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Speaker 6: Everybody, Welcome home, y'all, Welcome home.

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Speaker 4: Please welcome that Paty Surrey, compressions of differences, Woman Jasmine front.

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Speaker 7: About her soul. Yeah, say what's up? Say what's up?

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Speaker 5: Y'all?

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Welcome home, y'all.

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Speaker 6: All right, So we are going to get into a

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Speaker 6: conversation that is all too familiar with so many of

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Speaker 6: us on Native Lampod. Every week we're talking politics and

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Speaker 6: culture and we are thrilled to be here.

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Speaker 3: At essence fest, y'all make some noise.

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Speaker 6: We're just so grateful to be with y'all today. Absolutely,

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Speaker 6: we're talking today about the politics of the attacks on

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Speaker 6: black women, and we are seeing it happen on every

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Speaker 6: single side. In fact, today there's someone who's missing amongst us.

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Speaker 6: We have a good friend of ours named Marilyn Mosey.

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Speaker 6: How many of you all know Marilyn Moseby, right, So

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Speaker 6: she was the Baltimore City State's Attorney. She was recently

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Speaker 6: convicted wrongfully. So there's a petition out for her pardon

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Speaker 6: right now asking President Biden to pardon Marilynd Moseby.

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Speaker 3: That is live.

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Speaker 6: If you just type in Google Marilynd Moseby Pardon, you

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Speaker 6: can sign that petition.

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Speaker 3: Why am I bringing that up right now?

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Speaker 6: She was supposed to be on this stage with Jasmine

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Speaker 6: and with Crystal and with us today, but her judge

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Speaker 6: in her case said she could not travel. So Marylynd

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Speaker 6: is sitting at home with an ankle bracelet right now,

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Speaker 6: not with us because of injustice at the Justice Department.

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Speaker 6: So we asked y'all to pray for her, but also

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Speaker 6: sign that petition. So today we're talking the politics of

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Speaker 6: the attacks on black women. And so we have two

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Speaker 6: women who have experienced that on every side, both before

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Speaker 6: you were in the halls of Congress to now and

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Speaker 6: of course Crystal, everything that you've experienced in your case.

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Speaker 6: So we want to get into that today. I just

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Speaker 6: want to open the Florida You first, Jasman, just to

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Speaker 6: say something to the audience.

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Speaker 3: So what's up, essence? Listen?

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Speaker 8: Uh, somehow they ended up with two Texans, So we'll

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Speaker 8: get into that nonsense and what all goes on in Texas.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 8: The people that run Native Land have been heroes of

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Speaker 8: mine for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: So like, please, please please clap it up for these.

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Speaker 8: Folks again, because there is a world in which they

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Speaker 8: would silence voices such as they're theirs. And so I

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Speaker 8: want to make sure that we continue to support those

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Speaker 8: our behalf. So let's make sure that we continue to

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Speaker 8: support them. But as many of you may know, I

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Speaker 8: had a little issue with a colleague here recently. Issue,

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Speaker 8: a little issue, but she learned what it is to

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Speaker 8: come for a black woman. And you know I didn't

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Speaker 8: necessary barely plan to walk into work that day and

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Speaker 8: unless us in feu come on. So no, but this

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Speaker 8: is a very important conversation because one of the things

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Speaker 8: that I learned while I ended up clapping back on

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Speaker 8: Marjorie Taylor Green in the way that I did, it

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Speaker 8: was more so about defending myself in that moment and

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Speaker 8: you cannot disrespect me.

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Speaker 3: I was duly elected.

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Speaker 8: Just like she was, and so I was there to

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Speaker 8: But more importantly, what I didn't realize is that it

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Speaker 8: and the disrespect that they are enduring. And to see

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Speaker 3: And that there is something that they can be done.

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Speaker 8: So I appreciate the fact that we're actually having constructive

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Speaker 1: I love that Congressomeman and I got to echo Angela's words,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for what you do, because you know, long

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Speaker 1: before you were elected, I was a fan of Congressom

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Speaker 1: and Jazz and Crockett because you always had a clap

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Speaker 1: I was backed and rooted in conviction in your beliefs,

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Speaker 1: and you show up when you defended yourself that day.

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Speaker 1: You were defending all of us who had to grit

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Speaker 1: our teeth in the face of some mediocre person who

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Speaker 1: our works.

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Speaker 3: So we so appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: And I want to say I want to appreciate you

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Speaker 1: all because when you all listen, you send videos.

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Speaker 3: This is a conversation.

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Speaker 1: This is we say welcome home, y'all because we want

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Speaker 1: y'all to know y'all are welcome home. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's no better way to bring Crystal into the conversation

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Speaker 1: to say welcome home to you, sister, because what you

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Speaker 1: have gone through, Crystal is abhorrence. Crystal was arrested for

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Speaker 1: casting an inconsequential ballot should be pointed out. She was

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Speaker 1: then acquitted. My attorney will help me if I say

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Speaker 1: something wrong. She was acquitted, and then a higher court

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Speaker 3: Sore, just correct me, correct me.

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Speaker 5: Just real quit the reverse, and again I echo, everyone's

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Speaker 5: welcome to your home right here. But as Tiffany was

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Speaker 5: alluding to, Crystal in your case, Crystal went, after having

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Speaker 5: previous years and counted the criminal justice system in a

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Speaker 5: she goes to try to do with many of us

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Speaker 5: she was informed that she wasn't on the voter rolls

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Speaker 5: A provisional ballot is what they give you when your

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Speaker 5: It is the right procedure to have taken. What happens

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Speaker 5: through what we call a curing process. Were they determined

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Speaker 5: that Christmas ballot could not be counted, and that's what

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Speaker 5: Tiffany meant by ultimately an inconsequential ballot, a ballot cast,

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Speaker 5: a ballot then gone through the curing process, determined it

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Speaker 5: the election. But because of the downright dirty political right

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Speaker 5: wing tricks that are happening in Texas and in Florida

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Speaker 5: and in many other states throughout the country, they decided

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Speaker 5: to want to make an example of this woman who

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Speaker 5: us to do every election cycle, which is simply to

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Speaker 5: Once she did that, the republic conservative regime, white male

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Speaker 5: decided to prosecute her for voting fraud, for casting a

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Speaker 5: didn't impact the election. They ended up winning a conviction

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Speaker 5: sentencing her to five.

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Speaker 7: Years in jail. Y'all, there are people.

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Speaker 5: Who commit homicides and don't get five years in jail,

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Speaker 5: certainly don't serve it, But for exercising your democratic right

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Speaker 5: ended up having to give five years.

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Speaker 7: She went through the adjudicatory process.

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Speaker 5: To have it appealed, and on appeal a higher level

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Speaker 5: court in Texas decided that one very key element that

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Speaker 5: even if she did, the vote was never even though

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Speaker 5: So the court said, no, we got to vacate, get

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Speaker 7: That's right, six years, six years, six years of this process.

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Speaker 5: This woman's gone through and endures six years, six years

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Speaker 3: Andrew, let it hurts, how it is part?

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Speaker 7: Do y'all know what happened next?

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Speaker 9: Twenty eight days later, the DA failed to the higher

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Speaker 9: courts again criminal courts of appeal to reverse my acquittal.

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Speaker 7: So if you didn't hear that, I'm gonna say it louder.

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Speaker 5: Twenty eight days after the vacated sentencing, the vacated verdict,

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Speaker 5: another appeal to reverse the appellate Court's decision to reinforce

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Speaker 5: the original penalty of five years felony conviction against this woman.

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Speaker 5: That's the kind of injustice that's taking place right now.

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Speaker 7: You know how many of.

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Speaker 5: Us say, or have heard people say, if I was

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't, They wouldn't. We're in that moment right now.

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Speaker 5: That moment is right now, and so Crystal, in the

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Speaker 5: this been like for you? What how have you survived it?

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Speaker 5: And then how can we help you continue to survive

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Speaker 9: I would like for you guys to go vote. That's

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Speaker 9: exactly what we need to do in order to change

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Speaker 9: the situation I'm in.

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Speaker 3: We gotta get up and we gotta go vote.

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Speaker 9: You guys got to remember everybody that was in my

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Speaker 9: that has something to do with my situation. To judge,

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Speaker 9: the prosecutor, the DA they're all elected officials, so if

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Speaker 9: we go out and vote, we can make that difference

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Speaker 9: right there. And this has been overwhelming. I was on

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Speaker 9: something called supervised release. So when they in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 9: when they told me I was convicted of illegally voting

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Speaker 9: for filling out a provision of balot that never counted,

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Speaker 9: I had to go back to the FEDS, had to

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Speaker 9: I have to go back and do time come back out.

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Speaker 9: I lost a good job job, let me go because

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Speaker 9: they said adverse publicity, meaning I had a high profile case. Sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: so I had a high profile case, so they let

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Speaker 9: So it's been devastating, devastating to me and my family.

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Speaker 9: And six years out on a pillbon over six years

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Speaker 9: and finally getting the acquittal March of two thousand twenty four,

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Speaker 9: The organization is Crystal Mason the Fight Against Voter Suppression

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you, Crystal for your testimony, and

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Speaker 1: You have the people in this audience who are gonna

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Speaker 8: So what's so interesting and that part of my story

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Speaker 9: They offered me ten years at first, ten years, uh

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Speaker 9: ten years time. Then they turned around and that offered

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Speaker 9: me ten years deferred judicaate, Like, hey, take something, No,

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Speaker 9: and I went to trial. And when I went to trial,

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Speaker 9: and a lot of people don't notice me becoming while

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Speaker 9: I was in the federal system, I became a s

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Speaker 9: certy five par legal, so a lot of people don't

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Speaker 9: know when they send it to me to five years.

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Speaker 9: I asked for an appill and anything that's none violent

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Speaker 9: and up under ten years you can s you can

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Speaker 9: get out on the up pill bond. And that's the

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Speaker 9: only red they didn't offer it. My attorney didn't offer it.

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Speaker 3: I can.

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Speaker 9: At that time, I realized that he wasn't working for me.

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Speaker 3: Wow and oh wo uh.

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Speaker 9: I asked for an a pill bond and that's the

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Speaker 9: only reason why I was out. So you gotta know.

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Speaker 9: And that's the problem. That's why we gotta have people

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Speaker 9: in the office that's for us. And I'm gonna piggyback

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Speaker 9: on Jasmin right here. When Jasmine won the congresswoman, we

461
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Speaker 9: were doing a protest. Jasmine has helped me Like it

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Speaker 9: was the winter storm and I had house people in

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Speaker 9: my event center because it was cold, so I had

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Speaker 9: people staying in my event center. Not only does she

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Speaker 9: give me funds to help me out with that, but

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Speaker 9: she told me I got you, and I remember that

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Speaker 9: when she became a congressman, she went up there and

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Speaker 9: she did exactly what she said. She was fighting to

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Speaker 9: get me free, and I really appreciate her her.

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Speaker 1: Andrew, I think you made a really good point. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for breaking down what happened with Crystal. We are

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Speaker 1: talking about the politics of the attacks on black women

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Speaker 1: because we are going through it right now. But I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to give a shout out to our brothers

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Speaker 1: because I know y'all are going through it, and I

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Speaker 1: would love to know from Andrew what keeps your fight

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Speaker 1: because when you hear what Andrew went through, and he

478
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Speaker 1: talked about it on a podcast, so you can go

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Speaker 1: back and listen if you haven't heard, but little things.

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Speaker 1: We were going through an airport together and we Angela

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Speaker 1: and I were going through clear TSA. And Andrew said,

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Speaker 1: oh no, they took that from me. They took this man,

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Speaker 1: an innocent person. He's convicted of nothing, broke no law,

484
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Speaker 1: committed no crime, and they took this man's TSA, passport,

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Speaker 1: everything and tried to destroy him at every possible level.

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Speaker 1: And he stands with us, and now his biggest quarrel

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Speaker 1: is with me and Angela so I wonder what keeps

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Speaker 1: you going, Andrew, And that.

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Speaker 5: Is no small affair if you listen to the show

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Speaker 5: trying to compete with these two.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate the question of Angela and I.

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Speaker 3: You know that's Tiffany, sir.

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Speaker 5: I was deliberately confusing the two of you to get

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Speaker 5: a reaction from you. You one, but in seriousness, you know,

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Speaker 5: I was tearing up with you, Crystal, because still parts

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Speaker 5: of when I hear other people's experience with the criminal

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Speaker 5: justice system feels really traumatic to me. And I didn't

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Speaker 5: spend any time in jail, but I know what it

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Speaker 5: feels like to have the United States of America against

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Speaker 5: insert name.

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Speaker 7: It was your name, it was my name at one point.

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Speaker 5: And as a person who have been elected and advocated

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Speaker 5: and fought on behalf of people, I feel like I

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Speaker 5: had a lot more courage and strength to fight for

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Speaker 5: other people than I did for myself, although I knew

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Speaker 5: I did nothing wrong.

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Speaker 7: You know how, sometimes.

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Speaker 5: Scripture tells you to believe what God says about you

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Speaker 5: and not what they say about you. He has to

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Speaker 5: give us that word because it's easy to allow the

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Speaker 5: enemies language and definition of who you are to seep in,

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Speaker 5: especially when it's repeated to you time after time after

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Speaker 5: time after time, and is reinforced in all of the

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Speaker 5: institutions and systems that they've built to put us under.

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Speaker 5: And so what makes it so special what you're doing

516
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Speaker 5: is that she didn't ask for this perch. She didn't

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Speaker 5: ask to be anybody's hero except for the children that

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Speaker 5: she was raising. It even then, like most of us,

519
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Speaker 5: you're just doing what you can do to keep up,

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Speaker 5: and you feel like you're always, even though graceful, above

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Speaker 5: the water, paddling like you've never you know, paddled before

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Speaker 5: in your life, underneath the water. And when we think

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Speaker 5: about the ways in which we should be performing, when

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Speaker 5: we see injustices, you're living it. You're breathing it because

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Speaker 5: it showed up for you. But when we asked her

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Speaker 5: what we could do for her, she didn't say, send

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Speaker 5: me nothing. She didn't say right to judge right up,

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Speaker 5: ed right, it is, go lay down in front of

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Speaker 5: the building and take out the prosecutor.

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Speaker 7: She said, voe.

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Speaker 5: Because that's what they're most afraid, that's what they're terrified of.

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Speaker 5: That's what they're fearful of. They are terrified that y'all

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Speaker 5: are gonna wake up and realize that you have the power.

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Speaker 5: So their job is to convince us, to confuse us,

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Speaker 5: to deter us, to make us feel like we don't know,

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Speaker 5: and that were too weak, and that the process too

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Speaker 5: difficult for us regular people to understand, so that we

538
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Speaker 5: then disempower ourselves so that we check out because it's

539
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Speaker 5: too hard. Jasmine didn't check out, Crystal didn't check out.

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Speaker 5: I'm not checking out, and either is Angela or Tiffany.

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Speaker 5: I got it right, because what I know for sure

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Speaker 5: is that while your name may be on those legal papers,

543
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Speaker 5: she is simply a harbinger, an example, a shot over

544
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Speaker 5: the bow. It is meant to drag her and the

545
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Speaker 5: rest of us through so much trash and garbage that

546
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Speaker 5: you make the decision that you never want to be

547
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Speaker 5: drug through that same trash and garbage.

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Speaker 7: So guess so maybe I don't vote.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I got a problem because I got a ticket

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Speaker 5: the other day, and I don't want a ticket to

551
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Speaker 5: be confused with a felony or conviction. And what anything

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Speaker 5: they can do to keep us out and to keep

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Speaker 5: us from knowing what God gave us equality, superiority, morality,

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Speaker 5: and thinking and performance and action and everything.

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Speaker 7: We're too good to be taken out.

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Speaker 5: And that's how you survive four hundred years of degradation, tyranny, subjugation,

557
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Speaker 5: and slavery when you.

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Speaker 7: Know, not know, but when you know.

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Speaker 5: Not because the sun, because the Son of God has

560
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Speaker 5: already told us that it's promised.

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Speaker 7: That's it. That's how I got over.

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Speaker 5: Now I know that that's how you're getting over because

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Speaker 5: I'm listening to your life experience.

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Speaker 7: Y'all.

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Speaker 5: She asked to be a hero, and that means neither

566
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Speaker 5: did the rest of us. But we have to stand

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Speaker 5: in the gap as if we were.

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Speaker 6: Andrew, I love this, and part of it is because

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Speaker 6: you know, one the doors of the church are now open.

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Speaker 3: We have these moments on the podcast. Yes, we take them.

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Speaker 6: Some colections too on that point, though, all jokes aside.

572
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Speaker 6: There are some things that we need to do agenda

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Speaker 6: wise as we prepare for this election. There are a

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Speaker 6: lot of folks who aren't excited about voting. You live

575
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Speaker 6: with some of them, you are neighbors with some of them,

576
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Speaker 6: you follow some of them on social media. They're not

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Speaker 6: excited about the options, and so we've got to give

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Speaker 6: folks things to be excited about. We have to get

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Speaker 6: an agenda across the finish line, and we have to

580
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Speaker 6: do that by advocating what's in our best interests.

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Speaker 3: Right. I think one of the.

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Speaker 6: Things that I'm really struggling with right now is that

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Speaker 6: Marilynd was the latest example. But she's not going to

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Speaker 6: be the last example. Marilynd Moseby. There are other people

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Speaker 6: who the Department of Justice is going after. This Department

586
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Speaker 6: of Justice didn't do a review of the cases that

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Speaker 6: Donald Trump took on to go after his political enemies.

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Speaker 3: I would rather be.

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Speaker 6: Challenging this Department of Justice to get it right than

590
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Speaker 6: to be trying to figure out a bail fund and

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Speaker 6: a legal defense fund for Jasmine just because she set

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Speaker 6: up for what was right for us in a committee

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Speaker 6: hearing or on the House floor. And that is very

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Speaker 6: well where we could be with Project twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 6: So I would love for you all to start talking

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Speaker 6: about costs to action for this audience. What can folks

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Speaker 6: do at home? How many of y'all are voting in November.

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Speaker 6: How many of y'all got family members who are saying

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Speaker 6: they're not gonna vote in November? Some of us, somebody

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Speaker 6: said I'll fight them because them hands didn't go up.

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Speaker 6: Y'all were like, I wish they would. I love that.

602
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Speaker 6: But we know that we're hearing it too much. How

603
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 6: many of us are hearing it too much? That folks

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Speaker 6: don't want to vote? Right, So y'all, what should we

605
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Speaker 6: be doing?

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Speaker 3: Chris? So we got our marching orders from.

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Speaker 6: You, but there are some other things that we need

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Speaker 6: to be doing.

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Speaker 3: Vote And what.

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Speaker 1: Call to action would be whatever you can do in

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Speaker 1: this case, I would say Crystal's case. If you can

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Speaker 1: contribute five dollars, ten dollars, whatever you have, and I

613
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Speaker 1: know the wealth gap doesn't give a lot of us

614
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Speaker 1: disposable income, but whatever you have, contribute to this fund

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Speaker 1: or whatever voting advocacy in your community.

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Speaker 3: If you don't have any disposable.

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Speaker 1: Income, which I understand testimony and shout out to anybody

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Speaker 1: who doesn't, you can canvas, you can show up, You

619
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Speaker 1: can knock on doors. You can make sure your neighbors

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Speaker 1: are registered to vote. You can volunteer to drive them

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Speaker 1: to vote. And Angela always deflects when I say this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say this today. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: will come and say, I want to do what you

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Speaker 1: all do, or they come into Angela say I want

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Speaker 1: to be like you. I want y'all to know nobody

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Speaker 1: on this stage set out to be famous. Nobody on

627
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Speaker 1: this stage set out to walk a carpet. That was

628
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Speaker 1: never the goal. We were always trying to build community,

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Speaker 1: not brands. And so when I call Angela the chief

630
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Speaker 1: of staff of the Blacks, because when y'all call, she answers,

631
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Speaker 1: she fights, She works hard, and it gets exhausting doing

632
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Speaker 1: that alone. So if y'all can help us in this fight,

633
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Speaker 1: if everybody does a little, no one person has to

634
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Speaker 1: do a lot. So whatever call to action you can

635
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Speaker 1: do at the state, federal, or local level to help

636
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Speaker 1: make sure they rather see this country burn to the

637
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Speaker 1: ground before they see somebody who looks like us run it,

638
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Speaker 1: Please get involved in whatever way, door knocking, cash, phone banking,

639
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Speaker 1: whatever you can do.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna just I was gonna her say, my colleague

641
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Speaker 9: action would be piggybacking on Cabinson going out there actually

642
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Speaker 9: knocking on doors and talking to people. I have walked

643
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Speaker 9: in barber's shops, I've walked up to people in parts

644
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Speaker 9: and just held a conversation with them and just find

645
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Speaker 9: out if they're registered. If not, and if y'all have

646
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Speaker 9: the tools or know where to get registered. You know, guys,

647
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Speaker 9: that's the ones we need. The ones that's not registered,

648
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Speaker 9: we need to get them registered because we are. Everybody

649
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Speaker 9: already raise their hands, so we know you're going so

650
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Speaker 9: that you need to commit to least getting two people

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Speaker 9: registered to vote and get them out there, and that's

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Speaker 9: gonna make the difference for us.

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Speaker 8: Now, I'm just gonna say, I know we're doing a

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Speaker 8: call to action, but I cannot skip over Andrew and

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Speaker 8: what you said. And I don't know how many of

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Speaker 8: you were thinking along the same lines as I was

657
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Speaker 8: when Tiffany talked about the disenfranchisement that he has suffered

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Speaker 8: with no conviction. Now, for those that believe that Donald

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Speaker 8: Trump is like us, Kendrick Lamar got a song for you,

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Speaker 8: they not like us, because here's the reality. You have

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Speaker 8: people that are considering voting for Donald Trump to be

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Speaker 8: president of the United States and he has thirty four

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Speaker 8: felony convictions. If Andrew has been disenfranchised without a conviction,

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Speaker 8: you imagine how limiting it is for a president of

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Speaker 8: the United States, who is arguably the leader of the

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Speaker 8: free world. To have thirty four convictions. Do y'all understand

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Speaker 8: their's countries? He can't even go into with convictions. You

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Speaker 8: tell me how effective he is going to be for

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Speaker 8: us if he can't lead this world, because that's what

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Speaker 8: the president of the United States does. That's number one.

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Speaker 8: Number Two, no one would dare to treat him the

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Speaker 8: way that Andrew was treated. I have never for those

673
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Speaker 8: of you that don't know, I practiced criminal law and

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Speaker 8: civil rights law before I went into politics. I have

675
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Speaker 8: never had a client that was out pretrial when over

676
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Speaker 8: eighty something counts of felonies. They were sitting behind bars

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Speaker 8: waiting on their day. Okay, I guess y'all ain't got

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Speaker 8: no cousins. I do, and I'm telling you the reality.

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Speaker 8: So I want you to understand that. Honestly, Donald, if

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Speaker 8: he cared to say that he was really going to

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Speaker 8: talk to black folk about something that has disproportionately impacted us,

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Speaker 8: such as criminal justice, because now he understands. Because now

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Speaker 8: he doesn't he still don't understand because he hasn't seen

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Speaker 8: what we have had to live through. Number one, But

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Speaker 8: if he was smart, he would actually have an agenda

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Speaker 8: as it relates to criminal justice, reform.

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Speaker 3: But in that debate, the debate that everybody talking about.

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Speaker 8: Last I checked, he didn't talk about criminal justice reform,

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Speaker 8: and supposedly the number one thing that it's polling right

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Speaker 8: now about what people care about is the economy.

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Speaker 3: He ain't talk about that either.

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Speaker 7: Black jobs though, job.

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Speaker 8: Wait what he did talk about the black jobs we

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Speaker 8: do it our black jobs here, didn't talk about that.

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Speaker 3: We are doing our black job. Actually, our black job

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Speaker 3: in November is to vote. Hello, Hello, That is our

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Speaker 3: black job. I think that's the podcast episode name now.

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Speaker 3: I think we just changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but back

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Speaker 3: to the cause of action. Sorry, my bad. I just

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Speaker 3: I couldn't leave that there. You should. You should make

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Speaker 3: that your next T shirt.

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Speaker 5: Sis.

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Speaker 3: Your black job is to vote it to vote, y'all

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Speaker 3: would buy that.

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Speaker 7: T shirt you said something?

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Speaker 3: Now, all right, you don't even need to give me

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Speaker 3: no money on it.

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Speaker 8: That's because you know it's I'm going to donations because

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Speaker 8: I gotta sit to my good man.

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Speaker 3: My god man ain't come. That's the only probably try

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Speaker 3: to charge you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah they will, Yeah, they would try to charge me,

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Speaker 8: you know anyway. They do all kinds of stuff. I

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Speaker 8: can't do it. I ain't Clarence Thomons.

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Speaker 3: But nevertheless, oh y'all caught that we not like us either.

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Speaker 3: He not like he not like us.

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Speaker 6: I'll see walk on that one, and that's not that

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Speaker 6: for Clarence. Carry on, carry on.

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Speaker 8: So cause to action number one, there are spaces that

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Speaker 8: we just cannot infiltrate. Right now, all of the data

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Speaker 8: shows that not Let me just ask, y'all, how many

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Speaker 8: of y'all have a group chat, whether it's your your line, sister,

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Speaker 8: group chat, your whatever it is. We all have these

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Speaker 8: group chats and they are safe spaces, your family group chat.

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Speaker 3: Those are places that we can't infiltrate.

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Speaker 8: And honestly, you are a lot more influential than any

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Speaker 8: politician will ever be. I can talk until I'm blue

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Speaker 8: in the face, and people are still going to say

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Speaker 8: that I have an agenda. I do have an agenda,

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Speaker 8: and my agenda is y'all, But nevertheless, somebody is going

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Speaker 8: to believe that I have something else going on.

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Speaker 3: So I need you to tell your stories. One of

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Speaker 3: the things that I do.

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Speaker 8: I was able to talk to Omegasi Fi as well

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Speaker 8: as Delta Sigma Theta, and both of them are organizations

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Speaker 8: where you've got to go to college. The numbers show

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Speaker 8: that if you go to college, chances are if you black,

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Speaker 8: you had to take you'll student loans. Anybody in here

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Speaker 8: ever had a student loan? Okay, So one of the

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Speaker 8: other things that I asked is I ask in those

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Speaker 8: rooms how many of you have had your student loans

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Speaker 8: relieved under this administration?

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Speaker 3: Is there anyone in this room? Thank you? I got

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Speaker 3: some Can you guys stand up? I think this even

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Speaker 3: have this on the podcast? Wow? Wow, all right, wow,

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Speaker 3: Well let me tell y'all something.

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Speaker 8: Let me tell y'all some y'all know why I can

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Speaker 8: ask that room or ask that question in a room

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Speaker 8: full of black college educated people is because I know

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Speaker 8: my team.

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Speaker 3: I know the numbers.

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Speaker 8: There has been one hundred and fifty seven billion dollars

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Speaker 8: worth of student loan debts that have been relieved, and

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Speaker 8: people complain. No, that's a that's a clapping moment for real,

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Speaker 8: because while some people talking about a twelve hundred dollars

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Speaker 8: stimulus chick, some of y'all haven't got six figures.

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Speaker 3: Off your back. So so if you're okay, so hey, yah,

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Speaker 3: your number? What's your number? Some a hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy eight. I I have to stand

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Speaker 3: up now.

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Speaker 6: I want to hear her number.

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Speaker 3: Her what's your number?

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Speaker 5: Dollar?

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Speaker 3: What's your number? What does she junior?

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Speaker 9: Oprah?

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Speaker 6: I came here.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred hundred, two hundred thousand, one.

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Speaker 3: Seventy wow seven, oh wow?

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Speaker 4: This good?

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Speaker 10: Okay, seventy thousand, she said, seventy.

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Speaker 3: Now, let me tell y'all something.

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Speaker 8: I'm still in my feelings, so I don't want y'all

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Speaker 8: to keep throwing these numbers out because my student long

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Speaker 8: dad ain't that high and it ain't been relieved.

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Speaker 3: Lis'sen here. But but but but here's the deal.

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Speaker 8: Like in all seriousness, one thing we don't like to

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Speaker 8: do is black folks talk about money. But if people

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Speaker 8: can sit up here and act as if Trump gave

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Speaker 8: them a stimulus check, which I want to correct the record, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Need to holler at Auntie Nancy.

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Speaker 8: Auntie Nancy Nancy Pelosi, who was the Speaker of the

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Speaker 8: House was the one that originated the bill, and it

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Speaker 8: got through the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate, and all

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Speaker 8: this fool did was slowed down the checks because he

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Speaker 8: wanted to put his name on them. That's number one,

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Speaker 8: that's Number Two, it was more than one stimulus check.

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Speaker 3: There were a total of three.

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Speaker 8: The other two were signed by none other than President

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Speaker 8: Joe Biden. So if you want to say that you're

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Speaker 8: happy about stimulus checks that ain't coming back, let me

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Speaker 8: put that out there too.

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Speaker 3: Number One, you need to think a Democrat.

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Speaker 8: Number Two, if people can get up and talk about

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Speaker 8: how they got a twelve hundred dollars check and they

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Speaker 8: came from Donald Trump, every single one of y'all that

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Speaker 8: had one hundred and seventy thousand and two seventy two point.

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Speaker 3: Fifty whatever it is. If it's five dollars, I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: need y'all to.

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Speaker 8: Go tell somebody because when people are talking about this

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Speaker 8: administration has not worked for black folk as I can

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Speaker 8: see it, they are working for black folk, now, let

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Speaker 8: me tell you. And the reason that this matters, because

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Speaker 8: we are at the Global Economic Black Economic Forum, is

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Speaker 8: because this is.

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Speaker 3: How we build wealth. I know, the costs are still high.

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Speaker 8: This is why you need to make sure that the

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Speaker 8: Democrats are running the House, the Senate, and the White House,

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00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,959
Speaker 8: because we get it. I know, y'all get mad because

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Speaker 8: they get out there and they say things like the

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Speaker 8: economy is great.

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Speaker 3: It's great. It's great. I get it. I get it,

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Speaker 3: I get it, I get it. I get it.

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Speaker 8: They talk in numbers, but I understand housing costs are

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Speaker 8: still high. I know that the interest rates are still high.

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Speaker 8: We don't set those, the President don't set those. But

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Speaker 8: we have a plan. It's a plan that includes a stimulus.

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Speaker 8: It's also a plan to be more aggressive on these

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Speaker 8: suit loan desks because we know that black folk have

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Speaker 8: been disproportionately impacted. This means that you can get the

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Speaker 8: home ownership you need to build that generational wealth. So

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Speaker 8: while somebody want to talk to you about twelve hundred dollars,

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna need to I'm gonna need y'all to talk

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Speaker 8: to them about some real dollars that have changed y'all's lives.

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Speaker 8: And while that food may cost more, you got more

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Speaker 8: money in your pocket to buy.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So here's the thing. Here's the thing now, I am.

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Speaker 6: I am very grateful for everything. Representative Jasmine Crocker just shared.

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Speaker 6: I just want y'all to know that the campaign is

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Speaker 6: finally ready to advertise on our program, and so we

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Speaker 6: could just say from this point forward, that's Joe Bideney

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Speaker 6: approved this message because that was a whole campaign ad.

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Speaker 6: So now maybe y'all we can get out of that

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Speaker 6: host read they want us to do it because JAZZMN

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Speaker 6: definitely just had a whole advertisement for them. So that

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Speaker 6: said the record that run tail that ad, I think

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Speaker 6: they are recording to ag But I also want to

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Speaker 6: just say in this close as we get ready to

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Speaker 6: close TIV Andrew Manna come back to you. It is

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Speaker 6: so important that we continue to engage with you on

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Speaker 6: our podcast.

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Speaker 3: We enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: I hope y'all know how much we enjoy doing Native

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Speaker 6: lampod and we love the NLP fam. Please make sure

844
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Speaker 6: you download and subscribe. And even more importantly, y'all, we're

845
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Speaker 6: gonna be talking some really really important issues. I need

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Speaker 6: you to pay attention to these petitions. We need to

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Speaker 6: get an appeal, and not an appeal, a pardon for

848
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Speaker 6: marylnd Moseby. We need to ensure that Crystal Mason stays free.

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Speaker 6: We need to ensure the jazz and is never prosecuted.

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Speaker 6: We need to ensure that Andrew we raise money for

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Speaker 6: Andrew's legal defense fund. He's gonna be mad that I

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Speaker 6: said it, but it's true. That was a weighty and

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Speaker 6: expensive defense. And thank god he is free. Get him

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Speaker 6: his pre check back? Who worked for TSA in here?

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna come see you. We need to get his

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Speaker 6: pre check back. All everybody working today at TSA? All right, Well,

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna find onne of y'all. But the only other

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Speaker 6: thing that I'll say to you is please make sure

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Speaker 6: that you vote, and I need you all to start

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Speaker 6: pushing an agenda where we can actually get something done.

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Speaker 6: Run up all the way until the Democratic National Convention

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Speaker 6: and make sure they understand how important it is to

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Speaker 6: hear from black folks. I know soon Black Future's Lab,

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Speaker 6: which also has a sister organization, the Black to the

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Speaker 6: Future Action Fund, will be pushing out a black economic agenda.

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Speaker 6: Please make sure you share and support that as well.

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Speaker 6: We are Native Lampod and we might have one more

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Speaker 6: clo closing call to action and action.

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Speaker 5: I just wanted to up Crystals, bring two people to

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Speaker 5: arrive with five The congress women got at it and

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Speaker 5: her comments Joe Biden, the congresswoman, Crystal, any of us,

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Speaker 5: any of your favorite celebrities, they have a less higher

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Speaker 5: influence on you voting than your own family members. It

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00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 5: is family members who have the greatest impact in turning

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Speaker 5: out voters to the polls, even though you hear all

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Speaker 5: those advertisements and so what do I mean by that?

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Speaker 5: And I'll short circuit it and arriving with five, Just

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Speaker 5: list the other five members of your family who you

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Speaker 5: question whether or not they're gonna vote. They didn't told

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Speaker 5: you they're not gonna vote, or they're not talking about

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Speaker 5: voting at all.

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Speaker 7: If they're eligible.

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Speaker 5: Legally allowed to vote in your respective states, make it

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Speaker 5: your job to arrive with five, get them there. That's

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Speaker 5: your sole purpose on election day. If all of us

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Speaker 5: did that, man this thing, well, I lost the race

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Speaker 5: for governor in the state of twenty plus million people

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Speaker 5: by point zero zero two percent. All right, so if

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Speaker 5: we all do that, that's how you want.

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Speaker 3: To she mad about it? They voted for you.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Just say real quickly, Angela. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people reach out to us and say, come to

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Speaker 1: Philly or come to Alabama.

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Speaker 3: Come here.

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Speaker 1: We love doing live shows, we love connecting with you all.

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Speaker 1: It does cost money to do, so we would love

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Speaker 1: to come everywhere y'all invite us. But when you reach out,

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Speaker 1: just know it usually has to come with a sponsor

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Speaker 1: to get us all there. We gotta stay. We have

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Speaker 1: to have a venue for folks like you, So we're

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Speaker 1: happy to be here. At essence, it's not the end

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Speaker 1: of our life tour. We look forward to more tour dates.

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Speaker 1: But I battle the budget around said. If you have

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Speaker 1: a budget, or control a budget, or know somebody who

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Speaker 1: controls a budget, I'm gonna give you all Angela Rye's

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Speaker 1: cell phone number.

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Speaker 3: Do you have your take that down? Nope, don't reach out.

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Speaker 3: We reached out. We would love to be that. I

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Speaker 3: was doing a podcast with trolls, did y'all know?

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Speaker 6: So anyway, this has been episode twenty seven of Native Lampid.

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Speaker 3: Welcome Home, y'all. There are one hundred and seventeen days

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Speaker 3: until the election. Not enough time. Thank y'all, We love you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining the Natives, attention to what the

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Speaker 2: info and all of the latest Roy Gillam and cross

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Speaker 2: connected to the statements that you leave on our socials.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice

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Speaker 2: is clear, So grateful it took to execute roles. Thank

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Speaker 2: for serve definding, protect the truth, been in case for

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Speaker 2: Welcome home to all of the Natives.

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Speaker 3: Wait, thank you, Welcome home, y'all, welcomes.

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Speaker 1: Native Lampid is a production of iHeartRadio and partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. For more podcasts from my heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen

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