WEBVTT - Eric Adams’s Migrant Crisis | MiniPod

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<v Speaker 3>This is Angela Rye with Tiffany Cross and Andrew Gillham.

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<v Speaker 3>You are tuned into this week's mini pod.

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<v Speaker 4>Are well, Hiday.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, we're in the middle of recording. You face signed me.

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<v Speaker 5>We love you, Jay, you can face us anytime.

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<v Speaker 3>Welcome home, Jay, Welcome home j I'm trying to dismiss

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<v Speaker 3>the bride. Okay, speaking of rights and speaking of crises,

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<v Speaker 3>picking up facetimed in crises.

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<v Speaker 5>Mayor Adams, Mayor Eric Adams of New.

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<v Speaker 3>York City recently appeared on The Breakfast Club and he

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<v Speaker 3>has something to say about migrant rights.

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<v Speaker 5>And I want to know if you all think there's.

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<v Speaker 3>Any truth to the profile of dei mayors also known

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<v Speaker 3>as black mayors when.

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<v Speaker 2>Looking at known as mayors.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, carry on, when looking at the migrant crisis in

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<v Speaker 3>these United States.

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<v Speaker 5>We are going to play this clip and discuss.

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<v Speaker 6>Check out what they're doing. They're doing it to New York,

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<v Speaker 6>They're doing it to Chicago, They're doing it to Los Angeles,

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<v Speaker 6>They're doing it to Houston. What is the same in

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<v Speaker 6>all those cities? All black mans all black mans, and

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<v Speaker 6>so with we're saying same thing that I'm going through here.

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<v Speaker 6>My brother Johnson is going through, my sister bass is

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<v Speaker 6>going through, my brother Turner is going through. So our

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<v Speaker 6>folks are what they wanted to happen, Governor Appen wanted

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<v Speaker 6>to happen.

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<v Speaker 5>We're going to turn these of cities against their mayors.

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<v Speaker 6>We're going to create this environment where they're all going

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<v Speaker 6>to go against their maths. Go google what they doing

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<v Speaker 6>to my brother in Chicago, Go google what they doing

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<v Speaker 6>to sister baths. So this cities have now turned against

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<v Speaker 6>these black mayors that are making real change for the

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<v Speaker 6>first time over police. And they're using this to say, Okay,

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<v Speaker 6>these black mans are not competent, they can't run their cities.

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<v Speaker 6>They're getting everything to the migrs and the simum seekers.

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<v Speaker 6>This was a perfectly executed plan that we are buying

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<v Speaker 6>into make black mans look batter from and when we're

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<v Speaker 6>doing just the opposite.

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<v Speaker 5>I love this moment.

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<v Speaker 3>You all know that I was raised by an activist

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<v Speaker 3>and an educator. My dad is on the activism side,

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<v Speaker 3>and we constantly were talking about the ways in which

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<v Speaker 3>the government from the Fedes on down worked diligently to

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<v Speaker 3>try to dismantle black leadership, black power. We understand that

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<v Speaker 3>by virtue of bussing migrants from the border they're crossing

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<v Speaker 3>into the states, they step into to the north, there's

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<v Speaker 3>already something going on there. It's already something afoot. He

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<v Speaker 3>talked about mayors Johnson, Turner, Bass and at Hughes. Of

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<v Speaker 3>course it's Adams. Is there something to this? Andrew, you

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<v Speaker 3>are a mayor we talk about all the time, tiff

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<v Speaker 3>your conspiracy theorist with me every now and then. Yours

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<v Speaker 3>comes with data, So there might be some data you

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<v Speaker 3>can run to on this point.

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<v Speaker 5>But I just I'm very curious about this.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I do you want to say that they also

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<v Speaker 1>bust migrants to the Vineyard, which has a different municipality,

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<v Speaker 1>And I do not believe has anyone black and power there.

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<v Speaker 2>Except it's also thou synonymous with the vacation home of

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<v Speaker 2>Barack Obama, right exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like the vacation home for the quote unquote liberals

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<v Speaker 1>that they might say, and I shouldn't say, there's not

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<v Speaker 1>anyone black and power there.

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<v Speaker 4>I just don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>They have a very different way the way they divide

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<v Speaker 1>up who's responsible for the towns. I would be remiss

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<v Speaker 1>if I didn't say that. I definitely disagree with Mayor

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<v Speaker 1>Adams on a lot of political issues, but on this

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<v Speaker 1>one I take his point that, you know, Andrew, you

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<v Speaker 1>told us a story not too long ago that about

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<v Speaker 1>Ron Desanders who went to get migrants from Texas just

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<v Speaker 1>to bust them as a political stunt. I'm always moved

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<v Speaker 1>to the humanity of these kind of discussions. I think

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<v Speaker 1>about the people who risk life and limb and put

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<v Speaker 1>their children at risk to get to these shores because

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<v Speaker 1>they were in search of better opportunity, because they were

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<v Speaker 1>literally not just in search of opportunity, but literally trying

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<v Speaker 1>to save their own lives. Some of these states, particularly

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<v Speaker 1>in South America, the policies that are running them out

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<v Speaker 1>were influenced by US policies, and so some of these

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<v Speaker 1>states are borderline narco states. Some of these folks are

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<v Speaker 1>fleeing because their lives are threatened. So it's always baffling

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<v Speaker 1>to me. The party who self identifies as pro life,

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<v Speaker 1>we of course know that's not true, but they self

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<v Speaker 1>identify as pro life. We'll see these people and look

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<v Speaker 1>at them in disgust and want to essentially, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>push them, put them out to pasture in states where

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<v Speaker 1>they feel like there are other people who don't look

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<v Speaker 1>like people that we, you know, acknowledge their humanity. So

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<v Speaker 1>I hope that something changes.

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<v Speaker 4>I know.

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<v Speaker 1>So it is stress on cities with limited resources. I

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<v Speaker 1>completely understand. We've heard a lot from people who say, no,

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<v Speaker 1>they are taking resources away from us.

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<v Speaker 4>I hear you.

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<v Speaker 1>I understand that, But I just there's something about this

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<v Speaker 1>that I think there is unity in humanity and if

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<v Speaker 1>we can find our way to say, yes, it's unfair

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<v Speaker 1>what they're doing, but we want to make sure that

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<v Speaker 1>all human life is respected and valued and you have

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<v Speaker 1>food and shelter. I hope that we can get to

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<v Speaker 1>a place of that position in this country.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think if we were to evaluate what these

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<v Speaker 2>mayors are doing in response to the migrant crisis that

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<v Speaker 2>has literally been dropped on their doorstep intentionally for political stunts,

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<v Speaker 2>almost in all cases you'd see that they are extending

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<v Speaker 2>the humanitarian arm of their cities, right. But what they're

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<v Speaker 2>also being then faced with are these caricatures of them

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<v Speaker 2>that basically say, this is a city run amuck, this

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<v Speaker 2>is a lawless place, this is a mayor who can't

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<v Speaker 2>handle big responsibilities. And I agree with Mayor Adams and

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<v Speaker 2>have been on the side of it myself where individual

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<v Speaker 2>mayors have been targeted and there there is no there

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<v Speaker 2>is no coincidence whatsoever around what is shared between them all.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no coincidence whatsoever. But but I also say the

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<v Speaker 2>next step of this, by extension, they are attempting to

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<v Speaker 2>assign lawlessness, on governability, lack of leadership to the Democratic Party.

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<v Speaker 2>We for for a lot of these folks who come

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<v Speaker 2>after them on the right, on the hard right, on

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<v Speaker 2>these Fox shows. What they're what they're showing is is

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<v Speaker 2>that this is what will become of America if we

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<v Speaker 2>allow Democrats to take control. Yeah, they're there, they want

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<v Speaker 2>to go this far left policies and homeless are going

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<v Speaker 2>to be taken over every street, you know, a rapist

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<v Speaker 2>and sex rings are taken over our cities because this

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<v Speaker 2>is what the future of our country looks like if

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<v Speaker 2>these people are in charge. So they're playing on Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>they're playing on two two aspects of the boogeyman. If

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<v Speaker 2>in respect to us, it is yes, the the lawlessness.

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<v Speaker 2>How many times that we've seen ourselves in images, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>and and in prison, you know, attire. So they're they're lawless.

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<v Speaker 2>They can't uphold the law because they don't follow it themselves.

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<v Speaker 2>And then there is the caricature of black folks as

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<v Speaker 2>the biggest recipients of the welfare state. The they want

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<v Speaker 2>everything for free. They don't work for what they earn.

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<v Speaker 2>The de I mayor, he's a mayor, but he didn't

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<v Speaker 2>earn it the right way. He's not the most qualified.

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<v Speaker 2>He's the he's he's he's just d e I, which

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<v Speaker 2>I as in doing your rundown. I said, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's synonymous for me, closer to the N word than

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<v Speaker 2>it's the polite, the most polite way. These folks are

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<v Speaker 2>being able to incorporate that into their into their.

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<v Speaker 5>When we take their definition.

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<v Speaker 2>When we take their definition right, when we take that

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<v Speaker 2>where we accept their definite, that's what they mean it for.

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<v Speaker 2>So I just I agree with Mayor Adams, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's a layer beyond. I don't. I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>it is by itself exclusively about black mayors. I think

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<v Speaker 2>it is because of the tropes that they've spent decades

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<v Speaker 2>echo inter in the minds of everyday Americans about why

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<v Speaker 2>it is you ought to be locking your door when

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<v Speaker 2>you see a black man walking toward you. Why you

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<v Speaker 2>ought to clutch your purse underneath you, why you ought

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<v Speaker 2>to switch sides of the street that you're walking on.

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<v Speaker 2>They're playing on a long history of investment in defining

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<v Speaker 2>who we are, who they want people to think we are,

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<v Speaker 2>and now they're attaching that to the Democratic Party for

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<v Speaker 2>the power shift here. They believe we shouldn't have power,

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<v Speaker 2>and if we have power, this is what it will

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<v Speaker 2>look like.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, y'all, we're going to take a quick break,

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<v Speaker 5>More coming up after the break. You know.

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<v Speaker 3>The other part of this that I think is interesting

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<v Speaker 3>is also on that interview, Mayor Adams talks about how

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<v Speaker 3>when these people are on your doorstep, you have a

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<v Speaker 3>legal obligation or face the liability of not taking care

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<v Speaker 3>of them. So he got innovative and created a program

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<v Speaker 3>that may end up costing uppers of fifty three million

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<v Speaker 3>dollars with Mobility Capital Finance. They provided debit cards to

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<v Speaker 3>these families that like, will have twelve dollars a day

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<v Speaker 3>because they didn't want the we've talked about before the podcast.

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<v Speaker 5>The food that was given to them was nast them.

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<v Speaker 3>It gives them an opportunity to go get food from

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<v Speaker 3>places they like and eat hopefully.

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<v Speaker 5>Okay, twelve dollars a day isn't much, we know that, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Not just place they like, right, these are culturally.

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<v Speaker 5>Of them. Yeah, they can spend it on food.

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<v Speaker 2>They can get it anyway they want. But the a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of food was going to waste because this isn't

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<v Speaker 2>stuff that they were eating, yeah where they were coming from.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so they were in that Wait, there was a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of food waste that was happening. This was another opportunity.

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<v Speaker 3>Mobility Capital Finance is actually a black owned business. So

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<v Speaker 3>they're getting this huge opportunity to and I'm not saying

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<v Speaker 3>that it's not a handout, but a huge opportunity to

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<v Speaker 3>solve a really important crisis from the humanity standpoint.

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<v Speaker 5>Topcius you talked about. And so this is one of those.

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<v Speaker 3>Moments where a mayor who very much ran on lot

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<v Speaker 3>order I don't always agree with Eric Adams either. When

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<v Speaker 3>he talked about being targeted, I understood exactly what he meant.

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<v Speaker 3>This is someone who's like, Okay, I see this happening,

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<v Speaker 3>this isn't right. I'm going to try to solve for it.

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<v Speaker 3>And they're still trying to make you look like you're irresponsible.

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<v Speaker 3>You're still they're still trying to make you look like

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<v Speaker 3>you can't manage your city. They're still trying to make

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<v Speaker 3>you look like when migrants come in, there goes the neighborhood,

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<v Speaker 3>which is a trope that we also understand and have experienced,

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<v Speaker 3>is going from one group of people of color to another.

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<v Speaker 5>And I wonder when it all stops.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, I don't think it does stop.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it. I don't think it stops over

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<v Speaker 2>race by itself. I think the only way it stops

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<v Speaker 2>is if we somehow had a realignment of what power

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<v Speaker 2>looks like in this country. But that well, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, like I said, for I'm not convinced that

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<v Speaker 2>what is motivating and moving these folks begins and ends

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<v Speaker 2>with race. I think it begins and ends with who

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<v Speaker 2>has power and who risks losing power. It is this

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<v Speaker 2>is how I've always had it because I've built and

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<v Speaker 2>designed this system for my advancement. What happens is someone

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<v Speaker 2>who is not like me, didn't come from where I

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<v Speaker 2>came from, doesn't understand my history, my lineage, my story.

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<v Speaker 2>What if they start being able to make the rules,

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<v Speaker 2>and then what if they replicate what we did, which

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<v Speaker 2>has built the rules to suit us, except now they

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<v Speaker 2>build the rules to suit them. They make two mistakes. One,

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<v Speaker 2>that's not what we're about equity period, and that means

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<v Speaker 2>for everybody. But but if this is more what's going

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<v Speaker 2>through your mind? Building the system like we built it

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<v Speaker 2>for us, except now as being built for someone else.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, But I wonder what you would say, particularly because

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<v Speaker 1>you were a mayor to people, because there are these

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<v Speaker 1>issues reference you know, mayors of Elster, Turner out of Houston,

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<v Speaker 1>Careen Bass out of LA There are people and municipalities

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<v Speaker 1>where there appears to be a fight over resources. It

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<v Speaker 1>makes sense, and the subtext of that sometimes the commons

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<v Speaker 1>do come across as very anti immigrant. We've talked about

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<v Speaker 1>this before, where you're saying, no, these are people fighting

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<v Speaker 1>for their resources and it can be you know, both

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<v Speaker 1>in right, I wonder what you would say to people

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<v Speaker 1>who have these negative comments to me that pull from

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<v Speaker 1>the oppressor's language and perspective instead of let's build.

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<v Speaker 4>Together, but like no, ain't no room here, you got

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<v Speaker 4>to get out.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you say to those shops like y'all have

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<v Speaker 1>looked over us and bypass us, and now your.

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<v Speaker 2>Comment is, well, the first thing we don't tell them

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<v Speaker 2>is we don't tell them that that's not true because

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<v Speaker 2>and there they lived experience. If I'm trying to get

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<v Speaker 2>a job meant applying for one and can't get one,

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<v Speaker 2>but you got here yesterday and yet you have one,

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<v Speaker 2>we can't. They're never going to believe us or trust

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<v Speaker 2>us that that that that that that.

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<v Speaker 5>But is the job?

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<v Speaker 1>It's not like it's a job with like six figure

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<v Speaker 1>payments and benefits. Is it a job that people want

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<v Speaker 1>to do?

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<v Speaker 2>But it is one that they feel that they could

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<v Speaker 2>access And.

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<v Speaker 1>Is it though I know how they feel, is it

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<v Speaker 1>actually a job they do they want to be dated?

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<v Speaker 2>If I'll put it this way, it almost doesn't matter

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<v Speaker 2>what you or I think about that. If the story

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<v Speaker 2>that we're telling ourselves and that they're telling themselves is

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<v Speaker 2>I lost out on the opportunity because you.

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<v Speaker 5>But also be pray it could be.

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<v Speaker 3>But but it also is their living experience what he's saying,

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<v Speaker 3>And the part of it is this, you have a job.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't have one. It's not that it's the same job.

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<v Speaker 3>It's you have a job and I can't get one.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and they made a way for you and they're

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<v Speaker 2>not making a way.

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<v Speaker 4>That is how white folks have felt. It is anybody

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<v Speaker 4>who doesn't look like that.

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<v Speaker 2>But we all know that more than one thing can

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<v Speaker 2>be true at one time, and so if it's somebody's

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<v Speaker 2>lived experience has got to be validated. And what I

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<v Speaker 2>would say is as loud and proud as we are

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<v Speaker 2>with the services that we are providing for asylum seekers

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<v Speaker 2>and immigrants who coming to the compt we got to

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<v Speaker 2>be equally as loud and proud. If Mayor Adams had

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<v Speaker 2>to go through and detail the budget that he spends

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<v Speaker 2>on housing, on small business development, on what he you know,

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<v Speaker 2>spends on growing, building, sustaining protecting the community, it would

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<v Speaker 2>be a bohemoth by comparison. But his job today is

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with the mike and Cress's right here on

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<v Speaker 2>the street, and so that's what we're hearing a lot

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<v Speaker 2>about those moneies that are spent. They don't even compare, right,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't even compare. But because we have, as you've

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<v Speaker 2>already said, you know, adopted the Master's plan using the

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<v Speaker 2>Master's playbook, thinking that we're going to disassemble that house

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<v Speaker 2>using the instructions he wrote, we will not. He didn't

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<v Speaker 2>build his house to fail, He built it to throat.

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<v Speaker 3>If I'm getting snap benefits in my s, benefits don't

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<v Speaker 3>cover my groceries. They're not paying attention to the fact

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<v Speaker 3>that it's twelve dollars a day per person going on

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<v Speaker 3>this card and eggs are eleven dollars. They're focused on

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<v Speaker 3>the fact that you're getting benefits that I've been having

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<v Speaker 3>a scrap for all my life in some instances.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't want to overgeneralize.

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<v Speaker 3>But the other thing on this point is this same

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<v Speaker 3>card that was created by a black company. A white

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<v Speaker 3>council member, Gail Brewster, is like, we need to investigate,

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<v Speaker 3>we need to investigate what this is. I don't know

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<v Speaker 3>about this, probably because it was a company or two

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<v Speaker 3>or three that she she thought I could have got

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<v Speaker 3>this contract over them when it wasn't there.

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<v Speaker 5>I did because it's a DEI contract.

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<v Speaker 2>The trope continues, right, I.

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<v Speaker 4>Just don't want us to participate it.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I don't want to suit to either. That's alonger

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<v Speaker 2>road I think for us to have to hold. But

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<v Speaker 2>I but what is important here.

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<v Speaker 3>It was just about to say you got to talk

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<v Speaker 3>to some country.

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<v Speaker 2>People from South georgiad you want to is that? And

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<v Speaker 2>again nobody will receive it. But what Mayor Adams did

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<v Speaker 2>in paying for this program the way he is is

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<v Speaker 2>a fraction of what they would spend and the food

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<v Speaker 2>program that they are currently running. So he's saving money,

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<v Speaker 2>he's doing it in a culturally sensitive way. He's addressing

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<v Speaker 2>the problem in demonstrating leadership as a mayor, as are

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<v Speaker 2>the others. But it is also fitting into a narrative

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<v Speaker 2>that is very convenient for the other side. And I

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<v Speaker 2>think we got to be aware of it. We got

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<v Speaker 2>to see it all the way through. And I agree

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<v Speaker 2>with you. We have to interrogate the same language being

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<v Speaker 2>used by the oppressor. Now we're adopting and we're using it.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think it is my Meslow's hierarchy of needs,

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<v Speaker 2>and I.

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<v Speaker 5>Think that doesn't see anything.

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<v Speaker 2>This is food shelters, safety, security, and if you come

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<v Speaker 2>against any of that. For me and mine, there are

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<v Speaker 2>no rules on the table.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I ask you a question before we close out?

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<v Speaker 1>Often I read the comment sometimes on our YouTube or

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<v Speaker 1>social media, my comments. My people email me to my website.

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<v Speaker 1>They DM me and all of you guys. A lot

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<v Speaker 1>of times people email me to my website. They've copied

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<v Speaker 1>you guys. But it's accounts you A'll never check. But

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<v Speaker 1>nonetheless I read them a lot of consistent comments about you,

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<v Speaker 1>specifically Andrew. I think people feel I know this is

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<v Speaker 1>not true, but people feel abandoned, you know, like.

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<v Speaker 4>Andrew, you've left us with the scantis, and you know, like.

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<v Speaker 1>Somehow you're like, I don't want to be governor, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>never mind, you know, but people are saying to count

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<v Speaker 1>all the votes, right, But people they feel away, and

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<v Speaker 1>they're like, when are you getting back in the game.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I hear you week after week on this podcast,

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<v Speaker 1>I do wonder, do you think you'll ever run for

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<v Speaker 1>office again?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know, but I do know this.

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<v Speaker 2>There are a lot of ways in which we can

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<v Speaker 2>be of service, and serving in the office of a

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<v Speaker 2>policymaker is just one route we can. We can I

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<v Speaker 2>think I'm on purpose and on mission, on God's mission

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<v Speaker 2>here only because I think we can penetrate minds. I

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<v Speaker 2>think we can engage people. I think what this country

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<v Speaker 2>needs more than anything right now is a real revolution.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't mean to I'm turning the table over

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<v Speaker 2>and whatever, but a revolution from the standpoint of we

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<v Speaker 2>have we have. We have left it to somebody else

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<v Speaker 2>to take care of that, to go and take care

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<v Speaker 2>of that, to go and handle that by way of politics,

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<v Speaker 2>for too long, thinking that we have to be locked

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<v Speaker 2>out because we don't know enough about it. Too complicated.

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<v Speaker 2>It's hard that you know, I wouldn't know what to

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<v Speaker 2>do here, and the system benefits by all of us

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<v Speaker 2>who draw that conclusion. I'm saying, it ain't that complicated.

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<v Speaker 2>It's as simple as I'm a priority. I'm a living, human,

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<v Speaker 2>breathing thing. I deserve what I need in order to survive.

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<v Speaker 2>And the government has the ability to do that part

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<v Speaker 2>and to help you do your part. But but if

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<v Speaker 2>we keep checking out who holds them accountable, those marbles

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<v Speaker 2>never get picked up off the floor.

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<v Speaker 3>When we need all the marbles to weigh in on

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<v Speaker 3>who holds them accountable.

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<v Speaker 5>On social media, because guess what we ought.

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<v Speaker 1>To Well, I ask a lot of people want to

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<v Speaker 1>ask answer that question.

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<v Speaker 4>The comments I asked for you, Yes, you got the answer.

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<v Speaker 5>You got the answer. Thanks for listening, y'all.

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