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

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Speaker 2: Nobody Knows.

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Speaker 3: Do have an audience question right over here with Telly

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Speaker 3: Grave your hands so they know you are the one

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Speaker 3: with the mic.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: My name is Richard Coleman and I'm probably one of

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Speaker 4: the oldest members of the NAACP. Also, I was an

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Speaker 4: elected official in Maria, Mississippi. But my question is what

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Speaker 4: are we doing to engage young foolks? Took care of

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Speaker 4: the Clarks.

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Speaker 2: We can talking? Are we walking? Are we going to.

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Speaker 4: The school district and visiting school and talking to young

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Speaker 4: people the church and saying that now, boys is a

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Speaker 4: vote and that boat don't count. I have so many

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Speaker 4: young people say why should I vote? It don't go,

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Speaker 4: it don't count. I said, well, let me tell you this,

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Speaker 4: young person.

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Speaker 2: And old folk, if you don't vote, it counts anyway.

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Speaker 4: That counts up the side.

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I think we should engage ourselves and get and for

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Speaker 4: us old people that's been in the office ownership.

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Speaker 2: We need to identify young volk.

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Speaker 4: Started when I was about twelve years old, drinking down

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Speaker 4: a water fountain, say color only bathroom, sitting on the

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Speaker 4: back of the buff I remember, I didn't ever go

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Speaker 4: I didn't just go along with that. I stood up

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Speaker 4: and I joy I got drafted in the military. I'm

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Speaker 4: saying that's because they can probably inspire young foot to

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Speaker 4: get in ball. And you have a boy.

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Speaker 2: I got drafted.

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Speaker 4: In the army. I turned on the reserves because I said,

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Speaker 4: why should I want to be part of oronization.

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Speaker 2: That's killing all the folk.

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Speaker 4: Miami is right here in Meridian, Mississippi when I have

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Speaker 4: public commication. So I'm saying that because I'm gonna show

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Speaker 4: you how with God you can do pretty much. I

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Speaker 4: did it for thirteen years. They say race relation and

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Speaker 4: then detained the human relations. You've got to walk the walk.

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Speaker 4: You don't walk the walk, just talk and talk it.

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Speaker 4: Don't say nothing in days.

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Speaker 3: Wow, thank you so much, mister Coleman Teley. I'm actually

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Speaker 3: gonna have you addressed the part that was this question

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Speaker 3: that was extremely powerful. Thank you, because we need to

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Speaker 3: deep into the reminders of our history for those of

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Speaker 3: us who don't know, and for you to be here

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Speaker 3: walking history, proud of where you come from and understand

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Speaker 3: how much you have to fight, that is just so encouraging.

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Speaker 3: Teleik I want you for a moment to address what

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Speaker 3: we're doing or what we must do to engage young people.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I want to just shout out to you

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Speaker 5: for sharing your story. We stand on the shoulders if

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Speaker 5: she rose, and heroes of our elders who pay the way.

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Speaker 2: So let's give it up for all of our elders

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Speaker 2: in the room. I want to share something that my

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Speaker 2: mentors shared with me.

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Speaker 5: He said, is that about a generation that has at

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Speaker 5: all or generation that has all the energy, But it's

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Speaker 5: our city that matters.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: We implore each of you in your perspective places to

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Speaker 5: ensure that you make room for young people to be

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Speaker 5: at the table on those conversations, to make sure that

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Speaker 5: they feel included, that they are included, and that they're

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Speaker 5: and that they're that their their voices and that their

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Speaker 5: ideas coming fruishing a part of your plans. And oftentimes

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Speaker 5: it can be uncomfortable. We can be uncomfortable in places

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Speaker 5: where things may look different. But it's all right for

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Speaker 5: things that look different, right because it is a different.

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Speaker 2: A difference is.

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Speaker 5: That help shift the narrative to push your envelope a

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Speaker 5: little further.

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Speaker 2: So I encourage you to get uncomfortable.

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Speaker 5: It's all right with being uncomfortable, because complacency is what

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Speaker 5: the enemy of accomplishment and.

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Speaker 2: What we are doing in this space.

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Speaker 5: We want to continue to have real dialogue and conversation

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Speaker 5: with young people, having tough conversations sometimes and meeting them

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Speaker 5: where they are, so that means showing up in different places. Yes,

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Speaker 5: we are engaging them on our college campuses and our

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Speaker 5: youth counsels and etcetera, and the schools, but also where

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Speaker 5: are we meeting them outside the schools?

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Speaker 2: Where are they meeting at?

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Speaker 3: Where?

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Speaker 2: Where where are they convening at and so meeting and

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Speaker 2: where they are it's going to be important for us.

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Speaker 5: Then we also want to make sure that they are

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Speaker 5: the ones in the story that their their story matters.

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Speaker 5: I always are young people walking in with your hand

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Speaker 5: hell high, you show lipped the lie sent you there

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Speaker 5: because your story maps and often they try to discount

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Speaker 5: the story or the net or the upbringing of where

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Speaker 5: young people come from.

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Speaker 2: They all have their own lipped experiences.

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Speaker 5: So we want to live up their storytelling so they

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Speaker 5: can tell the story in the narrative why this is

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Speaker 5: important to them, And that's why we just launched our

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Speaker 5: digital organizers.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a kudo you can.

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Speaker 5: Collem to celebrate ninety years this year, give me, I mean,

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Speaker 5: and so we were also going to ensure that we

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Speaker 5: are continued to build a legacy and also empowering our

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Speaker 5: young folks to be connected to our elders. But so

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Speaker 5: of how they can build what this new generation of

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Speaker 5: activism looks like in the twenty first century.

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Speaker 3: Kelly, I'm gonna keep you in the hot seat, and

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Speaker 3: I'm also gonna put all young people in the room

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Speaker 3: in the hot seat.

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Speaker 2: If you are.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen or under, king you raise your hand.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I see a few school I'm about to raise

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Speaker 3: my hand.

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Speaker 2: Too, because some of y'all.

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Speaker 1: I thank y'all not telling the truth.

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Speaker 2: I'm raising my hands. I'm just checking.

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Speaker 3: I'm just checking this, okay, just in case, because my

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Speaker 3: dad used to take me out of school for stuff

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Speaker 3: like this.

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Speaker 1: So pardon the activists in me.

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Speaker 3: Hey, baby, you you cheating you because your daddy got

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Speaker 3: the mic. We're gonna come to you another time, but

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Speaker 3: I want to get some college age students. So if

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Speaker 3: you're eighteen to twenty.

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Speaker 1: Four, raise your hands.

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Speaker 3: It's about three four five, okay. So Teler I want

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Speaker 3: you to go find a student stand by then, because

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Speaker 3: the NAACP just announced.

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Speaker 1: Out of bounds.

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Speaker 3: Out of bounds is trying to get young people, the fans,

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Speaker 3: the states that are impacted or impacting us in the

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Speaker 3: SEC all of the public schools, the public colleges, restricting

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Speaker 3: our athletes, black student athletes from going to those schools

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Speaker 3: because if your administrations cannot stand up for black voting power,

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Speaker 3: all rights, our students should not have to go play

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Speaker 3: at your university. And I've seen a lot of y'all.

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Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of people having a lot to

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Speaker 3: say about what could be done, what should be done better,

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Speaker 3: and we stay letting it. The perfect being the enemy

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Speaker 3: of the good. We got to do something, and I

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Speaker 3: would argue now the next frontier is economic, right, So Tyler,

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Speaker 3: I want you to weigh in here, and if you

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Speaker 3: see a college student that has something to say about this,

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Speaker 3: we can have a debate. It's some good debaters up here,

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Speaker 3: but we got to do something next. Go ahead, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Any wrong with the baby we did?

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Speaker 5: Just look out of bowels that I said, are our

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Speaker 5: black athletes are making? Are making these colleges millions and

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Speaker 5: millions of dollars, and so we're saying, how can we

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Speaker 5: redirect that power and give them the four over their talents?

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Speaker 5: And oftentimes there's a conversation of how the college athletic

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Speaker 5: is looking at our student as a proper and not.

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Speaker 5: And we're encouraging our students if your university recruitment is

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Speaker 5: is no longer about if it's a good facility. Recruitment

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Speaker 5: is no longer about if the coaching staff is good.

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Speaker 5: There's some good coaching staffs that are used to use right,

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Speaker 5: let's get it right. But recruitment is also about if

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Speaker 5: your university will stand up for your diversity, your equity

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Speaker 5: and inclusion. So we're encouraging our our students and our

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Speaker 5: athletes to ask that question on that and and we're

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Speaker 5: doing some evacuations and of these universities. Uh, and so

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Speaker 5: that is our encouragement. But this is not only on

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Speaker 5: the students as well. This is on the fans, This

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Speaker 5: is on the the alumni. Uh, this is on our created,

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Speaker 5: our donors that are going to these universities.

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Speaker 2: We're encouraging don't.

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Speaker 5: Buy a ticket season pants that you got last year,

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Speaker 5: don't get.

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Speaker 2: It again until they get it right.

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Speaker 5: And so we have to use our economic power to

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Speaker 5: sure we are holding them account.

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Speaker 6: I think I think this is really important. We can

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Speaker 6: talk about the historical parallels and the repetition. Let's be clear,

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Speaker 6: this ain't nineteen sixty five. It's nineteen sixty five. We

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Speaker 6: are now the black people of nineteen sixty five or

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Speaker 6: eighteen sixty five, right, And so part of what we

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Speaker 6: have to do is to understand our power and exercise

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Speaker 6: it with intent, right and purpose. We have to figure

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Speaker 6: out the leverage points. We have more capacity in our

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Speaker 6: community than we've ever had. We have people who have

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Speaker 6: been positioned in play of power and the ways that

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Speaker 6: we've rarely had a numbers such we don't need to

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Speaker 6: sit back on our heels and watch white folks lose

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Speaker 6: their minds. So the question for us is what are

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Speaker 6: our leverage points? And I say this that the economic

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Speaker 6: is not the next frontier, sister ends.

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Speaker 2: It's always been here. It's always been here.

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Speaker 6: So what are the leverage points and what are the

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Speaker 6: sacrif sacrifices requisite for us to speak this exercise the

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Speaker 6: power we've made up to this time. And if you

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Speaker 6: are in a position of power, whether you're at a

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Speaker 6: law firm, whether you're at a university, whether you're at

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Speaker 6: a media institution, and you're not exercising that power, What

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Speaker 6: the hell are you there in there in the first place.

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Speaker 6: So we got young men with nil young women within ils,

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Speaker 6: they're gonna.

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Speaker 4: Make a b Let them get the bad.

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Speaker 6: What are you getting it for?

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Speaker 2: And for whom?

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Speaker 6: We have to begin to leverage our power like we

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Speaker 6: got it. Stop acting like these folks can move on

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Speaker 6: us and we're just gonna sit here and see we shall.

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Speaker 6: We gotta figure out how we're gonna move worse. Can

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Speaker 6: we exercise some power with the power we have? Does

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Speaker 6: that makes sense?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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