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Speaker 1: We had a Summit of Black Leadership that was the
Speaker 1: culminating experience of the State of the People twenty four
Speaker 1: hour marathon. To find out more about State of the People,
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Speaker 1: three hours is a special gift from us to you
Speaker 1: so you can hear what some of the brightest minds,
Speaker 1: best organizers, most brilliant lawyers, elected officials, young people, elders,
Speaker 1: and all across the spectrum have to say about where
Speaker 1: we go from here, answering Doctor King's most critical question.
Speaker 3: All right, now, as promised, we are going to turn
Speaker 3: to a powerful talent hall meeting, and I promise you
Speaker 3: what you are about to hear will be starkly different
Speaker 3: and what you have been hearing from the Trump.
Speaker 4: White House over these last few weeks. We are going
Speaker 4: to be joined by Angela Raie, co host of the
Speaker 4: Native Lamp podcast and we should say co creator along
Speaker 4: with Joy Read of this trailblazing marathon that we've all
Speaker 4: been putting on and there are many, many, many people
Speaker 4: that you will not see who've been up and working
Speaker 4: mighty long hours to keep this thing going. Also with
Speaker 4: Angela is Roywood Junior. We all know him as one
Speaker 4: of the most profound comedians and hosts of our time.
Speaker 4: I'll turn it over to them and I'll join them
Speaker 4: in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Good evening, everyone, Thank you so much for watching this
Speaker 1: live stream. We are twenty one hours in and as
Speaker 1: we embark upon this twenty first hour, my co host
Speaker 1: that I Roywood.
Speaker 5: Junior, have a very very special guest.
Speaker 1: He happens to have made black history and history all
Speaker 1: of America as the first black governor of Maryland. His
Speaker 1: name is Wes Moore and he joins us right now.
Speaker 6: Good evening, Good sister, it's good to be with you. Angelaine.
Speaker 7: Thank you, We love you, and we are so thankful
Speaker 7: for you and your leadership and everything you continue to do.
Speaker 7: And everybody else, I just want to say, not just
Speaker 7: good evening, but but but thank you for continuing to
Speaker 7: watch over us, continue to love us, continue to believe that,
Speaker 7: and to continue to go.
Speaker 5: So can I tell you some hearing about about your.
Speaker 7: Time right now, uh in a place, in a space
Speaker 7: where this is truly a celebration of us, when we
Speaker 7: know the assault that so many of us and our
Speaker 7: communities are feeling, when so much of the pain that
Speaker 7: our communities are are are are inheriting right now. But
Speaker 7: I want to say that even at a time when
Speaker 7: we know the kind of pain that is being intentionally
Speaker 7: infused upon each.
Speaker 6: And every one of us from a federal government, even
Speaker 6: at a.
Speaker 7: Time when I know that I'm standing here as the
Speaker 7: governor of the state of Maryland, where we have over
Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty thousand federal employees in the state
Speaker 7: of Maryland who right now are being questioned about the
Speaker 7: value that they bring to our society. People who have
Speaker 7: been working for Democratic and Republican administrations before, who were
Speaker 7: politics has never entered into the equation simply a love
Speaker 7: of people, and are now being told that the work
Speaker 7: that they are doing to make sure that our grandparents
Speaker 7: are getting the health care that they need, at a
Speaker 7: time when you're people who are defending our country both
Speaker 7: domestically and overseas, At a time when we have people
Speaker 7: who every single day are ensuring that our communities are safe,
Speaker 7: that our parks are open, that our homeland is protected,
Speaker 7: who are now being told that they are adding to
Speaker 7: inefficiency within our society at a time when we know
Speaker 7: when we're watching proposals like cutting hundreds of billions of
Speaker 7: dollars of cuts to things like medicaid, at a time
Speaker 7: when we're watching basic freedoms.
Speaker 6: And securities that we relied on and.
Speaker 7: We believed in that are being challenged by people who
Speaker 7: have done nothing, nothing to sacrifice, so on behalf of
Speaker 7: this country themselves. I just want to say that I
Speaker 7: continue to be uplifted about the place in the space
Speaker 7: that I'm in right now that I'm speaking to you
Speaker 7: from Annapolis. I'm speaking to you from a place from
Speaker 7: the state of Maryland, that was literally the birthplace of
Speaker 7: Frederick Douglass, that was literally the birthplace of Harriet Tubman,
Speaker 7: that was the birthplace of Thurgood Marshall.
Speaker 6: About the place in the space and I'm.
Speaker 7: Standing here and coming here from Maryland, a place that
Speaker 7: is a northernmost southern state, a place that had the
Speaker 7: bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a place where the
Speaker 7: Mason Dixon Line literally runs through my state. And I'm
Speaker 7: standing here to say that we are all descendants of survivors.
Speaker 6: We're all descendants of.
Speaker 7: Those who came before us and saw the pain and
Speaker 7: saw the brutality that our society can intentionally flint flicks
Speaker 7: upon us. And they got up every morning and they said,
Speaker 7: still I rise, Still I fight, Still I conquer, and
Speaker 7: still I win. We are now just the most recent,
Speaker 7: the most recent iteration of this journey. We do come
Speaker 7: from the blood of Tubman. We do come from the
Speaker 7: blood of Douglas. We do come from the blood of Shabaz,
Speaker 7: we do come from the blood of Marshall. And just
Speaker 7: like them, still I rise. And so even in the
Speaker 7: times when it can feel darkest, hold on to that light,
Speaker 7: hold on to each other, and know that in this time,
Speaker 7: when we stand strong, and yes, when we mobilize, that
Speaker 7: there is no weapon that has flowed against us that
Speaker 7: shall prosper. We have been told, it is written, and yes,
Speaker 7: that joy will come inside the morning. And so I'm
Speaker 7: blessed to be with each and every one of you.
Speaker 7: Thank you to Angela and to d and to and
Speaker 7: to Roy and to everybody.
Speaker 6: Who may tonight happen.
Speaker 7: This, this was the fulfillment that we all needed tonight.
Speaker 7: This is the entertainment that we all needed tonight. This
Speaker 7: is the joy that we all need to feel to night.
Speaker 7: And I'm here to say I will rock with you
Speaker 7: tonight and tomorrow and always.
Speaker 6: We love you, and God bless you and thank you.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Governor Wes Moore.
Speaker 8: We are time for one question? Or does he have
Speaker 8: to bounce?
Speaker 6: I always got time.
Speaker 8: One question. I'm not gonna ask you about the samurai,
Speaker 8: so order on the wall the background. I know we
Speaker 8: don't have time for that, Governor more.
Speaker 6: You can ask about that one.
Speaker 9: No, no, that's that's getting ready to get used.
Speaker 8: You flipped, you flipped the Republican governor gibnatorial seed to
Speaker 8: democratic as a can. What was one thing that you
Speaker 8: were able to do to help connect with Republican voters
Speaker 8: As I feel a little deeper into this administration, as
Speaker 8: we get deeper into the first one hundred days, I
Speaker 8: feel that some Republican voters are going to be a
Speaker 8: little more pliable coming up on midterms. Is there any
Speaker 8: one blanket thing or one piece of advice that you
Speaker 8: could give people as we start engaging Republican voters kind
Speaker 8: of see what's going on. It seemed like some from
Speaker 8: the look at these town hall some they starting to
Speaker 8: see what's happening.
Speaker 6: No, they are, they are.
Speaker 7: And you know, essent Sion Roy because I ended up
Speaker 7: winning with more individual votes than anyone who'd ever run
Speaker 7: for governor in the history of the state of Maryland.
Speaker 7: And the reason I bring that up is because just mathematically,
Speaker 7: you don't get that by just winning Democrats. We want democrats,
Speaker 7: we won independence. We want a good chunk of Republicans.
Speaker 7: And I think the big thing was we had to
Speaker 7: show up and we had to be able to make
Speaker 7: our case to him. And I really do believe that
Speaker 7: that one thing that we have seen is that you've
Speaker 7: seen now Trump be master something. It's it's this idea
Speaker 7: of telling people to be afraid of it and then
Speaker 7: telling people who's to blame for it, Right, that is
Speaker 7: the strategy.
Speaker 6: That's the whole game. And it's rinse and repeat. It's
Speaker 6: rinse and repeat.
Speaker 7: It's either saying that the reason that my my my
Speaker 7: daughter is not winning a state championship is because they're
Speaker 7: allowing boys to play, the reason that my child is
Speaker 7: not getting into college is because of affirmative action, the
Speaker 7: reason that that that that my my son lost their
Speaker 7: lost their job is because of DEI the reason, and
Speaker 7: it's let's say it's a rinse and repeat model. But
Speaker 7: here's the thing that I have found out that if
Speaker 7: you are willing to go everywhere, and you're willing to
Speaker 7: make your case, and you are willing to show up,
Speaker 7: that you will be able to not just energize a base,
Speaker 7: you're actually going to be able to enlarge it.
Speaker 6: You're actually be able to bring more people on board.
Speaker 7: And then you just have to go out there and
Speaker 7: show that you know how to deliver results.
Speaker 6: And I think that's the reason that I.
Speaker 7: Think we've been able to We've been able to not
Speaker 7: just get done, we'll be able to get done in
Speaker 7: the state of Maryland. But I think we've been able
Speaker 7: to keep keep the vast majority of people on our
Speaker 7: side on it. But I think you've got to be
Speaker 7: able to show up, and you've got to make the case,
Speaker 7: and do not let someone else define yourself.
Speaker 6: You go to find yourself, but let no one. Do
Speaker 6: not give anyone else that power to go to find you.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I love it, Governor Wes Moore.
Speaker 1: We are so grateful for your service, for your time,
Speaker 1: and for your fight and what we know is a
Speaker 1: very very difficult time.
Speaker 5: Not just for our people, but are all people.
Speaker 1: And that is why we are twenty one hours into
Speaker 1: this marathon and we will continue to go.
Speaker 5: We are not watching the lies on.
Speaker 1: The state of the Union, but we will bring people
Speaker 1: into the knowledge of the truth here. So we wish
Speaker 1: you well. We thank you so much for making time
Speaker 1: for us tonight, and we will see.
Speaker 6: You so God bless themily.
Speaker 5: Thanks blessing you.
Speaker 1: So Roy, I want to do something a little different
Speaker 1: real quick. We have someone who is a.
Speaker 5: Queen and a sister to us.
Speaker 1: She said recently at Essence Black Women in Hollywood. She said,
Speaker 1: I recently went through a little breakup. You may have
Speaker 1: heard about it. So I want to bring Joy read
Speaker 1: up really quick because she is Her name isn't just Joy.
Speaker 1: She is joy. She is walking joy, She illuminates joy,
Speaker 1: she loses joy, and she has been such a tremendous
Speaker 1: treat for so many of us for so long. Joy,
Speaker 1: you join us tonight in this in this time to
Speaker 1: talk about the state of the people. We've been on
Speaker 1: this marathon. We started together, and we in it together.
Speaker 1: We started writing a lot of now here, and I
Speaker 1: just want you to talk about from your own journey
Speaker 1: from where you are right now. You're also embarking on
Speaker 1: a new road in multiple ways, yes, in this country,
Speaker 1: but also a media Where do we go from here?
Speaker 5: Joy read Well.
Speaker 10: First of all, it was so much fun to go
Speaker 10: on this journey with you, Angela.
Speaker 11: Raie, my good sister. We started right We started at midnight.
Speaker 10: Then I think I was up to like three four
Speaker 10: in the morning, fell asleep with the right next to the.
Speaker 11: Bed, woke up to the beginning of the town hall.
Speaker 10: So I don't know what I missed, but I feel
Speaker 10: like it was in my spirit through my sleep. So
Speaker 10: this has been incredible, Like this has actually been one
Speaker 10: of the most engaging. You know, it just just soul
Speaker 10: feeding twenty four hours that anyone could have had. I
Speaker 10: think our community is just you know, our hearts are
Speaker 10: beating a little bit faster knowing that we have this community.
Speaker 11: And Roy, my brother, Listen.
Speaker 10: I just recently saw you in Utah, so I know
Speaker 10: you have big things coming up. I'm excited about everything
Speaker 10: that you're doing. So and we'll just leave that well,
Speaker 10: you know, I know you have a great project coming up,
Speaker 10: and you know I love you.
Speaker 11: So this has been amazing.
Speaker 10: I just want to thank everyone who has been a
Speaker 10: part of this pulling it together. This has been a
Speaker 10: dream team group team effort. It's been incredible. So I'm
Speaker 10: going to answer that question for you, and I'm gonna
Speaker 10: answer it briefly because i know it's about brevity on tonight,
Speaker 10: and I just want to say for all of us,
Speaker 10: because we got like fifty people that want to come
Speaker 10: in and talk. So I'm going to be very quick
Speaker 10: and I'm going to actually quote the Reverend doctor Martin
Speaker 10: Luther King Junior, who in nineteen sixty seven answered the
Speaker 10: very question that Angela has put to all of us
Speaker 10: for this incredible town hall, and the question is where
Speaker 10: do we go from here?
Speaker 11: So in nineteen sixty seven, this is what he said.
Speaker 10: Is that is that I want to say that as
Speaker 10: I moved to my conclusion, as we talk about where
Speaker 10: do we go from here, that we must honestly face
Speaker 10: the fact that the movement must address itself to the
Speaker 10: question of restructuring the whole of American society.
Speaker 11: There are forty million poor people here, and one.
Speaker 10: Day we must ask the question, why are there forty
Speaker 10: million poor people in America? When you ask that question,
Speaker 10: you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply
Speaker 10: saying that more and more, we've got to begin to
Speaker 10: ask questions about the whole society. And he says, when
Speaker 10: I'm questioning the whole society, it means ultimately coming to
Speaker 10: see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation,
Speaker 10: and the problem of war are all tied together. These
Speaker 10: are the triple evils, evils that are interrelated. In other words,
Speaker 10: your whole structure must be changed. A nation that will
Speaker 10: keep people in slavery for two hundred and forty four
Speaker 10: years will thingify them and make them things, and therefore
Speaker 10: they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. What
Speaker 10: I'm saying today is we must go from this convention
Speaker 10: and say, America, you must be born again. And so
Speaker 10: as we all watch Donald Trump and Elon Musk really
Speaker 10: dismantle our democracy, dismantle our society, I think that we
Speaker 10: understand that there is going to be rubble in the road.
Speaker 10: And the question is not how do we build back
Speaker 10: what we had before. It's not about building back the
Speaker 10: previous status quo, which was obviously so dissatisfying and unsatisfying
Speaker 10: to people. That people chose chaos. So I think where
Speaker 10: we go from here is starting to think about what
Speaker 10: we build from that rubble. What does the society we
Speaker 10: want look like? And I think the charge for Democrats
Speaker 10: for independence, even for Republicans who are sick of this
Speaker 10: and seeing it and losing their medicaid and wondering, start
Speaker 10: to communicate what that society should look like. What does
Speaker 10: this new society we want to build look like? Because
Speaker 10: going back to what we had before, that ain't it.
Speaker 10: That is not a message that can sell, that will
Speaker 10: get people to vote, that will move people.
Speaker 11: We need a movement.
Speaker 10: This I think tonight or this last twenty four hours
Speaker 10: is the beginning of a movement. So I think that
Speaker 10: we because you know, black people have always been the
Speaker 10: ones to be the conscience of this country, Let's start
Speaker 10: thinking about what that movement looks like and what that
Speaker 10: society we want looks like, and start communicating that it's
Speaker 10: not about going back to where we were, It's about
Speaker 10: bringing the country to a new place.
Speaker 11: Start thinking about what that place looks like.
Speaker 10: And that's what Democrats, independence and anybody with good sense
Speaker 10: should be talking about.
Speaker 8: Joyce that briefly, I feel like January for black people
Speaker 8: was like, all right, this is what it is. All right,
Speaker 8: it almost fit it. Halftime isn't the right word, but
Speaker 8: I feel like we all collectively took a moment as
Speaker 8: a culture to go ugh. And you know, I know
Speaker 8: black ways was going don't call us, don't tell us,
Speaker 8: don't check in on us, We are not going to
Speaker 8: help you. Where I feel like now, especially now, like
Speaker 8: today specifically, there feels like there's a reinvigoration. It feels
Speaker 8: like there's a all right, we gotta get our helmet.
Speaker 8: We got to go back out there on the field
Speaker 8: and get ready to fight again. What have been some
Speaker 8: of your strategies just in terms of just mental rest
Speaker 8: and how are you able to What advice would you
Speaker 8: give to people, is they get ready to fight agains,
Speaker 8: they get ready to get back out there. What has
Speaker 8: been your self care? And I'm not even talking just
Speaker 8: most recently with everything that happened, but just the duration
Speaker 8: of the election last year, you have to get up
Speaker 8: every single day and deal with this and put this
Speaker 8: in the words for people. What were your strategies for
Speaker 8: just mental survival during this time?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, well, first of all, everyone cannot have
Speaker 10: Angela Rye's cell phone number, because one of the strategies
Speaker 10: is to.
Speaker 11: Call phone a friend.
Speaker 10: And I have to say I have some of the
Speaker 10: the greatest friends, not just the Machetes, Angie and the
Speaker 10: other Machetes, but my best friend, Miss Kim.
Speaker 11: It's miss Jackie that you know we do read this,
Speaker 11: read that together.
Speaker 10: But she also is like a counselor on the side
Speaker 10: for my wellness. And I think that the reality is
Speaker 10: and and of course my husband best my best bestI
Speaker 10: is my husband Jason. I really think you have to
Speaker 10: lean into the relationships the people around you, your friends,
Speaker 10: your family, because unless you're grounded in those personal relationships,
Speaker 10: you're not gonna stay sane in this mess. And look,
Speaker 10: we as the ninety two percenters, we were sitting on
Speaker 10: that wall and that graphic watching everything burn. But the
Speaker 10: fire has caught the building we were sitting on, and
Speaker 10: so as black people and our eighty percenters, our brothers
Speaker 10: that weren't that rocked with us in this election. We
Speaker 10: did not choose this, We did not cause this, but
Speaker 10: this fire is burning us up too. So the reality
Speaker 10: is we actually just now have to engage. We may
Speaker 10: have wanted to sit it out. But as you all
Speaker 10: know on this on this town hall, we don't have
Speaker 10: a choice now because this fire is consuming our house.
Speaker 10: So I think what we have to do, and I
Speaker 10: love the fact that we leaned into what the blackemunity
Speaker 10: is going to do to save ourselves, save our community,
Speaker 10: save the resources we fought for, save the positions we
Speaker 10: fought for.
Speaker 11: Because we have to put.
Speaker 10: The mask on ourselves before we can put the mask
Speaker 10: on the country. So I think unless we're strong as
Speaker 10: a community, cohesive, and unless we have a plan, we
Speaker 10: can't even really try.
Speaker 11: To save this country.
Speaker 10: We tried to do that for almost five hundred years,
Speaker 10: and they're parts of the country that don't want to
Speaker 10: be saved. They want this fascism, they want to go
Speaker 10: in this direction. So I think, what we have to
Speaker 10: do as a community, Let's put the mask on ourselves.
Speaker 10: Let's get cohesive, Let's describe the nation we want, the
Speaker 10: society we want, and then we can form a plan.
Speaker 10: And part of that is a communications plan. How are
Speaker 10: we speaking with authority to our community? Who are our
Speaker 10: trusted voices? No one can choose that for us. Who
Speaker 10: do we trust? Where can we find them? How can
Speaker 10: we get access to what they have to say, and
Speaker 10: then how can we take what we hear and form
Speaker 10: a plan. Once that mask is on us, then we
Speaker 10: can start to plan for everybody else.
Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly right, Thank you so much. I want
Speaker 5: to bring in we have a big Black family gathering, y'all.
Speaker 5: I want y'all to see this. We have a full
Speaker 5: swath of experts, organizers, activists, attorneys who are here with us,
Speaker 5: and I really want you all to see how large
Speaker 5: of a gathering we have.
Speaker 1: And it's going to continue to grow over the next
Speaker 1: few hours. I'm trying to make sure we get the
Speaker 1: visual where y'all can see the pictures of everybody in here.
Speaker 1: Right now, it just looks like me and Roy, but
Speaker 1: hopefully soon our production can figure out how to get
Speaker 1: the squares of everybody up. While we're doing that, though,
Speaker 1: I do want to take a moment Roy to recognize
Speaker 1: Congressman Glenn Ivy, who is joining us.
Speaker 5: Clearly he is sitting with us and not in the.
Speaker 1: House chamber, so I want to ask him why, like
Speaker 1: you chose clearly to sit out, Congressman, and I'd love
Speaker 1: for the listeners to know why this has been a
Speaker 1: hot topic Roy. I don't know if you and your
Speaker 1: chat groups look like mine, but people have been like wow, wow,
Speaker 1: So Congressman, I would love for you, especially because you're
Speaker 1: an attorney, so you know this man has broken mania law.
Speaker 1: Please tell us why you chose to sit out the
Speaker 1: State of the Union today.
Speaker 12: Well, I appreciate you having me on, Angela Roy, and
Speaker 12: I appreciate what you're doing here. Thank you for pulling
Speaker 12: this together, and I thank you for hosting me because
Speaker 12: you know, I really didn't want to go, and I
Speaker 12: wanted to do something that I thought was going to
Speaker 12: be positive and supportive instead of going to the State
Speaker 12: of the Union, and you offered this opportunity to do it.
Speaker 12: I know I've got colleagues in there, a lot of
Speaker 12: the Black Calkings, a lot of House Democrats went, you know,
Speaker 12: God bless them. I think it's it's fine, you know,
Speaker 12: depending on what room they're in, as long as.
Speaker 13: We're all saying the same things.
Speaker 12: And I think we're all recognizing the need for a
Speaker 12: change to move forward. And I do feel like the
Speaker 12: tides turning for us. You know, we've he had a
Speaker 12: lot of good success with these court cases, have been
Speaker 12: about one hundred filed. You know, the legal teams that
Speaker 12: were put together by the unions and advocacy groups gotten
Speaker 12: a lot of injunctions put in place, probably around thirty
Speaker 12: and they've won almost all of those. And I think
Speaker 12: politically too, you know, his numbers are starting to drop.
Speaker 13: People are starting to.
Speaker 12: Realize that, you know, this was an okie dokee, this
Speaker 12: was snake oil. He said he was going to try
Speaker 12: and help regular folks out economically, but he's really just
Speaker 12: trying to help out Elon and the billionaire buddies.
Speaker 13: And and you know, I think.
Speaker 12: It's important to see too, with the tariffs, I mean,
Speaker 12: because that's clearly not aimed at helping regular people. There's
Speaker 12: no way he can spend that. I don't know what
Speaker 12: he's going to say tonight, but you know that's just
Speaker 12: taking money out of people's pockets as a sales tax.
Speaker 12: So you know, I didn't want to be part of
Speaker 12: being in there, you know, I wanted to be out here,
Speaker 12: And once I heard that you all were doing this,
Speaker 12: I knew I'd rather be here working with you all,
Speaker 12: in this community, with this strong team, with the you know,
Speaker 12: like Joyce said, people moving in the right direction, moving
Speaker 12: together and I wanted to be part of this instead.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure, Congressman. Can you hear Angela, I'm not
Speaker 8: hearing her.
Speaker 1: I told you to know why because I put it
Speaker 1: on mute, moving this notepad and forgot.
Speaker 5: That is not helpful. I was trying to test how
Speaker 5: well you could read my lips.
Speaker 8: I'm ready here, I'm ready to jump in. Just say the.
Speaker 14: Word bail me out, man.
Speaker 13: I thought it was my I thought my laptop had
Speaker 13: gone south or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, or hearing was going out something. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say the question, the call of
Speaker 1: the question of the day really is where do we
Speaker 1: go from here? So, given the amount of pressure that
Speaker 1: I know a lot of our members are facing, your
Speaker 1: colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been
Speaker 1: protested so severely in town hall meetings that they were like,
Speaker 1: you know what, hell with those town halls. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna go forth and do something else. Where do we
Speaker 1: go from here? Do we continue in the fight? Do
Speaker 1: we become more united? What is what is your plan?
Speaker 1: What do you suggest that we do?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I think all of that's right. I think we need
Speaker 12: to keep the rusher up. In fact, keep increasing it yeah,
Speaker 12: there were. There was sort of a you know, a
Speaker 12: lull after Trump won. You know, I remember when he
Speaker 12: won the first time and we had thousands of people
Speaker 12: come out and march in the streets, and there was
Speaker 12: a lot of anger and everything. This time around, I
Speaker 12: think we were all in disbelief, like how could this
Speaker 12: country have a life?
Speaker 14: Ristman heive, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cut you off, but I want
Speaker 1: to note right now I'm not watching the State of
Speaker 1: the Union, but reports are coming out the Congressman al
Speaker 1: Green has been carried out of the House chamber.
Speaker 2: So I think he wasn't care carried out. He walked
Speaker 2: out of his own will.
Speaker 5: So we said he got carried out.
Speaker 2: They well, it looked like they were going to score
Speaker 2: it out. Yeah yeah, they no. Well that's why I
Speaker 2: put in chat. It appeared they were going to arrest him,
Speaker 2: but he decided to leave his own free will with
Speaker 2: Vincent and I just below the chamber. But he stopped
Speaker 2: the speech. Al Green stood up as the one Democrat
Speaker 2: and stopped the speech. So he's coming out, and we're
Speaker 2: going to go try to see we can get him
Speaker 2: now and bring him down here there so we may
Speaker 2: see him in a minute that was on it.
Speaker 6: So, well, this is what the fire looks like.
Speaker 14: He cut in.
Speaker 8: Let me take you effects right now. I'm wearing a
Speaker 8: suit and I'm in the building. I'll report back in
Speaker 8: a second. That's all right.
Speaker 13: This is what democracy looks like.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I got a note saying I got escorted out.
Speaker 12: But that's how you know, he's I think he might
Speaker 12: already file articles of impeachment against Trump, So you know
Speaker 12: that's his approach, and I you know, God bless him.
Speaker 12: The key is that we're all working together on the
Speaker 12: same team, trying to accomplish the same goal because we
Speaker 12: recognize how destructive Trump has.
Speaker 13: Been just in it's like fifty days, and he's you know, he's.
Speaker 12: Put the jackhammer to like everything across the board, especially
Speaker 12: things affecting the African American community, you know, like you know,
Speaker 12: the title ie stuff. He was trying to cut funds
Speaker 12: for schools, Medicare the Republicans like a one almost a
Speaker 12: one trillion dollar cut, and that's taking healthcare away from folks,
Speaker 12: uh and Obamacare too, African Americans. But also so you know,
Speaker 12: low income folks in those red and rural states.
Speaker 13: Are going to be hit by that as well.
Speaker 12: And so you know, we've always led the charge as
Speaker 12: African Americans for the fight for equality the injustice in
Speaker 12: this country.
Speaker 1: Need the same things. Has it changed much from the
Speaker 1: data that you all pulled. I know, over two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand Black people eventually filled out that survey.
Speaker 1: It's the largest in United States history. But I think
Speaker 1: we still got a road to go. We got a
Speaker 1: lot more black people than who filled out the Black Census.
Speaker 5: When you look at.
Speaker 1: The data then and where we are now, where do
Speaker 1: we go from here? Just when you look at that.
Speaker 16: Data, Yeah, we survey two hundred and eleven thousand people
Speaker 16: and we're going to do it again in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 16: We're gonna survey three hundred thousand black people. But what
Speaker 16: they overwhelmingly said is that we need an economy that
Speaker 16: works for us and specifically wanted expansion of medicaid, wanted
Speaker 16: help for childcare, wanted wages that.
Speaker 17: Have our dignity in mind.
Speaker 18: And now this last fifty days mean has meant that
Speaker 18: we need that even more then we even needed it
Speaker 18: a year ago. And I think we're going to see
Speaker 18: that with this budget that just proposal that came through
Speaker 18: that's going to slash medicaid, and so for us, it's
Speaker 18: about getting into community. We believe that the antidote to
Speaker 18: fascism is building community and to be in community all
Speaker 18: year round so that more and more people share what
Speaker 18: they want and we can get to what Joy said,
Speaker 18: that imagination about where we want to go as a people,
Speaker 18: what we want to win, and build a strategy to
Speaker 18: get there.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: Areva Martin and the Mario Solomon Simmons are here, and
Speaker 1: I want to go to you all because one of
Speaker 1: the places that we've seen people lean in Roy, You've
Speaker 1: seen this too, are around a legal strategy with this president.
Speaker 1: Most of what has taken place to stop executive action,
Speaker 1: where there have been more than one hundred and nineteen
Speaker 1: executive actions taken so far, over ninety five lawsuits filed
Speaker 1: against this administration. You all have also worked to take
Speaker 1: justice in your into your own hands, not challenging Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: but challenging the white supremacist system that bert Donald Trump
Speaker 1: in the form of reparations. I'm thinking of the cases
Speaker 1: that both of you all have. Areva, I want to
Speaker 1: come to you first and then to Mario. You because
Speaker 1: we are still fighting for justice for the survivors of
Speaker 1: Black Wall Street, but Areva. I want to come to
Speaker 1: you first around. Some of you had a Palm Springs,
Speaker 1: You've Bruce's Beach. There's so much work that you've done
Speaker 1: in this space, and there are so many cases like
Speaker 1: this that black folks haven't had the pr or the
Speaker 1: attention around to really see justice. So we also have
Speaker 1: some roads to plow there, and I think it's important
Speaker 1: that we know that we are fighting on every side,
Speaker 1: but there is still hope.
Speaker 19: Thanks so much, Angela, Thanks Joy, Thanks everyone they pull
Speaker 19: this together. I'm still sleepy from my one am part
Speaker 19: of the twenty four hour marathon, but it was so
Speaker 19: incredible to be a part of the marathon over the
Speaker 19: last twenty plus hours.
Speaker 8: Folks who were up who were.
Speaker 19: Watching, just such a phenomenal job done by the entire team.
Speaker 19: So kudos to everyone working behind the scenes and all
Speaker 19: the folks who were up all night watching. But you're right,
Speaker 19: De Mario and I have been involved in some of
Speaker 19: the biggest reparations cases in the country, and when Joy
Speaker 19: talks about reimagining really what this country should be and
Speaker 19: not going back to where we were reparation should be
Speaker 19: on the top of the list of things that black
Speaker 19: folks should be thinking about. For so many years, so
Speaker 19: many decades, we were told it was impossible. We were
Speaker 19: told it was a French theory, it was.
Speaker 6: A French concept.
Speaker 19: And how dare we have the audacity to expect or
Speaker 19: to believe that this country would make amends? Would you know,
Speaker 19: acknowledge the sins against black folks and then do something
Speaker 19: about it in the same way that they have done
Speaker 19: for so many other people. Cornell Brooks at Harvard Kennedy
Speaker 19: School wrote a brilliant piece a couple of months ago
Speaker 19: about all the ways that this country pays reparations on
Speaker 19: the regular, on the daily, to so many different groups
Speaker 19: of people. But yet when it comes to black folks,
Speaker 19: the concept of reparations, the concept of giving us what
Speaker 19: we are justly entitled to, people.
Speaker 6: Get all nervous about it.
Speaker 19: They start clutching their pearls, and so many ways reveal
Speaker 19: their racism about you know, myths about black folks were
Speaker 19: not responsible with money. You know, we hear folks say, well,
Speaker 19: we didn't do it. Why should we have to pay
Speaker 19: for the sins of our fathers? We hear these repeated
Speaker 19: excuses folks not acknowledging the benefits, the benefits that they
Speaker 19: reap in this country every day from the uncompensated wages
Speaker 19: and labor force labor of enslaved people. So yes, Angela,
Speaker 19: there is a movement around this country. Reparations committees have
Speaker 19: been started at the state level, at the local level,
Speaker 19: people are organized, people are mobilized, people are enthus they
Speaker 19: are this is the moment, and I just hope that
Speaker 19: at the national level, my good friend Glynn, Congress Congress
Speaker 19: Member IVY is on this call. I hope that Congress
Speaker 19: has the courage to do what some local administrative bodies
Speaker 19: have had the courage to do. But if anyone is
Speaker 19: feeling like reparations is out of reach, I'm just here
Speaker 19: to encourage you. Reparations is very much in reach, is
Speaker 19: very much available. It's very much something that we should
Speaker 19: all be united around and as we reimagine what this
Speaker 19: country should look like going forward, please please, please please
Speaker 19: remember the debt old to the descendants of enslaved people.
Speaker 19: And I'm just proud to be in this fight in
Speaker 19: Palm Springs and Saint Louis and communities all over this country.
Speaker 5: Thank you Vi de Mario.
Speaker 1: I want to come to you, particularly around what we
Speaker 1: can be doing to ensure that we keep what's happened
Speaker 1: in mind, that we continue to fight for justice and
Speaker 1: the other ideas around Blackwall Street.
Speaker 5: It's very existent.
Speaker 1: So even if they did decimate Blackwall Street, the ideas
Speaker 1: that we can hold on to despite its destruction, and
Speaker 1: we should never forget it.
Speaker 5: But how do we hold on to the fabric of
Speaker 5: what Blackwall Street was? And you're on mute D I
Speaker 5: did that too, don't worry.
Speaker 20: Well, thank you for having me here, and just excited
Speaker 20: by everything that everyone is saying about pulling this together.
Speaker 20: You know, I represent the last two living survivors of
Speaker 20: the Tulsa Race massacre of one hundred and ten year
Speaker 20: old mother Viola Ford Fletcher one hundred and ten year
Speaker 20: old mother Lessie Benefield Randall, and in my over twenty
Speaker 20: five years of working on trying to get justice and
Speaker 20: reparations for Greenwood, I spent more more probably more time
Speaker 20: than most people can imagine, with people that are over
Speaker 20: ninety five years old and several people over one hundred
Speaker 20: and so what I want to tell people today is
Speaker 20: we continue to fight for justice for those two women.
Speaker 20: Is I want you to all right now think Greenwood.
Speaker 20: Want you to think Greenwood now, because think Greenwood is
Speaker 20: what would get us to where we want to be.
Speaker 20: Think about that Greenwood was created this black mecca. Well
Speaker 20: over twelve thousand black people came together, created all types
Speaker 20: of businesses, over two hundred successful businesses, over fifteen hundred
Speaker 20: and fifty homes in businesses before the nineteen twenty one
Speaker 20: Tulsa Race massacre. And they did that during the ny Deer.
Speaker 20: They did that during a time that's much like the
Speaker 20: time we're living in here and under this MAGA two
Speaker 20: point zero moment. And there was five founding principles of
Speaker 20: think Greenwood. Number one was community love, Number two was
Speaker 20: self determination, Number three was ownership, Number four was wealth
Speaker 20: and education concentration, and number five was resilient. These are
Speaker 20: the founding principles of Greenwood, and this is what we
Speaker 20: need to emulate today and make sure we understand that
Speaker 20: Greenwood and Black Wall Street here.
Speaker 21: In Tulsa was more than a physical location.
Speaker 20: It was a mind state. And so what I'm asking
Speaker 20: everyone to do on this call and for everyone that's
Speaker 20: listening to go to think Greenwood now, Dot com. Thinkgreenwood
Speaker 20: now dot com and sign the pledge that you will
Speaker 20: live by these five core principles. And then this is more.
Speaker 20: This is more than just talking about action. This is
Speaker 20: about a plan to move forward. That's Thinkgreenwood now dot
Speaker 20: com and you can connect with us and connect with
Speaker 20: these survivors who are still fighting for justice and reparations,
Speaker 20: not just for themselves, not just for their community, but
Speaker 20: for the entire Black community. They're standing strong, you know, andrela.
Speaker 2: You know this.
Speaker 20: They have been at every court hearing. They've been back
Speaker 20: and forth to DC. You talked about Representative Green. Representative
Speaker 20: Green has come up tuss and.
Speaker 21: Stood with us.
Speaker 20: He is going to put forth leg on behalf of
Speaker 20: reparations because of the reaper. My good friends stated. Reparations
Speaker 20: is necessary for the structural changes we need. Listen, the
Speaker 20: racial wealth gap. It's worse than it was in nineteen
Speaker 20: sixty eight. And so as we talk about everything else
Speaker 20: besides you know, d I and anti woke and all
Speaker 20: these things, if we don't have structural changes, as Joy
Speaker 20: talked about, we will never get the racial wealth gap
Speaker 20: to be shrunk. And that requires reparations. But we start
Speaker 20: that by thinking Greenwood go to Thinkgreenwood now dot com,
Speaker 20: sign the pledge, and let's get to work.
Speaker 5: I love that so much to Mario Roy.
Speaker 1: I was watching you when Mario was talking about going
Speaker 1: to think Greenwood dot com, and I didn't see you
Speaker 1: take a note.
Speaker 5: You've been standing right into that light.
Speaker 8: You just see me look down real quick.
Speaker 5: Greenwood now a lean Greenwood now dot com.
Speaker 20: Than Greenwood now dot com.
Speaker 8: See Roy, how you di it myself so that you
Speaker 8: wouldn't hear a click clack on the keyboard.
Speaker 5: Okay, I was.
Speaker 8: Down here, but you know my mama talked keyboarding that
Speaker 8: Miles College. Shut out the Miles cause I.
Speaker 14: Was looking up.
Speaker 1: Well, we need to go to take this pledge. So
Speaker 1: the Mario you said, there's five principles.
Speaker 20: Yeah, five principles community love that built Greenwood. You know,
Speaker 20: one of the things about the community love, it's about
Speaker 20: making sure that we are standing together, we're doing everything
Speaker 20: to make sure that we can all be successful, but
Speaker 20: also making sure we understand this we not the eye.
Speaker 20: And that's what built Greenwood. Self determination. You understand that
Speaker 20: Greenwood was built during a time where more lynchings were
Speaker 20: going on, open white supremacy, white segregation, but people went
Speaker 20: to Greenwood to be free to build and have a
Speaker 20: life as they will call it, to be a person ownership.
Speaker 20: People wanted to own their businesses, own their property, own
Speaker 20: their communities, and have ownership of themselves. And we've seen
Speaker 20: over the last decades upon decades, regardless of anything, we're
Speaker 20: going to have to take ownership for ourselves. As we
Speaker 20: continue to fight for better policy and then wealth and
Speaker 20: education concentration, we have to focus on building wealth and
Speaker 20: becoming better educated about what it takes to build generational wealth.
Speaker 20: I know we all just saw the tragic news of
Speaker 20: Antie Stone that was killed in a car accident just
Speaker 20: a few days ago. You know, when things like that happened,
Speaker 20: one of the things I think about is I hope
Speaker 20: she had her estate plan in place. I hope she
Speaker 20: had a life insurance in place. I hope she had
Speaker 20: a discussion with her family. What's going to happen to
Speaker 20: her royalties and our intellectual property. These are things that
Speaker 20: we have to start thinking about today. The fire is
Speaker 20: out in Alta Dina, the same thing. These things can happen,
Speaker 20: so we have to think about our wealth and economic
Speaker 20: education concentration and that fifthy the resilience and that's what
Speaker 20: we're showing tonight. We're showing despite open whites. This is
Speaker 20: a dangerous time. There will be some dark days, but
Speaker 20: we must be resilient and if nothing else, think Greenwood
Speaker 20: now and we can get through this theme.
Speaker 5: I want to go to.
Speaker 1: April Varrett, who has made tremendous history talking about resilience,
Speaker 1: and we know that many of our Labor Union brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters and family members are deeply resilient. Y'all have
Speaker 1: been on the front lines of some of these lawsuits.
Speaker 5: Labor Union is writ large.
Speaker 1: When you think about the inherent connection to that question, April,
Speaker 1: where do we go from here? Is something that doctor
Speaker 1: King asked all of us, and of course he had
Speaker 1: a tremendous strategic partnership with Labor. Where do you think
Speaker 1: we go from here now in twenty twenty five given
Speaker 1: the tremendous setbacks that we are all collectively experiencing.
Speaker 22: So thanks for thanks Angela and everyone. Incredible, incredible show
Speaker 22: of resilience and spirit and how much we can center
Speaker 22: the squabble up enjoy and in love and in community.
Speaker 22: And to the question of where do we go from here?
Speaker 22: I'm so glad Joy invoked the spirit of doctor King
Speaker 22: because it is the very same things he called for.
Speaker 22: That is unfinished business. That is the north star I
Speaker 22: believe for where we go from here. We have to,
Speaker 22: I believe, join forces and build enough power to end
Speaker 22: poverty and systemic and structural racism forever. And if we
Speaker 22: center those who are suffering, continuing to suffer from economic exploitation,
Speaker 22: it's us right. It's our other sisters and brothers, and
Speaker 22: people of color, it's women, it's immigrants right. When we
Speaker 22: center ourselves and when we build enough power for ourselves
Speaker 22: to dismantle the systems of poverty and racism in this country, I.
Speaker 15: Think we can begin to get stuff done.
Speaker 22: And I think that we have to stage, as folks
Speaker 22: have been saying, a fight. I don't get the Donald
Speaker 22: Trump phenomenon, but I've been thinking a lot about it.
Speaker 22: What attracts folks to that type of leadership, and I
Speaker 22: believe Americans are people who want to feel protected and defended,
Speaker 22: and for good or for bad. He is showing that
Speaker 22: I'm gonna protect, I'm gonna defend, and so we have
Speaker 22: to have that same energy in this moment. We got
Speaker 22: to show that we are gonna protect and we are
Speaker 22: gonna defend what we care about.
Speaker 15: Right.
Speaker 22: That vision that Joy talked about, I think is so important.
Speaker 22: And how are we not abandoning what we know we
Speaker 22: need in our communities.
Speaker 15: I don't give a damn.
Speaker 22: We should be out there talking every day about when
Speaker 22: they're gonna raise a minimum wage. You care so much
Speaker 22: about working people. When you're gonna vote on raising a
Speaker 22: minimum wage. You care so much about working people, When
Speaker 22: are you gonna put policies in place that stop price
Speaker 22: gouging and unnecessary fees that rob the pool? You care
Speaker 22: so much about working people, when are you going to
Speaker 22: invest more in our community?
Speaker 6: So the very things that we need.
Speaker 22: Now is the time to stand up the fight for them, unapologetically.
Speaker 22: And the last thing I'll say, Angela is I have
Speaker 22: come to believe that we are in the civil society
Speaker 22: because we want to fix things right. We want to
Speaker 22: be fixers. We want to put bomb on we want
Speaker 22: to throw water on fires. Now is the time to
Speaker 22: throw fuel on the fire. Now is the time to
Speaker 22: blow up the spot right.
Speaker 15: It is not a time to shrink, It is not
Speaker 15: a time to be small.
Speaker 14: We have to.
Speaker 22: Blow up their spot in the way that they are
Speaker 22: trying to blow up ours, and I think we got
Speaker 22: to do that in a focused and a prioritized way.
Speaker 22: We got to pick our battles for folks. We cannot
Speaker 22: get sucked into every single squirmish.
Speaker 15: They want to suck us into.
Speaker 6: We will exhaust ourselves.
Speaker 14: But by Memorial Day.
Speaker 22: So let's focus and let's and let's fight like hell.
Speaker 1: So while we were talking, it's also been dropped in
Speaker 1: the chat that Congress members Frost, Crockett, and Presley have
Speaker 1: also walked out of this joint Address of Congress for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So this is an opportunity. I feel like
Speaker 1: we got to bring in some of the youngest. So
Speaker 1: I want to go to zi uh Zi Brian. I
Speaker 1: want to come to you because it is so important
Speaker 1: to have young voices on here. You all are not
Speaker 1: just our future, you are present. I want to know
Speaker 1: if the actions taken by members of Congress who are
Speaker 1: walking out in this moment resonate with you, with them
Speaker 1: some of your peers. I'm not gonna do you like
Speaker 1: white folks, goes and be like, tell me what do
Speaker 1: black people think.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be one of those. But I am
Speaker 5: curious to know yes, one of the youths.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, Like, do you feel like, do you feel
Speaker 1: seen by that active protest? What would you have expected
Speaker 1: from members of Congress tonight? Well, thank you for having
Speaker 1: me first. Secondly, young people, as you said, are not
Speaker 1: just the.
Speaker 23: Future, we are the current moment.
Speaker 24: I'm encouraged by seeing them walk out because so often
Speaker 24: young black people are told we have to conform, we
Speaker 24: have to be like everyone else, We have to, you know,
Speaker 24: just make our way to the top, and we can't
Speaker 24: be outspoken, we can't say our true thoughts, and we
Speaker 24: can't really stand up in the ways that we want to.
Speaker 24: So I'm happy to see the people who have made
Speaker 24: it into those positions walking out and being very clear
Speaker 24: on where they stand and not leaving any room for
Speaker 24: any bad interpretations of what they may think or believe.
Speaker 24: But I mean, I think one of the reasons why
Speaker 24: I'm even running for office. I just launched my campaign
Speaker 24: for school board in Charlottesville, and the reason why I'm
Speaker 24: running for office at twenty four is because I believe
Speaker 24: that we are ready to lead. And I don't want
Speaker 24: people to use age as a proxy for experience, because
Speaker 24: I think that young people bring a lot to the table.
Speaker 24: We bring a lot of unique perspectives. We bring a
Speaker 24: lot of thoughts and ideas and innovative ways at going
Speaker 24: at things that are that we're facing in the current moment,
Speaker 24: all of the challenges that we're seeing. So I think
Speaker 24: that if young people are able to be supported, we
Speaker 24: all do well. But additionally, we need intergenerational base building,
Speaker 24: and so it will require young people to respect, you know,
Speaker 24: the past, the elders, the work that they have done,
Speaker 24: in the foundation that they've laid in order to inform
Speaker 24: the work that we hope to do in the future.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Zi, it's on my heart to
Speaker 5: go to this lovely young woman.
Speaker 25: Uh.
Speaker 5: Congresswoman Marsha Budge.
Speaker 1: Is how I met her, but most recently she was
Speaker 1: the Secretary of Housing in Urban Development, where actual change
Speaker 1: did happen during that administration and under her watch. She
Speaker 1: also is the former president of Delta Sigma Theta, and
Speaker 1: she is such a gem. I have to ask you,
Speaker 1: congress women, because I know I see I'm still saying,
Speaker 1: congressman is Madam Secretary.
Speaker 5: When you watch your colleagues.
Speaker 1: Tonight as they sit in this in the House chamber,
Speaker 1: I want to know if you put yourself back in
Speaker 1: their shoes, what you would have done, and any advice
Speaker 1: you have for them going forward about how they deal
Speaker 1: with someone who is actively working to destroy democracy.
Speaker 6: First, let me say I'm very proud of them.
Speaker 26: The one thing that I always believed when I was
Speaker 26: a member of Congress is that there were enough of
Speaker 26: us that we did not have to ask for permission.
Speaker 26: We sit back too often and want to find out
Speaker 26: what's the group want to do, how do we all
Speaker 26: want to work together. Sometimes we just need to stand up,
Speaker 26: and this is one of those times. I think that
Speaker 26: the Caucus in particular needs to stand with all its might,
Speaker 26: because when you are sixty members of Congress, you are strong,
Speaker 26: and I think we have to use the power that
Speaker 26: we have. So I'm very very proud of them. I
Speaker 26: probably would not have gone, but I mean, but those
Speaker 26: who did go, I am glad. I really feel so
Speaker 26: good about them standing up and letting people know what
Speaker 26: they think. Because the more we stay silent, the more
Speaker 26: we are ignored. And so I'm really really happy about
Speaker 26: what I'm hearing.
Speaker 1: I love I want to go to the nation's oldest
Speaker 1: civil rights organization. The president is our good brother, Derek Johnson,
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, what is the NAACP telling
Speaker 1: us to do going forward? How are you all going
Speaker 1: to help us march forward, keep pressing on, keep pressing,
Speaker 1: keep hope alive, and also keep the pressure on this
Speaker 1: administration that doesn't seem to be accountable to any one
Speaker 1: of us, is only yielding to entities.
Speaker 5: That have money to buy.
Speaker 1: It feels like this administration is for sale. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to put you in a partisan question, so I
Speaker 1: will just say as a as a general matter, we
Speaker 1: know that there's it seems to be that white supremacy
Speaker 1: is really the land here, and it seems like people
Speaker 1: who are poor and don't have something to offer them
Speaker 1: are putting harm's way.
Speaker 5: And we're seeing that.
Speaker 1: With the federal freezes, we're seeing that with the funding cuts,
Speaker 1: We're seeing that with the proposed budget across the board,
Speaker 1: we are seeing that. How is the NAACP recommending that
Speaker 1: black folks watching at home fight back?
Speaker 27: Great question, and thank you all for organizing this. You know,
Speaker 27: the last forty three days was the distraction. The real
Speaker 27: fight starts on March fourteenth with the continued resolution budget.
Speaker 27: This is about the money, many folks outside of our community.
Speaker 27: They're going to begin to feel the pain. They want
Speaker 27: to do away with such security. Let's be very clear,
Speaker 27: they want to do away with medicaid and medicare. They
Speaker 27: want to redefine the role of government. And so as
Speaker 27: we have been consumed with DEI and all the things
Speaker 27: that are out there, the crown jewel of all of
Speaker 27: this was to get their base motivated, get us distracted,
Speaker 27: so they can drive a MA truck through the budget
Speaker 27: and read the find everything privatized services. So leading up
Speaker 27: to March fourteenth, we need to be telling members of
Speaker 27: Congress who we put in office, don't cut a deal
Speaker 27: with our guarantees. Don't be worried about shutting down the
Speaker 27: government when we know if they get a clean cr
Speaker 27: through September, no matter what they say, Trump is going
Speaker 27: to disavow all the money that they appropriate. So between
Speaker 27: now and March fourteenth, we need to talk to all
Speaker 27: the Democratic leadership. Don't cut a deal unless you have
Speaker 27: a guarantee in legislation that the money will be spent
Speaker 27: as necessary. Now, when we get to the new budget,
Speaker 27: that's the real fight. Everything else has been a distraction
Speaker 27: for NACP. Recognizing for black folks recognizing.
Speaker 21: Race is a tool.
Speaker 27: Money is the game, and we have to figure out
Speaker 27: how not to get distracted with racialized questions when at
Speaker 27: the end of the day, they are trying to redefine
Speaker 27: the role.
Speaker 2: Special elections are coming up.
Speaker 27: We have to play in those elections, but unfortunately we
Speaker 27: will feel some pain. But white folks gonna feel some
Speaker 27: pain too, because if they cut Medicaid, there's a lot
Speaker 27: of folks gonna leave nursing homes because they're depending on Medicaid.
Speaker 27: If they cut snaps, the biggest benefactors are snapped is
Speaker 27: the walmarks of the world and all of the farmers.
Speaker 27: They have already felt the pain where USA being cut.
Speaker 27: Those farmers in Mississippi, Cindy hog Smith, the senator here
Speaker 27: where I live, are all already telling farmers who she's
Speaker 27: trying to get an exceptions from Trump on USA USAA
Speaker 27: because they're losing money. So the focus now forward is
Speaker 27: about how all these programs are about to be cut
Speaker 27: and white folks are beginning to feel going to feel
Speaker 27: the pain, and we need to tell CBC members who
Speaker 27: want to capitulate thinking this is this is business as usual.
Speaker 27: Democratic members who want to capitulate think they can cut
Speaker 27: a deal.
Speaker 8: There is no deal to get cut.
Speaker 27: If government gets shut down because they don't get what
Speaker 27: they need from the cur bill, so be it. Because
Speaker 27: if it goes forward with them being able to appropriate
Speaker 27: through September and still not spend the money on the
Speaker 27: entitlement programs, we're no better forward.
Speaker 15: So right now, let's focus on the budget.
Speaker 6: Let's focus on the budget fight.
Speaker 27: And the only two Democrats have right now is not
Speaker 27: to support the continued resolution unless they get some things
Speaker 27: in place to force the Republican priorty and Trump to
Speaker 27: do what's necessary. We may be nonpartisan, but with political
Speaker 27: hit as hell. This is not a partisanship conversation. This
Speaker 27: is about saving and protecting our democracy and progress made
Speaker 27: President Jackson.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no go, President Johnson. Now, if that's
Speaker 8: the directive to our elected officials, how do we convey
Speaker 8: something similar to our brothers and sisters who are just
Speaker 8: out here in the electorate. Our friend to get caught
Speaker 8: up in the algorithm of s whites whites, right, and
Speaker 8: some of them distractions will get you riled up. There
Speaker 8: were two cops who were convicted of kill so I
Speaker 8: don't remember the city but they were reinstated to their
Speaker 8: respective police force. This week, there's granted I don't write
Speaker 8: anything office outlandish anymore, but there's talk of people proposing
Speaker 8: a Derek Chauvin pardon for some point. But you know
Speaker 8: they're gonna try and sneak in around Juneteenth something like that.
Speaker 8: It's not policy, but it emotionally empowers a base that
Speaker 8: has been misinformed to then continue to push back on
Speaker 8: all of the things that as an electorate we actually
Speaker 8: need to be paying attention to. So how do we
Speaker 8: help drive voters to educate themselves and not get caught
Speaker 8: up in the algorithm of distractions? Or how do you
Speaker 8: allocate your attentions over here? Put eighty percent on snap
Speaker 8: and medicaid NAIN, now twenty percent over here on police
Speaker 8: officers getting part Well.
Speaker 27: That's the fight where in the control of the narrative
Speaker 27: in this moment is most important. CBS is compromised because
Speaker 27: they have an issue of merger in front of the FCC.
Speaker 27: COMPKINS is propromised because they don't want to lose the
Speaker 27: broadband money, the tens of billions of dollars that got
Speaker 27: for broadcasts. Therefore, MSNBC and NBC they're paralyzed. Disney is
Speaker 27: compromised because of the regulatory issues they're concerned with. The
Speaker 27: social media platforms as they exist are all trying to
Speaker 27: resist antitrust legislation. The fight we're in is around the
Speaker 27: control of narrative, and we have to figure out how
Speaker 27: to platform somewhere where we could get enough people to
Speaker 27: see what's taking place and control the narrative. If I
Speaker 27: had the solution to that, that's the sip bullet that
Speaker 27: we all need to have. But unfortunately, the medium age of.
Speaker 15: Our community is thirty two point six years old.
Speaker 27: That mean almost half of our population grew up in
Speaker 27: school districts without ever having city or social studies. They
Speaker 27: don't understand the role of government, the levels of power,
Speaker 27: and so our fight is more about how do we
Speaker 27: keep our people.
Speaker 15: Informed and focus that it is anything else. That is
Speaker 15: the fight that we are in.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and speaking of the fight, I wanted to go
Speaker 1: to someone who is another young leader. His name is
Speaker 1: Yusuf Omer and he is an SGA president at an HBCU.
Speaker 1: You talked about Miles College earlier, Roy, and so I
Speaker 1: want to know what the fight looks like for students
Speaker 1: at historically black colleges and universities where you all are
Speaker 1: being told that your funding could get hit too. This
Speaker 1: is the same man who took credit for giving funding
Speaker 1: to y'all that he did not give and has criticized
Speaker 1: the last administration for actually giving him. So I want
Speaker 1: to know what the fight looks like a student level,
Speaker 1: what you all are talking about, how you all are
Speaker 1: talking about mobilizing when your education is on the line,
Speaker 1: and actually your bodies could be on the line as well.
Speaker 28: Absolutely, Angeline, just thank you for having us on here,
Speaker 28: Thank you for highlighting young people, understanding that we are
Speaker 28: not the future, we are the now. Understanding that hbc
Speaker 28: YOU has been the backbone for years, for hundreds of
Speaker 28: years of black excellence, producing leaders, innovators, change makers, people
Speaker 28: in all different walks of life, in every single field,
Speaker 28: despite being historically underfunded.
Speaker 6: That's just reality, and that reality is clear.
Speaker 28: As day that each HBCU in these United States does
Speaker 28: more with less. If we say that we truly value
Speaker 28: education and value all young people, we must invest in
Speaker 28: every institution that has invested back in US Federal funding
Speaker 28: for HBC YOU shouldn't be a charity, and it shouldn't
Speaker 28: be something that people can threaten to take away. It
Speaker 28: should be something that our government should continually invest and
Speaker 28: add more to.
Speaker 21: I look at it like federal.
Speaker 28: Funding for us at HBCUs is a debt ode to
Speaker 28: the legacy of what we do, of what our ancestors
Speaker 28: fought for, and the brilliance that these institutions represent. When
Speaker 28: you fund the HBCU, you literally fund the future of
Speaker 28: black leadership, a black culture of economic power and social
Speaker 28: progress in this country.
Speaker 21: And as students, we're working.
Speaker 28: On not only mobilizing, but we're now having students run
Speaker 28: for office while they're in college. We have students at
Speaker 28: HBCUs running for city council. These are hometown heroes that
Speaker 28: we need to shed the light on. We need to
Speaker 28: donate to their campaigns, we need to support them, and
Speaker 28: we need to educate. I want to shout out with
Speaker 28: my professor the reason I'm here, doctor Wes Bellamy. These
Speaker 28: are the environments that we're cultivating at HBCUs. Classrooms and
Speaker 28: discussions and ideas and debates that are not only staying
Speaker 28: in the classroom. These ideas, debased and discussions are now
Speaker 28: being traveled to different boardrooms, into the houses of government
Speaker 28: and state legislators.
Speaker 13: So it's definitely needed.
Speaker 28: Funding for hb stop and the research fund it for
Speaker 28: HBCU should never stop.
Speaker 1: I want to call up Wes Bellamy, doctor Wes Bellamy,
Speaker 1: who is yes a professor but also the social Action
Speaker 1: chair for one hundred Black Men. Talk about the role Wes,
Speaker 1: that you all must play.
Speaker 5: Also in supporting black women who are doing this work.
Speaker 1: Already, but we need to be standing together talk about
Speaker 1: the important role that you all play right now and
Speaker 1: where we go from here and talk about some of
Speaker 1: the things that you all are doing next or right
Speaker 1: now that folks can engage.
Speaker 21: Sure you know, first and foremost, major kudos to you.
Speaker 29: I'll call you the Chris Paul of the movement, Angela
Speaker 29: for always being an architect. She's always passing the ball,
Speaker 29: setting people up, and she can be nice and nasty
Speaker 29: when she needs to to get us.
Speaker 14: We need to be stay on topic.
Speaker 8: Let me.
Speaker 29: So so yeah, thank you say as much love as
Speaker 29: you said alluded to. We know that HBCUs play a
Speaker 29: very pivotal role in our community. But just as important
Speaker 29: as it is for us to support our hbc US,
Speaker 29: we need to support black students no matter what institution
Speaker 29: they're at. We see pwy's under attack our black students,
Speaker 29: whether that be in black student unions. We saw this
Speaker 29: information come out right there at Ohio State University about
Speaker 29: potentially their black student union being shut down. We've seen
Speaker 29: certain things transpire University of Virginia, where I live right
Speaker 29: next to. I mean there's a multitude of institutions at
Speaker 29: pw excuse me, multitude of students at pwi's and HBC
Speaker 29: user like who need our assistance. So, Angela, when you
Speaker 29: ask the question of what do we do in the immediate,
Speaker 29: I think that means showing up. Yousef made a really
Speaker 29: good point in terms of how there's young people who
Speaker 29: are running for office right now. We just had Ayana
Speaker 29: Bryan on earlier. She's running for city council. I would
Speaker 29: encourage us all in the immediate to donate to her campaign.
Speaker 29: I just donated one hundred dollars. I asked for anybody
Speaker 29: on here to match that. That's a young person on
Speaker 29: here right now who's out doing the work and she's
Speaker 29: committing herself to get in the fight. So we all
Speaker 29: can do something in the immedia today by supporting her
Speaker 29: on a broader scale and on a larger scale. When
Speaker 29: we talk about different things specifically in our community tomorrow
Speaker 29: or and ure Friday, or next Tuesday or next month.
Speaker 29: I think it's about doing three things. One, we have
Speaker 29: to be able to endure and mentally and emotionally prepare
Speaker 29: ourselves to be able to endure what's going on in
Speaker 29: front of us. There's going to be a lot of
Speaker 29: fatigue that we feel, both emotionally and mentally from just.
Speaker 21: All of the things that are coming on in our bodies.
Speaker 29: So I think it's important to be able to have
Speaker 29: your happy space, take the time away when you need it,
Speaker 29: be able to rest when you need to, and then
Speaker 29: again be prepared to go out and get up and
Speaker 29: fight the next day, because there will be a fight tomorrow. Secondly,
Speaker 29: when it comes to on a local level, we all
Speaker 29: need to be looking at how we can be engaged today.
Speaker 29: Whether that means showing up at a city council meeting,
Speaker 29: showing up at a school board meeting, showing up to
Speaker 29: a PTA or PTO meeting. We can all go and
Speaker 29: do those things today. And then thirdly, we know that
Speaker 29: we're gonna have to contact and support our legislators, whether
Speaker 29: that be persons like jas mccrockett, and others who we
Speaker 29: know are on the front lines and they're speaking out
Speaker 29: of speaking boldly. But in addition to those folks, we
Speaker 29: need to be agitating the individuals who aren't as loud,
Speaker 29: the quote unquote moderate Democrat or the moderate liberal, or
Speaker 29: the moderate independent or the radical Republican. We need to
Speaker 29: be agitating and bringing the smoke to all of them
Speaker 29: the same way that y'all worked for us. I saw
Speaker 29: a small clip just a second ago. Somebody sent it
Speaker 29: to my phone of a sister during the State of
Speaker 29: the trash excuse me, the State of the Union, and.
Speaker 21: There was a there was a there was a coward.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was a.
Speaker 21: Congressman who snatched the he snatched the paper.
Speaker 29: She said she had a paper that said this is
Speaker 29: not normal, and he's snash the paper out her hand
Speaker 29: and then threw it up in the air like hip
Speaker 29: hip hooray.
Speaker 2: Like that should infuriate.
Speaker 21: Us and motivate us to go to work.
Speaker 29: Me personally, I would want to do some other things,
Speaker 29: but I'm going to channel my energy to go do
Speaker 29: some work within the community, and I think those are
Speaker 29: the things that we can do right now. Like everybody
Speaker 29: isn't going to mobilize a five thousand person march. Everybody
Speaker 29: isn't going to be able to put together this prolific
Speaker 29: town hall, but we all can do something in our communities, first,
Speaker 29: in our neighborhoods, next in our states and congressional districts
Speaker 29: after that.
Speaker 2: So let's go get to it.
Speaker 29: I challenge y'all to work not only with me, but
Speaker 29: everyone else on this call and those who we don't know,
Speaker 29: so we can get to work.
Speaker 5: And on that wes.
Speaker 1: Speaking of getting to work, there is somebody that's all
Speaker 1: about that work that is now with Reverend Mark Thompson.
Speaker 1: Ayana Presley, the congresswoman who is about that life real
Speaker 1: og is here and she is ready to talk to us.
Speaker 5: So congress Woman and Presley, welcome. We are so happy
Speaker 5: to see you. We're so glad you walked out.
Speaker 2: Girl, glad you walked out. She she can't. We're relaying
Speaker 2: what you're saying.
Speaker 14: Ok we said, girl, she said go girl.
Speaker 2: That's what she said. You can hear me, Okay, you.
Speaker 5: She can't hear us.
Speaker 2: So tell us, Congresswoman, God bless you, what happened up set?
Speaker 30: Yeah, well, we walked out, probably about twenty of us,
Speaker 30: but there were many people participating in silent protests with different.
Speaker 31: Signs instead of things like musk steals.
Speaker 30: UH, protect Medicaid, protect veterans. You know, this is the
Speaker 30: reforms of protests taking place UH in many iterations, including
Speaker 30: from Representative out Green and so yeah, this is a
Speaker 30: former protest.
Speaker 11: I went very briefly.
Speaker 31: Because I was here to hold space for my guest,
Speaker 31: who is.
Speaker 30: A probationary federal worker who worked at HUD who enforces
Speaker 30: national fair housing laws.
Speaker 31: She's also a wheelchair user, and.
Speaker 30: So she navigated a lot of ablest spaces to be
Speaker 30: here today, so to honor her, I want to take
Speaker 30: up space, but I knew that I was not going
Speaker 30: to stay there because we cannot normalize this. This man
Speaker 30: has no respect for Congress. He does not respect us
Speaker 30: as a cult equal branch of government. He has contempt
Speaker 30: for the American people. He pardoned January six ers, who
Speaker 30: desecrated the very well that we are in today for
Speaker 30: this joint Address of Congress or state of a Union.
Speaker 30: So I don't need to be there for a maga
Speaker 30: pep rally listening to lies in propaganda, hateful rhetoric, and
Speaker 30: even more hateful and harmful policies, and those policies are
Speaker 30: coming for every single person to cause this country home.
Speaker 31: Listen, I've been in Congress six years. I've never walked.
Speaker 30: Out of a joint address of Congress or State of
Speaker 30: the Union, not even for the occupant's first term.
Speaker 31: I've never walked out.
Speaker 14: But this is not normal.
Speaker 31: This is a fascist dictator.
Speaker 26: Uh.
Speaker 31: And I could not sit there and pretend.
Speaker 15: That this was it.
Speaker 31: That man is unfit to be president. He is not
Speaker 31: the president.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 30: And so if he has contempt for the American people,
Speaker 30: I'm gonna stand in solidarity with the American people. And
Speaker 30: that is why I walked out in protest at nine
Speaker 30: point forty. These boots were definitely made for walking. And
Speaker 30: and again, I wanted to bring visibility to the story
Speaker 30: of the federal worker from my district who was fired unlawfully, unjustly.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 30: And it not only is disrupting her life and livelihood,
Speaker 30: but it's a disservice to the people that she serves
Speaker 30: every day.
Speaker 2: Speaking of this is not normal. A member head to sign.
Speaker 15: Oh, let me tell you about that.
Speaker 31: Okay.
Speaker 30: So Melanie Stansbury had a sign shot a rest in
Speaker 30: peace and power to she La Jackson Lee.
Speaker 31: She was sitting on the aisle. Representative Jackson Lee used
Speaker 31: to sit for hours to hold that seat on the aisle.
Speaker 30: Melanie Stansbury was in that seat well a sign that
Speaker 30: said this isn't normal, because it ain't and a as
Speaker 30: Trump was making his way down the aisle, a Republican
Speaker 30: colleague I think from Texas, but I don't want to
Speaker 30: misrepresent leaned across the aisle snatched the sign and threw
Speaker 30: it up in the air.
Speaker 2: That's assault. We're talking about that. So the twenty who
Speaker 2: walked out, twenty who walked out?
Speaker 21: This all?
Speaker 30: Was this all black caucas No, it was a mix
Speaker 30: of Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Speaker 31: But I would say that there were more members of
Speaker 31: the CDC.
Speaker 2: And you said you did not plan the standard me.
Speaker 2: You knew you would probably welcome.
Speaker 30: I wasn't going to Well, honestly, I wasn't going to
Speaker 30: come at all, because again, this is not normal. This
Speaker 30: is in what other setting would we give audience to
Speaker 30: a fascist dictator. I want to be very clear, though,
Speaker 30: there's honorable in front of our names, every single member
Speaker 30: of Congress. For a reason, I respect my colleagues, and
Speaker 30: how each of them decided to demonstrate protest, how they
Speaker 30: chose to center their guests for tonight.
Speaker 31: For me, I could not I could not sit there.
Speaker 30: That very chamber was desecrated by January sixth insurrectionists.
Speaker 31: That he parted. He does not respect us as a
Speaker 31: coequal branch of government. He has no respect for us.
Speaker 31: So it's insult to injury.
Speaker 30: So again, if he has contempt for the people, we're
Speaker 30: gonna stand in solidarity with the people.
Speaker 31: And I honestly it was a part of a broader
Speaker 31: democratic strategy to have different forms.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you all know that she.
Speaker 2: Is the truth. We got y'all tangled up in these wives,
Speaker 2: So tell it. So what did you did? You all walk?
Speaker 2: You walk at the same time.
Speaker 32: This is my queen, Ayanna Presley. I take all guidance
Speaker 32: from her.
Speaker 22: Yes, And essentially we did all walk out together.
Speaker 5: We in our minds had an idea of what we
Speaker 5: were going to do.
Speaker 32: I think each of us said there's only so much
Speaker 32: shit that I can take right when I have to
Speaker 32: keep flushing this toilet.
Speaker 31: And we walked out within four minutes of each other.
Speaker 31: It was a small wave of us, and it was.
Speaker 2: Also I heard it was a plane to where black
Speaker 2: was that kind of a uh uh.
Speaker 14: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: Mark Times go ahead, Roy.
Speaker 8: Could you ask either of them? Do they feel like
Speaker 8: the hind closed doors? So it's behind closed doors. Any
Speaker 8: of the Republican officials are starting to turn against Trump?
Speaker 2: Do you get this sen as any of the Republican
Speaker 2: members are starting to turn against Trump?
Speaker 32: No, they're scared, but they also are mad at themselves
Speaker 32: for having no courage, And they're mad at us because
Speaker 32: we are the mirror.
Speaker 33: Of courage that they should have.
Speaker 30: And it would seem to Party it's a cult of
Speaker 30: cowards that are complicit in wholesale harm.
Speaker 2: And they have a majority. He even deems irrelevant because
Speaker 2: he just skips right over them, right, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: they don't.
Speaker 30: Mess that only abdicated their responsibility in this moment for
Speaker 30: our shared constituents. They have seeded their Congressional authority and
Speaker 30: power because of their fealty and loyalty to Donald Trump
Speaker 30: and not to the people that elected them.
Speaker 32: And what is so very scary is that Donald Trump
Speaker 32: is trying to merge the executive, the legislative, and the
Speaker 32: judicial branch. We have seen Congress yield to him, the Republicans,
Speaker 32: and we have to make sure that the judiciary does
Speaker 32: not do what these Republicans in Congress have done.
Speaker 2: That's right. I know I speak for everyone here. Answer
Speaker 2: you got a quick quck quick question? You want me
Speaker 2: to relay?
Speaker 5: I don't just let them know we stand with them.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to some of their colleagues here
Speaker 1: to get a reaction, but tell them we stand with them,
Speaker 1: and we thank them for their courage.
Speaker 2: We all stand with you. We thank you for your courage.
Speaker 2: You know, somebody you gotta do this, So I'm glad
Speaker 2: you all did that. And you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: you could hear him. He started whining, they don't love me.
Speaker 2: Then they don't have a clap for me. When I
Speaker 2: came up here for five years, they didn't clap. I mean,
Speaker 2: he went this, you know that whole Rodney dangerfield. Don't
Speaker 2: nobody love me?
Speaker 22: Thinking, Wow, tell the truth and we'll clap. Tell the
Speaker 22: truth and we'll clap. Do your fucking job and we'll clap.
Speaker 32: But if you're going to kill us, if you're going
Speaker 32: to fire us, if you're going to take away our rights,
Speaker 32: then we are not going to clap.
Speaker 31: We are going to go for you.
Speaker 20: That's right, damn right.
Speaker 31: I know she was loud, and she says she takes all.
Speaker 2: Hold on to Mario.
Speaker 5: Well, because because they can't hear us Mark, because they
Speaker 5: can't hear us Mark. I want to just jump in here.
Speaker 1: There was someone who's a good friend of ours, our
Speaker 1: good brother Gary Chambers, who Gary Chambers has been relentless about.
Speaker 1: Let's call our members. Let's make sure they know we
Speaker 1: don't even want them to go, tell them to go somewhere.
Speaker 1: So I want to get his live reaction to what
Speaker 1: he's hearing right now, Gary time in here.
Speaker 9: I just I want to say thank you to the
Speaker 9: members of Congress who had the courage to stand up,
Speaker 9: because at the end of the day, we don't have
Speaker 9: to act like this as normal. We don't have to
Speaker 9: sit there and just allow him to lie in our faces.
Speaker 9: And I think that if we are understanding the spirit
Speaker 9: of our ancestors, that is to resist in both strategic
Speaker 9: ways and visible ways. So this government understands where we
Speaker 9: are in.
Speaker 2: A strategic way. That's what he was just saying.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we all agree to translate, but let's we
Speaker 1: got to keep the panel.
Speaker 2: No, but I'm gonna say one thing. Since the Mario
Speaker 2: was here and we talked and a Resa was here,
Speaker 2: we want to introduce those of you who don't know.
Speaker 2: She mentioned Kank Truman, Shiela Jackson Lee. She has inherited
Speaker 2: the mantle from the spirit of Shila Jackson Lee and
Speaker 2: John Kanye is Ayanna Presley is now the primary sponsor
Speaker 2: and they try forty reparations now. So we appreciate that
Speaker 2: Maxwell Frost has said, yeah, Mcrokett is around, and I
Speaker 2: think Albreen is still coming.
Speaker 5: I'll be back perfect. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Mark.
Speaker 5: We got we got Mark on the spot. Forget Johnny Roy.
Speaker 1: We got Mark on the spot and he brought us
Speaker 1: right to our protesters that know what time it is.
Speaker 1: It is state of the people, y'all in a state
Speaker 1: of the unit, and it ain't a joint addressed. This
Speaker 1: is our time and it is so good to be
Speaker 1: alongside people with courage. I want to go to some
Speaker 1: sisters that I know carry the mantle for courage all
Speaker 1: the time. Bishop Leadaughtree, I want to come to you,
Speaker 1: and shavn Our Line Bradley, I also want to come
Speaker 1: to you simultaneously.
Speaker 5: I want to hear what y'all think about that.
Speaker 1: And now that we've had some sisters show up, show
Speaker 1: out say that we're not going to sit here and
Speaker 1: listen to this nonsense, what do people at home do
Speaker 1: with that same courage? How can we motivate and activate
Speaker 1: that same courage. I also want y'all to know I
Speaker 1: came to them because these are my These are my
Speaker 1: side passes. Okay, they get a prayer through and they'll
Speaker 1: get us some action that is rooted in faith.
Speaker 5: So I want to hear from you all about what
Speaker 5: you think we do with that.
Speaker 31: On the side.
Speaker 5: I got a main line right to them.
Speaker 8: Okay, I thought you'd mind.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, See Roy, that's why you know what somebody blocking?
Speaker 15: Well, I'll start Shavn go ahead, Shavin you go well.
Speaker 34: First of all, shout out to the love tonight. I
Speaker 34: suspect the ancestors are well and resting well because of
Speaker 34: what's happening right now. So just shout out to the
Speaker 34: whole family Angeler for keep keeping us rolling. I think
Speaker 34: a couple of things to offer as you think about
Speaker 34: the response. And I want to just honor black women
Speaker 34: in this moment for being aware and taking space that
Speaker 34: we know is ours to take.
Speaker 6: I will tell you this, there.
Speaker 34: Is a unity between the brothers and sisters tonight that
Speaker 34: I think it's palpable and I think it's changing the game.
Speaker 34: But when we talk about the ground game, we need
Speaker 34: to talk specifically about where people need to go. There
Speaker 34: are a lot of questions that are coming in on
Speaker 34: the strategies. What are we supposed to do? This is boycott, yes, activate, yes,
Speaker 34: But we're talking about now the legislative part of this work,
Speaker 34: This part of the advocacy on the ground is where
Speaker 34: voters can.
Speaker 21: Take a stance.
Speaker 34: If you have a child that has an illness, they're
Speaker 34: currently receiving CHIP and supported by Medicaid. If you have
Speaker 34: a mother or father who is over sixty five, they're
Speaker 34: receiving any kind of treatments, they're receiving Medicare, Social Security
Speaker 34: is on the line. I also want us to understand
Speaker 34: that we start talking about snap and benefits, these are
Speaker 34: not just benefiting black people. As a misnomer about these entitlements.
Speaker 6: And what I want people to.
Speaker 34: Understand is you have to now start calling your senators
Speaker 34: every single day.
Speaker 6: Be relentless, be relentless in.
Speaker 34: A way that allows them to know you will be
Speaker 34: voted out. And we've got to also use the phone
Speaker 34: tree method, like we got a old school. You got
Speaker 34: to call your people to tell them to call their
Speaker 34: people to make these phone calls and then show up
Speaker 34: special elections in Florida First and sixth district.
Speaker 14: Do not miss this.
Speaker 6: I don't care this Republican district. I care that we
Speaker 6: got black people that can vote.
Speaker 34: Here's the last thing I want to say is for
Speaker 34: this call tonight, as people are listening to what's happening,
Speaker 34: we got to understand that strategy will outweigh this foolishness.
Speaker 6: But strategy comes when.
Speaker 34: We had to take a moment to breathe and activate.
Speaker 34: Now that we're activating, look at what we've done in
Speaker 34: twenty four hours. We have called my father's seventy seven
Speaker 34: years old and he told me he clicked.
Speaker 6: On to watch tonight. We're hitting generation after generation.
Speaker 34: We got mothers, grandmothers, fathers, Folks that have not been
Speaker 34: listening are now listening.
Speaker 6: So when you say turn the TV off, that doesn't
Speaker 6: mean turn off the activism. That means turn off this
Speaker 6: moment to be able to pull together what we're doing tonight,
Speaker 6: working y'all we are going to win because our ancestors
Speaker 6: gave it the blueprint. This is a different man, but
Speaker 6: not a different plan.
Speaker 5: That's what I want you to hear, Bishop, before you
Speaker 5: weigh in.
Speaker 1: We've been joined by Congresswoman Latifah Simon with Mark, Reverend
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, and I want to go to her.
Speaker 5: You all heard her earlier today.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go anywhere, all right, delivering her working family,
Speaker 1: working family party rebuttal or prebuttal to the state of
Speaker 1: the Union. So Mark, I'm coming to you now so
Speaker 1: we can hear from Congresswoman Simon.
Speaker 2: Congswims, Simon, what happened?
Speaker 11: A lot happened tonight.
Speaker 15: I mean, I know, I walked out.
Speaker 11: I walked out.
Speaker 33: I couldn't listen to these these deep lives.
Speaker 11: It's vitrio.
Speaker 31: But it also, Sarah, felt like a clan rally in there.
Speaker 22: We we have to really understand what's happening right in
Speaker 22: front of us. We heard the president said clearly. He
Speaker 22: said clearly that he wants to take us back to
Speaker 22: a nineteen fifties America. DEI is code for making sure
Speaker 22: that white men are leading everything. He has fired for
Speaker 22: star generals and has put unqualified white men to head
Speaker 22: our pentagon.
Speaker 14: I can go on and on.
Speaker 22: We heard the lies when he talks started talking about
Speaker 22: social security. That's my grandmother, that's my aunt. Those are
Speaker 22: disabled children and the children of dead men. That is
Speaker 22: a social safety net that we all have paid into.
Speaker 22: And he is going to just rupt that department. He
Speaker 22: is going to just rupt and fracture our education system again,
Speaker 22: that's disabled children, that's K through.
Speaker 11: Twelve, that's FASPA.
Speaker 22: I couldn't listen to someone who's trying to tear apart
Speaker 22: the very structures that we have fought to build in
Speaker 22: the last sixty years in this country.
Speaker 17: I had to walk out.
Speaker 22: It's my job to be in this building, but I
Speaker 22: refuse to sit and kowto to the neo clan.
Speaker 31: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2: Had you contemplated that, did you have a feeling that
Speaker 2: might be what you would do?
Speaker 31: I knew it, but my mother said, listen.
Speaker 22: My mother is from malvern Ark and she told me
Speaker 22: this morning, Latifa, eight hundred thousand people are expecting you
Speaker 22: to do your job and at least go. No one
Speaker 22: is supposed to kick you out of your house. So
Speaker 22: I wasn't kicked out today. I left mid mid speech,
Speaker 22: very clear that we have work to do on the
Speaker 22: ground and factually, block by block, if we vote walk
Speaker 22: back block, we can take back the House, stop this
Speaker 22: mad man, and win the presidency.
Speaker 11: It's that simple.
Speaker 22: These folks don't care about laws, they don't care about
Speaker 22: the judiciary. We're facing a constitutional crisis when moreover, America
Speaker 22: is about to be sicker and poor, and none of
Speaker 22: us are safe.
Speaker 31: You know last thing I'll say on this.
Speaker 22: You know, a few weeks into me being here, I'm
Speaker 22: a new member of Congress, I was one of the
Speaker 22: few people outside of Doe saying let us in and
Speaker 22: talk to these folks who want to take apart funding
Speaker 22: for HBCUs, want to take disabled services out of our
Speaker 22: eight through twelve for our disabled, autistic children, intellectual and
Speaker 22: physical disabilities. Want to talk to them. Not only did
Speaker 22: they lock the doors, they sent Homeland security. You couldn't
Speaker 22: see that behind the doors there's a wall of Promeland
Speaker 22: Security officers with their hands on their guns. This is
Speaker 22: not the republic that we have fought for. These are
Speaker 22: dangerous times. This democracy is in hospice.
Speaker 31: Watch out and be close and be clear. We have
Speaker 31: to organize, and folks have to run and went office.
Speaker 22: Because we are this close, this close from being in
Speaker 22: a segregated apartheid America once again. We have literally shed blood, tears,
Speaker 22: intellectual beauty to have the small.
Speaker 15: Rights that we have.
Speaker 22: My mother wasn't born in a democracy. Yours wasn't either
Speaker 22: in this country. Literally they couldn't vote, Their grandmothers couldn't vote.
Speaker 22: We are only two and a half generations past those times.
Speaker 22: This thinly veiled democracy can be whipped away in a second.
Speaker 22: Look at El Salvador, the president of al Salvador ripped
Speaker 22: up the constitution, slandered the legislative body in the dictionary body,
Speaker 22: and has now created a prison state. We gotta work, y'all.
Speaker 22: I'm ready to work. I'm here not just legislat but
Speaker 22: to organize, but to show up for my people.
Speaker 31: We got to do better, and I'm gonna do better.
Speaker 11: That's what I'm here to do.
Speaker 22: And I'm proud and honored to be one of two
Speaker 22: hundred people in this nation's history. Less than that has
Speaker 22: worn this pin.
Speaker 31: So it's about action.
Speaker 15: We're gonna be in committee, but we're gonna be on.
Speaker 5: The streets too.
Speaker 2: You may have had a bit of vantage point that
Speaker 2: we did what exactly happened with Al Green when they
Speaker 2: came in to escort him out, did they not?
Speaker 22: So you know that brother is on the floor every
Speaker 22: single day fighting the good fight. I mean, listened to
Speaker 22: him his force speeches every day. What he did is
Speaker 22: he shook his cane and he challenged the leader of
Speaker 22: the Neo clan. And that's what he was supposed to do.
Speaker 22: And the Speaker of the House had a black man
Speaker 22: forcefully removed from the chamber by the sergeant in arms.
Speaker 11: He is a sitting member of Congress.
Speaker 22: And do you see the heckling and the hollering from
Speaker 22: the Republicans?
Speaker 31: Do they have decorum?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 31: This is a discriminary body right now.
Speaker 22: This is a leadership that doesn't see black men as
Speaker 22: equal to their white counterparts.
Speaker 31: Is really clear.
Speaker 22: If you look at the right side of the aisle,
Speaker 22: you see a monolithic you see a monolithic governance structure.
Speaker 22: It's a majority white man structure.
Speaker 15: That's what they want.
Speaker 31: That's what they're pushing for. And you better feel, you
Speaker 31: better feel the realness of that.
Speaker 22: They are going to make sure that every head of state,
Speaker 22: every department head looks like those men, looks like the
Speaker 22: men who come.
Speaker 31: From a Lennia and you had our uncles swinging from trees.
Speaker 5: That is not hyperbole.
Speaker 17: That is the truth.
Speaker 15: That's the fight back.
Speaker 2: We got fire up in the capitol, y'all. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: throw it back because I know y'all having dialogue and
Speaker 2: folks gonna keep dropping and thank you congress Woman, thank you.
Speaker 5: Mark, keep them coming. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: I want to go to bishoply Adoptree now we talk
Speaker 1: about you, can you please show everybody your shirt because
Speaker 1: your shirt is prophetic for this evening.
Speaker 5: Look at this.
Speaker 1: It says black women vote, and what you see is
Speaker 1: black women leading, black women walking out.
Speaker 5: Boots were made for walking black women.
Speaker 1: Cussing while they leaving. You gotta feel proud. Bishop, I
Speaker 1: want to hear about this.
Speaker 15: It is an amazing moment. This whole day has just
Speaker 15: been an amazing thing. And to see these sisters step
Speaker 15: up and tell us what was happening on the floor
Speaker 15: is just singular. And you know, black women are doing
Speaker 15: what black women have always done in this country. And
Speaker 15: I'm not discounting the efforts of the brothers, but I
Speaker 15: was asked to talk about black women, so that's what
Speaker 15: I'm gonna do. And so I think what we're seeing
Speaker 15: is the continuation of the bloodline and of the lineage.
Speaker 15: And I just want to remind us that nobody is
Speaker 15: coming to save us. There's no army that's coming to
Speaker 15: save us. We're gonna have to save ourselves. And that's
Speaker 15: just the bottom line. And if we're waiting for some
Speaker 15: want some cavalry, the cavai ain't coming, y'all. We have
Speaker 15: to save ourselves. And so what I want to offer
Speaker 15: is a couple of things that people can do. Number One, reject.
Speaker 15: We have got to reject the lies. What happened today
Speaker 15: with this twenty four hour marathon is one example. We
Speaker 15: gotta reject it outright. Refuse to accept what theydition. We
Speaker 15: just not gonna reject it. Do not engage in anticipatory compliance,
Speaker 15: do not obey in advance. We gotta reject it. Number Two,
Speaker 15: we gotta resist. Put on your boots, get you an
Speaker 15: angela bahrein, do whatever you gotta do in the places
Speaker 15: where you are to resist what is happening To say,
Speaker 15: I will not go here is the line I will
Speaker 15: not cross. I am going to do what I can do,
Speaker 15: which is not to say that we all gonna do
Speaker 15: the same thing, but we ought to practice resistance in
Speaker 15: the spaces where they are. Number Three, we gotta reclaim
Speaker 15: our heritage. We've let it go because we have had
Speaker 15: an easy time of things in some respects, or we've
Speaker 15: been duped into thinking we've had an easy time. We
Speaker 15: have got to reclaim the mantle of our ancestors. What
Speaker 15: the lineage was that got us to where we are today,
Speaker 15: where we have all these firsts, where we have people incentive,
Speaker 15: where we have people running businesses. It was not ever so.
Speaker 15: And so we got to reclaim the authority, reclaim the power,
Speaker 15: reclaim our legacy as black people in this country who
Speaker 15: were built to survive. We were made for this storm.
Speaker 15: Everything that has happened to us in this country has
Speaker 15: prepared us for this moment, and we are up to
Speaker 15: the task. And the last r I'm gonna give you
Speaker 15: is remember, you got to remember where we've come from.
Speaker 15: You got to remember the battles we've already won. In
Speaker 15: the face of this of these co presidents who will
Speaker 15: try every day to dismiss, demean and diminish us, we
Speaker 15: have to remember that with the stock we've come from,
Speaker 15: we've got to remember the people we've come from, who
Speaker 15: were sturdy enough and strong enough to survive this middle
Speaker 15: passage to get here and to live four hundred years,
Speaker 15: to survive through the slave master's whip, through the splinching tree,
Speaker 15: through the segregated fountains, the back of the bus, and
Speaker 15: they kept on breathing, and they kept on living in
Speaker 15: the hope that we would be able to stand, not
Speaker 15: just stand, but thrive. And we cannot let our legacy
Speaker 15: and that our ancestors left for us be diminished onto me.
Speaker 15: Ain't nobody coming to save us. We gotta save ourselves.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely right, sos and on that speaking to
Speaker 1: somebody who's working on saving ourselves actively. He might've upset
Speaker 1: some party folks the other day because Jamie Harrison was front.
Speaker 5: And center in the USA Today article.
Speaker 1: While white folks are talking about identity politics no more,
Speaker 1: there's no space for DEEI. We're starting to see white
Speaker 1: folks in the Democratic Party aligned with Republicans sounding real dixiecratish,
Speaker 1: and Jamie Harrison is like, sweet brown, Ain't nobody got
Speaker 1: time for that.
Speaker 5: So Jamie, I want to know where you will tell
Speaker 5: the party to go from here? You see black women
Speaker 5: and black men.
Speaker 1: Thinking about mister Green leading with no direction in some ways,
Speaker 1: right they are leading. They're saying, we're gonna take this
Speaker 1: in our own hands. We are going to follow our
Speaker 1: own conscience. We know they are members of a caucus
Speaker 1: that's called the Conscience of the Congress. Jamie, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling about all this? And what do you tell
Speaker 1: the people at home who are like, finally we see leadership.
Speaker 35: Well, listen, Angela, First of all, thank you for your
Speaker 35: vision you enjoy for helping to pull all this together.
Speaker 8: And you know, the bishop just preached the word.
Speaker 21: She just preached the word.
Speaker 35: And we're at this inflection point, particularly where parties are.
Speaker 35: And you know, I'm very fortunate to been the third
Speaker 35: black person to be chair of the Democratic Party. But
Speaker 35: I can tell your Democratic Party ain't perfect.
Speaker 13: And right now what you hear is there's a battle
Speaker 13: for the soul of the party.
Speaker 35: You got some folks who love to say that black
Speaker 35: folks represent the backbone, the heart and soul of the
Speaker 35: Democratic Party. But at the at the first indication of
Speaker 35: any anxiety, electoral anxiety, they want to abandon those folks.
Speaker 35: They talk about identity politics being the thing that drags
Speaker 35: that is dragging the Democratic Party back held evangelist, the
Speaker 35: right wing evangelists in the South is an identity group.
Speaker 35: Gand owners in the South our identity group. But you
Speaker 35: don't see the Republicans running away from them. If African
Speaker 35: Americans represent the backbone of this party, then why are
Speaker 35: not all Democrats surrounding us and supporting us in this
Speaker 35: full frontal attack that is happening on the black community
Speaker 35: right now. We all have to stand up. We all
Speaker 35: have a role to play, but we all have to
Speaker 35: stand up and we have to demand that our that
Speaker 35: our party and party leaders. And I'm not saying this
Speaker 35: as a blanket. This is you know, the DNC or whatever,
Speaker 35: but I'm seeing the folks who are elected officials in
Speaker 35: this party. They all have to stand up and do
Speaker 35: their parts in terms of fighting for us. And that's
Speaker 35: what we saw in his last election. There are some
Speaker 35: people who just fundamentally do not feel as though they
Speaker 35: see Donald Trump and they don't agree with Donald Trump.
Speaker 15: Many of them hate Donald Trump.
Speaker 21: But the one thing that they respect about Donald Trump is.
Speaker 35: That whatever he believes, he fights like hell for Democrats.
Speaker 35: We got to fight like hell for the things that
Speaker 35: we believe that our core values and the people who
Speaker 35: are the backbone of this party, and that is black folks.
Speaker 14: And so that's what we need at this point in time.
Speaker 14: And listen, we're all gonna.
Speaker 8: Have different roles.
Speaker 35: We're all gonna play different different roles in us. You know,
Speaker 35: we saw it during the Civil rights movement, right there
Speaker 35: was the person who they were the people who march.
Speaker 35: There were people who sat in at the lunch counters.
Speaker 35: There were the folks who got the dogs sitting on them.
Speaker 35: But they were the pastors who organized. They were also
Speaker 35: the people who paid the bail.
Speaker 15: Right, They're the lawyers that went into the.
Speaker 8: We all have roles to playing. We got to figure
Speaker 8: out what our role is.
Speaker 35: I often wondered, Angela when I was growing up in Orangeburg,
Speaker 35: what would I have done in the Civil rights movement?
Speaker 8: Well, hell, we don't have to wonder anymore.
Speaker 35: Because right now we are in the civil rights movement
Speaker 35: of our time, and the question is what will each
Speaker 35: of us do in this movement in order to continue
Speaker 35: to move our people, and our party and our families
Speaker 35: in this country forward. And so I'm just I'm happy
Speaker 35: to be a part of this. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 35: do everything because I do it. Yes, I do it
Speaker 35: for my people, but you know selfishly, you know who
Speaker 35: I do it for, my two black sons who.
Speaker 8: Are upstairs right now sleeping.
Speaker 14: That is who I do this work for.
Speaker 35: That's why I will give every breath in my body
Speaker 35: to make sure that my sons don't grow up in
Speaker 35: a world like my grandparents grew up in where the
Speaker 35: KKK march through their town, where they had to drink
Speaker 35: out of colored water fountains, where they sat at the
Speaker 35: back of the bus. I will do every single thing
Speaker 35: in my power, will give every bit of my blood,
Speaker 35: every breath that I have to make sure that my
Speaker 35: boys don't live in that world. Right now, we have
Speaker 35: a fascist in a White House. It is fair, it
Speaker 35: is fraud, it is fascism, and that is what defines
Speaker 35: a Republican Party.
Speaker 8: That is what defines Donald Trump.
Speaker 15: And we got to do everything that we can to
Speaker 15: push back and fight back against that.
Speaker 8: Congressman Harrison, thank you so so much. We want to
Speaker 8: go back now real quick to Mark Thompson. I understand
Speaker 8: he has a representative, Maxwell Frost, one of the few
Speaker 8: good things to come out of Florida. Mark uh gets
Speaker 8: also orange, just shout out to oranges. Mark real quick
Speaker 8: asked to start asking.
Speaker 2: He can eat you, he can hear you, he can Okay, dope,
Speaker 2: So are you doing?
Speaker 8: Good to see you? Good to see? Ain't singing since
Speaker 8: a daily show when you popped in a while back. Brother.
Speaker 8: What was the consensus before going into the chambers tonight
Speaker 8: amongst all the Democrats, Well, y'all was you're gonna walk out, Well,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna walk out, you walk out, I'll walk out.
Speaker 8: Or was it more organized? Was everyone kind of feeling
Speaker 8: their own way as the night went on, There.
Speaker 36: Was definitely a lot of organizing going on. And here
Speaker 36: was the general consensus is that number one, this isn't
Speaker 36: a normal address. This isn't a normal time where you
Speaker 36: stand up when the president walks in, where you have
Speaker 36: that kind of decorum, because number one, he's never shown
Speaker 36: that to us, or the American people or any people.
Speaker 36: He's never shown that to black people. And so we
Speaker 36: walked in there, many of us with a plan of
Speaker 36: what to do. If you've seen the videos, you've seen
Speaker 36: people with signs holding up signs. I hold up a
Speaker 36: sign that said musk steals elon Musk has been tweeting
Speaker 36: at me every other week. If I was the richest
Speaker 36: man on earth, I wouldn't be tweeting at twenty's eight
Speaker 36: year old Maxwell Frost.
Speaker 2: But I'll be doing other things.
Speaker 21: But I held up a must steal sign.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 36: The reason why we decided to walk out is because
Speaker 36: number one, we all worked really hard to get the
Speaker 36: Congress and our constituents set us there, and we knew
Speaker 36: we didn't want to stay the whole time. But I
Speaker 36: think there's power in occupying us space and choosing yourself.
Speaker 36: Went to get up and leave and walk out in
Speaker 36: the spirit of student protesters from the Civil rights era,
Speaker 36: and that's why we decided to do it. Us in
Speaker 36: a group of mainly women from the Black Caucus who
Speaker 36: helped lead us into that action. Yeah, you and you
Speaker 36: have some loan, right, Yeah, And we couldn't. You can't
Speaker 36: just get up and walk out, right. We got up
Speaker 36: and we turned around and showed them our back to
Speaker 36: show this message, no kings live here, No kings live here. Yeah,
Speaker 36: because he thinks he's a king. And what's going on
Speaker 36: right now is this administrative coup, coup and billionaire takeover
Speaker 36: of our government so they can take away Medicaid, social Security,
Speaker 36: the things people have fought for and earned, to give
Speaker 36: billionaires a tax cut. And this is what the fascists
Speaker 36: do is they try to have us say, well, I
Speaker 36: can't pay rent because of black history, I can't afford
Speaker 36: my medicine, because of that trans person, I can't afford this,
Speaker 36: I can't afford that because of the immigrant. They want
Speaker 36: us to look at each other instead of looking at them.
Speaker 36: But what I try to tell people is you are
Speaker 36: closer to being on the streets than you are to
Speaker 36: being elon musk. But they profit from us blaming each other,
Speaker 36: especially as black people amongst cultures and amongst the entire world.
Speaker 36: So I'm proud to be here, I'm proud to have
Speaker 36: done this action, but we know it doesn't stop here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what's next? What would you what do
Speaker 2: you want to see your other members and this party do?
Speaker 36: I believe Look, number one, when you don't have all
Speaker 36: the power you want, you use all the power you got.
Speaker 36: And we do have power because there's only a two
Speaker 36: seat majority in the House, and we have the ability
Speaker 36: to obstruct, to delay, to push back on this extreme
Speaker 36: agenda that most people don't believe in And I think
Speaker 36: that's what we need to do, whether it's working at subpoena,
Speaker 36: Elon Musk and every single oversight committee hearing right or
Speaker 36: as many as we can one day, a few of
Speaker 36: those too many of those guys are going to be
Speaker 36: at lunch a little too far and guess what it'll
Speaker 36: move through, believe it or not. That's how that's how
Speaker 36: these things work sometimes. Right, the other day you have
Speaker 36: to challenge power too. The other day I said, grifter
Speaker 36: in chief, I think that's pretty tame. First, that's pretty tame.
Speaker 36: But they wouldn't even allow me to say that. So
Speaker 36: then you say, well, do I see that ground or
Speaker 36: do I push it not to just be performative, but
Speaker 36: to make a point till people can see what's going on,
Speaker 36: because we can't assume that everyone's paying attention to that
Speaker 36: to that.
Speaker 8: Point, Congressman Frost about not seeding ground. Earlier this week,
Speaker 8: President Trump tweeted or truth social or whatever about the
Speaker 8: possibility when it comes to the youth of if you
Speaker 8: protest at a college campus, automatic expulsion or if you
Speaker 8: protest illegally, which basically means we will draw the lines
Speaker 8: of the appropriate way to protest and then just say
Speaker 8: you violated and expel you. How serious do you think
Speaker 8: of a threat that is as we get into midterms,
Speaker 8: and how serious how I believe protesting is going to
Speaker 8: play an important part of everything we're talking about over
Speaker 8: the next four years. How serious of a threat is
Speaker 8: that do you think that to be? And what advice
Speaker 8: would you have to young organizers who are going to
Speaker 8: be facing these types of potential legal ramifications for speaking out.
Speaker 36: I think it's a very serious threat. I think that
Speaker 36: Number one week campaign for a while talking about Project
Speaker 36: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Now it's happening.
Speaker 36: Yeah, we have no room to act surprised about the
Speaker 36: things they're doing because they wrote them down and we
Speaker 36: told people they would do it. And this attack on
Speaker 36: freedom of speech and students is something that we have
Speaker 36: to take seriously. So what would I tell students to do?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 36: Thinking to my organizing number one, build community and grow
Speaker 36: your movement outside of students too. I remember during the
Speaker 36: Black Lives Matter uprising, the nights where I was tear
Speaker 36: gas mason when I went to jail.
Speaker 6: It wasn't just.
Speaker 36: People my age that had my back, and it wasn't
Speaker 36: just people my age that bailed me out of jail.
Speaker 36: It was a multi generational movement of community that brought
Speaker 36: each other up. You know our pro bono lawyers where
Speaker 36: many of them were seniors, right, who came out to
Speaker 36: help us. So I encourage people young people throughout history
Speaker 36: will always be leading, right, But it is important to
Speaker 36: make sure that you bring everybody into this movement because
Speaker 36: it's of us, by us, and I think that's how
Speaker 36: we protect us. So that's what I would tell students
Speaker 36: across the country. Take this seriously, and also call on
Speaker 36: your elected officials to protect your freedom of speech. Whether
Speaker 36: you're advocating against babies dying and guys, or you're advocating
Speaker 36: to make sure that we have accountability and law enforcement
Speaker 36: or whatever it is, housing justice, whatever it is. We
Speaker 36: all deserve to say what we want to say. And
Speaker 36: that he wants to go out after that. And here's
Speaker 36: the other thing I'll say. I think another reason he
Speaker 36: wants to go after it is because a lot of
Speaker 36: times in history that energy does turn into votes against fascism.
Speaker 36: Do we have the largest youth foot or turnout in
Speaker 36: the history of our country in a mid term in
Speaker 36: twenty eighteen, happened in twenty eighteen, massive protests. What else
Speaker 36: happened in twenty eighteen Marjorie Slimm and Douglas was shot
Speaker 36: up and students around the country said enough is enough.
Speaker 36: In twenty twenty, we had the highest uit for the
Speaker 36: turnout in the history of a general election. What happened
Speaker 36: in twenty twenty a black man was lynched in broad daylight.
Speaker 36: People woke up and saw the video and said enough
Speaker 36: is enough, took to the streets, Then they took to
Speaker 36: the ballot box. So there's a danger in allowing social
Speaker 36: movements to emerge, and they want to try to scare
Speaker 36: people from even going out to the street in the
Speaker 36: first place. We have to take it very serious year.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bresidan, thank you just well.
Speaker 1: Last question for Mark Congressman is Angela Rye. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us.
Speaker 5: I quick question for you. When you consider what just
Speaker 5: happened and you see how Congressman Green was treated, do
Speaker 5: you think it was worth it to show up to
Speaker 5: the joint address tonight?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 36: Obviously this is a I don't want to talk about
Speaker 36: about anyone for their individual decisions. Everyone's going to decide
Speaker 36: how they want to represent their constituents, I'll tell you
Speaker 36: where I come. Where I'm coming from. Number one, I
Speaker 36: come from direct action and movement based politics. And for me,
Speaker 36: it's all about space. How are you taking up space?
Speaker 36: When are you leaving a space and making sure you're
Speaker 36: doing that on your own accord? And of course I
Speaker 36: worked hard to get here, but more importantly, my people
Speaker 36: set me here. I believe to take up space. But
Speaker 36: here's the thing that's more from a practical point of view.
Speaker 36: When you don't show up and sit in a seat,
Speaker 36: they put a Republican staffer in that seat. When you
Speaker 36: leave in the middle of the speech, there's no staffers
Speaker 36: available to sit in your seat. So all these are
Speaker 36: the things that we know we try to think about
Speaker 36: when we do the action. Did I not want to go?
Speaker 36: Of course I didn't want to go and listen to
Speaker 36: this VS lies from this neo fascist racist. But I
Speaker 36: think there's power in stepping up, leaving a solidarity of
Speaker 36: course with al Green, but also in solidarity with black
Speaker 36: people and oppressed people across this nation. And so everyone
Speaker 36: has their own way of advocating. Some people boycotted it.
Speaker 36: Power to them, power to everyone. But this was the
Speaker 36: way I decided to do my action tonight with a
Speaker 36: great group of people.
Speaker 2: Let me say this as we as he leaves, brother,
Speaker 2: we appreciate you, Tamika. This reminds me being with this
Speaker 2: young twenty something your brother in this capital reminds me
Speaker 2: of when we were with those other young twenty some
Speaker 2: of young brothers in the Capitol of Nashville. So this
Speaker 2: is Dejah Blue, love you man. You keep that up. Man,
Speaker 2: proud of you. Doppreciate all right, all right, we'll be back, y'all,
Speaker 2: go ahead, all right, thank you.
Speaker 5: I am so grateful for these cutaways to the Capitol.
Speaker 5: It's putting us right in the moment. This is really
Speaker 5: really good reporting on behalf of Reverend Mark Thompson.
Speaker 1: I want to come to our sister that she wipes
Speaker 1: her face. Latasha was on the plane for twenty hours
Speaker 1: traveling to get here tonight. Latasha Brown is the co
Speaker 1: founder of Black Voters Matter. Black Voters Matter got something
Speaker 1: to say about some of this too, So LB I
Speaker 1: want to come to you because you all have always
Speaker 1: been about the work of the people and making sure
Speaker 1: that we get it engage. I want to know your
Speaker 1: reaction to what Maxell is just sharing and what you
Speaker 1: think our next steps need to be?
Speaker 37: Oh oh freedom, Oh freedom, freedom, Oh bumby, oh bummy,
Speaker 37: And before.
Speaker 31: Me, I say, I'll be glad in my gray and
Speaker 31: go to my Lord and be free.
Speaker 22: You know, I wanted to sing that song because this
Speaker 22: is the week March the sixtieth anniversary of people who
Speaker 22: sang that song on the Emma Petteris Bridge in the
Speaker 22: summer Alabama. It is also a song that my ancestors,
Speaker 22: when they did not have politics on their side, they
Speaker 22: didn't have resources, they have all any of those things,
Speaker 22: they knew that there was something inside of them that, No,
Speaker 22: you're not going to dehumanize me, You're not going to
Speaker 22: take away the Constitution is not what gives me my
Speaker 22: right to live.
Speaker 15: God has given me my right to live.
Speaker 22: And so I say that in this space that I
Speaker 22: wanted to bring the ancestors and the history and the
Speaker 22: long history of the ancestors and our resistance in this space,
Speaker 22: that that is a song of resilience, but it's also
Speaker 22: a song of resistance.
Speaker 15: And so in terms of going forward, there are four things.
Speaker 22: I'll be real quick because I think I'm turning into
Speaker 22: a I'm turning into a pot of sand Right now,
Speaker 22: I think there's four things and I'm calling I'm saying
Speaker 22: it in terms of this strategy around.
Speaker 38: Force.
Speaker 8: What we have to do.
Speaker 15: The first thing is around the forty five in this
Speaker 15: moment with people, we have to fortify ourselves. What does
Speaker 15: that mean? We have to protect our assets and our information.
Speaker 22: You cannot take for granted that all of the things
Speaker 22: that you have that is based on the computer that
Speaker 22: is going to be there. You need to download your documents,
Speaker 22: you need to protect your resources. My family who literally
Speaker 22: lived through the depression, my grandparents that raised me that
Speaker 22: born in nineteen o five and nineteen ten, they always
Speaker 22: kept money in the house. And part of what they
Speaker 22: said is the reason why they survived and our family
Speaker 22: survived during the Great Depression.
Speaker 15: Is because they didn't have their money in the banks.
Speaker 22: And so I know that that sounds a little like
Speaker 22: an alarmist, but you need to have two thousand dollars
Speaker 22: a minimum of two thousand.
Speaker 17: Dollars if you can.
Speaker 22: If you have that that you got set aside that
Speaker 22: at any moment you can touch it, because if your
Speaker 22: bank card goes down, what you're gonna do?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 15: And so I think it's really important for us to
Speaker 15: really think differently.
Speaker 22: We have to think in terms of a self determination
Speaker 22: model on how we're gonna protect ourselves and our assets
Speaker 22: in this moment. When I say protect your information, you
Speaker 22: have to check your sources, y'all. Part of what is
Speaker 22: happening is there are people who are intentionally giving us
Speaker 22: misinformation and disinformation. Check your sources and where you're getting
Speaker 22: information from, double triple of check that right. The next thing,
Speaker 22: the next as we're talking about from forty five, we've
Speaker 22: got to focus.
Speaker 15: It's really important for us to be think about what
Speaker 15: it is that we need in this moment.
Speaker 22: You know, we talked about earlier on this segment that
Speaker 22: we were on that we've got to connect to black farmers,
Speaker 22: that we've got to figure out where we can get
Speaker 22: our basic needs met. When we're talking about social security cuts,
Speaker 22: y'all need to understand the fifty eight percent of single
Speaker 22: Black adults over the age that are retirement age, ninety
Speaker 22: percent of their income comes from social security.
Speaker 15: Ninety percent of their income comes from social security.
Speaker 22: It will be devastating to our communities in terms of
Speaker 22: how will they live, how will they feed themselves, how
Speaker 22: will they protect themselves? So it's important for us not
Speaker 22: just to talk about how are we going to stop
Speaker 22: it depend on them, but how we're going to have
Speaker 22: and use our institutions and structures to be able to
Speaker 22: fortifyre people and focus our work so that we can
Speaker 22: protect our people in this moment. And so that means
Speaker 22: we have to think like black We have to think
Speaker 22: in terms of black determination models and these self determination models.
Speaker 22: All of those churches know, you cannot have a church
Speaker 22: and you just open on Sunday. That has to become
Speaker 22: a community black space. If you have institution, you have
Speaker 22: business that has to be if it needs to be
Speaker 22: a meeting space. We've got to look in this moment
Speaker 22: of how do we create and think as nation builders
Speaker 22: in this moment. The third thing that I want to
Speaker 22: say is really about this fight that we the way
Speaker 22: that we fight. We're used to fighting when we have
Speaker 22: federal protections in place. We're used to fighting, particularly those
Speaker 22: of us that live in the races South, we've actually
Speaker 22: fought in the ways that we would actually use federal legislation,
Speaker 22: federal government to really be able to hold our states accountable.
Speaker 22: When that is not in place, how do we protect
Speaker 22: our people? Part of what we really got to be
Speaker 22: super super focused is local control. We need to take
Speaker 22: over every single and the wonderful thing about black folks
Speaker 22: is we like to live together, so oftentimes we live
Speaker 22: in spaces that we have we have substantial numbers where
Speaker 22: we can take over school boards, that we can take
Speaker 22: over local local elections. It has we have to focus
Speaker 22: on local control as much as possible, the mayor's races,
Speaker 22: the DA races, the local judgeships.
Speaker 15: The fourth and the final thing.
Speaker 22: That I'll say really is we have to really it
Speaker 22: will not be our politics to save us, y'all.
Speaker 15: It will be our humanity. But we can no longer
Speaker 15: just think about citizens of a.
Speaker 22: Boot deggnation that ad will believes that we are at
Speaker 22: the whimsical nature of white racist folks.
Speaker 15: We have to think like founders of a new nation.
Speaker 22: We have to really think differently, that we're not just citizens,
Speaker 22: but that we're founders of something different and what does
Speaker 22: that mean.
Speaker 15: We have to really be thinking about how will we
Speaker 15: protect and provide for our people in this moment, the
Speaker 15: basic needs of food.
Speaker 22: Shelter, our resources, and literally one of the things I
Speaker 22: want us to do, don't spend no money.
Speaker 15: We cannot spend money in this moment. Why unless we're.
Speaker 22: Spending money with our communities and with things that we need.
Speaker 22: Don't take for granted that the eggs are fourteen dollars.
Speaker 22: Now with the tear for this trade war, it is
Speaker 22: going to have a substantial impact on us. So this
Speaker 22: is not the moment to go by your Gucci bag.
Speaker 22: This is not the moment to go and spend on Amazon.
Speaker 22: This is not the Momba, and we ain't trying to
Speaker 22: get them our money.
Speaker 15: No, that are gonna wait anyway.
Speaker 22: So I think it's really important in this moment that
Speaker 22: we really see a o money and if you are
Speaker 22: going to spend some money, to invest some money, invest
Speaker 22: it in a black organization that is leading this work,
Speaker 22: someone that you know that is on the front line
Speaker 22: doing this work with us.
Speaker 15: Ten dollars. I see my brother Quinn James with Collective.
Speaker 22: Pack, I see David, all these organizations I see Shamon
Speaker 22: that are doing amazing work.
Speaker 15: Write ten dollars, twenty dollars past.
Speaker 22: The mic that has been standing in this space really
Speaker 22: making sure that our communities are protected, those of us
Speaker 22: who have been marginalized, and so in that I'll just say,
Speaker 22: in this moment I'm a leave with a question. I
Speaker 22: always ask this question everywhere we go, everywhere I speak,
Speaker 22: I ask the question. I ask people to close their
Speaker 22: eyes and my question to them is what would this
Speaker 22: nation look like without racism?
Speaker 15: What would the institutions look like? What would a day
Speaker 15: look like?
Speaker 22: And and everywhere I go, ninety five percent most of
Speaker 22: the time, nobody has been asked that question. And if
Speaker 22: you don't think we're not thinking about it, certainly we
Speaker 22: don't think the other folks thinking about it. So we
Speaker 22: got to shape change the paradigm in this moment and
Speaker 22: ask ourselves every single day what would this nation look
Speaker 22: like without racism? Because racism is not my birthright? And
Speaker 22: what will it require for us to build in that?
Speaker 22: And so we've got to be moving on that, because
Speaker 22: I will tell you this, there's not been anything that
Speaker 22: has ever existing in the physical realm that wasn't first envision.
Speaker 15: Somebody had to envision the cell phone, someone.
Speaker 22: Had to envision this, Somebody had to envision a a
Speaker 22: racist concept around what it means, around this white supremacy hierarchy.
Speaker 22: So those of us, we who believe in freedom, we
Speaker 22: also have to see ourselves as visionaries and We've got
Speaker 22: to radically reimagine every single system in this country instead
Speaker 22: of us responding to the limited vision of others that
Speaker 22: don't want to see us in power. We've got to
Speaker 22: literally create the systems that every child can get fed.
Speaker 22: We've got to create systems that we can actually have
Speaker 22: health care for all of Guy's children. We've got to
Speaker 22: create the systems that's really about a wholesome education. So
Speaker 22: think shift, you're thinking, it's not citizens of this, but
Speaker 22: go beyond that. We have to be founders of a
Speaker 22: new nation, a founders of a nation that's yet unborn.
Speaker 22: And part of that is going to require us having
Speaker 22: a discipline to lean into that, to really use our imagination,
Speaker 22: our innovation and self determination to move forward.
Speaker 1: Thank you Angela, Thank you Ntasha, thank you. Yes are
Speaker 1: almost open. We've been joined you all by.
Speaker 5: Another history maker.
Speaker 1: I so wanted to go to Jamal and Tamika and
Speaker 1: Angelo to talk about not spending money.
Speaker 5: Y'all hold that thought, because we got to get to
Speaker 5: We got a queen. They might not be no kings
Speaker 5: in that house, but we have a queen amongst that.
Speaker 5: She is the CBC chairwoman.
Speaker 1: She's one of my former bosses congress Woman he Vet
Speaker 1: Clark from Brooklyn.
Speaker 5: She gonna show Donald Trump what time it is.
Speaker 1: You can see he's a real gang say he don't
Speaker 1: want to mess with Congressoman Clark. She's here. Tell us
Speaker 1: how you're feeling, Miss Clark. What is your impression of tonight?
Speaker 1: And where do we go from here? These are soldiers
Speaker 1: who are walking alongside of you, who have your back
Speaker 1: horse surrounding you. We need to see you succeed, and
Speaker 1: so we want to hear from you tonight. How are
Speaker 1: you feeling and what are you thinking?
Speaker 39: Well, first of all, let me thank you family for
Speaker 39: coming together in this moment to provide our community with
Speaker 39: the undergirding, the understanding, the education and information we need
Speaker 39: for this movement.
Speaker 14: In this moment.
Speaker 39: Uh, there's a there's a Maga fest, a Maga rally
Speaker 39: going on in the House chambers in this moment. And
Speaker 39: you know, I didn't expect anything less than a maga Uh.
Speaker 14: You know, parade and and and and.
Speaker 6: And pump and and circumstance and it is.
Speaker 39: You know, listen, I think he's essentially run out of
Speaker 39: the greatest hits, so he's on repeat in this moment.
Speaker 39: The challenge around that though, is that, uh, he he's
Speaker 39: got folks around him that are ready and willing to
Speaker 39: implement the craziest of policies and and all aimed at,
Speaker 39: of course, raising up white supremacy as the operating system
Speaker 39: of the United States of America. So when I heard
Speaker 39: sister Latasha Brown just talk about very I think, fundamental
Speaker 39: things that we need to be doing as a community,
Speaker 39: She's absolutely right, and I believe that, certainly there are
Speaker 39: so many of us who have come together around sort
Speaker 39: of like mind in this moment crystallizing where our communities
Speaker 39: need to go. We need to buy black and we've
Speaker 39: been talking this for years, for generations. Quite frankly, we
Speaker 39: need to undergird each other with knowledge and information so
Speaker 39: that our folks are not constantly consuming the misinformation and
Speaker 39: the lies that they that permeate social media feeds. We
Speaker 39: need to be able to make sure that we are
Speaker 39: on the ground and the CBC is ready to get
Speaker 39: on the bus.
Speaker 14: We are not taking this moment for granted.
Speaker 39: We know that we need to be felt, we need
Speaker 39: to be touched on the ground, and so starting in
Speaker 39: the month of April, we will be on the move
Speaker 39: across this nation, educating, informing, mobilizing, encouraging, empowering our folks
Speaker 39: to see this moment as our sort of generational moment
Speaker 39: where we have to envision a nation, as Latasha Brown
Speaker 39: is said, uh, where we center ourselves as the as
Speaker 39: the as the focus in the fabric of a democracy.
Speaker 14: What does that mean, you know?
Speaker 39: And what does it mean to operate in a space
Speaker 39: where we are valued and we value each other. This
Speaker 39: is just one of those moments, sister Angela Rai, And
Speaker 39: you know that's constantly reinforced for us, I believe each
Speaker 39: and every day, when you have one in five federal
Speaker 39: workers coming from the black community, when you have this
Speaker 39: constant drum beat around the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Speaker 39: When you have all of these sort of factors, add
Speaker 39: to that the fact that the cost of living continues
Speaker 39: to escalate, compounded by these tariffs that Donald.
Speaker 14: Trump is insisting on putting into.
Speaker 39: Place, our folks are certainly hurting economically and otherwise.
Speaker 14: And so we have to, I believe, make.
Speaker 39: Sure that our folks are handling business in an unconventional
Speaker 39: way that we move forward with and encouraging our people
Speaker 39: to shop among our people for those basic goods and
Speaker 39: services I think against Sister Brown said, this is not
Speaker 39: the time for luxury goods. It has never really been
Speaker 39: that time as far as I'm concerned. But you know, listen,
Speaker 39: everyone is entitled to their own tastes. However, there are
Speaker 39: many designers, Black designers that can offer just as good,
Speaker 39: if not better in terms of quality and what the
Speaker 39: goods and services they provide, and we.
Speaker 14: Need to raise them up.
Speaker 39: Those will be our corporate entities if we pour into
Speaker 39: them in the way that we've poured into so many
Speaker 39: of the others who have now turned their back on us.
Speaker 14: I'm also working with the CBC, and I'm going to
Speaker 14: close on.
Speaker 39: This sin sta Agela on a program, if you will,
Speaker 39: a communications program called what side are You on? This
Speaker 39: is not a moment where folks can be one foot
Speaker 39: in one camp and one foot in the other. Either
Speaker 39: you're with the Black community with the development of who
Speaker 39: we are as a people, or you're not. There's no
Speaker 39: middle ground, and so that will be another part of
Speaker 39: what we will be embarking upon as members of the
Speaker 39: Congressional Black Caucus, fifty eight strong here in the House
Speaker 39: of Representatives and four straw in the US Senate, the
Speaker 39: largest number of black federal elected representatives in the.
Speaker 14: History of this nation.
Speaker 39: This is all of our moment, and we're going to
Speaker 39: do everything that we must do on the legislative event
Speaker 39: to hold the line. But we're also going to be
Speaker 39: in these streets talking to our people because in less
Speaker 39: than eighteen months there will be another election, and we've
Speaker 39: got to make sure that our folks are are focused
Speaker 39: on the power of the franchise and what it means
Speaker 39: for their own liberation. With that, as we say here
Speaker 39: since the Angela Rie, I'm gonna yield back the balance
Speaker 39: of my time.
Speaker 1: Well, don't you just yet, because I just want to
Speaker 1: get clarity for our audience. This was the one quick
Speaker 1: question I have for you. You said there is there
Speaker 1: is a Magga rally going on. Does that mean, Congresswoman
Speaker 1: that you also left, did the rest of this Congressional
Speaker 1: Black August lead?
Speaker 6: There are still members in the chambers?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 39: I am back in my office. I you know, I
Speaker 39: just felt like I knew what was next in the
Speaker 39: lineup of greatest hits. I didn't need to sit there,
Speaker 39: uh to to know, you know, what words we're going
Speaker 39: to be thrown at whom and what have you?
Speaker 17: He is Let me just say this, what was the
Speaker 17: point for you?
Speaker 5: What was the tip? What was the moment where you like, okay.
Speaker 14: Now got tired? I just got tired.
Speaker 2: I just got tired.
Speaker 39: And he shook quite frankly, the fact that that that
Speaker 39: that the Democrats have been sitting silently raising signs, where's
Speaker 39: my son? Let me show you my sign raising signs
Speaker 39: occasionally during his speech.
Speaker 14: It has shook the man.
Speaker 39: He has been trying to find a way to get
Speaker 39: under the skin of Democrats and we haven't been paying
Speaker 39: him any minds.
Speaker 14: So most of what you're seeing he's directing directly to
Speaker 14: the MAGA crowd.
Speaker 39: And remember the House of Representatives is essentially split half
Speaker 39: and half, so we're only separated by two seats. So
Speaker 39: it's a massive blow to his ego that he's not
Speaker 39: getting any applause and he's standing up for the foolishness
Speaker 39: that he's trying.
Speaker 14: To pull off in the chambers of the House.
Speaker 1: Right now, well, speaking of foolishness, that took place in
Speaker 1: the chamber of the House, Mark Thompson, our colleague, is
Speaker 1: with Melanie Stansbury, who had her sign snatched by a
Speaker 1: Republican and she's standing live with Mark Thompson right now.
Speaker 1: We're go to Mark Congressman. Please stick around if you can't.
Speaker 1: I know you're tired, so we don't want to keep
Speaker 1: you too late, but I would love for you to
Speaker 1: hear what she says happened.
Speaker 2: And if you do have to go, we first had
Speaker 2: knowledge it was bad new glasses. She got already too.
Speaker 40: You know, this always an iconic fashion, always every day,
Speaker 40: all day, every day.
Speaker 2: So cong Truom stands, but kN Truom stands very by
Speaker 2: the way. Folks is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and she
Speaker 2: last year was your first trip to Selma. You came
Speaker 2: to sel Malsh. She's coming back this weekend.
Speaker 33: Yeah, see you guys this weekend if anyone's going down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what happened? You had us? So what did
Speaker 2: your sign say? What did it?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 40: Well, so a lot of us on the floor plan
Speaker 40: to do our form of protests. You know, we showed
Speaker 40: up for Donald Trump's town hall, just like Americans are
Speaker 40: showing up for town halls all over America. And just
Speaker 40: like Americans, we heard, had our voices heard, and I
Speaker 40: had a sign as he walked in that said this
Speaker 40: is not normal. And as I was standing there behind
Speaker 40: Donald Trump, some young man from Texas snatched out of
Speaker 40: my hand.
Speaker 33: And threw it over the President's head.
Speaker 40: And you know, I'm not gonna I'm not going to
Speaker 40: pretend like, you know, this is normal and that what's
Speaker 40: happening in America is just something that should we should
Speaker 40: sit down and take.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, so who you know, I mean, who was it?
Speaker 25: You know who?
Speaker 40: It was a congressman from Texas, but I don't know
Speaker 40: his name, Golden something, Yeah, and he just.
Speaker 33: I mean, it was very I was obviously in the frame.
Speaker 40: Marjorie Taylor Green was facing me, and I think folks
Speaker 40: were trying to get it out of my hands, so
Speaker 40: they just pulled out of my hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does that violate any rules of protocol? Can
Speaker 2: someone just snatch something out of your hand and through it?
Speaker 33: You know, I listen, I'm not going to make a
Speaker 33: big deal about it.
Speaker 40: You know, if they want to be children, if they
Speaker 40: want to have their Maga party on the house floor,
Speaker 40: if they want to play games with us, they can
Speaker 40: do whatever they want.
Speaker 33: And I'm you know, I'm not gonna lie. I grew
Speaker 33: up in Albuquerque. I was ready to fight, but that
Speaker 33: is not how I wanted to end my evening.
Speaker 2: So did you know they get down to Albuquerque like that?
Speaker 2: I don't know how, now I know, so we need
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, Congress I have a quick question, congresswoman. Has
Speaker 8: it always been like this from from the on set
Speaker 8: in January? Was there ever a brief window? A brief window? Well,
Speaker 8: y'all thought, maybe we can get across the al and
Speaker 8: get some of the station done. Or is this just
Speaker 8: an escalation of where you all fully expected to be
Speaker 8: at this point in the first hundred days.
Speaker 40: You know, I tried to come in with an open mind,
Speaker 40: but when I let me, let me be real. The
Speaker 40: inauguration was on doctor Martin Luther King Junior day. I
Speaker 40: did not come back to Washington, d C. I chose
Speaker 40: to be home in my community, celebrating the holiday with
Speaker 40: my community. But when I saw the images on television
Speaker 40: of Elon Musk and these billionaires and his cabinet yucking
Speaker 40: it up, I knew that it was not going to
Speaker 40: be normal. And then he went down to the stadium
Speaker 40: and are assigning these executive orders. But I was like, Okay,
Speaker 40: I'm still going to give it a minute. In fact,
Speaker 40: I'm the ranking member of the highest ranking Democrat, the
Speaker 40: Doge Subcommittee, and my chairwoman in that committee is Marjorie
Speaker 40: Taylor Green. I even went and sat with her in
Speaker 40: her office for an hour and we smiled and pretended
Speaker 40: like we could have some bipartisan conversations, and then we
Speaker 40: showed up for that very first committee hearing, and she
Speaker 40: did what she does, and I think, you know that
Speaker 40: is essentially evaporated.
Speaker 33: So we know what's up.
Speaker 40: We're going to be in the fight. We're the resistance
Speaker 40: for the next couple of years. And you know, as
Speaker 40: the Reverend said, eighteen months is right around the corner,
Speaker 40: so we got to start organizing.
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this, Of all the terrible
Speaker 2: things he's done, he was a million a day, which
Speaker 2: ones are most threatening and most impactful to your district
Speaker 2: in Albuquerque?
Speaker 40: I mean all of them, right, I mean day one,
Speaker 40: he signs this executive order essentially taking out all of
Speaker 40: the diversity, equity and inclusion offices and and staff. New
Speaker 40: Mexico is a minority majority state. We are a state
Speaker 40: that is black, brown, indigenous, and that is an attack
Speaker 40: on the people of New Mexico. This executive order he
Speaker 40: signed two days ago making English the only language of
Speaker 40: the United States. It is in our state constitution that
Speaker 40: Spanish is the other language of New Mexico. He's literally
Speaker 40: violating the state constitution of New Mexico because the border crossed.
Speaker 33: Us by the way. So there is so much that
Speaker 33: he's doing.
Speaker 40: Every single day, he's firing thousands of New Mexicans. He's
Speaker 40: you know, these cuts that they're proposing in New Mexico,
Speaker 40: over seventy percent of our.
Speaker 33: People are on Medicare and Medicaid.
Speaker 40: That will not only lead to literally probably the vast
Speaker 40: majority of New Mexicans losing healthcare, our entire healthcare system
Speaker 40: could collapse.
Speaker 33: So we're not going to sit here in Stanford.
Speaker 2: I think in Consmanclark we kind of touched on his
Speaker 2: Zerila because I don't know if you really understand ruin
Speaker 2: Angela when they say it come up a minut. We
Speaker 2: only think of anyone context. But Medicaid also undergirds those
Speaker 2: who don't have Medicaid and keeps hospitals up. So when
Speaker 2: you take away Medicaid, you jam and everybody.
Speaker 40: Oh yeah, this is what I'm saying, is like, if
Speaker 40: you take away Medicaid, every hospital in the state of
Speaker 40: New Mexico is going to go bankrupt. So if you
Speaker 40: think it's hard to get into see a specialist right
Speaker 40: now after they got Medicaid, all of that's going away.
Speaker 40: This is not just going to affect low income people,
Speaker 40: but it is going to affect low income people. And
Speaker 40: as somebody who grew up in the system, somebody who
Speaker 40: would not be standing here today if it weren't for
Speaker 40: income supports and Medicaid and food stamps.
Speaker 33: You know, it is to me not only.
Speaker 40: Immoral and unconscionable, but it's going to tear apart the
Speaker 40: fabric of our country.
Speaker 2: So Albuquerque, you want to go, get you. We wanna
Speaker 2: get your sign back. Should we go get a beck,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 33: We're gonna go down, y'op.
Speaker 5: Please stay out of jail, y'all.
Speaker 33: Please out of you.
Speaker 5: But thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: I want to turn really quickly to we had some
Speaker 1: encouragement around not spending money. Our dear brother's head was
Speaker 1: plastered on a sign at the White House just a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago during a Black History Month reception. That
Speaker 1: is Reverend Jamal Bryant also here from until Freedom, Our
Speaker 1: Angelo Pino and Tamika Mallory. Y'all we have to get
Speaker 1: into this because Latasha brought up Amazon. She brought up
Speaker 1: we don't need no designer goods. But we're also talking
Speaker 1: about Target. Jamal, you have exceeded one hundred thousand signers
Speaker 1: on this pledge around the Target fast. I want you
Speaker 1: to get into that, and Tamika and Angela I want
Speaker 1: to hear from you.
Speaker 5: As well on that.
Speaker 21: Thank you, and good evening everybody. This is what doctor
Speaker 21: King called the urgency of now.
Speaker 41: It is a critical moment and we no longer have
Speaker 41: the question of community or chaos.
Speaker 21: It is absolute chaos, which is why we need community.
Speaker 41: I want to take a note really from across the
Speaker 41: border from ideal leader of Canada who said, I don't
Speaker 41: want to, but I'm.
Speaker 21: Gonna have to cut the power.
Speaker 41: Is the I supply the Prime Minister said of power
Speaker 41: to four different states, and you're forcing my hand.
Speaker 21: I think that black people don't realize how.
Speaker 41: Much power we wield with two trillion dollars worth of
Speaker 41: spending power. And what has happened today at Target for
Speaker 41: them to say that they're spending their growth has gone
Speaker 41: down because of the economy and recession and tariffs. When
Speaker 41: the tariffs just started today, it is a reflection of
Speaker 41: what our power is. Black people Angelus spend twelve million
Speaker 41: dollars a day at target. If we redirect that to
Speaker 41: our own ecosystem, what will that mean? The Montgomery bus
Speaker 41: boycott absolutely destabilized the South, not from speeches, but from
Speaker 41: redirected spend day. And so I think that when it
Speaker 41: is that we saw the inauguration on January twentieth and
Speaker 41: saw who was on the front row, it was not
Speaker 41: cabinet ministers, it was those who wield wealth, which suggests
Speaker 41: that's what this president responds to. The wealth of what
Speaker 41: it is that we have has got to be redirected
Speaker 41: until we take white supremacy down to their knees. They
Speaker 41: don't even understand that the next step after civil rights
Speaker 41: is civil rights. Doctor King was assassinated because he was
Speaker 41: mobilizing the poor People's campaign, and they understand were marginalize
Speaker 41: and oh press, poor people come together.
Speaker 21: A revolution has to start.
Speaker 41: A super bad system from Harvard University said, we don't
Speaker 41: even need one hundred percent participation, We just need three percent.
Speaker 21: If three percent of the populace do what a lot.
Speaker 41: Of our brave brothers and sisters did today and walk
Speaker 41: out and live their voice.
Speaker 21: I think America is going to come to a screeching halt.
Speaker 41: We've got enough power to do it, just within a
Speaker 41: number of people who are on today for the twenty
Speaker 41: four hours. And let's not undermine or belittle the strength
Speaker 41: of what happened with the blackout on Friday. America is
Speaker 41: about to have an asthma attack and a hype up
Speaker 41: imolator because we understand what our worth is, we know
Speaker 41: what our value is, and we've got to withhold our
Speaker 41: funds in order for the revolution to move forward. I'm
Speaker 41: excited about it. We start tomorrow on Ash Wednesday. This
Speaker 41: thrust of this target fast because we wanted to interlope
Speaker 41: the spiritual property of what's necessary. While it is that
Speaker 41: we're strategizing, we have historically also been a spiritual and
Speaker 41: a praying people, and so over the next forty days,
Speaker 41: I want to urge all of us to galvanize in prayer.
Speaker 21: And not lose our spiritual focus and force.
Speaker 41: Every day, three hundred and eighty one days, black people
Speaker 41: in Montgomery, after not getting on the bus, went back
Speaker 41: to the church to pray, and let's be very clear.
Speaker 41: We are now going up against a demonic, diabolical spirit
Speaker 41: in America.
Speaker 21: It is not just a person, it is a spirit that.
Speaker 41: Is afoot on the weapons of our warfare now, Cornell,
Speaker 41: and so we've got to really go in the prayer.
Speaker 41: But Frederick Douglass said it much better than me. He said,
Speaker 41: I got more prayers answered when I got off my knees.
Speaker 41: So we can't just pray. We've got to really go
Speaker 41: in the fighting force. And so in the spirit of
Speaker 41: Hazel Duke's, let's fight even when it's uncalled for. So
Speaker 41: that's the necessary calling and the beating drum that we've
Speaker 41: got an answer to. I'm glad to be a part
Speaker 41: of it and excited about what we're going to do
Speaker 41: over the next forty days.
Speaker 5: Jama, share the website one more time.
Speaker 21: Yes, targetfast dot org.
Speaker 41: And let me say to you that when it is
Speaker 41: that you are registered at Target Force, we have a
Speaker 41: partner with the Black Chamber of Commerce. We're going to
Speaker 41: send you out a digital directory of three hundred thousand
Speaker 41: black businesses across the United States, so you can redirect
Speaker 41: your dollars away from Target and Walmart. And we're gonna
Speaker 41: send you a forty day prayer journal so that we
Speaker 41: can prayer way through a lot of our people.
Speaker 21: Angela burned out, they tie it, they weary, they.
Speaker 42: Want and they say it.
Speaker 41: But I think that we've got to find that synergy,
Speaker 41: to find that second win and run to it.
Speaker 17: Ry.
Speaker 8: I know you had something, Well, no, I'll let let's
Speaker 8: let uh, Tomicky Mallory come in and I'll I'll let
Speaker 8: you all. Do you know can you see them saying no, No.
Speaker 5: We got to bring everybody in because we only got
Speaker 5: so much time. You know, we under our left y'all have.
Speaker 8: You know, I got to be quiet. You know, black women,
Speaker 8: you all got a black women and then I have
Speaker 8: my question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mararathon through this thing. So we're all we got
Speaker 1: a little less than an hour left to me. Ka
Speaker 1: Mallory and Angelo Pinto on this same topic, you all
Speaker 1: have been actively engaged around the target fast and I
Speaker 1: would love to hear from you all your perspective. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of folks saying, hey, you know, why
Speaker 1: are we going to boycott something or fast from something
Speaker 1: when there are black brands on the shelves?
Speaker 5: So about that, right?
Speaker 1: So I think that it's a good time to talk
Speaker 1: about tactics, how we stick together. I learned on my
Speaker 1: podcast recently a Native Lampid with Andrew Gillim that only
Speaker 1: ten percent of black folks in Montgomery actually participated in boycotts.
Speaker 1: Never knew, never knew, And they want to burn the books.
Speaker 1: I'm still learning they're trying to burn the books.
Speaker 8: Roy.
Speaker 5: So you guys tell us a little bit about why
Speaker 5: it's important for.
Speaker 1: Us to stay united in this fight with Reverend Jamal
Speaker 1: Bryant and untel freedom.
Speaker 6: Certainly, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And to everyone, I see family, new people, just so
Speaker 1: many different faces here and it's been really inspirational and
Speaker 1: feeling to be among this amazing group of individuals evening,
Speaker 1: and you know, just want to join Jamal first of
Speaker 1: all in saying.
Speaker 5: Everybody, well to me, hold on because I that's what's
Speaker 5: going on.
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Waters, yo, hello, we heard you, so we thought
Speaker 1: that man, you were reclaiming your time, so you now
Speaker 1: have the floor. We want to know why you chose
Speaker 1: not to participate in the State of the Union tonight.
Speaker 5: Please tell us why.
Speaker 14: Thank you so much. Angela.
Speaker 43: You know me very well, and you know that I
Speaker 43: was not about to put up with that bullshit that
Speaker 43: he was going to talk about tonight. You know that
Speaker 43: I think he is the most deporable, dishonest, no good
Speaker 43: man that I've ever encountered in my life. He has
Speaker 43: insulted us, He's insulted the American people. He's a sexual,
Speaker 43: sexual predi. He's everything absolutely awful that you can describe
Speaker 43: in a human being.
Speaker 14: I've never met anything like him before. Antel.
Speaker 43: You know you've been out there in Los Angeles. I've
Speaker 43: worked with gang members, the grips, the bloods, everybody. I've
Speaker 43: never encountered anybody like Trump. Trump is a person without
Speaker 43: a conscience. He will lie at the drop of a hat,
Speaker 43: and he knows that you know that he's lying, but
Speaker 43: he continues to lie. What he did tonight was, first
Speaker 43: of all, he continued the lives about all of the Mexicans,
Speaker 43: all of the people coming from you know, the countries
Speaker 43: of you know, Mexico and Guatemala and everybody.
Speaker 14: What he talked about was, had.
Speaker 43: You believe that they're all rapists and they're all murderers,
Speaker 43: and they're all this, and they're all that. Continuing to
Speaker 43: pump up the lie that he has used as his
Speaker 43: number one issue to divide and to create hate and
Speaker 43: to have something that he could point to to keep
Speaker 43: the American people believing that he had to protect them from.
Speaker 43: So it was pretty awful, and I really did not
Speaker 43: like the way he used the tragic incidents and the
Speaker 43: families that were there, who of course appreciated. You know,
Speaker 43: what they think is their president caring about what happened,
Speaker 43: you know, to the twelve year old and to others
Speaker 43: who were victims, and we all feel sad and bad
Speaker 43: for them, but.
Speaker 14: He misused them.
Speaker 43: He misused them, and what he did was he focused
Speaker 43: on them instead of focusing on the real issues that
Speaker 43: we're dealing with now and the harm that he's creating
Speaker 43: for workers by telling them get out of their office
Speaker 43: by three o'clock, by five o'clock. You know what, that
Speaker 43: reminds me of the sundown towns who would tell black
Speaker 43: people had to be out of town about five o'clock
Speaker 43: before dark.
Speaker 14: You know, he's still dishonorable human being that he's always been.
Speaker 43: It is so sad that we're going through this kind
Speaker 43: of change right before our very eyes, as he and
Speaker 43: Elon Musk move into all of the agencies and departments
Speaker 43: of government, shutting them down of firing people, doing everything
Speaker 43: that they can to basically make sure that this country
Speaker 43: is ruled by the white billionaires that showed up with
Speaker 43: him at inauguration time.
Speaker 14: What he sang to all of us, we're getting ready
Speaker 14: to run this country the way that we want to
Speaker 14: run it. We're getting rid of all.
Speaker 43: These regulations that have protected people in the Consumer Financial
Speaker 43: Protection Bureau.
Speaker 14: We're getting ready hug with all.
Speaker 43: Of them money that's going to housing and to the
Speaker 43: homeless and all of those people in urban areas that
Speaker 43: don't deserve it. All of those messages, for me, were
Speaker 43: continuing messages that he has put for for a long time,
Speaker 43: long before this election. But it's not nice to say,
Speaker 43: but I told you so when he first ran. I
Speaker 43: told everybody that he should have been impeached. When we
Speaker 43: got into it, we didn't do it right. We waited
Speaker 43: too long, we didn't use the right issues, etc. And
Speaker 43: unfortunately we got him back. But let me hear from
Speaker 43: the other people that you have.
Speaker 14: On the poground tonight. I have to talk about this
Speaker 14: thing all night.
Speaker 1: We have one of your colleagues who had joined you,
Speaker 1: and she's someone who regularly says she stands on your soldiers.
Speaker 1: He says, whatever Max says we're doing, We're doing. That
Speaker 1: is Jasmine Crockett, who chose to go to the State
Speaker 1: of the Union side, but she also chose to walk out,
Speaker 1: So she's right here, Jasmine.
Speaker 14: Okay, hey, yes, listen.
Speaker 1: For sure, Max is an og just like Al Green.
Speaker 31: I follow their lead.
Speaker 1: I thank God for them, I really do, especially in
Speaker 1: this time. You know, as one of the younger members
Speaker 1: in the Congress, it is so important to have people
Speaker 1: that are always going to give us a sobering message
Speaker 1: about the moment.
Speaker 17: That we're in.
Speaker 1: And as y'all just heard, she did not hold back.
Speaker 1: She gonna call that motherfucker what he is at all time.
Speaker 1: So and I'm here for you. What y'all don't know
Speaker 1: is we both from Saint Louis. Listen, we from the
Speaker 1: show Me State. Okay, this is what you get out
Speaker 1: of Saint Louis. But I am so eternally great. As
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do,
Speaker 1: I was on the phone calling Max and trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out.
Speaker 31: And one of the things that we wanted to do
Speaker 31: was we want to make.
Speaker 1: Sure that there was space that was hell for us,
Speaker 1: and if we did not show up, then what they
Speaker 1: were going to do is just put seat fillers in.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to make sure that the space that
Speaker 1: you know, my ancestors bled and died for that I
Speaker 1: occupied that space.
Speaker 31: But I also got the privilege to walk the hell
Speaker 31: out of it.
Speaker 1: And so that's exactly what we did, so that he
Speaker 1: could have those empty seats sitting there and that our
Speaker 1: messages would be seen. Even if he decided he didn't
Speaker 1: want to hear us, he was going to fill us
Speaker 1: in our actions, and so I didn't just want to
Speaker 1: sit there and not flap, but instead I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that I stood up in defiance and I
Speaker 1: turned my back on him like he has turned his
Speaker 1: back on the American people, like he has turned his
Speaker 1: back on the Constitution, like he has turned his back
Speaker 1: on laws in this country. That is what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do, and I wanted the American people to know
Speaker 1: that while we may not have the numbers just yet,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we don't have fight left in
Speaker 1: our bodies. And so I am going to fight him
Speaker 1: every step of the way until we get what we deserve.
Speaker 1: Because it was my ancestors that built this motherfucker.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 6: Now I'm doing because the wordsman.
Speaker 14: Not only for what she just said, but she has
Speaker 14: been telling the fight.
Speaker 44: She has been every day, every week, whether she's in committee,
Speaker 44: what she's on the floor, whether she's in the streets,
Speaker 44: she has been telling what she has learned about him,
Speaker 44: his leadership.
Speaker 43: She's called him out, She's called out every dumbass that
Speaker 43: he's appointed to office while he's talking about getting rid
Speaker 43: of diversity, equity and inclusion and hiring some of the
Speaker 43: dumbest people, some of the most incommoned people in all
Speaker 43: of the agencies of government that he can get and
Speaker 43: then yes.
Speaker 14: Elon Musk, because Elon Musk had the money.
Speaker 21: To buy him.
Speaker 43: This was transactional. He put the money into his campaign
Speaker 43: and Trump turned it over to him. And we don't
Speaker 43: know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high
Speaker 43: technology asks. We don't know or what he's being accused
Speaker 43: of by some as.
Speaker 14: It may relate to the election.
Speaker 43: But we're not going to give up in investigating and
Speaker 43: finding out whether or not Elon Musk and all the
Speaker 43: people that he's got hired.
Speaker 14: In his business who are now working for him. We
Speaker 14: may be paying them through these.
Speaker 43: Dumb as false contracts that he's got that he's gotten
Speaker 43: so much money from.
Speaker 14: This billionaire is a billionaire.
Speaker 43: Because he's exploited the United States of America, et cetera,
Speaker 43: et cetera.
Speaker 14: So thank you, Jasmine. You continued to be whom you are.
Speaker 14: You walk as you tried to get everybody else to do.
Speaker 8: You tried.
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of the members that we're not afraid
Speaker 1: and decided that they will walk, because if I didn't
Speaker 1: have at least a group, then I just wasn't going
Speaker 1: to attend.
Speaker 11: So I am so thankful.
Speaker 1: I know y'all had a chance to hear from Melanie Stansbury,
Speaker 1: who is my writer out of New Mexico. We had
Speaker 1: to make sure we at least could do something as
Speaker 1: a unified group because saying, oh, there's only one person,
Speaker 1: and there's only two people, and I really wanted to
Speaker 1: show that there are more than just one person that
Speaker 1: is willing to engage in this fight. And if I
Speaker 1: could not get a group, then I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to do it. So I'm thankful for every soldier that
Speaker 1: decided to stand.
Speaker 8: Up and walk up Congress from Crockett and waters real quick,
Speaker 8: is the relationship between Democrats and Republics between now and midterms?
Speaker 8: Is it completely irreparable if we go on to war
Speaker 8: and just voting the mount in twenty twenty six, or
Speaker 8: is there any modicum of hope that we can come
Speaker 8: back from this between nine mid terms? The energy that
Speaker 8: was in the room tonight, I mean, let me just.
Speaker 43: Say that we have a good cause, a good democratic cause,
Speaker 43: And what we understand and appreciate is that people show
Speaker 43: their objections and their disagreements in different ways. And what
Speaker 43: we see building in this democratic conquerse is ways by
Speaker 43: which we're going to.
Speaker 14: Win this fight. We're going to win this fight.
Speaker 43: We're going to win this fight because I think what
Speaker 43: we're all understanding is this, we got to be in
Speaker 43: the streets. You know, it's not enough to be at home,
Speaker 43: you know, on the internet, you know, trying to convince people.
Speaker 14: They want us out there, they want to see us fighting.
Speaker 43: We are going to inspire people and help people to
Speaker 43: understand that the power lies.
Speaker 14: When we all are sticking together, when we're working.
Speaker 43: I believe that if we keep going to the streets
Speaker 43: and we grow and grow and grow our protests, we're
Speaker 43: going to have a lot of influence on the courts,
Speaker 43: who still have a lot of decisions to make. These
Speaker 43: decisions now are temporary, but we've got to get down
Speaker 43: to the decisions about whether or not what they're doing
Speaker 43: is in defiance of the Constitution, in defiance of the
Speaker 43: laws that have been signed by presidents, and what is
Speaker 43: the difference between an executive order and a law, and
Speaker 43: what is difference between an executive order and what's in
Speaker 43: the Constitution of America. And I think we can help
Speaker 43: the courts move even stronger. But they got to see us,
Speaker 43: They got to understand that we're.
Speaker 14: Willing to fight for what believed. And you know what, Hell,
Speaker 14: I'm in this fight. I'm in this fight, and I
Speaker 14: do believe that there are a lot of other people
Speaker 14: in this fight.
Speaker 43: And when they see an eighty six year old woman
Speaker 43: on the street fighting in the way that I certainly
Speaker 43: know how, I hope it is going to inspire a
Speaker 43: lot of people to come on out and join us.
Speaker 15: Is that right, Angela?
Speaker 5: That is absolutely right.
Speaker 45: And I'm gonna tell you what.
Speaker 14: I know right now.
Speaker 11: I was just gonna say that, listen, this is business.
Speaker 1: I am going into the backyards and anybody that I
Speaker 1: can take out, I'm gonna take them out.
Speaker 5: So I am gonna go I'm gonna figuratively.
Speaker 31: Yeah, but explain it. So because because because right.
Speaker 1: Now they have decided that they don't want to show
Speaker 1: up and be held accountable to the people that put
Speaker 1: them into power. They have made a decision the NRCC
Speaker 1: that they're not gonna do any more town halls in
Speaker 1: their districts. So if they're not going to show up
Speaker 1: and serve their people, then I'm gonna show up, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that they know the truth about
Speaker 1: why they are cowering and why they are going and
Speaker 1: bending the knee to the Orange one instead of serving
Speaker 1: the people that made it possible for them to serve
Speaker 1: in this body. So no, it wasn't even a matter
Speaker 1: of tonight being the trigger. It was the fact that
Speaker 1: they decided that they were gonna go out. And while
Speaker 1: this man has allowed Elon Musk to turn off the
Speaker 1: money for bills that were signing too law by Joe
Speaker 1: Biden or any other president and decide that they are
Speaker 1: gonna abdicate their duties. That was when I decided that
Speaker 1: I was gonna be coming for all a seats, any
Speaker 1: seat that we can get.
Speaker 31: Just no, I'm coming for it.
Speaker 1: And when I say I'm coming for it, I'm not
Speaker 1: only showing up at their back door, but I'm also
Speaker 1: raising money.
Speaker 31: When I raise money, I give money, I spend money.
Speaker 14: I am in this to win this.
Speaker 1: Just like Max said, we gonna get this thing done
Speaker 1: by any means necessary. I'm gonna make sure money, organizing,
Speaker 1: showing up and doing the work that they don't want
Speaker 1: to do. We are absolutely gonna do it. And yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this stuff on social media too. I
Speaker 1: know Max said, you know, we gotta get up the computers,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do the computer stuff too. Well, this
Speaker 1: is amazing, ladies. We so appreciate you coming on. We
Speaker 1: love you, Jasmine, we love you, Congresswomen, Queen next, I
Speaker 1: love you. So I want to just quickly we you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking to some fighters. We were starting with
Speaker 1: Tamika and Angelo, and this is how you know MW's
Speaker 1: a gangster.
Speaker 5: Congress Waters came on. She didn't even have to say
Speaker 5: reclaiming my time. She just started talking it to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, else to say, edit, And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that they did that because I was getting ready to
Speaker 1: try to come with my hoop and I don't even
Speaker 1: have to do it.
Speaker 23: Till they already handled it for me.
Speaker 1: So I'll just go back to some technical points on
Speaker 1: this issue around UH Boycott's Angela. You asked a very
Speaker 1: important question about what do we do with black vendors
Speaker 1: that are on the stores and places like Target, and
Speaker 1: we talked about how you know, UH Pastor Bryant talked
Speaker 1: about the list that the Black Chamber of Commons has
Speaker 1: with black businesses that you can get your products from directly,
Speaker 1: as well as ensuring that the businesses in Target, specifically
Speaker 1: that we continue to support them. I want to bring
Speaker 1: into this conversation our sister Nina Turner, who was one
Speaker 1: of the first people to say that we needed to
Speaker 1: boycott Target for an extended period of time. Also our
Speaker 1: sister Nakima Armstrong, who is there in Minneapolis where the
Speaker 1: Target headquarters is located, holding local protests and meetings and
Speaker 1: organizing there on the ground. I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure that they are not missing in the context for
Speaker 1: how this boycott has come together. All I will say
Speaker 1: is that there's been a theme throughout this entire very
Speaker 1: powerful night and It's been about us engaging in the
Speaker 1: streets and getting with our people. And I want folks
Speaker 1: to know that I didn't wake up to a call
Speaker 1: about a boycott from a group of leaders.
Speaker 23: It came from the ground.
Speaker 1: It came into the comment section on almost every post
Speaker 1: that I could find where Target said that they were
Speaker 1: rolling back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. People started saying,
Speaker 1: I will never go there again. I'm not shopping at Target.
Speaker 1: They said their feelings were hurt because Target, to them
Speaker 1: was a place that they went, especially as black women,
Speaker 1: as a safe space, and to see that they would
Speaker 1: cower to white supremacy and to this effort to take
Speaker 1: away what we believe is the gains of many of us,
Speaker 1: who many of us and of course people who came
Speaker 1: before us that fought so hard for us to have diversity,
Speaker 1: equity and.
Speaker 23: Inclusion in these spaces.
Speaker 1: They felt connected to this, and we responded as organizers
Speaker 1: to help put some structure around it. Jamal came forward
Speaker 1: with the list that he's created with over one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand names. So this is a ground up effort. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I bring that up is because as
Speaker 1: we talk about all of what has been discussed tonight.
Speaker 1: Important things I want us to remember the grassroots, the
Speaker 1: people who are out there who are still fighting to
Speaker 1: keep gun violence tamed in their community, to deal with
Speaker 1: the issues of food deserts and poverty and injustice that
Speaker 1: is happening to them locally, police violence, people calling us
Speaker 1: from inside of prisons who are dealing with the backlash
Speaker 1: of what they are seeing happening across the country, where
Speaker 1: white supremacy is even sparking.
Speaker 23: In those spaces behind the walls.
Speaker 1: Our people need us on so many different levels, and
Speaker 1: as Latasha said, let us remember to continue to give
Speaker 1: money and resources, whatever little bit we have, if we're
Speaker 1: holding it from target, take it, take half of it,
Speaker 1: put it under your mattress or wherever you want to
Speaker 1: save it, and take the other half and send it
Speaker 1: to a grassroots organizer or organization that is out there
Speaker 1: doing the consistent work that while we plan on a
Speaker 1: mass scale, it is important that we deal with every
Speaker 1: single issue we talked about here this evening.
Speaker 23: But we must not forget yet that there are people who.
Speaker 1: Are literally the thing between the trigger and the finger
Speaker 1: of a thirteen or fourteen year old child who might
Speaker 1: kill somebody tomorrow because their grandmother lost their job.
Speaker 23: And when we talk about.
Speaker 1: Federal workers, so it's really really serious and important to
Speaker 1: us that we continue to focus on those folks, that
Speaker 1: we listen to the voices of the people, and that
Speaker 1: the grassroots, that the people on the ground be really
Speaker 1: at the center of all.
Speaker 23: Of our organizing. We say it until freedom that the people.
Speaker 1: Who are closest to the problem must be at the
Speaker 1: center of the solutions that we put forth in our society.
Speaker 1: And we want to make sure that everybody here, whoever
Speaker 1: you are, wherever you're organizing, let's ensure that we diversify.
Speaker 1: We want to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion outside
Speaker 1: in the world. Let us diversify every single space that
Speaker 1: we are working in to ensure that our people, all
Speaker 1: of our people are there to inform us as we
Speaker 1: go forward and do our work.
Speaker 5: God bless y'all, and I love y'all.
Speaker 45: And I'll just say I think that we're boycotting because
Speaker 45: we know we have to make America think again. Right,
Speaker 45: We need to make America think again. And the only
Speaker 45: way you make folks think is when you speak their language.
Speaker 45: So if their language is money, you gotta speak money
Speaker 45: or act money. If the language is votes, you got
Speaker 45: to act votes. If the language is viewership, you have
Speaker 45: to act viewership. And those of us who fight, we
Speaker 45: know that you have to fight on every front. And
Speaker 45: as Pastor Brian said, boycotts are really redirecting our spending.
Speaker 45: And the reason redirect our spending is because we know
Speaker 45: we must redistribute the pain. Black folks can't be the
Speaker 45: only folks in this moment who are feeling pain. And
Speaker 45: when we begin to redistribute how we spend, we can
Speaker 45: redistribute some of that pain. And a big piece of
Speaker 45: that is really showing our outrage. We often say we're
Speaker 45: not outraged in the US, but when we begin to
Speaker 45: change our actions, we show our outrage. And the outrage
Speaker 45: must be paired with action. It must be paired with
Speaker 45: consistent action. And for us, the message that we're really
Speaker 45: trying to send the folks is you can vote with
Speaker 45: your pocketbook. You can vote with your bank account, you
Speaker 45: could vote with your viewership, you can vote with every vehicle.
Speaker 45: We have power, and black folks have a lot of power.
Speaker 45: Don't listen to anyone who says you don't have power,
Speaker 45: but every place you have it, you must send a
Speaker 45: message to the gatekeepers that we're going to use the
Speaker 45: power so that black folks can get the things we
Speaker 45: need and not be oppressed any longer. We also always
Speaker 45: say we need to build something different. I think this
Speaker 45: moment has showed us that we need something different more
Speaker 45: than ever. But not only do we need something different,
Speaker 45: black folks gotta be the ones that build the something different.
Speaker 45: And in this moment, I think the biggest lesson of
Speaker 45: all is we have to begin to build things that
Speaker 45: can't be rolled back. We cannot build more things that
Speaker 45: a new administration, a new whoever, can come into position
Speaker 45: and roll it back. And I believe the only things
Speaker 45: they can't roll back is when we spend with ourselves.
Speaker 45: The only thing they can't roll back is when we
Speaker 45: vote for black folks who carry our agenda. The only
Speaker 45: thing they can't roll back is when we organize like
Speaker 45: this to deliver messages we know our people need. So
Speaker 45: for me, the more we organize, the more we move together,
Speaker 45: the more we can build institutions plans that they can't
Speaker 45: roll back.
Speaker 2: So that's what we do.
Speaker 8: What if you all found Angelo and Tamika, First off,
Speaker 8: thank you all for what you all have been putting
Speaker 8: together with regards to this, what have you all found
Speaker 8: over the years and years of activism that you've done,
Speaker 8: it's the most effective way of getting other black folks
Speaker 8: on board. Like Mama whole side is from Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Speaker 8: Pretty much every store there is a store connected to
Speaker 8: a bigger conglomerate that rolled back Dee and I. So
Speaker 8: when you're trying to get them to understand, hey, here's
Speaker 8: something you can order from an independent vendor. There's tiktoks
Speaker 8: now of people going in target and basically putting the
Speaker 8: camera in front of black and brown folks and like
Speaker 8: essentially using shame as a tactic. There's education as a tactic.
Speaker 8: What have you all found has been the best way
Speaker 8: to get more people to understand the value and everything
Speaker 8: that you all are trying to trying to get done.
Speaker 1: So I would say that we only go at it
Speaker 1: a few times and then we keep it moving and
Speaker 1: roll with the ones who want to get with it,
Speaker 1: and usually more people come along as time goes on.
Speaker 1: As long as we're disciplined, you begin to see other
Speaker 1: people saying, let me peep my head outside the door
Speaker 1: and see what's going on, and maybe I'll join that fight.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's, you know, obviously very important
Speaker 1: that we stay consistent, which is not always easy, but
Speaker 1: it also helps when we are working with like mind
Speaker 1: individuals and when we empower local voices to help lead
Speaker 1: those movements, and that they don't feel we're telling them
Speaker 1: what to do, but instead that they are a part
Speaker 1: of the process for how things come together. And so
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people are feeling like
Speaker 1: they are part of this movement because largely Black women,
Speaker 1: who are everyday moms, everyday sisters living in their communities,
Speaker 1: are the ones whose voices were first, you know, in
Speaker 1: this fight, and so I think empowering them is so important,
Speaker 1: you know, And I totally understand what you mean, because
Speaker 1: we do have the challenge of trying to.
Speaker 23: Get everybody, but that has never been the case.
Speaker 5: Angela.
Speaker 1: You talked about the percentage of people who actually participated
Speaker 1: in the bus boycott, and even all of those people
Speaker 1: didn't start at the beginning. It took time for them
Speaker 1: to see a couple of things. One to be ashamed
Speaker 1: to keep trying to get on the bus when everybody
Speaker 1: else was making sure that they walk right on past it,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what.
Speaker 14: That's what.
Speaker 1: That's one of the tactics that we also use is
Speaker 1: to let our folks know you look kind of crazy
Speaker 1: going and target while the rest of us are standing outside.
Speaker 45: And I would say black people are really a people
Speaker 45: of rhythm.
Speaker 8: Right, oh oh, I think are trying.
Speaker 1: To Yes, y'all, let me tell you something. We have
Speaker 1: twenty six minutes. I got some leaders in you. We
Speaker 1: got some of the most really get black minds in
Speaker 1: the world on here. I gotta do a rapid round
Speaker 1: because Holly told me what one thing that we're gonna
Speaker 1: do is be twenty four hours, so we're not going
Speaker 1: over time.
Speaker 5: We got so much more we need to say and do.
Speaker 1: That means we got to have a part two, three,
Speaker 1: four nineteen. But I gotta get these brilliant voices in
Speaker 1: so I love y'all. Were gonna keep talking about this
Speaker 1: on social were and keep going. I'm gonna go first
Speaker 1: to Bernice King because you just brought up Montgomery bus
Speaker 1: boycotts to me. God, I want to go to you,
Speaker 1: doctor King, and then I want to make sure we
Speaker 1: get to your colleagues.
Speaker 5: If we can all try to keep our remarks to
Speaker 5: one and a half minutes or less. We gotta get
Speaker 5: everybody in. There's so many great voices.
Speaker 1: Kimberly krinschyaw joined us, Doctor Dyson, Maya, everybody wants you
Speaker 1: to run for mayor Maya. I mean, come on, we
Speaker 1: gotta go, we gotta get we gotta go.
Speaker 5: Doctor Burney's king. It's joined us.
Speaker 15: Yeah, thank you, and good evening everybody. I just wanted
Speaker 15: to say this. This is one of those Nie and
Speaker 15: Mayan moments. Me in my four nineteen says the work
Speaker 15: is great and extensive, and we are widely separated on
Speaker 15: the wall. But when we hear the sound of the trump,
Speaker 15: I mean trumpet, we must rally together and our God
Speaker 15: will fight for us. So I want to thank you Angela,
Speaker 15: you Joy and others for pulling this moment together in
Speaker 15: response to the trump.
Speaker 14: It in this hour?
Speaker 15: What does that mean? My father said, And I'm gonna
Speaker 15: do it real quick in this book.
Speaker 45: Where do we go from here? Chaos and community?
Speaker 15: It's a part we overlooked so often, he said, I'm
Speaker 15: Nettles task is to discover how to organize our strength
Speaker 15: into compelling power so that the government cannot elude our demands.
Speaker 15: Or I would say so that the power structures cannot
Speaker 15: elude our demands. I want to applaud everybody on here
Speaker 15: for everything you're doing to keep my father's legacy moving forward.
Speaker 15: And I just want to challenge us, just real quick,
Speaker 15: because this is very a key point here. Oftentimes we
Speaker 15: organize around passion, we organize around frustration, we organize around yes, need,
Speaker 15: But how often do we organize around strength? How do
Speaker 15: we pull our strengths together, look at what is needed
Speaker 15: to deal with what we're trying to do, and organize
Speaker 15: those strengths. And so I want to maybe it exists,
Speaker 15: I don't know, but we need a war room. That's
Speaker 15: the first thing. The second thing is I want to
Speaker 15: thank you for what you're doing and say please, Angela.
Speaker 15: I texted you today, I said, continue this platform. Because
Speaker 15: Trump has two platforms true social and X that he's
Speaker 15: communicating consistently rapid fire. We need something on a daily
Speaker 15: basis because that misinformation has to be challenged consistently. Many
Speaker 15: people are misinformed and they are impressionable, and so we
Speaker 15: need this information. So much truth was shared today that
Speaker 15: people don't know. So thank you and kudos for bringing
Speaker 15: all of those different elements together. And then find it,
Speaker 15: which is a hard one. I'm Doctor King's daughter. I
Speaker 15: embrace fully nonviolence. I'm not perfect at it, but it
Speaker 15: is the best way to move forward. It is strategic.
Speaker 15: It gives us the spiritual discipline that we need and
Speaker 15: the soul force we need. And I have a dream
Speaker 15: speech and I close with this, he reminded everybody who
Speaker 15: was on a threshold of freedom and justice, and this
Speaker 15: is another part we missed.
Speaker 14: And I have a dream.
Speaker 15: In his words, he said, we must forever and that's
Speaker 15: an underlying and a bold and aalis. We must forever
Speaker 15: conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
Speaker 15: And so every day we got to prepare our minds,
Speaker 15: we got to prepare our spirits because this is a marathon.
Speaker 15: And then finally, as we're doing what we're doing now
Speaker 15: in this season, in this moment, we have to figure
Speaker 15: out the strategy, the strategies to change the numbers in Congress.
Speaker 15: There's a strategy to do that, not just registering the vote.
Speaker 15: But I love what Bernie did to go to the
Speaker 15: Trump voters. We got to think outside of the box
Speaker 15: to get those three numbers that are needed in the midterm.
Speaker 15: There's some elections coming up in April. It may be
Speaker 15: too late for that, but anyway, I just want to
Speaker 15: leave you with that.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Angela.
Speaker 21: I appreciate you.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Doctor Renie's King.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go next to Maya Wiley from the
Speaker 1: Lawyers com Meete and I'm sorry not the Lawyers Comity
Speaker 1: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and then Mark Morial, President
Speaker 1: of National Early, Kimberly Crenshaw African American Policy Forum. Please, folks,
Speaker 1: let's get it in, but we want to make sure
Speaker 1: we're briefing. We get everybody else in Miami.
Speaker 5: Start with you.
Speaker 46: Well, first of all, let me just say I'm gonna
Speaker 46: be very brief just how grateful I am for all
Speaker 46: the wisdom, all of the action, all of the activism
Speaker 46: that we've already heard. I am just going to say
Speaker 46: one thing that we have not talked about. We are
Speaker 46: talking about a madman who has promised to weaponize the
Speaker 46: military against our communities. And one of the ways he's
Speaker 46: going to do it is an addition to protests. Because
Speaker 46: that was one and we heard that from Congressman Frost.
Speaker 46: But the other is by Bill Fine. Immigrants and trying
Speaker 46: to come for our constitutional rights on birthrights, citizenship, which
Speaker 46: we as black people in the civil rights movement want,
Speaker 46: because the beginning of the first civil rights movement was
Speaker 46: the abolition of slavery. But the reason I'm raising this
Speaker 46: is because we've already had a man, Peter Sean Brown,
Speaker 46: the black man in Florida, who was three days he
Speaker 46: was only three days away from being deported, and he
Speaker 46: was born in Philadelphia, you know, and in our history
Speaker 46: we have a lot of black people who were put
Speaker 46: into detention because they were believed not to be citizens
Speaker 46: even though they were. So the only reason I'm saying
Speaker 46: this is the weaponizing, just like they're doing with diversity, equity, inclusion,
Speaker 46: and say all the three words because they don't say
Speaker 46: it because people actually like diversity, people actually think it's
Speaker 46: a good thing. They like inclusion. But they're also using
Speaker 46: it to come for immigrants. We have African immigrants, we
Speaker 46: have immigrants, we have Afro Latino immigrants. But what the
Speaker 46: Lake and Riley law did, which is what they were celebrating,
Speaker 46: what Democrats also clapped for and voted for, is they
Speaker 46: are given permission to racial profiling.
Speaker 6: And that means us.
Speaker 46: Whether or not we are citizen whether or not we
Speaker 46: were born here. So I just want to remind us
Speaker 46: of that as well as everything everyone else has said,
Speaker 46: because we won these rights.
Speaker 14: These are civil rights.
Speaker 46: These are about black people in our communities, both black
Speaker 46: people who are immigrants, but also the way they catch
Speaker 46: us up in their system and by the way they
Speaker 46: will use the military and our communities to look for us.
Speaker 46: So I only say that not to say we don't
Speaker 46: have anything we can do about it, but that we
Speaker 46: can't stay silent on that one either, because it is
Speaker 46: the silence that they're relying on and telling us that
Speaker 46: we shouldn't trust our own Thank you.
Speaker 8: Then intimidate and dare the media to report it as
Speaker 8: fat and then called the facts. Last I'm sorried. Ton't
Speaker 8: mean to add more sadness on top of your sadness.
Speaker 5: But yes, thank you Mark and Kimberly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, thank you very much. Angela.
Speaker 38: First of all, I want to thank you Angela and
Speaker 38: the entire team for hosting this tonight, and I'm grateful
Speaker 38: for the opportunity to be able to participate in to
Speaker 38: just add this, what we are facing is an attack
Speaker 38: and a war on civil rights, a war on.
Speaker 8: The last seventy years to surbrim decision.
Speaker 38: Every single action being undertaken seeks to repeal the progress
Speaker 38: we've made and to erase.
Speaker 8: Our contributions to this nation.
Speaker 38: If this is not a wake up call for this
Speaker 38: generation that had the opportunity to walk through doors, stand
Speaker 38: on shoulders, avail themselves of opportunities, because the hard, sweat
Speaker 38: and struggles of others are parents and grandparents and ancestors,
Speaker 38: then I don't know what we'll wake us up. So
Speaker 38: I'm grateful and excited to see the activism, selective purchasing.
Speaker 38: We're bringing litigation. We've brought litigation with the help of
Speaker 38: the Legal Defense Fund, against three Trump executive orders. There's
Speaker 38: been litigation brought against the freeze and on behalf of
Speaker 38: the employees of federal employees. We have to stand together,
Speaker 38: and the most important thing is for everybody to do something.
Speaker 8: Get off the couch, get out.
Speaker 38: Of your comfort zone, and recognize that this is a
Speaker 38: threat to the last seventy years and we're defining the
Speaker 38: future for our children and our children's children.
Speaker 8: Project twenty twenty five is real. We're seeing it being executed,
Speaker 8: we're seeing it.
Speaker 38: Being implemented and they want to bend this country to
Speaker 38: an autocracy and reinstate white supremacy as the operating and
Speaker 38: governing principles.
Speaker 8: So I just think that tonight is just another step. Angela.
Speaker 8: We got to continue these conversations. We've got to continue
Speaker 8: to energize and excite people.
Speaker 38: So I'm grateful to be a part will continue to
Speaker 38: play our role to the best of our abilities. I'll
Speaker 38: see everyone who being Selma and Selma on Saturday and
Speaker 38: Sunday as we as we celebrate and note and mark
Speaker 38: the milestone of Bloody Sunday sixty years ago.
Speaker 5: You really are up, yes, Angela.
Speaker 42: I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that this
Speaker 42: is happening, and also how impressed I am. I was
Speaker 42: watching you last night around this time, and you are
Speaker 42: still looking good. So thank you and many many props
Speaker 42: to you. Listen, here's the main thing I want to
Speaker 42: remind us of. We have been here before. We know
Speaker 42: that this is the same thing that happened to us
Speaker 42: after Reconstruction. We know what violence did to our aspirations.
Speaker 42: We know what happened when individuals and organizations, not just
Speaker 42: those who are coming after us, but the Party of
Speaker 42: Lincoln finally this that they didn't want to have the
Speaker 42: burden of us on their chart anymore. And so what
Speaker 42: really worries me about this moment is the thing that
Speaker 42: we're not saying as much as we should, which is
Speaker 42: in this terror moment, in this moment when they're removing
Speaker 42: us from everywhere, it's not just maga that we have
Speaker 42: to struggle with. The call is coming from in the
Speaker 42: house when we can see people being removed black people
Speaker 42: who are accomplished, who are at the top of their field,
Speaker 42: from joy to four star general. They are coming after
Speaker 42: us as the vehicle for this agenda. We've got to
Speaker 42: be able to call it out when we know that
Speaker 42: our fellow Democrats, our fellow progressives, our fellow leftists, our
Speaker 42: fellow liberals are more afraid of being called woke than
Speaker 42: being on.
Speaker 5: The wrong side of history. The fight is here.
Speaker 15: So this has been a fight that's been going on
Speaker 15: for several years.
Speaker 42: Many of us have been saying, Mark Marial one of them,
Speaker 42: chavn arline another one, that this attack on our freedom,
Speaker 42: this attack on our civil rights history, this attack on
Speaker 42: our ability to know and understand what our history is
Speaker 42: telling us, is an attack on the entire infrastructure of
Speaker 42: the last sixty years. They've told us from the beginning,
Speaker 42: they're coming after public education, they're coming after public values,
Speaker 42: and they're coming after the government. And that's exactly what
Speaker 42: they've done. So if there's any moment of doubt, if
Speaker 42: there is any question about why we have to fight now,
Speaker 42: just remember Woodrow Wilson did exactly what Trump is doing
Speaker 42: right now. He cleared us out from the government. He
Speaker 42: eliminated the protections that we had. He was backed up
Speaker 42: with the Supreme Court, who is willing to sign onto it.
Speaker 42: And lastly, but not but not least, our friends allowed
Speaker 42: them to do it. So our fight has to be
Speaker 42: multi level.
Speaker 15: We have to fight magga.
Speaker 31: Yeah, but we got to fight.
Speaker 42: Those who are willing to say, maybe we're going to
Speaker 42: compromise on diversity, equity and inclusion, Maybe we're going to
Speaker 42: compromise on black history. Maybe we don't need to be
Speaker 42: worried about all of these ideas and these frameworks. Maybe
Speaker 42: we can negotiate a settlement. Whenever a settlement is negotiated, trust,
Speaker 42: we're the ones that are going to be thrown under
Speaker 42: the bus. So I couldn't be happier to be part
Speaker 42: of this. I couldn't be more enthusiastic and excited about
Speaker 42: the fact that we are on the march. The Saints
Speaker 42: are marching in and I'm glad to be in that number.
Speaker 42: And let's remember I'm going to end byte quoting SHERYLN.
Speaker 42: Eiffel who said leave no power on the table. What
Speaker 42: did she mean by that? She meant to say, Yeah,
Speaker 42: we're fighting at the federal level, but the real power
Speaker 42: is at the local level. It's at those school boards,
Speaker 42: it's at the city council, it's at all the places
Speaker 42: where these decisions about what actually shapes our lives are made.
Speaker 42: So we need to step up, step in, be there
Speaker 42: recognized that this fight is not the fight for the
Speaker 42: next four years. It's a fight for a century, and
Speaker 42: we need to be part of it.
Speaker 1: Thankk you so much. You guys, we have twelve people
Speaker 1: in eleven minutes left. Stephanie Young, I'm coming to you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be quick as be mindful. Otherwise we can't
Speaker 1: thank all the team that pulled this off. So please
Speaker 1: me Minchael, Stephanie Young, you have the floor. Talk to
Speaker 1: us about voting. Were gonna go to these packs and
Speaker 1: get it done.
Speaker 47: Yeah, well, thank you guys so much for all the
Speaker 47: work that you're doing continuously to make today, tonight and
Speaker 47: even tomorrow and all the things that will do together happen.
Speaker 47: I think it's really important to remember because I think
Speaker 47: a lot of folks have been discouraged and depressed obviously
Speaker 47: what's happened. But we had eighty nine million people in
Speaker 47: this country, actually not one hundred and forty four million
Speaker 47: people vote in this electronic This is not the highest turnout.
Speaker 47: I think Maxwell Frost said it. Twenty twenty actually had
Speaker 47: the highest voter turnout. And when you think about the
Speaker 47: multi level fight that Miss Crenshaw just laid out, it's
Speaker 47: incredibly important that we're attacking it from all all facets,
Speaker 47: so from civic engagement to some disobedient obedience to clear, concise,
Speaker 47: authentic and real consistent messaging. And we know we're in
Speaker 47: my old hat working in the in the voting rights space,
Speaker 47: that peer to peer organizing is really the number one
Speaker 47: converter to get as many people registered and ready to vote,
Speaker 47: and voter education does it stop there. That also goes
Speaker 47: to entering that people understand not only you know what,
Speaker 47: what does my vote get made? But also all the
Speaker 47: different levers that voting actually rolls from the school boards
Speaker 47: all the way up into obviously the present in the
Speaker 47: United States. So I think that when we're having these conversations,
Speaker 47: we can't leave out the deep organizing that actually has
Speaker 47: to happen because our people aren't fully out on the
Speaker 47: field when it comes to making their voices heard, and
Speaker 47: then also fighting the disinformation that comes from you know,
Speaker 47: all different sides, but from the peer to peer organizing,
Speaker 47: the voter education registration that can't just happen twelve months
Speaker 47: or six months for the election, but actually needs to
Speaker 47: start right now. Takes seven touches to get someone actually
Speaker 47: registered to vote and engaged. And we're not talking about
Speaker 47: you know, seven pains just on the internet. We're talking
Speaker 47: about phone calls. We're talking about peer to peer. We're
Speaker 47: talking about a multi lever, lever and layered process. So
Speaker 47: as we continue these conversations in community on how we
Speaker 47: all can play our part, I want to make sure
Speaker 47: and I know that from Derek n BLACP and on
Speaker 47: Collective Pack and obviously Latasha and all the work they're
Speaker 47: doing with Black Voters Matter, we have a lot of
Speaker 47: work to do in the voting space. And I know
Speaker 47: that voting hasn't always been sected, but it's incredibly, incredibly
Speaker 47: and very critical, uh to to ensuring that in the
Speaker 47: midterms that we made our voices her, but also obviously
Speaker 47: four years from now. So I'm looking forward to doing
Speaker 47: the work everyone.
Speaker 5: Thank you, step you guys there.
Speaker 1: We have a very important guest who's just joined us,
Speaker 1: and I think that Quentin and Mike McBride might be
Speaker 1: okay with me yielding their time to her. Their work
Speaker 1: helped to solidify this history making Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester
Speaker 1: out of the great state of Delaware and our good friend,
Speaker 1: and I'm just so happy you're here. So I want
Speaker 1: to yield a couple of minutes to you. We're trying
Speaker 1: to meet our deadline.
Speaker 15: Holly.
Speaker 5: We might be over, but it's a good it's a
Speaker 5: good reason why.
Speaker 25: I'm gonna be very very brief. I just left the
Speaker 25: floor from a very bizarre thing.
Speaker 17: To witness and behold, and I will just tell you that.
Speaker 25: Angela to you and everyone on here, Miss Reid, and
Speaker 25: I'm calling you misread because just thank you for the
Speaker 25: service that you have done for this country.
Speaker 31: To all of you on this line.
Speaker 17: I want to say, I needed to get on here
Speaker 17: to be refueled.
Speaker 25: And I think in this moment it is going to
Speaker 25: require each of us to recognize what can I do
Speaker 25: in this moment. The fact that Angela, also Brooks and
Speaker 25: I were sitting in the row, the same row as Jim.
Speaker 17: Clyburn and in front of us, Corey Booker and all
Speaker 17: of us, we.
Speaker 31: Said, no, this is our house.
Speaker 17: We're not leaving.
Speaker 25: You're going to look me right in the eye and
Speaker 25: say these things, and we are going to then take
Speaker 25: our power and act. And so I just want to
Speaker 25: thank to the collective, to everybody who helped us get
Speaker 25: to this place. Now the real work begins. And as
Speaker 25: was said, they're using words like scrub to scrub our history,
Speaker 25: to scrub us out of jobs, even veterans who are
Speaker 25: one third of the workforce.
Speaker 17: They don't care.
Speaker 5: And so I'm.
Speaker 17: I'm on fire in this moment. I appreciate the help
Speaker 17: and support and the wisdom.
Speaker 25: Like Sherlen Eiffel is going to be meeting with me
Speaker 25: and talking to me and talking about some of the levers.
Speaker 25: I'm once an urban leaguer, always an urban leaguer. Kimberly Crenshaw.
Speaker 25: I literally, Jamie, I could literally go through all of
Speaker 25: you here on this call and say thank you, thank you,
Speaker 25: thank you. But remember in this moment I said on
Speaker 25: the house on the Senate floor, for us, we know
Speaker 25: that trouble don't last always. For us, we know that
Speaker 25: it doesn't last all ways when we walk together children
Speaker 25: and not get weird, and that ultimately joy will come
Speaker 25: in the morning. But we got to do the work
Speaker 25: right now while it is night, and so I am
Speaker 25: just grateful for your presence. I'm grateful for your work.
Speaker 25: I'm looking forward. Look, I'm starting to see other people
Speaker 25: that I needed to call out, but I'm so grateful
Speaker 25: and on behalf of those of us who are in
Speaker 25: oh Leah adultery. I don't want to get started, but
Speaker 25: I just want to say thank you for your work
Speaker 25: and we are ready to get to work together. Thank
Speaker 25: you Angela so much for even this lifts my spirit
Speaker 25: as we go into tomorrow, that's all.
Speaker 1: I'll stick around till midnight because that's when the hour
Speaker 1: is dark as but we know morning is coming. Quittin
Speaker 1: and Mike real fast, and then I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: these ladies that we need to get to everybody be encouraged.
Speaker 21: Will this is you know, is the worst of times,
Speaker 21: is also the best of times.
Speaker 48: We've never had as many black leaders in public office
Speaker 48: as we do right now, and that's because the work
Speaker 48: of everybody on this line, everyone watching. We've put the
Speaker 48: work in. We came up short last November. We're going
Speaker 48: to put the work in this year and next year.
Speaker 48: We have a black candidate running for governor of New
Speaker 48: Jersey right now in Rob's Baraka. Tonight was election night
Speaker 48: in Saint Louis mayor to Shara Jones running for reelection.
Speaker 48: And so while we are thinking about what's happening in DC,
Speaker 48: a lot of powers being built on the ground. And
Speaker 48: so thank you all for what you have done. We're
Speaker 48: going to continue doing it throughout this this next year.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Quinn from Collective Back, Pastor Mike McBride from Black Church,
Speaker 1: Pack Yes.
Speaker 15: Black Church Back, and Lift Free.
Speaker 49: Let me just say this whole day, these last twenty
Speaker 49: four hours, has been a demonstration of what happens when
Speaker 49: we organize together. Disorganized truth will find it difficult to
Speaker 49: defeat the organized lives.
Speaker 15: What I was taught and so my hope is that we.
Speaker 49: Organize ourselves on the ground. Brother Queen just said it powerfully.
Speaker 49: All politics is local. As we've manifested and flexed online.
Speaker 49: May we do that on the ground. May we attend
Speaker 49: to the differences among us on the ground by class, gender, sexuality,
Speaker 49: all things that try to divide us. Organize ourselves into
Speaker 49: the power. We need to keep this demonstration of our
Speaker 49: unity together.
Speaker 27: I think Elijah Muhammad said our unity is more powerful
Speaker 27: than an atomic boond.
Speaker 49: May we use our unity to defeat this wickedness around us.
Speaker 15: God bless everybody.
Speaker 5: Thank you pastor Mike.
Speaker 1: Since we're in the Bible, I'm gonna go to red
Speaker 1: Lip Theology. I miss my red Lip today. But candicemenybenbals here,
Speaker 1: we need to hear from you. I personally reach out
Speaker 1: to you, says My best friend was like, you know
Speaker 1: you need to have so you're here. Please, we want
Speaker 1: to hear from you.
Speaker 6: I just want to say that.
Speaker 50: The one thing I want to challenge us all to
Speaker 50: do creators create writers right. If this is a moment
Speaker 50: of disinformation, of misinformation, they are burning our books, what
Speaker 50: will the record bear fifty years from now? So not
Speaker 50: only do we need to document this time until a
Speaker 50: story we also need to do the work.
Speaker 23: That our souls need to have and our souls must have.
Speaker 50: And as we're talking about self care, as we're talking
Speaker 50: about lifting each other up, that's gonna come from the
Speaker 50: art that we create. That's going to come from the
Speaker 50: love that we that we admit and and and give
Speaker 50: each other. And I am heartened by tonight's sis. I'm
Speaker 50: so proud of you.
Speaker 1: I was up last night when you started, and I
Speaker 1: with you here at the end, and I'm so proud
Speaker 1: of you. Thank you so much for this, so very much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to coach Jazelle and then to doctor
Speaker 1: Raquel Martin.
Speaker 5: Did I lose hope, Jael? I'm at a lost heir, Okay,
Speaker 5: Doctor Raquel Martin, I'm sorry.
Speaker 17: Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 51: So I just wanted to state that although we acknowledge
Speaker 51: the fact that activism is inspired sustained by love and community,
Speaker 51: when it is constantly being challenged by injustice, the emotional
Speaker 51: toll is going to lead to burnout and numbness and detachment.
Speaker 51: So I am working with clients, I'm a licensed clinical psychologist.
Speaker 51: I really just want you all to be mindful of
Speaker 51: signs of resistance, fatigue, that's the exhution that comes from
Speaker 51: sustained activism. Advocate fighting for justice. If you're feeling numb
Speaker 51: or detached, oring different to issues that you used to
Speaker 51: deeply carry, if I care about, you're having low frustration tolerance,
Speaker 51: you're feeling guilty about resting. Some things that I've been
Speaker 51: talking to my clients that are activist about are just
Speaker 51: sharing the load. Activism was never meant to be solo.
Speaker 51: So creating a care rotation with fellow activists where you're
Speaker 51: alternating who's organizing the meetings, who's managing social media, who
Speaker 51: is driving the people to the everywhere, the whole scene
Speaker 51: the meetings, You're building restorative community, creating consistent, structured check in.
Speaker 51: I told one of my clients to make a buddy
Speaker 51: system with someone where activists are responsible for checking in
Speaker 51: with each other, directing small acts of solidarity, they make
Speaker 51: a big impact. Mutual aid isn't just about organizing huge efforts,
Speaker 51: is about every single day support, checking in right childcare.
Speaker 51: When it comes down to it. As a medical professional,
Speaker 51: I'm also a liberation psychologist, and healing isn't just about
Speaker 51: the individual. It's about dismantling the systems that make us
Speaker 51: sick in the first place, and all this extra stress
Speaker 51: leads to increased susceptibility to illness and autoimmune disorders. So
Speaker 51: to all the individuals watching this, the medical and health professionals,
Speaker 51: our job isn't just to help people survive oppression, it's
Speaker 51: to challenge it. So if we're not working towards justice,
Speaker 51: we're also maintaining the harm. So doctors can contribute to
Speaker 51: this by providing equitable care, anti racist care, addressing social
Speaker 51: determinants of health. Because therapy does not have a monopoly
Speaker 51: on healing. I am a psychologist, but it doesn't have
Speaker 51: a monopoly on healing. So when it's whether it's your
Speaker 51: path to healing is therapy or creating or activism, it's
Speaker 51: going to be paid with community, and we're going to
Speaker 51: need that more than ever. So also checking with yourselves
Speaker 51: everyone on this call. If you notice the same people
Speaker 51: organizing every single one of these talks, that's a problem
Speaker 51: because the whole aspect of longevity isn't just about ill
Speaker 51: or out working everyone. It's about taking care of yourself.
Speaker 51: So many times people talk about pouring from an empty cup.
Speaker 51: Mostly y'all don't even have cups. Y'all have like spaghetti strainers,
Speaker 51: y'all got calendars because everything's poking holes in it. So
Speaker 51: I would encourage you to think about what's also poking
Speaker 51: holes in your cup and make sure the same people
Speaker 51: are not organizing this entire thing because.
Speaker 6: It's going to take a while.
Speaker 51: But when you're running on fumes, you can't sustain anything,
Speaker 51: and this is going to take a lot of sustainability.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to doctor Dyson because he was not
Speaker 1: on a panel today, and we're going to get to
Speaker 1: some of the other folks for brief thank yous or
Speaker 1: something before we drop off. But doctor Michael Eric Dyson,
Speaker 1: mentor you have the floor.
Speaker 2: Love you, love what you do, love what you stand for,
Speaker 2: so proud of you.
Speaker 52: Very briefly, Let's make sure diversity is diverse, right, Don't
Speaker 52: be suckered by these people trying to make you hate
Speaker 52: trans people, or gay people, or lesbian people, or poor
Speaker 52: people are in the like. Let's understand that they are
Speaker 52: all those of us who are black. Understand the liberation
Speaker 52: movement for what it does. Number two, The truth is,
Speaker 52: be deadly serious about what you are committed to, but
Speaker 52: don't check yourself too seriously at all and in that way,
Speaker 52: like Elijah and the Bible, I only am left. No,
Speaker 52: you ain't the seven thousand others, So stop and focus
Speaker 52: on the job at hand. Thirdly, my pastor used to say,
Speaker 52: we've already come through what we've come to, which means
Speaker 52: we've been through this stuff before. Let's remember those lessons.
Speaker 52: And finally, Howard Thurmann said, you don't reduce your dreams
Speaker 52: to the event you confront. Now you have a choice.
Speaker 52: You can be a prisoner of hope or you can
Speaker 52: be a prisoner of the event. We choose to be
Speaker 52: a prisoner of the event. And now end by saying,
Speaker 52: I know Bishop Daltrey said that the cavalry ain't coming.
Speaker 52: That's true, but Calvary is here and on that old
Speaker 52: rugged cross, there's a lot that's been penned there and
Speaker 52: that has sustained us as a people.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, God, bless you, Thank.
Speaker 5: You, doctor Dyson.
Speaker 1: We are going to go to doctor David John's the
Speaker 1: journalist extraordinaire Ed Gordon, Monique and our Fonzo and we
Speaker 1: are rapping y'all quickly.
Speaker 14: I love y'all.
Speaker 53: There's something special about being in the care of black
Speaker 53: women who love black people.
Speaker 8: So thank you to you, Lolo, Jill, the whole team.
Speaker 14: I think my only.
Speaker 53: Contribution is to remind us of what Benny lu Hamer said,
Speaker 53: which is that none of us are free of lesson
Speaker 53: until all of us are free. So this is the
Speaker 53: moment where'mna step on some of y'all's toes and say gay,
Speaker 53: trans and gender expansive. If we don't lock arms and
Speaker 53: aims and hearts with every member of our beautify diverse community,
Speaker 53: we will never get free. So let's do the work
Speaker 53: of getting liberated together. Let's do the work of supporting
Speaker 53: each other and centering joy, and let's continue to resist.
Speaker 53: Let's not capitulate, Let's not give them anything. Let's live
Speaker 53: in the spirit of Nipsey Hustle, who reminds us that
Speaker 53: it's all a marathon.
Speaker 21: All we got to do is keep going.
Speaker 5: I love y'all, sincerely, thanks David.
Speaker 1: And on that note, Hope Gazelle dropped. I'm sure she
Speaker 1: was just tired, but please look up the work of
Speaker 1: Hope Jazelle. David, can you share our Instagram.
Speaker 8: And at Hope Jaselle.
Speaker 53: She also is a leader with NBJC, so you can
Speaker 53: check us out at www dot MJC.
Speaker 8: Download our bloo.
Speaker 53: Lack facts data and aligns with the Black Census Project,
Speaker 53: and you can also find us at MBJC on the move.
Speaker 53: But shout out to Hope Jazelle, who is doing tremendous work.
Speaker 53: Find her, support her, find ways to level members of
Speaker 53: our community again who are transitgender expansive. They are the
Speaker 53: tip of the sphere of these neo fascists who are
Speaker 53: legislating genocide.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, dj Okay, Monique and Alfonso, come on.
Speaker 54: And Ed Gordon, you want a Monique to go first,
Speaker 54: I'm so go ahead. You go ahead, Angela, Thank you,
Speaker 54: Thank you to Joy, Thank you to Rev. Mark, Lolo Holly,
Speaker 54: all of our partners who have worked on this. What
Speaker 54: I want to leave us with is make sure we
Speaker 54: remember is that there's a direct connection between our wallets,
Speaker 54: our pocketbooks, and our dignity. All too often we treat economic.
Speaker 55: Justice and social justice like their separate conversations, and the
Speaker 55: truth is they're completely connected. Firing people from their jobs
Speaker 55: is directly connected to whether they can put food on
Speaker 55: the table and whether they can be treated with dignity
Speaker 55: at work, and then striking down diversity, equity and inclusion effects,
Speaker 55: whether public and private sectors, will be held accountable for
Speaker 55: addressing the disparities that show that black businesses are being
Speaker 55: denied opportunities. Just so we're clear, twenty percent of new
Speaker 55: businesses go out of business within the first twelve to
Speaker 55: eighteen months, but when you're talking about black businesses.
Speaker 6: That's eighty percent. Eighty percent of.
Speaker 55: Black businesses go out of business during that same time period,
Speaker 55: and this is due to systemic barriers that exist.
Speaker 21: In the marketplace.
Speaker 55: So remember as we go through this fight, in this struggle,
Speaker 55: that when you hear about the actions being taken by
Speaker 55: the new administration, understand that they.
Speaker 14: Have an impact on your dignity and they have an
Speaker 14: impact on your wallet. That is the goal.
Speaker 6: They are connected and.
Speaker 21: If the global Black Economic form.
Speaker 55: We're going to continue doing this work, fighting for economic
Speaker 55: justice and fighting for economic.
Speaker 6: Freedom and working with all of you and doing so. Angela,
Speaker 6: thank you again.
Speaker 5: Thank you, y'all find the Monique my sister.
Speaker 6: I love you girl, real true.
Speaker 22: And deep in the bunker, any bunker anytime. Thank you
Speaker 22: for this, thank you for everybody who worked from one scripture,
Speaker 22: Faith without works is dead, and that means it's like
Speaker 22: having none at all. It's like nonexistent faith. What we've
Speaker 22: done for the past twenty four hours is a demonstration
Speaker 22: of the height of our faith through our work. And
Speaker 22: I am so thankful for that because my faith is
Speaker 22: real high, my faith in God and my faith in
Speaker 22: our people, my belief that we can take this and
Speaker 22: go someplace with it. We ain't got to agree on everything.
Speaker 6: Let's do one thing and take some steps with the
Speaker 6: one thing.
Speaker 22: And I'm just here to say the one hundred of y'all,
Speaker 22: two hundred of y'all, whoever did this for the past
Speaker 22: twenty four hours, I'll take at least ten steps with
Speaker 22: y'all any day in time.
Speaker 5: Blessings, Thanks Moll.
Speaker 1: The legendary Ed Gordon is still with us, and Ed you,
Speaker 1: I just want to hear from you, that's all.
Speaker 5: I just want to hear from you.
Speaker 56: I just want to Yeah, I just want to say
Speaker 56: this very quickly. And Joy started us off with doctor
Speaker 56: King's words. And I had the honor of interviewing Nelson
Speaker 56: Mandela on three occasions and spent some time with him,
Speaker 56: and he suggested that in times like this, we have
Speaker 56: to find truth, and that's truth within ourselves and with
Speaker 56: those who surround us, and so I'd like to encourage
Speaker 56: all of us to respectfully hold ourselves accountable, our leadership accountable,
Speaker 56: our elected officials accountable, and the people in the streets accountable.
Speaker 8: This is a historic moment for us.
Speaker 56: I don't know that we have the gravity of it yet,
Speaker 56: but we owe ourselves and our ancestors that accountability.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is indeed the truth. Well, uh, Joy was
Speaker 1: the host that brought us in yesterday. So Joey, I
Speaker 1: want to come to you, Ray, I want to come
Speaker 1: to you, and then I just want to offer some
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 10: I just want to say that very briefly, because I
Speaker 10: know we're trying to get out of here, y'all. I'm
Speaker 10: telling you the contrast in my text messages between the
Speaker 10: people who watched the joint address and the people who
Speaker 10: stuck with us, the people who did the twenty four hours,
Speaker 10: however long they spent with it, it could not be sharper.
Speaker 10: I think what we have learned tonight is that our
Speaker 10: people don't need to be directed to consume what the
Speaker 10: mainstream tells them to or to know what the mainstream
Speaker 10: tells them to know.
Speaker 11: They just need us. All we need is each other.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 11: This is enough.
Speaker 10: All we need is each other. The feeling of empowerment, joy,
Speaker 10: freedom that we felt in these last twenty four hours
Speaker 10: and in this town.
Speaker 11: All that's it. We got the answer. That's where we
Speaker 11: go from here, right here.
Speaker 1: So my illustrious co host that said yes at one
Speaker 1: in the morning, Roywood Junior, he did.
Speaker 8: She texted me one of the morning he were doing
Speaker 8: the thing. And the way that you all organize this,
Speaker 8: I have to praise you all and tell you all
Speaker 8: thank you. I mean, Angela knows it's forty pots on
Speaker 8: the stove. Joy, you know, it's forty pots on the stove.
Speaker 8: So I'm not always able to be part of the
Speaker 8: construction of any of this, but if you tell me
Speaker 8: where to be up here, by.
Speaker 11: The way, I stirred no pots. I showed up with
Speaker 11: everyone else.
Speaker 10: I just I have to say that the people who
Speaker 10: organized this, I literally am so in awe of everyone
Speaker 10: who participated in making this happen.
Speaker 11: Athlete, Holly, Angie, all of y'all.
Speaker 31: I rode.
Speaker 11: I told you.
Speaker 10: I was in that little car next to the bike.
Speaker 10: I was in a little you know, a little buggy
Speaker 10: next to the bay. I was in a sidecar, and
Speaker 10: I was just proud to be there. I am in
Speaker 10: absolutely awe. This was amazing.
Speaker 8: Here's what threw me off. Joy Angela said, I saw
Speaker 8: the flyer. I was like, oh, that's oh they do
Speaker 8: that's oh, that's just good. But I just ever looked
Speaker 8: at the date and then and just like you want
Speaker 8: to do the thing that's on the fly, like I
Speaker 8: do the thing that's on the fly.
Speaker 15: But I thought it was next week.
Speaker 8: She goes eight tomorrow, hiss the window. All right, I'll
Speaker 8: be there.
Speaker 2: I'll be there.
Speaker 8: So to be able to turn this around and to
Speaker 8: be able to you know, just a quick shout out
Speaker 8: to Mark Thompson as well.
Speaker 11: On the ground as Mark Thompson, can I just take
Speaker 11: up as.
Speaker 8: They came off, as they walked out the.
Speaker 10: Room, look at the cable corresponded moment. This Mark thoms
Speaker 10: corresponding in.
Speaker 11: The field doing the thing.
Speaker 10: And we've seen him do it before. He used to
Speaker 10: do it sometimes for me on my cable show. When
Speaker 10: I tell you that brother made this thing one of
Speaker 10: the most entertaining informative live it was in the moment.
Speaker 10: This was some of the best non television television that
Speaker 10: I and I'm a minute.
Speaker 11: I've been at this a long time. Y'all am an oldie,
Speaker 11: godie baby. This was some of the best non television
Speaker 11: television I've ever seen. I was inspired, but I was
Speaker 11: also quite entertained.
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you, I gotta tell oh, there he
Speaker 5: is markree is Mark.
Speaker 1: Now, Mark, you can't have preacher words, but you got
Speaker 1: some pardon words because I'm gonna get these thank yous
Speaker 1: into all these people.
Speaker 2: So this this is an incredible group I've had connor
Speaker 2: to work with. I have been up since six am
Speaker 2: Monday morning, not just the twenty four hours. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go try to find a few minutes to sleep
Speaker 2: before I go to Stema and not sleep at all.
Speaker 2: God bless you all. Really great to work with. Ashley
Speaker 2: and Holly and Lolo and all of you YouTube Angela Enjoy.
Speaker 2: Vince and I were just talking. You know, I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna do something. We're gonna do something here. I
Speaker 2: think We've proven what we can so pan wait. Y'all
Speaker 2: can't wait.
Speaker 1: Right, And I'm before I say anything, I know we're
Speaker 1: over time. If y'all got to drop, you just got
Speaker 1: to drop. But I am gonna yield this time to
Speaker 1: this sister that has been the glue. Y'all don't see
Speaker 1: her often, but when she shows up, she shows up
Speaker 1: with joy. She shows up with patience. She is the
Speaker 1: chair of the Elemental Pea Community.
Speaker 14: She knows what that is.
Speaker 5: I meant to say committee, but it's late and I'm tired.
Speaker 5: The Elemental committee had his Holly Holiday.
Speaker 1: Holly Holliday out sanding she's gonna shout out her podcast
Speaker 1: right now because she got in trouble with her podcast.
Speaker 1: Go host, shout out the podcast. Holly, you know you
Speaker 1: are a gangster like I don't know Elon Musk. I
Speaker 1: keep saying, Elon Musk got a run for his money
Speaker 1: because she got integrity, a moral and a moral basis
Speaker 1: and a moral compass. Holly Holiday, you gotta say something
Speaker 1: before we leave.
Speaker 57: I'm gonna do, y'all like Russell Simmons used to do
Speaker 57: on Deaf comedy Jam, because it is the most appropriate
Speaker 57: thing to say thank.
Speaker 5: You and good night before you hang up on us.
Speaker 1: Holly, I got some other people to think that you're
Speaker 1: gonna be rude and not oblige her indulge me. Rather
Speaker 1: see I'm telling y'all this late Ashley Allison. Yes, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Ashley Allison, Mark Thompson, Holly Holly, the other
Speaker 1: Holly Holly Weeks who works with Holly Holliday.
Speaker 5: I want to lol, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Lolo is Charles Barkley of Native Lampod, Lauren, Lolo Smith,
Speaker 1: Chloe and Avanni Hun Graphics, Reed Rachel and step Young
Speaker 1: who's sitting right here. They are press gurus. The press
Speaker 1: around this has been fantastic. I want to shout out
Speaker 1: Essence Studios, Alfonso put let me tell you about Alfonso
Speaker 1: David See y'all see the president of Global Black Economic Forum.
Speaker 1: But that is a political staffer at heart. Jammy Harrison,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. He had another thought partner,
Speaker 1: So y'all need to stay close. I want to thank
Speaker 1: all of the producers, everyone who hosted a segment, every
Speaker 1: single panelist, Latifa Simon on a response, Latifa Simon on
Speaker 1: a walkout, Maxine Water's telling you she's eighty six working
Speaker 1: on thirty six because she got more energy than most
Speaker 1: of us. Every single person who tuned in today, every prayer,
Speaker 1: Bishop Daughtry who let me call her on the side
Speaker 1: or talk about my side. Preachers, Royce trying to drag me.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let you drag me. And Joe, Taika Edie,
Speaker 1: the infrastructure. I'm around women with black women, all the
Speaker 1: folks who are you know, talkers. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 5: Thank God for y'all. Vince Evans who was double timing
Speaker 5: as a.
Speaker 1: CBC staffer and staffing us, Lisa Blunt Rochester because your prayers.
Speaker 5: I know that you were praying with him for us.
Speaker 5: I thank God for you. I think God that you're
Speaker 5: in the Senate. The Senate needs you.
Speaker 1: For every member of Congress who signed up to participate tonight.
Speaker 1: To Wes Moore who opened us up at the nine
Speaker 1: pm Tis James with the drama on the tape.
Speaker 11: She was ready.
Speaker 5: Everybody, Everybody, Everybody.
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