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Speaker 1: This is a defeat. Nothing worth it comes without suffering.

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Speaker 1: gonna read, uh oh man, which one? All right? I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna start with Langston Hughes. Let America be America again.

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Speaker 1: America never was America to me. Let America be the

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Speaker 1: i am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker,

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Speaker 1: free not me? Surely not me. The millions on relief today,

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Speaker 1: the poor man's Indians, negroes me. Who made America. Who's

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Speaker 1: more beautiful, heartbreaking, defiant poem than this from Lingston Hughes.

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Speaker 1: Let America be America again. That's exactly how I feel.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes poetry is just the perfect way for expression. And

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Speaker 1: maybe for y'all you find that piece in scripture. And

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Speaker 1: to send those to me Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: You can DM me on ig Brand Ambition Podcast. But

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Speaker 1: this poem, oh baby, I'm putting it in a frame.

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Speaker 1: want to read another poem, a shorter one, also by

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Speaker 1: Lingston Hughes. Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die,

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Speaker 1: life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Hold

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Speaker 1: Be a fan. We have to hold fast to our dreams.

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Speaker 1: And maybe you need a day to be beaten down.

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Speaker 1: But baby, I'm getting back up. I can't be down

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Speaker 1: for too long. I'm too young. We are too young.

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Speaker 1: We have too much time ahead of us. We have

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Speaker 1: We have to keep fighting. It was never going to

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Speaker 1: it's not a ninety minute movie, it's not a book.

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Speaker 1: We are living through history in real time, and history

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Speaker 1: to keep fighting for. We have to keep fighting for democracy,

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Speaker 1: civil liberties, bodily autonomy, social justice. It's worth it. Education

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Speaker 1: for our children, safe schools for our children, It's worth it.

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Speaker 1: We have to keep fighting. We really do, guys. It

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Speaker 1: was never going to be easy. We cannot feel defeated

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Speaker 1: give up. I am petrified that too many of us

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Speaker 1: to know. For me, brown ambition is not that. Brown

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Speaker 1: Still I'll rise? Did you want to see me broken

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Speaker 1: But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you?

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Speaker 1: Send me e mail comment see one's social But even

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Speaker 1: Hear this for me, and I hope that we're telling

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Speaker 1: we showed out. We linked arms with one another, we

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Speaker 1: To the allies who gathered behind us to support Kamala Harris.

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Speaker 1: To Kamala Harris, you, my Queen, were an extraordinary candidate.

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Speaker 1: That was a flawless fucking campaign. You can't tell me

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was the right person. I'm so proud that

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Speaker 1: There are not enough of us. There are more of

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Speaker 1: them than us. Let the word minorities sink in. Thirteen

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Speaker 1: percent of America is African American. Of that thirteen percent,

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Speaker 1: half of that is women of color, black women. Right,

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Speaker 1: how is six percent supposed to fight? How is six

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Speaker 1: percent supposed to clawback from an eighty seven percent majority?

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Speaker 1: How how the numbers are not on our side? But

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Speaker 1: let me talk to you, the majority. This defeat lays

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Speaker 1: at your feet. I don't want to hear the well

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Speaker 1: black men, whale, immigrants, well Latinos like we need to

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Speaker 1: stop casting blame at How are little numbers we should

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Speaker 1: be able to afford to have some of our our

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Speaker 1: own have different political beliefs and vote the other direction.

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Speaker 1: And when Okay, So I don't want us to be

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Speaker 1: pointing the finger at one another. The blame lies squarely

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Speaker 1: at the feet of the majority white America. This is

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Speaker 1: what you wanted, that is what you've given us. Yes,

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Speaker 1: our voices matter, but we can't overcome this wave. We

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Speaker 1: can't overcome white supremacy and the increasing shift of America.

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Speaker 1: I won't even say increasing the shift of America to

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Speaker 1: the right. We can't. Literally, we don't have the numbers

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Speaker 1: to do that by ourselves. We don't win an election

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Speaker 1: like this without the majority, without white Americans, male and female,

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Speaker 1: standing up and doing the right damn thing. And that

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Speaker 1: is where the blame lies. And I won't stand for

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Speaker 1: a second of us feeling bad about what we did.

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Speaker 1: I saw y'all fighting, I saw y'all volunteering. I saw

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Speaker 1: y'all calling your aunties, your sisters, your cousins. Do you

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Speaker 1: need to ride to the poles, you know, running the

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Speaker 1: car pools, given free uber rides and lyft rides like

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Speaker 1: we put so much skin in the game. We did

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Speaker 1: everything we possibly could. This is not our fault. We

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Speaker 1: have to keep fighting, but let's not get it fucking twisted.

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Speaker 1: We can't do this shit by ourselves. Allies need to

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Speaker 1: Ally allies need to step the f up. What y'all

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Speaker 1: did wasn't good enough, So let's keep pushing. I want

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Speaker 1: to be sure that when we are sitting down to

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Speaker 1: do this post mortem and decide what happens next, that

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Speaker 1: we are not pointing the blame or saying that it

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Speaker 1: was some lack on our parts, because I know for

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Speaker 1: a fact that we showed up, we showed out. And

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Speaker 1: to the ALLY guy who did do the right thing,

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Speaker 1: thank you, you did enough. But now the burden of

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Speaker 1: pushing forward and reaching to the majority to get them

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Speaker 1: to come to the right side. That can't fall only

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Speaker 1: at our feet. It won't. It can't. We can't let

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Speaker 1: them think that we're going to clean this up, that

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Speaker 1: black women we can save this election. I call bullshit.

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Speaker 1: We can't do it without the majority. We don't have

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Speaker 1: the numbers. Okay, this is giving me peace. I hope

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Speaker 1: it brings you peace. We have done enough, ladies, We

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Speaker 1: have done enough. For now. We will keep fighting because

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Speaker 1: what other effing choice do we have. But we can't

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Speaker 1: carry the blame and the burden of progress on our

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Speaker 1: own back by ourselves. M m mm hmmmm. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Love and peace,