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

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. Welcome home, y'all. This is episode one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three of Native Lampod, where we give

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Speaker 1: you our breakdown of all things politics and culture. I

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Speaker 1: am your host today Bacari Sellers, joined by my illustrious

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Speaker 1: co host Andrew Gillam and the Angela RAI. Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 2: Feeling everybody, there's only one hey man, Welcome home. Welcome home.

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Speaker 1: You know what, my anxiety has been beating my ass lately.

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Speaker 1: We got to talk about that. I'll say, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Does it happen usually after like being a breakaway or.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, go through these phases where anxiety just

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Speaker 1: wins the day. I don't know. So we'll work through that.

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Speaker 1: But this is therapeutic for me. Joining you guys, sitting

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Speaker 1: here with my friends and all of our listeners, we

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Speaker 1: are jumping right into our four year situational where awareness

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Speaker 1: also known as FAIZA, right, you know what we call it?

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Speaker 3: Yes, FYSA, you guys call it FISA, but you know

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Speaker 3: have security background, it's not but carry on.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't been able to have a lot of

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Speaker 1: good news on this show when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: state of politics. So we wanted to start the show

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Speaker 1: right now with some good news. Some it's like unsweet

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Speaker 1: good news, but we'll take it. My home state of

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Republican state senator is actually voted to block

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Speaker 1: the new map that came in from Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: Attempting to eliminate the seat of none other than Jim Clyburn.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine Congress without Jim Clyburn in it anyway?

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Speaker 1: On May twenty seventh, Government Master said President Trump needs

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Speaker 1: a Republican Congress to continue pursuing conservative policies that make

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Speaker 1: our nation stronger. I am confident that one day South

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Speaker 1: Carolina's congressional delegation will be completely Republican. I am disappointed

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Speaker 1: that day has not yet come. Listen, people forget that

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Speaker 1: South Carolina sometimes is too big for an asylum and

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Speaker 1: too small for state. And we marched the beat of

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Speaker 1: our own drummer. But shout out to those senators who

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Speaker 1: actually showed some backbone. In Alabama. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: funny or funky because in Alabama, Federal District Court has

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Speaker 1: blocked their new congressional maps after finding that they intentionally

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Speaker 1: discriminated based on race. That case, it will ultimately be

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Speaker 1: decided by the Supreme Court. And right before we were

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Speaker 1: coming on, our great producer Nick just told us that

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Speaker 1: we got a news alert that Alabama, of course, is

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Speaker 1: asking the Supreme Court to overturn this ruling expeditiously. In

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Speaker 1: the words to my brother Ti, and.

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Speaker 2: But allright, real quick, I know you're pushing to the

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Speaker 2: next one. But that three judge panel, two of those

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Speaker 2: damn judges were appointed by Trump himself.

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Speaker 1: Correct. I don't know. The Supreme Court may surprise us.

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Speaker 1: They won't.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Moving down to Florida.

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Speaker 3: You know it would be a surprise. But once Clarence

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Speaker 3: Thomas realizes that he is a black man in America.

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Speaker 2: Oh, get out of here. That ain't happening.

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Speaker 3: Girls, Okay listening.

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't the world are you living in the

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Speaker 1: only way?

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Speaker 3: Hopeful one, I have a dream one day this man. No,

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Speaker 3: he's still nigga, That's what I'm I mean. Anyway, move on.

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Speaker 1: The only way Clarence Thomas, the only way Clarence Thomas

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Speaker 1: will ever come home is if they try to overturn

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Speaker 1: loving and then he might have a come to Jesus, or.

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Speaker 3: He might, he might not. I just this is your

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Speaker 3: annual reminder that Clarence Thomas still has a stun named

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Speaker 3: Jamal carry on.

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Speaker 1: Moving down to Florida, uh uh, Andrew Gilliam's home state,

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Speaker 1: where a Florida judge has refused to block a new

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Speaker 1: congressional map that could gain four new seats in the House.

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Speaker 1: Like Alabama, the legal battle is ongoing. What should we

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Speaker 1: know about that map? Andrew? I know this was my meme,

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Speaker 1: but is there anything that know about it?

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Speaker 2: The truth is is that this is sort of the

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Speaker 2: second wave of what we have already had to deal with.

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Speaker 2: He first eliminated single handedly two black access seats from

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Speaker 2: our congressional delegation. One you previously held by a Congressman

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Speaker 2: Al Lawson, the other one previously held by a Congresswoman

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Speaker 2: Val Demings. And you know what, the attack on black

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Speaker 2: I think further frustrating this is the fact that one

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Speaker 2: down in Brower County, is actually now going to pit

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Speaker 2: a big activation down south to try to get her,

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Speaker 2: course she decided for herself she was gonna run for

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Speaker 3: I just have to say something about this. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 3: it's Florida. It's not twenty.

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Speaker 2: I thought you were talking about is it up?

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Speaker 1: No? No, no, is it? Is it congression? I was trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out which one it is.

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Speaker 3: It's the twentieth congressional district. So she's running in what

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Speaker 3: was well, it's still she No, she's actually stepped down.

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Speaker 3: So she looks see a shift shurfless McCormick. She is

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Speaker 3: previously Congressman al Sea Hastings. See now I'm about to

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Speaker 3: go rogue here real quick. There are a lot of

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Speaker 3: black candidates in the seat. But I just want to

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Speaker 3: tell Debbie you're wrong as two left shoes. The reason

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Speaker 3: for that is you are bought, paid, and sold by

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Speaker 3: APAX and you have not said word the first on

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Speaker 3: any of these voting rights challenges. You haven't said word

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Speaker 3: the first on any of the attacks in any other

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Speaker 3: states except for Florida, where you are are obviously self

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Speaker 3: it's a self served interest, and I just I think

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Speaker 3: that this is so awful to watch all of these

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Speaker 3: black folks and into democracy so you can run for

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Speaker 3: be for Andrew Gillham to move up south or down

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Speaker 3: just don't know who else is gonna save it. And Andrew,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell people something they may not know. That

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Speaker 3: is what Congressman Hastings would have wanted. So I'm just saying,

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Speaker 3: as Debbie Wasserman Schultz watches Apak not say shit about

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Speaker 3: any of the voting rights challenges that black people are facing,

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Speaker 3: go into this seat, run for this seat when you

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Speaker 3: don't even represent the best interest of people who need

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Speaker 3: to exercise their franchise. You are wrong as hell. I

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Speaker 3: told you on Twitter and now I'm telling you here wrong. Andrew.

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Speaker 3: I hope you run.

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Speaker 1: You know the reason I mentioned CD twenty because I

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Speaker 1: wanted to have some good news on the end of that.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know you was doing that. I'm mad about it.

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Speaker 1: She is fine, our good friend chev. I don't know

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Speaker 1: he's he sent me a text note that are.

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Speaker 3: You Are you breaking news right now? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think the person hasn't declared, said her, Oh intention yet?

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Speaker 3: Yo, No, that's out. Okay, Yes, Wilson is retiring.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, the rest.

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Speaker 1: I was just sharing the good news. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, did he he didn't tell me.

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Speaker 1: Let me read the text.

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Speaker 3: The text is not a press release.

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Speaker 1: He said, good morning brother, happy to okay.

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Speaker 2: Hey, hey, break the news. He must bring them on

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Speaker 2: and then we'll let him break the news.

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Speaker 3: Let card read a text.

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Speaker 2: Now, Wendy getting in the private text?

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Speaker 1: This one, this one, this one was okay, what is ahead?

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Speaker 1: If you play? Go ahead? This shell turn is me? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Rashaan Kim.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so speaking of elected officials, quite pivot. This is something. No,

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Speaker 2: but you know, I'm in Florida, all you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a lot to be you know, to to be discerned.

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Speaker 2: But I will say, can you run?

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Speaker 3: Why won't you answer me?

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Speaker 2: What I will say is congressman, I'll see Hastings was

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Speaker 2: a big brother and an incredible mentor uh to me,

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Speaker 2: and and and some of the most challenging times that

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Speaker 2: I experienced in the race for governor. You know, he

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Speaker 2: was he was he was hands down, bruh. All you

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Speaker 2: and he was there, and he was there pretty constantly.

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Speaker 2: And I got to hear from him a few months

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Speaker 2: before his passing when he called and asked me to

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Speaker 2: told me I need to move to Florida and set.

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Speaker 3: And real quick after this show.

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Speaker 2: Uh. And I told him I couldn't, but he was. Uh.

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Speaker 2: He's a giant and I would love I was sad

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Speaker 2: to see that seat unfortunately represented by the previous member

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Speaker 2: and whoever you know, ends up throwing their hat in

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Speaker 2: the ground that they stand on and attempting to fill

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Speaker 2: his shoes. We need a real advocate for the community,

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Speaker 2: someone who's unapologetic, no excuses, No, I'm just saying, there

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Speaker 2: We're not going to make lots of headway here, uh, Angela.

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Speaker 3: I just can I hope that I'll see Hastings visit

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Speaker 3: you in your sleep. Come on, friend, I do I hope,

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Speaker 3: I hope he visit you in your sleep tonight. Because

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Speaker 3: I'm just telling you this is we are in unique times.

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Speaker 3: I'm going completely rogue. This is my last ten seconds

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Speaker 3: on this. I promise we are in unique times. You

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Speaker 3: all are being so and you all are different type

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Speaker 3: the conviction I am telling you you are being drafted.

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Speaker 3: You can go to your next.

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Speaker 2: Clib father, bless us, hey man. Okay, some other news

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Speaker 2: to take in, y'all is the fact that, as we

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Speaker 2: all know, FIFA is coming to the United States. The

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Speaker 2: US is one of the host state countries for this

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Speaker 2: world wide global event, but one of the representatives in

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Speaker 2: the state of the Great State of Georgia, Rashaan Camp,

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Speaker 2: who is so far as I know, not related to

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Speaker 2: the sitting governor Brian Kemp, decided to release this video

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Speaker 4: Hey, y'all, this is Senator Rashaan Kemp and I was

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Speaker 4: walking up Grass with coffee today and something struck me

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Speaker 4: almost to my soul. So right behind me sits the

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Speaker 4: stadium where the world was soon gathered for FIFA World Cup. Literally,

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Speaker 4: millions of people are going to come to Atlanta. The

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Speaker 4: world will be on Georgia. They'll see our culture, our diversity,

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Speaker 4: in the cradle of the civil rights movement. But right

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Speaker 4: right here, beginning on June seventeenth, Republicans are prepared to

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Speaker 4: strip people of their voices through Redistrict Team. So at

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Speaker 4: the same time that the world is coming together, politicians

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Speaker 4: lose their seats. And yes, this should make everybody angry

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Speaker 4: because too many people march, bled and fought for the

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Speaker 4: Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of nineteen

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Speaker 4: sixty five for us to quietly watch these protections be

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Speaker 4: dismantled literally a few decades later.

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Speaker 2: So here's my call to action.

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Speaker 4: I believe we should march from the Capitol to the stadium,

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Speaker 4: or from the stadium to the Capitol, demanding that Georgia

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Speaker 4: stock harming black communities and stop silencing black voices. We

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Speaker 4: need people to register, vote, we need people to organize.

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Speaker 4: We need people showing up every single day that we

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Speaker 4: are in session, fighting alongside us, because this fight is

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Speaker 4: bigger than politics. It's about whether our communities still have

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Speaker 4: a voice in the future of Georgia. So stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: Yes he should. And you know what else, just to

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Speaker 3: But Kai, why do you like this man?

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Speaker 3: Then here's my only thing about that. Can you Nick

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Speaker 3: pull the tweet?

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Speaker 2: This?

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Speaker 3: This APAC too. This is my only issue again. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've been having this conversation about where is a pack

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Speaker 3: when it comes to like, our members walk the plank

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Speaker 3: for APAC issues quite a bit. A number of them

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Speaker 3: take a pack money, a pack affiliated money. They tweeted

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Speaker 3: last night after it was clear that Christian Minafie would

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Speaker 3: defeat Congressman Al Green, it says, congratulations Rep. Christian Menefee

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Speaker 3: on your victory tonight over one of the most outspoken

447
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Speaker 3: anti Israel voices in Congress. This isn't in defensive Christian.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know that Christian takes a PAC money.

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Speaker 3: But the issue here is you're causing a further divide

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Speaker 3: between folks who stood up for Palestinian people and the

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Speaker 3: folks who are anti knit in Yahoo, which is very different.

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Speaker 3: So it's you know, it has like this this gaslighting

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Speaker 3: effect of being anti Semitic, and I think that that's

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Speaker 3: not fair to Congressman Green.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And I'll just say for the record, I don't

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Speaker 2: know Congressman menefee. And obviously I didn't say congratulations congratulations

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Speaker 2: on a whim. Just pointing out, though you know, all

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Speaker 2: of us have roles to play here. Our Green service

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Speaker 2: to Houstonians, you know, to the state of Texas is

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Speaker 2: really Texasized, and I think anyone who comes after him

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Speaker 2: UH needs to have that same Texas size defense and

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Speaker 2: advocacy and righteousness UH for our community that he and

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Speaker 2: many of his predecessors to that he did.

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Speaker 1: Can we can we go back to one thing that

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Speaker 1: you started this with Angela, which is I don't want

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Speaker 1: to I don't want to breeze by this. But Colin

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Speaker 1: Colin Alred one, Yes.

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Speaker 3: Colin Alred beat Julie Julia. Is it Julie or Julia Johnson?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm looking at it right now.

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Speaker 3: Julie Johnson, Julie Johnson. And so yes, he beat her yesterday.

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Speaker 3: I think one thing to also note is you know

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Speaker 3: congressman is going.

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Speaker 1: To win the Is it going to win the general?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, yeah, probably. I think people are motivated to

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Speaker 3: turn out like it's a it's a tougher seat now

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Speaker 3: the way they've drawn the district. But I think that

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Speaker 3: he stands a very strong chance to.

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Speaker 2: As a former statewide candidate. I think he's he brings

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Speaker 2: the you know, the kind of fiber that you'd expect

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Speaker 2: to be and I can petitive.

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Speaker 1: He also has a really good resume. He just sometimes.

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Speaker 3: You don't work as hard. But I was gonna say,

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Speaker 3: you know, Jasmine has this new pack, Firepack, and all

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Speaker 3: of the candidates she endorsed one yesterday, So having Jasmine

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Speaker 3: behind her him sorry, having Jasmine behind him also really

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Speaker 3: helped Andrew. I know this is probably a good transition

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Speaker 3: point to the topic you wanted to get around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, were staying in Texas?

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Speaker 3: Yes, who cares about truth in the last more than seen?

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Speaker 2: It Actually just a quick pivot from Texas to say

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Speaker 2: and the early days of primary I'm sorry, Yeah, a

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Speaker 2: primary early voting in Bacari's home state of South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: I just got to say, boy, the community has shown up,

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Speaker 2: and they've shown up in droves. I thought that Mississippi

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Speaker 2: by itself and Alabama through the court cases were going

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Speaker 2: to be the tip of the sphere of the of

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Speaker 2: the pushback from black folks on this redistricting battle, this

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Speaker 2: this effort to take our and reduce the power of

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Speaker 2: our vote that has been so hard fought. And one, but,

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Speaker 2: but but South Carolina said, oh no, we're standing up,

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Speaker 2: we are turning out. I saw photographs and video images

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Speaker 2: of lines that were stretched. I mean as far as

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Speaker 2: my eyes, and they ain't very good. So but but

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Speaker 2: my eyes can see for sure. And I think a

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Speaker 2: large part of the debate correct me if I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: Bookar from a rep that took place in the state

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Speaker 2: Senate around not passing these maps, was that you had

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Speaker 2: Republican folks, senators of conscience who had trepidation about voiding

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Speaker 2: forty you know, fifty thousand people who had already shown

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Speaker 2: up and early voted, and they're basically saying, nah, that

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Speaker 2: don't count. We're going to pass these new maps and

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Speaker 2: we're going to try this again. So so our actions

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Speaker 2: do matter. I just wanted to re emphasize that it

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Speaker 2: is something as small, even as big, but as small

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Speaker 2: as getting up standing in line, casting your vote righteously

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Speaker 2: and almost in indignation of what the other side is

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Speaker 2: attempting to do. And do you see the weight that

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Speaker 2: that can bear when it comes to the final decisions

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Speaker 2: being made. Courts have to consider that, Legislators have to

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Speaker 2: consider that. And it sounds like they did in South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: In the state of Texas, we saw the Republican primary

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Speaker 2: which was a hard fought and contestant race between incumbent

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Speaker 2: Senator John Cordon cor Cornying in the state of Texas,

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Speaker 2: Republican senator who I believe served for forty years. Somebody

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Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong. I mean he's been elected

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Speaker 2: about that long at.

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Speaker 1: Thousand she's been there.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And he's raised he's raised one hundred million dollars for.

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Speaker 2: Incredible amount of money. But also seeing in this age

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Speaker 2: of trump Ism and and maga as to my too reasonable,

532
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Speaker 2: too willing to compromise and work with the other side

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Speaker 2: when when necessary to represent for the Republican Party of today.

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Speaker 2: Of Donald Trump's Republican Party, he was vested by almost

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Speaker 2: almost thirty points twenty eight points by state Attorney General

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Speaker 2: Ken Paxton, and he's a get Paxton is another one

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Speaker 2: of these guys, y'all, who carries the title of the

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Speaker 2: state attorney General, which we associate with law enforcement and

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Speaker 2: is the complete antithetical embodiment of what it means to

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Speaker 2: be unjust, against justice and absolutely a breaker of the law.

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Speaker 2: Just to give you a sense of.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you're gonna run him down, I didn't know if

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Speaker 1: you had it up. Go ahead and run it down.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, Actually they're tired of my boys. You

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Speaker 2: run him down. Tell us what this man is known for.

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Speaker 1: Man, he was impeached by his own party for corruption.

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Speaker 1: He paid three hundred thousand dollars to settle his felony

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Speaker 1: fraud charges. He had multiple extramarital affairs. He's under investigation

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Speaker 1: for mortgage fraud. He stole a thousand dollars pin from

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Speaker 1: another lawyer and was his own video and was taking

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Speaker 1: firing whistleblowers. Law enforcement officer of the state.

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Speaker 3: Sound like Donald Trump?

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Speaker 2: It does. Who knew though?

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Speaker 1: That?

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of us in our mind thought

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump was an exception amongst exceptions when it came

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Speaker 2: to Republicans that they were willing to turn their face

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Speaker 2: to whatever to to see him elevated. But Packson is

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Speaker 2: a whole nother level of creep, a whole another level

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Speaker 2: of criminal. Uh. He turned his office of Attorney General

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Speaker 2: upside down in favor of trying to assist a donor

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Speaker 2: out of Austin, Texas, a big donor to him out

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Speaker 2: of Austin, Texas, who was under federal investigation. And that's

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Speaker 2: what was at the hard rock, you know, the bedrock

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Speaker 2: of the impeachment of which he was by a three

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Speaker 2: to one vote in a Republican near super majority house

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Speaker 2: in the state of Texas, which is I mean, y'all,

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Speaker 2: this has got to be a near impossible thing to

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Speaker 2: happen where your own Republican legislature by three to one

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Speaker 2: vote votes to freaking pre impeach you, right, that's what

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Speaker 2: they did. And now this guy beat out John Cordon,

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Speaker 2: someone of a more pristine or more typical a bedrock

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Speaker 2: Republican record, defeated by Paxton. But I got to say,

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Speaker 2: this sets up what a lot of people are believing,

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Speaker 2: and I'd be interested to hear y'all's thoughts on this,

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Speaker 2: believing to be the closest Democrats may every may have

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Speaker 2: gotten since Bette O'Rourke, who came within three points of

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Speaker 2: beating Ted Cruz in twenty eighteen, but they believe that

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Speaker 2: this may be the best opportunity Democrats have to overturn

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Speaker 2: this seat and with Tallerrico represented, tall Ricos as the

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Speaker 2: next center from the state of Texas. Y'all, what what

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Speaker 2: what do you? What do you think is forecast with

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Speaker 2: this mashup between criminal Paxton. I'm sorry, Attorney General Paxton

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Speaker 2: and and and Reptyalerico.

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Speaker 3: He's not going to in.

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Speaker 2: Who's not gonna win?

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Speaker 3: James Tallerco is not going to win?

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Speaker 2: That's your money.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't see it. I think that he

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Speaker 3: is a lot like Bato with with uh less charisma.

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Speaker 3: And I also think that these people don't play fair.

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Speaker 3: I want to call this call up this tweet as

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Speaker 3: an example. So Stephen Miller posted this last night on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: This is a tweet that says the Democrats made history

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Speaker 3: in Texas by nominating their first transgender Senate candidate. Completely inaccurate,

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Speaker 3: but they are willing to like try to get it

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Speaker 3: in the mud. These are people who have gone on

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Speaker 3: to Republican governors and told them to find them more

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Speaker 3: votes and more seats. So I'm not this doesn't even

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Speaker 3: go to James Talerico's qualifications or his ability. It also

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Speaker 3: goes to whether or not people are going to play fair. Now,

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Speaker 3: what do we do in the face of cheaters? Of course,

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Speaker 3: we show up, we overperform all of that. But here's

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Speaker 3: my challenge to candidates. And I know we're going to

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Speaker 3: talk about this more a little bit later, But when

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Speaker 3: you ask us to show up and show out, when

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Speaker 3: you ask us to vote, like our lives depend on it,

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Speaker 3: when you ask us, when you tell us this is

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Speaker 3: the most consequential election of our lifetime, and all of

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Speaker 3: that is true, what are you going to do for

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Speaker 3: the people who overperform, who sacrifice, who show up, even

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Speaker 3: when your own people vote against you? What are you

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Speaker 3: gonna do for us? And that's the conversation I really

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Speaker 3: want to have, Like I'm not really like, oh, James,

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Speaker 3: let me give you free advice. You're paying these mother

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Speaker 3: consultants millions of dollars. I ain't got free advice to

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Speaker 3: give you. Bro, I really don't wish you the best,

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Speaker 3: certainly while they're calling you transgender, wish you the best, right,

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Speaker 3: But like you got you got some work to do,

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Speaker 3: you got some inroads to me, you know.

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Speaker 1: A lot of work to do, and I'm afraid so

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Speaker 1: let me let me, let me start over. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna frame it the way Angela framed it, but she

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Speaker 1: was very direct and honest in her assessment. The way

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Speaker 1: that I would frame the way that I would frame

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Speaker 1: this race is that Democrats should spend time and energy

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina and Ohio before Texas. Texas is always

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Speaker 1: fools go. And so what what I don't want tell

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Speaker 1: Ico to do is bring in Barack Obama.

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Speaker 3: Which hold on, Butkari, break that down a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: Why Ohio and North Carolina?

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Speaker 1: Because we can actually win those seats?

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Speaker 3: Which is the same should I just say.

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Speaker 1: Instead of instead of saying the little buddy can't win,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, give yours to somebody else. Shout out,

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Speaker 1: shout out the former.

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Speaker 2: Shared Brown, He just give you money.

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Speaker 1: To give your money to Shared Brown and a governor,

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Speaker 1: former Governor Quick Cooper, who are running running great races

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Speaker 1: in their respective areas.

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Speaker 3: We just hosted fun like Roy is different from Shared

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Speaker 3: Brown too, Like y'all just for a moment, can we

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Speaker 3: sit here.

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Speaker 1: It is good.

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Speaker 3: He's fine, but he's not like you guys, we ask

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Speaker 3: black people to do the supernatural thing, and black people

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Speaker 3: don't benefit from that. Like, yeah, we're not there yet, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to need to get there quick, so go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make sure because at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, if we still fifty two forty eight

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Speaker 1: or fifty three forty six or whatever the math is,

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Speaker 1: then black folk are gonna get no no juice out

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Speaker 1: that squeeze anyway if it's upside down. So all I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is that I actually think I know Governor Cooper,

655
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Speaker 1: and he did a hell of a Johns governor in

656
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Speaker 1: North Carolina. I don't know Shared Brown as much, but

657
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Speaker 1: I do know that he was a champion for labor

658
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: and and has been a champion for our issues, and yeah,

659
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: very well. He was very well loved, particularly in places

660
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Speaker 1: like Cleveland and in Columbus. But I don't know Ohio

661
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Speaker 1: politics too much, so I don't want to dig that hole.

662
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Speaker 1: But back to James tel Rico, Tylerrico, I'll be modeling

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Speaker 1: these people's names. Back to James. One of the things

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to do is bring in Barack

665
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Speaker 1: Obama like he did two weeks ago. Have Beyonce just

666
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: wearing an h Town hat and a talar Rico T shirt.

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Speaker 1: I think that the advice he will receive from Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. Is to utilize the political cachet. You have

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Speaker 1: to bring in some black faces to show that you

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Speaker 1: are a champion for that community, instead of doing the

671
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Speaker 1: grassroots work necessary to build the energy. What happens in

672
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: these races often is these individuals focus on grasstop blacks.

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Speaker 1: They focus on the preachers, not the pews. And what

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Speaker 1: I'm asking him to do is is get with the

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Speaker 1: ame church right now. Lay out a plan for what

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Speaker 1: you're going to do with the AMEI Church. Talk about

677
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: you know or in members of the AMI church, talk

678
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Speaker 1: about a public safety record, and what you're going to

679
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: do in cities like Houston in Dallas right go to

680
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: your HBCUs, do that work necessary, and don't don't just

681
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Speaker 1: kind of at acoutrements around the plate and just want

682
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Speaker 1: us to eat it right, because that's what they do.

683
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: They just come out here and put a few decorations up.

684
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Speaker 1: And I love Beyonce, and I love and I love

685
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Speaker 1: Barack Obama, but that's not enough to penetrate the community

686
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Speaker 1: in a way that's going to win this race. The

687
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: crazy part about these three people we just named is

688
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Speaker 1: Rick Cooper and share It both have that cachet in

689
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Speaker 1: these communities. They got that, they still got to go

690
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,439
Speaker 1: turn it, they got to do the work, but they

691
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Speaker 1: have that cachet of respect because they have that record

692
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Speaker 1: of the thing and the work that they've done.

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Speaker 3: Can I just I just want to correct myself a

694
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Speaker 3: little bit. Sharon Brown hasn't been like this huge outspoken

695
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Speaker 3: ally on black issues, but he also has not been

696
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Speaker 3: I just looked up his ACLU school score. He raised

697
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Speaker 3: eighty seven percent on a pro civil rights voting record.

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Speaker 3: But I guess what I'm asking for is not just

699
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Speaker 3: how they vote, but how they speak out. And I

700
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 3: think what I'm craving in this moment, y'all is I'm

701
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: not seeing a lot of Senators, a lot of sitting

702
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 3: members of Congress on the House side speaking out against

703
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 3: the like pure onslaught of our voting rights and these maps.

704
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Speaker 3: And it's frustrating to me, it really is.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm just frustrating all of us. I agree.

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Speaker 3: So what happens to me is I feel, from my perspective,

707
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Speaker 3: is the onus continues to be on us without the

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Speaker 3: onus of an agenda passed, pushed or sponsored by the

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Speaker 3: legislators who we have to go vote for. And so

710
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Speaker 3: what I'm asking for in this moment is for there

711
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Speaker 3: to be a right setting of that. If you know

712
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 3: that we have to vote, like our lives depend on it,

713
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: and we do. I am never going to discourage people

714
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Speaker 3: from voting. I'm always and to encourage us to vote,

715
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Speaker 3: but like our civic engagement does not start her in there,

716
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Speaker 3: And I think that it is not fair for members

717
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Speaker 3: of Congress or any elected official to want us to

718
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Speaker 3: do all of the heavy lifting. And they don't even

719
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Speaker 3: have to say where they stand on reparations, or where

720
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Speaker 3: they stand on HBCU funding, or where they stand on

721
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Speaker 3: whether or not black farmers finally get their fair share,

722
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Speaker 3: or where they stand on you know, another young black

723
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Speaker 3: boy whose head is being mealed on by a police officer.

724
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Speaker 3: You know, if I don't want Sherry Brown, for example,

725
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Speaker 3: to co sponsor an anti flag desecration amendment when the

726
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Speaker 3: flag does not represent the people who it's supposed to serve. Right, So,

727
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, at some point this has to be

728
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Speaker 3: right set and sure Black people should have an agenda

729
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Speaker 3: and demands, and we should have. But also y'all know

730
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Speaker 3: what we need to survive in this country and for

731
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Speaker 3: us to really be fully liberated, and I don't see

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Speaker 3: y'all doing that. So I need you to meet me

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Speaker 3: more than halfway. It's not an around the way.

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Speaker 2: If I just really could quickly say you on the

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Speaker 2: on the agenda first, I am a big shared fan,

736
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Speaker 2: and I'll take his symbolic gestures to keep his seat

737
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Speaker 2: any day over him doing the hard, laborious work and

738
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Speaker 2: committee and in markup to ensure that the needs of

739
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Speaker 2: our communities are met. Because Angela is one thousand percent correct,

740
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Speaker 2: you don't need us to articulate it. Quite frankly, we will,

741
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Speaker 2: we can, and we will. But the truth is is

742
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Speaker 2: that just like you look at data to help you

743
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Speaker 2: determine how much your community or constituency needs as it

744
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: relates to a food bank, you can look at data

745
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Speaker 2: to see whether the disparitor is in housing and an education,

746
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Speaker 2: and in health and in so many other areas employment,

747
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 2: economic impact, the loss of wealth, the overwhelming release of

748
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Speaker 2: qualified black women from their work. All this stuff is

749
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Speaker 2: open and available to you. And I think what happens

750
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Speaker 2: oftentimes with white liberal Democrats, very specifically, is that they

751
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Speaker 2: take a back seat to black legislators, believing that those

752
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 2: black legislators should be the ones to speak on this

753
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 2: and they'll talk about the suburban real America issues when

754
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 2: that issue comes full circle and it needs a voice

755
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 2: and it needs an advocate. And what they should hear

756
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 2: very clearly is, just like your community has white voters

757
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Speaker 2: in it, you also have voters of color in it,

758
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Speaker 2: and I would argue probably a pretty overwhelming demonstrable number

759
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 2: of them if you got elected to a congressional seat.

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Speaker 2: And so what that means you have to be in

761
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Speaker 2: service to all of them. Don't take a back seat

762
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Speaker 2: to an issue that you think is a black issue,

763
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Speaker 2: because if it's a black issue, it's an American issue,

764
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Speaker 2: right since this thing is built on us and oftentimes

765
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Speaker 2: sustained by us, and is oftentimes our community are the

766
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Speaker 2: ones that are the canaries in the coal mine for

767
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 2: everything bad that happens and that's coming down the pike.

768
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Speaker 2: So the advocacy of these folks is absolutely necessary. But

769
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Speaker 2: car I was seeing the a tax on Tall Rico

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Speaker 2: after the election, and it reminded me of me having

771
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Speaker 2: to deal with Rhonda Santens getting up and saying on Fox,

772
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Speaker 2: don't monkey the state up. And what I will tell

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Speaker 2: the Taller Rico team about this, this is the only

774
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 2: free advice, and that is to say, don't follow the

775
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 2: red herrings, like there are things that are going to

776
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 2: want you to run down the barrel in on the issue.

777
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 2: But you've got to continue to look past them, talk

778
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 2: past them, speak past them, show up past them to

779
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: the voters of the state. If you make this thing

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00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 2: about whether God is a man or a woman, first

781
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 2: of all, it's insulting because our God is too good

782
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 2: and too great for that devolution of a conversation around

783
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Speaker 2: gender right to be applied. That's one. But if you

784
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Speaker 2: follow them down the rabbit hole on these things, you're

785
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: going to find that the very voters who you are

786
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 2: trying to recruit to your side are going to be

787
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: the ones turned off by all of the distraction when

788
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 2: what they want to hear you talk about are where

789
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 2: do you stand on redistricting? That's a big constituency in

790
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 2: your states. Your state is going through where do you

791
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 2: stand on that? Don't tell me that's a federal issue

792
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: and is beyond the scope of the office of such

793
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: and such and such. Nothing when you're elected and you

794
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: have a perch like a United States Senate seat, is

795
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,959
Speaker 2: beyond the scope of your conversation, your consideration, your dialogue,

796
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 2: your speechifying, your tweeting, or whatever it is. Xing well,

797
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 2: you know that you do. In other words, if it

798
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Speaker 2: confronts the people under your purview, then it creates a

799
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 2: range of opportunity for you to speak up and speak out.

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Speaker 2: Don't wait to be asked. I want to see you

801
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Speaker 2: move affirmatively those and those directions, and that's what that's

802
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: what's going to be required for you to bring over

803
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 2: the folks who were pro Jasmine did not feel like

804
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 2: the resolution of that race was the most respectful or

805
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 2: or or whatever the issue may be. They're now going

806
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 2: to look past gesture. They're going to want to look

807
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 2: to and read through and feel the content, the sustenance

808
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 2: and sustenance of what you are offering to them, to us.

809
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 2: And if you can't be compelling enough in that way

810
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: and feel as passionately about the gender of God as

811
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: you do about redistricting and the other issues that confront them,

812
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Speaker 2: then goodbye, because we're going to need to see that

813
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 2: kind of energy in order to believe that you might

814
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Speaker 2: have a fighting chance of once you get elected, still

815
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 2: being there for us on our side, not just when

816
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: we need you, but when the circumstances make it necessary

817
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Speaker 2: for you to do it.

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Speaker 3: I just I want to say here one, I agree

819
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Speaker 3: with everything you said, Andrew. I just want us, if

820
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Speaker 3: we can, to transition a little bit to this kind

821
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Speaker 3: of talking point that's been percolating a lot so in

822
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Speaker 3: the response to redistricting in the maps. Is the overarching

823
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 3: democratic leadership talking point, especially in Congress, is y'all just

824
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 3: wait to the midterms. We going to show you in November.

825
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Speaker 3: There's a lot of action and activity happening Bacari's home

826
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Speaker 3: state of South Carolina. All the young people who organized

827
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Speaker 3: around stopping the maps just the other day. That wasn't

828
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Speaker 3: just Republicans of good conscience. That's them having to walk

829
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 3: past the protestors. That's them having to watch how many

830
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 3: people showed up at the polls. Right. So we're still

831
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 3: doing our part, but Democratic leadership is saying wait until

832
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 3: the midterms, wait until November. I don't want black people

833
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 3: to wait and be behind the eight ball another day.

834
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Speaker 3: I want us to be organizing and figuring out what

835
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Speaker 3: our needs are and making those demands known to elected

836
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Speaker 3: officials who get paid by us, whether we vote for

837
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Speaker 3: them or not. Again, not discouraged, not encouraging sitting at home.

838
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 3: I'm always going to encourage people to vote. My question

839
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 3: to y'all is, especially as former elected officials, what is

840
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 3: the right message? I think that we all hopefully agree

841
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 3: And if you don't agree that the right If you

842
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 3: think the right messages, wait till the midterms show up

843
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 3: in November? Is the right message? I definitely want to

844
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 3: know why. But if that's not the right message, what

845
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 3: is I talked to my best friend Lyonetta yesterday and

846
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 3: I was like, Nedda, when you hear this, when you

847
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 3: hear Democrats saying this to you, what's your response? She

848
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 3: was like, well, what d y'all they're gonna do in November?

849
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 3: Because last time they was in charge, didn't nothing really change.

850
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 3: So if that's the case, like what why do they

851
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 3: keep defaulting to?

852
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: That?

853
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 3: Is that a security blanket?

854
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 2: Like?

855
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 3: What the free kiss that?

856
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: So I brought this up to you on the call

857
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Speaker 1: the other day. I think I guess both of you.

858
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Speaker 3: All don't be trying to act like I plage your eyes.

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00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: You're talking point No, it's not quite just slightly. But

860
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Speaker 1: the question is, like I think the question that's a

861
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: question that that King Jeffries has to answer yesterday, Like

862
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: what what are the very tangible things we give you,

863
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: the levers of power back? What are you going to

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Speaker 1: do other than you know, not be trump right? Like

865
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Speaker 1: accountabilities one aspect, But people out here are watching decades

866
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: worth of rights being eroded. I was listening to someone

867
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Speaker 1: say that a woman born today has less reproductive rights

868
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Speaker 1: than her grandmother. That is just a fascinating statement when

869
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: you think about it, right, And so I I think

870
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: that there are a couple of things. One, I want

871
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: to change the way Democrats fundamentally campaign. That's I mean,

872
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,479
Speaker 1: I think that we run very still campaigns. My white

873
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: progressive friends show up in black areas, you know, after

874
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: Labor Day, they show up at HBCU football games and

875
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: black churches around September.

876
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 3: You know, we have to change sometimes Halloween.

877
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: We have to become a more digital campaign, am I.

878
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: One of the things that I would tell Tallerico is

879
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: something that I was disappointed in a lot of people,

880
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: because when your campaign raises fifty sixty seventy one hundred

881
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: million dollars, and there's not one black millionaire that you've created.

882
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: There's not a pipeline of new black field workers that

883
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,479
Speaker 1: got their start on your campaign. There's not a new

884
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: entity that came up that does pr work or polling

885
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: that you were giving them that twenty five or thirty

886
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a month, which was more than they've

887
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: ever made in their life, but helped they did good

888
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: work for you, but it helped transform them in their

889
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: communities because we know those campaign dollars when they come

890
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: into our households, they're going to be spent with us.

891
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: They're going to be spent at HBCUs, they're going to

892
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: be spent at black businesses, in black restaurants. But for

893
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: far too long, people haven't even thought that way. They

894
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 1: haven't looked at the economy or the ecosystem of politics.

895
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: So it's the same people, same people get paid over

896
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 1: and over and over and over again. And I want

897
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: James tell Rico and even Shared Brown and even Governor

898
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: Cooper to break that cycle because they are raising tens

899
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: of James is gonna break one hundred million dollars. We

900
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: just know that just throw that up there. He's gonna

901
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: break a hundred million dollars and I will be extremely

902
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 1: disappointed if there's not, you know, five new millionaires, because

903
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: they did work with his campaign. And the other thing

904
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: is one of the things that I was watching the

905
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: other day is the murder Boy. He just bought. He

906
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: just bought a whole new conglomerate of media. Right, they

907
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 1: just went out and bought.

908
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did four or five.

909
00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: New big shining like top ten of viewership readership. They

910
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: the media in the conservative ecosystem is running circles around

911
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: our black media and democratic media. And we have, of

912
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: course the Roland Martin, we have Byron Allen, Right, we

913
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: have these individuals who are trying to get in that space.

914
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: But we can put them, Ashley Ellison, we can put

915
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: them on three I mean one hand, three angles. So

916
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: I want us to do a better job of using

917
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: this cycle to build up Native lampid right, which Angel

918
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: is trying to do every single day, going out in

919
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: the community and creating more content. But I want us

920
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: to make sure that our political media is growing as well.

921
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: And it's something that goes parallel to the candidates. Because

922
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: one of the things that I don't want us to

923
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: do is put all of this on the individual running

924
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: for office. Andrew said it best. There's a role for

925
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: each one of us. There's a role for all of

926
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: us to play, and we need to be a part

927
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,479
Speaker 1: of that ecosystem. My last point is, please God, don't

928
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: let perfect. But is it. Don't let perfect be an

929
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: interview enemy of good because we be out here trying

930
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: to trying to elect you know, Martin Luther King, who

931
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: studied with Malcolm X, who had the courage a Rosa

932
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: Parks and was an athlete like Cam Newton, and be

933
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: trying to find the Manchurian Negro candidate. And we fall

934
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: on our face. And so I'm not saying that we settle.

935
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we don't ask for things that

936
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: are tangible or good. But at the end of the day,

937
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: we can't look for perfect because that becomes an enemy

938
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: of good. And this is a math game for me.

939
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 3: But here's the here's the thing, Andrew, and I'm just

940
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 3: gonna ask this to layer, to have you weigh in.

941
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 3: What Bakari talked about was like the inside baseball of

942
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 3: the strategy, like you know, who are you getting as

943
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 3: you're in your in your consultant class. Who are you

944
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 3: building up in terms of capacity and all of that.

945
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 3: But there's also a requirement to meet the needs of

946
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 3: the voter so that they're even desiring to turn out.

947
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 3: And I think that's really where I'm sitting right now.

948
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 3: I obviously agree and have worked really hard on building

949
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 3: up consultants over time. But I'm saying, for the people

950
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 3: who are at home, who snap benefits are about to

951
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 3: be cut in November, Medicare, Medicaid, all of that, the

952
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 3: things that we keep talking about till we're blue in

953
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 3: the face, what is in it for them? This is

954
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 3: a transaction? Is this is a classic case of you know,

955
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 3: you know, I like you, I would wear your shirt.

956
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 3: Maybe permanent friend, I hate you, I'm not feeling with you,

957
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 3: you don't rock with me, you don't support my policies.

958
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 3: Permanent enemies. But at the end of the day, I

959
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 3: have to make sure that I can get to work,

960
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 3: my kids can go to school, I can eat, my

961
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:49,240
Speaker 3: light bill is paid. You know, I'm up hopefully getting

962
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,760
Speaker 3: closer to it upward mobility trajectory while trying to fulfill

963
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 3: the American dream. What are you going to do to

964
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 3: ensure that I can get that. That's for the voter.

965
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,720
Speaker 3: What are we what what do we demand for the voter?

966
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, first of all, the voter makes their demand.

967
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 2: But but before I answered more deeply your question answer,

968
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 2: which I think is the right place for us to be,

969
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 2: I want to attenuate your list, Bakari, and just say

970
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 2: the other thing. In addition to what ways have you

971
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 2: built wealth and built up status and capacity within these firms, who,

972
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 2: by the way, have expertise for the exact voter that

973
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 2: you need. Let's not forget that, you know this benefit

974
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,959
Speaker 2: is a two way one. But also what community based

975
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 2: organization did you leave behind that has capacity to build

976
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 2: and strengthen community engagement and involvement and see to the

977
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 2: needs of the people that you serve. When we're not

978
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 2: in the election cycle, we often forget about. It was

979
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 2: the one thing that I announced after I, you know,

980
00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 2: after our twenty eighteen race in Florida, was getting back

981
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:05,439
Speaker 2: making micro grants to statewide community based organizations to get

982
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 2: in there and do the work that they know how

983
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 2: to do best. They're knocking on doors when storms come through.

984
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 2: They're the ones showing up on your doorstep trying to

985
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:14,959
Speaker 2: see if you got a generator. They're the ones trying

986
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 2: to make sure that you got access to food, your

987
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: cads got closed. They're triaging our community in times of crisis,

988
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: but also in everyday periods because they're looking up and

989
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 2: they're seeing the news as well. Gas is expensive, So

990
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 2: what are they doing with money that they fundraised for.

991
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 2: They're giving you the gas cards. They're helping folks out

992
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: to make that bridge from week to week when we

993
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 2: robbing Peter to pay Paul and still don't have enough

994
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 2: coming in the door to make the math work on it.

995
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 2: Speaking of math, Bakari, so we do have to change

996
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 2: our mindset around the one hundred million dollars to be

997
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 2: spent in sixty ninety one hundred and twenty days for

998
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 2: a race where if you did the math and the

999
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 2: number of voters and divided by the number of the

1000
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 2: amount of money that you spent, it is an incredulous

1001
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 2: amount of money being spent per voter that you get.

1002
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 2: And you got a nerve to talk to me about

1003
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 2: not having a budget to go and get low propensity voters.

1004
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 2: You're spending twenty times that on the voter who you

1005
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: know is going to show out, and that's your posters

1006
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 2: and your advisors should have already told you. Of that

1007
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 2: entire targeted demographic, you might change less than one percent

1008
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 2: of their minds about who they're going to vote for.

1009
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 2: So it really is flushed money. I'm embarrassed by the

1010
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 2: amount of money we had to raise and spend in

1011
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: the time that we had to do it. But if

1012
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 2: you're going to raise those kinds of sums of money,

1013
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 2: for sure you ought to leave something behind. And that's

1014
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 2: what I'm getting at. Around these community based organizations, you

1015
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 2: can't go in here telling people you care about them.

1016
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 2: You see them, you feel them, you're advocating for them,

1017
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 2: but you abandon them for four years into the next cycle,

1018
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: or two years to the next cycle, or six years

1019
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 2: to the next cycle. US Senator, you abandon them, and

1020
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 2: then you show back up and you tell them that

1021
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:03,919
Speaker 2: you've been out here advocating and debating on the floor

1022
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 2: and you scheduled time and had remember time on the floor,

1023
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: and then the caucus and into this and they're still saying,

1024
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 2: my condition has not fundamentally changed in any way, shape

1025
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 2: or form. So the voter has the demand and the

1026
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 2: demand in this cycle isn't just that we got to

1027
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 2: get beyond Trump and we got to stop that is

1028
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 2: that is that is absolutely in the equation. It should

1029
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 2: be top three on the list of the things that

1030
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 2: we're talking about. But the other thing is is we

1031
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 2: have to tell people what it is we want, what

1032
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 2: we need, and guess what. They shouldn't have to depend

1033
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 2: on us to know what it is that we need.

1034
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 2: They ought to have us. They ought to have a

1035
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: census of of the people that they're choosing and wanting

1036
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 2: to represent. They they ought to have a complete census

1037
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 2: of what it is based off the numbers.

1038
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 3: But andrew this. So there is the Black Census Project

1039
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 3: that Black Futures Lab does. People won't take the.

1040
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 2: Census guess what. I'm actually I wish they would. But

1041
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 2: my bigger beef is that a member will will point

1042
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 2: to the fact that the census only got X percent

1043
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 2: of respondents and so that's what they had to go

1044
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 2: off of, rather than saying, you know what, I noticed

1045
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 2: that in my state and in my district, the average

1046
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 2: unemployment is four point three percent, and then I've also

1047
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 2: noticed that amongst black men it's twenty five percent, and

1048
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 2: amongst black women it's sixteen and a half percent. And

1049
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: so if you know this to be true, that the

1050
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 2: average is four point three or whatever, and we're four

1051
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 2: and five times that average, you ought to know that

1052
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 2: an intervention is necessary in order to get folks what

1053
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 2: it is that they need. All I'm saying, Angela, is

1054
00:58:54,840 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 2: that yes, we as a community should take these censuses,

1055
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 2: give our responses, and allow that to be fomented into

1056
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 2: an agenda that groups like ours and others can present.

1057
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 2: But also too, if you're seeking my vote, you ought

1058
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 2: to do just a little bit of like work.

1059
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 3: I agree, but that they don't because they freaking have.

1060
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 2: You agree, but they don't. And this is why I'm

1061
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 2: saying the demand. We cannot put the responsibility for curing

1062
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 2: the ills of society on the people who are most

1063
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 2: impacted at its intersection. You gonna take what we do

1064
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 2: and tell the victim that they ought to come up

1065
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 2: with the souve for what victimized them.

1066
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 3: I understand, I don't think it's fair, but that's where

1067
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 3: we don't.

1068
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 2: Do it to anybody else. But we're not an argument.

1069
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,919
Speaker 3: An argument, This is a passionate agreement. I was gonna say,

1070
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 3: but who else arrives in the belly of a slave

1071
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 3: ship like it ain't it ain't shit like what we've

1072
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 3: been through in this country. It's not going not another Yes,

1073
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,959
Speaker 3: there's not another group who they say we're gonna take

1074
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 3: your culture. We're gonna take your entertainment. We might pay

1075
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 3: you a little bit for it, but you also may

1076
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 3: have to do it for free. We're gonna make sure

1077
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 3: that you work hard for us and then call you lazy.

1078
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 3: We're gonna do all of these things make the conditions impossible.

1079
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 3: And yet still you survive. And when you survive, and

1080
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 3: you barely get the opportunity to vote, you better know

1081
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Speaker 3: what you want, how you want it. And even though

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01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 3: we are going through sow seeds of discord all throughout

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Speaker 3: your community, you better figure out how to unite if

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Speaker 3: you want to get anything done at all.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, solve your own problem, yes, all

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Speaker 2: of that while I, while I solve the rest of

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01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,960
Speaker 2: the constituency and the rest of the district's problem, you

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01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: can go out and by way, yes, to do it

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Speaker 2: for other people. These same electeds stand up in front

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Speaker 2: of a town hall meeting or a members debrief, a

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Speaker 2: coffee and chew, and then they say black person that

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Speaker 2: thank you for being here because because of what you said,

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Speaker 2: this is exactly why I need people like you to

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Speaker 2: come and volunteer fort No, sir, because you didn't say

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Speaker 2: that to voter over there. You understood hook line sentence, commaverse.

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Speaker 1: What it is.

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Speaker 2: They need it without their explanation. But for me, when

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Speaker 2: I come and state what is the most fundamental obvious

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Speaker 2: to anybody who has sighted and you don't have to

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Speaker 2: see sighted, but site in the deepest sense, anyone who

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Speaker 2: has a sense of what is going on, as I

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Speaker 2: expect an elected should would know that, of course these

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Speaker 2: are the issues that are playing us.

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Speaker 3: But I guess I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm

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Speaker 3: saying that we have witnessed time and time again folks

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Speaker 3: not do this. It's the reason why the Congressional Black

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Speaker 3: Caucus when it started, had to be the conscience of

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Speaker 3: the Congress because when they fought to protect black interest,

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Speaker 3: basic health care, fundamental rights, that wasn't just for black people,

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Speaker 3: that was going to help everyone. But still, people even

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Speaker 3: like w. Wasserman Schultz running where she feels entitled in

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Speaker 3: a space and on issues where she's never cared about,

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01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 3: has hardly said much about this is exactly the problem,

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Speaker 3: and so we do need the census. I'm saying, why

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Speaker 3: can't this voter just name it, or why can't this

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Speaker 3: elected official just say that they see it. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: but what we know is historically that doesn't work. When

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Speaker 3: Joe Blow comes and says, here are the issues that

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Speaker 3: you need to solve for the black community in Congressional

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Speaker 3: District twenty or you know in this particular state, they

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Speaker 3: don't hear it unless it's from the Association of Black

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Speaker 3: Joe Blows.

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Speaker 2: So then we need.

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Speaker 3: To talk together to do the thing so that we

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Speaker 3: are heard. And I wish it wasn't this way.

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Speaker 2: I think we do both is right. I agree with you,

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Speaker 2: But at what I think our common talking point has

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Speaker 2: to be, Angela is I shouldn't have to prescribe to you,

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Speaker 2: elected official. Who are you standing in front of me

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Speaker 2: and you're asking for my vote. I shouldn't have to

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Speaker 2: prescribe for you what it is that you know what

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Speaker 2: we need in order to solve this problem. That's number one.

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Speaker 2: But number two, I want you to be aware and

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Speaker 2: I will forward your office so you can have your

1135
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 2: litt assistant over there go and study it and google it.

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Speaker 2: Beyond this conversation is I need you to have the

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Speaker 2: Black agenda in front of you, and I need you

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Speaker 2: to go through that and figure out what's among those issues?

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Speaker 2: Are you prepared to sponsor legislation on what's among them?

1140
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Speaker 2: Are you going to take Because I want to report

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01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 2: back to the Black census that congressmen elects such and

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01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 2: such as told me that this is the issue by

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Speaker 2: what he wants or she wants to take sponsorship leads.

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Speaker 3: We need to have black everybody that listens to Native Lampard.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't even just have to be black folks. We

1146
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 3: want you to go to these town halls, these candidate

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01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 3: meet and greets and do exactly what Andrew said. I

1148
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 3: think that is a perfect and I think.

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Speaker 1: You're I think that was a natural segue too, because

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Speaker 1: let's get to some calls of action. Nobody knows and Angela,

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Speaker 1: you you have given us a lot to take action upon,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm gonna let you start. You might want

1153
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: to double back on something you said earlier, but let

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01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: me hear your call to action. Then we go to Andrew.

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Speaker 3: Well, first, I just want to thank you both for

1156
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 3: this conversation. I feel like this is not done. But Cary,

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Speaker 3: there's so many questions I have for you still in

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01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 3: this space. And Andrew, even like the way that you

1159
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 3: ran your race was different the way that people in

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01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 3: Florida still talk about how you ran and how much

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Speaker 3: hope they had. It didn't feel like and hope and

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Speaker 3: change campaign. It felt like you were one of them

1163
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Speaker 3: because you are. And So one of the things that

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Speaker 3: I would encourage candidates everywhere to do is figure out

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Speaker 3: how to tap into your humanity. We're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about on our mini pod that we're recording today how

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Speaker 3: everyone has a role to pick play politically even when

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Speaker 3: they don't think they do. And we're going to start

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Speaker 3: with NCAA athletes. So think about what you're responsible, what

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Speaker 3: your responsibility is in this time. Also, I want to

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Speaker 3: shout out my good brother ja Mario Solomon Simmons. He

1172
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Speaker 3: has a new book out, Redeem a Nation. He was

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Speaker 3: on my solo pod yesterday. The century long battle to

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Speaker 3: restore the soul of America since reparations is in hot

1175
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 3: conversation right now with Donald Trump's seventeen seventy six billion

1176
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Speaker 3: dollar fund, which where the country always says they don't

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Speaker 3: have any reparations. It's time for us to talk about

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Speaker 3: who really deserves them. So that's my call.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Amen, that was a lot of calls too, Sorry,

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Speaker 2: but I love it. I simply doubled down on where

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Speaker 2: I ended my comments, which was to simply say, if

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Speaker 2: I'm actually going to let you off the hook for

1183
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 2: not knowing what is our collective community agenda? Because as

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Speaker 2: I said before, I don't think any elected, any policymaker

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Speaker 2: holds any other constituency of note responsible for being the

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Speaker 2: ones to solve the public policies issues that confront our

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Speaker 2: communities writ large. They don't. That's why people run for

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Speaker 2: office to propose those So don't let them headfake us

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Speaker 2: into believing that we are the ones who are ultimately responsible.

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Speaker 2: Because it's one thing. If it's a one off, it's

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Speaker 2: one thing. If it happens a two out of ten

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Speaker 2: of us, it's another thing if nine out of ten,

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Speaker 2: eight out of ten of us are confronting the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Because what is that a system?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: That is a system? Now, that is not a one off,

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Speaker 2: a coincidence. I'm sorry that happened to you. No, it

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Speaker 2: is systemic, and that requires systemic action activity to then

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Speaker 2: change a thing. Secondly, make your electeds recognize, even if

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Speaker 2: you are every year voter, that you are voting this

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01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 2: year with a different set of determination, and that one

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Speaker 2: of those at the top of that list of what

1203
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 2: you are determined to see happen is you are determined

1204
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Speaker 2: to see them produce for your community in a way

1205
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Speaker 2: that has never been demonstrated by this seat before. And

1206
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 2: if you want the specifics, go to blah blah blah

1207
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 2: blah blah, or you hit them your list of five things,

1208
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 2: and that way they know what it is that you expect.

1209
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 2: But no longer can we just do the obligatory I

1210
01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 2: got you because we know what the other side has

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Speaker 2: in store for us and it's just that bad. Yes that,

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Speaker 2: But also I've got some needs that need to be

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Speaker 2: met for our community, and here they are.

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Speaker 1: My call to action is to somebody I don't know,

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01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: but I have a great deal of respect for, kind

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01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:09,919
Speaker 1: of asking him to do better. Nick, can you play

1217
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: this clip for me please?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the George Floor joke.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't a tasteful joke to our culture, to our audience,

1220
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Speaker 6: but our audience that's watching the roast. If you're watching

1221
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Speaker 6: the roast, you get why they're doing it, You get

1222
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Speaker 6: why the racial humor is is on the table like

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Speaker 6: it's not.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't shocked, Like that's.

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Speaker 2: What they do.

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Speaker 6: Go look at the Tom Brady one, like that's what

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Speaker 6: they do. It's it happens every year when they do

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Speaker 6: a roast. It's not new. This isn't a new it's

1229
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Speaker 6: not a new agenda. It's not a new approach to comedy.

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Speaker 7: Do you feel like Tony Hinchcliff went too far when

1231
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Speaker 7: he made that joke about.

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Speaker 6: George It's Tony Hinchcliff, like, I don't like, I don't

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Speaker 6: expect less, I don't expect more.

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Speaker 1: I feel I feel like you're saying going too far

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Speaker 1: as the point, I don't know if it word was yes.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's why you're there. And I hate to

1237
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 6: say this, but I'm going to because we're being honest.

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01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 6: People are talking about that joke, talk about a set.

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01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 6: Tony Hinchcliffe arguably had the best set, or one of

1240
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Speaker 6: the best sets between Tony and Sheryl and I would

1241
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:23,639
Speaker 6: say Naim had a really strong laugh.

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Speaker 7: I was laughing out loud at Tony until that joke.

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Speaker 1: But not even just that joke. I don't like when

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Speaker 1: people joke about violent tragic depth.

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Speaker 2: I like Pete said, and I was like, I peek peek.

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Speaker 6: Pete had a great set too. Pete had a Charlie

1247
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Speaker 6: Kirk joking like.

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Speaker 1: I'm with Angela's philosophy of not throwing people away. So

1249
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to come from a place of hate

1250
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 1: to Kevin Hart or let's you know, disown him or

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01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that, but I do want to spend

1252
01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,679
Speaker 1: time or have people around him spend time to educate

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Speaker 1: him on the fact that just because you have a

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Speaker 1: proximity to whiteness, you ain't them. And there are battles

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01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 1: that we fight, and there are many times we look

1256
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Speaker 1: to people and talking about the roles that we talked

1257
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Speaker 1: about in the show. Kevin Hart plays an integral role

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Speaker 1: in a lot of people's life because when things get darkest,

1259
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: he lifts us up through his humor, through his movies.

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Speaker 1: I mean that may be his role through his company

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Speaker 1: that he's built now that he is trying to employ people.

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Speaker 1: I know that the people are writing some stuff about it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to go in that. But what

1264
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:40,679
Speaker 1: I will tell him is that I'm not a comedian,

1265
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:44,440
Speaker 1: but I can tell you that racial violence and racism

1266
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: ain't funny. And when you talk about George Floyd's life

1267
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: or death and it comes out of the mouth of

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Speaker 1: a bona fide racist, you have to do more in

1269
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:00,760
Speaker 1: terms of take accountability for that act. Although you're not

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01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: the one who made it, and it's so you're gonna

1271
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Speaker 1: say I'm friends with him. It was a roast of me.

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Speaker 1: It was a that's not the point. And I am

1273
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:13,760
Speaker 1: not disappointed in Tony hinsclind like I'm not. I don't

1274
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 1: have any judgment of him because we know who he is.

1275
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Speaker 1: But I am disappointed in your remarks that you made

1276
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: after the fact, even taking time to listen to the

1277
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 1: words that are being said around you. You took a

1278
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 1: position of comfortability that's enveloped in whiteness. And if you're

1279
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: going to continue to utilize our community to build wealth,

1280
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 1: then you need to understand when you aid or platform

1281
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:48,600
Speaker 1: in furthering harm, then you become the problem. So my

1282
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: call to action, as Kevin needs to think about himself, I.

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Speaker 2: Have to say, I E. Charlie Kirk, why what what

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01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 2: I'll just say, I mean when when? When? When they

1285
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,600
Speaker 2: decide what the line is people lose their job, you

1286
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 2: know what I mean. All I'm saying is simply if

1287
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 2: if you're having a hard time understanding the line, because

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01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 2: I've worked for a famous comic who and and I've

1289
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 2: heard and been around folks who use satire as the

1290
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 2: ultimate license to say and do whatever without any response,

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Speaker 2: and people have a response, and I just I just

1292
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Speaker 2: wanted to identify that point is is that.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead? I'm sorry?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no to your point that there that that that

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Speaker 2: that that there are lines that the other side draws you.

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Speaker 2: This isn't some um offended liberal.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when you when you are the subject of

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Speaker 1: the roast, there is no holds barred. But the family

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Speaker 1: of George Floyd did not ask to participate in that

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Speaker 1: in that way. And that's a a bigger point that

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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed that Kevin Hart. Even a lot of times

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Speaker 1: we don't see things in the moment, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: on TV sometimes and were talking and I don't see

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Speaker 1: things in the moment. But excuse me, after reflection, he

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Speaker 1: should have been able to see that.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, I can I say something on this. You brought

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Speaker 3: this up, this was you know anyway, I think the

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Speaker 3: thing that I want to remind people of George Floyd

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Speaker 3: became a martyr, not of his choosing in this country

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Speaker 3: because Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck until he died.

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Speaker 3: For nine minutes and twenty nine seconds, this country had

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Speaker 3: to watch this torturous video that takes us back in time,

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Speaker 3: frankly to where our voting rights and our civil rights

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Speaker 3: are now going. And to suggest that George Floyd, who

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Speaker 3: who's alleged crime was using counterfeit money in a store

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Speaker 3: that he frequented, a neighborhood store that he frequented at Minneapolis,

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Speaker 3: deserved to die in any way, and as a result

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Speaker 3: was looking up from hell where he couldn't breathe, which

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Speaker 3: is what the joke was. Is an abomination. It is awful,

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Speaker 3: and I just want to on behalf of our show,

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Speaker 3: send our love and our prayers and our continued action

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Speaker 3: to do the right thing, to advocate for this family

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Speaker 3: and all of the other families who cannot be named

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Speaker 3: to have lost loved ones at the hands of police violence.

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Speaker 3: We just were with you, and as the you know,

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Speaker 3: this Department of Justice dismantles a police database that would

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Speaker 3: allow for this violence to continue. As this administration which

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Speaker 3: would never support a George Floyd Justice and Policing Act.

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Speaker 3: With this administration and the dj that is seeking to

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Speaker 3: protect white Protestant males, we know that we are still

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Speaker 3: at risk every single day, and as our parents in

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Speaker 3: our communities continue to have d talk with their kids

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Speaker 3: knowing that there's nothing that they can do in the

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Speaker 3: face of a rogue police officer, no matter how good

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Speaker 3: you are. This is not a behavior test or a

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Speaker 3: background check that can ever be passed just by the

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Speaker 3: mirror color of your skin. So we send our love

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Speaker 3: to George Floyd's family and certainly ask that he rest

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Speaker 3: in peace. Thank you for looking down on us, George,

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Speaker 3: and know that we will continue to fight for your

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Speaker 3: legacy and for other young people come behind you.

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