WEBVTT - Introducing: The Deciding Decade with Pete Buttigieg

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<v Speaker 1>Hi, Pete botaged here. Maybe you know me as Mayor Pete.

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<v Speaker 1>During my run for president, I traveled the country from

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<v Speaker 1>some of our biggest cities to places that sometimes feel forgotten.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw leadership, grit, innovation, and kindness in every corner

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<v Speaker 1>of America, and I became more convinced than ever that

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<v Speaker 1>we are not just at a crucial moment in our politics.

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<v Speaker 1>We could actually be at the dawn of a new

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<v Speaker 1>era in this country. We could take this time and

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<v Speaker 1>use it in a way to bring people together. We

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<v Speaker 1>are fighting back, and we demanded our government act. We

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<v Speaker 1>know that this the first year of the TIES, has

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<v Speaker 1>been one of chaos and anguish, but I believe now

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<v Speaker 1>is the beginning of America's deciding decade, a time that

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<v Speaker 1>will present leaders and all Americans with decisions that will

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<v Speaker 1>shape life in this country for the rest of this century.

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<v Speaker 1>Behind these big changes are people thinkers, athletes, artists, authors, policymakers,

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<v Speaker 1>people whose ideas and actions will shape the times we

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<v Speaker 1>were about to live through. I look at everything through

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<v Speaker 1>a racial list. Well, the rest of the country and

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<v Speaker 1>the elected officials have to start doing that. They have

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<v Speaker 1>to know what systemic racism is. There has to be

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<v Speaker 1>a certain impatience in your soul when it comes to

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<v Speaker 1>how people are just disregarded, and specially when you understand

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<v Speaker 1>that it doesn't have to be that way. Whether you're

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<v Speaker 1>old or young, whether you're white or black, whether you

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<v Speaker 1>Republican or a Democrat. You know, those things don't matter.

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<v Speaker 1>What matters the facts of the law, yourtry everyone equally.

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<v Speaker 1>I have hope that we are actually going to figure

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<v Speaker 1>out how to allow people to be free hearted, free

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<v Speaker 1>thinkers and also belong I hope these conversations inspire you

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<v Speaker 1>like they are inspiring me, and together we'll get a

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<v Speaker 1>glimpse at the future of our country, beginning with the

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<v Speaker 1>Decade Ahead. Listen to The Deciding Decade on the I

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