Speaker 1: Maybe I fam it goes without saying that this is
Speaker 1: not the type of episode that I thought I was
Speaker 1: going to be recording today. I woke up about an
Speaker 1: hour ago, and right now it's five am on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November sixth I woke up about an hour ago. I
Speaker 1: had gone to bed around ten maybe eleven. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: was super sleepy, and I had taken something from my
Speaker 1: anxiety to mellow me out, and it mellowed me out
Speaker 1: a little too, so I actually just took my but
Speaker 1: I took my butt to bed. I might have even
Speaker 1: fallen asleep before my son, before my almost five year old.
Speaker 1: But I woke up at four ish and picked up
Speaker 1: my phone, like I imagine many of you guys did,
Speaker 1: saw the news, saw the latest news anyway, the way
Speaker 1: it's going, and you know, it really brought me back
Speaker 1: to twenty sixteen. It was very similar. I had gone
Speaker 1: to bed because I couldn't bear the sadness, and I
Speaker 1: woke up to a very different reality than I had expected.
Speaker 1: And I walked out into my kitchen. Well, first I
Speaker 1: rolled over and I didn't see my husband, and I
Speaker 1: saw my son in bed with us, because of course
Speaker 1: he is because again five years old, and I was like,
Speaker 1: where's my enery case. I walked out into the kitchen
Speaker 1: and was standing there in the middle of a spec
Speaker 1: like spotless clean kitchen, sparkling clean, and he had cleaned
Speaker 1: the whole kitchen and the floors were clean and the
Speaker 1: counters were clean, and he was just standing there and
Speaker 1: the kind of semi darkness, and I just looked at
Speaker 1: him and I said, Babe, I can't believe this. I
Speaker 1: can't believe this. And I just started to cry and
Speaker 1: I walked over to him and he put his arms
Speaker 1: around me. And my husband is very He's not a
Speaker 1: super emotional, like outwardly emotional guy. I think like a
Speaker 1: lot of couples who, you know, you have one person
Speaker 1: who's on the more emotional side. The other person just
Speaker 1: like balances them out. And he definitely is that. He
Speaker 1: definitely mellows me out, and honestly, in the past, it's
Speaker 1: something that's kind of driven me nuts because I'm super passionate,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm very vocal and i feel things
Speaker 1: very deeply, and sometimes it can feel like I don't have,
Speaker 1: you know, someone on the other side who like kind
Speaker 1: of gets my energy and is more like exhausted by it.
Speaker 1: But there's there's like these magical moments in our relationship
Speaker 1: where I just kind of am like, Okay, I understand
Speaker 1: this is the balance that I need. So he put
Speaker 1: his arms around me, and he he just said, listen,
Speaker 1: this is not the outcome that I expected or was
Speaker 1: hoping for, but for the sake of the boys, please
Speaker 1: we can't let this. We can't let this. What were
Speaker 1: his words, something like, we can't let this get us
Speaker 1: too down. We have to keep going and we have
Speaker 1: to stay positive. And he just kept saying, for the
Speaker 1: good of the boys, please don't let this consume you.
Speaker 1: That's what he said, Please don't let this consume you.
Speaker 1: And I really needed to hear that, to be honest,
Speaker 1: And it was that kind of quiet support and that
Speaker 1: quiet reminder of there is something bigger at play here,
Speaker 1: our children, our family, And what am I willing to
Speaker 1: How am I How much am I willing to let
Speaker 1: feelings dictate my actions for the next hour, the next
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, the next week, the next year, the
Speaker 1: next four years. How deeply am I willing to let
Speaker 1: the feelings of dismay consume me? Because they are there,
Speaker 1: I feel it. I cannot fucking no, I'm not even
Speaker 1: going to to say it, because I can believe it,
Speaker 1: because we did it before. It was always likely that
Speaker 1: the country was going to go this way again, and
Speaker 1: so I believe it. When my husband said that, I
Speaker 1: hugged him back, and we just sort of stood there
Speaker 1: in the kitchen in the dark for a while. And
Speaker 1: then he had been up, so it was around four
Speaker 1: point thirty. He went to bed, and I came down
Speaker 1: here and I sat right where I am at in
Speaker 1: the Brand Ambition studio, and I looked at myself on
Speaker 1: the camera, you know, bathrobe and no makeup and exhausted,
Speaker 1: and nothing was going to make me feel better reading
Speaker 1: any news. Nothing but when I am in a space
Speaker 1: of like emotional turmoil, and when I'm in a space
Speaker 1: where I just am looking for purchase, you know, when
Speaker 1: I am looking for some purchase to hold on to,
Speaker 1: some foothold, something to keep me still. My husband's gone
Speaker 1: to bed now, so I turned to poetry and bea
Speaker 1: fam I have no script to follow during this episode. Again,
Speaker 1: this is not the kind of episode I ever thought
Speaker 1: I would record, but it has brought me a lot
Speaker 1: of peace to just kind of sit here read some
Speaker 1: poetry and remind myself that there's still a lot of
Speaker 1: fight in me, and there's still so much to fight for,
Speaker 1: and I don't want you know, one of the campaign
Speaker 1: slogans of Kamala Harris and the Harris campaign that has
Speaker 1: been so effective has been this idea of We're not
Speaker 1: going back. And I don't want to go back to
Speaker 1: the emotional wave of depression that overcame me in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen after Donald Trump won the first time. I don't
Speaker 1: want to go back because that, to me, accomplished very little.
Speaker 1: I think those like that depression, like, I just don't
Speaker 1: have time to be depressed. I have two little kids.
Speaker 1: I've got to show up for them. And I also
Speaker 1: think that we can feel our feelings. But I am
Speaker 1: very much in like the we need to keep moving forward.
Speaker 1: Why do I feel like we need to keep marching forward?
Speaker 1: Where is that hope? What does brown ambition mean in
Speaker 1: an age where we just elected this man again? What
Speaker 1: does it mean? It means? Did we think it was
Speaker 1: gonna be fucking easy? Did we think if we thought?
Speaker 1: And I'm part of that generation, You're part of that
Speaker 1: generation where you've read about the civil rights movement, and
Speaker 1: you read about Martin Luther King and Shirley Chisholm. If
Speaker 1: you're lucky you read about it in school. I certainly didn't,
Speaker 1: not until later you read about Fanny lou Hamer. You know,
Speaker 1: you live through the Obama election, in my case, the
Speaker 1: first election I ever voted in. I can understand how
Speaker 1: we would end up now devastated when we get an
Speaker 1: outcome that doesn't fit the narrative that we have been
Speaker 1: fed as children growing up in a post civil rights era.
Speaker 1: We have been fed this idea that this is the
Speaker 1: natural order of things. We are ancestors, our grandparents are
Speaker 1: great grandparents. They fought these battles so that we would
Speaker 1: have a better shot. And the lie or the version
Speaker 1: of things that we have been believing for so long
Speaker 1: on all speak for myself, maybe you guys agree, is
Speaker 1: that the fight was over, and that there was this
Speaker 1: natural progression in the story where now we begin to win.
Speaker 1: Now we begin to make gains, and there's this upward trajectory.
Speaker 1: But here's the reality. Nothing worth fighting for. Nothing as
Speaker 1: important as democracy and liberty and freedom and the rights
Speaker 1: to a dignified, happy and healthy life. Nothing about that
Speaker 1: should be easy to fight for or easy to protect.
Speaker 1: We have to understand that it is going to be
Speaker 1: a struggle. We have to get comfortable with the struggle.
Speaker 1: We need to get comfortable with the idea that it's
Speaker 1: not going to be Let's turn this around. Four years,
Speaker 1: eight years, we've had two elections now where we've gotten
Speaker 1: really close to electing a woman. We have to keep going.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy. I wanted the end
Speaker 1: of the story to stop on that screen of Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: My god, what a hero. I wanted to see her
Speaker 1: with the confetti streaming down, walking away with a victory.
Speaker 1: I really wanted that too, But the story keeps going.
Speaker 1: This is a defeat. Nothing worth it comes without suffering.
Speaker 1: Suffering is a part of life. What we're feeling today
Speaker 1: is painful. It is depressing. It causes dismay, and you
Speaker 1: may be feeling that, and I feel it too. And
Speaker 1: yet today, right now, I put on my damn lipliner,
Speaker 1: I put on my mascara, I sat in this chair,
Speaker 1: I hit record because I am here with y'all, and
Speaker 1: I understand what I really want y'all to understand too,
Speaker 1: which is that this is the time, more than ever
Speaker 1: to push forward. This is what it was like for
Speaker 1: our generations before, to suffer and to fight and to
Speaker 1: claw back humanity, to claw back rights. And now we
Speaker 1: are being called in the same way to learn how
Speaker 1: to take these blows, to get knocked down and get
Speaker 1: the f back up. And I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: Ba Fam, I'm getting back up. In fact, I barely
Speaker 1: hit the ground. There is no place I'd rather be
Speaker 1: and than a time like this than on this stage. However,
Speaker 1: whatever size, this stage is speaking to my ba Fam,
Speaker 1: because I need y'all to know that I'm not giving up.
Speaker 1: I am showing up. Okay, I'm doing it for y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for myself.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it for I'm doing it for the ancestors.
Speaker 1: I'm literally doing it for the generations that came before us,
Speaker 1: because at the first sign, multiple signs, we've had now
Speaker 1: the first sign of strife, and this may not be
Speaker 1: a fair fight, and this may be a bloody knockdown,
Speaker 1: drag out, multiple round beating, and we have to get
Speaker 1: back up and keep going. The enemy the other side
Speaker 1: they are stronger right now, and yet I don't want
Speaker 1: The story is not going to end with me crawling
Speaker 1: back into a hole, with me crying all day, with
Speaker 1: me not speaking to my family because I was so
Speaker 1: devastated and betrayed and felt betrayed by them. In twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: because many members of my family did and have again
Speaker 1: voted for someone who stands for everything that I believe
Speaker 1: is wrong with the world, I choose to walk a
Speaker 1: different path this time. I choose to keep my head up.
Speaker 1: I choose to go forward into the darkness because this
Speaker 1: is when we are needed the most. Okay, it's when
Speaker 1: our kids need us. It's when we need each other. Lynn,
Speaker 1: my neighbor who I go on walks with Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Bitch,
Speaker 1: we're going for a walk. Okay, I'm about to text
Speaker 1: you right now because after I'm done recording this, We're
Speaker 1: going for our fucking walk because we will walk on.
Speaker 1: Suffering is a part of life, y'all. And if there's
Speaker 1: one thing that I have learned this past year, it
Speaker 1: is that we can survive suffering. We can survive the pain,
Speaker 1: and we can push forward and keep going. The pain
Speaker 1: can exist, but our behavior has everything to do with
Speaker 1: how much power we get that pain. I choose to
Speaker 1: wake up, like I said, foot on some blipline or
Speaker 1: put on mascara and come speak to y'all. And right
Speaker 1: now I want to share some poetry that I've been
Speaker 1: sitting here reading and has just been, you know, washing
Speaker 1: over me. And I hope that some of this provides
Speaker 1: you some comfort. For me. It's you know, I don't
Speaker 1: have living grandparents, so I don't have and this is
Speaker 1: maybe a time when it's so it's a reason to
Speaker 1: reach out to any elders you have in your life
Speaker 1: and just look for their support, because you know what
Speaker 1: our elders know what that fight was like, and they
Speaker 1: probably will have some words of support for us. They
Speaker 1: didn't have it easy. We thought maybe we were on
Speaker 1: the other side. Well we're not. We got to continue
Speaker 1: that fight. We have to find that inspiration. We have
Speaker 1: to find the will to keep fucking going. Maybe ours
Speaker 1: will be the generation that gets the shit done. But
Speaker 1: no matter what, there's no way it was never going
Speaker 1: to be a fight to preserve what we've had to win.
Speaker 1: We have to defend what generations before works so hard
Speaker 1: for and we have to get comfortable with the idea
Speaker 1: that we are in defense mode. Okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read, uh oh man, which one? All right? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with Langston Hughes. Let America be America again.
Speaker 1: I'll post a link to this in the show notes.
Speaker 1: Let America be America again. Let it be the dream
Speaker 1: it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on
Speaker 1: the plane seeking a home where he himself is free.
Speaker 1: America never was America to me. Let America be the
Speaker 1: the dreamers dreamed. Let it be that great, strong land
Speaker 1: of love, where never kings connive nor tyrant scheme, let
Speaker 1: any man be crushed by one above. It never was
Speaker 1: America to me. Oh, Let my land be a land
Speaker 1: where liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath. But
Speaker 1: opportunity is real, and life is free. Equality is in
Speaker 1: the air we breathe. There's never been equality for me,
Speaker 1: nor freedom in this homeland of the free. Say, who
Speaker 1: are you that mumbles in the dark, And who are
Speaker 1: you that draws your veil across the stars? I am
Speaker 1: the poor white, fooled and pushed apart. I am the
Speaker 1: negro bearing slavery scars. I am the red man driven
Speaker 1: from the land. I am the immigrant clutching the hope
Speaker 1: I seek, and finding only the same old stupid plan
Speaker 1: of d eat, dog of mighty, crushed the weak. I
Speaker 1: am the young man, full of strength and hope, tangled
Speaker 1: in that ancient endless chain of profet power, gain and grab,
Speaker 1: the land of grab, the gold of grab, the ways
Speaker 1: of satisfying need of work, the men of take the
Speaker 1: pay of owning everything for one's own greed. I am
Speaker 1: the farmer, the bondsman to the soil. I am the
Speaker 1: worker sold to the machine. I am the negro servant
Speaker 1: to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean, hungry.
Speaker 1: Yet today despite the dream beaten, Yes, today, o pioneers,
Speaker 1: i am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker,
Speaker 1: bartered through the years. Yet I'm the one who dreamt
Speaker 1: our basic dream in the old world, while still a
Speaker 1: serf of kings, who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave,
Speaker 1: so true that even yet its mighty daring sings in
Speaker 1: every brick and stone, in every furrow turn that's made
Speaker 1: America the land it has become. Oh, I'm the man
Speaker 1: who sailed those early seas in search of what I
Speaker 1: meant to be my home. For I'm the one who
Speaker 1: left dark Ireland shore in Poland's plain and England's grassy lay,
Speaker 1: and torn from Black Africa Strand. I came to build
Speaker 1: a homeland of the free. The free who said the
Speaker 1: free not me? Surely not me. The millions on relief today,
Speaker 1: the millions shot down when we strike. The millions who
Speaker 1: have nothing for our pay, For all the dreams we've dreamed,
Speaker 1: and all the songs we've sun in, all the hopes
Speaker 1: we've held, and all the flags we've hung. The millions
Speaker 1: who have nothing for our pay except the dream that's
Speaker 1: almost dead today. Oh, let America be America again, the
Speaker 1: land that never has been yet and yet must be
Speaker 1: the land where every man is free, the land that's mine,
Speaker 1: the poor man's Indians, negroes me. Who made America. Who's
Speaker 1: sweat and blood, Whose faith and pain, Whose hand at
Speaker 1: the foundry, whose plow and the rain? Must bring back
Speaker 1: our mighty dream again? Sure call me an ugly name
Speaker 1: you choose. The steel of freedom does not stain from
Speaker 1: those who live like leeches on the people's lives. We
Speaker 1: must take back our land again, America. Oh yes, I
Speaker 1: say a plain America never was America to me, And
Speaker 1: yet I swear this oath. America will be out of
Speaker 1: the rack and ruin of our gangster death, the rape
Speaker 1: and rot of graft and stealth and lies. We the
Speaker 1: people must redeem the land, the mines, the plants, the rivers,
Speaker 1: the mountains, and the endless pain, all all the stretch
Speaker 1: of these great green states, and make America again. I
Speaker 1: can't think of a better I can't think of a
Speaker 1: more beautiful, heartbreaking, defiant poem than this from Lingston Hughes.
Speaker 1: Let America be America again. That's exactly how I feel.
Speaker 1: Sometimes poetry is just the perfect way for expression. And
Speaker 1: maybe for y'all you find that piece in scripture. And
Speaker 1: if there are any scriptures that have been you know,
Speaker 1: or poems or quotes or something that you lean on
Speaker 1: in hard times, I mean, I'm happy to for y'all
Speaker 1: to send those to me Ambition Podcast at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: You can DM me on ig Brand Ambition Podcast. But
Speaker 1: this poem, oh baby, I'm putting it in a frame.
Speaker 1: Let America be America again. It's so true, full of
Speaker 1: strength and hope. But who said free? Not me? Surely
Speaker 1: not me. We the people must redeem the land, the minds,
Speaker 1: the plants, the rivers, the mountains and the endless pain.
Speaker 1: Make America great again. That was the slogan that they've
Speaker 1: used to defeat us. Make America again, Langston Hughes says,
Speaker 1: make America again. America never was America to me, and
Speaker 1: yet I swear this oath America will be Wow. I
Speaker 1: want to read another poem, a shorter one, also by
Speaker 1: Lingston Hughes. Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die,
Speaker 1: life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Hold
Speaker 1: fast to dreams for when dreams go, life is a
Speaker 1: barren field frozen with snow. I was dreams by Lyingston Hughes.
Speaker 1: Be a fan. We have to hold fast to our dreams.
Speaker 1: And maybe you need a day to be beaten down.
Speaker 1: But baby, I'm getting back up. I can't be down
Speaker 1: for too long. I'm too young. We are too young.
Speaker 1: We have too much time ahead of us. We have
Speaker 1: time to fight and to make the world better for
Speaker 1: our children and for each other. We have to fight.
Speaker 1: We have to keep fighting. It was never going to
Speaker 1: be easy. We can't give up. It was always going
Speaker 1: to be this hard. Okay. We were playing ourselves. If
Speaker 1: we thought we were going to wake up, and that
Speaker 1: was going to be the end of the fight. But
Speaker 1: that's not how stories get to end in the real world. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not a ninety minute movie, it's not a book.
Speaker 1: We are living through history in real time, and history
Speaker 1: and our right to survive it is something we have
Speaker 1: to keep fighting for. We have to keep fighting for democracy,
Speaker 1: civil liberties, bodily autonomy, social justice. It's worth it. Education
Speaker 1: for our children, safe schools for our children, It's worth it.
Speaker 1: We have to keep fighting. We really do, guys. It
Speaker 1: was never going to be easy. We cannot feel defeated
Speaker 1: right now. This is a battle in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, and we have to keep fighting. We cannot
Speaker 1: give up. I am petrified that too many of us
Speaker 1: are gonna be beaten down and pushed down and broken
Speaker 1: by what has happened. And I just I need you
Speaker 1: to know. For me, brown ambition is not that. Brown
Speaker 1: ambition is the fact that we wake the fuck up
Speaker 1: and we get the fuck back in the streets and
Speaker 1: we keep fighting. Brown ambition is everything that we do
Speaker 1: in spite of the challenges that we face. And I
Speaker 1: have been sitting here for nine years saying that, and
Speaker 1: I'll be damned if I'm going to walk back on
Speaker 1: that message not today be a fam now. Maybe soon
Speaker 1: too soon for some of y'all to hear this. But
Speaker 1: one of the things that I have been thinking sitting
Speaker 1: here trying to cope with this news, is that it's
Speaker 1: never been more important for us to show a peaceful
Speaker 1: transfer of power than in this moment. It really hasn't
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. If there had to be
Speaker 1: a loser tonight, I think that we are the best
Speaker 1: losers for this moment because we value democracy, we know
Speaker 1: how important it is. We were petrified of what would
Speaker 1: happen if Harris had won and there'd be such a
Speaker 1: long fight, because they would have said that it was rigged,
Speaker 1: they would have said that it was fraud, they would
Speaker 1: have said, don't trust these elections. There would have continued
Speaker 1: to build on this narrative of how we can't trust democracy,
Speaker 1: and if we just let this transfer of power happen
Speaker 1: and we move forward. I just want to leave that lesson.
Speaker 1: I want to leave that impression. I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that we don't take any more chips out of democracy,
Speaker 1: any make any more cracks in the foundation that we
Speaker 1: believe in. By fighting this and by not accepting the
Speaker 1: results and not certifying the election we need, like the
Speaker 1: peaceful transfer of power is what makes America's democracy something
Speaker 1: to be revered, and it has been beaten to a
Speaker 1: bloody pulp, the idea of democracy in this country. And
Speaker 1: I just feel, I feel a type of way about
Speaker 1: what could continue to happen, the damage that we could
Speaker 1: do if we don't accept this and let there be
Speaker 1: a peaceful transfer of power. So I really want to
Speaker 1: read this poem. I know y'all have heard it before.
Speaker 1: Can you be a woman of color in this country
Speaker 1: and not have either performed read done a school book
Speaker 1: report on this poem by the Great Maya Angelou? Still
Speaker 1: I rise. You may write me down in history with
Speaker 1: your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the
Speaker 1: very dirt, but still like dust, I rise. Does my
Speaker 1: my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom?
Speaker 1: Because I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in
Speaker 1: my living room, just like the moons, and like suns
Speaker 1: with a certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high.
Speaker 1: Still I'll rise? Did you want to see me broken
Speaker 1: bowed head and lowered eyes, shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Speaker 1: weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you?
Speaker 1: Don't you take it awful hard because I laugh like
Speaker 1: I've got gold mines digging in my own backyard. You
Speaker 1: may shoot me with your words, you may cut me
Speaker 1: with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness.
Speaker 1: But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you?
Speaker 1: Does it come as a surprise that I dance like
Speaker 1: I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs? Out
Speaker 1: of the huts of history shame? I rise up from
Speaker 1: a past that's rooted in pain. I rise. I'm a
Speaker 1: black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling. I bear
Speaker 1: in the tide, leaving behind nights of terror and fear.
Speaker 1: I rise into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise,
Speaker 1: bringing the gifts that my ancestors give. I am the
Speaker 1: dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I Rise,
Speaker 1: I rise, levey ba, fam keep going. I'm here for you.
Speaker 1: Send me e mail comment see one's social But even
Speaker 1: more so than just brown ambition, reach out to your friends,
Speaker 1: your family, your neighbors to day show up, bring them
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, bring them something to share, Sit
Speaker 1: on the front porch, take care of each other, talk,
Speaker 1: let it out, like, let's feel the feelings, all right,
Speaker 1: but then we have to get back up and keep moving.
Speaker 1: There is still too much to fight for. It was
Speaker 1: never going to be that easy. We have to keep
Speaker 1: fucking going, all right, all right? Be a fam. I took.
Speaker 1: I went for a walk. I went with the walk
Speaker 1: with my Neighborlyn, And there was something that came to
Speaker 1: me on our walk that I was like, Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to let be a fam.
Speaker 1: Hear this for me, and I hope that we're telling
Speaker 1: ourselves this. We did everything we could. We showed up,
Speaker 1: we showed out. We linked arms with one another, we
Speaker 1: held each other down. To the incredible, beautiful women, the
Speaker 1: brave women who started the movement win with black women.
Speaker 1: To the allies who gathered behind us to support Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: To Kamala Harris, you, my Queen, were an extraordinary candidate.
Speaker 1: You made us so proud. You made us so proud,
Speaker 1: and you should carry your head so high. You did.
Speaker 1: That was a flawless fucking campaign. You can't tell me
Speaker 1: anything about how that was a flawless campaign. If we
Speaker 1: were ever going to have a shot in hell of winning,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was the right person. I'm so proud that
Speaker 1: she got as far as she did. Now here's the
Speaker 1: thing what this can remind us is how I know
Speaker 1: that this goes against everything that we have been taught,
Speaker 1: that we have so much power, that our voice matter,
Speaker 1: all of that. But the math tells a different story.
Speaker 1: There are not enough of us. There are more of
Speaker 1: them than us. Let the word minorities sink in. Thirteen
Speaker 1: percent of America is African American. Of that thirteen percent,
Speaker 1: half of that is women of color, black women. Right,
Speaker 1: how is six percent supposed to fight? How is six
Speaker 1: percent supposed to clawback from an eighty seven percent majority?
Speaker 1: How how the numbers are not on our side? But
Speaker 1: let me talk to you, the majority. This defeat lays
Speaker 1: at your feet. I don't want to hear the well
Speaker 1: black men, whale, immigrants, well Latinos like we need to
Speaker 1: stop casting blame at How are little numbers we should
Speaker 1: be able to afford to have some of our our
Speaker 1: own have different political beliefs and vote the other direction.
Speaker 1: And when Okay, So I don't want us to be
Speaker 1: pointing the finger at one another. The blame lies squarely
Speaker 1: at the feet of the majority white America. This is
Speaker 1: what you wanted, that is what you've given us. Yes,
Speaker 1: our voices matter, but we can't overcome this wave. We
Speaker 1: can't overcome white supremacy and the increasing shift of America.
Speaker 1: I won't even say increasing the shift of America to
Speaker 1: the right. We can't. Literally, we don't have the numbers
Speaker 1: to do that by ourselves. We don't win an election
Speaker 1: like this without the majority, without white Americans, male and female,
Speaker 1: standing up and doing the right damn thing. And that
Speaker 1: is where the blame lies. And I won't stand for
Speaker 1: a second of us feeling bad about what we did.
Speaker 1: I saw y'all fighting, I saw y'all volunteering. I saw
Speaker 1: y'all calling your aunties, your sisters, your cousins. Do you
Speaker 1: need to ride to the poles, you know, running the
Speaker 1: car pools, given free uber rides and lyft rides like
Speaker 1: we put so much skin in the game. We did
Speaker 1: everything we possibly could. This is not our fault. We
Speaker 1: have to keep fighting, but let's not get it fucking twisted.
Speaker 1: We can't do this shit by ourselves. Allies need to
Speaker 1: Ally allies need to step the f up. What y'all
Speaker 1: did wasn't good enough, So let's keep pushing. I want
Speaker 1: to be sure that when we are sitting down to
Speaker 1: do this post mortem and decide what happens next, that
Speaker 1: we are not pointing the blame or saying that it
Speaker 1: was some lack on our parts, because I know for
Speaker 1: a fact that we showed up, we showed out. And
Speaker 1: to the ALLY guy who did do the right thing,
Speaker 1: thank you, you did enough. But now the burden of
Speaker 1: pushing forward and reaching to the majority to get them
Speaker 1: to come to the right side. That can't fall only
Speaker 1: at our feet. It won't. It can't. We can't let
Speaker 1: them think that we're going to clean this up, that
Speaker 1: black women we can save this election. I call bullshit.
Speaker 1: We can't do it without the majority. We don't have
Speaker 1: the numbers. Okay, this is giving me peace. I hope
Speaker 1: it brings you peace. We have done enough, ladies, We
Speaker 1: have done enough. For now. We will keep fighting because
Speaker 1: what other effing choice do we have. But we can't
Speaker 1: carry the blame and the burden of progress on our
Speaker 1: own back by ourselves. M m mm hmmmm. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Love and peace,