1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,640
Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership

2
00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,080
Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media.

3
00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:12,920
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

4
00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,520
Speaker 1: Home, everybody. This is a very special mini pod to us.

5
00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,200
Speaker 1: We had a Summit of Black Leadership that was the

6
00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,560
Speaker 1: culminating experience of the State of the People twenty four

7
00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,760
Speaker 1: hour marathon. To find out more about State of the People,

8
00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,960
Speaker 1: you can go to Stateofthepeople dot Media, but this last

9
00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,680
Speaker 1: three hours is a special gift from us to you

10
00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,640
Speaker 1: so you can hear what some of the brightest minds,

11
00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:39,880
Speaker 1: best organizers, most brilliant lawyers, elected officials, young people, elders,

12
00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,640
Speaker 1: and all across the spectrum have to say about where

13
00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,360
Speaker 1: we go from here, answering Doctor King's most critical question.

14
00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,040
Speaker 3: All right, now, as promised, we are going to turn

15
00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,639
Speaker 3: to a powerful talent hall meeting, and I promise you

16
00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,440
Speaker 3: what you are about to hear will be starkly different

17
00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,080
Speaker 3: and what you have been hearing from the Trump.

18
00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,240
Speaker 4: White House over these last few weeks. We are going

19
00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,759
Speaker 4: to be joined by Angela Raie, co host of the

20
00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,399
Speaker 4: Native Lamp podcast and we should say co creator along

21
00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,160
Speaker 4: with Joy Read of this trailblazing marathon that we've all

22
00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,080
Speaker 4: been putting on and there are many, many, many people

23
00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,600
Speaker 4: that you will not see who've been up and working

24
00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,920
Speaker 4: mighty long hours to keep this thing going. Also with

25
00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,560
Speaker 4: Angela is Roywood Junior. We all know him as one

26
00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,280
Speaker 4: of the most profound comedians and hosts of our time.

27
00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,000
Speaker 4: I'll turn it over to them and I'll join them

28
00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,040
Speaker 4: in a few minutes.

29
00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,039
Speaker 1: Good evening, everyone, Thank you so much for watching this

30
00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,040
Speaker 1: live stream. We are twenty one hours in and as

31
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,680
Speaker 1: we embark upon this twenty first hour, my co host

32
00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,240
Speaker 1: that I Roywood.

33
00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,240
Speaker 5: Junior, have a very very special guest.

34
00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,320
Speaker 1: He happens to have made black history and history all

35
00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,960
Speaker 1: of America as the first black governor of Maryland. His

36
00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,520
Speaker 1: name is Wes Moore and he joins us right now.

37
00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,440
Speaker 6: Good evening, Good sister, it's good to be with you. Angelaine.

38
00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,680
Speaker 7: Thank you, We love you, and we are so thankful

39
00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,840
Speaker 7: for you and your leadership and everything you continue to do.

40
00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,200
Speaker 7: And everybody else, I just want to say, not just

41
00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,919
Speaker 7: good evening, but but but thank you for continuing to

42
00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,560
Speaker 7: watch over us, continue to love us, continue to believe that,

43
00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,480
Speaker 7: and to continue to go.

44
00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,919
Speaker 5: So can I tell you some hearing about about your.

45
00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,600
Speaker 7: Time right now, uh in a place, in a space

46
00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,960
Speaker 7: where this is truly a celebration of us, when we

47
00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,920
Speaker 7: know the assault that so many of us and our

48
00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,120
Speaker 7: communities are feeling, when so much of the pain that

49
00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,200
Speaker 7: our communities are are are are inheriting right now. But

50
00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,560
Speaker 7: I want to say that even at a time when

51
00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,160
Speaker 7: we know the kind of pain that is being intentionally

52
00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,400
Speaker 7: infused upon each.

53
00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,800
Speaker 6: And every one of us from a federal government, even

54
00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:04,120
Speaker 6: at a.

55
00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,720
Speaker 7: Time when I know that I'm standing here as the

56
00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,680
Speaker 7: governor of the state of Maryland, where we have over

57
00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,720
Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty thousand federal employees in the state

58
00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,440
Speaker 7: of Maryland who right now are being questioned about the

59
00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,120
Speaker 7: value that they bring to our society. People who have

60
00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,000
Speaker 7: been working for Democratic and Republican administrations before, who were

61
00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 7: politics has never entered into the equation simply a love

62
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,120
Speaker 7: of people, and are now being told that the work

63
00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,960
Speaker 7: that they are doing to make sure that our grandparents

64
00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,360
Speaker 7: are getting the health care that they need, at a

65
00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,280
Speaker 7: time when you're people who are defending our country both

66
00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,400
Speaker 7: domestically and overseas, At a time when we have people

67
00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:49,000
Speaker 7: who every single day are ensuring that our communities are safe,

68
00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,680
Speaker 7: that our parks are open, that our homeland is protected,

69
00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,800
Speaker 7: who are now being told that they are adding to

70
00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,200
Speaker 7: inefficiency within our society at a time when we know

71
00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,920
Speaker 7: when we're watching proposals like cutting hundreds of billions of

72
00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:09,119
Speaker 7: dollars of cuts to things like medicaid, at a time

73
00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,120
Speaker 7: when we're watching basic freedoms.

74
00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,240
Speaker 6: And securities that we relied on and.

75
00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,720
Speaker 7: We believed in that are being challenged by people who

76
00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,120
Speaker 7: have done nothing, nothing to sacrifice, so on behalf of

77
00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,920
Speaker 7: this country themselves. I just want to say that I

78
00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,440
Speaker 7: continue to be uplifted about the place in the space

79
00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,159
Speaker 7: that I'm in right now that I'm speaking to you

80
00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,320
Speaker 7: from Annapolis. I'm speaking to you from a place from

81
00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,400
Speaker 7: the state of Maryland, that was literally the birthplace of

82
00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:41,240
Speaker 7: Frederick Douglass, that was literally the birthplace of Harriet Tubman,

83
00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,400
Speaker 7: that was the birthplace of Thurgood Marshall.

84
00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:46,600
Speaker 6: About the place in the space and I'm.

85
00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,960
Speaker 7: Standing here and coming here from Maryland, a place that

86
00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,560
Speaker 7: is a northernmost southern state, a place that had the

87
00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,120
Speaker 7: bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a place where the

88
00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,840
Speaker 7: Mason Dixon Line literally runs through my state. And I'm

89
00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,240
Speaker 7: standing here to say that we are all descendants of survivors.

90
00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,320
Speaker 6: We're all descendants of.

91
00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,280
Speaker 7: Those who came before us and saw the pain and

92
00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,799
Speaker 7: saw the brutality that our society can intentionally flint flicks

93
00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,440
Speaker 7: upon us. And they got up every morning and they said,

94
00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,240
Speaker 7: still I rise, Still I fight, Still I conquer, and

95
00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,120
Speaker 7: still I win. We are now just the most recent,

96
00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,400
Speaker 7: the most recent iteration of this journey. We do come

97
00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,000
Speaker 7: from the blood of Tubman. We do come from the

98
00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,080
Speaker 7: blood of Douglas. We do come from the blood of Shabaz,

99
00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,240
Speaker 7: we do come from the blood of Marshall. And just

100
00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,839
Speaker 7: like them, still I rise. And so even in the

101
00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,080
Speaker 7: times when it can feel darkest, hold on to that light,

102
00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,320
Speaker 7: hold on to each other, and know that in this time,

103
00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,640
Speaker 7: when we stand strong, and yes, when we mobilize, that

104
00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,880
Speaker 7: there is no weapon that has flowed against us that

105
00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,800
Speaker 7: shall prosper. We have been told, it is written, and yes,

106
00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,920
Speaker 7: that joy will come inside the morning. And so I'm

107
00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,600
Speaker 7: blessed to be with each and every one of you.

108
00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,839
Speaker 7: Thank you to Angela and to d and to and

109
00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,279
Speaker 7: to Roy and to everybody.

110
00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:13,520
Speaker 6: Who may tonight happen.

111
00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,320
Speaker 7: This, this was the fulfillment that we all needed tonight.

112
00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,000
Speaker 7: This is the entertainment that we all needed tonight. This

113
00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,000
Speaker 7: is the joy that we all need to feel to night.

114
00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:24,880
Speaker 7: And I'm here to say I will rock with you

115
00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,160
Speaker 7: tonight and tomorrow and always.

116
00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,080
Speaker 6: We love you, and God bless you and thank you.

117
00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,719
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Governor Wes Moore.

118
00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,599
Speaker 8: We are time for one question? Or does he have

119
00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:36,120
Speaker 8: to bounce?

120
00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:38,560
Speaker 6: I always got time.

121
00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,160
Speaker 8: One question. I'm not gonna ask you about the samurai,

122
00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,680
Speaker 8: so order on the wall the background. I know we

123
00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,040
Speaker 8: don't have time for that, Governor more.

124
00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,280
Speaker 6: You can ask about that one.

125
00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,600
Speaker 9: No, no, that's that's getting ready to get used.

126
00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,720
Speaker 8: You flipped, you flipped the Republican governor gibnatorial seed to

127
00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:02,040
Speaker 8: democratic as a can. What was one thing that you

128
00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,520
Speaker 8: were able to do to help connect with Republican voters

129
00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,320
Speaker 8: As I feel a little deeper into this administration, as

130
00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,920
Speaker 8: we get deeper into the first one hundred days, I

131
00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,600
Speaker 8: feel that some Republican voters are going to be a

132
00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,080
Speaker 8: little more pliable coming up on midterms. Is there any

133
00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,160
Speaker 8: one blanket thing or one piece of advice that you

134
00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:27,600
Speaker 8: could give people as we start engaging Republican voters kind

135
00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,200
Speaker 8: of see what's going on. It seemed like some from

136
00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,480
Speaker 8: the look at these town hall some they starting to

137
00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,320
Speaker 8: see what's happening.

138
00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:35,920
Speaker 6: No, they are, they are.

139
00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,280
Speaker 7: And you know, essent Sion Roy because I ended up

140
00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,520
Speaker 7: winning with more individual votes than anyone who'd ever run

141
00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,200
Speaker 7: for governor in the history of the state of Maryland.

142
00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,800
Speaker 7: And the reason I bring that up is because just mathematically,

143
00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,840
Speaker 7: you don't get that by just winning Democrats. We want democrats,

144
00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,160
Speaker 7: we won independence. We want a good chunk of Republicans.

145
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,560
Speaker 7: And I think the big thing was we had to

146
00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,240
Speaker 7: show up and we had to be able to make

147
00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,720
Speaker 7: our case to him. And I really do believe that

148
00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,040
Speaker 7: that one thing that we have seen is that you've

149
00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,960
Speaker 7: seen now Trump be master something. It's it's this idea

150
00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,480
Speaker 7: of telling people to be afraid of it and then

151
00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,000
Speaker 7: telling people who's to blame for it, Right, that is

152
00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:17,680
Speaker 7: the strategy.

153
00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,720
Speaker 6: That's the whole game. And it's rinse and repeat. It's

154
00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,560
Speaker 6: rinse and repeat.

155
00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,520
Speaker 7: It's either saying that the reason that my my my

156
00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,760
Speaker 7: daughter is not winning a state championship is because they're

157
00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,880
Speaker 7: allowing boys to play, the reason that my child is

158
00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,760
Speaker 7: not getting into college is because of affirmative action, the

159
00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,480
Speaker 7: reason that that that that my my son lost their

160
00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,840
Speaker 7: lost their job is because of DEI the reason, and

161
00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,120
Speaker 7: it's let's say it's a rinse and repeat model. But

162
00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,360
Speaker 7: here's the thing that I have found out that if

163
00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,680
Speaker 7: you are willing to go everywhere, and you're willing to

164
00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,439
Speaker 7: make your case, and you are willing to show up,

165
00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,000
Speaker 7: that you will be able to not just energize a base,

166
00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,160
Speaker 7: you're actually going to be able to enlarge it.

167
00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,520
Speaker 6: You're actually be able to bring more people on board.

168
00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,720
Speaker 7: And then you just have to go out there and

169
00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,840
Speaker 7: show that you know how to deliver results.

170
00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:04,440
Speaker 6: And I think that's the reason that I.

171
00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,480
Speaker 7: Think we've been able to We've been able to not

172
00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,240
Speaker 7: just get done, we'll be able to get done in

173
00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,360
Speaker 7: the state of Maryland. But I think we've been able

174
00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,160
Speaker 7: to keep keep the vast majority of people on our

175
00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,599
Speaker 7: side on it. But I think you've got to be

176
00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:16,559
Speaker 7: able to show up, and you've got to make the case,

177
00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,960
Speaker 7: and do not let someone else define yourself.

178
00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,960
Speaker 6: You go to find yourself, but let no one. Do

179
00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:23,800
Speaker 6: not give anyone else that power to go to find you.

180
00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I love it, Governor Wes Moore.

181
00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,679
Speaker 1: We are so grateful for your service, for your time,

182
00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,920
Speaker 1: and for your fight and what we know is a

183
00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,360
Speaker 1: very very difficult time.

184
00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,320
Speaker 5: Not just for our people, but are all people.

185
00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,280
Speaker 1: And that is why we are twenty one hours into

186
00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,800
Speaker 1: this marathon and we will continue to go.

187
00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,280
Speaker 5: We are not watching the lies on.

188
00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,079
Speaker 1: The state of the Union, but we will bring people

189
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,439
Speaker 1: into the knowledge of the truth here. So we wish

190
00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,480
Speaker 1: you well. We thank you so much for making time

191
00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:50,720
Speaker 1: for us tonight, and we will see.

192
00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,120
Speaker 6: You so God bless themily.

193
00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:53,120
Speaker 5: Thanks blessing you.

194
00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,400
Speaker 1: So Roy, I want to do something a little different

195
00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,079
Speaker 1: real quick. We have someone who is a.

196
00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,240
Speaker 5: Queen and a sister to us.

197
00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:06,319
Speaker 1: She said recently at Essence Black Women in Hollywood. She said,

198
00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,440
Speaker 1: I recently went through a little breakup. You may have

199
00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,720
Speaker 1: heard about it. So I want to bring Joy read

200
00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:15,319
Speaker 1: up really quick because she is Her name isn't just Joy.

201
00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:19,000
Speaker 1: She is joy. She is walking joy, She illuminates joy,

202
00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,160
Speaker 1: she loses joy, and she has been such a tremendous

203
00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,200
Speaker 1: treat for so many of us for so long. Joy,

204
00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,880
Speaker 1: you join us tonight in this in this time to

205
00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,080
Speaker 1: talk about the state of the people. We've been on

206
00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,320
Speaker 1: this marathon. We started together, and we in it together.

207
00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,800
Speaker 1: We started writing a lot of now here, and I

208
00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,440
Speaker 1: just want you to talk about from your own journey

209
00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,080
Speaker 1: from where you are right now. You're also embarking on

210
00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,520
Speaker 1: a new road in multiple ways, yes, in this country,

211
00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,200
Speaker 1: but also a media Where do we go from here?

212
00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:49,320
Speaker 5: Joy read Well.

213
00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,640
Speaker 10: First of all, it was so much fun to go

214
00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:53,800
Speaker 10: on this journey with you, Angela.

215
00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,000
Speaker 11: Raie, my good sister. We started right We started at midnight.

216
00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,079
Speaker 10: Then I think I was up to like three four

217
00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,960
Speaker 10: in the morning, fell asleep with the right next to the.

218
00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,680
Speaker 11: Bed, woke up to the beginning of the town hall.

219
00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,679
Speaker 10: So I don't know what I missed, but I feel

220
00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,040
Speaker 10: like it was in my spirit through my sleep. So

221
00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,600
Speaker 10: this has been incredible, Like this has actually been one

222
00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,160
Speaker 10: of the most engaging. You know, it just just soul

223
00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,679
Speaker 10: feeding twenty four hours that anyone could have had. I

224
00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,040
Speaker 10: think our community is just you know, our hearts are

225
00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,479
Speaker 10: beating a little bit faster knowing that we have this community.

226
00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,000
Speaker 11: And Roy, my brother, Listen.

227
00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,640
Speaker 10: I just recently saw you in Utah, so I know

228
00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,840
Speaker 10: you have big things coming up. I'm excited about everything

229
00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,480
Speaker 10: that you're doing. So and we'll just leave that well,

230
00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,160
Speaker 10: you know, I know you have a great project coming up,

231
00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:37,880
Speaker 10: and you know I love you.

232
00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,199
Speaker 11: So this has been amazing.

233
00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,960
Speaker 10: I just want to thank everyone who has been a

234
00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,160
Speaker 10: part of this pulling it together. This has been a

235
00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,480
Speaker 10: dream team group team effort. It's been incredible. So I'm

236
00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,600
Speaker 10: going to answer that question for you, and I'm gonna

237
00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,200
Speaker 10: answer it briefly because i know it's about brevity on tonight,

238
00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,480
Speaker 10: and I just want to say for all of us,

239
00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,079
Speaker 10: because we got like fifty people that want to come

240
00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 10: in and talk. So I'm going to be very quick

241
00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,760
Speaker 10: and I'm going to actually quote the Reverend doctor Martin

242
00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,559
Speaker 10: Luther King Junior, who in nineteen sixty seven answered the

243
00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,160
Speaker 10: very question that Angela has put to all of us

244
00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,079
Speaker 10: for this incredible town hall, and the question is where

245
00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,000
Speaker 10: do we go from here?

246
00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,079
Speaker 11: So in nineteen sixty seven, this is what he said.

247
00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,960
Speaker 10: Is that is that I want to say that as

248
00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,240
Speaker 10: I moved to my conclusion, as we talk about where

249
00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,439
Speaker 10: do we go from here, that we must honestly face

250
00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,720
Speaker 10: the fact that the movement must address itself to the

251
00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,520
Speaker 10: question of restructuring the whole of American society.

252
00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,079
Speaker 11: There are forty million poor people here, and one.

253
00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,720
Speaker 10: Day we must ask the question, why are there forty

254
00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,559
Speaker 10: million poor people in America? When you ask that question,

255
00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:36,960
Speaker 10: you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply

256
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,320
Speaker 10: saying that more and more, we've got to begin to

257
00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,480
Speaker 10: ask questions about the whole society. And he says, when

258
00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,720
Speaker 10: I'm questioning the whole society, it means ultimately coming to

259
00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,760
Speaker 10: see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation,

260
00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,400
Speaker 10: and the problem of war are all tied together. These

261
00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,320
Speaker 10: are the triple evils, evils that are interrelated. In other words,

262
00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,880
Speaker 10: your whole structure must be changed. A nation that will

263
00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,280
Speaker 10: keep people in slavery for two hundred and forty four

264
00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,199
Speaker 10: years will thingify them and make them things, and therefore

265
00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,640
Speaker 10: they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. What

266
00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,520
Speaker 10: I'm saying today is we must go from this convention

267
00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,880
Speaker 10: and say, America, you must be born again. And so

268
00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,280
Speaker 10: as we all watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk really

269
00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,880
Speaker 10: dismantle our democracy, dismantle our society, I think that we

270
00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,400
Speaker 10: understand that there is going to be rubble in the road.

271
00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,200
Speaker 10: And the question is not how do we build back

272
00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,160
Speaker 10: what we had before. It's not about building back the

273
00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,800
Speaker 10: previous status quo, which was obviously so dissatisfying and unsatisfying

274
00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,200
Speaker 10: to people. That people chose chaos. So I think where

275
00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,320
Speaker 10: we go from here is starting to think about what

276
00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:49,120
Speaker 10: we build from that rubble. What does the society we

277
00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,200
Speaker 10: want look like? And I think the charge for Democrats

278
00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,120
Speaker 10: for independence, even for Republicans who are sick of this

279
00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,520
Speaker 10: and seeing it and losing their medicaid and wondering, start

280
00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,680
Speaker 10: to communicate what that society should look like. What does

281
00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,120
Speaker 10: this new society we want to build look like? Because

282
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,120
Speaker 10: going back to what we had before, that ain't it.

283
00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,360
Speaker 10: That is not a message that can sell, that will

284
00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,560
Speaker 10: get people to vote, that will move people.

285
00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,680
Speaker 11: We need a movement.

286
00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,520
Speaker 10: This I think tonight or this last twenty four hours

287
00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:16,760
Speaker 10: is the beginning of a movement. So I think that

288
00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,960
Speaker 10: we because you know, black people have always been the

289
00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,800
Speaker 10: ones to be the conscience of this country, Let's start

290
00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,240
Speaker 10: thinking about what that movement looks like and what that

291
00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,920
Speaker 10: society we want looks like, and start communicating that it's

292
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,200
Speaker 10: not about going back to where we were, It's about

293
00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,600
Speaker 10: bringing the country to a new place.

294
00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,760
Speaker 11: Start thinking about what that place looks like.

295
00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,040
Speaker 10: And that's what Democrats, independence and anybody with good sense

296
00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:39,320
Speaker 10: should be talking about.

297
00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:46,160
Speaker 8: Joyce that briefly, I feel like January for black people

298
00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,440
Speaker 8: was like, all right, this is what it is. All right,

299
00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:52,920
Speaker 8: it almost fit it. Halftime isn't the right word, but

300
00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,080
Speaker 8: I feel like we all collectively took a moment as

301
00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,520
Speaker 8: a culture to go ugh. And you know, I know

302
00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,240
Speaker 8: black ways was going don't call us, don't tell us,

303
00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,480
Speaker 8: don't check in on us, We are not going to

304
00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,480
Speaker 8: help you. Where I feel like now, especially now, like

305
00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,440
Speaker 8: today specifically, there feels like there's a reinvigoration. It feels

306
00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,800
Speaker 8: like there's a all right, we gotta get our helmet.

307
00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,400
Speaker 8: We got to go back out there on the field

308
00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,760
Speaker 8: and get ready to fight again. What have been some

309
00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,480
Speaker 8: of your strategies just in terms of just mental rest

310
00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,040
Speaker 8: and how are you able to What advice would you

311
00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,240
Speaker 8: give to people, is they get ready to fight agains,

312
00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,280
Speaker 8: they get ready to get back out there. What has

313
00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,680
Speaker 8: been your self care? And I'm not even talking just

314
00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,080
Speaker 8: most recently with everything that happened, but just the duration

315
00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,440
Speaker 8: of the election last year, you have to get up

316
00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,320
Speaker 8: every single day and deal with this and put this

317
00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,480
Speaker 8: in the words for people. What were your strategies for

318
00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,000
Speaker 8: just mental survival during this time?

319
00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, everyone cannot have

320
00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,920
Speaker 10: Angela Rye's cell phone number, because one of the strategies

321
00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:56,280
Speaker 10: is to.

322
00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:57,560
Speaker 11: Call phone a friend.

323
00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,920
Speaker 10: And I have to say I have some of the

324
00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,800
Speaker 10: the greatest friends, not just the Machetes, Angie and the

325
00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,320
Speaker 10: other Machetes, but my best friend, Miss Kim.

326
00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,040
Speaker 11: It's miss Jackie that you know we do read this,

327
00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:08,680
Speaker 11: read that together.

328
00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,880
Speaker 10: But she also is like a counselor on the side

329
00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,520
Speaker 10: for my wellness. And I think that the reality is

330
00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,560
Speaker 10: and and of course my husband best my best bestI

331
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,040
Speaker 10: is my husband Jason. I really think you have to

332
00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,840
Speaker 10: lean into the relationships the people around you, your friends,

333
00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,720
Speaker 10: your family, because unless you're grounded in those personal relationships,

334
00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,160
Speaker 10: you're not gonna stay sane in this mess. And look,

335
00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,440
Speaker 10: we as the ninety two percenters, we were sitting on

336
00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,200
Speaker 10: that wall and that graphic watching everything burn. But the

337
00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,560
Speaker 10: fire has caught the building we were sitting on, and

338
00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,960
Speaker 10: so as black people and our eighty percenters, our brothers

339
00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,480
Speaker 10: that weren't that rocked with us in this election. We

340
00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,760
Speaker 10: did not choose this, We did not cause this, but

341
00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,040
Speaker 10: this fire is burning us up too. So the reality

342
00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,080
Speaker 10: is we actually just now have to engage. We may

343
00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,120
Speaker 10: have wanted to sit it out. But as you all

344
00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,800
Speaker 10: know on this on this town hall, we don't have

345
00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,560
Speaker 10: a choice now because this fire is consuming our house.

346
00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:57,480
Speaker 10: So I think what we have to do, and I

347
00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,360
Speaker 10: love the fact that we leaned into what the blackemunity

348
00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,200
Speaker 10: is going to do to save ourselves, save our community,

349
00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,040
Speaker 10: save the resources we fought for, save the positions we

350
00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:06,439
Speaker 10: fought for.

351
00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:07,760
Speaker 11: Because we have to put.

352
00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,560
Speaker 10: The mask on ourselves before we can put the mask

353
00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,199
Speaker 10: on the country. So I think unless we're strong as

354
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,440
Speaker 10: a community, cohesive, and unless we have a plan, we

355
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,160
Speaker 10: can't even really try.

356
00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:18,680
Speaker 11: To save this country.

357
00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:20,919
Speaker 10: We tried to do that for almost five hundred years,

358
00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,040
Speaker 10: and they're parts of the country that don't want to

359
00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,800
Speaker 10: be saved. They want this fascism, they want to go

360
00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:27,960
Speaker 10: in this direction. So I think, what we have to

361
00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,560
Speaker 10: do as a community, Let's put the mask on ourselves.

362
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,240
Speaker 10: Let's get cohesive, Let's describe the nation we want, the

363
00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,040
Speaker 10: society we want, and then we can form a plan.

364
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,280
Speaker 10: And part of that is a communications plan. How are

365
00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,560
Speaker 10: we speaking with authority to our community? Who are our

366
00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,160
Speaker 10: trusted voices? No one can choose that for us. Who

367
00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,240
Speaker 10: do we trust? Where can we find them? How can

368
00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,359
Speaker 10: we get access to what they have to say, and

369
00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,760
Speaker 10: then how can we take what we hear and form

370
00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,320
Speaker 10: a plan. Once that mask is on us, then we

371
00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:57,840
Speaker 10: can start to plan for everybody else.

372
00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,320
Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly right, Thank you so much. I want

373
00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,840
Speaker 5: to bring in we have a big Black family gathering, y'all.

374
00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,879
Speaker 5: I want y'all to see this. We have a full

375
00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:15,159
Speaker 5: swath of experts, organizers, activists, attorneys who are here with us,

376
00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,840
Speaker 5: and I really want you all to see how large

377
00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,359
Speaker 5: of a gathering we have.

378
00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,879
Speaker 1: And it's going to continue to grow over the next

379
00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,199
Speaker 1: few hours. I'm trying to make sure we get the

380
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,040
Speaker 1: visual where y'all can see the pictures of everybody in here.

381
00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,560
Speaker 1: Right now, it just looks like me and Roy, but

382
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,800
Speaker 1: hopefully soon our production can figure out how to get

383
00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,960
Speaker 1: the squares of everybody up. While we're doing that, though,

384
00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:43,320
Speaker 1: I do want to take a moment Roy to recognize

385
00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,920
Speaker 1: Congressman Glenn Ivy, who is joining us.

386
00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,520
Speaker 5: Clearly he is sitting with us and not in the.

387
00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:57,119
Speaker 1: House chamber, so I want to ask him why, like

388
00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,400
Speaker 1: you chose clearly to sit out, Congressman, and I'd love

389
00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,440
Speaker 1: for the listeners to know why this has been a

390
00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:04,800
Speaker 1: hot topic Roy. I don't know if you and your

391
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,560
Speaker 1: chat groups look like mine, but people have been like wow, wow,

392
00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,200
Speaker 1: So Congressman, I would love for you, especially because you're

393
00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,800
Speaker 1: an attorney, so you know this man has broken mania law.

394
00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,000
Speaker 1: Please tell us why you chose to sit out the

395
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 1: State of the Union today.

396
00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,600
Speaker 12: Well, I appreciate you having me on, Angela Roy, and

397
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,320
Speaker 12: I appreciate what you're doing here. Thank you for pulling

398
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,359
Speaker 12: this together, and I thank you for hosting me because

399
00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,639
Speaker 12: you know, I really didn't want to go, and I

400
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,560
Speaker 12: wanted to do something that I thought was going to

401
00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:37,080
Speaker 12: be positive and supportive instead of going to the State

402
00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,720
Speaker 12: of the Union, and you offered this opportunity to do it.

403
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,600
Speaker 12: I know I've got colleagues in there, a lot of

404
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,480
Speaker 12: the Black Calkings, a lot of House Democrats went, you know,

405
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,359
Speaker 12: God bless them. I think it's it's fine, you know,

406
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,080
Speaker 12: depending on what room they're in, as long as.

407
00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,440
Speaker 13: We're all saying the same things.

408
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,199
Speaker 12: And I think we're all recognizing the need for a

409
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,199
Speaker 12: change to move forward. And I do feel like the

410
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,240
Speaker 12: tides turning for us. You know, we've he had a

411
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,879
Speaker 12: lot of good success with these court cases, have been

412
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 12: about one hundred filed. You know, the legal teams that

413
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,399
Speaker 12: were put together by the unions and advocacy groups gotten

414
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,720
Speaker 12: a lot of injunctions put in place, probably around thirty

415
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,440
Speaker 12: and they've won almost all of those. And I think

416
00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 12: politically too, you know, his numbers are starting to drop.

417
00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:18,240
Speaker 13: People are starting to.

418
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 12: Realize that, you know, this was an okie dokee, this

419
00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 12: was snake oil. He said he was going to try

420
00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,119
Speaker 12: and help regular folks out economically, but he's really just

421
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 12: trying to help out Elon and the billionaire buddies.

422
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,879
Speaker 13: And and you know, I think.

423
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,920
Speaker 12: It's important to see too, with the tariffs, I mean,

424
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 12: because that's clearly not aimed at helping regular people. There's

425
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,439
Speaker 12: no way he can spend that. I don't know what

426
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 12: he's going to say tonight, but you know that's just

427
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 12: taking money out of people's pockets as a sales tax.

428
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 12: So you know, I didn't want to be part of

429
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 12: being in there, you know, I wanted to be out here,

430
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 12: And once I heard that you all were doing this,

431
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 12: I knew I'd rather be here working with you all,

432
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,479
Speaker 12: in this community, with this strong team, with the you know,

433
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 12: like Joyce said, people moving in the right direction, moving

434
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,400
Speaker 12: together and I wanted to be part of this instead.

435
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 8: I'm not sure, Congressman. Can you hear Angela, I'm not

436
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 8: hearing her.

437
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: I told you to know why because I put it

438
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,159
Speaker 1: on mute, moving this notepad and forgot.

439
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 5: That is not helpful. I was trying to test how

440
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 5: well you could read my lips.

441
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,360
Speaker 8: I'm ready here, I'm ready to jump in. Just say the.

442
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 14: Word bail me out, man.

443
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 13: I thought it was my I thought my laptop had

444
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 13: gone south or something.

445
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, or hearing was going out something. I'm sorry.

446
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say the question, the call of

447
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: the question of the day really is where do we

448
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,119
Speaker 1: go from here? So, given the amount of pressure that

449
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 1: I know a lot of our members are facing, your

450
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been

451
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: protested so severely in town hall meetings that they were like,

452
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 1: you know what, hell with those town halls. We're just

453
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,879
Speaker 1: gonna go forth and do something else. Where do we

454
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: go from here? Do we continue in the fight? Do

455
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 1: we become more united? What is what is your plan?

456
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 1: What do you suggest that we do?

457
00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:57,680
Speaker 15: Yeah?

458
00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 12: I think all of that's right. I think we need

459
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 12: to keep the rusher up. In fact, keep increasing it yeah,

460
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 12: there were. There was sort of a you know, a

461
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 12: lull after Trump won. You know, I remember when he

462
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 12: won the first time and we had thousands of people

463
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 12: come out and march in the streets, and there was

464
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 12: a lot of anger and everything. This time around, I

465
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 12: think we were all in disbelief, like how could this

466
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:18,360
Speaker 12: country have a life?

467
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 14: Ristman heive, I don't.

468
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to cut you off, but I want

469
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: to note right now I'm not watching the State of

470
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: the Union, but reports are coming out the Congressman al

471
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: Green has been carried out of the House chamber.

472
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 2: So I think he wasn't care carried out. He walked

473
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 2: out of his own will.

474
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 5: So we said he got carried out.

475
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 2: They well, it looked like they were going to score

476
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 2: it out. Yeah yeah, they no. Well that's why I

477
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 2: put in chat. It appeared they were going to arrest him,

478
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 2: but he decided to leave his own free will with

479
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 2: Vincent and I just below the chamber. But he stopped

480
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 2: the speech. Al Green stood up as the one Democrat

481
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 2: and stopped the speech. So he's coming out, and we're

482
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 2: going to go try to see we can get him

483
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 2: now and bring him down here there so we may

484
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,959
Speaker 2: see him in a minute that was on it.

485
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 6: So, well, this is what the fire looks like.

486
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 14: He cut in.

487
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 8: Let me take you effects right now. I'm wearing a

488
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 8: suit and I'm in the building. I'll report back in

489
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 8: a second. That's all right.

490
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 13: This is what democracy looks like.

491
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 8: Right.

492
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 13: Yeah, I got a note saying I got escorted out.

493
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 12: But that's how you know, he's I think he might

494
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 12: already file articles of impeachment against Trump, So you know

495
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,120
Speaker 12: that's his approach, and I you know, God bless him.

496
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 12: The key is that we're all working together on the

497
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,679
Speaker 12: same team, trying to accomplish the same goal because we

498
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 12: recognize how destructive Trump has.

499
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 13: Been just in it's like fifty days, and he's you know, he's.

500
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 12: Put the jackhammer to like everything across the board, especially

501
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 12: things affecting the African American community, you know, like you know,

502
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 12: the title ie stuff. He was trying to cut funds

503
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 12: for schools, Medicare the Republicans like a one almost a

504
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 12: one trillion dollar cut, and that's taking healthcare away from folks,

505
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 12: uh and Obamacare too, African Americans. But also so you know,

506
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 12: low income folks in those red and rural states.

507
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 13: Are going to be hit by that as well.

508
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 12: And so you know, we've always led the charge as

509
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 12: African Americans for the fight for equality the injustice in

510
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 12: this country.

511
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: Need the same things. Has it changed much from the

512
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: data that you all pulled. I know, over two hundred

513
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand Black people eventually filled out that survey.

514
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: It's the largest in United States history. But I think

515
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: we still got a road to go. We got a

516
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: lot more black people than who filled out the Black Census.

517
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 5: When you look at.

518
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: The data then and where we are now, where do

519
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: we go from here? Just when you look at that.

520
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 16: Data, Yeah, we survey two hundred and eleven thousand people

521
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 16: and we're going to do it again in twenty twenty six.

522
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 16: We're gonna survey three hundred thousand black people. But what

523
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 16: they overwhelmingly said is that we need an economy that

524
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 16: works for us and specifically wanted expansion of medicaid, wanted

525
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 16: help for childcare, wanted wages that.

526
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 17: Have our dignity in mind.

527
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 18: And now this last fifty days mean has meant that

528
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 18: we need that even more then we even needed it

529
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 18: a year ago. And I think we're going to see

530
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 18: that with this budget that just proposal that came through

531
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 18: that's going to slash medicaid, and so for us, it's

532
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 18: about getting into community. We believe that the antidote to

533
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 18: fascism is building community and to be in community all

534
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,439
Speaker 18: year round so that more and more people share what

535
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 18: they want and we can get to what Joy said,

536
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 18: that imagination about where we want to go as a people,

537
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 18: what we want to win, and build a strategy to

538
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 18: get there.

539
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 5: I love that.

540
00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: Areva Martin and the Mario Solomon Simmons are here, and

541
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: I want to go to you all because one of

542
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: the places that we've seen people lean in Roy, You've

543
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: seen this too, are around a legal strategy with this president.

544
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: Most of what has taken place to stop executive action,

545
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: where there have been more than one hundred and nineteen

546
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: executive actions taken so far, over ninety five lawsuits filed

547
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: against this administration. You all have also worked to take

548
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: justice in your into your own hands, not challenging Donald Trump,

549
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: but challenging the white supremacist system that bert Donald Trump

550
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: in the form of reparations. I'm thinking of the cases

551
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 1: that both of you all have. Areva, I want to

552
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: come to you first and then to Mario. You because

553
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: we are still fighting for justice for the survivors of

554
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: Black Wall Street, but Areva. I want to come to

555
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: you first around. Some of you had a Palm Springs,

556
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: You've Bruce's Beach. There's so much work that you've done

557
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: in this space, and there are so many cases like

558
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: this that black folks haven't had the pr or the

559
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: attention around to really see justice. So we also have

560
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: some roads to plow there, and I think it's important

561
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: that we know that we are fighting on every side,

562
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: but there is still hope.

563
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 19: Thanks so much, Angela, Thanks Joy, Thanks everyone they pull

564
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 19: this together. I'm still sleepy from my one am part

565
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 19: of the twenty four hour marathon, but it was so

566
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 19: incredible to be a part of the marathon over the

567
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 19: last twenty plus hours.

568
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 8: Folks who were up who were.

569
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 19: Watching, just such a phenomenal job done by the entire team.

570
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 19: So kudos to everyone working behind the scenes and all

571
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 19: the folks who were up all night watching. But you're right,

572
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 19: De Mario and I have been involved in some of

573
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 19: the biggest reparations cases in the country, and when Joy

574
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 19: talks about reimagining really what this country should be and

575
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 19: not going back to where we were reparation should be

576
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 19: on the top of the list of things that black

577
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 19: folks should be thinking about. For so many years, so

578
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 19: many decades, we were told it was impossible. We were

579
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 19: told it was a French theory, it was.

580
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 6: A French concept.

581
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 19: And how dare we have the audacity to expect or

582
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 19: to believe that this country would make amends? Would you know,

583
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 19: acknowledge the sins against black folks and then do something

584
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 19: about it in the same way that they have done

585
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 19: for so many other people. Cornell Brooks at Harvard Kennedy

586
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 19: School wrote a brilliant piece a couple of months ago

587
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 19: about all the ways that this country pays reparations on

588
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 19: the regular, on the daily, to so many different groups

589
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 19: of people. But yet when it comes to black folks,

590
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 19: the concept of reparations, the concept of giving us what

591
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 19: we are justly entitled to, people.

592
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 6: Get all nervous about it.

593
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 19: They start clutching their pearls, and so many ways reveal

594
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 19: their racism about you know, myths about black folks were

595
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 19: not responsible with money. You know, we hear folks say, well,

596
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 19: we didn't do it. Why should we have to pay

597
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 19: for the sins of our fathers? We hear these repeated

598
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 19: excuses folks not acknowledging the benefits, the benefits that they

599
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 19: reap in this country every day from the uncompensated wages

600
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 19: and labor force labor of enslaved people. So yes, Angela,

601
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 19: there is a movement around this country. Reparations committees have

602
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 19: been started at the state level, at the local level,

603
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 19: people are organized, people are mobilized, people are enthus they

604
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 19: are this is the moment, and I just hope that

605
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 19: at the national level, my good friend Glynn, Congress Congress

606
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 19: Member IVY is on this call. I hope that Congress

607
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 19: has the courage to do what some local administrative bodies

608
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 19: have had the courage to do. But if anyone is

609
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 19: feeling like reparations is out of reach, I'm just here

610
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 19: to encourage you. Reparations is very much in reach, is

611
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 19: very much available. It's very much something that we should

612
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 19: all be united around and as we reimagine what this

613
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 19: country should look like going forward, please please, please please

614
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 19: remember the debt old to the descendants of enslaved people.

615
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 19: And I'm just proud to be in this fight in

616
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 19: Palm Springs and Saint Louis and communities all over this country.

617
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 5: Thank you Vi de Mario.

618
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: I want to come to you, particularly around what we

619
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: can be doing to ensure that we keep what's happened

620
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: in mind, that we continue to fight for justice and

621
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: the other ideas around Blackwall Street.

622
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 5: It's very existent.

623
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: So even if they did decimate Blackwall Street, the ideas

624
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: that we can hold on to despite its destruction, and

625
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: we should never forget it.

626
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 5: But how do we hold on to the fabric of

627
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 5: what Blackwall Street was? And you're on mute D I

628
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 5: did that too, don't worry.

629
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 20: Well, thank you for having me here, and just excited

630
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 20: by everything that everyone is saying about pulling this together.

631
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 20: You know, I represent the last two living survivors of

632
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 20: the Tulsa Race massacre of one hundred and ten year

633
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 20: old mother Viola Ford Fletcher one hundred and ten year

634
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 20: old mother Lessie Benefield Randall, and in my over twenty

635
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 20: five years of working on trying to get justice and

636
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 20: reparations for Greenwood, I spent more more probably more time

637
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 20: than most people can imagine, with people that are over

638
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 20: ninety five years old and several people over one hundred

639
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 20: and so what I want to tell people today is

640
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 20: we continue to fight for justice for those two women.

641
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 20: Is I want you to all right now think Greenwood.

642
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 20: Want you to think Greenwood now, because think Greenwood is

643
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 20: what would get us to where we want to be.

644
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 20: Think about that Greenwood was created this black mecca. Well

645
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 20: over twelve thousand black people came together, created all types

646
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 20: of businesses, over two hundred successful businesses, over fifteen hundred

647
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 20: and fifty homes in businesses before the nineteen twenty one

648
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 20: Tulsa Race massacre. And they did that during the ny Deer.

649
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 20: They did that during a time that's much like the

650
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 20: time we're living in here and under this MAGA two

651
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 20: point zero moment. And there was five founding principles of

652
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 20: think Greenwood. Number one was community love, Number two was

653
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 20: self determination, Number three was ownership, Number four was wealth

654
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 20: and education concentration, and number five was resilient. These are

655
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 20: the founding principles of Greenwood, and this is what we

656
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 20: need to emulate today and make sure we understand that

657
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 20: Greenwood and Black Wall Street here.

658
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 21: In Tulsa was more than a physical location.

659
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 20: It was a mind state. And so what I'm asking

660
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 20: everyone to do on this call and for everyone that's

661
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 20: listening to go to think Greenwood now, Dot com. Thinkgreenwood

662
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 20: now dot com and sign the pledge that you will

663
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 20: live by these five core principles. And then this is more.

664
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 20: This is more than just talking about action. This is

665
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 20: about a plan to move forward. That's Thinkgreenwood now dot

666
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 20: com and you can connect with us and connect with

667
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 20: these survivors who are still fighting for justice and reparations,

668
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 20: not just for themselves, not just for their community, but

669
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 20: for the entire Black community. They're standing strong, you know, andrela.

670
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 2: You know this.

671
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 20: They have been at every court hearing. They've been back

672
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 20: and forth to DC. You talked about Representative Green. Representative

673
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 20: Green has come up tuss and.

674
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 21: Stood with us.

675
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 20: He is going to put forth leg on behalf of

676
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 20: reparations because of the reaper. My good friends stated. Reparations

677
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,239
Speaker 20: is necessary for the structural changes we need. Listen, the

678
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 20: racial wealth gap. It's worse than it was in nineteen

679
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 20: sixty eight. And so as we talk about everything else

680
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 20: besides you know, d I and anti woke and all

681
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 20: these things, if we don't have structural changes, as Joy

682
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 20: talked about, we will never get the racial wealth gap

683
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 20: to be shrunk. And that requires reparations. But we start

684
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 20: that by thinking Greenwood go to Thinkgreenwood now dot com,

685
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 20: sign the pledge, and let's get to work.

686
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 5: I love that so much to Mario Roy.

687
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: I was watching you when Mario was talking about going

688
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: to think Greenwood dot com, and I didn't see you

689
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: take a note.

690
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 5: You've been standing right into that light.

691
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 8: You just see me look down real quick.

692
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 5: Greenwood now a lean Greenwood now dot com.

693
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 20: Than Greenwood now dot com.

694
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 8: See Roy, how you di it myself so that you

695
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 8: wouldn't hear a click clack on the keyboard.

696
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 5: Okay, I was.

697
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 8: Down here, but you know my mama talked keyboarding that

698
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 8: Miles College. Shut out the Miles cause I.

699
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 14: Was looking up.

700
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: Well, we need to go to take this pledge. So

701
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: the Mario you said, there's five principles.

702
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 20: Yeah, five principles community love that built Greenwood. You know,

703
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 20: one of the things about the community love, it's about

704
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 20: making sure that we are standing together, we're doing everything

705
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 20: to make sure that we can all be successful, but

706
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 20: also making sure we understand this we not the eye.

707
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 20: And that's what built Greenwood. Self determination. You understand that

708
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 20: Greenwood was built during a time where more lynchings were

709
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 20: going on, open white supremacy, white segregation, but people went

710
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 20: to Greenwood to be free to build and have a

711
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 20: life as they will call it, to be a person ownership.

712
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 20: People wanted to own their businesses, own their property, own

713
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 20: their communities, and have ownership of themselves. And we've seen

714
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 20: over the last decades upon decades, regardless of anything, we're

715
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 20: going to have to take ownership for ourselves. As we

716
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 20: continue to fight for better policy and then wealth and

717
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 20: education concentration, we have to focus on building wealth and

718
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 20: becoming better educated about what it takes to build generational wealth.

719
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 20: I know we all just saw the tragic news of

720
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 20: Antie Stone that was killed in a car accident just

721
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 20: a few days ago. You know, when things like that happened,

722
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 20: one of the things I think about is I hope

723
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 20: she had her estate plan in place. I hope she

724
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 20: had a life insurance in place. I hope she had

725
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 20: a discussion with her family. What's going to happen to

726
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 20: her royalties and our intellectual property. These are things that

727
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 20: we have to start thinking about today. The fire is

728
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 20: out in Alta Dina, the same thing. These things can happen,

729
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 20: so we have to think about our wealth and economic

730
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 20: education concentration and that fifthy the resilience and that's what

731
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 20: we're showing tonight. We're showing despite open whites. This is

732
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 20: a dangerous time. There will be some dark days, but

733
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 20: we must be resilient and if nothing else, think Greenwood

734
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 20: now and we can get through this theme.

735
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 5: I want to go to.

736
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: April Varrett, who has made tremendous history talking about resilience,

737
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: and we know that many of our Labor Union brothers

738
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: and sisters and family members are deeply resilient. Y'all have

739
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: been on the front lines of some of these lawsuits.

740
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 5: Labor Union is writ large.

741
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: When you think about the inherent connection to that question, April,

742
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: where do we go from here? Is something that doctor

743
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: King asked all of us, and of course he had

744
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 1: a tremendous strategic partnership with Labor. Where do you think

745
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 1: we go from here now in twenty twenty five given

746
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: the tremendous setbacks that we are all collectively experiencing.

747
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 22: So thanks for thanks Angela and everyone. Incredible, incredible show

748
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 22: of resilience and spirit and how much we can center

749
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 22: the squabble up enjoy and in love and in community.

750
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 22: And to the question of where do we go from here?

751
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 22: I'm so glad Joy invoked the spirit of doctor King

752
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 22: because it is the very same things he called for.

753
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 22: That is unfinished business. That is the north star I

754
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 22: believe for where we go from here. We have to,

755
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 22: I believe, join forces and build enough power to end

756
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 22: poverty and systemic and structural racism forever. And if we

757
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 22: center those who are suffering, continuing to suffer from economic exploitation,

758
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 22: it's us right. It's our other sisters and brothers, and

759
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 22: people of color, it's women, it's immigrants right. When we

760
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 22: center ourselves and when we build enough power for ourselves

761
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 22: to dismantle the systems of poverty and racism in this country, I.

762
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,479
Speaker 15: Think we can begin to get stuff done.

763
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 22: And I think that we have to stage, as folks

764
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 22: have been saying, a fight. I don't get the Donald

765
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 22: Trump phenomenon, but I've been thinking a lot about it.

766
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 22: What attracts folks to that type of leadership, and I

767
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 22: believe Americans are people who want to feel protected and defended,

768
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 22: and for good or for bad. He is showing that

769
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 22: I'm gonna protect, I'm gonna defend, and so we have

770
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 22: to have that same energy in this moment. We got

771
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 22: to show that we are gonna protect and we are

772
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 22: gonna defend what we care about.

773
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 15: Right.

774
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 22: That vision that Joy talked about, I think is so important.

775
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 22: And how are we not abandoning what we know we

776
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 22: need in our communities.

777
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 15: I don't give a damn.

778
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 22: We should be out there talking every day about when

779
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 22: they're gonna raise a minimum wage. You care so much

780
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 22: about working people. When you're gonna vote on raising a

781
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 22: minimum wage. You care so much about working people, When

782
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 22: are you gonna put policies in place that stop price

783
00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 22: gouging and unnecessary fees that rob the pool? You care

784
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 22: so much about working people, when are you going to

785
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 22: invest more in our community?

786
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 6: So the very things that we need.

787
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 22: Now is the time to stand up the fight for them, unapologetically.

788
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 22: And the last thing I'll say, Angela is I have

789
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 22: come to believe that we are in the civil society

790
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 22: because we want to fix things right. We want to

791
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 22: be fixers. We want to put bomb on we want

792
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 22: to throw water on fires. Now is the time to

793
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 22: throw fuel on the fire. Now is the time to

794
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 22: blow up the spot right.

795
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 15: It is not a time to shrink, It is not

796
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 15: a time to be small.

797
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 14: We have to.

798
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 22: Blow up their spot in the way that they are

799
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 22: trying to blow up ours, and I think we got

800
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 22: to do that in a focused and a prioritized way.

801
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 22: We got to pick our battles for folks. We cannot

802
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 22: get sucked into every single squirmish.

803
00:39:58,880 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 15: They want to suck us into.

804
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 6: We will exhaust ourselves.

805
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 14: But by Memorial Day.

806
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,399
Speaker 22: So let's focus and let's and let's fight like hell.

807
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: So while we were talking, it's also been dropped in

808
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: the chat that Congress members Frost, Crockett, and Presley have

809
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: also walked out of this joint Address of Congress for

810
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So this is an opportunity. I feel like

811
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: we got to bring in some of the youngest. So

812
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: I want to go to zi uh Zi Brian. I

813
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: want to come to you because it is so important

814
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: to have young voices on here. You all are not

815
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: just our future, you are present. I want to know

816
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: if the actions taken by members of Congress who are

817
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: walking out in this moment resonate with you, with them

818
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: some of your peers. I'm not gonna do you like

819
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: white folks, goes and be like, tell me what do

820
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: black people think.

821
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be one of those. But I am

822
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 5: curious to know yes, one of the youths.

823
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, Like, do you feel like, do you feel

824
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: seen by that active protest? What would you have expected

825
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: from members of Congress tonight? Well, thank you for having

826
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: me first. Secondly, young people, as you said, are not

827
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: just the.

828
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 23: Future, we are the current moment.

829
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 24: I'm encouraged by seeing them walk out because so often

830
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 24: young black people are told we have to conform, we

831
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 24: have to be like everyone else, We have to, you know,

832
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 24: just make our way to the top, and we can't

833
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 24: be outspoken, we can't say our true thoughts, and we

834
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 24: can't really stand up in the ways that we want to.

835
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 24: So I'm happy to see the people who have made

836
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 24: it into those positions walking out and being very clear

837
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 24: on where they stand and not leaving any room for

838
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 24: any bad interpretations of what they may think or believe.

839
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 24: But I mean, I think one of the reasons why

840
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 24: I'm even running for office. I just launched my campaign

841
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 24: for school board in Charlottesville, and the reason why I'm

842
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 24: running for office at twenty four is because I believe

843
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 24: that we are ready to lead. And I don't want

844
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 24: people to use age as a proxy for experience, because

845
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 24: I think that young people bring a lot to the table.

846
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 24: We bring a lot of unique perspectives. We bring a

847
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 24: lot of thoughts and ideas and innovative ways at going

848
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 24: at things that are that we're facing in the current moment,

849
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 24: all of the challenges that we're seeing. So I think

850
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 24: that if young people are able to be supported, we

851
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 24: all do well. But additionally, we need intergenerational base building,

852
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 24: and so it will require young people to respect, you know,

853
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 24: the past, the elders, the work that they have done,

854
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 24: in the foundation that they've laid in order to inform

855
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 24: the work that we hope to do in the future.

856
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Zi, it's on my heart to

857
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 5: go to this lovely young woman.

858
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 25: Uh.

859
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 5: Congresswoman Marsha Budge.

860
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 1: Is how I met her, but most recently she was

861
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: the Secretary of Housing in Urban Development, where actual change

862
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: did happen during that administration and under her watch. She

863
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: also is the former president of Delta Sigma Theta, and

864
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: she is such a gem. I have to ask you,

865
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: congress women, because I know I see I'm still saying,

866
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: congressman is Madam Secretary.

867
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 5: When you watch your colleagues.

868
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: Tonight as they sit in this in the House chamber,

869
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: I want to know if you put yourself back in

870
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: their shoes, what you would have done, and any advice

871
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: you have for them going forward about how they deal

872
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: with someone who is actively working to destroy democracy.

873
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 6: First, let me say I'm very proud of them.

874
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 26: The one thing that I always believed when I was

875
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 26: a member of Congress is that there were enough of

876
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 26: us that we did not have to ask for permission.

877
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 26: We sit back too often and want to find out

878
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 26: what's the group want to do, how do we all

879
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,439
Speaker 26: want to work together. Sometimes we just need to stand up,

880
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 26: and this is one of those times. I think that

881
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 26: the Caucus in particular needs to stand with all its might,

882
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 26: because when you are sixty members of Congress, you are strong,

883
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 26: and I think we have to use the power that

884
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 26: we have. So I'm very very proud of them. I

885
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 26: probably would not have gone, but I mean, but those

886
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 26: who did go, I am glad. I really feel so

887
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 26: good about them standing up and letting people know what

888
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 26: they think. Because the more we stay silent, the more

889
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 26: we are ignored. And so I'm really really happy about

890
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 26: what I'm hearing.

891
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: I love I want to go to the nation's oldest

892
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: civil rights organization. The president is our good brother, Derek Johnson,

893
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, what is the NAACP telling

894
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: us to do going forward? How are you all going

895
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: to help us march forward, keep pressing on, keep pressing,

896
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: keep hope alive, and also keep the pressure on this

897
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: administration that doesn't seem to be accountable to any one

898
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: of us, is only yielding to entities.

899
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 5: That have money to buy.

900
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: It feels like this administration is for sale. I'm not

901
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: trying to put you in a partisan question, so I

902
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: will just say as a as a general matter, we

903
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: know that there's it seems to be that white supremacy

904
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: is really the land here, and it seems like people

905
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: who are poor and don't have something to offer them

906
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: are putting harm's way.

907
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 5: And we're seeing that.

908
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: With the federal freezes, we're seeing that with the funding cuts,

909
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: We're seeing that with the proposed budget across the board,

910
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: we are seeing that. How is the NAACP recommending that

911
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: black folks watching at home fight back?

912
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 27: Great question, and thank you all for organizing this. You know,

913
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 27: the last forty three days was the distraction. The real

914
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 27: fight starts on March fourteenth with the continued resolution budget.

915
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 27: This is about the money, many folks outside of our community.

916
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 27: They're going to begin to feel the pain. They want

917
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 27: to do away with such security. Let's be very clear,

918
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 27: they want to do away with medicaid and medicare. They

919
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 27: want to redefine the role of government. And so as

920
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 27: we have been consumed with DEI and all the things

921
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 27: that are out there, the crown jewel of all of

922
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 27: this was to get their base motivated, get us distracted,

923
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 27: so they can drive a MA truck through the budget

924
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 27: and read the find everything privatized services. So leading up

925
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 27: to March fourteenth, we need to be telling members of

926
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 27: Congress who we put in office, don't cut a deal

927
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 27: with our guarantees. Don't be worried about shutting down the

928
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 27: government when we know if they get a clean cr

929
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 27: through September, no matter what they say, Trump is going

930
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 27: to disavow all the money that they appropriate. So between

931
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 27: now and March fourteenth, we need to talk to all

932
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 27: the Democratic leadership. Don't cut a deal unless you have

933
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 27: a guarantee in legislation that the money will be spent

934
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 27: as necessary. Now, when we get to the new budget,

935
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 27: that's the real fight. Everything else has been a distraction

936
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 27: for NACP. Recognizing for black folks recognizing.

937
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 21: Race is a tool.

938
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 27: Money is the game, and we have to figure out

939
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 27: how not to get distracted with racialized questions when at

940
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 27: the end of the day, they are trying to redefine

941
00:46:58,520 --> 00:46:58,959
Speaker 27: the role.

942
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 2: Special elections are coming up.

943
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 27: We have to play in those elections, but unfortunately we

944
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 27: will feel some pain. But white folks gonna feel some

945
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 27: pain too, because if they cut Medicaid, there's a lot

946
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 27: of folks gonna leave nursing homes because they're depending on Medicaid.

947
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 27: If they cut snaps, the biggest benefactors are snapped is

948
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 27: the walmarks of the world and all of the farmers.

949
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,359
Speaker 27: They have already felt the pain where USA being cut.

950
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 27: Those farmers in Mississippi, Cindy hog Smith, the senator here

951
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 27: where I live, are all already telling farmers who she's

952
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 27: trying to get an exceptions from Trump on USA USAA

953
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 27: because they're losing money. So the focus now forward is

954
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 27: about how all these programs are about to be cut

955
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 27: and white folks are beginning to feel going to feel

956
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 27: the pain, and we need to tell CBC members who

957
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 27: want to capitulate thinking this is this is business as usual.

958
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 27: Democratic members who want to capitulate think they can cut

959
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 27: a deal.

960
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 8: There is no deal to get cut.

961
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 27: If government gets shut down because they don't get what

962
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 27: they need from the cur bill, so be it. Because

963
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 27: if it goes forward with them being able to appropriate

964
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 27: through September and still not spend the money on the

965
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 27: entitlement programs, we're no better forward.

966
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 15: So right now, let's focus on the budget.

967
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 6: Let's focus on the budget fight.

968
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 27: And the only two Democrats have right now is not

969
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 27: to support the continued resolution unless they get some things

970
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 27: in place to force the Republican priorty and Trump to

971
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 27: do what's necessary. We may be nonpartisan, but with political

972
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 27: hit as hell. This is not a partisanship conversation. This

973
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 27: is about saving and protecting our democracy and progress made

974
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 27: President Jackson.

975
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no go, President Johnson. Now, if that's

976
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 8: the directive to our elected officials, how do we convey

977
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 8: something similar to our brothers and sisters who are just

978
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,959
Speaker 8: out here in the electorate. Our friend to get caught

979
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 8: up in the algorithm of s whites whites, right, and

980
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 8: some of them distractions will get you riled up. There

981
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 8: were two cops who were convicted of kill so I

982
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 8: don't remember the city but they were reinstated to their

983
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 8: respective police force. This week, there's granted I don't write

984
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 8: anything office outlandish anymore, but there's talk of people proposing

985
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 8: a Derek Chauvin pardon for some point. But you know

986
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 8: they're gonna try and sneak in around Juneteenth something like that.

987
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 8: It's not policy, but it emotionally empowers a base that

988
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 8: has been misinformed to then continue to push back on

989
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 8: all of the things that as an electorate we actually

990
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 8: need to be paying attention to. So how do we

991
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 8: help drive voters to educate themselves and not get caught

992
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 8: up in the algorithm of distractions? Or how do you

993
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 8: allocate your attentions over here? Put eighty percent on snap

994
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 8: and medicaid NAIN, now twenty percent over here on police

995
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:56,959
Speaker 8: officers getting part Well.

996
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 27: That's the fight where in the control of the narrative

997
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 27: in this moment is most important. CBS is compromised because

998
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 27: they have an issue of merger in front of the FCC.

999
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 27: COMPKINS is propromised because they don't want to lose the

1000
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 27: broadband money, the tens of billions of dollars that got

1001
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 27: for broadcasts. Therefore, MSNBC and NBC they're paralyzed. Disney is

1002
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 27: compromised because of the regulatory issues they're concerned with. The

1003
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 27: social media platforms as they exist are all trying to

1004
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 27: resist antitrust legislation. The fight we're in is around the

1005
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 27: control of narrative, and we have to figure out how

1006
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 27: to platform somewhere where we could get enough people to

1007
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 27: see what's taking place and control the narrative. If I

1008
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 27: had the solution to that, that's the sip bullet that

1009
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 27: we all need to have. But unfortunately, the medium age of.

1010
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 15: Our community is thirty two point six years old.

1011
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 27: That mean almost half of our population grew up in

1012
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 27: school districts without ever having city or social studies. They

1013
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 27: don't understand the role of government, the levels of power,

1014
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 27: and so our fight is more about how do we

1015
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 27: keep our people.

1016
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 15: Informed and focus that it is anything else. That is

1017
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 15: the fight that we are in.

1018
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and speaking of the fight, I wanted to go

1019
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: to someone who is another young leader. His name is

1020
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: Yusuf Omer and he is an SGA president at an HBCU.

1021
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: You talked about Miles College earlier, Roy, and so I

1022
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: want to know what the fight looks like for students

1023
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: at historically black colleges and universities where you all are

1024
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: being told that your funding could get hit too. This

1025
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: is the same man who took credit for giving funding

1026
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: to y'all that he did not give and has criticized

1027
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: the last administration for actually giving him. So I want

1028
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: to know what the fight looks like a student level,

1029
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: what you all are talking about, how you all are

1030
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: talking about mobilizing when your education is on the line,

1031
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: and actually your bodies could be on the line as well.

1032
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 28: Absolutely, Angeline, just thank you for having us on here,

1033
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 28: Thank you for highlighting young people, understanding that we are

1034
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 28: not the future, we are the now. Understanding that hbc

1035
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 28: YOU has been the backbone for years, for hundreds of

1036
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 28: years of black excellence, producing leaders, innovators, change makers, people

1037
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 28: in all different walks of life, in every single field,

1038
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 28: despite being historically underfunded.

1039
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 6: That's just reality, and that reality is clear.

1040
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 28: As day that each HBCU in these United States does

1041
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 28: more with less. If we say that we truly value

1042
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 28: education and value all young people, we must invest in

1043
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 28: every institution that has invested back in US Federal funding

1044
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 28: for HBC YOU shouldn't be a charity, and it shouldn't

1045
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 28: be something that people can threaten to take away. It

1046
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 28: should be something that our government should continually invest and

1047
00:52:58,800 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 28: add more to.

1048
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 21: I look at it like federal.

1049
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 28: Funding for us at HBCUs is a debt ode to

1050
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 28: the legacy of what we do, of what our ancestors

1051
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 28: fought for, and the brilliance that these institutions represent. When

1052
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 28: you fund the HBCU, you literally fund the future of

1053
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,760
Speaker 28: black leadership, a black culture of economic power and social

1054
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 28: progress in this country.

1055
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 21: And as students, we're working.

1056
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 28: On not only mobilizing, but we're now having students run

1057
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 28: for office while they're in college. We have students at

1058
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 28: HBCUs running for city council. These are hometown heroes that

1059
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 28: we need to shed the light on. We need to

1060
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 28: donate to their campaigns, we need to support them, and

1061
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 28: we need to educate. I want to shout out with

1062
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 28: my professor the reason I'm here, doctor Wes Bellamy. These

1063
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 28: are the environments that we're cultivating at HBCUs. Classrooms and

1064
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 28: discussions and ideas and debates that are not only staying

1065
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 28: in the classroom. These ideas, debased and discussions are now

1066
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 28: being traveled to different boardrooms, into the houses of government

1067
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:57,240
Speaker 28: and state legislators.

1068
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 13: So it's definitely needed.

1069
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 28: Funding for hb stop and the research fund it for

1070
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 28: HBCU should never stop.

1071
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: I want to call up Wes Bellamy, doctor Wes Bellamy,

1072
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: who is yes a professor but also the social Action

1073
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: chair for one hundred Black Men. Talk about the role Wes,

1074
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: that you all must play.

1075
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 5: Also in supporting black women who are doing this work.

1076
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: Already, but we need to be standing together talk about

1077
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: the important role that you all play right now and

1078
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: where we go from here and talk about some of

1079
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 1: the things that you all are doing next or right

1080
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: now that folks can engage.

1081
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 21: Sure you know, first and foremost, major kudos to you.

1082
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 29: I'll call you the Chris Paul of the movement, Angela

1083
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 29: for always being an architect. She's always passing the ball,

1084
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 29: setting people up, and she can be nice and nasty

1085
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 29: when she needs to to get us.

1086
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 14: We need to be stay on topic.

1087
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 8: Let me.

1088
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 29: So so yeah, thank you say as much love as

1089
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 29: you said alluded to. We know that HBCUs play a

1090
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 29: very pivotal role in our community. But just as important

1091
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 29: as it is for us to support our hbc US,

1092
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 29: we need to support black students no matter what institution

1093
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 29: they're at. We see pwy's under attack our black students,

1094
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 29: whether that be in black student unions. We saw this

1095
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,720
Speaker 29: information come out right there at Ohio State University about

1096
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 29: potentially their black student union being shut down. We've seen

1097
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 29: certain things transpire University of Virginia, where I live right

1098
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 29: next to. I mean there's a multitude of institutions at

1099
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 29: pw excuse me, multitude of students at pwi's and HBC

1100
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 29: user like who need our assistance. So, Angela, when you

1101
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 29: ask the question of what do we do in the immediate,

1102
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 29: I think that means showing up. Yousef made a really

1103
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 29: good point in terms of how there's young people who

1104
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 29: are running for office right now. We just had Ayana

1105
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 29: Bryan on earlier. She's running for city council. I would

1106
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 29: encourage us all in the immediate to donate to her campaign.

1107
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,240
Speaker 29: I just donated one hundred dollars. I asked for anybody

1108
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 29: on here to match that. That's a young person on

1109
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 29: here right now who's out doing the work and she's

1110
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 29: committing herself to get in the fight. So we all

1111
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 29: can do something in the immedia today by supporting her

1112
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 29: on a broader scale and on a larger scale. When

1113
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 29: we talk about different things specifically in our community tomorrow

1114
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 29: or and ure Friday, or next Tuesday or next month.

1115
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 29: I think it's about doing three things. One, we have

1116
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 29: to be able to endure and mentally and emotionally prepare

1117
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 29: ourselves to be able to endure what's going on in

1118
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 29: front of us. There's going to be a lot of

1119
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 29: fatigue that we feel, both emotionally and mentally from just.

1120
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 21: All of the things that are coming on in our bodies.

1121
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 29: So I think it's important to be able to have

1122
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 29: your happy space, take the time away when you need it,

1123
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 29: be able to rest when you need to, and then

1124
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 29: again be prepared to go out and get up and

1125
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 29: fight the next day, because there will be a fight tomorrow. Secondly,

1126
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 29: when it comes to on a local level, we all

1127
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,760
Speaker 29: need to be looking at how we can be engaged today.

1128
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 29: Whether that means showing up at a city council meeting,

1129
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 29: showing up at a school board meeting, showing up to

1130
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 29: a PTA or PTO meeting. We can all go and

1131
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 29: do those things today. And then thirdly, we know that

1132
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 29: we're gonna have to contact and support our legislators, whether

1133
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 29: that be persons like jas mccrockett, and others who we

1134
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 29: know are on the front lines and they're speaking out

1135
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 29: of speaking boldly. But in addition to those folks, we

1136
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 29: need to be agitating the individuals who aren't as loud,

1137
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 29: the quote unquote moderate Democrat or the moderate liberal, or

1138
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 29: the moderate independent or the radical Republican. We need to

1139
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 29: be agitating and bringing the smoke to all of them

1140
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 29: the same way that y'all worked for us. I saw

1141
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 29: a small clip just a second ago. Somebody sent it

1142
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 29: to my phone of a sister during the State of

1143
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 29: the trash excuse me, the State of the Union, and.

1144
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 21: There was a there was a there was a coward.

1145
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 2: I mean, there was a.

1146
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 21: Congressman who snatched the he snatched the paper.

1147
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 29: She said she had a paper that said this is

1148
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,479
Speaker 29: not normal, and he's snash the paper out her hand

1149
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 29: and then threw it up in the air like hip

1150
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 29: hip hooray.

1151
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 2: Like that should infuriate.

1152
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 21: Us and motivate us to go to work.

1153
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 29: Me personally, I would want to do some other things,

1154
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 29: but I'm going to channel my energy to go do

1155
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 29: some work within the community, and I think those are

1156
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 29: the things that we can do right now. Like everybody

1157
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 29: isn't going to mobilize a five thousand person march. Everybody

1158
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 29: isn't going to be able to put together this prolific

1159
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 29: town hall, but we all can do something in our communities, first,

1160
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 29: in our neighborhoods, next in our states and congressional districts

1161
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 29: after that.

1162
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 2: So let's go get to it.

1163
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 29: I challenge y'all to work not only with me, but

1164
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 29: everyone else on this call and those who we don't know,

1165
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 29: so we can get to work.

1166
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 5: And on that wes.

1167
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: Speaking of getting to work, there is somebody that's all

1168
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: about that work that is now with Reverend Mark Thompson.

1169
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: Ayana Presley, the congresswoman who is about that life real

1170
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: og is here and she is ready to talk to us.

1171
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 5: So congress Woman and Presley, welcome. We are so happy

1172
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 5: to see you. We're so glad you walked out.

1173
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 2: Girl, glad you walked out. She she can't. We're relaying

1174
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 2: what you're saying.

1175
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 14: Ok we said, girl, she said go girl.

1176
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 2: That's what she said. You can hear me, Okay, you.

1177
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 5: She can't hear us.

1178
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 2: So tell us, Congresswoman, God bless you, what happened up set?

1179
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 30: Yeah, well, we walked out, probably about twenty of us,

1180
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 30: but there were many people participating in silent protests with different.

1181
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 31: Signs instead of things like musk steals.

1182
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 30: UH, protect Medicaid, protect veterans. You know, this is the

1183
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 30: reforms of protests taking place UH in many iterations, including

1184
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 30: from Representative out Green and so yeah, this is a

1185
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 30: former protest.

1186
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 11: I went very briefly.

1187
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 31: Because I was here to hold space for my guest,

1188
00:59:58,720 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 31: who is.

1189
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 30: A probationary federal worker who worked at HUD who enforces

1190
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 30: national fair housing laws.

1191
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 31: She's also a wheelchair user, and.

1192
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 30: So she navigated a lot of ablest spaces to be

1193
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 30: here today, so to honor her, I want to take

1194
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 30: up space, but I knew that I was not going

1195
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 30: to stay there because we cannot normalize this. This man

1196
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 30: has no respect for Congress. He does not respect us

1197
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 30: as a cult equal branch of government. He has contempt

1198
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 30: for the American people. He pardoned January six ers, who

1199
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 30: desecrated the very well that we are in today for

1200
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 30: this joint Address of Congress or state of a Union.

1201
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 30: So I don't need to be there for a maga

1202
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 30: pep rally listening to lies in propaganda, hateful rhetoric, and

1203
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 30: even more hateful and harmful policies, and those policies are

1204
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 30: coming for every single person to cause this country home.

1205
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 31: Listen, I've been in Congress six years. I've never walked.

1206
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 30: Out of a joint address of Congress or State of

1207
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 30: the Union, not even for the occupant's first term.

1208
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 31: I've never walked out.

1209
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 14: But this is not normal.

1210
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 31: This is a fascist dictator.

1211
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 26: Uh.

1212
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 31: And I could not sit there and pretend.

1213
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 15: That this was it.

1214
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 31: That man is unfit to be president. He is not

1215
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 31: the president.

1216
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 5: Uh.

1217
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 30: And so if he has contempt for the American people,

1218
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 30: I'm gonna stand in solidarity with the American people. And

1219
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 30: that is why I walked out in protest at nine

1220
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 30: point forty. These boots were definitely made for walking. And

1221
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 30: and again, I wanted to bring visibility to the story

1222
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 30: of the federal worker from my district who was fired unlawfully, unjustly.

1223
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 12: Uh.

1224
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 30: And it not only is disrupting her life and livelihood,

1225
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 30: but it's a disservice to the people that she serves

1226
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 30: every day.

1227
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 2: Speaking of this is not normal. A member head to sign.

1228
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 15: Oh, let me tell you about that.

1229
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 31: Okay.

1230
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 30: So Melanie Stansbury had a sign shot a rest in

1231
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 30: peace and power to she La Jackson Lee.

1232
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 31: She was sitting on the aisle. Representative Jackson Lee used

1233
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 31: to sit for hours to hold that seat on the aisle.

1234
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 30: Melanie Stansbury was in that seat well a sign that

1235
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 30: said this isn't normal, because it ain't and a as

1236
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 30: Trump was making his way down the aisle, a Republican

1237
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 30: colleague I think from Texas, but I don't want to

1238
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 30: misrepresent leaned across the aisle snatched the sign and threw

1239
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 30: it up in the air.

1240
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 2: That's assault. We're talking about that. So the twenty who

1241
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 2: walked out, twenty who walked out?

1242
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 21: This all?

1243
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 30: Was this all black caucas No, it was a mix

1244
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 30: of Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Progressive Caucus.

1245
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 31: But I would say that there were more members of

1246
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 31: the CDC.

1247
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 2: And you said you did not plan the standard me.

1248
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 2: You knew you would probably welcome.

1249
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 30: I wasn't going to Well, honestly, I wasn't going to

1250
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 30: come at all, because again, this is not normal. This

1251
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 30: is in what other setting would we give audience to

1252
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 30: a fascist dictator. I want to be very clear, though,

1253
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 30: there's honorable in front of our names, every single member

1254
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,600
Speaker 30: of Congress. For a reason, I respect my colleagues, and

1255
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 30: how each of them decided to demonstrate protest, how they

1256
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 30: chose to center their guests for tonight.

1257
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 31: For me, I could not I could not sit there.

1258
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 30: That very chamber was desecrated by January sixth insurrectionists.

1259
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 31: That he parted. He does not respect us as a

1260
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 31: coequal branch of government. He has no respect for us.

1261
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 31: So it's insult to injury.

1262
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 30: So again, if he has contempt for the people, we're

1263
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 30: gonna stand in solidarity with the people.

1264
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:43,479
Speaker 31: And I honestly it was a part of a broader

1265
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 31: democratic strategy to have different forms.

1266
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, you all know that she.

1267
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 2: Is the truth. We got y'all tangled up in these wives,

1268
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 2: So tell it. So what did you did? You all walk?

1269
01:03:58,320 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 2: You walk at the same time.

1270
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 32: This is my queen, Ayanna Presley. I take all guidance

1271
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 32: from her.

1272
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 22: Yes, And essentially we did all walk out together.

1273
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 5: We in our minds had an idea of what we

1274
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 5: were going to do.

1275
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 32: I think each of us said there's only so much

1276
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 32: shit that I can take right when I have to

1277
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 32: keep flushing this toilet.

1278
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 31: And we walked out within four minutes of each other.

1279
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 31: It was a small wave of us, and it was.

1280
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 2: Also I heard it was a plane to where black

1281
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,760
Speaker 2: was that kind of a uh uh.

1282
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 14: Uh huh?

1283
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 2: Mark Times go ahead, Roy.

1284
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 8: Could you ask either of them? Do they feel like

1285
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 8: the hind closed doors? So it's behind closed doors. Any

1286
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 8: of the Republican officials are starting to turn against Trump?

1287
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 2: Do you get this sen as any of the Republican

1288
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 2: members are starting to turn against Trump?

1289
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 32: No, they're scared, but they also are mad at themselves

1290
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 32: for having no courage, And they're mad at us because

1291
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 32: we are the mirror.

1292
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 33: Of courage that they should have.

1293
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 30: And it would seem to Party it's a cult of

1294
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,439
Speaker 30: cowards that are complicit in wholesale harm.

1295
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:15,160
Speaker 2: And they have a majority. He even deems irrelevant because

1296
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 2: he just skips right over them, right, I mean, it's

1297
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 2: they don't.

1298
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 30: Mess that only abdicated their responsibility in this moment for

1299
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 30: our shared constituents. They have seeded their Congressional authority and

1300
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:30,240
Speaker 30: power because of their fealty and loyalty to Donald Trump

1301
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 30: and not to the people that elected them.

1302
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 32: And what is so very scary is that Donald Trump

1303
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 32: is trying to merge the executive, the legislative, and the

1304
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 32: judicial branch. We have seen Congress yield to him, the Republicans,

1305
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 32: and we have to make sure that the judiciary does

1306
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:51,680
Speaker 32: not do what these Republicans in Congress have done.

1307
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 2: That's right. I know I speak for everyone here. Answer

1308
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 2: you got a quick quck quick question? You want me

1309
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 2: to relay?

1310
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 5: I don't just let them know we stand with them.

1311
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to some of their colleagues here

1312
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: to get a reaction, but tell them we stand with them,

1313
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: and we thank them for their courage.

1314
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 2: We all stand with you. We thank you for your courage.

1315
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 2: You know, somebody you gotta do this, So I'm glad

1316
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 2: you all did that. And you know, I don't know

1317
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 2: you could hear him. He started whining, they don't love me.

1318
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 2: Then they don't have a clap for me. When I

1319
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 2: came up here for five years, they didn't clap. I mean,

1320
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:21,439
Speaker 2: he went this, you know that whole Rodney dangerfield. Don't

1321
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 2: nobody love me?

1322
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 22: Thinking, Wow, tell the truth and we'll clap. Tell the

1323
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 22: truth and we'll clap. Do your fucking job and we'll clap.

1324
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 32: But if you're going to kill us, if you're going

1325
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 32: to fire us, if you're going to take away our rights,

1326
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 32: then we are not going to clap.

1327
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 31: We are going to go for you.

1328
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 20: That's right, damn right.

1329
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:39,959
Speaker 31: I know she was loud, and she says she takes all.

1330
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 2: Hold on to Mario.

1331
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 5: Well, because because they can't hear us Mark, because they

1332
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 5: can't hear us Mark. I want to just jump in here.

1333
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,520
Speaker 1: There was someone who's a good friend of ours, our

1334
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: good brother Gary Chambers, who Gary Chambers has been relentless about.

1335
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: Let's call our members. Let's make sure they know we

1336
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: don't even want them to go, tell them to go somewhere.

1337
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: So I want to get his live reaction to what

1338
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: he's hearing right now, Gary time in here.

1339
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 9: I just I want to say thank you to the

1340
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 9: members of Congress who had the courage to stand up,

1341
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 9: because at the end of the day, we don't have

1342
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 9: to act like this as normal. We don't have to

1343
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 9: sit there and just allow him to lie in our faces.

1344
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 9: And I think that if we are understanding the spirit

1345
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 9: of our ancestors, that is to resist in both strategic

1346
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 9: ways and visible ways. So this government understands where we

1347
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 9: are in.

1348
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 2: A strategic way. That's what he was just saying.

1349
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: Okay, so we all agree to translate, but let's we

1350
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: got to keep the panel.

1351
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 2: No, but I'm gonna say one thing. Since the Mario

1352
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 2: was here and we talked and a Resa was here,

1353
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 2: we want to introduce those of you who don't know.

1354
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 2: She mentioned Kank Truman, Shiela Jackson Lee. She has inherited

1355
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 2: the mantle from the spirit of Shila Jackson Lee and

1356
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 2: John Kanye is Ayanna Presley is now the primary sponsor

1357
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 2: and they try forty reparations now. So we appreciate that

1358
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 2: Maxwell Frost has said, yeah, Mcrokett is around, and I

1359
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 2: think Albreen is still coming.

1360
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 5: I'll be back perfect. Thank you so much.

1361
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 8: Mark.

1362
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 5: We got we got Mark on the spot. Forget Johnny Roy.

1363
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 1: We got Mark on the spot and he brought us

1364
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: right to our protesters that know what time it is.

1365
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 1: It is state of the people, y'all in a state

1366
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: of the unit, and it ain't a joint addressed. This

1367
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: is our time and it is so good to be

1368
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,560
Speaker 1: alongside people with courage. I want to go to some

1369
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: sisters that I know carry the mantle for courage all

1370
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 1: the time. Bishop Leadaughtree, I want to come to you,

1371
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: and shavn Our Line Bradley, I also want to come

1372
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: to you simultaneously.

1373
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 5: I want to hear what y'all think about that.

1374
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: And now that we've had some sisters show up, show

1375
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 1: out say that we're not going to sit here and

1376
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: listen to this nonsense, what do people at home do

1377
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 1: with that same courage? How can we motivate and activate

1378
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: that same courage. I also want y'all to know I

1379
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 1: came to them because these are my These are my

1380
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: side passes. Okay, they get a prayer through and they'll

1381
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: get us some action that is rooted in faith.

1382
01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 5: So I want to hear from you all about what

1383
01:08:59,080 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 5: you think we do with that.

1384
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 31: On the side.

1385
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 5: I got a main line right to them.

1386
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 8: Okay, I thought you'd mind.

1387
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:13,839
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, See Roy, that's why you know what somebody blocking?

1388
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 15: Well, I'll start Shavn go ahead, Shavin you go well.

1389
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 34: First of all, shout out to the love tonight. I

1390
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 34: suspect the ancestors are well and resting well because of

1391
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:33,439
Speaker 34: what's happening right now. So just shout out to the

1392
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 34: whole family Angeler for keep keeping us rolling. I think

1393
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 34: a couple of things to offer as you think about

1394
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 34: the response. And I want to just honor black women

1395
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 34: in this moment for being aware and taking space that

1396
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 34: we know is ours to take.

1397
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:50,639
Speaker 6: I will tell you this, there.

1398
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 34: Is a unity between the brothers and sisters tonight that

1399
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 34: I think it's palpable and I think it's changing the game.

1400
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 34: But when we talk about the ground game, we need

1401
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 34: to talk specifically about where people need to go. There

1402
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:03,560
Speaker 34: are a lot of questions that are coming in on

1403
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 34: the strategies. What are we supposed to do? This is boycott, yes, activate, yes,

1404
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 34: But we're talking about now the legislative part of this work,

1405
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:18,120
Speaker 34: This part of the advocacy on the ground is where

1406
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 34: voters can.

1407
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 21: Take a stance.

1408
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 34: If you have a child that has an illness, they're

1409
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 34: currently receiving CHIP and supported by Medicaid. If you have

1410
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,920
Speaker 34: a mother or father who is over sixty five, they're

1411
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,360
Speaker 34: receiving any kind of treatments, they're receiving Medicare, Social Security

1412
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:38,520
Speaker 34: is on the line. I also want us to understand

1413
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 34: that we start talking about snap and benefits, these are

1414
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:46,440
Speaker 34: not just benefiting black people. As a misnomer about these entitlements.

1415
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 6: And what I want people to.

1416
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:51,640
Speaker 34: Understand is you have to now start calling your senators

1417
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 34: every single day.

1418
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 6: Be relentless, be relentless in.

1419
01:10:56,800 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 34: A way that allows them to know you will be

1420
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 34: voted out. And we've got to also use the phone

1421
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 34: tree method, like we got a old school. You got

1422
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 34: to call your people to tell them to call their

1423
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 34: people to make these phone calls and then show up

1424
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 34: special elections in Florida First and sixth district.

1425
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 14: Do not miss this.

1426
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 6: I don't care this Republican district. I care that we

1427
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 6: got black people that can vote.

1428
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 34: Here's the last thing I want to say is for

1429
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 34: this call tonight, as people are listening to what's happening,

1430
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 34: we got to understand that strategy will outweigh this foolishness.

1431
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 6: But strategy comes when.

1432
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 34: We had to take a moment to breathe and activate.

1433
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 34: Now that we're activating, look at what we've done in

1434
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,760
Speaker 34: twenty four hours. We have called my father's seventy seven

1435
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 34: years old and he told me he clicked.

1436
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 6: On to watch tonight. We're hitting generation after generation.

1437
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 34: We got mothers, grandmothers, fathers, Folks that have not been

1438
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 34: listening are now listening.

1439
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 6: So when you say turn the TV off, that doesn't

1440
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 6: mean turn off the activism. That means turn off this

1441
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 6: moment to be able to pull together what we're doing tonight,

1442
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:04,080
Speaker 6: working y'all we are going to win because our ancestors

1443
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 6: gave it the blueprint. This is a different man, but

1444
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:07,760
Speaker 6: not a different plan.

1445
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 5: That's what I want you to hear, Bishop, before you

1446
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 5: weigh in.

1447
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:25,799
Speaker 1: We've been joined by Congresswoman Latifah Simon with Mark, Reverend

1448
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,720
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, and I want to go to her.

1449
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 5: You all heard her earlier today.

1450
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go anywhere, all right, delivering her working family,

1451
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:36,640
Speaker 1: working family party rebuttal or prebuttal to the state of

1452
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 1: the Union. So Mark, I'm coming to you now so

1453
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: we can hear from Congresswoman Simon.

1454
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 2: Congswims, Simon, what happened?

1455
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 11: A lot happened tonight.

1456
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 15: I mean, I know, I walked out.

1457
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 11: I walked out.

1458
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 33: I couldn't listen to these these deep lives.

1459
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 11: It's vitrio.

1460
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 31: But it also, Sarah, felt like a clan rally in there.

1461
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,920
Speaker 22: We we have to really understand what's happening right in

1462
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 22: front of us. We heard the president said clearly. He

1463
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 22: said clearly that he wants to take us back to

1464
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 22: a nineteen fifties America. DEI is code for making sure

1465
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 22: that white men are leading everything. He has fired for

1466
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 22: star generals and has put unqualified white men to head

1467
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 22: our pentagon.

1468
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 14: I can go on and on.

1469
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 22: We heard the lies when he talks started talking about

1470
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:22,400
Speaker 22: social security. That's my grandmother, that's my aunt. Those are

1471
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 22: disabled children and the children of dead men. That is

1472
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 22: a social safety net that we all have paid into.

1473
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,600
Speaker 22: And he is going to just rupt that department. He

1474
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 22: is going to just rupt and fracture our education system again,

1475
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 22: that's disabled children, that's K through.

1476
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:38,639
Speaker 11: Twelve, that's FASPA.

1477
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 22: I couldn't listen to someone who's trying to tear apart

1478
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 22: the very structures that we have fought to build in

1479
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:44,719
Speaker 22: the last sixty years in this country.

1480
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 17: I had to walk out.

1481
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 22: It's my job to be in this building, but I

1482
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 22: refuse to sit and kowto to the neo clan.

1483
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:52,600
Speaker 31: I'm not doing it.

1484
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 2: Had you contemplated that, did you have a feeling that

1485
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 2: might be what you would do?

1486
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 31: I knew it, but my mother said, listen.

1487
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 22: My mother is from malvern Ark and she told me

1488
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 22: this morning, Latifa, eight hundred thousand people are expecting you

1489
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 22: to do your job and at least go. No one

1490
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 22: is supposed to kick you out of your house. So

1491
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 22: I wasn't kicked out today. I left mid mid speech,

1492
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:13,680
Speaker 22: very clear that we have work to do on the

1493
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 22: ground and factually, block by block, if we vote walk

1494
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,560
Speaker 22: back block, we can take back the House, stop this

1495
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 22: mad man, and win the presidency.

1496
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:23,799
Speaker 11: It's that simple.

1497
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 22: These folks don't care about laws, they don't care about

1498
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 22: the judiciary. We're facing a constitutional crisis when moreover, America

1499
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 22: is about to be sicker and poor, and none of

1500
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 22: us are safe.

1501
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:37,640
Speaker 31: You know last thing I'll say on this.

1502
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 22: You know, a few weeks into me being here, I'm

1503
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 22: a new member of Congress, I was one of the

1504
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 22: few people outside of Doe saying let us in and

1505
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 22: talk to these folks who want to take apart funding

1506
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 22: for HBCUs, want to take disabled services out of our

1507
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,600
Speaker 22: eight through twelve for our disabled, autistic children, intellectual and

1508
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 22: physical disabilities. Want to talk to them. Not only did

1509
01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 22: they lock the doors, they sent Homeland security. You couldn't

1510
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 22: see that behind the doors there's a wall of Promeland

1511
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 22: Security officers with their hands on their guns. This is

1512
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 22: not the republic that we have fought for. These are

1513
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 22: dangerous times. This democracy is in hospice.

1514
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 31: Watch out and be close and be clear. We have

1515
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 31: to organize, and folks have to run and went office.

1516
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 22: Because we are this close, this close from being in

1517
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 22: a segregated apartheid America once again. We have literally shed blood, tears,

1518
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:31,560
Speaker 22: intellectual beauty to have the small.

1519
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 15: Rights that we have.

1520
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 22: My mother wasn't born in a democracy. Yours wasn't either

1521
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,679
Speaker 22: in this country. Literally they couldn't vote, Their grandmothers couldn't vote.

1522
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 22: We are only two and a half generations past those times.

1523
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 22: This thinly veiled democracy can be whipped away in a second.

1524
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 22: Look at El Salvador, the president of al Salvador ripped

1525
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 22: up the constitution, slandered the legislative body in the dictionary body,

1526
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 22: and has now created a prison state. We gotta work, y'all.

1527
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 22: I'm ready to work. I'm here not just legislat but

1528
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 22: to organize, but to show up for my people.

1529
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 31: We got to do better, and I'm gonna do better.

1530
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 11: That's what I'm here to do.

1531
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 22: And I'm proud and honored to be one of two

1532
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 22: hundred people in this nation's history. Less than that has

1533
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 22: worn this pin.

1534
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:14,320
Speaker 31: So it's about action.

1535
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 15: We're gonna be in committee, but we're gonna be on.

1536
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:16,880
Speaker 5: The streets too.

1537
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 2: You may have had a bit of vantage point that

1538
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 2: we did what exactly happened with Al Green when they

1539
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 2: came in to escort him out, did they not?

1540
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:25,800
Speaker 22: So you know that brother is on the floor every

1541
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 22: single day fighting the good fight. I mean, listened to

1542
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 22: him his force speeches every day. What he did is

1543
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 22: he shook his cane and he challenged the leader of

1544
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 22: the Neo clan. And that's what he was supposed to do.

1545
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 22: And the Speaker of the House had a black man

1546
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:42,679
Speaker 22: forcefully removed from the chamber by the sergeant in arms.

1547
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 11: He is a sitting member of Congress.

1548
01:16:44,920 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 22: And do you see the heckling and the hollering from

1549
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 22: the Republicans?

1550
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 31: Do they have decorum?

1551
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:51,560
Speaker 8: No?

1552
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:53,680
Speaker 31: This is a discriminary body right now.

1553
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,680
Speaker 22: This is a leadership that doesn't see black men as

1554
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:58,600
Speaker 22: equal to their white counterparts.

1555
01:16:58,720 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 31: Is really clear.

1556
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 22: If you look at the right side of the aisle,

1557
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:05,639
Speaker 22: you see a monolithic you see a monolithic governance structure.

1558
01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 22: It's a majority white man structure.

1559
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 15: That's what they want.

1560
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 31: That's what they're pushing for. And you better feel, you

1561
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 31: better feel the realness of that.

1562
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 22: They are going to make sure that every head of state,

1563
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 22: every department head looks like those men, looks like the

1564
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 22: men who come.

1565
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 31: From a Lennia and you had our uncles swinging from trees.

1566
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 5: That is not hyperbole.

1567
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 17: That is the truth.

1568
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 15: That's the fight back.

1569
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 2: We got fire up in the capitol, y'all. I'm gonna

1570
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 2: throw it back because I know y'all having dialogue and

1571
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 2: folks gonna keep dropping and thank you congress Woman, thank you.

1572
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 5: Mark, keep them coming. This is amazing.

1573
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 1: I want to go to bishoply Adoptree now we talk

1574
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: about you, can you please show everybody your shirt because

1575
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: your shirt is prophetic for this evening.

1576
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 5: Look at this.

1577
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 1: It says black women vote, and what you see is

1578
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: black women leading, black women walking out.

1579
01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:53,679
Speaker 5: Boots were made for walking black women.

1580
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 1: Cussing while they leaving. You gotta feel proud. Bishop, I

1581
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: want to hear about this.

1582
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:01,519
Speaker 15: It is an amazing moment. This whole day has just

1583
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,880
Speaker 15: been an amazing thing. And to see these sisters step

1584
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,759
Speaker 15: up and tell us what was happening on the floor

1585
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 15: is just singular. And you know, black women are doing

1586
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 15: what black women have always done in this country. And

1587
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 15: I'm not discounting the efforts of the brothers, but I

1588
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 15: was asked to talk about black women, so that's what

1589
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 15: I'm gonna do. And so I think what we're seeing

1590
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 15: is the continuation of the bloodline and of the lineage.

1591
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 15: And I just want to remind us that nobody is

1592
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 15: coming to save us. There's no army that's coming to

1593
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 15: save us. We're gonna have to save ourselves. And that's

1594
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 15: just the bottom line. And if we're waiting for some

1595
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 15: want some cavalry, the cavai ain't coming, y'all. We have

1596
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 15: to save ourselves. And so what I want to offer

1597
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 15: is a couple of things that people can do. Number One, reject.

1598
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 15: We have got to reject the lies. What happened today

1599
01:18:56,400 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 15: with this twenty four hour marathon is one example. We

1600
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 15: gotta reject it outright. Refuse to accept what theydition. We

1601
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:11,720
Speaker 15: just not gonna reject it. Do not engage in anticipatory compliance,

1602
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 15: do not obey in advance. We gotta reject it. Number Two,

1603
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:19,760
Speaker 15: we gotta resist. Put on your boots, get you an

1604
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 15: angela bahrein, do whatever you gotta do in the places

1605
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 15: where you are to resist what is happening To say,

1606
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 15: I will not go here is the line I will

1607
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 15: not cross. I am going to do what I can do,

1608
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:35,080
Speaker 15: which is not to say that we all gonna do

1609
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 15: the same thing, but we ought to practice resistance in

1610
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 15: the spaces where they are. Number Three, we gotta reclaim

1611
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 15: our heritage. We've let it go because we have had

1612
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 15: an easy time of things in some respects, or we've

1613
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:52,600
Speaker 15: been duped into thinking we've had an easy time. We

1614
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:56,120
Speaker 15: have got to reclaim the mantle of our ancestors. What

1615
01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 15: the lineage was that got us to where we are today,

1616
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 15: where we have all these firsts, where we have people incentive,

1617
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:06,680
Speaker 15: where we have people running businesses. It was not ever so.

1618
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 15: And so we got to reclaim the authority, reclaim the power,

1619
01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 15: reclaim our legacy as black people in this country who

1620
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:21,679
Speaker 15: were built to survive. We were made for this storm.

1621
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 15: Everything that has happened to us in this country has

1622
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 15: prepared us for this moment, and we are up to

1623
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 15: the task. And the last r I'm gonna give you

1624
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 15: is remember, you got to remember where we've come from.

1625
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 15: You got to remember the battles we've already won. In

1626
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 15: the face of this of these co presidents who will

1627
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 15: try every day to dismiss, demean and diminish us, we

1628
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:50,639
Speaker 15: have to remember that with the stock we've come from,

1629
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:53,920
Speaker 15: we've got to remember the people we've come from, who

1630
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 15: were sturdy enough and strong enough to survive this middle

1631
01:20:57,320 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 15: passage to get here and to live four hundred years,

1632
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 15: to survive through the slave master's whip, through the splinching tree,

1633
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 15: through the segregated fountains, the back of the bus, and

1634
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 15: they kept on breathing, and they kept on living in

1635
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 15: the hope that we would be able to stand, not

1636
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 15: just stand, but thrive. And we cannot let our legacy

1637
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 15: and that our ancestors left for us be diminished onto me.

1638
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:26,720
Speaker 15: Ain't nobody coming to save us. We gotta save ourselves.

1639
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 1: That is absolutely right, sos and on that speaking to

1640
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 1: somebody who's working on saving ourselves actively. He might've upset

1641
01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: some party folks the other day because Jamie Harrison was front.

1642
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 5: And center in the USA Today article.

1643
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:45,120
Speaker 1: While white folks are talking about identity politics no more,

1644
01:21:45,240 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 1: there's no space for DEEI. We're starting to see white

1645
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 1: folks in the Democratic Party aligned with Republicans sounding real dixiecratish,

1646
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:56,920
Speaker 1: and Jamie Harrison is like, sweet brown, Ain't nobody got

1647
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: time for that.

1648
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 5: So Jamie, I want to know where you will tell

1649
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 5: the party to go from here? You see black women

1650
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 5: and black men.

1651
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: Thinking about mister Green leading with no direction in some ways,

1652
01:22:10,200 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 1: right they are leading. They're saying, we're gonna take this

1653
01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 1: in our own hands. We are going to follow our

1654
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: own conscience. We know they are members of a caucus

1655
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,640
Speaker 1: that's called the Conscience of the Congress. Jamie, how are

1656
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: you feeling about all this? And what do you tell

1657
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: the people at home who are like, finally we see leadership.

1658
01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,640
Speaker 35: Well, listen, Angela, First of all, thank you for your

1659
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 35: vision you enjoy for helping to pull all this together.

1660
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 8: And you know, the bishop just preached the word.

1661
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 21: She just preached the word.

1662
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 35: And we're at this inflection point, particularly where parties are.

1663
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:45,800
Speaker 35: And you know, I'm very fortunate to been the third

1664
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 35: black person to be chair of the Democratic Party. But

1665
01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:50,080
Speaker 35: I can tell your Democratic Party ain't perfect.

1666
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 13: And right now what you hear is there's a battle

1667
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 13: for the soul of the party.

1668
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 35: You got some folks who love to say that black

1669
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:01,640
Speaker 35: folks represent the backbone, the heart and soul of the

1670
01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 35: Democratic Party. But at the at the first indication of

1671
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 35: any anxiety, electoral anxiety, they want to abandon those folks.

1672
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:14,479
Speaker 35: They talk about identity politics being the thing that drags

1673
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:19,600
Speaker 35: that is dragging the Democratic Party back held evangelist, the

1674
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 35: right wing evangelists in the South is an identity group.

1675
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:26,560
Speaker 35: Gand owners in the South our identity group. But you

1676
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:30,040
Speaker 35: don't see the Republicans running away from them. If African

1677
01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 35: Americans represent the backbone of this party, then why are

1678
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 35: not all Democrats surrounding us and supporting us in this

1679
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:42,559
Speaker 35: full frontal attack that is happening on the black community

1680
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 35: right now. We all have to stand up. We all

1681
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 35: have a role to play, but we all have to

1682
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 35: stand up and we have to demand that our that

1683
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 35: our party and party leaders. And I'm not saying this

1684
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 35: as a blanket. This is you know, the DNC or whatever,

1685
01:23:56,439 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 35: but I'm seeing the folks who are elected officials in

1686
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 35: this party. They all have to stand up and do

1687
01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 35: their parts in terms of fighting for us. And that's

1688
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:07,880
Speaker 35: what we saw in his last election. There are some

1689
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 35: people who just fundamentally do not feel as though they

1690
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 35: see Donald Trump and they don't agree with Donald Trump.

1691
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:16,559
Speaker 15: Many of them hate Donald Trump.

1692
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:19,720
Speaker 21: But the one thing that they respect about Donald Trump is.

1693
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:24,680
Speaker 35: That whatever he believes, he fights like hell for Democrats.

1694
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 35: We got to fight like hell for the things that

1695
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:29,639
Speaker 35: we believe that our core values and the people who

1696
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 35: are the backbone of this party, and that is black folks.

1697
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 14: And so that's what we need at this point in time.

1698
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 14: And listen, we're all gonna.

1699
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 8: Have different roles.

1700
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 35: We're all gonna play different different roles in us. You know,

1701
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 35: we saw it during the Civil rights movement, right there

1702
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:48,000
Speaker 35: was the person who they were the people who march.

1703
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 35: There were people who sat in at the lunch counters.

1704
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 35: There were the folks who got the dogs sitting on them.

1705
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 35: But they were the pastors who organized. They were also

1706
01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 35: the people who paid the bail.

1707
01:24:58,320 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 15: Right, They're the lawyers that went into the.

1708
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 8: We all have roles to playing. We got to figure

1709
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 8: out what our role is.

1710
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 35: I often wondered, Angela when I was growing up in Orangeburg,

1711
01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,360
Speaker 35: what would I have done in the Civil rights movement?

1712
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 8: Well, hell, we don't have to wonder anymore.

1713
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 35: Because right now we are in the civil rights movement

1714
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 35: of our time, and the question is what will each

1715
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 35: of us do in this movement in order to continue

1716
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:24,560
Speaker 35: to move our people, and our party and our families

1717
01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:28,719
Speaker 35: in this country forward. And so I'm just I'm happy

1718
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 35: to be a part of this. You know, I'm gonna

1719
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 35: do everything because I do it. Yes, I do it

1720
01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 35: for my people, but you know selfishly, you know who

1721
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,439
Speaker 35: I do it for, my two black sons who.

1722
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 8: Are upstairs right now sleeping.

1723
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:44,560
Speaker 14: That is who I do this work for.

1724
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:47,759
Speaker 35: That's why I will give every breath in my body

1725
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,600
Speaker 35: to make sure that my sons don't grow up in

1726
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 35: a world like my grandparents grew up in where the

1727
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:56,120
Speaker 35: KKK march through their town, where they had to drink

1728
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 35: out of colored water fountains, where they sat at the

1729
01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 35: back of the bus. I will do every single thing

1730
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 35: in my power, will give every bit of my blood,

1731
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 35: every breath that I have to make sure that my

1732
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 35: boys don't live in that world. Right now, we have

1733
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:13,360
Speaker 35: a fascist in a White House. It is fair, it

1734
01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:16,040
Speaker 35: is fraud, it is fascism, and that is what defines

1735
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:16,960
Speaker 35: a Republican Party.

1736
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 8: That is what defines Donald Trump.

1737
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 15: And we got to do everything that we can to

1738
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 15: push back and fight back against that.

1739
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:27,519
Speaker 8: Congressman Harrison, thank you so so much. We want to

1740
01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:30,679
Speaker 8: go back now real quick to Mark Thompson. I understand

1741
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 8: he has a representative, Maxwell Frost, one of the few

1742
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:38,960
Speaker 8: good things to come out of Florida. Mark uh gets

1743
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 8: also orange, just shout out to oranges. Mark real quick

1744
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 8: asked to start asking.

1745
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:46,920
Speaker 2: He can eat you, he can hear you, he can Okay, dope,

1746
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 2: So are you doing?

1747
01:26:48,040 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 8: Good to see you? Good to see? Ain't singing since

1748
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 8: a daily show when you popped in a while back. Brother.

1749
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 8: What was the consensus before going into the chambers tonight

1750
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,720
Speaker 8: amongst all the Democrats, Well, y'all was you're gonna walk out, Well,

1751
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:02,400
Speaker 8: I'm gonna walk out, you walk out, I'll walk out.

1752
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 8: Or was it more organized? Was everyone kind of feeling

1753
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 8: their own way as the night went on, There.

1754
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 36: Was definitely a lot of organizing going on. And here

1755
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 36: was the general consensus is that number one, this isn't

1756
01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 36: a normal address. This isn't a normal time where you

1757
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:20,720
Speaker 36: stand up when the president walks in, where you have

1758
01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 36: that kind of decorum, because number one, he's never shown

1759
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:26,679
Speaker 36: that to us, or the American people or any people.

1760
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 36: He's never shown that to black people. And so we

1761
01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 36: walked in there, many of us with a plan of

1762
01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:33,880
Speaker 36: what to do. If you've seen the videos, you've seen

1763
01:27:33,920 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 36: people with signs holding up signs. I hold up a

1764
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 36: sign that said musk steals elon Musk has been tweeting

1765
01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 36: at me every other week. If I was the richest

1766
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:43,200
Speaker 36: man on earth, I wouldn't be tweeting at twenty's eight

1767
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 36: year old Maxwell Frost.

1768
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 2: But I'll be doing other things.

1769
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 21: But I held up a must steal sign.

1770
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

1771
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:51,120
Speaker 36: The reason why we decided to walk out is because

1772
01:27:51,200 --> 01:27:52,840
Speaker 36: number one, we all worked really hard to get the

1773
01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 36: Congress and our constituents set us there, and we knew

1774
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:57,720
Speaker 36: we didn't want to stay the whole time. But I

1775
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 36: think there's power in occupying us space and choosing yourself.

1776
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 36: Went to get up and leave and walk out in

1777
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 36: the spirit of student protesters from the Civil rights era,

1778
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 36: and that's why we decided to do it. Us in

1779
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 36: a group of mainly women from the Black Caucus who

1780
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 36: helped lead us into that action. Yeah, you and you

1781
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:21,360
Speaker 36: have some loan, right, Yeah, And we couldn't. You can't

1782
01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 36: just get up and walk out, right. We got up

1783
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 36: and we turned around and showed them our back to

1784
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 36: show this message, no kings live here, No kings live here. Yeah,

1785
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 36: because he thinks he's a king. And what's going on

1786
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 36: right now is this administrative coup, coup and billionaire takeover

1787
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:44,799
Speaker 36: of our government so they can take away Medicaid, social Security,

1788
01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:48,400
Speaker 36: the things people have fought for and earned, to give

1789
01:28:48,479 --> 01:28:51,560
Speaker 36: billionaires a tax cut. And this is what the fascists

1790
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 36: do is they try to have us say, well, I

1791
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 36: can't pay rent because of black history, I can't afford

1792
01:28:57,560 --> 01:29:00,120
Speaker 36: my medicine, because of that trans person, I can't afford this,

1793
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 36: I can't afford that because of the immigrant. They want

1794
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,200
Speaker 36: us to look at each other instead of looking at them.

1795
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 36: But what I try to tell people is you are

1796
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 36: closer to being on the streets than you are to

1797
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 36: being elon musk. But they profit from us blaming each other,

1798
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 36: especially as black people amongst cultures and amongst the entire world.

1799
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,040
Speaker 36: So I'm proud to be here, I'm proud to have

1800
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 36: done this action, but we know it doesn't stop here.

1801
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what's next? What would you what do

1802
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 2: you want to see your other members and this party do?

1803
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:30,240
Speaker 36: I believe Look, number one, when you don't have all

1804
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 36: the power you want, you use all the power you got.

1805
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 36: And we do have power because there's only a two

1806
01:29:35,240 --> 01:29:37,839
Speaker 36: seat majority in the House, and we have the ability

1807
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,879
Speaker 36: to obstruct, to delay, to push back on this extreme

1808
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:43,639
Speaker 36: agenda that most people don't believe in And I think

1809
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:46,559
Speaker 36: that's what we need to do, whether it's working at subpoena,

1810
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:49,720
Speaker 36: Elon Musk and every single oversight committee hearing right or

1811
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 36: as many as we can one day, a few of

1812
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:53,600
Speaker 36: those too many of those guys are going to be

1813
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 36: at lunch a little too far and guess what it'll

1814
01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:57,960
Speaker 36: move through, believe it or not. That's how that's how

1815
01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:02,080
Speaker 36: these things work sometimes. Right, the other day you have

1816
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 36: to challenge power too. The other day I said, grifter

1817
01:30:05,120 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 36: in chief, I think that's pretty tame. First, that's pretty tame.

1818
01:30:10,400 --> 01:30:12,680
Speaker 36: But they wouldn't even allow me to say that. So

1819
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:15,760
Speaker 36: then you say, well, do I see that ground or

1820
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 36: do I push it not to just be performative, but

1821
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:22,439
Speaker 36: to make a point till people can see what's going on,

1822
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 36: because we can't assume that everyone's paying attention to that

1823
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 36: to that.

1824
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:30,040
Speaker 8: Point, Congressman Frost about not seeding ground. Earlier this week,

1825
01:30:30,120 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 8: President Trump tweeted or truth social or whatever about the

1826
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 8: possibility when it comes to the youth of if you

1827
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 8: protest at a college campus, automatic expulsion or if you

1828
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:44,639
Speaker 8: protest illegally, which basically means we will draw the lines

1829
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:47,320
Speaker 8: of the appropriate way to protest and then just say

1830
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 8: you violated and expel you. How serious do you think

1831
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 8: of a threat that is as we get into midterms,

1832
01:30:53,200 --> 01:30:56,680
Speaker 8: and how serious how I believe protesting is going to

1833
01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 8: play an important part of everything we're talking about over

1834
01:30:59,479 --> 01:31:01,800
Speaker 8: the next four years. How serious of a threat is

1835
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 8: that do you think that to be? And what advice

1836
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:06,800
Speaker 8: would you have to young organizers who are going to

1837
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 8: be facing these types of potential legal ramifications for speaking out.

1838
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 36: I think it's a very serious threat. I think that

1839
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:18,040
Speaker 36: Number one week campaign for a while talking about Project

1840
01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:18,880
Speaker 36: twenty twenty five.

1841
01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 2: Now it's happening.

1842
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 36: Yeah, we have no room to act surprised about the

1843
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:26,840
Speaker 36: things they're doing because they wrote them down and we

1844
01:31:26,920 --> 01:31:29,560
Speaker 36: told people they would do it. And this attack on

1845
01:31:29,840 --> 01:31:33,840
Speaker 36: freedom of speech and students is something that we have

1846
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 36: to take seriously. So what would I tell students to do?

1847
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:36,559
Speaker 8: Well?

1848
01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:40,519
Speaker 36: Thinking to my organizing number one, build community and grow

1849
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:44,519
Speaker 36: your movement outside of students too. I remember during the

1850
01:31:44,560 --> 01:31:48,200
Speaker 36: Black Lives Matter uprising, the nights where I was tear

1851
01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:49,719
Speaker 36: gas mason when I went to jail.

1852
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:50,720
Speaker 6: It wasn't just.

1853
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 36: People my age that had my back, and it wasn't

1854
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 36: just people my age that bailed me out of jail.

1855
01:31:55,520 --> 01:32:00,240
Speaker 36: It was a multi generational movement of community that brought

1856
01:32:00,280 --> 01:32:03,360
Speaker 36: each other up. You know our pro bono lawyers where

1857
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:05,680
Speaker 36: many of them were seniors, right, who came out to

1858
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 36: help us. So I encourage people young people throughout history

1859
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 36: will always be leading, right, But it is important to

1860
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 36: make sure that you bring everybody into this movement because

1861
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 36: it's of us, by us, and I think that's how

1862
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 36: we protect us. So that's what I would tell students

1863
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 36: across the country. Take this seriously, and also call on

1864
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:28,559
Speaker 36: your elected officials to protect your freedom of speech. Whether

1865
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 36: you're advocating against babies dying and guys, or you're advocating

1866
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 36: to make sure that we have accountability and law enforcement

1867
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 36: or whatever it is, housing justice, whatever it is. We

1868
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,760
Speaker 36: all deserve to say what we want to say. And

1869
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:46,120
Speaker 36: that he wants to go out after that. And here's

1870
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 36: the other thing I'll say. I think another reason he

1871
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:49,240
Speaker 36: wants to go after it is because a lot of

1872
01:32:49,280 --> 01:32:53,640
Speaker 36: times in history that energy does turn into votes against fascism.

1873
01:32:54,320 --> 01:32:56,040
Speaker 36: Do we have the largest youth foot or turnout in

1874
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:58,680
Speaker 36: the history of our country in a mid term in

1875
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 36: twenty eighteen, happened in twenty eighteen, massive protests. What else

1876
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 36: happened in twenty eighteen Marjorie Slimm and Douglas was shot

1877
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,760
Speaker 36: up and students around the country said enough is enough.

1878
01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:11,160
Speaker 36: In twenty twenty, we had the highest uit for the

1879
01:33:11,200 --> 01:33:13,559
Speaker 36: turnout in the history of a general election. What happened

1880
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:16,679
Speaker 36: in twenty twenty a black man was lynched in broad daylight.

1881
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:18,800
Speaker 36: People woke up and saw the video and said enough

1882
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:20,960
Speaker 36: is enough, took to the streets, Then they took to

1883
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:24,000
Speaker 36: the ballot box. So there's a danger in allowing social

1884
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:26,519
Speaker 36: movements to emerge, and they want to try to scare

1885
01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 36: people from even going out to the street in the

1886
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:30,400
Speaker 36: first place. We have to take it very serious year.

1887
01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:32,519
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bresidan, thank you just well.

1888
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 1: Last question for Mark Congressman is Angela Rye. Thank you

1889
01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 1: for joining us.

1890
01:33:37,120 --> 01:33:40,840
Speaker 5: I quick question for you. When you consider what just

1891
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 5: happened and you see how Congressman Green was treated, do

1892
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:45,960
Speaker 5: you think it was worth it to show up to

1893
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:47,439
Speaker 5: the joint address tonight?

1894
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 15: Yeah?

1895
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 36: Obviously this is a I don't want to talk about

1896
01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:55,120
Speaker 36: about anyone for their individual decisions. Everyone's going to decide

1897
01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 36: how they want to represent their constituents, I'll tell you

1898
01:33:57,120 --> 01:33:59,560
Speaker 36: where I come. Where I'm coming from. Number one, I

1899
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:03,280
Speaker 36: come from direct action and movement based politics. And for me,

1900
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 36: it's all about space. How are you taking up space?

1901
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:09,080
Speaker 36: When are you leaving a space and making sure you're

1902
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:12,280
Speaker 36: doing that on your own accord? And of course I

1903
01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 36: worked hard to get here, but more importantly, my people

1904
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 36: set me here. I believe to take up space. But

1905
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:19,840
Speaker 36: here's the thing that's more from a practical point of view.

1906
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:22,160
Speaker 36: When you don't show up and sit in a seat,

1907
01:34:22,520 --> 01:34:25,760
Speaker 36: they put a Republican staffer in that seat. When you

1908
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:28,520
Speaker 36: leave in the middle of the speech, there's no staffers

1909
01:34:28,560 --> 01:34:31,360
Speaker 36: available to sit in your seat. So all these are

1910
01:34:31,439 --> 01:34:33,280
Speaker 36: the things that we know we try to think about

1911
01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 36: when we do the action. Did I not want to go?

1912
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 36: Of course I didn't want to go and listen to

1913
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 36: this VS lies from this neo fascist racist. But I

1914
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:44,040
Speaker 36: think there's power in stepping up, leaving a solidarity of

1915
01:34:44,120 --> 01:34:47,040
Speaker 36: course with al Green, but also in solidarity with black

1916
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 36: people and oppressed people across this nation. And so everyone

1917
01:34:51,200 --> 01:34:53,600
Speaker 36: has their own way of advocating. Some people boycotted it.

1918
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:56,000
Speaker 36: Power to them, power to everyone. But this was the

1919
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,720
Speaker 36: way I decided to do my action tonight with a

1920
01:34:58,760 --> 01:34:59,599
Speaker 36: great group of people.

1921
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:01,760
Speaker 2: Let me say this as we as he leaves, brother,

1922
01:35:01,840 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 2: we appreciate you, Tamika. This reminds me being with this

1923
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:09,640
Speaker 2: young twenty something your brother in this capital reminds me

1924
01:35:09,880 --> 01:35:11,720
Speaker 2: of when we were with those other young twenty some

1925
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:13,800
Speaker 2: of young brothers in the Capitol of Nashville. So this

1926
01:35:13,960 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 2: is Dejah Blue, love you man. You keep that up. Man,

1927
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:19,000
Speaker 2: proud of you. Doppreciate all right, all right, we'll be back, y'all,

1928
01:35:19,040 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 2: go ahead, all right, thank you.

1929
01:35:30,320 --> 01:35:33,799
Speaker 5: I am so grateful for these cutaways to the Capitol.

1930
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:36,800
Speaker 5: It's putting us right in the moment. This is really

1931
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:40,160
Speaker 5: really good reporting on behalf of Reverend Mark Thompson.

1932
01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:42,679
Speaker 1: I want to come to our sister that she wipes

1933
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,200
Speaker 1: her face. Latasha was on the plane for twenty hours

1934
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:47,920
Speaker 1: traveling to get here tonight. Latasha Brown is the co

1935
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 1: founder of Black Voters Matter. Black Voters Matter got something

1936
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:53,560
Speaker 1: to say about some of this too, So LB I

1937
01:35:53,640 --> 01:35:56,480
Speaker 1: want to come to you because you all have always

1938
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,439
Speaker 1: been about the work of the people and making sure

1939
01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:01,559
Speaker 1: that we get it engage. I want to know your

1940
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:04,840
Speaker 1: reaction to what Maxell is just sharing and what you

1941
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:06,360
Speaker 1: think our next steps need to be?

1942
01:36:07,680 --> 01:36:17,879
Speaker 37: Oh oh freedom, Oh freedom, freedom, Oh bumby, oh bummy,

1943
01:36:18,720 --> 01:36:20,080
Speaker 37: And before.

1944
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:25,600
Speaker 31: Me, I say, I'll be glad in my gray and

1945
01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 31: go to my Lord and be free.

1946
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:34,240
Speaker 22: You know, I wanted to sing that song because this

1947
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:37,920
Speaker 22: is the week March the sixtieth anniversary of people who

1948
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:40,880
Speaker 22: sang that song on the Emma Petteris Bridge in the

1949
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:43,679
Speaker 22: summer Alabama. It is also a song that my ancestors,

1950
01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:46,160
Speaker 22: when they did not have politics on their side, they

1951
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 22: didn't have resources, they have all any of those things,

1952
01:36:49,200 --> 01:36:51,600
Speaker 22: they knew that there was something inside of them that, No,

1953
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 22: you're not going to dehumanize me, You're not going to

1954
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:57,880
Speaker 22: take away the Constitution is not what gives me my

1955
01:36:58,040 --> 01:36:58,639
Speaker 22: right to live.

1956
01:36:58,800 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 15: God has given me my right to live.

1957
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:03,400
Speaker 22: And so I say that in this space that I

1958
01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:06,120
Speaker 22: wanted to bring the ancestors and the history and the

1959
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 22: long history of the ancestors and our resistance in this space,

1960
01:37:10,280 --> 01:37:12,639
Speaker 22: that that is a song of resilience, but it's also

1961
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:13,680
Speaker 22: a song of resistance.

1962
01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 15: And so in terms of going forward, there are four things.

1963
01:37:16,120 --> 01:37:19,360
Speaker 22: I'll be real quick because I think I'm turning into

1964
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 22: a I'm turning into a pot of sand Right now,

1965
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:28,280
Speaker 22: I think there's four things and I'm calling I'm saying

1966
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 22: it in terms of this strategy around.

1967
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:33,280
Speaker 38: Force.

1968
01:37:33,439 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 8: What we have to do.

1969
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:36,600
Speaker 15: The first thing is around the forty five in this

1970
01:37:36,840 --> 01:37:40,080
Speaker 15: moment with people, we have to fortify ourselves. What does

1971
01:37:40,160 --> 01:37:43,519
Speaker 15: that mean? We have to protect our assets and our information.

1972
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:46,519
Speaker 22: You cannot take for granted that all of the things

1973
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 22: that you have that is based on the computer that

1974
01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:52,360
Speaker 22: is going to be there. You need to download your documents,

1975
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 22: you need to protect your resources. My family who literally

1976
01:37:56,360 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 22: lived through the depression, my grandparents that raised me that

1977
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:02,040
Speaker 22: born in nineteen o five and nineteen ten, they always

1978
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:04,200
Speaker 22: kept money in the house. And part of what they

1979
01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:06,719
Speaker 22: said is the reason why they survived and our family

1980
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:09,080
Speaker 22: survived during the Great Depression.

1981
01:38:08,880 --> 01:38:10,599
Speaker 15: Is because they didn't have their money in the banks.

1982
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:12,880
Speaker 22: And so I know that that sounds a little like

1983
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,759
Speaker 22: an alarmist, but you need to have two thousand dollars

1984
01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:17,400
Speaker 22: a minimum of two thousand.

1985
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 17: Dollars if you can.

1986
01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:20,640
Speaker 22: If you have that that you got set aside that

1987
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:22,880
Speaker 22: at any moment you can touch it, because if your

1988
01:38:22,960 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 22: bank card goes down, what you're gonna do?

1989
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:24,880
Speaker 8: Right?

1990
01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:26,479
Speaker 15: And so I think it's really important for us to

1991
01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 15: really think differently.

1992
01:38:27,720 --> 01:38:29,680
Speaker 22: We have to think in terms of a self determination

1993
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:33,000
Speaker 22: model on how we're gonna protect ourselves and our assets

1994
01:38:33,080 --> 01:38:36,280
Speaker 22: in this moment. When I say protect your information, you

1995
01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:39,200
Speaker 22: have to check your sources, y'all. Part of what is

1996
01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:41,960
Speaker 22: happening is there are people who are intentionally giving us

1997
01:38:42,080 --> 01:38:45,759
Speaker 22: misinformation and disinformation. Check your sources and where you're getting

1998
01:38:45,840 --> 01:38:50,320
Speaker 22: information from, double triple of check that right. The next thing,

1999
01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:52,760
Speaker 22: the next as we're talking about from forty five, we've

2000
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:53,400
Speaker 22: got to focus.

2001
01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:56,640
Speaker 15: It's really important for us to be think about what

2002
01:38:56,760 --> 01:38:58,479
Speaker 15: it is that we need in this moment.

2003
01:38:58,760 --> 01:39:00,680
Speaker 22: You know, we talked about earlier on this segment that

2004
01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 22: we were on that we've got to connect to black farmers,

2005
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 22: that we've got to figure out where we can get

2006
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:08,400
Speaker 22: our basic needs met. When we're talking about social security cuts,

2007
01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:11,439
Speaker 22: y'all need to understand the fifty eight percent of single

2008
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 22: Black adults over the age that are retirement age, ninety

2009
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,360
Speaker 22: percent of their income comes from social security.

2010
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 15: Ninety percent of their income comes from social security.

2011
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 22: It will be devastating to our communities in terms of

2012
01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:27,519
Speaker 22: how will they live, how will they feed themselves, how

2013
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:30,200
Speaker 22: will they protect themselves? So it's important for us not

2014
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 22: just to talk about how are we going to stop

2015
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:34,280
Speaker 22: it depend on them, but how we're going to have

2016
01:39:34,439 --> 01:39:37,160
Speaker 22: and use our institutions and structures to be able to

2017
01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:40,040
Speaker 22: fortifyre people and focus our work so that we can

2018
01:39:40,080 --> 01:39:42,519
Speaker 22: protect our people in this moment. And so that means

2019
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:44,200
Speaker 22: we have to think like black We have to think

2020
01:39:44,439 --> 01:39:48,000
Speaker 22: in terms of black determination models and these self determination models.

2021
01:39:48,240 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 22: All of those churches know, you cannot have a church

2022
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 22: and you just open on Sunday. That has to become

2023
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:55,800
Speaker 22: a community black space. If you have institution, you have

2024
01:39:56,000 --> 01:39:58,160
Speaker 22: business that has to be if it needs to be

2025
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:00,639
Speaker 22: a meeting space. We've got to look in this moment

2026
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:03,879
Speaker 22: of how do we create and think as nation builders

2027
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 22: in this moment. The third thing that I want to

2028
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:08,639
Speaker 22: say is really about this fight that we the way

2029
01:40:08,720 --> 01:40:11,680
Speaker 22: that we fight. We're used to fighting when we have

2030
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:15,120
Speaker 22: federal protections in place. We're used to fighting, particularly those

2031
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 22: of us that live in the races South, we've actually

2032
01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:21,280
Speaker 22: fought in the ways that we would actually use federal legislation,

2033
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:24,720
Speaker 22: federal government to really be able to hold our states accountable.

2034
01:40:24,880 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 22: When that is not in place, how do we protect

2035
01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:29,680
Speaker 22: our people? Part of what we really got to be

2036
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:33,240
Speaker 22: super super focused is local control. We need to take

2037
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:36,200
Speaker 22: over every single and the wonderful thing about black folks

2038
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:39,400
Speaker 22: is we like to live together, so oftentimes we live

2039
01:40:39,479 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 22: in spaces that we have we have substantial numbers where

2040
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,519
Speaker 22: we can take over school boards, that we can take

2041
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:49,000
Speaker 22: over local local elections. It has we have to focus

2042
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:52,679
Speaker 22: on local control as much as possible, the mayor's races,

2043
01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 22: the DA races, the local judgeships.

2044
01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:56,639
Speaker 15: The fourth and the final thing.

2045
01:40:56,560 --> 01:40:59,439
Speaker 22: That I'll say really is we have to really it

2046
01:40:59,520 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 22: will not be our politics to save us, y'all.

2047
01:41:01,400 --> 01:41:03,719
Speaker 15: It will be our humanity. But we can no longer

2048
01:41:03,840 --> 01:41:05,479
Speaker 15: just think about citizens of a.

2049
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:08,680
Speaker 22: Boot deggnation that ad will believes that we are at

2050
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 22: the whimsical nature of white racist folks.

2051
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:13,760
Speaker 15: We have to think like founders of a new nation.

2052
01:41:14,200 --> 01:41:17,559
Speaker 22: We have to really think differently, that we're not just citizens,

2053
01:41:17,600 --> 01:41:19,920
Speaker 22: but that we're founders of something different and what does

2054
01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:20,280
Speaker 22: that mean.

2055
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 15: We have to really be thinking about how will we

2056
01:41:22,920 --> 01:41:26,720
Speaker 15: protect and provide for our people in this moment, the

2057
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:28,440
Speaker 15: basic needs of food.

2058
01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 22: Shelter, our resources, and literally one of the things I

2059
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:33,559
Speaker 22: want us to do, don't spend no money.

2060
01:41:34,080 --> 01:41:37,400
Speaker 15: We cannot spend money in this moment. Why unless we're.

2061
01:41:37,240 --> 01:41:40,040
Speaker 22: Spending money with our communities and with things that we need.

2062
01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 22: Don't take for granted that the eggs are fourteen dollars.

2063
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:45,479
Speaker 22: Now with the tear for this trade war, it is

2064
01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:48,120
Speaker 22: going to have a substantial impact on us. So this

2065
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:50,120
Speaker 22: is not the moment to go by your Gucci bag.

2066
01:41:50,240 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 22: This is not the moment to go and spend on Amazon.

2067
01:41:53,160 --> 01:41:55,519
Speaker 22: This is not the Momba, and we ain't trying to

2068
01:41:55,520 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 22: get them our money.

2069
01:41:56,240 --> 01:41:57,360
Speaker 15: No, that are gonna wait anyway.

2070
01:41:57,600 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 22: So I think it's really important in this moment that

2071
01:41:59,520 --> 01:42:01,600
Speaker 22: we really see a o money and if you are

2072
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 22: going to spend some money, to invest some money, invest

2073
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,559
Speaker 22: it in a black organization that is leading this work,

2074
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:09,880
Speaker 22: someone that you know that is on the front line

2075
01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 22: doing this work with us.

2076
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:14,400
Speaker 15: Ten dollars. I see my brother Quinn James with Collective.

2077
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:18,160
Speaker 22: Pack, I see David, all these organizations I see Shamon

2078
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 22: that are doing amazing work.

2079
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 15: Write ten dollars, twenty dollars past.

2080
01:42:22,320 --> 01:42:24,519
Speaker 22: The mic that has been standing in this space really

2081
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:27,680
Speaker 22: making sure that our communities are protected, those of us

2082
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:30,800
Speaker 22: who have been marginalized, and so in that I'll just say,

2083
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:33,120
Speaker 22: in this moment I'm a leave with a question. I

2084
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 22: always ask this question everywhere we go, everywhere I speak,

2085
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:38,960
Speaker 22: I ask the question. I ask people to close their

2086
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:42,560
Speaker 22: eyes and my question to them is what would this

2087
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:44,240
Speaker 22: nation look like without racism?

2088
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:48,360
Speaker 15: What would the institutions look like? What would a day

2089
01:42:48,439 --> 01:42:48,800
Speaker 15: look like?

2090
01:42:49,320 --> 01:42:52,760
Speaker 22: And and everywhere I go, ninety five percent most of

2091
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:55,519
Speaker 22: the time, nobody has been asked that question. And if

2092
01:42:55,560 --> 01:42:57,519
Speaker 22: you don't think we're not thinking about it, certainly we

2093
01:42:57,560 --> 01:42:59,280
Speaker 22: don't think the other folks thinking about it. So we

2094
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:02,680
Speaker 22: got to shape change the paradigm in this moment and

2095
01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 22: ask ourselves every single day what would this nation look

2096
01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:10,120
Speaker 22: like without racism? Because racism is not my birthright? And

2097
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 22: what will it require for us to build in that?

2098
01:43:12,920 --> 01:43:15,160
Speaker 22: And so we've got to be moving on that, because

2099
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:17,680
Speaker 22: I will tell you this, there's not been anything that

2100
01:43:17,800 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 22: has ever existing in the physical realm that wasn't first envision.

2101
01:43:21,280 --> 01:43:23,760
Speaker 15: Somebody had to envision the cell phone, someone.

2102
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 22: Had to envision this, Somebody had to envision a a

2103
01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:30,719
Speaker 22: racist concept around what it means, around this white supremacy hierarchy.

2104
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,720
Speaker 22: So those of us, we who believe in freedom, we

2105
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:36,720
Speaker 22: also have to see ourselves as visionaries and We've got

2106
01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:40,479
Speaker 22: to radically reimagine every single system in this country instead

2107
01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:43,320
Speaker 22: of us responding to the limited vision of others that

2108
01:43:43,360 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 22: don't want to see us in power. We've got to

2109
01:43:45,400 --> 01:43:48,280
Speaker 22: literally create the systems that every child can get fed.

2110
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:50,640
Speaker 22: We've got to create systems that we can actually have

2111
01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:53,240
Speaker 22: health care for all of Guy's children. We've got to

2112
01:43:53,280 --> 01:43:56,519
Speaker 22: create the systems that's really about a wholesome education. So

2113
01:43:56,840 --> 01:44:00,800
Speaker 22: think shift, you're thinking, it's not citizens of this, but

2114
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:03,560
Speaker 22: go beyond that. We have to be founders of a

2115
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:06,479
Speaker 22: new nation, a founders of a nation that's yet unborn.

2116
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:08,599
Speaker 22: And part of that is going to require us having

2117
01:44:08,640 --> 01:44:12,200
Speaker 22: a discipline to lean into that, to really use our imagination,

2118
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,160
Speaker 22: our innovation and self determination to move forward.

2119
01:44:15,479 --> 01:44:21,920
Speaker 1: Thank you Angela, Thank you Ntasha, thank you. Yes are

2120
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 1: almost open. We've been joined you all by.

2121
01:44:25,320 --> 01:44:26,679
Speaker 5: Another history maker.

2122
01:44:26,840 --> 01:44:30,600
Speaker 1: I so wanted to go to Jamal and Tamika and

2123
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:32,519
Speaker 1: Angelo to talk about not spending money.

2124
01:44:32,600 --> 01:44:35,080
Speaker 5: Y'all hold that thought, because we got to get to

2125
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 5: We got a queen. They might not be no kings

2126
01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:39,160
Speaker 5: in that house, but we have a queen amongst that.

2127
01:44:39,280 --> 01:44:42,440
Speaker 5: She is the CBC chairwoman.

2128
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,760
Speaker 1: She's one of my former bosses congress Woman he Vet

2129
01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:47,080
Speaker 1: Clark from Brooklyn.

2130
01:44:47,360 --> 01:44:49,120
Speaker 5: She gonna show Donald Trump what time it is.

2131
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:50,639
Speaker 1: You can see he's a real gang say he don't

2132
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:53,000
Speaker 1: want to mess with Congressoman Clark. She's here. Tell us

2133
01:44:53,040 --> 01:44:56,479
Speaker 1: how you're feeling, Miss Clark. What is your impression of tonight?

2134
01:44:56,600 --> 01:44:58,879
Speaker 1: And where do we go from here? These are soldiers

2135
01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:01,720
Speaker 1: who are walking alongside of you, who have your back

2136
01:45:01,800 --> 01:45:04,479
Speaker 1: horse surrounding you. We need to see you succeed, and

2137
01:45:04,600 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 1: so we want to hear from you tonight. How are

2138
01:45:06,240 --> 01:45:07,360
Speaker 1: you feeling and what are you thinking?

2139
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:11,680
Speaker 39: Well, first of all, let me thank you family for

2140
01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:17,160
Speaker 39: coming together in this moment to provide our community with

2141
01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:22,080
Speaker 39: the undergirding, the understanding, the education and information we need

2142
01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:23,000
Speaker 39: for this movement.

2143
01:45:23,160 --> 01:45:23,880
Speaker 14: In this moment.

2144
01:45:24,520 --> 01:45:28,679
Speaker 39: Uh, there's a there's a Maga fest, a Maga rally

2145
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:32,400
Speaker 39: going on in the House chambers in this moment. And

2146
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:38,960
Speaker 39: you know, I didn't expect anything less than a maga Uh.

2147
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:41,720
Speaker 14: You know, parade and and and and.

2148
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 6: And pump and and circumstance and it is.

2149
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:50,360
Speaker 39: You know, listen, I think he's essentially run out of

2150
01:45:50,920 --> 01:45:54,759
Speaker 39: the greatest hits, so he's on repeat in this moment.

2151
01:45:56,160 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 39: The challenge around that though, is that, uh, he he's

2152
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:04,160
Speaker 39: got folks around him that are ready and willing to

2153
01:46:04,800 --> 01:46:12,200
Speaker 39: implement the craziest of policies and and all aimed at,

2154
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:19,599
Speaker 39: of course, raising up white supremacy as the operating system

2155
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:23,599
Speaker 39: of the United States of America. So when I heard

2156
01:46:24,080 --> 01:46:30,920
Speaker 39: sister Latasha Brown just talk about very I think, fundamental

2157
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:33,799
Speaker 39: things that we need to be doing as a community,

2158
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:38,000
Speaker 39: She's absolutely right, and I believe that, certainly there are

2159
01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 39: so many of us who have come together around sort

2160
01:46:42,360 --> 01:46:48,440
Speaker 39: of like mind in this moment crystallizing where our communities

2161
01:46:48,520 --> 01:46:51,400
Speaker 39: need to go. We need to buy black and we've

2162
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:56,360
Speaker 39: been talking this for years, for generations. Quite frankly, we

2163
01:46:56,640 --> 01:47:01,320
Speaker 39: need to undergird each other with knowledge and information so

2164
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:06,360
Speaker 39: that our folks are not constantly consuming the misinformation and

2165
01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:11,680
Speaker 39: the lies that they that permeate social media feeds. We

2166
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:14,559
Speaker 39: need to be able to make sure that we are

2167
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:17,160
Speaker 39: on the ground and the CBC is ready to get

2168
01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:17,800
Speaker 39: on the bus.

2169
01:47:18,320 --> 01:47:22,040
Speaker 14: We are not taking this moment for granted.

2170
01:47:22,200 --> 01:47:24,040
Speaker 39: We know that we need to be felt, we need

2171
01:47:24,120 --> 01:47:27,360
Speaker 39: to be touched on the ground, and so starting in

2172
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:29,960
Speaker 39: the month of April, we will be on the move

2173
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 39: across this nation, educating, informing, mobilizing, encouraging, empowering our folks

2174
01:47:37,320 --> 01:47:42,559
Speaker 39: to see this moment as our sort of generational moment

2175
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 39: where we have to envision a nation, as Latasha Brown

2176
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:52,760
Speaker 39: is said, uh, where we center ourselves as the as

2177
01:47:52,800 --> 01:47:57,120
Speaker 39: the as the focus in the fabric of a democracy.

2178
01:47:57,360 --> 01:47:59,400
Speaker 14: What does that mean, you know?

2179
01:47:59,680 --> 01:48:02,439
Speaker 39: And what does it mean to operate in a space

2180
01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:07,120
Speaker 39: where we are valued and we value each other. This

2181
01:48:07,320 --> 01:48:09,880
Speaker 39: is just one of those moments, sister Angela Rai, And

2182
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 39: you know that's constantly reinforced for us, I believe each

2183
01:48:13,840 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 39: and every day, when you have one in five federal

2184
01:48:18,360 --> 01:48:23,400
Speaker 39: workers coming from the black community, when you have this

2185
01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:31,560
Speaker 39: constant drum beat around the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

2186
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:35,679
Speaker 39: When you have all of these sort of factors, add

2187
01:48:35,760 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 39: to that the fact that the cost of living continues

2188
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:43,960
Speaker 39: to escalate, compounded by these tariffs that Donald.

2189
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:47,160
Speaker 14: Trump is insisting on putting into.

2190
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 39: Place, our folks are certainly hurting economically and otherwise.

2191
01:48:52,600 --> 01:48:55,960
Speaker 14: And so we have to, I believe, make.

2192
01:48:55,920 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 39: Sure that our folks are handling business in an unconventional

2193
01:49:01,360 --> 01:49:07,920
Speaker 39: way that we move forward with and encouraging our people

2194
01:49:08,040 --> 01:49:11,439
Speaker 39: to shop among our people for those basic goods and

2195
01:49:11,520 --> 01:49:16,360
Speaker 39: services I think against Sister Brown said, this is not

2196
01:49:16,560 --> 01:49:20,840
Speaker 39: the time for luxury goods. It has never really been

2197
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:24,400
Speaker 39: that time as far as I'm concerned. But you know, listen,

2198
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:29,599
Speaker 39: everyone is entitled to their own tastes. However, there are

2199
01:49:29,800 --> 01:49:35,960
Speaker 39: many designers, Black designers that can offer just as good,

2200
01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:38,880
Speaker 39: if not better in terms of quality and what the

2201
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:40,600
Speaker 39: goods and services they provide, and we.

2202
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 14: Need to raise them up.

2203
01:49:42,120 --> 01:49:45,360
Speaker 39: Those will be our corporate entities if we pour into

2204
01:49:45,439 --> 01:49:48,360
Speaker 39: them in the way that we've poured into so many

2205
01:49:48,439 --> 01:49:51,519
Speaker 39: of the others who have now turned their back on us.

2206
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:54,680
Speaker 14: I'm also working with the CBC, and I'm going to

2207
01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 14: close on.

2208
01:49:55,880 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 39: This sin sta Agela on a program, if you will,

2209
01:50:00,880 --> 01:50:05,240
Speaker 39: a communications program called what side are You on? This

2210
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:09,559
Speaker 39: is not a moment where folks can be one foot

2211
01:50:09,640 --> 01:50:11,960
Speaker 39: in one camp and one foot in the other. Either

2212
01:50:12,040 --> 01:50:16,160
Speaker 39: you're with the Black community with the development of who

2213
01:50:16,280 --> 01:50:20,120
Speaker 39: we are as a people, or you're not. There's no

2214
01:50:20,240 --> 01:50:24,519
Speaker 39: middle ground, and so that will be another part of

2215
01:50:25,040 --> 01:50:27,479
Speaker 39: what we will be embarking upon as members of the

2216
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 39: Congressional Black Caucus, fifty eight strong here in the House

2217
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 39: of Representatives and four straw in the US Senate, the

2218
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:40,680
Speaker 39: largest number of black federal elected representatives in the.

2219
01:50:40,760 --> 01:50:41,720
Speaker 14: History of this nation.

2220
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:44,560
Speaker 39: This is all of our moment, and we're going to

2221
01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:47,439
Speaker 39: do everything that we must do on the legislative event

2222
01:50:47,520 --> 01:50:49,760
Speaker 39: to hold the line. But we're also going to be

2223
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 39: in these streets talking to our people because in less

2224
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:57,439
Speaker 39: than eighteen months there will be another election, and we've

2225
01:50:57,520 --> 01:51:01,200
Speaker 39: got to make sure that our folks are are focused

2226
01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:04,120
Speaker 39: on the power of the franchise and what it means

2227
01:51:04,200 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 39: for their own liberation. With that, as we say here

2228
01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:10,519
Speaker 39: since the Angela Rie, I'm gonna yield back the balance

2229
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:11,160
Speaker 39: of my time.

2230
01:51:11,439 --> 01:51:13,360
Speaker 1: Well, don't you just yet, because I just want to

2231
01:51:13,400 --> 01:51:15,599
Speaker 1: get clarity for our audience. This was the one quick

2232
01:51:15,680 --> 01:51:18,439
Speaker 1: question I have for you. You said there is there

2233
01:51:18,720 --> 01:51:21,520
Speaker 1: is a Magga rally going on. Does that mean, Congresswoman

2234
01:51:21,640 --> 01:51:24,599
Speaker 1: that you also left, did the rest of this Congressional

2235
01:51:24,640 --> 01:51:25,479
Speaker 1: Black August lead?

2236
01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:27,760
Speaker 6: There are still members in the chambers?

2237
01:51:28,240 --> 01:51:28,360
Speaker 2: Uh?

2238
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:31,560
Speaker 39: I am back in my office. I you know, I

2239
01:51:31,760 --> 01:51:35,240
Speaker 39: just felt like I knew what was next in the

2240
01:51:35,360 --> 01:51:38,840
Speaker 39: lineup of greatest hits. I didn't need to sit there,

2241
01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:43,160
Speaker 39: uh to to know, you know, what words we're going

2242
01:51:43,240 --> 01:51:45,479
Speaker 39: to be thrown at whom and what have you?

2243
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:48,600
Speaker 17: He is Let me just say this, what was the

2244
01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:49,560
Speaker 17: point for you?

2245
01:51:49,760 --> 01:51:52,040
Speaker 5: What was the tip? What was the moment where you like, okay.

2246
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:53,719
Speaker 14: Now got tired? I just got tired.

2247
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:54,840
Speaker 2: I just got tired.

2248
01:51:55,040 --> 01:51:59,280
Speaker 39: And he shook quite frankly, the fact that that that

2249
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:03,799
Speaker 39: that the Democrats have been sitting silently raising signs, where's

2250
01:52:03,840 --> 01:52:06,679
Speaker 39: my son? Let me show you my sign raising signs

2251
01:52:06,760 --> 01:52:08,639
Speaker 39: occasionally during his speech.

2252
01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:10,200
Speaker 14: It has shook the man.

2253
01:52:10,600 --> 01:52:12,960
Speaker 39: He has been trying to find a way to get

2254
01:52:13,040 --> 01:52:15,439
Speaker 39: under the skin of Democrats and we haven't been paying

2255
01:52:15,520 --> 01:52:16,200
Speaker 39: him any minds.

2256
01:52:16,240 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 14: So most of what you're seeing he's directing directly to

2257
01:52:20,320 --> 01:52:21,120
Speaker 14: the MAGA crowd.

2258
01:52:21,479 --> 01:52:25,599
Speaker 39: And remember the House of Representatives is essentially split half

2259
01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:29,720
Speaker 39: and half, so we're only separated by two seats. So

2260
01:52:30,439 --> 01:52:34,040
Speaker 39: it's a massive blow to his ego that he's not

2261
01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:40,000
Speaker 39: getting any applause and he's standing up for the foolishness

2262
01:52:40,439 --> 01:52:41,280
Speaker 39: that he's trying.

2263
01:52:41,080 --> 01:52:42,839
Speaker 14: To pull off in the chambers of the House.

2264
01:52:42,760 --> 01:52:45,680
Speaker 1: Right now, well, speaking of foolishness, that took place in

2265
01:52:45,760 --> 01:52:48,720
Speaker 1: the chamber of the House, Mark Thompson, our colleague, is

2266
01:52:48,800 --> 01:52:53,040
Speaker 1: with Melanie Stansbury, who had her sign snatched by a

2267
01:52:53,160 --> 01:52:56,080
Speaker 1: Republican and she's standing live with Mark Thompson right now.

2268
01:52:56,240 --> 01:52:59,200
Speaker 1: We're go to Mark Congressman. Please stick around if you can't.

2269
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:01,040
Speaker 1: I know you're tired, so we don't want to keep

2270
01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:02,320
Speaker 1: you too late, but I would love for you to

2271
01:53:02,400 --> 01:53:03,559
Speaker 1: hear what she says happened.

2272
01:53:04,040 --> 01:53:05,559
Speaker 2: And if you do have to go, we first had

2273
01:53:05,680 --> 01:53:07,760
Speaker 2: knowledge it was bad new glasses. She got already too.

2274
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:14,360
Speaker 40: You know, this always an iconic fashion, always every day,

2275
01:53:14,439 --> 01:53:15,439
Speaker 40: all day, every day.

2276
01:53:16,640 --> 01:53:19,080
Speaker 2: So cong Truom stands, but kN Truom stands very by

2277
01:53:19,120 --> 01:53:22,439
Speaker 2: the way. Folks is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and she

2278
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:24,360
Speaker 2: last year was your first trip to Selma. You came

2279
01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:26,759
Speaker 2: to sel Malsh. She's coming back this weekend.

2280
01:53:26,840 --> 01:53:29,280
Speaker 33: Yeah, see you guys this weekend if anyone's going down.

2281
01:53:29,479 --> 01:53:31,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what happened? You had us? So what did

2282
01:53:31,800 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 2: your sign say? What did it?

2283
01:53:33,720 --> 01:53:33,920
Speaker 11: Yeah?

2284
01:53:33,960 --> 01:53:36,360
Speaker 40: Well, so a lot of us on the floor plan

2285
01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:39,120
Speaker 40: to do our form of protests. You know, we showed

2286
01:53:39,160 --> 01:53:42,280
Speaker 40: up for Donald Trump's town hall, just like Americans are

2287
01:53:42,280 --> 01:53:45,000
Speaker 40: showing up for town halls all over America. And just

2288
01:53:45,080 --> 01:53:47,720
Speaker 40: like Americans, we heard, had our voices heard, and I

2289
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:49,800
Speaker 40: had a sign as he walked in that said this

2290
01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 40: is not normal. And as I was standing there behind

2291
01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:57,880
Speaker 40: Donald Trump, some young man from Texas snatched out of

2292
01:53:57,920 --> 01:53:58,439
Speaker 40: my hand.

2293
01:53:58,280 --> 01:53:59,840
Speaker 33: And threw it over the President's head.

2294
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:02,920
Speaker 40: And you know, I'm not gonna I'm not going to

2295
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:06,479
Speaker 40: pretend like, you know, this is normal and that what's

2296
01:54:06,479 --> 01:54:09,519
Speaker 40: happening in America is just something that should we should

2297
01:54:09,560 --> 01:54:10,360
Speaker 40: sit down and take.

2298
01:54:10,520 --> 01:54:13,960
Speaker 2: So, yeah, so who you know, I mean, who was it?

2299
01:54:14,080 --> 01:54:14,400
Speaker 25: You know who?

2300
01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:17,360
Speaker 40: It was a congressman from Texas, but I don't know

2301
01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:20,559
Speaker 40: his name, Golden something, Yeah, and he just.

2302
01:54:22,160 --> 01:54:24,960
Speaker 33: I mean, it was very I was obviously in the frame.

2303
01:54:25,200 --> 01:54:28,000
Speaker 40: Marjorie Taylor Green was facing me, and I think folks

2304
01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:29,800
Speaker 40: were trying to get it out of my hands, so

2305
01:54:29,960 --> 01:54:31,120
Speaker 40: they just pulled out of my hands.

2306
01:54:31,880 --> 01:54:35,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does that violate any rules of protocol? Can

2307
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:37,440
Speaker 2: someone just snatch something out of your hand and through it?

2308
01:54:37,760 --> 01:54:40,480
Speaker 33: You know, I listen, I'm not going to make a

2309
01:54:40,520 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 33: big deal about it.

2310
01:54:42,120 --> 01:54:44,360
Speaker 40: You know, if they want to be children, if they

2311
01:54:44,400 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 40: want to have their Maga party on the house floor,

2312
01:54:46,720 --> 01:54:49,160
Speaker 40: if they want to play games with us, they can

2313
01:54:49,240 --> 01:54:50,080
Speaker 40: do whatever they want.

2314
01:54:50,160 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 33: And I'm you know, I'm not gonna lie. I grew

2315
01:54:51,840 --> 01:54:54,080
Speaker 33: up in Albuquerque. I was ready to fight, but that

2316
01:54:54,280 --> 01:54:56,240
Speaker 33: is not how I wanted to end my evening.

2317
01:54:56,960 --> 01:54:59,080
Speaker 2: So did you know they get down to Albuquerque like that?

2318
01:54:59,120 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 2: I don't know how, now I know, so we need

2319
01:55:04,560 --> 01:55:04,720
Speaker 2: to know.

2320
01:55:04,920 --> 01:55:09,480
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, Congress I have a quick question, congresswoman. Has

2321
01:55:09,560 --> 01:55:12,160
Speaker 8: it always been like this from from the on set

2322
01:55:12,200 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 8: in January? Was there ever a brief window? A brief window? Well,

2323
01:55:17,360 --> 01:55:20,800
Speaker 8: y'all thought, maybe we can get across the al and

2324
01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 8: get some of the station done. Or is this just

2325
01:55:24,600 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 8: an escalation of where you all fully expected to be

2326
01:55:28,320 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 8: at this point in the first hundred days.

2327
01:55:30,800 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 40: You know, I tried to come in with an open mind,

2328
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:36,760
Speaker 40: but when I let me, let me be real. The

2329
01:55:36,840 --> 01:55:40,600
Speaker 40: inauguration was on doctor Martin Luther King Junior day. I

2330
01:55:40,680 --> 01:55:43,200
Speaker 40: did not come back to Washington, d C. I chose

2331
01:55:43,280 --> 01:55:46,720
Speaker 40: to be home in my community, celebrating the holiday with

2332
01:55:46,840 --> 01:55:50,760
Speaker 40: my community. But when I saw the images on television

2333
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:54,920
Speaker 40: of Elon Musk and these billionaires and his cabinet yucking

2334
01:55:54,960 --> 01:55:56,920
Speaker 40: it up, I knew that it was not going to

2335
01:55:56,960 --> 01:55:59,760
Speaker 40: be normal. And then he went down to the stadium

2336
01:55:59,800 --> 01:56:03,000
Speaker 40: and are assigning these executive orders. But I was like, Okay,

2337
01:56:03,080 --> 01:56:05,240
Speaker 40: I'm still going to give it a minute. In fact,

2338
01:56:05,400 --> 01:56:08,000
Speaker 40: I'm the ranking member of the highest ranking Democrat, the

2339
01:56:08,080 --> 01:56:12,480
Speaker 40: Doge Subcommittee, and my chairwoman in that committee is Marjorie

2340
01:56:12,480 --> 01:56:14,760
Speaker 40: Taylor Green. I even went and sat with her in

2341
01:56:14,960 --> 01:56:19,200
Speaker 40: her office for an hour and we smiled and pretended

2342
01:56:19,320 --> 01:56:22,080
Speaker 40: like we could have some bipartisan conversations, and then we

2343
01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:24,200
Speaker 40: showed up for that very first committee hearing, and she

2344
01:56:24,360 --> 01:56:27,360
Speaker 40: did what she does, and I think, you know that

2345
01:56:27,640 --> 01:56:29,240
Speaker 40: is essentially evaporated.

2346
01:56:29,360 --> 01:56:30,320
Speaker 33: So we know what's up.

2347
01:56:30,760 --> 01:56:32,600
Speaker 40: We're going to be in the fight. We're the resistance

2348
01:56:32,680 --> 01:56:34,960
Speaker 40: for the next couple of years. And you know, as

2349
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:37,680
Speaker 40: the Reverend said, eighteen months is right around the corner,

2350
01:56:37,760 --> 01:56:38,959
Speaker 40: so we got to start organizing.

2351
01:56:39,040 --> 01:56:41,680
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this, Of all the terrible

2352
01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:44,720
Speaker 2: things he's done, he was a million a day, which

2353
01:56:44,760 --> 01:56:48,560
Speaker 2: ones are most threatening and most impactful to your district

2354
01:56:48,640 --> 01:56:49,320
Speaker 2: in Albuquerque?

2355
01:56:49,800 --> 01:56:52,320
Speaker 40: I mean all of them, right, I mean day one,

2356
01:56:52,480 --> 01:56:56,520
Speaker 40: he signs this executive order essentially taking out all of

2357
01:56:56,600 --> 01:57:01,120
Speaker 40: the diversity, equity and inclusion offices and and staff. New

2358
01:57:01,200 --> 01:57:05,040
Speaker 40: Mexico is a minority majority state. We are a state

2359
01:57:05,160 --> 01:57:09,320
Speaker 40: that is black, brown, indigenous, and that is an attack

2360
01:57:09,480 --> 01:57:12,760
Speaker 40: on the people of New Mexico. This executive order he

2361
01:57:12,840 --> 01:57:16,000
Speaker 40: signed two days ago making English the only language of

2362
01:57:16,040 --> 01:57:19,640
Speaker 40: the United States. It is in our state constitution that

2363
01:57:19,800 --> 01:57:23,400
Speaker 40: Spanish is the other language of New Mexico. He's literally

2364
01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:27,640
Speaker 40: violating the state constitution of New Mexico because the border crossed.

2365
01:57:27,400 --> 01:57:30,280
Speaker 33: Us by the way. So there is so much that

2366
01:57:30,400 --> 01:57:30,920
Speaker 33: he's doing.

2367
01:57:31,120 --> 01:57:34,720
Speaker 40: Every single day, he's firing thousands of New Mexicans. He's

2368
01:57:35,200 --> 01:57:37,800
Speaker 40: you know, these cuts that they're proposing in New Mexico,

2369
01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:39,440
Speaker 40: over seventy percent of our.

2370
01:57:39,400 --> 01:57:40,960
Speaker 33: People are on Medicare and Medicaid.

2371
01:57:41,360 --> 01:57:45,800
Speaker 40: That will not only lead to literally probably the vast

2372
01:57:45,880 --> 01:57:49,240
Speaker 40: majority of New Mexicans losing healthcare, our entire healthcare system

2373
01:57:49,720 --> 01:57:50,360
Speaker 40: could collapse.

2374
01:57:50,800 --> 01:57:52,560
Speaker 33: So we're not going to sit here in Stanford.

2375
01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,120
Speaker 2: I think in Consmanclark we kind of touched on his

2376
01:57:56,160 --> 01:57:57,880
Speaker 2: Zerila because I don't know if you really understand ruin

2377
01:57:57,960 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 2: Angela when they say it come up a minut. We

2378
01:58:00,520 --> 01:58:06,120
Speaker 2: only think of anyone context. But Medicaid also undergirds those

2379
01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:08,520
Speaker 2: who don't have Medicaid and keeps hospitals up. So when

2380
01:58:08,520 --> 01:58:10,520
Speaker 2: you take away Medicaid, you jam and everybody.

2381
01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:12,920
Speaker 40: Oh yeah, this is what I'm saying, is like, if

2382
01:58:12,960 --> 01:58:15,760
Speaker 40: you take away Medicaid, every hospital in the state of

2383
01:58:15,840 --> 01:58:18,280
Speaker 40: New Mexico is going to go bankrupt. So if you

2384
01:58:18,360 --> 01:58:20,640
Speaker 40: think it's hard to get into see a specialist right

2385
01:58:20,720 --> 01:58:23,840
Speaker 40: now after they got Medicaid, all of that's going away.

2386
01:58:24,200 --> 01:58:26,320
Speaker 40: This is not just going to affect low income people,

2387
01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:29,080
Speaker 40: but it is going to affect low income people. And

2388
01:58:29,160 --> 01:58:32,000
Speaker 40: as somebody who grew up in the system, somebody who

2389
01:58:32,080 --> 01:58:34,200
Speaker 40: would not be standing here today if it weren't for

2390
01:58:34,280 --> 01:58:36,800
Speaker 40: income supports and Medicaid and food stamps.

2391
01:58:38,160 --> 01:58:41,680
Speaker 33: You know, it is to me not only.

2392
01:58:42,720 --> 01:58:46,560
Speaker 40: Immoral and unconscionable, but it's going to tear apart the

2393
01:58:46,600 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 40: fabric of our country.

2394
01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:50,800
Speaker 2: So Albuquerque, you want to go, get you. We wanna

2395
01:58:50,800 --> 01:58:52,440
Speaker 2: get your sign back. Should we go get a beck,

2396
01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:53,240
Speaker 2: let's go.

2397
01:58:53,680 --> 01:58:54,520
Speaker 33: We're gonna go down, y'op.

2398
01:58:54,600 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 5: Please stay out of jail, y'all.

2399
01:58:55,880 --> 01:58:56,640
Speaker 33: Please out of you.

2400
01:58:57,160 --> 01:58:59,000
Speaker 5: But thank you so much for joining us.

2401
01:58:59,360 --> 01:59:03,080
Speaker 1: I want to turn really quickly to we had some

2402
01:59:03,280 --> 01:59:08,680
Speaker 1: encouragement around not spending money. Our dear brother's head was

2403
01:59:08,840 --> 01:59:11,000
Speaker 1: plastered on a sign at the White House just a

2404
01:59:11,080 --> 01:59:13,640
Speaker 1: few weeks ago during a Black History Month reception. That

2405
01:59:13,920 --> 01:59:17,880
Speaker 1: is Reverend Jamal Bryant also here from until Freedom, Our

2406
01:59:17,960 --> 01:59:20,880
Speaker 1: Angelo Pino and Tamika Mallory. Y'all we have to get

2407
01:59:20,920 --> 01:59:24,440
Speaker 1: into this because Latasha brought up Amazon. She brought up

2408
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:26,640
Speaker 1: we don't need no designer goods. But we're also talking

2409
01:59:26,640 --> 01:59:30,760
Speaker 1: about Target. Jamal, you have exceeded one hundred thousand signers

2410
01:59:31,360 --> 01:59:33,880
Speaker 1: on this pledge around the Target fast. I want you

2411
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:36,640
Speaker 1: to get into that, and Tamika and Angela I want

2412
01:59:36,640 --> 01:59:37,120
Speaker 1: to hear from you.

2413
01:59:37,160 --> 01:59:37,760
Speaker 5: As well on that.

2414
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:42,240
Speaker 21: Thank you, and good evening everybody. This is what doctor

2415
01:59:42,320 --> 01:59:44,200
Speaker 21: King called the urgency of now.

2416
01:59:45,360 --> 01:59:48,720
Speaker 41: It is a critical moment and we no longer have

2417
01:59:48,880 --> 01:59:51,600
Speaker 41: the question of community or chaos.

2418
01:59:52,600 --> 01:59:56,200
Speaker 21: It is absolute chaos, which is why we need community.

2419
01:59:57,120 --> 02:00:00,120
Speaker 41: I want to take a note really from across the

2420
02:00:00,200 --> 02:00:05,080
Speaker 41: border from ideal leader of Canada who said, I don't

2421
02:00:05,120 --> 02:00:06,720
Speaker 41: want to, but I'm.

2422
02:00:06,560 --> 02:00:07,840
Speaker 21: Gonna have to cut the power.

2423
02:00:09,160 --> 02:00:13,520
Speaker 41: Is the I supply the Prime Minister said of power

2424
02:00:13,680 --> 02:00:17,360
Speaker 41: to four different states, and you're forcing my hand.

2425
02:00:18,160 --> 02:00:20,800
Speaker 21: I think that black people don't realize how.

2426
02:00:20,800 --> 02:00:25,200
Speaker 41: Much power we wield with two trillion dollars worth of

2427
02:00:25,320 --> 02:00:29,440
Speaker 41: spending power. And what has happened today at Target for

2428
02:00:29,560 --> 02:00:33,600
Speaker 41: them to say that they're spending their growth has gone

2429
02:00:33,720 --> 02:00:37,560
Speaker 41: down because of the economy and recession and tariffs. When

2430
02:00:37,640 --> 02:00:41,080
Speaker 41: the tariffs just started today, it is a reflection of

2431
02:00:41,160 --> 02:00:46,000
Speaker 41: what our power is. Black people Angelus spend twelve million

2432
02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:51,000
Speaker 41: dollars a day at target. If we redirect that to

2433
02:00:51,120 --> 02:00:55,480
Speaker 41: our own ecosystem, what will that mean? The Montgomery bus

2434
02:00:55,640 --> 02:01:02,080
Speaker 41: boycott absolutely destabilized the South, not from speeches, but from

2435
02:01:02,280 --> 02:01:05,920
Speaker 41: redirected spend day. And so I think that when it

2436
02:01:06,080 --> 02:01:09,160
Speaker 41: is that we saw the inauguration on January twentieth and

2437
02:01:09,320 --> 02:01:11,680
Speaker 41: saw who was on the front row, it was not

2438
02:01:11,880 --> 02:01:16,520
Speaker 41: cabinet ministers, it was those who wield wealth, which suggests

2439
02:01:16,760 --> 02:01:20,320
Speaker 41: that's what this president responds to. The wealth of what

2440
02:01:20,480 --> 02:01:23,080
Speaker 41: it is that we have has got to be redirected

2441
02:01:23,680 --> 02:01:27,080
Speaker 41: until we take white supremacy down to their knees. They

2442
02:01:27,160 --> 02:01:30,520
Speaker 41: don't even understand that the next step after civil rights

2443
02:01:31,040 --> 02:01:35,440
Speaker 41: is civil rights. Doctor King was assassinated because he was

2444
02:01:35,560 --> 02:01:40,320
Speaker 41: mobilizing the poor People's campaign, and they understand were marginalize

2445
02:01:40,360 --> 02:01:42,600
Speaker 41: and oh press, poor people come together.

2446
02:01:43,320 --> 02:01:44,720
Speaker 21: A revolution has to start.

2447
02:01:45,280 --> 02:01:48,800
Speaker 41: A super bad system from Harvard University said, we don't

2448
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:52,520
Speaker 41: even need one hundred percent participation, We just need three percent.

2449
02:01:53,160 --> 02:01:56,360
Speaker 21: If three percent of the populace do what a lot.

2450
02:01:56,320 --> 02:01:58,880
Speaker 41: Of our brave brothers and sisters did today and walk

2451
02:01:58,960 --> 02:02:00,600
Speaker 41: out and live their voice.

2452
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:03,240
Speaker 21: I think America is going to come to a screeching halt.

2453
02:02:03,840 --> 02:02:06,400
Speaker 41: We've got enough power to do it, just within a

2454
02:02:06,520 --> 02:02:09,000
Speaker 41: number of people who are on today for the twenty

2455
02:02:09,040 --> 02:02:13,160
Speaker 41: four hours. And let's not undermine or belittle the strength

2456
02:02:13,200 --> 02:02:17,040
Speaker 41: of what happened with the blackout on Friday. America is

2457
02:02:17,040 --> 02:02:19,160
Speaker 41: about to have an asthma attack and a hype up

2458
02:02:19,200 --> 02:02:22,400
Speaker 41: imolator because we understand what our worth is, we know

2459
02:02:22,480 --> 02:02:25,200
Speaker 41: what our value is, and we've got to withhold our

2460
02:02:25,240 --> 02:02:27,960
Speaker 41: funds in order for the revolution to move forward. I'm

2461
02:02:28,040 --> 02:02:32,560
Speaker 41: excited about it. We start tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. This

2462
02:02:32,760 --> 02:02:37,320
Speaker 41: thrust of this target fast because we wanted to interlope

2463
02:02:37,400 --> 02:02:41,440
Speaker 41: the spiritual property of what's necessary. While it is that

2464
02:02:41,520 --> 02:02:45,720
Speaker 41: we're strategizing, we have historically also been a spiritual and

2465
02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:48,720
Speaker 41: a praying people, and so over the next forty days,

2466
02:02:48,760 --> 02:02:52,560
Speaker 41: I want to urge all of us to galvanize in prayer.

2467
02:02:52,360 --> 02:02:55,000
Speaker 21: And not lose our spiritual focus and force.

2468
02:02:55,600 --> 02:02:58,480
Speaker 41: Every day, three hundred and eighty one days, black people

2469
02:02:58,680 --> 02:03:02,360
Speaker 41: in Montgomery, after not getting on the bus, went back

2470
02:03:02,440 --> 02:03:05,120
Speaker 41: to the church to pray, and let's be very clear.

2471
02:03:05,320 --> 02:03:10,440
Speaker 41: We are now going up against a demonic, diabolical spirit

2472
02:03:10,560 --> 02:03:11,160
Speaker 41: in America.

2473
02:03:11,680 --> 02:03:14,360
Speaker 21: It is not just a person, it is a spirit that.

2474
02:03:14,480 --> 02:03:17,640
Speaker 41: Is afoot on the weapons of our warfare now, Cornell,

2475
02:03:17,880 --> 02:03:19,560
Speaker 41: and so we've got to really go in the prayer.

2476
02:03:19,640 --> 02:03:22,520
Speaker 41: But Frederick Douglass said it much better than me. He said,

2477
02:03:22,600 --> 02:03:26,000
Speaker 41: I got more prayers answered when I got off my knees.

2478
02:03:26,480 --> 02:03:29,000
Speaker 41: So we can't just pray. We've got to really go

2479
02:03:29,120 --> 02:03:30,880
Speaker 41: in the fighting force. And so in the spirit of

2480
02:03:30,960 --> 02:03:34,920
Speaker 41: Hazel Duke's, let's fight even when it's uncalled for. So

2481
02:03:35,080 --> 02:03:37,920
Speaker 41: that's the necessary calling and the beating drum that we've

2482
02:03:37,960 --> 02:03:39,560
Speaker 41: got an answer to. I'm glad to be a part

2483
02:03:39,640 --> 02:03:41,560
Speaker 41: of it and excited about what we're going to do

2484
02:03:41,600 --> 02:03:42,720
Speaker 41: over the next forty days.

2485
02:03:43,040 --> 02:03:44,880
Speaker 5: Jama, share the website one more time.

2486
02:03:45,520 --> 02:03:47,840
Speaker 21: Yes, targetfast dot org.

2487
02:03:48,600 --> 02:03:51,080
Speaker 41: And let me say to you that when it is

2488
02:03:51,240 --> 02:03:53,800
Speaker 41: that you are registered at Target Force, we have a

2489
02:03:54,120 --> 02:03:57,200
Speaker 41: partner with the Black Chamber of Commerce. We're going to

2490
02:03:57,280 --> 02:04:02,160
Speaker 41: send you out a digital directory of three hundred thousand

2491
02:04:02,720 --> 02:04:05,960
Speaker 41: black businesses across the United States, so you can redirect

2492
02:04:06,040 --> 02:04:09,640
Speaker 41: your dollars away from Target and Walmart. And we're gonna

2493
02:04:09,680 --> 02:04:12,840
Speaker 41: send you a forty day prayer journal so that we

2494
02:04:12,920 --> 02:04:14,600
Speaker 41: can prayer way through a lot of our people.

2495
02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:18,040
Speaker 21: Angela burned out, they tie it, they weary, they.

2496
02:04:18,080 --> 02:04:19,720
Speaker 42: Want and they say it.

2497
02:04:20,560 --> 02:04:23,000
Speaker 41: But I think that we've got to find that synergy,

2498
02:04:23,520 --> 02:04:25,400
Speaker 41: to find that second win and run to it.

2499
02:04:33,480 --> 02:04:33,680
Speaker 17: Ry.

2500
02:04:33,720 --> 02:04:38,280
Speaker 8: I know you had something, Well, no, I'll let let's

2501
02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:42,800
Speaker 8: let uh, Tomicky Mallory come in and I'll I'll let

2502
02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:45,800
Speaker 8: you all. Do you know can you see them saying no, No.

2503
02:04:46,120 --> 02:04:48,360
Speaker 5: We got to bring everybody in because we only got

2504
02:04:48,440 --> 02:04:50,960
Speaker 5: so much time. You know, we under our left y'all have.

2505
02:04:51,160 --> 02:04:52,800
Speaker 8: You know, I got to be quiet. You know, black women,

2506
02:04:52,840 --> 02:04:54,240
Speaker 8: you all got a black women and then I have

2507
02:04:54,360 --> 02:04:54,720
Speaker 8: my question.

2508
02:04:54,920 --> 02:04:57,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, mararathon through this thing. So we're all we got

2509
02:04:57,480 --> 02:05:00,200
Speaker 1: a little less than an hour left to me. Ka

2510
02:05:00,320 --> 02:05:03,560
Speaker 1: Mallory and Angelo Pinto on this same topic, you all

2511
02:05:03,600 --> 02:05:07,960
Speaker 1: have been actively engaged around the target fast and I

2512
02:05:07,960 --> 02:05:10,240
Speaker 1: would love to hear from you all your perspective. There's

2513
02:05:10,240 --> 02:05:13,080
Speaker 1: been a lot of folks saying, hey, you know, why

2514
02:05:13,120 --> 02:05:16,160
Speaker 1: are we going to boycott something or fast from something

2515
02:05:16,200 --> 02:05:18,240
Speaker 1: when there are black brands on the shelves?

2516
02:05:18,800 --> 02:05:20,360
Speaker 5: So about that, right?

2517
02:05:20,560 --> 02:05:22,440
Speaker 1: So I think that it's a good time to talk

2518
02:05:22,480 --> 02:05:26,760
Speaker 1: about tactics, how we stick together. I learned on my

2519
02:05:26,920 --> 02:05:30,160
Speaker 1: podcast recently a Native Lampid with Andrew Gillim that only

2520
02:05:30,280 --> 02:05:33,800
Speaker 1: ten percent of black folks in Montgomery actually participated in boycotts.

2521
02:05:33,880 --> 02:05:36,800
Speaker 1: Never knew, never knew, And they want to burn the books.

2522
02:05:36,840 --> 02:05:38,360
Speaker 1: I'm still learning they're trying to burn the books.

2523
02:05:38,440 --> 02:05:38,560
Speaker 8: Roy.

2524
02:05:38,840 --> 02:05:40,840
Speaker 5: So you guys tell us a little bit about why

2525
02:05:40,920 --> 02:05:41,560
Speaker 5: it's important for.

2526
02:05:41,600 --> 02:05:44,200
Speaker 1: Us to stay united in this fight with Reverend Jamal

2527
02:05:44,240 --> 02:05:45,400
Speaker 1: Bryant and untel freedom.

2528
02:05:45,720 --> 02:05:47,120
Speaker 6: Certainly, thank you so much.

2529
02:05:47,280 --> 02:05:51,080
Speaker 1: And to everyone, I see family, new people, just so

2530
02:05:51,200 --> 02:05:54,400
Speaker 1: many different faces here and it's been really inspirational and

2531
02:05:54,560 --> 02:06:00,520
Speaker 1: feeling to be among this amazing group of individuals evening,

2532
02:06:00,800 --> 02:06:04,160
Speaker 1: and you know, just want to join Jamal first of

2533
02:06:04,200 --> 02:06:05,280
Speaker 1: all in saying.

2534
02:06:06,400 --> 02:06:14,080
Speaker 5: Everybody, well to me, hold on because I that's what's

2535
02:06:14,160 --> 02:06:14,440
Speaker 5: going on.

2536
02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:20,760
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Waters, yo, hello, we heard you, so we thought

2537
02:06:20,840 --> 02:06:22,880
Speaker 1: that man, you were reclaiming your time, so you now

2538
02:06:22,960 --> 02:06:26,120
Speaker 1: have the floor. We want to know why you chose

2539
02:06:26,440 --> 02:06:29,360
Speaker 1: not to participate in the State of the Union tonight.

2540
02:06:29,480 --> 02:06:30,400
Speaker 5: Please tell us why.

2541
02:06:31,280 --> 02:06:32,600
Speaker 14: Thank you so much. Angela.

2542
02:06:33,320 --> 02:06:36,600
Speaker 43: You know me very well, and you know that I

2543
02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:39,760
Speaker 43: was not about to put up with that bullshit that

2544
02:06:40,040 --> 02:06:43,240
Speaker 43: he was going to talk about tonight. You know that

2545
02:06:43,480 --> 02:06:47,920
Speaker 43: I think he is the most deporable, dishonest, no good

2546
02:06:48,240 --> 02:06:52,600
Speaker 43: man that I've ever encountered in my life. He has

2547
02:06:53,360 --> 02:06:58,920
Speaker 43: insulted us, He's insulted the American people. He's a sexual,

2548
02:06:59,200 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 43: sexual predi. He's everything absolutely awful that you can describe

2549
02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:06,880
Speaker 43: in a human being.

2550
02:07:06,960 --> 02:07:10,680
Speaker 14: I've never met anything like him before. Antel.

2551
02:07:10,800 --> 02:07:13,080
Speaker 43: You know you've been out there in Los Angeles. I've

2552
02:07:13,160 --> 02:07:17,160
Speaker 43: worked with gang members, the grips, the bloods, everybody. I've

2553
02:07:17,320 --> 02:07:23,760
Speaker 43: never encountered anybody like Trump. Trump is a person without

2554
02:07:23,840 --> 02:07:26,680
Speaker 43: a conscience. He will lie at the drop of a hat,

2555
02:07:27,200 --> 02:07:30,640
Speaker 43: and he knows that you know that he's lying, but

2556
02:07:30,760 --> 02:07:34,840
Speaker 43: he continues to lie. What he did tonight was, first

2557
02:07:34,920 --> 02:07:39,560
Speaker 43: of all, he continued the lives about all of the Mexicans,

2558
02:07:39,880 --> 02:07:43,919
Speaker 43: all of the people coming from you know, the countries

2559
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:46,480
Speaker 43: of you know, Mexico and Guatemala and everybody.

2560
02:07:46,800 --> 02:07:49,520
Speaker 14: What he talked about was, had.

2561
02:07:49,400 --> 02:07:52,040
Speaker 43: You believe that they're all rapists and they're all murderers,

2562
02:07:52,120 --> 02:07:55,200
Speaker 43: and they're all this, and they're all that. Continuing to

2563
02:07:55,400 --> 02:07:58,720
Speaker 43: pump up the lie that he has used as his

2564
02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:03,120
Speaker 43: number one issue to divide and to create hate and

2565
02:08:03,280 --> 02:08:06,840
Speaker 43: to have something that he could point to to keep

2566
02:08:06,880 --> 02:08:10,840
Speaker 43: the American people believing that he had to protect them from.

2567
02:08:11,680 --> 02:08:15,680
Speaker 43: So it was pretty awful, and I really did not

2568
02:08:16,000 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 43: like the way he used the tragic incidents and the

2569
02:08:20,800 --> 02:08:24,800
Speaker 43: families that were there, who of course appreciated. You know,

2570
02:08:24,960 --> 02:08:28,480
Speaker 43: what they think is their president caring about what happened,

2571
02:08:28,760 --> 02:08:31,280
Speaker 43: you know, to the twelve year old and to others

2572
02:08:31,480 --> 02:08:34,840
Speaker 43: who were victims, and we all feel sad and bad

2573
02:08:34,920 --> 02:08:35,320
Speaker 43: for them, but.

2574
02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:36,240
Speaker 14: He misused them.

2575
02:08:36,840 --> 02:08:40,560
Speaker 43: He misused them, and what he did was he focused

2576
02:08:40,640 --> 02:08:44,160
Speaker 43: on them instead of focusing on the real issues that

2577
02:08:44,320 --> 02:08:48,680
Speaker 43: we're dealing with now and the harm that he's creating

2578
02:08:49,280 --> 02:08:52,080
Speaker 43: for workers by telling them get out of their office

2579
02:08:52,400 --> 02:08:55,120
Speaker 43: by three o'clock, by five o'clock. You know what, that

2580
02:08:55,240 --> 02:08:59,320
Speaker 43: reminds me of the sundown towns who would tell black

2581
02:08:59,360 --> 02:09:02,560
Speaker 43: people had to be out of town about five o'clock

2582
02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:04,280
Speaker 43: before dark.

2583
02:09:04,680 --> 02:09:11,240
Speaker 14: You know, he's still dishonorable human being that he's always been.

2584
02:09:11,800 --> 02:09:15,440
Speaker 43: It is so sad that we're going through this kind

2585
02:09:15,520 --> 02:09:19,600
Speaker 43: of change right before our very eyes, as he and

2586
02:09:19,800 --> 02:09:24,560
Speaker 43: Elon Musk move into all of the agencies and departments

2587
02:09:24,800 --> 02:09:31,200
Speaker 43: of government, shutting them down of firing people, doing everything

2588
02:09:31,320 --> 02:09:35,800
Speaker 43: that they can to basically make sure that this country

2589
02:09:36,200 --> 02:09:40,120
Speaker 43: is ruled by the white billionaires that showed up with

2590
02:09:40,280 --> 02:09:42,080
Speaker 43: him at inauguration time.

2591
02:09:42,480 --> 02:09:45,440
Speaker 14: What he sang to all of us, we're getting ready

2592
02:09:46,280 --> 02:09:48,840
Speaker 14: to run this country the way that we want to

2593
02:09:48,920 --> 02:09:50,560
Speaker 14: run it. We're getting rid of all.

2594
02:09:50,480 --> 02:09:55,680
Speaker 43: These regulations that have protected people in the Consumer Financial

2595
02:09:55,720 --> 02:09:56,720
Speaker 43: Protection Bureau.

2596
02:09:57,320 --> 02:09:59,840
Speaker 14: We're getting ready hug with all.

2597
02:09:59,720 --> 02:10:02,640
Speaker 43: Of them money that's going to housing and to the

2598
02:10:02,800 --> 02:10:06,360
Speaker 43: homeless and all of those people in urban areas that

2599
02:10:06,440 --> 02:10:10,280
Speaker 43: don't deserve it. All of those messages, for me, were

2600
02:10:10,560 --> 02:10:14,960
Speaker 43: continuing messages that he has put for for a long time,

2601
02:10:15,280 --> 02:10:19,080
Speaker 43: long before this election. But it's not nice to say,

2602
02:10:19,160 --> 02:10:22,680
Speaker 43: but I told you so when he first ran. I

2603
02:10:22,880 --> 02:10:26,360
Speaker 43: told everybody that he should have been impeached. When we

2604
02:10:26,520 --> 02:10:29,280
Speaker 43: got into it, we didn't do it right. We waited

2605
02:10:29,360 --> 02:10:32,760
Speaker 43: too long, we didn't use the right issues, etc. And

2606
02:10:32,920 --> 02:10:36,640
Speaker 43: unfortunately we got him back. But let me hear from

2607
02:10:36,680 --> 02:10:37,880
Speaker 43: the other people that you have.

2608
02:10:38,520 --> 02:10:42,000
Speaker 14: On the poground tonight. I have to talk about this

2609
02:10:42,320 --> 02:10:43,640
Speaker 14: thing all night.

2610
02:10:44,720 --> 02:10:47,400
Speaker 1: We have one of your colleagues who had joined you,

2611
02:10:48,640 --> 02:10:51,800
Speaker 1: and she's someone who regularly says she stands on your soldiers.

2612
02:10:51,880 --> 02:10:54,400
Speaker 1: He says, whatever Max says we're doing, We're doing. That

2613
02:10:54,600 --> 02:10:58,640
Speaker 1: is Jasmine Crockett, who chose to go to the State

2614
02:10:58,680 --> 02:11:00,960
Speaker 1: of the Union side, but she also chose to walk out,

2615
02:11:01,040 --> 02:11:02,480
Speaker 1: So she's right here, Jasmine.

2616
02:11:03,280 --> 02:11:06,120
Speaker 14: Okay, hey, yes, listen.

2617
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:11,960
Speaker 1: For sure, Max is an og just like Al Green.

2618
02:11:12,600 --> 02:11:13,760
Speaker 31: I follow their lead.

2619
02:11:14,080 --> 02:11:16,840
Speaker 1: I thank God for them, I really do, especially in

2620
02:11:16,960 --> 02:11:20,160
Speaker 1: this time. You know, as one of the younger members

2621
02:11:20,320 --> 02:11:23,840
Speaker 1: in the Congress, it is so important to have people

2622
02:11:24,320 --> 02:11:27,360
Speaker 1: that are always going to give us a sobering message

2623
02:11:27,600 --> 02:11:28,640
Speaker 1: about the moment.

2624
02:11:28,480 --> 02:11:28,920
Speaker 17: That we're in.

2625
02:11:29,200 --> 02:11:32,000
Speaker 1: And as y'all just heard, she did not hold back.

2626
02:11:32,120 --> 02:11:35,520
Speaker 1: She gonna call that motherfucker what he is at all time.

2627
02:11:36,480 --> 02:11:38,640
Speaker 1: So and I'm here for you. What y'all don't know

2628
02:11:38,760 --> 02:11:40,920
Speaker 1: is we both from Saint Louis. Listen, we from the

2629
02:11:41,040 --> 02:11:44,280
Speaker 1: show Me State. Okay, this is what you get out

2630
02:11:44,320 --> 02:11:48,360
Speaker 1: of Saint Louis. But I am so eternally great. As

2631
02:11:48,440 --> 02:11:50,960
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do,

2632
02:11:51,160 --> 02:11:53,840
Speaker 1: I was on the phone calling Max and trying to

2633
02:11:53,880 --> 02:11:54,440
Speaker 1: figure it out.

2634
02:11:54,840 --> 02:11:56,680
Speaker 31: And one of the things that we wanted to do

2635
02:11:57,080 --> 02:11:58,400
Speaker 31: was we want to make.

2636
02:11:58,320 --> 02:12:00,640
Speaker 1: Sure that there was space that was hell for us,

2637
02:12:01,160 --> 02:12:03,680
Speaker 1: and if we did not show up, then what they

2638
02:12:03,760 --> 02:12:05,880
Speaker 1: were going to do is just put seat fillers in.

2639
02:12:06,360 --> 02:12:09,680
Speaker 1: And I wanted to make sure that the space that

2640
02:12:10,240 --> 02:12:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, my ancestors bled and died for that I

2641
02:12:14,400 --> 02:12:15,560
Speaker 1: occupied that space.

2642
02:12:15,960 --> 02:12:18,520
Speaker 31: But I also got the privilege to walk the hell

2643
02:12:18,600 --> 02:12:18,960
Speaker 31: out of it.

2644
02:12:19,400 --> 02:12:21,760
Speaker 1: And so that's exactly what we did, so that he

2645
02:12:21,880 --> 02:12:25,200
Speaker 1: could have those empty seats sitting there and that our

2646
02:12:25,320 --> 02:12:28,720
Speaker 1: messages would be seen. Even if he decided he didn't

2647
02:12:28,760 --> 02:12:31,000
Speaker 1: want to hear us, he was going to fill us

2648
02:12:31,080 --> 02:12:33,320
Speaker 1: in our actions, and so I didn't just want to

2649
02:12:33,320 --> 02:12:36,640
Speaker 1: sit there and not flap, but instead I wanted to

2650
02:12:36,800 --> 02:12:39,480
Speaker 1: make sure that I stood up in defiance and I

2651
02:12:39,640 --> 02:12:42,080
Speaker 1: turned my back on him like he has turned his

2652
02:12:42,280 --> 02:12:45,320
Speaker 1: back on the American people, like he has turned his

2653
02:12:45,560 --> 02:12:48,720
Speaker 1: back on the Constitution, like he has turned his back

2654
02:12:49,120 --> 02:12:52,200
Speaker 1: on laws in this country. That is what I wanted

2655
02:12:52,240 --> 02:12:54,520
Speaker 1: to do, and I wanted the American people to know

2656
02:12:55,040 --> 02:12:58,240
Speaker 1: that while we may not have the numbers just yet,

2657
02:12:58,680 --> 02:13:01,360
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we don't have fight left in

2658
02:13:01,480 --> 02:13:04,200
Speaker 1: our bodies. And so I am going to fight him

2659
02:13:04,680 --> 02:13:08,000
Speaker 1: every step of the way until we get what we deserve.

2660
02:13:08,400 --> 02:13:11,680
Speaker 1: Because it was my ancestors that built this motherfucker.

2661
02:13:11,920 --> 02:13:12,640
Speaker 11: Okay, I'm done.

2662
02:13:12,720 --> 02:13:16,080
Speaker 6: Now I'm doing because the wordsman.

2663
02:13:16,800 --> 02:13:20,160
Speaker 14: Not only for what she just said, but she has

2664
02:13:20,280 --> 02:13:21,440
Speaker 14: been telling the fight.

2665
02:13:22,080 --> 02:13:27,480
Speaker 44: She has been every day, every week, whether she's in committee,

2666
02:13:27,720 --> 02:13:30,320
Speaker 44: what she's on the floor, whether she's in the streets,

2667
02:13:30,600 --> 02:13:34,440
Speaker 44: she has been telling what she has learned about him,

2668
02:13:34,880 --> 02:13:35,760
Speaker 44: his leadership.

2669
02:13:36,120 --> 02:13:39,560
Speaker 43: She's called him out, She's called out every dumbass that

2670
02:13:39,720 --> 02:13:43,640
Speaker 43: he's appointed to office while he's talking about getting rid

2671
02:13:43,640 --> 02:13:47,360
Speaker 43: of diversity, equity and inclusion and hiring some of the

2672
02:13:47,560 --> 02:13:51,640
Speaker 43: dumbest people, some of the most incommoned people in all

2673
02:13:51,840 --> 02:13:55,280
Speaker 43: of the agencies of government that he can get and

2674
02:13:55,480 --> 02:13:56,400
Speaker 43: then yes.

2675
02:13:56,360 --> 02:13:59,360
Speaker 14: Elon Musk, because Elon Musk had the money.

2676
02:13:59,200 --> 02:13:59,760
Speaker 21: To buy him.

2677
02:14:00,480 --> 02:14:04,200
Speaker 43: This was transactional. He put the money into his campaign

2678
02:14:04,560 --> 02:14:07,800
Speaker 43: and Trump turned it over to him. And we don't

2679
02:14:07,920 --> 02:14:11,840
Speaker 43: know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high

2680
02:14:11,960 --> 02:14:15,960
Speaker 43: technology asks. We don't know or what he's being accused

2681
02:14:16,040 --> 02:14:17,600
Speaker 43: of by some as.

2682
02:14:17,520 --> 02:14:18,960
Speaker 14: It may relate to the election.

2683
02:14:19,360 --> 02:14:22,280
Speaker 43: But we're not going to give up in investigating and

2684
02:14:22,440 --> 02:14:25,920
Speaker 43: finding out whether or not Elon Musk and all the

2685
02:14:26,040 --> 02:14:28,080
Speaker 43: people that he's got hired.

2686
02:14:28,200 --> 02:14:31,520
Speaker 14: In his business who are now working for him. We

2687
02:14:31,720 --> 02:14:33,600
Speaker 14: may be paying them through these.

2688
02:14:33,560 --> 02:14:37,280
Speaker 43: Dumb as false contracts that he's got that he's gotten

2689
02:14:37,840 --> 02:14:38,960
Speaker 43: so much money from.

2690
02:14:39,360 --> 02:14:42,080
Speaker 14: This billionaire is a billionaire.

2691
02:14:41,760 --> 02:14:45,520
Speaker 43: Because he's exploited the United States of America, et cetera,

2692
02:14:45,560 --> 02:14:45,960
Speaker 43: et cetera.

2693
02:14:46,160 --> 02:14:49,960
Speaker 14: So thank you, Jasmine. You continued to be whom you are.

2694
02:14:50,520 --> 02:14:53,120
Speaker 14: You walk as you tried to get everybody else to do.

2695
02:14:54,920 --> 02:14:56,200
Speaker 8: You tried.

2696
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:03,320
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of the members that we're not afraid

2697
02:15:03,560 --> 02:15:05,640
Speaker 1: and decided that they will walk, because if I didn't

2698
02:15:05,680 --> 02:15:08,520
Speaker 1: have at least a group, then I just wasn't going

2699
02:15:08,640 --> 02:15:09,200
Speaker 1: to attend.

2700
02:15:09,320 --> 02:15:10,520
Speaker 11: So I am so thankful.

2701
02:15:10,600 --> 02:15:13,160
Speaker 1: I know y'all had a chance to hear from Melanie Stansbury,

2702
02:15:13,600 --> 02:15:17,280
Speaker 1: who is my writer out of New Mexico. We had

2703
02:15:17,360 --> 02:15:19,800
Speaker 1: to make sure we at least could do something as

2704
02:15:19,920 --> 02:15:24,320
Speaker 1: a unified group because saying, oh, there's only one person,

2705
02:15:24,360 --> 02:15:26,880
Speaker 1: and there's only two people, and I really wanted to

2706
02:15:27,000 --> 02:15:30,080
Speaker 1: show that there are more than just one person that

2707
02:15:30,240 --> 02:15:32,640
Speaker 1: is willing to engage in this fight. And if I

2708
02:15:32,760 --> 02:15:35,000
Speaker 1: could not get a group, then I just didn't want

2709
02:15:35,040 --> 02:15:37,040
Speaker 1: to do it. So I'm thankful for every soldier that

2710
02:15:37,080 --> 02:15:38,040
Speaker 1: decided to stand.

2711
02:15:37,920 --> 02:15:41,360
Speaker 8: Up and walk up Congress from Crockett and waters real quick,

2712
02:15:42,360 --> 02:15:46,160
Speaker 8: is the relationship between Democrats and Republics between now and midterms?

2713
02:15:46,600 --> 02:15:48,920
Speaker 8: Is it completely irreparable if we go on to war

2714
02:15:49,000 --> 02:15:51,520
Speaker 8: and just voting the mount in twenty twenty six, or

2715
02:15:51,720 --> 02:15:54,560
Speaker 8: is there any modicum of hope that we can come

2716
02:15:54,680 --> 02:15:57,360
Speaker 8: back from this between nine mid terms? The energy that

2717
02:15:57,520 --> 02:16:00,800
Speaker 8: was in the room tonight, I mean, let me just.

2718
02:16:00,880 --> 02:16:05,640
Speaker 43: Say that we have a good cause, a good democratic cause,

2719
02:16:06,200 --> 02:16:11,480
Speaker 43: And what we understand and appreciate is that people show

2720
02:16:11,640 --> 02:16:16,720
Speaker 43: their objections and their disagreements in different ways. And what

2721
02:16:16,920 --> 02:16:21,720
Speaker 43: we see building in this democratic conquerse is ways by

2722
02:16:21,800 --> 02:16:22,440
Speaker 43: which we're going to.

2723
02:16:22,440 --> 02:16:24,520
Speaker 14: Win this fight. We're going to win this fight.

2724
02:16:24,920 --> 02:16:27,360
Speaker 43: We're going to win this fight because I think what

2725
02:16:27,520 --> 02:16:30,680
Speaker 43: we're all understanding is this, we got to be in

2726
02:16:30,720 --> 02:16:34,480
Speaker 43: the streets. You know, it's not enough to be at home,

2727
02:16:35,360 --> 02:16:39,720
Speaker 43: you know, on the internet, you know, trying to convince people.

2728
02:16:40,120 --> 02:16:43,480
Speaker 14: They want us out there, they want to see us fighting.

2729
02:16:44,000 --> 02:16:47,800
Speaker 43: We are going to inspire people and help people to

2730
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:50,599
Speaker 43: understand that the power lies.

2731
02:16:50,640 --> 02:16:53,480
Speaker 14: When we all are sticking together, when we're working.

2732
02:16:54,040 --> 02:16:57,440
Speaker 43: I believe that if we keep going to the streets

2733
02:16:57,480 --> 02:17:01,040
Speaker 43: and we grow and grow and grow our protests, we're

2734
02:17:01,080 --> 02:17:02,959
Speaker 43: going to have a lot of influence on the courts,

2735
02:17:03,280 --> 02:17:06,200
Speaker 43: who still have a lot of decisions to make. These

2736
02:17:06,320 --> 02:17:09,760
Speaker 43: decisions now are temporary, but we've got to get down

2737
02:17:09,879 --> 02:17:13,360
Speaker 43: to the decisions about whether or not what they're doing

2738
02:17:14,000 --> 02:17:17,520
Speaker 43: is in defiance of the Constitution, in defiance of the

2739
02:17:17,680 --> 02:17:21,280
Speaker 43: laws that have been signed by presidents, and what is

2740
02:17:21,400 --> 02:17:25,440
Speaker 43: the difference between an executive order and a law, and

2741
02:17:25,600 --> 02:17:29,160
Speaker 43: what is difference between an executive order and what's in

2742
02:17:29,240 --> 02:17:32,560
Speaker 43: the Constitution of America. And I think we can help

2743
02:17:32,640 --> 02:17:35,959
Speaker 43: the courts move even stronger. But they got to see us,

2744
02:17:36,280 --> 02:17:38,400
Speaker 43: They got to understand that we're.

2745
02:17:38,280 --> 02:17:42,080
Speaker 14: Willing to fight for what believed. And you know what, Hell,

2746
02:17:42,280 --> 02:17:45,480
Speaker 14: I'm in this fight. I'm in this fight, and I

2747
02:17:45,680 --> 02:17:47,720
Speaker 14: do believe that there are a lot of other people

2748
02:17:47,920 --> 02:17:48,560
Speaker 14: in this fight.

2749
02:17:48,959 --> 02:17:51,280
Speaker 43: And when they see an eighty six year old woman

2750
02:17:51,640 --> 02:17:54,920
Speaker 43: on the street fighting in the way that I certainly

2751
02:17:55,040 --> 02:17:58,280
Speaker 43: know how, I hope it is going to inspire a

2752
02:17:58,320 --> 02:18:01,000
Speaker 43: lot of people to come on out and join us.

2753
02:18:01,440 --> 02:18:02,400
Speaker 15: Is that right, Angela?

2754
02:18:03,280 --> 02:18:04,600
Speaker 5: That is absolutely right.

2755
02:18:04,720 --> 02:18:05,560
Speaker 45: And I'm gonna tell you what.

2756
02:18:08,360 --> 02:18:09,720
Speaker 14: I know right now.

2757
02:18:09,840 --> 02:18:13,240
Speaker 11: I was just gonna say that, listen, this is business.

2758
02:18:13,600 --> 02:18:17,600
Speaker 1: I am going into the backyards and anybody that I

2759
02:18:17,720 --> 02:18:19,280
Speaker 1: can take out, I'm gonna take them out.

2760
02:18:19,640 --> 02:18:22,960
Speaker 5: So I am gonna go I'm gonna figuratively.

2761
02:18:24,520 --> 02:18:28,959
Speaker 31: Yeah, but explain it. So because because because right.

2762
02:18:28,920 --> 02:18:31,959
Speaker 1: Now they have decided that they don't want to show

2763
02:18:32,080 --> 02:18:35,039
Speaker 1: up and be held accountable to the people that put

2764
02:18:35,080 --> 02:18:38,400
Speaker 1: them into power. They have made a decision the NRCC

2765
02:18:38,879 --> 02:18:41,520
Speaker 1: that they're not gonna do any more town halls in

2766
02:18:41,600 --> 02:18:43,800
Speaker 1: their districts. So if they're not going to show up

2767
02:18:43,840 --> 02:18:46,440
Speaker 1: and serve their people, then I'm gonna show up, and

2768
02:18:46,560 --> 02:18:48,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that they know the truth about

2769
02:18:48,640 --> 02:18:52,040
Speaker 1: why they are cowering and why they are going and

2770
02:18:52,200 --> 02:18:55,080
Speaker 1: bending the knee to the Orange one instead of serving

2771
02:18:55,120 --> 02:18:57,600
Speaker 1: the people that made it possible for them to serve

2772
02:18:57,720 --> 02:19:01,280
Speaker 1: in this body. So no, it wasn't even a matter

2773
02:19:01,400 --> 02:19:04,440
Speaker 1: of tonight being the trigger. It was the fact that

2774
02:19:04,640 --> 02:19:07,520
Speaker 1: they decided that they were gonna go out. And while

2775
02:19:07,600 --> 02:19:10,840
Speaker 1: this man has allowed Elon Musk to turn off the

2776
02:19:10,959 --> 02:19:14,240
Speaker 1: money for bills that were signing too law by Joe

2777
02:19:14,280 --> 02:19:17,240
Speaker 1: Biden or any other president and decide that they are

2778
02:19:17,280 --> 02:19:21,120
Speaker 1: gonna abdicate their duties. That was when I decided that

2779
02:19:21,320 --> 02:19:24,000
Speaker 1: I was gonna be coming for all a seats, any

2780
02:19:24,080 --> 02:19:25,160
Speaker 1: seat that we can get.

2781
02:19:25,680 --> 02:19:27,120
Speaker 31: Just no, I'm coming for it.

2782
02:19:27,560 --> 02:19:29,120
Speaker 1: And when I say I'm coming for it, I'm not

2783
02:19:29,280 --> 02:19:32,520
Speaker 1: only showing up at their back door, but I'm also

2784
02:19:32,720 --> 02:19:33,320
Speaker 1: raising money.

2785
02:19:33,360 --> 02:19:37,000
Speaker 31: When I raise money, I give money, I spend money.

2786
02:19:37,480 --> 02:19:39,400
Speaker 14: I am in this to win this.

2787
02:19:40,040 --> 02:19:43,080
Speaker 1: Just like Max said, we gonna get this thing done

2788
02:19:43,520 --> 02:19:48,520
Speaker 1: by any means necessary. I'm gonna make sure money, organizing,

2789
02:19:49,120 --> 02:19:51,240
Speaker 1: showing up and doing the work that they don't want

2790
02:19:51,280 --> 02:19:53,840
Speaker 1: to do. We are absolutely gonna do it. And yes,

2791
02:19:53,920 --> 02:19:55,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this stuff on social media too. I

2792
02:19:55,760 --> 02:19:57,680
Speaker 1: know Max said, you know, we gotta get up the computers,

2793
02:19:57,840 --> 02:20:02,440
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do the computer stuff too. Well, this

2794
02:20:02,680 --> 02:20:06,920
Speaker 1: is amazing, ladies. We so appreciate you coming on. We

2795
02:20:07,080 --> 02:20:11,760
Speaker 1: love you, Jasmine, we love you, Congresswomen, Queen next, I

2796
02:20:11,920 --> 02:20:15,120
Speaker 1: love you. So I want to just quickly we you know,

2797
02:20:15,240 --> 02:20:17,280
Speaker 1: we were talking to some fighters. We were starting with

2798
02:20:17,360 --> 02:20:20,680
Speaker 1: Tamika and Angelo, and this is how you know MW's

2799
02:20:20,720 --> 02:20:21,080
Speaker 1: a gangster.

2800
02:20:21,120 --> 02:20:23,200
Speaker 5: Congress Waters came on. She didn't even have to say

2801
02:20:23,240 --> 02:20:25,480
Speaker 5: reclaiming my time. She just started talking it to me.

2802
02:20:29,760 --> 02:20:32,680
Speaker 1: I was like, else to say, edit, And I'm glad

2803
02:20:32,720 --> 02:20:34,680
Speaker 1: that they did that because I was getting ready to

2804
02:20:34,680 --> 02:20:36,360
Speaker 1: try to come with my hoop and I don't even

2805
02:20:36,440 --> 02:20:37,039
Speaker 1: have to do it.

2806
02:20:37,120 --> 02:20:39,480
Speaker 23: Till they already handled it for me.

2807
02:20:39,920 --> 02:20:42,400
Speaker 1: So I'll just go back to some technical points on

2808
02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:46,880
Speaker 1: this issue around UH Boycott's Angela. You asked a very

2809
02:20:46,920 --> 02:20:50,840
Speaker 1: important question about what do we do with black vendors

2810
02:20:50,879 --> 02:20:53,360
Speaker 1: that are on the stores and places like Target, and

2811
02:20:53,520 --> 02:20:57,440
Speaker 1: we talked about how you know, UH Pastor Bryant talked

2812
02:20:57,440 --> 02:21:00,480
Speaker 1: about the list that the Black Chamber of Commons has

2813
02:21:00,560 --> 02:21:03,879
Speaker 1: with black businesses that you can get your products from directly,

2814
02:21:04,360 --> 02:21:08,640
Speaker 1: as well as ensuring that the businesses in Target, specifically

2815
02:21:09,080 --> 02:21:11,640
Speaker 1: that we continue to support them. I want to bring

2816
02:21:11,720 --> 02:21:15,000
Speaker 1: into this conversation our sister Nina Turner, who was one

2817
02:21:15,080 --> 02:21:18,440
Speaker 1: of the first people to say that we needed to

2818
02:21:18,560 --> 02:21:22,480
Speaker 1: boycott Target for an extended period of time. Also our

2819
02:21:22,560 --> 02:21:26,320
Speaker 1: sister Nakima Armstrong, who is there in Minneapolis where the

2820
02:21:26,480 --> 02:21:31,640
Speaker 1: Target headquarters is located, holding local protests and meetings and

2821
02:21:31,920 --> 02:21:34,240
Speaker 1: organizing there on the ground. I just want to make

2822
02:21:34,280 --> 02:21:37,120
Speaker 1: sure that they are not missing in the context for

2823
02:21:37,320 --> 02:21:40,959
Speaker 1: how this boycott has come together. All I will say

2824
02:21:41,040 --> 02:21:43,960
Speaker 1: is that there's been a theme throughout this entire very

2825
02:21:44,120 --> 02:21:47,720
Speaker 1: powerful night and It's been about us engaging in the

2826
02:21:47,800 --> 02:21:50,600
Speaker 1: streets and getting with our people. And I want folks

2827
02:21:50,680 --> 02:21:53,000
Speaker 1: to know that I didn't wake up to a call

2828
02:21:53,440 --> 02:21:55,800
Speaker 1: about a boycott from a group of leaders.

2829
02:21:56,280 --> 02:21:57,640
Speaker 23: It came from the ground.

2830
02:21:58,000 --> 02:22:01,039
Speaker 1: It came into the comment section on almost every post

2831
02:22:01,120 --> 02:22:04,520
Speaker 1: that I could find where Target said that they were

2832
02:22:04,640 --> 02:22:09,600
Speaker 1: rolling back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. People started saying,

2833
02:22:09,879 --> 02:22:13,360
Speaker 1: I will never go there again. I'm not shopping at Target.

2834
02:22:13,480 --> 02:22:16,320
Speaker 1: They said their feelings were hurt because Target, to them

2835
02:22:16,920 --> 02:22:19,720
Speaker 1: was a place that they went, especially as black women,

2836
02:22:19,879 --> 02:22:22,560
Speaker 1: as a safe space, and to see that they would

2837
02:22:22,680 --> 02:22:26,640
Speaker 1: cower to white supremacy and to this effort to take

2838
02:22:26,680 --> 02:22:30,600
Speaker 1: away what we believe is the gains of many of us,

2839
02:22:30,680 --> 02:22:32,720
Speaker 1: who many of us and of course people who came

2840
02:22:32,760 --> 02:22:36,119
Speaker 1: before us that fought so hard for us to have diversity,

2841
02:22:36,560 --> 02:22:37,360
Speaker 1: equity and.

2842
02:22:37,480 --> 02:22:38,959
Speaker 23: Inclusion in these spaces.

2843
02:22:39,600 --> 02:22:43,600
Speaker 1: They felt connected to this, and we responded as organizers

2844
02:22:43,720 --> 02:22:47,160
Speaker 1: to help put some structure around it. Jamal came forward

2845
02:22:47,240 --> 02:22:50,440
Speaker 1: with the list that he's created with over one hundred

2846
02:22:50,480 --> 02:22:53,120
Speaker 1: thousand names. So this is a ground up effort. And

2847
02:22:53,200 --> 02:22:55,440
Speaker 1: the reason why I bring that up is because as

2848
02:22:55,560 --> 02:22:58,320
Speaker 1: we talk about all of what has been discussed tonight.

2849
02:22:58,680 --> 02:23:01,960
Speaker 1: Important things I want us to remember the grassroots, the

2850
02:23:02,040 --> 02:23:04,760
Speaker 1: people who are out there who are still fighting to

2851
02:23:04,879 --> 02:23:08,680
Speaker 1: keep gun violence tamed in their community, to deal with

2852
02:23:08,840 --> 02:23:12,880
Speaker 1: the issues of food deserts and poverty and injustice that

2853
02:23:13,080 --> 02:23:16,760
Speaker 1: is happening to them locally, police violence, people calling us

2854
02:23:16,840 --> 02:23:20,000
Speaker 1: from inside of prisons who are dealing with the backlash

2855
02:23:20,440 --> 02:23:22,880
Speaker 1: of what they are seeing happening across the country, where

2856
02:23:22,879 --> 02:23:25,800
Speaker 1: white supremacy is even sparking.

2857
02:23:25,520 --> 02:23:27,720
Speaker 23: In those spaces behind the walls.

2858
02:23:28,120 --> 02:23:31,040
Speaker 1: Our people need us on so many different levels, and

2859
02:23:31,200 --> 02:23:34,880
Speaker 1: as Latasha said, let us remember to continue to give

2860
02:23:35,120 --> 02:23:38,000
Speaker 1: money and resources, whatever little bit we have, if we're

2861
02:23:38,040 --> 02:23:40,960
Speaker 1: holding it from target, take it, take half of it,

2862
02:23:41,280 --> 02:23:43,440
Speaker 1: put it under your mattress or wherever you want to

2863
02:23:43,480 --> 02:23:45,680
Speaker 1: save it, and take the other half and send it

2864
02:23:45,800 --> 02:23:49,680
Speaker 1: to a grassroots organizer or organization that is out there

2865
02:23:49,800 --> 02:23:53,080
Speaker 1: doing the consistent work that while we plan on a

2866
02:23:53,280 --> 02:23:56,360
Speaker 1: mass scale, it is important that we deal with every

2867
02:23:56,440 --> 02:23:58,720
Speaker 1: single issue we talked about here this evening.

2868
02:23:58,959 --> 02:24:01,240
Speaker 23: But we must not forget yet that there are people who.

2869
02:24:01,160 --> 02:24:05,160
Speaker 1: Are literally the thing between the trigger and the finger

2870
02:24:05,560 --> 02:24:08,840
Speaker 1: of a thirteen or fourteen year old child who might

2871
02:24:09,040 --> 02:24:12,760
Speaker 1: kill somebody tomorrow because their grandmother lost their job.

2872
02:24:13,520 --> 02:24:14,760
Speaker 23: And when we talk about.

2873
02:24:14,600 --> 02:24:18,120
Speaker 1: Federal workers, so it's really really serious and important to

2874
02:24:18,280 --> 02:24:20,880
Speaker 1: us that we continue to focus on those folks, that

2875
02:24:20,959 --> 02:24:23,560
Speaker 1: we listen to the voices of the people, and that

2876
02:24:23,680 --> 02:24:27,039
Speaker 1: the grassroots, that the people on the ground be really

2877
02:24:27,200 --> 02:24:29,039
Speaker 1: at the center of all.

2878
02:24:28,959 --> 02:24:32,879
Speaker 23: Of our organizing. We say it until freedom that the people.

2879
02:24:32,680 --> 02:24:35,640
Speaker 1: Who are closest to the problem must be at the

2880
02:24:35,800 --> 02:24:39,680
Speaker 1: center of the solutions that we put forth in our society.

2881
02:24:40,080 --> 02:24:42,600
Speaker 1: And we want to make sure that everybody here, whoever

2882
02:24:42,680 --> 02:24:47,240
Speaker 1: you are, wherever you're organizing, let's ensure that we diversify.

2883
02:24:47,400 --> 02:24:50,320
Speaker 1: We want to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion outside

2884
02:24:50,360 --> 02:24:54,520
Speaker 1: in the world. Let us diversify every single space that

2885
02:24:54,680 --> 02:24:57,959
Speaker 1: we are working in to ensure that our people, all

2886
02:24:58,040 --> 02:25:00,680
Speaker 1: of our people are there to inform us as we

2887
02:25:00,840 --> 02:25:02,080
Speaker 1: go forward and do our work.

2888
02:25:02,400 --> 02:25:03,920
Speaker 5: God bless y'all, and I love y'all.

2889
02:25:04,360 --> 02:25:08,080
Speaker 45: And I'll just say I think that we're boycotting because

2890
02:25:08,120 --> 02:25:11,360
Speaker 45: we know we have to make America think again. Right,

2891
02:25:11,520 --> 02:25:14,039
Speaker 45: We need to make America think again. And the only

2892
02:25:14,120 --> 02:25:17,560
Speaker 45: way you make folks think is when you speak their language.

2893
02:25:18,040 --> 02:25:21,000
Speaker 45: So if their language is money, you gotta speak money

2894
02:25:21,240 --> 02:25:23,280
Speaker 45: or act money. If the language is votes, you got

2895
02:25:23,360 --> 02:25:25,800
Speaker 45: to act votes. If the language is viewership, you have

2896
02:25:25,959 --> 02:25:29,880
Speaker 45: to act viewership. And those of us who fight, we

2897
02:25:30,080 --> 02:25:32,640
Speaker 45: know that you have to fight on every front. And

2898
02:25:32,760 --> 02:25:37,920
Speaker 45: as Pastor Brian said, boycotts are really redirecting our spending.

2899
02:25:38,720 --> 02:25:41,880
Speaker 45: And the reason redirect our spending is because we know

2900
02:25:42,000 --> 02:25:46,360
Speaker 45: we must redistribute the pain. Black folks can't be the

2901
02:25:46,480 --> 02:25:49,280
Speaker 45: only folks in this moment who are feeling pain. And

2902
02:25:49,360 --> 02:25:52,360
Speaker 45: when we begin to redistribute how we spend, we can

2903
02:25:52,840 --> 02:25:55,880
Speaker 45: redistribute some of that pain. And a big piece of

2904
02:25:55,959 --> 02:25:58,880
Speaker 45: that is really showing our outrage. We often say we're

2905
02:25:58,959 --> 02:26:01,680
Speaker 45: not outraged in the US, but when we begin to

2906
02:26:01,840 --> 02:26:05,320
Speaker 45: change our actions, we show our outrage. And the outrage

2907
02:26:05,520 --> 02:26:08,520
Speaker 45: must be paired with action. It must be paired with

2908
02:26:08,640 --> 02:26:12,320
Speaker 45: consistent action. And for us, the message that we're really

2909
02:26:12,360 --> 02:26:14,840
Speaker 45: trying to send the folks is you can vote with

2910
02:26:14,920 --> 02:26:17,880
Speaker 45: your pocketbook. You can vote with your bank account, you

2911
02:26:17,959 --> 02:26:22,199
Speaker 45: could vote with your viewership, you can vote with every vehicle.

2912
02:26:22,440 --> 02:26:25,360
Speaker 45: We have power, and black folks have a lot of power.

2913
02:26:25,640 --> 02:26:28,240
Speaker 45: Don't listen to anyone who says you don't have power,

2914
02:26:28,520 --> 02:26:31,080
Speaker 45: but every place you have it, you must send a

2915
02:26:31,200 --> 02:26:34,040
Speaker 45: message to the gatekeepers that we're going to use the

2916
02:26:34,160 --> 02:26:37,000
Speaker 45: power so that black folks can get the things we

2917
02:26:37,280 --> 02:26:40,920
Speaker 45: need and not be oppressed any longer. We also always

2918
02:26:40,959 --> 02:26:43,120
Speaker 45: say we need to build something different. I think this

2919
02:26:43,320 --> 02:26:46,560
Speaker 45: moment has showed us that we need something different more

2920
02:26:46,680 --> 02:26:49,800
Speaker 45: than ever. But not only do we need something different,

2921
02:26:49,959 --> 02:26:53,560
Speaker 45: black folks gotta be the ones that build the something different.

2922
02:26:53,959 --> 02:26:56,440
Speaker 45: And in this moment, I think the biggest lesson of

2923
02:26:56,520 --> 02:26:59,240
Speaker 45: all is we have to begin to build things that

2924
02:26:59,440 --> 02:27:04,080
Speaker 45: can't be rolled back. We cannot build more things that

2925
02:27:04,240 --> 02:27:07,720
Speaker 45: a new administration, a new whoever, can come into position

2926
02:27:07,920 --> 02:27:10,760
Speaker 45: and roll it back. And I believe the only things

2927
02:27:10,840 --> 02:27:13,519
Speaker 45: they can't roll back is when we spend with ourselves.

2928
02:27:13,800 --> 02:27:15,760
Speaker 45: The only thing they can't roll back is when we

2929
02:27:15,959 --> 02:27:19,440
Speaker 45: vote for black folks who carry our agenda. The only

2930
02:27:19,520 --> 02:27:22,640
Speaker 45: thing they can't roll back is when we organize like

2931
02:27:22,800 --> 02:27:26,200
Speaker 45: this to deliver messages we know our people need. So

2932
02:27:26,400 --> 02:27:29,760
Speaker 45: for me, the more we organize, the more we move together,

2933
02:27:30,160 --> 02:27:34,000
Speaker 45: the more we can build institutions plans that they can't

2934
02:27:34,080 --> 02:27:34,440
Speaker 45: roll back.

2935
02:27:34,480 --> 02:27:35,080
Speaker 2: So that's what we do.

2936
02:27:35,640 --> 02:27:39,160
Speaker 8: What if you all found Angelo and Tamika, First off,

2937
02:27:39,240 --> 02:27:40,920
Speaker 8: thank you all for what you all have been putting

2938
02:27:40,920 --> 02:27:44,039
Speaker 8: together with regards to this, what have you all found

2939
02:27:44,120 --> 02:27:46,400
Speaker 8: over the years and years of activism that you've done,

2940
02:27:46,440 --> 02:27:50,640
Speaker 8: it's the most effective way of getting other black folks

2941
02:27:50,680 --> 02:27:54,400
Speaker 8: on board. Like Mama whole side is from Clarksdale, Mississippi.

2942
02:27:54,400 --> 02:27:57,000
Speaker 8: Pretty much every store there is a store connected to

2943
02:27:57,040 --> 02:27:59,520
Speaker 8: a bigger conglomerate that rolled back Dee and I. So

2944
02:28:00,680 --> 02:28:02,600
Speaker 8: when you're trying to get them to understand, hey, here's

2945
02:28:02,640 --> 02:28:07,200
Speaker 8: something you can order from an independent vendor. There's tiktoks

2946
02:28:07,280 --> 02:28:10,920
Speaker 8: now of people going in target and basically putting the

2947
02:28:11,000 --> 02:28:13,000
Speaker 8: camera in front of black and brown folks and like

2948
02:28:13,360 --> 02:28:16,080
Speaker 8: essentially using shame as a tactic. There's education as a tactic.

2949
02:28:16,520 --> 02:28:18,240
Speaker 8: What have you all found has been the best way

2950
02:28:18,320 --> 02:28:21,640
Speaker 8: to get more people to understand the value and everything

2951
02:28:21,680 --> 02:28:24,120
Speaker 8: that you all are trying to trying to get done.

2952
02:28:34,400 --> 02:28:36,800
Speaker 1: So I would say that we only go at it

2953
02:28:36,879 --> 02:28:38,640
Speaker 1: a few times and then we keep it moving and

2954
02:28:38,800 --> 02:28:40,560
Speaker 1: roll with the ones who want to get with it,

2955
02:28:41,000 --> 02:28:44,680
Speaker 1: and usually more people come along as time goes on.

2956
02:28:44,959 --> 02:28:47,960
Speaker 1: As long as we're disciplined, you begin to see other

2957
02:28:48,040 --> 02:28:50,360
Speaker 1: people saying, let me peep my head outside the door

2958
02:28:50,360 --> 02:28:52,800
Speaker 1: and see what's going on, and maybe I'll join that fight.

2959
02:28:53,240 --> 02:28:56,040
Speaker 1: And so I think that's, you know, obviously very important

2960
02:28:56,080 --> 02:28:59,480
Speaker 1: that we stay consistent, which is not always easy, but

2961
02:28:59,560 --> 02:29:02,400
Speaker 1: it also helps when we are working with like mind

2962
02:29:02,520 --> 02:29:07,320
Speaker 1: individuals and when we empower local voices to help lead

2963
02:29:07,400 --> 02:29:10,720
Speaker 1: those movements, and that they don't feel we're telling them

2964
02:29:10,840 --> 02:29:13,160
Speaker 1: what to do, but instead that they are a part

2965
02:29:13,320 --> 02:29:16,880
Speaker 1: of the process for how things come together. And so

2966
02:29:17,000 --> 02:29:18,960
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people are feeling like

2967
02:29:19,040 --> 02:29:22,520
Speaker 1: they are part of this movement because largely Black women,

2968
02:29:23,160 --> 02:29:27,400
Speaker 1: who are everyday moms, everyday sisters living in their communities,

2969
02:29:27,680 --> 02:29:31,080
Speaker 1: are the ones whose voices were first, you know, in

2970
02:29:31,240 --> 02:29:34,760
Speaker 1: this fight, and so I think empowering them is so important,

2971
02:29:35,040 --> 02:29:37,959
Speaker 1: you know, And I totally understand what you mean, because

2972
02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:40,560
Speaker 1: we do have the challenge of trying to.

2973
02:29:40,640 --> 02:29:43,200
Speaker 23: Get everybody, but that has never been the case.

2974
02:29:43,680 --> 02:29:44,080
Speaker 5: Angela.

2975
02:29:44,120 --> 02:29:48,160
Speaker 1: You talked about the percentage of people who actually participated

2976
02:29:48,200 --> 02:29:50,800
Speaker 1: in the bus boycott, and even all of those people

2977
02:29:50,879 --> 02:29:54,280
Speaker 1: didn't start at the beginning. It took time for them

2978
02:29:54,360 --> 02:29:57,039
Speaker 1: to see a couple of things. One to be ashamed

2979
02:29:57,360 --> 02:29:59,480
Speaker 1: to keep trying to get on the bus when everybody

2980
02:29:59,560 --> 02:30:02,480
Speaker 1: else was making sure that they walk right on past it,

2981
02:30:02,640 --> 02:30:03,440
Speaker 1: and I think that's what.

2982
02:30:03,640 --> 02:30:03,880
Speaker 14: That's what.

2983
02:30:04,120 --> 02:30:06,520
Speaker 1: That's one of the tactics that we also use is

2984
02:30:06,560 --> 02:30:09,000
Speaker 1: to let our folks know you look kind of crazy

2985
02:30:09,120 --> 02:30:11,960
Speaker 1: going and target while the rest of us are standing outside.

2986
02:30:13,040 --> 02:30:15,400
Speaker 45: And I would say black people are really a people

2987
02:30:16,080 --> 02:30:17,160
Speaker 45: of rhythm.

2988
02:30:17,920 --> 02:30:20,000
Speaker 8: Right, oh oh, I think are trying.

2989
02:30:19,840 --> 02:30:25,000
Speaker 1: To Yes, y'all, let me tell you something. We have

2990
02:30:25,280 --> 02:30:28,200
Speaker 1: twenty six minutes. I got some leaders in you. We

2991
02:30:28,240 --> 02:30:30,440
Speaker 1: got some of the most really get black minds in

2992
02:30:30,560 --> 02:30:33,080
Speaker 1: the world on here. I gotta do a rapid round

2993
02:30:33,160 --> 02:30:35,920
Speaker 1: because Holly told me what one thing that we're gonna

2994
02:30:35,959 --> 02:30:38,440
Speaker 1: do is be twenty four hours, so we're not going

2995
02:30:38,480 --> 02:30:38,960
Speaker 1: over time.

2996
02:30:39,320 --> 02:30:41,200
Speaker 5: We got so much more we need to say and do.

2997
02:30:41,360 --> 02:30:43,000
Speaker 1: That means we got to have a part two, three,

2998
02:30:43,080 --> 02:30:46,120
Speaker 1: four nineteen. But I gotta get these brilliant voices in

2999
02:30:47,440 --> 02:30:49,640
Speaker 1: so I love y'all. Were gonna keep talking about this

3000
02:30:49,760 --> 02:30:52,240
Speaker 1: on social were and keep going. I'm gonna go first

3001
02:30:52,600 --> 02:30:56,760
Speaker 1: to Bernice King because you just brought up Montgomery bus

3002
02:30:57,040 --> 02:30:59,160
Speaker 1: boycotts to me. God, I want to go to you,

3003
02:31:00,080 --> 02:31:01,680
Speaker 1: doctor King, and then I want to make sure we

3004
02:31:01,760 --> 02:31:02,560
Speaker 1: get to your colleagues.

3005
02:31:02,560 --> 02:31:04,640
Speaker 5: If we can all try to keep our remarks to

3006
02:31:05,080 --> 02:31:07,440
Speaker 5: one and a half minutes or less. We gotta get

3007
02:31:07,440 --> 02:31:09,400
Speaker 5: everybody in. There's so many great voices.

3008
02:31:09,800 --> 02:31:13,640
Speaker 1: Kimberly krinschyaw joined us, Doctor Dyson, Maya, everybody wants you

3009
02:31:13,720 --> 02:31:15,520
Speaker 1: to run for mayor Maya. I mean, come on, we

3010
02:31:15,560 --> 02:31:18,040
Speaker 1: gotta go, we gotta get we gotta go.

3011
02:31:18,360 --> 02:31:20,160
Speaker 5: Doctor Burney's king. It's joined us.

3012
02:31:20,760 --> 02:31:24,240
Speaker 15: Yeah, thank you, and good evening everybody. I just wanted

3013
02:31:24,240 --> 02:31:25,760
Speaker 15: to say this. This is one of those Nie and

3014
02:31:25,840 --> 02:31:28,800
Speaker 15: Mayan moments. Me in my four nineteen says the work

3015
02:31:28,920 --> 02:31:32,280
Speaker 15: is great and extensive, and we are widely separated on

3016
02:31:32,360 --> 02:31:35,840
Speaker 15: the wall. But when we hear the sound of the trump,

3017
02:31:35,959 --> 02:31:39,440
Speaker 15: I mean trumpet, we must rally together and our God

3018
02:31:39,640 --> 02:31:42,640
Speaker 15: will fight for us. So I want to thank you Angela,

3019
02:31:42,760 --> 02:31:46,960
Speaker 15: you Joy and others for pulling this moment together in

3020
02:31:47,120 --> 02:31:48,600
Speaker 15: response to the trump.

3021
02:31:49,360 --> 02:31:51,440
Speaker 14: It in this hour?

3022
02:31:51,879 --> 02:31:54,039
Speaker 15: What does that mean? My father said, And I'm gonna

3023
02:31:54,040 --> 02:31:55,039
Speaker 15: do it real quick in this book.

3024
02:31:55,040 --> 02:31:56,720
Speaker 45: Where do we go from here? Chaos and community?

3025
02:31:56,760 --> 02:31:59,480
Speaker 15: It's a part we overlooked so often, he said, I'm

3026
02:31:59,520 --> 02:32:03,720
Speaker 15: Nettles task is to discover how to organize our strength

3027
02:32:03,840 --> 02:32:07,879
Speaker 15: into compelling power so that the government cannot elude our demands.

3028
02:32:07,959 --> 02:32:10,080
Speaker 15: Or I would say so that the power structures cannot

3029
02:32:10,240 --> 02:32:13,920
Speaker 15: elude our demands. I want to applaud everybody on here

3030
02:32:14,000 --> 02:32:18,320
Speaker 15: for everything you're doing to keep my father's legacy moving forward.

3031
02:32:18,680 --> 02:32:21,920
Speaker 15: And I just want to challenge us, just real quick,

3032
02:32:22,000 --> 02:32:25,880
Speaker 15: because this is very a key point here. Oftentimes we

3033
02:32:26,120 --> 02:32:32,600
Speaker 15: organize around passion, we organize around frustration, we organize around yes, need,

3034
02:32:33,200 --> 02:32:36,040
Speaker 15: But how often do we organize around strength? How do

3035
02:32:36,120 --> 02:32:39,000
Speaker 15: we pull our strengths together, look at what is needed

3036
02:32:39,920 --> 02:32:42,320
Speaker 15: to deal with what we're trying to do, and organize

3037
02:32:42,400 --> 02:32:45,440
Speaker 15: those strengths. And so I want to maybe it exists,

3038
02:32:46,000 --> 02:32:48,320
Speaker 15: I don't know, but we need a war room. That's

3039
02:32:48,360 --> 02:32:51,800
Speaker 15: the first thing. The second thing is I want to

3040
02:32:52,040 --> 02:32:55,080
Speaker 15: thank you for what you're doing and say please, Angela.

3041
02:32:55,080 --> 02:32:59,119
Speaker 15: I texted you today, I said, continue this platform. Because

3042
02:32:59,640 --> 02:33:04,520
Speaker 15: Trump has two platforms true social and X that he's

3043
02:33:04,560 --> 02:33:09,240
Speaker 15: communicating consistently rapid fire. We need something on a daily

3044
02:33:09,360 --> 02:33:15,040
Speaker 15: basis because that misinformation has to be challenged consistently. Many

3045
02:33:15,120 --> 02:33:19,240
Speaker 15: people are misinformed and they are impressionable, and so we

3046
02:33:19,440 --> 02:33:22,560
Speaker 15: need this information. So much truth was shared today that

3047
02:33:22,720 --> 02:33:25,600
Speaker 15: people don't know. So thank you and kudos for bringing

3048
02:33:25,720 --> 02:33:29,720
Speaker 15: all of those different elements together. And then find it,

3049
02:33:29,760 --> 02:33:32,200
Speaker 15: which is a hard one. I'm Doctor King's daughter. I

3050
02:33:32,400 --> 02:33:36,280
Speaker 15: embrace fully nonviolence. I'm not perfect at it, but it

3051
02:33:36,440 --> 02:33:40,200
Speaker 15: is the best way to move forward. It is strategic.

3052
02:33:40,320 --> 02:33:43,160
Speaker 15: It gives us the spiritual discipline that we need and

3053
02:33:43,280 --> 02:33:45,400
Speaker 15: the soul force we need. And I have a dream

3054
02:33:45,440 --> 02:33:48,520
Speaker 15: speech and I close with this, he reminded everybody who

3055
02:33:48,560 --> 02:33:51,000
Speaker 15: was on a threshold of freedom and justice, and this

3056
02:33:51,200 --> 02:33:52,360
Speaker 15: is another part we missed.

3057
02:33:52,720 --> 02:33:53,920
Speaker 14: And I have a dream.

3058
02:33:54,000 --> 02:33:57,760
Speaker 15: In his words, he said, we must forever and that's

3059
02:33:57,800 --> 02:34:01,480
Speaker 15: an underlying and a bold and aalis. We must forever

3060
02:34:01,760 --> 02:34:06,640
Speaker 15: conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

3061
02:34:06,920 --> 02:34:09,400
Speaker 15: And so every day we got to prepare our minds,

3062
02:34:09,440 --> 02:34:13,400
Speaker 15: we got to prepare our spirits because this is a marathon.

3063
02:34:14,120 --> 02:34:16,920
Speaker 15: And then finally, as we're doing what we're doing now

3064
02:34:17,040 --> 02:34:21,080
Speaker 15: in this season, in this moment, we have to figure

3065
02:34:21,080 --> 02:34:26,280
Speaker 15: out the strategy, the strategies to change the numbers in Congress.

3066
02:34:26,640 --> 02:34:30,440
Speaker 15: There's a strategy to do that, not just registering the vote.

3067
02:34:30,920 --> 02:34:32,840
Speaker 15: But I love what Bernie did to go to the

3068
02:34:32,959 --> 02:34:35,680
Speaker 15: Trump voters. We got to think outside of the box

3069
02:34:35,840 --> 02:34:39,880
Speaker 15: to get those three numbers that are needed in the midterm.

3070
02:34:39,920 --> 02:34:42,000
Speaker 15: There's some elections coming up in April. It may be

3071
02:34:42,080 --> 02:34:44,600
Speaker 15: too late for that, but anyway, I just want to

3072
02:34:44,680 --> 02:34:45,160
Speaker 15: leave you with that.

3073
02:34:45,280 --> 02:34:46,280
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Angela.

3074
02:34:46,280 --> 02:34:46,840
Speaker 21: I appreciate you.

3075
02:34:47,400 --> 02:34:49,800
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Doctor Renie's King.

3076
02:34:50,160 --> 02:34:53,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to go next to Maya Wiley from the

3077
02:34:53,840 --> 02:34:55,840
Speaker 1: Lawyers com Meete and I'm sorry not the Lawyers Comity

3078
02:34:55,920 --> 02:34:59,800
Speaker 1: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and then Mark Morial, President

3079
02:34:59,840 --> 02:35:05,240
Speaker 1: of National Early, Kimberly Crenshaw African American Policy Forum. Please, folks,

3080
02:35:05,320 --> 02:35:06,920
Speaker 1: let's get it in, but we want to make sure

3081
02:35:06,920 --> 02:35:08,959
Speaker 1: we're briefing. We get everybody else in Miami.

3082
02:35:09,080 --> 02:35:09,480
Speaker 5: Start with you.

3083
02:35:11,200 --> 02:35:12,880
Speaker 46: Well, first of all, let me just say I'm gonna

3084
02:35:12,879 --> 02:35:15,160
Speaker 46: be very brief just how grateful I am for all

3085
02:35:15,200 --> 02:35:18,199
Speaker 46: the wisdom, all of the action, all of the activism

3086
02:35:18,280 --> 02:35:22,120
Speaker 46: that we've already heard. I am just going to say

3087
02:35:22,360 --> 02:35:26,160
Speaker 46: one thing that we have not talked about. We are

3088
02:35:26,280 --> 02:35:31,400
Speaker 46: talking about a madman who has promised to weaponize the

3089
02:35:31,520 --> 02:35:35,000
Speaker 46: military against our communities. And one of the ways he's

3090
02:35:35,040 --> 02:35:36,960
Speaker 46: going to do it is an addition to protests. Because

3091
02:35:37,000 --> 02:35:39,640
Speaker 46: that was one and we heard that from Congressman Frost.

3092
02:35:40,520 --> 02:35:44,240
Speaker 46: But the other is by Bill Fine. Immigrants and trying

3093
02:35:44,280 --> 02:35:48,040
Speaker 46: to come for our constitutional rights on birthrights, citizenship, which

3094
02:35:48,200 --> 02:35:51,360
Speaker 46: we as black people in the civil rights movement want,

3095
02:35:51,760 --> 02:35:54,080
Speaker 46: because the beginning of the first civil rights movement was

3096
02:35:54,120 --> 02:35:57,000
Speaker 46: the abolition of slavery. But the reason I'm raising this

3097
02:35:57,200 --> 02:35:59,920
Speaker 46: is because we've already had a man, Peter Sean Brown,

3098
02:36:01,080 --> 02:36:04,920
Speaker 46: the black man in Florida, who was three days he

3099
02:36:05,040 --> 02:36:07,720
Speaker 46: was only three days away from being deported, and he

3100
02:36:07,959 --> 02:36:11,640
Speaker 46: was born in Philadelphia, you know, and in our history

3101
02:36:11,640 --> 02:36:15,760
Speaker 46: we have a lot of black people who were put

3102
02:36:15,879 --> 02:36:20,320
Speaker 46: into detention because they were believed not to be citizens

3103
02:36:20,480 --> 02:36:22,879
Speaker 46: even though they were. So the only reason I'm saying

3104
02:36:22,920 --> 02:36:27,400
Speaker 46: this is the weaponizing, just like they're doing with diversity, equity, inclusion,

3105
02:36:27,440 --> 02:36:30,119
Speaker 46: and say all the three words because they don't say

3106
02:36:30,200 --> 02:36:33,600
Speaker 46: it because people actually like diversity, people actually think it's

3107
02:36:33,640 --> 02:36:36,520
Speaker 46: a good thing. They like inclusion. But they're also using

3108
02:36:36,520 --> 02:36:38,680
Speaker 46: it to come for immigrants. We have African immigrants, we

3109
02:36:38,720 --> 02:36:42,400
Speaker 46: have immigrants, we have Afro Latino immigrants. But what the

3110
02:36:42,520 --> 02:36:46,840
Speaker 46: Lake and Riley law did, which is what they were celebrating,

3111
02:36:46,920 --> 02:36:51,120
Speaker 46: what Democrats also clapped for and voted for, is they

3112
02:36:51,160 --> 02:36:54,359
Speaker 46: are given permission to racial profiling.

3113
02:36:55,440 --> 02:36:56,840
Speaker 6: And that means us.

3114
02:36:57,520 --> 02:37:01,480
Speaker 46: Whether or not we are citizen whether or not we

3115
02:37:01,560 --> 02:37:04,200
Speaker 46: were born here. So I just want to remind us

3116
02:37:04,560 --> 02:37:07,480
Speaker 46: of that as well as everything everyone else has said,

3117
02:37:08,320 --> 02:37:10,520
Speaker 46: because we won these rights.

3118
02:37:10,840 --> 02:37:12,040
Speaker 14: These are civil rights.

3119
02:37:12,400 --> 02:37:16,000
Speaker 46: These are about black people in our communities, both black

3120
02:37:16,000 --> 02:37:18,240
Speaker 46: people who are immigrants, but also the way they catch

3121
02:37:18,320 --> 02:37:21,000
Speaker 46: us up in their system and by the way they

3122
02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:23,400
Speaker 46: will use the military and our communities to look for us.

3123
02:37:24,040 --> 02:37:26,400
Speaker 46: So I only say that not to say we don't

3124
02:37:26,440 --> 02:37:28,800
Speaker 46: have anything we can do about it, but that we

3125
02:37:28,920 --> 02:37:31,760
Speaker 46: can't stay silent on that one either, because it is

3126
02:37:31,879 --> 02:37:35,400
Speaker 46: the silence that they're relying on and telling us that

3127
02:37:35,520 --> 02:37:37,879
Speaker 46: we shouldn't trust our own Thank you.

3128
02:37:37,959 --> 02:37:41,879
Speaker 8: Then intimidate and dare the media to report it as

3129
02:37:42,040 --> 02:37:45,800
Speaker 8: fat and then called the facts. Last I'm sorried. Ton't

3130
02:37:45,800 --> 02:37:48,199
Speaker 8: mean to add more sadness on top of your sadness.

3131
02:37:47,840 --> 02:37:52,040
Speaker 5: But yes, thank you Mark and Kimberly.

3132
02:37:52,480 --> 02:37:54,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, thank you very much. Angela.

3133
02:37:54,640 --> 02:37:56,440
Speaker 38: First of all, I want to thank you Angela and

3134
02:37:56,560 --> 02:38:00,760
Speaker 38: the entire team for hosting this tonight, and I'm grateful

3135
02:38:00,800 --> 02:38:04,520
Speaker 38: for the opportunity to be able to participate in to

3136
02:38:05,040 --> 02:38:09,840
Speaker 38: just add this, what we are facing is an attack

3137
02:38:10,800 --> 02:38:14,080
Speaker 38: and a war on civil rights, a war on.

3138
02:38:14,200 --> 02:38:18,560
Speaker 8: The last seventy years to surbrim decision.

3139
02:38:19,200 --> 02:38:24,800
Speaker 38: Every single action being undertaken seeks to repeal the progress

3140
02:38:24,879 --> 02:38:27,359
Speaker 38: we've made and to erase.

3141
02:38:27,080 --> 02:38:28,720
Speaker 8: Our contributions to this nation.

3142
02:38:29,480 --> 02:38:31,320
Speaker 38: If this is not a wake up call for this

3143
02:38:31,520 --> 02:38:35,680
Speaker 38: generation that had the opportunity to walk through doors, stand

3144
02:38:35,800 --> 02:38:40,720
Speaker 38: on shoulders, avail themselves of opportunities, because the hard, sweat

3145
02:38:41,640 --> 02:38:44,800
Speaker 38: and struggles of others are parents and grandparents and ancestors,

3146
02:38:45,160 --> 02:38:47,920
Speaker 38: then I don't know what we'll wake us up. So

3147
02:38:48,080 --> 02:38:53,959
Speaker 38: I'm grateful and excited to see the activism, selective purchasing.

3148
02:38:54,600 --> 02:38:57,640
Speaker 38: We're bringing litigation. We've brought litigation with the help of

3149
02:38:57,680 --> 02:39:02,560
Speaker 38: the Legal Defense Fund, against three Trump executive orders. There's

3150
02:39:02,600 --> 02:39:07,360
Speaker 38: been litigation brought against the freeze and on behalf of

3151
02:39:07,520 --> 02:39:11,640
Speaker 38: the employees of federal employees. We have to stand together,

3152
02:39:11,840 --> 02:39:16,040
Speaker 38: and the most important thing is for everybody to do something.

3153
02:39:16,800 --> 02:39:19,160
Speaker 8: Get off the couch, get out.

3154
02:39:19,080 --> 02:39:21,960
Speaker 38: Of your comfort zone, and recognize that this is a

3155
02:39:22,120 --> 02:39:25,480
Speaker 38: threat to the last seventy years and we're defining the

3156
02:39:25,600 --> 02:39:28,240
Speaker 38: future for our children and our children's children.

3157
02:39:28,760 --> 02:39:33,160
Speaker 8: Project twenty twenty five is real. We're seeing it being executed,

3158
02:39:33,240 --> 02:39:33,800
Speaker 8: we're seeing it.

3159
02:39:33,879 --> 02:39:38,560
Speaker 38: Being implemented and they want to bend this country to

3160
02:39:39,640 --> 02:39:44,720
Speaker 38: an autocracy and reinstate white supremacy as the operating and

3161
02:39:44,879 --> 02:39:45,840
Speaker 38: governing principles.

3162
02:39:45,920 --> 02:39:51,440
Speaker 8: So I just think that tonight is just another step. Angela.

3163
02:39:51,520 --> 02:39:55,160
Speaker 8: We got to continue these conversations. We've got to continue

3164
02:39:55,200 --> 02:39:57,360
Speaker 8: to energize and excite people.

3165
02:39:57,440 --> 02:40:00,680
Speaker 38: So I'm grateful to be a part will continue to

3166
02:40:00,760 --> 02:40:05,000
Speaker 38: play our role to the best of our abilities. I'll

3167
02:40:05,000 --> 02:40:07,680
Speaker 38: see everyone who being Selma and Selma on Saturday and

3168
02:40:07,760 --> 02:40:11,640
Speaker 38: Sunday as we as we celebrate and note and mark

3169
02:40:12,080 --> 02:40:15,480
Speaker 38: the milestone of Bloody Sunday sixty years ago.

3170
02:40:16,800 --> 02:40:19,039
Speaker 5: You really are up, yes, Angela.

3171
02:40:19,360 --> 02:40:23,120
Speaker 42: I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that this

3172
02:40:23,320 --> 02:40:26,800
Speaker 42: is happening, and also how impressed I am. I was

3173
02:40:26,840 --> 02:40:28,920
Speaker 42: watching you last night around this time, and you are

3174
02:40:28,959 --> 02:40:32,920
Speaker 42: still looking good. So thank you and many many props

3175
02:40:32,959 --> 02:40:35,960
Speaker 42: to you. Listen, here's the main thing I want to

3176
02:40:36,080 --> 02:40:39,480
Speaker 42: remind us of. We have been here before. We know

3177
02:40:39,760 --> 02:40:42,879
Speaker 42: that this is the same thing that happened to us

3178
02:40:43,000 --> 02:40:48,960
Speaker 42: after Reconstruction. We know what violence did to our aspirations.

3179
02:40:49,120 --> 02:40:54,680
Speaker 42: We know what happened when individuals and organizations, not just

3180
02:40:54,800 --> 02:40:57,960
Speaker 42: those who are coming after us, but the Party of

3181
02:40:58,080 --> 02:41:01,680
Speaker 42: Lincoln finally this that they didn't want to have the

3182
02:41:01,760 --> 02:41:06,720
Speaker 42: burden of us on their chart anymore. And so what

3183
02:41:07,240 --> 02:41:09,800
Speaker 42: really worries me about this moment is the thing that

3184
02:41:09,879 --> 02:41:12,520
Speaker 42: we're not saying as much as we should, which is

3185
02:41:13,320 --> 02:41:16,720
Speaker 42: in this terror moment, in this moment when they're removing

3186
02:41:16,879 --> 02:41:20,800
Speaker 42: us from everywhere, it's not just maga that we have

3187
02:41:20,920 --> 02:41:23,640
Speaker 42: to struggle with. The call is coming from in the

3188
02:41:23,760 --> 02:41:28,560
Speaker 42: house when we can see people being removed black people

3189
02:41:28,959 --> 02:41:32,600
Speaker 42: who are accomplished, who are at the top of their field,

3190
02:41:32,720 --> 02:41:38,480
Speaker 42: from joy to four star general. They are coming after

3191
02:41:39,120 --> 02:41:43,720
Speaker 42: us as the vehicle for this agenda. We've got to

3192
02:41:43,800 --> 02:41:46,200
Speaker 42: be able to call it out when we know that

3193
02:41:46,360 --> 02:41:51,720
Speaker 42: our fellow Democrats, our fellow progressives, our fellow leftists, our

3194
02:41:51,800 --> 02:41:56,520
Speaker 42: fellow liberals are more afraid of being called woke than

3195
02:41:56,840 --> 02:41:57,320
Speaker 42: being on.

3196
02:41:57,440 --> 02:41:59,920
Speaker 5: The wrong side of history. The fight is here.

3197
02:42:00,600 --> 02:42:03,480
Speaker 15: So this has been a fight that's been going on

3198
02:42:03,680 --> 02:42:04,560
Speaker 15: for several years.

3199
02:42:04,879 --> 02:42:08,160
Speaker 42: Many of us have been saying, Mark Marial one of them,

3200
02:42:09,760 --> 02:42:15,320
Speaker 42: chavn arline another one, that this attack on our freedom,

3201
02:42:15,640 --> 02:42:19,000
Speaker 42: this attack on our civil rights history, this attack on

3202
02:42:19,080 --> 02:42:22,400
Speaker 42: our ability to know and understand what our history is

3203
02:42:22,480 --> 02:42:26,880
Speaker 42: telling us, is an attack on the entire infrastructure of

3204
02:42:27,000 --> 02:42:30,920
Speaker 42: the last sixty years. They've told us from the beginning,

3205
02:42:31,320 --> 02:42:35,080
Speaker 42: they're coming after public education, they're coming after public values,

3206
02:42:35,120 --> 02:42:38,560
Speaker 42: and they're coming after the government. And that's exactly what

3207
02:42:38,760 --> 02:42:42,119
Speaker 42: they've done. So if there's any moment of doubt, if

3208
02:42:42,160 --> 02:42:45,680
Speaker 42: there is any question about why we have to fight now,

3209
02:42:46,440 --> 02:42:50,119
Speaker 42: just remember Woodrow Wilson did exactly what Trump is doing

3210
02:42:50,240 --> 02:42:53,720
Speaker 42: right now. He cleared us out from the government. He

3211
02:42:53,920 --> 02:42:57,440
Speaker 42: eliminated the protections that we had. He was backed up

3212
02:42:57,480 --> 02:43:00,760
Speaker 42: with the Supreme Court, who is willing to sign onto it.

3213
02:43:01,160 --> 02:43:06,520
Speaker 42: And lastly, but not but not least, our friends allowed

3214
02:43:06,560 --> 02:43:08,840
Speaker 42: them to do it. So our fight has to be

3215
02:43:09,360 --> 02:43:10,320
Speaker 42: multi level.

3216
02:43:10,400 --> 02:43:11,480
Speaker 15: We have to fight magga.

3217
02:43:11,560 --> 02:43:13,039
Speaker 31: Yeah, but we got to fight.

3218
02:43:12,959 --> 02:43:14,960
Speaker 42: Those who are willing to say, maybe we're going to

3219
02:43:15,040 --> 02:43:18,400
Speaker 42: compromise on diversity, equity and inclusion, Maybe we're going to

3220
02:43:18,520 --> 02:43:22,120
Speaker 42: compromise on black history. Maybe we don't need to be

3221
02:43:22,240 --> 02:43:25,880
Speaker 42: worried about all of these ideas and these frameworks. Maybe

3222
02:43:26,040 --> 02:43:31,960
Speaker 42: we can negotiate a settlement. Whenever a settlement is negotiated, trust,

3223
02:43:32,240 --> 02:43:34,440
Speaker 42: we're the ones that are going to be thrown under

3224
02:43:34,480 --> 02:43:37,760
Speaker 42: the bus. So I couldn't be happier to be part

3225
02:43:37,840 --> 02:43:42,560
Speaker 42: of this. I couldn't be more enthusiastic and excited about

3226
02:43:42,640 --> 02:43:45,040
Speaker 42: the fact that we are on the march. The Saints

3227
02:43:45,080 --> 02:43:48,000
Speaker 42: are marching in and I'm glad to be in that number.

3228
02:43:48,520 --> 02:43:51,200
Speaker 42: And let's remember I'm going to end byte quoting SHERYLN.

3229
02:43:51,280 --> 02:43:55,000
Speaker 42: Eiffel who said leave no power on the table. What

3230
02:43:55,160 --> 02:43:57,840
Speaker 42: did she mean by that? She meant to say, Yeah,

3231
02:43:57,879 --> 02:44:00,320
Speaker 42: we're fighting at the federal level, but the real power

3232
02:44:00,480 --> 02:44:02,720
Speaker 42: is at the local level. It's at those school boards,

3233
02:44:03,040 --> 02:44:06,680
Speaker 42: it's at the city council, it's at all the places

3234
02:44:06,720 --> 02:44:11,280
Speaker 42: where these decisions about what actually shapes our lives are made.

3235
02:44:11,400 --> 02:44:14,200
Speaker 42: So we need to step up, step in, be there

3236
02:44:14,400 --> 02:44:17,200
Speaker 42: recognized that this fight is not the fight for the

3237
02:44:17,280 --> 02:44:21,120
Speaker 42: next four years. It's a fight for a century, and

3238
02:44:21,240 --> 02:44:22,280
Speaker 42: we need to be part of it.

3239
02:44:22,760 --> 02:44:25,280
Speaker 1: Thankk you so much. You guys, we have twelve people

3240
02:44:25,360 --> 02:44:27,760
Speaker 1: in eleven minutes left. Stephanie Young, I'm coming to you.

3241
02:44:27,840 --> 02:44:30,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna be quick as be mindful. Otherwise we can't

3242
02:44:30,440 --> 02:44:32,240
Speaker 1: thank all the team that pulled this off. So please

3243
02:44:32,280 --> 02:44:34,440
Speaker 1: me Minchael, Stephanie Young, you have the floor. Talk to

3244
02:44:34,520 --> 02:44:36,400
Speaker 1: us about voting. Were gonna go to these packs and

3245
02:44:36,480 --> 02:44:37,000
Speaker 1: get it done.

3246
02:44:37,520 --> 02:44:40,400
Speaker 47: Yeah, well, thank you guys so much for all the

3247
02:44:40,480 --> 02:44:43,360
Speaker 47: work that you're doing continuously to make today, tonight and

3248
02:44:43,840 --> 02:44:46,080
Speaker 47: even tomorrow and all the things that will do together happen.

3249
02:44:46,520 --> 02:44:49,520
Speaker 47: I think it's really important to remember because I think

3250
02:44:49,520 --> 02:44:51,840
Speaker 47: a lot of folks have been discouraged and depressed obviously

3251
02:44:52,040 --> 02:44:56,520
Speaker 47: what's happened. But we had eighty nine million people in

3252
02:44:56,640 --> 02:45:01,480
Speaker 47: this country, actually not one hundred and forty four million

3253
02:45:01,520 --> 02:45:04,440
Speaker 47: people vote in this electronic This is not the highest turnout.

3254
02:45:04,440 --> 02:45:07,800
Speaker 47: I think Maxwell Frost said it. Twenty twenty actually had

3255
02:45:07,800 --> 02:45:10,840
Speaker 47: the highest voter turnout. And when you think about the

3256
02:45:10,959 --> 02:45:14,680
Speaker 47: multi level fight that Miss Crenshaw just laid out, it's

3257
02:45:14,920 --> 02:45:19,960
Speaker 47: incredibly important that we're attacking it from all all facets,

3258
02:45:20,720 --> 02:45:25,800
Speaker 47: so from civic engagement to some disobedient obedience to clear, concise,

3259
02:45:25,920 --> 02:45:30,280
Speaker 47: authentic and real consistent messaging. And we know we're in

3260
02:45:30,400 --> 02:45:33,200
Speaker 47: my old hat working in the in the voting rights space,

3261
02:45:33,240 --> 02:45:36,800
Speaker 47: that peer to peer organizing is really the number one

3262
02:45:36,840 --> 02:45:40,360
Speaker 47: converter to get as many people registered and ready to vote,

3263
02:45:40,480 --> 02:45:46,039
Speaker 47: and voter education does it stop there. That also goes

3264
02:45:46,120 --> 02:45:49,520
Speaker 47: to entering that people understand not only you know what,

3265
02:45:49,959 --> 02:45:53,840
Speaker 47: what does my vote get made? But also all the

3266
02:45:53,920 --> 02:45:56,920
Speaker 47: different levers that voting actually rolls from the school boards

3267
02:45:57,520 --> 02:46:00,160
Speaker 47: all the way up into obviously the present in the

3268
02:46:00,280 --> 02:46:03,039
Speaker 47: United States. So I think that when we're having these conversations,

3269
02:46:03,840 --> 02:46:06,320
Speaker 47: we can't leave out the deep organizing that actually has

3270
02:46:06,360 --> 02:46:09,440
Speaker 47: to happen because our people aren't fully out on the

3271
02:46:09,520 --> 02:46:12,040
Speaker 47: field when it comes to making their voices heard, and

3272
02:46:12,120 --> 02:46:15,240
Speaker 47: then also fighting the disinformation that comes from you know,

3273
02:46:15,360 --> 02:46:19,600
Speaker 47: all different sides, but from the peer to peer organizing,

3274
02:46:19,760 --> 02:46:23,959
Speaker 47: the voter education registration that can't just happen twelve months

3275
02:46:24,120 --> 02:46:26,240
Speaker 47: or six months for the election, but actually needs to

3276
02:46:26,320 --> 02:46:30,640
Speaker 47: start right now. Takes seven touches to get someone actually

3277
02:46:30,720 --> 02:46:33,480
Speaker 47: registered to vote and engaged. And we're not talking about

3278
02:46:33,640 --> 02:46:35,640
Speaker 47: you know, seven pains just on the internet. We're talking

3279
02:46:35,640 --> 02:46:37,720
Speaker 47: about phone calls. We're talking about peer to peer. We're

3280
02:46:37,720 --> 02:46:42,080
Speaker 47: talking about a multi lever, lever and layered process. So

3281
02:46:43,280 --> 02:46:46,960
Speaker 47: as we continue these conversations in community on how we

3282
02:46:47,120 --> 02:46:50,119
Speaker 47: all can play our part, I want to make sure

3283
02:46:50,160 --> 02:46:53,520
Speaker 47: and I know that from Derek n BLACP and on

3284
02:46:54,400 --> 02:46:57,680
Speaker 47: Collective Pack and obviously Latasha and all the work they're

3285
02:46:57,720 --> 02:46:59,760
Speaker 47: doing with Black Voters Matter, we have a lot of

3286
02:46:59,800 --> 02:47:02,280
Speaker 47: work to do in the voting space. And I know

3287
02:47:02,360 --> 02:47:06,560
Speaker 47: that voting hasn't always been sected, but it's incredibly, incredibly

3288
02:47:06,640 --> 02:47:10,760
Speaker 47: and very critical, uh to to ensuring that in the

3289
02:47:10,840 --> 02:47:13,520
Speaker 47: midterms that we made our voices her, but also obviously

3290
02:47:14,240 --> 02:47:16,280
Speaker 47: four years from now. So I'm looking forward to doing

3291
02:47:16,320 --> 02:47:17,320
Speaker 47: the work everyone.

3292
02:47:17,480 --> 02:47:20,200
Speaker 5: Thank you, step you guys there.

3293
02:47:20,360 --> 02:47:23,160
Speaker 1: We have a very important guest who's just joined us,

3294
02:47:23,240 --> 02:47:26,680
Speaker 1: and I think that Quentin and Mike McBride might be

3295
02:47:26,800 --> 02:47:30,000
Speaker 1: okay with me yielding their time to her. Their work

3296
02:47:30,640 --> 02:47:35,840
Speaker 1: helped to solidify this history making Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester

3297
02:47:36,160 --> 02:47:40,160
Speaker 1: out of the great state of Delaware and our good friend,

3298
02:47:40,240 --> 02:47:41,920
Speaker 1: and I'm just so happy you're here. So I want

3299
02:47:41,959 --> 02:47:43,680
Speaker 1: to yield a couple of minutes to you. We're trying

3300
02:47:43,720 --> 02:47:44,520
Speaker 1: to meet our deadline.

3301
02:47:44,560 --> 02:47:44,800
Speaker 15: Holly.

3302
02:47:44,920 --> 02:47:46,680
Speaker 5: We might be over, but it's a good it's a

3303
02:47:46,720 --> 02:47:47,720
Speaker 5: good reason why.

3304
02:47:48,040 --> 02:47:53,800
Speaker 25: I'm gonna be very very brief. I just left the

3305
02:47:54,800 --> 02:47:58,879
Speaker 25: floor from a very bizarre thing.

3306
02:47:58,879 --> 02:48:03,560
Speaker 17: To witness and behold, and I will just tell you that.

3307
02:48:03,879 --> 02:48:10,280
Speaker 25: Angela to you and everyone on here, Miss Reid, and

3308
02:48:10,440 --> 02:48:14,480
Speaker 25: I'm calling you misread because just thank you for the

3309
02:48:14,600 --> 02:48:16,320
Speaker 25: service that you have done for this country.

3310
02:48:16,959 --> 02:48:18,760
Speaker 31: To all of you on this line.

3311
02:48:19,000 --> 02:48:21,240
Speaker 17: I want to say, I needed to get on here

3312
02:48:21,760 --> 02:48:22,760
Speaker 17: to be refueled.

3313
02:48:23,959 --> 02:48:26,480
Speaker 25: And I think in this moment it is going to

3314
02:48:26,560 --> 02:48:30,280
Speaker 25: require each of us to recognize what can I do

3315
02:48:30,560 --> 02:48:35,040
Speaker 25: in this moment. The fact that Angela, also Brooks and

3316
02:48:35,200 --> 02:48:40,160
Speaker 25: I were sitting in the row, the same row as Jim.

3317
02:48:40,040 --> 02:48:42,120
Speaker 17: Clyburn and in front of us, Corey Booker and all

3318
02:48:42,160 --> 02:48:42,720
Speaker 17: of us, we.

3319
02:48:42,800 --> 02:48:44,840
Speaker 31: Said, no, this is our house.

3320
02:48:45,280 --> 02:48:46,360
Speaker 17: We're not leaving.

3321
02:48:47,080 --> 02:48:49,520
Speaker 25: You're going to look me right in the eye and

3322
02:48:49,640 --> 02:48:52,520
Speaker 25: say these things, and we are going to then take

3323
02:48:52,600 --> 02:48:55,760
Speaker 25: our power and act. And so I just want to

3324
02:48:55,840 --> 02:48:59,760
Speaker 25: thank to the collective, to everybody who helped us get

3325
02:48:59,800 --> 02:49:04,360
Speaker 25: to this place. Now the real work begins. And as

3326
02:49:04,480 --> 02:49:09,200
Speaker 25: was said, they're using words like scrub to scrub our history,

3327
02:49:09,600 --> 02:49:13,680
Speaker 25: to scrub us out of jobs, even veterans who are

3328
02:49:13,800 --> 02:49:15,400
Speaker 25: one third of the workforce.

3329
02:49:16,800 --> 02:49:17,760
Speaker 17: They don't care.

3330
02:49:18,320 --> 02:49:20,199
Speaker 5: And so I'm.

3331
02:49:21,760 --> 02:49:26,920
Speaker 17: I'm on fire in this moment. I appreciate the help

3332
02:49:27,000 --> 02:49:28,320
Speaker 17: and support and the wisdom.

3333
02:49:29,040 --> 02:49:32,040
Speaker 25: Like Sherlen Eiffel is going to be meeting with me

3334
02:49:32,200 --> 02:49:35,080
Speaker 25: and talking to me and talking about some of the levers.

3335
02:49:35,720 --> 02:49:39,680
Speaker 25: I'm once an urban leaguer, always an urban leaguer. Kimberly Crenshaw.

3336
02:49:39,720 --> 02:49:42,480
Speaker 25: I literally, Jamie, I could literally go through all of

3337
02:49:42,560 --> 02:49:44,880
Speaker 25: you here on this call and say thank you, thank you,

3338
02:49:45,000 --> 02:49:49,040
Speaker 25: thank you. But remember in this moment I said on

3339
02:49:49,160 --> 02:49:52,240
Speaker 25: the house on the Senate floor, for us, we know

3340
02:49:52,360 --> 02:49:56,000
Speaker 25: that trouble don't last always. For us, we know that

3341
02:49:56,320 --> 02:49:59,000
Speaker 25: it doesn't last all ways when we walk together children

3342
02:49:59,080 --> 02:50:03,400
Speaker 25: and not get weird, and that ultimately joy will come

3343
02:50:03,440 --> 02:50:05,520
Speaker 25: in the morning. But we got to do the work

3344
02:50:05,600 --> 02:50:07,640
Speaker 25: right now while it is night, and so I am

3345
02:50:07,760 --> 02:50:10,800
Speaker 25: just grateful for your presence. I'm grateful for your work.

3346
02:50:11,040 --> 02:50:13,400
Speaker 25: I'm looking forward. Look, I'm starting to see other people

3347
02:50:13,480 --> 02:50:16,560
Speaker 25: that I needed to call out, but I'm so grateful

3348
02:50:16,600 --> 02:50:18,920
Speaker 25: and on behalf of those of us who are in

3349
02:50:19,400 --> 02:50:22,280
Speaker 25: oh Leah adultery. I don't want to get started, but

3350
02:50:22,840 --> 02:50:24,680
Speaker 25: I just want to say thank you for your work

3351
02:50:24,800 --> 02:50:27,720
Speaker 25: and we are ready to get to work together. Thank

3352
02:50:27,800 --> 02:50:31,440
Speaker 25: you Angela so much for even this lifts my spirit

3353
02:50:32,080 --> 02:50:34,400
Speaker 25: as we go into tomorrow, that's all.

3354
02:50:34,400 --> 02:50:37,240
Speaker 1: I'll stick around till midnight because that's when the hour

3355
02:50:37,400 --> 02:50:39,960
Speaker 1: is dark as but we know morning is coming. Quittin

3356
02:50:40,000 --> 02:50:41,920
Speaker 1: and Mike real fast, and then I'm gonna get to

3357
02:50:42,040 --> 02:50:46,040
Speaker 1: these ladies that we need to get to everybody be encouraged.

3358
02:50:47,200 --> 02:50:49,480
Speaker 21: Will this is you know, is the worst of times,

3359
02:50:49,520 --> 02:50:50,720
Speaker 21: is also the best of times.

3360
02:50:51,200 --> 02:50:55,199
Speaker 48: We've never had as many black leaders in public office

3361
02:50:55,200 --> 02:50:57,320
Speaker 48: as we do right now, and that's because the work

3362
02:50:57,320 --> 02:51:00,640
Speaker 48: of everybody on this line, everyone watching. We've put the

3363
02:51:00,720 --> 02:51:03,440
Speaker 48: work in. We came up short last November. We're going

3364
02:51:03,480 --> 02:51:05,840
Speaker 48: to put the work in this year and next year.

3365
02:51:06,240 --> 02:51:08,440
Speaker 48: We have a black candidate running for governor of New

3366
02:51:08,560 --> 02:51:13,040
Speaker 48: Jersey right now in Rob's Baraka. Tonight was election night

3367
02:51:13,120 --> 02:51:16,520
Speaker 48: in Saint Louis mayor to Shara Jones running for reelection.

3368
02:51:17,120 --> 02:51:19,360
Speaker 48: And so while we are thinking about what's happening in DC,

3369
02:51:20,240 --> 02:51:22,280
Speaker 48: a lot of powers being built on the ground. And

3370
02:51:22,360 --> 02:51:24,400
Speaker 48: so thank you all for what you have done. We're

3371
02:51:24,400 --> 02:51:26,520
Speaker 48: going to continue doing it throughout this this next year.

3372
02:51:27,560 --> 02:51:27,880
Speaker 8: Thank you.

3373
02:51:28,000 --> 02:51:31,280
Speaker 1: Quinn from Collective Back, Pastor Mike McBride from Black Church,

3374
02:51:31,400 --> 02:51:32,680
Speaker 1: Pack Yes.

3375
02:51:32,600 --> 02:51:33,720
Speaker 15: Black Church Back, and Lift Free.

3376
02:51:33,760 --> 02:51:36,520
Speaker 49: Let me just say this whole day, these last twenty

3377
02:51:36,560 --> 02:51:40,200
Speaker 49: four hours, has been a demonstration of what happens when

3378
02:51:40,240 --> 02:51:44,360
Speaker 49: we organize together. Disorganized truth will find it difficult to

3379
02:51:44,440 --> 02:51:45,760
Speaker 49: defeat the organized lives.

3380
02:51:45,800 --> 02:51:48,760
Speaker 15: What I was taught and so my hope is that we.

3381
02:51:49,080 --> 02:51:53,280
Speaker 49: Organize ourselves on the ground. Brother Queen just said it powerfully.

3382
02:51:53,320 --> 02:51:57,840
Speaker 49: All politics is local. As we've manifested and flexed online.

3383
02:51:57,959 --> 02:52:00,760
Speaker 49: May we do that on the ground. May we attend

3384
02:52:00,800 --> 02:52:05,520
Speaker 49: to the differences among us on the ground by class, gender, sexuality,

3385
02:52:05,640 --> 02:52:09,000
Speaker 49: all things that try to divide us. Organize ourselves into

3386
02:52:09,080 --> 02:52:12,200
Speaker 49: the power. We need to keep this demonstration of our

3387
02:52:12,280 --> 02:52:13,039
Speaker 49: unity together.

3388
02:52:13,520 --> 02:52:17,119
Speaker 27: I think Elijah Muhammad said our unity is more powerful

3389
02:52:17,200 --> 02:52:18,640
Speaker 27: than an atomic boond.

3390
02:52:19,520 --> 02:52:23,840
Speaker 49: May we use our unity to defeat this wickedness around us.

3391
02:52:23,920 --> 02:52:24,840
Speaker 15: God bless everybody.

3392
02:52:25,280 --> 02:52:26,240
Speaker 5: Thank you pastor Mike.

3393
02:52:26,320 --> 02:52:28,560
Speaker 1: Since we're in the Bible, I'm gonna go to red

3394
02:52:28,600 --> 02:52:32,480
Speaker 1: Lip Theology. I miss my red Lip today. But candicemenybenbals here,

3395
02:52:32,560 --> 02:52:34,600
Speaker 1: we need to hear from you. I personally reach out

3396
02:52:34,600 --> 02:52:36,080
Speaker 1: to you, says My best friend was like, you know

3397
02:52:36,280 --> 02:52:38,720
Speaker 1: you need to have so you're here. Please, we want

3398
02:52:38,720 --> 02:52:39,160
Speaker 1: to hear from you.

3399
02:52:39,800 --> 02:52:41,080
Speaker 6: I just want to say that.

3400
02:52:41,640 --> 02:52:43,360
Speaker 50: The one thing I want to challenge us all to

3401
02:52:43,480 --> 02:52:48,360
Speaker 50: do creators create writers right. If this is a moment

3402
02:52:48,520 --> 02:52:53,520
Speaker 50: of disinformation, of misinformation, they are burning our books, what

3403
02:52:53,720 --> 02:52:57,200
Speaker 50: will the record bear fifty years from now? So not

3404
02:52:57,400 --> 02:53:00,080
Speaker 50: only do we need to document this time until a

3405
02:53:00,200 --> 02:53:02,920
Speaker 50: story we also need to do the work.

3406
02:53:02,800 --> 02:53:05,320
Speaker 23: That our souls need to have and our souls must have.

3407
02:53:05,959 --> 02:53:08,480
Speaker 50: And as we're talking about self care, as we're talking

3408
02:53:08,520 --> 02:53:11,160
Speaker 50: about lifting each other up, that's gonna come from the

3409
02:53:11,360 --> 02:53:13,280
Speaker 50: art that we create. That's going to come from the

3410
02:53:13,400 --> 02:53:16,960
Speaker 50: love that we that we admit and and and give

3411
02:53:17,000 --> 02:53:19,800
Speaker 50: each other. And I am heartened by tonight's sis. I'm

3412
02:53:19,879 --> 02:53:20,560
Speaker 50: so proud of you.

3413
02:53:21,720 --> 02:53:24,360
Speaker 1: I was up last night when you started, and I

3414
02:53:24,480 --> 02:53:26,320
Speaker 1: with you here at the end, and I'm so proud

3415
02:53:26,360 --> 02:53:38,280
Speaker 1: of you. Thank you so much for this, so very much.

3416
02:53:38,400 --> 02:53:42,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to coach Jazelle and then to doctor

3417
02:53:42,600 --> 02:53:43,320
Speaker 1: Raquel Martin.

3418
02:53:47,360 --> 02:53:50,560
Speaker 5: Did I lose hope, Jael? I'm at a lost heir, Okay,

3419
02:53:50,680 --> 02:53:52,320
Speaker 5: Doctor Raquel Martin, I'm sorry.

3420
02:53:52,680 --> 02:53:53,400
Speaker 17: Yeah, no problem.

3421
02:53:53,480 --> 02:53:55,560
Speaker 51: So I just wanted to state that although we acknowledge

3422
02:53:55,560 --> 02:53:58,720
Speaker 51: the fact that activism is inspired sustained by love and community,

3423
02:53:59,120 --> 02:54:02,279
Speaker 51: when it is constantly being challenged by injustice, the emotional

3424
02:54:02,320 --> 02:54:04,960
Speaker 51: toll is going to lead to burnout and numbness and detachment.

3425
02:54:05,040 --> 02:54:07,720
Speaker 51: So I am working with clients, I'm a licensed clinical psychologist.

3426
02:54:08,000 --> 02:54:10,120
Speaker 51: I really just want you all to be mindful of

3427
02:54:10,760 --> 02:54:13,480
Speaker 51: signs of resistance, fatigue, that's the exhution that comes from

3428
02:54:13,520 --> 02:54:17,800
Speaker 51: sustained activism. Advocate fighting for justice. If you're feeling numb

3429
02:54:17,920 --> 02:54:19,800
Speaker 51: or detached, oring different to issues that you used to

3430
02:54:19,879 --> 02:54:23,160
Speaker 51: deeply carry, if I care about, you're having low frustration tolerance,

3431
02:54:23,440 --> 02:54:26,120
Speaker 51: you're feeling guilty about resting. Some things that I've been

3432
02:54:26,160 --> 02:54:28,320
Speaker 51: talking to my clients that are activist about are just

3433
02:54:28,440 --> 02:54:30,879
Speaker 51: sharing the load. Activism was never meant to be solo.

3434
02:54:31,040 --> 02:54:34,840
Speaker 51: So creating a care rotation with fellow activists where you're

3435
02:54:35,040 --> 02:54:38,320
Speaker 51: alternating who's organizing the meetings, who's managing social media, who

3436
02:54:38,800 --> 02:54:42,640
Speaker 51: is driving the people to the everywhere, the whole scene

3437
02:54:42,680 --> 02:54:47,480
Speaker 51: the meetings, You're building restorative community, creating consistent, structured check in.

3438
02:54:48,680 --> 02:54:50,360
Speaker 51: I told one of my clients to make a buddy

3439
02:54:50,400 --> 02:54:53,120
Speaker 51: system with someone where activists are responsible for checking in

3440
02:54:53,280 --> 02:54:57,880
Speaker 51: with each other, directing small acts of solidarity, they make

3441
02:54:57,920 --> 02:55:01,880
Speaker 51: a big impact. Mutual aid isn't just about organizing huge efforts,

3442
02:55:01,959 --> 02:55:05,160
Speaker 51: is about every single day support, checking in right childcare.

3443
02:55:06,080 --> 02:55:08,240
Speaker 51: When it comes down to it. As a medical professional,

3444
02:55:08,280 --> 02:55:11,039
Speaker 51: I'm also a liberation psychologist, and healing isn't just about

3445
02:55:11,040 --> 02:55:14,000
Speaker 51: the individual. It's about dismantling the systems that make us

3446
02:55:14,040 --> 02:55:16,480
Speaker 51: sick in the first place, and all this extra stress

3447
02:55:16,640 --> 02:55:19,880
Speaker 51: leads to increased susceptibility to illness and autoimmune disorders. So

3448
02:55:20,080 --> 02:55:23,720
Speaker 51: to all the individuals watching this, the medical and health professionals,

3449
02:55:23,760 --> 02:55:27,080
Speaker 51: our job isn't just to help people survive oppression, it's

3450
02:55:27,120 --> 02:55:29,400
Speaker 51: to challenge it. So if we're not working towards justice,

3451
02:55:29,760 --> 02:55:32,640
Speaker 51: we're also maintaining the harm. So doctors can contribute to

3452
02:55:32,680 --> 02:55:36,880
Speaker 51: this by providing equitable care, anti racist care, addressing social

3453
02:55:36,920 --> 02:55:39,959
Speaker 51: determinants of health. Because therapy does not have a monopoly

3454
02:55:40,040 --> 02:55:42,000
Speaker 51: on healing. I am a psychologist, but it doesn't have

3455
02:55:42,040 --> 02:55:44,320
Speaker 51: a monopoly on healing. So when it's whether it's your

3456
02:55:44,360 --> 02:55:47,080
Speaker 51: path to healing is therapy or creating or activism, it's

3457
02:55:47,120 --> 02:55:48,840
Speaker 51: going to be paid with community, and we're going to

3458
02:55:48,879 --> 02:55:51,400
Speaker 51: need that more than ever. So also checking with yourselves

3459
02:55:51,440 --> 02:55:53,280
Speaker 51: everyone on this call. If you notice the same people

3460
02:55:53,440 --> 02:55:56,560
Speaker 51: organizing every single one of these talks, that's a problem

3461
02:55:57,080 --> 02:56:00,160
Speaker 51: because the whole aspect of longevity isn't just about ill

3462
02:56:00,320 --> 02:56:02,760
Speaker 51: or out working everyone. It's about taking care of yourself.

3463
02:56:02,959 --> 02:56:05,120
Speaker 51: So many times people talk about pouring from an empty cup.

3464
02:56:05,320 --> 02:56:08,000
Speaker 51: Mostly y'all don't even have cups. Y'all have like spaghetti strainers,

3465
02:56:08,080 --> 02:56:10,760
Speaker 51: y'all got calendars because everything's poking holes in it. So

3466
02:56:10,800 --> 02:56:12,680
Speaker 51: I would encourage you to think about what's also poking

3467
02:56:12,720 --> 02:56:14,440
Speaker 51: holes in your cup and make sure the same people

3468
02:56:14,480 --> 02:56:16,600
Speaker 51: are not organizing this entire thing because.

3469
02:56:16,320 --> 02:56:17,480
Speaker 6: It's going to take a while.

3470
02:56:17,520 --> 02:56:19,920
Speaker 51: But when you're running on fumes, you can't sustain anything,

3471
02:56:20,000 --> 02:56:21,720
Speaker 51: and this is going to take a lot of sustainability.

3472
02:56:22,320 --> 02:56:23,240
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

3473
02:56:23,520 --> 02:56:25,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to doctor Dyson because he was not

3474
02:56:25,480 --> 02:56:27,560
Speaker 1: on a panel today, and we're going to get to

3475
02:56:27,680 --> 02:56:29,640
Speaker 1: some of the other folks for brief thank yous or

3476
02:56:29,720 --> 02:56:33,080
Speaker 1: something before we drop off. But doctor Michael Eric Dyson,

3477
02:56:33,480 --> 02:56:34,520
Speaker 1: mentor you have the floor.

3478
02:56:35,400 --> 02:56:38,080
Speaker 2: Love you, love what you do, love what you stand for,

3479
02:56:38,600 --> 02:56:39,240
Speaker 2: so proud of you.

3480
02:56:39,760 --> 02:56:43,320
Speaker 52: Very briefly, Let's make sure diversity is diverse, right, Don't

3481
02:56:43,400 --> 02:56:45,560
Speaker 52: be suckered by these people trying to make you hate

3482
02:56:45,600 --> 02:56:49,120
Speaker 52: trans people, or gay people, or lesbian people, or poor

3483
02:56:49,240 --> 02:56:52,120
Speaker 52: people are in the like. Let's understand that they are

3484
02:56:52,240 --> 02:56:55,480
Speaker 52: all those of us who are black. Understand the liberation

3485
02:56:55,640 --> 02:56:59,720
Speaker 52: movement for what it does. Number two, The truth is,

3486
02:57:00,800 --> 02:57:03,200
Speaker 52: be deadly serious about what you are committed to, but

3487
02:57:03,240 --> 02:57:05,880
Speaker 52: don't check yourself too seriously at all and in that way,

3488
02:57:06,520 --> 02:57:08,680
Speaker 52: like Elijah and the Bible, I only am left. No,

3489
02:57:08,760 --> 02:57:12,000
Speaker 52: you ain't the seven thousand others, So stop and focus

3490
02:57:12,160 --> 02:57:15,640
Speaker 52: on the job at hand. Thirdly, my pastor used to say,

3491
02:57:15,680 --> 02:57:18,480
Speaker 52: we've already come through what we've come to, which means

3492
02:57:18,560 --> 02:57:21,600
Speaker 52: we've been through this stuff before. Let's remember those lessons.

3493
02:57:22,040 --> 02:57:26,280
Speaker 52: And finally, Howard Thurmann said, you don't reduce your dreams

3494
02:57:26,320 --> 02:57:28,840
Speaker 52: to the event you confront. Now you have a choice.

3495
02:57:29,040 --> 02:57:30,920
Speaker 52: You can be a prisoner of hope or you can

3496
02:57:30,959 --> 02:57:33,160
Speaker 52: be a prisoner of the event. We choose to be

3497
02:57:33,240 --> 02:57:35,360
Speaker 52: a prisoner of the event. And now end by saying,

3498
02:57:35,360 --> 02:57:38,040
Speaker 52: I know Bishop Daltrey said that the cavalry ain't coming.

3499
02:57:38,080 --> 02:57:40,440
Speaker 52: That's true, but Calvary is here and on that old

3500
02:57:40,520 --> 02:57:43,320
Speaker 52: rugged cross, there's a lot that's been penned there and

3501
02:57:43,400 --> 02:57:44,920
Speaker 52: that has sustained us as a people.

3502
02:57:45,240 --> 02:57:47,640
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, God, bless you, Thank.

3503
02:57:47,520 --> 02:57:48,480
Speaker 5: You, doctor Dyson.

3504
02:57:48,640 --> 02:57:52,800
Speaker 1: We are going to go to doctor David John's the

3505
02:57:53,120 --> 02:57:57,680
Speaker 1: journalist extraordinaire Ed Gordon, Monique and our Fonzo and we

3506
02:57:57,959 --> 02:57:59,800
Speaker 1: are rapping y'all quickly.

3507
02:58:00,520 --> 02:58:01,199
Speaker 14: I love y'all.

3508
02:58:01,520 --> 02:58:03,879
Speaker 53: There's something special about being in the care of black

3509
02:58:03,920 --> 02:58:05,000
Speaker 53: women who love black people.

3510
02:58:05,080 --> 02:58:07,400
Speaker 8: So thank you to you, Lolo, Jill, the whole team.

3511
02:58:07,920 --> 02:58:08,760
Speaker 14: I think my only.

3512
02:58:08,680 --> 02:58:11,160
Speaker 53: Contribution is to remind us of what Benny lu Hamer said,

3513
02:58:11,200 --> 02:58:12,680
Speaker 53: which is that none of us are free of lesson

3514
02:58:12,720 --> 02:58:14,040
Speaker 53: until all of us are free. So this is the

3515
02:58:14,040 --> 02:58:16,720
Speaker 53: moment where'mna step on some of y'all's toes and say gay,

3516
02:58:17,360 --> 02:58:20,400
Speaker 53: trans and gender expansive. If we don't lock arms and

3517
02:58:20,480 --> 02:58:23,800
Speaker 53: aims and hearts with every member of our beautify diverse community,

3518
02:58:24,080 --> 02:58:26,240
Speaker 53: we will never get free. So let's do the work

3519
02:58:26,240 --> 02:58:29,320
Speaker 53: of getting liberated together. Let's do the work of supporting

3520
02:58:29,400 --> 02:58:32,439
Speaker 53: each other and centering joy, and let's continue to resist.

3521
02:58:32,720 --> 02:58:35,680
Speaker 53: Let's not capitulate, Let's not give them anything. Let's live

3522
02:58:35,720 --> 02:58:37,640
Speaker 53: in the spirit of Nipsey Hustle, who reminds us that

3523
02:58:37,720 --> 02:58:38,680
Speaker 53: it's all a marathon.

3524
02:58:39,040 --> 02:58:40,320
Speaker 21: All we got to do is keep going.

3525
02:58:40,480 --> 02:58:43,199
Speaker 5: I love y'all, sincerely, thanks David.

3526
02:58:43,280 --> 02:58:45,560
Speaker 1: And on that note, Hope Gazelle dropped. I'm sure she

3527
02:58:45,760 --> 02:58:48,280
Speaker 1: was just tired, but please look up the work of

3528
02:58:48,360 --> 02:58:51,959
Speaker 1: Hope Jazelle. David, can you share our Instagram.

3529
02:58:51,920 --> 02:58:53,640
Speaker 8: And at Hope Jaselle.

3530
02:58:53,760 --> 02:58:56,280
Speaker 53: She also is a leader with NBJC, so you can

3531
02:58:56,400 --> 02:58:58,800
Speaker 53: check us out at www dot MJC.

3532
02:58:59,360 --> 02:59:00,240
Speaker 8: Download our bloo.

3533
02:59:00,040 --> 02:59:02,680
Speaker 53: Lack facts data and aligns with the Black Census Project,

3534
02:59:02,920 --> 02:59:05,320
Speaker 53: and you can also find us at MBJC on the move.

3535
02:59:05,440 --> 02:59:08,360
Speaker 53: But shout out to Hope Jazelle, who is doing tremendous work.

3536
02:59:08,440 --> 02:59:11,240
Speaker 53: Find her, support her, find ways to level members of

3537
02:59:11,280 --> 02:59:14,400
Speaker 53: our community again who are transitgender expansive. They are the

3538
02:59:14,480 --> 02:59:16,640
Speaker 53: tip of the sphere of these neo fascists who are

3539
02:59:16,720 --> 02:59:17,800
Speaker 53: legislating genocide.

3540
02:59:18,480 --> 02:59:23,320
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, dj Okay, Monique and Alfonso, come on.

3541
02:59:25,200 --> 02:59:28,879
Speaker 54: And Ed Gordon, you want a Monique to go first,

3542
02:59:29,560 --> 02:59:32,240
Speaker 54: I'm so go ahead. You go ahead, Angela, Thank you,

3543
02:59:32,520 --> 02:59:35,640
Speaker 54: Thank you to Joy, Thank you to Rev. Mark, Lolo Holly,

3544
02:59:35,760 --> 02:59:38,400
Speaker 54: all of our partners who have worked on this. What

3545
02:59:38,520 --> 02:59:40,320
Speaker 54: I want to leave us with is make sure we

3546
02:59:40,720 --> 02:59:45,320
Speaker 54: remember is that there's a direct connection between our wallets,

3547
02:59:45,720 --> 02:59:50,959
Speaker 54: our pocketbooks, and our dignity. All too often we treat economic.

3548
02:59:50,720 --> 02:59:54,320
Speaker 55: Justice and social justice like their separate conversations, and the

3549
02:59:54,440 --> 02:59:57,680
Speaker 55: truth is they're completely connected. Firing people from their jobs

3550
02:59:57,840 --> 03:00:00,640
Speaker 55: is directly connected to whether they can put food on

3551
03:00:00,720 --> 03:00:03,080
Speaker 55: the table and whether they can be treated with dignity

3552
03:00:03,120 --> 03:00:06,959
Speaker 55: at work, and then striking down diversity, equity and inclusion effects,

3553
03:00:07,000 --> 03:00:10,840
Speaker 55: whether public and private sectors, will be held accountable for

3554
03:00:11,000 --> 03:00:14,320
Speaker 55: addressing the disparities that show that black businesses are being

3555
03:00:14,440 --> 03:00:18,400
Speaker 55: denied opportunities. Just so we're clear, twenty percent of new

3556
03:00:18,440 --> 03:00:21,600
Speaker 55: businesses go out of business within the first twelve to

3557
03:00:21,720 --> 03:00:25,519
Speaker 55: eighteen months, but when you're talking about black businesses.

3558
03:00:25,520 --> 03:00:28,000
Speaker 6: That's eighty percent. Eighty percent of.

3559
03:00:28,040 --> 03:00:31,120
Speaker 55: Black businesses go out of business during that same time period,

3560
03:00:31,440 --> 03:00:34,560
Speaker 55: and this is due to systemic barriers that exist.

3561
03:00:34,320 --> 03:00:35,040
Speaker 21: In the marketplace.

3562
03:00:35,120 --> 03:00:38,040
Speaker 55: So remember as we go through this fight, in this struggle,

3563
03:00:38,480 --> 03:00:40,600
Speaker 55: that when you hear about the actions being taken by

3564
03:00:40,640 --> 03:00:43,600
Speaker 55: the new administration, understand that they.

3565
03:00:43,560 --> 03:00:45,960
Speaker 14: Have an impact on your dignity and they have an

3566
03:00:46,000 --> 03:00:48,080
Speaker 14: impact on your wallet. That is the goal.

3567
03:00:48,160 --> 03:00:49,680
Speaker 6: They are connected and.

3568
03:00:49,760 --> 03:00:51,280
Speaker 21: If the global Black Economic form.

3569
03:00:51,360 --> 03:00:53,960
Speaker 55: We're going to continue doing this work, fighting for economic

3570
03:00:54,160 --> 03:00:55,800
Speaker 55: justice and fighting for economic.

3571
03:00:55,480 --> 03:00:58,480
Speaker 6: Freedom and working with all of you and doing so. Angela,

3572
03:00:58,560 --> 03:00:59,080
Speaker 6: thank you again.

3573
03:00:59,680 --> 03:01:01,879
Speaker 5: Thank you, y'all find the Monique my sister.

3574
03:01:03,040 --> 03:01:06,560
Speaker 6: I love you girl, real true.

3575
03:01:06,400 --> 03:01:09,320
Speaker 22: And deep in the bunker, any bunker anytime. Thank you

3576
03:01:09,440 --> 03:01:13,320
Speaker 22: for this, thank you for everybody who worked from one scripture,

3577
03:01:13,879 --> 03:01:17,840
Speaker 22: Faith without works is dead, and that means it's like

3578
03:01:18,200 --> 03:01:21,760
Speaker 22: having none at all. It's like nonexistent faith. What we've

3579
03:01:21,800 --> 03:01:25,160
Speaker 22: done for the past twenty four hours is a demonstration

3580
03:01:25,879 --> 03:01:29,040
Speaker 22: of the height of our faith through our work. And

3581
03:01:29,160 --> 03:01:32,000
Speaker 22: I am so thankful for that because my faith is

3582
03:01:32,160 --> 03:01:34,720
Speaker 22: real high, my faith in God and my faith in

3583
03:01:34,800 --> 03:01:39,680
Speaker 22: our people, my belief that we can take this and

3584
03:01:39,879 --> 03:01:42,959
Speaker 22: go someplace with it. We ain't got to agree on everything.

3585
03:01:43,120 --> 03:01:46,640
Speaker 6: Let's do one thing and take some steps with the

3586
03:01:46,760 --> 03:01:47,360
Speaker 6: one thing.

3587
03:01:47,640 --> 03:01:50,040
Speaker 22: And I'm just here to say the one hundred of y'all,

3588
03:01:50,080 --> 03:01:52,879
Speaker 22: two hundred of y'all, whoever did this for the past

3589
03:01:52,959 --> 03:01:57,600
Speaker 22: twenty four hours, I'll take at least ten steps with

3590
03:01:57,760 --> 03:02:00,480
Speaker 22: y'all any day in time.

3591
03:02:01,080 --> 03:02:02,959
Speaker 5: Blessings, Thanks Moll.

3592
03:02:03,600 --> 03:02:07,000
Speaker 1: The legendary Ed Gordon is still with us, and Ed you,

3593
03:02:07,480 --> 03:02:09,040
Speaker 1: I just want to hear from you, that's all.

3594
03:02:09,080 --> 03:02:09,960
Speaker 5: I just want to hear from you.

3595
03:02:10,640 --> 03:02:12,400
Speaker 56: I just want to Yeah, I just want to say

3596
03:02:12,440 --> 03:02:17,400
Speaker 56: this very quickly. And Joy started us off with doctor

3597
03:02:17,520 --> 03:02:20,560
Speaker 56: King's words. And I had the honor of interviewing Nelson

3598
03:02:20,600 --> 03:02:24,000
Speaker 56: Mandela on three occasions and spent some time with him,

3599
03:02:24,240 --> 03:02:28,200
Speaker 56: and he suggested that in times like this, we have

3600
03:02:28,400 --> 03:02:32,240
Speaker 56: to find truth, and that's truth within ourselves and with

3601
03:02:32,400 --> 03:02:35,640
Speaker 56: those who surround us, and so I'd like to encourage

3602
03:02:35,680 --> 03:02:41,279
Speaker 56: all of us to respectfully hold ourselves accountable, our leadership accountable,

3603
03:02:41,400 --> 03:02:45,400
Speaker 56: our elected officials accountable, and the people in the streets accountable.

3604
03:02:46,160 --> 03:02:47,959
Speaker 8: This is a historic moment for us.

3605
03:02:48,000 --> 03:02:49,840
Speaker 56: I don't know that we have the gravity of it yet,

3606
03:02:50,800 --> 03:02:54,440
Speaker 56: but we owe ourselves and our ancestors that accountability.

3607
03:02:56,680 --> 03:03:00,720
Speaker 1: Yes, that is indeed the truth. Well, uh, Joy was

3608
03:03:00,879 --> 03:03:04,480
Speaker 1: the host that brought us in yesterday. So Joey, I

3609
03:03:04,520 --> 03:03:06,000
Speaker 1: want to come to you, Ray, I want to come

3610
03:03:06,040 --> 03:03:07,320
Speaker 1: to you, and then I just want to offer some

3611
03:03:07,480 --> 03:03:07,720
Speaker 1: thank you.

3612
03:03:09,320 --> 03:03:11,720
Speaker 10: I just want to say that very briefly, because I

3613
03:03:11,800 --> 03:03:14,240
Speaker 10: know we're trying to get out of here, y'all. I'm

3614
03:03:14,320 --> 03:03:17,640
Speaker 10: telling you the contrast in my text messages between the

3615
03:03:17,720 --> 03:03:21,040
Speaker 10: people who watched the joint address and the people who

3616
03:03:21,120 --> 03:03:24,560
Speaker 10: stuck with us, the people who did the twenty four hours,

3617
03:03:24,680 --> 03:03:28,160
Speaker 10: however long they spent with it, it could not be sharper.

3618
03:03:28,360 --> 03:03:30,840
Speaker 10: I think what we have learned tonight is that our

3619
03:03:30,920 --> 03:03:33,720
Speaker 10: people don't need to be directed to consume what the

3620
03:03:33,800 --> 03:03:36,959
Speaker 10: mainstream tells them to or to know what the mainstream

3621
03:03:37,000 --> 03:03:37,600
Speaker 10: tells them to know.

3622
03:03:38,120 --> 03:03:40,680
Speaker 11: They just need us. All we need is each other.

3623
03:03:41,040 --> 03:03:41,280
Speaker 2: Y'all.

3624
03:03:41,480 --> 03:03:42,120
Speaker 11: This is enough.

3625
03:03:42,320 --> 03:03:45,480
Speaker 10: All we need is each other. The feeling of empowerment, joy,

3626
03:03:46,040 --> 03:03:48,320
Speaker 10: freedom that we felt in these last twenty four hours

3627
03:03:48,360 --> 03:03:49,040
Speaker 10: and in this town.

3628
03:03:49,160 --> 03:03:52,840
Speaker 11: All that's it. We got the answer. That's where we

3629
03:03:52,959 --> 03:03:54,200
Speaker 11: go from here, right here.

3630
03:03:55,560 --> 03:03:58,400
Speaker 1: So my illustrious co host that said yes at one

3631
03:03:58,480 --> 03:04:00,680
Speaker 1: in the morning, Roywood Junior, he did.

3632
03:04:01,520 --> 03:04:03,320
Speaker 8: She texted me one of the morning he were doing

3633
03:04:03,360 --> 03:04:07,240
Speaker 8: the thing. And the way that you all organize this,

3634
03:04:07,680 --> 03:04:10,160
Speaker 8: I have to praise you all and tell you all

3635
03:04:10,320 --> 03:04:14,240
Speaker 8: thank you. I mean, Angela knows it's forty pots on

3636
03:04:14,320 --> 03:04:17,480
Speaker 8: the stove. Joy, you know, it's forty pots on the stove.

3637
03:04:17,600 --> 03:04:19,960
Speaker 8: So I'm not always able to be part of the

3638
03:04:20,000 --> 03:04:21,600
Speaker 8: construction of any of this, but if you tell me

3639
03:04:21,640 --> 03:04:23,720
Speaker 8: where to be up here, by.

3640
03:04:23,640 --> 03:04:25,640
Speaker 11: The way, I stirred no pots. I showed up with

3641
03:04:25,680 --> 03:04:26,200
Speaker 11: everyone else.

3642
03:04:26,240 --> 03:04:27,880
Speaker 10: I just I have to say that the people who

3643
03:04:28,080 --> 03:04:32,920
Speaker 10: organized this, I literally am so in awe of everyone

3644
03:04:33,000 --> 03:04:35,000
Speaker 10: who participated in making this happen.

3645
03:04:35,160 --> 03:04:39,520
Speaker 11: Athlete, Holly, Angie, all of y'all.

3646
03:04:40,040 --> 03:04:40,680
Speaker 31: I rode.

3647
03:04:40,840 --> 03:04:41,120
Speaker 11: I told you.

3648
03:04:41,240 --> 03:04:42,800
Speaker 10: I was in that little car next to the bike.

3649
03:04:42,840 --> 03:04:44,200
Speaker 10: I was in a little you know, a little buggy

3650
03:04:44,240 --> 03:04:46,840
Speaker 10: next to the bay. I was in a sidecar, and

3651
03:04:47,000 --> 03:04:48,640
Speaker 10: I was just proud to be there. I am in

3652
03:04:48,879 --> 03:04:50,640
Speaker 10: absolutely awe. This was amazing.

3653
03:04:50,840 --> 03:04:54,039
Speaker 8: Here's what threw me off. Joy Angela said, I saw

3654
03:04:54,120 --> 03:04:56,680
Speaker 8: the flyer. I was like, oh, that's oh they do

3655
03:04:56,920 --> 03:05:00,400
Speaker 8: that's oh, that's just good. But I just ever looked

3656
03:05:00,400 --> 03:05:02,400
Speaker 8: at the date and then and just like you want

3657
03:05:02,440 --> 03:05:03,840
Speaker 8: to do the thing that's on the fly, like I

3658
03:05:03,959 --> 03:05:04,800
Speaker 8: do the thing that's on the fly.

3659
03:05:05,200 --> 03:05:07,039
Speaker 15: But I thought it was next week.

3660
03:05:08,360 --> 03:05:12,480
Speaker 8: She goes eight tomorrow, hiss the window. All right, I'll

3661
03:05:12,480 --> 03:05:12,720
Speaker 8: be there.

3662
03:05:14,120 --> 03:05:14,520
Speaker 2: I'll be there.

3663
03:05:14,720 --> 03:05:16,920
Speaker 8: So to be able to turn this around and to

3664
03:05:17,000 --> 03:05:19,320
Speaker 8: be able to you know, just a quick shout out

3665
03:05:19,360 --> 03:05:20,520
Speaker 8: to Mark Thompson as well.

3666
03:05:20,440 --> 03:05:22,520
Speaker 11: On the ground as Mark Thompson, can I just take

3667
03:05:22,600 --> 03:05:23,360
Speaker 11: up as.

3668
03:05:23,320 --> 03:05:24,959
Speaker 8: They came off, as they walked out the.

3669
03:05:25,040 --> 03:05:30,600
Speaker 10: Room, look at the cable corresponded moment. This Mark thoms

3670
03:05:30,920 --> 03:05:32,039
Speaker 10: corresponding in.

3671
03:05:32,160 --> 03:05:33,720
Speaker 11: The field doing the thing.

3672
03:05:33,720 --> 03:05:35,040
Speaker 10: And we've seen him do it before. He used to

3673
03:05:35,080 --> 03:05:37,039
Speaker 10: do it sometimes for me on my cable show. When

3674
03:05:37,040 --> 03:05:40,080
Speaker 10: I tell you that brother made this thing one of

3675
03:05:40,240 --> 03:05:45,680
Speaker 10: the most entertaining informative live it was in the moment.

3676
03:05:46,120 --> 03:05:49,560
Speaker 10: This was some of the best non television television that

3677
03:05:49,760 --> 03:05:50,720
Speaker 10: I and I'm a minute.

3678
03:05:50,920 --> 03:05:52,680
Speaker 11: I've been at this a long time. Y'all am an oldie,

3679
03:05:52,680 --> 03:05:55,800
Speaker 11: godie baby. This was some of the best non television

3680
03:05:55,840 --> 03:05:58,280
Speaker 11: television I've ever seen. I was inspired, but I was

3681
03:05:58,280 --> 03:05:59,279
Speaker 11: also quite entertained.

3682
03:06:00,120 --> 03:06:02,640
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you, I gotta tell oh, there he

3683
03:06:02,800 --> 03:06:04,440
Speaker 5: is markree is Mark.

3684
03:06:04,920 --> 03:06:07,000
Speaker 1: Now, Mark, you can't have preacher words, but you got

3685
03:06:07,080 --> 03:06:09,000
Speaker 1: some pardon words because I'm gonna get these thank yous

3686
03:06:09,000 --> 03:06:09,920
Speaker 1: into all these people.

3687
03:06:10,840 --> 03:06:13,520
Speaker 2: So this this is an incredible group I've had connor

3688
03:06:14,000 --> 03:06:17,240
Speaker 2: to work with. I have been up since six am

3689
03:06:17,360 --> 03:06:20,040
Speaker 2: Monday morning, not just the twenty four hours. So I'm

3690
03:06:20,080 --> 03:06:21,680
Speaker 2: gonna go try to find a few minutes to sleep

3691
03:06:21,720 --> 03:06:23,320
Speaker 2: before I go to Stema and not sleep at all.

3692
03:06:24,040 --> 03:06:26,680
Speaker 2: God bless you all. Really great to work with. Ashley

3693
03:06:26,760 --> 03:06:31,000
Speaker 2: and Holly and Lolo and all of you YouTube Angela Enjoy.

3694
03:06:31,760 --> 03:06:34,160
Speaker 2: Vince and I were just talking. You know, I think

3695
03:06:34,200 --> 03:06:36,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna do something. We're gonna do something here. I

3696
03:06:36,480 --> 03:06:39,680
Speaker 2: think We've proven what we can so pan wait. Y'all

3697
03:06:39,800 --> 03:06:40,440
Speaker 2: can't wait.

3698
03:06:41,040 --> 03:06:44,200
Speaker 1: Right, And I'm before I say anything, I know we're

3699
03:06:44,280 --> 03:06:46,120
Speaker 1: over time. If y'all got to drop, you just got

3700
03:06:46,240 --> 03:06:48,960
Speaker 1: to drop. But I am gonna yield this time to

3701
03:06:49,120 --> 03:06:52,000
Speaker 1: this sister that has been the glue. Y'all don't see

3702
03:06:52,040 --> 03:06:55,080
Speaker 1: her often, but when she shows up, she shows up

3703
03:06:55,120 --> 03:06:58,160
Speaker 1: with joy. She shows up with patience. She is the

3704
03:06:58,320 --> 03:06:59,960
Speaker 1: chair of the Elemental Pea Community.

3705
03:07:00,440 --> 03:07:01,360
Speaker 14: She knows what that is.

3706
03:07:01,520 --> 03:07:04,080
Speaker 5: I meant to say committee, but it's late and I'm tired.

3707
03:07:04,320 --> 03:07:08,359
Speaker 5: The Elemental committee had his Holly Holiday.

3708
03:07:09,240 --> 03:07:12,879
Speaker 1: Holly Holliday out sanding she's gonna shout out her podcast

3709
03:07:13,040 --> 03:07:15,119
Speaker 1: right now because she got in trouble with her podcast.

3710
03:07:15,200 --> 03:07:18,840
Speaker 1: Go host, shout out the podcast. Holly, you know you

3711
03:07:19,000 --> 03:07:22,200
Speaker 1: are a gangster like I don't know Elon Musk. I

3712
03:07:22,280 --> 03:07:24,800
Speaker 1: keep saying, Elon Musk got a run for his money

3713
03:07:24,840 --> 03:07:27,400
Speaker 1: because she got integrity, a moral and a moral basis

3714
03:07:27,480 --> 03:07:30,960
Speaker 1: and a moral compass. Holly Holiday, you gotta say something

3715
03:07:31,000 --> 03:07:31,640
Speaker 1: before we leave.

3716
03:07:32,440 --> 03:07:35,600
Speaker 57: I'm gonna do, y'all like Russell Simmons used to do

3717
03:07:36,760 --> 03:07:40,360
Speaker 57: on Deaf comedy Jam, because it is the most appropriate

3718
03:07:40,520 --> 03:07:42,800
Speaker 57: thing to say thank.

3719
03:07:42,640 --> 03:07:46,040
Speaker 5: You and good night before you hang up on us.

3720
03:07:46,120 --> 03:07:48,360
Speaker 1: Holly, I got some other people to think that you're

3721
03:07:48,400 --> 03:07:52,480
Speaker 1: gonna be rude and not oblige her indulge me. Rather

3722
03:07:52,560 --> 03:07:56,600
Speaker 1: see I'm telling y'all this late Ashley Allison. Yes, Oh

3723
03:07:56,720 --> 03:08:00,920
Speaker 1: my god, Ashley Allison, Mark Thompson, Holly Holly, the other

3724
03:08:01,080 --> 03:08:03,400
Speaker 1: Holly Holly Weeks who works with Holly Holliday.

3725
03:08:03,680 --> 03:08:05,600
Speaker 5: I want to lol, Oh my god.

3726
03:08:05,680 --> 03:08:09,879
Speaker 1: Lolo is Charles Barkley of Native Lampod, Lauren, Lolo Smith,

3727
03:08:10,080 --> 03:08:14,920
Speaker 1: Chloe and Avanni Hun Graphics, Reed Rachel and step Young

3728
03:08:14,920 --> 03:08:18,320
Speaker 1: who's sitting right here. They are press gurus. The press

3729
03:08:18,440 --> 03:08:22,039
Speaker 1: around this has been fantastic. I want to shout out

3730
03:08:22,240 --> 03:08:25,840
Speaker 1: Essence Studios, Alfonso put let me tell you about Alfonso

3731
03:08:26,000 --> 03:08:29,080
Speaker 1: David See y'all see the president of Global Black Economic Forum.

3732
03:08:29,280 --> 03:08:32,000
Speaker 1: But that is a political staffer at heart. Jammy Harrison,

3733
03:08:32,040 --> 03:08:34,760
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. He had another thought partner,

3734
03:08:34,840 --> 03:08:37,560
Speaker 1: So y'all need to stay close. I want to thank

3735
03:08:37,760 --> 03:08:41,640
Speaker 1: all of the producers, everyone who hosted a segment, every

3736
03:08:41,760 --> 03:08:45,640
Speaker 1: single panelist, Latifa Simon on a response, Latifa Simon on

3737
03:08:45,720 --> 03:08:49,040
Speaker 1: a walkout, Maxine Water's telling you she's eighty six working

3738
03:08:49,120 --> 03:08:51,600
Speaker 1: on thirty six because she got more energy than most

3739
03:08:51,640 --> 03:08:55,840
Speaker 1: of us. Every single person who tuned in today, every prayer,

3740
03:08:56,320 --> 03:08:58,400
Speaker 1: Bishop Daughtry who let me call her on the side

3741
03:08:58,480 --> 03:09:00,640
Speaker 1: or talk about my side. Preachers, Royce trying to drag me.

3742
03:09:00,640 --> 03:09:04,119
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let you drag me. And Joe, Taika Edie,

3743
03:09:04,520 --> 03:09:07,520
Speaker 1: the infrastructure. I'm around women with black women, all the

3744
03:09:07,600 --> 03:09:10,000
Speaker 1: folks who are you know, talkers. That's all I'm gonna say.

3745
03:09:10,080 --> 03:09:13,920
Speaker 5: Thank God for y'all. Vince Evans who was double timing

3746
03:09:14,120 --> 03:09:14,560
Speaker 5: as a.

3747
03:09:14,760 --> 03:09:19,960
Speaker 1: CBC staffer and staffing us, Lisa Blunt Rochester because your prayers.

3748
03:09:20,400 --> 03:09:22,200
Speaker 5: I know that you were praying with him for us.

3749
03:09:22,320 --> 03:09:24,400
Speaker 5: I thank God for you. I think God that you're

3750
03:09:24,440 --> 03:09:25,680
Speaker 5: in the Senate. The Senate needs you.

3751
03:09:25,800 --> 03:09:29,080
Speaker 1: For every member of Congress who signed up to participate tonight.

3752
03:09:29,160 --> 03:09:31,760
Speaker 1: To Wes Moore who opened us up at the nine

3753
03:09:31,800 --> 03:09:34,160
Speaker 1: pm Tis James with the drama on the tape.

3754
03:09:34,480 --> 03:09:35,240
Speaker 11: She was ready.

3755
03:09:35,640 --> 03:09:37,279
Speaker 5: Everybody, Everybody, Everybody.

3756
03:09:51,160 --> 03:09:54,439
Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeart Radio in partnership

3757
03:09:54,520 --> 03:09:58,160
Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media. For more podcast from iHeart Radio,

3758
03:09:58,280 --> 03:10:02,000
Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen

3759
03:10:02,080 --> 03:10:03,000
Speaker 1: to your favorite shows.