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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome home everyone.
Speaker 1: We are thrilled to be joined today for our mini
Speaker 1: pod our dear sister.
Speaker 3: She just celebrated a birthday this week. She is a legend.
Speaker 1: A civil rights hero of our time. You all will
Speaker 1: read about her in the history books. But Tip and
Speaker 1: I at least get to call her a machete sister friend.
Speaker 1: I know Bakari and Andrew are gonna get mad they
Speaker 1: call a sister too. But this is the legendary co
Speaker 1: founder of Black Voters Matter, Natasha Brown, and also the
Speaker 1: Southern Black Girls Collective.
Speaker 3: Did I get it right?
Speaker 4: He'll be no, you didn't get it right. But it's okay.
Speaker 4: Girls and Women's Consortium and Women's Consortia.
Speaker 5: And get the sea word right. It's okay.
Speaker 1: But what you gotta know is Latasha fights for all
Speaker 1: of our people, whether they in the South and north east,
Speaker 1: the West, across the continent. She is here because she
Speaker 1: is fighting now to en sure that we get our Say, Latasha,
Speaker 1: you have just launched, in coalition with some others, really
Speaker 1: robust boycott initiative and I want you to talk about
Speaker 1: we ain't buying it.
Speaker 3: We ain't buying it.
Speaker 4: We are not buying that we live in the wealthiest
Speaker 4: country in the world and we cannot take care of
Speaker 4: its citizens. We ain't buying that you can give a
Speaker 4: trillion dollars over a trillion dollars over the next however
Speaker 4: many young years, next decade to a thousand wealthiest people
Speaker 4: in this country, and you cannot supply for food stamps,
Speaker 4: You cannot make sure that people don't lose the ACA,
Speaker 4: they don't lose their subsidies for health care.
Speaker 3: We ain't buying it.
Speaker 4: We ain't buying that you can actually go and spend
Speaker 4: three hundred million dollars on a.
Speaker 3: Gold gilded dining room.
Speaker 4: At the same time, people including veterans, are standing in
Speaker 4: line for hours. So we ain't buying it. And because
Speaker 4: we ain't buying it, we ain't buying with people that
Speaker 4: staying with that foolishness. And so we've launched a campaign
Speaker 4: that literally we are talking. There are three companies who
Speaker 4: have actually capitulated, have stood with this administration, have backed
Speaker 4: away from their DEI commitments, Target Home, Depot and Amazon.
Speaker 4: We're coming for you on Thanksgiving weekend. We're asking people
Speaker 4: just like we're not buying this fool shis. We're not
Speaker 4: buying and spending our money with companies that are not
Speaker 4: literally standing up for democracy and standing to protect us
Speaker 4: when there are people that are seeking a government.
Speaker 3: That seeking to harm us.
Speaker 4: Again Amazon, and I did say the Amazon because I
Speaker 4: know everybody started like.
Speaker 3: Today, but I got a message with that.
Speaker 4: I got a cool I got a tip with that
Speaker 4: Amazon Home depot and Target.
Speaker 5: The home depot easy. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
Speaker 5: talk to Ellen about Target. Make sure she stay out
Speaker 5: of that one. That's the one I'm worried about.
Speaker 3: She should have been out of. We've been, but she
Speaker 3: kind of got.
Speaker 5: But that's it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me let me just do an Amazon is
Speaker 1: gonna be I'm not gonna lie. It is gonna be
Speaker 1: very hard. It's a Seattle headquarter company. I want you
Speaker 1: really quick LB to get into why you chose those
Speaker 1: particular targets no pun intended. And also if you can
Speaker 1: talk about the importance of an economic boycott within a
Speaker 1: truncated time frame, because normally, I think, especially in this
Speaker 1: day and age, people are like, are you really going
Speaker 1: to get a win. If there's an end of the matter,
Speaker 1: what is the purpose of having an end to the
Speaker 1: boycott and why wasn't it extended beyond just Thanksgiving weekend
Speaker 1: at Black Friday on.
Speaker 4: So let me say this, this is not a boycott.
Speaker 4: This is an economic action. And so it's okay because
Speaker 4: there are boycott's target isn't actually full fledged boycott, And
Speaker 4: with a boycott there's a particular specific ask, there's a
Speaker 4: negotiation that goes around there, and there's an expected outcome.
Speaker 4: What we're saying is that we have economic power. Not
Speaker 4: only we have political power flex, but we have that's right,
Speaker 4: we all flex. We have economic power. And what we
Speaker 4: know is twenty to over forty percent of sales for
Speaker 4: the entire quarter most companies on that weekend alone, They're
Speaker 4: projection for the next six months are determined by that
Speaker 4: we can and so this is really while it is
Speaker 4: we're lifting up the companies, this is really about us
Speaker 4: building our muscle. Like listen, I love the shop online
Speaker 4: like the next person. Matter of fact, and all I
Speaker 4: understand Amazon truck just left my house. I'm looking out
Speaker 4: the way that has just left my house. So I
Speaker 4: get it right back they're right there, right, But ultimately, y'all,
Speaker 4: if we cannot create the kind of discipline for four days,
Speaker 4: well we're saying that we've got to start developing the
Speaker 4: muscle and the discipline that when people are not supporting
Speaker 4: us or allowing what, we're just gonna let We're just
Speaker 4: gonna support these folks who are capitulating. They're going up
Speaker 4: on the White House like given their basically promising their
Speaker 4: first born child to an administration that is being hurtful in.
Speaker 3: Harmful to us.
Speaker 4: And so while this is yes, we're we're looking at
Speaker 4: how we use our money. We want people to be
Speaker 4: more conscious about their spending. More than anything, We want
Speaker 4: folks to be conscious about their spending to leverage that
Speaker 4: particular weekend because it is such a significant It is
Speaker 4: the largest retail weekend of the year, and it can
Speaker 4: have a dent in that truncated space. Now, there are
Speaker 4: some folks like the Target boycott. The Target boycott hang
Speaker 4: on end is going to continue until they meet their demands,
Speaker 4: and there are other actions that are happening as well
Speaker 4: that people are really talking about what they can do
Speaker 4: to continue, and we want people to be activated in that.
Speaker 4: But this is a way for us to actually show
Speaker 4: and demonstrate, you know. Part of reasons why our power,
Speaker 4: part of reasons why I think elections work is because
Speaker 4: they have a there's like a timeframe, right that you know,
Speaker 4: there's the election is gonna happen this day, and there's
Speaker 4: gonna be some choice and.
Speaker 3: Decision made by that day. Right, what can happen?
Speaker 4: Particularly traditionally with boycotts, they can go on for a month,
Speaker 4: they can go on for a couple of years, they
Speaker 4: can go on, and and they should. I am actually
Speaker 4: a support of that. But this is a design in
Speaker 4: that way. This is an economic action for people to
Speaker 4: actually reflect, to be more consciously aware of how we
Speaker 4: spend our money and who we spend our money too,
Speaker 4: and that there is a collective action we're going to
Speaker 4: take that weekend to send a message that we ain't
Speaker 4: playing with y'all, Like at the end of the day, we.
Speaker 3: Are not buying.
Speaker 5: Let me ask a question real quick. Is there is
Speaker 5: there I think you answered it just now, But is
Speaker 5: there an ask that that goes along with this economic action?
Speaker 5: Are we asking these companies for something?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, you mean like stop being racist, but like but.
Speaker 5: Like a specific like a specific ask and or because
Speaker 5: I mean it could be both. Is this Is this
Speaker 5: a message to the world and organizing messaging tactic that
Speaker 5: we're using, because by the way, I'm all in. I
Speaker 5: just need to figure out. You just need to tell me, well,
Speaker 5: why we hear what we're doing, and what the end
Speaker 5: result gonna be. But I'm all in because I follow
Speaker 5: you anywhere.
Speaker 2: Well, you just need to ask.
Speaker 5: I'm with you just in case somebody asked me what
Speaker 5: I'm doing, I need to be able to tell them why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 5: All right, nice to have you on the show. Welcome Home.
Speaker 4: So part of what I think you know, I'm glad
Speaker 4: you asked the question, which is why I wanted to
Speaker 4: early upfront to distinguish this is not a boycott and
Speaker 4: a boycott and a boy this action in terms of
Speaker 4: when you're buying it. Now, there are boycotts that are
Speaker 4: part of this right and for example, the target boycott
Speaker 4: was a target fast and it's turned into a full
Speaker 4: fledged boycott. They have specific list of demands that people
Speaker 4: have been organizing around that they're actually in negotiations with
Speaker 4: where they actually want some in right, and then there
Speaker 4: are people are actually now in this.
Speaker 3: Space around home, depot.
Speaker 4: What you're going to see is there's been an official
Speaker 4: call uponme depot, and where the folks who are organizing
Speaker 4: with that have a specific ask. This is an organizer.
Speaker 4: I'm an organizer and this right here is an organizer
Speaker 4: container for a couple of things. One is not just
Speaker 4: about the companies. What I want people to know are
Speaker 4: particular the folks that listen to this, this is about
Speaker 4: you too, that ultimately we want the companies to do right,
Speaker 4: but we ain't got to do right.
Speaker 3: No, we gonna have to do better. We're going to
Speaker 3: have to be much more conscious.
Speaker 4: Much more disciplined, much more directed with our spending. So
Speaker 4: for me, what the big part of this campaign is
Speaker 4: really about raising the consciousnes, the consciousness and the awareness
Speaker 4: that we are consumers and we've got power. When I
Speaker 4: look at black folk in this country, we've got one
Speaker 4: point eight trillion dollars in it, literally in billion dollars,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, in consumer power. That's a lot of power, y'all.
Speaker 4: That when we're looking at how are we using that?
Speaker 4: Why are we still continuing the same kind of spending
Speaker 4: habits which many of us are right I'm guilty of it,
Speaker 4: Like the next person that many of us are spending
Speaker 4: using the same kind of spending habits out of convenience,
Speaker 4: out of this is what we like. This is a
Speaker 4: brand we like. This is the store down the street
Speaker 4: from me. I mean I got some cool stuff from
Speaker 4: Target when I was shopping there, right, But ultimately, I
Speaker 4: don't love Target more than I love my five year old.
Speaker 4: Like my five year old, I don't love Target more
Speaker 4: than I love my family. That right now, we're looking
Speaker 4: at them losing their health benefits. Where a family member
Speaker 4: of buyds her health insurance would go up from two
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty dollars a month to almost two rands.
Speaker 3: She can't afford that. That's more than all that's the
Speaker 3: morning the bills in our household.
Speaker 4: So we've got to use the pressure. However we can
Speaker 4: use that pressure. But more than anything for this particular campaign,
Speaker 4: this campaign.
Speaker 3: Is for us. It is for us to really.
Speaker 4: Think about our spending choices, our habits that we're actually
Speaker 4: contributing to businesses that are hurting and harming us. So
Speaker 4: it's not just they gotta do right, we gotta do right.
Speaker 5: LB.
Speaker 3: Can I just and I know T if you need
Speaker 3: to get in here Andrew.
Speaker 1: You two, I just want to do one quick fact
Speaker 1: check just because I love you, sister, and you going
Speaker 1: it is two point one trillion, and it is trilli,
Speaker 1: but it's well Nielsen, Nielsen.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you if you say, I just want
Speaker 4: to I said trillion in back off a billion, but right, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna taking.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you on that. I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure we take the whole Yeah, Like, let's be clear.
Speaker 3: If it's between one.
Speaker 1: Point eight and two point one somewhere in there, that's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of money, so Youney, and that is
Speaker 1: not our wealth. That is what we spend. This is
Speaker 1: also a discipline exercise of be I hear you. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: and I do.
Speaker 4: Want to say about the companies earlier, and I know
Speaker 4: tif you got a question earlier when I was asked
Speaker 4: the question why these companies target rolled back their DEI commitments. Right,
Speaker 4: target customer base forty percent of their customer base, y'all
Speaker 4: are multicultural shoppers. They're people of color. We're keeping them floating.
Speaker 4: So when you looking at Amazon, Amazon Cyber Monday, just alone, y'all,
Speaker 4: that is the biggest online shopping day of the year,
Speaker 4: believe it or not, multicultural almost at the same rate,
Speaker 4: we're the ones that's buying online, and believe it or not,
Speaker 4: it's our Latino, our Latito brothers and sisters that is
Speaker 4: the biggest, the biggest vehicle for them in terms of
Speaker 4: online shopping. And we're seeing what's happening with that when
Speaker 4: we're looking at home depot the same thing. Not only
Speaker 4: home depot policies, but they got the mitigative goal right
Speaker 4: to actually call folks having workers that are outside like
Speaker 4: they've exploiteded. Now they're actually providing that information to ice
Speaker 4: and surveillance information. No, you can't take our money and
Speaker 4: not staying with us and just exploit us.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna go now. That's why we ain't buying it.
Speaker 2: But to do that to Andrew ask your question, you
Speaker 2: stand up, listen. I feel like Lytasha framed the message
Speaker 2: on this herself. First of all, we ain't buying it
Speaker 2: definitely came from because you said it like you own it.
Speaker 2: We ain't buying it. I believe you. I believe you fully.
Speaker 2: I like this action, this flex action, economic flex because
Speaker 2: too often we're taking for granted and we allow society
Speaker 2: media and others to reinforce our disempowerment. And what this campaign,
Speaker 2: in my mind, seems to do, is to reinforce the
Speaker 2: fact that we have power and choice about everything. Your
Speaker 2: choice to not vote is a choice. You could go
Speaker 2: or you could not. You're exercising a choice when it
Speaker 2: comes to your money. Yeah, that store may be closer,
Speaker 2: it may look like it have better sales and discounts
Speaker 2: on for you, But guess what if you ride just
Speaker 2: a little bit further down the street, that one's got
Speaker 2: some stuff and they got better stuff up the block,
Speaker 2: down the street, round the corner. It's a choice. And
Speaker 2: I just I think in this time talking about meeting
Speaker 2: the moment, Angela, you know we're talking about all these
Speaker 2: We're talking about powerful people and how they meet the moment,
Speaker 2: and how this public figure is meeting the moment. Well,
Speaker 2: how are we, as regular everyday people and more specifically,
Speaker 2: regular everyday consumers meeting the moment. We may not have
Speaker 2: the platform, we may not be the elected official, we
Speaker 2: may not be you know, the basketball player or the activists,
Speaker 2: but every single one of us has the ability to
Speaker 2: flex when we want to. And this, to me, the
Speaker 2: collective flex is one that requires our neighbors, our friends,
Speaker 2: our family others to participate. I just hope that all
Speaker 2: of us deputize, not just ourselves, but our family members,
Speaker 2: remind them, talk to them about what this is, because
Speaker 2: it ain't nothing worse than a flex and a muscle
Speaker 2: don't pop out, that's right, that's right, So you can't
Speaker 2: flex and then no, nothing show up.
Speaker 3: And I will say to this too.
Speaker 4: You know, I can't tell y'all how many times I've
Speaker 4: been in conversations recently around you know, we need a
Speaker 4: Martin Luther King, we need a leader, we need and
Speaker 4: every time I hear that, it actually aggravates me. Let
Speaker 4: me tell you why, because I think it's a compound.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, it's a compound. What
Speaker 4: you what you say to me is you want somebody
Speaker 4: that's willing to give their lives to You want somebody
Speaker 4: to go on the uh, to be out there, put
Speaker 4: them themselves in dangerous way, and you don't have to
Speaker 4: change anything about your behavior, Like we can't do that.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, if we are and
Speaker 4: as we will defeat this author terranism, it is going
Speaker 4: to require something of all of us, and damn it
Speaker 4: if you can't wait, if you can't go four days
Speaker 4: without spending some money, I don't know what to say
Speaker 4: to you, right, you know, I don't I don't know,
Speaker 4: I don't have any I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4: But I think it's you know, even in the campaign,
Speaker 4: just the functionality of the campaign. I want folks to
Speaker 4: understand there are three companies that we're highlighting because there
Speaker 4: are actions already going on and right, and that's what
Speaker 4: made it for us. We thought that that would lift
Speaker 4: it up, lift up work that was ongoing, work.
Speaker 3: That is happening.
Speaker 4: But we're we're actually saying, don't spend any money that weekend,
Speaker 4: and if you already spend money, spend money with local,
Speaker 4: black owned or smaller women owned companies that week in.
Speaker 4: So that's why each day on Thursday, we're saying, spend
Speaker 4: time with families, don't spend time with folks, don't spend money.
Speaker 3: We ain't spending no money. We spending time with our families.
Speaker 4: On Friday, that which they call black Friday, we call
Speaker 4: it a blackout Friday. It's gonna be the blackest Friday
Speaker 4: they ever seen. Because what we're gonna do is we're
Speaker 4: gonna make sure that we're lifting up in that space.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be actions going on across the country in
Speaker 4: different stores, and we're asking people to not buy on
Speaker 4: Black Friday, to send a message of our consumer power.
Speaker 4: That Saturday and Sunday, we're saying, spend small, that small Saturdays,
Speaker 4: small Sunday, spends with small businesses, black owned, some of
Speaker 4: these businesses that have lost some of their contracts or
Speaker 4: they have lost their foot traffic. And on Monday we
Speaker 4: going you're talking about cyber Monday. No, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a cyber shutdown. We are saying telling folks to lead
Speaker 4: your apps, do not buy online, and more importantly Amazon,
Speaker 4: make sure that we're lifting up that we are not
Speaker 4: shopping and buying anything from Amazon.
Speaker 3: So it is a four.
Speaker 4: Days very trunk k five days very trunkeated in a
Speaker 4: space that we believe that we can actually show the power,
Speaker 4: use our consumer power and to send a message and
Speaker 4: it can feed into larger actions, ongoing actions.
Speaker 3: That are happening.
Speaker 2: I love it, Pasha.
Speaker 6: I want to talk about the home depot piece and
Speaker 6: I'll shift topics a little bit, but I just wanted
Speaker 6: to make this point to our audience I'm having some
Speaker 6: work done house now, and there are workers who live
Speaker 6: in Maryland and they're saying, we're not coming to d
Speaker 6: C right now. So we have to do everything via
Speaker 6: FaceTime or WhatsApp because literally crossing state lines, they could
Speaker 6: be disappeared or deported. And I know that our community,
Speaker 6: there are small pockets of our community who do not
Speaker 6: feel in solidarity with this community, and I want to
Speaker 6: caution us that if we let them turn us into monsters,
Speaker 6: then we are no different. The same way a vampire
Speaker 6: can suck blood from your neck and convert you into
Speaker 6: another bloodsucker. We can't allow that to happen. I know
Speaker 6: it's frustrating.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's not real in the literal sense.
Speaker 6: But I know it's frustrating for black folks who are
Speaker 6: spiritually and mentally and physically exhausted at what they're going through.
Speaker 6: But we have to consider the humanity of other people.
Speaker 6: I think that is just our superpower. So on that note,
Speaker 6: I always say, if I could bottle Natasha up and
Speaker 6: give her away for Christmas, I would do that. You
Speaker 6: are Love's evangelists, and you can turn anyone into a
Speaker 6: devout follower.
Speaker 3: Of whatever do.
Speaker 6: They if you get your on them, you get your
Speaker 6: hands on them, then then you can and a lot
Speaker 6: of us we had the privilege of having them a
Speaker 6: few hours on the day before your birthday, not on
Speaker 6: your birthday, but but talking and just about what we're
Speaker 6: going through. And people are hurting right now. You know,
Speaker 6: people don't have food to eat. People their children are hungry,
Speaker 6: People are dealing with healthcare crisis. People are dealing with
Speaker 6: alien parents, people are dealing with alien children. People are
Speaker 6: broke or their spirits are broken. It's just a heavy
Speaker 6: season right now for black folks, but for everybody. You
Speaker 6: have always, when I've been in the darkest moments of
Speaker 6: my life, been a beacon of light. And so I
Speaker 6: can't give you away to everybody for Christmas, but in
Speaker 6: the gift of giving this season, I just wonder what
Speaker 6: words of love you might be able to offer to
Speaker 6: all of us who are going through challenges, no matter
Speaker 6: what we look like or no matter what we're going through.
Speaker 4: You know, the good news is if I was dependent
Speaker 4: upon let's say, in the government to fix this, y'all
Speaker 4: see how that's working, right, or political parties to fix this,
Speaker 4: I would probably feel a sense of helplessness if I
Speaker 4: was looking at the benevolence of Trump or the white folks,
Speaker 4: or whoever it is that we think gonna save us,
Speaker 4: I would feel that. But that ain't where I get
Speaker 4: my source for That's not my source of strength. That's
Speaker 4: not where I've ever gotten my.
Speaker 3: Source for strength.
Speaker 4: I am a daughter, a great great great grandchild of
Speaker 4: somebody who had been enslaved.
Speaker 3: Right, and all of the new before that was enslavement.
Speaker 4: I am the grandchild of a man and a woman
Speaker 4: that couldn't even register until they were in their late sixties.
Speaker 4: I am I come from folk who in the deep
Speaker 4: Deep South that could not and did not have freedom
Speaker 4: of movement, did not have the right to vote. We're
Speaker 4: not even treated humanely, right, So how dare I having
Speaker 4: access to all that I have access to to not
Speaker 4: really use the power that they used, and that power
Speaker 4: was they use their humanity? Y'all that ultimately we have
Speaker 4: got to understand that. I do believe I am, like
Speaker 4: you said, I'm a lover. But I do believe that
Speaker 4: you know, you know I am as y' all know
Speaker 4: as Machelli's no.
Speaker 3: Since I got me.
Speaker 4: A beautiful telescope for my birthday, just I'm just flexing
Speaker 4: a little bit. But right, I have been obsessed with stars,
Speaker 4: and I just want to share this real quick.
Speaker 3: I've been obsessed with stars, and part of.
Speaker 4: It is, you know, the idea that in our universe
Speaker 4: there are billions of stars, but there are billions of universes.
Speaker 4: So I need people just to get your wrap your
Speaker 4: head around that, right, and stars are always out but
Speaker 4: right now it's daytime for many of us, and I
Speaker 4: can't see the stars. I can't see the stars, but
Speaker 4: they're still out there. It is only in the night
Speaker 4: time that I see the light from the stars. And
Speaker 4: the interesting thing about seeing the stars in that moment
Speaker 4: that there are sometimes that when you look at there's
Speaker 4: some stars, you see that those stars are not even
Speaker 4: don't even exist anymore. Some of the stars that we're
Speaker 4: looking at are actually called dead stars. All you were
Speaker 4: seeing is their former glory days. That it took that
Speaker 4: long for that light to travel to us to perceive it,
Speaker 4: and so we're seeing it. But ultimately that's start gone on,
Speaker 4: that start don't even exist anymore, is the residue of
Speaker 4: its former self. And then there are other stars that
Speaker 4: are being born every day. And why am I saying
Speaker 4: that it is in the darkest night in this country
Speaker 4: that black folk have always been the stars to lead
Speaker 4: the way. Harriet Tubman followed a star, a north star forward,
Speaker 4: And I thought that the north star was the brighton
Speaker 4: star in the sky when I started kind of research
Speaker 4: about stars.
Speaker 3: It's not the brighton star. You know what it is.
Speaker 3: It is the most consistent. It is the star that you.
Speaker 4: Can always depend on. Sometimes it's the brightness, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 4: And I'm saying that black people got to know who
Speaker 4: we are, that we have always been the stars to
Speaker 4: actually lead the way to democracy. We have always been
Speaker 4: the stars to say it don't matter what you say
Speaker 4: about me. You can put all kinds of anti blackness,
Speaker 4: you can put whatever you want to put it. Ultimately,
Speaker 4: I will still rise and I will also bring and
Speaker 4: open that space up for others. So in this moment
Speaker 4: where we are feeling this darkness, this is the moment.
Speaker 3: Baby, turn your light on, like put your lightners up.
Speaker 4: This is the moment that you need to whatever it
Speaker 4: is in you, your humanity, that's when you cut that on.
Speaker 4: And you're being called in this moment. So I don't
Speaker 4: think I don't want to minimize that is this a
Speaker 4: heavy moment. Absolutely, I don't want to minimize the fact
Speaker 4: that are people suffering and struggling. Absolutely, But we have
Speaker 4: always had to deal with racism, we have always had
Speaker 4: to deal with economic barrier, some of us more than others.
Speaker 3: And we have always found joy and found a way out.
Speaker 4: And so all I'm saying is, perhaps God in the universe,
Speaker 4: because I'm a personal faith perhaps this moment we just
Speaker 4: it's your showtime. Maybe in this moment where we're in
Speaker 4: the darkest night of this country, maybe this is the
Speaker 4: moment that our stars are supposed to be shining their brightness.
Speaker 4: And all that means, in my opinion, is that we've
Speaker 4: got to go back to be in community. We've got
Speaker 4: to use our power. We can't just go around and
Speaker 4: spend money and not be conscious of it. We can't
Speaker 4: go around and say things and not be conscious of it.
Speaker 4: We can't go around and repeat things that we've heard
Speaker 4: on Instagram or somewhere and not be conscious of it.
Speaker 3: Why. Because we are at war, and when you are
Speaker 3: at war, you move differently.
Speaker 4: You're far more disciplined, You're more disciplined in your thoughts,
Speaker 4: you're more disciplined in your movement. And so this is
Speaker 4: the moment that I think is being called for us.
Speaker 4: It don't really matter what the other folks gonna do,
Speaker 4: because they've been pretty.
Speaker 2: Consistent for four hundred years.
Speaker 4: The question is what is it that we're going to
Speaker 4: do that's going to be different, that creates a different
Speaker 4: kind of result. And I think this is a opportunity.
Speaker 4: It's a bad space that we're in, but this is
Speaker 4: also an opportunity for us to shift the frame from
Speaker 4: seeing ourselves as citizens of this bason, this bootleg nation
Speaker 4: that we're see in right now, to start seeing ourselves
Speaker 4: as founders of a new America, the founders of a
Speaker 4: nation that we design, we deserve that we're going to create.
Speaker 1: Reading the hearing and the doing of his word, Latisha Brown, well,
Speaker 1: I love'll feerless leader, We love you.
Speaker 4: Please come back and thank you y'all. Come on, like,
Speaker 4: go to our website. I got to go because I
Speaker 4: actually have to got to go to a doctor's visit.
Speaker 4: But if you can go to we ain't buying it
Speaker 4: dot com And we want people to make it their own.
Speaker 4: This is campaign isn't held by one group or one person.
Speaker 4: Make it your own because there are other folks and well,
Speaker 4: you know what, they add all kinds of stuff in
Speaker 4: that list. My niece to day had about fifteen different
Speaker 4: co is that she was like, Oh yeah, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to.
Speaker 3: Them because they did this, this, they did that.
Speaker 4: So part of the spirit is there's a spark, there's
Speaker 4: a space. There are folks around the nation that are
Speaker 4: gonna do some actions. Use your power right because we
Speaker 4: are baying before you.
Speaker 3: Go, it's real quick.
Speaker 6: Can you just give us one little, one little note,
Speaker 6: you give us something on your way out.
Speaker 4: Our note is, well, the first thing I did right
Speaker 4: was the day I started to fight.
Speaker 2: Keep your eyes on.
Speaker 3: Did not mean and.
Speaker 2: If you were on the street, you wouldn't know that.
Speaker 3: If you wet, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: We're y'all, you and mute you want to hear you.
Speaker 2: I'm still.
Speaker 6: Like, let the audience your time.
Speaker 5: You can't tell me. You can't tell me how my
Speaker 5: spirit moves.
Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying, that's the music.
Speaker 2: They don't know. They don't know, y'all.
Speaker 3: Andrew the ain't never been to the morning being don't know.
Speaker 5: They're trying to dictate that.
Speaker 4: We want to know.
Speaker 3: How about the job just saying. This is why she
Speaker 3: does it impromptu, because yes, because I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: Well, the first thing I did right was the day
Speaker 4: I started to fight, keep your eyes on the price.
Speaker 3: And hold on, hold on, because we ain't buying it
Speaker 3: by y'all.
Speaker 2: I'm going he's out, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna say this. I I actually appreciate
Speaker 1: call and response. It is in our nature to be,
Speaker 1: you know, instantaneously responsive. We do it on the podcast,
Speaker 1: that's what we got.
Speaker 2: But he's.
Speaker 1: Doing that. But my point is I really think that
Speaker 1: I get it. And so I'm sorry for hitting y'all
Speaker 1: so hard, but I was really mad.
Speaker 3: Because I wanted to just hear Latasha.
Speaker 1: And what she normally does is she'll come into a
Speaker 1: speaking engagement or into a segment on air and just go,
Speaker 1: and so people don't really have this chance.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying the audience, I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it a really terrible job apparently, but I
Speaker 1: didn't piss them off.
Speaker 3: I love them, but I really did just want to
Speaker 3: hear Atasha. That's not what we were doing. They about.
Speaker 1: They actually they want to actually they do, and this
Speaker 1: is actually one of those moments where I think people
Speaker 1: need to have something to hold onto. And one thing
Speaker 1: that I really believe LB does so well is she
Speaker 1: can snatch hope out of a very dark circumstance and
Speaker 1: she does it with the power of her spoken and
Speaker 1: melodic word. And so we appreciate y'all for going on
Speaker 1: mute while you're saying horrifically. And even though you you
Speaker 1: felt like you were a team player, you were not.
Speaker 1: And it was as annoying as Andrew's lawnmower in the background.
Speaker 3: So there's that. I love you. Guys got the spirit because.
Speaker 5: They can't they how the spirit moves us, the jealousy.
Speaker 2: They can't even hit the notes, not one of them.
Speaker 5: They don't even hit them.
Speaker 3: Thank you ahead of my.
Speaker 5: You don't even know. You don't need. First of all,
Speaker 5: protocol has not been established.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know what after church. You go to
Speaker 1: teen team drums and no bass drum, but I go
Speaker 1: to Koji church.
Speaker 3: Protocol it's always indeed.
Speaker 5: You're not telling the truth because you have still been
Speaker 5: in church today.
Speaker 4: If you were Kojing, the complication was this church just
Speaker 4: got to just hit the letter.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I go to Church of God in Christ My church
Speaker 1: is progressive. We end on time now everywhere else. If
Speaker 1: there's a regional meeting, we're gonna be there till three
Speaker 1: p m. But no, today we are out of church.
Speaker 1: Who is not in churches, y'all and y'all definitely not
Speaker 1: in a choir that said, we thank you.
Speaker 5: You have let me open some mail.
Speaker 3: Welcome home, Welcome y'all.
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