Speaker 1: Hi, Pete botaged here. Maybe you know me as Mayor Pete.
Speaker 1: During my run for president, I traveled the country from
Speaker 1: some of our biggest cities to places that sometimes feel forgotten.
Speaker 1: I saw leadership, grit, innovation, and kindness in every corner
Speaker 1: of America, and I became more convinced than ever that
Speaker 1: we are not just at a crucial moment in our politics.
Speaker 1: We could actually be at the dawn of a new
Speaker 1: era in this country. We could take this time and
Speaker 1: use it in a way to bring people together. We
Speaker 1: are fighting back, and we demanded our government act. We
Speaker 1: know that this the first year of the TIES, has
Speaker 1: been one of chaos and anguish, but I believe now
Speaker 1: is the beginning of America's deciding decade, a time that
Speaker 1: will present leaders and all Americans with decisions that will
Speaker 1: shape life in this country for the rest of this century.
Speaker 1: Behind these big changes are people thinkers, athletes, artists, authors, policymakers,
Speaker 1: people whose ideas and actions will shape the times we
Speaker 1: were about to live through. I look at everything through
Speaker 1: a racial list. Well, the rest of the country and
Speaker 1: the elected officials have to start doing that. They have
Speaker 1: to know what systemic racism is. There has to be
Speaker 1: a certain impatience in your soul when it comes to
Speaker 1: how people are just disregarded, and specially when you understand
Speaker 1: that it doesn't have to be that way. Whether you're
Speaker 1: old or young, whether you're white or black, whether you
Speaker 1: Republican or a Democrat. You know, those things don't matter.
Speaker 1: What matters the facts of the law, yourtry everyone equally.
Speaker 1: I have hope that we are actually going to figure
Speaker 1: out how to allow people to be free hearted, free
Speaker 1: thinkers and also belong I hope these conversations inspire you
Speaker 1: like they are inspiring me, and together we'll get a
Speaker 1: glimpse at the future of our country, beginning with the
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