Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership
Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: it's Angela Rae. Welcome home. This is a special edition
Speaker 1: of a solo pod with my good friend, Congressoman Latifa
Speaker 1: Simon of California's twelfth Congressional District to talk about what
Speaker 1: in the actual hell happened outside of the Department of
Speaker 1: Education last week. So we had a conversation that same
Speaker 1: day to talk about everything that happened and what recourse
Speaker 1: members of Congress have to protect taxpayer money, taxpayer resources
Speaker 1: and all of the things, and what is the role
Speaker 1: of Congress and overseeing this government that is clearly going rogue.
Speaker 1: So please tune into this conversation I first had on
Speaker 1: Instagram live. Welcome Home, Happy Friday, y'all. It is a
Speaker 1: special podcast, non podcast live. We're about to get into
Speaker 1: what's happening in these DC streets.
Speaker 2: That's what we're about to do.
Speaker 1: You all probably have seen footage of our members of
Speaker 1: Congress outside of the Department of Education at an all
Speaker 1: access entrance by the way, and some random was out
Speaker 1: there and wouldn't let them in. So I am going
Speaker 1: to add this wonderful human being to this thread. She's here.
Speaker 2: How you doing, sin, I'm good, I'm good. I'm amped up.
Speaker 3: It's been a long week, but this is the work
Speaker 3: that I'm so blessed to do.
Speaker 1: They're messing with the wrong one and the best coast
Speaker 1: is out here. So for those of you who do
Speaker 1: not know, this is Congresswoman Latifa Simon. She represents California's
Speaker 1: twelfth district, following in the shoes of a deer mentor
Speaker 1: and sister of ours, the Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and Latifa
Speaker 1: is a force to be reckoned with. And if y'all
Speaker 1: didn't see it already today, you will learn quickly. Today, Latifa,
Speaker 1: you joined members of Congress outside of the Department of Education,
Speaker 1: and I keep pointing out at an all access interests.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about why you guys wanted to go
Speaker 1: down to the Department of Education today.
Speaker 2: And what happened.
Speaker 1: For those who haven't seen the footage yet, well.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to tell these stories. Sometimes a little
Speaker 3: clips on the news station. Yes right, don't tell you
Speaker 3: I didn't have a bullhorn, but I'm a thirty year organizer,
Speaker 3: so I was screaming. My mom called me and said,
Speaker 3: stop screaming, and I'm never going to let down for
Speaker 3: our babies.
Speaker 2: Ever.
Speaker 3: I haven't since I started working in juvenile halls and prisons,
Speaker 3: in jails when I was seventeen year olds years old,
Speaker 3: and on the streets of San Francisco and in Oakland.
Speaker 3: It's what I do, is what you are paying me
Speaker 3: to do, to not hold back. So a couple of
Speaker 3: days ago, members of Congress, we wrote a letter to
Speaker 3: the Department of Education. We have an acting director under
Speaker 3: the Trump administration, and we asked if we could have
Speaker 3: a Congress station because here's what happened last week. When
Speaker 3: federal funding freezes were on the horizon. We were getting
Speaker 3: thousands of calls from special education teachers, from organizations working
Speaker 3: and headstart mothers who were like, if they cut off funding,
Speaker 3: what are we going to do? We got calls from
Speaker 3: mothers with children with autism saying that they had a
Speaker 3: full time aid for their children. And with the federal
Speaker 3: funding freeze arise, and with this threat to close the
Speaker 3: Department of Education, millions millions of children were literally going
Speaker 3: to be thrown out of support services. We wrote the
Speaker 3: letter requesting a meeting. We didn't get a response. We called,
Speaker 3: so today we came and we rolled up. It is
Speaker 3: a public building. In fact, everybody on this line is
Speaker 3: paying a little bit of money every time they get
Speaker 3: their paychecks to ensure that we all were elected representatives
Speaker 3: and you yourself.
Speaker 2: Have access to the Department of Education. They literally sent.
Speaker 3: Out a security guard. There were dozens of members of Congress.
Speaker 3: They sent out a security guard. They locked the doors,
Speaker 3: and they sent out Homeland Security. You couldn't see that
Speaker 3: behind those those dark doors, but there was a line
Speaker 3: of officers from Homeland Security ready to take down members
Speaker 3: of Congress should we enter. They blocked the building from
Speaker 3: American citizens.
Speaker 1: And when you do talk about that, just for a moment,
Speaker 1: here's the thing that was astonishing to me. The first
Speaker 1: video that I saw Latifa was Queen Maxine, who is
Speaker 1: some people call her AUNTI max Queen Maxine with her
Speaker 1: little bit powerful self standing in front of this white
Speaker 1: man who I think, you know how like they tell
Speaker 1: you to id people, so my ID might be wrong.
Speaker 1: He's in a brown shirt like layman's clothes, with like
Speaker 1: a fluorescent bandage on his neck. So this could be
Speaker 1: like anybody like I'm like, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: looking at an insurrectionist or a plane police officer. I
Speaker 1: don't know who this man is in front of Congresswoman Waters,
Speaker 1: but he's telling her that she can't get in. I
Speaker 1: remember there was a back and forth of members saying
Speaker 1: he's a contractor and him telling her that he's an
Speaker 1: official government employee. Did you all ever resolve that, Like,
Speaker 1: what's this man even a government worker?
Speaker 3: So what I want you all to understand is what
Speaker 3: I'm learning to understand. But you already know what we
Speaker 3: are seeing on Capitol Hill. It is shockhocking because our
Speaker 3: grandmothers want order.
Speaker 2: Let's just be clear, we want order. We are orderly people.
Speaker 3: We are working for communities that have order and promise.
Speaker 3: The folks who are in the administration don't believe that
Speaker 3: anyone should follow the law.
Speaker 2: Clearly, Clearly, if they were.
Speaker 3: Law abiding folk, they wouldn't have let out dozens of
Speaker 3: folks who attack police officers on January sixth. Regardless what
Speaker 3: you want to think about law enforcement, the hypocrisy is insane.
Speaker 3: This man who's playing clothes did not clearly identify himself
Speaker 3: as somebody who's taught folks who are going up against
Speaker 3: law enforcement, you always ask them to identify themselves. Their
Speaker 3: badge he threw out, you know, after questioning some kind
Speaker 3: of badge.
Speaker 2: Who knew what it was. But he didn't.
Speaker 3: Clearly articulate what department he was working with and who
Speaker 3: he was, So.
Speaker 1: He continued, he did have a badge, he.
Speaker 3: Saw, he pulled it out. We didn't know what kind
Speaker 3: of badge it was. Was it made from a printer?
Speaker 3: You're if you're a member of law enforcement, you know,
Speaker 3: and you are trying to clearly identify yourself, if you're
Speaker 3: doing the right thing, You're certainly not supposed to stand
Speaker 3: in front of a building surrounded by members duly elected
Speaker 3: members of Congress and look at them smugly. The disrespect
Speaker 3: was palpable. But the real injury is to.
Speaker 2: The parents on this phone.
Speaker 3: The real injury is we were going to do, I
Speaker 3: believe the people's business to ask what were we supposed
Speaker 3: to tell our constituents? What are we supposed to that
Speaker 3: you all want to close down a department? Then I
Speaker 3: just give me a couple seconds here about DOE, the
Speaker 3: Department of Education. They set national standards, not just on
Speaker 3: basic curriculum, what we should be learning, because that's really
Speaker 3: that happens at the state level. They set national standards
Speaker 3: for obedience to federal laws like Ada. So imagine you
Speaker 3: have a child, your baby is wheelchair bound, and your
Speaker 3: baby is in California and they can get into any
Speaker 3: school they have support services. That's the law that California
Speaker 3: abides by, but it's pushed by the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: You move back to Arkansas to be closed to your people.
Speaker 3: If in fact they close down the Department of Education,
Speaker 3: there are no national standards for accessibility. There are no
Speaker 3: national standards for entries into our state and local universities.
Speaker 2: There's no financial aid as you've known it. This is
Speaker 2: critical stuff. I don't care how you vote, who you
Speaker 2: voted for.
Speaker 3: What I do know is we have babies in our
Speaker 3: communities who deserve the best. Does the Department of Education
Speaker 3: need to be stronger and better yes. Do our teachers
Speaker 3: need to be paid more and trained and loved on
Speaker 3: and unionized, Yes, But you don't get there from closing
Speaker 3: down really the essential department that is supposed to provide
Speaker 3: national standards for our children and our teachers.
Speaker 1: So you, for the people who just join you talked
Speaker 1: about you all writing this letter last week about what's
Speaker 1: happening with the Department of Education. A lot of folks
Speaker 1: who are following the news know that what Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is talking about doing is shuttering the Department of Education.
Speaker 1: What we have seen, Latipa, and now I'm talking to
Speaker 1: you like a sister too. Yeah, what we have seen
Speaker 1: is a very very clear fight that's easy to follow
Speaker 1: in the news. On the judicial side, right, a lot
Speaker 1: of cases there have been thirty six law suit file
Speaker 1: that I know of so far on the fifty four
Speaker 1: executive orders and actions from the Trump administration, that's right,
Speaker 1: has not been as clear, and I'm hearing a lot
Speaker 1: of pushback about it. You know, I get sensitive because
Speaker 1: the CBC is my family, the Hills Ranch. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I keep hearing is that where like,
Speaker 1: where are the members of Congress? What's going on? Why
Speaker 1: are they confirming? And this, of course is not that
Speaker 1: person's not you all, but why is the Senate confirming
Speaker 1: people like RFK and Tulca Gabbert. Where is the fight?
Speaker 2: Where's the legislation?
Speaker 1: Not understanding necessarily that we don't have the executive branch
Speaker 1: and we don't have the legislative branch.
Speaker 2: So when you're in.
Speaker 1: The minority, just for a moment for those who are
Speaker 1: really just starting to understand and pay attention to how
Speaker 1: this works. When you're in the minority, what does the
Speaker 1: fight look like? What are you all talking about doing.
Speaker 1: I know you all are involved with the lawsuits. When
Speaker 1: you think about as my role as a member from
Speaker 1: California's twelve, this is what I see my role in being,
Speaker 1: my role being in this fight right now.
Speaker 2: I think it's three things.
Speaker 3: One, we have to continue to tell folks what it
Speaker 3: is with love and respect and understanding under a trifecta,
Speaker 3: like you said, House, Senate right, and honestly, they have
Speaker 3: the courts. So we still believe, if we will still
Speaker 3: want to believe in this thinly veiled democracy, we are.
Speaker 2: Going to sue, sue, sue, sue, sue.
Speaker 3: Their organizations like the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights under
Speaker 3: Law and Democracy Forward NAACP. I can go on and
Speaker 3: out Asian Law Caucus. They are holding this administration to
Speaker 3: the fire. The judicial system is it's not perfect, but
Speaker 3: judges have been doing the right thing in the last
Speaker 3: week and throwing these executive orders right back to the
Speaker 3: White House and saying this is unconstitutional. This is unconstitutional.
Speaker 3: That has taken a level of coordination that unfortunately we'd
Speaker 3: all don't see. But that's why we're having this conversation
Speaker 3: right now. But two, there's two other things that Congress
Speaker 3: can do. We can block our votes. We can hold
Speaker 3: our votes. You don't get votes to racist You don't
Speaker 3: give votes to folks who.
Speaker 2: Don't care about our children.
Speaker 3: You don't give votes to folks who who don't believe
Speaker 3: in the most basic of healthcare principles. And we have
Speaker 3: been doing that in the Senate, and I got to say,
Speaker 3: my heart has been breaking.
Speaker 2: You don't give votes to.
Speaker 3: Policies that want to send you two thousand pound bombs
Speaker 3: over to kill twenty thousand children. I think we got
Speaker 3: to hold the line. And again, we are a part
Speaker 3: of a body, and our leadership is saying, let's be strategic,
Speaker 3: and I agree with that. For me, my focus is
Speaker 3: making sure that one we are heard, our stories are clear,
Speaker 3: that I am fighting with integrity on the streets and
Speaker 3: inside the Congress. But more importantly for me, I represent Oakland,
Speaker 3: I represent Oakland, I represent Berkeley, I represent the Bay,
Speaker 3: and I need folks to know that one my office
Speaker 3: is we are day in and day out, and they
Speaker 3: have a fighter, but more importantly, they have.
Speaker 2: A key this government. This government.
Speaker 3: What's important too for folks who know who are on
Speaker 3: the ground. These funding freezes affected federally qualified health centers.
Speaker 2: You know, the health centers right in.
Speaker 3: Your community that you'd rather go to sometimes in the hospital,
Speaker 3: that are wonderful, that have positions that look like us.
Speaker 3: Those folks this week didn't know if they were going
Speaker 3: to get paid. So I've been meeting with our health centers.
Speaker 3: I've been meeting with our school principles.
Speaker 2: We've been meeting.
Speaker 3: We took I took Catherine Clark, who is right under
Speaker 3: Hakien Jeffrey. She's a Democratic leader in the Congress. I
Speaker 3: took her on a tour of the Children's Hospital of Oakland.
Speaker 3: There are parents who literally are scared to bring their
Speaker 3: children in for scheduled, scheduled heart transplants and sickle cell
Speaker 3: treatments because they believe that they may be deported. These
Speaker 3: are our Haitian brothers and sisters. These are our Latino
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters. This chaos is killing people, and so
Speaker 3: for us to be there on the ground, but listen,
Speaker 3: and the last thing I want to say in my
Speaker 3: TED talk, sister, I am reminding folks that you and me,
Speaker 3: our parents were born into segregation.
Speaker 2: We have been here. Black folks have been here, and
Speaker 2: we have.
Speaker 3: Consistently with praise, worship, policy again, and culture, through litigation,
Speaker 3: through movement, building, through study, through discipline, we have fought
Speaker 3: horrific policies back.
Speaker 2: No freedom has ever been given to us.
Speaker 3: We've always had to take those freedoms through again. The
Speaker 3: systems that have promised us, that have promised them, We've
Speaker 3: held those promises.
Speaker 2: Both want to go super hard. I think we should.
Speaker 3: The ground is strong, the legislative body, we must be
Speaker 3: stronger than we've been. But I'm not going nowhere. I'm
Speaker 3: four weeks in and this is where I think to
Speaker 3: be exists.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I'm proud that you were there.
Speaker 1: I was so proud to hear your voice earlier. I
Speaker 1: think the one thing, like I try to look at
Speaker 1: the comments. I try to sit past the trolls and
Speaker 1: look at the comments. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: we're seeing is people saying, what do we the people do?
Speaker 1: And they're also asking, like one of the things that
Speaker 1: I'm kind of frustrated by is there are Republicans who
Speaker 1: just barely eat their way into Congress. You guys have there.
Speaker 1: It's the smallest majority, the smallest great depression, and so
Speaker 1: there's leverage points that y'all have to get people to
Speaker 1: vote with you. Yes they're opposed to recommit, that you
Speaker 1: can force them on the issues to say that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk South Africans, Elon Musk does not have the power
Speaker 1: that he thinks he has. That the Department of Government
Speaker 1: Efficiency is a random hair brained idea from Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who ain't even the real president. I would say Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is the president of Stephen Miller's vice He did
Speaker 1: not even been in control of this project twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five by the Heritage Foundation is running this. And so
Speaker 1: when you consider what levers you have with your colleagues,
Speaker 1: who's in charge of going across the island being like,
Speaker 1: if y'all don't vote with us over here, I guarantee
Speaker 1: you you're going to be a one term wherever district
Speaker 1: you came from.
Speaker 2: I think that's on the line. There's a march is
Speaker 2: going to be crazy.
Speaker 3: In the United States Congress without without the Democrats, the
Speaker 3: Republicans have no way forward, so we have to hold
Speaker 3: our vote. We have to hold our votes for reconciliation.
Speaker 3: That's a budget process. We have to hold our votes.
Speaker 3: And the majority is so thin. If for of them
Speaker 3: don't come to work, we win a vote. Hey, it
Speaker 3: is so thin, and that's why I have I have hope.
Speaker 3: But you know, Angela, I also know we are going
Speaker 3: to win back the House in twenty twenty six because
Speaker 3: poor folks, people of color, They're going to see the
Speaker 3: very demonic ways of an administration that doesn't love its people.
Speaker 3: They'll be able to see through the lives right. They'll
Speaker 3: be able to see through the attacks on the smallest,
Speaker 3: most critical safetyiness that unless you've lived it, you don't know.
Speaker 2: Listen, I was a team mom. You know. I got
Speaker 2: a twenty eight year old daughter. I had SNAP and
Speaker 2: I also had WIG and I.
Speaker 3: Would be at the counter and the grocery store having
Speaker 3: to put back groceries.
Speaker 2: I know what that feels like. I know what that
Speaker 2: feels like.
Speaker 3: I know what it felt like when a community college
Speaker 3: finally transferring into a four year university.
Speaker 2: I have an MPa.
Speaker 3: Now I can look through a budget. I can be clear.
Speaker 3: I can educate our folks. They can educate me. I'm
Speaker 3: not going anywhere. I think our people are doing the
Speaker 3: right thing by calling members of Congress. I want you all,
Speaker 3: particularly you all in Republican districts, to call them, to
Speaker 3: call them every day. The Democrats in fact, and we
Speaker 3: should be. We're getting more calls than the folks who
Speaker 3: are complicit in this mess.
Speaker 2: Enjoy all up their line. The majority has the power
Speaker 2: right now. Phone number which we can sue.
Speaker 1: The phone number is two zero two two two four
Speaker 1: three one two one. That is the Capital switchboard operator.
Speaker 1: You can have her send you or them. I don't
Speaker 1: know who's going to answer the phone, I said her,
Speaker 1: that's bias. You can have the person who answers sends
Speaker 1: you to your respective members' offices, even if you're adjacent.
Speaker 1: Let's say you work in that Republican members this year,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, if you are impacted by that district
Speaker 1: at all, they are beholden to you. Why because whether
Speaker 1: you voted for them or not, you pay their salary.
Speaker 1: And that is exactly why our members today went to
Speaker 1: the Department of Education. They said, if you're not going
Speaker 1: to listen to oversight, we're gonna go and oversee you
Speaker 1: on federal land that is paid for by our constituents.
Speaker 1: And I was it was remarkable to me to see
Speaker 1: what's happening. Donald Trump is saying he's given over Department
Speaker 1: of Education in the Pentagon to Elon Musk next to
Speaker 1: go through everything. Meanwhile, the courts have said, actually, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: you're now barred from handling any data.
Speaker 2: At Treasury.
Speaker 1: They're saying the actually the federal funding freeze is unfrozen.
Speaker 1: They said USAID employees who are supposed to be placed
Speaker 1: on administratively by midnight tonight, not so fast that would
Speaker 1: have And then they were cutting five thousand workers to
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety workers at USAID. They said that
Speaker 1: for all of the foreign aid that was supposed to
Speaker 1: be frozen for ninety days, that's on hold as well.
Speaker 1: So the courts are playing their part. Ye are saying,
Speaker 1: what do we do?
Speaker 2: We're sewing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you guys are suing. But it also is
Speaker 1: important to make sure that the people are supporting you
Speaker 1: in your efforts to switch sway some of those votes,
Speaker 1: to win some of those votes. Thank you for the
Speaker 1: person who puts the number two zero two two two four, three,
Speaker 1: one two one on there. And the last thing I
Speaker 1: want to just have you in on because there are
Speaker 1: a couple of questions that came in. Somebody said it's
Speaker 1: a coup. Yeah, and there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who've been saying it's not a coup because the American
Speaker 1: people voted for this. But really, what the American people
Speaker 1: voted for when you look at the majority of voters,
Speaker 1: they voted for the couch, They voted to be absent,
Speaker 1: they abstained. So when you look at the terminology of
Speaker 1: a coup and what you see happening, is it reminiscent
Speaker 1: of a coup to you?
Speaker 3: You know, it does feel like a takeover because this
Speaker 3: administration isn't.
Speaker 2: Following the law.
Speaker 3: They don't follow the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the
Speaker 3: Federalist papers. We all know who the Framers were, but
Speaker 3: they're not even respecting. They're not even respected in that word, right,
Speaker 3: And so in the sense that it feels chaotic and
Speaker 3: crazy and it's by design, yeah, I think we can
Speaker 3: own that that it does feel like a coup. I
Speaker 3: want to push back and I don't think that majority
Speaker 3: of the American public, as brilliant as we are, from
Speaker 3: you know, the person who just got out of prison,
Speaker 3: to the homeless person who is struggling to get housing.
Speaker 2: Who voted that day.
Speaker 3: I don't think that folks could have imagined that a
Speaker 3: administration would go after the snap benefits of or.
Speaker 1: What where we talked these people. You know, let me
Speaker 1: let people and I just want you to see this.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you what I've been doing. I
Speaker 1: just want you to see this. I have literally been
Speaker 1: You're gonna laugh.
Speaker 2: This is hold on. Let me close this.
Speaker 1: So you can see them look here. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: have since the summertime, I have been studying this. This
Speaker 1: is Project twenty twenty five. G You know, I printed
Speaker 1: it because I was not gonna give them my book money,
Speaker 1: so I got it printed at the FedEx Kikos. And
Speaker 1: this is every time there's some another executive order he passes,
Speaker 1: I literally go through here and find the page or
Speaker 1: find the person he appointed to fulfill whatever the job is.
Speaker 2: This is so beyond Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: This is Harriet Foundation since years and you know, they
Speaker 1: just remained this.
Speaker 3: This is a strategy to destabilize the social state net.
Speaker 3: But what folks didn't understand is that it was going
Speaker 3: to be them too. So for young women who are
Speaker 3: forced to give birth in over twenty two states, your childcare.
Speaker 2: May not be a real thing.
Speaker 3: You're forced to give birth because you don't have reproductive
Speaker 3: health freedoms. So you're not only your childcare, your health care,
Speaker 3: you're housing all of these social safety nets that are
Speaker 3: supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be pro life.
Speaker 3: Ye are in fact going to push more folks into
Speaker 3: deep poverty. We know that, So I don't feel like
Speaker 3: as brilliant as we are as a nation. I do believe,
Speaker 3: particularly people who are suffering the most are the most
Speaker 3: intelligent because we've had to survive so much. Nobody could
Speaker 3: have predicted, even if you're reading that that folks would
Speaker 3: really put into play the evil that we're seeing. When
Speaker 3: the guy I'm written on paper, I know some people did,
Speaker 3: but to folks who are just sick and tired of government,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to be a rebel and vote for
Speaker 3: the bully. I'm furious at the reality that more people
Speaker 3: will be poor, more people will die, they won't be
Speaker 3: able to get the medicaid and the medicare that they deserve.
Speaker 3: That Little girls like my daughter who buried her father
Speaker 3: when he was three.
Speaker 2: He had leukemia he died.
Speaker 3: I am a widow that their children like her, who
Speaker 3: will not get survivor's benefits should this administration be successful.
Speaker 2: This is real talk.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I still have hope that we
Speaker 3: could push this stuff aside. You have to because we
Speaker 3: deserve better. So the fight is with you all and
Speaker 3: your vote. It is the most powerful thing that we have.
Speaker 2: You saw it.
Speaker 3: The folks who voted for Donald Trump. They got them
Speaker 3: and now we're having to deal with it. You can
Speaker 3: do different next time. But in the interim, we do fight.
Speaker 3: We march, we organize, we educate, We protect each other.
Speaker 3: We protect each other, we love one another. I refuse
Speaker 3: to spit venom at these folks directly. I can talk
Speaker 3: about their policies. But again, my grandmother loved Jesus. I
Speaker 3: was raised Muslim, I went to a Jewish day school.
Speaker 3: I'm very bay Area and all literally the children of Gabriel, right,
Speaker 3: you know, the children of David, the children of Jesus,
Speaker 3: the children of Muhammad. We are taught in our text
Speaker 3: to love our neighbors. So when we think that USAID
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with us, you want to pull
Speaker 3: back the millions of dollars that are going overseas to
Speaker 3: protect the spread of HIV so your son doesn't get it.
Speaker 3: I want you to think again to stop famine so
Speaker 3: that we don't even have more forced migration. We want
Speaker 3: to be a friend to our allies and really keep
Speaker 3: us stable. We don't do that by making ourselves an
Speaker 3: international enemy. I'm here for the fight for folks who
Speaker 3: are really frustrated.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: I'm frustrated too for folks who don't buy it.
Speaker 2: I get that too.
Speaker 3: We have to earn the respect of the people on
Speaker 3: the ground, and I'm honored to be able to serve
Speaker 3: and to take the feedback. I'm honored to be on
Speaker 3: to be on you know your channel right here and
Speaker 3: invite me back. I would love to talk to you anytime.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure like I'm doing a better
Speaker 1: job of providing access to my privilege. My point of
Speaker 1: privilege is y'all are my family, and I thank God
Speaker 1: for you every day. I thank God for the fight,
Speaker 1: and I know that when y'all are like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: fight might have been a little off, I know that
Speaker 1: y'all will pivot. I want to make sure that the
Speaker 1: people who follow me, or they follow our podcast, Native
Speaker 1: lampid have access to you all and see the fight
Speaker 1: when Lisa won't cover it because it's not as clickbaity
Speaker 1: as whatever crazy nonsense Donald. I want them to know
Speaker 1: there are fighters like Congresswoman Latif Assignment from California's twelve
Speaker 1: district fighting for us every single day, and so I
Speaker 1: thank God for you. I'm glad y'all went to the
Speaker 1: Department Education.
Speaker 2: Next time, y'all.
Speaker 1: Need to go down there with some gangsters though, because
Speaker 1: he ain't about to stare listen, so you.
Speaker 2: Know what in the face.
Speaker 1: In fact, go down there and be like I wish
Speaker 1: you would not let me in here, down there with
Speaker 1: you woes like what we are.
Speaker 3: What I appreciate is we are three weeks. In three
Speaker 3: four weeks, it's feeling like a year. Our tactics and
Speaker 3: strategies will continue, you know, to be even you know,
Speaker 3: I think more sophisticated.
Speaker 2: But what's important.
Speaker 3: You know, I am a kingsy and I have read
Speaker 3: all of the king Papers a thousand times. When you
Speaker 3: shine a mirror to evil, you know you we cannot
Speaker 3: be what we hate. I will never be a violent, racist, homophobe.
Speaker 3: I will never be those things. Right, we are surgical
Speaker 3: in our strategy, and it is not. It doesn't show
Speaker 3: up as quick as the man who propels violence. You
Speaker 3: see the immediate effect. We cannot be what we hate.
Speaker 3: That said, we got work to do because we will
Speaker 3: win this.
Speaker 2: We will. We lost an.
Speaker 3: Election, but that doesn't mean that we don't love the
Speaker 3: promise of democracy. My babies deserve us to be working
Speaker 3: twenty four hours a day. That's what I signed up
Speaker 3: to do. I love you, says and thanks guys. Nice
Speaker 3: to meet so many of you. All appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Y'all go follow Latifa at Rep. L Simon on her
Speaker 1: page and make sure you stay. She is on it
Speaker 1: like she's fighting when y'all don't know she's fighting. She's
Speaker 1: studying when y'all don't know, she's up and working on
Speaker 1: our behalf, even beyond California twelfth the greater parts of America.
Speaker 1: So thank you for standing and a ground a Department
Speaker 1: of education today, syst and we look forward to a victory.
Speaker 1: We know it's coming soon. I'll have like all the
Speaker 1: ring lights and everything like that.
Speaker 3: I don't have all that yet, having a little phone,
Speaker 3: but I'm perfect.
Speaker 1: I'm on my phone too. I just got a.
Speaker 2: Good light under here. Yeah, it's a great lights. All
Speaker 2: you see is forehead. I love get it together, y'all love.
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