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Speaker 1: This is episode one hundred and twenty two of Native Lampod,
Speaker 1: where we give you our breakdown of all things politics
Speaker 1: and culture. I'm Angela Raie with my co host Andrew
Speaker 1: Gilliman Bacari sellers. Today we are joined by best selling author,
Speaker 1: journalists and certified social media thug new hosts of Flagrant
Speaker 1: and Funny with our dear sister Carrie Champion Jamail Hill,
Speaker 1: who is also.
Speaker 2: Host of Politics Podcast.
Speaker 1: As you all know, it's a part of our recent
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Speaker 3: Jamel, Welcome, Mamas and lady.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be able to join you guys
Speaker 3: because I am a listener and so you know, it's
Speaker 3: just like double judge.
Speaker 5: I've been waiting on my turn to jump in. I
Speaker 5: can double judge.
Speaker 6: It's been a long time coming.
Speaker 5: Like I just been waiting, it has been. It has
Speaker 5: definitely been a long time coming.
Speaker 3: And I think the last time I saw you, Bacari,
Speaker 3: I feel like we were doing CNN together.
Speaker 7: I think we had a week on the late night
Speaker 7: Late Night and.
Speaker 3: You as always uh sunning people as normal. So I
Speaker 3: enjoyed myself immensely, but happy to be with.
Speaker 5: Gets you everywhere with him.
Speaker 2: That's all he needs, That's all he needs.
Speaker 8: K you.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you welcoming me.
Speaker 2: We are so grateful to have you well.
Speaker 1: Andrews said his babies are on spring break, but car
Speaker 1: is worried about his baby's giving bad luck to the
Speaker 1: final four, but you know, we're gonna keep hope alive
Speaker 1: for the kids. And I just I want to tell
Speaker 1: you all we're thrilled to be here. I still am
Speaker 1: feeling very somber after Reverend Jackson's passing and hearing the
Speaker 1: full weight of everything that he's offered the world. And
Speaker 1: so it is our honor to try to continue at
Speaker 1: least part of his legacy and bringing truth to your homes,
Speaker 1: to your cars where you listen to our podcast. And
Speaker 1: right now it's time for us to jump into four
Speaker 1: years situational awareness. As Andrew and Baccari arrantly called FAIZA,
Speaker 1: that is a court for intelligence, the less serious, the
Speaker 1: top secret intelligence less serious. Four year situational awareness could
Speaker 1: also be very serious. And you are going to see
Speaker 1: right now the first clip. Actually it's the headline today
Speaker 1: from EPA to dj A. Recent Pro Publica report shows
Speaker 1: inherent conflicts between surprise, the Trump administration and several of
Speaker 1: its officials and the entities they are responsible responsible for
Speaker 1: overseeing and regulating in more than thirty two hundred financial disclosures.
Speaker 1: I encourage you all to go and look at this report.
Speaker 2: What y'all got on this?
Speaker 7: Are we surprised?
Speaker 8: I mean.
Speaker 7: The entanglements of the Trump administration.
Speaker 9: They are looting government, they are raiding government, and I
Speaker 9: actually just like the boldness of them.
Speaker 7: If the American people aren't gonna check them, I.
Speaker 9: Mean because and everybody else, everybody else in government was
Speaker 9: like the president's family stealing, I might as well steal too,
Speaker 9: Like you're not gonna be the only one to eat,
Speaker 9: so let me, let me get my little piece. I
Speaker 9: don't think we've seen grifters like this, and I just
Speaker 9: always giggle when they are so they talk about different
Speaker 9: cultures or communities, and we've talked about filing a community
Speaker 9: on this show, and how they label an entire community
Speaker 9: pirates because of they feel as that they're pillaging from
Speaker 9: one sector of government or not.
Speaker 7: And here you are just they still in public broad.
Speaker 5: I just want you to correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: This is the same government that told you that Snap
Speaker 3: recipients buying an extra box of Caprice was what was
Speaker 3: going to bankrupt everybody. I just want to be sure
Speaker 3: that I have this correct. This is that same government
Speaker 3: that if somebody else bought some Dorito's cool ranch flavor,
Speaker 3: it was gonna break everything. But it's totally fine for
Speaker 3: them to just openly rob the American taxpayers.
Speaker 5: I just want to make sure I got that correct.
Speaker 9: We haven't even talked about it. We're not talking about
Speaker 9: it today, but we haven't even talked about them crab legs.
Speaker 7: Oh where.
Speaker 5: When it is seven hundred each like what he said?
Speaker 2: He said, I got it. I got some old I
Speaker 2: got a little bit of over a budget.
Speaker 6: Left over for some books in my day.
Speaker 1: I just bombs and lobster tails. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just will never understand.
Speaker 3: So Clinda ain't going to Costco because you know, you
Speaker 3: get lobst tails the fat ones for like thirty bucks
Speaker 3: for like Costco.
Speaker 6: Spot up friend, well, shout out to Costco.
Speaker 1: It's a home based company who it's very conscious conscious
Speaker 1: and we expe appreciate Costco. If you ever want to advertise,
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that, because that was free. But
Speaker 1: the next one won't be. Now I'm speaking of free,
Speaker 1: let's talk about free love.
Speaker 2: Miami Center, Bomb out of Bayo Jay, this is your clip.
Speaker 2: You run it for us, tell us what's going on?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: Bam?
Speaker 3: Out of By you dropped eighty three points, and as
Speaker 3: many a fella has said across social media, this is
Speaker 3: exactly what you want to do when your lady comes
Speaker 3: see you play.
Speaker 5: Is drop eighty four points.
Speaker 3: Second most highest scoring output in a single game in
Speaker 3: NBA history, will of course being the first with one
Speaker 3: hundred points. Bams is now number two on that list.
Speaker 3: Kobe is number three. He had eighty one. Which it
Speaker 3: was the twentieth anniversary of that in January, I believe
Speaker 3: it was. And so a lot of love for Bam,
Speaker 3: a lot of love for black love because Bam gave
Speaker 3: a very passionate, heartfelt shout out to Ajia Wilson who
Speaker 3: did his press conference with him after the game, and
Speaker 3: it was very cute and very sweet. And it's just
Speaker 3: so ironic because Asia Wilson said that Love and Basketball
Speaker 3: she did not like the movie, and she's literally loving
Speaker 3: basketball right, Yeah, you.
Speaker 10: Now have the highest game among active players in the NBA.
Speaker 10: The person sitting next to you has the w NBA
Speaker 10: type for the WNBA scoring record and the most among
Speaker 10: active players in the WNBA. Just how do you both
Speaker 10: sort of process the events of this evening.
Speaker 11: Well, she's been gone for like a week, so she
Speaker 11: was complaining about how I got my ten thousand points
Speaker 11: and how she wanted me to wait so to have
Speaker 11: eighty three the first game she's here is very special.
Speaker 11: You know, the behind the scenes and the workouts and
Speaker 11: the conversations, they're very motivating, and obviously you see what
Speaker 11: she does and you get inspired every day by that.
Speaker 11: So I'm thankful to have her in my life.
Speaker 12: I mean, I see the countless hours that he puts in.
Speaker 12: I see the early morning workouts, the questioning the self
Speaker 12: that I see all that, and so for him to
Speaker 12: be thriving so well in that space during that time,
Speaker 12: I didn't want to mess up any mo Joe, because
Speaker 12: we are two the most routine people ever, and I'm
Speaker 12: just like, all right, if I'm not in my seat,
Speaker 12: he's doing pretty well. And I remember I sat down
Speaker 12: and you missed your free throw, and I was like,
Speaker 12: all right, let me go back to the bag. But
Speaker 12: at the same time, I knew I wanted to just
Speaker 12: be there to show my support. But this has been
Speaker 12: an incredible game, obviously, but journey for BAM, witnessing it firsthand,
Speaker 12: the highs and the lows of it, it's been so
Speaker 12: much fun. And I know he says that I'm his inspiration,
Speaker 12: but I don't think he has a clue how much
Speaker 12: he inspires me to continue to be the person that
Speaker 12: I am. But to show up for him, that's my
Speaker 12: biggest goal, is always just to be present and.
Speaker 2: Show it for him.
Speaker 12: And I was a little mad that you got your
Speaker 12: ten k and I wasn't here, but you made up
Speaker 12: for it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 7: I love that all sweet. There's been a lot of hate, man.
Speaker 9: Let me tell y'all, y'all, y'allo love button Angela and
Speaker 9: Jamie's little love button down in Houston.
Speaker 7: A real pretty what's his name coach at Boston.
Speaker 5: He straight up hated. He hated he was the court.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he said, he hated on throws he took. He
Speaker 9: hated on the fact the team.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I just want to pause on this
Speaker 1: defamatory fix what you just said about me and Jamil
Speaker 1: and this man. We don't have nothing to do with
Speaker 1: this man. We don't want to know before.
Speaker 5: Palmer, I not.
Speaker 2: I never met this man.
Speaker 7: I want to everybody.
Speaker 9: Andrew, I don't know if you've seen this man, but
Speaker 9: he's a he is a very handsome attract He is.
Speaker 2: A walking problem.
Speaker 1: He no tea. I stand with thank you, Harriet. No,
Speaker 1: that's right, shoot the best from Afar.
Speaker 6: I'm wondering if I would be intimidated if if my
Speaker 6: girl was like running me through the fitness workout routine
Speaker 6: because he volunteered a little more than she did. She says,
Speaker 6: I've been there. I watch, I watch he's like when
Speaker 6: she's there and pushing me and counting me down, so
Speaker 6: and so forth.
Speaker 7: Time V of the w n B A, he's sitting
Speaker 7: next to a different family work.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's a that's a serious deal. That's some intimidation.
Speaker 6: But I love that they got a statue mutual inspiration
Speaker 6: and motivation and encouragement minus the jealousy. And should the
Speaker 6: jealousy show up, it shows up because the other one
Speaker 6: reaches an achievement and you happen not to be present
Speaker 6: for I just think that's if we needed, uh, not
Speaker 6: not a symbol, but a demonstration of what a healthy looking.
Speaker 6: And I ain't in the stuff, so I don't know.
Speaker 6: But what I saw what looks like a healthy, healthy relationship,
Speaker 6: a give and take. I got you when you got me.
Speaker 6: I thought that was nice.
Speaker 1: I hate to uh give, give our audience whiplash. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm about to do. There is a thin
Speaker 1: line between love and hate, and so surprised. Fox News
Speaker 1: is engaging and Revision is history by showing old footage
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump receiving the remains of soldiers rather than
Speaker 1: the actual footage from March seventh at Dover Air Force
Speaker 1: Base in Delaware. The remains of six soldiers who died
Speaker 1: in an Iranian drone attack after the US and Israel
Speaker 1: conducted airstrikes on the country were brought back home. The
Speaker 1: Commander in chief failed to remove his baseball cap in
Speaker 1: their honor, and Fox News decided to run some different footage.
Speaker 2: We got both.
Speaker 13: Let's run it meanwhile, turning out to your headlines, President Trump,
Speaker 13: First Lady Milania Trump, Vice President JD. Vance, and Secretary
Speaker 13: Lady Usha Vans attending a dignified transfer to honor the
Speaker 13: final homecoming of the six US service members killed in Kuwait.
Speaker 13: The solemn ritual returns the remains of troops killed in action.
Speaker 13: It is considered one of the most somber duties of
Speaker 13: a commander in chief.
Speaker 1: So he got the baseball cap on, and he didn't
Speaker 1: remove it normally at his custom as you all know,
Speaker 1: to remove hats for fallen soldiers. You would expect that
Speaker 1: from the commander in chief. Prizes here on the propaganda
Speaker 1: side or on Trump's not knowing the rural side.
Speaker 6: I mean, didn't he tell us, like people dying war
Speaker 6: and like Morris coming, it's.
Speaker 8: Just going to be.
Speaker 7: That way was the way in which he.
Speaker 6: Prepared American families and American men and women who give
Speaker 6: their lives quite literally for the country and protection of
Speaker 6: all of us, and hopes that when the President sends
Speaker 6: you there, he's got a good reason for doing so,
Speaker 6: and that hopefully that reason has something to do with
Speaker 6: the safety, security of the country and our respective interests.
Speaker 6: But the dignified transfer is an incredibly solemn occasion, and
Speaker 6: the same flagrant way in which he talks about life
Speaker 6: and other people's lives, not his, but other people's I mean,
Speaker 6: that's basically what he put on demonstration, you know right there.
Speaker 6: It's a shame, however, that Fox News has to cape
Speaker 6: for him so hard that they literally manipulate footage to
Speaker 6: make him look dignified when his true self is undignified.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not a surprise considering the length of the
Speaker 5: degree in which Fox lies their viewers every day, and
Speaker 5: I'm often marveled at the fact that we actually allow this.
Speaker 5: The other part too. I'm gonna remember something that actually
Speaker 5: George W.
Speaker 3: Bush said when he was in office during the Golf War,
Speaker 3: and that he stopped playing golf, and a big reason
Speaker 3: why he stopped playing golf is because he didn't want
Speaker 3: the American people to see him playing golf while their
Speaker 3: sons and daughters are at war, because he thought it
Speaker 3: was a bad optic. If George W. Bush is saying that,
Speaker 3: that makes this look even worse than it already does.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to note real quick that we're no
Speaker 9: longer at six where it's seven soldiers. And I just
Speaker 9: think that as we talk to our listeners about the toll,
Speaker 9: it's not just the bombs that we see and the
Speaker 9: fireworks in the sky. Their real lives that have been lost.
Speaker 9: A lot of young people don't have a chance to
Speaker 9: grow up because we're in a war that when we
Speaker 9: don't know why we're there truly and too, we don't
Speaker 9: know how we're going to get out.
Speaker 6: So got be over one hundred and six injured. They
Speaker 6: were finally forced to release that information. But aside from
Speaker 6: obviously the lives lost, over one hundred men and women
Speaker 6: are injured as a result of this incursion, that all
Speaker 6: of us are still scratching our heads trying to figure
Speaker 6: out why we're there.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to switch gears quickly to.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: We said last week a broken clock is right twice
Speaker 1: a day, but this is.
Speaker 2: A really good one.
Speaker 1: Republican Governor k Ivy showed a little bit of mercy.
Speaker 1: You all may have been following the activism around Charles
Speaker 1: sunny Burton. He was scheduled to die this week despite
Speaker 1: not pulling the trigger in a nineteen ninety one shooting,
Speaker 1: and the Republican governor of Alabama decided to commute his sentence.
Speaker 1: He will still spend the rest of his life in prison,
Speaker 1: but his family is expressing a tremendous amount of gratitude.
Speaker 2: Let's roll the clip.
Speaker 6: It's been a decade long fight for clemency for Burton's family.
Speaker 7: What does today feel like for the family.
Speaker 14: It feels over.
Speaker 7: Amazing, Burton's son and daughter telling w b r C.
Speaker 7: They've been praying for this day to come.
Speaker 4: That's when I said, if they want to take my father,
Speaker 4: I meant you and I prayed very hard. He can't
Speaker 4: help my dad, and I think I think it's ivory
Speaker 4: for saving and spare in his life.
Speaker 14: We've been fighting this for a very long time, and
Speaker 14: you know, we had our setbacks, we had our triumphs,
Speaker 14: we had our setbacks, and now we just did a
Speaker 14: beautiful triumph for my hard work, for my friends.
Speaker 7: People weave know like it was a long it was
Speaker 7: a long journ, long journey.
Speaker 1: Well that is a somber one, bed. I mean, his
Speaker 1: life has been spared. I don't think we should have
Speaker 1: the death penalty any anyway. I want to hear from
Speaker 1: y'all what you got.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I got. I'll never forget this. And I don't
Speaker 9: know if y'all know this, but that Angela made me
Speaker 9: think about this. Kate Balwin one night or one day
Speaker 9: was interviewing me after the mother Emanuel shooting about Dylan Ruth,
Speaker 9: and she asked me directly on TV, how do I
Speaker 9: feel about the death penalty and just losing nine people
Speaker 9: that I knew? In that fashion, I was literally like,
Speaker 9: I don't know. It made me question faith, It made
Speaker 9: me question judgment, It made me question and then people
Speaker 9: get sensationalized when they talk about the death penalty, like
Speaker 9: what happens if somebody storms in the house and rape
Speaker 9: your entire family and throws away your favorite all. You know,
Speaker 9: it makes you, It makes you think about things in
Speaker 9: a different way.
Speaker 7: And so I am.
Speaker 9: Still politically unsettled, although I do know that the death
Speaker 9: penalty disproportionately affects people who look like Sonny. My last
Speaker 9: point is you've got to always remember, particularly in the South,
Speaker 9: hands of one, hands of all, if you're out. I
Speaker 9: hope young people listen to this make good decisions, because
Speaker 9: if you're out and somebody makes a crash, dummy decision.
Speaker 7: All of y'all going away.
Speaker 9: Over there on the northwest, where Angela is in California,
Speaker 9: they call it fell any murder. In the South, we
Speaker 9: call it hands of one, Hands of all. And so
Speaker 9: many people want to know why Sonny's in the situation
Speaker 9: he is, and that is the reason that he is
Speaker 9: going to still serve the rest of his life in prison.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the daughter of the deceased man who was killed
Speaker 6: all those years ago wrote to the governor spoke up.
Speaker 6: She said, her voice as a survivor of her lost
Speaker 6: loved one, should mean something, and she said, if you
Speaker 6: think this is justice, this is not justice. I don't
Speaker 6: believe this to be justice. Do not take this man's life.
Speaker 6: Oddly enough, y'all, the man who actually pulled the trigger,
Speaker 6: uh and and and uh killed the deceased, actually had
Speaker 6: his his sentence was commuted. He was on death row
Speaker 6: and was removed. Sonny was the only one remaining on
Speaker 6: death row, and he actually didn't pull the trigger. But
Speaker 6: as as Bakari, our attorney resident, is pointing out, if
Speaker 6: you with the people who do the crime, everybody is
Speaker 6: charged for the same crime. And in this case, obviously
Speaker 6: it worked out for the better. But y'all, I'm just curious.
Speaker 6: Angela and Bacari, our resident attorneys, like, when do we
Speaker 6: see the law change so that you know that individuals
Speaker 6: who didn't touch a gun didn't kill anyone. May have
Speaker 6: been in a car in the commission of an act,
Speaker 6: but may not have known the act was going down,
Speaker 6: is prosecuted and god forbid, put on death row having
Speaker 6: not even done the you know, done the deed.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 6: But but this is a good this is a good
Speaker 6: one for k Ivy. She did say that she did
Speaker 6: this to preserve the future of the death penalty in
Speaker 6: that state.
Speaker 1: Well, and I will say, Andrew, as you know as
Speaker 1: a former LAGED official, it is up to the states.
Speaker 1: They have to decide individually what the law will be.
Speaker 1: And that is up to the legislatures. Why it's so
Speaker 1: important for us to vote. And I know you have
Speaker 1: something on this. The Georgia special election.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there was an election this week, y'all. Marjorie
Speaker 6: Taylor Green seat down in Georgia and the most Republican
Speaker 6: seat in the entire delegation from the state of Georgia.
Speaker 6: And there were some positive, I think outcomes. We'll see
Speaker 6: what happens in the long run. But take a look
Speaker 6: at who the two finalists are and what was a
Speaker 6: very crowded feel.
Speaker 8: Democrat Sean Harris finished as a top vote getter with
Speaker 8: thirty seven percent of the vote, while Republican Clay Fuller
Speaker 8: came in second with thirty four percent.
Speaker 15: Well, I think you're sitting with the results tonight. The
Speaker 15: voter support what President Trump is doing in an endorsement
Speaker 15: our campaign, and I think the Republican Party is going
Speaker 15: to unite around us because they know that the Democrat
Speaker 15: is too dangerous. We can't have a Democrat representing Georgia fourteen.
Speaker 15: It would be a tragedy for our community.
Speaker 16: I think what you're going to see here real soon
Speaker 16: is people going to say what I'm going to put
Speaker 16: beside this time party, I'm going to vote with us
Speaker 16: best for my Kris and grandkids. And that's why I
Speaker 16: have nothing but confidence tonight, and I have confidence tomorrow.
Speaker 7: And the day after that that.
Speaker 16: More and more Democrats and Republicans and independence are going
Speaker 16: to come my way.
Speaker 6: So Sean Harri is there achieved actually the majority of
Speaker 6: votes that were cast in that special We could all
Speaker 6: pontificate about what that looks like in the final in May.
Speaker 6: Most expect that that seat will remain with Republicans. But y'all,
Speaker 6: it is of note that Sewan out performed how Kamala
Speaker 6: Harris did in that very same district shit Chi thirty
Speaker 6: one percent of the vote, he achieved thirty six percent
Speaker 6: of the vote, and so even if that seat doesn't
Speaker 6: come the way of Democrats, that just gives you a
Speaker 6: light in inlet into how Democrats are overperforming so far
Speaker 6: in these special elections. That trend continues.
Speaker 1: Well, as you just noted Andrew, the race and midterms
Speaker 1: are in full effect, but it's not without an intense
Speaker 1: redistricting battle. Up next is Virginia, with the map already
Speaker 1: approved by the General Assembly. That map would have ten
Speaker 1: seats that lean Democratic. Early voting has begun in Virginia,
Speaker 1: and so have the Shenanigans. As we get into our
Speaker 1: longer length topic. The response from the GOP was insane.
Speaker 1: They sent out a civil rights based mailer, and we
Speaker 1: have this clip from a social media the influence that
Speaker 1: believe her name is Suzanne Lambert, who had this to
Speaker 1: say about the mailer.
Speaker 8: I was getting ready to go to the gym, which
Speaker 8: is why I look like a young Justin Bieber. But
Speaker 8: a follower sent me this message about a very mysterious
Speaker 8: mailer that they received yesterday. There's a special election in
Speaker 8: Virginia right now through April about redistricting, which we want
Speaker 8: to vote yes on.
Speaker 17: The top line message we want to vote yes. So
Speaker 17: what U to say?
Speaker 8: You'll notice it says, just like Jim Crow, they want
Speaker 8: to take away your voice. And you're seeing a lot
Speaker 8: of Civil rights era images, presumably of black people.
Speaker 17: Okay, that's important black people, because what else does it say?
Speaker 8: It says our ancestors fought to represent.
Speaker 17: Us our ancestors.
Speaker 8: So one could safely assume, if you're looking at this flyer,
Speaker 8: given that it only depicts black people, that the person
Speaker 8: sending it is a black person, right or at the
Speaker 8: very very least has the interest of black folks in mind, which,
Speaker 8: of course makes no sense because voting yes on this
Speaker 8: measure would actually protect the interests of black people, and
Speaker 8: no black officials would lose their seat from their redistricting measures.
Speaker 8: It would only be white people the other house to
Speaker 8: include who paid for it?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 8: So what says here paid for by Democracy and Justice Pack?
Speaker 8: Only problem with that Democracy and Justice Pack doesn't exist,
Speaker 8: like straight up does not exist, but Justice for Democracy
Speaker 8: Pack does exist, and its treasurer is listed as Christopher
Speaker 8: woodfin addresses the same, Well, what do we know about
Speaker 8: Christopher Woodfin On? We know that he has only ever
Speaker 8: donated to Republican politicians ever, and two that he is
Speaker 8: most certainly not black. So when he says our ancestors
Speaker 8: and our rights, who.
Speaker 17: Exactly the fuck is he talking about.
Speaker 8: What we also know about Democracy for Justice pack is
Speaker 8: that it was created four days ago and only has
Speaker 8: one large contribution from a major Republican Now, the question is,
Speaker 8: did they.
Speaker 17: Purposely put the wrong name on the mayor?
Speaker 6: If people want to go look it up, there's a
Speaker 6: lot net. Well, I tell you it is a lot.
Speaker 18: A lot, a lot.
Speaker 9: For the people are listening and not watching Angela, Angela
Speaker 9: explaining your messiness right now for people who.
Speaker 2: I just want to apologize.
Speaker 1: I want to apologize to our viewing audience, our listening
Speaker 1: audience that may be over wait, because I I just
Speaker 1: this is getting worse.
Speaker 2: But CARTI, why did you have me?
Speaker 5: Because you couldn't fix your face?
Speaker 7: I was to have man.
Speaker 2: Just like I didn't see that person had no idea. No,
Speaker 2: I didn't have any idea.
Speaker 1: This man has no neck like I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like that in my life.
Speaker 2: I was really like, oh my god, that's a I wait,
Speaker 2: is that ai?
Speaker 8: I was?
Speaker 1: Anyway, here's the point, guys, let's get focused let's get focused.
Speaker 6: They wants Greenland because it looks so big on the map.
Speaker 6: Greenland is not to scale. I assume that.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not to scale. Okay, okay, all right, you
Speaker 1: think it was like I don't even remember when we
Speaker 1: were talking. We were talking about Readish districting. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: so there's another.
Speaker 7: Which is very important.
Speaker 2: Yes, vote yes, vote yes, yes, they said.
Speaker 1: Queen Gayleen from from Virginia says, we are telling people,
Speaker 1: don't guess, vote yes. So they are trying to meet
Speaker 1: the energy of Texas, North Carolina in Ohio and trying
Speaker 1: to make sure that there is more representation in Congress
Speaker 1: to knock out all of what they tried to do
Speaker 1: with Midtermy districting. What I think is really crazy about
Speaker 1: this mailer, y'all is it literally has?
Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully we can pull the images up.
Speaker 1: I think I sent them to just like Jim Crow,
Speaker 1: they want to silence your voice. And then this black
Speaker 1: man there, it is this black man who used to
Speaker 1: be in the Virginia House of Delegates says that this
Speaker 1: was him although we just saw him and unless he
Speaker 1: is transracial, that was not him. And also he would
Speaker 1: have gained several hundred pounds to be that man that's
Speaker 1: in that picture responsible for this mailer.
Speaker 2: So I just I think that it's fascinating. Our ancestors
Speaker 2: fought to represent us. That's right.
Speaker 1: The people who have this mailer out are the descendants
Speaker 1: of the seventeen seventy six ers. We, however, are the
Speaker 1: descendants of sixteen nineteen, and it's not our ancestors. Our
Speaker 1: ancestors wildest dreams would be that we could vote and
Speaker 1: we would be represented in the House, among other places.
Speaker 1: I want to roll this clip for you all to
Speaker 1: react to. This is the speaker of the Virginia House
Speaker 1: of Delegates. His name is Don Scott, and he had
Speaker 1: this reaction to this crazy mailer, which I think we
Speaker 1: need to highlight.
Speaker 18: I love, folks, when I see people sending mailers using
Speaker 18: images from the civil rights movement, brave men and women
Speaker 18: facing down the KKK, people who launched, who bled, who
Speaker 18: died for the right to vote, to try to trick
Speaker 18: black voters in Virginia.
Speaker 7: I take that very personally.
Speaker 18: The civil rights movement is not a problem, and for
Speaker 18: them to do that and then to try to bring
Speaker 18: in another black man after the fact to say that
Speaker 18: he was involved with it when we know for a fact.
Speaker 7: That was not the case. They brought him in after
Speaker 7: the fact.
Speaker 18: The blood and sacrifice of those who fought for the
Speaker 18: right to vote belongs to all of us, and it
Speaker 18: will not be hijacked by anonymous MAGA line political operatives
Speaker 18: trying to deceive our communities. And let's be clear about
Speaker 18: what's really happening here. Donald Trump put us all in
Speaker 18: this position. Donald Trump and Republican legislatures across the country
Speaker 18: are trying to rig the mid term elections because they
Speaker 18: know that policies are so unpopular, no one in their
Speaker 18: right mind would continue to support them.
Speaker 1: So y'all that I think that's the part for me,
Speaker 1: and I want to I do want to hear from y'all,
Speaker 1: but I just got to say, I believe there's a
Speaker 1: special place in fiery hell for coonery, and I would
Speaker 1: like to show that this is the coon around I'm
Speaker 1: talking about moves behind an anti redistrict and flyer in
Speaker 1: voking Jim former go Op delegate. He represent the Hampton area.
Speaker 1: It would beyond Delegate ac Cardoza.
Speaker 5: This ain't our people, Jamil, your old people.
Speaker 2: Said, man, that's the oh that he don't really have
Speaker 2: a neck either.
Speaker 1: It's the no Neck Committee responsible for this ad what
Speaker 1: y'all got.
Speaker 18: I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be quiet because.
Speaker 5: Now, But like I I hope that people understand the
Speaker 5: bigger picture.
Speaker 3: And I've said this before and getting into arguments with conservatives,
Speaker 3: It's like, if your ideas were that much greater, why
Speaker 3: do you feel the need to cheat If you think
Speaker 3: they're really that much more popular, if you think you
Speaker 3: have broader vision, if you think if you believe all
Speaker 3: the things that you say about the type of America
Speaker 3: you want us to have, then you wouldn't need to
Speaker 3: do stuff like this. And unfortunately, we have a public that,
Speaker 3: because of the day to day challenges of life and
Speaker 3: just trying to put food on the table, have a
Speaker 3: livable wage, put a roof over their head, that things
Speaker 3: like this are very easy to fall for. I mean,
Speaker 3: and especially now that we've sort of programmed people to
Speaker 3: try to look out for coming to you online, because
Speaker 3: we know that communities of color are definitely targeted with
Speaker 3: misinformation and disinformation online and so people tend to not
Speaker 3: do have the same level of skepticism when it comes
Speaker 3: to the mailers and the television commercials which we have
Speaker 3: seen in many elections have a deep impact and influence
Speaker 3: on how people vote.
Speaker 5: So I'm glad that the attention is being drawn. But
Speaker 5: the part that I'm worried about is how many people
Speaker 5: will already have fallen for this, and whether or not
Speaker 5: they will receive the proper and correct information to know
Speaker 5: how to vote accordingly.
Speaker 9: I think Jamil's first point was just brilliant because I
Speaker 9: say something similar when you oftentimes, because I don't know
Speaker 9: how many of.
Speaker 7: You all have seen, and I challenge you all.
Speaker 9: I was watching it some this morning, but the deposition
Speaker 9: from the DOGE employees, and they just they really just
Speaker 9: fell apart when they would question about about d I
Speaker 9: just about any of the beliefs right. And so when
Speaker 9: you challenge conservatives on things like this on ideas, usually
Speaker 9: you find out that you can win on that playing
Speaker 9: field because they understand even that their ideas are not
Speaker 9: better for the country black, white, poor otherwise. The other
Speaker 9: thing is if your vote wasn't so important, people wouldn't
Speaker 9: work so damn hard to take it from you. And
Speaker 9: that's what we're seeing day in and day out. But
Speaker 9: I'm glad that the battlefield is in Virginia. Because my
Speaker 9: favorite elected official in the entire country. I know that
Speaker 9: it's weird. People will be like y'all are in politics
Speaker 9: too deep when you have like a favorite elected official,
Speaker 9: but like you know, her picture is I send her
Speaker 9: picture to folk.
Speaker 7: But Senator Louise Lucas, l Louise Lucas, I don't know
Speaker 7: if y'all know.
Speaker 9: Years old, graduated from Norfolk State twice and will tell
Speaker 9: you about yourself. I mean, she single handedly stop the
Speaker 9: redskin what do they call the commanders commanders, you know,
Speaker 9: from coming out there and taking advantage of her constituents,
Speaker 9: and she's helping along with the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 9: fight back. And I just think that this is the
Speaker 9: place where I'm glad this I'm glad this battle is
Speaker 9: taking place because you're seeing what happens when you have smart,
Speaker 9: very talented, particularly black folk in leadership position able to
Speaker 9: fight back. And so I have confidence with when last
Speaker 9: point is, we've always had obstacles. Life folk have always
Speaker 9: had obstacles, whether or not as Georgia, whether or not
Speaker 9: it's this, whether or not it's the same, you know,
Speaker 9: let America, and it didn't matter, We're still going to
Speaker 9: come out and vote in extremely high numbers and overcome this.
Speaker 7: And I do believe that this will pass with a yes.
Speaker 6: Yeah. In my race for governor, they did phone calls
Speaker 6: into black households telling them the wrong date of the election,
Speaker 6: giving them the date beyond the election to go. Don't forget.
Speaker 6: We need to have his back, you know, this sort
Speaker 6: of coon talking, you know, menstrual voice on the other end.
Speaker 6: And I will tell you there's often debate around whether
Speaker 6: or not we should highlight these things. If we should
Speaker 6: talk about them, does it serve the purpose or do
Speaker 6: the work for the opposition, for our community to lift
Speaker 6: up what the myriad strategies might be to keep us
Speaker 6: from and hassles that you might have to encounter in
Speaker 6: order to get your vote cast and also count it.
Speaker 6: But I got to tell you we have a resilient community.
Speaker 6: We have a resilient constituency. They are mature adults enough
Speaker 6: to hear the truth. God knows. I would prefer them
Speaker 6: getting a forecast of what to expect when they go
Speaker 6: vote from us, rather than showing up and seeing armed
Speaker 6: you know, military armored vehicles outside of polling places. So
Speaker 6: I just, I just I hope for those who are
Speaker 6: still arguing, let's not talk about these distracts actions. Let's
Speaker 6: not talk about what the Republicans are going to do,
Speaker 6: because we may inadvertently suppress our own vote, because people
Speaker 6: may just decide, Look, I don't want to put up
Speaker 6: with that, so I'm not going to participate. I think
Speaker 6: people draw the exact opposite conclusion when you work so hard,
Speaker 6: as Baccari pointed out, to keep me from voting and
Speaker 6: keep my vote from mattering, but I'm sleeping outside the poll.
Speaker 6: We are organizing a sleepout before election day. But I
Speaker 6: think we gotta highlight these things so that folks have
Speaker 6: a real sense of the mystery and mischief the other
Speaker 6: side is going to be up to nobody knows.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I think is important to bring
Speaker 1: into this mix. We're talking about redistricting efforts in Virginia,
Speaker 1: of course, but we also can't turn a blind eye
Speaker 1: to some of the tactics that the Trump administration have
Speaker 1: turned to within the last couple of months. So we
Speaker 1: know in January, at the end of January, the FBI
Speaker 1: went to raid Fulton County's voting records from twenty twenty
Speaker 1: as if to give Donald Trump any credibility to what
Speaker 1: he was alleging, then also seeking out votes, which we
Speaker 1: know Fannie, our dear sister Fannie Willis was working on
Speaker 1: trying to prosecute him for the election fraud he was
Speaker 1: actually committing. But at the end of January, authorities see
Speaker 1: seven hundred boxes. Seven hundred boxes related to an election
Speaker 1: six years ago. There is nothing to look for from
Speaker 1: six years ago except for intimidation of voters in a
Speaker 1: very very important election in Georgia, as we know coming up.
Speaker 1: It's important everywhere, but it's particularly important in Georgia because
Speaker 1: we have the opportunity to hold.
Speaker 2: The Senate to elect a new governor or not.
Speaker 1: So seven hundred boxes related to this probe all in
Speaker 1: Fulton County.
Speaker 2: Who's in Fulton County? Y'all? Okay?
Speaker 1: And then the Homeland Security Oh, by the way, by
Speaker 1: the way, the FBI field agent in charge, his name
Speaker 1: was Paul Brown, I believe was fired for expressing concerns
Speaker 1: about this FBI raid. So I also want to make
Speaker 1: be clear about that if you're not a yes man
Speaker 1: or a yes woman for Trump, you gotta go. So
Speaker 1: then after that they went to Arizona. Guess where they
Speaker 1: went to Arizona, Miracpa, Maricopa County. Who's in Maricopa ain't
Speaker 1: no white people. So I just I want to point
Speaker 1: this out. This is over, you know again, the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election results all from a debunked claim that there was, uh,
Speaker 1: there was election fraud happening there. The former attorney general
Speaker 1: in Arizona looking into this, and of course it's been
Speaker 1: a debunked, debunk claim.
Speaker 6: So anyway, I don't even think it's about I don't
Speaker 6: think it's a I don't think this is a rewind
Speaker 6: to the last election. I think you doubt this is
Speaker 6: pretext for this is them trying to push the limits
Speaker 6: of their authority to show the American people what they
Speaker 6: have the capacity to do. What courts will step in
Speaker 6: to keep them from seizing ballots, What courts will keep,
Speaker 6: you know, stop them from going and seizing voting machines
Speaker 6: on the evening of elections when those machines should be
Speaker 6: counting votes and sending them directly to the headquarters and
Speaker 6: counties all across the country. I think they are here
Speaker 6: testing the limits of not their authority, because they don't
Speaker 6: have the authority to do this. They're testing the they're
Speaker 6: testing the limits of who gonna check me, who's going
Speaker 6: to stop me? And with what military are they going
Speaker 6: to do it with. So I again, when we talk
Speaker 6: about the things that we should just anticipate, be prepared
Speaker 6: for Democrats, anyone who cared a democrats democracy, see loving person,
Speaker 6: Please please please don't handle this like we might address
Speaker 6: the normal rigors of a of a of an inquisition
Speaker 6: reasonable in nature, even if we disagree with the outcomes.
Speaker 6: This is not what this is. This is authoritarianism at
Speaker 6: its at its alphabet, at its dictionary described level. Being
Speaker 6: persecuted by Trump and all of his SIKA fans. There
Speaker 6: are no check people to keep him from doing this.
Speaker 6: He wanted to seize the ballots last time, and fortunately
Speaker 6: there were people like Kelly in places said nah, we
Speaker 6: can't do that. The Attorney general of the country who
Speaker 6: did that. Now, who thinks Pam Bondy is going to
Speaker 6: stand in front of Donald Trump and say no to anything?
Speaker 6: Nobody we know, nobody.
Speaker 5: We know that's not happening.
Speaker 3: But I think it gets to what really is the
Speaker 3: soft spot in our democracy, and that is we continue
Speaker 3: to forget that the democracy only stands as much as
Speaker 3: the people willing to actually protect it. And what we know,
Speaker 3: definitely knew from what happened previously, was that if not
Speaker 3: for Mike Pence, you know, by the thinnest, thinnest of margins,
Speaker 3: did things hold together.
Speaker 5: And so when you lose, or when the people who
Speaker 5: are supposed to protect the democracy no longer do, the
Speaker 5: institution is not going to defend itself. And many people
Speaker 5: knew that this version of Trump would be far more
Speaker 5: dangerous because he was going to have those sick of
Speaker 5: fans you talked about, who do not believe in actual governance,
Speaker 5: who do not believe in the rule of law, who
Speaker 5: do not believe in a certain decorum that should be
Speaker 5: part of politics. Because as much as I hated as
Speaker 5: last administration, this one is like, this makes the last
Speaker 5: one look like child's play. And the difference is this
Speaker 5: time around they don't believe in those things that they're
Speaker 5: willing to do whatever the king wishes. And so I
Speaker 5: think what is frightening for me is that I don't
Speaker 5: think the American people are actually alarmed enough that I
Speaker 5: get it, Like a lot of people are dealing with shortbandwidth.
Speaker 5: They have already said their intention was the flood zone
Speaker 5: with hourly horrors of which we're like what and to
Speaker 5: the point where you feel hopeless. But I think they're
Speaker 5: playing largely works because when I see things like what
Speaker 5: is embolding in Georgia and Arizona, and that yes, there's
Speaker 5: outrage among those who pay attention, but the people who
Speaker 5: really need to be outraged.
Speaker 3: And paying attention are just kind of in this web
Speaker 3: of I don't even know what to do in this moment,
Speaker 3: and that to me, it's the apathy that worries me.
Speaker 7: Sure three quick points.
Speaker 9: I think that we're overlooking the psychopathy of the president
Speaker 9: of the United States. So I disagree with Andrew just
Speaker 9: slightly because I do think that a lot of this
Speaker 9: is done because the president believes he won the election
Speaker 9: in twenty twenty, and so I think that he is
Speaker 9: asking people to go out and kind of do this
Speaker 9: excursion into finding him the votes, which we all know
Speaker 9: doesn't exist. But I also think that you're right, Andrew
Speaker 9: on the back part, because I do think that there
Speaker 9: are people around the president, the Stephen Miller's, the Bannons,
Speaker 9: et cetera, that want to exploit that underbelly, and what
Speaker 9: they're saying is, look, we are not going to wait
Speaker 9: until six years later. If we don't like the results
Speaker 9: of Arizona, we're going to take those ballots before they're countant,
Speaker 9: or after their accountant, or whenever the hell we want to.
Speaker 9: Then were just going to figure out how to count them,
Speaker 9: and we we gonna count them and one or basically,
Speaker 9: we'll ask Donald Trump how much you want to win
Speaker 9: by today?
Speaker 6: So I need you to find me y'ah.
Speaker 7: Eleven thousand, right, I need you to I want to
Speaker 7: win by I want to win by twelve points, right.
Speaker 7: So I think that that's a part of it as well.
Speaker 7: And I don't I just don't think.
Speaker 9: I just don't think that we have the urgency one
Speaker 9: and people don't understand how to fight back too. And
Speaker 9: I'm it's hard because we don't have a fighter yet
Speaker 9: in the ring. I guess this is where Andrew would
Speaker 9: be like Macari, we don't need a fighter in the ring.
Speaker 7: This is about democracy. The people can do it.
Speaker 6: Hey, Minnesota showed us.
Speaker 7: In Minnesota showed us. You're right.
Speaker 9: I just think I wish we had a fighter in
Speaker 9: the ring too. But I guess that time will come
Speaker 9: soon that we're all going to have to rally around
Speaker 9: somebody who at the very fundamental portion of their life
Speaker 9: is pro democracy.
Speaker 6: I hope it's not a person. I really hope it is.
Speaker 6: And I honestly think Minnesota is a blueprint in the
Speaker 6: sense that when people see the threat at their doorstep,
Speaker 6: there's a red line and they're saying, you're not going
Speaker 6: to cross it here. So if it's in my community,
Speaker 6: this is not some esoteric I believe the talking points
Speaker 6: that he's looking back sixty years to see whether or
Speaker 6: not he won or not. This is me saying no,
Speaker 6: right now, this man is trying to take say it again.
Speaker 3: Isn't that bad because by the time it gets to
Speaker 3: your doorstep, it is too late.
Speaker 6: No, I think this is going to be real time shit.
Speaker 6: I think that they I think we're going to be
Speaker 6: traumatized by the swiftness and by the audacity of what
Speaker 6: they're going to attempt on election day and the ten
Speaker 6: days leading up to election day for early voting states,
Speaker 6: and then the way in which they're going to assault
Speaker 6: the court courts. But mostly they're going to assault public opinion.
Speaker 6: They're going to get out there and they're going to say,
Speaker 6: remember back then, when the Cab County stole all those
Speaker 6: votes and we had to take those ballots. Remember when
Speaker 6: the Latinos allowed fifty thousand immigrants across the border so
Speaker 6: they could vote that day. I think this is going
Speaker 6: to be head on a swivel type stuff, and it's
Speaker 6: going to require us to have not a knee jerk,
Speaker 6: but I mean unprecedented levels of response to them stealing
Speaker 6: what is that lection?
Speaker 7: That's the quest?
Speaker 6: Well up two thousand in Florida. I was here for that.
Speaker 6: I mean, you couldn't keep us down. We were down
Speaker 6: at that We were down at the Capitol and at
Speaker 6: the Sties States Office. It was mayhem, complete and total mayhem.
Speaker 7: Narrator states. We still lost, and I think.
Speaker 6: We lost a five to four, We lost a five
Speaker 6: to six or what was it, a seventh four four to.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court. I think here's the here's the point
Speaker 1: that I want to raise in this moment. What is
Speaker 1: scary to me is that during the country's two hundred
Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary year, we are now at a place
Speaker 1: we were fighting for the fundamental right to vote, fundamental
Speaker 1: access to the ballot box, whether or not our ballot
Speaker 1: should be counted. Who was making a very partial determination
Speaker 1: about who gets to have their say, And we've already
Speaker 1: had that battle. We had it in the Constitution, there's
Speaker 1: an amendment for that. We had it in the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five Voting Rights Act, in every authorization after that.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying that at some point, the law
Speaker 1: of the land should stand. Whether you're mad about a
Speaker 1: black president winning the election or not. All of this
Speaker 1: shifted again to partisanship after Barack Obama won the election,
Speaker 1: and I think that until this country is willing to
Speaker 1: come to terms with its ugly history, the fact that
Speaker 1: the vestiges of slavery are alive well and present, like,
Speaker 1: we are going to continue to repeat this, And so yes,
Speaker 1: we should fight, but also we do need fighters. The
Speaker 1: fighters need to show up. This should be something that
Speaker 1: is talked about consistently. I'm gonna tell y'all because I
Speaker 1: started talking about Reverend Jackson at the beginning.
Speaker 2: I used to get so mad sometimes.
Speaker 1: When no matter what we were talking about, somewhere Reverend
Speaker 1: Jackson got on the stage and he always brought up
Speaker 1: the right to vote.
Speaker 2: And I'd be like, we're fine, we're voting.
Speaker 7: We just bought it.
Speaker 2: Were good, you know, And now this is pre two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: By the time twenty ten and the Tea Party rode around,
Speaker 1: I was like he might be onto something. When voter
Speaker 1: ID and all the suppressive measures that they introduced in
Speaker 1: state legislatures all throughout the country, cutting back early voting days,
Speaker 1: figuring out how to have voter ID, it's just an idea.
Speaker 2: You have to have idea to get on a plane.
Speaker 1: Everybody don't fly right, Everybody don't Everybody don't live right
Speaker 1: down the street from.
Speaker 2: A Department of Licensing or DMV.
Speaker 1: Everybody can't afford a passport or to get a new
Speaker 1: birth certificate. Like, we have a privileged way of thinking
Speaker 1: about this, and it is suppressive and harmful to our
Speaker 1: elders who fought the very fight for us. And yes,
Speaker 1: it is frustrating to have to have this fundamental conversation,
Speaker 1: especially when there are people in our communities who are like,
Speaker 1: I would love to talk to you about voting, but
Speaker 1: I can't feed my kids tomorrow. We have to be
Speaker 1: able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Speaker 2: Hell to something.
Speaker 1: We got to be able to meet people's basic needs.
Speaker 1: But also this is a basic and fundamental right. It
Speaker 1: should be constitutionally protected in ways that it's clearly not
Speaker 1: because our Supreme Court is willing to throw everything in
Speaker 1: the balance.
Speaker 9: So andew you preach we need to clip that, because
Speaker 9: that's that's fire there and true. But let me also
Speaker 9: tell you why we in this situation. The reason we're
Speaker 9: in this situation is because we never punished the Confederates.
Speaker 9: I remind amen, Amen, I remind people of that all
Speaker 9: the time. The most trees in this group of people
Speaker 9: we've ever had walked the country, we never punished them.
Speaker 9: The same people who brought us Jim Crow, who brought
Speaker 9: us the black Codes, we never punished them. Those are
Speaker 9: the same people who on January sixth showed us that
Speaker 9: they were going to storm the Capitol.
Speaker 7: We never punished him. Now those people are running government.
Speaker 9: So I and Merritt Garland didn't help us. I always
Speaker 9: say that the reason we're in this situation is this
Speaker 9: country never punished the Confederates, and now we're stuck here still,
Speaker 9: we're dealing with one hundred and Angela. The reason it's
Speaker 9: so hard is we're dealing with one hundred and twenty years,
Speaker 9: one hundred and more than one hundred and thirty plus
Speaker 9: years of that entrenched history of having individuals who don't
Speaker 9: believe in the very essence of what this country should
Speaker 9: be still running government today.
Speaker 6: I think it predates them. For instance, Americans don't want
Speaker 6: to reckon with the fact that we didn't allow all
Speaker 6: people to vote. We alloted white men who were landowners
Speaker 6: to vote, and guess what else, they did not have
Speaker 6: to be citizens of the United States of America to vote.
Speaker 6: That has not always been a condition of voting in
Speaker 6: federal elections or local elections in the United States of
Speaker 6: America over its history. It did not begin that way.
Speaker 6: This country has always prioritized the most powerful, the most
Speaker 6: well connected, the most well constituted individuals, and quite frankly,
Speaker 6: if they had it their way. And this is why
Speaker 6: Donald Trump doesn't face as much resistance within his party
Speaker 6: as he should trying to be not just a kleptocrat,
Speaker 6: but quite frankly, to return this this nation to some
Speaker 6: kind of aristocracy or worse. Is because they fundamentally don't
Speaker 6: believe that the proletariat should have access direct access to
Speaker 6: the ballot box. And by the way, the Framers didn't
Speaker 6: believe that either, we did not have direct elections to
Speaker 6: House members to Senate members, to the presidency, and we
Speaker 6: still don't have direct elections to the presidency. We were
Speaker 6: electing people to go and then hopefully speak for us
Speaker 6: in conventions and as Electoral College voters and as US senators,
Speaker 6: but we were not supposed to have this much direct
Speaker 6: proximity to one the vote and then to what is
Speaker 6: supposed to be inured from it, which is power. They
Speaker 6: don't believe we should, so they really want to return
Speaker 6: to a foundational premise where the most powerful, the most
Speaker 6: well connected, the most well heeled, even if they are
Speaker 6: not US citizens, are the ones who basically get to control.
Speaker 2: Things absolutely well.
Speaker 1: We will continue to be following all the redistricting efforts,
Speaker 1: the midterm mid term redistricting efforts, by the way, and
Speaker 1: all of what's happening as we lead into the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six midterms, and efforts by the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: still kill and destroy the midterms, and all of our efforts,
Speaker 1: our collective efforts to fight back. So thank you all
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 19: Who cares about truth for the last more than seen it.
Speaker 1: Okay, everyone, for my call to action today, I am
Speaker 1: lending it to a friend of the show attorney to
Speaker 1: Mario Solomon Simmons, who has this update in the Creek case.
Speaker 20: Peace Families to turn to Mario Solomon Simmons.
Speaker 7: We all know when there's.
Speaker 20: Assault on black people, and black people's right to vote
Speaker 20: anywhere is an assault on all of us everywhere. Over
Speaker 20: one hundred thousand black folks up being denied the right
Speaker 20: to vote by the Muskogian Creek Nation. And for a
Speaker 20: little bit of context, many of you are you know
Speaker 20: that last year we won in the Moscowyan Cree Nation
Speaker 20: Supreme Court five to zero that we have every right
Speaker 20: as any.
Speaker 7: Other Creek citizen.
Speaker 20: Yet they are standing in our way and stopping us
Speaker 20: from voting, from getting housing, education, benefits, everything because of
Speaker 20: anti black discrimination. This matters to all of us because
Speaker 20: our dignity as black people are under assault. This is
Speaker 20: no different than Governor George Wallace in the nineteen sixties
Speaker 20: standing in the doorway at the University of Alabama because
Speaker 20: he didn't want black students the opportunity to integrate the
Speaker 20: University of Alabama. It takes everyday people like you who
Speaker 20: are able to organize and stand against tyranny and racism
Speaker 20: and injustice, and that's what we need. You to do
Speaker 20: stand with us, just the same way that the NAACP
Speaker 20: Legal Defense Fund and Lawyer's Committee and Representative Maxine Waters,
Speaker 20: There's so many others. I need you to go to
Speaker 20: justicef Black Creeks dot com. Learn this amazing history. You
Speaker 20: may be a Black Creek yourself and don't even know it.
Speaker 20: Follow this case that's going to impact thousands, tens of
Speaker 20: thous the black fems all over this nation.
Speaker 7: Go to Justice for Black Creek today. I want to
Speaker 7: hear from you.
Speaker 2: Thank you to Mario.
Speaker 1: Okay, who else is got next?
Speaker 9: I'm gonna chime in here and just say my call
Speaker 9: to action is this is the best time of the season.
Speaker 9: This is March madness. I'm so excited about it. A
Speaker 9: break well now, I mean, unfortunately, I have to take
Speaker 9: my kids with me to the women's final four. My
Speaker 9: wife is making me do that. The last time they went,
Speaker 9: we lost to Iowa in the semi finals.
Speaker 7: That's a whole other.
Speaker 2: Kids for the reason.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I got to even get permission from
Speaker 9: coach Day to let them go. So we'll work through
Speaker 9: all of that. But my call to action is go
Speaker 9: out and make sure everyone watches women's sports.
Speaker 7: Go out there and support.
Speaker 9: If you have a local playing game or if you
Speaker 9: have one of the top sixteen teams in your area,
Speaker 9: you won't see anything better or a better environment than
Speaker 9: women's college basketball during this time period. So my call
Speaker 9: to action is go out and support and watch these
Speaker 9: little boys and girls throughout the NCAA tournament, show up
Speaker 9: and show.
Speaker 6: Out, nice, nice, nice, Well, mine is spring break. My
Speaker 6: kids are off for starting this Friday for a week
Speaker 6: and always, you know, I approach this season with joy, intrepidation,
Speaker 6: trepidation because they are going to eat us out of
Speaker 6: house and home.
Speaker 7: Over those days.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate when the school yard feeds them, but
Speaker 6: I look forward with a lot of anticipation because we
Speaker 6: get to spend some meaningful time together and with two
Speaker 6: middle schoolers and arising a fourth grader, third grader are
Speaker 6: about to be fourth grader who is going on forty.
Speaker 6: Each of these moments really do mean so much more.
Speaker 6: It gets, you know, the importance of it gets amplified.
Speaker 6: As Jay and I were told when we were first
Speaker 6: having kids, They'd say, the days are long, but the
Speaker 6: years are short. So my charge is is, if you
Speaker 6: got kids, grandkids, neighborly kids, you the funcle, the or
Speaker 6: the I don't know if they say whatever funcal is
Speaker 6: fun uncle. I don't know what they say for aunties,
Speaker 6: but fun aunties. Spend some time, meaningful time, ask questions,
Speaker 6: be curious, and courage, and then pray for all of
Speaker 6: us who are stuck with them for seven to nine days.
Speaker 1: All right, now, well, we want to hear from our
Speaker 1: guest host, Jamel Hill on her call to action.
Speaker 5: All right, my call to action is for the w
Speaker 5: n b A and NBA leadership to get their act together.
Speaker 7: Help.
Speaker 5: You know, right now, it's in a contentious labor struggle.
Speaker 3: We don't know if the season will start on time.
Speaker 3: And granted, the negotiations seem to be moving toward a
Speaker 3: positive place. But listen, these women have sacrifice, They have
Speaker 3: done all the things. They have given this league a
Speaker 3: really good foundation.
Speaker 5: Now it's time to pay them.
Speaker 3: You know, they have a two point two billion dollar
Speaker 3: media rights deal that kicks in next season. You have
Speaker 3: multiple franchises that are valued at over three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5: The players see this, They want they money, Give them
Speaker 5: they money. It's just that simple. So my call to
Speaker 5: action is for the NBA and the WNBA leadership to
Speaker 5: actually act like leaders, and especially considering this is Women's
Speaker 5: History Month, what better signal to send than to pay
Speaker 5: these women?
Speaker 6: Pay me what you owe me, pay me.
Speaker 2: I'll yeah, all right, all right, well, welcome home y'all.
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