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Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all. This is episode counted, episode sixty nine
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Speaker 1: way right away. We are your hosts. Tiffany Cross, does
Speaker 1: she go? Angela Ride? Does she go? And I'm Andrew
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Speaker 4: What a week? What a week?
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Speaker 1: What a week? A week?
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Speaker 1: What's up? Y'all? There's so much to get to and through,
Speaker 1: uh and the short amount of time that we have
Speaker 1: a lot of to us. But before we get to it,
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Speaker 1: what is on the list, y'all? There's a lot we
Speaker 1: can cover, but what's on the top of your mind?
Speaker 4: Well, I think we have to start out.
Speaker 7: This week, the President gave a joint address to Congress.
Speaker 7: I know a lot of people are saying state of
Speaker 7: the Union, but Andrew, you're quick to correct us and only.
Speaker 1: That is the state of the Union. When the president
Speaker 1: gives a one year look.
Speaker 6: Bad, save it for the segment.
Speaker 1: No, I just wanted to quickly, that's all it is.
Speaker 1: It's not that So this started with Reagan. When Reagan
Speaker 1: first came in, he wanted to give an address at
Speaker 1: the early part.
Speaker 6: Save it for the segment.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh that's right, just the rundown.
Speaker 7: So I just want to Yeah, so for me, I
Speaker 7: know that we want to get into that. It was
Speaker 7: a lively event on Capitol Hill this week, and I
Speaker 7: know that you guys will Angela in particular organize the
Speaker 7: State of the People, which got great online response. So, Angela,
Speaker 7: I know you want to talk about that.
Speaker 6: I want to talk about State of the People, state
Speaker 6: of all the people here in these United States.
Speaker 1: And I'm in for both of these. I'm down, like
Speaker 1: for flat tires. I am particularly feeling inspired about the
Speaker 1: State of the People. I'm buoyed by it. And so
Speaker 1: I want to get into some reflections on some very
Speaker 1: specific remarks from specific presenters from that twenty four hour athon.
Speaker 1: Thank you Angela for waking up and joining us today,
Speaker 1: because I know it's been quite a few sleepless days
Speaker 1: for you. So welcome home, Angela, Tiff, and welcome home
Speaker 1: to you all. Let's get at it.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 7: So State of the Union's last joint Address. It's a
Speaker 7: congress that our historian and our resident institution to List
Speaker 7: Andrew is going to keep us honest on calling it
Speaker 7: what it is. But you know, I have to be honest.
Speaker 7: I think you know there there was the joint address
Speaker 7: that happened there this week. The Democrats you know, set
Speaker 7: in the audience, some of them, and they held up signs.
Speaker 7: You know, Elon Musk is a liar, protect medicaid, you
Speaker 7: know what about federal workers.
Speaker 4: I felt a bit.
Speaker 7: Underwhelmed by that there are organizing calls happening all over
Speaker 7: the country. But I have to be honest with you guys,
Speaker 7: and I just feel a bit hopeless.
Speaker 4: I just don't I don't know.
Speaker 7: Oh Like, I definitely applaud especially you Angela, because you
Speaker 7: like hit the pavement with State of the People, and
Speaker 7: there were a lot of people who tuned in. There
Speaker 7: were also a lot of people who didn't even know
Speaker 7: that the Joint address was happening this week. There are
Speaker 7: people who are so disconnected, and I don't want to
Speaker 7: take away hope from people, but I do feel like, Okay,
Speaker 7: so what do all these speeches and calls, like.
Speaker 4: What does it mean?
Speaker 7: And even if it means nothing except to give people
Speaker 7: hope and that's something you know, that counts, that matters
Speaker 7: to us. But I just wonder, like, what can we
Speaker 7: do specifically to beat back the fascism that is aggressively
Speaker 7: taking over this country because historically, I don't know how
Speaker 7: many countries get to this point and then they turn around.
Speaker 7: The closest thing in my reading canon I can think
Speaker 7: is Germany. You know, after World War Two, within a
Speaker 7: ten year period, they turned around. But ten years is
Speaker 7: a long time for our people to suffer. So congrats
Speaker 7: on State of the People. But I have to be
Speaker 7: honest with you guys, and I still feel a bit hopeless.
Speaker 1: For you, Angela, before you get before we go into
Speaker 1: in more detailed state of the People, I would actually
Speaker 1: love if we could play the cliff from Congresswoman Latifa,
Speaker 1: our good friend who took Congressman Barbara Lee's seat in Congress.
Speaker 1: Quite a pair of shoes to fill, but she's doing
Speaker 1: her thing. But it speaks to what you talked about
Speaker 1: just there at the tail an, Tiffany, This whole idea
Speaker 1: of once the power is taking it rarely ever finds
Speaker 1: its way back to its original place. Latific gates some
Speaker 1: comments along those lines. I'd love for us to play
Speaker 1: that and then out the other side, angel I got
Speaker 1: a question for you.
Speaker 8: I couldn't listen to someone who's trying to tear apart
Speaker 8: the very structures that we have fought to build in
Speaker 8: the last sixty years in this country.
Speaker 3: I had to walk out.
Speaker 8: It's my job to be in this building, but I
Speaker 8: refuse to sit and kowto to the neo clan.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2: Had you contemplated that, did you have a feeling that
Speaker 2: might be what you would do?
Speaker 3: I knew it, but my mother said, listen.
Speaker 8: My mother is from Malvern, Arkansas, and she told me
Speaker 8: this morning, Latifa, eight hundred thousand people are expecting you
Speaker 8: to do your job and at least go. No one
Speaker 8: is supposed to kick you out of your house. So
Speaker 8: I wasn't kicked out today. I left mid mid speech
Speaker 8: very clear that we have work to do on the ground,
Speaker 8: and factually, block by block, if we vote walk back block,
Speaker 8: we can take back the house, stop this mad man,
Speaker 8: and win the presidency.
Speaker 3: It's that simple.
Speaker 8: These folks don't care about laws, they don't care about
Speaker 8: the judiciary.
Speaker 3: We're facing a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 8: But moreover, America is about to be sicker and poor,
Speaker 8: and none of us are safe.
Speaker 3: You know last thing I'll say on this.
Speaker 8: You know, a few weeks into me being here, I'm
Speaker 8: a new member of Congress. I was one of the
Speaker 8: few people outside of Doe saying let us in and
Speaker 8: talk to these folks who want to take apart funding
Speaker 8: for HBCUs, want to take disabled services out of our
Speaker 8: eight through twelve for a disabled autistic children, intellectual and
Speaker 8: physical disabilities, want to talk to them. Not only did
Speaker 8: they lock the doors, they sent Homeland security. You couldn't
Speaker 8: see that behind the doors there's a roll of Homeland
Speaker 8: Security officers with their hands on their guns. This is
Speaker 8: not the republic that we have fought for. These are
Speaker 8: dangerous times. This democracy is in hospice. Watch out and
Speaker 8: be close and be clear. We have to organize and
Speaker 8: folks have to run and went off this because we
Speaker 8: are this close, this close from being in a segregated
Speaker 8: apartheid America once again. We have literally shed blood, tears,
Speaker 8: intellectual beauty to have the small rights that we have.
Speaker 8: My mother wasn't born in a democracy. Yours wasn't either
Speaker 8: in this country.
Speaker 3: Literally they couldn't vote, Their grandmothers couldn't vote.
Speaker 8: We are only two and a half generations past those times.
Speaker 8: This thinly veiled democracy can be whipped away in a second.
Speaker 1: And her comments powerful as they are. Also continue to
Speaker 1: talk about examples of regimes where then they take power.
Speaker 1: It doesn't find its way back to the hands of
Speaker 1: the people and Angela. We talked on this show prior
Speaker 1: to the joint address about what our expectations were or
Speaker 1: should be for Democrats and how to respond to the
Speaker 1: urgency of this moment. I'm curious as we look at that,
Speaker 1: and I know your experience is grounded in and juxtaposing
Speaker 1: what happened at the Capitol to what was happening in
Speaker 1: regular people's lives, which we'll get to, but I'm curious
Speaker 1: how you assess what you saw and what we all
Speaker 1: took in from how the opposition responded to to this
Speaker 1: week's you want to.
Speaker 6: Address well one I just I want to say to
Speaker 6: those who are feeling hopeless. I think one of the
Speaker 6: most remarkable lessons we learned over the last twenty four
Speaker 6: plus hours is that it's a lot easier and better
Speaker 6: when you lean into what is rather than focus on
Speaker 6: the gloom and doom that could be coming. The things
Speaker 6: that we're seeing and reading every day, the things that
Speaker 6: are being kind of force fit to us through various
Speaker 6: media outlets, whether it's in news and print form, on
Speaker 6: the radio, on podcasts, or on TV. We actually spent
Speaker 6: I couldn't go to I was watching most of the
Speaker 6: content that we put together for State of the People
Speaker 6: State of the People was organized by the people for
Speaker 6: the people. Every single panel was put together not just
Speaker 6: with influence or influencers or leaders of organizations, but with
Speaker 6: people who want to see and create change. What we know,
Speaker 6: based on what Representative Latifa Sima just shared, is that
Speaker 6: you know, there are things, there are the powers that
Speaker 6: be are working adamantly to make our lives more difficult
Speaker 6: every single day, so we can watch it happen or
Speaker 6: we can ensure that it doesn't happen. And I think
Speaker 6: it's much more about resist or opposition than it is resistant. Andrew,
Speaker 6: I think that those words are similar, but they are
Speaker 6: different enough for us to lean into providing people in
Speaker 6: an alternative way, providing people with solutions that we create.
Speaker 6: You know, as we sit here talking about this, and
Speaker 6: I want to get into the Republicans introducing a bill
Speaker 6: to s I'm sure Congressman Greened, I know we can
Speaker 6: get into that later. But I just think that what
Speaker 6: we're up against are the way they want things to
Speaker 6: be perceived versus reality. And if we can stay grounded
Speaker 6: in reality and the hope that the talents, the skills
Speaker 6: the ability to communicate, the ability to spread the word,
Speaker 6: the ability to create different solutions exists within the people
Speaker 6: will be good. Our sister joy Reid said yesterday there
Speaker 6: was a marked difference between the people who were watching
Speaker 6: the Joint Address, which we've been calling the State of
Speaker 6: the Union. We'll talk about why we're doing that later,
Speaker 6: the Joint Address versus the people who leaned in to
Speaker 6: the truth and tuned in to State of the People.
Speaker 6: There's a huge difference in the response people who talking
Speaker 6: about what are we about to do next? Like, it's
Speaker 6: a complete difference for.
Speaker 7: Those who don't know, though, can we just explain what
Speaker 7: State of the People is? Because not everybody knows. I
Speaker 7: didn't explain it. I was the saying congrats on State
Speaker 7: of the People, But what exactly was state of the
Speaker 7: People this week?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So I think Friday night there were some conversations happening
Speaker 6: with members of Congress who were feeling very torn. We
Speaker 6: should also talk about this feeling very torn about boycotting
Speaker 6: the State of the Union period, going and walking out
Speaker 6: with some form of protest or staying for the duration.
Speaker 6: And the most important thing was that we were able
Speaker 6: to provide a space for them if they did leave
Speaker 6: a place for them to communicate directly to the American
Speaker 6: people to say, listen, we weren't going to sit around
Speaker 6: and watch him bly to us, you know. We wanted
Speaker 6: to make sure that we were serving our constituents and
Speaker 6: the American people justly and rightly, and so when there
Speaker 6: needed to be a content alternative, many of us watched
Speaker 6: these addresses on cable news mainstream news outlets all the time.
Speaker 6: And what we found recently, I won't say we found recently.
Speaker 6: A number of us found out recently that that's not
Speaker 6: necessarily reliable, particularly when they're going to continue to silence
Speaker 6: our voices, voices that we can count on to speak facts,
Speaker 6: regardless of they'll be punished or not. So we wanted
Speaker 6: to create an alternative of programming where people could see
Speaker 6: one a protest twenty four hours to demonstrate what is ahead.
Speaker 6: There were twenty one hours of programming before Donald Trump
Speaker 6: even walked into the House Chamber about executive orders. What
Speaker 6: they're attacking around DEI for real, the fourteenth Amendment being
Speaker 6: under attack, the fact that it is a constitutional crisis,
Speaker 6: the fact that people are organizing every single day, working
Speaker 6: people and others to combat. This a conversation with state's
Speaker 6: attorneys general around the lawsuits they're filing and why the
Speaker 6: people who are responsible for messaging out to union labor
Speaker 6: folks and labor leaders. In conversation with other organizational heads,
Speaker 6: there was civil rights, protections everything. Sorry, yes, the course,
Speaker 6: I'm miedaid that in the constitutional crisis that is talked
Speaker 6: about the attorney's general and the lawsuits that they're filing again,
Speaker 6: the Trump administration successes and failures thus far, all of
Speaker 6: that was covered in twenty one hours before, and the
Speaker 6: way that we could politically mobilize on the local level.
Speaker 6: Latasha's panel emphasize some of this just tremendous work. Farmers
Speaker 6: who've been impacted by what Donald Trump is doing, Folks
Speaker 6: who are on the other side of the research cuts,
Speaker 6: content creators like I mean, it was massive, and there
Speaker 6: were panels around all this, so it got to the
Speaker 6: point where many of us couldn't even sleep. We're like, oh,
Speaker 6: gotta sleep for our next panel. Andrew and I were
Speaker 6: up at three and three in the morning Eastern talking
Speaker 6: about what we needed to do, why we need to
Speaker 6: lean in the important work that Andrew has done over
Speaker 6: the years to organize and the fact that those gifts
Speaker 6: already exist within our community. So at the twenty one
Speaker 6: hour mark, when every I won't say everybody, because to
Speaker 6: Tip's point, everybody didn't know that there was this address happening.
Speaker 6: But for the folks who knew, we gave an alternative.
Speaker 6: We didn't turn on, We didn't start commenting on Trump's
Speaker 6: State of the Union address. We started to talk about
Speaker 6: where we go from here. We started a Black leadership summit.
Speaker 6: It was kicked off by Tis James talking to us
Speaker 6: about the road that we have to plow against Donald
Speaker 6: Trump in this administration, the work that she's doing that
Speaker 6: we can counter her to continue doing. And then Governor
Speaker 6: Wes Moore addressed us talking about what is at stake,
Speaker 6: the importance of us leaning in together. And then you
Speaker 6: heard from a bunch of other black leaders and then
Speaker 6: members of Congress who were walking out. Mark Thompson by
Speaker 6: the way, shout out to Mark for pulling these members
Speaker 6: with Vince Evans to ensure that we heard in real
Speaker 6: time what was really going on. Despite what the TV
Speaker 6: was showing you, there was some real opposition happening. And
Speaker 6: so I just want to commend him for pulling those I.
Speaker 1: Just want to.
Speaker 7: I just want to, yeah, just sorry, a little bit
Speaker 7: of context. One tis James, of course, is the Attorney
Speaker 7: General of New York. So it was a big deal
Speaker 7: to have her be a part of the State of
Speaker 7: the People because she has been for almost eight years
Speaker 7: now on the front lines of trying to attempting to
Speaker 7: bring justice to Donald Trump or bring Donald Trump to justice,
Speaker 7: among many other things that she's led. I just also
Speaker 7: want to add really quick context, and the way that
Speaker 7: Angela described this is kind of accurate, but the subtext
Speaker 7: that she would never say is that she helped organize
Speaker 7: a lot of these people and brought a lot of
Speaker 7: the people to the table. It was such a delight
Speaker 7: to hear from Joy read the trash ass cable news
Speaker 7: networks severily dismissed voices of colors of color, but particularly
Speaker 7: black voices, when a lot of this fascism rises on
Speaker 7: our back so at a time where we are so
Speaker 7: on the front lines of being harmed, Angela had the
Speaker 7: vision to do this, and so many people across many
Speaker 7: sectors that she talked about joined, including hearing from a
Speaker 7: lot of members of Congress. And you can still watch
Speaker 7: the State of the People. It's available on YouTube and
Speaker 7: also at the State Offthepeople dot net dot.
Speaker 6: Org no the State of Theepeople dot media.
Speaker 7: State of the People dot Media. It is still available
Speaker 7: to watch, so after you watch this pot cast or
Speaker 7: listen to this podcast, you can still catch it. And
Speaker 7: I'd be curious to hear from the viewers if they
Speaker 7: can leave a comment. Do you feel more hopeful, because
Speaker 7: I'll be honest with you all, I fell asleep at
Speaker 7: the last hours of it, which were the nicest hours.
Speaker 7: I was in my pajamas and I logged in ready
Speaker 7: to go on, and Angela was all dressed up and
Speaker 7: Roy Wood Junior was on there. Like I didn't understand
Speaker 7: the assignment, but there were some really heavy hitters who
Speaker 7: were a part of it.
Speaker 4: So I hope that you all will check it out.
Speaker 7: And just want to give Angela her flowers for pulling
Speaker 7: that together because there needed to be counter programming.
Speaker 4: So I just wanted to offer that.
Speaker 1: I want to exclamation mark the comments you made about
Speaker 1: Angela's ingenuity here, and I know she would not want
Speaker 1: us to spend this precious time giving you know, thanks
Speaker 1: and appreciation, but you know, you gotta yield where it
Speaker 1: is necessary, and where the work is being done, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who are checking out. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of folks who were sidelining and waiting
Speaker 1: for somebody else to come up with the solution. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think the revelation appear to you, Angela,
Speaker 1: and to Joy and the many others that we are
Speaker 1: the infantry that we've been waiting for, the savior that
Speaker 1: everybody's been leaning back, waiting to, you know, usher in
Speaker 1: the kind of beloved community that we deserve and that
Speaker 1: many of us are fighting for. Well, guess what, y'all
Speaker 1: we're at. Every single one of us has a role
Speaker 1: to play. And what I thought was so brilliant about
Speaker 1: the twenty four hours spent there was that you didn't
Speaker 1: just hear from the names that can flow from my
Speaker 1: mouth so easily, the personalities and the images that we
Speaker 1: will recognize without introduction. You heard from folks from as
Speaker 1: they say in Boomerang Touda, of this movement work, the
Speaker 1: folks young people, folks who operate oftentimes in the backframe,
Speaker 1: the folks who are doing a lot of the laborious
Speaker 1: work that nobody ever gives credit to, who were made
Speaker 1: centerfold and I think the beauty of it wasn't just
Speaker 1: that folks reached out and said, oh, this person who
Speaker 1: doesn't get acknowledgement gets acknowledged. No, I think it exhibited
Speaker 1: exactly what we are being asked to do right now,
Speaker 1: which is wherever you are, whatever it is, is your
Speaker 1: skill set, whatever it is you do, or maybe you
Speaker 1: don't do so publicly, but this moment is requiring that
Speaker 1: lean in, that extra push. You have a place in
Speaker 1: this movement, work too, in this not just resistance, but
Speaker 1: in this opposition. But really, and I plan to introduce
Speaker 1: a clip a little bit later here, but what sister
Speaker 1: Latasha Brown talked about as she's saying us us should us,
Speaker 1: cradled us, empowered us, and then how do you say
Speaker 1: commanded that we each do a few things for was
Speaker 1: her list, but a few things to undergird us at
Speaker 1: this time and in this movement. The diversity of all
Speaker 1: of that was I thought incredible and at the same
Speaker 1: time very genius. Angela. The subtext was we all have
Speaker 1: a part to play, everybody, and we saw it in
Speaker 1: full force right before our eyes on those in the
Speaker 1: twenty four hour marathon, which I believe is also available
Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club website. I'm sure we will embed
Speaker 1: it somewhere where within the framework of Native Lampire.
Speaker 6: Native Lampid's YouTube as.
Speaker 1: Well all of it. So you've got places to go.
Speaker 1: So if you missed the highly celebrated and famed twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, that got us, certainly some of us up
Speaker 1: feeling cheery and almost excited about the work ahead that
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, wherever you tap in at it and
Speaker 1: hopefully consume, you'll understand where the fuel is coming from.
Speaker 1: You'll understand where the energy is to not just push
Speaker 1: back or resist, but also to create a new to
Speaker 1: reimagine and then do the work to bring that imagination forward.
Speaker 6: Angela, I was just gonna say two things. One is,
Speaker 6: I just want to acknowledge some of our traditional civil
Speaker 6: rights orgs that completely set EGO aside to participate in this. Yesterday,
Speaker 6: Shavon Arline Bradley, who runs n CNW. Melanie Campbe I
Speaker 6: particularly want to shout out she was on a panel
Speaker 6: earlier in the day and couldn't get in on time
Speaker 6: before her phone died last night, who runs a National
Speaker 6: Coalition on Black Civic Participation. Mark Morial from Urban League
Speaker 6: chimed in and so did Derrick Johnson from the NAACP.
Speaker 6: So I just want to honor those traditional civil rights
Speaker 6: leaders who came in who've been speaking up all week.
Speaker 6: It means the world to folks like me, and I.
Speaker 1: Also like those legends in this space.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. I also wanted, oh, of course, but I just was,
Speaker 6: I said Chavon, I just wanted to honor those those
Speaker 6: the traditions. There's like a zillion more folks who participated
Speaker 6: in the Black Leadership Summit. Please listen to them. They
Speaker 6: were incredible and they tuned, they participated all day. There's
Speaker 6: one person who helps this show run every week too,
Speaker 6: and when I told her that we were doing this,
Speaker 6: she jumped right in. She did not sleep, and that
Speaker 6: is Lolo and I just wanted to give her an
Speaker 6: opportunity to share something about the state of the people
Speaker 6: addressed because she did so much of the work behind
Speaker 6: the scenes. And also shout out to Holly Holliday, whose
Speaker 6: birthday is today. Ashley Allison was tremendous. Mark Thompson on
Speaker 6: camera and off camera, tremendous. Everybody who anchored segments and
Speaker 6: hours long ed Gordon Mark Amy Allison to thank God
Speaker 6: for you Lola, where are you?
Speaker 5: Angela? I'm gonna get on you later because I look crazy.
Speaker 5: I haven't slen to like three days. But thank you.
Speaker 5: I just want to say, thank you, thank you, thank
Speaker 5: you for acknowledging me right now and making me feel
Speaker 5: seen and always, especially in this time, giving me space
Speaker 5: to just create around with it and to see the
Speaker 5: depths of where my capabilities could go. You are one
Speaker 5: of one. Thank you for making room for me, and
Speaker 5: thank you for having the vision to follow through on this.
Speaker 5: What I will say is that Angela was the glue,
Speaker 5: and I think I want to say that was my
Speaker 5: favorite part about doing the State of the People. Angela
Speaker 5: was the glue that brought so many different activators together,
Speaker 5: from the people who were speakers and they led their segments,
Speaker 5: to the people behind the scenes who were making this
Speaker 5: whole putting together this whole thing, organizing this whole thing,
Speaker 5: to the politicians, the congressmen, the attorney attorney generals, the mayors,
Speaker 5: the governors.
Speaker 6: Who was a part of this.
Speaker 5: It was so beautiful to see, especially during a time
Speaker 5: when so many people say that black people we can't
Speaker 5: come together, that we're so divided, and there was people
Speaker 5: who was a part of this that may not agree
Speaker 5: or see I to eye, and you know what, they
Speaker 5: put their differences aside, and this was the most beautiful
Speaker 5: thing I have ever been a part of creating. And
Speaker 5: so I just want to say thank you so much
Speaker 5: for being in the center of that creation and allowing
Speaker 5: I told Angela. I was like, hey, Angela, I want
Speaker 5: to build this campaign, and she was like, I can't
Speaker 5: support the way that I want to, but basically the
Speaker 5: way she wants to because she was at capacity.
Speaker 6: But she was like, go for it.
Speaker 5: And so I got some volunteers and I want to
Speaker 5: use the end of my time to shout out the
Speaker 5: people who volunteer, and we started working on this campaign
Speaker 5: around CBC members not going to the congressional address. And
Speaker 5: so then I get a call from Angela, but I'm
Speaker 5: still in communication with her. I get car from her
Speaker 5: and she's like, hey, I really think that we should
Speaker 5: do this state of the State of the Union, but
Speaker 5: do our own State of the Union. And I was like,
Speaker 5: I agree, I agree, let's do it. And I'm like,
Speaker 5: this is what I got. I already got some people
Speaker 5: I can get the organizing. Angela have already had some
Speaker 5: other people who I'm going to shout out to.
Speaker 6: They the best.
Speaker 5: They are the best, and they were who was going
Speaker 5: to be able to get our technical aspects together. And
Speaker 5: when I say, we pulled this off in forty eight hours,
Speaker 5: forty eight hours, so all of that, like it's blowing
Speaker 5: my mind the what we were able to do in
Speaker 5: this small timeframe. Thank you Angela for bringing us together
Speaker 5: and not caring and not having ego.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I also want to say these thank you too, because
Speaker 5: sinceh'awnen gave me the time, I'm gonna use gu time.
Speaker 5: But I really want to make other people feel seen
Speaker 5: because there again, there's so many people behind the scenes
Speaker 5: doing stuff and I need them to feel appreciated. So
Speaker 5: first I want to say, it was such an honor to.
Speaker 3: Work with Holly Holliday, Reverend Mark.
Speaker 5: Thompson, Oh my god, be and here I'm gonna fight,
Speaker 5: Holly Weeks and Ashley Allison. Wow, it was so amazing
Speaker 5: to be able to work with them. When I said,
Speaker 5: we were on calls one am, two am, three am,
Speaker 5: like we became best friends during this time. They were
Speaker 5: the driving force. Like really, all of us coming together
Speaker 5: really carried this. So thank you, Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 5: thank you, Thank you, Christopher's guy who designed the website,
Speaker 5: Rachel nor Linger and Stephanie Young.
Speaker 6: It was such like what the heck.
Speaker 5: I can't even believe I got to work with them.
Speaker 5: I'm just it's amaz, But thank you so much for
Speaker 5: for the p R like really handling that. I also
Speaker 5: want to say thank you to Evonnie Lewis and Chloe
Speaker 5: Pusha for like all the graphics that you see. They
Speaker 5: really blew that out out of the water. On the
Speaker 5: leadership of volunteers from our PDP program to just interns
Speaker 5: to fellows. So Crystal A, Sylvant, h Salvin, Jill Cartwright, Uh,
Speaker 5: Nicole Thomas, Brie Cislo, Shoota, Brittany Scott, Zarry Scott, Shay Bryant,
Speaker 5: Trisha Lestrade, Kenny Brown, Kyla Simone Vincent, Uh, oh my god,
Speaker 5: Sierra Johnson who works over there with women for Black women.
Speaker 6: I am so grateful.
Speaker 5: I know that I was not probably not supposed to
Speaker 5: take as much time, but I'm gonna make room. Angela
Speaker 5: makes room for me, and I am going to make
Speaker 5: room for others, and I'm also going to make room
Speaker 5: to make sure that they are acknowledged.
Speaker 1: So thank you y'all.
Speaker 5: I appreciate all of the love we've gotten for what
Speaker 5: we were able to create, and I just love y'all.
Speaker 6: And I got through that without getting emotional.
Speaker 5: So thank you, guys, and welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 6: Thank God for you Lolo that I call her our
Speaker 6: Charles Berkley utility player. And that's not just for Native Lampire,
Speaker 6: that's for the people so.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 7: I you know, I have to say, I think, you know,
Speaker 7: it's a lot of you know, feel good. But again,
Speaker 7: I think a lot of people didn't even know that
Speaker 7: the State of the Union slash Joint address was happening
Speaker 7: last night. A lot of people did tune in the
Speaker 7: State of the People, but there are a lot of
Speaker 7: people who didn't even know State of the.
Speaker 4: People was happening.
Speaker 7: And I hear you, Angela when you talk about like
Speaker 7: boom and looom for what's coming, but it's also not
Speaker 7: what's coming, it's what's happening right now. People's lives are
Speaker 7: being devastated right now. We saw a woman being carried
Speaker 7: away by ice. She was her child's sole caregiver and
Speaker 7: they were literally wheeling her child out, who had cancer
Speaker 7: because they were deporting her and her daughter who was
Speaker 7: born here. They were wheeling her out on a stretcher.
Speaker 7: So I just want to honor what people are experiencing
Speaker 7: right now. The federal workers who knew a month ago
Speaker 7: how they were going to pay their mortgage, who don't
Speaker 7: know how they're going to pay their mortgage today. I
Speaker 7: just I think about that. But I hear the contrast
Speaker 7: that you guys are pointing out, So the people who
Speaker 7: watched State of the People and didn't watch the Joint Address,
Speaker 7: who didn't watch the twenty four hour news networks, and
Speaker 7: how they felt empowered. So that's why I'm saying there
Speaker 7: is something about us feeling hopeful. I just don't know
Speaker 7: that I feel it yet, but maybe I need to
Speaker 7: hear some clipsand and Andrew can.
Speaker 6: I just want to respond because this I feel like
Speaker 6: this happens every week where there's so yeah, we're I'm
Speaker 6: not saying that that that that the house is not
Speaker 6: on fire. We keep going back to that Congressoman Gwynmore
Speaker 6: and heard like timely remarks, this is not normal.
Speaker 3: We're not having a normal session, mister Speaker.
Speaker 1: The house is on fire. The house is on fire.
Speaker 10: There's nothing legal or constitutional that is going on. We
Speaker 10: have unelected billionaires running the country and this is not
Speaker 10: a political graph for power.
Speaker 3: It's a crime.
Speaker 6: The whole country is on fire, and that's why we
Speaker 6: would respond with a twenty four hour marathon that is
Speaker 6: a protest. Twenty one hours of that was contextualizing all
Speaker 6: of the fascist actions that we're seeing come out of
Speaker 6: this White House, the nearly one hundred executive orders that
Speaker 6: he signed, the defunding of government entities and programs that
Speaker 6: we need, and the freezing of those funds, and the
Speaker 6: complete ignoring of court orders. We are clear, but also
Speaker 6: we have to hold on to something and for me
Speaker 6: right now, that's hope. That's what the three hour Black
Speaker 6: Leadership Summit was about. It's about convening people with new ideas,
Speaker 6: old ideas, somewhere in between ideas, and figuring out how
Speaker 6: we march forward. What I'm not about to sit here
Speaker 6: and do is watch him take over and just roll over.
Speaker 6: I can't do that. I might as well die if
Speaker 6: I do that. So I'm going to fight with everything
Speaker 6: in me. We are inviting people to fight. We have
Speaker 6: State of the People, dot Media, we got a bunch
Speaker 6: of other folks who are doing amazing work that we
Speaker 6: heard about, including the target fast and what that really means.
Speaker 6: There are so many actions for people to take. I
Speaker 6: do not want people to feel hopeless only because they're
Speaker 6: not aware. That's my only pushback, you know.
Speaker 1: I respect all sides of this, particularly Tiffany what you
Speaker 1: sort of high for us, which is the pain that
Speaker 1: folks are going through who are living in the crisis
Speaker 1: at this moment. But what I think the State of
Speaker 1: the People helps us to do is one for those
Speaker 1: who are going through the crisis very personally and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: if you're not yet, just hold on. Based on the
Speaker 1: cuts that have been announced by this administration, were all
Speaker 1: about to be going through it. So as we think
Speaker 1: about going through we have a choice to make. We
Speaker 1: can be paralyzed by that situation and circumstance center out,
Speaker 1: dazed and confused, wondering where the next meal, check and
Speaker 1: so on and so forth is going to come from.
Speaker 1: Or we can feel that, internalize it, but then transition
Speaker 1: that thing into some real power, which is I completely get.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even a reader of comments, but I
Speaker 1: can read this room enough to know that there are
Speaker 1: lots of people still out there saying what am I
Speaker 1: supposed to do? What do we have to do about it?
Speaker 1: And I guess I don't mean to be rude or
Speaker 1: dismissive with this, but I just want to simply say,
Speaker 1: at some point you gotta do something, and maybe doing
Speaker 1: something for those individuals might be sitting in it. I
Speaker 1: won't judge you, but that's a choice. Another choice could be,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to get built up on
Speaker 1: as much information knowledge, gain as much tools as I
Speaker 1: could wear on my tool belt, and then some, and
Speaker 1: then get to work. Now what does get to work
Speaker 1: look like? Well, one, I want to reference you, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw to this here in a second some
Speaker 1: actual skills and knowledge tools that I think can help
Speaker 1: equip us. But I also want to say, it isn't
Speaker 1: rocket science. What are you good at? What do you
Speaker 1: enjoy doing? What's your talent that everybody tells you is
Speaker 1: your talent? But then you shy away and demure from it.
Speaker 1: This moment of crisis is requiring more of all of us.
Speaker 1: If right now your situation is feeling too comfortable, or
Speaker 1: perhaps your situation is feeling far too paralyzing for you,
Speaker 1: I would suggest that you have to get out of
Speaker 1: the paralyzed feeling, and we got to get out of
Speaker 1: the positions of comfort, because this isn't a time for
Speaker 1: comfort right now in America. It just isn't. Democracy requires
Speaker 1: something of us, It requires an action, a step, or
Speaker 1: do something. So being paralyzed is a choice in it.
Speaker 1: It is something. However, I would suggest our time, our energy,
Speaker 1: yours and mind is going to be better spent getting
Speaker 1: to work doing the thing that you have as a
Speaker 1: skill set that could be leveraged for this moment to
Speaker 1: I don't know, organize people, make some shirts, some church fans,
Speaker 1: knock on some doors, send some text messages, host a
Speaker 1: ramathon yourself, set up your own neighborhood, community, state, local
Speaker 1: media or takathon where y'all are talking about and breaking
Speaker 1: down the issues that are confronting your community right where
Speaker 1: you live. Democracy doesn't begin an in at Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: In fact, democracy begins and ends with each and every
Speaker 1: one of us. And if we see the ground, which
Speaker 1: you know, looking at this state update given by the
Speaker 1: President of the Joint Session, all those members of Congress
Speaker 1: should have held up signs that simply said surrender, because
Speaker 1: we would not be in a constitutional crisis if the
Speaker 1: legislative branch were willing to do is job. All I'm
Speaker 1: simply saying is the answer isn't that complicated. We can
Speaker 1: keep asking the question if it makes you feel good,
Speaker 1: but the answer is coming through clear to me, and
Speaker 1: that is you have a choice to stay paralyzed or
Speaker 1: to do some shit.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's a word, but let me just say, Andrew,
Speaker 7: I think a part of the challenge is we have
Speaker 7: to give some people something to believe in, which takes
Speaker 7: me back to hope. If people were participating in this
Speaker 7: conversation or others and you walk away and you felt hopeful,
Speaker 7: that is is a start. I don't want to discount
Speaker 7: that ever. But if you're saying, like, you know, organize
Speaker 7: your own thing, and you feel like organized for what?
Speaker 7: Like what am I even trying to hold on to
Speaker 7: or preserve democracy?
Speaker 4: But preserve democracy for what? This democracy ain't never served me,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 7: And and there are people who really believe that. That's
Speaker 7: why there are so many people who didn't even know
Speaker 7: this thing happened this week.
Speaker 1: Well, I just think people vote.
Speaker 6: We have if there's another election, and I think that
Speaker 6: what we have to remember, and I'm so grateful we
Speaker 6: talked about Joy a lot today, but I am grateful
Speaker 6: for Joy for saying to me recently, Like, we keep
Speaker 6: talking about, to Tip's point, preserving democracy, and we have
Speaker 6: people among us who are like, what is that? What
Speaker 6: actually is democracy? Well, we should start breaking that down.
Speaker 6: Democracy ideally is the understanding that there's a system that
Speaker 6: you're a part of and that every voice and vote matters.
Speaker 6: Democracy is a thing that when you pay into it,
Speaker 6: you get something out of it. There is a return
Speaker 6: on your investment. When you, as a taxpayer pay for
Speaker 6: public schools, you get good quality schools. When you, as
Speaker 6: a taxpayer pay for hospitals, you get good quality health care.
Speaker 6: When you, as a taxpayer, pay for any service that
Speaker 6: this government is supposed to offer you, it serves you
Speaker 6: back for veterans, for kids, for poor people, for people
Speaker 6: of color who have been disenfranchised. That is the type
Speaker 6: of democracy that we hope for. It is also a
Speaker 6: democracy that we've yet to see. What I know is
Speaker 6: if we surrender in this moment, we don't surrender to democracy.
Speaker 6: We surrender to a fascist regime. And that is the point.
Speaker 6: So when we get to the point where we're like,
Speaker 6: well what for what? Because when I'm not somebody who
Speaker 6: can say this hasn't knocked in my front door yet
Speaker 6: it has. Again. The hospital where my mom is getting
Speaker 6: chemotherapy right now has had its cancer research funding hit,
Speaker 6: so I know. So I'm asking people to tap into
Speaker 6: the idea of democracy, tap into the idea of your harm.
Speaker 6: If it's been a harm that you've experienced long before
Speaker 6: this administration, what is the harm that you need cured?
Speaker 6: What is the problem that you need solved? That is
Speaker 6: where you lean in. You may not have all the
Speaker 6: answers when we started this thing on Friday night, we
Speaker 6: didn't have all the answers. We still don't. There are
Speaker 6: people in my text messages right now saying, now what
Speaker 6: and you know what. I don't goddamn know what.
Speaker 3: But what I do know.
Speaker 6: What I do know is it's one foot in front
Speaker 6: of the other. And I do know right now more
Speaker 6: than ever ever, that I am not alone, and that
Speaker 6: to me is enough. That to me is enough to
Speaker 6: keep moving forward. No, we cannot just keep talking. Yes,
Speaker 6: we absolutely have to act, and it starts with defending
Speaker 6: people who had the courage to say something in the
Speaker 6: face of fascism. When Donald Trump did this joint address,
Speaker 6: like Congressman Al Green confronting him on Medicaid. That are
Speaker 6: the Those are the kinds of things that we need
Speaker 6: to have happen. We should not let this man lie
Speaker 6: up us. We should not let this man continue to
Speaker 6: destroy the programs that we need for our survival in
Speaker 6: this country. Those are the kinds of things that we've
Speaker 6: got to do.
Speaker 3: Can we see that?
Speaker 1: I want to say that I don't think that we will. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I just want to say I don't think that we
Speaker 1: have seen I know we haven't seen the fruits that
Speaker 1: fall from the tree of democracy in their fullest form.
Speaker 1: I know we haven't seen it. So your point around,
Speaker 1: save democracy for what and for whom? Right now? All right?
Speaker 1: We may not get to that big picture with you.
Speaker 1: So maybe the big picture in this moment is what
Speaker 1: do I need to do to stop them from harming
Speaker 1: me right now? To stop them from doing damage to
Speaker 1: me right now? And then the second thing is, and
Speaker 1: I should have said this previously, you absolutely should not
Speaker 1: get to work unless you know what the hell it
Speaker 1: is you are fighting for. So the first thing, and
Speaker 1: I think we'll learn this through movement building, and I
Speaker 1: want to quickly throw to Monday every other Monday, starting
Speaker 1: this upcoming Monday, join me for our lives, because we're
Speaker 1: about to do a series on organizing. I know that
Speaker 1: this is boring because it doesn't flash in the pan. Nope,
Speaker 1: I want to be clear about it. I know that
Speaker 1: this is boring because it isn't a flash in the pan.
Speaker 1: It isn't a little video to throw to. But what
Speaker 1: this is is the hard work of democracy. And guess what.
Speaker 1: It ain't sexy all the time, it ain't cute all
Speaker 1: the way, and everybody won't know what you're doing all
Speaker 1: the way, every step along the path, But that doesn't
Speaker 1: make it any less necessary to do those things. So
Speaker 1: first with organizing is decide what it is that we're
Speaker 1: fighting for, and then feel a way to plug in
Speaker 1: and fight for that thing in a way that's consequential. Angela,
Speaker 1: you brought up the honorable representative from the Gray State
Speaker 1: of Texas, Agreen I believe, I don't know his district number,
Speaker 1: but from the Gray State of Texas, who who took
Speaker 1: up the armor of resilience stood up to tell a
Speaker 1: fascist who thinks he's a king, that no kings live
Speaker 1: here and he has no mandate and y'all, let's take
Speaker 1: a look at what happened as a result of.
Speaker 6: And it's the ninth district. Why are we were for
Speaker 6: that clip to row?
Speaker 1: Likewise small business optimism. So it's single largest one month
Speaker 1: game ever recorded, a forty one point jump.
Speaker 11: Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in
Speaker 11: the House and to cease any further disruptions. That's your warning.
Speaker 11: Members are engaging in wilful and continuing breach of the quorum,
Speaker 11: and the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at
Speaker 11: arms to restore order to the joint session. Mister Green,
Speaker 11: take your seat. Take your seat, sir, take your seat.
Speaker 11: Finding the members continue to engage in willful and concerted
Speaker 11: disruption or proper decorum, the Chair now directs a sergeant
Speaker 11: at arms to restore order.
Speaker 1: Remove this gentleman from the chamber. That hurts me. I
Speaker 1: think that's probably why I wanted to see you stop,
Speaker 1: because I kept having flashes of the bullies in the
Speaker 1: schoolhouse doorway. And I'm really angry at that clip because
Speaker 1: I averted my eyes from it before in real time
Speaker 1: because of the tempied, shyness, cowardice of the Democrats sitting
Speaker 1: next to him around him, behind him, along his walk
Speaker 1: as he is heckled by his other side colleagues and
Speaker 1: the US House of Representatives JD. Vance and his small
Speaker 1: man bullying disposition and attitude.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: We know that guy from high school. We know him
Speaker 1: from middle school. We played with him in the school yard.
Speaker 1: We know that character. He is imminently weak, right, attempting
Speaker 1: to play like he's got strength. I'm mad about that
Speaker 1: clip because had I been orchestrating a genuine, authentic moment
Speaker 1: of resistance, he would have exited that chamber locked arms
Speaker 1: with the other two hundred plus members of the other
Speaker 1: side of that house who called themselves the opposition. Instead,
Speaker 1: he was escorted alone in his full power and strength.
Speaker 1: I respect it, but shame shame.
Speaker 7: I you know, just a lot of seriousness happening, and
Speaker 7: I just want to offer a brief moment of levity
Speaker 7: because I don't think he would mind me sharing this.
Speaker 7: But our good friend Michael Harriet texted us last night
Speaker 7: and said, man, if I get thrown off the club
Speaker 7: and y'all stayed behind, it's.
Speaker 4: Like, yes, precisely.
Speaker 1: I was honestly.
Speaker 7: Disgusted watching what happened last night with the Democrats. But
Speaker 7: I wasn't just discussed with what happened with the Democrats,
Speaker 7: because I, like I said, I'm not a party person.
Speaker 7: I was disgusted with what happened across media because the
Speaker 7: media displayed to you nothing really, you know, they they
Speaker 7: treated this in entire address like it was normal. They had,
Speaker 7: you know, Trump people say this thing, and somebody else,
Speaker 7: you know, the opposition, say this, and it was they
Speaker 7: were engaged in debate, when the reality is there were
Speaker 7: people who walked out, there were members of Congress who
Speaker 7: left that chamber. There was a movement of resistance. It's
Speaker 7: just that, for whatever reason, across the board, the media
Speaker 7: has capitulated. I would imagine had our sister Joy Reid
Speaker 7: still had her show, had she been a part of
Speaker 7: the coverage, that you would have seen that resistance in
Speaker 7: real time. She would have referenced just FYI, there are
Speaker 7: people exiting the chamber in real time, which is why
Speaker 7: journalism matters, which is why actual reporting matters. So if
Speaker 7: you get your wish, I get my wish. Oh yes,
Speaker 7: because we have we have a clip of uh of joy.
Speaker 7: Well let's roll that clip.
Speaker 1: Well, no, not a joy, but of the real time
Speaker 1: let's pay that which.
Speaker 6: Is and when we come back from this, I want
Speaker 6: to reference the censure that's been dropped introduced on the how,
Speaker 6: of course.
Speaker 12: We cannot normalize this. This man has no respect for Congress.
Speaker 12: He does not respect us as a co equal branch
Speaker 12: of government. He has contempt for the American people. He
Speaker 12: pardoned January sixers, who desecrated the very well that we
Speaker 12: are in today for this joint Address of Congress or
Speaker 12: State of the Union. So I don't need to be
Speaker 12: there for a maga pep rally listening to lies and propaganda.
Speaker 3: Hateful rhetoric, and even more hateful and harmful policies.
Speaker 12: If he has contempt for the American people, I'm going
Speaker 12: to stand in solidarity with the American people. And that
Speaker 12: is why I walked out in protest at nine point forty.
Speaker 12: These boots were definitely made for walking. And again I
Speaker 12: wanted to bring visibility to the story of the federal
Speaker 12: worker from my district who was fired unlawfully, unjustly, uh
Speaker 12: and and not only is disrupting her life and livelihood,
Speaker 12: but it's a disservice to the people that she serves
Speaker 12: every day.
Speaker 13: Here was the general consensus is that. Number One, this
Speaker 13: isn't a normal address. This isn't a normal time where
Speaker 13: you stand up when the president walks in, where you
Speaker 13: have that kind of decorum, because number one, he's never
Speaker 13: shown that to us, or the American people or any people.
Speaker 13: He's never shown that to black people. And so we
Speaker 13: walked in there, many of us, with a plan of
Speaker 13: what to do. If you've seen the videos, you've seen
Speaker 13: people with signs holding up signs. I hold up a
Speaker 13: sign that said Musk steals. Elon Musk has been tweeting
Speaker 13: at me every other week. If I was the richest
Speaker 13: man on earth, I wouldn't be tweeted at twenty's eight
Speaker 13: year old Maxwell Frost.
Speaker 3: But I'll be doing other things.
Speaker 13: But I think there's power in occupying a space and
Speaker 13: choosing yourself. Went to get up and leave and walk
Speaker 13: out in the spirit of student protesters from the Civil
Speaker 13: rights era, and that's why we decided to do it,
Speaker 13: us in a group of mainly women from the Black
Speaker 13: Caucus who helped lead us into that action.
Speaker 14: You know me very well, and you know that I
Speaker 14: was not about to put up with that bullshit that
Speaker 14: he was going to talk about tonight. Angela you know
Speaker 14: you've been out there in Los Angeles. I've worked with
Speaker 14: gang members, the Grips, the Blood to everybody, I've never
Speaker 14: encountered anybody like Trump. Trump is a person without a conscience.
Speaker 14: He will lie at the drop of a hat, and
Speaker 14: he knows that you knows that he's lying, but he
Speaker 14: continues to lie.
Speaker 4: Max is an og just like Al Green. I follow
Speaker 4: their lead.
Speaker 15: I thank God for them, I really do, especially in
Speaker 15: this time. You know, as one of the younger members
Speaker 15: in the Congress, it is so important to have people
Speaker 15: that are always going to give us a sobering message
Speaker 15: about the moment that we're in.
Speaker 4: And as y'all just heard, she did not hold back.
Speaker 16: She gonna call that.
Speaker 4: Motherfucker what he is at all times.
Speaker 15: And so and I'm here for you. What y'all don't
Speaker 15: know is we both from Saint Louis. Listen, we're from
Speaker 15: the show me state. Okay, this is what you get
Speaker 15: out of Saint Louis.
Speaker 9: To all of you on this line, I want to
Speaker 9: say I needed to get on here to be refueled,
Speaker 9: and I think in this moment it is going to
Speaker 9: require each of us to recognize what can I do
Speaker 9: in this moment, and so I just want to thank
Speaker 9: to the.
Speaker 3: Collective, to everybody who helped us get to this place.
Speaker 9: Now the real work begins, and as was said, they're
Speaker 9: using words like scrub to scrub our history, to scrub
Speaker 9: us out of jobs, even that who are one third
Speaker 9: of the workforce, they don't care.
Speaker 6: What I think is so powerful. And again do you
Speaker 6: guys can call me on my bias here, but I
Speaker 6: gotta tell you what's so powerful to me about this
Speaker 6: is there are a lot of folks who who Jasmine leads.
Speaker 6: Jasmine is my leader. Okay, yeah, but Jasmine got her
Speaker 6: leadership from watching folks like Maxine Waters not stand for nothing,
Speaker 6: not take no ish like and she was so clear
Speaker 6: about it yesterday and I just loved that moment between
Speaker 6: the two of them. It was longer than that. I
Speaker 6: hope folks get to go back and watch, but it
Speaker 6: was incredible to see them. The thing that I want
Speaker 6: to point out too, as we talk about mister Green,
Speaker 6: you guys were mentioning that you felt like it was
Speaker 6: cowardice on behalf of the other members that let him
Speaker 6: get walked out. They actually really had a robust strategy.
Speaker 6: Maxwell goes into all of the considerations that at play
Speaker 6: when he addressed the state of of the people in
Speaker 6: the Black Leadership Summit. They talked about whether or not
Speaker 6: to go because if they didn't go at the beginning,
Speaker 6: white staffers would fill their seats. They talked about the
Speaker 6: importance of him having to face black people. Even when
Speaker 6: you hear Lisa Blunt Rochester, which I know will be
Speaker 6: played in this show, all of the rationale that went
Speaker 6: into that. What I think is important is that there
Speaker 6: are some people that did something different, because now Dan Neuhouse,
Speaker 6: who is a representative from my home state in Washington,
Speaker 6: has taken it upon himself to introduce a censure resolution
Speaker 6: against Congressman Green. What it means to be censured in
Speaker 6: the House Chamber? The walk of shame that mister Green
Speaker 6: should not have walked yesterday. That should have been Donald
Speaker 6: Trump's walk of shame because he was lying to the
Speaker 6: American people for over an hour, but he instead had
Speaker 6: to be escorted out by law enforcement. Two people who
Speaker 6: look like him in fact, but mostly white sergeant at
Speaker 6: arms officials walked out of the chamber. Has to be
Speaker 6: censured in the will of the Congress. What it means
Speaker 6: to be censured. And this is a It's in the constitution,
Speaker 6: is that the member of Congress has to stand before
Speaker 6: the body and be reprimanded for taking an action that
Speaker 6: is contrary to the House rules. So and it could
Speaker 6: be something else, it could be a crime. There have
Speaker 6: been twenty seven members of Congress censured in history. Al
Speaker 6: Green would be censured. And you guys know who wouldn't
Speaker 6: be because they expect this vote to pass tomorrow when
Speaker 6: it comes up on the House floor. You know who
Speaker 6: wasn't censured. Joe Wilson standing up. If you're the American
Speaker 6: people before Barack Obama State of the Union address addressing Obamacare,
Speaker 6: addressing the Affordable Care Act, he points to Barack Obama
Speaker 6: and yells, you lie, Joe Wilson was merely reprimanded. Congressman
Speaker 6: Green should not be reprimanded, censured, or expelled for telling
Speaker 6: the American people the truth. There are eight hundred eight
Speaker 6: hundred billion dollars in Medicaid that is going to be
Speaker 6: cut under the administration. That's what he's pointing out. What
Speaker 6: do if he refuse it? Refuses, I suspect that this
Speaker 6: will be escalated and they will want to expel him
Speaker 6: from the House of Representatives.
Speaker 1: It definitely said in the post comments that I'll take
Speaker 1: whatever the reprimand is because the harm that's coming toward people,
Speaker 1: the people I care about with this Medicaid cut, they're
Speaker 1: worth it, by and large, is what he said. My
Speaker 1: embarrassment was if you looked at the frame of the
Speaker 1: Democrats who were seated next to him and around him,
Speaker 1: nearly every one of them averted their eyes, never looked
Speaker 1: at the congressman. They looked down, they looked around, they
Speaker 1: looked up at the speaker's rostrum. They did not look
Speaker 1: at their colleague who was being escorted forcibly removed because
Speaker 1: it wasn't by choice from the chamber for a stating effect.
Speaker 1: I get the korum, but I'm just saying the best
Speaker 1: laid priens of protests, I understand it, but sometimes a
Speaker 1: movement so big happens so cataclysmic it shadows everything else
Speaker 1: around it. And in those movements, it's go time. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean. What happened with those other members, totally
Speaker 1: appreciate it. With the other members who we've just showcased
Speaker 1: on this forum did by way of actor protests. I think,
Speaker 1: by and large, the Democrats need a family meeting, and
Speaker 1: they need to decide if they are serious about what
Speaker 1: it means to be the opposition party, because disparate, disconnected
Speaker 1: forms of resistance or counter quite frankly, don't break through
Speaker 1: to illuminate for the American people that there is a
Speaker 1: strong enough fist coming together to punch.
Speaker 4: Back, honestly, because when you I mean amongst them.
Speaker 3: No, I know what you mean.
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying amongst them. I don't know if
Speaker 7: that's the thing, because them ain't us. And I feel
Speaker 7: like even if you put the entire party in room,
Speaker 7: when you have Congresswoman slot Can given the response who
Speaker 7: it has been an opponent of DEEI, who has not
Speaker 7: been supportive of progressive policies that support people of color,
Speaker 7: it sends a message.
Speaker 4: And so I don't know if you put.
Speaker 7: This quote unquote big tent party in one room, because
Speaker 7: the message I'm getting from them is, look, we try
Speaker 7: to mess around with y'all black folks, We try to
Speaker 7: mess around with the LGBTQ community, and that didn't work
Speaker 7: for us. So we're gonna go back and try to
Speaker 7: convince these white folks who we have not gotten since
Speaker 7: Lyndon Johnson since nineteen sixty five. We going to go
Speaker 7: back and try to appeal to them and try to
Speaker 7: seduce them to this party, and they keep getting the
Speaker 7: wrong message. So I don't know that a family meeting matters.
Speaker 7: I don't know that holding up paddles in the air matter.
Speaker 7: I think if I'm a person who's being crushed by
Speaker 7: the weight of a maga fascist system, I don't give
Speaker 7: a damn about your paddles. And then even our legit
Speaker 7: did not know what is the consequence for refusing censure.
Speaker 7: But I'm looking at the people who were expelled from
Speaker 7: Congress in recent history. There's been other people, but in
Speaker 7: recent history, we're talking about James Traffiicant. I'm old enough
Speaker 7: to remember. I was at CNN at the time James
Speaker 7: Traffiicant was expelled.
Speaker 1: He was a.
Speaker 7: Tricky Okay, he was serial tricky, like convicted of bribery, conspiracy.
Speaker 7: And then the other person is this clown George Santos.
Speaker 3: Also he's over.
Speaker 4: George Santos is a Republican and if you all can
Speaker 4: google him, but as.
Speaker 6: The president, but the president somehow can command the attention
Speaker 6: of the entire Congress and do a joint address and
Speaker 6: not have to be censured, expelled and removed and nothing.
Speaker 6: I'm clear about the contrast. But to Andrew's point, the
Speaker 6: family meeting is to make let people know what time
Speaker 6: it is. There were more than twenty members of the
Speaker 6: Congressional Black Hawkers that were with State of the People yesterday.
Speaker 3: They know what time is.
Speaker 6: They got to go deliver the message to these white members,
Speaker 6: including Senators Slack and who you referenced to, if they
Speaker 6: want to go, be Dixie Kratz. We ain't about to
Speaker 6: be part of. This has to be the message. It's okay.
Speaker 9: I want.
Speaker 1: My hope is.
Speaker 6: Money. Can we do that?
Speaker 7: Because Lord have mercy? I mean, sorry, Andrew, sorry, I'm My.
Speaker 1: Hope is that those twenty members will be the tip
Speaker 1: of the spear or the kind of about face that
Speaker 1: is required. Your protest cannot be calibrated to what is
Speaker 1: acceptable to the opposition. Your protests must be calibrated to
Speaker 1: the scale of the threat that you are confronting. I'm
Speaker 1: not mad. I understand people are feeling and reaching into
Speaker 1: the darkness trying to find what is the best way
Speaker 1: in which to do this thing. This is a time
Speaker 1: to check in with your conscience, your heart, your your backbone,
Speaker 1: and your people, the ones that elected you there will
Speaker 1: represent them that that that ought to dictate them what
Speaker 1: it is that you do. But this, this right now,
Speaker 1: right here, is not gonna get it. It ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 6: And that's the thing. I just want us to be clear.
Speaker 6: Like you, guys, I want to say on this show,
Speaker 6: Congressman Al Green, you are a champion. You are a hero.
Speaker 6: I've been mad at you waving that cane. I'm so
Speaker 6: glad you waved that kne yesterday like it was. It
Speaker 6: was a necessary prop, especially when the props that have
Speaker 6: been making their way around the White House are things
Speaker 6: like I'm gonna say, Congressman Reverend Jamal Harrison Harrison Bryant's
Speaker 6: head right, like you waving that cane to save medicaid.
Speaker 6: You the people's champ, and the people need to recognize it.
Speaker 6: Your bravery is noted, your courage is seen. And I
Speaker 6: know that you're having to balance this with the loss
Speaker 6: of your friend, Congressman Sylvester Turner, who is also the
Speaker 6: mayor of Houston. Of course, he just passed away hours
Speaker 6: after the State of the Union address. Yes, he's not
Speaker 6: been in Congress. But since January, so there's a lot
Speaker 6: that people are having to balance their personal lives. What's
Speaker 6: happening nationally, what's happening internationally, And what we know is
Speaker 6: that this moment requires all of us to do something different.
Speaker 6: If it's abnormal, then we've got to use abnormal strength.
Speaker 6: We've got to find abnormal energy, we've got to create
Speaker 6: abnormal coalitions, we got to relieve ourselves of abnormal grudges.
Speaker 6: We've got work to do, and it's going to require
Speaker 6: all of our hands.
Speaker 1: Well example this for us. You talked about this target
Speaker 1: campaign illuminate for our listeners, what shape is that taken?
Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of people are probably under
Speaker 1: the illusion it's just me deciding not to or two.
Speaker 1: But is it much deeper campaign than that?
Speaker 6: Yes, you know. First I want to shout out Nina Turner.
Speaker 6: I want to shout out to Mika Mallory, Angelo Pinto,
Speaker 6: all of Untel Freedom, and Reverend Jamal Bryant. The work
Speaker 6: that is going into this target targetfast dot org campaign
Speaker 6: is major. I was a skeptic at the beginning. I
Speaker 6: happen to join a call with faith leaders just this
Speaker 6: weekend talking to them about our twenty four hour State
Speaker 6: of the People, and on that call, I learned and
Speaker 6: you'll also learn by going to targetfast dot org all
Speaker 6: of the really strategic pillars around this campaign. One of
Speaker 6: my favorite is the fact that there are more than
Speaker 6: seventeen retail shops Target shops on twi's traditionally white institution
Speaker 6: college campuses throughout the country. Jamal is calling for ten
Speaker 6: of those stores to be put on HBCU campuses and
Speaker 6: partnerships with those business schools that would be major. Since
Speaker 6: this idea of this fast has started, there are a
Speaker 6: number of things that have changed for Target. I just
Speaker 6: want to point out one hundred thousand people have signed
Speaker 6: on to that petition that this is actually getting it
Speaker 6: start on Ash Wednesday. Sorry this week, it got it
Speaker 6: start on Ash Wednesday. It is a forty day fast.
Speaker 6: But even before that forty day fast, Target stock has
Speaker 6: dropped more than thirteen percent in a month and the
Speaker 6: company is now facing this forty day fast. That is
Speaker 6: from a Fox five News report, Target's web traffic was
Speaker 6: down to four point seven million, down from four point
Speaker 6: eight million, just in a week's time. And you're starting
Speaker 6: to see this across the board with Walmart and Amazon
Speaker 6: as well. Everybody has to play their part. It's not
Speaker 6: just Donald Trump who's at fault. It is the private sector,
Speaker 6: everybody that's talking about rolling rolling back DEI initiatives when
Speaker 6: we know that's actually our civil rights it's actually compromising
Speaker 6: equal protection under the law, which is the fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 6: That has to not just be called out. There need
Speaker 6: to be economic consequences. Nothing new under the sun here, folks.
Speaker 6: That's a civil rights movement tactic. We need to adopt it,
Speaker 6: as we would say back in the day, with the quickness.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 13: Well come, well come, well come, well come, well come welcome.
Speaker 7: Okay, So you guys, I, as you know, you're residence
Speaker 7: sports experts. I'm super excited about our girl. She's a
Speaker 7: machete So if you follow us, you already know she's
Speaker 7: our girl, Jamil Hill. And she actually hosts a podcast
Speaker 7: on Reason Chorics, uh with Reason Choice Media, I should say,
Speaker 7: on the same network as us.
Speaker 4: So she's our audio neighbor.
Speaker 7: And she actually has a really good guest on her
Speaker 7: podcast Politics and you can imagine that is sports and
Speaker 7: politics for Combo, which is right up her alley. And
Speaker 7: she has Eton Thomas, who's a former NBA player Andrew
Speaker 7: and Angeloi may not know that, uh, and he has
Speaker 7: a book out. He's the author of Police Brutality and
Speaker 7: White Supremacy, The Fight against American Traditions.
Speaker 4: But honestly, this is just one great guest.
Speaker 7: All of her conversations, all of her guests are really good,
Speaker 7: and I just feel I honestly, I feel privileged because
Speaker 7: I get to have access to her insight, to her
Speaker 7: brilliance anytime I want as to you guys, and I
Speaker 7: just think it's awesome that the audience can have access
Speaker 7: to her as well. I love her podcasts, I love
Speaker 7: her takes, I love her insight, I love her writing.
Speaker 7: I love all things Jamail Hill. So you guys be
Speaker 7: sure to check Outspolitics. Okay, So for my I'll go
Speaker 7: first for CTA. Since I just gushed all over Jamil.
Speaker 7: I know that we talked a lot about the Joint
Speaker 7: Address this week, but for the many of you who
Speaker 7: may not have known that was happening, I hope you'll
Speaker 7: watch State of the People. I do want to give
Speaker 7: my call to action this week, and just as we
Speaker 7: talk about the actual state of this Union, the state
Speaker 7: of the United States of America. I want us to
Speaker 7: always remember that there are people who are being punished
Speaker 7: a very unforgiving criminal justice system happening right now, And
Speaker 7: this is a microcosm of something happening in New York
Speaker 7: right now. More than a thousand prison guards have gone
Speaker 7: on strike. The reason they're strung Viking. They're trying to
Speaker 7: petition the Democratic governor, their governor, Kathy Hochel. They're protesting
Speaker 7: because they want legislators to repeal a law limiting the
Speaker 7: use of solitary confinement, as well as improving their working conditions.
Speaker 7: Now I am advocate for them improving their working conditions,
Speaker 7: but if you want to limit the use of or
Speaker 7: repeal a law limiting the use of solitary confinement, just
Speaker 7: imagine being locked in a tiny room with a bright
Speaker 7: light on you. You don't know what time of day
Speaker 7: it is, whether it's day or night, and being locked
Speaker 7: there for days, weeks, months, or even years at a time.
Speaker 7: This is something that's happening all over the place since
Speaker 7: the strike. In some prisons, inmates have been forced to
Speaker 7: go without hot food and showers, and others they've missed
Speaker 7: court dates, they have been without needed medicine services for
Speaker 7: mental health care. The New York Times interviewed some of
Speaker 7: these prisoners, staff members and National Guard soldiers who were
Speaker 7: called in to keep order when the corrections officers walked
Speaker 7: off the job. At least seven prisoners have died since
Speaker 7: February seventeenth. There are more than seven thousand National Guard
Speaker 7: members deployed to these prisons. They are unprepared for the task.
Speaker 7: They're being forced to work without an understanding of their duties.
Speaker 7: They were not provided with pepper spray or means to
Speaker 7: protect themselves, and they are unable to leave the prisons.
Speaker 7: During the employment, many have slept on gym floors, eaten
Speaker 7: the same blow knee sandwiches served to the incarcerated. It
Speaker 7: is something wrong with this country when we cannot recognize
Speaker 7: the humanity of people who may have committed a crime,
Speaker 7: who may have been unfairly and asymmetrically punished, particularly black
Speaker 7: and brown people. And I just want to remember those
Speaker 7: people as society moves on outside, I want you to
Speaker 7: know that I am thinking of you inside. As people
Speaker 7: are being deported, people are being detained, they too are
Speaker 7: subject to being held in detention centers that often mirror prisons.
Speaker 7: So I just want the folks to know who are
Speaker 7: behind bars. You have families behind We are thinking of you.
Speaker 7: You are not forgotten. And I would ask all of you,
Speaker 7: if you know someone, go visit them, write them a letter,
Speaker 7: and be an advocate for people, for the incarcerated, be
Speaker 7: an advocate for folks who are still behind bars. They
Speaker 7: deserve some basic humane treatment and they're not getting that.
Speaker 4: It's not just in New York. It's happening all over
Speaker 4: the country. So that's my CTA.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that toff Angela what he got.
Speaker 6: I think I just want to tell people to go
Speaker 6: to State of Thepeople dot media. I just I'm feeling
Speaker 6: exhausted and encouraged at the same damn time, and I
Speaker 6: want us to just lean into this moment. I think
Speaker 6: there's something remarkably spiritual about what's happening right now, and
Speaker 6: so I just want people to tap in where they can,
Speaker 6: you know, to not give up hope. We need it
Speaker 6: to survive, not give up faith. We need it. We
Speaker 6: don't we can't give up our actions. So I'll just
Speaker 6: ask you how to tap in there and keep us accountable.
Speaker 6: We want to get this right for the people. This
Speaker 6: is the people's move. So thank y'all for joining us
Speaker 6: in that.
Speaker 1: I love love that love that well one. I want
Speaker 1: to thank the ancestors for you, my dear sister, and
Speaker 1: what you've been putting on this earth to do and
Speaker 1: what you are compelling the rest of us to engage in.
Speaker 1: But my CTA is to end, Angela says spiritual. I
Speaker 1: want to end with our own spiritual psalmist and this
Speaker 1: really important and critical time. It's Latasha Brown to carry
Speaker 1: us out of this episode.
Speaker 17: Oh freedom, Freedom, lo freedom, Oh bumby, Oh bumby, And
Speaker 17: before I say I'll be bad in my gray, I'm going.
Speaker 3: Home to my lot and be free.
Speaker 16: You know, I wanted to sing that song because this
Speaker 16: is the week March the sixtieth anniversary of people who
Speaker 16: sing that song on the Emma Pettit's Bridge and the
Speaker 16: Summer Alabama. It is also a song that our ancestors,
Speaker 16: when they did not have politics on their side, they
Speaker 16: didn't have resources, they have all any of those things,
Speaker 16: they knew that there was something inside of them that, no,
Speaker 16: you're not going to dehumanize me, You're not going to
Speaker 16: take away the Constitution is not what gives me my
Speaker 16: right to live.
Speaker 1: God has given me my right to live.
Speaker 6: Oh, I love God. And the anniversary too, is so important.
Speaker 1: I just thought when you mentioned spiritual, that's it right there.
Speaker 6: They're reintroducing that John Rights Voting Rights Advancement Act. They're
Speaker 6: reintroducing that this week and it is to commemorate the
Speaker 6: sixtieth anniversary of us crossing the Pettis Bridge, getting closer
Speaker 6: to voting rights, and to be in the sixtieth anniversary
Speaker 6: of this moment watching them die our rights back. I
Speaker 6: think she tells us all we need to know about
Speaker 6: what our next steps must be.
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