WEBVTT - Native Land Pod x Bakari Sellers | Live at the DNC | Day 1 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.160 Natively and pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:04.720 with Reason Choice Media. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.600 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.080 Hey everybody, this is Native Lampid. We are live from 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.480 the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.640 Welcome, Welcome, home at home, and it. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.000 Is episode thirty three. But we also have a very 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.759 special guest. And today for all the trolls, they will 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:23.200 thank you. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.200 Here again this. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.440 Yeah, it's real talent. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:34.600 Yeah twice to do it twice. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:35.879 Let me tell you shout out. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.800 Shout out to that young lady in the in the 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.920 Jacksonville Airport that worked in the subway who chased me 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.600 down leaving her shift. She was making a six inch 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.440 sub She left that person hanging to tell me she 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:47.120 voted for me. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.400 You, Betty, you know what I said. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.960 I want you to know every vote counts and I 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.800 remember that. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.960 Yes, but I'm happy here with us. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.280 Can I just say really quickly, I really appreciate eight 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.920 that you are the sole voice of reason so often 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.200 on CNN, and I'm excited that you'll be joining us 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.240 for this another historic time, uh in Chicago. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.399 Think I'm happy. I'm happy. It's a family affair. I 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.520 got y'all. I got uncle, I got uncle Jesse. You 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:18.959 just walked out on stage. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.720 And it looks like you're welcoming a guest right next 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.080 to ya. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.120 Hello, we are welcome woman in her district of Chicago. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.600 We just yes you hear hello, congress Woman Kelly. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.160 Bring up, turned around just a little bit. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.880 You are so happy to have a Congressman Robing Kelly 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.640 joining us there. It's like it's like flying an airplane. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.480 Yeah, there you go. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.360 Welcome, Thank you, Thanks woman, thank you. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.560 So I guess so welcome should be from her. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:51.840 You're in my town. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.320 Okay, your town. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.880 I want Danny Davis getting mad. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:56.760 We'll take them. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.240 We'll take them. If you got. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.320 Twenty blocks south of McCormick Place, we got. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:13.399 Okay, Okay, that sounds falls. I know to talk about 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.080 talk about the work y'all did, because one of the 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.639 things I realized is that your coordination that you've done 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:24.080 with McCormick Place, with this arena, with local law enforcement, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:29.359 federal law enforcement, protesters, Kamala Harir supporters, it's been seamless. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.320 Y'all have done good work. That's a testament to you 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:32.040 and everybody else. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.880 It really took a village to pull this off, and 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.799 it took everyone's cooperation. And one thing that uh, the 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.560 organizers did, I'm giving them the credit that they made 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.600 sure that all of us were in hotels that were 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.200 not more than five miles away from either McCormick Place 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.080 or the United Cent are very convenient, even though traffic 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.760 is still a little rough, you know, But I just 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.440 think you're right. It was seamless, a lot of cooperation. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.080 People really wanted this to work, and they wanted to 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.680 show Chicago's best side book people come back and visit. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.960 Yeah, well it's been seamless so far, honestly, like the 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.800 maneuvering around the city. What are you most looking forward 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.960 to about this time? We have a lot of listeners 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.960 across a lot of demographics, a lot of a lot 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.080 of age groups, and a lot of people be watching 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.920 the primetime speakers tonight. Who are you most looking forward 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.720 to here? And what do you want the people to 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.360 take away watching this democratic this historic democratic national convention. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.800 Well, of course this is the vice President's show, so 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.480 the president. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.800 But of course looking. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:36.600 Forward to seeing her. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.000 But you know, I'm House Democrat, so looking forward to 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.880 seeing my leader the next speaker all and you know 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:44.200 he can. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.960 He can speak Congressman. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.520 Hackeen Jeffries for our viewers watching Hills out of New York. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.440 And of course a guy President Obama can bring it 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.800 on to really looking forward to everybody because they're all 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.960 going to bring that little piece to the table to 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.640 make it a whole, you know, in supporting our president elect. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:03.600 Congresswoman. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.400 Tonight, we're going to hear from I think this may 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.279 go down historically is one of the most selfless individuals 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:15.400 in politics, and it's this man. Oh, this man, help him, 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:16.160 help him, Congress. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.679 But we're gonna hear from the sitting president. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.520 I just I'd love to hear any reflections you may 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.480 have as we begin the long road to goodbye on 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.680 the political stage for a man who spent you know, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.560 half a century uh nearly giving his time, energy, effort, 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:32.960 love to this country. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.960 Seriously, we're gonna have to have many boxes of tissues, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.440 you know, because a lot of us were definitely Team 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.120 Biden until he decided, you know, team Harris, and all 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.479 of us are Team Harris now. But he's he's is 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.600 who he's been, and he's been one of the greatest presidents. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.559 And what we said in CBC promises made, promises kept, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.800 and the promises he couldn't keep. The legislature stopped him, well, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.440 the court stopped him. But when think about his accomplishments, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.880 his legacy, you know, our Supreme Court justice, first vice president, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:13.719 African American, this first woman, you know black, you know president, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.520 So now you said. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:15.800 To speak it. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.640 So that's that's right, that's right. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.719 That's all of his legacy. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.000 And then all of the things we've been able to accomplish, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:29.160 sixty percent more entrepreneurship by Black Americans, the student loans 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.760 that I know people personally that you know have been 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.720 helped by that, and he wanted to do more, but 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.400 you know he couldn't. The lowest black and brown unemployment 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.800 rate ever, you know, and I know people are still hurting, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.400 so we have to acknowledge that. But that's what the 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.039 next president is going to continue to work on. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.000 That's exactly right. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:48.040 That's exactly right. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.280 Is there I was saying tonight, I was hoping that 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.920 the cheers may be so loud that we don't even 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:53.560 get to hear. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:54.320 His speech as it. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:55.320 Oh, they'll be loud. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.360 I expect, I expect it to be the case. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.760 I just wonder if there was a if there was 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.080 a well wish that you had for for for this 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.600 president beyond his time in service to the country. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:06.880 Uh, what would it be? 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:07.239 What? 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.480 What is your highest hope for. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.840 I just want him to know that he has loved 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.720 and appreciated and valued and we will never forget his contributions. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:18.760 And I know he. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.000 You know, he might be a little you know, disappointed 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.360 and feel some kind of way, but he knows how 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.200 many of us were in his corner will continue to 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:30.080 be in his corner. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.159 I'm sorry, no, I was gonna say, Congressman Kelly, we 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.920 are so grateful for your time. We actually had some 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.800 technical difficulties getting started, so for the viewers at home, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.960 we love y'all. We were not trying to be delayed, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.039 but with all the excitement, we just had to keep 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.240 it moving and Congressman Kelly, we did not want to 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.920 start this off without hearing from you. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:47.880 Thank you first. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.680 We also have Mayor rest Maraka joining us, and we're 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.159 so so happy about that. He's got a candidacy to 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.400 announce this maybe the future governor of New Jersey, and 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.599 we just want make sure that we get get you 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.160 in and talk to somebody from my CBC fam Harrison 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:12.440 and Kelly, So thank you so much for joining us. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.000 Thank you, Mayor. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.640 We're so happy to have you, Mayor, Mayor ras Baraka. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.080 I'm happy to be on well. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.160 We are excited to hear because we may soon be 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.080 calling you governor. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.200 Yes, yeah, I love you. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.920 So we have a lot of people watching from all 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.200 over the country tonight and our by Congresswoman h Our. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.480 Our viewers span a lot of different demographics, so we 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.680 want to hear from you. If somebody doesn't live in 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.160 New Jersey, you would still be a historic governor. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.680 And this is a historic d n C. So talk 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:47.000 to us. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.080 Draw the through line for us about what it would 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.720 mean to have the first black mayor of New Jersey 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.600 at the same time that we may have the first 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.400 that we will have the first black woman leading the country. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.200 For first black governor of the state of New Jersey 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.960 will be number two in the entire country. Uh my 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.000 frat brother Wes Moore in Maryland and me and New 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.600 Jersey only the fourth in the country's history. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.000 Letters, we got a lot of alpha fai alpha of course, 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.000 the oldest and the coldest. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.120 That's why, that's why I took them five years to graduate. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:26.280 Five years. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.400 And you are a Howard University graduates like our future 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:36.240 president Kabla Harris so Hu. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.720 And they're only fourth in the entire country, which is 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.800 a sad state of affairs for the country. But it 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.880 means a lot of work that we must do UH 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.320 here and I think the things that Kamala is fighting 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.720 for UH in the nation of things that we're trying 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.280 to organize around in the state of New Jersey, uh 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.560 and and around the country as well. So we're excited 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.079 for this national election, but we're also excited for twenty 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.840 twenty five, which when New Jersey will make history and 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.560 make me the first black governor in the state's history. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.360 Well, we're looking forward to seeing that. I think you're 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.040 on the panel. Angela and mccari and Andrew and myself. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.240 We're all huge hip hop bands, hip hop heads, and 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.800 you are. You come from the tradition of hip hop 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.680 and spoken word, so it's something meaningful to us to 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.839 see somebody we can relate to and talk to and 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.120 who comes from our era, our generation to conflate hip 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:26.280 hop in politics. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:26.880 That's right. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.719 I'm curious if you have any thoughts on the role 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.359 hip hop plays in politics. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.440 Well in my place day, well today, I think hip 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.400 hop will always be you know, as Chuck D said 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.720 the CNN of our community right, and so or most 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.959 depth says, wherever hip hop is going is wherever the 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.000 black community is going. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:45.240 Right. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.600 So when we look at what's happening in the hip 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.000 hop community or hip hop music, good or bad, it 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.600 gives you a kind of a point or reference to 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.120 where we are in the black community and what we 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.680 have to work on, what we have to do. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.920 How far we've come, and how far we must go. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.920 So because we say everything we want to say when 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.640 we need to say it, and we put a little 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.000 sass behind a little beat on top of it, and 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.199 everybody can understand it, you know, and it gives you clear, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.120 real clarity in terms of what it is that we 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.760 need to do to improve what's happening in our community. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.280 You're somebody who understands your place and your role, your 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.400 place in history and what it means to be who 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.240 you are and carry your name and the legacies and 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.600 the shoulders that you stand on. Tonight was an amazing 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.240 moment when Jesse Jackson came on stage as the first 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.640 opening special guest in Chicago of all places, beautiful sixty 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.440 years since we've had freedom summer, and Fanny lou Hamer 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.400 was able to echo those words from the convention floor, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.480 talk about just your role in history, how you stand 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.840 on the shoulders of those heroes and heroines, and how 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.360 you take that seriously. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.080 Some people don't understand. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.640 How others do, but how that helps form who you 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.760 are is not only a man, but also as an 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:58.520 elected official. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.840 I always say, like some people inherit money, we inherit responsibility. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.760 And so while other people might get privileged passed down 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.880 from the generation and generation, we get responsibility. We have, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.880 you know, all kinds of legacy that we have to 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.080 keep going and keep pushing. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.200 People expect us to do that. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.480 In fact, they look for you to open your mouth 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.920 when other people keep their ship, to step up when 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.920 other people step back, to be unafraid and unapologetic. They 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.920 look for you to do that. It's almost that you're 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.760 being pushed out there. I remember that Donald Payne's funeral. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.400 I said to folks that people have things to say 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.440 about Donald Paine. The reality is he had to be 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.599 the Congressman as soon as he was born. Right the 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.280 things that he had to step into and get ready 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.320 for and prepare for. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:43.720 He didn't ask for. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.080 These are things that were thrust upon him, so he 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.680 had to get itself ready for that. And it's the 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.880 same with me and many people in these positions. They 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.720 expect you to do what they expect you to do, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.200 and when you embrace it, when you embrace it and 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.960 understand what it really means, then you go straight ahead 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:00.560 into it. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:02.839 You know, you go straight ahead without fail. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:04.960 And that's what I'm doing, and I think I have 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.520 a responsibility to finish the things that our parents began. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.160 Well, speaking of parents, you know that our bond was 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.760 really created talking about that nineteen seventy two National Black 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.520 Political Convention, hunting for that agenda, and when we did 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.240 lay hands on that agenda, Mayor as as you know, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.000 we see that there's so many things that we still 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.520 have yet to accomplish. I know that you're doing the 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.680 work in new work, and you're setting such a great 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.280 standard and building your own legacy in your local community. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.440 But what will you tell local elected. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.319 Officials who tune in and watching this, or folks who 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.000 aspire to run for office, how can we lean into 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.959 that agenda into ensuring that this party represents the interests 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:45.960 of all of our folks. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.720 Well, and you're right as some simple as DC statehood, yes, reparation. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:50.560 Right, they were. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.680 Talking about those things in nineteen seventy two where we 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.360 are and we still have not achieved any of those things, right, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.160 And so it means that we have to not just 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.080 be in the Democratic Party because we're in the Democratic Party. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.640 We have to make the Democratic Party represent us and represent. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.439 All the clean Woman. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.080 Congress Maxie Waters. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.160 Yeah, but we love you so, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.720 Just so you all know at home, Congressman Maxie Waters 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.640 is Angela's yeah. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:28.120 I'm sorry anytime, anytime. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.000 We have an audience that you all can't see. And 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.920 she just said, I'm coming on with y'all. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.680 She so we know you're in the rest of the week, Yes, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.640 ma'm we will have congress Woman Waters on with them Wednesday. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.880 Careen cancel, We're coming back. Angela is talking to the audience. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.240 As you all see, well, it's live native, we got 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:47.640 an audience interactive. 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.199 If I could, I just I want to want to 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.800 congratulate you for the excellent work that you've been doing 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.800 already as a sitting mayor. But as a as a 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:00.000 former mayor myself, I often encountered people who were disillusioned 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.680 by the pace of change that they wanted to see 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.280 in the community right, and then they would get in 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.840 some ways frustrated when we might aspire to a higher 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.480 position without all of what we want to have done 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.240 and perfect in the communities in which we come from. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.120 And I wonder for you, how do you help folks 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.480 in the community to see that your work as a 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.240 mayor can only be further broad elevated if you were 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.200 to become governor. But how do you make the connection 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.800 for folks who don't follow politics so closely as to 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.120 why it is you would go from being a local 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.440 mayor with an excellent resume but more work to do, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.360 to now being mayor, I mean being governor something like mayor, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.160 but of a state governor of New Jersey. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.840 That's a good point because you're an executive and you're moving. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.760 A lot of these people who run for governor are 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.040 not executives. Never ran anything that, never organized anything. The 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.840 buck never stopped with this ran. They don't have to 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.880 answer or be responsible for anything. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:14:59.280 But we do. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:14:59.800 That's right. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.080 So the things that we do locally people do get 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.080 frustrated when you begin to move on because they feel 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.240 like it took you too long to do what you did, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:07.840 and they want it. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.480 They want you to finish. You gave them, that's right. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.520 But but you know, when you move on, you have 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.280 more resources, more opportunity to field is bigger, uh, you know, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.200 because what we're trying to do is heavy, and so 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.600 to move it, you need more hands on deck. You 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.840 need more people involved. You need more resources, more, more laws, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:26.680 more opportunity. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:27.280 Uh. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.560 And you also need to make way for somebody else 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.280 because you don't want to be the mayor forever that key. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.640 You want to be able to bring people up. We 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.360 grew up in a place where the mayors were mayored 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.640 for twenty years. I never wanted to do that, right, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.760 So I want to be able to groom young people 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.160 so they could take over where we left off and 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.240 begin to carry it baton further and then be in 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.760 a spot to give them the resources that nobody gave. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.120 Me before you. I was gonna say, before you leave, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.120 tell people what you what you need. I mean, because 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.000 you know, likes on your Twitter feed and prayer right 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.520 are good, but that ain't how you necessarily win elections. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.080 Andrew didn't make it that far on love alone. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.280 Right, I would say, go to Rask for Governor and donate. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.240 We need ten dollars, twenty dollars, thirty dollars, forty dollars. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.720 We need that. We are you know, we are high 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.160 up in the polls. We're doing well. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.040 Our name recognition is big because we're the mayor of 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.120 the largest city in the state. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.040 Our favorabilities are high. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.560 We just need the resources to be able to knock 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.840 on doors and pass out literatures and literature and come 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.520 to your neighborhood and your block. So I would, you know, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.960 admonish people to go to rasfogovernor dot com and donate 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.880 as much as you can. And if you live in 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.920 New Jersey, host something in your house and let us 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.080 come through and I'll come talk to two people, three people, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.360 thirty people, it doesn't matter. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:49.560 Yeah, you're HEARDing Native lampod fam invite the governor elects. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.400 We're going to speak that into existence into your house. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.400 Mister mayor. Thank you so much. We know it's very 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.160 the busy time for you. So we want to thank 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.960 you for joining us, hate you taking the time. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:58.440 Thank you. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.680 We are joined now by Derek Johnson, the president of 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.679 N double A CP, and Angela and Derek have a 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:05.879 unique history. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.760 Angela, you want to tell us about your. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:08.800 Bond you all have. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.639 Yes, we actually and the that's a good teaser for 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.080 our next guest. Derek and I become like siblings because 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.040 of the tutelage and the mentorship of Benny Gordon Thompson, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.200 who of course was mentored by Fanny Louhammer. And that's 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.480 the sixth year anniversary that Bacari just referenced. Derek, you 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:33.000 are running the most innovative campaign in restoring the brand 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.600 and the legacy of N double ACP. Talk to us 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.000 about why this week is so important for the civil 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.399 rights community and and what you had to say in 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.520 your speech in bringing people into the folk. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.840 Well, it's significant because we didn't get here because we 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:47.800 woke up this morning. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.080 One second, Derek, we are yeah, Okay, go ahead. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.639 You're on one. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.400 Yes, sure, that was Angela those I think. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:57.760 I think. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.920 So we didn't get here because we woke up this morning. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.600 We got here because there was a lot of sacrifice, blood, 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:04.520 strategy and work to. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:05.679 Bring us to this moment. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.359 And so part of what I talked about in the 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.640 speech was given the history of the nineteen sixty four 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.400 Missipi Democratic Freedom Democratic Party and all the work they 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.760 did leading up to nineteen seventy three in large city 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.760 mayors getting elected, whether it's Manager Jackson, coman young Tom 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.080 Bradley turning the corner to nineteen eighty four to eighty 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:31.440 eight with Jesse Jackson, who really established what was possible, 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.520 would keep hope alive, and you turn the corner. You 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.960 look at this moment, we would not have a convention 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.040 the way we're having. And now if individuals didn't put 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.720 together strategy, they understood the rules, they implemented the rules, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.720 and they didn't run to the microphone. They ran to 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.960 the work. And that's what's really important. 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.520 Derek, let me ask you, because there are a lot 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:02.840 of people you and I met in Jackson where you 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.359 did a lot of work, and in Jackson, the NAACP 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.680 is like a governing body practically has a lot of relevance. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.119 There are cities where you know, when it's time for strategy, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:14.560 don't hear people say, oh, I just came from the 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.679 NAACP meeting. So for people who don't necessarily have a 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.040 personal connection to the organization, what today is the significance 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.000 of the NAACP and why should people their care? 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.240 Excellent question. So you know one of thing I'm gonna 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.600 start here piably too. Ray socli car Micros to come 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.880 to two Glue College where I'm a graduate every year 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.640 and he would say organize, organized, organized, and he said, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.119 whether it was your Sunday school or this organization, I 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.800 don't believe in organizational supremacy. I believe in getting the 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.200 work done. And if the NACP is your vehicle for voice, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.240 then use it. If you go to another community, is 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.080 that's not your vehicle, but you have a vehicle to 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.520 impart a Black community, then I celebrate that. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.200 So for us, we got. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.840 To make sure that community by community we build out 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.119 an infrastructure of black power and use the vehicles that 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.719 are available in ACP. We are most predominant in the 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.119 Southeast region where the former Confederate States, where majority of 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.080 black people live, not large metropolitan areas. In fact, I 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.520 met Andrew through the NACP when where he was a 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.560 high school student and then went on to the family 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.840 Because in local communities, whether you Florida with th h Pool, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.680 when you started Aaron Herroy, when I started that's the infrastructure. 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.600 The backbone of the black community. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.040 We oftentimes look to major city politics and we forget 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.200 about majority of black folks don't live in Detroit, Chicago, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:30.680 New York. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:32.200 They live in the Southeast region. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:38.240 Yea from Chicago from Mississippi anyway is nothing but the 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:39.760 capital of minister Mississippi. 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.840 I mean, this is nor North Mississippi. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:43.840 And you think about you know your father, right, your 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.000 father was a part of that group who put forth 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.920 a strategy as students to recognize that this generational fight 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.240 we have us versus them all, versus young male versus female. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:58.680 It's a self defeating reality. Intergenerational organized have always been 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.800 the most effective approach. Community centric leadership is the most 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.199 effective approach. When you start having ecocentric leadership is the 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.080 beginning of the end because individuals will fail you, but 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.439 community interests will always seceed. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:13.760 And that's how I try to lead to NACP. So 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:15.640 if I go to the community in a CP, ain't 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:15.960 the lead? 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.119 Great, plug me into what is the lead? Because i'most 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:19.920 celebrate that too. 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.280 Go ahead ahead, what are some of the I mean, 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:27.320 we celebrate you often, but we don't necessarily know the 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.840 challenges you face. What are some of the challenges you 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.720 face and overcome on a daily basis as being the 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.280 leader of the oldest civil rights organization. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:39.679 Yeah, remember the. 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:49.000 Internal community external, because internal a mess. If anybody ever 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.399 went to a tend of the Black Baptist Church, that's 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:52.280 the nub A CP. 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.960 We are all of you. Name it. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.440 Benny Thompson, who's of course ranking member on Homeland Security 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.000 out of Mississippi, and he and Derek and Angela all 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.160 work together in the House were of Congress. 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.119 We look, we work for this lovely gentleman. 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.880 He's also the superstar that you all were recognized from 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:20.560 the January sixth Special Committee. 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.480 Welcome, Boss, thank you so much. I'm happy to be here. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:29.480 We're happy to have you. 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.000 You arrived just in time, Congressman, because Derek was about 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.240 to tell us what is the biggest challenge he faces 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:37.320 at the NAACP and needs all of our help and 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:38.360 try to address. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:42.679 Is money? 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:48.400 Is people with common sense and courage. You get the money, 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:49.560 common sense and courage. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:50.639 You know the content. 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:52.720 And I it was been fourteen years ago. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.440 I was in DC for something and we were trying 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.359 to get someone to activate because we was doing inside 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:02.320 outside strategy and look, he says, you know, I'm getting older. 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:03.600 You can't do this by yourself. 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.159 We need to build something so we can replenish the 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.120 progressive black community in Mississippi. 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:11.200 You are fourteen years later. 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.200 We have a whole system where we train people over 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:16.800 nine months, twenty five folks, and we put them that 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:20.400 we have. I mean, you have actually US attorney nominees, 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:24.840 district attorney sheriffs, beautations, barbers. Because the leadership don't come 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:28.520 with titles or degrees, becomes with courage and common sense. 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:29.560 And that's how we see this. 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:31.960 Congressman, I want to bring you in the conversation because 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:35.159 Derek was just explaining to our listeners or something. We 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.280 all know that a lot of times in the mainstream 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.440 media when we talk about rural politics, the face of 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:44.920 that politic is the body politic is a white person. 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.800 When we know a lot of our community lives below 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.080 the Bible belt in rural communities, we too are rural America. 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:55.880 You have championed legislation the lack of hospitalization in the South. 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.280 That was a piece of legislation that you introduced in 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:00.520 the House to make health care more accessible. 0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:03.639 What would you say to the people who. 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:06.439 Feel forgotten about in those Bible belts, like, how can 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:10.640 they too sing America and be acknowledged that they too 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:13.399 are a part of a country that sometimes it so 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:14.200 often forgets about it. 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.720 Well, thank you so much for having me. The notion is, 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:19.679 in this democracy, you have to participate. 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:21.280 What we have to do is to. 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:26.160 Organize those communities just like we organize urban areas. 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:27.439 They're no different. 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:31.720 They've just been overlooked and once you get there you 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:36.119 find out, Gee, they are just like people in the 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.639 big city. And so what we have to do is 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:44.200 have a joint strategy urban rule to make sure that 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:49.200 no one is overlooked. Our problem in America is that 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:53.840 we somehow, even in urban areas, overlook the black community. 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:55.960 In the rural areas, they're forgotten. 0:24:56.640 --> 0:25:00.720 And so we just resolved a lot of black farmer 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:02.040 issues in this country. 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:06.440 Huge, that's right. But this is the fourth time that 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:07.600 we had to do a pavement. 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:11.359 You know, we did the pickfoot case pick for the 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:11.840 one and two. 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.560 That's right, And so all of a sudden, people say, oh, 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:19.320 isn't that wonderful now, but we're still behind because a 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:21.280 lot of people who still owe debt. 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.160 Uh that got the money, but they owe more money 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:26.320 in debt than they had. 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:27.840 John Boyd, that's right. 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.960 So what we have to do now is to somehow 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:35.080 come up with that strategy that encompasses it all. And 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:38.199 so that's why at a convention like this, we need 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:41.320 to make sure that a lot of those policies after 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:45.240 we celebrate, are talked about and that that that policy 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:47.520 is absolutely how. 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:48.240 We put it together. 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:51.800 That's one of my favorite things about having worked for you, 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:54.479 and I think still work for you. I learned from 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:58.560 him all the time, and you will always say, we 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:01.200 can celebrate this, but we got work to do, so 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:03.119 we can't celebrate too long. What are some of the 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:05.480 things that you think it is imperative in addition to 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:07.960 taking care of our rural communities that have to be 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:10.880 addressed this week. We know there are protests happening simultaneous. 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.119 Yeah, but you know, to be honest with you, the 0:26:14.400 --> 0:26:17.119 protests that are going on when you talk to people 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:23.960 in my district, it's probably number twenty out of fifteen 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:28.640 in terms of priorities because everybody is in a survival mode. 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.359 They want to make sure that kids get education, they 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:35.560 want healthcare. Now you can talk foreign policy, but you know, 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:39.840 it's about what I'm getting right here at home, and 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:43.640 if the policies don't impact me at home, it's tough 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:47.360 for me to look overseas at a policy. The other 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.680 situation we have to do is to make sure that 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:55.720 the policy make us don't overlook people. That paternalistic approach 0:26:55.960 --> 0:27:00.240 to politics is crazy. That means that, oh, you just 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:03.000 elect me and I know what's good for you. That's 0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:08.600 absolutely ludicrous. You know, unless you've walked in my shoes, 0:27:08.960 --> 0:27:11.600 you don't know anything about me other than what you 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:15.119 might have read. And so our challenge in this country 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:19.680 is to put those concerns on the front burner. You know, 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.440 too many times we've been told, oh, oh, we're gonna 0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:24.680 get to it. Yeah, you know, I got to get elected. 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:29.399 And you know, look, every major entity in this country 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:34.880 has leverage, but somehow the black community has always been told, well, 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.320 you know it'll come, you know it'll and it never comes. 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:43.679 Congressman, can you speak to as our nominee Kamala Harrison 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:46.600 continues to make her rounds around the country a lot 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:50.159 of time and in really important flip states. But I 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:52.200 wonder to the point that you just made for the 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:54.840 community that sits at home and says, we're always the 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:57.879 backbone of this party, but we rarely rarely get to 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.119 toil in the largest of it. What advice might you 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:04.280 have for her, as she, of course rightly focuses on 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:07.160 some of these swing states to ensure that a message 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:11.720 is delivered are at home community that she's gonna be 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:12.479 their president too. 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:16.360 Well, that's why the speech I'm looking for Thursday night 0:28:16.960 --> 0:28:23.600 has to be encomplishing of all the Democratic constituents. And 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:28.920 I think she is that person properly positioned to make 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:32.960 those arguments on behalf not just of people of color, 0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:38.040 but people who have been left out. And so it's look, 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:41.160 the people on the other side are gonna demogogue her 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:44.640 for sure anyway, So you might as well come with 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:48.239 those issues that are important, and once you come with them, 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:49.800 then you go with it. 0:28:50.080 --> 0:28:51.320 But you come with sound. 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:56.400 Policies, those policies around healthcare, those policies around education, those 0:28:56.800 --> 0:28:59.560 about income insecurity, all those kinds of things. 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:03.760 I mean, one thing she's talking about with the housing issue, well, 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:04.280 you know. 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:07.640 When you put that twenty five thousand dollars down on 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:12.360 the home ownership thing, guess guess who does the financing. 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.120 Guess who owns the lumber company? 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:16.120 You know. 0:29:16.440 --> 0:29:19.680 I mean, so it's a it's good for the economy. 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.040 Don't look at that family that gets a home for 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:28.600 the first time. Right, I'm still putting water systems together 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:33.120 in my district. When the system comes and says, well, 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:35.720 why are you always helping them? I said, I'm glad 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:39.080 you asked. Do you know who owned the pipe company 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:44.479 that sells all these pipes for this rual water system? 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:49.520 You know who sells the meter who? So all we 0:29:49.720 --> 0:29:53.480 get is the water. We get none of the economics. Now, 0:29:53.760 --> 0:29:57.040 if we are really radical, we would say to that 0:29:57.200 --> 0:30:00.800 pipe company, you have to have a conversity equit an 0:30:00.880 --> 0:30:05.360 inclusion program so that when that community gets water, they 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:06.080 also get. 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:07.800 Some of the economics that go with it. 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:08.320 That's right. 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:13.080 Yeah, some said that's radical, but that's paying community back, 0:30:13.840 --> 0:30:15.000 putting people in office. 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:16.720 Let me let me just ask a question of both 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:20.040 of you guys, while you're here and before y'all traverse 0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:22.480 and meet all these people, good folks out here. What 0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:26.240 I've been admiring is nineteen eighty four was Jesse, two 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.760 thousand and eight was Barack Obama. Twenty sixteen was also 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:34.360 Hillary with a little history. They all stand on the 0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:36.640 shoulders of Fanny Lou and they stand on the shoulders 0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:39.040 of Shirley Chisholm. But what are you seeing in this 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:42.240 convention that makes Kamala Harris a little bit different? And 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.640 what do you hope we learned from all of those 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:47.719 heroes and heroines that have come before. Well, and that's 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:48.960 for both of that one, both of you guys. 0:30:49.040 --> 0:30:53.080 Yes, yeah, Well I knew Fann and Lou oh very personally. 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:57.920 She became my role mal. The first real campaign I 0:30:58.080 --> 0:31:01.640 worked in was her campaign for Congress, of which I 0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:05.960 now represent that district. So you know, history has a 0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:09.400 way of repeating itself, so that legacy we can't let 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:14.160 become forgotten. So for sixty years she came and said 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:17.320 to Democrats, you know you got to do better. You know, 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:23.640 you can't patronize us and then enjoy all the spoies 0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:24.520 of victory. 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:26.080 You have to be inclusive. 0:31:26.440 --> 0:31:29.560 And that's what we have to do as a people, 0:31:29.680 --> 0:31:33.400 is not let our friends forget us, that's right, not 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:36.440 let our friends take us for granted. And so for 0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:42.160 Fannyluke celebration sixty years, we're still in training. 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:44.920 Because we haven't fulfilled. 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:50.840 That notion that somehow, as fan Lu said, we're sick 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:53.480 and tired of being sick and tired. And a lot 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:55.840 of us are sick and tired of being sick and 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:58.360 tired of telling our friends what they need to do. 0:31:58.720 --> 0:32:02.080 Yes, yes, say it for the people in the back bus. 0:32:02.400 --> 0:32:06.560 Yeah, you know, you know the lesson and all of 0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:08.800 this is none of us can do it by ourselves. 0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:13.160 And if we think we are the super person that's 0:32:13.160 --> 0:32:15.520 gonna do by ourselves, we're gonna fail every time time, 0:32:15.800 --> 0:32:19.800 and we're going to disrupt progress of people. You know, 0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:22.600 I grew up in Detroit. I come to Mississippi. I 0:32:22.680 --> 0:32:27.640 went to Tugaloo, and instantly I was surrounded by, you know, 0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:31.280 a large number of folks who were civil rights veterans, 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:32.760 whether it's snake or whatever else. 0:32:33.560 --> 0:32:34.560 And I felt at home. 0:32:34.960 --> 0:32:38.640 Why because the lessons that were there for me not 0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:41.520 to make old mistakes. We've got to stop making old mistakes. 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:44.280 There as new ones to make. Secondly, you have people 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:46.880 who were committed to improve the quite of life of 0:32:46.960 --> 0:32:51.080 our communities, and they had been doing it for generations. Thirdly, 0:32:51.800 --> 0:32:55.240 I have a responsibility to both listen to the wisdom 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:58.160 and train the youth, because if we don't do that, 0:32:58.320 --> 0:33:01.480 we will lose the progress as made. We wouldn't sit 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:03.720 we'd be we wouldn't be sitting here. We would have 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.960 never had a Barack Obama if it wasn't for your father, 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:09.280 if it wasn't for a fella new hammer, if it 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:11.840 wasn't for you can name another a lot of people, 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:16.080 including conference maker, ell a banker, you know, because they 0:33:16.280 --> 0:33:20.040 sacrificed and they would not you know, celebrities. Then we 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:23.000 celebrate them more now, but now that they're dead than 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:25.120 when they was alive. And so we need more people 0:33:25.160 --> 0:33:27.880 who are willing to sacrifice to improve the quality of 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.680 life of all black folks and not just for themselves. 0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:33.240 Yeah, can I ask so, Congress, might I want to 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:36.240 tell you that Angela told us a story one time 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:40.520 about when she was your staffer and she was exhausted 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:43.800 with something, and she made the mistake of saying she 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:47.479 was tired, and you said you tired, stressed out, stressed 0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:48.440 out out, stressed out? 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:50.080 Are you stressed out? 0:33:50.720 --> 0:33:53.360 We heard you gave her quite the tongue lashing that 0:33:53.600 --> 0:33:55.200 day for being stressed out. 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:59.120 Well, you know, when I was a young child, uh 0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:04.920 who loved me the most. Yes, gave me the worst 0:34:04.960 --> 0:34:07.640 whooping of my life. And that was my mama. 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:08.200 Yeah. 0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:11.800 And look and after Mama disciplined me, she said, I 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:13.200 did that because I love you. 0:34:13.400 --> 0:34:14.880 Yeah, all worse. 0:34:15.320 --> 0:34:17.080 She said, you know that hurt me more than it 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:22.360 hurts you. So I take Angela in that perspective because 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:26.319 I see the talent. The other thing she didn't tell 0:34:26.400 --> 0:34:29.759 you she might have is I told her that her 0:34:29.960 --> 0:34:34.719 job was to help me make some black folk rich 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:38.919 in the government space. She looked at me and said, 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:41.799 I said, look, I don't care what you do. If 0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:45.719 we need to bring booring Lockheed Martin the CEOs here 0:34:46.080 --> 0:34:50.680 and asked them about diversity, asked them about and so 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:56.000 twice a month we brought those folks in and we asked, 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:57.959 you know, do y'all have black people? 0:34:58.560 --> 0:35:00.839 I love that, you know, I mean, you know, I mean. 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:02.040 It's it's what you do. 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.520 How many people on your board, your corporate board, how 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:06.680 many in the c suite the executive rings. 0:35:06.800 --> 0:35:08.480 Absolutely, that's right, we appreciate you. 0:35:09.160 --> 0:35:13.120 But now that the problem with that is those companies 0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:16.719 will go around my back. That's somebody who look like 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:22.359 me and every time and try to you know, say, oh, well, 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:26.200 you know, we can't talk to Benny, but we can 0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:27.400 talk to Robert. 0:35:27.719 --> 0:35:28.959 Perpetual, one of the people. 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:30.080 Harriet was left behind. 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:35.000 You let me sorry when you work for the count 0:35:35.120 --> 0:35:37.680 man my second day, he said, okay, let me tell 0:35:37.680 --> 0:35:38.000 you what you do. 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:40.880 Your jobs have black folks, you may you're gonna make 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:41.320 a mistake. 0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:43.399 That's okay. As long as you having black folks. If 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:44.800 you make the mis sake, ain't having black folks. And 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:46.399 we got a problem. But as long as you having 0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:49.080 black folks. Yeah, and you fast forward, you talk to 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:52.080 our college. Our college will say tell you that his 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:55.800 consultancy goverment relationships firm would not exist but for the 0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:58.440 contry because folks came to his office. One of meet 0:35:58.560 --> 0:36:00.360 he said, y'all come back when y'all got somebody that 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:04.000 can talk to Well, you said, you got a recommendation. 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:07.600 It's fell over here next to you know, Art starts 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:08.200 the group. 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:10.719 Yeah, and he did it all ethically and above board. 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:13.880 That's most important thing. Yes, absolutely, because you. 0:36:13.880 --> 0:36:16.120 Know car they would tell me, so, you know, if 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:18.120 I could find somebody. 0:36:22.280 --> 0:36:23.600 Right there, but if I could find some if I 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:26.840 could find some talent right today. 0:36:27.360 --> 0:36:29.600 Some times that made us put together a book for 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:34.320 hearing witnesses, for appointees in the administration, for staffers. We 0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:36.920 absolutely had to do that. So you you talked right 0:36:36.960 --> 0:36:37.439 to his heart. 0:36:37.760 --> 0:36:40.399 Yes, well, we tried to do on mainstream media as well, 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:42.600 because it's like, there are black people who can talk 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:44.880 about Middle East politics, there are black people you can 0:36:44.920 --> 0:36:46.200 talk about domestic policies. 0:36:46.239 --> 0:36:49.080 But the example of the congressman what I love about it? 0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:51.239 And Derek, I'm going to tell you something about you 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:55.319 and this but is it is? It is transferable any 0:36:55.920 --> 0:36:58.440 if you were an elected official, you're a policymaker. You 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:01.080 are a person out there who runs owned business and 0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:03.759 you are operating right now, and you're not asking the 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:08.600 sensible questions about why doesn't this reflect the community that 0:37:08.719 --> 0:37:08.920 we have? 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:11.520 Why doesn't this room reflect the community that we have? 0:37:11.719 --> 0:37:14.320 When I lost the race for governor and twenty eighteen, 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:16.759 one of the first calls I got in late twenty 0:37:16.840 --> 0:37:20.480 eighteen was from that brother over there, Derek Johnson, asking me, 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:22.000 are you set up? 0:37:22.080 --> 0:37:22.760 Are you okay? 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:25.920 He knew that, in addition to me having come out 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:28.200 of that race that way, that I was also no 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:31.440 longer mayor, and he didn't know what my economic situation was, 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:33.720 but he can't go to do it. And I had kids, 0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:35.759 and he said he wanted me to be okay. And 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:39.080 I use these two examples. One, they're excellent examples of. 0:37:40.719 --> 0:37:41.120 Humans. 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:45.839 But their clarity around the way in which they are 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:48.960 to impact the world is clear. But it doesn't belong 0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:52.480 to them. It's transferable. All of us can learn from 0:37:52.520 --> 0:37:52.759 it and. 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:54.800 We can repeat it. And gentlemen, we thank you for 0:37:54.840 --> 0:37:55.480 that examptly, you know. 0:37:55.560 --> 0:37:57.160 And I think I messed up because I asked him 0:37:57.160 --> 0:37:58.360 should I start a gofund me? 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:00.400 Yeah, take it. 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:01.719 He didn't take mine. 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:05.200 Coming from the heart, we can't help. 0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:17.440 But before you leave the set, I do want to ask. 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:21.600 You have two former staffers here, Which of the two 0:38:22.040 --> 0:38:23.800 former staffers. 0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:25.560 The most. 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:28.960 The one you like the best? 0:38:30.840 --> 0:38:31.200 I don't know. 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:37.520 He just looked, but look, look, uh, my job is 0:38:37.680 --> 0:38:40.000 to train another hundred people. 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:44.680 And look when somebody comes and. 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:49.600 Complained to me about how hard Angela is on them, 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:52.000 I know Angela is doing a job. 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:55.520 Right When they say that Derek that you know, I 0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:57.799 don't understand. I can't talk to Derek. He did. 0:38:58.239 --> 0:39:01.800 Derek's doing his job, so I judge them by the 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:09.400 people who come to me complaining about if nobody's complaining that, 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:13.400 that's right, and we have a lot to do, but 0:39:13.600 --> 0:39:19.120 our charge for this audience. We now have people in 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:23.280 positions who can help us make a difference, and somehow 0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:29.000 they take the coloration and character of the enemy. And 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:33.160 so we now find ourselves button the heads with people 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:37.480 who look like us, trying to convince them that it's 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:40.200 all right to do business with people who look like you. 0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:43.879 Now we would never say do business with someone that's 0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:47.640 not qualified, but the most of the people you're doing 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:50.839 business with you don't even know. One of the things 0:39:50.920 --> 0:39:56.600 I'm doing now is mentoring people who are new mayors 0:39:56.920 --> 0:40:00.080 in cities. I was a mayor in the seventies, and 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:03.240 I said, especially when those mayors have either been congress 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:05.840 people or something like that. I said, Now, when you 0:40:06.000 --> 0:40:10.799 win that office, uh, and this consultant comes up who've 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:14.239 been representing that city that you've been the congress person 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:16.040 and you never met them. 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:17.640 Problem, run them off. 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:21.759 Run them off if they didn't see the value of 0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.759 you when you were in this other position. When you 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:28.120 hear now, yeah, yeah, if you want to watch out, 0:40:28.680 --> 0:40:31.600 they'll go and bring somebody who looks like you that 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:36.440 you don't even know. They're not going to even give 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:40.200 you the respect of saying, look, I'm looking for somebody. 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:43.239 Send me some people you might know. They'll go pick 0:40:43.320 --> 0:40:47.400 Joe blow off the street, put put a suit on him. 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:55.600 Uh huh, yes, yeah, Congressman, we know, we know you 0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:57.000 and Derek are both super busy. 0:40:57.080 --> 0:41:11.239 We want to thank you guys so much. Appreciate finest Congressman. 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:14.279 We appreciate, we love, thank you. 0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:19.759 We are being joined right now by Democratic Senator Race. 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:22.960 We're being joined right now by Democratic Senator Corey Booker 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.319 from New Jersey. He was one of three senators black 0:41:26.400 --> 0:41:29.200 senators in the upper chamber of the House during Vice 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:33.880 President President elect Kamala Harris's tenure in the senior Senator. 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:35.960 We're so happy to have you. Thank you so much 0:41:36.040 --> 0:41:37.000 for taking I. 0:41:37.040 --> 0:41:37.880 Am thrilled to be here. 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:38.440 Thank you. 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:40.279 We are home. 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:43.839 I feel I would just hang out with you guys 0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:45.920 if there weren't thousands of people watching. 0:41:46.960 --> 0:41:48.600 I know you got to run quickly. We just grabbed 0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:49.600 you off the street real quick. 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:51.600 If you could tell Kamala Harris what we need to 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:54.239 do over the next four days to elicit that hope 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:57.479 that we know reverberates within you and get people turned 0:41:57.480 --> 0:41:57.960 out to vote. 0:41:57.960 --> 0:41:58.560 What you're telling her. 0:41:58.840 --> 0:42:00.640 I want to tell people the truth right now, Kamala 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:04.319 Harris is next level, exceptional, extraordinary. I got a chance 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:06.640 to serve for word. I'm not worried about her. The 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:09.879 thing that's most exciting to me right now and I'm 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:12.480 telling you right now, all of us maybe a year 0:42:12.600 --> 0:42:15.520 or two old to really understand this, what is happening 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:18.560 with young people in America who many of them were 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:19.280 maybe four. 0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:21.839 Or five, six, seven years old in two thousand and eight. 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:25.120 They are now equipped with tools and technology we never 0:42:25.160 --> 0:42:25.920 even dreamed of. 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:28.200 They are driving this campaign. 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:32.680 This will be the first true millennial gen Z election 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:37.279 of our lifetime because they are making her viral, They 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:41.400 are elevating her and creating enthusiasm, and so I just 0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:44.200 want to say to the young people, you will decide 0:42:44.320 --> 0:42:46.960 the outcome of this election. I know that we have 0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:49.680 older voters and voting at high percentages and the like. 0:42:50.000 --> 0:42:54.160 But the hype, the energy, the excitement, the funk, the groove, 0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:57.640 the things that I think bring real soul to a campaign. 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:00.319 I think that's coming from the top, but it's really 0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:03.520 being sourced from a new generation of young people who, 0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:06.480 for the first election in their lifetime, are really ascending. 0:43:06.719 --> 0:43:08.800 Senator Booger is always so good to see you. We 0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:10.760 were told you had about five seconds. 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:23.760 So what an exciting time? Only amazing people walking by, Angela. 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:26.280 What was it like for you having your former boss 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:27.000 on sets? 0:43:27.680 --> 0:43:28.759 You let me tell you. 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.160 So I get to serve on the CBC Institute board 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:34.120 with Congressman times and and with Derek actually, so it's 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:36.680 always a good time. And so I knew he would 0:43:36.719 --> 0:43:39.680 be excited t if you got right to the thing 0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:43.000 that he both loves and hates, and so I knew. 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:45.160 I was like, Oh, she got him on a roll, baby, 0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:47.359 And I love to see him like that because people 0:43:47.440 --> 0:43:50.560 normally see BGT so reserved. So to hear him like 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:52.200 in his comforta and you could see he was like, Oh, 0:43:52.239 --> 0:43:53.640 we're gonna post up here on a. 0:43:53.640 --> 0:43:55.560 Board, let's go. So we love that. 0:43:55.719 --> 0:44:00.040 We it's also a pleasure who talked already about but Caari. 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:01.120 And a guest host with us. 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:04.520 We're doing a joint podcast today with the Bacari Sellers Podcast, 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:08.400 and right now we're walking at Congressman Jamal Bowman. 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:10.239 New York. 0:44:11.880 --> 0:44:14.640 You got to stop doing. You gotta stop doing before 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:15.520 you put your shirt on. 0:44:15.880 --> 0:44:22.240 Okay, and then he got that got that medium. 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:28.440 He's literally joining. 0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:31.239 You. 0:44:34.160 --> 0:44:35.680 I'm just happy, Congressman. 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:38.400 I'm sorry, congress Yeah, we are so happy to have 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:42.360 you with We don't call you congressman as long as 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:43.319 you in the House of. 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:45.760 Congressman until he runs for Senate. 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:50.800 I do want to just say thank you. I know 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:52.840 you're busy, and and thank you for joining us. 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:54.160 I do just want to say a lot of people 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:55.799 don't know a lot about your background, but you are 0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:59.239 a pH d. You have worked in education, you are 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:03.680 married to an educator, and you know sadly you lost 0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:06.959 your congressional bid. We talked about it on our show, 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:10.840 but your background kind of got lost in that narrative. 0:45:11.120 --> 0:45:14.440 So I'm curious, because you know, we're here at another 0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:19.600 historic Democratic national convention. There are protests out that were 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:22.000 connected to a lot of the issues why some arguably 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:24.680 why you may have lost your district. What would you 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:27.800 like to say to the Native Land Pod audience today, 0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:28.680 First of all. 0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:30.440 Peace and love to you all. Really good to be 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:31.040 here with you. 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:33.640 I think this is the first time Angela has interviewed 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:37.240 me on any platform. So great to be with Angela 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:38.799 Baccari brother, Andrew, you. 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:40.800 And I go way back. Yes, well, good to be 0:45:40.880 --> 0:45:41.279 with you all. 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:44.680 And yes, education for twenty years before running for Congress, 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:49.000 teacher guidance counselor, middle school principal for ten years now. 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:52.320 The PhD ed d in education leadership. 0:45:52.000 --> 0:45:56.280 Special education circles. 0:45:56.680 --> 0:45:58.319 But yeah, I ran because of my kids. 0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:01.279 I governed for the kids and families who have been 0:46:01.400 --> 0:46:04.440 marginalized and least loss and left behind. It was a 0:46:04.480 --> 0:46:06.560 great time in Congress. The work will continue for the 0:46:06.640 --> 0:46:08.520 rest of my life. We all gonna fight for justice 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:12.520 no matter what. And yeah, regarding the protests, you know, 0:46:12.640 --> 0:46:15.120 we're going to continue to screen free Palestine. We're going 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:18.640 to continue to talk about a foreign policy that's rooted 0:46:18.840 --> 0:46:24.600 in diplomacy and peace and self determination for all people, 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:28.240 no matter what. And the work continues from the Bronx 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:31.440 to Mount Vernon to you know, Gaza, We're gonna keep 0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:31.960 doing the work. 0:46:32.360 --> 0:46:34.520 We ask you the personal question because one of the 0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:37.560 things that Andrew had to go through, I guess what 0:46:37.719 --> 0:46:40.560 year was that? Andrew twenty eighteen year raised twenty eighteen 0:46:40.960 --> 0:46:43.800 in twenty eighteen he went through yesterday. In twenty fourteen, 0:46:44.719 --> 0:46:47.240 I had to go through it. I ran for lieutenant governor, 0:46:47.280 --> 0:46:49.640 gave up my state house seat, Andrew gave up his 0:46:50.160 --> 0:46:53.440 mayoral seed and ran and wasn't successful. We tried to 0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:55.520 trip away at the glass and now you're in this 0:46:55.640 --> 0:46:57.160 same phase. It kind of feels like you're in the 0:46:57.239 --> 0:46:59.680 wilderness for a minute because you've you've been attached to 0:46:59.760 --> 0:47:02.680 something thing for so long. But tell tell people who 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:04.880 have not been there, you know, because a lot of 0:47:04.920 --> 0:47:07.879 times they see politicians win or lose and they don't 0:47:07.920 --> 0:47:09.600 really know what it feels like to go through that 0:47:09.680 --> 0:47:11.440 when you're not on that high of winning. 0:47:12.000 --> 0:47:13.520 And what are you doing to help. 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:15.920 Figure out what the next step is and how are 0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:19.880 you getting there? What's up, brother Ford, to determine, to 0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:20.960 determine what's next for you. 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:22.080 That's a great question. 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:28.360 First and foremost, rest, pray, meditate, spend time with my 0:47:28.480 --> 0:47:31.440 family first and foremost. That's what I did for the 0:47:31.520 --> 0:47:35.200 first few weeks after the race. Races are exhausting, as 0:47:35.239 --> 0:47:38.759 we all know, exhausting, So just resting and spend time 0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:39.560 with my family. 0:47:39.400 --> 0:47:42.960 Especially when they spend time calling you something you're not well. 0:47:44.520 --> 0:47:47.480 You are not more money spent against me than any 0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:52.040 congressional race in history, And so the ads were constant, 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:55.400 the mailers were constant to tell it was really really crazy. 0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:57.360 So first and foremost rests. 0:47:58.040 --> 0:48:02.480 Secondly, quite honestly, I feel a same of liberation after 0:48:02.640 --> 0:48:05.200 this loss, because it's not really you know, every loss 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:08.120 is a learning experience, and I learned a lot in 0:48:08.200 --> 0:48:11.319 Congress for four years. I still have deep, great relationships 0:48:11.360 --> 0:48:13.919 in Congress. I'm going to continue to have those relationships. 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:18.000 But you can have impact and do good work outside 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:21.759 of Congress, and in Congress sometimes you know, I'm a 0:48:21.800 --> 0:48:23.680 little rough around the edges, so I would get myself 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:25.600 in trouble every now and then in Congress. Now I 0:48:25.680 --> 0:48:29.120 feel like, Okay, I'm a private citizen who's still going 0:48:29.200 --> 0:48:30.880 to do everything I can to serve the people of 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:32.959 my district or around the country and around the world. 0:48:33.200 --> 0:48:35.359 Can I ask you, Speaking of around the world, one 0:48:35.400 --> 0:48:38.279 of the things that Congressman Timpson just talked about when 0:48:38.280 --> 0:48:40.000 he was on is that in his. 0:48:40.239 --> 0:48:44.360 District, the issue of Israel Palestine is like. 0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:50.399 A number twenty because folks are just fifteen again, twenty 0:48:50.440 --> 0:48:53.040 out of fifteen. Okay, all right, So But my point 0:48:53.160 --> 0:48:55.200 is that he was saying that they are just on 0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:58.520 kitchen table issues and survival themselves. What do you say 0:48:58.600 --> 0:49:02.439 to folks who have taking this on as issue number one, 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:05.640 right and the folks who are seeing this huge gap 0:49:05.719 --> 0:49:07.759 of it being number twenty out of fifteen, how do 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:10.880 we close that gap? Because there is so many similarities 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:13.920 between these causes of oppression and fighting against it for liberation. 0:49:14.160 --> 0:49:16.200 Yeah, I think it speaks to the diversity of our 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:18.000 country and the diversity of our district. 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:20.000 Like, depending where you are, it may not be, it 0:49:20.080 --> 0:49:21.680 may not even be on the radar. 0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:24.200 At the same time, in my district, it was very 0:49:24.360 --> 0:49:27.560 heavily on the radar, particularly on the other side in 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:29.680 terms of when you look at the majority of Americans, 0:49:29.719 --> 0:49:34.200 the majority of American support a permanent ceasefire, but most 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:36.600 some people, most people in my DISTRICTI vote against me, 0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:39.239 do not support that. And so it was a top 0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:42.040 issue in my district for the kitchen table issue. 0:49:42.160 --> 0:49:43.440 People in my district. 0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:48.440 The conversation around why are we saying spending four billion 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:51.960 dollars a year to support the killing of women and 0:49:52.040 --> 0:49:56.399 children and civilians in Gaza when I'm struggling to pay 0:49:56.520 --> 0:49:59.160 my rant. I'm struggling to pay my mortgage, I'm struggling 0:49:59.280 --> 0:50:02.759 to for childcare, I'm struggling to pay my utilities, I'm 0:50:02.760 --> 0:50:07.319 struggling to afford my day to day existence, and we're 0:50:07.880 --> 0:50:12.200 spending billions overseas to support war. So that's one way 0:50:12.280 --> 0:50:15.040 to bridge the gap. Secondly, and you know, we could 0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:19.080 debate this in different settings. Many people see our support 0:50:19.120 --> 0:50:21.120 of the state of Israel and the way Benjamin and 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:25.480 Yahoo particular is behaving as supporting white supremacy. Yes, and 0:50:25.760 --> 0:50:29.120 that white supremacy is oppressive to black and brown people 0:50:29.200 --> 0:50:31.760 here all the time, whether you look at a Project 0:50:31.840 --> 0:50:34.760 twenty twenty five or even some of the Democrats policies 0:50:34.880 --> 0:50:36.840 historically tough on crime policies. 0:50:37.719 --> 0:50:39.319 White supremacy impacts us. 0:50:39.440 --> 0:50:42.720 All impacts us in the justice system or injustice system 0:50:43.000 --> 0:50:46.640 and the healthcare system, the education system and housing, and 0:50:46.760 --> 0:50:48.280 it impacts us in our foreign policy. 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:50.640 So those are a couple of ways we bridge the 0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:51.560 gap in our district. 0:50:51.600 --> 0:50:52.439 I love that through line. 0:50:52.440 --> 0:50:54.960 I think that makes so much sense, given though that 0:50:55.040 --> 0:50:57.439 there are you know, a significant amount of young people, 0:50:57.560 --> 0:51:03.640 especially who are protesting and pleading with Vice President Kamala Harris. 0:51:03.960 --> 0:51:08.360 Our President elect, I speak it into existence. Yes, absolutely, 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:12.200 given that there are people though, who are frustrated by 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:16.560 the current administration's policy, President Biden, on President Biden's watch, 0:51:16.920 --> 0:51:20.520 the amount of fiscal support that has been given to Israel. 0:51:20.760 --> 0:51:22.440 What would you say to those young people, which I 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:24.879 think is what Angela was alluding to, for those people 0:51:24.920 --> 0:51:27.319 who are making it their central issue, what is your 0:51:27.360 --> 0:51:29.640 piece of advice? Because it's not going to be better 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:34.759 under a president Donald Trump, No, it's not. Can they 0:51:34.760 --> 0:51:38.560 continue to be heard? I guess, pressure but also support 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:43.920 this president because honestly, it's starting to feel like, you know, 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:47.080 sometimes the on the Palace Indian side, black people are 0:51:47.080 --> 0:51:49.719 supporting white supremacy is like time out. Don't let the 0:51:49.800 --> 0:51:52.600 old pressor our community. 0:51:53.120 --> 0:51:58.120 That's that's that's one of the insidious aspects of white 0:51:58.160 --> 0:52:02.480 supremacy is constant and conquer. It's very challenging because I've 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:06.880 met Palestinians who have lost twenty thirty, forty fifty members 0:52:06.920 --> 0:52:10.120 of their family right in Gaza because they all live together. 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:14.120 So you bomb a building, you're killing generations of people. 0:52:14.560 --> 0:52:17.279 So it's going to remain a top issue for the 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:20.040 Palasainian community. It's going to remain a top issue by 0:52:20.080 --> 0:52:22.600 extension for the Muslim community and for the Arab community 0:52:22.600 --> 0:52:25.720 and for Middle Eastern communities, and so continue to speak 0:52:25.840 --> 0:52:28.919 up in protest as what our country is founded upon. 0:52:29.520 --> 0:52:31.640 But you also got to understand that when we talk 0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:37.360 about the fight against white supremacy, black people have always 0:52:37.400 --> 0:52:40.160 been at the forefront of that fight, and we will continue. 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:46.520 Look at this, brother here, answer question seriously, and. 0:52:46.600 --> 0:52:47.359 You come up here. 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:52.840 Let me just tell you you ain't much flavor. 0:52:54.520 --> 0:52:59.279 Flavor of I just want to tell you, and for 0:52:59.400 --> 0:53:03.319 all of our listeners, you guys, Tiffany knows. Tiffany's always 0:53:03.320 --> 0:53:04.879 telling me I need to calm down. I always ready 0:53:04.880 --> 0:53:06.719 to have a meltdown. I was literally about to be 0:53:06.840 --> 0:53:12.879 in tears Tiff and action orientated and shut us. Tiff 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:16.120 with her ability to just think and problem solve, went 0:53:16.160 --> 0:53:18.600 over to Roland and was like, ro we got this 0:53:18.719 --> 0:53:19.920 problem with our cameras. 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:22.640 Can you hook us up? Roland's like, say less, he 0:53:22.760 --> 0:53:23.560 let us borrow. 0:53:23.400 --> 0:53:25.759 Some equipment so we can have this live stream today. 0:53:25.800 --> 0:53:27.120 Y'all, we don't know what was going. 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:29.760 On with our I'll let you borrow five thousand dollars 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:32.400 fly pack that we had built let him have his moments. 0:53:35.040 --> 0:53:37.480 But we're very very grateful. It would not have happened 0:53:37.520 --> 0:53:39.560 without you. I know, our listeners and our viewers are 0:53:39.680 --> 0:53:42.279 very grateful. So we thank God for you, Rolling and 0:53:42.400 --> 0:53:45.120 you're full, and I'll say a kuamba from all the 0:53:45.160 --> 0:53:46.040 people who. 0:53:45.960 --> 0:53:46.640 Are watching. 0:53:49.080 --> 0:53:53.640 Right Okay, but but I'm a version that right always, 0:53:54.239 --> 0:53:57.120 I'm gonna think our Blackstar Network of folks who give 0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.480 our show, because that's how we were able to buy 0:53:59.560 --> 0:54:02.080 two of those we brought to we only using one, 0:54:02.480 --> 0:54:04.320 so they made that possible. 0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:06.080 For y'all. 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:06.600 Thank you. 0:54:07.440 --> 0:54:09.680 So if anybody out there listening and y'all want to 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:12.640 give some money, go to our cash app, Dallas Sidne 0:54:12.719 --> 0:54:16.840 r M unfiltered, PayPal or Martin unfiltered, vemo is Orem unfiltered, 0:54:16.920 --> 0:54:19.120 and Zail rolling at Rolling dot com. 0:54:20.520 --> 0:54:25.879 Can I just say, though this Roland Martin, they still 0:54:25.920 --> 0:54:32.520 interview before no interview with. 0:54:34.320 --> 0:54:35.960 Bro I just want while we have you, though, I 0:54:36.040 --> 0:54:38.560 do want to seriously thank you because you know you 0:54:38.920 --> 0:54:42.200 and I as a journalist, how how important it is 0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:45.400 to not only have black faces but black voices, and 0:54:45.480 --> 0:54:48.440 the Black Star Network you carry things that are not carried, 0:54:49.360 --> 0:54:51.680 you know, Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally three 0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:55.160 million people watched online and the major networks did not 0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:55.839 carry her. 0:54:56.200 --> 0:54:58.920 There are so many things that happened, every single one. 0:54:59.239 --> 0:55:01.919 Yes, even though emphasis on HBCUs. 0:55:02.400 --> 0:55:06.640 Yes, you're working HBCUs your endless love for Alpha Phi 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:08.560 Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. 0:55:08.680 --> 0:55:17.680 Tell your frat brother stop breaking my hand. He's supposed 0:55:17.680 --> 0:55:17.800 to be. 0:55:18.400 --> 0:55:19.000 I want to see you. 0:55:19.160 --> 0:55:21.880 Will see you wednesday, Governor, We'll see you wednesday. But bro, 0:55:22.080 --> 0:55:24.560 I just want to thank you for because you are 0:55:24.840 --> 0:55:27.479 integral to the community. And so if you don't watch 0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:30.480 Black Star Network, well I'm tell you. 0:55:30.560 --> 0:55:33.600 I'm tell you black out coverages being uh anytime somebody 0:55:33.719 --> 0:55:35.319 black come on the stage, I'm like, okay, you about 0:55:35.320 --> 0:55:36.040 to stop talking. 0:55:35.880 --> 0:55:39.200 Back to the stage. So, speaking of speaking of witch 0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:40.560 Kamala Harris on stage right. 0:55:40.480 --> 0:55:43.840 Now, she's not right now, you will see the mayor 0:55:44.080 --> 0:55:44.800 of Chicago. 0:55:45.239 --> 0:55:46.200 No, she is on stage. 0:55:46.920 --> 0:55:50.320 She's on stage seeing different Yours. 0:55:50.280 --> 0:55:54.359 Is probably delayed, Yeah, because you watching it on Black 0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:55.359 Star Network. 0:55:55.080 --> 0:55:55.600 Over here. 0:56:02.000 --> 0:56:03.520 Is a hater. 0:56:03.800 --> 0:56:10.400 But he's also not technically savvy. 0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:14.160 Not because there's a there's a live feed here the 0:56:14.280 --> 0:56:17.799 ninety Center and if you're streaming it there's a delay. Yeah, 0:56:18.000 --> 0:56:19.680 that's somebody who's too has a flip phone. 0:56:19.880 --> 0:56:24.560 Yes, he said he got boost mobile. 0:56:26.239 --> 0:56:28.719 All you can text the car is okay. 0:56:33.800 --> 0:56:34.520 This conversation. 0:56:37.880 --> 0:56:38.960 You are subterranean. 0:56:41.280 --> 0:56:42.839 You are a subterranean over here. 0:56:43.320 --> 0:56:45.080 Well, if if you are tuning into US, I do 0:56:45.280 --> 0:56:48.040 want to say Roland is right. Vice President Kamala Harris 0:56:48.160 --> 0:56:50.800 is taking the stage right now. It looks like she 0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:53.120 seems to be welcoming people to the convention. It looks 0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:55.600 like you may have just shouted out the second gentleman 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:57.640 soon to be the first gentleman, Doug m. 0:56:57.680 --> 0:56:57.879 Hoff. 0:56:57.960 --> 0:57:01.640 Camera's pan to him. This is not her keynote speech, 0:57:01.680 --> 0:57:03.919 which we will hear of course Thursday, and please tune 0:57:03.920 --> 0:57:05.919 in a Native Land pod live. We will be live 0:57:06.000 --> 0:57:08.439 on Thursday right before she speaks, so we'll be talking 0:57:08.440 --> 0:57:10.880 about all the primetime speakers. But yes, she is speaking 0:57:11.000 --> 0:57:13.120 right now, and tune in tomorrow because we will talk 0:57:13.160 --> 0:57:14.120 about some of her remarks. 0:57:14.160 --> 0:57:17.960 And it isn't typical, uh, Tiffany, for the for the 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:20.480 presidential nominee to be here this early, But I think 0:57:20.640 --> 0:57:23.960 this is I think this is partly an o to 0:57:24.120 --> 0:57:26.280 her work in partnership with Joe Biden. 0:57:26.320 --> 0:57:28.400 President Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker. 0:57:28.120 --> 0:57:32.440 Of her unique position as his vice president, but who 0:57:32.480 --> 0:57:35.640 he's passing the tords to, but also as the soon 0:57:35.760 --> 0:57:39.640 to be nominee officially the nominee for the Democratic National Convention. 0:57:41.080 --> 0:57:42.640 And let me let me say what you talk about, 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:45.080 and I won't say ego less, but to be a 0:57:45.280 --> 0:57:49.320 sitting president come on and to say I'll speak on 0:57:49.480 --> 0:57:52.520 Monday and I'm gonna fly to Keller from and you 0:57:52.640 --> 0:57:56.640 have the convention. Uh that listen, we we know President's 0:57:56.640 --> 0:58:00.240 got egos huge. He could have said, Yo, I'm speaking 0:58:00.320 --> 0:58:04.160 on Wednesday. No, he said I'll do Monday, and then. 0:58:04.240 --> 0:58:07.880 You have way that's that's huge where it was huge, brother, 0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:09.920 And I think you'd agree for the man to be 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:12.360 the most powerful leader of the free world so far 0:58:12.400 --> 0:58:15.040 as we know it, and believe he could run and win, 0:58:15.240 --> 0:58:17.560 and to step back and say I don't want that fight. 0:58:17.720 --> 0:58:20.480 Our country doesn't need that fight right now, I said earlier, 0:58:20.560 --> 0:58:22.120 and I hope it will be true this evening. The 0:58:22.160 --> 0:58:24.360 man out of get so much of an ovation this 0:58:24.520 --> 0:58:27.840 evening that there's not time for his remarks because our 0:58:27.880 --> 0:58:31.360 appreciation runs that deep for the sacrifice that he's made, 0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:34.360 not just at this moment but over the arc of 0:58:34.440 --> 0:58:37.480 his uh uh political career. Jamal, I'm curious if you 0:58:37.560 --> 0:58:40.600 have reflections on on on on the believe. 0:58:43.000 --> 0:58:45.120 I'm going to the floor. Y'all got Omega coming up. 0:58:46.520 --> 0:58:50.680 That's a big step down from Alfha. I appreciate it. 0:58:51.960 --> 0:58:53.160 Appreciation appreciated. 0:58:54.640 --> 0:58:56.720 And Chris Chris Berry at I heart, I'm gonna see 0:58:56.720 --> 0:58:57.200 you the envoys. 0:58:58.560 --> 0:58:59.240 That actually is. 0:58:59.280 --> 0:59:02.920 Warranted, Jami, before you chime in here, I know this 0:59:03.080 --> 0:59:05.520 is something that's there to get down, down, stop it, 0:59:08.320 --> 0:59:10.440 shut up. That's near and dear to your heart. And 0:59:10.560 --> 0:59:13.840 that is the theme of this convention today is for 0:59:14.160 --> 0:59:17.080 the people. We know, of course that was Kamala Harris's 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:20.800 a campaign slogan going into twenty twenty, but it's for 0:59:20.960 --> 0:59:24.280 the people for our future is a full campaign theme. 0:59:24.680 --> 0:59:27.320 So I just wanted to talk about that just briefly. 0:59:27.040 --> 0:59:29.200 Because we're seeing a lot of labor leaders, civil rights 0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:30.320 leaders who are coming up today. 0:59:30.320 --> 0:59:33.200 They're showing that huge chant that this party is supposed 0:59:33.240 --> 0:59:33.360 to be. 0:59:33.880 --> 0:59:36.080 And again we know that there's still protests on the outside, 0:59:36.120 --> 0:59:38.360 but even those voices, the dissension is welcome. 0:59:38.800 --> 0:59:41.760 It's all welcome. And if we are for the people, 0:59:41.920 --> 0:59:44.960 we have to be for all the people, and we 0:59:45.120 --> 0:59:46.960 have to be for equity, and we have to be 0:59:47.080 --> 0:59:50.640 for justice in all its forms. And for me to me, 0:59:51.480 --> 0:59:55.000 that means we have to be for universal childcare, universal 0:59:55.080 --> 0:59:57.320 pre K, paid leave for all. 0:59:57.520 --> 0:59:59.760 Finally, we're one of the only developed nations that does 0:59:59.840 --> 1:00:00.919 not I have paid leave. 1:00:01.480 --> 1:00:05.440 We have to make sure we're investing in education, education, education, education, 1:00:05.840 --> 1:00:08.800 and can we please raise the damn federal minimum wage? 1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:09.440 About that? 1:00:09.760 --> 1:00:11.760 Yeah, seven five and hour. 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:14.680 Was still And just to piggyback on that and talk 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:17.120 a little bit about President Biden. So my first two 1:00:17.240 --> 1:00:19.360 years in Congress, we had control of the House and 1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:21.120 the Senate, and I felt like. 1:00:21.240 --> 1:00:22.320 We was rocking and rolling. 1:00:22.360 --> 1:00:22.480 Man. 1:00:22.520 --> 1:00:24.480 We was getting things done in the American Rescue Plan, 1:00:24.600 --> 1:00:27.520 the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the 1:00:27.880 --> 1:00:31.240 Safer Communities Act, the Bipartis of Infrastructure Bill. We were 1:00:31.320 --> 1:00:35.080 getting things done and it was incredibly active and incredibly inspiring. 1:00:35.680 --> 1:00:38.360 Two years later, Republicans come in take control and we 1:00:38.680 --> 1:00:42.720 literally stopped doing the people's work. And so when we 1:00:42.800 --> 1:00:46.240 talk about contrasts, to me, there's no conversation Republicans want 1:00:46.240 --> 1:00:47.840 to shut down the federal government. 1:00:48.080 --> 1:00:51.440 They want to end the Department of Education, they want. 1:00:51.320 --> 1:00:55.720 To defund health and Human Services. Human services. Democrats were 1:00:55.800 --> 1:00:57.840 governing for the people. We just have to continue that. 1:00:58.160 --> 1:01:01.280 And when President Kamala gets in and we have to 1:01:01.320 --> 1:01:04.160 support her on the outside by holding members of Congress, 1:01:04.200 --> 1:01:07.360 the House is centered accountable to push a very aggressive 1:01:07.360 --> 1:01:09.720 agenda forward because we need transformation right now. 1:01:09.880 --> 1:01:10.600 We do, we do. 1:01:18.440 --> 1:01:21.000 While we speaking of transformation real quick, Macory, I do 1:01:21.160 --> 1:01:21.560 just want to. 1:01:21.600 --> 1:01:23.720 Welcome let me introduce. 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:29.640 Be taking all a you. 1:01:31.320 --> 1:01:32.640 Like this Saturday mornings. 1:01:36.320 --> 1:01:41.160 Like I'm Andrew. My god, you guys don't be welcome 1:01:41.240 --> 1:01:41.919 back to the show. 1:01:43.880 --> 1:01:47.280 A young man from Morehouse College who is just exceptional 1:01:47.400 --> 1:01:49.280 in the amazing city of Montgomery. I love how we 1:01:49.320 --> 1:01:50.959 have the balance on this show. We have some people 1:01:51.000 --> 1:01:53.040 from the big city of New York, the brons et 1:01:53.120 --> 1:01:56.600 cetera boogie down, and we also have people like Benny 1:01:56.680 --> 1:01:59.080 Thompson and Darry Johnson. We now have the mayor of 1:01:59.160 --> 1:02:03.040 the amazing city of Montgomery, who is it's growing leaps 1:02:03.080 --> 1:02:05.360 and bounds. Just want to re election, not that long ago. 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:07.400 Show. 1:02:07.440 --> 1:02:08.960 Congratulations to the show. 1:02:09.040 --> 1:02:13.160 Yeah no, they talk about this environment because you you've 1:02:13.240 --> 1:02:15.360 kind of grow we it's amazing. We were talking to 1:02:16.120 --> 1:02:20.120 uh Maya Baraka, the next governor of New Jersey, and 1:02:20.360 --> 1:02:22.680 he grew up in it, and I kind of grew 1:02:22.800 --> 1:02:25.360 up in it as well, and you definitely grew up 1:02:25.440 --> 1:02:27.600 in it. How does it feel to kind of grow 1:02:27.720 --> 1:02:31.360 up on your parents' knees seeing all of these heroes 1:02:31.440 --> 1:02:34.480 and icons and then coming to something like this where 1:02:34.840 --> 1:02:38.040 you celebrate Jesse, you celebrate Fanny lou Hamer, you celebrate 1:02:38.120 --> 1:02:39.880 now Kamala Harris still making history. 1:02:40.000 --> 1:02:40.800 What that feels like for you? 1:02:41.040 --> 1:02:41.200 Man? 1:02:41.240 --> 1:02:43.640 It's amazing. First, I want to thank everybody. 1:02:43.720 --> 1:02:45.320 Thank y'all for all the great work that you do 1:02:46.040 --> 1:02:49.400 on behalf of the African American Mayors Association, all five 1:02:49.520 --> 1:02:54.440 hundred plus African American mayors across the country from Seattle 1:02:55.320 --> 1:02:58.480 your dad, all the way to Savannah. 1:02:58.640 --> 1:02:59.959 We got Mayor's. 1:02:59.640 --> 1:03:03.680 Represent and all the D nine and all the organizations, 1:03:03.760 --> 1:03:06.480 all that stuff, all those things, and so you know, 1:03:06.560 --> 1:03:09.560 I think when you come here and you think back 1:03:09.680 --> 1:03:12.720 to Reverend Jackson in eighty four and we sit here 1:03:12.960 --> 1:03:15.120 in twenty twenty four, and you think about his speech 1:03:15.520 --> 1:03:18.880 and his run and all the things that happened since then. 1:03:19.240 --> 1:03:22.200 It is just emotional. I mean, I can't describe it. 1:03:22.600 --> 1:03:25.200 I remember being here in ninety six. I'll date myself 1:03:26.040 --> 1:03:29.320 when Clinton was running for a re election and Jesse Jr. 1:03:29.720 --> 1:03:32.680 You know, they were the new Jackson the block, all 1:03:32.800 --> 1:03:35.960 those guys, you know, and so you know, thinking about 1:03:36.560 --> 1:03:39.160 this energy that we have here is just you know, 1:03:39.720 --> 1:03:43.080 I almost want to say, it's oh eightish if I 1:03:43.120 --> 1:03:46.840 can say that, there's just a level of enthusiasm and 1:03:47.040 --> 1:03:48.880 energy that has just changed. 1:03:48.920 --> 1:03:51.320 And that is no disrespect too. 1:03:51.400 --> 1:03:54.200 I think has been one of the most transformational presidents 1:03:54.720 --> 1:03:57.200 in the last seventy five years. In President Joe Biden 1:03:57.720 --> 1:04:02.040 is just a shifting energy, shifting optimism, and I certainly 1:04:02.120 --> 1:04:05.160 think when you consider the history and the legacy that's 1:04:05.160 --> 1:04:08.480 tied to Chicago and all the things that have come 1:04:08.560 --> 1:04:12.720 to pass now with the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris, 1:04:12.800 --> 1:04:14.000 it's just it feels right. 1:04:14.120 --> 1:04:16.080 I mean, it's just a synergy that that's with this. 1:04:16.880 --> 1:04:20.560 I want to acknowledge, mister Mayor. We recently celebrated a 1:04:20.640 --> 1:04:25.520 holiday out of Montgomery, Alabama. Some of you may refer 1:04:25.600 --> 1:04:27.560 to it as August tenth or fade in the water. 1:04:28.840 --> 1:04:29.160 But what. 1:04:31.160 --> 1:04:34.320 An honor it is to be sitting with you as 1:04:34.920 --> 1:04:36.720 a new monuments. 1:04:39.640 --> 1:04:45.720 Absolutely absolutely, we talked about symbols, we talked about changing 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:46.479 the city seal. 1:04:47.880 --> 1:04:49.360 Everything has just been. 1:04:50.600 --> 1:04:51.480 White folding chair. 1:04:51.600 --> 1:04:52.040 I love it. 1:04:52.200 --> 1:04:54.520 I support it that the chair has just taken on 1:04:55.040 --> 1:04:58.080 a life. I mean, you know what, and let me 1:04:58.200 --> 1:05:00.960 say this and the mayor, I can't can relate to this. 1:05:01.560 --> 1:05:04.680 I just left there back to school event. I mean, 1:05:04.760 --> 1:05:05.880 it wasn't thirty minutes. 1:05:05.960 --> 1:05:07.240 Are you get to call. 1:05:13.440 --> 1:05:15.680 Talking about talking about I just left thirty minutes ago. 1:05:16.760 --> 1:05:18.880 He swam across that I was here. 1:05:20.520 --> 1:05:22.920 I'm like, get him on our fire and rescue. 1:05:24.400 --> 1:05:26.800 He used to be emergency show. 1:05:27.720 --> 1:05:30.360 Got him before Alabama and Alren signs him to a 1:05:30.680 --> 1:05:33.680 verbal committment because I'm like, somebody who can swim across 1:05:33.760 --> 1:05:35.040 that river and get up. 1:05:34.960 --> 1:05:36.000 And still do some work. 1:05:36.080 --> 1:05:39.120 Maybe he should have represented us in the Olympics reps. Yes, 1:05:39.360 --> 1:05:44.120 he was the black aquaman. Amazing, amazing. 1:05:44.840 --> 1:05:46.120 Just texted me to say, what's up. 1:05:48.200 --> 1:05:48.680 I've been here. 1:05:48.840 --> 1:05:50.320 I've been here twenty minutes and. 1:05:52.560 --> 1:05:52.800 You know. 1:05:55.360 --> 1:05:57.760 From Andrews. 1:05:58.440 --> 1:05:59.840 Let me ask you a question real quick, because this 1:05:59.840 --> 1:06:03.600 is this is what bothers me because we're Florida. Different Florida, 1:06:03.720 --> 1:06:06.760 like three states shut out in one you got like 1:06:07.640 --> 1:06:10.280 which is like at South Alabama until you got the 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:11.120 middle of it and. 1:06:11.120 --> 1:06:14.040 Then you got like you got the four states. 1:06:14.040 --> 1:06:17.920 But go ahead, But we are in the south. So 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:20.120 I'm gonna ask you a tough question. What does the 1:06:20.200 --> 1:06:24.800 mayor of Montgomery do next? Oh man, this was in 1:06:24.880 --> 1:06:26.120 South Carolina, Alabama. 1:06:27.040 --> 1:06:27.959 He's the best question. 1:06:28.000 --> 1:06:31.960 As money didn't give the governor. 1:06:33.880 --> 1:06:35.840 We're not We're not about to sit here and be 1:06:35.920 --> 1:06:37.040 a martyr. That's what. 1:06:38.640 --> 1:06:40.760 Home and run against Lady Graham to get beat by 1:06:40.840 --> 1:06:43.000 twenty for Yalla laughing at me. 1:06:45.160 --> 1:06:48.600 You've been breaking barriers a long time. I laugh at you. 1:06:48.800 --> 1:06:52.080 You know, listen, listen, this brother was what was doing 1:06:52.160 --> 1:06:54.040 the way back when the twin two. You're like, who 1:06:54.160 --> 1:06:55.760 the hell's twenty two runnings for state rep? 1:06:56.200 --> 1:06:56.360 Right? 1:06:56.920 --> 1:06:59.880 You know who got those kind of chops more? 1:07:03.680 --> 1:07:05.640 But you know, I think when you're in states like ours, 1:07:05.680 --> 1:07:09.240 where it's Alabama or Louisiana, Arkansas, we all talk about 1:07:09.280 --> 1:07:11.720 that as mayors, like you know, where can you give 1:07:11.800 --> 1:07:13.280 and where can you continue to serve? 1:07:13.320 --> 1:07:13.360 It? 1:07:13.440 --> 1:07:15.600 You know, is a tie coming to US next. Can 1:07:15.680 --> 1:07:17.800 we be the next Georgia? Can we be that next 1:07:18.280 --> 1:07:20.520 purple state? And I mean I think the answer is 1:07:20.640 --> 1:07:22.760 is yet to be seen. What I hope we get 1:07:22.800 --> 1:07:25.560 from this election is we get a movement, not a moment, 1:07:26.000 --> 1:07:29.600 of young people and working class people who really have 1:07:29.760 --> 1:07:33.200 not been voting for their interest in my opinion, in 1:07:33.400 --> 1:07:35.760 parts of the South, to take a look at what 1:07:36.480 --> 1:07:39.960 Vice President has and what Governor wall is really an offering, 1:07:40.120 --> 1:07:42.320 and what my goal is to make sure they see 1:07:42.800 --> 1:07:45.640 the difference when you get beyond the personality, when you 1:07:45.720 --> 1:07:48.360 get beyond just the cult of Trump, and when you 1:07:48.440 --> 1:07:51.160 get beyond all of those things, and you look at 1:07:51.200 --> 1:07:53.680 who's looking out for you and who's really working for 1:07:53.720 --> 1:07:57.360 the people. So hopefully that opens up opportunities, whether that 1:07:57.480 --> 1:08:00.520 be at a statewide, dominatorial level, whether to be at 1:08:00.560 --> 1:08:03.560 a centator's level, or whatever it may be, to take 1:08:03.600 --> 1:08:05.960 a look at Andrew what you did, I mean, and 1:08:06.040 --> 1:08:07.440 to say, okay, this is how we do it. 1:08:07.480 --> 1:08:09.400 But I tell people this all the time who come 1:08:09.440 --> 1:08:10.360 for the civil rights trailer. 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:12.520 I say, look, you would have no doctor King, you 1:08:12.520 --> 1:08:15.520 would have no Ralph Abernatty without money, without resources. 1:08:15.920 --> 1:08:17.640 So anything you want us to do is. 1:08:17.600 --> 1:08:20.720 Gonna take investment, It's gonna take time. War Knock and 1:08:20.800 --> 1:08:23.280 Abrams and everybody else showed us that in Georgia, you 1:08:23.400 --> 1:08:25.200 got to invest in the South. I mean, we've got 1:08:25.320 --> 1:08:28.559 the We've got the foundation. Mississippi is probably the one 1:08:28.600 --> 1:08:29.200 that's really. 1:08:31.200 --> 1:08:34.759 Got the highest be that your Carolina, be that only twenty. 1:08:34.560 --> 1:08:35.360 Two and it's purple. 1:08:35.640 --> 1:08:40.439 Florida's is thirteen thirteen thirteen percent of the population percent 1:08:40.479 --> 1:08:42.080 of the population of the state is black. And that's 1:08:42.080 --> 1:08:45.559 why I think that South how much is brown unfortunately brown, 1:08:45.640 --> 1:08:47.760 and Florida doesn't necessarily. 1:08:49.320 --> 1:08:51.320 So it's a complicated narrative. 1:08:51.479 --> 1:08:52.320 But we're not. 1:08:52.800 --> 1:08:56.760 We as black elected officials who in many cases aren't 1:08:56.800 --> 1:09:02.400 necessarily representing majority black constituencies, not overwhelming majority of black constituencies, 1:09:02.760 --> 1:09:06.280 have the ability to, I think, reach places and cause 1:09:06.320 --> 1:09:09.920 people to think beyond what they're the recesses of their 1:09:10.000 --> 1:09:12.800 minds are telling them are their biases against us. And 1:09:12.880 --> 1:09:14.840 I think part of the charge Jamal, you do this 1:09:14.960 --> 1:09:18.240 where you are, I know, Bakari Mayor, you have to 1:09:18.760 --> 1:09:21.639 move people beyond what is in what feels a little 1:09:21.720 --> 1:09:23.519 uncomfortable for them so that they can see you in 1:09:23.600 --> 1:09:26.320 your humanity, and that when I make education good for 1:09:26.439 --> 1:09:28.040 my kids, I make it good for yours. When the 1:09:28.080 --> 1:09:30.880 streets are safe for my kids to walk in, play in, so. 1:09:31.320 --> 1:09:33.719 Are they for yours. So the priorities are so different. 1:09:33.800 --> 1:09:37.280 Doctor King tried to help us find common calls with 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:40.599 each other, across race barriers and even across economic ones, 1:09:40.640 --> 1:09:42.880 to see what we share in common. And I just think, 1:09:43.920 --> 1:09:47.040 as we sit here in Chicago, so many, so many 1:09:47.080 --> 1:09:50.639 people have forgotten these areas of common calls, have thrown 1:09:50.720 --> 1:09:53.720 them to the wind. And I think it's incumbent upon 1:09:53.800 --> 1:09:56.240 us our generation. Are you know this, this generation of 1:09:56.280 --> 1:09:59.519 young people? I think to find a third way that 1:09:59.680 --> 1:10:02.160 leads us back into positions of leadership, not for the 1:10:02.240 --> 1:10:05.960 purposes of us making history and and and climbing new barriers, 1:10:06.000 --> 1:10:08.600 but for the case of delivering something to people that 1:10:08.720 --> 1:10:12.120 has felt aloof like unachievement. 1:10:12.160 --> 1:10:13.400 There is one There is one. 1:10:13.520 --> 1:10:15.799 There is one person who hones in on that message 1:10:15.840 --> 1:10:18.679 better than most who I actually put in the same 1:10:18.800 --> 1:10:22.479 category as a Ralph David Abernathy or doctor King or 1:10:22.600 --> 1:10:25.439 Judy Richardson or those people who were talking about the 1:10:25.479 --> 1:10:27.960 same plight that you're talking about, and that's somebody we 1:10:28.000 --> 1:10:31.800 don't acknowledge enough, but that's the Reverend doctor William Barber. 1:10:36.320 --> 1:10:36.960 To try to get in. 1:10:41.240 --> 1:10:45.280 That message of what of what how poverty can really 1:10:45.479 --> 1:10:48.160 really draw some similarities. The funny part is in South 1:10:48.200 --> 1:10:50.759 Carolina and Denmark, my dad used to tell the story 1:10:51.160 --> 1:10:53.479 about the couple who would go to the grocery store 1:10:53.640 --> 1:10:56.719 on their tractor, and they would ride on their tractor 1:10:57.200 --> 1:10:59.880 and they were they were just dirt poor, but there 1:11:00.000 --> 1:11:03.080 there was some level of comfort they felt in just 1:11:03.200 --> 1:11:05.800 being white, that they still felt as if they were 1:11:05.840 --> 1:11:08.879 better than you, although they literally rode to the grocery 1:11:08.960 --> 1:11:13.000 store on their tractor. And so I think that in 1:11:13.080 --> 1:11:14.560 what you know, I knocked on that door when I 1:11:14.600 --> 1:11:18.120 was running for office because the naivete or the youthful exuberance, 1:11:18.240 --> 1:11:21.080 or where those two things meet, had you believing that 1:11:21.200 --> 1:11:23.560 you could convince somebody, And maybe you do. You never know, 1:11:23.680 --> 1:11:26.320 don't know how people vote, but that you you know 1:11:26.520 --> 1:11:30.280 how their grandparents get healthcare, or how their children get 1:11:30.280 --> 1:11:32.880 their prescription drugs or get educated, or if they can 1:11:32.960 --> 1:11:35.479 make ten dollars an hour, you can meet people where 1:11:35.520 --> 1:11:37.679 they are. And I think that's a message we still 1:11:37.760 --> 1:11:40.400 have to hone in on and it's one that resonates respectfully, 1:11:40.840 --> 1:11:42.760 particularly in the South, because that's what I know. 1:11:43.560 --> 1:11:45.880 I got a question for the mayor. Yeah, is that okay? 1:11:46.160 --> 1:11:46.360 Yes? 1:11:46.439 --> 1:11:48.599 Before and then we know we can't hold y'all too 1:11:48.640 --> 1:11:50.320 long and we have to get to we have another 1:11:50.400 --> 1:11:51.840 guest coming, so we want to make sure that we 1:11:52.479 --> 1:11:52.840 go ahead. 1:11:52.880 --> 1:11:56.000 Yes, So, mister mayor, I've only been in Congress four years, 1:11:56.040 --> 1:11:59.120 almost three and a half years, and I'm very interested 1:11:59.280 --> 1:12:02.120 in the local implementation of federal policy. 1:12:02.920 --> 1:12:05.200 So when we pass a piece of legislation and we. 1:12:05.400 --> 1:12:09.360 Appropriate dollars to local mayors, can you speak a little 1:12:09.360 --> 1:12:11.720 bit about one, how you make decisions in terms of 1:12:11.800 --> 1:12:14.439 how that money is spent and invested Number one, But 1:12:14.560 --> 1:12:19.280 then also speak to the collaboration that's necessary or lack thereof, 1:12:19.840 --> 1:12:22.479 with the county that you're in, with the state that 1:12:22.560 --> 1:12:22.840 you're in. 1:12:22.920 --> 1:12:23.360 Et cetera. 1:12:25.600 --> 1:12:28.840 Correct, right, Because in my district, there's been a lot 1:12:28.920 --> 1:12:32.720 of frustration around Okay, we just allocated X millions or 1:12:32.760 --> 1:12:36.080 billions of dollars, why is it not getting to the 1:12:36.160 --> 1:12:38.479 black and brown folks in my district and the way 1:12:38.560 --> 1:12:39.120 that it needs to. 1:12:39.200 --> 1:12:39.720 Can you speak a. 1:12:39.720 --> 1:12:41.560 Little bit to that yeah, if it's not getting to 1:12:41.600 --> 1:12:43.200 the black and brown folks and the people who need 1:12:43.200 --> 1:12:45.960 it is because you need the leadership that values them, 1:12:46.800 --> 1:12:49.360 and you need the leadership that is prioritizing. And one 1:12:49.400 --> 1:12:52.720 of the things that we highlight about President Biden and 1:12:52.800 --> 1:12:57.280 Vice President Harris is that with the Arbor dollars, they 1:12:57.360 --> 1:12:58.160 came straight to the. 1:12:58.200 --> 1:12:59.759 County and straight into the cities. 1:13:00.080 --> 1:13:02.920 So a lot of us that are in conservative led states, 1:13:02.960 --> 1:13:05.240 with legislation, we would have never gotten that money to 1:13:05.439 --> 1:13:11.800 community violence intervention programs, hospital intervention programs, education after school programs, 1:13:12.760 --> 1:13:15.160 when you think of small business support, we would have 1:13:15.280 --> 1:13:18.080 never gotten that money directly where it's needed. And we 1:13:18.320 --> 1:13:23.280 had pushback from legislative forces, but the money was coming 1:13:23.320 --> 1:13:26.000 to the county. Even talking with Sylvester Attorney in Houston, 1:13:26.400 --> 1:13:28.880 I was made somebody who had been in the legislature 1:13:29.040 --> 1:13:31.560 then served as a major city mayor was having the 1:13:31.640 --> 1:13:34.600 trouble he was having in a city like Houston, in 1:13:34.720 --> 1:13:38.800 a county like Harris County, right Texas. But when you 1:13:39.000 --> 1:13:42.080 think about what this administration was allowed us to do. 1:13:42.479 --> 1:13:45.200 It allowed us to have the autonomy and the control 1:13:45.280 --> 1:13:48.200 to prioritize those things in the hood that we knew 1:13:48.280 --> 1:13:50.720 needed to help and needed to support. If it's not 1:13:50.920 --> 1:13:54.760 getting there, it's because those elected officials don't have the 1:13:54.880 --> 1:13:56.560 chops and don't have the medal to stand up and 1:13:56.640 --> 1:13:59.280 say these communities have been left behind far too long. 1:13:59.360 --> 1:14:01.920 They get caught in the bureaucracy and the red tape, 1:14:02.160 --> 1:14:03.640 and then by the time you look at there is 1:14:03.680 --> 1:14:06.240 no tape, so they don't get any help. So what 1:14:06.400 --> 1:14:08.439 we were able to do was to say, you know what, 1:14:08.920 --> 1:14:11.880 we believe in equity. We're gonna be unapologetic in our 1:14:11.920 --> 1:14:14.639 approach to this. We know who suffered the most from COVID, 1:14:15.000 --> 1:14:17.679 we know who had the hardest impact, who's hit worse. 1:14:18.080 --> 1:14:19.960 So this is what we're gonna do. And I feel 1:14:20.040 --> 1:14:23.000 like as African American mayors in this generation in particular, 1:14:23.479 --> 1:14:25.920 coming on the heels of those that came before us, 1:14:26.320 --> 1:14:29.639 we have a responsibility, We have a debt to make 1:14:29.760 --> 1:14:32.360 sure that we are just as intentional as a Harald 1:14:32.479 --> 1:14:37.280 Washington was many many years ago and others were an 1:14:37.360 --> 1:14:42.080 assistant made of no question and assisting our communities directly 1:14:42.479 --> 1:14:46.320 and making the case you cannot assume or hope or 1:14:46.400 --> 1:14:49.479 wish or pray that that money and those funds are 1:14:49.520 --> 1:14:52.880 gonna be there in some other administration unless you make 1:14:52.960 --> 1:14:54.920 it so. And that's what we have as the chief 1:14:54.960 --> 1:14:57.120 executive officers of cities and communities. 1:14:57.840 --> 1:15:01.040 Yes, we really appreciate all you time today. It has 1:15:01.120 --> 1:15:02.400 been fantastic to be. 1:15:02.439 --> 1:15:02.880 Here with you. 1:15:06.600 --> 1:15:08.640 Can I just say real quick before he goes the 1:15:10.040 --> 1:15:13.040 This week More House students went back and there was 1:15:13.080 --> 1:15:17.160 a beautiful image of the incoming freshman standing in the rain. 1:15:17.360 --> 1:15:20.080 It looks so artistic, and you have the men walking. 1:15:20.280 --> 1:15:22.960 I gotta feeling and I just want to acknowledge the 1:15:23.040 --> 1:15:25.880 significance and importance of Morehouse in this country. And having 1:15:26.000 --> 1:15:29.040 two men the Morehouse on set real cool. We got 1:15:29.040 --> 1:15:30.040 another guest we broke up. 1:15:30.600 --> 1:15:35.040 Harrison Bryant, Jamal Harrison Brown was my new student leader, 1:15:35.240 --> 1:15:38.040 yes in my year, and he wasn't near as cool 1:15:38.240 --> 1:15:41.519 and near as as charismatic as he seems now. He 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:44.439 was saying a whole lot different when I came. It 1:15:44.720 --> 1:15:45.960 rain on our heads even worse. 1:15:46.479 --> 1:15:49.160 Thank you so much, mister Mayor and congressman. We appreciate 1:15:49.200 --> 1:15:51.839 you both. I cannot see the next guest, but Angela 1:15:52.040 --> 1:15:54.200 or Bacari, who has a better view than me, will 1:15:54.240 --> 1:15:55.120 bring up our next thing. 1:15:55.240 --> 1:16:00.760 Yes, thank you, Congress. We appreciate to you, and thank you, 1:16:00.920 --> 1:16:04.960 mister mayor, thank you so much. All right, so the 1:16:05.040 --> 1:16:09.679 mayor don't want to leave answer. Okay, we're taking a picture. 1:16:09.680 --> 1:16:11.559 They take it as selfie. You're taking a selfie. 1:16:12.040 --> 1:16:14.080 Ear well, they take a selfie. We're going to welcome 1:16:14.120 --> 1:16:14.760 on next gues. 1:16:14.840 --> 1:16:18.120 Yes, and it is Ty McMillan, who is the DNC 1:16:18.840 --> 1:16:22.479 Coalitions Director. We cannot be at a big tenth convention 1:16:22.640 --> 1:16:25.599 and not make sure that young people's voices are actually heard. 1:16:25.960 --> 1:16:28.599 LASA League is coming up. Let me just say, y'all, 1:16:28.680 --> 1:16:31.960 I'm fascinated by who they chose to m see the 1:16:32.439 --> 1:16:33.280 convention floor. 1:16:33.479 --> 1:16:36.439 Yes, y'all, there's a throwbag. It's scandal and I'm just 1:16:36.520 --> 1:16:38.680 wondering how y'all feel about that. While he puts his 1:16:38.800 --> 1:16:39.479 headphones off. 1:16:39.600 --> 1:16:43.599 So after Tony Goldlin is the host of It's a Foursome. 1:16:44.520 --> 1:16:47.240 So it's Tony, you'll correct me, Tony Goldland and a Navarro. 1:16:47.760 --> 1:16:50.240 I think they're taking turns. So Carrie Washington's later this. 1:16:50.320 --> 1:16:55.680 Week, Kerry Washington's Thursday, it's Tony today, Tomorrow is uh 1:16:56.240 --> 1:16:58.400 An no Man's Wednesday. 1:16:58.400 --> 1:17:02.240 I think Oh it's a Mindy Kenny. 1:17:03.720 --> 1:17:06.519 Yes, yeah, so I think it's interesting. 1:17:06.840 --> 1:17:09.240 There's a special guest on Wednesday. I heard is it 1:17:09.320 --> 1:17:11.559 going to be Beyonce noon coming? 1:17:11.680 --> 1:17:12.759 Okay, well that's the rumor. 1:17:13.320 --> 1:17:14.479 You know, he talked to her last night. 1:17:14.840 --> 1:17:17.280 She said, you text her. She said she could make it. 1:17:17.560 --> 1:17:19.160 No text, Jay, I got respect. 1:17:19.439 --> 1:17:22.040 Well, I just I'm just saying I would. We'll talk 1:17:22.080 --> 1:17:24.759 about it when Tyley is concluding with his remarks. 1:17:26.240 --> 1:17:28.240 Okay, I'm sorry, I was yelling at Chuck Sham. 1:17:28.400 --> 1:17:31.479 Yeah, clearly right into the and you guys forgive our 1:17:31.520 --> 1:17:34.479 guest co host. He has no cues anyway, Tyley talk 1:17:34.520 --> 1:17:37.400 to us about the importance of youth representation at a 1:17:37.479 --> 1:17:40.799 convention like this that is so ground breaking, so historic. 1:17:40.960 --> 1:17:42.080 Tell me what y'all got going on? 1:17:42.479 --> 1:17:43.040 Yeah, definitely. 1:17:43.080 --> 1:17:45.320 So I think you know what's exciting about this conference 1:17:45.320 --> 1:17:47.720 is that we talk about the content creators is a new, 1:17:47.800 --> 1:17:50.000 a new, a new route, and so I think meeting 1:17:50.040 --> 1:17:51.519 young people where they are, and I think, you know, 1:17:51.760 --> 1:17:54.400 the Party is leading the way in that effort, whether 1:17:54.439 --> 1:17:57.759 it's through traditional media or we understand how young fools 1:17:57.800 --> 1:18:00.400 get their information and it's through content creators, just through 1:18:00.439 --> 1:18:03.080 folks that are on TikTok and so I'm excited about 1:18:03.560 --> 1:18:04.639 that aspect of the conference. 1:18:04.880 --> 1:18:05.400 I'm excited. 1:18:05.840 --> 1:18:08.720 The vice president has the energy of young people, you know, 1:18:09.200 --> 1:18:11.519 uh and has been on the she has been leading 1:18:11.600 --> 1:18:13.719 on the issues, and I think, you know, the excitement 1:18:13.800 --> 1:18:16.120 that we have, uh, you know, we're gonna we're gonna 1:18:16.120 --> 1:18:18.960 continue past this, especially as we get back to uh, 1:18:19.080 --> 1:18:21.240 you know, welcome week at schools, as we get into 1:18:21.360 --> 1:18:24.080 you know, homecomings and activities, and we're gonna keep on 1:18:24.160 --> 1:18:25.720 that momentum and continue. 1:18:25.360 --> 1:18:27.759 To you know, connect with young folks on the ground. 1:18:34.560 --> 1:18:34.840 M H. 1:18:38.920 --> 1:18:41.800 What's the biggest organizing challenge you're facing? You feel with 1:18:41.880 --> 1:18:44.840 young girls right now? What's the we we see we 1:18:44.920 --> 1:18:49.799 all think we're still young and formerly formerly you're accepting, 1:18:51.760 --> 1:19:08.120 but Cary will be there twins a little bit. 1:19:08.080 --> 1:19:08.719 Too here, right. 1:19:11.000 --> 1:19:13.200 What's the challenge? 1:19:13.240 --> 1:19:15.360 Tell us what's the biggest challenge y'all feel like you 1:19:15.439 --> 1:19:16.720 have to get over an organizing tip? 1:19:16.840 --> 1:19:17.400 Yeah, definitely. 1:19:17.439 --> 1:19:19.360 I think when when when the folks that young people 1:19:19.360 --> 1:19:21.720 get getting their information from social media, we fight a 1:19:21.760 --> 1:19:25.040 big battle of miss and this information and as we 1:19:25.320 --> 1:19:27.880 fight the bots in the comments, we fight all of 1:19:27.960 --> 1:19:29.840 that and so I think it's the fact of being 1:19:29.880 --> 1:19:32.800 able to get real and accurate information to folks, Folks 1:19:32.840 --> 1:19:34.840 to be able to have trusted sources, and folks to 1:19:34.880 --> 1:19:36.759 be able to trust their trusted sources. 1:19:36.960 --> 1:19:39.760 And I think is what we're fighting. We continue to fight. 1:19:40.560 --> 1:19:42.000 But I think, you know, we live in this time 1:19:42.040 --> 1:19:45.519 where voter education and even the basics of what what 1:19:45.720 --> 1:19:49.320 what how the government even operates. As I have conversations 1:19:49.360 --> 1:19:51.160 with folks across the country, some of them don't even 1:19:51.160 --> 1:19:53.120 know the three branches of government. They don't know they 1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:55.439 don't know the power of the vice president. They don't 1:19:55.479 --> 1:19:57.560 know the fact of the filibuster or the fact that 1:19:57.640 --> 1:19:59.960 the vice president has broke the most tides in the Senate. 1:20:00.280 --> 1:20:02.599 And so I think voter education is really big, is big, 1:20:03.040 --> 1:20:05.000 but we get that done through peer to peer influence. 1:20:05.040 --> 1:20:08.880 And I think that education is the first step, and 1:20:09.400 --> 1:20:11.880 not only connecting with folks that are within the you know, 1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:15.120 like the ecosystem of politics, but also how we connect 1:20:15.120 --> 1:20:16.960 with folks who may not have that interest. And so 1:20:17.240 --> 1:20:19.720 the importance of meeting people at the basketball court, it 1:20:19.760 --> 1:20:22.760 meeting at the brunches and meet them, you know, at 1:20:22.800 --> 1:20:25.640 these different events, whether it's music festivals, and so we 1:20:26.160 --> 1:20:27.920 have that unique perspective. 1:20:28.000 --> 1:20:30.160 But what do you say though when you meet because 1:20:30.200 --> 1:20:31.160 I'm so curious about that. 1:20:31.200 --> 1:20:32.920 I know when I see young people pop up in 1:20:33.000 --> 1:20:36.120 my feed and just when I overhear what young people 1:20:36.120 --> 1:20:39.280 are talking about who are not interested in politics and 1:20:39.320 --> 1:20:41.920 don't understand how politics impact them. Some people don't know 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:44.800 when an election is even happening. What is the thing 1:20:44.880 --> 1:20:48.360 that you say to compel them to get involved and 1:20:48.479 --> 1:20:50.240 what wasn't that compelled you to get involved? 1:20:50.400 --> 1:20:53.160 Yeah, definitely what compelled me to get involved. 1:20:53.200 --> 1:20:55.040 I got involved in this movement when I was about 1:20:55.040 --> 1:20:57.280 thirteen years old under the leadership of Reverend now sharped 1:20:57.320 --> 1:20:58.000 in how are you? 1:20:58.400 --> 1:21:01.400 I'm twenty seven, twenty seven, now twenty six, twenty seven, 1:21:01.479 --> 1:21:05.559 and so no day, it's not a day. 1:21:08.960 --> 1:21:12.799 Yeah, her from both she has she's. 1:21:12.720 --> 1:21:13.840 Not doing that. She's not doing that. 1:21:13.960 --> 1:21:18.439 I'm I'm ignoring these just saying, Kylie, please continue, young 1:21:18.640 --> 1:21:20.519 young man one older than. 1:21:21.479 --> 1:21:22.920 You, better shoot your shots. 1:21:23.040 --> 1:21:27.040 Not you miss every missing. 1:21:30.520 --> 1:21:31.000 Pull up. 1:21:38.080 --> 1:21:38.519 Night night. 1:21:41.280 --> 1:21:45.439 That is not I'm listening to the only only adult 1:21:45.640 --> 1:21:48.280 many Please continue. 1:21:48.400 --> 1:21:50.439 That's a great time because AOC just got on the 1:21:50.479 --> 1:21:51.120 stage as well. 1:21:51.240 --> 1:21:53.639 For those of you all at home, Yes, but carry 1:21:53.640 --> 1:21:56.920 on till you look another fire person who continues to aspire. 1:21:57.000 --> 1:21:59.880 There you go, young young people. In addition to Miss 1:22:00.000 --> 1:22:09.360 Tiphany cross everybody loves Miss Crossing. So, like I said, 1:22:09.360 --> 1:22:11.559 I I'm a son, I'm a son of the civil 1:22:11.640 --> 1:22:13.200 rights movement, and so that got me in the work. 1:22:13.320 --> 1:22:15.960 But I think how we meet people is we make 1:22:16.040 --> 1:22:19.760 it real. We make we bring the conversations. Jackson is 1:22:19.800 --> 1:22:23.160 joining us in the middle of the conversations to them, 1:22:23.200 --> 1:22:25.080 and we make it real how it relates to them, 1:22:25.160 --> 1:22:27.720 whether it's you know, like politics is local. And I 1:22:27.720 --> 1:22:30.160 always say, you know, politics isn't the sexiest of conversations, 1:22:30.479 --> 1:22:32.280 but it's like we got to make it relatable of 1:22:32.400 --> 1:22:34.920 how it impacts them, Like we talked about the local roles. 1:22:34.960 --> 1:22:36.840 How the funding from your city council. 1:22:36.880 --> 1:22:39.360 We were talking about as we're talking about schools, and 1:22:39.400 --> 1:22:41.920 the funding is happening at your at your state, at 1:22:41.960 --> 1:22:44.200 your state houses. And so making it real and making 1:22:44.200 --> 1:22:47.800 it relatable is how is how we inaccessible inaccessible. 1:22:47.920 --> 1:22:51.320 I do want to welcome to the conversation Congressman John Jackson, 1:22:51.680 --> 1:22:53.040 the son of Jonathan. 1:22:53.160 --> 1:22:54.439 Forgive me that you don't like John. 1:22:54.520 --> 1:23:01.519 Sorry, He is the son of the great Jesse Jackson 1:23:01.600 --> 1:23:06.200 and also representing Illinois First District Illinois first District without 1:23:07.080 --> 1:23:07.360 thank you. 1:23:09.000 --> 1:23:12.759 I didn't say no, damn s she did. I did not, anyway, 1:23:13.080 --> 1:23:18.200 hostrophe s I got. I got what you were saying. 1:23:18.560 --> 1:23:22.080 Anyway, Congress, we're a very lively bunch tonight, as you 1:23:22.120 --> 1:23:22.479 can see. 1:23:22.520 --> 1:23:24.439 But we're so started about ago. 1:23:24.640 --> 1:23:28.240 Yes, we're so honor to be joined by you this 1:23:28.720 --> 1:23:33.439 significant history this year. Bakari referenced earlier the first presidential 1:23:33.439 --> 1:23:37.320 campaign I actually remember was your father, Jesse Jackson in 1:23:37.439 --> 1:23:39.320 nineteen eighty four, and my grandmother took me to a 1:23:39.439 --> 1:23:42.120 rally and someone said, young lady, who are you voting for? 1:23:42.400 --> 1:23:44.000 My grandma said, baby, you telling me you voted for 1:23:44.080 --> 1:23:46.120 Jesse Jackson. And that's what I said. 1:23:46.160 --> 1:23:48.679 And it just that time doesn't seem like that long ago. 1:23:48.760 --> 1:23:53.160 But here we are forty years later. Yeah, what does 1:23:53.240 --> 1:23:54.800 this convention. 1:23:54.560 --> 1:23:54.880 Mean to you? 1:23:55.760 --> 1:23:58.800 Well, thank you so much for having me on. Thank 1:23:58.840 --> 1:24:00.879 you Angela, thank you for there's Congress. 1:24:02.840 --> 1:24:08.040 So we're alive and we're being passed by Congressman Gregor York. 1:24:11.280 --> 1:24:18.880 That goes Chairman. I love you, Chairman, Meeks, you. 1:24:21.160 --> 1:24:23.840 So as we're as we're here, a lot of people 1:24:23.920 --> 1:24:27.080 are walking by and saying hello. I know you guys 1:24:27.120 --> 1:24:29.400 can't see it on the cameras, but we have a 1:24:29.439 --> 1:24:32.920 whole audience and crowd out here. But yes, I want 1:24:32.920 --> 1:24:35.680 to call you Reverend Jackson. But Congressman Jackson, tell us 1:24:35.720 --> 1:24:36.600 what this convention means to you. 1:24:36.960 --> 1:24:41.000 Well, first of all, starting with, are soon to be 1:24:41.360 --> 1:24:43.879 chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. I have the opportunity 1:24:44.120 --> 1:24:48.240 to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I met Congressman 1:24:48.320 --> 1:24:51.280 Meeks almost thirty some years ago. He ran as a 1:24:51.360 --> 1:24:54.800 Jesse Jackson Democrat out of Queens. When he became the 1:24:55.920 --> 1:24:58.960 congressman from there, it was a tremendous honor. I know, 1:24:59.120 --> 1:25:01.080 is this mine or somebody? 1:25:01.240 --> 1:25:03.559 Okay? All right? 1:25:03.640 --> 1:25:06.160 I met Congressman Meeks thirty some years ago when he 1:25:06.280 --> 1:25:10.360 ran as a as a as a delegate and then 1:25:10.680 --> 1:25:16.280 for Congress as a Jesse Jackson specifically Democrat in Queens, 1:25:16.360 --> 1:25:20.400 New York and then Angela. It's been some years now 1:25:21.040 --> 1:25:24.280 that I had met you with your great family in 1:25:24.400 --> 1:25:26.680 the Northwest, and I was like, black folks live out 1:25:26.680 --> 1:25:27.200 here as well. 1:25:30.720 --> 1:25:34.400 Family's from Louisiana but migrated to the West he was 1:25:34.560 --> 1:25:36.960 as a surrogate to his dad's campaign in nineteen eighty eight. 1:25:37.000 --> 1:25:38.200 There's a picture when I'm. 1:25:38.040 --> 1:25:40.240 About eight and he's lean over me and kissing me 1:25:40.280 --> 1:25:41.960 on the cheek, and I got on my Jesse Jackson 1:25:42.000 --> 1:25:43.439 eighty eight shirt. We need, we need to. 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:47.240 Angela her family. 1:25:47.720 --> 1:25:50.479 Thank you for your service and your continued spirit and 1:25:50.560 --> 1:25:54.479 civil rights and Bakari, your father, Cleve is legendary in 1:25:54.600 --> 1:25:57.200 so many ways. I don't know all the people up here, 1:25:57.280 --> 1:25:57.840 but I thank you. 1:25:57.880 --> 1:25:59.439 For your spirit. He's gonna say, I don't know what 1:25:59.479 --> 1:26:00.960 happened to you. Sorry, I had to get you back. 1:26:04.400 --> 1:26:07.000 When I was at North Carolina, A and T please please, 1:26:07.080 --> 1:26:09.840 Father please, Father would come and sit down and talk 1:26:09.920 --> 1:26:12.640 with us as students. And so this to me is 1:26:12.720 --> 1:26:15.080 more of a celebration really of civil rights. It's not 1:26:15.200 --> 1:26:18.200 into the politics. And I know it's a political convention 1:26:18.320 --> 1:26:21.000 and so forth, But forty years later, what does it 1:26:21.120 --> 1:26:24.120 mean my father's real motivation. It was a moral crusade. 1:26:24.160 --> 1:26:26.920 It wasn't a political groups said and by the vehicle. 1:26:27.000 --> 1:26:29.960 It was in empowerment. It wasn't finding a district. It 1:26:30.040 --> 1:26:34.360 was uplifting the entire network. Why would somebody run for 1:26:34.520 --> 1:26:36.760 president that's never ran for a local office. That it 1:26:36.840 --> 1:26:38.960 was about a movement, and out of that movement, it 1:26:39.040 --> 1:26:42.080 was that massive voter registration. And we have to pick 1:26:42.120 --> 1:26:44.719 that up today. And so in the spirit of Fanny 1:26:44.760 --> 1:26:48.479 lou Hamer sixty four to eighty four was his foundation. 1:26:48.680 --> 1:26:52.480 It wasn't a political move it was massive voter registration participation. 1:26:53.000 --> 1:26:55.439 And I hope that the party picks that language back up, 1:26:55.960 --> 1:26:59.120 massive voter registration. If we vote our numbers in South Carolina, 1:26:59.400 --> 1:27:02.759 we'll have a the Democratic congressional seat. We'll have another 1:27:02.840 --> 1:27:05.800 one in Louisiana, another one I've got South Carolina. We'll 1:27:05.840 --> 1:27:09.160 have another seat in Tennessee, and a first black to 1:27:09.280 --> 1:27:11.479 have a seat in Arkansas. We still haven't had an 1:27:11.479 --> 1:27:13.599 African American representative in the state of Arkansas. 1:27:13.720 --> 1:27:16.560 Wow, a black mayor though. Mayor Frank Fresh. 1:27:17.280 --> 1:27:18.960 One of the questions I wanted to ask you, is 1:27:20.200 --> 1:27:24.000 you know Uncle Jesse as we called him in our household, 1:27:24.040 --> 1:27:26.840 because little Jesse used to come over and babysit my 1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:29.519 brother and sister in Greensboro and all of those things. 1:27:31.160 --> 1:27:33.400 In his campaign in eighty four and eighty eight, he 1:27:33.560 --> 1:27:36.920 just cultivated so many souls and personalities that went on 1:27:37.040 --> 1:27:39.360 to do great things. My father was a Southern regional 1:27:39.439 --> 1:27:41.960 field direct and ended up hiring a young lady named 1:27:42.280 --> 1:27:45.640 Donna Brazil on that race. You have Mignon Moore, you 1:27:45.760 --> 1:27:47.720 have all of these people. Talk about the impact of 1:27:47.800 --> 1:27:51.240 your father on the modern day Democratic Party because just 1:27:51.320 --> 1:27:54.280 a lot of people don't even know that his fingerprints 1:27:54.320 --> 1:27:56.519 are all over everything that we're doing right now. 1:27:56.760 --> 1:27:57.160 That's right. 1:27:57.479 --> 1:27:57.679 Wow. 1:27:57.960 --> 1:28:00.760 So if you look at Mignon Moore on her for 1:28:00.840 --> 1:28:05.040 over forty years. This is my tenth Democratic Convention. Mignon 1:28:05.160 --> 1:28:08.519 Morris from Chicago. She worked in the organization of Rainbow Push. 1:28:08.600 --> 1:28:11.280 She comes out of eighty four. Now she's the chair 1:28:11.600 --> 1:28:14.920 of the Democratic Invention in the state of Illinois. When 1:28:14.960 --> 1:28:17.679 you look at donnal Brazil, she went on to become 1:28:17.760 --> 1:28:20.240 the chair of the Al Gore for President. She came 1:28:20.280 --> 1:28:23.320 out of the eighty eight campaign as well. When you 1:28:23.400 --> 1:28:26.840 look at Dave Dinkins, after the massive voter registration drive, 1:28:26.920 --> 1:28:30.000 he became the first African American mayor of New York City. 1:28:30.920 --> 1:28:33.960 That's true of Doug Wilder, the first African American governor 1:28:34.320 --> 1:28:39.439 out of Virginia, David Wellington, the first African American mayor 1:28:40.000 --> 1:28:42.679 of a non black city, majority white city. 1:28:42.640 --> 1:28:44.960 In Denver, Colorado. And it can go on and on. 1:28:45.280 --> 1:28:48.519 And when I hear President Barack Obama says that he 1:28:48.680 --> 1:28:51.439 was inspired when he was in law school and when 1:28:52.240 --> 1:28:56.240 Vice President Kamala Harris was a student at Howard University, 1:28:56.400 --> 1:28:59.920 she was protesting in nineteen eighty six for free South Africa. 1:29:00.520 --> 1:29:03.680 And she gives my father credit for her inspiration. And 1:29:03.760 --> 1:29:06.240 I have to give myself. I wouldn't be here today, uh, 1:29:06.720 --> 1:29:09.680 thelone being interested in politics and public office. And I 1:29:09.720 --> 1:29:12.560 wouldn't say politics, but public office us being able to 1:29:12.600 --> 1:29:15.639 assert ourselves in government. Uh, to live off the will 1:29:15.680 --> 1:29:16.960 of our people and our desire. 1:29:18.360 --> 1:29:19.960 What advice you got for this young man senter right 1:29:20.000 --> 1:29:22.440 here to my right, who is running this youth organization 1:29:22.600 --> 1:29:24.760 in our in our d n C. That is going 1:29:24.840 --> 1:29:28.479 to probably be the reason that Kamala Harris wins this race? 1:29:28.680 --> 1:29:30.360 Young voters, What do you have to say to him 1:29:30.400 --> 1:29:33.040 about organizing those young minds in a way that you 1:29:33.200 --> 1:29:34.920 know so well because you grew up in it. 1:29:35.200 --> 1:29:35.920 I'm a AGGI to. 1:29:41.080 --> 1:29:43.040 I knew there was something brilliant about you, young man. 1:29:44.200 --> 1:29:45.320 He can't get in the morning. 1:29:55.200 --> 1:29:56.599 Uplift. 1:29:57.600 --> 1:29:58.559 We will get you an honor. 1:30:00.160 --> 1:30:00.679 What's amazing. 1:30:00.840 --> 1:30:02.519 I decided to go to North Carolina A and C 1:30:02.680 --> 1:30:05.880 because of Reverend Jesse Jackson. It was you know, like 1:30:05.960 --> 1:30:08.360 I said, I grew up under the leadership of Revenue Sharpton, 1:30:08.600 --> 1:30:11.000 who also grew up under the leadership of Reverend Jesse Jackson. 1:30:11.040 --> 1:30:13.720 And I'm like, I've always been around the family, and 1:30:13.760 --> 1:30:16.160 I'm like, I visited the campus and the and the 1:30:16.280 --> 1:30:18.960 impact of Reverend Jackson on the campus was like I 1:30:19.080 --> 1:30:20.880 had to come here because I felt the legacy of 1:30:21.000 --> 1:30:24.439 not only as we talk about the Greensboro for the 1:30:24.520 --> 1:30:26.719 A and T four, but also the legacy of civil 1:30:26.800 --> 1:30:29.400 rights leaders from HBCUs across the land. And I know, 1:30:29.520 --> 1:30:32.200 I know we got fam you over in the corner, 1:30:33.560 --> 1:30:35.880 and yeah, like I would tell you Jackson was my 1:30:35.920 --> 1:30:36.680 inspiration as well. 1:30:36.720 --> 1:30:39.439 I would tell you, be a study, be a student 1:30:39.720 --> 1:30:42.640 of these organizations, Be a student of the history so 1:30:42.720 --> 1:30:44.799 that you can make your desired impact. 1:30:45.640 --> 1:30:47.000 Make sure that you have the affiliation. 1:30:47.240 --> 1:30:49.400 I'm so honored to see you next to my brother, 1:30:49.760 --> 1:30:53.519 but card, you couldn't learn from anyone greater than that. 1:30:53.720 --> 1:30:57.679 And see you sitting besides Angela, I mean like, surround 1:30:57.760 --> 1:31:00.519 yourself around the people that are already know, that have 1:31:00.600 --> 1:31:04.200 been down there. And this has legacy, not dynasty, not 1:31:04.320 --> 1:31:06.679 as in something that the whites have where they're passing 1:31:06.720 --> 1:31:09.880 on bequeathing wealth to one another. Legacy. We have to 1:31:09.920 --> 1:31:11.679 be concerned about our names. We have to be concerned 1:31:11.720 --> 1:31:14.559 about passing on history and tradition. So we're in an 1:31:14.640 --> 1:31:17.479 empasy part of our struggle in so many ways. We 1:31:17.840 --> 1:31:20.960 just got an African American History Museum. There's so much 1:31:20.960 --> 1:31:23.760 about a history we still trying to learn and figure out. 1:31:24.040 --> 1:31:27.200 So surround yourself with those that have legacy, whose parents 1:31:27.280 --> 1:31:29.439 have already paid that taught them. There are some things 1:31:29.479 --> 1:31:32.920 that have happened around these two people's kitchen table that 1:31:33.439 --> 1:31:36.160 what's it like growing up in the Northwest suburbs and 1:31:36.240 --> 1:31:39.400 still being an advocate? And guess what, many great whites 1:31:39.400 --> 1:31:42.360 are out there that applaud and support these causes. Once 1:31:42.400 --> 1:31:44.800 they see us moving, they double down. What's it like 1:31:44.920 --> 1:31:47.439 growing up in South Carolina having to get over all 1:31:47.520 --> 1:31:50.000 the issues of Jim Crow. So it's a vast nation, 1:31:50.160 --> 1:31:53.920 a lot of a lot of complexities to the United States. 1:31:54.240 --> 1:31:56.640 And so I would say continue and I applaud you. 1:31:56.840 --> 1:31:58.880 I am so proud to know at your age that 1:31:58.920 --> 1:32:00.799 you've had your mind made up. This was the furthest 1:32:00.840 --> 1:32:05.000 thing from my mind being in public office. I went 1:32:05.000 --> 1:32:06.680 to business school and at the law school, I was 1:32:06.720 --> 1:32:09.240 doing private business. And at the age of fifty six, 1:32:09.360 --> 1:32:11.600 this opportunity opened up, and I said, what is the 1:32:11.680 --> 1:32:13.920 highest and best useage your mind time with the days 1:32:13.920 --> 1:32:15.639 that I have left, let me go run for office. 1:32:15.720 --> 1:32:18.200 And if I of course, I was afraid if it 1:32:18.240 --> 1:32:20.439 doesn't work, I failed. But if I don't try, I'll 1:32:20.479 --> 1:32:23.240 certainly fail. So thank god I was giving this opportunity. 1:32:23.520 --> 1:32:26.400 Can I say yes like I wanted to say while 1:32:26.400 --> 1:32:28.880 I'm here at the stage, I'm so grateful for leaders 1:32:28.960 --> 1:32:31.080 like yourself who continue to pour into the next generation 1:32:31.160 --> 1:32:33.839 and who continue to you know, you know, give inspiration 1:32:34.000 --> 1:32:36.040 like as I always see you all doing the great, 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:37.120 amazing work that you are doing. 1:32:37.160 --> 1:32:38.240 Your inspiration to many. 1:32:39.240 --> 1:32:42.040 I remember I say it all the time when I 1:32:42.080 --> 1:32:43.960 went with the family to impact their families and we were, 1:32:44.360 --> 1:32:46.680 you know, advocating for George Floyd Justice and Policing Act, 1:32:46.920 --> 1:32:49.360 and we had went to like all the Senators offices, 1:32:49.360 --> 1:32:51.560 and we went to the White House I said, I 1:32:51.680 --> 1:32:54.479 remember when I was following, following around the carry sellers 1:32:54.479 --> 1:32:57.240 around that we was with George Floyd family and others, 1:32:57.560 --> 1:33:01.240 and so you all, even this all impacts, even the 1:33:01.320 --> 1:33:04.400 small things that that you do. People are watching, young 1:33:04.439 --> 1:33:08.120 folks are watching, especially me especially, and I would say, 1:33:08.120 --> 1:33:11.000 I'm just grateful for your your your your being a 1:33:11.040 --> 1:33:14.679 great role model and for paving the way for young 1:33:14.720 --> 1:33:17.240 folks to to come up and to get get into 1:33:17.280 --> 1:33:17.559 this work. 1:33:17.560 --> 1:33:18.160 So I'm grateful. 1:33:18.280 --> 1:33:23.680 We're so grateful for you all for being here. We're 1:33:23.720 --> 1:33:28.920 so grateful you show, but we're so grateful for you 1:33:29.000 --> 1:33:39.200 all being here. Thank you all so much. So, you guys, 1:33:40.000 --> 1:33:41.920 I wanted to just take a moment. 1:33:43.520 --> 1:33:46.720 To talk a little bit about what's happened, not just 1:33:46.800 --> 1:33:49.960 what's happening on the stage, but what we've experienced today 1:33:50.320 --> 1:33:52.240 for the viewers at home, you are, this has been 1:33:52.360 --> 1:33:54.880 such a rich, rewarding experience. 1:33:54.960 --> 1:33:55.759 We talked to Legacy. 1:33:55.840 --> 1:33:58.759 We couldn't have done Chicago without the Jackson family. 1:33:59.040 --> 1:34:03.719 We couldn't have done Okay, we couldn't. Bakari's on another planet. 1:34:03.840 --> 1:34:04.040 Chat. 1:34:04.800 --> 1:34:09.360 This is first and last time first love love. But 1:34:09.520 --> 1:34:11.760 this is look him. He's just in his own word. 1:34:12.400 --> 1:34:14.599 Are you checking back in? Thank you, Thank you, Congressman. 1:34:14.640 --> 1:34:17.920 We're so grateful, thank you. So here's the thing, this 1:34:18.240 --> 1:34:22.920 conversation to me has been rooted in so much history, 1:34:23.640 --> 1:34:26.960 so much legacy, and still packed with so much hope 1:34:27.000 --> 1:34:29.800 for the future. TELI like grounding up this rounding off 1:34:29.840 --> 1:34:32.960 this podcast today was amazing. It's so necessary not just 1:34:33.040 --> 1:34:34.479 to be like, well, what are the youth saying and 1:34:34.600 --> 1:34:37.080 kind of plopped them in. He's been in this work, 1:34:37.320 --> 1:34:39.479 says since he was thirteen years old. So I do 1:34:39.640 --> 1:34:43.160 think it's important that our podcast started in that very 1:34:43.240 --> 1:34:45.439 same theme that we had we saw on the convention 1:34:45.560 --> 1:34:46.519 stage for the people. 1:34:46.720 --> 1:34:48.400 This podcast has been for the people. 1:34:48.439 --> 1:34:50.519 We talked about an agenda that we were trying to 1:34:50.560 --> 1:34:52.920 feel in fulfilling seventy two, that we were trying to 1:34:52.960 --> 1:34:55.360 fulfill in sixty eight when Fanny lou Amer said. 1:34:55.400 --> 1:34:57.200 I'm tired, sick and tired of being sick and tired. 1:34:57.320 --> 1:34:58.479 I'm gonna run myself. 1:34:58.720 --> 1:35:01.240 And we heard from folks who have take that responsibility, 1:35:01.320 --> 1:35:04.120 that mantled that torch that Joe Biden is supposed to 1:35:04.160 --> 1:35:06.400 pass to Kamala Harrison Night. We've seen that all on 1:35:06.520 --> 1:35:09.360 this podcast stage tonight, and I just want to say 1:35:09.400 --> 1:35:10.040 I thank y'all. 1:35:10.080 --> 1:35:11.920 I love y'all. This has been great. I want to 1:35:11.920 --> 1:35:13.720 hear from y'all. But that's what was on our to share, 1:35:15.600 --> 1:35:15.760 you know. 1:35:15.880 --> 1:35:17.479 And the thing is, some of some of our guests 1:35:17.479 --> 1:35:20.200 were planned tonight. Some we just saw walking by and 1:35:20.280 --> 1:35:22.800 we grabbed them. And I think that's one of the 1:35:23.120 --> 1:35:26.559 great things about the convention. One thing that I find 1:35:27.040 --> 1:35:30.840 striking here Andrew Bacari and Angela is the history that 1:35:30.960 --> 1:35:34.200 has been made in Chicago. I remember being here in 1:35:34.280 --> 1:35:37.519 two thousand and eight in Grant Park election night when 1:35:37.600 --> 1:35:42.800 we saw President Barack Obama win the election. He went 1:35:42.880 --> 1:35:46.560 from Senator Obama to President Obama that night, and I 1:35:46.720 --> 1:35:48.040 remember walking. 1:35:48.560 --> 1:35:49.240 Through Grant Park. 1:35:49.320 --> 1:35:52.120 It was November and it was oddly warm that evening. 1:35:52.160 --> 1:35:54.240 It was in the seventies, and it was just a 1:35:54.400 --> 1:35:56.880 spirit in the air. And I remember walking past white 1:35:56.880 --> 1:36:00.040 people and they would just randomly say congratulations. 1:36:00.680 --> 1:36:01.000 Thank you. 1:36:01.240 --> 1:36:04.400 But I would always say congratulations to you, yes, because 1:36:04.520 --> 1:36:08.400 right exactly, because we saw change and we will always 1:36:08.520 --> 1:36:11.639 view you know, our leaders, you know, history will judge them. 1:36:11.960 --> 1:36:16.240 But it does feel very reminiscent that we are here again, 1:36:16.640 --> 1:36:20.200 feeling that collective energy, and we see a very different 1:36:20.360 --> 1:36:23.960 Kamala Harris than we did four years ago. She's got 1:36:24.080 --> 1:36:25.120 the wind at her back. 1:36:25.360 --> 1:36:26.519 She is moving with ease. 1:36:26.760 --> 1:36:29.840 I know people are eager to hear specifics about her policies. 1:36:29.920 --> 1:36:33.400 She rolled them out in North Carolina. Her economic policies, 1:36:33.680 --> 1:36:36.600 they were very I thought digestible. There were things that 1:36:36.720 --> 1:36:40.439 made sense to us in our community. Absolutely, and so 1:36:40.960 --> 1:36:43.560 you know I have said on this podcast before it 1:36:43.720 --> 1:36:46.680 is going to happen, it is written that this is 1:36:46.760 --> 1:36:49.560 something black women and I love my brothers. Y'all know, 1:36:49.680 --> 1:36:52.240 y'all have done your work, and so we've both done 1:36:52.240 --> 1:36:54.719 our work. But I in the spirit of black women 1:36:55.280 --> 1:36:58.360 who have poured so much into this country and who 1:36:58.600 --> 1:37:02.200 a lot of us felt collectively exhausted and sad and depressed, 1:37:02.800 --> 1:37:06.400 and we are fighting the same battles that our parents 1:37:06.479 --> 1:37:09.080 and grandparents fought, and it just became a time of 1:37:09.360 --> 1:37:12.600 when will we see the fruits of our labor? And 1:37:12.760 --> 1:37:15.280 I have to say it is time, because we have 1:37:15.439 --> 1:37:18.160 tried for so long to bend this country to our will, 1:37:18.560 --> 1:37:21.040 and we know what happens to things that do not bend, 1:37:21.520 --> 1:37:24.960 and it is time for us to have new leadership 1:37:25.000 --> 1:37:27.640 in this country. So I feel that energy here and 1:37:27.680 --> 1:37:30.280 I'm excited about it. I feel it too, so excited 1:37:30.320 --> 1:37:31.759 that even Bacari couldn't get. 1:37:31.640 --> 1:37:32.200 Me down. 1:37:34.439 --> 1:37:38.719 Touchy insults, But in a real way, I think tonight 1:37:38.760 --> 1:37:43.200 I'm just sitting in gratitude for the moment that we 1:37:43.280 --> 1:37:48.599 found ourselves, but also for Joe Biden and his legacy. Yes, 1:37:49.240 --> 1:37:53.080 and I'm deliberately focusing on him this evening because this 1:37:53.320 --> 1:37:56.400 is the evening he will bring the message of the party. 1:37:57.560 --> 1:37:59.639 Hillary's on the stage, though, I just want to say. 1:37:59.560 --> 1:38:01.120 Well home. 1:38:03.560 --> 1:38:07.759 All white addressing the audience, how you know, possibly, Andrew, 1:38:07.800 --> 1:38:09.800 because you brought this up and I'm curious to hear 1:38:09.840 --> 1:38:12.600 from you and Baccari on this, and of course me 1:38:12.680 --> 1:38:16.400 and Angelica waym But you said how she must be feeling, 1:38:16.600 --> 1:38:20.680 and I do wonder about that, because she tried to crack. 1:38:20.479 --> 1:38:23.639 That glass ceiling. She has to be feeling every day, 1:38:23.800 --> 1:38:25.040 like I told you. 1:38:25.160 --> 1:38:28.240 So, probably what an expletive Bacari when you said when 1:38:28.280 --> 1:38:31.040 you lose all, you're out in the wilderness, and she 1:38:31.200 --> 1:38:33.800 was literally out in the wilderness, and you know your 1:38:33.880 --> 1:38:36.519 spirit broke for her when when the election did not 1:38:36.600 --> 1:38:37.519 turn in her favorite, and. 1:38:37.640 --> 1:38:38.960 She won the popular vote. 1:38:39.000 --> 1:38:42.360 On the popular vote, and we've talked about this before, 1:38:42.520 --> 1:38:46.280 seventy five thousand votes out of Detroit were completely discounted. 1:38:47.200 --> 1:38:50.400 She lost Michigan by ten thousand. Had those votes been counted, 1:38:50.479 --> 1:38:52.880 she would have carried Michigan thus won the presidency. So 1:38:53.000 --> 1:38:56.280 to have to watch someone you know, living out the 1:38:56.439 --> 1:38:58.519 nightmare that you tried to warn the country about, and 1:38:58.640 --> 1:39:00.800 then to have to watch someone else living out the 1:39:00.960 --> 1:39:03.560 dream that you for so long have dreamt, I do 1:39:03.720 --> 1:39:06.000 wonder what she must be feeling tonight. 1:39:06.240 --> 1:39:08.679 Yes, I mean I was going to say we could 1:39:08.960 --> 1:39:10.439 we could go and listen. 1:39:18.880 --> 1:39:21.160 I don't think we're gonna hear it from her from 1:39:21.240 --> 1:39:25.000 the stage tonight, because I do think there's probably a 1:39:25.040 --> 1:39:27.600 septext there that that that we won't get. I have 1:39:27.680 --> 1:39:30.960 to imagine that there's some pride, obviously for the fact 1:39:31.000 --> 1:39:35.439 that even though I didn't have that moment, we may 1:39:35.479 --> 1:39:37.880 be setting up for that moment to be had with 1:39:38.040 --> 1:39:40.960 Kamala Harris in this cycle. I have to imagine that 1:39:41.080 --> 1:39:44.439 there's also you know there I told you so, like 1:39:44.520 --> 1:39:50.080 you just mentioned, and and maybe even hopefully she has 1:39:50.320 --> 1:39:55.080 some pride and the fact that maybe she had to 1:39:55.240 --> 1:39:57.519 go that way, and that it had to happen the way. 1:39:57.640 --> 1:39:59.360 I believe. I believe she's in. 1:39:59.479 --> 1:40:01.599 Order for us to experience the moment that we're gonna 1:40:01.640 --> 1:40:05.200 have today the rest of this convention, and I believe November. 1:40:04.880 --> 1:40:06.679 Seven, I believe a great Sorry. 1:40:07.680 --> 1:40:09.000 I just have to tell you all this because I 1:40:09.000 --> 1:40:09.799 feel so shamed. 1:40:10.000 --> 1:40:13.120 I've been so like, I'm listening to the conversation, but 1:40:13.160 --> 1:40:15.600 I've been so distracted about y'all's appearance. I forgot to 1:40:15.640 --> 1:40:17.559 tell y'all the whole show you had on these credentials 1:40:17.600 --> 1:40:18.360 the entire time. 1:40:20.040 --> 1:40:24.120 That's okay, okay, okay, what were you saying? 1:40:25.120 --> 1:40:26.160 She interrupted me to say that. 1:40:26.520 --> 1:40:29.120 Yeah, because I just thought about I'm sorry, I didn't realize. 1:40:29.160 --> 1:40:31.120 I don't know what I was. I was talking about Hillary. 1:40:31.400 --> 1:40:32.439 She she might feel. 1:40:32.640 --> 1:40:34.120 I believe, you guys, I believe. 1:40:34.320 --> 1:40:36.360 I believe one of the things about Hillary Clinton is 1:40:36.400 --> 1:40:39.760 that a lot like we want Joe Biden to be, 1:40:40.000 --> 1:40:43.000 but it's some level of compute, and I believe she 1:40:43.160 --> 1:40:47.400 feels that completeness because it is Kamala Harris. You know, 1:40:47.920 --> 1:40:52.120 four weeks and one day ago, this was a totally 1:40:52.240 --> 1:40:55.640 different convention. It was a different space it was a 1:40:55.720 --> 1:41:00.679 different feel trajectory, and I'm not sure or that people 1:41:00.720 --> 1:41:03.840 would have that level of completeness. And I think one 1:41:03.880 --> 1:41:08.120 of the things that Kamala Harris teaches you, more so 1:41:08.320 --> 1:41:11.719 than anything else, is that you have to be prepared 1:41:12.040 --> 1:41:16.479 for that moment, because it's one thing to be thrust 1:41:16.640 --> 1:41:20.160 into that light. It's another thing to be able to 1:41:20.240 --> 1:41:23.600 harness that energy. It's one thing to get that responsibility, 1:41:23.680 --> 1:41:26.479 it's another thing to be able to bear that responsibility's 1:41:26.840 --> 1:41:30.679 and I believe that what you're seeing from Hillary Clinton 1:41:30.680 --> 1:41:32.240 tonight and one of the things you'll see from Joe 1:41:32.280 --> 1:41:36.080 Biden later is this inherent trust that not only do 1:41:36.680 --> 1:41:40.800 I support Kamala Harris, but she got me too, and 1:41:40.920 --> 1:41:44.000 she and it's that's it. And so because it's in 1:41:44.080 --> 1:41:49.080 good hands, I didn't get there, but we complete real. 1:41:49.280 --> 1:41:51.880 That's real, that's real. Bokari, I believe that too. I 1:41:51.920 --> 1:41:54.719 also think it was really important that what we're getting 1:41:54.880 --> 1:41:58.559 from from him. I think what we will be getting 1:41:58.640 --> 1:42:03.200 from him this evening is permission to the extent that 1:42:03.280 --> 1:42:06.760 there are still those Biden folks who are and I'm 1:42:06.800 --> 1:42:09.680 a Biden Harris folk up until he made us a 1:42:09.760 --> 1:42:14.760 Harris Walls Clan. But I think he may may create 1:42:14.800 --> 1:42:17.320 a permission structure for those who still may be in 1:42:18.040 --> 1:42:22.240 some set of denial that it's okay to fully embrace 1:42:22.800 --> 1:42:25.160 the change that has happened that's led us to this moment. 1:42:25.240 --> 1:42:27.519 I didn't think it was possible a month ago. But 1:42:27.680 --> 1:42:31.320 we're here and this is where we're going. She is 1:42:31.439 --> 1:42:33.240 going to take us the rest of the way. I've 1:42:33.320 --> 1:42:35.600 done my part and I'm now handing it off. I 1:42:35.680 --> 1:42:37.559 think he did that in naming her the same day 1:42:37.600 --> 1:42:39.800 that he announced his pulling out of the race. And 1:42:39.880 --> 1:42:43.200 I think in very physical form this party, the leadership 1:42:43.280 --> 1:42:45.760 of this party, the delegates who are here assembled this 1:42:46.439 --> 1:42:50.160 really important and August gathering, this man will be in 1:42:50.240 --> 1:42:54.479 physical form able to pass it on. And I think 1:42:54.560 --> 1:42:58.679 that healing that visual is something necessary for our party. 1:42:59.080 --> 1:43:01.920 Yeah all right, I know you want to go to 1:43:02.000 --> 1:43:03.720 the floor and hear the speeches, but I just want 1:43:03.760 --> 1:43:06.519 to say what a delight it is to have you. 1:43:08.960 --> 1:43:12.040 Yeah, I love you guys, I love you guys. 1:43:12.200 --> 1:43:12.639 Yeah, yeah. 1:43:12.680 --> 1:43:12.720 No. 1:43:13.200 --> 1:43:16.200 The fact that we've been able to humble each other 1:43:16.560 --> 1:43:19.720 and push each other and pray for each other and 1:43:20.200 --> 1:43:23.760 and do it all together. And then I get the 1:43:24.000 --> 1:43:28.240 most satisfaction of walking with you all and watching how 1:43:28.360 --> 1:43:31.400 other people respond to you. I think that is one 1:43:31.439 --> 1:43:34.599 of the more amazing experiences when you have peers who 1:43:34.640 --> 1:43:37.719 people want to take a picture with, or a senior 1:43:37.760 --> 1:43:40.320 who wants to hug Andrew, probably because she think is me. 1:43:43.439 --> 1:43:47.400 No shots, nostopstops, no pit stops. 1:43:47.520 --> 1:43:48.320 I really don't. 1:43:49.960 --> 1:43:54.479 Straight these straight the hair straight? 1:43:54.560 --> 1:43:54.840 The hell? 1:43:55.000 --> 1:43:57.679 No picture said tonight, just send him to hell before 1:43:58.160 --> 1:43:58.439 I am. 1:43:58.680 --> 1:43:59.280 I love y'all. 1:43:59.320 --> 1:44:02.400 I'm gonna go Hillary. Yeah, and she got on her suffrages. 1:44:02.400 --> 1:44:03.920 Why yeah, that is yellow. 1:44:04.120 --> 1:44:05.800 That's not yellow as far as I can see, it 1:44:05.880 --> 1:44:06.280 look white. 1:44:06.320 --> 1:44:10.840 But okay, I know you want to go. I just 1:44:10.880 --> 1:44:12.720 want to say thank you so so much for. 1:44:13.240 --> 1:44:14.840 Thank you, I mean thank y'all for doing the cross 1:44:14.880 --> 1:44:15.280 collab and. 1:44:15.760 --> 1:44:18.880 Audience car tune into the Bakari Sellers podcast. 1:44:19.040 --> 1:44:22.640 He is on Ringer and Spotify Today he is with 1:44:22.840 --> 1:44:23.400 Native Lamby. 1:44:25.840 --> 1:44:26.599 Thank you so much. 1:44:28.200 --> 1:44:31.800 That's definitely come back. Okay, and can you mute both 1:44:31.880 --> 1:44:34.840 those microphones? That's what you're saying. 1:44:35.040 --> 1:44:36.960 Yeah, and now you get to take us out? 1:44:37.640 --> 1:44:39.680 Okay, can you still hear me? 1:44:41.960 --> 1:44:43.479 I didn't I thought you were telling me to pick 1:44:43.520 --> 1:44:47.479 it up, no mute. Okay, maybe next time like when 1:44:47.520 --> 1:44:51.800 we work on our anyway. Yeah, I'm so grateful that 1:44:51.920 --> 1:44:54.040 we are here. You guys know that it was quite 1:44:54.040 --> 1:44:58.320 a journey. Even today, I'm so grateful again, what's happened today? 1:44:58.800 --> 1:44:59.000 Girl? 1:44:59.160 --> 1:45:04.760 All the things to be told later, but I also 1:45:04.880 --> 1:45:07.160 want to acknowledge again. You know, we have this really 1:45:07.240 --> 1:45:09.360 dope chat. We always talk about our growth chat, but 1:45:09.400 --> 1:45:11.680 we also have a Blacks and Media group chat, and 1:45:11.800 --> 1:45:15.840 we shouted out Roland earlier today for literally making sure 1:45:15.960 --> 1:45:17.559 not the girls one, but the blacks and media one. 1:45:19.240 --> 1:45:20.960 So well at you. 1:45:21.080 --> 1:45:24.479 Actually you actually took yourself out of that chat. Yes, 1:45:24.560 --> 1:45:28.519 it's all good, but we love you nonetheless, and we 1:45:28.680 --> 1:45:33.880 love Rolling for no matter what we love we love 1:45:34.120 --> 1:45:38.080 Rolling because whether it's today on set making sure that 1:45:38.160 --> 1:45:41.120 we're straight, or making sure that black issues are being discussed, 1:45:41.200 --> 1:45:43.320 or making sure that there are black media buys, or 1:45:43.360 --> 1:45:46.360 making sure that black people have platforms, or making sure 1:45:46.400 --> 1:45:48.719 that we are all die shiky down to the sid. 1:45:50.160 --> 1:45:50.920 Is gonna look out. 1:45:51.439 --> 1:45:53.800 So we love you Rolling, and you all make sure 1:45:53.800 --> 1:45:56.640 that you also tune into Blackstar Network, that you tune in. 1:45:56.760 --> 1:45:59.880 Rolling is live tonight until midnight. I think we're gonna 1:45:59.880 --> 1:46:02.720 go see go see the show, Go see the show. 1:46:02.720 --> 1:46:04.720 We're going to go see the floor. Yeah, and we 1:46:04.800 --> 1:46:07.880 are going to continue to cheer on the Black Chair, 1:46:08.640 --> 1:46:10.960 the Black Sea, all of this convention, Mignon Moore and 1:46:11.080 --> 1:46:15.559 the Black Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Jamie Harrison, 1:46:15.600 --> 1:46:16.679 who spoke earlier today. 1:46:16.760 --> 1:46:18.639 So we're really thrilled to be here. We hope y'all 1:46:18.680 --> 1:46:21.799 tune in tomorrow seven Central. 1:46:22.200 --> 1:46:25.000 And this has been way before you say what it's been. 1:46:25.080 --> 1:46:26.479 I just want to give a quick shout out to 1:46:26.840 --> 1:46:28.880 all of the staff have helped to pull this. 1:46:29.560 --> 1:46:33.400 Thank you, team of talent over here. 1:46:33.439 --> 1:46:39.720 The creators, bookers together here with us. 1:46:39.920 --> 1:46:42.719 We're cheering for everybody. Chris Walker, We're cheering for everybody 1:46:42.800 --> 1:46:43.439 to say thank you. 1:46:44.200 --> 1:46:46.280 We are just about rapped, and I want to say 1:46:46.320 --> 1:46:48.639 this is episode thirty three of Native LAMPI. 1:46:48.880 --> 1:46:51.439 We're still rapping. But come on up here, you'll walk back. 1:46:52.520 --> 1:46:52.680 Nick. 1:46:52.720 --> 1:46:56.479 There're seventy seven days in til the election, seventy eight, 1:46:57.720 --> 1:46:58.120 but if. 1:46:58.040 --> 1:47:03.520 You tune in tomorrow, it'll be seventy in the morning exactly. 1:47:03.880 --> 1:47:05.639 But for those that you tune into the live stream 1:47:05.680 --> 1:47:10.920 and kept it with us, Hi Mark Urban League Presator. 1:47:11.160 --> 1:47:13.479 Hopefully we'll have it mine at some point this week. 1:47:13.560 --> 1:47:15.680 We love you, Love you, min And for now we're 1:47:15.720 --> 1:47:18.160 gonna wrap and maybe catch the end of Hillary Rodham 1:47:18.160 --> 1:47:18.920 Clinton's right. 1:47:19.120 --> 1:47:20.320 Welcome home, everybody, come. 1:47:20.240 --> 1:47:22.040 Help y'all'll. 1:47:22.920 --> 1:47:25.439 Thank you for joining the Natives intention of with the 1:47:25.560 --> 1:47:28.320 info and all of the latest Roy Gilim and cross 1:47:28.400 --> 1:47:31.400 connected to the statements that you leave on our socials. 1:47:31.439 --> 1:47:34.679 Thank you sincerely for the patients. 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