WEBVTT - Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 53rd Annual Legislative Conference 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.200 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:04.800 with Reaisent Choice Media. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.600 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.480 Welcome, Welcome home, y'all. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:12.800 This is Native Land Pod and we are joining you 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:17.840 live from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations fifty third Annual 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:22.520 Legislative Conference. We are here as your official pregame show 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.520 for the dinner tonight, and we are thrilled to be 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.520 joined by the brilliant minds of the conscience of the 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.200 Congress and so many wonderful friends of ours as well 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.240 as elected officials on the local state at the local 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.800 and state level and organizers. We have a jam packed 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.360 show and we can't wait to get into it. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:39.760 I am with my co. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.960 Hosts Welcome Home, y'all, Tiffany Cross and Andrew. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.880 Gillocome Home, everybody, y'all. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.120 Were trying to figure. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.560 Out what episode it is, so if you're watching, please 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.640 drop a comment and let us know what episode it is, 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.360 because we literally cannot remember, So drop a comment on 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:53.880 our YouTube. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.120 Oh Lola, where. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:56.760 Did we go? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:01.800 Right? 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:02.800 Okay? 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.760 Birthday from Yeah exactly, So welcome to the fortieth episode 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 of Native Lampod. I have to say I'm really excited 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.600 to be here. This is somewhat of a homecoming, I 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.120 think for all of us. I used to cover Congress 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.360 years ago, Andrew, being a politician, especially when he was running, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:20.280 would come to this dinner. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.679 But Angela, especially for you. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.880 As you all know, Angela is the former executive director 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.240 of the Congressional Black Caucus, So this was like your family, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.120 like the prom Nerd Ball Well, Nerd Ball is the 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.920 Washington correspondent, I say, Nerd from yeah exactly. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.480 This is a Black Nerve propromise. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.200 But Angela, how does it feel to be back in 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.039 this capacity? 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.160 Because you come, you still come every year. Have you 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:42.800 missed the dinner? 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.160 I have never missed a Phoenix Awards dinner except when 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.160 the dinner missed us, and that was during COVID COVID 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.639 and then the next year, of course we were virtual 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.720 that year. The next year we came back. So this 0:01:55.760 --> 0:02:01.880 is nineteenth ALC. Wow, and I I am so I think. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.360 What's cool about this, you guys that I'm super super 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.240 excited about is normally the conference all week, all of 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.720 the sessions are pretty open to the public, they're even 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.600 live streams. But the dinner is something that has often 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.400 felt more exclusive, and this year because the Foundation wanted 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.359 to partner with our podcast because we are so welcoming. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.160 There are folks from outside who weren't able to go 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.240 to the dinner who are coming in to watch the podcast, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:26.240 and we're thrilled to have you all. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.280 So welcome Black Home Home Audience. Here. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.840 I want to let the viewers know that the dinner 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:39.320 this evening will be hosted by Roy Wood Junior, amazing comedian. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.440 Ratler, absolutely and Sherry Shepard. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.680 Evening. So as Ryan's. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.760 Making his way to the stage, I want to let 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.720 you all know he has a new show coming out 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:56.120 on CNN. Have I got news for you? He just 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.040 taped his first comedy special, which I was privileged to 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.239 be there live in person to see to a sold 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.160 out packs audience. So give some love to this Rattler 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:10.480 great coming in. He and Andrew are kind of dressed like, hello, 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:11.080 my dear. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:12.960 We're so happy you're joining me. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.600 I don't know. I don't have my bow tie. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:17.760 I got the same color. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.320 I see ye, don't put it on sooner or later? 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.400 So what what are we? First of all, Roy, how 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:25.480 you doing? We're so happy to. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:25.919 See you host. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.200 I'm good I'm good. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.560 I'm just happy my voice survived last week because that 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.200 who was special and then prepping for seeing in and 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.920 then doing all the media for that watching that way 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.600 the dog who eating the doll? Yes, yes, but no, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.920 I'm I'm just happy to be you know how I 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.800 get around. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:46.600 Like black folks? 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.280 Yes, because I don't get it normally, like it's I'm 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.480 not I'm in like the mainstream world. And then the 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.880 Congressional Black Caucus. This is like, what did you say 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.520 over texts like professional essence facial? 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.560 We said black prom nerve prom. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.400 I'm going to call it political wikanda. I feel like politically, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:09.400 that's probably right. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:10.160 I like that too. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:10.840 That's probably right. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:11.760 I like that too. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.520 So do you do you change up? 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.280 How do you alter your approach when going into an 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.440 environment like this with people who are typically pretty serious 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.840 about themselves the world life? 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.400 I feel like, how do you prepare? 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.960 I feel like the advantage I have at a black 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.200 event is that they know me, and you kind of 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.800 already know. You know my brand. You know, I'm not 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.400 gonna say the all the way wrong thing. But I 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.520 ain't regal. I'm not gonna be regal like I would argue, though, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.960 of everything that I've done this year, hosting that June 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.680 teenth concert at the White House, that was the hardest. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.640 That was the hardest event because the issue with an 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.520 event like this, it's similar to June thing, like the 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.440 White House Correspondence dinner. It's understood that I can say 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.240 the wrong thing, You're supposed to say the wrong thing 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.120 June tenth and something like this. We are revering people 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.600 who are fighting against very serious issues and going hit 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.800 to head against very heinous people. There are people in 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.440 this room tonight who get death threats on air regular 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:15.920 and for their work, we're going to, you. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:16.560 Know, honor them. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:17.080 That's right. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.440 So the balance of joke and reverence and we must 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:26.719 also remember racism and racism and the joke like that 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.559 balance is more difficult to maintain in an all black 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.479 place because black people will hold you accountable in real 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.800 time if you went too far, you know, one way 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:38.320 or the other. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.200 So I was telling the girls yesterday about a story 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.120 with a well known person we know here who was 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.880 in my city, Tallahassee, And we're sitting next to each 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.839 other on the podium, and the brother didn't stand for 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.560 the pledge, and about eight black women after it was 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.200 a black event, came up to them and they just 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.520 wanted to know why. But we had a debate about 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.799 whether we'd be offended about being wrecked in a place 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.840 like that. But you've had experience, I'm sure, yeah, where 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.760 you've heard more than what you asked for. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.400 Yeah, and and and and at the end of the day, 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.840 with black people, it's a critique, it's it's a it's 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.200 still a dialogue. It ain't no battle, it's not disrespect. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.320 But it's just a matter of when you're going up 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.360 at an event like this, how do you make sure 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.440 that you maintain the respect and the reverence for while 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.359 also doing humor. And I'm thankful tonight because I have 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:25.760 a co. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:30.680 Host, So this Sherry Shepherd, your co hosting other interesting 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.120 you weren't listening and clearly, but the other interesting thing 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.200 is Roy that the chair of this year's event is 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:43.159 Congresswoman Terry Sewell, and you are a son of Alabama, so. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.200 It is it is a. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.560 Terry Sewell used to come on my morning show in Birmingham, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.080 and I got to give her props because she wasn't 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.680 just coming on when it was time to grab votes 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.440 and re election and blah blah blah. You know there's 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.479 a there's a connection, and I'm going to talk about 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.880 it tonight before we bring out Fantasia. But you know, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.560 we had an F five tornado that came through Alabama. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.160 Tornado came from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham, killed fifty people, and 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.119 it hit one of the blackest parts of town super hard. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.880 Terry Sewell was in that thing before sunrise, before the 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.840 Red Cross pulled up. Same night Fantasia was supposed to 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.560 have a show, could have canceled easily. Hey, y'all had 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.600 a tornado. I'll come back another time. Stay did the show? 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.640 Donated every penn. So like the connections between you know, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.800 Fantasia and you know, congress Woman Seuel and myself, I'm. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.120 Just like even to be yere with y'all. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.280 Like I don't y'all don't understand, Like I don't go nowhere, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.280 I don't talk, I don't get around people that I 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.000 don't rock with. So when I'm in a space where 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.400 I feel like I don't have to look over my shoulder, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.880 I don't have to wonder if this is being recorded 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:03.800 for some other duplicitous thing, and honestly working at CNN 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.760 and Angela, I might need to talk to you about 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.600 this because this has opened up a whole nother can 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.800 of how the energy that people have towards me simply 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.040 because of the network that it's a Saturday. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:17.600 Night as jokes. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.680 Yeah yeah, and they'd be like ha ha, hell yeah, I. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 Get it, we need premiere yeah anywhere near ass. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.240 But I do want to know if you can get 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.120 oh sorry, go ahead, Andrew. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.080 No, I said, not in the same category. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.800 Yeah, I do want to know if you can give 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.440 us a little preview of a joke you might could 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.280 potentially tail on stage tonight. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:39.800 I don't know. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.040 Here's what it comes down to, And this is a 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.640 conversation I had with Sherry. If Biden how soon until 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.240 Biden comes in the room before he speaks is kind 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.479 of the deciding factor because I don't know if anyone 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.280 has been able to look the President in the eyes 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.040 and go, hey, thanks, thank you for what you did, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.400 like they all did it at the convention in their 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.439 own way or whatever, but just to be able to 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.240 stand on the stage and look at him and just 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.320 go you are better than me. Because if I put 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.640 in my two months notice, I'm. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.240 Not showing up for no more shifts. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:17.800 Baby. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.480 This is me trying to get you to let me. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.280 This is me telling you I don't want to come 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.840 and pleee fire men, So you know, to give them 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.960 prop because who you know put in, they notice and 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:28.840 then keep showing up. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:29.240 Right. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.480 That's a good point. I never thought about it. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.079 Although Trump did say at the debate he sleep till 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:34.640 four pm. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:36.840 We snuck that in. Nobody called him. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.120 That's the type of joke though, that you can only 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.679 do if he's in the room, because if he comes 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.280 back to the fact, that's the sucker move. I know 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.200 Sherry is gonna, you know, have some conversation with the 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.959 Divine nine in the room as well. I think she's 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.480 gonna make sure they get their time. I'm not a 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.160 member of the Divine nine. I did not have the 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.880 grades by the time I had, no, I didn't. I 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.040 didn't know they needed two five. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.040 Boy, I don't think anybody we had we might have 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.920 had the grace. But none of us are dividing. Yeah, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.600 none of us aren't that crazy. This is defind odds 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:09.920 up here. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.839 People always see me and they're like, hey, so Ror 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:12.600 and I always have to tell. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.000 People I'm. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.480 Because they definitely make sure you don't make any of 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 their sounds or designs on air. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.240 I've worked with somebody who did that. I just tried 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:26.880 to go over time. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:29.840 It's a nonqua. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:33.319 I want to tell you. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.480 Roy, because we texted, but I didn't get a chance 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.199 to look you in your face and tell you how 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.080 hilarious you were. I was so honored and privileged to 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.480 be at your taping. You taped your Hulu special right, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.440 it was so what I loved about your comedy, And 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.319 I won't give anything away. You guys, please be sure 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.080 to tune in. I'll let Roy tell you win and wear. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.600 But I love comedy that makes a point, but also 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.120 that touches you, you know, and I felt like I 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.840 was laughing, But I also felt when you talked about connection, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.000 I really felt that. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.000 So I just want to tell you don't. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.800 Talk anymore, like we don't interact as a society, like 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.240 we get mad if people call us. Every meeting at 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.160 your job is on a computer. There's no employees in 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.120 the stores anymore. What I tried to make chit chat 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.840 on the elevator one time. Never again. You were able 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.800 to talk for three four floors in the hotel. Don't 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:22.600 nobody want to talk. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.480 Yeah, So I just. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.360 That was what I really wanted to drill in on 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.720 because what I noticed in watching my mom and I 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.960 talk about her a little bit and a special is 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.560 that you know, my mom is seventy five. She's been 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.840 a higher edge and she was twenty five years old 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.160 still working at a black college in Alabama to this day, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.040 I ain't gonna never quit. And I've always been trying 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.280 to get my mom to quit her job, not understanding 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.959 that it wasn't just about work for her. It's about 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.200 maintaining connection with the community, with her people, and so 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.600 seeing how she's active and you know, she's had friends 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.199 that have passed and you still, like, I hate to 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.720 say it, next man up, who I need a new Yeah? 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:02.240 Hey you y'all got a book club? 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:02.959 Cool, I'm here. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:03.400 Yeah. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.520 So the idea of working to make connections, that's something 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.480 you have to actively do, the same as cardio every morning, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:10.559 the same as nutrition. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.679 So I just wanted to talk about that a little bit. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.360 You made that point, but you wrapped it beautifully in humor, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.440 like we were laughing, but we all kind of looked 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.480 at each other after like we felt really connected. Just 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:22.880 because I don't want to forget. I want you to 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.200 tell the people win and where they can catch this special. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.280 Oh, the Who's special will be out sometime. I think 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.400 at near the end of the year. I think with 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.520 the low key, I think who was waiting to see 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.199 how the election goes to decide kind of yeah, because 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.440 what you expect of me is political political. So you know, 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.800 if we are a country in turmoil and riots, then 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.719 maybe you slide to roy Wood Junior, specially down to 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.800 town a little bit after the riots calm. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.640 You have a prediction on how you think the election 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:51.040 will go. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.360 Yes, riots and the I'm not pro riot. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.960 I just I don't take that part seriously. I think 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.760 I don't think they're gonna show for him like they 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:01.160 once did. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.600 I do not think that Republicans are going to accept 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.640 the results of this election. I think that Kamala has 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.840 turned a corner with enough moderates and undecided voters. I 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.319 think most people at this point that are still undecided. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.320 You were intentionally undecided to some degree. This idea that 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.320 you ain't seen us say nothing about that, go find it. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:28.680 You find everything else. You found everything else in your phone, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.280 So go find go find the policy that you care 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.079 about it and read up on it and make a decision. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.840 So I don't. I just do not see when Dick 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.200 Cheney says that he came. Now you noticed in the 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.920 video he never said Kamala vot. He just said I'm 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.760 not voting for Trump. That's gonna be enough for some 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.920 of them old school Republicans and maybe they stay home, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.280 and even then in that regard, it's still a vote 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.760 for Kamala in my opinion. I just I don't think 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.080 though at the rate of wich they're locking up jan 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.160 six offenders, that we're going to have a new January. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.280 There's not going to be another storm the Capitol number one. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:07.840 The National Guard gonna be there at that time, and 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.640 they won't put that Thaye out in your ass you 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.360 come up back and stupid. But I think that I 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.840 think Kamala wins. But I think that we'll have another 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:22.400 year of Trump lawsuit nonsense in trying to decertify the election. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.280 And I think the thing that we really have to 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:30.280 look for in this election is the voter intimidation that 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.760 I hope doesn't happen in a lot of disenfranchised places. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.720 And you know, you start talking about the way they've 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:41.400 redrawn all the districts in these battleground states. To me, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.160 that's the bigger factor in this election is whether or 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.880 not people will be allowed to even go to the polls. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.680 Yeah, it's interesting because there are are like these laws 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.440 and open carry states that you know, you have like 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.960 these people guarding the election, and I'm like, I wonder 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.000 how it will work if a bunch of armed black 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.920 folks stood out in front of a voting facility in 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.720 a white neighborhood and we just here to observe and 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.960 make sure things go well. I don't think that'll go 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.080 to I think that's the fastest way to change laws. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.640 What I want to shout you out also, Roy, because 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:18.320 you are a journalist by training, and you see my degree. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.520 I don't want you to let's the hope with it. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.480 But I have a degree. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.720 Yeah, yes, yes, and I but so it makes sense 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.600 to me that you would have a show on CNN, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.720 even if it's a comedy show, because I think you 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.760 bridge those two things beautifully. And I just I have 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.200 always been such a fan of yours, but also just 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.840 consider you a personal friend. So I'm just so proud 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.680 to see you here hosting a dinner tonight and prow 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.320 to see your comedy special and prow to see your 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.280 new show premiere on CNN, and it just feels like 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:51.680 it's your season. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.920 This damn thing, this has been one of my favorite 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.960 You know what's funny, I thought when I left the 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.520 Daily Showing, like, yeah, I'm done with listening to no 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.160 more politics. I ain't got to keep up, all right, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.280 let me go and see what and I'm talking about. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:17.600 Let me go download another episode, let me go on subscribe, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:32.320 subscribe the Native Land and Daily Showing just keeping. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:39.000 M android. Forget the haters. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.000 Man. The fact that you are bringing to a cable 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:47.440 news network buying large comedy says so much about who 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.120 you are, what your record has been, what you've demonstrated 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.080 that otherwise pretty conservative network, if I say so, in 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.160 my limited time I work with him, would say, you 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.440 know what, there's room enough to pioneer something thing new 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.160 and and so doing and taking this risk. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.159 Let's find the best out there who can do it. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:06.080 And I'm thankful for it. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.240 And the other beautiful thing about how I got news 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.200 for you is that it's it's based on a British 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.639 show that's been on for thirty five years. So in 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.399 the eyes of CNN, it's not a risk. It's just 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.600 the office. Let's see what else in Britain we can 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.560 remix and you apply it to American politics. It's a 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.120 quiz show where we don't keep points and no one wins, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.920 me wins money, and we just talk about the news. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.440 It's just questions about the news. So if you like quizzes, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.800 if you like the news, you don't know that it's 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.679 a simple way to learn about the week that was 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.399 and infuse a couple of opinions in there. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:38.320 I'm gonna get you all on it. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.840 So you expect and we like to know who the winner. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.320 Do you want to tell him who the latest winner was? 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:46.240 The latest winner? 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:52.960 For really, the most and thought unprovoking bet that we. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.840 Accept was whether or not Trump would. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.760 Take the bet and debate Kamala. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.520 We so we we shouldn't yeah. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.960 For a second for. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.800 Second form for Vice President Harris and Donald Trump to 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.200 meet on the debate stage at all. I said, that's 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.000 never gonna happen. He'll find every excuse not to show up. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.080 And Andrew was with me and was like, no, I 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.480 think it's going to happen. And then we said Ben, 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.680 so Angel was one, not one, but two dinners because 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.680 she said no, no, no, I met both of you all. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.160 So that doesn't mean that we go out and last night. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.879 That just means y'all got to split another dinner. That's 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.399 what we said, you guys, I'm not going. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.879 We did all your money a black owned restaurant at 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.000 a black mobmy. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:43.680 Month. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.520 He accommodated us and don't so we were happy. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.840 Can't be running up this man bill he got a home. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:56.359 I know, Jay, I'm sorry, but he lost the bets. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.479 Going over the credit See I used the one get 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:00.919 the bill parks. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:02.800 Heay, it was me. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.480 I was greedy. I was very greedy. Id everything on 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.800 the menu because I won ordered. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:09.920 What is your prep time? 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.400 Like, what are you doing up there when you leave 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.440 us and go back to backstage? 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:14.199 Is there? 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.840 It's so much show tonight that there's not a lot 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.680 of space. Sherry and I've identified two pockets where we 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.360 can do maybe like two to three minutes of bits. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.320 Everything else is getting the people on the stage and 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.720 get honored and keeping it moving so that people can 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.199 get back to mingling. Because what we also have to 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.520 remember is that for a lot of our elected officials. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:33.920 This is the first time where they can just come 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.920 sit and kick back and just on some class reunion, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.639 what you've been up to this year type of stuff. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:44.920 So yeah, this is the lowest level of prep I've 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.159 done this year. I can't wait. I'm this is this 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.879 is how chill I am. I'm tempted to have a 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.679 drink before. I absolutely will not. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.400 Absolutely, I do want to let. 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.800 The folks know because I don't know what they can see. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.320 But behind us, it is a ball. It looks like 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.040 a wakanda balls. As Angelas said, this is the what 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:09.520 do you call it? 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:10.080 Wakanda? 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:10.479 Oh? 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.280 Political political wakanda. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.879 It is a bevy of beautiful black people in floor 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.840 length evening gowns. You know how the hair I see 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.560 remember of the Congressional Black Caucus. President Biden will obviously 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.200 be here tonight, Vice President Harris or President elect Harris. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.480 If we want to speaking into existence, we'll be here 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.560 tonight speaking some of the members of the press pool. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.800 We've already seen them arrive early anticipating her arrival. 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.359 Secret services all around us. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.200 So I just want to bring you guys into what 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.560 we're witnessing and experiencing here tonight because It really is 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.000 truly a night to make history. This will be the 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.840 first time that Vice President Harris addresses this crowd as 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.920 the nominee for the next President of the United States. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.239 Hosted then her sit by comedian Roy Wood Junior, co 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.800 hosted with Sherry Shepherd, and it's just a night of 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.000 beautiful black excellence. And I'm so thrilled to share this 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.480 evening with my beautiful co host Angela. Got this dress 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.240 shipped in from Wakanda. It was a three week backwater 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:17.200 and it's beautiful. Andrew is where you by look black, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:18.840 but he and Roy were in the same colors with 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:20.160 navy blue and black. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:20.480 True. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.320 What a beautiful evening to be here with you guys. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.080 Before to ask her yes. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.280 Yes, yes, yes, how have you all been in terms 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.600 of because I know for the podcasts and the prep, 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.000 I imagine you have to do. It's take in all 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.360 of the bad stuff and then decide what bad stuff 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.199 we will talk about and what bad stuff we will not. 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.760 Have you figured out a way yet to only consume 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.159 what you need in terms of what you want to 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.560 present to your listeners or do you still have to 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.920 take in every terrible thing? And if so, what's what's 0:21:57.960 --> 0:21:59.639 your system, what's your mental health? 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.480 This is a really great opportunity to pub a podcast 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.160 that we did. We did a mini pod where we 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.200 actually had a battle tip and I have never gotten 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.840 an argument. We got in an argument that day about 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.240 whether or not we should put something out. I thought 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.840 she was saying something she wasn't, but it was like, 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.880 I feel like we need to listen to everything that's happening. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.439 It was about black Trump supporters, and I wanted to 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.640 hear it because I thought it was I couldn't even 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:27.480 wrap my mind around it, but it's the same thing 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.080 for me. That was like the trigger of the trauma 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:32.840 of twenty sixteen. So I was like, we have to 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:34.679 be aware of this because I was oblivious to it 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.280 in twenty sixteen. And I think they Andrew and Tiff 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:39.320 who agreed, We're both like, we don't have to go 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.080 about it this way though. So it was a whole battle. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.439 But I think what's good about the battle is there 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:46.239 are a lot of folks who have family members who 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.640 have that same conversation in that same way every time 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:51.720 they get together, whether it was a picnic over the summer, 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.720 if it's about to be Thanksgiving, dinner. Hopefully this man, well, 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:57.199 I'm trying to be as nonpartisan as possible because it's 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:00.560 the foundation, but in my personal capacity, I hope doesn't win. 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:03.960 And that's, you know, kind of what we're up again. 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.120 So we try to figure out every week. I think 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:09.520 Tiffany does a good back, good job of challenging us 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.000 to not sound like every other news network and making 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:17.120 sure that we're providing information to our listeners who sometimes 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:18.160 don't get those stories. 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.000 They're below the fold or there in the B section or. 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:22.840 The Z section, meaning they did not get in there, 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:24.880 and she will go and find them and make sure 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:26.240 that we are talking about those things. 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:27.119 I'm grateful for you. 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:36.880 Tif grankful for you guys and Andrew, but. 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:39.560 I did want to say this to be very honest. 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.640 It has evolved a number of times, and we've only 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:47.360 done forty episodes up to this point around show format, 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.719 how do we prepare and our preparation is very different 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.919 in between the three of us. And then, if I 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.800 could be even more honest, our show flow right now 0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:58.520 was like what you feeling? 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:00.680 What you feeling feel like? 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.200 We don't really talk about it, and we every time 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.000 we do a call before the show just to check 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.399 in with each other, and we're constantly saying we're potting, like, 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.080 don't talk about this. I want, like, I want the 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:12.720 audience to feel like they're in the room with us. 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:16.639 And if we have people there with us, you know, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.280 if we are too prepared, then it doesn't work. And 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.159 as a journalist, obviously, I'm still reading eight nine papers 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:26.359 every morning, so I have not figured out how to 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:27.440 only consume. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:27.640 What I need. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.520 But I just have curiosity about a lot of things. 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:34.720 I enjoyed reading local news, you know, I like reading 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:36.280 local papers and local sections. 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:37.760 But the problem now is that. 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.840 With with the way that local newspapers are being gobbled 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:46.040 up by larger outlets, a lot of local stories are 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:50.080 the same across that's right, So you might have three 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:51.360 true local stories. 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:51.560 You know. 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:55.200 I have a friend that's a reporter for Atlanta Journal Constitution. 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:57.680 He was talking to me how they cut down their 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:01.320 local reporter pool. Yeah, and even lower number. And it's okay, well, 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:04.360 now who do you have covering all of those stories? 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:06.280 So it's just it's it's real. 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:07.400 It's happening everywhere. 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:10.200 That's why your show coming on CNN is so important 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:14.160 because it makes shoes accessible your comedy special whenever it airs. 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:16.720 We're excited about it. Well, thank you so and just 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:20.080 everything that you have going on, Roy, your your previous 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:22.520 pastors have not figured it out yet. I think they 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:25.919 lost a gym when they lost you. But I'm just 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.200 happy that your fans, and there are so many will 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:32.560 get to experience and hear you on an ongoing basis. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:36.080 Well every Saturday night, nine pm CNN, streaming next day 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:38.200 on Max. We're talking about the news of the week 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:40.440 and some of the hole on the way. And let 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:44.120 me also stress lastly, the show is not just political 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:47.679 news like it could be the debate. Yeah, but also 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:51.159 Shannon Sharp was laying pipe on Instagram. 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:56.800 Lot wow, Roy, And on that note. 0:25:55.960 --> 0:25:58.720 I'm just saying we are covering a range of topics. 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:01.520 Yes, yes, let me tell you, and not what you 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:08.240 see going live on Native Lampody good luck tonight. 0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:08.720 We're so. 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:16.200 I couldn't make that joke later, so he gave it. 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:19.960 He's like, I gotta throwing out before I go. 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:27.800 Let me, God, let it go. 0:26:28.880 --> 0:26:30.399 Dignitaries, don't do that. 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:30.680 Roy. 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:34.200 Thank you right, thank you by yourself. You got proud 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:36.879 of people waiting for you up there. Oh, my gosh, 0:26:37.000 --> 0:26:40.800 we are thrilled at this time. Thank you, Roy, We 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:41.600 appreciate you. 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:44.760 We're thrilled at this time to bring up a very 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:48.359 very special guest, our good friend, Melanie Parker, who is 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:51.760 at Google and she is the chief diversity officer there, 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:54.880 is joining us to talk about this very very special 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.160 occasion and some of the great things they have going 0:26:57.200 --> 0:26:59.439 on to make an impact in the community at Google. 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:03.880 Hi God, thank you, Thanks beautiful, thank you. 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:06.200 How are you feeling I'm feeling great. 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:10.080 I'm excited about tonight, excited about all the black excellence 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:10.920 all around us. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:12.000 So it's a great night. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:13.919 Yes, we're happy to have you. 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:16.760 I think one thing, sorry, Andrew, a question, I'll ask 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:19.080 it quickly. A lot of people we hear a chief 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:21.360 diversity officer all the time, but I think so many 0:27:21.400 --> 0:27:24.320 people out there don't always know exactly what a chief 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:28.399 diversity officer does. Tell us what your role is exactly 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:29.639 tangibly at Google. 0:27:30.000 --> 0:27:31.320 So my role at. 0:27:31.200 --> 0:27:34.040 Google one, I've been in my role for five years, 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:36.280 so I know there's a meme out there five years 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:36.840 I've been to my. 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:42.040 Role at Google. But what I do I look after. 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:47.280 Google's internal workforce, and that is to make sure that 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:50.320 people not just feel like they belong, but feel that 0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:53.400 they can bring all of who they are in the workplace. 0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:56.720 And that's not just you know, heart and head. 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:01.280 That's really about I'm looking after how we're hiring, how 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:05.920 we're promoting, how we're providing developmental assignments. I'm looking at 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:10.280 who's leaving and are they leaving at the same rate 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:11.399 across communities? 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:12.800 Are they looking at different rates? 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:15.800 And then I'm looking after who's coming into Google over 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:19.359 the next ten to fifteen years, and what programs do 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:22.160 we need to have externally, What does our creator base 0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:24.120 look like, what does our user base we have over 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:26.080 a billion users, what does. 0:28:25.920 --> 0:28:26.600 That look like? 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:30.920 And how does that ecosystem all work together to make 0:28:30.960 --> 0:28:34.760 sure that we're meeting people just as they are where 0:28:34.800 --> 0:28:39.120 they are in that moment, and have a global team 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:40.000 that helps. 0:28:39.720 --> 0:28:41.240 Me do that well every day. 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:44.680 Melanie, speaking of some of the impact that you all 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:48.080 are making, you all had fight the event recently. During 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:51.239 this conference, change makers talk about how important it is 0:28:51.280 --> 0:28:54.160 to invest in support some of those folks outside. You 0:28:54.160 --> 0:28:56.640 talked about your rowle inside, but what's your impact on 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:57.600 the outside as well? 0:28:57.640 --> 0:29:01.360 You know, externally, our goal is to build sustainable equity, 0:29:02.040 --> 0:29:05.320 not just internally, as you said, Angela, but externally as well. 0:29:05.560 --> 0:29:09.840 So change Makers allows us to give voice, often to 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.520 a community that may not have voice. What we typically 0:29:13.640 --> 0:29:16.840 find when we look at black and brown voices is 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:21.200 that you're either hyper visible or you're invisible and in between. 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.440 That that's a whole lot of stress. 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:25.600 And so we want to make we want to normalize, 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:29.840 like elevating change Makers, and we want people to know 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:32.960 they have to feel empowered to have voice. It's when 0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:36.800 you don't have voice that we have, you know, horrible 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:41.080 leadership that we're you know, by being silent, we're actually 0:29:41.120 --> 0:29:44.760 giving way to change that's not progressive. So that's what 0:29:44.920 --> 0:29:47.720 change Makers is really all about. So we look to 0:29:47.840 --> 0:29:51.320 curate spaces and rooms where we can bring people. 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:55.000 Together, Melanie, a lot of them, at least as of late, 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:58.600 there's been quite a political attack on diversity inclusion. What 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:01.360 it means to have diverse work for is obviously I 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:03.040 don't mean for you to tell on your own company, 0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:08.080 but amongst your group of peers, could you just shine 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:10.720 a light for us, let us, let us sit on 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:14.480 the floor of y'all's couch. Conversation and share a little 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:17.200 bit about what folks who are in that space are 0:30:17.240 --> 0:30:21.000 feeling experiencing. Are they feeling like the best approach for 0:30:21.080 --> 0:30:25.040 survivalists to step back in the work and maybe make 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:28.640 it more I guess you'd say for everybody and not 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:32.160 just for or directed toward a particular group of employees. 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:35.600 So let me start with the incredible work that you know, 0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:39.320 we have long standing at Google, you know, so we've 0:30:39.360 --> 0:30:45.320 you know, long been commuted committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:50.160 and we're leaders and we're learners, and we do both transparently. 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:55.680 We just published our eleventh Diversity Annual Report in the spring, 0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:56.640 and in the. 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.360 Back of that, when we talk about our progress. 0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:04.040 Which includes you know, just historic levels of bringing underrepresented communities, 0:31:04.120 --> 0:31:08.520 which are women, people with disabilities, we look across minority 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:12.360 communities as well, but we put that in an appendix. 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:16.880 So we have the largest publicly available DEI data set, 0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:20.320 and we use big Query to open source it, so 0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:23.640 you're you know, there's no mystery in what our numbers are. 0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:25.600 You can look at them year over year, and we 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:28.120 put it in a very easy format because we want 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:30.520 you not just to you know, look at where we lead, 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:33.360 but look at where we're learning and the opportunity space. 0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:35.160 For all of us. Can I ask you ment, Oh, sir, 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:36.880 can I ask you? 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:41.520 You know, we have witnessed this massive pulling back of 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:45.040 DEI efforts and here we are at this Congressional Black 0:31:45.040 --> 0:31:47.160 Hawkice Foundation. You look out here, you see all this 0:31:47.840 --> 0:31:49.280 cea of beautiful blackness. 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:50.400 But for some. 0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:53.840 Reason our blackness is treated as inherently violent and criminal 0:31:53.920 --> 0:31:56.600 on the outside. So we got this pushed forward in 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:59.880 twenty twenty and this severe retraction since then. How have 0:31:59.920 --> 0:32:03.400 you You've been able personally and professionally a reality because 0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:03.720 you are. 0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:04.880 You're such a leader. 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:07.520 You are always a shiny example even today, like you 0:32:07.560 --> 0:32:09.160 have this glow that's her all the time. 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:10.440 It's not makeup, y'all, this. 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:11.160 Is literally her. 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:13.600 I want you to talk briefly about how you were 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:17.520 able to sustain and in fact grow through that retraction. 0:32:18.360 --> 0:32:22.560 Well, you know, I'm not surprised by some of the 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.840 things that we see, because whenever we have progress, we 0:32:25.920 --> 0:32:27.600 have people who are looking at how do you get 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:28.600 to that progress? 0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:29.239 You know? 0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:31.200 And so that's what we see. 0:32:31.600 --> 0:32:34.760 How I stay focused and how I encourage others look 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:36.400 at the data what is your data? 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:40.280 Say Like we're data informed. And one of the things 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:43.240 I say is like I exist and my. 0:32:43.280 --> 0:32:46.200 Organization exists to close gaps. And how am I going 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:48.400 to find those gaps? I'm going to look at the data, 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:51.000 so I'm not disheartened by looking to my left or 0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:54.160 my right. I'm really looking forward and where do I 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:57.000 need to continue to like close those gaps, make that 0:32:57.080 --> 0:32:58.120 progress and. 0:32:58.080 --> 0:32:59.880 Really meet people where they are. 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:04.040 And people really need us to continue to create safe 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:05.600 spaces to bring them together. 0:33:05.760 --> 0:33:09.760 Melody, I'm interrupting for two seconds. 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:14.040 Mama and Papa Rye that staples. 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:17.800 Here at the Congressional to give your ticket Legislative Commerce, 0:33:17.840 --> 0:33:19.520 and they're looking for their tickets for dinner. 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:21.959 So we will be remains if we did not have 0:33:22.080 --> 0:33:24.840 Papa Rye come by. Come by and get on the mic. 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:27.400 Popa Rye. He wants you. This is what he said. 0:33:27.880 --> 0:33:28.800 I just want you to know. 0:33:28.880 --> 0:33:30.040 This is what my dad was going to do. 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:31.680 The record. 0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:37.240 This way in front of the camera. Come this way, 0:33:37.960 --> 0:33:39.080 would you leg. 0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:42.760 Handle's beautiful mom, Mama, Rai and Papa Rye are here 0:33:42.960 --> 0:33:44.480 your own cameras. 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:45.320 And you look beautiful. 0:33:45.600 --> 0:33:48.560 You look so beautiful, gorgeous we're in the middle of 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:50.640 an interview. You're live and we have you, so we 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:53.320 wanted to have a cameo from Mama and Papa Rye 0:33:53.360 --> 0:33:54.640 say hi to everybody. 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:56.040 We can't go back. 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:58.719 That's right, that's right, that's right. 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:02.160 We're gonna want to remind everyone that this is a 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:03.360 nonpartisan conference. 0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:06.160 We're not going Oh. 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.399 I love it. In case anybody wanted to know why 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:11.600 I'm so hard headed. 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:14.240 Thank you all so much for being here. It's a pleasure. 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:17.280 You're gonna stay on set, okay, perfect. 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:21.080 And father ra we love you. We'll see you inside 0:34:21.080 --> 0:34:21.680 at the dinner. 0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:22.279 I love it. 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:24.520 We had to, you know, she had to get her 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:25.480 parents their tickets. 0:34:25.520 --> 0:34:28.880 So we have generation of women that live in my house, 0:34:28.920 --> 0:34:31.120 but one and a half your old granddaughter to my 0:34:31.239 --> 0:34:33.360 eighty seven year old mother. 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:37.640 This is grandmother, welcome, This is you know, like, what 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:39.040 are the rules? Right? 0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:42.040 But it's funny you say that because you you know, 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:45.520 you look gorgeous, and we have beautiful grandmothers in our community. 0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:45.960 Of course. 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:48.319 But I'm always bringing up when Donald Trump said, well, 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:50.840 I thought he was talking about Vice President Harris. 0:34:50.880 --> 0:34:53.640 I thought she was a lot younger. Turns out she's sixty. 0:34:53.560 --> 0:34:55.239 Like he's going to learn a whole lot about how 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:58.600 black women show up in this country physically and literally. 0:34:59.320 --> 0:35:00.960 I want to I've been in and ask a quick 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:04.919 policy question if I could, because something that we are 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:08.920 well I have a personal interest in is AI, and 0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:13.520 I'm curious how Google might navigate the changing AI, particularly 0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:17.320 through the lens of diversity when it comes to black folks. 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:18.920 And I know we've got some other guests way to 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:20.200 buy so and I know you got to get to 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:20.640 the dinner. 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:23.000 So that's a quick question before we let you go. 0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:26.520 So really, you know, our goal here is to build 0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:29.080 sustainable equity. That's the same thing that we want to 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:32.239 do with AI, and so you know, we want to 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:35.279 move responsibly, and sometimes that means you don't move as 0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:39.080 fast as you're looking at that responsibly and we're looking 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:42.560 particularly when you look at like black community and brown 0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:45.120 communities and other underrepresented groups. 0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:47.120 We know there are two sides to a coin. 0:35:47.440 --> 0:35:50.080 One do no harm and the other side of that 0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:53.719 is leave no community behind. So we've developed a set 0:35:53.800 --> 0:35:57.480 of AI principles. A part of those principles is ensuring 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:00.680 you know the ethical responsibility that we have and some 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:03.800 of the work like a lead to HBCU President's Council. 0:36:04.400 --> 0:36:08.920 And with Howard University, we have our research AI research 0:36:09.080 --> 0:36:12.200 project with them where they own all the licensing rights, 0:36:12.200 --> 0:36:15.680 and it's called Project Elevate Black Voices because our own 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:22.000 research and external research shows that automatic speech recognition doesn't 0:36:22.040 --> 0:36:25.120 recognize all the dialect that exists. 0:36:24.840 --> 0:36:25.800 In the black culture. 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:29.319 And so Howard is seeking to, you know, with their 0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:33.040 own student body and our researchers, they are getting first 0:36:33.080 --> 0:36:37.080 hand experience and how to develop the research that will 0:36:37.160 --> 0:36:40.600 support the technology recognizing. 0:36:40.160 --> 0:36:42.959 The dialect a little bit better. We have a five 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:45.040 million dollar grant we put at Spelman. 0:36:45.120 --> 0:36:47.640 Doctor Gail will be at our Google table today, so 0:36:47.680 --> 0:36:50.279 come give her a shout out. But those are the 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:53.360 types of things that we're doing on that front. And lastly, 0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:57.520 I'll say we worked with the Divine Nine, the Links Incorporated, 0:36:57.920 --> 0:37:02.400 and Dress for Success to really train one hundred thousand 0:37:02.640 --> 0:37:07.520 black women, but of course our community we've now trained 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:08.600 over two hundred. 0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:11.200 Thousand black women. We're still going strong. 0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:16.040 Delta Sigma Theta has been out in front really you know, 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:20.560 embracing and taking this technology like out to the communities 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:21.200 that they served. 0:37:21.200 --> 0:37:22.680 And so we're really proud of the effort. 0:37:22.920 --> 0:37:23.400 You love it. 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:26.640 Thank you so much, you are so grateful to have 0:37:26.719 --> 0:37:27.840 you enjoy the dinner. 0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:29.279 This is my favorite time of the year. 0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:31.920 I always tell people my favorite moment is when the 0:37:31.960 --> 0:37:33.240 members walk across. 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:34.759 That's my favorite too. 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:39.560 And last night I saw representative of Jasmine Crockett and 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:41.879 I said, I'm going to be so excited to see 0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:45.520 you and the other freshman representatives walk across that stage. 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:46.840 Thank you for having me, thank. 0:37:46.719 --> 0:37:57.680 You, thank you for partnering with us. It's my twenty 0:37:57.680 --> 0:37:59.520 fourth CBC. I just thought about that. 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:04.319 Yeah, yeah, there ought to be some sort and next 0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:05.960 year is gonna be your twenty, so we need to 0:38:06.000 --> 0:38:06.520 do like a. 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:08.360 Something special for your twenty fifty. 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:09.399 Yeah. 0:38:09.520 --> 0:38:12.440 Well, while we're sitting here, you are, we're waving at people. 0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:15.640 There's some folks coming by above us on either side, 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:19.359 and then behind us there are full long lines. We 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:22.440 just got had such a great conversation about the importance 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:25.120 of DEI, especially when it's under attack, and this woman 0:38:25.160 --> 0:38:28.239 is standing strong fighting ensure that our voices are in 0:38:28.600 --> 0:38:32.680 our presence is represented in tech as it continues to 0:38:32.719 --> 0:38:35.720 evolve and change. We have a few more guests coming 0:38:35.880 --> 0:38:36.960 and part of what's happening. 0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:39.640 One of them are here is here O. We have doctor. 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:47.880 Joining us, doctor hebram Kindy, one of my favorite people. 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:50.480 And also Andrew is gonna get next to get to 0:38:50.520 --> 0:38:51.000 sit next. 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:54.080 So this is the second rattler that we've had on 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:57.560 the program already. Nice to see doctor. 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:02.480 Hello this New York Times best selling offer as intellectual luminary. 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:05.360 We are so pleased to have you a thought leader 0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:08.040 here tonight. We see Jamie Harrison up above, chair of 0:39:08.040 --> 0:39:09.600 the Democratic National Conference. 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:11.360 We love to see. 0:39:11.520 --> 0:39:17.480 Jamie Harrison, Eric Alexander Alexander, and. 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:21.640 Congressman Kelly We see you. 0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:26.480 You all remember Eric Alexander, Maxine Shaw on Living Singles, 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:29.120 Some of you off because of her. She was also 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:32.200 closing pan on the Cosby Show. So a beautiful night 0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:35.279 of luminaries. Indeed, back to you, doctor Kenny, thank you 0:39:35.440 --> 0:39:36.360 for taking the time. 0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:38.120 To be here. I'll let the rattler kick the county. 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:42.360 Appreciate it, appreciate it. Welcome Doc, to see you as always. 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:43.520 I saw you. 0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:47.719 You had a post trying to help all of us 0:39:48.360 --> 0:39:51.800 struggle with and and and comprehend the significance of Donald 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:56.680 Trump's and the Republican parties repeated mythology. I don't know 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:58.680 what the hell to call it, but around the eating 0:39:58.760 --> 0:40:02.919 of of pets, I want you, if you wouldn't mind 0:40:03.080 --> 0:40:05.360 just help us sort of see that, I think in 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:09.200 a much more grounded and concrete and really important way, 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:11.280 because I think it's easy to make jokes and memes 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:14.600 without assessing the impact that it may have on the 0:40:14.680 --> 0:40:16.360 greater greater community. 0:40:17.360 --> 0:40:19.920 Well, well, I think it's it's part of a larger 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:27.760 project to criminalize black people more broadly, but their specific 0:40:27.880 --> 0:40:34.560 target obviously we're ra Haitian immigrants yea. And in Springfield, Ohio, 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:41.960 you have longtime black residents who are also being sort 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:45.360 of demonized and racially profiled, you know, as a result 0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:51.440 of what they've said about those, you know, people presumably 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.200 eating pets. And so I just tried to show that 0:40:54.360 --> 0:40:59.640 when you didn't mean one black group, what ultimately happens 0:40:59.880 --> 0:41:03.680 is you demean every black group. And I think it's 0:41:03.760 --> 0:41:07.120 important for us to not think, let's say, if you 0:41:07.239 --> 0:41:10.520 are not a Haitian immigrant, but you're black, to think, no, 0:41:10.680 --> 0:41:14.600 that's just them. No, ultimately it's gonna boomerang back to you. 0:41:15.520 --> 0:41:18.880 That's real, that's real. We have that a lot in Florida, 0:41:18.920 --> 0:41:20.480 even I know you know that. 0:41:20.719 --> 0:41:26.920 But because of the immigrant community, the expanding Caribbean, Afro Latino, 0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:30.399 Haitian community, so on and so forth, you will hear 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:34.480 at the higher education level folks saying I'm not you know, 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:37.560 African American, I'm not black, I'm Haitian, or I'm this, 0:41:38.640 --> 0:41:40.600 and I think black people do this. You know, American 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.759 born black folks do do similarly. And I just thought 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:47.560 your message was poignant because it started. I always felt 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:50.200 that if they're going after Haitians, they don't know the 0:41:50.239 --> 0:41:54.560 difference largely between any one of us. It's not okay 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:57.440 to go after Haitians, period, But certainly when you consider 0:41:57.520 --> 0:41:59.520 that this is an attack on all of us, that 0:41:59.600 --> 0:42:00.840 we all have to say something. 0:42:00.640 --> 0:42:01.360 And do something about it. 0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:05.040 And it's interesting because it just harkens me back to 0:42:05.560 --> 0:42:10.080 this speech that Malcolm X actually gave I believe it 0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:15.560 was in nineteen sixty two after police sort of barged 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:19.960 into the La Mosque and ended up killing some members 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:23.480 of the nation, and he gave this sort of funeral speech. 0:42:24.000 --> 0:42:29.000 And during that funeral speech, that's when he's well known 0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:32.560 for saying the most disrespected person in America today is 0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:36.600 the black woman. But in that speech, he also speaks 0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:39.840 to black people and says, who taught you to hate yourself? 0:42:41.239 --> 0:42:44.399 And I'm referencing that because you know, you can ask 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:46.080 African Americans. 0:42:45.600 --> 0:42:47.480 Well, who taught you to hate Black immigrants? 0:42:48.400 --> 0:42:50.600 Who you can ask black immigrants who taught you to 0:42:50.680 --> 0:42:54.279 hate African Americans? And so what happens is you have 0:42:54.480 --> 0:42:57.919 different groups of black folks seeing other groups of black 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:00.839 folks through the eyes of racist white people. 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:02.040 Yah. 0:43:02.480 --> 0:43:07.080 Yeah, I think that's such a legitimate point. How have 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:09.800 you found because the last time you were in the news, 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:13.239 we were all ready to come to your defense. How 0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:16.440 have you found navigating this space? Because it does feel 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:19.800 like it is such a visceral attack. You know, this 0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:25.320 kind of racial reckoning that mostly white run newsrooms introduced. 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:29.200 What we've actually witnessed is more of a hostile backlash, 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:31.400 a swift and hostile backlash to that. 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:33.439 So, in this age of how. 0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:36.600 To be an anti racist and you, you know, contributing 0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:39.239 what you can to society and being I think all 0:43:39.320 --> 0:43:42.319 of us have been on the receiving end of such 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:47.040 visceral attacks. How have you found navigating life personally, professionally, politically, 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:47.560 all of it. 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:53.160 I mean, it's difficult, and I think for me it's 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:59.680 it's most difficult when I see attacks that those who 0:43:59.719 --> 0:44:04.400 are obviously trying to conserve racism create and launch, and 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:08.439 people that I love sort of repeat those ideas, sort 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:10.839 of not knowing it my mind. I think that's when 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:14.960 it's sort of most painful. What's ironic even about comparing 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:17.640 this to the last question about what's going on with 0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:21.680 those Haitian immigrants, is you have this sort of viral 0:44:22.280 --> 0:44:27.040 series of sort of reports with no evidence, like there 0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:30.239 was no evidence, right, And I think for those of 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:35.040 us who've been targeted in the media for doing something 0:44:35.080 --> 0:44:39.080 where there's no evidence because apparently, like our skin color 0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:42.440 is evidence enough, I mean, it becomes hard like can you, like, 0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:47.000 can you present some portion of evidence to substantiate this claim. 0:44:48.000 --> 0:44:48.880 That's sort of. 0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:54.920 More or less delegitimizing our work, our work as a scholar, 0:44:55.000 --> 0:44:57.759 our work as an elected official, I work you know, 0:44:57.960 --> 0:45:01.959 as you know, as a common and for typically black people, 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:04.640 you don't need evidence. And I think that's what's incredibly 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:07.640 painful for black people who are in the public life. 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.880 Yeah, you know, era, first of all, I just want 0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:15.160 to tell you thank you, because no matter what, anytime 0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:17.640 that I've caught on you, you've been there. And I 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:20.320 wanted to start there because I think that that is 0:45:20.360 --> 0:45:25.520 an essential component and essential ingred ingredient for community. And 0:45:25.640 --> 0:45:28.000 I'd love to know in this era that we're in 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:31.320 right now, given the quality of the work you do, 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.640 the significance of the work you do, what our community 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:37.759 can do to really come together to not only support you, 0:45:37.880 --> 0:45:41.000 to support each other in our collective advancement and liberation. 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:45.759 I really think we we have to, I think to 0:45:45.880 --> 0:45:49.279 support sort of my work or even others, I think 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:54.920 we have to be more results oriented, and I think 0:45:54.960 --> 0:45:58.439 we have to be more sort of evidence based. Going 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:00.520 back to what I was just you know, talking about, 0:46:00.560 --> 0:46:03.600 and I'm saying that to say, even in my book 0:46:03.920 --> 0:46:07.480 How to Be an Anti Racist, I ended up defining 0:46:08.360 --> 0:46:13.759 an activists as someone with a record of power and 0:46:13.880 --> 0:46:17.200 policy change. So so a person can't just say one 0:46:17.280 --> 0:46:20.040 day I'm an activist. Yeah, right, you know, what is 0:46:20.120 --> 0:46:23.160 your record? What organizations have you have you built? What 0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:26.759 institutions uh you know, have you have you created? What 0:46:26.960 --> 0:46:31.880 campaigns have you launched to you know, reduce levels of 0:46:31.960 --> 0:46:35.160 housing insecurity, you know, in your community. And I think 0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:39.520 we have to be more outcome oriented, more results oriented, 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:43.719 because especially in a moment in which those who are 0:46:43.800 --> 0:46:48.000 trying to conserve racism are so intent focused. 0:46:48.320 --> 0:46:50.640 Yeah, we have to be outcome focused. 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:54.400 And I think there's a lot of symbolism, right and 0:46:54.560 --> 0:46:57.640 even when we when it comes to the presidency, we 0:46:58.480 --> 0:47:01.520 you know, have seen the election of President Barack Obama 0:47:02.360 --> 0:47:05.320 and looking at that through the lens of policy, you know, 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:08.240 we can judge his presidency. I think at this point 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:11.240 we are for a lot of younger people. President Obama 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:14.400 was the floor, not the ceiling, and so now younger 0:47:14.440 --> 0:47:17.319 people have a lot more demands of our leaders. We're 0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:20.000 beyond the role of symbolism. So I think that's so true. 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:25.080 What is your prediction for what may happen in November 0:47:25.120 --> 0:47:28.320 and what this landscape might look like in this country, 0:47:28.440 --> 0:47:30.520 you know, because when he was elected, it was like, oh, 0:47:30.560 --> 0:47:33.399 we're post racial now, which we all kind of laughed 0:47:33.400 --> 0:47:36.120 at that ridiculous notion of that. What might we see 0:47:36.160 --> 0:47:39.400 what might await us under a president Kamala Harris. 0:47:39.719 --> 0:47:44.840 Well, it's interesting because many people have talked about the 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:50.239 importance obviously of this election, and you know, as an historian, 0:47:51.520 --> 0:47:53.800 let me just say I can attest to that I 0:47:53.960 --> 0:47:58.160 can't think of this election in twenty twenty four, particularly 0:47:58.200 --> 0:48:02.800 for black folks, without thinking of the election of eighteen 0:48:02.920 --> 0:48:06.400 sixty four. And this was an election between a candidate 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:09.680 who more or less planned to end the Civil War 0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:14.880 and pretty much re enslaved black people, you know, in 0:48:14.960 --> 0:48:17.680 a candidate that presumed that he was going to continue 0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:19.760 the Civil War. I mean, it really is that stark, 0:48:21.280 --> 0:48:24.359 particularly when you look at the candidacy of Donald Trump 0:48:24.440 --> 0:48:27.600 and what he has planned, particularly for black folks, and 0:48:27.880 --> 0:48:30.880 so I don't I think it's important for us to 0:48:31.080 --> 0:48:34.120 understand those stakes, especially when you look at some of 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:39.600 the candidates who are sort of allying with Trump internationally, 0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:42.200 when you look at what they've done when they've gotten 0:48:42.239 --> 0:48:45.640 a second term or when they've gotten a second presidency. 0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:48.640 This is this is a critical moment in the history 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:51.000 of black life in this country and really in the 0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:52.120 history of the United States. 0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:55.120 I just I just want to take that you're going 0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:56.480 to know that they're three rattlers. 0:48:56.560 --> 0:48:58.759 I was just getting ready to say there are now 0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:02.000 three rattlers on the stage, and there was already a 0:49:02.080 --> 0:49:02.560 fourth one. 0:49:02.640 --> 0:49:04.120 Roywood Junior has already left us. 0:49:04.640 --> 0:49:07.560 Andrews gonna be completely hood and go ahead and do 0:49:07.680 --> 0:49:09.080 the selfie in the middle of the show. 0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:11.360 They're not like us. That's so rude. 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:14.040 It is rude. 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:14.440 Anyway. 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:18.080 Let me just take this moment to announce and welcome 0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:22.600 our dear brother Vince Evans, who is the Congressional Black Caucus. 0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:28.200 Executive Director, and he is looking rather dapa. Bring the 0:49:28.239 --> 0:49:30.319 mike close to that's so much better. 0:49:31.840 --> 0:49:34.080 I waited a long time to get to this table. 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:35.319 Man, get out of here. 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:40.040 He didn't come to DNC, you know, dang well, we 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:40.839 told this come. 0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:45.880 This is a big week for Vince, not just because 0:49:45.880 --> 0:49:49.600 of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative Conference, but. 0:49:49.800 --> 0:49:51.240 Also and Ebrim. 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.280 It's perfect that you're here because the Congressional Black Caucus 0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:59.680 just released a report and a report card on diversity 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:02.480 the inclusion efforts in the corporate space. So talk a 0:50:02.520 --> 0:50:04.600 little bit about that, Vince, and why you are so 0:50:04.760 --> 0:50:05.600 focused on that word. 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:07.719 It's a good question, Dee and I. 0:50:08.000 --> 0:50:09.840 When they try to roll it back and attack d 0:50:09.960 --> 0:50:11.800 and I, they are attacking you and I, as y'all know, 0:50:12.360 --> 0:50:16.759 ten months produced a report got Corporate America more than 0:50:16.800 --> 0:50:18.400 the third of Corporate America. 0:50:18.320 --> 0:50:21.680 To respond, first ever report of its kind. 0:50:21.960 --> 0:50:25.600 And what we found is this diversity, echoity, inclusion is 0:50:25.640 --> 0:50:29.319 a good business imperative. That's what Corporate America says. Most 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:32.239 of them are still committed to it. The realities they 0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:35.560 are they are getting attacked because people can't get lass 0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:37.960 through the Congress. They are going to the courts to 0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:42.719 get the bad lass pass that they want. So the 0:50:42.800 --> 0:50:46.280 CBC is doing two front here, right, defensive work, holding 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:49.600 holding those accountable who are taking away the tools of 0:50:49.680 --> 0:50:52.959 economic opportunity. We've heard the Vice President in recent days 0:50:53.239 --> 0:50:56.960 talk about an economic opportunity that she will advance around housing, 0:50:57.320 --> 0:51:00.759 work and wages when she is elected next president of 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:03.839 the United States. And then we're doing the offensive work, 0:51:04.239 --> 0:51:07.239 which is to make certain that we close America's. 0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:07.439 Racial wealth gap. 0:51:07.560 --> 0:51:11.920 So that report released this week begins to serve as 0:51:12.600 --> 0:51:15.640 a grounding, if you will, in a resource for all 0:51:15.680 --> 0:51:17.640 of those out there who say they care about these issues. 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:18.480 So we're gonna hold you. 0:51:18.440 --> 0:51:21.560 Accountabiliyes, love that, and a guide post, right, I mean 0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:25.040 for those who unfortunately we live it well, you lived 0:51:25.320 --> 0:51:28.200 in a state with a governor who is taken to 0:51:28.320 --> 0:51:29.320 the university system. 0:51:29.480 --> 0:51:32.200 Yep, I mean Abram and Counada. 0:51:32.920 --> 0:51:34.759 He hit me first, then he came for you, you 0:51:35.760 --> 0:51:40.359 and your books and trying to pull resources that tell 0:51:40.400 --> 0:51:42.720 the true history of black the black experience in America 0:51:43.200 --> 0:51:43.720 to kids. 0:51:43.960 --> 0:51:44.800 They don't want any of that. 0:51:45.360 --> 0:51:49.640 I'm curious how it is that we get our political 0:51:49.800 --> 0:51:52.760 space back realigned to such a way that the floor 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:57.359 isn't so damn low, right. I mean we're sceptterranean now 0:51:57.920 --> 0:52:02.080 when we say benchmarks against one another, even in our 0:52:02.120 --> 0:52:04.320 own you know, in the state of Florida, you're comparing 0:52:04.400 --> 0:52:08.240 folks who generally don't want us in the same building, 0:52:08.440 --> 0:52:11.920 the same space, the same room, and then others who say, 0:52:11.960 --> 0:52:14.160 if you're gonna be there, it won't be through any 0:52:14.280 --> 0:52:15.400 support the. 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:16.840 Illusion of inclusion. 0:52:16.960 --> 0:52:18.960 Right, that's what it is, right, Yea. 0:52:20.239 --> 0:52:24.440 Look, I think I was listening earlier today. I was 0:52:24.560 --> 0:52:27.160 a black sheep. The choice of yours came on the radio. 0:52:27.560 --> 0:52:30.600 You can get with this, you can get with that. Yeah, 0:52:30.880 --> 0:52:34.160 this November fifty two days. I think we got fifty 0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:36.200 two days in a wake up. You can either get 0:52:36.239 --> 0:52:39.399 with this, which is about protecting our rights not rolling 0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:41.239 them back. As y'all know, I'm preaching to the choir, 0:52:41.320 --> 0:52:43.319 but the acquired needs a tune up every now and then, 0:52:43.440 --> 0:52:45.680 right making certain that we do not allow d and 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:47.880 I roll back, making certain that we finally get the 0:52:47.960 --> 0:52:48.279 John R. 0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:50.040 Lewis Voting Rights Act past. 0:52:50.080 --> 0:52:52.200 Doing all the things that we know are our north 0:52:52.239 --> 0:52:56.239 stars as black people, black people, let's say black yes 0:52:56.400 --> 0:52:59.600 in America, or you can get with this over here 0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:02.759 on that which is all the attacks, all the things 0:53:02.800 --> 0:53:04.839 you just said, all the books that are being rolled 0:53:04.840 --> 0:53:08.080 back you cannot read, or Amanda Gorman's poem in the 0:53:08.120 --> 0:53:08.760 State of Florida. 0:53:08.840 --> 0:53:10.759 So we got a lot of work to do. 0:53:10.920 --> 0:53:11.360 You know that. 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:13.839 I don't know that we haven't answer yet about how 0:53:13.920 --> 0:53:16.440 we raise the ceiling over time, but we got to 0:53:16.480 --> 0:53:17.560 win something you cannot. 0:53:17.840 --> 0:53:19.719 You cannot govern if you do not win. As you 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:20.399 used to say. 0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:22.640 It's told me before he got on he had to go. 0:53:22.840 --> 0:53:25.480 Ebram squeezed us. And we love y'all. We appreciate you 0:53:25.600 --> 0:53:26.239 for being here. 0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:28.000 Thank you, We love y'all so much. 0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:31.040 Do you want to say a rattler something or something 0:53:32.120 --> 0:53:35.640 and while there, thank you guys so much for being here. 0:53:36.400 --> 0:53:41.080 While they're leaving. We are welcoming up Congresswoman Evat Clark. 0:53:41.680 --> 0:53:45.120 She is the incoming chair for the Congressional Black CAUCUSSE. 0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:48.640 She's been in congressional leadership a long time, Chris, and 0:53:48.760 --> 0:53:50.040 she is extraordinary. 0:53:50.280 --> 0:53:52.480 We first met while she was on. 0:53:52.600 --> 0:53:55.920 The Homeland Security Committee as a freshman, and watching her 0:53:56.080 --> 0:54:00.880 rise has been my greatest privilege and honor. Congress with Mclark, 0:54:00.880 --> 0:54:03.600 thank you so much for being here with us today. 0:54:03.960 --> 0:54:05.719 I want to add that she's one of the most 0:54:05.800 --> 0:54:09.719 fashionable members Congress as well. Has always been super fly 0:54:10.360 --> 0:54:13.800 and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. And 0:54:13.960 --> 0:54:16.400 on a personal note of privilege, you have always been 0:54:16.440 --> 0:54:19.320 so supportive of me, so I want to thank you 0:54:19.560 --> 0:54:20.320 publicly for that. 0:54:20.600 --> 0:54:22.400 So we love you and happy welcome. 0:54:22.120 --> 0:54:25.360 Home, Welcome, wonderful. It's such an honor to be with you. 0:54:25.440 --> 0:54:27.920 And I do want to make a correction. I am 0:54:28.000 --> 0:54:32.000 the first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and 0:54:32.160 --> 0:54:39.560 I'm seeking the support of my colleagues will message of 0:54:39.680 --> 0:54:41.120 the Congressional Black Caucus. 0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:46.080 But you know you put it well, here's what I know, 0:54:46.600 --> 0:54:47.960 Here's what I know, And I want to say this 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:49.960 to you. Of course, that race is not partisan, and 0:54:50.000 --> 0:54:52.120 also we're in the clear here. What I want to 0:54:52.160 --> 0:54:55.440 say to you to your face, Miss Clark, is as 0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:57.919 long as I worked on the hill and even after, 0:54:58.480 --> 0:55:02.279 I know how long you've served diligently, how much you 0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:05.120 love your colleagues, how much you love the culture, how 0:55:05.200 --> 0:55:08.640 much you love your constituents, how much you adore our community. 0:55:09.080 --> 0:55:11.719 And so I am confident that you will be the 0:55:11.840 --> 0:55:13.640 next share of the Congressional Black Caucus. 0:55:13.719 --> 0:55:15.960 And I know I've seen your service, you know firsthand. 0:55:16.000 --> 0:55:18.320 And I loved laboring with you because you made everything 0:55:18.520 --> 0:55:21.359 fun and we still worked hard, but you always kept 0:55:21.400 --> 0:55:22.479 a smile on your face. 0:55:22.520 --> 0:55:24.759 And I'm grateful for that and for your sisterhood too. 0:55:25.360 --> 0:55:28.360 Thank you so much, my sister, Andrew. It's such a pleasure. 0:55:28.440 --> 0:55:30.120 It's good to be with you. 0:55:30.440 --> 0:55:31.279 I was going to tell you. 0:55:32.040 --> 0:55:34.319 I told Congress went mixing waters when we were together 0:55:34.320 --> 0:55:38.000 at the DNC. How growing up in Florida, in Gainesville, 0:55:38.719 --> 0:55:41.440 how I didn't know my member of Congress and there 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.120 was a white male at the time, and how because 0:55:44.120 --> 0:55:46.000 of her advocacy, I always felt like she was my 0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:48.799 member of Congress. You're the next member of Congress who 0:55:48.880 --> 0:55:52.040 really puts puts it in the mold of I don't 0:55:52.080 --> 0:55:54.600 have to be a New York resident in your district 0:55:54.719 --> 0:55:56.840 to know that you're out there fighting for us, and 0:55:56.960 --> 0:55:59.040 so I know our listeners feel that way. I know 0:55:59.120 --> 0:56:01.560 I personally feel that way, and I just I'm thankful 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:04.400 for your leadership and high time that a voice like 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:06.640 yours helms again the CBC. 0:56:07.239 --> 0:56:10.120 I want thank you, Thank you all so very much. 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:14.680 I appreciate it, and I love my people. At the baseline, 0:56:15.239 --> 0:56:17.759 it starts with the love of your people, and you 0:56:17.880 --> 0:56:21.920 will go, you know, through the fire, yeah, to make 0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:25.200 sure that they are safe, they are protected, they are thriving. 0:56:25.520 --> 0:56:27.320 That's real in this society. 0:56:27.680 --> 0:56:29.719 You do that every day. I want to ask you. 0:56:31.440 --> 0:56:34.160 You know, we're talking about this election in less partisan 0:56:34.160 --> 0:56:36.160 ways because you know, we want to protect the five o' 0:56:36.200 --> 0:56:39.480 one C three status of the Foundation absolutely, But one 0:56:39.560 --> 0:56:41.920 thing I wanted to raise is there are a lot 0:56:42.000 --> 0:56:47.280 of concerns of impacting our community specifically going into this election. 0:56:47.400 --> 0:56:49.840 And we're not talking about who to go for necessarily 0:56:49.920 --> 0:56:52.200 right now, but I think we all want to preserve democracy. 0:56:52.840 --> 0:56:54.759 There are a lot of threats at stake, and you, 0:56:54.960 --> 0:56:57.960 for a long time. Cybersecurity has been your bread and butter, 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:00.799 you know that space. What are you more concerned about 0:57:00.880 --> 0:57:02.320 for black folks going into this election? 0:57:02.440 --> 0:57:10.680 Cite absolutely. I'm concerned that our extreme, you know, devotion 0:57:11.200 --> 0:57:15.560 to social media puts us in a place where misinformation 0:57:15.760 --> 0:57:23.440 and disinformation can can permeate our thoughts and so oftentimes 0:57:23.560 --> 0:57:27.760 what we're seeing is not accurate, their deep fakes. You 0:57:28.240 --> 0:57:33.680 technology used to deceive, intentionally deceive people. That can be 0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:37.800 visual and it can be audio as well, And this 0:57:38.000 --> 0:57:42.440 will be the first election where this technology is that 0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:46.320 the fingertips of the average everyday American not to mention 0:57:46.520 --> 0:57:52.200 foreign advisory. And so I'm just concerned, given the tone 0:57:52.320 --> 0:57:57.520 and tenor of this particular election cycle, some would call 0:57:57.560 --> 0:58:03.240 it desperation, others would call it overly ambitious, that there 0:58:03.280 --> 0:58:07.200 will be those types of disruptions to our election. And 0:58:07.320 --> 0:58:12.040 it doesn't have to be information regarding candidates. It could 0:58:12.080 --> 0:58:14.520 be your polling side is close. 0:58:14.480 --> 0:58:16.960 Right righte the date of the election. 0:58:17.480 --> 0:58:20.760 And it's interesting you bring that up because it shows 0:58:20.840 --> 0:58:25.240 how powerful we are as a people in this country, first, 0:58:25.680 --> 0:58:29.800 but second as a voting block, because we are disproportionately 0:58:29.960 --> 0:58:34.480 targeted by misinformation and disinformation, I would argue perhaps second 0:58:34.520 --> 0:58:36.960 only to the Lasino community, and a lot of these 0:58:37.040 --> 0:58:40.880 outlets don't have native Spanish speakers to help dispute some 0:58:41.040 --> 0:58:43.280 of the disinformation. So we want to encourage our viewers 0:58:43.320 --> 0:58:48.240 out there share responsibly, consume information responsibly. What are some 0:58:48.400 --> 0:58:50.880 things that you would encourage people to do, like how 0:58:51.720 --> 0:58:53.840 you know, how how do they make sure that they're 0:58:53.880 --> 0:58:55.880 not consuming misinformation and disinformation? 0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:57.760 And what role is the Congressional black costice And you 0:58:57.840 --> 0:59:03.800 take the same device provide that's the opportunity to fact check. Yes, right, 0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:08.960 So don't just receive content and not then do some 0:59:09.240 --> 0:59:12.880 a little due diligence around it, because if it doesn't 0:59:13.000 --> 0:59:18.400 sound right, it probably isn't right right. And oftentimes we 0:59:18.600 --> 0:59:22.760 know that the information we receive can be flawed and 0:59:23.120 --> 0:59:26.320 we don't want to inadvertently participate in the spread of that. 0:59:26.520 --> 0:59:29.640 And that's what generitive AI can do in the blink 0:59:29.680 --> 0:59:32.120 of an eye. So I want to encourage our folks 0:59:32.360 --> 0:59:35.160 to use that same device. When you receive something on 0:59:35.320 --> 0:59:39.840 social media to investigate, you do your own fact checking. 0:59:40.000 --> 0:59:42.760 Yeah, have you considered, I know you've got to bounce. 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:43.240 I'm so sorry. 0:59:43.320 --> 0:59:46.680 Have you considered the feeling what the work becomes if 0:59:46.720 --> 0:59:50.880 you are negotiating as CBC chair with a black woman 0:59:51.040 --> 0:59:54.360 president who's overly qualified, and all the other good stuff. 0:59:54.400 --> 0:59:56.280 But I just I don't want us to sit in 0:59:56.320 --> 0:59:58.439 a moment that we're not at yet. But I would 0:59:58.520 --> 0:59:59.800 love to hear your pre thought. 1:00:00.800 --> 1:00:06.320 I'm extraordinarily excited about, first of all, what the Biden 1:00:06.400 --> 1:00:11.680 Harris administration has already done. They've made monumental investments, and 1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:16.680 the CBC has been a major part of negotiating those investments, 1:00:17.240 --> 1:00:21.480 knowing that the need for those investments to hit our 1:00:21.640 --> 1:00:27.520 communities is paramount, and that we're turning the page. We 1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:31.640 are already turning the page. The question is will we 1:00:31.800 --> 1:00:35.960 go back, Will all of those investments be dismantled? And 1:00:36.520 --> 1:00:39.840 we say no, it won't. We say not on our watch, 1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:45.000 and just knowing that this, I want to say, sister, 1:00:46.360 --> 1:00:50.160 is a new generation. Both of us were born in 1:00:50.240 --> 1:00:52.200 the same year. I won't go into those details, but 1:00:52.320 --> 1:00:55.960 you can google it, use your Google machine. We were 1:00:56.040 --> 1:01:01.120 birth born as beneficiaries of the civil rights movement. We 1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:04.560 were not you know, the young people that march or 1:01:04.640 --> 1:01:08.320 the young people that were host We were the beneficiaries, 1:01:08.760 --> 1:01:11.640 and that meant that, you know, the world was our 1:01:11.760 --> 1:01:16.760 oyster because our ancestors truly did what needed to be 1:01:16.880 --> 1:01:20.520 doe to get to be done in order to advance 1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:26.800 our communities. We now have someone with that frame. 1:01:28.360 --> 1:01:29.360 To move us forward. 1:01:29.760 --> 1:01:36.640 And certainly among CBC members, we've got a intergenerational body 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:42.960 and that is a unique blend in this century. We are, 1:01:43.320 --> 1:01:49.520 I believe, at the precipice of manifesting a whole new 1:01:49.640 --> 1:01:55.280 paradigm of a civil society. It already exists. They are 1:01:55.360 --> 1:02:00.800 those who are in denial about the existence. But as 1:02:00.880 --> 1:02:03.840 a result of what our ancestors that we probably have 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:09.560 the most educated Black community in the generation. That's not 1:02:09.680 --> 1:02:11.640 to say that there is major work that has to 1:02:11.680 --> 1:02:13.320 be telling me because we got to raise the bar 1:02:14.280 --> 1:02:17.040 and I think that's where the fear that we are 1:02:17.120 --> 1:02:20.840 experiencing that has been weaponized against us is coming from. 1:02:21.280 --> 1:02:24.400 So stay tuned, and I just. 1:02:24.440 --> 1:02:25.880 Want to let you know because I know you've got 1:02:25.920 --> 1:02:26.520 to get to the dinner. 1:02:26.600 --> 1:02:28.960 But the comments on our YouTube live, everyone is commenting 1:02:28.960 --> 1:02:30.480 about your glasses and your nails. 1:02:30.560 --> 1:02:33.240 I told y'all she the most fashionable. So thank you 1:02:33.360 --> 1:02:33.880 so much. 1:02:36.280 --> 1:02:36.440 Much. 1:02:36.520 --> 1:02:40.040 Continued success, you can't wait to have you back in 1:02:40.160 --> 1:02:41.200 all your capacities. 1:02:42.840 --> 1:02:43.280 I love you. 1:02:51.440 --> 1:02:53.960 I am so excited about the guests and I angel 1:02:54.040 --> 1:02:55.920 and I'm excited because I see some people waiting in 1:02:56.000 --> 1:02:58.520 the wing. Yes, and I'm so excited to talk to 1:02:58.600 --> 1:02:59.160 these ladies. 1:02:59.240 --> 1:02:59.720 We have some. 1:03:00.080 --> 1:03:03.000 Superstars that are coming up to join us right now. 1:03:04.560 --> 1:03:10.480 Some of y'all are sadly, really narrow minded about one 1:03:10.600 --> 1:03:15.040 of these ladies' contributions to not only the discourse but 1:03:15.200 --> 1:03:21.520 to the political ecosystem. She is representing our interests all 1:03:21.640 --> 1:03:24.760 day long in committee hearing after committee hearing, and markup 1:03:24.840 --> 1:03:27.959 after markup. She is on the House floor making sure 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:32.400 that our positions are heard, that we are represented fully. 1:03:32.480 --> 1:03:35.040 And she even gets on Twitter and breaks down what's 1:03:35.080 --> 1:03:37.080 really going on or what should be going on, because 1:03:37.080 --> 1:03:39.120 it's not going on. I'm not gonna get two partisan 1:03:39.240 --> 1:03:40.480 up in here, because, like I said, we are at 1:03:40.520 --> 1:03:43.760 the CBC Foundation and your legislative conference. But we are 1:03:44.040 --> 1:03:49.160 joined by Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and there's another superstar. They 1:03:49.720 --> 1:03:51.760 tell you they are a gift and they are dressed 1:03:51.760 --> 1:03:52.360 by Christmas. 1:03:52.400 --> 1:03:54.000 Okay, so here we go. 1:03:54.200 --> 1:03:57.280 This wasn't even planned, but we are joined by District 1:03:57.400 --> 1:04:02.000 Attorney Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, who's also here 1:04:02.040 --> 1:04:02.720 with us tonight. 1:04:02.800 --> 1:04:05.120 So Jason, find welcome. We are so happy to have 1:04:05.280 --> 1:04:08.400 you both. We got a town down and eightstown down. 1:04:10.200 --> 1:04:16.200 I'm sorry, look at me, Deawn. Yeah, yes, we're excited. 1:04:16.800 --> 1:04:18.960 Lady Jasmine, it's like you might be a three timer 1:04:19.080 --> 1:04:21.440 on this show. You research. 1:04:24.040 --> 1:04:24.880 We love having you. 1:04:25.120 --> 1:04:26.120 Youwers love having you. 1:04:27.760 --> 1:04:31.320 I'm at home, so here we absolutely I want to 1:04:31.360 --> 1:04:33.040 because Jasmine's been here before us. I do want to 1:04:33.080 --> 1:04:36.600 start off with Madame District Attorney Fannie Willis. 1:04:36.720 --> 1:04:39.600 We were lock glued. We were so like such a 1:04:39.680 --> 1:04:40.480 just cheering for you. 1:04:40.920 --> 1:04:42.800 So before I ask you anything, I just want to 1:04:42.800 --> 1:04:45.680 say thank you, yes for standing on the front lines 1:04:45.720 --> 1:04:46.440 of democracy. 1:04:47.320 --> 1:04:48.760 I do want to let you know that I have 1:04:48.920 --> 1:04:50.000 stolen your quote. 1:04:50.040 --> 1:04:52.320 No matter what the situation is, if I'm running late 1:04:52.360 --> 1:04:54.720 for a flight, I always say, no, you're confused. 1:04:54.840 --> 1:04:56.080 You think I'm the one running for it. 1:04:56.240 --> 1:04:58.320 But y'all are confused because these are people trying to 1:04:58.320 --> 1:05:00.560 make me miss my flight. Of course, I'm taking that 1:05:00.640 --> 1:05:03.000 from her when she said, you're confused, you think. 1:05:02.920 --> 1:05:03.520 I'm on trial. 1:05:03.640 --> 1:05:05.920 These people are on trial. I'm trying to steal an election. 1:05:06.440 --> 1:05:08.560 So thank you for your work. How he are you 1:05:08.720 --> 1:05:10.280 doing personally and professionally. 1:05:10.480 --> 1:05:13.200 I'm excellent. I am actually at the happiest time in 1:05:13.280 --> 1:05:16.320 my life. I think people would find that surprising, but 1:05:16.680 --> 1:05:19.640 I am living my dream. There's nothing more than I 1:05:19.720 --> 1:05:22.400 want to be than the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia. 1:05:22.720 --> 1:05:24.080 Fulton County is my home. 1:05:24.520 --> 1:05:25.600 The work is important. 1:05:25.720 --> 1:05:28.160 It is important that we have people that really represent 1:05:28.280 --> 1:05:31.760 the values of the community and understand that everyone in 1:05:31.840 --> 1:05:34.160 a community gets to be safe. So I'm happy there. 1:05:34.960 --> 1:05:37.320 I have two beautiful daughters. They're just getting to that 1:05:37.440 --> 1:05:38.120 age where their. 1:05:38.120 --> 1:05:39.520 Brain works twenty five and. 1:05:42.200 --> 1:05:46.680 Accuracy, an accurate statement. I've been raising these beautiful daughters, 1:05:46.760 --> 1:05:48.400 and so I know that to be true. I'm gonna 1:05:48.400 --> 1:05:51.440 be a grandmother. My personal life is good, and so 1:05:52.080 --> 1:05:54.400 I am excellent. No matter how hard they come from me, 1:05:54.480 --> 1:05:55.960 they mad because I'm. 1:05:55.840 --> 1:05:56.640 Doing good over here. 1:05:57.240 --> 1:05:59.640 Congratulations coming to grandmother. 1:06:00.120 --> 1:06:00.560 Amazing. 1:06:00.800 --> 1:06:02.640 They try to throw us off our game all the time, 1:06:02.760 --> 1:06:05.400 but try as they might, it don't work. You of 1:06:05.480 --> 1:06:09.760 all people know that Congresswoman Crockett, I love this dress 1:06:09.800 --> 1:06:10.320 that you're wearing. 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:14.760 Tonight, by the way, so listen, I think it's it's 1:06:14.800 --> 1:06:15.200 so great. 1:06:15.240 --> 1:06:18.000 First of all, I love Fani for so many different reasons, 1:06:18.720 --> 1:06:21.600 but as someone who's always been more so in the 1:06:21.640 --> 1:06:25.080 public defender side of things, I can tell you that 1:06:25.160 --> 1:06:28.760 I've always appreciated a good prosecutor, right yeah, Because. 1:06:28.520 --> 1:06:30.360 Here's the deal. Some people make mistakes. 1:06:30.680 --> 1:06:35.320 Some people are simply, you know, dealing with circumstances of 1:06:35.400 --> 1:06:38.120 life and end up in some kind of circumstances. But 1:06:38.280 --> 1:06:41.800 having a prosecutor that sees people as just that people 1:06:42.320 --> 1:06:45.280 is really important. And as we are going through this election, 1:06:45.440 --> 1:06:47.000 all I can think about is that there is a 1:06:47.080 --> 1:06:50.439 prosecutor in the race, right But one of the things 1:06:50.480 --> 1:06:52.600 that it's really difficult to get people to do is 1:06:52.720 --> 1:06:56.640 to see and value her as someone who's literally just 1:06:56.880 --> 1:06:58.120 always stood for the people. 1:06:58.520 --> 1:06:59.920 Because that's what Fani does. 1:07:00.440 --> 1:07:03.560 Her job isn't to go after a certain person or 1:07:03.600 --> 1:07:05.840 a certain type of person, is to look to see 1:07:06.040 --> 1:07:08.240 if someone has broken the law, and to stand for 1:07:08.360 --> 1:07:11.240 the people of full ten County. And so I am 1:07:11.320 --> 1:07:16.520 so appreciative for all of the prosecutors that actually do 1:07:16.680 --> 1:07:18.120 their job, which is to. 1:07:18.160 --> 1:07:20.200 Seek justice and not convictions. 1:07:20.680 --> 1:07:23.000 And so we need to make sure that we're continually 1:07:23.320 --> 1:07:25.480 educating our community. 1:07:25.240 --> 1:07:27.720 About what a prosecutor is supposed to look like. 1:07:28.120 --> 1:07:32.040 It's supposed to seek out justice, and sometimes situations just 1:07:32.160 --> 1:07:35.800 aren't just. But as they are standing in the gap, 1:07:36.240 --> 1:07:40.160 they are the highest law enforcement agent in those counties, 1:07:40.520 --> 1:07:43.160 and so it is important that you have someone that 1:07:43.320 --> 1:07:47.400 does not misuse or abuse that power, but instead harnesses 1:07:47.480 --> 1:07:49.840 that power and make sure that they are standing for 1:07:49.880 --> 1:07:52.240 the community. And so I'm just excited that I get 1:07:52.280 --> 1:07:54.160 to sit next to her and we get to bring 1:07:54.280 --> 1:07:55.120 Christmas early. 1:07:57.640 --> 1:08:00.840 I have one question for you. It's something I think 1:08:00.840 --> 1:08:03.000 about all the time. In law school. 1:08:03.120 --> 1:08:07.120 When they came to recruit district attorneys, prosecutors will come 1:08:07.120 --> 1:08:07.480 to coircuit. 1:08:07.520 --> 1:08:08.480 I was like, I can't do that. 1:08:08.600 --> 1:08:10.840 That's where my people ended up going. What was the 1:08:10.960 --> 1:08:13.120 thing for you that was like, this is exactly where 1:08:13.200 --> 1:08:14.760 I need to be. What was the thing that clicked 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:17.639 for you? So that's really interesting. If you know my history, 1:08:17.640 --> 1:08:20.200 I was actually raised by a defense attorney. My father 1:08:20.320 --> 1:08:24.400 practiced criminal defense. As a child, I was dragged at courtrooms. 1:08:23.960 --> 1:08:25.760 By the way. You know, I told you yesterday, Yes, 1:08:26.080 --> 1:08:27.519 your daddy and my daddy could be friends. 1:08:28.600 --> 1:08:34.920 Meet, and so I always wanted to be a defense attorney, right, 1:08:34.960 --> 1:08:38.000 I wanted to be like my father. What happened was 1:08:38.280 --> 1:08:40.760 I was actually young, married, had two young children, and 1:08:40.840 --> 1:08:43.600 I was like, let me go see about being a prosecutor. 1:08:43.920 --> 1:08:45.960 And what I have learned is and it is not 1:08:46.120 --> 1:08:48.960 that I am better than any defense attorney. It is 1:08:49.080 --> 1:08:51.599 that I am in position. And so I tell people 1:08:51.640 --> 1:08:53.880 all the time, I have probably been able to help 1:08:54.040 --> 1:08:58.200 more people charged with crimes than any individual defense attorney 1:08:58.439 --> 1:09:01.360 because I sit in the seat where we made those decisions, and. 1:09:01.479 --> 1:09:03.200 So I'm able to have an office. 1:09:03.240 --> 1:09:05.960 When I took my office, literally the police would facts 1:09:06.000 --> 1:09:08.600 over a statement and an indictment would be brought. I 1:09:08.800 --> 1:09:11.160 have changed the policy in my office that you're not 1:09:11.479 --> 1:09:14.960 ever able to bring an indictment until you do an investigation. 1:09:15.360 --> 1:09:18.120 And you would be surprised at the percentage of people 1:09:18.479 --> 1:09:21.280 that never get charged because we are doing what is 1:09:21.479 --> 1:09:24.439 just by them. We also started a diversion program that 1:09:24.560 --> 1:09:27.120 sometimes they did do it, but it's their first defense. 1:09:27.240 --> 1:09:30.080 They were young, it was a mistake. We can make 1:09:30.240 --> 1:09:32.920 the victim whole and we can restore them. And so 1:09:33.120 --> 1:09:35.720 I am looking at the people charged with crimes as 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:38.439 human beings. Another thing is I take a huge part 1:09:38.479 --> 1:09:40.960 of my budget and I put it into the school 1:09:41.080 --> 1:09:44.160 system because, as I tell people often, I want to 1:09:44.240 --> 1:09:46.960 see the children that look like me and don't look 1:09:47.040 --> 1:09:49.479 like me, but have opportunity ahead of them in the 1:09:49.680 --> 1:09:52.320 classroom and not in the courtroom. And so it is 1:09:52.439 --> 1:09:55.080 so important that as people listen to your program, that 1:09:55.200 --> 1:09:57.679 they don't go in on November fifth and just vote 1:09:57.680 --> 1:09:59.960 at the top of the ballot. They need to vot 1:10:00.200 --> 1:10:02.439 and those local elections that are going to touch them, 1:10:02.760 --> 1:10:06.080 their mothers, their grandmothers, their nephews, their uncles. And I 1:10:06.160 --> 1:10:08.360 can tell you that a prosecutor is one of the 1:10:08.479 --> 1:10:11.720 things that touches too many people's lives. And you need 1:10:11.800 --> 1:10:13.640 to make sure that you have someone sitting in that 1:10:13.760 --> 1:10:16.840 seat that cares about you, involves you you, and doesn't 1:10:16.880 --> 1:10:18.599 think that you are just someone that should be thrown 1:10:18.640 --> 1:10:21.400 away based on the way you look, or who you love, 1:10:21.680 --> 1:10:23.439 or the zip code or area code. 1:10:23.200 --> 1:10:23.720 That you live in. 1:10:24.360 --> 1:10:28.360 I preach, preach, preach past the basket, come out of 1:10:28.400 --> 1:10:31.679 the local tradition. So I feel that while this question 1:10:31.840 --> 1:10:36.280 is directed that you, finally, I'm hoping, Jasmine, you would 1:10:36.280 --> 1:10:39.360 weigh in here, which is while you are doing great, 1:10:39.400 --> 1:10:42.320 which I'm loving you and your life professionally and personally, 1:10:42.680 --> 1:10:45.880 the Republicans in your state are pretty obsessed with you 1:10:46.360 --> 1:10:50.800 and so being are attempting to level the power of 1:10:50.920 --> 1:10:55.599 your office, which will have impact on every black next 1:10:55.680 --> 1:10:58.000 prosecutor who follows you, and so on and so forth. 1:10:58.240 --> 1:11:00.320 And I know you've been at the epicenter, you know, 1:11:00.439 --> 1:11:01.840 taking the arrows as well. 1:11:02.840 --> 1:11:05.519 What can we got a lot of listeners from Georgia, 1:11:05.800 --> 1:11:10.519 a lot from Atlanta and the surrounding area. What can 1:11:10.640 --> 1:11:14.640 black lawyers be doing in Georgia to not just I 1:11:14.680 --> 1:11:16.160 don't want to put it on you, but we know 1:11:16.320 --> 1:11:19.080 what's powering a lot of this movement. But what can 1:11:19.160 --> 1:11:23.000 they do to help protect you the office, the ability 1:11:23.160 --> 1:11:25.600 for folks like you who want to come next to 1:11:25.760 --> 1:11:28.880 not feel so bowed by the attacks against you that 1:11:29.000 --> 1:11:30.200 it's not a choice that they make. 1:11:30.960 --> 1:11:32.920 What does that look like? And the reason why I 1:11:33.280 --> 1:11:34.600 pointed at you as well, Jasmine, is. 1:11:34.640 --> 1:11:37.920 Because you're a lawyer yourself. Some may be afraid of 1:11:38.040 --> 1:11:39.640 what that thing is that they may have to do 1:11:39.760 --> 1:11:41.560 to stand in protection. And I'd love for you to 1:11:41.600 --> 1:11:42.040 speak to that. 1:11:43.240 --> 1:11:44.439 Well, well, I will start. 1:11:44.479 --> 1:11:45.960 I think that one thing that lawyers all over the 1:11:46.000 --> 1:11:48.840 country can do is they can let these senators because 1:11:49.040 --> 1:11:53.280 I live renfree in Republicans locally and nationally, I'm there, 1:11:53.320 --> 1:11:57.439 I got the mortgage paid up. As a result of that, 1:11:57.760 --> 1:12:00.400 I am the target many many times. But what they 1:12:00.439 --> 1:12:03.280 don't understand is I take my craft very seriously, and 1:12:03.360 --> 1:12:05.439 we dot our eyes and we cross our t's and 1:12:05.520 --> 1:12:09.160 we make sure that we operate ethically. And that is 1:12:09.200 --> 1:12:11.800 a very frightening proposition. People want to get up, they 1:12:11.840 --> 1:12:13.519 want to do good work, they want to make their money, 1:12:13.560 --> 1:12:15.400 and they want to be left alone. And so I 1:12:15.640 --> 1:12:18.800 understand people not wanting to live really excuse me the 1:12:18.880 --> 1:12:20.600 hell that I have lived where I can't live in 1:12:20.680 --> 1:12:22.759 my home but I had to pay the mortgage today anyway, 1:12:23.200 --> 1:12:26.200 or where I am threatened constantly. I understand someone not 1:12:26.280 --> 1:12:28.479 wanting to live like that, But at some point you 1:12:28.680 --> 1:12:31.000 have to make a decision what is your life for 1:12:31.360 --> 1:12:34.639 what does it mean? And for me personally, I want 1:12:34.680 --> 1:12:36.400 to make sure that it's a life of service. You know, 1:12:36.520 --> 1:12:39.200 we're only here for a very limited number of days, 1:12:39.520 --> 1:12:41.360 and the only thing that's really going to matter is 1:12:41.439 --> 1:12:44.040 how did you help other human beings, and so I 1:12:44.120 --> 1:12:45.920 think that it's worth it. And I think that us 1:12:46.040 --> 1:12:48.479 as young African Americans, although I'm in my fifties, I'm 1:12:48.520 --> 1:12:49.280 gonna still Clay. 1:12:49.320 --> 1:12:50.320 Take that young title. 1:12:51.360 --> 1:12:53.560 I think that it's important that we recognize all the 1:12:53.680 --> 1:12:56.760 shoulders that we stand on of black people, of white people. 1:12:56.600 --> 1:12:57.479 Of Jewish people. 1:12:57.600 --> 1:13:00.720 It was a movement that took us to resting, and 1:13:00.880 --> 1:13:02.560 we are living in a time where they want to 1:13:02.600 --> 1:13:05.080 take history out of our books, have us forget it 1:13:05.520 --> 1:13:09.000 and not remember all the legacy that we stand on. 1:13:09.400 --> 1:13:10.600 And I know the legacy that. 1:13:10.640 --> 1:13:11.120 I stand on. 1:13:11.200 --> 1:13:12.280 I've already read the books. 1:13:12.320 --> 1:13:14.280 Come all right, And so I plan to do the work. 1:13:14.320 --> 1:13:17.240 And I think that lawyers need to demand that the 1:13:17.520 --> 1:13:20.360 senators that who want to attack and do things wrongly, 1:13:20.640 --> 1:13:22.280 that they know that we're not going to allow it, 1:13:22.360 --> 1:13:23.439 and that they stand next to me. 1:13:23.479 --> 1:13:24.160 And not calur. 1:13:24.280 --> 1:13:25.280 Come on, that's it. 1:13:25.520 --> 1:13:28.400 Any dark you're gonna say, any party words for you 1:13:28.560 --> 1:13:30.360 a congressman, I know you guys have to go to 1:13:30.400 --> 1:13:30.719 the dinner. 1:13:30.880 --> 1:13:35.320 I was literally gonna basically echo those sentiments. Besides like 1:13:35.400 --> 1:13:39.720 paying amensh ancestors who literally pave the way for us 1:13:39.760 --> 1:13:42.479 to have the opportunities. I do think it's important that 1:13:42.680 --> 1:13:45.080 as a village we stand together. It's kind of like 1:13:45.160 --> 1:13:47.280 the kid that goes to the playground. If you go 1:13:47.400 --> 1:13:49.040 to the playground and they think you ain't got no 1:13:49.200 --> 1:13:51.439 cousins and no sisters and brothers, then. 1:13:51.360 --> 1:13:52.160 They will jump you. 1:13:52.600 --> 1:13:54.920 But if they see that you have an entire coalition 1:13:55.080 --> 1:13:57.760 standing with you, then they are afraid of you. And 1:13:57.880 --> 1:13:59.840 so what we need to do is we need to 1:14:00.080 --> 1:14:03.200 lets our power. We didn't get through or to law 1:14:03.240 --> 1:14:06.680 school by ourselves. There were those that made sacrifices. Some 1:14:06.920 --> 1:14:10.320 lost their lives plenty bled and some literally just went 1:14:10.400 --> 1:14:12.960 to jail so that we could have the opportunities. So 1:14:13.080 --> 1:14:14.880 I do think that at some point in time, you 1:14:15.000 --> 1:14:17.040 have to say, what am I going to do with 1:14:17.160 --> 1:14:19.680 this privilege that has been granted upon me. And so 1:14:19.960 --> 1:14:22.040 even if you don't want to be on the front lines, 1:14:22.240 --> 1:14:24.400 because I get it, if you don't want to necessarily 1:14:24.479 --> 1:14:26.840 be the ones that takes all the bullets, make sure 1:14:26.880 --> 1:14:29.160 that you are standing there with us. Make sure that 1:14:29.280 --> 1:14:32.160 you are providing some armor, and make sure that she's 1:14:32.240 --> 1:14:34.559 not having to spend all her dag on campaign money 1:14:34.880 --> 1:14:37.599 hiring lawyers out the Wazu, and half of them may 1:14:37.680 --> 1:14:40.040 not even have her back. They just good for her 1:14:40.320 --> 1:14:43.120 so long as she keeps paying them a check. Sometimes 1:14:43.200 --> 1:14:46.120 you have to decide. My sacrifice may not be that 1:14:46.200 --> 1:14:48.280 I'm gonna run for office, but I'm gonna make the 1:14:48.360 --> 1:14:51.040 sacrifice and support those that are running for office. 1:14:51.360 --> 1:14:53.240 And so that's what I would implore them to do. 1:14:53.680 --> 1:14:56.280 But we have our margin orders and it's Kyle County girl. 1:14:56.320 --> 1:14:58.960 A love that that Fulham County girl. Thank you guys 1:14:59.080 --> 1:15:03.519 so much. Queen Queens. Yes, thank you for having me. 1:15:03.640 --> 1:15:17.240 Thank you. You know what's interesting all of us, these 1:15:17.360 --> 1:15:20.040 ladies andrew all of us, we have all been attacked 1:15:20.280 --> 1:15:21.840 publicly by them. 1:15:22.320 --> 1:15:24.320 They not like us, and they don't like us. 1:15:24.880 --> 1:15:27.760 Well, thank God for this particular conference which has been 1:15:27.800 --> 1:15:31.280 called from Vision to Victory. We are so fortunate to 1:15:31.400 --> 1:15:36.120 be joined now by Congressman Troy Carter, who is an 1:15:36.200 --> 1:15:41.599 Annual Legislative Conference co chair. He is representing New Orleans. 1:15:41.680 --> 1:15:46.559 And we also are being joined by Congresswoman Joyce Batty, 1:15:47.080 --> 1:15:52.080 who is a CBC Foundation board member. And we also 1:15:52.240 --> 1:15:57.160 see present the extraordinary, extraordinarily brilliant. 1:15:56.760 --> 1:16:00.200 And beautiful summer Ly, Congresswoman Summerly you. 1:16:00.360 --> 1:16:02.040 We might as well get y'all all up, because y'all 1:16:02.240 --> 1:16:03.920 come to go line up to march across that. 1:16:04.000 --> 1:16:05.160 Stage in just a moment. 1:16:05.800 --> 1:16:08.920 How congresome and baby, she didn't walk, she floated, She 1:16:09.800 --> 1:16:12.880 did floated, She elegantly floated into con seats. 1:16:12.960 --> 1:16:15.800 I want to shout out my friends Quentin and Stephanie 1:16:16.320 --> 1:16:18.280 Brown who are here also. We're gonna get them on 1:16:19.439 --> 1:16:21.639 all the members, y'all because they gotta go, They gotta 1:16:21.680 --> 1:16:22.200 go line up. 1:16:22.520 --> 1:16:28.479 Look at you look beautiful, beautiful and handsome and handsome. 1:16:29.080 --> 1:16:30.439 So happy to have you guys here. 1:16:31.280 --> 1:16:34.200 So from vision to victory. We are the last day 1:16:34.240 --> 1:16:35.960 of the conference. How do you think we've done? Are 1:16:36.000 --> 1:16:38.000 we closer to the victory? And this is a non 1:16:38.080 --> 1:16:39.360 partisan question, to be very. 1:16:39.960 --> 1:16:41.400 We're absolutely closer. 1:16:41.160 --> 1:16:41.719 To the victory. 1:16:41.840 --> 1:16:42.880 Get closer to the mic. 1:16:45.800 --> 1:16:48.080 We're absolutely closer to the victory. When you look at 1:16:48.120 --> 1:16:52.840 the excitement, the energy, the commitment, people see the opportunity 1:16:53.000 --> 1:16:55.920 to save our democracy. And I think while this has 1:16:55.960 --> 1:16:59.479 been a great opportunity to come together party with a purpose. 1:17:00.040 --> 1:17:02.200 While we're having a good time, we're also talking about 1:17:02.240 --> 1:17:05.800 significant policy. We're talking about making sure that the antidote 1:17:06.120 --> 1:17:10.120 to Trump twenty twenty five is November fifth, twenty twenty four. 1:17:10.479 --> 1:17:10.799 Vote. 1:17:12.040 --> 1:17:14.400 I want to come to you, miss baby, and I 1:17:14.439 --> 1:17:16.360 also want to defer to my colleagues. But I wanted 1:17:16.400 --> 1:17:18.920 to start here because I heard someone say to. 1:17:19.040 --> 1:17:21.160 Me the other day. They were like, there's a member 1:17:21.200 --> 1:17:21.719 of Congress. 1:17:21.760 --> 1:17:24.519 She got this short PIXI cut and she had sharp 1:17:24.600 --> 1:17:28.360 and she gave us our marchant orders at Black Women's Agenda. 1:17:28.520 --> 1:17:30.040 So I know you can tear the house now. So 1:17:30.120 --> 1:17:31.720 what you got for us, I know you got something 1:17:31.760 --> 1:17:32.000 to say. 1:17:32.000 --> 1:17:34.439 And by the way, we would not be here at 1:17:34.479 --> 1:17:39.400 this conference without the advocacy, the fierce advocacy a Congressman Joyce. 1:17:39.200 --> 1:17:41.680 Baty, and she does it for the people every single day. 1:17:41.760 --> 1:17:44.320 So thank you, no, thank you all for doing this. 1:17:44.479 --> 1:17:48.800 And I certainly agree with Congressman Troy Carter. And let 1:17:48.880 --> 1:17:52.280 me just say, we are closer because we have a platform. 1:17:52.520 --> 1:17:57.840 We are closer because we have a candidate fat not partisan. 1:17:58.160 --> 1:18:02.360 When you think about we're here for or CBCFLC. We 1:18:02.520 --> 1:18:05.759 took fifty percent of little Black babies out of poverty. 1:18:06.120 --> 1:18:10.400 We put thirty five dollars cap on insulin for our 1:18:10.640 --> 1:18:15.880 seniors and others. We put sixty five billion dollars into 1:18:16.120 --> 1:18:19.280 HBCUs and I'm a HBCU SEU graduate. 1:18:19.560 --> 1:18:22.080 And if that's not good enough, let's talk about. 1:18:21.880 --> 1:18:27.200 Loan forgiveness one hundred and sixty seven billion dollars for 1:18:27.320 --> 1:18:28.880 some sixty four million people. 1:18:29.240 --> 1:18:30.320 So we have a platform. 1:18:30.720 --> 1:18:35.920 Economy is better fifteen million jobs inflation. Now, if you 1:18:36.000 --> 1:18:38.600 look at the plan of the two different visions, I 1:18:38.760 --> 1:18:41.519 certainly want to be on the sister's vision. And so 1:18:41.840 --> 1:18:45.439 I'm just saying kkk. You know what we usually think 1:18:45.439 --> 1:18:47.720 about when we hear that, Well, I'm gonna give it 1:18:47.760 --> 1:18:52.400 a DEI name on King's Day, Katanji Jackson. 1:18:52.520 --> 1:18:55.679 Brown's gonna square in kam La Harris. 1:18:56.360 --> 1:18:59.680 That's my kkkk ok. 1:19:03.120 --> 1:19:07.080 Yeah, come because I got a black job, My black 1:19:07.200 --> 1:19:09.200 job twenty twenty five. 1:19:09.439 --> 1:19:11.400 As Troy said, it's bad. 1:19:11.640 --> 1:19:16.360 It dismantles everything that we believe in in our values. 1:19:16.680 --> 1:19:20.040 So I'm gonna call it twenty twenty four vote. I 1:19:20.200 --> 1:19:23.280 just need everybody to vote. But let's not get over excited. 1:19:23.920 --> 1:19:27.000 Let's not think the job is done, because we are 1:19:27.080 --> 1:19:31.160 a long way from it until we get to election day. 1:19:31.600 --> 1:19:34.680 So I just want everybody to take the energy and 1:19:34.840 --> 1:19:37.760 double it for the next fifty some days, and then 1:19:37.840 --> 1:19:40.320 I'll be really happy to say I love that. 1:19:41.120 --> 1:19:43.840 Congress Woman Lee, thank you so much for joining us. 1:19:44.280 --> 1:19:46.840 I love the margin orders we just got from Congressman 1:19:46.960 --> 1:19:50.120 Baby Joe Taka Edie who I'm sure you guys know her, 1:19:50.160 --> 1:19:52.759 one of my dearest friends. Yes, we love Joe Taka 1:19:52.840 --> 1:19:55.680 and her work around one with black women. She addressed 1:19:55.720 --> 1:19:59.880 the conference this week, and one point that she made 1:20:00.840 --> 1:20:05.280 here in DC inauguration weekend, there is no accommodation. Hotels 1:20:05.320 --> 1:20:09.040 are sold out. That is how confident people are about 1:20:09.120 --> 1:20:12.400 this election. And so I hear your caution Joe Taka's 1:20:12.439 --> 1:20:15.519 marching orders. Where if you have a hotel room books here, 1:20:16.120 --> 1:20:18.600 but you ain't registered nobody to vote, there you go, 1:20:18.840 --> 1:20:21.680 then you ain't been doing your job. So, Congressoman Lee, 1:20:21.760 --> 1:20:23.599 I'm curious what you would say to people out there 1:20:23.680 --> 1:20:26.960 who are rightfully celebratory of this moment, after what we've 1:20:27.040 --> 1:20:29.280 been through as a people and as a country. 1:20:29.600 --> 1:20:32.599 What are your marching orders to our audience watching right now? 1:20:33.120 --> 1:20:36.480 Yeah, so listen, I'm in Pennsylvania, So I always take excitement. 1:20:36.560 --> 1:20:39.080 I take joy that I see especially in these places 1:20:39.160 --> 1:20:42.759 right because when we gather, we bring this sort of energy. 1:20:43.000 --> 1:20:44.920 But when we go home, we forget sometimes that we're 1:20:44.960 --> 1:20:47.280 going back to people who are in these circles. Yeah right, 1:20:47.400 --> 1:20:49.519 they're not getting dressed up tonight. They haven't been able 1:20:49.560 --> 1:20:52.679 to hear all the inspiration from these panels. They haven't 1:20:52.880 --> 1:20:55.800 absorbed all the black excellence that we've been absorbing. So 1:20:55.880 --> 1:20:57.479 we got to go back to the states just like mine, 1:20:57.560 --> 1:20:59.720 to western Pennsylvania, and we actually have to talk to 1:20:59.720 --> 1:21:00.519 people who are not. 1:21:00.680 --> 1:21:02.840 As tuned in as we are. 1:21:03.320 --> 1:21:04.439 And that's not as easy. 1:21:04.920 --> 1:21:07.599 And it's okay to admit that when we talk about 1:21:07.920 --> 1:21:09.800 what Solar Baby said that we have a plan, we 1:21:09.960 --> 1:21:12.200 have to take it. That's our responsibility. We have to 1:21:12.280 --> 1:21:14.200 go on doors and we have to let folks know 1:21:14.560 --> 1:21:16.800 what's that stake and what we can do to address that. 1:21:16.880 --> 1:21:19.479 We have to let people know that hope isn't something 1:21:19.560 --> 1:21:21.759 that is just a word, but we have a belief 1:21:21.800 --> 1:21:23.439 in each other and ourselves, and when we step up 1:21:23.439 --> 1:21:26.560 for ourselves, we can get those things done. But you know, 1:21:27.160 --> 1:21:30.840 that is translating all of this into some actual action. 1:21:31.720 --> 1:21:33.920 We always get folks who say they want to you know, 1:21:34.240 --> 1:21:36.360 they'll go to the rallies, and I love rallies, y'all. 1:21:36.479 --> 1:21:38.519 I do there's a lot of energy out these rallies, 1:21:38.600 --> 1:21:40.280 But the reality is is that the people who we 1:21:40.360 --> 1:21:42.240 need are not the rally We need to go and 1:21:42.320 --> 1:21:44.600 get black folks on college campuses. We got to go 1:21:44.640 --> 1:21:48.800 and get young folks who are reasonably concerned about a 1:21:48.840 --> 1:21:50.640 lot of stuff. We need to take that concern and 1:21:50.720 --> 1:21:52.360 we need to help connect them into the system. We 1:21:52.439 --> 1:21:53.880 need to plug them in, and we got to be 1:21:53.960 --> 1:21:56.120 patient with them. So I'm seeing this and I think 1:21:56.160 --> 1:21:58.439 that this is a really good foundation, but we know 1:21:58.520 --> 1:22:00.560 in these fifty something days, we got work to do. 1:22:00.640 --> 1:22:01.840 Steel Yeah, I think that's so. 1:22:02.000 --> 1:22:04.760 It's kind of like an analogy for the kids who 1:22:04.840 --> 1:22:07.320 show up to the guidance counselor's office because they want 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:09.200 to go to college. Those are not the kids who 1:22:09.280 --> 1:22:11.080 are in the most need. It's the kids who are 1:22:11.120 --> 1:22:13.240 not participating. So I love that you made that point. 1:22:13.280 --> 1:22:17.160 I think that's a poignant So I don't want to 1:22:17.200 --> 1:22:20.400 be a Donald downer, but I do want to say 1:22:20.920 --> 1:22:23.000 a lot of people elect people to public office and 1:22:23.080 --> 1:22:26.800 then they start to criticize those individuals basically saying, well, 1:22:26.840 --> 1:22:27.599 they didn't get done. 1:22:27.880 --> 1:22:29.320 What it is that they said they would do. 1:22:29.439 --> 1:22:32.320 I often try to remind folks, look, we came here 1:22:32.960 --> 1:22:36.320 under ball and chain had to endure, you know, four 1:22:36.400 --> 1:22:40.120 hundred years of servit to before even being legal, then 1:22:40.200 --> 1:22:43.200 having that taken away before then we're still seeing laws 1:22:43.240 --> 1:22:45.519 that are passed that bring us into our full existence. 1:22:46.280 --> 1:22:49.920 What does Kamala Harris in addition to folks going out 1:22:49.960 --> 1:22:53.040 and voting and organizing for her, what companionship does she 1:22:53.200 --> 1:22:56.240 need in order to facilitate the movement of an agenda 1:22:56.560 --> 1:22:59.040 that makes life different for people in the streets. 1:22:59.160 --> 1:23:01.640 She needs an a Keen Jeffries to be Speaker of 1:23:01.680 --> 1:23:03.640 the House. We need to have. 1:23:06.120 --> 1:23:10.240 A full complement of democratic senators in the majority in 1:23:10.320 --> 1:23:13.960 the US Senate. We need a patient community, a faith 1:23:14.000 --> 1:23:18.680 based community, an academia, nonprofit and business to recognize that 1:23:19.600 --> 1:23:24.520 the alternative is no democracy. The alternative is a reversal 1:23:24.640 --> 1:23:30.880 of people's rights. The alternative is a total ignoring of 1:23:31.000 --> 1:23:35.240 the Constitution and the rights that we have. 1:23:36.120 --> 1:23:37.559 We cannot go backwards. 1:23:37.800 --> 1:23:40.880 And so when you think about where we are, we 1:23:41.040 --> 1:23:44.519 have a vice president who was a district attorney, an 1:23:44.560 --> 1:23:48.760 attorney general, a United States Senator, and now the vice 1:23:48.800 --> 1:23:51.040 president soon to be president. Of the United States, the 1:23:51.160 --> 1:23:56.160 most consequential candidate to have ever served as vice president, 1:23:56.479 --> 1:23:58.439 and no one has had as much experience as she 1:23:58.560 --> 1:24:02.320 does bringing to the over It's ridiculous that people will 1:24:02.360 --> 1:24:06.519 suggest otherwise everyone should stand and defend and just call 1:24:06.720 --> 1:24:10.799 balls and strikes. The facts bear out Kamala Harris clearly 1:24:11.280 --> 1:24:15.439 has the requisite skill sets, temperament, and abilities what we 1:24:15.600 --> 1:24:17.720 have to do as a people. As Jesse Jackson said 1:24:17.760 --> 1:24:20.200 in nineteen eighty eight, you can't. 1:24:20.160 --> 1:24:20.960 Helpe me in. 1:24:21.560 --> 1:24:23.160 You have to vote for me in. 1:24:23.840 --> 1:24:25.800 So we've got to remind people that for the next 1:24:25.880 --> 1:24:28.800 fifty one fifty two fifty three days, we got to hump. 1:24:29.280 --> 1:24:31.640 We got to just as as severally just said, we 1:24:31.760 --> 1:24:33.680 can't depend on the circles that we're in. 1:24:34.280 --> 1:24:36.719 We're the choir preaching to the choir. 1:24:37.160 --> 1:24:39.280 We've got to go out and the to the communities, 1:24:39.360 --> 1:24:43.280 into the barbershops, the beauty shops, into the nightclubs and 1:24:43.320 --> 1:24:46.599 the sororities and fraternities, and we've got to tell people, yes, 1:24:46.720 --> 1:24:50.240 your vote does matter, and we can't afford to think 1:24:50.880 --> 1:24:53.360 we've got this thing one so we can celebrate. 1:24:53.439 --> 1:24:54.679 No, No, it's going to be close. 1:24:55.439 --> 1:24:57.280 And in order to make sure that we can defend 1:24:57.960 --> 1:25:00.320 what will happen on election day. We have to make 1:25:00.360 --> 1:25:02.040 sure it is a solid victory. 1:25:02.439 --> 1:25:02.600 You know. 1:25:02.680 --> 1:25:04.599 I want to flag for you all. 1:25:05.400 --> 1:25:07.519 Of course, the Congressional Black Caucus is known as the 1:25:07.600 --> 1:25:10.360 conscience of the Congress, and with the three of you 1:25:10.439 --> 1:25:13.799 all sitting here, you all have divergent politics. Your politics 1:25:13.800 --> 1:25:16.240 aren't all the way aligned. And what I love about this. 1:25:17.200 --> 1:25:20.320 Is people get to see themselves reflected in each of you. 1:25:20.439 --> 1:25:24.360 And as the caucus continues to grow, we see from 1:25:24.520 --> 1:25:27.040 how you vote, from the way you negotiate. 1:25:26.560 --> 1:25:28.800 From what you say in committee, the differences. 1:25:29.280 --> 1:25:31.760 There was one moment yesterday that I wanted to mention 1:25:31.840 --> 1:25:33.599 at the top of the show, and I forgot until now. 1:25:34.320 --> 1:25:37.000 But this conference is always a convening for people of 1:25:37.160 --> 1:25:39.439 divergent opinions and perspectives to share. 1:25:39.960 --> 1:25:42.360 In forums, people get up and ask questions, sometimes want 1:25:42.360 --> 1:25:45.320 a debate with y'all. But there was this really harrowing 1:25:45.400 --> 1:25:46.120 moment last night. 1:25:46.200 --> 1:25:48.200 I was walking out of the Salamander and there was 1:25:48.240 --> 1:25:54.960 a protest, and the protest was for Justin Johnson, who 1:25:55.120 --> 1:25:58.360 was killed at a McDonald's in DC, shot ten times. 1:25:59.000 --> 1:26:01.320 And I was so troubled that it was at a 1:26:01.439 --> 1:26:05.120 black hotel for our black members. And of course I 1:26:05.240 --> 1:26:07.439 was walking with Papa Rye and my. 1:26:07.560 --> 1:26:10.360 Dad looks at me and he says, this is where 1:26:10.560 --> 1:26:12.080 they knew they could be heard. 1:26:14.040 --> 1:26:16.599 And so I know that Justin Johnson and so many others, 1:26:16.640 --> 1:26:18.880 Breonna Taylor and mott Arbury have been at the top 1:26:18.920 --> 1:26:21.600 of you all's minds and you've legislated for them. But 1:26:21.680 --> 1:26:24.280 I just want to say thank you for facilitating the 1:26:24.400 --> 1:26:27.840 space for the protesters, for Justin Johnson, for the protesters 1:26:28.600 --> 1:26:32.800 against the Israel Hamas war, for the protesters to ensure 1:26:32.840 --> 1:26:35.800 that black lives matter. So for facilitating this space. I 1:26:35.920 --> 1:26:37.600 just want to say thank you, and I want to 1:26:37.680 --> 1:26:38.760 honor you all for being here. 1:26:38.920 --> 1:26:39.840 Thank you so much. 1:26:40.560 --> 1:26:43.840 Do we realize that now, I'll say this, and I 1:26:44.200 --> 1:26:48.599 think we'd all agree, we realize our diversity. Sometimes people 1:26:48.720 --> 1:26:51.880 think when you say Congressional Black Caucus that we're all. 1:26:51.800 --> 1:26:52.880 Alike, and we are not. 1:26:53.160 --> 1:26:58.080 And that's what we value and appreciate because that is 1:26:58.320 --> 1:26:59.160 our strength. 1:26:59.720 --> 1:27:03.120 But it's even better when you put it all together. 1:27:03.520 --> 1:27:04.840 That's the power is. 1:27:05.600 --> 1:27:09.200 We can make anything happen, as we did with the 1:27:09.320 --> 1:27:13.799 infrastructure bills, or we can stop anything from happening. 1:27:14.240 --> 1:27:17.360 As we did that, we got both parts. 1:27:17.120 --> 1:27:17.880 That we wanted. 1:27:18.160 --> 1:27:21.559 We wanted to make sure that the services were going 1:27:21.760 --> 1:27:25.200 to be voted on and signed, and so we did 1:27:25.280 --> 1:27:28.479 it all because of our unity and our power. Yeah, 1:27:29.320 --> 1:27:31.280 and if I could add to that, just even with 1:27:31.800 --> 1:27:34.080 what brother Carter was just talking about. When we think 1:27:34.160 --> 1:27:37.320 about what we are really needing to do right now, 1:27:37.600 --> 1:27:39.479 it is how do we invest in the coalitions of 1:27:39.520 --> 1:27:42.040 the future to see me. You know, I'm a black 1:27:42.040 --> 1:27:44.960 girl from Lamond Valley of Pittsborg outside of Pittsburgh, right, 1:27:45.040 --> 1:27:47.080 I'm a progressive and a lot of people for a 1:27:47.160 --> 1:27:49.560 long time, you know, we're told that you couldn't be 1:27:49.560 --> 1:27:51.960 black and progressive, And I actually don't always agree that 1:27:52.040 --> 1:27:54.479 we differ in so many ways. I think that sometimes 1:27:54.520 --> 1:27:57.679 our politics difference and our policies, our goals are similar. 1:27:57.840 --> 1:27:59.519 We're trying to figure out what is the best way 1:27:59.560 --> 1:28:01.920 to get there, recognizing that we're working through systems where 1:28:01.960 --> 1:28:04.400 there are no clear answers. So when we talk about 1:28:04.439 --> 1:28:07.600 how do we invite in these folks who have been disenfranchised, 1:28:07.640 --> 1:28:10.519 who maybe or are feel a little disaffected, how do 1:28:10.640 --> 1:28:12.160 we make room for them? How do we welcome them, 1:28:12.160 --> 1:28:13.360 and when they see me in the place like that, 1:28:13.439 --> 1:28:15.600 they see that that's possible. They see that you know what, 1:28:15.800 --> 1:28:18.599 even if I don't come you know, speaking the same language, 1:28:18.640 --> 1:28:21.599 I don't come with the same background, I don't come 1:28:21.640 --> 1:28:25.320 from the same socio economic status, that my blackness still qualifies. 1:28:24.920 --> 1:28:25.719 Me to be in Congress. 1:28:26.120 --> 1:28:29.280 That my perspective, my experiences qualifies me to have an opinion, 1:28:29.439 --> 1:28:32.000 and that opinion deserves to be represented in every hall 1:28:32.040 --> 1:28:33.920 of power. That's what this is about. And right now, 1:28:33.960 --> 1:28:35.120 when we think about what we need to do in 1:28:35.200 --> 1:28:37.680 these next forty something days, we need to figure out 1:28:37.720 --> 1:28:41.200 how do we remind and keep our democratic coalition together. 1:28:41.640 --> 1:28:43.080 How do we remind people that even the. 1:28:43.080 --> 1:28:45.799 Democratic coalitions of the past aren't going to be sufficient 1:28:46.320 --> 1:28:48.680 right now. What we know, what Republicans know, and what 1:28:48.760 --> 1:28:51.240 we need to know, is that that coalition of black folks, 1:28:51.280 --> 1:28:54.760 of brown folks, of young folks, of progressives, of moderates, 1:28:55.000 --> 1:28:57.479 of people who are urban and rural and suburban, coming 1:28:57.560 --> 1:28:59.839 together right now is what's going to keep us afloat, 1:28:59.840 --> 1:29:01.000 to keep democracy alive. 1:29:01.120 --> 1:29:02.519 Well, we need to pull that together. 1:29:02.680 --> 1:29:04.320 You need to go back and tell them when they 1:29:04.400 --> 1:29:07.160 say you can't be progressive and democrat, that they don't 1:29:07.200 --> 1:29:10.599 know our history. If you don't think Shirley Chisholm progress, 1:29:10.920 --> 1:29:13.520 if you don't think John Lewis was gray. 1:29:13.600 --> 1:29:17.479 If you don't think Charlie Rango was and all of them. 1:29:17.520 --> 1:29:20.280 If you don't think Maxine Waters and Jim Clive right 1:29:20.760 --> 1:29:21.640 not progressive. 1:29:21.960 --> 1:29:24.160 So we have to make sure we keep our history. 1:29:24.400 --> 1:29:26.680 They do that to try to pit us against us 1:29:27.000 --> 1:29:29.880 when a younger generation comes in and says progressive and 1:29:29.960 --> 1:29:32.920 black lives matter, Well, see, I'm from the generation before 1:29:33.160 --> 1:29:34.880 we was raising our fists. 1:29:34.600 --> 1:29:38.280 And seeing black power with Jesse Jackson in the eighties. 1:29:38.600 --> 1:29:40.680 So I just want to lose it now, and that's 1:29:40.680 --> 1:29:41.400 what I want to ask. 1:29:42.040 --> 1:29:44.639 Lady said, I have receipts, and on type of received, 1:29:44.720 --> 1:29:48.479 y'all also have time. We have the chairwoman Terry Sewell 1:29:48.800 --> 1:29:52.799 of the Congressional Black Hawks Foundation, who's here, and Nicole Austin, 1:29:52.880 --> 1:29:55.160 Hillary who is the president, who are going to join us, 1:29:55.200 --> 1:29:56.640 and I know y'all got to get ready to go 1:29:56.760 --> 1:29:57.479 meet your president. 1:29:57.600 --> 1:29:58.519 Thank you for letting me be. 1:30:03.520 --> 1:30:07.720 Thank you both, Carter, Congresswoman Baby Kate Summerlee. 1:30:07.960 --> 1:30:10.520 We are so grateful for your participation today. 1:30:16.880 --> 1:30:20.240 I'm so excited to be joining friend Car with Stephen Quintin, 1:30:22.320 --> 1:30:22.840 and we want. 1:30:22.720 --> 1:30:26.600 You guys to stay tuned because some amazing work with 1:30:28.720 --> 1:30:32.519 And all right, Madam President, please join this woman Terry Sewell, 1:30:32.680 --> 1:30:33.519 you all will know her. 1:30:33.600 --> 1:30:37.000 She's leading a lot of the voting rights work because 1:30:37.000 --> 1:30:42.320 she is representing Alabama. We just shared the stage the 1:30:42.439 --> 1:30:44.680 other day, so I'm so happy to have you join us. 1:30:44.760 --> 1:30:47.879 And every time I see you you get more beautiful. 1:30:48.160 --> 1:30:50.200 I saw we were on stage the other day. 1:30:50.240 --> 1:30:53.599 Yeah, this beautiful, elegant dress on and tonight you both 1:30:53.640 --> 1:30:55.120 look so gorgeous. 1:30:57.120 --> 1:30:57.479 Just want that. 1:31:00.040 --> 1:31:00.240 Said. 1:31:00.240 --> 1:31:02.320 I want to back just so you all know you 1:31:02.439 --> 1:31:04.920 talked about voting rights, Tiff. I think it's really important 1:31:04.920 --> 1:31:08.200 for folks to know. Too many of us met Nicole 1:31:08.760 --> 1:31:11.080 and her voting rights advocacy work, and we are so 1:31:11.280 --> 1:31:14.400 grateful for your service and then bringing that here from 1:31:14.479 --> 1:31:16.720 vision to victory this week and in so many other 1:31:16.760 --> 1:31:18.759 ways to support our wonderful members. 1:31:18.800 --> 1:31:21.519 My CBC family, how are you all doing? Are you great? 1:31:21.720 --> 1:31:26.200 You almost made it through. This is the final act. Congressman. 1:31:26.280 --> 1:31:29.720 We wanted to make Mike absolutely well. 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:34.759 You know, I'm honored to chair the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, 1:31:35.120 --> 1:31:39.280 but I'm equally honored to chair the CBC's Voting Rights 1:31:39.320 --> 1:31:39.920 brain Trust. 1:31:40.280 --> 1:31:41.040 Tiffany, thank you. 1:31:41.200 --> 1:31:42.120 You were awesome on that. 1:31:42.680 --> 1:31:46.760 And I think that what we talked about was strategizing, mobilizing, 1:31:47.160 --> 1:31:50.559 empowering Black voters to get to the polls in fifty days. 1:31:50.960 --> 1:31:54.200 It's really really important. So I can't thank you enough 1:31:54.240 --> 1:31:56.519 for being a participant in this. And I also just 1:31:56.640 --> 1:31:59.400 really want to thank Nicole as the president and CEO 1:31:59.800 --> 1:32:03.519 of foundation and it's amazing staff for putting on such 1:32:03.560 --> 1:32:07.360 a great conference. This is our fifty third annual legislative 1:32:07.400 --> 1:32:10.679 conference and it's at a pivotal moment in American history 1:32:10.720 --> 1:32:11.280 as we all know. 1:32:11.680 --> 1:32:14.280 Yes, I just want to shout out your colleague, Congressman 1:32:14.400 --> 1:32:15.080 Lucy McBeth. 1:32:15.600 --> 1:32:18.760 Just walk past so we see congress woman and thank 1:32:18.840 --> 1:32:20.920 you for your work that you leave. You know, she's 1:32:20.960 --> 1:32:21.639 a coach chair. 1:32:22.160 --> 1:32:26.080 Yes sorry, Yes, the coldair of this year, and I 1:32:26.120 --> 1:32:27.960 would love to hear from Nicole because a lot of 1:32:28.040 --> 1:32:28.960 people come. 1:32:29.160 --> 1:32:30.519 We might do a mini pod on this. 1:32:30.600 --> 1:32:32.240 We talked about doing a mini pod on the best 1:32:32.320 --> 1:32:35.600 Black conferences or around the country, but a lot of 1:32:35.680 --> 1:32:38.599 people come to Washington d C this time every year, 1:32:38.920 --> 1:32:41.040 and it's definitely a lot of parties and a lot 1:32:41.120 --> 1:32:45.599 of fraternizing, but there's a lot of work that happens here. 1:32:45.760 --> 1:32:47.960 So if you can tell the viewers at home, if 1:32:48.040 --> 1:32:50.320 you come to party, that's fine, But we want. 1:32:50.200 --> 1:32:51.960 To arm you with things with. 1:32:53.600 --> 1:32:56.759 A purpose. And what is the purpose of this week's conference. 1:32:56.840 --> 1:32:58.960 What are the tangible results that you want to see 1:32:59.280 --> 1:33:02.080 when people get back on their flights home to Alabama 1:33:02.200 --> 1:33:05.360 or Tallahassee or LA or Seattle, wherever they're going. 1:33:05.479 --> 1:33:07.080 What do people take away when they leave. 1:33:07.280 --> 1:33:09.560 First of all, thank you for having this conversation in 1:33:09.680 --> 1:33:10.160 this space. 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:13.760 I want to go back to our theme for this year, 1:33:14.400 --> 1:33:16.799 from Vision to Victory, amplifying Black voices. 1:33:16.880 --> 1:33:17.759 That's what this is about. 1:33:17.960 --> 1:33:21.240 This is ostensibly the nation's largest black public policy conference. 1:33:21.439 --> 1:33:24.360 It brings together people from everywhere. We break down barriers. 1:33:24.400 --> 1:33:26.880 It doesn't matter who you are, what your rank, file 1:33:27.320 --> 1:33:30.320 title is. We want everyone here and it is about 1:33:30.680 --> 1:33:32.800 talking about the issues that are most salient to the 1:33:32.800 --> 1:33:36.519 black community, figuring out solutions, and then taking that back 1:33:36.640 --> 1:33:37.840 out into the community. 1:33:37.960 --> 1:33:38.720 That's what this is for. 1:33:39.240 --> 1:33:41.280 And the parties and the receptions are all a part 1:33:41.320 --> 1:33:43.880 of it too, because that's our culture. Our culture is 1:33:43.960 --> 1:33:46.240 what sustains us while we do that work. So they 1:33:46.280 --> 1:33:48.519 are inextricably linked. So we want them to go hand 1:33:48.560 --> 1:33:50.880 in hand. But make no mistake about it. We are 1:33:50.960 --> 1:33:54.280 here to problem solve and to arm the community so 1:33:54.400 --> 1:33:56.480 that they can be empowered and strengthened. 1:33:56.720 --> 1:33:58.519 And you know that's exactly what we did in the 1:33:58.840 --> 1:34:02.160 brain Trust people. They had to have a voting plan. 1:34:02.600 --> 1:34:04.640 You got to know where your polling station is. You 1:34:04.800 --> 1:34:08.280 need to know exactly the precinct captains all that good stuff, 1:34:09.320 --> 1:34:11.080 and you need to bring a neighbor or friend to 1:34:11.120 --> 1:34:12.000 the war with I. 1:34:12.080 --> 1:34:16.360 Think arride with five. You got five friends, five other people. 1:34:17.120 --> 1:34:19.200 Folks right all the time and say, well it's such 1:34:19.200 --> 1:34:21.639 and such endorsing, it's such and such, gonna get behind 1:34:21.720 --> 1:34:25.240 Kennedy that I say the if they do, great, But 1:34:25.400 --> 1:34:27.840 the truth is is that the most important contact that 1:34:27.920 --> 1:34:30.280 voter will have or potential voter is gonna be with you. 1:34:30.840 --> 1:34:33.479 The person they know, the one that they trust, the 1:34:33.600 --> 1:34:35.800 word that is bond to them is. 1:34:35.840 --> 1:34:36.360 Gonna be you. 1:34:36.600 --> 1:34:38.240 And so no wait for celebrity X, Y and Z 1:34:38.360 --> 1:34:40.000 to show up. You go out and you do what 1:34:40.080 --> 1:34:40.479 you have to do. 1:34:40.640 --> 1:34:43.599 But in spite and like is saying that I am curious, 1:34:44.720 --> 1:34:48.280 how concerned are we with our folks's ability to have 1:34:48.439 --> 1:34:51.479 their votes one to make it through, we got citizen 1:34:51.640 --> 1:34:54.240 armies that are being formed around the country that folks 1:34:54.320 --> 1:34:55.000 have to be concerned. 1:34:55.040 --> 1:34:58.160 We also have election protection being armed. 1:34:58.360 --> 1:34:58.559 You know. 1:35:00.040 --> 1:35:00.679 Defence Fund. 1:35:00.920 --> 1:35:04.040 They have an eight hundred number toll free number that 1:35:04.080 --> 1:35:06.000 you can call it you feel like your voting rights 1:35:06.040 --> 1:35:09.000 are being denied. So with every punch that they make, 1:35:09.160 --> 1:35:11.479 we have a CounterPunch. We just got to make sure 1:35:11.520 --> 1:35:16.000 that our voting population knows what that counter punch is exactly. 1:35:16.080 --> 1:35:18.880 That's what it's about. It's about information. That's how we 1:35:19.000 --> 1:35:21.400 make sure our communities are armed. Look, I will tell 1:35:21.439 --> 1:35:24.799 you we do research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, 1:35:25.000 --> 1:35:28.080 and we do research around voting rights. People just want 1:35:28.160 --> 1:35:30.240 to have the information because they say when they have it, 1:35:30.520 --> 1:35:32.200 they can get it out to the communities. 1:35:32.280 --> 1:35:32.920 And I will tell you. 1:35:32.960 --> 1:35:35.320 When people know it, and REPSOL knows this, when people 1:35:35.360 --> 1:35:37.320 feel as though their voting rights are being suppressed, that 1:35:37.520 --> 1:35:41.040 makes them even more zealous and they want to get 1:35:41.080 --> 1:35:42.760 out and do something. So as long as we give 1:35:42.800 --> 1:35:45.040 them the tools that they need they're going to get out. 1:35:45.240 --> 1:35:47.479 Yeah, well we don't necessarare it. That's for sure. 1:35:47.720 --> 1:35:49.280 We're here for quite a historic night. 1:35:49.360 --> 1:35:52.919 We know that the President will be addressing this wonderful 1:35:52.960 --> 1:35:56.560 body the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Phoenix Awards Dinner, and 1:35:56.680 --> 1:35:59.720 we'll be joined by Madame Vice President Kamala Harris. 1:35:59.520 --> 1:36:03.960 So thank you, we will be joined. How are you 1:36:04.040 --> 1:36:04.639 breaking news? 1:36:04.880 --> 1:36:12.280 I'm asking, Well, we don't know, and so we can 1:36:12.360 --> 1:36:16.120 pronounce it right over here exactly. But they actually have 1:36:16.240 --> 1:36:17.760 it do They have to be upstairs so they don't 1:36:17.760 --> 1:36:21.439 get in trouble secret service. So Madame President and Madame Chair, 1:36:21.520 --> 1:36:23.559 we thank you all so much for joining Native. 1:36:23.400 --> 1:36:29.120 Lamp Us alc Fife's. 1:36:29.800 --> 1:36:30.080 Thank you. 1:36:32.439 --> 1:36:32.840 You don't know. 1:36:33.040 --> 1:36:34.800 She might be watching. It might be and you can 1:36:34.920 --> 1:36:37.639 just do that way. Wait, I gotta go stay. What's 1:36:37.680 --> 1:36:39.479 up the Native lampid, Well, let me tell you who. 1:36:39.520 --> 1:36:41.720 We definitely have to say what's up to right the 1:36:41.960 --> 1:36:45.439 second because my dear friends, our dear friends have been 1:36:45.479 --> 1:36:48.920 waiting patient for a long time to ensure that they 1:36:48.960 --> 1:36:52.200 could get up here to talk about the extraordinary work 1:36:52.240 --> 1:36:56.840 and mission of the collective Collective pack. We have Stephanie Brown, 1:36:57.000 --> 1:37:00.160 James and her lovely husband. Y'all are looking round their 1:37:00.280 --> 1:37:03.679 Dappa went to James, so thank you all so much. 1:37:06.640 --> 1:37:11.720 Oh yeah, looking goodly, loving us. 1:37:12.360 --> 1:37:14.160 We are thrilled that y'all are here, so talk to 1:37:14.280 --> 1:37:15.840 us about what's going on. So just so you know, 1:37:16.000 --> 1:37:19.640 this is the Foundation Daniel Legislative Conference. Andrew in particulars 1:37:19.840 --> 1:37:21.439 following no rules about a five. 1:37:21.320 --> 1:37:22.080 Oh one C three. 1:37:22.520 --> 1:37:24.799 So if you talk about it in your personal capacity, 1:37:24.880 --> 1:37:26.880 I think you have a pass. Can I just really 1:37:26.960 --> 1:37:30.080 quickly to sing your praises because I want the viewers 1:37:30.120 --> 1:37:34.200 to know who you are when we talk about, yes, 1:37:34.920 --> 1:37:37.960 contributing to politics, there are a lot of ways. In 1:37:38.040 --> 1:37:40.479 the same way that you don't have to run for office, 1:37:40.520 --> 1:37:43.040 there are other ways that you can support and fundraising 1:37:43.280 --> 1:37:44.439 is such a key piece of that. 1:37:44.600 --> 1:37:47.640 The donor class is largely white and male. They get 1:37:47.720 --> 1:37:50.680 to determine who's a viable candidate and who's not. And 1:37:50.840 --> 1:37:54.800 Quentin and Steph collectively said not on our watch. Collectively, 1:37:55.200 --> 1:37:58.040 we are going to form the collective pack and empower 1:37:58.200 --> 1:38:01.360 people to help empower leaders who speak for us. 1:38:01.760 --> 1:38:03.880 So thank you for the work that you do in 1:38:04.040 --> 1:38:04.639 that space. 1:38:05.160 --> 1:38:08.400 And you're unapologetic about it and have had tangible success 1:38:08.800 --> 1:38:09.759 in the people that you've. 1:38:09.680 --> 1:38:11.519 Helped get into office. So we just want to let 1:38:11.520 --> 1:38:12.800 our viewers know who you are and thank you for 1:38:12.840 --> 1:38:13.240 your well, you. 1:38:13.280 --> 1:38:15.840 Know, we're the Mutual Admiration Society. Let me just say that, 1:38:16.040 --> 1:38:18.800 how proud we are of y'all. So this is an 1:38:18.840 --> 1:38:19.960 honor for us to be here. 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:21.200 We love you, girl. 1:38:21.720 --> 1:38:23.519 Okay, So tell us what y'all got going on. Y'all 1:38:23.520 --> 1:38:25.200 got fifty one days? What are you doing? Yeah? 1:38:25.240 --> 1:38:26.360 Cool, fifty one days. 1:38:27.080 --> 1:38:29.920 I think maybe back in July, I was really worried 1:38:30.120 --> 1:38:32.680 about where we were in terms of the numbers. We 1:38:32.840 --> 1:38:36.000 know when the major presidential swing states, Uh, there are 1:38:36.080 --> 1:38:40.240 about three and a half million unregistered but eligible black voters. 1:38:41.080 --> 1:38:42.719 And what's been so phenomenal about this moment? 1:38:42.760 --> 1:38:43.639 And what how many? 1:38:43.880 --> 1:38:44.479 About three and a. 1:38:44.479 --> 1:38:52.760 Half million million unregistered voters eligibles as of July. As 1:38:52.800 --> 1:38:58.760 of July, so that's Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, Nevada. 1:39:01.160 --> 1:39:03.599 And there's over five million that aren't registered at all. 1:39:04.160 --> 1:39:04.400 Wow. 1:39:04.680 --> 1:39:09.160 But what's been interesting is over the past two and 1:39:09.200 --> 1:39:12.400 a half three weeks, we've seen almost a four hundred 1:39:12.439 --> 1:39:16.320 percent increase in new in new voter regtations kind of 1:39:16.360 --> 1:39:18.720 getting process in these states. We have a fifty eight 1:39:18.760 --> 1:39:23.320 percent increase in black voter registration since twenty twenty compared 1:39:23.320 --> 1:39:25.600 to the same time twenty twenty, over one hundred and 1:39:25.680 --> 1:39:29.800 twenty five percent increase in Black women under thirty getting 1:39:29.840 --> 1:39:32.240 registered to vote, and so there's a movement happening. So 1:39:32.320 --> 1:39:35.200 ATHEL when you say, like, what's happening, we see momentum 1:39:35.560 --> 1:39:36.520 and we're excited. 1:39:36.840 --> 1:39:39.080 We got to turn that into actual votes and mean, 1:39:39.120 --> 1:39:39.880 so we know if you're in. 1:39:39.880 --> 1:39:42.920 Pennsylvania on Tuesday, people have the right to go out 1:39:42.960 --> 1:39:46.840 and vote early starting this coming Tuesday, early voter starting 1:39:46.880 --> 1:39:49.040 in other states the next few weeks. And so this 1:39:49.200 --> 1:39:52.320 isn't about November. This is actually election season over the 1:39:52.400 --> 1:39:53.840 next few weeks. So people gonna get out there and 1:39:53.880 --> 1:39:55.639 are voting. They're starting on Tuesday. 1:39:55.640 --> 1:39:57.000 This teod. 1:40:00.000 --> 1:40:00.280 Welcome. 1:40:00.360 --> 1:40:03.080 Then we've been together for twenty y That's what I'm saying. 1:40:03.160 --> 1:40:04.000 This is their family. 1:40:04.080 --> 1:40:06.439 So I was like, let me make sure this is 1:40:06.520 --> 1:40:09.639 Derek Johnson, the president of the NAACPU. Also I'm joined 1:40:09.720 --> 1:40:12.679 us at the Democratic National Convention as well, but he's 1:40:12.720 --> 1:40:13.160 their family. 1:40:13.240 --> 1:40:14.080 So I figured they were like this. 1:40:14.479 --> 1:40:15.920 There's not crashing a party. 1:40:16.000 --> 1:40:18.960 When they come to the house before the proposal about 1:40:19.000 --> 1:40:20.400 their marriage, we quit cooked. 1:40:20.240 --> 1:40:21.160 Them breakfast. 1:40:23.320 --> 1:40:25.880 That good Jackson Mississippi. 1:40:25.320 --> 1:40:26.360 Food we're talking about. 1:40:26.560 --> 1:40:28.720 You were talking about there's fifty one days left, Like, 1:40:28.880 --> 1:40:30.559 what are the marching orders for the people? 1:40:31.200 --> 1:40:32.120 Don't get distracted. 1:40:32.720 --> 1:40:35.519 Don't allow an idiot to distract you, because he's not 1:40:35.600 --> 1:40:39.160 an audience. Our audience, our young voters. Our audience are 1:40:39.600 --> 1:40:43.240 male voters, female voters. Our audience are infrequent voters who 1:40:43.320 --> 1:40:45.720 turned out in no way turned out in twelve and 1:40:45.840 --> 1:40:48.679 no one talked to them in sixteen, and in many 1:40:48.720 --> 1:40:51.120 ways no one talked to them last year. Yeah, don't 1:40:51.160 --> 1:40:54.320 get distracted and talk to infrequent voters, because that's the 1:40:54.479 --> 1:40:57.120 difference between the quality of life that we that we 1:40:57.360 --> 1:41:00.640 have earned and going to going in the directions. I 1:41:00.640 --> 1:41:02.360 don't know who behind me, you waving that so, but 1:41:02.400 --> 1:41:02.920 I'm nosy. 1:41:03.200 --> 1:41:10.040 Congress congressome with Stacy plask. 1:41:16.439 --> 1:41:19.280 Mister President, what this we just did? 1:41:19.400 --> 1:41:22.640 What does protection look like for voters, particularly in black communities, 1:41:22.680 --> 1:41:24.960 who aren't sure what they're gonna confront when they go 1:41:25.040 --> 1:41:27.600 out to vote on election day or in the or 1:41:27.640 --> 1:41:31.280 in the advance what is the what is the artillery 1:41:31.320 --> 1:41:33.479 look like on our side to make sure that voters 1:41:33.600 --> 1:41:36.679 votes when cast, hopefully casts are protected. 1:41:37.120 --> 1:41:40.320 But it's a combination of things, and it also depends 1:41:40.400 --> 1:41:43.559 on where you're voting. The reality of what it looks 1:41:43.640 --> 1:41:45.599 like in your home state of Florida may be different 1:41:45.720 --> 1:41:48.720 in where I live in Mississippi or in Georgia. So 1:41:48.880 --> 1:41:52.000 the protection may vary depend on location. If you and 1:41:52.120 --> 1:41:54.600 Hans County, Mississippi, we have a black police sheep, we 1:41:54.680 --> 1:41:57.120 have a black sheriff, and we have black folks who 1:41:57.160 --> 1:41:59.040 stand up for each other. But if you're in an 1:41:59.160 --> 1:42:01.839 isolated commuit than you want to cast your black ballot, 1:42:02.080 --> 1:42:04.320 then it may be something different. So you know, the 1:42:04.400 --> 1:42:07.280 Lawyer's Committee stood up a number some years ago that 1:42:07.840 --> 1:42:10.960 one a six number. That's important, but it varies. But 1:42:11.040 --> 1:42:13.439 at the end of the day, walk through the faith 1:42:13.560 --> 1:42:15.519 that we're gonna we're gonna win this and not through 1:42:15.560 --> 1:42:19.760 the fear of what might happen. Unfortunately, we reinforce some 1:42:19.800 --> 1:42:24.320 of the most negative stereotypes which also create a chilling 1:42:24.360 --> 1:42:27.559 effect of our people. Let's talk about what's gonna happen 1:42:27.680 --> 1:42:30.880 in the positive and make sure we have the infrastructure 1:42:30.920 --> 1:42:33.800 place wherever possible. So if something come up called the 1:42:33.880 --> 1:42:37.000 A sixty six number, if you in the Cab County, Georgia, 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:38.479 it's a whole infrastructure there. 1:42:38.960 --> 1:42:41.600 If you are in Michigan, it's a different infrastructure. But 1:42:41.720 --> 1:42:43.599 whatever you do, go to the polls. 1:42:43.960 --> 1:42:46.439 At the end of the day, we will be victor 1:42:46.640 --> 1:42:50.120 victorious because it's us for us, fighting for us. 1:42:50.120 --> 1:42:51.400 And we must do that together. 1:42:51.960 --> 1:42:55.759 I want to get back to James Ox, to Quinton 1:42:55.800 --> 1:42:57.679 and Stueph, but I want to ask you a quick 1:42:57.720 --> 1:43:00.759 question on this, Derek, because I just want to quote 1:43:01.240 --> 1:43:04.400 the wonderful, late great Nina Simone, because every time we 1:43:04.520 --> 1:43:06.920 talk about this, I just feel like Mississippi, God damn. 1:43:07.360 --> 1:43:10.599 Because this is the most populous state with the largest 1:43:10.640 --> 1:43:14.400 number of black folks. There is no statewide representation black 1:43:14.479 --> 1:43:18.400 representation in Mississippi. The racism is written into the state's constitution. 1:43:18.840 --> 1:43:21.000 I always went when I hear people say the South 1:43:21.120 --> 1:43:23.479 is red, it's only read until it's a't. And we're 1:43:23.520 --> 1:43:27.880 seeing Georgia tangibly show that we can make a difference. Mississippi, 1:43:27.960 --> 1:43:30.920 of all places, can make a difference. But how do 1:43:31.040 --> 1:43:35.720 we disrupt and dismantle these systems of institutional racism that 1:43:35.920 --> 1:43:37.559 keep people there so oppressed. 1:43:37.800 --> 1:43:40.040 So Mississippi is a great number of math. 1:43:40.720 --> 1:43:43.800 We are thirty eight percent of the population, not fifty 1:43:43.840 --> 1:43:46.479 one percent of the population. And the other side of 1:43:46.560 --> 1:43:49.759 that is it takes twenty five percent of white voters 1:43:49.800 --> 1:43:54.360 to vote with us consistently with blacks. Anytime you have 1:43:54.600 --> 1:43:57.479 a majority black, something white fear goes up. 1:43:57.680 --> 1:43:59.920 Racial block voting also is seen. 1:44:00.080 --> 1:44:03.559 Minute end, you will have someone elected in Seattle, Washington, 1:44:03.800 --> 1:44:06.360 or San Francisco with less than five percent of the 1:44:06.360 --> 1:44:09.719 black voting population because the fear of the black community 1:44:09.880 --> 1:44:13.000 isn't as prevalent as it is in a place like Mississippi. 1:44:13.240 --> 1:44:16.479 But I will assure you in our lifetime, probably before 1:44:16.800 --> 1:44:20.120 twenty thirty, Mississippi will have more than one black state 1:44:20.160 --> 1:44:25.920 wide elected officials before twenty thirty. Be clear, the treads 1:44:26.040 --> 1:44:29.040 are there. They're running out of white people. We are 1:44:29.120 --> 1:44:32.519 a younger population at medium age thirty one, thirty one, 1:44:32.760 --> 1:44:37.320 thirty four years in Mississippi Black, forty five years old. 1:44:37.600 --> 1:44:37.920 White. 1:44:38.120 --> 1:44:41.320 We have more children we are looking at demographically. 1:44:41.840 --> 1:44:44.919 Next year will be the last year where the population 1:44:45.120 --> 1:44:49.360 under eighteen is majority white. The population of the UNTEA 1:44:49.439 --> 1:44:53.040 will be majority non white. Let's look at the data, 1:44:53.200 --> 1:44:55.760 the number. That's what's going to drive an outcome if 1:44:55.800 --> 1:44:59.760 we stay focused, not get distracted and lead into our power. 1:44:59.560 --> 1:45:02.360 And not create a dynamics where its us fighting us. 1:45:02.920 --> 1:45:05.639 Okay, see, we crashed the party. You guys aren't done. 1:45:05.680 --> 1:45:08.960 You you crashed. You're taking Maurice Mitchell c. We have 1:45:09.080 --> 1:45:11.320 to bring more Reese on working families. 1:45:11.560 --> 1:45:14.360 Gentlemen, working party president. 1:45:23.280 --> 1:45:26.679 Can I mean I think we might have just maybe 1:45:26.800 --> 1:45:30.160 maybe personal breaking these it is breaking news about maybe 1:45:30.240 --> 1:45:31.439 a future governor. 1:45:31.520 --> 1:45:39.120 Derek Johnson speaking speaking existence, We. 1:45:39.120 --> 1:45:42.000 Would expect that coming coming from you, Q And which 1:45:42.040 --> 1:45:43.840 is least been my question for you and Steph, which 1:45:43.920 --> 1:45:46.519 is we often get feedback through the pod through our 1:45:46.560 --> 1:45:48.720 listeners who are saying, well, what can we do? 1:45:48.960 --> 1:45:50.599 What can we do right where they are? 1:45:51.240 --> 1:45:51.320 Uh? 1:45:51.439 --> 1:45:52.320 If they want to impact? 1:45:52.320 --> 1:45:55.200 Why do we have to compete against an apex to 1:45:55.320 --> 1:45:58.240 preserve a member of Congress who we like, who we support? 1:45:58.520 --> 1:46:01.800 What are we doing? And I can't just personal testimony. 1:46:01.960 --> 1:46:05.200 I could not have competed successfully in the race and 1:46:05.400 --> 1:46:08.840 Florida and that primary race without Quintin and Stephanie stepping up, 1:46:09.120 --> 1:46:13.040 which often put them at odds with the democratic establishment 1:46:13.160 --> 1:46:16.320 of this country. Who came for their next every time 1:46:16.400 --> 1:46:19.200 they came to have my back. So I know what 1:46:19.400 --> 1:46:21.760 the power of the collective pack he is. I'm a 1:46:21.840 --> 1:46:24.880 personal testimony to it, and so many others around the 1:46:24.960 --> 1:46:25.519 country are. 1:46:26.000 --> 1:46:27.799 But tell folks at home, if you want. 1:46:27.680 --> 1:46:30.160 To be on the side of being at the table 1:46:30.439 --> 1:46:33.519 of deciding who to support, of putting your money where 1:46:33.520 --> 1:46:36.519 you know it can go towards candidates who share your 1:46:36.640 --> 1:46:37.799 values and vision. 1:46:38.400 --> 1:46:39.040 What can they do? 1:46:40.080 --> 1:46:41.960 The best thing is that everyone can do something. 1:46:42.800 --> 1:46:45.080 So even when you look at your local community, you 1:46:45.240 --> 1:46:47.439 probably know who your city council member is because you 1:46:47.479 --> 1:46:49.720 go to the grocery store with them, their children, They 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:51.120 go to school with your children. 1:46:51.520 --> 1:46:52.439 Start at home. 1:46:52.960 --> 1:46:55.439 Support the people that you know that are running for office, 1:46:55.439 --> 1:46:58.000 who share the same values, the same vision for the future. 1:46:58.360 --> 1:47:01.200 Give them five dollars, give them ten. That adds up. 1:47:01.240 --> 1:47:04.160 We keep talking about two thousand and eight Barack Obama, 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:07.240 his low dollar fundraising amounts and how it was transformative. 1:47:07.720 --> 1:47:09.719 But guess what that is what we have Black folks 1:47:09.800 --> 1:47:12.679 have always done. We put our low coins together. 1:47:13.280 --> 1:47:17.120 We collectively utilize the power of our resources that we 1:47:17.200 --> 1:47:19.560 have at our hands to make a change. And so 1:47:19.760 --> 1:47:21.920 I just want to make sure everyone knows that, you know, 1:47:22.240 --> 1:47:26.160 I have a wonderful hairstylist named Edith the hairla good. 1:47:27.439 --> 1:47:27.960 Yes it does. 1:47:29.040 --> 1:47:31.200 But Edith is in the shop, the shop that she 1:47:31.400 --> 1:47:35.639 owns registering voters. She's talking about the issues. She's making 1:47:35.720 --> 1:47:38.479 sure that her stylists are also doing the same and 1:47:38.600 --> 1:47:39.400 that's powerful. 1:47:39.479 --> 1:47:41.320 And I know before she felt like what could I do? 1:47:41.760 --> 1:47:44.800 Everyone can do someone because everyone has a point of 1:47:45.000 --> 1:47:46.880 influence in the people that are around us. 1:47:47.360 --> 1:47:49.799 I love that there was a similar movement in Georgia 1:47:50.920 --> 1:47:52.800 with strippers. I don't know if you guys remember that 1:47:53.080 --> 1:47:53.960 Booties to the Pole. 1:47:54.080 --> 1:47:55.840 Yeah, think And it was so I just. 1:47:55.840 --> 1:47:58.160 Thought it was amazing because you're speaking to a specific 1:47:58.240 --> 1:48:03.479 demographic in Georgia, demographic cast to wide net and meeting 1:48:03.479 --> 1:48:05.479 people where they are. And I think, you know, if 1:48:05.560 --> 1:48:11.599 if nothing else, that man him forty five, Donald Trump 1:48:12.240 --> 1:48:14.479 taught us to throw out the old playbook, like we 1:48:14.680 --> 1:48:16.720 have to navigate and move in a different way, and 1:48:16.800 --> 1:48:17.799 you all are doing exactly. 1:48:17.920 --> 1:48:18.080 Yeah. 1:48:18.160 --> 1:48:20.120 And to the point, I just want to say one 1:48:20.160 --> 1:48:22.280 of the things, we have an organization that's a sister 1:48:22.439 --> 1:48:23.680 organization called vote to Live. 1:48:24.360 --> 1:48:27.559 We focus on low propensity black voters. What does that mean. 1:48:27.600 --> 1:48:29.439 That's to mean the black folks that people have left 1:48:29.479 --> 1:48:31.920 behind because maybe they didn't vote in the last election 1:48:32.080 --> 1:48:33.240 or the last of two elections. 1:48:33.760 --> 1:48:35.240 We need everyone to vote. 1:48:35.520 --> 1:48:37.920 The man on the street corner who you pass every day, 1:48:37.920 --> 1:48:40.400 who's asking you from we need him to vote. So 1:48:40.560 --> 1:48:42.160 part of it is as black folks, we got to 1:48:42.200 --> 1:48:44.519 reach out make sure that everyone in our community is 1:48:44.640 --> 1:48:47.320 resourced and ready to be able to participate because. 1:48:47.120 --> 1:48:48.800 You know, when we fight, we know we win. 1:48:49.120 --> 1:48:51.360 And I would just say tangibly, you can visit vote 1:48:51.400 --> 1:48:54.960 to live dot org again all c three, register to vote, 1:48:55.200 --> 1:48:57.679 find out what's on your ballot, find your polling site, 1:48:57.920 --> 1:49:01.240 request then absentee ballot of vote early check your status 1:49:01.240 --> 1:49:02.479 because we know purging is an issue. 1:49:02.760 --> 1:49:03.559 Vote to live dot org. 1:49:03.600 --> 1:49:05.479 Get all those resources there and to share that with 1:49:05.600 --> 1:49:07.280 your friends and family in perfect resource. 1:49:07.320 --> 1:49:08.800 Hell, we love you are so much. 1:49:08.920 --> 1:49:12.479 Quentin and Stephanie Brown, seventy Brown, James, Quentin James, We 1:49:12.720 --> 1:49:13.559 thank God for y'all. 1:49:13.600 --> 1:49:16.080 Thank you for stopping by to see us, most sting around. 1:49:15.880 --> 1:49:19.840 And we have state Representative Justin Jones also joining us 1:49:19.960 --> 1:49:22.639 y'all the Tennessee three. He's been doing the work since 1:49:22.720 --> 1:49:26.799 before that stand down moment on the on the Tennessee 1:49:26.840 --> 1:49:27.960 State Legislature floor. 1:49:28.120 --> 1:49:30.680 And this shows how important the role of state legislatures, 1:49:30.800 --> 1:49:33.000 about the majority of our Republican control, and. 1:49:33.040 --> 1:49:35.559 How important the work of Stephanie Brown James and Quenten 1:49:35.680 --> 1:49:38.720 James the Organization Collective Pack is and how patient they are, 1:49:38.960 --> 1:49:40.400 how shit they are. 1:49:48.920 --> 1:49:51.439 We have so many people, come on, welcome brother, Look 1:49:51.479 --> 1:49:55.320 at this, y'all, come on, is that? What is that moment? 1:49:56.320 --> 1:49:57.040 Crush vilma. 1:49:57.160 --> 1:49:59.479 We love it. I love all these black men on 1:49:59.720 --> 1:50:00.240 set tonight. 1:50:00.320 --> 1:50:02.559 We've had quite a few, and I think that piece 1:50:02.680 --> 1:50:06.679 is so important because you know, even watching our comments, 1:50:06.680 --> 1:50:08.120 I don't know if you all have been looking, but 1:50:08.200 --> 1:50:10.920 there are people who feel left out of the conversation, 1:50:11.960 --> 1:50:12.840 and particularly a lot. 1:50:12.720 --> 1:50:14.600 Of black men have felt that way. So I just 1:50:14.680 --> 1:50:16.000 want to say, welcome home. 1:50:16.479 --> 1:50:20.599 And we are so happy to have our counterparts are 1:50:20.880 --> 1:50:23.200 the people our community would not be the same. We 1:50:23.439 --> 1:50:25.760 love black men, we love having all their counterparts, and 1:50:25.800 --> 1:50:29.439 we are never trying to drive an agenda that divides us. 1:50:29.520 --> 1:50:31.479 So we are partners in this work. So thank you 1:50:31.600 --> 1:50:33.800 all for being here. I want to come to mo. 1:50:34.120 --> 1:50:37.280 We we we kind of had you sitting around waiting, 1:50:37.320 --> 1:50:39.960 but I want you to talk about the purpose of 1:50:40.160 --> 1:50:45.360 Working Families First. We actually were having a whole text 1:50:45.439 --> 1:50:50.600 conversation because he got uh, you know, some some unintended 1:50:50.720 --> 1:50:53.800 fire on an on a breakfast club interview that I 1:50:53.920 --> 1:50:56.880 did with Jill Stein the other day and she talked 1:50:57.200 --> 1:50:59.200 kind of trash a little bit about Working Families parts. 1:50:59.240 --> 1:51:00.920 I want to I want you talk about what it 1:51:01.000 --> 1:51:02.920 means to actually win some elections. 1:51:03.200 --> 1:51:05.880 Oh my, oh my, oh my, GM. 1:51:06.400 --> 1:51:08.120 It's really good to be here with you, sis. 1:51:08.800 --> 1:51:09.000 Brother. 1:51:09.040 --> 1:51:09.599 It's been a while. 1:51:09.760 --> 1:51:13.920 Yeah, see y'all's endorsement guess right, honor to endorse. 1:51:13.680 --> 1:51:14.120 You on SIS. 1:51:14.200 --> 1:51:16.280 Thank you so much all of y'all. I mean, man, 1:51:16.720 --> 1:51:18.760 when y'all launched, I knew I wanted to be here. 1:51:18.920 --> 1:51:21.880 So it's a true honor to actually finally be sitting here. 1:51:22.520 --> 1:51:25.360 And the Working Families Party we've been around for twenty 1:51:25.400 --> 1:51:27.760 six years. I've been at the HELM for six years, 1:51:27.800 --> 1:51:30.360 and what we've been doing, we've been building a third 1:51:30.439 --> 1:51:33.760 party infrastructure from the ground up. Because of everything that 1:51:33.840 --> 1:51:38.360 we talked about, we recognize that independent black voices aren't 1:51:38.520 --> 1:51:42.280 often welcome in political spaces, and what we believe is 1:51:42.479 --> 1:51:44.880 we have to do the hard work to build the 1:51:45.000 --> 1:51:49.000 infrastructure to resource people in order to For example, this 1:51:49.240 --> 1:51:54.240 tuesday in Delaware, right, Cam Smith in Delaware defeated the 1:51:54.320 --> 1:51:58.760 Speaker of the House, a Working Families Party, a black organizer. 1:51:58.840 --> 1:52:01.360 Working Families Party can and now she's going to be 1:52:01.400 --> 1:52:05.200 representing all of her all of the interests that we 1:52:05.320 --> 1:52:07.519 talked about on this program in Delaware. 1:52:07.680 --> 1:52:07.800 Right. 1:52:08.120 --> 1:52:11.080 So you talk about winning elections, Right, While folks were 1:52:11.320 --> 1:52:15.160 trading barbs online, we were doing the hard work, state 1:52:15.240 --> 1:52:18.040 by state by state in twenty states, actually winning with 1:52:18.240 --> 1:52:19.360 grassroots black candidates. 1:52:19.400 --> 1:52:20.679 For example Tis James. 1:52:21.439 --> 1:52:24.840 Tis James is the Attorney General of New York and 1:52:25.040 --> 1:52:27.720 was able to hold Donald Trump accountable. What a lot 1:52:27.760 --> 1:52:31.360 of people don't know is that her entrance into politics 1:52:31.640 --> 1:52:35.200 started off as a Working Families Party independent candidate. 1:52:35.520 --> 1:52:35.680 Right. 1:52:36.439 --> 1:52:38.800 You want to go into the South, we made black 1:52:38.880 --> 1:52:42.200 history in the city of Jonesborough, Right, So this is 1:52:42.280 --> 1:52:46.400 like local Donya Sarter's a black woman who's now the 1:52:46.560 --> 1:52:50.040 mayor of Jonesborough because of the Working Families Party infrastructure, 1:52:50.439 --> 1:52:54.360 actual boots on the ground, volunteers, labor unions, grass roots 1:52:54.479 --> 1:52:57.920 organizations doing the hard work, not just yapping about it, 1:52:57.960 --> 1:53:01.280 but actually delivering. And then in Philidelp when we talk 1:53:01.320 --> 1:53:05.599 about delivering right, we have Pastor Nicholas or Rourke who 1:53:05.720 --> 1:53:11.400 is the Minority Whip, and we have an amazing grassroots coalition, 1:53:11.880 --> 1:53:16.120 and we have Kendra Brooks who's the Minority leader of Philadelphia. 1:53:16.400 --> 1:53:19.880 And Kendra and Nicholas they're not just talking about it, 1:53:19.960 --> 1:53:24.120 they're actually governing. Elections are an opportunity to govern. Elections 1:53:24.120 --> 1:53:26.680 are not the prize. Governing is the prize. Fat So 1:53:27.000 --> 1:53:30.680 in the city of Philadelphia, black folks in North Philadelphia 1:53:30.760 --> 1:53:34.960 that Kendra and Nick represent, unlike many cities, are not 1:53:35.240 --> 1:53:38.840 facing in a fiction crisis like before. Why because the 1:53:38.960 --> 1:53:45.000 Working Families Party municipal candidates created groundbreaking protections so that 1:53:46.000 --> 1:53:49.920 planlords have to negotiate before they throw folks out. That 1:53:50.120 --> 1:53:55.400 has showed a total shift. So we're delivering for working people. 1:53:55.479 --> 1:53:59.640 We're delivering for working class black folks. This independent, grassroots, 1:54:00.080 --> 1:54:02.600 bottom up, third party approach. We don't believe in the 1:54:02.680 --> 1:54:06.080 top down every four years top down approach. Look, if 1:54:06.120 --> 1:54:08.960 that could be possible, then Ross Perrot, who was a 1:54:09.000 --> 1:54:13.280 billionaire would have delivered that top down third party approach. 1:54:13.840 --> 1:54:16.040 What we're doing is telling the truth to our people, 1:54:16.560 --> 1:54:18.280 right we tell the truth to our people. What we're 1:54:18.280 --> 1:54:22.160 saying is, look, we do not yet have the infrastructure 1:54:22.680 --> 1:54:25.080 to surface our own candidate at the top of the 1:54:25.160 --> 1:54:28.280 ticket and not pull votes in order to ensure that 1:54:28.400 --> 1:54:31.839 the right wing and Project twenty twenty five agenda happens. 1:54:32.080 --> 1:54:34.360 But what we do have is the power to influence 1:54:34.400 --> 1:54:35.840 people all the way at the top of the ticket 1:54:36.080 --> 1:54:37.720 and deliver on the grassroots. 1:54:37.840 --> 1:54:39.840 What I appreciate about what you're saying is because we 1:54:40.160 --> 1:54:41.640 we have a mini pod on this so you guys 1:54:41.720 --> 1:54:43.680 watching it home can tune in. We talk about third 1:54:43.720 --> 1:54:49.360 party candidates and so many people they're seduced by bigger roles. 1:54:49.800 --> 1:54:50.880 But the truth is. 1:54:51.080 --> 1:54:54.800 Third parties do win at you know, in state legislatures, 1:54:54.840 --> 1:54:57.080 at the local level. So I want to bring justin 1:54:57.120 --> 1:55:00.879 into this conversation because a lot of the challe policies 1:55:01.240 --> 1:55:03.720 that we see reach the federal government, they bubble up 1:55:03.840 --> 1:55:06.920 from these state legislatures. You held the line, sit on 1:55:07.000 --> 1:55:10.400 the line. Shout out Memphis. I see y'all in the comments. 1:55:10.480 --> 1:55:16.200 Shout out a hometown Memphis talk to our viewers about 1:55:16.320 --> 1:55:20.120 how important the role of their state legislatures are when 1:55:20.160 --> 1:55:21.160 it comes to politics. 1:55:21.880 --> 1:55:22.240 Definitely. 1:55:22.360 --> 1:55:24.040 Well, it is so honored to be here with you all. 1:55:24.720 --> 1:55:27.320 I represent the most diverse district in Nashville, District fifty two, 1:55:27.320 --> 1:55:29.800 and I'm the youngest black law making our state. And 1:55:29.920 --> 1:55:31.520 what we're trying to build is to build a real 1:55:31.560 --> 1:55:34.400 opposition party to the extremists of white nationals who've taken 1:55:34.400 --> 1:55:35.200 over our state government. 1:55:35.240 --> 1:55:37.000 And so Tennessee is a tip of the spear. 1:55:37.080 --> 1:55:38.840 We look at extremist policies where the state with one 1:55:38.840 --> 1:55:41.440 of the most restrictive anti abortion laws, the first state 1:55:41.480 --> 1:55:43.560 to ban books, to ban drag shows, but it won't 1:55:43.600 --> 1:55:45.960 ban the assault weapons that are terrorizing our kids in schools. 1:55:46.320 --> 1:55:48.080 We're a state where twenty percent of black people cannot 1:55:48.120 --> 1:55:50.520 vote because a fellow need iss enfranchisement. And so the 1:55:50.560 --> 1:55:52.840 spirit of Jim Crow's alive, and well we have our 1:55:52.880 --> 1:55:55.120 own governor, George Wallace is his name is Bill Lee, 1:55:55.440 --> 1:55:57.040 and the Speaker of the House, Cameron Sex and whom's 1:55:57.040 --> 1:55:59.760 suing right now because not only do they attack us, 1:55:59.800 --> 1:56:01.720 but there when they silence us, when they expelled us, 1:56:01.760 --> 1:56:03.600 and now when they silence us in committee, kick us 1:56:03.600 --> 1:56:06.040 off our committees. They're silencing the voices of our constituents 1:56:06.080 --> 1:56:08.120 because they know that the state House is a laboratory 1:56:08.240 --> 1:56:10.480 for what they're trying to nationalize. So it's a tip 1:56:10.520 --> 1:56:12.440 of the spear. And if we can stop it in 1:56:12.480 --> 1:56:14.360 the state like Tennessee, we can stop Project twenty twenty 1:56:14.400 --> 1:56:16.880 five from spreading nationally. I've been telling everyone across this 1:56:17.040 --> 1:56:20.040 nation that Project twenty twenty five is Tennessee twenty twenty four. 1:56:20.280 --> 1:56:22.480 We are already dealing with the consequences of a Project 1:56:22.480 --> 1:56:24.840 twenty twenty five agenda. We look at voter suppression, We 1:56:24.880 --> 1:56:27.440 look at the removal of qualified people from our state government, 1:56:28.320 --> 1:56:29.240 from the health department. 1:56:29.320 --> 1:56:30.680 You know, because they're talking about diversity. 1:56:30.680 --> 1:56:32.680 They say, we don't want to talk about diversity, equity, inclusion, 1:56:32.760 --> 1:56:34.040 because to them, that's a bad word. 1:56:34.040 --> 1:56:35.560 We already see Project twenty twenty five. 1:56:35.760 --> 1:56:38.600 We look at defunding public education and passing voucher scams 1:56:38.880 --> 1:56:41.520 to give coupons to wealthy people to go to private schools. 1:56:41.520 --> 1:56:43.560 We already are dealing with Project twenty twenty five, which 1:56:43.600 --> 1:56:45.720 why we're filing like hell with everything we have, and 1:56:45.760 --> 1:56:47.400 which why we were expelled because they're afraid of what 1:56:47.440 --> 1:56:50.640 we represent. We represent a new South. Southern curregatious would 1:56:50.640 --> 1:56:51.760 say the South is going to rise again. 1:56:51.960 --> 1:56:53.640 I say, to hell with that. The South is going 1:56:53.680 --> 1:56:54.160 to rise and new. 1:56:54.160 --> 1:56:56.840 We're building a new South that is multiracial, that is younger, 1:56:56.880 --> 1:56:58.440 and they're terrified of us because they know that if 1:56:58.440 --> 1:57:00.240 we can stop their agenda in the South, stop it 1:57:00.280 --> 1:57:01.360 from studying cross this nation. 1:57:01.680 --> 1:57:02.520 I love it well. 1:57:02.680 --> 1:57:06.040 Florida was probably twenty twenty five, two thousand and two, 1:57:07.480 --> 1:57:10.120 so we got it before everybody. I mean the consequences 1:57:10.160 --> 1:57:12.760 for elected officials that we saw play out and your 1:57:12.920 --> 1:57:18.920 state they have been executing on progressive attorneys who lead 1:57:19.000 --> 1:57:21.600 prosecutoral offices around the state. And so we know what 1:57:21.720 --> 1:57:23.960 you mean when you say that. I am curious, what 1:57:24.080 --> 1:57:27.840 does what does the support continue to look like? 1:57:28.000 --> 1:57:29.040 For you as you battle? 1:57:29.200 --> 1:57:32.080 What are systems these aren't they're individuals who helm them, 1:57:32.600 --> 1:57:36.240 but they're buying large systems that you're attempting to reconstruct 1:57:36.440 --> 1:57:38.640 or to level and build again our way. 1:57:39.440 --> 1:57:42.320 What is the what does the support for that community 1:57:42.480 --> 1:57:42.880 look like? 1:57:43.040 --> 1:57:46.080 Which also makes me want you to answer, what does 1:57:46.120 --> 1:57:48.400 it mean to build a working party's infrastructure on a 1:57:48.440 --> 1:57:51.000 place where it doesn't exist, and the and and and 1:57:51.160 --> 1:57:52.760 cities and towns around the country. 1:57:53.560 --> 1:57:57.280 Well, absolutely so we we take an eye on the 1:57:57.440 --> 1:58:00.880 long haul work it is you all know, it is 1:58:00.960 --> 1:58:03.880 the day to day organizing and the work that day 1:58:03.920 --> 1:58:07.040 to day organizers do that often we don't see, right 1:58:07.400 --> 1:58:10.640 that actually builds our democracy. And what we understand is 1:58:10.680 --> 1:58:13.320 that elections happen state by state and even further county 1:58:13.360 --> 1:58:17.080 by county. And so if anybody is talking about movement building, 1:58:17.440 --> 1:58:21.040 but they're not talking about building county by county infrastructure 1:58:21.360 --> 1:58:25.200 that could support activists, could actually do leadership development, so 1:58:25.280 --> 1:58:28.640 they develop skills. Maybe they first start off canvassing and 1:58:28.760 --> 1:58:31.240 then in another cycle they're actually running a campaign, and 1:58:31.280 --> 1:58:33.840 then they become a candidate. Right then, I don't know 1:58:33.880 --> 1:58:36.320 what you're talking about, right if you're talking only at 1:58:36.320 --> 1:58:38.960 the top of the ticket and you're not recruiting candidates 1:58:39.000 --> 1:58:41.960 to run on the municipal level and then eventually on 1:58:42.080 --> 1:58:44.720 the legislative level, and then ultimately, like we saw our 1:58:44.840 --> 1:58:49.080 sister Summerly who came from governing on the legislative level 1:58:49.200 --> 1:58:51.879 in the state legislature and then moved up to Congress. 1:58:52.000 --> 1:58:56.080 And I'm proud to call Summerly a WFP endorse candidate. 1:58:56.760 --> 1:59:00.320 That type of work is how you build that infrastructure. 1:59:00.320 --> 1:59:03.920 I'll give you another example, right, Brandon Johnson. I remember 1:59:03.920 --> 1:59:08.080 Brandon Johnson when he was a educator and your union organizer, 1:59:08.400 --> 1:59:10.360 and we have the honor to support him so that 1:59:10.480 --> 1:59:14.040 he could become the Cook County, the Cook County Permission Commissioner. 1:59:14.200 --> 1:59:14.320 Right. 1:59:14.760 --> 1:59:17.400 It took five years of him governing on that level 1:59:17.800 --> 1:59:21.560 before he was able to build the infrastructure and build 1:59:21.640 --> 1:59:23.640 the movement so that he could become the mayor of 1:59:23.640 --> 1:59:25.120 the third largest city in America. 1:59:25.440 --> 1:59:25.600 Right. 1:59:25.800 --> 1:59:28.000 So we have to have that long arc view of 1:59:28.080 --> 1:59:34.240 building power and it means getting organizations, grassroots organizations, labor organizations, 1:59:34.320 --> 1:59:37.120 activists in a shared political commitment. 1:59:36.760 --> 1:59:38.520 And have a north star, know where you're going. 1:59:38.840 --> 1:59:38.960 Right. 1:59:39.040 --> 1:59:42.200 It's not simply about getting people elected. Again, that's not 1:59:42.320 --> 1:59:45.560 the prize. The prize is actually being able to use 1:59:45.720 --> 1:59:48.080 governing power to deliver for our people. 1:59:48.440 --> 1:59:48.560 Right. 1:59:48.640 --> 1:59:51.440 And I want everybody to really consider, especially when we're 1:59:51.480 --> 1:59:55.040 looking at November, this is a binary choice the Project 1:59:55.080 --> 1:59:58.040 twenty twenty five agenda, because elections are about the future 1:59:58.400 --> 2:00:02.200 and elections are about a governing agenda. And then the alternative, 2:00:02.240 --> 2:00:06.600 the agenda that we could claim right and listen, politicians 2:00:06.680 --> 2:00:07.360 are who they are. 2:00:07.600 --> 2:00:09.400 It's not about putting faith in any. 2:00:09.280 --> 2:00:12.480 Politicians, even politicians that we might have an affinity for. 2:00:12.840 --> 2:00:16.280 It's about putting faith in our organization and our ability 2:00:16.320 --> 2:00:18.720 to organize once we get at the other end of 2:00:18.920 --> 2:00:21.880 an election, and that could only happen inside organization. 2:00:22.360 --> 2:00:24.520 Thank you all so much, justin I want you to 2:00:24.600 --> 2:00:26.600 I want to close with you and we I know 2:00:26.680 --> 2:00:29.360 we have to get you out to the dinner. Why 2:00:29.520 --> 2:00:32.880 is it important for young black folks to run for 2:00:33.040 --> 2:00:34.240 state and local office? 2:00:35.600 --> 2:00:38.480 So before I was elected, I was arrested eighteen times 2:00:38.600 --> 2:00:39.960 and I was banned from the state capitol, which is 2:00:40.000 --> 2:00:41.840 what led me to run. So the same troopers who 2:00:41.880 --> 2:00:43.240 went to court and lied on me had to hold 2:00:43.240 --> 2:00:46.440 the door and say welcome representative to your office, and 2:00:46.840 --> 2:00:48.640 at each other charge were this missed? And so it's 2:00:48.640 --> 2:00:50.560 important for us to run because, as Sana lou Hammer said, 2:00:50.600 --> 2:00:52.640 move on over, and we'll move on over you because 2:00:52.680 --> 2:00:53.600 we're moving on over. 2:00:53.640 --> 2:00:55.240 And so we must reclaim these seats. 2:00:55.280 --> 2:00:55.400 You know. 2:00:55.480 --> 2:00:58.000 My first week in the legislature, State Senator Jack Johnson, 2:00:58.000 --> 2:00:59.760 the Republican majority leader was on the elevator with me, 2:01:00.040 --> 2:01:01.920 and his welcome to me was saying, Jones, I just 2:01:01.960 --> 2:01:04.120 want you to know that you're worthless and you're not 2:01:04.120 --> 2:01:04.840 supposed to be here. 2:01:05.480 --> 2:01:07.440 And at that time I was shocked. I didn't respond 2:01:07.440 --> 2:01:07.680 to him. 2:01:07.720 --> 2:01:10.520 But actually, in hindsight, I have appreciation for Senda Johnson 2:01:10.760 --> 2:01:12.320 because he gave me clarity that I'm not there to 2:01:12.360 --> 2:01:13.240 make friends with these people. 2:01:13.440 --> 2:01:14.920 I'm there to make change for my district. 2:01:15.160 --> 2:01:16.880 And that's why I show up to committee every day 2:01:17.120 --> 2:01:20.200 about business because what we're facing as serious that they 2:01:20.240 --> 2:01:22.480 are using this our state as a laboratory to test 2:01:22.520 --> 2:01:24.040 out these horrible policies that they're going to try and 2:01:24.040 --> 2:01:24.920 spread across the nation. 2:01:25.240 --> 2:01:27.320 We're the state three seven to eight the most incorporated 2:01:27.320 --> 2:01:28.240 is zip code in the nation. 2:01:28.640 --> 2:01:30.640 We're a state that you know, again, twenty percent of 2:01:30.680 --> 2:01:32.360 black folks cannot vote, and so it's important for us 2:01:32.360 --> 2:01:34.520 as young black people to run because we can represent 2:01:34.560 --> 2:01:36.320 a new vision what a state like Tennessee can be. 2:01:36.360 --> 2:01:38.240 The birthplace of the Klan is also the birthplace of 2:01:38.240 --> 2:01:40.440 the Nashville student movement, where young people like Diane Nash 2:01:40.480 --> 2:01:42.600 and John Lewis rose up against him Crow and it's 2:01:42.640 --> 2:01:44.600 our time again, and so you know, I have so 2:01:44.720 --> 2:01:46.800 much hope and I'm excited about this election. So we're 2:01:46.800 --> 2:01:48.920 trying to gain ten seats in our state legislature to 2:01:48.960 --> 2:01:51.400 break the Republicans supermajority so they can't expel us again, 2:01:51.560 --> 2:01:53.600 so they can't cut off our microphones again. But if 2:01:53.640 --> 2:01:56.080 they do, we always stay ready with a megaphone because 2:01:56.080 --> 2:01:57.480 we're not going to allow them the silence the voices 2:01:57.520 --> 2:02:00.640 of our constituents. Because what we're we represent moral clarity, 2:02:00.720 --> 2:02:03.920 we represent boldness, and we represent urgency in these policies 2:02:03.920 --> 2:02:05.520 when we look at the crises of our democracy, the 2:02:05.560 --> 2:02:08.200 crisis of white supremacy, the crises of our economy, and 2:02:08.280 --> 2:02:11.040 we must fight with everything we have because when history 2:02:11.080 --> 2:02:12.320 looks down on this moment, I want to say that 2:02:12.360 --> 2:02:13.200 we were on the right side. 2:02:13.080 --> 2:02:15.840 Of history and that we stood on what we needed 2:02:15.880 --> 2:02:16.960 to for future generations. 2:02:17.320 --> 2:02:19.360 I'm so grateful for you all. Thank you all for 2:02:19.480 --> 2:02:20.680 joining Native Lampid. 2:02:20.720 --> 2:02:23.240 We are so so thankful, and I mean, I wish 2:02:23.280 --> 2:02:25.200 we could just let that be the benediction, but what 2:02:25.320 --> 2:02:27.720 the show has to go on, But we definitely want 2:02:27.800 --> 2:02:29.320 both of you all back, and if we got to 2:02:29.440 --> 2:02:32.040 We'll be in Tennessee right with you with a bullhorn. 2:02:31.680 --> 2:02:34.080 And thank you so much, thank you, thank you so much. 2:02:34.240 --> 2:02:36.040 Tom cousin Angela says, come on, you know, I come on. 2:02:37.160 --> 2:02:39.680 It's my honor, it is my highest honor. Andrew been 2:02:39.760 --> 2:02:41.880 greeting everybody on our behalf. That's a hug and a 2:02:41.920 --> 2:02:44.040 handshake from all of us. At this time, we have 2:02:44.200 --> 2:02:47.440 the great privilege and honor of being joined by our 2:02:47.480 --> 2:02:51.760 dear sister Alexis mcgil johnson, who of course is the 2:02:51.880 --> 2:02:56.920 president of Planned Parenthood America, and she's greeting these wonderful 2:02:56.960 --> 2:02:57.520 gentlemen too. 2:02:58.680 --> 2:03:00.000 No, you're don't run. 2:03:00.200 --> 2:03:03.000 Right, You're like, come on down, it's giving prices, right, 2:03:03.480 --> 2:03:04.360 you look beautiful. 2:03:04.440 --> 2:03:06.280 Alexis so excited to me. 2:03:06.360 --> 2:03:08.720 It's obviously a very busy year when it comes to 2:03:08.840 --> 2:03:12.080 repro justice, and so I know, miss Alexis mcgil johnson 2:03:12.160 --> 2:03:14.800 has been running criss crossing the country's standing on the 2:03:14.840 --> 2:03:18.080 front lines on behalf of women, but honestly, everybody is. 2:03:18.120 --> 2:03:20.200 It's not an issue that just impacts women and impacts 2:03:20.240 --> 2:03:20.640 all of us. 2:03:20.680 --> 2:03:21.680 So thank you for your work. 2:03:21.960 --> 2:03:23.920 Thank you. I'm so honored to be here with family. 2:03:24.040 --> 2:03:27.680 Thank you, thank you. Alexis, So we were just mentioning Andrew. 2:03:27.680 --> 2:03:30.000 I'm sorry, you know, I can't hardly hear you. I 2:03:30.080 --> 2:03:31.120 meant to say that a long time. 2:03:32.760 --> 2:03:36.200 Say yeah, but maybe maybe I'll look this way too. 2:03:36.320 --> 2:03:37.920 Is that better when I do this? Is that better? 2:03:38.040 --> 2:03:38.400 I hear you? 2:03:38.480 --> 2:03:38.720 Fine? 2:03:38.760 --> 2:03:40.840 Okay, well, Andrew, hopefully you can hear me, and you're 2:03:40.840 --> 2:03:42.320 not struggling a much as I'm struggling to hear you. 2:03:42.360 --> 2:03:45.480 But I was gonna say, Alexis, we've been talking about 2:03:45.520 --> 2:03:47.920 the fact that there really are fifty one days left. 2:03:48.600 --> 2:03:51.360 What what marching orders do you have for the folks 2:03:51.440 --> 2:03:54.200 at home watching for us sitting at this desk with 2:03:54.320 --> 2:03:56.640 you as we welcome our listeners and our audience home. 2:03:56.720 --> 2:03:59.400 What should we be focused on in this final stretch. 2:04:00.120 --> 2:04:02.800 So I want people to be focused not on polls, 2:04:03.680 --> 2:04:06.440 not on time, not on even the fifty days. I 2:04:06.520 --> 2:04:09.160 want them to be focused on every single conversation they're 2:04:09.200 --> 2:04:12.040 going to have from now until November fifth. I want 2:04:12.080 --> 2:04:14.919 them to make sure that everyone they know is registered 2:04:14.920 --> 2:04:17.800 to vote. I want them to understand that freedom is 2:04:17.960 --> 2:04:20.960 on the ballot. I want them to understand if they 2:04:21.040 --> 2:04:24.160 don't vote now, they may not get to vote again. 2:04:24.720 --> 2:04:27.800 That has to be the single most important message. Because 2:04:27.880 --> 2:04:30.120 our bodies are on the ballot, our freedoms are on 2:04:30.200 --> 2:04:33.080 the ballot, and everywhere I turn, I have to say, 2:04:33.920 --> 2:04:37.440 the energy has turned up, right, it's turned up. 2:04:37.400 --> 2:04:37.840 In a way. 2:04:39.320 --> 2:04:42.160 I don't know that we felt this in a minute, 2:04:42.400 --> 2:04:43.440 right in a minute. 2:04:43.600 --> 2:04:46.240 And we've been doing this game, all four of us, right, 2:04:46.280 --> 2:04:47.920 so I've known all of you all and all your 2:04:47.960 --> 2:04:52.800 different iterations of organizing, including mine. I don't know that 2:04:53.000 --> 2:04:57.880 I felt the kind of multi generational, the multiracial, the 2:04:58.120 --> 2:05:03.800 feminist democracy build the realignment that's happening that we actually 2:05:03.840 --> 2:05:04.640 are in charge of. 2:05:05.160 --> 2:05:06.560 And I want people to understand that. 2:05:07.040 --> 2:05:08.440 This is our time to do that now. 2:05:09.600 --> 2:05:13.200 It almost would have felt draconian to hear the comments 2:05:13.280 --> 2:05:15.240 around if you don't vote this time, you may never 2:05:15.400 --> 2:05:17.640 have the opportunity to again. And then you sit for 2:05:17.720 --> 2:05:21.440 a moment and realize the Republicans, in what shenanigans they've 2:05:21.440 --> 2:05:25.040 been involved in since they got power, can't lead. But 2:05:25.160 --> 2:05:28.800 since they got power, and you realize, with the Supreme 2:05:28.880 --> 2:05:32.800 Court declaring a king again, that anything is possible. And 2:05:32.880 --> 2:05:36.200 I just wonder, as you make your rounds around the states, 2:05:36.360 --> 2:05:39.600 are there particular places. I know the country's on fire, 2:05:40.040 --> 2:05:44.280 but other particular places that raise significant alarm bells as 2:05:44.360 --> 2:05:49.080 it relates to bodily autonomy, as it relates to frankly, 2:05:49.160 --> 2:05:52.520 people of color finding themselves on the margin of real 2:05:52.640 --> 2:05:55.520 health crisis personally for not being able to have access 2:05:55.680 --> 2:05:58.240 to making their own reproductive health decisions. 2:05:58.240 --> 2:06:00.000 Well, look, absolutely, Look, we are living in a world 2:06:00.000 --> 2:06:02.760 world right now where twenty two states have put bands 2:06:02.880 --> 2:06:07.360 on our bodies, right where they have eliminated restricted access 2:06:07.480 --> 2:06:13.040 to abortion in those states. That affects forty three percent 2:06:13.120 --> 2:06:15.680 of all women. It affects more than half of all 2:06:15.760 --> 2:06:18.320 black women. So we have to be clear that that 2:06:18.400 --> 2:06:19.920 when I say our bodies are on the ballot, they're 2:06:19.960 --> 2:06:22.720 literally on the ballot across the country. And while we 2:06:22.800 --> 2:06:25.080 can look at the maps and say this is the 2:06:25.160 --> 2:06:27.520 presidential this is what you need to do for the Senate, 2:06:27.560 --> 2:06:29.760 this which you to the House, like literally all across 2:06:29.880 --> 2:06:32.840 the country, our bodies are on the ballot. But part 2:06:32.920 --> 2:06:34.560 of what I'm saying is like I think about what's 2:06:34.560 --> 2:06:37.440 happening in Florida right now, just last week or this week. 2:06:37.480 --> 2:06:40.960 I can't remember this week, Governor DeSantis. So there's a 2:06:41.080 --> 2:06:45.560 really critical ballot initiative in Florida. Florida is one of 2:06:45.640 --> 2:06:48.800 the most important states in the South for reproductive freedom. 2:06:49.440 --> 2:06:53.440 Florida has enacted a six week band before many people 2:06:53.560 --> 2:06:57.440 even know that they are pregnant, and so Floridians, to 2:06:57.560 --> 2:07:00.320 protect reproductive freedom have put a ballot in ah have 2:07:00.440 --> 2:07:03.480 on in order to protect their you know, to get 2:07:03.520 --> 2:07:08.680 a constitutional right. Governor DeSantis decided he was going to 2:07:08.760 --> 2:07:11.000 get his election police. 2:07:11.280 --> 2:07:12.640 I didn't even know that was a division. 2:07:13.040 --> 2:07:13.240 Yeah. 2:07:13.280 --> 2:07:15.640 They started with black folks going to their doorstep ar 2:07:15.640 --> 2:07:16.080 wrestling them. 2:07:16.160 --> 2:07:16.360 Yah. 2:07:16.520 --> 2:07:21.240 Yeah, an election police to go and all of all 2:07:21.320 --> 2:07:25.080 of the good people who signed a petition finding out 2:07:25.120 --> 2:07:28.360 where they are. They're looking at their address, going up 2:07:28.440 --> 2:07:29.560 to their doors. 2:07:29.320 --> 2:07:30.280 And knock, knock, knock. 2:07:31.200 --> 2:07:32.360 That's right, right, that's right. 2:07:32.520 --> 2:07:35.720 Hello Angela Ryan, did you sign that petition? Crazy? 2:07:35.880 --> 2:07:36.200 That's right? 2:07:36.360 --> 2:07:36.480 Right? 2:07:37.160 --> 2:07:40.000 Like I need to talk to you and then to intimidate, 2:07:40.080 --> 2:07:42.360 like if that is not an example of voter intimidation, 2:07:42.560 --> 2:07:46.000 an example of how protecting your own body becomes a 2:07:46.480 --> 2:07:49.680 way to understand how you need to protect your own democracy. 2:07:50.000 --> 2:07:50.800 I don't know what that is. 2:07:51.160 --> 2:07:53.960 Yeah, yeah, anything is possible. 2:07:53.840 --> 2:07:56.320 Yeah, exactly. I always say I don't really. 2:07:56.480 --> 2:08:00.440 There's always polling about how many people support aborische rights, 2:08:00.480 --> 2:08:02.720 and I always say, I don't give a damn how 2:08:02.760 --> 2:08:05.640 many people support or it is up to us as 2:08:05.640 --> 2:08:08.640 an individual if you are not the person in the situation, I. 2:08:08.640 --> 2:08:11.960 Don't want anyone weighing in on what I do with 2:08:12.160 --> 2:08:12.680 my body. 2:08:12.920 --> 2:08:17.560 But even beyond reproductive justice and actions, it is just 2:08:17.640 --> 2:08:21.879 the health, the actual health of women, and also more importantly, 2:08:22.160 --> 2:08:24.280 the health of children. I saw this as a meme, 2:08:24.280 --> 2:08:27.080 and I don't mean to be insensitive to anything that happened, 2:08:27.120 --> 2:08:33.760 But when Donald Trump lied about babies being aborted right 2:08:34.680 --> 2:08:39.280 post birth, someone posted a school shooting and said, this 2:08:39.400 --> 2:08:42.600 is what it looks like when babies are aborted after birth. 2:08:42.920 --> 2:08:43.800 And it's so true. 2:08:43.960 --> 2:08:47.640 If you care so much for children, care for actual children, 2:08:48.040 --> 2:08:51.080 do something about these school shootings, and stay the F 2:08:51.160 --> 2:08:53.640 word out of my uterus. You know, that's the bottom 2:08:53.720 --> 2:08:55.800 line to all these elections. I didn't have a question. 2:08:55.920 --> 2:09:00.800 That was my comment. I yield the Florida from the way. No, 2:09:00.920 --> 2:09:01.680 But I think that's right. 2:09:01.720 --> 2:09:02.960 I mean, I think is like, there are all these 2:09:02.960 --> 2:09:04.920 people who are out there in the vein of like 2:09:05.200 --> 2:09:07.360 pro life as their banner, but like, no, you're really 2:09:07.480 --> 2:09:09.760 just pro birth because once we're here, right, what are 2:09:09.800 --> 2:09:10.640 you actually doing? 2:09:11.000 --> 2:09:14.440 Are they Robb looking on the maternal health disparacy. 2:09:14.120 --> 2:09:18.000 Maternal mentality, look at info mentality exactly exactly in the 2:09:18.080 --> 2:09:20.440 same states that a band abortion same stands as the 2:09:20.520 --> 2:09:23.640 highest maternal mortality rates, the highest infomortality rates. 2:09:23.880 --> 2:09:26.200 So clearly, you're not doing anything to save us. 2:09:26.280 --> 2:09:28.720 And they're also, by the way, the same states that 2:09:28.840 --> 2:09:33.040 have declined billions of dollars of healthcare under the ACA 2:09:33.760 --> 2:09:36.880 right so much, so much resource that could be going 2:09:36.960 --> 2:09:39.720 to actually saving communities. And they're like, no, we're okay, 2:09:40.040 --> 2:09:40.560 We're willing to. 2:09:40.600 --> 2:09:41.120 Let all of you go. 2:09:41.360 --> 2:09:42.680 I know we've got to push soon. 2:09:42.760 --> 2:09:45.000 But I wanted to ask you, as we look prospectively 2:09:45.440 --> 2:09:49.640 toward the future beyond November fifth, assuming it goes the 2:09:49.720 --> 2:09:52.720 way we all will work and want it to. On 2:09:52.880 --> 2:09:55.160 the reproductive health agenda, do you think there is a 2:09:55.320 --> 2:10:00.320 chance we can get codification through law the con grissy 2:10:00.480 --> 2:10:03.880 US House in the US Senate that hopefully precludes this 2:10:04.120 --> 2:10:05.240 mess from happening again. 2:10:05.800 --> 2:10:08.400 That is the whole ballgame, manager, right, It is all 2:10:08.480 --> 2:10:13.080 about getting a reproductive freedom majority. It is about ensuring 2:10:13.160 --> 2:10:16.240 that we have reproductive freedom champions up and down the ballot, 2:10:16.440 --> 2:10:18.600 because when we do, we have the opportunity to get 2:10:18.640 --> 2:10:23.160 federal legislation that will restore the protections of reproductive freedom. 2:10:23.640 --> 2:10:26.680 And so there should be no world where if you 2:10:26.800 --> 2:10:29.120 live in Florida or you live in Texas, that you 2:10:29.240 --> 2:10:32.480 don't have the same rights that you do in Washington, 2:10:32.600 --> 2:10:35.920 d C. And New York, in California and Illinois. Right, 2:10:36.040 --> 2:10:38.000 And what we have right now is a buifer Kida 2:10:38.080 --> 2:10:41.120 system where if you were born in a certain zip code, you. 2:10:41.320 --> 2:10:42.920 Are being held hostage. 2:10:43.520 --> 2:10:46.760 You can't necessarily even travel out of state, and you 2:10:46.880 --> 2:10:51.480 may be forced into pregnancy. So many politicians at cycle 2:10:51.560 --> 2:10:55.040 are talking about things like exceptions. Right, They're saying like, oh, 2:10:55.120 --> 2:10:58.760 I support reproductive freedom, or I don't support it, but 2:10:58.840 --> 2:11:00.760 I will in these certain so circumstances. 2:11:01.280 --> 2:11:03.160 Just look at the matters of rape and incest. 2:11:04.880 --> 2:11:10.360 There were twenty six thousand episodes examples of rape and 2:11:10.400 --> 2:11:15.200 incests in Texas alone, forty pregnant thousand, twenty six thousand 2:11:15.800 --> 2:11:20.919 of forced pregnancies due to rape and incests sixty thousand overall, 2:11:21.240 --> 2:11:23.480 but a third actually happened in Texas. 2:11:24.000 --> 2:11:26.720 Wow, So when you talk about free states and non 2:11:26.800 --> 2:11:27.440 free states. 2:11:27.800 --> 2:11:29.280 Right, that's true, and so. 2:11:30.760 --> 2:11:34.320 Does Sator Crew and A. G. Paxton. 2:11:34.880 --> 2:11:37.400 So, like, literally, what we are fighting for is to 2:11:37.560 --> 2:11:41.120 ensure that wherever you live, you get access to the 2:11:41.200 --> 2:11:42.200 healthcare you need. 2:11:42.320 --> 2:11:44.320 And that should just be a fundamental American right. 2:11:44.760 --> 2:11:47.840 While we've been sitting here, a former Congressman Ed Towns 2:11:48.040 --> 2:11:48.600 just walked by. 2:11:49.160 --> 2:11:51.200 I was just waving at you, Congressman. Good to see you. 2:11:53.520 --> 2:11:57.400 Absolutely, I want to thank you, alexis not only for 2:11:57.520 --> 2:11:59.280 your advocacy that you fight. 2:11:59.440 --> 2:12:01.280 You're fighting every day the fights we know about, the 2:12:01.320 --> 2:12:03.720 fights we do not. We thank you. And I also 2:12:03.880 --> 2:12:06.240 want to especially thank you for being a partner of 2:12:06.360 --> 2:12:10.360 this podcast. You are we just are. We thank God 2:12:10.440 --> 2:12:12.080 for you, and we thank God we've known you for 2:12:12.160 --> 2:12:13.000 a very long time. 2:12:13.120 --> 2:12:14.920 We have known each other for a very long time. 2:12:15.000 --> 2:12:17.919 And I just want to say, with the moment of privilege, 2:12:18.000 --> 2:12:20.000 how proud I am of all of you all for 2:12:20.200 --> 2:12:24.960 like you know, misinformation is such a real challenge in 2:12:25.040 --> 2:12:28.440 a world where we can't control the way information is disseminated, 2:12:29.040 --> 2:12:31.040 and the way you show up every day and you 2:12:31.200 --> 2:12:35.160 break it down flawlessly and brilliantly, and and just to 2:12:35.280 --> 2:12:37.080 the point and make it plain for the people. Like 2:12:37.240 --> 2:12:40.080 That's what gives me so much joy because I know 2:12:40.360 --> 2:12:43.240 I can trust everything I'm hearing from you, because I know. 2:12:43.320 --> 2:12:43.960 You've lived it. 2:12:44.400 --> 2:12:46.880 It's your experience. You know it because you. 2:12:46.920 --> 2:12:49.360 Can find it out. And you're all brilliant and what 2:12:49.440 --> 2:12:49.600 you do. 2:12:49.800 --> 2:12:50.880 So thank you, appreciating you. 2:12:51.400 --> 2:12:51.920 We love you. 2:12:52.000 --> 2:12:54.000 You look amazing. Enjoy the dinner. 2:12:54.120 --> 2:12:58.320 We're almost We're all else on our way to dinner. 2:13:10.000 --> 2:13:13.480 Somebody failed Jesus Andrews does knock somebody else, it sounded 2:13:13.560 --> 2:13:14.880 like it, but we are being joined. 2:13:15.080 --> 2:13:18.640 So we've got a whole Brothers panel right now. We 2:13:18.800 --> 2:13:21.560 have I was gonna say congresson that's we said. 2:13:21.640 --> 2:13:25.680 We have Garrison Hayes, who's a video correspondent for Mother Hayes. 2:13:25.880 --> 2:13:29.160 We have Chris Ray, who is the international president of 2:13:29.360 --> 2:13:32.280 five Beta Sigma. You see him dapper in that blue 2:13:32.320 --> 2:13:36.160 and he's also the president of the Divine Nine Council 2:13:36.280 --> 2:13:39.520 of Presidents. Also, I don't know why Andrew is the 2:13:39.560 --> 2:13:42.040 Welcome Committee. He can't do it on my life's so pressure. 2:13:42.440 --> 2:13:48.440 Like he can see he doesn't care. He he has 2:13:48.520 --> 2:13:50.440 no idea what I said. He wants to be the 2:13:50.480 --> 2:13:53.200 Welcome Committee, the Goodbye Committee, the Hello Committee. 2:13:53.280 --> 2:13:55.480 I'm not listening to you committee anyway. 2:13:55.560 --> 2:13:59.480 Last, but certainly not least, in my introductions, doctor Wes Bellamy, 2:13:59.560 --> 2:14:02.800 who is the Public policy chair for one hundred Black Men. 2:14:02.960 --> 2:14:06.760 He brings his students here to this conference every single year. 2:14:08.000 --> 2:14:10.160 I have the great honor of being an EP on 2:14:10.320 --> 2:14:12.840 his documentary more than a statue, and he's here, of 2:14:12.920 --> 2:14:14.360 course with a kin take clock bow. 2:14:15.560 --> 2:14:15.920 I love you. 2:14:18.480 --> 2:14:20.560 If you guys are doing better, even better than how 2:14:20.640 --> 2:14:22.720 you look, So tell us about what's going on. Man, 2:14:23.600 --> 2:14:27.840 get close to the us. Get close before Yeah, we did, 2:14:28.080 --> 2:14:30.160 you did. We were all there comedy. 2:14:31.280 --> 2:14:34.480 Talking about and should introduce him to mister President now 2:14:34.560 --> 2:14:36.600 that he's back and he knows that we actually did 2:14:36.680 --> 2:14:37.640 our black jobs. 2:14:37.800 --> 2:14:40.640 You have to bet and before you leave, we have 2:14:40.760 --> 2:14:43.640 to get a photo because my brother, I will be remiss. 2:14:43.720 --> 2:14:46.160 My brother is a proud member of five Beta Sigma 2:14:46.240 --> 2:14:49.960 Fraternity Incorporated, plays at Georgia Said University. 2:14:50.680 --> 2:14:53.040 So yes, you and I have to get a photo 2:14:53.160 --> 2:14:54.760 so I can send this Listen. 2:14:55.480 --> 2:14:57.040 First of all, thank you all so much for the 2:14:57.080 --> 2:14:59.880 opportunity to hang out with you all. Right, then following 2:15:00.080 --> 2:15:02.400 you all love what you're doing for the culture, love 2:15:02.440 --> 2:15:05.680 the information that you're sharing. I get to do my 2:15:05.800 --> 2:15:09.640 black job, which is I'm the international President of five 2:15:09.680 --> 2:15:12.800 Et Sigma. I get to serve as the president, the 2:15:12.880 --> 2:15:15.640 twentieth president of Barba Scotia College, the. 2:15:15.680 --> 2:15:17.200 Home of Mary MacLeod Bethune. 2:15:18.280 --> 2:15:21.920 And now I am the chairman of the Council of President. 2:15:22.040 --> 2:15:25.240 He got a lot of jobs, a lot of black jobs. 2:15:24.960 --> 2:15:27.320 A lot of black leading literally but just doing the 2:15:27.440 --> 2:15:30.080 good work, doing the good work. And this man right 2:15:30.120 --> 2:15:33.240 here who has you know, who has been a big inspiration. 2:15:33.440 --> 2:15:36.280 I got caught up in this whole leadership chain when 2:15:36.320 --> 2:15:38.560 I had the opportunity service mayor of Spring Lake, North 2:15:38.600 --> 2:15:42.800 Carolina a few moons ago, and I was plucked out 2:15:42.960 --> 2:15:46.880 of this whole obscurity because of Andrew Gilliam and so 2:15:47.240 --> 2:15:49.160 just really glad that he was able to put me 2:15:49.440 --> 2:15:51.760 and connect me with a group of amazing young people 2:15:52.440 --> 2:15:54.320 who have now I've been able to grow up with 2:15:55.480 --> 2:15:55.960 in the fight. 2:15:56.200 --> 2:15:58.280 And they all still design their own outfits, so. 2:16:00.120 --> 2:16:01.160 Everything is purposeful. 2:16:01.200 --> 2:16:03.040 He let's be clear, Let's be clear. 2:16:03.880 --> 2:16:05.200 I'm super excited to be here. 2:16:05.280 --> 2:16:08.200 One man, you know, with respect to our dear brother 2:16:08.440 --> 2:16:12.560 Andrew but he's everybody's big brother, honestly, man, and the 2:16:12.680 --> 2:16:14.840 work and what you put in it is super appreciative. 2:16:14.880 --> 2:16:17.040 Tiffany, you know how much I admire you and thank 2:16:17.080 --> 2:16:19.280 you man. I love both of y'all. But I'm gonna 2:16:19.320 --> 2:16:24.720 not gonna lie. I love Angela and anybody messing with her, 2:16:24.720 --> 2:16:25.560 I'm gonna find them. 2:16:26.440 --> 2:16:27.240 We know. 2:16:32.520 --> 2:16:34.040 I was clear, but we'll see. 2:16:37.120 --> 2:16:37.280 Joe. 2:16:37.360 --> 2:16:38.720 Yeah, y'all can't let me and Wing win. 2:16:39.120 --> 2:16:41.040 But we really appreciate all the work and what you 2:16:41.120 --> 2:16:42.800 all do, and we're excited to talk about, you know, 2:16:42.840 --> 2:16:45.320 a lot of the collaborative work efforts that we have 2:16:45.480 --> 2:16:47.960 going on and not only getting brothers and sisters out 2:16:48.000 --> 2:16:49.879 the vote, but most importantly. 2:16:49.480 --> 2:16:51.880 Putting off for the culture. For these last fifty some 2:16:51.879 --> 2:16:53.520 of my days, it is Yeah. 2:16:53.600 --> 2:16:55.000 I mean, I'm really happy to be here as well. 2:16:55.040 --> 2:16:57.320 It's great to be on finally and make it happen. 2:16:57.680 --> 2:17:00.240 I mean, you guys are doing something really special in 2:17:00.440 --> 2:17:03.320 that I think black media has such a really important 2:17:03.360 --> 2:17:05.840 role right now, and so it's incredible to see your 2:17:05.879 --> 2:17:08.440 platform and the way you're using your platform is amazing. 2:17:09.240 --> 2:17:13.400 In my work, I'm covering black issues most consistently telling 2:17:13.520 --> 2:17:16.480 black stories about the way that we're utilizing our black 2:17:16.520 --> 2:17:19.600 political power. This year, I've been down in Atlanta talking 2:17:19.680 --> 2:17:22.600 to both voters and organizers on the ground, folks who 2:17:22.600 --> 2:17:26.080 are mobilizing in communities that are often left behind, and 2:17:26.360 --> 2:17:28.640 many of them are getting their information from platforms just 2:17:28.720 --> 2:17:29.080 like this one. 2:17:29.160 --> 2:17:30.320 So it's a real honor to be here. 2:17:30.480 --> 2:17:30.920 I love it. 2:17:31.120 --> 2:17:34.119 Thank you for your work bringing information to people. I'm 2:17:34.160 --> 2:17:36.160 happy to have these black men at the table because 2:17:36.200 --> 2:17:38.280 we've talked about this a little earlier in the show, 2:17:39.280 --> 2:17:44.240 and that is the manisphere and the comments coming from 2:17:44.280 --> 2:17:46.760 the manisphere, And I just wonder what you all might 2:17:46.920 --> 2:17:51.640 say to our good brothers out there who might be misinformed, misdirected, 2:17:51.879 --> 2:17:57.320 miseducated about what is at sake for this election. And 2:17:57.400 --> 2:18:01.600 I hear consistently from the manisphere about this agenda to 2:18:01.720 --> 2:18:05.520 drive a wedge between us and y'all know we love you, 2:18:05.840 --> 2:18:08.280 we can't we need Not only do we love you, 2:18:08.400 --> 2:18:12.360 but we need you. You are integral to our lives 2:18:12.400 --> 2:18:14.840 in our community. So what would you say out there 2:18:14.959 --> 2:18:16.480 the men who feel like, well, we left out of 2:18:16.520 --> 2:18:18.960 the conversation and this Black women this and this Black 2:18:19.000 --> 2:18:21.400 women always owe democrats and black men vote with Trump 2:18:21.440 --> 2:18:22.120 and what about me? 2:18:22.400 --> 2:18:24.520 What do y'all say to them? Well, always say do 2:18:24.600 --> 2:18:26.240 the voice one more time and what about me? 2:18:26.400 --> 2:18:35.720 And appreciate it. 2:18:37.120 --> 2:18:39.240 But nonetheless, so the one hundred black men we're a 2:18:39.280 --> 2:18:41.720 part of this twenty one city tour talking about real 2:18:41.800 --> 2:18:44.240 men vote, and to be candid, those are things in 2:18:44.280 --> 2:18:45.920 which when we go to these town halls, we hear 2:18:46.040 --> 2:18:48.320 some brothers say we feel left out. But I think 2:18:48.360 --> 2:18:50.080 what I would say to them is similar to what 2:18:50.160 --> 2:18:52.320 we say during the town halls is, brothers, we have 2:18:52.520 --> 2:18:55.320 to be one educated and informed on the issues. We 2:18:55.440 --> 2:18:57.400 know that there's a great deal of misinformation that is 2:18:57.480 --> 2:19:00.800 specifically targeted towards us. And if you look no further 2:19:00.879 --> 2:19:04.240 than the mother, the black mama that birthed you, her 2:19:04.360 --> 2:19:07.560 rights are under attacked. You're a black sister, your a 2:19:07.640 --> 2:19:10.080 black daughter, your black niece, your black cousin. You all 2:19:10.160 --> 2:19:12.760 just had alexus on their bodies and their ability to 2:19:12.840 --> 2:19:14.480 be able to do what they want to do is 2:19:14.600 --> 2:19:18.800 under attack. And candidly, what I'm often saying is currently 2:19:19.320 --> 2:19:22.440 we don't have the time to complain about what isn't 2:19:22.480 --> 2:19:25.320 happening or the wish that's being pushed between us to 2:19:25.760 --> 2:19:28.880 perceived wedge between us. What we have to do right 2:19:28.959 --> 2:19:31.200 now is what we have to do, which is be 2:19:31.480 --> 2:19:34.640 the true leaders of our communities, collaborate and work together, 2:19:34.879 --> 2:19:37.800 take care of our brothers and our sisters, and most importantly, 2:19:37.879 --> 2:19:41.320 show up. That's most important. Show up and do your 2:19:41.520 --> 2:19:43.520 job because you have an obligation to do so. 2:19:43.680 --> 2:19:46.440 Right now. I'm sorry I would have. 2:19:46.760 --> 2:19:48.199 Had a little snak on what you said. 2:19:48.840 --> 2:19:51.400 One of my favorite things about you is I saw 2:19:51.600 --> 2:19:56.120 your videos on TikTok, and you are constantly educating in 2:19:56.240 --> 2:19:59.720 spaces where people will get on completely unresearched, not saying much. 2:20:00.120 --> 2:20:02.640 Every video that I've seen from you, I've learned something. 2:20:03.000 --> 2:20:06.160 How are you utilizing that platform to kind of combat 2:20:06.280 --> 2:20:08.480 some of the misinformation that TOIVI started about making sure 2:20:08.520 --> 2:20:09.240 you're bringing. 2:20:09.000 --> 2:20:09.880 People in to be heard. 2:20:10.080 --> 2:20:12.000 Yeah, I mean, I think what's so important here is 2:20:12.040 --> 2:20:15.000 that we don't get to this moment without the things 2:20:15.040 --> 2:20:17.320 that came before it. Right, Like, we have to talk 2:20:17.360 --> 2:20:19.400 about the fact that we are at this very week 2:20:19.520 --> 2:20:23.080 is the thirtieth anniversary of the nineteen ninety four crime Bill. 2:20:23.520 --> 2:20:26.520 Black men are left out of the conversation. I just 2:20:26.640 --> 2:20:28.560 mentioned being in Atlanta. Just last week, I was in 2:20:28.600 --> 2:20:31.360 Atlanta talking to some young men and both of them 2:20:31.400 --> 2:20:34.520 had felony convictions. They can't vote, and so they have 2:20:34.760 --> 2:20:37.760 been taken out of this conversation in a way intentionally 2:20:37.800 --> 2:20:40.160 systematically right, And so we have to acknowledge that that 2:20:40.280 --> 2:20:42.840 there are structures in place that have led to this 2:20:43.000 --> 2:20:46.320 kind of disillusionment that we see. And at the same time, 2:20:46.400 --> 2:20:48.600 I love the mentorship. I love the messaging that we're 2:20:48.640 --> 2:20:51.360 hearing from our brothers here about we don't have time 2:20:51.440 --> 2:20:53.520 to really get caught up in that. Right, they're using 2:20:53.600 --> 2:20:57.359 our vulnerabilities against us as men, the misogyny and sexism 2:20:57.440 --> 2:20:59.840 that we're taught from birth, the ways that we're being 2:21:00.000 --> 2:21:02.320 condition to believe that women are inferior to us. They're 2:21:02.440 --> 2:21:06.200 using that against us to leverage our vote against us. 2:21:06.680 --> 2:21:08.200 And so much of what I try to do on 2:21:08.280 --> 2:21:12.200 my platform is that re education work, the work of 2:21:12.280 --> 2:21:16.200 really taking that history, taking the issues and reframing them, 2:21:16.240 --> 2:21:20.039 hopefully adding in some more information so that people understand 2:21:20.080 --> 2:21:22.080 things differently so that we can build a better future. 2:21:22.480 --> 2:21:23.160 And I think that's so. 2:21:23.560 --> 2:21:25.840 I think it's so important and often overlooked in this 2:21:25.920 --> 2:21:30.040 conversation because men are being educated by folks who do 2:21:30.240 --> 2:21:30.959 not have our. 2:21:30.920 --> 2:21:31.800 Best interest in mind. 2:21:31.840 --> 2:21:34.640 The last thing I'll say is, unfortunately, men are taking 2:21:34.680 --> 2:21:37.400 their own lives and we have to ask ourselves why. 2:21:37.879 --> 2:21:39.240 And a lot of it has to do with the 2:21:39.320 --> 2:21:42.760 pressure that we put on ourselves, and the manisphere is 2:21:42.879 --> 2:21:43.640 a part of that. 2:21:43.760 --> 2:21:46.480 They have blood on their hands and we have to. 2:21:46.520 --> 2:21:47.760 Call it that and say it that way. 2:21:47.959 --> 2:21:49.160 And this election is so important. 2:21:49.200 --> 2:21:51.520 I think that's such a thank you for that, for 2:21:52.120 --> 2:21:55.240 stating that the way you did. Anybody can answer this. 2:21:55.440 --> 2:21:58.800 I just wonder why out of that frustration, Because when 2:21:58.840 --> 2:22:00.680 our brothers are in pain, we hold. 2:22:00.560 --> 2:22:02.120 Your pain, we feel that pain. 2:22:02.160 --> 2:22:04.720 We too are in pain, and I think it's in 2:22:04.800 --> 2:22:08.960 our nature to love and to nurture. I wonder why 2:22:09.160 --> 2:22:12.160 out of that does it become that we, the black women, 2:22:12.480 --> 2:22:12.920 are your. 2:22:13.000 --> 2:22:14.720 Enemy, broken. 2:22:15.879 --> 2:22:18.400 And you're the closest to many of us are broken, 2:22:19.280 --> 2:22:23.000 and when what you don't realize is is that we 2:22:23.080 --> 2:22:26.600 are literally moving through life broken. 2:22:27.440 --> 2:22:28.600 And so here I am. 2:22:28.959 --> 2:22:32.280 I have been taught at a certain age how to 2:22:32.400 --> 2:22:34.760 carry myself or what I think a man should be, 2:22:35.280 --> 2:22:37.800 how I should move in this world, and then when 2:22:37.840 --> 2:22:41.720 there are individuals that see me not operate in that space, 2:22:42.520 --> 2:22:45.000 They criticize me, they tear me up. 2:22:45.040 --> 2:22:48.480 They it is literally death by a thousand cuts. 2:22:49.120 --> 2:22:51.360 So by the time I get to a space where 2:22:51.400 --> 2:22:55.280 it's time for me now to take a partner, I don't. 2:22:55.480 --> 2:23:00.280 I'm not even who I'm supposed to be. Broken and 2:23:00.440 --> 2:23:02.879 so and then and then you have the individuals who 2:23:02.920 --> 2:23:04.680 say to you you don't need to get any help. 2:23:05.560 --> 2:23:08.080 You know that's you know, you don't need any any 2:23:08.200 --> 2:23:10.960 support there? You know a real man, doesn't you know? 2:23:11.040 --> 2:23:12.880 You just suck it up. You know how many times 2:23:12.920 --> 2:23:15.480 I've heard that in my life, just suck it up. 2:23:16.080 --> 2:23:18.480 And here I am now. And so you wonder why 2:23:18.560 --> 2:23:21.280 as I moved through this space that I am not 2:23:21.760 --> 2:23:24.920 able to have the true conversation with my partner. I'm 2:23:24.959 --> 2:23:27.520 not able to really know how to navigate on my job. 2:23:27.600 --> 2:23:30.120 I don't know how to navigate in other relationships. And 2:23:30.200 --> 2:23:33.280 so the only time that I find an opportunity for 2:23:33.480 --> 2:23:37.280 me to really express myself is in this informal opportunities, 2:23:37.360 --> 2:23:40.000 informal time with my brothers where I'm just kicking it 2:23:40.400 --> 2:23:42.320 and you know, you're you're saying stuff like man, she 2:23:42.520 --> 2:23:46.000 tripping right, But really, what I'm saying is it's like, man, 2:23:46.040 --> 2:23:47.640 I don't know how to communicate to her. 2:23:48.240 --> 2:23:49.120 I don't know how to. 2:23:49.360 --> 2:23:51.560 Move in such a way to let her know that 2:23:51.640 --> 2:23:54.120 I'm care I don't know how to say I'm vulnerable. 2:23:54.280 --> 2:23:57.040 Oh my gosh, that word very rarely comes out of 2:23:57.080 --> 2:23:59.800 our mouth. And so by because being vulnerable as a 2:23:59.840 --> 2:24:02.240 man is absolutely not a part of the lexicon of 2:24:02.320 --> 2:24:02.840 being a man. 2:24:03.840 --> 2:24:08.320 Broken And I'll just say brokenness also has no monopoly 2:24:08.400 --> 2:24:12.440 on men. Brokenness applies across the board. And the reason 2:24:12.480 --> 2:24:15.160 why I think it's important to say it is because 2:24:15.200 --> 2:24:17.920 we're almost always it feels like we're looked at from 2:24:17.959 --> 2:24:21.240 the deficit perspective of what we're not bringing to the table, 2:24:22.200 --> 2:24:25.360 rather than what is here present that you've never seen 2:24:25.879 --> 2:24:30.040 exemplified anybody else but me, if we're being honest with 2:24:30.160 --> 2:24:33.240 each other. But I will say in y' all of 2:24:33.360 --> 2:24:36.240 y'all's comments that hit on this, that it is systematic 2:24:36.480 --> 2:24:41.280 that folks aren't waking up feeling broken. There are advertisers 2:24:41.320 --> 2:24:45.080 who put commercials on television between the most popular shows 2:24:45.240 --> 2:24:47.720 on tele that we're watching and others are watching, and 2:24:47.920 --> 2:24:50.960 never choose to take mental health as their mantle or 2:24:51.000 --> 2:24:53.640 their opportunity to say, you know what, this is in vogue, 2:24:54.680 --> 2:24:57.720 whatever the phrasing is, that communicates directly to us and 2:24:57.800 --> 2:25:00.120 a way that we can hear it. When you, when 2:25:00.160 --> 2:25:03.360 you consider black men taking on issues during this election 2:25:04.240 --> 2:25:07.440 supposedly not supportive of the black woman who's running for president, 2:25:08.120 --> 2:25:11.359 you are getting not just you United States of America, 2:25:11.440 --> 2:25:14.320 Republicans and conservatives coming at you in your inboxes, in 2:25:14.440 --> 2:25:17.600 your screen time and when you're trailing through trying to 2:25:17.600 --> 2:25:18.960 see what story you're going to read next. 2:25:19.440 --> 2:25:21.920 But you got China and you've got Russia. 2:25:22.720 --> 2:25:25.680 You're so powerful as an individual and as an entity 2:25:25.959 --> 2:25:28.680 that foreign nations have determined that you are the enemy 2:25:29.000 --> 2:25:32.560 and are not putting endless resources into making it true. Yes, 2:25:32.959 --> 2:25:35.840 so it isn't by accident. Is We're not stumbling into it. 2:25:36.000 --> 2:25:39.960 We're not broken and falling into it. We are targeted 2:25:40.840 --> 2:25:44.720 with significant resources to perform a certain way. 2:25:45.040 --> 2:25:46.920 But you said something also that I think is super 2:25:46.959 --> 2:25:51.080 important when you said the closest the proximity sifany like 2:25:51.080 --> 2:25:53.680 when when you see the closest proximity to the person 2:25:53.720 --> 2:25:56.400 that you know is oftentimes the person of what you harmed. 2:25:56.440 --> 2:26:00.000 If you're not healed, in some regard, so our sisters off. 2:26:00.080 --> 2:26:03.680 And catch the brunt of our brokenness man, because they 2:26:03.720 --> 2:26:05.440 are the closest to us, and we feel as if 2:26:05.680 --> 2:26:07.560 that's the only place in which we can try to 2:26:07.920 --> 2:26:11.640 be invoke some kind of superiority, which again is all systematic, 2:26:11.959 --> 2:26:13.720 you know, things in which we have to be intentional 2:26:14.040 --> 2:26:15.760 with breaking down. And I'm glad that we have in 2:26:15.800 --> 2:26:18.040 the platform the opportunity to be able to discuss this. 2:26:18.440 --> 2:26:20.200 You asked a question earlier to what would we say 2:26:20.240 --> 2:26:23.680 the black men first and foremost, You're valued, you're loved, 2:26:24.160 --> 2:26:28.560 you're supported, you're needed, you're necessary. But you also have 2:26:28.720 --> 2:26:30.800 to go out and vote in this election, or at 2:26:30.840 --> 2:26:34.080 a bare minimum, encourage everyone you can to do the 2:26:34.320 --> 2:26:36.640 right thing, because if you don't do the right thing 2:26:36.760 --> 2:26:39.240 in this instance, you may not have another chance to 2:26:39.360 --> 2:26:39.840 do anything. 2:26:40.240 --> 2:26:41.520 You're not going to have another chance. 2:26:41.760 --> 2:26:44.080 And you know, I remember there was an argument the 2:26:44.160 --> 2:26:45.600 one time I had with my wife, and she. 2:26:45.720 --> 2:26:51.320 Said, if you were on your job, would you talk 2:26:51.400 --> 2:26:55.920 to your supervisor your manager that way? No, you wouldn't 2:26:55.920 --> 2:26:59.760 because you're trying to protect your job. So why would 2:26:59.840 --> 2:27:03.280 you talk to me like that in our home where 2:27:03.400 --> 2:27:06.000 we are. You know, the president and CEO or where 2:27:06.040 --> 2:27:08.040 the you know, why would you do that to me 2:27:08.200 --> 2:27:14.160 here knowing that you wouldn't do that outside of this space, 2:27:14.320 --> 2:27:16.440 but you would do it in this space. And I 2:27:16.520 --> 2:27:18.959 had to check myself, you know, she had to check 2:27:19.040 --> 2:27:21.520 herself realizing that, you know, I'm not going to blow 2:27:21.600 --> 2:27:23.440 up on you here because I know that I'm going 2:27:23.480 --> 2:27:25.760 to be able to manage how I'm going to delete, delete, 2:27:25.800 --> 2:27:28.600 delete that email before I resend it, because I'm trying 2:27:28.600 --> 2:27:30.200 to protect the lifestyle that I have, So. 2:27:30.200 --> 2:27:32.320 Why would I not try to protect the lifestyle that 2:27:32.400 --> 2:27:32.680 I got. 2:27:32.760 --> 2:27:32.880 Now. 2:27:33.120 --> 2:27:35.199 One of the things that we're doing with the National 2:27:35.280 --> 2:27:39.519 Penalinic Council, specifically our fraternities, is we're having deep conversations 2:27:39.600 --> 2:27:42.800 with the fraternities, the five fraternities on how we're going 2:27:42.879 --> 2:27:45.320 to make sure that we are seriously engaged in this 2:27:45.480 --> 2:27:48.920 upcoming election cycle. Now next week, we're excited that we're 2:27:48.920 --> 2:27:51.440 going to be dropping a lot of information on how 2:27:51.520 --> 2:27:53.440 the National Penelonic Council is about to be a part 2:27:53.480 --> 2:27:57.360 of this process. We're not sitting on the sidelines. We're 2:27:57.360 --> 2:27:58.680 going to make sure that we're going to be an 2:27:58.680 --> 2:28:02.680 intricate part. Every single week, there's going to be something 2:28:02.800 --> 2:28:05.640 coming out from us about making sure the folks are 2:28:05.680 --> 2:28:06.320 getting to the poll. 2:28:06.400 --> 2:28:06.720 I love it. 2:28:06.800 --> 2:28:08.320 On November fifth, watch us work. 2:28:09.280 --> 2:28:11.640 This is amazing, so great. Thank you for that. 2:28:11.800 --> 2:28:15.000 What an amazing way to close out the show with 2:28:15.160 --> 2:28:19.160 words from black men and the openness and knowledge that 2:28:19.240 --> 2:28:22.040 you've armed the home viewing audience with. But also does 2:28:22.200 --> 2:28:25.640 us as your counterparts who are cheering you on and 2:28:25.760 --> 2:28:27.960 grateful to the roles that y'all play in our lives 2:28:28.000 --> 2:28:28.560 in our commune. 2:28:28.640 --> 2:28:29.960 We do see y'all, We do thank you. 2:28:30.040 --> 2:28:32.360 I do want to say his name one more time, 2:28:32.600 --> 2:28:35.280 Justin Robinson, who is the young man who was shot 2:28:35.320 --> 2:28:38.160 and killed by the police here in Washington, d C. 2:28:38.440 --> 2:28:40.480 Just days ago, And we want you all to know 2:28:40.600 --> 2:28:43.280 we stand with you, we're thinking of you, and we're 2:28:43.320 --> 2:28:45.320 absolutely going to talk to the CBC about what can 2:28:45.360 --> 2:28:47.160 be done on a federal level to prevent. 2:28:47.000 --> 2:28:49.440 These shootings to continue to happen. Thank you so much 2:28:49.480 --> 2:28:53.240 for doing it. Thank you brother. 2:28:53.879 --> 2:28:58.720 All up again, But we can't close the show. But 2:28:58.879 --> 2:29:02.840 if you were yelling at you As a perpetual politicians, 2:29:04.560 --> 2:29:06.039 they always want us to leave Andrew. 2:29:06.280 --> 2:29:08.720 Andrew thinks that we bully him, but really we get bullied. 2:29:11.200 --> 2:29:12.000 Thank you so much. 2:29:12.720 --> 2:29:15.160 I just I want to tell you, guys how much 2:29:15.240 --> 2:29:18.280 it means to me to be here with you all 2:29:18.400 --> 2:29:22.920 in this way. It is the fifty third Annual Legislative Conference. 2:29:23.000 --> 2:29:25.279 It is such a significant and historic occasion. 2:29:25.879 --> 2:29:25.959 Uh. 2:29:26.280 --> 2:29:28.640 This may be the very last time that President Joe 2:29:28.720 --> 2:29:33.320 Biden addresses a large audience before the election, and it 2:29:33.400 --> 2:29:37.080 may be the last time that Kamala Harris addresses this 2:29:37.240 --> 2:29:39.920 body in her role as vice president, and the next 2:29:39.959 --> 2:29:43.280 time maybe when she is president. So I'm looking forward 2:29:43.280 --> 2:29:45.240 to going to see the members, watch a walk across 2:29:45.280 --> 2:29:47.040 the stage, and just so y'all clear, that's gonna happen 2:29:47.080 --> 2:29:49.280 in about three minutes. I will leave y'all glasses right 2:29:49.320 --> 2:29:50.640 here and go see them. 2:29:50.840 --> 2:29:53.000 Okay, do you really want to leave? What you want 2:29:53.040 --> 2:29:53.560 us all to say? 2:29:53.600 --> 2:29:53.720 By? 2:29:53.959 --> 2:29:55.560 I would love for us I'll say by so we 2:29:55.600 --> 2:30:00.200 can all watch. All right, Thank you guys, and this 2:30:00.320 --> 2:30:03.720 is amazing. We will catch you when we're back on 2:30:04.200 --> 2:30:08.520 next Thursday, Monday. 2:30:09.080 --> 2:30:09.880 I didn't know. 2:30:10.280 --> 2:30:11.920 I'm not sure, but what I will say is I 2:30:11.959 --> 2:30:13.720 would love to have a break, but maybe not gonna 2:30:13.760 --> 2:30:15.400 let we know. 2:30:18.000 --> 2:30:19.600 We know because we recorded no. 2:30:19.760 --> 2:30:21.840 So we'll see y'all. The next NA Native Lampid. You'll 2:30:21.840 --> 2:30:24.600 see it's Thursday. Lo Is off camera yelling at us. 2:30:24.879 --> 2:30:27.920 Thursday is the next episode. 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I just want you'll know. 2:30:58.800 --> 2:30:59.840 She's always on the job. 2:31:02.560 --> 2:31:07.440 John Shout and Laura News who aren't here, we really 2:31:07.520 --> 2:31:07.760 thank you. 2:31:09.840 --> 2:31:10.120 Want to go. 2:31:10.200 --> 2:31:12.160 I just want to shout out our guests who came 2:31:12.200 --> 2:31:15.240 on tonight, because there are a lot of guests who 2:31:15.800 --> 2:31:19.440 make time for networks that don't look like us, who 2:31:19.520 --> 2:31:24.520 prioritize and networks, and these guests understood that we carry 2:31:24.640 --> 2:31:28.640 an audience who are interested in what we're talking about, 2:31:28.760 --> 2:31:31.520 but who are also motivated by our guests. 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