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Speaker 1: Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome home. Y'all, this

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Speaker 2: is Native Lampid. We are live from the Walter E.

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Speaker 2: Washington Convention Center here in Washington, DC, and we couldn't

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Speaker 2: be more thrilled to be joined by two very special people.

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Speaker 2: Andrew and I are the host today. Andrew and I

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Speaker 2: are the host today, and we are joined by our

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Speaker 2: friend Roland Martin, and we are the backup dancers for

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Speaker 2: Tivity Cross who joined us. Y'all. She ran from the train,

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Speaker 2: but she's here. She made it and we couldn't be

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Speaker 2: more thrilled to be here for the Phoenix Awards. How

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Speaker 2: y'all doing?

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Speaker 3: You came from the train.

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Speaker 4: My train was delayed out of New York an hour

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Speaker 4: and I'm thank you.

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Speaker 2: I see that's how you need a good friend to

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Speaker 2: tell you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, listening to you and I has a run home,

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Speaker 4: get dressed and literally run here.

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Speaker 2: I couldnt find my shoes, so I'm in sneed you

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Speaker 2: look at a lot. That's all that and you know

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Speaker 2: what that means. You're gonna save your feet Unlike the

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Speaker 2: rest of I'm surprised.

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Speaker 4: You have some is I didn't like any you take

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Speaker 4: it to see these guys before we come on air.

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Speaker 2: But gorgeous. You guys will be able to see her

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Speaker 2: full attire.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully than surprises them.

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Speaker 4: I could not find them. Bro, you look handsome as always.

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Speaker 2: He is.

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Speaker 5: Let's get.

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Speaker 2: You even got on the sweater on the shirt. I

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Speaker 2: love that the lion kick Disney, y'all all rolling some money?

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Speaker 2: You got Mofosa on the shirt? Okay, school mascot, Okay,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not calling Mufasa if I say it's Mufasa.

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Speaker 2: The Lion's name is MUFAs. I love that.

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Speaker 4: Tell you guys, was saying, where are you guys set up?

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Speaker 4: I'm like, I'll let you know when I get there.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are really thrilled to be here, y'all. There's

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Speaker 2: so much happening right now in this country. You all

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Speaker 2: know that the conference theme is made for this moment.

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Speaker 2: I have been ending all of my panel discussions this

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Speaker 2: week saying, please tell me why you're made for this moment.

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Speaker 2: Can you say made for this moment? Because and fill

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Speaker 2: in the blank. And I've left to hear that from you.

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Speaker 2: Roland Martin we'll start with you and we'll go down

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Speaker 2: the line.

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Speaker 3: Made for this moment, because this is what I was

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Speaker 3: born to do. That's song one thirty nine. So somebody

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Speaker 3: asked me, they like, well, how do you deal with

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Speaker 3: all of this? I said, well, well, this is what

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Speaker 3: you were supposed to do. Then you understand what the

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Speaker 3: focus is and so not getting to not getting freaked out,

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Speaker 3: but being completely focused on what it is that we

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Speaker 3: have to communicate to our people in this moment.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I like that, mister Mayor, my forever governor. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: tell us why you were made for this moment, made

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Speaker 2: for this moment.

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Speaker 6: Because made for this moment, because God has made it

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Speaker 6: such that I've spent some good.

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Speaker 5: Time on my mental energy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And I think we.

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Speaker 6: Oftentimes expect our leaders to sort of get out there,

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Speaker 6: run the race without any renewal. Yeah, And the truth

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Speaker 6: is is we can't win that way.

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Speaker 5: So mental health is in the right place.

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Speaker 2: I feel, Yeah, TI, what about you? Okay, I was

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Speaker 2: moderating for a little bit and I can't.

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Speaker 4: I think I was made for this moment because it's

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Speaker 4: a time for information informing people. All of our information

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Speaker 4: can't come in sound bites. Or social media. It's a

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Speaker 4: time for reading books. And so I hope that every

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Speaker 2: Absolutely are tip. The survey says you do. We just

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Speaker 2: surveyed more than six hundred of our listeners and y'all

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Speaker 2: absolutely agreed that this is the news Lady for the time,

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Speaker 2: and so we're so grateful. I'll tell you all, I

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Speaker 2: feel like I'm made for this moment because I was

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Speaker 2: able to pivot. I walked into this year on the

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Speaker 2: want to thank you Roe. First of all. I'll say

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna make me emotional today. Some goa look

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Speaker 2: this way. I know, but I'm just saying looking at

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Speaker 2: don't call on a forefather.

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Speaker 3: Here's that damn all.

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Speaker 2: But no, but Roland gives so many of us opportunities,

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Speaker 2: and you don't always get the recognition, the honor and

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Speaker 2: the flowers you deserve. So thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: putting us on, for trusting us, and for being a

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Speaker 2: I to be wells, but maybe your ego or be wells.

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Speaker 2: But for that we I mean.

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Speaker 3: The thing is, and this is what I think people

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Speaker 3: need to understand. It was all intentional.

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Speaker 7: I was.

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Speaker 3: I am intentional. When I meet people and I look

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Speaker 3: four and a half years for me to get hired

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Speaker 3: So I watched how the producers and the bookers they

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Speaker 3: So I said, even when I guess hosted I'm putting

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Speaker 3: Of course, we just launched Bria Baker and jamiir Burley show,

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Speaker 3: the Other Side of Change, same thing, you know, two millennials.

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Speaker 3: were black people who have black platforms who didn't understand

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Speaker 3: that you have to cultivate the next generation with your platform.

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Speaker 3: Is stupid to me to build something and then when

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Speaker 4: I think ro you are so crucial to the community,

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Speaker 4: your integral and it was interesting because in our survey,

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Speaker 4: Roland Martin also came up a lot, and I think

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Speaker 4: we shared the biggest audience with you. And when people

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Speaker 8: House.

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Speaker 3: It's a big brother black media house all the time.

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Speaker 2: That yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: But the first time I saw you host was Roland

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Speaker 4: Martin's show. I remember you had all the members of

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Speaker 4: I used to do Fox News the first the first.

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Speaker 3: Show that Laurad Coach hosted was mine.

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Speaker 3: The first time Nea Malika Henderson did TV was mine.

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Speaker 3: The first time April Ryan got paid this contributor was mine.

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Speaker 3: That was That was like that was them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but even even conservatives Gianna Calwell, Michael.

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Speaker 3: So are you talking about so again, it was, but

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Speaker 3: it's intentional because I saw how white producers and white bookers, no,

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Speaker 3: And it was like absolutely, say brother, say what you do.

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Speaker 3: But other people I've worked with them, like, hey, work

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Speaker 2: Well, we thank you, I appreciate. I want to ask

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Speaker 2: has been power, policy and progress. Where do you grade

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Speaker 2: us right now? Row, and I'm talking about us. Is

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Speaker 3: Right now? Our people literally you said it pissed off

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Speaker 5: Roland, I got a quick follow up. You mentioned that civil.

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Speaker 3: The soul frozen because there's a generator, just generational shift happening.

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Speaker 3: There was a there were a group of people. They

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Speaker 3: They did precinct walks, they showed up at city council,

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Speaker 3: So what we've done is we've become so technical where

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Speaker 3: I mean by frozen. So now it's like who's next,

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Speaker 3: So now that's what I keep saying, micro versus macro.

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Speaker 3: We got to go back to micro. So if I say,

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Speaker 3: you can't change nation without states, states without cities or counties, counties, cities, cities, neighborhoods, neighborhoods, blocks, blocks, streets, streets, houses, house,

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Speaker 2: If y'all know Roland, you know that he is big

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Speaker 2: raid you, I've been joined by a very mighty Texan,

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Speaker 2: someone who is a people's championship.

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Speaker 3: Quyat, she's meek, she's an introvert.

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Speaker 2: I let Rowland introduce this Texan. Go head, row go ahead,

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Speaker 3: She's quiet, she's meet she's an introvert.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 3: She went to this little school called the University of

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Speaker 3: she being everything. She been on the school board, she

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Speaker 7: So she is.

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Speaker 5: Somebody said real Reality TV a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit all that rallity TV. She's an AKA state represented

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Speaker 3: Jelonda Jones. Well, hello people, did I miss anything now Roland?

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Speaker 10: Because you from the third Ward, you went to school

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Speaker 3: Job, good Jackie's graduate.

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Speaker 5: Baby.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, I represented jay okay there, I represented Jayy. I

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Speaker 10: I'm represent Jayy.

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Speaker 5: Nice nice that is lying on his shirt.

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Speaker 10: I see you, I see you, King, You're a kid.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us. Welcome once again because we

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Speaker 4: had you on the show before, but welcome back, Welcome.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate that there's a lot happening in Texas, as

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Speaker 4: we well know, but I think for people who may

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Speaker 4: titilated in teased that Texas will eventually be a purple state.

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Speaker 4: I'm curious what you predict for the future of Texas politics.

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Speaker 2: I predict a number of things.

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Speaker 10: I predict we racist, anti black in Texas, anti immigrant

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Speaker 10: man in Texas. I predict that. I predict that unlessen

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Speaker 10: until the National Democratic Party invests in Texas, it doesn't

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Speaker 3: Purple, right, That's what I predict.

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Speaker 10: I predict that Democrats take us for granted, and they

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Speaker 10: if the Democratic Party doesn't specifically invest in black people,

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Speaker 10: black political consultants, black media, black church, that the Democrats

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Speaker 10: believe we'll go vote for Republicans, but we will just

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Speaker 3: For people who don't understand infrastructure, Texas has more eligible

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Speaker 3: black voters than any state in America. For sure, we

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Speaker 3: do when you talk about a party infrastructure. There are

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty four counties in Texas massive state.

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Speaker 3: There are only eighty one county Democratic parties, so that's

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Speaker 3: only one third of the state. When Betro ran, he

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Speaker 3: They only came to Texas to raise money. He went

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Speaker 3: they've never funded the state. There are two million eligible

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 10: You sure, right, But I mean if government was doing

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Speaker 5: And so that's right. I mean, it just makes it

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Speaker 10: People who need government the most are engaged the least. Yes,

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Speaker 10: and that's because we as a party haven't figured out how.

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Speaker 3: To connect the dots for people. When Beno ran against

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Speaker 10: Wow, but you got to speak to our issue rolling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys speak I'm just giving the data so

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Speaker 10: You got to talk to them, but you got to

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 10: So if I'm struggling, right, and I see, what's the

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Speaker 10: lady's name, Wendy Davis.

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Speaker 2: She stood in some pink tennis shoes.

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Speaker 3: And against the abortion bill, got lots of attention, lots

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Speaker 2: But what we knew is black people.

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Speaker 10: What I knew as a black person is you'll stand

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Speaker 10: for all them ours for abortion, but you won't stand

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Speaker 10: for all them ours for.

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Speaker 3: Criminal justice reform, right right.

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Speaker 10: You won't stand for all in ours to make sure

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Speaker 3: So we know what you're willing to do when you

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Speaker 10: Right, we see that the Democratic Party is afraid to

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Speaker 10: say racist. When we were out on the corm rate,

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Speaker 10: the conversation talked about this Angela, we talked about this

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Speaker 10: Roland was that Donald Trump wanted to steal five season.

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Speaker 10: Now I was racist. That's why I had that viral

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Speaker 10: They messing with the CBC. They're trying to undermine the

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Speaker 10: they have the people that are speaking about the corn

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Speaker 10: break don't look like us. When they literally have moved

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Speaker 3: And when I talked to Terran County Commission at Lisa Simmons,

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Speaker 7: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Every speaker who went up there, who was in black

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Speaker 2: But you know, Roland, I'm a lawyer for thirty years.

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Speaker 3: I'm a trial lawyer.

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Speaker 10: Let me tell you what I would do to all

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Speaker 10: When it goes to court, they're gonna call witnesses.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 10: And the first person I'm gonna calls a witness if

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Speaker 10: Jerry right right, And I'm gonna say is it racist?

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Speaker 10: And they're gonna say no, or even if they say yes,

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Speaker 10: I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: What you said evidence, they're.

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Speaker 10: Gonna say so now you're saying it's racial now because

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Speaker 10: are you lying.

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Speaker 3: In or you're lying in? Are you looking now?

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Speaker 11: Let me so.

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Speaker 3: My point is.

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Speaker 10: What we need, like the most importantly in the Democratic

445
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Speaker 10: Party is we need white people, our allies, those who

446
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Speaker 10: lack and melanin, to actually be courageous enough to say racist.

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Speaker 2: Okay, wait a minute now, I've been ping ponging my

448
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Speaker 2: head back and forth between two Texans. We have a

449
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Speaker 2: legend that just walked up to the set. AJ just

450
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Speaker 2: come say hi really quick. We got a jalloway from Oh.

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Speaker 3: I thought the woman he was with was a legend.

452
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Speaker 3: I wasn't even thinking she was talking about him. That's

453
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Speaker 3: my mama. She is the left to said, yo, mama, legend.

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Speaker 12: I know.

455
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Speaker 3: I thought she was coming up.

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Speaker 2: Principle say hi, I'm the set you over your wave

457
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Speaker 2: and we're not gonna let her. He wrote, walk by

458
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Speaker 2: without a heroes welcome.

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Speaker 5: How are you doing?

460
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Speaker 2: We're doing We're getting schooled by two Texans.

461
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Speaker 13: Were we're doing like this and you want to you

462
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Speaker 13: wanna take your hat off to me. I'm gonna take

463
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Speaker 13: my hat off to y'all because honestly, we need honest

464
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Speaker 13: reporting and a time like this and the day like this.

465
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Speaker 13: I gave Rolling his flowers last night at an event,

466
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Speaker 13: and I'm giving them to.

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Speaker 3: He said, an event we at the park last night. Look,

468
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Speaker 3: but we do, but we do. Got talked to the

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Speaker 3: thoat at the club. The doctor King went to pool

470
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Speaker 3: halls too. Exactly, you have to you have to go

471
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Speaker 3: and talk to the people.

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Speaker 2: But that y'all was not doing doctor King's work.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes we were, Yes, we were. We were register

474
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Speaker 3: voters exactly, we would. We were talking policy. We were

475
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Speaker 3: talking about friend d C.

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Speaker 5: We talked about friend d C.

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Speaker 3: We talked about giving money. Yeah, giving money. People were

478
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Speaker 3: handing me donations. That's right. Look, we would work out

479
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Speaker 3: because that's how Roland got that outfit.

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Speaker 14: Todays.

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Speaker 2: You know why he got donations. I heard you was

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Speaker 2: tworking at the club yesterday.

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Speaker 5: That ain't nothing new, Lord, have murdy back to the CBC.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Lord, Hey, I'm so happy you joined us because

485
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Speaker 4: you are a legend for so many young people who

486
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Speaker 4: grew up watching One on six. In part that was us,

487
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Speaker 4: well for us, for us older people and younger people.

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Speaker 4: We also lost another legend this year in Annanda Luis,

489
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Speaker 4: who a lot of us grew up watching and Teens Summit.

490
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Speaker 4: I was so disappointed that she was not honored at

491
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Speaker 4: the award show, so we certainly want to take our

492
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Speaker 4: time to honor her here. But because you said at

493
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Speaker 4: that intersection of entertainment and information, I'm curious what you

494
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Speaker 4: make of the landscape now because it's been so democratized.

495
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Speaker 4: People are getting information on social media. What would you

496
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Speaker 4: advise for younger people, like, how can they get proper

497
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Speaker 4: information and be awake?

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Speaker 5: Watch Roland Martin on Tilter. No, honestly, So two things.

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Speaker 13: First, I just want to acknowledge what you said because

500
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Speaker 13: Ananda was one of my first friends at Howard University.

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Speaker 5: We lost the legend, so moment.

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Speaker 3: Out for Ananda Lewis.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad you said that, but.

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Speaker 13: Honestly, there's so much misinformation. There's so much nonsense that's

505
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Speaker 13: out there. Everybody with a microphone does not deserve to

506
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Speaker 13: be amplified. Everyone with a microphone does not deserve to

507
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Speaker 13: be amplified. Everybody with a camera phone, everybody with a podcast,

508
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Speaker 13: everybody has on a show, does not deserve.

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Speaker 5: To be amplified.

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Speaker 13: JJ.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to interrupt you, but I have to

512
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Speaker 3: that brother right there is running for governor of Nevada.

513
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Speaker 3: Aaron Ford. We went to Texas A and M together.

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Speaker 3: He's a Kappa a J. He's a kappa, but it's

515
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Speaker 3: all good company. But he's running for governor of Nevada.

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Speaker 3: Give him my microphone, Novada Baby, Nevada, Nevada is Anyvada

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Speaker 3: in alpha any v a D he's a member.

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Speaker 12: And he is.

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Speaker 4: Yes, no, no, no, he's a he's the current attorney

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Speaker 4: current attorney general.

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Speaker 2: And walk in front of the camera, Aaron, go sit in.

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Speaker 3: So we were we were at Texas A and M together.

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Speaker 3: He's also a Texan, but again running for governors that

524
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Speaker 3: crucial state.

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Speaker 4: Aaron, it's so good to see you and we're so

526
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Speaker 4: excited that you're running for governor in a swing state

527
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Speaker 4: at that you and I have traveled together overseas but

528
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Speaker 4: been friends a long time, so really happy to have

529
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Speaker 4: you join the show.

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Speaker 5: Welcome home.

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Speaker 15: Well, thank you so very much. And let me thank Roland,

532
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 15: my classmate, my good buddy. He's an alpha, but we

533
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 15: get along very well. Thank you so much, sir for

534
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Speaker 15: calling my name out. And Tiffany's so great to see you.

535
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Speaker 15: We did travel. It's been over a decade now and

536
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Speaker 15: I'm delighted to.

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Speaker 5: Be here on the show. Thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Well, I want to know from you all. I asked

539
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Speaker 2: the host when we came on Rolling, is I'm doing

540
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Speaker 2: a popa riote thing today? We got an honorary guest

541
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Speaker 2: host and when he gonna stay as long as he wants. Yes.

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Speaker 2: But I will say to you all, Julanda and Aaron,

543
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Speaker 2: this conference made for this moment. I would love for

544
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Speaker 2: you all to say made for this moment because before

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Speaker 2: you depart today.

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Speaker 15: Well, you know, look, I love the theme and the

547
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 15: fact that the matter is made for the moment is

548
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Speaker 15: very fitting. I'm the first African American to be elected

549
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Speaker 15: statewide to a concerts office in Nevada, and this moment

550
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Speaker 15: I don't think it's just this moment. It's been the entirety, frankly,

551
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Speaker 15: of my tenure as Attorney General, whether it was George

552
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Speaker 15: Floyd and Meeping the top law enforcement officer in the state,

553
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Speaker 15: being able to speak truth to power from my position

554
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Speaker 15: to power about what our relationship was with law enforcement.

555
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Speaker 15: I said at point blank, I'm a black man, married

556
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Speaker 15: to a black woman, raised in three black sons and

557
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Speaker 15: a black nephew, and I'm gonna speak truth on this issue.

558
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Speaker 15: And I think that moment was entirely designed for me

559
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Speaker 15: to be in this particular position and right now, as

560
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 15: we have to define and protect our constitutional rights from

561
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 15: an onslaught of unlawful activities, it takes people who are

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Speaker 15: willing to stand up and speak truth to power right now.

563
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Speaker 15: And I'm happy to be in this position for this

564
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Speaker 15: particular moment that I'm made for.

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Speaker 3: Get a website. Get a website. Oh the website. Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 3: Ford for Nevada dot Com.

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Speaker 15: Listen, I'm the first black person to be ag for Nevada,

568
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Speaker 15: but I'm going to also be the first black person

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Speaker 15: to be governor of Nevada. And that website is Ford

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Speaker 15: for Nevada dot com I appreciate you.

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Speaker 5: Let me come on, y'all, thank.

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Speaker 2: You for me made for this moment.

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Speaker 10: Is important because those of us who are on the

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Speaker 10: front lines, this is hard work.

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Speaker 2: For this is hard work.

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Speaker 10: We are made for this moment because we have got

577
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Speaker 10: to remind people that this is history repeating itself. We've

578
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 10: got to remind people that we got hoes, we got lynched,

579
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Speaker 10: people getting lynched again. We got to remind people that

580
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Speaker 10: we used to didn't have voting rights and they're trying

581
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Speaker 10: to take us back. We got to remind people that

582
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Speaker 10: there was Jim Crow. We got to remind people of

583
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Speaker 10: that at this moment in time. And for me being

584
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Speaker 10: here in this space, I need rejuvenation. And it's very

585
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Speaker 10: difficult when you're home and people, young people especially don't

586
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Speaker 10: understand how bad it can be. So I need people

587
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Speaker 10: who are reinforcing me because I got to go back

588
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Speaker 10: to Texas. I got to go back to Texas. And

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00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 10: so we are made for this moment for those of

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Speaker 10: us that again on the front lines to be reinforced

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Speaker 10: and reminded while we have to do this work, and

592
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Speaker 10: who we can lean on when this starts getting weak.

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Speaker 10: And for me, I'm running for Congress Texas at the

594
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Speaker 10: seat at Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland, Craig Washington, Sheila Jackson Lee,

595
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Speaker 10: and Sylvester Turner were in. And we need somebody who's unafraid.

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Speaker 10: I was the first black, openly LGBTQ plus person in

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Speaker 10: the Texas Legislature House or Senate, and when I win

598
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Speaker 10: on November fourth, I will be the first black LGBTQ

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Speaker 10: plus woman in the US House of Representatives. And so

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Speaker 10: I just need reinforcement.

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Speaker 2: And I we came back.

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Speaker 10: We say as long gone as long as I wanted,

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Speaker 10: And I need to be around people who I know

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Speaker 10: woul to stay gone longer. And so I too, will

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Speaker 10: give a website real quick Joelanda Jones dot com. Let

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Speaker 10: me tell you how to spell joelaw It's a made

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Speaker 10: up black name. My mother like Yolanda. My daddy's name

608
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Speaker 10: was John. She wanted me to have his initials. Take

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Speaker 10: away to why and add A J J O L

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Speaker 10: A n DA Jones dot com because we need people

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Speaker 10: who are unafraid and unapologetically black, and that's who we all.

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Speaker 3: Are, That's what we all are, real quick, real quick,

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Speaker 3: Jolanda Aaron, please tell specifically aka's and kappus while they've

614
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Speaker 3: got to get out of our insular business and active

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Speaker 3: in driving folk to the polls locally. Yes, I said it,

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Speaker 3: So make the call for what they need to do

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Speaker 3: these D nine folk.

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Speaker 15: No, absolutely, there's no way we can do this, as

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Speaker 15: you've indicated, as insular individuals and insular entities. What I'm

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Speaker 15: proud of Roland. To your point is, I was invited

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Speaker 15: to the Alpha Pack event. I'm a sweet new I'm pretty.

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Speaker 5: But then let me come to the hour.

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Speaker 3: But you need that out for money, but go ahead,

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Speaker 3: I show.

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Speaker 5: It will take it as well.

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Speaker 15: So we have to move, have to come together as

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Speaker 15: organizations to pursue these goals and to assist us and

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Speaker 15: get in there. And I'm grateful for the support that

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Speaker 15: I'm getting across the board.

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Speaker 2: We so appreciate you.

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Speaker 10: And I am an Alpha Kappa Alpha woman, so is

632
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Speaker 10: my wife. She's so pretty Fall nineteen eighty seven and

633
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 10: we were the first black sorority, and we need to

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Speaker 10: be the first getting people to the polls because if

635
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Speaker 10: the world is run by those who show up, we

636
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 10: need to show up.

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Speaker 2: So I am encouraging all.

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Speaker 10: Of my sorority sisters specifically and the D nine generally

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Speaker 10: that we are the infrastructure in this country. We give scholarships.

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Speaker 10: We all believe in service to mankind and womankind, So

641
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 10: we need.

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Speaker 16: To do that.

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Speaker 10: As Alpha Kappa alpha women, we need to be more

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Speaker 10: than pretty. We need to be soldiers in the cause.

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Speaker 3: I hear you and Prince all Mason start and links.

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Speaker 3: We have massive black infrastructure that's not being fully maximized.

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Speaker 3: And doctor King said that in his book Where do

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Speaker 3: we Go from here? Chaos all community here we have money, right,

649
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Speaker 3: but but the point is too many of us are

650
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Speaker 3: risk averse. We think it's going to jeopardize our letters. No,

651
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Speaker 3: we have the infrastructure. We're international, national, regional, state undergrad

652
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Speaker 3: grad we go all the way down from k So

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Speaker 3: I just think that we're not maximizing our infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: Great, you're right. I love y'all, and we're gonna carry

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Speaker 2: this town hall, this Greek town. All y'all doing later.

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Speaker 2: But Aaron and Jalanda and roll An, I said, a

657
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Speaker 2: black from the West Coast's hour some time. So sorry, lens.

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Speaker 2: We are so grateful for y'all. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for being here. I want to just acknowledge someone whose

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Speaker 2: legacy this live podcast is and that is Congressman Joyce Baty.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna come join us later, but she's standing right here,

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Speaker 2: so let's give it up.

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Speaker 3: The International President of the Ak's is right over there.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I saw the president. President.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is in the house. I got the house. Are

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Speaker 2: where you could come back if you want. You're always young.

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Speaker 2: Now is my good friend Todd Cox, who is making

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Speaker 2: things happen at the na A c B Legal Defense Fund.

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Speaker 2: We just had a conversation on redistricting. Of course, the

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Speaker 2: na A c P l d F will be arguing

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Speaker 2: a case before the Supreme Court on Section two of

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Speaker 2: the Voting Rights Act. What's hanging in the balance is very,

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Speaker 2: very serious, and they will determine whether or not the

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Speaker 2: Section two of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional or not.

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Speaker 2: We also have our good friend Elizabeth Booker Houston who's

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Speaker 2: joining us. Y'all know hera is Booker Squared. All that

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Speaker 2: content going viral. She tells us like it tells it

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Speaker 2: like it is. Or Daddy say, you don't mind her cussing?

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Speaker 2: My daddy does, but they love That's the way she

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Speaker 2: tells the tr.

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Speaker 17: Okay, But can I tell you. I got to ask

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Speaker 17: Jasmine crocketts daddy yesterday if he minded her cussing, and

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Speaker 17: he kind of gave the same kind of answer my

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Speaker 17: daddy did.

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Speaker 2: Like, Okay, I don't really like it your daddy talk

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Speaker 2: to my daddy.

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Speaker 4: So I got as I can I help jump in

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Speaker 4: and ask a question because when you were making the introduction,

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Speaker 4: I was curious for our audience and even for myself,

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Speaker 4: what exactly is Section two of the Voting Rights Act?

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Speaker 18: Yes?

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Speaker 2: And why is it so important?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 19: Section two of the Voting First of all, let me

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Speaker 19: just say thank you so.

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Speaker 5: Much, Michael. Oh yeah, shit, your mic down, just pushing down.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, just talk right into it, all right, can you

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Speaker 2: hear me now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Real close? Or lifted up just a little bit. Lifted

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Speaker 2: it back up there you go, Ques should be.

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Speaker 19: Perfect good, all right, Thank you, Thanks for that question,

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Speaker 19: and thanks for the opportunity to join you all. Section

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Speaker 19: two of the Voting Rights Act is a key part

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Speaker 19: of the Voting Rights Act, which, by the way, is

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Speaker 19: only sixty years old. It's a gen x statue, it's

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Speaker 19: a young statute. Section two is the bulwark that really

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Speaker 19: protects voters, black voters, voters of color, from having their

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Speaker 19: votes diluted. It says basically that you can't create a plan,

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Speaker 19: a redistricting plan, or any kind of voting change that

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Speaker 19: would take away, dilute, diminish the voting rights of those voters.

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Speaker 19: And as Angela mentioned, Section two is at stake right now.

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Speaker 19: From the very beginning, Section two has been threatened by courts.

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Speaker 19: We've been fighting to keep Section two seen as constitutional.

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Speaker 19: We have won under Section two cases very recently, and now,

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Speaker 19: as Angela mentioned, a case called Louisiana versus Cala, we're

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Speaker 19: going to be arguing for the constitutionality of a plan

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Speaker 19: that was drawn to big sure that voters had the

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Speaker 19: right to let their candidates a choice under Section two.

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Speaker 14: But now also the state is arguing that.

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Speaker 19: Section two is unconstitutional, and we're doing all we can

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Speaker 19: make sure that they lose that argument.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do we know when that case will be before

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Speaker 2: the Supreme.

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Speaker 3: Court, We certainly do.

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Speaker 19: It's going to be argued October fifteenth, and we would

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Speaker 19: love for everyone to come out be on the steps

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Speaker 19: of the Supreme Court to support us. We know we

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Speaker 19: need folks on the ground, folks in the real world,

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Speaker 19: not just in court, making sure we protect our voting rights.

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Speaker 6: And then what are the consequences if Section two were

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Speaker 6: to go down? Well, especially as we're looking at redistricting,

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Speaker 6: racist based based redistricting happening.

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Speaker 5: In red states around the country, right, well, what are

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Speaker 5: the implications?

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Speaker 19: The implications are democracy itself. I dare say if Section

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Speaker 19: two were did not exist, it would not protect the

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Speaker 19: rights of voters who are currently being threatened by this

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Speaker 19: off cycle redistricting. Right we see in several states black

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Speaker 19: elected officials, who are the candidates of choice of voters

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Speaker 19: in those states being targeted in.

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Speaker 3: A way that we haven't litigated.

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Speaker 19: This may be seen as as threatening the candidates of

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Speaker 19: choice of black voters. Section two stands for the proposition

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Speaker 19: that that can't happen, and if we didn't have Section two,

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Speaker 19: we would not be able to as successfully defend those.

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Speaker 14: Districts as possibly.

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Speaker 19: We still have tools. Don't be wrong, we still have

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Speaker 19: tools to do that. But Section two is the most

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Speaker 19: effective way that we have in place right now to

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Speaker 19: make that happen.

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Speaker 2: You know, I want to come to you on this point, Liz,

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Speaker 2: because I think what Todd mentioned about us being on

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Speaker 2: the steps of the Supreme Court is important. What we

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Speaker 2: know in this day and age especially, is there is

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Speaker 2: a lot that is one in the court of public opinion.

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Speaker 2: You have been outside of steps, outside of the Heritage Foundation,

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Speaker 2: outside of all kinds of things with bullhorns, saying all

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Speaker 2: kinds of important things, sometimes foolishness. But can you talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about why it's so important to lift

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Speaker 2: up your voice at a time like this and to

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Speaker 2: lean into courage when there's so much to be afraid of.

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Speaker 17: Well, I would just say it's all about pushing back

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Speaker 17: on the disinformation.

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Speaker 16: You know.

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Speaker 17: I'm just thinking about what I've learned the week, in

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Speaker 17: particular here at CBC ALC Week, and we talked a

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Speaker 17: lot about censorship.

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Speaker 2: We talked a lot about suppression.

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Speaker 17: I sat in on a panel that Congressman Lamona MacIvor led,

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Speaker 17: and Karen Atilla was on that panel, who we know

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Speaker 17: was just fired from the Washington Post. I know that

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Speaker 17: April d Ryan was on that panel, and there was

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Speaker 17: a lovely woman named Jollin who I had never met before,

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Speaker 17: who was a public relation specialist, and she said, there

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Speaker 17: is spiritual power in telling our stories, and that has

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Speaker 17: been resonating with me all week, because it's really important

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Speaker 17: that we get out there, and we are the ones

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Speaker 17: making our voices heard because they are going to talk

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Speaker 17: about us whether we are out there or not. So

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Speaker 17: we want to make sure that we set the record

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Speaker 17: straight and also to just inform our communities. You know, Angela,

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Speaker 17: you and I are in a very gate kept profession.

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Speaker 17: We're in a very gate kept profession when it comes

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Speaker 17: to the law. And there's not very many black lawyers.

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Speaker 17: What are there over the over sixty thousand black lawyers

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Speaker 17: that we have percent somewhere in there, and we I

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Speaker 17: know that the profession is geate kept for a reason.

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Speaker 17: It's so we can charge well, I'll say, white male

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Speaker 17: lawyers can charge three hundred, five hundred dollars an hour

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Speaker 17: for the information.

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Speaker 2: But really this is stuff that pertains to all of us.

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Speaker 17: When you talk about Section two of the Voting Rights Act,

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Speaker 17: that pertains to all of us, and it's important to

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Speaker 17: get that information out to our communities in a way

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Speaker 17: that they understand. And so sometimes it is me with

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Speaker 17: foolishness on the steps somewhere because that's the way that

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Speaker 17: it's going to get across. But I know that I've

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Speaker 17: had very proud moments that yeah, I'm talking foolish. But

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Speaker 17: I also taught a whole bunch of people what substantive

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Speaker 17: due process was on Instagram one day, and I think

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Speaker 17: that's amazing. I think it's amazing that people understand how

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Speaker 17: things are affecting them and also the disinformation, in particular

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Speaker 17: when it comes to the Voting Rights Act. I know

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Speaker 17: that I got to talk to Congressman Jasmine Crockett for

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Speaker 17: a recording for State of the People TV, and I

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Speaker 17: don't want to give away too much because I want

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Speaker 17: people to go watch that episode, but we did talk

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Speaker 17: about Section two of the Voting Rights Act and how

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Speaker 17: that is about Black people being able to choose who

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Speaker 17: represents us. It's not about putting black people in seats,

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Speaker 17: which is a common piece of disinformation use because I'm

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Speaker 17: from Memphis, Tennessee, where Congressman Steve Cohen, who is a

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Speaker 17: white man, is actually in a Section two seat, so

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Speaker 17: that's what he's technically in. And it wasn't about the

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Speaker 17: race of the person elected, but it was about making

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Speaker 17: sure that black individuals just have the opportunity to elect

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Speaker 17: the person who we feel as best represents us.

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Speaker 2: I want to just pause here. I know Tiff is smart.

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Speaker 2: Her brain is buzzing. She's got more questions. But we've

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Speaker 2: been joined by Mayor I call him Mayor Leo. Mayor

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Speaker 2: Leonardo Williams from Durham, North Carolina. I got to meet

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Speaker 2: Leo during our State of the People Power tour and

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Speaker 2: he's been a great partner ever since. So I just

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Speaker 2: wanted to welcome to the stage. He can get into

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Speaker 2: redistricting too, he knows a little bit about that in

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Speaker 2: North Carolina as well.

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Speaker 3: North Carolina.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, so I want to, but I want to

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Speaker 2: guilt to you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry because you know, I didn't know this

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Speaker 4: data about black lawyers, so that was really surprising to me.

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Speaker 4: And we're blessed to have so many on the panel

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Speaker 4: right now and something that I've always wondered about, and

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Speaker 4: anybody who has an answer can weigh in. Doesn't help

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Speaker 4: us or hurt us by not televising Supreme Court hearings,

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Speaker 4: because when you're saying, show up on the steps of

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Speaker 4: the court, how so many people have no idea when

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Speaker 4: the Supreme Court is in session. They have no idea

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Speaker 4: what's before the court, and they have no idea about

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Speaker 4: the back and forth. Some of the dissents from Justice

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Speaker 4: Kazanji Brown Jackson and the counterpoint Andrew, You and I

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Speaker 4: talked about this from Amy Hony Barrett.

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Speaker 14: I mean it was.

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Speaker 4: Tantamount to a rap battle, like the real dis tracks

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Speaker 4: coming out.

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Speaker 2: Of the court.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just curious the thoughts from the lawyers. Should

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Speaker 4: there be cameras broadcasting these proceedings?

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Speaker 19: Well, I can't speak for the Legal Defense Fund on

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Speaker 19: that point, but personally, I think in this day and age,

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Speaker 19: we do a disservice not to be as transparent as

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Speaker 19: we can about the very processes that determine the future

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Speaker 19: of our democracy. The Supreme Court is one. We televised

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Speaker 19: congressional arguments, congressional hearings, c span. We don't do the

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Speaker 19: same thing with courts, and increasingly, you know, all eyes

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Speaker 19: are on the courts.

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Speaker 3: They are the.

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Speaker 19: Last stand in many ways to push back on this

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Speaker 19: overreach for this executive. And I would love for my

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Speaker 19: community to be able to see the strength and power

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Speaker 19: of lawyers speaking in court about what's going on in

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Speaker 19: this country with our democracy, and we don't have a

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Speaker 19: chance to do that very often. The other thing, I'll say,

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Speaker 19: we have very few black lawyers, We have very few

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Speaker 19: black women lawyers done arguments in the Supreme Court. Jane Nelson,

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Speaker 19: my boss, my president director counsel. She is going to

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Speaker 19: be arguing the Kale case. It is rare to see

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Speaker 19: a black woman in the Supreme Court. We're so proud

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Speaker 19: of that. But I think that's another thing that people

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Speaker 19: should be aware of, and they should see visually the

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Speaker 19: power of those kinds of arguments and the lack, frankly

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Speaker 19: of voice that we've given folks who represent us in

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Speaker 19: this community.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, and I would agree with all of that. It

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Speaker 17: goes back to what I just said about the profession being.

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Speaker 14: Very gate kept.

879
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 17: That is the problem, and that would take away some

880
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 17: of that gatekeeping and take away some of the illusory

881
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 17: power that we see that comes with the profession, which

882
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 17: again is just trying to assert dominance over the entire populace.

883
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 17: When we know again that this is something that affects everybody,

884
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 17: that everybody should have a stake in, that everyone should

885
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 17: have a saying, and everybody should be informed about.

886
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 2: I will tune in to goo to TV.

887
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 17: I would love to see all of the expressions that

888
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Speaker 17: Clarence Thomas makes whenever Justice Katanji Brown Jackson decides to

889
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 17: slam down with good some good line here or there.

890
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: I would like to see it, mister Mayor. I know

891
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 2: you joined us.

892
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 4: I want to bring you into the conversation because a

893
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:31,720
Speaker 4: lot of big cities get a lot of attention.

894
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 2: You know, there's a race in New Orleans right now.

895
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 4: We talk about Detroit and LA but for some of

896
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 4: our smaller towns that may not be in the headlines.

897
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 4: Why should people who don't live there care about what's

898
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 4: going on there? And how can we support some of

899
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 4: these smaller towns because it's our way of community. No

900
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 4: matter where we are geographically, we are one in this country.

901
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 4: So curious your thoughts there.

902
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 12: You know, the the manipulation that's happening in politics right now,

903
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 12: the city doesn't matter anymore. I mean they're starting in

904
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 12: smaller towns. It's starting with school boards. The power should

905
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 12: be built from the bottom up. And that's what's happening

906
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 12: to your point, what you're just talking about. You know,

907
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 12: ignorance is the greatest currency for political manipulation. And I

908
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,760
Speaker 12: mean we can do for your requests for everything except

909
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 12: this untermed limited you know, body of legal leads people.

910
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 12: And it's so intimidating because we don't know. So if

911
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 12: we don't know how and we can't see it, how

912
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 12: can we be a part of it?

913
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Speaker 7: Right?

914
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 12: So back to the size of the towns and cities,

915
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 12: it really doesn't matter, you know. There there's there's takeovers

916
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 12: of you know, redistricting starting from those smaller areas. My

917
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 12: city is almost a half million people, but I get

918
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 12: the same representation as Wentworth, North Carolina, or somewhere else

919
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 12: where they have maybe twenty five hundred people. That doesn't

920
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 12: make any sense. But you want to make sure there's

921
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 12: equal representation, Yes, we all want to make sure it's balanced. Yeah,

922
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 12: and we're not getting that.

923
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much for joining us as a

924
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 4: really helpful insight. We'll have to have you all back.

925
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Speaker 4: This was a really fascinating conversation to me because I

926
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Speaker 4: had no idea about black lawyers. So that's a conversation

927
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Speaker 4: that has to continue. And speaking of black lawyers, we're

928
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Speaker 4: going to welcome.

929
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Speaker 2: Yet another one.

930
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Speaker 4: It's a very well known friend of the show, and

931
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Speaker 4: that is, of course, Marilyn Moseby, former Baltimore State's Attorney,

932
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Speaker 4: joins us now looking beautiful dainning a beautiful black down

933
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Speaker 4: and we're also going to be joined by doctor Michael

934
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Speaker 4: Eric Dyson and certainly last but not least, Congressoman Latifa

935
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Speaker 4: Simon will also join us. Thank you please come along everybody.

936
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Speaker 4: I have to say for our viewing audience who can't

937
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Speaker 4: see we are a beautiful people because we see the

938
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Speaker 4: line of people coming along.

939
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Speaker 2: Looking beautiful and gorgeous. Oh well, thank you.

940
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Speaker 4: I came here from the train station, so I'm in sneakers,

941
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Speaker 4: so I'm.

942
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 2: Hiding behind well, thank you to tell nobody, but she's

943
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Speaker 2: been telling it all.

944
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Speaker 5: Of Maryland, Maryland, Maryland, Maryland, Maryland. It's good to have

945
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Speaker 5: all of our guests, Congressmoman, doctor the Doctor, michaelry Dyson,

946
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Speaker 5: Michael Maryland.

947
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Speaker 6: Since the last time you were with us on the show,

948
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Speaker 6: something pretty monumental happened. As it relates to your case,

949
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Speaker 6: which native lampod listeners, our family rallied significantly, you know,

950
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 6: behind you on this cause. Can you let the folks

951
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 6: know what happened and that time between now and then

952
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Speaker 6: shore Key.

953
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Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm so incredibly grateful to all of you. You

954
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 20: all advocated for me. There were over one hundred thousand

955
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 20: people that signed that part and petition. Unfortunately, the Biden

956
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 20: administration didn't do what it needed to do. But in

957
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Speaker 20: the end, the Court of Appeals actually reversed one of

958
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Speaker 20: the convictions and affirmed yes, yes, the mortgage fraud conviction,

959
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 20: the same sort of playbook that they used on me

960
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 20: that they're executing perfectly on Lisa Cooke and Letitia James right,

961
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Speaker 20: that same reversal of that conviction. However, they did affirm

962
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Speaker 20: two of the perjury convictions. And mind you, these reconvictions

963
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Speaker 20: are based off of a vague and ambiguous statute that

964
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Speaker 20: has never been legally defined or used against anyone in

965
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Speaker 20: this country. And so my attorneys actually, as of two

966
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Speaker 20: days ago, filed an appeal on Bunk in front of

967
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Speaker 20: the Fourth Circuit, which we're asking all fifteen judges to

968
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Speaker 20: review not only the two perjury convictions that the Court

969
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Speaker 20: of Appeals affirmed.

970
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Speaker 5: I love it.

971
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 2: I love it, and I want to come to Congresswoman

972
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 2: and Simon because I begged her to stay right here

973
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 2: for two seconds. I want you all to understand this

974
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 2: woman is so powerful and standing on some tremendous shoulders.

975
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 2: We know that you replaced Congresswoman Barbaraly in Congress, who

976
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 2: is now the mayor of Oakland and you read Oakland hard.

977
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 2: You know the best coast has always went in Latifa.

978
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: But I just want you to give us a charge.

979
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 2: We've been asking all of our guests, why are you

980
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,280
Speaker 2: made for this moment? And I know if there's anybody

981
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 2: that can bring this, just you. Let's bring this word Latifa.

982
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, doctor I met doctor Dyson when

983
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 7: my daughter was five years old. She's right over there,

984
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 7: she's twenty nine, and she's an attorney. She's an attorney

985
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 7: because there are women like miss Mosby who decided not

986
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 7: only to study the law, but to enter the public space.

987
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 7: These public spaces were not made for us. We know that,

988
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 7: we know that, damn well. But we are made for

989
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 7: the moment because we don't have a choice. Liberty and

990
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 7: justice is so deeply ingrained in the deep DNA and

991
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 7: bone marrow of black people. Listen, it's not easy to

992
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 7: run for the district attorney. It's not easy to be

993
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 7: a black academic and white institutions. It's not easy being

994
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 7: single mothers or folks who are trying to fight cancer

995
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 7: on budgets. Now is the time where we call a

996
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 7: spain a spain. I'm an organizer. You know that you

997
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 7: know that Andrew Gillum told me to run for office

998
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 7: some years ago and got me into the Young Elected

999
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 7: Officials Network. We are family and we have always fought charity.

1000
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 7: And here's the charge, s here's the charge. What is

1001
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 7: happening right now? We know it's not new, we know

1002
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 7: it's not new, but we are gathered here today at

1003
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 7: this conference not just to celebrate, but to force back.

1004
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 7: And I'm gonna give you a little bit of what

1005
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Speaker 7: I've learned from Dyson's text.

1006
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 14: They are trying to erase not only us, but memory.

1007
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, but memory, the memory of liberation, struggle, the memory

1008
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 7: of joy through organizing and fighting.

1009
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 2: And we say hell no.

1010
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 7: So when I go into the Dome on Monday, when

1011
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 7: the Republicans will still be vacationing, we are going to

1012
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 7: get ready to throw off all that we have in me.

1013
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 7: I'm fighting for the mothers who doesn't have quarters for laundry.

1014
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 7: I'm not just fighting for a democracy. I watch that mother.

1015
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 7: I am fighting sus for the mothers who are literally

1016
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 7: taking their children out of clinical trials because this damn

1017
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 7: administration is defunding the NIH.

1018
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 3: Listen, our lives are on the line.

1019
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 2: The only thing that we have to lose is our lives.

1020
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 3: And the last thing that I'll.

1021
00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 7: Say Asada, if she's taught us anything, all right, anything,

1022
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 7: live and die free.

1023
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, thank you, Congresswoman, thank you both.

1024
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 2: We got We gotta close out this amazing panel with

1025
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,959
Speaker 2: the rightful preacher that I know I call a mentor Dad.

1026
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 2: This is doctor Dyson, and we have some special guests

1027
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 2: coming right up. But doctor Dyson, we are made for

1028
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: this moment because.

1029
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 9: As my pastor used to say, we've already come through

1030
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 9: what we've come to, right, We've been here before.

1031
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:31,959
Speaker 3: I've been reading a brilliant book.

1032
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 9: I guess I'm not allowed to say what book I'm reading,

1033
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 9: but it reminds us that we have faced all the

1034
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 9: stuff we facing out.

1035
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 3: Racism is a dry run for fascism.

1036
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 9: Everything that fascism fears, racists have already visited upon black people,

1037
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 9: whether calling our congresswomen out of their names, these inveterate

1038
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 9: viragos who stalk the horizon with their viciousness and vitriol,

1039
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 9: we face that before.

1040
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,880
Speaker 3: So we're based in the.

1041
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 9: Reality of this moment, because we don't limit ourselves to

1042
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 9: this moment. And so I think Howard Thurman said it

1043
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 9: best our slave. Fore parents refuse to reduce their dreams

1044
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 9: to what they confronted immediately. They borrowed from the future

1045
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 9: in order to articulate a goal and aspiration for their

1046
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 9: kids that they could never imagine. So I'm glad to

1047
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 9: be an inheritance of that profound legacy.

1048
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 5: And we got to continue.

1049
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 9: And let's be real, Black women in particular have always

1050
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 9: saved not only the race, but America. So I look

1051
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,919
Speaker 9: forward to the day when we look past this. Last

1052
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 9: time I checked, God ain't resigned. If God ain't resigned,

1053
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 9: that means God is going to be here when other

1054
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 9: people are dead, gone.

1055
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 3: Buried, or out of office.

1056
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 9: So we continue to fight because we have the strength

1057
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 9: of our ancestors behind us.

1058
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 2: We love, thank you, enjoy the dinner. We will see

1059
00:52:47,640 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 2: y'all in there just shortly, beautiful and at this time

1060
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 2: we are being joined by some more living legend. Y'all

1061
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 2: hugging right in front of our CRI is so sweet.

1062
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 2: But y'all got to see black love, Black family, right.

1063
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: And speaking of black family, we have the opportunity to

1064
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 2: be joined by some incredible people who are coming up

1065
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 2: in just a moment. They are an incredible black family.

1066
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 2: They exude black love. They are our good sister and

1067
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 2: brother from the state of Maryland. They are coming right up.

1068
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 2: They're just hugging another Marylander. But literally everybody's welcoming then

1069
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 2: because they are the black y'all, come sit together. Right

1070
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 2: here next to to this is the Governor y'all of Maryland,

1071
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 2: Wes Moore and the first Lady Don Moore. They're taking

1072
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 2: a picture and that.

1073
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 4: They will join because he was known as the other

1074
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 4: wes Moore for so long and he is not the

1075
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 4: other wes Moore.

1076
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Speaker 2: Who is the other wes Moore. This is the only one.

1077
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 2: We love y'all, thank you so much.

1078
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 21: While they're allading, you know, I know we always say

1079
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 21: the CZC, but we hugged while they're getting seated, guy,

1080
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 21: I will tell you a story of my book club

1081
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 21: read the other wes Moore.

1082
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 4: This was maybe ten years ago, maybe a little more

1083
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 4: than ten years ago, and you were in labor at

1084
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 4: the time, and the other wes Moore was still kind

1085
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 4: enough to dial into our book club so he can participate.

1086
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 4: So this brother is committed.

1087
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 2: So I'm so thankful to have you both on the show.

1088
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 3: I love it.

1089
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 2: I want to know how y'all are feeling right now,

1090
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 2: this is gonna be a special moment for you tonight

1091
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: as well. Talk about what you're gonna be doing at

1092
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 2: the CBC Foundation dinner, Governor, Well.

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Speaker 14: Listen, first, were so excited to be at an award

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00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 14: dinner where you are going to be recognized.

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Speaker 2: And yes, thank you very much, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 14: It is so well deserved. And listen, I mean, I

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00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 14: think for both of us, this is just a night

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Speaker 14: of lyft.

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Speaker 2: We got to get your mic closer.

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Speaker 14: I was like, I can't even I apologize. I mean,

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Speaker 14: this is just a night of lyft and a filling up.

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Speaker 14: And I think, honestly, like these past weeks and months

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Speaker 14: for so many people has been so draining, has been

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Speaker 14: so tiring, has been so exhausting, and so like tonight

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00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 14: is a night to remind us just how powerful we are,

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Speaker 14: just how important we are, just how just how important

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Speaker 14: we are inside this moment, and it's a time to

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00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 14: go out there and laugh and smile and celebrate and

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00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 14: celebrate what excellence is. And so honestly, like you know,

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Speaker 14: to have a chance to be here with each of y'all,

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Speaker 14: to have a chance to have a date night, my bride.

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Speaker 14: But honestly, Angel, I'm telling you, it means so much

1113
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 14: to us to watch you lift it up, and so

1114
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 14: tonight is a real joy, and tonight is a blessing

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Speaker 14: for all of us to watch you be celebrated for

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Speaker 14: the work that you do.

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Speaker 5: I love that. I love that.

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Speaker 6: Well, we first, Lady, we're not gonna give you softballs

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00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 6: today because you yeah, we know, we know you're broad

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Speaker 6: intellection and otherwise capacity, so as a leader on this

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Speaker 6: stage as well, because we know that our governors need partners.

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00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 6: In fact, some of the best advice and guidance we

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Speaker 6: get are from those partners, and I would imagine the

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Speaker 6: same may be true in this case. As you analyze

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Speaker 6: the moment that we found ourselves in, not just in

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Speaker 6: the state of Maryland, but around the country, what would

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00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 6: you diagnose are the things that are missing in this movement,

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Speaker 6: in this space, in this counterbalancing to autocracy.

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Speaker 5: What do you think is missing that you would.

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00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 6: Charge your fellow Americans and Black Americans most specifically with

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00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 6: needing to step up on if we're going to win

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Speaker 6: this race.

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Speaker 18: Well, first, let me just say thank you for this platform,

1134
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 18: thank you for everything that you all do. I love

1135
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 18: that you know the theme of this weekend is that

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00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 18: we are made for this moment and that is a fact.

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Speaker 18: So what I would say is for us to continue fighting.

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00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 18: It's it's not what we're missing is that sometimes the

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00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 18: fight is long and we just have to continue on

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00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 18: that path and we can't give way to despair. We

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00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 18: cannot be scared to keep stepping up. When I think

1142
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 18: about my husband, I tell everybody this, I never knew

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00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 18: I would marry a governor, but I knew I was

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00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 18: marrying a soldier. And now it's time to soldier on.

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00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 18: And this is what we're doing, and we have the ability.

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00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 18: We're here to celebrate. We're here to talk about the

1147
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 18: great work that the CBC is doing, that we are

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00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 18: all are doing. But then we get back to work

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00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 18: after we celebrate, and that's what I would say that

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00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 18: we continue to do.

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00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 2: Okay, Can I ask all a black love question? Really cozy?

1152
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 2: Since you brought it up. I think it's so important

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00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 2: for and Wes. This is going to come to you.

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00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 2: Here's a not softball for you. When people think about

1155
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 2: choosing partners, they say that who you married determines if

1156
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 2: you are you elevate to your next level to your

1157
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 2: highest purpose and what you do or you get pulled

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00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 2: all the way down. Talk about what you saw in Dawn,

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00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 2: the first Lady of Maryland that made you know like, oh,

1160
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 2: she definitely gonna elevate me. I'm gonna get upgraded. But yo,

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00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 2: so actually this I'm laughing, but I'm serious.

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Speaker 18: I love that.

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00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 14: I'm no, So it's so it's real. There are actually

1164
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 14: a couple of moments when I was like, oh, she's

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00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 14: just different. Yes, and you're right, man, I was like,

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Speaker 14: I have seen good people become great by the people

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00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 14: they've chosen to have as their life partner. And I've

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00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 14: seen great people become less than good by the people

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00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 14: who they chosen to have as their as their life partner.

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Speaker 5: Because this is like, this is real.

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00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's the it's the person who you wake up

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00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 14: to every morning. Yeah, it's the last face you see

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00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 14: every night. It's the person who and I'm telling you

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00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 14: it was so crazy. So first of all, I tell you,

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00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,440
Speaker 14: there were a whole bunch of moments as we were

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Speaker 14: like dating that I was like, oh, she again, she's

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Speaker 14: just different, Like I remember someone she remembers this. The

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00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 14: first gift she gave me was It was the Christmas

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Speaker 14: after we first started dating, and she gave me a

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Speaker 14: bunch of a few things, but she gave me a

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Speaker 14: speech by Voklibhabo about the importance of democracy and how

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Speaker 14: to defendimoxy. I'm like, yo, most of the people I've

1183
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 14: dealt with before, I didn't know Whobabo even was. But like,

1184
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 14: I saw how like she thought deeply about this stuff

1185
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 14: in a way that frankly, in many ways, I never

1186
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Speaker 14: had thought about it before. But I'm gonna tell you.

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00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 14: I'm gonna tell you a quick story. I remember when

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00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 14: I was running for governor, and I had never run

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Speaker 14: for office before my life, so everything was new, all

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Speaker 14: the stuff, and she was like, listen, let me tell

1191
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Speaker 14: you how this thing's gonna go down, and here's how

1192
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 14: they're gonna come at you, and here's how it is.

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Speaker 14: And she was like and at some point when the

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Speaker 14: attacks started coming this and that, She's like, it's because

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Speaker 14: they're finally starting to pay attention.

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: And I remember it was April of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 14: the election year, and out of nowhere, I'm like, I

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Speaker 14: just started watching all these attacks, all these lies, all

1201
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Speaker 14: this sudd I'm like yo, what is going on? And

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Speaker 14: it literally just happened like over a three week period.

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01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 14: It was like this onslaught. Yeah, And I remember getting

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Speaker 14: up one morning and being like mad, It's like, I

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01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 14: gotta go through all this stuff again. And I was

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Speaker 14: getting up when I was going in the bathroom and

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Speaker 14: I turned the corner and she was standing right there

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Speaker 14: and she put my face in her hands and she

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Speaker 14: just looked in my eyes and she said, it's because

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Speaker 14: you're winning.

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Speaker 5: Keep going.

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Speaker 14: And at that moment when I was like, yo, why

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Speaker 14: did I sign up to do this? Why did we

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Speaker 14: give up our life for this? And I looked in

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Speaker 14: her eyes and it was all the reminder that she needed.

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Speaker 14: She's like, listen, we in this together and we're gonna

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Speaker 14: be Okay. I warned you what was going to happen.

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Speaker 14: The moment the attacks are coming, it's not because they're

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Speaker 14: they're not thinking about you.

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Speaker 2: Listen, this is my last point. But I have to

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Speaker 2: say this because I'm and Donna's gonna be like, why

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Speaker 2: are you telling family business? But I'm about to family business.

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Speaker 2: So y'all, this is how I want you all to know.

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Speaker 2: This is not a commercial. Yeah, this is real. Don

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Speaker 2: isis this is my sister for real. And let me

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Speaker 2: tell y'all why we got in a real fight and

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Speaker 2: not like fist fight, but right I would never swing.

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Speaker 2: She would win, by the way. Let me tell you

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Speaker 2: don rides for this man, believes in this man. And

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Speaker 2: I was like, what about that? And I she was like,

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Speaker 2: let me tell you something. My husband. Once she got

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Speaker 2: to my husband the fifth time, I was like, you

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Speaker 2: know what, y'all, I'm gonna make sure he knows he

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01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 2: got a writer for real. And I think that there's

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Speaker 2: something about that that is so magical. We believe in you, brother,

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Speaker 2: But this sister right here, she might win me along somebody.

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Speaker 2: I love it so much because it was so clear

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Speaker 2: I was I love this for him, and I love

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Speaker 2: it for you.

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Speaker 5: We love you, we love you, and it's real.

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Speaker 14: It's real because I say, like, like, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 14: you can't say nothing about this lady to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 14: I'm telling you, like she knows I got her front back,

1244
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Speaker 14: whatever it is. And also I know it's the same

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Speaker 14: thing for her, and like this is why I mean, like, listen,

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Speaker 14: God is I always say, man, It's like I get

1247
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 14: a reminder every single day that God loves me. Yeah,

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Speaker 14: because he plays Dawn in my life and that's the

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Speaker 14: reminder that I needed God. God loves me, and I'm

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Speaker 14: grateful for that.

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Speaker 2: Because we're on this black love theme, I mean, because

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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Speaker 4: Now is a moment when I say for informing and reading,

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Speaker 4: it's also a time for love.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we are going through collective.

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Speaker 4: Trauma right now, and it feels sometimes that we're in

1257
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Speaker 4: our own silos. Young people don't know how to approach

1258
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 4: each other because they they've grown up with nothing but phones,

1259
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 4: text People are pretending to be okay with casual and

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01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 4: you know, not so serious things, and we see the

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01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 4: power of what happens, and the very thing that helped

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Speaker 4: us survive this four hundred year nightmare was our love

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Speaker 4: for each other, the way we would show up for

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Speaker 4: each other. So for people who are younger looking for

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Speaker 4: life partners, for people who are just navigating this space,

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Speaker 4: I'm curious what advice you guys might offer at a

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Speaker 4: time such as this, where our politics impact our hearts,

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Speaker 4: impact our lives. What should we consider navigating this jungle

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Speaker 4: out there?

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Speaker 18: You know I would say this when I fell in

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01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 18: love with Wes, I fell in love with a whole person.

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Speaker 18: I didn't fall in love with someone that needed to

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Speaker 18: be fixed, someone who needed.

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Speaker 3: Me to be his mother. He had all those things.

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Speaker 18: And what I found in Wes was that we were

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Speaker 18: equally yoked. We had the same value system and it

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Speaker 18: wasn't that hard. I didn't have to force him to

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01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 18: love me, and he didn't have to force me to

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Speaker 18: love him. And I think sometimes we have to realize that,

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Speaker 18: you know.

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Speaker 2: You find love.

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Speaker 18: Wes and I we joke, we say our marriage is

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Speaker 18: an arranged marriage because we were introduced and it was

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Speaker 18: a beautiful way for us to meet. That doesn't happen

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Speaker 18: for everybody, although I had a lot of girlfriends like.

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Speaker 2: Do you think your aunt knows anybody else?

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Speaker 18: But but the truth of the matter is is that

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Speaker 18: it wasn't hard, and the value system was there, and

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Speaker 18: that's it, you know.

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Speaker 2: And we worked as not to say that. We never

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01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 2: ever question are we going to do this for life?

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Speaker 18: In the beginning, of course, we had all those honest conversations,

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01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 18: but when it came down to it, we valued family,

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01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 18: We wanted the same things we wanted to serve. We

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01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 18: both had a deep belief in our faith and in God,

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Speaker 18: and that was enough and so it was a blessing.

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Speaker 18: It was a blessing, but we put the work in

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Speaker 18: and we stay true to what was important to us.

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Speaker 6: I bet y'all did not become governor first lady thinking

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Speaker 6: you would be the interviewed.

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Speaker 5: On marriage, life, love partnership.

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Speaker 6: So a good deviation probably from the normal rigor of

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01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 6: interviews that you get. But I do want to just

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Speaker 6: connect one other thing before we let you all go,

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Speaker 6: and that is as the only sitting black governor in

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Speaker 6: the United States right now, and we know that many

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Speaker 6: have tried and there are many more who are attempting

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Speaker 6: that feat right now in this cycle a state that

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Speaker 6: has pretty prosperous African Americans. But also you've got the

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Speaker 6: reflection of our community from the highest earners to the

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Speaker 6: lowest earners yet hardest workers. How do you all balance

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Speaker 6: your leadership for the state where you have a diverse

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Speaker 6: state without a doubt, but the expectations of our people,

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Speaker 6: which have to be even more greatly animated that they

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Speaker 6: have they see themselves reflected in their governor and first lady,

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Speaker 6: how do you tend to those needs, give them the

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Speaker 6: proper attention well at the same time sort of fighting

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Speaker 6: off this expectation that you're only serving your people and

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Speaker 6: not the rest of fotes or the impression that you're

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Speaker 6: only serving everybody else and you're taking us for granted.

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Speaker 5: How do you balance that end?

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Speaker 18: You know?

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Speaker 14: And first I'll say that I am the only black

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Speaker 14: governor in the country right now, and that's not a

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Speaker 14: title that I want to hold on to for very long. Yeah,

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Speaker 14: we've got to make sure we are getting more black

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Speaker 14: chief executives in the United States of America because you

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Speaker 14: just realize, as you know, brother, like the power of

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Speaker 14: a governor is unique.

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Speaker 5: For sure.

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Speaker 14: The budgets start with the governor.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 14: For something to become a bill of law, it requires

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Speaker 14: a governor, right. So it's like we have to be

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Speaker 14: able to focus on and unapologetically say we need to

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Speaker 14: have more chief executives in this country. I mean, there's

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Speaker 14: no reason, Like when people celebrate, they're like, you know,

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Speaker 14: you're only the third African American ever elected governor in

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Speaker 14: the history of the United States. I was like, that's

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Speaker 14: not a celebration, it's an indictment that in the history

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Speaker 14: of this country three And you can't tell me again,

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Speaker 14: like you said that I'm only the third African American

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Speaker 14: ever qualified to be a governor.

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Speaker 5: So I'll put that.

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Speaker 14: The second thing I will say, though, is this is

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Speaker 14: the reason that I am unapologetic about focusing our policies

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Speaker 14: on making sure we're uplifting black people. The reason that

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Speaker 14: we talk about, yes, we do procurement reform in the

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Speaker 14: state of Maryland that has procurre reform that focus on

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Speaker 14: black businesses, where since I'm been the governor, we've now

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Speaker 14: done procure reform that's now allocated over eight hundred million

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Speaker 14: dollars to black own businesses, unapologetically, that we've put over

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Speaker 14: one point three billion dollars towards Maryland's HBCUs, unapologetically. But

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Speaker 14: the reason I say we do this is because if

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Speaker 14: you are not and do not have a focus on

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Speaker 14: lifting up black communities, you cannot have a focus on

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Speaker 14: lifting up your jurisdiction that you serve.

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Speaker 3: That that this country.

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Speaker 14: For the past twenty years we have lost sixteen trillion

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Speaker 14: dollars in GDP because of the racial wealth gap. That's

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Speaker 14: not GDP of a group, that's right, that's GDP. So

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Speaker 14: racism is expensive and this country will never be able

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Speaker 14: to fulfill this promise as long as we have policies

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Speaker 14: that continue to harm, policies that continue to push back,

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Speaker 14: policies that do not have an economic lift for Black

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Speaker 14: Americans and in my case, black Marylanders. So the reason

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Speaker 14: that I say we have to have these this lens,

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Speaker 14: we have to focus on the racial wealth gap. The

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Speaker 14: reason that we say that is because it's not because

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Speaker 14: I'm saying that, you know, this is because this is

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Speaker 14: a zero sum game. I'm like, no, No, The way

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Speaker 14: this country has historically been has been a zero sum game.

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Speaker 14: And if you actually want to lift everybody, then make

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Speaker 14: sure you have a specific focus on black folks and

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Speaker 14: making sure there's real opportunities of black folks can benefit.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 2: We so appreciate you all, and we will definitely see

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Speaker 2: you all inside.

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Speaker 7: Y'all.

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Speaker 2: This is the Governor and first Lady of Maryland making

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Speaker 2: history and also making change. We so appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 5: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: Congrats on winning the Dad Games with y'all.

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Speaker 14: Do that was dope?

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Speaker 2: All right? We are so grateful to be joined.

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Speaker 4: Uh hey, celebrity fests out here. I just Claudia Jordan

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Speaker 4: walk up. Yeah, all kind of people.

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Speaker 2: Are here at the Personal Black Caucast Center. We see, well,

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Speaker 2: you have to get Congresswoman Joyce Baty. This is a

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Speaker 2: woman that wears many, many hats and is always making

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Speaker 2: history using her voice boldly. I love this, she said

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Speaker 2: when we were talking about bringing native lampod back. She's like,

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Speaker 2: of course it's coming back. This is my legacy. And

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Speaker 2: look at you got some Yes she is gold. Okay, absolutely, yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 2: And then we also have joining us with Miss Batty,

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Speaker 2: Raina Walters Morgan. She is the vice Chair for Civic

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Speaker 2: Engagement and Voter Participation for the d NC. MSS Batty,

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Speaker 2: We're gonna start with you. I want to talk about

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Speaker 2: this theme this year. We've been talking to all of

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Speaker 2: our guests about what it means to be made for

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Speaker 2: this moment. You all had a really tough vote just

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Speaker 2: last week with this resolution honoring the life of Charlie

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Speaker 2: kirk Ben and to really put the Caucus in a

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Speaker 2: really tough pozion. I'm really where you're seeing kind of

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Speaker 2: the caucus burst apart at the seams. And I'm not

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Speaker 2: talking about the CBC, I mean the Democratic caucas is right.

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Speaker 2: Talk about what you think the path forward is, particularly

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Speaker 2: if we need to be made for this moment.

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Speaker 22: I think the path forward on that is for us

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01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 22: to be blatantly clear that when we talk about made

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Speaker 22: for this moment, and we talk about the three subsets

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Speaker 22: to that, and that is policy and progress and power.

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Speaker 22: That is power and policy and progress. So everything else

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Speaker 22: we do, we have to share it and better educate

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Speaker 22: the message and why we're doing something, because we all

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Speaker 22: have different jobs.

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Speaker 2: But I was very clear that I can mourn.

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Speaker 22: Someone's death and not celebrate their life and legacy. And

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Speaker 22: so I think it was clear because I told my

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Speaker 22: folks back home that be real clear. I'm a no,

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Speaker 22: I'm a real clear note. And here is why people

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Speaker 22: have other jobs to do in trying to make sure

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Speaker 22: our leadership. You know, I speak truth to power. You know,

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Speaker 22: it was very difficult. We took some hard hits as Democrats.

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Speaker 22: Our leader took hard hits. But we have three leaders

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Speaker 22: that made that decision. And too often it's only the

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Speaker 22: black person that everybody wants to come after when you

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Speaker 22: have shared power.

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Speaker 3: But that's the way it is.

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Speaker 22: But I can tell you with the Congressional Black Caucus,

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Speaker 22: we have been on point with This conference has been

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Speaker 22: one of our best conferences in the minority without the presidency,

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Speaker 22: and we have the vice president coming today, we have

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Speaker 22: Wes Moore that's going to be on this stage, and

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Speaker 22: we have Angela Rod getting a fitting award on this stage. Yes,

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Speaker 22: but I say that because those are the kinds of

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Speaker 22: things that the public needs to see, especially now that

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Speaker 22: we have brought back the vice president. We have Raina here,

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Speaker 22: and it's not by accident. This sister is the baddest

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Speaker 22: sister at the DNC that was elected to do all

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Speaker 22: of our engagement talking about voter registration and how we

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Speaker 22: get out there.

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Speaker 3: And I get to be the.

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Speaker 2: Associate chair of the DNC.

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Speaker 22: So I'm wearing a whole lot of hats today, but

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Speaker 22: I think we just have to educate our young folks.

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Speaker 22: Today I was with seven hundred folks, all probably between

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Speaker 22: twenty nine and forty five, and it was amazing to

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 22: see how thirsty they were for made for this moment.

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01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 22: So we have to engage them. But we have to

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01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,680
Speaker 22: sit down and have a better dialogue. And that's why

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01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 22: I like this podcast, and I will fight every year

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01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 22: because this is my legacy of making sure that this

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Speaker 22: podcast exists.

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Speaker 4: Breaking a little bit of news saying Angela's get in

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01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 4: the world. So I do want our viewing audience to

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Speaker 4: know that you guys are in for a special treat

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Speaker 4: because you will be treated to Angela's acceptance speech here

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Speaker 4: before anyone else gets to hear it. So please stay

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Speaker 4: tuned to the end of the show for I want

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Speaker 4: to revisit something you said, congresswomen, because so many of

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Speaker 4: our listeners are deeply engaged and they take ownership over

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01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 4: this platform. A lot of people were very troubled and

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01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 4: hurt by some of the yes votes, and you said

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Speaker 4: a lot of times it's only the black people who

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Speaker 4: they come after. And I think for our viewing audience,

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Speaker 4: they come after our community because they expect the most

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Speaker 4: out of our community. What might you offer them? You

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Speaker 4: voted no, But what might you offer them? The people

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Speaker 4: who are have a righteous anger about the way some

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Speaker 4: of our leaders voted in this moment. What words might

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Speaker 4: you offer them, even though you made the right decision

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Speaker 4: in their mind?

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Speaker 22: I think education is important, so it's important for me

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Speaker 22: to tell them that more than fifty percent of the

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Speaker 22: Democratic Caucus voted now, so when there were people who

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Speaker 22: didn't dignify the vote, four members of the Congressional Black

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01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 22: Caucus walked out and didn't vote because they didn't want

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Speaker 22: to dignify.

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Speaker 3: It with the vote.

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Speaker 22: And then we had four of our we had twenty

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Speaker 22: six of our members who voted present. And then we

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Speaker 22: did have four of our members that voted yes. So

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Speaker 22: I want people to get it in the theme of

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Speaker 22: the thing that more of us voted no overwhelmingly other

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Speaker 22: than two in leadership voted yes, and two other members

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Speaker 22: of the CBC voted yes.

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Speaker 6: But the work you know of the Democratic I got

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Speaker 6: to tell you honestly, first of all, Congressman, thank you

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Speaker 6: for your leadership, And honestly, black members of Congress are

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01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 6: having to work over time, not only tending to the

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Speaker 6: constituencies that you represent, which are oftentimes largest in need

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Speaker 6: in many of our communities, but also having to pull

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Speaker 6: the weight of keeping people who are registered Democrat to

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Speaker 6: say still being Democrat and saying that they are.

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Speaker 5: Because I have to tell you, this was the first

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Speaker 5: time I've ever seriously considered registering as an independent.

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Speaker 6: Looking up and seeing a party that appeared quite frankly,

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Speaker 6: quite feckless in some ways, almost complicit to the legacy

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Speaker 6: of a person who endangered the lives of black women

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01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 6: who endangered the lives of black men. A man who

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Speaker 6: would say, when I see a black pilot, I have

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Speaker 6: to ask whether or not.

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Speaker 14: You're qualifified it to fly this plane.

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Speaker 5: The kind of indignity that that imbuse.

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Speaker 6: In society creates it to be harder to stepping stone

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Speaker 6: for all.

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01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 5: Of us, not just some of us.

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Speaker 22: Let me give you a better answer than you becoming

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Speaker 22: an independent.

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01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 2: I need to have you do more of what you're

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01:16:34,439 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 2: doing now. We all have a role, and I like

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01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 2: to share people.

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Speaker 22: It is on us and Andrelie are absolutely right and

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01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 22: to think that people look to us, and so we

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01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 22: have to carry our heavier load. But what you do

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Speaker 22: in allowing us to come and voice ours, we need

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01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 22: to be doing more with you. So our plan should

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01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 22: be that we should be getting more contracts, more of

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01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 22: appearances so we can have more exposure. And that's why

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Speaker 22: I wander Raina to be here because I'm gonna be

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Speaker 22: hooked to her, and she's gonna let me be hooked

1523
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 22: her because we are teamed. But people don't know about

1524
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 22: her skill sets and being here, you allowing her to

1525
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 22: be here, makes the difference to your listening audience for sure.

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Speaker 2: And can I chime into please, and I have a

1527
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 2: question for you, Rain. I think it is such an

1528
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 2: interesting time because too miss Baby's point, the CBC largely

1529
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 2: stay together and I hate to harp so much on

1530
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 2: the resolution, but I think the resolution represents kind of

1531
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 2: this larger problem. I said to someone last week. They said, well,

1532
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 2: where does the party go from here? And I said,

1533
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,600
Speaker 2: the party is shattered? And so I want to know,

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01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:48,640
Speaker 2: given your role, you know, in voter participation and engagement,

1535
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 2: where people are checking out by the droves, particularly folks

1536
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 2: who look like us, what is the path forward and

1537
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 2: how is the Democratic Party made for this moment when

1538
01:17:57,240 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 2: only two white Democrats vot know on that resolution last week,

1539
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett was broken hearted about that made it very

1540
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,560
Speaker 2: clear on air. So I do want to hear what

1541
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:09,639
Speaker 2: is the path forward? You're one person, and that party

1542
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 2: apparatus has been there a long time. I watch it

1543
01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 2: try to destroy Jamie Harrison. I've watched it hurt many

1544
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 2: of our members. I've watched them disrespect our members over

1545
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 2: and over again. And I even know we were going

1546
01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 2: to talk about this today, but that's what's on my heart,

1547
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:23,680
Speaker 2: and I just I do think it's important to recognize

1548
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 2: that resolution, which is a nothing burger. They were willing

1549
01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 2: to risk it all on a nothing burger. So what

1550
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 2: is the path forward for the party?

1551
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 23: So I think it's really important to acknowledge that people

1552
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 23: are feeling away, and rightfully so. But at the same time,

1553
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 23: we are built for this moment and at the same time,

1554
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 23: the work that you're doing angelo with going into the

1555
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 23: communities and reaching out to people.

1556
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 3: That's what we've got to do more of.

1557
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:50,320
Speaker 23: You don't always reach people with politics, but how you

1558
01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 23: do reach them is when they're going through things, when

1559
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 23: they start rolling off of those snap benefits, when they

1560
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 23: start losing access to Medicaid and Medicare, when those rural

1561
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 23: hospitals start close, saying who is going to be there

1562
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 23: for them? And at the end of the day, the

1563
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 23: Democratic Party has been the party that has been there

1564
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 23: for communities and we've got to make sure that that's

1565
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:10,680
Speaker 23: how we are showing up. I know that we are

1566
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 23: in a very difficult time and I would be remiss

1567
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:16,480
Speaker 23: to not acknowledge that people are have been very disappointed

1568
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 23: in the way that some things went down. But when

1569
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 23: the rubber meets the road, we are the best party

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01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,400
Speaker 23: to do the work of the people, and so that's

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01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:26,439
Speaker 23: how we've got to move forward. We can't always start

1572
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:28,640
Speaker 23: with politics. We have to start with meeting people with

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01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 23: where they are and making sure they understand that when

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01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:33,680
Speaker 23: they have needs, when they need access to health care

1575
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 23: and education, that we are the people that are going

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01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 23: to be there for them. And that's why I said,

1577
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 23: I've got to chime in and commend you for the

1578
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 23: work that you're doing with Stay to the People, because

1579
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 23: that is essentially the base.

1580
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:44,719
Speaker 3: And the root of how we move forward.

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01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 2: Sorry, and I'm going to hope right now. I speaking

1582
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:52,480
Speaker 2: of the people. There's a woman who runs a platform

1583
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 2: that gets people engaged politically, mostly from small dollar donations regularly.

1584
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 2: Regina Wallace Jones is joining us. I wanted to make

1585
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 2: sure she could come on at this time andrew your

1586
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 2: question next, because there's also a little Delta party going on,

1587
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 2: So I want to make sure Regie.

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01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:14,559
Speaker 6: I simply want to say right now because I think

1589
01:20:14,560 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 6: the work that you're going to be doing and that

1590
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 6: you are doing is critically important, and I don't want

1591
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:22,320
Speaker 6: folks to be confused that we are people are throwing

1592
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 6: off their hands because of a Charlie Kirk that.

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01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 5: Issue is a harbinger.

1594
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:30,760
Speaker 6: However, for do we have a group of folks who

1595
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 6: are prepared to fight to the mat on behalf of

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01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 6: the things that we believe in. We know that the

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01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 6: worst bill or bill better. But whatever the bill is

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01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 6: that Trump called, this thing is horrific for our community.

1599
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 6: But but what makes it makes the sting so much

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01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 6: harder and so much tougher, is on the things where

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01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 6: we can stand up, where we can show leadership, what

1602
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:53,160
Speaker 6: we can push back.

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01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:55,639
Speaker 5: We're saying, if they give away on the easy stuff,

1604
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 5: how can we rely on them for the hard stuff?

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01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 6: So I don't I don't think this was simply about

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01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:03,720
Speaker 6: a vote of honoring Charlie Kirk or not. It is

1607
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:07,479
Speaker 6: when you are in your power, in your position where

1608
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:08,960
Speaker 6: you get to demonstrate your power.

1609
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 5: Are they going to do it?

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01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 23: But I think you see that every day. I'm sorry,

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01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 23: I think you see that every day in communities. You

1612
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:19,400
Speaker 23: have black mayors, you have municipal and county officials who

1613
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:20,160
Speaker 23: are doing the work.

1614
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 3: This is not just one body.

1615
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:24,599
Speaker 23: This is a moment where we all have to get

1616
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:26,920
Speaker 23: together because it is going to take a village. It

1617
01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 23: is the mayors, it is the governors. The new Jerseys race,

1618
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:33,760
Speaker 23: the Virginia race, Wesmore and Maryland. It's gonna take all

1619
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 23: of us standing together. So yes, that vote was difficult,

1620
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:39,600
Speaker 23: and yes, like there are people who will always disappoint you,

1621
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:41,840
Speaker 23: but you can't just look at one body, because at

1622
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:43,680
Speaker 23: the end of the day, we are a party up

1623
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:45,760
Speaker 23: and down the ballot, and you've got some really, really

1624
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 23: amazing people who are doing the work in their communities

1625
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 23: at the local level, and that's how we're gonna do it.

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01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:53,120
Speaker 22: We're gonna have to all do it together. Well, let

1627
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 22: me say this on that, because I think you're right.

1628
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 22: I don't want to sound naive or defensive. It was

1629
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 22: a bad vote, it was taken by our community, very upsetting,

1630
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:07,600
Speaker 22: but I would say that lessons were learned. And what

1631
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 22: you didn't hear was immediately after there was a meeting

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01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 22: with the civil rights leaders.

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01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 3: With journalists to say, here was my job.

1634
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:19,760
Speaker 22: Right or wrong, but I should have had a better

1635
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 22: process and I have.

1636
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,600
Speaker 2: Learned from this to move on.

1637
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:27,760
Speaker 22: So my thing is it didn't turn out the way

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01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 22: it should have for Black America. By the way people

1639
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 22: are responding, and I'm not making it small, but I

1640
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:40,720
Speaker 22: am saying the Republicans set this up to get us distracted.

1641
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 2: Let's not let that work, because we have.

1642
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 22: Too many children, too many seniors, too many people who

1643
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 22: are at risk of losing their snack, their Medicaid, their

1644
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 22: Social Security, their Medicare and healthcare. We need to fight

1645
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 22: for and we need to fight for my sister, to

1646
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 22: make sure that those dollars it Act Blue, that they

1647
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 22: don't come after her like Lisa Cook, like they did

1648
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 22: with Peggy Carr, and coming after black women.

1649
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 2: So we need your voices.

1650
01:23:09,360 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 22: We need you to stay where you are absolutely and

1651
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,879
Speaker 22: not give up on us, and I'll make a commitment

1652
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 22: that we'll stay in the fight.

1653
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:17,600
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.

1654
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:21,479
Speaker 2: So much, you're so great for being joining us.

1655
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,679
Speaker 6: Speaking of where a money reside, where the money reside,

1656
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:28,560
Speaker 6: where the money reside, we would love to know on

1657
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 6: the you're sort of.

1658
01:23:30,479 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 5: At the.

1659
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:35,639
Speaker 6: Canary in the coal mine when you start to see

1660
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 6: Democratic dollars weighing off away from their candidates and their infrastructure.

1661
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 6: Folks out to be in touch with you, trying to

1662
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 6: figure out what's happening and what's happening in that space.

1663
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 6: I'd love for you to share with us, not only

1664
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 6: a little bit about the platform of Back Blue, but also,

1665
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 6: where are you diagnosing the state of affairs right now

1666
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 6: as you see money either coming in or not coming

1667
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,879
Speaker 6: in as relates to candidates who are on your platform.

1668
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:04,360
Speaker 24: Excellent, thank you for the question, and let me just

1669
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 24: back up and say Act Blue is a twenty one

1670
01:24:07,479 --> 01:24:13,600
Speaker 24: year old platform. It is beloved by Democrats and progressives.

1671
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 24: We have twenty eight million donors who at any given

1672
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 24: time are going to make a choice to give to

1673
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:23,400
Speaker 24: a candidate, to an issue, or to a cause. And

1674
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:27,439
Speaker 24: the average donation that comes through Act Blue is about

1675
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 24: thirty eight dollars. It's not huge, but the average donor

1676
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 24: is going to give thirty eight dollars six times. And

1677
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:42,200
Speaker 24: the truth is that when you magnify that over the

1678
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 24: number of donors that care about our candidates, our issues,

1679
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 24: and our causes, that swells into something that is a

1680
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:55,640
Speaker 24: huge behemoth. So one thing that we're a canary in

1681
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 24: many ways, we were also the canary of.

1682
01:24:59,280 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 5: Right wing attack.

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01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 24: Actually, there is a whole section of Project twenty twenty

1684
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 24: five that is written specifically and explicitly to dismantle Act Blue,

1685
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 24: and it lays out the clear steps that it was

1686
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:18,479
Speaker 24: that they were trying to take to do that. But

1687
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 24: they substantially underestimated the strength of what this entity is.

1688
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,439
Speaker 24: So it turned out that under attack, what they had

1689
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 24: hoped was that the donors would lose faith in the platform,

1690
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 24: that they would believe the lies that they were spreading

1691
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 24: and sharing. What actually happened is that donors took a

1692
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 24: different position. This has been the largest off year fundraising

1693
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 24: cycle that we have ever had on the platform, and

1694
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 24: it is thirty six percent larger than this time in.

1695
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty one.

1696
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:50,800
Speaker 2: That's incredible, that is incredible.

1697
01:25:50,880 --> 01:25:54,639
Speaker 24: So we see it very clearly. Donors are leaning into

1698
01:25:54,840 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 24: giving for a redistricting. Donors are leaning into candidates that

1699
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 24: are committed deeply.

1700
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:02,560
Speaker 2: To the grassroots.

1701
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 24: Donors are leaning into candidates and elected officials who are

1702
01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 24: showing courage in this moment, not cowardice. And donors are

1703
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 24: leaning into many of the things that Democrats and progressors

1704
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 24: really care about, clean energy, climate, etc. So we're finding

1705
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 24: a ton of success, and we are also in this

1706
01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 24: moment spending a fair amount of resources to defend ourselves.

1707
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 24: And that is not because there's anything that we are

1708
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 24: guilty of. Unfortunately, when you make a charge against an organization,

1709
01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:44,120
Speaker 24: they have to take the resources to defend themselves, whether

1710
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:49,559
Speaker 24: they're guilty or not. So we are encouraging the universe

1711
01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 24: of donors that care about the things that we're fighting

1712
01:26:52,600 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 24: for to double down. It is actually an act of

1713
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 24: resistance to keep on giving. And what we're finding is

1714
01:26:58,360 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 24: that donors are doing exactly that.

1715
01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 2: You know, I want to come to you, thank you

1716
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:14,360
Speaker 2: so much. I'll also it's the two mayors sit next

1717
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,400
Speaker 2: to each other, for we're mayor right here as well.

1718
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,640
Speaker 2: So I want to come to Ilhan Omar, who has

1719
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:25,679
Speaker 2: been such a champion, such a clear voice since even

1720
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,439
Speaker 2: before where we are right now, like have always been

1721
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 2: a voice of conviction. When I think of what the

1722
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:34,280
Speaker 2: CBC represents as the conscience of the Congress, Ilhan, you

1723
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:36,759
Speaker 2: have done that, you have lived that, You've broken history

1724
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 2: in your home state, and I know that the battle

1725
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:41,760
Speaker 2: has not been easy for you, and I know you

1726
01:27:41,840 --> 01:27:43,600
Speaker 2: got to go inside. So my quick question for you

1727
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,640
Speaker 2: is continuing to double back into this theme. When you

1728
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 2: consider what it means to be made for this moment,

1729
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 2: true to this conference theme, how are you embodying that

1730
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,760
Speaker 2: and what would you encourage our audience to do to represent.

1731
01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 4: I just say real quick to the Congress someone from

1732
01:27:57,360 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 4: Minnesota say yes, and that's part of the pride and

1733
01:28:03,920 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 4: a history maker as well.

1734
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:09,799
Speaker 16: So this, this is what happens when you get interviewed

1735
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 16: by your friend, a member of Congress.

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01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 2: That are just like Omars here, Representative Elhan Omar, the legendary.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 16: I mean, I think it is beautiful the fact that

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Speaker 16: you mentioned that the Congressional Black Caucus is the conscience

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Speaker 16: of Congress. Because I had the fortune of coming into

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Speaker 16: Congress doing a really horrendous time, right, it was the

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Speaker 16: first Trump administration. My class was supposed to be the

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Speaker 16: anecdote to the hate, the vitriol. We were about love,

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01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:52,719
Speaker 16: we were about compassion. We were about shaping a narrative

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Speaker 16: that was like what it was to be American.

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Speaker 22: Right.

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Speaker 16: We were the most diverse class in the history of Congress.

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Speaker 16: But what I didn't realize was that part of our

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Speaker 16: fortune is that we were joining the Black Caucus with

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Speaker 16: the likes of Jan Lewis.

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Speaker 3: And I remember, you know, I had all of these

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01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:16,640
Speaker 3: you know moments, and.

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Speaker 16: John stopped me on the floor one time and he said,

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Speaker 16: young lady, pace yourself. And I thought that was peculiar,

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Speaker 16: And I said, what does that mean?

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Speaker 3: And he said, we are in a moment not only

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Speaker 3: are we fighting for.

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01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 16: A democracy that we desperately need, because we as black

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Speaker 16: people do not have survival in this country without democracy,

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Speaker 16: without the ability to voice our opinions through the ballot box.

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Speaker 16: And he said, in this moment, we are also dealing

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Speaker 16: with what it means to be American. And I know

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Speaker 16: you and stand that, and so I want you to

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Speaker 16: pace yourself because this journey of struggle that we have entered.

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Speaker 2: Is going to be long. Wow, that's so powerful.

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Speaker 16: And so what I carry with myself since that conversation

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Speaker 16: is that history of people who understood the long arc

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Speaker 16: of struggle, knowing that ultimately there will be justice, but

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Speaker 16: also that the pensulum will spin back and forth, that

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Speaker 16: even though we might win justice for ourselves in moments,

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Speaker 16: we have to continue to fighting for that because the

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Speaker 16: retention of that justice, of that progress requires us to

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Speaker 16: pace ourselves. Because what white supremacist and hate and violence does,

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Speaker 16: it occupies you, it distracts you, it wears you down.

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Speaker 16: And so if we are not engaging in this moment,

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Speaker 16: in this battle pacing our selves, we are going to

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Speaker 16: get tired, We are going to get exhausted. We are

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01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 16: going to get disillusion while they win. And in order

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01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 16: for us to win, yes, we have to pace ourselves.

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Speaker 25: Good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I was well.

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Speaker 6: One good friend of mine used to tell me, we're

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Speaker 6: in this movement space. We sleep in shifts. So part

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Speaker 6: of this pacing means that everybody can't be on front

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Speaker 6: deck on every issue every time.

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Speaker 5: And Congressman, we've seen nothing.

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Speaker 6: Wanting to be but oftentimes, uh, the opposition trying to

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01:31:37,479 --> 01:31:40,439
Speaker 6: make you the center of their attention by.

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Speaker 5: Way of distraction. And we thank you for moving gracefully

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Speaker 5: through that every time.

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Speaker 20: Uh.

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Speaker 6: And to my brother over here, fellow rattler, uh, fam

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Speaker 6: you in the house, but also in the house the

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Speaker 6: executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Speaker 2: Real quick, I know, Ihan, you have to go inside.

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Speaker 2: We snatched her up, but we're gonna we're gonna let

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Speaker 2: her go ahead and and go back inside. Thank you, Susan.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all for the family love.

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Speaker 5: No no, no, no none.

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Speaker 2: Rattlers, Come on, Ratlers.

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Speaker 5: Now to the question events.

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Speaker 6: Your membership has had quite a week and this week,

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Speaker 6: but leading into this week, some difficult votes that I

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01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:19,640
Speaker 6: think you can take pride in the carcase hanging as

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01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 6: tight as it was, but as we were saying with

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Speaker 6: some of the members earlier, the burden for you all

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01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:28,000
Speaker 6: is just higher at this time. The expectations are greater,

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01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 6: and largely because the needs and our communities happen to

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01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:35,840
Speaker 6: be greater. What kind of guidance support are you making

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Speaker 6: sure that your membership has during these tough times that again, ready,

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01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 6: prepare them and keep them steady for the fight.

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Speaker 26: You know, when we were at this conference a year

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01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:50,640
Speaker 26: ago tonight, we believed we were on the precipice of

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01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:55,040
Speaker 26: breaking that hardest, highest class ceiling to send a woman

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Speaker 26: to the White House. Right twelve months later that it's

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01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:02,599
Speaker 26: not the case tonight. In America, healthcare is on the line,

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01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:08,879
Speaker 26: food service programs are on critical life support, jerry mandering

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01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:13,639
Speaker 26: is on steroids, and a government shut down is looming.

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Speaker 26: So twelve months later, the stakes are dramatically different. The

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Speaker 26: paradigm has shifted. And you know, sixty two members strong,

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01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:26,200
Speaker 26: the largest in our history. Our members are working hard.

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01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:29,200
Speaker 26: But the reality is there is not a lot of

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01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:32,920
Speaker 26: good news that I thought I would have coming into

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01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,840
Speaker 26: this conference. What I can tell you is and what

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01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 26: I think most of us have felt over the last

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Speaker 26: couple of days. There's a lot of joy in this space.

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Speaker 26: There are a lot of beautiful black, brilliant people. Joe, Taika, Edie,

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01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 26: all of y'all up here tonight, and so I am

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Speaker 26: renewed tonight. And I know the members are that we

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Speaker 26: must stay on the battlefield. There's not a fight we

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01:33:56,720 --> 01:33:57,720
Speaker 26: are not in right now.

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Speaker 5: There is.

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Speaker 3: We are standing in the brief.

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Speaker 5: You know this all too well.

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Speaker 26: And you just said what I was going to say,

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01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 26: and I said it all across the country with Angela

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01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:10,879
Speaker 26: this summer. Black people in America must sleep in shifts.

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01:34:11,200 --> 01:34:13,960
Speaker 26: When you are asleep. I've got to be up when.

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01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:17,640
Speaker 3: I am sleep. You gotta be up because the people.

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01:34:17,400 --> 01:34:20,040
Speaker 5: Of ill Will are never sleeping ever. And so that's

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01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:22,800
Speaker 5: what's required of I feel right and I just.

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01:34:22,920 --> 01:34:26,360
Speaker 2: Have to take them off. Congress Woman Marsha Budge's right here.

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01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 2: Also a former secretary I'm going there, y'ah, I got it.

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01:34:30,280 --> 01:34:33,639
Speaker 2: Also the former secretary of HUD We Love You. She's

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01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:36,000
Speaker 2: walking by. She's also a delta. We had a whole

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01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 2: slew a deltas up here. And speaking of yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: another delta here. Also the founder of WIN with Black

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01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 2: Women Women Win with black women, but there we had

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01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 2: to win with this black woman first. She is also

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01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 2: getting a Phoenix Award tonight, So Joe take a congratulations,

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01:34:53,600 --> 01:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Joe taking you. Welcome to the state. I didn't know

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01:34:59,040 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 2: if it's running on.

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01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:05,639
Speaker 4: Joe Taka, you look amazing. I'm always the shallow person

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01:35:05,680 --> 01:35:08,720
Speaker 4: looking at everybody's outfits and a tire, but you always

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01:35:09,240 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 4: shut it down every room you're in. I always talk

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01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:14,040
Speaker 4: about how beautiful you are every time I see you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend.

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Speaker 25: It is always the good to be good to be home. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 25: and congratulations to you. My sister Angela Rye too right back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And I want to just acknowledge

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Speaker 2: to the president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Nicole Austin.

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Speaker 2: Hillary has also joined us. I know she's got a

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01:35:31,640 --> 01:35:34,760
Speaker 2: fun feeled impact evening, so we welcome you home as well.

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Speaker 5: Nica.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, and we're so happy to honor both you

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Speaker 2: and Joe Taka tonight. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I just want to remind our viewers really quickly. I

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01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:42,640
Speaker 4: did before, but I want to remind you again. If

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Speaker 4: you're just joining us, please stay tuned because you'll get

1871
01:35:45,040 --> 01:35:49,000
Speaker 4: to hear Angela's acceptance speech here live on our very show,

1872
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 4: So don't go anywhere, stay tuned. Jill Taika, I want

1873
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:54,479
Speaker 4: to come to you before we'll come back to you.

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01:35:54,520 --> 01:35:57,160
Speaker 4: I want to come to you because it's a time

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01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,920
Speaker 4: where people are so frustrated they don't know what to do.

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01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:03,720
Speaker 4: People constantly ask us what should we be doing? And

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Speaker 4: I always direct them to the Win with Black Women

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01:36:07,040 --> 01:36:11,040
Speaker 4: call that takes place every Sunday, because you lead a charge.

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01:36:11,920 --> 01:36:13,639
Speaker 4: I just want to know for the folks who haven't

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Speaker 4: been able to join that call for whatever reason, what

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01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:19,679
Speaker 4: would you say to the millions literally millions of women

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Speaker 4: who you helped to organize and maybe some who you

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01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 4: haven't yet tapped into, who are asking what.

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01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 2: Should they be doing right now? Well, thank you for

1885
01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:27,719
Speaker 2: that question.

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Speaker 25: I think when we look at the theme of what

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01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:34,640
Speaker 25: we have been talking about this entire week, made for

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Speaker 25: this moment, and particularly when it comes to Black women,

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01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:42,280
Speaker 25: I think about Esther. Esther was in a midst of

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Speaker 25: something that was chaotic. She was scared, she was nervous,

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01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:49,599
Speaker 25: but she was reminded that she was made for such.

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Speaker 4: A time as this.

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Speaker 25: And so what I would say to black women, and

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01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 25: particularly black women, we are feeling more so than anybody else.

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01:36:59,360 --> 01:37:02,320
Speaker 2: The heart threats and all of.

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Speaker 25: The systemic challenges and the very specific racism is sexism

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01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:11,760
Speaker 25: that is coming out of this administration. We feel the

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01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 25: brunt of that because we are targeted. But the thing

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01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:17,160
Speaker 25: that I think is most important is that we can

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Speaker 25: never lose sight of our power and our power. It

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01:37:22,040 --> 01:37:25,000
Speaker 25: is not just a positional power. You don't have to

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01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 25: be the leader of an organization. Everybody has power, individual power,

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01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 25: and when we bring that collective power together, there's nothing

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01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 25: that can stop us. And so what I will say

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01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 25: to that woman is that do what you can do

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01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:43,040
Speaker 25: from where you are, because whatever it is, as long

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01:37:43,080 --> 01:37:45,800
Speaker 25: as it is nothing, it is going to move us

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Speaker 25: towards the liberation that we so desperately need.

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Speaker 2: But if they do want to join the calls on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: how can they do that?

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Speaker 25: They can go to www dot when with Blackwomen dot Org.

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Speaker 25: You can go to our bitly slash WWBWA you Sunday

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01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,599
Speaker 25: call and you probably could just ask a black woman

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Speaker 25: and she probably can direct you to us on a

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Speaker 25: Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: I love this so much. I want to come to you, Nicole.

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01:38:09,439 --> 01:38:11,479
Speaker 2: You will be so happy we have been on messages

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Speaker 2: this whole evening about what it means to be made

1919
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Speaker 2: for this moment, and we've asked everyone. I've asked closed

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Speaker 2: my panels this week with that, and I know that

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Speaker 2: this is a theme that's near and dear to your heart.

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Speaker 2: Before you answer that, I also want to take just

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Speaker 2: a moment to thank Joe Takahiti for joining us in

1924
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:32,160
Speaker 2: this moment, Rachel Nordlinger, the legendary publicist right here and

1925
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:35,720
Speaker 2: coming to Melanie Parker, who was also a partner of

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01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 2: Native lampod and the vice president of Googler Engagement. So

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01:38:39,360 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 2: we're so happy to have you. Were going to get

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01:38:40,720 --> 01:38:42,880
Speaker 2: into hbcusing all the great things you're doing in just

1929
01:38:42,960 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 2: a moment, but first we're gonna come to President Nicole

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Speaker 2: Austin Hillary talk about the theme a little bit, Angela.

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Speaker 11: You know, when we got to this year's theme, my

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01:38:52,360 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 11: team said what is going to encapsulate this moment that

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Speaker 11: we're in And what I said to them is that

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Speaker 11: this alec is more critical than ever because we are

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Speaker 11: in challenging times and folks are trying to really ameliorate us.

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Speaker 11: I mean they are trying to get rid of our community.

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Speaker 14: They're trying to.

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Speaker 11: Ameliorate us with some of these new tasks and new

1939
01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 11: policies they're putting out, But we know that's just junk

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01:39:18,520 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 11: that is not for us. And we knew that we

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01:39:21,080 --> 01:39:25,040
Speaker 11: had to have everyone come together and strategize around how

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Speaker 11: do we move forward as a community and as a people.

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Speaker 11: And this is the nation's largest Black public policy conference,

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Speaker 11: and so we said, we have to do something that's

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Speaker 11: going to galvanize our community so that everyone will know

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01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 11: they have marching orders and need to come together, talk

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Speaker 11: and then take the message back to their communities. So

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Speaker 11: that's what made for this moment means and it's also

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01:39:45,880 --> 01:39:49,040
Speaker 11: a reminder of our struggle but also of our history

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Speaker 11: of strength and resilience, so that folks know, yes, we

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Speaker 11: are at a time of challenge, but in our DNA

1952
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Speaker 11: is the strength, the resilience and the power to move

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Speaker 11: forward and to overcome and to get to even higher heights.

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Speaker 14: That's what made for this moment is about.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what I'd be curious to know.

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Speaker 6: Obviously there's been a lot of energy around the conference

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Speaker 6: this year, but there's also a lot of despair, as

1958
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Speaker 6: we all know, out in our community. What do you

1959
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Speaker 6: think if there was if there was a way to

1960
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Speaker 6: give lyft, especially coming on the hills of a vote

1961
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Speaker 6: that has been extremely demoralizing for a lot of black

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Speaker 6: people at every level of our society. What we would

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Speaker 6: tell folks around this fight when it doesn't look like

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Speaker 6: we're winning, and I think we can level with people

1965
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Speaker 6: that were not winning and the stage is set for greater.

1966
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Speaker 5: Loss, where do they go? Where's the reservoir of.

1967
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:48,360
Speaker 6: Tactics that folks can tap into that they can use

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Speaker 6: and exercise at their respective levels.

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Speaker 11: You know, Joe Taco said something very interesting that I've

1970
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Speaker 11: actually been saying all week. Sometimes it feels like we're

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01:40:56,240 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 11: all talking to one another and thinking along the same wavelengths.

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Speaker 11: What I tell people is look to yourself and the

1973
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:07,559
Speaker 11: community around you, because you have leaders. You have black

1974
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 11: women who have been working for decades in the good

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Speaker 11: times and the bad times, and they know what strategy

1976
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:17,160
Speaker 11: is about. They know what it means to in hard

1977
01:41:17,320 --> 01:41:21,280
Speaker 11: times coalesce around a movement. They know what it means

1978
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:24,000
Speaker 11: to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. That's what

1979
01:41:24,120 --> 01:41:25,479
Speaker 11: we have to do right now. We have to go

1980
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Speaker 11: back to those routs and do it right in our communities,

1981
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Speaker 11: go to those wise sages go to those young people

1982
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Speaker 11: who are brilliant, who are out there right now saying

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Speaker 11: we're not waiting for somebody to give us a title

1984
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Speaker 11: or give us permission to lead.

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Speaker 2: We are leading right now.

1986
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Speaker 11: I'm asking everyone to look inward and right in their

1987
01:41:43,280 --> 01:41:47,160
Speaker 11: own neighborhoods and their sororities, fraternities, churches, civic organizations, and

1988
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:50,200
Speaker 11: that's how we are going to get the well of

1989
01:41:50,320 --> 01:41:53,720
Speaker 11: information and then come together and share that information and

1990
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Speaker 11: understand that it's going to take that unity for all

1991
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Speaker 11: of us to move forward.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for that, Melanie. I want to bring you

1993
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Speaker 4: in the converce station after that sermon that we just got.

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Speaker 2: In and we should probably she literally hasked to run out.

1995
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Speaker 2: She had a whole program. Thank you, President, and thank you.

1996
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Speaker 4: For honoring our your sister tonight. We are so proud

1997
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Speaker 4: and excited to see her get a privileged to do so. Yes,

1998
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Speaker 4: thank you, thank you very much, melaniew. If there is

1999
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Speaker 4: a role for the private sector to play at this time,

2000
01:42:24,320 --> 01:42:28,559
Speaker 4: news came out this week that corporate boards have been

2001
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:33,679
Speaker 4: bringing on more white men and drove numbers since Trump

2002
01:42:33,760 --> 01:42:37,920
Speaker 4: has assaulted DEI efforts across the private sector and the

2003
01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:40,920
Speaker 4: public sector. I'm curious in your role.

2004
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Speaker 2: One.

2005
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Speaker 4: We want to know in the community how safe you are.

2006
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 4: We want to be able to support you. But to

2007
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:51,640
Speaker 4: what role does the private sector have to play to

2008
01:42:51,840 --> 01:42:54,720
Speaker 4: hold the ground and not completely capitulate if we as

2009
01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:57,080
Speaker 4: we've seen so many other private sector companies do.

2010
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Speaker 2: And tip if I could add to that, particularly as

2011
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:04,799
Speaker 2: it relates to training up the best and brightest our future.

2012
01:43:05,520 --> 01:43:09,360
Speaker 2: I'm sitting between sandwich between two HBCU grads and if

2013
01:43:09,400 --> 01:43:10,920
Speaker 2: I had another piece of bread, it would be you

2014
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 2: over there, Speilman. So I know that, Hampton.

2015
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Speaker 3: I think it was Spelman.

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Speaker 2: Do I do that every HBT you love? Okay, I'm sorry, Hampton.

2017
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Speaker 2: I'll get it right next time. My little cousin, Evany

2018
01:43:23,240 --> 01:43:25,920
Speaker 2: also went to Hampton. So I will I want you

2019
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:30,719
Speaker 2: to tap into how you prepare these future young leaders

2020
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,160
Speaker 2: given everything that's going on, you have a deep and

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Speaker 2: abiding commitment to that.

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Speaker 8: Yes, And actually I said, I was on Joe Jaca's

2023
01:43:37,280 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 8: call on Sunday and I was asking myself, like, what

2024
01:43:40,600 --> 01:43:44,360
Speaker 8: can I do, like in my role, what can I do?

2025
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:48,320
Speaker 8: And I walked away from that thinking, actually, I have

2026
01:43:48,479 --> 01:43:51,520
Speaker 8: to make all of the resources that we have available

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01:43:51,600 --> 01:43:54,559
Speaker 8: at Google, we got to push that more out into

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Speaker 8: the community. As an example, we offer certificate programs you

2029
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Speaker 8: can at them like Cloud architect, Data.

2030
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Speaker 2: Science, AI Essentials.

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01:44:05,160 --> 01:44:09,720
Speaker 8: Over two hundred employers accept these certificates.

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Speaker 2: In lieu of degree.

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Speaker 8: And so my thing is, how do we get go

2034
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Speaker 8: to market partners from the Divine nine, from the links incorporated,

2035
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Speaker 8: from our churches, you know.

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Speaker 2: Et cetera.

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Speaker 8: How do we put these courses because they're free, they're

2038
01:44:25,200 --> 01:44:28,559
Speaker 8: on Casera and then for small business owners, we also

2039
01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:32,400
Speaker 8: offer a lot of free services as well. And so

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Speaker 8: I have a personal goal to make sure you know

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01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:39,559
Speaker 8: we're doing our part to address the number of people,

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Speaker 8: including communities of color and black women that.

2043
01:44:43,400 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 2: Are out of work.

2044
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Speaker 8: And how do you make that pivot and how do

2045
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:49,920
Speaker 8: you take resources that are available and turn that in.

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Speaker 2: I was talking with a friend last week.

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Speaker 8: She's been out of work for ten months and she's consulting,

2048
01:44:56,320 --> 01:44:59,520
Speaker 8: and she said, you know, the consulting market is oversaturated

2049
01:44:59,520 --> 01:45:02,559
Speaker 8: because we don't need more consultants, but we do need

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01:45:02,760 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 8: more people with skills that are you know, meeting us

2051
01:45:06,320 --> 01:45:08,680
Speaker 8: where we are with AI and how do we do that?

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01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:11,160
Speaker 5: So tell us. Where's the clearinghouse?

2053
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:13,880
Speaker 6: Where do folks if you're on your couches, where do

2054
01:45:13,920 --> 01:45:14,120
Speaker 6: they go?

2055
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:16,880
Speaker 2: So go to Grow with Google dot Com.

2056
01:45:17,439 --> 01:45:20,320
Speaker 8: And then from Grow with Google dot Com you'll find

2057
01:45:20,479 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 8: our career certificates.

2058
01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:23,320
Speaker 2: But you'll also.

2059
01:45:23,240 --> 01:45:27,640
Speaker 8: Find the tools that we have for small businesses and

2060
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:28,600
Speaker 8: for founders.

2061
01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:30,800
Speaker 2: So Grow with Google dot Com.

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01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:32,360
Speaker 5: We'll make sure you get in the show notes.

2063
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Speaker 2: Tif I'm about to That's a good point, Andrew, that

2064
01:45:34,800 --> 01:45:36,439
Speaker 2: is a good show note. I'm about to tell the

2065
01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 2: family business. So, Melanie, we have a chat of black

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Speaker 2: women who are in media. It's called the Machetes. And

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Speaker 2: I want to know if there is a machete like

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01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:52,080
Speaker 2: group for folks in your position. I can imagine, especially

2069
01:45:52,160 --> 01:45:54,840
Speaker 2: as things begin to change, it can become very lonely.

2070
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Speaker 2: So I want to know who are the sisters that

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01:45:56,960 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 2: hold you down in this space, so that you feel

2072
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 2: like you've goulous sisters. I'm my own machete group. We

2073
01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:04,680
Speaker 2: hold each other up.

2074
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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, Harriet Tubman started it right with

2075
01:46:08,280 --> 01:46:09,600
Speaker 8: the Underground Railroad.

2076
01:46:09,760 --> 01:46:13,439
Speaker 2: We beat Morse Code. So I have a number of

2077
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:15,360
Speaker 2: sisters in like.

2078
01:46:15,520 --> 01:46:20,240
Speaker 8: Fields across industry, tech industry and other industries and we,

2079
01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:26,120
Speaker 8: you know, help each other, and we are proactive leading

2080
01:46:26,960 --> 01:46:29,320
Speaker 8: helping each other, like see around that corner.

2081
01:46:29,680 --> 01:46:30,960
Speaker 2: But we want to do that together.

2082
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:33,720
Speaker 8: Some of those sisters, sadly, you know, are looking for

2083
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 8: new roles and need to make that pivot too, and

2084
01:46:37,560 --> 01:46:38,840
Speaker 8: some have been unsafe.

2085
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:42,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, same, I think in our group chat, and it

2086
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:44,599
Speaker 4: speaks of the power of the group chat.

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Speaker 6: I was.

2088
01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:48,599
Speaker 4: If you guys are regular workers on the show, you'll

2089
01:46:48,680 --> 01:46:54,439
Speaker 4: know that Angela recommended. We were exchanging booklists book readings,

2090
01:46:54,520 --> 01:46:59,160
Speaker 4: and Angela recommended Asada Chakor's biography, and I was just

2091
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:04,080
Speaker 4: heartbroken this week at her passing. Our friend Jelani Cobb

2092
01:47:04,520 --> 01:47:08,680
Speaker 4: Dina Columbia Journalism School noted how she was eternally out

2093
01:47:08,720 --> 01:47:10,400
Speaker 4: of the reach of the people who were trying to

2094
01:47:10,479 --> 01:47:14,160
Speaker 4: destroy her. But she talked about being isolated in prison,

2095
01:47:14,240 --> 01:47:16,640
Speaker 4: and she kept asking, why can't I go and be

2096
01:47:17,160 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 4: with the other black women, And she would shout to

2097
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:22,280
Speaker 4: them through thick metal windows, how y'all doing, and they

2098
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:25,160
Speaker 4: would in unison reply back, we good, sister, how you doing?

2099
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 4: And when she was able to be in community with them,

2100
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:30,400
Speaker 4: just to hear their voices, she said it felt like

2101
01:47:30,479 --> 01:47:32,640
Speaker 4: a piece of home. So when I think about our

2102
01:47:32,680 --> 01:47:36,280
Speaker 4: group chats and where we gather as black women, there

2103
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:40,120
Speaker 4: is something magical and mystical even to that. So just

2104
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:42,880
Speaker 4: in honor of Asada Shakur, I just want to say,

2105
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:46,960
Speaker 4: I'm shouting through the thick metal windows to you, say Angela,

2106
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 4: to all the people out there, asking how y'all doing?

2107
01:47:50,560 --> 01:47:52,800
Speaker 4: And we want to know and hold and keep each

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Speaker 4: other with a little piece of home as we remember, I.

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Speaker 5: Got checking a.

2110
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Speaker 2: Feel glad that made it.

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01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:04,240
Speaker 5: So you do, we have some We just need to

2112
01:48:04,320 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 5: change the topics up.

2113
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Speaker 8: We do it in the halls, right, So think about

2114
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:11,240
Speaker 8: we're out and about and we're giving each other that

2115
01:48:11,320 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 8: look like you know, and so I mean just even

2116
01:48:14,400 --> 01:48:15,920
Speaker 8: that exchange is.

2117
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 2: Like a hug.

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Speaker 6: So, as we conclude our time here at CBC and

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Speaker 6: re emphasize the theme here of being made for the moment,

2120
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Speaker 6: as you think about your own contributions in the space

2121
01:48:27,760 --> 01:48:30,479
Speaker 6: that you occupy in corporate America, how do you feel

2122
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:34,120
Speaker 6: that you are prepared, made, stayed for the moment.

2123
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 8: So my brother and I we're first generation college My

2124
01:48:38,680 --> 01:48:39,880
Speaker 8: parents were Air Force.

2125
01:48:40,200 --> 01:48:42,320
Speaker 2: They both went in right out of high school.

2126
01:48:42,360 --> 01:48:45,000
Speaker 8: My mom's from Texas, my dad's from North Carolina, but

2127
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:49,599
Speaker 8: they fought for an America that didn't give them full

2128
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:52,360
Speaker 8: rights and privileges, with a very.

2129
01:48:52,479 --> 01:48:55,080
Speaker 2: Intention that what they were fighting for was going to

2130
01:48:55,080 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 2: be better for their children. So my brother and I

2131
01:48:58,600 --> 01:48:59,559
Speaker 2: we are made.

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Speaker 8: For this moment because we were groomed and developed in

2133
01:49:03,120 --> 01:49:06,960
Speaker 8: community to serve and we get that from our parents,

2134
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 8: we get that from everybody who surrounded us, and I

2135
01:49:09,400 --> 01:49:11,960
Speaker 8: do think like esther to Joe Tako's point, if not me,

2136
01:49:12,120 --> 01:49:13,120
Speaker 8: then who that's right?

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Speaker 3: That's right.

2138
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Speaker 4: Thank you for being a partner to Native Lampard. Thank

2139
01:49:17,720 --> 01:49:20,679
Speaker 4: you for everything you're doing in your role. Melanie Parker.

2140
01:49:20,760 --> 01:49:22,439
Speaker 4: We so appreciate you, and we are part of your

2141
01:49:22,520 --> 01:49:25,160
Speaker 4: extended group chat. You have a support of the Machetes,

2142
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:28,240
Speaker 4: you know from far beyond, So thank you. We appreciate

2143
01:49:28,360 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 4: all your support over the years, not just tonight, but

2144
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:31,000
Speaker 4: over the years.

2145
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:33,160
Speaker 2: We really support me and Tip by giving us this

2146
01:49:33,320 --> 01:49:37,080
Speaker 2: dress because I'm sure beautiful, being so free.

2147
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:39,320
Speaker 4: I know that when she was standing over there, it's

2148
01:49:39,320 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 4: allR right when.

2149
01:49:39,840 --> 01:49:40,280
Speaker 2: She came up.

2150
01:49:40,320 --> 01:49:41,200
Speaker 4: So thank you so much.

2151
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:44,800
Speaker 2: Congratulations on your war. Yes, so excited, so.

2152
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:47,200
Speaker 5: Well deserved.

2153
01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:51,000
Speaker 4: That's what I want to talk about now, Okay, so far.

2154
01:49:51,120 --> 01:49:54,800
Speaker 5: Shout out quick Jamal Simmons, Hi, Jamal Simmons.

2155
01:49:55,520 --> 01:49:58,040
Speaker 4: A lot of people who wanted to appear on air

2156
01:49:58,200 --> 01:49:59,040
Speaker 4: would always.

2157
01:49:58,800 --> 01:50:04,479
Speaker 3: Represent look at that air mail.

2158
01:50:04,680 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm listening to you. I know, but we got

2159
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Speaker 2: eighty D a little band fam you.

2160
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Speaker 4: I knew Andrew was going to spot out the fam

2161
01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:16,600
Speaker 4: you people. Yes, well, the audience can't see, but I

2162
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:19,519
Speaker 4: want you all to know there is a room full

2163
01:50:19,680 --> 01:50:24,120
Speaker 4: of beautiful, elegant black folks here tonight. And I just

2164
01:50:24,360 --> 01:50:26,400
Speaker 4: sometimes I look at these colors and I'm like, damn,

2165
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Speaker 4: the color of yellow was made for black women. And

2166
01:50:28,360 --> 01:50:30,240
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, the color pink was made for black women,

2167
01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:35,000
Speaker 4: was made for women. It's just a rainbow of fashion,

2168
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Speaker 4: but beyond fashion consciousness. You know, we're gathered here tonight

2169
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Speaker 4: to celebrate the work that has been done and the

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Speaker 4: work that needs to be done. And we knew, but

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Speaker 4: Angela would not let us say anything. But we knew

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Speaker 4: that Angelo Rye will be honored tonight, presented an award

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Speaker 4: because fitting with the theme, she has indeed met the moment.

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Speaker 4: She is a former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus,

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Speaker 4: the legislative body has worked tirelessly. When I met her,

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Speaker 4: she was already a star in DC among the hills.

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Speaker 2: She has not changed at all.

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Speaker 4: People think, you know, sometimes you get on TV and

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Speaker 4: become well known and get a new personality. This has

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Speaker 4: always been who Angela is from the day I've met

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Speaker 4: her almost twenty years ago.

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Speaker 5: Blacks.

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Speaker 2: Yes, she is, has always been, and she was staffed.

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Speaker 4: To the Blacks.

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Speaker 2: She was a business. You make that up. I think

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Speaker 2: you made that up.

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Speaker 4: Albert Sanders actually made that up our Frank, yes, that

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Speaker 4: he would always say, she's everybody's emergency contact because if

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Speaker 4: something happens to me, please call Angela.

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Speaker 5: Rye.

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Speaker 4: No you, I'll respond next week, like girl, you're good,

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Speaker 4: are you okay? But you've worked on campaigns, including Andrew Gilliams,

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Speaker 4: has been a business owner, an activist. Impact Strategies was

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Speaker 4: your business. But even before it was a business, it

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Speaker 4: was I don't know what you guys were, an organization

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Speaker 4: on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I remember, I remember.

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Speaker 6: But also what I find really like inspiring about Angela,

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Speaker 6: even as you said here, I'll say it is she

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Speaker 6: has always seemed to make time for bringing the next

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Speaker 6: generation of leaders up. Her cohort of young people of

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Speaker 6: all really all range of ages, who were interested in

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Speaker 6: professional development, who were interested in making real impact, have

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Speaker 6: sought her out, and she's always made room for training

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Speaker 6: up the next generation leadership, the folks that you want

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Speaker 6: to replace you. And I think of all of all

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Speaker 6: the amazing things you do, and there are many in numerable,

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Speaker 6: I count this among one of the I think greatest

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Speaker 6: measures of impact you that you have had and are having,

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Speaker 6: and that's in replacing yourself and replacing the rest of

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Speaker 6: us with the next layer of talent.

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Speaker 2: You're so elegant.

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Speaker 4: And of course I didn't want to leave out State

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Speaker 4: of the People. What you've done with State of the People.

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Speaker 4: Please join us, I asked, Well, somebody grabbed mister and

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Speaker 4: missus Rye. Please you get that they can come for

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Speaker 4: her acceptance be But I also this is the professional

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Speaker 4: things that we talked about, Angela. But I just want

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Speaker 4: to say personally, if anyone has ever if you are

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Speaker 4: in her world, and anyone has ever even slightly thought

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Speaker 4: about wronging you, do not tell Angela because she's going

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Speaker 4: to carry it to her grade. She will not rock

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Speaker 4: with you. If you mess with her people. She is

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01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:22,439
Speaker 4: always ready to throw some knuckles. So it is just

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Speaker 4: a delight to see her honored. One of the reasons

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Speaker 4: I think she is this powerhouse is because of who

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Speaker 4: raised her. And that is of course, if you know Angela,

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Speaker 4: you've heard her talk about Papa Rye, who is her hero,

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Speaker 4: her partner, her father, and her beautiful, elegant mother.

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Speaker 2: You can see where she gets her looks from. So

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01:53:44,439 --> 01:53:48,880
Speaker 2: so nice to see you. Yeah, you sit down. Your

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01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:50,479
Speaker 2: first job is to hell Mommy sit here.

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Speaker 18: I love it.

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Speaker 2: My dad said, how you doing, Governor. So this is

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Speaker 2: doctor Andrea Rye and Eddie Wright Jr. And at this

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Speaker 2: point we are slightly We're supposed to be ending right now,

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01:54:01,760 --> 01:54:04,040
Speaker 2: but since we started late, I'm gonna reclaim my time.

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Speaker 2: If you can help mommy sit down, or you guys

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01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:11,760
Speaker 2: are gonna stand up. Okay, that's fine. So parents, if

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Speaker 2: you can pay attention for just a moment, mom you're

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Speaker 2: on camera. If you can't pay attention just for a moment,

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Speaker 2: I think it is worth it. Because I learned this

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Speaker 2: evening or this afternoon that we don't get remarks for

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Speaker 2: the Phoenix Awards. I'm gonna do my speech now that

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Speaker 2: I was gonna do. So I'm gonna just share it here.

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Speaker 2: Good evening. I stand before you as the first former

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01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:41,839
Speaker 2: executive director recipient of the CBC Foundation's Phoenix Award. Receiving

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01:54:41,920 --> 01:54:45,440
Speaker 2: this award fills me with both gratitude and a renewed

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01:54:45,520 --> 01:54:47,960
Speaker 2: sense of purpose, and I will tell you that I

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Speaker 2: wrestle with the fact that it feels unearned and premature.

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Speaker 2: In this moment, I feel like I've failed the people

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01:54:55,240 --> 01:54:59,000
Speaker 2: because this year I began working to really gather us

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01:54:59,080 --> 01:55:03,240
Speaker 2: in earnest as crisis called. But what I realized to

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01:55:03,320 --> 01:55:07,360
Speaker 2: miss this internal struggle is this honor is not the end.

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Speaker 2: It's the beginning. It's an urging to keep going, to

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Speaker 2: keep pushing, and to find higher ground. Thank you to

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Speaker 2: Chairwoman Clark for seeing me and encouraging me to give

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Speaker 2: the best of me to our people. I accept this

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Speaker 2: honor with the full awareness that our story as a

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Speaker 2: people has always been one of resurrection and resilience. This

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Speaker 2: award is not just for me. It belongs to every

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Speaker 2: ancestor who refused to quit, every elder who told the truth,

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Speaker 2: and every young person daring to dream beyond the failures

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Speaker 2: of what America has promised. It belongs to my mom

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Speaker 2: and Dad, doctor Andrea Rye, and Eddie Rye Junior, To

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Speaker 2: the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and to every

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Speaker 2: Black staffer who knows your duty to also serve as

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Speaker 2: the conscience of the Congress. It is for It is

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Speaker 2: for the first responders of the movement, the state of

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Speaker 2: the people, and every partner. It is for every person

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01:56:08,400 --> 01:56:11,960
Speaker 2: we fed, hugged, bailed out, heard out who felt left out,

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Speaker 2: For the mothers of the movement, the Black Wall Street survivors,

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01:56:15,680 --> 01:56:23,680
Speaker 2: and everyone who knows black lives, history, stories, employees, entrepreneurs, scientists, veterans, preachers, teachers,

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01:56:23,760 --> 01:56:29,000
Speaker 2: elders and babies still matter. Tonight is about more than recognition.

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01:56:29,560 --> 01:56:31,880
Speaker 2: It is a clarion call for what it means to

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Speaker 2: meet this moment. We are witnessing the dismantling of democracy

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Speaker 2: in real time. Book bands are spreading across our states.

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01:56:40,280 --> 01:56:44,560
Speaker 2: Voter suppression targets our communities with new force. The tightening

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Speaker 2: of our economy is harming Black women by the hundreds

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Speaker 2: of thousands, and the eggs, the cost of eggs are

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01:56:52,280 --> 01:56:56,480
Speaker 2: still too damn high. Political violence is unleashed to keep

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Speaker 2: us silent and afraid, and we are being made to

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Speaker 2: believe that congressional honor must be bestowed upon someone who thought,

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Speaker 2: who through death, is being upheld as a messiah when

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Speaker 2: we all know the truth about the vicious, violent vitriol

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Speaker 2: he actually spewed. We know what survival mode feels like.

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Speaker 2: We see it in every headline that erases our history,

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Speaker 2: every law that blocks our progress, every threat meant to

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Speaker 2: break our will. But we are not only survivors. We

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Speaker 2: are meant to thrive. The question is how we will

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01:57:32,160 --> 01:57:34,840
Speaker 2: not get there through division or subtraction. We will not

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Speaker 2: move forward by closing our eyes to hatred or shrinking

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Speaker 2: in the face of unprecedented opposition and oppression. So tonight

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Speaker 2: I ask what will history say about you? What will

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01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:50,920
Speaker 2: history say about me? What will it say about us?

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01:57:51,680 --> 01:57:54,160
Speaker 2: Will it record our silence or will it tell a

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01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:58,160
Speaker 2: story of a collective rising up? Will it remember you

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01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:01,120
Speaker 2: as someone who stood in the gap or as someone

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Speaker 2: who faded and blended when it mattered the most. History

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Speaker 2: is not written by the comfortable. It is shaped by

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Speaker 2: the courageous. This is our time to move in the

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Speaker 2: fullness of who we are. Our steps are ordered to

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Speaker 2: be bold, to be unapologetically black and beautiful. Shrinking is

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Speaker 2: not an option. Bowing is not an option. Folding is

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Speaker 2: not an option. Every moment demands our grit, our hustle,

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Speaker 2: and our backbone. We will not overcome until we confront division.

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Speaker 2: We will not overcome until we face our fears, speak truth,

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Speaker 2: plainly and without apology. We will not overcome until the

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Speaker 2: demands we have of our elected officials are also met

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Speaker 2: when we look in the mirror. We will not overcome

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Speaker 2: until we let courage replace fear. That is our standard,

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Speaker 2: that is our charge. You are called now more than EVERBC,

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Speaker 2: to not just be the conscience of the Congress, but

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Speaker 2: even more to be the conscience of our community and

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01:59:07,120 --> 01:59:10,720
Speaker 2: the conscience of our culture. You stand on the shoulders

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Speaker 2: of that kind of conscience of a bold thirteen in

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one who demanded the bold pursuit of an

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Speaker 2: agenda for liberation that is our birthright. Let us move

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Speaker 2: forward together, refusing to shrink, refusing to be silenced, refusing

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Speaker 2: to be divided, because we were made for this moment.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for this great honor, all power to the people.

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Speaker 2: Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 27: For the last morning see. Thank you for joining the

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Speaker 27: Natives intention of with the info and all of the

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Speaker 27: latest rock Gilliman Cruss connected to the statements that you

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Speaker 27: leave on our socials. Thank you sincerely for the patients.

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Speaker 27: Reason for your choice is clear. So grateful it took

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Speaker 27: the OA to execute rules. Thank you for serve, defend

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Speaker 27: and protect the truth, even in case it will walk

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Speaker 27: a home.

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Speaker 3: All of the natives, we thank you.

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