1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Native lamp Pod is the production of iHeartRadio and partnership 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: with Recent Choice Media. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 2: So I want you guys to make a very very 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,399 Speaker 2: warm welcome as we introduced to the stage our three panelists. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 3: For that discussion. 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 2: We have the co host of Native Lampod. First up, 7 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: Andrew Gillotty. 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 4: Betty, y'all do better than that. 9 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 3: Talk about berry God because of my hip hop month. Wait, 10 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 3: it's domastating. Damn you're going gun. 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 2: Next to the stage, we have the lovely Tiffany Cross 12 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 2: lose me you. 13 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 3: Know that to tell his mom, tell your Mika issue. 14 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 3: And last but certainly not Lise my girl Angela. 15 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: Ry Okay, we no st up gun and Nama Shine 16 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 2: some up bed. 17 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 4: I know they have real fun. 18 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 3: May not get it for Mama. Don bemn out yet. 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 5: Bam y' welcome, hey, y'all, Welcome home, y'all see, and 20 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 5: that's how we we know y'all listen to podcasts we 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 5: say welcome home, y'all. You got to say it back, 22 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 5: Welcome home, y'all, Welcome home. 23 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 4: That's better. 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 3: We know you've had a full day. 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 4: We are so excited to be here with you all. 26 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 5: This evening in New York Andrew Gillim and Tivity Cross. 27 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: Hey y'all doing, Welcome home, y'all. Thank y'all for coming 28 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: out to hear us. 29 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 4: We so night. Thank you. 30 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: Yes, how many Native Lampard listeners out there? 31 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 4: All right? 32 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 6: All right, now, have y'all enjoyed the day so far? 33 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 6: Been pretty good? Well, we're gonna we're gonna try not 34 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 6: to overload you with politics. But if anybody's paying attention, 35 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 6: if you're aware, if you're breathing, you realize that politics 36 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 6: isn't just something over there that is affecting us every 37 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 6: single day. Every decision that's being made in Washington and 38 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 6: in state capitals and city halls around the country way 39 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 6: on our quality of life and how we get to 40 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 6: live our lives. So we hope to share with you 41 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 6: today some of our thoughts on how we may be 42 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 6: able to live our lives to the fullest so that 43 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 6: we're not just finding ourselves in a state of survival, 44 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 6: but rather in a state of thriving. 45 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 4: Is that all right, yes, sir, it is. 46 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 5: We'll be your call and response so on that. One 47 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 5: of the questions that we got back from this audience. 48 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 5: We got questions submitted earlier today. 49 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: Thank you all so much. 50 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 5: We hate we didn't get your names and where you're from. 51 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 5: But if you recognize the question, just wave at us 52 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 5: so we know it came from y'all. The first question 53 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 5: we got that we thought would be a great starting 54 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 5: off point for us today is one more minute, just 55 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 5: so y'all can follow along. 56 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 3: We do read as you go, so these questions. 57 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 5: The first question is there's been a lot of conversation 58 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 5: lately about who gets to tell our stories? How do 59 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 5: you all navigate that tension when you see outsiders profiting 60 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 5: from or misusing black narratives. Story is old as time, 61 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 5: Tiffany Cross, yep, I got you for all of us. 62 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 4: Why go on a lot of legacy media. 63 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of us are tuning in anymore. 64 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: A lot of people are getting their information off social 65 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: media of outlets like TikTok. 66 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 4: And there's some danger to that. 67 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: And so when we see people who have an intentional 68 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: effort to lead us with misinformation and disinformation, we have 69 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: a responsibility on Native lamppod to talk about things that 70 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: are happening that are getting overlooked. Just this week, the 71 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: federal government went into a neighborhood under the guise of 72 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: looking for undocumented immigrants that has less than two percent 73 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: of a Latino population in the. 74 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 4: Chicago and disappeared black people. They were bursting in their homes. 75 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: Zip tying children. You didn't see one story about that 76 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: on Legacy Media. Those are the types of stories that 77 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: we talk about on Native lamp Pod. It can be 78 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: overwhelming when you don't hear about these stories and so 79 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: you just check out. But that is what they're depending 80 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: on for us to get to flood the zone with 81 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: ca ch until chaos feels normal, until quiet feels uncomfortable 82 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: and eerie. 83 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 4: But a Native Lampid we break it down for you. 84 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: We make it accessible, We make it digestible, to not 85 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: only tell you what's going on, but to charge you 86 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: with all call to action where you can combat us 87 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: being at war and then make it black folks the 88 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: face of the enemy by our own federal government. 89 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 6: So, first of all, y'all just heard the voice of 90 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 6: Tiffany Cross, who I know some of us are remember 91 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 6: from MSNBC when she had her show there. But her 92 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 6: example there, similar to what we saw with Joy Reed, 93 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 6: is that corporate America at any point in time can 94 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 6: decide when they want to silence us. And this is 95 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 6: what's so important about you all being here as creatives 96 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 6: in this space. A lot of times it's difficult for 97 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 6: politicians to change culture. It's difficult for politicians. And I 98 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 6: say this to somebody who ran for the governor of 99 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 6: Florida and came within point three percent of winning that 100 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 6: race out of eight million, twelve million vost casts in 101 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 6: the state of Florida, that as much truth as I 102 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 6: was speaking in as much as of an agenda I 103 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 6: wanted to have for all of our community, but particularly 104 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 6: for the black community, because when we thrive, everybody else thrives. 105 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 6: When we get when America gets a cold, y'all already know, 106 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 6: we get COVID loan COVID right, And so creatives, people 107 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 6: like you all, who get to tell stories and intriguing 108 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 6: ways and in ways that people can relate to. You 109 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 6: approach things that my brain cannot really process because I'm 110 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 6: so technical in so many ways, except your expanded boundaries 111 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 6: allow you to get at things in a much more 112 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 6: compelling way. So the stories that we tell and that 113 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 6: I believe are important, we need your help and repurposing 114 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 6: those stories, giving it more body, more contours. So that 115 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 6: the person who thinks that they don't want to hear 116 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 6: a thing about politics doesn't realize at the end of 117 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 6: the day that they're hearing politics because you've put your 118 00:05:59,160 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 6: spin on it. 119 00:05:59,800 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: Right. 120 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 6: If we don't start to transform more people into caring 121 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 6: about these things, y'all will never ever ever win this race. 122 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 6: And we've got to win this race because the ancestors 123 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 6: did too much, laid down too much, sacrifice too much 124 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 6: for a future that they knew they would never inherit. 125 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 6: We're their wildest dreams. You know. 126 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 3: I want to double down here. 127 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 5: First, I want to shout out and Moni from Culture 128 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 5: Con if y'all can give it up for Amani, she's 129 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 5: done amazing. 130 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 7: Word. 131 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 5: And I'm saying that because as I sit here looking 132 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 5: at my sister, my brother, Tiffany, and Andrew, there's a 133 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 5: sign on the wall right here that says, we are culture. 134 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 5: And because we are culture, we have always defined culture. 135 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 5: We've given birth to this culture. We created the mad 136 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 5: the science that they use to this day, fashion, the. 137 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 3: Arts, hip hop. We are hip hop. We are culture. 138 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 5: So of course they want to try to steal it. 139 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 5: Of course they want to try to silence it. Of 140 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 5: course they want to have our little flare and pizzazz. 141 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 5: Of course they want to have Can we still say sweat? 142 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 5: Can we still say sweat? 143 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 3: Okay, a little swag? Right, so like, of course that 144 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: is what they want to do. 145 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 5: But this, this convening, this gathering of black folks, is 146 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 5: an act of resilience. 147 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 3: It is an act of defiance. 148 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 5: It is an act of resistance, It is an act 149 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 5: of rebellion to say, we are culture, We've been culture, 150 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 5: we will always be culture. So that's what I think 151 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 5: we need to lean into right now. So we have 152 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 5: some questions, Tiffany, I'm gonna come to you first. The 153 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:43,239 Speaker 5: one question from the audience is sometimes people say representation matters, 154 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 5: but not all representation is powerful or for us, how 155 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 5: do you decide which stories or perspectives are worth platforming 156 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 5: on Native land? 157 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 3: Pod I like that. 158 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: Well, luckily, we all have different perspectives on what should 159 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: and should not be platform Our key importance, though, is 160 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: what people want to know as well as what people 161 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: need to know. And there are a lot of outlets, 162 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: a lot of outlets, and some of y'all might follow 163 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: that present as being black outlets, but sometimes they're parroting 164 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: conservative talking points. Sometimes these Instagram and TikTok outlets that 165 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: are entertainment news, a lot of the things they posts 166 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: are coming directly from the GOP, directly from right wing 167 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: MAGA extremists, and I see a lot of people sharing them. 168 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: We have to share responsibly, So we want to platform 169 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: voices and stories that get overlooked. Like Angela said, and 170 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: what I know is we are fourteen percent of the 171 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: US population, and where we go, the entire world follows. 172 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: So what we have to put forth is uniquely important. 173 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: And I hope that for the people who don't listen 174 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: to Native Lampod that you start because we lived in. 175 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 4: Service to you. 176 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: We live in service to black liberation, because when black 177 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: people win, everybody wins. 178 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 4: So you can catch episodes of Natal Lampod. 179 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: On iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts and on 180 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: YouTube every Thursday, because every week we show up to 181 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: inform you, give you context, and give. 182 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 4: You a call to action. 183 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 5: If that was an excellent answer, Andrew, I'm gonna go 184 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 5: to your question. Andrew cannot see everybody say find your glasses, Andrew. 185 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: He's trying to get him discreetly. 186 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 5: Right now, I can say, everybody can see him going 187 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 5: like this, Andrew, we know you can't. Oh look, bless 188 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 5: your heart, lo Lo shout out our. 189 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 3: Producer, Lolo, everybody, poor Lolo. 190 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 6: Oh. 191 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 3: This question is for me, Andrew. You want to ask me? 192 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 5: No, okay, I'm gonna ask my, I'm gonna ask you. 193 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you. 194 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 3: This question is for you. 195 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 5: What does solidarity within the black creative and political community look. 196 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 3: Like to you right now? 197 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 5: What kind of collaboration do we need more of? 198 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 3: Andrew Gillim. 199 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 6: I mean when I think of collaboration, I think about 200 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 6: I think about us w look together to tell stories 201 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 6: that get resonance based off of Frankly, who is the 202 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 6: person telling the stories. So I know, I'm very clear 203 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 6: about the fact that I'm not everybody's cup of tea, 204 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,679 Speaker 6: that Tiffany may not be everybody's cup of tea, that 205 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 6: Angela may not be everybody's cup of tea. We together 206 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 6: may communicate a compelling story, but it doesn't break through 207 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 6: to the masses and the way that we need it to. 208 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 6: So one of the challenges I think I would make 209 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 6: to this audience it would be that if we can 210 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 6: get you all, and I'm going to assume that most 211 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 6: of you stay pretty aware. But if we can get 212 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 6: you all to frankly lean on some of the trusted voices, 213 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 6: some of the topics that we might platform, maybe you 214 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 6: take those and you repurpose them in your own voice 215 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 6: and get them out there so that we can get 216 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 6: greater buy in, greater spread, greater information sharing. When I 217 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 6: ran for governor of Florida, the entire press cord, which 218 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 6: are the people who write about or talk about on television, 219 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 6: the race, the people who largely shape the questions that 220 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 6: are asked and decide what matters and what it doesn't matter, 221 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 6: and the entire state of Florida, the third largest state 222 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,079 Speaker 6: in all of America. There was not one single black 223 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 6: political journalist in Florida. So because I got brothers who 224 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 6: went to jail, who served time for selling drugs, accused 225 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 6: of selling drugs, reporters would ask me questions and hold 226 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 6: me responsible for every single step of the actions that 227 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 6: they may have taken, decisions that they may have made. 228 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 6: You had white politicians whose fathers were benefiting from state contracting, 229 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 6: who were making money hand over fists off of votes 230 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 6: that their brothers, sisters, daughters, sons had taken. In one 231 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 6: legislature or another, and then they were benefiting from it financially, 232 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 6: but those issues were never coming up. It seemed to 233 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 6: me that their actions, no matter how illegal or inappropriate 234 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 6: or unethical, I thought they were white people who for 235 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,719 Speaker 6: some reason were given grace. White was right, and if 236 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 6: they were doing these actions, it must be okay. But 237 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 6: if we were doing it, something the farious, illegal, under 238 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 6: the table untour took place, and for me would have 239 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 6: just been so much better to be able to look 240 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 6: out at an audience of black journalists or journalists of color, 241 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 6: or journalists with diversified experiences who knows what it means 242 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 6: to grow up in a poor neighborhood and have relatives 243 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 6: who went to jail, but also some who went to 244 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 6: college and graduated, and those who gave back, maybe not 245 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 6: in money directly to the institution, but by paying the 246 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 6: tuition for their nephews and nieces as a way of 247 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 6: giving back to the institution. So I would just say, 248 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 6: it's helpful to have voices in this space with diverse experience. 249 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 6: I like the term representation matters, but more than representation matters, 250 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 6: diverse find experiences matter because you, oftentimes and they oftentimes 251 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 6: experience the world through their lens, and oftentimes that lens 252 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 6: bears no resemblance to our experiences, and so we need 253 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 6: more of us in more of those spaces. The collaboration 254 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,599 Speaker 6: that I think needs to take places, we've got to 255 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 6: show up in those environments so that when our people 256 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 6: are on the line and there are the targets, that 257 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 6: we've got people who can rationalize, reason and explain those 258 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 6: narratives in ways that our people can understand. 259 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,599 Speaker 4: Okay, Angela, a question for you. 260 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: Culture con brings together a lot of creative people who 261 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: care about impact but may not see themselves as political. 262 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: Some mean y'all may not see yourselves as political. What 263 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 1: would you say to folks who may be in this 264 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: room who thinks politics isn't really their lane, or they 265 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: don't do politics, or maybe some of y'all do politics, but. 266 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:51,199 Speaker 4: You're just tired. 267 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 5: So I love this question because this gives me an 268 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 5: opportunity to focus group the audience. 269 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 3: That's the way for us to pull you. 270 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 5: How many of you all think that we all deserve 271 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 5: a safe place to lay our head at night, somewhere 272 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 5: to live? Okay, how many of you all believe that 273 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 5: we all deserve to eat, to make sure that our 274 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 5: family members can eat, and we can eat good food. 275 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 4: That is healthy for us. 276 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: Raise your hands. Okay. How many of you all believe that. 277 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 5: We should have access to relatively easily clean drinking water. 278 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 3: Raise your hands. 279 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 5: How many of you all believe that we should be 280 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 5: able to see a doctor, have access to healthcare, be 281 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 5: able to go to an emergency room, get taken care 282 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 5: of proactively, to ensure we can live. 283 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 3: Raise your hands. 284 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 5: How many of you all believe that black people deserve reparations? 285 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 3: Raise your hands? 286 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 4: Okay, all of. 287 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: That is political. 288 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 5: There is not a single one of us in this 289 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 5: room that can afford to have our basic needs met 290 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 5: in this country and. 291 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 3: Not be political. Your very existence is political. 292 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 4: There is a. 293 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 5: Constitution that would have declared you three fifths of a 294 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 5: human being if you didn't reclaim your full humanity. 295 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: Our existence is political. 296 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 5: We don't have any choice but to be involved in 297 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 5: the political process. 298 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 4: Why because if. 299 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 3: You opt to sit out, you see what these fools 300 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 3: is doing. I know this ain't partisan, but I am. 301 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 5: They will shut down the government on your ass. 302 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 3: They will send your people home. 303 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 5: Who said the only way for me to thrive, for 304 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 5: me to reach the middle class. For me to take 305 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 5: care of my kids so they can go to college 306 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 5: is for me to get this what this good government job? 307 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 5: They're sending our people home from those good government jobs. 308 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 3: Our existence is political. 309 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 4: I know y'all are tired. 310 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 3: You know, I know I'm tired, But I don't have 311 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 3: a choice. 312 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 5: I know that if we want to preserve a future 313 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 5: for upcoming generations, for future generations, this fight is ours. 314 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 5: It's not because we chose this fight. Some of us 315 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 5: voted in twenty twenty four in the right way. Oh okay, 316 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 5: that's my clothes, and I ain't got we're political, get involved. 317 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 6: So I think my question is to you Tiffany right. Yeah, 318 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 6: So this question came from an audience member who said, 319 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 6: I've been following Native Lampod for a. 320 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 7: Bit, but I love to know what sparked it. That's 321 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 7: the right question. Yeah, okay, what sparked it? So what 322 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 7: made you all decide to start this show in the 323 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 7: first place, and why do we think it's necessary. 324 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: So one of the beautiful things I love about being 325 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: a co host of Native Lampod is our friendship authentically 326 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: and organically stretches two decades. Okay, when I say two decades, 327 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: I all was supposed to, Well, what two decades? You 328 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: guys were alive two decades ago? I thought you were 329 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: like twenty something. AnyWho we owed y'all real, We've known 330 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: each other organically for more than twenty years, and so 331 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: the conversations that you hear are the conversations you would 332 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: hear whether there were a camera's roland or not, whether 333 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: there was an audience before us or not. These are 334 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: the conversations we have over dinner. And so when Angela 335 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 1: called and said, hey, I want to do this podcast 336 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 1: and I want you and Andrew to do it with me, 337 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: it was an immediate yes. The call came months after 338 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: my own show on MSNBC was canceled, and at the 339 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: time it was sure, I'll do it. But looking back, 340 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: I cannot imagine during the grave dangers that we are. 341 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 4: Facing right now not having this platform. 342 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: This is where we get to cry, where we get 343 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: to express our righteous anger right now, where we get 344 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: to look to each other to be inspired. I'll take 345 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: a brief, shameless promo and just say we covered the 346 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. 347 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 4: Thank you. I don't know if you guys. 348 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: Remember Angela gave an amazing acceptance speech. 349 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 4: She got the Chairman's Award. I really encourage you. 350 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: Please go back and watch that speech, and you will 351 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: see that we get goosebumps from each other. I learned 352 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: from Andrew. I learned from Angela. We fight if y'all listen, 353 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: y'all have heard us fight before. We yell, we scream, 354 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,919 Speaker 1: We fight like siblings. And so it really came together 355 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: to answer the call for a time such as this. 356 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: But I want y'all to hear from my co host 357 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: as well, because each of us had a calling and 358 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: each of us brought something different to the platform. For me, 359 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: my intention is always to inform, to break down things. 360 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: When you hear things like the DLJ or the CBO, 361 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 1: not everybody knows what those things mean, and you can 362 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 1: feel like an outsider listening to political conversations. Listen to 363 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: a white run media landscape talk about politics in a 364 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: way that seems so far removed, and I remember watching thinking, 365 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: you're not talking to me for me or about me. 366 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 4: We are intentional. 367 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: We say welcome home because we want you all to 368 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: feel like you're at home, and a part of this 369 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: conversation you send in a video. You can disagree with us, 370 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: we play your video. If you have a question, we'll 371 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: answer it. So it was really beautiful to be a 372 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: part of building a home. But Andrew, I want to 373 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: know for you what was it for you that you 374 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: feel like you bring and also who's your favorite co host? 375 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 4: Well, okay, and. 376 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 5: Before you get to lining to her, since she had 377 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 5: the mic, Glass, I want you to fold that answer 378 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 5: into this because I'm going to take a page from 379 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 5: TIFF's book, which is to get to as many audience 380 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 5: questions as possible. So your last audience question also was 381 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,959 Speaker 5: if someone in the audience wants to use their platform, 382 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 5: whether it's our business or content, to make change, what's 383 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 5: one piece of advice you'd give them to start? 384 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 6: I would say whatever, the talent is the gift that 385 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 6: you've been given. And sometimes we have that voice in 386 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 6: our heads that tells us we're not enough, that we 387 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 6: don't have as much experience or as background to do something. 388 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 6: I would say, one, do your very best to silence 389 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 6: that voice, or rather hear it and then ask it 390 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 6: to take a seat. Because now oftentimes we'll continue to 391 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 6: persist in our lives no matter how how we achieve 392 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 6: how many audiences we've spoken in front of, how many 393 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 6: positions or titles we've had. That voice is always present. 394 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 6: It's present with me right now. If my colleagues were 395 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 6: to be honest, I'm sure they would tell you that 396 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 6: those voices are present with them. And I would just 397 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 6: tell you to again acknowledge that voice, tell it to 398 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 6: have a seat, and you keep going. But the truth 399 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,479 Speaker 6: is is God has granted all of us with gifts. 400 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 6: He's given us a thing. He's given you a thing 401 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 6: that only you can do that particular way for this 402 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 6: particular time, this particular moment, and if you don't do 403 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 6: that particular thing, then it will never be done. Believe 404 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 6: that God is that intentional in your life to purpose 405 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 6: you to have impact in your own way. And so 406 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 6: I would simply say is I oftentimes would often find 407 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 6: the people who were the best at the game and 408 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 6: then think, compare myself to oh what do I need 409 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 6: to do? And movement building. Maybe the question out of 410 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,959 Speaker 6: be what can I do right now that might make 411 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 6: something come out different, might change the outcome of a thing. 412 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 6: Most of our greatest movements didn't start with a person believing, oh, 413 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 6: we'll start a Montgomery bus boycott and all of a 414 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 6: sudden or one hundred plus for over a year, black 415 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 6: people will restrain from being on the bus and will 416 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 6: change the trajectory of the South and black accommodations by 417 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 6: doing this. They didn't start that way. It started by 418 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 6: saying I don't want to sit in the back of 419 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 6: the bus and give my seat up to a white 420 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 6: kid just because I happened to be black, and that 421 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 6: one thing then transformed to something else. So I would 422 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 6: simply say, don't start with the goal of changing the world. 423 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 6: Maybe the world being changed will eventually come start changing 424 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 6: on your block, on your street, and your neighborhood and 425 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 6: your city, county, state, and see if that won't then 426 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 6: lead to something that creates just the most incredible opening 427 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 6: that nobody ever saw, including you. That's how God works. 428 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 6: He takes the little things, the little people, puts them 429 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 6: in the right places and the right moments and the 430 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 6: right circumstances to blow it up so that all of 431 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 6: us know that he's still possible that he could take 432 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 6: a little thing and make it a big thing. So 433 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 6: my advice is simply start where you are, do what 434 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 6: you can, and then make the difference. 435 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 5: Okay, Tiff is gonna ask me this last question sooners 436 00:22:59,359 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 5: she finds it. 437 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 4: Well, was the one I just asked Andrew? Yup. No, 438 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 4: it's about why did we come together? Like why did 439 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 4: Native Land come together? 440 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 3: Okay, so we've not answered my question? Well, how was 441 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 3: your question? 442 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 7: It was? 443 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 5: It was for those of us in this room who 444 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 5: want to build something that has purpose? 445 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, for those of us in this room, I 446 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: want to build something to have purpose. 447 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 4: But what do you think? And also how did we 448 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 4: come together as Native Lampop? 449 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 3: Okay, well I'm gonna I'm gonna start with this. 450 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 5: To build something that has purpose, you need to be 451 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 5: building with people you admire, people you. 452 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: Can grow from, people you respect, people you can teach. 453 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this. 454 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 5: We might be the people you see on camera and 455 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 5: whose voices you hear when you tune into the show, 456 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 5: but there's an army behind us. Some of you all 457 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 5: who listen to the show are the army. But we 458 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 5: also have some of those army members in the audience today. 459 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 5: And so you already saw Lolo run up here with 460 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,199 Speaker 5: Andrews glasses loo and waived everybody. This is Lolo Smith, 461 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 5: our producer utility player. For those of you are old 462 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 5: enough who know who Charles Barkley is. This is our 463 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 5: Barkley on the squad. Bree is helping us with press 464 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 5: right now, Bri stand up and just wave. Brief is 465 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 5: doing our pre r And then Chloe Pusche is. If 466 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 5: you see any thumbnail that's beautiful, any of the graphics, y'all. 467 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 5: She is also a creator, a brilliant creator, super dope artist. 468 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 5: Chloe Puschet right here also looks like a supermodel. But 469 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 5: we are so thankful to our team who's here, Nick 470 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 5: and Lauren who aren't here, our iHeart family, Leonard and 471 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 5: Chris Marrol who helped us to create Reason Choice. Oh sorry, 472 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 5: Tiff always Lenard is Charlemagne la God who also is 473 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 5: one of our co founders a Reason Choice. With the 474 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 5: thirty five seconds I have left, I will just say this. 475 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 5: The name of the show comes from that last stanza 476 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 5: in the last verse of lift every voice and sing 477 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 5: the Black National Anthem, the Holy National Anthem, I will sing, 478 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 5: they say. 479 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 3: James Weldon Johnson wrote, true to our God, true to 480 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 3: our native land, and. 481 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 5: In a space where that land is being challenged on 482 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 5: every side, our very existence is being questioned. It is 483 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 5: more important than ever for black folks to create safe 484 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 5: spaces where we. 485 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 3: Never question our belonging. And so to that in we 486 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 3: welcome you all home. 487 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 8: Welcome home, y'all, Thank you so much, Welcome home to 488 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 8: the Native landing on the podcast space. 489 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 4: That's it for greatness. 490 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 8: Sixty minutes, it's so hit, not too long for the 491 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 8: great shift, high level combo politics in a way that 492 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 8: you could taste. 493 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 6: It then digest it. 494 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 8: Politics touches you even if you don't touch it. So 495 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 8: get invested across the t's and doctor i's kill them 496 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 8: back to get them staying on business with Rod. 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