1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bookay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: you know, I have to take a minute to talk 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: about again something that I am seeing pervasive in news 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: that needs to be called out mainstream media news. Hurricane 6 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: Fiona arrived in Puerto Rico over the weekend, dumping like 7 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: considerable amount of rain wind has knocked out power for 8 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: the entire fucking island. Okay, some of the pictures that 9 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: are coming out look like full streets have turned into 10 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: like the Grand Rapids. Think about what it's like when 11 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: the power goes out in your home for a few hours. 12 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: You're worried about food. There's no way to heat anything up. 13 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: There's no way to keep cool or to keep warm, 14 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: depending on what season we're in. Now, I want you 15 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: to think about that and know that it isn't just 16 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: a few hours. It could be a few days. I 17 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: want you to think about now all of the equipment 18 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: that hospitals need, that emergency services require in order to 19 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: aid people. Now, I want you to remember Hurricane Maria 20 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: and when Donald Trump found himself tossing paper towel that 21 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: people whose entire homes, schools, communities had been devastated. Well, 22 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: President Biden isn't Trump, thank god, and he immediately activated FEMA. 23 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: He immediately is sending as much emergency aid as he can. 24 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: But guess who isn't telling us these things? Guess where 25 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: I found out most news about what is happening in 26 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Twitter. That's where I'm finding my news out. 27 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: That's where I heard about what the President had done. 28 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: That is where I saw the videos of what is 29 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: happening in Puerto Rico. And now that the hurricane it's 30 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: a Category one, has moved on to the Dominican Republic, 31 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we won't hear anything at all. I 32 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: want us to think about how the mainstream media has 33 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: showed its higher ass since the death of Britain's queen. 34 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: There has been NonStop wall to wall fucking coverage for 35 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: weeks now. Thankfully the funeral has occurred, so maybe the 36 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: newsrooms can go back to, I don't know, reporting on 37 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: real fucking news for a change. But I gotta tell 38 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: you that not only do we not provide the people 39 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico with like a real voice in our democracy, 40 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: it just makes me think about the fact that once again, 41 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: how you know, white supremacy and colonization reigned supreme on 42 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: our planet. That as we are boohooing over the death 43 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: of a ninety sixty year old woman who received her 44 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: wealth and that of her family through generational theft, we're 45 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: also seeing our mainstream media completely ignore one of the 46 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: territories of the United States because it's filled with Spanish 47 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: speaking individuals who we refuse to actually give real sovereignty too. 48 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: And then I'm looking as I'm watching their streets turn 49 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: into you know, the rapids, and I'm saying to myself 50 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: as I'm in a conversation with my mother, She's like, yeah, 51 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: their infrastructure is just not made for this. Like I'm 52 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: watching some of these bridges and some of these buildings 53 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: that look like they're basically made out of sticks and paper. Again, 54 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America, 55 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: and I'm saying to myself, so, where the fuck is 56 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: the infrastructure where they included in Biden's infrastructure plan. We 57 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: know that they were devastated during the Trump administration, and again, 58 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: he didn't want to send over a FEMA. He didn't 59 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: want to give them a fucking thing. And why is 60 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: that Because in twenty sixteen they went to Hillary Clinton, right, 61 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: And so I'm just like, if we're going to continue 62 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: to have these territories, if we're going to continue the fucking, 63 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: you know, spate of colonization at the hands of this country, 64 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: then maybe we actually want to provide the people with 65 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: the infrastructures and the dollars to build the infrastructure that's 66 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: going to stop their communities from becoming devastated every time 67 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: hurricane season comes around. Because again, let me stay Hurricane 68 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: Fiona was a category one, right, a Category one. So 69 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: if this island has the entire entire power grid wiped 70 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: out by a category one storm, what the fuck do 71 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: you think is going to happen to Puerto Rico as 72 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: things intensify due to climate change? Are we going to 73 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: help out our brothers and sisters there? Are we going 74 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: to give them any type of media attention so that 75 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: those are empathetic and have the resources in order to 76 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: be charitable can actually you know, help out their brethren, 77 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: because you see, we can't invoke empathy when they don't 78 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: even get any fucking coverage. I need these things to 79 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: be called out, and I will continually call them out 80 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: because I'm like, we have just all but resigned ourselves 81 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: to white supremacy. Oh, it is what it is, and 82 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, what it is is bullshit. What it is 83 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: is that it needs to fucking stop. What it is 84 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: is that the people like the woke F audience need 85 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: to use their platforms in their voices in order to 86 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: educate the folks around y'all who don't even know what's happening. 87 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: But I know that you all do because you stay 88 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: tapped in. We got to start building out our own 89 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: you know, like Game of Telephone and our own, you know, 90 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: many networks because mainstream media can't be relied upon to 91 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: do a fucking thing other than celebrate condone and uplift 92 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: white supremacy. Switching gears, folks, I'm really excited to welcome 93 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: to Woke a F for the very first time, my 94 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: friend Melanie Campbell, who is the president and CEO of 95 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, which is a 96 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: partner of the Black Women's round Table. 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If you like what you hear, 139 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. Folks, 140 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: I am very excited to welcome to Woke a f 141 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: daily for the first time, the President and CEO of 142 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the national 143 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: convener of the Black Women's Roundtable, Melanie Campbell. Melanie, you 144 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: had you were a part of an esteemed group of 145 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: civil rights activists, abortion rights activists who sat down recently 146 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: with Vice President Kamala Harris um where I believe that 147 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: the Vice President was explaining a rededication of efforts in 148 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: sorts um to di Biden administration's commitment um to protecting 149 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 1: a woman's right to choose. So I wanted to give 150 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: you an opportunity would love to hear your reflections from 151 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: that meeting. What stood out to you most well? First 152 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: of all, great creat creates and be in in this 153 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: conversation with you, my sister, and it's been a whole 154 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: but I do follow you, I trow you, and we 155 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: had we hadn't visited in spaces together a lot of times. 156 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: So it's first and foremost thank you all you do, 157 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: uh and speaking truths to power. You know, you do 158 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: it with uh style and pizzazz. That's my Julian. So 159 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: I want to first say that. But the meeting um 160 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: when someone was an historic in the sense because what 161 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: what what what it was about was we had gotten 162 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: together with some of us in the civil rights community, 163 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: along with folks and report rights repot justice community back 164 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: in the summer. Even before that, we had been organizing 165 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,719 Speaker 1: to try to connect our um as, our movements us A. 166 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: Bishops Um says, a fusion movements right to refusing these 167 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: movements together. So understanding that our rights and freedoms are 168 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: very interconnected, uh, and that the attack on reproductive rights 169 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: was preceded by attack on voting rights and the real 170 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: possibility and real time in some places on state level 171 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: happening when it comes to LGBTQ right. So our rights 172 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: and freedoms broadly is on the line. And so the 173 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: idea of having a conversation with the administration had to 174 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: do with bringing our movements together, understanding that we're all in. 175 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: All of these things are interrelated, and to fight them, 176 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: we need to maximize our collective power together. Yeah, that 177 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: was kind of like Dipitus for having and we did 178 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: a joint letter several of our organizations asking for this 179 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: meeting and so our administration and so here for how 180 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: we ended up meeting on on Monday this past we 181 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: feel like two weeks ago, right the Monday, UM. But 182 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: the meeting and so what what? What? The whole thing 183 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: was a couple of ways one UH Vice president by 184 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: ship hair excuse me, shared kind of what the administration 185 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: has been doing and what it continued to do with 186 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: executive actions, and the way you should try to utilize 187 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: the different department Department of Justice, of course, of Health 188 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: and Human Services and other areas for access to our 189 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: reproductive health UH, inclusive of the abortion, but also to 190 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: protect women who would be over criminalized and through this 191 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: movement for states rights to control our lives UM, and 192 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: in all of those areas that I talked about, that's 193 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: also what's happening UM. And then how important it was 194 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: us for her to hear from organizations to share, UH, 195 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: what's happening, their concerns. They didn't have a conversation around 196 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: recommendations where where that made sense. So that was kind 197 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: of a big, big, big picture And I think what 198 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: what um? So what was I think most important for 199 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: me with UH. With what UH best President Harris brought 200 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: was the level of enthusiasm and to understand she had 201 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: a map which she was showing how they're looking at 202 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: these things UH. And and in looking at the states 203 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: where you have UH those saying rights under attack and 204 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: where you see through lines UM and being able to 205 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: say we're really paying attention to that, UM. And and 206 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: then her listening that makes a big difference. And then 207 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: and by the language speaks a lot of to me UM. 208 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: And she was all in. And the meeting was supposed 209 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: to be an hour, went over over that over then 210 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: hour and a half. But then you had UH sisters 211 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: who were there, UM and brothers because we had Mark, 212 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: Marial and Derek and and and and you ever Sharpton, 213 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: but you had Alexis, you know, you had Urged there, 214 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: You had Ppfa there, you had sister Song UH with 215 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: my sister. So we were all there together and and 216 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: us and and really shared our various perspectives in some 217 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: cases even sharing for me when I talked about it, 218 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: I talked about the connectedness to how we have to 219 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: fight the vote rights to right along with reproductive rights, 220 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: to hold our rights for the future UM and then 221 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: UM and so you had play a parent who who 222 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: had it laid out a lot of the data UM. 223 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: And then we in some of the strategies for for instance, 224 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: UH with sister sol uh solutions, how do we message 225 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: this utilizing cultural UM strategies, storytelling because that matters, and 226 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: how UM sharing UH some of the ways it sister 227 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: songs UH is utilizing cultural expressions to to to really 228 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: get the message out for people because we gotta because 229 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: the fight UH has to be from really from the 230 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: ground up, as well as fighting for systemic protections. Understanding 231 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: that we couldn't talk to we really couldn't get into 232 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: the politics of the election because we at the White 233 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: House different kind of meetings standing there is an election. 234 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: I mean it's right in front of us, understanding that 235 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: the election will make a difference or whether or not 236 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: we can have another opportunity to fight for federal intervention 237 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: and federal change when it comes to protecting our rights 238 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: and freedom. So that was kind of the big bucket, 239 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: you know, it sounds one. I'm always so grateful when 240 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: when movements, overlapping movements with shared desire and pathways to 241 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: equity come together, because I think that that's really how 242 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: we are able to showcase our power, you know, as 243 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: it pertains because because you are a convener or the 244 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: Black Women's Roundtable, and we know right that Black women 245 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: are the backbone, the base, the foundation of the Democratic Party. 246 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: A lot of the conversation since the since the overturning 247 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: of Robie Wade, has been about this ignite ignition of 248 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 1: women women registering. But when they're talking about women in 249 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: the mainstream media, they're talking about white women. And so 250 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: I want you, um, the question that I have for 251 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: you is how it has there been a change in 252 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: in um, in ignition um for black women because Black 253 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: women are always at the forefront. Black women are always 254 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: getting things done. And so how have you seen the 255 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: Dobbs decision uh engage black women maybe differently or just 256 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: in a in a broader sense uh than before. Um, 257 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: I would say, when we look at it, uh the 258 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: reproductive justice Liz right now just rights, but justice equity, 259 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: and how we're impacted. I think that's where because we 260 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: just a call last night, uh where it hits up rategies, 261 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: laid out some data and they're constantly looking at the 262 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 1: black vote from younger voters millennial generation ze goos uh. 263 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: This issue is high on the list now. But so 264 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: it's voting rights, right, so it's criminal justice and police 265 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: and reform. So racism is racism still number two? Right. So, 266 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: so the things over the course of the last two 267 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: years and especially the last year with attempts to with 268 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: the rollback of of our reproductive rights, but also continues 269 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: to roll back on a state level where things would 270 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: impact us on a state level where you feel it 271 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: quicker than you do a decision. And so so I 272 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: think the issues there, but it had its interesting intersectional 273 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: if you will. It is looking at the whole of 274 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: what we're talking about. So we're talking about rights and 275 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 1: freedoms and safety and even understanding strategically about democracy and 276 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: why strategically, as black women specifically, we see the fight 277 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: to protect the democracy as a component to protecting our 278 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: rights and freedoms. They're intertwined. It is not about you know, 279 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: just waving a flag and getting jumping behind a flag 280 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: and say, oh, you know, God bless America. It's no, 281 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: it's it's we're strategic to understand that the erosion of 282 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: the democracy is right along tied to white supremacy in 283 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: this country and really white patriarchy right right, white men 284 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: wanting to stay at the top of the food chains 285 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: against all arts. Or you go after you know, the 286 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: women's rights, you go after all these things that have 287 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: to do with inclusive democracy, right and the changing and 288 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 1: the other piece of it. Um and and and and 289 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: I'm blinking on my sister's name. Um that was there 290 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:07,479 Speaker 1: even um representing the LGBTQ plus community because that's also 291 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 1: it's all of that, you know, it's it's really marginalized 292 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:16,719 Speaker 1: us from a racial perspective, from a gender perspective, and 293 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 1: really from a poor perspective to moving it down right 294 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: um um um those who are living in poverty. So 295 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: but but if we're if we're at odds where I'm 296 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: over here and you're over there, and you know you're 297 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: more oppressed than I'm o breast, then we never get anywhere. 298 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: And we're in this moment where we have to pull 299 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: our movements together and demand and you know, we try 300 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: to tell some of our white sisters, they're coming for us, 301 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: They're gonna come for you, right, but probles, when they 302 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,719 Speaker 1: come for you, they're gonna over criminalize us. When they 303 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: come for you, you're gonna have more access to be 304 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: able to get abortion, you can travel quickly, you have 305 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 1: more financially, not that everybody's everybody's we're not saying that, 306 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: but just the reality of wealth gap, UH in this country. 307 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: The reality of income jet gap is real, so and so. 308 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: And then living in states where you have all of 309 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: these UH laws being passed UM and trigger laws that 310 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: were sitting on the books waiting for Roby Way to 311 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 1: be overturned, and UH, the reality of how that's going 312 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: to impact black women, brown women, women in color specifically. 313 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 1: So there's a lot UH, and we tried to put 314 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: as much in as we could. There's a lot of 315 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: our organizations, so there's a lot of people to talk. 316 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: But but what I liked was that's called Vice President 317 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,719 Speaker 1: Harris stayed the entire time so she could hear from 318 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: everybody in the room and the couple who were on 319 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: the phone. Melanie, how do you think that because you 320 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 1: talked You talked earlier too about about creating um a narrative, 321 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: creating the messaging right that is needed to pull to 322 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: get to people's heartstrings, to change hearts and minds. What 323 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: narrative do you think that we need to have in 324 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: order for white women. And maybe it doesn't come it 325 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: doesn't come from us, but just in general, what narrative 326 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: do you think needs to happen in order for white 327 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: women to actually understand that our fates are inextricably land 328 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: right that like you're saying, they're going like now you're 329 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 1: you're waking up and you're saying, oh my goodness, these 330 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: white men don't even care about incest or rape. Right. 331 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: They don't care about their daughters or their granddaughders or 332 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: their wives right in terms of bodily autonomy, and they're 333 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: waking up to that reality. What do you think the 334 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: narrative needs to be as we're continuing to make this 335 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: march to midterms for them to understand the intertwined fates. 336 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'd be a millionaire if I could 337 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: figure that. WHOA Uh, how do I answer that? Um? 338 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is all you get 339 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: to go back to twenty sixteen, UM, and historically white 340 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: and this is just I'm not a part of something. 341 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: I'm just ye analysts. UM. For the Democrats specifically majority 342 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: when you talk about national elections, UM, white women wote 343 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 1: vote right with white white men. Has never been other 344 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: than nineteen ninety two, in the last thirty years plus 345 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: white women voting for Democrats who have women's rights on 346 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 1: the on the on the platform. So I'm not quite sure. Um, 347 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: I think Robe Wade, uh, the impact of that, I say, 348 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: the jury's out. I mean Kansas showed that. Whether it 349 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 1: transcended party, so there's something that happened. And whether we'll 350 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: see that, you know, you're hearing a lot of things. 351 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: Whether we'll see what that looks like at the ballot 352 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: box on the rate will be will tell the story 353 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:27,199 Speaker 1: whether that because I think the narrative mum messaging wise 354 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: other message was sent by the by the Supreme Court, 355 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,479 Speaker 1: and the message being sent in some of these states. 356 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: So the question is, um, And I said, remember this 357 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 1: dates how long I've been doing this, right, But in 358 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: twenty ten the election, I mean out for twenty ten elections, 359 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: and being at the Legal Women Voters conference and in 360 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: Tampa forwarder room full of white women mostly, and I 361 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: just said, I decided that I'm gonna stop saying why 362 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: the white women not vote? Your interests? Obviously your interest 363 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: is different than what I think it is. M hmm. 364 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: And so and so that's why I say that we'll 365 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: see what happens on November eighth, because you can't get 366 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 1: more personal than someone trying to control your body. So 367 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: will yet your gender Trump no pun intended, your your 368 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: your your racial identity. Which one will win? And that's 369 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: a question because at the end of the day, when 370 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was elected, he didn't It was obvious to 371 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: the world. But he wasn't for women, right, But that's 372 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: and twice yep, majority of white women voted for him. 373 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: So I don't know the narrative, but the impact, a 374 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 1: real world impact of what's happening, what people are having 375 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: to not just black women, but girls and young girls 376 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: are being told you have to you know, carry a 377 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: baby when you bought it that radio or you walk 378 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: around the sister happening to go fifteen hun. I think 379 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: I saw it on a new fourteen hundred miles to 380 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: aboard a baby, that this has no skull. What are 381 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: we talking about? Right? So I think it will it will. 382 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: That will tell us where we are because we should 383 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: have had And I was watching and they were to 384 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: watching told thing over there in the UK, you know, 385 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: and kind of singing everything, and um just looking at okay, 386 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: So how will how all this play out? Because they've 387 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: had three women to to leave you know that country, right, 388 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: m h, we've yet to have one. Yeah, So the 389 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: United States is really such a contradiction. Um. And so 390 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: here we have a sister, you right, who's last president. 391 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: Broker got us one step closer. But you know, whether 392 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: we like somebody or not, there's no excuse to that 393 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: we would. I could tell you if if if Healing 394 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: Clint have been a black woman, what we would have 395 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: done even more? Yeah? Yep, So so I I you know, 396 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: I I say to my my white sisters. You know, 397 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: you guys got to figure that out. We can't what 398 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: what black women can't because then you have to be 399 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: is carried the load. I know that's right. I know 400 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: that's right, And so I don't want to you know. 401 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: So that's so that's I'm gonna stop fucking. Yeah. No, 402 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: you you told, you told the line, You told the 403 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: right line. Last question for you, elany You know we are, 404 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: like we're saying fifty some odd days from this consequential. 405 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: We've been saying this though with each and every election 406 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: over the past couple of years. This is the most 407 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: consequential election of our time. This is the most consequential 408 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: midterm of our time. Everything is on the ballot. Democracy 409 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: is on the ballot right Um, what where is your 410 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: on the scale? Where is your hope right now? Where 411 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: is your hope that that Democrat that that we will 412 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: prevail when by we I mean the people will prevail 413 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: against those that are trying to roll back everything, roll 414 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: back women's autonomy, roll back black and brown people's participation 415 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: in our government, roll back democracy? Where where where does 416 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: your hope lie right now? As as we are fifty 417 00:29:54,440 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: some odd days away, My hope is that, Yeah, young 418 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: people own their power, millennials gener Jason Z. You got 419 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: the numbers right, and there's a lot of frustration and disappointment, 420 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: But I'm holding out hope. I think it's black women overall. 421 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: We're going to do what we do, but but in 422 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: midterms elections, and not to get into the you know, 423 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: the weeds other In midterms, it's always harder to get 424 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: people to vote. But in twenty eighteen, we had young 425 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: people turn out in record numbers because they saw the threat. Now, 426 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, it was in the midst of a 427 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 1: threat of a pandemic. We saw hope and a threat, right, 428 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: hope and a threat and so a lot of disappointments. 429 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: But Hit Strategies did some research tarancy, and one of 430 00:30:54,920 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: the things that was really telling was when you have 431 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: them people who feel frustrated, disappointed a lot of things right, 432 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: but then when you point out some of the things 433 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: that actually have been accomplished because of their vote, then 434 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: you there's a sense to the field of Okay, my 435 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: vote does have some power. But if you feel dis 436 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: empowered and then it really didn't matter, then you're not 437 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: gonna vote Ryan. And so we're in this moment where 438 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: we're gonna fix something black. As you said, for it's 439 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: seven days to get people, get folks to and I'm 440 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: I'm putting a lot of energy in to yes, black 441 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: women because that's what you know, but also just trying 442 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: to encourage young people to own it and know that 443 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: it's unfinished business and you you have moved and need them, 444 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 1: you really do. There's power in the ballot. Don't don't 445 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: don't don't buy into there's not power in that ballot, 446 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: and you drive that. And so even the people who've 447 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: disappointed you, who have not done everything that you want, 448 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: you got two more years and to disremind folks, pay 449 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,880 Speaker 1: attention to that governor, pay attention to that state legislature 450 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: because the damage is right in front of you where 451 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: they're passing laws. So, yeah, Rovie Wade happened here. You 452 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: feel like, you know, the Congress should have done We 453 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: should all if we had the numbers, should have taken 454 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:24,719 Speaker 1: care of that. It's like they should have taken care 455 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: of voting, right, But the governor in your state or 456 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: state legislators in your state is in Florida, for instance, 457 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: and now they have a voter fraud police locking up 458 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: black and brown people formally and conserrated people, you know, 459 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: returning citizens who tried to vote. So it's right in 460 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: front of you. So the hard part is just like 461 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: really get people to see but to own that power 462 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: to say you can't. You got another buye at the 463 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: Apple to push for those federal changes you want, but 464 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: you also have to protect your own lines in your community. 465 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: Right where we are. States rights has never been good 466 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: for black people in this country. Right, let's our check it. 467 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: You gotta have a sense of hope. People don't tend 468 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: to vote on a sense of fear alone. You gotta 469 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: find a way for they're to be um uh some 470 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: some some sense of we have the power, so the 471 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: power to ballot right, So that's part of what we're 472 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: doing and deal with people where they are right. We 473 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: gotta uh this um, We're doing a power to ballot, 474 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: get out to vote comedy tour, mhm. I loved about 475 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: five states to pour into folks, make we pioble enjoy too. 476 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: Who just it's been stress stressful for years and in 477 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: the to the enemy that doesn't want want for this 478 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: nation to be for uh for all of us yep 479 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: uh wants us to feel defeated. And that's and it 480 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: doesn't say that all our problems will be solved on 481 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: overmber age. But what's very different is in my lifetime, 482 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: I've never seen a moment where that the whole structure 483 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 1: itself can crumble and we're on the bottom of that 484 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,919 Speaker 1: in a way that we we you know, we read about. Yeah, 485 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: it's modern day real about the very level of suppression 486 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:28,280 Speaker 1: that will make us be as a collective, multi racial, multiethnic, 487 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: multi gender right of society to be marginalized to a 488 00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 1: few people controlling our life. And the hell with that. 489 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: We gotta fight it. We gotta fight it, we gotta 490 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: fight it, and if we come together, which is the 491 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: symbolism of the meeting, what's coming together with our movements, 492 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: that we have to do more of that in different ways. Well, Melanie, 493 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: I you know, I tell you that I I too 494 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: troll you on social media and and just continually impressed, 495 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: proud and the work that you do, UM gives me hope, right, 496 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: gives me hope that we can continue to give them 497 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:15,799 Speaker 1: hell that those that want to turn America into a healthscape, 498 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: for people who look like us, for people who are 499 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: outside of their perception of what America is and what 500 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: they wanted to be, that we're going to continue to 501 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: give them hell. That we will not just sit back, 502 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: um and allow this to happen. And it is your 503 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 1: energy and your work and your coalition building that continues 504 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: to give me hope. So continue the fight, my friend, 505 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 1: uh sister, and you know, and I appreciate you for 506 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 1: making the time to join us on walkaf Thank you, 507 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: and I appreciate you. And we get so this now 508 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: we connected again so that we're gonna stay yes, yes, absolutely, okay, 509 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: all right that is it for me to day, dear friends, 510 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: Aunt woke app as always power to the people and 511 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: to all the people power. Get woke and stay woke 512 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: as fuck.