WEBVTT - Flip The Tables! Oscars; Retail Blackout; A Brown Boost First 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.600 I'm talking right here. This is not loud. 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.440 No, you have to really talk into it. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.800 All right, So what about this, I'm getting it high 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.080 right there. I heard the dial. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.440 You just listened. The first time you got me asked, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:15.800 I think that was four times we asked. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.239 But then he was like, oh yeah, he sounds good. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:19.720 But then like on my side, I can see that 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:20.840 my volume is too high. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.200 On Women's History month, listen to women. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:26.640 I'm telling you my volume is too high. When you 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.800 when you listen to the recording, it's gonna be bad. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.800 It's gonna sound you don't not listen to a woman 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.680 on March third. You know we're three days in. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:37.199 Don't start already. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:39.440 I'm starting. I'm starting. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.120 I won't make you all jealous. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.400 No, it's beautiful. She looks out and use the ocean. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:52.960 You probably do too, Chris. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.560 Actually, yeah, she's not too far. I mean, I can't walk, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:58.200 but it's out there. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:03.480 It's out there. Ella, Welcome to another episode of Brown Ambition. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.679 Be a faan. How are y'all doing? 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:07.400 Wooo? 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.319 I'm doing all right. I feel like March just like 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.400 snuck up like it was it was just January and 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.759 then now all of a sudden. You know, February always 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.800 lies by because it's short, but then March is like 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.320 just here out of nowhere, and I'm. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.320 Not right, is it? Is it going to be a 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.480 stressful month for you? I love March. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.560 I just travel a lot in March because it's like 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.319 the last few weeks of like active legislative sessions and differ. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.080 So when I'm doing that work, I have to like 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.480 hurry up and squeeze in a testimony at some hearings 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:38.800 here or this. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.760 Do you get nervous? I mean, testifying in front of 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.240 mini congresses is not something that people do like once 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.120 in their life, let alone as part of their job 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:48.720 all the time. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.720 No, you know, it's funny. I actually have a video 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.320 on my phone is so embarrassing of the first testimony 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:57.520 I ever provided. It was virtual during COVID, and I 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.040 was shaking, like you can literally see me shaking. And 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.680 then at the end when I turn off my video 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.120 to record myself, I was like trying to breathe because 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.040 I was so That's how nervous I was. It was 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.200 the first time I had ever testified. I didn't know, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.280 you know, what to expect or how I was gonna 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.560 go but by now I've done it probably dozens of times, 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.760 so I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, another one of these. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.760 I can't wait till we can all vote for you. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.359 Oh no, no, we're not doing that. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:22.760 You know. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:23.160 It's funny. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.960 I always when I was growing up, I always thought like, oh, 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.200 maybe I'll do local politics, And now that I work 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.200 in local politics or like adjacent to it, man, it's 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.040 like when you see how the sausage gets made, right 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.600 is that the phrase? Yeah, you like know the inner workings, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:42.160 And it's so fin petty, like everybody is petty LaBelle. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:46.160 It's so annoying. You cannot deal with a person who's 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.600 not having ulterior motives or some other motivation or some 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.480 selfish thing or some other agenda. It's like, bro, are 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.680 we here for what we're here for? But the issue 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.480 is at hand or always some type of high school drama. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.639 This person didn't vote for my last bill, so I 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.320 don't care if I like this bill, I'm not gonna 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.160 vote for it just out of fight. And it's like 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.799 that kind of stuff is so incessant. I'm like, no, no, no, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.320 I can't be involved in this mess. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.840 Well, good to know that the lower levels are just 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.920 like the White House. I'm sorry, sorry, I'm not here 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.880 to provide any top of hope. No, we're getting some hope. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.440 The hope is that you can relate that back to 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.000 us so that we don't stop the good work that 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.280 we're doing here. And we understand and they get they 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.080 do it for like no pay too. That's why you 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.000 got to be a gajillionaire to afford to be a 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.080 congress person or a lawmaker. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.120 That is the sad truth. But at the end of 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:34.760 the day, they do have a lot of power and 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.480 it is on us to hold them accountable. Yes, you know, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.600 we vote for them. Both elections are the most important 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.640 and at the end of the day, their email addresses 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.680 and their Twitter accounts are there. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.920 She is there, she is she found the brown ambition inside. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.040 Yes, always, it's just that it's not going to be 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:51.760 mess but you know somebody. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:58.040 Else, Yes, absolutely, yeah, I mean While on a brighter note, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.160 this morning on YouTube, I did get to watch the 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.920 beginning of the Oscars. Well, I missed my girl Cynthia 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:11.160 and Ariana Grande did like the prettiest opening, I mean, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.800 the most exquisite. Have y'all watched it yet? 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.320 I missed it. I did watch the Oscars, but I 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:17.040 came in a little late. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.680 Oh man, you really did. You gotta go back and 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.039 watch it. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:20.720 Watch it. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:21.520 They killed it. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.600 I mean Cynthia of course obviously did the did her thing, 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.560 but Ariana too. I mean they just it was beautiful. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.400 I mean like the Internet ruined it. They like spoiled 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.040 it for me. By the time I watched it, I 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.200 knew what was coming. But if I had been caught 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.320 off guard and Cynthia came out singing home from the Whiz, 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.200 I would have. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.880 Been kr I was gonna say, Queen Latifa did a 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.560 great tribute to the Whiz for the Quincy Jones I heard. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.680 She did move on down the Road. I haven't watched 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.400 that yet. 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.920 That's awesome little shorts from it. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.600 I'm glad Queen still out here, just in all the categories. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:05:01.760 Yan Ellie, our girls, Zoey South. I can claim her 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.560 as my girl because you know, I'm raising Dominican boys. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.280 But her speech was so well, how did you feel? 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.000 I'm so glad that she said that, And her passion 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.760 is just so palpable, like when she's Meeks, it's so 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.360 she's fired up. It's like you can tell. It's so authentic, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.360 right and she I mean, it's been a long time 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:19.880 coming for her. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.080 She's so talented way back. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.760 But also I mean major films that a lot of 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.080 technical awards were granted for were given out for, but 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.000 never like her acting like Avatar. I mean obviously people 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.880 know from Avatar, but like this was just I mean, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.080 she put everything into it. The fact that she spoke 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.159 in Spanish and said that and made the you know, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.479 ow to her grandparents and to the immigrant struggle. I'm 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.480 so glad she said all the things that she said 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.240 because we were all so here for it. And she's, yeah, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.320 the first Dominican actress to receive an Oscar Award, and 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.600 that's true for any award of cross, like any producer 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.839 and other awards that which is sad but also just 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.000 incredible that she had that ability to go up there 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.720 and represent in that way. But yeah, it was beautiful, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.880 beautiful moment. We love her, We stand zone. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.560 She was the best thing about that movie About a 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.000 Million Birds. She carried that movie. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:14.520 Another highlight back to Wicked. Paul Tazewell, the costume designers, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.120 first black man to ever win in that and. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.400 He said it when he won his award. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:21.880 Yes, let him know. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:22.720 Let him know. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.320 Sometimes you gotta let him know because people need to 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.880 be reminded how rare we are in the building, let 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.440 alone on the stage, and the. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.279 Fact that we're trying to roll back the EI left 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.960 and right and now we're finally getting some firsts for 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.200 black people up on this stage. Right like after Latina 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.160 was like Zo, we like Paul Tasle's work, Like, why 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.120 are we just now getting these firsts and people are 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.000 still not putting two and two together that we need 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.559 these DEI programs to allow for this. We're still making 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.280 history of the first black blank. That's embarrassing. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.839 It's twenty twenty five and he did an amazing job. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.200 But the costume design and Wicked was a bubble dress 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.560 you were It felt to me it felt better than 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.960 I love the live musical. But I feel they did 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.120 a justice the world they created with that. It was 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.920 he did a great job with the cast and design. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.160 Yeah, but you noticed also like how he has just 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.360 leveled up in his career. I first found out about 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.400 his work when I watched In the Heights. It was 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.000 like two thousand and nine, eighty nine. I watched it 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:28.280 with Cordon Blue and Jordan Sparks cast I saw that phenomenal. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.280 Wait, so he did the costume design for the play? 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:30.840 Yes? 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.120 Oh, did he also do it for the film, don't. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.160 I don't know if he did it for the film. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.680 I know for sure he did Hamilton as. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.800 Well, because that would be the connection between him and 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.960 John Chu, the director of In the Heights the musical. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:41.520 Yes. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.520 Yeah, but back then I mean In the Heights and Hamilton, 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.040 and of course Wicked, I mean I and he'd obviously 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.360 whiz live. I feel like he has been just slowly 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.800 elevating to this point where it's like it was a given. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:55.680 It was just amount of time. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.360 It was nice to see it not go to like 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.400 fucking like Renaissance queens and kings, like no offense to 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:07.960 the Europeans, but like, god damn you, you're Elizabethan. Corsets 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.240 and stuff is all very impressive. But did you see 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.000 the bubble dress? I'm sorry, did you see the munchkin Land? 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.000 Like the way that every character was so unique? And 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.240 I know because I had the coloring book and I'm like, ooh, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.440 I'm gonna do yeah, I'm named literally, this is what 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.480 I do when I'm stressed sometimes the wicked. My mommy 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.880 got me this for Christmas, I'm not even ashamed, And yeah, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.560 and I'm just that was amazing. Did you guys do 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.680 boycott Friday? By the way, I did too. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:37.160 It was. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.480 A lot easier for me than I thought it was 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.320 going to be, I gotta say, because it was a Friday, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.240 and so I just feel like I wasn't necessarily like 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.760 I was able to just like enjoy my Friday. I 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.760 wasn't really online that much, which I think helped me. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.000 But if it's a start of the week, if it's 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.640 a Sunday, or if it's like a Monday, I find it. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.640 I'm ordering stuff more. I'm like like in my beginning 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.520 of the week mode, where like I'm looking ahead and 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.480 planning ahead. But like the fact it was a I 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.400 was whining down, I was not doing work. It just 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:03.880 for me. I felt like it was going to be 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.320 so difficult and it ended up being much easier. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:07.400 Yeah. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.000 I can't wait to see the quarterly results from Target, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.000 which are I was just thinking, I was like, when's 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:14.559 the quarter over? 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.080 So much we should see it is a quarter march. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.640 I want to see because they got to tell they 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.280 got to tell the shareholders. Shareholders are already suing Target 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:29.079 right because they pissed at Apple. I haven't gone to 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:34.720 Target since well since before they announced it because I 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.880 just hadn't. I just happened to not have. But it's 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:42.440 been great financially truly, and and I do think the 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.680 seductive marketing, the way the store is set up, like psychologically, 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.000 to give you these like little dopamine hits based on 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.319 like the products they sell, it really is all seductive. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.200 And to break ourselves of that that sort of like 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.199 spell that they had us under, I feel like there's 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:01.199 nothing but good from that. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.520 Target has had suburban moms in a choke hold for. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:10.760 Years listen and I and I was one, but no longer. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:12.920 I feel like I woken up at the end of 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.440 Barbie like America. Frea just came to me and gave 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.000 me a pep talk, and I'm like, you're right, I 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:23.720 hate Target. Powerful shoulders, yes, but I can't. I can't 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.480 front though, y'all. Okay, so what I happen. I did 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.720 end up at the mall on Friday. But here's what happened. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:34.560 What happened was my good friend and of all the days. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.360 But anyway, in the evening, I'm recuperating. I get an 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.600 emergency call my friend Jess. She needs a gown for 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.520 an event, Jack and Jill. Jack and Jill is an 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:47.200 iconic nonprofit that you know does all kinds of increble work. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.240 You can talk about the very blackly black but black. Okay, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.120 she's going to the gala. The dress doesn't fit. Okay, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:53.920 we need to go to Nordstrum. She wants to know 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.320 if I want to ride with her. I haven't seen 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.320 her in a while, y'all. I miss my friend Jess. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.040 So of course I say yes, let's go on the 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.640 way there. I'm like, holy what where are you taking me? 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.320 We're not supposed to be doing this. She's like, yeah, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.240 I know, but the event is tomorrow. I gotta go. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.680 But I was like, well, I'm not spending any money. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.120 But I went with her and watched her. And technically 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.960 she didn't spend money either, because she just exchanged she 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.040 had already bought. It was just a little even exchange. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.880 But wouldn't you know, the checkout girl recognized me. She's like, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:26.199 are you on Instagram? Money? 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:29.040 No? 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.480 No no no no no no no no no no 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.360 no no no. I carry a pocket NDA. Don't you 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.640 know that? So I was like, you need to sign 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.920 this or I'm just kidding. It's just a little like, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.160 you know, a little electronic signature right here, Thank you very. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.440 Much, put her phone and recorded no, no. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.520 No, no no. She was so sweet, but she yeah, she 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.720 was so sweet. I was like, please, don't tell anybody else. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.280 But I didn't spend any money. I did not, but 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.240 it was yeah, so that was my. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.320 Nobody really spent any money. I would just run in 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.520 an errand. And it happened to the mall, Okay, you 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:03.840 know what. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.920 I support this and all the staff are women of color, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.280 as we typically do hold up the companies that are 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.839 run by a billionaire white guys. So and they were 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.080 so sweet. It was actually kind of fun being at 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.840 I haven't been to the mall on a Friday night. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.280 When's the last time y'all went to the mall on 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:17.720 a Friday? 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:18.240 Period? 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.640 Was the mall period? I'm in there a long time period? 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.120 But was it like crowded? 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.040 Because I feel like everybody was assuming that because it 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.920 was black on Friday, or everybody was gonna do the 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.120 boycott and it wasn't gonna be anybody in stores. But 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.120 then there was a post being like and that doesn't 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.240 really always work out that way because the people who 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.840 actively are against this stuff double down and show up 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.520 to shop. So is that like what was the vibe 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:39.040 in person? 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:39.360 Was it? 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:39.520 Like? 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.560 What were the numbers like? 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.960 Well, at nord Stream, it was kind of popping. I 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.680 mean there was probably like a dozen people shopping, which 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.360 it was eight pm. I mean it was close to 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.800 closing time. I don't know. But it's also I think 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.760 but there were like mothers of the bride, you know, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.800 brothers of the groom. They were getting their dresses for 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.800 their springtime wedding. So I didn't have fault them. But 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.880 also it's I live in Westchester. It's not a lot 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.600 of us out here anyway. It's pretty white, honestly them all. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.839 I don't know. The people at the perfume counters. I 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.080 could tell they were all like really wanting people, like 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.560 please come buy something, you pot some pants, you want 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:16.760 some crystal, you want like a thousand dollars Chanel bag. No, no, no, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.480 thank you. But it was nice to walk around with 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.160 a friend. We did see We saw one group of 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.920 young girls, maybe like teenage girls, like four of them 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.120 in a pack kind of like hanging out and that 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:34.000 was cute. But it's just no, I didn't have friends, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:43.600 and I was called no, maybe I didn't to my 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.120 childhood trauma. Yeah, it took me right back. No, I 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:47.520 didn't have friends. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.120 Well, they want to be friends with you now. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.960 Don't think I didn't peak too soon. I made all 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.120 my friends in college. I moved a lot. It was 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.720 hard to make friends, you know. Just whatever. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.839 But if we're chatting, we should mention the sixtieth anniversary 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.880 of Ployee Sunday, which is coming up. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.800 Oh, thank you early March. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.600 And you know, I just I keep thinking it was 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.160 like maybe twenty fifteen. Yeah, twenty fifteen was the fiftieth, 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.560 twenty five sixtieth that makes sense mathematically, twenty fifteen that 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.600 picture of Obama, you know, Michelle and Barack holding hands 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.640 with John Lewis and crossing the bridge and just like 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.800 obviously Amelia Boytman was there too, and their daughter Sasha 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.880 and Melia and just like that whole line. I just 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.200 have that picture in my mind, that photo of them 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.720 holding hands crossing that bridge fifty years later, and the 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.720 fact that Miliebourne was still alive at that time. She 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.640 died later that year. 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.160 But like John Lewis too, and John Lewis too, let 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.960 me just google. Let's see if Trump is on the 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.240 Edmund Pettist Bridge at all. He ain't going nowhere near 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:59.280 see you gonna Yeah, nope, nothing, couldn't couldn't, couldn't see 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.840 it interesting. But let's we will pull up that picture 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.720 of the Obamas. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.320 So beautiful, y'all, and the fact that all of the 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.960 important people that needed to be there were there, and 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.720 it was fifty years and that, and it's just sad 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.600 now to think that just ten years later we have 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:14.960 gone backwards. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.960 It feel like in some ways. In some ways, but 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.080 I do want to call out, you know, ten years ago, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.480 what wasn't around was this news organization called the Nineteenth 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.280 which I've had Aaron Haynes, one of the they called them, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.680 says the founding mothers, the founding mother of Aaron Haynes 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.360 something on the show a couple of times. I'm going 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.880 to post the link to this article that I just 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.120 thought was beautiful, a beautiful way to honor the women 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.120 behind the movement as well. So the Nineteenth News dot 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.200 org is where you can find it. They have an 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.800 article called flowers for the unsung Black women of Bloody Sunday, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.640 black women fed, protected, and housed the activists who traveled 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.320 to Selma, Alabama in March nineteen sixty five to demonstrate 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.720 for voting rights. Here are their stories. And that was 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.920 written by threejournalist Alexis Frey, Eden Turner, Sabrine Da Wood 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.400 Da Wood. Sorry mispronounce that And this article just came 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.880 out when we're recording this show. But it's it's a 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.800 beautiful It reminds me like why I got into journalism 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.120 is to tell stories like this and some of the 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.760 archival photos they shared beautiful. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.640 It's so important, it's so important to keep telling the 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.080 history because obviously some people are fighting to not include 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.760 it at all. So we have to tell it. Eight 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.600 men that part retell it and retell it and tell 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.520 it again. Yeah, but you know the beautiful thing that 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.000 came from even though there's so much bloodshed and heartbreak 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.120 on Bloody Sunday, which was early nineteen sixty five. Later 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.200 that year, the civil rights movement had a huge win 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.120 with the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five. So 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.760 while we're here to celebrate something that obviously had a 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.800 lot of stain, and it was really hard and negative. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.160 Later in I think September August, the Secember of that 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.280 same year was the Voting Rights Tack, which probably most 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.520 people would would say it's probably the crown jewel, biggest 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.320 win of the Civil Rights Act, of the Civil rights 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.960 like era, but really fighting for everybody to be able 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.080 to get in particular every black person in America to 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.239 be able to get egal rights to vote. But you know, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.439 I don't mean to be a Debbie downer, but just 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:15.960 thinking about a couple of years ago when I first 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.720 started doing this legislative work with financial literacy being in schools, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.440 there were like three hundred different bills, if not more, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.920 that we're trying to introduce, like rollbacks, like pulling back 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.720 like basically not allowing people to register early, not allowing 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.280 people to vote, to do voter registration on the day of, 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.520 taking away like the fact that if you have if 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.560 you don't have a photo ID, then you can't vote, 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.399 Like just all kinds of shady shit that it's like, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.840 this is literally what the Voting Rights Act was. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.679 History rhymes, history rhymes truly, My. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.320 Goodness, it's so frustrating to see so that when I 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.720 say like, oh, we're it feels like oftentimes like we're 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.720 moving backwards. Like not to be negative, but it's just 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.920 so frustrating that the not just fight the good fight, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.040 get a big win, but then keep fighting, keep fighting 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.720 that same fight while fighting new fights. It's like rock 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.199 come on. It's so frustrating, especially with legislative wins like that. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.000 You would think, Okay, that's the law, that's it, but 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:12.680 amending it. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.919 Ro v Wade sounded like it was forever as a 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.119 little girl growing up, and I do not little girl. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.240 I didn't really think about it then, but yeah, like 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.440 you think those kinds of things are just etched and stone. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.960 I actually find it very I find it very and 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.400 and you can. It's not about not being negative too. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.320