WEBVTT - Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on the Future Under a Kamala Harris Presidency PART 2 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.080 Keep on riding with us as we continue to broadcast 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.800 the balance and defend the discourse from these hip hop 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.640 weekly studios. Welcome back to Civic Site Forer I'm your host, 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.879 Ramsey's job. Big shout out to q Ward. We are 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.520 in the middle of a very special episode. We recently 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 were able to sit down with US Representative Jasmine Crockett 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.079 and have a fantastic conversation about the state of things 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.040 in the political arena. Of course, the presidential election, the 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.360 effect that we'll have on Americans, the effect that we'll 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.760 have on black people, black men's role in the election, 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.960 and so much more. We discuss her economic policy, We 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:42.839 discuss a number of things including Jasmine Crockett herself, the legend, 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.320 the clap back queen herself, and so that and so 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.040 much more to stick around for. We have foregone a 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.239 lot of the features for today's episode to fit as 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.400 much of this interview in as we possibly can, but 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.440 we could not get it all in. So if you 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.600 do want the full unredacted interview, sure to check out 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.760 our website civiccipher dot com. And now the remainder of 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.120 our conversation with Jasmine Crockett right here on Civic Cipher. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.520 Could you highlight some things that Vice President Harris while 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.680 she's been in office have done that does benefit black 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.800 people since they won't bragged about it as much as 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.400 they should, and then people like to intentionally plan our 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.320 faces and act like they don't know better, and some 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.560 don't know better. Yeah, can we help educate people to 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.480 some things that have been done that benefit. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.000 Black people while she's been our vice president throughout her career. Yeah. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.800 So one of the things that I think, well, it's 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.920 very important to me as an attorney or recovering attorney, 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:44.680 not practicing. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.000 I don't even know what kind of attorney I am 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.520 at this point because of my allows parties. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.920 But one of the things that I always found so 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:57.560 frustrating was I've I'm licensed in Texas, Arkansas federal courts, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.120 and sometimes fairness was just a matter of who was 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.800 sitting on the bench. And so I think we've all 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.480 been in those scenarios, whether it's for a family case 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.640 or criminal case or a civil case where you walk 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.760 in and you're like, well, who was this judge? And 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.799 I hate this judge and it's kind of annoyed because 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.080 it's like, well, you should have showed them the vote, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.919 right like, now't might about the judge after the fact, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.000 right Like, most people don't know judges' names. And even 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:26.040 as we sit here in Arizona, I just brought it 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:31.200 up yesterday about the judiciary. And I was saying, now, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.679 thank god for y'all's governor, who had y'all's back. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:36.440 Who's a Democrat. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.240 I said, Now, I don't know how the same state 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.320 that elected this democratic governor elected these Supreme Court justices, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.480 these Supreme Court justices that were intent on taking us 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.000 back to the eighteen hundreds, as it relates to brief 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.720 prom And I said, and the interesting part is that 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.560 I bet you none of y'all can name those Supreme 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.680 Court justices. You don't know their names, right, And so 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.800 I'm like, and I was trying to struss to them 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.720 the importance have always shown up and always voting. But 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.040 the point that I'm trying to make is that right now, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.760 as we're living in a time in which the courts 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:14.400 have continuously been tearing our lives apart, I think one 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.480 of the most important things that has happened is that 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.960 this administration has appointed a historic number of people of color, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.360 specifically women of color, to the benches. It has been 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.600 very quiet. But obviously we got our first woman, black 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.200 woman Supreme Court justice, which I don't know why I 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:32.880 took this long, but it did. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.040 We finally got it. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.440 Even when we look at the other courts, those trial 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.600 level courts that people are going to be walking into, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.480 and that initial look will come from, say, somebody like 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:44.280 a Tanya chuck In. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:45.960 Right like we have. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.640 This administration appointed more women of color to the bench 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.640 than every other president combined. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.720 And that was just in the first three years or so. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.560 And this is with what I would consider to be 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:04.880 some hostile Senate rules, because judicial appointments come out of 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.680 the Senate. The House has nothing to do with it. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.160 And they have all these weird traditions that seemed to 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.240 continuously hurt us. One it's called blue slips, and it 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:20.720 allows senators like mine to say we won't accept any appointments, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.160 so they just get to wave them. And so now 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.159 we are in a backlog in certain states, such as 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.160 in their southern states, waiting and hoping that they can 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.720 stack those benches with Republicans like these are. This is 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.120 getting into the nitty gritty of things that people don't 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:42.040 even know about. How difficult it it is to move things, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.400 and how insidious the Republicans are. Like when people say 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.240 the Democrats don't fight or that we're weak, it's because 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.000 they really do some evilshit. I mean, we ended up 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.039 with this Supreme Court because they decided to change the 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.520 rules every step of the way to get here, right, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.520 So that's how we ended up with the Supreme Court. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.599 But anyway, so despite all of the challenges, I think 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.000 that it has been amazing to see what they've been 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.320 able to. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:08.640 Do on that. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.960 I think one of the things that we don't talk 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.320 about a lot is that we didn't get the George 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.440 Floyd and Policing Act and acted. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.240 We didn't get it, but from an executive standpoint. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.279 It was this administration that decided that they would ban 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.880 things like chokehols and things like that. So they took 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.320 portions of the George Floyd and Policing Act when we 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.920 could not get it through both chambers, and did as 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.200 much of the legislation in the form of executive actions 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.600 as they can. But you know, we don't have kings 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.320 and queens here, at least not right now, and so 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.240 you know, it does take the House and the Senate 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.120 and the president, and there's limited powers that the president has, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.000 but the president has flexed it. The wealth gap as 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.440 relates to black in this country, the wealth gap actually 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.559 started to shrink. It's the most that is shrunk really, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.200 I think in the history of the country under this administration. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.279 And again we still haven't fulfilled for four years. But 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.320 let me tell you, when people talk about the Affirmative 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.320 Action decision, and regardless of whatever positions they take, I 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.880 need people to understand that that's an economic decision, that's 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.919 about economics, that's about widening that gap back up again. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.560 Because number one, we know that this country believes that 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.880 you've got to get an education before you can get anywhere. 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.680 That's just kind of how we set it up in 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.640 this country. But more importantly, what they're trying to do 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.400 is extrapolate this decision into other decisions as it relates 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:46.880 to department heads for contracting. So the largest contractor of 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.120 anything is the United States government, right, and so they 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:56.520 want to limit access to getting those governmental contracts that 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.840 would be based upon those groups that historically have been disadvantaged. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.400 So this is an economic decision. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.120 So I really need people to start like peeling back 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:11.160 the layers and recognizing that the intentionality of this administration 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.800 because one of the things that they quietly did was 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.400 under the Department of Transportation, they have a civil Rights division, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.640 a division that will cease to exist if Donald Trump 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.080 is back into office. That Civil Rights Division wanted to 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.560 look at their policies around contracting, and they're trying their 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:32.920 best to insulate and help to make sure that while 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.679 they still weren't necessarily meaning their metrics, that they weren't 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.760 going to start to backslide in case things go wrong. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.720 That's another one of those things that's been very under 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.040 the radar. And when we talk about money, like I'm 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:50.600 talking about big contracts, I'm talking about multi billion dollar contracts, 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.920 whether we're talking about roads, whether we're talking about airports, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.160 that kind of stuff. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.120 That the federal government pays for. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.560 And the reason that it matters that people of color 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.480 are able to get those contracts is because all the 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:09.320 numbers bear out that the chances of a say, black 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.960 owned firm, hiring black people are higher than somebody else. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.760 So it helps us overall in our. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:22.000 Capital into the community exactly. So how about this that 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:27.120 is looking backwards, that's looking at right now, Let's look 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:35.600 forward A lot has been said about the opportunity economy 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.679 that's sort of being championed by the Harris Wallas administration. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:47.000 So discuss how that opportunity economy would impact the same 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.480 black people that are asking the questions. Q mentioned what 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.160 had you done for black people? Just look forward? What 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.240 does the opportunity economy bring to the table for black people? 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.040 So I'm going to say that I feel as if 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.520 Number one, I think I just laid out kind of 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.160 how education plays a role in our economy. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.760 But it's been the more traditional, very expensive college. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:12.360 Right. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:19.880 We know that this administration specifically understood that black folk 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.559 and brown folk, with black folks specifically have been disproportionately 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.600 burdened by student londby right, So even and this is 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.280 looking back, but I'm gonna get it to as looking forward. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.760 So they relieved one hundred and seventy six billion dollars 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.280 of student longday the. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.640 Vast majority of that. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.160 There's been a net positive impact for black people, I'll 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:47.520 say that. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.439 And so it's funny because I've been in. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.640 These environments where I felt like they were controlled enough 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.040 then I could ask the question. So like when I 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.480 was speaking to my sorority, when I was speaking to 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.400 the Omegas. I specifically asked people to raise their hand 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.800 if they ended up taking out student loans when. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:06.480 They went to college. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.840 Usually it's almost a hundred percent of the room raises 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.760 their hands right then I'd ask them if anybody. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:15.040 Had their student loan. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:15.760 They relieved. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.080 I get usually thirty five percent or so of the room. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:20.560 Wow. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.120 I can only do that in a controlled environment. I 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.599 did it in Essence, which everybody will show up to 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.439 Essence and you know, don't know. And it was Angela 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.000 Rai that wanted to know the amounts. I was like, now, girl, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.240 we was good to get some hands like. I was happy, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:37.800 you know that everybody even showed. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:38.200 Up to Essence. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.920 And the most that I've ever heard anybody say, it's 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.720 two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.199 Now, can you imagine. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 How life changing it would be to get almost three 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.960 hundred thousand dollars worth of dead off your back. The 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.120 crazy part is that I've never heard anybody tell me 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.160 less than six figures. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:58.840 Wow. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.400 There is so many people whose lives have been changed, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:03.680 and I get on them. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.240 I say, if these people can go out and talk 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:06.240 about tw one hundred dollars. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.600 I'm going to need y'all to get out and talk 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.800 about the real money, because because this is real, real, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.400 real money. Like I need y'all to talk about how 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.240 now your debt to income ratio has been adjusted so 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:17.959 now you can go and buy that home and build 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.200 that generational wealth. I need you to talk about how 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.800 you're able to now go get that business loan because 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.160 you don't have this on their back. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.080 Like I need you to talk about how. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.280 Even though the cost of food may be more, you 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.160 have more dollars in your pocket to afford the more 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.120 expensive food. And so I say that to say that 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.160 I do think that there will continue to be a 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.880 strong push around student long Day. And I think that 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.440 while the Supreme Court has really boxed us out of 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.520 a lot, if we can get a democratically controlled House 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.920 and Senate, we'll be in a better position to hopefully 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.520 bring about even more relief for some people that have 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.880 been paying their suit loans forever and literally cannot get ahead. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.560 So that's one thing. I think. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.600 The reason I brought up student loan deb is because 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.600 some of much of it is coming from the traditional education. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.199 I personally believe that this administration will push for economic 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.720 opportunities in what I would consider to be more forward 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.240 thinking spaces. I don't think that we are moving in 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.000 a way in which the only way that you can 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.559 be successful is if you go get a four year degree. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.000 And we have seen a shift like there's legislation that 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.559 I'm on to give out pel grant dollars for those 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.640 that are going to two year institutions and things like 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.120 that to make sure that they have access to capital as. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.240 Well to get their education. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.040 And as we continue to move into a more tech 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:51.160 driven society as a whole, I think that they are 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.559 going to be supportive of making sure whatever that education 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:00.440 looks like, you are seen in an equitable space from 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.480 the federal government and not out there having to fend 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.680 for yourself unless it is a matter of going to 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.440 the traditional educational routes. I think that also what we're 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:16.079 seeing with the advent of manufacturing and how there has 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.000 been a historic number of manufacturing over one hundred thousand 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.520 new manufacturing jobs that have been created under this administration, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.280 the most that we've seen of any that I can 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.840 think of. We lost over two hundred and fifty thousand 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:36.080 manufacturing jobs under Trump. Under this administration, we've gained eight 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.960 hundred thousand new ones. But I do want to say 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.840 that manufacturing is even looking different and how we manufacture 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.720 and what we're manufacturing, whether we're talking about the green 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.160 economy or whether we're talking about cars and the more 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.720 traditional things that we think of. The Chips and Science 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:55.439 Act has been monumental. On my ride over here, we 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.720 were talking about the large investment that was made for 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.679 a chip factory right here in Arizona, same thing as 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.840 happening in Ohio with Samsung. It's about a twenty six 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.679 billion dollar investment for that particular facility, and then we 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.240 also have a new facility that will be coming online 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.280 in Texas as well. And so that is what it 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:19.880 looks like when you have really good legislation. But this 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.000 particular team has always looked out for workers. And it's 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.479 not just those that are going into the corporate spaces, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.600 it's those that are going into all spaces. And I 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.880 think that she wants to continue to push an agenda 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.560 that will bring more and more jobs here to the 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.280 United States and also balance out and make sure people 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.600 are equipped for whatever transition may take place. Because of AI, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.600 A lot of people are nervous about AI. There's a 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.680 lot of reasons to be nervous because it's kind of like, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:52.960 you know, the good and the bad that comes with it. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.880 But more importantly, people are getting concerned about their jobs 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.200 and so making sure that people that were bringing new 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:04.080 jobs so that we will be able to balance opportunities. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.240 You've had some. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:14.080 Very viral moments just doing your job, and there are 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:18.440 people who do not participate in politics or actively follow 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.760 it who know your name now because of that. In 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:27.160 recent news, and thank goodness for you, you had another 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:32.560 viral moment regarding Project twenty twenty five, and our former 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.120 president likes to pretend that that has nothing to do 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.600 with him, and he doesn't know who these people are, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:39.960 and he doesn't know what's in it. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.320 He doesn't know what's in it. But there's some good 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.200 things that are in it. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:49.920 I think, he says, I think you mentioned his name 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:56.520 being in that very very hefty document some three hundred times. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.800 Can we bring some attention to the very very obvious 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:08.120 ways that Project twenty twenty five is detrimental to black people? 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.440 Yeah, Lord, have mercy is everything you know? I do 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.800 tell people if you are confused about this election, Google 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.200 Projects twenty twenty five and whatever your number one issue is, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.400 and if you like what it says, then vote for Trump. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.040 But if you dislike it, then you definitely need to 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.240 vote for Harris. So that's number one. I'm not suggesting 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.320 that anybody should really sit down and read it in totality. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.880 I will say that they want to get rid of diversity, equity, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.640 and inclusion, which is why I've argued that Project twenty 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.480 twenty five has already been here. The Heritage Foundation is 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.280 the one that was passing the anti DEI bills through 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:42.920 the state houses. They were the one giving us to 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.760 the Republicans. They were the ones that also felt like 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.320 our history needed to be deleted to see RT bills 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.840 that we don't hear about it anymore. That all came 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.880 from the Heritage Foundation, as well as the six week 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.000 abortion band that they called the Heartbeat Bill. They handed 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.800 that out to the Texas House, they handed it out 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.360 to Georgia, they handed out to They handed out like 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.320 they that's what they do. So they've been doing this work, 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.160 and so to live in a society where literally they're saying, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.160 if it's the federal government. I talked about the Civil 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.800 Rights Division and Department of Transportation. They're saying no civil 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.840 rights divisions at all anywhere, so that would be deleted. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.840 So Department of Justice, they have a civil rights division 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.520 where they go in, they do environmental injustice stuff, they 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.840 go after police in different areas. We just saw Tyree 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.960 Nichols case. They've been indicted and they were charged. On 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.760 the federal level, they want to deplete all resources as 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.640 relates to Department of as relates to Department of Justice, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.680 or just any civil rights in any departments that we have. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.800 But as we're dealing with the hurricane and and we 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.679 know the devastation that has been caused, I personally believe 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.560 that it will have a disproportioned negative impact on us 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.240 if they are allowed to get rid of any mention 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.760 of climate change that has to that phrase has the 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:04.280 come out of all federal documents, and they essentially really 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.399 want to just kind of get the EPA. And we 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.680 know when we think about Flint, Michigan, right, we know 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.400 that again we have been subjected to the dirty water 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:18.320 and the dirty air exactly, and they want to delete 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.200 all references to that as well. So I think that 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.800 that will absolutely harm us. But again, we already see 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.320 what's happening the Chevron decision that came out of the 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:28.119 Supreme Court. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.120 In that particular. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.000 Decision, it's basically saying, you know what, the Supreme Court 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.080 is going to be the end all be all when 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.040 it comes to figuring out how much poison is okay 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:39.639 for our how much poison? 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.040 Not that they have any experts, hease whatsoever. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.879 They're like, forget the experts, y'all got to bring to 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.320 the Supreme Court and then we'll make the decision. So, 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.160 like all of this has kind of been at play, 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.760 and then you know, with Donald Trump essentially getting the 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.879 immunity again from the Supreme Court again, another arm of 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.440 the Project twenty twenty five, because it seeks to empower 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.800 the executor so much more than the executor is supposed 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.600 to be, kind of turning off the balance of our 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.840 democracy as a whole. Yeah, because we're supposed to be 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.239 three coequal branches of government, and so now giving him 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.480 immunity and allowing him to do all this craziness. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.920 Well, one of the things is that the DOJ operates 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.119 separate and apart from the executor. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.800 Yes, the president will have a nominee, but that's it, right, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.560 because guess what his son got convicted by this DJ. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.560 This is just that would never happen with Trump, okay, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.399 because he would absolutely be given power over the Department 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.119 of Justice and be able to go after those that 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:38.680 he wants to go after. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.480 So those are just some of the things. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.280 But I say that it is important for you to 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.800 figure out what is your number one issue and figure 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:48.800 out where do they stand on it. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.080 So I know we're short on time, I want to 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:57.600 ask just one more question for you. Obviously we want 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:03.760 people to vote. Take a moment and explain why it's 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.960 so important. You touched on it earlier, but why it's 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.479 so important to do just a little bit more research 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:09.879 to vote down ballot. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:10.840 Oh my gosh. 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:13.800 You know, I wouldn't be sitting here with y'all if 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.040 it wasn't for people that took the time to vote 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.800 down ballot. People always ask where did you come from? 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.920 And I'm like, I've always been the same. There's just 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.159 more cameras on me now, Like that's it. But I 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.080 only won my state house race by ninety votes. And 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.440 you know, I told one of my city council people 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.560 when she was running, I said, whatever you do when 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.320 you get in that's just when the work begins. So 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.680 you got to kick the door down, and so essentially 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.920 they never should have let me in the door because 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.400 I kicked it out right. It was like faces state 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.680 House race in the state of Texas that year, but 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:56.120 in record time, there's never been another freshman black member 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.800 for sure of the state House and then got called 0:20:58.880 --> 0:20:59.840 up and went to the US House. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:01.400 I mean, it just doesn't happen. 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.560 And it was because of the work, but it was 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.639 because people decided to show up and voted my election. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.600 And I believe that you can have the representation that 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.280 you seek if you just take the time to do 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.680 the research and find out who these people are. My 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:18.880 district knew who I was when they decided to send 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.440 me to DC, and so my district is all good 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:23.560 with me. The rest of the world is starting to 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.560 figure out who I am, but my district knew me, 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.560 and they made the concerted effort to make sure that 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:29.560 they sent me to DC. 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:31.040 And you have that power. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.520