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Speaker 1: one day. You know, I'm all about in the business
Speaker 1: and making dreams come true, and I have a special
Speaker 1: group of individuals in here with me. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of the organization blade? It's entitled the Black Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Young Democrats and, uh, they're here because they're talking about
Speaker 1: what they're doing in the city, how we're talking about
Speaker 1: making change and also we have a very important election
Speaker 1: coming up. Congresswoman Karen Bass is running and we need
Speaker 1: not to talk about anyone else because we need to
Speaker 1: get her elected. So we're gonna talk about this organization,
Speaker 1: what they're doing, and also this all some event that's
Speaker 1: coming around and tied the sneaker ball. So, without further ado, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: do you have a round of applause? Just give a
Speaker 1: round of a fause for these beautiful people. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: an applause. Um. So the people are hearing laughter and
Speaker 1: those who are watching and send your beautiful faces. Can you, guys,
Speaker 1: just go around and introduce and tell us who you are?
Speaker 1: We need you to get you in your face. You'RE
Speaker 1: gonna have to pass it. Jar Mike, can you hear him? Okay, alright, cool.
Speaker 1: I'm Jelanni Hendricks, president of Blade. Thanks for having me. Okay,
Speaker 1: L Hawaari, treasurer of Blade. All about that money? Okay,
Speaker 1: what a cash set. Hi Everybody, my name is Cheyenne
Speaker 1: Smith and I'm the vice president. Vice Vice President, Dr
Speaker 1: d and they just let me come along with him,
Speaker 1: is the chair of the host committee of the Black
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Sneaker Ball. Don't let her play, you Damn Loq,
Speaker 1: like you like the mayor of like l a mass
Speaker 1: about to be the next. I want to let you
Speaker 1: out of time. That's best part of me. But M guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. I have been
Speaker 1: saying for the longest. I was telling D for like
Speaker 1: wow month. I was like, Yo, I want to get involved.
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to get involved with Congress.
Speaker 1: From Karen Bass, I was like, I just need to
Speaker 1: how do I do it? Like, what's the first step?
Speaker 1: So she started peeling off information and talking about Blake.
Speaker 1: But for anyone that doesn't know, who wants to talk
Speaker 1: about what your organization is? Yeah, alright, the president is here.
Speaker 1: Put the MIC up. Got You. So we at l
Speaker 1: a County Wide Dem club. We're the Premier Young Democratic
Speaker 1: Club in the State of California. Majority the of us
Speaker 1: are activists, organizers and what we aim to do is
Speaker 1: a bridge the gap between grassroots initiatives and politics. We
Speaker 1: want to make sure young folks are engaged into into
Speaker 1: the political system and also build leadership development pipeline for
Speaker 1: young Black Angelinos to get into politics, whether they want
Speaker 1: to run for office one day. Being Chief of staff,
Speaker 1: communications fundraised a lot of elements of politics that young
Speaker 1: black folks should tap into, but they don't really have
Speaker 1: that platform. So that's why I wanted to become a
Speaker 1: board member. I became a board member about three years ago.
Speaker 1: I've been a president for almost two years and on
Speaker 1: October seven we have in our first annual sneaker ball
Speaker 1: and it's going to be the political event of a year.
Speaker 1: So make sure you're there with your fly sneakers. But
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this. We gotta go. We gotta keep
Speaker 1: in the state of the second Hald because that's we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the first. Okay, so that's what we
Speaker 1: have blade about, and I think it's so important because
Speaker 1: I think sometimes I feel like some people look at
Speaker 1: politics and I'm like, oh, that's not for me or Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't understand, but not realize and how it affects
Speaker 1: our every day life and how something you may say
Speaker 1: I don't care about the law or the law is
Speaker 1: not on my side, but not realizing some of your
Speaker 1: basic rights can be affected whether or not you choose
Speaker 1: to vote or not to vote. What was that? Now?
Speaker 1: Blade started in twelve right, so we're going on the
Speaker 1: tenth anniversary. Is Anybody here from the inception? No. Why
Speaker 1: did you guys get involved? Like what what attracted you,
Speaker 1: because I feel like this. If you we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to the people, I need to know about you, because
Speaker 1: if you're interested, what made you get into it, I
Speaker 1: can just keep it real. Come Onenne, madam VP, let's
Speaker 1: say like what's super okay, but but I think that
Speaker 1: was super dope about the Black Lass Angeles Young Democrats,
Speaker 1: and particularly answering your question. It's just that, like you
Speaker 1: realize once you're involved, you realize like you could make
Speaker 1: the decisions, and I think for so long African Americans
Speaker 1: have been siloed into this one space, like, oh, we
Speaker 1: can only be used for our vote. But it's more
Speaker 1: than just voting. Like you see, people actually will power,
Speaker 1: build power and use that power black people. And so
Speaker 1: I think that what's important about getting involved with the
Speaker 1: black loss and its young Democrats are even just getting
Speaker 1: involved in the politics is like you're no longer just
Speaker 1: an outsider being affected by the decisions being made, like
Speaker 1: you're a key player in the decisions being made. And
Speaker 1: I believe that if more of US continue to be
Speaker 1: involved in our own way, like everybody doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be the president, everybody don't have to join blade, but
Speaker 1: it's really about finding where you engage in moth engage
Speaker 1: the most. Where us an art you know, in the
Speaker 1: art space, in the political organizing space and the volunteer
Speaker 1: community base space, wherever. It's just like you have to
Speaker 1: show up. It's not even like people like, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: show up for your community. But some people like what
Speaker 1: community like, if you really want to be honest, like
Speaker 1: some people don't feel a sense of community, but when
Speaker 1: you start being around people who do, who look like you,
Speaker 1: like I have one, we look like ourselves, actually debating,
Speaker 1: like what of us are gonna wear? I was like
Speaker 1: my car. So I was like, no, I pull up
Speaker 1: to these meetings with the baby hares to let them
Speaker 1: know you. Sometimes I intentionally put them just so you
Speaker 1: can know, and I think that you know it's just
Speaker 1: Hella important for us to continue to take up space,
Speaker 1: like we talked about that, like in a mental health space.
Speaker 1: You talk about it like you know entertainment a lot,
Speaker 1: but like people don't have to make the rules for you,
Speaker 1: because people always talking about they want to be saying,
Speaker 1: but hello, are you gonna have to show up and
Speaker 1: you gotta actually pull up, like we can't just be
Speaker 1: twitter fingers. We can't be social media advocates like that works.
Speaker 1: If something is about to get canceled, somebody responds. But like,
Speaker 1: imagine all the people who send or like the tweet
Speaker 1: or shared it, you know, share to their story. Imagine
Speaker 1: if that same amount of people sent, you know, sign
Speaker 1: the petition or sent the you know, sent the emails
Speaker 1: like Oh, we're flooding staffer's office. Is, you know, two
Speaker 1: thou and emails coming through like what, what's what's up?
Speaker 1: Like what do we need to change? And I feel
Speaker 1: like what's dope about blade is like we like I'm
Speaker 1: from here, like I'm from Um, I can't, you almost
Speaker 1: said again. Check. I'm like, okay, but now I'm from
Speaker 1: south central and born the raising. My grandfather was born
Speaker 1: in south they say south L A, but like in
Speaker 1: south central. So I think it's important to let people
Speaker 1: know like you could be from here and and have
Speaker 1: influence but still look like yourself. Like if I need
Speaker 1: to put on the full stool, I will, and I
Speaker 1: love it. It It looks good, but I'm mostly gonna pull
Speaker 1: up how I look. And I think that's super dope
Speaker 1: about blade and that's why people are attracted to blade,
Speaker 1: because we just like fly, fly as hell. We like
Speaker 1: we are full selves, but like when we we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit you with the all the information. We're gonna tell
Speaker 1: you which bill it is, who's WHO's gonna vote for,
Speaker 1: who's not gonna vote for, it, votes we need, just wing,
Speaker 1: how much money we need to get behind this candidate.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do all of that. Yeah, that's why I
Speaker 1: feel like blade, especially under Gilanies leadership, we've really been
Speaker 1: changing the game. Like what you've been doing. Tell me
Speaker 1: some of the ghost stuff you've been doing. One of
Speaker 1: the accomplishments. Let's go brag on it, man, we've done
Speaker 1: a lot. Put that money to your mode, if I
Speaker 1: got you so. I think one of one of the
Speaker 1: things that, you know, I envisioned for blade was to
Speaker 1: be different from other dim clubs. Do Events, not necessarily meetings,
Speaker 1: but things that are going to actually draw young people
Speaker 1: to come, because a lot of the folks that I,
Speaker 1: you know, came, came across to that we're in these
Speaker 1: dim clubs and these circles. Right, they want to be politicians.
Speaker 1: They they they majored in political science. Right. I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring regular folks from crishawn Slawson to get connected
Speaker 1: to what we were doing because I knew their voices
Speaker 1: and what they brought to the table actually change the
Speaker 1: way we do politics. It's a new day. We're in
Speaker 1: young people, Young Progressive Folks, are getting elected like Isaac Brian,
Speaker 1: our former board member. You look at someone like eunieces Hernandez,
Speaker 1: who just got elected in the city council Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a shift in politics and I wanted to
Speaker 1: play a role in leading that shift. So everything that
Speaker 1: we do is for the people. Were a community driven
Speaker 1: them club. I think that Um gives us a different
Speaker 1: flavor Um. We've had a lot of events. We actually
Speaker 1: had a friends giving event in November where we honored
Speaker 1: and recognized young folks doing the work. Young activists write
Speaker 1: a lot of these events. You know they they're promoting
Speaker 1: or celebrating folks that are in the grasstops. Right, but
Speaker 1: what about the folks in the grassroots, with the kids,
Speaker 1: you know, on the front lines of the movement doing
Speaker 1: the work? Let's highlight their work. So who are some
Speaker 1: of the people that you awarded? Like what kind of
Speaker 1: work were they doing? Um Ahead, I would say, I
Speaker 1: would just say somebody Um really dope, Latania Ward, who's
Speaker 1: doing healing circles with gang members in Los Angeles, kind
Speaker 1: like she um. She's somebody who spent a lot of
Speaker 1: her life in prison and really wanted to come back
Speaker 1: and really think about how to utilize a lot of
Speaker 1: these um kind of like healing modalities that are usually
Speaker 1: used from a perspective of white folks. She was like no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna WE'RE gonna turn that into black folks like.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make it really about what black people really
Speaker 1: need to be able to heal, because we have so
Speaker 1: much trauma from the moment that we've stopped here exactly.
Speaker 1: And and it was dope, because that friends giving Deepa
Speaker 1: together these beautiful flowers. So we really honored like in
Speaker 1: a way that you know, like you give people flowers
Speaker 1: while they here. We talked about that a line. So
Speaker 1: all these young people who are doing this great work,
Speaker 1: a lot of times they're just doing it, they're grinding,
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily doing it for the recognition, and for us,
Speaker 1: we were like no, we're recognizing our folks. Were really
Speaker 1: bringing them to the table. We're gonna show them off
Speaker 1: Um and really get them involved and we're l a county.
Speaker 1: So we wasn't just showing off the folks in South Central,
Speaker 1: which is important, and we was in Pasadena. We have
Speaker 1: folks from Long Beach, we have folks from Compton Um,
Speaker 1: from everywhere to like really showcase like these are aren't
Speaker 1: people doing this work and we gotta make sure that
Speaker 1: they're uplifted in a real way, and that's a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: like just to be seen and to know that you
Speaker 1: are heard. And I feel like, no matter in any space,
Speaker 1: no matter what we're doing, that's the key. I mean
Speaker 1: that's why we are making sure that we get congressman,
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Caring Bat's elected, because she's somebody that can see us,
Speaker 1: that looks like us, who can understand us. That's one
Speaker 1: thing that I feel when we talk about diversity, because
Speaker 1: all these companies right now are talking about the diversity inclusion.
Speaker 1: They want to talk about real stories and things that matter. Well, hello,
Speaker 1: who are the people behind there telling the stories? Can
Speaker 1: I understand you, because there are things that I cannot
Speaker 1: be said, that just are felt. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: like a rhythm and which you move to. And if
Speaker 1: we're dancing to a different tune, what are we doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's why I think it's important that we infiltrate
Speaker 1: these spaces. And so one thing that I learned that
Speaker 1: the power is just like the black L A young Democrats.
Speaker 1: Will we do specifically is, like we take up space
Speaker 1: in different areas. Like I'm in comms like these, gonna fundraise.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be Treasury, but also a deep organizers. Glyn
Speaker 1: does everything, so breaking out comes, you're doing all the communication.
Speaker 1: That's just my thing, like personally, like when my personal
Speaker 1: like my personal life is like stories matter and that,
Speaker 1: like we have been all under the influence that people
Speaker 1: who are wider or richer have the are like get
Speaker 1: to lead and frame the narrative and we have the
Speaker 1: we have the benefit and we just respond to that.
Speaker 1: But I feel like if you put the people who
Speaker 1: are experiencing the issue closest to the solution, those voices,
Speaker 1: those narratives, those stories, then people starts feeling seen and heard.
Speaker 1: And so my thing, Cheyenne thing, is always in the message,
Speaker 1: the talking points, the look, the brand of politics, because
Speaker 1: when people were not politics but of community organizing or
Speaker 1: base building or whatever it is that we're trying to change,
Speaker 1: because if people could see themselves in the marketing and
Speaker 1: the advertising, even when you talk to them like Oh,
Speaker 1: why you want to come to the sneaker balls, like
Speaker 1: that's the biggest blackest political social event, and because you
Speaker 1: have to see yourselves matter. I don't mean to like
Speaker 1: go backwards in the conversation, but when you asked like why,
Speaker 1: why I joined blade, it was that simple. Blade was black,
Speaker 1: Um and I work in political spaces statewide, academia, and
Speaker 1: everybody's white or everybody's old, and here you have black
Speaker 1: young people doing dope things and mobilizing, uh political, doing
Speaker 1: the work, you know what I'm saying, and that's not
Speaker 1: happening uh anywhere that I am so once you day
Speaker 1: hit me up, it was easy, like Oh, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: the black Los Angeles Young Democrats. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: that meant, but it was some black young folks and
Speaker 1: I was with it and here we are. So what
Speaker 1: do you think? You think people are scared? Why don't?
Speaker 1: Why don't you think more people of Color, minorities, are
Speaker 1: involved in politics for real? Like, what what do you
Speaker 1: think it is? They don't feel like nothing's gonna Change.
Speaker 1: But you know, are things changing? Because I think, because
Speaker 1: I mean we'll look at things, we'll vote on things,
Speaker 1: people talk about things and they'll say, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, and sometimes they'll say, well, such and such
Speaker 1: as an office and nothing happened. Then another person get
Speaker 1: offers and then all that happens. But things take time, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that one thing that we like the
Speaker 1: big misses that like no one took civics classes, like
Speaker 1: and growing up in L A U S D, like,
Speaker 1: if I didn't take AP government and politics, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have known like sort of like how things work, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think that a lot of people don't believe
Speaker 1: in the system because the system wasn't meant to for
Speaker 1: us to thrive, right, and so even politics, we have
Speaker 1: to fight our way into that system. You know, we
Speaker 1: have to fight for the right to vote, we have
Speaker 1: to fight to be the first thing. We continue, you know,
Speaker 1: to be the first, and so I feel like, when
Speaker 1: Gilanni mentions, one of our ways is to build platforms
Speaker 1: where people who wouldn't traditionally engage in the politics, you know,
Speaker 1: are engaged because when you break things down to the
Speaker 1: most like basic level and say, like, if you do this,
Speaker 1: this can happen, you know, but you don't have to
Speaker 1: do it by yourself. Other people are here, and so
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people aren't in the
Speaker 1: politics because right now we're just in a very polarized world,
Speaker 1: like politics like it. You know, we're gonna be reading
Speaker 1: think pieces for the next twenty years on, like the
Speaker 1: twenties right, like just around between like the political, social
Speaker 1: you know, instagram, like all these things that have affected
Speaker 1: people's decision making, and I think people are you know,
Speaker 1: you have two different sides. Some people this is inspiring
Speaker 1: them to get into politics because they're like, what the
Speaker 1: I don't know if I curse, but what's happening? Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like they're like what the Hell is
Speaker 1: going on? And then other people are like man, fun that,
Speaker 1: like that's too much. These things don't care about us,
Speaker 1: these white people just want our money. You know, you
Speaker 1: have some people who are even black people, don't understand
Speaker 1: the process. Like just because I voted for something in
Speaker 1: one doesn't mean that the problem is gonna get solved
Speaker 1: in one. So now you gotta have it like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, making this up like a task for you.
Speaker 1: Gotta get the money has to be allocated. Then they
Speaker 1: got to hire the group of people to implement it
Speaker 1: and then they got to do a first phase of
Speaker 1: listening rounds and it's gonna take about three years. Like
Speaker 1: the Metro is just not coming down cur that's just
Speaker 1: been happening for four years and people like when is
Speaker 1: it ever gonna be over? But you know, folks don't
Speaker 1: know that l a county is invested into transportation. So
Speaker 1: for the next time I want to talk about because
Speaker 1: I didn't realize, like eve been talking about the public
Speaker 1: like with the bus there, the employees are down eight
Speaker 1: hundred or whatever. So the guy was explaining to me,
Speaker 1: because I'm like so the bus just may come and
Speaker 1: may not come. He's like, well, depending on if anyone's sick,
Speaker 1: they usually have pi five people, you know, on deck.
Speaker 1: No one's there. So if someone calls in sick or
Speaker 1: can't show up, that's a whole other forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: So if we're talking about up level in L A
Speaker 1: and making sure that people have jobs, how can they
Speaker 1: get to the point where they can have jobs? Then, furthermore,
Speaker 1: if we're raising taxes, where's the money going? Where's it going? That?
Speaker 1: That's the question. People people in power to make the
Speaker 1: decisions right. If change is hired, she's gonna hire people
Speaker 1: who look like her, from her community, who often don't
Speaker 1: have these opportunities, for all of our decision makers historically
Speaker 1: don't look like us. And the people who are up
Speaker 1: top right now, the grass tops, Um, it's just not
Speaker 1: enough of us. So we we gotta elect people, because
Speaker 1: if you don't got to see that at the table,
Speaker 1: were on the menu. You know for real and listen
Speaker 1: and I think that it's it's just more. And when
Speaker 1: people say, Oh, you have to have people who look
Speaker 1: like us, like why? Because, like Nigga, I'm from. I
Speaker 1: took the bus from commercial in Manchester to university high
Speaker 1: school on Santa Monica and Barrington. Then I took a
Speaker 1: bus to my school dance class at when Lula Washington
Speaker 1: was on Peko. Then I want here. So when they're
Speaker 1: asking when, so if I'm on a task force, for instance,
Speaker 1: for Metro and like, I can give experience based off
Speaker 1: of I can give insight based off of experience and
Speaker 1: what's happening. You have people who are sharing ideologies and
Speaker 1: theories based off the things they've never expend what they could.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about real life with real people in
Speaker 1: real estates exactly. And that's the difference between like, Oh,
Speaker 1: what does it matter, nothing's gonna Change. Like you don't
Speaker 1: know that one black person in that room ane the
Speaker 1: outcome from this not happened or this happening. And I
Speaker 1: could think of like one tangible thing. I think of
Speaker 1: like a benefit that black people don't know. It has
Speaker 1: to do with representation. Is, you know, how a lot
Speaker 1: of black people now have more daycares, right, but a
Speaker 1: lot of that came out of Holly and Sydney's leadership
Speaker 1: at crystal stairs l a that allowed more. I don't
Speaker 1: have I don't even know the technical terms anymore because
Speaker 1: they happened so long ago. But Holly Mitchell, who's our
Speaker 1: current second district supervisor, and Um Senator Com lagger, who's
Speaker 1: our state senator, you know, they both lad crystal stairs
Speaker 1: and crystal stairs is like the leading, you know, child
Speaker 1: development agency in California. And so what they did was
Speaker 1: they allowed vouchers. You know, they realized people aren't getting
Speaker 1: childcare because of money, right, like so they have vouchers.
Speaker 1: So now you could take, you know, your child to
Speaker 1: your Auntie's official you know baby, you know, babysitting, you know, childcare, daycare,
Speaker 1: because of the because black women who understand what other
Speaker 1: black women and other Latino women are experiencing. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that's the only reason, because obviously there are a
Speaker 1: lot of factors like social, economic and all these things,
Speaker 1: which is based on a lot of displacement when it
Speaker 1: comes down. So it's a triple down to fact. So
Speaker 1: people are like, well, I don't know what these policies
Speaker 1: do for me. It's just like well, Shirley Webberg, like
Speaker 1: you know, you have people who are in office who
Speaker 1: are allowing, allowing, not allowing, but entrepreneurship is easier because
Speaker 1: of certain people being in office. You know, the creative
Speaker 1: and economy was invested in because of our previous supervisor.
Speaker 1: Really saw that. It was like l a county is a,
Speaker 1: you know, a creative economy. What does that look like?
Speaker 1: How do we change the county arts commission to now
Speaker 1: official department in L A county? So now my friend,
Speaker 1: my good friend, just got a fifty grant my homegirl,
Speaker 1: my homegirl, to to change her dance to her dance
Speaker 1: program that she has through her nonprofit that she just started,
Speaker 1: is now at Audubon middle school. So now they got
Speaker 1: all these kids. I grew up near Autubon on crenshaw
Speaker 1: and Martin Luther King, and so it's like that's important
Speaker 1: because people don't know that like one person being in
Speaker 1: the room, one black person, to black people, a group
Speaker 1: of young black people who are using their political influence,
Speaker 1: are giving their personal experiences and expertise on what they
Speaker 1: think the outcome should be and how that trickles down
Speaker 1: into people having access to funding, people being able to
Speaker 1: have their own childcare centers, people being able to afford
Speaker 1: local childcare centers, the childcare tax credit, like the things
Speaker 1: that we're benefiting that people think, oh well, when Donald
Speaker 1: Trump I was in office we got that like yeah,
Speaker 1: and against because it passed when Obama was like that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen overnight. But the problem is, and I'll stop
Speaker 1: after this, but the problem is in politics people forget
Speaker 1: about the marketing right, like we get we we we
Speaker 1: we follow what we see. So we on Instagram, we
Speaker 1: see all the cool ship or whatever. But like, imagine
Speaker 1: if there was more people doing the work who took
Speaker 1: the marketing and branding aspects of it and told people
Speaker 1: was actually going on. And that's why you're seeing Tiktok
Speaker 1: girl a lot right now, because people are being very
Speaker 1: using the marketing and I said, a lot of opinionated
Speaker 1: pieces and talk. I don't have about here. Politics is
Speaker 1: not very accessible. Um, if you're not in the crowd,
Speaker 1: you really don't know what's going on and people don't
Speaker 1: realize there's commissions, there's boards that have a lot of
Speaker 1: influence on what type of decisions a lot of these politicians,
Speaker 1: elected officials, make right. But like people like us, like
Speaker 1: Cheyenne like like, they need to be in these positions because,
Speaker 1: like she mentioned, right you have one or two black
Speaker 1: folks that can steer the conversation right, you can start
Speaker 1: looking at things from an equity perspective. Historically, that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's a lot from decision makers, from these types of
Speaker 1: high offices. They just don't know exactly. So we want to,
Speaker 1: you know, make people aware and make make things accessible,
Speaker 1: and I think you got we gotta make sure that
Speaker 1: put mic over, we gotta make sure that once our
Speaker 1: people are at the table, once our folks are in office,
Speaker 1: that we're holding them accountable, and a part of that
Speaker 1: is breaking it down so that it is accessible, it's
Speaker 1: marketing it so that we people know, like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is about to be, you know, on the table and
Speaker 1: we need to make sure that folk for voting this
Speaker 1: way and it's only going from like I want to know,
Speaker 1: how do I find out right, and I'll say it's
Speaker 1: folks like Cheyenne who really understand communications in a way that, like,
Speaker 1: it really becomes accessible. And you asked earlier why did
Speaker 1: we join blade? Like Gilani called me, like it was
Speaker 1: the calls and I got multiple calls before I even,
Speaker 1: you know, went to the first meeting I ever did.
Speaker 1: It was Gilanni. Bro You're coming through, like it's that
Speaker 1: level of organizing, that level of really bringing our folks
Speaker 1: together to really say, like you could be here too,
Speaker 1: you gotta be here, we need you here, like why
Speaker 1: you so? Why is it about? It to you? I
Speaker 1: feel like I really from, like to come from a
Speaker 1: community where, you know, we deserve let's talk about what
Speaker 1: it was telling me. What does this mean? You can
Speaker 1: say all day, but what have you been through? Like, okay,
Speaker 1: why should I believe? I feel like going to high
Speaker 1: school where it's all of us are black and Brown.
Speaker 1: All of us, like every single one of us, is
Speaker 1: black and Brown, but how many of us actually got
Speaker 1: to college? How many of us actually when I got
Speaker 1: to college? Why? Everybody Look White and I've never seen
Speaker 1: these many white people in one place before like that.
Speaker 1: Don't make no sense. Like all of my all of
Speaker 1: my homies in high school, why didn't we get to
Speaker 1: make it out? Why did why am I the only
Speaker 1: person I know that went to Harvard other than the
Speaker 1: motherfucker's I met at Harvard. You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's the it's the levels of being
Speaker 1: able to understand, like we don't get the quality resources
Speaker 1: that our folks need, and that's why we gotta be
Speaker 1: at the table. That's why we gotta make sure that
Speaker 1: we're fighting for those things, because a lot of times
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't say like, oh no, no, they're
Speaker 1: telling us like now, you're smart, ain't, you're smart, D
Speaker 1: that's why you're getting here, that's why you end up
Speaker 1: where you're going. No, that's not why all of us
Speaker 1: are smart. All of us are. We pull up because
Speaker 1: when you're in these spaces, you realize you see people
Speaker 1: from the Labor I think about like Michelle read. I
Speaker 1: just like love Michelle read. She is just like hard.
Speaker 1: She's like an old uh in the older generation. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say she's a she's yeah, and but
Speaker 1: she's not. You know, like in these typical spaces, you
Speaker 1: gotta pull up and you know what people think? I
Speaker 1: have your suit, I have this. No, Michelle read in
Speaker 1: her older generation self. She wears her purple hair and
Speaker 1: she and she, and she'll be on a zoom call
Speaker 1: in her house dress and her bonnet and be like
Speaker 1: send it up, send it up, yes, my favorite assembly man.
Speaker 1: So why we don't have this? And so you realize
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily about look, the look. It's about pulling up,
Speaker 1: because the loud look, you know, incorporate. It's like the
Speaker 1: big the best marketer wins. Will the loudest person wins
Speaker 1: in politics, like the people who make the noise and
Speaker 1: the people who have the most money. And I think
Speaker 1: it's important. Like you know, even when we think about
Speaker 1: Karen's campaign, it's like, yeah, Rick Caruso has a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but like, we get the most money. If
Speaker 1: you have all this money to put behind your campaign,
Speaker 1: why couldn't you build all these um facilities and things
Speaker 1: like that for the homeless? Because why is the money
Speaker 1: coming but more partantly, if you have the money and
Speaker 1: you're saying, Hey, I'm for the community, I'm for the people,
Speaker 1: why did it take now for your campaign? Why weren't
Speaker 1: you just doing it before? They're not doing it. It's
Speaker 1: it's a law and and it's power and and he
Speaker 1: or she who makes the laws hold the power. So
Speaker 1: that's why we have to go vote. I just looked down.
Speaker 1: I got traylon Martin Tattoo. Don't know him, changed my
Speaker 1: life his story, but reality is I'll show y'all in
Speaker 1: the second. But if legislation wasn't past, that stand your
Speaker 1: ground couldn't be a law, that young black man would
Speaker 1: be alive today. Brianna Taylor would be alive today if
Speaker 1: legislation didn't pass for no knock warrants. So our lives
Speaker 1: are literally on the ballot, you know. So like we're
Speaker 1: voting because if not, we will die. Like there. We
Speaker 1: are an endangered species as black folks, and so the
Speaker 1: only way that we can, can weaponize ourselves right now
Speaker 1: without getting pistols and becoming militant like Malcolm X, is
Speaker 1: to show up to the polls, is to organize and
Speaker 1: do the grassroots work, and I think that's why you
Speaker 1: start to see all these activations and campaigns and getting
Speaker 1: people to vote and people being more active. It's George
Speaker 1: Floyd isn't the first black man that's been gunned down
Speaker 1: by a police officer. This has been happened. But people tired.
Speaker 1: And guess what's happening? Black people are running for office.
Speaker 1: Black women buying larger running for office right now, and
Speaker 1: research shows when black women run for office, they win. Well,
Speaker 1: black women do anything. Everybody, everybody, and so let me.
Speaker 1: So when we talk about communications, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the premise of everything right now. WHO's talking? WHO's listening?
Speaker 1: And as we think about communication, like we find that
Speaker 1: people just have things to say, but it is about
Speaker 1: who's listening. So, with that being said, are you against
Speaker 1: desirability when it comes to politics, like, is there a
Speaker 1: way that you have to show up in order for
Speaker 1: people to listen? You know what I really feel like,
Speaker 1: in politics, particularly, the realest person will win. People, like,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be real? Because people we're
Speaker 1: not trying to tell their business people say people in
Speaker 1: politics are here to lie in skin. Look at Ath.
Speaker 1: I'm not this. I know she's not a black woman,
Speaker 1: but look at AOC right. Yeah, no millennial has ever
Speaker 1: been elected to the congressional level. Why people won't that real?
Speaker 1: Why do people love Cardi B? Because she really like,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what the authenticity is going to with,
Speaker 1: exactly and so and so. That's why I feel like
Speaker 1: we even think about like the roles in politics, while
Speaker 1: we need more consultants, like, if somebody likes people's image,
Speaker 1: then like you need to be an image consultant or
Speaker 1: a PR for a politician because, like, some of them
Speaker 1: have their heads so down that all they care about
Speaker 1: is the legislation and you realize you don't win votes
Speaker 1: based off of just your track record people. You know,
Speaker 1: with people, we gotta this has to be a poppy.
Speaker 1: It's a popularity context to your charisma matters. But I
Speaker 1: feel like with communications, but we will start seeing more
Speaker 1: of especially now, since younger people are just like shifting
Speaker 1: the narrative and millennials, Engene Z, is that you're gonna
Speaker 1: start seeing and more authentic home grown people, unless people
Speaker 1: who are just indoctrinated running for office. And I think
Speaker 1: that it's not just about being in office because, like
Speaker 1: for me, people love saying when you're gonna run for office.
Speaker 1: Never I'm just a little too ghetto, a little too incorrect.
Speaker 1: I want to be right on the outside, because influence
Speaker 1: is not always just from being an elected official. Like
Speaker 1: you get to make the final vote, and so you
Speaker 1: need the person who's who can move in the room
Speaker 1: the best way, but your team around you and the
Speaker 1: organizations that you're connected with are really where you're getting,
Speaker 1: where they're where they're getting, like their issue cuts. You know,
Speaker 1: where they're realizing, like what do people care about the most?
Speaker 1: And I think that was super dope. Now that, even
Speaker 1: though it's super polarizes that people care about you realize
Speaker 1: people actually do care. They probably have too many opinions
Speaker 1: on these things, and I think it's the hard job
Speaker 1: we have, not just as the black l a young DEM's,
Speaker 1: but I would say that the California Democratic Party or
Speaker 1: just people who just don't want to be under like
Speaker 1: a certain title, is that, like you gotta do the work,
Speaker 1: but you gotta appeal to the masses at the same time,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's what we do fun it's like,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we got a DJ, but did you vote?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we got a DJ. We're talking about one seven. Oh,
Speaker 1: what's a seven girl. Did you know that a B
Speaker 1: stands for assembly bill, like and then girls. So there twelve,
Speaker 1: D and seventeen one. Let me tell you what it
Speaker 1: goes on. Let me saying how this go, like, you
Speaker 1: have to be real until like I made that up.
Speaker 1: I don't have no idea whatthing I probably read it
Speaker 1: earlier today. But what I'm saying is, like we got
Speaker 1: to start making the message as clear, succinct, as simple
Speaker 1: as possible people could relate and talk to me like
Speaker 1: you're talking to me. Don't talk to me like I
Speaker 1: mean you know. You know I'm somebody else, and so
Speaker 1: I think that that's what's super dope about what we
Speaker 1: offer as a black loss Angeles Young Democrats is like
Speaker 1: we really show up as our full seals, and our
Speaker 1: full seals was being about that work at the same time, like,
Speaker 1: and that's what a lot of other and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to share at the party. I ain't see you there. Okay,
Speaker 1: authentic sales. That's her authentic se she will be gone.
Speaker 1: will be gone. Work from home is work from anywhere.
Speaker 1: ADDS to something that Shayan said right like me and
Speaker 1: my homeboys are. OUR MOTTO IS WE'RE gonna have respect
Speaker 1: in the streets and in the boardroom, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what makes us dynamic. Right, this board Um people
Speaker 1: like a o c right, you can be able to
Speaker 1: navigate and multiple sectors, multiple spaces and still get the
Speaker 1: point across. They will get the message across and I
Speaker 1: think that's why KB is dynamic as well. Right, people
Speaker 1: don't know kb was an organizing activist in the eighties
Speaker 1: in south central right in the in the heart and
Speaker 1: the peak of the crack cocaine epidemic. They just see
Speaker 1: the KB the Congress to congresswoman. But I think that's
Speaker 1: the type of leadership we need in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: that's also the type of leadership with cultivating here at Blake.
Speaker 1: Come on, and then when you when you in blade,
Speaker 1: like you just don't leave the way you came. Yes,
Speaker 1: more networks, better jobs, a actumen like shout out to
Speaker 1: our previous board members who have like like rolls like
Speaker 1: in so many different places that like I don't want
Speaker 1: to just name three out of like so many, because
Speaker 1: I got called out like Oh, there's more board members
Speaker 1: in those three. was like, well, were you? What you doing?
Speaker 1: Big Deal. It's a big deal that one of our
Speaker 1: former board members is now in the California Assembly, like
Speaker 1: Isaac Bryan, you know, like that's exactly, like that's huge, like,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody gets around of applause to that. That's
Speaker 1: my dream. Wow. So let me ask you this. What
Speaker 1: is this whole thing about? Because we're talking about the communication,
Speaker 1: making sure we're sure we show up as our authentic selves.
Speaker 1: What does the ask a black millennial campaign about? Okay,
Speaker 1: so ask a black Omenio. Ask a black millennial campaign
Speaker 1: is we started off very strong. It's like what, what
Speaker 1: do y'all, he gets, care about? Like seriously, what do
Speaker 1: you care about? Because those of us, because you have
Speaker 1: to remember, like those of us who are in this space,
Speaker 1: like we could be some armes, like I mean, we
Speaker 1: still have our own free minds and we think what
Speaker 1: we think or whatever. But, like, we know, we're slightly
Speaker 1: aware of what's going on. Like you know when everybody
Speaker 1: when the shade room posts like California is not gonna
Speaker 1: have no more cars, gas cars, it's like yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we voted on that two years ago. What's your think?
Speaker 1: Somebody found the headline and posted it and went viral. But,
Speaker 1: you know, ask a black millennials like, well, what do
Speaker 1: you care about all these? So, because what happens is
Speaker 1: is that the most popular topic ends up going to
Speaker 1: push the furthest right. So it's like everybody can say, Oh,
Speaker 1: we all want reparations, and I mean I do, but
Speaker 1: like the average about people are like, well, I remember.
Speaker 1: Here's a perfect example. I remember working in the consulting
Speaker 1: heart righting someone and we were doing some having the
Speaker 1: conversations with developers and they were talking about like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do housing with with no parking spots because
Speaker 1: millennials don't want to drive. I said, excuse me, I
Speaker 1: was so glad I was in the room and I
Speaker 1: would I was in the room to be a note taker,
Speaker 1: not necessarily. I was like the assistant, not like the
Speaker 1: person talking about. I was just like asking milleny. I
Speaker 1: just want to let you know that it's not that
Speaker 1: we don't want to drive. We want to be able
Speaker 1: to afford cars in L A. We want to afford
Speaker 1: the cars and we're using uber because it's the only
Speaker 1: option that we have, not because we just want to
Speaker 1: live a carless life in Los Angeles, Not New York.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not even just cars. The registration in
Speaker 1: L A is crazy. I just got a seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollar bill. Like you know, I'm a doctor now, so
Speaker 1: I can pay anybody about our commuter. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of money. Like, I come from nonprofit and what we
Speaker 1: were playing our employees. Nobody can't afford seven hundred dollar
Speaker 1: registration on top of a car note, on top of
Speaker 1: this housing. The rent is astronomical in this city. It's
Speaker 1: it's and this is why, again, we gotta get people
Speaker 1: in places that can change that. Right legislation can help
Speaker 1: subsidize some of these issues that specifically are affecting us
Speaker 1: as black people. Yeah, and we have to understand and
Speaker 1: housing right now, it's definitely number one. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: why they ask a black millennial. Campaign was super important,
Speaker 1: because nobody was asking black millennials when people like, Oh,
Speaker 1: millennials don't want to do this, millennials don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. It's like those are white millennials. Now the
Speaker 1: conversations on Gen Z, because you know, the Tiktok really
Speaker 1: like talk. No, it did. I mean, I don't Tiok. No,
Speaker 1: I don't go to Tiktok. I definitely read the white
Speaker 1: papers and just F Y, I google lost of their
Speaker 1: searching due to Tiktok, because the younger generation searches for
Speaker 1: information on how to do stuff and where to find
Speaker 1: stuff on Tiktok and not Google. So it's like I
Speaker 1: don't have Tiktok, but I know how it works, I
Speaker 1: know it's functionalities and because I'm a communicator, it's important
Speaker 1: for me to know, because I felt like you're defending
Speaker 1: yourself about being on Tiktok. No, no, no no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just saying part of part of getting to
Speaker 1: people is knowing how they how they respond, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's what super dope about ask a black
Speaker 1: millennials that nobody was asking black millennials. It was always like, oh,
Speaker 1: millennials are looking for this, millennials aren't getting married because
Speaker 1: of this, millennials, are the divorce ris going down? It's
Speaker 1: like that those are not black people's experiences, and so
Speaker 1: that was our initial touch point when we first started
Speaker 1: a board, to start gauging conversations and maybe we might
Speaker 1: resurface that another time. It was really important for us
Speaker 1: for at least the first three months. Is just like
Speaker 1: start listening to people, because the people who were making
Speaker 1: the decisions on the younger generation. It was not they
Speaker 1: was not talking, it was not hidden for what we
Speaker 1: was experiencing. Oh, you guys don't want a car, you
Speaker 1: guys don't want to drive. It's like, no, I need
Speaker 1: some money, I want to all right, all right, we
Speaker 1: may not be riding the gbag that, yeah, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a little break and we come back. We
Speaker 1: need to talk about this black l a sneaker ball
Speaker 1: that blade is doing. We also want to talk to
Speaker 1: some people that saying, Hey, I want to get into politics,
Speaker 1: what do I need to do, and anything else in between,
Speaker 1: and how we need to get congresswoman Cameron Bass can't
Speaker 1: be elected. It's for you. Okay, guys, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: right back. Hole tight. That's it behind the curve and
Speaker 1: what's happening. Beautiful people, and you're done intoviting with Don Jay.
Speaker 1: It's just important for us to like create, like keep
Speaker 1: the culture of like what blade is, because like that's
Speaker 1: what's important. Like what's important is that people know there's
Speaker 1: always going to be this space that like I'm in.
Speaker 1: I like politics is. I don't want people making rules
Speaker 1: for me. I always got in trouble. So we're back y'all,
Speaker 1: in case you wondering, because she ain't going off and
Speaker 1: she said something. This was just verson no, this is no, no,
Speaker 1: but I want you to talk about why are you
Speaker 1: talking about the politics? That was a good part between
Speaker 1: its fine, but oh yeah, I had to catch those politics,
Speaker 1: because it's like I always got in trouble because, like,
Speaker 1: who made that rule? I remember getting so trouble when
Speaker 1: I was a second grade exactly. She signs so far nervous. Said,
Speaker 1: who made that rule? Can you hear me now? So
Speaker 1: I used to get in trouble, like who made that rule?
Speaker 1: I remember asking somebody who said who, who made that rule?
Speaker 1: Like why, like any know, they asked, like when young
Speaker 1: black person, a girl or you know girl. You know,
Speaker 1: they say, you keep on asking why? Why are you
Speaker 1: so difficult? Why are you so disruptive? You know, all
Speaker 1: those things, but it's just like, imagine, imagine if I
Speaker 1: didn't meet my eighth grade teacher, who said a year leader,
Speaker 1: like you talk, you talk a lot, but you can
Speaker 1: saying some stuff, and so like. And who really cultivated
Speaker 1: my leaderships, because I realized that's the first thing I
Speaker 1: do what I meet people. I'm like, I talk a lot,
Speaker 1: you know your truth. I never thought I would be
Speaker 1: in a dam club, let alone a president. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: organizing activism straight up on some alpam x tips. Um.
Speaker 1: But why not me? Why not us? And if you
Speaker 1: know American history, we shift the culture and everything exactly.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do it in politics, you know as well.
Speaker 1: And when I went to my first blade event, you know,
Speaker 1: I never thought I'll have a place in the party.
Speaker 1: I never thought, you know, what I had to say
Speaker 1: or would matter, or like, Oh, you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: like kick me out of here right. But then, you know,
Speaker 1: the last President Charity, shout out to charity, like she
Speaker 1: showed me you could be your authentic self, young black
Speaker 1: end in politics. And and then I was like okay,
Speaker 1: I'm so like, how do I get on the board?
Speaker 1: But yeah, ten years ago, like if you would have
Speaker 1: asked me, Oh, you know, you want to be a
Speaker 1: part of the party, you want to do this, I
Speaker 1: would have looked at you crazy, like I had a Um,
Speaker 1: probably a tinue. I shouldn't be saying that. A year,
Speaker 1: ten year like time period, I didn't vote at all
Speaker 1: because I was just so disengaged with the political sted.
Speaker 1: I I was in college. Thank God for College, Um. But,
Speaker 1: but no, I didn't vote. And then and, but, you know,
Speaker 1: fast forward. You know, I'M THE PRESIDENT OF A dim
Speaker 1: club and I say that. I'm saying all this because
Speaker 1: that's how important blade is and other groups are right
Speaker 1: folks that thought they would never do something right. When
Speaker 1: you can see yourself in it, it's different. You believe it.
Speaker 1: I hope that that's what we're doing, like for this board.
Speaker 1: I want that's what I want our legacy to be
Speaker 1: like blade got me into politics. It made me feel
Speaker 1: like I had a place, that my voice mattered and not,
Speaker 1: you know, not only was your verse her, but like
Speaker 1: it was important, because anybody can talk, anybody can be heard.
Speaker 1: But like, it's what you're saying is having you wait.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's a comp what's behind it? Right,
Speaker 1: and that's what that's what we're building here. Shout out.
Speaker 1: You know, you leaned into that Mike. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: just leaned no, no, but I was just thinking, just thinking,
Speaker 1: even like the fact that we're doing a black ball.
Speaker 1: I know we're not there yet. Like I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: like the fact that young people have a space. That
Speaker 1: is being like we're really thinking about how are we
Speaker 1: doing this beyond just the political like straight up, like
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about something like, like Shanne talked about,
Speaker 1: what really engages folks, what really brings people in right,
Speaker 1: and I think the sneaker ball really takes it to
Speaker 1: the next level in terms of young folks even who
Speaker 1: are like, okay, I can't pay that, but like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna Volunteer, I'M gonna come learn from y'all. I love
Speaker 1: what Y'all are doing. We went to a table and event,
Speaker 1: a barbecue with the mgas hills students and I could
Speaker 1: tell they were like into it, like okay, we see
Speaker 1: what y'all doing. Right, and Enne will always like she
Speaker 1: got the message in on point, on point every time.
Speaker 1: But like really thinking of about what is it that
Speaker 1: are gonna bring young people to the table? That wouldn't
Speaker 1: necessarily like you talked about from the beginning. So many
Speaker 1: of us think it ain't gonna Change. What, like, what
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Like, why would I get
Speaker 1: why should I get involved? But I feel like a
Speaker 1: part of it is you got to create that that opening,
Speaker 1: and I think in in a in a big way,
Speaker 1: the sneaker ball. We feel it's really gonna do that. Right.
Speaker 1: It's our tenth anniversary and we really are thinking about
Speaker 1: how do we set up this legacy for the next
Speaker 1: ten years, for the next the next board that she
Speaker 1: ane was talking about. That really takes this to the
Speaker 1: next level. Alright, Dr d, what's up? You the chair?
Speaker 1: We're talking about the L A sneaker ball. This is huge. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be evolved. So right, you know she's
Speaker 1: seeing the event. So you know what's gonna be crazy,
Speaker 1: but hit the Neil, you know. So what's happening in
Speaker 1: October seven? October seven. Where is it gonna be located?
Speaker 1: We're gonna be a band devices. It's a black old
Speaker 1: art gallery in west at West Adams has been super gentrified.
Speaker 1: So the fact that a black man was able to
Speaker 1: buy this our gallery, we have to show up and support. Actually,
Speaker 1: all of our blade events we are very intentional with
Speaker 1: our dollars. We always support black businesses. So, Um, you're
Speaker 1: gonna YOU'RE gonna be dressed up, we're gonna be fly.
Speaker 1: I know you see us today, we're looking at Hella
Speaker 1: casually like a person, like the everyday people you know yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but we're gonna, we're gonna put on our suits,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna put on our cocktail dresses, but,
Speaker 1: you know, but then we're gonna put on our kicks.
Speaker 1: You know, sneaker culture is is real. I just tried
Speaker 1: to get these off white air forces and they like
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars now, and so somebody show up with those,
Speaker 1: are gonna be mad. But now we're gonna it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. Back I said. I said off white.
Speaker 1: You know, we said black. Shout out the virgil rest
Speaker 1: in peace. You know, it's gonna be a super dope
Speaker 1: event and what we're really trying to do is do
Speaker 1: it big like, because we're black, like we deserve the
Speaker 1: best of the best and this event is gonna be Premier.
Speaker 1: We got premier sponsors. I'm like, we can announce a
Speaker 1: fuel and we'RE gonna announce some big ones. So I
Speaker 1: don't forget everybody, but we have amazing sponsors. First of all,
Speaker 1: shout out to Isaac Bryant. He's hosting our V I
Speaker 1: P reception. So v I P tickets. We got Tin
Speaker 1: Tin Wine Bar Inglewood sponsoring that. So if your V
Speaker 1: I p. You know, we're gonna be sipping some Veno.
Speaker 1: We got the L A rams are super bowl champions
Speaker 1: are sponsoring the event like. So we really are making waves, Um,
Speaker 1: and doing this in a way that democratic clubs have
Speaker 1: not done this before. A lot of our fundraising before
Speaker 1: it's been on membership based. Right, we need members, but
Speaker 1: in order to do this good work, in order to
Speaker 1: support and get black folks selected, we need resources and
Speaker 1: we need dollars, and so we've been asking our black
Speaker 1: counterparts and partners, hey, support this event. We young black
Speaker 1: folks really out here trying to do the work and, Um,
Speaker 1: it's been crazy. We still got some fundraising to do.
Speaker 1: So what are we doing, Y'all? We we are reaching
Speaker 1: out to sponsors. We got crazy different levels. Oh my
Speaker 1: bachelor like. Well, I gave you a lot. were honoring
Speaker 1: congresswoman Kar Bass. Yeah, shout out to KB and the
Speaker 1: reason is, and I think it's important that we tell
Speaker 1: the story. I don't think we hit that that ten
Speaker 1: years ago, Blade was actually the idea was founded and
Speaker 1: Karen Bass's living room shut the front door, and that
Speaker 1: is exactly why it was no better person that we
Speaker 1: honored on our tenure anniversary elected and she would definitely
Speaker 1: be elected, uh, and so we're super excited. You know,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have done it without her. In fact, we
Speaker 1: changed the date. We was like no, this, this Karen,
Speaker 1: Karen Bass, must be there, she must be president and
Speaker 1: we must honor this this moment. I love that. So
Speaker 1: we keep saying we gotta GET KB elected. Right. Why
Speaker 1: is the election on November eight so important, like for Real,
Speaker 1: for especially? We talked about minorities. Now I'm sure that
Speaker 1: I could probably throw it to each one of you
Speaker 1: guys and tell me how we can affect your family. So,
Speaker 1: d how does this election affect you? and Ot, it's
Speaker 1: you know, for me, that's that's not even about me.
Speaker 1: and Ot is bigger than but I'm just saying we
Speaker 1: gotta get on a personal level of how this can
Speaker 1: affect because this is how people gonna relate to it.
Speaker 1: I'm in crenshaw right, so I live in high park
Speaker 1: and the reality is the resources are not in high
Speaker 1: park that need to be there. Right. We have gang violence.
Speaker 1: I'm in the sixties, rest in peace and Nipsey, uh, drugs.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful community. We're just under resources, and so
Speaker 1: we need someone like Karen Bass who understands this community.
Speaker 1: Community coalition is just down the street on crenshaw over
Speaker 1: my rather, who understands the community that we live in
Speaker 1: and the needs of our community. And so when I
Speaker 1: see kb, I know she sees me. This is why
Speaker 1: this is important, and she understands me and she understands
Speaker 1: the needs of not only me but my friends, my cousins,
Speaker 1: my aunts, my uncles, are families, the youth. More importantly,
Speaker 1: Um and KB always rides and shows up. I remember
Speaker 1: being young. I'm a little older and Karen BASSTOBN, so
Speaker 1: you're a little older. But, but, but kb always showed
Speaker 1: up for me. She's always answered my call Um and
Speaker 1: and saw something in me even then that I didn't
Speaker 1: see in myself as a young person. And she's still
Speaker 1: doing that. Is Heading up her her young folks getting
Speaker 1: out the vote and doing that work and show. For me,
Speaker 1: it's about the future. Like I think I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: good anywhere. I just told them I'm good on any
Speaker 1: m OK boulevard. What I'm saying. But some people in
Speaker 1: our community are hurting and we go back to housing.
Speaker 1: I live downtown for a little bit, about a year
Speaker 1: homelessness is crazy and Covid nineteen has further, further exasperated
Speaker 1: these issues. And when you go on ski road you
Speaker 1: see us. It's crazy. It saddens me. It sickens me,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to even mention the opponent, but
Speaker 1: the only person who can help playing this up a
Speaker 1: scaring bass. Absolutely, She's the only one. Absolutely the Um,
Speaker 1: you know, when you asked like Y K B Y,
Speaker 1: now I have like two. And then also, why the election?
Speaker 1: Why the elected? Well, you know. Well, why the election?
Speaker 1: So I'll take it on like a macro level. So
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles l a county, municipality, and then L A,
Speaker 1: their their budgets and the municipality, like how they governed,
Speaker 1: the amount of people their government are bigger than some
Speaker 1: states right. And so you think about how Progressive California is.
Speaker 1: When things happen in L A, they happened in l
Speaker 1: a county. When things happen in l a county, they
Speaker 1: happen in California. When things happen in California, it puts
Speaker 1: a wave across the country and that's a fact. And
Speaker 1: so that's why we are, we have been so progressive
Speaker 1: for so long. Mean Women's rights, climate change, I mean
Speaker 1: like we we can do better at mass incarceration. We
Speaker 1: can definitely do better there. Um, the housing market, of course,
Speaker 1: but just in general. When you think about I think
Speaker 1: about when I went to grambling, I got I study
Speaker 1: politics because the difference between living in L A and
Speaker 1: Gramblin Louisiana. Yeah, I went to HBC, though, about to
Speaker 1: be so lit. It was under resourced, like legit. That's
Speaker 1: why it was because there was no resource. All you
Speaker 1: can do is that fun because I'm talking about my
Speaker 1: talk about my school. You come on how that's like, okay,
Speaker 1: but I say, what I was is, when you have
Speaker 1: a black woman in charge of one of the biggest municipalities,
Speaker 1: the biggest budgets that are bigger than most states, you
Speaker 1: then have someone who can yield power with the history
Speaker 1: of coalition building, and I think that's important for people
Speaker 1: to like know. And and so I can't stand people. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me start say that, because that's really because I
Speaker 1: don't want to judge people and where they are and
Speaker 1: like politics, but I don't like when people base their
Speaker 1: full opinion on someone over a series of commercials you
Speaker 1: saw during your Super Bowl. Say, I say the loudest
Speaker 1: commercial is always what we don't want, because that means
Speaker 1: they have the most money, and money is never on
Speaker 1: the side of people. And so I think that is
Speaker 1: super important. For a black woman who has a history
Speaker 1: of building coalition, who's from the city. She went to
Speaker 1: Hamilton's high school. Okay, she graduated from Hamiltons High School,
Speaker 1: like I remember going up there after Ching Games to
Speaker 1: see my little boo in high school. Like someone who
Speaker 1: graduated from Hamilton's, who built a nonprofit off of like
Speaker 1: I started my nonprofit after trading on. Martin died her
Speaker 1: with the civil uprisings, um the political of the uprisings, with,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to call him riots, but
Speaker 1: to me they were riots. But, like you know, with
Speaker 1: all the things that were happening after ridney king and so,
Speaker 1: like her, her one idea of like what was happening
Speaker 1: in her community has now employed my own friends, been
Speaker 1: lasting over twenty five years and hasn't had to make
Speaker 1: a huge impact. And when you think about the issues
Speaker 1: that we're experiencing, yet everybody, everybody is wearing on the
Speaker 1: same topics right, like everybody's running on crime. Crime. Now,
Speaker 1: how homelessness, Housing, the economic workforce, but really, like, do
Speaker 1: you have a history of building coalition to actually get
Speaker 1: ship done? And I think that that's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest differences between KB and everyone else. Like, yeah, AOC
Speaker 1: is the more Popular Congress woman, and I'm not I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying she don't get it done, but I
Speaker 1: know it's like Karen Bass's track record is huge, like
Speaker 1: she's known for getting ship done, and she is a
Speaker 1: black woman who can get ship done, but she's from here.
Speaker 1: She's not, you know, an outsider who's, you know, being
Speaker 1: a political operative to use moving someone else's interests. And
Speaker 1: you gotta have people who look like you. Come on, done,
Speaker 1: you have to. And a black woman. Come on, a
Speaker 1: black woman. We didn't let the others try already. Hast
Speaker 1: ever woman. She'll be the first ever woman. Man. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: that's using that line. When you see kb, you see me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: catch it, you pass it on to shout it. So
Speaker 1: what's up? Why? Why? Why is it important to you? Like,
Speaker 1: is it affectual family? I'll say I remember the first
Speaker 1: time I met Congress member Karen Bass and we were talking.
Speaker 1: My whole career and every like my passion has always
Speaker 1: been about young people, and I remember she was, she
Speaker 1: was sitting there, she was doing a little training and
Speaker 1: she was talking about the like when she started community
Speaker 1: coalition over thirty years ago and people were like, you know,
Speaker 1: like like really writing off young people. It was the
Speaker 1: last generation. It was really young people that were on
Speaker 1: the streets, that were like the mass in carceration. That's
Speaker 1: when it really started in terms of right like the
Speaker 1: crack o Kane epidemic and folks really the resources being
Speaker 1: taken out, right, reagonomics, like all these things that were
Speaker 1: really happening, and I think I remember her saying it
Speaker 1: so vividly. She was like, you know, like people wrote
Speaker 1: off all these young people. She was like, but if
Speaker 1: you think about these young people in gangs, especially the
Speaker 1: gang leaders, if you think about the folks who are
Speaker 1: selling these drugs, like they entrepreneurs, like we need to
Speaker 1: bring them into these organizations because if we think about
Speaker 1: what they really can contribute, if we really like water
Speaker 1: that right and really help them grow in a way
Speaker 1: that really thinks about how do we build up their
Speaker 1: leadership so that they could do good for our community
Speaker 1: in a way that they're not allowed to, in the
Speaker 1: way that they don't really get, like they don't see right,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, like that's what I want to do,
Speaker 1: like that's how I want to like contribute in a
Speaker 1: real way. And I think that's who she is. And
Speaker 1: when I think about like my younger sister, I'm thirty four,
Speaker 1: she's thirty three, like she spent fifteen years of her
Speaker 1: life on the street selling drugs before she was like
Speaker 1: all right, I'm ready to like change up, and she was.
Speaker 1: She gonna surpass all of us, like I'm talking about
Speaker 1: my accolades. She way better than me, right, but it's
Speaker 1: because nobody watered her right, like she didn't have that.
Speaker 1: And so I think about how do we get a
Speaker 1: chance to really, like, really take the time to build
Speaker 1: up our young people? And so, being now, being on
Speaker 1: her campaign, it's like you only see people like Obama,
Speaker 1: people like Bernie who really like saw the young people
Speaker 1: and said the young people need to go out and vote.
Speaker 1: Usually they write off young people. They don't care about
Speaker 1: they vote. They vote is so minuscule to them because
Speaker 1: young people aren't raising their voices because they don't think
Speaker 1: they could change it. Like you said, when you see
Speaker 1: the young people that are involved right now, they are
Speaker 1: so excited. We got a little kickback going on on
Speaker 1: set on Sunday at the beach. These young people are
Speaker 1: like kick back for caring, BASS KB, for KB, like
Speaker 1: these are them, like I'm just, I'm just over here,
Speaker 1: I'm just over here and suppartment. But it's like it's
Speaker 1: like super dope. They got lottle fire going on and
Speaker 1: they're registering go to vote. They're telling people they got
Speaker 1: the little you know, they do this little mysterious thing.
Speaker 1: So they got a picture and then they got the
Speaker 1: date of the election where, you know, on a t shirt.
Speaker 1: They got selling merge. They're gonna do the little tie
Speaker 1: Tye with the Merg like. It's all young people that
Speaker 1: really can spread the word to other young people. What?
Speaker 1: I don't care. Well, you know what, I still on care.
Speaker 1: So whatever. They can only speak to each other. I
Speaker 1: can't tell them. I can't tell them what. What makes
Speaker 1: them want to go out and vote? It's them right. Like,
Speaker 1: for one girl, she got this cute little video. She
Speaker 1: made a hundred and sixty five thousand views and she
Speaker 1: just started like three weeks ago and she and it's
Speaker 1: because young people can speak to other young people. It
Speaker 1: was some like pose like the first black mayor or
Speaker 1: some something like the first female black mayor, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: young people, that speaks to that fire. It's how they
Speaker 1: did it. Like you know what I mean. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I would never think to pose like them. You know.
Speaker 1: And so, so you, you're working on KP's campaign right now.
Speaker 1: What with her? She's amazing. She's so amazing today that
Speaker 1: she had a couple of interviews. Everybody was like. I
Speaker 1: was like, but, like, you know, what what De said
Speaker 1: is so real. Like today I was like, I can't
Speaker 1: look at her because I about my croptop. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: showing our baby hairs. I'm like trying to hide. She
Speaker 1: looks straight at me. She said, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, like, but like, like, like,
Speaker 1: not like how are you doing? How you doing? How
Speaker 1: are you doing? She was like how are you doing today?
Speaker 1: Like I was even like, you know, like, and I
Speaker 1: feel like that is who she is, like she's so
Speaker 1: down on earth. She's really about us, about the people,
Speaker 1: and that that to me speaks volumes. He kills you
Speaker 1: right there. That's what's up, man. I think they summed
Speaker 1: it up, but the thing I'll add is, well, this
Speaker 1: is history in the making. This is the first woman
Speaker 1: mayor black woman mayor. We have the opportunity to make history.
Speaker 1: People are gonna look at this time and say, wow,
Speaker 1: we got a black woman elected in the second largest
Speaker 1: city in America, maybe the most influential, influential city in America. Um.
Speaker 1: But personally, for me this is about my future. You,
Speaker 1: I'm a father. I want to make sure my kids
Speaker 1: grew up in a safe l a was safe to me.
Speaker 1: Resources for all of us right, quality education, good transportation,
Speaker 1: clean air, all of that. Um. And that's that's what
Speaker 1: it is for me. It's about the future generations. Like
Speaker 1: it's on the line. We are literally at a cross
Speaker 1: a cross roads. This, this election, can probably impact the
Speaker 1: next ten or twenty years of Los Angeles. We have
Speaker 1: the Olympics coming. GENTRIFICATION is rampant. Um. Speaking of m OK,
Speaker 1: I just moved m OK boulevard, so I know what's
Speaker 1: going on in the streets. I see it firsthand every day. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think Karen Bass is the person for the job,
Speaker 1: person for the job. And when you say implications, I
Speaker 1: think the implications are going to be far beyond twenty years.
Speaker 1: And here's why. If the person if, when Karen Bass
Speaker 1: Becomes Mayor Um, the coalition that's gonna be built full
Speaker 1: in the coalition. And when I said coalition, I'm saying like,
Speaker 1: not just bringing together people that sit at the table
Speaker 1: and just to pretend right, when you really collect the voices, when,
Speaker 1: when you're historically an organizer, you never not, you never
Speaker 1: stop organizing. And so when, as a community organizer, your
Speaker 1: biggest thing is building relationships with people, and so Karen
Speaker 1: Bass has built an insurmountable amount of relationships with people
Speaker 1: experiencing the issues. And so if Karen Bass is what's
Speaker 1: on the line is when the Olympics come, you know
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. They're gonna clean the city up
Speaker 1: and kick our assets. Not Not me, but you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna kick our asses out, because they need to
Speaker 1: the Olympics. The Olympics, the Olympics. The reason why these Metros,
Speaker 1: all these things are happening because we have to have
Speaker 1: the capacity. We have to have the capacity to house
Speaker 1: and to transport million, hundred thousands of people from across
Speaker 1: the country. And so what does that mean? It means
Speaker 1: said the world. What does that mean? Like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: what does Karen Bass have to do with that. We
Speaker 1: don't have someone who leads with the perspective of African, American,
Speaker 1: Latino and underserved, marginalized indigenous communities, like saying like hey,
Speaker 1: that is going to displace them. Hey, that doesn't are
Speaker 1: the job. ARE THEY gonna get? What's their percentage of
Speaker 1: the job's gonna get? Like anybody who can speak to
Speaker 1: what our needs are and can build coalition around it.
Speaker 1: You have the opposite, which is the opponent who is
Speaker 1: more about money and not about people, who will be
Speaker 1: who was willing and I believe, will clear our asses out,
Speaker 1: scared role like literally will clear our assets out and
Speaker 1: those people will just get displaced because it's about what optics,
Speaker 1: the optics, what it looks like, what it looks like,
Speaker 1: and nobody wants, and I don't want. I don't want
Speaker 1: people come into L A and and you know what
Speaker 1: we're experiencing now in our streets. But you need someone
Speaker 1: who is a trusted leader who can do that. And
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that we have the debunk.
Speaker 1: When people are like, well, Karen Bass doesn't care about
Speaker 1: black people, it's like what, because this other guy is
Speaker 1: going to take pictures with these over here taking pictures
Speaker 1: with people without their permission. But this woman has been
Speaker 1: doing the work for thirty years. So sometimes I keep
Speaker 1: it real. People. I say, listen, Karen Bass is. If,
Speaker 1: like if I was on my ship and I ran
Speaker 1: for mayor in ten years, like that's what it's. It's us,
Speaker 1: it's the people who started here and went and something
Speaker 1: about the Olympics real quick. I just want to just
Speaker 1: point this out. If you look at what happened when
Speaker 1: the Olympics came to Brazil, right, that's the blackest in
Speaker 1: the western hemisphere, right, crazy the Olympics. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: glad they chose L A, but there's bad things that
Speaker 1: a lot of people get displaced, Um, human trafficking, a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff and if you think about it, right
Speaker 1: for this Olympics, they had to prepare right. So they
Speaker 1: built the so far stadium in Inglewood, which is the
Speaker 1: last black enclave of Los Angeles County. They're also building
Speaker 1: arena right down the street for the clippers, right over
Speaker 1: there by USC they got a new stadium for the
Speaker 1: for the soccer team. Those are all for the Olympics.
Speaker 1: They're going to be utilizing all of those spaces to
Speaker 1: form all of that, but they're building these spaces in
Speaker 1: the last black communities in Los Angeles County. Who holds
Speaker 1: the land holds the power. That's back to the land.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about period. So Black, black Los
Speaker 1: Angeles has a lot on the line, particularly for this
Speaker 1: for this election. Wow. And you need someone who cares
Speaker 1: about black people making the decisions. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: it's like she's, and that's the dope part about her.
Speaker 1: Why she's such a good, uh, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say politician, but she's a good, you know, leader, community leader.
Speaker 1: Is that, you know, it's just because she's a black woman.
Speaker 1: That's why they say when black women lead, they leave
Speaker 1: for everyone, because though she comes from our perspective, she
Speaker 1: still can build coalitions, continues to build coalitions. She gets
Speaker 1: people from every community behind her, every community like background,
Speaker 1: that all of that, and it's real people, and that's
Speaker 1: a rare issue because, let me tell you, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people I'd missed with you know and blade, blade,
Speaker 1: I mean I've always been a little radical. So, you know,
Speaker 1: they helped me understand, like you know, some things and
Speaker 1: I think that that's the thing that I hate the
Speaker 1: most of them. Like, okayp don't care about black people,
Speaker 1: she don't be over here. And I remember somebody saying
Speaker 1: she needs to be at this event. It's tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: they said Rick Cruiz is gonna be there and it's
Speaker 1: gonna look good for her. I remember responding, Karen Bass
Speaker 1: is in d C. People has also been fighting and
Speaker 1: you had to fight trump. She's our chair of our
Speaker 1: Congressional Black Caucus. And even deeper than that, like people
Speaker 1: don't realize, when you become the mayor you can a
Speaker 1: whole two person staff. So when somebody who's black and
Speaker 1: a woman, that means that staff is gonna be representative
Speaker 1: of the mosaic of our city of L a. Our
Speaker 1: Commissions are appointments right white men are like of city
Speaker 1: appoint appointments right now. All of this can begin to
Speaker 1: shift when you have that person in in office. I
Speaker 1: can guarantee her opponent is not looking to hire black
Speaker 1: folks astoundingly, or hire or appoint UH black folks to commission.
Speaker 1: So I don't even understand how we're still talking about it.
Speaker 1: So clear get your ass to the polls and vote.
Speaker 1: If somebody was just wondering, well, how can I get
Speaker 1: a deep dive on KV? where? Where can we get
Speaker 1: the information? What can we get a one sheet? All
Speaker 1: I know DOT com. Yeah, caring backs, Dot Com, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna shot us out. Blade is also doing
Speaker 1: a voter guide that we're coming out soon. We don't
Speaker 1: have that date. Follow us on social media. Show with
Speaker 1: our handles, because I mess up. Black L A young dems.
Speaker 1: We're partnering with the Community Coalition Action Fund. So if
Speaker 1: you are unsure, once you get your ballot, our voice,
Speaker 1: hopefully it is representative of your voice. Take a look
Speaker 1: at that voting guy. If not, hit one of us
Speaker 1: up on our social media. We got you, M okay,
Speaker 1: at a new day. That's why you get okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. But I will also say, like, outside
Speaker 1: of going, you know what, I keep on saying these
Speaker 1: things I don't like because, like I'm going, there's just
Speaker 1: one person who just gets on my nerves and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say their name, but it's just like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I can't because I can't. But
Speaker 1: like they continue to like bash black elected officials and
Speaker 1: I remember I always like, you know, the comments like well,
Speaker 1: have you reached out to their office? Have you called them? Well,
Speaker 1: why would I call them? Like they know what they
Speaker 1: know what's up. They need to call me. It's like, Nigga,
Speaker 1: what like a billion people tagging me and you think
Speaker 1: your one tag from your small follower account is gonna
Speaker 1: growner attention. But guess what? And that's what the that's
Speaker 1: what we need to tell that's what people need to understand.
Speaker 1: The email and the phone call is gonna go further
Speaker 1: than the tag on instagram. So the emails and the
Speaker 1: phone actually work because people who people pick up the phone,
Speaker 1: because people who about their business pick up the phone,
Speaker 1: or because people feel like wait, so you can pull off. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: address three, six zero one south Librea Avenue, on the
Speaker 1: corner of Obama and Librea. And if you want to
Speaker 1: reach out directly to the campaign, you can email me
Speaker 1: shot day at Karen Bass Dot Com. As a D E.
Speaker 1: I respond to every email. I connect you to the
Speaker 1: right people. I don't play no games. Crazy you feel
Speaker 1: like you have a problem, like hey, I don't feel
Speaker 1: seen in this in this legislation, I don't feel seen
Speaker 1: in this policy. Brief, why did you say that about
Speaker 1: criminal justice? I thought we were trying to reform. I
Speaker 1: don't like that, like that's what you're that's what you
Speaker 1: should be saying to your elected officials, like I don't
Speaker 1: see my self. What can we do? Or here's a
Speaker 1: proposed solution, and and and see, and sometimes we gotta
Speaker 1: realize like we're thinking about what we're experienced and we're
Speaker 1: not thinking about the other eight million people in the constituency.
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Speaker 1: have to be willing to share your grievances and your
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Speaker 1: people who can make the decision. You going on twitter
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Speaker 1: she's going to create a team, create an environment, have
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