WEBVTT - Kamala Harris 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.160 Thank you. 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:03.519 Jude calls for some Call of Jude, go and play 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.280 some Black Ops six. I'll take it from here. Thank you. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.840 Yes, every boat count Sir. Who's next? Who's next? 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.000 Wonderful your son? 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:15.880 Here you go? 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.360 Hey, it comes back here? 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.279 Hey, what's his name? 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:30.000 Pomp Turty Henry scratch and sniff the smell of freedom 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.040 metal VP. You're a couple of years older than myself, 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.720 so we kind of grew up in the eighties. But 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.160 I'm I'm only thirty five. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.559 Come now, I'm your gad. So but you want to, 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.680 I'm gonna give you a sampling A man I. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.599 Feel, I feel you will medical. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.160 All my life and grinding all my light, sacrifice, hustle. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:49.920 Bad the price, Want a slice? 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.720 Got the brow of dysons wide all my life, I'll 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.120 be grinding all my light all my life. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:56.200 Been grinding all. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:02.720 My life, sacrifice, hustle, back the price, doctors sware all 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.520 my life, Papa gone in all my life. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.039 Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Shayshay. This episode 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.320 is brought to you by Call of Duty Black Ops six. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.960 The woman that's stopping by for conversation or the drink today, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.280 she's the highest ranking woman in US history. She's made 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.040 a career of being first. She's the first woman to 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.880 serve as Attorney General African American Asian American descent. She's 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.600 also district She's been District Attorney of San Francisco. She 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.559 was the nation's first Indian American Senator. She's the first woman, 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.120 first Black Asian American to be elected Vice president. She's 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.440 set the record for the most tie breaking votes cast 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.319 by vice president. She's the first black woman Asian American 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.840 in US history to win the presidential nomination of a 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.760 major party. She's the first HBCU grad, making US proud. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.680 She is a Howard University of lum She's a member 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.480 of the prestigious Appa Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Here she 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.360 is in person. Madam BP Kamla Harrison. How you doing? 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.360 Extreme honor, privilege and a pleasure to have you on 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.320 club Shaysha CJ, who is the producer here. When we 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:12.000 started this journey, Madam VP four years ago. Celebrities, athletes, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.160 entertainers and influencers, vps and presidential hopefuls work on the 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.040 Bingo card. You here, so I want to thank you 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.480 very much. When we have guests come on Madam VP. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.560 We like the toast and what I read on this card. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.880 You don't deserve this. You've earned this, being the first 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.760 in so many areas, and you make us proud. I 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.760 just want you to know you make us proud for 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.680 what you've been able to accomplish. And we're twelve days 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.720 away and we hope you have an even greater accomplishment. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.120 So here's to continue success and everything you've done and 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.200 everything that you will do. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.600 Oh, bless you, and thank you, and to you, Shannon, 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.600 to you for all the success and the voice you 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:52.920 give to so many issues. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:53.560 Thank you for that. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.079 Thank you and cheers to you. Cheers, and I'm not 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.400 going to actually drink this because I might fall asleep 0:02:59.000 --> 0:02:59.280 and I. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.240 Need to do this. I don't want you to rock 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.359 Obama this afternoon. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:04.360 So here we are. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:05.280 Cheers everybody. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.359 So before we get to the things that you want 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.160 to do once you become president of the United States, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.959 I want to go back when you found out what 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.840 President Biden called you and said that he was no 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.600 longer going to seek re election and you got that call. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.960 Do you remember where you were and what you thought 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:25.280 when you heard him say these words? 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.800 Do you I do so I was home. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.200 It was a Sunday afternoon, and my niece, her husband, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.280 and their two young daughters were visiting and staying with us, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.600 and I promised the kids I have pancakes and bacon 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:39.200 and everything. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.640 And then after that. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.280 I had a puzzle for the kids, and we were 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.560 sitting down to do the puzzle and the phone rang 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.840 and it was President Biden. And so that's when he 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:58.400 told me. And it was obviously life changing in so 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.640 many ways. But you know, I have to tell you, Shannon, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.440 at that moment, I knew what it would mean, but 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.480 not in the detail of it, but I certainly understood 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.560 the seriousness and the gravity of the moment. And actually 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.200 one of the first people I called was my pastor. Wow. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.880 I knew I needed a moment to just be still. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.200 And for my spirit and my mind to have clarity 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.040 about the seriousness of the moment and my role. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:38.640 And I'll never forget that call, or that moment or 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:39.159 that day. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.360 Your life instantaneously changed in that moment, Yes, because now 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.719 all of a sudden, you weren't going to be running, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.159 you weren't going to be the VP anymore. You're going 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.800 to be front and center, and you knew what the undertaking. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.200 Haven't been four years at the vice president, what that 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.080 moment would mean. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.680 I had a sense of it, you know, like so 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.200 many of us, you know when you know you this 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.000 is your life, right, So there are those moments where 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:07.320 your instinct kicks in sometimes before your conscious mind and 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.560 thoughts do. And my instinct kicked in immediately that I 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.480 need to focus and I need to do certain things immediately, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.640 which included making I think we estimated I made over 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.440 one hundred calls that day. My team, and I'm an 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.279 incredible team, all came in and you nobody expected, right, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.239 it was a Sunday afternoon. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.559 In fact, we actually joked who had taken a shower 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:32.000 that day? 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.240 Because you know, people came into their workout clothes, you know, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.440 different people and you know, bandana around the head. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.640 Just you know, and came in and we then for 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.480 hours and hours, well into the night. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.480 Did you tell them, did you tell them why you 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.520 had summoned them to come to your place? Did you 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.440 give them that news or you were were you waiting 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.600 for them to get there to share that news with them? 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.000 Well, so the news started to speaking, imagine pretty much immediately. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.440 But you know, of the many blessings that I have 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.160 and have had, one of them is an incredible team 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.240 of people around me. You know what that's like, where 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.960 they're just there and they will rise to a moment 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.960 and no matter how high that moment is or meaning 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.320 how serious it is and what I love. And it's 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.599 certainly my own work ethic that there is no job 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.400 too small or too big if there's something that needs 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:29.000 to get done. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.720 So although you have a huge role. Now, what's a 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.920 typical day like for you? Now, once you've been thrust 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.120 into this What time you normally get into bed, what 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.560 time you're getting up, and what's some of the activities that. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.560 You do in a given day I'm having I'd probably 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:51.320 estimate fourteen hour fifteen hour days. When I wake up, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.720 no matter how little sleep or how much sleep I've had, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.640 I work out every morning. Okay, okay, you know, you 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.720 know it's like my body and spirit right, and and 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.480 then you know that's the only time of my day 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:10.600 I really own. And then it is these days, it's 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.760 not unusual for me to be in three or even 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:18.520 four cities in one day rallies with thousands of people, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:25.920 ten thousand people showing up, making calls to folks. Just now, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.520 I landed in Atlanta, the mayor of Atlanta who greets 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.880 me every single time. So I'll talk with elected leaders 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.600 who are supportive about So, for example, here in Atlanta, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.120 what do we need to do to make sure that 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.880 we're giving folks the resources to knock on doors and 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.960 remind folks of the power of their voice and twelve 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.560 days in it really is a lot about trying to 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.800 focus on getting folks to know their power, to not 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.240 let anybody suppress or silence their voice, and to vote right. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.560 So break what is what is metal vpe for breakfast? 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.400 Or you have time? Or is it on to go? 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.200 No? I I you know, I when I was younger, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.760 I didn't think I needed breakfast. I wasn't a breakfast eater. Okay, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.480 Now I have breakfast every morning. It's usually a spinisch holmlet, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:18.080 very exciting, right, but it's protein with a little vegetable 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.840 and you know, I like chicken, apple, sausage and some 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.200 toast and then I'm gone. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.440 Madam VP, you're a couple of years older than myself, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.080 so we kind of grew up in the eighties. But 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.200 I'm I'm only thirty five now. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.120 Yes, but you want, but we grew up. But just 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.480 keep moving because you I'm gonna give you a shovel. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.760 I see, I see it. We could have just moved 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.160 on a band that real quick, but you drew attention 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.640 to it. But we grew up in the seventies with music. Yeah, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.920 winning fire Ohio players, Oh yes. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.839 Fire you I mean oh you were like fire. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:59.920 Come on, okay, Yes, what do you listen to now? 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:01.040 Oh? 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.240 You know? I wish I were listening to more music, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.080 to be honest with you, because I love. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.600 It just downtown when you have downtime. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.320 You don't have any downtown. Really, I know, my little 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.400 violin I'm playing right now with you, I really don't. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.160 But when I love, I love jazz, you know, if 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.880 it's from Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis, I love Aretha. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.640 I was just with Stevie Stevie. Can I tell you 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:33.319 bucket list Stevie Wonder on my birthday sing me Happy birthday, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.880 Happy birthday to me. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:39.839 Can you imagine? 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:40.839 I was? 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.760 I was, literally it was. It was surreal. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.559 Can you a bucket list moment? When Stevie Wonder himself 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:51.679 it sings you happy birthday? 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.520 As an eighteen year old. Yeah, could you imagine ever 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.160 your life would have been like this this many years. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.120 Let me tell my mother loved She had every Stevie 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.960 and every Aretha Franklin record, every album, like literally every 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.600 one of them. So for I mean, you know, songs 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.079 in the keid, like like all those all those Stevie 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:19.800 songs that were about everything from the movement to optimism. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.280 I would have never at eighteen thought that he'd be 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:23.360 singing me happy birthdays. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.840 Ever, never, That's the least I mean. But obviously everybody 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.160 knows who Steve is. He was a trial prodigy thirteen 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.840 years old, and he was doing great things. But to see, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.840 madal BP, what you've been able to do, You've had 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.840 so many First, the first Attorney general woman Attorney general 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.400 African American Asian American descent use the DA of San Francisco. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.880 You're the first Indian American US Senator. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.599 And second black woman ever in the history of the 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.199 United States Senate elected second in the history of the 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.040 United States Senate. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.480 Have you had an opportunity to sit back and reflect like, wow, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.120 but work is not yet done. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.680 That's more where I am, the work is not done. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.280 The work is not yet done. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.120 There's so much to do, I mean to your point, 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.599 being in the Senate, so there is a way of 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.559 responsibility that I know we all feel right when we 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:21.520 have been blessed with an experience that allows us to 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:26.160 be a role model and to hopefully inspire people and 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.480 to remind them of what's important or point out the 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.160 things that need to be addressed. So, for example, as 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.760 only the second black woman elected to the United States Senate, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.960 I took on a real role of leadership around black 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:44.040 maternal mortality, which affects Black women and affects their spouses, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:49.040 their husbands, their families, their children. And I feel a 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:54.080 sense of responsibility and a very strong duty to make 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.240 sure that I use my voice and in a way 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.440 that is about lifting up people who have not always 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.680 been in the room America. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.800 Mister states in shape stepped out for some black up six, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.679 but I'm here as his replace her. Let's start with Texas, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.640 shall we. Well, I think this is I mean. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.240 Things I'm moving here. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:23.920 Oh, I can go on there, yep. Yeah, that's all 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.559 for today, folks checking tomorrow. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.560 If you could speak to your eighteen year old self, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:33.280 what would you tell her? 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.560 If I could speak to my eighteen year old self, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.440 I would probably tell her. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:49.360 Continue to keep your friends. You know, my best friend 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.240 from kindergarten is still one of my best friends. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:56.120 What yes, Referee's yes. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.480 In fact, she's been out knocking on doors in North 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:05.200 Carolina just this last week. For me, I would say, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.240 you know, hold on to those, to hold on to that, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.040 which is that your friends are so important, your family 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:17.559 is so important. I would probably encourage myself at eighteen 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.840 to remember that you have a lot of people who 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.120 are supporting you, even if they don't know you. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.480 You know, That's what I mentor a lot of people, Shannon. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.520 So this is what I'm really reflecting on, which is 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.199 what I tell the young people I mentor, including to 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.400 know that even when you are in that room and 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.319 you're the only one who looks like you or who 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.280 has had your life experience, to know you are not 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.160 alone in that room, and that you must therefore walk 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.920 in that room chin up, shoulders back, knowing we're all 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.960 they're applauding you. When I mentor young women and men, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.360 I remind them that you are often going to be told, well, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.720 it's not your time, not your turn, too young, nobody 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.480 like you has done this before and and I tell them, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.079 you know, don't you ever listen to that? 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.640 I like to say, I eat no for breakfast. I 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.720 don't hear know. You asked me what I eat for breakfast? 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.719 I eat no for breakfast. I don't hear it. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.880 And that's part of what are my life lessons that 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:24.920 I try to share with young people, to remind them 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.560 that you cannot ever be burdened by other people's limited 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.560 ability to understand who you are like, don't let their 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.240 limited ability burden you about your own ability. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:41.040 You know, you were raised by a single mom. What 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.160 did that experience tell you about your mom? And what 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:45.240 did it tell you about you? 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.880 Well, it told me that. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.920 One of the things that is precious is to build 0:14:55.200 --> 0:15:02.120 community and family. Like my mother, she she understood that 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.360 there is a community that she wanted her children to 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.440 be raised in, and she was very intentional and. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:10.440 Purposeful about that. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.960 And so I always say to people, even when I 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.480 took the stage as the nominee for the Democratic nomination, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.800 that you know, there is the family that you have 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.480 by birth, and there is also the family you have 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:27.480 by love, and they're equally family, right, And I learned 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:28.280 that from my mother. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:29.840 So my mother. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.360 I had all these aunties and uncles, my uncle Sherman, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.360 who was one of the first black men to graduate 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:40.520 from Berkeley School of Law, who when we were young girls, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.680 sat us down and taught us how to play chess 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.760 because Uncle Sherman said, you need to understand how the 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:47.640 chess board. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.120 Works, because that's the way the world works. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:53.320 They're going to be different players with different moves, and 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.800 you need to see the whole board. My mother raised 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.400 us around like my Auntie Chris, who went to Howard 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:06.600 in the fifties and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha, and she 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.440 was one of my incredible role models growing up, and 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.480 that was one of the big reasons I wanted to 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.800 go to Howard University and pledge Alphakapa Alpha. Those are 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.160 some of the lessons that I've learned from my mother, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.000 and I try to also share with people. Right, which 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.960 is the beauty of community and it's the way I 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.920 am right, which is you know, the children in my life, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.080 whether they be my own or you know, my god 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:36.560 children or whomever, right that it's a collective responsibility that 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:36.960 we have. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.240 You did you know you were different? I mean, were 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.240 there a lot of people in the community that looked 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.960 like you or like your mom, or did your mom 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.080 tell you you were different? 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:51.560 Well, my mother taught us to and everyone in my 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.960 growing up, you know, they would tell all of us 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.320 kids that we were special. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.160 I don't think we were particularly right, but they told 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.680 us we were, and we believed them. We believe them. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.560 I think that's such an important part of what we 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.960 can all do for the children and the children in 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:16.800 our lives. And you know, but my mother raised two 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.280 black girls to be proud black women. Wanted you back 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.800 to music. One of the soundtracks from my childhood was 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.480 you know you are young, gifted in black, you know, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.840 And that's what it was. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:32.919 I'll get the. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:40.280 Phone number later, and we're back America. Your moderators, they 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.480 got a hankering for call of duty. They're off playing 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:50.280 black Op six scrap. The one is democracy without feedback. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.520 And without some freemies. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.800 Here comes a free T shirts. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:17:59.200 Three pointer. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.200 You lost your mom to cancer. Yeah, you're very close 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.879 to your mom because you use a single parent and 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.840 that was pretty much what you had, although you had 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.000 a community to help raise you. How did you deal? 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:11.680 How did you cope with that loss? 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.840 Grief is difficult, it's difficult. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.399 You know there are two sides to the coin about 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:23.840 when you have relationships in your life that touch you deeply, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.959 and then to lose that person, it leaves a big void. Right, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.440 That's the two sides, and I think that part of 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.640 what I was just talking about this, But the big 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.680 part about grief is, especially if you lose somebody to 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.800 a sickness, to an illness, I think it's really important 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.119 that you try to remember them as they lived and 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.800 not as they died, because I think that's how they'd 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:53.480 want us to remember them. But also to remember their suffering, 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.359 which hopefully was a fraction of their time on this earth. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.560 Is to compound the grief in a way that I 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.360 think it adds to the pain. And what they want 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.560 is that their active memory, that our active memory of 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.440 them is about when they were vibrant and alive. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:16.200 So let's get into things that will change. What will 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.280 happen if you were to become president, say in the 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.359 next twelve to thirteen days. Pole suggests that voters trust 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:27.560 President Trump former President Trump modeled the economy. What can 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.439 you tell the voters, our viewing audience, our listening audience 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.480 that if you were to become president, while Madam VP 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.359 Karmala Harris will be much better on the economy than 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:38.399 what President Trump was. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.880 Well, so I'm really glad you brought that up. Channel. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.880 So first of all, let's clear up certain myths. Okay, 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:45.000 you know those checks that went. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:49.080 Out, Yes, those stimmys, right right, stimulus? 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.359 Yeah, I know, well, y y, you. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.440 Gotta be stimulus, but they call them stimmy. It's okay. 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:59.680 The reason those came about is because there was a 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.600 demmocratic majority in the House of Representatives in Congress, people 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.880 like Maxine Waters, people like Hakeem Jeffries right, yes, who 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.359 did the work of pushing to say people need help 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.439 right now, and we need to send out checks. There 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.159 was a whole lot of opposition to it, including from 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:19.320 Donald Trump's White House. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.159 Yes, even him, I think he was. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:27.000 Yes, that's why those checks. Remember Congress holds the purse. Yes, 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.160 so really, Congress wrote those checks. But then Donald Trump, 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.000 unlike any president before after, decided he put his name 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.040 on those checks. So people thought Donald Trump, he gave 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:42.040 me that check. And so let's clear that up first 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.040 and foremost. But let's also deal with where he was 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.920 in terms of his policies on the economy. He gave 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.359 the biggest tax cuts for billionaires and the biggest corporations, 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.520 which caused an incredible deficit. He tried to get rid 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.640 of the Affordable Care Act, which we also call Obamacare, 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.680 which benefited so many people, including and in particular Black 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.280 people in America who otherwise were denied by the insurance 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.800 companies health coverage because of pre existing conditions. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.800 That's most important. Let the people know, right, with Affordable 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.280 Care Act, if you have a pre existing condition, insurance 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.400 companies can no longer deny you coverage. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:21.399 That's exactly right. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.359 And if you think about what that means in the 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.879 context of also knowing the big health disparities we have 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:32.120 in the black community and how more likely therefore black 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.560 folks might be to have pre existing. 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.040 Conditions loved pressure, diabetes, all of that, and cancers. 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:41.920 All of that, Yes, asthma for our children, Yes, sickle sales, rance, 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.320 it's all of that. So by getting rid of the 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.160 pre existing condition ban, what that did. But he wanted 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.800 to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. What we 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.600 have done in part of my policies going forward include 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.600 what we need to do to not only retain the 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.720 cap that we got on insult then at thirty five 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.400 dollars a months for seniors. By the way, black folks 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:04.639 are sixty percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:06.879 He wants to get rid of it with that project 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:07.640 twenty twenty five. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:08.880 Everybody needs to check that out. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:10.960