WEBVTT - Is It Time For a Third Party? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.640 I'm Tamika d. Mallory and the. 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:03.159 Ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.400 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.280 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and inspiration. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.640 Name New Energy. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:16.720 But my son Lennon, what's going on today? 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.880 Listen? Man, I'm here. You know, I woke up, I 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:20.880 got a little breath. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.880 In my lungs. You said you was good. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.040 Well today you know, the world is still switching. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.960 Listen, turning, It's still turning, still. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.480 Still moving, still moving. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:37.080 Uh. I guess from my perspective, how I feel right 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.960 now is like there's just days left before people go 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.800 read my whole life. And I'm just. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.160 Listen, Ain't nothing, ain't nothing to fear with fear I got. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.440 I have a really powerful review that was released. I 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.720 don't know, I don't even know if they released it yet, 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.160 so I'm gonna be careful and not say who gave 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.400 me this review. But it's a really important one in 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.480 the industry. And in the review they talk about my 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.840 book and they say, well, you know, they say it's 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.399 it's a busy story. It's got a lot going on, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.480 and they say, but it's powerful, and it's very vulnerable 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:23.760 and authentic and they say that, you know that pretty much. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.120 It like in other words, it tugs at the heartstrings 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.920 of people, like you can feel this black activist go 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.480 from being all over the place to getting her life 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.640 together and growing through the ranks. And so it was 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.959 like a it's like they read the book. They read 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.080 the book. They read the book. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.680 So was that Give me a couple of days. I'm 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:47.480 gonna sit down. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.280 It's two weeks. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.600 It's in a week that it comes out, and you 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:52.240 haven't read it. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.600 So but you know, but I got the book. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.520 I just need to sit down. We just haven't had 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:57.680 a chance to just sit down. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.360 You said last week, I was gonna read it tonight. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.520 But I've read a little bit of it and it 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:02.480 started off good. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.520 Yeah, but. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.120 Anyway, I live to tell. The story is out in 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:14.720 days February eleventh, tomorrow. If you are in Louisville, Kentucky, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.480 need you to be at the Norton Healthcare Sports and 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.360 Learning Center that's at three thousand West Market Street. 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So and I just want to thank everybody. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:40.560 My family attorney Lania Baker, Sadiqua Rentals, Tamika Palmer, Brionna 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.519 Taylor's mother, west Side Jen is a partner for this event. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.840 We've got Aka's links, Deltas, all types of folks that's 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:49.840 going to be in the building. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.760 Freeway is going to be in the building. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:52.320 Bree ways. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.920 So please tomorrow, Louisville, Kentucky, if you're listening to this, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.560 come out and be with us at my first official, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.359 first official book event, which is in advance, so you'll 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.040 have a copy before the rest of the country. You'll 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.320 have a copy of my got to pull up. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.600 Oh my god. Anyway, So that's what I got going on. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.919 Well, you know me, man, I'm I'm gonna be there, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.600 definitely gonna be a little I see my feeling in Louisville, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.679 and we're gonna make sure that we turn this thing out. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:29.360 We're gonna turn it out, man, turn this mother out. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.160 Anyway. Let me get to tell you what my thought 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.320 of the day is. I do I do because you 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.520 know what I just have been. I've been having the. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.360 Most calls of my life. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.040 I always say that everything that happens, people call, and 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.880 they call and we talk, and we talk, and I 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.200 just want to say this to some of the black 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.880 preachers across this country and some of the black men 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.520 and women, because we have a friend who are several 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.880 friends at least, but one that I had a really 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.120 deep conversation with who said to me, I don't care 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:12.920 about transgender people because if your child is transgender, they 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.719 have a mental health problem, and so that means that 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.560 they are that's not that's something you need to deal 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:25.720 with with a therapist. And I've heard that a few times. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.520 And so then I have people saying, well, I don't 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.800 care about immigrants because you should have came the right way. Did. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.159 I have people that say Palestinians, I ain't really see 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.440 them with us. I don't know that they with us. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.280 That's all the way across the water. I don't got 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.960 nothing to do with that. It feels bad, but I 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.560 don't care. And some of these people, not all of them, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.000 as particularly the friends of ours, they didn't either they 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.440 didn't vote at all, or they definitely did not vote 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.960 for Donald Trump. But this is just how they feel. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.000 So they took a posture of being like, I don't know, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.559 I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do, but I ain't 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.640 gonna really fight like hell. Then there were black pastors 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:09.200 that refused to be engaged in the election because they said, I, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:14.520 you know, I just can't morally the abortion piece or 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.919 the you know, lgbtqia or whatever these issues is just 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:19.320 not for me. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.160 So I'm just staying out of it. Then you add 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:23.520 people who. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.040 Black men and some black women, but particularly black men, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.800 who said they're taking all our opportunities away from us, 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.279 and I and I you know, we can't. That's why 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.920 we can't build wealth because it's we always doing multiculturals, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:43.880 too many people whatever. And now many of them are 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.679 saying this is crazy, like you gonna you are coming 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:54.080 out the gate trying to rescind civil rights that don't 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.760 just help black folks, by the way, but just civil 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.560 rights that are important. Now they may not be able 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.920 to get these things done. They may not be able 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.520 to get them done, but nonetheless they're trying to do it. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:05.200 They have a. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:10.919 Posture an attitude of second class citizenship for black folks 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.120 and others. And my whole thing that I want to 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:20.600 tell say to people is that first they came for them, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.159 and then they come for you. There is no such 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:32.039 thing as isolating oppression, isolating hate. It doesn't work that way. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:40.040 These people, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and them, It could 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.880 go on and on and on and on. They believe 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:48.960 in white nationalism, they believe in Europeans being. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.839 The dominant race. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.760 That's what they believe in, right, And so what they 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.160 are attempting to do is figure out how to move 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.840 some people out and break the backs of black people 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.120 and change our conditions in terms of our rights to 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.080 where we have no choice but to go fill in 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.760 the positions of those people who they've been able to eliminate. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.520 They don't care about law and order. If he cared 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.240 about law and order, he would never have freed people 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.760 who beat the shit out of cops, including a woman 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.400 whose head was bashed in a police officer who now 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.120 has a permanent mental health issue. Right, they don't care 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.280 about that. He doesn't care about law and order. He's 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.040 total opposite of that, the total opposite. So that's not 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.080 what it's about. It is very simply about the fact 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.040 that there are people here who were doing certain types 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.080 of jobs in the you know, on the land. They 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.840 were saying that some of the farmers, the workers on 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.400 the farms weren't showing up to work because they're afraid 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:01.920 of being deported. So there are fruits and vegetables spoiling. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.120 All this stuff is going to get worse. But what 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.520 they want to make sure is that you don't have 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.360 the opportunities that you think you're gonna have. So this 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.320 is why they're closing down DEI offices. They're doing all 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.600 of these things to ensure that there is not enough 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.440 wealth moving. Right, and if we don't change our habits, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.320 because there's a way we can deal with it, which 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.160 is to spend with ourselves and build our economy up. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:35.000 That is us building with us, right, us building with us. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.319 But what they want to do is reduce the opportunities 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.640 so that this way you feel pressured and feel the 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.679 need to go fill in what they have deemed. I'm 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.480 not saying I deem it that way, but what they 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:53.920 have deemed the lower class positions. That's all. It's a shuffling. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.920 They're shuffling people, and they got to do a lot 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.800 of things in order to get there. So what I'm 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.760 saying is that whether you want to admit it or not, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.520 all people who are oppressed and vulnerable are in the 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.440 situation together, every single one of us. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.280 We're all in it together. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.480 We can say we're not gonna do as much for 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.800 this group or that group, or we're angry or whatever. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.920 People went out and voted. You know, you got Muslims 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.920 that voted for these people because they came and met 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.440 with you and put up a billboard and told you 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.439 they were gonna do this and that and the third. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.320 And meanwhile you knew good and damn well that these 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.240 people were the same, if not worse than the folks 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.360 who were already in there. So I just that's my 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.640 thought of the day. My thought of the day today 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:55.679 is that Donald Trump and his homies are shuffling folks around, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:10:00.679 moving some out, and trying to shuffle black folks into 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:06.520 positions that will help to keep them as number one 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.640 and everybody else number two in below. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.800 That's what they're doing. They're shuffling. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:16.760 And similar to how there were some of us who 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:25.080 were told when enslavement became a thing on the shores 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.920 of Africa, they were moving our people, and there were 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:38.280 black folks whipping, snitching and organizing with them against the masses. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:44.959 That happened because they brought the Europeans brought nice things, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.440 they bought shiny things. Some of them were forced in 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.240 various ways. But there are others who they gave them 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.320 shiny things, they bought, they gave them weapons, They gave 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.000 them a drinks liquor with liquor was a big thing. However, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.840 they made look at that time, they gave them silver. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.040 They had all different types of trinkets that they dangled 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.520 and said, you'll be a part of us if if 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.719 you help us do this thing that we're doing, this experiment, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.920 this plan that we have, and now we have the 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.880 same mentality that some of us voted for. Others of 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.079 us didn't do anything to stop it, didn't use our platforms, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.920 didn't say one word, didn't say one word. You got 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.400 you have people out here who are saying, don't stop 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:41.200 supporting my brand. But they never did anything to help 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.840 us when we were out there trying to stop this 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.120 from happening. There being for the. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.360 Actually to get these these policies that got you inside. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.520 Exactly, they never. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.080 Did nothing to support anything, never said anything, no. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.560 No, no, In fact that that manager you have, that 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.719 business partner you have, or that rep that you have 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:09.199 that is at these big companies that told you you 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:10.640 can't do politics. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:11.080 Got. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.920 You gotta keep yourself out of that because you're a 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.400 business person and everybody comes from different You got people 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.040 might be Republican that support you. You got people that might 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.320 be so and so to support you. You gotta be careful. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:23.439 You can't do that. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.320 Guess what those people they talked you into being a 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:33.680 part of your demise, because be clear, unless we support 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:38.200 one another directly, depending on a big box store or 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:43.040 any of that, it's not gonna work. They eventually they're 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.080 going to you will book it will be fewer and 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.680 fewer of you. So I think that the lesson we 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.360 now learn is everything is political. I said that last week. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.480 I'm gonna say it again. Everything is political. And if 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.440 you are a person in business or in anything else 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:04.920 who wants to see the morality, the dignity, the sovereignty 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.040 of our communities be upheld in any way, you gotta 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.600 get political. You gotta get in the mud. Got because 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.319 we in the mud. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.000 Listen, if you do not have a seat at the table, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.920 then you're on the menia and that's the bottom. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.839 But they'll say that their seat at the table is 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.080 that they are doing business I mean. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.360 No, but but I don't trying to tell the sea 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.160 that the table means that if you at the table, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:29.920 then nobody's going to tell you that they're going to 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.120 exclude diversity, equity and inclusion when they understand that that's 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.400 the how you got here. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.160 Well, I heard I heard somebody say today that that's 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.000 not how they got their contract and what they have 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:41.520 nothing to do. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.160 We we're real confused. We seem to think that. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:51.520 Diversity, equity and inclusion is something that started in twenty twenty. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:53.600 That's that's that's not a fact. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:54.240 That's not a fact. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.800 This has been going on for years. Reverend Jesse Jackson 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.600 was one of those pine in years that forced companies 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.240 to bring more black suppliers in, to bring more black 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.120 board members and others in. So when folks try to 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.800 say that they you know, oh, but I don't think 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.800 that my thing. I don't know that I had anything 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:22.200 to do with DEI or the summer of twenty twenty. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.280 The summer of twenty twenty was a renewal, but it 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.000 was not the beginning. In fact, if you want to 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.720 go back even further than that, we all have been 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.880 part of that in many different places because they wasn't 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.360 hiring us at all. So there was no merit system 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.360 that allowed you to be in to be in place 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.120 because they could know that you were. In fact, they 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.240 got black people and black women know what I'm talking 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.960 about that had all the merit. We at the top 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.800 of the scale, most educated, We got all the things 0:14:55.080 --> 0:15:00.320 we are. We are brilliant, we're creative, we're organized, we 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.480 are all those things. We know how to go into 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.640 spaces and temper our emotional standing. Meanwhile, white women be 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.160 crying all day at the office. We can't even cry. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.400 Not all white women, but some of them. We can't 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.120 even cry. So we've been able to do all of that. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.800 And what they will do is let you present something, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.040 they will steal from you your intellectual property and go 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.760 sell it elsewhere. That's how much, that's how high we 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.800 are in a merit based system. If it was merit based, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.520 they wouldn't have shit. They wouldn't have shit. So the 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:37.760 idea that you don't know if DEI had anything to 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.280 do with how you got your contract or diversity equity inclusion, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.120 know that that did not begin. This is my This 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:50.000 makes me so scared for us that we lack understanding 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.920 of our history so much that we don't even know 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.600 that this did not start in twenty twenty or even 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.400 let's see even lets let me go back to another time. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:10.280 I started twenty was George Floyd Trayvon Martin was in 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:15.960 twenty twelve. Right even before that. I'm talking about the eighties, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:21.960 even before that, before that, the seventies, even in the sixties. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.320 This is work that has been done with people toiled. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.080 They worked hard to get us to where we are now. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:37.280 So anyway, I gotta keep I gotta be quiet. We 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.520 have a guest coming that is gonna speak. We're gonna 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.040 be talking for a long time. So for today, I 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.920 don't have anything else to say. I was gonna give 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.120 y'all team I about this young lady that went on 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.440 the internet and said, oh, don't be coming back with 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.280 no Milano clothes. That's that, that ain't it. You need 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.800 to you need to be in a Montclair or she 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.400 might have said moose knuckle. And it's like it was 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.000 a young black girl who's telling people that Milana who 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:13.240 is passe and busted and this and that, but the 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.040 white man stuff, this is the problem. That's why y'all 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.080 been talking about boycott. Let me know when y'all ready. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:21.480 They're trying to girlcott. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.920 Let me let me know when y'all ready I've read, 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:25.360 I'm out. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.800 Let's get our guests. Yes, sir, when friends come through. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.960 We've got a friend today, long time knowing one another, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:40.760 but becoming brother and sister as of lately, just coming together. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.840 You know, tragedy and we deal with so much of it, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:50.600 and trauma can tabonds. And while we may have been 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.960 in many spaces together, I can say that we never 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:59.960 really had any like meaningful conversation until we was like, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.159 what we're gonna do with this damn country? And so 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.480 I'm so excited today to have someone who I am 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.800 glad to be able to call friend and brother and 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.560 comrade to join us. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:14.840 And you guys don't really know. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.920 Each other yet. But but you know, y'all ain't become 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:27.119 friends yet. Oh that's that's some straight bullshit, because you 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.840 know what I mean, might be like I don't like them. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:35.320 But your friends though, don't. We're not gonna you just 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:36.840 don't realizing your friends. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.440 But don't worry about you anywhere. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:49.760 But Maurice Mitchell, nationally recognized social movement strategist national director 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.439 of the Working Families Party and also one of the 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:57.280 brilliant minds behind the Movement for Black Lives. And I 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.639 would say one of the foremost voices on on social 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.000 justice in. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:03.840 The nation is joining us in. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.120 Y'all. People don't be knowing people. We don't y'all don't 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:11.000 be knowing our people. That they put folks with two 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:16.040 ten million followers online and make them leaders. And then 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.359 I keep hearing people say we don't have any leaders, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.399 and yet there are so many leaders, and Maurice is 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.240 absolutely one of them. Born and raised in New York. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.639 That's correct to Caribbean working parents correct, which means Working 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.360 Families Party. It all is ALIVEE. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.199 Comes from home. Thank you so much for being with us. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.879 So good to be truly, so explain to us, like, 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.800 what is the Working Family Party? 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:48.479 Okay, So I'm sure both of y'all have heard. Okay, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.760 I get it. The Republican Party. That's that's the party 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.480 of Trump, that's the party of the white nationalists. Cool. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.600 But as a black person or as a working person, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.240 I think the Democratic Party is playing in my face. 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.960 I think the Democratic Party is owned by the corporations 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.160 or they're taking my vote for granted, and we need 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.120 something else. I hear that all the time. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:11.400 We need some difference. Yeah. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.439 Sometimes you know, before I even tell people what I'm about, 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:20.040 when I say that I'm involved in politics or organizing, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.720 I'll hear like, we need something else. We need another party. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.520 The Working Families Party is building. That's something else from 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:31.040 the grassroots. And WFP started in New York at a 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:36.240 time when grassroots organizers and folks in labor unions felt 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.480 that the Democratic Party had gone astray and was listening 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.600 way too much to the interest of Wall Street and 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.080 not to the interest of Main Street or the interests 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.520 of the streets that we grew up in. And so 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.840 it started in New York and we've spread and we 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:57.320 now are in twenty plus states, and we're organizing on 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.720 the ground, and we're focused on governing. So we're not 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.040 just focused on getting people elected, because we want people 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.360 to have the experience of registering, voting, getting people elected, 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:13.639 and then recognizing that things change when they recruit people 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.679 from the grassroots to get elected. And I like to 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.280 bring up you know, you just mentioned that you're going 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.080 to do an event with Jumani Williams. A lot of 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:22.679 people don't know. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.280 York City, Yep, shout it out at the New York 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:27.360 Public Library. 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.800 Listen. I'm would be at one of them because there's something. 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:35.119 There's something happening, even the eleven listen. 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:35.840 Listen. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.360 This is your platform, so shout out your your book. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:39.320 Listen. 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:49.399 So Jiubani, he was a grassroots organizer, an advocate for renters' rights, 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.439 and he decided to run for office. And the establishment, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.399 the establishing even today doesn't doesn't appreciate that brother the 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:00.520 way they need to. But the establishment at that time 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.800 did not want him to run for office, the Democratic 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:08.320 Party establishment and certainly certainly the Republicans establishment. He ran 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:12.879 as a Working Families Party only candidate in Brooklyn for 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:13.960 city council. Anyone. 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:14.920 I didn't really know what it. 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.800 Yeah, so Jumandi got his start as an independent Working 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:24.760 Families Party candidate. Tis James is another person. She started 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.879 in the same way in Brooklyn, a lawyer for the 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.000 people that the establishment couldn't figure out. And because she 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.040 was so independent and because she was so righteous, the 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.520 establishment in general, including the Democratic Party establishment, didn't know 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.960 what to do it and the Working Families Party recruited 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:46.359 her to run independently against the Democrats and Republicans. So 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.600 that's an example of what we do every single day. 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:54.679 We recruit everyday people. Sometimes they're they're educators like Jamal Bowman. 0:22:55.280 --> 0:23:01.240 Sometimes they're people's lawyers like Tis James. Sometimes their organizers 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:05.479 like Jimani Williams. Working people, working people, right, because we 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:12.159 believe that working people understand the solutions to the issues 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.399 that they're under way better than the who tends to 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.960 get into office. Like most congress people are millionaires that 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:23.879 are former lawyers, right, former corporate lawyers, right. And so 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:26.800 they tell you this lie that you need some sort 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.480 of expertise that you only get from. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:31.159 You got to hire people to do that that know 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:32.280 some of those things, right. 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:34.879 But the expertise of knowing how to make ends me 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:40.200 understanding how the policies that are coming from you know, 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:44.280 coming from Congress or coming from state legislatures, how they 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:48.680 actually affect your lives. Like dealing with affordability meant imagine 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:52.400 a Democratic party that understood that people were really wrestling 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:56.480 with affordability and they were actually able to in a 0:23:56.680 --> 0:24:01.280