1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka F Daily with 2 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm recording this message to you after a weekend where 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: we all absorb the fact that white supremacist violence has 5 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: now become the norm in America, where ten people can 6 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: be gunned down, ten black people can be gunned down 7 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: on a Saturday at morning, going about their lives and 8 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: their business and be gunned down by a white man 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: that has decided to drive hours out of his way, 10 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: produce a hundred and six page manifesto and take their lives. 11 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: Where we can spend the weekend pontificating on whether or 12 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: not these things are racially motivated, or whether or not 13 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: Republicans and their violent rhetoric has anything to do with 14 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: the outcome of where we are today. I am in 15 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 1: conversation with my friend and friend of the show, doctor 16 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Politics at Fordham University, and 17 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: our conversation that you will listen to today came prior 18 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: to the shooting over the weekend. Folks, I can't express 19 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: to you that where we are as a country and 20 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: where we are going, and the path that we are 21 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: on is not good. It is dangerous, It is heartbreaking, 22 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: it is tragic, it is trauma inducing, it is triggering. 23 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: So I hope that you will glean from this conversation 24 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: with Christina some sense of honesty about the moment that 25 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: we are in, some ideas about how we move forward, 26 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: how we deal with our own emotions and the emotions 27 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: of this moment, how we stay sane and also recognize, 28 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: without putting our heads in the sand, the urgency of now. 29 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: So coming up next, my very in depth conversation with 30 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: our friend, doctor Christina Greer. Please do tell me in 31 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: the comment section below how you took the news this 32 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: past weekend. I was on TV but before the shooting 33 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: took place. If you're following me on TikTok, then you 34 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: know my immediate reactions. But I want to hear from 35 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: all of you, folks. I am so happy to welcome 36 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: back to woke f Daily. It's been a long time 37 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: since we've had doctor Christina Greer, Professor of Political Science, 38 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 1: Associate Professor at Fordham University, and you see her very 39 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: often on MSNBC and other outlets talking about, you know, 40 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: the demise of our democracy and the constitutional crisis that 41 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: we're in Christina. I want to start off today just 42 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: asking you. We've had the Scotus leak that tells us 43 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: that abortion is going to be gone from this country 44 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: for the first time in fifty years. We have more 45 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: mounting evidence against this twice impeached former president of the 46 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: United States. If I see one more breaking news headline 47 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: about more evidence of criminal wrongdoing of hiding documents at 48 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: Mara Lago of just I mean, lying, inciting violence, and 49 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: still nothing is happening with the Department of Justice. How 50 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: are you feeling about this moment that we are living in. Well, 51 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: it's always great to be back to talk to you. 52 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: As you know. You know, my grandma, who's from the 53 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: Deep South in town, a little town called yu LEI 54 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: was had some of ninth she finished some of ninth grade. Right, 55 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: I have a PhD. My sister is an indeed. But 56 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: when I tell you she was the smartest woman I've 57 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: ever met. And I'm starting off this conversation saying that 58 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: she told me a long time ago when we were 59 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: talking about kind of raise and white people. You know, 60 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: she grew up through a lot. She said, Chrissy, the 61 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: only time you should be surprised is when you're surprised. 62 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: And I've stuck to that for a really, really long time. 63 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. Abortion isn't going to be like, let 64 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: me rephrase, it looks like abortion will be outlawed legally, 65 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: what abortions will not stop? Right, So safe abortions will 66 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: be outlawed for most, but a lot of women will 67 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: still be able with meetings. We'll still be able to 68 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: find an abortion. Obviously, it's for women who are for 69 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: marginalized communities. They will still get abortions. It's just we're 70 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: going to go back to the sixties and seventies and 71 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: a back room abortions, and we'll see some horrible effects. 72 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: But because I study American politics so deeply, I've always 73 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: seen this country ebb and flow with progress and regress, 74 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: and so when we're in a moment of regression, I'm 75 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: not a surprised. And even though it's very scary, I 76 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: will not lie the moment wherein it's very frightening on 77 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: a host of levels. We haven't even touched the environment, 78 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: and that's kind of like some irreversible stuff, right, But 79 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: I know that there are enough people who are working 80 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: in their various fields to sort of protect us. Still. 81 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: I mean, this country has been since its inception. Yeah, 82 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: we've had some really great strides because a lot of 83 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: people have worked really hard to move this country forward, 84 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: and then we have folks who work really hard to 85 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: pull it back. And so at some point, good meaning 86 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: white people will understand the capacity of white people. They 87 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: don't just yet. We do. Our mothers and grandmothers told 88 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: us what people are capable of in this nation. But 89 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: I think a lot of white people just fundamentally don't 90 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: understand what some of their own relatives will do to 91 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: sort of take away from others, which will ultimately affect 92 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: them too. It'll come around. And so part of me 93 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: just feels like I'm an ostrich where I'm like, you know, 94 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: I'm rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while we're 95 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: looking at the glacier. But we kind of we've hit 96 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: the glacier before and we found rafts, and sadly we do. 97 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: We lose time, we lose people. But I think that 98 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: I can't stay in a perpetual state of rage or 99 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: panic because then I can't a do the work. I 100 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: can't stay focused on what the work is I can't 101 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: have clarity for young people where I need to be 102 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: a leader and help them devise new strategies. And also 103 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: it's like life is for the living. They're gonna do 104 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, right, So we have to figure 105 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: out the tools to a keep ourselves healthy and sane 106 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: so that we can work in our various pockets to 107 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: move this country forward the way people have always done. 108 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: So that's kind of where I am. You know, you're 109 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: so salient in what you're saying, and I'm listening to you, 110 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: and I'm realizing that this country has been through a lot, right, 111 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: fortunate fortunate for us that we have lived through a 112 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: lot of progress, right. And I think that what I 113 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: find scary in this moment is that this is going 114 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: to be the first time in my adult life where 115 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: progress isn't even on the table, right, that we're in 116 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: a full on regression to times that I've only ever 117 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: read about. And so the fear for me is is 118 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: there enough strategy and tools to protect us at a 119 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: time when these radicalized white evangelical Christian fascists are not 120 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: only about turning back the clock on civil liberties, but 121 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: they're also about inflicting pain. That's the thing that I 122 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: feel like people are not getting. This isn't just about 123 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: what they are taking away, which is serious. It is 124 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,239 Speaker 1: about the kind of pain that they want to inflict 125 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: so people know that they are in charge. Yeah, but 126 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 1: they've always done that. That's the history of this country. 127 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: And so you know when I would give talks a 128 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: few years ago and I would talk about the Civil 129 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Immigration Act, and I would 130 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: say that they're triumphant of acts, and we cannot detangle 131 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 1: the three. And if you sort of start to erode one, 132 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: you erode all. We've seen this, right, we saw the 133 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: gutting of the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, 134 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: and now we're seeing our civil rights and civil liberties 135 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: being yanked away. We've seen what's happening with immigration, which 136 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: is just abhorrent. But this country has never been welcome 137 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: to immigrants. You've got like eight different Chinese exclusion acts 138 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: on the books. You understand nothing about chattels to say 139 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: nothing about the genocide of Native Americans, say nothing about 140 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: what we did to you know, sort of Mexicans and 141 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: Spaniards coming from the South. I mean, like this country 142 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: is long and deep, you know. And I didn't even 143 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: touch upon internment camps. And that's from FDR the good President, right, 144 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: that was like from one of the good guys. And 145 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: he put the internment camps in place. That also kept 146 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: you know, Italians and Germans in there too. So this 147 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: country has such a long history of inflicting pain, yep. 148 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: And I think what was really key about what you 149 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 1: said is like we're adults now, right, Yeah, Like it's 150 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: time to put the big girl painties on, Like we 151 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: don't have the luxury anymore of being girls. We are 152 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: grown ass women, and we're now in charge of protecting 153 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: the democracy. Right when we see all these stories about 154 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: black women, Fanny lou Hammer, Barbara Jordan, I mean, that's 155 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: the book that I'm working on right now. So those 156 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: two obviously refresh in my mind. But you know, countless, 157 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: countless black women how to be wells, aren't married church 158 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: terrelle who literally put their lives in their bodies on 159 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 1: the line to protect the people in this country, not 160 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: just black people, people in this country. And it's like, 161 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: oh shit, Mike, it's my time, Like I'm supposed to 162 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to use the tools that I have and 163 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: the thing maybe the reason why I feel so it's 164 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: not agnostic, and it's not immune, and it's not numb. 165 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: I feel a sense of calm in the sense that 166 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: I do feel prepared. I feel prepared intellectually. I feel 167 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: prepared with the community, the community that I've built in 168 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: the connections of especially black women, but you know others. 169 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: But like, let's just keep it black women right now. 170 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: The partnerships and the friendships and the sisterhoods that I 171 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: have people like present Company included. I am not fearful 172 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: because I'm like, I have tools, you have tools. You 173 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: know people who have tools. I know other people have tools. 174 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: And it's like and we'll come together because we recognize 175 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: and like we can't count on the Democratic Party to 176 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: save us. I mean, they're just treading water. And you know, 177 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: as my grandfather, my dad's dad, you say, they're a 178 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: lost ball in high weeds. But they're just you know, 179 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 1: Jamie Harrison, what are you doing? Where's your strategy? I 180 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: mean it all, but like but that's real talk talk, 181 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: christ real talk. It's like, what what are they doing? Well? Right, Like, 182 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: why do they seem so suckless? Love that word? Well, 183 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: I mean, here's here's the thing I said from day 184 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: one when Chuck Schumer became Senate Majority Leader, and I'm 185 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: from New York, you know, I live in New York. 186 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: He is Senator. I was like, he ain't built for 187 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: this moment. He's not because he also doesn't understand his colleagues. 188 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: He and Joe Biden, you know, they were from the 189 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: Senate of a different time. Yeah, where the agenda was different, 190 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: but the pain, the level of pain that Republicans wanted 191 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: to inflict on people was ever so slightly different, it was, 192 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: and so they don't understand fully the moment they're in. 193 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: I mean, they're removed, and it's it's interesting, you know, 194 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: the older we get and we we go on vacations 195 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: or you know, we do certain things and you realize, 196 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: I just went on vacation with my family and we 197 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: sort of like rented a house. We sort of did 198 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: something that really kind of celebrated, you know, my niece 199 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: is about to go to college. And I was like, 200 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: when you have a little pocket change, you actually don't 201 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: have to interact with people. It's true, you don't. You 202 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 1: can like we stayed we didn't stay hotel in my house, 203 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: right like it. So we didn't do like a tour. 204 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: We just like rented a boat, you know, like we 205 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: didn't and it's in it's COVID. So we did it deliberately, 206 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: you know, we're like but we also we didn't hang 207 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: out with people. We hung out with our saves, nine 208 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: of us. We hung out with our family. But we 209 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: spent money to do that. And I just feel like 210 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: a lot of these elected officials, they're not in gen 211 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: pop yep. Yeah, you know, they come and give speeches, 212 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: but they went in, they got their their talks and like, yes, 213 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: they are seeing the people that they represent, but are 214 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: you really with people? So when Katie Porter makes you know, 215 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: a speech and says, let me walk you through the 216 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: fact that like women can't buy groceries because you're know, 217 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: women buying large are the ones who buy groceries for 218 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: their family. Let me explain to you what inflation is 219 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: doing to a family. Because if I in my PhD 220 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: tenured full salaried self goes to the grocery store and 221 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, fifty dollars barely gets me one bag of groceries, 222 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: and I call myself, Yeah, I don't understand what people 223 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: are doing with yeah, real families, and they got to 224 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: make this check last if they have a check, right, Like, yeah, 225 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: if they have a job. So I think that a 226 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: lot of our representatives because it costs so much money 227 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: to get into office. And you know, we've talked about 228 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: this for years, and you've come to my classes and 229 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: you talk about because the type of people who can 230 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: even think about running for office are already a certain 231 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: level of elite. We don't have very rarely. Every now 232 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: and again you have pockets, and you know someone can 233 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: get through. But by and large, our representatives are not 234 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: representative of the populaces. We don't have someone who's like, 235 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: I'm a single mother, owned food stamps and I am 236 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: your new congresswoman. We have people who went to university 237 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: have graduate degrees by and large, you know, when we 238 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: look at sort of our senators and members of the 239 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: House disproportionately, you know what Richie Torres from the Bronx, 240 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: I believe is like one of the few, if not only, 241 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: members of Congress who doesn't have a college degree. Most 242 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: Americans don't, right, most college age Americans do not have 243 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: a college degree. Why is he either the solo or 244 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: one of a handful, Right, right, And so when we 245 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: think about who is actually representing us, it makes no sense. 246 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: We got a whole bunch of lawyers and even some PhDs, sure, 247 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: but like the vast majority of people are like, and 248 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: let's be real, you and I also don't know what 249 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: real poverty looks like. We don't We genuinely don't know. 250 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: And so oftentimes when I'm in these meetings and at 251 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: these tables, and my question is always where are the 252 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: people who we're talking about? Why are they not at 253 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: the stable? Why are we sitting here scratching our hands 254 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: trying to come up with solutions, and the people who 255 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: could tell us what the problem is and most likely 256 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: tell us what the solution is aren't even at the table. 257 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: So this is where we have our representatives, especially Democrats, 258 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: who in their hearts might want to do something great, 259 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: but it's like, you don't even know what the real 260 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: problem is. So this is why Alexandrea Castio Cortez, you know, 261 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: resonated and still resonates with so many people because it 262 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: feels like and Cory Bush, right, Corey Bush being one 263 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: of the Bush Yeah she's and what you said, yeah, yeah, 264 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: you know, you're You're so right, because they are not representative, 265 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: like they don't know real people, right and like and 266 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: so if I'm pretty sure that if you were to 267 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: ask those in Democratic leadership right now how much how 268 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: much a gallon of milk costs, they wouldn't be able 269 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: to tell you, so right like that, I mean, that's 270 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: that's the reality. And you know, and everyone's like, oh, 271 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: gallon milk. It's like I care, right, A woman who 272 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: has to be four children, she cares. I mean, but 273 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: for an example, Danielle, you know, if you remember the 274 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: mayor's race, the New York City mayor's race last year, 275 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: when they asked the various candidates what was the average 276 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: price of a home in Brooklyn? These kids eighty thousand dollars. 277 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: Eighty thousand dollars, But my grandparents in Florida, Like, who 278 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: is buying anything in Brooklyn for eighty thousand dollars? I mean, 279 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,719 Speaker 1: then I don't think you can get a parking space 280 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: for eighty thousand exactly, or your Honda civic, right because 281 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: you know that they charge more for like SUVs. So 282 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: I mean the numbers that these candidates gave Sean Donovan, 283 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: who you know Obama's yeah, yeah, he was he was 284 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: find he was the HUD secretary, that's right, And I 285 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: mean I was just like, sir, sit on down, he 286 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: said something. I mean literally, he was like one hundred 287 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I mean, you were the Hunt secretary. So 288 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: you want to be mayor of New York and you 289 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: have no idea, not even the fact that people are 290 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: priced out and can't buy anything. But that means you 291 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: don't understand what renters are going through. You don't understand 292 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: people can't even get a place with one hundred thousand 293 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: dollars down payment, let alone you think that's the price 294 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: of a home in Brooklyn, Like, sir, come on. So 295 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 1: I think that I'm I'm eerily zen because I think 296 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: that I understand just how long the road ahead of 297 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: us is going to be. And when I played sports, 298 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: I never liked doing that long distance run. I was 299 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: always like, coach, can I please just do sprints while 300 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: everyone's doing the mile, you know, around the field. Can 301 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: I just do sprints until they're done? And the coach 302 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: was like, no, you have to learn how to have endurance, Christy, 303 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, yeah, but I'm really good 304 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: at sprinting and I can just do that, like, I 305 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: can just do the burst, do the birth, and then 306 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: I'll rest at the end of the game. And I 307 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: never understood I hated long distance running. I am not 308 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: a runner. Every time I see runners in my neighborhood, 309 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you doing? But I recognize that 310 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: there is something to be said about resting so that 311 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: I can be ready, you know, like the best way 312 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: to be ready to stay ready. Sure, But at the 313 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: same time, I believe in rest because, especially in academia, 314 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: black women aren't lasting long. And we've got a good 315 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: job relatively speaking. You know, we're not cleaning floors at 316 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: three am in an office building and we're sitting here 317 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: thinking and writing on our laptops. 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And you're right, and this 350 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 1: is this is the this is the place that I 351 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: find myself on a regular basis, which is oscillating between 352 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: rage and rest, where I am so filled with rage 353 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: that people are so asleep at the fucking wheel right 354 00:21:54,880 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: are So you know, I just posted Joy Behart on 355 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: the View just said like, I don't know what Americans 356 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: are thinking right now, Like we are losing our rights 357 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: every single day. She's like, I get that people are 358 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: focused on gas and inflation because those things matter, but 359 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: like at the end of the day, we're about to 360 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: lose everything, and y'all ain't paying attention, right, And so 361 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: it's it's the it's the anxiety. I have to stay 362 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: on screaming into the microphone, you know, every single day. 363 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 1: But then I'm just like, well, shit, they gonna do 364 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, like and I can't I can't 365 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: be taken out by this. I can't be I can't 366 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: carry the emotional weight of this moment on my back. 367 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 1: And you know what, Danielle, some people will only learn 368 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: when they have nothing. Girl. They don't see it, you know, 369 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: some people don't see how the immigration crisis is linked 370 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: to them in their daily lives. They don't care. It's 371 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 1: brown children, it's Longitian children at the border. They are unbothered. 372 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: But they don't see how it's connected to a woman's 373 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: right to choose. You don't see how it's connected to 374 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: the environment. They don't see how it's connected to their 375 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 1: job right. So it's like, okay, so now we gotta 376 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: it sucks, but we gotta wait until you catch up, 377 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: which is what we are used to doing. So while 378 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: you're sitting there knitting a pink hat, we gotta wait 379 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: for you to catch up, girl, and understand the severity 380 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: of the issue. But here we are. And then when 381 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: you come to the party, you're late. You're lad as hell, 382 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: but you came, and then we're gonna get you up 383 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: to speed and then we'll have progress and regrets. What 384 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: are your students? You they You know, I gotta tell you. 385 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: When I was sitting in my poly side class, you know, 386 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: all that I was dealing with was you know, a 387 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: precedent that got to blow job and lied about it, right, right, 388 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: like saying that seems like a marital issue to me, 389 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: that did not seem like I needed ken stars investedation 390 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 1: and like an impeachment trial. It seemed like you probably 391 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: should get a divorce, right, um, And I'm not and 392 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: again I am. You know, there were major things that 393 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: were happening, but I'm talking about as a young person, 394 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: that was the biggest thing, literally, And so these these 395 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: young people that you're educating day in and day out, 396 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: what like, what are they thinking about the world that 397 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: they are being handed right now? The politics that they 398 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: are coming to understand. They're disgusted. They're disgusted that a 399 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: lot of the people who are their age don't vote 400 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: because they're just starting to vote in you know, now 401 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: they're in a policy class. Like, I can't believe all 402 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: these people don't vote, you know, when I explained to 403 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: them that, like, you know, during Obama's election two thousand 404 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: and eight, that was like one of the most participatory 405 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 1: elections we had seen in modern history. Into the sixty 406 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: percent of the voting eligible population showed up. That was like, yeah, 407 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: a barn storm, and they were like, wait. I was like, so, 408 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: where's that other forty percent? When all we were talking 409 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: about was we could have the first black president forty 410 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,120 Speaker 1: percent of the voting eligible population. It was like, yah, 411 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: set this point out. So there are a few things. 412 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: One obviously, Roby Wade is something that they're just like, 413 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: and they now see the connection between you voting for 414 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: your senators and Roby Wade and the Spirit Report, and 415 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: so now we can now Federalist fifty one separation of 416 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: powers and checks and balances makes a lot of sense 417 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: to them because it's like, well, the President nominates somebody, 418 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: but the Senate confirms them, and then they have a 419 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,160 Speaker 1: job for life, and it's only nine of them representing 420 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: three hundred forty million people. So they're like, wait, I 421 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 1: admit it. So they are now seeing the connections from 422 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: the text to the front page of the New York 423 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: Times when it comes to say Ukraine. And now, granted, 424 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: I'm an American politics professor, and that's even though I 425 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: teach interroid to politics, I teach it through an American 426 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: politics lens. We all teach it through the lens that 427 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: makes the most sense for us. So a lot of 428 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: my examples are American politics examples because we live in America, 429 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: but we read the paper and we talk a lot 430 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: about current events. So when it comes to Ukraine, a 431 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: lot of my students, last majority of my students were like, listening, 432 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: this is real, and this is dangerous, and Putin's a 433 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: mess and we should pay attention. But a few things. 434 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: We just found eighty billion dollars under the couch cushion, 435 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: and another thirty billion, and now another forty billion, And 436 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: you tell me that you can't cancel these student loans. 437 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: That's one two. And maybe these are just the types 438 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: of students I attract because I am who I am. 439 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: But they're like, we get it. What's happening in the 440 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: Ukreane is terrible, and we should send some sort of aid, 441 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: we should figure it out. But when we started this semester, 442 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: things were popping off in Yemen and Afghanistan and Syria, 443 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: and ain't nobody really say a peep? And we didn't 444 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: find eighty billion dollars in the couch cushion, and didn't 445 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: have a whole American like, let's bring all the refugees, 446 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: let's let's open up. We have space for one hundred thousand. 447 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: How we have space for one hundred thousand, one thousand, 448 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: but didn't have space for fourteen thousand Haitians at the border. 449 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: But who are just flood a country whose prime minister 450 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: was assassinated and it's being ravaged by COVID and you know, oh, 451 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: and we're responsible for the economic disaster that their country 452 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: is in Boom and that earthquake that took out way 453 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: too many people and storytowns. It's like, well, that's also 454 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: an environmental crisis because they've had to cut down trees 455 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: to sort of say all these things. Right, So they're like, 456 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: so now they're scratching their heads. It's like, well, so 457 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: for the white refugees, we got all come, all the 458 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: money and all the time, all the money and all 459 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 1: four time and all the open arms, right, we got 460 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: the flags. We got peopleting their nails like we have everything. 461 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 1: But it was crickets up in this piece when it 462 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: with Syria, Afghanistan, Haiti, you name it. So they're also 463 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: seeing that and they're like, this doesn't make any sense 464 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: to me. I'm like, because it doesn't make anything. But 465 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: if you know the country, it makes totals, it makes 466 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 1: all the sense in the world. It makes absolute and 467 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: total sense. And so then we talk about, you know, 468 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: the project of whiteness and how it's tied to this 469 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: anti abortion movement, how it's tied to allowing in Ukrainian immigrants, right, 470 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: because it can't make any more white people. So now 471 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 1: we either got to like bring them in import them. Right, 472 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: You've already let the Greeks and the Italians and the 473 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: Portuguese become white and Jews and Germans slowly, maturely, begrudgingly, 474 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 1: but you allowed that. But now it's like, okay, so 475 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: now we've just got to make sure because of how 476 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: we structured our racial dynamics, unlike Brazil and other you know, say, 477 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: Latin American countries, it's like only a white lady can 478 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: make a white person. Y'all structured it that way. You said, 479 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: one drop makes you not not in the game anymore. 480 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: So a woman's right to choose is intrinsically attached to 481 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: our white and the project of whiteness and the threat 482 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: that Latinos will take over is the number one group. 483 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: You know that twenty thirty two deadline, and you know 484 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: whites will be come the second one. And I was like, 485 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: first of all, we've seen what apartheid is, Like Latinos 486 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: could be the number two group. It's not that Latinos 487 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: will be in power, like we can still have an 488 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: apartheid regime. Whites could be the fifth largest group and 489 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: could still maintain power in various ways. And so how 490 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: they're seeing how we've taken away parts of the Voting 491 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: Rights Act that's gonna limit people at the polls, which 492 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: will assist the Republican Party, and the corruption and as 493 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: you stated, all of the thuggery that we've seen. So 494 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: it's all interconnected. And I think what's been even in 495 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: the midst of a global pandemic, keep them keep that 496 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: in mind. We're still in the middle of a global pandemic. 497 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: But what I've been really happy about with these students, 498 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: and I really really like gen Z. I like them 499 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: a lot. I've said that from day one, more so 500 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: than the millennials, and I've said that one day two. 501 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: I like the way they connect the dots. They don't 502 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: have as much, their parents don't have as much, so 503 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: they're not as entitled and they're sort of like, we 504 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: got to figure this out. We ain't got anhing. So 505 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: there's a work ethic that is there in this new 506 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:13,479 Speaker 1: generation that did not exist with millennials. Yeah, um, you know, 507 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,959 Speaker 1: it's just also fascinating and depressing at the same time. 508 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about gen Z I'll 509 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: be honest, like, because I'm like, they are the softest 510 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: group of people I think I've ever heard and seen 511 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: in my life. Everything can't be a breakdown, like everything 512 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: like some things, you must be resilient four you know 513 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, yeah, I think those are still Millennials. 514 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: I think I honestly think that the gen Zers are 515 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: getting folded into the sort of like I was triggered child, 516 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 1: you're at work, Like, right, girl, everything be agger right. 517 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: I think that's the Millennials. I don't think that's the 518 00:30:54,520 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: gen Zers. Yeah, um, you know. I I worry for 519 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: this generation coming up because I think that they are 520 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: going to feel the brunt of all of the things. 521 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: They're going to be living inside a Banana Republic. They're 522 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: going to be hit with environmental historic environmental disaster after 523 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: historic environmental disaster, And I'm like, what did their lives 524 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: look like? What I have been educated in three years? 525 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: Like real, half of them have not really been in 526 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: school for three years. But you know, it's like though, 527 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: and this is where my optimism comes in. That's sometimes 528 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: when we get the most creative solutions. Like I'm really 529 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: wondering if this is what we needed as a nation 530 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: to shake us up, to get us back on track, 531 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: because we were in some status quote les fair, and 532 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: it's like and we weren't perfect before this pandemic and 533 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 1: before Republicans really started wilding out. I think Donald Trump 534 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: just exposed just how embedded this diseases in our country. 535 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: But we were just kind of cruising along like it 536 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: wasn't there. It was there. He didn't create these people. 537 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,120 Speaker 1: These people were always there. They were just sort of 538 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: in the shop. As he said, we are the silent majority. 539 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: And it's like, oh snap, I don't think they're the majority, 540 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: but there's a lot of them. And I think it's like, 541 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: you know what, it's I do think that at a 542 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: certain point in time, and I hate, you know, sort 543 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: of it's scary to say this, but it's like this 544 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: country needed to turn the lights on. Yeah, we have 545 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: finally just turned It's like, all right, now we see it. 546 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: What's up. It's twenty twenty two. We were actually we 547 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: got a lot more folks that are that one nineteen 548 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: fifty two, and we were just pretending that they didn't exist, 549 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: and we kept telling ourselves, Oh, they'll die off, they'll 550 00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: die off, right. I was, It's like, why do people 551 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: keep saying like they'll die off? As if the people 552 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: that were marching in Charlottesville in twenty seventeen were eighty five? 553 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: They were they were twenty, right, Like do you know? Also? 554 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: And then I think Democrats fooled themselves to think, like, 555 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, demographics is destiny. It's like, oh, well, we'll 556 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 1: get all these immigrants and you know, then we'll have 557 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: the numbers. It's like, well, first of all, not if 558 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: you get the Voting Rights Act, And second of all, 559 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: you can look at voting patterns and say a place 560 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 1: like Arizona, where you know there are a lot of 561 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 1: Latino Republicans who are like, yes, I was an immigrant, 562 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 1: Yes I may have been an undocumented immigrant. I am 563 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: up the ladder and I'm pulling it up, and I 564 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: want to make Mosttonian rules for all the immigrants out there. 565 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: So it's just like, you know, we've seen we've seen 566 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: it now with the growing Asian American Republican population. We 567 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: see it with all these black folks, you know, who 568 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: were sort of skyrocketing to the front of the Republican 569 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: party because it's like, well, if I'm a Democrat, then 570 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: I got to wait in line behind all these people. 571 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: If I just say negroes are too stupid to you know, 572 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: have jobs and homes and you know, excelling this kind, 573 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: you can run for governor and get all the money. 574 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: I'm looking at you, mister Kentucky. So I think that, 575 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: you know, democrats underestimate the allure of the policies that 576 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: Republicans sell to people. Yea, how there's a lot of 577 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: money to be made in taking away There's a lot 578 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: of money to be made in taking things away from people, 579 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: and they get it. They get it, and I think 580 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 1: Democrats are still just like, well, shucks, let's you know, 581 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,760 Speaker 1: let's be kind and nice. It's like a last question 582 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 1: for you, Christina. This conversation has just been so as always, 583 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: so so invigorating, so so many, so many morsels, so 584 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: many pieces are so filling for me because you make 585 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: me feel not crazy. It's like, where where do I 586 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: go to feel like I'm not crazy? I come to 587 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: you with all that is happening though with all of 588 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 1: this pressure, with all of this regression, to me, I 589 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: only see this leading to one place. Right, Like when 590 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: you turn on all the lights, all of the cockroaches 591 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: don't go away, right, They leave eggs, And so sometimes 592 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,439 Speaker 1: you need to bomb the home that has become infested 593 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,320 Speaker 1: in order for there to be the possibility of actually 594 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 1: living there. That is how I feel about America. Are 595 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: we headed towards a revolution? Towards an uprising? Because I 596 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: don't know how you control how nine people control three 597 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,879 Speaker 1: hundred and forty million and think that like we're all 598 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: going to go quietly into the good goddamn night, back 599 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: to nineteen fifty two, right. I think I'm of two minds. 600 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,799 Speaker 1: So one mind is, listen, of all the guns in 601 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,360 Speaker 1: the world, We've got a quarter of them in America, 602 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,760 Speaker 1: And of the people who have guns, the vast majority 603 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: of them belong to one party. So let's just say 604 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: we take the violent route. I prefer not to because 605 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 1: we are we are outnumbered and unarmed, and we also 606 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: know that people in our armed forces and our military 607 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: forces by and large, have white supremosis tendencies. So I 608 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: would prefer not to not to broach that that road, 609 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: because I think that it's it's not a road that 610 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 1: ends up well for people like us. The other road 611 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,879 Speaker 1: is the more optimistic road. There are ways we've changed 612 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 1: the Constitution several times. Think about thirteen, fourteen, fifteenth Amendment, 613 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: think about the nineteenth amendment, the women white women. We 614 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 1: can think about the twenty sixth amendment that you know, 615 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: let younger people vote. We can think it about amendment. 616 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: Think about an amendment to increase the size of the court. 617 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: That's one of my final exam questions some years. You know, 618 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: do we increase the size of the Supreme Court? And 619 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,279 Speaker 1: if so, what's the number? You know, if we were 620 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: increased it to thirteen, will we just have a six 621 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 1: seven majority and just basically instead of five fours, we'll 622 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 1: just have you know, seven sixes. Do we make it 623 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: twenty one? Do we make it fifty? We know that 624 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: they're transaction costs and conforming costs, and the more people 625 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,360 Speaker 1: you got, the harder it is, and so you know, 626 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: things take longer. So there's some pros and cons to 627 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 1: changing the system, but that doesn't mean that we can't 628 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 1: do it. And as my incredibly brilliant grandmother, you still 629 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: always say, if we could put a man on the moon. 630 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: We can figure this out. I mean, I gave a 631 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: talk once at a transportation equity forum, and I was 632 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: talking about how we can figure out a way to 633 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: make transportation cheaper, if not relatively free, for poor people. 634 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 1: We can find some metrics to sort of measure what 635 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 1: is poverty and all these other things. But you know, 636 00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: we figured out for students and we get them a 637 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,680 Speaker 1: metric card and senior citizens. So it's basically saying, like 638 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 1: there can be some sort of means test for marginalized 639 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,319 Speaker 1: communities to help them pay for a public transit. This 640 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,440 Speaker 1: man in the audience just, no, that's impossible. You know, 641 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,760 Speaker 1: we can't do we can't. We can't, we can't, we can't. 642 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 1: And so I gave him the line of, like we 643 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,239 Speaker 1: put a man on the moon, I think we can 644 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 1: figure out how to give a poor person a bus pass. Right. 645 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,440 Speaker 1: It's not that deep. And I think that there are 646 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: a lot of ways in this country. Going back to 647 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 1: your point about like this this new generation, I think 648 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: that they will come up with some creative solutions that 649 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 1: you and I just can't see. We've been in this 650 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,280 Speaker 1: institution our whole lives. We have been institutionalized me, especially 651 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,400 Speaker 1: in graduation, for so long, you know, and now I 652 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,160 Speaker 1: work in an institution like Trust and Believe. I talked 653 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,359 Speaker 1: to my therapist about this all the time, like, why 654 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,880 Speaker 1: is it that I've chosen to be in institutions my 655 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,319 Speaker 1: whole life, the whitest of the white, the sort of 656 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: you know, elitist, of the most elite and the most unwelcoming. 657 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: Yet I signed up to keep doing it for a 658 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:51,880 Speaker 1: future generation purposes. So I think though that this I 659 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 1: don't know, I'm just feeling really good about some of 660 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: the young many of the young people who we're like, 661 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,320 Speaker 1: we're passing over a shit sandwich and they're like, okay, 662 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: Like all right, we'll figure it out. I really hope 663 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,880 Speaker 1: that they do. And I hope so that you continue 664 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 1: to educate them and inspire them to do something create 665 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 1: and innovative with that a ship that we are giving them. 666 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 1: That's my job, and I take it really seriously, you know, 667 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,120 Speaker 1: And I think the reason why I am not filled 668 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,360 Speaker 1: with rage, I am, you know. I'm definitely worried, sure, 669 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,239 Speaker 1: and I have my days where I'm like, ah, but 670 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: I think because I have the privilege of seeing of 671 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,359 Speaker 1: a planting seeds and seeing sort of things bloom. They 672 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 1: don't always bloom in that three and a half months 673 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,480 Speaker 1: that they're with me, but sometimes they bloom in three years. 674 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes I'll get an email from you know, Stupero 675 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,160 Speaker 1: years ago. I was like, Hey, that thing you said, 676 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 1: I finally it finally clicked. I finally get it, and 677 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,919 Speaker 1: now I'm doing X with my life. And so there's 678 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,080 Speaker 1: that's the beauty of being an educator. I think that's like, 679 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,319 Speaker 1: that is the secret when people are like, I don't 680 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 1: understand why these teachers, you know, you make no money 681 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,720 Speaker 1: relatively speaking, right, you were not respected by your principle 682 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,319 Speaker 1: or your school district, and like academics, it's like you 683 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: won't went to all this extra schooling to make a 684 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,759 Speaker 1: few extra dollars more than a regular teacher, Like why 685 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,400 Speaker 1: do you do it? It's like, because there is nothing 686 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,760 Speaker 1: that compares to planting a seed and a young person 687 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: and then seeing it grow in front of your eyes 688 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: and it's like oh snap, and recognizing you are then 689 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 1: changing literally the course of history. So that's why I'm 690 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,759 Speaker 1: sort of like, all right, well, yeah know we are 691 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,240 Speaker 1: where we are, girl, We're gonna be where we at However, 692 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna I think we're gonna be okay. You keep planting, 693 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 1: you keep planting, I'll keep oscillating between rage and rest, 694 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,480 Speaker 1: and we need that now. We will make it to 695 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,400 Speaker 1: the other side. Dear friend, doctor Christina Greer, thank you 696 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,120 Speaker 1: so much, thank for this lesson, for this time. I 697 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:12,040 Speaker 1: love our conversations and appreciate you so much. Righty, hey, 698 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,800 Speaker 1: I'm David. Plots of Slights Political Gabfest. As another election 699 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: season accelerates, it can be tricky to sort through all 700 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,440 Speaker 1: the noise and the news. 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