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Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeartRadio and partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media, Jackson, Mississippi. Hello, are y'all can do

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Speaker 1: better than that?

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Speaker 2: We're black?

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Speaker 3: We grew up in black church. How y'all doing all right?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: I'm Angela Rai and this is my car host, my brother,

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Speaker 1: my friend Andrew Gillan. Does your mic work?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, the morning, the morning.

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Speaker 3: Everybody in the bar up?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. We're trying to pierce the

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Speaker 2: ears and.

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Speaker 4: The consciousness of these legislators who are trying to throw

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Speaker 4: us one hundred years back.

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Speaker 5: Are we fired up?

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Speaker 2: Fired up?

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Speaker 6: Fired up?

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Speaker 4: I know y'all are ready to go in, ready to vote, right,

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Speaker 4: fired up and ready to vote. Angela, I think we

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Speaker 4: got a group that is fired up and ready to vote.

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Speaker 4: But I know one more person who might get y'all

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Speaker 4: just a little bit more height. And it is our

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Speaker 4: guest host for today's podcast, which is what Angela and

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Speaker 4: I are here representing Native Lampard.

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Speaker 5: But we are.

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Speaker 4: Here in strict solidarity with this fight here in Mississippian

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Speaker 4: all over the country as they try to take back

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Speaker 4: what we fought so hard. Our ancestors die bled fought

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Speaker 4: for and were the recipients of. And they want to

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Speaker 4: give us rights that are less than the rights that

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Speaker 4: our four parents had one hundred years ago. And I

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Speaker 4: think we got a message to send them today and

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Speaker 4: over the coming days, coming years, whatever is required until

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Speaker 4: we get what we are Old Angela.

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Speaker 2: Our brother edig Laude is here. Y'all know, Professor doctor Eddie?

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Speaker 3: Where's he going?

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Speaker 7: Eddie?

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Speaker 8: You up here with us?

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Speaker 3: Ma'am?

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Speaker 2: Can y'all give him ronal applause's.

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Speaker 1: He joins us, so as he joins us, a native

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Speaker 1: son as he joins us.

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Speaker 3: Just a couple of things. One is our podcast is the.

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Speaker 1: Proud recipient last year of an n DOUAACP Image Award.

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Speaker 1: So we're so thrilled to be standing here in solidarity

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Speaker 1: with NAACP so many others of you who are doing

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Speaker 1: the work on the ground every single day. Tell your

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Speaker 1: neighbors that they have in the hall to come on in.

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Speaker 1: We are the pre show. Native lampod is beginning a

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Speaker 1: tour that we wanted to launch right here in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Speaker 3: This is the two.

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Speaker 1: Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country, and we don't

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Speaker 1: know what we're celebrating. So we have America two point

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Speaker 1: fifty a nation on fire, and we'll be in rural

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Speaker 1: communities for the next several months leading up to the

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Speaker 1: midterm elections.

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Speaker 3: We know the midterm is just a stopping point.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of organizing to do, a lot

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Speaker 1: of work to do around making sure that black political

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Speaker 3: Is that right, y'all? All right, doctor Eddie.

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Speaker 1: Glode, We're gonna sit down and chet. We're gonna sit

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Speaker 1: down and chat.

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Speaker 2: Well, our native son, give some greetings to uh.

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Speaker 6: It is so good to be home. I'm a country

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Speaker 6: boy from Moss Point, Mississippi, and we're out here ready

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Speaker 6: to fight. They think they think they have done something,

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Speaker 3: Is that right?

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Speaker 5: Is that right?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely? Absolutely so, I'm.

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Speaker 8: Delighted to be well.

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Speaker 1: You know, they thought a little rain was gonna stop us,

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Speaker 1: doctor Glad, and the rain.

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Speaker 3: Could not stop us. We cannot be stopped. We won't

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Speaker 1: So I want to just start right here because so

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Speaker 1: many folks have been talking about the fact that this

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Speaker 3: Gonna be more people joining us.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to talk just for a moment about

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Speaker 1: So we know that they have gone after Louisiana with

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Speaker 1: these folks who stood up for black voices and black voters.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take them off of their committees. Black people

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Speaker 1: I'm from the state of Washington.

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Speaker 3: There are Washington legislators.

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Speaker 1: I won't say what parties since this is a non

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Speaker 1: between the lines, they pursued a map to remove a

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Speaker 3: In Washington State. We're not supposed to be touched there, right, y'all.

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Speaker 1: They just appealed to the Supreme Court. So I want

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Speaker 1: to ground us in. This is not a regional battle.

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Speaker 1: We know that we need to come here because this

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Speaker 3: But how did we get here, doctor Glove?

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Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I just want to say that

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Speaker 6: much is happening, But you know, I keep thinking of

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Speaker 6: something Malcolm X says. We've just passed his birthday.

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Speaker 6: Malcolm said, as long as you south of the committeean border,

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Speaker 6: Part of what he's trying to gest here is that

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Speaker 5: The South as a.

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Speaker 6: Region has to bear the burden of the country's sins.

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Speaker 6: But the country's sin don't belong to the South alone.

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Speaker 6: But what we're seeing is an all out effort right

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Speaker 6: and South is just simply the incubator, the incubator for

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Speaker 6: one of the first gestures was to California. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 6: And so if we wanted to tell the story of

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Speaker 6: So we're in this moment. I think we're in a

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Speaker 6: a second loss fause, a second lost cause. And what's

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Speaker 6: It has everything to do with a certain kind of

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Speaker 6: It has everything to do with a kind of violence,

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Speaker 5: Think about it.

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Speaker 6: We're right here in Mississippi facing redistricting here in Mississippi.

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Speaker 6: It was the Mississippi Plan that became those blueprints to

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Speaker 6: Plan included. It included, of course, violence, It included a coup.

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Speaker 6: Governor Ames was run out of here. But it also

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Speaker 6: involved a wholestel disenfranchisement, of black folk, which led, of course,

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Speaker 6: And so part of our tasks is not to read

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Speaker 6: and scale of what we have to do in this moment.

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Speaker 6: It's more than just simply registering to vote. It's more

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Speaker 3: No, stay there, stay there, tell us what else?

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Speaker 1: Because I do think and if we're honest, we're having

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Speaker 1: a family discussion, right, we default to this is why

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Speaker 1: to turn out in November. Both things are true. But

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Speaker 1: what else does civic engagement look like? What else does

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Speaker 3: In this moment?

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Speaker 6: Doctor, I think, I think this is the key, right,

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Speaker 6: We have to break the back of the politics that

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Speaker 6: well necessarily Jackson, but you know what I mean. If

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Speaker 6: the acidity of the soil is such it can only

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Speaker 6: change the soil. So it's this soil in the country

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Speaker 6: address the electoral college. Abolish, abolish, you know, abolish or

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Speaker 4: Our you know, it's interesting with their doctor Eddie. We

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Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, because I'm not in the

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Speaker 4: Smith, who says black people are to give Republicans a

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Speaker 2: I've never heard anybody.

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Speaker 4: Exercise the logic that you offer your vote to a

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Speaker 2: We were Republicans at one point when.

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Speaker 4: The Republican Party got away from us, we did a

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Speaker 2: A party that was expressive of our interests. And now we're.

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Speaker 4: At a place, I feel where Democrats have had sixty

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Speaker 2: We've had a.

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Speaker 4: Majority in the US House of Representatives. Yet there was

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Speaker 4: In fact, we got our Supreme Court justice seat robbed

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Speaker 4: and a Democratic Party and some realms who believe that

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Speaker 4: even though this redistricting may remove black seats, it may

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Speaker 4: Yet we need another cycle. Wait just a little bit longer.

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Speaker 2: And when we figure it out, we'll come back to it.

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Speaker 2: And by and by, come back to it never comes.

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Speaker 4: So when you talk about the soil being rotten, the

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Speaker 2: We've got enemies all around.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that was just a brilliant analysis, brother Andrew.

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Speaker 5: Let me just say this.

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Speaker 6: That's too narrow. But the point is when we reduce

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Speaker 1: Well, and here's the thing about that, and I think

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Speaker 3: This is a nonpartisan event.

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Speaker 1: But what we know is that racism is bipartisan and nonpartisan.

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Speaker 1: the point, we are always the sacrificial lamb. But what

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Speaker 1: So I know we got some technical things to work out.

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Speaker 1: He's getting miked up. But while that happens, I do

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Speaker 1: up for Melanie Campbell, the creator of the Black Women's

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Speaker 3: Y'all can do better than that. She organized us alone,

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Speaker 1: But I think this is the part I don't want

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Speaker 1: like Andrew, you have to be looking at this moment

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Speaker 1: like how many times did we have to tell y'all

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Speaker 11: You know?

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Speaker 4: Part of it for me, even as I was asking

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Speaker 2: Rock and a hard place.

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Speaker 4: The problem is is that when you got satan.

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Speaker 4: If this devil wins and in this place, we got

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Speaker 4: But I feel like it's insufficient to describe the moment

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Speaker 4: right It's crisis on every side. Six hundred thousand black

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Speaker 2: Make a way for house and home. So we're in crisis.

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Speaker 4: So in crisis, how do we negotiate our political power

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Speaker 2: Well at the same time, we're in a sinking ship.

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Speaker 3: So to that, how do we get better, do better?

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Speaker 1: Part of that, y'all is we have to elect people

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Speaker 3: This is I know, it's nonpartisan.

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Speaker 1: This is not an endorsement, it's just the fact of

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: So I want you to talk about, Scott, why it's

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Speaker 1: There are people who would look at how how state

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Speaker 1: It's a hill not worth climbing. What made you say

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Speaker 5: Listen.

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Speaker 12: It's people in the audience that made me do it.

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Speaker 12: It's these people. And I'll tell you too often the

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Speaker 12: Last year, Senata Isam brought the super majority.

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Speaker 5: In the state Senate.

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Speaker 12: They drew her man to be fifty one percent African American.

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Speaker 5: She won thirty five percent of the vote, y'all.

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Speaker 13: You need to come up here and talk to us too.

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Speaker 1: Come on, ma'am, come on up here and tell us

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Speaker 1: how to get this done. That is that's a remarkable point.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, And you look at the primary.

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Speaker 12: and we didn't have that much money to spend. The

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Speaker 12: Post came out throwing it with three points of Cindy

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Speaker 5: Because here's the mistake.

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Speaker 12: People like I call it sidy high prices, because all

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to remind the candidates still a nonpartisan

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Speaker 5: Thank you for.

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Speaker 12: Everybody, But I think the state that people that are

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Speaker 5: It's taking away health care.

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Speaker 12: It's going to cause that economy to go further further

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Speaker 12: They don't want the voters pick them anymore. They want

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Speaker 14: I love that Senator.

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Speaker 4: Tone to be Senator sir, and I believe we got

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us.

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Speaker 4: Us, visitors, even though my wife was born in Jackson, Mississippi,

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Speaker 4: can you tell us what you did to make the

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Speaker 4: and stop some of these overreaches for power taking away

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Speaker 9: Uh oh me, PERI should get in. You can take

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Speaker 14: Okay, Well, good morning everyone.

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Speaker 3: I'm Senator Thereesa.

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Speaker 15: Gillespie Issam District too, the Soota County and Tunica County, Mississippi.

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Speaker 3: The young people.

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Speaker 15: Often would come to me, especially now that I have

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Speaker 15: I am so glad to have someone that looks.

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Speaker 3: Like me, that represents me.

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Speaker 15: When I came in this morning, there was a young

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Speaker 15: man in the hallway. He came to me and gave

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Speaker 15: me a hug. But it's so important that we try

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Speaker 15: to look at the future.

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Speaker 3: What's happening.

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Speaker 15: The people the past generation looked to see that the

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Speaker 15: future for us is going to be where we are

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Speaker 15: to that I had an opportunity win a race, and

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Speaker 15: now we need to make sure just like I'm a nurse.

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Speaker 15: My little granddaughter, she's in the eleventh grade. I asked her,

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Speaker 15: what does she want to do. She put down she

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Speaker 15: wants to be a nurse, so she may want to

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Speaker 15: also become a senator or be someone in politics. We

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Speaker 15: need to give them that opportunity. Let their voice be heard.

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Speaker 3: That's really good.

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that while we're letting your

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Speaker 1: voices be heard, that you all know that on the

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Speaker 1: side of the room, we are also letting your bellies

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Speaker 1: be full. There is free lunch here and we want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you all can partake. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's been a long day already, but it'll be a

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Speaker 1: longer day. But this is well worth a sacrifice. So

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Speaker 1: of course we're black in America, so we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: sure you eat.

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Speaker 3: I want to also open this up, Lolo.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure where you are, but we have a

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Speaker 1: mic floating for audience. This was intended to be a

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Speaker 1: town hall and an interactive conversation.

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Speaker 3: We already had one comment. We had a vet come.

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Speaker 1: Up and say, I don't know why that flag is

476
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Speaker 1: hanging right side up.

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Speaker 3: This country's in a mess. It needs to be upside down.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, So I want to make

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Speaker 1: sure we open up our questions. But doctor Glad, I

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Speaker 1: know you wanted to say something for a minute.

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Speaker 6: I wanted to ask the question, it's important for us

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Speaker 6: to have representatives. What's the substantive policy positions that you're

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Speaker 6: bringing to your constituencies that excites them. What's different about

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Speaker 6: you that can change the face of politics in the

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Speaker 6: state of Mississippi.

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Speaker 5: Well, i'll tell you, Doc.

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Speaker 12: I remembersent that a district that's majority white, it's district

488
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Speaker 12: attorney fifty seven percent white. And when I ran for

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Speaker 12: that race, they told me I had no.

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Speaker 5: Chance to win.

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Speaker 12: I was runing against a twenty seven year in combent

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Speaker 12: and I was running on criminal justice's reform. In my

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Speaker 12: first speech, I said, listen, we're still there too many

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Speaker 12: people to prison. If sending people to prison and make

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Speaker 12: everybody safe, we be the safest place on the world.

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Speaker 12: But the reality is much more complicated than that, and

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Speaker 12: we have to be smart on crimes. And what I

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Speaker 12: found was there's issues in Mississippi that working people can

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Speaker 12: unite around that don't sound parsive. So when I go

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Speaker 12: and I ran into a Republican voter in i Holme

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Speaker 12: Crown County. Initially he didn't want to take my car.

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Speaker 12: He said, well what I told hi? Because it was

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Speaker 12: a Democrat. And I said, well, let me tell you

504
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Speaker 12: the type of democrat I am. I'm for higher ways.

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Speaker 12: We haven't raised the memo wads and closer to twenty years.

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Speaker 12: And if you raise the middle wage, your boostall wages.

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Speaker 12: I'm for the lower cost The teriffs are storing farmers.

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Speaker 5: It's just storing people at the grocery store.

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Speaker 12: Causing chaos for small businesses. That's not good in Mississippi.

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Speaker 12: And last I'm for affordable, accessible health care for everybody.

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Speaker 12: Those are the value I'm running on. Those are not

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Speaker 12: Parson issues. Those are Mississippi issues, and there are a

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Speaker 12: lot of working class Mississippi is actually unite around issues.

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Speaker 12: If we get the message to them. We have to

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Speaker 12: be raising enough money to get messages to him. But

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Speaker 12: you know, at the end of the day, my main

517
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Speaker 12: strategy is I just gonna rely on TV.

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Speaker 5: I mean I do I'm gonna do TV.

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Speaker 12: I'm gonna do it, but I'm so I'm gonna get

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Speaker 12: out there and touch people. I go all around the

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Speaker 12: state asking voters what matter to them. You know what,

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Speaker 12: the number one answer I get is somebody who does

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Speaker 12: what they say they're gonna do.

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Speaker 5: People do not trust the posician.

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Speaker 12: So what we have to do is we have to

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Speaker 12: show up, listen, gain their trust when we get back

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Speaker 12: in power, because I do believe we're gonna have a

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Speaker 12: moment where this is gonna bafire on them when we

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Speaker 12: get back and we have to deliver for working people

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Speaker 12: to make their lives better.

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Speaker 3: Star Floating mic is right here.

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Speaker 1: If you have a question, what we're gonna ask you

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Speaker 1: to do is say your name and where you're from,

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Speaker 1: and then ask your question.

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Speaker 3: Or make your statement. We do want to hear from

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Speaker 3: our audience as well, I'm also joining us.

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Speaker 1: No, not yet, okay, not joining us, but you all

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Speaker 1: have joined us, so we're gonna keep going with this,

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Speaker 1: all right, go ahead?

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Speaker 4: What are your predictions about how bad it gets before?

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Speaker 4: We know, in the history of this country, particularly as

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Speaker 4: it relates to black people, that you know, our progress,

543
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Speaker 4: our advancement is often immediately followed by the clawback. We

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Speaker 4: win and then we we seem to lose more than

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Speaker 4: we thought we had won, and then we went again,

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Speaker 4: and we go back and the moment where we right

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Speaker 4: now find ourselves as you think about this redistricting battle

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Speaker 4: and you know, the stripping away in the reductionist politics

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Speaker 4: that reduces our vote and our impact.

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Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think the floor is?

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Speaker 4: What does the floor look like before we shoot back

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Speaker 4: to a ceiling if we shoot back.

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Speaker 5: I think the floor is very low. There is no floor.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I think what they'll do is people like

555
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Speaker 12: Chad White governrees, they're going to try to just stayed

556
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Speaker 12: up in wigh where they just keep power so they

557
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Speaker 12: don't have to be accountable to voters. And it won't

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Speaker 12: just start with congressional districts. It'll go to the stahouse

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Speaker 12: it'll go to the you know none part judges. They'll

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Speaker 12: try to as much power as they can. You want

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Speaker 12: to speak to that.

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Speaker 15: Yes, On April third, two days before the end of

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Speaker 15: the session, the resolution was being written and the resolution

564
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Speaker 15: was to remove my seat and also Johnny Dupree seat.

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Speaker 15: That resolution was brought to the committee, but the committee

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Speaker 15: did not pass it. And my faults was because of

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Speaker 15: the Louisiana callis just see that was you know, being

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Speaker 15: brought up because at that point had so many other

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Speaker 15: you know, seats that they wanted to look at.

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Speaker 14: So soon as the decision was.

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Speaker 15: Brought down on the Louisiana calais and the governor says

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Speaker 15: he's gonna look at all of the seats on my

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Speaker 15: seat district too, which was brought about as far as

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Speaker 15: host the cur in twenty five. It was presented because

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Speaker 15: the fact that we did not have a representative for.

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Speaker 3: There this twn of the county. I am.

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Speaker 15: Black representative, and we should apply history being made, Yes.

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Speaker 1: But it is a shame that it took to twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five for that to happen, right.

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Speaker 15: And I'm the first female, I was a double woman,

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Speaker 15: first black, first female, and you know the people came out,

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Speaker 15: they voted. My opponent was everything they could to stop me.

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Speaker 15: But God had the plan and I believe again that

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Speaker 15: God will continue to have the plan because we as

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Speaker 15: a people need resentation.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: We do have an audience question right over here with

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Speaker 1: Telly Grave your hands so they know you are the

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Speaker 1: one with the mic thinking.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: My name is Richard Coleman, and I'm probably one of

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Speaker 10: the oldest members of the nub ACP. Also, I was

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Speaker 10: an elected official in Maria in Mississippi. But my question

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Speaker 10: is why don't we doing to engage young folks. Took

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Speaker 10: care of the corks. We can talk it.

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Speaker 14: Are we walking?

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Speaker 10: Are we going to the school district and visiting school

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Speaker 10: and talking to young people the church and saying that

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Speaker 10: the boys is a vote and their vote don't count.

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Speaker 10: I have so many young people say why should I vote?

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Speaker 16: It?

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Speaker 10: Don't vote, it don't count. I said, well, let me

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Speaker 10: tell you this, young person and old folk, if you

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Speaker 10: don't vote, it counts anyway. That counts over up to tide,

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Speaker 10: I said, oh, I think we should engage ourselves and

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Speaker 10: getting and for us old people that's been in the office.

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Speaker 5: On a ship.

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Speaker 17: We identified young folk and in days them and involving.

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Speaker 18: In p.

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Speaker 5: For right sore rock. All of that, dude, all old

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Speaker 5: factors is very important.

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Speaker 10: God it blessed me to see eighty five years. And

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Speaker 10: I started when I was about twelve years old, drinking

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Speaker 10: down the water fountain.

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Speaker 5: Say color only bathroom, sitting on the back of the buff.

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Speaker 10: I remember, I didn't ever go I didn't just go

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Speaker 10: along with that.

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Speaker 5: I stood up and I jo I got drafted in

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Speaker 5: the military.

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Speaker 10: I'm and that's because they can probably inspire young foot to.

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Speaker 5: Get in ball. And you have a boy.

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Speaker 8: I got drafted.

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Speaker 5: In the army.

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Speaker 10: I turned on the reserves because I said, why should

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Speaker 10: I want to be part of oronization that's killing all folks.

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Speaker 10: Minam is right here in Meridian, Mississippi public commendation. So

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Speaker 10: I'm saying that because I'm gonna show you how with

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Speaker 10: God you can do pretty much.

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Speaker 5: And teaching race.

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Speaker 10: For all terrory, I did it for thourteen years. They

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Speaker 10: say race relation and then detained the human relations. You've

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Speaker 10: got to walk the walk. You don't walk the wall.

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Speaker 10: Just talk the talk it don't say nothing in the day.

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Speaker 3: Wow, Thank you so much, mister Coleman.

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Speaker 1: Telek, I'm actually gonna have you addressed the part that

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Speaker 1: was his question that was extremely powerful. Thank you, because

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Speaker 1: we need to deepen into the reminders of our history

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Speaker 1: for those of us who don't know, and for you

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Speaker 1: to be here walking history, proud of where you come

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Speaker 1: from and understand how much you have to fight, that

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Speaker 1: is just so encouraging. Teleku, I want you for a

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Speaker 1: moment to address what we're doing or what we must

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Speaker 1: do to engage young people.

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Speaker 19: Absolutely, and I want to just shout out to you

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Speaker 19: for sharing your story. We stand on the shoulders she rose,

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Speaker 19: and heroes of our elders who pay the way. So

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Speaker 19: let's give it up for all of our elders in

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Speaker 19: the room. I want to share something that my mentor

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Speaker 19: shared with me. He said, is that about a generation

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Speaker 19: that has at all or generation that has all the energy,

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Speaker 19: But it's our city that matters.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 19: We implore each of you, in your perspective places to

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Speaker 19: ensure that you make room for young people to be

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Speaker 19: at the table on those conversations, to make sure that

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Speaker 19: they feel included, that they are included, and that they're

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Speaker 19: and that they're that their their voices and that their

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Speaker 19: ideas coming fruishing a part of your plans, and oftentimes

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Speaker 19: it can be uncomfortable. We can be uncomfortable in places where.

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Speaker 5: Things may look different.

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Speaker 19: But it's all right for things that look different, right

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Speaker 19: because it is a different difference. Is that help shift

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Speaker 19: the narrative to push your envelope a little further.

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Speaker 8: So I encourage you to get uncomfortable.

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Speaker 19: It's all right with being uncomfortable, because complacency is what

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Speaker 19: the enemy of accomplishment and what we are doing in

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Speaker 19: this space. We want to continue to have real dialogue

668
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Speaker 19: and conversation with young people, having tough conversations sometimes and

669
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Speaker 19: meeting them where they are. So that means showing up

670
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Speaker 19: in different places. Yes, we are engaging them on our

671
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Speaker 19: college campuses and our youth counsels and etcetera, and the schools,

672
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Speaker 19: but also where are we meeting them outside the schools?

673
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Speaker 5: Where are they meeting at?

674
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Speaker 16: Where?

675
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Speaker 19: Where where are they convening at? And so meeting them

676
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 19: where they are it's going to be important for us.

677
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Speaker 19: And we also want to make sure that they are

678
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Speaker 19: the ones in the story that their story matters. I

679
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 19: always are young people walking with your hand held high

680
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Speaker 19: you show that the live sent you there because your

681
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Speaker 19: three maps.

682
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Speaker 5: And often they try to.

683
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Speaker 19: Discount the story or the or the upbringing of where

684
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 19: young people come from.

685
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 5: They all have their.

686
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Speaker 19: Own lipped experiences, so we want to live up their

687
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 19: storytelling so they could tell the story in the narrative

688
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 19: why this is important to them. And that's why we

689
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Speaker 19: just launched our digital organizers. I'm gonna do a kudo

690
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Speaker 19: you can comms celebrate ninety years this.

691
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Speaker 5: Year, I mean.

692
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Speaker 19: And so we were also going to ensure that were

693
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Speaker 19: continue to build legacy and also empowering our young folks

694
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Speaker 19: to be connected to our elders well so of how

695
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Speaker 19: they can build what this new generation of activism looks

696
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Speaker 19: like in the twenty first century.

697
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Speaker 1: Kelly, I'm gonna keep you in the hot seat, and

698
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Speaker 1: I'm also gonna put all young people in the room

699
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Speaker 1: in the hot seat.

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Speaker 3: If you are eighteen or under, can you raise your hand? Okay?

701
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Speaker 3: I see a few school I'm about to raise my.

702
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Speaker 1: Hand too because some of y'all. I thank y'all not

703
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: telling the truth. I'm raising my Handsie, I'm just checking.

704
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: I'm just checking this, okay, just in case. Because my

705
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: dad used to take me out of school for stuff

706
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: like this, So pardon the activists in me. Hey baby,

707
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: you you cheating you because your daddy got the mic.

708
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna come to you another time. But I want

709
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: to get some college age students. So if you're eighteen

710
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: to twenty.

711
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Speaker 3: Four, raise your hands.

712
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: It's about three four five, okay, So teller, I want

713
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Speaker 1: you to go find a student.

714
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Speaker 3: Stand by then, because the NAACP just announced out of bounds.

715
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 1: Out of bounds is trying to get young people, the fans,

716
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Speaker 1: the states that are impacted or impacting us in the

717
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Speaker 1: SEC all of the public schools, the public colleges, restricting

718
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: our athletes, black student athletes from going to those schools

719
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: because if your administrations cannot stand up for black voting power,

720
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Speaker 1: all rights, our students should not have to go play

721
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Speaker 1: at your university. And I've seen a lot of y'all.

722
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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of people having a lot to

723
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Speaker 1: say about what could be done, what should be done better,

724
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Speaker 1: and we stay letting the perfect being the enemy of

725
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Speaker 1: the good. We got to do something, and I would argue,

726
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Speaker 1: now the next frontier is economic, right, So Tyler, I

727
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,959
Speaker 1: want you to weigh in here, and if you see

728
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Speaker 1: a college student that has something to say about this.

729
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: We can have a debate. It's some good debaters up here,

730
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Speaker 1: but we got to do something next.

731
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, that's right, I want with the baby.

732
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Speaker 19: We they just look out of bowels that I said,

733
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Speaker 19: are our black athletes are making are making these colleges

734
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 19: millions and millions of dollars, And so we're saying, how

735
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Speaker 19: can we redirect that power and give them the form

736
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Speaker 19: over their talents and oftentimes in the conversation of how

737
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Speaker 19: the college athletic is looking at our student has.

738
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Speaker 9: A problem and not.

739
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Speaker 19: And we're encouraging our students if your university recruitment is

740
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Speaker 19: is no longer about if it's a good facility. Recruitment

741
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 19: is no longer about if the coaching staff is good.

742
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 19: There's some good coaching staff that are HBC used, right,

743
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 19: let's get it right. But recruitment is also about if

744
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Speaker 19: your university will stand up for your diversity, your equity

745
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Speaker 19: and inclusion. So we're encouraging our our students and our

746
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 19: athletes to ask that question on that and and we're

747
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 19: doing some evaluations and of these universities. Uh, and so

748
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Speaker 19: that is our encouragement. But this is not only on

749
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Speaker 19: the students as well. This is on the fans, This

750
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Speaker 19: is on the the alumni. Uh, this is on our create,

751
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Speaker 19: our donors that are going to these universities we're encouraging,

752
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 19: don't buy a ticket, season pans that you got last year,

753
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 19: don't get it again until they get it right. And

754
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 19: so we have to use our economic power to sure

755
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Speaker 19: we are holding them account.

756
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Speaker 6: I think I think this is really important. We can

757
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Speaker 6: talk about the historical parallels and the repetition.

758
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Speaker 20: Let's be clear, this ain't nineteen sixty five. It's nineteen

759
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Speaker 20: sixty five. We are now the black people of nineteen

760
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Speaker 20: sixty five or eighteen sixty.

761
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Speaker 21: Five, right, And so part of what we have to

762
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 21: do is to understand our power and exercise it with intent.

763
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Speaker 6: Right and purpose. We have to figure out the leverage points.

764
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Speaker 6: We have more capacity in our community than we've ever had.

765
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Speaker 6: We have people who have been positioned in play of

766
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Speaker 6: power and the way that we've rarely had a numbers

767
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Speaker 6: such we don't need to sit back on our heels

768
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Speaker 6: and watch white folks lose their minds. So the question

769
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Speaker 6: for us is what are our leverage points? And I

770
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Speaker 6: say this that the economic is not the next frontier

771
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 6: sister ends, it's always been here. It's always been here.

772
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Speaker 6: So what are the leverage points and what are the

773
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Speaker 6: sacri sacrifices requisite for us to speak this exercise the

774
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 6: power we've needed up to this time. And if you

775
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 6: are in a position of power, whether you're in a

776
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Speaker 6: law firm, whether you're at a university, whether you're at

777
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Speaker 6: a media institution, and you're not exercising that power, what

778
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 6: the hell are you there in the first place. So

779
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 6: we got young men with in I L young women

780
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Speaker 6: with n I ls. They're gonna make a but let

781
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 6: them get the bad. What are you getting it for

782
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 6: and for whom? We have to begin to leverage our

783
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 6: power like we got it and stop acting like these

784
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 6: folks can move on us and we're just gonna sit

785
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 6: here and see we show. We gotta figure out how

786
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 6: we're gonna move. Can we exercise some power with the

787
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 6: power we have? Does that make sense?

788
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 3: Absolutely? And would also make sense at this time.

789
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Speaker 1: He's been key in organizing most of the activities today

790
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: and so much more.

791
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Speaker 3: He is our good brother and friend.

792
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Speaker 1: Charles who he is the Mississippi Conference Executive director for

793
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Speaker 1: the NAACP. We have him joined us now I need

794
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: one of these shirts, Charles, I fight for voting rights.

795
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Speaker 3: Y'all can do better than that. We've been working hard, fight,

796
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 3: but black people, let's go. That's better.

797
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 9: Chut the Mike Stingier chair.

798
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Speaker 11: Good morning, Good morning. So we got two thousand shirts,

799
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Speaker 11: so I know I got at least one for you, angels.

800
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. You know, black people like free stuff.

801
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: I definitely want my shirt. I wear it right now

802
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: if I had it.

803
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Speaker 11: And I'm grateful for you and Andrew and Eddie being

804
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 11: here in the Mississippi.

805
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Speaker 5: Thank you.

806
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 11: Mississippi is always home to you, especially to you.

807
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, another question right here.

808
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Speaker 22: My name is Robert Irvan, and I live here in Jacksonsissippi.

809
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Speaker 22: And my courson is when we talk about race, all

810
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 22: people of color, that's occasions, Charlie, we.

811
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Speaker 1: Can't hear Michael little closer ago and asked Robert Irvin,

812
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Speaker 1: and my courson is we are all people of color.

813
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Speaker 22: That's including Caucasians. They are of color. We are all

814
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Speaker 22: and we're staying together. We have to unite divided. We

815
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 22: together we stay in and the divided we fall. So

816
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 22: we got to incorporate all races of color standing against

817
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 22: racism because we have.

818
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Speaker 5: A fellow in the White House and we need to

819
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Speaker 5: get him out.

820
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Speaker 14: And man, Senator, Okay, I just wanted to take a punt.

821
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Speaker 15: And that's one of the things I think that we

822
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 15: often forget.

823
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Speaker 14: I was an educator of nursing, but.

824
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Speaker 15: For our children and our young adults, they took civics

825
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 15: out of schools when we went to school. I know

826
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 15: when I went to school, we had that as a class.

827
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 15: So now that's been put back.

828
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Speaker 14: Into the curriculum.

829
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 5: It was a.

830
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Speaker 15: Bill has been passed, so the students will get that.

831
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Speaker 14: And I know in the Soda.

832
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Speaker 15: County the students before they graduate they have to register

833
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Speaker 15: to book.

834
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Speaker 14: That is a part. So all of those.

835
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Speaker 15: Things when we talk about our youth, we have to

836
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 15: remember that they didn't go the same way that we went.

837
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 15: I was so glad when I got eighteen that I

838
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Speaker 15: could register to vote.

839
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Speaker 14: But it hadn't been pressed upon them.

840
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 15: They hadn't had the struggles that we did when we

841
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Speaker 15: were coming up.

842
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Speaker 14: So that made a big difference. So now that this

843
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 14: is going to be placed.

844
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Speaker 15: Back, hopefully the youth and the young adults will start,

845
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 15: you know, taking that important that it's need to register

846
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Speaker 15: to vote. When Kamala Harris was running, I did thirty

847
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Speaker 15: five voter registration drives.

848
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Speaker 14: I registered two hundred and ninety eight people.

849
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Speaker 15: And in talking with some of the youth, when I

850
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 15: would go to them my vote, that take a difference.

851
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 15: I don't need to vote, or if I put my

852
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 15: name on there, then they're gonna call me for jury duty.

853
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 15: So they didn't have an understanding. So now we need

854
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 15: to be able to educate. And being placed back in

855
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,479
Speaker 15: the curriculum of the school, I think it will help.

856
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Speaker 4: Just speaking of jury duty, having been a person who

857
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 4: needed a jury to decide against or for me, for

858
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 4: the truth, you ought to be honored to.

859
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Speaker 5: Be called for jury.

860
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Speaker 2: Because I didn't. This wasn't the point.

861
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Speaker 4: But if you ever find yourself in the cross hairs

862
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 4: of this government, and quite frankly, but for God, there

863
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 4: go any of us, you better pray. You better hope

864
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 4: that somebody who looks like you, has your shared experience,

865
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Speaker 4: is willing to ask some questions, is willing to turn

866
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 4: some tables, is willing to say I don't.

867
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 2: Know that that's the truth. Can you prove it?

868
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 4: Because the absence of us being on juries means that

869
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Speaker 4: your life oftentimes can be left in the hands of

870
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 4: people who don't see you as an equal, and from

871
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 4: your very presence in the room, have concluded that you're

872
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 4: a threat, that you're no good, that you're a tape

873
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 4: and not a giver, and that.

874
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 2: You deserve the worst of the worst of the worst

875
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 2: that they can admonish you for. So anybody who has

876
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 2: that conception of I don't want to register because I

877
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 2: don't want to be on.

878
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 4: A jury, think about yourself and if you ever needed

879
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 4: a juror on the other side who was not going

880
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 4: to be for you, but who was going to see

881
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 4: you as a person and hear you.

882
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 2: That's what you.

883
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 4: Want, not somebody who's in your pocket, but who will

884
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 4: hear you. The other thing is a senator. You mentioned

885
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 4: the folks who conclude that this government isn't working for them,

886
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 4: That I am registered, but I get nothing from it.

887
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 4: This is one of my big fears about this redistricting

888
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 4: fight is that if they split us in such a

889
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 4: way that there are never enough of us to make

890
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 4: a difference in their winning or they're losing, why would

891
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 4: they ever have to pay attention to our issues If

892
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 4: they can split us up into all of these districts,

893
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 4: and at the end of the day and at the

894
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 4: beginning of the day, they know that you didn't put

895
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 4: them in office, and therefore you can't take them out

896
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 4: of office.

897
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 2: And so they have no reason to be of service

898
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: to you. This is the point.

899
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 4: The folks who conclude that the government isn't working for

900
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 4: them are not daydreaming.

901
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 2: They are living a real life.

902
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 4: With real needs that are being ignored and not being

903
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 4: met systemically. Because if it's happening to one of us,

904
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 4: that's not a system that may be a mistake or

905
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 4: fall through.

906
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: Maybe two of us of ten, that's an anomaly.

907
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 4: But when nine of ten of us are coming into

908
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 4: the same same situation where we express our issues, make

909
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 4: a demand and it gets ignored, that's no longer an exception.

910
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 4: That's a system that's deliberate. It's the input and that

911
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 4: will always be the output. So the threat of this

912
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 4: redistricting isn't just you losing faces that look like us

913
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 4: and people who have our share experience having opportunities to

914
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 4: lead us.

915
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 2: It is that they can break us, crack us, divide

916
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: us in.

917
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 4: Such a way that in a state like Mississippi, where

918
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 4: you are a third of the population and of your

919
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 4: entire congressional delegation ain't but one black person, and that's today,

920
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 4: because tomorrow they want to remove that seat.

921
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 5: Make it make.

922
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 4: Sense that in a state where a third of the

923
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 4: people in it are black, yet the congressional delegation looks

924
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 4: nothing like a third of the state.

925
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 2: Forty percent. So the point being the same one of

926
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 2: every three per let me say.

927
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: They will not touch Congressman Benny Gordon Thompson c They

928
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: will not.

929
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 2: They but they may not. They may try.

930
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 4: But the point is the point, which is they have

931
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 4: a goal, they are oriented toward their goal, and by

932
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 4: the way, they have the power they think to do it.

933
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 4: Which is why our clockback has to be louder than

934
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 4: their first step.

935
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 2: Our clockback has to be louder.

936
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 8: Nobody knows.

937
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: We have a question in the back and as more

938
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: people are coming in, please know that there is free

939
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: lunch over here. You want to make sure you are fed,

940
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: Go ahead, sale yes, and then maybe this art to.

941
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 23: My name is Josephino Dansa Kelly Johnson and I'm from

942
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 23: Kon County.

943
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 3: I have a question for you all.

944
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 23: Have you ever stepped into the resources that you got that.

945
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 14: Haven't been tapped yet.

946
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 23: If you ask the people over sixty, the raise hens

947
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:48,839
Speaker 23: in this.

948
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 14: Building, you'll get a great amount of people.

949
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 23: And those people over sixty are your bockses in your herehouse.

950
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 3: They can go out. Have you ever found he wanted

951
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 3: me to relieve my question.

952
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 23: Have you ever tapped into the.

953
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 14: The people that you got that will help you.

954
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 23: Yeah, if you go and look in this room, it's

955
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 23: gray hair all over the room, and some of them

956
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 23: got wigs on.

957
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 14: But she called y'all out.

958
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 3: She was like the great hair not showing because you

959
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 3: got your wig off. I love it. Come on, tell

960
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 3: the truth, mother, Come on.

961
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 23: And somebody said, a little die. We are some of

962
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 23: your strongest helpers.

963
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 14: We are your.

964
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 23: Grandmothers, your mother's and your aunties, and we are the

965
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 23: people who can go out and tell the young people

966
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 23: what's going on, what we went through, how we wins

967
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 23: do it when we wins do it. But you guys

968
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 23: go out on your own, take your boxes.

969
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 5: Witch.

970
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I'm gonna tell you what.

971
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: We don't go anywhere without our elders. I was raised

972
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: by an activist who is eighty two years old, and

973
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: one thing he won't do is let him, they go

974
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: by without telling me what my responsibility is.

975
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 3: Mother.

976
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,720
Speaker 1: So please know we hear you loud and clear this morning,

977
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: and you all will appreciate this. There was, of course,

978
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: a primary yesterday in several states, including Alabama and Georgia.

979
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: In Georgia, there's a lot of black folks who made

980
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: history and primaries. There's a black woman who was the

981
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: history maker to me and elder I think. She said

982
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: she was eighty five years old and she had a

983
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: T shirt on where she had a certificate that was

984
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: basically her voter registration from Georgia from a long time ago.

985
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: She had her eye voted sticker on from yesterday, and

986
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 1: she was actually giving the amount.

987
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 3: They had to pay for a poll tax back in

988
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 3: the day.

989
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: She said that they had to pay two or three

990
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: dollars to vote, and they didn't earn but two or

991
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: three dollars in that week. So she said that was

992
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 1: how expensive it was to vote, and she said sometimes

993
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: they would charge people even more. So she talked about

994
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: also the vote counting and how important it was that

995
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: you had to make a decision that this time period

996
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 1: for all of us requires sacrifice. So as we say,

997
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: you know, it's too expensive for these young people to

998
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: miss out on that scholarship money or that nil money.

999
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: What's worse is the nil money isn't even guaranteed because

1000
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: on the.

1001
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 3: I can't say it because we're a nonpartisan.

1002
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: On the other sides of a gender right now, is

1003
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: something called the Score Act, like keeping score.

1004
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 3: Somebody in here google the Score Act.

1005
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: The Score Act is a bigger threat to name, image

1006
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: and likeness nil deals than any protest that NAACP is

1007
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: putting on. So that's the bigger threat, just like they

1008
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: come after your map, say coming after your nudio money. Anyway,

1009
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: and it's not just for state school it's for all

1010
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: schools throughout the country.

1011
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 5: How you're doing.

1012
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 24: My name is James Media, some representing Marion County in Mississippi.

1013
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 24: My question is in regards to what my grandmother he

1014
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 24: was talking about.

1015
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 14: Y'all have there a lot of serious and.

1016
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 24: Everybody talks about the youth younger than twenty four, But

1017
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 24: there's also a giant group of people in my age

1018
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 24: bracket that just kind of drop off. Because when I

1019
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 24: was in college, there was things like the Outbound program

1020
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 24: somebody asking to jin the NAAC but here I heard.

1021
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 2: It and I missed.

1022
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 24: I missed a couple of ooting seconds, but I know

1023
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 24: I'm not the only one. So my question is what's

1024
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 24: being done to branch everybody together? Because twenty five to

1025
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 24: forty is a giant section of our workforce of just

1026
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 24: the economy doing a lot of limps. So what's being

1027
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 24: on to put all three generations together, the ones in

1028
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 24: the middle, the youth as well as the speiers.

1029
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 11: Thank you for the question. I answer part of it,

1030
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 11: and I'll talk about Mississippi. About fifteen statewide organizations got

1031
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 11: together this February and we began to build out a

1032
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 11: Mississippi plan. That Mississippi plan includes seven lanes. Each of

1033
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 11: the organizations said what was their primary, secondary, and tertiary lane.

1034
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:35,720
Speaker 5: As to relate to that plan.

1035
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 11: Because what you said is true, I'm gonna say this,

1036
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:46,720
Speaker 11: Mississippi is not just a moral argument. It is simple math.

1037
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 11: But in order for that math to work, we have

1038
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 11: to come together. As I look at this election cycle,

1039
00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 11: parody among African Americans would mean that we have to

1040
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 11: turn out an additional seventy five thousand African Americans. The

1041
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 11: question becomes, how don't have enough time to get into

1042
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 11: a grave detail, but just understand that that plan is

1043
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 11: coming together.

1044
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 5: Groups have talked.

1045
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 11: About what piece of it that are going to take,

1046
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 11: whether it's voter registration, whether it's knocking on doors, whether

1047
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 11: it is phone calls, texts, direct mail, other forms of communication,

1048
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 11: you know, etc. You know what about leadership pipeline exactly

1049
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 11: what you're talking about bringing people into the foe, thinking

1050
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 11: about the through line of the pro specific engagement from

1051
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 11: before you able to register to.

1052
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 5: You are in your very senior years.

1053
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 11: Because at the end of the day, if we're gonna

1054
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 11: win in Mississippi, it's going to take all of us.

1055
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 11: The last thing I will say about this is that

1056
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 11: I am an organizer. I am not an activist. I

1057
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 11: don't like to be behind the podium to be with

1058
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 11: the people. And the reason being is because oftentimes we

1059
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 11: come together in these types of moments, but we have

1060
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 11: to have the next We have to come together and

1061
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 11: build the strategy, build the plan, work the plan, because

1062
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 11: ultimately our north star should be changed in the material

1063
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 11: conditions of the lives of others. So I'm grateful to

1064
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 11: the question, and I believe that we're going to do

1065
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 11: it this year. I feel the energy. There is a

1066
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 11: crisis y'all clan for that. There is a crisis within

1067
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 11: this moment, but within every moment of crisis, there's an

1068
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 11: equal opportunity. So let's let's look at that opportunity.

1069
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

1070
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: Really quickly, I want to just let's give it up

1071
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: for a candidate for the United States Senate, Scott Colombe,

1072
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: and also State Senator Teresa the Lesbie ism.

1073
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 3: They're going to go now, but we have some other

1074
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 3: guests coming up. I want you to keep clapping, and

1075
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 3: actually I want.

1076
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: Y'all to get on your feet and give it up

1077
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: for my forever boss, Bitty Gordon Thompson, who represents.

1078
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 3: This day district too. I want him to come on

1079
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 3: up here.

1080
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: Yes, Boss, it's a whole call out, come on up

1081
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: here and get all his love from his role. I

1082
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: want you all to keep clapping because the legacy of

1083
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: someone who called for well, hold on, let me.

1084
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 3: Get him all his love.

1085
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 10: Hold on.

1086
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 3: I want you at to.

1087
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: Keep clapping because there's a giant among us.

1088
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 3: Okay, now I need y'all to listen for a second.

1089
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: So there is the legacy of a giant who we

1090
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: lost this year, who is also in this room right

1091
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: now that giant called for a constitutional amendment to protect

1092
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: voting rights, and I think many of us thought for

1093
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: a long time that probably wasn't necessary. But we see

1094
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: today just how fragile democracy is and our civil rights are.

1095
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: The person here who is now representing Chicago, Illinois is

1096
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: Congressman Jonathan Jackson, the son of Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson, Sr.

1097
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: Give it up for Jonathan Jackson.

1098
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 9: Brother, brother, Are you okay?

1099
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: Well, now we got to hear from my forever boss,

1100
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: Congressman Thompson.

1101
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 9: We're in the fight for our lives.

1102
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: You've been under the tutelage of Fanny lou Hamer, a

1103
01:00:56,200 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: snick representative, an organizer. Did you think that we would

1104
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: ever be in this moment?

1105
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 25: If you had asked me that a month ago, I'd said,

1106
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 25: hope springs eternal. But after this egregious Supreme Court decision,

1107
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 25: we in trouble. And part of the reason we are

1108
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Speaker 25: here today is because we have to come together with

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Speaker 25: a solution. And it's not a short term solution. It's

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Speaker 25: a long term solution. Because if our governor in this

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01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 25: state say that a congress person bot health, housing, economic

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01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 25: opportunity education, his constituents is a reign of terror.

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Speaker 5: Give me a break, you're saying.

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Speaker 25: What we have to do is make sure that we

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01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 25: remember who we are and.

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01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 6: Whose we are.

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Speaker 5: It's absolutely.

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Speaker 7: The part.

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Speaker 25: Look, I asked Congressman Jackson to come for a lot

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Speaker 25: of reasons. He has more folks from Mississippi in his

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01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 25: Chicago district than I almost have in the second district.

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01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 25: But he understands feeling what the problems are. This is

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01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 25: are together. So it doesn't matter where you are in

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01:02:34,920 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 25: this country. It's the system that oppresses us. And anytime

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01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 25: the system goes against us, we have to unite. And

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01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 25: so part of what you will be seeing the rest

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01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 25: of this day is people coming together.

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Speaker 5: You know, from all parts of the state. They watching Mississippi.

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01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 25: So so goes Mississippi, and so goes the South, and

1130
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 25: so goes the rest of this country. Our legacy is

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01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 25: built on the backs of a lot of people, and

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01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 25: so we can't let.

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01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:18,439
Speaker 5: Short minded people turn us back.

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01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:20,959
Speaker 6: Now, we don't have.

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01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 25: To act like the crazy folks did on January sixth,

1136
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 25: But you gonna know we upset, are you understand? So

1137
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 25: part of people being here today is you.

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01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 5: Don't like what's going on.

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01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 2: That's right. We don't have to burn anything that's right.

1140
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 5: We don't have to threaten anybody.

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01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 25: But we're gonna exercise those democratic options that this Constitution

1142
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 25: through law.

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01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 6: Us and that's what I sense.

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01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 25: Mother is a thing, and so if we use it,

1145
01:03:59,200 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 25: we can make it.

1146
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 5: So I'm happy to be here.

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01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 25: Angela was one of those radicals I hired when I

1148
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 25: got to Washington because they said, you don't need to

1149
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 25: hire people who got their own mind.

1150
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 5: You don't need to.

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01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 25: Hire people who understand where they came from, because they

1152
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 25: are dangerous because they will influence other people and pretty

1153
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 25: soon you can't tell them anything. Now you do know

1154
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 25: who them is. If you don't see Edit Claude before

1155
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 25: you leave, he'll explain to you who them is.

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01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Congressman Thompson. I learned from the

1157
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 3: best radical there is.

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01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 4: They basically said, he can't tell you nothing. That's not

1159
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 4: what it means that you got your own mind.

1160
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 3: I just this a weird clear guys co host this one.

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01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: I said my former boss on a call just the

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01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: other day, and he said, you mean forever, boss, So

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01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: try you Congresson Benny Thompson. Before Charles Taylor got up,

1164
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: you all already heard him say that he would prefer

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01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 1: to organize people and be alongst to people. He's not

1166
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: for the big stage so much so he got off

1167
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 1: and got us telling him, thank you, thank you, Charles.

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01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 1: And I also want to acknowledge our NAACP national President

1169
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: who is talking right now, but he's on his way

1170
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 1: up to the stage, Dereck Johnson. Give it up for

1171
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 1: Derek Johnson, everybody, he's on his way up.

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01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 3: And before Derek joins us, I do want to give

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01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 3: the floor to Congressman Jonathan Jackson.

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01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 7: Hello, thank you so much. Great to be back in Mississippi.

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01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 7: I served from the Chicago's first, Illinois's first congressional district

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01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,280
Speaker 7: as Congressman Benny Thompson.

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Speaker 5: My dear friend.

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01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 7: For the purpose of this event, i'll just call him

1179
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 7: Uncle Benny, and we all know and Uncle Benny that's

1180
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 7: somebody you can call when you have trouble and you

1181
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 7: can't necessarily go home first. But Uncle Benny has always

1182
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 7: been there and I appreciate him, appreciate all the things

1183
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 7: we have in common. Let me share with you what

1184
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 7: brings me to Mississippi. But bring me to Mississippi, as

1185
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 7: you know, the Mississippi river starts in Minnesota and ends here.

1186
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 7: The same jim Crow that you have here made it

1187
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 7: all the way up to the north. We take the

1188
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 7: same I fifty five from the south side of Chicago

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Speaker 7: to end right here in Mississippi.

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01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 8: What's starting here.

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01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 7: In Mississippi is coming to Chicago next. This same spirit

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01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 7: of voter suppression, voter denial is under attach. And today

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01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 7: Missus Fannylou Hamer cannot be here, Medga ever cannot be here.

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01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 7: And what is grace you have in your governor to

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01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 7: call the honorable Congressman Benny Thompson a terror?

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01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 8: We can tell him something about terror.

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01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, that's right.

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01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 7: And I would look forward to meeting the governor to

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Speaker 7: tell him something about terror. Every lynch noose was a terror,

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01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 7: Every plantation whip was a terror, Every discrimination is a terror.

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01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 7: We have been terrorized, and Congressman Benny Thompson has been

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01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 7: a credit to the whole nation. If I had a

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01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 7: chance to talk with your governor, I would tell him

1204
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:40,120
Speaker 7: stop bending down taking a knee to talk to Donald

1205
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 7: Trump and be like Congressman Benny Thompson and stand up

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01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 7: in the face of terrorism.

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01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 4: You're here, am that's right.

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01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 16: Up.

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01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 7: But I hope you stick around for one o'clock because

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01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 7: I came here because I'm mad as hell about Callinsland

1211
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 7: Termson term.

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01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 5: That's it.

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01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 2: That's it.

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01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 3: Before you speak, Mster President. We have a couple of

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01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 3: questions here. Take go ahead.

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01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: It might have to be the last one we're gonna

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01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:16,639
Speaker 1: get in trouble.

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Speaker 26: Oh hello, my name is Bobby Bingamorrow, and I'm from Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 13: And I want to challenge all of.

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01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 26: The communities that are here today.

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01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 3: In Vicksburg.

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01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 26: We're trying to determine how we can get a larger

1223
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,600
Speaker 26: number of people to vote, because we know that we

1224
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 26: have the numbers in our community, but they're not voting.

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01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:43,840
Speaker 13: One of the areas.

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01:08:43,400 --> 01:08:47,720
Speaker 26: That we have not targeted enough are our convicted felons.

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01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 26: It is so easy for our convicted fellaws to say, oh,

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01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 26: I'm a convicted fela, so I can't vote. But what

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01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 26: we have to do is go a bit further and

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01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 26: say what your Because there are only twenty three crimes

1231
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 26: that will take away your right to vote, Drugs is

1232
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 26: not one of them. Drugs does not take away your

1233
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 26: right to vote. And so when that individual tells you

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01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 26: I am a convicted felon.

1235
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:17,839
Speaker 2: You had them voter.

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01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 26: Registration for them, get them to build it out, and you.

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01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 9: Take it to the courts, to the courthouse.

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01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:29,520
Speaker 26: Oh that on the avenue that our younger people used

1239
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 26: to take time to go to the polls to vote.

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01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 26: The other thing that we have to do is we

1241
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 26: you one thing, need to go back to where the

1242
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 26: parents are in charge and the children are not.

1243
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,599
Speaker 9: That the parents will tell the children.

1244
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 26: If you live in this household, you are eighteen years

1245
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 26: and older, you need to go to the polls to vote.

1246
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 10: So come on, let's get in the car and let's

1247
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 10: go register to vote.

1248
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 26: And on election we get up together and we go

1249
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 26: to the polls as a family. I have a whole

1250
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:06,960
Speaker 26: lot more to talk to you about, but I know

1251
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 26: we don't have the time. I have a lot of questions.

1252
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 26: But that's my challenge is that we will each one

1253
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 26: of us in this room, We'll find us two convicted

1254
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:18,799
Speaker 26: felams and make them our target.

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01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 8: And it's not going to be in a day that

1256
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 8: you will get it done.

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01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 26: If that person has committed a crime that will take

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01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 26: away their right to vote, then this is the opportunity

1259
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 26: for you to work with your local state legislator to

1260
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 26: take all of those applications to get voting rights restored

1261
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 26: back to the legislature to help those individuals get their

1262
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 26: rights restored.

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01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 8: Now in our unity.

1264
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 3: Were about twenty people on our.

1265
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 26: List right now that are working to get their voting

1266
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 26: rights restored. We have been successful in getting over the

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01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 26: last ten years, we've been successful in getting only one

1268
01:10:58,120 --> 01:10:59,480
Speaker 26: person's rights restored.

1269
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 13: But it takes a while.

1270
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 3: It's not something that you can just let go.

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01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 26: They will fill out that application, they won't to they

1272
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 26: won't get registered to vote.

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01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much.

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01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: At this time, I want to yield to President Derek

1275
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: Johnson from the NAAC Beans doing great work all over

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01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:18,720
Speaker 1: the nation.

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01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:22,360
Speaker 3: Let's give it up for Derek. Flease. You have a mic.

1278
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 3: You need a mic. You have a mic.

1279
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 9: No that's not going you need this.

1280
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 16: So first of all, I one of the things all

1281
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 16: of you who have come out today, bury sweet love

1282
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 16: and Bishop Thomas from Tennessee. President Jefferson came over from Arkansas.

1283
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:42,200
Speaker 16: I see brother, I leave from Alabama. At the end

1284
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 16: of the day, we all we got and we must

1285
01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 16: stand together. I just left from a meeting with the

1286
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:50,839
Speaker 16: Legislative Black car because that's why I'm a little delayed.

1287
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:53,960
Speaker 16: And they want to talk about two things. One about

1288
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:58,880
Speaker 16: our campaign that we launched yesterday asking athletes not.

1289
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 8: To go to schools.

1290
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 16: Where they don't respect their vote. And one of the

1291
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 16: callers members asks me, says, can you explain it. Why

1292
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 16: is that significant? Because we don't believe in sharecropping. We

1293
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 16: should not perform on the football field or the basketball

1294
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 16: court so they can generate profit if they don't want

1295
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 16: to respect our vote and our input on public policy.

1296
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 16: And for these state institutions that are flagship, that are

1297
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:33,719
Speaker 16: generating over one hundred million dollars a year off the

1298
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 16: backs of our talent, we should end that sharecropping system immediately.

1299
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 16: And the second conversation I was having with the Legislative

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01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 16: Black Caucus, I say.

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01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:47,639
Speaker 8: Don't make the mistake of it Montgomery.

1302
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,080
Speaker 16: Now some of you may not know who it Montgomery,

1303
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 16: is that when rich white folks had the fight that

1304
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 16: we called the Civil War over money, the rich white

1305
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,360
Speaker 16: folks in the South, one of the main time an

1306
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 16: agricultural based economy off the back of Africans who were

1307
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 16: in the system of slavery, and those Africans picked up

1308
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 16: armed and we defeated the Confederacy.

1309
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 8: We freed ourselves, and in.

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01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:16,559
Speaker 16: That process we were awarded the thirteenth and fourteenth and

1311
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 16: fifteenth Amendment A, the ability to the right to vote,

1312
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 16: full citizenship, an to negotiate our labor. And as a result,

1313
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 16: we got elected to the Mississippi State Legislative legilator and

1314
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 16: we created the education among many other things, and we

1315
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 16: began to prosper until those rich white guys cut another

1316
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 16: deal over who would be president Hayes till the compromise,

1317
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 16: and in that process they said you support our candidate

1318
01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 16: or behaved. We removed the federal troops. We are in

1319
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 16: a haze till the compromise moment that the deal has

1320
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 16: been cut. The Supreme has issued a bad decision, and

1321
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 16: now we have to be more unified. Did ever, but

1322
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 16: after the deal was cut during that time in eighteen hundreds,

1323
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 16: I to Montgomery cut a deal for a little time

1324
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:11,680
Speaker 16: of my value said we were I would support this

1325
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 16: if you leave my value along, and because he supported it,

1326
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:19,559
Speaker 16: they gave them a license to move forward. My value

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01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:21,720
Speaker 16: was creative, but black folks all across the state of

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01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 16: Mississippi was disadfranchised for.

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01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 8: One hundred years. We are in that moment at the.

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01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 16: Charge to let lay the black coat says, you are

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01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 16: all you have. I'm gonna cut no side deal on redistrict.

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01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:40,600
Speaker 16: You are you have leaning to the wisdom at the

1333
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 16: experty looking for It's not gonna fly in on an airplane.

1334
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,720
Speaker 16: It's sitting around the table with you. Their name is

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01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 16: We've seen this before him and Fraser. Lean into the

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01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 16: wisdom that you have. Because Carroll fought and litigated and

1337
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 16: we run it, he can do it again. Lean into

1338
01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 16: the wisdom that you have because we are all that

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01:14:58,600 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 16: we have.

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01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 8: So in this moment, a two eesa look at this.

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01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:13,800
Speaker 16: Room and the reason why because we're gonna win with

1342
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 16: rallies and demonstrations. Although they be necessary, they necessary because

1343
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:21,679
Speaker 16: it is a stopping point between the work.

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01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:26,720
Speaker 8: It is the opportunity to energize and convene. So when

1345
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:29,440
Speaker 8: we leave here, the destination is November.

1346
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 16: The opportunity is the engagement of communities who are looking

1347
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:35,920
Speaker 16: for you and your.

1348
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 8: Directions and your ability to organize.

1349
01:15:39,479 --> 01:15:43,800
Speaker 16: I am tickled to my answer that my teachers, the

1350
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 16: stage of both of them, are focus on loving black people,

1351
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 16: and we love black people by empowered black people to

1352
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 16: for black people to do for themselves when we are

1353
01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:58,679
Speaker 16: under attack. In this moment, we are all that we have.

1354
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 16: The power is with us. I don't want to thank

1355
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:06,559
Speaker 16: Angela and Andrew for bringing this platform because Mississippi we

1356
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 16: got to demonstrate for the rest of the country.

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01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:09,560
Speaker 2: What is possible.

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01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 16: We must demonstrate for the rest of the country what

1359
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 16: is possible, and what is possible is us coming together

1360
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:21,880
Speaker 16: on the strategy with the destination empower our people to

1361
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 16: understand our history because that history is power within this out.

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01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 5: Thank you all.

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01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 9: Thank you.

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01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:37,720
Speaker 13: Who cares about truth when the last morning's seen it?

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01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Who's the president at this time?

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01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 1: In our show, we normally have something called calls to action,

1367
01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: so will briefly issue a call to action all of

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01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: us on the stage. There's very important that we're going

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01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 1: to listen to what Mississippi State Executive Director said, which

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01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: is to make sure we don't leave from here have

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01:16:56,640 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: this big gathering. I know Derek also supports this, and

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01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: not leave here with some thing that we must do.

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01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 3: So doctor glad I will start with you.

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01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:04,080
Speaker 5: Call that, sir.

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01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,760
Speaker 6: I think we need to identify those eighteen to thirty

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01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:13,719
Speaker 6: nine year olds, because they are overwhelmingly important in terms

1377
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 6: of the demographic in this country holding demographic. We need

1378
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 6: to turn them out in massive numbers. That's all we

1379
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 6: need to do is do the mass. If we lost

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01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 6: bout twenty seven thousand votes, how many of us didn't

1381
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 6: vote right?

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01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 5: So we need it.

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01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 6: We need to engage in finding particular people we know

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01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 6: between eighteen and thirty nine and at least turn out

1385
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:36,880
Speaker 6: at least too close to two of your partners bring

1386
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 6: them with you. Let's let's let's let's do what we

1387
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 6: know we can do because we have the power.

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01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:42,760
Speaker 5: You're here one.

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01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 4: I just want to thank you all for being in

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01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 4: space today. I tell you I looked over at Eddie

1391
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 4: with the tear in my eye because, uh, there are

1392
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 4: a lot of places that are under attack and not everybody.

1393
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:53,800
Speaker 5: Is showing up.

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01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 4: Mind goes I know our civil history, but my mind

1395
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 4: goes real to Minnesota, where at a time where bodies

1396
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 4: had already been laid on the ground, lives taken unnecessarily,

1397
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:16,519
Speaker 4: a country bowed by a president who seemed lawless it is,

1398
01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:22,480
Speaker 4: who had no regard for our humanity, black, white or otherwise,

1399
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:29,640
Speaker 4: to the courage of a few people who added a

1400
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 4: few more people, who added a few more people that

1401
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 4: added up to a few thousand, weathering all kinds of cold,

1402
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:43,040
Speaker 4: chilling temperatures. Stood up. There was no election to be had.

1403
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:49,840
Speaker 4: They stood up. They kept showing up, even when their

1404
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 4: lives were online, they still showed up, and they faced

1405
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 4: down the tyrant who had changed his whole approach to

1406
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 4: he was secuting the immigration in this country. Now I

1407
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 4: think the more that this and this has his heart changed.

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01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,760
Speaker 2: It's black, it's cold.

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01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 4: But we were powerful enough, in spite of no election

1410
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 4: being on the line, to show up repeatedly, day after day,

1411
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 4: regardless of the consequence, to say we matter and you

1412
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 4: are not gonna run over us. So, Mississippi, is that

1413
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 4: for the rest of us, y'all are showing up. They're

1414
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,799
Speaker 4: trying to take our representation, our seats, our votes.

1415
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 2: They want us bloodied and bowed, and.

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01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 5: We're still showing up.

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01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,760
Speaker 4: So I just want to say, y'all, no one's gonna

1418
01:19:49,760 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 4: save us but us. And you don't have to be

1419
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 4: part of an organization, although you need to be mother

1420
01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 4: than the BELIEC people, But I'm asking you to be

1421
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 4: part of an organization. I'm saying, we're every you sit,

1422
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 4: wherever you stand, wherever you draw breath.

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01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:11,440
Speaker 6: God has blessed.

1424
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 10: Every one of us.

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01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:24,600
Speaker 27: To brand our bodies, and so as long as we

1426
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 27: draw breath, Yeah, they are to fear us because they

1427
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 27: know that we are not going to let this.

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01:20:32,439 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 2: Crisis pass.

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01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 4: Without us getting to come up on the other side.

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01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 4: So that means that can't charge you with going to

1431
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 4: registered people and then come back and check on you

1432
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 4: to see that you've done that job. Your commitment, your

1433
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:55,360
Speaker 4: agency has to be a contract with yourself that says

1434
01:20:56,080 --> 01:21:00,080
Speaker 4: I have the power to do.

1435
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:01,919
Speaker 2: Don't think not everything.

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01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 4: I don't have to be the president, the member, the

1437
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 4: steward member, the.

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01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 13: Pastor the pre the pass.

1439
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 4: I have breath and body and I can do something

1440
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 4: to make an impact.

1441
01:21:17,479 --> 01:21:18,600
Speaker 2: That's your charge.

1442
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 8: Do something.

1443
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:28,599
Speaker 16: I appreciate that Andrew, do something is key. We are

1444
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,640
Speaker 16: sitting in the state that did something. We have that

1445
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 16: evidence to prove it to overtipicent of all black elected

1446
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,600
Speaker 16: officials in the nation reside in the state of Mississippi.

1447
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 8: That didn't happen.

1448
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 16: Because we said by as observers, that happened because we

1449
01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:53,479
Speaker 16: organize and we demonstrated power. November's election is only the

1450
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 16: stopping point to stop the bleeding, but the power of

1451
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 16: the black community rested each word one of us step

1452
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 16: away from the ego centric leadership model where my title

1453
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,879
Speaker 16: and my charisma is it and lean into the community

1454
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 16: centric leadership model that would protect.

1455
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 6: All of us.

1456
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 16: In this moment, we must demonstrate the wrongness in the

1457
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 16: Supreme Court decision by overwhelming the polls in November as

1458
01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 16: we march to the power that we already have. Now,

1459
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 16: I'm guilty of this one thing. I have never known

1460
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 16: anything but black. I have never seen a model but

1461
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 16: black power. I am blessed to grow up in a

1462
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 16: city called Detroit, to Koma young, to move to MISSISSIPPII,

1463
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 16: go to the Toulou cottageant and work for Benny Thompson,

1464
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 16: only to realize that we are all that we need

1465
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 16: if we lean into one another. But it has to

1466
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:02,720
Speaker 16: be strategically. We have to be focused with outcomes, and

1467
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 16: we have to operate with integrity, because it's with integrity

1468
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 16: that Henry heurse she created the whole landscape that got

1469
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 16: those black connected officials into place.

1470
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:17,960
Speaker 8: It was integrity that caused us.

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01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 16: Joinever for she decided to do napka whatever. D Now,

1472
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 16: those are vircles for points, and it will be integrity

1473
01:23:26,560 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 16: not to lean into organizational supremacy, but leaning too.

1474
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 8: The power that we have for our community.

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01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 16: So Child says, I'm not an activist, I'm an organized.

1476
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 16: My charge to you is to be an organizer because

1477
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 16: the people in your communities are looking to you.

1478
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 8: They like to see Convent Thompson. They sometimes want to hear.

1479
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 16: Me talk, but they're looking for you to give the

1480
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 16: support and direction that's needed to lean into the power

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01:23:53,880 --> 01:24:00,120
Speaker 16: we have in the black community.

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01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:04,000
Speaker 7: Again, I want to thank you so much. My father,

1483
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 7: Reverend Jesse Jackson, made his transition just about ninety days ago.

1484
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 7: And I know that if my father were alive today,

1485
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:19,600
Speaker 7: he would be right here right now in Jackson, Mississippi.

1486
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:28,920
Speaker 7: This year I turned sixty years of age. The Voting

1487
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 7: Rights Act passed in nineteen sixty five. Follow me, please,

1488
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 7: I'm the first generation of African Americans that was born

1489
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 7: with equal rights. It's not that long ago and not

1490
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:58,640
Speaker 7: that far away that we've just gotten our rights. And

1491
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 7: I want the governor of this state and every legislator

1492
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 7: to know that thinks that they're going to strip our

1493
01:25:05,080 --> 01:25:07,640
Speaker 7: rights that they've got the fight of their life on

1494
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 7: their hands. I could not have been here with Reverend

1495
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 7: Martin Luther King.

1496
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:23,679
Speaker 5: That was not my fate.

1497
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 7: I could not have been here with the Freedom Writers.

1498
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:31,759
Speaker 7: I could not have been here with Schwerner, Cheney and Goodman.

1499
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,840
Speaker 7: But I thank God, and I am so excited. You

1500
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:40,280
Speaker 7: gotta hear me. I am so excited. One thing about

1501
01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 7: growing up, Brother Claude, in the Jackson household. For morning,

1502
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 7: we just didn't have eggs and grits and bacon and toasts.

1503
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 7: We got fed hope every morning. And if they think

1504
01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 7: that we're going to die, they got it wrong. We're

1505
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 7: only to multiply.

1506
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:03,720
Speaker 2: It's so many of us.

1507
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 7: And the reason they've started the voter suppression. Look around,

1508
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:12,720
Speaker 7: look to the left, look to the right. It's more

1509
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,679
Speaker 7: of us than it is of them. So if they

1510
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,840
Speaker 7: can't win it, they want to steal it. You're not

1511
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:22,679
Speaker 7: gonna steal it this time, baby, No way for whatever,

1512
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:27,519
Speaker 7: backwards never, And I want to thank Benny Thompson, Chairman,

1513
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:28,519
Speaker 7: Benny Thompson.

1514
01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 2: Did you see those thuds?

1515
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 7: Did you see those wanna be gangsters and those insurrectionists?

1516
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 7: Did you see them scale the halls of the Capitol

1517
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 7: and defile our nation's capital. All But did you see

1518
01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 7: one man stand up for Mississippi and call them out

1519
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 7: by name and looked them in their eyes and told

1520
01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 7: them about the plane, unflinching, unboard, unbold, a man like

1521
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:11,679
Speaker 7: none other, the Honorable Chairman, Benny Thompson. We need him

1522
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 7: back in DC. We love you, Benny.

1523
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:21,599
Speaker 3: Don't do that.

1524
01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 25: Well, look very Rarey, am I at a loss for words,

1525
01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 25: But look what you see is an original Mississippi. The

1526
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:46,960
Speaker 25: My school was named Bolton Colored School. So the reason

1527
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 25: I act the way I do is because I was

1528
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:57,840
Speaker 25: mistreated along the way. That mistreatment was not something that

1529
01:27:57,920 --> 01:28:01,680
Speaker 25: I wanted to happen. It is the because the system

1530
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 25: didn't want people like Benny Thompson and you to make it.

1531
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 5: And so I.

1532
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:13,760
Speaker 25: Resent the fact that there are people who don't support education,

1533
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:18,160
Speaker 25: don't support healthcare, trying to tell me that those of

1534
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:22,719
Speaker 25: us who do that we're mal adjusted, that something's wrong

1535
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 25: with us, because.

1536
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 8: We care about the people.

1537
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:31,120
Speaker 25: And look, the toughest job in America is being black.

1538
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 25: Because you clearly have to understand that the system is

1539
01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 25: not fair. Everyone in here has had a situation occurred

1540
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:49,280
Speaker 25: to you that was simply based on your race.

1541
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:51,320
Speaker 5: That's this country.

1542
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:55,360
Speaker 8: And so those of us who try to level the

1543
01:28:55,439 --> 01:28:57,559
Speaker 8: playing field we.

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01:28:57,640 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 5: Get called terrorists.

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01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 8: You know, my uncle.

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01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 25: Fought with Jieral Patton in World War Two, but when

1547
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 25: he came back from World War Two, he had to

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01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 25: get in back of the train behind the German soldiers

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01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 25: who were white, and he was the one that caught

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01:29:20,560 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 25: the German soldier. So that is racism sionified. And so

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01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:30,920
Speaker 25: for what we have at this moment is an opportunity

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01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 25: to level set who's happening in this country.

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01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 5: The Supreme Court, I thank you for what you're.

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01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 25: Doing to us right now, because what you are doing

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01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 25: is allowing us unleash anger, unleash the disappointment, unleash everything

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01:29:57,439 --> 01:30:00,040
Speaker 25: that we've had to deal with as a people.

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01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:02,040
Speaker 5: Right now.

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01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 25: And so what we will come and do is to

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01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 25: make sure that going forward.

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Speaker 3: They're on our side.

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01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 5: Oh okay, they.

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01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:22,839
Speaker 3: Just hike y'all, they're on our side.

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01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:27,400
Speaker 1: We got some really excited young people in here, keeping

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01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 1: that energy.

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01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:33,040
Speaker 5: Going as the young people come in.

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01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:36,559
Speaker 16: This is a tribute not only to that A see people,

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01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 16: the shock Way, La Mover and the People's Assembly.

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01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 8: So let's give it up to the vagacy of Shockley Lama.

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01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 1: These are many of the young people we were sinking

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01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 1: just moments of So I want to shout on our

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01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 1: dear sister what Kenya planting and all the folks who

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01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 1: have been a part of this to make this happen.

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01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 3: We're going to.

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01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 1: Continue this part of the program to allow Congressman Thompson

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01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:22,240
Speaker 1: to give this call to action. Hi, friends, Congressman Thompson

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01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:23,080
Speaker 1: is gonna No.

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01:32:23,160 --> 01:32:25,880
Speaker 3: I want y'all to stay right here. Y'all are welcome, Yes,

1578
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:30,439
Speaker 3: stay right here. Congressman Thompson was finishing his call to action.

1579
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 3: So bot I yell, did you look?

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01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,160
Speaker 25: I agree with everything's been said.

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01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 7: I see with.

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01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:40,599
Speaker 25: Everything that the people who came in getting together.

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01:32:40,920 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.

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01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:46,599
Speaker 3: Okay, we're getting ready to I love this energy.

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01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:48,640
Speaker 7: I love it.

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01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:52,439
Speaker 3: Keep going, young brother, keep going, keep shunning, keep shunning.

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01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: Before I do my call to action, there's a young

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01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,760
Speaker 1: person here who has been fighting in the.

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01:32:59,720 --> 01:33:01,840
Speaker 3: Ten State legislature.

1590
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:08,679
Speaker 1: He was expelled once for fighting against mass gun violence

1591
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 1: in the states. Just last week, as Tennessee worked to

1592
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 1: eliminate the only majority minority.

1593
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 3: District we had. You saw him in the hallway burning

1594
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:23,679
Speaker 3: a Confederate flag.

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01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:33,360
Speaker 1: This young man, despite the fact that I'm much older

1596
01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:36,960
Speaker 1: than him, has a kind of courage that makes me

1597
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:42,200
Speaker 1: admire and feel mentored and supported by him. So while

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01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,720
Speaker 1: this wasn't a part of the program, I know that

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01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: I cannot go forward without acknowledging and yielding the mic

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01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:53,200
Speaker 1: to State Representative Justin Jones.

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01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:02,679
Speaker 7: Bolls of the people, hollered to the people, to the people,

1602
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:05,160
Speaker 7: hollered to the people, the.

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01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:07,120
Speaker 5: People, to the people.

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01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:09,960
Speaker 18: First of all, I want to recognize that we just

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01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 18: marched with these young people, my dear sister Rika here

1606
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:16,000
Speaker 18: and these young fool motiles. They ain't gonna nobody to

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01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 18: turn us around. Ain't gonna let taint reeves turn us.

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01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:23,160
Speaker 3: Around, ain't gonna let no gimpro maps turn us around.

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01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:25,640
Speaker 18: And so we come here to gay because if we

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01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:28,799
Speaker 18: have a message from the governor, we know that change

1611
01:34:28,880 --> 01:34:31,639
Speaker 18: comes about two ways out of they.

1612
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:34,080
Speaker 2: See light or they feel the fire.

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01:34:35,160 --> 01:34:37,639
Speaker 28: The governor has not seen the light of our movements,

1614
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 28: and now it's time for him to feel the buyer.

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01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 28: I only compare a flag us walk off Tennessee House

1616
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 28: because I wanted to send a clear message to the

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01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:47,679
Speaker 28: Confederates like govern to take reeds and come.

1618
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:51,479
Speaker 3: To building and governor, and come to the centers and

1619
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 3: come to landing.

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01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 13: And we will not go back.

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01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:57,439
Speaker 8: The most port.

1622
01:34:57,600 --> 01:35:00,040
Speaker 2: I want to send the message we have before you.

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01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:02,520
Speaker 8: Look, they raising.

1624
01:35:02,320 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 18: Generation of the right to be, these young people taking

1625
01:35:07,320 --> 01:35:07,799
Speaker 18: the man.

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01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 3: And say it is off the time.

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01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:12,120
Speaker 5: For me.

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01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:18,760
Speaker 3: I'm not afraid, come on you, because Georgia do give them,

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01:35:18,920 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 3: rather lost to David or prisons.

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01:35:24,920 --> 01:35:28,760
Speaker 2: And I'm here today from Tennessee because what comes to.

1631
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:29,960
Speaker 6: Us that think for all of us.

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01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:34,879
Speaker 18: And so what's happening in Mississippi is happening in Tennessee,

1633
01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:37,639
Speaker 18: it's happening in Alabama, it's happening in South Carolina.

1634
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:40,479
Speaker 3: They are waging war against black folks in the South.

1635
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:43,800
Speaker 3: But man in Luhambra sent us to Dela with.

1636
01:35:43,880 --> 01:35:48,080
Speaker 18: Something that we're not going down out of fet that

1637
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,679
Speaker 18: we may not be a swing state in Mississippi and Tennessee, Alabama,

1638
01:35:51,720 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 18: but we'll swing back on you.

1639
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 13: We'll pay back and everything.

1640
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 18: Can we come to the spirit of our ancestors be

1641
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:01,320
Speaker 18: gone with the spirit of old, move on, intimidated by

1642
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 18: willy gloves and water holes this and so I'm want

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01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:06,639
Speaker 18: to turn them back to my dear sister here because

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01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 18: we are an intergenerational movement that we come as one,

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01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:13,559
Speaker 18: but we each stand us ten thousand. That they're trying

1646
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:15,920
Speaker 18: to make the hand to pick I no longer pick

1647
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:17,680
Speaker 18: their coostal representatives.

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01:36:18,320 --> 01:36:20,599
Speaker 3: But they forgot something very important in the South.

1649
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:26,680
Speaker 4: We built this, we built this, We built this, we

1650
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:30,640
Speaker 4: email this, we build this, we build this.

1651
01:36:31,479 --> 01:36:34,680
Speaker 3: We ain't build this, and we're gonna tear the stupend.

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01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:52,320
Speaker 13: We don't mean to be disrespectful, but we do mean

1653
01:36:52,400 --> 01:36:58,840
Speaker 13: to be disruptive. We who believe in freedom shall not rest.

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01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:02,439
Speaker 29: There's a whole lot of young people out here who

1655
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:08,320
Speaker 29: ain't resting because this is our time, this is our generation,

1656
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:12,680
Speaker 29: this is our moment, this is our fight, and this

1657
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 29: time we're gonna get it right.

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01:37:16,600 --> 01:37:21,559
Speaker 13: I said, we're gonna get it right. We will leave

1659
01:37:21,760 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 13: in freedom, shall not rest. I am not up here

1660
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 13: as a ricommended Scott. I am up here as a

1661
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 13: representation of this beautiful Myriada.

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01:37:31,840 --> 01:37:35,559
Speaker 15: Young people who have come together and decide to take

1663
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:39,840
Speaker 15: on the streets of the city of Jackson, as a representation.

1664
01:37:39,640 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 13: That we will not go back. We will not go back,

1665
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:45,560
Speaker 13: we will not be silenced.

1666
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:47,280
Speaker 3: And our time is now.

1667
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:50,400
Speaker 29: I tell you even if our duty a fight for

1668
01:37:50,479 --> 01:37:56,120
Speaker 29: our freedom, it is our duty. It is not aware.

1669
01:37:56,520 --> 01:37:58,760
Speaker 13: We must love and protect each other.

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01:38:00,760 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 3: We have nothing change.

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01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:06,600
Speaker 4: We have nothing to.

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01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:09,360
Speaker 13: Lose but our change. I have nothing to lose but

1673
01:38:09,520 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 13: our change.

1674
01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:12,000
Speaker 15: I mean, we have nothing to.

1675
01:38:13,600 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 3: Change.

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01:38:17,360 --> 01:38:17,840
Speaker 8: A shame.

1677
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 13: I hope you get the message.

1678
01:38:22,840 --> 01:38:23,840
Speaker 3: And that's from him.

1679
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:26,639
Speaker 13: Uh Court your letter, cut your letter.

1680
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:31,920
Speaker 8: I I love it.

1681
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Speaker 5: I love you.

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01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 9: Thanks y'all.

1683
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:36,679
Speaker 3: Bank It's just amazing, just amazing.

1684
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:41,000
Speaker 13: All right, y'all, I don't got no.

1685
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 3: Call to action.

1686
01:38:41,720 --> 01:38:43,599
Speaker 13: That was a good one. Welcome home, y'all.

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01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 1: It's now the time for the rally. Thank you so

1688
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:48,920
Speaker 1: much for being here. Keep up that energy, keep up

1689
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 1: that round of a boss. Make sure you think all

1690
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Speaker 1: of our organizers, Derek from the na A CP, everyone

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