WEBVTT - The People’s Response to MAGA 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.240 Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.359 Resent Choice Media. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.680 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.600 Welcome home, y'all. This is episode counted, episode sixty nine 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:17.760 of The Native Lampod, where we give it to you straight, 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.840 all the breakdowns you want in politics and culture, your 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.360 way right away. We are your hosts. Tiffany Cross, does 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.200 she go? Angela Ride? Does she go? And I'm Andrew 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:29.360 yelling what's up? Everybody? 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:30.000 Hey? 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.480 Friends, Hey across the nation? 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.720 What a week? What a week? 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.159 Oh? 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:37.360 What a week? A week? 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.240 Please tell me what your sweatshirt says? 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.960 My sweatshirt says his mama named him Golf of Mexico. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:46.519 I'm gonna call him Golf in Mexico. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.760 What's you gonna say over that? Friend? 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.520 I am my ancestors' wildest dreams. Shout out to be Mike. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:56.160 I love. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:01.360 It is quite simple, quite simple paper first brought to 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.480 you by none other than the Collective Pack. We thank 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.000 our friends over there, que steph, what's up? What's up? 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.120 What's up? Y'all? There's so much to get to and through, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.480 uh and the short amount of time that we have 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.720 a lot of to us. But before we get to it, 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.160 get to it, we just want to remind everybody to please, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.480 please please remember to subscribe to your favorite pod us 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.360 Here at Native lampod we actually to rate us and 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.839 review us so that we can move even higher in 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:36.200 the charts. You're our home, our friends, our family, and 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.160 we want to keep you here. But we also want 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:43.160 to keep the audience growing, so please remember to do that. Angela, Tiffany, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.400 what is on the list, y'all? There's a lot we 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.080 can cover, but what's on the top of your mind? 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:48.840 Well, I think we have to start out. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.080 This week, the President gave a joint address to Congress. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.360 I know a lot of people are saying state of 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.640 the Union, but Andrew, you're quick to correct us and only. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.920 That is the state of the Union. When the president 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.080 gives a one year look. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.560 Bad, save it for the segment. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.520 No, I just wanted to quickly, that's all it is. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.520 It's not that So this started with Reagan. When Reagan 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.240 first came in, he wanted to give an address at 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:14.799 the early part. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.160 Save it for the segment. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.079 Yes, Oh that's right, just the rundown. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.920 So I just want to Yeah, so for me, I 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.840 know that we want to get into that. It was 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.760 a lively event on Capitol Hill this week, and I 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.239 know that you guys will Angela in particular organize the 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.400 State of the People, which got great online response. So, Angela, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:40.680 I know you want to talk about that. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.280 I want to talk about State of the People, state 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.560 of all the people here in these United States. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.400 And I'm in for both of these. I'm down, like 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.800 for flat tires. I am particularly feeling inspired about the 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.880 State of the People. I'm buoyed by it. And so 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.000 I want to get into some reflections on some very 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.520 specific remarks from specific presenters from that twenty four hour athon. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.200 Thank you Angela for waking up and joining us today, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.519 because I know it's been quite a few sleepless days 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.919 for you. So welcome home, Angela, Tiff, and welcome home 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.320 to you all. Let's get at it. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:18.560 All right. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.160 So State of the Union's last joint Address. It's a 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.160 congress that our historian and our resident institution to List 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.040 Andrew is going to keep us honest on calling it 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.160 what it is. But you know, I have to be honest. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.920 I think you know there there was the joint address 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.720 that happened there this week. The Democrats you know, set 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.600 in the audience, some of them, and they held up signs. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.560 You know, Elon Musk is a liar, protect medicaid, you 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:43.880 know what about federal workers. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.120 I felt a bit. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.600 Underwhelmed by that there are organizing calls happening all over 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.880 the country. But I have to be honest with you guys, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.040 and I just feel a bit hopeless. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.000 I just don't I don't know. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.120 Oh Like, I definitely applaud especially you Angela, because you 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.280 like hit the pavement with State of the People, and 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.640 there were a lot of people who tuned in. There 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.480 were also a lot of people who didn't even know 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.160 that the Joint address was happening this week. There are 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.720 people who are so disconnected, and I don't want to 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.320 take away hope from people, but I do feel like, Okay, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.600 so what do all these speeches and calls, like. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:22.720 What does it mean? 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.159 And even if it means nothing except to give people 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.920 hope and that's something you know, that counts, that matters 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.560 to us. But I just wonder, like, what can we 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.599 do specifically to beat back the fascism that is aggressively 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.640 taking over this country because historically, I don't know how 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.159 many countries get to this point and then they turn around. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.280 The closest thing in my reading canon I can think 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.719 is Germany. You know, after World War Two, within a 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.040 ten year period, they turned around. But ten years is 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.479 a long time for our people to suffer. So congrats 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.560 on State of the People. But I have to be 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.960 honest with you guys, and I still feel a bit hopeless. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.760 For you, Angela, before you get before we go into 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.760 in more detailed state of the People, I would actually 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.760 love if we could play the cliff from Congresswoman Latifa, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:16.160 our good friend who took Congressman Barbara Lee's seat in Congress. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.600 Quite a pair of shoes to fill, but she's doing 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.839 her thing. But it speaks to what you talked about 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.240 just there at the tail an, Tiffany, This whole idea 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.520 of once the power is taking it rarely ever finds 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.800 its way back to its original place. Latific gates some 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.960 comments along those lines. I'd love for us to play 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.480 that and then out the other side, angel I got 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:36.160 a question for you. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.080 I couldn't listen to someone who's trying to tear apart 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.359 the very structures that we have fought to build in 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.880 the last sixty years in this country. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:43.720 I had to walk out. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.640 It's my job to be in this building, but I 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.840 refuse to sit and kowto to the neo clan. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:50.800 I'm not doing it. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.440 Had you contemplated that, did you have a feeling that 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:54.800 might be what you would do? 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.560 I knew it, but my mother said, listen. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.919 My mother is from Malvern, Arkansas, and she told me 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.159 this morning, Latifa, eight hundred thousand people are expecting you 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.000 to do your job and at least go. No one 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.200 is supposed to kick you out of your house. So 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.680 I wasn't kicked out today. I left mid mid speech 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.160 very clear that we have work to do on the ground, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.760 and factually, block by block, if we vote walk back block, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.440 we can take back the house, stop this mad man, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:20.880 and win the presidency. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:21.920 It's that simple. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.280 These folks don't care about laws, they don't care about 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:25.039 the judiciary. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.919 We're facing a constitutional crisis. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.839 But moreover, America is about to be sicker and poor, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.279 and none of us are safe. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:35.800 You know last thing I'll say on this. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.320 You know, a few weeks into me being here, I'm 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.320 a new member of Congress. I was one of the 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.039 few people outside of Doe saying let us in and 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.760 talk to these folks who want to take apart funding 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.400 for HBCUs, want to take disabled services out of our 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.720 eight through twelve for a disabled autistic children, intellectual and 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.120 physical disabilities, want to talk to them. Not only did 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.520 they lock the doors, they sent Homeland security. You couldn't 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.239 see that behind the doors there's a roll of Homeland 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.039 Security officers with their hands on their guns. This is 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.200 not the republic that we have fought for. These are 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.760 dangerous times. This democracy is in hospice. Watch out and 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.600 be close and be clear. We have to organize and 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.000 folks have to run and went off this because we 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.320 are this close, this close from being in a segregated 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.400 apartheid America once again. We have literally shed blood, tears, 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:30.320 intellectual beauty to have the small rights that we have. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.120 My mother wasn't born in a democracy. Yours wasn't either 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:33.680 in this country. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.960 Literally they couldn't vote, Their grandmothers couldn't vote. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.600 We are only two and a half generations past those times. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.320 This thinly veiled democracy can be whipped away in a second. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.760 And her comments powerful as they are. Also continue to 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.800 talk about examples of regimes where then they take power. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:51.960 It doesn't find its way back to the hands of 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.000 the people and Angela. We talked on this show prior 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:00.280 to the joint address about what our expectations were or 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.240 should be for Democrats and how to respond to the 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.040 urgency of this moment. I'm curious as we look at that, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.960 and I know your experience is grounded in and juxtaposing 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.440 what happened at the Capitol to what was happening in 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.080 regular people's lives, which we'll get to, but I'm curious 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.880 how you assess what you saw and what we all 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:25.280 took in from how the opposition responded to to this 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:25.880 week's you want to. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.760 Address well one I just I want to say to 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.800 those who are feeling hopeless. I think one of the 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.680 most remarkable lessons we learned over the last twenty four 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.360 plus hours is that it's a lot easier and better 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.680 when you lean into what is rather than focus on 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.600 the gloom and doom that could be coming. The things 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.719 that we're seeing and reading every day, the things that 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.400 are being kind of force fit to us through various 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.080 media outlets, whether it's in news and print form, on 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.160 the radio, on podcasts, or on TV. We actually spent 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.280 I couldn't go to I was watching most of the 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.040 content that we put together for State of the People 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.040 State of the People was organized by the people for 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.480 the people. Every single panel was put together not just 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.160 with influence or influencers or leaders of organizations, but with 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.640 people who want to see and create change. What we know, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.920 based on what Representative Latifa Sima just shared, is that 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.920 you know, there are things, there are the powers that 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.800 be are working adamantly to make our lives more difficult 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.320 every single day, so we can watch it happen or 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.559 we can ensure that it doesn't happen. And I think 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.920 it's much more about resist or opposition than it is resistant. Andrew, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.520 I think that those words are similar, but they are 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:45.079 different enough for us to lean into providing people in 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.160 an alternative way, providing people with solutions that we create. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.160 You know, as we sit here talking about this, and 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:59.079 I want to get into the Republicans introducing a bill 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.199 to s I'm sure Congressman Greened, I know we can 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.400 get into that later. But I just think that what 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.720 we're up against are the way they want things to 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.040 be perceived versus reality. And if we can stay grounded 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.360 in reality and the hope that the talents, the skills 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.800 the ability to communicate, the ability to spread the word, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.160 the ability to create different solutions exists within the people 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.040 will be good. Our sister joy Reid said yesterday there 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.120 was a marked difference between the people who were watching 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.880 the Joint Address, which we've been calling the State of 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.839 the Union. We'll talk about why we're doing that later, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.199 the Joint Address versus the people who leaned in to 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.880 the truth and tuned in to State of the People. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.840 There's a huge difference in the response people who talking 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.760 about what are we about to do next? Like, it's 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:44.880 a complete difference for. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.000 Those who don't know, though, can we just explain what 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.000 State of the People is? Because not everybody knows. I 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.000 didn't explain it. I was the saying congrats on State 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.760 of the People, But what exactly was state of the 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:55.440 People this week? 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:56.880 Yeah? 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.520 So I think Friday night there were some conversations happening 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.560 with members of Congress who were feeling very torn. We 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.559 should also talk about this feeling very torn about boycotting 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.120 the State of the Union period, going and walking out 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.080 with some form of protest or staying for the duration. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.160 And the most important thing was that we were able 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.480 to provide a space for them if they did leave 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.400 a place for them to communicate directly to the American 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.800 people to say, listen, we weren't going to sit around 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.160 and watch him bly to us, you know. We wanted 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.280 to make sure that we were serving our constituents and 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.959 the American people justly and rightly, and so when there 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.000 needed to be a content alternative, many of us watched 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:46.280 these addresses on cable news mainstream news outlets all the time. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.720 And what we found recently, I won't say we found recently. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.920 A number of us found out recently that that's not 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.640 necessarily reliable, particularly when they're going to continue to silence 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.040 our voices, voices that we can count on to speak facts, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.560 regardless of they'll be punished or not. So we wanted 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.240 to create an alternative of programming where people could see 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:11.160 one a protest twenty four hours to demonstrate what is ahead. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.000 There were twenty one hours of programming before Donald Trump 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:19.000 even walked into the House Chamber about executive orders. What 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.760 they're attacking around DEI for real, the fourteenth Amendment being 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.439 under attack, the fact that it is a constitutional crisis, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.679 the fact that people are organizing every single day, working 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.480 people and others to combat. This a conversation with state's 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:39.600 attorneys general around the lawsuits they're filing and why the 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.120 people who are responsible for messaging out to union labor 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.360 folks and labor leaders. In conversation with other organizational heads, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:53.280 there was civil rights, protections everything. Sorry, yes, the course, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.200 I'm miedaid that in the constitutional crisis that is talked 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.000 about the attorney's general and the lawsuits that they're filing again, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.120 the Trump administration successes and failures thus far, all of 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.160 that was covered in twenty one hours before, and the 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.920 way that we could politically mobilize on the local level. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.800 Latasha's panel emphasize some of this just tremendous work. Farmers 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.320 who've been impacted by what Donald Trump is doing, Folks 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.280 who are on the other side of the research cuts, 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.320 content creators like I mean, it was massive, and there 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.080 were panels around all this, so it got to the 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.000 point where many of us couldn't even sleep. We're like, oh, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.880 gotta sleep for our next panel. Andrew and I were 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.080 up at three and three in the morning Eastern talking 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.599 about what we needed to do, why we need to 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.240 lean in the important work that Andrew has done over 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.600 the years to organize and the fact that those gifts 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.880 already exist within our community. So at the twenty one 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.600 hour mark, when every I won't say everybody, because to 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.199 Tip's point, everybody didn't know that there was this address happening. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.679 But for the folks who knew, we gave an alternative. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.040 We didn't turn on, We didn't start commenting on Trump's 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.240 State of the Union address. We started to talk about 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:05.040 where we go from here. We started a Black leadership summit. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.960 It was kicked off by Tis James talking to us 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.400 about the road that we have to plow against Donald 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.800 Trump in this administration, the work that she's doing that 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.760 we can counter her to continue doing. And then Governor 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.680 Wes Moore addressed us talking about what is at stake, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.360 the importance of us leaning in together. And then you 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.280 heard from a bunch of other black leaders and then 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.040 members of Congress who were walking out. Mark Thompson by 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.600 the way, shout out to Mark for pulling these members 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.040 with Vince Evans to ensure that we heard in real 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.440 time what was really going on. Despite what the TV 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.480 was showing you, there was some real opposition happening. And 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.480 so I just want to commend him for pulling those I. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:41.960 Just want to. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.440 I just want to, yeah, just sorry, a little bit 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.080 of context. One tis James, of course, is the Attorney 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.560 General of New York. So it was a big deal 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.560 to have her be a part of the State of 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.320 the People because she has been for almost eight years 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.920 now on the front lines of trying to attempting to 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.640 bring justice to Donald Trump or bring Donald Trump to justice, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.240 among many other things that she's led. I just also 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.440 want to add really quick context, and the way that 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.800 Angela described this is kind of accurate, but the subtext 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.440 that she would never say is that she helped organize 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:16.920 a lot of these people and brought a lot of 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.520 the people to the table. It was such a delight 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.320 to hear from Joy read the trash ass cable news 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:30.000 networks severily dismissed voices of colors of color, but particularly 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.720 black voices, when a lot of this fascism rises on 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.800 our back so at a time where we are so 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.200 on the front lines of being harmed, Angela had the 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.360 vision to do this, and so many people across many 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.400 sectors that she talked about joined, including hearing from a 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.400 lot of members of Congress. And you can still watch 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.880 the State of the People. It's available on YouTube and 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.880 also at the State Offthepeople dot net dot. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.080 Org no the State of Theepeople dot media. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.800 State of the People dot Media. It is still available 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.400 to watch, so after you watch this pot cast or 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.560 listen to this podcast, you can still catch it. And 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.240 I'd be curious to hear from the viewers if they 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.600 can leave a comment. Do you feel more hopeful, because 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.600 I'll be honest with you all, I fell asleep at 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.440 the last hours of it, which were the nicest hours. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.680 I was in my pajamas and I logged in ready 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.600 to go on, and Angela was all dressed up and 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.040 Roy Wood Junior was on there. Like I didn't understand 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.320 the assignment, but there were some really heavy hitters who 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.240 were a part of it. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.080 So I hope that you all will check it out. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.960 And just want to give Angela her flowers for pulling 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.160 that together because there needed to be counter programming. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.040 So I just wanted to offer that. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.720 I want to exclamation mark the comments you made about 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.640 Angela's ingenuity here, and I know she would not want 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:44.400 us to spend this precious time giving you know, thanks 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.360 and appreciation, but you know, you gotta yield where it 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.800 is necessary, and where the work is being done, there 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.640 are a lot of people who are checking out. There 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.640 are a lot of folks who were sidelining and waiting 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.560 for somebody else to come up with the solution. And 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.600 you know, I think the revelation appear to you, Angela, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.359 and to Joy and the many others that we are 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.159 the infantry that we've been waiting for, the savior that 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.320 everybody's been leaning back, waiting to, you know, usher in 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.080 the kind of beloved community that we deserve and that 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.399 many of us are fighting for. Well, guess what, y'all 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.640 we're at. Every single one of us has a role 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.080 to play. And what I thought was so brilliant about 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.040 the twenty four hours spent there was that you didn't 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.720 just hear from the names that can flow from my 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.000 mouth so easily, the personalities and the images that we 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:41.240 will recognize without introduction. You heard from folks from as 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:46.600 they say in Boomerang Touda, of this movement work, the 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.320 folks young people, folks who operate oftentimes in the backframe, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.400 the folks who are doing a lot of the laborious 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.400 work that nobody ever gives credit to, who were made 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:02.359 centerfold and I think the beauty of it wasn't just 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.840 that folks reached out and said, oh, this person who 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.159 doesn't get acknowledgement gets acknowledged. No, I think it exhibited 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.000 exactly what we are being asked to do right now, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.240 which is wherever you are, whatever it is, is your 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.239 skill set, whatever it is you do, or maybe you 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.760 don't do so publicly, but this moment is requiring that 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.560 lean in, that extra push. You have a place in 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.000 this movement, work too, in this not just resistance, but 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.919 in this opposition. But really, and I plan to introduce 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.280 a clip a little bit later here, but what sister 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.680 Latasha Brown talked about as she's saying us us should us, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:44.520 cradled us, empowered us, and then how do you say 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.840 commanded that we each do a few things for was 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.800 her list, but a few things to undergird us at 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.000 this time and in this movement. The diversity of all 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.680 of that was I thought incredible and at the same 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.520 time very genius. Angela. The subtext was we all have 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.560 a part to play, everybody, and we saw it in 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.159 full force right before our eyes on those in the 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.679 twenty four hour marathon, which I believe is also available 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.040 on the Breakfast Club website. I'm sure we will embed 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.480 it somewhere where within the framework of Native Lampire. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.080 Native Lampid's YouTube as. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.479 Well all of it. So you've got places to go. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.520 So if you missed the highly celebrated and famed twenty 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.120 four hours, that got us, certainly some of us up 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:39.320 feeling cheery and almost excited about the work ahead that 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.280 twenty four hours, wherever you tap in at it and 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.879 hopefully consume, you'll understand where the fuel is coming from. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.800 You'll understand where the energy is to not just push 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.840 back or resist, but also to create a new to 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.280 reimagine and then do the work to bring that imagination forward. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.919 Angela, I was just gonna say two things. One is, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.080 I just want to acknowledge some of our traditional civil 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:10.400 rights orgs that completely set EGO aside to participate in this. Yesterday, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:15.000 Shavon Arline Bradley, who runs n CNW. Melanie Campbe I 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:16.800 particularly want to shout out she was on a panel 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.920 earlier in the day and couldn't get in on time 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.160 before her phone died last night, who runs a National 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.040 Coalition on Black Civic Participation. Mark Morial from Urban League 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.120 chimed in and so did Derrick Johnson from the NAACP. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.960 So I just want to honor those traditional civil rights 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.920 leaders who came in who've been speaking up all week. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.000 It means the world to folks like me, and I. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.840 Also like those legends in this space. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.840 Absolutely. I also wanted, oh, of course, but I just was, 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.560 I said Chavon, I just wanted to honor those those 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:55.520 the traditions. There's like a zillion more folks who participated 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.000 in the Black Leadership Summit. Please listen to them. They 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.720 were incredible and they tuned, they participated all day. There's 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.080 one person who helps this show run every week too, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.880 and when I told her that we were doing this, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.480 she jumped right in. She did not sleep, and that 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:13.399 is Lolo and I just wanted to give her an 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:17.960 opportunity to share something about the state of the people 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.960 addressed because she did so much of the work behind 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.200 the scenes. And also shout out to Holly Holliday, whose 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:27.600 birthday is today. Ashley Allison was tremendous. Mark Thompson on 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.480 camera and off camera, tremendous. Everybody who anchored segments and 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.919 hours long ed Gordon Mark Amy Allison to thank God 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:38.000 for you Lola, where are you? 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.080 Angela? I'm gonna get on you later because I look crazy. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:46.280 I haven't slen to like three days. But thank you. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:48.400 I just want to say, thank you, thank you, thank 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:53.399 you for acknowledging me right now and making me feel 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.560 seen and always, especially in this time, giving me space 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.159 to just create around with it and to see the 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.440 depths of where my capabilities could go. You are one 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:10.600 of one. Thank you for making room for me, and 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.080 thank you for having the vision to follow through on this. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.600 What I will say is that Angela was the glue, 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:19.800 and I think I want to say that was my 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:25.440 favorite part about doing the State of the People. Angela 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:30.640 was the glue that brought so many different activators together, 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:35.320 from the people who were speakers and they led their segments, 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.840 to the people behind the scenes who were making this 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.040 whole putting together this whole thing, organizing this whole thing, 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:50.800 to the politicians, the congressmen, the attorney attorney generals, the mayors, 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:52.560 the governors. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:53.760 Who was a part of this. 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.920 It was so beautiful to see, especially during a time 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:02.120 when so many people say that black people we can't 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.600 come together, that we're so divided, and there was people 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:08.640 who was a part of this that may not agree 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:11.320 or see I to eye, and you know what, they 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:15.080 put their differences aside, and this was the most beautiful 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.399 thing I have ever been a part of creating. And 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.760 so I just want to say thank you so much 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:26.440 for being in the center of that creation and allowing 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:30.040 I told Angela. I was like, hey, Angela, I want 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.520 to build this campaign, and she was like, I can't 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.840 support the way that I want to, but basically the 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:39.040 way she wants to because she was at capacity. 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:40.240 But she was like, go for it. 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:43.119 And so I got some volunteers and I want to 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:45.119 use the end of my time to shout out the 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.280 people who volunteer, and we started working on this campaign 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:56.639 around CBC members not going to the congressional address. And 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:58.679 so then I get a call from Angela, but I'm 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.639 still in communication with her. I get car from her 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:04.080 and she's like, hey, I really think that we should 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:07.359 do this state of the State of the Union, but 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.639 do our own State of the Union. And I was like, 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.879 I agree, I agree, let's do it. And I'm like, 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:18.520 this is what I got. I already got some people 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:23.199 I can get the organizing. Angela have already had some 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.119 other people who I'm going to shout out to. 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:26.000 They the best. 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.119 They are the best, and they were who was going 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:32.199 to be able to get our technical aspects together. And 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:36.000 when I say, we pulled this off in forty eight hours, 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:40.159 forty eight hours, so all of that, like it's blowing 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:44.760 my mind the what we were able to do in 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:50.320 this small timeframe. Thank you Angela for bringing us together 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:52.719 and not caring and not having ego. 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:53.479 Thank you. 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.240 I also want to say these thank you too, because 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.639 sinceh'awnen gave me the time, I'm gonna use gu time. 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:03.280 But I really want to make other people feel seen 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:05.679 because there again, there's so many people behind the scenes 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:10.520 doing stuff and I need them to feel appreciated. So 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:12.880 first I want to say, it was such an honor to. 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:17.680 Work with Holly Holliday, Reverend Mark. 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.200 Thompson, Oh my god, be and here I'm gonna fight, 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:26.280 Holly Weeks and Ashley Allison. Wow, it was so amazing 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:28.480 to be able to work with them. When I said, 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:33.000 we were on calls one am, two am, three am, 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:36.680 like we became best friends during this time. They were 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:41.200 the driving force. Like really, all of us coming together 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:45.679 really carried this. So thank you, Thank you, thank you, 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:49.960 thank you, Thank you, Christopher's guy who designed the website, 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:53.639 Rachel nor Linger and Stephanie Young. 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:56.440 It was such like what the heck. 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:58.280 I can't even believe I got to work with them. 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:02.320 I'm just it's amaz, But thank you so much for 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:05.280 for the p R like really handling that. I also 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:09.080 want to say thank you to Evonnie Lewis and Chloe 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.560 Pusha for like all the graphics that you see. They 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:16.320 really blew that out out of the water. On the 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:22.680 leadership of volunteers from our PDP program to just interns 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:31.600 to fellows. So Crystal A, Sylvant, h Salvin, Jill Cartwright, Uh, 0:26:31.680 --> 0:26:40.879 Nicole Thomas, Brie Cislo, Shoota, Brittany Scott, Zarry Scott, Shay Bryant, 0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:50.160 Trisha Lestrade, Kenny Brown, Kyla Simone Vincent, Uh, oh my god, 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:54.560 Sierra Johnson who works over there with women for Black women. 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:57.000 I am so grateful. 0:26:57.160 --> 0:26:59.840 I know that I was not probably not supposed to 0:26:59.880 --> 0:27:03.080 take as much time, but I'm gonna make room. Angela 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:06.640 makes room for me, and I am going to make 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:09.120 room for others, and I'm also going to make room 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:11.240 to make sure that they are acknowledged. 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:12.480 So thank you y'all. 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.520 I appreciate all of the love we've gotten for what 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.760 we were able to create, and I just love y'all. 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:21.800 And I got through that without getting emotional. 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:27.000 So thank you, guys, and welcome home, y'all. 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:31.639 Thank God for you Lolo that I call her our 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:34.840 Charles Berkley utility player. And that's not just for Native Lampire, 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:35.800 that's for the people so. 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:49.000 Well. 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:50.879 I you know, I have to say, I think, you know, 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:53.840 it's a lot of you know, feel good. But again, 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:56.280 I think a lot of people didn't even know that 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:58.800 the State of the Union slash Joint address was happening 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:01.480 last night. A lot of people did tune in the 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:02.840 State of the People, but there are a lot of 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:04.399 people who didn't even know State of the. 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:05.760 People was happening. 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:07.960 And I hear you, Angela when you talk about like 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:10.840 boom and looom for what's coming, but it's also not 0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:14.320 what's coming, it's what's happening right now. People's lives are 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:17.560 being devastated right now. We saw a woman being carried 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:21.280 away by ice. She was her child's sole caregiver and 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:23.719 they were literally wheeling her child out, who had cancer 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:27.560 because they were deporting her and her daughter who was 0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:30.280 born here. They were wheeling her out on a stretcher. 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.480 So I just want to honor what people are experiencing 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:34.960 right now. The federal workers who knew a month ago 0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:36.680 how they were going to pay their mortgage, who don't 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:38.760 know how they're going to pay their mortgage today. I 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:41.880 just I think about that. But I hear the contrast 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:43.760 that you guys are pointing out, So the people who 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:46.880 watched State of the People and didn't watch the Joint Address, 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:49.360 who didn't watch the twenty four hour news networks, and 0:28:49.440 --> 0:28:51.960 how they felt empowered. So that's why I'm saying there 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:56.680 is something about us feeling hopeful. I just don't know 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:59.040 that I feel it yet, but maybe I need to 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:02.479 hear some clipsand and Andrew can. 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:04.480 I just want to respond because this I feel like 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:08.320 this happens every week where there's so yeah, we're I'm 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:10.920 not saying that that that that the house is not 0:29:11.160 --> 0:29:14.320 on fire. We keep going back to that Congressoman Gwynmore 0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:18.440 and heard like timely remarks, this is not normal. 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:22.880 We're not having a normal session, mister Speaker. 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:27.240 The house is on fire. The house is on fire. 0:29:27.760 --> 0:29:32.920 There's nothing legal or constitutional that is going on. We 0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:39.800 have unelected billionaires running the country and this is not 0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:41.400 a political graph for power. 0:29:41.520 --> 0:29:42.520 It's a crime. 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:45.960 The whole country is on fire, and that's why we 0:29:46.000 --> 0:29:49.200 would respond with a twenty four hour marathon that is 0:29:49.280 --> 0:29:53.840 a protest. Twenty one hours of that was contextualizing all 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:57.240 of the fascist actions that we're seeing come out of 0:29:57.320 --> 0:30:00.480 this White House, the nearly one hundred executive orders that 0:30:00.560 --> 0:30:04.760 he signed, the defunding of government entities and programs that 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:07.560 we need, and the freezing of those funds, and the 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:12.400 complete ignoring of court orders. We are clear, but also 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.520 we have to hold on to something and for me 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:17.160 right now, that's hope. That's what the three hour Black 0:30:17.240 --> 0:30:21.120 Leadership Summit was about. It's about convening people with new ideas, 0:30:21.280 --> 0:30:24.520 old ideas, somewhere in between ideas, and figuring out how 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:26.520 we march forward. What I'm not about to sit here 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:29.960 and do is watch him take over and just roll over. 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.040 I can't do that. I might as well die if 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:34.560 I do that. So I'm going to fight with everything 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:36.840 in me. We are inviting people to fight. We have 0:30:36.960 --> 0:30:39.080 State of the People, dot Media, we got a bunch 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:41.400 of other folks who are doing amazing work that we 0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:44.960 heard about, including the target fast and what that really means. 0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:47.600 There are so many actions for people to take. I 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:50.440 do not want people to feel hopeless only because they're 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:53.600 not aware. That's my only pushback, you know. 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:59.120 I respect all sides of this, particularly Tiffany what you 0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:01.360 sort of high for us, which is the pain that 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:03.960 folks are going through who are living in the crisis 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:07.800 at this moment. But what I think the State of 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:10.440 the People helps us to do is one for those 0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:14.240 who are going through the crisis very personally and quite frankly, 0:31:14.320 --> 0:31:16.600 if you're not yet, just hold on. Based on the 0:31:16.680 --> 0:31:19.160 cuts that have been announced by this administration, were all 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:21.600 about to be going through it. So as we think 0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:24.960 about going through we have a choice to make. We 0:31:25.080 --> 0:31:28.360 can be paralyzed by that situation and circumstance center out, 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:32.720 dazed and confused, wondering where the next meal, check and 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:34.560 so on and so forth is going to come from. 0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:40.040 Or we can feel that, internalize it, but then transition 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:44.640 that thing into some real power, which is I completely get. 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:46.880 And I'm not even a reader of comments, but I 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:49.520 can read this room enough to know that there are 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:51.440 lots of people still out there saying what am I 0:31:51.560 --> 0:31:54.000 supposed to do? What do we have to do about it? 0:31:54.360 --> 0:31:57.240 And I guess I don't mean to be rude or 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:00.640 dismissive with this, but I just want to simply say, 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:04.800 at some point you gotta do something, and maybe doing 0:32:04.880 --> 0:32:08.760 something for those individuals might be sitting in it. I 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:12.680 won't judge you, but that's a choice. Another choice could be, 0:32:12.800 --> 0:32:16.400 you know what, I'm going to get built up on 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:21.680 as much information knowledge, gain as much tools as I 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.720 could wear on my tool belt, and then some, and 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:27.320 then get to work. Now what does get to work 0:32:27.400 --> 0:32:29.840 look like? Well, one, I want to reference you, and 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:31.680 I'm gonna throw to this here in a second some 0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:36.320 actual skills and knowledge tools that I think can help 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:39.080 equip us. But I also want to say, it isn't 0:32:39.200 --> 0:32:41.720 rocket science. What are you good at? What do you 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:44.560 enjoy doing? What's your talent that everybody tells you is 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:47.440 your talent? But then you shy away and demure from it. 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:52.200 This moment of crisis is requiring more of all of us. 0:32:53.000 --> 0:32:56.720 If right now your situation is feeling too comfortable, or 0:32:56.880 --> 0:33:02.280 perhaps your situation is feeling far too paralyzing for you, 0:33:03.680 --> 0:33:06.800 I would suggest that you have to get out of 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.760 the paralyzed feeling, and we got to get out of 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:13.040 the positions of comfort, because this isn't a time for 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:17.640 comfort right now in America. It just isn't. Democracy requires 0:33:17.840 --> 0:33:21.560 something of us, It requires an action, a step, or 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:25.160 do something. So being paralyzed is a choice in it. 0:33:25.240 --> 0:33:30.240 It is something. However, I would suggest our time, our energy, 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:34.280 yours and mind is going to be better spent getting 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:36.480 to work doing the thing that you have as a 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:39.600 skill set that could be leveraged for this moment to 0:33:39.720 --> 0:33:43.560 I don't know, organize people, make some shirts, some church fans, 0:33:44.040 --> 0:33:48.280 knock on some doors, send some text messages, host a 0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:52.920 ramathon yourself, set up your own neighborhood, community, state, local 0:33:55.200 --> 0:33:58.440 media or takathon where y'all are talking about and breaking 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:01.880 down the issues that are confronting your community right where 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:05.840 you live. Democracy doesn't begin an in at Donald Trump. 0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:10.080 In fact, democracy begins and ends with each and every 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:13.600 one of us. And if we see the ground, which 0:34:14.120 --> 0:34:17.120 you know, looking at this state update given by the 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:20.080 President of the Joint Session, all those members of Congress 0:34:20.080 --> 0:34:23.960 should have held up signs that simply said surrender, because 0:34:24.040 --> 0:34:27.200 we would not be in a constitutional crisis if the 0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:30.319 legislative branch were willing to do is job. All I'm 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:33.880 simply saying is the answer isn't that complicated. We can 0:34:34.000 --> 0:34:36.279 keep asking the question if it makes you feel good, 0:34:37.360 --> 0:34:39.960 but the answer is coming through clear to me, and 0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:44.279 that is you have a choice to stay paralyzed or 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:45.239 to do some shit. 0:34:46.040 --> 0:34:48.640 I mean, that's a word, but let me just say, Andrew, 0:34:48.760 --> 0:34:51.000 I think a part of the challenge is we have 0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:53.919 to give some people something to believe in, which takes 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:56.560 me back to hope. If people were participating in this 0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:59.480 conversation or others and you walk away and you felt hopeful, 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:01.640 that is is a start. I don't want to discount 0:35:01.719 --> 0:35:04.680 that ever. But if you're saying, like, you know, organize 0:35:04.680 --> 0:35:06.680 your own thing, and you feel like organized for what? 0:35:07.320 --> 0:35:08.840 Like what am I even trying to hold on to 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:10.560 or preserve democracy? 0:35:10.920 --> 0:35:13.960 But preserve democracy for what? This democracy ain't never served me, 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:14.440 you know. 0:35:14.640 --> 0:35:17.359 And and there are people who really believe that. That's 0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:19.120 why there are so many people who didn't even know 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:20.520 this thing happened this week. 0:35:20.920 --> 0:35:23.919 Well, I just think people vote. 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:30.239 We have if there's another election, and I think that 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:33.000 what we have to remember, and I'm so grateful we 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:35.080 talked about Joy a lot today, but I am grateful 0:35:35.120 --> 0:35:38.480 for Joy for saying to me recently, Like, we keep 0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:42.080 talking about, to Tip's point, preserving democracy, and we have 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:44.960 people among us who are like, what is that? What 0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:49.279 actually is democracy? Well, we should start breaking that down. 0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:54.320 Democracy ideally is the understanding that there's a system that 0:35:54.360 --> 0:35:57.240 you're a part of and that every voice and vote matters. 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:00.200 Democracy is a thing that when you pay into it, 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:02.000 you get something out of it. There is a return 0:36:02.080 --> 0:36:04.920 on your investment. When you, as a taxpayer pay for 0:36:05.000 --> 0:36:07.640 public schools, you get good quality schools. When you, as 0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:11.000 a taxpayer pay for hospitals, you get good quality health care. 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:14.120 When you, as a taxpayer, pay for any service that 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:16.800 this government is supposed to offer you, it serves you 0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:21.880 back for veterans, for kids, for poor people, for people 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:25.480 of color who have been disenfranchised. That is the type 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:28.080 of democracy that we hope for. It is also a 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:31.160 democracy that we've yet to see. What I know is 0:36:31.320 --> 0:36:35.279 if we surrender in this moment, we don't surrender to democracy. 0:36:35.600 --> 0:36:39.480 We surrender to a fascist regime. And that is the point. 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:42.120 So when we get to the point where we're like, 0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:46.319 well what for what? Because when I'm not somebody who 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:49.080 can say this hasn't knocked in my front door yet 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.479 it has. Again. The hospital where my mom is getting 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:56.120 chemotherapy right now has had its cancer research funding hit, 0:36:56.760 --> 0:37:00.799 so I know. So I'm asking people to tap into 0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:04.120 the idea of democracy, tap into the idea of your harm. 0:37:04.400 --> 0:37:06.680 If it's been a harm that you've experienced long before 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:10.240 this administration, what is the harm that you need cured? 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:13.120 What is the problem that you need solved? That is 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:15.200 where you lean in. You may not have all the 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:17.560 answers when we started this thing on Friday night, we 0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:19.680 didn't have all the answers. We still don't. There are 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:22.640 people in my text messages right now saying, now what 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:24.840 and you know what. I don't goddamn know what. 0:37:25.440 --> 0:37:26.400 But what I do know. 0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:29.439 What I do know is it's one foot in front 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:31.600 of the other. And I do know right now more 0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:34.640 than ever ever, that I am not alone, and that 0:37:34.920 --> 0:37:37.560 to me is enough. That to me is enough to 0:37:37.640 --> 0:37:41.000 keep moving forward. No, we cannot just keep talking. Yes, 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:43.920 we absolutely have to act, and it starts with defending 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:47.440 people who had the courage to say something in the 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:50.480 face of fascism. When Donald Trump did this joint address, 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:55.319 like Congressman Al Green confronting him on Medicaid. That are 0:37:55.360 --> 0:37:57.400 the Those are the kinds of things that we need 0:37:57.520 --> 0:37:59.799 to have happen. We should not let this man lie 0:37:59.880 --> 0:38:02.120 up us. We should not let this man continue to 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:05.200 destroy the programs that we need for our survival in 0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:07.640 this country. Those are the kinds of things that we've 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:08.000 got to do. 0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:08.840 Can we see that? 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:12.799 I want to say that I don't think that we will. Absolutely. 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:14.600 I just want to say I don't think that we 0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:19.759 have seen I know we haven't seen the fruits that 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:22.919 fall from the tree of democracy in their fullest form. 0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:25.720 I know we haven't seen it. So your point around, 0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:30.759 save democracy for what and for whom? Right now? All right? 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:33.000 We may not get to that big picture with you. 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.920 So maybe the big picture in this moment is what 0:38:36.040 --> 0:38:38.120 do I need to do to stop them from harming 0:38:38.200 --> 0:38:40.640 me right now? To stop them from doing damage to 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:42.400 me right now? And then the second thing is, and 0:38:42.480 --> 0:38:45.640 I should have said this previously, you absolutely should not 0:38:45.800 --> 0:38:47.840 get to work unless you know what the hell it 0:38:47.960 --> 0:38:50.360 is you are fighting for. So the first thing, and 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:52.360 I think we'll learn this through movement building, and I 0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:55.600 want to quickly throw to Monday every other Monday, starting 0:38:55.640 --> 0:38:58.879 this upcoming Monday, join me for our lives, because we're 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:02.000 about to do a series on organizing. I know that 0:39:02.120 --> 0:39:05.439 this is boring because it doesn't flash in the pan. Nope, 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:07.239 I want to be clear about it. I know that 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:09.719 this is boring because it isn't a flash in the pan. 0:39:09.800 --> 0:39:14.360 It isn't a little video to throw to. But what 0:39:14.480 --> 0:39:16.560 this is is the hard work of democracy. And guess what. 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:19.520 It ain't sexy all the time, it ain't cute all 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:22.839 the way, and everybody won't know what you're doing all 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:26.520 the way, every step along the path, But that doesn't 0:39:26.719 --> 0:39:31.320 make it any less necessary to do those things. So 0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:33.759 first with organizing is decide what it is that we're 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:36.880 fighting for, and then feel a way to plug in 0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:49.280 and fight for that thing in a way that's consequential. Angela, 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:54.560 you brought up the honorable representative from the Gray State 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.080 of Texas, Agreen I believe, I don't know his district number, 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:01.080 but from the Gray State of Texas, who who took 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.120 up the armor of resilience stood up to tell a 0:40:04.280 --> 0:40:07.600 fascist who thinks he's a king, that no kings live 0:40:07.680 --> 0:40:10.600 here and he has no mandate and y'all, let's take 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:12.200 a look at what happened as a result of. 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:14.680 And it's the ninth district. Why are we were for 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:15.400 that clip to row? 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:22.480 Likewise small business optimism. So it's single largest one month 0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:27.359 game ever recorded, a forty one point jump. 0:40:32.440 --> 0:40:36.000 Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in 0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:40.240 the House and to cease any further disruptions. That's your warning. 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:49.520 Members are engaging in wilful and continuing breach of the quorum, 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:51.960 and the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at 0:40:52.080 --> 0:41:03.520 arms to restore order to the joint session. Mister Green, 0:41:03.600 --> 0:41:08.000 take your seat. Take your seat, sir, take your seat. 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:14.920 Finding the members continue to engage in willful and concerted 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:17.840 disruption or proper decorum, the Chair now directs a sergeant 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:19.160 at arms to restore order. 0:41:22.160 --> 0:41:27.920 Remove this gentleman from the chamber. That hurts me. I 0:41:27.960 --> 0:41:29.759 think that's probably why I wanted to see you stop, 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:33.920 because I kept having flashes of the bullies in the 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:39.160 schoolhouse doorway. And I'm really angry at that clip because 0:41:39.200 --> 0:41:41.879 I averted my eyes from it before in real time 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:48.680 because of the tempied, shyness, cowardice of the Democrats sitting 0:41:48.800 --> 0:41:52.520 next to him around him, behind him, along his walk 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:57.239 as he is heckled by his other side colleagues and 0:41:57.320 --> 0:42:04.600 the US House of Representatives JD. Vance and his small 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.560 man bullying disposition and attitude. 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:07.839 Right. 0:42:07.960 --> 0:42:09.920 We know that guy from high school. We know him 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:13.000 from middle school. We played with him in the school yard. 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:17.719 We know that character. He is imminently weak, right, attempting 0:42:17.800 --> 0:42:20.520 to play like he's got strength. I'm mad about that 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:27.440 clip because had I been orchestrating a genuine, authentic moment 0:42:27.520 --> 0:42:33.040 of resistance, he would have exited that chamber locked arms 0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:36.839 with the other two hundred plus members of the other 0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:41.560 side of that house who called themselves the opposition. Instead, 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:44.600 he was escorted alone in his full power and strength. 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:49.200 I respect it, but shame shame. 0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:52.320 I you know, just a lot of seriousness happening, and 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:54.040 I just want to offer a brief moment of levity 0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:55.520 because I don't think he would mind me sharing this. 0:42:55.640 --> 0:42:58.719 But our good friend Michael Harriet texted us last night 0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:00.480 and said, man, if I get thrown off the club 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:02.400 and y'all stayed behind, it's. 0:43:02.280 --> 0:43:04.080 Like, yes, precisely. 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:05.800 I was honestly. 0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:10.840 Disgusted watching what happened last night with the Democrats. But 0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:13.240 I wasn't just discussed with what happened with the Democrats, 0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:15.080 because I, like I said, I'm not a party person. 0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:18.279 I was disgusted with what happened across media because the 0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:23.839 media displayed to you nothing really, you know, they they 0:43:23.920 --> 0:43:27.919 treated this in entire address like it was normal. They had, 0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:30.560 you know, Trump people say this thing, and somebody else, 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:32.640 you know, the opposition, say this, and it was they 0:43:32.680 --> 0:43:34.799 were engaged in debate, when the reality is there were 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:38.040 people who walked out, there were members of Congress who 0:43:38.160 --> 0:43:41.359 left that chamber. There was a movement of resistance. It's 0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:43.959 just that, for whatever reason, across the board, the media 0:43:44.040 --> 0:43:47.799 has capitulated. I would imagine had our sister Joy Reid 0:43:47.840 --> 0:43:49.840 still had her show, had she been a part of 0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:52.640 the coverage, that you would have seen that resistance in 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:56.239 real time. She would have referenced just FYI, there are 0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:58.600 people exiting the chamber in real time, which is why 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:02.680 journalism matters, which is why actual reporting matters. So if 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:05.040 you get your wish, I get my wish. Oh yes, 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:07.359 because we have we have a clip of uh of joy. 0:44:07.520 --> 0:44:08.520 Well let's roll that clip. 0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:10.759 Well, no, not a joy, but of the real time 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:12.120 let's pay that which. 0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:14.879 Is and when we come back from this, I want 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:18.759 to reference the censure that's been dropped introduced on the how, 0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:19.440 of course. 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:24.520 We cannot normalize this. This man has no respect for Congress. 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:27.480 He does not respect us as a co equal branch 0:44:27.560 --> 0:44:30.960 of government. He has contempt for the American people. He 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:36.759 pardoned January sixers, who desecrated the very well that we 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:40.800 are in today for this joint Address of Congress or 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:43.200 State of the Union. So I don't need to be 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:48.840 there for a maga pep rally listening to lies and propaganda. 0:44:48.719 --> 0:44:53.360 Hateful rhetoric, and even more hateful and harmful policies. 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:56.400 If he has contempt for the American people, I'm going 0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:59.279 to stand in solidarity with the American people. And that 0:44:59.480 --> 0:45:02.520 is why I walked out in protest at nine point forty. 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:06.800 These boots were definitely made for walking. And again I 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:10.120 wanted to bring visibility to the story of the federal 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:17.680 worker from my district who was fired unlawfully, unjustly, uh 0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:20.400 and and not only is disrupting her life and livelihood, 0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:22.720 but it's a disservice to the people that she serves 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:23.680 every day. 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:26.880 Here was the general consensus is that. Number One, this 0:45:27.280 --> 0:45:31.399 isn't a normal address. This isn't a normal time where 0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:33.880 you stand up when the president walks in, where you 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:37.160 have that kind of decorum, because number one, he's never 0:45:37.320 --> 0:45:40.160 shown that to us, or the American people or any people. 0:45:40.480 --> 0:45:43.520 He's never shown that to black people. And so we 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:45.600 walked in there, many of us, with a plan of 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:47.359 what to do. If you've seen the videos, you've seen 0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:49.520 people with signs holding up signs. I hold up a 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:52.720 sign that said Musk steals. Elon Musk has been tweeting 0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:54.839 at me every other week. If I was the richest 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:56.680 man on earth, I wouldn't be tweeted at twenty's eight 0:45:56.760 --> 0:45:57.680 year old Maxwell Frost. 0:45:57.760 --> 0:45:58.879 But I'll be doing other things. 0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:03.000 But I think there's power in occupying a space and 0:46:03.360 --> 0:46:07.640 choosing yourself. Went to get up and leave and walk 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:10.400 out in the spirit of student protesters from the Civil 0:46:10.480 --> 0:46:12.600 rights era, and that's why we decided to do it, 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:15.160 us in a group of mainly women from the Black 0:46:15.239 --> 0:46:17.000 Caucus who helped lead us into that action. 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:21.520 You know me very well, and you know that I 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:24.680 was not about to put up with that bullshit that 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:28.000 he was going to talk about tonight. Angela you know 0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:30.400 you've been out there in Los Angeles. I've worked with 0:46:30.520 --> 0:46:34.480 gang members, the Grips, the Blood to everybody, I've never 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:41.440 encountered anybody like Trump. Trump is a person without a conscience. 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:44.239 He will lie at the drop of a hat, and 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:47.759 he knows that you knows that he's lying, but he 0:46:47.920 --> 0:46:48.839 continues to lie. 0:46:50.480 --> 0:46:55.080 Max is an og just like Al Green. I follow 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:55.719 their lead. 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:58.800 I thank God for them, I really do, especially in 0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:02.120 this time. You know, as one of the younger members 0:47:02.280 --> 0:47:05.800 in the Congress, it is so important to have people 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:09.320 that are always going to give us a sobering message 0:47:09.560 --> 0:47:10.880 about the moment that we're in. 0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:13.960 And as y'all just heard, she did not hold back. 0:47:14.080 --> 0:47:15.000 She gonna call that. 0:47:15.120 --> 0:47:17.560 Motherfucker what he is at all times. 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:20.520 And so and I'm here for you. What y'all don't 0:47:20.560 --> 0:47:22.759 know is we both from Saint Louis. Listen, we're from 0:47:22.840 --> 0:47:25.920 the show me state. Okay, this is what you get 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:26.960 out of Saint Louis. 0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:30.080 To all of you on this line, I want to 0:47:30.120 --> 0:47:33.319 say I needed to get on here to be refueled, 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:37.040 and I think in this moment it is going to 0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:40.840 require each of us to recognize what can I do 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:43.759 in this moment, and so I just want to thank 0:47:44.080 --> 0:47:44.360 to the. 0:47:44.400 --> 0:47:48.320 Collective, to everybody who helped us get to this place. 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:53.359 Now the real work begins, and as was said, they're 0:47:53.440 --> 0:47:57.880 using words like scrub to scrub our history, to scrub 0:47:58.080 --> 0:48:01.959 us out of jobs, even that who are one third 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:05.440 of the workforce, they don't care. 0:48:06.360 --> 0:48:09.920 What I think is so powerful. And again do you 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:11.719 guys can call me on my bias here, but I 0:48:11.800 --> 0:48:14.080 gotta tell you what's so powerful to me about this 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:18.040 is there are a lot of folks who who Jasmine leads. 0:48:18.160 --> 0:48:21.520 Jasmine is my leader. Okay, yeah, but Jasmine got her 0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:26.240 leadership from watching folks like Maxine Waters not stand for nothing, 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:29.640 not take no ish like and she was so clear 0:48:29.840 --> 0:48:32.520 about it yesterday and I just loved that moment between 0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:34.320 the two of them. It was longer than that. I 0:48:34.400 --> 0:48:36.480 hope folks get to go back and watch, but it 0:48:36.719 --> 0:48:40.120 was incredible to see them. The thing that I want 0:48:40.160 --> 0:48:43.200 to point out too, as we talk about mister Green, 0:48:43.320 --> 0:48:45.840 you guys were mentioning that you felt like it was 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:48.600 cowardice on behalf of the other members that let him 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:53.960 get walked out. They actually really had a robust strategy. 0:48:54.080 --> 0:48:57.399 Maxwell goes into all of the considerations that at play 0:48:58.360 --> 0:49:00.960 when he addressed the state of of the people in 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:04.160 the Black Leadership Summit. They talked about whether or not 0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:06.680 to go because if they didn't go at the beginning, 0:49:07.320 --> 0:49:10.520 white staffers would fill their seats. They talked about the 0:49:10.600 --> 0:49:13.440 importance of him having to face black people. Even when 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:15.640 you hear Lisa Blunt Rochester, which I know will be 0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:18.200 played in this show, all of the rationale that went 0:49:18.280 --> 0:49:21.799 into that. What I think is important is that there 0:49:21.920 --> 0:49:26.280 are some people that did something different, because now Dan Neuhouse, 0:49:26.320 --> 0:49:29.240 who is a representative from my home state in Washington, 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:33.680 has taken it upon himself to introduce a censure resolution 0:49:34.400 --> 0:49:38.080 against Congressman Green. What it means to be censured in 0:49:38.160 --> 0:49:41.759 the House Chamber? The walk of shame that mister Green 0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:44.000 should not have walked yesterday. That should have been Donald 0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:46.320 Trump's walk of shame because he was lying to the 0:49:46.360 --> 0:49:49.680 American people for over an hour, but he instead had 0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:53.120 to be escorted out by law enforcement. Two people who 0:49:53.239 --> 0:49:56.440 look like him in fact, but mostly white sergeant at 0:49:56.520 --> 0:50:00.800 arms officials walked out of the chamber. Has to be 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:02.719 censured in the will of the Congress. What it means 0:50:02.760 --> 0:50:06.120 to be censured. And this is a It's in the constitution, 0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:09.080 is that the member of Congress has to stand before 0:50:09.160 --> 0:50:13.200 the body and be reprimanded for taking an action that 0:50:13.400 --> 0:50:16.839 is contrary to the House rules. So and it could 0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:18.440 be something else, it could be a crime. There have 0:50:18.520 --> 0:50:23.279 been twenty seven members of Congress censured in history. Al 0:50:23.400 --> 0:50:25.920 Green would be censured. And you guys know who wouldn't 0:50:25.960 --> 0:50:28.359 be because they expect this vote to pass tomorrow when 0:50:28.400 --> 0:50:30.239 it comes up on the House floor. You know who 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:34.520 wasn't censured. Joe Wilson standing up. If you're the American 0:50:34.560 --> 0:50:40.160 people before Barack Obama State of the Union address addressing Obamacare, 0:50:40.280 --> 0:50:43.400 addressing the Affordable Care Act, he points to Barack Obama 0:50:43.480 --> 0:50:48.759 and yells, you lie, Joe Wilson was merely reprimanded. Congressman 0:50:48.840 --> 0:50:52.680 Green should not be reprimanded, censured, or expelled for telling 0:50:52.719 --> 0:50:56.640 the American people the truth. There are eight hundred eight 0:50:56.719 --> 0:50:59.360 hundred billion dollars in Medicaid that is going to be 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:02.520 cut under the administration. That's what he's pointing out. What 0:51:02.600 --> 0:51:05.800 do if he refuse it? Refuses, I suspect that this 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:08.799 will be escalated and they will want to expel him 0:51:08.800 --> 0:51:10.000 from the House of Representatives. 0:51:10.000 --> 0:51:12.879 It definitely said in the post comments that I'll take 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:18.120 whatever the reprimand is because the harm that's coming toward people, 0:51:18.239 --> 0:51:21.319 the people I care about with this Medicaid cut, they're 0:51:21.360 --> 0:51:23.960 worth it, by and large, is what he said. My 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:27.480 embarrassment was if you looked at the frame of the 0:51:27.560 --> 0:51:30.120 Democrats who were seated next to him and around him, 0:51:30.600 --> 0:51:34.959 nearly every one of them averted their eyes, never looked 0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:38.759 at the congressman. They looked down, they looked around, they 0:51:38.800 --> 0:51:41.640 looked up at the speaker's rostrum. They did not look 0:51:41.960 --> 0:51:46.640 at their colleague who was being escorted forcibly removed because 0:51:46.640 --> 0:51:51.240 it wasn't by choice from the chamber for a stating effect. 0:51:51.360 --> 0:51:54.439 I get the korum, but I'm just saying the best 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:57.640 laid priens of protests, I understand it, but sometimes a 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:03.439 movement so big happens so cataclysmic it shadows everything else 0:52:03.840 --> 0:52:07.120 around it. And in those movements, it's go time. That's 0:52:07.160 --> 0:52:10.920 what I mean. What happened with those other members, totally 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:13.719 appreciate it. With the other members who we've just showcased 0:52:13.760 --> 0:52:17.080 on this forum did by way of actor protests. I think, 0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:22.800 by and large, the Democrats need a family meeting, and 0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:25.880 they need to decide if they are serious about what 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:31.960 it means to be the opposition party, because disparate, disconnected 0:52:34.600 --> 0:52:40.399 forms of resistance or counter quite frankly, don't break through 0:52:40.600 --> 0:52:43.719 to illuminate for the American people that there is a 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:47.839 strong enough fist coming together to punch. 0:52:47.360 --> 0:52:52.080 Back, honestly, because when you I mean amongst them. 0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:53.040 No, I know what you mean. 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:55.200 That's what I'm saying amongst them. I don't know if 0:52:55.239 --> 0:52:58.080 that's the thing, because them ain't us. And I feel 0:52:58.120 --> 0:53:00.359 like even if you put the entire party in room, 0:53:00.560 --> 0:53:04.359 when you have Congresswoman slot Can given the response who 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:07.960 it has been an opponent of DEEI, who has not 0:53:08.120 --> 0:53:12.200 been supportive of progressive policies that support people of color, 0:53:12.840 --> 0:53:13.880 it sends a message. 0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:16.320 And so I don't know if you put. 0:53:16.640 --> 0:53:19.160 This quote unquote big tent party in one room, because 0:53:19.160 --> 0:53:21.799 the message I'm getting from them is, look, we try 0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:24.279 to mess around with y'all black folks, We try to 0:53:24.360 --> 0:53:27.239 mess around with the LGBTQ community, and that didn't work 0:53:27.280 --> 0:53:28.680 for us. So we're gonna go back and try to 0:53:28.719 --> 0:53:30.879 convince these white folks who we have not gotten since 0:53:30.960 --> 0:53:33.480 Lyndon Johnson since nineteen sixty five. We going to go 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:35.400 back and try to appeal to them and try to 0:53:35.440 --> 0:53:38.200 seduce them to this party, and they keep getting the 0:53:38.280 --> 0:53:41.840 wrong message. So I don't know that a family meeting matters. 0:53:42.160 --> 0:53:44.960 I don't know that holding up paddles in the air matter. 0:53:45.320 --> 0:53:47.520 I think if I'm a person who's being crushed by 0:53:47.600 --> 0:53:50.799 the weight of a maga fascist system, I don't give 0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:53.719 a damn about your paddles. And then even our legit 0:53:53.880 --> 0:53:58.640 did not know what is the consequence for refusing censure. 0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:00.759 But I'm looking at the people who were expelled from 0:54:00.800 --> 0:54:03.000 Congress in recent history. There's been other people, but in 0:54:03.080 --> 0:54:06.279 recent history, we're talking about James Traffiicant. I'm old enough 0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:08.879 to remember. I was at CNN at the time James 0:54:08.960 --> 0:54:10.040 Traffiicant was expelled. 0:54:10.239 --> 0:54:11.759 He was a. 0:54:13.520 --> 0:54:20.080 Tricky Okay, he was serial tricky, like convicted of bribery, conspiracy. 0:54:20.280 --> 0:54:22.840 And then the other person is this clown George Santos. 0:54:23.360 --> 0:54:24.719 Also he's over. 0:54:24.840 --> 0:54:27.520 George Santos is a Republican and if you all can 0:54:27.560 --> 0:54:29.759 google him, but as. 0:54:29.680 --> 0:54:32.760 The president, but the president somehow can command the attention 0:54:32.920 --> 0:54:35.239 of the entire Congress and do a joint address and 0:54:35.360 --> 0:54:38.760 not have to be censured, expelled and removed and nothing. 0:54:39.000 --> 0:54:42.520 I'm clear about the contrast. But to Andrew's point, the 0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:45.000 family meeting is to make let people know what time 0:54:45.040 --> 0:54:46.880 it is. There were more than twenty members of the 0:54:46.960 --> 0:54:49.600 Congressional Black Hawkers that were with State of the People yesterday. 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:50.680 They know what time is. 0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:53.640 They got to go deliver the message to these white members, 0:54:53.719 --> 0:54:56.600 including Senators Slack and who you referenced to, if they 0:54:56.640 --> 0:54:58.640 want to go, be Dixie Kratz. We ain't about to 0:54:58.680 --> 0:55:02.120 be part of. This has to be the message. It's okay. 0:55:04.040 --> 0:55:04.480 I want. 0:55:06.560 --> 0:55:07.120 My hope is. 0:55:09.200 --> 0:55:10.279 Money. Can we do that? 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:15.160 Because Lord have mercy? I mean, sorry, Andrew, sorry, I'm My. 0:55:15.280 --> 0:55:17.520 Hope is that those twenty members will be the tip 0:55:17.560 --> 0:55:22.000 of the spear or the kind of about face that 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:27.320 is required. Your protest cannot be calibrated to what is 0:55:27.400 --> 0:55:31.960 acceptable to the opposition. Your protests must be calibrated to 0:55:32.080 --> 0:55:36.799 the scale of the threat that you are confronting. I'm 0:55:36.840 --> 0:55:39.160 not mad. I understand people are feeling and reaching into 0:55:39.200 --> 0:55:41.719 the darkness trying to find what is the best way 0:55:41.760 --> 0:55:44.520 in which to do this thing. This is a time 0:55:44.640 --> 0:55:51.239 to check in with your conscience, your heart, your your backbone, 0:55:52.719 --> 0:55:55.200 and your people, the ones that elected you there will 0:55:55.239 --> 0:55:58.800 represent them that that that ought to dictate them what 0:55:58.960 --> 0:56:02.359 it is that you do. But this, this right now, 0:56:02.760 --> 0:56:05.520 right here, is not gonna get it. It ain't gonna 0:56:05.520 --> 0:56:05.719 get it. 0:56:06.400 --> 0:56:08.520 And that's the thing. I just want us to be clear. 0:56:08.680 --> 0:56:11.319 Like you, guys, I want to say on this show, 0:56:11.800 --> 0:56:15.439 Congressman Al Green, you are a champion. You are a hero. 0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:18.040 I've been mad at you waving that cane. I'm so 0:56:18.160 --> 0:56:21.719 glad you waved that kne yesterday like it was. It 0:56:21.840 --> 0:56:25.440 was a necessary prop, especially when the props that have 0:56:25.520 --> 0:56:28.200 been making their way around the White House are things 0:56:28.400 --> 0:56:34.280 like I'm gonna say, Congressman Reverend Jamal Harrison Harrison Bryant's 0:56:34.360 --> 0:56:38.240 head right, like you waving that cane to save medicaid. 0:56:38.520 --> 0:56:41.040 You the people's champ, and the people need to recognize it. 0:56:41.360 --> 0:56:44.719 Your bravery is noted, your courage is seen. And I 0:56:44.840 --> 0:56:47.000 know that you're having to balance this with the loss 0:56:47.120 --> 0:56:51.120 of your friend, Congressman Sylvester Turner, who is also the 0:56:51.239 --> 0:56:54.680 mayor of Houston. Of course, he just passed away hours 0:56:54.719 --> 0:56:56.880 after the State of the Union address. Yes, he's not 0:56:57.000 --> 0:57:00.160 been in Congress. But since January, so there's a lot 0:57:00.239 --> 0:57:04.080 that people are having to balance their personal lives. What's 0:57:04.120 --> 0:57:08.239 happening nationally, what's happening internationally, And what we know is 0:57:08.280 --> 0:57:12.000 that this moment requires all of us to do something different. 0:57:12.160 --> 0:57:14.720 If it's abnormal, then we've got to use abnormal strength. 0:57:14.800 --> 0:57:17.480 We've got to find abnormal energy, we've got to create 0:57:17.680 --> 0:57:23.080 abnormal coalitions, we got to relieve ourselves of abnormal grudges. 0:57:23.120 --> 0:57:25.160 We've got work to do, and it's going to require 0:57:25.160 --> 0:57:25.920 all of our hands. 0:57:26.680 --> 0:57:29.880 Well example this for us. You talked about this target 0:57:29.960 --> 0:57:34.000 campaign illuminate for our listeners, what shape is that taken? 0:57:34.040 --> 0:57:35.600 Because I think a lot of people are probably under 0:57:35.600 --> 0:57:38.200 the illusion it's just me deciding not to or two. 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:39.920 But is it much deeper campaign than that? 0:57:40.120 --> 0:57:44.040 Yes, you know. First I want to shout out Nina Turner. 0:57:44.400 --> 0:57:47.120 I want to shout out to Mika Mallory, Angelo Pinto, 0:57:47.280 --> 0:57:51.640 all of Untel Freedom, and Reverend Jamal Bryant. The work 0:57:51.680 --> 0:57:56.000 that is going into this target targetfast dot org campaign 0:57:56.200 --> 0:57:59.560 is major. I was a skeptic at the beginning. I 0:57:59.600 --> 0:58:02.080 happen to join a call with faith leaders just this 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:05.240 weekend talking to them about our twenty four hour State 0:58:05.440 --> 0:58:08.000 of the People, and on that call, I learned and 0:58:08.080 --> 0:58:11.160 you'll also learn by going to targetfast dot org all 0:58:11.240 --> 0:58:15.000 of the really strategic pillars around this campaign. One of 0:58:15.080 --> 0:58:17.200 my favorite is the fact that there are more than 0:58:17.360 --> 0:58:23.360 seventeen retail shops Target shops on twi's traditionally white institution 0:58:23.600 --> 0:58:28.280 college campuses throughout the country. Jamal is calling for ten 0:58:28.880 --> 0:58:33.000 of those stores to be put on HBCU campuses and 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:37.920 partnerships with those business schools that would be major. Since 0:58:38.040 --> 0:58:42.040 this idea of this fast has started, there are a 0:58:42.160 --> 0:58:45.120 number of things that have changed for Target. I just 0:58:45.240 --> 0:58:47.720 want to point out one hundred thousand people have signed 0:58:47.760 --> 0:58:51.840 on to that petition that this is actually getting it 0:58:52.000 --> 0:58:55.640 start on Ash Wednesday. Sorry this week, it got it 0:58:55.720 --> 0:58:59.360 start on Ash Wednesday. It is a forty day fast. 0:58:59.680 --> 0:59:02.600 But even before that forty day fast, Target stock has 0:59:02.720 --> 0:59:06.720 dropped more than thirteen percent in a month and the 0:59:06.840 --> 0:59:10.480 company is now facing this forty day fast. That is 0:59:10.560 --> 0:59:13.640 from a Fox five News report, Target's web traffic was 0:59:13.720 --> 0:59:18.000 down to four point seven million, down from four point 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:22.160 eight million, just in a week's time. And you're starting 0:59:22.160 --> 0:59:24.480 to see this across the board with Walmart and Amazon 0:59:24.560 --> 0:59:27.880 as well. Everybody has to play their part. It's not 0:59:28.080 --> 0:59:31.920 just Donald Trump who's at fault. It is the private sector, 0:59:32.080 --> 0:59:35.920 everybody that's talking about rolling rolling back DEI initiatives when 0:59:35.960 --> 0:59:39.160 we know that's actually our civil rights it's actually compromising 0:59:39.520 --> 0:59:42.000 equal protection under the law, which is the fourteenth Amendment. 0:59:42.320 --> 0:59:44.160 That has to not just be called out. There need 0:59:44.240 --> 0:59:47.720 to be economic consequences. Nothing new under the sun here, folks. 0:59:47.760 --> 0:59:50.840 That's a civil rights movement tactic. We need to adopt it, 0:59:50.920 --> 0:59:52.960 as we would say back in the day, with the quickness. 0:59:54.000 --> 0:59:55.240 I love it. I love it. 1:00:02.720 --> 1:00:05.480 Well come, well come, well come, well come, well come welcome. 1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:12.320 Okay, So you guys, I, as you know, you're residence 1:00:12.360 --> 1:00:16.800 sports experts. I'm super excited about our girl. She's a 1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:18.920 machete So if you follow us, you already know she's 1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:21.520 our girl, Jamil Hill. And she actually hosts a podcast 1:00:21.880 --> 1:00:24.840 on Reason Chorics, uh with Reason Choice Media, I should say, 1:00:25.480 --> 1:00:26.840 on the same network as us. 1:00:26.920 --> 1:00:28.440 So she's our audio neighbor. 1:00:28.960 --> 1:00:32.840 And she actually has a really good guest on her 1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:36.880 podcast Politics and you can imagine that is sports and 1:00:37.040 --> 1:00:39.920 politics for Combo, which is right up her alley. And 1:00:40.040 --> 1:00:43.200 she has Eton Thomas, who's a former NBA player Andrew 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:46.040 and Angeloi may not know that, uh, and he has 1:00:46.360 --> 1:00:49.920 a book out. He's the author of Police Brutality and 1:00:50.000 --> 1:00:53.000 White Supremacy, The Fight against American Traditions. 1:00:53.360 --> 1:00:55.280 But honestly, this is just one great guest. 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:58.240 All of her conversations, all of her guests are really good, 1:00:58.320 --> 1:01:01.320 and I just feel I honestly, I feel privileged because 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:03.960 I get to have access to her insight, to her 1:01:04.040 --> 1:01:07.640 brilliance anytime I want as to you guys, and I 1:01:07.800 --> 1:01:10.520 just think it's awesome that the audience can have access 1:01:10.560 --> 1:01:12.760 to her as well. I love her podcasts, I love 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:15.480 her takes, I love her insight, I love her writing. 1:01:15.680 --> 1:01:17.400 I love all things Jamail Hill. So you guys be 1:01:17.440 --> 1:01:21.440 sure to check Outspolitics. Okay, So for my I'll go 1:01:21.560 --> 1:01:24.040 first for CTA. Since I just gushed all over Jamil. 1:01:25.440 --> 1:01:27.680 I know that we talked a lot about the Joint 1:01:27.720 --> 1:01:29.440 Address this week, but for the many of you who 1:01:29.520 --> 1:01:32.320 may not have known that was happening, I hope you'll 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:35.520 watch State of the People. I do want to give 1:01:35.600 --> 1:01:37.880 my call to action this week, and just as we 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:41.280 talk about the actual state of this Union, the state 1:01:41.400 --> 1:01:43.800 of the United States of America. I want us to 1:01:43.880 --> 1:01:47.880 always remember that there are people who are being punished 1:01:48.400 --> 1:01:52.440 a very unforgiving criminal justice system happening right now, And 1:01:52.600 --> 1:01:54.920 this is a microcosm of something happening in New York 1:01:55.040 --> 1:01:57.840 right now. More than a thousand prison guards have gone 1:01:57.920 --> 1:02:01.080 on strike. The reason they're strung Viking. They're trying to 1:02:01.760 --> 1:02:06.560 petition the Democratic governor, their governor, Kathy Hochel. They're protesting 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:11.080 because they want legislators to repeal a law limiting the 1:02:11.280 --> 1:02:15.560 use of solitary confinement, as well as improving their working conditions. 1:02:15.640 --> 1:02:18.880 Now I am advocate for them improving their working conditions, 1:02:19.160 --> 1:02:23.720 but if you want to limit the use of or 1:02:23.800 --> 1:02:27.160 repeal a law limiting the use of solitary confinement, just 1:02:27.280 --> 1:02:30.240 imagine being locked in a tiny room with a bright 1:02:30.360 --> 1:02:32.200 light on you. You don't know what time of day 1:02:32.200 --> 1:02:34.880 it is, whether it's day or night, and being locked 1:02:34.920 --> 1:02:38.640 there for days, weeks, months, or even years at a time. 1:02:38.800 --> 1:02:41.760 This is something that's happening all over the place since 1:02:41.800 --> 1:02:44.000 the strike. In some prisons, inmates have been forced to 1:02:44.040 --> 1:02:47.280 go without hot food and showers, and others they've missed 1:02:47.320 --> 1:02:52.320 court dates, they have been without needed medicine services for 1:02:52.400 --> 1:02:55.360 mental health care. The New York Times interviewed some of 1:02:55.440 --> 1:02:58.600 these prisoners, staff members and National Guard soldiers who were 1:02:58.640 --> 1:03:01.919 called in to keep order when the corrections officers walked 1:03:01.920 --> 1:03:04.760 off the job. At least seven prisoners have died since 1:03:04.800 --> 1:03:08.439 February seventeenth. There are more than seven thousand National Guard 1:03:08.520 --> 1:03:12.360 members deployed to these prisons. They are unprepared for the task. 1:03:12.400 --> 1:03:15.000 They're being forced to work without an understanding of their duties. 1:03:15.080 --> 1:03:17.440 They were not provided with pepper spray or means to 1:03:17.480 --> 1:03:21.040 protect themselves, and they are unable to leave the prisons. 1:03:21.120 --> 1:03:23.800 During the employment, many have slept on gym floors, eaten 1:03:23.840 --> 1:03:28.040 the same blow knee sandwiches served to the incarcerated. It 1:03:28.160 --> 1:03:31.120 is something wrong with this country when we cannot recognize 1:03:31.120 --> 1:03:34.880 the humanity of people who may have committed a crime, 1:03:35.560 --> 1:03:39.439 who may have been unfairly and asymmetrically punished, particularly black 1:03:39.520 --> 1:03:42.600 and brown people. And I just want to remember those 1:03:42.720 --> 1:03:45.760 people as society moves on outside, I want you to 1:03:45.840 --> 1:03:48.160 know that I am thinking of you inside. As people 1:03:48.240 --> 1:03:51.880 are being deported, people are being detained, they too are 1:03:52.040 --> 1:03:56.320 subject to being held in detention centers that often mirror prisons. 1:03:56.680 --> 1:03:58.400 So I just want the folks to know who are 1:03:58.440 --> 1:04:01.040 behind bars. You have families behind We are thinking of you. 1:04:01.200 --> 1:04:03.360 You are not forgotten. And I would ask all of you, 1:04:03.400 --> 1:04:05.640 if you know someone, go visit them, write them a letter, 1:04:05.720 --> 1:04:09.240 and be an advocate for people, for the incarcerated, be 1:04:09.320 --> 1:04:12.320 an advocate for folks who are still behind bars. They 1:04:12.480 --> 1:04:15.600 deserve some basic humane treatment and they're not getting that. 1:04:15.720 --> 1:04:17.520 It's not just in New York. It's happening all over 1:04:17.600 --> 1:04:19.120 the country. So that's my CTA. 1:04:19.920 --> 1:04:21.840 Appreciate that toff Angela what he got. 1:04:22.440 --> 1:04:24.360 I think I just want to tell people to go 1:04:24.720 --> 1:04:29.960 to State of Thepeople dot media. I just I'm feeling 1:04:30.240 --> 1:04:34.480 exhausted and encouraged at the same damn time, and I 1:04:34.640 --> 1:04:37.480 want us to just lean into this moment. I think 1:04:37.520 --> 1:04:42.760 there's something remarkably spiritual about what's happening right now, and 1:04:42.920 --> 1:04:46.080 so I just want people to tap in where they can, 1:04:46.400 --> 1:04:49.000 you know, to not give up hope. We need it 1:04:49.120 --> 1:04:51.320 to survive, not give up faith. We need it. We 1:04:51.440 --> 1:04:53.800 don't we can't give up our actions. So I'll just 1:04:53.920 --> 1:04:57.000 ask you how to tap in there and keep us accountable. 1:04:57.080 --> 1:04:59.000 We want to get this right for the people. This 1:04:59.160 --> 1:05:01.800 is the people's move. So thank y'all for joining us 1:05:01.880 --> 1:05:02.040 in that. 1:05:02.520 --> 1:05:04.919 I love love that love that well one. I want 1:05:04.960 --> 1:05:08.320 to thank the ancestors for you, my dear sister, and 1:05:08.400 --> 1:05:10.280 what you've been putting on this earth to do and 1:05:10.400 --> 1:05:13.120 what you are compelling the rest of us to engage in. 1:05:13.960 --> 1:05:18.480 But my CTA is to end, Angela says spiritual. I 1:05:18.560 --> 1:05:21.840 want to end with our own spiritual psalmist and this 1:05:22.840 --> 1:05:27.520 really important and critical time. It's Latasha Brown to carry 1:05:27.600 --> 1:05:28.560 us out of this episode. 1:05:29.240 --> 1:05:40.320 Oh freedom, Freedom, lo freedom, Oh bumby, Oh bumby, And 1:05:40.760 --> 1:05:47.960 before I say I'll be bad in my gray, I'm going. 1:05:48.200 --> 1:05:51.680 Home to my lot and be free. 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:55.800 You know, I wanted to sing that song because this 1:05:56.000 --> 1:05:59.480 is the week March the sixtieth anniversary of people who 1:05:59.560 --> 1:06:02.480 sing that song on the Emma Pettit's Bridge and the 1:06:02.480 --> 1:06:05.280 Summer Alabama. It is also a song that our ancestors, 1:06:05.280 --> 1:06:07.720 when they did not have politics on their side, they 1:06:07.760 --> 1:06:10.520 didn't have resources, they have all any of those things, 1:06:10.760 --> 1:06:13.160 they knew that there was something inside of them that, no, 1:06:13.320 --> 1:06:16.040 you're not going to dehumanize me, You're not going to 1:06:16.160 --> 1:06:19.440 take away the Constitution is not what gives me my 1:06:19.600 --> 1:06:20.200 right to live. 1:06:20.360 --> 1:06:22.439 God has given me my right to live. 1:06:23.200 --> 1:06:26.840 Oh, I love God. And the anniversary too, is so important. 1:06:27.600 --> 1:06:30.640 I just thought when you mentioned spiritual, that's it right there. 1:06:30.960 --> 1:06:36.720 They're reintroducing that John Rights Voting Rights Advancement Act. They're 1:06:36.800 --> 1:06:40.920 reintroducing that this week and it is to commemorate the 1:06:41.000 --> 1:06:45.920 sixtieth anniversary of us crossing the Pettis Bridge, getting closer 1:06:45.960 --> 1:06:49.280 to voting rights, and to be in the sixtieth anniversary 1:06:49.800 --> 1:06:52.680 of this moment watching them die our rights back. I 1:06:52.760 --> 1:06:54.680 think she tells us all we need to know about 1:06:54.720 --> 1:06:55.840 what our next steps must be. 1:06:56.880 --> 1:06:58.920 As always, you want to remind everyone to leave us 1:06:58.920 --> 1:07:01.880 a review and subscribe the Native lamp Pods. We're available 1:07:01.960 --> 1:07:05.800 on all platforms and YouTube. New episodes drop every Thursday, 1:07:05.880 --> 1:07:10.040 with special solo pods every Monday and Tuesday. 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