experiencing that has been weaponized

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Speaker 2: against us is coming from. So stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to let you know because I

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Speaker 1: know you've got to get to the dinner. But the

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Speaker 1: comments on our YouTube live, everyone is commenting about your

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Speaker 1: most fashionable. So thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Much continued success.

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Speaker 3: You can't wait to have you back in all your capacity.

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Speaker 3: I love you. Hey, y'all, thanks for listening. Remember to rate, review, subscribe,

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