Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bookay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to take a minute to talk
Speaker 1: about again something that I am seeing pervasive in news
Speaker 1: that needs to be called out mainstream media news. Hurricane
Speaker 1: Fiona arrived in Puerto Rico over the weekend, dumping like
Speaker 1: considerable amount of rain wind has knocked out power for
Speaker 1: the entire fucking island. Okay, some of the pictures that
Speaker 1: are coming out look like full streets have turned into
Speaker 1: like the Grand Rapids. Think about what it's like when
Speaker 1: the power goes out in your home for a few hours.
Speaker 1: You're worried about food. There's no way to heat anything up.
Speaker 1: There's no way to keep cool or to keep warm,
Speaker 1: depending on what season we're in. Now, I want you
Speaker 1: to think about that and know that it isn't just
Speaker 1: a few hours. It could be a few days. I
Speaker 1: want you to think about now all of the equipment
Speaker 1: that hospitals need, that emergency services require in order to
Speaker 1: aid people. Now, I want you to remember Hurricane Maria
Speaker 1: and when Donald Trump found himself tossing paper towel that
Speaker 1: people whose entire homes, schools, communities had been devastated. Well,
Speaker 1: President Biden isn't Trump, thank god, and he immediately activated FEMA.
Speaker 1: He immediately is sending as much emergency aid as he can.
Speaker 1: But guess who isn't telling us these things? Guess where
Speaker 1: I found out most news about what is happening in
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Twitter. That's where I'm finding my news out.
Speaker 1: That's where I heard about what the President had done.
Speaker 1: That is where I saw the videos of what is
Speaker 1: happening in Puerto Rico. And now that the hurricane it's
Speaker 1: a Category one, has moved on to the Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we won't hear anything at all. I
Speaker 1: want us to think about how the mainstream media has
Speaker 1: showed its higher ass since the death of Britain's queen.
Speaker 1: There has been NonStop wall to wall fucking coverage for
Speaker 1: weeks now. Thankfully the funeral has occurred, so maybe the
Speaker 1: newsrooms can go back to, I don't know, reporting on
Speaker 1: real fucking news for a change. But I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you that not only do we not provide the people
Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico with like a real voice in our democracy,
Speaker 1: it just makes me think about the fact that once again,
Speaker 1: how you know, white supremacy and colonization reigned supreme on
Speaker 1: our planet. That as we are boohooing over the death
Speaker 1: of a ninety sixty year old woman who received her
Speaker 1: wealth and that of her family through generational theft, we're
Speaker 1: also seeing our mainstream media completely ignore one of the
Speaker 1: territories of the United States because it's filled with Spanish
Speaker 1: speaking individuals who we refuse to actually give real sovereignty too.
Speaker 1: And then I'm looking as I'm watching their streets turn
Speaker 1: into you know, the rapids, and I'm saying to myself
Speaker 1: as I'm in a conversation with my mother, She's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: their infrastructure is just not made for this. Like I'm
Speaker 1: watching some of these bridges and some of these buildings
Speaker 1: that look like they're basically made out of sticks and paper. Again,
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying to myself, so, where the fuck is
Speaker 1: the infrastructure where they included in Biden's infrastructure plan. We
Speaker 1: know that they were devastated during the Trump administration, and again,
Speaker 1: he didn't want to send over a FEMA. He didn't
Speaker 1: want to give them a fucking thing. And why is
Speaker 1: that Because in twenty sixteen they went to Hillary Clinton, right,
Speaker 1: And so I'm just like, if we're going to continue
Speaker 1: to have these territories, if we're going to continue the fucking,
Speaker 1: you know, spate of colonization at the hands of this country,
Speaker 1: then maybe we actually want to provide the people with
Speaker 1: the infrastructures and the dollars to build the infrastructure that's
Speaker 1: going to stop their communities from becoming devastated every time
Speaker 1: hurricane season comes around. Because again, let me stay Hurricane
Speaker 1: Fiona was a category one, right, a Category one. So
Speaker 1: if this island has the entire entire power grid wiped
Speaker 1: out by a category one storm, what the fuck do
Speaker 1: you think is going to happen to Puerto Rico as
Speaker 1: things intensify due to climate change? Are we going to
Speaker 1: help out our brothers and sisters there? Are we going
Speaker 1: to give them any type of media attention so that
Speaker 1: those are empathetic and have the resources in order to
Speaker 1: be charitable can actually you know, help out their brethren,
Speaker 1: because you see, we can't invoke empathy when they don't
Speaker 1: even get any fucking coverage. I need these things to
Speaker 1: be called out, and I will continually call them out
Speaker 1: because I'm like, we have just all but resigned ourselves
Speaker 1: to white supremacy. Oh, it is what it is, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what it is is bullshit. What it is
Speaker 1: is that it needs to fucking stop. What it is
Speaker 1: is that the people like the woke F audience need
Speaker 1: to use their platforms in their voices in order to
Speaker 1: educate the folks around y'all who don't even know what's happening.
Speaker 1: But I know that you all do because you stay
Speaker 1: tapped in. We got to start building out our own
Speaker 1: you know, like Game of Telephone and our own, you know,
Speaker 1: many networks because mainstream media can't be relied upon to
Speaker 1: do a fucking thing other than celebrate condone and uplift
Speaker 1: white supremacy. Switching gears, folks, I'm really excited to welcome
Speaker 1: to Woke a F for the very first time, my
Speaker 1: friend Melanie Campbell, who is the president and CEO of
Speaker 1: the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, which is a
Speaker 1: partner of the Black Women's round Table. Now, Melanie has
Speaker 1: been in the fight to raise civic engagement within the
Speaker 1: black community, but within our democratic community. The National Coalition
Speaker 1: of Civic Engagement is a nonpartisan organization, but it has
Speaker 1: always been about increasing the civics understanding of people of color,
Speaker 1: particularly black people, and helping them to better engage in
Speaker 1: our democracy, particularly when we know that there is another
Speaker 1: party whose whole life's mission is to make sure that
Speaker 1: the only people that have a say in government are white.
Speaker 1: Our siths are straight and are Christian. So coming up
Speaker 1: next to my conversation with Melanie as she reflects on
Speaker 1: her time last week with the Vice President and their
Speaker 1: talks with regard to abortion and how civil rights organizations
Speaker 1: and historic reproductive health organizations are uniting and recognizing their
Speaker 1: shared desire for equity and for justice. So that conversation
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Speaker 1: I am very excited to welcome to Woke a f
Speaker 1: daily for the first time, the President and CEO of
Speaker 1: the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the national
Speaker 1: convener of the Black Women's Roundtable, Melanie Campbell. Melanie, you
Speaker 1: had you were a part of an esteemed group of
Speaker 1: civil rights activists, abortion rights activists who sat down recently
Speaker 1: with Vice President Kamala Harris um where I believe that
Speaker 1: the Vice President was explaining a rededication of efforts in
Speaker 1: sorts um to di Biden administration's commitment um to protecting
Speaker 1: a woman's right to choose. So I wanted to give
Speaker 1: you an opportunity would love to hear your reflections from
Speaker 1: that meeting. What stood out to you most well? First
Speaker 1: of all, great creat creates and be in in this
Speaker 1: conversation with you, my sister, and it's been a whole
Speaker 1: but I do follow you, I trow you, and we
Speaker 1: had we hadn't visited in spaces together a lot of times.
Speaker 1: So it's first and foremost thank you all you do,
Speaker 1: uh and speaking truths to power. You know, you do
Speaker 1: it with uh style and pizzazz. That's my Julian. So
Speaker 1: I want to first say that. But the meeting um
Speaker 1: when someone was an historic in the sense because what
Speaker 1: what what what it was about was we had gotten
Speaker 1: together with some of us in the civil rights community,
Speaker 1: along with folks and report rights repot justice community back
Speaker 1: in the summer. Even before that, we had been organizing
Speaker 1: to try to connect our um as, our movements us A.
Speaker 1: Bishops Um says, a fusion movements right to refusing these
Speaker 1: movements together. So understanding that our rights and freedoms are
Speaker 1: very interconnected, uh, and that the attack on reproductive rights
Speaker 1: was preceded by attack on voting rights and the real
Speaker 1: possibility and real time in some places on state level
Speaker 1: happening when it comes to LGBTQ right. So our rights
Speaker 1: and freedoms broadly is on the line. And so the
Speaker 1: idea of having a conversation with the administration had to
Speaker 1: do with bringing our movements together, understanding that we're all in.
Speaker 1: All of these things are interrelated, and to fight them,
Speaker 1: we need to maximize our collective power together. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was kind of like Dipitus for having and we did
Speaker 1: a joint letter several of our organizations asking for this
Speaker 1: meeting and so our administration and so here for how
Speaker 1: we ended up meeting on on Monday this past we
Speaker 1: feel like two weeks ago, right the Monday, UM. But
Speaker 1: the meeting and so what what? What? The whole thing
Speaker 1: was a couple of ways one UH Vice president by
Speaker 1: ship hair excuse me, shared kind of what the administration
Speaker 1: has been doing and what it continued to do with
Speaker 1: executive actions, and the way you should try to utilize
Speaker 1: the different department Department of Justice, of course, of Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services and other areas for access to our
Speaker 1: reproductive health UH, inclusive of the abortion, but also to
Speaker 1: protect women who would be over criminalized and through this
Speaker 1: movement for states rights to control our lives UM, and
Speaker 1: in all of those areas that I talked about, that's
Speaker 1: also what's happening UM. And then how important it was
Speaker 1: us for her to hear from organizations to share, UH,
Speaker 1: what's happening, their concerns. They didn't have a conversation around
Speaker 1: recommendations where where that made sense. So that was kind
Speaker 1: of a big, big, big picture And I think what
Speaker 1: what um? So what was I think most important for
Speaker 1: me with UH. With what UH best President Harris brought
Speaker 1: was the level of enthusiasm and to understand she had
Speaker 1: a map which she was showing how they're looking at
Speaker 1: these things UH. And and in looking at the states
Speaker 1: where you have UH those saying rights under attack and
Speaker 1: where you see through lines UM and being able to
Speaker 1: say we're really paying attention to that, UM. And and
Speaker 1: then her listening that makes a big difference. And then
Speaker 1: and by the language speaks a lot of to me UM.
Speaker 1: And she was all in. And the meeting was supposed
Speaker 1: to be an hour, went over over that over then
Speaker 1: hour and a half. But then you had UH sisters
Speaker 1: who were there, UM and brothers because we had Mark,
Speaker 1: Marial and Derek and and and and you ever Sharpton,
Speaker 1: but you had Alexis, you know, you had Urged there,
Speaker 1: You had Ppfa there, you had sister Song UH with
Speaker 1: my sister. So we were all there together and and
Speaker 1: us and and really shared our various perspectives in some
Speaker 1: cases even sharing for me when I talked about it,
Speaker 1: I talked about the connectedness to how we have to
Speaker 1: fight the vote rights to right along with reproductive rights,
Speaker 1: to hold our rights for the future UM and then
Speaker 1: UM and so you had play a parent who who
Speaker 1: had it laid out a lot of the data UM.
Speaker 1: And then we in some of the strategies for for instance,
Speaker 1: UH with sister sol uh solutions, how do we message
Speaker 1: this utilizing cultural UM strategies, storytelling because that matters, and
Speaker 1: how UM sharing UH some of the ways it sister
Speaker 1: songs UH is utilizing cultural expressions to to to really
Speaker 1: get the message out for people because we gotta because
Speaker 1: the fight UH has to be from really from the
Speaker 1: ground up, as well as fighting for systemic protections. Understanding
Speaker 1: that we couldn't talk to we really couldn't get into
Speaker 1: the politics of the election because we at the White
Speaker 1: House different kind of meetings standing there is an election.
Speaker 1: I mean it's right in front of us, understanding that
Speaker 1: the election will make a difference or whether or not
Speaker 1: we can have another opportunity to fight for federal intervention
Speaker 1: and federal change when it comes to protecting our rights
Speaker 1: and freedom. So that was kind of the big bucket,
Speaker 1: you know, it sounds one. I'm always so grateful when
Speaker 1: when movements, overlapping movements with shared desire and pathways to
Speaker 1: equity come together, because I think that that's really how
Speaker 1: we are able to showcase our power, you know, as
Speaker 1: it pertains because because you are a convener or the
Speaker 1: Black Women's Roundtable, and we know right that Black women
Speaker 1: are the backbone, the base, the foundation of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: A lot of the conversation since the since the overturning
Speaker 1: of Robie Wade, has been about this ignite ignition of
Speaker 1: women women registering. But when they're talking about women in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media, they're talking about white women. And so
Speaker 1: I want you, um, the question that I have for
Speaker 1: you is how it has there been a change in
Speaker 1: in um, in ignition um for black women because Black
Speaker 1: women are always at the forefront. Black women are always
Speaker 1: getting things done. And so how have you seen the
Speaker 1: Dobbs decision uh engage black women maybe differently or just
Speaker 1: in a in a broader sense uh than before. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say, when we look at it, uh the
Speaker 1: reproductive justice Liz right now just rights, but justice equity,
Speaker 1: and how we're impacted. I think that's where because we
Speaker 1: just a call last night, uh where it hits up rategies,
Speaker 1: laid out some data and they're constantly looking at the
Speaker 1: black vote from younger voters millennial generation ze goos uh.
Speaker 1: This issue is high on the list now. But so
Speaker 1: it's voting rights, right, so it's criminal justice and police
Speaker 1: and reform. So racism is racism still number two? Right. So,
Speaker 1: so the things over the course of the last two
Speaker 1: years and especially the last year with attempts to with
Speaker 1: the rollback of of our reproductive rights, but also continues
Speaker 1: to roll back on a state level where things would
Speaker 1: impact us on a state level where you feel it
Speaker 1: quicker than you do a decision. And so so I
Speaker 1: think the issues there, but it had its interesting intersectional
Speaker 1: if you will. It is looking at the whole of
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. So we're talking about rights and
Speaker 1: freedoms and safety and even understanding strategically about democracy and
Speaker 1: why strategically, as black women specifically, we see the fight
Speaker 1: to protect the democracy as a component to protecting our
Speaker 1: rights and freedoms. They're intertwined. It is not about you know,
Speaker 1: just waving a flag and getting jumping behind a flag
Speaker 1: and say, oh, you know, God bless America. It's no,
Speaker 1: it's it's we're strategic to understand that the erosion of
Speaker 1: the democracy is right along tied to white supremacy in
Speaker 1: this country and really white patriarchy right right, white men
Speaker 1: wanting to stay at the top of the food chains
Speaker 1: against all arts. Or you go after you know, the
Speaker 1: women's rights, you go after all these things that have
Speaker 1: to do with inclusive democracy, right and the changing and
Speaker 1: the other piece of it. Um and and and and
Speaker 1: I'm blinking on my sister's name. Um that was there
Speaker 1: even um representing the LGBTQ plus community because that's also
Speaker 1: it's all of that, you know, it's it's really marginalized
Speaker 1: us from a racial perspective, from a gender perspective, and
Speaker 1: really from a poor perspective to moving it down right
Speaker 1: um um um those who are living in poverty. So
Speaker 1: but but if we're if we're at odds where I'm
Speaker 1: over here and you're over there, and you know you're
Speaker 1: more oppressed than I'm o breast, then we never get anywhere.
Speaker 1: And we're in this moment where we have to pull
Speaker 1: our movements together and demand and you know, we try
Speaker 1: to tell some of our white sisters, they're coming for us,
Speaker 1: They're gonna come for you, right, but probles, when they
Speaker 1: come for you, they're gonna over criminalize us. When they
Speaker 1: come for you, you're gonna have more access to be
Speaker 1: able to get abortion, you can travel quickly, you have
Speaker 1: more financially, not that everybody's everybody's we're not saying that,
Speaker 1: but just the reality of wealth gap, UH in this country.
Speaker 1: The reality of income jet gap is real, so and so.
Speaker 1: And then living in states where you have all of
Speaker 1: these UH laws being passed UM and trigger laws that
Speaker 1: were sitting on the books waiting for Roby Way to
Speaker 1: be overturned, and UH, the reality of how that's going
Speaker 1: to impact black women, brown women, women in color specifically.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot UH, and we tried to put
Speaker 1: as much in as we could. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: our organizations, so there's a lot of people to talk.
Speaker 1: But but what I liked was that's called Vice President
Speaker 1: Harris stayed the entire time so she could hear from
Speaker 1: everybody in the room and the couple who were on
Speaker 1: the phone. Melanie, how do you think that because you
Speaker 1: talked You talked earlier too about about creating um a narrative,
Speaker 1: creating the messaging right that is needed to pull to
Speaker 1: get to people's heartstrings, to change hearts and minds. What
Speaker 1: narrative do you think that we need to have in
Speaker 1: order for white women. And maybe it doesn't come it
Speaker 1: doesn't come from us, but just in general, what narrative
Speaker 1: do you think needs to happen in order for white
Speaker 1: women to actually understand that our fates are inextricably land
Speaker 1: right that like you're saying, they're going like now you're
Speaker 1: you're waking up and you're saying, oh my goodness, these
Speaker 1: white men don't even care about incest or rape. Right.
Speaker 1: They don't care about their daughters or their granddaughders or
Speaker 1: their wives right in terms of bodily autonomy, and they're
Speaker 1: waking up to that reality. What do you think the
Speaker 1: narrative needs to be as we're continuing to make this
Speaker 1: march to midterms for them to understand the intertwined fates.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'd be a millionaire if I could
Speaker 1: figure that. WHOA Uh, how do I answer that? Um?
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is all you get
Speaker 1: to go back to twenty sixteen, UM, and historically white
Speaker 1: and this is just I'm not a part of something.
Speaker 1: I'm just ye analysts. UM. For the Democrats specifically majority
Speaker 1: when you talk about national elections, UM, white women wote
Speaker 1: vote right with white white men. Has never been other
Speaker 1: than nineteen ninety two, in the last thirty years plus
Speaker 1: white women voting for Democrats who have women's rights on
Speaker 1: the on the on the platform. So I'm not quite sure. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Robe Wade, uh, the impact of that, I say,
Speaker 1: the jury's out. I mean Kansas showed that. Whether it
Speaker 1: transcended party, so there's something that happened. And whether we'll
Speaker 1: see that, you know, you're hearing a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Whether we'll see what that looks like at the ballot
Speaker 1: box on the rate will be will tell the story
Speaker 1: whether that because I think the narrative mum messaging wise
Speaker 1: other message was sent by the by the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: and the message being sent in some of these states.
Speaker 1: So the question is, um, And I said, remember this
Speaker 1: dates how long I've been doing this, right, But in
Speaker 1: twenty ten the election, I mean out for twenty ten elections,
Speaker 1: and being at the Legal Women Voters conference and in
Speaker 1: Tampa forwarder room full of white women mostly, and I
Speaker 1: just said, I decided that I'm gonna stop saying why
Speaker 1: the white women not vote? Your interests? Obviously your interest
Speaker 1: is different than what I think it is. M hmm.
Speaker 1: And so and so that's why I say that we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens on November eighth, because you can't get
Speaker 1: more personal than someone trying to control your body. So
Speaker 1: will yet your gender Trump no pun intended, your your
Speaker 1: your your racial identity. Which one will win? And that's
Speaker 1: a question because at the end of the day, when
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was elected, he didn't It was obvious to
Speaker 1: the world. But he wasn't for women, right, But that's
Speaker 1: and twice yep, majority of white women voted for him.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the narrative, but the impact, a
Speaker 1: real world impact of what's happening, what people are having
Speaker 1: to not just black women, but girls and young girls
Speaker 1: are being told you have to you know, carry a
Speaker 1: baby when you bought it that radio or you walk
Speaker 1: around the sister happening to go fifteen hun. I think
Speaker 1: I saw it on a new fourteen hundred miles to
Speaker 1: aboard a baby, that this has no skull. What are
Speaker 1: we talking about? Right? So I think it will it will.
Speaker 1: That will tell us where we are because we should
Speaker 1: have had And I was watching and they were to
Speaker 1: watching told thing over there in the UK, you know,
Speaker 1: and kind of singing everything, and um just looking at okay,
Speaker 1: So how will how all this play out? Because they've
Speaker 1: had three women to to leave you know that country, right,
Speaker 1: m h, we've yet to have one. Yeah, So the
Speaker 1: United States is really such a contradiction. Um. And so
Speaker 1: here we have a sister, you right, who's last president.
Speaker 1: Broker got us one step closer. But you know, whether
Speaker 1: we like somebody or not, there's no excuse to that
Speaker 1: we would. I could tell you if if if Healing
Speaker 1: Clint have been a black woman, what we would have
Speaker 1: done even more? Yeah? Yep, So so I I you know,
Speaker 1: I I say to my my white sisters. You know,
Speaker 1: you guys got to figure that out. We can't what
Speaker 1: what black women can't because then you have to be
Speaker 1: is carried the load. I know that's right. I know
Speaker 1: that's right, And so I don't want to you know.
Speaker 1: So that's so that's I'm gonna stop fucking. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: you you told, you told the line, You told the
Speaker 1: right line. Last question for you, elany You know we are,
Speaker 1: like we're saying fifty some odd days from this consequential.
Speaker 1: We've been saying this though with each and every election
Speaker 1: over the past couple of years. This is the most
Speaker 1: consequential election of our time. This is the most consequential
Speaker 1: midterm of our time. Everything is on the ballot. Democracy
Speaker 1: is on the ballot right Um, what where is your
Speaker 1: on the scale? Where is your hope right now? Where
Speaker 1: is your hope that that Democrat that that we will
Speaker 1: prevail when by we I mean the people will prevail
Speaker 1: against those that are trying to roll back everything, roll
Speaker 1: back women's autonomy, roll back black and brown people's participation
Speaker 1: in our government, roll back democracy? Where where where does
Speaker 1: your hope lie right now? As as we are fifty
Speaker 1: some odd days away, My hope is that, Yeah, young
Speaker 1: people own their power, millennials gener Jason Z. You got
Speaker 1: the numbers right, and there's a lot of frustration and disappointment,
Speaker 1: But I'm holding out hope. I think it's black women overall.
Speaker 1: We're going to do what we do, but but in
Speaker 1: midterms elections, and not to get into the you know,
Speaker 1: the weeds other In midterms, it's always harder to get
Speaker 1: people to vote. But in twenty eighteen, we had young
Speaker 1: people turn out in record numbers because they saw the threat. Now,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, it was in the midst of a
Speaker 1: threat of a pandemic. We saw hope and a threat, right,
Speaker 1: hope and a threat and so a lot of disappointments.
Speaker 1: But Hit Strategies did some research tarancy, and one of
Speaker 1: the things that was really telling was when you have
Speaker 1: them people who feel frustrated, disappointed a lot of things right,
Speaker 1: but then when you point out some of the things
Speaker 1: that actually have been accomplished because of their vote, then
Speaker 1: you there's a sense to the field of Okay, my
Speaker 1: vote does have some power. But if you feel dis
Speaker 1: empowered and then it really didn't matter, then you're not
Speaker 1: gonna vote Ryan. And so we're in this moment where
Speaker 1: we're gonna fix something black. As you said, for it's
Speaker 1: seven days to get people, get folks to and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm putting a lot of energy in to yes, black
Speaker 1: women because that's what you know, but also just trying
Speaker 1: to encourage young people to own it and know that
Speaker 1: it's unfinished business and you you have moved and need them,
Speaker 1: you really do. There's power in the ballot. Don't don't
Speaker 1: don't don't buy into there's not power in that ballot,
Speaker 1: and you drive that. And so even the people who've
Speaker 1: disappointed you, who have not done everything that you want,
Speaker 1: you got two more years and to disremind folks, pay
Speaker 1: attention to that governor, pay attention to that state legislature
Speaker 1: because the damage is right in front of you where
Speaker 1: they're passing laws. So, yeah, Rovie Wade happened here. You
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, the Congress should have done We
Speaker 1: should all if we had the numbers, should have taken
Speaker 1: care of that. It's like they should have taken care
Speaker 1: of voting, right, But the governor in your state or
Speaker 1: state legislators in your state is in Florida, for instance,
Speaker 1: and now they have a voter fraud police locking up
Speaker 1: black and brown people formally and conserrated people, you know,
Speaker 1: returning citizens who tried to vote. So it's right in
Speaker 1: front of you. So the hard part is just like
Speaker 1: really get people to see but to own that power
Speaker 1: to say you can't. You got another buye at the
Speaker 1: Apple to push for those federal changes you want, but
Speaker 1: you also have to protect your own lines in your community.
Speaker 1: Right where we are. States rights has never been good
Speaker 1: for black people in this country. Right, let's our check it.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a sense of hope. People don't tend
Speaker 1: to vote on a sense of fear alone. You gotta
Speaker 1: find a way for they're to be um uh some
Speaker 1: some some sense of we have the power, so the
Speaker 1: power to ballot right, So that's part of what we're
Speaker 1: doing and deal with people where they are right. We
Speaker 1: gotta uh this um, We're doing a power to ballot,
Speaker 1: get out to vote comedy tour, mhm. I loved about
Speaker 1: five states to pour into folks, make we pioble enjoy too.
Speaker 1: Who just it's been stress stressful for years and in
Speaker 1: the to the enemy that doesn't want want for this
Speaker 1: nation to be for uh for all of us yep
Speaker 1: uh wants us to feel defeated. And that's and it
Speaker 1: doesn't say that all our problems will be solved on
Speaker 1: overmber age. But what's very different is in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a moment where that the whole structure
Speaker 1: itself can crumble and we're on the bottom of that
Speaker 1: in a way that we we you know, we read about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's modern day real about the very level of suppression
Speaker 1: that will make us be as a collective, multi racial, multiethnic,
Speaker 1: multi gender right of society to be marginalized to a
Speaker 1: few people controlling our life. And the hell with that.
Speaker 1: We gotta fight it. We gotta fight it, we gotta
Speaker 1: fight it, and if we come together, which is the
Speaker 1: symbolism of the meeting, what's coming together with our movements,
Speaker 1: that we have to do more of that in different ways. Well, Melanie,
Speaker 1: I you know, I tell you that I I too
Speaker 1: troll you on social media and and just continually impressed,
Speaker 1: proud and the work that you do, UM gives me hope, right,
Speaker 1: gives me hope that we can continue to give them
Speaker 1: hell that those that want to turn America into a healthscape,
Speaker 1: for people who look like us, for people who are
Speaker 1: outside of their perception of what America is and what
Speaker 1: they wanted to be, that we're going to continue to
Speaker 1: give them hell. That we will not just sit back,
Speaker 1: um and allow this to happen. And it is your
Speaker 1: energy and your work and your coalition building that continues
Speaker 1: to give me hope. So continue the fight, my friend,
Speaker 1: uh sister, and you know, and I appreciate you for
Speaker 1: making the time to join us on walkaf Thank you,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you. And we get so this now
Speaker 1: we connected again so that we're gonna stay yes, yes, absolutely, okay,
Speaker 1: all right that is it for me to day, dear friends,
Speaker 1: Aunt woke app as always power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people power. Get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.