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Speaker 1: I don't want to ask you a question.

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Speaker 2: Real good, let's just keep it real straight sh eye

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Speaker 2: with no chasing. I'm gonna get a little bit rougher.

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Speaker 2: I'm here for it. Those who really believe in the

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Speaker 2: American process, all of us street shot, no chase. What's

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Speaker 2: your girl? Testlim figure out on the Black Effect podcast

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Speaker 2: Network network what everybody is this Testlim figure? I am

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Speaker 2: here with a great group of gentlemen that we will

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Speaker 2: be talking to from gen Z. One of the most

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Speaker 2: should be a demographic that has sold after every year,

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Speaker 2: not just this year, but this year. Folks are really

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Speaker 2: interested on all levels, state level, federal level, Democrat Republican

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Speaker 2: In particularly they want to hear from black men. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna chop it up and get to it right

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Speaker 2: now now. These gentlemen are in Georgia, the great State

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Speaker 2: On yesterday there was record turnout in first time voting.

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Speaker 2: Usually Georgia is a state that has, I guess in

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Speaker 2: recent history, been able to become a battleground because you

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Speaker 2: don't know if it's going to go Democratic Republican, and

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Speaker 2: to the gentlemen we have here on how does that feel?

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Speaker 2: Where are you in this campaign? Let me first start

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Speaker 3: Absolutely well, let me just start off by saying thank

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Speaker 3: this opportunity and just hearing for the voices of the

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Speaker 3: youth and the black men of the HBCU community. I

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Speaker 3: can justly say I can say speaking from our experience

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Speaker 3: think that was a large component of it. Having so

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Speaker 3: that we've seen in recent reports, as well as you know,

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Speaker 3: Michael Brent the fourth where you know, again we imagine

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Speaker 3: and you hear, you see people marching something that you've

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Speaker 2: Well, Michael, he said, you are an organizer. I always

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we were in Bolton County at Flipper and m

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Speaker 4: There's a particular side that is encouraging people to register,

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Speaker 4: And I think that's what's really consequential about yesterday and

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Speaker 2: The ass It was a large turnout. So were there

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Speaker 2: So to Sean, let me ask you. You know, there's

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Speaker 5: Thank you for that question. First, I just want to,

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Speaker 2: Late, Isaiah. Have people literally been have you guys been organizing? Like?

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Speaker 2: Has people been? Because I've been one of the ones

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Speaker 2: for that. You guys have just been doing this just because,

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Speaker 2: Like who's been knocking on your door besides you guys self?

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Speaker 2: Motivating yourself. What organizations have knocked on your door has said, hey,

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Speaker 4: Hi again.

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Speaker 1: I am Isaiah Mendozah Smith, a junior Criminal Justice Majua

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Speaker 1: I also appreciate this opportunity to speak on behalf of

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Speaker 1: they meet up to discuss voting and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: As far as on campus, I know that there are

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's fair of the shout out to the

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Speaker 2: I'll just show this out of whoever wants to answer.

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Speaker 2: President Obama made comments about black men, some black men

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Speaker 2: But what about those who say, because I know the

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Speaker 5: Yes, I know, Well I don't know smigers. I know,

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Speaker 2: M I like that anybody else.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna mention. You know, as a student of politics,

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Speaker 4: We can look at any song from the past thirty years.

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Speaker 4: I said, that's a real issue. When I think we

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Speaker 4: It shouldn't be you got to have your grandma, your

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Speaker 4: It should be your cousin, Craig. It probably needs to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So what you're saying is so soogyny is real,

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Speaker 2: we already know the majority of black men will vote Democratic.

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Speaker 2: We got that, but this is not about the majority.

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Speaker 2: Push push, push, and make sure that that person is

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Speaker 2: this conversation, regions, generations, demographics, relationship with each other, all

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Speaker 2: Any closing thoughts, guys, as we get out of here.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate you stopping by the chat with me.

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Speaker 2: There are what are we two three weeks left? I

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Speaker 2: to know. And this is not necessarily a pitch a

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Speaker 2: have to be careful with that too, you know, telling

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Speaker 2: people what they should and should I do, at least

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Speaker 2: for me, I try to empower people. But I want

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Speaker 2: to know what do you want America to know or

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Speaker 2: the campaign, or what people should know about your view

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Speaker 2: your lens as we close this up on that and

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Speaker 2: that could be areas of critique, areas of where they

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Speaker 2: need to get better, areas of you know, what you

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Speaker 2: think is critical that they should know about Georgia, just

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Speaker 2: whatever it is that you want on your closing thoughts.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go down the list and give each

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Speaker 3: Darien, thank you, and I would just say as closing

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Speaker 3: thoughts and like you said, not motivating, not swaying, and

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Speaker 3: calling the action, because I feel like there is we've said,

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Speaker 3: I've seen so much talk in my lifetime, and I

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Speaker 3: and I and I've been blessed to be a part

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Speaker 3: of many actions. But I feel as if there's always

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Speaker 3: there's always more that can be done, And I feel

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Speaker 3: as if, you know, don't count us out, don't count

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Speaker 3: us as black men out, don't count us as HBCU

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Speaker 3: students out, don't count us as the youth out. Because

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Speaker 3: more than us going out and changing the things that

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Speaker 3: we can no longer accept, it is it is getting

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Speaker 3: increasingly closer to the time in which we will be

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Speaker 3: seeking and taking these positions, and we will create the

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Speaker 3: world that we were supposed and we were promised to

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Speaker 3: be living in. So I just want you know, for

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Speaker 3: as long as we are continuing to fight, you know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, As far as long as we continue

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Speaker 3: to heal and build a community, do not stop. Do

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Speaker 3: not do as tired some as it can get, as

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Speaker 3: fearful as it may be, stay united. All it takes

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Speaker 3: is three to four like minded individuals, and you can

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Speaker 3: make history. You can make something happen like it was

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Speaker 3: amazing yesterday to have the energy and be belifted by

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Speaker 3: my asked us. Is in a sense that we were

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Speaker 3: fighting for a cause that was right and something that

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Speaker 3: was bigger for than ourselves. And like you said, it

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Speaker 3: goes beyond just the simple beliefs of Democrat or Republican.

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Speaker 3: You know, it oftentimes boils down to what's good and evil.

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Speaker 3: So just continue to be motivated, continue to fight, and

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Speaker 3: always look for opportunities to make change.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Isaiah.

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Speaker 1: My last closing words, I would say that the closer

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Speaker 1: and closer that we get to the time, the point

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Speaker 1: in time where we're going to see what our country

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Speaker 1: is about to turn into, the more and more people

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Speaker 1: are going to realize or people are starting to realize

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Speaker 1: that it's not just blue versus red. It's life or

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Speaker 1: death for a lot of people in our communities and

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Speaker 1: on this planet. And I want everybody to just really

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Speaker 1: make sure that they do their research and they know

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Speaker 1: who and what they're voting for, regardless of race, regardless

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Speaker 1: of gender, regardless of what color of the map they're on,

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Speaker 1: regardless of where they're from. Let your vote matters because

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Speaker 1: it is impacting an entire nation. It's not just impacting

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Speaker 1: your personal opinions or your view on one specific community

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Speaker 1: based off of a racial group, or based off of

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Speaker 1: a physical identity or based off of a sexual identity.

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Speaker 1: It's the lives of the people that you see and

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Speaker 1: interact with every day. So the people that aren't registered

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Speaker 1: to vote and the people that are thinking about, you

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Speaker 1: know what they're voting for. I just want everybody to

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Speaker 1: make sure that they're fully aware of the power their

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Speaker 1: vote holds.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much to Sean.

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Speaker 5: Closing thoughts, I would just like to, like Darien said,

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Speaker 5: I would just like to encourage everyone to let your

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Speaker 5: voice be heard. I feel like we all have our opinions,

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Speaker 5: and what makes somebody else's opinion greater than yours. If

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Speaker 5: you're not voting, you're not letting that opinion be heard.

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Speaker 5: So I just encourage everyone to please go out there

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Speaker 5: and vote, no matter what side you are voting for,

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Speaker 5: just go out there and vote and let your voice

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Speaker 5: be heard. Because if you're onet complain about something, you

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Speaker 5: can't let that impact happen and you didn't vote, or

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Speaker 5: you're just kind of complain about it, what impact did

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Speaker 5: you try to do to get that change that you

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Speaker 5: want to see. So I just want to encourage everybody

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Speaker 5: to exercise that right that you have as an American

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Speaker 5: citizen to go vote, and I'm just yeah, I'm very

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Speaker 5: excited about the future.

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Speaker 2: Michael Close adults, Well, I wanted to mention this figure out.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having us. You know, this is a

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Speaker 4: phenomenal opportunity, and we're grateful for making this be a possibility.

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Speaker 4: My last closing thoughts would have to be, of course,

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Speaker 4: to vote, but the rationale behind it should be that

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Speaker 4: you're your best advocate. You're the best player on your

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Speaker 4: own team. Lebron's not going to bench himself. Line on

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Speaker 4: Messi'm not going to bench himself. Serena Williams wouldn't bench herself.

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't vne yourself and sit down and think I'm

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Speaker 4: going to let another player take over. I'm going to

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Speaker 4: let some other players take over. And if we win

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Speaker 4: the game, lose the game, who knows. If you're your

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Speaker 4: best advocate, you're your best player. You have to utilize yourself,

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Speaker 4: mobilized and really push out the efforts to other people.

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Speaker 4: This is a very important time. This country is going

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Speaker 4: through a lot. Whether you blue it's in a good

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Speaker 4: way or in a negative way, it's going So this

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Speaker 4: is our time, this is our moment to stand up

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Speaker 4: and rise up and stand for something, to fall for

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Speaker 4: anything is Malcolm XA, and really persuade and push ourselves

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Speaker 4: to highlight the issues that we care about and find

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Speaker 4: ways to solve them. You know, we have a large community,

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Speaker 4: a community that's very diverse in its own way, and

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Speaker 4: I think that if we're going to be talking about it,

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Speaker 4: we got to be about and in this case, right now,

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Speaker 4: for the next three weeks, it's about voting, and it's

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Speaker 4: about having those conversations about the policies and implementing them.

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Speaker 4: How are we're going to function as a country that

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Speaker 4: as a people in a community moving forward no matter

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Speaker 4: who's in the office for the next four years.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jim, I want to thank you again for

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Speaker 2: your time. This has been Tesla and figure out. As

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Speaker 2: we wrap up this election year, we wanted to make

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Speaker 2: sure that we heard directly from young black men in

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Speaker 2: our community who are not just sitting on the sidelines

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Speaker 2: but making an effort doing the work, being the walk

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