Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. Let's face it, this
Speaker 1: past year has been a dumpster fire. One of the
Speaker 1: only highlights was seeing Kamala Harris inaugurated as our new
Speaker 1: Vice president. Unfortunately, that left us with one small problem.
Speaker 1: There are no black women in the United States Senate.
Speaker 1: Now that Kamala Harris has ascended to the vice presidency,
Speaker 1: no black women in the Senate. But this is the
Speaker 1: year black women were praised for saving America's asked by
Speaker 1: the way, you're welcome. The truth is in the Senate
Speaker 1: is two thirty year history. We've only ever had two
Speaker 1: black female senators, Kamala Harris and Carol Moseley Braun. You
Speaker 1: know it's bad when black women have better representation on
Speaker 1: the Bachelor than they do in the US Senate. I
Speaker 1: wanted to find out what's going on, so I called
Speaker 1: Stephanie Brown James, co founder of the Collective Pack, a
Speaker 1: nationwide organization working to elect black candidates to office. So
Speaker 1: black women seem to be doing great in the House
Speaker 1: a representative right, right, right right, But we're having an
Speaker 1: issue with sent huge. Black women vote more than anybody
Speaker 1: else in this country. So many of the issues were
Speaker 1: voting on impact our families. The Senate has been talking
Speaker 1: about maternal mortality. Returnal mortality impacts black women more than
Speaker 1: anybody else. So to not have a black woman saying
Speaker 1: how this bill should be created and that it should
Speaker 1: be past, that's a problem. It is a problem. Just
Speaker 1: look at these photos from a recent bipartisan dinner featuring
Speaker 1: all the current female senators. They are definitely in need
Speaker 1: of the melement because this looks more like an episode
Speaker 1: of Designing Women than it does the Senate dinner to
Speaker 1: try to get more black women into the Senate, Like
Speaker 1: what like how are y'all, um, are y'all teaching people
Speaker 1: how to shake hands and kiss babies? Like what what
Speaker 1: are y'all doing? Well? I could definitely say and this
Speaker 1: current reality, we ain't kissing no babies. That we are
Speaker 1: making sure that with our partner three Point Strategies, we
Speaker 1: have a Black Campaign School, and so we are training
Speaker 1: candidates across the country to know the nuts and bolts
Speaker 1: of running statewide. At the Black Campaign School, prospective candidates
Speaker 1: can learn things like how to raise money, how to
Speaker 1: engage with voters, and oh this actually looks fun, so
Speaker 1: want to set from d J D nice and this
Speaker 1: could be the essence festival. We have a whole session
Speaker 1: about how to wear your hair when you are a
Speaker 1: black woman running for office, and the answer is girl aware.
Speaker 1: However you want to. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: come out here looking like Carrie Washington and scandal every
Speaker 1: day to get elected because them wigs, who them wigs? God?
Speaker 1: What do you think is the reason that there have
Speaker 1: been so few black women in the Senate? Listen, as
Speaker 1: a woman, the sexism issue is key. Most of our
Speaker 1: U S senators are male. Number two. Racism, it does
Speaker 1: exist in America, Okay, And so you know you have
Speaker 1: um the fact that this woman has to go across
Speaker 1: the state talk to so many different voters, some of
Speaker 1: whom have never actually had a conversation with a black person.
Speaker 1: And so that alone is showing you that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of hurdles that she has to overcome. I get it.
Speaker 1: If you want to connect with voters who are unfamiliar
Speaker 1: with you, sometimes you gotta do what they do, or
Speaker 1: in other words, pander. So I had a few ideas
Speaker 1: on what black female candidates could do to get elected statewide.
Speaker 1: You know, you need to do more stuff that white
Speaker 1: people do like you know, John Mayor concerts or light right,
Speaker 1: like a John Mayor concert or a fish concert. Um
Speaker 1: letting the dog look him on the face, something wild
Speaker 1: like that. No, you know what, you're right. Let's see
Speaker 1: um leaking footage of them not washing their legs in
Speaker 1: the showery, I don't even know what that needs, or
Speaker 1: saying that they don't. You haven't heard this thing that
Speaker 1: these white folks don't wash your life girls all of
Speaker 1: a black twitter. And I've talked to them, I'm taking
Speaker 1: poles at work, they don't. And she doing campaign ad
Speaker 1: saying I stopped washing my legs in the shower and
Speaker 1: I keep Manaids in my purse. You know what they'll say,
Speaker 1: unless that is your natural thing. What we would tell
Speaker 1: these black candidates and black women especially is you don't
Speaker 1: have to and you shouldn't do anything to pander for votes.
Speaker 1: It really is about the issues. If you are yourself,
Speaker 1: you can talk about the ideas you have to, you know,
Speaker 1: make their lives better. That's what we should be paying
Speaker 1: attention to when it comes to what these black candidates
Speaker 1: are talking about and seeing that, yeah, they actually have
Speaker 1: really great ideas and we don't need them to pander
Speaker 1: for votes. I like maniates. I don't understand what the
Speaker 1: problem is. It is too and John Mayor like, how
Speaker 1: you making a chicken salad? Tune? A salad macro is
Speaker 1: all of the salads that don't have lettuce in it.
Speaker 1: Those are my favorite salads. Yeah, if we want to
Speaker 1: send it that is truly representative of the electorates. You
Speaker 1: need more black women in office. Fortunately we have some
Speaker 1: options in two. Val Demming's is running for Senate in Florida,
Speaker 1: and both Sherry Beasley and Erica Smith are running in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. So there's hope. Now, if you'll excuse me,
Speaker 1: I'm off to listen to John Mayre and eat everything
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