1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Sophia Bush here. Welcome to work in Progress, 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: where I talked to people who inspire me about how 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: they got to where they are and where they think 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: they're still going. Today's interview is perhaps one of my 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: favorite conversations I have ever had with another human. We 6 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: recorded this late last fall at a live event with 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: The Rap It was called the Women in Power Summit. 8 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: Do you guys remember live events? I missed live events. 9 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: I got the chance to interview Corey Bush there. We 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: are not related, though she does feel like my soul sister. 11 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: She is a nurse, she has a Black Lives Matter 12 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: activist who is running for congress, and she has now 13 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: ousted Missouri Rep. William Lacey Clay in the Democrat primary. 14 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: Clay has represented the state's first congressional district around St. 15 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: Louis since two thousand one. Corey opened up about how 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: her experience working fifty hours a week and still not 17 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: making enough to pay her bills made her see how 18 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: many others were in similar situations. It's crazy to me 19 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: that a nurse, someone who takes care of us, can 20 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: barely afford to live in the city where she resides. 21 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: In this conversation, we talked about ambition when she realized 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: that she was an activist, lessons she's learned from her community, 23 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: the differences between what happens when men and women run 24 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: for office, and so much more. Also fun fact, at 25 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: the time of our conversation in front of a live 26 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: audience of hundreds of people, Corey was still somehow not 27 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: verified on Twitter, and so we started a tweet storm 28 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: to demand that she get verified, to demand that a 29 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: black woman running office would be given the same blue 30 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: checkmark that me, as a chick on TV was able 31 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: to get. Overnight. Good news, she's verified now, but it 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: was a very interesting part of our discussion. Corey Bush 33 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: is a woman I will root for forever. Enjoy this conversation. 34 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: We welcome to the stage, a live podcast with Sophia 35 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: and Corey Bush. We are sisters in soul and last name, Yes, Corey. 36 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here with you. Um For 37 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: anyone who doesn't know, Corey is is running to represent 38 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: Missouri UH in the first congressional district. And you are 39 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: just truly one of the women who I admire most. 40 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: You are a registered nurse, you are a pastor, You 41 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: are a single mom, You are an activist and she's 42 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: running for office casual. Um. But before we talk about 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: this incredible woman who's sitting in front of all of 44 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: us tonight, I'm curious. One of the things I love 45 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: to ask people who come on the podcast is were 46 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: you like this when you were a little because I 47 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: know that I was kind of a loudmouth pain in 48 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: the ass when I was ten and I was always like, well, 49 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: why why does it work like that? And how come 50 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: they're cutting down the rainforest? And so I'm curious when 51 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: you think back to who you were as a little girl, 52 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: were you this multi hyphen it, curious, passionate woman. No, 53 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: not at all. Actually when I was a child, So 54 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: one thing I will say is I remember being that 55 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: child that never played house. I would see other kids, 56 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: you know, like play ironing and play cooking. I never 57 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: did that. I set up all my dolls and all 58 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: of my stuffed animals around the room, gave everybody a 59 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: pen and paper, and I talked for hours. Wow. But 60 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: other than that, I was a very quiet child because 61 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: I went through something. Um, and you know this is 62 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: something that really hurt me. I went through something when 63 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: I entered high school. I ended up going into a 64 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: high school as the number one entering student. And when 65 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: I took that entrance exam, they told me that I 66 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: tested too high. They didn't believe that that I could 67 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: get that score, so they made me retest because it 68 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: was a predominantly white school and I was one of 69 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: only three black children networks coming into the school. And 70 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: they told you you were too smart. They said that 71 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: I didn't get the didn't get that actual number, so 72 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: they made me retest and then I tested higher. But yeah, 73 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: but the thing was, it made me feel like I 74 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: needed to shrink back and it took me a long 75 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: time to recover. That made you feel like you had 76 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: to dem your light. Yeah, So I'm curious from that point, 77 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: how a young woman who gets the message we were 78 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: talking about this backstage, how so many of us get 79 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: fed this terrible story that are ambition dirty word curiosity, 80 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 1: dirty word intellect, dirty word that that our power in 81 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: our bodies and beings as women is a bad thing. 82 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: So I'm curious how you made a transition from feeling 83 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: like you need to be you needed to be smaller, 84 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: to cultivating a life where the through line of everything 85 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: that you are is service to others. In such a 86 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: bold way because you don't shrink anymore. And I wonder 87 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: what what changed? Yeah, so being hungry, being hungry and 88 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: not knowing where my next meal will come from, um, 89 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: not being just allowing myself into a really negative place, 90 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: and the struggle to get out of that place. Working 91 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: for minimum wage and working forty fifty hours a week 92 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: and then still not making enough to be able to 93 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: pay my bills at the end of the week. And 94 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: that's a that's a mind thing when Monday comes and 95 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: you're like, yes, this is the week. I get paid 96 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: on Friday, but then you also realized, but then I 97 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: don't even have enough money on that Friday check to 98 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: pay the bills. All of those things really affected me. 99 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: But I started to realize this is not just happening 100 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: to me. So how can I be selfish and work 101 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: for myself without thinking about others? And that's how it changed. 102 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: It was like, I can't just work on what's happening 103 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: in my house, what about someone else's? Yes, which leads 104 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: me to a question again, because you talk about and 105 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: and the way that you speak about that is such 106 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: the sensibility of an activist, someone who looks at their 107 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: own pain or a problem in their community and says 108 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: if this affects me, this affects us. There is such 109 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: a truth that our liberty is tied together. But when 110 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: you talk about becoming this activist on the front lines 111 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: of Ferguson, you say every time you say, well, I 112 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: wasn't trying to become an activist, but I lived six 113 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: minutes away. You showed up to offer your skills two 114 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: protesters as a nurse. What happened? What flipped the switch 115 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: that made you realize you'd always been an activist? Yeah, 116 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: So just being out there on the ground and the 117 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: things that I saw so initially went out, Um, I 118 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: wanted to go out and protests, but everybody was just like, no, 119 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: you can't go out, And so my job ended up 120 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: sending me out and that's how I got out there 121 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: on the ground. But that first day, when I got 122 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: out there and I saw people hurting, I saw people 123 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: that the only thing that they did wrong was they 124 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: stepped off the curb. The only thing that they did 125 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: wrong was when an officer walked up to him and 126 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: said moved back and pushed them. They said, don't touch 127 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: me like that. Those people were slammed to the ground, 128 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: some of them were beating, some of them were hung 129 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: upside down and hall tied off. Of a time we 130 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: were um, there was tear gas coming at us. There 131 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: were real bullets and rubber bullets, and so much happening 132 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: to regular, everyday folks. We're talking about cashier's teachers, postal workers, nurses, 133 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: students that the day before had no clue that was 134 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: about to happen. And so I couldn't turn my back. 135 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: It was like, Yeah, you're out here to be a medic, 136 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: you're out here to be a nurse, you're out here 137 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: to be clergy, you're out here praying with people, but 138 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: there is so much more. So I had to lend 139 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: my voice. And it was like this insatiable desire to 140 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 1: see change, So I had to stay with my people. 141 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: And I think once you're confronted with such a clear 142 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: example of injustice, that lights a fire in you that 143 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: never goes out. And I think it's an incredibly important 144 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: thing to touch on now because we're seeing such egregious 145 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: acts in our government, we're seeing it on the streets. 146 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: You saw it in for is in and there is 147 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: so often this sensibility of but it can't happen here 148 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: that doesn't happen in America, And there were protesters experiencing violence, 149 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: and Ferguson that people were reminded of Tanneman Square. They 150 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: were reminded about what happens when a government turns on 151 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: its people. And I guess, really, what strikes me as 152 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: wanting to just say thank you for being there, for 153 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: showing up, for for lending your voice. And it makes 154 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: me curious. How do you think that this disconnect happens 155 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: because government, whether it's local in a in a city 156 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: like Ferguson, or when we're having a conversation about our 157 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: national landscape, there is this disconnect between government and the 158 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: people being governed. When you talk about realizing that so 159 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: many other people are living paycheck to paycheck and not 160 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: making it, so many other single moms are trying to 161 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: figure out how to take care of their kids. As 162 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: a person from the community, how have the lessons of 163 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: your community highlighted to you? What what government's getting wrong 164 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: for us? Yeah? Um, so I think that when you've 165 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: been away from you, even if you started out there 166 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: in a place where you had certain struggles, but then 167 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: if you don't stay connected to the people, if you 168 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: don't continue to engage the people and talk with the people, 169 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: then you lose that bit of of understanding, not just 170 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: understanding of the issue, but you lose all the little 171 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: pieces about the issue. And I it makes me think about, Um, 172 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: I'm a survivor of sexual assault, and I remember and 173 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 1: actually happened a few weeks after my first election, UM, 174 00:10:54,160 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: and I just remember thinking about It's like, yeah, you know, 175 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: this is what happens when you suffer sexual assault. And 176 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: you know they tell you to go to the hospital 177 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: and do the rape kid, and you know all of 178 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: these things, and you know, go to court, get the 179 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: order protection, all of all of those pieces. But what 180 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: they don't tell you is what happens when you get 181 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: there and they say you can't get the order of protection, 182 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: or when you get there and they say, oh, well, 183 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: the the your kid won't be looked at for six months. 184 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: And when you get like all of those things, and 185 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: if nobody is speaking to it, somebody that has not 186 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: experienced that can't speak to it the same way. Somebody 187 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: not necessarily can speak to it the way somebody who 188 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: just experienced it can. Because I know every little piece 189 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: about how it works, and every little thing that stopped me, 190 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: and so that's why we have to go forward. And 191 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: so with our government being so disconnected with us, one 192 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: thing that that I will never be disconnected from is 193 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: how I felt when I knew I couldn't feed my kids. 194 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: You know, I will never be disconnected from the day 195 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: I slept in my car with my two babies and 196 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: we kept moving with those days when we kept moving 197 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: the car around St. Louis, you know, because we didn't 198 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: have a place to live. I'll never forget not having 199 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: health insurance and trying to figure out can I should 200 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: I go to the hospital or not because they're gonna 201 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: talk about me bad. But I need this done. But 202 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: I don't have health insurance even though I work a 203 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 1: forty hour a week job. For the hour a job, 204 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: those are the things that so people like that need 205 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,719 Speaker 1: to be receded in those seats because we're the ones 206 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: that are connected. And this is the other thing. Being 207 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: a career politician probably opens up the door for that. 208 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: So we need to not be career politicians. We need 209 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: to keep having people that are connected with the community 210 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: cut rolling into those positions because the disconnect that happens 211 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: with a room full of career politicians making decisions for us. 212 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: Is why health insurance covers Viagara and not birth contel it. 213 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: It's why our government can find six hundred billion with 214 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: it be dollars to offer a surplus to the military, which, 215 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: by the way, doesn't go to our men and women 216 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 1: in uniform. It goes to guys making contracts to build 217 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: bombers that we don't need. And yet they tell us 218 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: that with six hundred billion dollars laying around, we can't 219 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: afford healthcare or to educate our kids. So it has 220 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: to be us, Yes, it has to be us, because 221 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: when they come up with money to lick kids away 222 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: in cages, away from their families, when we come when 223 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 1: they can come up with money for those things, but 224 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: can't come up with money to make sure that people 225 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: have a living wage, have a decent wage, and we 226 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: talk about poverty. We can't talk about we can't talk 227 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: about poverty. We can't talk about um um. How America 228 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: is supposed to be great if we're not willing to 229 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: educate our kids and make sure they're regardless of your 230 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: zip code, that you have access to quality education. She 231 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: knows all the things, So I am curious on the 232 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: subject of knowledge. You ran in against a career politicians, 233 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: and sometimes when we fall, we we don't stay down, 234 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: We get back up. I'm curious what you learned in 235 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: eighteen during that race and what you experienced that you 236 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: could share with the audience that informs how you're going 237 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: into so Uh. So I grew up under politics. My 238 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: dad's been in politics for a long time. Uh, but 239 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: he's been in local politics, and so I knew that 240 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: there was corruption, and there's greed, and there's all those things. 241 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: And so I said I would never run for office 242 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: because of that until Ferguson and I realized that the 243 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: heart of the community has to be seated in Congress. 244 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: People that just love community. I think that should be 245 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: the prerequisite for any office, and so I running for 246 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: that seat. One thing that I did not anticipate was 247 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: having a whole conversation about my hips. People wanted to 248 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: say I wasn't qualified for the seat because my hips 249 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: are too big, That's the actual thing. They spoke about. 250 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: How dark my skin is. I can't be in the 251 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: picture because my skin is too dark. My braids make 252 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: me unprofessional. These are all the things that I had 253 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: to deal with don't wear a skirt because it makes 254 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: you look too curvy. Wear pants, but you can only 255 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: wear pants that are dark colored because you know what, 256 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: when you don't, nobody's paying attention to what's coming out 257 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: your mouth. They're paying attention to your body. All of 258 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: those things. But then I never heard that from about 259 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: a man. The other thing is I can go into 260 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: a place and the first thing they want to ask 261 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: me is what is your education level? But they did 262 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: not ask the man so as when So that was 263 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: something that I wasn't I was not prepared for. Um. 264 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: I didn't expect um. But so this time running well, 265 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: that and then the fact that people don't donate to women, 266 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: they don't donate to women. I want to talk about 267 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: that data because this is something that Corey was explaining 268 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: to me, because when you run for election, you're privy 269 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: to donor data. So when you're making donor calls, you 270 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: can see at this. You know, whatever phone number this 271 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: person acts has donated a hundred and seventy six times 272 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: to political campaigns. What did you see in the data? 273 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: So what I've seen is someone can person after person 274 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: after person. There is this thing where people donate thousands 275 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: of dollars to men candidates over and over and over 276 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: and over again, year after year after year. But then 277 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: there may be three. So let me tell you what happened. 278 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: One day, I'm looking and I'm seeing all of these donors. 279 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: This is all of this donor history, and I noticed 280 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: there was these four digit numbers all the way down, 281 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: four digit numbers, four digit numbers, and so my eyes 282 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: kind of kind of stopped on something that was different. 283 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: It was these two digit numbers. It was in three spots, 284 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: two digit numbers, and so I looked a little closer. 285 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: They were all women, and they were all twenty five 286 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: dollars fifty dollars. So the men get the thousands of 287 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: dollars and the women, the three women out of a 288 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy four donations get twenty five dollars and 289 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: fifty dollars. The thing is, that's not uncommon. It happens 290 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,479 Speaker 1: all the time. We don't receive the same type of 291 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: donations that men receive. And the thing is, it's not 292 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: that we can't do the job. It's not that we're 293 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: any less qualified. Because, as a matter of fact, let 294 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: me tell you what happens running for office. We worked 295 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: a full time job. On top of working a full 296 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: time job, go home and take care of the kids, 297 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: make sure we cook, wash, help with homework, give the bath, 298 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: iron the clothes, turn around, and we're making donor calls, 299 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: going to events, house parties, answering phone calls, doing our email, 300 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,199 Speaker 1: doing our doing text messages. All we're doing all of 301 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: it on top of trying to live ourselves and oftentimes 302 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: the man just has to be the candidate. But we 303 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: received less money and donations, so that was a that's 304 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 1: a huge thing. So before I was kind of like, oh, 305 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: I just love people, and you know, I'm not gonna 306 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: really ask for money. You know, if you're like me, 307 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: you know, get into your favorite candidate is different cold 308 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: just because you just don't have that kind of money. 309 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,239 Speaker 1: And so I didn't want to ask people. But what 310 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: I saw was I can't I can't be viable. I 311 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: can't continue to run if I don't have the same 312 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: money to try to fight this thing. And so now 313 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: bump that I asked for money, I say thank you 314 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: for the ten dollars, but what I need is your 315 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: twenty eight hundred dollars because I tell you what my 316 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: name is Bush, Just like yours. But the problem with 317 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: that is your first name is Sophia. My first name 318 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: is Corey, So people think I am a white man 319 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: when then they see my sign. And so we had 320 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: to go ahead this time and put my chocolate face 321 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: on that sign, and so people can see this is 322 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: a black woman running for Congress, because there are not 323 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: enough women of color seated in Congress, even though we 324 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: are all over this country. We should be represented the 325 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: same way. And so I put my face on there. 326 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 1: But the thing is five hundred let me tell you this, 327 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: five hundred yards signs for me. Last time with just 328 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: the name on it was like a four hundred dollars. 329 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: This time with my chocolate face on it, it's four 330 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So just like that, And so this is 331 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: the thing. Other candidates can raise a hundred thousand dollars 332 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: in a month. Guess how much I raised in a month. Thousand. 333 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: That's a problem. That's a big problem. So here's what 334 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: I'm curious about. Because we're at a media conference, which 335 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: means everyone in this audience has an audience of some sort. 336 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: So what can we, myself included do for you tonight 337 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: and tomorrow? What do you need how can we support you? 338 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: What is the link? What is your Instagram? Tell the people, 339 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 1: because if I know one thing about a room of committed, 340 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: badass ladies who are here to hear a political conversation 341 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: on a Thursday night, it's that we're fucking ready to go. 342 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: So let's go for Corey. What do you need? Tell us? 343 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: So what I need is for you to get behind 344 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: a candidate that actually loves the community. And get behind me, 345 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: not only by following following me on Twitter, following me 346 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: on Instagram at Corey Bush cr R I b U 347 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: s H. And then also go to the website Corey 348 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: Bush dot org. There's a donate button donate hundred dollars 349 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,040 Speaker 1: if you got it one dollars five hundred. But not 350 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: only that. You can do a house party for us. 351 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: You can do a fundraiser, Bring me will travel. But 352 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: not only that, there are so many women, amazing women 353 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: out there that are running for office. Don't forget your 354 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: women of color, don't forget your women of color. Don't 355 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: forget your women of color. We have to work even 356 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: harder than anybody. And I'll say this, if you look 357 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: it up. The numbers show from the last cycle black 358 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: women raise the least money of everybody on the planet, 359 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: not because we don't deserve, you know, to be in office, 360 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,400 Speaker 1: not because we're not smart enough or we don't have 361 00:20:54,480 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: what it takes. So support and it's really important, I 362 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: think for women who look like me to acknowledge that 363 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: we have proximal power to this white cis gendered headonormative patriarchy. 364 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: So if a woman who looks like me can understand 365 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: what a nightmare it is to be oppressed in a 366 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: man's world, I can't wait till that phrase disappears from 367 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: the lexicon. We should also understand that we have to 368 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: pay it forward to our sisters of color, because if 369 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: we have it this hard, the intersectionality of your existence 370 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: is harder on a multiplier. So we have to constantly 371 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: check ourselves. Guys, we have to constantly look in the 372 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: mirror and think, how do I show up for other 373 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 1: women in my community in the way I wish someone 374 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: had ever shown up for me. We have to do 375 00:21:52,880 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: that for each other. So I've asked you so many 376 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: of the questions I wanted to ask because I got excited. Um, 377 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: So when we talk about exposure in particular, raising money 378 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: is sort of a a side effect of how you 379 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: get covered. And I'm really curious about something because for 380 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: anyone out there who follows me online, you know, I 381 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: really love data science, and I'm fascinated by the way 382 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: that the GOP in particular has been able to tell 383 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: this story that these liberal loaned media companies are centering conservatives. 384 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's super ironic because like Jacob wool 385 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: who's a white supremacist, is verified on Twitter, but Corey 386 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 1: Bush can't get verified on Twitter. I don't understand why 387 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,880 Speaker 1: that's happening. I don't understand why women of color who 388 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: are candidates are struggling to get verification, which which helps 389 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: them not be victims to bots pretending to be you 390 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: or or any of these other candidates spreading disinformation. I 391 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: don't understand why it comes out in the news this week. 392 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: In case you missed it, it's a dumpster fire. There's 393 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: a lot of information to intake that there have been 394 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 1: all these backdoor meetings with Facebook and all these super 395 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: scary conservative groups that have nothing for the ladies at all. 396 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: So I'm I'm curious what you want to say to 397 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: those media companies who, for whatever excuses that they make, 398 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: which Zuckerberg just made in front of Congress, are censoring you? 399 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: And how and again, how do we help you change that? 400 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: Do we need to start a tweet storm tonight and 401 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: demand that Twitter verify your account? I feel happy to 402 00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: leave it. I would love that. Yeah, it makes no 403 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: sense because it's not like work. It's not being done. 404 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: It's not like we don't deserve to have a verification, 405 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: because all it's saying is that, yes, Corey Bush is 406 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: who she says, who she says she is, and the 407 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 1: thing is doing the work. Especially as an activist, you know, 408 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: so many people want to come at you like this 409 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: thing is real. Let me just say, if you have 410 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: not heard about what has happened to activists all over 411 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: this country, what has happened to Ferguson activists. There are 412 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: people connected to our movement that have been murdered. There 413 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: are people I don't know how many times I've been 414 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: I've had death attempts, death. You know, it's um the 415 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: death threats. It would be great to have the media, 416 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: It'd be great to have Twitter be able to say 417 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: this is who this person is, this is who this 418 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: person stands for. It'd be great to have the media 419 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: actually care about and not only say Corey Bush that's 420 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: running or this person that's running, but talk about who 421 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: we really are. They'll talk about the man, or they'll 422 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: talk about the GOP candidate, but they won't talk about 423 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: the woman that's running. They won't go they'll just say 424 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: the name. And so we have to speak out about that. 425 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: But this is the thing. If we don't say anything 426 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: about it, they don't have to change it. That's the 427 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: thing that I've noticed. We have to not only expose it, 428 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: but then talk about it and demand that they give 429 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: us that give us that voice. We have to be 430 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: at the table. We and the thing is, I know 431 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 1: sometimes we want to make our own table, and that's great. 432 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: The problem with always having our own table is that 433 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: there is a table over there was a whole lot 434 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: of power that we miss, and so we need to 435 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: be at that table and we need to make our 436 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: own as well. And so I would love for everybody 437 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: to do if you could do a tweet storm tonight 438 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: and fuss that twitter about not verifying me at Corey Bush, 439 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: the O R I b U s H. I deserve 440 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: to have a voice, and I deserve for people to 441 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: just know it's me and yes, and I want to 442 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: clarify how pervasive the problem is if you are not verified, 443 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: because people go like who cares? These days, there's a 444 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: Twitter handle which is at Corey Bush and it's a 445 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: gambling website. Y'all. People are actively trying to get in 446 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: the way of this woman's message, and we can do 447 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: something about that, and I think that we should. Um, 448 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: I have two more questions for you, and I'm curious. Uh, 449 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: He's like, you have two minutes and make me it 450 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,479 Speaker 1: might be five. I'm sorry. UM, I'm curious for clearly 451 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: an audience very committed and curious humans. What are a 452 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: couple of pointers about activism that you could offer? Because 453 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: you are so good at it comes from a lot 454 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: of hurt, I think. But um, so, one thing about 455 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 1: being an activist is there is no like activist ghurru 456 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: that goes around and says, yeah, you've done a hundred 457 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: and sixty five hours of community service, so that means 458 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: that you are an activist. You have been annoying it 459 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: today Like that does not happen. There is no person 460 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: that does that. You're an activist because you're active. You're 461 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: an activist because you serve your commune, that you love 462 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: your community and you're willing to fight for even if 463 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: it's unpopular that thing that you're fighting for. And that's 464 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: a key because sometimes we want to do the thing 465 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: that's easy. We want to do the thing that's popular. 466 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: We want to do the thing when it's already set up. 467 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 1: But what about the people that are hurting in the 468 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 1: midst of you trying to be part of the crowd. 469 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: Step out and be the leader. Activists, we have to lead, 470 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: and leaders lead from the front. So you know what, 471 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 1: you take the vision and tell somebody else and help 472 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: let them help you carry it out. But the problem 473 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: is is we get stuck in that well. I you know, 474 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if people are going to accept this. 475 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: I don't see it that I have enough followers. I 476 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: don't bump that. Get out there and do the work 477 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: because when you start, when you go, people will join in. 478 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: I couldn't worry about who liked the way that I 479 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: that the way that I would protest, or who liked 480 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: my tweets or none of that stuff. I can't worry 481 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: about whether you think UM free college for for for 482 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: everyone at UM State Universities and Community College is a 483 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: good thing. I don't care if you don't like it. 484 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: I care about the fact that I know so many 485 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: people my community that could benefit from college but can't go. 486 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: I know what it's like to be that person. That 487 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: was me. I didn't go to college until I was 488 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: twenty nine because when I was eighteen, I couldn't afford 489 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: it and either cut my parents. Did that mean that 490 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: I didn't deserve to go? No? Did that mean that 491 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: I deserve to make nine dollars an hour after working 492 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: for one place for ten years? No, So I'm going 493 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: to fight for that. So anyway, I feel like being 494 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: an activist means that you just get out there and 495 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: you make it clear and known what your issue is. Yes, 496 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: and so many people say, but I don't know where 497 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 1: to start. And just in the way that you did 498 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: showing up to the Ferguson protests, show up and help 499 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: the helpers. Because if you show up to help the 500 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: people who are already working on the thing that lights 501 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: that fire in you, they'll teach you how to do 502 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: it and then you can do this. Okay. So my 503 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: last question that I love to ask everybody the title 504 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: of the podcast, which is It's Lovely conversations areas and 505 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: thank you all for being on my second ever LIVEE podcast. 506 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: You're great guests. Um. The title of the podcast is 507 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: work in progress because so many people who sit across 508 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: from me the world looks at as people who really 509 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: know what they're doing, and I know that we're all 510 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: still just trying to figure it out. So whatever it is, 511 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind, what in your life 512 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: right now feels like a work in progress? Balancing balancing 513 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: being you know a part of knock down the house 514 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: and trying to you know, I'm not from the entertainment 515 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: industry at all, and so trying to balance that with 516 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: being a single parent, with running for office, with also 517 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: the the other um community work that I do. There 518 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: is no self care, you know, I'm I suck at 519 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: self care, but not only that because of the mental 520 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: aspect of it. So I'm a work in progress because 521 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: it used to be that people could say all kinds 522 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: of things about me and it wouldn't bother me at all. 523 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: Now because of all that I'm doing, and after the 524 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: sexual assault, now those things really boy than me. And 525 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: so the PTSD from Ferguson, you know, if a helicopter 526 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: was going over right now, I would probably be sitting 527 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: here like this, So just making sure that I'm taking 528 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: care of myself. Self care is important for all of us. 529 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: I love that you can't forget yourself while you're fighting 530 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: for other people. Okay, guys, we have assignments. Everybody goes 531 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: and follows Corey Bush. Everybody tweets at Twitter to verify 532 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: Corey Bush. We should do the same thing for Instagram. 533 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: Let's be real, because she's Facebook verified, but not Instagram. 534 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: We're just cute because they're the same company. That's for tomorrow. 535 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,239 Speaker 1: We're gonna do those things. We're gonna sign up, We're 536 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: gonna figure out how to donate. And I would like 537 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: to shout out I might be from l A, but 538 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: I know that this is a city of transplants. Thank 539 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: you all for coming. So if you are from the Midwest, 540 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: if you have family in Missouri, in Michigan, in any 541 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: of the surrounding states where Corey is working, please send 542 00:30:54,760 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: them her work. Let's get this woman in congress. Thank you, 543 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: Thank you all for coming. This show is executive produced 544 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: by me, Sophia Bush, and sim Sarna. Our supervising producer 545 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: is Alison Bresnick. Our Associate producer is Cate Linley, our 546 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,719 Speaker 1: editor is Josh Wendish, and our music was written by 547 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: Jack Garrett and produced by Mark Foster. This show is 548 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: brought to you by the Brilliant Anatomy