WEBVTT - Our Black Job is to Vote 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Native Lampod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:04.200 Recent Choice Media. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.639 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome home to the Native Landing 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.800 on the podcast based that's a for greatness. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:13.720 Sixty minutes. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.000 It's so hit, not too long for the great ship, 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.800 high level combo politics in a way that you could 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.560 taste it then digest it. Politics touches you even if 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.720 you don't touch it. So get invested across the t's 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.440 and doctor I's kill them back to get them staying 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.159 on business with Rie. You could have been anywhere, but 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.040 you chose us Native lad Podcast for brand that you 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:34.919 can trust us. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.840 Wait, Welcome to the city, your host. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:40.560 Pod. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:47.120 Everybody, Welcome home, y'all, Welcome home. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:01:20.200 Please welcome that Paty Surrey, compressions of differences, Woman Jasmine front. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:16.520 About her soul. Yeah, say what's up? Say what's up? 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:16.880 Y'all? 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.480 Hey, everybody, welcome home, y'all. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.560 Welcome home, y'all. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:26.520 All right, So we are going to get into a 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.040 conversation that is all too familiar with so many of 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:34.000 us on Native Lampod. Every week we're talking politics and 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.520 culture and we are thrilled to be here. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.319 At essence fest, y'all make some noise. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.160 We're just so grateful to be with y'all today. Absolutely, 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.400 we're talking today about the politics of the attacks on 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.960 black women, and we are seeing it happen on every 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:56.040 single side. In fact, today there's someone who's missing amongst us. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.920 We have a good friend of ours named Marilyn Mosey. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.760 How many of you all know Marilyn Moseby, right, So 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.000 she was the Baltimore City State's Attorney. She was recently 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:12.200 convicted wrongfully. So there's a petition out for her pardon 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.440 right now asking President Biden to pardon Marilynd Moseby. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:16.760 That is live. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.520 If you just type in Google Marilynd Moseby Pardon, you 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:21.560 can sign that petition. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.200 Why am I bringing that up right now? 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.440 She was supposed to be on this stage with Jasmine 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.440 and with Crystal and with us today, but her judge 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.519 in her case said she could not travel. So Marylynd 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.280 is sitting at home with an ankle bracelet right now, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.919 not with us because of injustice at the Justice Department. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.200 So we asked y'all to pray for her, but also 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.920 sign that petition. So today we're talking the politics of 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.840 the attacks on black women. And so we have two 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.680 women who have experienced that on every side, both before 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.160 you were in the halls of Congress to now and 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.120 of course Crystal, everything that you've experienced in your case. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.200 So we want to get into that today. I just 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.320 want to open the Florida You first, Jasman, just to 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.600 say something to the audience. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.560 So what's up, essence? Listen? 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.880 Uh, somehow they ended up with two Texans, So we'll 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.919 get into that nonsense and what all goes on in Texas. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.080 But you know, I'm happy to be here. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.840 The people that run Native Land have been heroes of 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.440 mine for a very long time. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.000 So like, please, please please clap it up for these. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:31.560 Folks again, because there is a world in which they 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.120 would silence voices such as they're theirs. And so I 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.760 want to make sure that we continue to support those 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.560 that are going to tell our very real stories on 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.160 our behalf. So let's make sure that we continue to 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.960 support them. But as many of you may know, I 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:51.280 had a little issue with a colleague here recently. Issue, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.360 a little issue, but she learned what it is to 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:59.520 come for a black woman. And you know I didn't 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.200 necessary barely plan to walk into work that day and 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.480 have those kind of issues, but don't come for me 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.760 unless us in feu come on. So no, but this 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.920 is a very important conversation because one of the things 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.600 that I learned while I ended up clapping back on 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.640 Marjorie Taylor Green in the way that I did, it 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.520 was more so about defending myself in that moment and 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.680 making sure that she learned and everybody else looking that 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.159 you cannot disrespect me. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.239 I was duly elected. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.279 Just like she was, and so I was there to 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.680 serve and work on behalf of the people that elected me. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.200 But more importantly, what I didn't realize is that it 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.799 would open this conversation about the struggle that so many 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.920 women of color have at work and in their workplace 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.880 and the disrespect that they are enduring. And to see 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.480 me sit in my authentic self empowered made them feel 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.720 as if there is a real conversation to be had. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.800 And that there is something that they can be done. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.440 So I appreciate the fact that we're actually having constructive 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.800 conversations around what does it look like to exist in 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.719 your workspace and not be disrespected. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.880 I love that Congressomeman and I got to echo Angela's words, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.200 Thank you for what you do, because you know, long 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.520 before you were elected, I was a fan of Congressom 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.200 and Jazz and Crockett because you always had a clap 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.320 back ready to go. But what I love is that 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.640 I was backed and rooted in conviction in your beliefs, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.599 and you show up when you defended yourself that day. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.560 You were defending all of us who had to grit 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.039 our teeth in the face of some mediocre person who 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.839 don't look like us, who has the semerity to question 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:35.520 our works. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.200 So we so appreciate you. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.880 And I want to say I want to appreciate you 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.360 all because when you all listen, you send videos. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:44.440 This is a conversation. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.520 This is we say welcome home, y'all because we want 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.440 y'all to know y'all are welcome home. And I think 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.560 it's no better way to bring Crystal into the conversation 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.960 to say welcome home to you, sister, because what you 0:05:55.000 --> 0:06:01.400 have gone through, Crystal is abhorrence. Crystal was arrested for 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:06.000 casting an inconsequential ballot should be pointed out. She was 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.719 then acquitted. My attorney will help me if I say 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.919 something wrong. She was acquitted, and then a higher court 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.240 overturned that acquittal. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.520 Sore, just correct me, correct me. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.880 Just real quit the reverse, and again I echo, everyone's 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:24.080 welcome to your home right here. But as Tiffany was 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:29.360 alluding to, Crystal in your case, Crystal went, after having 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.599 previous years and counted the criminal justice system in a 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.920 federal way, and having caught a felony many years later, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.599 she goes to try to do with many of us 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.240 are asked to do, and that you do in some 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.440 ways without even thinking it's just a motor skill. She 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.479 went to cast her vote in any election to have 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.200 her voice counted, and when she got there to vote, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.920 she was informed that she wasn't on the voter rolls 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.520 and therefore needed to cast what is called a provisional ballot. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.120 A provisional ballot is what they give you when your 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.479 name doesn't show up, which means there may be a 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.200 question about whether or not your vote can be ultimately counted. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.600 It is the right procedure to have taken. What happens 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.840 after the election polls close is those ballots then go 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.080 through what we call a curing process. Were they determined 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.120 can it be counted or can't it? What was determined 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.640 that Christmas ballot could not be counted, and that's what 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.600 Tiffany meant by ultimately an inconsequential ballot, a ballot cast, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.880 a ballot then gone through the curing process, determined it 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.360 couldn't be cured and therefore it had no impact on 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.800 the election. But because of the downright dirty political right 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.000 wing tricks that are happening in Texas and in Florida 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.680 and in many other states throughout the country, they decided 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.360 to want to make an example of this woman who 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.200 was only doing what we asked her and you and 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.680 us to do every election cycle, which is simply to 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.200 show up and have your voice heard, your vote counted. Well. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.800 Once she did that, the republic conservative regime, white male 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.320 largely led, decided that they were going to make an example, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.400 decided to prosecute her for voting fraud, for casting a 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.440 vote on a ballot that didn't get cured, wasn't counted, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.680 didn't impact the election. They ended up winning a conviction 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.360 sentencing her to five. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.920 Years in jail. Y'all, there are people. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.160 Who commit homicides and don't get five years in jail, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.480 certainly don't serve it, But for exercising your democratic right 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.320 ended up having to give five years. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.160 She went through the adjudicatory process. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.320 To have it appealed, and on appeal a higher level 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.800 court in Texas decided that one very key element that 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.640 existed that didn't exist in her case was you have 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.800 to knowingly go out and break the law. Chris ll 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.360 didn't realize that she was not eligible to vote, and 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.360 even if she did, the vote was never even though 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.680 cast was never counted, so it never impacted the election. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.000 So the court said, no, we got to vacate, get 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.760 rid of that earlier conviction and she should be set 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.840 for And y'all, as we say. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:08.040 That's right, six years, six years, six years of this process. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.800 This woman's gone through and endures six years, six years 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:16.160 of persecution. Well, she gets the appellate court to acide 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:17.959 with her on the side of right. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:19.360 Andrew, let it hurts, how it is part? 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.800 Do y'all know what happened next? 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.480 Twenty eight days later, the DA failed to the higher 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.880 courts again criminal courts of appeal to reverse my acquittal. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.160 So if you didn't hear that, I'm gonna say it louder. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.400 Twenty eight days after the vacated sentencing, the vacated verdict, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.160 the DA's office decided that they were going to file 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.880 another appeal to reverse the appellate Court's decision to reinforce 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.880 the original penalty of five years felony conviction against this woman. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.000 That's the kind of injustice that's taking place right now. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:56.080 You know how many of. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.000 Us say, or have heard people say, if I was 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.959 alive during the Civil rights movement, I would have been 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.080 I wouldn't, They wouldn't. We're in that moment right now. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.920 That moment is right now, and so Crystal, in the 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.800 spirit of that, I would love for you to tell 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.600 this audience and the rest of us and those who 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.920 will be listening to the podcast next week, what can 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.800 we do to be of help to you? What has 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.559 this been like for you? What how have you survived it? 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.080 And then how can we help you continue to survive 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.880 it as we beat back this injustice. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.560 I would like for you guys to go vote. That's 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.680 exactly what we need to do in order to change 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:32.760 the situation I'm in. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.000 We gotta get up and we gotta go vote. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.360 You guys got to remember everybody that was in my 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.600 that has something to do with my situation. To judge, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.920 the prosecutor, the DA they're all elected officials, so if 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.880 we go out and vote, we can make that difference 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.920 right there. And this has been overwhelming. I was on 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:58.400 something called supervised release. So when they in twenty eighteen, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.040 when they told me I was convicted of illegally voting 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.360 for filling out a provision of balot that never counted, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.360 I had to go back to the FEDS, had to 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.760 go back to prison and do ten months for catching 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.200 a new offense that I'm acquitted of right now, So 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.320 I have to go back and do time come back out. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.360 I lost a good job job, let me go because 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:27.680 they said adverse publicity, meaning I had a high profile case. Sir, Yeah, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.840 so I had a high profile case, so they let 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.840 me go. So I lost insurance, a job, and everything. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.120 So it's been devastating, devastating to me and my family. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:42.240 And six years out on a pillbon over six years 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.840 and finally getting the acquittal March of two thousand twenty four, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.160 and like I said, twenty eight days later, now I 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.520 don't know what's gonna go on. So I need you 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.440 guys to go vote. It look like two thousand and 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.360 twenty four it's gonna really we really need this, so 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.959 this is what I'm asking. I started organization Crystal Mason 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.720 The Fight Against Voter Suppression. I go out and share 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.520 my stories so I can let people know that if 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.120 you're ineligible in Texas, if you completed your time, you're 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.040 eligible to vote. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:12.920 You know. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.000 So I go out and share my stories and let 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.600 people know exactly who I am and what I went through. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.440 And this is why this is so important to me. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.760 Can you name the organization again and where they. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.120 Can contribute money. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.720 The organization is Crystal Mason the Fight Against Voter Suppression 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.600 and you can contribute and look up my information upon 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.800 the Crystal Mason Thefight dot org. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.040 Thank you so much, Crystal. Tiff. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.280 I know you were going to weigh in earlier, and 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.839 I think it's so important for us to have Oh hello, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:43.640 is this one okay? 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.840 Can y'all just try to keep those on consistently? 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.640 It is a live podcast recording. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.839 God bless you and your family's backstage. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:55.240 Okay, Tiff, I was saying reclaiming my time that you 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.160 were trying to say something earlier, and I wanted to 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:58.959 make sure you ate in. It's so important that we're 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.040 having these conversations is because people might watch movies and 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.840 think things like this could never happen, and they're happening 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.600 every single day, and we don't have the resources to 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.240 ensure that they're a platformed like Crystal. Crystal, your story 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.480 is so important and you will tell it over and 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.640 over again since we are so grateful for you, TI 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.440 if I know you were gonna weigh in, well. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.960 First of all, thank you, Crystal for your testimony, and 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.800 not only for your testimony, because they're trying to bleed 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.560 us by a thousand cuts, and you didn't lay down 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.480 and bleed. You were standing up and fighting. And I 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.520 want you to know you are not fighting alone. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.640 You have us. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.600 You have the people in this audience who are gonna 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.120 go out and know your case and contribute and register 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.119 the vote and register Big Mama and cousins and everybody 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.240 this upcoming election. Because while everybody else is talking about 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.240 how old one candidate is, even though they're real close 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.240 in age, were not talking about a convicted felon with 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.800 thirty four counts under his belt and accused rapist, a xenophobe, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.359 a misogynist. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.960 A project thank you somebody who's pull it. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.520 And his first job in government was as president of 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.360 the United States. Thank you, White America. We need to 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.960 be focused on what the real issue is. The other 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.760 thing I will point out, while Crystal's attack is threatening 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.839 her very life and livelihood, every last one of us 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.560 on this stage has been attacked, and every last one 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:25.440 of us has had our livelihoods threatened. When I met 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.640 the congresswoman, they were the white men who was running 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.520 the state legislature were threatening to throw her in jail 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.400 because she left to not participate in their foolishness. When 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.040 Angela spoke a truth, an honest truth that dared to 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.520 make white folks uncomfortable, they tried to silence her. When 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.080 my brother Andrew, who is so gifted politically in a way, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.680 who has covered and anointed in a way, when he 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.280 tried to make tangible change and made white folks in Florida, 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.800 which has become a safe haven for white supremacists, uncomfortable, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.040 they tried to destroy this man. When I spoke the 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.360 truth that made white folks uncomfortable, they summarily canceled my 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.240 show because they didn't honor you all the show. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.080 Who listened to it. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.720 So none of us have the ability to lay down 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.840 and die right now. So I just feel blessed to 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.400 be in the company of other fighters and the echo 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.560 Andrews point, whatever you're doing right now is what you 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.640 would have been doing during the Civil rights movement. So 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.000 when they write this chapter of American history, think about 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.240 what they will write about you and what role you 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.440 played in righting the wrongs the history is put in 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:31.400 before us right now. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.760 Jasmine, you you were Flavor Flavor Tiff in a good 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.720 way or the a man corner and when you just 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.040 were like Project twenty twenty five. And I want to 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.680 stop for a moment because Taraji many of you all 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.560 might have seen on the BT or Traji Pansen talked 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:00.680 Aboutroject twenty. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.120 Twenty five that day. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.360 The numbers on our Project twenty twenty five podcasts sore 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:07.600 people want to know about it. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.640 How many of you are familiar with Project twenty twenty 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.880 five year? Oh this is an educated audience. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.440 Well for those at home who missed the pot Ja's 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.680 been breaking down for us real quick, because there's gonna 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.600 be Moore attacks if we let that happen. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.040 Okay, yeah, I gotta go back to the full circle 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.640 part real quick. Listen. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.080 So what's so interesting and that part of my story 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.120 that most people don't know is how tied to these 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.720 two women. Specifically, my story is so Tiffany talks about 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.120 when we first met, Listen, I was fleeing my state 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.760 because even though I had been a criminal defense attorney 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.160 for well over a decade at that point, I had 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.560 been dealing in the criminal justice system for a very 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:46.000 long time. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.640 I never had a warrant out for my arrest. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.120 Not until I became an elected state representative did I 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.160 get my first warrant out for my arrest. And the 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.720 warrant was out for my arrest about voting rights because 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.360 I decided that I I was not going to sit 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.520 there and allow them to take rights that my ancestors 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.640 had fought and bled and died for away from my constituents. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.480 I felt like that was what representation looked like. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.480 And so when I decided that I was going to 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.080 leave the chamber, they decided to put a warrant out 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.560 for my arrest. But let me take it back a 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:22.320 little further, because I never wanted to be in politics, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.479 and even today I shake my head and wonder what 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.480 am I doing. But nevertheless, Crystal story touched me in 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.560 a special way, and I know it's got to be 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.000 some Deltas in the audience. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:34.280 There we go. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.760 So so we know that Delta is always about social action, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.760 and so what we do is we always show up 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:41.640 to the state houses. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.320 So I showed up to the state House. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.400 I was not elected at this time, and I testified 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.800 on a voting bill. And when I testified, I testified 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.200 about what happened to Crystal Mason and why the law 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.879 was broken, and they act like they couldn't hear me. 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.600 So I then decided I was going to show up 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.959 and make them hear me. And so that's when I 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.000 ran for office. I got elected to office, and as 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.800 a freshman, we actually convinced the Republicans in the House 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.840 to undo the mistake in that law. We actually rewrote 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.240 it on behalf of Crystal, hoping that it would. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.040 Actually help her case. We did that. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.280 Republicans actually stood with us and did that. But ultimately, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.040 as you've heard, you know, it takes a lot for 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.959 somebody to go through what she has gone through and 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.400 to decide instead of going home and crying about it, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.280 I'm gonna be on the front lines. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.800 I'm gonna make sure that there's legislative change. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.280 I'm gonna make sure that nobody silences me, and I'm 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.200 gonna make sure that I encourage other people to go 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.880 out and get these fascists out of office, because that's. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.600 What Project twenty twenty five is about. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.840 Project twenty twenty five in short, because I know we're 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.119 gonna be short on time, it's about making sure you 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.480 bow down to the Orange Jesus. Okay, some of y'all 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.879 get there when you get home. Nevertheless, that's what it's about. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.800 My mom is a federal employee. She is what you 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.320 would consider it to be a career employee. And what 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.080 they're saying is like, listen, lady, unless you are going 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.280 to say that you are going to be loyal to 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.080 the Orange one, you will not have a job. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.480 That is number one. Number two. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.800 They're saying that we ain't nothing but sinners, which we are, 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.720 I mean, you know, but nevertheless, they're saying that we 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.959 need to have a country that is based on Christian principles, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.639 and the Jesus they pray to somehow tells me is 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.840 the same Jesus that they use to justify slavery out 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.879 of the Bible. That's the Jesus that they want us 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.320 to look out for. In addition, to so many other things. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.680 They want to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.560 because they say that if you are diverse, then you 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.959 obviously are not qualified. And so right now, what is 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.080 wild is that we already see this playing out. When 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.640 they go after our reproductive access. That is a part 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.280 of Project twenty twenty five. When they decide to delete 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.119 the DEI offices, that is a part of Project twenty 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.640 twenty five. When they install judges such as Eileen Cannon 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.160 and the people that we have sitting in the Supreme Court, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:17.880 I was gonna call them something else, but I don't 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.920 know what I can say here. When they install those 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.160 people who are not following the law but instead are 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.440 deciding that they are going to bend to the will 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.159 of one man and decide that they are going to 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.919 come out with precedents that says that he can be 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.399 a king, and they are crumbling our democracy in front 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.600 of our eyes. So when Tiffany says, yeah, they both old, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:41.000 she right, they are both old. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:42.440 But there's only. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.480 One person or one ticket that cares about democracy and 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.679 is going to stand for it and respect the humanity 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.800 that sits in this room. There is another side that 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.240 is saying, you know what, them black folks that are 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.000 going down to essence, we want to get rid of that. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.000 We don't like them coming together, We don't like them 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.240 talking about the real issues. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:03.600 We don't care about the. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:08.119 Struggles that are occurring economically or educationally when it comes 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.480 to these black folk. And so while I know that 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.560 no party is perfect, and I'm telling you my party 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.960 is not perfect, there is at least one party that 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.119 is searching for a more perfect union. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:24.280 The other one is trying to tear us down. Guys man, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:37.119 how's that for a beach blinde bad bill? Y'all know? 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.480 The rest there is a whole remax bleach bind man, 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.520 y'all know. But you know the other thing that I 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.879 think is really significant that we don't always talk about it. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.120 And I think as people try to unpack the hundreds 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:52.080 of pages that is Project twenty twenty five, their organizations 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.760 get protected when they do things that are partisan and political, 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.439 like the Heritage Foundation, which is the architect of Project 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.720 twenty twenty five and this work they've been doing for years. 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.440 Tip you talk about this on the podcast all the time, Crystal, 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.679 I do want to come to you to ask you 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.919 what makes you tap into your courage after an attack. 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.439 There are a lot of people, not Jasmine and certainly 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:18.800 not Crystal sitting up here, who get attacked and recoil. Andrew, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.720 You're the opposite of that. Andrew got attacked, got acquit it, 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.480 and was like, I'm taking on the whole justice system himself. 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:25.600 So I want to know what. 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:29.800 Trait you have that you are endowed with that allows 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:31.440 you to carry on courageously. 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.479 Well, I told you guys, I did time before. So 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:40.200 just imagine being a mother and raising kids in prison. 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:44.560 That was the hardest thing I ever did. And I 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.200 promise my kids when I get out, this will never 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:53.320 happen again. So when I came back and I started 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:55.960 going through this situation in regards to the illegal voting, 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.600 I'm a provider, I'm a mother, And that's what gave 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:01.320 me to care, is to say that no, I'm not 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:05.440 gonna accept probation. No I'm not gonna accept deferredjudicate when 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.800 I know I didn't do anything wrong. So no I didn't. 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:11.360 They offered me ten years at first, ten years, uh 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.280 ten years time. Then they turned around and that offered 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:17.400 me ten years deferred judicaate, Like, hey, take something, No, 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.440 and I went to trial. And when I went to trial, 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.120 and a lot of people don't notice me becoming while 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.040 I was in the federal system, I became a s 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:28.760 certy five par legal, so a lot of people don't 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:31.359 know when they send it to me to five years. 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:36.040 I asked for an appill and anything that's none violent 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.760 and up under ten years you can s you can 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:40.359 get out on the up pill bond. And that's the 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.679 only red they didn't offer it. My attorney didn't offer it. 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:43.160 I can. 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.639 At that time, I realized that he wasn't working for me. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:48.080 Wow and oh wo uh. 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:50.159 I asked for an a pill bond and that's the 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:52.560 only reason why I was out. So you gotta know. 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.200 And that's the problem. That's why we gotta have people 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:57.960 in the office that's for us. And I'm gonna piggyback 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:02.920 on Jasmin right here. When Jasmine won the congresswoman, we 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:08.800 were doing a protest. Jasmine has helped me Like it 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:12.720 was the winter storm and I had house people in 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:15.040 my event center because it was cold, so I had 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:17.080 people staying in my event center. Not only does she 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.520 give me funds to help me out with that, but 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.960 she told me I got you, and I remember that 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.679 when she became a congressman, she went up there and 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:28.600 she did exactly what she said. She was fighting to 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:31.640 get me free, and I really appreciate her her. 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.240 Andrew, I think you made a really good point. Thank 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:42.760 you for breaking down what happened with Crystal. We are 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.879 talking about the politics of the attacks on black women 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:48.639 because we are going through it right now. But I 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:50.520 just wanted to give a shout out to our brothers 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.919 because I know y'all are going through it, and I 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:57.120 would love to know from Andrew what keeps your fight 0:24:57.160 --> 0:24:59.760 because when you hear what Andrew went through, and he 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:01.919 talked about it on a podcast, so you can go 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:05.040 back and listen if you haven't heard, but little things. 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.359 We were going through an airport together and we Angela 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.600 and I were going through clear TSA. And Andrew said, 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:15.440 oh no, they took that from me. They took this man, 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:20.160 an innocent person. He's convicted of nothing, broke no law, 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:24.520 committed no crime, and they took this man's TSA, passport, 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:28.399 everything and tried to destroy him at every possible level. 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:31.560 And he stands with us, and now his biggest quarrel 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:34.920 is with me and Angela so I wonder what keeps 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:36.399 you going, Andrew, And that. 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:38.960 Is no small affair if you listen to the show 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:40.400 trying to compete with these two. 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:42.919 Yeah, I appreciate the question of Angela and I. 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:44.320 You know that's Tiffany, sir. 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.360 I was deliberately confusing the two of you to get 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:53.560 a reaction from you. You one, but in seriousness, you know, 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:59.000 I was tearing up with you, Crystal, because still parts 0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:01.960 of when I hear other people's experience with the criminal 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:06.040 justice system feels really traumatic to me. And I didn't 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.480 spend any time in jail, but I know what it 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:14.920 feels like to have the United States of America against 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:16.240 insert name. 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.959 It was your name, it was my name at one point. 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:25.560 And as a person who have been elected and advocated 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.679 and fought on behalf of people, I feel like I 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:31.040 had a lot more courage and strength to fight for 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:35.560 other people than I did for myself, although I knew 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:36.600 I did nothing wrong. 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.040 You know how, sometimes. 0:26:41.560 --> 0:26:44.239 Scripture tells you to believe what God says about you 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:47.760 and not what they say about you. He has to 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:51.840 give us that word because it's easy to allow the 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:55.600 enemies language and definition of who you are to seep in, 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:59.280 especially when it's repeated to you time after time after 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.399 time after time, and is reinforced in all of the 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:06.520 institutions and systems that they've built to put us under. 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.879 And so what makes it so special what you're doing 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.480 is that she didn't ask for this perch. She didn't 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:19.480 ask to be anybody's hero except for the children that 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.320 she was raising. It even then, like most of us, 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:24.520 you're just doing what you can do to keep up, 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:28.439 and you feel like you're always, even though graceful, above 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:32.800 the water, paddling like you've never you know, paddled before 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:37.480 in your life, underneath the water. And when we think 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:40.600 about the ways in which we should be performing, when 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:43.879 we see injustices, you're living it. You're breathing it because 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.080 it showed up for you. But when we asked her 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:49.680 what we could do for her, she didn't say, send 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:53.560 me nothing. She didn't say right to judge right up, 0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:55.439 ed right, it is, go lay down in front of 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:56.959 the building and take out the prosecutor. 0:27:57.040 --> 0:27:57.760 She said, voe. 0:27:58.440 --> 0:28:01.439 Because that's what they're most afraid, that's what they're terrified of. 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:05.080 That's what they're fearful of. They are terrified that y'all 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:08.400 are gonna wake up and realize that you have the power. 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:12.760 So their job is to convince us, to confuse us, 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:15.399 to deter us, to make us feel like we don't know, 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:17.800 and that were too weak, and that the process too 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:22.000 difficult for us regular people to understand, so that we 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:26.280 then disempower ourselves so that we check out because it's 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:31.480 too hard. Jasmine didn't check out, Crystal didn't check out. 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:33.960 I'm not checking out, and either is Angela or Tiffany. 0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:40.280 I got it right, because what I know for sure 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:43.560 is that while your name may be on those legal papers, 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:47.760 she is simply a harbinger, an example, a shot over 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:51.240 the bow. It is meant to drag her and the 0:28:51.320 --> 0:28:54.680 rest of us through so much trash and garbage that 0:28:54.800 --> 0:28:56.920 you make the decision that you never want to be 0:28:57.000 --> 0:28:59.040 drug through that same trash and garbage. 0:28:59.080 --> 0:29:00.680 So guess so maybe I don't vote. 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:04.240 Maybe I got a problem because I got a ticket 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:05.840 the other day, and I don't want a ticket to 0:29:05.840 --> 0:29:09.520 be confused with a felony or conviction. And what anything 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:11.480 they can do to keep us out and to keep 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:17.760 us from knowing what God gave us equality, superiority, morality, 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:20.320 and thinking and performance and action and everything. 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:23.000 We're too good to be taken out. 0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:28.240 And that's how you survive four hundred years of degradation, tyranny, subjugation, 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:30.880 and slavery when you. 0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:33.360 Know, not know, but when you know. 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:37.840 Not because the sun, because the Son of God has 0:29:37.880 --> 0:29:40.080 already told us that it's promised. 0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:41.880 That's it. That's how I got over. 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:44.600 Now I know that that's how you're getting over because 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:46.280 I'm listening to your life experience. 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:46.600 Y'all. 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:48.840 She asked to be a hero, and that means neither 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:51.320 did the rest of us. But we have to stand 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:52.720 in the gap as if we were. 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:56.800 Andrew, I love this, and part of it is because 0:29:57.320 --> 0:30:00.400 you know, one the doors of the church are now open. 0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:04.400 We have these moments on the podcast. Yes, we take them. 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:08.000 Some colections too on that point, though, all jokes aside. 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:10.600 There are some things that we need to do agenda 0:30:10.640 --> 0:30:12.760 wise as we prepare for this election. There are a 0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:16.560 lot of folks who aren't excited about voting. You live 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:19.440 with some of them, you are neighbors with some of them, 0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:22.479 you follow some of them on social media. They're not 0:30:22.520 --> 0:30:25.200 excited about the options, and so we've got to give 0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:28.720 folks things to be excited about. We have to get 0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:32.120 an agenda across the finish line, and we have to 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:34.640 do that by advocating what's in our best interests. 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:36.240 Right. I think one of the. 0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:39.520 Things that I'm really struggling with right now is that 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:42.960 Marilynd was the latest example. But she's not going to 0:30:42.960 --> 0:30:46.720 be the last example. Marilynd Moseby. There are other people 0:30:47.120 --> 0:30:50.240 who the Department of Justice is going after. This Department 0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:52.400 of Justice didn't do a review of the cases that 0:30:52.480 --> 0:30:56.040 Donald Trump took on to go after his political enemies. 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:57.720 I would rather be. 0:30:57.800 --> 0:31:00.880 Challenging this Department of Justice to get it right than 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:03.200 to be trying to figure out a bail fund and 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:06.600 a legal defense fund for Jasmine just because she set 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:09.640 up for what was right for us in a committee 0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:12.040 hearing or on the House floor. And that is very 0:31:12.040 --> 0:31:15.080 well where we could be with Project twenty twenty five. 0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:17.400 So I would love for you all to start talking 0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:20.360 about costs to action for this audience. What can folks 0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:22.880 do at home? How many of y'all are voting in November. 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:27.400 How many of y'all got family members who are saying 0:31:27.400 --> 0:31:31.560 they're not gonna vote in November? Some of us, somebody 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.520 said I'll fight them because them hands didn't go up. 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:36.320 Y'all were like, I wish they would. I love that. 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:38.800 But we know that we're hearing it too much. How 0:31:38.840 --> 0:31:40.680 many of us are hearing it too much? That folks 0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:43.720 don't want to vote? Right, So y'all, what should we 0:31:43.760 --> 0:31:44.160 be doing? 0:31:44.400 --> 0:31:46.240 Chris? So we got our marching orders from. 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:47.920 You, but there are some other things that we need 0:31:47.960 --> 0:31:48.360 to be doing. 0:31:48.440 --> 0:31:49.200 Vote And what. 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:03.760 Call to action would be whatever you can do in 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:05.960 this case, I would say Crystal's case. If you can 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:08.960 contribute five dollars, ten dollars, whatever you have, and I 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:10.640 know the wealth gap doesn't give a lot of us 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:14.760 disposable income, but whatever you have, contribute to this fund 0:32:14.840 --> 0:32:17.720 or whatever voting advocacy in your community. 0:32:18.080 --> 0:32:20.400 If you don't have any disposable. 0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:23.000 Income, which I understand testimony and shout out to anybody 0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:26.440 who doesn't, you can canvas, you can show up, You 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:28.760 can knock on doors. You can make sure your neighbors 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:31.080 are registered to vote. You can volunteer to drive them 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:34.760 to vote. And Angela always deflects when I say this, 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:37.000 but I'm gonna say this today. A lot of people 0:32:37.080 --> 0:32:39.720 will come and say, I want to do what you 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:42.440 all do, or they come into Angela say I want 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:45.200 to be like you. I want y'all to know nobody 0:32:45.240 --> 0:32:48.200 on this stage set out to be famous. Nobody on 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:50.280 this stage set out to walk a carpet. That was 0:32:50.360 --> 0:32:53.280 never the goal. We were always trying to build community, 0:32:53.360 --> 0:32:56.200 not brands. And so when I call Angela the chief 0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:59.360 of staff of the Blacks, because when y'all call, she answers, 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:03.080 she fights, She works hard, and it gets exhausting doing 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:05.720 that alone. So if y'all can help us in this fight, 0:33:05.800 --> 0:33:09.160 if everybody does a little, no one person has to 0:33:09.200 --> 0:33:11.400 do a lot. So whatever call to action you can 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:14.320 do at the state, federal, or local level to help 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:16.480 make sure they rather see this country burn to the 0:33:16.480 --> 0:33:18.960 ground before they see somebody who looks like us run it, 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:24.600 Please get involved in whatever way, door knocking, cash, phone banking, 0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:25.600 whatever you can do. 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:30.400 I'm gonna just I was gonna her say, my colleague 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:34.120 action would be piggybacking on Cabinson going out there actually 0:33:34.200 --> 0:33:37.080 knocking on doors and talking to people. I have walked 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:39.920 in barber's shops, I've walked up to people in parts 0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:42.960 and just held a conversation with them and just find 0:33:42.960 --> 0:33:44.960 out if they're registered. If not, and if y'all have 0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:48.640 the tools or know where to get registered. You know, guys, 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:50.960 that's the ones we need. The ones that's not registered, 0:33:51.000 --> 0:33:53.880 we need to get them registered because we are. Everybody 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:56.160 already raise their hands, so we know you're going so 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:59.480 that you need to commit to least getting two people 0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:02.240 registered to vote and get them out there, and that's 0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:03.440 gonna make the difference for us. 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:07.720 Now, I'm just gonna say, I know we're doing a 0:34:07.760 --> 0:34:12.000 call to action, but I cannot skip over Andrew and 0:34:12.040 --> 0:34:15.759 what you said. And I don't know how many of 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:18.160 you were thinking along the same lines as I was 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:23.280 when Tiffany talked about the disenfranchisement that he has suffered 0:34:23.480 --> 0:34:28.000 with no conviction. Now, for those that believe that Donald 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:31.799 Trump is like us, Kendrick Lamar got a song for you, 0:34:34.239 --> 0:34:38.200 they not like us, because here's the reality. You have 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:42.719 people that are considering voting for Donald Trump to be 0:34:42.800 --> 0:34:45.279 president of the United States and he has thirty four 0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:52.760 felony convictions. If Andrew has been disenfranchised without a conviction, 0:34:53.640 --> 0:34:57.279 you imagine how limiting it is for a president of 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:00.360 the United States, who is arguably the leader of the 0:35:00.400 --> 0:35:04.160 free world. To have thirty four convictions. Do y'all understand 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:08.440 their's countries? He can't even go into with convictions. You 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:10.840 tell me how effective he is going to be for 0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:14.759 us if he can't lead this world, because that's what 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.640 the president of the United States does. That's number one. 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:22.279 Number Two, no one would dare to treat him the 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:25.919 way that Andrew was treated. I have never for those 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:28.279 of you that don't know, I practiced criminal law and 0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:31.239 civil rights law before I went into politics. I have 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:34.479 never had a client that was out pretrial when over 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:38.960 eighty something counts of felonies. They were sitting behind bars 0:35:39.000 --> 0:35:43.440 waiting on their day. Okay, I guess y'all ain't got 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:47.400 no cousins. I do, and I'm telling you the reality. 0:35:47.520 --> 0:35:50.600 So I want you to understand that. Honestly, Donald, if 0:35:50.640 --> 0:35:53.520 he cared to say that he was really going to 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:58.160 talk to black folk about something that has disproportionately impacted us, 0:35:58.200 --> 0:36:02.000 such as criminal justice, because now he understands. Because now 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:05.360 he doesn't he still don't understand because he hasn't seen 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:08.440 what we have had to live through. Number one, But 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:10.880 if he was smart, he would actually have an agenda 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:13.600 as it relates to criminal justice, reform. 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:16.960 But in that debate, the debate that everybody talking about. 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:20.320 Last I checked, he didn't talk about criminal justice reform, 0:36:20.760 --> 0:36:24.120 and supposedly the number one thing that it's polling right 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:26.880 now about what people care about is the economy. 0:36:27.480 --> 0:36:28.839 He ain't talk about that either. 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:30.760 Black jobs though, job. 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:32.600 Wait what he did talk about the black jobs we 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:34.719 do it our black jobs here, didn't talk about that. 0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:37.080 We are doing our black job. Actually, our black job 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:41.920 in November is to vote. Hello, Hello, That is our 0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:45.440 black job. I think that's the podcast episode name now. 0:36:45.480 --> 0:36:48.160 I think we just changed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but back 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:49.719 to the cause of action. Sorry, my bad. I just 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:51.440 I couldn't leave that there. You should. You should make 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:52.440 that your next T shirt. 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:52.640 Sis. 0:36:53.440 --> 0:36:56.560 Your black job is to vote it to vote, y'all 0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:57.120 would buy that. 0:36:57.160 --> 0:36:59.760 T shirt you said something? 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:01.560 Now, all right, you don't even need to give me 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:02.160 no money on it. 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:05.759 That's because you know it's I'm going to donations because 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:07.480 I gotta sit to my good man. 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:11.279 My god man ain't come. That's the only probably try 0:37:11.320 --> 0:37:11.800 to charge you. 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:14.480 Yeah they will, Yeah, they would try to charge me, 0:37:14.560 --> 0:37:16.360 you know anyway. They do all kinds of stuff. I 0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:17.640 can't do it. I ain't Clarence Thomons. 0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:22.479 But nevertheless, oh y'all caught that we not like us either. 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:24.560 He not like he not like us. 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:27.239 I'll see walk on that one, and that's not that 0:37:27.680 --> 0:37:29.879 for Clarence. Carry on, carry on. 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:33.680 So cause to action number one, there are spaces that 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:37.080 we just cannot infiltrate. Right now, all of the data 0:37:37.160 --> 0:37:39.920 shows that not Let me just ask, y'all, how many 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:45.560 of y'all have a group chat, whether it's your your line, sister, 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:48.480 group chat, your whatever it is. We all have these 0:37:48.480 --> 0:37:51.640 group chats and they are safe spaces, your family group chat. 0:37:52.080 --> 0:37:54.120 Those are places that we can't infiltrate. 0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:57.520 And honestly, you are a lot more influential than any 0:37:57.600 --> 0:38:01.279 politician will ever be. I can talk until I'm blue 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:03.799 in the face, and people are still going to say 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:06.200 that I have an agenda. I do have an agenda, 0:38:06.200 --> 0:38:09.680 and my agenda is y'all, But nevertheless, somebody is going 0:38:09.760 --> 0:38:12.000 to believe that I have something else going on. 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:14.520 So I need you to tell your stories. One of 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:15.480 the things that I do. 0:38:15.560 --> 0:38:17.600 I was able to talk to Omegasi Fi as well 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:22.239 as Delta Sigma Theta, and both of them are organizations 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:24.680 where you've got to go to college. The numbers show 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:28.240 that if you go to college, chances are if you black, 0:38:28.560 --> 0:38:31.440 you had to take you'll student loans. Anybody in here 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:34.719 ever had a student loan? Okay, So one of the 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:37.719 other things that I asked is I ask in those 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:40.560 rooms how many of you have had your student loans 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:42.919 relieved under this administration? 0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:45.960 Is there anyone in this room? Thank you? I got 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:50.520 some Can you guys stand up? I think this even 0:38:50.560 --> 0:38:57.440 have this on the podcast? Wow? Wow, all right, wow, 0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:58.880 Well let me tell y'all something. 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:01.560 Let me tell y'all some y'all know why I can 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:04.319 ask that room or ask that question in a room 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:07.680 full of black college educated people is because I know 0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:08.480 my team. 0:39:08.920 --> 0:39:09.840 I know the numbers. 0:39:10.760 --> 0:39:14.040 There has been one hundred and fifty seven billion dollars 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:16.920 worth of student loan debts that have been relieved, and 0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:19.879 people complain. No, that's a that's a clapping moment for real, 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:23.799 because while some people talking about a twelve hundred dollars 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:27.319 stimulus chick, some of y'all haven't got six figures. 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:32.040 Off your back. So so if you're okay, so hey, yah, 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:39.320 your number? What's your number? Some a hundred thousand dollars 0:39:39.360 --> 0:39:42.319 one hundred and seventy eight. I I have to stand 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:42.719 up now. 0:39:43.080 --> 0:39:44.120 I want to hear her number. 0:39:44.160 --> 0:39:47.359 Her what's your number? 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:48.760 Dollar? 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:52.840 What's your number? What does she junior? 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:53.240 Oprah? 0:39:53.320 --> 0:39:54.040 I came here. 0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:01.879 Two hundred hundred, two hundred thousand, one. 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:07.000 Seventy wow seven, oh wow? 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:10.600 This good? 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:20.880 Okay, seventy thousand, she said, seventy. 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:22.360 Now, let me tell y'all something. 0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:24.279 I'm still in my feelings, so I don't want y'all 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:26.080 to keep throwing these numbers out because my student long 0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:27.920 dad ain't that high and it ain't been relieved. 0:40:28.440 --> 0:40:32.719 Lis'sen here. But but but but here's the deal. 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:36.040 Like in all seriousness, one thing we don't like to 0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:38.880 do is black folks talk about money. But if people 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:41.200 can sit up here and act as if Trump gave 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:44.080 them a stimulus check, which I want to correct the record, y'all. 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:45.280 Need to holler at Auntie Nancy. 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:51.400 Auntie Nancy Nancy Pelosi, who was the Speaker of the 0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:54.680 House was the one that originated the bill, and it 0:40:54.760 --> 0:40:57.680 got through the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate, and all 0:40:57.719 --> 0:40:59.920 this fool did was slowed down the checks because he 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:02.560 wanted to put his name on them. That's number one, 0:41:02.760 --> 0:41:05.719 that's Number Two, it was more than one stimulus check. 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:07.080 There were a total of three. 0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:10.480 The other two were signed by none other than President 0:41:10.560 --> 0:41:13.439 Joe Biden. So if you want to say that you're 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:16.080 happy about stimulus checks that ain't coming back, let me 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:17.000 put that out there too. 0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:19.160 Number One, you need to think a Democrat. 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:22.880 Number Two, if people can get up and talk about 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:24.719 how they got a twelve hundred dollars check and they 0:41:24.719 --> 0:41:26.920 came from Donald Trump, every single one of y'all that 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:29.960 had one hundred and seventy thousand and two seventy two point. 0:41:29.800 --> 0:41:32.839 Fifty whatever it is. If it's five dollars, I'm gonna 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:33.279 need y'all to. 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:35.840 Go tell somebody because when people are talking about this 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:39.359 administration has not worked for black folk as I can 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:41.879 see it, they are working for black folk, now, let 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:45.880 me tell you. And the reason that this matters, because 0:41:45.920 --> 0:41:50.440 we are at the Global Economic Black Economic Forum, is 0:41:50.480 --> 0:41:51.200 because this is. 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:54.880 How we build wealth. I know, the costs are still high. 0:41:55.239 --> 0:41:57.040 This is why you need to make sure that the 0:41:57.080 --> 0:42:00.680 Democrats are running the House, the Senate, and the White House, 0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:02.959 because we get it. I know, y'all get mad because 0:42:02.960 --> 0:42:04.440 they get out there and they say things like the 0:42:04.480 --> 0:42:05.200 economy is great. 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:06.680 It's great. It's great. I get it. I get it, 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:07.839 I get it, I get it. I get it. 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:11.680 They talk in numbers, but I understand housing costs are 0:42:11.680 --> 0:42:14.279 still high. I know that the interest rates are still high. 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:17.000 We don't set those, the President don't set those. But 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:20.440 we have a plan. It's a plan that includes a stimulus. 0:42:20.560 --> 0:42:23.359 It's also a plan to be more aggressive on these 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:25.840 suit loan desks because we know that black folk have 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:29.319 been disproportionately impacted. This means that you can get the 0:42:29.360 --> 0:42:32.880 home ownership you need to build that generational wealth. So 0:42:33.040 --> 0:42:35.640 while somebody want to talk to you about twelve hundred dollars, 0:42:35.719 --> 0:42:37.440 I'm gonna need to I'm gonna need y'all to talk 0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:41.480 to them about some real dollars that have changed y'all's lives. 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:44.279 And while that food may cost more, you got more 0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:45.879 money in your pocket to buy. 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:53.759 Okay, So here's the thing. Here's the thing now, I am. 0:42:53.880 --> 0:42:58.879 I am very grateful for everything. Representative Jasmine Crocker just shared. 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:00.880 I just want y'all to know that the campaign is 0:43:00.920 --> 0:43:03.319 finally ready to advertise on our program, and so we 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:06.240 could just say from this point forward, that's Joe Bideney 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:09.080 approved this message because that was a whole campaign ad. 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:11.719 So now maybe y'all we can get out of that 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:13.760 host read they want us to do it because JAZZMN 0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:17.759 definitely just had a whole advertisement for them. So that 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.680 said the record that run tail that ad, I think 0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:24.040 they are recording to ag But I also want to 0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:26.680 just say in this close as we get ready to 0:43:26.719 --> 0:43:29.400 close TIV Andrew Manna come back to you. It is 0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:32.799 so important that we continue to engage with you on 0:43:32.840 --> 0:43:33.480 our podcast. 0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:34.120 We enjoy it. 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:36.279 I hope y'all know how much we enjoy doing Native 0:43:36.360 --> 0:43:40.640 lampod and we love the NLP fam. Please make sure 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:44.799 you download and subscribe. And even more importantly, y'all, we're 0:43:44.840 --> 0:43:48.200 gonna be talking some really really important issues. I need 0:43:48.200 --> 0:43:50.960 you to pay attention to these petitions. We need to 0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:53.680 get an appeal, and not an appeal, a pardon for 0:43:53.760 --> 0:43:57.920 marylnd Moseby. We need to ensure that Crystal Mason stays free. 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:01.279 We need to ensure the jazz and is never prosecuted. 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:04.000 We need to ensure that Andrew we raise money for 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:06.279 Andrew's legal defense fund. He's gonna be mad that I 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.120 said it, but it's true. That was a weighty and 0:44:08.160 --> 0:44:11.239 expensive defense. And thank god he is free. Get him 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:13.040 his pre check back? Who worked for TSA in here? 0:44:13.040 --> 0:44:14.600 I'm gonna come see you. We need to get his 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:18.279 pre check back. All everybody working today at TSA? All right, Well, 0:44:18.320 --> 0:44:20.680 I'm gonna find onne of y'all. But the only other 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.000 thing that I'll say to you is please make sure 0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:26.000 that you vote, and I need you all to start 0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:28.720 pushing an agenda where we can actually get something done. 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:31.840 Run up all the way until the Democratic National Convention 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:34.719 and make sure they understand how important it is to 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:38.080 hear from black folks. I know soon Black Future's Lab, 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:41.360 which also has a sister organization, the Black to the 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:45.000 Future Action Fund, will be pushing out a black economic agenda. 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:47.839 Please make sure you share and support that as well. 0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:50.359 We are Native Lampod and we might have one more 0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:53.879 clo closing call to action and action. 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:58.520 I just wanted to up Crystals, bring two people to 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:03.360 arrive with five The congress women got at it and 0:45:03.440 --> 0:45:08.839 her comments Joe Biden, the congresswoman, Crystal, any of us, 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:13.560 any of your favorite celebrities, they have a less higher 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:18.239 influence on you voting than your own family members. It 0:45:18.320 --> 0:45:21.680 is family members who have the greatest impact in turning 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:25.839 out voters to the polls, even though you hear all 0:45:25.840 --> 0:45:28.120 those advertisements and so what do I mean by that? 0:45:28.200 --> 0:45:31.200 And I'll short circuit it and arriving with five, Just 0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:33.880 list the other five members of your family who you 0:45:33.960 --> 0:45:36.279 question whether or not they're gonna vote. They didn't told 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.359 you they're not gonna vote, or they're not talking about 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:39.120 voting at all. 0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:41.799 If they're eligible. 0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:44.279 Legally allowed to vote in your respective states, make it 0:45:44.440 --> 0:45:48.480 your job to arrive with five, get them there. That's 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:51.239 your sole purpose on election day. If all of us 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:54.000 did that, man this thing, well, I lost the race 0:45:54.040 --> 0:45:56.520 for governor in the state of twenty plus million people 0:45:56.840 --> 0:46:01.520 by point zero zero two percent. All right, so if 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:04.120 we all do that, that's how you want. 0:46:03.960 --> 0:46:16.239 To she mad about it? They voted for you. 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.520 I love it, Just say real quickly, Angela. A lot 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:21.440 of people reach out to us and say, come to 0:46:21.480 --> 0:46:23.120 Philly or come to Alabama. 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:23.799 Come here. 0:46:24.239 --> 0:46:27.439 We love doing live shows, we love connecting with you all. 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:30.640 It does cost money to do, so we would love 0:46:30.680 --> 0:46:33.600 to come everywhere y'all invite us. But when you reach out, 0:46:33.719 --> 0:46:36.200 just know it usually has to come with a sponsor 0:46:36.640 --> 0:46:38.920 to get us all there. We gotta stay. We have 0:46:39.000 --> 0:46:41.080 to have a venue for folks like you, So we're 0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:42.960 happy to be here. At essence, it's not the end 0:46:43.000 --> 0:46:45.320 of our life tour. We look forward to more tour dates. 0:46:45.520 --> 0:46:50.319 But I battle the budget around said. If you have 0:46:50.440 --> 0:46:53.040 a budget, or control a budget, or know somebody who 0:46:53.080 --> 0:46:56.239 controls a budget, I'm gonna give you all Angela Rye's 0:46:56.280 --> 0:46:57.040 cell phone number. 0:46:57.080 --> 0:47:01.640 Do you have your take that down? Nope, don't reach out. 0:47:01.880 --> 0:47:04.120 We reached out. We would love to be that. I 0:47:04.200 --> 0:47:06.360 was doing a podcast with trolls, did y'all know? 0:47:06.760 --> 0:47:11.040 So anyway, this has been episode twenty seven of Native Lampid. 0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:13.600 Welcome Home, y'all. There are one hundred and seventeen days 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:19.239 until the election. Not enough time. Thank y'all, We love you. 0:47:21.160 --> 0:47:23.719 Thank you for joining the Natives, attention to what the 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:26.600 info and all of the latest Roy Gillam and cross 0:47:26.640 --> 0:47:29.640 connected to the statements that you leave on our socials. 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:32.920 Thank you sincerely for the patients. Reason for your choice 0:47:33.000 --> 0:47:36.680 is clear, So grateful it took to execute roles. Thank 0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:39.440 for serve definding, protect the truth, been in case for 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:41.240 Welcome home to all of the Natives. 0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:46.640 Wait, thank you, Welcome home, y'all, welcomes. 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:57.440 Native Lampid is a production of iHeartRadio and partnership with 0:47:57.480 --> 0:48:00.359 Reason Choice Media. 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