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Speaker 1: Big Bank. You don't be on nothing, I be on okay,

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Speaker 1: So let me ask.

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Speaker 3: You know what it is, time for a Big Facts

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Speaker 1: We are here with Senator. Senator Dwight Bullet is here.

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Speaker 4: What's up? Happy to be here. Thanks for the invite, Nah.

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Speaker 1: For sure, Roy Mokas and the cut too, what's up

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Speaker 1: with you? Salute?

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Speaker 3: You know, so we wanted to have a round table

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Speaker 3: chat and definitely talk about we are a little bit

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Speaker 3: over a week away from the presidential election and the

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Speaker 3: election and we know it's a lot at stake, and

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Speaker 3: I guess it's just talking about not necessarily you know,

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Speaker 3: choosing the side of who to vote for and all that.

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Speaker 3: That's not the purpose it is, but letting everybody know

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Speaker 3: the importance of exercising their right to vote. So y'all

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Speaker 3: can just kind of elaborate and you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: get the vibes going so we can have that discussion. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm glad you framed it in that way, right,

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Speaker 5: because a lot of people who really kind of get

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Speaker 5: caught up in these personalities, you know, the individuals who

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Speaker 5: run for these offices, people start developing opinions, you know,

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Speaker 5: they start going down these rabbit holes about who's who.

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Speaker 5: And part of the function for the work that I

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Speaker 5: do is just reminding people that your vote, although critical,

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Speaker 5: doesn't have to be this thing that is monumental. And

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Speaker 5: I think too often times, especially folks who look like

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Speaker 5: me from the black community, get kind of caught up

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Speaker 5: in this, in this information loop around voting, you know.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I'm not gonna run away from the

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Speaker 5: fact that people literally died to get the right. We

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Speaker 5: get that, but I also want people to just be

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Speaker 5: habitual about the function of doing it. You know, I

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Speaker 5: was sharing with some folks the other day. There was

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Speaker 5: a study done that says we spend about three days

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Speaker 5: caught up in this I can't go vote right, and

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Speaker 5: it's just like, give me the excuse because you're about

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Speaker 5: to spend the same amount of time getting that cup

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you some and will cut you out

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Speaker 2: to ask you this, like, do our vote really really matter?

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Speaker 4: Though?

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Speaker 5: A thousand percent a thousand percent. But it's also a

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Speaker 5: matter of collectivism, right. What I mean by that is

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Speaker 5: what ends up happening is someone will will absorb something

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Speaker 5: that accumulates. So let's say you got a place like

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Speaker 5: newer cities around Atlanta that kind of popped up that

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Speaker 5: aren't the city itself. You have these city council races

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Speaker 5: being won by one hundred votes fifty you know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like, that's the direct democracy. You got these

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Speaker 5: school board races, you know, when I when when I

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Speaker 4: Well, you know what I'm saying, that's the church bus.

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Speaker 5: Like literally, had you had a church bus full of

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Speaker 5: people in that district, you could have done the outcome differently.

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Speaker 5: I'll take it even step further. We had a member

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Speaker 5: of Congress won their seat by five votes. M that's

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Speaker 5: not even a church, but that's a car. And just

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Speaker 5: imagine how many and this this is a black part

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Speaker 4: Next two years.

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Speaker 6: Let me add something to that too, though, And I'm

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Speaker 6: not a politician, but I you know, we support a

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Speaker 6: and everything we do is about the community for the community.

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Speaker 6: But I'll say this to you because I used to

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Speaker 6: ask the same question. It doesn't matter till it affects you. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: fix your community. Now it's like, hey, wait, wait, why

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Speaker 3: So what do we do with the people, because this

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Speaker 1: They're frustrated because a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of them did vote for the first time last election

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Speaker 5: I would say is this, and I use I'll use

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Speaker 5: a football analogy. Right, A lot of people make this

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Speaker 5: assumption that the vote is you going to the pros.

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Speaker 4: The vote is the fact you played football. So this

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Speaker 5: The analogy is that everybody in the NFL right now

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Speaker 5: played football, Pop Warner, high school college.

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Speaker 4: People make the assumption that the vote is you getting drafted.

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Speaker 5: It's you picking up the ball for the first time.

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Speaker 5: What you choose to do with it at that moment

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Speaker 5: you gonna run it? Are you gonna catch it? How

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Speaker 5: have you developed those skills? And so this is what

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Speaker 5: I mean is like a lot of people will be like,

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Speaker 5: I cast my ballot, nothing changed. Well, the question is

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Speaker 5: clothes mobs don't get fed. So for what you needed

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Speaker 5: did you ask for it?

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Speaker 2: What about the people that come with all those promises,

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Speaker 2: the politician that cade all those promises and then do.

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Speaker 5: But again going back to the football annalogy, right, how

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Speaker 5: many coaches promise kids starting time? How many coaches promise

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Speaker 5: kids that you're gonna you're gonna go through the pro

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Speaker 5: you come to my program, you're gonna go to the pros.

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Speaker 4: And this is where I want.

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Speaker 5: To remind from no no, no, no, but but follow me

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Speaker 5: on this one, right, follow me on this one.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: What I'm what I'm trying to tell folks around the

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Speaker 5: make a promise one because they're trying to get your vote,

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Speaker 5: undoubted doubtedly.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: So here's the thing. When are you going to then

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Speaker 5: go back to them to demand that promise or is

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Speaker 5: it just you're going to make the expectation that because

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Speaker 5: they said it once.

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Speaker 2: Said hold account you said hold them account, hold accountable collectively,

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Speaker 7: I think I think too.

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Speaker 8: Not to cut you off, I'm sorry, but I think

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Speaker 8: too Like another misconception or a misunderstanding about that whole

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Speaker 8: process is.

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Speaker 7: Using the presidency.

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Speaker 8: For example, a lot of the promise is that these

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Speaker 8: candidates are making about the presidency and about what they

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Speaker 8: won't do when they get into office. They don't even

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Speaker 8: have the authority to make those decisions because a lot

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Speaker 8: of the things that they are promising, the responsibility of

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Speaker 8: that primarily lies on the Senate and not them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Senate or the House. I mean, it's absolutely true.

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Speaker 5: I mean CIVICX one oh one is that if you

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Speaker 5: want to move money at the federal government state level,

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Speaker 5: you got to engage your legislature.

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Speaker 4: A lot of folks don't even know who they state

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Speaker 5: Right right, let's start there, right right, Regardless of who

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Speaker 5: I serve in the state legislature in Florida, and I

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Speaker 5: would tell people like, do you know who the Speaker

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: Like, because there's a person who individually can move millions, right,

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Speaker 5: do you know who the Senate president is? There's a

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Speaker 5: person who individually can move meaning its more importantly, what

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Speaker 4: People get focused on where they live.

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Speaker 5: So they're like, I'm went to my state representative because

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Speaker 5: I live in Atlanta, But the speaker might be from

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Speaker 4: Be from you know, anywhere. Right, you have every right

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Speaker 8: You know, because they're representing the state and not just

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Speaker 4: And even boil down. The city council might be a

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Speaker 5: It's a rule of numbers, right, If you're trying to

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Speaker 5: simple math, how many people you need to move the money?

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Speaker 4: Four a majority.

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Speaker 5: So if you're over here talking to one every day,

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Speaker 5: ringing their phone, congratulations, you convince one person.

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Speaker 6: Well, but I think to her point, to your point,

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Speaker 6: There's other people that are involved in that vote that

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Speaker 9: But that's not like they feel like a scam to

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Speaker 6: I don't know if it's necessary scam, but because I

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Speaker 6: I think what happens with us as black volk, we

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Speaker 10: That vote is supposed to be passed.

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Speaker 6: No, we don't do enough of our homework sometimes, like

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Speaker 6: and it's not an emotional thing, right, not sure you

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Speaker 10: Perspective versus there's time that needs to be taken.

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Speaker 6: It's intelligent you take the time to keep going through

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Speaker 10: It's not just a one and done thing.

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Speaker 9: For sure.

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Speaker 2: We know that as adults. But I'm saying that's not

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Speaker 2: what the campaigns say though. So that's what made people

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Speaker 3: Like voter well listen, voter voter morale and voter fatigue

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Speaker 3: because there's some people that I know that have voted

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Speaker 3: since Obama and midterm elections and they want to see

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Speaker 3: a change with the police situation, they haven't seen anything.

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Speaker 3: If anything, they've seen it get worse. So if you

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it because personally, my parents, I mean,

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Speaker 3: So I'm always just vote some assets or type stuff.

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Speaker 3: Right For other people who've been voting since twenty two

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Speaker 9: That's how niggas think. Y'all was over some ship and

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Speaker 2: So far that's what electorian all that ship come in, right,

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Speaker 5: But what I'm saying is, if you're just taking on

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Speaker 7: Could between the electoral college vote in the popular.

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Speaker 5: Well, they're considered swing states now, but you got to

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Speaker 5: example again two thousand and eight, Obama's first go around,

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Speaker 4: Of overwhelming support.

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Speaker 5: But to your electoral college question, it's a vestage of slavery.

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Speaker 5: So you calculate these electoral votes to kind of do it.

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Speaker 5: there's a couple where you get like a split, but

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: So, and there's only been four examples where that's been

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Speaker 2: A I always as politician, just like just off camera,

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Speaker 9: Do you I'm here for it?

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Speaker 2: Like politicians really come in with a good heart and

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Speaker 2: could make a change, but I can't. Damn, Damn, damn,

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Speaker 5: I will break it down in a couple different ways,

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Speaker 5: and I'll be very, very very blunt about it. Right,

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Speaker 5: I remember when I first got elected. I think I

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Speaker 5: it was. She was Magga spaghetti, so there's nothing to it.

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Speaker 5: But I would also be mindful of the holding people fountable, right.

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Speaker 4: It was just like, oh, they know me. They got it.

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Speaker 5: And the other example I would give is that in

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Speaker 7: Almost as a lobbyists after register.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean actual lobbyists. You can advocate for free,

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Speaker 5: but if you're gonna lobby the state, you have to register.

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Speaker 5: So think about that. That means thirty people for every

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Speaker 8: So explained, So this is what I wanted to know

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Speaker 5: Well a very state to state, but like I use

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Speaker 7: As a lobbyition.

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Speaker 4: But again it husbands how you angle it right.

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Speaker 5: And so this is what I mean by the balancing

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Speaker 5: I do. Now, we say that power is organize people

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Speaker 5: get it, Until they knock on my door saying, stop

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Speaker 5: stop dogging me out on the radio. But like, I'll

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: And so that's the kind of agitation that we need.

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Speaker 5: But a lot of people again conceive power to people

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you, so, why do you think is

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Speaker 5: I mean it could be. I actually think it needs

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Speaker 4: I'm not caught up.

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Speaker 5: And so now we got this polarization happening across the

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Speaker 2: So if you blew or red, like just save for instance,

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Speaker 4: You vote no? Listen? I was listen, I was a

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Speaker 9: Right, How does it work afterwards?

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Speaker 9: Do you gain off?

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Speaker 5: You got to be prepared for them. But what I

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Speaker 5: And of course that being like, all right, I need

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Speaker 5: So I got to vote with them on this statement

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Speaker 5: that was just that of the third my you know,

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Speaker 4: They gave up the booty too quick, you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean, like you let them buy your dinner firsus

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Speaker 4: To say, like you know what I'm saying, like that's

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Speaker 5: And and the thing about these folks is they'll go

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Speaker 2: Like do you think they there's like a conspiraence on

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Speaker 2: a lot of votes, Like, bro, what you're doing, what

442
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Speaker 2: you're doing?

443
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Speaker 9: What you're doing?

444
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Speaker 4: Like that?

445
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Speaker 2: So ask the question again, like this saving me and

446
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Speaker 2: you friends and both of us was like had our

447
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 2: votes count together, you know what I'm saying. You think

448
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 2: it'd be friendly votes? Like I call you the night before, like,

449
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Speaker 2: which are you going?

450
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Speaker 5: You know, we'll be around, We'll be in meetings and

451
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Speaker 5: be like here's our strategy. But sometimes, and that was

452
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Speaker 5: to be the thing that will mess me up is

453
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Speaker 5: I used to be the Democratic lead on many of

454
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Speaker 5: my committees, and I'd be like, we gotta go down

455
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Speaker 5: on this. We got to vote knowing this.

456
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Speaker 4: Ah, you know I can't.

457
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Speaker 5: You know, I got some things going on, just like

458
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Speaker 5: it ain't going It ain't gonna kill you to vote

459
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Speaker 5: no on this bill this time. They you know, I

460
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Speaker 5: got friends of mine now, especially the black women. Shout

461
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Speaker 5: out to black women because y'all really be holding it

462
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Speaker 5: down in these in these spaces, because the brothers be

463
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Speaker 5: out here punking out, you know, just just like you know,

464
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 5: like some of these folks will say the most slanderous, racist,

465
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Speaker 5: misogynist things to a black woman in their face, like

466
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Speaker 5: on the floor, being like, you know, y'all need to

467
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Speaker 5: go back to cooking and cleaning, like you know, stuff

468
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 5: like like just real nasty stuff. And you expect in

469
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Speaker 5: that moment that a brother on the floor gonna be

470
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Speaker 5: like whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not what we're gonna do

471
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Speaker 5: right now. You know, I got colleagues friends of mine,

472
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Speaker 5: you know, who are black women who will be like

473
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Speaker 5: them dudes being just shrinking, cut the mic off. My

474
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Speaker 5: name's been and I ain't in it. And she like,

475
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Speaker 5: I'm out here getting slandered on the floor by these people.

476
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Speaker 5: The one person I thought would happen my back you

477
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Speaker 5: over here like, well I don't they promised me to that.

478
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what I was asking earlier, Like some

479
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Speaker 2: of them come in with ambition and good. When they

480
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Speaker 2: get in there and get around power, do they think power?

481
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Speaker 2: Then they bitch up, right, But it's also perception of power.

482
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Speaker 2: And this is what I'm saying is like black folks

483
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Speaker 2: don't work too hard too long to get through what

484
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Speaker 2: we got to act like we ain't got no power.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I hate about us.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes it is like we feel as though white validation

487
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Speaker 5: is power. You know, like if they if they if

488
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Speaker 5: they become my friend, if they tell me I'm smart,

489
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Speaker 5: you know, if they if they congratulate me for this thing,

490
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Speaker 5: and that's and I get it. It's like it's psychological, right,

491
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Speaker 5: you know. We don't come up hard, difficult, this, that

492
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Speaker 5: and the third. But that's the thing about checking our

493
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Speaker 5: people is sometimes you don't know who's getting elected, who's

494
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Speaker 5: operating from a place of all I want is white people.

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Speaker 4: To like me. Damn.

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Speaker 7: So let me ask you this.

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Speaker 8: How many how many people senate or otherwise in different legislatures,

498
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Speaker 8: settings or whatever have you seen that, like Black said,

499
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Speaker 8: came in with ambition and the best intentions and you know,

500
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Speaker 8: plans to really try to make a difference.

501
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Speaker 7: And then they get in and.

502
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Speaker 8: Continuously get shot down or whatever happens, and they get

503
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Speaker 8: discouraged and just give up on their entire job.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it happens all the time. Burnout happens all

505
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Speaker 5: the time. But you know, some of it, we just

506
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Speaker 5: gotta we gotta stand in the paint.

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Speaker 4: I use.

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Speaker 5: You know, one of my good friends in the Wisconsin legislature,

509
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Speaker 5: there are. At that time, there were five black people

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Speaker 5: in the entire legislature, two senators, three representatives.

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Speaker 4: All from Milwaukee.

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Speaker 5: Right, that was the only black people in the entire

513
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Speaker 5: legislative body. That can feel like overwhelming when you got

514
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Speaker 5: that many white people all the time doing the thing.

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Speaker 4: But still, you.

516
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Speaker 5: Know, fuck those five pepeople used to lock horns with

517
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Speaker 5: those folks because what a lot of people don't know

518
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Speaker 5: is the most incarcerated zip code in the country is Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 9: So you gotta you gotta be.

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Speaker 5: A country like disproportionately, like eighty percent of the prisoners

521
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Speaker 5: in Wisconsin come from one zip code in the hood

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Speaker 5: in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: Damn home girl from Milwaukee. Let me ask you something.

524
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Speaker 2: So you gotta be clean as bleached you goddamn stands

525
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Speaker 2: absolutely not absolutely about be blucket.

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Speaker 9: I don't think.

527
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Speaker 5: So here's what you have to be honest with yourself.

528
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Speaker 5: Because here's the problem, like anything in life, right, if

529
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Speaker 5: you are here keeping secrets, somebody gonna come. Fact, don't

530
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 5: come find out you got a mistress. You gotta you

531
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Speaker 5: got some money you've been holding on to high all

532
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Speaker 5: the things. But one of the things, like people used

533
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Speaker 5: to ask me all the time when I first ran

534
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Speaker 5: for office. You know, you have people who are just like,

535
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 5: you gotta dress this way, wear these shoes, say these things,

536
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 5: talk this way. And I was like, I came from

537
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 5: public school teaching, and I was like, the most honest

538
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 5: assessment that I ever received was from sixteen year olds too,

539
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 5: because they're gonna call you out for your bullshit, right,

540
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 5: and so walking into the legislature.

541
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Speaker 4: I was like, I'm not going to.

542
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not gonna say so. It was like I'm

543
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 5: making wu tang references. I'm playing biggie, I'm you know

544
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like I get it. We gotta wear

545
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Speaker 5: a tie.

546
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 2: Type of clean about like clean clean, like you can't

547
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Speaker 2: have no like not record like just say buddies that

548
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 2: that that may be, you know what I'm saying, like

549
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 2: certain type of friends, but.

550
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Speaker 5: Curtain back, that's what I'm saying, Like part of the appeal,

551
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, using Trump as example, part

552
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 5: of the appeal of Trump for a lot of people,

553
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 5: including some black folks, unfortunately, is the fact that he

554
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 5: just doesn't care translate that to any other politician. And

555
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 5: this is what I'm saying, is like, how many baby

556
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 5: Mammy's you got don't matter at that point if you're

557
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 5: being honest about the fact you got them. You know,

558
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 5: being where you're from doesn't matter.

559
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Speaker 1: From the streets. Came from the streets, like you.

560
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, Like tangled up, but.

561
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 5: Don't get tangled up. Like when somebody slides you a

562
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 5: briefcase with one hundred thousand dollars, you're not supposed to be.

563
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 4: Like, you know what, this is my briefcase.

564
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 2: Right, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm saying, so

565
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 2: that's clean whatever it is. He had to because you're

566
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: going to be up on the microscope with his skin cover.

567
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 4: So but illegal, you know what I'm saying, Like it's

568
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 4: wonder Obama, I'm sure that's what I meant.

569
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Speaker 9: You can't get no little money on the side or

570
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Speaker 9: none of.

571
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Speaker 5: That, but this is what I'm saying. And like even

572
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Speaker 5: Obama in his book was like I used to, you know,

573
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 5: smoke a little weed, little coke. He said, like this

574
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 5: is what he said. Everyone knew it.

575
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: He got in front of it.

576
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 4: Everyone knew it.

577
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, And so it's just like no one was like, oh, well,

578
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, like and yeah, the person

579
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 5: we saw presented, you know, was clean to a degree,

580
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 5: but we're talking about south side Chicago.

581
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Speaker 9: Smoking.

582
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,959
Speaker 5: He said he have a hard time to Yeah, he

583
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 5: was a say it was a two pack of day

584
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 5: cat before he ran for office.

585
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Speaker 10: He was just like that ran in DC that Marion

586
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 10: Barry came back.

587
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 5: And the thing about you asked anybody in d C

588
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 5: who the best mayor was, who's over the age of fifty,

589
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 5: They're gonna say Marion Barry. It being like the dude

590
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 5: to smoke crack. Mary and barryheads.

591
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Speaker 7: Are some of the best people you've got back. They

592
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 7: just smoked though the FI.

593
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: They got skilled. Listen, they know math. Really, I mean.

594
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Speaker 10: Listen, So is.

595
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Speaker 2: Uh Kamala the best candidate for the job or she's

596
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: the best look for the job?

597
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 5: If we're gonna make it a binary choice between her

598
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 5: and Trump, She's hands down, no, she's the better candidate.

599
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 4: Let's be clear.

600
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Speaker 5: Like you know, and I'm not saying that felons should

601
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 5: not be a thing, but we're talking about a dude

602
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 5: who's been civil case for sexual assault. So he did it, right,

603
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 5: you done done something that violated you know, some part

604
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 5: of that woman. Right, we're talking about what eleven bankruptcies.

605
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 5: He's not allowed to actually run a business in the

606
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 5: state of New York currently, Like that was part of

607
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 5: the settlement from the New York trial that he lost.

608
00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 5: So you're talking about a dude who couldn't open a

609
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 5: lemonade stand in New York. Today we're about to give

610
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 5: him the nuclear codes and say he's running the economy.

611
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 5: That's the thing that blows my mind about the whole

612
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 5: Trump conversation is this notion of his success. Show me

613
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 5: a Trump company that was successful.

614
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: You can't.

615
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 8: They can't even show where he has worked to earn

616
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Speaker 8: or build something from scratch outside of his father's inheritance, right.

617
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 5: I mean, if I listen, if anybody here got thirteen

618
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,479
Speaker 5: million dollars given to them, I'm sure you can make

619
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 5: some magic.

620
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Speaker 7: You can start.

621
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Speaker 8: And then another thing too, I how to cut you off,

622
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 8: just to speak back to what you were saying about

623
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Speaker 8: the period, the period in time, the period of time

624
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 8: like before we were able to vote. A lot of

625
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 8: people don't even understand the scope or the magnitude of

626
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 8: the twenty twenty five plan that Trump is trying to implement,

627
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 8: which is going to take us direct back to those

628
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 8: times as soon as he is elected into office.

629
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Speaker 7: God forbid if that.

630
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 4: Should happen right straight rollback.

631
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 5: You have people who are just who've gotten on TV

632
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 5: and be like women should not be able to vote,

633
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 5: like doubts. Who's who are actively saying like that was

634
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 5: the worst thing to ever happen, was women getting the

635
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 5: right to vote, like in twenty twenty four.

636
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's crazy.

637
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 4: But you would But this is where we are.

638
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 6: I will say, I think I think the problem Trump

639
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 6: is the world saw him when he did The Apprentice,

640
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 6: and I think that's what they think that they're getting.

641
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 4: They equate the name with the success the world.

642
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Speaker 10: That doesn't mean you can run the country.

643
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Speaker 3: But I will give him from a marketing standpoint from.

644
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Speaker 9: Hentro trolling, he's p T.

645
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: Burnham.

646
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Speaker 5: But but just to give credit, you know, I don't

647
00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 5: want to make it all about his downfalls for for

648
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 5: VP Harris, people don't give you know, and we already

649
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 5: know that misogyny is a thing and women kind of

650
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 5: get downgraded. But we're talking about from an experience standpoint.

651
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 5: She's been a district attorney, like elected district attorney in

652
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Speaker 5: San Francisco, State Attorney General of California, which a lot

653
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Speaker 5: of people. The only department of justice bigger than the

654
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Speaker 5: State of California's Department of Justice is the federal government,

655
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Speaker 5: So she was in charge of the second largest department

656
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Speaker 5: of justice in the country.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, like basically not such off again in Layman's terms,

658
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Speaker 8: for people that don't understand what you're trying to say.

659
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Speaker 8: If we're comparing the presidency and the government and what

660
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 8: you're saying to like a fast food chain, if the

661
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 8: government where she's worked is being compared to like McDonald's.

662
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 8: She's run the register, she's run the fry machine, she's

663
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 8: flipped the burgers, she's made the fucking breakfast Sam.

664
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Speaker 9: Just exactly.

665
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 7: Trump, It's just Ronald McDonald exactly exactly.

666
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Speaker 2: You just I just I just I feel like with

667
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 2: this election me personally, I just feel like it's more

668
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 2: about I don't see. They touch on sometime what they're

669
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 2: gonna do their policies, but I just see it's like

670
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 2: a fight, like what they don't vote for her because

671
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 2: it's a don't vote for him because it is I

672
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 2: don't see like what y'all actually saying y'all gonna do.

673
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 5: For the votes what I mean and This goes back

674
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 5: to the educating thing. Like everyone wants the president to

675
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 5: be like, I'm gonna do this, and this is what's

676
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 5: gonna gonna be done. Most presidencies don't work that way.

677
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 5: You know, the president can do an executive order, series

678
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 5: of executive orders that might give you something, but in

679
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 5: terms of moving money, Like even when people talk about

680
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 5: the stimulus check, that wasn't the president's call. He didn't

681
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,479
Speaker 5: snap his fingers and be like, get this sixty hundred

682
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 5: dollars out the folks.

683
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 4: It was Congress. He put his name on it. Real.

684
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 8: The only reason he put it marketing, because market marketing Trump.

685
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 9: If I got it, it looked like Trump gave it money, right,

686
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 9: And the.

687
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 5: Thing about it is was it President Obama got out there,

688
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 5: He's like, I sent y'all money too, but I sent

689
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 5: an electronic transfer.

690
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 4: But I was because because I put it directly in

691
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 4: your account.

692
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 7: Because you didn't have contact.

693
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 5: You're gonna find me because I did you. I gave

694
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 5: you direct deposit. This dude sends you a paper check.

695
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 5: And I was like, whoa, look what he did for us.

696
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 2: You think January one hundred percent It was a modified

697
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 2: clan rally because and people down.

698
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 5: People down play it. Uh my brother's in the Capitol police.

699
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 5: He was there, right, and he was like, nah, bro,

700
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 5: like if he's like understand, had they kept coming, we

701
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 5: was gonna we was gonna have to give them all

702
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 5: the smoke if they if they kept doing it. The

703
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 5: only thing that kept us from going, you know, full

704
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 5: deaf Con three was the fact that the President of

705
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 5: the United States wasn't giving authorization. But they were like,

706
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 5: we were fighting for our lives. Like he was like,

707
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 5: we had to move people, and we had explicit instruction

708
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 5: that if they crossed a particular line, they're gonna have

709
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 5: to get it. So we're lucky more people didn't die.

710
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 5: But let's be clear. If you look at the documentary

711
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 5: about January sixth, there were armed folks trying to enter

712
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 5: the Capitol, trying to find individual members of government, including

713
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 5: the Vice President of the United States, and we're threatening

714
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 5: to kill him, like and we out here like ah,

715
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 5: it was just they were just marching pleasantly. Don't equate

716
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 5: the march on Washington with doctor King where we're having

717
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 5: January sixth.

718
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 7: So.

719
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 9: That how you think it is, how you think it's

720
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 9: gonna go. If it go the other way.

721
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 5: I mean, folks gonna be upset. Folks gonna be upset.

722
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 5: But what I want to remind, especially black folks, you

723
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 5: know we stay ready, so we don't have to get ready, right,

724
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 5: We've we've done this before, good battering different whoever gets elected,

725
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 5: were gonna survive. We're gonna try and make it do

726
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 5: what it does. But I don't want us to be

727
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 5: active participants in our own demise. To your point around

728
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 5: Project between twenty five. That's a nine hundred page playbook

729
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 5: of what they want to do because they understand that

730
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 5: America is becoming browner, that black and brown people are

731
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 5: getting more power, and we got to do something to

732
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 5: stop it, to make sure we get control back.

733
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 4: That is what project is.

734
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 8: The most mind blowing part about the shit is that

735
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 8: this nine hundred page playbook that you're speaking on is

736
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 8: publicly available.

737
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 7: Like they're not trying to hide it. They don't give

738
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 7: a fuck.

739
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 5: No, They're like, we don't do it. And the thing

740
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 5: about it is that a lot of people don't. It's

741
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 5: not even about Trump. At the end of the day,

742
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 5: they gonna find some new pawn Trump loses, he doesn't

743
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 5: run again, they gonna find Jdvance, they gonna find somebody

744
00:37:59,560 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 5: else to.

745
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 8: Be like he let's not even talk about him and

746
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 8: how fucking despicable he is.

747
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 9: Like so basica, the vote not at all.

748
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 6: But you see how she's informed. That's how every voter

749
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 6: should be in front. That's why you go back to

750
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 6: say why shouldn't I vote? She's the reason why she's

751
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 6: taking the time to educate herself and understand what does

752
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 6: this vote mean? How does this affect me? How does

753
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 6: this affect my community?

754
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 8: But I feel like if if if a lot more

755
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 8: people just took like a little bit of time to

756
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 8: kind of just understand what's really going on, then they

757
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 8: would understand and without a shadow of a doubt, like

758
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 8: do whatever needs to be done to get themselves, along

759
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 8: with whoever's around them, to the polls so that we

760
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 8: can at least start trying to make some kind of

761
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 8: change or prevent some of this ship that they're trying

762
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 8: to put for from happening.

763
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 5: And I'll take it a step further because what I

764
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 5: love about us and I hate about us at the

765
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 5: same time is when Kendrick and uh and Drake was

766
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 5: going through they thing folks could tell me what Drake

767
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 5: ate on a Tuesday, like they had that kind of detail,

768
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 5: like you know, he can't come back because he had

769
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 5: a filet mignon last night, and that there was giving

770
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 5: me all kinds of detailed understanding about why these peoples

771
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 5: going so deep. Nine hundred page document been online for

772
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 5: not one year, probably twenty twelve has been out for

773
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 5: two years. That means that if folks wanted to just

774
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 5: pick it apart twenty pages at a time, they had

775
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 5: nothing but time.

776
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 3: Every indict right come out on rappers or anybody that

777
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 3: got an indictmingd read the whole thing.

778
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know they found in the YSL case, like

779
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 5: what's happening with Slim that we got to know. Here's

780
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 5: a man who just got hit with thirty four felonies

781
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 5: and people are like, well, you know, gotta give him

782
00:39:59,440 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 5: a chance.

783
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 4: Wait, wait, wait, I must I'm confused. You got me confused.

784
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

785
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 5: You got the da, you got you got da Willis

786
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 5: on the stand, you know, for what she was doing

787
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 5: and who she was sleeping with all.

788
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But we're giving a.

789
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 5: Man a pass. He out here talking about other man's

790
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 5: penises dead man's penises. Oh oh, you must have missed

791
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:26,919
Speaker 5: that part.

792
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 4: Listen.

793
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 5: Donald Trump was up here talking about the golfer, the

794
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 5: dead golfer, Arnold Palmers. Since you play golf, right, the

795
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 5: legend the goat Arnold Palmer, not.

796
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 7: The lemonade and sweet tea.

797
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, the actual person talking about. Yeah, when he was

798
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 5: in the locker room, people were in awe. When they

799
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 5: would stepping the shower and.

800
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 4: See people like what are you? He said.

801
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 9: They were in a speech during one of these rallies.

802
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 5: Man, the man is losing it on live TV, and

803
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 5: people out here like, let's give him the presidency again.

804
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Latino thing took me up.

805
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 9: I'm gonna tell you what it is. Nigga in real

806
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 9: in real time, bro, Niggas just don't give a fuck

807
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 9: for real, that's real.

808
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 2: That's just all it. Niggas like Project twenty five. And

809
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: they showed me that.

810
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 9: They kind of made me cant. Well, I ain't gonna

811
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 9: say count.

812
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 2: It made me give a fuck, especially because I got

813
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 2: a lot of people that need metal care. I got

814
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 2: a lot of people that a lot of stuff that

815
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 2: was in there. They explaining it to me, I'm like, damn.

816
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 2: That's that's that's fucked up.

817
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 9: But other than that, I didn't give a fuck.

818
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 4: Listen.

819
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 5: I just want to remind black people America is they

820
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 5: fuck around and find out country and we have.

821
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 9: We don't funk around and found that already.

822
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 4: But clearly memories that got short. And what I'm saying

823
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 4: is right.

824
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 5: But I don't think people get it because you know,

825
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 5: we come up in a generation when we went to

826
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 5: school white folks. We you know, like so a lot

827
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 5: of folks don't get it, get it right in terms

828
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 5: of what it was like when you had to go

829
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 5: to a different bathroom when you had to you couldn't

830
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 5: look a white person in the highes.

831
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 4: They didn't.

832
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 5: Get lynched, and people people think that's like people think

833
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 5: that's some distant history. I was telling somebody literally yesterday,

834
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 5: my dad when he graduated from high school didn't have

835
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 5: the right to vote.

836
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: Right, that's crazy.

837
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 5: Like my dad, like the guy, like I can call

838
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 5: him now, call into the show and be like, you

839
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.

840
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

841
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 5: But people out here just like like it's always been

842
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 5: this way.

843
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying.

844
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 9: Man. When this ship was separate. It was better when we.

845
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 2: Started trying to do all that. Let vote and go

846
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 2: to school with them. Nigga death when it got worse,

847
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 2: people money and it was on play of time.

848
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 9: Man. I mean, this ship was totally different.

849
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:44,839
Speaker 1: Bro.

850
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 2: My grandma had listen, my grandmother had had a beauty

851
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 2: Scelana Auburn.

852
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 4: Auburn was like sweet.

853
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: That ship was like Rodeo for black people. Like I'm

854
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: telling it was different.

855
00:42:59,040 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 9: Bro.

856
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: Now when you start trying to get over here, doctor

857
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 2: King did all that, like niggas one. Really I hate

858
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 2: to say that, but niggas won with that shit with

859
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: doctor King Witt in Atlanta and on Auburn and shit like, Bro,

860
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 2: we ain't trying to get into that.

861
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 9: We with you, but we ain't trying to be with them.

862
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I feel like I feel like just to

863
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 8: speak on that, I feel like you're absolutely right with

864
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 8: what you're saying. But I feel like two things. Okay,

865
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 8: you know how they say, like you what am I

866
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:34,439
Speaker 8: trying to say? Like you can never understand heartbreak until

867
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 8: after you've been in love. Like basically like Auburn was

868
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 8: booming and sweet Auburn was sweet Auburn because you know

869
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 8: it was separated and it wasn't integrated or whatever. But

870
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, those people at that

871
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 8: time that were on Sweet Auburn thought it was sweet

872
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 8: because they didn't know any better. They didn't know anything else.

873
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 8: They didn't know like.

874
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 7: The other opportunities and the things.

875
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 2: That were It ain't no opportunity, bro, growing We were

876
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: black people growing their own food.

877
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 9: We were doing everything independently. Bro. Now okay, what about

878
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 9: mister Jordan.

879
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 7: Were still getting beaten.

880
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 2: Not really like that, bro, not really nigga, buddy. I

881
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 2: think we just be seeing the ship we see on news,

882
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 2: some nigga with bucket when going for that?

883
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 9: Am I right wrong?

884
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 4: To a degree?

885
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 9: Way, y'all stay out of our way?

886
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 4: Yes and no. I'll give you an example.

887
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 5: So the Sweet Auburn equivalent in Miami was Third Avenue

888
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 5: are Black Wall Street. The Klan will walk down Black

889
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 5: Wall Street, bold black neighborhood. You know what I'm saying,

890
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 5: because they could at that point. And this is what

891
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 5: I'm saying, is like the degradation, the disrespect, the dehumanization.

892
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 5: Although we were getting money, although we had black wealth

893
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 5: all the way, we had black banks.

894
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 4: It's the fact. It's the it's they.

895
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 5: It's the psychological trip, the idea that you thought your

896
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 5: lemonade wasn't sweet enough, and that's the problem that we had.

897
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 2: But you just said earlier, bro, it's just like we

898
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 2: trying to adapt everything they do straight hell from the

899
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 2: lady was sexist, fucking them fro to me when I

900
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 2: look back, like everything we try to adapt to them

901
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: is what making us lose us and we.

902
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 9: The special ones.

903
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 4: But now that's just shifted into a self love show.

904
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 4: And that's.

905
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but that's say Is that what you what

906
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 3: you're saying? I received, but what is their way? Because

907
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 3: the first example was Black Wall Street and Black Wall

908
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 3: Street was exactly what she was talking about, and they

909
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 3: burnt it down literally.

910
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 2: Apologetically somebody while we don't go charged. It's so many

911
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 2: two survivors can't get no reparations. It's so many black

912
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 2: wealthy people. We just got behind the right man that

913
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 2: can do it, a black man. If the black votes matter,

914
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 2: they push us somebody up through.

915
00:45:55,480 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 3: Them, They will try, They will try.

916
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 8: That is like you're saying, shit, we got to convince

917
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 8: the niggas that got the money.

918
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 4: That's number one, but out, But I get more basic

919
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 4: and I'll use the Atlanta as an example, and people

920
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 4: can say.

921
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 7: What they people can say what they want.

922
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 4: People say they want about Mayor Jackson. Right.

923
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 5: But when if anybody's ever seen the documentary Mainard, the

924
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 5: thing that stuck out for me was when he decided

925
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 5: to build the airport, to expand the airport, and the

926
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 5: white folks is coming to him saying, we can't find

927
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 5: black contractors to do X y Z.

928
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 4: He asked a simple question.

929
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 5: You're telling me you can't find a black person that

930
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 5: can cut grass. He's like, because the airport needs grass cut, right,

931
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 5: So you're telling me you can't find a single black

932
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 5: person that cuts grass in all of Atlanta. And they

933
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 5: were like, well, when you put it that way, and

934
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 5: that's the problem is that we could still have a

935
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 5: sweet Auburn, We can still have multiple sweet Arborns.

936
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 4: We can also get black Wall Street.

937
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 5: But a lot of folks can't get out their own

938
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 5: way right and can't ask the simple question.

939
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 4: Instead, people will sit.

940
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 5: There and use legal ease and all these other languages

941
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 5: to spend the whole thing and be like, no, no, no,

942
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 5: I need a restaurant here is there's somebody who cooks

943
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 5: chicken that can go in this in this vacant space

944
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 5: to become a.

945
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 8: Restaurant, wash dishes color that can bust the tables.

946
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 4: Like we're talking about black economics.

947
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 5: What do you do well? I want to put you

948
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 5: here to do that thing well, and you do that

949
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 5: thing well. But because we've gotten so far away now

950
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 5: we want to be we want to be crypto raiders

951
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 5: and we want to do this and we want to

952
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 5: be tech bros.

953
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 4: And it's like we already got it.

954
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 5: We see the example over and over again. Atlantas duplicated

955
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 5: it more times than you can think of the face

956
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 5: so so deaf record like you've taken this thing and

957
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 5: blown it up. And there's constant examples of our of

958
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 5: our self sustainability. We just got to get out of

959
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 5: our own way and stop thinking that the grass is

960
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 5: green on the other side.

961
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 9: That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Stop chasing

962
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 9: their dreaming and chase our own.

963
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 2: Man.

964
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 9: I don't know.

965
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: I ain't trying to turn into the civil right meaning

966
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 2: or nothing. I'm just saying I don't. I don't get it, bro,

967
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 2: I'm trying.

968
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 10: Is I had a I had an old boss.

969
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 6: Stop me one time white guy, He said, Roy, do

970
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 6: you realize the average kid that's between the age of

971
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 6: twelve and twenty five want to be black?

972
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 4: Fact?

973
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 10: When we realized.

974
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 6: That, that's when we're walking on in facts man like, Well,

975
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 6: I don't taking my call to the white folk.

976
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 9: I ain't let any nigga look on my.

977
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 5: First shout out to the Shade Tree Mechanics. Still putting

978
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,439
Speaker 5: it down for it's in a six pack of beer.

979
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 3: We appreciate you pulling up man. Let everybody know about

980
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 3: your company, how they could tap in. What y'all you

981
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, and you're welcome back on the

982
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 3: platform anytime.

983
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 5: I certainly appreciate thank y'all for for letting me cross

984
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 5: the border from Florida into Georgia. Florida Rising is a

985
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 5: state based nonprofit in florida're trying to do the work

986
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 5: to remind people that they have their own power. We

987
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 5: got other organizations here in Georgia and across the country

988
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 5: trying to build that same level of power.

989
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 4: So I would definitely encourage people to tap in.

990
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,919
Speaker 5: It's not about political parties, it's not about culture, personality

991
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 5: or these individuals. You have real people doing grassroots work.

992
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 5: You know five, ten, fifteen minutes from where you live

993
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 5: that are trying to get people organized and mobilized.

994
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 4: So checking with them so we can build.

995
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: Appreciate y'all brothers, Thank you. Check them out any bank,

996
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: crazy

997
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 9: Extra, it's big fact, don't cap bitch,