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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome home.

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Speaker 3: Y'all.

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Speaker 1: We are starting to show Andrew Gillum, it's so nice

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Speaker 1: to be with you, Jackson, Mississimmy Jackson, Hey, y'all. All right, everybody,

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Speaker 1: so we're happy to be here with you all today.

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Speaker 1: We're going to bring up our post, our other post.

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Speaker 1: The third portion of this time.

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Speaker 4: Tiffany Cross, Tiffany, Tiffany Cross.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Andrew, Tiffany looked different. Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany

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Speaker 1: got Tama. Hold on, wait a minute, y'all. This is

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Booker Houston. She is Booker Squared our Minds, government

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Speaker 1: employee in the country.

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Speaker 5: Elizabeth, Hey, what's up, y'allith Welcome, Thank you?

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Speaker 3: How you doing? Just off?

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Speaker 4: Jumped off the plane, okay, jumped into the room. Jackson, Mississippi,

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Speaker 4: how we doing. I was just going to tell you Angela,

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Speaker 4: my wife was born here. She lived here the first

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Speaker 4: five years of her life.

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Speaker 3: She remembers it so well.

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Speaker 1: I love this well. We are so blessed to have

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Speaker 1: someone who is teaching many of us every day on

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Speaker 1: Instagram and TikTok. Elizabeth, how's your experience been today at

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Speaker 1: stated the people in Jesse.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm having a good time, you know. I'm happy

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Speaker 5: to come back home down south. So I flew into Memphis,

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Speaker 5: y'all know that's my hometown. And then me and my

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Speaker 5: daddy drove down here this morning.

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Speaker 3: Where's your dad?

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Speaker 6: Where is my daddy?

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Speaker 3: Where are you at there? He is, Hey, dad, mister Booker.

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Speaker 6: Huh, mister Booker, Yes, mister Booker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mister Booker.

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Speaker 4: I really enjoyed that talkathon on the floor of the

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Speaker 4: US Senate.

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Speaker 3: Oh that Booker.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not her dad.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I'm not really in relationship.

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Speaker 5: That's that's the New Jersey bookers were we are the Memphis,

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Speaker 5: Tennessee bookers. It's a whole different, whole different set of bookers.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I've had a good time in.

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Speaker 1: Jackson Old on a minute. Okay, Well, we have a

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Speaker 1: jam packed show with a lot of guests. And Andrew

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Speaker 1: got the nerve to have to leave here at about forty

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Speaker 1: minutes less than that. He got another flat, y'all, but

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Speaker 1: he got it. He has to get to Caroline's recital.

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Speaker 4: But it is not my fault that we are booked

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Speaker 4: today with guests. So let's get it started, y'all. You

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Speaker 4: bett to hear from some good voices from not just

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Speaker 4: surrounding the state, but around the country. Thank y'all one

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Speaker 4: for taking time to join us here. This tour has

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Speaker 4: been about empowerment, making sure that we keep every part

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Speaker 4: of our community informed, especially when it seems that the

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Speaker 4: enemy is surrounding us on all sides. So today we'll

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Speaker 4: hope to bring you some information, maybe even inform you

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Speaker 4: a little bit, but mostly we want you to leave

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Speaker 4: your charge or ready for the fight.

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Speaker 1: And the part that is my favorite that you're going

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Speaker 1: to miss this when we get to hear from the audience.

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Speaker 1: So y'all know even why you can do one of

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Speaker 1: these town hall shows, so get ready for that. First

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Speaker 1: up joining us is the president of the NAAC. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Dereck Johnson. Who's joining us?

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Speaker 3: It's the president.

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Speaker 1: Where's Lolo covering her mount? That was Ron? Hi, Derek,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, Uh, Lolo, we do with everybody else. We're

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Speaker 1: bringing everybody else up, she said, No, okay, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with Derek Johnson. How you doing, Derek good?

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Speaker 3: How you doing. Happy to be here, Derek. You right

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Speaker 3: at home. I am at home. You should be welcoming us,

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Speaker 3: That's right, that is special. Say welcome home, be welcome home.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll take it down.

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Speaker 3: Well, welcome home, welcome home. You know Andrew and ACP.

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Speaker 7: You know that's when I first met him, youtha college division.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Well, I'm at home, at home. He's already

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Speaker 3: at home. You already know that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we want to get started with u d

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Speaker 1: because we're in the birthplace of the civil rights moment

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Speaker 1: movement in so many ways. And you landed Jackson, you

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Speaker 1: land at the Medgar Evers Airport. Talk about life is

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Speaker 1: important for us to be gathering around our power in

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Speaker 7: The fact that you are landed at an airport name

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Speaker 7: after meg ever demonstrate black power that would not have

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Speaker 7: made Pitton, who's now deceased, who advocated to make sure

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Speaker 7: that took place. You know, we worked hard in this state.

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Speaker 7: I'm originally from Detroit, but moved here, stayed here, and

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Speaker 7: still live here because I see the power of black

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Speaker 7: folks in this state and how when we work together.

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Speaker 3: We have an impact.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to bring up two additional Mississippi legends.

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Speaker 1: Alba Sykes is in the building. Alpha Sykes come up

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Speaker 1: and join at hour.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what you know and I'm in my flow.

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Speaker 1: Now, Lolo, I didn't get no notes. Albert's ready, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Who you say? Oh, and here's Maya. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna bring Maya before we bring up doctor ke Maya Wiley,

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Speaker 1: who is the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,

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Speaker 1: and she can't stay with us long. She has a

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Speaker 6: But I'm not gonna miss it.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna miss your flag. Okay, Well, Mayo, weren't

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Speaker 1: come to you right now, just so you don't miss

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Speaker 1: your flight. So tell us how you're building white to

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Speaker 1: important to be on this movement in your power. Talk

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Speaker 1: to us about what's this.

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Speaker 8: I am exhausted and I am inspired, and I say

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Speaker 8: I'm exhausted intentionally because we act like we're supposed to

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Speaker 8: be tireless, and it's never true, nor has it ever

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Speaker 8: been true, And we don't stop because we're tired. They're

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Speaker 8: banking on that. And Derek made an important point earlier

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Speaker 8: about and they one us distracted, which is also which

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Speaker 8: is also exhausted. But the inspiration matters. And I think

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Speaker 8: the important thing about being here and being together and

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Speaker 8: being with you is that it's both a reminder of

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Speaker 8: our power, and that reminder is important in exhaustion, but

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Speaker 8: also a reminder of what it means to find inspiration

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Speaker 8: in one another, because every last one of you is here,

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Speaker 8: and every one of you that I get to sometimes

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Speaker 8: And but I'm just saying this because at a time

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Speaker 8: so important to remember and to be in a place

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Speaker 8: like Jackson, Mississippi, in Mississippi, to remember where the hard

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Speaker 8: battles were fought. People were exhausted, It was hard, it

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Speaker 4: Of our bubbles, Doctor Wilie, Can I ask you that

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Speaker 4: you started on the same of exhaustion And I think

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Speaker 4: it's something that's built across the.

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Speaker 1: Community right now.

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Speaker 4: When I was growing up in the NAACP, I have

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Speaker 4: mentors who would say, we have to sleep in shifts.

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Speaker 3: Can you communicate what.

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Speaker 4: It means to sheep to sleep in shifts amids exhaustion?

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Speaker 3: What does that translate to you?

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Speaker 8: Well, for me, part of what it translates to is

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Speaker 8: we're in it together and we have different roles to play,

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Speaker 8: and there are different times in which we do what

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Speaker 8: spell each other when we need to spell each other.

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Speaker 8: I am privileged to run the Leadership Conference on Civil

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Speaker 8: and Human Rights, which is the nation's oldest and largest

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Speaker 8: civil rights coalition, founded by the NAACP. I think Derek

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Speaker 8: founded it because he's much older than he says, but.

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Speaker 3: He's not all fast.

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Speaker 8: But you get My point is that it is it is.

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Speaker 8: It is like coalition because it's the recognition that there

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Speaker 8: and there are others who can and should. There are

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Speaker 8: also times when it's important to be able to get

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Speaker 8: and those are things that have always.

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Speaker 6: Happened in community.

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Speaker 8: Is the recognition when somebody needs to back up or

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Speaker 8: stepping back is a critical part of everything we've always

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Speaker 8: done and need to keep doing.

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Speaker 1: Maya, how long do we haverilla?

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Speaker 8: One more minute?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well, I want to make sure that you

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to have any closing remarks what you're

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Speaker 1: called to action for the people who are at home

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Speaker 1: for yourselves to be in here with us all days,

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 8: I first want to just acknowledge that Congressman Benny Thompson

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Speaker 1: Oh, but yeah, I can waste that mighty oh right.

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Speaker 8: And to thank Congressman Thompson for his incredible leadership uh

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Speaker 8: and for being someone who doesn't rest even when he's

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Speaker 8: But I think that the the call to action is

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Speaker 8: know and believe that all of us are searching for

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Speaker 8: always have. Then we always always, we always save on people.

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Speaker 8: But but but the but what that means right now

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Speaker 8: to remember that we we have it within us to

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Speaker 8: do it. And while you're sitting there thinking well, what

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Speaker 6: Called to do.

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Speaker 8: Whatever you're called to do is going to matter. Whether

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Speaker 8: the school board is not taking care of kids who

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Speaker 8: with learning disabilities, that's important. Whether it's going and showing

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Speaker 8: up at a rally, that's important. If it's important to you,

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Speaker 8: whether it's going and participating, whether you're an NAACP member

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Speaker 8: in the calls to action that are coming from whatever

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Speaker 8: going to matter to do. Something that Derek has reminded

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Speaker 8: us is not to be distracted by the things they

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Speaker 8: want to distract us from and to stay focused on

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Speaker 8: the things that bring us power and are actually going

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Speaker 8: to make sure our people have jobs and are getting

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Speaker 8: to find this path together, and we're going to beat

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Speaker 1: Give it Maya Riley, everybody, al amayah. So this podcast

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Speaker 1: Andrew as you know, Elizabeth as you finding out aka

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Speaker 1: Tiffany for today, this often moves in divine appointments and

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be anything other than what is best for Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: Then for Congressman Thompson to a batman just now, and Boss,

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Speaker 9: Well, I definitely want to speak to the exhaustion that

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Speaker 10: I'm sorry, so I definitely want to speak to the

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Speaker 9: We can't depend on a pandemic to be the only

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Speaker 9: time that we can take a break of sense our lives.

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Speaker 3: Look at what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 9: And that wasn't even a real break, that was a

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Speaker 3: And it's a it's important for me to.

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Speaker 9: Be not just here but anywhere, because it's an example

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Speaker 9: So growing up under the Tutela Jabia, Moses, Hollis Watkins, Dave, Dennis, Harry,

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Speaker 3: All of us.

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Speaker 9: If we're gonna be something, and so it is, I

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Speaker 3: And so it's important that.

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Speaker 9: We keep duplicating, duplicating, duplicating what leadership looks like in

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Speaker 3: We have a collective voice right right, and we have

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Speaker 11: And we also got to make this country do it

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Speaker 3: Ain't the trouble that we're gonna save America from.

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Speaker 9: We're gonna save ourselves, but we definitely not gonna be

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Speaker 9: we don't love you and you have no value. That'll

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Speaker 3: You can't trust it.

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Speaker 9: And then when it's time to hold a president accountable,

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Speaker 3: It's the people that they told you don't have value.

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Speaker 3: So it's important to be here because it contributes.

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Speaker 9: To the narrative of what we'll tell about ourselves versus

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Speaker 5: So I have a question for you, Congressman. Hello, how

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Speaker 5: you doing doing so? You know, I think we've seen

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Speaker 5: And so since we're here in Jackson, Mississippi as a

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Speaker 5: I want to talk about the fact that a lot

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Speaker 5: like they should. But we know that the members of

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you so much, and I apologize for being

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Speaker 3: We have elections on Tuesday.

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Speaker 12: And I've been about three hundred and twenty miles today

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Speaker 3: Part of what we try to do.

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Speaker 12: At the Congressional Black Caucus is we're the ones who

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Speaker 3: Somebody else say it.

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Speaker 7: And that's why we call ourselves the Conscience of the Congress.

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Speaker 12: It's important when you elect people that they carry the message.

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Speaker 12: Sometimes we elect people who say, well, I just want

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Speaker 7: Well, if people have their foot on your head, it's

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Speaker 12: So what we have to do in this country is

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Speaker 12: Someone talked about school boards in Mississippi. We elect our

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Speaker 3: And so I look out in this audience and you

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Speaker 7: If you want to change curriculums and a lot of things,

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Speaker 3: More importantly, we have to come up with a strategy.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think the strategy is tied to part.

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Speaker 12: Obviously, I'm a Democrat because if I had a choice,

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Speaker 3: But even my party I identify with. We need some work.

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Speaker 7: And part of what happens in the South is they

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Speaker 7: people will say to us, well, we know what you want, No,

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Speaker 12: So a lot of us get pigeonholes being difficult or

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Speaker 3: And hear from people what you're thinking. And I think

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Speaker 12: If any organization is of the mindset that everybody is

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Speaker 3: But you have to.

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Speaker 12: Also understand what the ground rules are, and most organizations

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Speaker 7: If you study them in reality, you could take the

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Speaker 12: But you got to put some time into grade. And

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Speaker 3: You know, they said, well, what are the Democrats going

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Speaker 12: Sit wait now, and I'm not talking about I'm thinking

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Speaker 12: you can't blame a party because you got to come

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Speaker 3: But come up with a plan and let's discuss it

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Speaker 12: Historically, black colleges on the threat that a lot of

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Speaker 3: But you've got to stay engaged.

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Speaker 12: The worst thing you can do, uh, is to tune out,

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Speaker 3: You can tune in and you can be.

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Speaker 3: I encourage you to do that, and I encourage uh

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 3: But you know, when I go on, I want to.

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Speaker 7: Be able to pass the torch to the future of

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Speaker 12: We're not getting anyway. So we count the numbers in

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Speaker 7: We have to fight, and we can't let other people

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Speaker 7: And look and my other colleagues, I'm the only something

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Speaker 12: And and I can't let other people try to determine

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Speaker 3: So I think part of what.

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Speaker 12: People are trying to say is if we go around

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Speaker 3: You know, Okay, I'm glad you asked.

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Speaker 12: We went to all these areas and here's a collection

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Speaker 7: But we want to be able to define it. We

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Speaker 13: Ut so.

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Speaker 12: You know, the Black Caucus is committed to doing it.

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Speaker 12: We get a lot of heat costs. They say, why

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Speaker 12: and I have to be able to carry that message

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Speaker 12: You know, we've had other people at the head of

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Speaker 3: Whipping board because you're not winning.

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Speaker 3: We have to turn to each other, and that's so important.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, we have a women's panel that is also joining us,

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Speaker 1: but we know you all are sticking around and do

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Speaker 1: the rally too. Right after this, there's an election on Tuesday, Boss,

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Speaker 1: that's what you said, so people got to hear from

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Speaker 1: you about that. We're going to bring our women's panel up.

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Speaker 1: Now there you were picking up the mictis or something

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Speaker 1: you wanted to share before jump into the rally.

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Speaker 7: I just want to thank everyone that's here for your

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Speaker 7: ongoing support.

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Speaker 3: I look out, I see Barbara Longmire.

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Speaker 7: I see so many people who support us, who have

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Speaker 7: always stood up, you know too, glue for me, your

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Speaker 7: sacred the Shambee, Lambright and I we've been doing this.

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Speaker 3: For a long time.

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Speaker 7: And when the cogital talked about training other people, the

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Speaker 7: Chambee has maintained the Mississippi Black Nicha Vinstitute.

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Speaker 3: Now on fourteen years, a pipeline.

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Speaker 7: To support the replenishment of leadership across the state. This

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Speaker 7: is about a contact sport. It is not about a

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Speaker 7: microwave movement. You have to have people who are doing

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Speaker 7: the hard work every day, not people just showing up

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Speaker 7: for the stage.

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Speaker 3: And that becomes really important.

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Speaker 7: And when you asked the question about the South, what

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Speaker 7: we see as blight, what we see as blight, others

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Speaker 7: see as opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Stop seeing what we have as blight.

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Speaker 7: That some of the neighborhoods that you are riding past

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Speaker 7: now others are making designs to come and redevelop it

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Speaker 7: on the cheap.

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Speaker 3: What you see in the South is.

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Speaker 7: A in emerging reality of a blackening state called Mississippi.

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Speaker 7: We will be the first majority black state in the

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Speaker 7: country ringing it. And so it is time to go

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Speaker 7: deep and organized now, because when it's too late, you're

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Speaker 7: gonna say, man, we should have could have I wish

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Speaker 7: we would have. This is that time. What we see

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Speaker 7: as blight as opportunity. Final point, we are part of

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Speaker 7: a continuum. Is not a one transaction based on the election.

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Speaker 7: The Democratic Party, like the Republican parties, nothing but a

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Speaker 7: vehicle for agendas. It doesn't define our agenda. We need

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Speaker 7: to define the agenda to ride through that vehico, and

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Speaker 7: oftentimes we have it upside down, like what is the

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Speaker 7: party going to do with the contemns saying what are

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Speaker 7: we gonna do to force the party to get done

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Speaker 7: or what policies we care about? Because we woke up black,

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Speaker 7: We're gonna go to sleep black. And part of this continuum,

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Speaker 7: we would have never had ib Welles. If it wasn't

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Speaker 7: for Charles Cardwell, we would have never had a doctor

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Speaker 7: t R. M.

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Speaker 3: Howard. If it wasn't for id B.

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Speaker 7: Welles, we would have never had an m Z Moore

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Speaker 7: Aaron here at c C Brian if it wasn't for

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Speaker 7: so many other people, but for Henry Kirksey, Conchman Thompson

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Speaker 7: wouldn't be sitting here but for Contvan Thompson and Angela

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Speaker 7: Rod probably wouldn't be sitting here. We're part of a

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Speaker 7: continuum and all of us have a role to play,

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Speaker 7: and we have to put a community interest over individual

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Speaker 7: interests to ensure that the legacy that was left for

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Speaker 7: us to carry forward, that we're leaving a legacy for

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Speaker 7: the next iteration of individuals to step into places that

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Speaker 7: we could not step in. Piece of power.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's give it up for these gentlemen as

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Speaker 3: they make way for us.

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Speaker 9: You got ten seconds, because no, no, no, I just

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Speaker 9: want to reiterate what Derek is saying, because it's very important.

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Speaker 9: We live in a country that demands black excellence and

512
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Speaker 9: accepts white mediocrity every day, and we got to stop

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Speaker 9: being the backbone of the things that these people can't

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Speaker 9: be responsible for doing and the excellence that they don't hold,

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Speaker 9: they can't use ours to get where they're going. So

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Speaker 9: stop looking at black cities like Jackson, Mississippi, black places

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Speaker 9: like Flint, Michigan. Is saying that black leadership is felling

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Speaker 9: itself or its people when it's inside of structures that

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Speaker 9: was never meant to absorb, protect it, and support it.

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Speaker 14: Now that's a mic drop moment.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Congressman Benny Thompson, Dereck Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and to my good brother Albert site love you.

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Speaker 3: Okay. In the meantime, we want to bring up de

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Speaker 3: Wanna Thompson with creator Woke vote.

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Speaker 4: Uh do you want to read Cassandra, Yes, the whole panel.

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Speaker 3: Let's bring up Ken.

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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, y'all. I do I do, I do

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Speaker 4: I do to quickly say to the folks in Mississippi,

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Speaker 4: we're not the only ones that know that black folks

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Speaker 4: will soon be a majority in this state, and we

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Speaker 4: all have to be on guard doing sure that the

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Speaker 4: folks in power right now aren't creating systems that disempower

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Speaker 4: us before we find ourselves in position to take advantage

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Speaker 4: of what it means to be a majority. And speaking

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Speaker 4: of majority is the one I'd love for you to

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Speaker 4: talk about what has been required of us as citizens

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Speaker 4: to be full participants in this movement around being a

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Speaker 4: woke voter and woke vote period. We know the other

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Speaker 4: side is defining what woke means, but for us, uh,

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Speaker 4: we don't have to give way to their definition. Hope

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Speaker 4: the audience understand mission purpose vision absolutely.

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Speaker 13: So as a daughter of the side, I bring you

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Speaker 13: greetings from Birmingham, Alabama, which listen when we talk about

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Speaker 13: kissing cousins Jackson and Birmingham, That's what it is. But

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Speaker 13: why that's so important is because while you had a

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Speaker 13: Mega Evers, we had a Fred Shuttlesworth and they were

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Speaker 13: in constant radical collaboration. And that is what this moment

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Speaker 13: calls for. So when we're talking about being woke, that

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Speaker 13: is not a new concept to our people. The concept

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Speaker 13: of being woke is not something that we can give away.

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Speaker 13: It is not even something that they can mislabel because

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Speaker 13: we determine who and what we are and how we

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Speaker 13: build our narrative and how we label ourselves. So when

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Speaker 13: I come to you and I say on what that

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Speaker 13: simply means is that I am awake and alarmed at

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Speaker 13: your actions and I am in full control of mind.

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Speaker 13: And no one should be concerned about that, right unless

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Speaker 13: you are coming to harm me, because then I'm gonna

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Speaker 13: have to.

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Speaker 1: Like you, right?

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Speaker 13: And how are what are our tools to fight? Yes,

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Speaker 13: voting is a big part of that, but it's.

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Speaker 6: One tool and a toolkit, right.

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Speaker 13: And what we have to remind each other is that

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Speaker 13: while we're doing radical collaboration, we also have to be

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Speaker 13: okay with making sure that there's room for everybody's voice

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Speaker 13: and their power. And the reason why that's important on

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Speaker 13: a tour like the State of the Power People tour,

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Speaker 13: and the reason why we do the work is the

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Speaker 13: way we do is that when people realize that power

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Speaker 13: in this country, when you talk about building it for

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Speaker 13: black people, people get concerned. People think they start asking questions, well,

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Speaker 13: when I want to put in for some money to

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Speaker 13: organize with, Well, why you want to organize?

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Speaker 6: You didn't ask anybody else that.

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Speaker 13: You didn't ask them the sert to fill out twenty

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Speaker 13: five questions on a question there for five thousand dollars

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Speaker 13: about organizing their community. You only ask that because you

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Speaker 13: know that when we put our minds together to do something.

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Speaker 13: Whole countries, change nations, change world's change.

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Speaker 6: And so what you're trying to do is wrap your arms.

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Speaker 13: Around that and stifle our imagination and our creativity. And

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Speaker 13: so to be what means that you cannot do that,

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Speaker 13: that we still move with ancestral power, that the teachers,

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Speaker 13: that our teachers, I will make a vis in our

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Speaker 13: merles right, not just making our merleys, that they are

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Speaker 13: still with us, that their words are still with us

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Speaker 13: and their teachings are still teaching us as we continue today.

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Speaker 6: And that's what Woke vote is about.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. GT. Let's give it up for

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Speaker 1: woke vote. Ind Wanna Thompson please and keep clapping it

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Speaker 1: up for her, because do Wanna has been leading all

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Speaker 1: of our cities making sure that our tour stops are amazing,

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Speaker 1: stay that the People Power Tour would not have happened

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Speaker 1: without Da Wanna Thomson. Please give it up for our girl, Cassandra.

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Speaker 1: I want to come to you also. Can we just

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Speaker 1: talk about how these ladies can see clearly and they

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Speaker 1: see clearly with some bad frames. Y'all see these glasses.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I was.

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Speaker 5: Just thinking that I was like, damn, I need some

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Speaker 5: new glasses, Like I'm out of I'm not a place

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Speaker 5: right now.

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Speaker 1: Everybody up here, Okay, see, at least we have twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty vision.

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Speaker 5: I'm like yours though.

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Speaker 6: Oh look at this Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Gillen looks so much different. Here comes there, Derek drives

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Speaker 1: us back. Okay, because Sindra, we want to come to you.

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Speaker 1: You all had an amazing panel yesterday with Black Women's Roundtable.

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Speaker 1: You're doing the work every single day. What is a

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Speaker 1: key thing that you hear from black women on the ground.

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Speaker 1: What's the most important things? They say? They need money? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they need money.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 14: Part of our work is around this economic justice reality

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Speaker 14: and how you know, we live in this capitalistic you know, society,

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Speaker 14: and you have to have money to thrive, and so

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Speaker 14: this system was not built you know, for black folks,

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Speaker 14: for black women, right, and so in order and we're

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Speaker 14: talking about women still in Mississippi, the minimum wage is

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Speaker 14: still seven dollars and twenty five cents, right, We still

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Speaker 14: have black women making fifty five cents on the dock

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Speaker 14: here in Mississippi. And then what we also have been

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Speaker 14: hearing too is its and it's so real people don't

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Speaker 14: have access to healthcare, and so black women are dying

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Speaker 14: like never before in Mississippi because we don't have the

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Speaker 14: health care infrastructure. I can't tell you how many times,

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Speaker 14: you know, we're in the washers because we do this

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Speaker 14: incredible quarters because we care where we're washing people's clothes

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Speaker 14: and we're asking them like, what does it mean for

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Speaker 14: us to wash to wash.

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Speaker 6: Six loads of your clothes?

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Speaker 14: And it's like, now I got extra money left where

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Speaker 14: I can go pay my bills or get my prescription.

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Speaker 14: And then we hear moms talk about, you know, I

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Speaker 14: almost lost my life. I almost lost my life because

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Speaker 14: the doctor wouldn't believe me, right, And so it's all

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Speaker 14: of it's really working and thinking around this intersectionality of race, gender,

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Speaker 14: and economic justice. We gotta have money to live because

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Speaker 14: it is our dollar that fuels the local economy. It

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Speaker 14: is our paycheck that goes to that gas station, patronize

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Speaker 14: that gas station, go over to Dollar General buy something,

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Speaker 14: and then if we have a little left over in

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Speaker 14: our air conditional breaks, we then go to that home depot.

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Speaker 15: So it is our.

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Speaker 14: Dollars that's fueling that local economy, and so people need

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Speaker 14: economic liberation right, and so that is what we hear

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Speaker 14: all the time from our black women. But we're centering

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Speaker 14: their narratives, right, because you can't argue with people's experiences,

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Speaker 14: and so it is important for us that we center

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Speaker 14: them in this fight for economic justice and centering them

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Speaker 14: so that they can be a part of the implementation

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Speaker 14: and the formation of the public policies because we believe

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Speaker 14: again that those policies should look like people's kitchen tables.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. I have a question for wa Kenya,

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Speaker 5: and I want to I want to talk about this.

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Speaker 5: We were talking in the back about this with the

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Speaker 5: Southern Poverty Law Center and what's going on. I've talked

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Speaker 5: to you about, uh, that man Elon Muskrat putting that

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Speaker 5: supercomputer in my hometown in Memphis, Tennessee, and how that's

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Speaker 5: not just going to affect Memphis, but it's going to

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Speaker 5: bleed into Mississippi. We know that the health effects are

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Speaker 5: going to bleed in the Mississippi with the air and

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Speaker 5: the water and with what you know we just heard

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Speaker 5: talking about women's health. Can you talk to us a

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Speaker 5: bit about environmental racism and how that's impacting our communities

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Speaker 5: and how they look at places like Jackson, Black cities

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Speaker 5: like Jackson and say, oh, this is a place for

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Speaker 5: us to put our industrial wasteland because who cares? Who

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Speaker 5: cares about the people there? Talk about that for us?

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Speaker 6: Please, thanks so much for that, Elizabeth.

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Speaker 16: You know, environmental injustice is also economic injustice, it is

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Speaker 16: racial injustice. And you know, I think it was doctor

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Speaker 16: King he said that a threat against any of us

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Speaker 16: is a threat against all of us, right, and then

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Speaker 16: justice against one of us is in justice against all

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Speaker 16: of us. And I think when we think about how

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Speaker 16: we can't be silent in this moment, environmental injustice directly

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Speaker 16: impacts each and every last person in this room. We

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Speaker 16: have seen it time and time again, especially in places

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Speaker 16: like Mississippi, where people think that you are disposable. Right,

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Speaker 16: a place that has I think it's forty three percent

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Speaker 16: of black population, we still can elect a black stay

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Speaker 16: wide official. Because people don't see the value in our existence.

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Speaker 16: They do everything to try to suppress us in our power.

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Speaker 16: And so I think in moments like this, when you

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Speaker 16: see companies get all of this this write off, right,

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Speaker 16: this ability to go in deregulation around what it means

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Speaker 16: to protect life, you still as a corporation, have a

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Speaker 16: responsibility to the communities in which you occupy. And what

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Speaker 16: we're seeing happen in this country started actually not this year,

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Speaker 16: but last year.

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Speaker 13: Right.

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Speaker 16: We saw it when they start deregulating EPA. They wanted

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Speaker 16: to challenge and take away the power of EPA to

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Speaker 16: protect our communities.

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Speaker 15: And we see it growing.

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Speaker 16: Whether it's water injustice like in Flint and in Jackson,

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Speaker 16: whether it is environmental injustice like we just saw across

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Speaker 16: the river in Louisiana. It's happening to all of us,

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Speaker 16: and it actually started way before these major things start

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Speaker 16: popping up. It starts with landfills being put in our community,

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Speaker 16: and our communities being built around landfills and power power

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Speaker 16: towers and all of these other things because they don't

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Speaker 16: value our bodies and our existence. Which is why our

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Speaker 16: voices are so important. Right, we have a responsibility and

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Speaker 16: a right to make our voices heard. If something is

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Speaker 16: happening around you and happening to you, it's only because

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Speaker 16: you have chosen to disassociate yourself with your power. These

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Speaker 16: meetings can these buildings can't come up if you show up, right,

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Speaker 16: if you go to your community meanings, if you go

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Speaker 16: to city hall, if you go to your board meetings

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Speaker 16: where they're trying to make decisions around water, or what

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Speaker 16: they're going to put what new business they're gonna allow

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Speaker 16: to come in with tire plant they're going to try

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Speaker 16: to put into your community. You can say no, don't

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Speaker 16: let them dress up your death in the under the

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Speaker 16: guise of jobs and opportunities, because no job is worth

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Speaker 16: your life, no plant is worth your life. And so

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Speaker 16: you have to really hold the line on that because

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Speaker 16: when they're putting these buildings up, they're not.

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Speaker 6: Just putting up edifices.

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Speaker 16: They're also talking about tearing up your sewer, tearing up

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Speaker 16: your water.

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Speaker 6: Right, they're changing your roles, they're changing.

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Speaker 16: Your air quality, and so all of those things are

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Speaker 16: connected and they're important, and so we cannot operate under

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Speaker 16: this farce right of you know, we're going to create

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Speaker 16: a thousand jobs, but it's a thousand jobs worth one

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Speaker 16: hundred thousand lives.

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Speaker 6: That's the question.

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Speaker 16: That's the question that we have to ask ourselves and

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Speaker 16: hold people accountable. If it's so great, go take it

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Speaker 16: across the river.

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Speaker 6: We got enough in ours. We don't need more concrete jungles.

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Speaker 16: We need thriving communities with fresh plants and trees and

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Speaker 16: public sidewalks and all of the things that make communities

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Speaker 16: hole and save for people.

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Speaker 1: Are so grateful for y'all. And we're gonna go to

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Speaker 1: these young people next year. This is a past for podcast.

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Speaker 1: We can leave. Welcome home, she said, we're gonna leave

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Speaker 1: you just get started. He's just a little warm up.

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Speaker 5: Thank y'all so much. All right, y'all, So I'm so excited.

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Speaker 5: So we're gonna bring up the young people's panel.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know if.

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Speaker 5: I qualify as the young people anymore.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Do I still thirty five? I'm old enough to be

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Speaker 5: the president.

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Speaker 1: At my grandma's house. We I think that people probably

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Speaker 1: say that the young People's table until about fifty. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: we'll laugh because you know it's true.

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Speaker 5: Look, well, we're gonna bring up the young people. We've

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Speaker 5: got Shamikh Reid from Young Gifted and Powered. We've got

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Speaker 5: Paul Evans win Winfried from Young Activists and gen z

756
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Speaker 5: Ford Charing founder, and we've got Gus Daniels, the executive

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Speaker 5: director of Jacksonology.

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Speaker 1: So hey, y'all, Jacksonology. Did we get it right?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yes, we got it right, So welcome off, young people.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and question so.

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Speaker 5: My question, and I could just put this to the

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Speaker 5: whole panel. Okay, So we talk a lot about young

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Speaker 5: people and how you have a role in this movement.

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Speaker 5: You have a role in politics, right, but there's a

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Speaker 5: lot of frustration. A lot of times I feel like,

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Speaker 5: maybe on that end of seeing that there's still the

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Speaker 5: old guard in power. I think somebody mentioned Nancy Pelosi earlier,

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Speaker 5: but I'm not going to be messy, maybe a little messy.

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Speaker 5: Tell me, what are you trying to see shift in

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Speaker 5: the political movements to bring young people forward? And what

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Speaker 5: changed you hope to see and hope to bring to

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Speaker 5: this movement.

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Speaker 17: Well, a big change that I want to see is messaging.

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Speaker 17: I think that something no matter what you look like,

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Speaker 17: who you believe in, what your gender is, who you love,

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Speaker 17: is messaging. And we have to get to basics. We

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Speaker 17: live in a country where about fifteen percent of us

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Speaker 17: are practically illiterate when it comes to understanding and processing

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Speaker 17: difficult and.

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Speaker 3: We have to make it basic.

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Speaker 17: A show of hands, how many people can define what

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Speaker 17: a tariff is? It's a few of y'all, but everybody

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Speaker 17: knows what a tax is right when you look at that,

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Speaker 17: why are we saying, well, Trump is raising fifteen percent

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Speaker 17: on taxa terrists and one hundred and fifty percent on

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Speaker 17: this terra. No, he's raising fifteen to one hundred and

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Speaker 17: fifty percent on everything in your Walmart, half the stuff

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Speaker 17: in your Amazon shopping list. That's what he's doing, and

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Speaker 17: it's a tax. So we have to make sure that

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Speaker 17: when we message to people, it's clear and it's understandable.

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Speaker 17: And I think that a message like that on several

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Speaker 17: other issues, it's simple. He's raising your taxes, he's cutting

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Speaker 17: your medicaid, he's cutting your student loans, and he's deporting

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Speaker 17: our friends, our neighbors in our communities.

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Speaker 3: We have to be clear about that.

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Speaker 1: Guess I want to come to you about the importance

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Speaker 1: of position building as we work to build power all

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Speaker 1: over this country. There are organizations that do this work

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Speaker 1: every day. They often go unnotice. We've heard that a

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Speaker 1: lot on this tour. Like you all have these major platforms,

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Speaker 1: so it's easier for you, but it's harder for us.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the things that national organizations, folks

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Speaker 1: with national platforms can do to ensure Organizations like yours

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Speaker 1: also get their just opportunity to be heard and to

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Speaker 1: help the facilitate power.

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Speaker 18: It's funny because it was going to be my same

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Speaker 18: response if the question was more generational.

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Speaker 6: But I think that what we have to.

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Speaker 18: Really figure out is how we make better smooth transitions,

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Speaker 18: like if this is a race, how often are we practicing?

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Speaker 18: Do people know what their job is and do people

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Speaker 18: know when to activate? And I think that the problem

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Speaker 18: is is that we're not shifting as quickly and as

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Speaker 18: seamlessly as we can. So when we do need to

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Speaker 18: tap somebody from Jackson, Mississippi who's been doing the groundwork

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Speaker 18: vote like NINAACP, nobody's ready because we didn't talk about it,

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Speaker 18: because we didn't coalition in a national level in order

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Speaker 18: for us to be able to make sure our strategy

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Speaker 18: can be felt very comprehensively. And I think it looks

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Speaker 18: like Jackson fighting independently a lot and us straining ourselves

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Speaker 18: when we could have tapped Alabama, when we could have CATAPPT,

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Speaker 18: Texas or Chicago or other spaces with major black cities

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Speaker 18: who could have been like hit, I'm passing it to

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Speaker 18: you and what I need you, I'm gonna need you

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Speaker 18: to pass it back to me, and it's not enough

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Speaker 18: back and forth and equity distribution of skill in between

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Speaker 18: the coalitions to make sure that when you need an artist,

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Speaker 18: we can activate artists. When you need a legislator, we

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Speaker 18: can activate a legislator. Instead, we're all being impacted independently

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Speaker 18: and we're all going through independent crisis and we're not

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Speaker 18: sharing the toll of what justice really requires. And I

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Speaker 18: think if we're going to really use our coalition strategically,

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Speaker 18: we need to be able to say, hey, I need

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Speaker 18: you right now, and somebody gets there. And the only

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Speaker 18: way we do that is if we practice what that

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Speaker 18: looks like till we get it perfected.

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Speaker 19: Social media the Paul just saying, how do you shift

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Speaker 19: the conversation that there are from a problem discussion to

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Speaker 19: a solution?

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Speaker 7: There?

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Speaker 15: I think it goes back to controlling the message. I

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Speaker 15: think once we understand how important messaging is, then we

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Speaker 15: began to control how others view us, how they see us,

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Speaker 15: how they interact with us. So we can't take for

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Speaker 15: granted social media and the power of social media. We

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Speaker 15: can't take for granted the power of traditional media. We

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Speaker 15: can't take for granted our voices and our platforms and

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Speaker 15: and use those for good. We can't take for granted

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Speaker 15: our vocal power, and we have to make sure that

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Speaker 15: we are we are, you know, just coming to the

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Speaker 15: aid of our communities and saying no, we have more

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Speaker 15: stories than that that are being told in the media.

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Speaker 15: We have to make the media be accountable for what

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Speaker 15: they are putting out there about our communities. And we

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Speaker 15: also have to comeback what they're putting out there about

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Speaker 15: our communities by putting our own information out about about

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Speaker 15: being our own storytellers. And that's how I believe that

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Speaker 15: we began to make those changes.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the audience with the time we

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Speaker 1: have left, which is none, but we're gonna make some

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Speaker 1: time for you because you have earned it. You all

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Speaker 1: have come with us along this journey all day long.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna I'll take my mic down there. My

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Speaker 1: shoe is untied. Let me not try to trip, but

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Speaker 1: I want to come down and ask you your name,

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Speaker 1: where you're from, and Lola, you're gonna do the mic.

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Speaker 20: Okay, Yes, I'm Charles Hampton from Winston County.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 20: I read something this week is did the baby boomers.

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Speaker 20: We are leaving our kids in the word shape that

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Speaker 20: can ever be left they can ever be left in.

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Speaker 20: And one thing that I just President Derrick Judson just

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Speaker 20: said that we are Mississippi becoming a black state. But

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Speaker 20: what we are doing now in Mississippi we are losing

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Speaker 20: our land because we haven't taught out of children the

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Speaker 20: value of land and and uh so this is something

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Speaker 20: that we definitely need to start teaching and uh and

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Speaker 20: in educating our community. And another thing that concerns me

881
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 20: since Katrina, we have been on the front line to

882
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 20: make sure that our community get the things that they

883
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 20: need in time of a disaster. But the last tornadoes

884
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 20: that we had, uh the Trump administration that just now

885
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 20: declaring them a disaster, and our community where oas tornado

886
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 20: will hit, they are suffering, still is suffering, and don't

887
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 20: nobody seem to care.

888
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 7: So that just what I am so thank you, min Sirhampton.

889
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 7: When you think about land loss, is that's the problem, right,

890
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 7: what's the solution? This is the best time in the

891
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 7: state's history to start buying land is as cheap as

892
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 7: is gonna get. It is as productive as any land

893
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 7: in the country, and many of us need to be

894
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 7: thinking about alternative food sources that.

895
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 3: We grow and not buy. Why because the chemicals.

896
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 7: All of the stuff they're putting into the food is

897
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 7: killing us. And the fact that we have a whole

898
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 7: generation that's not understanding value of land.

899
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 3: We have a whole generation we don't want to cook.

900
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 7: They rely on fast food and restaurants for their meals,

901
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 7: and microwaves is not a good thing. So moving from

902
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 7: problem to solution, encourage people to start buying land.

903
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 3: It won't get this cheap again.

904
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 7: And this is the best state to do it because

905
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 7: we have some of the most fertile land on the globe.

906
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 5: I just want to say, I'll know.

907
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: How to cook same. I was also going to say,

908
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: on this tour, we have a partner called Acre Boys,

909
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: and Acre Boys is giving away an acre of land,

910
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: Miss Charles. They're giving away an acre of land on

911
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: this tour and it's the new generation of young folks

912
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: who are farmers and care very much about us buying

913
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: and developing land. So I make sure you get their

914
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: page so you can check them out, make sure they're

915
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: on the right track.

916
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 6: We had another question over here, Hell, I have a

917
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 6: comment in a question. The comment is I appreciate.

918
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 21: The diversity within the folks that were up here, and.

919
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 6: The reason I say that we need.

920
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 21: Everybody from every category, from every circumstance with the seat

921
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 21: at the table.

922
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:16,760
Speaker 6: And the gentleman said that.

923
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 21: We are kind of leaving people behind because of the

924
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 21: way systems are designed or the way that we're bringing

925
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 21: our children up. We got too many politicians, and if

926
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 21: you are a politician and you're over the age of fifty,

927
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 21: be thinking about who you can mentor like, these are

928
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 21: young people who can we mentor to bring up so

929
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 21: that we can prepare them to take the seat. We

930
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 21: have too many people dying in the seat and so

931
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 21: we're not training up the next generation to take over,

932
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 21: and so when they get into these positions, they have

933
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 21: no clue what to do.

934
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 6: And so we need you all so bad, I'm urging you.

935
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 21: And then the last thing, I would love to buy land,

936
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 21: But what am I gonna do when I get that land?

937
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 6: So we had people to come into.

938
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 21: Our community to explain to us how can we profit

939
00:50:59,000 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 21: from land?

940
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 6: That would help? Thank you, So we stick it on land.

941
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 4: Right.

942
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 7: The beautiful thing about what mister Hampton is talking about.

943
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 7: He moved here from Milwaukee. He moved back home. He's

944
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 7: a part of a group of other landowners in his area.

945
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 7: They have a cooperative. They raise cattle, they do a

946
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 7: tree farming. And the person who really launched that is

947
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,959
Speaker 7: a guy by the name of Frank Taylor. And Frank

948
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 7: will go to anywhere in the state to train people

949
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 7: how to do it. And Frank dook through another entity

950
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 7: that black folks created in the forties called the Missippi

951
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 7: Association of Cooperative. It is a cooperative of black farmers

952
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,439
Speaker 7: across the state. I get buy cabbage from their water

953
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 7: millers and all kinds of stuff. We have more resources

954
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 7: than we realize if we sit down to begin to

955
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 7: talk about the resources we have. Final point, people are

956
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 7: dying in the seats because young folks think the movement

957
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:05,879
Speaker 7: is a microwave. I think folks who young folks who

958
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 7: go to meetings get frustrated because all folks think they

959
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 7: own the seat. But now those are the extremes on

960
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 7: both sides. There's a middle that we have to cultivate

961
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 7: so folks can recognize there's a seat at the table

962
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 7: for everybody. But you have to be both patient and

963
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:28,760
Speaker 7: you have to be open at the exact same time,

964
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 7: we have to move out of the deficit mindset of

965
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 7: US versus US and begin to lean into the US

966
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 7: for us with all the resources that we have that

967
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 7: many of us don't even recognize that is right under

968
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 7: our feet.

969
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 17: Might I add something to that, especially the first part

970
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 17: of your question. I think that we're really facing what

971
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 17: is becoming an existential crisis. The last ten members of

972
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 17: Congress to pass away, nine of them have been Democrats.

973
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 17: Can get easier for Trump to cut Medicaid, for him

974
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:08,240
Speaker 17: to cut Social Security, for him to really affect people.

975
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 3: And it is going to take us.

976
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 17: It's going to take leadership and younger people stepping up,

977
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 17: younger people being given this microphone and a platform, and

978
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 17: also the resources to be able to effectively campaign and

979
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 17: to effectively lead. I think that Progressives and Democrats we

980
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 17: have good policy overall. Generally we agree on things, but

981
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 17: where we get confused and where we get stopped is

982
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 17: when it comes to messaging, messaging on these issues and

983
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 17: breaking them down for people. And I think we have

984
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 17: to do a better job of messaging to recruit young

985
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 17: people to run for office and to become politically involved.

986
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 5: And this is for the women I'm just going to

987
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 5: let you know. There is an organization called Emerge.

988
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 3: You can look them up.

989
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 5: They specifically they're one of the Partners, and they train

990
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 5: up women to run for They will help you.

991
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 3: If you're like.

992
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 5: I don't know, I just want to run for something,

993
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 5: They're gonna find that something and they give you the support,

994
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 5: they give you a network. Their very first client was

995
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris when she ran for da That was the

996
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 5: very first person that kicked off a merge.

997
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 3: And there's so many women.

998
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 5: So if you can go check that partner out, and

999
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 5: if you're interested in running for office, it doesn't matter

1000
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 5: what level at, go to their website, check them out

1001
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 5: and see if they've got resources for you. I ain't

1002
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 5: running because it's a hatcheck violation. That's the only reason

1003
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 5: I'm not running. But everybody else, if it's not a

1004
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 5: hatcheck violation, you should run.

1005
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 15: And another resource in Mississippi is the Mississippi Black Women's Roundtable.

1006
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 15: They have women in the lead and it is a

1007
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 15: great program if you are a woman interested in running

1008
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 15: for a political office and it's right here in Mississippi.

1009
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 15: Cassandra can give you more information about it. But that's

1010
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 15: another great resource.

1011
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 3: As well.

1012
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: We have two more hands are here alone, and then

1013
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: right over here, Hey.

1014
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 22: Y'all, I'm Camille On from Tupelo, Mississippi, and I run

1015
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 22: an organization called Black Women on a Mission. We do

1016
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 22: events similar to this called the ninety two Percent Club,

1017
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 22: where we bring black women together to.

1018
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 6: Talk about these type of issues.

1019
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: Yes, Elizabeth has We're very involved.

1020
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 22: But one of the things that I get, especially from

1021
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 22: my younger audience, my college students, is that we talk

1022
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 22: a lot about a lot of heavy topics.

1023
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 6: We talk about a lot.

1024
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 22: Of problems, and in the end, a lot of times

1025
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 22: we're really not leaving with a clear action item.

1026
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 6: People want to do something.

1027
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 22: I know that I can work as a convener and

1028
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 22: I can bring people together, and I can talk on

1029
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 22: social media, but at the end of the day, like

1030
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 22: what's the takeaway?

1031
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:38,439
Speaker 6: What's to do?

1032
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 22: Because we have people that are ready to get their

1033
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 22: hands dirty.

1034
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: I'm one of them.

1035
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 6: But all the time I don't know what to do,

1036
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 6: you know what I mean?

1037
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 22: Like I can't just go knock on the door to

1038
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 22: White House, like God, just you know.

1039
00:55:54,440 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 23: But I'm just not reflect I'm sorry, but anyway you

1040
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 23: get what I'm saying, which is that I'm looking for

1041
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 23: an action item and a practical one because I also

1042
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 23: understand people can get involved with my organization, they can

1043
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 23: get involved with the NAACP, they can get involved.

1044
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 6: With all twenty nine. That is great. What should we do?

1045
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: So I want to do a personal plug one. We

1046
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: are on Native Lampard right now. It is live streaming.

1047
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: We talk about this every single week. We have calls

1048
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: to action. In addition, the State of the People power

1049
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:30,720
Speaker 1: Tour is not designed to come swoop in and create

1050
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: and organize. We have resource tables in the back all

1051
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 1: organizations that are Jackson based where people can plug in

1052
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: with what to do. We have our black papers policy initiative.

1053
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 1: Through State of the People, people have written policy positions, demands,

1054
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 1: action items. Look at those policy papers, see where you align,

1055
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 1: see where you'd like to revise something that is something

1056
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: to do. We will convene in Baltimore on juneteenth through

1057
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: juneteenth to the twenty first talking about these black papers,

1058
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: talking about how what else we need to do to

1059
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: continue this movement. We are late. I keep saying we're late,

1060
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: They're just tap the table, but it's true.

1061
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 6: We are late.

1062
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: There are some organizations like the NAACP that never stop

1063
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: doing this work. But there are a lot of our

1064
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: family members, maybe some of them sitting in the chair

1065
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: with you right now. I know it's not the NAACP shirts,

1066
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: the other folks. Have you stayed engaged, have you continued

1067
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: to do the work? Have you connected with folks like

1068
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: Camille to ensure that we haven't let trouble catch up

1069
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: to us? Right now we are in very serious die

1070
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: your times. We cannot afford to be fighting one another.

1071
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: Your mission might be different by two words. Is that

1072
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: a fight you really want to take on in the

1073
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: face of fascism?

1074
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 6: Probably not.

1075
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to do, and there are a

1076
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: lot of organizations that are already doing it, but they

1077
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: need you and your gifts and your talents to ensure

1078
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: that you take them across the finish line. That is

1079
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: what this moment is about. Part of the tour is

1080
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: to bring awareness to the groups that are already doing

1081
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: the work. Part of the tour is to align around

1082
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: the places where we might have a slight distinction, but

1083
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: do we agree on the end goal even if we

1084
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: don't agree on the means. That's part of what this

1085
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: is about, right.

1086
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 7: So actually listen to you. Clearly I didn't taple coast

1087
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 7: of that. The success of Mississippi movement was local people

1088
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 7: identifying the issue in their local area they can organize around,

1089
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,959
Speaker 7: which then build up to a state movement which became

1090
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 7: a national movement.

1091
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 3: I recommend to you and.

1092
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 7: Others, what is the issue in two below on the

1093
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 7: city level or in Lee County on the county level.

1094
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 7: That's something that you can identify, organize people around, and address.

1095
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 7: We have been the most successful state in getting black

1096
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 7: folks elected the office. Ten percent of all black folks

1097
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 7: in the United States live in the state of Mississippi.

1098
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 7: We have been the worst state in the entire country.

1099
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 7: Were given those same elected official an agenda of what

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Speaker 7: we want while they get in that office, and measure

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Speaker 7: them based on their performance. We have not done that well.

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Speaker 7: And so in every Tupolo has an election, the city

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Speaker 7: is changing fast racially, the county is changing fast racially.

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Speaker 7: Who are the people you could organize to begin to

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Speaker 7: address some of the policy issues. Their whole set of

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Speaker 7: ordinances that was adopted in Tupelo in the fifties and

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00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 7: sixties in anticipation of black folks voting. What are those

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Speaker 7: ordinances that are barriers. How do you address a school

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Speaker 7: district that when desegregation happened, it was one of the

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Speaker 7: areas that did not create private academies not going in

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Speaker 7: that direction. How do you stop that erotia to make

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Speaker 7: sure you capture your tax dollars to ensure we get

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Speaker 7: excellence in our education systems. There are so many things

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Speaker 7: to be done tangibly in a local community, but it

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Speaker 7: will not be people starting nationally and have an impact.

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Speaker 7: It's in the backyard. That's why we know FEDEEU.

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Speaker 3: Hamer.

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Speaker 7: That's why we know all of the civil rights folks

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Speaker 7: because they started locally.

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Speaker 24: Hello, my name is Hope Green. I'm here from Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 24: and I have been a business owner for over thirty

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Speaker 24: eight years. I recently retired and now I'm transitioning into

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Speaker 24: becoming an educator. I went back to school certifications and stuff.

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Speaker 24: Right now as I'm going through school, I'm working as

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Speaker 24: a guest teacher, substitute teacher, and I feel the gentleman

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Speaker 24: that was saying he made the comment about our kids

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Speaker 24: are being raised and how our kids are coming up

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Speaker 24: right now, and just most of the schools that I

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Speaker 24: serve in right now are predominantly kids of color, and

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Speaker 24: just the level of disrespect that I deal with on

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Speaker 24: a regular basis at these schools is it's crazy. And

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Speaker 24: I just wanted to put that out there because there

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Speaker 24: are people trying to do the work, and I work

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Speaker 24: with leadership organizations in my community, in my area, and

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Speaker 24: you get into these zones and it's like there's so

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Speaker 24: many obstacles of us trying to work together, and I

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Speaker 24: want help on how to be different myself, to show

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Speaker 24: up differently.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there's something I'm doing.

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Speaker 24: I think communication is something is an art that's lost

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01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 24: these days, the way we communicate.

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Speaker 3: As I'm trying to get a job.

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Speaker 24: As an educator, I've worked with three black female principles

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01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 24: and I was not like I was dismissed from assignments

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01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 24: with no explanation as to why I'm one of those

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01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 24: teachers that literally shows up with all the decorations and

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Speaker 24: all the stuff.

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Speaker 3: I come early, I do all the.

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Speaker 24: Things, and I wouldn't I don't understand why you wouldn't

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Speaker 24: want somebody like that working for you, But there's no

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Speaker 24: communication as to like what are we you know, what

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Speaker 24: are the expectations?

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Speaker 3: And also from the young people, on the panel.

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Speaker 24: If you guys have any tips or pointers that y'all

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01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 24: can give me on how to connect with young people,

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01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,919
Speaker 24: I'm open for that. And then also just doing community work.

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Speaker 24: When you show up and you're like, hey, I want

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Speaker 24: to work, I want to do some things, and you know,

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Speaker 24: they have their the same people do all the stuff

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Speaker 24: all the time. So I think that's something that we

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Speaker 24: need to kind of move away from that and be

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Speaker 24: more open to, like you're saying, new voices and different

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Speaker 24: voices and you know, like a more welcoming environment so

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Speaker 24: that we can all work together.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Oh, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 17: One thing that I think that is important when talking

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Speaker 17: to young people is that there has to be a

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Speaker 17: level of buy in. People have to know that they're

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Speaker 17: fighting for something, they're earning something, and I think that

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Speaker 17: a lot of the times with the educational system, that

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Speaker 17: disconnect is there.

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Speaker 3: We also see that exact.

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Speaker 17: Same disconnect when it comes to getting young people and

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Speaker 17: politically engaged. And you know, that's why I started a

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Speaker 17: political Action committee when I was a junior in high

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Speaker 17: school because I saw a problem, a broad issue that

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Speaker 17: young people are not voting at the rates they should

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Speaker 17: because them voting depends on their future. And what my

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Speaker 17: pack does gen z Ford is it funds young candidates

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Speaker 17: to be able to run an office. And we see

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Speaker 17: those spikes in voter participation among young people when there's

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Speaker 17: someone young on the ballot. That's the type of buy

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Speaker 17: in that's necessary. So I think that when you talk about,

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Speaker 17: especially the educational system, that same thing is there. There

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Speaker 17: has to be something that we're earning, something that we're

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Speaker 17: looking forward to, something that we're fighting for in order

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Speaker 17: for us to truly engage in really one of the

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Speaker 17: most important things there can be, which is getting an education,

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Speaker 17: what so many people have fought for.

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Speaker 5: So I'm coming at this from the perspective of a

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Speaker 5: mama of a baby in public school. This is a

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Speaker 5: cultural issue that we have to work on. Everybody wants

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Speaker 5: a village, and nobody wants to be a village member.

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Speaker 3: That's the problem.

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Speaker 5: I keep seeing this a lot, especially in mom groups,

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Speaker 5: and I understand that there could be like old wounds

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Speaker 5: of the way that our parents raised us. I was

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Speaker 5: fortunate to be raised shout out to Daddy by a

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Speaker 5: boomer who did gentle parenting before gentle parenting was gentle parenting,

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Speaker 5: So I'm very fortunate that that's how I was raised.

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Speaker 5: I understand everybody's raised that way, and so a lot

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Speaker 5: of folks are now going too far in the other direction,

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Speaker 5: and they don't like any correction of their chill, and

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Speaker 5: they don't want anybody to be involved.

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Speaker 6: They don't want to be in a village.

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Speaker 3: They want to be a dictator.

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Speaker 5: And I know this is like a crazy like topic

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01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 5: I'm getting onto, but I've just noticed this over and

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Speaker 5: over again when I see people saying things, if I

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01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 5: give my baby to my auntie or my daddy or

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01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 5: my mama to watch and they let him play a

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01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 5: keyboard and eat goldfish and whatever, I can't micro manage that, right,

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Speaker 5: like if I want the help, if I want the assistance.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's why we have to go out

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Speaker 5: and teach people how to live in a village again

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Speaker 5: and understand, you can't micro manage every single thing, and

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Speaker 5: sometimes you need to let other people correct your children.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes somebody else needs to do that at like, it

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Speaker 5: can't always be just the mom and the daddy doing it.

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Speaker 5: And I think that comes from having these conversations on

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Speaker 5: a personal level, right You can't have these over social media.

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Speaker 3: It comes like an attack.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't work that way.

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Speaker 5: But being in the groups with parents getting to know them,

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01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 5: getting to talk to them and understanding like Okay, where

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Speaker 5: are you coming from, and building a friendship. Like I

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Speaker 5: talk to my son's teacher. She has my number, We

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01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 5: text each other. I feel like that's not a thing.

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Speaker 5: She's shot it out. I feel like that's not a

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Speaker 5: thing people do anymore. But like laying that foundation and

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Speaker 5: encourage that here's my number. You know, between these hour

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Speaker 5: set boundaries, healthy boundaries. Right, they don't need to be

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01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:07,720
Speaker 5: texting you at midnight, but you can say you can

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01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 5: message me, we can talk about this, understand what's going on,

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Speaker 5: what's going on in their home life. Like we've kind

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Speaker 5: of lost that whole sense of the village and the

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Speaker 5: community that we don't have, and it's making it very

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Speaker 5: difficult for people to take what is honestly a lot

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01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 5: of times valid criticism and correction that is needed for

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Speaker 5: their children, especially in the public school setting, and then

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Speaker 5: it burns out the teachers.

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Speaker 1: And we want to thank you all so much for

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Speaker 1: this time. As we get ready to transition to our

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Speaker 1: rally time, I know they're gonna take these tables down,

1245
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 1: we go to turn the music on. This has been

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Speaker 1: Native Lampod. Everything that you heard is reflection of our podcast.

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Speaker 1: Nobody here, none of the C three orgs, none of

1248
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Speaker 1: the Seed four orgs. It got a little political and

1249
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: on y'all at all. It's on us. I want to

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01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:52,919
Speaker 1: bring in to take us over to Charles who will

1251
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: help us set this for m Seeing Charles Taylor, we

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Speaker 1: have Tugaloo Trustees here, Derek who's sitting next to me.

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01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass the mike to Derek, and ta Key

1254
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 1: Houman who just wrote a best selling book who's also here,

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01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 1: and while we were talking about where we get our products,

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01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: created an amazing concept called the village market. So we're

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01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: going to turn it over to Derek and takey. We

1258
01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:18,720
Speaker 1: are at Tugalu College. Shout out to Tugalu College, and

1259
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn this over. And then here comes Charles

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Speaker 1: right after.

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Speaker 25: Well, first y'all, can we give a shout out for

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01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 25: Native Lampod and also can you give it out give

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01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 25: it up for yourselves.

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Speaker 6: Before we go to this rally.

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Speaker 25: I know that there has been a lot shared today,

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01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 25: a lot of information, and when I receive a lot

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01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 25: of information, I'm always left with what is the one

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01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 25: thing I'm going to take away? So I think when

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01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 25: you leave here today, leave with one thing that you're

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01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 25: going to take away. It's something that you are going

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01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 25: to share. Because the only way that this movement becomes

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01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 25: a movement, we got to take all the things that

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01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 25: we learn in this space at least one thing. Take

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01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 25: it back to our households, take it back to our block,

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01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 25: take it back to our schools, take it back to

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01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 25: our churches. And before I give it to to Derek,

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01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 25: as much as we can talk about how sensitive this

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01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:22,320
Speaker 25: time is, if I can leave you all with this,

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01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 25: I need you to protect your mind. I need you

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01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 25: to protect your psyche. I need you to protect your spirit.

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01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 25: I need you to protect your consciousness. Protecting it doesn't

1282
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 25: mean that you don't get to work. Protection means that

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01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 25: everything won't work you. And there's a difference in that.

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 25: So every single day I challenge you, when you wake up,

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01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 25: give thanks to something. Acknowledge the presence of life in

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01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 25: the gift that there is. Drink your water, Drink your water,

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01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:05,639
Speaker 25: move your body, affirm your day, speak over the day

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01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:09,560
Speaker 25: that you have, will have your children, your grandchildren, your community,

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01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 25: because we know words are prophetic, and y'all, we as

1290
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 25: a collective, as a people bound by destiny and chance.

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01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 25: It is not by accident that God called us all

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01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 25: here to be together at this time. Every generation has

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01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 25: something they're going to respond to, and it doesn't mean

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01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,639
Speaker 25: it's going to be easy. It just means that meant

1295
01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 25: that we were called for it. We were called for it, y'all.

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Speaker 25: So I hope that helps you sit up a little

1297
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:41,160
Speaker 25: bit higher. I hope that tells you to walk into

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01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 25: your rooms and sit at your tables, know that you

1299
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,680
Speaker 25: are there and meant to be a transformer because it

1300
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 25: is not by accident. It is destined, curated, orchestrated by

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Speaker 25: the most High that we all share time purpose in

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01:09:56,439 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 25: this season together.

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Speaker 7: So as we transition, I just want to thank everyone

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01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 7: who came out tu lou College's sacred ground. It's five

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01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 7: hundred acres of protection. We own it, it's ours, and

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01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 7: we don't want anyone on this campus. We have security

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01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 7: at the gate to stop them from coming in. That

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01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 7: is the legacy of this school, particularly doing the civil

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01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 7: rights movement. That's why it was important for us to

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01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,719
Speaker 7: have this meeting here. And so give yourself a round

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01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 7: of applause for this marathon of a day, for you

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Speaker 7: all being here, and if you ever in Atlanta, stop

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Speaker 7: by the village. Key has a black business incubator that

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Speaker 7: is now nationally known where she's incubating black businesses and

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Speaker 7: they're growing.

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Speaker 3: And it's a two GLU graduate.

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Speaker 7: She's from a small town here in Mississippi, Basefield, and

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Speaker 7: now she over there doing all this stuff.

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Speaker 25: Hold on the big city of Baseville, Mississippi, right.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 7: But the beautiful thing about the campus is we own it.

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Speaker 3: Ownership is moreort now than anything else.

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Speaker 7: Let's protect it, let's grow it, and let's celebrate it

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Speaker 7: because without us, there is though us. And it's only

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Speaker 7: through the stuff that we own the control that we

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Speaker 7: can maintain a free US, peace and power.

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Speaker 25: And lastly, send your students and your kids to.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining the Natives intentional with the info

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Speaker 2: and all of the latest rock gillim and cross connected

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Speaker 2: to the statements that you leave on our sociales. Thank

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Speaker 2: you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice is clear,

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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 paint. Go walking Home

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