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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody. This episode is a replay of
Speaker 3: one of our interviews from our live stream as a
Speaker 3: Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual Legislative Conference. If you want
Speaker 3: to listen to or watch the full stream, check out
Speaker 3: the links in the episode description. You can also find
Speaker 3: a full list of all the guests we interviewed. Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 3: We are welcoming up Congresswoman Evac Clark. She is the
Speaker 3: incoming chair for the Congressional Black Caucust. She's been in
Speaker 3: congressional leadership, a long time Chris woman, and she is extraordinary.
Speaker 3: We first met while she was on the Homeland Security
Speaker 3: Committee as a freshman, and watching her rise has been
Speaker 3: my greatest privilege and honor. Congressoman Clark, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for being here with us today.
Speaker 1: I want to add that she's one of the most
Speaker 1: fashionable members Yes Congress as well. Has always been super
Speaker 1: fly and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated.
Speaker 1: And on a personal note of privilege, you have always
Speaker 1: been so supportive of me, So I want to thank
Speaker 1: you publicly for that. So we love you, and happy welcome.
Speaker 2: Home, Welcome, wonderful. It's such an honor to be with you.
Speaker 2: And I do want to make a correction. I am
Speaker 2: the first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and
Speaker 2: I'm seeking the support of my colleagues will message of
Speaker 2: the Congressional Black Caucus.
Speaker 4: But you know you put it.
Speaker 3: Well, here's what I know. Here's what I know, and
Speaker 3: I want to say this to you, of course, that
Speaker 3: race is not partisan, and also we're in the clear here.
Speaker 3: What I want to say to you to your face,
Speaker 3: Miss Clark, is as long as I worked on the
Speaker 3: hill and even after, I know how long you've served diligently,
Speaker 3: how much you love your colleagues, how much you love
Speaker 3: the culture, how much you love your constituents, how much
Speaker 3: you adore our community, and so I am confident that
Speaker 3: you will be the next share of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Speaker 3: And I know I've seen your service, you know firsthand,
Speaker 3: And I loved laboring with you because you made everything
Speaker 3: fun and we still worked hard, but you always kept
Speaker 3: a smile on your face, and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 3: And for your sisterhood too.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: My sister sat Andrew is such a pleasure.
Speaker 4: It's good to be with you. I was gonna tell you.
Speaker 4: I told Congressman mixing Waters when we were.
Speaker 5: Together at the DNC, how growing up in Florida, in Gainesville,
Speaker 5: how I didn't know my member of Congress and there
Speaker 5: was a white male at the time, and how because
Speaker 5: of her advocacy, I always felt like she was my
Speaker 5: member of Congress. You're the next member of Congress who
Speaker 5: really puts puts it in the mold of I don't
Speaker 5: have to be a New York resident in your district
Speaker 5: to know that you're out there fighting for us.
Speaker 4: And so I know our listeners feel that way.
Speaker 5: I know I personally feel that way, and I just
Speaker 5: I'm thankful for your leadership and high time that a
Speaker 5: voice like yours helms again the CBC.
Speaker 2: I wanted, Oh, thank you, thank you all so very much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I love my people. At the baseline,
Speaker 2: it starts with the love of your people, and you
Speaker 2: will go, you know, through the fire to make sure
Speaker 2: that they are safe, they are protected, they are thriving.
Speaker 4: That's real.
Speaker 2: In this society.
Speaker 3: You do that every day. I want to ask you.
Speaker 3: You know, we're talking about this selection in less partisan
Speaker 3: ways because you know, we want to protect the five o'
Speaker 3: one C three status of the Foundation. But one thing
Speaker 3: I wanted to raise is there are a lot of
Speaker 3: concerns impacting our community specifically going into this election. And
Speaker 3: we're not talking about who to go for necessarily right now,
Speaker 3: but I think we all want to preserve democracy. There
Speaker 3: are a lot of threats at stake in you for
Speaker 3: a long time, cybersecurity has been your bread and butter,
Speaker 3: you know that space. What are you most concerned about
Speaker 3: for black folks going into this selection site? Absolutely, I'm
Speaker 3: concerned that our extreme, you know, devotion to social media
Speaker 3: puts us in a place where misinformation and disinformation can
Speaker 3: can permeate our thoughts, and so oftentimes what we're seeing
Speaker 3: is not accurate, their deep fakes. You technology used to deceive,
Speaker 3: intentionally deceive people.
Speaker 2: That can be visual and it can be audio as well,
Speaker 2: And this will be the first election where this technology
Speaker 2: is that the fingertips of the average everyday American not
Speaker 2: to mention foreign advices. And so I'm just concerned, given
Speaker 2: the tone and tenor of this particular election cycle. Some
Speaker 2: would call it desperation, others would call it openly ambitious
Speaker 2: that there will be those types of disruptions to our election.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be information regarding candidates. It
Speaker 2: could be your polling side is closed.
Speaker 1: Right right, yep, the day of the election. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting you bring that up because it shows how powerful
Speaker 1: we are as a people in this country first, but
Speaker 1: second as a voting block, because we are disproportionately targeted
Speaker 1: by misinformation and disinformation, I would argue, perhaps second only
Speaker 1: to the Lasino community. And a lot of these outlets
Speaker 1: don't have Native Spanish speakers to help dispute some of
Speaker 1: the disinformation. So we want to encourage our viewers out
Speaker 1: there share responsibly, consume information responsibly. What are some things
Speaker 1: that you would encourage people to do, like how if
Speaker 1: you know, how how do they make sure that they're
Speaker 1: not consuming misinformation and disinformation? And what role is the
Speaker 1: congressional black castus?
Speaker 2: And you take the same device provides us the opportunity
Speaker 2: to fact check. Yes, right, So don't just receive content
Speaker 2: and not then do some a little do legits around it,
Speaker 2: because if it doesn't sound right, it probably isn't right,
Speaker 2: And oftentimes we know that the information we receive can
Speaker 2: be flawed, and we don't want to inadvertently participate in
Speaker 2: the spread of that. And that's what generative AI can
Speaker 2: do in the blink of an eye. So I want
Speaker 2: to encourage our folks to use that same device. When
Speaker 2: you receive something on social media to investigate, you do
Speaker 2: your own fact checking.
Speaker 4: Yes, you have you considered. I know you've got to bounce.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: Have you considered the feeling what the work becomes if
Speaker 5: you are negotiating as CBC chair with a black woman
Speaker 5: president who's overly qualified and all the other good stuff.
Speaker 5: But I just I don't want us to sit in
Speaker 5: a moment that we're not at yet. But I would
Speaker 5: love to hear your pre thought.
Speaker 2: Extraordinarily excited about First of all, what the Biden Harris
Speaker 2: administration has already done. They've made monumental investments, and the
Speaker 2: CBC has been a major part of negotiating those investments,
Speaker 2: knowing that the need for those investments to hit our
Speaker 2: communities is paramount, and that we're turning the page.
Speaker 3: We are already.
Speaker 5: Turning the page.
Speaker 2: The question is will we go back, will all of
Speaker 2: those investments be dismantled and we say no, it won't.
Speaker 2: We say not on our watch. And just knowing that this,
Speaker 2: I want to say, sister, is a new generation. Both
Speaker 2: of us were born in the same year. I won't
Speaker 2: go into those details, but you can google it, use.
Speaker 4: Your Google machine.
Speaker 2: We were birth born as beneficiaries of the civil rights movement.
Speaker 2: We were not you know, young people that marched or
Speaker 2: the young people that were host We were the beneficiaries.
Speaker 2: And that meant that, you know, the world was our
Speaker 2: oyster because our ancestors truly did what needed to be
Speaker 2: doe to get to be done in order to advance
Speaker 2: our communities. We now have someone with that frame to
Speaker 2: move us forward, and certainly among CBC members, we've got
Speaker 2: a intergenerational body and that is a unique blend in
Speaker 2: this century. We are, I believe, at the precipice of
Speaker 2: manifesting a whole new paradigm of a civil society. It
Speaker 2: already exists. They are those who are in denial about
Speaker 2: the existence. But as a result of what our answers
Speaker 2: us is that we probably have the most educated Black
Speaker 2: community in the generation. That's not to say that there
Speaker 2: is major work that has to be telling because we
Speaker 2: got to raise the bar and I think that's where
Speaker 2: the fear that we are experiencing that has been weaponized
Speaker 2: against us is coming from. So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: And I just want to let you know because I
Speaker 1: know you've got to get to the dinner. But the
Speaker 1: comments on our YouTube live, everyone is commenting about your
Speaker 1: glasses and your nails. I told you all she the
Speaker 1: most fashionable. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Much continued success.
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