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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 3: This is Native Land Pod and we are joining you

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Speaker 3: live from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations fifty third Annual

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Speaker 3: Legislative Conference. We are here as your official pregame show

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Speaker 3: for the dinner tonight, and we are thrilled to be

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Speaker 3: joined by the brilliant minds of the conscience of the

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Speaker 3: Congress and so many wonderful friends of ours as well

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Speaker 3: as elected officials on the local state at the local

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Speaker 3: and state level and organizers. We have a jam packed

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Speaker 3: show and we can't wait to get into it.

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Speaker 1: I am with my co.

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Speaker 3: Hosts Welcome Home, y'all, Tiffany Cross and Andrew.

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Speaker 4: Gillocome Home, everybody, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Were trying to figure.

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Speaker 5: Out what episode it is, so if you're watching, please

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Speaker 5: drop a comment and let us know what episode it is,

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Speaker 1: Oh Lola, where.

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Speaker 6: Did we go?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 5: Birthday from Yeah exactly, So welcome to the fortieth episode

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Speaker 5: of Native Lampod. I have to say I'm really excited

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Speaker 5: to be here. This is somewhat of a homecoming, I

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Speaker 5: think for all of us. I used to cover Congress

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Speaker 5: years ago, Andrew, being a politician, especially when he was running,

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Speaker 5: would come to this dinner.

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Speaker 1: But Angela, especially for you.

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Speaker 5: As you all know, Angela is the former executive director

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Speaker 5: of the Congressional Black Caucus, So this was like your family,

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Speaker 5: like the prom Nerd Ball Well, Nerd Ball is the

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Speaker 5: Washington correspondent, I say, Nerd from yeah exactly.

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Speaker 8: This is a Black Nerve propromise.

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Speaker 5: But Angela, how does it feel to be back in

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Speaker 5: this capacity?

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Speaker 1: Because you come, you still come every year. Have you

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Speaker 1: missed the dinner?

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Speaker 3: I have never missed a Phoenix Awards dinner except when

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Speaker 3: the dinner missed us, and that was during COVID COVID

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Speaker 3: and then the next year, of course we were virtual

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Speaker 3: that year. The next year we came back. So this

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Speaker 3: is nineteenth ALC. Wow, and I I am so I think.

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Speaker 3: What's cool about this, you guys that I'm super super

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Speaker 3: excited about is normally the conference all week, all of

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Speaker 3: the sessions are pretty open to the public, they're even

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Speaker 3: live streams. But the dinner is something that has often

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Speaker 3: felt more exclusive, and this year because the Foundation wanted

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Speaker 3: to partner with our podcast because we are so welcoming.

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Speaker 3: There are folks from outside who weren't able to go

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Speaker 3: to the dinner who are coming in to watch the podcast,

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Speaker 3: and we're thrilled to have you all.

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Speaker 1: So welcome Black Home Home Audience. Here.

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Speaker 5: I want to let the viewers know that the dinner

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Speaker 5: this evening will be hosted by Roy Wood Junior, amazing comedian.

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Speaker 1: Ratler, absolutely and Sherry Shepard.

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Speaker 4: Evening. So as Ryan's.

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Speaker 5: Making his way to the stage, I want to let

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Speaker 5: you all know he has a new show coming out

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Speaker 5: on CNN. Have I got news for you? He just

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Speaker 5: taped his first comedy special, which I was privileged to

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Speaker 5: be there live in person to see to a sold

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Speaker 5: out packs audience. So give some love to this Rattler

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Speaker 5: great coming in. He and Andrew are kind of dressed like, hello,

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Speaker 5: my dear.

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Speaker 1: We're so happy you're joining me.

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Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't have my bow tie.

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Speaker 4: I got the same color.

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Speaker 9: I see ye, don't put it on sooner or later?

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Speaker 5: So what what are we? First of all, Roy, how

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Speaker 5: you doing? We're so happy to.

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Speaker 1: See you host.

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Speaker 9: I'm good I'm good.

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Speaker 10: I'm just happy my voice survived last week because that

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Speaker 10: then doing all the media for that watching that way

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Speaker 10: the dog who eating the doll? Yes, yes, but no,

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Speaker 10: I'm I'm just happy to be you know how I

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Speaker 10: get around.

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Speaker 9: Like black folks?

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Speaker 10: Yes, because I don't get it normally, like it's I'm

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Speaker 10: not I'm in like the mainstream world. And then the

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Speaker 10: Congressional Black Caucus. This is like, what did you say

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Speaker 10: over texts like professional essence facial?

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Speaker 4: We said black prom nerve prom.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call it political wikanda. I feel like politically,

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Speaker 9: I like that too.

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Speaker 1: That's probably right.

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Speaker 4: So do you do you change up?

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Speaker 11: How do you alter your approach when going into an

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Speaker 4: I feel like, how do you prepare?

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Speaker 10: I feel like the advantage I have at a black

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Speaker 10: event is that they know me, and you kind of

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Speaker 10: already know. You know my brand. You know, I'm not

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Speaker 10: gonna say the all the way wrong thing. But I

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Speaker 10: ain't regal. I'm not gonna be regal like I would argue, though,

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Speaker 10: of everything that I've done this year, hosting that June

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Speaker 10: teenth concert at the White House, that was the hardest.

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Speaker 10: That was the hardest event because the issue with an

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Speaker 10: White House Correspondence dinner. It's understood that I can say

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Speaker 10: the wrong thing, You're supposed to say the wrong thing

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Speaker 10: June tenth and something like this. We are revering people

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Speaker 10: who are fighting against very serious issues and going hit

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Speaker 10: to head against very heinous people. There are people in

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Speaker 10: this room tonight who get death threats on air regular

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Speaker 10: and for their work, we're going to, you.

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Speaker 9: Know, honor them.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 10: So the balance of joke and reverence and we must

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Speaker 10: also remember racism and racism and the joke like that

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Speaker 10: balance is more difficult to maintain in an all black

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Speaker 10: place because black people will hold you accountable in real

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Speaker 10: time if you went too far, you know, one way

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Speaker 11: So I was telling the girls yesterday about a story

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Speaker 11: with a well known person we know here who was

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Speaker 11: in my city, Tallahassee, And we're sitting next to each

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Speaker 11: the pledge, and about eight black women after it was

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Speaker 11: whether we'd be offended about being wrecked in a place

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Speaker 11: like that. But you've had experience, I'm sure, yeah, where

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and and and and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 10: with black people, it's a critique, it's it's a it's

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Speaker 10: still a dialogue. It ain't no battle, it's not disrespect.

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Speaker 10: But it's just a matter of when you're going up

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Speaker 10: at an event like this, how do you make sure

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Speaker 10: that you maintain the respect and the reverence for while

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Speaker 10: also doing humor. And I'm thankful tonight because I have

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Speaker 10: a co.

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Speaker 5: Host, So this Sherry Shepherd, your co hosting other interesting

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Speaker 5: you weren't listening and clearly, but the other interesting thing

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Speaker 5: is Roy that the chair of this year's event is

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Speaker 5: Congresswoman Terry Sewell, and you are a son of Alabama, so.

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Speaker 1: It is it is a.

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Speaker 10: Terry Sewell used to come on my morning show in Birmingham,

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Speaker 10: and I got to give her props because she wasn't

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Speaker 10: just coming on when it was time to grab votes

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Speaker 10: and re election and blah blah blah. You know there's

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Speaker 10: a there's a connection, and I'm going to talk about

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Speaker 10: it tonight before we bring out Fantasia. But you know,

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Speaker 10: we had an F five tornado that came through Alabama.

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Speaker 10: Tornado came from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham, killed fifty people, and

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Speaker 10: it hit one of the blackest parts of town super hard.

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Speaker 10: Terry Sewell was in that thing before sunrise, before the

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Speaker 10: Red Cross pulled up. Same night Fantasia was supposed to

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Speaker 10: have a show, could have canceled easily. Hey, y'all had

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Speaker 10: a tornado. I'll come back another time. Stay did the show?

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Speaker 10: Donated every penn. So like the connections between you know,

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Speaker 10: Fantasia and you know, congress Woman Seuel and myself, I'm.

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Speaker 9: Just like even to be yere with y'all.

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Speaker 10: Like I don't y'all don't understand, Like I don't go nowhere,

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Speaker 10: I don't talk, I don't get around people that I

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Speaker 10: I don't have to wonder if this is being recorded

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Speaker 10: for some other duplicitous thing, and honestly working at CNN

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Speaker 10: and Angela, I might need to talk to you about

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Speaker 10: this because this has opened up a whole nother can

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Speaker 10: of how the energy that people have towards me simply

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Speaker 10: because of the network that it's a Saturday.

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Speaker 9: Night as jokes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and they'd be like ha ha, hell yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Get it, we need premiere yeah anywhere near ass.

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Speaker 3: But I do want to know if you can get

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Speaker 4: No, I said, not in the same category.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do want to know if you can give

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: Here's what it comes down to, And this is a

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Speaker 10: conversation I had with Sherry. If Biden how soon until

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Speaker 10: Biden comes in the room before he speaks is kind

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Speaker 10: go you are better than me. Because if I put

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Speaker 9: Not showing up for no more shifts.

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Speaker 1: Baby.

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Speaker 9: This is me trying to get you to let me.

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Speaker 10: This is me telling you I don't want to come

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Speaker 10: and pleee fire men, So you know, to give them

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Speaker 1: That's a good point. I never thought about it.

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Speaker 4: Although Trump did say at the debate he sleep till

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Speaker 9: We snuck that in. Nobody called him.

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Speaker 10: That's the type of joke though, that you can only

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Speaker 10: do if he's in the room, because if he comes

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Speaker 10: back to the fact, that's the sucker move. I know

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Speaker 10: Sherry is gonna, you know, have some conversation with the

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Speaker 10: Divine nine in the room as well. I think she's

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Speaker 10: gonna make sure they get their time. I'm not a

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Speaker 10: member of the Divine nine. I did not have the

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Speaker 10: grades by the time I had, no, I didn't. I

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Speaker 1: Boy, I don't think anybody we had we might have

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Speaker 1: had the grace. But none of us are dividing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: none of us aren't that crazy. This is defind odds

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Speaker 5: People always see me and they're like, hey, so Ror

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Speaker 3: Because they definitely make sure you don't make any of

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Speaker 10: You find everything else. You found everything else in your phone,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting because there are are like these laws

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Speaker 5: What I want to shout you out also, Roy, because

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Speaker 10: This damn thing, this has been one of my favorite

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Speaker 10: Daily Showing, like, yeah, I'm done with listening to no

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Speaker 4: M android. Forget the haters.

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Speaker 11: Man. The fact that you are bringing to a cable

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Speaker 10: And the other beautiful thing about how I got news

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna get you all on it.

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Speaker 11: So you expect and we like to know who the winner.

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Speaker 11: For really, the most and thought unprovoking bet that we.

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Speaker 10: It's so much show tonight that there's not a lot

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, I do want to let.

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Speaker 5: It is a bevy of beautiful black people in floor

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Speaker 5: Hosted then her sit by comedian Roy Wood Junior, co

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Speaker 5: What a beautiful evening to be here with you guys.

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Speaker 5: Before to ask her yes.

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Speaker 10: Yes, yes, yes, how have you all been in terms

449
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Speaker 10: of because I know for the podcasts and the prep,

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Speaker 10: I imagine you have to do. It's take in all

451
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Speaker 10: of the bad stuff and then decide what bad stuff

452
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Speaker 10: we will talk about and what bad stuff we will not.

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Speaker 10: Have you figured out a way yet to only consume

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Speaker 10: what you need in terms of what you want to

455
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Speaker 10: present to your listeners or do you still have to

456
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Speaker 10: take in every terrible thing? And if so, what's what's

457
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Speaker 10: your system, what's your mental health?

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Speaker 3: This is a really great opportunity to pub a podcast

459
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Speaker 3: that we did. We did a mini pod where we

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Speaker 3: actually had a battle tip and I have never gotten

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Speaker 3: an argument. We got in an argument that day about

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Speaker 3: whether or not we should put something out. I thought

463
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Speaker 3: she was saying something she wasn't, but it was like,

464
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Speaker 3: I feel like we need to listen to everything that's happening.

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Speaker 3: It was about black Trump supporters, and I wanted to

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Speaker 3: hear it because I thought it was I couldn't even

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Speaker 3: wrap my mind around it, but it's the same thing

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Speaker 3: for me. That was like the trigger of the trauma

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Speaker 3: of twenty sixteen. So I was like, we have to

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Speaker 3: be aware of this because I was oblivious to it

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Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen. And I think they Andrew and Tiff

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Speaker 3: who agreed, We're both like, we don't have to go

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Speaker 3: about it this way though. So it was a whole battle.

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Speaker 3: But I think what's good about the battle is there

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Speaker 3: are a lot of folks who have family members who

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Speaker 3: have that same conversation in that same way every time

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Speaker 3: they get together, whether it was a picnic over the summer,

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Speaker 3: if it's about to be Thanksgiving, dinner. Hopefully this man, well,

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to be as nonpartisan as possible because it's

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Speaker 3: the foundation, but in my personal capacity, I hope doesn't win.

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Speaker 3: And that's, you know, kind of what we're up again.

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Speaker 3: So we try to figure out every week. I think

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Speaker 3: Tiffany does a good back, good job of challenging us

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Speaker 3: to not sound like every other news network and making

485
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Speaker 3: sure that we're providing information to our listeners who sometimes

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Speaker 3: don't get those stories.

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Speaker 1: They're below the fold or there in the B section or.

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Speaker 3: The Z section, meaning they did not get in there,

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Speaker 3: and she will go and find them and make sure

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Speaker 3: that we are talking about those things.

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful for you.

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Speaker 5: Tif grankful for you guys and Andrew, but.

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Speaker 11: I did want to say this to be very honest.

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Speaker 11: It has evolved a number of times, and we've only

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Speaker 11: done forty episodes up to this point around show format,

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Speaker 11: how do we prepare and our preparation is very different

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Speaker 11: in between the three of us. And then, if I

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Speaker 11: could be even more honest, our show flow right now

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Speaker 11: was like what you feeling?

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Speaker 4: What you feeling feel like?

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Speaker 5: We don't really talk about it, and we every time

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Speaker 5: we do a call before the show just to check

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Speaker 5: in with each other, and we're constantly saying we're potting, like,

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Speaker 5: don't talk about this. I want, like, I want the

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Speaker 5: audience to feel like they're in the room with us.

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Speaker 5: And if we have people there with us, you know,

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Speaker 5: if we are too prepared, then it doesn't work. And

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Speaker 5: as a journalist, obviously, I'm still reading eight nine papers

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Speaker 5: every morning, so I have not figured out how to

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Speaker 5: only consume.

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Speaker 14: What I need.

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Speaker 1: But I just have curiosity about a lot of things.

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Speaker 10: I enjoyed reading local news, you know, I like reading

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Speaker 10: local papers and local sections.

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Speaker 9: But the problem now is that.

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Speaker 10: With with the way that local newspapers are being gobbled

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Speaker 10: up by larger outlets, a lot of local stories are

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Speaker 10: the same across that's right, So you might have three

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Speaker 10: true local stories.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 10: I have a friend that's a reporter for Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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Speaker 10: He was talking to me how they cut down their

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Speaker 10: local reporter pool. Yeah, and even lower number. And it's okay, well,

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Speaker 10: now who do you have covering all of those stories?

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Speaker 10: So it's just it's it's real.

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Speaker 1: It's happening everywhere.

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Speaker 5: That's why your show coming on CNN is so important

528
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Speaker 5: because it makes shoes accessible your comedy special whenever it airs.

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Speaker 5: We're excited about it. Well, thank you so and just

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Speaker 5: everything that you have going on, Roy, your your previous

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Speaker 5: pastors have not figured it out yet. I think they

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Speaker 5: lost a gym when they lost you. But I'm just

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Speaker 5: happy that your fans, and there are so many will

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Speaker 5: get to experience and hear you on an ongoing basis.

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Speaker 10: Well every Saturday night, nine pm CNN, streaming next day

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Speaker 10: on Max. We're talking about the news of the week

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Speaker 10: and some of the hole on the way. And let

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Speaker 10: me also stress lastly, the show is not just political

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Speaker 10: news like it could be the debate. Yeah, but also

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Speaker 10: Shannon Sharp was laying pipe on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Lot wow, Roy, And on that note.

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Speaker 10: I'm just saying we are covering a range of topics.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, let me tell you, and not what you

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Speaker 3: see going live on Native Lampody good luck tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're so.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't make that joke later, so he gave it.

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Speaker 3: He's like, I gotta throwing out before I go.

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Speaker 4: Let me, God, let it go.

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Speaker 9: Dignitaries, don't do that.

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Speaker 15: Roy.

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Speaker 1: Thank you right, thank you by yourself. You got proud

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Speaker 1: of people waiting for you up there. Oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: we are thrilled at this time. Thank you, Roy, We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: We're thrilled at this time to bring up a very

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Speaker 3: very special guest, our good friend, Melanie Parker, who is

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Speaker 3: at Google and she is the chief diversity officer there,

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Speaker 3: is joining us to talk about this very very special

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Speaker 3: occasion and some of the great things they have going

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Speaker 3: on to make an impact in the community at Google.

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Speaker 16: Hi God, thank you, Thanks beautiful, thank you.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling I'm feeling great.

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Speaker 16: I'm excited about tonight, excited about all the black excellence

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Speaker 16: all around us.

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Speaker 13: So it's a great night.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we're happy to have you.

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Speaker 5: I think one thing, sorry, Andrew, a question, I'll ask

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Speaker 5: it quickly. A lot of people we hear a chief

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Speaker 5: diversity officer all the time, but I think so many

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Speaker 5: people out there don't always know exactly what a chief

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Speaker 5: diversity officer does. Tell us what your role is exactly

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Speaker 5: tangibly at Google.

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Speaker 13: So my role at.

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Speaker 16: Google one, I've been in my role for five years,

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Speaker 16: so I know there's a meme out there five years

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Speaker 16: I've been to my.

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Speaker 13: Role at Google. But what I do I look after.

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Speaker 16: Google's internal workforce, and that is to make sure that

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Speaker 16: people not just feel like they belong, but feel that

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Speaker 16: they can bring all of who they are in the workplace.

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Speaker 13: And that's not just you know, heart and head.

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Speaker 16: That's really about I'm looking after how we're hiring, how

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Speaker 16: we're promoting, how we're providing developmental assignments. I'm looking at

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Speaker 16: who's leaving and are they leaving at the same rate

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Speaker 16: across communities?

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Speaker 13: Are they looking at different rates?

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Speaker 16: And then I'm looking after who's coming into Google over

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Speaker 16: the next ten to fifteen years, and what programs do

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Speaker 16: we need to have externally, What does our creator base

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Speaker 16: look like, what does our user base we have over

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Speaker 16: a billion users, what does.

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Speaker 13: That look like?

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Speaker 16: And how does that ecosystem all work together to make

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Speaker 16: sure that we're meeting people just as they are where

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Speaker 16: they are in that moment, and have a global team

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Speaker 16: that helps.

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Speaker 13: Me do that well every day.

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Speaker 3: Melanie, speaking of some of the impact that you all

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Speaker 3: are making, you all had fight the event recently. During

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Speaker 3: this conference, change makers talk about how important it is

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Speaker 3: to invest in support some of those folks outside. You

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Speaker 3: talked about your rowle inside, but what's your impact on

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Speaker 3: the outside as well?

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Speaker 16: You know, externally, our goal is to build sustainable equity,

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Speaker 16: not just internally, as you said, Angela, but externally as well.

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Speaker 16: So change Makers allows us to give voice, often to

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Speaker 16: a community that may not have voice. What we typically

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Speaker 16: find when we look at black and brown voices is

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Speaker 16: that you're either hyper visible or you're invisible and in between.

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Speaker 13: That that's a whole lot of stress.

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Speaker 16: And so we want to make we want to normalize,

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Speaker 16: like elevating change Makers, and we want people to know

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Speaker 16: they have to feel empowered to have voice. It's when

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Speaker 16: you don't have voice that we have, you know, horrible

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Speaker 16: leadership that we're you know, by being silent, we're actually

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Speaker 16: giving way to change that's not progressive. So that's what

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Speaker 16: change Makers is really all about. So we look to

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Speaker 16: curate spaces and rooms where we can bring people.

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Speaker 11: Together, Melanie, a lot of them, at least as of late,

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Speaker 11: there's been quite a political attack on diversity inclusion. What

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Speaker 11: it means to have diverse work for is obviously I

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Speaker 11: don't mean for you to tell on your own company,

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Speaker 11: but amongst your group of peers, could you just shine

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Speaker 11: a light for us, let us, let us sit on

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Speaker 11: the floor of y'all's couch. Conversation and share a little

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Speaker 11: bit about what folks who are in that space are

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Speaker 11: feeling experiencing. Are they feeling like the best approach for

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Speaker 11: survivalists to step back in the work and maybe make

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Speaker 11: it more I guess you'd say for everybody and not

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Speaker 11: just for or directed toward a particular group of employees.

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Speaker 16: So let me start with the incredible work that you know,

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Speaker 16: we have long standing at Google, you know, so we've

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Speaker 16: you know, long been commuted committed to diversity, equity and inclusion,

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Speaker 16: and we're leaders and we're learners, and we do both transparently.

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Speaker 16: We just published our eleventh Diversity Annual Report in the spring,

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Speaker 16: and in the.

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Speaker 13: Back of that, when we talk about our progress.

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Speaker 16: Which includes you know, just historic levels of bringing underrepresented communities,

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Speaker 16: which are women, people with disabilities, we look across minority

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Speaker 16: communities as well, but we put that in an appendix.

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Speaker 16: So we have the largest publicly available DEI data set,

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Speaker 16: and we use big Query to open source it, so

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Speaker 16: you're you know, there's no mystery in what our numbers are.

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Speaker 16: You can look at them year over year, and we

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Speaker 16: put it in a very easy format because we want

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Speaker 16: you not just to you know, look at where we lead,

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Speaker 16: but look at where we're learning and the opportunity space.

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Speaker 1: For all of us. Can I ask you ment, Oh, sir,

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Speaker 1: can I ask you?

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Speaker 3: You know, we have witnessed this massive pulling back of

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Speaker 3: DEI efforts and here we are at this Congressional Black

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Speaker 3: Hawkice Foundation. You look out here, you see all this

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Speaker 3: cea of beautiful blackness.

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Speaker 1: But for some.

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Speaker 3: Reason our blackness is treated as inherently violent and criminal

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Speaker 3: on the outside. So we got this pushed forward in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty and this severe retraction since then. How have

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Speaker 3: you You've been able personally and professionally a reality because

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Speaker 3: you are.

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Speaker 1: You're such a leader.

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Speaker 3: You are always a shiny example even today, like you

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Speaker 3: have this glow that's her all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's not makeup, y'all, this.

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Speaker 13: Is literally her.

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Speaker 3: I want you to talk briefly about how you were

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Speaker 3: able to sustain and in fact grow through that retraction.

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Speaker 16: Well, you know, I'm not surprised by some of the

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Speaker 16: things that we see, because whenever we have progress, we

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Speaker 16: have people who are looking at how do you get

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Speaker 16: to that progress?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 13: And so that's what we see.

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Speaker 16: How I stay focused and how I encourage others look

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Speaker 16: at the data what is your data?

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Speaker 13: Say Like we're data informed. And one of the things

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Speaker 13: I say is like I exist and my.

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Speaker 16: Organization exists to close gaps. And how am I going

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Speaker 16: to find those gaps? I'm going to look at the data,

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Speaker 16: so I'm not disheartened by looking to my left or

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Speaker 16: my right. I'm really looking forward and where do I

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Speaker 16: need to continue to like close those gaps, make that

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Speaker 16: progress and.

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Speaker 13: Really meet people where they are.

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Speaker 16: And people really need us to continue to create safe

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Speaker 16: spaces to bring them together.

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Speaker 5: Melody, I'm interrupting for two seconds.

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Speaker 1: Mama and Papa Rye that staples.

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Speaker 5: Here at the Congressional to give your ticket Legislative Commerce,

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Speaker 5: and they're looking for their tickets for dinner.

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Speaker 1: So we will be remains if we did not have

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Speaker 1: Papa Rye come by. Come by and get on the mic.

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Speaker 1: Popa Rye. He wants you. This is what he said.

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Speaker 13: I just want you to know.

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Speaker 1: This is what my dad was going to do.

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Speaker 9: The record.

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Speaker 1: This way in front of the camera. Come this way,

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Speaker 1: would you leg.

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Speaker 5: Handle's beautiful mom, Mama, Rai and Papa Rye are here

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Speaker 5: your own cameras.

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Speaker 1: And you look beautiful.

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Speaker 5: You look so beautiful, gorgeous we're in the middle of

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Speaker 5: an interview. You're live and we have you, so we

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Speaker 5: wanted to have a cameo from Mama and Papa Rye

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Speaker 5: say hi to everybody.

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Speaker 6: We can't go back.

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Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna want to remind everyone that this is a

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Speaker 3: nonpartisan conference.

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Speaker 12: We're not going Oh.

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Speaker 1: I love it. In case anybody wanted to know why

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Speaker 1: I'm so hard headed.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all so much for being here. It's a pleasure.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna stay on set, okay, perfect.

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Speaker 1: And father ra we love you. We'll see you inside

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Speaker 1: at the dinner.

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Speaker 13: I love it.

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Speaker 1: We had to, you know, she had to get her

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Speaker 1: parents their tickets.

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Speaker 16: So we have generation of women that live in my house,

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Speaker 16: but one and a half your old granddaughter to my

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Speaker 16: eighty seven year old mother.

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Speaker 1: This is grandmother, welcome, This is you know, like, what

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Speaker 1: are the rules? Right?

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Speaker 5: But it's funny you say that because you you know,

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Speaker 5: you look gorgeous, and we have beautiful grandmothers in our community.

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Speaker 1: Of course.

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Speaker 5: But I'm always bringing up when Donald Trump said, well,

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Speaker 5: I thought he was talking about Vice President Harris.

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Speaker 1: I thought she was a lot younger. Turns out she's sixty.

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Speaker 5: Like he's going to learn a whole lot about how

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Speaker 5: black women show up in this country physically and literally.

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Speaker 5: I want to I've been in and ask a quick

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Speaker 5: policy question if I could, because something that we are

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Speaker 5: well I have a personal interest in is AI, and

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Speaker 5: I'm curious how Google might navigate the changing AI, particularly

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Speaker 5: through the lens of diversity when it comes to black folks.

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Speaker 5: And I know we've got some other guests way to

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Speaker 5: buy so and I know you got to get to

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Speaker 5: the dinner.

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Speaker 1: So that's a quick question before we let you go.

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Speaker 16: So really, you know, our goal here is to build

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Speaker 16: sustainable equity. That's the same thing that we want to

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Speaker 16: do with AI, and so you know, we want to

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Speaker 16: move responsibly, and sometimes that means you don't move as

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Speaker 16: fast as you're looking at that responsibly and we're looking

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Speaker 16: particularly when you look at like black community and brown

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Speaker 16: communities and other underrepresented groups.

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Speaker 13: We know there are two sides to a coin.

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Speaker 16: One do no harm and the other side of that

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Speaker 16: is leave no community behind. So we've developed a set

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Speaker 16: of AI principles. A part of those principles is ensuring

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Speaker 16: you know the ethical responsibility that we have and some

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Speaker 16: of the work like a lead to HBCU President's Council.

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Speaker 16: And with Howard University, we have our research AI research

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Speaker 16: project with them where they own all the licensing rights,

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Speaker 16: and it's called Project Elevate Black Voices because our own

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Speaker 16: research and external research shows that automatic speech recognition doesn't

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Speaker 16: recognize all the dialect that exists.

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Speaker 13: In the black culture.

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Speaker 16: And so Howard is seeking to, you know, with their

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Speaker 16: own student body and our researchers, they are getting first

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Speaker 16: hand experience and how to develop the research that will

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Speaker 16: support the technology recognizing.

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Speaker 13: The dialect a little bit better. We have a five

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Speaker 13: million dollar grant we put at Spelman.

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Speaker 16: Doctor Gail will be at our Google table today, so

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Speaker 16: come give her a shout out. But those are the

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Speaker 16: types of things that we're doing on that front. And lastly,

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Speaker 16: I'll say we worked with the Divine Nine, the Links Incorporated,

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Speaker 16: and Dress for Success to really train one hundred thousand

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Speaker 16: black women, but of course our community we've now trained

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Speaker 16: over two hundred.

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Speaker 13: Thousand black women. We're still going strong.

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Speaker 16: Delta Sigma Theta has been out in front really you know,

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Speaker 16: embracing and taking this technology like out to the communities

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Speaker 16: that they served.

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Speaker 13: And so we're really proud of the effort.

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Speaker 9: You love it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, you are so grateful to have

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Speaker 3: you enjoy the dinner.

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Speaker 1: This is my favorite time of the year.

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Speaker 3: I always tell people my favorite moment is when the

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Speaker 3: members walk across.

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Speaker 1: That's my favorite too.

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Speaker 16: And last night I saw representative of Jasmine Crockett and

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Speaker 16: I said, I'm going to be so excited to see

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Speaker 16: you and the other freshman representatives walk across that stage.

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Speaker 13: Thank you for having me, thank.

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Speaker 1: You, thank you for partnering with us. It's my twenty

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Speaker 1: fourth CBC. I just thought about that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there ought to be some sort and next

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Speaker 5: year is gonna be your twenty, so we need to

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Speaker 5: do like a.

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Speaker 1: Something special for your twenty fifty.

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Speaker 17: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, while we're sitting here, you are, we're waving at people.

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Speaker 3: There's some folks coming by above us on either side,

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Speaker 3: and then behind us there are full long lines. We

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Speaker 3: just got had such a great conversation about the importance

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Speaker 3: of DEI, especially when it's under attack, and this woman

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Speaker 3: is standing strong fighting ensure that our voices are in

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Speaker 3: our presence is represented in tech as it continues to

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Speaker 3: evolve and change. We have a few more guests coming

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Speaker 3: and part of what's happening.

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Speaker 1: One of them are here is here O. We have doctor.

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Speaker 3: Joining us, doctor hebram Kindy, one of my favorite people.

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Speaker 3: And also Andrew is gonna get next to get to

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Speaker 3: sit next.

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Speaker 1: So this is the second rattler that we've had on

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Speaker 1: the program already. Nice to see doctor.

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Speaker 5: Hello this New York Times best selling offer as intellectual luminary.

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Speaker 5: We are so pleased to have you a thought leader

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Speaker 5: here tonight. We see Jamie Harrison up above, chair of

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Speaker 5: the Democratic National Conference.

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Speaker 13: We love to see.

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Speaker 5: Jamie Harrison, Eric Alexander Alexander, and.

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Speaker 1: Congressman Kelly We see you.

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Speaker 5: You all remember Eric Alexander, Maxine Shaw on Living Singles,

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Speaker 5: Some of you off because of her. She was also

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Speaker 5: closing pan on the Cosby Show. So a beautiful night

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Speaker 5: of luminaries. Indeed, back to you, doctor Kenny, thank you

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Speaker 5: for taking the time.

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Speaker 1: To be here. I'll let the rattler kick the county.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it, appreciate it. Welcome Doc, to see you as always.

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Speaker 4: I saw you.

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Speaker 11: You had a post trying to help all of us

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Speaker 11: struggle with and and and comprehend the significance of Donald

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Speaker 11: Trump's and the Republican parties repeated mythology. I don't know

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Speaker 11: what the hell to call it, but around the eating

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Speaker 11: of of pets, I want you, if you wouldn't mind

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Speaker 11: just help us sort of see that, I think in

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Speaker 11: a much more grounded and concrete and really important way,

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Speaker 11: because I think it's easy to make jokes and memes

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Speaker 11: without assessing the impact that it may have on the

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Speaker 11: greater greater community.

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Speaker 18: Well, well, I think it's it's part of a larger

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Speaker 18: project to criminalize black people more broadly, but their specific

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Speaker 18: target obviously we're ra Haitian immigrants yea. And in Springfield, Ohio,

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Speaker 18: you have longtime black residents who are also being sort

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Speaker 18: of demonized and racially profiled, you know, as a result

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Speaker 18: of what they've said about those, you know, people presumably

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Speaker 18: eating pets. And so I just tried to show that

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Speaker 18: when you didn't mean one black group, what ultimately happens

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Speaker 18: is you demean every black group. And I think it's

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Speaker 18: important for us to not think, let's say, if you

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Speaker 18: are not a Haitian immigrant, but you're black, to think, no,

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Speaker 18: that's just them. No, ultimately it's gonna boomerang back to you.

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Speaker 4: That's real, that's real. We have that a lot in Florida,

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Speaker 4: even I know you know that.

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Speaker 11: But because of the immigrant community, the expanding Caribbean, Afro Latino,

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Speaker 11: Haitian community, so on and so forth, you will hear

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Speaker 11: at the higher education level folks saying I'm not you know,

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Speaker 11: African American, I'm not black, I'm Haitian, or I'm this,

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Speaker 11: and I think black people do this. You know, American

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Speaker 11: born black folks do do similarly. And I just thought

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Speaker 11: your message was poignant because it started. I always felt

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Speaker 11: that if they're going after Haitians, they don't know the

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Speaker 11: difference largely between any one of us. It's not okay

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Speaker 11: to go after Haitians, period, But certainly when you consider

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Speaker 11: that this is an attack on all of us, that

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Speaker 11: we all have to say something.

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Speaker 4: And do something about it.

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Speaker 18: And it's interesting because it just harkens me back to

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Speaker 18: this speech that Malcolm X actually gave I believe it

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Speaker 18: was in nineteen sixty two after police sort of barged

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Speaker 18: into the La Mosque and ended up killing some members

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Speaker 18: of the nation, and he gave this sort of funeral speech.

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Speaker 18: And during that funeral speech, that's when he's well known

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Speaker 18: for saying the most disrespected person in America today is

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Speaker 18: the black woman. But in that speech, he also speaks

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Speaker 18: to black people and says, who taught you to hate yourself?

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Speaker 18: And I'm referencing that because you know, you can ask

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Speaker 18: African Americans.

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Speaker 9: Well, who taught you to hate Black immigrants?

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Speaker 18: Who you can ask black immigrants who taught you to

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Speaker 18: hate African Americans? And so what happens is you have

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Speaker 18: different groups of black folks seeing other groups of black

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Speaker 18: folks through the eyes of racist white people.

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Speaker 4: Yah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's such a legitimate point. How have

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Speaker 5: you found because the last time you were in the news,

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Speaker 5: we were all ready to come to your defense. How

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Speaker 5: have you found navigating this space? Because it does feel

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Speaker 5: like it is such a visceral attack. You know, this

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Speaker 5: kind of racial reckoning that mostly white run newsrooms introduced.

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Speaker 5: What we've actually witnessed is more of a hostile backlash,

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Speaker 5: a swift and hostile backlash to that.

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Speaker 1: So, in this age of how.

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Speaker 5: To be an anti racist and you, you know, contributing

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Speaker 5: what you can to society and being I think all

891
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 5: of us have been on the receiving end of such

892
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 5: visceral attacks. How have you found navigating life personally, professionally, politically,

893
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 5: all of it.

894
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 18: I mean, it's difficult, and I think for me it's

895
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Speaker 18: it's most difficult when I see attacks that those who

896
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Speaker 18: are obviously trying to conserve racism create and launch, and

897
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Speaker 18: people that I love sort of repeat those ideas, sort

898
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Speaker 18: of not knowing it my mind. I think that's when

899
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Speaker 18: it's sort of most painful. What's ironic even about comparing

900
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Speaker 18: this to the last question about what's going on with

901
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Speaker 18: those Haitian immigrants, is you have this sort of viral

902
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 18: series of sort of reports with no evidence, like there

903
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 18: was no evidence, right, And I think for those of

904
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Speaker 18: us who've been targeted in the media for doing something

905
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 18: where there's no evidence because apparently, like our skin color

906
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 18: is evidence enough, I mean, it becomes hard like can you, like,

907
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 18: can you present some portion of evidence to substantiate this claim.

908
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 9: That's sort of.

909
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 18: More or less delegitimizing our work, our work as a scholar,

910
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 18: our work as an elected official, I work you know,

911
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,959
Speaker 18: as you know, as a common and for typically black people,

912
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 18: you don't need evidence. And I think that's what's incredibly

913
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 18: painful for black people who are in the public life.

914
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, era, first of all, I just want

915
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 3: to tell you thank you, because no matter what, anytime

916
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 3: that I've caught on you, you've been there. And I

917
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,320
Speaker 3: wanted to start there because I think that that is

918
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 3: an essential component and essential ingred ingredient for community. And

919
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 3: I'd love to know in this era that we're in

920
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 3: right now, given the quality of the work you do,

921
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 3: the significance of the work you do, what our community

922
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 3: can do to really come together to not only support you,

923
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 3: to support each other in our collective advancement and liberation.

924
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Speaker 18: I really think we we have to, I think to

925
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Speaker 18: support sort of my work or even others, I think

926
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Speaker 18: we have to be more results oriented, and I think

927
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Speaker 18: we have to be more sort of evidence based. Going

928
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Speaker 18: back to what I was just you know, talking about,

929
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Speaker 18: and I'm saying that to say, even in my book

930
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Speaker 18: How to Be an Anti Racist, I ended up defining

931
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Speaker 18: an activists as someone with a record of power and

932
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Speaker 18: policy change. So so a person can't just say one

933
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Speaker 18: day I'm an activist. Yeah, right, you know, what is

934
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 18: your record? What organizations have you have you built? What

935
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 18: institutions uh you know, have you have you created? What

936
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 18: campaigns have you launched to you know, reduce levels of

937
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 18: housing insecurity, you know, in your community. And I think

938
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Speaker 18: we have to be more outcome oriented, more results oriented,

939
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 18: because especially in a moment in which those who are

940
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Speaker 18: trying to conserve racism are so intent focused.

941
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we have to be outcome focused.

942
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 5: And I think there's a lot of symbolism, right and

943
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Speaker 5: even when we when it comes to the presidency, we

944
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Speaker 5: you know, have seen the election of President Barack Obama

945
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Speaker 5: and looking at that through the lens of policy, you know,

946
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Speaker 5: we can judge his presidency. I think at this point

947
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 5: we are for a lot of younger people. President Obama

948
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 5: was the floor, not the ceiling, and so now younger

949
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 5: people have a lot more demands of our leaders. We're

950
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Speaker 5: beyond the role of symbolism. So I think that's so true.

951
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 5: What is your prediction for what may happen in November

952
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 5: and what this landscape might look like in this country,

953
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 5: you know, because when he was elected, it was like, oh,

954
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Speaker 5: we're post racial now, which we all kind of laughed

955
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 5: at that ridiculous notion of that. What might we see

956
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 5: what might await us under a president Kamala Harris.

957
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 18: Well, it's interesting because many people have talked about the

958
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 18: importance obviously of this election, and you know, as an historian,

959
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 18: let me just say I can attest to that I

960
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 18: can't think of this election in twenty twenty four, particularly

961
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 18: for black folks, without thinking of the election of eighteen

962
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 18: sixty four. And this was an election between a candidate

963
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Speaker 18: who more or less planned to end the Civil War

964
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Speaker 18: and pretty much re enslaved black people, you know, in

965
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 18: a candidate that presumed that he was going to continue

966
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 18: the Civil War. I mean, it really is that stark,

967
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Speaker 18: particularly when you look at the candidacy of Donald Trump

968
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 18: and what he has planned, particularly for black folks, and

969
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 18: so I don't I think it's important for us to

970
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 18: understand those stakes, especially when you look at some of

971
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 18: the candidates who are sort of allying with Trump internationally,

972
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 18: when you look at what they've done when they've gotten

973
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 18: a second term or when they've gotten a second presidency.

974
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Speaker 18: This is this is a critical moment in the history

975
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Speaker 18: of black life in this country and really in the

976
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 18: history of the United States.

977
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Speaker 4: I just I just want to take that you're going

978
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 4: to know that they're three rattlers.

979
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 3: I was just getting ready to say there are now

980
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 3: three rattlers on the stage, and there was already a

981
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Speaker 3: fourth one.

982
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: Roywood Junior has already left us.

983
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 3: Andrews gonna be completely hood and go ahead and do

984
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 3: the selfie in the middle of the show.

985
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: They're not like us. That's so rude.

986
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 6: It is rude.

987
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: Anyway.

988
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 3: Let me just take this moment to announce and welcome

989
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 3: our dear brother Vince Evans, who is the Congressional Black Caucus.

990
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: Executive Director, and he is looking rather dapa. Bring the

991
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: mike close to that's so much better.

992
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 9: I waited a long time to get to this table.

993
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 4: Man, get out of here.

994
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: He didn't come to DNC, you know, dang well, we

995
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: told this come.

996
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 3: This is a big week for Vince, not just because

997
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 3: of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative Conference, but.

998
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 1: Also and Ebrim.

999
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,280
Speaker 3: It's perfect that you're here because the Congressional Black Caucus

1000
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 3: just released a report and a report card on diversity

1001
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 3: the inclusion efforts in the corporate space. So talk a

1002
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 3: little bit about that, Vince, and why you are so

1003
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 3: focused on that word.

1004
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 9: It's a good question, Dee and I.

1005
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 7: When they try to roll it back and attack d

1006
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 7: and I, they are attacking you and I, as y'all know,

1007
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 7: ten months produced a report got Corporate America more than

1008
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 7: the third of Corporate America.

1009
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 9: To respond, first ever report of its kind.

1010
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 7: And what we found is this diversity, echoity, inclusion is

1011
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 7: a good business imperative. That's what Corporate America says. Most

1012
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 7: of them are still committed to it. The realities they

1013
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 7: are they are getting attacked because people can't get lass

1014
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 7: through the Congress. They are going to the courts to

1015
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 7: get the bad lass pass that they want. So the

1016
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 7: CBC is doing two front here, right, defensive work, holding

1017
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 7: holding those accountable who are taking away the tools of

1018
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,959
Speaker 7: economic opportunity. We've heard the Vice President in recent days

1019
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 7: talk about an economic opportunity that she will advance around housing,

1020
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 7: work and wages when she is elected next president of

1021
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 7: the United States. And then we're doing the offensive work,

1022
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 7: which is to make certain that we close America's.

1023
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 9: Racial wealth gap.

1024
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 7: So that report released this week begins to serve as

1025
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 7: a grounding, if you will, in a resource for all

1026
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 7: of those out there who say they care about these issues.

1027
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 9: So we're gonna hold you.

1028
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 11: Accountabiliyes, love that, and a guide post, right, I mean

1029
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 11: for those who unfortunately we live it well, you lived

1030
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 11: in a state with a governor who is taken to

1031
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 11: the university system.

1032
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 4: Yep, I mean Abram and Counada.

1033
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 11: He hit me first, then he came for you, you

1034
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 11: and your books and trying to pull resources that tell

1035
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,720
Speaker 11: the true history of black the black experience in America

1036
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:43,720
Speaker 11: to kids.

1037
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 4: They don't want any of that.

1038
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 11: I'm curious how it is that we get our political

1039
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 11: space back realigned to such a way that the floor

1040
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 11: isn't so damn low, right. I mean we're sceptterranean now

1041
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 11: when we say benchmarks against one another, even in our

1042
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 11: own you know, in the state of Florida, you're comparing

1043
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 11: folks who generally don't want us in the same building,

1044
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 11: the same space, the same room, and then others who say,

1045
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 11: if you're gonna be there, it won't be through any

1046
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 11: support the.

1047
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 6: Illusion of inclusion.

1048
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 4: Right, that's what it is, right, Yea.

1049
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 7: Look, I think I was listening earlier today. I was

1050
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 7: a black sheep. The choice of yours came on the radio.

1051
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 7: You can get with this, you can get with that. Yeah,

1052
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 7: this November fifty two days. I think we got fifty

1053
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 7: two days in a wake up. You can either get

1054
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,399
Speaker 7: with this, which is about protecting our rights not rolling

1055
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 7: them back. As y'all know, I'm preaching to the choir,

1056
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 7: but the acquired needs a tune up every now and then,

1057
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 7: right making certain that we do not allow d and

1058
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 7: I roll back, making certain that we finally get the

1059
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 7: John R.

1060
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 9: Lewis Voting Rights Act past.

1061
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 7: Doing all the things that we know are our north

1062
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 7: stars as black people, black people, let's say black yes

1063
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 7: in America, or you can get with this over here

1064
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 7: on that which is all the attacks, all the things

1065
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 7: you just said, all the books that are being rolled

1066
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 7: back you cannot read, or Amanda Gorman's poem in the

1067
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 7: State of Florida.

1068
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Speaker 9: So we got a lot of work to do.

1069
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 19: You know that.

1070
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 7: I don't know that we haven't answer yet about how

1071
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 7: we raise the ceiling over time, but we got to

1072
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 7: win something you cannot.

1073
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 9: You cannot govern if you do not win. As you

1074
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 9: used to say.

1075
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: It's told me before he got on he had to go.

1076
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: Ebram squeezed us. And we love y'all. We appreciate you

1077
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: for being here.

1078
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 9: Thank you, We love y'all so much.

1079
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 3: Do you want to say a rattler something or something

1080
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 3: and while there, thank you guys so much for being here.

1081
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 3: While they're leaving. We are welcoming up Congresswoman Evat Clark.

1082
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 3: She is the incoming chair for the Congressional Black CAUCUSSE.

1083
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 3: She's been in congressional leadership a long time, Chris, and

1084
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 3: she is extraordinary.

1085
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: We first met while she was on.

1086
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 3: The Homeland Security Committee as a freshman, and watching her

1087
00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 3: rise has been my greatest privilege and honor. Congress with Mclark,

1088
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 3: thank you so much for being here with us today.

1089
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 5: I want to add that she's one of the most

1090
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 5: fashionable members Congress as well. Has always been super fly

1091
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 5: and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. And

1092
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 5: on a personal note of privilege, you have always been

1093
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 5: so supportive of me, so I want to thank you

1094
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 5: publicly for that.

1095
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: So we love you and happy welcome.

1096
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 12: Home, Welcome, wonderful. It's such an honor to be with you.

1097
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 12: And I do want to make a correction. I am

1098
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 12: the first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and

1099
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 12: I'm seeking the support of my colleagues will message of

1100
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 12: the Congressional Black Caucus.

1101
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 3: But you know you put it well, here's what I know,

1102
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 3: Here's what I know, And I want to say this

1103
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 3: to you. Of course, that race is not partisan, and

1104
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 3: also we're in the clear here. What I want to

1105
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 3: say to you to your face, Miss Clark, is as

1106
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Speaker 3: long as I worked on the hill and even after,

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Speaker 3: I know how long you've served diligently, how much you

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Speaker 3: love your colleagues, how much you love the culture, how

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Speaker 3: much you love your constituents, how much you adore our community.

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Speaker 3: And so I am confident that you will be the

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Speaker 3: next share of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Speaker 1: And I know I've seen your service, you know firsthand.

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Speaker 3: And I loved laboring with you because you made everything

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Speaker 3: fun and we still worked hard, but you always kept

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Speaker 3: a smile on your face.

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Speaker 1: And I'm grateful for that and for your sisterhood too.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much, my sister, Andrew. It's such a pleasure.

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Speaker 12: It's good to be with you.

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Speaker 9: I was going to tell you.

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Speaker 11: I told Congress went mixing waters when we were together

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Speaker 11: at the DNC. How growing up in Florida, in Gainesville,

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00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 11: how I didn't know my member of Congress and there

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Speaker 11: was a white male at the time, and how because

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Speaker 11: of her advocacy, I always felt like she was my

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Speaker 11: member of Congress. You're the next member of Congress who

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Speaker 11: really puts puts it in the mold of I don't

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Speaker 11: have to be a New York resident in your district

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Speaker 11: to know that you're out there fighting for us, and

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Speaker 11: so I know our listeners feel that way. I know

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Speaker 11: I personally feel that way, and I just I'm thankful

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00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 11: for your leadership and high time that a voice like

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Speaker 11: yours helms again the CBC.

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Speaker 12: I want thank you, Thank you all so very much.

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Speaker 12: I appreciate it, and I love my people. At the baseline,

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00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 12: it starts with the love of your people, and you

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00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 12: will go, you know, through the fire, yeah, to make

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Speaker 12: sure that they are safe, they are protected, they are thriving.

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Speaker 12: That's real in this society.

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Speaker 1: You do that every day. I want to ask you.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're talking about this election in less partisan

1141
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 3: ways because you know, we want to protect the five o'

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Speaker 3: one C three status of the Foundation absolutely, But one

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00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 3: thing I wanted to raise is there are a lot

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Speaker 3: of concerns of impacting our community specifically going into this election.

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Speaker 3: And we're not talking about who to go for necessarily

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00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 3: right now, but I think we all want to preserve democracy.

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00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 3: There are a lot of threats at stake, and you,

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Speaker 3: for a long time. Cybersecurity has been your bread and butter,

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00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 3: you know that space. What are you more concerned about

1150
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 3: for black folks going into this election?

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Speaker 12: Cite absolutely. I'm concerned that our extreme, you know, devotion

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Speaker 12: to social media puts us in a place where misinformation

1153
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 12: and disinformation can can permeate our thoughts and so oftentimes

1154
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 12: what we're seeing is not accurate, their deep fakes. You

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00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 12: technology used to deceive, intentionally deceive people. That can be

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00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 12: visual and it can be audio as well, And this

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00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 12: will be the first election where this technology is that

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Speaker 12: the fingertips of the average everyday American not to mention

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Speaker 12: foreign advisory. And so I'm just concerned, given the tone

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Speaker 12: and tenor of this particular election cycle, some would call

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Speaker 12: it desperation, others would call it overly ambitious, that there

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Speaker 12: will be those types of disruptions to our election. And

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Speaker 12: it doesn't have to be information regarding candidates. It could

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Speaker 12: be your polling side is close.

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Speaker 1: Right righte the date of the election.

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Speaker 5: And it's interesting you bring that up because it shows

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Speaker 5: how powerful we are as a people in this country, first,

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Speaker 5: but second as a voting block, because we are disproportionately

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Speaker 5: targeted by misinformation and disinformation, I would argue perhaps second

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Speaker 5: only to the Lasino community, and a lot of these

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00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 5: outlets don't have native Spanish speakers to help dispute some

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Speaker 5: of the disinformation. So we want to encourage our viewers

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Speaker 5: out there share responsibly, consume information responsibly. What are some

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Speaker 5: things that you would encourage people to do, like how

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Speaker 5: you know, how how do they make sure that they're

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Speaker 5: not consuming misinformation and disinformation?

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Speaker 12: And what role is the Congressional black costice And you

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Speaker 12: take the same device provide that's the opportunity to fact check. Yes, right,

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Speaker 12: So don't just receive content and not then do some

1180
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 12: a little due diligence around it, because if it doesn't

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00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 12: sound right, it probably isn't right right. And oftentimes we

1182
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 12: know that the information we receive can be flawed and

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Speaker 12: we don't want to inadvertently participate in the spread of that.

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Speaker 12: And that's what generitive AI can do in the blink

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Speaker 12: of an eye. So I want to encourage our folks

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00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 12: to use that same device. When you receive something on

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Speaker 12: social media to investigate, you do your own fact checking.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, have you considered, I know you've got to bounce.

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Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 11: Have you considered the feeling what the work becomes if

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Speaker 11: you are negotiating as CBC chair with a black woman

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Speaker 11: president who's overly qualified, and all the other good stuff.

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Speaker 11: But I just I don't want us to sit in

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Speaker 11: a moment that we're not at yet. But I would

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Speaker 11: love to hear your pre thought.

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Speaker 12: I'm extraordinarily excited about, first of all, what the Biden

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Speaker 12: Harris administration has already done. They've made monumental investments, and

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Speaker 12: the CBC has been a major part of negotiating those investments,

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Speaker 12: knowing that the need for those investments to hit our

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Speaker 12: communities is paramount, and that we're turning the page. We

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Speaker 12: are already turning the page. The question is will we

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Speaker 12: go back, Will all of those investments be dismantled? And

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Speaker 12: we say no, it won't. We say not on our watch,

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Speaker 12: and just knowing that this, I want to say, sister,

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Speaker 12: is a new generation. Both of us were born in

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Speaker 12: the same year. I won't go into those details, but

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01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 12: you can google it, use your Google machine. We were

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01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 12: birth born as beneficiaries of the civil rights movement. We

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Speaker 12: were not you know, the young people that march or

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Speaker 12: the young people that were host We were the beneficiaries,

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Speaker 12: and that meant that, you know, the world was our

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Speaker 12: oyster because our ancestors truly did what needed to be

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Speaker 12: doe to get to be done in order to advance

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Speaker 12: our communities. We now have someone with that frame.

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Speaker 6: To move us forward.

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Speaker 12: And certainly among CBC members, we've got a intergenerational body

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Speaker 12: and that is a unique blend in this century. We are,

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Speaker 12: I believe, at the precipice of manifesting a whole new

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Speaker 12: paradigm of a civil society. It already exists. They are

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Speaker 12: those who are in denial about the existence. But as

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Speaker 12: a result of what our ancestors that we probably have

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Speaker 12: the most educated Black community in the generation. That's not

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Speaker 12: to say that there is major work that has to

1224
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Speaker 12: be telling me because we got to raise the bar

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Speaker 12: and I think that's where the fear that we are

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Speaker 12: experiencing that has been weaponized against us is coming from.

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Speaker 12: So stay tuned, and I just.

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Speaker 1: Want to let you know because I know you've got

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Speaker 1: to get to the dinner.

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Speaker 5: But the comments on our YouTube live, everyone is commenting

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Speaker 5: about your glasses and your nails.

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Speaker 1: I told y'all she the most fashionable. So thank you

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 10: Much.

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Speaker 3: Continued success, you can't wait to have you back in

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Speaker 3: all your capacities.

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Speaker 6: I love you.

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Speaker 5: I am so excited about the guests and I angel

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Speaker 5: and I'm excited because I see some people waiting in

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Speaker 5: the wing. Yes, and I'm so excited to talk to

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Speaker 5: these ladies.

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Speaker 15: We have some.

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Speaker 1: Superstars that are coming up to join us right now.

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Speaker 3: Some of y'all are sadly, really narrow minded about one

1245
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 3: of these ladies' contributions to not only the discourse but

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Speaker 3: to the political ecosystem. She is representing our interests all

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Speaker 3: day long in committee hearing after committee hearing, and markup

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Speaker 3: after markup. She is on the House floor making sure

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Speaker 3: that our positions are heard, that we are represented fully.

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Speaker 3: And she even gets on Twitter and breaks down what's

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Speaker 3: really going on or what should be going on, because

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Speaker 3: it's not going on. I'm not gonna get two partisan

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Speaker 3: up in here, because, like I said, we are at

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Speaker 3: the CBC Foundation and your legislative conference. But we are

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Speaker 3: joined by Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and there's another superstar. They

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Speaker 3: tell you they are a gift and they are dressed

1257
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Speaker 3: by Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so here we go.

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Speaker 3: This wasn't even planned, but we are joined by District

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Speaker 3: Attorney Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, who's also here

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Speaker 3: with us tonight.

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Speaker 1: So Jason, find welcome. We are so happy to have

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Speaker 1: you both. We got a town down and eightstown down.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, look at me, Deawn. Yeah, yes, we're excited.

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Speaker 5: Lady Jasmine, it's like you might be a three timer

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Speaker 5: on this show. You research.

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Speaker 12: We love having you.

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Speaker 1: Youwers love having you.

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Speaker 5: I'm at home, so here we absolutely I want to

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Speaker 5: because Jasmine's been here before us. I do want to

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Speaker 5: start off with Madame District Attorney Fannie Willis.

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Speaker 1: We were lock glued. We were so like such a

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Speaker 1: just cheering for you.

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Speaker 5: So before I ask you anything, I just want to

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Speaker 5: say thank you, yes for standing on the front lines

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01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 5: of democracy.

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Speaker 1: I do want to let you know that I have

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Speaker 1: stolen your quote.

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Speaker 5: No matter what the situation is, if I'm running late

1280
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Speaker 5: for a flight, I always say, no, you're confused.

1281
01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: You think I'm the one running for it.

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01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 5: But y'all are confused because these are people trying to

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Speaker 5: make me miss my flight. Of course, I'm taking that

1284
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 5: from her when she said, you're confused, you think.

1285
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Speaker 1: I'm on trial.

1286
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Speaker 5: These people are on trial. I'm trying to steal an election.

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Speaker 5: So thank you for your work. How he are you

1288
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 5: doing personally and professionally.

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Speaker 20: I'm excellent. I am actually at the happiest time in

1290
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 20: my life. I think people would find that surprising, but

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Speaker 20: I am living my dream. There's nothing more than I

1292
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 20: want to be than the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia.

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Speaker 12: Fulton County is my home.

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Speaker 9: The work is important.

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Speaker 20: It is important that we have people that really represent

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Speaker 20: the values of the community and understand that everyone in

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Speaker 20: a community gets to be safe. So I'm happy there.

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Speaker 20: I have two beautiful daughters. They're just getting to that

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Speaker 20: age where their.

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Speaker 12: Brain works twenty five and.

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Speaker 20: Accuracy, an accurate statement. I've been raising these beautiful daughters,

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01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 20: and so I know that to be true. I'm gonna

1303
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 20: be a grandmother. My personal life is good, and so

1304
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Speaker 20: I am excellent. No matter how hard they come from me,

1305
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 20: they mad because I'm.

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Speaker 21: Doing good over here.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations coming to grandmother.

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Speaker 13: Amazing.

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Speaker 5: They try to throw us off our game all the time,

1310
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 5: but try as they might, it don't work. You of

1311
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Speaker 5: all people know that Congresswoman Crockett, I love this dress

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Speaker 5: that you're wearing.

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Speaker 1: Tonight, by the way, so listen, I think it's it's

1314
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Speaker 1: so great.

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Speaker 22: First of all, I love Fani for so many different reasons,

1316
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Speaker 22: but as someone who's always been more so in the

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Speaker 22: public defender side of things, I can tell you that

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Speaker 22: I've always appreciated a good prosecutor, right yeah, Because.

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Speaker 1: Here's the deal. Some people make mistakes.

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Speaker 22: Some people are simply, you know, dealing with circumstances of

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Speaker 22: life and end up in some kind of circumstances. But

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Speaker 22: having a prosecutor that sees people as just that people

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Speaker 22: is really important. And as we are going through this election,

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Speaker 22: all I can think about is that there is a

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01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:50,439
Speaker 22: prosecutor in the race, right But one of the things

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01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 22: that it's really difficult to get people to do is

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01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 22: to see and value her as someone who's literally just

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01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 22: always stood for the people.

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Speaker 1: Because that's what Fani does.

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Speaker 22: Her job isn't to go after a certain person or

1331
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 22: a certain type of person, is to look to see

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Speaker 22: if someone has broken the law, and to stand for

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Speaker 22: the people of full ten County. And so I am

1334
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 22: so appreciative for all of the prosecutors that actually do

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Speaker 22: their job, which is to.

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Speaker 21: Seek justice and not convictions.

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01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 22: And so we need to make sure that we're continually

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01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 22: educating our community.

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Speaker 1: About what a prosecutor is supposed to look like.

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Speaker 22: It's supposed to seek out justice, and sometimes situations just

1341
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 22: aren't just. But as they are standing in the gap,

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Speaker 22: they are the highest law enforcement agent in those counties,

1343
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 22: and so it is important that you have someone that

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01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 22: does not misuse or abuse that power, but instead harnesses

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01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 22: that power and make sure that they are standing for

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Speaker 22: the community. And so I'm just excited that I get

1347
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 22: to sit next to her and we get to bring

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Speaker 22: Christmas early.

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Speaker 1: I have one question for you. It's something I think

1350
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 1: about all the time. In law school.

1351
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Speaker 3: When they came to recruit district attorneys, prosecutors will come

1352
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 3: to coircuit.

1353
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't do that.

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Speaker 3: That's where my people ended up going. What was the

1355
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 3: thing for you that was like, this is exactly where

1356
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 3: I need to be. What was the thing that clicked

1357
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Speaker 3: for you? So that's really interesting. If you know my history,

1358
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 3: I was actually raised by a defense attorney. My father

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01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 3: practiced criminal defense. As a child, I was dragged at courtrooms.

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Speaker 1: By the way. You know, I told you yesterday, Yes,

1361
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 1: your daddy and my daddy could be friends.

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Speaker 20: Meet, and so I always wanted to be a defense attorney, right,

1363
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 20: I wanted to be like my father. What happened was

1364
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 20: I was actually young, married, had two young children, and

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Speaker 20: I was like, let me go see about being a prosecutor.

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Speaker 20: And what I have learned is and it is not

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01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 20: that I am better than any defense attorney. It is

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01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 20: that I am in position. And so I tell people

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01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 20: all the time, I have probably been able to help

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01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 20: more people charged with crimes than any individual defense attorney

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Speaker 20: because I sit in the seat where we made those decisions, and.

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01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 21: So I'm able to have an office.

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01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 20: When I took my office, literally the police would facts

1374
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 20: over a statement and an indictment would be brought. I

1375
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 20: have changed the policy in my office that you're not

1376
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 20: ever able to bring an indictment until you do an investigation.

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Speaker 20: And you would be surprised at the percentage of people

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01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 20: that never get charged because we are doing what is

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01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 20: just by them. We also started a diversion program that

1380
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 20: sometimes they did do it, but it's their first defense.

1381
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 20: They were young, it was a mistake. We can make

1382
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 20: the victim whole and we can restore them. And so

1383
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 20: I am looking at the people charged with crimes as

1384
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 20: human beings. Another thing is I take a huge part

1385
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 20: of my budget and I put it into the school

1386
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 20: system because, as I tell people often, I want to

1387
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 20: see the children that look like me and don't look

1388
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 20: like me, but have opportunity ahead of them in the

1389
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 20: classroom and not in the courtroom. And so it is

1390
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 20: so important that as people listen to your program, that

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01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 20: they don't go in on November fifth and just vote

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01:09:57,680 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 20: at the top of the ballot. They need to vot

1393
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 20: and those local elections that are going to touch them,

1394
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 20: their mothers, their grandmothers, their nephews, their uncles. And I

1395
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 20: can tell you that a prosecutor is one of the

1396
01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:11,720
Speaker 20: things that touches too many people's lives. And you need

1397
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:13,640
Speaker 20: to make sure that you have someone sitting in that

1398
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 20: seat that cares about you, involves you you, and doesn't

1399
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:18,599
Speaker 20: think that you are just someone that should be thrown

1400
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 20: away based on the way you look, or who you love,

1401
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 20: or the zip code or area code.

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01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:23,720
Speaker 9: That you live in.

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01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 11: I preach, preach, preach past the basket, come out of

1404
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,679
Speaker 11: the local tradition. So I feel that while this question

1405
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 11: is directed that you, finally, I'm hoping, Jasmine, you would

1406
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 11: weigh in here, which is while you are doing great,

1407
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 11: which I'm loving you and your life professionally and personally,

1408
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 11: the Republicans in your state are pretty obsessed with you

1409
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 11: and so being are attempting to level the power of

1410
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 11: your office, which will have impact on every black next

1411
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 11: prosecutor who follows you, and so on and so forth.

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01:10:58,240 --> 01:11:00,320
Speaker 4: And I know you've been at the epicenter, you know,

1413
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 4: taking the arrows as well.

1414
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 11: What can we got a lot of listeners from Georgia,

1415
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 11: a lot from Atlanta and the surrounding area. What can

1416
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:14,640
Speaker 11: black lawyers be doing in Georgia to not just I

1417
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 11: don't want to put it on you, but we know

1418
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 11: what's powering a lot of this movement. But what can

1419
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 11: they do to help protect you the office, the ability

1420
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,600
Speaker 11: for folks like you who want to come next to

1421
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 11: not feel so bowed by the attacks against you that

1422
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 11: it's not a choice that they make.

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01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 4: What does that look like? And the reason why I

1424
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:34,600
Speaker 4: pointed at you as well, Jasmine, is.

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01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 11: Because you're a lawyer yourself. Some may be afraid of

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 11: what that thing is that they may have to do

1427
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:41,560
Speaker 11: to stand in protection. And I'd love for you to

1428
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 11: speak to that.

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01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:44,439
Speaker 21: Well, well, I will start.

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01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 20: I think that one thing that lawyers all over the

1431
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 20: country can do is they can let these senators because

1432
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 20: I live renfree in Republicans locally and nationally, I'm there,

1433
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 20: I got the mortgage paid up. As a result of that,

1434
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 20: I am the target many many times. But what they

1435
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,280
Speaker 20: don't understand is I take my craft very seriously, and

1436
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 20: we dot our eyes and we cross our t's and

1437
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 20: we make sure that we operate ethically. And that is

1438
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,800
Speaker 20: a very frightening proposition. People want to get up, they

1439
01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 20: want to do good work, they want to make their money,

1440
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 20: and they want to be left alone. And so I

1441
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 20: understand people not wanting to live really excuse me the

1442
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:20,600
Speaker 20: hell that I have lived where I can't live in

1443
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:22,759
Speaker 20: my home but I had to pay the mortgage today anyway,

1444
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 20: or where I am threatened constantly. I understand someone not

1445
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 20: wanting to live like that, But at some point you

1446
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 20: have to make a decision what is your life for

1447
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 20: what does it mean? And for me personally, I want

1448
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 20: to make sure that it's a life of service. You know,

1449
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 20: we're only here for a very limited number of days,

1450
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 20: and the only thing that's really going to matter is

1451
01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 20: how did you help other human beings, and so I

1452
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 20: think that it's worth it. And I think that us

1453
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 20: as young African Americans, although I'm in my fifties, I'm

1454
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 20: gonna still Clay.

1455
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 21: Take that young title.

1456
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,560
Speaker 20: I think that it's important that we recognize all the

1457
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 20: shoulders that we stand on of black people, of white people.

1458
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 13: Of Jewish people.

1459
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 20: It was a movement that took us to resting, and

1460
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:02,560
Speaker 20: we are living in a time where they want to

1461
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 20: take history out of our books, have us forget it

1462
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 20: and not remember all the legacy that we stand on.

1463
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:10,600
Speaker 21: And I know the legacy that.

1464
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 4: I stand on.

1465
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 12: I've already read the books.

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01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 4: Come all right, And so I plan to do the work.

1467
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 20: And I think that lawyers need to demand that the

1468
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 20: senators that who want to attack and do things wrongly,

1469
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 20: that they know that we're not going to allow it,

1470
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 20: and that they stand next to me.

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Speaker 12: And not calur.

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01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 4: Come on, that's it.

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01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 3: Any dark you're gonna say, any party words for you

1474
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 3: a congressman, I know you guys have to go to

1475
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:30,719
Speaker 3: the dinner.

1476
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:35,320
Speaker 22: I was literally gonna basically echo those sentiments. Besides like

1477
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 22: paying amensh ancestors who literally pave the way for us

1478
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 22: to have the opportunities. I do think it's important that

1479
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 22: as a village we stand together. It's kind of like

1480
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,280
Speaker 22: the kid that goes to the playground. If you go

1481
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 22: to the playground and they think you ain't got no

1482
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 22: cousins and no sisters and brothers, then.

1483
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 1: They will jump you.

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01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 22: But if they see that you have an entire coalition

1485
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaker 22: standing with you, then they are afraid of you. And

1486
01:13:57,880 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 22: so what we need to do is we need to

1487
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 22: lets our power. We didn't get through or to law

1488
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 22: school by ourselves. There were those that made sacrifices. Some

1489
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:10,320
Speaker 22: lost their lives plenty bled and some literally just went

1490
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 22: to jail so that we could have the opportunities. So

1491
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 22: I do think that at some point in time, you

1492
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 22: have to say, what am I going to do with

1493
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 22: this privilege that has been granted upon me. And so

1494
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,040
Speaker 22: even if you don't want to be on the front lines,

1495
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 22: because I get it, if you don't want to necessarily

1496
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 22: be the ones that takes all the bullets, make sure

1497
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 22: that you are standing there with us. Make sure that

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01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 22: you are providing some armor, and make sure that she's

1499
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:34,559
Speaker 22: not having to spend all her dag on campaign money

1500
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 22: hiring lawyers out the Wazu, and half of them may

1501
01:14:37,680 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 22: not even have her back. They just good for her

1502
01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:43,120
Speaker 22: so long as she keeps paying them a check. Sometimes

1503
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,120
Speaker 22: you have to decide. My sacrifice may not be that

1504
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 22: I'm gonna run for office, but I'm gonna make the

1505
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 22: sacrifice and support those that are running for office.

1506
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,240
Speaker 13: And so that's what I would implore them to do.

1507
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: But we have our margin orders and it's Kyle County girl.

1508
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:58,960
Speaker 1: A love that that Fulham County girl. Thank you guys

1509
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: so much. Queen Queens. Yes, thank you for having me.

1510
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 5: Thank you. You know what's interesting all of us, these

1511
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 5: ladies andrew all of us, we have all been attacked

1512
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 5: publicly by them.

1513
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 1: They not like us, and they don't like us.

1514
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 3: Well, thank God for this particular conference which has been

1515
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 3: called from Vision to Victory. We are so fortunate to

1516
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 3: be joined now by Congressman Troy Carter, who is an

1517
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:41,599
Speaker 3: Annual Legislative Conference co chair. He is representing New Orleans.

1518
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:46,559
Speaker 3: And we also are being joined by Congresswoman Joyce Batty,

1519
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 3: who is a CBC Foundation board member. And we also

1520
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 3: see present the extraordinary, extraordinarily brilliant.

1521
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: And beautiful summer Ly, Congresswoman Summerly you.

1522
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 3: We might as well get y'all all up, because y'all

1523
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 3: come to go line up to march across that.

1524
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: Stage in just a moment.

1525
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 5: How congresome and baby, she didn't walk, she floated, She

1526
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:12,880
Speaker 5: did floated, She elegantly floated into con seats.

1527
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 3: I want to shout out my friends Quentin and Stephanie

1528
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 3: Brown who are here also. We're gonna get them on

1529
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,639
Speaker 3: all the members, y'all because they gotta go, They gotta

1530
01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 3: go line up.

1531
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 5: Look at you look beautiful, beautiful and handsome and handsome.

1532
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: So happy to have you guys here.

1533
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 3: So from vision to victory. We are the last day

1534
01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:35,960
Speaker 3: of the conference. How do you think we've done? Are

1535
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:38,000
Speaker 3: we closer to the victory? And this is a non

1536
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 3: partisan question, to be very.

1537
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 8: We're absolutely closer.

1538
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:41,719
Speaker 10: To the victory.

1539
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: Get closer to the mic.

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Speaker 23: We're absolutely closer to the victory. When you look at

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01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 23: the excitement, the energy, the commitment, people see the opportunity

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Speaker 23: to save our democracy. And I think while this has

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Speaker 23: been a great opportunity to come together party with a purpose.

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Speaker 23: While we're having a good time, we're also talking about

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01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 23: significant policy. We're talking about making sure that the antidote

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01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 23: to Trump twenty twenty five is November fifth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 9: Vote.

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Speaker 3: I want to come to you, miss baby, and I

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Speaker 3: also want to defer to my colleagues. But I wanted

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01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 3: to start here because I heard someone say to.

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Speaker 1: Me the other day. They were like, there's a member

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01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:21,719
Speaker 1: of Congress.

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01:17:21,760 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 3: She got this short PIXI cut and she had sharp

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Speaker 3: and she gave us our marchant orders at Black Women's Agenda.

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Speaker 1: So I know you can tear the house now. So

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Speaker 1: what you got for us, I know you got something

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, we would not be here at

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Speaker 3: this conference without the advocacy, the fierce advocacy a Congressman Joyce.

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01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,680
Speaker 1: Baty, and she does it for the people every single day.

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Speaker 19: So thank you, no, thank you all for doing this.

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Speaker 19: And I certainly agree with Congressman Troy Carter. And let

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Speaker 19: me just say, we are closer because we have a platform.

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01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 19: We are closer because we have a candidate fat not partisan.

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01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 19: When you think about we're here for or CBCFLC. We

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01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:05,759
Speaker 19: took fifty percent of little Black babies out of poverty.

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01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 19: We put thirty five dollars cap on insulin for our

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Speaker 19: seniors and others. We put sixty five billion dollars into

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01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 19: HBCUs and I'm a HBCU SEU graduate.

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Speaker 1: And if that's not good enough, let's talk about.

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Speaker 19: Loan forgiveness one hundred and sixty seven billion dollars for

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01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:28,880
Speaker 19: some sixty four million people.

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Speaker 21: So we have a platform.

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01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 19: Economy is better fifteen million jobs inflation. Now, if you

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01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 19: look at the plan of the two different visions, I

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01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 19: certainly want to be on the sister's vision. And so

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01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 19: I'm just saying kkk. You know what we usually think

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01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:47,720
Speaker 19: about when we hear that, Well, I'm gonna give it

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01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 19: a DEI name on King's Day, Katanji Jackson.

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01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 9: Brown's gonna square in kam La Harris.

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01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: That's my kkkk ok.

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01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 19: Yeah, come because I got a black job, My black

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 19: job twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 21: As Troy said, it's bad.

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01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 19: It dismantles everything that we believe in in our values.

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Speaker 19: So I'm gonna call it twenty twenty four vote. I

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01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 19: just need everybody to vote. But let's not get over excited.

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01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 19: Let's not think the job is done, because we are

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01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:31,160
Speaker 19: a long way from it until we get to election day.

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Speaker 19: So I just want everybody to take the energy and

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01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:37,760
Speaker 19: double it for the next fifty some days, and then

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Speaker 19: I'll be really happy to say I love that.

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Speaker 1: Congress Woman Lee, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 5: I love the margin orders we just got from Congressman

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01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 5: Baby Joe Taka Edie who I'm sure you guys know her,

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01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,759
Speaker 5: one of my dearest friends. Yes, we love Joe Taka

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Speaker 5: and her work around one with black women. She addressed

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Speaker 5: the conference this week, and one point that she made

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Speaker 5: here in DC inauguration weekend, there is no accommodation. Hotels

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01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 5: are sold out. That is how confident people are about

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01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 5: this election. And so I hear your caution Joe Taka's

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01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:15,519
Speaker 5: marching orders. Where if you have a hotel room books here,

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01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,600
Speaker 5: but you ain't registered nobody to vote, there you go,

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01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 5: then you ain't been doing your job. So, Congressoman Lee,

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Speaker 5: I'm curious what you would say to people out there

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01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 5: who are rightfully celebratory of this moment, after what we've

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01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:29,280
Speaker 5: been through as a people and as a country.

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Speaker 1: What are your marching orders to our audience watching right now?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so listen, I'm in Pennsylvania, So I always take excitement.

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01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 14: I take joy that I see especially in these places

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01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:42,759
Speaker 14: right because when we gather, we bring this sort of energy.

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01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 14: But when we go home, we forget sometimes that we're

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01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 14: going back to people who are in these circles. Yeah right,

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01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 14: they're not getting dressed up tonight. They haven't been able

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01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 14: to hear all the inspiration from these panels. They haven't

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01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 14: absorbed all the black excellence that we've been absorbing. So

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01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 14: we got to go back to the states just like mine,

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01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 14: to western Pennsylvania, and we actually have to talk to

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01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 14: people who are not.

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01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: As tuned in as we are.

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01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 21: And that's not as easy.

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Speaker 14: And it's okay to admit that when we talk about

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Speaker 14: what Solar Baby said that we have a plan, we

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01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 14: have to take it. That's our responsibility. We have to

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01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 14: go on doors and we have to let folks know

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01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 14: what's that stake and what we can do to address that.

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Speaker 14: We have to let people know that hope isn't something

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01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:21,759
Speaker 14: that is just a word, but we have a belief

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01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 14: in each other and ourselves, and when we step up

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01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:26,560
Speaker 14: for ourselves, we can get those things done. But you know,

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Speaker 14: that is translating all of this into some actual action.

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Speaker 14: We always get folks who say they want to you know,

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Speaker 14: they'll go to the rallies, and I love rallies, y'all.

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01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 14: I do there's a lot of energy out these rallies,

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Speaker 14: But the reality is is that the people who we

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01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 14: need are not the rally We need to go and

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01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:44,600
Speaker 14: get black folks on college campuses. We got to go

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Speaker 14: and get young folks who are reasonably concerned about a

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01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:50,640
Speaker 14: lot of stuff. We need to take that concern and

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01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 14: we need to help connect them into the system. We

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01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 14: need to plug them in, and we got to be

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01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 14: patient with them. So I'm seeing this and I think

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Speaker 14: that this is a really good foundation, but we know

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Speaker 14: in these fifty something days, we got work to do.

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Speaker 1: Steel Yeah, I think that's so.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of like an analogy for the kids who

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01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 5: show up to the guidance counselor's office because they want

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Speaker 5: to go to college. Those are not the kids who

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01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:11,080
Speaker 5: are in the most need. It's the kids who are

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Speaker 5: not participating. So I love that you made that point.

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Speaker 11: I think that's a poignant So I don't want to

1652
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:20,400
Speaker 11: be a Donald downer, but I do want to say

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01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 11: a lot of people elect people to public office and

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01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 11: then they start to criticize those individuals basically saying, well,

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Speaker 11: they didn't get done.

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Speaker 4: What it is that they said they would do.

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Speaker 11: I often try to remind folks, look, we came here

1658
01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 11: under ball and chain had to endure, you know, four

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01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 11: hundred years of servit to before even being legal, then

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01:22:40,200 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 11: having that taken away before then we're still seeing laws

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Speaker 11: that are passed that bring us into our full existence.

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01:22:46,280 --> 01:22:49,920
Speaker 11: What does Kamala Harris in addition to folks going out

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01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 11: and voting and organizing for her, what companionship does she

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01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:56,240
Speaker 11: need in order to facilitate the movement of an agenda

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Speaker 11: that makes life different for people in the streets.

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Speaker 6: She needs an a Keen Jeffries to be Speaker of

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01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:03,640
Speaker 6: the House. We need to have.

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Speaker 23: A full complement of democratic senators in the majority in

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01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:13,960
Speaker 23: the US Senate. We need a patient community, a faith

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01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 23: based community, an academia, nonprofit and business to recognize that

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01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:24,520
Speaker 23: the alternative is no democracy. The alternative is a reversal

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Speaker 23: of people's rights. The alternative is a total ignoring of

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Speaker 23: the Constitution and the rights that we have.

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Speaker 12: We cannot go backwards.

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Speaker 23: And so when you think about where we are, we

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01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 23: have a vice president who was a district attorney, an

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Speaker 23: attorney general, a United States Senator, and now the vice

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01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 23: president soon to be president. Of the United States, the

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01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 23: most consequential candidate to have ever served as vice president,

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01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:58,439
Speaker 23: and no one has had as much experience as she

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01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 23: does bringing to the over It's ridiculous that people will

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01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 23: suggest otherwise everyone should stand and defend and just call

1683
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:10,799
Speaker 23: balls and strikes. The facts bear out Kamala Harris clearly

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01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 23: has the requisite skill sets, temperament, and abilities what we

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01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 23: have to do as a people. As Jesse Jackson said

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01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 23: in nineteen eighty eight, you can't.

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Speaker 12: Helpe me in.

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01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 8: You have to vote for me in.

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Speaker 23: So we've got to remind people that for the next

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Speaker 23: fifty one fifty two fifty three days, we got to hump.

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01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:31,640
Speaker 23: We got to just as as severally just said, we

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01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:33,680
Speaker 23: can't depend on the circles that we're in.

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Speaker 12: We're the choir preaching to the choir.

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01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:39,280
Speaker 23: We've got to go out and the to the communities,

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01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 23: into the barbershops, the beauty shops, into the nightclubs and

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01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 23: the sororities and fraternities, and we've got to tell people, yes,

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01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 23: your vote does matter, and we can't afford to think

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01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 23: we've got this thing one so we can celebrate.

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01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:54,679
Speaker 9: No, No, it's going to be close.

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Speaker 23: And in order to make sure that we can defend

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01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 23: what will happen on election day. We have to make

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01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 23: sure it is a solid victory.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:04,599
Speaker 1: I want to flag for you all.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the Congressional Black Caucus is known as the

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01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:10,360
Speaker 3: conscience of the Congress, and with the three of you

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01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:13,799
Speaker 3: all sitting here, you all have divergent politics. Your politics

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01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 3: aren't all the way aligned. And what I love about this.

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01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:20,320
Speaker 1: Is people get to see themselves reflected in each of you.

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01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 3: And as the caucus continues to grow, we see from

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01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 3: how you vote, from the way you negotiate.

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Speaker 1: From what you say in committee, the differences.

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Speaker 3: There was one moment yesterday that I wanted to mention

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Speaker 3: at the top of the show, and I forgot until now.

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01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 3: But this conference is always a convening for people of

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01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 3: divergent opinions and perspectives to share.

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01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: In forums, people get up and ask questions, sometimes want

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01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: a debate with y'all. But there was this really harrowing

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01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: moment last night.

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Speaker 3: I was walking out of the Salamander and there was

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Speaker 3: a protest, and the protest was for Justin Johnson, who

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01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 3: was killed at a McDonald's in DC, shot ten times.

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01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,320
Speaker 3: And I was so troubled that it was at a

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Speaker 3: black hotel for our black members. And of course I

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01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:07,439
Speaker 3: was walking with Papa Rye and my.

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01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 1: Dad looks at me and he says, this is where

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01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: they knew they could be heard.

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Speaker 3: And so I know that Justin Johnson and so many others,

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01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,880
Speaker 3: Breonna Taylor and mott Arbury have been at the top

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01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:21,600
Speaker 3: of you all's minds and you've legislated for them. But

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Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you for facilitating the

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Speaker 3: space for the protesters, for Justin Johnson, for the protesters

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01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 3: against the Israel Hamas war, for the protesters to ensure

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01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 3: that black lives matter. So for facilitating this space. I

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01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:37,600
Speaker 3: just want to say thank you, and I want to

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01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 3: honor you all for being here.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much.

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01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:43,840
Speaker 19: Do we realize that now, I'll say this, and I

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01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:48,599
Speaker 19: think we'd all agree, we realize our diversity. Sometimes people

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01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:51,880
Speaker 19: think when you say Congressional Black Caucus that we're all.

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01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 9: Alike, and we are not.

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01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:58,080
Speaker 19: And that's what we value and appreciate because that is

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01:26:58,320 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 19: our strength.

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01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 9: But it's even better when you put it all together.

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Speaker 21: That's the power is.

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01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 19: We can make anything happen, as we did with the

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01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:13,799
Speaker 19: infrastructure bills, or we can stop anything from happening.

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01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 6: As we did that, we got both parts.

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01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 9: That we wanted.

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01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:21,559
Speaker 19: We wanted to make sure that the services were going

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01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 19: to be voted on and signed, and so we did

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01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 19: it all because of our unity and our power. Yeah,

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Speaker 19: and if I could add to that, just even with

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01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,080
Speaker 19: what brother Carter was just talking about. When we think

1755
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 19: about what we are really needing to do right now,

1756
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:39,479
Speaker 19: it is how do we invest in the coalitions of

1757
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 19: the future to see me. You know, I'm a black

1758
01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 19: girl from Lamond Valley of Pittsborg outside of Pittsburgh, right,

1759
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,080
Speaker 19: I'm a progressive and a lot of people for a

1760
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:49,560
Speaker 19: long time, you know, we're told that you couldn't be

1761
01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:51,960
Speaker 19: black and progressive, And I actually don't always agree that

1762
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 19: we differ in so many ways. I think that sometimes

1763
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:57,679
Speaker 19: our politics difference and our policies, our goals are similar.

1764
01:27:57,840 --> 01:27:59,519
Speaker 19: We're trying to figure out what is the best way

1765
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:01,920
Speaker 19: to get there, recognizing that we're working through systems where

1766
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 19: there are no clear answers. So when we talk about

1767
01:28:04,439 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 19: how do we invite in these folks who have been disenfranchised,

1768
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 19: who maybe or are feel a little disaffected, how do

1769
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:12,160
Speaker 19: we make room for them? How do we welcome them,

1770
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 19: and when they see me in the place like that,

1771
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:15,600
Speaker 19: they see that that's possible. They see that you know what,

1772
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 19: even if I don't come you know, speaking the same language,

1773
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 19: I don't come with the same background, I don't come

1774
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 19: from the same socio economic status, that my blackness still qualifies.

1775
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:25,719
Speaker 24: Me to be in Congress.

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01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 14: That my perspective, my experiences qualifies me to have an opinion,

1777
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:32,000
Speaker 14: and that opinion deserves to be represented in every hall

1778
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:33,920
Speaker 14: of power. That's what this is about. And right now,

1779
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 14: when we think about what we need to do in

1780
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 14: these next forty something days, we need to figure out

1781
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 14: how do we remind and keep our democratic coalition together.

1782
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 24: How do we remind people that even the.

1783
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:45,799
Speaker 14: Democratic coalitions of the past aren't going to be sufficient

1784
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:48,680
Speaker 14: right now. What we know, what Republicans know, and what

1785
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 14: we need to know, is that that coalition of black folks,

1786
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 14: of brown folks, of young folks, of progressives, of moderates,

1787
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:57,479
Speaker 14: of people who are urban and rural and suburban, coming

1788
01:28:57,560 --> 01:28:59,839
Speaker 14: together right now is what's going to keep us afloat,

1789
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:01,000
Speaker 14: to keep democracy alive.

1790
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:02,519
Speaker 12: Well, we need to pull that together.

1791
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 19: You need to go back and tell them when they

1792
01:29:04,400 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 19: say you can't be progressive and democrat, that they don't

1793
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:10,599
Speaker 19: know our history. If you don't think Shirley Chisholm progress,

1794
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:13,520
Speaker 19: if you don't think John Lewis was gray.

1795
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 9: If you don't think Charlie Rango was and all of them.

1796
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 19: If you don't think Maxine Waters and Jim Clive right

1797
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:21,640
Speaker 19: not progressive.

1798
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:24,160
Speaker 21: So we have to make sure we keep our history.

1799
01:29:24,400 --> 01:29:26,680
Speaker 19: They do that to try to pit us against us

1800
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 19: when a younger generation comes in and says progressive and

1801
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:32,920
Speaker 19: black lives matter, Well, see, I'm from the generation before

1802
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:34,880
Speaker 19: we was raising our fists.

1803
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: And seeing black power with Jesse Jackson in the eighties.

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01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:40,680
Speaker 21: So I just want to lose it now, and that's

1805
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:41,400
Speaker 21: what I want to ask.

1806
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:44,639
Speaker 3: Lady said, I have receipts, and on type of received,

1807
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 3: y'all also have time. We have the chairwoman Terry Sewell

1808
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:52,799
Speaker 3: of the Congressional Black Hawks Foundation, who's here, and Nicole Austin,

1809
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 3: Hillary who is the president, who are going to join us,

1810
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:56,640
Speaker 3: and I know y'all got to get ready to go

1811
01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 3: meet your president.

1812
01:29:57,600 --> 01:29:58,519
Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be.

1813
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:07,720
Speaker 3: Thank you both, Carter, Congresswoman Baby Kate Summerlee.

1814
01:30:07,960 --> 01:30:10,520
Speaker 1: We are so grateful for your participation today.

1815
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:20,240
Speaker 5: I'm so excited to be joining friend Car with Stephen Quintin,

1816
01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:22,840
Speaker 5: and we want.

1817
01:30:22,720 --> 01:30:26,600
Speaker 1: You guys to stay tuned because some amazing work with

1818
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:32,519
Speaker 1: And all right, Madam President, please join this woman Terry Sewell,

1819
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: you all will know her.

1820
01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 5: She's leading a lot of the voting rights work because

1821
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 5: she is representing Alabama. We just shared the stage the

1822
01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:44,680
Speaker 5: other day, so I'm so happy to have you join us.

1823
01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:47,879
Speaker 5: And every time I see you you get more beautiful.

1824
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 1: I saw we were on stage the other day.

1825
01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, this beautiful, elegant dress on and tonight you both

1826
01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 5: look so gorgeous.

1827
01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:57,479
Speaker 25: Just want that.

1828
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:00,240
Speaker 11: Said.

1829
01:31:00,240 --> 01:31:02,320
Speaker 3: I want to back just so you all know you

1830
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 3: talked about voting rights, Tiff. I think it's really important

1831
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 3: for folks to know. Too many of us met Nicole

1832
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:11,080
Speaker 3: and her voting rights advocacy work, and we are so

1833
01:31:11,280 --> 01:31:14,400
Speaker 3: grateful for your service and then bringing that here from

1834
01:31:14,479 --> 01:31:16,720
Speaker 3: vision to victory this week and in so many other

1835
01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:18,759
Speaker 3: ways to support our wonderful members.

1836
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:21,519
Speaker 1: My CBC family, how are you all doing? Are you great?

1837
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:26,200
Speaker 1: You almost made it through. This is the final act. Congressman.

1838
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 1: We wanted to make Mike absolutely well.

1839
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:34,759
Speaker 25: You know, I'm honored to chair the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation,

1840
01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 25: but I'm equally honored to chair the CBC's Voting Rights

1841
01:31:39,320 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 25: brain Trust.

1842
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:41,040
Speaker 12: Tiffany, thank you.

1843
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 9: You were awesome on that.

1844
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:46,760
Speaker 25: And I think that what we talked about was strategizing, mobilizing,

1845
01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:50,559
Speaker 25: empowering Black voters to get to the polls in fifty days.

1846
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:54,200
Speaker 25: It's really really important. So I can't thank you enough

1847
01:31:54,240 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 25: for being a participant in this. And I also just

1848
01:31:56,640 --> 01:31:59,400
Speaker 25: really want to thank Nicole as the president and CEO

1849
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 25: of foundation and it's amazing staff for putting on such

1850
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 25: a great conference. This is our fifty third annual legislative

1851
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:10,679
Speaker 25: conference and it's at a pivotal moment in American history

1852
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 25: as we all know.

1853
01:32:11,680 --> 01:32:14,280
Speaker 5: Yes, I just want to shout out your colleague, Congressman

1854
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 5: Lucy McBeth.

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01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:18,760
Speaker 1: Just walk past so we see congress woman and thank

1856
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: you for your work that you leave. You know, she's

1857
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:21,639
Speaker 1: a coach chair.

1858
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 5: Yes sorry, Yes, the coldair of this year, and I

1859
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 5: would love to hear from Nicole because a lot of

1860
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 5: people come.

1861
01:32:29,160 --> 01:32:30,519
Speaker 1: We might do a mini pod on this.

1862
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 5: We talked about doing a mini pod on the best

1863
01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:35,600
Speaker 5: Black conferences or around the country, but a lot of

1864
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:38,599
Speaker 5: people come to Washington d C this time every year,

1865
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 5: and it's definitely a lot of parties and a lot

1866
01:32:41,120 --> 01:32:45,599
Speaker 5: of fraternizing, but there's a lot of work that happens here.

1867
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:47,960
Speaker 5: So if you can tell the viewers at home, if

1868
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:50,320
Speaker 5: you come to party, that's fine, But we want.

1869
01:32:50,200 --> 01:32:51,960
Speaker 13: To arm you with things with.

1870
01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:56,759
Speaker 1: A purpose. And what is the purpose of this week's conference.

1871
01:32:56,840 --> 01:32:58,960
Speaker 5: What are the tangible results that you want to see

1872
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:02,080
Speaker 5: when people get back on their flights home to Alabama

1873
01:33:02,200 --> 01:33:05,360
Speaker 5: or Tallahassee or LA or Seattle, wherever they're going.

1874
01:33:05,479 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: What do people take away when they leave.

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Speaker 21: First of all, thank you for having this conversation in

1876
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 21: this space.

1877
01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:13,760
Speaker 26: I want to go back to our theme for this year,

1878
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:16,799
Speaker 26: from Vision to Victory, amplifying Black voices.

1879
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:17,759
Speaker 6: That's what this is about.

1880
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 26: This is ostensibly the nation's largest black public policy conference.

1881
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 26: It brings together people from everywhere. We break down barriers.

1882
01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:26,880
Speaker 26: It doesn't matter who you are, what your rank, file

1883
01:33:27,320 --> 01:33:30,320
Speaker 26: title is. We want everyone here and it is about

1884
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 26: talking about the issues that are most salient to the

1885
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:36,519
Speaker 26: black community, figuring out solutions, and then taking that back

1886
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:37,840
Speaker 26: out into the community.

1887
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:38,720
Speaker 24: That's what this is for.

1888
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 26: And the parties and the receptions are all a part

1889
01:33:41,320 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 26: of it too, because that's our culture. Our culture is

1890
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 26: what sustains us while we do that work. So they

1891
01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 26: are inextricably linked. So we want them to go hand

1892
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:50,880
Speaker 26: in hand. But make no mistake about it. We are

1893
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:54,280
Speaker 26: here to problem solve and to arm the community so

1894
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:56,480
Speaker 26: that they can be empowered and strengthened.

1895
01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 25: And you know that's exactly what we did in the

1896
01:33:58,840 --> 01:34:02,160
Speaker 25: brain Trust people. They had to have a voting plan.

1897
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:04,640
Speaker 25: You got to know where your polling station is. You

1898
01:34:04,800 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 25: need to know exactly the precinct captains all that good stuff,

1899
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 25: and you need to bring a neighbor or friend to

1900
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 25: the war with I.

1901
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 4: Think arride with five. You got five friends, five other people.

1902
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:19,200
Speaker 11: Folks right all the time and say, well it's such

1903
01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 11: and such endorsing, it's such and such, gonna get behind

1904
01:34:21,720 --> 01:34:25,240
Speaker 11: Kennedy that I say the if they do, great, But

1905
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 11: the truth is is that the most important contact that

1906
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:30,280
Speaker 11: voter will have or potential voter is gonna be with you.

1907
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:33,479
Speaker 4: The person they know, the one that they trust, the

1908
01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:35,800
Speaker 4: word that is bond to them is.

1909
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:36,360
Speaker 6: Gonna be you.

1910
01:34:36,600 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 4: And so no wait for celebrity X, Y and Z

1911
01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:40,000
Speaker 4: to show up. You go out and you do what

1912
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:40,479
Speaker 4: you have to do.

1913
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:43,599
Speaker 11: But in spite and like is saying that I am curious,

1914
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:48,280
Speaker 11: how concerned are we with our folks's ability to have

1915
01:34:48,439 --> 01:34:51,479
Speaker 11: their votes one to make it through, we got citizen

1916
01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 11: armies that are being formed around the country that folks

1917
01:34:54,320 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 11: have to be concerned.

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01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:58,160
Speaker 25: We also have election protection being armed.

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01:34:58,360 --> 01:34:58,559
Speaker 6: You know.

1920
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:00,679
Speaker 1: Defence Fund.

1921
01:35:00,920 --> 01:35:04,040
Speaker 25: They have an eight hundred number toll free number that

1922
01:35:04,080 --> 01:35:06,000
Speaker 25: you can call it you feel like your voting rights

1923
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:09,000
Speaker 25: are being denied. So with every punch that they make,

1924
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 25: we have a CounterPunch. We just got to make sure

1925
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:16,000
Speaker 25: that our voting population knows what that counter punch is exactly.

1926
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,880
Speaker 26: That's what it's about. It's about information. That's how we

1927
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:21,400
Speaker 26: make sure our communities are armed. Look, I will tell

1928
01:35:21,439 --> 01:35:24,799
Speaker 26: you we do research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation,

1929
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 26: and we do research around voting rights. People just want

1930
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,240
Speaker 26: to have the information because they say when they have it,

1931
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 26: they can get it out to the communities.

1932
01:35:32,280 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 24: And I will tell you.

1933
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 26: When people know it, and REPSOL knows this, when people

1934
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:37,320
Speaker 26: feel as though their voting rights are being suppressed, that

1935
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 26: makes them even more zealous and they want to get

1936
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:42,760
Speaker 26: out and do something. So as long as we give

1937
01:35:42,800 --> 01:35:45,040
Speaker 26: them the tools that they need they're going to get out.

1938
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:47,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we don't necessarare it. That's for sure.

1939
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:49,280
Speaker 1: We're here for quite a historic night.

1940
01:35:49,360 --> 01:35:52,919
Speaker 3: We know that the President will be addressing this wonderful

1941
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:56,560
Speaker 3: body the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Phoenix Awards Dinner, and

1942
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:59,720
Speaker 3: we'll be joined by Madame Vice President Kamala Harris.

1943
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: So thank you, we will be joined. How are you

1944
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 1: breaking news?

1945
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:12,280
Speaker 3: I'm asking, Well, we don't know, and so we can

1946
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:16,120
Speaker 3: pronounce it right over here exactly. But they actually have

1947
01:36:16,240 --> 01:36:17,760
Speaker 3: it do They have to be upstairs so they don't

1948
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:21,439
Speaker 3: get in trouble secret service. So Madame President and Madame Chair,

1949
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 3: we thank you all so much for joining Native.

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01:36:23,400 --> 01:36:29,120
Speaker 12: Lamp Us alc Fife's.

1951
01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:30,080
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1952
01:36:32,439 --> 01:36:32,840
Speaker 13: You don't know.

1953
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:34,800
Speaker 1: She might be watching. It might be and you can

1954
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:37,639
Speaker 1: just do that way. Wait, I gotta go stay. What's

1955
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:39,479
Speaker 1: up the Native lampid, Well, let me tell you who.

1956
01:36:39,520 --> 01:36:41,720
Speaker 3: We definitely have to say what's up to right the

1957
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:45,439
Speaker 3: second because my dear friends, our dear friends have been

1958
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 3: waiting patient for a long time to ensure that they

1959
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:52,200
Speaker 3: could get up here to talk about the extraordinary work

1960
01:36:52,240 --> 01:36:56,840
Speaker 3: and mission of the collective Collective pack. We have Stephanie Brown,

1961
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:00,160
Speaker 3: James and her lovely husband. Y'all are looking round their

1962
01:37:00,280 --> 01:37:03,679
Speaker 3: Dappa went to James, so thank you all so much.

1963
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:11,720
Speaker 27: Oh yeah, looking goodly, loving us.

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01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:14,160
Speaker 3: We are thrilled that y'all are here, so talk to

1965
01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:15,840
Speaker 3: us about what's going on. So just so you know,

1966
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:19,640
Speaker 3: this is the Foundation Daniel Legislative Conference. Andrew in particulars

1967
01:37:19,840 --> 01:37:21,439
Speaker 3: following no rules about a five.

1968
01:37:21,320 --> 01:37:22,080
Speaker 1: Oh one C three.

1969
01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:24,799
Speaker 3: So if you talk about it in your personal capacity,

1970
01:37:24,880 --> 01:37:26,880
Speaker 3: I think you have a pass. Can I just really

1971
01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:30,080
Speaker 3: quickly to sing your praises because I want the viewers

1972
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Speaker 3: to know who you are when we talk about, yes,

1973
01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:37,960
Speaker 3: contributing to politics, there are a lot of ways. In

1974
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:40,479
Speaker 3: the same way that you don't have to run for office,

1975
01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:43,040
Speaker 3: there are other ways that you can support and fundraising

1976
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 3: is such a key piece of that.

1977
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:47,640
Speaker 5: The donor class is largely white and male. They get

1978
01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:50,680
Speaker 5: to determine who's a viable candidate and who's not. And

1979
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:54,800
Speaker 5: Quentin and Steph collectively said not on our watch. Collectively,

1980
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:58,040
Speaker 5: we are going to form the collective pack and empower

1981
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:01,360
Speaker 5: people to help empower leaders who speak for us.

1982
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: So thank you for the work that you do in

1983
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:04,639
Speaker 1: that space.

1984
01:38:05,160 --> 01:38:08,400
Speaker 5: And you're unapologetic about it and have had tangible success

1985
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:09,759
Speaker 5: in the people that you've.

1986
01:38:09,680 --> 01:38:11,519
Speaker 1: Helped get into office. So we just want to let

1987
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: our viewers know who you are and thank you for

1988
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:13,240
Speaker 1: your well, you.

1989
01:38:13,280 --> 01:38:15,840
Speaker 27: Know, we're the Mutual Admiration Society. Let me just say that,

1990
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,800
Speaker 27: how proud we are of y'all. So this is an

1991
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:19,960
Speaker 27: honor for us to be here.

1992
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Speaker 4: We love you, girl.

1993
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:23,519
Speaker 1: Okay, So tell us what y'all got going on. Y'all

1994
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:25,200
Speaker 1: got fifty one days? What are you doing? Yeah?

1995
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Speaker 6: Cool, fifty one days.

1996
01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 28: I think maybe back in July, I was really worried

1997
01:38:30,120 --> 01:38:32,680
Speaker 28: about where we were in terms of the numbers. We

1998
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:36,000
Speaker 28: know when the major presidential swing states, Uh, there are

1999
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 28: about three and a half million unregistered but eligible black voters.

2000
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:42,719
Speaker 8: And what's been so phenomenal about this moment?

2001
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:43,639
Speaker 1: And what how many?

2002
01:38:43,880 --> 01:38:44,479
Speaker 8: About three and a.

2003
01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:52,760
Speaker 5: Half million million unregistered voters eligibles as of July. As

2004
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:58,760
Speaker 5: of July, so that's Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, Nevada.

2005
01:39:01,160 --> 01:39:03,599
Speaker 21: And there's over five million that aren't registered at all.

2006
01:39:04,160 --> 01:39:04,400
Speaker 19: Wow.

2007
01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 28: But what's been interesting is over the past two and

2008
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:12,400
Speaker 28: a half three weeks, we've seen almost a four hundred

2009
01:39:12,439 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 28: percent increase in new in new voter regtations kind of

2010
01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:18,720
Speaker 28: getting process in these states. We have a fifty eight

2011
01:39:18,760 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 28: percent increase in black voter registration since twenty twenty compared

2012
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:25,600
Speaker 28: to the same time twenty twenty, over one hundred and

2013
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:29,800
Speaker 28: twenty five percent increase in Black women under thirty getting

2014
01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:32,240
Speaker 28: registered to vote, and so there's a movement happening. So

2015
01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:35,200
Speaker 28: ATHEL when you say, like, what's happening, we see momentum

2016
01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:36,520
Speaker 28: and we're excited.

2017
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:39,080
Speaker 8: We got to turn that into actual votes and mean,

2018
01:39:39,120 --> 01:39:39,880
Speaker 8: so we know if you're in.

2019
01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:42,920
Speaker 28: Pennsylvania on Tuesday, people have the right to go out

2020
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:46,840
Speaker 28: and vote early starting this coming Tuesday, early voter starting

2021
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:49,040
Speaker 28: in other states the next few weeks. And so this

2022
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:52,320
Speaker 28: isn't about November. This is actually election season over the

2023
01:39:52,400 --> 01:39:53,840
Speaker 28: next few weeks. So people gonna get out there and

2024
01:39:53,880 --> 01:39:55,639
Speaker 28: are voting. They're starting on Tuesday.

2025
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:57,000
Speaker 1: This teod.

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Speaker 4: Welcome.

2027
01:40:00,360 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 1: Then we've been together for twenty y That's what I'm saying.

2028
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 1: This is their family.

2029
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:06,439
Speaker 3: So I was like, let me make sure this is

2030
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 3: Derek Johnson, the president of the NAACPU. Also I'm joined

2031
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:12,679
Speaker 3: us at the Democratic National Convention as well, but he's

2032
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:13,160
Speaker 3: their family.

2033
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 1: So I figured they were like this.

2034
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:15,920
Speaker 6: There's not crashing a party.

2035
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:18,960
Speaker 15: When they come to the house before the proposal about

2036
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:20,400
Speaker 15: their marriage, we quit cooked.

2037
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:21,160
Speaker 6: Them breakfast.

2038
01:40:23,320 --> 01:40:25,880
Speaker 21: That good Jackson Mississippi.

2039
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:26,360
Speaker 1: Food we're talking about.

2040
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:28,720
Speaker 3: You were talking about there's fifty one days left, Like,

2041
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:30,559
Speaker 3: what are the marching orders for the people?

2042
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:32,120
Speaker 6: Don't get distracted.

2043
01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 15: Don't allow an idiot to distract you, because he's not

2044
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:39,160
Speaker 15: an audience. Our audience, our young voters. Our audience are

2045
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 15: male voters, female voters. Our audience are infrequent voters who

2046
01:40:43,320 --> 01:40:45,720
Speaker 15: turned out in no way turned out in twelve and

2047
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:48,679
Speaker 15: no one talked to them in sixteen, and in many

2048
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 15: ways no one talked to them last year. Yeah, don't

2049
01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:54,320
Speaker 15: get distracted and talk to infrequent voters, because that's the

2050
01:40:54,479 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 15: difference between the quality of life that we that we

2051
01:40:57,360 --> 01:41:00,640
Speaker 15: have earned and going to going in the directions. I

2052
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 15: don't know who behind me, you waving that so, but

2053
01:41:02,400 --> 01:41:02,920
Speaker 15: I'm nosy.

2054
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:10,040
Speaker 21: Congress congressome with Stacy plask.

2055
01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:19,280
Speaker 4: Mister President, what this we just did?

2056
01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:22,640
Speaker 11: What does protection look like for voters, particularly in black communities,

2057
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 11: who aren't sure what they're gonna confront when they go

2058
01:41:25,040 --> 01:41:27,600
Speaker 11: out to vote on election day or in the or

2059
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 11: in the advance what is the what is the artillery

2060
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:33,479
Speaker 11: look like on our side to make sure that voters

2061
01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:36,679
Speaker 11: votes when cast, hopefully casts are protected.

2062
01:41:37,120 --> 01:41:40,320
Speaker 15: But it's a combination of things, and it also depends

2063
01:41:40,400 --> 01:41:43,559
Speaker 15: on where you're voting. The reality of what it looks

2064
01:41:43,640 --> 01:41:45,599
Speaker 15: like in your home state of Florida may be different

2065
01:41:45,720 --> 01:41:48,720
Speaker 15: in where I live in Mississippi or in Georgia. So

2066
01:41:48,880 --> 01:41:52,000
Speaker 15: the protection may vary depend on location. If you and

2067
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:54,600
Speaker 15: Hans County, Mississippi, we have a black police sheep, we

2068
01:41:54,680 --> 01:41:57,120
Speaker 15: have a black sheriff, and we have black folks who

2069
01:41:57,160 --> 01:41:59,040
Speaker 15: stand up for each other. But if you're in an

2070
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:01,839
Speaker 15: isolated commuit than you want to cast your black ballot,

2071
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:04,320
Speaker 15: then it may be something different. So you know, the

2072
01:42:04,400 --> 01:42:07,280
Speaker 15: Lawyer's Committee stood up a number some years ago that

2073
01:42:07,840 --> 01:42:10,960
Speaker 15: one a six number. That's important, but it varies. But

2074
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:13,439
Speaker 15: at the end of the day, walk through the faith

2075
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:15,519
Speaker 15: that we're gonna we're gonna win this and not through

2076
01:42:15,560 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 15: the fear of what might happen. Unfortunately, we reinforce some

2077
01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:24,320
Speaker 15: of the most negative stereotypes which also create a chilling

2078
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 15: effect of our people. Let's talk about what's gonna happen

2079
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:30,880
Speaker 15: in the positive and make sure we have the infrastructure

2080
01:42:30,920 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 15: place wherever possible. So if something come up called the

2081
01:42:33,880 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 15: A sixty six number, if you in the Cab County, Georgia,

2082
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:38,479
Speaker 15: it's a whole infrastructure there.

2083
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:41,600
Speaker 6: If you are in Michigan, it's a different infrastructure. But

2084
01:42:41,720 --> 01:42:43,599
Speaker 6: whatever you do, go to the polls.

2085
01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:46,439
Speaker 15: At the end of the day, we will be victor

2086
01:42:46,640 --> 01:42:50,120
Speaker 15: victorious because it's us for us, fighting for us.

2087
01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:51,400
Speaker 6: And we must do that together.

2088
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:55,759
Speaker 5: I want to get back to James Ox, to Quinton

2089
01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:57,679
Speaker 5: and Stueph, but I want to ask you a quick

2090
01:42:57,720 --> 01:43:00,759
Speaker 5: question on this, Derek, because I just want to quote

2091
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:04,400
Speaker 5: the wonderful, late great Nina Simone, because every time we

2092
01:43:04,520 --> 01:43:06,920
Speaker 5: talk about this, I just feel like Mississippi, God damn.

2093
01:43:07,360 --> 01:43:10,599
Speaker 5: Because this is the most populous state with the largest

2094
01:43:10,640 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 5: number of black folks. There is no statewide representation black

2095
01:43:14,479 --> 01:43:18,400
Speaker 5: representation in Mississippi. The racism is written into the state's constitution.

2096
01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:21,000
Speaker 5: I always went when I hear people say the South

2097
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:23,479
Speaker 5: is red, it's only read until it's a't. And we're

2098
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 5: seeing Georgia tangibly show that we can make a difference. Mississippi,

2099
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 5: of all places, can make a difference. But how do

2100
01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 5: we disrupt and dismantle these systems of institutional racism that

2101
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:37,559
Speaker 5: keep people there so oppressed.

2102
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:40,040
Speaker 6: So Mississippi is a great number of math.

2103
01:43:40,720 --> 01:43:43,800
Speaker 15: We are thirty eight percent of the population, not fifty

2104
01:43:43,840 --> 01:43:46,479
Speaker 15: one percent of the population. And the other side of

2105
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:49,759
Speaker 15: that is it takes twenty five percent of white voters

2106
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:54,360
Speaker 15: to vote with us consistently with blacks. Anytime you have

2107
01:43:54,600 --> 01:43:57,479
Speaker 15: a majority black, something white fear goes up.

2108
01:43:57,680 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 6: Racial block voting also is seen.

2109
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:03,559
Speaker 15: Minute end, you will have someone elected in Seattle, Washington,

2110
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:06,360
Speaker 15: or San Francisco with less than five percent of the

2111
01:44:06,360 --> 01:44:09,719
Speaker 15: black voting population because the fear of the black community

2112
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 15: isn't as prevalent as it is in a place like Mississippi.

2113
01:44:13,240 --> 01:44:16,479
Speaker 15: But I will assure you in our lifetime, probably before

2114
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 15: twenty thirty, Mississippi will have more than one black state

2115
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 15: wide elected officials before twenty thirty. Be clear, the treads

2116
01:44:26,040 --> 01:44:29,040
Speaker 15: are there. They're running out of white people. We are

2117
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:32,519
Speaker 15: a younger population at medium age thirty one, thirty one,

2118
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:37,320
Speaker 15: thirty four years in Mississippi Black, forty five years old.

2119
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 9: White.

2120
01:44:38,120 --> 01:44:41,320
Speaker 6: We have more children we are looking at demographically.

2121
01:44:41,840 --> 01:44:44,919
Speaker 15: Next year will be the last year where the population

2122
01:44:45,120 --> 01:44:49,360
Speaker 15: under eighteen is majority white. The population of the UNTEA

2123
01:44:49,439 --> 01:44:53,040
Speaker 15: will be majority non white. Let's look at the data,

2124
01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:55,760
Speaker 15: the number. That's what's going to drive an outcome if

2125
01:44:55,800 --> 01:44:59,760
Speaker 15: we stay focused, not get distracted and lead into our power.

2126
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:02,360
Speaker 6: And not create a dynamics where its us fighting us.

2127
01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:05,639
Speaker 1: Okay, see, we crashed the party. You guys aren't done.

2128
01:45:05,680 --> 01:45:08,960
Speaker 1: You you crashed. You're taking Maurice Mitchell c. We have

2129
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:11,320
Speaker 1: to bring more Reese on working families.

2130
01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 6: Gentlemen, working party president.

2131
01:45:23,280 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 28: Can I mean I think we might have just maybe

2132
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,160
Speaker 28: maybe personal breaking these it is breaking news about maybe

2133
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 28: a future governor.

2134
01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:39,120
Speaker 8: Derek Johnson speaking speaking existence, We.

2135
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 11: Would expect that coming coming from you, Q And which

2136
01:45:42,040 --> 01:45:43,840
Speaker 11: is least been my question for you and Steph, which

2137
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:46,519
Speaker 11: is we often get feedback through the pod through our

2138
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:48,720
Speaker 11: listeners who are saying, well, what can we do?

2139
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:50,599
Speaker 4: What can we do right where they are?

2140
01:45:51,240 --> 01:45:51,320
Speaker 11: Uh?

2141
01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:52,320
Speaker 4: If they want to impact?

2142
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 11: Why do we have to compete against an apex to

2143
01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:58,240
Speaker 11: preserve a member of Congress who we like, who we support?

2144
01:45:58,520 --> 01:46:01,800
Speaker 4: What are we doing? And I can't just personal testimony.

2145
01:46:01,960 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 11: I could not have competed successfully in the race and

2146
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:08,840
Speaker 11: Florida and that primary race without Quintin and Stephanie stepping up,

2147
01:46:09,120 --> 01:46:13,040
Speaker 11: which often put them at odds with the democratic establishment

2148
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:16,320
Speaker 11: of this country. Who came for their next every time

2149
01:46:16,400 --> 01:46:19,200
Speaker 11: they came to have my back. So I know what

2150
01:46:19,400 --> 01:46:21,760
Speaker 11: the power of the collective pack he is. I'm a

2151
01:46:21,840 --> 01:46:24,880
Speaker 11: personal testimony to it, and so many others around the

2152
01:46:24,960 --> 01:46:25,519
Speaker 11: country are.

2153
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:27,799
Speaker 4: But tell folks at home, if you want.

2154
01:46:27,680 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 11: To be on the side of being at the table

2155
01:46:30,439 --> 01:46:33,519
Speaker 11: of deciding who to support, of putting your money where

2156
01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:36,519
Speaker 11: you know it can go towards candidates who share your

2157
01:46:36,640 --> 01:46:37,799
Speaker 11: values and vision.

2158
01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 4: What can they do?

2159
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:41,960
Speaker 21: The best thing is that everyone can do something.

2160
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 27: So even when you look at your local community, you

2161
01:46:45,240 --> 01:46:47,439
Speaker 27: probably know who your city council member is because you

2162
01:46:47,479 --> 01:46:49,720
Speaker 27: go to the grocery store with them, their children, They

2163
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:51,120
Speaker 27: go to school with your children.

2164
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 21: Start at home.

2165
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Speaker 27: Support the people that you know that are running for office,

2166
01:46:55,439 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 27: who share the same values, the same vision for the future.

2167
01:46:58,360 --> 01:47:01,200
Speaker 21: Give them five dollars, give them ten. That adds up.

2168
01:47:01,240 --> 01:47:04,160
Speaker 27: We keep talking about two thousand and eight Barack Obama,

2169
01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:07,240
Speaker 27: his low dollar fundraising amounts and how it was transformative.

2170
01:47:07,720 --> 01:47:09,719
Speaker 21: But guess what that is what we have Black folks

2171
01:47:09,800 --> 01:47:12,679
Speaker 21: have always done. We put our low coins together.

2172
01:47:13,280 --> 01:47:17,120
Speaker 27: We collectively utilize the power of our resources that we

2173
01:47:17,200 --> 01:47:19,560
Speaker 27: have at our hands to make a change. And so

2174
01:47:19,760 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 27: I just want to make sure everyone knows that, you know,

2175
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:26,160
Speaker 27: I have a wonderful hairstylist named Edith the hairla good.

2176
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 21: Yes it does.

2177
01:47:29,040 --> 01:47:31,200
Speaker 27: But Edith is in the shop, the shop that she

2178
01:47:31,400 --> 01:47:35,639
Speaker 27: owns registering voters. She's talking about the issues. She's making

2179
01:47:35,720 --> 01:47:38,479
Speaker 27: sure that her stylists are also doing the same and

2180
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 27: that's powerful.

2181
01:47:39,479 --> 01:47:41,320
Speaker 21: And I know before she felt like what could I do?

2182
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:44,800
Speaker 27: Everyone can do someone because everyone has a point of

2183
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 27: influence in the people that are around us.

2184
01:47:47,360 --> 01:47:49,799
Speaker 5: I love that there was a similar movement in Georgia

2185
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 5: with strippers. I don't know if you guys remember that

2186
01:47:53,080 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 5: Booties to the Pole.

2187
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:55,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, think And it was so I just.

2188
01:47:55,840 --> 01:47:58,160
Speaker 5: Thought it was amazing because you're speaking to a specific

2189
01:47:58,240 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 5: demographic in Georgia, demographic cast to wide net and meeting

2190
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 5: people where they are. And I think, you know, if

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Speaker 5: if nothing else, that man him forty five, Donald Trump

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Speaker 5: taught us to throw out the old playbook, like we

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Speaker 5: have to navigate and move in a different way, and

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Speaker 5: you all are doing exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 27: And to the point, I just want to say one

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Speaker 27: of the things, we have an organization that's a sister

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Speaker 27: organization called vote to Live.

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Speaker 21: We focus on low propensity black voters. What does that mean.

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Speaker 27: That's to mean the black folks that people have left

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Speaker 27: behind because maybe they didn't vote in the last election

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Speaker 27: or the last of two elections.

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Speaker 21: We need everyone to vote.

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Speaker 27: The man on the street corner who you pass every day,

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Speaker 27: who's asking you from we need him to vote. So

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Speaker 27: part of it is as black folks, we got to

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Speaker 27: reach out make sure that everyone in our community is

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Speaker 27: resourced and ready to be able to participate because.

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Speaker 21: You know, when we fight, we know we win.

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Speaker 28: And I would just say tangibly, you can visit vote

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Speaker 28: to live dot org again all c three, register to vote,

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Speaker 28: find out what's on your ballot, find your polling site,

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Speaker 28: request then absentee ballot of vote early check your status

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Speaker 28: because we know purging is an issue.

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Speaker 8: Vote to live dot org.

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Speaker 28: Get all those resources there and to share that with

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Speaker 28: your friends and family in perfect resource.

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Speaker 1: Hell, we love you are so much.

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Speaker 3: Quentin and Stephanie Brown, seventy Brown, James, Quentin James, We

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Speaker 3: thank God for y'all.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for stopping by to see us, most sting around.

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Speaker 3: And we have state Representative Justin Jones also joining us

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01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:22,639
Speaker 3: y'all the Tennessee three. He's been doing the work since

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Speaker 3: before that stand down moment on the on the Tennessee

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Speaker 3: State Legislature floor.

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Speaker 5: And this shows how important the role of state legislatures,

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Speaker 5: about the majority of our Republican control, and.

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01:49:33,040 --> 01:49:35,559
Speaker 3: How important the work of Stephanie Brown James and Quenten

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01:49:35,680 --> 01:49:38,720
Speaker 3: James the Organization Collective Pack is and how patient they are,

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01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:40,400
Speaker 3: how shit they are.

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Speaker 1: We have so many people, come on, welcome brother, Look

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01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 1: at this, y'all, come on, is that? What is that moment?

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Speaker 4: Crush vilma.

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Speaker 1: We love it. I love all these black men on

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Speaker 1: set tonight.

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Speaker 5: We've had quite a few, and I think that piece

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01:50:02,680 --> 01:50:06,679
Speaker 5: is so important because you know, even watching our comments,

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01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:08,120
Speaker 5: I don't know if you all have been looking, but

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Speaker 5: there are people who feel left out of the conversation,

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Speaker 5: and particularly a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of black men have felt that way. So I just

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Speaker 1: want to say, welcome home.

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01:50:16,479 --> 01:50:20,599
Speaker 5: And we are so happy to have our counterparts are

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01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:23,200
Speaker 5: the people our community would not be the same. We

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01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:25,760
Speaker 5: love black men, we love having all their counterparts, and

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01:50:25,800 --> 01:50:29,439
Speaker 5: we are never trying to drive an agenda that divides us.

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Speaker 1: So we are partners in this work. So thank you

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01:50:31,600 --> 01:50:33,800
Speaker 1: all for being here. I want to come to mo.

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Speaker 3: We we we kind of had you sitting around waiting,

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Speaker 3: but I want you to talk about the purpose of

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Speaker 3: Working Families First. We actually were having a whole text

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Speaker 3: conversation because he got uh, you know, some some unintended

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01:50:50,720 --> 01:50:53,800
Speaker 3: fire on an on a breakfast club interview that I

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01:50:53,920 --> 01:50:56,880
Speaker 3: did with Jill Stein the other day and she talked

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Speaker 3: kind of trash a little bit about Working Families parts.

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Speaker 1: I want to I want you talk about what it

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Speaker 1: means to actually win some elections.

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Speaker 8: Oh my, oh my, oh my, GM.

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Speaker 9: It's really good to be here with you, sis.

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Speaker 4: Brother.

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Speaker 6: It's been a while.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, see y'all's endorsement guess right, honor to endorse.

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Speaker 6: You on SIS.

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Speaker 29: Thank you so much all of y'all. I mean, man,

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01:51:16,720 --> 01:51:18,760
Speaker 29: when y'all launched, I knew I wanted to be here.

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Speaker 29: So it's a true honor to actually finally be sitting here.

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01:51:22,520 --> 01:51:25,360
Speaker 29: And the Working Families Party we've been around for twenty

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Speaker 29: six years. I've been at the HELM for six years,

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Speaker 29: and what we've been doing, we've been building a third

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Speaker 29: party infrastructure from the ground up. Because of everything that

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01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:38,360
Speaker 29: we talked about, we recognize that independent black voices aren't

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Speaker 29: often welcome in political spaces, and what we believe is

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01:51:42,479 --> 01:51:44,880
Speaker 29: we have to do the hard work to build the

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Speaker 29: infrastructure to resource people in order to For example, this

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Speaker 29: tuesday in Delaware, right, Cam Smith in Delaware defeated the

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Speaker 29: Speaker of the House, a Working Families Party, a black organizer.

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Speaker 29: Working Families Party can and now she's going to be

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Speaker 29: representing all of her all of the interests that we

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Speaker 29: talked about on this program in Delaware.

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Speaker 11: Right.

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Speaker 29: So you talk about winning elections, Right, While folks were

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Speaker 29: trading barbs online, we were doing the hard work, state

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Speaker 29: by state by state in twenty states, actually winning with

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Speaker 29: grassroots black candidates.

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Speaker 6: For example Tis James.

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Speaker 29: Tis James is the Attorney General of New York and

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Speaker 29: was able to hold Donald Trump accountable. What a lot

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Speaker 29: of people don't know is that her entrance into politics

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Speaker 29: started off as a Working Families Party independent candidate.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 29: You want to go into the South, we made black

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Speaker 29: history in the city of Jonesborough, Right, So this is

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Speaker 29: like local Donya Sarter's a black woman who's now the

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Speaker 29: mayor of Jonesborough because of the Working Families Party infrastructure,

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Speaker 29: actual boots on the ground, volunteers, labor unions, grass roots

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01:52:54,479 --> 01:52:57,920
Speaker 29: organizations doing the hard work, not just yapping about it,

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Speaker 29: but actually delivering. And then in Philidelp when we talk

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01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:05,599
Speaker 29: about delivering right, we have Pastor Nicholas or Rourke who

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Speaker 29: is the Minority Whip, and we have an amazing grassroots coalition,

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Speaker 29: and we have Kendra Brooks who's the Minority leader of Philadelphia.

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Speaker 29: And Kendra and Nicholas they're not just talking about it,

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Speaker 29: they're actually governing. Elections are an opportunity to govern. Elections

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Speaker 29: are not the prize. Governing is the prize. Fat So

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Speaker 29: in the city of Philadelphia, black folks in North Philadelphia

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Speaker 29: that Kendra and Nick represent, unlike many cities, are not

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Speaker 29: facing in a fiction crisis like before. Why because the

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Speaker 29: Working Families Party municipal candidates created groundbreaking protections so that

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Speaker 29: planlords have to negotiate before they throw folks out. That

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Speaker 29: has showed a total shift. So we're delivering for working people.

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Speaker 29: We're delivering for working class black folks. This independent, grassroots,

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Speaker 29: bottom up, third party approach. We don't believe in the

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Speaker 29: top down every four years top down approach. Look, if

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Speaker 29: that could be possible, then Ross Perrot, who was a

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Speaker 29: billionaire would have delivered that top down third party approach.

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Speaker 29: What we're doing is telling the truth to our people,

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Speaker 29: right we tell the truth to our people. What we're

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Speaker 29: saying is, look, we do not yet have the infrastructure

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Speaker 29: to surface our own candidate at the top of the

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Speaker 29: ticket and not pull votes in order to ensure that

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Speaker 29: the right wing and Project twenty twenty five agenda happens.

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Speaker 29: But what we do have is the power to influence

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01:54:34,400 --> 01:54:35,840
Speaker 29: people all the way at the top of the ticket

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Speaker 29: and deliver on the grassroots.

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Speaker 5: What I appreciate about what you're saying is because we

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Speaker 5: we have a mini pod on this so you guys

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Speaker 5: watching it home can tune in. We talk about third

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01:54:43,720 --> 01:54:49,360
Speaker 5: party candidates and so many people they're seduced by bigger roles.

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Speaker 1: But the truth is.

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Speaker 5: Third parties do win at you know, in state legislatures,

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Speaker 5: at the local level. So I want to bring justin

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Speaker 5: into this conversation because a lot of the challe policies

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01:55:01,240 --> 01:55:03,720
Speaker 5: that we see reach the federal government, they bubble up

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Speaker 5: from these state legislatures. You held the line, sit on

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Speaker 5: the line. Shout out Memphis. I see y'all in the comments.

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Speaker 5: Shout out a hometown Memphis talk to our viewers about

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Speaker 5: how important the role of their state legislatures are when

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Speaker 5: it comes to politics.

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Speaker 6: Definitely.

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Speaker 24: Well, it is so honored to be here with you all.

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Speaker 30: I represent the most diverse district in Nashville, District fifty two,

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Speaker 30: and I'm the youngest black law making our state. And

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01:55:29,920 --> 01:55:31,520
Speaker 30: what we're trying to build is to build a real

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01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:34,400
Speaker 30: opposition party to the extremists of white nationals who've taken

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Speaker 30: over our state government.

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01:55:35,240 --> 01:55:37,000
Speaker 24: And so Tennessee is a tip of the spear.

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01:55:37,080 --> 01:55:38,840
Speaker 30: We look at extremist policies where the state with one

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Speaker 30: of the most restrictive anti abortion laws, the first state

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01:55:41,480 --> 01:55:43,560
Speaker 30: to ban books, to ban drag shows, but it won't

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01:55:43,600 --> 01:55:45,960
Speaker 30: ban the assault weapons that are terrorizing our kids in schools.

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Speaker 30: We're a state where twenty percent of black people cannot

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01:55:48,120 --> 01:55:50,520
Speaker 30: vote because a fellow need iss enfranchisement. And so the

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01:55:50,560 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 30: spirit of Jim Crow's alive, and well we have our

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Speaker 30: own governor, George Wallace is his name is Bill Lee,

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Speaker 30: and the Speaker of the House, Cameron Sex and whom's

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01:55:57,040 --> 01:55:59,760
Speaker 30: suing right now because not only do they attack us,

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01:55:59,800 --> 01:56:01,720
Speaker 30: but there when they silence us, when they expelled us,

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01:56:01,760 --> 01:56:03,600
Speaker 30: and now when they silence us in committee, kick us

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Speaker 30: off our committees. They're silencing the voices of our constituents

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01:56:06,080 --> 01:56:08,120
Speaker 30: because they know that the state House is a laboratory

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Speaker 30: for what they're trying to nationalize. So it's a tip

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Speaker 30: of the spear. And if we can stop it in

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Speaker 30: the state like Tennessee, we can stop Project twenty twenty

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Speaker 30: five from spreading nationally. I've been telling everyone across this

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Speaker 30: nation that Project twenty twenty five is Tennessee twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 30: We are already dealing with the consequences of a Project

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Speaker 30: twenty twenty five agenda. We look at voter suppression, We

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Speaker 30: look at the removal of qualified people from our state government,

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Speaker 30: from the health department.

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Speaker 24: You know, because they're talking about diversity.

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Speaker 30: They say, we don't want to talk about diversity, equity, inclusion,

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Speaker 30: because to them, that's a bad word.

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Speaker 24: We already see Project twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 30: We look at defunding public education and passing voucher scams

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01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:41,520
Speaker 30: to give coupons to wealthy people to go to private schools.

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Speaker 30: We already are dealing with Project twenty twenty five, which

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Speaker 30: why we're filing like hell with everything we have, and

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Speaker 30: which why we were expelled because they're afraid of what

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Speaker 30: we represent. We represent a new South. Southern curregatious would

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Speaker 30: say the South is going to rise again.

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Speaker 24: I say, to hell with that. The South is going

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Speaker 24: to rise and new.

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Speaker 30: We're building a new South that is multiracial, that is younger,

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Speaker 30: and they're terrified of us because they know that if

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Speaker 30: we can stop their agenda in the South, stop it

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Speaker 30: from studying cross this nation.

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Speaker 4: I love it well.

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Speaker 11: Florida was probably twenty twenty five, two thousand and two,

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Speaker 11: so we got it before everybody. I mean the consequences

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Speaker 11: for elected officials that we saw play out and your

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Speaker 11: state they have been executing on progressive attorneys who lead

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Speaker 11: prosecutoral offices around the state. And so we know what

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Speaker 11: you mean when you say that. I am curious, what

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Speaker 11: does what does the support continue to look like?

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Speaker 4: For you as you battle?

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Speaker 11: What are systems these aren't they're individuals who helm them,

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Speaker 11: but they're buying large systems that you're attempting to reconstruct

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Speaker 11: or to level and build again our way.

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Speaker 4: What is the what does the support for that community

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Speaker 4: look like?

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Speaker 11: Which also makes me want you to answer, what does

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01:57:46,120 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 11: it mean to build a working party's infrastructure on a

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01:57:48,440 --> 01:57:51,000
Speaker 11: place where it doesn't exist, and the and and and

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01:57:51,160 --> 01:57:52,760
Speaker 11: cities and towns around the country.

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Speaker 29: Well, absolutely so we we take an eye on the

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01:57:57,440 --> 01:58:00,880
Speaker 29: long haul work it is you all know, it is

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Speaker 29: the day to day organizing and the work that day

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Speaker 29: to day organizers do that often we don't see, right

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01:58:07,400 --> 01:58:10,640
Speaker 29: that actually builds our democracy. And what we understand is

2409
01:58:10,680 --> 01:58:13,320
Speaker 29: that elections happen state by state and even further county

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01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:17,080
Speaker 29: by county. And so if anybody is talking about movement building,

2411
01:58:17,440 --> 01:58:21,040
Speaker 29: but they're not talking about building county by county infrastructure

2412
01:58:21,360 --> 01:58:25,200
Speaker 29: that could support activists, could actually do leadership development, so

2413
01:58:25,280 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 29: they develop skills. Maybe they first start off canvassing and

2414
01:58:28,760 --> 01:58:31,240
Speaker 29: then in another cycle they're actually running a campaign, and

2415
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 29: then they become a candidate. Right then, I don't know

2416
01:58:33,880 --> 01:58:36,320
Speaker 29: what you're talking about, right if you're talking only at

2417
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,960
Speaker 29: the top of the ticket and you're not recruiting candidates

2418
01:58:39,000 --> 01:58:41,960
Speaker 29: to run on the municipal level and then eventually on

2419
01:58:42,080 --> 01:58:44,720
Speaker 29: the legislative level, and then ultimately, like we saw our

2420
01:58:44,840 --> 01:58:49,080
Speaker 29: sister Summerly who came from governing on the legislative level

2421
01:58:49,200 --> 01:58:51,879
Speaker 29: in the state legislature and then moved up to Congress.

2422
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:56,080
Speaker 29: And I'm proud to call Summerly a WFP endorse candidate.

2423
01:58:56,760 --> 01:59:00,320
Speaker 29: That type of work is how you build that infrastructure.

2424
01:59:00,320 --> 01:59:03,920
Speaker 29: I'll give you another example, right, Brandon Johnson. I remember

2425
01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:08,080
Speaker 29: Brandon Johnson when he was a educator and your union organizer,

2426
01:59:08,400 --> 01:59:10,360
Speaker 29: and we have the honor to support him so that

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01:59:10,480 --> 01:59:14,040
Speaker 29: he could become the Cook County, the Cook County Permission Commissioner.

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01:59:14,200 --> 01:59:14,320
Speaker 6: Right.

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01:59:14,760 --> 01:59:17,400
Speaker 29: It took five years of him governing on that level

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01:59:17,800 --> 01:59:21,560
Speaker 29: before he was able to build the infrastructure and build

2431
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:23,640
Speaker 29: the movement so that he could become the mayor of

2432
01:59:23,640 --> 01:59:25,120
Speaker 29: the third largest city in America.

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01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:25,600
Speaker 6: Right.

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01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:28,000
Speaker 29: So we have to have that long arc view of

2435
01:59:28,080 --> 01:59:34,240
Speaker 29: building power and it means getting organizations, grassroots organizations, labor organizations,

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01:59:34,320 --> 01:59:37,120
Speaker 29: activists in a shared political commitment.

2437
01:59:36,760 --> 01:59:38,520
Speaker 6: And have a north star, know where you're going.

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01:59:38,840 --> 01:59:38,960
Speaker 9: Right.

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01:59:39,040 --> 01:59:42,200
Speaker 29: It's not simply about getting people elected. Again, that's not

2440
01:59:42,320 --> 01:59:45,560
Speaker 29: the prize. The prize is actually being able to use

2441
01:59:45,720 --> 01:59:48,080
Speaker 29: governing power to deliver for our people.

2442
01:59:48,440 --> 01:59:48,560
Speaker 24: Right.

2443
01:59:48,640 --> 01:59:51,440
Speaker 29: And I want everybody to really consider, especially when we're

2444
01:59:51,480 --> 01:59:55,040
Speaker 29: looking at November, this is a binary choice the Project

2445
01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:58,040
Speaker 29: twenty twenty five agenda, because elections are about the future

2446
01:59:58,400 --> 02:00:02,200
Speaker 29: and elections are about a governing agenda. And then the alternative,

2447
02:00:02,240 --> 02:00:06,600
Speaker 29: the agenda that we could claim right and listen, politicians

2448
02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:07,360
Speaker 29: are who they are.

2449
02:00:07,600 --> 02:00:09,400
Speaker 24: It's not about putting faith in any.

2450
02:00:09,280 --> 02:00:12,480
Speaker 29: Politicians, even politicians that we might have an affinity for.

2451
02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:16,280
Speaker 29: It's about putting faith in our organization and our ability

2452
02:00:16,320 --> 02:00:18,720
Speaker 29: to organize once we get at the other end of

2453
02:00:18,920 --> 02:00:21,880
Speaker 29: an election, and that could only happen inside organization.

2454
02:00:22,360 --> 02:00:24,520
Speaker 3: Thank you all so much, justin I want you to

2455
02:00:24,600 --> 02:00:26,600
Speaker 3: I want to close with you and we I know

2456
02:00:26,680 --> 02:00:29,360
Speaker 3: we have to get you out to the dinner. Why

2457
02:00:29,520 --> 02:00:32,880
Speaker 3: is it important for young black folks to run for

2458
02:00:33,040 --> 02:00:34,240
Speaker 3: state and local office?

2459
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Speaker 30: So before I was elected, I was arrested eighteen times

2460
02:00:38,600 --> 02:00:39,960
Speaker 30: and I was banned from the state capitol, which is

2461
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:41,840
Speaker 30: what led me to run. So the same troopers who

2462
02:00:41,880 --> 02:00:43,240
Speaker 30: went to court and lied on me had to hold

2463
02:00:43,240 --> 02:00:46,440
Speaker 30: the door and say welcome representative to your office, and

2464
02:00:46,840 --> 02:00:48,640
Speaker 30: at each other charge were this missed? And so it's

2465
02:00:48,640 --> 02:00:50,560
Speaker 30: important for us to run because, as Sana lou Hammer said,

2466
02:00:50,600 --> 02:00:52,640
Speaker 30: move on over, and we'll move on over you because

2467
02:00:52,680 --> 02:00:53,600
Speaker 30: we're moving on over.

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02:00:53,640 --> 02:00:55,240
Speaker 24: And so we must reclaim these seats.

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02:00:55,280 --> 02:00:55,400
Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 30: My first week in the legislature, State Senator Jack Johnson,

2471
02:00:58,000 --> 02:00:59,760
Speaker 30: the Republican majority leader was on the elevator with me,

2472
02:01:00,040 --> 02:01:01,920
Speaker 30: and his welcome to me was saying, Jones, I just

2473
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:04,120
Speaker 30: want you to know that you're worthless and you're not

2474
02:01:04,120 --> 02:01:04,840
Speaker 30: supposed to be here.

2475
02:01:05,480 --> 02:01:07,440
Speaker 24: And at that time I was shocked. I didn't respond

2476
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Speaker 24: to him.

2477
02:01:07,720 --> 02:01:10,520
Speaker 30: But actually, in hindsight, I have appreciation for Senda Johnson

2478
02:01:10,760 --> 02:01:12,320
Speaker 30: because he gave me clarity that I'm not there to

2479
02:01:12,360 --> 02:01:13,240
Speaker 30: make friends with these people.

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02:01:13,440 --> 02:01:14,920
Speaker 24: I'm there to make change for my district.

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Speaker 30: And that's why I show up to committee every day

2482
02:01:17,120 --> 02:01:20,200
Speaker 30: about business because what we're facing as serious that they

2483
02:01:20,240 --> 02:01:22,480
Speaker 30: are using this our state as a laboratory to test

2484
02:01:22,520 --> 02:01:24,040
Speaker 30: out these horrible policies that they're going to try and

2485
02:01:24,040 --> 02:01:24,920
Speaker 30: spread across the nation.

2486
02:01:25,240 --> 02:01:27,320
Speaker 24: We're the state three seven to eight the most incorporated

2487
02:01:27,320 --> 02:01:28,240
Speaker 24: is zip code in the nation.

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02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:30,640
Speaker 30: We're a state that you know, again, twenty percent of

2489
02:01:30,680 --> 02:01:32,360
Speaker 30: black folks cannot vote, and so it's important for us

2490
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:34,520
Speaker 30: as young black people to run because we can represent

2491
02:01:34,560 --> 02:01:36,320
Speaker 30: a new vision what a state like Tennessee can be.

2492
02:01:36,360 --> 02:01:38,240
Speaker 30: The birthplace of the Klan is also the birthplace of

2493
02:01:38,240 --> 02:01:40,440
Speaker 30: the Nashville student movement, where young people like Diane Nash

2494
02:01:40,480 --> 02:01:42,600
Speaker 30: and John Lewis rose up against him Crow and it's

2495
02:01:42,640 --> 02:01:44,600
Speaker 30: our time again, and so you know, I have so

2496
02:01:44,720 --> 02:01:46,800
Speaker 30: much hope and I'm excited about this election. So we're

2497
02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:48,920
Speaker 30: trying to gain ten seats in our state legislature to

2498
02:01:48,960 --> 02:01:51,400
Speaker 30: break the Republicans supermajority so they can't expel us again,

2499
02:01:51,560 --> 02:01:53,600
Speaker 30: so they can't cut off our microphones again. But if

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02:01:53,640 --> 02:01:56,080
Speaker 30: they do, we always stay ready with a megaphone because

2501
02:01:56,080 --> 02:01:57,480
Speaker 30: we're not going to allow them the silence the voices

2502
02:01:57,520 --> 02:02:00,640
Speaker 30: of our constituents. Because what we're we represent moral clarity,

2503
02:02:00,720 --> 02:02:03,920
Speaker 30: we represent boldness, and we represent urgency in these policies

2504
02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:05,520
Speaker 30: when we look at the crises of our democracy, the

2505
02:02:05,560 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 30: crisis of white supremacy, the crises of our economy, and

2506
02:02:08,280 --> 02:02:11,040
Speaker 30: we must fight with everything we have because when history

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02:02:11,080 --> 02:02:12,320
Speaker 30: looks down on this moment, I want to say that

2508
02:02:12,360 --> 02:02:13,200
Speaker 30: we were on the right side.

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02:02:13,080 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 24: Of history and that we stood on what we needed

2510
02:02:15,880 --> 02:02:16,960
Speaker 24: to for future generations.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for you all. Thank you all for

2512
02:02:19,480 --> 02:02:20,680
Speaker 1: joining Native Lampid.

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02:02:20,720 --> 02:02:23,240
Speaker 3: We are so so thankful, and I mean, I wish

2514
02:02:23,280 --> 02:02:25,200
Speaker 3: we could just let that be the benediction, but what

2515
02:02:25,320 --> 02:02:27,720
Speaker 3: the show has to go on, But we definitely want

2516
02:02:27,800 --> 02:02:29,320
Speaker 3: both of you all back, and if we got to

2517
02:02:29,440 --> 02:02:32,040
Speaker 3: We'll be in Tennessee right with you with a bullhorn.

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02:02:31,680 --> 02:02:34,080
Speaker 24: And thank you so much, thank you, thank you so much.

2519
02:02:34,240 --> 02:02:36,040
Speaker 24: Tom cousin Angela says, come on, you know, I come on.

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02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:39,680
Speaker 3: It's my honor, it is my highest honor. Andrew been

2521
02:02:39,760 --> 02:02:41,880
Speaker 3: greeting everybody on our behalf. That's a hug and a

2522
02:02:41,920 --> 02:02:44,040
Speaker 3: handshake from all of us. At this time, we have

2523
02:02:44,200 --> 02:02:47,440
Speaker 3: the great privilege and honor of being joined by our

2524
02:02:47,480 --> 02:02:51,760
Speaker 3: dear sister Alexis mcgil johnson, who of course is the

2525
02:02:51,880 --> 02:02:56,920
Speaker 3: president of Planned Parenthood America, and she's greeting these wonderful

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02:02:56,960 --> 02:02:57,520
Speaker 3: gentlemen too.

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02:02:58,680 --> 02:03:00,000
Speaker 1: No, you're don't run.

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02:03:00,200 --> 02:03:03,000
Speaker 3: Right, You're like, come on down, it's giving prices, right,

2529
02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:04,360
Speaker 3: you look beautiful.

2530
02:03:04,440 --> 02:03:06,280
Speaker 1: Alexis so excited to me.

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02:03:06,360 --> 02:03:08,720
Speaker 5: It's obviously a very busy year when it comes to

2532
02:03:08,840 --> 02:03:12,080
Speaker 5: repro justice, and so I know, miss Alexis mcgil johnson

2533
02:03:12,160 --> 02:03:14,800
Speaker 5: has been running criss crossing the country's standing on the

2534
02:03:14,840 --> 02:03:18,080
Speaker 5: front lines on behalf of women, but honestly, everybody is.

2535
02:03:18,120 --> 02:03:20,200
Speaker 1: It's not an issue that just impacts women and impacts

2536
02:03:20,240 --> 02:03:20,640
Speaker 1: all of us.

2537
02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:21,680
Speaker 13: So thank you for your work.

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02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:23,920
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm so honored to be here with family.

2539
02:03:24,040 --> 02:03:27,680
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. Alexis, So we were just mentioning Andrew.

2540
02:03:27,680 --> 02:03:30,000
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you know, I can't hardly hear you. I

2541
02:03:30,080 --> 02:03:31,120
Speaker 3: meant to say that a long time.

2542
02:03:32,760 --> 02:03:36,200
Speaker 1: Say yeah, but maybe maybe I'll look this way too.

2543
02:03:36,320 --> 02:03:37,920
Speaker 1: Is that better when I do this? Is that better?

2544
02:03:38,040 --> 02:03:38,400
Speaker 13: I hear you?

2545
02:03:38,480 --> 02:03:38,720
Speaker 4: Fine?

2546
02:03:38,760 --> 02:03:40,840
Speaker 3: Okay, well, Andrew, hopefully you can hear me, and you're

2547
02:03:40,840 --> 02:03:42,320
Speaker 3: not struggling a much as I'm struggling to hear you.

2548
02:03:42,360 --> 02:03:45,480
Speaker 3: But I was gonna say, Alexis, we've been talking about

2549
02:03:45,520 --> 02:03:47,920
Speaker 3: the fact that there really are fifty one days left.

2550
02:03:48,600 --> 02:03:51,360
Speaker 3: What what marching orders do you have for the folks

2551
02:03:51,440 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 3: at home watching for us sitting at this desk with

2552
02:03:54,320 --> 02:03:56,640
Speaker 3: you as we welcome our listeners and our audience home.

2553
02:03:56,720 --> 02:03:59,400
Speaker 1: What should we be focused on in this final stretch.

2554
02:04:00,120 --> 02:04:02,800
Speaker 17: So I want people to be focused not on polls,

2555
02:04:03,680 --> 02:04:06,440
Speaker 17: not on time, not on even the fifty days. I

2556
02:04:06,520 --> 02:04:09,160
Speaker 17: want them to be focused on every single conversation they're

2557
02:04:09,200 --> 02:04:12,040
Speaker 17: going to have from now until November fifth. I want

2558
02:04:12,080 --> 02:04:14,919
Speaker 17: them to make sure that everyone they know is registered

2559
02:04:14,920 --> 02:04:17,800
Speaker 17: to vote. I want them to understand that freedom is

2560
02:04:17,960 --> 02:04:20,960
Speaker 17: on the ballot. I want them to understand if they

2561
02:04:21,040 --> 02:04:24,160
Speaker 17: don't vote now, they may not get to vote again.

2562
02:04:24,720 --> 02:04:27,800
Speaker 17: That has to be the single most important message. Because

2563
02:04:27,880 --> 02:04:30,120
Speaker 17: our bodies are on the ballot, our freedoms are on

2564
02:04:30,200 --> 02:04:33,080
Speaker 17: the ballot, and everywhere I turn, I have to say,

2565
02:04:33,920 --> 02:04:37,440
Speaker 17: the energy has turned up, right, it's turned up.

2566
02:04:37,400 --> 02:04:37,840
Speaker 12: In a way.

2567
02:04:39,320 --> 02:04:42,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that we felt this in a minute,

2568
02:04:42,400 --> 02:04:43,440
Speaker 1: right in a minute.

2569
02:04:43,600 --> 02:04:46,240
Speaker 17: And we've been doing this game, all four of us, right,

2570
02:04:46,280 --> 02:04:47,920
Speaker 17: so I've known all of you all and all your

2571
02:04:47,960 --> 02:04:52,800
Speaker 17: different iterations of organizing, including mine. I don't know that

2572
02:04:53,000 --> 02:04:57,880
Speaker 17: I felt the kind of multi generational, the multiracial, the

2573
02:04:58,120 --> 02:05:03,800
Speaker 17: feminist democracy build the realignment that's happening that we actually

2574
02:05:03,840 --> 02:05:04,640
Speaker 17: are in charge of.

2575
02:05:05,160 --> 02:05:06,560
Speaker 13: And I want people to understand that.

2576
02:05:07,040 --> 02:05:08,440
Speaker 1: This is our time to do that now.

2577
02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:13,200
Speaker 11: It almost would have felt draconian to hear the comments

2578
02:05:13,280 --> 02:05:15,240
Speaker 11: around if you don't vote this time, you may never

2579
02:05:15,400 --> 02:05:17,640
Speaker 11: have the opportunity to again. And then you sit for

2580
02:05:17,720 --> 02:05:21,440
Speaker 11: a moment and realize the Republicans, in what shenanigans they've

2581
02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:25,040
Speaker 11: been involved in since they got power, can't lead. But

2582
02:05:25,160 --> 02:05:28,800
Speaker 11: since they got power, and you realize, with the Supreme

2583
02:05:28,880 --> 02:05:32,800
Speaker 11: Court declaring a king again, that anything is possible. And

2584
02:05:32,880 --> 02:05:36,200
Speaker 11: I just wonder, as you make your rounds around the states,

2585
02:05:36,360 --> 02:05:39,600
Speaker 11: are there particular places. I know the country's on fire,

2586
02:05:40,040 --> 02:05:44,280
Speaker 11: but other particular places that raise significant alarm bells as

2587
02:05:44,360 --> 02:05:49,080
Speaker 11: it relates to bodily autonomy, as it relates to frankly,

2588
02:05:49,160 --> 02:05:52,520
Speaker 11: people of color finding themselves on the margin of real

2589
02:05:52,640 --> 02:05:55,520
Speaker 11: health crisis personally for not being able to have access

2590
02:05:55,680 --> 02:05:58,240
Speaker 11: to making their own reproductive health decisions.

2591
02:05:58,240 --> 02:06:00,000
Speaker 17: Well, look, absolutely, Look, we are living in a world

2592
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:02,760
Speaker 17: world right now where twenty two states have put bands

2593
02:06:02,880 --> 02:06:07,360
Speaker 17: on our bodies, right where they have eliminated restricted access

2594
02:06:07,480 --> 02:06:13,040
Speaker 17: to abortion in those states. That affects forty three percent

2595
02:06:13,120 --> 02:06:15,680
Speaker 17: of all women. It affects more than half of all

2596
02:06:15,760 --> 02:06:18,320
Speaker 17: black women. So we have to be clear that that

2597
02:06:18,400 --> 02:06:19,920
Speaker 17: when I say our bodies are on the ballot, they're

2598
02:06:19,960 --> 02:06:22,720
Speaker 17: literally on the ballot across the country. And while we

2599
02:06:22,800 --> 02:06:25,080
Speaker 17: can look at the maps and say this is the

2600
02:06:25,160 --> 02:06:27,520
Speaker 17: presidential this is what you need to do for the Senate,

2601
02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 17: this which you to the House, like literally all across

2602
02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:32,840
Speaker 17: the country, our bodies are on the ballot. But part

2603
02:06:32,920 --> 02:06:34,560
Speaker 17: of what I'm saying is like I think about what's

2604
02:06:34,560 --> 02:06:37,440
Speaker 17: happening in Florida right now, just last week or this week.

2605
02:06:37,480 --> 02:06:40,960
Speaker 17: I can't remember this week, Governor DeSantis. So there's a

2606
02:06:41,080 --> 02:06:45,560
Speaker 17: really critical ballot initiative in Florida. Florida is one of

2607
02:06:45,640 --> 02:06:48,800
Speaker 17: the most important states in the South for reproductive freedom.

2608
02:06:49,440 --> 02:06:53,440
Speaker 17: Florida has enacted a six week band before many people

2609
02:06:53,560 --> 02:06:57,440
Speaker 17: even know that they are pregnant, and so Floridians, to

2610
02:06:57,560 --> 02:07:00,320
Speaker 17: protect reproductive freedom have put a ballot in ah have

2611
02:07:00,440 --> 02:07:03,480
Speaker 17: on in order to protect their you know, to get

2612
02:07:03,520 --> 02:07:08,680
Speaker 17: a constitutional right. Governor DeSantis decided he was going to

2613
02:07:08,760 --> 02:07:11,000
Speaker 17: get his election police.

2614
02:07:11,280 --> 02:07:12,640
Speaker 21: I didn't even know that was a division.

2615
02:07:13,040 --> 02:07:13,240
Speaker 17: Yeah.

2616
02:07:13,280 --> 02:07:15,640
Speaker 4: They started with black folks going to their doorstep ar

2617
02:07:15,640 --> 02:07:16,080
Speaker 4: wrestling them.

2618
02:07:16,160 --> 02:07:16,360
Speaker 6: Yah.

2619
02:07:16,520 --> 02:07:21,240
Speaker 17: Yeah, an election police to go and all of all

2620
02:07:21,320 --> 02:07:25,080
Speaker 17: of the good people who signed a petition finding out

2621
02:07:25,120 --> 02:07:28,360
Speaker 17: where they are. They're looking at their address, going up

2622
02:07:28,440 --> 02:07:29,560
Speaker 17: to their doors.

2623
02:07:29,320 --> 02:07:30,280
Speaker 1: And knock, knock, knock.

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Speaker 4: That's right, right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Hello Angela Ryan, did you sign that petition? Crazy?

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Speaker 4: That's right?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 17: Like I need to talk to you and then to intimidate,

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Speaker 17: like if that is not an example of voter intimidation,

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Speaker 17: an example of how protecting your own body becomes a

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Speaker 17: way to understand how you need to protect your own democracy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, anything is possible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I always say I don't really.

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Speaker 5: There's always polling about how many people support aborische rights,

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Speaker 5: and I always say, I don't give a damn how

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Speaker 5: many people support or it is up to us as

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Speaker 5: an individual if you are not the person in the situation, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't want anyone weighing in on what I do with

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Speaker 1: my body.

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Speaker 5: But even beyond reproductive justice and actions, it is just

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Speaker 5: the health, the actual health of women, and also more importantly,

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Speaker 5: the health of children. I saw this as a meme,

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Speaker 5: and I don't mean to be insensitive to anything that happened,

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Speaker 5: But when Donald Trump lied about babies being aborted right

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Speaker 5: post birth, someone posted a school shooting and said, this

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Speaker 5: is what it looks like when babies are aborted after birth.

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Speaker 1: And it's so true.

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Speaker 5: If you care so much for children, care for actual children,

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Speaker 5: do something about these school shootings, and stay the F

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Speaker 5: word out of my uterus. You know, that's the bottom

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Speaker 5: line to all these elections. I didn't have a question.

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Speaker 1: That was my comment. I yield the Florida from the way. No,

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Speaker 1: But I think that's right.

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Speaker 17: I mean, I think is like, there are all these

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Speaker 17: people who are out there in the vein of like

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Speaker 17: pro life as their banner, but like, no, you're really

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Speaker 17: just pro birth because once we're here, right, what are

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Speaker 17: you actually doing?

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Speaker 1: Are they Robb looking on the maternal health disparacy.

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Speaker 17: Maternal mentality, look at info mentality exactly exactly in the

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Speaker 17: same states that a band abortion same stands as the

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Speaker 17: highest maternal mortality rates, the highest infomortality rates.

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Speaker 13: So clearly, you're not doing anything to save us.

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Speaker 17: And they're also, by the way, the same states that

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Speaker 17: have declined billions of dollars of healthcare under the ACA

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Speaker 17: right so much, so much resource that could be going

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Speaker 17: to actually saving communities. And they're like, no, we're okay,

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Speaker 17: We're willing to.

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Speaker 1: Let all of you go.

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Speaker 4: I know we've got to push soon.

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Speaker 11: But I wanted to ask you, as we look prospectively

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Speaker 11: toward the future beyond November fifth, assuming it goes the

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Speaker 11: way we all will work and want it to. On

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Speaker 11: the reproductive health agenda, do you think there is a

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Speaker 11: chance we can get codification through law the con grissy

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Speaker 11: US House in the US Senate that hopefully precludes this

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Speaker 11: mess from happening again.

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Speaker 17: That is the whole ballgame, manager, right, It is all

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Speaker 17: about getting a reproductive freedom majority. It is about ensuring

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Speaker 17: that we have reproductive freedom champions up and down the ballot,

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Speaker 17: because when we do, we have the opportunity to get

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Speaker 17: federal legislation that will restore the protections of reproductive freedom.

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Speaker 17: And so there should be no world where if you

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Speaker 17: live in Florida or you live in Texas, that you

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02:10:29,240 --> 02:10:32,480
Speaker 17: don't have the same rights that you do in Washington,

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Speaker 17: d C. And New York, in California and Illinois. Right,

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Speaker 17: And what we have right now is a buifer Kida

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Speaker 17: system where if you were born in a certain zip code, you.

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Speaker 21: Are being held hostage.

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Speaker 17: You can't necessarily even travel out of state, and you

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Speaker 17: may be forced into pregnancy. So many politicians at cycle

2693
02:10:51,560 --> 02:10:55,040
Speaker 17: are talking about things like exceptions. Right, They're saying like, oh,

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Speaker 17: I support reproductive freedom, or I don't support it, but

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Speaker 17: I will in these certain so circumstances.

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Speaker 21: Just look at the matters of rape and incest.

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Speaker 17: There were twenty six thousand episodes examples of rape and

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Speaker 17: incests in Texas alone, forty pregnant thousand, twenty six thousand

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Speaker 17: of forced pregnancies due to rape and incests sixty thousand overall,

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Speaker 17: but a third actually happened in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So when you talk about free states and non

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02:11:26,800 --> 02:11:27,440
Speaker 1: free states.

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02:11:27,800 --> 02:11:29,280
Speaker 4: Right, that's true, and so.

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Speaker 1: Does Sator Crew and A. G. Paxton.

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Speaker 17: So, like, literally, what we are fighting for is to

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Speaker 17: ensure that wherever you live, you get access to the

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Speaker 17: healthcare you need.

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Speaker 1: And that should just be a fundamental American right.

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Speaker 3: While we've been sitting here, a former Congressman Ed Towns

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Speaker 3: just walked by.

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Speaker 1: I was just waving at you, Congressman. Good to see you.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I want to thank you, alexis not only for

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Speaker 3: your advocacy that you fight.

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Speaker 1: You're fighting every day the fights we know about, the

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02:12:01,320 --> 02:12:03,720
Speaker 1: fights we do not. We thank you. And I also

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02:12:03,880 --> 02:12:06,240
Speaker 1: want to especially thank you for being a partner of

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Speaker 1: this podcast. You are we just are. We thank God

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02:12:10,440 --> 02:12:12,080
Speaker 1: for you, and we thank God we've known you for

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Speaker 1: a very long time.

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Speaker 17: We have known each other for a very long time.

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Speaker 17: And I just want to say, with the moment of privilege,

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Speaker 17: how proud I am of all of you all for

2723
02:12:20,200 --> 02:12:24,960
Speaker 17: like you know, misinformation is such a real challenge in

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02:12:25,040 --> 02:12:28,440
Speaker 17: a world where we can't control the way information is disseminated,

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02:12:29,040 --> 02:12:31,040
Speaker 17: and the way you show up every day and you

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02:12:31,200 --> 02:12:35,160
Speaker 17: break it down flawlessly and brilliantly, and and just to

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02:12:35,280 --> 02:12:37,080
Speaker 17: the point and make it plain for the people. Like

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Speaker 17: That's what gives me so much joy because I know

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02:12:40,360 --> 02:12:43,240
Speaker 17: I can trust everything I'm hearing from you, because I know.

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02:12:43,320 --> 02:12:43,960
Speaker 13: You've lived it.

2731
02:12:44,400 --> 02:12:46,880
Speaker 1: It's your experience. You know it because you.

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02:12:46,920 --> 02:12:49,360
Speaker 13: Can find it out. And you're all brilliant and what

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02:12:49,440 --> 02:12:49,600
Speaker 13: you do.

2734
02:12:49,800 --> 02:12:50,880
Speaker 1: So thank you, appreciating you.

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Speaker 3: We love you.

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02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:54,000
Speaker 1: You look amazing. Enjoy the dinner.

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02:12:54,120 --> 02:12:58,320
Speaker 5: We're almost We're all else on our way to dinner.

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02:13:10,000 --> 02:13:13,480
Speaker 5: Somebody failed Jesus Andrews does knock somebody else, it sounded

2739
02:13:13,560 --> 02:13:14,880
Speaker 5: like it, but we are being joined.

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Speaker 1: So we've got a whole Brothers panel right now. We

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Speaker 1: have I was gonna say congresson that's we said.

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Speaker 3: We have Garrison Hayes, who's a video correspondent for Mother Hayes.

2743
02:13:25,880 --> 02:13:29,160
Speaker 3: We have Chris Ray, who is the international president of

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02:13:29,360 --> 02:13:32,280
Speaker 3: five Beta Sigma. You see him dapper in that blue

2745
02:13:32,320 --> 02:13:36,160
Speaker 3: and he's also the president of the Divine Nine Council

2746
02:13:36,280 --> 02:13:39,520
Speaker 3: of Presidents. Also, I don't know why Andrew is the

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02:13:39,560 --> 02:13:42,040
Speaker 3: Welcome Committee. He can't do it on my life's so pressure.

2748
02:13:42,440 --> 02:13:48,440
Speaker 3: Like he can see he doesn't care. He he has

2749
02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:50,440
Speaker 3: no idea what I said. He wants to be the

2750
02:13:50,480 --> 02:13:53,200
Speaker 3: Welcome Committee, the Goodbye Committee, the Hello Committee.

2751
02:13:53,280 --> 02:13:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm not listening to you committee anyway.

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Speaker 3: Last, but certainly not least, in my introductions, doctor Wes Bellamy,

2753
02:13:59,560 --> 02:14:02,800
Speaker 3: who is the Public policy chair for one hundred Black Men.

2754
02:14:02,960 --> 02:14:06,760
Speaker 3: He brings his students here to this conference every single year.

2755
02:14:08,000 --> 02:14:10,160
Speaker 3: I have the great honor of being an EP on

2756
02:14:10,320 --> 02:14:12,840
Speaker 3: his documentary more than a statue, and he's here, of

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02:14:12,920 --> 02:14:14,360
Speaker 3: course with a kin take clock bow.

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Speaker 14: I love you.

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02:14:18,480 --> 02:14:20,560
Speaker 1: If you guys are doing better, even better than how

2760
02:14:20,640 --> 02:14:22,720
Speaker 1: you look, So tell us about what's going on. Man,

2761
02:14:23,600 --> 02:14:27,840
Speaker 1: get close to the us. Get close before Yeah, we did,

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02:14:28,080 --> 02:14:30,160
Speaker 1: you did. We were all there comedy.

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02:14:31,280 --> 02:14:34,480
Speaker 3: Talking about and should introduce him to mister President now

2764
02:14:34,560 --> 02:14:36,600
Speaker 3: that he's back and he knows that we actually did

2765
02:14:36,680 --> 02:14:37,640
Speaker 3: our black jobs.

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02:14:37,800 --> 02:14:40,640
Speaker 5: You have to bet and before you leave, we have

2767
02:14:40,760 --> 02:14:43,640
Speaker 5: to get a photo because my brother, I will be remiss.

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02:14:43,720 --> 02:14:46,160
Speaker 5: My brother is a proud member of five Beta Sigma

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02:14:46,240 --> 02:14:49,960
Speaker 5: Fraternity Incorporated, plays at Georgia Said University.

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Speaker 1: So yes, you and I have to get a photo

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02:14:53,160 --> 02:14:54,760
Speaker 1: so I can send this Listen.

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Speaker 10: First of all, thank you all so much for the

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02:14:57,080 --> 02:14:59,880
Speaker 10: opportunity to hang out with you all. Right, then following

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02:15:00,080 --> 02:15:02,400
Speaker 10: you all love what you're doing for the culture, love

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02:15:02,440 --> 02:15:05,680
Speaker 10: the information that you're sharing. I get to do my

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02:15:05,800 --> 02:15:09,640
Speaker 10: black job, which is I'm the international President of five

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Speaker 10: Et Sigma. I get to serve as the president, the

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Speaker 10: twentieth president of Barba Scotia College, the.

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02:15:15,680 --> 02:15:17,200
Speaker 6: Home of Mary MacLeod Bethune.

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Speaker 10: And now I am the chairman of the Council of President.

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Speaker 1: He got a lot of jobs, a lot of black jobs.

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Speaker 10: A lot of black leading literally but just doing the

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02:15:27,440 --> 02:15:30,080
Speaker 10: good work, doing the good work. And this man right

2784
02:15:30,120 --> 02:15:33,240
Speaker 10: here who has you know, who has been a big inspiration.

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02:15:33,440 --> 02:15:36,280
Speaker 10: I got caught up in this whole leadership chain when

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Speaker 10: I had the opportunity service mayor of Spring Lake, North

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02:15:38,600 --> 02:15:42,800
Speaker 10: Carolina a few moons ago, and I was plucked out

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02:15:42,960 --> 02:15:46,880
Speaker 10: of this whole obscurity because of Andrew Gilliam and so

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02:15:47,240 --> 02:15:49,160
Speaker 10: just really glad that he was able to put me

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Speaker 10: and connect me with a group of amazing young people

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Speaker 10: who have now I've been able to grow up with

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Speaker 10: in the fight.

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Speaker 4: And they all still design their own outfits, so.

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02:16:00,120 --> 02:16:01,160
Speaker 6: Everything is purposeful.

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02:16:01,200 --> 02:16:03,040
Speaker 4: He let's be clear, Let's be clear.

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02:16:03,880 --> 02:16:05,200
Speaker 6: I'm super excited to be here.

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Speaker 31: One man, you know, with respect to our dear brother

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02:16:08,440 --> 02:16:12,560
Speaker 31: Andrew but he's everybody's big brother, honestly, man, and the

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02:16:12,680 --> 02:16:14,840
Speaker 31: work and what you put in it is super appreciative.

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Speaker 6: Tiffany, you know how much I admire you and thank

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Speaker 6: you man. I love both of y'all. But I'm gonna

2802
02:16:19,320 --> 02:16:24,720
Speaker 6: not gonna lie. I love Angela and anybody messing with her,

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02:16:24,720 --> 02:16:25,560
Speaker 6: I'm gonna find them.

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Speaker 30: We know.

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Speaker 6: I was clear, but we'll see.

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Speaker 16: Joe.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, y'all can't let me and Wing win.

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Speaker 31: But we really appreciate all the work and what you

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Speaker 31: all do, and we're excited to talk about, you know,

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Speaker 31: a lot of the collaborative work efforts that we have

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Speaker 31: going on and not only getting brothers and sisters out

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Speaker 31: the vote, but most importantly.

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Speaker 6: Putting off for the culture. For these last fifty some

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Speaker 6: of my days, it is Yeah.

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Speaker 32: I mean, I'm really happy to be here as well.

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Speaker 32: It's great to be on finally and make it happen.

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Speaker 32: I mean, you guys are doing something really special in

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02:17:00,440 --> 02:17:03,320
Speaker 32: that I think black media has such a really important

2819
02:17:03,360 --> 02:17:05,840
Speaker 32: role right now, and so it's incredible to see your

2820
02:17:05,879 --> 02:17:08,440
Speaker 32: platform and the way you're using your platform is amazing.

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02:17:09,240 --> 02:17:13,400
Speaker 32: In my work, I'm covering black issues most consistently telling

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Speaker 32: black stories about the way that we're utilizing our black

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Speaker 32: political power. This year, I've been down in Atlanta talking

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Speaker 32: to both voters and organizers on the ground, folks who

2825
02:17:22,600 --> 02:17:26,080
Speaker 32: are mobilizing in communities that are often left behind, and

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Speaker 32: many of them are getting their information from platforms just

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Speaker 32: like this one.

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Speaker 4: So it's a real honor to be here.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for your work bringing information to people. I'm

2831
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Speaker 5: happy to have these black men at the table because

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Speaker 5: we've talked about this a little earlier in the show,

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Speaker 5: and that is the manisphere and the comments coming from

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Speaker 5: the manisphere, And I just wonder what you all might

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Speaker 5: say to our good brothers out there who might be misinformed, misdirected,

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Speaker 5: miseducated about what is at sake for this election. And

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Speaker 5: I hear consistently from the manisphere about this agenda to

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Speaker 5: drive a wedge between us and y'all know we love you,

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02:18:05,840 --> 02:18:08,280
Speaker 5: we can't we need Not only do we love you,

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Speaker 5: but we need you. You are integral to our lives

2841
02:18:12,400 --> 02:18:14,840
Speaker 5: in our community. So what would you say out there

2842
02:18:14,959 --> 02:18:16,480
Speaker 5: the men who feel like, well, we left out of

2843
02:18:16,520 --> 02:18:18,960
Speaker 5: the conversation and this Black women this and this Black

2844
02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:21,400
Speaker 5: women always owe democrats and black men vote with Trump

2845
02:18:21,440 --> 02:18:22,120
Speaker 5: and what about me?

2846
02:18:22,400 --> 02:18:24,520
Speaker 1: What do y'all say to them? Well, always say do

2847
02:18:24,600 --> 02:18:26,240
Speaker 1: the voice one more time and what about me?

2848
02:18:26,400 --> 02:18:35,720
Speaker 6: And appreciate it.

2849
02:18:37,120 --> 02:18:39,240
Speaker 31: But nonetheless, so the one hundred black men we're a

2850
02:18:39,280 --> 02:18:41,720
Speaker 31: part of this twenty one city tour talking about real

2851
02:18:41,800 --> 02:18:44,240
Speaker 31: men vote, and to be candid, those are things in

2852
02:18:44,280 --> 02:18:45,920
Speaker 31: which when we go to these town halls, we hear

2853
02:18:46,040 --> 02:18:48,320
Speaker 31: some brothers say we feel left out. But I think

2854
02:18:48,360 --> 02:18:50,080
Speaker 31: what I would say to them is similar to what

2855
02:18:50,160 --> 02:18:52,320
Speaker 31: we say during the town halls is, brothers, we have

2856
02:18:52,520 --> 02:18:55,320
Speaker 31: to be one educated and informed on the issues. We

2857
02:18:55,440 --> 02:18:57,400
Speaker 31: know that there's a great deal of misinformation that is

2858
02:18:57,480 --> 02:19:00,800
Speaker 31: specifically targeted towards us. And if you look no further

2859
02:19:00,879 --> 02:19:04,240
Speaker 31: than the mother, the black mama that birthed you, her

2860
02:19:04,360 --> 02:19:07,560
Speaker 31: rights are under attacked. You're a black sister, your a

2861
02:19:07,640 --> 02:19:10,080
Speaker 31: black daughter, your black niece, your black cousin. You all

2862
02:19:10,160 --> 02:19:12,760
Speaker 31: just had alexus on their bodies and their ability to

2863
02:19:12,840 --> 02:19:14,480
Speaker 31: be able to do what they want to do is

2864
02:19:14,600 --> 02:19:18,800
Speaker 31: under attack. And candidly, what I'm often saying is currently

2865
02:19:19,320 --> 02:19:22,440
Speaker 31: we don't have the time to complain about what isn't

2866
02:19:22,480 --> 02:19:25,320
Speaker 31: happening or the wish that's being pushed between us to

2867
02:19:25,760 --> 02:19:28,880
Speaker 31: perceived wedge between us. What we have to do right

2868
02:19:28,959 --> 02:19:31,200
Speaker 31: now is what we have to do, which is be

2869
02:19:31,480 --> 02:19:34,640
Speaker 31: the true leaders of our communities, collaborate and work together,

2870
02:19:34,879 --> 02:19:37,800
Speaker 31: take care of our brothers and our sisters, and most importantly,

2871
02:19:37,879 --> 02:19:41,320
Speaker 31: show up. That's most important. Show up and do your

2872
02:19:41,520 --> 02:19:43,520
Speaker 31: job because you have an obligation to do so.

2873
02:19:43,680 --> 02:19:46,440
Speaker 6: Right now. I'm sorry I would have.

2874
02:19:46,760 --> 02:19:48,199
Speaker 1: Had a little snak on what you said.

2875
02:19:48,840 --> 02:19:51,400
Speaker 3: One of my favorite things about you is I saw

2876
02:19:51,600 --> 02:19:56,120
Speaker 3: your videos on TikTok, and you are constantly educating in

2877
02:19:56,240 --> 02:19:59,720
Speaker 3: spaces where people will get on completely unresearched, not saying much.

2878
02:20:00,120 --> 02:20:02,640
Speaker 1: Every video that I've seen from you, I've learned something.

2879
02:20:03,000 --> 02:20:06,160
Speaker 3: How are you utilizing that platform to kind of combat

2880
02:20:06,280 --> 02:20:08,480
Speaker 3: some of the misinformation that TOIVI started about making sure

2881
02:20:08,520 --> 02:20:09,240
Speaker 3: you're bringing.

2882
02:20:09,000 --> 02:20:09,880
Speaker 1: People in to be heard.

2883
02:20:10,080 --> 02:20:12,000
Speaker 32: Yeah, I mean, I think what's so important here is

2884
02:20:12,040 --> 02:20:15,000
Speaker 32: that we don't get to this moment without the things

2885
02:20:15,040 --> 02:20:17,320
Speaker 32: that came before it. Right, Like, we have to talk

2886
02:20:17,360 --> 02:20:19,400
Speaker 32: about the fact that we are at this very week

2887
02:20:19,520 --> 02:20:23,080
Speaker 32: is the thirtieth anniversary of the nineteen ninety four crime Bill.

2888
02:20:23,520 --> 02:20:26,520
Speaker 32: Black men are left out of the conversation. I just

2889
02:20:26,640 --> 02:20:28,560
Speaker 32: mentioned being in Atlanta. Just last week, I was in

2890
02:20:28,600 --> 02:20:31,360
Speaker 32: Atlanta talking to some young men and both of them

2891
02:20:31,400 --> 02:20:34,520
Speaker 32: had felony convictions. They can't vote, and so they have

2892
02:20:34,760 --> 02:20:37,760
Speaker 32: been taken out of this conversation in a way intentionally

2893
02:20:37,800 --> 02:20:40,160
Speaker 32: systematically right, And so we have to acknowledge that that

2894
02:20:40,280 --> 02:20:42,840
Speaker 32: there are structures in place that have led to this

2895
02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:46,320
Speaker 32: kind of disillusionment that we see. And at the same time,

2896
02:20:46,400 --> 02:20:48,600
Speaker 32: I love the mentorship. I love the messaging that we're

2897
02:20:48,640 --> 02:20:51,360
Speaker 32: hearing from our brothers here about we don't have time

2898
02:20:51,440 --> 02:20:53,520
Speaker 32: to really get caught up in that. Right, they're using

2899
02:20:53,600 --> 02:20:57,359
Speaker 32: our vulnerabilities against us as men, the misogyny and sexism

2900
02:20:57,440 --> 02:20:59,840
Speaker 32: that we're taught from birth, the ways that we're being

2901
02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:02,320
Speaker 32: condition to believe that women are inferior to us. They're

2902
02:21:02,440 --> 02:21:06,200
Speaker 32: using that against us to leverage our vote against us.

2903
02:21:06,680 --> 02:21:08,200
Speaker 32: And so much of what I try to do on

2904
02:21:08,280 --> 02:21:12,200
Speaker 32: my platform is that re education work, the work of

2905
02:21:12,280 --> 02:21:16,200
Speaker 32: really taking that history, taking the issues and reframing them,

2906
02:21:16,240 --> 02:21:20,039
Speaker 32: hopefully adding in some more information so that people understand

2907
02:21:20,080 --> 02:21:22,080
Speaker 32: things differently so that we can build a better future.

2908
02:21:22,480 --> 02:21:23,160
Speaker 24: And I think that's so.

2909
02:21:23,560 --> 02:21:25,840
Speaker 32: I think it's so important and often overlooked in this

2910
02:21:25,920 --> 02:21:30,040
Speaker 32: conversation because men are being educated by folks who do

2911
02:21:30,240 --> 02:21:30,959
Speaker 32: not have our.

2912
02:21:30,920 --> 02:21:31,800
Speaker 6: Best interest in mind.

2913
02:21:31,840 --> 02:21:34,640
Speaker 32: The last thing I'll say is, unfortunately, men are taking

2914
02:21:34,680 --> 02:21:37,400
Speaker 32: their own lives and we have to ask ourselves why.

2915
02:21:37,879 --> 02:21:39,240
Speaker 32: And a lot of it has to do with the

2916
02:21:39,320 --> 02:21:42,760
Speaker 32: pressure that we put on ourselves, and the manisphere is

2917
02:21:42,879 --> 02:21:43,640
Speaker 32: a part of that.

2918
02:21:43,760 --> 02:21:46,480
Speaker 6: They have blood on their hands and we have to.

2919
02:21:46,520 --> 02:21:47,760
Speaker 24: Call it that and say it that way.

2920
02:21:47,959 --> 02:21:49,160
Speaker 6: And this election is so important.

2921
02:21:49,200 --> 02:21:51,520
Speaker 5: I think that's such a thank you for that, for

2922
02:21:52,120 --> 02:21:55,240
Speaker 5: stating that the way you did. Anybody can answer this.

2923
02:21:55,440 --> 02:21:58,800
Speaker 5: I just wonder why out of that frustration, Because when

2924
02:21:58,840 --> 02:22:00,680
Speaker 5: our brothers are in pain, we hold.

2925
02:22:00,560 --> 02:22:02,120
Speaker 1: Your pain, we feel that pain.

2926
02:22:02,160 --> 02:22:04,720
Speaker 5: We too are in pain, and I think it's in

2927
02:22:04,800 --> 02:22:08,960
Speaker 5: our nature to love and to nurture. I wonder why

2928
02:22:09,160 --> 02:22:12,160
Speaker 5: out of that does it become that we, the black women,

2929
02:22:12,480 --> 02:22:12,920
Speaker 5: are your.

2930
02:22:13,000 --> 02:22:14,720
Speaker 8: Enemy, broken.

2931
02:22:15,879 --> 02:22:18,400
Speaker 10: And you're the closest to many of us are broken,

2932
02:22:19,280 --> 02:22:23,000
Speaker 10: and when what you don't realize is is that we

2933
02:22:23,080 --> 02:22:26,600
Speaker 10: are literally moving through life broken.

2934
02:22:27,440 --> 02:22:28,600
Speaker 9: And so here I am.

2935
02:22:28,959 --> 02:22:32,280
Speaker 10: I have been taught at a certain age how to

2936
02:22:32,400 --> 02:22:34,760
Speaker 10: carry myself or what I think a man should be,

2937
02:22:35,280 --> 02:22:37,800
Speaker 10: how I should move in this world, and then when

2938
02:22:37,840 --> 02:22:41,720
Speaker 10: there are individuals that see me not operate in that space,

2939
02:22:42,520 --> 02:22:45,000
Speaker 10: They criticize me, they tear me up.

2940
02:22:45,040 --> 02:22:48,480
Speaker 9: They it is literally death by a thousand cuts.

2941
02:22:49,120 --> 02:22:51,360
Speaker 10: So by the time I get to a space where

2942
02:22:51,400 --> 02:22:55,280
Speaker 10: it's time for me now to take a partner, I don't.

2943
02:22:55,480 --> 02:23:00,280
Speaker 10: I'm not even who I'm supposed to be. Broken and

2944
02:23:00,440 --> 02:23:02,879
Speaker 10: so and then and then you have the individuals who

2945
02:23:02,920 --> 02:23:04,680
Speaker 10: say to you you don't need to get any help.

2946
02:23:05,560 --> 02:23:08,080
Speaker 10: You know that's you know, you don't need any any

2947
02:23:08,200 --> 02:23:10,960
Speaker 10: support there? You know a real man, doesn't you know?

2948
02:23:11,040 --> 02:23:12,880
Speaker 10: You just suck it up. You know how many times

2949
02:23:12,920 --> 02:23:15,480
Speaker 10: I've heard that in my life, just suck it up.

2950
02:23:16,080 --> 02:23:18,480
Speaker 10: And here I am now. And so you wonder why

2951
02:23:18,560 --> 02:23:21,280
Speaker 10: as I moved through this space that I am not

2952
02:23:21,760 --> 02:23:24,920
Speaker 10: able to have the true conversation with my partner. I'm

2953
02:23:24,959 --> 02:23:27,520
Speaker 10: not able to really know how to navigate on my job.

2954
02:23:27,600 --> 02:23:30,120
Speaker 10: I don't know how to navigate in other relationships. And

2955
02:23:30,200 --> 02:23:33,280
Speaker 10: so the only time that I find an opportunity for

2956
02:23:33,480 --> 02:23:37,280
Speaker 10: me to really express myself is in this informal opportunities,

2957
02:23:37,360 --> 02:23:40,000
Speaker 10: informal time with my brothers where I'm just kicking it

2958
02:23:40,400 --> 02:23:42,320
Speaker 10: and you know, you're you're saying stuff like man, she

2959
02:23:42,520 --> 02:23:46,000
Speaker 10: tripping right, But really, what I'm saying is it's like, man,

2960
02:23:46,040 --> 02:23:47,640
Speaker 10: I don't know how to communicate to her.

2961
02:23:48,240 --> 02:23:49,120
Speaker 9: I don't know how to.

2962
02:23:49,360 --> 02:23:51,560
Speaker 10: Move in such a way to let her know that

2963
02:23:51,640 --> 02:23:54,120
Speaker 10: I'm care I don't know how to say I'm vulnerable.

2964
02:23:54,280 --> 02:23:57,040
Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, that word very rarely comes out of

2965
02:23:57,080 --> 02:23:59,800
Speaker 10: our mouth. And so by because being vulnerable as a

2966
02:23:59,840 --> 02:24:02,240
Speaker 10: man is absolutely not a part of the lexicon of

2967
02:24:02,320 --> 02:24:02,840
Speaker 10: being a man.

2968
02:24:03,840 --> 02:24:08,320
Speaker 11: Broken And I'll just say brokenness also has no monopoly

2969
02:24:08,400 --> 02:24:12,440
Speaker 11: on men. Brokenness applies across the board. And the reason

2970
02:24:12,480 --> 02:24:15,160
Speaker 11: why I think it's important to say it is because

2971
02:24:15,200 --> 02:24:17,920
Speaker 11: we're almost always it feels like we're looked at from

2972
02:24:17,959 --> 02:24:21,240
Speaker 11: the deficit perspective of what we're not bringing to the table,

2973
02:24:22,200 --> 02:24:25,360
Speaker 11: rather than what is here present that you've never seen

2974
02:24:25,879 --> 02:24:30,040
Speaker 11: exemplified anybody else but me, if we're being honest with

2975
02:24:30,160 --> 02:24:33,240
Speaker 11: each other. But I will say in y' all of

2976
02:24:33,360 --> 02:24:36,240
Speaker 11: y'all's comments that hit on this, that it is systematic

2977
02:24:36,480 --> 02:24:41,280
Speaker 11: that folks aren't waking up feeling broken. There are advertisers

2978
02:24:41,320 --> 02:24:45,080
Speaker 11: who put commercials on television between the most popular shows

2979
02:24:45,240 --> 02:24:47,720
Speaker 11: on tele that we're watching and others are watching, and

2980
02:24:47,920 --> 02:24:50,960
Speaker 11: never choose to take mental health as their mantle or

2981
02:24:51,000 --> 02:24:53,640
Speaker 11: their opportunity to say, you know what, this is in vogue,

2982
02:24:54,680 --> 02:24:57,720
Speaker 11: whatever the phrasing is, that communicates directly to us and

2983
02:24:57,800 --> 02:25:00,120
Speaker 11: a way that we can hear it. When you, when

2984
02:25:00,160 --> 02:25:03,360
Speaker 11: you consider black men taking on issues during this election

2985
02:25:04,240 --> 02:25:07,440
Speaker 11: supposedly not supportive of the black woman who's running for president,

2986
02:25:08,120 --> 02:25:11,359
Speaker 11: you are getting not just you United States of America,

2987
02:25:11,440 --> 02:25:14,320
Speaker 11: Republicans and conservatives coming at you in your inboxes, in

2988
02:25:14,440 --> 02:25:17,600
Speaker 11: your screen time and when you're trailing through trying to

2989
02:25:17,600 --> 02:25:18,960
Speaker 11: see what story you're going to read next.

2990
02:25:19,440 --> 02:25:21,920
Speaker 4: But you got China and you've got Russia.

2991
02:25:22,720 --> 02:25:25,680
Speaker 11: You're so powerful as an individual and as an entity

2992
02:25:25,959 --> 02:25:28,680
Speaker 11: that foreign nations have determined that you are the enemy

2993
02:25:29,000 --> 02:25:32,560
Speaker 11: and are not putting endless resources into making it true. Yes,

2994
02:25:32,959 --> 02:25:35,840
Speaker 11: so it isn't by accident. Is We're not stumbling into it.

2995
02:25:36,000 --> 02:25:39,960
Speaker 11: We're not broken and falling into it. We are targeted

2996
02:25:40,840 --> 02:25:44,720
Speaker 11: with significant resources to perform a certain way.

2997
02:25:45,040 --> 02:25:46,920
Speaker 31: But you said something also that I think is super

2998
02:25:46,959 --> 02:25:51,080
Speaker 31: important when you said the closest the proximity sifany like

2999
02:25:51,080 --> 02:25:53,680
Speaker 31: when when you see the closest proximity to the person

3000
02:25:53,720 --> 02:25:56,400
Speaker 31: that you know is oftentimes the person of what you harmed.

3001
02:25:56,440 --> 02:26:00,000
Speaker 6: If you're not healed, in some regard, so our sisters off.

3002
02:26:00,080 --> 02:26:03,680
Speaker 31: And catch the brunt of our brokenness man, because they

3003
02:26:03,720 --> 02:26:05,440
Speaker 31: are the closest to us, and we feel as if

3004
02:26:05,680 --> 02:26:07,560
Speaker 31: that's the only place in which we can try to

3005
02:26:07,920 --> 02:26:11,640
Speaker 31: be invoke some kind of superiority, which again is all systematic,

3006
02:26:11,959 --> 02:26:13,720
Speaker 31: you know, things in which we have to be intentional

3007
02:26:14,040 --> 02:26:15,760
Speaker 31: with breaking down. And I'm glad that we have in

3008
02:26:15,800 --> 02:26:18,040
Speaker 31: the platform the opportunity to be able to discuss this.

3009
02:26:18,440 --> 02:26:20,200
Speaker 31: You asked a question earlier to what would we say

3010
02:26:20,240 --> 02:26:23,680
Speaker 31: the black men first and foremost, You're valued, you're loved,

3011
02:26:24,160 --> 02:26:28,560
Speaker 31: you're supported, you're needed, you're necessary. But you also have

3012
02:26:28,720 --> 02:26:30,800
Speaker 31: to go out and vote in this election, or at

3013
02:26:30,840 --> 02:26:34,080
Speaker 31: a bare minimum, encourage everyone you can to do the

3014
02:26:34,320 --> 02:26:36,640
Speaker 31: right thing, because if you don't do the right thing

3015
02:26:36,760 --> 02:26:39,240
Speaker 31: in this instance, you may not have another chance to

3016
02:26:39,360 --> 02:26:39,840
Speaker 31: do anything.

3017
02:26:40,240 --> 02:26:41,520
Speaker 8: You're not going to have another chance.

3018
02:26:41,760 --> 02:26:44,080
Speaker 9: And you know, I remember there was an argument the

3019
02:26:44,160 --> 02:26:45,600
Speaker 9: one time I had with my wife, and she.

3020
02:26:45,720 --> 02:26:51,320
Speaker 10: Said, if you were on your job, would you talk

3021
02:26:51,400 --> 02:26:55,920
Speaker 10: to your supervisor your manager that way? No, you wouldn't

3022
02:26:55,920 --> 02:26:59,760
Speaker 10: because you're trying to protect your job. So why would

3023
02:26:59,840 --> 02:27:03,280
Speaker 10: you talk to me like that in our home where

3024
02:27:03,400 --> 02:27:06,000
Speaker 10: we are. You know, the president and CEO or where

3025
02:27:06,040 --> 02:27:08,040
Speaker 10: the you know, why would you do that to me

3026
02:27:08,200 --> 02:27:14,160
Speaker 10: here knowing that you wouldn't do that outside of this space,

3027
02:27:14,320 --> 02:27:16,440
Speaker 10: but you would do it in this space. And I

3028
02:27:16,520 --> 02:27:18,959
Speaker 10: had to check myself, you know, she had to check

3029
02:27:19,040 --> 02:27:21,520
Speaker 10: herself realizing that, you know, I'm not going to blow

3030
02:27:21,600 --> 02:27:23,440
Speaker 10: up on you here because I know that I'm going

3031
02:27:23,480 --> 02:27:25,760
Speaker 10: to be able to manage how I'm going to delete, delete,

3032
02:27:25,800 --> 02:27:28,600
Speaker 10: delete that email before I resend it, because I'm trying

3033
02:27:28,600 --> 02:27:30,200
Speaker 10: to protect the lifestyle that I have, So.

3034
02:27:30,200 --> 02:27:32,320
Speaker 8: Why would I not try to protect the lifestyle that

3035
02:27:32,400 --> 02:27:32,680
Speaker 8: I got.

3036
02:27:32,760 --> 02:27:32,880
Speaker 20: Now.

3037
02:27:33,120 --> 02:27:35,199
Speaker 10: One of the things that we're doing with the National

3038
02:27:35,280 --> 02:27:39,519
Speaker 10: Penalinic Council, specifically our fraternities, is we're having deep conversations

3039
02:27:39,600 --> 02:27:42,800
Speaker 10: with the fraternities, the five fraternities on how we're going

3040
02:27:42,879 --> 02:27:45,320
Speaker 10: to make sure that we are seriously engaged in this

3041
02:27:45,480 --> 02:27:48,920
Speaker 10: upcoming election cycle. Now next week, we're excited that we're

3042
02:27:48,920 --> 02:27:51,440
Speaker 10: going to be dropping a lot of information on how

3043
02:27:51,520 --> 02:27:53,440
Speaker 10: the National Penelonic Council is about to be a part

3044
02:27:53,480 --> 02:27:57,360
Speaker 10: of this process. We're not sitting on the sidelines. We're

3045
02:27:57,360 --> 02:27:58,680
Speaker 10: going to make sure that we're going to be an

3046
02:27:58,680 --> 02:28:02,680
Speaker 10: intricate part. Every single week, there's going to be something

3047
02:28:02,800 --> 02:28:05,640
Speaker 10: coming out from us about making sure the folks are

3048
02:28:05,680 --> 02:28:06,320
Speaker 10: getting to the poll.

3049
02:28:06,400 --> 02:28:06,720
Speaker 4: I love it.

3050
02:28:06,800 --> 02:28:08,320
Speaker 9: On November fifth, watch us work.

3051
02:28:09,280 --> 02:28:11,640
Speaker 1: This is amazing, so great. Thank you for that.

3052
02:28:11,800 --> 02:28:15,000
Speaker 5: What an amazing way to close out the show with

3053
02:28:15,160 --> 02:28:19,160
Speaker 5: words from black men and the openness and knowledge that

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Speaker 5: you've armed the home viewing audience with. But also does

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Speaker 5: us as your counterparts who are cheering you on and

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Speaker 5: grateful to the roles that y'all play in our lives

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Speaker 5: in our commune.

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Speaker 1: We do see y'all, We do thank you.

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Speaker 3: I do want to say his name one more time,

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Speaker 3: Justin Robinson, who is the young man who was shot

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Speaker 3: and killed by the police here in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: Just days ago, And we want you all to know

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Speaker 3: we stand with you, we're thinking of you, and we're

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Speaker 3: absolutely going to talk to the CBC about what can

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Speaker 3: be done on a federal level to prevent.

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Speaker 1: These shootings to continue to happen. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for doing it. Thank you brother.

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Speaker 3: All up again, But we can't close the show. But

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Speaker 3: if you were yelling at you As a perpetual politicians,

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Speaker 3: they always want us to leave Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Andrew thinks that we bully him, but really we get bullied.

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Speaker 13: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: I just I want to tell you, guys how much

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Speaker 3: it means to me to be here with you all

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Speaker 3: in this way. It is the fifty third Annual Legislative Conference.

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Speaker 3: It is such a significant and historic occasion.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 3: This may be the very last time that President Joe

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Speaker 3: Biden addresses a large audience before the election, and it

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Speaker 3: may be the last time that Kamala Harris addresses this

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Speaker 3: body in her role as vice president, and the next

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Speaker 3: time maybe when she is president. So I'm looking forward

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Speaker 3: to going to see the members, watch a walk across

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Speaker 3: the stage, and just so y'all clear, that's gonna happen

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Speaker 3: in about three minutes. I will leave y'all glasses right

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Speaker 3: here and go see them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you really want to leave? What you want

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Speaker 1: us all to say?

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Speaker 3: By?

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Speaker 5: I would love for us I'll say by so we

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Speaker 5: can all watch. All right, Thank you guys, and this

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Speaker 5: is amazing. We will catch you when we're back on

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Speaker 5: next Thursday, Monday.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but what I will say is I

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Speaker 3: would love to have a break, but maybe not gonna

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Speaker 3: let we know.

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Speaker 1: We know because we recorded no.

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Speaker 5: So we'll see y'all. The next NA Native Lampid. You'll

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Speaker 5: see it's Thursday. Lo Is off camera yelling at us.

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Speaker 5: Thursday is the next episode. But now and then you

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Speaker 5: can catch up on this episode and any others that

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02:30:30,520 --> 02:30:32,960
Speaker 5: you may have missed. We were live a few times

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Speaker 5: this week, so please tune into that.

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, I'm sorry. I want to think the

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Speaker 1: Congressional Black HAWKUS Foundation for having us here. We're so

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Speaker 1: very grateful for.

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Speaker 3: You all to the iHeart team, clap it up for

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Speaker 3: the camera, all of our friends.

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Speaker 9: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was late. I just want you'll know.

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Speaker 4: She's always on the job.

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Speaker 1: John Shout and Laura News who aren't here, we really

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 6: Want to go.

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Speaker 5: I just want to shout out our guests who came

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Speaker 5: on tonight, because there are a lot of guests who

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Speaker 5: make time for networks that don't look like us, who

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Speaker 5: prioritize and networks, and these guests understood that we carry

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Speaker 5: an audience who are interested in what we're talking about,

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Speaker 5: but who are also motivated by our guests. There are

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Speaker 5: guests who you know, may cancel at the last minute,

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Speaker 5: who would never do that to a white run network.

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Speaker 5: So I just want to say thank you to the

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Speaker 5: guests who respect and honor what we do and the

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Speaker 5: platform we got, and you respect us, so we appreciate

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Speaker 5: you for that.

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Speaker 1: So everyone you see on here know that they appreciate you,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate you for tuning in tonight.

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Speaker 5: You guys, we're going to head to the dinner Saturday night.

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Speaker 5: Isn't that so many days? Fifty one days?

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Speaker 13: Next day?

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Speaker 1: Election and welcome home y'all.

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Speaker 3: Native Lampot, Reason Choice Media, iHeart everywhere you get your pause,

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Speaker 3: all that good stuff back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining the Natives intention of with the

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Speaker 2: info and all of the latest Roy Gilman Cross connected

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Speaker 2: to the statements that you leave on our socials. Thank

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Speaker 2: you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice is clear,

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Speaker 2: so grateful it took to execute roads. Thank you for serve,

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Speaker 2: defend and protect the truth even in paint for Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Home to all of the Natives wait, thank you, welcome,

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Speaker 3: oh y'all Welcome.

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