WEBVTT - BLACK Leadership Summit | State of the People 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.640 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:05.080 with Reason Choice Media. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:12.920 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.520 Home, everybody. This is a very special mini pod to us. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.200 We had a Summit of Black Leadership that was the 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.560 culminating experience of the State of the People twenty four 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.760 hour marathon. To find out more about State of the People, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.960 you can go to Stateofthepeople dot Media, but this last 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.680 three hours is a special gift from us to you 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.640 so you can hear what some of the brightest minds, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:39.880 best organizers, most brilliant lawyers, elected officials, young people, elders, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.640 and all across the spectrum have to say about where 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.360 we go from here, answering Doctor King's most critical question. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.040 All right, now, as promised, we are going to turn 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.639 to a powerful talent hall meeting, and I promise you 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.440 what you are about to hear will be starkly different 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.080 and what you have been hearing from the Trump. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:07.240 White House over these last few weeks. We are going 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.759 to be joined by Angela Raie, co host of the 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.399 Native Lamp podcast and we should say co creator along 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:19.160 with Joy Read of this trailblazing marathon that we've all 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.080 been putting on and there are many, many, many people 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.600 that you will not see who've been up and working 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.920 mighty long hours to keep this thing going. Also with 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.560 Angela is Roywood Junior. We all know him as one 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.280 of the most profound comedians and hosts of our time. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.000 I'll turn it over to them and I'll join them 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.040 in a few minutes. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.039 Good evening, everyone, Thank you so much for watching this 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:50.040 live stream. We are twenty one hours in and as 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.680 we embark upon this twenty first hour, my co host 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.240 that I Roywood. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.240 Junior, have a very very special guest. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.320 He happens to have made black history and history all 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.960 of America as the first black governor of Maryland. His 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.520 name is Wes Moore and he joins us right now. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.440 Good evening, Good sister, it's good to be with you. Angelaine. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.680 Thank you, We love you, and we are so thankful 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.840 for you and your leadership and everything you continue to do. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.200 And everybody else, I just want to say, not just 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.919 good evening, but but but thank you for continuing to 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.560 watch over us, continue to love us, continue to believe that, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.480 and to continue to go. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.919 So can I tell you some hearing about about your. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.600 Time right now, uh in a place, in a space 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.960 where this is truly a celebration of us, when we 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.920 know the assault that so many of us and our 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.120 communities are feeling, when so much of the pain that 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.200 our communities are are are are inheriting right now. But 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.560 I want to say that even at a time when 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.160 we know the kind of pain that is being intentionally 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:01.400 infused upon each. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.800 And every one of us from a federal government, even 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:04.120 at a. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.720 Time when I know that I'm standing here as the 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.680 governor of the state of Maryland, where we have over 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.720 one hundred and sixty thousand federal employees in the state 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.440 of Maryland who right now are being questioned about the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.120 value that they bring to our society. People who have 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.000 been working for Democratic and Republican administrations before, who were 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.200 politics has never entered into the equation simply a love 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.120 of people, and are now being told that the work 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.960 that they are doing to make sure that our grandparents 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.360 are getting the health care that they need, at a 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.280 time when you're people who are defending our country both 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.400 domestically and overseas, At a time when we have people 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:49.000 who every single day are ensuring that our communities are safe, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.680 that our parks are open, that our homeland is protected, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.800 who are now being told that they are adding to 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.200 inefficiency within our society at a time when we know 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.920 when we're watching proposals like cutting hundreds of billions of 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.119 dollars of cuts to things like medicaid, at a time 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.120 when we're watching basic freedoms. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.240 And securities that we relied on and. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.720 We believed in that are being challenged by people who 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.120 have done nothing, nothing to sacrifice, so on behalf of 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.920 this country themselves. I just want to say that I 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.440 continue to be uplifted about the place in the space 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.159 that I'm in right now that I'm speaking to you 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.320 from Annapolis. I'm speaking to you from a place from 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.400 the state of Maryland, that was literally the birthplace of 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:41.240 Frederick Douglass, that was literally the birthplace of Harriet Tubman, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.400 that was the birthplace of Thurgood Marshall. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.600 About the place in the space and I'm. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.960 Standing here and coming here from Maryland, a place that 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.560 is a northernmost southern state, a place that had the 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.120 bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a place where the 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.840 Mason Dixon Line literally runs through my state. And I'm 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.240 standing here to say that we are all descendants of survivors. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.320 We're all descendants of. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.280 Those who came before us and saw the pain and 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.799 saw the brutality that our society can intentionally flint flicks 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.440 upon us. And they got up every morning and they said, 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:18.240 still I rise, Still I fight, Still I conquer, and 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.120 still I win. We are now just the most recent, 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.400 the most recent iteration of this journey. We do come 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.000 from the blood of Tubman. We do come from the 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.080 blood of Douglas. We do come from the blood of Shabaz, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.240 we do come from the blood of Marshall. And just 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.839 like them, still I rise. And so even in the 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.080 times when it can feel darkest, hold on to that light, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.320 hold on to each other, and know that in this time, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.640 when we stand strong, and yes, when we mobilize, that 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.880 there is no weapon that has flowed against us that 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.800 shall prosper. We have been told, it is written, and yes, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.920 that joy will come inside the morning. And so I'm 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.600 blessed to be with each and every one of you. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.839 Thank you to Angela and to d and to and 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.279 to Roy and to everybody. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:13.520 Who may tonight happen. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.320 This, this was the fulfillment that we all needed tonight. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.000 This is the entertainment that we all needed tonight. This 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.000 is the joy that we all need to feel to night. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:24.880 And I'm here to say I will rock with you 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.160 tonight and tomorrow and always. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.080 We love you, and God bless you and thank you. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.719 Thank you so much, Governor Wes Moore. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.599 We are time for one question? Or does he have 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:36.120 to bounce? 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.560 I always got time. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.160 One question. I'm not gonna ask you about the samurai, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.680 so order on the wall the background. I know we 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.040 don't have time for that, Governor more. 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:46.280 You can ask about that one. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.600 No, no, that's that's getting ready to get used. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.720 You flipped, you flipped the Republican governor gibnatorial seed to 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:02.040 democratic as a can. What was one thing that you 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.520 were able to do to help connect with Republican voters 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.320 As I feel a little deeper into this administration, as 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.920 we get deeper into the first one hundred days, I 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.600 feel that some Republican voters are going to be a 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.080 little more pliable coming up on midterms. Is there any 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.160 one blanket thing or one piece of advice that you 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.600 could give people as we start engaging Republican voters kind 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.200 of see what's going on. It seemed like some from 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.480 the look at these town hall some they starting to 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:34.320 see what's happening. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:35.920 No, they are, they are. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.280 And you know, essent Sion Roy because I ended up 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.520 winning with more individual votes than anyone who'd ever run 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.200 for governor in the history of the state of Maryland. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.800 And the reason I bring that up is because just mathematically, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.840 you don't get that by just winning Democrats. We want democrats, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.160 we won independence. We want a good chunk of Republicans. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.560 And I think the big thing was we had to 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.240 show up and we had to be able to make 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.720 our case to him. And I really do believe that 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:08.040 that one thing that we have seen is that you've 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.960 seen now Trump be master something. It's it's this idea 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.480 of telling people to be afraid of it and then 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.000 telling people who's to blame for it, Right, that is 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:17.680 the strategy. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.720 That's the whole game. And it's rinse and repeat. It's 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:21.560 rinse and repeat. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.520 It's either saying that the reason that my my my 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.760 daughter is not winning a state championship is because they're 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.880 allowing boys to play, the reason that my child is 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.760 not getting into college is because of affirmative action, the 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.480 reason that that that that my my son lost their 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.840 lost their job is because of DEI the reason, and 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.120 it's let's say it's a rinse and repeat model. But 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.360 here's the thing that I have found out that if 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.680 you are willing to go everywhere, and you're willing to 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.439 make your case, and you are willing to show up, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.000 that you will be able to not just energize a base, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.160 you're actually going to be able to enlarge it. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.520 You're actually be able to bring more people on board. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.720 And then you just have to go out there and 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.840 show that you know how to deliver results. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.440 And I think that's the reason that I. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.480 Think we've been able to We've been able to not 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.240 just get done, we'll be able to get done in 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.360 the state of Maryland. But I think we've been able 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.160 to keep keep the vast majority of people on our 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:14.599 side on it. But I think you've got to be 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.559 able to show up, and you've got to make the case, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.960 and do not let someone else define yourself. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.960 You go to find yourself, but let no one. Do 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.800 not give anyone else that power to go to find you. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.000 Yes, sir, I love it, Governor Wes Moore. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.679 We are so grateful for your service, for your time, 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.920 and for your fight and what we know is a 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.360 very very difficult time. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.320 Not just for our people, but are all people. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.280 And that is why we are twenty one hours into 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.800 this marathon and we will continue to go. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.280 We are not watching the lies on. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.079 The state of the Union, but we will bring people 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.439 into the knowledge of the truth here. So we wish 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.480 you well. We thank you so much for making time 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:50.720 for us tonight, and we will see. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.120 You so God bless themily. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.120 Thanks blessing you. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.400 So Roy, I want to do something a little different 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.079 real quick. We have someone who is a. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.240 Queen and a sister to us. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:06.319 She said recently at Essence Black Women in Hollywood. She said, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.440 I recently went through a little breakup. You may have 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.720 heard about it. So I want to bring Joy read 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:15.319 up really quick because she is Her name isn't just Joy. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.000 She is joy. She is walking joy, She illuminates joy, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.160 she loses joy, and she has been such a tremendous 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.200 treat for so many of us for so long. Joy, 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.880 you join us tonight in this in this time to 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.080 talk about the state of the people. We've been on 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.320 this marathon. We started together, and we in it together. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.800 We started writing a lot of now here, and I 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.440 just want you to talk about from your own journey 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.080 from where you are right now. You're also embarking on 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.520 a new road in multiple ways, yes, in this country, 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.200 but also a media Where do we go from here? 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:49.320 Joy read Well. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.640 First of all, it was so much fun to go 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.800 on this journey with you, Angela. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.000 Raie, my good sister. We started right We started at midnight. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.079 Then I think I was up to like three four 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.960 in the morning, fell asleep with the right next to the. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.680 Bed, woke up to the beginning of the town hall. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.679 So I don't know what I missed, but I feel 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.040 like it was in my spirit through my sleep. So 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.600 this has been incredible, Like this has actually been one 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:16.160 of the most engaging. You know, it just just soul 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.679 feeding twenty four hours that anyone could have had. I 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.040 think our community is just you know, our hearts are 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.479 beating a little bit faster knowing that we have this community. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.000 And Roy, my brother, Listen. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.640 I just recently saw you in Utah, so I know 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.840 you have big things coming up. I'm excited about everything 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.480 that you're doing. So and we'll just leave that well, 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.160 you know, I know you have a great project coming up, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:37.880 and you know I love you. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.199 So this has been amazing. 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:40.960 I just want to thank everyone who has been a 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.160 part of this pulling it together. This has been a 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.480 dream team group team effort. It's been incredible. So I'm 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.600 going to answer that question for you, and I'm gonna 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.200 answer it briefly because i know it's about brevity on tonight, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.480 and I just want to say for all of us, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.079 because we got like fifty people that want to come 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.880 in and talk. So I'm going to be very quick 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.760 and I'm going to actually quote the Reverend doctor Martin 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.559 Luther King Junior, who in nineteen sixty seven answered the 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.160 very question that Angela has put to all of us 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.079 for this incredible town hall, and the question is where 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.000 do we go from here? 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.079 So in nineteen sixty seven, this is what he said. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.960 Is that is that I want to say that as 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.240 I moved to my conclusion, as we talk about where 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.439 do we go from here, that we must honestly face 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.720 the fact that the movement must address itself to the 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.520 question of restructuring the whole of American society. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.079 There are forty million poor people here, and one. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.720 Day we must ask the question, why are there forty 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.559 million poor people in America? When you ask that question, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.960 you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.320 saying that more and more, we've got to begin to 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.480 ask questions about the whole society. And he says, when 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.720 I'm questioning the whole society, it means ultimately coming to 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.760 see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.400 and the problem of war are all tied together. These 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.320 are the triple evils, evils that are interrelated. In other words, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.880 your whole structure must be changed. A nation that will 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.280 keep people in slavery for two hundred and forty four 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.199 years will thingify them and make them things, and therefore 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.640 they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. What 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.520 I'm saying today is we must go from this convention 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.880 and say, America, you must be born again. And so 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.280 as we all watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk really 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.880 dismantle our democracy, dismantle our society, I think that we 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.400 understand that there is going to be rubble in the road. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.200 And the question is not how do we build back 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.160 what we had before. It's not about building back the 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.800 previous status quo, which was obviously so dissatisfying and unsatisfying 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.200 to people. That people chose chaos. So I think where 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.320 we go from here is starting to think about what 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.120 we build from that rubble. What does the society we 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.200 want look like? And I think the charge for Democrats 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.120 for independence, even for Republicans who are sick of this 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.520 and seeing it and losing their medicaid and wondering, start 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.680 to communicate what that society should look like. What does 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.120 this new society we want to build look like? Because 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.120 going back to what we had before, that ain't it. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.360 That is not a message that can sell, that will 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.560 get people to vote, that will move people. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:11.680 We need a movement. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.520 This I think tonight or this last twenty four hours 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.760 is the beginning of a movement. So I think that 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.960 we because you know, black people have always been the 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.800 ones to be the conscience of this country, Let's start 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.240 thinking about what that movement looks like and what that 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.920 society we want looks like, and start communicating that it's 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.200 not about going back to where we were, It's about 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.600 bringing the country to a new place. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.760 Start thinking about what that place looks like. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.040 And that's what Democrats, independence and anybody with good sense 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.320 should be talking about. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:46.160 Joyce that briefly, I feel like January for black people 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.440 was like, all right, this is what it is. All right, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.920 it almost fit it. Halftime isn't the right word, but 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.080 I feel like we all collectively took a moment as 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.520 a culture to go ugh. And you know, I know 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.240 black ways was going don't call us, don't tell us, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.480 don't check in on us, We are not going to 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.480 help you. Where I feel like now, especially now, like 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.440 today specifically, there feels like there's a reinvigoration. It feels 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.800 like there's a all right, we gotta get our helmet. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.400 We got to go back out there on the field 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.760 and get ready to fight again. What have been some 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.480 of your strategies just in terms of just mental rest 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.040 and how are you able to What advice would you 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.240 give to people, is they get ready to fight agains, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.280 they get ready to get back out there. What has 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.680 been your self care? And I'm not even talking just 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.080 most recently with everything that happened, but just the duration 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.440 of the election last year, you have to get up 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.320 every single day and deal with this and put this 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.480 in the words for people. What were your strategies for 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.000 just mental survival during this time? 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.040 Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, everyone cannot have 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.920 Angela Rye's cell phone number, because one of the strategies 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:56.280 is to. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.560 Call phone a friend. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.920 And I have to say I have some of the 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.800 the greatest friends, not just the Machetes, Angie and the 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.320 other Machetes, but my best friend, Miss Kim. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.040 It's miss Jackie that you know we do read this, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:08.680 read that together. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.880 But she also is like a counselor on the side 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.520 for my wellness. And I think that the reality is 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.560 and and of course my husband best my best bestI 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.040 is my husband Jason. I really think you have to 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.840 lean into the relationships the people around you, your friends, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.720 your family, because unless you're grounded in those personal relationships, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.160 you're not gonna stay sane in this mess. And look, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.440 we as the ninety two percenters, we were sitting on 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.200 that wall and that graphic watching everything burn. But the 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.560 fire has caught the building we were sitting on, and 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.960 so as black people and our eighty percenters, our brothers 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.480 that weren't that rocked with us in this election. We 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.760 did not choose this, We did not cause this, but 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.040 this fire is burning us up too. So the reality 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.080 is we actually just now have to engage. We may 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.120 have wanted to sit it out. But as you all 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.800 know on this on this town hall, we don't have 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.560 a choice now because this fire is consuming our house. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.480 So I think what we have to do, and I 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.360 love the fact that we leaned into what the blackemunity 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.200 is going to do to save ourselves, save our community, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.040 save the resources we fought for, save the positions we 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:06.439 fought for. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:07.760 Because we have to put. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.560 The mask on ourselves before we can put the mask 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.199 on the country. So I think unless we're strong as 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.440 a community, cohesive, and unless we have a plan, we 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.160 can't even really try. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:18.680 To save this country. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.919 We tried to do that for almost five hundred years, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.040 and they're parts of the country that don't want to 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.800 be saved. They want this fascism, they want to go 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.960 in this direction. So I think, what we have to 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.560 do as a community, Let's put the mask on ourselves. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.240 Let's get cohesive, Let's describe the nation we want, the 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.040 society we want, and then we can form a plan. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.280 And part of that is a communications plan. How are 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.560 we speaking with authority to our community? Who are our 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.160 trusted voices? No one can choose that for us. Who 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.240 do we trust? Where can we find them? How can 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.359 we get access to what they have to say, and 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.760 then how can we take what we hear and form 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.320 a plan. Once that mask is on us, then we 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:57.840 can start to plan for everybody else. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.320 Well, that's exactly right, Thank you so much. I want 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.840 to bring in we have a big Black family gathering, y'all. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.879 I want y'all to see this. We have a full 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:15.159 swath of experts, organizers, activists, attorneys who are here with us, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.840 and I really want you all to see how large 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:20.359 of a gathering we have. 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.879 And it's going to continue to grow over the next 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.199 few hours. I'm trying to make sure we get the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.040 visual where y'all can see the pictures of everybody in here. 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.560 Right now, it just looks like me and Roy, but 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.800 hopefully soon our production can figure out how to get 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.960 the squares of everybody up. While we're doing that, though, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.320 I do want to take a moment Roy to recognize 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.920 Congressman Glenn Ivy, who is joining us. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.520 Clearly he is sitting with us and not in the. 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:57.119 House chamber, so I want to ask him why, like 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.400 you chose clearly to sit out, Congressman, and I'd love 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.440 for the listeners to know why this has been a 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.800 hot topic Roy. I don't know if you and your 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.560 chat groups look like mine, but people have been like wow, wow, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.200 So Congressman, I would love for you, especially because you're 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.800 an attorney, so you know this man has broken mania law. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.000 Please tell us why you chose to sit out the 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.040 State of the Union today. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.600 Well, I appreciate you having me on, Angela Roy, and 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.320 I appreciate what you're doing here. Thank you for pulling 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.359 this together, and I thank you for hosting me because 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.639 you know, I really didn't want to go, and I 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.560 wanted to do something that I thought was going to 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.080 be positive and supportive instead of going to the State 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.720 of the Union, and you offered this opportunity to do it. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.600 I know I've got colleagues in there, a lot of 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.480 the Black Calkings, a lot of House Democrats went, you know, 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.359 God bless them. I think it's it's fine, you know, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.080 depending on what room they're in, as long as. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:52.440 We're all saying the same things. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.199 And I think we're all recognizing the need for a 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.199 change to move forward. And I do feel like the 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.240 tides turning for us. You know, we've he had a 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.879 lot of good success with these court cases, have been 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.000 about one hundred filed. You know, the legal teams that 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.399 were put together by the unions and advocacy groups gotten 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.720 a lot of injunctions put in place, probably around thirty 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.440 and they've won almost all of those. And I think 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.280 politically too, you know, his numbers are starting to drop. 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:18.240 People are starting to. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.359 Realize that, you know, this was an okie dokee, this 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.680 was snake oil. He said he was going to try 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.119 and help regular folks out economically, but he's really just 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.560 trying to help out Elon and the billionaire buddies. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.879 And and you know, I think. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.920 It's important to see too, with the tariffs, I mean, 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.760 because that's clearly not aimed at helping regular people. There's 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:39.439 no way he can spend that. I don't know what 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.199 he's going to say tonight, but you know that's just 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.840 taking money out of people's pockets as a sales tax. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.760 So you know, I didn't want to be part of 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.440 being in there, you know, I wanted to be out here, 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.680 And once I heard that you all were doing this, 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.800 I knew I'd rather be here working with you all, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.479 in this community, with this strong team, with the you know, 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.399 like Joyce said, people moving in the right direction, moving 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.400 together and I wanted to be part of this instead. 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:09.960 I'm not sure, Congressman. Can you hear Angela, I'm not 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:10.480 hearing her. 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.320 I told you to know why because I put it 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.159 on mute, moving this notepad and forgot. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.560 That is not helpful. I was trying to test how 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:17.600 well you could read my lips. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.360 I'm ready here, I'm ready to jump in. Just say the. 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.080 Word bail me out, man. 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:27.439 I thought it was my I thought my laptop had 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:28.520 gone south or something. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.040 Yeah, or hearing was going out something. I'm sorry. 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.520 I was just gonna say the question, the call of 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.800 the question of the day really is where do we 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.119 go from here? So, given the amount of pressure that 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.800 I know a lot of our members are facing, your 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.080 colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.800 protested so severely in town hall meetings that they were like, 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:48.639 you know what, hell with those town halls. We're just 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.879 gonna go forth and do something else. Where do we 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:52.840 go from here? Do we continue in the fight? Do 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.760 we become more united? What is what is your plan? 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:57.040 What do you suggest that we do? 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:57.680 Yeah? 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.440 I think all of that's right. I think we need 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.000 to keep the rusher up. In fact, keep increasing it yeah, 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.040 there were. There was sort of a you know, a 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.480 lull after Trump won. You know, I remember when he 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.919 won the first time and we had thousands of people 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:12.639 come out and march in the streets, and there was 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.159 a lot of anger and everything. This time around, I 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.600 think we were all in disbelief, like how could this 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:18.360 country have a life? 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:19.520 Ristman heive, I don't. 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:21.080 I don't want to cut you off, but I want 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.240 to note right now I'm not watching the State of 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.000 the Union, but reports are coming out the Congressman al 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.560 Green has been carried out of the House chamber. 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:32.280 So I think he wasn't care carried out. He walked 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:33.160 out of his own will. 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.120 So we said he got carried out. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.400 They well, it looked like they were going to score 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.879 it out. Yeah yeah, they no. Well that's why I 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:43.160 put in chat. It appeared they were going to arrest him, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.280 but he decided to leave his own free will with 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.080 Vincent and I just below the chamber. But he stopped 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:52.720 the speech. Al Green stood up as the one Democrat 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:56.040 and stopped the speech. So he's coming out, and we're 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.280 going to go try to see we can get him 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:58.720 now and bring him down here there so we may 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:00.959 see him in a minute that was on it. 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:03.840 So, well, this is what the fire looks like. 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:05.920 He cut in. 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.280 Let me take you effects right now. I'm wearing a 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:10.680 suit and I'm in the building. I'll report back in 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:12.000 a second. That's all right. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:13.800 This is what democracy looks like. 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:14.160 Right. 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:17.560 Yeah, I got a note saying I got escorted out. 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.960 But that's how you know, he's I think he might 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:24.040 already file articles of impeachment against Trump, So you know 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.120 that's his approach, and I you know, God bless him. 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:29.080 The key is that we're all working together on the 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.679 same team, trying to accomplish the same goal because we 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.359 recognize how destructive Trump has. 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:39.240 Been just in it's like fifty days, and he's you know, he's. 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.880 Put the jackhammer to like everything across the board, especially 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:46.800 things affecting the African American community, you know, like you know, 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.000 the title ie stuff. He was trying to cut funds 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:53.040 for schools, Medicare the Republicans like a one almost a 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:56.520 one trillion dollar cut, and that's taking healthcare away from folks, 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:00.520 uh and Obamacare too, African Americans. But also so you know, 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:03.440 low income folks in those red and rural states. 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:04.600 Are going to be hit by that as well. 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.120 And so you know, we've always led the charge as 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:10.960 African Americans for the fight for equality the injustice in 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:12.120 this country. 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:14.600 Need the same things. Has it changed much from the 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:16.920 data that you all pulled. I know, over two hundred 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:19.760 and fifty thousand Black people eventually filled out that survey. 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.120 It's the largest in United States history. But I think 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:24.560 we still got a road to go. We got a 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.000 lot more black people than who filled out the Black Census. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:28.000 When you look at. 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:30.320 The data then and where we are now, where do 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:31.840 we go from here? Just when you look at that. 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:47.760 Data, Yeah, we survey two hundred and eleven thousand people 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.359 and we're going to do it again in twenty twenty six. 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:54.880 We're gonna survey three hundred thousand black people. But what 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.760 they overwhelmingly said is that we need an economy that 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:03.240 works for us and specifically wanted expansion of medicaid, wanted 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:08.600 help for childcare, wanted wages that. 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:12.080 Have our dignity in mind. 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:15.760 And now this last fifty days mean has meant that 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:18.919 we need that even more then we even needed it 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:21.000 a year ago. And I think we're going to see 0:25:21.000 --> 0:25:25.400 that with this budget that just proposal that came through 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:29.240 that's going to slash medicaid, and so for us, it's 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:33.600 about getting into community. We believe that the antidote to 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:37.840 fascism is building community and to be in community all 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.439 year round so that more and more people share what 0:25:41.480 --> 0:25:43.920 they want and we can get to what Joy said, 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:48.639 that imagination about where we want to go as a people, 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:50.520 what we want to win, and build a strategy to 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:50.880 get there. 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:53.680 I love that. 0:25:56.080 --> 0:26:01.600 Areva Martin and the Mario Solomon Simmons are here, and 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:03.960 I want to go to you all because one of 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.960 the places that we've seen people lean in Roy, You've 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:11.720 seen this too, are around a legal strategy with this president. 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:15.679 Most of what has taken place to stop executive action, 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:18.359 where there have been more than one hundred and nineteen 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:22.520 executive actions taken so far, over ninety five lawsuits filed 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:26.040 against this administration. You all have also worked to take 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:30.040 justice in your into your own hands, not challenging Donald Trump, 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:33.320 but challenging the white supremacist system that bert Donald Trump 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.360 in the form of reparations. I'm thinking of the cases 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.679 that both of you all have. Areva, I want to 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:41.200 come to you first and then to Mario. You because 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:45.679 we are still fighting for justice for the survivors of 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:47.679 Black Wall Street, but Areva. I want to come to 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:51.920 you first around. Some of you had a Palm Springs, 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.680 You've Bruce's Beach. There's so much work that you've done 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:56.800 in this space, and there are so many cases like 0:26:56.880 --> 0:27:00.320 this that black folks haven't had the pr or the 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:03.280 attention around to really see justice. So we also have 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:06.320 some roads to plow there, and I think it's important 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:08.359 that we know that we are fighting on every side, 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:10.080 but there is still hope. 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:14.800 Thanks so much, Angela, Thanks Joy, Thanks everyone they pull 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:19.280 this together. I'm still sleepy from my one am part 0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:21.560 of the twenty four hour marathon, but it was so 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.320 incredible to be a part of the marathon over the 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.560 last twenty plus hours. 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:27.960 Folks who were up who were. 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:31.560 Watching, just such a phenomenal job done by the entire team. 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:34.399 So kudos to everyone working behind the scenes and all 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:37.880 the folks who were up all night watching. But you're right, 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:40.080 De Mario and I have been involved in some of 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.119 the biggest reparations cases in the country, and when Joy 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:47.280 talks about reimagining really what this country should be and 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:50.800 not going back to where we were reparation should be 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:53.879 on the top of the list of things that black 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:56.520 folks should be thinking about. For so many years, so 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.400 many decades, we were told it was impossible. We were 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:01.400 told it was a French theory, it was. 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:02.360 A French concept. 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:06.320 And how dare we have the audacity to expect or 0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:12.080 to believe that this country would make amends? Would you know, 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:16.639 acknowledge the sins against black folks and then do something 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:18.359 about it in the same way that they have done 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:22.840 for so many other people. Cornell Brooks at Harvard Kennedy 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:26.439 School wrote a brilliant piece a couple of months ago 0:28:26.600 --> 0:28:30.280 about all the ways that this country pays reparations on 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:33.440 the regular, on the daily, to so many different groups 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:35.439 of people. But yet when it comes to black folks, 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:40.160 the concept of reparations, the concept of giving us what 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:42.160 we are justly entitled to, people. 0:28:42.680 --> 0:28:44.640 Get all nervous about it. 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:48.680 They start clutching their pearls, and so many ways reveal 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:52.200 their racism about you know, myths about black folks were 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:55.640 not responsible with money. You know, we hear folks say, well, 0:28:55.680 --> 0:28:58.080 we didn't do it. Why should we have to pay 0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:00.640 for the sins of our fathers? We hear these repeated 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:06.000 excuses folks not acknowledging the benefits, the benefits that they 0:29:06.040 --> 0:29:10.960 reap in this country every day from the uncompensated wages 0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:16.360 and labor force labor of enslaved people. So yes, Angela, 0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:19.360 there is a movement around this country. Reparations committees have 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:21.840 been started at the state level, at the local level, 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:26.680 people are organized, people are mobilized, people are enthus they 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:30.080 are this is the moment, and I just hope that 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:33.680 at the national level, my good friend Glynn, Congress Congress 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:37.440 Member IVY is on this call. I hope that Congress 0:29:37.520 --> 0:29:41.360 has the courage to do what some local administrative bodies 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:44.520 have had the courage to do. But if anyone is 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.280 feeling like reparations is out of reach, I'm just here 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:51.280 to encourage you. Reparations is very much in reach, is 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:54.880 very much available. It's very much something that we should 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:57.800 all be united around and as we reimagine what this 0:29:57.920 --> 0:30:00.920 country should look like going forward, please please, please please 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:06.960 remember the debt old to the descendants of enslaved people. 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:10.080 And I'm just proud to be in this fight in 0:30:10.160 --> 0:30:13.760 Palm Springs and Saint Louis and communities all over this country. 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:16.800 Thank you Vi de Mario. 0:30:16.880 --> 0:30:20.360 I want to come to you, particularly around what we 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:24.280 can be doing to ensure that we keep what's happened 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:27.040 in mind, that we continue to fight for justice and 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:29.280 the other ideas around Blackwall Street. 0:30:29.320 --> 0:30:30.320 It's very existent. 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:33.960 So even if they did decimate Blackwall Street, the ideas 0:30:34.000 --> 0:30:37.880 that we can hold on to despite its destruction, and 0:30:37.920 --> 0:30:38.960 we should never forget it. 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:41.760 But how do we hold on to the fabric of 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:46.560 what Blackwall Street was? And you're on mute D I 0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:50.200 did that too, don't worry. 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:52.360 Well, thank you for having me here, and just excited 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:55.560 by everything that everyone is saying about pulling this together. 0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:58.000 You know, I represent the last two living survivors of 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.000 the Tulsa Race massacre of one hundred and ten year 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:02.880 old mother Viola Ford Fletcher one hundred and ten year 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:05.760 old mother Lessie Benefield Randall, and in my over twenty 0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:07.760 five years of working on trying to get justice and 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:11.160 reparations for Greenwood, I spent more more probably more time 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:13.760 than most people can imagine, with people that are over 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:16.320 ninety five years old and several people over one hundred 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:18.360 and so what I want to tell people today is 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.680 we continue to fight for justice for those two women. 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:23.200 Is I want you to all right now think Greenwood. 0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:26.560 Want you to think Greenwood now, because think Greenwood is 0:31:26.560 --> 0:31:28.280 what would get us to where we want to be. 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:31.640 Think about that Greenwood was created this black mecca. Well 0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:34.960 over twelve thousand black people came together, created all types 0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:38.880 of businesses, over two hundred successful businesses, over fifteen hundred 0:31:38.880 --> 0:31:41.760 and fifty homes in businesses before the nineteen twenty one 0:31:41.800 --> 0:31:45.120 Tulsa Race massacre. And they did that during the ny Deer. 0:31:45.520 --> 0:31:47.360 They did that during a time that's much like the 0:31:47.360 --> 0:31:50.080 time we're living in here and under this MAGA two 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:53.240 point zero moment. And there was five founding principles of 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:57.200 think Greenwood. Number one was community love, Number two was 0:31:57.240 --> 0:32:01.040 self determination, Number three was ownership, Number four was wealth 0:32:01.080 --> 0:32:05.080 and education concentration, and number five was resilient. These are 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:07.600 the founding principles of Greenwood, and this is what we 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:10.560 need to emulate today and make sure we understand that 0:32:10.640 --> 0:32:12.200 Greenwood and Black Wall Street here. 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:14.440 In Tulsa was more than a physical location. 0:32:14.600 --> 0:32:16.800 It was a mind state. And so what I'm asking 0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:19.080 everyone to do on this call and for everyone that's 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:23.040 listening to go to think Greenwood now, Dot com. Thinkgreenwood 0:32:23.080 --> 0:32:25.760 now dot com and sign the pledge that you will 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:29.000 live by these five core principles. And then this is more. 0:32:29.120 --> 0:32:31.800 This is more than just talking about action. This is 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:35.440 about a plan to move forward. That's Thinkgreenwood now dot 0:32:35.440 --> 0:32:38.600 com and you can connect with us and connect with 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:42.040 these survivors who are still fighting for justice and reparations, 0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:45.080 not just for themselves, not just for their community, but 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:48.600 for the entire Black community. They're standing strong, you know, andrela. 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:49.000 You know this. 0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:51.840 They have been at every court hearing. They've been back 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:55.520 and forth to DC. You talked about Representative Green. Representative 0:32:55.520 --> 0:32:56.960 Green has come up tuss and. 0:32:56.920 --> 0:32:57.640 Stood with us. 0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:01.280 He is going to put forth leg on behalf of 0:33:01.360 --> 0:33:05.280 reparations because of the reaper. My good friends stated. Reparations 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:09.239 is necessary for the structural changes we need. Listen, the 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:12.280 racial wealth gap. It's worse than it was in nineteen 0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:15.320 sixty eight. And so as we talk about everything else 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:17.840 besides you know, d I and anti woke and all 0:33:17.880 --> 0:33:21.000 these things, if we don't have structural changes, as Joy 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:24.800 talked about, we will never get the racial wealth gap 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:28.520 to be shrunk. And that requires reparations. But we start 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:32.520 that by thinking Greenwood go to Thinkgreenwood now dot com, 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:34.280 sign the pledge, and let's get to work. 0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:37.840 I love that so much to Mario Roy. 0:33:37.960 --> 0:33:40.560 I was watching you when Mario was talking about going 0:33:40.600 --> 0:33:43.200 to think Greenwood dot com, and I didn't see you 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:43.800 take a note. 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:45.440 You've been standing right into that light. 0:33:46.080 --> 0:33:47.720 You just see me look down real quick. 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:52.680 Greenwood now a lean Greenwood now dot com. 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:54.120 Than Greenwood now dot com. 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:57.440 See Roy, how you di it myself so that you 0:33:57.440 --> 0:33:59.520 wouldn't hear a click clack on the keyboard. 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:01.160 Okay, I was. 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:03.040 Down here, but you know my mama talked keyboarding that 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:04.960 Miles College. Shut out the Miles cause I. 0:34:05.400 --> 0:34:06.000 Was looking up. 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:12.319 Well, we need to go to take this pledge. So 0:34:12.480 --> 0:34:14.600 the Mario you said, there's five principles. 0:34:15.000 --> 0:34:18.400 Yeah, five principles community love that built Greenwood. You know, 0:34:18.440 --> 0:34:20.279 one of the things about the community love, it's about 0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:23.440 making sure that we are standing together, we're doing everything 0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:25.560 to make sure that we can all be successful, but 0:34:25.680 --> 0:34:28.280 also making sure we understand this we not the eye. 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:31.759 And that's what built Greenwood. Self determination. You understand that 0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:34.480 Greenwood was built during a time where more lynchings were 0:34:34.480 --> 0:34:38.439 going on, open white supremacy, white segregation, but people went 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:41.120 to Greenwood to be free to build and have a 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:44.560 life as they will call it, to be a person ownership. 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:48.399 People wanted to own their businesses, own their property, own 0:34:48.480 --> 0:34:52.120 their communities, and have ownership of themselves. And we've seen 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:56.239 over the last decades upon decades, regardless of anything, we're 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:58.600 going to have to take ownership for ourselves. As we 0:34:58.600 --> 0:35:01.239 continue to fight for better policy and then wealth and 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:05.279 education concentration, we have to focus on building wealth and 0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:09.320 becoming better educated about what it takes to build generational wealth. 0:35:09.680 --> 0:35:12.440 I know we all just saw the tragic news of 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.319 Antie Stone that was killed in a car accident just 0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:18.040 a few days ago. You know, when things like that happened, 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:20.160 one of the things I think about is I hope 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:22.239 she had her estate plan in place. I hope she 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:24.560 had a life insurance in place. I hope she had 0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:27.000 a discussion with her family. What's going to happen to 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:30.160 her royalties and our intellectual property. These are things that 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:32.680 we have to start thinking about today. The fire is 0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:35.320 out in Alta Dina, the same thing. These things can happen, 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:37.520 so we have to think about our wealth and economic 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:41.160 education concentration and that fifthy the resilience and that's what 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:44.920 we're showing tonight. We're showing despite open whites. This is 0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:47.440 a dangerous time. There will be some dark days, but 0:35:47.560 --> 0:35:50.400 we must be resilient and if nothing else, think Greenwood 0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:52.200 now and we can get through this theme. 0:35:53.280 --> 0:35:54.359 I want to go to. 0:35:55.880 --> 0:36:01.319 April Varrett, who has made tremendous history talking about resilience, 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:05.040 and we know that many of our Labor Union brothers 0:36:05.080 --> 0:36:09.560 and sisters and family members are deeply resilient. Y'all have 0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:12.000 been on the front lines of some of these lawsuits. 0:36:12.320 --> 0:36:14.400 Labor Union is writ large. 0:36:14.400 --> 0:36:18.960 When you think about the inherent connection to that question, April, 0:36:19.560 --> 0:36:21.360 where do we go from here? Is something that doctor 0:36:21.440 --> 0:36:23.799 King asked all of us, and of course he had 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:27.919 a tremendous strategic partnership with Labor. Where do you think 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:31.320 we go from here now in twenty twenty five given 0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:34.840 the tremendous setbacks that we are all collectively experiencing. 0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:41.600 So thanks for thanks Angela and everyone. Incredible, incredible show 0:36:41.680 --> 0:36:46.320 of resilience and spirit and how much we can center 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:51.279 the squabble up enjoy and in love and in community. 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:54.760 And to the question of where do we go from here? 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:59.160 I'm so glad Joy invoked the spirit of doctor King 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:03.360 because it is the very same things he called for. 0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:07.640 That is unfinished business. That is the north star I 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:11.799 believe for where we go from here. We have to, 0:37:12.000 --> 0:37:15.399 I believe, join forces and build enough power to end 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:21.520 poverty and systemic and structural racism forever. And if we 0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:27.919 center those who are suffering, continuing to suffer from economic exploitation, 0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:32.120 it's us right. It's our other sisters and brothers, and 0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:35.600 people of color, it's women, it's immigrants right. When we 0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:39.160 center ourselves and when we build enough power for ourselves 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:44.759 to dismantle the systems of poverty and racism in this country, I. 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:46.479 Think we can begin to get stuff done. 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:50.280 And I think that we have to stage, as folks 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:55.400 have been saying, a fight. I don't get the Donald 0:37:55.480 --> 0:37:58.879 Trump phenomenon, but I've been thinking a lot about it. 0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:06.120 What attracts folks to that type of leadership, and I 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:13.080 believe Americans are people who want to feel protected and defended, 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:17.680 and for good or for bad. He is showing that 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:21.840 I'm gonna protect, I'm gonna defend, and so we have 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:26.000 to have that same energy in this moment. We got 0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:28.640 to show that we are gonna protect and we are 0:38:28.680 --> 0:38:30.800 gonna defend what we care about. 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:31.319 Right. 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:35.440 That vision that Joy talked about, I think is so important. 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:38.520 And how are we not abandoning what we know we 0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:39.719 need in our communities. 0:38:40.120 --> 0:38:40.879 I don't give a damn. 0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:42.680 We should be out there talking every day about when 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:45.080 they're gonna raise a minimum wage. You care so much 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:48.319 about working people. When you're gonna vote on raising a 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:52.359 minimum wage. You care so much about working people, When 0:38:52.360 --> 0:38:55.560 are you gonna put policies in place that stop price 0:38:55.640 --> 0:39:01.120 gouging and unnecessary fees that rob the pool? You care 0:39:01.200 --> 0:39:03.640 so much about working people, when are you going to 0:39:03.760 --> 0:39:05.200 invest more in our community? 0:39:05.280 --> 0:39:07.040 So the very things that we need. 0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:12.440 Now is the time to stand up the fight for them, unapologetically. 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.440 And the last thing I'll say, Angela is I have 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:19.719 come to believe that we are in the civil society 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:24.120 because we want to fix things right. We want to 0:39:24.160 --> 0:39:27.919 be fixers. We want to put bomb on we want 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:31.440 to throw water on fires. Now is the time to 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:36.120 throw fuel on the fire. Now is the time to 0:39:36.160 --> 0:39:38.560 blow up the spot right. 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:41.200 It is not a time to shrink, It is not 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:42.520 a time to be small. 0:39:42.600 --> 0:39:43.359 We have to. 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:46.080 Blow up their spot in the way that they are 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:48.919 trying to blow up ours, and I think we got 0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:51.960 to do that in a focused and a prioritized way. 0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:55.160 We got to pick our battles for folks. We cannot 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:59.560 get sucked into every single squirmish. 0:39:58.880 --> 0:39:59.879 They want to suck us into. 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:01.480 We will exhaust ourselves. 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:03.520 But by Memorial Day. 0:40:03.800 --> 0:40:07.399 So let's focus and let's and let's fight like hell. 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:12.000 So while we were talking, it's also been dropped in 0:40:12.040 --> 0:40:16.799 the chat that Congress members Frost, Crockett, and Presley have 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:21.719 also walked out of this joint Address of Congress for 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:24.880 Donald Trump. So this is an opportunity. I feel like 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:27.200 we got to bring in some of the youngest. So 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:31.360 I want to go to zi uh Zi Brian. I 0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:35.080 want to come to you because it is so important 0:40:35.120 --> 0:40:38.120 to have young voices on here. You all are not 0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:40.680 just our future, you are present. I want to know 0:40:40.960 --> 0:40:43.759 if the actions taken by members of Congress who are 0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:47.399 walking out in this moment resonate with you, with them 0:40:47.480 --> 0:40:48.880 some of your peers. I'm not gonna do you like 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:50.360 white folks, goes and be like, tell me what do 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:51.080 black people think. 0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:53.000 It's not gonna be one of those. But I am 0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:57.920 curious to know yes, one of the youths. 0:40:57.880 --> 0:41:00.840 Right, yeah, Like, do you feel like, do you feel 0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:03.840 seen by that active protest? What would you have expected 0:41:03.840 --> 0:41:08.439 from members of Congress tonight? Well, thank you for having 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:11.680 me first. Secondly, young people, as you said, are not 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:12.120 just the. 0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:13.720 Future, we are the current moment. 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:18.160 I'm encouraged by seeing them walk out because so often 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:21.239 young black people are told we have to conform, we 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:24.040 have to be like everyone else, We have to, you know, 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:26.560 just make our way to the top, and we can't 0:41:26.560 --> 0:41:29.160 be outspoken, we can't say our true thoughts, and we 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:30.799 can't really stand up in the ways that we want to. 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:33.200 So I'm happy to see the people who have made 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:36.799 it into those positions walking out and being very clear 0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:39.080 on where they stand and not leaving any room for 0:41:39.200 --> 0:41:42.800 any bad interpretations of what they may think or believe. 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:45.279 But I mean, I think one of the reasons why 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:47.760 I'm even running for office. I just launched my campaign 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:50.200 for school board in Charlottesville, and the reason why I'm 0:41:50.239 --> 0:41:52.440 running for office at twenty four is because I believe 0:41:52.440 --> 0:41:54.480 that we are ready to lead. And I don't want 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:57.680 people to use age as a proxy for experience, because 0:41:57.680 --> 0:41:59.880 I think that young people bring a lot to the table. 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:03.000 We bring a lot of unique perspectives. We bring a 0:42:03.000 --> 0:42:06.880 lot of thoughts and ideas and innovative ways at going 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:10.120 at things that are that we're facing in the current moment, 0:42:10.120 --> 0:42:12.560 all of the challenges that we're seeing. So I think 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:15.880 that if young people are able to be supported, we 0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:19.560 all do well. But additionally, we need intergenerational base building, 0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:22.840 and so it will require young people to respect, you know, 0:42:22.960 --> 0:42:25.399 the past, the elders, the work that they have done, 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:27.800 in the foundation that they've laid in order to inform 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:29.280 the work that we hope to do in the future. 0:42:30.400 --> 0:42:33.319 Thank you so much, Zi, it's on my heart to 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:36.080 go to this lovely young woman. 0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:36.759 Uh. 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:39.040 Congresswoman Marsha Budge. 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:42.400 Is how I met her, but most recently she was 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:46.400 the Secretary of Housing in Urban Development, where actual change 0:42:46.400 --> 0:42:49.279 did happen during that administration and under her watch. She 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:52.839 also is the former president of Delta Sigma Theta, and 0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.640 she is such a gem. I have to ask you, 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:57.359 congress women, because I know I see I'm still saying, 0:42:57.360 --> 0:42:58.800 congressman is Madam Secretary. 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:02.080 When you watch your colleagues. 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:03.960 Tonight as they sit in this in the House chamber, 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:07.799 I want to know if you put yourself back in 0:43:07.840 --> 0:43:12.200 their shoes, what you would have done, and any advice 0:43:12.280 --> 0:43:15.840 you have for them going forward about how they deal 0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:21.240 with someone who is actively working to destroy democracy. 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:23.879 First, let me say I'm very proud of them. 0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:26.480 The one thing that I always believed when I was 0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:28.360 a member of Congress is that there were enough of 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:30.400 us that we did not have to ask for permission. 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:36.480 We sit back too often and want to find out 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:38.759 what's the group want to do, how do we all 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:41.439 want to work together. Sometimes we just need to stand up, 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:44.239 and this is one of those times. I think that 0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:48.240 the Caucus in particular needs to stand with all its might, 0:43:48.320 --> 0:43:51.280 because when you are sixty members of Congress, you are strong, 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:54.080 and I think we have to use the power that 0:43:54.160 --> 0:43:56.600 we have. So I'm very very proud of them. I 0:43:56.640 --> 0:43:59.279 probably would not have gone, but I mean, but those 0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:02.920 who did go, I am glad. I really feel so 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:05.319 good about them standing up and letting people know what 0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.719 they think. Because the more we stay silent, the more 0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:12.000 we are ignored. And so I'm really really happy about 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:13.080 what I'm hearing. 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:18.560 I love I want to go to the nation's oldest 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:24.360 civil rights organization. The president is our good brother, Derek Johnson, 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:30.520 I have to ask you, what is the NAACP telling 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:33.120 us to do going forward? How are you all going 0:44:33.200 --> 0:44:36.840 to help us march forward, keep pressing on, keep pressing, 0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:40.040 keep hope alive, and also keep the pressure on this 0:44:40.080 --> 0:44:43.000 administration that doesn't seem to be accountable to any one 0:44:43.000 --> 0:44:46.680 of us, is only yielding to entities. 0:44:46.320 --> 0:44:49.520 That have money to buy. 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:51.719 It feels like this administration is for sale. I'm not 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:54.560 trying to put you in a partisan question, so I 0:44:54.600 --> 0:44:57.080 will just say as a as a general matter, we 0:44:57.200 --> 0:44:59.600 know that there's it seems to be that white supremacy 0:44:59.640 --> 0:45:02.360 is really the land here, and it seems like people 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:06.160 who are poor and don't have something to offer them 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:08.279 are putting harm's way. 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:09.280 And we're seeing that. 0:45:09.200 --> 0:45:12.840 With the federal freezes, we're seeing that with the funding cuts, 0:45:12.840 --> 0:45:15.680 We're seeing that with the proposed budget across the board, 0:45:15.680 --> 0:45:18.360 we are seeing that. How is the NAACP recommending that 0:45:18.440 --> 0:45:20.399 black folks watching at home fight back? 0:45:21.320 --> 0:45:24.239 Great question, and thank you all for organizing this. You know, 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:26.600 the last forty three days was the distraction. The real 0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:31.320 fight starts on March fourteenth with the continued resolution budget. 0:45:31.800 --> 0:45:35.880 This is about the money, many folks outside of our community. 0:45:35.920 --> 0:45:38.239 They're going to begin to feel the pain. They want 0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:40.640 to do away with such security. Let's be very clear, 0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:43.920 they want to do away with medicaid and medicare. They 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:46.799 want to redefine the role of government. And so as 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:49.560 we have been consumed with DEI and all the things 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:52.640 that are out there, the crown jewel of all of 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:56.400 this was to get their base motivated, get us distracted, 0:45:56.480 --> 0:45:59.080 so they can drive a MA truck through the budget 0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:03.440 and read the find everything privatized services. So leading up 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:06.319 to March fourteenth, we need to be telling members of 0:46:06.360 --> 0:46:09.400 Congress who we put in office, don't cut a deal 0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:13.080 with our guarantees. Don't be worried about shutting down the 0:46:13.120 --> 0:46:16.120 government when we know if they get a clean cr 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:21.040 through September, no matter what they say, Trump is going 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:25.120 to disavow all the money that they appropriate. So between 0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:28.239 now and March fourteenth, we need to talk to all 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:31.799 the Democratic leadership. Don't cut a deal unless you have 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:35.440 a guarantee in legislation that the money will be spent 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.200 as necessary. Now, when we get to the new budget, 0:46:38.239 --> 0:46:41.280 that's the real fight. Everything else has been a distraction 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:46.360 for NACP. Recognizing for black folks recognizing. 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:47.880 Race is a tool. 0:46:49.040 --> 0:46:51.839 Money is the game, and we have to figure out 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:55.279 how not to get distracted with racialized questions when at 0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:58.120 the end of the day, they are trying to redefine 0:46:58.520 --> 0:46:58.959 the role. 0:47:00.000 --> 0:47:01.520 Special elections are coming up. 0:47:01.600 --> 0:47:04.880 We have to play in those elections, but unfortunately we 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:07.840 will feel some pain. But white folks gonna feel some 0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:10.640 pain too, because if they cut Medicaid, there's a lot 0:47:10.680 --> 0:47:13.640 of folks gonna leave nursing homes because they're depending on Medicaid. 0:47:13.880 --> 0:47:16.880 If they cut snaps, the biggest benefactors are snapped is 0:47:16.920 --> 0:47:20.040 the walmarks of the world and all of the farmers. 0:47:20.280 --> 0:47:23.359 They have already felt the pain where USA being cut. 0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:26.839 Those farmers in Mississippi, Cindy hog Smith, the senator here 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:30.279 where I live, are all already telling farmers who she's 0:47:30.280 --> 0:47:34.680 trying to get an exceptions from Trump on USA USAA 0:47:35.280 --> 0:47:39.719 because they're losing money. So the focus now forward is 0:47:39.800 --> 0:47:43.319 about how all these programs are about to be cut 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:46.000 and white folks are beginning to feel going to feel 0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:49.160 the pain, and we need to tell CBC members who 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:52.560 want to capitulate thinking this is this is business as usual. 0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:55.839 Democratic members who want to capitulate think they can cut 0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:56.200 a deal. 0:47:56.560 --> 0:47:57.960 There is no deal to get cut. 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:01.480 If government gets shut down because they don't get what 0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:04.920 they need from the cur bill, so be it. Because 0:48:05.040 --> 0:48:08.839 if it goes forward with them being able to appropriate 0:48:08.960 --> 0:48:12.800 through September and still not spend the money on the 0:48:13.000 --> 0:48:15.319 entitlement programs, we're no better forward. 0:48:15.640 --> 0:48:17.760 So right now, let's focus on the budget. 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:19.239 Let's focus on the budget fight. 0:48:19.440 --> 0:48:22.360 And the only two Democrats have right now is not 0:48:22.600 --> 0:48:26.240 to support the continued resolution unless they get some things 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:30.200 in place to force the Republican priorty and Trump to 0:48:30.280 --> 0:48:33.760 do what's necessary. We may be nonpartisan, but with political 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:37.440 hit as hell. This is not a partisanship conversation. This 0:48:37.600 --> 0:48:41.200 is about saving and protecting our democracy and progress made 0:48:42.360 --> 0:48:43.200 President Jackson. 0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:47.440 No, no, no, no go, President Johnson. Now, if that's 0:48:47.480 --> 0:48:51.640 the directive to our elected officials, how do we convey 0:48:51.800 --> 0:48:55.360 something similar to our brothers and sisters who are just 0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:57.959 out here in the electorate. Our friend to get caught 0:48:58.040 --> 0:49:00.680 up in the algorithm of s whites whites, right, and 0:49:00.840 --> 0:49:03.359 some of them distractions will get you riled up. There 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:05.440 were two cops who were convicted of kill so I 0:49:05.480 --> 0:49:07.839 don't remember the city but they were reinstated to their 0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:12.560 respective police force. This week, there's granted I don't write 0:49:12.640 --> 0:49:17.880 anything office outlandish anymore, but there's talk of people proposing 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:22.560 a Derek Chauvin pardon for some point. But you know 0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:27.360 they're gonna try and sneak in around Juneteenth something like that. 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:32.640 It's not policy, but it emotionally empowers a base that 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:35.800 has been misinformed to then continue to push back on 0:49:35.920 --> 0:49:38.200 all of the things that as an electorate we actually 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:40.360 need to be paying attention to. So how do we 0:49:40.520 --> 0:49:45.239 help drive voters to educate themselves and not get caught 0:49:45.320 --> 0:49:48.719 up in the algorithm of distractions? Or how do you 0:49:48.880 --> 0:49:51.800 allocate your attentions over here? Put eighty percent on snap 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:55.000 and medicaid NAIN, now twenty percent over here on police 0:49:55.040 --> 0:49:56.959 officers getting part Well. 0:49:56.880 --> 0:49:59.920 That's the fight where in the control of the narrative 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:04.400 in this moment is most important. CBS is compromised because 0:50:04.440 --> 0:50:06.640 they have an issue of merger in front of the FCC. 0:50:07.560 --> 0:50:10.200 COMPKINS is propromised because they don't want to lose the 0:50:10.239 --> 0:50:12.799 broadband money, the tens of billions of dollars that got 0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:18.120 for broadcasts. Therefore, MSNBC and NBC they're paralyzed. Disney is 0:50:18.200 --> 0:50:21.960 compromised because of the regulatory issues they're concerned with. The 0:50:22.080 --> 0:50:25.520 social media platforms as they exist are all trying to 0:50:25.800 --> 0:50:30.600 resist antitrust legislation. The fight we're in is around the 0:50:30.680 --> 0:50:34.319 control of narrative, and we have to figure out how 0:50:34.360 --> 0:50:38.000 to platform somewhere where we could get enough people to 0:50:38.360 --> 0:50:41.840 see what's taking place and control the narrative. If I 0:50:41.960 --> 0:50:44.200 had the solution to that, that's the sip bullet that 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:49.600 we all need to have. But unfortunately, the medium age of. 0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:53.000 Our community is thirty two point six years old. 0:50:53.640 --> 0:50:56.960 That mean almost half of our population grew up in 0:50:57.239 --> 0:51:01.839 school districts without ever having city or social studies. They 0:51:01.840 --> 0:51:04.840 don't understand the role of government, the levels of power, 0:51:05.280 --> 0:51:07.960 and so our fight is more about how do we 0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:08.920 keep our people. 0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:12.920 Informed and focus that it is anything else. That is 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:13.880 the fight that we are in. 0:51:22.200 --> 0:51:26.680 Absolutely, and speaking of the fight, I wanted to go 0:51:26.880 --> 0:51:31.880 to someone who is another young leader. His name is 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:36.440 Yusuf Omer and he is an SGA president at an HBCU. 0:51:36.520 --> 0:51:40.040 You talked about Miles College earlier, Roy, and so I 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:42.600 want to know what the fight looks like for students 0:51:42.680 --> 0:51:46.080 at historically black colleges and universities where you all are 0:51:46.200 --> 0:51:48.400 being told that your funding could get hit too. This 0:51:48.560 --> 0:51:51.200 is the same man who took credit for giving funding 0:51:51.239 --> 0:51:55.040 to y'all that he did not give and has criticized 0:51:55.080 --> 0:51:58.640 the last administration for actually giving him. So I want 0:51:58.680 --> 0:52:00.799 to know what the fight looks like a student level, 0:52:00.880 --> 0:52:02.920 what you all are talking about, how you all are 0:52:03.000 --> 0:52:06.239 talking about mobilizing when your education is on the line, 0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:08.560 and actually your bodies could be on the line as well. 0:52:09.800 --> 0:52:12.600 Absolutely, Angeline, just thank you for having us on here, 0:52:13.040 --> 0:52:16.120 Thank you for highlighting young people, understanding that we are 0:52:16.160 --> 0:52:19.640 not the future, we are the now. Understanding that hbc 0:52:19.719 --> 0:52:22.480 YOU has been the backbone for years, for hundreds of 0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:28.280 years of black excellence, producing leaders, innovators, change makers, people 0:52:28.360 --> 0:52:30.600 in all different walks of life, in every single field, 0:52:30.960 --> 0:52:33.040 despite being historically underfunded. 0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:35.760 That's just reality, and that reality is clear. 0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:39.879 As day that each HBCU in these United States does 0:52:40.000 --> 0:52:44.040 more with less. If we say that we truly value 0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:46.600 education and value all young people, we must invest in 0:52:46.719 --> 0:52:50.200 every institution that has invested back in US Federal funding 0:52:50.280 --> 0:52:52.560 for HBC YOU shouldn't be a charity, and it shouldn't 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:55.640 be something that people can threaten to take away. It 0:52:55.640 --> 0:52:58.719 should be something that our government should continually invest and 0:52:58.800 --> 0:52:59.360 add more to. 0:53:00.280 --> 0:53:01.880 I look at it like federal. 0:53:01.719 --> 0:53:04.480 Funding for us at HBCUs is a debt ode to 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:07.680 the legacy of what we do, of what our ancestors 0:53:07.760 --> 0:53:11.440 fought for, and the brilliance that these institutions represent. When 0:53:11.480 --> 0:53:14.920 you fund the HBCU, you literally fund the future of 0:53:15.040 --> 0:53:18.760 black leadership, a black culture of economic power and social 0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:19.800 progress in this country. 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:22.080 And as students, we're working. 0:53:21.880 --> 0:53:25.839 On not only mobilizing, but we're now having students run 0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:28.680 for office while they're in college. We have students at 0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:32.719 HBCUs running for city council. These are hometown heroes that 0:53:32.840 --> 0:53:34.239 we need to shed the light on. We need to 0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:37.360 donate to their campaigns, we need to support them, and 0:53:37.440 --> 0:53:38.920 we need to educate. I want to shout out with 0:53:39.160 --> 0:53:42.560 my professor the reason I'm here, doctor Wes Bellamy. These 0:53:42.600 --> 0:53:46.960 are the environments that we're cultivating at HBCUs. Classrooms and 0:53:47.080 --> 0:53:50.000 discussions and ideas and debates that are not only staying 0:53:50.040 --> 0:53:52.799 in the classroom. These ideas, debased and discussions are now 0:53:52.880 --> 0:53:56.320 being traveled to different boardrooms, into the houses of government 0:53:56.400 --> 0:53:57.240 and state legislators. 0:53:57.280 --> 0:53:58.120 So it's definitely needed. 0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:01.600 Funding for hb stop and the research fund it for 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:03.200 HBCU should never stop. 0:54:03.920 --> 0:54:06.520 I want to call up Wes Bellamy, doctor Wes Bellamy, 0:54:06.600 --> 0:54:11.080 who is yes a professor but also the social Action 0:54:11.400 --> 0:54:14.680 chair for one hundred Black Men. Talk about the role Wes, 0:54:14.880 --> 0:54:17.360 that you all must play. 0:54:18.560 --> 0:54:21.200 Also in supporting black women who are doing this work. 0:54:21.040 --> 0:54:24.560 Already, but we need to be standing together talk about 0:54:24.600 --> 0:54:26.279 the important role that you all play right now and 0:54:26.320 --> 0:54:27.960 where we go from here and talk about some of 0:54:28.000 --> 0:54:29.839 the things that you all are doing next or right 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:31.040 now that folks can engage. 0:54:31.880 --> 0:54:36.080 Sure you know, first and foremost, major kudos to you. 0:54:36.120 --> 0:54:38.840 I'll call you the Chris Paul of the movement, Angela 0:54:39.040 --> 0:54:41.879 for always being an architect. She's always passing the ball, 0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:44.480 setting people up, and she can be nice and nasty 0:54:44.520 --> 0:54:45.719 when she needs to to get us. 0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:47.640 We need to be stay on topic. 0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:49.960 Let me. 0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:54.480 So so yeah, thank you say as much love as 0:54:54.520 --> 0:54:57.680 you said alluded to. We know that HBCUs play a 0:54:57.800 --> 0:55:01.960 very pivotal role in our community. But just as important 0:55:02.040 --> 0:55:04.319 as it is for us to support our hbc US, 0:55:04.680 --> 0:55:07.520 we need to support black students no matter what institution 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:11.960 they're at. We see pwy's under attack our black students, 0:55:12.000 --> 0:55:14.440 whether that be in black student unions. We saw this 0:55:14.640 --> 0:55:18.720 information come out right there at Ohio State University about 0:55:18.920 --> 0:55:24.040 potentially their black student union being shut down. We've seen 0:55:24.239 --> 0:55:27.600 certain things transpire University of Virginia, where I live right 0:55:27.719 --> 0:55:31.319 next to. I mean there's a multitude of institutions at 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:35.120 pw excuse me, multitude of students at pwi's and HBC 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:38.239 user like who need our assistance. So, Angela, when you 0:55:38.280 --> 0:55:40.000 ask the question of what do we do in the immediate, 0:55:40.080 --> 0:55:42.879 I think that means showing up. Yousef made a really 0:55:42.920 --> 0:55:45.359 good point in terms of how there's young people who 0:55:45.400 --> 0:55:48.720 are running for office right now. We just had Ayana 0:55:48.800 --> 0:55:51.640 Bryan on earlier. She's running for city council. I would 0:55:51.719 --> 0:55:54.400 encourage us all in the immediate to donate to her campaign. 0:55:54.880 --> 0:55:58.240 I just donated one hundred dollars. I asked for anybody 0:55:58.400 --> 0:56:00.239 on here to match that. That's a young person on 0:56:00.320 --> 0:56:03.239 here right now who's out doing the work and she's 0:56:03.440 --> 0:56:06.239 committing herself to get in the fight. So we all 0:56:06.280 --> 0:56:09.359 can do something in the immedia today by supporting her 0:56:10.120 --> 0:56:13.759 on a broader scale and on a larger scale. When 0:56:13.760 --> 0:56:17.680 we talk about different things specifically in our community tomorrow 0:56:18.239 --> 0:56:22.439 or and ure Friday, or next Tuesday or next month. 0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:25.640 I think it's about doing three things. One, we have 0:56:25.760 --> 0:56:30.080 to be able to endure and mentally and emotionally prepare 0:56:30.120 --> 0:56:33.080 ourselves to be able to endure what's going on in 0:56:33.200 --> 0:56:35.160 front of us. There's going to be a lot of 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:39.360 fatigue that we feel, both emotionally and mentally from just. 0:56:39.440 --> 0:56:41.240 All of the things that are coming on in our bodies. 0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:43.120 So I think it's important to be able to have 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:46.040 your happy space, take the time away when you need it, 0:56:46.440 --> 0:56:48.680 be able to rest when you need to, and then 0:56:48.719 --> 0:56:50.640 again be prepared to go out and get up and 0:56:50.680 --> 0:56:54.440 fight the next day, because there will be a fight tomorrow. Secondly, 0:56:55.120 --> 0:56:57.960 when it comes to on a local level, we all 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:00.760 need to be looking at how we can be engaged today. 0:57:01.120 --> 0:57:03.239 Whether that means showing up at a city council meeting, 0:57:03.480 --> 0:57:05.680 showing up at a school board meeting, showing up to 0:57:05.760 --> 0:57:08.520 a PTA or PTO meeting. We can all go and 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:11.840 do those things today. And then thirdly, we know that 0:57:11.960 --> 0:57:15.000 we're gonna have to contact and support our legislators, whether 0:57:15.080 --> 0:57:17.960 that be persons like jas mccrockett, and others who we 0:57:18.080 --> 0:57:19.800 know are on the front lines and they're speaking out 0:57:19.840 --> 0:57:22.920 of speaking boldly. But in addition to those folks, we 0:57:23.080 --> 0:57:26.160 need to be agitating the individuals who aren't as loud, 0:57:26.520 --> 0:57:30.480 the quote unquote moderate Democrat or the moderate liberal, or 0:57:30.520 --> 0:57:34.120 the moderate independent or the radical Republican. We need to 0:57:34.160 --> 0:57:36.280 be agitating and bringing the smoke to all of them 0:57:36.360 --> 0:57:39.880 the same way that y'all worked for us. I saw 0:57:40.040 --> 0:57:42.240 a small clip just a second ago. Somebody sent it 0:57:42.280 --> 0:57:46.640 to my phone of a sister during the State of 0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:49.280 the trash excuse me, the State of the Union, and. 0:57:49.920 --> 0:57:52.080 There was a there was a there was a coward. 0:57:52.120 --> 0:57:52.760 I mean, there was a. 0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:56.600 Congressman who snatched the he snatched the paper. 0:57:56.720 --> 0:57:58.280 She said she had a paper that said this is 0:57:58.400 --> 0:58:01.479 not normal, and he's snash the paper out her hand 0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:03.520 and then threw it up in the air like hip 0:58:03.600 --> 0:58:04.120 hip hooray. 0:58:04.840 --> 0:58:07.440 Like that should infuriate. 0:58:06.840 --> 0:58:09.680 Us and motivate us to go to work. 0:58:10.640 --> 0:58:12.600 Me personally, I would want to do some other things, 0:58:12.680 --> 0:58:15.720 but I'm going to channel my energy to go do 0:58:15.960 --> 0:58:19.080 some work within the community, and I think those are 0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:21.800 the things that we can do right now. Like everybody 0:58:21.920 --> 0:58:25.760 isn't going to mobilize a five thousand person march. Everybody 0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:27.840 isn't going to be able to put together this prolific 0:58:27.920 --> 0:58:32.200 town hall, but we all can do something in our communities, first, 0:58:32.600 --> 0:58:35.960 in our neighborhoods, next in our states and congressional districts 0:58:36.040 --> 0:58:36.400 after that. 0:58:36.920 --> 0:58:38.360 So let's go get to it. 0:58:38.680 --> 0:58:40.920 I challenge y'all to work not only with me, but 0:58:41.040 --> 0:58:43.320 everyone else on this call and those who we don't know, 0:58:43.600 --> 0:58:44.480 so we can get to work. 0:58:45.280 --> 0:58:46.480 And on that wes. 0:58:46.560 --> 0:58:49.000 Speaking of getting to work, there is somebody that's all 0:58:49.080 --> 0:58:52.400 about that work that is now with Reverend Mark Thompson. 0:58:53.000 --> 0:58:57.520 Ayana Presley, the congresswoman who is about that life real 0:58:57.640 --> 0:59:01.600 og is here and she is ready to talk to us. 0:59:01.680 --> 0:59:04.400 So congress Woman and Presley, welcome. We are so happy 0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:06.120 to see you. We're so glad you walked out. 0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:10.600 Girl, glad you walked out. She she can't. We're relaying 0:59:10.680 --> 0:59:11.400 what you're saying. 0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:16.120 Ok we said, girl, she said go girl. 0:59:16.360 --> 0:59:20.000 That's what she said. You can hear me, Okay, you. 0:59:21.800 --> 0:59:22.560 She can't hear us. 0:59:24.080 --> 0:59:27.280 So tell us, Congresswoman, God bless you, what happened up set? 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:33.000 Yeah, well, we walked out, probably about twenty of us, 0:59:33.160 --> 0:59:37.200 but there were many people participating in silent protests with different. 0:59:37.000 --> 0:59:40.560 Signs instead of things like musk steals. 0:59:40.320 --> 0:59:44.160 UH, protect Medicaid, protect veterans. You know, this is the 0:59:44.240 --> 0:59:48.080 reforms of protests taking place UH in many iterations, including 0:59:48.120 --> 0:59:52.640 from Representative out Green and so yeah, this is a 0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:53.480 former protest. 0:59:53.800 --> 0:59:55.160 I went very briefly. 0:59:54.920 --> 0:59:58.280 Because I was here to hold space for my guest, 0:59:58.720 --> 0:59:59.080 who is. 0:59:59.080 --> 1:00:03.320 A probationary federal worker who worked at HUD who enforces 1:00:03.560 --> 1:00:04.880 national fair housing laws. 1:00:05.320 --> 1:00:07.840 She's also a wheelchair user, and. 1:00:07.920 --> 1:00:10.760 So she navigated a lot of ablest spaces to be 1:00:10.840 --> 1:00:14.680 here today, so to honor her, I want to take 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:16.960 up space, but I knew that I was not going 1:00:17.040 --> 1:00:20.520 to stay there because we cannot normalize this. This man 1:00:20.640 --> 1:00:24.320 has no respect for Congress. He does not respect us 1:00:24.320 --> 1:00:27.280 as a cult equal branch of government. He has contempt 1:00:27.320 --> 1:00:32.240 for the American people. He pardoned January six ers, who 1:00:32.400 --> 1:00:36.080 desecrated the very well that we are in today for 1:00:36.200 --> 1:00:39.640 this joint Address of Congress or state of a Union. 1:00:39.800 --> 1:00:42.560 So I don't need to be there for a maga 1:00:42.720 --> 1:00:48.120 pep rally listening to lies in propaganda, hateful rhetoric, and 1:00:48.680 --> 1:00:52.720 even more hateful and harmful policies, and those policies are 1:00:52.720 --> 1:00:55.160 coming for every single person to cause this country home. 1:00:55.240 --> 1:00:58.680 Listen, I've been in Congress six years. I've never walked. 1:00:58.360 --> 1:01:00.280 Out of a joint address of Congress or State of 1:01:00.280 --> 1:01:04.680 the Union, not even for the occupant's first term. 1:01:05.720 --> 1:01:06.840 I've never walked out. 1:01:07.240 --> 1:01:08.880 But this is not normal. 1:01:09.360 --> 1:01:11.560 This is a fascist dictator. 1:01:12.320 --> 1:01:12.440 Uh. 1:01:12.640 --> 1:01:16.760 And I could not sit there and pretend. 1:01:16.640 --> 1:01:17.600 That this was it. 1:01:17.920 --> 1:01:20.920 That man is unfit to be president. He is not 1:01:21.120 --> 1:01:21.680 the president. 1:01:22.200 --> 1:01:22.320 Uh. 1:01:22.480 --> 1:01:25.400 And so if he has contempt for the American people, 1:01:25.480 --> 1:01:28.480 I'm gonna stand in solidarity with the American people. And 1:01:28.600 --> 1:01:31.480 that is why I walked out in protest at nine 1:01:31.480 --> 1:01:35.120 point forty. These boots were definitely made for walking. And 1:01:35.600 --> 1:01:38.200 and again, I wanted to bring visibility to the story 1:01:38.360 --> 1:01:46.200 of the federal worker from my district who was fired unlawfully, unjustly. 1:01:46.960 --> 1:01:47.080 Uh. 1:01:47.240 --> 1:01:49.760 And it not only is disrupting her life and livelihood, 1:01:49.800 --> 1:01:52.080 but it's a disservice to the people that she serves 1:01:52.560 --> 1:01:53.080 every day. 1:01:53.680 --> 1:01:56.360 Speaking of this is not normal. A member head to sign. 1:01:56.880 --> 1:01:58.040 Oh, let me tell you about that. 1:01:58.160 --> 1:01:58.400 Okay. 1:01:58.480 --> 1:02:02.600 So Melanie Stansbury had a sign shot a rest in 1:02:02.640 --> 1:02:04.120 peace and power to she La Jackson Lee. 1:02:04.240 --> 1:02:07.080 She was sitting on the aisle. Representative Jackson Lee used 1:02:07.080 --> 1:02:10.160 to sit for hours to hold that seat on the aisle. 1:02:10.520 --> 1:02:13.200 Melanie Stansbury was in that seat well a sign that 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:17.240 said this isn't normal, because it ain't and a as 1:02:17.320 --> 1:02:20.800 Trump was making his way down the aisle, a Republican 1:02:20.880 --> 1:02:23.000 colleague I think from Texas, but I don't want to 1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:27.880 misrepresent leaned across the aisle snatched the sign and threw 1:02:27.920 --> 1:02:28.520 it up in the air. 1:02:31.480 --> 1:02:36.280 That's assault. We're talking about that. So the twenty who 1:02:37.360 --> 1:02:38.560 walked out, twenty who walked out? 1:02:39.000 --> 1:02:39.240 This all? 1:02:39.440 --> 1:02:42.720 Was this all black caucas No, it was a mix 1:02:42.920 --> 1:02:46.840 of Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Progressive Caucus. 1:02:47.320 --> 1:02:49.840 But I would say that there were more members of 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:50.320 the CDC. 1:02:50.960 --> 1:02:52.920 And you said you did not plan the standard me. 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:54.440 You knew you would probably welcome. 1:02:54.600 --> 1:02:56.680 I wasn't going to Well, honestly, I wasn't going to 1:02:56.720 --> 1:03:00.880 come at all, because again, this is not normal. This 1:03:01.080 --> 1:03:04.080 is in what other setting would we give audience to 1:03:04.280 --> 1:03:06.920 a fascist dictator. I want to be very clear, though, 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:11.120 there's honorable in front of our names, every single member 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:14.600 of Congress. For a reason, I respect my colleagues, and 1:03:14.680 --> 1:03:18.120 how each of them decided to demonstrate protest, how they 1:03:18.280 --> 1:03:20.240 chose to center their guests for tonight. 1:03:20.840 --> 1:03:25.200 For me, I could not I could not sit there. 1:03:25.320 --> 1:03:29.680 That very chamber was desecrated by January sixth insurrectionists. 1:03:29.880 --> 1:03:32.480 That he parted. He does not respect us as a 1:03:32.560 --> 1:03:35.080 coequal branch of government. He has no respect for us. 1:03:35.280 --> 1:03:36.840 So it's insult to injury. 1:03:37.200 --> 1:03:39.760 So again, if he has contempt for the people, we're 1:03:39.800 --> 1:03:41.440 gonna stand in solidarity with the people. 1:03:41.680 --> 1:03:43.479 And I honestly it was a part of a broader 1:03:43.560 --> 1:03:46.520 democratic strategy to have different forms. 1:03:46.880 --> 1:03:50.960 Yeah, you all know that she. 1:03:51.080 --> 1:03:54.360 Is the truth. We got y'all tangled up in these wives, 1:03:55.440 --> 1:03:58.240 So tell it. So what did you did? You all walk? 1:03:58.320 --> 1:03:59.320 You walk at the same time. 1:04:00.160 --> 1:04:03.600 This is my queen, Ayanna Presley. I take all guidance 1:04:03.720 --> 1:04:04.120 from her. 1:04:05.000 --> 1:04:07.800 Yes, And essentially we did all walk out together. 1:04:08.240 --> 1:04:10.160 We in our minds had an idea of what we 1:04:10.240 --> 1:04:10.720 were going to do. 1:04:10.880 --> 1:04:13.120 I think each of us said there's only so much 1:04:13.120 --> 1:04:14.840 shit that I can take right when I have to 1:04:14.920 --> 1:04:16.360 keep flushing this toilet. 1:04:16.160 --> 1:04:19.040 And we walked out within four minutes of each other. 1:04:19.200 --> 1:04:22.240 It was a small wave of us, and it was. 1:04:22.240 --> 1:04:24.240 Also I heard it was a plane to where black 1:04:24.440 --> 1:04:26.760 was that kind of a uh uh. 1:04:29.680 --> 1:04:30.080 Uh huh? 1:04:32.000 --> 1:04:34.160 Mark Times go ahead, Roy. 1:04:34.320 --> 1:04:36.800 Could you ask either of them? Do they feel like 1:04:37.280 --> 1:04:41.000 the hind closed doors? So it's behind closed doors. Any 1:04:41.040 --> 1:04:45.040 of the Republican officials are starting to turn against Trump? 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:48.120 Do you get this sen as any of the Republican 1:04:48.640 --> 1:04:50.680 members are starting to turn against Trump? 1:04:52.120 --> 1:04:57.000 No, they're scared, but they also are mad at themselves 1:04:57.160 --> 1:05:00.480 for having no courage, And they're mad at us because 1:05:00.520 --> 1:05:01.600 we are the mirror. 1:05:01.400 --> 1:05:02.880 Of courage that they should have. 1:05:03.880 --> 1:05:08.320 And it would seem to Party it's a cult of 1:05:08.480 --> 1:05:11.439 cowards that are complicit in wholesale harm. 1:05:12.280 --> 1:05:15.160 And they have a majority. He even deems irrelevant because 1:05:15.160 --> 1:05:16.560 he just skips right over them, right, I mean, it's 1:05:16.600 --> 1:05:17.120 they don't. 1:05:17.040 --> 1:05:21.960 Mess that only abdicated their responsibility in this moment for 1:05:22.160 --> 1:05:25.880 our shared constituents. They have seeded their Congressional authority and 1:05:26.080 --> 1:05:30.240 power because of their fealty and loyalty to Donald Trump 1:05:30.320 --> 1:05:31.840 and not to the people that elected them. 1:05:31.920 --> 1:05:34.840 And what is so very scary is that Donald Trump 1:05:35.000 --> 1:05:38.840 is trying to merge the executive, the legislative, and the 1:05:38.960 --> 1:05:44.640 judicial branch. We have seen Congress yield to him, the Republicans, 1:05:45.240 --> 1:05:48.360 and we have to make sure that the judiciary does 1:05:48.440 --> 1:05:51.680 not do what these Republicans in Congress have done. 1:05:51.920 --> 1:05:54.280 That's right. I know I speak for everyone here. Answer 1:05:54.320 --> 1:05:55.760 you got a quick quck quick question? You want me 1:05:55.800 --> 1:05:56.160 to relay? 1:05:56.600 --> 1:05:59.320 I don't just let them know we stand with them. 1:05:59.400 --> 1:06:01.320 I'm going to go to some of their colleagues here 1:06:01.480 --> 1:06:03.600 to get a reaction, but tell them we stand with them, 1:06:03.640 --> 1:06:04.920 and we thank them for their courage. 1:06:05.480 --> 1:06:07.760 We all stand with you. We thank you for your courage. 1:06:08.520 --> 1:06:11.000 You know, somebody you gotta do this, So I'm glad 1:06:11.080 --> 1:06:12.240 you all did that. And you know, I don't know 1:06:12.280 --> 1:06:15.120 you could hear him. He started whining, they don't love me. 1:06:15.480 --> 1:06:17.160 Then they don't have a clap for me. When I 1:06:17.200 --> 1:06:19.040 came up here for five years, they didn't clap. I mean, 1:06:19.040 --> 1:06:21.439 he went this, you know that whole Rodney dangerfield. Don't 1:06:21.440 --> 1:06:22.000 nobody love me? 1:06:22.080 --> 1:06:25.080 Thinking, Wow, tell the truth and we'll clap. Tell the 1:06:25.120 --> 1:06:28.360 truth and we'll clap. Do your fucking job and we'll clap. 1:06:28.520 --> 1:06:30.560 But if you're going to kill us, if you're going 1:06:30.600 --> 1:06:33.040 to fire us, if you're going to take away our rights, 1:06:33.080 --> 1:06:34.440 then we are not going to clap. 1:06:34.520 --> 1:06:35.560 We are going to go for you. 1:06:35.840 --> 1:06:37.440 That's right, damn right. 1:06:38.200 --> 1:06:39.959 I know she was loud, and she says she takes all. 1:06:42.280 --> 1:06:43.480 Hold on to Mario. 1:06:44.800 --> 1:06:48.040 Well, because because they can't hear us Mark, because they 1:06:48.080 --> 1:06:51.240 can't hear us Mark. I want to just jump in here. 1:06:51.960 --> 1:06:54.520 There was someone who's a good friend of ours, our 1:06:54.560 --> 1:06:59.680 good brother Gary Chambers, who Gary Chambers has been relentless about. 1:06:59.760 --> 1:07:02.240 Let's call our members. Let's make sure they know we 1:07:02.360 --> 1:07:05.000 don't even want them to go, tell them to go somewhere. 1:07:05.080 --> 1:07:07.200 So I want to get his live reaction to what 1:07:07.320 --> 1:07:09.080 he's hearing right now, Gary time in here. 1:07:09.920 --> 1:07:12.800 I just I want to say thank you to the 1:07:12.880 --> 1:07:15.240 members of Congress who had the courage to stand up, 1:07:15.360 --> 1:07:17.800 because at the end of the day, we don't have 1:07:17.920 --> 1:07:19.920 to act like this as normal. We don't have to 1:07:20.320 --> 1:07:22.920 sit there and just allow him to lie in our faces. 1:07:23.200 --> 1:07:25.320 And I think that if we are understanding the spirit 1:07:25.360 --> 1:07:29.280 of our ancestors, that is to resist in both strategic 1:07:29.400 --> 1:07:32.520 ways and visible ways. So this government understands where we 1:07:32.680 --> 1:07:33.800 are in. 1:07:33.840 --> 1:07:35.720 A strategic way. That's what he was just saying. 1:07:35.800 --> 1:07:39.000 Okay, so we all agree to translate, but let's we 1:07:39.080 --> 1:07:39.920 got to keep the panel. 1:07:40.120 --> 1:07:42.680 No, but I'm gonna say one thing. Since the Mario 1:07:42.840 --> 1:07:44.800 was here and we talked and a Resa was here, 1:07:45.360 --> 1:07:47.240 we want to introduce those of you who don't know. 1:07:47.400 --> 1:07:50.080 She mentioned Kank Truman, Shiela Jackson Lee. She has inherited 1:07:50.160 --> 1:07:52.760 the mantle from the spirit of Shila Jackson Lee and 1:07:52.840 --> 1:07:55.680 John Kanye is Ayanna Presley is now the primary sponsor 1:07:56.080 --> 1:07:58.440 and they try forty reparations now. So we appreciate that 1:07:58.800 --> 1:08:01.040 Maxwell Frost has said, yeah, Mcrokett is around, and I 1:08:01.080 --> 1:08:02.160 think Albreen is still coming. 1:08:02.200 --> 1:08:04.480 I'll be back perfect. Thank you so much. 1:08:04.600 --> 1:08:04.800 Mark. 1:08:04.880 --> 1:08:07.760 We got we got Mark on the spot. Forget Johnny Roy. 1:08:07.880 --> 1:08:10.040 We got Mark on the spot and he brought us 1:08:10.200 --> 1:08:13.200 right to our protesters that know what time it is. 1:08:13.480 --> 1:08:15.520 It is state of the people, y'all in a state 1:08:15.600 --> 1:08:18.000 of the unit, and it ain't a joint addressed. This 1:08:18.200 --> 1:08:20.280 is our time and it is so good to be 1:08:21.200 --> 1:08:23.560 alongside people with courage. I want to go to some 1:08:23.720 --> 1:08:26.880 sisters that I know carry the mantle for courage all 1:08:26.960 --> 1:08:30.519 the time. Bishop Leadaughtree, I want to come to you, 1:08:30.680 --> 1:08:33.120 and shavn Our Line Bradley, I also want to come 1:08:33.160 --> 1:08:34.880 to you simultaneously. 1:08:35.320 --> 1:08:37.200 I want to hear what y'all think about that. 1:08:37.520 --> 1:08:40.559 And now that we've had some sisters show up, show 1:08:40.640 --> 1:08:42.880 out say that we're not going to sit here and 1:08:43.000 --> 1:08:45.920 listen to this nonsense, what do people at home do 1:08:46.080 --> 1:08:48.719 with that same courage? How can we motivate and activate 1:08:48.800 --> 1:08:50.320 that same courage. I also want y'all to know I 1:08:50.439 --> 1:08:52.360 came to them because these are my These are my 1:08:52.520 --> 1:08:55.479 side passes. Okay, they get a prayer through and they'll 1:08:55.479 --> 1:08:57.439 get us some action that is rooted in faith. 1:08:57.479 --> 1:08:59.000 So I want to hear from you all about what 1:08:59.080 --> 1:08:59.840 you think we do with that. 1:09:03.640 --> 1:09:04.160 On the side. 1:09:04.240 --> 1:09:05.680 I got a main line right to them. 1:09:06.200 --> 1:09:09.880 Okay, I thought you'd mind. 1:09:09.960 --> 1:09:13.839 I'm sorry, See Roy, that's why you know what somebody blocking? 1:09:17.400 --> 1:09:21.880 Well, I'll start Shavn go ahead, Shavin you go well. 1:09:22.720 --> 1:09:26.720 First of all, shout out to the love tonight. I 1:09:26.960 --> 1:09:31.479 suspect the ancestors are well and resting well because of 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:33.439 what's happening right now. So just shout out to the 1:09:33.479 --> 1:09:36.360 whole family Angeler for keep keeping us rolling. I think 1:09:36.360 --> 1:09:38.679 a couple of things to offer as you think about 1:09:38.680 --> 1:09:41.360 the response. And I want to just honor black women 1:09:41.400 --> 1:09:47.120 in this moment for being aware and taking space that 1:09:47.320 --> 1:09:48.920 we know is ours to take. 1:09:49.479 --> 1:09:50.639 I will tell you this, there. 1:09:50.600 --> 1:09:53.280 Is a unity between the brothers and sisters tonight that 1:09:53.360 --> 1:09:56.320 I think it's palpable and I think it's changing the game. 1:09:56.800 --> 1:09:59.160 But when we talk about the ground game, we need 1:09:59.200 --> 1:10:01.920 to talk specifically about where people need to go. There 1:10:01.920 --> 1:10:03.560 are a lot of questions that are coming in on 1:10:03.880 --> 1:10:10.080 the strategies. What are we supposed to do? This is boycott, yes, activate, yes, 1:10:10.479 --> 1:10:14.800 But we're talking about now the legislative part of this work, 1:10:15.479 --> 1:10:18.120 This part of the advocacy on the ground is where 1:10:18.280 --> 1:10:19.040 voters can. 1:10:19.120 --> 1:10:20.240 Take a stance. 1:10:20.880 --> 1:10:24.280 If you have a child that has an illness, they're 1:10:24.320 --> 1:10:27.479 currently receiving CHIP and supported by Medicaid. If you have 1:10:27.600 --> 1:10:30.920 a mother or father who is over sixty five, they're 1:10:31.000 --> 1:10:35.360 receiving any kind of treatments, they're receiving Medicare, Social Security 1:10:35.600 --> 1:10:38.520 is on the line. I also want us to understand 1:10:38.960 --> 1:10:42.200 that we start talking about snap and benefits, these are 1:10:42.280 --> 1:10:46.440 not just benefiting black people. As a misnomer about these entitlements. 1:10:47.040 --> 1:10:48.040 And what I want people to. 1:10:48.120 --> 1:10:51.640 Understand is you have to now start calling your senators 1:10:52.280 --> 1:10:53.680 every single day. 1:10:54.120 --> 1:10:56.760 Be relentless, be relentless in. 1:10:56.800 --> 1:10:58.960 A way that allows them to know you will be 1:10:59.160 --> 1:11:01.960 voted out. And we've got to also use the phone 1:11:02.000 --> 1:11:03.880 tree method, like we got a old school. You got 1:11:04.040 --> 1:11:06.040 to call your people to tell them to call their 1:11:06.120 --> 1:11:09.080 people to make these phone calls and then show up 1:11:09.400 --> 1:11:12.240 special elections in Florida First and sixth district. 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:13.400 Do not miss this. 1:11:13.800 --> 1:11:16.240 I don't care this Republican district. I care that we 1:11:16.360 --> 1:11:18.320 got black people that can vote. 1:11:18.520 --> 1:11:20.120 Here's the last thing I want to say is for 1:11:20.160 --> 1:11:23.320 this call tonight, as people are listening to what's happening, 1:11:23.960 --> 1:11:28.400 we got to understand that strategy will outweigh this foolishness. 1:11:28.960 --> 1:11:30.920 But strategy comes when. 1:11:30.800 --> 1:11:33.679 We had to take a moment to breathe and activate. 1:11:34.280 --> 1:11:36.000 Now that we're activating, look at what we've done in 1:11:36.120 --> 1:11:39.760 twenty four hours. We have called my father's seventy seven 1:11:39.840 --> 1:11:42.400 years old and he told me he clicked. 1:11:42.120 --> 1:11:45.479 On to watch tonight. We're hitting generation after generation. 1:11:45.840 --> 1:11:49.720 We got mothers, grandmothers, fathers, Folks that have not been 1:11:49.840 --> 1:11:51.360 listening are now listening. 1:11:51.760 --> 1:11:54.000 So when you say turn the TV off, that doesn't 1:11:54.040 --> 1:11:56.439 mean turn off the activism. That means turn off this 1:11:56.640 --> 1:11:59.280 moment to be able to pull together what we're doing tonight, 1:12:00.080 --> 1:12:04.080 working y'all we are going to win because our ancestors 1:12:04.120 --> 1:12:06.880 gave it the blueprint. This is a different man, but 1:12:07.040 --> 1:12:07.760 not a different plan. 1:12:07.880 --> 1:12:18.920 That's what I want you to hear, Bishop, before you 1:12:19.080 --> 1:12:19.360 weigh in. 1:12:20.040 --> 1:12:25.799 We've been joined by Congresswoman Latifah Simon with Mark, Reverend 1:12:25.840 --> 1:12:27.720 Mark Thompson, and I want to go to her. 1:12:27.880 --> 1:12:29.360 You all heard her earlier today. 1:12:29.439 --> 1:12:32.880 I'm ready to go anywhere, all right, delivering her working family, 1:12:33.439 --> 1:12:36.640 working family party rebuttal or prebuttal to the state of 1:12:36.680 --> 1:12:39.400 the Union. So Mark, I'm coming to you now so 1:12:39.520 --> 1:12:41.280 we can hear from Congresswoman Simon. 1:12:41.479 --> 1:12:43.040 Congswims, Simon, what happened? 1:12:44.240 --> 1:12:45.120 A lot happened tonight. 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:46.200 I mean, I know, I walked out. 1:12:47.120 --> 1:12:47.599 I walked out. 1:12:47.640 --> 1:12:51.679 I couldn't listen to these these deep lives. 1:12:51.720 --> 1:12:52.320 It's vitrio. 1:12:52.640 --> 1:12:55.280 But it also, Sarah, felt like a clan rally in there. 1:12:56.080 --> 1:12:58.920 We we have to really understand what's happening right in 1:12:59.000 --> 1:13:02.360 front of us. We heard the president said clearly. He 1:13:02.400 --> 1:13:04.000 said clearly that he wants to take us back to 1:13:04.080 --> 1:13:09.439 a nineteen fifties America. DEI is code for making sure 1:13:09.479 --> 1:13:12.760 that white men are leading everything. He has fired for 1:13:12.920 --> 1:13:15.439 star generals and has put unqualified white men to head 1:13:15.439 --> 1:13:15.920 our pentagon. 1:13:16.000 --> 1:13:16.680 I can go on and on. 1:13:17.000 --> 1:13:19.519 We heard the lies when he talks started talking about 1:13:19.520 --> 1:13:22.400 social security. That's my grandmother, that's my aunt. Those are 1:13:22.600 --> 1:13:26.080 disabled children and the children of dead men. That is 1:13:26.120 --> 1:13:29.080 a social safety net that we all have paid into. 1:13:29.240 --> 1:13:31.600 And he is going to just rupt that department. He 1:13:31.720 --> 1:13:36.200 is going to just rupt and fracture our education system again, 1:13:36.280 --> 1:13:37.840 that's disabled children, that's K through. 1:13:37.680 --> 1:13:38.639 Twelve, that's FASPA. 1:13:38.880 --> 1:13:41.000 I couldn't listen to someone who's trying to tear apart 1:13:41.040 --> 1:13:43.240 the very structures that we have fought to build in 1:13:43.240 --> 1:13:44.719 the last sixty years in this country. 1:13:44.880 --> 1:13:45.639 I had to walk out. 1:13:45.680 --> 1:13:47.519 It's my job to be in this building, but I 1:13:47.640 --> 1:13:51.760 refuse to sit and kowto to the neo clan. 1:13:51.960 --> 1:13:52.600 I'm not doing it. 1:13:53.040 --> 1:13:55.320 Had you contemplated that, did you have a feeling that 1:13:55.720 --> 1:13:56.640 might be what you would do? 1:13:56.840 --> 1:13:58.479 I knew it, but my mother said, listen. 1:13:58.560 --> 1:14:00.800 My mother is from malvern Ark and she told me 1:14:00.880 --> 1:14:04.040 this morning, Latifa, eight hundred thousand people are expecting you 1:14:04.120 --> 1:14:05.920 to do your job and at least go. No one 1:14:06.000 --> 1:14:08.080 is supposed to kick you out of your house. So 1:14:08.479 --> 1:14:11.559 I wasn't kicked out today. I left mid mid speech, 1:14:12.160 --> 1:14:13.680 very clear that we have work to do on the 1:14:13.720 --> 1:14:18.120 ground and factually, block by block, if we vote walk 1:14:18.160 --> 1:14:20.560 back block, we can take back the House, stop this 1:14:20.840 --> 1:14:22.720 mad man, and win the presidency. 1:14:23.000 --> 1:14:23.799 It's that simple. 1:14:24.080 --> 1:14:26.200 These folks don't care about laws, they don't care about 1:14:26.200 --> 1:14:32.160 the judiciary. We're facing a constitutional crisis when moreover, America 1:14:32.280 --> 1:14:35.160 is about to be sicker and poor, and none of 1:14:35.280 --> 1:14:36.080 us are safe. 1:14:36.360 --> 1:14:37.640 You know last thing I'll say on this. 1:14:38.120 --> 1:14:40.240 You know, a few weeks into me being here, I'm 1:14:40.240 --> 1:14:42.200 a new member of Congress, I was one of the 1:14:42.240 --> 1:14:44.920 few people outside of Doe saying let us in and 1:14:44.960 --> 1:14:47.639 talk to these folks who want to take apart funding 1:14:47.680 --> 1:14:51.320 for HBCUs, want to take disabled services out of our 1:14:51.800 --> 1:14:54.600 eight through twelve for our disabled, autistic children, intellectual and 1:14:54.640 --> 1:14:57.040 physical disabilities. Want to talk to them. Not only did 1:14:57.040 --> 1:15:00.439 they lock the doors, they sent Homeland security. You couldn't 1:15:00.479 --> 1:15:03.160 see that behind the doors there's a wall of Promeland 1:15:03.200 --> 1:15:06.920 Security officers with their hands on their guns. This is 1:15:07.040 --> 1:15:10.080 not the republic that we have fought for. These are 1:15:10.240 --> 1:15:13.000 dangerous times. This democracy is in hospice. 1:15:13.960 --> 1:15:16.400 Watch out and be close and be clear. We have 1:15:16.520 --> 1:15:19.160 to organize, and folks have to run and went office. 1:15:19.479 --> 1:15:22.360 Because we are this close, this close from being in 1:15:22.439 --> 1:15:27.240 a segregated apartheid America once again. We have literally shed blood, tears, 1:15:27.640 --> 1:15:31.560 intellectual beauty to have the small. 1:15:31.400 --> 1:15:32.120 Rights that we have. 1:15:32.680 --> 1:15:35.000 My mother wasn't born in a democracy. Yours wasn't either 1:15:35.040 --> 1:15:37.679 in this country. Literally they couldn't vote, Their grandmothers couldn't vote. 1:15:38.000 --> 1:15:41.479 We are only two and a half generations past those times. 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:44.840 This thinly veiled democracy can be whipped away in a second. 1:15:45.320 --> 1:15:49.040 Look at El Salvador, the president of al Salvador ripped 1:15:49.120 --> 1:15:54.439 up the constitution, slandered the legislative body in the dictionary body, 1:15:54.680 --> 1:15:58.040 and has now created a prison state. We gotta work, y'all. 1:15:58.200 --> 1:16:00.519 I'm ready to work. I'm here not just legislat but 1:16:00.640 --> 1:16:02.599 to organize, but to show up for my people. 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:05.639 We got to do better, and I'm gonna do better. 1:16:05.720 --> 1:16:06.439 That's what I'm here to do. 1:16:06.560 --> 1:16:09.519 And I'm proud and honored to be one of two 1:16:09.680 --> 1:16:12.360 hundred people in this nation's history. Less than that has 1:16:12.439 --> 1:16:13.160 worn this pin. 1:16:13.560 --> 1:16:14.320 So it's about action. 1:16:14.880 --> 1:16:16.360 We're gonna be in committee, but we're gonna be on. 1:16:16.320 --> 1:16:16.880 The streets too. 1:16:17.200 --> 1:16:18.640 You may have had a bit of vantage point that 1:16:18.720 --> 1:16:21.760 we did what exactly happened with Al Green when they 1:16:21.840 --> 1:16:23.479 came in to escort him out, did they not? 1:16:23.640 --> 1:16:25.800 So you know that brother is on the floor every 1:16:25.840 --> 1:16:28.160 single day fighting the good fight. I mean, listened to 1:16:28.280 --> 1:16:30.320 him his force speeches every day. What he did is 1:16:30.400 --> 1:16:34.000 he shook his cane and he challenged the leader of 1:16:34.080 --> 1:16:36.240 the Neo clan. And that's what he was supposed to do. 1:16:36.720 --> 1:16:39.000 And the Speaker of the House had a black man 1:16:39.479 --> 1:16:42.679 forcefully removed from the chamber by the sergeant in arms. 1:16:42.840 --> 1:16:44.479 He is a sitting member of Congress. 1:16:44.920 --> 1:16:48.320 And do you see the heckling and the hollering from 1:16:48.400 --> 1:16:49.360 the Republicans? 1:16:49.720 --> 1:16:50.960 Do they have decorum? 1:16:51.520 --> 1:16:51.560 No? 1:16:51.800 --> 1:16:53.680 This is a discriminary body right now. 1:16:53.760 --> 1:16:56.680 This is a leadership that doesn't see black men as 1:16:56.720 --> 1:16:58.600 equal to their white counterparts. 1:16:58.720 --> 1:16:59.360 Is really clear. 1:16:59.400 --> 1:17:01.280 If you look at the right side of the aisle, 1:17:01.400 --> 1:17:05.639 you see a monolithic you see a monolithic governance structure. 1:17:06.040 --> 1:17:07.599 It's a majority white man structure. 1:17:08.200 --> 1:17:08.920 That's what they want. 1:17:09.000 --> 1:17:11.800 That's what they're pushing for. And you better feel, you 1:17:11.880 --> 1:17:13.120 better feel the realness of that. 1:17:13.240 --> 1:17:15.400 They are going to make sure that every head of state, 1:17:15.960 --> 1:17:20.040 every department head looks like those men, looks like the 1:17:20.120 --> 1:17:20.960 men who come. 1:17:20.880 --> 1:17:23.960 From a Lennia and you had our uncles swinging from trees. 1:17:24.080 --> 1:17:25.080 That is not hyperbole. 1:17:25.200 --> 1:17:25.880 That is the truth. 1:17:26.200 --> 1:17:26.880 That's the fight back. 1:17:27.800 --> 1:17:30.559 We got fire up in the capitol, y'all. I'm gonna 1:17:30.560 --> 1:17:32.280 throw it back because I know y'all having dialogue and 1:17:32.320 --> 1:17:34.880 folks gonna keep dropping and thank you congress Woman, thank you. 1:17:34.960 --> 1:17:36.920 Mark, keep them coming. This is amazing. 1:17:37.760 --> 1:17:40.720 I want to go to bishoply Adoptree now we talk 1:17:40.760 --> 1:17:43.320 about you, can you please show everybody your shirt because 1:17:43.320 --> 1:17:45.000 your shirt is prophetic for this evening. 1:17:45.080 --> 1:17:45.439 Look at this. 1:17:46.640 --> 1:17:48.960 It says black women vote, and what you see is 1:17:49.040 --> 1:17:51.200 black women leading, black women walking out. 1:17:51.280 --> 1:17:53.679 Boots were made for walking black women. 1:17:53.520 --> 1:17:56.439 Cussing while they leaving. You gotta feel proud. Bishop, I 1:17:56.520 --> 1:17:57.360 want to hear about this. 1:17:58.320 --> 1:18:01.519 It is an amazing moment. This whole day has just 1:18:01.640 --> 1:18:04.880 been an amazing thing. And to see these sisters step 1:18:05.000 --> 1:18:07.759 up and tell us what was happening on the floor 1:18:08.400 --> 1:18:12.280 is just singular. And you know, black women are doing 1:18:12.400 --> 1:18:15.400 what black women have always done in this country. And 1:18:15.520 --> 1:18:18.240 I'm not discounting the efforts of the brothers, but I 1:18:18.360 --> 1:18:20.000 was asked to talk about black women, so that's what 1:18:20.080 --> 1:18:23.519 I'm gonna do. And so I think what we're seeing 1:18:23.760 --> 1:18:27.360 is the continuation of the bloodline and of the lineage. 1:18:27.720 --> 1:18:30.920 And I just want to remind us that nobody is 1:18:31.000 --> 1:18:35.200 coming to save us. There's no army that's coming to 1:18:35.240 --> 1:18:38.519 save us. We're gonna have to save ourselves. And that's 1:18:38.640 --> 1:18:40.519 just the bottom line. And if we're waiting for some 1:18:41.040 --> 1:18:44.040 want some cavalry, the cavai ain't coming, y'all. We have 1:18:44.200 --> 1:18:46.960 to save ourselves. And so what I want to offer 1:18:48.080 --> 1:18:52.479 is a couple of things that people can do. Number One, reject. 1:18:53.280 --> 1:18:56.240 We have got to reject the lies. What happened today 1:18:56.400 --> 1:19:00.120 with this twenty four hour marathon is one example. We 1:19:00.160 --> 1:19:05.000 gotta reject it outright. Refuse to accept what theydition. We 1:19:05.280 --> 1:19:11.720 just not gonna reject it. Do not engage in anticipatory compliance, 1:19:12.400 --> 1:19:16.280 do not obey in advance. We gotta reject it. Number Two, 1:19:16.360 --> 1:19:19.760 we gotta resist. Put on your boots, get you an 1:19:19.800 --> 1:19:23.439 angela bahrein, do whatever you gotta do in the places 1:19:23.479 --> 1:19:26.679 where you are to resist what is happening To say, 1:19:26.800 --> 1:19:29.559 I will not go here is the line I will 1:19:29.720 --> 1:19:32.760 not cross. I am going to do what I can do, 1:19:33.240 --> 1:19:35.080 which is not to say that we all gonna do 1:19:35.160 --> 1:19:38.280 the same thing, but we ought to practice resistance in 1:19:38.400 --> 1:19:42.160 the spaces where they are. Number Three, we gotta reclaim 1:19:42.320 --> 1:19:45.920 our heritage. We've let it go because we have had 1:19:46.360 --> 1:19:49.559 an easy time of things in some respects, or we've 1:19:49.600 --> 1:19:52.600 been duped into thinking we've had an easy time. We 1:19:52.720 --> 1:19:56.120 have got to reclaim the mantle of our ancestors. What 1:19:56.360 --> 1:19:59.400 the lineage was that got us to where we are today, 1:19:59.439 --> 1:20:02.760 where we have all these firsts, where we have people incentive, 1:20:03.000 --> 1:20:06.680 where we have people running businesses. It was not ever so. 1:20:07.320 --> 1:20:12.439 And so we got to reclaim the authority, reclaim the power, 1:20:13.040 --> 1:20:17.200 reclaim our legacy as black people in this country who 1:20:17.280 --> 1:20:21.679 were built to survive. We were made for this storm. 1:20:22.160 --> 1:20:25.080 Everything that has happened to us in this country has 1:20:25.200 --> 1:20:27.880 prepared us for this moment, and we are up to 1:20:28.000 --> 1:20:30.120 the task. And the last r I'm gonna give you 1:20:30.520 --> 1:20:33.840 is remember, you got to remember where we've come from. 1:20:34.520 --> 1:20:37.680 You got to remember the battles we've already won. In 1:20:37.800 --> 1:20:41.720 the face of this of these co presidents who will 1:20:41.840 --> 1:20:47.240 try every day to dismiss, demean and diminish us, we 1:20:47.439 --> 1:20:50.639 have to remember that with the stock we've come from, 1:20:51.040 --> 1:20:53.920 we've got to remember the people we've come from, who 1:20:54.000 --> 1:20:57.280 were sturdy enough and strong enough to survive this middle 1:20:57.320 --> 1:21:00.360 passage to get here and to live four hundred years, 1:21:00.640 --> 1:21:04.599 to survive through the slave master's whip, through the splinching tree, 1:21:04.920 --> 1:21:07.880 through the segregated fountains, the back of the bus, and 1:21:08.040 --> 1:21:11.160 they kept on breathing, and they kept on living in 1:21:11.320 --> 1:21:14.680 the hope that we would be able to stand, not 1:21:14.960 --> 1:21:19.240 just stand, but thrive. And we cannot let our legacy 1:21:19.560 --> 1:21:23.240 and that our ancestors left for us be diminished onto me. 1:21:23.600 --> 1:21:26.720 Ain't nobody coming to save us. We gotta save ourselves. 1:21:27.680 --> 1:21:32.000 That is absolutely right, sos and on that speaking to 1:21:32.080 --> 1:21:35.679 somebody who's working on saving ourselves actively. He might've upset 1:21:36.040 --> 1:21:39.479 some party folks the other day because Jamie Harrison was front. 1:21:39.280 --> 1:21:41.080 And center in the USA Today article. 1:21:41.400 --> 1:21:45.120 While white folks are talking about identity politics no more, 1:21:45.240 --> 1:21:48.080 there's no space for DEEI. We're starting to see white 1:21:48.080 --> 1:21:53.200 folks in the Democratic Party aligned with Republicans sounding real dixiecratish, 1:21:53.680 --> 1:21:56.920 and Jamie Harrison is like, sweet brown, Ain't nobody got 1:21:57.000 --> 1:21:57.439 time for that. 1:21:57.640 --> 1:22:00.439 So Jamie, I want to know where you will tell 1:22:00.479 --> 1:22:03.160 the party to go from here? You see black women 1:22:03.360 --> 1:22:04.040 and black men. 1:22:04.200 --> 1:22:10.000 Thinking about mister Green leading with no direction in some ways, 1:22:10.200 --> 1:22:12.280 right they are leading. They're saying, we're gonna take this 1:22:12.400 --> 1:22:14.320 in our own hands. We are going to follow our 1:22:14.400 --> 1:22:17.280 own conscience. We know they are members of a caucus 1:22:17.400 --> 1:22:20.640 that's called the Conscience of the Congress. Jamie, how are 1:22:20.680 --> 1:22:22.479 you feeling about all this? And what do you tell 1:22:22.520 --> 1:22:25.360 the people at home who are like, finally we see leadership. 1:22:26.240 --> 1:22:28.640 Well, listen, Angela, First of all, thank you for your 1:22:28.720 --> 1:22:31.639 vision you enjoy for helping to pull all this together. 1:22:32.080 --> 1:22:34.000 And you know, the bishop just preached the word. 1:22:34.600 --> 1:22:35.880 She just preached the word. 1:22:36.439 --> 1:22:41.360 And we're at this inflection point, particularly where parties are. 1:22:41.760 --> 1:22:45.800 And you know, I'm very fortunate to been the third 1:22:45.960 --> 1:22:48.200 black person to be chair of the Democratic Party. But 1:22:48.280 --> 1:22:50.080 I can tell your Democratic Party ain't perfect. 1:22:50.479 --> 1:22:54.120 And right now what you hear is there's a battle 1:22:54.200 --> 1:22:55.599 for the soul of the party. 1:22:56.080 --> 1:22:59.000 You got some folks who love to say that black 1:22:59.040 --> 1:23:01.640 folks represent the backbone, the heart and soul of the 1:23:01.680 --> 1:23:06.200 Democratic Party. But at the at the first indication of 1:23:06.439 --> 1:23:11.160 any anxiety, electoral anxiety, they want to abandon those folks. 1:23:11.439 --> 1:23:14.479 They talk about identity politics being the thing that drags 1:23:14.880 --> 1:23:19.600 that is dragging the Democratic Party back held evangelist, the 1:23:20.240 --> 1:23:23.439 right wing evangelists in the South is an identity group. 1:23:23.760 --> 1:23:26.560 Gand owners in the South our identity group. But you 1:23:26.640 --> 1:23:30.040 don't see the Republicans running away from them. If African 1:23:30.080 --> 1:23:34.400 Americans represent the backbone of this party, then why are 1:23:34.520 --> 1:23:39.000 not all Democrats surrounding us and supporting us in this 1:23:39.240 --> 1:23:42.559 full frontal attack that is happening on the black community 1:23:42.640 --> 1:23:45.400 right now. We all have to stand up. We all 1:23:45.560 --> 1:23:47.800 have a role to play, but we all have to 1:23:47.840 --> 1:23:50.439 stand up and we have to demand that our that 1:23:50.560 --> 1:23:53.120 our party and party leaders. And I'm not saying this 1:23:53.240 --> 1:23:56.320 as a blanket. This is you know, the DNC or whatever, 1:23:56.439 --> 1:23:59.000 but I'm seeing the folks who are elected officials in 1:23:59.120 --> 1:24:01.479 this party. They all have to stand up and do 1:24:01.680 --> 1:24:05.840 their parts in terms of fighting for us. And that's 1:24:05.880 --> 1:24:07.880 what we saw in his last election. There are some 1:24:08.040 --> 1:24:11.880 people who just fundamentally do not feel as though they 1:24:12.000 --> 1:24:14.599 see Donald Trump and they don't agree with Donald Trump. 1:24:15.200 --> 1:24:16.559 Many of them hate Donald Trump. 1:24:16.760 --> 1:24:19.720 But the one thing that they respect about Donald Trump is. 1:24:19.800 --> 1:24:24.680 That whatever he believes, he fights like hell for Democrats. 1:24:24.840 --> 1:24:26.800 We got to fight like hell for the things that 1:24:26.880 --> 1:24:29.639 we believe that our core values and the people who 1:24:29.680 --> 1:24:32.240 are the backbone of this party, and that is black folks. 1:24:33.000 --> 1:24:36.240 And so that's what we need at this point in time. 1:24:36.280 --> 1:24:37.519 And listen, we're all gonna. 1:24:37.280 --> 1:24:37.920 Have different roles. 1:24:37.960 --> 1:24:41.200 We're all gonna play different different roles in us. You know, 1:24:42.320 --> 1:24:44.920 we saw it during the Civil rights movement, right there 1:24:45.040 --> 1:24:48.000 was the person who they were the people who march. 1:24:48.160 --> 1:24:50.840 There were people who sat in at the lunch counters. 1:24:50.920 --> 1:24:53.200 There were the folks who got the dogs sitting on them. 1:24:53.360 --> 1:24:56.479 But they were the pastors who organized. They were also 1:24:56.560 --> 1:24:57.840 the people who paid the bail. 1:24:58.320 --> 1:24:59.920 Right, They're the lawyers that went into the. 1:25:00.600 --> 1:25:03.000 We all have roles to playing. We got to figure 1:25:03.040 --> 1:25:04.360 out what our role is. 1:25:04.920 --> 1:25:07.840 I often wondered, Angela when I was growing up in Orangeburg, 1:25:08.280 --> 1:25:10.360 what would I have done in the Civil rights movement? 1:25:10.680 --> 1:25:13.000 Well, hell, we don't have to wonder anymore. 1:25:12.760 --> 1:25:15.120 Because right now we are in the civil rights movement 1:25:15.240 --> 1:25:18.120 of our time, and the question is what will each 1:25:18.240 --> 1:25:21.120 of us do in this movement in order to continue 1:25:21.400 --> 1:25:24.560 to move our people, and our party and our families 1:25:25.080 --> 1:25:28.719 in this country forward. And so I'm just I'm happy 1:25:28.800 --> 1:25:31.880 to be a part of this. You know, I'm gonna 1:25:31.880 --> 1:25:35.320 do everything because I do it. Yes, I do it 1:25:35.439 --> 1:25:37.880 for my people, but you know selfishly, you know who 1:25:37.920 --> 1:25:40.439 I do it for, my two black sons who. 1:25:40.360 --> 1:25:41.880 Are upstairs right now sleeping. 1:25:43.000 --> 1:25:44.560 That is who I do this work for. 1:25:44.760 --> 1:25:47.759 That's why I will give every breath in my body 1:25:48.120 --> 1:25:50.600 to make sure that my sons don't grow up in 1:25:50.640 --> 1:25:53.160 a world like my grandparents grew up in where the 1:25:53.240 --> 1:25:56.120 KKK march through their town, where they had to drink 1:25:56.200 --> 1:25:58.200 out of colored water fountains, where they sat at the 1:25:58.240 --> 1:26:01.400 back of the bus. I will do every single thing 1:26:01.720 --> 1:26:05.439 in my power, will give every bit of my blood, 1:26:05.560 --> 1:26:07.920 every breath that I have to make sure that my 1:26:08.040 --> 1:26:10.600 boys don't live in that world. Right now, we have 1:26:10.720 --> 1:26:13.360 a fascist in a White House. It is fair, it 1:26:13.479 --> 1:26:16.040 is fraud, it is fascism, and that is what defines 1:26:16.080 --> 1:26:16.960 a Republican Party. 1:26:17.000 --> 1:26:18.800 That is what defines Donald Trump. 1:26:19.000 --> 1:26:21.240 And we got to do everything that we can to 1:26:21.400 --> 1:26:23.120 push back and fight back against that. 1:26:24.680 --> 1:26:27.519 Congressman Harrison, thank you so so much. We want to 1:26:27.560 --> 1:26:30.679 go back now real quick to Mark Thompson. I understand 1:26:30.760 --> 1:26:34.680 he has a representative, Maxwell Frost, one of the few 1:26:34.760 --> 1:26:38.960 good things to come out of Florida. Mark uh gets 1:26:39.120 --> 1:26:42.760 also orange, just shout out to oranges. Mark real quick 1:26:42.920 --> 1:26:44.200 asked to start asking. 1:26:44.640 --> 1:26:46.920 He can eat you, he can hear you, he can Okay, dope, 1:26:46.960 --> 1:26:47.599 So are you doing? 1:26:48.040 --> 1:26:49.680 Good to see you? Good to see? Ain't singing since 1:26:49.720 --> 1:26:51.960 a daily show when you popped in a while back. Brother. 1:26:53.320 --> 1:26:57.519 What was the consensus before going into the chambers tonight 1:26:58.080 --> 1:27:00.720 amongst all the Democrats, Well, y'all was you're gonna walk out, Well, 1:27:00.720 --> 1:27:02.400 I'm gonna walk out, you walk out, I'll walk out. 1:27:02.760 --> 1:27:05.960 Or was it more organized? Was everyone kind of feeling 1:27:06.040 --> 1:27:08.840 their own way as the night went on, There. 1:27:08.760 --> 1:27:10.960 Was definitely a lot of organizing going on. And here 1:27:11.080 --> 1:27:14.080 was the general consensus is that number one, this isn't 1:27:14.200 --> 1:27:17.960 a normal address. This isn't a normal time where you 1:27:18.120 --> 1:27:20.720 stand up when the president walks in, where you have 1:27:20.920 --> 1:27:24.080 that kind of decorum, because number one, he's never shown 1:27:24.160 --> 1:27:26.679 that to us, or the American people or any people. 1:27:27.000 --> 1:27:30.040 He's never shown that to black people. And so we 1:27:30.160 --> 1:27:32.120 walked in there, many of us with a plan of 1:27:32.200 --> 1:27:33.880 what to do. If you've seen the videos, you've seen 1:27:33.920 --> 1:27:36.040 people with signs holding up signs. I hold up a 1:27:36.120 --> 1:27:39.240 sign that said musk steals elon Musk has been tweeting 1:27:39.280 --> 1:27:41.360 at me every other week. If I was the richest 1:27:41.400 --> 1:27:43.200 man on earth, I wouldn't be tweeting at twenty's eight 1:27:43.280 --> 1:27:44.200 year old Maxwell Frost. 1:27:44.280 --> 1:27:45.400 But I'll be doing other things. 1:27:45.840 --> 1:27:47.280 But I held up a must steal sign. 1:27:47.520 --> 1:27:48.160 But here's the thing. 1:27:48.240 --> 1:27:51.120 The reason why we decided to walk out is because 1:27:51.200 --> 1:27:52.840 number one, we all worked really hard to get the 1:27:52.880 --> 1:27:55.960 Congress and our constituents set us there, and we knew 1:27:56.000 --> 1:27:57.720 we didn't want to stay the whole time. But I 1:27:57.800 --> 1:28:02.960 think there's power in occupying us space and choosing yourself. 1:28:03.360 --> 1:28:06.240 Went to get up and leave and walk out in 1:28:06.320 --> 1:28:09.080 the spirit of student protesters from the Civil rights era, 1:28:09.439 --> 1:28:11.360 and that's why we decided to do it. Us in 1:28:11.439 --> 1:28:13.960 a group of mainly women from the Black Caucus who 1:28:14.000 --> 1:28:18.920 helped lead us into that action. Yeah, you and you 1:28:18.960 --> 1:28:21.360 have some loan, right, Yeah, And we couldn't. You can't 1:28:21.400 --> 1:28:23.200 just get up and walk out, right. We got up 1:28:23.240 --> 1:28:25.840 and we turned around and showed them our back to 1:28:25.960 --> 1:28:33.599 show this message, no kings live here, No kings live here. Yeah, 1:28:34.040 --> 1:28:36.880 because he thinks he's a king. And what's going on 1:28:37.080 --> 1:28:40.280 right now is this administrative coup, coup and billionaire takeover 1:28:40.520 --> 1:28:44.799 of our government so they can take away Medicaid, social Security, 1:28:45.240 --> 1:28:48.400 the things people have fought for and earned, to give 1:28:48.479 --> 1:28:51.560 billionaires a tax cut. And this is what the fascists 1:28:51.760 --> 1:28:54.280 do is they try to have us say, well, I 1:28:54.360 --> 1:28:57.519 can't pay rent because of black history, I can't afford 1:28:57.560 --> 1:29:00.120 my medicine, because of that trans person, I can't afford this, 1:29:00.240 --> 1:29:03.280 I can't afford that because of the immigrant. They want 1:29:03.360 --> 1:29:05.200 us to look at each other instead of looking at them. 1:29:05.320 --> 1:29:07.080 But what I try to tell people is you are 1:29:07.160 --> 1:29:09.479 closer to being on the streets than you are to 1:29:09.600 --> 1:29:13.519 being elon musk. But they profit from us blaming each other, 1:29:13.720 --> 1:29:17.519 especially as black people amongst cultures and amongst the entire world. 1:29:17.640 --> 1:29:20.040 So I'm proud to be here, I'm proud to have 1:29:20.120 --> 1:29:22.000 done this action, but we know it doesn't stop here. 1:29:22.640 --> 1:29:24.439 Yeah, you know what's next? What would you what do 1:29:24.520 --> 1:29:27.160 you want to see your other members and this party do? 1:29:28.080 --> 1:29:30.240 I believe Look, number one, when you don't have all 1:29:30.280 --> 1:29:32.360 the power you want, you use all the power you got. 1:29:32.920 --> 1:29:35.120 And we do have power because there's only a two 1:29:35.240 --> 1:29:37.839 seat majority in the House, and we have the ability 1:29:37.880 --> 1:29:40.879 to obstruct, to delay, to push back on this extreme 1:29:41.000 --> 1:29:43.639 agenda that most people don't believe in And I think 1:29:43.680 --> 1:29:46.559 that's what we need to do, whether it's working at subpoena, 1:29:46.640 --> 1:29:49.720 Elon Musk and every single oversight committee hearing right or 1:29:49.760 --> 1:29:52.160 as many as we can one day, a few of 1:29:52.160 --> 1:29:53.600 those too many of those guys are going to be 1:29:53.640 --> 1:29:55.559 at lunch a little too far and guess what it'll 1:29:55.600 --> 1:29:57.960 move through, believe it or not. That's how that's how 1:29:58.040 --> 1:30:02.080 these things work sometimes. Right, the other day you have 1:30:02.160 --> 1:30:04.960 to challenge power too. The other day I said, grifter 1:30:05.120 --> 1:30:09.840 in chief, I think that's pretty tame. First, that's pretty tame. 1:30:10.400 --> 1:30:12.680 But they wouldn't even allow me to say that. So 1:30:12.800 --> 1:30:15.760 then you say, well, do I see that ground or 1:30:15.840 --> 1:30:19.000 do I push it not to just be performative, but 1:30:19.160 --> 1:30:22.439 to make a point till people can see what's going on, 1:30:22.840 --> 1:30:25.680 because we can't assume that everyone's paying attention to that 1:30:26.200 --> 1:30:26.439 to that. 1:30:26.439 --> 1:30:30.040 Point, Congressman Frost about not seeding ground. Earlier this week, 1:30:30.120 --> 1:30:34.000 President Trump tweeted or truth social or whatever about the 1:30:34.120 --> 1:30:37.439 possibility when it comes to the youth of if you 1:30:37.560 --> 1:30:40.840 protest at a college campus, automatic expulsion or if you 1:30:40.960 --> 1:30:44.639 protest illegally, which basically means we will draw the lines 1:30:44.720 --> 1:30:47.320 of the appropriate way to protest and then just say 1:30:47.360 --> 1:30:51.080 you violated and expel you. How serious do you think 1:30:51.120 --> 1:30:53.160 of a threat that is as we get into midterms, 1:30:53.200 --> 1:30:56.680 and how serious how I believe protesting is going to 1:30:56.720 --> 1:30:59.479 play an important part of everything we're talking about over 1:30:59.479 --> 1:31:01.800 the next four years. How serious of a threat is 1:31:01.880 --> 1:31:04.400 that do you think that to be? And what advice 1:31:04.479 --> 1:31:06.800 would you have to young organizers who are going to 1:31:06.840 --> 1:31:10.880 be facing these types of potential legal ramifications for speaking out. 1:31:11.320 --> 1:31:14.360 I think it's a very serious threat. I think that 1:31:14.760 --> 1:31:18.040 Number one week campaign for a while talking about Project 1:31:18.040 --> 1:31:18.880 twenty twenty five. 1:31:19.640 --> 1:31:20.360 Now it's happening. 1:31:20.560 --> 1:31:24.519 Yeah, we have no room to act surprised about the 1:31:24.640 --> 1:31:26.840 things they're doing because they wrote them down and we 1:31:26.920 --> 1:31:29.560 told people they would do it. And this attack on 1:31:29.840 --> 1:31:33.840 freedom of speech and students is something that we have 1:31:33.960 --> 1:31:35.960 to take seriously. So what would I tell students to do? 1:31:36.360 --> 1:31:36.559 Well? 1:31:36.760 --> 1:31:40.519 Thinking to my organizing number one, build community and grow 1:31:40.600 --> 1:31:44.519 your movement outside of students too. I remember during the 1:31:44.560 --> 1:31:48.200 Black Lives Matter uprising, the nights where I was tear 1:31:48.280 --> 1:31:49.719 gas mason when I went to jail. 1:31:50.120 --> 1:31:50.720 It wasn't just. 1:31:50.760 --> 1:31:53.280 People my age that had my back, and it wasn't 1:31:53.320 --> 1:31:55.280 just people my age that bailed me out of jail. 1:31:55.520 --> 1:32:00.240 It was a multi generational movement of community that brought 1:32:00.280 --> 1:32:03.360 each other up. You know our pro bono lawyers where 1:32:03.520 --> 1:32:05.680 many of them were seniors, right, who came out to 1:32:05.720 --> 1:32:10.320 help us. So I encourage people young people throughout history 1:32:10.360 --> 1:32:13.439 will always be leading, right, But it is important to 1:32:13.520 --> 1:32:17.080 make sure that you bring everybody into this movement because 1:32:17.120 --> 1:32:19.080 it's of us, by us, and I think that's how 1:32:19.120 --> 1:32:21.519 we protect us. So that's what I would tell students 1:32:21.560 --> 1:32:24.840 across the country. Take this seriously, and also call on 1:32:24.920 --> 1:32:28.559 your elected officials to protect your freedom of speech. Whether 1:32:28.640 --> 1:32:33.080 you're advocating against babies dying and guys, or you're advocating 1:32:33.520 --> 1:32:36.360 to make sure that we have accountability and law enforcement 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:39.280 or whatever it is, housing justice, whatever it is. We 1:32:39.439 --> 1:32:42.760 all deserve to say what we want to say. And 1:32:42.960 --> 1:32:46.120 that he wants to go out after that. And here's 1:32:46.120 --> 1:32:47.479 the other thing I'll say. I think another reason he 1:32:47.479 --> 1:32:49.240 wants to go after it is because a lot of 1:32:49.280 --> 1:32:53.640 times in history that energy does turn into votes against fascism. 1:32:54.320 --> 1:32:56.040 Do we have the largest youth foot or turnout in 1:32:56.080 --> 1:32:58.680 the history of our country in a mid term in 1:32:58.760 --> 1:33:03.040 twenty eighteen, happened in twenty eighteen, massive protests. What else 1:33:03.080 --> 1:33:06.439 happened in twenty eighteen Marjorie Slimm and Douglas was shot 1:33:06.520 --> 1:33:08.760 up and students around the country said enough is enough. 1:33:08.880 --> 1:33:11.160 In twenty twenty, we had the highest uit for the 1:33:11.200 --> 1:33:13.559 turnout in the history of a general election. What happened 1:33:13.600 --> 1:33:16.679 in twenty twenty a black man was lynched in broad daylight. 1:33:16.960 --> 1:33:18.800 People woke up and saw the video and said enough 1:33:18.880 --> 1:33:20.960 is enough, took to the streets, Then they took to 1:33:21.000 --> 1:33:24.000 the ballot box. So there's a danger in allowing social 1:33:24.120 --> 1:33:26.519 movements to emerge, and they want to try to scare 1:33:26.560 --> 1:33:28.519 people from even going out to the street in the 1:33:28.560 --> 1:33:30.400 first place. We have to take it very serious year. 1:33:30.800 --> 1:33:32.519 Thank you, Bresidan, thank you just well. 1:33:32.600 --> 1:33:36.120 Last question for Mark Congressman is Angela Rye. Thank you 1:33:36.240 --> 1:33:36.920 for joining us. 1:33:37.120 --> 1:33:40.840 I quick question for you. When you consider what just 1:33:40.960 --> 1:33:44.360 happened and you see how Congressman Green was treated, do 1:33:44.439 --> 1:33:45.960 you think it was worth it to show up to 1:33:46.200 --> 1:33:47.439 the joint address tonight? 1:33:49.080 --> 1:33:49.240 Yeah? 1:33:49.520 --> 1:33:52.599 Obviously this is a I don't want to talk about 1:33:52.640 --> 1:33:55.120 about anyone for their individual decisions. Everyone's going to decide 1:33:55.120 --> 1:33:57.080 how they want to represent their constituents, I'll tell you 1:33:57.120 --> 1:33:59.560 where I come. Where I'm coming from. Number one, I 1:33:59.640 --> 1:34:03.280 come from direct action and movement based politics. And for me, 1:34:03.640 --> 1:34:07.000 it's all about space. How are you taking up space? 1:34:07.280 --> 1:34:09.080 When are you leaving a space and making sure you're 1:34:09.080 --> 1:34:12.280 doing that on your own accord? And of course I 1:34:12.360 --> 1:34:14.240 worked hard to get here, but more importantly, my people 1:34:14.320 --> 1:34:17.400 set me here. I believe to take up space. But 1:34:17.479 --> 1:34:19.840 here's the thing that's more from a practical point of view. 1:34:20.280 --> 1:34:22.160 When you don't show up and sit in a seat, 1:34:22.520 --> 1:34:25.760 they put a Republican staffer in that seat. When you 1:34:25.960 --> 1:34:28.520 leave in the middle of the speech, there's no staffers 1:34:28.560 --> 1:34:31.360 available to sit in your seat. So all these are 1:34:31.439 --> 1:34:33.280 the things that we know we try to think about 1:34:33.320 --> 1:34:34.880 when we do the action. Did I not want to go? 1:34:34.960 --> 1:34:36.280 Of course I didn't want to go and listen to 1:34:36.400 --> 1:34:40.360 this VS lies from this neo fascist racist. But I 1:34:40.439 --> 1:34:44.040 think there's power in stepping up, leaving a solidarity of 1:34:44.120 --> 1:34:47.040 course with al Green, but also in solidarity with black 1:34:47.080 --> 1:34:51.120 people and oppressed people across this nation. And so everyone 1:34:51.200 --> 1:34:53.600 has their own way of advocating. Some people boycotted it. 1:34:53.720 --> 1:34:56.000 Power to them, power to everyone. But this was the 1:34:56.080 --> 1:34:58.720 way I decided to do my action tonight with a 1:34:58.760 --> 1:34:59.599 great group of people. 1:35:00.080 --> 1:35:01.760 Let me say this as we as he leaves, brother, 1:35:01.840 --> 1:35:05.400 we appreciate you, Tamika. This reminds me being with this 1:35:05.560 --> 1:35:09.640 young twenty something your brother in this capital reminds me 1:35:09.880 --> 1:35:11.720 of when we were with those other young twenty some 1:35:11.800 --> 1:35:13.800 of young brothers in the Capitol of Nashville. So this 1:35:13.960 --> 1:35:16.160 is Dejah Blue, love you man. You keep that up. Man, 1:35:16.240 --> 1:35:19.000 proud of you. Doppreciate all right, all right, we'll be back, y'all, 1:35:19.040 --> 1:35:20.280 go ahead, all right, thank you. 1:35:30.320 --> 1:35:33.799 I am so grateful for these cutaways to the Capitol. 1:35:33.840 --> 1:35:36.800 It's putting us right in the moment. This is really 1:35:36.920 --> 1:35:40.160 really good reporting on behalf of Reverend Mark Thompson. 1:35:40.439 --> 1:35:42.679 I want to come to our sister that she wipes 1:35:42.720 --> 1:35:45.200 her face. Latasha was on the plane for twenty hours 1:35:45.280 --> 1:35:47.920 traveling to get here tonight. Latasha Brown is the co 1:35:48.200 --> 1:35:51.320 founder of Black Voters Matter. Black Voters Matter got something 1:35:51.360 --> 1:35:53.560 to say about some of this too, So LB I 1:35:53.640 --> 1:35:56.480 want to come to you because you all have always 1:35:57.000 --> 1:35:59.439 been about the work of the people and making sure 1:35:59.479 --> 1:36:01.559 that we get it engage. I want to know your 1:36:01.640 --> 1:36:04.840 reaction to what Maxell is just sharing and what you 1:36:04.920 --> 1:36:06.360 think our next steps need to be? 1:36:07.680 --> 1:36:17.879 Oh oh freedom, Oh freedom, freedom, Oh bumby, oh bummy, 1:36:18.720 --> 1:36:20.080 And before. 1:36:20.240 --> 1:36:25.600 Me, I say, I'll be glad in my gray and 1:36:25.920 --> 1:36:30.160 go to my Lord and be free. 1:36:31.560 --> 1:36:34.240 You know, I wanted to sing that song because this 1:36:34.439 --> 1:36:37.920 is the week March the sixtieth anniversary of people who 1:36:38.040 --> 1:36:40.880 sang that song on the Emma Petteris Bridge in the 1:36:40.920 --> 1:36:43.679 summer Alabama. It is also a song that my ancestors, 1:36:43.720 --> 1:36:46.160 when they did not have politics on their side, they 1:36:46.200 --> 1:36:48.920 didn't have resources, they have all any of those things, 1:36:49.200 --> 1:36:51.600 they knew that there was something inside of them that, No, 1:36:51.760 --> 1:36:54.479 you're not going to dehumanize me, You're not going to 1:36:54.600 --> 1:36:57.880 take away the Constitution is not what gives me my 1:36:58.040 --> 1:36:58.639 right to live. 1:36:58.800 --> 1:37:00.880 God has given me my right to live. 1:37:00.960 --> 1:37:03.400 And so I say that in this space that I 1:37:03.479 --> 1:37:06.120 wanted to bring the ancestors and the history and the 1:37:06.200 --> 1:37:10.000 long history of the ancestors and our resistance in this space, 1:37:10.280 --> 1:37:12.639 that that is a song of resilience, but it's also 1:37:12.720 --> 1:37:13.680 a song of resistance. 1:37:13.920 --> 1:37:16.080 And so in terms of going forward, there are four things. 1:37:16.120 --> 1:37:19.360 I'll be real quick because I think I'm turning into 1:37:19.479 --> 1:37:23.800 a I'm turning into a pot of sand Right now, 1:37:25.000 --> 1:37:28.280 I think there's four things and I'm calling I'm saying 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:31.240 it in terms of this strategy around. 1:37:33.000 --> 1:37:33.280 Force. 1:37:33.439 --> 1:37:34.080 What we have to do. 1:37:34.160 --> 1:37:36.600 The first thing is around the forty five in this 1:37:36.840 --> 1:37:40.080 moment with people, we have to fortify ourselves. What does 1:37:40.160 --> 1:37:43.519 that mean? We have to protect our assets and our information. 1:37:43.960 --> 1:37:46.519 You cannot take for granted that all of the things 1:37:46.560 --> 1:37:49.160 that you have that is based on the computer that 1:37:49.320 --> 1:37:52.360 is going to be there. You need to download your documents, 1:37:52.600 --> 1:37:56.280 you need to protect your resources. My family who literally 1:37:56.360 --> 1:37:59.120 lived through the depression, my grandparents that raised me that 1:37:59.280 --> 1:38:02.040 born in nineteen o five and nineteen ten, they always 1:38:02.120 --> 1:38:04.200 kept money in the house. And part of what they 1:38:04.280 --> 1:38:06.719 said is the reason why they survived and our family 1:38:06.800 --> 1:38:09.080 survived during the Great Depression. 1:38:08.880 --> 1:38:10.599 Is because they didn't have their money in the banks. 1:38:10.880 --> 1:38:12.880 And so I know that that sounds a little like 1:38:12.920 --> 1:38:15.759 an alarmist, but you need to have two thousand dollars 1:38:15.880 --> 1:38:17.400 a minimum of two thousand. 1:38:17.120 --> 1:38:18.240 Dollars if you can. 1:38:18.439 --> 1:38:20.640 If you have that that you got set aside that 1:38:20.720 --> 1:38:22.880 at any moment you can touch it, because if your 1:38:22.960 --> 1:38:24.360 bank card goes down, what you're gonna do? 1:38:24.760 --> 1:38:24.880 Right? 1:38:24.920 --> 1:38:26.479 And so I think it's really important for us to 1:38:26.560 --> 1:38:27.479 really think differently. 1:38:27.720 --> 1:38:29.680 We have to think in terms of a self determination 1:38:29.800 --> 1:38:33.000 model on how we're gonna protect ourselves and our assets 1:38:33.080 --> 1:38:36.280 in this moment. When I say protect your information, you 1:38:36.520 --> 1:38:39.200 have to check your sources, y'all. Part of what is 1:38:39.240 --> 1:38:41.960 happening is there are people who are intentionally giving us 1:38:42.080 --> 1:38:45.759 misinformation and disinformation. Check your sources and where you're getting 1:38:45.840 --> 1:38:50.320 information from, double triple of check that right. The next thing, 1:38:50.439 --> 1:38:52.760 the next as we're talking about from forty five, we've 1:38:52.760 --> 1:38:53.400 got to focus. 1:38:53.680 --> 1:38:56.640 It's really important for us to be think about what 1:38:56.760 --> 1:38:58.479 it is that we need in this moment. 1:38:58.760 --> 1:39:00.680 You know, we talked about earlier on this segment that 1:39:00.760 --> 1:39:03.320 we were on that we've got to connect to black farmers, 1:39:03.560 --> 1:39:05.280 that we've got to figure out where we can get 1:39:05.320 --> 1:39:08.400 our basic needs met. When we're talking about social security cuts, 1:39:08.479 --> 1:39:11.439 y'all need to understand the fifty eight percent of single 1:39:11.920 --> 1:39:15.160 Black adults over the age that are retirement age, ninety 1:39:15.240 --> 1:39:18.360 percent of their income comes from social security. 1:39:19.000 --> 1:39:22.000 Ninety percent of their income comes from social security. 1:39:22.439 --> 1:39:25.240 It will be devastating to our communities in terms of 1:39:25.320 --> 1:39:27.519 how will they live, how will they feed themselves, how 1:39:27.600 --> 1:39:30.200 will they protect themselves? So it's important for us not 1:39:30.439 --> 1:39:32.400 just to talk about how are we going to stop 1:39:32.439 --> 1:39:34.280 it depend on them, but how we're going to have 1:39:34.439 --> 1:39:37.160 and use our institutions and structures to be able to 1:39:37.320 --> 1:39:40.040 fortifyre people and focus our work so that we can 1:39:40.080 --> 1:39:42.519 protect our people in this moment. And so that means 1:39:42.560 --> 1:39:44.200 we have to think like black We have to think 1:39:44.439 --> 1:39:48.000 in terms of black determination models and these self determination models. 1:39:48.240 --> 1:39:50.320 All of those churches know, you cannot have a church 1:39:50.640 --> 1:39:52.960 and you just open on Sunday. That has to become 1:39:52.960 --> 1:39:55.800 a community black space. If you have institution, you have 1:39:56.000 --> 1:39:58.160 business that has to be if it needs to be 1:39:58.200 --> 1:40:00.639 a meeting space. We've got to look in this moment 1:40:00.960 --> 1:40:03.879 of how do we create and think as nation builders 1:40:04.120 --> 1:40:06.080 in this moment. The third thing that I want to 1:40:06.120 --> 1:40:08.639 say is really about this fight that we the way 1:40:08.720 --> 1:40:11.680 that we fight. We're used to fighting when we have 1:40:11.840 --> 1:40:15.120 federal protections in place. We're used to fighting, particularly those 1:40:15.160 --> 1:40:18.040 of us that live in the races South, we've actually 1:40:18.120 --> 1:40:21.280 fought in the ways that we would actually use federal legislation, 1:40:21.560 --> 1:40:24.720 federal government to really be able to hold our states accountable. 1:40:24.880 --> 1:40:27.479 When that is not in place, how do we protect 1:40:27.520 --> 1:40:29.680 our people? Part of what we really got to be 1:40:29.800 --> 1:40:33.240 super super focused is local control. We need to take 1:40:33.280 --> 1:40:36.200 over every single and the wonderful thing about black folks 1:40:36.600 --> 1:40:39.400 is we like to live together, so oftentimes we live 1:40:39.479 --> 1:40:43.360 in spaces that we have we have substantial numbers where 1:40:43.360 --> 1:40:45.519 we can take over school boards, that we can take 1:40:45.560 --> 1:40:49.000 over local local elections. It has we have to focus 1:40:49.080 --> 1:40:52.679 on local control as much as possible, the mayor's races, 1:40:52.720 --> 1:40:55.000 the DA races, the local judgeships. 1:40:55.200 --> 1:40:56.639 The fourth and the final thing. 1:40:56.560 --> 1:40:59.439 That I'll say really is we have to really it 1:40:59.520 --> 1:41:01.320 will not be our politics to save us, y'all. 1:41:01.400 --> 1:41:03.719 It will be our humanity. But we can no longer 1:41:03.840 --> 1:41:05.479 just think about citizens of a. 1:41:05.520 --> 1:41:08.680 Boot deggnation that ad will believes that we are at 1:41:08.760 --> 1:41:11.280 the whimsical nature of white racist folks. 1:41:11.520 --> 1:41:13.760 We have to think like founders of a new nation. 1:41:14.200 --> 1:41:17.559 We have to really think differently, that we're not just citizens, 1:41:17.600 --> 1:41:19.920 but that we're founders of something different and what does 1:41:20.000 --> 1:41:20.280 that mean. 1:41:20.400 --> 1:41:22.760 We have to really be thinking about how will we 1:41:22.920 --> 1:41:26.720 protect and provide for our people in this moment, the 1:41:26.960 --> 1:41:28.440 basic needs of food. 1:41:28.360 --> 1:41:31.880 Shelter, our resources, and literally one of the things I 1:41:31.960 --> 1:41:33.559 want us to do, don't spend no money. 1:41:34.080 --> 1:41:37.400 We cannot spend money in this moment. Why unless we're. 1:41:37.240 --> 1:41:40.040 Spending money with our communities and with things that we need. 1:41:40.280 --> 1:41:43.160 Don't take for granted that the eggs are fourteen dollars. 1:41:43.240 --> 1:41:45.479 Now with the tear for this trade war, it is 1:41:45.520 --> 1:41:48.120 going to have a substantial impact on us. So this 1:41:48.280 --> 1:41:50.120 is not the moment to go by your Gucci bag. 1:41:50.240 --> 1:41:53.080 This is not the moment to go and spend on Amazon. 1:41:53.160 --> 1:41:55.519 This is not the Momba, and we ain't trying to 1:41:55.520 --> 1:41:56.160 get them our money. 1:41:56.240 --> 1:41:57.360 No, that are gonna wait anyway. 1:41:57.600 --> 1:41:59.479 So I think it's really important in this moment that 1:41:59.520 --> 1:42:01.600 we really see a o money and if you are 1:42:01.720 --> 1:42:04.679 going to spend some money, to invest some money, invest 1:42:04.720 --> 1:42:07.559 it in a black organization that is leading this work, 1:42:08.000 --> 1:42:09.880 someone that you know that is on the front line 1:42:10.280 --> 1:42:11.280 doing this work with us. 1:42:11.320 --> 1:42:14.400 Ten dollars. I see my brother Quinn James with Collective. 1:42:14.040 --> 1:42:18.160 Pack, I see David, all these organizations I see Shamon 1:42:18.520 --> 1:42:19.840 that are doing amazing work. 1:42:20.080 --> 1:42:22.519 Write ten dollars, twenty dollars past. 1:42:22.320 --> 1:42:24.519 The mic that has been standing in this space really 1:42:24.600 --> 1:42:27.680 making sure that our communities are protected, those of us 1:42:27.680 --> 1:42:30.800 who have been marginalized, and so in that I'll just say, 1:42:31.400 --> 1:42:33.120 in this moment I'm a leave with a question. I 1:42:33.240 --> 1:42:36.880 always ask this question everywhere we go, everywhere I speak, 1:42:36.960 --> 1:42:38.960 I ask the question. I ask people to close their 1:42:39.000 --> 1:42:42.560 eyes and my question to them is what would this 1:42:42.720 --> 1:42:44.240 nation look like without racism? 1:42:45.439 --> 1:42:48.360 What would the institutions look like? What would a day 1:42:48.439 --> 1:42:48.800 look like? 1:42:49.320 --> 1:42:52.760 And and everywhere I go, ninety five percent most of 1:42:52.800 --> 1:42:55.519 the time, nobody has been asked that question. And if 1:42:55.560 --> 1:42:57.519 you don't think we're not thinking about it, certainly we 1:42:57.560 --> 1:42:59.280 don't think the other folks thinking about it. So we 1:42:59.439 --> 1:43:02.680 got to shape change the paradigm in this moment and 1:43:02.880 --> 1:43:06.760 ask ourselves every single day what would this nation look 1:43:06.880 --> 1:43:10.120 like without racism? Because racism is not my birthright? And 1:43:10.240 --> 1:43:12.479 what will it require for us to build in that? 1:43:12.920 --> 1:43:15.160 And so we've got to be moving on that, because 1:43:15.200 --> 1:43:17.680 I will tell you this, there's not been anything that 1:43:17.800 --> 1:43:21.040 has ever existing in the physical realm that wasn't first envision. 1:43:21.280 --> 1:43:23.760 Somebody had to envision the cell phone, someone. 1:43:23.560 --> 1:43:26.040 Had to envision this, Somebody had to envision a a 1:43:26.280 --> 1:43:30.719 racist concept around what it means, around this white supremacy hierarchy. 1:43:31.000 --> 1:43:33.720 So those of us, we who believe in freedom, we 1:43:33.920 --> 1:43:36.720 also have to see ourselves as visionaries and We've got 1:43:36.760 --> 1:43:40.479 to radically reimagine every single system in this country instead 1:43:40.520 --> 1:43:43.320 of us responding to the limited vision of others that 1:43:43.360 --> 1:43:45.320 don't want to see us in power. We've got to 1:43:45.400 --> 1:43:48.280 literally create the systems that every child can get fed. 1:43:48.600 --> 1:43:50.640 We've got to create systems that we can actually have 1:43:50.800 --> 1:43:53.240 health care for all of Guy's children. We've got to 1:43:53.280 --> 1:43:56.519 create the systems that's really about a wholesome education. So 1:43:56.840 --> 1:44:00.800 think shift, you're thinking, it's not citizens of this, but 1:44:01.000 --> 1:44:03.560 go beyond that. We have to be founders of a 1:44:03.640 --> 1:44:06.479 new nation, a founders of a nation that's yet unborn. 1:44:06.760 --> 1:44:08.599 And part of that is going to require us having 1:44:08.640 --> 1:44:12.200 a discipline to lean into that, to really use our imagination, 1:44:12.320 --> 1:44:15.160 our innovation and self determination to move forward. 1:44:15.479 --> 1:44:21.920 Thank you Angela, Thank you Ntasha, thank you. Yes are 1:44:22.000 --> 1:44:25.280 almost open. We've been joined you all by. 1:44:25.320 --> 1:44:26.679 Another history maker. 1:44:26.840 --> 1:44:30.600 I so wanted to go to Jamal and Tamika and 1:44:30.680 --> 1:44:32.519 Angelo to talk about not spending money. 1:44:32.600 --> 1:44:35.080 Y'all hold that thought, because we got to get to 1:44:35.640 --> 1:44:37.439 We got a queen. They might not be no kings 1:44:37.479 --> 1:44:39.160 in that house, but we have a queen amongst that. 1:44:39.280 --> 1:44:42.440 She is the CBC chairwoman. 1:44:42.720 --> 1:44:45.760 She's one of my former bosses congress Woman he Vet 1:44:45.960 --> 1:44:47.080 Clark from Brooklyn. 1:44:47.360 --> 1:44:49.120 She gonna show Donald Trump what time it is. 1:44:49.240 --> 1:44:50.639 You can see he's a real gang say he don't 1:44:50.640 --> 1:44:53.000 want to mess with Congressoman Clark. She's here. Tell us 1:44:53.040 --> 1:44:56.479 how you're feeling, Miss Clark. What is your impression of tonight? 1:44:56.600 --> 1:44:58.879 And where do we go from here? These are soldiers 1:44:58.920 --> 1:45:01.720 who are walking alongside of you, who have your back 1:45:01.800 --> 1:45:04.479 horse surrounding you. We need to see you succeed, and 1:45:04.600 --> 1:45:06.240 so we want to hear from you tonight. How are 1:45:06.240 --> 1:45:07.360 you feeling and what are you thinking? 1:45:07.680 --> 1:45:11.680 Well, first of all, let me thank you family for 1:45:12.240 --> 1:45:17.160 coming together in this moment to provide our community with 1:45:17.320 --> 1:45:22.080 the undergirding, the understanding, the education and information we need 1:45:22.240 --> 1:45:23.000 for this movement. 1:45:23.160 --> 1:45:23.880 In this moment. 1:45:24.520 --> 1:45:28.679 Uh, there's a there's a Maga fest, a Maga rally 1:45:28.800 --> 1:45:32.400 going on in the House chambers in this moment. And 1:45:32.920 --> 1:45:38.960 you know, I didn't expect anything less than a maga Uh. 1:45:39.360 --> 1:45:41.720 You know, parade and and and and. 1:45:42.080 --> 1:45:45.880 And pump and and circumstance and it is. 1:45:46.080 --> 1:45:50.360 You know, listen, I think he's essentially run out of 1:45:50.920 --> 1:45:54.759 the greatest hits, so he's on repeat in this moment. 1:45:56.160 --> 1:46:00.160 The challenge around that though, is that, uh, he he's 1:46:00.160 --> 1:46:04.160 got folks around him that are ready and willing to 1:46:04.800 --> 1:46:12.200 implement the craziest of policies and and all aimed at, 1:46:12.479 --> 1:46:19.599 of course, raising up white supremacy as the operating system 1:46:20.160 --> 1:46:23.599 of the United States of America. So when I heard 1:46:24.080 --> 1:46:30.920 sister Latasha Brown just talk about very I think, fundamental 1:46:31.040 --> 1:46:33.799 things that we need to be doing as a community, 1:46:34.040 --> 1:46:38.000 She's absolutely right, and I believe that, certainly there are 1:46:38.200 --> 1:46:42.320 so many of us who have come together around sort 1:46:42.360 --> 1:46:48.440 of like mind in this moment crystallizing where our communities 1:46:48.520 --> 1:46:51.400 need to go. We need to buy black and we've 1:46:51.400 --> 1:46:56.360 been talking this for years, for generations. Quite frankly, we 1:46:56.640 --> 1:47:01.320 need to undergird each other with knowledge and information so 1:47:01.479 --> 1:47:06.360 that our folks are not constantly consuming the misinformation and 1:47:06.479 --> 1:47:11.680 the lies that they that permeate social media feeds. We 1:47:11.880 --> 1:47:14.559 need to be able to make sure that we are 1:47:14.640 --> 1:47:17.160 on the ground and the CBC is ready to get 1:47:17.240 --> 1:47:17.800 on the bus. 1:47:18.320 --> 1:47:22.040 We are not taking this moment for granted. 1:47:22.200 --> 1:47:24.040 We know that we need to be felt, we need 1:47:24.120 --> 1:47:27.360 to be touched on the ground, and so starting in 1:47:27.439 --> 1:47:29.960 the month of April, we will be on the move 1:47:30.000 --> 1:47:37.240 across this nation, educating, informing, mobilizing, encouraging, empowering our folks 1:47:37.320 --> 1:47:42.559 to see this moment as our sort of generational moment 1:47:42.960 --> 1:47:47.400 where we have to envision a nation, as Latasha Brown 1:47:47.520 --> 1:47:52.760 is said, uh, where we center ourselves as the as 1:47:52.800 --> 1:47:57.120 the as the focus in the fabric of a democracy. 1:47:57.360 --> 1:47:59.400 What does that mean, you know? 1:47:59.680 --> 1:48:02.439 And what does it mean to operate in a space 1:48:03.160 --> 1:48:07.120 where we are valued and we value each other. This 1:48:07.320 --> 1:48:09.880 is just one of those moments, sister Angela Rai, And 1:48:10.800 --> 1:48:13.800 you know that's constantly reinforced for us, I believe each 1:48:13.840 --> 1:48:18.280 and every day, when you have one in five federal 1:48:18.360 --> 1:48:23.400 workers coming from the black community, when you have this 1:48:24.120 --> 1:48:31.560 constant drum beat around the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 1:48:32.000 --> 1:48:35.679 When you have all of these sort of factors, add 1:48:35.760 --> 1:48:38.960 to that the fact that the cost of living continues 1:48:39.040 --> 1:48:43.960 to escalate, compounded by these tariffs that Donald. 1:48:43.640 --> 1:48:47.160 Trump is insisting on putting into. 1:48:47.000 --> 1:48:52.519 Place, our folks are certainly hurting economically and otherwise. 1:48:52.600 --> 1:48:55.960 And so we have to, I believe, make. 1:48:55.920 --> 1:49:01.280 Sure that our folks are handling business in an unconventional 1:49:01.360 --> 1:49:07.920 way that we move forward with and encouraging our people 1:49:08.040 --> 1:49:11.439 to shop among our people for those basic goods and 1:49:11.520 --> 1:49:16.360 services I think against Sister Brown said, this is not 1:49:16.560 --> 1:49:20.840 the time for luxury goods. It has never really been 1:49:20.960 --> 1:49:24.400 that time as far as I'm concerned. But you know, listen, 1:49:25.360 --> 1:49:29.599 everyone is entitled to their own tastes. However, there are 1:49:29.800 --> 1:49:35.960 many designers, Black designers that can offer just as good, 1:49:36.080 --> 1:49:38.880 if not better in terms of quality and what the 1:49:39.000 --> 1:49:40.600 goods and services they provide, and we. 1:49:40.720 --> 1:49:42.000 Need to raise them up. 1:49:42.120 --> 1:49:45.360 Those will be our corporate entities if we pour into 1:49:45.439 --> 1:49:48.360 them in the way that we've poured into so many 1:49:48.439 --> 1:49:51.519 of the others who have now turned their back on us. 1:49:52.520 --> 1:49:54.680 I'm also working with the CBC, and I'm going to 1:49:55.280 --> 1:49:55.760 close on. 1:49:55.880 --> 1:50:00.720 This sin sta Agela on a program, if you will, 1:50:00.880 --> 1:50:05.240 a communications program called what side are You on? This 1:50:05.320 --> 1:50:09.559 is not a moment where folks can be one foot 1:50:09.640 --> 1:50:11.960 in one camp and one foot in the other. Either 1:50:12.040 --> 1:50:16.160 you're with the Black community with the development of who 1:50:16.280 --> 1:50:20.120 we are as a people, or you're not. There's no 1:50:20.240 --> 1:50:24.519 middle ground, and so that will be another part of 1:50:25.040 --> 1:50:27.479 what we will be embarking upon as members of the 1:50:27.560 --> 1:50:31.040 Congressional Black Caucus, fifty eight strong here in the House 1:50:31.120 --> 1:50:35.640 of Representatives and four straw in the US Senate, the 1:50:35.880 --> 1:50:40.680 largest number of black federal elected representatives in the. 1:50:40.760 --> 1:50:41.720 History of this nation. 1:50:42.360 --> 1:50:44.560 This is all of our moment, and we're going to 1:50:44.640 --> 1:50:47.439 do everything that we must do on the legislative event 1:50:47.520 --> 1:50:49.760 to hold the line. But we're also going to be 1:50:49.840 --> 1:50:53.360 in these streets talking to our people because in less 1:50:53.400 --> 1:50:57.439 than eighteen months there will be another election, and we've 1:50:57.520 --> 1:51:01.200 got to make sure that our folks are are focused 1:51:01.280 --> 1:51:04.120 on the power of the franchise and what it means 1:51:04.200 --> 1:51:07.120 for their own liberation. With that, as we say here 1:51:07.600 --> 1:51:10.519 since the Angela Rie, I'm gonna yield back the balance 1:51:10.600 --> 1:51:11.160 of my time. 1:51:11.439 --> 1:51:13.360 Well, don't you just yet, because I just want to 1:51:13.400 --> 1:51:15.599 get clarity for our audience. This was the one quick 1:51:15.680 --> 1:51:18.439 question I have for you. You said there is there 1:51:18.720 --> 1:51:21.520 is a Magga rally going on. Does that mean, Congresswoman 1:51:21.640 --> 1:51:24.599 that you also left, did the rest of this Congressional 1:51:24.640 --> 1:51:25.479 Black August lead? 1:51:25.600 --> 1:51:27.760 There are still members in the chambers? 1:51:28.240 --> 1:51:28.360 Uh? 1:51:28.640 --> 1:51:31.560 I am back in my office. I you know, I 1:51:31.760 --> 1:51:35.240 just felt like I knew what was next in the 1:51:35.360 --> 1:51:38.840 lineup of greatest hits. I didn't need to sit there, 1:51:39.360 --> 1:51:43.160 uh to to know, you know, what words we're going 1:51:43.240 --> 1:51:45.479 to be thrown at whom and what have you? 1:51:45.920 --> 1:51:48.600 He is Let me just say this, what was the 1:51:49.120 --> 1:51:49.560 point for you? 1:51:49.760 --> 1:51:52.040 What was the tip? What was the moment where you like, okay. 1:51:51.840 --> 1:51:53.719 Now got tired? I just got tired. 1:51:54.000 --> 1:51:54.840 I just got tired. 1:51:55.040 --> 1:51:59.280 And he shook quite frankly, the fact that that that 1:51:59.520 --> 1:52:03.799 that the Democrats have been sitting silently raising signs, where's 1:52:03.840 --> 1:52:06.679 my son? Let me show you my sign raising signs 1:52:06.760 --> 1:52:08.639 occasionally during his speech. 1:52:08.880 --> 1:52:10.200 It has shook the man. 1:52:10.600 --> 1:52:12.960 He has been trying to find a way to get 1:52:13.040 --> 1:52:15.439 under the skin of Democrats and we haven't been paying 1:52:15.520 --> 1:52:16.200 him any minds. 1:52:16.240 --> 1:52:20.240 So most of what you're seeing he's directing directly to 1:52:20.320 --> 1:52:21.120 the MAGA crowd. 1:52:21.479 --> 1:52:25.599 And remember the House of Representatives is essentially split half 1:52:25.640 --> 1:52:29.720 and half, so we're only separated by two seats. So 1:52:30.439 --> 1:52:34.040 it's a massive blow to his ego that he's not 1:52:34.160 --> 1:52:40.000 getting any applause and he's standing up for the foolishness 1:52:40.439 --> 1:52:41.280 that he's trying. 1:52:41.080 --> 1:52:42.839 To pull off in the chambers of the House. 1:52:42.760 --> 1:52:45.680 Right now, well, speaking of foolishness, that took place in 1:52:45.760 --> 1:52:48.720 the chamber of the House, Mark Thompson, our colleague, is 1:52:48.800 --> 1:52:53.040 with Melanie Stansbury, who had her sign snatched by a 1:52:53.160 --> 1:52:56.080 Republican and she's standing live with Mark Thompson right now. 1:52:56.240 --> 1:52:59.200 We're go to Mark Congressman. Please stick around if you can't. 1:52:59.240 --> 1:53:01.040 I know you're tired, so we don't want to keep 1:53:01.080 --> 1:53:02.320 you too late, but I would love for you to 1:53:02.400 --> 1:53:03.559 hear what she says happened. 1:53:04.040 --> 1:53:05.559 And if you do have to go, we first had 1:53:05.680 --> 1:53:07.760 knowledge it was bad new glasses. She got already too. 1:53:08.560 --> 1:53:14.360 You know, this always an iconic fashion, always every day, 1:53:14.439 --> 1:53:15.439 all day, every day. 1:53:16.640 --> 1:53:19.080 So cong Truom stands, but kN Truom stands very by 1:53:19.120 --> 1:53:22.439 the way. Folks is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and she 1:53:22.800 --> 1:53:24.360 last year was your first trip to Selma. You came 1:53:24.400 --> 1:53:26.759 to sel Malsh. She's coming back this weekend. 1:53:26.840 --> 1:53:29.280 Yeah, see you guys this weekend if anyone's going down. 1:53:29.479 --> 1:53:31.760 Yeah, so what happened? You had us? So what did 1:53:31.800 --> 1:53:33.439 your sign say? What did it? 1:53:33.720 --> 1:53:33.920 Yeah? 1:53:33.960 --> 1:53:36.360 Well, so a lot of us on the floor plan 1:53:36.560 --> 1:53:39.120 to do our form of protests. You know, we showed 1:53:39.160 --> 1:53:42.280 up for Donald Trump's town hall, just like Americans are 1:53:42.280 --> 1:53:45.000 showing up for town halls all over America. And just 1:53:45.080 --> 1:53:47.720 like Americans, we heard, had our voices heard, and I 1:53:47.840 --> 1:53:49.800 had a sign as he walked in that said this 1:53:50.040 --> 1:53:53.160 is not normal. And as I was standing there behind 1:53:53.320 --> 1:53:57.880 Donald Trump, some young man from Texas snatched out of 1:53:57.920 --> 1:53:58.439 my hand. 1:53:58.280 --> 1:53:59.840 And threw it over the President's head. 1:54:00.080 --> 1:54:02.920 And you know, I'm not gonna I'm not going to 1:54:03.000 --> 1:54:06.479 pretend like, you know, this is normal and that what's 1:54:06.479 --> 1:54:09.519 happening in America is just something that should we should 1:54:09.560 --> 1:54:10.360 sit down and take. 1:54:10.520 --> 1:54:13.960 So, yeah, so who you know, I mean, who was it? 1:54:14.080 --> 1:54:14.400 You know who? 1:54:15.000 --> 1:54:17.360 It was a congressman from Texas, but I don't know 1:54:17.479 --> 1:54:20.559 his name, Golden something, Yeah, and he just. 1:54:22.160 --> 1:54:24.960 I mean, it was very I was obviously in the frame. 1:54:25.200 --> 1:54:28.000 Marjorie Taylor Green was facing me, and I think folks 1:54:28.080 --> 1:54:29.800 were trying to get it out of my hands, so 1:54:29.960 --> 1:54:31.120 they just pulled out of my hands. 1:54:31.880 --> 1:54:35.760 Yeah, it does that violate any rules of protocol? Can 1:54:35.800 --> 1:54:37.440 someone just snatch something out of your hand and through it? 1:54:37.760 --> 1:54:40.480 You know, I listen, I'm not going to make a 1:54:40.520 --> 1:54:41.280 big deal about it. 1:54:42.120 --> 1:54:44.360 You know, if they want to be children, if they 1:54:44.400 --> 1:54:46.560 want to have their Maga party on the house floor, 1:54:46.720 --> 1:54:49.160 if they want to play games with us, they can 1:54:49.240 --> 1:54:50.080 do whatever they want. 1:54:50.160 --> 1:54:51.800 And I'm you know, I'm not gonna lie. I grew 1:54:51.840 --> 1:54:54.080 up in Albuquerque. I was ready to fight, but that 1:54:54.280 --> 1:54:56.240 is not how I wanted to end my evening. 1:54:56.960 --> 1:54:59.080 So did you know they get down to Albuquerque like that? 1:54:59.120 --> 1:55:04.520 I don't know how, now I know, so we need 1:55:04.560 --> 1:55:04.720 to know. 1:55:04.920 --> 1:55:09.480 Okay, yeah, Congress I have a quick question, congresswoman. Has 1:55:09.560 --> 1:55:12.160 it always been like this from from the on set 1:55:12.200 --> 1:55:17.280 in January? Was there ever a brief window? A brief window? Well, 1:55:17.360 --> 1:55:20.800 y'all thought, maybe we can get across the al and 1:55:21.000 --> 1:55:24.520 get some of the station done. Or is this just 1:55:24.600 --> 1:55:27.720 an escalation of where you all fully expected to be 1:55:28.320 --> 1:55:29.960 at this point in the first hundred days. 1:55:30.800 --> 1:55:33.960 You know, I tried to come in with an open mind, 1:55:34.120 --> 1:55:36.760 but when I let me, let me be real. The 1:55:36.840 --> 1:55:40.600 inauguration was on doctor Martin Luther King Junior day. I 1:55:40.680 --> 1:55:43.200 did not come back to Washington, d C. I chose 1:55:43.280 --> 1:55:46.720 to be home in my community, celebrating the holiday with 1:55:46.840 --> 1:55:50.760 my community. But when I saw the images on television 1:55:51.000 --> 1:55:54.920 of Elon Musk and these billionaires and his cabinet yucking 1:55:54.960 --> 1:55:56.920 it up, I knew that it was not going to 1:55:56.960 --> 1:55:59.760 be normal. And then he went down to the stadium 1:55:59.800 --> 1:56:03.000 and are assigning these executive orders. But I was like, Okay, 1:56:03.080 --> 1:56:05.240 I'm still going to give it a minute. In fact, 1:56:05.400 --> 1:56:08.000 I'm the ranking member of the highest ranking Democrat, the 1:56:08.080 --> 1:56:12.480 Doge Subcommittee, and my chairwoman in that committee is Marjorie 1:56:12.480 --> 1:56:14.760 Taylor Green. I even went and sat with her in 1:56:14.960 --> 1:56:19.200 her office for an hour and we smiled and pretended 1:56:19.320 --> 1:56:22.080 like we could have some bipartisan conversations, and then we 1:56:22.160 --> 1:56:24.200 showed up for that very first committee hearing, and she 1:56:24.360 --> 1:56:27.360 did what she does, and I think, you know that 1:56:27.640 --> 1:56:29.240 is essentially evaporated. 1:56:29.360 --> 1:56:30.320 So we know what's up. 1:56:30.760 --> 1:56:32.600 We're going to be in the fight. We're the resistance 1:56:32.680 --> 1:56:34.960 for the next couple of years. And you know, as 1:56:35.040 --> 1:56:37.680 the Reverend said, eighteen months is right around the corner, 1:56:37.760 --> 1:56:38.959 so we got to start organizing. 1:56:39.040 --> 1:56:41.680 Now, let me ask you this, Of all the terrible 1:56:41.720 --> 1:56:44.720 things he's done, he was a million a day, which 1:56:44.760 --> 1:56:48.560 ones are most threatening and most impactful to your district 1:56:48.640 --> 1:56:49.320 in Albuquerque? 1:56:49.800 --> 1:56:52.320 I mean all of them, right, I mean day one, 1:56:52.480 --> 1:56:56.520 he signs this executive order essentially taking out all of 1:56:56.600 --> 1:57:01.120 the diversity, equity and inclusion offices and and staff. New 1:57:01.200 --> 1:57:05.040 Mexico is a minority majority state. We are a state 1:57:05.160 --> 1:57:09.320 that is black, brown, indigenous, and that is an attack 1:57:09.480 --> 1:57:12.760 on the people of New Mexico. This executive order he 1:57:12.840 --> 1:57:16.000 signed two days ago making English the only language of 1:57:16.040 --> 1:57:19.640 the United States. It is in our state constitution that 1:57:19.800 --> 1:57:23.400 Spanish is the other language of New Mexico. He's literally 1:57:23.480 --> 1:57:27.640 violating the state constitution of New Mexico because the border crossed. 1:57:27.400 --> 1:57:30.280 Us by the way. So there is so much that 1:57:30.400 --> 1:57:30.920 he's doing. 1:57:31.120 --> 1:57:34.720 Every single day, he's firing thousands of New Mexicans. He's 1:57:35.200 --> 1:57:37.800 you know, these cuts that they're proposing in New Mexico, 1:57:37.920 --> 1:57:39.440 over seventy percent of our. 1:57:39.400 --> 1:57:40.960 People are on Medicare and Medicaid. 1:57:41.360 --> 1:57:45.800 That will not only lead to literally probably the vast 1:57:45.880 --> 1:57:49.240 majority of New Mexicans losing healthcare, our entire healthcare system 1:57:49.720 --> 1:57:50.360 could collapse. 1:57:50.800 --> 1:57:52.560 So we're not going to sit here in Stanford. 1:57:53.960 --> 1:57:56.120 I think in Consmanclark we kind of touched on his 1:57:56.160 --> 1:57:57.880 Zerila because I don't know if you really understand ruin 1:57:57.960 --> 1:58:00.440 Angela when they say it come up a minut. We 1:58:00.520 --> 1:58:06.120 only think of anyone context. But Medicaid also undergirds those 1:58:06.200 --> 1:58:08.520 who don't have Medicaid and keeps hospitals up. So when 1:58:08.520 --> 1:58:10.520 you take away Medicaid, you jam and everybody. 1:58:10.200 --> 1:58:12.920 Oh yeah, this is what I'm saying, is like, if 1:58:12.960 --> 1:58:15.760 you take away Medicaid, every hospital in the state of 1:58:15.840 --> 1:58:18.280 New Mexico is going to go bankrupt. So if you 1:58:18.360 --> 1:58:20.640 think it's hard to get into see a specialist right 1:58:20.720 --> 1:58:23.840 now after they got Medicaid, all of that's going away. 1:58:24.200 --> 1:58:26.320 This is not just going to affect low income people, 1:58:26.760 --> 1:58:29.080 but it is going to affect low income people. And 1:58:29.160 --> 1:58:32.000 as somebody who grew up in the system, somebody who 1:58:32.080 --> 1:58:34.200 would not be standing here today if it weren't for 1:58:34.280 --> 1:58:36.800 income supports and Medicaid and food stamps. 1:58:38.160 --> 1:58:41.680 You know, it is to me not only. 1:58:42.720 --> 1:58:46.560 Immoral and unconscionable, but it's going to tear apart the 1:58:46.600 --> 1:58:47.560 fabric of our country. 1:58:48.360 --> 1:58:50.800 So Albuquerque, you want to go, get you. We wanna 1:58:50.800 --> 1:58:52.440 get your sign back. Should we go get a beck, 1:58:52.920 --> 1:58:53.240 let's go. 1:58:53.680 --> 1:58:54.520 We're gonna go down, y'op. 1:58:54.600 --> 1:58:56.040 Please stay out of jail, y'all. 1:58:55.880 --> 1:58:56.640 Please out of you. 1:58:57.160 --> 1:58:59.000 But thank you so much for joining us. 1:58:59.360 --> 1:59:03.080 I want to turn really quickly to we had some 1:59:03.280 --> 1:59:08.680 encouragement around not spending money. Our dear brother's head was 1:59:08.840 --> 1:59:11.000 plastered on a sign at the White House just a 1:59:11.080 --> 1:59:13.640 few weeks ago during a Black History Month reception. That 1:59:13.920 --> 1:59:17.880 is Reverend Jamal Bryant also here from until Freedom, Our 1:59:17.960 --> 1:59:20.880 Angelo Pino and Tamika Mallory. Y'all we have to get 1:59:20.920 --> 1:59:24.440 into this because Latasha brought up Amazon. She brought up 1:59:24.440 --> 1:59:26.640 we don't need no designer goods. But we're also talking 1:59:26.640 --> 1:59:30.760 about Target. Jamal, you have exceeded one hundred thousand signers 1:59:31.360 --> 1:59:33.880 on this pledge around the Target fast. I want you 1:59:34.000 --> 1:59:36.640 to get into that, and Tamika and Angela I want 1:59:36.640 --> 1:59:37.120 to hear from you. 1:59:37.160 --> 1:59:37.760 As well on that. 1:59:39.000 --> 1:59:42.240 Thank you, and good evening everybody. This is what doctor 1:59:42.320 --> 1:59:44.200 King called the urgency of now. 1:59:45.360 --> 1:59:48.720 It is a critical moment and we no longer have 1:59:48.880 --> 1:59:51.600 the question of community or chaos. 1:59:52.600 --> 1:59:56.200 It is absolute chaos, which is why we need community. 1:59:57.120 --> 2:00:00.120 I want to take a note really from across the 2:00:00.200 --> 2:00:05.080 border from ideal leader of Canada who said, I don't 2:00:05.120 --> 2:00:06.720 want to, but I'm. 2:00:06.560 --> 2:00:07.840 Gonna have to cut the power. 2:00:09.160 --> 2:00:13.520 Is the I supply the Prime Minister said of power 2:00:13.680 --> 2:00:17.360 to four different states, and you're forcing my hand. 2:00:18.160 --> 2:00:20.800 I think that black people don't realize how. 2:00:20.800 --> 2:00:25.200 Much power we wield with two trillion dollars worth of 2:00:25.320 --> 2:00:29.440 spending power. And what has happened today at Target for 2:00:29.560 --> 2:00:33.600 them to say that they're spending their growth has gone 2:00:33.720 --> 2:00:37.560 down because of the economy and recession and tariffs. When 2:00:37.640 --> 2:00:41.080 the tariffs just started today, it is a reflection of 2:00:41.160 --> 2:00:46.000 what our power is. Black people Angelus spend twelve million 2:00:46.160 --> 2:00:51.000 dollars a day at target. If we redirect that to 2:00:51.120 --> 2:00:55.480 our own ecosystem, what will that mean? The Montgomery bus 2:00:55.640 --> 2:01:02.080 boycott absolutely destabilized the South, not from speeches, but from 2:01:02.280 --> 2:01:05.920 redirected spend day. And so I think that when it 2:01:06.080 --> 2:01:09.160 is that we saw the inauguration on January twentieth and 2:01:09.320 --> 2:01:11.680 saw who was on the front row, it was not 2:01:11.880 --> 2:01:16.520 cabinet ministers, it was those who wield wealth, which suggests 2:01:16.760 --> 2:01:20.320 that's what this president responds to. The wealth of what 2:01:20.480 --> 2:01:23.080 it is that we have has got to be redirected 2:01:23.680 --> 2:01:27.080 until we take white supremacy down to their knees. They 2:01:27.160 --> 2:01:30.520 don't even understand that the next step after civil rights 2:01:31.040 --> 2:01:35.440 is civil rights. Doctor King was assassinated because he was 2:01:35.560 --> 2:01:40.320 mobilizing the poor People's campaign, and they understand were marginalize 2:01:40.360 --> 2:01:42.600 and oh press, poor people come together. 2:01:43.320 --> 2:01:44.720 A revolution has to start. 2:01:45.280 --> 2:01:48.800 A super bad system from Harvard University said, we don't 2:01:48.800 --> 2:01:52.520 even need one hundred percent participation, We just need three percent. 2:01:53.160 --> 2:01:56.360 If three percent of the populace do what a lot. 2:01:56.320 --> 2:01:58.880 Of our brave brothers and sisters did today and walk 2:01:58.960 --> 2:02:00.600 out and live their voice. 2:02:00.960 --> 2:02:03.240 I think America is going to come to a screeching halt. 2:02:03.840 --> 2:02:06.400 We've got enough power to do it, just within a 2:02:06.520 --> 2:02:09.000 number of people who are on today for the twenty 2:02:09.040 --> 2:02:13.160 four hours. And let's not undermine or belittle the strength 2:02:13.200 --> 2:02:17.040 of what happened with the blackout on Friday. America is 2:02:17.040 --> 2:02:19.160 about to have an asthma attack and a hype up 2:02:19.200 --> 2:02:22.400 imolator because we understand what our worth is, we know 2:02:22.480 --> 2:02:25.200 what our value is, and we've got to withhold our 2:02:25.240 --> 2:02:27.960 funds in order for the revolution to move forward. I'm 2:02:28.040 --> 2:02:32.560 excited about it. We start tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. This 2:02:32.760 --> 2:02:37.320 thrust of this target fast because we wanted to interlope 2:02:37.400 --> 2:02:41.440 the spiritual property of what's necessary. While it is that 2:02:41.520 --> 2:02:45.720 we're strategizing, we have historically also been a spiritual and 2:02:45.840 --> 2:02:48.720 a praying people, and so over the next forty days, 2:02:48.760 --> 2:02:52.560 I want to urge all of us to galvanize in prayer. 2:02:52.360 --> 2:02:55.000 And not lose our spiritual focus and force. 2:02:55.600 --> 2:02:58.480 Every day, three hundred and eighty one days, black people 2:02:58.680 --> 2:03:02.360 in Montgomery, after not getting on the bus, went back 2:03:02.440 --> 2:03:05.120 to the church to pray, and let's be very clear. 2:03:05.320 --> 2:03:10.440 We are now going up against a demonic, diabolical spirit 2:03:10.560 --> 2:03:11.160 in America. 2:03:11.680 --> 2:03:14.360 It is not just a person, it is a spirit that. 2:03:14.480 --> 2:03:17.640 Is afoot on the weapons of our warfare now, Cornell, 2:03:17.880 --> 2:03:19.560 and so we've got to really go in the prayer. 2:03:19.640 --> 2:03:22.520 But Frederick Douglass said it much better than me. He said, 2:03:22.600 --> 2:03:26.000 I got more prayers answered when I got off my knees. 2:03:26.480 --> 2:03:29.000 So we can't just pray. We've got to really go 2:03:29.120 --> 2:03:30.880 in the fighting force. And so in the spirit of 2:03:30.960 --> 2:03:34.920 Hazel Duke's, let's fight even when it's uncalled for. So 2:03:35.080 --> 2:03:37.920 that's the necessary calling and the beating drum that we've 2:03:37.960 --> 2:03:39.560 got an answer to. I'm glad to be a part 2:03:39.640 --> 2:03:41.560 of it and excited about what we're going to do 2:03:41.600 --> 2:03:42.720 over the next forty days. 2:03:43.040 --> 2:03:44.880 Jama, share the website one more time. 2:03:45.520 --> 2:03:47.840 Yes, targetfast dot org. 2:03:48.600 --> 2:03:51.080 And let me say to you that when it is 2:03:51.240 --> 2:03:53.800 that you are registered at Target Force, we have a 2:03:54.120 --> 2:03:57.200 partner with the Black Chamber of Commerce. We're going to 2:03:57.280 --> 2:04:02.160 send you out a digital directory of three hundred thousand 2:04:02.720 --> 2:04:05.960 black businesses across the United States, so you can redirect 2:04:06.040 --> 2:04:09.640 your dollars away from Target and Walmart. And we're gonna 2:04:09.680 --> 2:04:12.840 send you a forty day prayer journal so that we 2:04:12.920 --> 2:04:14.600 can prayer way through a lot of our people. 2:04:14.680 --> 2:04:18.040 Angela burned out, they tie it, they weary, they. 2:04:18.080 --> 2:04:19.720 Want and they say it. 2:04:20.560 --> 2:04:23.000 But I think that we've got to find that synergy, 2:04:23.520 --> 2:04:25.400 to find that second win and run to it. 2:04:33.480 --> 2:04:33.680 Ry. 2:04:33.720 --> 2:04:38.280 I know you had something, Well, no, I'll let let's 2:04:38.360 --> 2:04:42.800 let uh, Tomicky Mallory come in and I'll I'll let 2:04:42.880 --> 2:04:45.800 you all. Do you know can you see them saying no, No. 2:04:46.120 --> 2:04:48.360 We got to bring everybody in because we only got 2:04:48.440 --> 2:04:50.960 so much time. You know, we under our left y'all have. 2:04:51.160 --> 2:04:52.800 You know, I got to be quiet. You know, black women, 2:04:52.840 --> 2:04:54.240 you all got a black women and then I have 2:04:54.360 --> 2:04:54.720 my question. 2:04:54.920 --> 2:04:57.440 Yeah, mararathon through this thing. So we're all we got 2:04:57.480 --> 2:05:00.200 a little less than an hour left to me. Ka 2:05:00.320 --> 2:05:03.560 Mallory and Angelo Pinto on this same topic, you all 2:05:03.600 --> 2:05:07.960 have been actively engaged around the target fast and I 2:05:07.960 --> 2:05:10.240 would love to hear from you all your perspective. There's 2:05:10.240 --> 2:05:13.080 been a lot of folks saying, hey, you know, why 2:05:13.120 --> 2:05:16.160 are we going to boycott something or fast from something 2:05:16.200 --> 2:05:18.240 when there are black brands on the shelves? 2:05:18.800 --> 2:05:20.360 So about that, right? 2:05:20.560 --> 2:05:22.440 So I think that it's a good time to talk 2:05:22.480 --> 2:05:26.760 about tactics, how we stick together. I learned on my 2:05:26.920 --> 2:05:30.160 podcast recently a Native Lampid with Andrew Gillim that only 2:05:30.280 --> 2:05:33.800 ten percent of black folks in Montgomery actually participated in boycotts. 2:05:33.880 --> 2:05:36.800 Never knew, never knew, And they want to burn the books. 2:05:36.840 --> 2:05:38.360 I'm still learning they're trying to burn the books. 2:05:38.440 --> 2:05:38.560 Roy. 2:05:38.840 --> 2:05:40.840 So you guys tell us a little bit about why 2:05:40.920 --> 2:05:41.560 it's important for. 2:05:41.600 --> 2:05:44.200 Us to stay united in this fight with Reverend Jamal 2:05:44.240 --> 2:05:45.400 Bryant and untel freedom. 2:05:45.720 --> 2:05:47.120 Certainly, thank you so much. 2:05:47.280 --> 2:05:51.080 And to everyone, I see family, new people, just so 2:05:51.200 --> 2:05:54.400 many different faces here and it's been really inspirational and 2:05:54.560 --> 2:06:00.520 feeling to be among this amazing group of individuals evening, 2:06:00.800 --> 2:06:04.160 and you know, just want to join Jamal first of 2:06:04.200 --> 2:06:05.280 all in saying. 2:06:06.400 --> 2:06:14.080 Everybody, well to me, hold on because I that's what's 2:06:14.160 --> 2:06:14.440 going on. 2:06:15.840 --> 2:06:20.760 Congresswoman Waters, yo, hello, we heard you, so we thought 2:06:20.840 --> 2:06:22.880 that man, you were reclaiming your time, so you now 2:06:22.960 --> 2:06:26.120 have the floor. We want to know why you chose 2:06:26.440 --> 2:06:29.360 not to participate in the State of the Union tonight. 2:06:29.480 --> 2:06:30.400 Please tell us why. 2:06:31.280 --> 2:06:32.600 Thank you so much. Angela. 2:06:33.320 --> 2:06:36.600 You know me very well, and you know that I 2:06:36.840 --> 2:06:39.760 was not about to put up with that bullshit that 2:06:40.040 --> 2:06:43.240 he was going to talk about tonight. You know that 2:06:43.480 --> 2:06:47.920 I think he is the most deporable, dishonest, no good 2:06:48.240 --> 2:06:52.600 man that I've ever encountered in my life. He has 2:06:53.360 --> 2:06:58.920 insulted us, He's insulted the American people. He's a sexual, 2:06:59.200 --> 2:07:06.160 sexual predi. He's everything absolutely awful that you can describe 2:07:06.200 --> 2:07:06.880 in a human being. 2:07:06.960 --> 2:07:10.680 I've never met anything like him before. Antel. 2:07:10.800 --> 2:07:13.080 You know you've been out there in Los Angeles. I've 2:07:13.160 --> 2:07:17.160 worked with gang members, the grips, the bloods, everybody. I've 2:07:17.320 --> 2:07:23.760 never encountered anybody like Trump. Trump is a person without 2:07:23.840 --> 2:07:26.680 a conscience. He will lie at the drop of a hat, 2:07:27.200 --> 2:07:30.640 and he knows that you know that he's lying, but 2:07:30.760 --> 2:07:34.840 he continues to lie. What he did tonight was, first 2:07:34.920 --> 2:07:39.560 of all, he continued the lives about all of the Mexicans, 2:07:39.880 --> 2:07:43.919 all of the people coming from you know, the countries 2:07:44.000 --> 2:07:46.480 of you know, Mexico and Guatemala and everybody. 2:07:46.800 --> 2:07:49.520 What he talked about was, had. 2:07:49.400 --> 2:07:52.040 You believe that they're all rapists and they're all murderers, 2:07:52.120 --> 2:07:55.200 and they're all this, and they're all that. Continuing to 2:07:55.400 --> 2:07:58.720 pump up the lie that he has used as his 2:07:58.920 --> 2:08:03.120 number one issue to divide and to create hate and 2:08:03.280 --> 2:08:06.840 to have something that he could point to to keep 2:08:06.880 --> 2:08:10.840 the American people believing that he had to protect them from. 2:08:11.680 --> 2:08:15.680 So it was pretty awful, and I really did not 2:08:16.000 --> 2:08:20.680 like the way he used the tragic incidents and the 2:08:20.800 --> 2:08:24.800 families that were there, who of course appreciated. You know, 2:08:24.960 --> 2:08:28.480 what they think is their president caring about what happened, 2:08:28.760 --> 2:08:31.280 you know, to the twelve year old and to others 2:08:31.480 --> 2:08:34.840 who were victims, and we all feel sad and bad 2:08:34.920 --> 2:08:35.320 for them, but. 2:08:35.400 --> 2:08:36.240 He misused them. 2:08:36.840 --> 2:08:40.560 He misused them, and what he did was he focused 2:08:40.640 --> 2:08:44.160 on them instead of focusing on the real issues that 2:08:44.320 --> 2:08:48.680 we're dealing with now and the harm that he's creating 2:08:49.280 --> 2:08:52.080 for workers by telling them get out of their office 2:08:52.400 --> 2:08:55.120 by three o'clock, by five o'clock. You know what, that 2:08:55.240 --> 2:08:59.320 reminds me of the sundown towns who would tell black 2:08:59.360 --> 2:09:02.560 people had to be out of town about five o'clock 2:09:03.560 --> 2:09:04.280 before dark. 2:09:04.680 --> 2:09:11.240 You know, he's still dishonorable human being that he's always been. 2:09:11.800 --> 2:09:15.440 It is so sad that we're going through this kind 2:09:15.520 --> 2:09:19.600 of change right before our very eyes, as he and 2:09:19.800 --> 2:09:24.560 Elon Musk move into all of the agencies and departments 2:09:24.800 --> 2:09:31.200 of government, shutting them down of firing people, doing everything 2:09:31.320 --> 2:09:35.800 that they can to basically make sure that this country 2:09:36.200 --> 2:09:40.120 is ruled by the white billionaires that showed up with 2:09:40.280 --> 2:09:42.080 him at inauguration time. 2:09:42.480 --> 2:09:45.440 What he sang to all of us, we're getting ready 2:09:46.280 --> 2:09:48.840 to run this country the way that we want to 2:09:48.920 --> 2:09:50.560 run it. We're getting rid of all. 2:09:50.480 --> 2:09:55.680 These regulations that have protected people in the Consumer Financial 2:09:55.720 --> 2:09:56.720 Protection Bureau. 2:09:57.320 --> 2:09:59.840 We're getting ready hug with all. 2:09:59.720 --> 2:10:02.640 Of them money that's going to housing and to the 2:10:02.800 --> 2:10:06.360 homeless and all of those people in urban areas that 2:10:06.440 --> 2:10:10.280 don't deserve it. All of those messages, for me, were 2:10:10.560 --> 2:10:14.960 continuing messages that he has put for for a long time, 2:10:15.280 --> 2:10:19.080 long before this election. But it's not nice to say, 2:10:19.160 --> 2:10:22.680 but I told you so when he first ran. I 2:10:22.880 --> 2:10:26.360 told everybody that he should have been impeached. When we 2:10:26.520 --> 2:10:29.280 got into it, we didn't do it right. We waited 2:10:29.360 --> 2:10:32.760 too long, we didn't use the right issues, etc. And 2:10:32.920 --> 2:10:36.640 unfortunately we got him back. But let me hear from 2:10:36.680 --> 2:10:37.880 the other people that you have. 2:10:38.520 --> 2:10:42.000 On the poground tonight. I have to talk about this 2:10:42.320 --> 2:10:43.640 thing all night. 2:10:44.720 --> 2:10:47.400 We have one of your colleagues who had joined you, 2:10:48.640 --> 2:10:51.800 and she's someone who regularly says she stands on your soldiers. 2:10:51.880 --> 2:10:54.400 He says, whatever Max says we're doing, We're doing. That 2:10:54.600 --> 2:10:58.640 is Jasmine Crockett, who chose to go to the State 2:10:58.680 --> 2:11:00.960 of the Union side, but she also chose to walk out, 2:11:01.040 --> 2:11:02.480 So she's right here, Jasmine. 2:11:03.280 --> 2:11:06.120 Okay, hey, yes, listen. 2:11:06.600 --> 2:11:11.960 For sure, Max is an og just like Al Green. 2:11:12.600 --> 2:11:13.760 I follow their lead. 2:11:14.080 --> 2:11:16.840 I thank God for them, I really do, especially in 2:11:16.960 --> 2:11:20.160 this time. You know, as one of the younger members 2:11:20.320 --> 2:11:23.840 in the Congress, it is so important to have people 2:11:24.320 --> 2:11:27.360 that are always going to give us a sobering message 2:11:27.600 --> 2:11:28.640 about the moment. 2:11:28.480 --> 2:11:28.920 That we're in. 2:11:29.200 --> 2:11:32.000 And as y'all just heard, she did not hold back. 2:11:32.120 --> 2:11:35.520 She gonna call that motherfucker what he is at all time. 2:11:36.480 --> 2:11:38.640 So and I'm here for you. What y'all don't know 2:11:38.760 --> 2:11:40.920 is we both from Saint Louis. Listen, we from the 2:11:41.040 --> 2:11:44.280 show Me State. Okay, this is what you get out 2:11:44.320 --> 2:11:48.360 of Saint Louis. But I am so eternally great. As 2:11:48.440 --> 2:11:50.960 I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do, 2:11:51.160 --> 2:11:53.840 I was on the phone calling Max and trying to 2:11:53.880 --> 2:11:54.440 figure it out. 2:11:54.840 --> 2:11:56.680 And one of the things that we wanted to do 2:11:57.080 --> 2:11:58.400 was we want to make. 2:11:58.320 --> 2:12:00.640 Sure that there was space that was hell for us, 2:12:01.160 --> 2:12:03.680 and if we did not show up, then what they 2:12:03.760 --> 2:12:05.880 were going to do is just put seat fillers in. 2:12:06.360 --> 2:12:09.680 And I wanted to make sure that the space that 2:12:10.240 --> 2:12:14.280 you know, my ancestors bled and died for that I 2:12:14.400 --> 2:12:15.560 occupied that space. 2:12:15.960 --> 2:12:18.520 But I also got the privilege to walk the hell 2:12:18.600 --> 2:12:18.960 out of it. 2:12:19.400 --> 2:12:21.760 And so that's exactly what we did, so that he 2:12:21.880 --> 2:12:25.200 could have those empty seats sitting there and that our 2:12:25.320 --> 2:12:28.720 messages would be seen. Even if he decided he didn't 2:12:28.760 --> 2:12:31.000 want to hear us, he was going to fill us 2:12:31.080 --> 2:12:33.320 in our actions, and so I didn't just want to 2:12:33.320 --> 2:12:36.640 sit there and not flap, but instead I wanted to 2:12:36.800 --> 2:12:39.480 make sure that I stood up in defiance and I 2:12:39.640 --> 2:12:42.080 turned my back on him like he has turned his 2:12:42.280 --> 2:12:45.320 back on the American people, like he has turned his 2:12:45.560 --> 2:12:48.720 back on the Constitution, like he has turned his back 2:12:49.120 --> 2:12:52.200 on laws in this country. That is what I wanted 2:12:52.240 --> 2:12:54.520 to do, and I wanted the American people to know 2:12:55.040 --> 2:12:58.240 that while we may not have the numbers just yet, 2:12:58.680 --> 2:13:01.360 that doesn't mean that we don't have fight left in 2:13:01.480 --> 2:13:04.200 our bodies. And so I am going to fight him 2:13:04.680 --> 2:13:08.000 every step of the way until we get what we deserve. 2:13:08.400 --> 2:13:11.680 Because it was my ancestors that built this motherfucker. 2:13:11.920 --> 2:13:12.640 Okay, I'm done. 2:13:12.720 --> 2:13:16.080 Now I'm doing because the wordsman. 2:13:16.800 --> 2:13:20.160 Not only for what she just said, but she has 2:13:20.280 --> 2:13:21.440 been telling the fight. 2:13:22.080 --> 2:13:27.480 She has been every day, every week, whether she's in committee, 2:13:27.720 --> 2:13:30.320 what she's on the floor, whether she's in the streets, 2:13:30.600 --> 2:13:34.440 she has been telling what she has learned about him, 2:13:34.880 --> 2:13:35.760 his leadership. 2:13:36.120 --> 2:13:39.560 She's called him out, She's called out every dumbass that 2:13:39.720 --> 2:13:43.640 he's appointed to office while he's talking about getting rid 2:13:43.640 --> 2:13:47.360 of diversity, equity and inclusion and hiring some of the 2:13:47.560 --> 2:13:51.640 dumbest people, some of the most incommoned people in all 2:13:51.840 --> 2:13:55.280 of the agencies of government that he can get and 2:13:55.480 --> 2:13:56.400 then yes. 2:13:56.360 --> 2:13:59.360 Elon Musk, because Elon Musk had the money. 2:13:59.200 --> 2:13:59.760 To buy him. 2:14:00.480 --> 2:14:04.200 This was transactional. He put the money into his campaign 2:14:04.560 --> 2:14:07.800 and Trump turned it over to him. And we don't 2:14:07.920 --> 2:14:11.840 know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high 2:14:11.960 --> 2:14:15.960 technology asks. We don't know or what he's being accused 2:14:16.040 --> 2:14:17.600 of by some as. 2:14:17.520 --> 2:14:18.960 It may relate to the election. 2:14:19.360 --> 2:14:22.280 But we're not going to give up in investigating and 2:14:22.440 --> 2:14:25.920 finding out whether or not Elon Musk and all the 2:14:26.040 --> 2:14:28.080 people that he's got hired. 2:14:28.200 --> 2:14:31.520 In his business who are now working for him. We 2:14:31.720 --> 2:14:33.600 may be paying them through these. 2:14:33.560 --> 2:14:37.280 Dumb as false contracts that he's got that he's gotten 2:14:37.840 --> 2:14:38.960 so much money from. 2:14:39.360 --> 2:14:42.080 This billionaire is a billionaire. 2:14:41.760 --> 2:14:45.520 Because he's exploited the United States of America, et cetera, 2:14:45.560 --> 2:14:45.960 et cetera. 2:14:46.160 --> 2:14:49.960 So thank you, Jasmine. You continued to be whom you are. 2:14:50.520 --> 2:14:53.120 You walk as you tried to get everybody else to do. 2:14:54.920 --> 2:14:56.200 You tried. 2:15:00.000 --> 2:15:03.320 I'm so proud of the members that we're not afraid 2:15:03.560 --> 2:15:05.640 and decided that they will walk, because if I didn't 2:15:05.680 --> 2:15:08.520 have at least a group, then I just wasn't going 2:15:08.640 --> 2:15:09.200 to attend. 2:15:09.320 --> 2:15:10.520 So I am so thankful. 2:15:10.600 --> 2:15:13.160 I know y'all had a chance to hear from Melanie Stansbury, 2:15:13.600 --> 2:15:17.280 who is my writer out of New Mexico. We had 2:15:17.360 --> 2:15:19.800 to make sure we at least could do something as 2:15:19.920 --> 2:15:24.320 a unified group because saying, oh, there's only one person, 2:15:24.360 --> 2:15:26.880 and there's only two people, and I really wanted to 2:15:27.000 --> 2:15:30.080 show that there are more than just one person that 2:15:30.240 --> 2:15:32.640 is willing to engage in this fight. And if I 2:15:32.760 --> 2:15:35.000 could not get a group, then I just didn't want 2:15:35.040 --> 2:15:37.040 to do it. So I'm thankful for every soldier that 2:15:37.080 --> 2:15:38.040 decided to stand. 2:15:37.920 --> 2:15:41.360 Up and walk up Congress from Crockett and waters real quick, 2:15:42.360 --> 2:15:46.160 is the relationship between Democrats and Republics between now and midterms? 2:15:46.600 --> 2:15:48.920 Is it completely irreparable if we go on to war 2:15:49.000 --> 2:15:51.520 and just voting the mount in twenty twenty six, or 2:15:51.720 --> 2:15:54.560 is there any modicum of hope that we can come 2:15:54.680 --> 2:15:57.360 back from this between nine mid terms? The energy that 2:15:57.520 --> 2:16:00.800 was in the room tonight, I mean, let me just. 2:16:00.880 --> 2:16:05.640 Say that we have a good cause, a good democratic cause, 2:16:06.200 --> 2:16:11.480 And what we understand and appreciate is that people show 2:16:11.640 --> 2:16:16.720 their objections and their disagreements in different ways. And what 2:16:16.920 --> 2:16:21.720 we see building in this democratic conquerse is ways by 2:16:21.800 --> 2:16:22.440 which we're going to. 2:16:22.440 --> 2:16:24.520 Win this fight. We're going to win this fight. 2:16:24.920 --> 2:16:27.360 We're going to win this fight because I think what 2:16:27.520 --> 2:16:30.680 we're all understanding is this, we got to be in 2:16:30.720 --> 2:16:34.480 the streets. You know, it's not enough to be at home, 2:16:35.360 --> 2:16:39.720 you know, on the internet, you know, trying to convince people. 2:16:40.120 --> 2:16:43.480 They want us out there, they want to see us fighting. 2:16:44.000 --> 2:16:47.800 We are going to inspire people and help people to 2:16:48.000 --> 2:16:50.599 understand that the power lies. 2:16:50.640 --> 2:16:53.480 When we all are sticking together, when we're working. 2:16:54.040 --> 2:16:57.440 I believe that if we keep going to the streets 2:16:57.480 --> 2:17:01.040 and we grow and grow and grow our protests, we're 2:17:01.080 --> 2:17:02.959 going to have a lot of influence on the courts, 2:17:03.280 --> 2:17:06.200 who still have a lot of decisions to make. These 2:17:06.320 --> 2:17:09.760 decisions now are temporary, but we've got to get down 2:17:09.879 --> 2:17:13.360 to the decisions about whether or not what they're doing 2:17:14.000 --> 2:17:17.520 is in defiance of the Constitution, in defiance of the 2:17:17.680 --> 2:17:21.280 laws that have been signed by presidents, and what is 2:17:21.400 --> 2:17:25.440 the difference between an executive order and a law, and 2:17:25.600 --> 2:17:29.160 what is difference between an executive order and what's in 2:17:29.240 --> 2:17:32.560 the Constitution of America. And I think we can help 2:17:32.640 --> 2:17:35.959 the courts move even stronger. But they got to see us, 2:17:36.280 --> 2:17:38.400 They got to understand that we're. 2:17:38.280 --> 2:17:42.080 Willing to fight for what believed. And you know what, Hell, 2:17:42.280 --> 2:17:45.480 I'm in this fight. I'm in this fight, and I 2:17:45.680 --> 2:17:47.720 do believe that there are a lot of other people 2:17:47.920 --> 2:17:48.560 in this fight. 2:17:48.959 --> 2:17:51.280 And when they see an eighty six year old woman 2:17:51.640 --> 2:17:54.920 on the street fighting in the way that I certainly 2:17:55.040 --> 2:17:58.280 know how, I hope it is going to inspire a 2:17:58.320 --> 2:18:01.000 lot of people to come on out and join us. 2:18:01.440 --> 2:18:02.400 Is that right, Angela? 2:18:03.280 --> 2:18:04.600 That is absolutely right. 2:18:04.720 --> 2:18:05.560 And I'm gonna tell you what. 2:18:08.360 --> 2:18:09.720 I know right now. 2:18:09.840 --> 2:18:13.240 I was just gonna say that, listen, this is business. 2:18:13.600 --> 2:18:17.600 I am going into the backyards and anybody that I 2:18:17.720 --> 2:18:19.280 can take out, I'm gonna take them out. 2:18:19.640 --> 2:18:22.960 So I am gonna go I'm gonna figuratively. 2:18:24.520 --> 2:18:28.959 Yeah, but explain it. So because because because right. 2:18:28.920 --> 2:18:31.959 Now they have decided that they don't want to show 2:18:32.080 --> 2:18:35.039 up and be held accountable to the people that put 2:18:35.080 --> 2:18:38.400 them into power. They have made a decision the NRCC 2:18:38.879 --> 2:18:41.520 that they're not gonna do any more town halls in 2:18:41.600 --> 2:18:43.800 their districts. So if they're not going to show up 2:18:43.840 --> 2:18:46.440 and serve their people, then I'm gonna show up, and 2:18:46.560 --> 2:18:48.520 I'm gonna make sure that they know the truth about 2:18:48.640 --> 2:18:52.040 why they are cowering and why they are going and 2:18:52.200 --> 2:18:55.080 bending the knee to the Orange one instead of serving 2:18:55.120 --> 2:18:57.600 the people that made it possible for them to serve 2:18:57.720 --> 2:19:01.280 in this body. So no, it wasn't even a matter 2:19:01.400 --> 2:19:04.440 of tonight being the trigger. It was the fact that 2:19:04.640 --> 2:19:07.520 they decided that they were gonna go out. And while 2:19:07.600 --> 2:19:10.840 this man has allowed Elon Musk to turn off the 2:19:10.959 --> 2:19:14.240 money for bills that were signing too law by Joe 2:19:14.280 --> 2:19:17.240 Biden or any other president and decide that they are 2:19:17.280 --> 2:19:21.120 gonna abdicate their duties. That was when I decided that 2:19:21.320 --> 2:19:24.000 I was gonna be coming for all a seats, any 2:19:24.080 --> 2:19:25.160 seat that we can get. 2:19:25.680 --> 2:19:27.120 Just no, I'm coming for it. 2:19:27.560 --> 2:19:29.120 And when I say I'm coming for it, I'm not 2:19:29.280 --> 2:19:32.520 only showing up at their back door, but I'm also 2:19:32.720 --> 2:19:33.320 raising money. 2:19:33.360 --> 2:19:37.000 When I raise money, I give money, I spend money. 2:19:37.480 --> 2:19:39.400 I am in this to win this. 2:19:40.040 --> 2:19:43.080 Just like Max said, we gonna get this thing done 2:19:43.520 --> 2:19:48.520 by any means necessary. I'm gonna make sure money, organizing, 2:19:49.120 --> 2:19:51.240 showing up and doing the work that they don't want 2:19:51.280 --> 2:19:53.840 to do. We are absolutely gonna do it. And yes, 2:19:53.920 --> 2:19:55.680 I'm gonna do this stuff on social media too. I 2:19:55.760 --> 2:19:57.680 know Max said, you know, we gotta get up the computers, 2:19:57.840 --> 2:20:02.440 but I'm gonna do the computer stuff too. Well, this 2:20:02.680 --> 2:20:06.920 is amazing, ladies. We so appreciate you coming on. We 2:20:07.080 --> 2:20:11.760 love you, Jasmine, we love you, Congresswomen, Queen next, I 2:20:11.920 --> 2:20:15.120 love you. So I want to just quickly we you know, 2:20:15.240 --> 2:20:17.280 we were talking to some fighters. We were starting with 2:20:17.360 --> 2:20:20.680 Tamika and Angelo, and this is how you know MW's 2:20:20.720 --> 2:20:21.080 a gangster. 2:20:21.120 --> 2:20:23.200 Congress Waters came on. She didn't even have to say 2:20:23.240 --> 2:20:25.480 reclaiming my time. She just started talking it to me. 2:20:29.760 --> 2:20:32.680 I was like, else to say, edit, And I'm glad 2:20:32.720 --> 2:20:34.680 that they did that because I was getting ready to 2:20:34.680 --> 2:20:36.360 try to come with my hoop and I don't even 2:20:36.440 --> 2:20:37.039 have to do it. 2:20:37.120 --> 2:20:39.480 Till they already handled it for me. 2:20:39.920 --> 2:20:42.400 So I'll just go back to some technical points on 2:20:43.000 --> 2:20:46.880 this issue around UH Boycott's Angela. You asked a very 2:20:46.920 --> 2:20:50.840 important question about what do we do with black vendors 2:20:50.879 --> 2:20:53.360 that are on the stores and places like Target, and 2:20:53.520 --> 2:20:57.440 we talked about how you know, UH Pastor Bryant talked 2:20:57.440 --> 2:21:00.480 about the list that the Black Chamber of Commons has 2:21:00.560 --> 2:21:03.879 with black businesses that you can get your products from directly, 2:21:04.360 --> 2:21:08.640 as well as ensuring that the businesses in Target, specifically 2:21:09.080 --> 2:21:11.640 that we continue to support them. I want to bring 2:21:11.720 --> 2:21:15.000 into this conversation our sister Nina Turner, who was one 2:21:15.080 --> 2:21:18.440 of the first people to say that we needed to 2:21:18.560 --> 2:21:22.480 boycott Target for an extended period of time. Also our 2:21:22.560 --> 2:21:26.320 sister Nakima Armstrong, who is there in Minneapolis where the 2:21:26.480 --> 2:21:31.640 Target headquarters is located, holding local protests and meetings and 2:21:31.920 --> 2:21:34.240 organizing there on the ground. I just want to make 2:21:34.280 --> 2:21:37.120 sure that they are not missing in the context for 2:21:37.320 --> 2:21:40.959 how this boycott has come together. All I will say 2:21:41.040 --> 2:21:43.960 is that there's been a theme throughout this entire very 2:21:44.120 --> 2:21:47.720 powerful night and It's been about us engaging in the 2:21:47.800 --> 2:21:50.600 streets and getting with our people. And I want folks 2:21:50.680 --> 2:21:53.000 to know that I didn't wake up to a call 2:21:53.440 --> 2:21:55.800 about a boycott from a group of leaders. 2:21:56.280 --> 2:21:57.640 It came from the ground. 2:21:58.000 --> 2:22:01.039 It came into the comment section on almost every post 2:22:01.120 --> 2:22:04.520 that I could find where Target said that they were 2:22:04.640 --> 2:22:09.600 rolling back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. People started saying, 2:22:09.879 --> 2:22:13.360 I will never go there again. I'm not shopping at Target. 2:22:13.480 --> 2:22:16.320 They said their feelings were hurt because Target, to them 2:22:16.920 --> 2:22:19.720 was a place that they went, especially as black women, 2:22:19.879 --> 2:22:22.560 as a safe space, and to see that they would 2:22:22.680 --> 2:22:26.640 cower to white supremacy and to this effort to take 2:22:26.680 --> 2:22:30.600 away what we believe is the gains of many of us, 2:22:30.680 --> 2:22:32.720 who many of us and of course people who came 2:22:32.760 --> 2:22:36.119 before us that fought so hard for us to have diversity, 2:22:36.560 --> 2:22:37.360 equity and. 2:22:37.480 --> 2:22:38.959 Inclusion in these spaces. 2:22:39.600 --> 2:22:43.600 They felt connected to this, and we responded as organizers 2:22:43.720 --> 2:22:47.160 to help put some structure around it. Jamal came forward 2:22:47.240 --> 2:22:50.440 with the list that he's created with over one hundred 2:22:50.480 --> 2:22:53.120 thousand names. So this is a ground up effort. And 2:22:53.200 --> 2:22:55.440 the reason why I bring that up is because as 2:22:55.560 --> 2:22:58.320 we talk about all of what has been discussed tonight. 2:22:58.680 --> 2:23:01.960 Important things I want us to remember the grassroots, the 2:23:02.040 --> 2:23:04.760 people who are out there who are still fighting to 2:23:04.879 --> 2:23:08.680 keep gun violence tamed in their community, to deal with 2:23:08.840 --> 2:23:12.880 the issues of food deserts and poverty and injustice that 2:23:13.080 --> 2:23:16.760 is happening to them locally, police violence, people calling us 2:23:16.840 --> 2:23:20.000 from inside of prisons who are dealing with the backlash 2:23:20.440 --> 2:23:22.880 of what they are seeing happening across the country, where 2:23:22.879 --> 2:23:25.800 white supremacy is even sparking. 2:23:25.520 --> 2:23:27.720 In those spaces behind the walls. 2:23:28.120 --> 2:23:31.040 Our people need us on so many different levels, and 2:23:31.200 --> 2:23:34.880 as Latasha said, let us remember to continue to give 2:23:35.120 --> 2:23:38.000 money and resources, whatever little bit we have, if we're 2:23:38.040 --> 2:23:40.960 holding it from target, take it, take half of it, 2:23:41.280 --> 2:23:43.440 put it under your mattress or wherever you want to 2:23:43.480 --> 2:23:45.680 save it, and take the other half and send it 2:23:45.800 --> 2:23:49.680 to a grassroots organizer or organization that is out there 2:23:49.800 --> 2:23:53.080 doing the consistent work that while we plan on a 2:23:53.280 --> 2:23:56.360 mass scale, it is important that we deal with every 2:23:56.440 --> 2:23:58.720 single issue we talked about here this evening. 2:23:58.959 --> 2:24:01.240 But we must not forget yet that there are people who. 2:24:01.160 --> 2:24:05.160 Are literally the thing between the trigger and the finger 2:24:05.560 --> 2:24:08.840 of a thirteen or fourteen year old child who might 2:24:09.040 --> 2:24:12.760 kill somebody tomorrow because their grandmother lost their job. 2:24:13.520 --> 2:24:14.760 And when we talk about. 2:24:14.600 --> 2:24:18.120 Federal workers, so it's really really serious and important to 2:24:18.280 --> 2:24:20.880 us that we continue to focus on those folks, that 2:24:20.959 --> 2:24:23.560 we listen to the voices of the people, and that 2:24:23.680 --> 2:24:27.039 the grassroots, that the people on the ground be really 2:24:27.200 --> 2:24:29.039 at the center of all. 2:24:28.959 --> 2:24:32.879 Of our organizing. We say it until freedom that the people. 2:24:32.680 --> 2:24:35.640 Who are closest to the problem must be at the 2:24:35.800 --> 2:24:39.680 center of the solutions that we put forth in our society. 2:24:40.080 --> 2:24:42.600 And we want to make sure that everybody here, whoever 2:24:42.680 --> 2:24:47.240 you are, wherever you're organizing, let's ensure that we diversify. 2:24:47.400 --> 2:24:50.320 We want to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion outside 2:24:50.360 --> 2:24:54.520 in the world. Let us diversify every single space that 2:24:54.680 --> 2:24:57.959 we are working in to ensure that our people, all 2:24:58.040 --> 2:25:00.680 of our people are there to inform us as we 2:25:00.840 --> 2:25:02.080 go forward and do our work. 2:25:02.400 --> 2:25:03.920 God bless y'all, and I love y'all. 2:25:04.360 --> 2:25:08.080 And I'll just say I think that we're boycotting because 2:25:08.120 --> 2:25:11.360 we know we have to make America think again. Right, 2:25:11.520 --> 2:25:14.039 We need to make America think again. And the only 2:25:14.120 --> 2:25:17.560 way you make folks think is when you speak their language. 2:25:18.040 --> 2:25:21.000 So if their language is money, you gotta speak money 2:25:21.240 --> 2:25:23.280 or act money. If the language is votes, you got 2:25:23.360 --> 2:25:25.800 to act votes. If the language is viewership, you have 2:25:25.959 --> 2:25:29.880 to act viewership. And those of us who fight, we 2:25:30.080 --> 2:25:32.640 know that you have to fight on every front. And 2:25:32.760 --> 2:25:37.920 as Pastor Brian said, boycotts are really redirecting our spending. 2:25:38.720 --> 2:25:41.880 And the reason redirect our spending is because we know 2:25:42.000 --> 2:25:46.360 we must redistribute the pain. Black folks can't be the 2:25:46.480 --> 2:25:49.280 only folks in this moment who are feeling pain. And 2:25:49.360 --> 2:25:52.360 when we begin to redistribute how we spend, we can 2:25:52.840 --> 2:25:55.880 redistribute some of that pain. And a big piece of 2:25:55.959 --> 2:25:58.880 that is really showing our outrage. We often say we're 2:25:58.959 --> 2:26:01.680 not outraged in the US, but when we begin to 2:26:01.840 --> 2:26:05.320 change our actions, we show our outrage. And the outrage 2:26:05.520 --> 2:26:08.520 must be paired with action. It must be paired with 2:26:08.640 --> 2:26:12.320 consistent action. And for us, the message that we're really 2:26:12.360 --> 2:26:14.840 trying to send the folks is you can vote with 2:26:14.920 --> 2:26:17.880 your pocketbook. You can vote with your bank account, you 2:26:17.959 --> 2:26:22.199 could vote with your viewership, you can vote with every vehicle. 2:26:22.440 --> 2:26:25.360 We have power, and black folks have a lot of power. 2:26:25.640 --> 2:26:28.240 Don't listen to anyone who says you don't have power, 2:26:28.520 --> 2:26:31.080 but every place you have it, you must send a 2:26:31.200 --> 2:26:34.040 message to the gatekeepers that we're going to use the 2:26:34.160 --> 2:26:37.000 power so that black folks can get the things we 2:26:37.280 --> 2:26:40.920 need and not be oppressed any longer. We also always 2:26:40.959 --> 2:26:43.120 say we need to build something different. I think this 2:26:43.320 --> 2:26:46.560 moment has showed us that we need something different more 2:26:46.680 --> 2:26:49.800 than ever. But not only do we need something different, 2:26:49.959 --> 2:26:53.560 black folks gotta be the ones that build the something different. 2:26:53.959 --> 2:26:56.440 And in this moment, I think the biggest lesson of 2:26:56.520 --> 2:26:59.240 all is we have to begin to build things that 2:26:59.440 --> 2:27:04.080 can't be rolled back. We cannot build more things that 2:27:04.240 --> 2:27:07.720 a new administration, a new whoever, can come into position 2:27:07.920 --> 2:27:10.760 and roll it back. And I believe the only things 2:27:10.840 --> 2:27:13.519 they can't roll back is when we spend with ourselves. 2:27:13.800 --> 2:27:15.760 The only thing they can't roll back is when we 2:27:15.959 --> 2:27:19.440 vote for black folks who carry our agenda. The only 2:27:19.520 --> 2:27:22.640 thing they can't roll back is when we organize like 2:27:22.800 --> 2:27:26.200 this to deliver messages we know our people need. So 2:27:26.400 --> 2:27:29.760 for me, the more we organize, the more we move together, 2:27:30.160 --> 2:27:34.000 the more we can build institutions plans that they can't 2:27:34.080 --> 2:27:34.440 roll back. 2:27:34.480 --> 2:27:35.080 So that's what we do. 2:27:35.640 --> 2:27:39.160 What if you all found Angelo and Tamika, First off, 2:27:39.240 --> 2:27:40.920 thank you all for what you all have been putting 2:27:40.920 --> 2:27:44.039 together with regards to this, what have you all found 2:27:44.120 --> 2:27:46.400 over the years and years of activism that you've done, 2:27:46.440 --> 2:27:50.640 it's the most effective way of getting other black folks 2:27:50.680 --> 2:27:54.400 on board. Like Mama whole side is from Clarksdale, Mississippi. 2:27:54.400 --> 2:27:57.000 Pretty much every store there is a store connected to 2:27:57.040 --> 2:27:59.520 a bigger conglomerate that rolled back Dee and I. So 2:28:00.680 --> 2:28:02.600 when you're trying to get them to understand, hey, here's 2:28:02.640 --> 2:28:07.200 something you can order from an independent vendor. There's tiktoks 2:28:07.280 --> 2:28:10.920 now of people going in target and basically putting the 2:28:11.000 --> 2:28:13.000 camera in front of black and brown folks and like 2:28:13.360 --> 2:28:16.080 essentially using shame as a tactic. There's education as a tactic. 2:28:16.520 --> 2:28:18.240 What have you all found has been the best way 2:28:18.320 --> 2:28:21.640 to get more people to understand the value and everything 2:28:21.680 --> 2:28:24.120 that you all are trying to trying to get done. 2:28:34.400 --> 2:28:36.800 So I would say that we only go at it 2:28:36.879 --> 2:28:38.640 a few times and then we keep it moving and 2:28:38.800 --> 2:28:40.560 roll with the ones who want to get with it, 2:28:41.000 --> 2:28:44.680 and usually more people come along as time goes on. 2:28:44.959 --> 2:28:47.960 As long as we're disciplined, you begin to see other 2:28:48.040 --> 2:28:50.360 people saying, let me peep my head outside the door 2:28:50.360 --> 2:28:52.800 and see what's going on, and maybe I'll join that fight. 2:28:53.240 --> 2:28:56.040 And so I think that's, you know, obviously very important 2:28:56.080 --> 2:28:59.480 that we stay consistent, which is not always easy, but 2:28:59.560 --> 2:29:02.400 it also helps when we are working with like mind 2:29:02.520 --> 2:29:07.320 individuals and when we empower local voices to help lead 2:29:07.400 --> 2:29:10.720 those movements, and that they don't feel we're telling them 2:29:10.840 --> 2:29:13.160 what to do, but instead that they are a part 2:29:13.320 --> 2:29:16.880 of the process for how things come together. And so 2:29:17.000 --> 2:29:18.960 I think that a lot of people are feeling like 2:29:19.040 --> 2:29:22.520 they are part of this movement because largely Black women, 2:29:23.160 --> 2:29:27.400 who are everyday moms, everyday sisters living in their communities, 2:29:27.680 --> 2:29:31.080 are the ones whose voices were first, you know, in 2:29:31.240 --> 2:29:34.760 this fight, and so I think empowering them is so important, 2:29:35.040 --> 2:29:37.959 you know, And I totally understand what you mean, because 2:29:38.000 --> 2:29:40.560 we do have the challenge of trying to. 2:29:40.640 --> 2:29:43.200 Get everybody, but that has never been the case. 2:29:43.680 --> 2:29:44.080 Angela. 2:29:44.120 --> 2:29:48.160 You talked about the percentage of people who actually participated 2:29:48.200 --> 2:29:50.800 in the bus boycott, and even all of those people 2:29:50.879 --> 2:29:54.280 didn't start at the beginning. It took time for them 2:29:54.360 --> 2:29:57.039 to see a couple of things. One to be ashamed 2:29:57.360 --> 2:29:59.480 to keep trying to get on the bus when everybody 2:29:59.560 --> 2:30:02.480 else was making sure that they walk right on past it, 2:30:02.640 --> 2:30:03.440 and I think that's what. 2:30:03.640 --> 2:30:03.880 That's what. 2:30:04.120 --> 2:30:06.520 That's one of the tactics that we also use is 2:30:06.560 --> 2:30:09.000 to let our folks know you look kind of crazy 2:30:09.120 --> 2:30:11.960 going and target while the rest of us are standing outside. 2:30:13.040 --> 2:30:15.400 And I would say black people are really a people 2:30:16.080 --> 2:30:17.160 of rhythm. 2:30:17.920 --> 2:30:20.000 Right, oh oh, I think are trying. 2:30:19.840 --> 2:30:25.000 To Yes, y'all, let me tell you something. We have 2:30:25.280 --> 2:30:28.200 twenty six minutes. I got some leaders in you. We 2:30:28.240 --> 2:30:30.440 got some of the most really get black minds in 2:30:30.560 --> 2:30:33.080 the world on here. I gotta do a rapid round 2:30:33.160 --> 2:30:35.920 because Holly told me what one thing that we're gonna 2:30:35.959 --> 2:30:38.440 do is be twenty four hours, so we're not going 2:30:38.480 --> 2:30:38.960 over time. 2:30:39.320 --> 2:30:41.200 We got so much more we need to say and do. 2:30:41.360 --> 2:30:43.000 That means we got to have a part two, three, 2:30:43.080 --> 2:30:46.120 four nineteen. But I gotta get these brilliant voices in 2:30:47.440 --> 2:30:49.640 so I love y'all. Were gonna keep talking about this 2:30:49.760 --> 2:30:52.240 on social were and keep going. I'm gonna go first 2:30:52.600 --> 2:30:56.760 to Bernice King because you just brought up Montgomery bus 2:30:57.040 --> 2:30:59.160 boycotts to me. God, I want to go to you, 2:31:00.080 --> 2:31:01.680 doctor King, and then I want to make sure we 2:31:01.760 --> 2:31:02.560 get to your colleagues. 2:31:02.560 --> 2:31:04.640 If we can all try to keep our remarks to 2:31:05.080 --> 2:31:07.440 one and a half minutes or less. We gotta get 2:31:07.440 --> 2:31:09.400 everybody in. There's so many great voices. 2:31:09.800 --> 2:31:13.640 Kimberly krinschyaw joined us, Doctor Dyson, Maya, everybody wants you 2:31:13.720 --> 2:31:15.520 to run for mayor Maya. I mean, come on, we 2:31:15.560 --> 2:31:18.040 gotta go, we gotta get we gotta go. 2:31:18.360 --> 2:31:20.160 Doctor Burney's king. It's joined us. 2:31:20.760 --> 2:31:24.240 Yeah, thank you, and good evening everybody. I just wanted 2:31:24.240 --> 2:31:25.760 to say this. This is one of those Nie and 2:31:25.840 --> 2:31:28.800 Mayan moments. Me in my four nineteen says the work 2:31:28.920 --> 2:31:32.280 is great and extensive, and we are widely separated on 2:31:32.360 --> 2:31:35.840 the wall. But when we hear the sound of the trump, 2:31:35.959 --> 2:31:39.440 I mean trumpet, we must rally together and our God 2:31:39.640 --> 2:31:42.640 will fight for us. So I want to thank you Angela, 2:31:42.760 --> 2:31:46.960 you Joy and others for pulling this moment together in 2:31:47.120 --> 2:31:48.600 response to the trump. 2:31:49.360 --> 2:31:51.440 It in this hour? 2:31:51.879 --> 2:31:54.039 What does that mean? My father said, And I'm gonna 2:31:54.040 --> 2:31:55.039 do it real quick in this book. 2:31:55.040 --> 2:31:56.720 Where do we go from here? Chaos and community? 2:31:56.760 --> 2:31:59.480 It's a part we overlooked so often, he said, I'm 2:31:59.520 --> 2:32:03.720 Nettles task is to discover how to organize our strength 2:32:03.840 --> 2:32:07.879 into compelling power so that the government cannot elude our demands. 2:32:07.959 --> 2:32:10.080 Or I would say so that the power structures cannot 2:32:10.240 --> 2:32:13.920 elude our demands. I want to applaud everybody on here 2:32:14.000 --> 2:32:18.320 for everything you're doing to keep my father's legacy moving forward. 2:32:18.680 --> 2:32:21.920 And I just want to challenge us, just real quick, 2:32:22.000 --> 2:32:25.880 because this is very a key point here. Oftentimes we 2:32:26.120 --> 2:32:32.600 organize around passion, we organize around frustration, we organize around yes, need, 2:32:33.200 --> 2:32:36.040 But how often do we organize around strength? How do 2:32:36.120 --> 2:32:39.000 we pull our strengths together, look at what is needed 2:32:39.920 --> 2:32:42.320 to deal with what we're trying to do, and organize 2:32:42.400 --> 2:32:45.440 those strengths. And so I want to maybe it exists, 2:32:46.000 --> 2:32:48.320 I don't know, but we need a war room. That's 2:32:48.360 --> 2:32:51.800 the first thing. The second thing is I want to 2:32:52.040 --> 2:32:55.080 thank you for what you're doing and say please, Angela. 2:32:55.080 --> 2:32:59.119 I texted you today, I said, continue this platform. Because 2:32:59.640 --> 2:33:04.520 Trump has two platforms true social and X that he's 2:33:04.560 --> 2:33:09.240 communicating consistently rapid fire. We need something on a daily 2:33:09.360 --> 2:33:15.040 basis because that misinformation has to be challenged consistently. Many 2:33:15.120 --> 2:33:19.240 people are misinformed and they are impressionable, and so we 2:33:19.440 --> 2:33:22.560 need this information. So much truth was shared today that 2:33:22.720 --> 2:33:25.600 people don't know. So thank you and kudos for bringing 2:33:25.720 --> 2:33:29.720 all of those different elements together. And then find it, 2:33:29.760 --> 2:33:32.200 which is a hard one. I'm Doctor King's daughter. I 2:33:32.400 --> 2:33:36.280 embrace fully nonviolence. I'm not perfect at it, but it 2:33:36.440 --> 2:33:40.200 is the best way to move forward. It is strategic. 2:33:40.320 --> 2:33:43.160 It gives us the spiritual discipline that we need and 2:33:43.280 --> 2:33:45.400 the soul force we need. And I have a dream 2:33:45.440 --> 2:33:48.520 speech and I close with this, he reminded everybody who 2:33:48.560 --> 2:33:51.000 was on a threshold of freedom and justice, and this 2:33:51.200 --> 2:33:52.360 is another part we missed. 2:33:52.720 --> 2:33:53.920 And I have a dream. 2:33:54.000 --> 2:33:57.760 In his words, he said, we must forever and that's 2:33:57.800 --> 2:34:01.480 an underlying and a bold and aalis. We must forever 2:34:01.760 --> 2:34:06.640 conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. 2:34:06.920 --> 2:34:09.400 And so every day we got to prepare our minds, 2:34:09.440 --> 2:34:13.400 we got to prepare our spirits because this is a marathon. 2:34:14.120 --> 2:34:16.920 And then finally, as we're doing what we're doing now 2:34:17.040 --> 2:34:21.080 in this season, in this moment, we have to figure 2:34:21.080 --> 2:34:26.280 out the strategy, the strategies to change the numbers in Congress. 2:34:26.640 --> 2:34:30.440 There's a strategy to do that, not just registering the vote. 2:34:30.920 --> 2:34:32.840 But I love what Bernie did to go to the 2:34:32.959 --> 2:34:35.680 Trump voters. We got to think outside of the box 2:34:35.840 --> 2:34:39.880 to get those three numbers that are needed in the midterm. 2:34:39.920 --> 2:34:42.000 There's some elections coming up in April. It may be 2:34:42.080 --> 2:34:44.600 too late for that, but anyway, I just want to 2:34:44.680 --> 2:34:45.160 leave you with that. 2:34:45.280 --> 2:34:46.280 Thank you so much, Angela. 2:34:46.280 --> 2:34:46.840 I appreciate you. 2:34:47.400 --> 2:34:49.800 Thank you so much, Doctor Renie's King. 2:34:50.160 --> 2:34:53.760 I'm going to go next to Maya Wiley from the 2:34:53.840 --> 2:34:55.840 Lawyers com Meete and I'm sorry not the Lawyers Comity 2:34:55.920 --> 2:34:59.800 Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and then Mark Morial, President 2:34:59.840 --> 2:35:05.240 of National Early, Kimberly Crenshaw African American Policy Forum. Please, folks, 2:35:05.320 --> 2:35:06.920 let's get it in, but we want to make sure 2:35:06.920 --> 2:35:08.959 we're briefing. We get everybody else in Miami. 2:35:09.080 --> 2:35:09.480 Start with you. 2:35:11.200 --> 2:35:12.880 Well, first of all, let me just say I'm gonna 2:35:12.879 --> 2:35:15.160 be very brief just how grateful I am for all 2:35:15.200 --> 2:35:18.199 the wisdom, all of the action, all of the activism 2:35:18.280 --> 2:35:22.120 that we've already heard. I am just going to say 2:35:22.360 --> 2:35:26.160 one thing that we have not talked about. We are 2:35:26.280 --> 2:35:31.400 talking about a madman who has promised to weaponize the 2:35:31.520 --> 2:35:35.000 military against our communities. And one of the ways he's 2:35:35.040 --> 2:35:36.960 going to do it is an addition to protests. Because 2:35:37.000 --> 2:35:39.640 that was one and we heard that from Congressman Frost. 2:35:40.520 --> 2:35:44.240 But the other is by Bill Fine. Immigrants and trying 2:35:44.280 --> 2:35:48.040 to come for our constitutional rights on birthrights, citizenship, which 2:35:48.200 --> 2:35:51.360 we as black people in the civil rights movement want, 2:35:51.760 --> 2:35:54.080 because the beginning of the first civil rights movement was 2:35:54.120 --> 2:35:57.000 the abolition of slavery. But the reason I'm raising this 2:35:57.200 --> 2:35:59.920 is because we've already had a man, Peter Sean Brown, 2:36:01.080 --> 2:36:04.920 the black man in Florida, who was three days he 2:36:05.040 --> 2:36:07.720 was only three days away from being deported, and he 2:36:07.959 --> 2:36:11.640 was born in Philadelphia, you know, and in our history 2:36:11.640 --> 2:36:15.760 we have a lot of black people who were put 2:36:15.879 --> 2:36:20.320 into detention because they were believed not to be citizens 2:36:20.480 --> 2:36:22.879 even though they were. So the only reason I'm saying 2:36:22.920 --> 2:36:27.400 this is the weaponizing, just like they're doing with diversity, equity, inclusion, 2:36:27.440 --> 2:36:30.119 and say all the three words because they don't say 2:36:30.200 --> 2:36:33.600 it because people actually like diversity, people actually think it's 2:36:33.640 --> 2:36:36.520 a good thing. They like inclusion. But they're also using 2:36:36.520 --> 2:36:38.680 it to come for immigrants. We have African immigrants, we 2:36:38.720 --> 2:36:42.400 have immigrants, we have Afro Latino immigrants. But what the 2:36:42.520 --> 2:36:46.840 Lake and Riley law did, which is what they were celebrating, 2:36:46.920 --> 2:36:51.120 what Democrats also clapped for and voted for, is they 2:36:51.160 --> 2:36:54.359 are given permission to racial profiling. 2:36:55.440 --> 2:36:56.840 And that means us. 2:36:57.520 --> 2:37:01.480 Whether or not we are citizen whether or not we 2:37:01.560 --> 2:37:04.200 were born here. So I just want to remind us 2:37:04.560 --> 2:37:07.480 of that as well as everything everyone else has said, 2:37:08.320 --> 2:37:10.520 because we won these rights. 2:37:10.840 --> 2:37:12.040 These are civil rights. 2:37:12.400 --> 2:37:16.000 These are about black people in our communities, both black 2:37:16.000 --> 2:37:18.240 people who are immigrants, but also the way they catch 2:37:18.320 --> 2:37:21.000 us up in their system and by the way they 2:37:21.000 --> 2:37:23.400 will use the military and our communities to look for us. 2:37:24.040 --> 2:37:26.400 So I only say that not to say we don't 2:37:26.440 --> 2:37:28.800 have anything we can do about it, but that we 2:37:28.920 --> 2:37:31.760 can't stay silent on that one either, because it is 2:37:31.879 --> 2:37:35.400 the silence that they're relying on and telling us that 2:37:35.520 --> 2:37:37.879 we shouldn't trust our own Thank you. 2:37:37.959 --> 2:37:41.879 Then intimidate and dare the media to report it as 2:37:42.040 --> 2:37:45.800 fat and then called the facts. Last I'm sorried. Ton't 2:37:45.800 --> 2:37:48.199 mean to add more sadness on top of your sadness. 2:37:47.840 --> 2:37:52.040 But yes, thank you Mark and Kimberly. 2:37:52.480 --> 2:37:54.600 Yeah, yeah, thank you very much. Angela. 2:37:54.640 --> 2:37:56.440 First of all, I want to thank you Angela and 2:37:56.560 --> 2:38:00.760 the entire team for hosting this tonight, and I'm grateful 2:38:00.800 --> 2:38:04.520 for the opportunity to be able to participate in to 2:38:05.040 --> 2:38:09.840 just add this, what we are facing is an attack 2:38:10.800 --> 2:38:14.080 and a war on civil rights, a war on. 2:38:14.200 --> 2:38:18.560 The last seventy years to surbrim decision. 2:38:19.200 --> 2:38:24.800 Every single action being undertaken seeks to repeal the progress 2:38:24.879 --> 2:38:27.359 we've made and to erase. 2:38:27.080 --> 2:38:28.720 Our contributions to this nation. 2:38:29.480 --> 2:38:31.320 If this is not a wake up call for this 2:38:31.520 --> 2:38:35.680 generation that had the opportunity to walk through doors, stand 2:38:35.800 --> 2:38:40.720 on shoulders, avail themselves of opportunities, because the hard, sweat 2:38:41.640 --> 2:38:44.800 and struggles of others are parents and grandparents and ancestors, 2:38:45.160 --> 2:38:47.920 then I don't know what we'll wake us up. So 2:38:48.080 --> 2:38:53.959 I'm grateful and excited to see the activism, selective purchasing. 2:38:54.600 --> 2:38:57.640 We're bringing litigation. We've brought litigation with the help of 2:38:57.680 --> 2:39:02.560 the Legal Defense Fund, against three Trump executive orders. There's 2:39:02.600 --> 2:39:07.360 been litigation brought against the freeze and on behalf of 2:39:07.520 --> 2:39:11.640 the employees of federal employees. We have to stand together, 2:39:11.840 --> 2:39:16.040 and the most important thing is for everybody to do something. 2:39:16.800 --> 2:39:19.160 Get off the couch, get out. 2:39:19.080 --> 2:39:21.960 Of your comfort zone, and recognize that this is a 2:39:22.120 --> 2:39:25.480 threat to the last seventy years and we're defining the 2:39:25.600 --> 2:39:28.240 future for our children and our children's children. 2:39:28.760 --> 2:39:33.160 Project twenty twenty five is real. We're seeing it being executed, 2:39:33.240 --> 2:39:33.800 we're seeing it. 2:39:33.879 --> 2:39:38.560 Being implemented and they want to bend this country to 2:39:39.640 --> 2:39:44.720 an autocracy and reinstate white supremacy as the operating and 2:39:44.879 --> 2:39:45.840 governing principles. 2:39:45.920 --> 2:39:51.440 So I just think that tonight is just another step. Angela. 2:39:51.520 --> 2:39:55.160 We got to continue these conversations. We've got to continue 2:39:55.200 --> 2:39:57.360 to energize and excite people. 2:39:57.440 --> 2:40:00.680 So I'm grateful to be a part will continue to 2:40:00.760 --> 2:40:05.000 play our role to the best of our abilities. I'll 2:40:05.000 --> 2:40:07.680 see everyone who being Selma and Selma on Saturday and 2:40:07.760 --> 2:40:11.640 Sunday as we as we celebrate and note and mark 2:40:12.080 --> 2:40:15.480 the milestone of Bloody Sunday sixty years ago. 2:40:16.800 --> 2:40:19.039 You really are up, yes, Angela. 2:40:19.360 --> 2:40:23.120 I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that this 2:40:23.320 --> 2:40:26.800 is happening, and also how impressed I am. I was 2:40:26.840 --> 2:40:28.920 watching you last night around this time, and you are 2:40:28.959 --> 2:40:32.920 still looking good. So thank you and many many props 2:40:32.959 --> 2:40:35.960 to you. Listen, here's the main thing I want to 2:40:36.080 --> 2:40:39.480 remind us of. We have been here before. We know 2:40:39.760 --> 2:40:42.879 that this is the same thing that happened to us 2:40:43.000 --> 2:40:48.960 after Reconstruction. We know what violence did to our aspirations. 2:40:49.120 --> 2:40:54.680 We know what happened when individuals and organizations, not just 2:40:54.800 --> 2:40:57.960 those who are coming after us, but the Party of 2:40:58.080 --> 2:41:01.680 Lincoln finally this that they didn't want to have the 2:41:01.760 --> 2:41:06.720 burden of us on their chart anymore. And so what 2:41:07.240 --> 2:41:09.800 really worries me about this moment is the thing that 2:41:09.879 --> 2:41:12.520 we're not saying as much as we should, which is 2:41:13.320 --> 2:41:16.720 in this terror moment, in this moment when they're removing 2:41:16.879 --> 2:41:20.800 us from everywhere, it's not just maga that we have 2:41:20.920 --> 2:41:23.640 to struggle with. The call is coming from in the 2:41:23.760 --> 2:41:28.560 house when we can see people being removed black people 2:41:28.959 --> 2:41:32.600 who are accomplished, who are at the top of their field, 2:41:32.720 --> 2:41:38.480 from joy to four star general. They are coming after 2:41:39.120 --> 2:41:43.720 us as the vehicle for this agenda. We've got to 2:41:43.800 --> 2:41:46.200 be able to call it out when we know that 2:41:46.360 --> 2:41:51.720 our fellow Democrats, our fellow progressives, our fellow leftists, our 2:41:51.800 --> 2:41:56.520 fellow liberals are more afraid of being called woke than 2:41:56.840 --> 2:41:57.320 being on. 2:41:57.440 --> 2:41:59.920 The wrong side of history. The fight is here. 2:42:00.600 --> 2:42:03.480 So this has been a fight that's been going on 2:42:03.680 --> 2:42:04.560 for several years. 2:42:04.879 --> 2:42:08.160 Many of us have been saying, Mark Marial one of them, 2:42:09.760 --> 2:42:15.320 chavn arline another one, that this attack on our freedom, 2:42:15.640 --> 2:42:19.000 this attack on our civil rights history, this attack on 2:42:19.080 --> 2:42:22.400 our ability to know and understand what our history is 2:42:22.480 --> 2:42:26.880 telling us, is an attack on the entire infrastructure of 2:42:27.000 --> 2:42:30.920 the last sixty years. They've told us from the beginning, 2:42:31.320 --> 2:42:35.080 they're coming after public education, they're coming after public values, 2:42:35.120 --> 2:42:38.560 and they're coming after the government. And that's exactly what 2:42:38.760 --> 2:42:42.119 they've done. So if there's any moment of doubt, if 2:42:42.160 --> 2:42:45.680 there is any question about why we have to fight now, 2:42:46.440 --> 2:42:50.119 just remember Woodrow Wilson did exactly what Trump is doing 2:42:50.240 --> 2:42:53.720 right now. He cleared us out from the government. He 2:42:53.920 --> 2:42:57.440 eliminated the protections that we had. He was backed up 2:42:57.480 --> 2:43:00.760 with the Supreme Court, who is willing to sign onto it. 2:43:01.160 --> 2:43:06.520 And lastly, but not but not least, our friends allowed 2:43:06.560 --> 2:43:08.840 them to do it. So our fight has to be 2:43:09.360 --> 2:43:10.320 multi level. 2:43:10.400 --> 2:43:11.480 We have to fight magga. 2:43:11.560 --> 2:43:13.039 Yeah, but we got to fight. 2:43:12.959 --> 2:43:14.960 Those who are willing to say, maybe we're going to 2:43:15.040 --> 2:43:18.400 compromise on diversity, equity and inclusion, Maybe we're going to 2:43:18.520 --> 2:43:22.120 compromise on black history. Maybe we don't need to be 2:43:22.240 --> 2:43:25.880 worried about all of these ideas and these frameworks. Maybe 2:43:26.040 --> 2:43:31.960 we can negotiate a settlement. Whenever a settlement is negotiated, trust, 2:43:32.240 --> 2:43:34.440 we're the ones that are going to be thrown under 2:43:34.480 --> 2:43:37.760 the bus. So I couldn't be happier to be part 2:43:37.840 --> 2:43:42.560 of this. I couldn't be more enthusiastic and excited about 2:43:42.640 --> 2:43:45.040 the fact that we are on the march. The Saints 2:43:45.080 --> 2:43:48.000 are marching in and I'm glad to be in that number. 2:43:48.520 --> 2:43:51.200 And let's remember I'm going to end byte quoting SHERYLN. 2:43:51.280 --> 2:43:55.000 Eiffel who said leave no power on the table. What 2:43:55.160 --> 2:43:57.840 did she mean by that? She meant to say, Yeah, 2:43:57.879 --> 2:44:00.320 we're fighting at the federal level, but the real power 2:44:00.480 --> 2:44:02.720 is at the local level. It's at those school boards, 2:44:03.040 --> 2:44:06.680 it's at the city council, it's at all the places 2:44:06.720 --> 2:44:11.280 where these decisions about what actually shapes our lives are made. 2:44:11.400 --> 2:44:14.200 So we need to step up, step in, be there 2:44:14.400 --> 2:44:17.200 recognized that this fight is not the fight for the 2:44:17.280 --> 2:44:21.120 next four years. It's a fight for a century, and 2:44:21.240 --> 2:44:22.280 we need to be part of it. 2:44:22.760 --> 2:44:25.280 Thankk you so much. You guys, we have twelve people 2:44:25.360 --> 2:44:27.760 in eleven minutes left. Stephanie Young, I'm coming to you. 2:44:27.840 --> 2:44:30.400 We're gonna be quick as be mindful. Otherwise we can't 2:44:30.440 --> 2:44:32.240 thank all the team that pulled this off. So please 2:44:32.280 --> 2:44:34.440 me Minchael, Stephanie Young, you have the floor. Talk to 2:44:34.520 --> 2:44:36.400 us about voting. Were gonna go to these packs and 2:44:36.480 --> 2:44:37.000 get it done. 2:44:37.520 --> 2:44:40.400 Yeah, well, thank you guys so much for all the 2:44:40.480 --> 2:44:43.360 work that you're doing continuously to make today, tonight and 2:44:43.840 --> 2:44:46.080 even tomorrow and all the things that will do together happen. 2:44:46.520 --> 2:44:49.520 I think it's really important to remember because I think 2:44:49.520 --> 2:44:51.840 a lot of folks have been discouraged and depressed obviously 2:44:52.040 --> 2:44:56.520 what's happened. But we had eighty nine million people in 2:44:56.640 --> 2:45:01.480 this country, actually not one hundred and forty four million 2:45:01.520 --> 2:45:04.440 people vote in this electronic This is not the highest turnout. 2:45:04.440 --> 2:45:07.800 I think Maxwell Frost said it. Twenty twenty actually had 2:45:07.800 --> 2:45:10.840 the highest voter turnout. And when you think about the 2:45:10.959 --> 2:45:14.680 multi level fight that Miss Crenshaw just laid out, it's 2:45:14.920 --> 2:45:19.960 incredibly important that we're attacking it from all all facets, 2:45:20.720 --> 2:45:25.800 so from civic engagement to some disobedient obedience to clear, concise, 2:45:25.920 --> 2:45:30.280 authentic and real consistent messaging. And we know we're in 2:45:30.400 --> 2:45:33.200 my old hat working in the in the voting rights space, 2:45:33.240 --> 2:45:36.800 that peer to peer organizing is really the number one 2:45:36.840 --> 2:45:40.360 converter to get as many people registered and ready to vote, 2:45:40.480 --> 2:45:46.039 and voter education does it stop there. That also goes 2:45:46.120 --> 2:45:49.520 to entering that people understand not only you know what, 2:45:49.959 --> 2:45:53.840 what does my vote get made? But also all the 2:45:53.920 --> 2:45:56.920 different levers that voting actually rolls from the school boards 2:45:57.520 --> 2:46:00.160 all the way up into obviously the present in the 2:46:00.280 --> 2:46:03.039 United States. So I think that when we're having these conversations, 2:46:03.840 --> 2:46:06.320 we can't leave out the deep organizing that actually has 2:46:06.360 --> 2:46:09.440 to happen because our people aren't fully out on the 2:46:09.520 --> 2:46:12.040 field when it comes to making their voices heard, and 2:46:12.120 --> 2:46:15.240 then also fighting the disinformation that comes from you know, 2:46:15.360 --> 2:46:19.600 all different sides, but from the peer to peer organizing, 2:46:19.760 --> 2:46:23.959 the voter education registration that can't just happen twelve months 2:46:24.120 --> 2:46:26.240 or six months for the election, but actually needs to 2:46:26.320 --> 2:46:30.640 start right now. Takes seven touches to get someone actually 2:46:30.720 --> 2:46:33.480 registered to vote and engaged. And we're not talking about 2:46:33.640 --> 2:46:35.640 you know, seven pains just on the internet. We're talking 2:46:35.640 --> 2:46:37.720 about phone calls. We're talking about peer to peer. We're 2:46:37.720 --> 2:46:42.080 talking about a multi lever, lever and layered process. So 2:46:43.280 --> 2:46:46.960 as we continue these conversations in community on how we 2:46:47.120 --> 2:46:50.119 all can play our part, I want to make sure 2:46:50.160 --> 2:46:53.520 and I know that from Derek n BLACP and on 2:46:54.400 --> 2:46:57.680 Collective Pack and obviously Latasha and all the work they're 2:46:57.720 --> 2:46:59.760 doing with Black Voters Matter, we have a lot of 2:46:59.800 --> 2:47:02.280 work to do in the voting space. And I know 2:47:02.360 --> 2:47:06.560 that voting hasn't always been sected, but it's incredibly, incredibly 2:47:06.640 --> 2:47:10.760 and very critical, uh to to ensuring that in the 2:47:10.840 --> 2:47:13.520 midterms that we made our voices her, but also obviously 2:47:14.240 --> 2:47:16.280 four years from now. So I'm looking forward to doing 2:47:16.320 --> 2:47:17.320 the work everyone. 2:47:17.480 --> 2:47:20.200 Thank you, step you guys there. 2:47:20.360 --> 2:47:23.160 We have a very important guest who's just joined us, 2:47:23.240 --> 2:47:26.680 and I think that Quentin and Mike McBride might be 2:47:26.800 --> 2:47:30.000 okay with me yielding their time to her. Their work 2:47:30.640 --> 2:47:35.840 helped to solidify this history making Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester 2:47:36.160 --> 2:47:40.160 out of the great state of Delaware and our good friend, 2:47:40.240 --> 2:47:41.920 and I'm just so happy you're here. So I want 2:47:41.959 --> 2:47:43.680 to yield a couple of minutes to you. We're trying 2:47:43.720 --> 2:47:44.520 to meet our deadline. 2:47:44.560 --> 2:47:44.800 Holly. 2:47:44.920 --> 2:47:46.680 We might be over, but it's a good it's a 2:47:46.720 --> 2:47:47.720 good reason why. 2:47:48.040 --> 2:47:53.800 I'm gonna be very very brief. I just left the 2:47:54.800 --> 2:47:58.879 floor from a very bizarre thing. 2:47:58.879 --> 2:48:03.560 To witness and behold, and I will just tell you that. 2:48:03.879 --> 2:48:10.280 Angela to you and everyone on here, Miss Reid, and 2:48:10.440 --> 2:48:14.480 I'm calling you misread because just thank you for the 2:48:14.600 --> 2:48:16.320 service that you have done for this country. 2:48:16.959 --> 2:48:18.760 To all of you on this line. 2:48:19.000 --> 2:48:21.240 I want to say, I needed to get on here 2:48:21.760 --> 2:48:22.760 to be refueled. 2:48:23.959 --> 2:48:26.480 And I think in this moment it is going to 2:48:26.560 --> 2:48:30.280 require each of us to recognize what can I do 2:48:30.560 --> 2:48:35.040 in this moment. The fact that Angela, also Brooks and 2:48:35.200 --> 2:48:40.160 I were sitting in the row, the same row as Jim. 2:48:40.040 --> 2:48:42.120 Clyburn and in front of us, Corey Booker and all 2:48:42.160 --> 2:48:42.720 of us, we. 2:48:42.800 --> 2:48:44.840 Said, no, this is our house. 2:48:45.280 --> 2:48:46.360 We're not leaving. 2:48:47.080 --> 2:48:49.520 You're going to look me right in the eye and 2:48:49.640 --> 2:48:52.520 say these things, and we are going to then take 2:48:52.600 --> 2:48:55.760 our power and act. And so I just want to 2:48:55.840 --> 2:48:59.760 thank to the collective, to everybody who helped us get 2:48:59.800 --> 2:49:04.360 to this place. Now the real work begins. And as 2:49:04.480 --> 2:49:09.200 was said, they're using words like scrub to scrub our history, 2:49:09.600 --> 2:49:13.680 to scrub us out of jobs, even veterans who are 2:49:13.800 --> 2:49:15.400 one third of the workforce. 2:49:16.800 --> 2:49:17.760 They don't care. 2:49:18.320 --> 2:49:20.199 And so I'm. 2:49:21.760 --> 2:49:26.920 I'm on fire in this moment. I appreciate the help 2:49:27.000 --> 2:49:28.320 and support and the wisdom. 2:49:29.040 --> 2:49:32.040 Like Sherlen Eiffel is going to be meeting with me 2:49:32.200 --> 2:49:35.080 and talking to me and talking about some of the levers. 2:49:35.720 --> 2:49:39.680 I'm once an urban leaguer, always an urban leaguer. Kimberly Crenshaw. 2:49:39.720 --> 2:49:42.480 I literally, Jamie, I could literally go through all of 2:49:42.560 --> 2:49:44.880 you here on this call and say thank you, thank you, 2:49:45.000 --> 2:49:49.040 thank you. But remember in this moment I said on 2:49:49.160 --> 2:49:52.240 the house on the Senate floor, for us, we know 2:49:52.360 --> 2:49:56.000 that trouble don't last always. For us, we know that 2:49:56.320 --> 2:49:59.000 it doesn't last all ways when we walk together children 2:49:59.080 --> 2:50:03.400 and not get weird, and that ultimately joy will come 2:50:03.440 --> 2:50:05.520 in the morning. But we got to do the work 2:50:05.600 --> 2:50:07.640 right now while it is night, and so I am 2:50:07.760 --> 2:50:10.800 just grateful for your presence. I'm grateful for your work. 2:50:11.040 --> 2:50:13.400 I'm looking forward. Look, I'm starting to see other people 2:50:13.480 --> 2:50:16.560 that I needed to call out, but I'm so grateful 2:50:16.600 --> 2:50:18.920 and on behalf of those of us who are in 2:50:19.400 --> 2:50:22.280 oh Leah adultery. I don't want to get started, but 2:50:22.840 --> 2:50:24.680 I just want to say thank you for your work 2:50:24.800 --> 2:50:27.720 and we are ready to get to work together. Thank 2:50:27.800 --> 2:50:31.440 you Angela so much for even this lifts my spirit 2:50:32.080 --> 2:50:34.400 as we go into tomorrow, that's all. 2:50:34.400 --> 2:50:37.240 I'll stick around till midnight because that's when the hour 2:50:37.400 --> 2:50:39.960 is dark as but we know morning is coming. Quittin 2:50:40.000 --> 2:50:41.920 and Mike real fast, and then I'm gonna get to 2:50:42.040 --> 2:50:46.040 these ladies that we need to get to everybody be encouraged. 2:50:47.200 --> 2:50:49.480 Will this is you know, is the worst of times, 2:50:49.520 --> 2:50:50.720 is also the best of times. 2:50:51.200 --> 2:50:55.199 We've never had as many black leaders in public office 2:50:55.200 --> 2:50:57.320 as we do right now, and that's because the work 2:50:57.320 --> 2:51:00.640 of everybody on this line, everyone watching. We've put the 2:51:00.720 --> 2:51:03.440 work in. We came up short last November. We're going 2:51:03.480 --> 2:51:05.840 to put the work in this year and next year. 2:51:06.240 --> 2:51:08.440 We have a black candidate running for governor of New 2:51:08.560 --> 2:51:13.040 Jersey right now in Rob's Baraka. Tonight was election night 2:51:13.120 --> 2:51:16.520 in Saint Louis mayor to Shara Jones running for reelection. 2:51:17.120 --> 2:51:19.360 And so while we are thinking about what's happening in DC, 2:51:20.240 --> 2:51:22.280 a lot of powers being built on the ground. And 2:51:22.360 --> 2:51:24.400 so thank you all for what you have done. We're 2:51:24.400 --> 2:51:26.520 going to continue doing it throughout this this next year. 2:51:27.560 --> 2:51:27.880 Thank you. 2:51:28.000 --> 2:51:31.280 Quinn from Collective Back, Pastor Mike McBride from Black Church, 2:51:31.400 --> 2:51:32.680 Pack Yes. 2:51:32.600 --> 2:51:33.720 Black Church Back, and Lift Free. 2:51:33.760 --> 2:51:36.520 Let me just say this whole day, these last twenty 2:51:36.560 --> 2:51:40.200 four hours, has been a demonstration of what happens when 2:51:40.240 --> 2:51:44.360 we organize together. Disorganized truth will find it difficult to 2:51:44.440 --> 2:51:45.760 defeat the organized lives. 2:51:45.800 --> 2:51:48.760 What I was taught and so my hope is that we. 2:51:49.080 --> 2:51:53.280 Organize ourselves on the ground. Brother Queen just said it powerfully. 2:51:53.320 --> 2:51:57.840 All politics is local. As we've manifested and flexed online. 2:51:57.959 --> 2:52:00.760 May we do that on the ground. May we attend 2:52:00.800 --> 2:52:05.520 to the differences among us on the ground by class, gender, sexuality, 2:52:05.640 --> 2:52:09.000 all things that try to divide us. Organize ourselves into 2:52:09.080 --> 2:52:12.200 the power. We need to keep this demonstration of our 2:52:12.280 --> 2:52:13.039 unity together. 2:52:13.520 --> 2:52:17.119 I think Elijah Muhammad said our unity is more powerful 2:52:17.200 --> 2:52:18.640 than an atomic boond. 2:52:19.520 --> 2:52:23.840 May we use our unity to defeat this wickedness around us. 2:52:23.920 --> 2:52:24.840 God bless everybody. 2:52:25.280 --> 2:52:26.240 Thank you pastor Mike. 2:52:26.320 --> 2:52:28.560 Since we're in the Bible, I'm gonna go to red 2:52:28.600 --> 2:52:32.480 Lip Theology. I miss my red Lip today. But candicemenybenbals here, 2:52:32.560 --> 2:52:34.600 we need to hear from you. I personally reach out 2:52:34.600 --> 2:52:36.080 to you, says My best friend was like, you know 2:52:36.280 --> 2:52:38.720 you need to have so you're here. Please, we want 2:52:38.720 --> 2:52:39.160 to hear from you. 2:52:39.800 --> 2:52:41.080 I just want to say that. 2:52:41.640 --> 2:52:43.360 The one thing I want to challenge us all to 2:52:43.480 --> 2:52:48.360 do creators create writers right. If this is a moment 2:52:48.520 --> 2:52:53.520 of disinformation, of misinformation, they are burning our books, what 2:52:53.720 --> 2:52:57.200 will the record bear fifty years from now? So not 2:52:57.400 --> 2:53:00.080 only do we need to document this time until a 2:53:00.200 --> 2:53:02.920 story we also need to do the work. 2:53:02.800 --> 2:53:05.320 That our souls need to have and our souls must have. 2:53:05.959 --> 2:53:08.480 And as we're talking about self care, as we're talking 2:53:08.520 --> 2:53:11.160 about lifting each other up, that's gonna come from the 2:53:11.360 --> 2:53:13.280 art that we create. That's going to come from the 2:53:13.400 --> 2:53:16.960 love that we that we admit and and and give 2:53:17.000 --> 2:53:19.800 each other. And I am heartened by tonight's sis. I'm 2:53:19.879 --> 2:53:20.560 so proud of you. 2:53:21.720 --> 2:53:24.360 I was up last night when you started, and I 2:53:24.480 --> 2:53:26.320 with you here at the end, and I'm so proud 2:53:26.360 --> 2:53:38.280 of you. Thank you so much for this, so very much. 2:53:38.400 --> 2:53:42.520 I'm gonna go to coach Jazelle and then to doctor 2:53:42.600 --> 2:53:43.320 Raquel Martin. 2:53:47.360 --> 2:53:50.560 Did I lose hope, Jael? I'm at a lost heir, Okay, 2:53:50.680 --> 2:53:52.320 Doctor Raquel Martin, I'm sorry. 2:53:52.680 --> 2:53:53.400 Yeah, no problem. 2:53:53.480 --> 2:53:55.560 So I just wanted to state that although we acknowledge 2:53:55.560 --> 2:53:58.720 the fact that activism is inspired sustained by love and community, 2:53:59.120 --> 2:54:02.279 when it is constantly being challenged by injustice, the emotional 2:54:02.320 --> 2:54:04.960 toll is going to lead to burnout and numbness and detachment. 2:54:05.040 --> 2:54:07.720 So I am working with clients, I'm a licensed clinical psychologist. 2:54:08.000 --> 2:54:10.120 I really just want you all to be mindful of 2:54:10.760 --> 2:54:13.480 signs of resistance, fatigue, that's the exhution that comes from 2:54:13.520 --> 2:54:17.800 sustained activism. Advocate fighting for justice. If you're feeling numb 2:54:17.920 --> 2:54:19.800 or detached, oring different to issues that you used to 2:54:19.879 --> 2:54:23.160 deeply carry, if I care about, you're having low frustration tolerance, 2:54:23.440 --> 2:54:26.120 you're feeling guilty about resting. Some things that I've been 2:54:26.160 --> 2:54:28.320 talking to my clients that are activist about are just 2:54:28.440 --> 2:54:30.879 sharing the load. Activism was never meant to be solo. 2:54:31.040 --> 2:54:34.840 So creating a care rotation with fellow activists where you're 2:54:35.040 --> 2:54:38.320 alternating who's organizing the meetings, who's managing social media, who 2:54:38.800 --> 2:54:42.640 is driving the people to the everywhere, the whole scene 2:54:42.680 --> 2:54:47.480 the meetings, You're building restorative community, creating consistent, structured check in. 2:54:48.680 --> 2:54:50.360 I told one of my clients to make a buddy 2:54:50.400 --> 2:54:53.120 system with someone where activists are responsible for checking in 2:54:53.280 --> 2:54:57.880 with each other, directing small acts of solidarity, they make 2:54:57.920 --> 2:55:01.880 a big impact. Mutual aid isn't just about organizing huge efforts, 2:55:01.959 --> 2:55:05.160 is about every single day support, checking in right childcare. 2:55:06.080 --> 2:55:08.240 When it comes down to it. As a medical professional, 2:55:08.280 --> 2:55:11.039 I'm also a liberation psychologist, and healing isn't just about 2:55:11.040 --> 2:55:14.000 the individual. It's about dismantling the systems that make us 2:55:14.040 --> 2:55:16.480 sick in the first place, and all this extra stress 2:55:16.640 --> 2:55:19.880 leads to increased susceptibility to illness and autoimmune disorders. So 2:55:20.080 --> 2:55:23.720 to all the individuals watching this, the medical and health professionals, 2:55:23.760 --> 2:55:27.080 our job isn't just to help people survive oppression, it's 2:55:27.120 --> 2:55:29.400 to challenge it. So if we're not working towards justice, 2:55:29.760 --> 2:55:32.640 we're also maintaining the harm. So doctors can contribute to 2:55:32.680 --> 2:55:36.880 this by providing equitable care, anti racist care, addressing social 2:55:36.920 --> 2:55:39.959 determinants of health. Because therapy does not have a monopoly 2:55:40.040 --> 2:55:42.000 on healing. I am a psychologist, but it doesn't have 2:55:42.040 --> 2:55:44.320 a monopoly on healing. So when it's whether it's your 2:55:44.360 --> 2:55:47.080 path to healing is therapy or creating or activism, it's 2:55:47.120 --> 2:55:48.840 going to be paid with community, and we're going to 2:55:48.879 --> 2:55:51.400 need that more than ever. So also checking with yourselves 2:55:51.440 --> 2:55:53.280 everyone on this call. If you notice the same people 2:55:53.440 --> 2:55:56.560 organizing every single one of these talks, that's a problem 2:55:57.080 --> 2:56:00.160 because the whole aspect of longevity isn't just about ill 2:56:00.320 --> 2:56:02.760 or out working everyone. It's about taking care of yourself. 2:56:02.959 --> 2:56:05.120 So many times people talk about pouring from an empty cup. 2:56:05.320 --> 2:56:08.000 Mostly y'all don't even have cups. Y'all have like spaghetti strainers, 2:56:08.080 --> 2:56:10.760 y'all got calendars because everything's poking holes in it. So 2:56:10.800 --> 2:56:12.680 I would encourage you to think about what's also poking 2:56:12.720 --> 2:56:14.440 holes in your cup and make sure the same people 2:56:14.480 --> 2:56:16.600 are not organizing this entire thing because. 2:56:16.320 --> 2:56:17.480 It's going to take a while. 2:56:17.520 --> 2:56:19.920 But when you're running on fumes, you can't sustain anything, 2:56:20.000 --> 2:56:21.720 and this is going to take a lot of sustainability. 2:56:22.320 --> 2:56:23.240 Thank you so much. 2:56:23.520 --> 2:56:25.320 I'm gonna go to doctor Dyson because he was not 2:56:25.480 --> 2:56:27.560 on a panel today, and we're going to get to 2:56:27.680 --> 2:56:29.640 some of the other folks for brief thank yous or 2:56:29.720 --> 2:56:33.080 something before we drop off. But doctor Michael Eric Dyson, 2:56:33.480 --> 2:56:34.520 mentor you have the floor. 2:56:35.400 --> 2:56:38.080 Love you, love what you do, love what you stand for, 2:56:38.600 --> 2:56:39.240 so proud of you. 2:56:39.760 --> 2:56:43.320 Very briefly, Let's make sure diversity is diverse, right, Don't 2:56:43.400 --> 2:56:45.560 be suckered by these people trying to make you hate 2:56:45.600 --> 2:56:49.120 trans people, or gay people, or lesbian people, or poor 2:56:49.240 --> 2:56:52.120 people are in the like. Let's understand that they are 2:56:52.240 --> 2:56:55.480 all those of us who are black. Understand the liberation 2:56:55.640 --> 2:56:59.720 movement for what it does. Number two, The truth is, 2:57:00.800 --> 2:57:03.200 be deadly serious about what you are committed to, but 2:57:03.240 --> 2:57:05.880 don't check yourself too seriously at all and in that way, 2:57:06.520 --> 2:57:08.680 like Elijah and the Bible, I only am left. No, 2:57:08.760 --> 2:57:12.000 you ain't the seven thousand others, So stop and focus 2:57:12.160 --> 2:57:15.640 on the job at hand. Thirdly, my pastor used to say, 2:57:15.680 --> 2:57:18.480 we've already come through what we've come to, which means 2:57:18.560 --> 2:57:21.600 we've been through this stuff before. Let's remember those lessons. 2:57:22.040 --> 2:57:26.280 And finally, Howard Thurmann said, you don't reduce your dreams 2:57:26.320 --> 2:57:28.840 to the event you confront. Now you have a choice. 2:57:29.040 --> 2:57:30.920 You can be a prisoner of hope or you can 2:57:30.959 --> 2:57:33.160 be a prisoner of the event. We choose to be 2:57:33.240 --> 2:57:35.360 a prisoner of the event. And now end by saying, 2:57:35.360 --> 2:57:38.040 I know Bishop Daltrey said that the cavalry ain't coming. 2:57:38.080 --> 2:57:40.440 That's true, but Calvary is here and on that old 2:57:40.520 --> 2:57:43.320 rugged cross, there's a lot that's been penned there and 2:57:43.400 --> 2:57:44.920 that has sustained us as a people. 2:57:45.240 --> 2:57:47.640 Thank you so much, God, bless you, Thank. 2:57:47.520 --> 2:57:48.480 You, doctor Dyson. 2:57:48.640 --> 2:57:52.800 We are going to go to doctor David John's the 2:57:53.120 --> 2:57:57.680 journalist extraordinaire Ed Gordon, Monique and our Fonzo and we 2:57:57.959 --> 2:57:59.800 are rapping y'all quickly. 2:58:00.520 --> 2:58:01.199 I love y'all. 2:58:01.520 --> 2:58:03.879 There's something special about being in the care of black 2:58:03.920 --> 2:58:05.000 women who love black people. 2:58:05.080 --> 2:58:07.400 So thank you to you, Lolo, Jill, the whole team. 2:58:07.920 --> 2:58:08.760 I think my only. 2:58:08.680 --> 2:58:11.160 Contribution is to remind us of what Benny lu Hamer said, 2:58:11.200 --> 2:58:12.680 which is that none of us are free of lesson 2:58:12.720 --> 2:58:14.040 until all of us are free. So this is the 2:58:14.040 --> 2:58:16.720 moment where'mna step on some of y'all's toes and say gay, 2:58:17.360 --> 2:58:20.400 trans and gender expansive. If we don't lock arms and 2:58:20.480 --> 2:58:23.800 aims and hearts with every member of our beautify diverse community, 2:58:24.080 --> 2:58:26.240 we will never get free. So let's do the work 2:58:26.240 --> 2:58:29.320 of getting liberated together. Let's do the work of supporting 2:58:29.400 --> 2:58:32.439 each other and centering joy, and let's continue to resist. 2:58:32.720 --> 2:58:35.680 Let's not capitulate, Let's not give them anything. Let's live 2:58:35.720 --> 2:58:37.640 in the spirit of Nipsey Hustle, who reminds us that 2:58:37.720 --> 2:58:38.680 it's all a marathon. 2:58:39.040 --> 2:58:40.320 All we got to do is keep going. 2:58:40.480 --> 2:58:43.199 I love y'all, sincerely, thanks David. 2:58:43.280 --> 2:58:45.560 And on that note, Hope Gazelle dropped. I'm sure she 2:58:45.760 --> 2:58:48.280 was just tired, but please look up the work of 2:58:48.360 --> 2:58:51.959 Hope Jazelle. David, can you share our Instagram. 2:58:51.920 --> 2:58:53.640 And at Hope Jaselle. 2:58:53.760 --> 2:58:56.280 She also is a leader with NBJC, so you can 2:58:56.400 --> 2:58:58.800 check us out at www dot MJC. 2:58:59.360 --> 2:59:00.240 Download our bloo. 2:59:00.040 --> 2:59:02.680 Lack facts data and aligns with the Black Census Project, 2:59:02.920 --> 2:59:05.320 and you can also find us at MBJC on the move. 2:59:05.440 --> 2:59:08.360 But shout out to Hope Jazelle, who is doing tremendous work. 2:59:08.440 --> 2:59:11.240 Find her, support her, find ways to level members of 2:59:11.280 --> 2:59:14.400 our community again who are transitgender expansive. They are the 2:59:14.480 --> 2:59:16.640 tip of the sphere of these neo fascists who are 2:59:16.720 --> 2:59:17.800 legislating genocide. 2:59:18.480 --> 2:59:23.320 Thank you so much, dj Okay, Monique and Alfonso, come on. 2:59:25.200 --> 2:59:28.879 And Ed Gordon, you want a Monique to go first, 2:59:29.560 --> 2:59:32.240 I'm so go ahead. You go ahead, Angela, Thank you, 2:59:32.520 --> 2:59:35.640 Thank you to Joy, Thank you to Rev. Mark, Lolo Holly, 2:59:35.760 --> 2:59:38.400 all of our partners who have worked on this. What 2:59:38.520 --> 2:59:40.320 I want to leave us with is make sure we 2:59:40.720 --> 2:59:45.320 remember is that there's a direct connection between our wallets, 2:59:45.720 --> 2:59:50.959 our pocketbooks, and our dignity. All too often we treat economic. 2:59:50.720 --> 2:59:54.320 Justice and social justice like their separate conversations, and the 2:59:54.440 --> 2:59:57.680 truth is they're completely connected. Firing people from their jobs 2:59:57.840 --> 3:00:00.640 is directly connected to whether they can put food on 3:00:00.720 --> 3:00:03.080 the table and whether they can be treated with dignity 3:00:03.120 --> 3:00:06.959 at work, and then striking down diversity, equity and inclusion effects, 3:00:07.000 --> 3:00:10.840 whether public and private sectors, will be held accountable for 3:00:11.000 --> 3:00:14.320 addressing the disparities that show that black businesses are being 3:00:14.440 --> 3:00:18.400 denied opportunities. Just so we're clear, twenty percent of new 3:00:18.440 --> 3:00:21.600 businesses go out of business within the first twelve to 3:00:21.720 --> 3:00:25.519 eighteen months, but when you're talking about black businesses. 3:00:25.520 --> 3:00:28.000 That's eighty percent. Eighty percent of. 3:00:28.040 --> 3:00:31.120 Black businesses go out of business during that same time period, 3:00:31.440 --> 3:00:34.560 and this is due to systemic barriers that exist. 3:00:34.320 --> 3:00:35.040 In the marketplace. 3:00:35.120 --> 3:00:38.040 So remember as we go through this fight, in this struggle, 3:00:38.480 --> 3:00:40.600 that when you hear about the actions being taken by 3:00:40.640 --> 3:00:43.600 the new administration, understand that they. 3:00:43.560 --> 3:00:45.960 Have an impact on your dignity and they have an 3:00:46.000 --> 3:00:48.080 impact on your wallet. That is the goal. 3:00:48.160 --> 3:00:49.680 They are connected and. 3:00:49.760 --> 3:00:51.280 If the global Black Economic form. 3:00:51.360 --> 3:00:53.960 We're going to continue doing this work, fighting for economic 3:00:54.160 --> 3:00:55.800 justice and fighting for economic. 3:00:55.480 --> 3:00:58.480 Freedom and working with all of you and doing so. Angela, 3:00:58.560 --> 3:00:59.080 thank you again. 3:00:59.680 --> 3:01:01.879 Thank you, y'all find the Monique my sister. 3:01:03.040 --> 3:01:06.560 I love you girl, real true. 3:01:06.400 --> 3:01:09.320 And deep in the bunker, any bunker anytime. Thank you 3:01:09.440 --> 3:01:13.320 for this, thank you for everybody who worked from one scripture, 3:01:13.879 --> 3:01:17.840 Faith without works is dead, and that means it's like 3:01:18.200 --> 3:01:21.760 having none at all. It's like nonexistent faith. What we've 3:01:21.800 --> 3:01:25.160 done for the past twenty four hours is a demonstration 3:01:25.879 --> 3:01:29.040 of the height of our faith through our work. And 3:01:29.160 --> 3:01:32.000 I am so thankful for that because my faith is 3:01:32.160 --> 3:01:34.720 real high, my faith in God and my faith in 3:01:34.800 --> 3:01:39.680 our people, my belief that we can take this and 3:01:39.879 --> 3:01:42.959 go someplace with it. We ain't got to agree on everything. 3:01:43.120 --> 3:01:46.640 Let's do one thing and take some steps with the 3:01:46.760 --> 3:01:47.360 one thing. 3:01:47.640 --> 3:01:50.040 And I'm just here to say the one hundred of y'all, 3:01:50.080 --> 3:01:52.879 two hundred of y'all, whoever did this for the past 3:01:52.959 --> 3:01:57.600 twenty four hours, I'll take at least ten steps with 3:01:57.760 --> 3:02:00.480 y'all any day in time. 3:02:01.080 --> 3:02:02.959 Blessings, Thanks Moll. 3:02:03.600 --> 3:02:07.000 The legendary Ed Gordon is still with us, and Ed you, 3:02:07.480 --> 3:02:09.040 I just want to hear from you, that's all. 3:02:09.080 --> 3:02:09.960 I just want to hear from you. 3:02:10.640 --> 3:02:12.400 I just want to Yeah, I just want to say 3:02:12.440 --> 3:02:17.400 this very quickly. And Joy started us off with doctor 3:02:17.520 --> 3:02:20.560 King's words. And I had the honor of interviewing Nelson 3:02:20.600 --> 3:02:24.000 Mandela on three occasions and spent some time with him, 3:02:24.240 --> 3:02:28.200 and he suggested that in times like this, we have 3:02:28.400 --> 3:02:32.240 to find truth, and that's truth within ourselves and with 3:02:32.400 --> 3:02:35.640 those who surround us, and so I'd like to encourage 3:02:35.680 --> 3:02:41.279 all of us to respectfully hold ourselves accountable, our leadership accountable, 3:02:41.400 --> 3:02:45.400 our elected officials accountable, and the people in the streets accountable. 3:02:46.160 --> 3:02:47.959 This is a historic moment for us. 3:02:48.000 --> 3:02:49.840 I don't know that we have the gravity of it yet, 3:02:50.800 --> 3:02:54.440 but we owe ourselves and our ancestors that accountability. 3:02:56.680 --> 3:03:00.720 Yes, that is indeed the truth. Well, uh, Joy was 3:03:00.879 --> 3:03:04.480 the host that brought us in yesterday. So Joey, I 3:03:04.520 --> 3:03:06.000 want to come to you, Ray, I want to come 3:03:06.040 --> 3:03:07.320 to you, and then I just want to offer some 3:03:07.480 --> 3:03:07.720 thank you. 3:03:09.320 --> 3:03:11.720 I just want to say that very briefly, because I 3:03:11.800 --> 3:03:14.240 know we're trying to get out of here, y'all. I'm 3:03:14.320 --> 3:03:17.640 telling you the contrast in my text messages between the 3:03:17.720 --> 3:03:21.040 people who watched the joint address and the people who 3:03:21.120 --> 3:03:24.560 stuck with us, the people who did the twenty four hours, 3:03:24.680 --> 3:03:28.160 however long they spent with it, it could not be sharper. 3:03:28.360 --> 3:03:30.840 I think what we have learned tonight is that our 3:03:30.920 --> 3:03:33.720 people don't need to be directed to consume what the 3:03:33.800 --> 3:03:36.959 mainstream tells them to or to know what the mainstream 3:03:37.000 --> 3:03:37.600 tells them to know. 3:03:38.120 --> 3:03:40.680 They just need us. All we need is each other. 3:03:41.040 --> 3:03:41.280 Y'all. 3:03:41.480 --> 3:03:42.120 This is enough. 3:03:42.320 --> 3:03:45.480 All we need is each other. The feeling of empowerment, joy, 3:03:46.040 --> 3:03:48.320 freedom that we felt in these last twenty four hours 3:03:48.360 --> 3:03:49.040 and in this town. 3:03:49.160 --> 3:03:52.840 All that's it. We got the answer. That's where we 3:03:52.959 --> 3:03:54.200 go from here, right here. 3:03:55.560 --> 3:03:58.400 So my illustrious co host that said yes at one 3:03:58.480 --> 3:04:00.680 in the morning, Roywood Junior, he did. 3:04:01.520 --> 3:04:03.320 She texted me one of the morning he were doing 3:04:03.360 --> 3:04:07.240 the thing. And the way that you all organize this, 3:04:07.680 --> 3:04:10.160 I have to praise you all and tell you all 3:04:10.320 --> 3:04:14.240 thank you. I mean, Angela knows it's forty pots on 3:04:14.320 --> 3:04:17.480 the stove. Joy, you know, it's forty pots on the stove. 3:04:17.600 --> 3:04:19.960 So I'm not always able to be part of the 3:04:20.000 --> 3:04:21.600 construction of any of this, but if you tell me 3:04:21.640 --> 3:04:23.720 where to be up here, by. 3:04:23.640 --> 3:04:25.640 The way, I stirred no pots. I showed up with 3:04:25.680 --> 3:04:26.200 everyone else. 3:04:26.240 --> 3:04:27.880 I just I have to say that the people who 3:04:28.080 --> 3:04:32.920 organized this, I literally am so in awe of everyone 3:04:33.000 --> 3:04:35.000 who participated in making this happen. 3:04:35.160 --> 3:04:39.520 Athlete, Holly, Angie, all of y'all. 3:04:40.040 --> 3:04:40.680 I rode. 3:04:40.840 --> 3:04:41.120 I told you. 3:04:41.240 --> 3:04:42.800 I was in that little car next to the bike. 3:04:42.840 --> 3:04:44.200 I was in a little you know, a little buggy 3:04:44.240 --> 3:04:46.840 next to the bay. I was in a sidecar, and 3:04:47.000 --> 3:04:48.640 I was just proud to be there. I am in 3:04:48.879 --> 3:04:50.640 absolutely awe. This was amazing. 3:04:50.840 --> 3:04:54.039 Here's what threw me off. Joy Angela said, I saw 3:04:54.120 --> 3:04:56.680 the flyer. I was like, oh, that's oh they do 3:04:56.920 --> 3:05:00.400 that's oh, that's just good. But I just ever looked 3:05:00.400 --> 3:05:02.400 at the date and then and just like you want 3:05:02.440 --> 3:05:03.840 to do the thing that's on the fly, like I 3:05:03.959 --> 3:05:04.800 do the thing that's on the fly. 3:05:05.200 --> 3:05:07.039 But I thought it was next week. 3:05:08.360 --> 3:05:12.480 She goes eight tomorrow, hiss the window. All right, I'll 3:05:12.480 --> 3:05:12.720 be there. 3:05:14.120 --> 3:05:14.520 I'll be there. 3:05:14.720 --> 3:05:16.920 So to be able to turn this around and to 3:05:17.000 --> 3:05:19.320 be able to you know, just a quick shout out 3:05:19.360 --> 3:05:20.520 to Mark Thompson as well. 3:05:20.440 --> 3:05:22.520 On the ground as Mark Thompson, can I just take 3:05:22.600 --> 3:05:23.360 up as. 3:05:23.320 --> 3:05:24.959 They came off, as they walked out the. 3:05:25.040 --> 3:05:30.600 Room, look at the cable corresponded moment. This Mark thoms 3:05:30.920 --> 3:05:32.039 corresponding in. 3:05:32.160 --> 3:05:33.720 The field doing the thing. 3:05:33.720 --> 3:05:35.040 And we've seen him do it before. He used to 3:05:35.080 --> 3:05:37.039 do it sometimes for me on my cable show. When 3:05:37.040 --> 3:05:40.080 I tell you that brother made this thing one of 3:05:40.240 --> 3:05:45.680 the most entertaining informative live it was in the moment. 3:05:46.120 --> 3:05:49.560 This was some of the best non television television that 3:05:49.760 --> 3:05:50.720 I and I'm a minute. 3:05:50.920 --> 3:05:52.680 I've been at this a long time. Y'all am an oldie, 3:05:52.680 --> 3:05:55.800 godie baby. This was some of the best non television 3:05:55.840 --> 3:05:58.280 television I've ever seen. I was inspired, but I was 3:05:58.280 --> 3:05:59.279 also quite entertained. 3:06:00.120 --> 3:06:02.640 I gotta tell you, I gotta tell oh, there he 3:06:02.800 --> 3:06:04.440 is markree is Mark. 3:06:04.920 --> 3:06:07.000 Now, Mark, you can't have preacher words, but you got 3:06:07.080 --> 3:06:09.000 some pardon words because I'm gonna get these thank yous 3:06:09.000 --> 3:06:09.920 into all these people. 3:06:10.840 --> 3:06:13.520 So this this is an incredible group I've had connor 3:06:14.000 --> 3:06:17.240 to work with. I have been up since six am 3:06:17.360 --> 3:06:20.040 Monday morning, not just the twenty four hours. So I'm 3:06:20.080 --> 3:06:21.680 gonna go try to find a few minutes to sleep 3:06:21.720 --> 3:06:23.320 before I go to Stema and not sleep at all. 3:06:24.040 --> 3:06:26.680 God bless you all. Really great to work with. Ashley 3:06:26.760 --> 3:06:31.000 and Holly and Lolo and all of you YouTube Angela Enjoy. 3:06:31.760 --> 3:06:34.160 Vince and I were just talking. You know, I think 3:06:34.200 --> 3:06:36.440 we're gonna do something. We're gonna do something here. I 3:06:36.480 --> 3:06:39.680 think We've proven what we can so pan wait. Y'all 3:06:39.800 --> 3:06:40.440 can't wait. 3:06:41.040 --> 3:06:44.200 Right, And I'm before I say anything, I know we're 3:06:44.280 --> 3:06:46.120 over time. If y'all got to drop, you just got 3:06:46.240 --> 3:06:48.960 to drop. But I am gonna yield this time to 3:06:49.120 --> 3:06:52.000 this sister that has been the glue. Y'all don't see 3:06:52.040 --> 3:06:55.080 her often, but when she shows up, she shows up 3:06:55.120 --> 3:06:58.160 with joy. She shows up with patience. She is the 3:06:58.320 --> 3:06:59.960 chair of the Elemental Pea Community. 3:07:00.440 --> 3:07:01.360 She knows what that is. 3:07:01.520 --> 3:07:04.080 I meant to say committee, but it's late and I'm tired. 3:07:04.320 --> 3:07:08.359 The Elemental committee had his Holly Holiday. 3:07:09.240 --> 3:07:12.879 Holly Holliday out sanding she's gonna shout out her podcast 3:07:13.040 --> 3:07:15.119 right now because she got in trouble with her podcast. 3:07:15.200 --> 3:07:18.840 Go host, shout out the podcast. Holly, you know you 3:07:19.000 --> 3:07:22.200 are a gangster like I don't know Elon Musk. I 3:07:22.280 --> 3:07:24.800 keep saying, Elon Musk got a run for his money 3:07:24.840 --> 3:07:27.400 because she got integrity, a moral and a moral basis 3:07:27.480 --> 3:07:30.960 and a moral compass. Holly Holiday, you gotta say something 3:07:31.000 --> 3:07:31.640 before we leave. 3:07:32.440 --> 3:07:35.600 I'm gonna do, y'all like Russell Simmons used to do 3:07:36.760 --> 3:07:40.360 on Deaf comedy Jam, because it is the most appropriate 3:07:40.520 --> 3:07:42.800 thing to say thank. 3:07:42.640 --> 3:07:46.040 You and good night before you hang up on us. 3:07:46.120 --> 3:07:48.360 Holly, I got some other people to think that you're 3:07:48.400 --> 3:07:52.480 gonna be rude and not oblige her indulge me. Rather 3:07:52.560 --> 3:07:56.600 see I'm telling y'all this late Ashley Allison. Yes, Oh 3:07:56.720 --> 3:08:00.920 my god, Ashley Allison, Mark Thompson, Holly Holly, the other 3:08:01.080 --> 3:08:03.400 Holly Holly Weeks who works with Holly Holliday. 3:08:03.680 --> 3:08:05.600 I want to lol, Oh my god. 3:08:05.680 --> 3:08:09.879 Lolo is Charles Barkley of Native Lampod, Lauren, Lolo Smith, 3:08:10.080 --> 3:08:14.920 Chloe and Avanni Hun Graphics, Reed Rachel and step Young 3:08:14.920 --> 3:08:18.320 who's sitting right here. They are press gurus. The press 3:08:18.440 --> 3:08:22.039 around this has been fantastic. I want to shout out 3:08:22.240 --> 3:08:25.840 Essence Studios, Alfonso put let me tell you about Alfonso 3:08:26.000 --> 3:08:29.080 David See y'all see the president of Global Black Economic Forum. 3:08:29.280 --> 3:08:32.000 But that is a political staffer at heart. Jammy Harrison, 3:08:32.040 --> 3:08:34.760 you know what I'm talking about. He had another thought partner, 3:08:34.840 --> 3:08:37.560 So y'all need to stay close. I want to thank 3:08:37.760 --> 3:08:41.640 all of the producers, everyone who hosted a segment, every 3:08:41.760 --> 3:08:45.640 single panelist, Latifa Simon on a response, Latifa Simon on 3:08:45.720 --> 3:08:49.040 a walkout, Maxine Water's telling you she's eighty six working 3:08:49.120 --> 3:08:51.600 on thirty six because she got more energy than most 3:08:51.640 --> 3:08:55.840 of us. Every single person who tuned in today, every prayer, 3:08:56.320 --> 3:08:58.400 Bishop Daughtry who let me call her on the side 3:08:58.480 --> 3:09:00.640 or talk about my side. Preachers, Royce trying to drag me. 3:09:00.640 --> 3:09:04.119 I'm not gonna let you drag me. And Joe, Taika Edie, 3:09:04.520 --> 3:09:07.520 the infrastructure. I'm around women with black women, all the 3:09:07.600 --> 3:09:10.000 folks who are you know, talkers. That's all I'm gonna say. 3:09:10.080 --> 3:09:13.920 Thank God for y'all. Vince Evans who was double timing 3:09:14.120 --> 3:09:14.560 as a. 3:09:14.760 --> 3:09:19.960 CBC staffer and staffing us, Lisa Blunt Rochester because your prayers. 3:09:20.400 --> 3:09:22.200 I know that you were praying with him for us. 3:09:22.320 --> 3:09:24.400 I thank God for you. I think God that you're 3:09:24.440 --> 3:09:25.680 in the Senate. The Senate needs you. 3:09:25.800 --> 3:09:29.080 For every member of Congress who signed up to participate tonight. 3:09:29.160 --> 3:09:31.760 To Wes Moore who opened us up at the nine 3:09:31.800 --> 3:09:34.160 pm Tis James with the drama on the tape. 3:09:34.480 --> 3:09:35.240 She was ready. 3:09:35.640 --> 3:09:37.279 Everybody, Everybody, Everybody. 3:09:51.160 --> 3:09:54.439 Native Lampard is a production of iHeart Radio in partnership 3:09:54.520 --> 3:09:58.160 with Reason Choice Media. 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