Speaker 1: How does how does the Democratic Party intend to win
Speaker 1: mid term elections without voting rights? Confused? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Democratic Party attends to win anything. No,
Speaker 1: they they intend will It's something different. You can't. You can't,
Speaker 1: they can't be it's good. There's no way that they
Speaker 1: expect those good old people that they would have voted
Speaker 1: that they didn't private stings that ain't got nothing else,
Speaker 1: people that saved them. There's no way they expect those
Speaker 1: good old people to like you ask CBD, Candy, what
Speaker 1: do you want? They know, them good old people. They're
Speaker 1: going back out there to vote again after this now
Speaker 1: they ain't no come on now, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pull another rabbit out the hat for this one because
Speaker 1: you because but I'm saying that voting right specific let's
Speaker 1: just say I get your point, right, I get your point.
Speaker 1: From our perspective, it's almost impossible to believe it's actually
Speaker 1: disrespectful to even to even to even not just assume,
Speaker 1: but to request the strand of people that they vote right,
Speaker 1: that they vote for UM anyone who has not fulfilled
Speaker 1: any of the promises that were made right so that
Speaker 1: I agree with, I agree with you on that. But
Speaker 1: I'm speaking of something different. I'm saying that because what
Speaker 1: happens is even when you say I'm not engaging myself
Speaker 1: in this election, I don't believe, I don't trust right.
Speaker 1: We have that position, and that's okay. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: then you have to start listening to the people who
Speaker 1: are running against these folks. And when you start listening
Speaker 1: to them and understanding their agenda, it may encourage a
Speaker 1: lot of people to say, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 1: to the post, right, I'm going to the post. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying everyone, and I'm certainly not talking about
Speaker 1: ray Raids and Keisha's and others. But I'm saying there
Speaker 1: are there is a there, there is a there are
Speaker 1: a group of people people want to kill me. Man.
Speaker 1: I know, I give through it. I agree with you
Speaker 1: need to. I'm on the attack about it all the time,
Speaker 1: and I still would make the same decision if I
Speaker 1: had to do it all over again. But I'm not
Speaker 1: even I'm speaking of something even different. I'm saying there
Speaker 1: are some folks in our society that when approached and
Speaker 1: they are listening just because you're watching the news, or
Speaker 1: you're at church or you're reading the paper, you're in
Speaker 1: your community when you hear the other side of what
Speaker 1: you may be looking at, and you're listening to someone
Speaker 1: who absolutely wants to take away your right to having abortion,
Speaker 1: so you're right to choose. And or they want to
Speaker 1: open more prisons, or you know they want to um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know they want to they want
Speaker 1: to close more schools, or you know, take more funding
Speaker 1: from communities in order to invest more in punitive measures
Speaker 1: and support police and uh, you know they bleed the blue.
Speaker 1: When you hear that rhetoric and that nue right, it
Speaker 1: may encourage you to say, I don't think that these
Speaker 1: other folks is worth the damn either, But I know
Speaker 1: I have to block this individual from becoming whatever and
Speaker 1: senator or whatever they're voting for in their community. What
Speaker 1: I'm speaking of is, now you're on your way to
Speaker 1: go vote, and you find out that your vote is
Speaker 1: actually being suppressed by way of the laws in that
Speaker 1: particular state. Just just forget I'm saying everything they could
Speaker 1: have done it all right, And this is that I'm
Speaker 1: somebou voting rights to people that want to vote the
Speaker 1: civil believe, and so you know what I'm going to vote,
Speaker 1: and they get there and realize they can the name
Speaker 1: has been purged. They need this, you know, their idea
Speaker 1: has to be updated there. You know they've been voting
Speaker 1: knowing that you got elderly people who have been voting
Speaker 1: for years with one little letter misspelled on their identification
Speaker 1: versus their voting record. Because when we were coming out
Speaker 1: of enslavement and I we never had the appropriate records.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have continued through life with things
Speaker 1: that's not one accurate, but it's it's Mama May's leaves information,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so to to have this,
Speaker 1: this this situation where it seems like people are fumbling
Speaker 1: and now we're at the administration and others are fumbling
Speaker 1: on fighting as hard as hell to get voting rights accomplished.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure you're out when you're already failing
Speaker 1: at all and getting the policy in place, and then
Speaker 1: you're not even giving people who might just still want
Speaker 1: to be with you the ability to go to the
Speaker 1: polls like you. They can't be playing anything. They don't
Speaker 1: plan on winn I trying to do. They don't have
Speaker 1: any plan on They're just at this point, like it's
Speaker 1: just going through the motions, and it's disappointing because you know,
Speaker 1: you want, as somebody who wants things to be good,
Speaker 1: you want things to be right, you know, you actually
Speaker 1: pray on it and all that. You want to believe
Speaker 1: that there is some side or some individuals that are
Speaker 1: in power to some certain degree that actually want to
Speaker 1: do right. You know, they want to do that, are
Speaker 1: willing to do whatever necessary to do right. So I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I don't I don't believe they don't want
Speaker 1: to do I think they're not what they haven't come
Speaker 1: to the stage in the mind frame of that they
Speaker 1: have to do was ever necessary to do right? Not
Speaker 1: doing right. It's just not an option. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: allow you to delay justice and delay things that are right.
Speaker 1: I have to do whatever it is within my power
Speaker 1: to make things right, you know. And that's even though
Speaker 1: we hope for that, that's not where we are. So,
Speaker 1: you know, if people can't even go to the polls,
Speaker 1: and then the people that ain't never going to the polls,
Speaker 1: and the people when obviously got so I got people
Speaker 1: going to the polls, and they reinventorated going to the polls.
Speaker 1: You know, they're going to the polls for their own agenda,
Speaker 1: and their agenda is either they're gonna get some things
Speaker 1: that they want done that open communities or just stop
Speaker 1: that community from being able to progress in any way
Speaker 1: they can't get gain anymore ground into um you know,
Speaker 1: sort of breaking down systems of oppression. And so they
Speaker 1: vote for different reasons. They vote because you might be
Speaker 1: somebody who maybe you're not as radically conservative um as
Speaker 1: I want you to be, but I at least know
Speaker 1: that you're not going to support a progressive Virginia. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: we have people that are on both sides that think similarly.
Speaker 1: But I think the the issue with us as black
Speaker 1: people at this point is that we are no longer
Speaker 1: in a position to just like we've already stopped something.
Speaker 1: You can't just keep kicking, you know. We just not
Speaker 1: the shocking and dry ki ki and go alone and
Speaker 1: get along that. So, you know, we're just in a
Speaker 1: different space