1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Long Island Bunker. 3 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: You know, I often say to you that you need 4 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: to take a break so that you do not have 5 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: a breakdown. And with all of the compacted crises that 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: we are dealing with at this time and making the 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: march to midterms, there never seems like the right time 8 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: to take a break. But I say that you have 9 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: to make that time. And so for me, dear friends 10 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: here on woke F, I am going to be taking 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: a much needed vacation so that I can rest and 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: recharge as we head into what I believe is going 13 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: to be one of the craziest falls we've ever seen. 14 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: I have left you with eight amazing episodes that we 15 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: have recorded back in twenty twenty one with some of 16 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: the most thoughtful, engaging and insightful commentary that looks at 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: our politics, our spiritual nature, our emotional well being, and 18 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: a look inside frankly with some of the guests that 19 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: we are bringing to all of you. These conversations have 20 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 1: been heard by our amazing Patreon supporters who get video 21 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: episodes every single day. Because of their belief and financial 22 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: support of woke F throughout the years, and so I'm 23 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: really excited to bring all of you across all the 24 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,639 Speaker 1: platforms that you listen to woke F daily on these 25 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: episodes and these interviews that I think will be enticing 26 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: to all of you. They hit on all of the 27 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: major topics that we consistently discuss here on woke F, 28 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: from racism to gender inequality, to police misconduct to wealth inequality, 29 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: which my God, and the need and the need and 30 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: the need upmost for spiritual connection and wellness practices that 31 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: allow us to successfully maneuver all of the things that 32 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: have been thrown at us over the past couple of years. 33 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: And so, friends, while I will be out from the show, 34 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: I will not be out of sight for the next 35 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: several days, and so you can continue to follow me 36 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: on Instagram and on Twitter at D two Cents, D 37 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: E two c E n TF. 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I believe for the first time 69 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: Maya Wiley, who is a friend of mine and you 70 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: know her as a candidate for New York City mayor. Maya. 71 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: New York City has been the epicenter for a lot 72 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,239 Speaker 1: over the past year. You know, at the height of 73 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: the pandemic. And I fear to say the height because 74 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: we see that things are changing all around the globe 75 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: and all around Europe. But I will say the height. 76 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: As of twenty twenty, New York City was the epicenter 77 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: for crises, and a little bit before that, you decided 78 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: to put your hat in the ring for mayor. I 79 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 1: want to know before we start in pandemic talk, what 80 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: howd you decide after your life of living in New 81 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: York City, working in New York City, working in different administrations, 82 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: decide to throw your hat in the ring decide that 83 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: now was the time that New York City was not 84 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: only ready for its second right, which is just embarrassing, 85 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: its second black mayor, but what would be its first 86 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: female mayor and first Black female mayor. Well, first of all, Danielle, 87 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: I have to say, it's wonderful to see you, thanks 88 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: to COVID. It has been way too long, and it's 89 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: a pleasure to be here at long last. Yeah. Look, 90 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: you know what can I tell you? Before COVID hit, 91 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: this city already was experiencing a pandemic. It was a 92 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: pandemic of an affordability crisis. It was a pandemic of 93 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: systemic racism. It was a pandemic of division and spiritual 94 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: exhaustion that then was deepened, expanded, fast tracked when COVID struck. 95 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: And I think, like so many other women in general, 96 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: and women of color, black women in particular, after watching 97 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: for years, you know of the need for much more 98 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: transformational leadership, leadership that pulls us together but also says 99 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: we're pulling together to do things differently, you know, because 100 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: it can't be that we're simply going back to the 101 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: same old toolbox to fix problems. Those tools were never 102 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: addressed to fix, and that when COVID hit, and when 103 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: so many of our communities, black communities, Latino Asian remember 104 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: that New York City as the largest Indigenous population Native 105 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: American population urban in the country, that it was our communities, 106 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: all of us were decimated, right, And we should say 107 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: that out loud, because it is true. We're traumatized as 108 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: a city where every aspect of our economy has been 109 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: devastated as a city. But it is also true that 110 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: like in every crisis, every single one, whether it was 111 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: the Great Recession of two thousand and eight or Hurricane Sandy, 112 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: that we are always the communities there hit hardest first 113 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: and with the longest lasting impacts. And we are so 114 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: critical to this city being what it is, being the vibrant, 115 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: innovative place it is, being the exciting place it is, 116 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: and that we have been at risk of losing that 117 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: for a very long time. And I just as someone 118 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: who's spent my entire career committ into dismantling structural racism, 119 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: to focusing on what pulls us out of you know, 120 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: the crises that are a crisis of creation. It's not 121 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: necessarily natural condition, it's one we recreate and we can change. 122 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: And you know, I just said it's time. It's time 123 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: for change, and I stepped in to make it. You 124 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: know there, I love the term that you use. Just 125 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: a a kind of spiritual pandemic, right, A kind of 126 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: hopelessness I feel sets in in varied communities around New 127 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: York City. I mean, as it is as it has 128 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: been across the country, but definitely within New York City. 129 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 1: People look to New York right as as a beacon, 130 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: I think in many ways. And yet what the COVID 131 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: nineteen crisis did was open our eyes in so many 132 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: ways to the systemic forces that have been at play 133 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 1: that have kept many marginalized communities down right and under 134 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: the thumb of egregious systems that would have them there. 135 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 1: For me, I worked in New York City. I worked 136 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: under Mayor Blueberg in the public education system largest in 137 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: the country. And you know what I noticed as we 138 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: are going through this pandemic is just how many young 139 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: people out of the one point two million children that 140 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: are in the New York City public school system don't 141 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: have access to internet. So how were they going to 142 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: be able to learn remotely when we had to make 143 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: this enormous shift when you look at New York City 144 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: public schools, for instance, as just one of the many 145 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: areas that need an overhaul, what do you see as 146 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: some of the first things that need to be done. 147 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: Because we know, and I know this from lobbying for 148 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: New York City public schools at the federal level, is 149 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: that where New York City as the rest of the 150 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: country follows. So what do you think need to happen 151 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: after us seeing this pandemic, seeing the fault lines that 152 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: have been ignored for so long need to do. Yeah, 153 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: you know, this is such a critical question as someone 154 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: who not only went to an overcrowded, underfunded black elementary 155 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: school when I was young and saw firsthand and felt 156 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: firsthand what that felt like, how much it felt like 157 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,119 Speaker 1: we didn't matter and we weren't important, how our teachers struggled, 158 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: And then being a public school parent myself with kids 159 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: between the two of them, spent fifteen years in the 160 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: public school system, and I navigated everything from elementary school 161 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: to middle school to high school in the public system. 162 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: And it's of deep importance to me because it's fundamental 163 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: to our democracy, frankly, and we have to understand our 164 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: public education system as that and New York is it 165 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,599 Speaker 1: sees itself as exceptional, right, because we're a miraculous, wonderful 166 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: place where the most diverse in the land, and the 167 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: center of capital, the center of innovation, the center of 168 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: so many things. And we're also the center of segregation, 169 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: where the center of far too few students getting the 170 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: education they deserve, and the vast majority being students of color. 171 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: And so one of the things I see is what 172 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: happened during the pandemic was predictable, were predictable, and so 173 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: that should be the thing that makes us most upset. Right. 174 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 1: We knew before the pandemic that one point eight million 175 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: New Yorkers either didn't have broadband access at home or 176 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: lacked a computer or a cell phone or both. Right, 177 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 1: that is its own pandemic. And as someone as a 178 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: racial justice advocate who worked on digital divide issues and 179 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: then went into city Hall in twenty fourteen and with 180 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: a mayor that said, it's universal broadband is on you. 181 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: You're the person who's worked on it before. We want 182 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: communities of color to get what they deserve, and plotting 183 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: out a plan including getting every single apartment in Queensbridge 184 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: houses free broadband, finding the money, showing the city it 185 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:21,599 Speaker 1: had the resources and working collaboratively to make that impact 186 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: was so important because what it said is we know 187 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: there's a problem, but we're going to confront it now, 188 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 1: and there ways for us to do it differently, be transformational. 189 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: I left in twenty sixteen and the rest of the 190 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: plans for other public housing developments did not occur, and 191 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: I just think about the lost opportunity there when we 192 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: think about what happened when the pandemic struck. But what 193 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: it also tells us is that we can. We can. 194 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: It just requires leadership that keeps the eyes on that 195 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: prize and keeps government working in a way that is 196 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: different from the way it usually works, so that our 197 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: students who are in homeless shelters, A We're moving more 198 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: people into permanent housing that's safe and affordable, but be 199 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 1: that they have, even if they're in transitional housing or shelter, 200 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: have what they need to learn. And that's something we 201 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: can accomplish and that we will lay out a plan for. 202 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: But I say it because I've done it, and I 203 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: just you know, getting this year back that our students 204 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: have lost, recognizing that that spiritual exhaustion is now trauma 205 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: is now trauma, and that that trauma requires trauma informed 206 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: care in our schools because that's about educational outcome. You know, 207 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: if we're not treating the whole child and the whole 208 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: family as a unit that has to be engaged in 209 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: there in the child's education, and we're not seeing nutrition 210 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: and we're not seeing mental health as key parts of that, 211 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna miss the boat. And so I've also created 212 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: a plan to put trauma inform care in schools and 213 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 1: have social workers because we have to have students support 214 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 1: teams that support our kids through all our kids, but 215 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 1: particularly kids that are in communities that were deeply impacted. 216 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: You know, when you talk about trauma care, I you 217 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: know again, I go back to my days in the classroom, 218 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: and everything that you're saying is exactly right. Is that 219 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,239 Speaker 1: you know, we always want to focus on the ABC's, 220 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: but we don't understand that in order to get there right, 221 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: a child would have needed to have a good night's sleep, 222 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: would have needed to have a hot meal, would have 223 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: needed to have you know, the ability to move their 224 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: bodies and get out their energy, and an absent all 225 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: of that ABC's don't come right. Absent understanding what it 226 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: is that parents need, our caregivers need in order to 227 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: be able to parent and care give. We don't do that. 228 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: I see schools as community centers, right the center of community. 229 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: And you know, but when I look at where the 230 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: investment goes in our cities, where the money goes, there 231 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: is a blatant disparity. And so how do you think 232 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: about right sizing right? When we look at right sizing budgets, 233 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: we see and you know, we'll talk in a minute 234 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: about our policing in New York and the criminal justice 235 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: system in New York. But when we look at the 236 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: budget of let's say the NYPD, which is in the 237 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: billions of dollars, right, the six and seven billions of dollars, 238 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: and we look at the largest school district in the country, 239 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: if not in the world, and we don't see that. 240 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: We don't see those bees following and following the dollars signs. 241 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: How do you begin to right size something that seems 242 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: like there's such an enormous gap for us to close. 243 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: That is a question I haven't answered to. And I 244 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: do want to focus it on policing because I've already 245 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: said and and this is as someone who has a godson, 246 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: who I've been, who lives in public housing, who have 247 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: has been you know, who's had experiences with police officers, 248 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: who have cared, but has also been hit by police officers. 249 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: Is a child I have had to a young adult now, 250 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: but I've had to accompany to court on things like skateboarding, 251 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: on things like being in the park after dark, things 252 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: that are not things that should result in me going 253 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: to court with him with my law degree. So number 254 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: one because as interrupted his educational experience that has traumatized him, 255 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: and he will graduate from high school, but only with 256 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: a lot of support because of those experiences. So we 257 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: want our kids to learn, particularly our black boys and girls, 258 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: who far too often are criminalized in our system or 259 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: treated as problems rather than being treated as people deserving 260 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: of support for the problems they have, that we have 261 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: to that we will not be successful, and we can't 262 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: afford to fail our children. So it starts with taking 263 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars out of the police department budget and 264 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: putting it in participatory justice funds for communities that have 265 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: high rates of gun violence. Because when I had a 266 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: friend who lost his nephew, his nephew was shot and 267 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: killed at four thirty pm in bedsty just going to 268 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: the neighborhood store. Now, what the family, in its trauma 269 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: and pain called for was things like trauma informed care, 270 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: was more employment opportunities for young people. Was all the 271 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 1: things that are about investing in communities and in our kids. 272 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: So that Participatory Justice Fund is one where communities can 273 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 1: say what helps it solve it's problem. So that could 274 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: be after school programs, that could be additional trauma in 275 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: foreign care in addition to what I'm going to make 276 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: sure goes into those school tools. That could also be 277 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: for more workforce development and other programs that communities want 278 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: in their school's mentorship. But the point is communities know 279 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: what they need, and the reality is government can be 280 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: a different partner by helping provide those resources that community 281 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: can direct to problem solving. But the other thing I 282 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: will say is we've already looking at it as a 283 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: caring economy, right because our economy has been broken for 284 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: so many of our communities and people. And so we 285 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: are also going to reduce the incoming class sizes, cadet 286 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: class sizes, take advantage of the savings and corrections we're 287 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: going to get by not prisoning people for poverty and 288 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: closing rikers, as well as taking some other dollars that 289 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,640 Speaker 1: are still on the table and childcare black rents to 290 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: create community drop off centers for childcare and elder care 291 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: in communities. That also creates care jobs that will be 292 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,479 Speaker 1: union jobs, there'll be good jobs. But we will also 293 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: create a five thousand dollars a year grant program for 294 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 1: the neediest families in order for them to care for 295 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: their family members. And we're not good, by the way, 296 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: you don't have to be a documented immigrant to benefit 297 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: from that grant, because that's also important for our communities. 298 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: People forget that black community has immigrants too, and that 299 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: the immigranty of all races is also our community, our neighbors. 300 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 1: So we'll do that. But that's about investing in opportunity, 301 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: investing in solutions, solving problems, and looking at our budget. 302 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: And I will tell you that will also produce more 303 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 1: public safety because so much of what we see in 304 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: violence is trauma induced. Is induced because it's easier to 305 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: get a gun than a job. We're going to flip 306 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: that script and we're going to focus please on the 307 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: job of policing, which is not mental health crisis calls. 308 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: It is not running into school buildings. It is less 309 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: absolutely necessary, but certainly not for students support needs. And 310 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,959 Speaker 1: we're going to make sure that we have counselors instead 311 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: of cops in our schools and that our kids can 312 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: get jobs critically important if we're really looking at what 313 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: investment in our communities mean, and then the police can 314 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: focus on things like keeping illegal guns out of our 315 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: city and out of our communities, which is something that 316 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: is absolutely important and that we want police officers to 317 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: be able to focus on. You know, I think that 318 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: we have, over the course of decades conflated what it 319 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: is that we believe that policing was supposed to be right. 320 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: And we know the historic the historical understanding and birth 321 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: of policing in this country. But what we have seen 322 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: is that much in the same way that I'm talking 323 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: about lopsided budgets, you're talking about lopsided justice. Right where 324 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: you know your few or godson can be skateboarding in 325 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: a park and then end up in a court of 326 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: law and thankfully he had you. But if he hadn't right, 327 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: where would he have been? Would he been like Calif Broader, 328 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: who would have ended up in Rikers, and you know, 329 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: and the key would have been thrown away, never to 330 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: be heard from again. When we talk about this term 331 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: of defund the police right and and and of creating community, 332 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: creating investment in community, we see that there is incredible 333 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: pushback from the police. We see incredible pushback from police unions. 334 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: And I want to know, how do you both create 335 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:43,120 Speaker 1: a city that is that is equitable in terms of 336 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: the fact that my tax dollars go to funding them police, 337 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: just like my white neighbors tax dollars go to funding 338 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: the police. Except I would be fearful to call the 339 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: police if I needed them because I don't want to 340 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: end up as a hashtag. And so how do we 341 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: look at this the readjustment in terms of the relationship 342 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: that police have with the communities that they are policing, 343 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: the excess violence that we have seen over the course 344 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: of decades with too many black lives lost, and then 345 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: also recognizing that we are not putting money in the 346 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: right place. But when we talk about defund that spins 347 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: off into something else. So how does your campaign, how 348 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: would your administration deal with this balancing act that has 349 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 1: been that we've seen play out across the country. Yeah. Look, 350 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: I start with it from the perspective of a moral budget. 351 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: A moral budget and a moral budget requires us one 352 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: to look at how we build revenue effectively, but in 353 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: ways that solve problems, not create them. Right, So revenue 354 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: generation means thinking about as I said, you know, we're 355 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: going to take ten billion dollars, actually didn't say this 356 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,719 Speaker 1: part the caring economy is one piece of that. Right, 357 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: We're actually putting money back in people's pockets. They can 358 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: care for themselves, they can care for their communities. They 359 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: can put money back into the economy when we help 360 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 1: them get those jobs, when we help them work because 361 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 1: or deal with emergencies, because they have a safe place 362 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: to leave family members. We also, by giving them those grants, 363 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: are ensuring that they can put money back into the economy. 364 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: That's good for everyone, and that actually brings revenue back 365 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: into the city. Coffers, it's also looking at it from 366 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: what our resources are that we control. That creates more 367 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: of those opportunities. So I'm going to spend ten billion 368 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: dollars capital construction budget that is separate from the expense budget. 369 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: We're often talking about budgeting, is if we don't have 370 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 1: two different budgets, but we do the capital budget. That 371 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: just means money we borrow to build things we need 372 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 1: built and fix things we need fixed. And what do 373 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: we need. We need affordable housing that's deeply affordable for 374 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: so many of our workers who work hard but can't 375 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,360 Speaker 1: afford the rent. We need, you know, to make sure 376 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: that they're creating. We're solving the problem with nitscha. So 377 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: we'll put two billion dollars into renovation and rehabilitation. As 378 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,479 Speaker 1: I said, my god son lives in public housing. This 379 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: ain't be a radical for me. People are unsafe and 380 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: unsanitary conditions and they deserve better h green economy, green jobs. 381 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: You know how we're thinking about building resiliency when you 382 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: know two thirds of our people who are in flood 383 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,719 Speaker 1: zones or low income people of color. So these are 384 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 1: all ways where we're fixing problems we have as a city. 385 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: But we're doing it by creating a hundred thousand jobs. 386 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: We're going to do local targeted hiring. We're going to 387 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: think about local procurement buying the things we need for 388 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: those projects. We're going to be thinking about how that 389 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: creates jobs for artists and creatives as well, so that 390 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: while we're while we're spending and borrowing, to spend in 391 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 1: a way that is stimulative that we know from the 392 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: Great Recession to the Great Depression has helped us come 393 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: back in the past. We're also going to focus it 394 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: on art what I call communities of concern, which were 395 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: the communities that were worse off before COVID, and we're 396 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: worse off during COVID, and we'll have a long trajectory 397 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: to recovery and deserve investments post COVID. And so that's 398 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: really looking at our budget differently, and we've already talked 399 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: about it on the police side. It means that when 400 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: we make cuts, and we will, that we're making choices 401 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 1: that are about investing in our future, because that's what 402 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: a moral budget is. It is investment in the kind 403 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: of city I think we all want to live in. 404 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: When I talk about it in that way, when I 405 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: talk about what is just good common sense, like nobody 406 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: thinks that police officer's job is responding to a mental 407 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: health crisis. Everyone agrees that it's a mental health professional 408 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 1: that should be responding to a mental health crisis with 409 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: the ability to ask for police backup if the expert 410 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: thinks he or she needs it. But that should be 411 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: a call by a mental health expert, not by the 412 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 1: police who don't sign up for the force to become 413 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: mental health experts. That's not why they're signing up for 414 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: the job. And there's so much that we can focus 415 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: policing on that's appropriate and that we know our communities 416 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: want police focused on. I use the legal guns because 417 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: that's such an obvious example, and it's such an example 418 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: that police officers also want to work on. But putting 419 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: more police officers on a street corner doesn't stop the 420 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: shooting it. Oh, it just moves it over a block. 421 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: Why would we keep doing it that way? Yeah? You know. 422 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: One of my last questions for you, Maya's with regard 423 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: to housing in New York City, which is probably on 424 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: top of policing, is probably one of the toughest issues. 425 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: We have some of the highest rents of anywhere I 426 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: probably outside of San Francisco, that I have ever seen. 427 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: But during this pandemic, we also saw a massive fleeing 428 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: out of very wealthy white areas of New York City 429 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: where people can leave and go to their second and 430 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: third homes. And so we've seen in some places prices, 431 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: rents drop, while in others they stay steady or they're 432 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: continuing to rise, which is a product then of gentrification. 433 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: We see who gets to stay and who gets pushed out. 434 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: How do we battle against this because we know that, 435 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: you know, look, I don't want anyone's life expectancy to 436 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: be based on their zip code. I don't want any 437 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: child's future to be based on where they are stationed, 438 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 1: based on the tax dollars, the income tax that is 439 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 1: coming in. But we know that that is the reality 440 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: of the situation. But there are young, brilliant black and 441 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: brown people that are being pushed out that New York 442 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 1: City actually needs. And so how how do you plan 443 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,719 Speaker 1: to come back? This this is and this is this 444 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: is a decades, decades a long problem that hasn't been 445 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: dealt with. How does your administration plan to deal with that? 446 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,479 Speaker 1: This is such a such a critical crisis, and it 447 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 1: was a critical crisis before COVID to your point, Danielle, 448 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: and I think that's important for us to recognize and 449 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: a big part of what was calling me in. You know, 450 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 1: I was in Staten Island yesterday and talking to a 451 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: young man turned out from East Harlem who was commuting 452 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: two hours each way to a service job, a minimum 453 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: wage job in Staten Island because there were no jobs 454 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: in his community or closer to his community. And so 455 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: if you think about that, I mean that's and he 456 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: lived in public he lives in public housing, and he's 457 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: lucky to live in public housing because that's permanently affordable. 458 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: The problem is it's crumbling around him, right. So one 459 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: is we have to recognize public housing is one of 460 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: our greatest assets in terms of permanently affordable housing, and 461 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: we have to keep it public to ensure that the 462 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: people who have helped build this city, empower the city, 463 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: and who have been essential to this city can stay 464 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: in this city and live in the city with dignity. 465 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: The other thing we have to recognize is that we 466 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: have a thousand acres roughly a vacant land that the 467 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: city owns. That's our opportunity rather than selling it off, 468 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: to make sure we're utilizing it for one hundred percent 469 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: permanently affordable housing to meet the needs that our folks have. 470 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: It also means looking at the opportunity that is unfortunately 471 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: created by shuttered hotels or about two hundred shuttered hotels 472 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: in the city. But we deferately have to recognize that 473 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: homelessness is an eviction crisis. Homelessness is an affordability crisis, 474 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: which is why it's an effiction crisis. And so by 475 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: creating more deeply affordable housing, thinking about and supportive housing 476 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 1: for those who are mentally ill or have substance addiction issues, 477 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: that that's also something that creates more public safety for 478 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: folks who've been afraid of the mental illness that we 479 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,719 Speaker 1: have seen on our streets. And many people are legitimately 480 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: afraid that, but that's also a humanitarian problem we can 481 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: solve with a humanitarian solution that puts people in housing 482 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: with support services. Those hotels represent an opportunity there, as 483 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: does other vacancy. And asking for more from our private 484 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: developers rather than being counting the number of affordable units 485 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: we're creating, creating and asking for more deeply affordable units 486 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: from the private sectors something the city can do. And 487 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: I want to say one other thing about this. We 488 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: know that we are a city with everyone right eight 489 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: hundred different languages. We speak about almost forty percent of 490 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: our residents born somewhere else in another country. Our diversity 491 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: is a deep part of what makes us an exciting city. 492 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: And I haven't talked to anyone wealthy who does not 493 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: value or agree with that, which also gives us the opportunity. 494 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: And I've had this conversation with many folks who were 495 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: able to shelter somewhere else other than New York City, 496 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: and they recognize the privilege of that, particularly as they 497 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: were watching the news and seeing the images. This is 498 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: an opportunity for us to pull together and to say 499 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: to folks with resources, we all love the city, and 500 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: we all have something to bring to the table. And 501 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: some folks have no how and elbow grease and just 502 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: kind of a commitment that's just raw and can innovate 503 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: and get things done in community. Some of us have resources, 504 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: some of us have money. And what I've been asking 505 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: folks everywhere I talk is like, we've all got to 506 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: put on the table what we have to give, and 507 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: for those with resources, we're going to ask that you 508 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: give to help us recover the city in a way 509 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: that holds on to exactly that, because it's what's dear 510 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: to all of us and what makes us New York City, 511 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: and that we can't lose. Maya. The last question I 512 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: have for you is you know, folks have been so 513 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: they've been paying attention to literally what's in front of 514 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: them right over this past year, and maybe now they 515 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: are starting to get engaged with this race. What sets 516 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: you apart from the rest of the field, and what 517 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: do you want people to know about you? I've had 518 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: the distinct honor and pleasure to get to know you 519 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: throughout the years of being on TV with you and 520 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: understanding your strategic and brilliant mind and analysis. But what 521 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: do you want others that are just maybe just tuning 522 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: in to know that separates you from everyone else? Well, 523 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: thank you for those kind words, Danielle, and right back 524 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: at you. You forgot to mention the green room conversations, 525 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: which yeah, we often that MSNBC should just put a 526 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: camera in the green room. They should have done that. 527 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: They should have done that. But look, I am really 528 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: honored to be a top tier candidate in this race, 529 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: which is no small thing because we've never elected a woman, 530 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: let alone a black woman to be mayor of New 531 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: York City. And what sets me apart isn't just that. 532 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: Part of it is having been the child of activists, 533 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: you know, and spending a career working on exactly how 534 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: we transform our city and our community so that they 535 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: work for all of us and we remain a city 536 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: that is on a shining hill of opportunity in a 537 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,959 Speaker 1: pluralistic democracy, meaning one that looks like the globe. Is 538 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: what I have done with my whole career as a 539 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: change maker twenty five years before I ever went into 540 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: city government. But I'm the only candidate that has both 541 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: the experience of going to a segregated public school, of 542 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: watching a neighborhood be displaced from gentrification when I was 543 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: a kid, to doing it as a civil rights lawyer, 544 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: as a racial justice advocate, and then going into city 545 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,839 Speaker 1: hall as the first black woman counseled to a New 546 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: York City mayor to show city government exactly how to 547 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: be transformational for our communities, like getting broadband into public housing, 548 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: like getting the first sanctuary cities legislation passed when it 549 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 1: was logjammed, Like creating a table where we had advocates 550 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: talking about how we reduce the school to prison pipeline 551 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 1: because government wasn't sufficiently listening as it was thinking about 552 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: its memorandum of understanding with the police department, so that 553 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: we were starting to get those numbers down and stop 554 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: seeing our kids as problems. But it's that kind of 555 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: approach that's also about listening and learning, because I am 556 00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: a candidate in this race that says very explicitly, I 557 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,760 Speaker 1: don't have all the answers, and that's not the point 558 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: anyone in a historic crisis, and our crisis has been 559 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: it's historic for generations, but particularly at a time like 560 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: COVID that says they have all the answers is not 561 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: telling the truth. And I will never lie to the 562 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: people of the City of New York, nor to anyone. 563 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: And I will always be Maya Wiley, and that's the 564 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: person who's been a change maker outside of government and 565 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: in but in partnership with communities, and that's what sets 566 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: me apart. Well, I am so excited about your candidacy. 567 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: I think that the city is ready for a revolutionary 568 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,239 Speaker 1: such as yourself, and I'm just so grateful and appreciative 569 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,319 Speaker 1: for you taking the time to join us on wike 570 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: A f today. Well, and Danielle, I'm so appreciated for 571 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: your voice, You're intellect the way you cut through things 572 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 1: because as you know, we only get through this because 573 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: we do it from many different perches. And you have 574 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 1: had a powerful one in them. I'm proud to be 575 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: able to call you my friend. Thank you as always, 576 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: dear friends. Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 577 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. See after Labor Day.