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Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership

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Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Home, y'all home.

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Speaker 1: So happy to be here with our essence family. We

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Speaker 1: have had quite the weekend. It has been a beautiful experience.

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Speaker 1: Have you all had a good time? All right, Andrew tip,

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Speaker 1: will we getting into Oh, we.

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Speaker 4: Got some great guests for you all today. We want

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Speaker 4: to have a little conversation about the state of affairs,

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Speaker 4: politics and our nation. And I think we've got three

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Speaker 4: voices who you'll get to hear it from.

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Speaker 3: Four I'm sorry, four voices.

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Speaker 4: One more add on that will be just perfect to

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Speaker 4: get the message succinctly to us so that we can

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Speaker 4: share with our friends, loved ones, family cousins, in them

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Speaker 4: and them and them.

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Speaker 5: So bear with us.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a good quick panel for your enjoyment.

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Speaker 6: I'm excited to hear from the people at every level

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Speaker 6: of government right now, because I think we were just

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Speaker 6: talking backstage about so many people are not necessarily engaged.

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Speaker 6: People are exhausted with what's going on, and I know,

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Speaker 6: to save our spirits sometimes we need to tune out.

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Speaker 6: But I'm thrilled that we have people who can make

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Speaker 6: information accessible and digestible and break down the things we

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Speaker 6: need to know.

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Speaker 7: So I'm ready to get into it.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Well, while people are using the power their voices, it

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Speaker 1: sounds like a protest is going on right now. But

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Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure that you are equipped to do

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Speaker 1: the very that kind of work and engage in your

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Speaker 1: power at home.

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Speaker 7: So we are thrilled to bring.

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Speaker 1: To the stage the following voices, and if the backstage

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Speaker 1: folks would do us a favor and increase the volume

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Speaker 1: on these mics, that would be amazing.

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Speaker 5: We have State Rep.

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Kenyata, who is the vice chair of the Democratic

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Speaker 1: National Committee joining us. We have Ashley Shelton, CEO of

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Speaker 1: Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.

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Speaker 7: Yes, indeed, we have LINEE.

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Speaker 1: Vane, how y'all feel about parking Lot Pippin also the

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Speaker 1: hosts of the People's Brief on Revolt, and last, but

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Speaker 1: certainly not least, the Queen, our friend, our sister, Congresswoman

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Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockhead is in the buildings. Don't mind us, We're

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Speaker 1: not the church, praise seem We went to a white

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Speaker 1: brunch right before this So I want to start with

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Speaker 1: our dear sister, Jasmine. There are many crises that the

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Speaker 1: country is wrestling with right now. I'm just gonna somber

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Speaker 1: us up just for a moment. There are a few

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Speaker 1: crises on our hands, and one is in Jasmine's home

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Speaker 1: state of Texas of course, with the flash floods and

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Speaker 1: the many lives that were lost.

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Speaker 5: So, Jasmine, I just wanted.

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Speaker 1: To yield to you for a moment, to just bring

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Speaker 1: truth to us about what's really happening in this moment.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that, uh, this is a great opportunity

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Speaker 8: to talk about this particular issue specifically right now that

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Speaker 8: we are sitting in Louisiana, because we know that there

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Speaker 8: we have these natural disasters that have only continuously been

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Speaker 8: on the rise because some people just don't believe in

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Speaker 8: climate change in this country, we also have had those

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Speaker 8: always at least helped us to predict what was going

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Speaker 8: Right now, people don't understand that there have been devastating

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Speaker 8: cuts that have taken place on the federal level for

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Speaker 8: no other reason than pure idiocy, cruelty, as well as incompetency,

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Speaker 8: and it is leading to people dying. People don't fully

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Speaker 8: understand that government, last time I check, wasn't here to

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Speaker 8: kill us, but should be extending our lives and should

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Speaker 8: be representing for us. But unfortunately, right now, we do

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Speaker 8: not know how many people are still missing. We do

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Speaker 8: be here today. I don't really care what your political

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Speaker 7: Right now we are in a crisis.

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Speaker 8: In this country because we have people because at the

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Speaker 8: you should elect people that are people centered and focused

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Speaker 8: instead of playing these stupid games. And that's what we

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Speaker 7: Unfortunately.

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 3: We want to give you a break, Congressman.

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Speaker 4: But before we move on to the other panelists, for

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Speaker 4: some questions, I would love for you to reflect for

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Speaker 4: this audience on it's still a term of.

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Speaker 3: Yours bad bill.

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Speaker 5: Bill?

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Speaker 3: Wait, what is it bad bill?

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Speaker 4: Butch body budget bill that just passed the US Congress

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Speaker 4: signed it to law by Donald Trump. And how do

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Speaker 4: you make it plain to this audience the ways in

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Speaker 4: which their lives may be impacted by what this Republican

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna keep it real short, because obviously we've got

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Speaker 8: an amazing panel of people.

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Speaker 7: This is a reverse Robinhood.

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Speaker 8: Essentially, what they've done is they've taken resources and money

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Speaker 8: that now means that they are going to have to

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Speaker 7: Order to try to stay alive.

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Speaker 8: Also say, Jeff Bezos can go out and when he

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Speaker 7: That's it's pure and simple.

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Speaker 8: And let me let me give y'all numbers, numbers that

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Speaker 8: you probably can't truly conceptualize. They cut one trillion dollars

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Speaker 8: the ecosystem of health care. And that's how I'm gonna

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Speaker 8: phrase it. Because even if you don't have Medicaid, whatever

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Speaker 7: Out of the health care system.

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Speaker 8: For some of you that don't necessarily live in the

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Speaker 7: People are going to die.

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Speaker 8: Unfortunately. That is the theme of this administration. And the

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Speaker 8: only thing that we have to show for it is

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Speaker 8: that literally, we have eighty three billionaires in this country.

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Speaker 8: They care more about eighty three billionaires in this country

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Speaker 7: That is the long and short.

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Speaker 8: Whether we're talking about healthcare, whether we're talking about food,

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Speaker 8: wealth gap. I am telling y'all it is time to

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Speaker 6: I want to ask a follow up to you, Congressoman,

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Speaker 6: and also I want to bring in Malcolm Kenyata, who

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Speaker 6: is here as well. I think a lot of white

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Speaker 6: one run newsrooms misrepresent black folks and they think black

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Speaker 6: it as ourselves who were loyal to We're voting it

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Speaker 6: for harm reduction, not to any particular party. So what

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Speaker 6: but they feel like the party is not fighting for

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Speaker 6: what's happening. I'm curious what you would say to those people,

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Speaker 6: and when she's done, I would love to hear from

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Speaker 6: you as well, Malcolm.

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Speaker 7: So I absolutely understand.

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Speaker 8: I think that one of the reasons that I became

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Speaker 8: There are a group of people that have I felt

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Speaker 7: And I get it.

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Speaker 8: I understand that there are people that feel like, you

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Speaker 8: I understand it, right, And so I tell people, just

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Speaker 8: like I just told y'all you should vote based upon

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Speaker 8: tell you that I am not a Republican because I

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Speaker 8: don't ever see myself being in a party that sides

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Speaker 7: I get that, but it.

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Speaker 8: Does not mean that I believe that the party that

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Speaker 7: And so that's where you come in.

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Speaker 8: The idea that Donald Trump won this election, in my opinion,

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Speaker 7: But one of those reasons is.

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Speaker 8: Because a lot of people say, you know what, what

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Speaker 7: And what she's talking about.

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Speaker 8: I don't necessarily believe it, right because people have given

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Speaker 8: when you decided to stay at home, you gave up

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Speaker 8: on yourselves. And unfortunately, so I'm gonna tell y'all a

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Speaker 8: to be. Is that we consistently want perfection out of

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Speaker 8: we will never be perfect. And I tell people all

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Speaker 8: the time that they divided us, and what do they

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Speaker 8: say in war is.

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Speaker 7: Divide and conquer.

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Speaker 8: We got conquered because we allowed ourselves to be divided.

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Speaker 8: And so what I want you to understand is that

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Speaker 8: it's not really about convincing everybody to believe everything that

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Speaker 7: I don't really care where you stand on abortion.

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Speaker 8: I don't really care where you stand on LGBTQYA issues.

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Speaker 7: I love I love Dan Knaka.

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Speaker 1: I love what you share because what's really important is

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Speaker 11: what these amendments were and what they did. We explained

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Speaker 11: to people how this would impact them and their families

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Speaker 11: on a day to day basis. You know, we held

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Speaker 11: you know, we in every meeting. Then we met the

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Speaker 11: you know, the black teachers from Jefferson Parish, and we

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Speaker 11: met the such and such an auxiliary you know, group

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Speaker 11: of women in this parish. And so we went all

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Speaker 11: around this state talking to people about why this was important,

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Speaker 11: and they showed up.

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Speaker 7: And I think that would Yes, they did.

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Speaker 11: Sixty five percent of the state who voted in that

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Speaker 11: election defeated those amendments, and in fact, the one for

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Speaker 11: putting the kids in jail got sixty six percent.

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Speaker 7: And I think that the thing.

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Speaker 11: That I think is most important is that a couple

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Speaker 11: of things that since this election or this administration came in,

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Speaker 11: we have seen.

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Speaker 7: Such an uptick in participation.

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Speaker 11: Folks coming out, Folks have questions, Folks that want to

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Speaker 11: be engaged, They want to understand what's happening. People are hungry,

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Speaker 11: and we saw that we fed that, and you know,

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Speaker 11: and working across genres across issues really were able to

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Speaker 11: come together and defeat these amendments and stop them from

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Speaker 11: coming to our you know, coming to put in being

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Speaker 11: put into our constitution. And ten thousand more black people

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Speaker 11: voted on these four amendments than they did for the

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Speaker 11: governor's race ten thousand and so, you know, I would say, like, we,

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Speaker 11: you know, we got some work to do, because if

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Speaker 11: we would have got that together, we probably would have

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Speaker 11: had a better we wouldn't have been dealing with what

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Speaker 11: we're dealing with. But it does going to show you

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Speaker 11: that I hope that it is a Bellweather moment where

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Speaker 11: you know, as goes the South can mean something positive,

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Speaker 11: that the South is really you know, we have something

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Speaker 11: to say, and it's time to recognize that.

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Speaker 7: There's power here.

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Speaker 11: We have the second largest black population, second to Mississippi.

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Speaker 11: But we still you know, but there's so many there's

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Speaker 11: so much power here. We're thirty percent of the population.

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Speaker 11: And so we've already won one additional congressional majority minority seat,

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Speaker 11: and then we're still fighting for nine state seats, six

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Speaker 11: House and three Senate. And so all of these are

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Speaker 11: in one is in the Supreme Court. Some of them

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Speaker 11: are in federal court the middle district. But we're going

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Speaker 11: to keep fighting because that's where.

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Speaker 1: The power is.

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Speaker 7: That's where our power is. So think about the fact that.

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Speaker 11: I can sit here right now and say nine seats

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Speaker 11: across the state don't have representation where black folks were

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Speaker 11: cracked or packed into different districts, and so again, those

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Speaker 11: fights were led by the people of the state. And

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Speaker 11: I am so proud of the people because the message

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Speaker 11: that the people kept saying over and over again is

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Speaker 11: that we just want what's fair. We went so much

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Speaker 11: so that it came up and was quoted in court

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Speaker 11: that all they wanted was what was fair and that

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Speaker 11: we don't need to start changing the rules now that

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Speaker 11: the majority is starting to look like the minority.

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Speaker 3: I love that, y'all give it up. Excellent work on

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Speaker 3: the ground. I want to invite in Leneveney, who.

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Speaker 4: Some of you all know from social media the People's

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Speaker 4: Brief as well, but a woman who is taking really

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Speaker 4: difficult issues and breaking them down to digestible levels. And

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Speaker 4: I just want to start here with you, which is

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Speaker 4: in this time right now where people seem to be

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Speaker 4: and competition for attention, that our minds have spread every

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Speaker 4: which way we turn on social media. There's ten thousand

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Speaker 4: videos that we all want to stream through, and some

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Speaker 4: of that seems to be distracting folks from some of

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Speaker 4: the real harm that's taking place through the governing process.

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Speaker 4: I'm curious to know how it is that you break

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Speaker 4: through the noise and give folks, you know, to the

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Speaker 4: millions y'all, to the tunes of millions who are tuning

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Speaker 4: into her videos to understand a little bit better of

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Speaker 4: what's happening in this political space.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to hear how you're doing that, and then to.

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Speaker 4: What advice would you give to the rest of us

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Speaker 4: of how we can get our family members, friends, co

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Speaker 4: workers to pay attention to what's happening, even though it

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Speaker 4: may not be the sexiest thing happening.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I think Kendrick Lamar said the best, and he said,

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Speaker 12: you got to make it look sexy. A lot of

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Speaker 12: people don't care about things until they feel like they

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Speaker 12: can see themselves in it, or see a version of

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Speaker 12: themselves that they'd like to be in it, or it

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Speaker 12: connects to something they have going on in everyday regular life.

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Speaker 12: So I just prioritize me to people where they are

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Speaker 12: using language that people understand I have a master's in

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Speaker 12: African American studies, but I don't lead with an academic mind.

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Speaker 12: I lead with like I'm talking to family, like I'm

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Speaker 12: talking to my homegirls or whatever, and just making sure

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Speaker 12: like you understand what's going on because it does affect you.

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Speaker 12: I think it's really difficult as a black creator, period though,

539
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Speaker 12: because what gets clicks and what gets likes, what gets

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Speaker 12: what gets tossed around the algorithm and goes violence more

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Speaker 12: often than not negative content, and like you said, people

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Speaker 12: aren't in competition for attention. But also I think we're

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Speaker 12: facing an academic of an epidemic of everybody wanting to

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Speaker 12: be right, everybody wanting to have the correct opinion, and

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Speaker 12: wanting to amalgamate mass groups of people to engage in

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Speaker 12: this group thing that is completely unnecessary and distracting and

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Speaker 12: also a product of white supremacy.

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Speaker 3: So how do I do it?

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Speaker 12: I guess I know it's about the grace of God,

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Speaker 12: you know what I'm saying, Like I just I use

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Speaker 12: my voice because this is something that when you think

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Speaker 12: about trying to master down to a science, you have

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Speaker 12: to be able to just cut through with allten authenticity

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Speaker 12: and purpose and usefulness for the audience. And I'm just

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Speaker 12: grateful that what I've been doing for the past five

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Speaker 12: years has done that for people and it's continuing to grow.

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Speaker 12: You ask me a second part of that question, advice,

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Speaker 12: What could you be doing?

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Speaker 7: Okay, So here's the thing.

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Speaker 12: If you like the content, and it's not just me,

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Speaker 12: I've been able to be here this weekend with a

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Speaker 12: lot of great creators. You might know Rashonda Elias, you

563
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Speaker 12: might know Elizabeth Booker, you might know the Conscious Lea.

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Speaker 12: We all have different vantage points. You all have different

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Speaker 12: skill sets to be able to give you the information

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Speaker 12: in a way that makes sense for you. But just

567
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Speaker 12: like you're engaging in the comments, you need to take

568
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Speaker 12: those conversations home to your workplace, like this shit.

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Speaker 7: Is not a game.

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Speaker 12: And the more that this administration is allowing itself to

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Speaker 12: roll out its marketing trail of doom, it gets harder

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Speaker 12: for us on the Internet to have joy, maintain joy,

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Speaker 12: to be encouraged. And so you have to be able

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Speaker 12: to utilize the information that you're getting from your feed

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Speaker 12: and feed it back into your community. So I mean,

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Speaker 12: I have more thoughts on what we can do at

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Speaker 12: home because I'm sitting up here.

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Speaker 3: And I can't.

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Speaker 12: I intended to come here and listen and learn, and

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Speaker 12: then I was on the program. But with that said,

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Speaker 12: I'm sitting up here with amazing voices in politics, but

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Speaker 12: I find I'm a person who's more connected to the

583
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Speaker 12: people and just working from the ground up. So I

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Speaker 12: have ideas on what we can do, but we can't

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Speaker 12: expect our elected officials to do everything.

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Speaker 3: And we can't.

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Speaker 12: Expect our elected officials to save us when we have

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Speaker 12: not been in the rooms, and we have not been

589
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Speaker 12: sticking beside the Democratic Party, when we have been actually

590
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Speaker 12: actively working to tear it down because we want to

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Speaker 12: be right, because we feel disenchanted and we feel like

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Speaker 12: the party hasn't had our back, and I get all

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Speaker 12: those things, but we have a role in this work

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Speaker 12: as well, and if we stand by and just let

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Speaker 12: it pass us by, I'm going to find ourselves in

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Speaker 12: the world to hurt. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I just say that Linney is being like extremely modest.

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Speaker 8: I just want to say that part number one, I

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Speaker 8: mean briefly.

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Speaker 7: Touched on her education.

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Speaker 8: I'm not gonna labor, but I do believe that specifically

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Speaker 8: when it comes to black women, I will absolutely spend

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Speaker 8: all my time pouring into the ninety two percent because

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Speaker 8: we tried to save this country in the first place,

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Speaker 8: all right. And so Lenae also is she's a lyricist.

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Speaker 8: This woman is a poet, and she knows how to

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Speaker 8: frame it in ways that really resonate with our people.

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Speaker 8: And so she is a trusted voice because she's gonna

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Speaker 8: say what she gonna say very unapologetically. As she said,

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Speaker 8: She's gonna do it in an authentic way. But she's

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Speaker 8: also young, and so you know, our party has consistently

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Speaker 8: struggled to be like how we get young people, how

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Speaker 8: we get them youngins right, but like literally being able

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Speaker 8: to platform. And I appreciate my brother Malcolm Kinyata. We

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Speaker 8: have known each other for some time, but like this

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Speaker 8: was actually a really big step electing him for a

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Speaker 8: lot of different reasons to this post. Because when people

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Speaker 8: are saying that the Democratic Party is not doing certain things,

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Speaker 8: and lord knows, I got a long list of things

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Speaker 8: I ain't doing. But when you're saying things like we

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Speaker 8: want young people, but it's like, do you just want

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Speaker 8: young people to go and get your coffee or do

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Speaker 8: you want to actually give them a seat and give

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Speaker 8: them a voice, and so that is why it is

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Speaker 8: beautiful because they are playing roles. And I think it's

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Speaker 8: also even more beautiful that you have this compilation of

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Speaker 8: folk on this stage right now, because it is going

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Speaker 8: to take all of us. It is not just about

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Speaker 8: the elected official. I know that we want it to

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Speaker 8: be only about the electors doing the work, but there's

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Speaker 8: so much that the people have to do because at

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Speaker 8: least so long as we have a democracy, the power

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Speaker 8: resides with the people. And that is why it is

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Speaker 8: so important that we have those that can communicate and educate,

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Speaker 8: but also have those that are engaged in the straight

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Speaker 8: up just activism and education on the ground. It takes

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Speaker 8: every single person. So I don't want any of you

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Speaker 8: to ever feel like there's not a role for you

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Speaker 8: to play because you're not going to run for elected office.

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Speaker 8: I need you to understand that we all have a

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Speaker 8: purpose and there is some level of influence that you

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Speaker 8: can engage in that will move the needle to get

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Speaker 8: us to a more a union.

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Speaker 9: You're not gonna underline just one thing really quick, Hey

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Speaker 9: everything that jazzn't said about LINEE because I'll tell you

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Speaker 9: my family we'd be sharing these videos around, especially for

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Speaker 9: the knuckle has who voted the other the other way.

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Speaker 9: And there are folks in my family voted not the

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Speaker 9: way they should have should have voted. But let me

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Speaker 9: say this you for people in your network. There are

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Speaker 9: folks that you are in a group chat with. There

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Speaker 9: are folks who call you who trust you, and in

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Speaker 9: this moment they're great, really smart people who are looking,

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Speaker 9: who are sociologists and others. Disinformation. Misinformation is real, it's rampant.

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Speaker 9: You were not going to be able to stop the ocean.

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Speaker 9: But there are five or ten people in your phone

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Speaker 9: right now who don't trust none of the people sitting

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Speaker 9: on the stage.

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Speaker 5: But who trust you, who believe.

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Speaker 9: In you, and when you say something to them, it

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Speaker 9: really matters. And I would just say, there are a

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Speaker 9: lot of our uncles and our aunties and our mama

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Speaker 9: and them who have stopped asserting themselves in this moment,

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Speaker 9: and I would say, reassert yourself in this moment. I

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Speaker 9: promise you there are folks within your network who want

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Speaker 9: to hear from you, and you are the most effective,

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Speaker 9: you know, messenger, with an assist maybe from some of

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Speaker 9: the people we are on this stage.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for that, Malcolm well on Native Lampard. We

670
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Speaker 6: try to make the point that we're never talking at you,

671
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Speaker 6: it's a conversation with you. So we do want to

672
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Speaker 6: open up the forum. If people are yes, ma'am, I

673
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Speaker 6: couldn't even finish it. We already Black women don't never

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Speaker 6: really need an invite, So yes, ma'am, there's no Mike.

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Speaker 7: That's okay, you can have mine. Good afternoon, thank you

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Speaker 7: for being here.

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Speaker 1: I just have a So what I want to say

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Speaker 1: is with can you say your name is where you're from?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, dandy shit Harris Newborn, North Carolina. I live there,

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Speaker 1: I'm from New York. And McMahon, she's trash. I just

681
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Speaker 1: want to say that I'm a millennial. I left the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party two years ago and I'm independent and I'm

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Speaker 1: running independent for a House seat in North Carolina. And

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Speaker 1: I feel like if there is not a good Democratic candidate,

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Speaker 1: that the Democratic needs to open up the charter to

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Speaker 1: at least support an independent candidate that is good for

687
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Speaker 1: the seat, and not only young people running grassroots. We

688
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Speaker 1: need money. We need money to go against these Republicans.

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Speaker 1: So what is advice for people that are running independent

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Speaker 1: and not necessarily tied to a party.

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Speaker 5: We want to stay grassroots.

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Speaker 8: It's gonna be me and ken YadA. I'll deal with

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Speaker 8: the money. I'll let you deal with the other. Listen,

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Speaker 8: it's not even necessarily a party affiliation. Black women are

695
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Speaker 8: the most underfunded no matter what you look at, whether

696
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Speaker 8: you're talking about building their own businesses or anything, so

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Speaker 8: across the board, historically we are the most underfunded. My

698
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Speaker 8: deal is, you can't run somebody else's so the traditional

699
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Speaker 8: way that other people may raise money or whatever that

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Speaker 8: may not necessarily be your path. When I ran for

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Speaker 8: the state house, people thought I was crazy because I

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Speaker 8: decided I.

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Speaker 7: Was gonna have my own ball, and they was like,

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Speaker 7: you're gonna do what I.

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Speaker 8: Said, I'm gonna have a ball, and they said, well, okay,

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Speaker 8: and so I did.

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Speaker 7: I did my own ball.

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Speaker 8: I had me, you know, a few local celebrities come through, right,

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Speaker 8: because I knew that regular people that were not used

710
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Speaker 8: to donating that you gotta get something in return. So

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Speaker 8: we had an open bar, we had food, we had

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Speaker 8: live music right and we made it to the extent

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Speaker 8: that we could profit in and one night for my

714
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Speaker 8: state House race, we raised over twenty thousand dollars doing

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Speaker 8: something that no one else had ever thought. Now, when

716
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Speaker 8: you get into politics, Malcolm Kenyatta will co sign if

717
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Speaker 8: they tell you you gotta do your call time, you

718
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Speaker 8: got to call the donors and things like that. But

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Speaker 8: that wasn't what was going to work for me. And

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Speaker 8: I knew that I could tap into a space that

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Speaker 8: had not been tapped into and do something different. So

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Speaker 8: I'm going to cheat you to think outside the box.

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Speaker 8: And frankly, I'm going to challenge each and every one

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Speaker 8: of you that are sitting here that ultimately, with politics,

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Speaker 8: especially in this new age of politics, one of the

726
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Speaker 8: issues we're having within the party is that we're still

727
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Speaker 8: trying to function within the same rules.

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Speaker 7: They didn't get rid of the whole game.

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Speaker 8: It is completely different, right, So think outside the box,

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Speaker 8: do not be limited, and know yourself.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna let you talk about the Democrats supporting the indipendence.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I love that, and I would just say, yeah,

733
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Speaker 9: you know, we've been playing checkers and Republicans are playing

734
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Speaker 9: grand Theft Auto and they've stolen their third car and

735
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Speaker 9: have shot up the neighborhood. So only say this, first

736
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Speaker 9: of all, thank you for running. Anybody who's run for office,

737
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Speaker 9: win or lose, knows the sacrifice that it takes to

738
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Speaker 9: put yourself out there in that way. Obviously, I want

739
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Speaker 9: to talk to you after this about coming back to

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Speaker 9: the Democratic Party and running and running as a as

741
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Speaker 9: a Democrat. But I think that you know, part of

742
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Speaker 9: the conversation that we were having this whole thing with

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Speaker 9: David Hogg, and you know, a lot of what people

744
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Speaker 9: heard him saying was right, a lot of what he

745
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Speaker 9: was actually saying and doing was wrong. But let me

746
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Speaker 9: say this, we do need robust primaries. That's why I

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Speaker 9: said at the end of my first comments that it

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Speaker 9: is not my gig to try to say, well, this

749
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Speaker 9: person's in the seat, and my job is to stop

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Speaker 9: you from running against them.

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Speaker 5: It's not my job.

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Speaker 9: My job is to trust all of you, to trust voters,

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Speaker 9: to trust that the conversations you're having with people at

754
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Speaker 9: doors will either earn you their votes or they will

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Speaker 9: vote for another candidate, or they will stay at home.

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Speaker 9: And so even you stepping up as an independent, I

757
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Speaker 9: think the positive thing that I think comes out of

758
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Speaker 9: that is I want more people to go in and

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Speaker 9: exercise their responsibility and their right to vote and engage

760
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Speaker 9: in the process, and particularly locally. And this is like

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Speaker 9: not a democratic hath thing, but me and my reat

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Speaker 9: I do think we need to have more, particularly at

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Speaker 9: the local level, more open primaries, because particularly for your

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Speaker 9: mayor or for you know, your local council people, you know,

765
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Speaker 9: who's picking up the trash or making sure that there's potholes.

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Speaker 9: That's not particularly partisan. And any mayor will tell you that,

767
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Speaker 9: you know, that's not a partisan thing. People just want

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Speaker 9: you to effectuate high levels of government service. And so

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Speaker 9: to that end, you know, I have sponsored and we

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Speaker 9: have passed out of at least the House open primaries

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Speaker 9: in Pennsylvania to allow for more people to engage in

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Speaker 9: the process. But after we're done, I'm gonna run off

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Speaker 9: this stage and try to talk to you.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, cool.

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Speaker 12: Pee, Thank you so much for being here. My name

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00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 12: is ROBERTA and I am from Florida. So we understand

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Speaker 12: fam you graduate, yes, So I say that to say,

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Speaker 12: what we're experiencing in Florida is no secret.

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Speaker 3: Every other day we're on CNN.

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Speaker 12: But we're operating with this trifecta, right, meaning we don't

781
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Speaker 12: have the House, we don't have the Senate, and we

782
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Speaker 12: don't have the cabinet on our side, and we're literally

783
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Speaker 12: under attack in de Satanists, including our HBCUs as you

784
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Speaker 12: know what fam you. What we're finding is they are

785
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Speaker 12: appointing their people. I also practice law. They are appointing

786
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Speaker 12: their people to all of our judicial seats, appointing their

787
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Speaker 12: people to now to those open positions.

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Speaker 5: And we're losing power.

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Speaker 12: And we have a host of young people who have

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Speaker 12: lost faith in politics, as they call it. And I

791
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Speaker 12: don't have how many doors you knock them, We're hearing

792
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Speaker 12: more and more.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 12: I don't do politics, so this is for anybody, but

795
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Speaker 12: namely you. How do we go about restoring faith in

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Speaker 12: the process, because when you see that, you're under a

797
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Speaker 12: tech and I have lots of friends who serve on

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Speaker 12: the legislatum.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we understand the question. There's some people behind you.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to stop you right there and have

801
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Speaker 1: one answer per question.

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Speaker 5: So I'll be very brief to say.

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Speaker 9: You know, my grandfather, Mohamma Kenyada, was a great civil

804
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Speaker 9: rights activist and leader, and he would say something that

805
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Speaker 9: my dad passed on to me, you don't have to

806
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 9: do politics, but politics does you? And I think that

807
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Speaker 9: it's a part of why I led with talking about

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Speaker 9: why I'm in this role, even if somebody who's been

809
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Speaker 9: very critical of this party, why am I in it?

810
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Speaker 9: Because institutions don't disappear because you're not there. And I

811
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Speaker 9: always use the thing of karaoke. If you ever go

812
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Speaker 9: to karaoke, the people have no business on the microphone

813
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Speaker 9: or the first people up there to saying. The folks

814
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Speaker 9: who know how they need to sing, They're like, well,

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Speaker 9: I haven't rested my voice, I don't have my team

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Speaker 9: with me today.

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Speaker 5: That's politics.

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Speaker 9: People who have no business in public office run every

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Speaker 9: single time. And you have so many folks who need

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Speaker 9: to be in the system because they are qualified, because

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Speaker 9: they are called and some of these folks are sanctified. Okay,

822
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Speaker 9: but who say politics are messy and dirty, that I'm

823
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Speaker 9: not going to be involved in it. And in fact,

824
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Speaker 9: we need the exact opposite response. We need to flood

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Speaker 9: the zone in the way that they're flooding the zone

826
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Speaker 9: with people who want things to change.

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Speaker 12: Can I really quick you asked about restoring faith. We

828
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Speaker 12: need to get back to bartering, we need to get

829
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Speaker 12: back to servicing people. And I heard you say you're

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Speaker 12: knocking on doors, what are you asking them? Are you

831
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Speaker 12: asking them to vote? Are you asking them what they need?

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Speaker 12: Are you meeting their knees? And are you establishing trusting community?

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Speaker 12: For then you need to be able to turn around

834
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Speaker 12: and say I've done this, here's why.

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Speaker 3: This is what you can do for me.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, good afternoon. My name is Zori Stevens and I'm

837
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Speaker 13: from New Orleans.

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Speaker 5: I'm nervous.

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Speaker 7: Ahead, baby, you're in a safe space. You're good. It's okay,

840
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Speaker 7: you're good, y'all, clap it.

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Speaker 5: Up for all right.

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Speaker 13: So I'm in school for engineering, so.

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Speaker 10: Good.

844
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Speaker 13: I'm gonna be very transparent. I'm not up to date

845
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Speaker 13: what politics, but I learned a lot from working in

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Speaker 13: this activation and coming to listen to you guys talk.

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Speaker 13: So my question is what is your advice on learning

848
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Speaker 13: what we are actually voting for? Because I know when

849
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Speaker 13: we read the laws that are trying to be passed,

850
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Speaker 13: they're not written for us to understand.

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Speaker 7: So that is a fabulous question.

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Speaker 11: And you know Power Coalition we do a lot of

853
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Speaker 11: work to write things in plane language. So I mean

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Speaker 11: we did it with the amendments, we do it with

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Speaker 11: anything that's on the ballot. It's like, what does it

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Speaker 11: mean if I vote yes? What does it mean if

857
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Speaker 11: I vote no? And so we break it down in

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Speaker 11: the plane language, so you know exactly what you're doing

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Speaker 11: when you go into the polls, because I tell people

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Speaker 11: all the time, nobody's going to go to the polls

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Speaker 11: if they don't understand what they're supposed to do, And

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Speaker 11: so we break it down so it's very simple, and

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Speaker 11: we put we have a sample ballot on our website

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Speaker 11: for every single election at Powercoalition dot org and so

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Speaker 11: it's really accessible whether you want to. And we also

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Speaker 11: do a whole social media media digital campaign. But their

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Speaker 11: organizations like ours, all over the country stific engagement tables

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Speaker 11: that are trying to make sure that we're breaking this

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Speaker 11: stuff down so that people can actually engage with it.

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Speaker 11: And also too, like we do events at Sneaker you know,

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Speaker 11: Sneaker Politics and different different places where again I might

872
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 11: not be the messenger, but where are there other young

873
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Speaker 11: folks like you. We're on the campuses across the state

874
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Speaker 11: trying to make sure that their ambassadors working with you

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Speaker 11: guys to get more involved in fighting for the state

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Speaker 11: we want to live in.

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Speaker 7: Can you pull out your phone.

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Speaker 12: Can you pull out your phone and take a video

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Speaker 12: for somebody to put a bunch of and anybody else

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Speaker 12: who wants to take this list to. It's a bunch

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Speaker 12: of social media outlets that you can follow. You let

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Speaker 12: me know when you're ready, ready, okay. At Leneviane at

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Speaker 12: the consciously at list Now, I don't want you to type.

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Speaker 12: I just want you to record me because I'm about

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Speaker 12: to list them at Lenavane at the Consciously at Booker

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Speaker 12: Squared at Dots Discourse, at Khalil Green at j william

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Speaker 12: j At Feminist at Feminist Hood, at When we All

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Speaker 12: Vote at Nineteenth News, at ap at Native Lampid at

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Speaker 12: Native Lampid, at Angela Raie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like, that's ten.

891
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Speaker 12: I think I'm sorry.

892
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Speaker 7: I'm sorry at.

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Speaker 1: Power co j and at Malcolm Period at Andrew Gillam

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Speaker 1: activity Cross.

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Speaker 7: And I'm gonna do this other one at Midas Touch.

896
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you so much.

897
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Speaker 7: We're gonna go to the next question.

898
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Speaker 13: Say thank you so much because I go to a

899
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Speaker 13: PWY so these type of conversations don't really go on.

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Speaker 7: So thanks, thank you so much.

901
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Speaker 1: Forward, Ashley, I hope you got a new campus ambassador,

902
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: right there exactly.

903
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 5: Hello.

904
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Speaker 14: I want to thank y'all for the work that y'all do.

905
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Speaker 14: I'm Joel and Jelivet and from Lafayette. I also want

906
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 14: to give a huge shout out to Ashley. She's been

907
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 14: a great partner in the previous administration. Thank you for

908
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 14: so much for your work in the census. The question

909
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 14: I have is, especially for messaging, Republicans have that lucky

910
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 14: thing where they're a very homogenous group. And then especially

911
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 14: for Democrats, especially for not only are people but working

912
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 14: within the party, how can we work better to have

913
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 14: a more cohesive message when there's so many priorities at place.

914
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 9: Let me be very quick to say, we have to

915
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,959
Speaker 9: stop focusing on the knuckleheads, because I don't hear people

916
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 9: say there's like nobody fighting, and then they'll tell me

917
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 9: how much they love Jasmin Krakkat and I like to

918
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 9: remind them that Jasmin Krokka is a member of the

919
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 9: Democratic Party, and so I think that you know, so

920
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 9: often what happens is they are these random ass people

921
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 9: who talk to a reporter and then they're quote unquote

922
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Speaker 9: speaking for the Democratic Party. And I have no idea

923
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Speaker 9: who some of these people are, but those are the

924
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Speaker 9: voices that get lifted up. I would say all the

925
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Speaker 9: people who Lennay just mentioned, retweet them, push them out

926
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Speaker 9: into your timeline. I wish I had a quick answer

927
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Speaker 9: for you on how to stop some of the idiotic

928
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Speaker 9: things that people who are like registered a certain way

929
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Speaker 9: to vote to stop them from saying the things that

930
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Speaker 9: they're saying. But so often their voices get framed as

931
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Speaker 9: they are the Democratic Party. Like I've heard people say

932
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Speaker 9: over and over again, why aren't Democrats supporting like the

933
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Speaker 9: Zoran in New York? Cher Martin and Malcolm Kenyata were

934
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Speaker 9: the first two Democrats to congratulate him after he won,

935
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Speaker 9: and we're gonna do everything we can to make sure

936
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Speaker 9: he becomes the next mayor of the City of New York.

937
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Speaker 9: And there are other like random Democrats who are like

938
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Speaker 9: not supporting him, and they become the face.

939
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Speaker 5: They're not the face.

940
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Speaker 9: And I think that's why it's so important that we

941
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Speaker 9: do have incredible messengers like Jasmine and so many others

942
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Speaker 9: in our party.

943
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Speaker 8: So I'm gonna approach this from a little bit of

944
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Speaker 8: a different perspective because we have fights within the caucus

945
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 8: all the time. I'm giving y'all a anxiety, okay, because

946
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 8: we do have so many We are a big tent party.

947
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Speaker 8: And so I think that because we are also within

948
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Speaker 8: a bit of an identity crisis, if we can kind

949
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Speaker 8: of get to our core values, then we can all

950
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Speaker 8: agree on these are the things that we will always

951
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 8: lift up. I will be perfectly honest with you and

952
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Speaker 8: tell you that there are people that currently are within

953
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Speaker 8: the Democratic Caucus and they're like, no, I can't do

954
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 8: this trans stuff. I mean, I'm just telling you, like

955
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 8: they have said it like we don't want to stand

956
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Speaker 8: there on it, or they have said that they disagree

957
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Speaker 8: with like where we are going on immigration, like I

958
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Speaker 8: will always stand on the on the side of like

959
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 8: human rights like period, like full stop, right like, because

960
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Speaker 8: the fact that people are immigrating to this country doesn't

961
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Speaker 8: necessarily mean that they are invading the country. There's a difference, right, So, Like,

962
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,720
Speaker 8: I think that it comes down to at least getting

963
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 8: us to a baseline on the few things. And I

964
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Speaker 8: think that we have to just stick to three things, because,

965
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 8: as you said, when you think about all the things

966
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 8: that the Republicans have done to tar us apart right now,

967
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 8: the reality is that they didn't campaign on a bunch

968
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 8: of stuff. In fact, most people can't tell you what

969
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 8: policies they did campaign on. And so I think that

970
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Speaker 8: number one, we have to come up with our core,

971
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 8: like these are going to be the three things that

972
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Speaker 8: we always just focus on at a base level, while

973
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 8: also obviously amplifying these other things individually. But we got

974
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Speaker 8: to have at least a base. And then I think

975
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 8: that it's important for us to recognize that we are

976
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 8: in a branding crisis and how people look at us

977
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 8: as a brand and say it is time for us

978
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 8: to rebrand. People think that it's about our policies. They're like, oh,

979
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 8: we're going too far left, or oh we need to

980
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 8: be more center. No, personally, I believe that what people

981
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 8: are looking for as fighters, and right now they're saying listen, uh,

982
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 8: they're not fighting for us, Like that's it, And I

983
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 8: understand that's what Malcolm is saying, right but like, that's

984
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 8: that is. If we can just be branded as fighters

985
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 8: in whatever way, I think that people will then at least.

986
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:40,959
Speaker 7: Want to listen to us.

987
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 8: But the problem is a lot of our messengers they

988
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Speaker 8: don't believe that they're fighters in the first place.

989
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 15: So they're not going to listen to them.

990
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Speaker 6: Before you go to the next question, Thank you Congress.

991
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 6: Before we go to the next question. The young lady

992
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 6: was asking about information. This man is asking about messaging,

993
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 6: and I just want to acknowledge we had someone join us.

994
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 6: Roland Martin, will you please stand up. I just want

995
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 6: to thank this man because he covers almost everything that's

996
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 6: happening in Black America that legacy media summarily ignores.

997
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 7: So I just want to give you your.

998
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 6: Flowers role and thank you because it costs money and

999
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 6: resources and you spend that and show up.

1000
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 8: Every time for us, so all the time follow Roland Martin.

1001
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: Yes, one question, name me where you're from.

1002
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 16: Yes, my name is Stacey. I live in Atlanta, Georgia.

1003
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 16: But my question is is that a lot of people

1004
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 16: are not paying attention to the military that he is,

1005
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 16: that he gave money to the ICE, the billions of

1006
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 16: dollars that he's pre aiding for his own military because

1007
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 16: they're they're coming right now for brown people. To the

1008
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 16: next is black people. That's my belief. And I think

1009
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 16: he's gaining. I think he's gaining the military. He's building

1010
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 16: up his own military financially with this new bill.

1011
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: Okay, so that sounds like a comment. So do we

1012
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 1: have closing comments?

1013
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, So just to give under this new budget

1014
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 4: that the President just signed, the Republicans pushed Congressman, correct

1015
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 4: me if I'm wrong, but I believe the budget.

1016
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 3: For uh this, uh the ice? What's the other?

1017
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 4: The DHS Department of Homeland Security is triple the budget

1018
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 4: of all other federal law enforcement combined. They're building a

1019
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 4: massive structure on the right. Since Trump isn't able to

1020
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 4: completely co opt all the other agencies that pre exist him,

1021
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 4: he wants to create one in his own, like, in

1022
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 4: his own making right, and then direct them to be

1023
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 4: one loyal to him, but to then execute his orders

1024
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 4: without delay. So the coming you may resonates with me,

1025
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 4: and I think many of the rest of us that

1026
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 4: this stuff isn't happening in slow motion. It's happening quick,

1027
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 4: fast and in a hurry, right before.

1028
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 3: Our very eyes.

1029
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 4: We are eyes wide open watching all of it take place.

1030
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 3: My colleague Tiffany says this all the time.

1031
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 4: When folks reflect on what I would have done during

1032
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 4: the Civil rights movement, her response has been, whatever you

1033
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 4: are doing right now is exactly what you would have

1034
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 4: been doing then. And if that's nothing, if that's cloud gazing,

1035
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 4: if that's doom strolling, that's what you would have been doing.

1036
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 4: So a lot of folks awaken are waiting on us

1037
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 4: to come awake. And I understand the challenge in this

1038
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 4: is the reality is we really never have.

1039
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 3: Permission to go to sleep. We have to sleep in

1040
00:51:58,600 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 3: shifts when we do sleep.

1041
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, but unfortunately we have to stay on the mark

1042
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 4: because the effects on us are always triple time what

1043
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 4: they are for everybody else, brown, white, and everything in between.

1044
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 4: So the moment requires us to be awake and if

1045
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 4: we do need a nap, if we do need a break,

1046
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 4: we have to tap in, tap out, but then tap

1047
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 4: back in.

1048
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 3: That's the message I think we all ought to So those.

1049
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: We're closing what costs to action. That's how we in

1050
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 1: every Native lampid show. So Congressoman, we will start with you.

1051
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 8: I was just gonna say, yeah, you show right about

1052
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 8: the Timu hitler. Uh did we got somebody caught it?

1053
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, no, Listen, it is really bad.

1054
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 8: I'm just saying this because we don't talk about it,

1055
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,240
Speaker 8: because we focus on medicaid, we've focused on snap benefits,

1056
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 8: but this bill was approximately a thousand pages long, So

1057
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 8: I want you to know that there's a little bit

1058
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 8: of bad in there for everybody, especially our children. There

1059
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 8: are a lot of attacks. But ultimately they did decide

1060
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 8: that they were going to add money in to this

1061
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 8: rogue military force, this force in which we could not

1062
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 8: get amendments because this is stuff that came through the

1063
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 8: Judiciary committee that I sit on.

1064
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 7: We could not get any amendments.

1065
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 8: As it relates to saying, well, they at least got

1066
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 8: to unmask themselves and identify themselves because literally here recently

1067
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 8: there was a report of somebody who almost got raped

1068
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 8: by somebody pretending to be ice because they just look

1069
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 8: like regular street thugs coming through, and so people don't

1070
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 8: know if they are criminals or if they are law enforcement,

1071
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 8: and frankly, I don't know a lot of times even

1072
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 8: though they have the authority, they still acting like a

1073
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 8: bunch of criminals.

1074
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 7: So that's a whole other issue.

1075
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 8: But my final thing to you is to say, do

1076
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 8: not feel powerless in this moment, because that's exactly what

1077
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 8: they want you to do. And if you ultimately feel

1078
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 8: that way, they will win. There are more of us

1079
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 8: that are saying and understand that this shit ain't right,

1080
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 8: and so it is time for us to decide that

1081
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 8: we are going to rise up. Because if we don't

1082
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 8: rise up, I promise you gonna be sitting there talking

1083
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 8: about should a cut A woulda. This is not the moment.

1084
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 8: Do not be afraid, I promise you. If you allow

1085
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 8: them to come for one of us. This young lady

1086
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 8: talked about going after brown folk, and y'all may say, well, yeah,

1087
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 8: you know, we was looking at y'all numbers and y'all

1088
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 8: ain't looked like the ninety two percent, so y'all voted

1089
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 8: for it, and I understand, I understand that, but you

1090
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 8: have to understand that if we allow them to come

1091
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 8: for them, they coming for us.

1092
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 7: We just saw the report of.

1093
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 8: The young black man who had never been to Jamaica

1094
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 8: a day in his life. His daddy was serving this

1095
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 8: country overseas when he was born, and then they decided, well,

1096
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 8: you know what, he was born on a base, and

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Speaker 8: well he ain't German, well he ain't American.

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Speaker 7: Well his daddy.

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Speaker 8: Originally was from Jamaica, and they sent him to Jamaica,

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Speaker 8: a place he had never been. So please believe you

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Speaker 8: all need to be paying attention to all of this

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Speaker 8: because it truly can will impact you. But follow everybody

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Speaker 8: that Lenae said, the follow and stay engaged.

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Speaker 12: But it's more than staying engaged online. It's more than

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Speaker 12: holding your officials accountable, y'all. Like she said, there's more

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Speaker 12: of us. We have to do something. We have to

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Speaker 12: be willing to be uncomfortable. We have to be willing

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Speaker 12: to sacrifice talk. We look at politicians doing a lot

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Speaker 12: of things like canvassing, hosting events, trying to get you

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Speaker 12: the electing for office. We can do that kind of

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Speaker 12: stuff for ourselves and our own community. I was just

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Speaker 12: talking to Angela, but I say, the people in mutual eight, y'all.

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Speaker 3: We need to strike. We need a general strike.

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Speaker 12: I've been saying Black women need to stop going to

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Speaker 12: work since the election. They need to feel the weight

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Speaker 12: of losing us. We need to plan out these things.

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Speaker 12: Of course, we need to let people in our community

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Speaker 12: know that we can in fact meet their needs and

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Speaker 12: it is possible no matter how many resources that we have.

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Speaker 12: And I know because my grandmama did it for her

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Speaker 12: ten children and making sure everybody neighborhoods still eight.

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Speaker 3: We need to be.

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Speaker 12: Getting into more sustainable food sources. And I know it

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00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 12: doesn't feel good or sexy or whatever. We want to

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Speaker 12: get your stuff from the farm, but hello, we are

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Speaker 12: only going to allow these things that happened to us

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Speaker 12: play the game. We don't have to accept this reality

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Speaker 12: as reality. If we allow the regime to continue as

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Speaker 12: it is, then it will be permanent. Buck the system. Well,

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Speaker 12: we got to correct me if I'm wrong with them. We

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Speaker 12: got a mayor in Chicago arresting ice agents. This is

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Speaker 12: the type of energy.

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Speaker 5: That we need.

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Speaker 3: Like they're not playing by the rules. So why should we.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for That's gonna go there, Malcolm, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll close as a host's So.

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Speaker 6: I think I will echo what the congresswoman said. I

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Speaker 6: hear a lot of that. Well that's what y'all get

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00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 6: because that's who you all voted for. And I just

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Speaker 6: want to remind us we are barely fourteen percent of

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Speaker 6: the population. We cannot win this fight alone. And as

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Speaker 6: we go through these frustrations, if forty nine percent of

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Speaker 6: one group voted for Trump, then I want to ally

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Speaker 6: with the fifty one percent who did not vote for him.

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Speaker 6: And I want to remind us, as black people, we

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Speaker 6: have to keep in mind our humanity and remember who

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Speaker 6: the real enemy is, because they can divide us and

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Speaker 6: keep us fighting amongst each other as the global majority. Really,

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Speaker 6: then they'll be able to win. They are not our enemy.

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Speaker 6: We know who the enemy is. It's not the it's

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Speaker 6: not the global majority.

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Speaker 11: Now my call to action would be to really consider

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Speaker 11: running for office. You know, resources are slim all of

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Speaker 11: the things, but more than fifty percent of the seats

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Speaker 11: in the state legislature here in Louisiana go unchallenged, and

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Speaker 11: so I spend all of my time chasing my tail

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00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 11: going into regular session, special session, fiscal session. We're going

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Speaker 11: to have an insurance session, and they're running us ragged.

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Speaker 11: But they wouldn't be able to do that if they

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Speaker 11: thought that they knew they couldn't get the votes. And

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Speaker 11: so we have to do the work of really considering

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Speaker 11: taking on leadership. And to Kenyata's point, these folks are

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Speaker 11: not I mean, it's not they're not brain surgeons out

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Speaker 11: here wilding policy. I mean, we had a guy on

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Speaker 11: in our legislature who literally the two year olds or

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Speaker 11: that these kids are unredeemable as young as two years old. Whoever,

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Speaker 11: this man is who doesn't even understand that this baby's

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Speaker 11: braining and developed is insane.

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Speaker 7: And so I just remind people that, like, we have.

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Speaker 11: Crazy people running for office, moving our states, impacting our lives.

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Speaker 11: The Louisiana Congressional delegation is one of the most powerful

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Speaker 11: in the country, but they're the ones helping to dismantle

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Speaker 11: FEMA were most of our state receives one of the

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Speaker 11: largest payouts of medicaid, dismantling medicaid, and so it just

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Speaker 11: reminds us that we have to fight for our voice,

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Speaker 11: but to fight for our power. But we can't do

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Speaker 11: that if we're not willing to get in the game.

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Speaker 11: And it feels like the.

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Speaker 7: Bar is kind of low.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we even had a brain surgeon and Ben Carson

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Speaker 9: didn't note the hell what was going on. So even

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Speaker 9: if you are a brain surgeon, please step up and run.

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Speaker 9: I want to just sort of reiterate the video we

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Speaker 9: did with you know, telling folks to follow certain people

1185
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 9: support Native Land podcasts literally what they're doing, because you

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00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 9: see media outlet after media outlet bending over backwards, giving

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Speaker 9: millions of dollars to this administration because they dared interview

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Speaker 9: somebody from the other party, and so what Andrew and

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Speaker 9: Tiffany and Angela are doing is a big deal.

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Speaker 5: And so I just want to say to you all,

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Speaker 5: thank you for what you are doing. This is not easy,

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Speaker 5: what they are doing.

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Speaker 9: To our good brother Roland Martin, who's been up against

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Speaker 9: it for a long time, thank you for what you

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Speaker 9: are doing. Because there are fewer and far in between

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Speaker 9: places where you can go and even have a rational

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Speaker 9: conversation about what is happening in this moment, and so

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Speaker 9: we need to defend the fourth of State.

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Speaker 5: And that's what I would say in this moment.

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Speaker 7: Thank you all so much.

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Speaker 1: We want to give a special round of applause and

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Speaker 1: thank you to our an incredible.

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Speaker 7: Planel and for you.

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Speaker 1: All tuning into this live show, participating your questions and answers.

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Speaker 1: Haris Swimming Jazz and Crockett Lenee the Knee. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get it right, the People's Brief. Make sure y'all watch

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Speaker 1: for vote Ashley Shelton, our brother Ma welcome Kenya of

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Speaker 1: course the host here. Our call to action is definitely

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Speaker 1: tune in, definitely participate, and we'll see y'all on the

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Speaker 1: next show.

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Speaker 3: Welcome Home, y'all, Welcome Home, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: For joining the Natives intention of with the info and

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Speaker 2: all of the latest Roy gillim and cross connected to

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Speaker 2: the statements that.

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Speaker 5: You leave on our socials.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the patients reason for your choices cleared.

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Speaker 2: So grateful it took the execute roles for serve, defend

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Speaker 2: and protect the truth even in past. And we'll welcome

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