WEBVTT - Power in the Ballot 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.440 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bookay f Daily with 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:19.560 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.360 you know, I have to take a minute to talk 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:28.960 about again something that I am seeing pervasive in news 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:36.040 that needs to be called out mainstream media news. Hurricane 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:48.240 Fiona arrived in Puerto Rico over the weekend, dumping like 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:55.320 considerable amount of rain wind has knocked out power for 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.520 the entire fucking island. Okay, some of the pictures that 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:05.080 are coming out look like full streets have turned into 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:12.000 like the Grand Rapids. Think about what it's like when 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.360 the power goes out in your home for a few hours. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.080 You're worried about food. There's no way to heat anything up. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.280 There's no way to keep cool or to keep warm, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.520 depending on what season we're in. Now, I want you 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.400 to think about that and know that it isn't just 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:38.039 a few hours. It could be a few days. I 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.320 want you to think about now all of the equipment 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:48.600 that hospitals need, that emergency services require in order to 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:55.920 aid people. Now, I want you to remember Hurricane Maria 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.200 and when Donald Trump found himself tossing paper towel that 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:09.400 people whose entire homes, schools, communities had been devastated. Well, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:17.760 President Biden isn't Trump, thank god, and he immediately activated FEMA. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.880 He immediately is sending as much emergency aid as he can. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.280 But guess who isn't telling us these things? Guess where 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.400 I found out most news about what is happening in 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:35.640 Puerto Rico. Twitter. That's where I'm finding my news out. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.760 That's where I heard about what the President had done. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.320 That is where I saw the videos of what is 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.359 happening in Puerto Rico. And now that the hurricane it's 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.320 a Category one, has moved on to the Dominican Republic, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.320 I'm pretty sure we won't hear anything at all. I 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:59.200 want us to think about how the mainstream media has 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:05.080 showed its higher ass since the death of Britain's queen. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:11.080 There has been NonStop wall to wall fucking coverage for 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:17.200 weeks now. Thankfully the funeral has occurred, so maybe the 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.280 newsrooms can go back to, I don't know, reporting on 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.959 real fucking news for a change. But I gotta tell 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.480 you that not only do we not provide the people 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.119 of Puerto Rico with like a real voice in our democracy, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.000 it just makes me think about the fact that once again, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:45.000 how you know, white supremacy and colonization reigned supreme on 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.960 our planet. That as we are boohooing over the death 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.680 of a ninety sixty year old woman who received her 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:56.440 wealth and that of her family through generational theft, we're 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.920 also seeing our mainstream media completely ignore one of the 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:07.240 territories of the United States because it's filled with Spanish 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.360 speaking individuals who we refuse to actually give real sovereignty too. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.960 And then I'm looking as I'm watching their streets turn 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.800 into you know, the rapids, and I'm saying to myself 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.080 as I'm in a conversation with my mother, She's like, yeah, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.159 their infrastructure is just not made for this. Like I'm 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.880 watching some of these bridges and some of these buildings 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.839 that look like they're basically made out of sticks and paper. Again, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.360 Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.200 and I'm saying to myself, so, where the fuck is 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.680 the infrastructure where they included in Biden's infrastructure plan. We 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.159 know that they were devastated during the Trump administration, and again, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.520 he didn't want to send over a FEMA. He didn't 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.400 want to give them a fucking thing. And why is 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:58.960 that Because in twenty sixteen they went to Hillary Clinton, right, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.760 And so I'm just like, if we're going to continue 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.520 to have these territories, if we're going to continue the fucking, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:13.200 you know, spate of colonization at the hands of this country, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.760 then maybe we actually want to provide the people with 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.320 the infrastructures and the dollars to build the infrastructure that's 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.080 going to stop their communities from becoming devastated every time 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.960 hurricane season comes around. Because again, let me stay Hurricane 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:34.839 Fiona was a category one, right, a Category one. So 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:42.120 if this island has the entire entire power grid wiped 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.320 out by a category one storm, what the fuck do 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.720 you think is going to happen to Puerto Rico as 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:54.560 things intensify due to climate change? Are we going to 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.800 help out our brothers and sisters there? Are we going 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.480 to give them any type of media attention so that 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.240 those are empathetic and have the resources in order to 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.600 be charitable can actually you know, help out their brethren, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.320 because you see, we can't invoke empathy when they don't 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.880 even get any fucking coverage. I need these things to 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.880 be called out, and I will continually call them out 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.640 because I'm like, we have just all but resigned ourselves 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.080 to white supremacy. Oh, it is what it is, and 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.840 I'm like, what it is is bullshit. What it is 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.600 is that it needs to fucking stop. What it is 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.320 is that the people like the woke F audience need 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.599 to use their platforms in their voices in order to 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.480 educate the folks around y'all who don't even know what's happening. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.480 But I know that you all do because you stay 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.039 tapped in. We got to start building out our own 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.760 you know, like Game of Telephone and our own, you know, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.400 many networks because mainstream media can't be relied upon to 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:08.040 do a fucking thing other than celebrate condone and uplift 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:14.400 white supremacy. Switching gears, folks, I'm really excited to welcome 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.920 to Woke a F for the very first time, my 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.760 friend Melanie Campbell, who is the president and CEO of 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:29.840 the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, which is a 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.440 partner of the Black Women's round Table. Now, Melanie has 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:39.720 been in the fight to raise civic engagement within the 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:45.080 black community, but within our democratic community. The National Coalition 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.320 of Civic Engagement is a nonpartisan organization, but it has 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:54.559 always been about increasing the civics understanding of people of color, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.840 particularly black people, and helping them to better engage in 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.560 our democracy, particularly when we know that there is another 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.080 party whose whole life's mission is to make sure that 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.280 the only people that have a say in government are white. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.760 Our siths are straight and are Christian. 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Melanie, you 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:04.679 had you were a part of an esteemed group of 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:12.160 civil rights activists, abortion rights activists who sat down recently 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:17.120 with Vice President Kamala Harris um where I believe that 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:23.120 the Vice President was explaining a rededication of efforts in 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:29.439 sorts um to di Biden administration's commitment um to protecting 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.959 a woman's right to choose. So I wanted to give 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.040 you an opportunity would love to hear your reflections from 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:41.480 that meeting. What stood out to you most well? First 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.880 of all, great creat creates and be in in this 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.080 conversation with you, my sister, and it's been a whole 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.840 but I do follow you, I trow you, and we 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.840 had we hadn't visited in spaces together a lot of times. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.200 So it's first and foremost thank you all you do, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.120 uh and speaking truths to power. You know, you do 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:11.040 it with uh style and pizzazz. That's my Julian. So 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.360 I want to first say that. But the meeting um 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.720 when someone was an historic in the sense because what 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.959 what what what it was about was we had gotten 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.760 together with some of us in the civil rights community, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.680 along with folks and report rights repot justice community back 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.120 in the summer. Even before that, we had been organizing 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:36.719 to try to connect our um as, our movements us A. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:41.920 Bishops Um says, a fusion movements right to refusing these 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.360 movements together. So understanding that our rights and freedoms are 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:50.640 very interconnected, uh, and that the attack on reproductive rights 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:56.040 was preceded by attack on voting rights and the real 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.960 possibility and real time in some places on state level 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.120 happening when it comes to LGBTQ right. So our rights 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:07.040 and freedoms broadly is on the line. And so the 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.679 idea of having a conversation with the administration had to 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.120 do with bringing our movements together, understanding that we're all in. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.880 All of these things are interrelated, and to fight them, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.840 we need to maximize our collective power together. Yeah, that 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.240 was kind of like Dipitus for having and we did 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.440 a joint letter several of our organizations asking for this 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.839 meeting and so our administration and so here for how 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.400 we ended up meeting on on Monday this past we 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.480 feel like two weeks ago, right the Monday, UM. But 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.320 the meeting and so what what? What? The whole thing 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.600 was a couple of ways one UH Vice president by 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.199 ship hair excuse me, shared kind of what the administration 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.360 has been doing and what it continued to do with 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.240 executive actions, and the way you should try to utilize 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.480 the different department Department of Justice, of course, of Health 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.800 and Human Services and other areas for access to our 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.800 reproductive health UH, inclusive of the abortion, but also to 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:16.040 protect women who would be over criminalized and through this 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.840 movement for states rights to control our lives UM, and 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.680 in all of those areas that I talked about, that's 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.960 also what's happening UM. And then how important it was 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.880 us for her to hear from organizations to share, UH, 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.320 what's happening, their concerns. They didn't have a conversation around 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.280 recommendations where where that made sense. So that was kind 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.720 of a big, big, big picture And I think what 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:47.680 what um? So what was I think most important for 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.680 me with UH. With what UH best President Harris brought 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.520 was the level of enthusiasm and to understand she had 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.120 a map which she was showing how they're looking at 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.360 these things UH. And and in looking at the states 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.880 where you have UH those saying rights under attack and 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.880 where you see through lines UM and being able to 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.160 say we're really paying attention to that, UM. And and 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.720 then her listening that makes a big difference. And then 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.840 and by the language speaks a lot of to me UM. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.360 And she was all in. And the meeting was supposed 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.240 to be an hour, went over over that over then 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.800 hour and a half. But then you had UH sisters 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.920 who were there, UM and brothers because we had Mark, 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.920 Marial and Derek and and and and you ever Sharpton, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.400 but you had Alexis, you know, you had Urged there, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.080 You had Ppfa there, you had sister Song UH with 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.000 my sister. So we were all there together and and 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.360 us and and really shared our various perspectives in some 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.800 cases even sharing for me when I talked about it, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.440 I talked about the connectedness to how we have to 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.040 fight the vote rights to right along with reproductive rights, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:06.440 to hold our rights for the future UM and then 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.400 UM and so you had play a parent who who 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.960 had it laid out a lot of the data UM. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.800 And then we in some of the strategies for for instance, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:21.360 UH with sister sol uh solutions, how do we message 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:28.840 this utilizing cultural UM strategies, storytelling because that matters, and 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:33.320 how UM sharing UH some of the ways it sister 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:39.120 songs UH is utilizing cultural expressions to to to really 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.760 get the message out for people because we gotta because 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.000 the fight UH has to be from really from the 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:53.560 ground up, as well as fighting for systemic protections. Understanding 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.720 that we couldn't talk to we really couldn't get into 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.480 the politics of the election because we at the White 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.160 House different kind of meetings standing there is an election. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.520 I mean it's right in front of us, understanding that 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.480 the election will make a difference or whether or not 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:12.160 we can have another opportunity to fight for federal intervention 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:17.440 and federal change when it comes to protecting our rights 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.520 and freedom. So that was kind of the big bucket, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:24.920 you know, it sounds one. I'm always so grateful when 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:30.960 when movements, overlapping movements with shared desire and pathways to 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.920 equity come together, because I think that that's really how 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.880 we are able to showcase our power, you know, as 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.560 it pertains because because you are a convener or the 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.960 Black Women's Roundtable, and we know right that Black women 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.440 are the backbone, the base, the foundation of the Democratic Party. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.440 A lot of the conversation since the since the overturning 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:56.200 of Robie Wade, has been about this ignite ignition of 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.040 women women registering. But when they're talking about women in 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.359 the mainstream media, they're talking about white women. And so 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.720 I want you, um, the question that I have for 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:11.800 you is how it has there been a change in 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:17.240 in um, in ignition um for black women because Black 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.520 women are always at the forefront. Black women are always 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.879 getting things done. And so how have you seen the 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:32.080 Dobbs decision uh engage black women maybe differently or just 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:37.160 in a in a broader sense uh than before. Um, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:43.520 I would say, when we look at it, uh the 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:49.760 reproductive justice Liz right now just rights, but justice equity, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.639 and how we're impacted. I think that's where because we 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:00.440 just a call last night, uh where it hits up rategies, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.320 laid out some data and they're constantly looking at the 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:10.399 black vote from younger voters millennial generation ze goos uh. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.760 This issue is high on the list now. But so 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.800 it's voting rights, right, so it's criminal justice and police 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:26.080 and reform. So racism is racism still number two? Right. So, 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.960 so the things over the course of the last two 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:34.439 years and especially the last year with attempts to with 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:41.240 the rollback of of our reproductive rights, but also continues 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.840 to roll back on a state level where things would 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.840 impact us on a state level where you feel it 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:52.520 quicker than you do a decision. And so so I 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.639 think the issues there, but it had its interesting intersectional 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.520 if you will. It is looking at the whole of 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.439 what we're talking about. So we're talking about rights and 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:08.640 freedoms and safety and even understanding strategically about democracy and 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:14.600 why strategically, as black women specifically, we see the fight 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.080 to protect the democracy as a component to protecting our 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.679 rights and freedoms. They're intertwined. It is not about you know, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.320 just waving a flag and getting jumping behind a flag 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.080 and say, oh, you know, God bless America. It's no, 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.879 it's it's we're strategic to understand that the erosion of 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.639 the democracy is right along tied to white supremacy in 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.480 this country and really white patriarchy right right, white men 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.400 wanting to stay at the top of the food chains 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.200 against all arts. Or you go after you know, the 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:49.359 women's rights, you go after all these things that have 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.080 to do with inclusive democracy, right and the changing and 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.119 the other piece of it. Um and and and and 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.720 I'm blinking on my sister's name. Um that was there 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:07.479 even um representing the LGBTQ plus community because that's also 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.680 it's all of that, you know, it's it's really marginalized 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:16.719 us from a racial perspective, from a gender perspective, and 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.360 really from a poor perspective to moving it down right 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:25.480 um um um those who are living in poverty. So 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.600 but but if we're if we're at odds where I'm 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.760 over here and you're over there, and you know you're 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.880 more oppressed than I'm o breast, then we never get anywhere. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.520 And we're in this moment where we have to pull 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:43.040 our movements together and demand and you know, we try 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:49.600 to tell some of our white sisters, they're coming for us, 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.960 They're gonna come for you, right, but probles, when they 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.719 come for you, they're gonna over criminalize us. When they 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:59.399 come for you, you're gonna have more access to be 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:04.199 able to get abortion, you can travel quickly, you have 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:09.120 more financially, not that everybody's everybody's we're not saying that, 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.920 but just the reality of wealth gap, UH in this country. 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:17.879 The reality of income jet gap is real, so and so. 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.320 And then living in states where you have all of 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:26.280 these UH laws being passed UM and trigger laws that 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:28.480 were sitting on the books waiting for Roby Way to 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.879 be overturned, and UH, the reality of how that's going 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.960 to impact black women, brown women, women in color specifically. 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:39.440 So there's a lot UH, and we tried to put 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:41.240 as much in as we could. There's a lot of 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:43.040 our organizations, so there's a lot of people to talk. 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:47.520 But but what I liked was that's called Vice President 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.719 Harris stayed the entire time so she could hear from 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.359 everybody in the room and the couple who were on 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.240 the phone. Melanie, how do you think that because you 0:22:56.320 --> 0:23:00.720 talked You talked earlier too about about creating um a narrative, 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:05.280 creating the messaging right that is needed to pull to 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:09.320 get to people's heartstrings, to change hearts and minds. What 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.000 narrative do you think that we need to have in 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.879 order for white women. And maybe it doesn't come it 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:20.200 doesn't come from us, but just in general, what narrative 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.000 do you think needs to happen in order for white 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:29.480 women to actually understand that our fates are inextricably land 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:33.880 right that like you're saying, they're going like now you're 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.240 you're waking up and you're saying, oh my goodness, these 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.240 white men don't even care about incest or rape. Right. 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:43.119 They don't care about their daughters or their granddaughders or 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.320 their wives right in terms of bodily autonomy, and they're 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:50.359 waking up to that reality. What do you think the 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:54.520 narrative needs to be as we're continuing to make this 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:59.320 march to midterms for them to understand the intertwined fates. 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:04.040 Oh my god, I'd be a millionaire if I could 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:16.040 figure that. WHOA Uh, how do I answer that? Um? 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:19.640 And what I mean by that is all you get 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:26.919 to go back to twenty sixteen, UM, and historically white 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:29.080 and this is just I'm not a part of something. 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:35.840 I'm just ye analysts. UM. For the Democrats specifically majority 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:40.080 when you talk about national elections, UM, white women wote 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:44.880 vote right with white white men. Has never been other 0:24:44.920 --> 0:24:49.200 than nineteen ninety two, in the last thirty years plus 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:54.359 white women voting for Democrats who have women's rights on 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:58.360 the on the on the platform. So I'm not quite sure. Um, 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:04.640 I think Robe Wade, uh, the impact of that, I say, 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:09.200 the jury's out. I mean Kansas showed that. Whether it 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:14.160 transcended party, so there's something that happened. And whether we'll 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:16.320 see that, you know, you're hearing a lot of things. 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:19.520 Whether we'll see what that looks like at the ballot 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:22.440 box on the rate will be will tell the story 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:27.199 whether that because I think the narrative mum messaging wise 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:31.119 other message was sent by the by the Supreme Court, 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:33.479 and the message being sent in some of these states. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:38.040 So the question is, um, And I said, remember this 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:41.199 dates how long I've been doing this, right, But in 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:44.240 twenty ten the election, I mean out for twenty ten elections, 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:47.920 and being at the Legal Women Voters conference and in 0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:52.879 Tampa forwarder room full of white women mostly, and I 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:57.720 just said, I decided that I'm gonna stop saying why 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:01.560 the white women not vote? Your interests? Obviously your interest 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.320 is different than what I think it is. M hmm. 0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:11.760 And so and so that's why I say that we'll 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:15.680 see what happens on November eighth, because you can't get 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:19.640 more personal than someone trying to control your body. So 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:28.520 will yet your gender Trump no pun intended, your your 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:36.800 your your racial identity. Which one will win? And that's 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:41.040 a question because at the end of the day, when 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:46.520 Donald Trump was elected, he didn't It was obvious to 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:51.639 the world. But he wasn't for women, right, But that's 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:56.240 and twice yep, majority of white women voted for him. 0:26:56.280 --> 0:27:01.800 So I don't know the narrative, but the impact, a 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:06.399 real world impact of what's happening, what people are having 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:10.639 to not just black women, but girls and young girls 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:13.359 are being told you have to you know, carry a 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:15.560 baby when you bought it that radio or you walk 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:17.639 around the sister happening to go fifteen hun. I think 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:19.879 I saw it on a new fourteen hundred miles to 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:23.920 aboard a baby, that this has no skull. What are 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:29.080 we talking about? Right? So I think it will it will. 0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:31.920 That will tell us where we are because we should 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:34.119 have had And I was watching and they were to 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:41.000 watching told thing over there in the UK, you know, 0:27:42.480 --> 0:27:48.880 and kind of singing everything, and um just looking at okay, 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:56.840 So how will how all this play out? Because they've 0:27:56.840 --> 0:28:03.440 had three women to to leave you know that country, right, 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.960 m h, we've yet to have one. Yeah, So the 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:13.360 United States is really such a contradiction. Um. And so 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:16.600 here we have a sister, you right, who's last president. 0:28:16.760 --> 0:28:21.160 Broker got us one step closer. But you know, whether 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.480 we like somebody or not, there's no excuse to that 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:26.200 we would. I could tell you if if if Healing 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:28.800 Clint have been a black woman, what we would have 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:33.520 done even more? Yeah? Yep, So so I I you know, 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:38.200 I I say to my my white sisters. You know, 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:41.840 you guys got to figure that out. We can't what 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:43.840 what black women can't because then you have to be 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:47.920 is carried the load. I know that's right. I know 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:50.720 that's right, And so I don't want to you know. 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:55.760