# Hegseth Blocks Black Promotions. Iran War Impacts Farmers. Karmelo Anthony Trial. Love, Joy & Power

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 2 Jun 2026, 3 h 38 min.

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[4:43] Speaker 3: That is Monday, June for twenty twenty six, coming up
[4:46] Speaker 3: on Roland Martin on Filter Streaming Live when the Black
[4:48] Speaker 3: Start Network Day one of the State of Texas versus Carmelo.
[4:52] Speaker 3: Sincere Anthony the black team, who's to have the white
[4:55] Speaker 3: team and attract me? In April twenty twenty five, attorney
[4:58] Speaker 3: PHILM Anderson was in the court room and will tell
[5:00] Speaker 3: us exactly what happened in the juris selection. Guess what,
[5:05] Speaker 3: Donald Trump continues their anti black administration, New York Times
[5:09] Speaker 3: reports and the finn Secretary Pete Heckseth is again blocking
[5:13] Speaker 3: the promotions of women and black people to hire ranks
[5:18] Speaker 3: in the military.
[5:20] Speaker 2: Again.
[5:20] Speaker 3: We'll show you how this continues an anti black agenda.
[5:25] Speaker 3: Speaking of anti black, Clarence Thomas literally blast his fellow
[5:29] Speaker 3: Supreme Court justices for vacating a ruling in a Florida
[5:33] Speaker 3: murder case, saying the courts intervened in a death row
[5:36] Speaker 3: case unnecessarily, and he said they should be focused on
[5:39] Speaker 3: the issue of discrimination against whites in college administration, college
[5:45] Speaker 3: and college admissions. Really, Clarence, really, Trump administration is drastically
[5:50] Speaker 3: slashing the number of mbassies in Africa that can process visus.
[5:55] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[5:55] Speaker 3: More anti black. Plus, it's the premiere of Black Voters
[5:58] Speaker 3: Matter documentary Loveday in Power Tooth the Liberation. We'll be
[6:02] Speaker 3: simulcasting it here right on the Blackstar Network.
[6:05] Speaker 11: Y'all.
[6:05] Speaker 3: It's time to bring the funk black rolling mark unfilch it.
[6:09] Speaker 3: Let's go.
[6:10] Speaker 7: He's got whatever the best he's doing, whatever it is, He's.
[6:15] Speaker 12: Got the school, the fine and when it believes he's
[6:19] Speaker 12: right on top, it is roman best belief.
[6:22] Speaker 7: He's going putting it out.
[6:24] Speaker 13: From his Boston News to politics with entertainment, just bookcakes.
[6:29] Speaker 14: He's going, it's up.
[6:37] Speaker 12: It's rolling, Monte, Yeah, rolling with he's booky stress.
[6:47] Speaker 7: She's real, good question.
[6:48] Speaker 12: No, he's rolling, Monte Martin.
[7:01] Speaker 3: You know, there'll be a lot of races anti black
[7:06] Speaker 3: Supreme Court justices in American history. And who would have
[7:10] Speaker 3: thunk it that an African American would rank right up
[7:14] Speaker 3: there as being one of the most anti black folks,
[7:16] Speaker 3: and that is Clarence Thomas. My man George Curry, late
[7:22] Speaker 3: George Curry, who was a longtime editor in chief of
[7:25] Speaker 3: an emerged magazine, actually put Clarence Thomas on the cover,
[7:31] Speaker 3: portraying him as a long jockey as well as a
[7:33] Speaker 3: handkerchief head.
[7:35] Speaker 15: Uh.
[7:35] Speaker 3: If we if you go into my if you go
[7:39] Speaker 3: into my Rollard Martin unfiltered, see my Black on Media
[7:44] Speaker 3: Matters mirage, there you will see that you literally see
[7:50] Speaker 3: that being Clarence Thomas. And you know what, that's exactly
[7:54] Speaker 3: who he is. I mean, let's just cut to the chase.
[7:57] Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas consistently, uh does things that are frankly anti black.
[8:04] Speaker 3: And I was thinking about that when I saw this ruling,
[8:09] Speaker 3: this ruler took place. In fact, I don't know if
[8:11] Speaker 3: I actually showed y'all this, so just give me one second.
[8:15] Speaker 3: I was gonna pull it up. But you know we
[8:17] Speaker 3: have we have in our studio in my office this
[8:23] Speaker 3: black on Media Matters. Give me one second, y'all. We
[8:27] Speaker 3: had this black on Media Matters graphic here and a
[8:33] Speaker 3: man Keenan actually put this thing together. And what y'all
[8:36] Speaker 3: will see right here control room, y'all got this, all right?
[8:42] Speaker 3: So this right here is the cover that was on
[8:46] Speaker 3: Emerged Betrayed Clarence Thomas's former supporters. Okay, and you see
[8:51] Speaker 3: Kidman as a handkerchief head. And then this is the
[8:54] Speaker 3: other one. He portrayed Clarence Thomas as a lawn jockey,
[8:59] Speaker 3: Uncle Thomas long jockey for the far right. Y'all can
[9:03] Speaker 3: go back to the slide show. Those were the two
[9:05] Speaker 3: covers that are very famous for Emerging magazine, and so
[9:10] Speaker 3: we have them here. So I thought about those. I
[9:13] Speaker 3: thought about those when I saw this story here. And
[9:18] Speaker 3: it's actually a case the Supreme Court decided today. Okay,
[9:23] Speaker 3: so this is amazing. The Supreme Court issued a ruling
[9:29] Speaker 3: regarding Gary Witten's bed for a new trial based on
[9:32] Speaker 3: false testimony from a prosecution witness, Claires. Thomas goes, I
[9:38] Speaker 3: don't understand why the court is even intervening in this,
[9:41] Speaker 3: because he said it would not have changed the outcome
[9:44] Speaker 3: because the evidence against the Florida Death Row inmate were
[9:48] Speaker 3: so overwhelming, So screw him. The overarching point of his
[9:57] Speaker 3: descent was the rebuke of the the entire Supreme Court's priorities.
[10:02] Speaker 3: He pointed to cases involving race, free speech, and military
[10:07] Speaker 3: families and the justices declined to hear as examples of
[10:11] Speaker 3: disputes he believed were more deserving of the Court's attention.
[10:15] Speaker 3: Mind y'all, this was a seven to two ruling. The
[10:19] Speaker 3: only two people Clash Thomas and Samuel Alito. Yeah, seven
[10:25] Speaker 3: to two, So even Gorsic, Kavanaugh, Amy Cony, Barrett John
[10:33] Speaker 3: Roberts ruled with Kagan, Sodomayor, and Katadi Brown Jackson. They
[10:40] Speaker 3: all determined that the eleven Circuit Court must reconsider whether
[10:44] Speaker 3: to grant Witten a new trial without considering DNA evidence
[10:48] Speaker 3: discovered after the original trial. The evidence show for the
[10:51] Speaker 3: bloodstains found inside witness boots belonged to James Maulgen, who
[10:55] Speaker 3: was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a motel
[10:58] Speaker 3: room October ten, nineteen ninety before Witten was seen with
[11:01] Speaker 3: Malden at a bank where the victim withdrew the entire
[11:03] Speaker 3: balance of his account but his I don't understand. This
[11:08] Speaker 3: is somebody who's on death row. So wouldn't you want
[11:12] Speaker 3: to get it completely correct? Wouldn't you want it to
[11:19] Speaker 3: be absolutely certain of the person did it? I mean
[11:22] Speaker 3: for class. I don't just say well he called he
[11:26] Speaker 3: called this an inconsequential footfault. It would have had no
[11:31] Speaker 3: effect on the outcome of the case. Yo, we're talking
[11:38] Speaker 3: the Supreme Court. We're talking about somebody who was on
[11:43] Speaker 3: death row. He's like, Nah, that really ain't no big deal.
[11:49] Speaker 3: We got more I want you, I want you to
[11:52] Speaker 3: juxtapose this. Claire Thomas is saying, we got more important stuff.
[11:57] Speaker 3: We should be focused on, Like white folks who are
[12:01] Speaker 3: being hurt in college admissions. We should be focusing on
[12:05] Speaker 3: that and not on a man who is on death row.
[12:14] Speaker 3: I want you to think about that. These are so
[12:19] Speaker 3: called pro life people. These are so called individuals who's
[12:30] Speaker 3: supposed to be about life. And Clarence Thomas's whole attitude is, Look,
[12:37] Speaker 3: it's enough evidence to convict this man. So I don't
[12:43] Speaker 3: even know why we've been sitting here wasting our time
[12:47] Speaker 3: even talking about him. This shows you how sick and
[12:55] Speaker 3: demented this man is and how shameful he is. This
[13:02] Speaker 3: speaks to the character or the lack thereof, of Clarence
[13:08] Speaker 3: Thomas that he would be. He is so hell been
[13:13] Speaker 3: on ruling against black people in college ad missions that
[13:17] Speaker 3: he will just normally say, let's just dispatch this little
[13:21] Speaker 3: death row case. My pale A Scott Bolden, attorney he
[13:27] Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. There's a lot of Jones that
[13:29] Speaker 3: represented in Texas. Also a lawyer that I'm a congo
[13:34] Speaker 3: to being a senior professor Elections School of be A
[13:37] Speaker 3: National Service America University. Scott, I'm gonna start with you.
[13:45] Speaker 3: I've I've seen some despicable decisions from Clarence Thomas and
[13:52] Speaker 3: some despicable rulings. But for this man to say this
[14:00] Speaker 3: is inconsequential, this is nothing. Why are we wasting our
[14:05] Speaker 3: time on this case? We should be focused on these
[14:09] Speaker 3: other cases when seven other Supreme Court justices say it,
[14:14] Speaker 3: Yet it's kind of important for us to rule on this.
[14:19] Speaker 16: Yeah, at the risk of saying thank goodness for the
[14:21] Speaker 16: other conservative justices in this case that joined the Democratic
[14:25] Speaker 16: appointed Supreme Court justices. You risk saying that, but you
[14:32] Speaker 16: have to see black people as humanity, because if you
[14:37] Speaker 16: saw black people as humanity, right, then police officers would
[14:43] Speaker 16: not abuse black and brown people at their core.
[14:47] Speaker 5: I don't believe they see us as human beings. In
[14:51] Speaker 5: this particular case, you don't even have to. I know
[14:54] Speaker 5: you're talking about race and Clarence Thomas. But if you
[14:56] Speaker 5: set that aside and put.
[14:58] Speaker 2: In another box just.
[15:00] Speaker 5: Pure legal jurisprudence right, where you have DNA that needs
[15:05] Speaker 5: to be tested, that could free this individual, where you
[15:07] Speaker 5: have a prosecution witness, The strongest case for death row
[15:13] Speaker 5: case to be reversed or to be freed is that
[15:17] Speaker 5: you have a lined prosecution witness, right, and you now
[15:20] Speaker 5: have DNA, and they preserve DNA and they can test
[15:24] Speaker 5: the DNA which is accepted by the courts. Now you're
[15:27] Speaker 5: on death row, so you're right, you want to get
[15:30] Speaker 5: it right. The justice system presumes that you're going to.
[15:33] Speaker 2: Get it right.
[15:34] Speaker 5: And every governor or a circuit or Article three court
[15:38] Speaker 5: would argue that if there's the possibility of innocence, right,
[15:43] Speaker 5: We need.
[15:44] Speaker 2: To find that out now.
[15:45] Speaker 5: If you want to make an argument that it would
[15:47] Speaker 5: make that much of a difference arguing that a prosecution
[15:51] Speaker 5: witness lies, that's a pretty high standard to overcome in
[15:54] Speaker 5: a death row case. But secondly, if you know there's
[15:58] Speaker 5: DNA and there's definitive science to it that the courts
[16:02] Speaker 5: article three courts have accepted, right, then you got to
[16:06] Speaker 5: give him a shot at it, right, Because who wants
[16:08] Speaker 5: to kill an innocent person? The human condition begs for democracy, freedom, justice,
[16:13] Speaker 5: and quality begs that you don't want to wrongfully kill
[16:16] Speaker 5: somebody of the color of law. So it just makes
[16:19] Speaker 5: no sense, just legally, it makes no sense.
[16:24] Speaker 3: This is interesting here, Jalanda, and I want to pull
[16:27] Speaker 3: up this. This is a story that was written on
[16:30] Speaker 3: this here, and I just again, the sheer arrogance in
[16:38] Speaker 3: which this is written is just astounding. The article said
[16:43] Speaker 3: that Justice Clarence Thomas dissented. He argued that the additional
[16:49] Speaker 3: evidence quote was notable, but certainly not this positive to
[16:55] Speaker 3: the lower courts. Give me one second, I'm gonna try
[16:57] Speaker 3: to pull this up. Hopefully that stays. Nope, we got
[17:04] Speaker 3: a sort of issue with my cabling here, folks, it's.
[17:07] Speaker 2: Going to read it here.
[17:10] Speaker 3: He argued that the additional evidence was notable was certainly
[17:14] Speaker 3: not this positive to the lower court's ruling. More broadly,
[17:18] Speaker 3: he contended the court should not quote intervene based on
[17:22] Speaker 3: technicalities that do not really affect the outcome of a case.
[17:27] Speaker 3: But in any event, Thomas suggested, the court's ring ultimately
[17:31] Speaker 3: quote will have no real world effect unquote, because the
[17:36] Speaker 3: cover appeals can deny relief when the case returns to it.
[17:43] Speaker 17: Well, yeah, there can, except for us. Like you said, Land,
[17:47] Speaker 17: if seven other justices had the same ruling, then you're right.
[17:52] Speaker 17: It is a timpertandrum. But I will tell you this
[17:55] Speaker 17: if I mean the greatest liberty that the course that
[18:00] Speaker 17: the state that the government can take from you is
[18:03] Speaker 17: your life.
[18:04] Speaker 18: Apart from everything else. And you want to get that right.
[18:07] Speaker 17: But we all know that Clarence Thomas hates himself and
[18:10] Speaker 17: he hates black people, which is why he's married to
[18:12] Speaker 17: a white woman. And we know that Clarence Thomas wants
[18:16] Speaker 17: for us or them. I'm sorry to intervene in things
[18:19] Speaker 17: that affect white people negatively, not even to the extent
[18:22] Speaker 17: of actually taking a life. So I think we need
[18:27] Speaker 17: to ignore Clarence Thomas. He's shown us who he is
[18:29] Speaker 17: over and over and over again, and we know for
[18:31] Speaker 17: a fact that he is not for us. He is
[18:34] Speaker 17: not for black people, and he doesn't value black life
[18:37] Speaker 17: at all. There is no humanity in us for him,
[18:41] Speaker 17: which is why he says, why he's irritated, why he's
[18:44] Speaker 17: throwing a tantrum. And so I'm really although I am
[18:48] Speaker 17: quite naturally surprised that he is going in on his
[18:52] Speaker 17: Republican colleagues who saw it. So you know, if the
[18:56] Speaker 17: other Republicans on that court voted for them to determine
[19:01] Speaker 17: whether he's going to get a new trial, you know
[19:02] Speaker 17: it had.
[19:03] Speaker 3: To be bad. So the thing here, so let's be
[19:09] Speaker 3: real clear here, the thing here bringing on the Kongo here,
[19:14] Speaker 3: the guy that the guy on floridath Row, he's not
[19:16] Speaker 3: he's not black. He's a white guy. Go go my iPad,
[19:18] Speaker 3: this white guy. But the thing that's crazy to me,
[19:22] Speaker 3: Thomas says, why are we wasting time on this? We
[19:26] Speaker 3: should be considering cases when race and admissions is on
[19:30] Speaker 3: uh is on tap. That's what I'm saying. He is
[19:34] Speaker 3: so hell bent on ruling against affirmative action, ruling against
[19:39] Speaker 3: the Voting Rights Act ruling against so many. He is
[19:43] Speaker 3: absolutely an anti black Supreme Court justice.
[19:49] Speaker 8: Absolutely.
[19:50] Speaker 19: And I was laughing when when you were showing the
[19:53] Speaker 19: Emerged magazine comverasses are like, because I just kept thinking
[19:56] Speaker 19: of Clayton Bigsby.
[19:57] Speaker 8: You know, Dave Chappelle's, you know.
[19:59] Speaker 19: A Blind Klansman character, and you know, at the end
[20:02] Speaker 19: of the day Chappelle's skit, he ends up when he
[20:04] Speaker 19: finds out he's black, he ends up divorcing his white
[20:07] Speaker 19: wife because she's.
[20:08] Speaker 8: An end word lover.
[20:09] Speaker 19: And you know, Clarence Thomas just every single day he
[20:13] Speaker 19: takes every opportunity to show that he is the most
[20:17] Speaker 19: anti black Supreme Court justice that we've known in our lifetime.
[20:21] Speaker 19: And that's saying a lot to be quite honest, when
[20:24] Speaker 19: you think about the Supreme Court and it's like, what
[20:26] Speaker 19: are you doing? This was a man who has a
[20:27] Speaker 19: college student was like kind of black panther, adjacent to
[20:31] Speaker 19: the black panthers, and now he's doing this and it's like,
[20:33] Speaker 19: to what end? And my hope is that if you know,
[20:36] Speaker 19: democrats are able to come back into power, they'll be
[20:38] Speaker 19: able to have some real investigations to really look at
[20:41] Speaker 19: how corrupt this individual is and just really look at
[20:43] Speaker 19: ways that eventually have him impeached because he has no
[20:46] Speaker 19: business on the Supreme Court.
[20:47] Speaker 8: He has no activity whatsoever. And we know that any case.
[20:51] Speaker 19: That relates to black people is ultimately going to Supreme
[20:54] Speaker 19: Court to die as it relates to his judgment. And
[20:57] Speaker 19: it's important that you call this out because not enough
[20:59] Speaker 19: of these networks are doing it. They only really focus
[21:02] Speaker 19: on the corruption that he's involved in what Harlan Crow
[21:04] Speaker 19: in the life, but they don't focus on his anti
[21:06] Speaker 19: black hatred.
[21:07] Speaker 3: And I need people watching listening to understand when we
[21:10] Speaker 3: talk about the real war reality, the real world realities
[21:16] Speaker 3: of what happened here is this right here, This is
[21:19] Speaker 3: what the Supreme Court wrote. A Florida jury convicted petitioner
[21:22] Speaker 3: Gary Gary Richard Whitten of murder and sentenced him to death.
[21:26] Speaker 3: During his trial, the state called several witnesses, including a
[21:30] Speaker 3: jail house informant named Jake Ozio. Ozel was a high
[21:33] Speaker 3: school student who on a spring break tripped in Florida
[21:36] Speaker 3: was arrested in jail for burglary and possession of a
[21:39] Speaker 3: short barrel shotgun. Ozeo testified that while he was incarcerated
[21:43] Speaker 3: with Witten. He overheard Witten confessed to quote stabbing the bastard.
[21:48] Speaker 3: Ozel also testified that he had no criminal history prior
[21:51] Speaker 3: to his Spring Break arrest. That last piece of testimony
[21:55] Speaker 3: turned out to be false. Oze Old's juvenile records, which
[21:58] Speaker 3: the state had in his at the time, showed that
[22:01] Speaker 3: he had previously been charged with assault with bodily injury
[22:05] Speaker 3: against his father, terroristic threats against his mother, and at
[22:08] Speaker 3: least one other burglary unsuccessfully pursuing a direct appeal, and
[22:15] Speaker 3: state post conviction and relief wouldn't filed an application for
[22:18] Speaker 3: a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court. Among
[22:22] Speaker 3: other claims, he argued that Ozo's criminal history testimony was
[22:25] Speaker 3: false as the prosecution knew the testimony was false and
[22:29] Speaker 3: that that was a reasonable likelihood the testimony affected the
[22:32] Speaker 3: jury's verdict. Now, Scott, here's the thing here, Claires Thomas said,
[22:37] Speaker 3: there's so much of the evidence this this is meaningless.
[22:41] Speaker 3: But this is the reality, Scott, And we know this.
[22:43] Speaker 3: We know individuals, a lot of black people that have
[22:48] Speaker 3: been convicted by similar testimony. And when a jury is
[22:53] Speaker 3: considering this, if a jury hears somebody who says, oh,
[22:57] Speaker 3: I overheard this, and it's like, oh, he has no history. Well,
[23:02] Speaker 3: that's a factor that Jewry's way. It goes to the
[23:05] Speaker 3: credibility of the witness. And again I have always said
[23:10] Speaker 3: that at this country is going to have the death penalty,
[23:15] Speaker 3: you better be one hundred percent certain and it is
[23:18] Speaker 3: all locked down that you have the right person and
[23:22] Speaker 3: you're convicting them properly. And if somebody is being convicted,
[23:26] Speaker 3: especially in a death penalty case, you damn sure better
[23:29] Speaker 3: make sure that all your eyes are dot at teaser crossed.
[23:35] Speaker 5: Well, especially in ahavious corpus proceeding. For those of your audience,
[23:39] Speaker 5: a habeas corpus proceeding is he's run out of his
[23:42] Speaker 5: appeals and now he's starting another round. And habeas corpus
[23:45] Speaker 5: literally means to produce the body, to bring his body
[23:49] Speaker 5: that person before the court and.
[23:51] Speaker 2: To review dnovo review of his court proceedings.
[23:55] Speaker 5: And so jail house confessions are notoriously unreliable.
[23:59] Speaker 2: That's the first thing.
[24:00] Speaker 5: Second of all, withholding records, even if it's a juvenile record,
[24:05] Speaker 5: I don't know what the state law is on this,
[24:07] Speaker 5: but even if they had the juvenile records and those
[24:10] Speaker 5: are sealed or protected from the public his testimony, he
[24:14] Speaker 5: would still be a lie the government at that point.
[24:16] Speaker 5: I'm a former state prosecutor. The government at that point.
[24:19] Speaker 5: Once that testimony is complete, would have to disclose that
[24:22] Speaker 5: to the government, disclose that to the judge, and then
[24:25] Speaker 5: the judge would give an instruction to the jury or
[24:30] Speaker 5: to do away with that testimony or allow the government
[24:34] Speaker 5: to cure it. I mean, I don't want to get
[24:35] Speaker 5: into deep with the details, but it's a big deal
[24:38] Speaker 5: when a prosecution witness lies, especially one that's in jail
[24:42] Speaker 5: and overheard of jail house proficient confession, especially when it's
[24:47] Speaker 5: this this individual has been sentenced to death. I don't
[24:51] Speaker 5: know where in the opinion it talks about the DNA.
[24:54] Speaker 5: I know I've read that publication and stuff. But again,
[24:58] Speaker 5: if the DNA is available now, if they've kept samples
[25:02] Speaker 5: of it, then from a habeas corpus proceeding, you can
[25:05] Speaker 5: introduce that DNA, and that DNA may freedom, may free him.
[25:10] Speaker 2: So why not go through that process? What's the rush?
[25:13] Speaker 2: If you will.
[25:14] Speaker 5: I can understand the detractors on the Supreme Court who
[25:19] Speaker 5: may say, whether there's a ton of other evidence, maybe
[25:22] Speaker 5: maybe not but there's very little evidence this is reliable
[25:25] Speaker 5: as DNA evidence, and it's very little, and you have
[25:29] Speaker 5: to look at jail house confessions or even if you
[25:32] Speaker 5: overheard it with a healthy level of skepticism. The jury
[25:36] Speaker 5: voted the jury believed it, but what they had believed
[25:38] Speaker 5: it if they knew that this individual Ozio had a record,
[25:42] Speaker 5: it's unlikely that would have gone, as you said, to
[25:45] Speaker 5: the credibility.
[25:46] Speaker 2: And that's huge. You have to throw his testimony out.
[25:50] Speaker 3: So here was the issue. This is what scotus Blog
[25:54] Speaker 3: wrote here of Jalanda and in addressing whether the Florida
[25:59] Speaker 3: Supreme Court did decision was reasonable the standard for federal
[26:03] Speaker 3: post conviction relief the Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court's
[26:06] Speaker 3: unsigned opinions stressed on Monday, considered DNA evidence that was
[26:13] Speaker 3: not provided to the jury. Because that evidence quote was
[26:17] Speaker 3: not presented to the jury, indeed did not exist at
[26:21] Speaker 3: the time of the trial, that evidence could not have
[26:24] Speaker 3: influenced the jury's verdict. It therefore sheds no light on
[26:28] Speaker 3: whether or to what extent Ozo's testimony influenced that verdict.
[26:33] Speaker 3: The Court made clear that it was not deciding whether
[26:36] Speaker 3: the Florida Supreme Court's decision standing alone was in fact reasonable. Instead,
[26:41] Speaker 3: the justices sent the case back to the Eleventh Circuit
[26:43] Speaker 3: for taking another Look. That is crazy, Julanda, that here
[26:47] Speaker 3: you have the Eleventh Circuit factoring in DNA evidence at
[26:53] Speaker 3: the jury never even be considered it. So the Supreme
[26:55] Speaker 3: Court like, what the hell are y'all doing?
[27:00] Speaker 17: Yeah, so here's the deal. The Supreme Court didn't order
[27:02] Speaker 17: a new trial. I mean, the way claireon Thomas is acting,
[27:04] Speaker 17: you think that the Supreme Court actually ordered a new trial.
[27:07] Speaker 18: What the Supreme Court.
[27:08] Speaker 17: Said is, hey, y'all use the wrong test to evaluate this.
[27:11] Speaker 17: You can't look at the DNA because the jury didn't
[27:14] Speaker 17: get to hear the DNA. What you need to find
[27:16] Speaker 17: out is if the witness who said he heard something
[27:19] Speaker 17: that he didn't whether his lion affected anything. That's what
[27:23] Speaker 17: that's all the Supreme Court said. So it's not even
[27:26] Speaker 17: like a total win for I believe, probably the wrongly
[27:31] Speaker 17: convicted person. The Supreme Court is just saying, Eleventh Circuit
[27:36] Speaker 17: user right tests. You can't look at evidence that the
[27:39] Speaker 17: jury didn't see before. But the jury did hear a
[27:42] Speaker 17: lion witness, and you have to determine whether that lie
[27:45] Speaker 17: was material and if it would have changed the outcome
[27:47] Speaker 17: of the case. So it makes absolute sense to me.
[27:50] Speaker 17: But I will say this role and I don't think
[27:51] Speaker 17: we should have the death filling out for abolishing anyway,
[27:54] Speaker 17: because I don't think you teach people not to kill
[27:56] Speaker 17: by killing people.
[27:58] Speaker 3: But although I absolutely and I agree, I mean my
[28:01] Speaker 3: whole deal is, first of all Republicans they love the
[28:05] Speaker 3: Catholic Church position on abortion, they cannot stay in the
[28:08] Speaker 3: Catholic Church position on the death penalty. And the problem
[28:12] Speaker 3: with the death penalty is if you've got one person,
[28:15] Speaker 3: one error that leads to somebody and put to death,
[28:18] Speaker 3: then to me, that negates it. And we know, listen,
[28:23] Speaker 3: you're from Texas, I'm from Texas. Those of us of
[28:25] Speaker 3: a certain age, we all have burned into our brains
[28:30] Speaker 3: the name Clarence Brandley. And this is a man who
[28:34] Speaker 3: came that close being put to death several times and
[28:39] Speaker 3: he did not do it. And so that's the real
[28:41] Speaker 3: issue you have here. But the reason I'm calling out
[28:45] Speaker 3: Clarence Thomas O my Congo, it's because this is literally
[28:50] Speaker 3: his descent. It is unfortunate that the court chose to
[28:53] Speaker 3: intervene at the request of a convicted murderer to correct
[28:57] Speaker 3: the eleventh circuits inconsequential footfall. What makes it even worse
[29:02] Speaker 3: is that the court does so even while it refuses
[29:05] Speaker 3: to correct far more consequential errors for law abiding citizens,
[29:09] Speaker 3: such as the discriminated against families in Boston he had
[29:14] Speaker 3: named talking about black people, staff, Sergeant Beck's widow, and
[29:18] Speaker 3: the students seeking the child university censorship are respectfully dissent.
[29:22] Speaker 3: So it's like, yeah, the damn damn cause a murder,
[29:26] Speaker 3: but we should be focusing on law abiding citizens, especially
[29:30] Speaker 3: those white families in Boston.
[29:33] Speaker 8: Well as we're talking about discrimination.
[29:35] Speaker 19: As a native Bostonian, he definitely has to twist it
[29:38] Speaker 19: as relates to the racism that should be talked about
[29:40] Speaker 19: and what's happening in the city of Boston and what
[29:43] Speaker 19: has been happening in the city of Boston, and why
[29:45] Speaker 19: he continues to cape for these families and these people
[29:48] Speaker 19: who are who are funding him is quite clear.
[29:51] Speaker 8: And I feel like, really, at the end of the day.
[29:52] Speaker 19: Roland, the people who are in these communities, who are
[29:55] Speaker 19: in these neighborhods, who are you know, they need to
[29:57] Speaker 19: also be speaking up more and calling this out because
[30:00] Speaker 19: really when we talk about the affirmative Action case. But
[30:03] Speaker 19: a lot of the people who are part of the
[30:04] Speaker 19: Asian community, they went along for what's happening, not realizing
[30:07] Speaker 19: that they were getting played by Clarence Thomason and other
[30:10] Speaker 19: people as well. They continue to use them as proxies,
[30:12] Speaker 19: and he's going to use any community possible to pit
[30:15] Speaker 19: against each other so he can uplift white people in
[30:17] Speaker 19: every way, shape or form. Again, this is about him
[30:19] Speaker 19: and his wife. This is about him and Harlan Crow.
[30:21] Speaker 19: This is about everything that they want to do to
[30:24] Speaker 19: push black people down in every way, shape or form.
[30:27] Speaker 19: And he's going to continue to do that as long
[30:29] Speaker 19: as he's on the court. And so I don't know
[30:30] Speaker 19: if he's trying to go hard because maybe he's going
[30:32] Speaker 19: to be retiring or he's not going to be there
[30:34] Speaker 19: long for other reasons. But at the end of the day,
[30:36] Speaker 19: he has a terrible record as relates to black people,
[30:39] Speaker 19: and it's all intentional because this is who he is.
[30:42] Speaker 19: He is a self hating black person who will do
[30:45] Speaker 19: anything possible to protect whiteness and white people.
[30:49] Speaker 8: And it's really discussing.
[30:50] Speaker 19: It's really quite sad, but not sad enough to for
[30:53] Speaker 19: us feel sorry for.
[30:54] Speaker 8: Him because what he's doing is destroying us.
[30:57] Speaker 3: Yep, simple a is sack. Are y'all going to take
[30:59] Speaker 3: a quick break, we come back. Racism, anti black GOP,
[31:04] Speaker 3: war on Black America. It continues in the Pentagon where
[31:08] Speaker 3: Pete Heck Saith says, you're a woman, you're black. I
[31:12] Speaker 3: ain't nowhere in the hell you get voted in my military.
[31:15] Speaker 3: We'll discuss that next right here roland Mark and Unfiltered
[31:17] Speaker 3: on the Black Studt Network.
[31:26] Speaker 10: No election in Georgia will ever be the same. You're
[31:28] Speaker 10: not gonna be able to tell black folk get vote don't.
[31:30] Speaker 20: Matter in two years when it's the gubernatorial race and
[31:33] Speaker 20: for these state legislative races that we don't have the
[31:36] Speaker 20: power to win a state Senate seat.
[31:39] Speaker 10: Now I say that, but this is the caveyat This
[31:41] Speaker 10: is the tricky part.
[31:43] Speaker 20: This was possible because there were more resources than we've
[31:45] Speaker 20: ever seen in this state.
[31:47] Speaker 10: The question is going to be, now that we've.
[31:49] Speaker 20: Done save the country and white folks in the country
[31:52] Speaker 20: aren't feeling like the world is falling apart, is they're
[31:55] Speaker 20: going to be the same kind of investment in black
[31:57] Speaker 20: live organizations and in black communit unities. If there is
[32:02] Speaker 20: there's no election in the state that we can't win,
[32:04] Speaker 20: there's no election in the South we can't win it.
[32:07] Speaker 20: We'll still be motivated, we still will learn lessons. Black
[32:09] Speaker 20: folks still going to be amped. But at the end
[32:11] Speaker 20: of the day, it's not sustainable. We can't really count
[32:14] Speaker 20: on external funding long term. Independent politics requires independent money.
[32:19] Speaker 20: When we can combine that kind of economic power with
[32:22] Speaker 20: the political power, now we're talking, that's nation building.
[32:26] Speaker 21: That's what we're trying to get to.
[32:37] Speaker 11: If in this country right now, you have people get
[32:41] Speaker 11: up in the morning and the only thing they can
[32:43] Speaker 11: think about is how many people they can hurt, and
[32:46] Speaker 11: they've got the power, that's the time.
[32:48] Speaker 2: For morning, for better or worse.
[32:50] Speaker 22: What makes America special, it's that legal system that's supposed
[32:54] Speaker 22: to protect.
[32:55] Speaker 7: Minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
[32:58] Speaker 23: We are at a point of a moral emergency. We
[33:03] Speaker 23: must raise a voice of outrage, we must raise a
[33:07] Speaker 23: voice of compassion.
[33:09] Speaker 3: And we must raise a voice of unity.
[33:13] Speaker 24: We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
[33:17] Speaker 24: We are in a crisis of civilization, a humans rights crisis,
[33:21] Speaker 24: and a crisis of democracy itself. And guess what You've
[33:25] Speaker 24: been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
[33:31] Speaker 24: those that would hate, don't have the final say, and
[33:35] Speaker 24: they don't ultimately win.
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[35:00] Speaker 17: I'm Mark Wrial, President's CEO of the National Urban League,
[35:04] Speaker 17: and I'm watching a Black Star Network.
[35:26] Speaker 3: All right, folks. We've often talked about this administration men
[35:30] Speaker 3: absolutely anti black, and they've shown us over and over
[35:34] Speaker 3: and over again. And so the grossly unqualified Pete Hegseth
[35:40] Speaker 3: Trump Secretary of Defense, you know who was a mouthpiece
[35:42] Speaker 3: on Fox News. What he's done is continue his war
[35:47] Speaker 3: on black people and war on women. So hex Seth
[35:52] Speaker 3: is denying promotions.
[35:55] Speaker 2: It's right.
[35:55] Speaker 3: The New York Times published a report revealing that he
[35:58] Speaker 3: blocked a new round of military promotions. He has faced
[36:02] Speaker 3: scrutiny for major shake cups within the Fish Department. He
[36:05] Speaker 3: has fired multiple high ranking officials of myth. The ongoing
[36:08] Speaker 3: war in Iran has also intervening accounts promotions across all
[36:11] Speaker 3: brandons of the US Armed Forces in April, reported by
[36:14] Speaker 3: NBC News, nine sources claim Hexhith blocked promotions based on race, gender,
[36:18] Speaker 3: and potential ties to the administration of Foreign President Joe Biden.
[36:22] Speaker 3: Now if you look at what he's doing, he's now
[36:25] Speaker 3: blocking these folks. Now, so when you go through this story,
[36:30] Speaker 3: the New York Times says, in a move that disproportionately
[36:33] Speaker 3: targets women and minority officers, black the Fish Secretary Pete
[36:37] Speaker 3: Heseth recently broocked the promotions of at least seven Navy
[36:41] Speaker 3: officers who had been selected by a board of senior
[36:45] Speaker 3: Navy admirals. The net result of mister Heg Says's intervention
[36:49] Speaker 3: is a slate of twenty two nominees to be one
[36:52] Speaker 3: star admirals that bears little resemblance to the broader forces
[36:56] Speaker 3: these officers will help leave. At least two of the
[36:59] Speaker 3: officers removed by Hegseth from the promotion list are women,
[37:03] Speaker 3: and two are black men. An additional three are white men.
[37:08] Speaker 3: Heg Sex actions, which appear violate the rules governing a
[37:12] Speaker 3: promotion system that are supposed to be a political and
[37:16] Speaker 3: merit based were described by four current and former Defense
[37:20] Speaker 3: officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss
[37:23] Speaker 3: sensitive personnel matters. No female officers were included on the
[37:28] Speaker 3: new one star list, which was released publicly in late May.
[37:31] Speaker 3: Despite the fact that women make up twenty one percent
[37:34] Speaker 3: of the active duty Navy, the list appears to include
[37:37] Speaker 3: only two non white officers. Even those sailors who identify
[37:41] Speaker 3: as racial minorities make up about thirty eight percent of
[37:44] Speaker 3: the active duty Navy. Hexa's removal of the officers from
[37:49] Speaker 3: the one star list is highly unusual set the current
[37:52] Speaker 3: and former Defense officials. According to Pentagon rules, the Defense
[37:56] Speaker 3: Secretary is only supposed to pull officers from the list
[38:00] Speaker 3: for moral, mental, physical, or professional failings that raise questions
[38:07] Speaker 3: about the officer's fitness to lead. Sean Pornell, who is sportsman,
[38:13] Speaker 3: said this here, military promotions are given to those who
[38:16] Speaker 3: have earned them. The Department will never consider the color
[38:19] Speaker 3: of a service member's skin or their gender as a
[38:22] Speaker 3: factor in promotions. Yet y'all are factoring their skin color
[38:27] Speaker 3: and gender and not promoting them. I keep in mind,
[38:30] Speaker 3: heg said, was the one who wrote the book Who's
[38:33] Speaker 3: at Fox News traction the military as being foolish and woke,
[38:39] Speaker 3: and he stood up and said at the first, this
[38:42] Speaker 3: is not the strength of our country. Now we've understood
[38:47] Speaker 3: that they've been anti black and anti women. I mean,
[38:50] Speaker 3: Pete Hegg says. HeiG says wants a military that's run
[38:54] Speaker 3: by white men. Donald Trump wants the exact same thing.
[38:58] Speaker 3: So the reason this is all quite interesting is because
[39:03] Speaker 3: over the weekend this piece was published in The Hill,
[39:08] Speaker 3: and the piece was written by Scott Bolden, and it
[39:12] Speaker 3: said Trump has turned Republicans into the anti black party.
[39:17] Speaker 3: And so you go down here and Scott lays out
[39:20] Speaker 3: in the piece in terms of what the Republicans are
[39:23] Speaker 3: doing when it comes to Jerry Manderin. He lays out
[39:26] Speaker 3: all those particular issues, and that's really what the focus
[39:30] Speaker 3: here now we have. Of course, he lays out his
[39:33] Speaker 3: executive orders regarding DEI progressed to be legal discrimination, the
[39:37] Speaker 3: legislation they've actually passed, cutting funding and things along those lines,
[39:42] Speaker 3: only appointing one African Americans to hiss twenty four person cabinet,
[39:46] Speaker 3: ordering federal museums and natural approxy to whitewashed Americans. History
[39:49] Speaker 3: of racism lays up the doj on and on and on.
[39:54] Speaker 3: So Scott Peace lays all that out, so you know
[39:57] Speaker 3: that the most second biggest ignorantments at Fox News, and
[40:02] Speaker 3: that's a lot of competition. It's Laura Ingram. So she
[40:07] Speaker 3: took exception to the Hills tweet. Uh they they tweet,
[40:13] Speaker 3: put on their on their page. This is it the mindpad.
[40:17] Speaker 3: Trump has turned Republicans into the anti black party. They
[40:21] Speaker 3: simply are courting Scott. She goes disgusting headline and defamatory,
[40:25] Speaker 3: totally untrue. If any party is anti black, it's the
[40:28] Speaker 3: Dems who give it legal aliens benefits as cities, as
[40:31] Speaker 3: cities continued to decay. Now you know, I had to
[40:34] Speaker 3: slim dumbass laurd and I said, you know what, Laura,
[40:37] Speaker 3: I dare you to invite me or some others to
[40:41] Speaker 3: debate this on your show if you really want to
[40:43] Speaker 3: debate that, y'all, it ain't gonna happen because y'all know,
[40:46] Speaker 3: y'all know her ridiculous, ugly mug ain't gonna allow that
[40:52] Speaker 3: to happen. But see, this is what they do. Keep
[40:54] Speaker 3: in mind, it's the same network they got sued for
[40:56] Speaker 3: racial discrimination by black employees. Yeah, we haven't forgot, and
[41:01] Speaker 3: they actually had a settlement. We ain't forgot that Lauren.
[41:04] Speaker 3: The thing here is, this is who they are, y'all.
[41:08] Speaker 3: And we've laid out how project between twenty five anti
[41:10] Speaker 3: black agenda. We've laid out how they've attacked black women
[41:14] Speaker 3: and black men in the federal workforce. They've attacked grants
[41:18] Speaker 3: at Target sick of seale, at target cancer research, they
[41:21] Speaker 3: target all of these different things. They black, maternal health,
[41:25] Speaker 3: you name it. These people are not supportive of black interest.
[41:30] Speaker 3: And no matter what all these simple simon negroes who
[41:34] Speaker 3: are posting all the little videos on Instagram touting who
[41:37] Speaker 3: are black, touting how great Trump is and how wonderful is.
[41:40] Speaker 3: It's amazing how they never ever want to address these issues.
[41:44] Speaker 3: They don't want to address him firing the head of
[41:46] Speaker 3: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, African American General Brown, my
[41:49] Speaker 3: alpha brother. Oh, I don't want to talk about that.
[41:51] Speaker 3: They don't want to talk about running off the brother
[41:53] Speaker 3: who was the admiral who disagreed with the attacks on
[41:56] Speaker 3: Venezuela and drug boats. They don't want to talk about
[41:58] Speaker 3: any of that because he This is reality. And see,
[42:01] Speaker 3: the thing is when you start denying these promotions, these
[42:03] Speaker 3: are the people who have been in the military fifteen
[42:06] Speaker 3: eighteen twenty years. You're now impacting their pay, you're impacting
[42:10] Speaker 3: their retirement. So you're having a monetary impact on black people.
[42:14] Speaker 3: And so they're also basically saying to anybody black, and
[42:18] Speaker 3: if you're a woman who is below, hey, as long
[42:23] Speaker 3: as we here, y'all ain't getting promoted. That's what this
[42:27] Speaker 3: is all about. So Scott is undeniable. And see, the
[42:30] Speaker 3: folks like Laura Ingram don't want to deal with it
[42:32] Speaker 3: because they kiss more Trump asked than millenia, and well
[42:37] Speaker 3: maybe Lindsey Graham kisses more Trump ass than millennia. So
[42:41] Speaker 3: that's what they do, and they want to live in denial.
[42:45] Speaker 3: But facts are facts. This is an anti black administration.
[42:50] Speaker 3: Donald Trump is anti black, he eg says Stephen Miller,
[42:54] Speaker 3: all of them. This is anti black, pure and simple.
[42:57] Speaker 3: These are the people who, truly I was writing about
[43:00] Speaker 3: in my book White Fear, how the browning of Americas
[43:03] Speaker 3: making white folks lose their minds, White folks like Donald Trump,
[43:07] Speaker 3: Pete Hegg seven, Stephen Miller.
[43:11] Speaker 26: You know, when I was drafting the piece, we were
[43:15] Speaker 26: doing research. You didn't have to do that much research,
[43:19] Speaker 26: but Roland, you and I talk about debating GOP and
[43:23] Speaker 26: white Maga two or three years ago, and you would
[43:27] Speaker 26: always coach me and others about just beat them with
[43:29] Speaker 26: the facts.
[43:30] Speaker 2: Just beat them with the facts.
[43:31] Speaker 5: You know, you have to have an emotional argument with them,
[43:33] Speaker 5: because they're going to come with all emotion. So that
[43:36] Speaker 5: piece that we put together was fact based. We referenced
[43:41] Speaker 5: every public statement, including the White House or when he
[43:45] Speaker 5: was campaigning about Haitian immigrants eating dogs and chicken chickens,
[43:51] Speaker 5: the s whole countries, how he talks about block and
[43:54] Speaker 5: brown people having low IQ dumb the president. And then
[43:58] Speaker 5: we put in at the end and this was just
[44:00] Speaker 5: at the end him not apologizing for promoting putting up
[44:03] Speaker 5: on his website Michelle Obama and a Barack Obama and
[44:08] Speaker 5: treating them as pictures of apes on their bodies.
[44:12] Speaker 2: And so the social media has been very supportive.
[44:17] Speaker 5: Of course, there's a percentage of MAGA and GOP who
[44:20] Speaker 5: call me and you and others racists and are denying
[44:24] Speaker 5: it and saying shame on me. But let me just
[44:27] Speaker 5: say this, My response to them is just the facts, ma'am,
[44:31] Speaker 5: Just the facts. I haven't seen one social media response
[44:35] Speaker 5: to that article that said facts other than the fact
[44:39] Speaker 5: that they show pictures of.
[44:40] Speaker 2: Donald Trump with black people. But two things can be true.
[44:43] Speaker 5: At one point, you can take pictures with all kinds
[44:45] Speaker 5: of black celebrities if you want. But these are the
[44:47] Speaker 5: things you've said and done. When the helicopter hit the
[44:51] Speaker 5: plane out at National in the middle of the night,
[44:54] Speaker 5: when they went to the press conference, the first thing
[44:56] Speaker 5: they said, this is a DEI issue.
[45:00] Speaker 2: We got to get rid of DEI and d O
[45:02] Speaker 2: T That's what they said. No investigation. People were dying,
[45:06] Speaker 2: they were in the middle of rescuing within an hour
[45:08] Speaker 2: or two. It seemed they were blaming D. E.
[45:11] Speaker 3: Whey where it was Scott Scott, Scott Way Scott. We
[45:13] Speaker 3: just had a we just had a crash in Virginia.
[45:17] Speaker 3: Five people were killed. Apparently was an Asian driver of
[45:21] Speaker 3: the bus. Sean Duffy immediately comes out, this is the
[45:26] Speaker 3: head of problem Transportation. Oh, it was his language because
[45:30] Speaker 3: he don't speak English. That's why, that's why accident happened.
[45:34] Speaker 3: And here you had here, you had uh the investigator same.
[45:39] Speaker 3: First of all, we have not ascertained what took place.
[45:43] Speaker 3: We can't assign any blame whatsoever. Sean Duffey. Duffy immediate
[45:47] Speaker 3: went to he doesn't speak English, and he's at fault.
[45:51] Speaker 3: No evidence, yeah, done whatsoever.
[45:55] Speaker 5: And so at the end of the of the peace,
[45:56] Speaker 5: if those of our they have read it, we said,
[46:00] Speaker 5: this is the language and the policies and what you
[46:03] Speaker 5: hear from the ku Klux Klan or a neo Nazi party,
[46:07] Speaker 5: not from the President of the United States.
[46:09] Speaker 2: And we talk about if the.
[46:11] Speaker 5: Republican Party, if I'm wrong about the Republican Party, then
[46:14] Speaker 5: they got to be doing more to bring black people into.
[46:17] Speaker 2: Their party, right, no problem with that.
[46:19] Speaker 5: And so again nobody is factually disputed because it's undisputable.
[46:25] Speaker 5: It's indisputable, right, But they had brought the emotion, and
[46:28] Speaker 5: so it's okay. You and I got broad shoulders, and
[46:31] Speaker 5: I mean, you're ankst with Lord ingram Is. This is
[46:34] Speaker 5: not the first time. But I appreciate you responding to
[46:37] Speaker 5: her because she's not going to respond to that. But
[46:39] Speaker 5: there's no factual response. And that's what we got to understand.
[46:43] Speaker 5: And by the way, the whole issue of racing class
[46:46] Speaker 5: and I'll end on this note. In the prior piece
[46:49] Speaker 5: we were doing about Clarence Thomas, here's where race and
[46:52] Speaker 5: class converged. Because that poor white defendant who was going
[46:57] Speaker 5: to lose his life.
[46:58] Speaker 2: If you poor and white, and this will come in America, if.
[47:01] Speaker 5: You pour and black, or you just black and brown
[47:04] Speaker 5: in America right in many respects you get treated the
[47:08] Speaker 5: same because of classicism, not only racism. And so I
[47:14] Speaker 5: know your critics will say, yeah, but the defender was white.
[47:17] Speaker 5: He was a poor white man, and so it doesn't
[47:20] Speaker 5: matter to them. Quite frankly, it's both race and class.
[47:26] Speaker 2: Don go.
[47:29] Speaker 3: What they'll do is they'll put up some little negro
[47:34] Speaker 3: uh and they'll see see see, and they staying with
[47:37] Speaker 3: us as if we ain't got a history of certain
[47:41] Speaker 3: negroes selling black people out.
[47:46] Speaker 8: That's real talk, that's real talk.
[47:48] Speaker 19: I mean, we can look down in Florida, you know,
[47:51] Speaker 19: see Byron who can't say anything negative about Trump. We
[47:53] Speaker 19: can talk about Tim Scott. We can run down the list.
[47:56] Speaker 19: I mean, we can look at the Supreme Court. We
[47:57] Speaker 19: just had this segment as it relates to Clarence Thomas,
[47:59] Speaker 19: and we can look at some of these you know,
[48:02] Speaker 19: rappers who are out there who are caving for Donald
[48:04] Speaker 19: Trump but won't even get invited to his party. Hey,
[48:07] Speaker 19: Nicki Minaj, But you know, at the end of the day,
[48:10] Speaker 19: if we don't call these things out. We have to
[48:12] Speaker 19: be mindful of the fact that if we don't call
[48:15] Speaker 19: out the racism and the white supremacy.
[48:19] Speaker 8: Nobody else will. I'm looking at Elon Musk.
[48:21] Speaker 19: Right, who was about to go public with his IPO
[48:24] Speaker 19: or whatever for SpaceX in the next two weeks and
[48:26] Speaker 19: you know, become the super trillionaire and so on and
[48:28] Speaker 19: so forth. Racist, anti semi like run down the list.
[48:32] Speaker 19: But yet companies still work with from government, contracts still
[48:35] Speaker 19: come his way. Everybody wants to work at him. This
[48:37] Speaker 19: is just like in the past with Henry Ford, who
[48:39] Speaker 19: was also racist anti submitted like this is part of
[48:42] Speaker 19: our history and our inability to call it out throughout
[48:45] Speaker 19: history is why we are still here in twenty twenty six.
[48:48] Speaker 19: This is as to quote our Reverend Barber, He's like,
[48:51] Speaker 19: these are not white Christian nationals nationals. These are white
[48:54] Speaker 19: nationalists because they are not Christian and anything that they do,
[48:57] Speaker 19: though they try to, you know, claim it and try to,
[49:00] Speaker 19: you know, Jesus signal as much as possible. We have
[49:03] Speaker 19: to be clear about what they are. But this country's
[49:05] Speaker 19: inability to do so, you know, I get annoyed roll
[49:07] Speaker 19: And when I hear people on these networks say, well,
[49:09] Speaker 19: you know so many people Trump got so many new
[49:11] Speaker 19: numbers because people wanted to thought he would be better
[49:13] Speaker 19: for him on the economy. And they never want to
[49:15] Speaker 19: talk about his racism, never want to talk about his
[49:17] Speaker 19: culture or issues. And that's part of the problem why
[49:20] Speaker 19: we got here today, because this is how so many
[49:22] Speaker 19: white liberals.
[49:23] Speaker 8: Has let us down too.
[49:24] Speaker 19: They don't want to call out the things that they
[49:25] Speaker 19: Scott Bold and it's calling out in his article, and
[49:27] Speaker 19: we have to be serious about that and promote articles
[49:30] Speaker 19: like that and the work that we're doing here everywhere else.
[49:34] Speaker 3: You know, Gilonda, you're there in Texas and I was
[49:37] Speaker 3: calling out so with these Negro Maga people, I said,
[49:42] Speaker 3: y'all keep talking about how great Republicans are. I said,
[49:45] Speaker 3: why y'all want to ignore when it was Republican governor
[49:49] Speaker 3: who was behind the Texas Hub initiative, George W. Bush created,
[49:54] Speaker 3: It was under him, signed to law, and here you
[49:57] Speaker 3: have Abbott and Patrick that gets rid of it. Deny
[50:00] Speaker 3: economic opportunities for black and other minority owned businesses in Texas.
[50:05] Speaker 3: I mean, we can walk this thing state by state
[50:09] Speaker 3: by state the Republican Party appeals to white people. It's
[50:13] Speaker 3: an anti black party.
[50:19] Speaker 18: Of course it is.
[50:20] Speaker 17: But if we don't call out the anti blackness, who
[50:23] Speaker 17: is And when we say these things, the single fans
[50:27] Speaker 17: of Laura Ingraham's and heg sets, they're gonna listen to Trump.
[50:30] Speaker 18: They're not gonna listen to us.
[50:31] Speaker 17: Even if we show them the two plus two equals for,
[50:33] Speaker 17: they're not gonna believe it's for.
[50:34] Speaker 3: They're just not.
[50:35] Speaker 17: But I think it's really important that we say that
[50:38] Speaker 17: to us, to people like us, because you have a
[50:41] Speaker 17: lot of us not paying attention to what actually is.
[50:44] Speaker 17: We receive our information from social media, from Fox News,
[50:49] Speaker 17: and they just take that for truth. So we have
[50:51] Speaker 17: to And the truth is Trump has made what white
[50:56] Speaker 17: folks used to do behind closed doors okay to do
[51:00] Speaker 17: in public. And for the white folks that are jealous
[51:03] Speaker 17: and that hate us and their white supremacists, they see
[51:07] Speaker 17: that black people have made the most gains.
[51:10] Speaker 2: I e.
[51:11] Speaker 17: We already know that black women are the most qualified
[51:13] Speaker 17: of anybody whenever we do things, and they're terrified of
[51:17] Speaker 17: black women and they're terrified of black men, so of
[51:19] Speaker 17: course they're going to attack.
[51:21] Speaker 18: And this is where.
[51:22] Speaker 17: Our progressive white brothers and sisters and allies, and I'm
[51:26] Speaker 17: really struggling with those words because they pay more attention
[51:32] Speaker 17: to their whiteness than they do to the discrimination that
[51:36] Speaker 17: targets black people, so they will remain silent on that.
[51:40] Speaker 17: And so we have to call this out. We have
[51:43] Speaker 17: to call out the hypocrisy. We have to call out
[51:45] Speaker 17: that Peak Headsays literally has created a whole DEI promotion
[51:50] Speaker 17: program for the military and has literally wiped out the
[51:53] Speaker 17: merit of the black people and the women who he
[51:58] Speaker 17: has refused to promote, and then he's substituted in again
[52:02] Speaker 17: his DEI brethren, who most of which are white. So
[52:06] Speaker 17: we have to and I'm thankful that we have you.
[52:09] Speaker 17: I'm thankful that we have black media that will call
[52:12] Speaker 17: and speak truth to power, because if we don't, if
[52:16] Speaker 17: the only voice that America hears is Fox News is
[52:20] Speaker 17: to beat existant Donald Trump's, then there will be people
[52:23] Speaker 17: who say, well, nobody say anything about it must be true.
[52:27] Speaker 17: So just like we have to call out the bs
[52:29] Speaker 17: of Clarence Thomas and his self hate, we have to
[52:32] Speaker 17: call out the hypocrisy of Hexcess Trump and all of
[52:36] Speaker 17: these Republicans who literally want to erase us from the military.
[52:41] Speaker 17: And here's what's crazy. There are so many black families
[52:44] Speaker 17: that they know their way to move up in the world,
[52:47] Speaker 17: to have a good retirement in the world, is to
[52:49] Speaker 17: be career military. So the people that he has screwing
[52:52] Speaker 17: with the most are people who literally wanted to retire
[52:56] Speaker 17: from the military. And so when he denies the promotions,
[52:59] Speaker 17: they get less in their pension, they get less in
[53:04] Speaker 17: I guess the purtinances of being a general or an
[53:09] Speaker 17: admiral or what have you.
[53:10] Speaker 18: So we've got to do it Roland.
[53:12] Speaker 17: And the bottom line is I've been black all my
[53:14] Speaker 17: life and I already know that they're coming for us
[53:16] Speaker 17: because we got the ball, and so we've got to again.
[53:19] Speaker 17: It's going to go to November. We need to sweep
[53:22] Speaker 17: them out of office in November. We need to get
[53:24] Speaker 17: rid of the Republicans in twenty twenty eight, and we
[53:26] Speaker 17: need to take.
[53:27] Speaker 18: This country back for black people. Is what we need
[53:30] Speaker 18: to do.
[53:32] Speaker 3: Control of doing favorit. Try to find an audio on
[53:34] Speaker 3: the CBC last week called on corporate corporate America to
[53:39] Speaker 3: speak of on voting rights, y'all. Today, the African American
[53:43] Speaker 3: Mayors Association issue their letter calling for the same. This
[53:47] Speaker 3: is what they lay out. As mayors of cities across
[53:50] Speaker 3: from United States and as members of the African American
[53:52] Speaker 3: Mayors Association, we right to express our deep concern regarding
[53:55] Speaker 3: the systematic erosion of voting rights representation in the communities
[54:01] Speaker 3: that we serve. In lending aama's voice to the growing
[54:05] Speaker 3: calls for action, including the recent letter issue of the
[54:08] Speaker 3: Congressional of Black Caucus. We recognize the urgency of this
[54:12] Speaker 3: moment and the need for leaders across sectors to respond
[54:15] Speaker 3: with clarity and purpose. And it goes on and talk
[54:17] Speaker 3: about all the different issues and talks about what's happening,
[54:21] Speaker 3: you know, the weakeing of the voting rights and things along
[54:23] Speaker 3: those lines and its impact on Black voters, and lays
[54:27] Speaker 3: out all the mayors represent They say, we're urging corporate
[54:30] Speaker 3: America to publicly reaffirm its commitment to voting rights and
[54:34] Speaker 3: eco representation. The strength of American democracy is not measured
[54:38] Speaker 3: in Washington. Alon is measured in the cities where policy
[54:41] Speaker 3: becomes lived experience, where federal commitments either translate into community
[54:46] Speaker 3: benefit or failed to materialize at all. History will remember
[54:50] Speaker 3: the leaders who stood with cities strengthen communities and upheld
[54:53] Speaker 3: the principle that every citizen deserves fair representation and a
[54:56] Speaker 3: voice the democratic process. You see right here signed by
[55:01] Speaker 3: all these mayors, mayors of Baltimore, Newport, News greenviaw Misissippi.
[55:05] Speaker 3: You in the city Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, Little Rock. You
[55:08] Speaker 3: see all the black mayors signing right here. Of course,
[55:12] Speaker 3: So this is follows what the CBC did. Now, okay,
[55:17] Speaker 3: so I drop the letter. Please ngroup me so as
[55:21] Speaker 3: desk stot control room. So y'all, I appreciate the CBC
[55:25] Speaker 3: writing the letter. I appreciate the African American Mayor's Association
[55:31] Speaker 3: releasing their letter. You know what, I've not seen the
[55:36] Speaker 3: response of their corporate supporters speaking out. So this is
[55:42] Speaker 3: what I mean. I don't have and I was looking
[55:45] Speaker 3: for it. A list of all the sponsors of Congression
[55:49] Speaker 3: of Black Caucus Foundation ALC twenty twenty five. Of course
[55:53] Speaker 3: it's coming in twenty twenty six, it's going to be
[55:55] Speaker 3: a September. But I did find this. So if you
[55:59] Speaker 3: go to the cbcf's website and let me real clear,
[56:02] Speaker 3: the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is not the same as
[56:05] Speaker 3: Aggressional Black Caucus. But basically, dr Okay, this is just
[56:09] Speaker 3: the foundation arm. So the CBCF has a corporate Advisory Council,
[56:17] Speaker 3: and so if you this is on their website. So
[56:20] Speaker 3: if you go here, you're gonna see the chair of
[56:24] Speaker 3: the CBCF Advisor Council is the tobacco company Altria. Uh,
[56:32] Speaker 3: you see Wells Fargo, Eli, Lilly, you see Alpine Group.
[56:39] Speaker 3: You see here, Johnson and Johnson, c X, CSX Corporation,
[56:45] Speaker 3: Ford Motor Company, Aaron Matt Corporation, the food Company, Cortiva,
[56:51] Speaker 3: Agra Science, Norfolk, Southern Google, Public Utility, Charter Communications, Viacom, CBS,
[56:58] Speaker 3: Paramount entergy M, l J Strategies, Dell Technologies, FedEx Corporation, Visa, Cisco,
[57:07] Speaker 3: Aikin Group, Strauss, Howard and Field. As I look on here,
[57:13] Speaker 3: Meta Waste Management Inc. Mr Witset Inc. National Association of Broadcasters, Rentals,
[57:21] Speaker 3: Full Crome, Public Affairs, the Group, Amazon, Dow Dash Show Group.
[57:28] Speaker 3: This is the Corporate Divisory Council. So what I'm curious
[57:33] Speaker 3: about is have any of those corporate folk their corporations
[57:42] Speaker 3: issued in response? I want to know any of the sponsors,
[57:51] Speaker 3: the corporate sponsors of the NAACP, the corporate sponsors of
[57:57] Speaker 3: the National Urban League, the corporate sponsors of Rainbow Push Coalition,
[58:03] Speaker 3: the corporate sponsors of a National Action Network. I can
[58:08] Speaker 3: name the other civil rights groups. What I want to
[58:11] Speaker 3: know is, have any of the corporate sponsors of these
[58:17] Speaker 3: civil rights groups issued any statement, any public statement standing
[58:25] Speaker 3: with the CBC in the African American Marriage Association. I wait. See,
[58:41] Speaker 3: It's one thing to write a letter that's important. It's
[58:49] Speaker 3: one thing to say we're taking a stand. And where
[58:53] Speaker 3: I come from is I believe that if you're going
[58:57] Speaker 3: to demand a corporate America speak up, then what you
[59:02] Speaker 3: do is you demand that corporate America that comes to
[59:09] Speaker 3: black events seeking a black stamp of approval speak up.
[59:18] Speaker 3: Because here's how I see it. And maybe I'm wrong,
[59:21] Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the sponsors that don't support black
[59:31] Speaker 3: organizations are gonna speak up, not gonna happen. So if
[59:37] Speaker 3: there is a group to start with, if I am
[59:41] Speaker 3: constructing a list of allies, then I'm probably going to
[59:47] Speaker 3: start with the corporations that show up at black events,
[59:54] Speaker 3: that buy tables, that sponsor panels, that sponsor luncheons, that
[1:00:01] Speaker 3: show up there with their corporate leaders in their Chief
[1:00:04] Speaker 3: Diversity Officer, Well, they got rid of most of those jobs.
[1:00:07] Speaker 3: They show up with the different people. See this is
[1:00:10] Speaker 3: real simple. Writing a generic letter that then is not
[1:00:15] Speaker 3: followed up with actual companies that stand and fight for us.
[1:00:23] Speaker 3: What does that achieve other than we got a letter.
[1:00:28] Speaker 3: So what I am saying to CBCF, to the African
[1:00:34] Speaker 3: American Marriage Association, to the NAACP, to the National Urban League,
[1:00:39] Speaker 3: to National Action Network, the Rainbow Push and then all
[1:00:43] Speaker 3: the other groups, if we are going to allow companies
[1:00:50] Speaker 3: to come to our events with checks so they can
[1:00:55] Speaker 3: then say, see, we support the blacks. Shouldn't we be
[1:00:59] Speaker 3: demanding more of them? Oman com go, I'll start with you.
[1:01:07] Speaker 19: Well, I remember you brought up that same point with
[1:01:09] Speaker 19: Costco when everybody was switching from Target and saying they're
[1:01:12] Speaker 19: going to support Costco, and you were saying that, well,
[1:01:15] Speaker 19: when you go, it's great that what Costco.
[1:01:17] Speaker 8: Was doing in writing a letter and the like, but
[1:01:19] Speaker 8: can we.
[1:01:19] Speaker 19: Ask more as relates to their suppliers, as it relates
[1:01:22] Speaker 19: to their books and all of the other types of things,
[1:01:24] Speaker 19: as relates to more representation. And people were like, yo,
[1:01:27] Speaker 19: slow down rolling, you're going too fast, and we've got
[1:01:29] Speaker 19: to take things and this idea of us not settling
[1:01:32] Speaker 19: and this is the same situation with these companies and corporations.
[1:01:35] Speaker 8: It bothers me. I don't know about other.
[1:01:38] Speaker 19: Non black mayors associations across the country. Do they have
[1:01:42] Speaker 19: statements and the like when it comes Why is it
[1:01:44] Speaker 19: always on black organizations only and black activists only to
[1:01:48] Speaker 19: speak up on the injustices that are happening in these
[1:01:51] Speaker 19: in this country? And you're absolutely right, it should be
[1:01:54] Speaker 19: on the NAACP and Urban League and other groups to
[1:01:57] Speaker 19: ask their sponsors to do more. It can't just be
[1:02:00] Speaker 19: about writing a check. And if they're not willing to
[1:02:02] Speaker 19: do more, they should be able to. They should be
[1:02:04] Speaker 19: called out as well.
[1:02:06] Speaker 3: How hard.
[1:02:07] Speaker 8: Let's just make it up.
[1:02:08] Speaker 19: Let's say, you know, Ford isn't really willing to step
[1:02:11] Speaker 19: up beyond their sponsorship of an NAACP event. UACP should
[1:02:15] Speaker 19: be calling out Ford and make them have to speak up,
[1:02:18] Speaker 19: make them have to make a statement like I can't
[1:02:21] Speaker 19: remember the last corporate statement that I saw that was
[1:02:23] Speaker 19: public about any of these things that are going on.
[1:02:26] Speaker 19: Maybe after Alex Prettie was killed that was probably the
[1:02:31] Speaker 19: last time I saw some statements coming out of any
[1:02:34] Speaker 19: of these companies, but they continue to skate by, They
[1:02:36] Speaker 19: continue to just walk off and right off into the
[1:02:39] Speaker 19: sunset while we're catching hell in this country. And so
[1:02:42] Speaker 19: it is imperative that the leaders of these organizations do
[1:02:46] Speaker 19: more to make those organizations speak up. I didn't know
[1:02:49] Speaker 19: Reverend Jackson like you did Roland Martin, but I just
[1:02:52] Speaker 19: feel like if he was here be follow the vigor
[1:02:54] Speaker 19: that he had, this would be like number one, it
[1:02:57] Speaker 19: would even be a thought, you know. But here we
[1:02:58] Speaker 19: are so happy to sik a check but not demanding
[1:03:01] Speaker 19: full respent.
[1:03:05] Speaker 3: Again, I just, you know, maybe I'm asking too much,
[1:03:12] Speaker 3: but I just think that if we are going to say, hey,
[1:03:19] Speaker 3: corporations do this, well, then let's start with the corporations
[1:03:24] Speaker 3: that are supposedly our friends. Jelanda, I'm pulling up this
[1:03:30] Speaker 3: piece here. This was in the intercept. It said these
[1:03:35] Speaker 3: fifty nine companies fought the anti trans bathroom bill in
[1:03:40] Speaker 3: twenty sixteen. In twenty twenty five, they're silent. It says
[1:03:45] Speaker 3: companies like TD Bank, America Airlines, and Nike fought North
[1:03:49] Speaker 3: Carolina's discrimination against transgender people. They aren't doing the same
[1:03:53] Speaker 3: in Texas. And so when they wrote this story, here,
[1:03:56] Speaker 3: and they list these companies and the companies at Centure, Affirm, Airbnb,
[1:04:02] Speaker 3: American Airlines, Apple, Biogen, Bloomberg, LP, Bohinger, Ngohaim USA, Box,
[1:04:07] Speaker 3: Capital One Financial Corporation, Cisco Systems, Consumer Technology Association, Corny Incorporated, Cummings, Dropbox, DuPont, eBay, ets, Everlaw, Expedia,
[1:04:16] Speaker 3: fifty three, Gap, General Electric Company, Glass Store, Rocker, Hilton Worldwide, Honor,
[1:04:22] Speaker 3: IBM Corporation, Ikeia, North American Services, Instacart, Intel Corporation, John Hancock, Levi,
[1:04:27] Speaker 3: Straussen Company, LinkedIn Corporation, Logitech, Mayrit International, Massachusetts Metual Life
[1:04:32] Speaker 3: Insurance Company, Microsoft, Mitchell, Gold Plus, Bob Williams, Morgan, Stanley, Nextdoor, Nike,
[1:04:37] Speaker 3: paypalp Quotient, RBC, Capital Markets, Red Hat Replacements, Limited, Salesforce, Slack,
[1:04:43] Speaker 3: sb Angel, TD Bank NA, The Dial Chemical Company, Thermo,
[1:04:46] Speaker 3: Fisher Scientific, Third Love, Tumblr, United Airlines, Williams, Sonoma, Yelp,
[1:04:50] Speaker 3: Zess Finance, and Zinga.
[1:04:53] Speaker 2: Put.
[1:04:54] Speaker 3: I'm making gelanda is again. If if we're going to
[1:04:56] Speaker 3: call and corporation and do this, let's start with the
[1:04:59] Speaker 3: p people who are showing up at black events.
[1:05:05] Speaker 18: It's actually more than showing up with black events.
[1:05:07] Speaker 17: But let me say this, thank you for actually calling
[1:05:09] Speaker 17: out the names because people don't know, so now they
[1:05:11] Speaker 17: can't say they don't know. These companies aren't supportant art,
[1:05:15] Speaker 17: are not fighting for certain issues. But so, for example,
[1:05:19] Speaker 17: I'm a state representative, so I'm there are some organizations
[1:05:23] Speaker 17: that I am a member of Nobel National Organization of
[1:05:26] Speaker 17: Black Elected Legislative Women, so that's Black state reps and
[1:05:30] Speaker 17: state senators. I'm also a member of NBCSL National Conference
[1:05:35] Speaker 17: and Black State Legislators. At every conference, there are corporate sponsors.
[1:05:41] Speaker 17: At every conference, there is a corporate roundtable.
[1:05:45] Speaker 18: I think what at.
[1:05:47] Speaker 17: Most of these conferences, these corporations have agendas they want
[1:05:51] Speaker 17: for us to push, I e. Can you file this
[1:05:54] Speaker 17: bill in this state to help us get this or
[1:05:56] Speaker 17: that or whatever. I think that we as state reps
[1:05:59] Speaker 17: that any of these organizations and elected positions where corporations
[1:06:04] Speaker 17: curry favor with us so that we can vote their interests,
[1:06:07] Speaker 17: I think we should deny them access to us into
[1:06:11] Speaker 17: our constituents if they don't stand for us. That's a
[1:06:16] Speaker 17: whole different level. But the problem is so many of
[1:06:20] Speaker 17: them because they do. They're built on a foundation of
[1:06:24] Speaker 17: white supremacy. They have a lot of money, so they're
[1:06:27] Speaker 17: able to give more money than other organizations.
[1:06:29] Speaker 7: And so.
[1:06:31] Speaker 17: I'll say we, just because I'm a member of these organizations,
[1:06:34] Speaker 17: try to curry favor with them. But I can remember
[1:06:36] Speaker 17: being at a conference and they were trying to get
[1:06:39] Speaker 17: us to pass some deal about criminalizing wire like when
[1:06:43] Speaker 17: people take wires from poles and stuff. And there was
[1:06:46] Speaker 17: a white guy who had a black state legislator carrying
[1:06:51] Speaker 17: the water, and we were like, this is not.
[1:06:52] Speaker 18: A big issue in our community.
[1:06:54] Speaker 17: Why are they trying to put people under the jail
[1:06:56] Speaker 17: for taking some copper wire. Well, when we did some digging,
[1:07:00] Speaker 17: we found out was that they were trying to get
[1:07:04] Speaker 17: sweetheart deals and grants from the government as it relates
[1:07:07] Speaker 17: to telecom. So my point is this, we need to
[1:07:11] Speaker 17: do more than ask them to write a letter defending us.
[1:07:14] Speaker 17: We need to get them not only to do that,
[1:07:18] Speaker 17: but we need to get them to advocate for us
[1:07:21] Speaker 17: for these other like these places. But I believe that
[1:07:24] Speaker 17: these companies are more afraid of Trump. They're more afraid
[1:07:28] Speaker 17: of his backlash. And I also believe that they like
[1:07:32] Speaker 17: being having white privilege.
[1:07:34] Speaker 18: They just do. And so until the black.
[1:07:37] Speaker 17: Leadership in this country wherever it is stands up for
[1:07:40] Speaker 17: these issues. We will not force our corporate allies and
[1:07:45] Speaker 17: I'll say that in air quotes to do anything to
[1:07:48] Speaker 17: help us.
[1:07:49] Speaker 18: That's what we need to do.
[1:07:50] Speaker 17: And I'm actually glad you brought this up to me, Roland,
[1:07:52] Speaker 17: because the next conference I go to for black state
[1:07:55] Speaker 17: reps or Black women's state reps and senators, I'm going
[1:07:59] Speaker 17: to ask the same questions to our leadership, because we
[1:08:02] Speaker 17: do need to do something.
[1:08:04] Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, Scott, I have said for a
[1:08:07] Speaker 3: very long time, I fundamentally believe in a return on investment.
[1:08:12] Speaker 3: I believe that African Americans are buying products those companies
[1:08:16] Speaker 3: should be giving back. But if we're saying that voting
[1:08:20] Speaker 3: rights is fundamental, if we're saying that what is happening
[1:08:24] Speaker 3: right now in the South poses an existential threat to
[1:08:28] Speaker 3: the future of Black America, then this is where we say,
[1:08:32] Speaker 3: you either are standing with us or you are standing
[1:08:36] Speaker 3: against us. And I get and I know, yes, absolutely,
[1:08:40] Speaker 3: these people are scared to death of Trump. You got
[1:08:42] Speaker 3: the FCC targeted them. We're not going to prove mergers
[1:08:46] Speaker 3: and stuff along those lines they're afraid to get. He's
[1:08:49] Speaker 3: going to post a tweet. But this is where the
[1:08:51] Speaker 3: rubber meets the road. Scott. This is where individuals companies
[1:08:56] Speaker 3: have been benefiting from their proximity to blackness. This is
[1:09:00] Speaker 3: where individuals have been coming to our conferences touting the
[1:09:04] Speaker 3: awards that we give them, being able to put it
[1:09:07] Speaker 3: on their LinkedIn, being able to put it on their
[1:09:10] Speaker 3: social media, how great partners they are with our black groups.
[1:09:15] Speaker 3: And this is where we should say, this is where
[1:09:20] Speaker 3: you truly pay up. And again, I'm just and again
[1:09:23] Speaker 3: I've named different groups, but I'm sitting here right now.
[1:09:26] Speaker 3: I'm looking at the Board of Directors of the National
[1:09:29] Speaker 3: Urban League, and the chair is MasterCard Inc. And I
[1:09:33] Speaker 3: look here Independent Director, JP Morgan, Chase, Verizon, TD Bank,
[1:09:38] Speaker 3: I see Bank of America, Walmart, PepsiCo, Amazon, I see
[1:09:42] Speaker 3: Nationwide Insurance, Charter Communications, Google, Fifth Third Bank, I see
[1:09:47] Speaker 3: ups AT and T. I see a Trust, Walgreens. I
[1:09:54] Speaker 3: see Comcast, Shell Inc. Patent Boggs, Resilia, Toyota to North America.
[1:10:01] Speaker 3: I'm seeing the krim Dela crim of corporate America. Okay,
[1:10:06] Speaker 3: when do we properly leverage our corporate relationships to say
[1:10:12] Speaker 3: we need y'all speaking up in this moment?
[1:10:17] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm.
[1:10:20] Speaker 5: Not going to tell you you're wrong because you love
[1:10:22] Speaker 5: speaking truth to power.
[1:10:23] Speaker 3: You know I ain't wrong.
[1:10:24] Speaker 2: He too complicated.
[1:10:26] Speaker 3: No it's not you were wrong. It ain't complicated, and
[1:10:28] Speaker 3: say you were wrong. Yes it is, it's very complicated.
[1:10:31] Speaker 2: Just pump your brakes a little bit.
[1:10:33] Speaker 5: Now, hold on, because it's a two way street between
[1:10:37] Speaker 5: our elected officials and these corporations that want our elected
[1:10:41] Speaker 5: officials to do X, Y and z.
[1:10:43] Speaker 2: Both hands are washing the other. Now.
[1:10:46] Speaker 5: You want me to take on more politics, and you
[1:10:50] Speaker 5: want I'm giving you money. You wouldn't have the ALC
[1:10:54] Speaker 5: Foundation weekend, You wouldn't have any of these without the corporations.
[1:10:58] Speaker 5: So those corporations are supporting you. Right now you're saying, okay,
[1:11:03] Speaker 5: you support me, You are our allies.
[1:11:05] Speaker 2: Now join us in this fight for voting rights. Done
[1:11:08] Speaker 2: wrong with asking and most of them would probably agree
[1:11:11] Speaker 2: with you.
[1:11:12] Speaker 5: That will be done to the Voting Rights Act is awful,
[1:11:15] Speaker 5: and what they're doing to black folks is awful.
[1:11:18] Speaker 2: But there's a whole lot of smoke coming.
[1:11:20] Speaker 5: They're taking on a lot of smoke from the White House,
[1:11:23] Speaker 5: from their Republican friends.
[1:11:24] Speaker 2: You know, they give money the Democrats and Republicans. They
[1:11:27] Speaker 2: got shareholders too. It gets real complicated. I know how
[1:11:31] Speaker 2: simple you want to make it.
[1:11:32] Speaker 3: No no, no, no no no no no no no no no no,
[1:11:35] Speaker 3: I'm not and you know I'm not making it simple.
[1:11:38] Speaker 2: Ask them to do it.
[1:11:39] Speaker 3: Here's the elected officials.
[1:11:41] Speaker 2: This is how you leverage corporate America. Right.
[1:11:44] Speaker 3: You go to them and you ask.
[1:11:45] Speaker 5: Them, you say, walk this fight with us, right and
[1:11:48] Speaker 5: they say.
[1:11:48] Speaker 2: We can't do that. We don't want to smoke.
[1:11:50] Speaker 5: We'll support you at A B and C, but not
[1:11:53] Speaker 5: f you really want to leverage them, They say, we
[1:11:55] Speaker 5: ain't gonna take your money. You won't find one black
[1:11:58] Speaker 5: organization or look at the official that'll say okay, I'm
[1:12:01] Speaker 5: not gonna take your money and get off my board.
[1:12:03] Speaker 2: It's just not happening.
[1:12:05] Speaker 3: Okay. So yeah, so if that's the case, it's okay, no,
[1:12:07] Speaker 3: no no. So if that's the case, right, if it's
[1:12:10] Speaker 3: all wait, so Scott, if that's the case, then then
[1:12:13] Speaker 3: what's the whole point of making the demand? What what's
[1:12:18] Speaker 3: the whole point? Like I'm literally right now, this is
[1:12:20] Speaker 3: what I'm I'm seeing right here. This was complicated. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Scott,
[1:12:25] Speaker 3: hold on, shot Scott Scott, make Scott man Scott wake
[1:12:28] Speaker 3: up in a minute. This is what I'm reading. This
[1:12:30] Speaker 3: is a tweet for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
[1:12:33] Speaker 3: if the Congression of Black Caucus retweeted the Black Caucus
[1:12:36] Speaker 3: is calling on Corporate America to affirm its commitment to
[1:12:39] Speaker 3: civil rights, voting rights, and ego representation. We staying with them.
[1:12:43] Speaker 3: The Kalay decision gout at the v r A and
[1:12:46] Speaker 3: has stripped Black voters across the South of real political power.
[1:12:48] Speaker 3: That is the tweet. So here's my question. If the
[1:12:51] Speaker 3: CBC is calling on Corporate America to do this, is
[1:12:55] Speaker 3: it it simply basic to say, start with the folk.
[1:13:01] Speaker 3: Who are your sponsors? Otherwise, who the hell you talking to? Yeah?
[1:13:06] Speaker 3: Conceptually you're absolutely right.
[1:13:08] Speaker 5: So make the CBC make the demand talk to each
[1:13:11] Speaker 5: one of those companies, right and if the companies say,
[1:13:14] Speaker 5: I can't do that, but I support you in these
[1:13:16] Speaker 5: other legislative areas, then block elected officials. Their only lepishe
[1:13:22] Speaker 5: point now is to not take their money?
[1:13:24] Speaker 3: Okay, okay, no, no, no, here's the deal though, no
[1:13:27] Speaker 3: permanent friend or enemy. Well and again interest and that's
[1:13:30] Speaker 3: when at that very point. That's when you have to
[1:13:34] Speaker 3: assess how much is their check worth. Because if you
[1:13:39] Speaker 3: are saying no, no, no, actually no no, actually actually
[1:13:43] Speaker 3: it's actually it's not no enough, Scott, that's the problem. No, no, no, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott,
[1:13:49] Speaker 3: here's the deal. That's where you're wrong. That's actually part
[1:13:52] Speaker 3: of the problem. No no, no, hold Scott going out. Know, Scott,
[1:13:54] Speaker 3: I'm telling you wrong because part of the problem is
[1:13:57] Speaker 3: the check that they're getting right now is already me
[1:14:02] Speaker 3: It may be, but it's without it they have nothing
[1:14:05] Speaker 3: or no no, no, Well, here's the deal. No, no,
[1:14:07] Speaker 3: I know, I know, I disagree the spot way, but
[1:14:09] Speaker 3: here's the deal. If you're going to make the demand,
[1:14:14] Speaker 3: if you're going to say corporate, if you are the
[1:14:17] Speaker 3: CBC and the Black Mayors, and if you are all
[1:14:21] Speaker 3: through the Civil Rights Group, if you are saying corporate
[1:14:24] Speaker 3: America needs to step up, well what corporate America are
[1:14:28] Speaker 3: you talking about? If you don't start with the folk
[1:14:30] Speaker 3: who'll cut you checks. I didn't disagree with you there.
[1:14:33] Speaker 3: I said, fine, make the demand.
[1:14:35] Speaker 5: You're a CEO, you have sponsors for the Black Star Network.
[1:14:39] Speaker 5: Are you going to start with your corporate sponsors, yes,
[1:14:41] Speaker 5: and turn down every money if they say, hey, we
[1:14:43] Speaker 5: can't walk that walk with you.
[1:14:44] Speaker 2: Yes, walk over here, but we can't walk that walk
[1:14:47] Speaker 2: with you. Can you admit to that right now?
[1:14:49] Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, you know why We'll start with you. You
[1:14:51] Speaker 3: know why? No no, no, no, no, no no no.
[1:14:54] Speaker 2: Do you know why?
[1:14:54] Speaker 3: Because instructle no no no no no.
[1:14:56] Speaker 2: Do you know why?
[1:14:57] Speaker 27: You thought?
[1:14:58] Speaker 3: Hold up? And that's precisely right there. And the reality
[1:15:00] Speaker 3: is those corporations don't actually advertise because a very reason.
[1:15:06] Speaker 3: So yeah, I can say that because I'm not scared
[1:15:09] Speaker 3: to tell them no. And the reality is this here,
[1:15:11] Speaker 3: and this is what we're facing and what this speaks
[1:15:14] Speaker 3: to what we're talking about right here, this speaks to
[1:15:18] Speaker 3: exactly the conundrum that Black America is in on my congo,
[1:15:22] Speaker 3: and that is who owns us? And this is what
[1:15:28] Speaker 3: I've always said, This is what I've always said, and
[1:15:31] Speaker 3: I have an appreciation for our civil rights groups. But
[1:15:35] Speaker 3: the reality is this here, and this is why I've
[1:15:37] Speaker 3: called on Divine nine. This is this is precisely why
[1:15:40] Speaker 3: I have called on the Divine nine and Prince hal
[1:15:45] Speaker 3: Mason and Sigma Pi five returning incorporated the Boulet and
[1:15:49] Speaker 3: the Links and Eastern Star to step up even more
[1:15:53] Speaker 3: so because when I look at in Black America, When
[1:15:56] Speaker 3: I look at in Black America, what groups exist that
[1:16:02] Speaker 3: don't depend on corporate funding? It's those thirteen organizations, those
[1:16:07] Speaker 3: thirteen organizations, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, they get no, no, no, Scott,
[1:16:13] Speaker 3: listen see Scott, see there's an already listening. When I
[1:16:17] Speaker 3: say depend on those groups are member funded when you
[1:16:23] Speaker 3: go to those organ no, Scott, when you Scott, wait
[1:16:25] Speaker 3: a minute, Okay, Scott, your Kappa, when you go to
[1:16:28] Speaker 3: your convention, how much of your Kappa convention is funded
[1:16:31] Speaker 3: by corporate America? Very little? Sum no no no no
[1:16:36] Speaker 3: no no okay, hold up, hold up, give me some
[1:16:39] Speaker 3: ten percent, especially Allison. No no, no, give it, no no, no, no,
[1:16:42] Speaker 3: no no, Scott, Scott. I asked you, Scott, I asked
[1:16:45] Speaker 3: you as a Kappa when you go to your when
[1:16:48] Speaker 3: you go to your whatever y'all call it whatever, your convention,
[1:16:51] Speaker 3: y'all call it something pole mark, I don't know what.
[1:16:54] Speaker 3: Yah y'all call it. When you go to y'all whatever
[1:16:56] Speaker 3: y'all do, okay, conclave, whatever, when y'all go there, that's right. No, no, no,
[1:17:01] Speaker 3: I don't care what y'all call it. Here's my whole point.
[1:17:03] Speaker 3: What is when you go to your go to your convention?
[1:17:07] Speaker 3: How much corporate sponsorship? How many signers? How much de
[1:17:11] Speaker 3: sign do you see? I don't know? Okay, fine, okay, fine,
[1:17:17] Speaker 3: no no, no, no, I just say corporate members. Okay,
[1:17:20] Speaker 3: let's move on from you. Jelanda, You a AKA. When
[1:17:23] Speaker 3: you go to the AKA, and I've been to the
[1:17:25] Speaker 3: AK convention, when you go to the AK AK convention,
[1:17:28] Speaker 3: how much corporate signage do you see?
[1:17:32] Speaker 2: Some?
[1:17:33] Speaker 3: Okay, Jelanna, you on me, driven Scott, Scott, you ain't
[1:17:36] Speaker 3: an AKA, so stop talking. I'm talking to the AKA.
[1:17:39] Speaker 7: I'm not you.
[1:17:40] Speaker 18: Can you hear me?
[1:17:41] Speaker 10: Now?
[1:17:41] Speaker 2: We can hear hear me?
[1:17:43] Speaker 8: Okay?
[1:17:43] Speaker 18: So ours is? I don't see corporate sponsorships? I don't I.
[1:17:48] Speaker 17: See where as much as I paid the register for
[1:17:51] Speaker 17: boulet and to pay for this luncheon and that luncheon, right,
[1:17:54] Speaker 17: fanel in that panel.
[1:17:55] Speaker 18: Right, that's where they get their money.
[1:17:56] Speaker 3: Right, let me let me clean boom now no, no boom,
[1:18:01] Speaker 3: hold on wait And so I'm an alpha, very little,
[1:18:04] Speaker 3: very little, very little corporate If I'm my wife is
[1:18:07] Speaker 3: a delta very little. Again, So my point is this
[1:18:10] Speaker 3: here we have self funded entities, and when you have
[1:18:17] Speaker 3: self funded entities, then you have the ability to say
[1:18:22] Speaker 3: more and speak more with a level of independence that
[1:18:26] Speaker 3: other groups cannot. And all I'm saying is, if you're
[1:18:29] Speaker 3: going to make a call for black folk to do something,
[1:18:35] Speaker 3: you might want to start in your own house, and
[1:18:39] Speaker 3: if your own corporate sponsors are unwilling to speak up,
[1:18:44] Speaker 3: then all you did would just post a letter.
[1:18:48] Speaker 17: But but Broland, here's what I got. If you're gonna
[1:18:50] Speaker 17: make a demand, there's got to be a consequence. What's
[1:18:52] Speaker 17: the point of making a demand if something ain't gonna
[1:18:55] Speaker 17: happen to you if you don't like answer the demand
[1:18:58] Speaker 17: the right way. So is performative, I think. But at
[1:19:03] Speaker 17: the end of the day, the people. I think that
[1:19:06] Speaker 17: a lot of elected officials depend on corporate donations and sponsorships.
[1:19:11] Speaker 17: And the truth is when it comes to our sororities
[1:19:14] Speaker 17: and fraternities and other organizations like that. In Poland, we
[1:19:18] Speaker 17: know that black Greeks are more likely to be at
[1:19:21] Speaker 17: the upper echelons of their careers and professions, but most
[1:19:26] Speaker 17: of us are working for the white man at some
[1:19:29] Speaker 17: company nine times out of tend. I'm self employed. I
[1:19:32] Speaker 17: work for my black self. You work for your black self.
[1:19:36] Speaker 17: So I think that even a lot of us in
[1:19:38] Speaker 17: these organizations have some confliction to the send. I just
[1:19:42] Speaker 17: made that word up, because yes, they're at the with
[1:19:46] Speaker 17: the krimsonala krim of our of our race. But we
[1:19:49] Speaker 17: also are working for JP Morgan or Bank of America
[1:19:53] Speaker 17: right right, and most comfortable Negro.
[1:19:57] Speaker 3: And again I don't want to rock them all. Again,
[1:19:59] Speaker 3: here's my whole point. There's a difference between because, first
[1:20:02] Speaker 3: of all, when we're talking about corporate America where you
[1:20:06] Speaker 3: speak up, we ain't actually talking to those black execs
[1:20:10] Speaker 3: on the CONGO. When that actually happens, that letter is
[1:20:13] Speaker 3: going to the CEO. So this is very simple. If
[1:20:17] Speaker 3: the CBC is saying we need corporate America to speak up, okay, well,
[1:20:21] Speaker 3: there's very simple. The CBC should say, should go to
[1:20:26] Speaker 3: the CEO of Delta right there in Atlanta and say
[1:20:31] Speaker 3: are you going to speak up against the racial Jerry Mandarin.
[1:20:36] Speaker 3: They should go to the Southern Company, They should go
[1:20:40] Speaker 3: to the other pull the list, who are the top
[1:20:44] Speaker 3: five corporate corporations in each state that you're talking about.
[1:20:49] Speaker 3: What are those corporations in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas,
[1:20:57] Speaker 3: North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and specifically ask them do
[1:21:04] Speaker 3: you stand with us? And what do they say? See,
[1:21:09] Speaker 3: if you're telling me it's an existential threat on my CONGO,
[1:21:13] Speaker 3: if you're telling me we stand to lose anywhere from
[1:21:16] Speaker 3: nineteen to twenty four members of the CBC going from
[1:21:20] Speaker 3: an all time high of almost sixty and cutting it
[1:21:23] Speaker 3: by third, Well, then what the hell is the point
[1:21:27] Speaker 3: of having sponsors and corporate partners if when you are
[1:21:32] Speaker 3: facing a crisis, you don't ask them to stand with you.
[1:21:39] Speaker 19: Well, I think the sponsors and corporate partners they absolutely
[1:21:43] Speaker 19: know this as well. They know everything that we're talking
[1:21:45] Speaker 19: about in this discussion tonight, and they know that as
[1:21:48] Speaker 19: long as they're cutting that check, they can go just
[1:21:50] Speaker 19: far enough with many of these black organizations and not
[1:21:53] Speaker 19: have to do anything. And so when we talk about
[1:21:55] Speaker 19: there has to be consequences. Yes, they're the black members
[1:21:59] Speaker 19: in the House Senate and these these organizations, they have
[1:22:03] Speaker 19: to be willing to not only call out the corporations,
[1:22:06] Speaker 19: but be able to call on their people on us
[1:22:09] Speaker 19: to be able to support them. You know, I use
[1:22:11] Speaker 19: you know, Representative Jones for an example. If she went
[1:22:15] Speaker 19: to Visa tomorrow and said, you know, you've been support
[1:22:18] Speaker 19: I'm making this up of course as a smart you
[1:22:20] Speaker 19: know you've been supporting me for years, but now we
[1:22:22] Speaker 19: need to do X, Y and Z, and they say
[1:22:24] Speaker 19: we're not going to do it.
[1:22:25] Speaker 8: Then I completely see Representative Jones saying.
[1:22:28] Speaker 19: Hey, we've been supporting hey, black people, We've been supporting
[1:22:31] Speaker 19: Visa for years. Now we have to make sure that
[1:22:33] Speaker 19: we're calling them out and we have to make sure
[1:22:35] Speaker 19: that we're making sure we're funneling our dollars into our
[1:22:38] Speaker 19: own organizations and our own associations and funding our own candidates.
[1:22:41] Speaker 8: And people would follow her. And if people were doing.
[1:22:43] Speaker 19: That at the house level, at the state level, on
[1:22:45] Speaker 19: the national level, then it could happen. The corporations know
[1:22:48] Speaker 19: our power better than we do, and they know that
[1:22:52] Speaker 19: if we've really got together to organize, they would have
[1:22:55] Speaker 19: to be able to step up and they would have
[1:22:56] Speaker 19: to speak out.
[1:22:57] Speaker 8: But they know they can go just as far as
[1:22:59] Speaker 8: cutting the check.
[1:23:00] Speaker 19: That's all they've been doing, and that's all we've been
[1:23:02] Speaker 19: accepting Ultimately, at the end of the day, we've been
[1:23:04] Speaker 19: willing to accept their crumbs so we can get their
[1:23:06] Speaker 19: name on an event and not doing more. And that's
[1:23:09] Speaker 19: why they stay comfortable in this moment because we haven't
[1:23:11] Speaker 19: demanded why. I guarantee you if Representative Jeffries and all
[1:23:14] Speaker 19: of these guys out there were saying we went to AMEX,
[1:23:16] Speaker 19: we went to this place in that place, and they
[1:23:18] Speaker 19: said no, and this is what we need to do,
[1:23:20] Speaker 19: people would do it. People would follow them, especially in
[1:23:23] Speaker 19: this moment right now. We saw a lot of that,
[1:23:25] Speaker 19: you know, with the target stuff, and people can talk
[1:23:27] Speaker 19: about how it ended.
[1:23:27] Speaker 8: It's still going on for many people.
[1:23:29] Speaker 19: But we saw that when we are focused, there is
[1:23:31] Speaker 19: an ability to mobilize and call these organizations out, and
[1:23:34] Speaker 19: we need to bring that back otherwise they're going to
[1:23:36] Speaker 19: keep skating and being comfortable.
[1:23:38] Speaker 3: The final point on this was something that Omi Congo said,
[1:23:41] Speaker 3: and that is when I hear and see this is
[1:23:45] Speaker 3: where we have to learn to begin to challenge black
[1:23:49] Speaker 3: people directly. And I say this here all panels, y'all
[1:23:53] Speaker 3: maybe do this as well, but I certainly do this here.
[1:23:56] Speaker 3: So I love it. When I travel, somebody will talk
[1:24:01] Speaker 3: about and oh man, brother, keep going, brother, keep going. Man.
[1:24:07] Speaker 3: We need you, We need you speaking that truth.
[1:24:11] Speaker 2: Man.
[1:24:12] Speaker 3: Man, I stay with you, brother, I'm praying for you.
[1:24:17] Speaker 3: I support you. Do your donate. See, I got the list.
[1:24:30] Speaker 3: I got the list every person that has contributed to
[1:24:38] Speaker 3: this show on this network since September fourth, twenty eighteen,
[1:24:44] Speaker 3: via cash app, via ze, via venmo, via PayPal, via
[1:24:53] Speaker 3: check in money order. We got all the names. See
[1:24:58] Speaker 3: when somebody says that to me, I can just go
[1:25:05] Speaker 3: I don't see they name in that spreadsheet.
[1:25:09] Speaker 2: Hm.
[1:25:11] Speaker 3: So when folks say, oh my god, I'm with you,
[1:25:13] Speaker 3: I support you, and I say, and let me be
[1:25:15] Speaker 3: real clear, I fully understand. One of the reasons that
[1:25:19] Speaker 3: we made this thing free. I fully made it clear
[1:25:22] Speaker 3: everybody cannot pay a subscription. That's why I didn't put
[1:25:26] Speaker 3: this behind a paywall. I wanted our content to be
[1:25:29] Speaker 3: out here. But what do I always say, You black
[1:25:33] Speaker 3: folks have got to stop demanding that black folks speak
[1:25:38] Speaker 3: truth to power. If power is funding your speech. Yep,
[1:25:46] Speaker 3: let me say it again. You cannot be black and
[1:25:50] Speaker 3: demand that the preacher and the Black civil Rights group
[1:25:56] Speaker 3: and the legal group and this group and black media. Man,
[1:26:01] Speaker 3: we need somebody speaking truth to but you ain't even
[1:26:06] Speaker 3: sending a dollar. See, I know I'd already said this here.
[1:26:13] Speaker 3: I know the three or four black celebrities and that's
[1:26:20] Speaker 3: all it is that have contributed to this show in
[1:26:25] Speaker 3: seven and a half years. But when they projects come out,
[1:26:30] Speaker 3: I get it. I know the black organizations that have
[1:26:37] Speaker 3: actually supported us financially. And then the other Can I
[1:26:42] Speaker 3: come on? Can I come on? Can I come on
[1:26:44] Speaker 3: to talk about? Can I come on? And I always
[1:26:48] Speaker 3: say listen, I tell you. I tell folks when we
[1:26:52] Speaker 3: went down to Montgomery and we broadcast all road Lee
[1:26:56] Speaker 3: to the South and we shared we shared the fever
[1:27:00] Speaker 3: fifty groups. Let me real clear, y'all. We shared the
[1:27:03] Speaker 3: feed with fifty groups. We paid for the whole thing.
[1:27:14] Speaker 3: How many of those groups said, here's one hundred dollars
[1:27:18] Speaker 3: to go on it. See. So the point I'm making is,
[1:27:23] Speaker 3: Black folks, if we're going to demand black organizations, black
[1:27:29] Speaker 3: groups speak truth to power, you now have to ask
[1:27:32] Speaker 3: yourself are you supporting said groups? And that's why when
[1:27:37] Speaker 3: I mentioned the Divine Nine and Prince Hall Mason and
[1:27:41] Speaker 3: Eastern Star and the links in Sigma Pi five for
[1:27:45] Speaker 3: turning Incorporated to Boulet, what I said is those are
[1:27:49] Speaker 3: black organizations that are self funded and they are not
[1:27:55] Speaker 3: dependent on external interests to fund their organizations, which means
[1:28:02] Speaker 3: that gives them the freedom to speak. And the reason
[1:28:06] Speaker 3: the Black Church has been so powerful in his existence
[1:28:10] Speaker 3: is because the members paid the preacher. The members paid
[1:28:15] Speaker 3: the pastor. And so we have to ask ourselves in
[1:28:18] Speaker 3: Black America who is funding us? And those that fund
[1:28:25] Speaker 3: you control you. Those that pay your bills can tell
[1:28:32] Speaker 3: you what to say and what not to say. And
[1:28:35] Speaker 3: so all I'm saying in this moment that we're in
[1:28:39] Speaker 3: and we are in an anti DEI moment. Scott alluded
[1:28:43] Speaker 3: to it earlier. Every Black organization has been adversely impacted
[1:28:50] Speaker 3: by the anti DEI impact because those groups were dependent
[1:28:55] Speaker 3: upon those DEI dollars. And the only groups that are
[1:29:00] Speaker 3: not seeing financial shortfalls are the groups that aren't dependent
[1:29:07] Speaker 3: on those checks. So in this moment, Black people have
[1:29:12] Speaker 3: to ask ours but to ask each other a very
[1:29:15] Speaker 3: important question, what are you supporting? What are you sending
[1:29:22] Speaker 3: your coins to? And if you say, man, all I
[1:29:25] Speaker 3: got is ten dollars a month, okay, send two dollars here,
[1:29:31] Speaker 3: two dollars here, two dollars here, two dollars here, and
[1:29:35] Speaker 3: two dollars here, because I can tell you right now
[1:29:39] Speaker 3: we are here seven and a half years later because
[1:29:43] Speaker 3: of dollar two dollars, five dollars, seven dollars, ten, twenty
[1:29:50] Speaker 3: five fifty, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred
[1:29:54] Speaker 3: upwards of several thousand, and so that's where we are,
[1:30:00] Speaker 3: and so we know what's about to go down. Trump
[1:30:03] Speaker 3: is going to be there until January twenty twenty nine.
[1:30:06] Speaker 3: So black people have to ask themselves right now some
[1:30:09] Speaker 3: extremely difficult questions. Thost question is you cannot be in
[1:30:16] Speaker 3: a battle and you are demanding that somebody funded your
[1:30:23] Speaker 3: war but will not fight alongside of you, because what
[1:30:28] Speaker 3: you're going to discover is they're going to toss some
[1:30:32] Speaker 3: crumbs to you and convince you that it is a meal,
[1:30:37] Speaker 3: and then when you stop receiving their crumbs, then you
[1:30:41] Speaker 3: realize it was never a meal, it was actually just crumbs.
[1:30:46] Speaker 3: Final comment from my panel on this, I'll start with you, Julanda.
[1:30:54] Speaker 17: All I know Roland is all black people ain't free.
[1:30:58] Speaker 17: So they talk they're free, but they are not free.
[1:31:01] Speaker 17: So what you said is exactly to the point. But
[1:31:04] Speaker 17: I think that we as black people have to go
[1:31:06] Speaker 17: back to the mindset we have when we were in segregation,
[1:31:09] Speaker 17: because the segregation, we knew we were all we had
[1:31:12] Speaker 17: to depend on, and we knew that we would not
[1:31:15] Speaker 17: be successful if we didn't rely on each other. And
[1:31:17] Speaker 17: since integration, we don't have that mindset anymore. We believe
[1:31:21] Speaker 17: we've made it. And unfortunately, as long as that's the
[1:31:23] Speaker 17: mindset that we have, we will never be in a
[1:31:26] Speaker 17: position to stand up and support people who speak truth
[1:31:29] Speaker 17: to power, because not everybody will be able to do that.
[1:31:32] Speaker 17: But I absolutely concur with what you say, yep. And
[1:31:37] Speaker 17: the crazy thing about being elected. The only way that
[1:31:39] Speaker 17: they will respect you, really is if you crazy enough.
[1:31:43] Speaker 18: Is you not afraid to lose?
[1:31:45] Speaker 3: That's it.
[1:31:46] Speaker 17: Those are the black people that white people pay attention to.
[1:31:48] Speaker 17: I'm gonna say that one more again, those of us
[1:31:51] Speaker 17: who are not afraid to lose, because if you're not
[1:31:53] Speaker 17: afraid to lose, then you will do whatever is necessary.
[1:31:56] Speaker 17: And if you're afraid to lose, you're afraid to ruffle feathers,
[1:31:59] Speaker 17: then they can throw you with their crumbs and their donations.
[1:32:04] Speaker 2: Scott, Yeah, you know one Rulin.
[1:32:09] Speaker 5: Nobody disagrees with you, at least conceptually. I do think
[1:32:13] Speaker 5: the black organizations, civil rights organizations, the Divine nine and others,
[1:32:19] Speaker 5: they have another concern though, given this White House, they
[1:32:22] Speaker 5: all have five.
[1:32:23] Speaker 2: Oh one, C three, four or six status.
[1:32:26] Speaker 5: This White House is the house of retribution, and so
[1:32:30] Speaker 5: all that's going to take is for the irs to
[1:32:32] Speaker 5: kind of pull their paperwork. And they got to be
[1:32:34] Speaker 5: concerned about that historical black collegist.
[1:32:37] Speaker 3: And while we have lawyers to be concerned about that
[1:32:39] Speaker 3: law here's too. But also that's why we have That's
[1:32:42] Speaker 3: why we have lawyers.
[1:32:44] Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true, but they don't want to smoke because
[1:32:46] Speaker 5: that smoke costs money.
[1:32:49] Speaker 3: With damn, well, damn if our lawyers don't want to smoke,
[1:32:52] Speaker 3: if our groups don't want to smoke, we'll just pack
[1:32:55] Speaker 3: this shit up and just sit out, just sit out
[1:32:57] Speaker 3: to fight.
[1:32:57] Speaker 2: Then you know that's not what I'm saying.
[1:33:00] Speaker 5: What I'm saying is the reason this is a challenge
[1:33:03] Speaker 5: for our organizations is because the smoke from the executive
[1:33:07] Speaker 5: branch goes beyond the corporations.
[1:33:09] Speaker 2: It goes to the nonprofits too.
[1:33:11] Speaker 5: In the end, you're right, you got to stand up
[1:33:13] Speaker 5: and be counted if you in the fight.
[1:33:15] Speaker 2: I don't care who's funding to fight. You got to
[1:33:17] Speaker 2: stand up and speak truth to power.
[1:33:20] Speaker 3: Well guess what, yeah, but here, Yeah.
[1:33:22] Speaker 5: That's what they're up against, right, Like I urge when
[1:33:25] Speaker 5: you only want in a room.
[1:33:26] Speaker 3: Yes, I got I get that. And when I'm saying, oh,
[1:33:29] Speaker 3: my congo, we need more black groups that have courage,
[1:33:31] Speaker 3: We need more black people that have courage. And I
[1:33:33] Speaker 3: don't want to hear this bullshit. We are not our
[1:33:36] Speaker 3: ancestors because I'm like, you know what you're not. You're
[1:33:39] Speaker 3: not because they had the courage. And there's a lot
[1:33:43] Speaker 3: of black folks today who do not.
[1:33:47] Speaker 20: Know.
[1:33:47] Speaker 19: The fact of the matter is whoever funds you runs you.
[1:33:50] Speaker 19: And that's what it comes down to. When I think
[1:33:52] Speaker 19: of stories I would hear about doctor King and others,
[1:33:55] Speaker 19: and he would say something to the effect of the ability,
[1:33:58] Speaker 19: you know, having to look my children in the face
[1:34:00] Speaker 19: and say they can't swim at this particular pool because
[1:34:03] Speaker 19: of the color of their skin was just unacceptable and
[1:34:07] Speaker 19: that was all they needed to be able to go forward.
[1:34:10] Speaker 19: We're talking about organizations not funding us and people not
[1:34:12] Speaker 19: writing checks. Can you look at your child when you
[1:34:15] Speaker 19: go to sleep tonight or your grandchild or your niece
[1:34:18] Speaker 19: or nephew, or the kids in your community and said
[1:34:21] Speaker 19: I did all I could to make your life better.
[1:34:25] Speaker 19: And if you're not afraid to turn down a check
[1:34:27] Speaker 19: or turn down some type of sponsorship, then that answer
[1:34:30] Speaker 19: is no, and you are selling them out. We started
[1:34:33] Speaker 19: tonight talking about sellouts. You are selling your own people
[1:34:36] Speaker 19: out by selling out your future. And that's what it
[1:34:39] Speaker 19: all comes down to. What are you able to look
[1:34:42] Speaker 19: into the eyes of our children, our future, who, many
[1:34:45] Speaker 19: of them across this country right now have less rights
[1:34:49] Speaker 19: than all of us do right now on this panel,
[1:34:52] Speaker 19: What are you willing to do for them so that
[1:34:54] Speaker 19: their tomorrow can be different? And if you can't answer
[1:34:57] Speaker 19: that question and decide to walk out on strength and
[1:34:59] Speaker 19: faith that I am sisters had, then you don't deserve
[1:35:01] Speaker 19: to have your position in the first place.
[1:35:04] Speaker 3: Again, to the people who are watching is very simple.
[1:35:07] Speaker 3: This is not just an appeal to me. What I'm
[1:35:09] Speaker 3: saying is if you support if you want independent black
[1:35:13] Speaker 3: on media, and you say you support it, do you
[1:35:16] Speaker 3: give to the thousands who are watching. Are y'all riding
[1:35:19] Speaker 3: for free? Or do y'all say you know what, we
[1:35:21] Speaker 3: gotta make sure this happens. And we get our legal
[1:35:23] Speaker 3: groups out there. Man, they fight to fight hardcore every day, y'all.
[1:35:29] Speaker 3: We just can't hope white philanthropy keeps funding them. See
[1:35:32] Speaker 3: this the whole deal. You got some black you got
[1:35:34] Speaker 3: MLK Fifth Memphis, and you got the Tribe, and you
[1:35:37] Speaker 3: got other for profit and nonprofit black media groups. We
[1:35:41] Speaker 3: can't depend on hopefully white philanthropy. We can't hope Mackenzie
[1:35:45] Speaker 3: Scott cuts everybody a check. So Black people are going
[1:35:49] Speaker 3: to have to make some hard choices. What are we
[1:35:52] Speaker 3: spending our money on? Are we so fixated with Sunday
[1:35:56] Speaker 3: Brunch dropping two three hundred dollars on a Sunday and
[1:36:00] Speaker 3: then we said no, no, I can't even give twenty
[1:36:03] Speaker 3: five dollars to a civil rights group? What are we saying?
[1:36:07] Speaker 3: This is what I'm talking about. We are in a war.
[1:36:12] Speaker 3: We are in a war, and Black people had better
[1:36:15] Speaker 3: wake the hell up to see what is going on.
[1:36:18] Speaker 3: And we need everybody involving this fight and just posting
[1:36:22] Speaker 3: a tweet in one thing. And then if you're gonna
[1:36:24] Speaker 3: post a tweet, hell at least post hey. Please give
[1:36:28] Speaker 3: to this group, Please give to this show, to this network,
[1:36:32] Speaker 3: to this organization. That's all I'm saying. We're gonna realize
[1:36:36] Speaker 3: what's going on here because the fight is real and
[1:36:39] Speaker 3: a lot of us are hoping other people engaging this fight,
[1:36:44] Speaker 3: hoping other people from the fight, and then some of
[1:36:47] Speaker 3: us can just sit back and reap the rewards of
[1:36:50] Speaker 3: somebody else's fight. No, it got even more than that.
[1:36:55] Speaker 3: Let me thank Scott Jelanda as well as on my
[1:36:58] Speaker 3: congo folks. We gonna take quick break, we come back.
[1:37:01] Speaker 3: We're going to join a simulcast with Joy Read as
[1:37:03] Speaker 3: we prepare to stream this a new documentary on Black
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[1:37:42] Speaker 10: No election in Georgia will ever be saying you're.
[1:37:45] Speaker 4: Not gonna be able to tell black folk your vote don't.
[1:37:46] Speaker 20: Matter in two years when it's the goobernatorial race and
[1:37:50] Speaker 20: for these state legislative races, that we don't have the
[1:37:52] Speaker 20: power to win a state Senate seat. Now I say that,
[1:37:56] Speaker 20: but this is the copyat this is this is the
[1:37:58] Speaker 20: tricky part. This was possible because there were more resources
[1:38:01] Speaker 20: than we've ever seen in this state. The question is
[1:38:04] Speaker 20: going to be, now that we've done save the country
[1:38:07] Speaker 20: and white folks in the country aren't feeling like the
[1:38:09] Speaker 20: world is falling apart, is they're going to be the
[1:38:12] Speaker 20: same kind of investment in black live organizations and in
[1:38:15] Speaker 20: black communities. If there is there's no election in the
[1:38:19] Speaker 20: state that we can't win, there's no election in the
[1:38:21] Speaker 20: South we can't win it, We'll still be motivated, we
[1:38:24] Speaker 20: still will learn lessons. Black folks still going to be amp.
[1:38:27] Speaker 20: But at the end of the day, it's not sustainable.
[1:38:29] Speaker 20: We can't really count on external funding. Long term. Independent
[1:38:33] Speaker 20: politics requires independent money. When we can combine that kind
[1:38:37] Speaker 20: of economic power with the political power.
[1:38:40] Speaker 10: Now we're talking. That's nation building.
[1:38:42] Speaker 21: That's what we're trying to get to.
[1:38:54] Speaker 28: Hi, I'm Swing Cash Basketball Hall of Famer, and you're
[1:38:56] Speaker 28: watching Blackstar Network.
[1:38:59] Speaker 14: Also, role is wing.
[1:39:00] Speaker 29: To screen the documentary from.
[1:39:05] Speaker 30: This conversation, so you will get a chance to see
[1:39:08] Speaker 30: it again on Roland Martin's channel. So you're not gonna
[1:39:10] Speaker 30: miss it. If you missed the beginning, you're gonna get
[1:39:12] Speaker 30: a chance to watch Or if you just want to
[1:39:13] Speaker 30: watch it again, I mean, why not watch it again?
[1:39:15] Speaker 30: Tell a friend, tell a family member if they missed it,
[1:39:18] Speaker 30: they will not have to worry about it. They're gonna
[1:39:19] Speaker 30: get to watch it on Roland Martin channel. But let's
[1:39:21] Speaker 30: go ahead and bring in our panel. Let's start with
[1:39:25] Speaker 30: the director, Darisha Kai, the incredible Emmy Award winning director
[1:39:31] Speaker 30: of this incredible, brilliant, wonderful film. And two of the
[1:39:35] Speaker 30: stars of the film, Cliff Albright, who is on his
[1:39:40] Speaker 30: way in any moment now and we will now designate
[1:39:43] Speaker 30: him as husband of April England Albright, who is also
[1:39:47] Speaker 30: a star in her own right. And of course our friend,
[1:39:49] Speaker 30: the incredible Latasha Brown, who when I first met I
[1:39:54] Speaker 30: thought her name was really can't stop won't stop because
[1:39:56] Speaker 30: that used to be what I would just call her
[1:39:57] Speaker 30: because she can't stop, won't stop, and she is the
[1:40:00] Speaker 30: captain of the blackest bust in America. We all start
[1:40:03] Speaker 30: ladies first, and of course, of course we're not gonna
[1:40:06] Speaker 30: do it all ladies.
[1:40:07] Speaker 29: Let's go ahead and bring in our friend Roland Martin.
[1:40:10] Speaker 29: Roland Martin of Roland Martin.
[1:40:12] Speaker 30: Unfiltered his eponymous debut on the Joy Readshow Network and
[1:40:16] Speaker 30: also streaming right now live on the Black Star Network.
[1:40:20] Speaker 30: Uncle Roe, thank you for being here. All right, let's
[1:40:22] Speaker 30: get started. I gotta go to you first, Arisha, and
[1:40:24] Speaker 30: I just want to congratulate you on making a film
[1:40:27] Speaker 30: that had us over here in the chats laughing, crying,
[1:40:31] Speaker 30: being frightened, being joyful, being angry, all the emotions.
[1:40:35] Speaker 31: Congratulations on the film.
[1:40:36] Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
[1:40:37] Speaker 25: I'm so grateful that you screened it.
[1:40:41] Speaker 29: And by the way, you were in the chats.
[1:40:42] Speaker 30: For those of you who got to talk to that
[1:40:44] Speaker 30: that was Derisha, y'all were talking.
[1:40:45] Speaker 29: That was really was her in the chats who was
[1:40:47] Speaker 29: chatting with you all.
[1:40:48] Speaker 30: I want to go to you, Latasha, because you know,
[1:40:51] Speaker 30: one of the things that the film did for me,
[1:40:53] Speaker 30: it really did let you get behind the scenes of
[1:40:56] Speaker 30: why this really not historic, really, you know, kind of
[1:41:01] Speaker 30: unfortunately historically analogous attack.
[1:41:03] Speaker 31: On board on black vort rights is happening.
[1:41:05] Speaker 30: You all, that microcosm of what you all were able
[1:41:08] Speaker 30: to do in Georgia is what they were afraid of
[1:41:10] Speaker 30: and what they want to make sure never happens again.
[1:41:13] Speaker 32: What are living through it though?
[1:41:15] Speaker 29: You you know, what did it?
[1:41:16] Speaker 30: What was it like for you to go back and
[1:41:17] Speaker 30: watch this film and relive these sometimes frightening moments.
[1:41:23] Speaker 8: You know, I think, well, a couple of things.
[1:41:25] Speaker 17: I think One, you know, I hate to be you know,
[1:41:29] Speaker 17: like we told you so, But there's some peace around
[1:41:33] Speaker 17: this that folks were not aware we were.
[1:41:37] Speaker 7: We were dealing with death threats and attacks on our
[1:41:42] Speaker 7: on our our.
[1:41:44] Speaker 17: Homes, attacks on the bus, you know, all kinds of
[1:41:48] Speaker 17: attacks and some of those things. We weren't broadcasting them
[1:41:52] Speaker 17: because we had a job to do, right, But we
[1:41:54] Speaker 17: knew that that vitriol, that evil, racist, white supremacists kind
[1:42:00] Speaker 17: of vitriol was out there they needed people to take.
[1:42:03] Speaker 17: While there were folks that were on the internet talking
[1:42:06] Speaker 17: about oh yeah, the price of eggs, Yeah.
[1:42:07] Speaker 7: That was important, right, But hell, on eggs double the price.
[1:42:11] Speaker 17: Now, that wasn't as important as you know, we saw
[1:42:15] Speaker 17: people being manipulated and that information, and I think that
[1:42:18] Speaker 17: that was one reminder for me.
[1:42:19] Speaker 7: I think the second piece.
[1:42:20] Speaker 17: For me as well is that organizing works. It doesn't
[1:42:24] Speaker 17: matter what season it is, organizing works, and that we
[1:42:27] Speaker 17: are what we got.
[1:42:28] Speaker 7: That black people collectively is going to take.
[1:42:31] Speaker 17: Us using our platforms, is going to take us using
[1:42:34] Speaker 17: our resources, but that we need to really understand that
[1:42:38] Speaker 17: when we're our most powerful, it's not as individuals, it's
[1:42:41] Speaker 17: when we use our collective power. And I think that
[1:42:43] Speaker 17: that's the second thing. I think the third thing that
[1:42:47] Speaker 17: stood out for me because.
[1:42:50] Speaker 3: There were parts of.
[1:42:50] Speaker 17: That that I got emotional that I'm like, I've seen
[1:42:52] Speaker 17: this feeling. I'm like, why I'm getting emotional around? Right,
[1:42:58] Speaker 17: This work is hard and they're so much behind the scenes.
[1:43:02] Speaker 17: People don't see, right, how advice folks, you know, folks
[1:43:06] Speaker 17: just kind of be flipping around.
[1:43:07] Speaker 7: Oh, we just get folks to vote, now, y'all. That's
[1:43:09] Speaker 7: like some.
[1:43:10] Speaker 17: Really hard, really hard work because we're not just getting
[1:43:14] Speaker 17: people to vote, we're actually.
[1:43:16] Speaker 7: Defending defending ourselves. We're actually in a space of.
[1:43:23] Speaker 17: The Senates and the naysayers. You know, then there's misinformation
[1:43:26] Speaker 17: and disinformation. I mean, y'all saw there was a part
[1:43:29] Speaker 17: of the film where they have created the whole LSS
[1:43:31] Speaker 17: campaign right with our logo, like and with fake information.
[1:43:36] Speaker 17: So you got while you're trying to get people engaged,
[1:43:39] Speaker 17: you also got to come back all these other hits
[1:43:41] Speaker 17: and these other attacks that are coming other ways. And
[1:43:44] Speaker 17: so I think that those are the things. But the
[1:43:47] Speaker 17: last thing that I'll say it reminded me of it's
[1:43:51] Speaker 17: just kn't be black folks, like just the joy and love,
[1:43:55] Speaker 17: like eyes smiled and I laughed, like seeing us dancing
[1:43:59] Speaker 17: all of those things that no matter what happens to us,
[1:44:02] Speaker 17: that our humanity will not be stopped. And so I
[1:44:04] Speaker 17: think that that was Sometimes I think we get in
[1:44:07] Speaker 17: the space that we take ourselves so seriously that that
[1:44:10] Speaker 17: people forget that we're human beings, well whole ask human beings.
[1:44:14] Speaker 17: So all so, so I think watching the film what
[1:44:17] Speaker 17: it did for me, and it reminded me that's difficult
[1:44:20] Speaker 17: and challenging, as hard as this work is that we
[1:44:23] Speaker 17: absolutely love black folks, We love people, and that our
[1:44:27] Speaker 17: love and our joy in these really hard moments, that's
[1:44:30] Speaker 17: what's gonna sustain us?
[1:44:31] Speaker 29: Yeah, and Cliffs joined the chat here.
[1:44:34] Speaker 30: Cliff, I mean, first of all, there those April listen.
[1:44:36] Speaker 30: I was just gonna say, if you don't bring April
[1:44:39] Speaker 30: on to this show, I'm coming by the house to
[1:44:42] Speaker 30: get them myself. Listen, y'all the dynamic duo here. And
[1:44:47] Speaker 30: what I loved about your story too, is that it showed.
[1:44:50] Speaker 29: You know, we got to learn how y'all met.
[1:44:51] Speaker 30: I got to see you with Haircliff, and you know
[1:44:53] Speaker 30: how screenshot it is.
[1:44:55] Speaker 29: I screenshot it. I'm gonna send it to you later,
[1:44:57] Speaker 29: just so you know.
[1:44:58] Speaker 30: How the evidence of you the full head of hair,
[1:45:01] Speaker 30: and I enjoyed that very much. But I think one
[1:45:04] Speaker 30: of the things that I loved about the film so
[1:45:05] Speaker 30: much was you guys' story. You know, first of all,
[1:45:07] Speaker 30: love it you're from the Bronx, come on New York.
[1:45:09] Speaker 30: And just the fact that you know how you all
[1:45:12] Speaker 30: came together, really both being inspired by really legal you know,
[1:45:18] Speaker 30: you know, history makers, and you came to that history
[1:45:22] Speaker 30: and joined it.
[1:45:23] Speaker 10: Both of you.
[1:45:23] Speaker 31: Please talk about that.
[1:45:28] Speaker 3: I love it. I love it well.
[1:45:31] Speaker 20: First of all, just know that the hair got much
[1:45:33] Speaker 20: longer than that. It got pasted shoulder length before I
[1:45:36] Speaker 20: cut it. But thanks for having us on and thank
[1:45:39] Speaker 20: you and Roland for doing this.
[1:45:41] Speaker 4: And yeah, you know, April talked about the.
[1:45:46] Speaker 20: Unlikely circumstances that brought us together, you know, but you know,
[1:45:50] Speaker 20: once we came together, it was rooted from the very
[1:45:53] Speaker 20: beginning in the work. I mean rooted in love obviously,
[1:45:57] Speaker 20: but you know, very much rooted in the work. The
[1:46:00] Speaker 20: first project we worked on was a long distance project
[1:46:03] Speaker 20: we did while I was still in DC and she
[1:46:05] Speaker 20: was in Alabama, and we wrote our whole Alabama Strategy manual,
[1:46:10] Speaker 20: laying out like the seven the seven pieces of our
[1:46:14] Speaker 20: strategy for building the Selma as well as the Birmingham base.
[1:46:18] Speaker 11: And you know, that.
[1:46:19] Speaker 4: Was like our first our first piece of ridden work
[1:46:22] Speaker 4: and strategy together.
[1:46:24] Speaker 20: But you know, but we so much loved the way
[1:46:26] Speaker 20: that Dresha and just shout out to Derisha. I don't
[1:46:30] Speaker 20: know if we've said this already, but the work that
[1:46:33] Speaker 20: to tell this story, the work that her crew did
[1:46:36] Speaker 20: to be able to capture the story in the midst
[1:46:37] Speaker 20: of COVID, in the midst of those threats that Latasha
[1:46:42] Speaker 20: was just talking about, right where they had to get
[1:46:44] Speaker 20: security in addition to the security.
[1:46:46] Speaker 30: That we have.
[1:46:47] Speaker 20: But you know, we really appreciate the way that they
[1:46:50] Speaker 20: were in our lives, in our home. They were able
[1:46:52] Speaker 20: to capture that work and all that goes into it.
[1:46:56] Speaker 21: But I think that they also did an amazing.
[1:46:57] Speaker 20: Job of like capturing the relatelationship, you know, as as husband, wife,
[1:47:03] Speaker 20: as parents, as activists, because that's that's it's.
[1:47:07] Speaker 4: Such an inherent part part of our story, you know.
[1:47:11] Speaker 20: We we we actually hope to do a version of
[1:47:14] Speaker 20: what you did with with Medgar and Merly and be
[1:47:17] Speaker 20: able to one day be able to tell that story
[1:47:19] Speaker 20: and writing.
[1:47:20] Speaker 4: But but yeah.
[1:47:21] Speaker 20: We're just so thankful to to reach it, for being
[1:47:23] Speaker 20: able to capture all that in those lenses.
[1:47:26] Speaker 18: Yeah, go ahead.
[1:47:28] Speaker 33: Yeah, I just I love I love it and I
[1:47:31] Speaker 33: watch it again and I cried in those moments, and
[1:47:34] Speaker 33: I just hope that people are aware that the South
[1:47:38] Speaker 33: is important, but just the South, wherever we are, is important,
[1:47:44] Speaker 33: that relationships are important. And I love that we've been
[1:47:47] Speaker 33: you know, Cliff Latasha and I.
[1:47:49] Speaker 7: Have been together for thirty years, you know, doing.
[1:47:52] Speaker 33: This type of work, all with the focus of always
[1:47:55] Speaker 33: trying to make sure that we can move black folks
[1:47:58] Speaker 33: closer to liver and self determination in this in this country,
[1:48:02] Speaker 33: and I hope that people are understanding there is no
[1:48:05] Speaker 33: one way.
[1:48:06] Speaker 7: To respond to your oppression, you know.
[1:48:09] Speaker 33: And I love that we you know, would do things
[1:48:14] Speaker 33: like get off a bus and dance.
[1:48:15] Speaker 7: Right, But then we would go to court and we would.
[1:48:19] Speaker 33: Litigate, right, and we would stand in a you know,
[1:48:22] Speaker 33: a small board of elections office and fight, you know,
[1:48:28] Speaker 33: and raise our voice and organize our people that we
[1:48:30] Speaker 33: will go door to.
[1:48:31] Speaker 7: Door right, that we're not in a rush.
[1:48:34] Speaker 33: Because I hope that people the softness of the discussion
[1:48:37] Speaker 33: that Wanda, you know, we that was so so very
[1:48:41] Speaker 33: important because what people may.
[1:48:43] Speaker 7: Not have paid attention to is that she.
[1:48:45] Speaker 33: Didn't end it with the card in the person's face, right,
[1:48:50] Speaker 33: And why we could risk that because some folks would say, look,
[1:48:52] Speaker 33: we need that person.
[1:48:54] Speaker 4: To get registered. He said he wasn't. What did you do?
[1:48:57] Speaker 7: We came back and talked to him and another time.
[1:49:00] Speaker 33: Because our belief is that you yeah, our text are
[1:49:04] Speaker 33: we just keep the touches going because we know that
[1:49:07] Speaker 33: it takes time and relationship building in order to help
[1:49:11] Speaker 33: people who have been mistreated in this country. Believe that
[1:49:15] Speaker 33: a process like voting could actually bring.
[1:49:18] Speaker 29: Change amen to that. Well, I am not doing this alone.
[1:49:21] Speaker 30: There are two journalists on this as part of this broadcast,
[1:49:24] Speaker 30: So let me bring in my partner in this enterprise,
[1:49:27] Speaker 30: Roland Martin.
[1:49:28] Speaker 29: Roland the throw to questions. Whatever you want to do
[1:49:31] Speaker 29: and whatever you.
[1:49:31] Speaker 30: Want to ask these incredible, incredible panelists. But I also
[1:49:35] Speaker 30: would love to get your reflections on this film and
[1:49:39] Speaker 30: on this moment, I mean, the sort of high that
[1:49:42] Speaker 30: we were on in twenty twenty of November below of
[1:49:45] Speaker 30: January sixth, twenty twenty one.
[1:49:48] Speaker 31: What do you make of it all? Do we have
[1:49:55] Speaker 31: Roland y'all mute?
[1:49:57] Speaker 2: There go?
[1:50:02] Speaker 21: Oh?
[1:50:02] Speaker 30: Roland is muted, Roling's mute. Okay, Let's take hi back stage.
[1:50:04] Speaker 30: Let's see we can get it. Yet, Let's try to
[1:50:06] Speaker 30: get this sound we don't hear them. Yeah, we don't
[1:50:11] Speaker 30: have your sound. We got you on mute, brother. We
[1:50:13] Speaker 30: got to make sure that we get your sound up.
[1:50:14] Speaker 30: So we'll take you backstage and we'll.
[1:50:16] Speaker 32: Figure it out.
[1:50:16] Speaker 30: But I do want to I want to zero back
[1:50:18] Speaker 30: in on one of the things that I love the
[1:50:20] Speaker 30: most about this film, which is the backstories. And these
[1:50:23] Speaker 30: are folks that I know Derisia, but I learned so
[1:50:27] Speaker 30: much about these three incredible people and going back into
[1:50:32] Speaker 30: their histories, the families, the their roles.
[1:50:35] Speaker 34: In Hello, I can hear you all right.
[1:51:23] Speaker 25: Put them on my phone so that I would have them,
[1:51:25] Speaker 25: because I said, can I get your baby pictures? And
[1:51:28] Speaker 25: it's all on my phone. Girl, I ain't got time.
[1:51:30] Speaker 25: I'm too busy trying to save the world. She didn't
[1:51:32] Speaker 25: say that, but what am.
[1:51:33] Speaker 4: I gonna say?
[1:51:34] Speaker 7: She's busy trying to save democracy.
[1:51:36] Speaker 32: Literally, I went over to her house.
[1:51:38] Speaker 18: But here's the problem with.
[1:51:39] Speaker 25: That made it impossible for me to use my phone.
[1:51:46] Speaker 25: Latasa had one hundred and forty thousand pictures her.
[1:51:49] Speaker 30: Yeah, my god, I actually I can see that exactly.
[1:51:55] Speaker 3: So you know, it was work.
[1:51:57] Speaker 25: I always say that, like working with them is like
[1:52:00] Speaker 25: herd and cats or kneel and Jello to the wall.
[1:52:03] Speaker 25: You gotta flow, you gotta flow with it.
[1:52:07] Speaker 30: And you know, I know Auntie, your auntie and I've
[1:52:09] Speaker 30: gotten this used to meet some of your family, but Latasha,
[1:52:11] Speaker 30: talk about the impact that your family had on your
[1:52:15] Speaker 30: drive to do his work.
[1:52:18] Speaker 17: You know, it's interesting because it was, you know, while
[1:52:20] Speaker 17: both of my parents were a part of the civil
[1:52:25] Speaker 17: rights movement as as young people.
[1:52:27] Speaker 7: If my family really were. They did not steer me
[1:52:30] Speaker 7: that way.
[1:52:31] Speaker 17: They actually believed it was a very traumatic People don't
[1:52:34] Speaker 17: talk about it, but my mother was sixteen years old,
[1:52:37] Speaker 17: my father was eighteen years old.
[1:52:38] Speaker 7: Both of them were actually traumatized by that.
[1:52:41] Speaker 17: My father never had made a vow that he hated Mississippi,
[1:52:45] Speaker 17: that he was never going back to the Mississippi be again.
[1:52:47] Speaker 17: He wound up going back because his family was there.
[1:52:50] Speaker 17: But that was a We talk about kind of the
[1:52:52] Speaker 17: victory of it, but we don't really talk about how
[1:52:55] Speaker 17: traumatic that experience is, particularly young people. Right, he didn't
[1:52:58] Speaker 17: get to graduate. They kicked him out of school. He
[1:53:01] Speaker 17: and the other young people had to graduate from local HBCU,
[1:53:06] Speaker 17: a local community college.
[1:53:08] Speaker 7: It wasn't until he was over fifty years old before
[1:53:12] Speaker 7: he got his high school diploma.
[1:53:13] Speaker 17: Now, you wound up going to college and getting a
[1:53:15] Speaker 17: degree of becoming an engineer, but its actual diploma.
[1:53:18] Speaker 7: He didn't get that. So it was traumatized. And my
[1:53:20] Speaker 7: mother the same thing.
[1:53:22] Speaker 17: My mother went from being the pretty girl at school
[1:53:25] Speaker 17: as a eleventh grade year, miss popular, miss everything, to
[1:53:29] Speaker 17: actually every day going to school being spit on and
[1:53:31] Speaker 17: called nigga, And it was a horrible experience for her,
[1:53:35] Speaker 17: but on some level they held it as a space
[1:53:38] Speaker 17: of pride, or we held it as a space of pride,
[1:53:41] Speaker 17: but it wasn't. We don't really talk about kind of
[1:53:43] Speaker 17: the how traumatic I talk about it a little bit
[1:53:47] Speaker 17: in time in terms of our own experience, my own experience,
[1:53:50] Speaker 17: but how traumatic that was for them.
[1:53:52] Speaker 7: So in my family, my family weren't the kind of
[1:53:55] Speaker 7: folks that they were saying, grow up and be an active.
[1:53:58] Speaker 17: As a matter of fact, they want me to go
[1:54:00] Speaker 17: get a job. They were like, you need to get
[1:54:01] Speaker 17: you a good job, get.
[1:54:03] Speaker 7: Your husband, have you, get you some good benefits and
[1:54:07] Speaker 7: and and love God. That was there that they were
[1:54:10] Speaker 7: like about that, and so part of but the thing
[1:54:13] Speaker 7: about it is what they put in me. I had
[1:54:17] Speaker 7: no other choice. They put in a sense of love,
[1:54:20] Speaker 7: deep love, and.
[1:54:21] Speaker 17: If you love people, you're gonna fight for justice. You
[1:54:24] Speaker 17: can't people be mistreated and be okay with that, you know.
[1:54:27] Speaker 17: They also kind of put in me this idea of.
[1:54:31] Speaker 31: Treating people the.
[1:54:32] Speaker 7: Way you want to be treated.
[1:54:33] Speaker 17: And so I'm looking at our communities and not seeing
[1:54:36] Speaker 17: us be treated certain kind of ways.
[1:54:37] Speaker 7: So the values that.
[1:54:39] Speaker 17: They instilled in me, but I did grow up and
[1:54:42] Speaker 17: particularly I grew up in a deep Southern, traditional working
[1:54:46] Speaker 17: class black family, right, I wasn't they did civil rights work,
[1:54:50] Speaker 17: but they weren't.
[1:54:50] Speaker 7: I mean they were in the civil rights Even my aunt.
[1:54:53] Speaker 17: You know, was was a part of the not the
[1:54:56] Speaker 17: aunt that you saw, but was on the bridge when
[1:54:59] Speaker 17: the folks would beat. Experiences were traumatic for them. So
[1:55:02] Speaker 17: they weren't leading me in that direction. But they did
[1:55:04] Speaker 17: lead me in that direction because there were people of faith,
[1:55:07] Speaker 17: there were people of community, they were people of family,
[1:55:09] Speaker 17: and all of those things actually grounded me in this work.
[1:55:12] Speaker 30: Well, you know, by the way New Jersey gonna claim
[1:55:14] Speaker 30: you have to watching the documentary, there's.
[1:55:16] Speaker 29: Nothing you can do about that. I think we do
[1:55:18] Speaker 29: have Roland as Martin.
[1:55:19] Speaker 3: Go ahead, Roland, give us y'all hear me now.
[1:55:21] Speaker 30: You're about to restream this program on your network.
[1:55:24] Speaker 3: But give us just what y'all going to hear me now?
[1:55:27] Speaker 2: Right?
[1:55:27] Speaker 31: Are from this documentary?
[1:55:28] Speaker 29: Yeah we can hear you.
[1:55:29] Speaker 3: Okay.
[1:55:29] Speaker 2: Good.
[1:55:30] Speaker 3: Before before we went to the break during the show,
[1:55:34] Speaker 3: uh to join the conversation, we actually played one of
[1:55:38] Speaker 3: the spots and Cliff was talking about how we actually
[1:55:42] Speaker 3: have to fund our freedom and you know, last week
[1:55:47] Speaker 3: the Congression of Black Caucus called for corporations to stand
[1:55:51] Speaker 3: up for voting rights. Today, the African American Mayor's Association
[1:55:55] Speaker 3: did the same thing. And so I pose the question
[1:55:57] Speaker 3: that if you're the CBC, you're the Africmic Mayors Association,
[1:56:00] Speaker 3: and you're the NAACP, you're the Urban League, you're a
[1:56:03] Speaker 3: National Action Network, Rainbow Push, and you're doing the exact
[1:56:06] Speaker 3: same thing. Well, the place where you start other people
[1:56:09] Speaker 3: who right now are currently your sponsors, and if they
[1:56:12] Speaker 3: are unwilling to stand up, then what does that say
[1:56:15] Speaker 3: about corporate America? Well black people. But the same thing
[1:56:18] Speaker 3: though for black people who right now who are watching
[1:56:21] Speaker 3: and listening. We got a lot of Black people who
[1:56:23] Speaker 3: sit in and say, oh, Latasha and cliff Man, y'all
[1:56:26] Speaker 3: doing a great job. Man Man were praying for y'all.
[1:56:31] Speaker 3: And I believe in prayer. But prayers don't fund staff,
[1:56:37] Speaker 3: Prayers don't fund on the ground. This is a moment
[1:56:41] Speaker 3: where we're in it. It's anti DEI backlash, it's impacting
[1:56:44] Speaker 3: black groups. They've been impacted by significant dropping funding these
[1:56:49] Speaker 3: A lot of these progressive donors are listening to white strategists.
[1:56:52] Speaker 3: They keep putting money on TV and not on the ground.
[1:56:55] Speaker 3: So if there's a moment that black people watching this
[1:56:58] Speaker 3: documentary needs to learn is if y'all keep saying we
[1:57:01] Speaker 3: are not our ancestors, you're actually proving it by your
[1:57:05] Speaker 3: inability to fund black freedom today. And so the challenge
[1:57:11] Speaker 3: people watching this they should be empowered, they should be enlightened,
[1:57:15] Speaker 3: they should be educated and all of that, but they
[1:57:17] Speaker 3: also should be moved to say, man, I got to
[1:57:19] Speaker 3: put my money where my mouth is. If a lot
[1:57:21] Speaker 3: of us are funding Sunday brunch but not funding our freedom,
[1:57:26] Speaker 3: then you can't be shocked when you don't have folk
[1:57:28] Speaker 3: willing the stand up to fight. And so this is
[1:57:30] Speaker 3: going to take you on the inside. This is going
[1:57:33] Speaker 3: to show you how the sauceage just made. This is
[1:57:34] Speaker 3: going to show you the real deal what happens. We
[1:57:38] Speaker 3: get hyped about all of the flash. My grandmother had
[1:57:42] Speaker 3: a catering business and so and I started when I
[1:57:44] Speaker 3: was seven years old, so you had to wear it.
[1:57:46] Speaker 3: And so you love the church decoration and the reception,
[1:57:49] Speaker 3: but somebody had to do all that stuff to actually
[1:57:52] Speaker 3: get there. So we can't get hyped when we see
[1:57:55] Speaker 3: the protest and the rally and all that sort of
[1:57:57] Speaker 3: stuff and not realizing what all went behind mind it
[1:58:00] Speaker 3: and that infrastructure, it has to be paid, all the
[1:58:03] Speaker 3: stuff that goes with it, and so that rich to
[1:58:06] Speaker 3: me is really I think what I hope people will
[1:58:09] Speaker 3: take away from this to understand that freedom ain't free
[1:58:12] Speaker 3: and you're not going to have freedom fighters putting their
[1:58:16] Speaker 3: lives on the line if we're unwilling to stand with
[1:58:19] Speaker 3: them with our dollars.
[1:58:21] Speaker 29: And thank you very much for bringing that up.
[1:58:23] Speaker 30: Roland, particularly this piece about the Congressional Black Caucus, and
[1:58:26] Speaker 30: what Roland is talking about is the Congressional Black Caucus
[1:58:28] Speaker 30: has come together and called on major corporations who have
[1:58:31] Speaker 30: made a lot of positive noises about voting rights.
[1:58:34] Speaker 31: Which is quite relevant to this documentary.
[1:58:36] Speaker 30: And said that you need to show and not just speak,
[1:58:39] Speaker 30: but you need to actually show that you actually stand
[1:58:41] Speaker 30: up for voting rights. In the wake of Louisiana versus Calais,
[1:58:44] Speaker 30: they have made four demands on corporations, and they've named
[1:58:47] Speaker 30: specific corporations who have made pledges and have made public
[1:58:50] Speaker 30: statements in the past about supporting voting rights, and they've
[1:58:54] Speaker 30: called for them to issue an individual or joint statement
[1:58:57] Speaker 30: condemning efforts to dilute Black votings strength and dismantle the
[1:59:00] Speaker 30: protections of the.
[1:59:01] Speaker 31: Voting Rights Act.
[1:59:02] Speaker 30: Reporting on reporting on corporate political spending, contributions and relationships
[1:59:08] Speaker 30: connected to election officials, organizations and efforts advancing and discriminatory
[1:59:12] Speaker 30: redistricting scheme or attacks on voting rights. Engaged directly with
[1:59:16] Speaker 30: the Congressional Black Caucus, civil rights organizations, movement leaders, and
[1:59:19] Speaker 30: impact of communities regarding the growing threats to Black political
[1:59:23] Speaker 30: representation and democratic participation, And accept an invitation from the
[1:59:27] Speaker 30: Congressional Black Caucus to participate in a national convening alongside
[1:59:31] Speaker 30: civil rights leaders, activists, and movement organizations to discuss the
[1:59:35] Speaker 30: urgent defense of voting rights and Black political power in America.
[1:59:39] Speaker 31: That is, I guess.
[1:59:40] Speaker 30: Rollan, what you would say is the way you advance
[1:59:42] Speaker 30: what we saw in this documentary, which was the protection
[1:59:45] Speaker 30: of black voters and the inspiration and the inspiring of
[1:59:47] Speaker 30: black voters to then translating that into what our dear
[1:59:51] Speaker 30: friend Natasha Brown talks about all the time, because it's
[1:59:53] Speaker 30: the only point is power.
[1:59:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, and Bob Blain is if these people are coming
[1:59:57] Speaker 3: to black conventions to get a black step of approval
[2:00:00] Speaker 3: then you need to be challenging them, saying, are y'all
[2:00:02] Speaker 3: going to stand up for black people? If we are
[2:00:05] Speaker 3: saying this is poses an existential threat to the future
[2:00:07] Speaker 3: of Black America, then we've got to be willing to
[2:00:09] Speaker 3: challenge them by name to the chairman of the boards,
[2:00:13] Speaker 3: and the CEO said, where y'all at and see a
[2:00:16] Speaker 3: lot of them are afraid of Donald Trump, They're afraid
[2:00:18] Speaker 3: of Maga. Many of them are in bed with these
[2:00:21] Speaker 3: same Republicans in a lot of these Southern states when
[2:00:23] Speaker 3: it comes to other bills. And so we've got to
[2:00:26] Speaker 3: be willing to say that. And what I'm saying to
[2:00:27] Speaker 3: Black America, you cannot keep demanding black leadership challenge corporate
[2:00:33] Speaker 3: America if the same black groups are largely being funded
[2:00:37] Speaker 3: by corporate America, which means we're going to have to
[2:00:40] Speaker 3: accept the responsibility of funding our own freedom. And what
[2:00:43] Speaker 3: I'm saying, and I have been very clear, I'll say
[2:00:45] Speaker 3: this now for years. Do not give money to parties,
[2:00:48] Speaker 3: do not give money to campaigns. Give your money to
[2:00:51] Speaker 3: Black voters matter. Because listen, when we did the fundraiser
[2:00:56] Speaker 3: a Black Win with Black Men and raise a million
[2:00:58] Speaker 3: five and we kept some of the money I had. Somebody,
[2:01:02] Speaker 3: a very prominent celebrity who approached me was very upset
[2:01:05] Speaker 3: by saying, y'all shouldn't have done that. I was like,
[2:01:07] Speaker 3: first of all, you don't tell me a damn thing
[2:01:08] Speaker 3: what to do with the money we raised. I said,
[2:01:10] Speaker 3: We're not gonna raise money to send to a campaign
[2:01:13] Speaker 3: and beg the same white folks, can we get some
[2:01:15] Speaker 3: of it back? So we kept four hundred fifty thousand
[2:01:17] Speaker 3: of it. And what I'm saying is that's what and
[2:01:19] Speaker 3: we funded black male groups on the ground, that's what
[2:01:22] Speaker 3: has to happen. We have to understand in this moment
[2:01:24] Speaker 3: right now, we cannot count on anybody else to fund
[2:01:28] Speaker 3: our freedom. And so if y'all out there and you saying, hey,
[2:01:31] Speaker 3: all I got is ten dollars, will send your ten
[2:01:33] Speaker 3: dollars to black voters matter, or you say I'm send
[2:01:36] Speaker 3: two here to here to here to here too here.
[2:01:40] Speaker 3: But again, we make demands of black leadership that we
[2:01:46] Speaker 3: don't make of ourselves individually. And as doctor King said
[2:01:49] Speaker 3: in that speech at Mason Temple April third, nineteen sixty eight,
[2:01:52] Speaker 3: black people individually are poor, yet collectively we represent one
[2:01:57] Speaker 3: of the largest economies in the world, so we got
[2:02:01] Speaker 3: to accept that.
[2:02:02] Speaker 30: Let me give Cliff and Latasha alasta before we turn
[2:02:04] Speaker 30: it over to the Black Star Network. Cliff, I think
[2:02:06] Speaker 30: you were trying to get in, So give us your
[2:02:08] Speaker 30: big takeaway, because that is I think you have shown
[2:02:10] Speaker 30: what black voters matter, fund, what black voters matter and
[2:02:13] Speaker 30: the Black Bus in America can literally do, and the
[2:02:16] Speaker 30: change that this organization has made. And it's a proof
[2:02:19] Speaker 30: of concept. So what is your message to these corporate
[2:02:23] Speaker 30: leaders who are now saying, well, what do we do
[2:02:25] Speaker 30: now we have We're in Donald Trump's America anyway, despite
[2:02:28] Speaker 30: all of that.
[2:02:30] Speaker 20: Yeah, I want to and I want to come back
[2:02:31] Speaker 20: to that funding ourselves piece that Roland was talked about,
[2:02:34] Speaker 20: but on that corporate accountability piece.
[2:02:37] Speaker 4: The thing there's a scene.
[2:02:38] Speaker 20: In the documentary where I'm sitting at the table and
[2:02:41] Speaker 20: I'm talking about how I feel that voter's question is
[2:02:44] Speaker 20: about to be unleashed in ways that the country's not
[2:02:46] Speaker 20: even ready for.
[2:02:47] Speaker 11: Right.
[2:02:47] Speaker 20: That was that was like three months before January sixth,
[2:02:51] Speaker 20: That was like four months before Georgia became the first state.
[2:02:55] Speaker 20: And what would come away a voter'spression bills? Right, and
[2:02:58] Speaker 20: one of the things that I think Dresha and her
[2:03:00] Speaker 20: team captured wonderfully was that transition of going from the
[2:03:06] Speaker 20: end of those elections to you see the clips at
[2:03:09] Speaker 20: the end during the credit scenes when you know we're
[2:03:12] Speaker 20: speaking you know in DC.
[2:03:14] Speaker 4: Right, that was a part of that.
[2:03:16] Speaker 20: Whole voters pression battle, the fight for the voting rights
[2:03:20] Speaker 20: legislation and all that.
[2:03:22] Speaker 4: In the midst of that though, and this.
[2:03:23] Speaker 20: Is a really important piece to show the connectivity of
[2:03:26] Speaker 20: these different periods of the work.
[2:03:29] Speaker 4: In the midst of that, part of what.
[2:03:30] Speaker 20: We did in Georgia was a whole corporate accountability campaign
[2:03:34] Speaker 20: that was targeting Delta and Coca Cola and some other
[2:03:38] Speaker 20: big companies that were based here in Georgia. And then
[2:03:41] Speaker 20: we you know, that same campaign expanded. It went to
[2:03:44] Speaker 20: Florida and eventually went to Texas where AT and T
[2:03:47] Speaker 20: was the main target there. But I'm saying all that
[2:03:50] Speaker 20: to say that out of that work came that letter
[2:03:54] Speaker 20: of those hundred corporations, right that folks were speaking out
[2:03:58] Speaker 20: about the voter's pression.
[2:03:59] Speaker 4: That's where that letter came from.
[2:04:01] Speaker 20: That now the CBC and others are referencing and so
[2:04:05] Speaker 20: looking at the ways that this movement. It's not a
[2:04:07] Speaker 20: sprint yall right. It is a marathon, right, and we're
[2:04:12] Speaker 20: just a small part of that marathon, but it is
[2:04:15] Speaker 20: a marathon. We always got to keep that in mind,
[2:04:17] Speaker 20: the way that we connect the dots, not just between
[2:04:19] Speaker 20: the issues that we deal with on a daily basis,
[2:04:21] Speaker 20: but also between the different aspects or segments.
[2:04:24] Speaker 4: Of our movement over time.
[2:04:26] Speaker 20: The last thing I just want to say is this
[2:04:27] Speaker 20: on that part about investing in us.
[2:04:29] Speaker 4: One of the things that.
[2:04:30] Speaker 20: I think the documentary captured in a couple of scenes,
[2:04:35] Speaker 20: especially the one where we're in Cleveland and we gave
[2:04:37] Speaker 20: that quick five thousand dollars brand and then it's got
[2:04:41] Speaker 20: the caption on it it says that in that year,
[2:04:44] Speaker 20: we gave out ten million dollars to grassroots orgs across
[2:04:49] Speaker 20: the country, churches like that, NAACP chapters, neighborhood associations. Right,
[2:04:54] Speaker 20: It's a hard thing to really capture in the documentary,
[2:04:57] Speaker 20: and there's so much that they captured, and there's so
[2:05:00] Speaker 20: much extra footage that they have, But that piece of
[2:05:02] Speaker 20: our work, the way that we invest in local infrastructure
[2:05:06] Speaker 20: and in local organizations like that, that is one of
[2:05:10] Speaker 20: our literally one of our core principles because we have
[2:05:13] Speaker 20: got to fund I always always say independent politics requires
[2:05:17] Speaker 20: independent money. And until we deal with the thing that
[2:05:20] Speaker 20: Roland was just talking about the ways that we invest
[2:05:23] Speaker 20: in ourselves. You know, we say freedom main free and
[2:05:26] Speaker 20: all that, but it's true we have got to invest
[2:05:28] Speaker 20: in galvanize our resources to support this movement because at
[2:05:31] Speaker 20: any time, philanthropy and especially corporate philanthropy can shift with
[2:05:36] Speaker 20: the winds and just decide to cut us off completely.
[2:05:39] Speaker 29: Yeah.
[2:05:39] Speaker 30: Well before I'm gonna before I turn it over to
[2:05:42] Speaker 30: the Blackstar Network, I just want to say thank you
[2:05:45] Speaker 30: to Dresha Kai for an incredible film, to Latasha Brown
[2:05:50] Speaker 30: can't stop both shop to Cliff and April alright and
[2:05:54] Speaker 30: YouTube are incredible. I'm gonna do April England all right.
[2:05:56] Speaker 30: Make sure we get the full names in there. Thank
[2:05:59] Speaker 30: you all for being here and being a part of this.
[2:06:00] Speaker 30: I'm going to give you the last word to reach
[2:06:02] Speaker 30: before we turn it over officially to Uncle Roe when
[2:06:06] Speaker 30: people how can people support this documentary because it's not
[2:06:09] Speaker 30: just about supporting you know, We're to support each other
[2:06:11] Speaker 30: in every way, and one of the main things that
[2:06:14] Speaker 30: we want people to do is to support you to
[2:06:16] Speaker 30: support and share your work because your work amplifies the
[2:06:20] Speaker 30: work of Black Voters Matter, and we need all of
[2:06:22] Speaker 30: this a sort of multi tiered amplification. So how can
[2:06:25] Speaker 30: we support you? Where can we find all of the things,
[2:06:28] Speaker 30: and what can we do to support this film besides
[2:06:30] Speaker 30: arriant right now on the Black Star Network and the
[2:06:33] Speaker 30: joy of retail.
[2:06:37] Speaker 32: You're muted.
[2:06:39] Speaker 29: We got to get you off mute.
[2:06:40] Speaker 7: Oh no, that's the last word, and I'm muted.
[2:06:44] Speaker 29: You're good, I'm good, yes, okay.
[2:06:46] Speaker 7: First of all, thank you.
[2:06:48] Speaker 31: Thank you, thank you.
[2:06:49] Speaker 18: Thank you to you and your team.
[2:06:51] Speaker 25: Joy, Thank you to you Roland, thank you to all
[2:06:53] Speaker 25: of the people who tuned in.
[2:06:55] Speaker 7: You guys were amazing.
[2:06:56] Speaker 25: I stayed in the chat room as long as I
[2:06:57] Speaker 25: could until I had to switch over.
[2:06:59] Speaker 4: To be on so it was worth it.
[2:07:02] Speaker 25: But thank you so much for being here, and thank
[2:07:04] Speaker 25: you for broadcasting the film, for taking a chance on it,
[2:07:07] Speaker 25: and thank you for.
[2:07:08] Speaker 7: Asking that question about support.
[2:07:09] Speaker 25: Before I answer that, I want to say one thing though,
[2:07:12] Speaker 25: you know, I just wanted to talk about art and
[2:07:14] Speaker 25: activism and how art is an integral part of it
[2:07:17] Speaker 25: of activism. The example I'm going to leave you with
[2:07:20] Speaker 25: is say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud.
[2:07:22] Speaker 7: That became the anthem to our lives.
[2:07:26] Speaker 25: It changed the way we think about ourselves. It changed
[2:07:29] Speaker 25: how we move in this world as a people. It
[2:07:32] Speaker 25: changed how the world perceived us. And that was a song.
[2:07:36] Speaker 25: Art is a form of activism, and so for me,
[2:07:38] Speaker 25: you know, I was in the streets marching a lot
[2:07:40] Speaker 25: when I was young, and I don't march as much now.
[2:07:43] Speaker 25: Every once in a while I still march. But for me,
[2:07:46] Speaker 25: the films that I make, I make them to be
[2:07:48] Speaker 25: tools to be used to move people, to change people,
[2:07:51] Speaker 25: to open hearts and to change minds. So thank you
[2:07:55] Speaker 25: so much for asking how you can support.
[2:07:58] Speaker 7: You can go to our website.
[2:07:59] Speaker 25: BVM in Black Votersmatter doc dot com and donate to
[2:08:03] Speaker 25: our impact campaign. We want to get this film out
[2:08:06] Speaker 25: even more than it's out right now.
[2:08:08] Speaker 7: And then the other thing you can.
[2:08:10] Speaker 25: Do is email me Mama Bears Doc at gmail dot com,
[2:08:16] Speaker 25: Mama m A m A Bears v E A R.
[2:08:19] Speaker 25: S Doc at gmail dot com, and I'll talk to
[2:08:23] Speaker 25: you how you can help.
[2:08:24] Speaker 31: Thank you so much.
[2:08:25] Speaker 30: Thank you that the wonderful Brittany Pacnet Cunningham has also
[2:08:28] Speaker 30: created an impact sort of an amplified or sort of
[2:08:31] Speaker 30: impact pack it that you can get. We're gonna put
[2:08:34] Speaker 30: it in the uh, the description of the show so
[2:08:36] Speaker 30: that you guys can continue to make this film a
[2:08:39] Speaker 30: part of your activism. Thank you to everybody that tuned in.
[2:08:42] Speaker 30: Thank you to everybody on all the different platforms.
[2:08:44] Speaker 29: We're going to turn it.
[2:08:44] Speaker 6: Over to you.
[2:08:45] Speaker 30: Roland, let us know what we're going to see coming
[2:08:47] Speaker 30: up on the Black Star and New Oh yes please sorry.
[2:08:49] Speaker 25: After after tonight it will be available on Quality TV,
[2:08:54] Speaker 25: TV k W E, l Ily.
[2:08:57] Speaker 30: TV E L I forgot it not at all.
[2:09:01] Speaker 29: Nope, it's not forgotten.
[2:09:02] Speaker 6: You got it out. You got it out.
[2:09:04] Speaker 29: Roland Martin, what are we going to see coming up
[2:09:05] Speaker 29: in the next hour.
[2:09:06] Speaker 31: On the Black Star Network?
[2:09:07] Speaker 3: Again, folks, we're about to air Love, Joy and Power.
[2:09:10] Speaker 3: So we certainly hope that you enjoy this presentation. If
[2:09:14] Speaker 3: you missed it early, you can watch it a second time.
[2:09:17] Speaker 3: Uh and sow, folks, roll it.
[2:09:20] Speaker 31: Let's do it.
[2:09:21] Speaker 29: Thanks all y'all, thank you for tuning in. We appreciate.
[2:09:40] Speaker 11: Good job.
[2:09:41] Speaker 21: So are you wonder.
[2:09:44] Speaker 2: Angle y do it this way? Okay, I'm got to
[2:09:48] Speaker 2: switch hands, all right, rotate.
[2:09:53] Speaker 17: Jocket I get this out of the sky blue call
[2:09:57] Speaker 17: from FBI, probably a sports Proud Boys had supposedly made
[2:10:04] Speaker 17: a target of four to five organizations in different states,
[2:10:07] Speaker 17: So of course, Georgia, we're on that list.
[2:10:10] Speaker 2: Into your workspace.
[2:10:13] Speaker 17: Every black activist, I damn no, takes a personal and
[2:10:16] Speaker 17: professional hit off doing this work.
[2:10:20] Speaker 20: If we were at all under the radar before, we
[2:10:22] Speaker 20: were definitely no longer under the radar. That's what success
[2:10:26] Speaker 20: breeds right puts a big bullseye.
[2:10:30] Speaker 32: It comes with the territory.
[2:10:32] Speaker 6: It takes courage to do what we do.
[2:10:36] Speaker 21: Ain't nothing the Proud Boys doing right now. It's gonna
[2:10:38] Speaker 21: make us not continue to work. When push comes to show,
[2:10:42] Speaker 21: we'll be ready.
[2:10:44] Speaker 17: We'll bring everything that we learned until you're ready to
[2:10:47] Speaker 17: engage your target. I do believe black folks need to
[2:10:51] Speaker 17: be able to protect themselves by any means necessary.
[2:10:54] Speaker 3: Everybody pick up your guns.
[2:11:02] Speaker 2: It's called the blackest books in America.
[2:11:04] Speaker 9: It's all black, has notes of encouragement and empowerment, wrend
[2:11:08] Speaker 9: all over it.
[2:11:20] Speaker 20: It was an energetic day for the Black Voters Matters organization.
[2:11:23] Speaker 9: They rode through the Nickeletown neighborhood, lasting James Brown knocking
[2:11:27] Speaker 9: on doors and encouraging participation in the community.
[2:11:30] Speaker 35: Cliff Albright is the co founder of Black Voters Matter,
[2:11:34] Speaker 35: groupe that's focused on engaging African American voters, going on
[2:11:37] Speaker 35: bus tours all across the South.
[2:11:40] Speaker 3: Spliff Black Voter Batter We out here.
[2:11:42] Speaker 20: We are rolling South Carolina, South Carolina Day one.
[2:11:45] Speaker 10: Day one of three. We out here and Charleston.
[2:11:49] Speaker 20: And supporting our partners with five to fifteen.
[2:11:58] Speaker 36: World howth organization is now declared the COVID nineteen outbreak
[2:12:01] Speaker 36: a pandemic.
[2:12:09] Speaker 28: The coronavirus pandemic has forced many countries to an ancelfdo.
[2:12:12] Speaker 37: The African Americans experiencing the highest mortality rate.
[2:12:20] Speaker 38: Natasha Brown, co founder of Black Voters Matter, makes insuring
[2:12:24] Speaker 38: access to the ballot her life's work, but she was
[2:12:27] Speaker 38: stunned to find herself waiting for hours to cast her
[2:12:30] Speaker 38: ballot and potentially being exposed to the coronavirus.
[2:12:38] Speaker 7: It is eleven.
[2:12:40] Speaker 17: Forty five in Georgia, and guess what, We're still at
[2:12:46] Speaker 17: a polling site.
[2:12:47] Speaker 7: And guess where the poling site is. It's a nursing home.
[2:12:50] Speaker 17: Because that made a lot of sense to have voting
[2:12:53] Speaker 17: at a nursing home in the middle of a pandemic,
[2:12:56] Speaker 17: and so brother Cliff has been holding it down. He's
[2:12:59] Speaker 17: been out here for hours leading our team.
[2:13:02] Speaker 20: So we've just been out here trying to hold it down,
[2:13:04] Speaker 20: give it out food and water and snacks and pizza,
[2:13:07] Speaker 20: and just trying to keep people spirits up.
[2:13:09] Speaker 4: Twelve minutes to.
[2:13:10] Speaker 32: Twelve, it's twelve minutes.
[2:13:11] Speaker 17: It twelve and there's seventy five people, by the way,
[2:13:14] Speaker 17: they're all black, that are waiting right now to vote.
[2:13:17] Speaker 7: This is absolutely unacceptable.
[2:13:22] Speaker 39: In Kentucky, voters could face very long lines as the
[2:13:26] Speaker 39: state slashed the number of polling places from thirty seven
[2:13:31] Speaker 39: hundred to just one hundred and seventy. For more, we're
[2:13:34] Speaker 39: joined by Cliff Wallbright. He's normally based in Atlanta, Georgia,
[2:13:37] Speaker 39: but he's joining us from the road just outside Nashville, Tennessee,
[2:13:41] Speaker 39: en route to Loisville, Kentucky.
[2:13:43] Speaker 20: Well we know is that in Jefferson County, the largest
[2:13:46] Speaker 20: county and the county that has half of the state's
[2:13:48] Speaker 20: black population, that the number of polling locations was actually
[2:13:51] Speaker 20: brought down to one, one polling place serving the entire
[2:13:54] Speaker 20: county estimated six hundred over six hundred thousand registered voters.
[2:14:00] Speaker 2: Y'all.
[2:14:00] Speaker 20: Folks are running, running into this parking lot so that
[2:14:03] Speaker 20: they can go, so that they can go vote. But
[2:14:05] Speaker 20: it's ignorant that the close close at six o'clock. They
[2:14:08] Speaker 20: know some folks are just getting off work. You gotta her, sister.
[2:14:11] Speaker 10: They're about to close.
[2:14:12] Speaker 4: They're about to close it.
[2:14:13] Speaker 6: How are y'all?
[2:14:14] Speaker 10: They're about to close it now?
[2:14:15] Speaker 39: At six pm? The officials locked the building even as up.
[2:14:19] Speaker 7: To two hundred voters.
[2:14:20] Speaker 39: We're stuck in traffic waiting to find parking spots.
[2:14:24] Speaker 20: Six our vote for eight sixty six, our vote right now.
[2:14:32] Speaker 3: Don't just stand.
[2:14:32] Speaker 14: Out here be mad.
[2:14:34] Speaker 7: You got some power.
[2:14:35] Speaker 14: You're here right now. Let them in, Let them in,
[2:14:41] Speaker 14: let them e.
[2:14:46] Speaker 20: We know the adjunctions have been filed, the attorneys are
[2:14:49] Speaker 20: working on this, and people are staying because they want
[2:14:52] Speaker 20: to get their vote counted.
[2:14:55] Speaker 39: In a dramatic scene, scores of people banged on doors, wears,
[2:15:00] Speaker 39: and windows demanding the right to vote. They were allowed
[2:15:03] Speaker 39: inside just before six point thirty after a judge ordered
[2:15:07] Speaker 39: a half hour reprieve.
[2:15:10] Speaker 20: We out here, we battling COVID, we battling racism, right,
[2:15:14] Speaker 20: we battle the voterspression and all that but the folks
[2:15:16] Speaker 20: stood in line, they made the voices heard, they got inside,
[2:15:19] Speaker 20: they was able to vote. But again, it's not just
[2:15:20] Speaker 20: about one election, not just about one election day, not
[2:15:23] Speaker 20: just about one race or one candidate. It's about building power.
[2:15:26] Speaker 20: Three sixty five. So can't stop, won't stop.
[2:15:40] Speaker 40: Late civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis will cross
[2:15:44] Speaker 40: the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama, one last time.
[2:15:49] Speaker 41: Lewis was a towering figure in the fight for civil rights,
[2:15:53] Speaker 41: a moral compass whose message and life's work has left
[2:15:57] Speaker 41: an indelible mark on our nation, and his legacy will
[2:16:01] Speaker 41: live on his voice amplified as America reckons with racism
[2:16:05] Speaker 41: amid an ongoing massive movement for racial equality.
[2:16:14] Speaker 30: I want to bring in now someone I can't imagine
[2:16:17] Speaker 30: a better person to join me for this conversation, and
[2:16:20] Speaker 30: that's my friend Latasha Brown.
[2:16:22] Speaker 17: I am so honored to live in an era where
[2:16:26] Speaker 17: this great giant live. You know, people talk about founders
[2:16:30] Speaker 17: of America, but the founders of democracy for those men
[2:16:34] Speaker 17: and women who knew that that black people and all
[2:16:38] Speaker 17: the citizens of this country should have the right to vote,
[2:16:42] Speaker 17: and they put their lives on the line. This is
[2:16:52] Speaker 17: the route from Salmon to Montgomery that marchers took.
[2:17:00] Speaker 7: Fifty five years ago to stand for the right to vote.
[2:17:05] Speaker 7: I'm just feeling all kinds of things right now.
[2:17:07] Speaker 14: Mm hm.
[2:17:12] Speaker 1: M hm.
[2:17:14] Speaker 42: No, in this moment, I'm angry, like I'm really angry,
[2:17:17] Speaker 42: Like I'm I don't think how long it's taking us
[2:17:22] Speaker 42: to drive and these people went by foot and we
[2:17:26] Speaker 42: still fighting this in this fifty five years later.
[2:17:31] Speaker 7: I know ofhing change. Yeah I'm not ben change.
[2:17:44] Speaker 13: Oh Lord, I know ofhing change.
[2:17:51] Speaker 6: You know.
[2:17:52] Speaker 7: The angels in heaven done.
[2:17:57] Speaker 6: Signed my name.
[2:18:02] Speaker 7: We had all kinds of.
[2:18:03] Speaker 17: Big plans for the bus this year. Because of COVID nineteen,
[2:18:08] Speaker 17: we just had to shift our strategy. We've got to
[2:18:10] Speaker 17: put a lot of our focus in our digital organizing.
[2:18:13] Speaker 17: We're constantly doing events. The blackest bus in America has gone.
[2:18:17] Speaker 18: Virtual, y'all.
[2:18:18] Speaker 7: We're up in Michigan.
[2:18:20] Speaker 17: Over the last couple of months, we've been doing virtual
[2:18:24] Speaker 17: town halls.
[2:18:25] Speaker 21: I just need to take the work right.
[2:18:28] Speaker 17: And we've got a hip hop summit the hip hop community.
[2:18:31] Speaker 17: I want us to know that the world is listening
[2:18:33] Speaker 17: to us. The question is what is it that we
[2:18:36] Speaker 17: got to say? All right, piece of blessings, y'all.
[2:18:46] Speaker 43: Alright, but half an hour to get ready for.
[2:18:50] Speaker 4: This thing yet? All right, get my mind right.
[2:18:58] Speaker 43: He has to testify in a hearing.
[2:19:03] Speaker 33: That we have filed in Alabama for trying to get
[2:19:07] Speaker 33: them to expand absentee ballot access. So hopefully between his
[2:19:12] Speaker 33: testimony and the testimony of plain old citizens and a
[2:19:15] Speaker 33: couple of other civil rights organizations, the judge will agree
[2:19:21] Speaker 33: to make absentee ballot way more accessible.
[2:19:24] Speaker 39: What's your understanding of the photo ID requirement during the
[2:19:28] Speaker 39: absentee ballot process in Alabama.
[2:19:32] Speaker 21: When applying to receive an abstine ballot?
[2:19:35] Speaker 20: That a little practice session for our attorney just got
[2:19:38] Speaker 20: to get in the right headspace. The more complicated the processes,
[2:19:42] Speaker 20: the less likely you are to get the type of
[2:19:44] Speaker 20: voter turnout that I would hope that everybody would want
[2:19:47] Speaker 20: to see, which would be a fully participating electorate. If
[2:19:50] Speaker 20: you're going to do great, I'm gonna go change and yeah, yeah,
[2:19:54] Speaker 20: Yet without fail, the states that have had the most
[2:19:57] Speaker 20: flexible vote by mail policies have had the largest turnout.
[2:20:00] Speaker 20: Once you understand that, then the question becomes why would
[2:20:03] Speaker 20: you not want to do this?
[2:20:04] Speaker 1: Like?
[2:20:04] Speaker 20: Why would you want to fight against having expanded access.
[2:20:08] Speaker 21: You know, the answer is simple, it's just pure a
[2:20:10] Speaker 21: voter depression.
[2:20:11] Speaker 20: There's a perception in this country that America is just
[2:20:14] Speaker 20: so exceptional, this democracy is so perfect, that we don't
[2:20:17] Speaker 20: have this kind of fraudulent.
[2:20:19] Speaker 21: Behavior, and that's just not the case. The voter fraud
[2:20:22] Speaker 21: that Trump talks about doesn't exist. But there is fraud
[2:20:25] Speaker 21: in the system. There is suppression in the system.
[2:20:28] Speaker 20: And I feel like it's about to be unleased in
[2:20:31] Speaker 20: ways that you know, this country is just not even
[2:20:34] Speaker 20: not even ready.
[2:20:35] Speaker 5: For a way, and we're prepared and we're doing a
[2:20:38] Speaker 5: great job with it, and it will go away, and
[2:20:40] Speaker 5: just shaycom and we'll go where everybody has.
[2:20:43] Speaker 8: To be vigilant and has to be careful. But becaugh.
[2:20:47] Speaker 30: He knew that wasn't true under that quote unquote leadership.
[2:20:52] Speaker 30: More than one hundred and ninety one thousand Americans are
[2:20:55] Speaker 30: dead due to the virus.
[2:20:57] Speaker 29: More than six point three million.
[2:20:58] Speaker 20: Americans have been negligent homicide. That's what it is. It's
[2:21:03] Speaker 20: negligent homicide.
[2:21:05] Speaker 33: People thought that the president of the national government was
[2:21:10] Speaker 33: not important.
[2:21:13] Speaker 30: And no, now he deliberately minimized the dangers of COVID.
[2:21:23] Speaker 7: So I just did a media hit, y'all. There's a
[2:21:28] Speaker 7: lot going on.
[2:21:28] Speaker 17: I got an unidentified package from Russia, and.
[2:21:32] Speaker 7: So we don't know if it's safe or not. And
[2:21:36] Speaker 7: so if you can see the I'm a little nervous.
[2:21:43] Speaker 7: The police and fire trucks are out. Yes, what I
[2:21:51] Speaker 7: need to do. I need to go inside.
[2:21:52] Speaker 31: Okay, So all right now, I check with.
[2:21:54] Speaker 44: Y'all later, and I think, now, let me give you
[2:21:56] Speaker 44: some background on the label. He's actually always on CNN
[2:21:59] Speaker 44: and INSNBC right now. She's not a big Trump fan,
[2:22:03] Speaker 44: so she's she's been part of the Black Lives Matter milient,
[2:22:06] Speaker 44: and she's the one that actually have seved the package
[2:22:08] Speaker 44: from Russia. But which kind of heightens the circumstances a
[2:22:11] Speaker 44: little bit in my opinion.
[2:22:12] Speaker 2: So I just wanted it.
[2:22:13] Speaker 17: Made me a concern because I know that black voters
[2:22:16] Speaker 17: in particular have been targeted by Russia, and I know
[2:22:20] Speaker 17: that I have a high political profile.
[2:22:27] Speaker 7: Hey, you know, I don't know what I was supposed
[2:22:29] Speaker 7: to be doing today.
[2:22:30] Speaker 17: I'm so off they Okay, I'm a little unnerved, but yeah,
[2:22:38] Speaker 17: but it wasn't hazardous, So I'm still still don't ask
[2:22:42] Speaker 17: the question why somebody sent me some from Russia.
[2:22:47] Speaker 7: God will and all will be well.
[2:22:50] Speaker 4: But this is my home.
[2:22:51] Speaker 7: My family lives here, so you know, we're.
[2:22:56] Speaker 8: Just gonna air on the side of caution.
[2:23:00] Speaker 45: Developing here at five A tweet from President Trump lit
[2:23:02] Speaker 45: social media on fire today. The President suggested delaying the
[2:23:06] Speaker 45: presidential election while also attacking mail in voting without evidence,
[2:23:10] Speaker 45: saying it would lead to the most inaccurate and fraudulent.
[2:23:13] Speaker 2: Election in history.
[2:23:14] Speaker 37: A shakeup of the US Postal Service is leading to
[2:23:17] Speaker 37: mail delays, union officials set on Tuesday, heightening concerns that
[2:23:22] Speaker 37: President Donald Trump's new postmaster general is destabilizing the service.
[2:23:27] Speaker 39: Tonight, Democrats are accusing President Trump of attempting to intimidate
[2:23:31] Speaker 39: voters and spark violence.
[2:23:33] Speaker 3: What do you want to call them? Give me a name,
[2:23:34] Speaker 3: give me a stand back, and stand by.
[2:23:41] Speaker 28: That exchange immediately picked up by the Proud Boys hosting
[2:23:45] Speaker 28: this logo to social media with the President's words and
[2:23:48] Speaker 28: what may.
[2:23:49] Speaker 3: Be a warning siren to the world. President Trump is
[2:23:51] Speaker 3: standing bias, comments that he may not accept the results
[2:23:54] Speaker 3: of the November election.
[2:23:58] Speaker 20: October first is one that's today that we're we are
[2:24:00] Speaker 20: leaving Cleveland is the twenty nine. The thirdieth is a
[2:24:07] Speaker 20: travel day and the first is North Carolina.
[2:24:11] Speaker 21: But all right, we'll take care of that. All right,
[2:24:15] Speaker 21: thanks too.
[2:24:17] Speaker 20: Much hit in the road tomorrow. We just decided we
[2:24:21] Speaker 20: don't really have a choice. We're seeing levels of attacks
[2:24:25] Speaker 20: and their plan is basically harassing and suppressing votes at
[2:24:28] Speaker 20: the polling places, but part of it is just about chaos.
[2:24:33] Speaker 20: We just felt like we couldn't wait. It's not going
[2:24:37] Speaker 20: to be one hundred percent safe, but I'm more scared
[2:24:40] Speaker 20: of what the consequences would be for a repeat of
[2:24:44] Speaker 20: twenty sixteen. So what's the safest way to get as
[2:24:48] Speaker 20: close as possible to.
[2:24:49] Speaker 21: The kind of impact that we want to have.
[2:24:52] Speaker 20: There are things that we can do that can still
[2:24:54] Speaker 20: be safe in the midst of this pandemic. Not doing
[2:24:56] Speaker 20: like door knocking type caravans, but actually our caravans. We're
[2:25:01] Speaker 20: creating a fleet of baby busses that can be used locally.
[2:25:05] Speaker 21: We got the QR codes.
[2:25:06] Speaker 20: People can come up to it, put their phone up immediately,
[2:25:09] Speaker 20: get a link that's gonna take them to be able
[2:25:10] Speaker 20: to register or request their vote, b I mal ballot,
[2:25:13] Speaker 20: or just to connect with us.
[2:25:15] Speaker 46: My name is Dean Charles, Anthony. The second, I manage
[2:25:18] Speaker 46: all the field logistics for black voters matter. Also the
[2:25:21] Speaker 46: blackest bus in America and as you can probably see
[2:25:24] Speaker 46: behind us of the baby buses, the blackest fleet in America.
[2:25:28] Speaker 46: So I managed the logistics to where they're going, how
[2:25:30] Speaker 46: they get to the places, and make sure everyone has
[2:25:32] Speaker 46: the supplies they.
[2:25:33] Speaker 3: Need to do the work that we do in our communities.
[2:25:36] Speaker 46: What excites me most about the work that I do
[2:25:39] Speaker 46: now is seeing the before and after. I've seen us
[2:25:43] Speaker 46: drive in some of the most rural and least serve communities.
[2:25:47] Speaker 46: I've actually witnessed people go from thinking that they need
[2:25:50] Speaker 46: a savior into saying, hold up, wait a second, no,
[2:25:53] Speaker 46: we are able to save ourselves. Let's organize, let's learn
[2:25:56] Speaker 46: what we need to do, and then go execute.
[2:25:59] Speaker 20: We're traveling through the states that are essentially the former Confederacy.
[2:26:02] Speaker 20: We're going through what used to be and what arguably
[2:26:06] Speaker 20: still is hostile territory. But what we know is that
[2:26:08] Speaker 20: when we're present in communities that have so often not
[2:26:12] Speaker 20: had folks present, it's going to have an impact on
[2:26:14] Speaker 20: everyday community members and voters to show courage against the
[2:26:18] Speaker 20: voter's pression that we're facing and it's going to force
[2:26:21] Speaker 20: those folks that are trying to suppress the vote to
[2:26:24] Speaker 20: expose themselves.
[2:26:26] Speaker 21: It's taking the power back. That's the vision.
[2:26:34] Speaker 32: For the past eight years.
[2:26:35] Speaker 33: I work for the Office for Civil Rights, housed in
[2:26:38] Speaker 33: the Department of Education. So it's hard to leave, but
[2:26:41] Speaker 33: I had to leave because the times called for it.
[2:26:44] Speaker 33: When you work for a federal agency, there are certain
[2:26:46] Speaker 33: laws that bar you from doing political activity or you
[2:26:50] Speaker 33: could literally be fired or worse prosecuted. And so because
[2:26:54] Speaker 33: the stakes are high, I need to be engaged in
[2:26:57] Speaker 33: a very different way this year, and so for that
[2:26:59] Speaker 33: reason and it is the right time to go, I'll
[2:27:03] Speaker 33: be working at black vat this matter full time, shaping
[2:27:06] Speaker 33: what our legal work will look like.
[2:27:10] Speaker 17: We made a conscious choice we're gonna take every precaution possible,
[2:27:14] Speaker 17: but that.
[2:27:15] Speaker 7: We were needed and we had to go back on
[2:27:17] Speaker 7: the battlefield.
[2:27:18] Speaker 17: I literally woke up and prayed last night and was
[2:27:21] Speaker 17: just like, Okay, God give me clarity, let me know
[2:27:23] Speaker 17: if we be doing right, if this is direction. But
[2:27:28] Speaker 17: everything in my spirit is telling me that it's just time.
[2:27:32] Speaker 17: But in the threats that we've gotten and our social
[2:27:36] Speaker 17: media and our inboxes, we are not moving anywhere without security.
[2:27:43] Speaker 17: So we're not moving in fear, but we are moving
[2:27:45] Speaker 17: with caution. If we're talking about mobilizing voters, you have
[2:27:49] Speaker 17: to show up the way that people need.
[2:27:51] Speaker 7: You in the moment.
[2:27:53] Speaker 17: And so in the midst of this trauma, we have
[2:27:55] Speaker 17: literally been thinking about how do we generate more black joy?
[2:27:59] Speaker 17: And so the US represents that for us. We have
[2:28:02] Speaker 17: wrapped that bus and so much love and power. We
[2:28:04] Speaker 17: come down the street.
[2:28:04] Speaker 3: People feel it.
[2:28:10] Speaker 17: Hey, y'all, we are in Cleveland and we got it
[2:28:12] Speaker 17: going on.
[2:28:13] Speaker 3: You hear me.
[2:28:14] Speaker 7: We are lining up for our caravans. We probably got
[2:28:18] Speaker 7: about thirty cards.
[2:28:19] Speaker 20: If you're in the Cleveland area, you need to be
[2:28:20] Speaker 20: looking for us.
[2:28:21] Speaker 10: You can't miss it.
[2:28:22] Speaker 20: The blackest bustle of America.
[2:28:39] Speaker 28: Y'all.
[2:28:39] Speaker 6: Welcome to Cleveland.
[2:28:40] Speaker 3: Thank you.
[2:28:41] Speaker 29: I'm the pastor here.
[2:28:42] Speaker 10: You're the pastor here.
[2:28:43] Speaker 20: Oh wow, thank you for having.
[2:28:45] Speaker 4: Us to work.
[2:28:46] Speaker 7: So what you're doing, y'all? Tell us what we all
[2:28:48] Speaker 7: doing today.
[2:28:49] Speaker 47: We've been doing the COVID nineteen testing, some food giveaway,
[2:28:53] Speaker 47: people can register to vote. But we've also had some
[2:28:56] Speaker 47: persons here doing some mental health awareness.
[2:28:58] Speaker 20: So let me ask you this. With a little bit
[2:29:00] Speaker 20: of support with five thousand.
[2:29:01] Speaker 48: Dollars in support go towards some of those programs.
[2:29:06] Speaker 47: Support would not only go towards that program those programs,
[2:29:10] Speaker 47: but it would help us to get a little further
[2:29:12] Speaker 47: down the road, touch more.
[2:29:14] Speaker 6: Lives, and to do it again.
[2:29:16] Speaker 7: We got you all right, Thank you, y'all.
[2:29:18] Speaker 20: Don't be mad at me. Ohio is not really one
[2:29:20] Speaker 20: of our core states where we do work.
[2:29:22] Speaker 14: Cleveland might not be on the map, okay, and it.
[2:29:25] Speaker 47: Might not be one of the places where you believe
[2:29:27] Speaker 47: that you can really pick up traction.
[2:29:29] Speaker 20: So it wasn't because we didn't believe in Cleveland's because
[2:29:31] Speaker 20: we have a belief. We're students of the civil rights movement.
[2:29:34] Speaker 20: We only go where we're asked to go. So the
[2:29:36] Speaker 20: people made the call to us, and that's why we
[2:29:38] Speaker 20: showed up in the Blackest bussing America.
[2:29:40] Speaker 7: Before you leave here, let me make sure that I
[2:29:43] Speaker 7: have your content and make sure you have so that
[2:29:46] Speaker 7: you won't say again, we.
[2:29:48] Speaker 29: Didn't come to Cleveland.
[2:29:49] Speaker 7: We didn't have anyverstation.
[2:29:56] Speaker 17: When we say the Blackest Bussing America, we mean everything
[2:29:59] Speaker 17: that we love about blackness of jud y'all and even
[2:30:02] Speaker 17: being able to break bread with folks.
[2:30:04] Speaker 32: Food is political.
[2:30:06] Speaker 20: We always like to do things with food and food
[2:30:08] Speaker 20: trucks and feeding our folks because that's a part of organizing.
[2:30:11] Speaker 20: It also meets a critical food and security needs and
[2:30:15] Speaker 20: its economic development.
[2:30:16] Speaker 17: Music was always about soothing our spirits always.
[2:30:21] Speaker 7: That's why it's no culture that don't have music. We
[2:30:23] Speaker 7: literally express our emotions through music.
[2:30:25] Speaker 4: Say everywhere we go, there is no movement with our culture.
[2:30:28] Speaker 8: It's got to be based in culture.
[2:30:30] Speaker 4: It's got to be based in Joydan because we have
[2:30:32] Speaker 4: got to.
[2:30:32] Speaker 8: Find tooin this work.
[2:30:33] Speaker 20: And when we combine black joys, black culture, black love,
[2:30:36] Speaker 20: then we can get some black lips.
[2:30:37] Speaker 11: Right.
[2:30:38] Speaker 17: There are forces that try to make us think that
[2:30:41] Speaker 17: we don't have any power. There is our mus to
[2:30:43] Speaker 17: suppress the vote, right, but our power doesn't come from
[2:30:46] Speaker 17: the United States government. Our power doesn't come from political party.
[2:30:50] Speaker 17: God gave us power, right, and we have agency.
[2:30:53] Speaker 7: What happens in.
[2:30:54] Speaker 20: Cleveland helps change is say, it helps change this country.
[2:30:57] Speaker 20: And so we're here right now because we belie that
[2:31:01] Speaker 20: all of you have the power to say whether or
[2:31:03] Speaker 20: not we continue on the path that we've been on.
[2:31:06] Speaker 20: We're folks are telling us that our lives don't matter.
[2:31:08] Speaker 4: Or whether or not we go in a new direction.
[2:31:10] Speaker 24: That's all right, ain't gonna make some noise, everybody.
[2:31:14] Speaker 10: We've been through a lot.
[2:31:15] Speaker 20: People are tired, people are sick, people are literally dying.
[2:31:18] Speaker 20: We got the tax on this election. It's along for
[2:31:21] Speaker 20: all the regular stuff. The photo id there's no reason
[2:31:35] Speaker 20: in the middle of this rain for that house to
[2:31:37] Speaker 20: catch fire.
[2:31:44] Speaker 10: There was a garbage can there.
[2:31:45] Speaker 3: It looks like you get something or anything like that.
[2:31:48] Speaker 20: Or no, it's outside and we just got here.
[2:31:52] Speaker 8: Oh no, they need to come and get us.
[2:31:54] Speaker 3: You're not staying here.
[2:31:57] Speaker 8: So that's what we're gonna have to do. We know how,
[2:31:58] Speaker 8: said them, high Love Hotel.
[2:32:00] Speaker 7: They used to seeing high level folks that they got secured.
[2:32:03] Speaker 8: So that's what we're gonna have to go to.
[2:32:05] Speaker 7: We can't go to r yeah, cause the bus can
[2:32:09] Speaker 7: be secured.
[2:32:11] Speaker 20: Evidently the garbage can caught on fire. Now, how does
[2:32:14] Speaker 20: that happen in the middle of the rain. Any number
[2:32:18] Speaker 20: of people in this neighborhood. So on the blacknest bus
[2:32:20] Speaker 20: in America pull up and drop a couple of people
[2:32:22] Speaker 20: off at this house, no telling who then decided, Oh,
[2:32:26] Speaker 20: I'm gonna go over there and do something. So what
[2:32:30] Speaker 20: we do is not a joke, right, It's just not
[2:32:32] Speaker 20: a joke.
[2:32:35] Speaker 17: Well, we all right, they put the fire out, they
[2:32:43] Speaker 17: sent the arsent tine, they're still investigating. It just wasn't
[2:32:47] Speaker 17: safe for Cliff and Eye, and so we're coming up
[2:32:49] Speaker 17: with a whole different kind of security strategy. I I
[2:32:52] Speaker 17: think both of us, both of us were shaking last night.
[2:32:54] Speaker 17: I know, I'm gonna speak for myself.
[2:32:55] Speaker 2: It ith It shook me.
[2:32:57] Speaker 7: It's almost like, on one hand, you were like, oh, yeah.
[2:32:59] Speaker 17: That's what what what what what white racist folks gonna do?
[2:33:02] Speaker 17: On one hand, I want to just miss it as
[2:33:04] Speaker 17: that right. Well, on the other hand, racism is damn traumatic.
[2:33:09] Speaker 32: I mean just damn traumatic.
[2:33:11] Speaker 7: Like, why the hell we gotta go through this? Right,
[2:33:14] Speaker 7: I'm sad.
[2:33:16] Speaker 17: I am mad as hell, Like I'm mad, I'm scared.
[2:33:23] Speaker 17: I am Yeah, I feel determined to.
[2:33:28] Speaker 7: I mean, we ain't about to go nowhere in case
[2:33:30] Speaker 7: out won't stop.
[2:33:31] Speaker 3: So we ain't about to stop.
[2:33:33] Speaker 20: They won't trying to set the whole house on fire.
[2:33:35] Speaker 20: The more important thing is they were trying to send
[2:33:37] Speaker 20: a message. You know, the primary purpose was intimidation and
[2:33:40] Speaker 20: fair and then we ran inside and tried to start
[2:33:43] Speaker 20: putting water on it or whatever.
[2:33:44] Speaker 21: So I'm not even sure it was the smartest.
[2:33:47] Speaker 3: The smartest left umber.
[2:33:48] Speaker 7: Came five minute clip. I'm like, where the hell is
[2:33:50] Speaker 7: he going?
[2:33:51] Speaker 17: Let me tell you? So this is funny. I don't
[2:33:53] Speaker 17: mean to be vain, but I have natural hair. So
[2:33:56] Speaker 17: it was raining last night.
[2:33:58] Speaker 7: I was like, I'm not going out in the rain
[2:33:59] Speaker 7: and get my hell with now. I know that.
[2:34:01] Speaker 17: I thought, I'm not gonna have to go save me
[2:34:04] Speaker 17: because this black girl.
[2:34:05] Speaker 7: I'm having a black girl moment. I was like, you know,
[2:34:08] Speaker 7: I'm gonna put I'm gonna sit.
[2:34:09] Speaker 3: Right here.
[2:34:13] Speaker 7: Because I gotta go on TV tomorrow and I mean
[2:34:15] Speaker 7: my hair.
[2:34:16] Speaker 14: To look good.
[2:34:20] Speaker 22: Fans sad lown, sad lown. Some people said, we've got
[2:34:32] Speaker 22: a lot of mallows. Something says a lot of mothers.
[2:34:35] Speaker 22: I said, we want to wooping. We got my wheaty suns.
[2:34:39] Speaker 22: We've been feeling and we've been scarne. We've been a
[2:34:44] Speaker 22: witty fan talking about shoot, your mom doesn't shoe as
[2:34:48] Speaker 22: it take two eyes to make.
[2:34:50] Speaker 43: A paund.
[2:34:52] Speaker 3: Brother, we can't quit until we get off ship.
[2:34:54] Speaker 38: And you got me, yeah, said Loud.
[2:34:57] Speaker 1: I'm lay it out round.
[2:35:03] Speaker 32: One more non fad.
[2:35:13] Speaker 7: They're talking about participation. This is about power.
[2:35:17] Speaker 8: Well, we're talking about voting.
[2:35:18] Speaker 7: We're not saying that we believe in this system.
[2:35:20] Speaker 28: Well, we're saying that we believe in you.
[2:35:26] Speaker 10: We believe in the power of local infrastructure.
[2:35:30] Speaker 17: I want to know, what is it that you care about.
[2:35:37] Speaker 17: I think we've got four more sucks today in the
[2:35:40] Speaker 17: beautiful southern state of North Carolina. We've had the opportunity
[2:35:44] Speaker 17: to go around and talk to some folks. We're able
[2:35:46] Speaker 17: to get some registered. All right, talk to y'all soon.
[2:35:49] Speaker 3: Bye bye.
[2:35:58] Speaker 15: It's over what multi billion dollars to loan that issue,
[2:36:01] Speaker 15: and it's crippling so many people, and so we're calling
[2:36:04] Speaker 15: on our leaders to support reforms in order to make
[2:36:07] Speaker 15: education more affordable.
[2:36:13] Speaker 3: Cow out the cliff.
[2:36:24] Speaker 7: We are working in fifteen states.
[2:36:26] Speaker 17: We are supporting and funding directly coordinating with over five
[2:36:29] Speaker 17: hundred black leg grassroots groups, primarily the South.
[2:36:32] Speaker 7: In Pennsylvania and Michigan.
[2:36:37] Speaker 17: We are literally on the love train in North Carolina.
[2:36:42] Speaker 7: On the love train, love train.
[2:36:46] Speaker 21: All over the love Holy shit.
[2:36:50] Speaker 18: Why rejection rates?
[2:36:51] Speaker 14: Did you see this?
[2:36:51] Speaker 20: No, this was a pro Trump event in North Carolina.
[2:36:57] Speaker 20: We've just got a touch from our social media person.
[2:37:00] Speaker 20: She just found a link to an article that is
[2:37:05] Speaker 20: about a Trump event that was called.
[2:37:07] Speaker 21: The Black Photers Matter Fest.
[2:37:12] Speaker 20: But not only did they name it after us, but
[2:37:15] Speaker 20: at the event they're selling these shirts that is our logo,
[2:37:18] Speaker 20: our copyrighted logo at this pro Trump event.
[2:37:22] Speaker 7: Rest in your article.
[2:37:23] Speaker 17: That's gonna below your fucking mind, and we need to
[2:37:25] Speaker 17: figure out how we're gonna respond to it. As a
[2:37:28] Speaker 17: little girl, when there was a thunderstorm, we would have
[2:37:31] Speaker 17: to sit still and you had to be quiet because
[2:37:34] Speaker 17: my grandmother would say.
[2:37:35] Speaker 32: God is doing his business.
[2:37:37] Speaker 17: The storms didn't scare her, but she had so much
[2:37:40] Speaker 17: reverence for nature, And so when there's chaos around me,
[2:37:46] Speaker 17: I don't get chaotic. I buckle down, almost kind of
[2:37:50] Speaker 17: like my grandmother in the storm.
[2:37:52] Speaker 32: I get stilled.
[2:37:53] Speaker 17: Let God do his work and get clear around how
[2:37:58] Speaker 17: we're gonna come out of this storm. Our family is
[2:38:03] Speaker 17: from Oraville, Alabama, right next to what is called Cahaba.
[2:38:07] Speaker 17: Cahaba is the first capital of the Confederacy.
[2:38:12] Speaker 7: My mother was born in the heart.
[2:38:14] Speaker 32: Of the Confederacy.
[2:38:16] Speaker 17: But also I think about the roots of resistance came
[2:38:19] Speaker 17: out of that space too. My mother was a part
[2:38:23] Speaker 17: of a lawsuit that essentially opened up desegregation of high
[2:38:28] Speaker 17: schools for the entire state of Alabama. My mother, who
[2:38:31] Speaker 17: loved her high school, was now basically thrown in an
[2:38:35] Speaker 17: environment where there were three thousand whites and only three
[2:38:39] Speaker 17: black people. She went from being a pretty girl on
[2:38:42] Speaker 17: campus to being assaulted every single day, being called nigga monkey,
[2:38:48] Speaker 17: and not feeling a sense of safety and security. On
[2:38:51] Speaker 17: one hand, it was like her bragging right, but it
[2:38:53] Speaker 17: was also her deep scar My father lived in McComb, Mississippi,
[2:38:59] Speaker 17: and he was a part of of this walkout of
[2:39:01] Speaker 17: students who were.
[2:39:02] Speaker 7: Really protesting segregation.
[2:39:05] Speaker 17: My family gave me the foundation around love. Their sense
[2:39:10] Speaker 17: of power or belonging of value didn't come from American constitution.
[2:39:15] Speaker 7: For them, it came from something greater. They believed that.
[2:39:18] Speaker 17: There was a righteous source that if you stood on
[2:39:22] Speaker 17: the side of right, that ultimately.
[2:39:24] Speaker 7: You gonna win.
[2:39:25] Speaker 17: That has had a profound impact on my life. It's
[2:39:30] Speaker 17: the very thing that is prevented my spirit from being broken.
[2:39:34] Speaker 17: The gift of faith.
[2:39:36] Speaker 7: That is the greatest gift that they've given me.
[2:39:43] Speaker 25: Want everybody to come on, come on, come.
[2:39:45] Speaker 3: On, listen, y'all.
[2:39:59] Speaker 20: We are so excited We are here on the We
[2:40:01] Speaker 20: Got Power tour. Our promise is that we will stay
[2:40:04] Speaker 20: with you. If you don't know nothing else, know this,
[2:40:07] Speaker 20: you matter, you are love, and you got power.
[2:40:11] Speaker 32: We got power.
[2:40:13] Speaker 43: No, no, you know this. I ain't going to let nobody.
[2:40:19] Speaker 49: Don't let him, don't let.
[2:40:22] Speaker 14: Him, ain't.
[2:40:25] Speaker 49: Oh God, damn me.
[2:40:37] Speaker 17: I want to bring next this sister who has been
[2:40:40] Speaker 17: holding it down and George.
[2:40:43] Speaker 43: Our sister, Miss Wonder.
[2:40:48] Speaker 28: I cannot tell you how proud and amazed I am
[2:40:52] Speaker 28: at the work that I see happening here at the
[2:40:55] Speaker 28: grassroots level in Albany, in the midst of a pandemic.
[2:40:58] Speaker 28: At one point, you are the em the center of
[2:41:01] Speaker 28: the world, and through all of that, you also had
[2:41:05] Speaker 28: the nerve to start organizing around these utility bills. We
[2:41:10] Speaker 28: are here to work alongside, wouldn't you. It's to home
[2:41:14] Speaker 28: people's feet to the fire. I look forward to getting
[2:41:17] Speaker 28: into more good trouble, to wreakage more shops, to getting
[2:41:21] Speaker 28: the more folks grills and getting more wins.
[2:41:24] Speaker 14: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[2:41:32] Speaker 2: So.
[2:41:32] Speaker 28: I always say that this work is a calling, it's
[2:41:35] Speaker 28: not really a job. I honestly don't think I realized
[2:41:38] Speaker 28: how much I love black people until I started doing
[2:41:40] Speaker 28: this work because I get up every day to go
[2:41:44] Speaker 28: throw down with black folks to help black folks get wins.
[2:41:47] Speaker 28: So I had done a little bit of work previously
[2:41:50] Speaker 28: at the New Georgia Project, and I was like, ooh,
[2:41:52] Speaker 28: Black voters Matter. There was an event coming up where
[2:41:55] Speaker 28: Latasha Brown was going to be moderating a discussion. When
[2:41:58] Speaker 28: we started talking, April was there, and I feel like
[2:42:02] Speaker 28: we have been thickest thieves ever since. Here we are,
[2:42:05] Speaker 28: six elections cycles later, on the verge of really really
[2:42:09] Speaker 28: really doing like the biggest undertaking of work that we
[2:42:12] Speaker 28: have done so far.
[2:42:15] Speaker 7: What's good in Columbus? What's good?
[2:42:16] Speaker 43: What's popping?
[2:42:17] Speaker 7: What's going on?
[2:42:18] Speaker 4: It's good?
[2:42:18] Speaker 11: Nothing good.
[2:42:19] Speaker 2: Every kid's so bad every day.
[2:42:21] Speaker 6: That's nothing bad? They and why do you think that?
[2:42:25] Speaker 2: Is?
[2:42:26] Speaker 8: Everybody selfish? You can't get along.
[2:42:28] Speaker 28: Selfish, you can't get along. So everybody's fighting for just
[2:42:31] Speaker 28: a limited amount of stuff. So what do you think
[2:42:35] Speaker 28: would change it? Let's say you were the most powerful
[2:42:38] Speaker 28: man in Columbus, Georgia.
[2:42:40] Speaker 7: What would you do to make things better?
[2:42:42] Speaker 47: Oh?
[2:42:43] Speaker 20: I couldn't put like, I can't really explain it, just
[2:42:45] Speaker 20: like how life is the way life is just the
[2:42:47] Speaker 20: way they'll never change.
[2:42:48] Speaker 3: Tupac said that, I get it.
[2:42:50] Speaker 28: It's frustrating.
[2:42:51] Speaker 7: I hate that for y'all, I really do.
[2:42:52] Speaker 28: But really and truly, the only way we're gonna turn
[2:42:55] Speaker 28: that around we gotta take back power, like we shouldn't
[2:42:58] Speaker 28: struggle just to have a roof of our If we
[2:43:00] Speaker 28: had more opportunities from early on, we probably wouldn't get
[2:43:05] Speaker 28: to where your saying people are. Now, do you agree
[2:43:07] Speaker 28: with me on that what's going on now is not
[2:43:10] Speaker 28: gonna be forever?
[2:43:10] Speaker 7: We can always make change.
[2:43:12] Speaker 28: So I have a question for you, and I'm not
[2:43:14] Speaker 28: asking from a place of judgment. I just want to know,
[2:43:16] Speaker 28: are you registered to vote? No, ma'am, No, ma'am okay no,
[2:43:21] Speaker 28: I understand that.
[2:43:22] Speaker 2: I get it.
[2:43:23] Speaker 28: So I want to offer you an idea about how
[2:43:26] Speaker 28: we can make some changes. So if we elect people
[2:43:30] Speaker 28: to city council and a mayor who sees and understands
[2:43:34] Speaker 28: that the young people in this community don't have anything
[2:43:37] Speaker 28: to do, we would tell them that we need more
[2:43:40] Speaker 28: programs for young people. So our power is we get
[2:43:44] Speaker 28: to decide who makes those decisions.
[2:43:46] Speaker 31: And we do that by voting.
[2:43:48] Speaker 28: So I know this year everybody's been talking about President
[2:43:52] Speaker 28: will forget all that. I'm literally worried about these young
[2:43:55] Speaker 28: kids you just told me about who are out in
[2:43:57] Speaker 28: the streets on their own with nothing to do. And
[2:43:59] Speaker 28: I think that's who you want to take care of too, Right,
[2:44:01] Speaker 28: It's not the best way to do that is to
[2:44:04] Speaker 28: focus on our local elections. Those are the folks who
[2:44:07] Speaker 28: are gonna decide what happens right here in Columbus.
[2:44:10] Speaker 18: So we still got hope.
[2:44:12] Speaker 8: Right giving up? Yeah, we man, I got hope.
[2:44:15] Speaker 4: I don't know about the rich.
[2:44:16] Speaker 28: We have power to make this change, slowly but surely.
[2:44:19] Speaker 28: All right, this one, Hello, how are you? That's a
[2:44:25] Speaker 28: really good question that you just asked. So the answer
[2:44:28] Speaker 28: is no, you do not have to go all the
[2:44:30] Speaker 28: way to Washington, DC to vote. We are supposed to
[2:44:33] Speaker 28: have polling places close to where we live so that
[2:44:36] Speaker 28: it's easy for everybody to have access to vote, because
[2:44:39] Speaker 28: every American citizen has the right to vote. All right,
[2:44:42] Speaker 28: So I'm gonna give you this backpack, and inside this
[2:44:45] Speaker 28: backpack I have Black Voters Matter bracelets and buttons.
[2:44:51] Speaker 6: All right, by, y'all, see you later.
[2:45:01] Speaker 49: All right, now, I tell you at a party is
[2:45:11] Speaker 49: that is that.
[2:45:14] Speaker 10: How's everybody doing.
[2:45:15] Speaker 21: My name is Cliff Cliff all Bright.
[2:45:17] Speaker 33: I am joined by my wife, April England all Bright,
[2:45:20] Speaker 33: who is our legal director. How's everybody? I know it's
[2:45:26] Speaker 33: right when we stay here though we still here, that's right.
[2:45:31] Speaker 33: One of the most important ingredients right to what we
[2:45:34] Speaker 33: do is courage, right to we have the courage to
[2:45:38] Speaker 33: flicker that light to say black voters matter.
[2:45:41] Speaker 30: Right.
[2:45:42] Speaker 32: It's hard right now.
[2:45:43] Speaker 6: In this country still to do that.
[2:45:46] Speaker 33: So it's a serious time period that we come together
[2:45:50] Speaker 33: and celebrate we're still here.
[2:45:53] Speaker 32: And every time we come to the polls, every.
[2:45:56] Speaker 33: Time we exercise our vote, every time we come out
[2:45:59] Speaker 33: just a little bit more right. And when we come together,
[2:46:03] Speaker 33: we will win.
[2:46:04] Speaker 32: This year will be no different.
[2:46:07] Speaker 14: Florida will be.
[2:46:08] Speaker 33: Different, not just because of what happens in Miami, not
[2:46:12] Speaker 33: just because of what's gonna happen in Orange County, but
[2:46:15] Speaker 33: what happens in Bay County.
[2:46:17] Speaker 32: Right, what happens in Bay County.
[2:46:20] Speaker 14: That is how we win.
[2:46:22] Speaker 33: We are coming out with you because we're no longer
[2:46:25] Speaker 33: going to be apologetic about our lives making a difference
[2:46:29] Speaker 33: in mattering.
[2:46:35] Speaker 32: I'm a daughter of Alabama two.
[2:46:37] Speaker 33: My mother was the kind of person that would pull
[2:46:40] Speaker 33: people from under the bridge.
[2:46:41] Speaker 32: To feed them.
[2:46:43] Speaker 33: My father was very interested in black political power growing up.
[2:46:47] Speaker 33: I would also hear about his involvement in the Children's
[2:46:50] Speaker 33: March in Birmingham.
[2:46:52] Speaker 50: Negros swarmed into downtown Birmingham for a massive series of
[2:46:55] Speaker 50: racial demonstrations this afternoon. Most of the pickets and the
[2:46:58] Speaker 50: marchers were juvenile instead of the adults seen in previous protests.
[2:47:03] Speaker 32: He was one of the students that got host.
[2:47:07] Speaker 33: That was such an important moment because he was just
[2:47:09] Speaker 33: a freshman in high school, but it forever shaped his life.
[2:47:14] Speaker 33: My mother would get upset, but he would be bringing
[2:47:15] Speaker 33: home bikes for payment or college greens because he represented
[2:47:20] Speaker 33: poor black people, because he was one of the few
[2:47:23] Speaker 33: black attorneys in the state.
[2:47:25] Speaker 32: So I was always a part of that.
[2:47:27] Speaker 33: Before I could ride a bike, I knew how to
[2:47:29] Speaker 33: give out a ballot, but of course it became a
[2:47:31] Speaker 33: part of developing what I was going to be doing
[2:47:34] Speaker 33: as an older woman. When I went to undergraduate, my
[2:47:38] Speaker 33: father gave me the autobiography of Malcolm X.
[2:47:41] Speaker 32: But by the time I finished that book, I was woke.
[2:47:45] Speaker 31: Do you fear that we're making progression in this No?
[2:47:48] Speaker 20: No, If you took a knife and night back nine
[2:47:50] Speaker 20: inches and pull it out fixed inches.
[2:47:52] Speaker 21: There's no progress.
[2:47:53] Speaker 17: He pulled it all the way out.
[2:47:54] Speaker 21: That's not progress.
[2:47:55] Speaker 3: The progress is healing the wound that the blow, that
[2:47:57] Speaker 3: the blow made.
[2:47:59] Speaker 8: And they haven't even going to pull a ninthe out much.
[2:48:01] Speaker 27: Let's try and heal the wound you.
[2:48:04] Speaker 10: They won't even admit the knife is there.
[2:48:05] Speaker 33: And so to see a brother be that resolved around
[2:48:09] Speaker 33: helping us move forward in our freedom in an unapologetic way,
[2:48:15] Speaker 33: that automatically attracted me to Malcolm X.
[2:48:18] Speaker 32: I wanted to be like him. I didn't know quite
[2:48:21] Speaker 32: what it.
[2:48:21] Speaker 33: Was going to look like at that time, but I
[2:48:23] Speaker 33: was determined I want to spend the rest of my
[2:48:26] Speaker 33: life trying to get freedom for black people by any
[2:48:30] Speaker 33: means necessary. I went from the sister who went to
[2:48:33] Speaker 33: the shop every week to get her hair done to
[2:48:35] Speaker 33: the sister with locks. I was just completely different than
[2:48:39] Speaker 33: who I was when I grew up, but that difference
[2:48:42] Speaker 33: led me to meet Cliff.
[2:48:47] Speaker 21: Growing up in the Bronx Corp.
[2:48:49] Speaker 20: City in the Bronx, to be exact, I had a
[2:48:51] Speaker 20: pretty okay childhood, even though it was in the Bronx, and.
[2:48:55] Speaker 21: You know, we had our issues.
[2:48:57] Speaker 20: I went to school business major and and my sole focus.
[2:49:01] Speaker 3: Was I'm gonna come out and make a lot of money.
[2:49:03] Speaker 20: But what changed all that was I took a class
[2:49:05] Speaker 20: it was racism in American society. That led to like
[2:49:09] Speaker 20: campus activism.
[2:49:10] Speaker 21: I was involved in two building takeovers, so.
[2:49:13] Speaker 20: That was like my coming of age as an activist
[2:49:15] Speaker 20: at Cornell. And then of course I read the autobiography
[2:49:18] Speaker 20: of Malcolm X, and after that was a rap April
[2:49:21] Speaker 20: and I we call that that book, we called the anecdote.
[2:49:24] Speaker 21: It forces you to be aware of certain things.
[2:49:27] Speaker 20: I started doing work with the Malcolm X grassroots movement
[2:49:30] Speaker 20: and eventually brought me in April together.
[2:49:32] Speaker 33: He was a not just a New Yorker, he was
[2:49:34] Speaker 33: a Bronx New Yorker Ivy League kind of brother. So
[2:49:38] Speaker 33: we really wouldn't have had any reason for our paths
[2:49:41] Speaker 33: to intersect but for that experience.
[2:49:44] Speaker 32: So in that I believe that it was divine.
[2:49:55] Speaker 20: If slavery couldn't take us out, if Jim pro couldn't
[2:49:59] Speaker 20: take us out, we can be any opposition.
[2:50:04] Speaker 3: Stands between us and the freedom.
[2:50:06] Speaker 14: That we deserve.
[2:50:06] Speaker 17: For this is about the survival of our community. I
[2:50:13] Speaker 17: want you to say love. I want you to say
[2:50:16] Speaker 17: it from the depths of your heart love. And now
[2:50:20] Speaker 17: I want you to put that with something else. I'm
[2:50:23] Speaker 17: gonna say power. I want you to feel that them
[2:50:26] Speaker 17: ancestors that were sitting on their plantations, probably on this
[2:50:29] Speaker 17: same land that we're here, that was saying that my
[2:50:31] Speaker 17: children's ain't gonna be slaves, and my the children childrens
[2:50:34] Speaker 17: ain't gonna be slaved. And I'm gonna continue to believe
[2:50:37] Speaker 17: that even though everything around them is told that they
[2:50:40] Speaker 17: were gonna be a slave. I want you to draw
[2:50:42] Speaker 17: from that if you ain't got none to draw from
[2:50:44] Speaker 17: right now. So when I say power, I want you
[2:50:48] Speaker 17: to say it that didn't come from the depths of
[2:50:51] Speaker 17: your big power.
[2:50:54] Speaker 51: Love.
[2:50:55] Speaker 32: He power, power a man.
[2:51:00] Speaker 4: Y'all remember that.
[2:51:02] Speaker 5: That's gonna vote.
[2:51:03] Speaker 7: We gonna do what we gotta do.
[2:51:04] Speaker 14: Thank you the phone.
[2:51:10] Speaker 7: I'm not gonna go well.
[2:51:12] Speaker 33: You know they got the early rot insights, now the
[2:51:14] Speaker 33: satellite offices where you can up complete your application and
[2:51:19] Speaker 33: turning your ballart. I have to say it like a
[2:51:21] Speaker 33: love commissioner. I became involved with Black Waters Matter in
[2:51:26] Speaker 33: December of twenty nineteen. I've always done some form of
[2:51:31] Speaker 33: organizing and I really enjoyed it. Blackwaters Matter came to town.
[2:51:35] Speaker 33: They were recruiting for a state coordinator here, so I
[2:51:38] Speaker 33: got really excited and I was like, I'm gonna apply.
[2:51:41] Speaker 32: They gave me opportunity and I took it.
[2:51:45] Speaker 33: Everybody who's joining the caravan, please probing me my car
[2:51:50] Speaker 33: is face what you're gonna to start this thing?
[2:51:56] Speaker 14: I have one recording to motivation.
[2:51:59] Speaker 8: Unt to do what I got do.
[2:52:09] Speaker 33: In Pennsylvania, the states are very high. In twenty sixteen,
[2:52:13] Speaker 33: we didn't show up in the election, and we see
[2:52:17] Speaker 33: the damage being done. It's very critical that we reach
[2:52:22] Speaker 33: our community to make sure they are educated on this
[2:52:26] Speaker 33: upcoming of election. This is one of the hubs where
[2:52:29] Speaker 33: a lot of people are traveling to different parts of
[2:52:31] Speaker 33: the city.
[2:52:31] Speaker 29: So we're hoping to be able to represent some folks.
[2:52:34] Speaker 3: Right here at Brudon.
[2:52:35] Speaker 14: Ami weak, got you regis a voute?
[2:52:41] Speaker 29: Are you voting at the follows or by Mount?
[2:52:45] Speaker 33: Okay?
[2:52:50] Speaker 32: You want to regisent a vout? Oh great, great, you
[2:52:55] Speaker 32: got your vote?
[2:52:56] Speaker 14: Do you want to have it for y'all? So you
[2:53:00] Speaker 14: just put your phone up to the car.
[2:53:02] Speaker 31: Well, we just go to the website.
[2:53:03] Speaker 3: For you, all right, Thank you? Thank you so much.
[2:53:13] Speaker 6: It's alright, it's all right. We did that.
[2:53:23] Speaker 17: Twelve thousand black voters did not turn out the vote
[2:53:26] Speaker 17: last year.
[2:53:27] Speaker 47: We can't afford to leave any votes on the table
[2:53:29] Speaker 47: in middle GEORGEA.
[2:53:30] Speaker 43: We need all hands on things.
[2:53:35] Speaker 52: I appreciate you because this is one of them forgotten
[2:53:38] Speaker 52: cities to me, and I love my secret. As a
[2:53:42] Speaker 52: mother of three black young men, I worried every night
[2:53:48] Speaker 52: that they may not make it. And to watch the
[2:53:53] Speaker 52: Aubrey chive or or that could have been my son,
[2:53:57] Speaker 52: George Floyd could have been my son.
[2:54:01] Speaker 2: Y'all y'all have voted.
[2:54:12] Speaker 17: Hey man, I'm gonna have to call you back. I
[2:54:14] Speaker 17: gotta new I gotta get ready for a hit. Black
[2:54:17] Speaker 17: voters matter, studio sure.
[2:54:20] Speaker 2: Until you're a camera up just a little bit, Latisha, yep.
[2:54:22] Speaker 17: Even in Georgia, there were just voters who were out
[2:54:25] Speaker 17: there working.
[2:54:26] Speaker 7: There was someone as a white woman that pulled a
[2:54:28] Speaker 7: gun and all in Georgia, so voteret intimidation.
[2:54:36] Speaker 33: Now, we knew that this year there were gonna be
[2:54:40] Speaker 33: people who are gonna come out. They've been invited to
[2:54:43] Speaker 33: bring their weapons and threaten people that they're uncomfortable with
[2:54:47] Speaker 33: and so we're afraid and concerned, but we're showing up
[2:54:52] Speaker 33: nevertheless because it's needed. But we're asking you that you,
[2:54:56] Speaker 33: along with the county, sent a message today that it's
[2:55:00] Speaker 33: not going to be acceptable. Georgia law does not permit
[2:55:03] Speaker 33: you to brandish weapons one hundred and fifty feet from
[2:55:06] Speaker 33: the polling site.
[2:55:07] Speaker 8: It is illegal. I'm not believing work.
[2:55:14] Speaker 33: I do have a vision of black folks living in
[2:55:16] Speaker 33: a nation where they can be self determined and where
[2:55:19] Speaker 33: they can have the kind of quality of life that
[2:55:21] Speaker 33: is free from police terra, that is free from economic disenfranchisement.
[2:55:27] Speaker 33: And so if it means April the civil rights attorney warrior.
[2:55:32] Speaker 32: I'll be that.
[2:55:33] Speaker 33: If it means April you gotta be the organizer, I'll
[2:55:36] Speaker 33: be that. And I think all of us have to
[2:55:39] Speaker 33: be that way, because ultimately, the people that we looked
[2:55:43] Speaker 33: at historically, that's all they were doing.
[2:55:46] Speaker 32: They were just trying to get us to a better place.
[2:55:58] Speaker 20: If you believe we got power, Yeah, I see he
[2:56:01] Speaker 20: smiling in there, I see you smilowing. We out here
[2:56:04] Speaker 20: spreading love and building power. Text us get that number
[2:56:07] Speaker 20: on there, and the message you gonna type is this
[2:56:09] Speaker 20: right here, we matter, We spreading a word about building
[2:56:13] Speaker 20: power and having supposed to come out for this election,
[2:56:16] Speaker 20: mostly for an election ever.
[2:56:17] Speaker 6: You already voted.
[2:56:18] Speaker 29: Amen, God is good.
[2:56:20] Speaker 2: Give it our masks.
[2:56:21] Speaker 20: Would you like a mask? And we also give it
[2:56:23] Speaker 20: out some information about how it's out here spreading love,
[2:56:26] Speaker 20: building power.
[2:56:27] Speaker 29: I'm all about spreading love.
[2:56:28] Speaker 20: Hey, that's what's up?
[2:56:30] Speaker 1: Hi? Right?
[2:56:31] Speaker 7: How y'all doing my gamrack?
[2:56:33] Speaker 3: We all know in working Numway.
[2:56:42] Speaker 7: It's a little turn up here, and it's kind of tricky,
[2:56:44] Speaker 7: but you'll.
[2:56:44] Speaker 18: See it right up here.
[2:56:47] Speaker 8: Let me call my auntie.
[2:56:49] Speaker 17: Hey, a tie we turning down, you know, the little
[2:56:51] Speaker 17: side screen off by pass. So we'll be at the
[2:56:53] Speaker 17: house in a minute, So you come on outside. I
[2:56:57] Speaker 17: was born in New Jersey, but my mother and father
[2:57:00] Speaker 17: separated and when I was a toddler, so my mother,
[2:57:04] Speaker 17: my brother, and I live with my grandparents in Mobile,
[2:57:08] Speaker 17: so all of em.
[2:57:08] Speaker 7: Have known is the South.
[2:57:10] Speaker 17: When I was growing up, my aunt had more resources
[2:57:14] Speaker 17: to support me, and so I moved with she and
[2:57:16] Speaker 17: my uncle at the age of eleven or twelve. So
[2:57:19] Speaker 17: she's really like my auntie.
[2:57:21] Speaker 18: Mama, Yeah, pull up a little off.
[2:57:25] Speaker 7: So I loved my auntie so much.
[2:57:28] Speaker 17: I had my own bedroom, but I wanted to be
[2:57:31] Speaker 17: near her, so I would actually sleep on the floor
[2:57:33] Speaker 17: in her room every night.
[2:57:36] Speaker 7: So this is my hold on all of it.
[2:57:40] Speaker 32: So this is my childhood home. But I'm not I've
[2:57:43] Speaker 32: never been this.
[2:57:43] Speaker 17: Long from seeing her, So this is the first time
[2:57:47] Speaker 17: I be a home. And so I didn't come because
[2:57:49] Speaker 17: I got I caught COVID and then I didn't.
[2:57:51] Speaker 3: She's eighty six.
[2:57:52] Speaker 7: I don't want to make.
[2:57:55] Speaker 20: Hi.
[2:57:56] Speaker 53: How you doing?
[2:58:00] Speaker 43: That's time.
[2:58:01] Speaker 7: I'm all right. I ain't gonna hug you. I don't
[2:58:06] Speaker 7: want I don't want to make you sick.
[2:58:09] Speaker 6: I'll tell you. I think, uh, we're gonna be disciplined.
[2:58:12] Speaker 32: We're gonna be disciplined.
[2:58:14] Speaker 7: I say, no, don't come down.
[2:58:17] Speaker 25: You playing.
[2:58:20] Speaker 7: I don't want to make you sick.
[2:58:29] Speaker 43: Hold your breath, Yes, now, I got that's going.
[2:58:38] Speaker 7: I'm miss you.
[2:58:38] Speaker 3: I love you, Yes.
[2:58:46] Speaker 6: Eighty six years young? That's right, all right. You ain't
[2:58:55] Speaker 6: got no hot bread there you okay?
[2:58:58] Speaker 3: I love you?
[2:59:01] Speaker 7: All right? Thank you.
[2:59:09] Speaker 33: When I was in law school, a lady by the
[2:59:11] Speaker 33: name of Roe Sanders came to give a presentation. She
[2:59:14] Speaker 33: was a lawyer, and I tell you, when I was
[2:59:16] Speaker 33: watching her, I was like she is a badasst I'd say,
[2:59:20] Speaker 33: I don't know who she is, but.
[2:59:22] Speaker 32: I want to be her.
[2:59:24] Speaker 33: Chesnut, Sanders and Sanders was one of the most predominant
[2:59:27] Speaker 33: civil rights firm and one of the first black law
[2:59:30] Speaker 33: firms in Alabama.
[2:59:32] Speaker 32: Go into the firm and it's so black.
[2:59:35] Speaker 33: She had Africa in that office, and there were black
[2:59:39] Speaker 33: lawyers everywhere.
[2:59:41] Speaker 32: Folks were just so comfortable being black.
[2:59:44] Speaker 33: That I was like, this is Selma, and I don't
[2:59:47] Speaker 33: want to live in Selma, but this is Mecca Roe Sanders,
[2:59:55] Speaker 33: Hank Sanders, and JAYL.
[2:59:56] Speaker 32: Chesnut.
[2:59:57] Speaker 33: Besides my dad, the three of them were my teachers
[3:00:01] Speaker 33: and it wasn't just me.
[3:00:02] Speaker 17: After high school, I moved to Montgomery, went to college.
[3:00:05] Speaker 17: In nineteen ninety three, I moved back to Selma. I
[3:00:08] Speaker 17: met Fire Rose and Hank Sanders.
[3:00:11] Speaker 7: They had a very deep.
[3:00:12] Speaker 17: Sense of community and the merging of politics and activism.
[3:00:17] Speaker 7: Both of them were Harvard Train attorneys.
[3:00:19] Speaker 17: They were very clear that their marriage would be in
[3:00:22] Speaker 17: service of the advancement of black people.
[3:00:25] Speaker 54: From the very beginning, we saw the law firm as
[3:00:28] Speaker 54: a basis from which to Augan nine. The law firm
[3:00:33] Speaker 54: was the first organization we started, and later we started
[3:00:38] Speaker 54: the twenty first century youth leadership movement.
[3:00:41] Speaker 55: Of course, April came with the law Fir and Latasha
[3:00:44] Speaker 55: came with twenty first century.
[3:00:45] Speaker 17: In many ways, it was my entrede into activism. That's
[3:00:49] Speaker 17: where I learned how to organize.
[3:00:50] Speaker 32: That is when I met Latasha.
[3:00:52] Speaker 33: Immediately, when I met her, I knew she was authentic.
[3:00:56] Speaker 32: She had a very infectious let's do it.
[3:00:59] Speaker 7: I loved a instantly.
[3:01:00] Speaker 17: She was kind and authentic and just brilliant. And then
[3:01:05] Speaker 17: she met this brother, his name was Cliff. We knew
[3:01:08] Speaker 17: their brother was smart, and we knew who was flat
[3:01:10] Speaker 17: and whatever he got in him brings out the best
[3:01:14] Speaker 17: at her.
[3:01:15] Speaker 33: I moved to Selma full time in ninety seven. Cliff
[3:01:18] Speaker 33: moved to Selma full time in ninety eight, and ninety
[3:01:20] Speaker 33: eight was the year we got married. He became director
[3:01:23] Speaker 33: of the black Belt Arts Community Center, another organization that
[3:01:28] Speaker 33: was created by.
[3:01:28] Speaker 55: Rose, and I just feel blessed that we were able
[3:01:31] Speaker 55: to have institutions in place that they could come and
[3:01:35] Speaker 55: not only be nurtured by them, but to help nurture
[3:01:38] Speaker 55: those institutions.
[3:01:39] Speaker 33: And so I would say from that time we started
[3:01:42] Speaker 33: working together and foraging the relationship that ultimately would become
[3:01:46] Speaker 33: what it is today.
[3:01:49] Speaker 17: My earliest memory where we were like just we were
[3:01:51] Speaker 17: in the trenches together was the Joe Gotta Go campaign
[3:01:54] Speaker 17: where we worked to get the first African American mayor
[3:01:56] Speaker 17: elected in Selma.
[3:01:58] Speaker 33: Cliff And I wasn't even into toyal politics when we
[3:02:00] Speaker 33: first moved to Selma. But you can't go to Selma,
[3:02:03] Speaker 33: Alabama and not get into voting. I mean it's like
[3:02:06] Speaker 33: a that's a religion. Because we came at the right time,
[3:02:10] Speaker 33: we were able to see the organizing side of what
[3:02:15] Speaker 33: voting could do.
[3:02:15] Speaker 21: Joe T.
[3:02:16] Speaker 20: Smiling was the mayor in Selma in nineteen sixty five
[3:02:19] Speaker 20: on Bloody Sunday.
[3:02:21] Speaker 51: Our city and our county has been subjected to the
[3:02:24] Speaker 51: greatest pressures. I think any community in the country has
[3:02:27] Speaker 51: had the will stand.
[3:02:29] Speaker 4: We've had in our area here.
[3:02:30] Speaker 51: Outside the agitation groups of all levels, We've had Martin Luther.
[3:02:34] Speaker 4: King, O King, partners of Martin Martin Luther King.
[3:02:38] Speaker 17: There was this campaign that fire Rolls created called Joe
[3:02:40] Speaker 17: Gotta Go, and we of course were her worker bees,
[3:02:44] Speaker 17: and we were dead serious about that. We went to
[3:02:46] Speaker 17: the night clubs, we went to the church, we went
[3:02:48] Speaker 17: to the street corners. A lot of people say, well,
[3:02:50] Speaker 17: they should just know to vote, But I don't know
[3:02:52] Speaker 17: how many people fishing, they don't cast the line out.
[3:02:54] Speaker 7: If you try to catch your fish, you got to
[3:02:56] Speaker 7: cast out the line life.
[3:02:58] Speaker 20: Just to get folks out, to educate them, to make
[3:03:01] Speaker 20: sure that folks are on the frame, because that's the
[3:03:03] Speaker 20: main thing that we're finding against here is fear.
[3:03:05] Speaker 32: They trying to intimidate folks from voting.
[3:03:07] Speaker 43: They try to intimidate folks from being activists.
[3:03:09] Speaker 20: They trying to intimidate us from exercising our rights self determination.
[3:03:14] Speaker 21: I'll never forget.
[3:03:15] Speaker 17: On election night, the polls closed at seven o'clock.
[3:03:20] Speaker 7: Clifford I was looking for voters at six fifty five.
[3:03:22] Speaker 8: And all of a sudden the results.
[3:03:25] Speaker 17: Weren't out, but people start lining up, like hundreds of people.
[3:03:29] Speaker 7: They knew it. The people knew they had the victory.
[3:03:35] Speaker 21: People got out of their cars.
[3:03:36] Speaker 20: They weren't top of cars, but almost hurt my back
[3:03:39] Speaker 20: doing a backflip on the sidewalk on the street.
[3:03:42] Speaker 32: They were dancing in the streets.
[3:03:44] Speaker 8: It was exciting.
[3:03:46] Speaker 33: I think at that moment we were bought. If black
[3:03:49] Speaker 33: folks could organize themselves around voting and get this kind
[3:03:54] Speaker 33: of result we can get, we can get what a
[3:03:56] Speaker 33: right supremacist this is what we want to do.
[3:04:00] Speaker 20: That was the knife that even the notion of a
[3:04:03] Speaker 20: Black Voters Matter was really created.
[3:04:09] Speaker 33: Black voters Matter is the culmination of all of our experiences.
[3:04:15] Speaker 17: We had been doing this work for more than twenty
[3:04:18] Speaker 17: five years. In twenty sixteen, we formed Black Voters Matter Fund,
[3:04:23] Speaker 17: and it was intentionally Black Voters Matter Fund because we
[3:04:27] Speaker 17: were very clear that we were committed to investing in
[3:04:30] Speaker 17: blackgrass leadership.
[3:04:32] Speaker 20: In twenty seventeen, the Alabama Rays Doug Jones were more.
[3:04:35] Speaker 21: It is really what put us on the map.
[3:04:37] Speaker 20: We supported thirty organizations spread out amongst eighteen counties. We
[3:04:41] Speaker 20: were supporting groups that were already doing the work, they
[3:04:43] Speaker 20: were just doing it on no budget. And then, of
[3:04:45] Speaker 20: course Doug Jones went on to win. At the end
[3:04:47] Speaker 20: of the day, he could not have won without black folks.
[3:04:50] Speaker 20: Black folks shocked the country. It was the first time
[3:04:52] Speaker 20: that we got national attention, but really put us in
[3:04:55] Speaker 20: a position to expand.
[3:04:57] Speaker 21: So we hit the road.
[3:04:58] Speaker 7: We literally traveled the entire South of Deep South.
[3:05:02] Speaker 17: And what we did is we would go to these
[3:05:03] Speaker 17: communities and we would listen. We need people know what
[3:05:10] Speaker 17: they want, people know what they deserve.
[3:05:12] Speaker 20: Then we started giving some of those same folks, some
[3:05:15] Speaker 20: of them minigrants. Later on in eighteen we said, well,
[3:05:18] Speaker 20: we want to go back to some of these places,
[3:05:20] Speaker 20: and that's where the idea of doing the bus tour
[3:05:22] Speaker 20: came from.
[3:05:23] Speaker 21: And we came rolling through on that bus. The reactions
[3:05:25] Speaker 21: that we got from some of.
[3:05:26] Speaker 20: Those folks one that we didn't forget that we came back,
[3:05:30] Speaker 20: that we came back with other people, and that we
[3:05:33] Speaker 20: came back with this bus that was big and black
[3:05:37] Speaker 20: and beautiful, and folks were emotional about that, and we
[3:05:41] Speaker 20: were emotional seeing how emotional they were.
[3:05:44] Speaker 21: And that's when we knew that we were really onto something.
[3:05:49] Speaker 20: Since we're driving back from Nashville, I think that natural
[3:05:55] Speaker 20: route takes us through Chattanooga, so I wanted to see
[3:05:58] Speaker 20: if we're.
[3:05:58] Speaker 2: Why not baby.
[3:06:01] Speaker 20: Right and then go we're driving home. I'm saying stop,
[3:06:06] Speaker 20: so we could just do a little whistle stuff.
[3:06:07] Speaker 43: Doing two places, Memphis and Nashville. This is why we
[3:06:11] Speaker 43: need you. You made me ampting field director, so I'm active.
[3:06:17] Speaker 33: So no, I'm already.
[3:06:19] Speaker 43: Had the discussion with him. Two stop smack.
[3:06:22] Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk.
[3:06:23] Speaker 3: You had to respect.
[3:06:24] Speaker 7: You had to respect the positions.
[3:06:26] Speaker 33: Don't add a trip just because I'm driving through, because
[3:06:29] Speaker 33: it's not such thing as I'm just driving through.
[3:06:31] Speaker 48: Right, Well, she is, right right, I love you, all right,
[3:06:41] Speaker 48: y'all have a flight.
[3:06:45] Speaker 20: Trying to save democracy. We're about to have a cooling
[3:06:56] Speaker 20: place part of y'all.
[3:06:57] Speaker 2: Catch us up her door.
[3:06:58] Speaker 20: We got a motorcycle club out here about to give
[3:07:00] Speaker 20: us an escort.
[3:07:01] Speaker 51: Join us at the party of the polls today, vote earlyer.
[3:07:07] Speaker 20: Thank job for coming out today, Thank job for coming
[3:07:10] Speaker 20: out today. You know, I ain't been home so long
[3:07:23] Speaker 20: I can't remember how to navigate my own driveway.
[3:07:27] Speaker 21: About to hit a tree.
[3:07:31] Speaker 20: Twenty seven out of the past twenty nine days, we've
[3:07:33] Speaker 20: been on the road on the bus. The Michigan Tour
[3:07:37] Speaker 20: starts tomorrow. Today's our only day off. Well yeah, today's
[3:07:42] Speaker 20: our only day off travel wise, because clearly it's not
[3:07:45] Speaker 20: a day off, but today's our only non travel day
[3:07:48] Speaker 20: between now and November three. So if I don't vote today,
[3:07:52] Speaker 20: I'm gonna be part of that statistic of folks who
[3:07:56] Speaker 20: just never made it.
[3:07:59] Speaker 2: And morning, How you doing all right?
[3:08:01] Speaker 3: All right?
[3:08:11] Speaker 32: Hey, how are you doing well.
[3:08:14] Speaker 33: As you know, we are already getting reports of stuff.
[3:08:18] Speaker 34: If we have to drive in that area.
[3:08:23] Speaker 33: We expect potential intimidation. Like your polling place. If it's
[3:08:26] Speaker 33: surrounding a predominantly black community, your polling place will be
[3:08:29] Speaker 33: predominantly black. And so we are concerned about people who
[3:08:33] Speaker 33: are supporting like Trump driving through being escorted by police,
[3:08:38] Speaker 33: making noise, walking them close to voter lines. In the
[3:08:41] Speaker 33: areas where I think this is going to happen. We've
[3:08:43] Speaker 33: retained an activist law firm to be able to stand
[3:08:46] Speaker 33: firm and just help beat real time because a lot
[3:08:49] Speaker 33: of times it's a one eight hundred number and there,
[3:08:52] Speaker 33: you know, and that's and believe me, that one eight
[3:08:54] Speaker 33: hundred number is a powerful tool. But they none lay
[3:08:57] Speaker 33: having a lawyer right there.
[3:09:03] Speaker 10: We in Pontac, Black Feathers Matter v.
[3:09:04] Speaker 20: Sixty five counculing Kermit Williams has a has a challenge
[3:09:08] Speaker 20: that he's gonna make what she's saying, more.
[3:09:10] Speaker 11: People in Pontiac, percentage wise, is gonna vote than any
[3:09:13] Speaker 11: other place in America.
[3:09:17] Speaker 22: He said Michigan a minute ago, he said, Michigan, he's
[3:09:21] Speaker 22: up to America.
[3:09:22] Speaker 4: We got lofty goals, but wait a minute, Sean, come in.
[3:09:24] Speaker 56: Sean's from Detroit.
[3:09:25] Speaker 14: Now we heard.
[3:09:26] Speaker 29: About Pontiac's challenge.
[3:09:28] Speaker 32: What I say, what Detroit, Michigan is coming sight?
[3:09:31] Speaker 4: Oh oh, listen.
[3:09:36] Speaker 7: I don't know why they're trying to add like it
[3:09:38] Speaker 7: ain't cold. I guess I don't care where you go
[3:09:40] Speaker 7: in the world. Thirty seven degrees is cold. This is
[3:09:44] Speaker 7: why birds fly south.
[3:09:47] Speaker 43: We don't have a town.
[3:09:49] Speaker 7: What you feeling about this election? Do you care about
[3:09:51] Speaker 7: local elections?
[3:09:51] Speaker 41: Not really?
[3:09:53] Speaker 7: So you like vote every presidential year.
[3:09:54] Speaker 20: Yeah, that's it.
[3:09:56] Speaker 2: That's on top of what.
[3:09:57] Speaker 10: You think about, like police violince.
[3:09:59] Speaker 4: I'm trying to stay out of it.
[3:10:01] Speaker 2: I see Bush like that going on.
[3:10:04] Speaker 4: The guy with with that Philly he's got took in
[3:10:06] Speaker 4: front of the damn mom.
[3:10:07] Speaker 2: Yeah, that ship like that can't happen.
[3:10:10] Speaker 7: We agree with you, like bon ain't gonna solve all
[3:10:12] Speaker 7: the problem.
[3:10:12] Speaker 3: That ain't what we think.
[3:10:13] Speaker 17: But we do believe when people are messing with you,
[3:10:17] Speaker 17: or when people are.
[3:10:17] Speaker 7: Coming at us, we gotta come at them with everything
[3:10:19] Speaker 7: you got. And so for us, when you start taking
[3:10:22] Speaker 7: folk out of office, people start paying attention.
[3:10:27] Speaker 20: So when that GA didn't charge that car, that Mike Brown,
[3:10:30] Speaker 20: they organized took him out of they're not in office
[3:10:33] Speaker 20: no more. Now they got the focal office that are
[3:10:35] Speaker 20: holding police are tun for right. One of the activists
[3:10:38] Speaker 20: that was organizing around all that stuff, now she's going
[3:10:40] Speaker 20: to Congress.
[3:10:41] Speaker 7: She don't replace the white man. But they say, couldn't
[3:10:43] Speaker 7: beat right.
[3:10:45] Speaker 47: Black people gotta broke, you gotta vote, y'all, y'all better take.
[3:10:50] Speaker 7: Y'all last to the phone. That's why he got it.
[3:10:55] Speaker 6: That's been real.
[3:10:56] Speaker 7: We love that's right.
[3:10:58] Speaker 3: I know.
[3:11:04] Speaker 8: It for you and I have my fun kind of
[3:11:07] Speaker 8: figure that out an hour.
[3:11:09] Speaker 7: Right now, Thank you all.
[3:11:11] Speaker 17: We actually experienced a cyber attack, and so we're still
[3:11:14] Speaker 17: assessing how you know bad the damage is.
[3:11:18] Speaker 51: You can actually set upset you factor as indication on
[3:11:21] Speaker 51: pretty much all of your chounts.
[3:11:29] Speaker 20: I get verifications every time we send a wire. So
[3:11:33] Speaker 20: this one comes through and I look at it. I
[3:11:35] Speaker 20: had no idea what it was. I jump into the
[3:11:38] Speaker 20: zoom and I'm like, Renee Dean, what the hell what
[3:11:40] Speaker 20: is this? And Renee forwarded me in an email and
[3:11:43] Speaker 20: she was like, you approved it, And it was a
[3:11:45] Speaker 20: whole change, Like it was a whole discussion going on
[3:11:48] Speaker 20: about these so called invoices that didn't exist. They don't
[3:11:53] Speaker 20: waste the time and resources coming after an organization.
[3:11:56] Speaker 4: Who ain't doing shit right.
[3:11:57] Speaker 20: They have come after us for reason, and it's because
[3:12:00] Speaker 20: of the work that we've been doing, is working, is
[3:12:02] Speaker 20: having impact, and we got folks scared. But we're gonna
[3:12:05] Speaker 20: keep doing what we're doing because can't stop, won't stop.
[3:12:09] Speaker 32: This is my question to you, brothers and sisters.
[3:12:12] Speaker 17: What is your radical reimagining of this nation?
[3:12:18] Speaker 7: What will America look like when we en George?
[3:12:21] Speaker 17: Their comment based on how well the workers.
[3:12:23] Speaker 7: Are doing, not how well the stock market is doing.
[3:12:26] Speaker 7: And I'm raising that because that's the vision. When we're
[3:12:30] Speaker 7: talking about the founders of this country. I'm not talking about.
[3:12:32] Speaker 17: The ones who started founders of America saying there were
[3:12:35] Speaker 17: the founders of democracy.
[3:12:36] Speaker 3: Guess what they had real limited vision.
[3:12:39] Speaker 7: They couldn't even see us. They couldn't even see me
[3:12:42] Speaker 7: and my humanity.
[3:12:43] Speaker 3: Right, So at the end of the day, I know
[3:12:45] Speaker 3: their vision is limited.
[3:12:47] Speaker 7: But let me tell you who I think I am
[3:12:49] Speaker 7: and who you are.
[3:12:50] Speaker 17: We are the founders of a new America. So I'm
[3:12:54] Speaker 17: asking you brothers and sisters to stand in the legacy
[3:12:57] Speaker 17: of our ancestors to stand on the power.
[3:13:00] Speaker 7: Well, what can need to be black and brown? When
[3:13:02] Speaker 7: we ride up, thing's got.
[3:13:04] Speaker 57: To change, uh Moby's brothers.
[3:13:16] Speaker 20: Then yeah, when we get the call from some place
[3:13:21] Speaker 20: tomorrow powboys out here or the cops out here, Pepper
[3:13:26] Speaker 20: Spring and we'll.
[3:13:27] Speaker 21: Be ready for it. We just got to map through
[3:13:29] Speaker 21: some stuff.
[3:13:30] Speaker 20: But it's seven o four, so twelve hours from now,
[3:13:35] Speaker 20: it's only popping all.
[3:13:37] Speaker 46: Everybody's my pastor, Superintendent Leanna and travel seeing. He's both
[3:13:42] Speaker 46: my pastor and my uncle or the true men of God.
[3:13:45] Speaker 46: So I'm gonna go ahead and pass it to him,
[3:13:46] Speaker 46: and I already.
[3:13:47] Speaker 4: Know he's gonna do what it does. Fab I pray
[3:13:50] Speaker 4: right now in the name of Jesus.
[3:13:52] Speaker 56: I pray for the safety above all, knowing that the
[3:13:55] Speaker 56: journey is not over but really just begaining. Don't allow
[3:13:59] Speaker 56: me to hinder what you have given them to do.
[3:14:04] Speaker 7: We say tonight that the tide and ship wo.
[3:14:08] Speaker 56: We believe right now that it's already it's done. That
[3:14:12] Speaker 56: tomorrow night be the great that we have must seen
[3:14:17] Speaker 56: in this country.
[3:14:18] Speaker 6: Amen.
[3:14:19] Speaker 4: Amen.
[3:14:22] Speaker 28: It is election day in America, possibly one of the
[3:14:24] Speaker 28: most contentious presidential elections in our country's history, it will.
[3:14:28] Speaker 40: Be difficult for President Trump to win the election without
[3:14:31] Speaker 40: the state of Georgia. Georgia has not voted for a
[3:14:34] Speaker 40: Democrat since nineteen ninety two.
[3:14:43] Speaker 7: All right, read and row, Hey, y'all, O, hey, y'
[3:14:51] Speaker 7: are you mean?
[3:14:52] Speaker 2: Yes?
[3:14:52] Speaker 18: Okay?
[3:14:53] Speaker 7: What's happening for Anika?
[3:14:54] Speaker 3: Roumi?
[3:14:55] Speaker 7: Is you on the blackest buss't Americas? I got the
[3:14:57] Speaker 7: blackest book because I had no power. Course, cupholes.
[3:15:04] Speaker 21: Collections are oftentimes one last electionship.
[3:15:07] Speaker 17: Trump won by less than seventy seven thousand VOTs y'all
[3:15:10] Speaker 17: in three states. In Pennsylvania, he barely squeaked it out.
[3:15:15] Speaker 7: Come on, team, this is it, This is it.
[3:15:21] Speaker 43: How y'all doing.
[3:15:23] Speaker 6: Have y'all voted? Amen?
[3:15:25] Speaker 43: We talked out the courage and people to get out
[3:15:27] Speaker 43: to go vote.
[3:15:28] Speaker 7: Go vote to the daughter and the granddaughter. EGO, baby,
[3:15:32] Speaker 7: thank you so much.
[3:15:32] Speaker 43: Snie welcome.
[3:15:39] Speaker 6: Oh y'all, that's good.
[3:15:40] Speaker 7: I'm glad y'all got y'all vote, saying they did.
[3:15:43] Speaker 6: Yeah, first time vote.
[3:15:46] Speaker 2: First time.
[3:15:48] Speaker 6: It's fantastic.
[3:15:49] Speaker 2: They're getting scared of y'all here. Who cares?
[3:15:52] Speaker 7: Keep up the good work.
[3:16:00] Speaker 29: You don't have an issue when we are going to
[3:16:01] Speaker 29: suppose call me.
[3:16:03] Speaker 43: We got a lecture protecting.
[3:16:04] Speaker 33: Out with all these days we don't make sure that.
[3:16:07] Speaker 43: All right, we got the power, y'all. Today is victory day.
[3:16:15] Speaker 32: Today, it's gonna be with that.
[3:16:17] Speaker 14: Please vote today.
[3:16:20] Speaker 28: Hey, everybody, it's power building that we are here to
[3:16:23] Speaker 28: build excitement, get people hyped up and ready to get
[3:16:26] Speaker 28: these wins.
[3:16:27] Speaker 20: Power buildings, power buildings.
[3:16:29] Speaker 3: Hey, that's right, right now, we got something going now,
[3:16:36] Speaker 3: we cooking the free I'm not the lover you bout
[3:16:39] Speaker 3: it already.
[3:16:40] Speaker 7: All right, let's do some dad out here.
[3:16:42] Speaker 20: We're giving away power.
[3:16:43] Speaker 7: We building poet to.
[3:16:58] Speaker 29: Expected Donald is.
[3:17:06] Speaker 8: Thank you that brings us to Ohio. And there you go.
[3:17:10] Speaker 8: You can now see that Donald Trump has taken the
[3:17:13] Speaker 8: lead in Ohio, Michigan.
[3:17:16] Speaker 35: Too early to call Georgia, too early to call in
[3:17:21] Speaker 35: Georgia again.
[3:17:22] Speaker 8: Biden has gonna need monster monster monster numbers.
[3:17:25] Speaker 21: Here.
[3:17:32] Speaker 43: People here, people here, we here, people here.
[3:17:38] Speaker 28: Hey, So while we got a room full of folks,
[3:17:41] Speaker 28: I'm gonna go ahead and just brag on you publicly
[3:17:44] Speaker 28: real quick.
[3:17:45] Speaker 6: Don't even shake your head. Don't even do it.
[3:17:46] Speaker 28: Because as I'm sitting and watching this map and I
[3:17:49] Speaker 28: see all this blue over in the coastal area and
[3:17:53] Speaker 28: over in the middle part of the state. That is
[3:17:55] Speaker 28: because you have organized Middle Georgia like nobody's business.
[3:17:59] Speaker 20: We say, y'all, this election that is critically important, but
[3:18:04] Speaker 20: y'all know that the work we do goes beyond tonight.
[3:18:07] Speaker 20: Don't y'all start thinking for a moment that your worth
[3:18:10] Speaker 20: and your value right is tied up in justin what
[3:18:14] Speaker 20: happens tonight.
[3:18:14] Speaker 33: We will be on the Capitol steps tomorrow at five
[3:18:17] Speaker 33: pm making sure that.
[3:18:20] Speaker 4: Led by black.
[3:18:21] Speaker 20: Voters, led by black voters a Britain all right, we
[3:18:25] Speaker 20: try to give you a day off and you wouldn't
[3:18:27] Speaker 20: playing a stay wide around.
[3:18:30] Speaker 37: Tensions remain high across the country as Americans keep a
[3:18:33] Speaker 37: close watch on the vote.
[3:18:35] Speaker 45: Tallly, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit to stop the
[3:18:38] Speaker 45: counting of ballots in Pennsylvania.
[3:18:40] Speaker 3: That is simply wrong.
[3:18:46] Speaker 7: We did our part.
[3:18:49] Speaker 33: Now it's time to hold the elective officials accountable to
[3:18:53] Speaker 33: all votes be counted.
[3:18:57] Speaker 12: Protest erupting across the country over we.
[3:19:00] Speaker 35: Are starting to see tensions rice get a number of
[3:19:03] Speaker 35: these battle ground states.
[3:19:04] Speaker 2: The tightening race in the state of Georgia.
[3:19:07] Speaker 20: Steve Kornacki, someone who posted it looks like Georgia might
[3:19:10] Speaker 20: come down to.
[3:19:11] Speaker 21: A few thousand votes from Chatham County.
[3:19:14] Speaker 7: We're just trying to get there. They won't call it.
[3:19:16] Speaker 4: Okay, what's y'all got me?
[3:19:17] Speaker 30: Wean?
[3:19:18] Speaker 7: Oh this is what I want.
[3:19:20] Speaker 8: I'm like, I just I'm so stressed out right.
[3:19:22] Speaker 3: I know, I don't know what.
[3:19:24] Speaker 32: I need them numbers on.
[3:19:28] Speaker 2: You don't want the number.
[3:19:29] Speaker 4: I've been telling the number for two days.
[3:19:31] Speaker 7: I need to number.
[3:19:34] Speaker 32: I need the numbers on the board.
[3:19:35] Speaker 8: I need the numbers on the board.
[3:19:38] Speaker 7: No, I do not.
[3:19:39] Speaker 33: Maybe you ain't nervous about it. Maybe, but I'm alone.
[3:19:42] Speaker 33: I'm alone whatever. Right, I'm still in the fourth quarter.
[3:19:46] Speaker 33: Was about one touchdown, right, and there's two minutes step
[3:19:49] Speaker 33: in this game.
[3:19:50] Speaker 7: So I'm a little nervous, and I can go in
[3:19:52] Speaker 7: my room recreeze light.
[3:19:54] Speaker 20: You know what I'm saying.
[3:19:56] Speaker 2: Lead in the higher state of Georgia.
[3:20:01] Speaker 33: These places Dotteries Brons with all the other places are
[3:20:04] Speaker 33: talking about. Those are the places that we heavily invested
[3:20:07] Speaker 33: in to make Georgia do this.
[3:20:09] Speaker 32: Oh my nerves.
[3:20:10] Speaker 33: Okay, if Georgia or Pennsylvania goes by this way, we
[3:20:14] Speaker 33: can all breathe aside of relief he is exhausted.
[3:20:19] Speaker 39: Democratic presidential nomine Joe Biden has taken a roughly nine
[3:20:24] Speaker 39: hundred vote lead in Georgia. As mail and ballance continue
[3:20:27] Speaker 39: to be counted.
[3:20:28] Speaker 7: This could all come down to the smallest margins.
[3:20:31] Speaker 28: Hey, team Georgia, we thought it was crazy for this cycle.
[3:20:36] Speaker 28: It's about to get nuts because it looks like both
[3:20:39] Speaker 28: Senate seats.
[3:20:40] Speaker 31: Are going to a runoff.
[3:20:41] Speaker 28: If you've watched the national results, we've not picked up
[3:20:44] Speaker 28: Senate seats like we thought we were going to. All
[3:20:47] Speaker 28: eyes are literally really about to be on Georgia for real,
[3:20:50] Speaker 28: for real. Our next target date is going to be
[3:20:53] Speaker 28: January fifth. We have worked so hard, y'all. Oh my goodness,
[3:20:58] Speaker 28: we have worked so hard. Even if we don't quite
[3:21:01] Speaker 28: get it this year, just being in the mix is rewarding, right,
[3:21:05] Speaker 28: just knowing that we are that close.
[3:21:08] Speaker 30: My account is red, but I am still excited that
[3:21:12] Speaker 30: we still increase turnout, so I can't complain.
[3:21:15] Speaker 17: I'm just happy, glad to've been a part of this
[3:21:18] Speaker 17: and we ain't.
[3:21:19] Speaker 56: On these results, Everyone's going to want to know how
[3:21:21] Speaker 56: did you do in Georgia the other states that came
[3:21:24] Speaker 56: just that close.
[3:21:25] Speaker 32: I'm super proud y'all to be on the cusp of
[3:21:28] Speaker 32: a blue Georgia.
[3:21:29] Speaker 7: I even wore blue today.
[3:21:32] Speaker 28: This dot to pop off and let's keep marching onward.
[3:21:36] Speaker 28: January fifth is coming and we are ready.
[3:21:41] Speaker 7: Peace out, love y'all. We are coming on the air
[3:21:48] Speaker 7: with breaking news.
[3:21:49] Speaker 8: One with the entire country has been waiting.
[3:21:51] Speaker 3: For Lenna projects Biden wins Pennsylvania.
[3:21:55] Speaker 47: Joe Biden has been elected the forty sixth President of
[3:21:59] Speaker 47: the United States.
[3:22:00] Speaker 14: Dates I'm still shock, y'all.
[3:22:17] Speaker 7: Yes, go pricky.
[3:22:18] Speaker 33: Yeah, we had one point one million registrations here in
[3:22:21] Speaker 33: Philadelphia alone. They haven't seen that many registrations since nineteen
[3:22:24] Speaker 33: eighty four. So we really rocked the house and they
[3:22:29] Speaker 33: depended on Philadelphia.
[3:22:31] Speaker 3: We brought it home.
[3:22:33] Speaker 53: Yes, President Trump's hopes of overturning vote totals in this
[3:22:37] Speaker 53: election suffered a major setback.
[3:22:40] Speaker 40: In the state of Georgia.
[3:22:41] Speaker 53: After a six day recount by hand, a statewide audit
[3:22:44] Speaker 53: has confirmed President Trump lost narrowly to President elect Joe Biden.
[3:22:50] Speaker 32: That's what it was like.
[3:22:50] Speaker 33: I guess I'm gonna throw something on the grail today.
[3:22:56] Speaker 7: I love my people.
[3:22:58] Speaker 21: What else are we doing?
[3:22:59] Speaker 30: So?
[3:23:00] Speaker 43: I don't know, Man, That's why I threw it to you.
[3:23:02] Speaker 32: What do we do to celebrate.
[3:23:05] Speaker 21: Sleep?
[3:23:07] Speaker 6: So he's tired.
[3:23:08] Speaker 32: He he ain't been to sleep.
[3:23:10] Speaker 33: I slept for four hours. I need more sleep to
[3:23:14] Speaker 33: ketch up from not sleeping all week. So it's as
[3:23:18] Speaker 33: excited as I want to be.
[3:23:19] Speaker 6: My body is.
[3:23:20] Speaker 33: I think it's not in panic mode anymore.
[3:23:23] Speaker 20: My mind is already on the next phase, holding Biden accountable,
[3:23:27] Speaker 20: dealing with you know, the future of the Senate, dealing
[3:23:31] Speaker 20: with this voter intimidation, all of that.
[3:23:33] Speaker 21: Is and stuff. That's that's all my mind. That's what
[3:23:37] Speaker 21: happens when you think too much.
[3:23:44] Speaker 20: You know, you were taking on, you took up for
[3:23:46] Speaker 20: I was ready?
[3:23:50] Speaker 6: Has a water feel good? You forget it? I should.
[3:23:54] Speaker 33: Yeah, It's less about Joe Biden to me, and it's
[3:23:58] Speaker 33: more about the fact that we saw our issue of
[3:24:03] Speaker 33: safety in this country on the ballot and we responded.
[3:24:07] Speaker 3: It was about.
[3:24:08] Speaker 33: Saying affirmatively, we are not gonna let white supremacy the
[3:24:12] Speaker 33: way it used to rise up against our folks back
[3:24:15] Speaker 33: in the day rise up on this watch.
[3:24:17] Speaker 7: That was us saying that on that ballad.
[3:24:22] Speaker 49: I don't know how you got can we be dropped?
[3:24:30] Speaker 32: This the black people day to day.
[3:24:33] Speaker 33: We want to thank you, Heavenly Father, for this day.
[3:24:35] Speaker 33: We want to thank you for twenty plus years of
[3:24:39] Speaker 33: friendship at this table, of being able to do what
[3:24:42] Speaker 33: we believe to be your work, and just bless our people.
[3:24:45] Speaker 10: Lord.
[3:24:48] Speaker 17: Oh, I am very, very grateful to be alive. I
[3:24:52] Speaker 17: am grateful to be surrounded by the people that I love.
[3:24:55] Speaker 17: I am grateful to God that I'm actually doing the work.
[3:24:58] Speaker 7: That I believe in. Grateful their black folks. Look that ass.
[3:25:06] Speaker 39: Presided to let Joe Biden's agenda now shipped by the
[3:25:09] Speaker 39: outcome of two Senate races in Georgia.
[3:25:12] Speaker 58: It's both Democratic candidates when there will be an even
[3:25:15] Speaker 58: split with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie breaking vote.
[3:25:21] Speaker 28: So the plan is to increase the number of baby
[3:25:25] Speaker 28: busses in Georgia. We're actually going to double them from
[3:25:28] Speaker 28: seven to fourteen.
[3:25:29] Speaker 2: Look, we just went blue.
[3:25:31] Speaker 28: We just convinced people to take a chance that if
[3:25:34] Speaker 28: you invest in Georgia, this could happen. So now the
[3:25:38] Speaker 28: challenge is you have to keep investing in Georgia because
[3:25:41] Speaker 28: this didn't happen overnight. We have now motivated the other side.
[3:25:46] Speaker 28: So they're coming for us. So we need this investment
[3:25:49] Speaker 28: to be consistent and to continue so that we can
[3:25:52] Speaker 28: stay blue, so we can keep building power throughout the state.
[3:25:57] Speaker 7: So we still work to do.
[3:25:58] Speaker 31: We still work to do.
[3:26:01] Speaker 20: Today's holiday food box giveaway and voter registration drive. Part
[3:26:05] Speaker 20: of this is about saying thank you to our community who.
[3:26:09] Speaker 3: Sewed up and sowed out in this election right.
[3:26:12] Speaker 20: And who are going to do the same thing, non partisan,
[3:26:15] Speaker 20: because it's not about the candidates.
[3:26:16] Speaker 4: Right now, right, it's about who. It's about us.
[3:26:19] Speaker 20: It's about our kids, our schools, our health, our jobs.
[3:26:22] Speaker 33: It is literally about our lives, y'all.
[3:26:31] Speaker 7: We got the momentum, y'all.
[3:26:33] Speaker 28: The first day of early voting, one hundred and sixty
[3:26:36] Speaker 28: five thousand, one hundred and twenty four votes cast. Forty
[3:26:41] Speaker 28: one four percent of those votes were from black people, y'all.
[3:26:46] Speaker 28: We are not playing up in these streets, y'all.
[3:26:48] Speaker 2: We not playing.
[3:26:50] Speaker 45: Republican activist groups are pushing voter challenges that some say
[3:26:54] Speaker 45: is an attempt at voter suppression.
[3:26:56] Speaker 36: Registered voters in several counties face lawsuits looking to remove
[3:27:00] Speaker 36: them from the rules. The group helping raise the challenge
[3:27:03] Speaker 36: is behind more than three hundred and sixty thousand challenges
[3:27:06] Speaker 36: to voter eligibility in counties all over Georgia. It's called
[3:27:10] Speaker 36: true the Vote.
[3:27:15] Speaker 59: There are two hundred and sixty two individuals who have
[3:27:18] Speaker 59: filed address changes with the US Postal Service that I'm requesting,
[3:27:24] Speaker 59: as a citizen registered in Glenn County that the board
[3:27:28] Speaker 59: take a look at just be just to establish and
[3:27:30] Speaker 59: verify their eligibility to continue to vote in Glenn County,
[3:27:33] Speaker 59: even if.
[3:27:34] Speaker 4: There were some some legitimate questions.
[3:27:36] Speaker 20: At the end of the day, this is not the
[3:27:38] Speaker 20: kind of list maintenance that can happen within ninety days
[3:27:41] Speaker 20: of federal election, let alone within two weeks. It is
[3:27:45] Speaker 20: a strict black letter by the book violation of not
[3:27:49] Speaker 20: only federal law but of Georgia law.
[3:27:53] Speaker 44: No change to the voter rules can be made within
[3:27:56] Speaker 44: ninety days of an election.
[3:27:59] Speaker 4: We were able to stop from y'all.
[3:28:00] Speaker 20: There will be no purge at least this time going
[3:28:03] Speaker 20: on in Brunswick, Glenn County.
[3:28:05] Speaker 4: And we know what's up, We know why they were
[3:28:07] Speaker 4: doing it right.
[3:28:07] Speaker 20: They're mad not only because the state fled, but they
[3:28:10] Speaker 20: are mad because of what happened here in Brunswick. Folks
[3:28:13] Speaker 20: came out in record numbers to get rid of the
[3:28:15] Speaker 20: DA that had tried to bury the case in the
[3:28:18] Speaker 20: murder of hammand Arbury. That DA is now out of
[3:28:21] Speaker 20: a job because of what Black voters here did.
[3:28:26] Speaker 23: Amman Arbury, that's my nephew. He was murdered and setila
[3:28:31] Speaker 23: drive and.
[3:28:31] Speaker 7: They got all them in jail.
[3:28:33] Speaker 3: But we waiting on some Moore to be.
[3:28:35] Speaker 23: Arrested because they stood around him twelve of and watch
[3:28:39] Speaker 23: him gas for breath until he died.
[3:28:42] Speaker 20: Everywhere I go in the state, when people start saying,
[3:28:44] Speaker 20: well canned be done and what's the energy, like I
[3:28:46] Speaker 20: tell him, look what happened in Bruns. We took our
[3:28:49] Speaker 20: pain and turned it into power.
[3:28:51] Speaker 2: That's right.
[3:28:52] Speaker 20: That's because Dave y'all are inspiration.
[3:28:56] Speaker 2: That's right, into power.
[3:28:58] Speaker 3: That's right.
[3:29:01] Speaker 42: Black Voters Matter continues hit.
[3:29:03] Speaker 7: Let's do it again.
[3:29:03] Speaker 38: Bus Tour.
[3:29:04] Speaker 39: The bus Stour will continue making stops through Christmas scheme.
[3:29:08] Speaker 17: This kicks off our twelve days of Christmas. We got
[3:29:12] Speaker 17: Soul Santa with us.
[3:29:13] Speaker 3: We got a Black Santa Claus coming to town.
[3:29:15] Speaker 2: Oh home home vote.
[3:29:17] Speaker 17: The best gift that we can get to our families,
[3:29:20] Speaker 17: The gift of.
[3:29:21] Speaker 20: Democracy were not playing out here. So went to one
[3:29:24] Speaker 20: to last, spreading love. Look at the stove.
[3:29:28] Speaker 4: Come on out, y'all.
[3:29:31] Speaker 7: Hey, y'all, how y'all doing. See y'all want some ice cream?
[3:29:36] Speaker 7: We gotta get everybody else to vote. That time I
[3:29:39] Speaker 7: took a car load a car a little bit.
[3:29:41] Speaker 14: Yeah, I took a lot of people would know.
[3:29:43] Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm planning on taking another. You're taking another carlin.
[3:29:45] Speaker 28: Oh yeah, I got something for you if you out
[3:29:47] Speaker 28: here not telling people to vote, but taking people to vote.
[3:29:51] Speaker 28: You already doing the work. Now we're about to give
[3:29:53] Speaker 28: you some tools to keep doing the worst.
[3:29:55] Speaker 50: Right.
[3:29:55] Speaker 20: We said all the time, we can only do as
[3:29:57] Speaker 20: much as our local partners. And guess what now local partner?
[3:30:01] Speaker 6: By all right, all right?
[3:30:04] Speaker 7: We got one card low and I saw the goal.
[3:30:09] Speaker 3: That's it. That's all the road.
[3:30:11] Speaker 42: Who tell me the Lord a good what I'm all
[3:30:17] Speaker 42: for Christmas?
[3:30:18] Speaker 14: I'm off of sleep.
[3:30:25] Speaker 58: Republicans have a perfect track record in winning runoff races here,
[3:30:29] Speaker 58: but their message is complicated.
[3:30:30] Speaker 38: By the President, who went so far as to ask.
[3:30:33] Speaker 58: The Secretary of State to find votes to overturn the
[3:30:36] Speaker 58: general election results.
[3:30:38] Speaker 5: President Taum making baseless allegations of widespread fraud. Mister President,
[3:30:43] Speaker 5: stop inspiring people to commit potentialized of violence.
[3:30:46] Speaker 3: Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot,
[3:30:49] Speaker 3: someone's gonna get killed. It has to stop.
[3:30:56] Speaker 20: We're doing our college green coffees up thirty counties one
[3:30:59] Speaker 20: day simultaneously.
[3:31:01] Speaker 27: Call of Greens is for the wealth, but black eyed
[3:31:05] Speaker 27: peas is for the health. And so it's a tradition
[3:31:07] Speaker 27: in our community that if you have both at the
[3:31:10] Speaker 27: beginning of the year, it's pretty much guaranteed. With you know,
[3:31:13] Speaker 27: faith in God and all that good stuff, then you're
[3:31:15] Speaker 27: gonna have a great year. And this is just another
[3:31:18] Speaker 27: level of understanding of who we are as a people.
[3:31:24] Speaker 6: I want to make sure we get the message out
[3:31:27] Speaker 6: the energy.
[3:31:27] Speaker 7: I want you up front, ma'am. I'll see you already
[3:31:31] Speaker 7: wrote I got you with too bad.
[3:31:35] Speaker 6: What's on print of greed?
[3:31:36] Speaker 2: Dang you.
[3:31:37] Speaker 33: You know, like these food trucks and these restaurants have
[3:31:40] Speaker 33: been suffering because of COVID, the fact they're probably the
[3:31:43] Speaker 33: most impacted industry right now.
[3:31:45] Speaker 32: So the fact that we can.
[3:31:46] Speaker 33: Employ all these food trucks and then the black formers
[3:31:49] Speaker 33: their resources could have run it in the field because
[3:31:51] Speaker 33: we already don't get the same kind of distribution opportunities
[3:31:54] Speaker 33: has larger, you know, more commercial forms. So we handled that,
[3:31:58] Speaker 33: feeding foofoids on die the families employing and contracted with
[3:32:02] Speaker 33: our people.
[3:32:04] Speaker 32: It's a dream. It's a dream.
[3:32:08] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[3:32:08] Speaker 28: Look what I always say, thank you for letting me
[3:32:10] Speaker 28: care the water, care more even trusting me with your baby.
[3:32:14] Speaker 17: That's right, baby, you literally are helping to raise this baby.
[3:32:19] Speaker 6: I'm Auntie.
[3:32:23] Speaker 7: Thank you, Liviosha Brown, I love you.
[3:32:25] Speaker 42: Love you to see y'all, lady, it is election day
[3:32:31] Speaker 42: in Georgia, where voters will decide which party controls the
[3:32:34] Speaker 42: United States Senate.
[3:32:35] Speaker 7: All right, baby, love it.
[3:32:39] Speaker 33: You know it's harvest time. Our community has put it
[3:32:42] Speaker 33: all on the table. Harvest time requires just as much
[3:32:46] Speaker 33: labor as when you first plant the seed. And so
[3:32:49] Speaker 33: while this is the last day, let's not let this
[3:32:51] Speaker 33: crop right out there in that field.
[3:32:53] Speaker 43: Let's go get this crop.
[3:32:56] Speaker 17: There's a certain outcome I want, but more than that,
[3:32:59] Speaker 17: what I want is I wanted Black people to show
[3:33:02] Speaker 17: up and forced to use our voice, to use our power,
[3:33:04] Speaker 17: that to really resist. There have been more Georgia voters
[3:33:08] Speaker 17: participate in the runoff election than any runoff in the
[3:33:11] Speaker 17: history of the state.
[3:33:12] Speaker 7: And so regardless of the outcome. That's our focus.
[3:33:15] Speaker 17: It's really to make sure that our community is educated,
[3:33:18] Speaker 17: they're motivated, they're inspired to really be able to use
[3:33:22] Speaker 17: our agency and cast our vote. So black vote, we
[3:33:25] Speaker 17: have already won.
[3:33:26] Speaker 6: This thing home today.
[3:33:27] Speaker 14: That's eve's fun to wear.
[3:33:31] Speaker 32: Georgia, Georgia.
[3:33:33] Speaker 43: The whole world is looking at Georgia.
[3:33:35] Speaker 32: We're making history. We're gonna flip the Senate.
[3:33:38] Speaker 6: Yes, a history making win for Democrats.
[3:33:46] Speaker 29: In the Senate elections in Georgia.
[3:33:49] Speaker 40: Black voters in Georgia turned out in record numbers to
[3:33:52] Speaker 40: vote for Reverend Raphael Warnock and John Ossof, giving Democrats
[3:33:56] Speaker 40: a majority in the Senate.
[3:33:58] Speaker 35: On any other decade, this would be the story of
[3:34:01] Speaker 35: the year. It isn't even the top story today. Right now,
[3:34:04] Speaker 35: the Republican controlled Senate, just before it's going to become
[3:34:08] Speaker 35: a Democratic controlled Senate, is currently under the control of
[3:34:11] Speaker 35: a siege mob that has stormed the US Capitol.
[3:34:18] Speaker 20: We've been through decades, centuries of real suppression, and we
[3:34:22] Speaker 20: ain't stormed the capital, right, you know, In fact, you know,
[3:34:25] Speaker 20: we continue to.
[3:34:26] Speaker 10: Believe in the system.
[3:34:28] Speaker 20: Some might even say to a fault, right, But they're
[3:34:31] Speaker 20: doing all this because of fake voter fraud from one
[3:34:35] Speaker 20: election cycle, and the government is apparently just letting.
[3:34:40] Speaker 3: Them move is their minds.
[3:34:43] Speaker 20: If it was us right, they would have been unused
[3:34:45] Speaker 20: the tear gas, not just the rubber bullets, real bullets
[3:34:48] Speaker 20: like we would have had. Hell, they might have just
[3:34:49] Speaker 20: bombed the whole capitol and be like, well, we'll rebuild
[3:34:52] Speaker 20: the capitol, let's just get rid of the negroes first, right,
[3:34:55] Speaker 20: Just that dichotomy is just incredibly striking.
[3:35:00] Speaker 13: You know, this is America. It's just a reminder of
[3:35:04] Speaker 13: where we live. But it does sometimes also remind and
[3:35:09] Speaker 13: frustrate I think folks who do this work about we're
[3:35:12] Speaker 13: doing this work, and yet and still we ain't nowhere.
[3:35:16] Speaker 7: Near being free in this country.
[3:35:19] Speaker 13: Sometimes I wonder, if we're organizing our people into a burning.
[3:35:22] Speaker 7: House, can black people make it home with a broken tail?
[3:35:26] Speaker 2: An?
[3:35:26] Speaker 21: We don't know.
[3:35:27] Speaker 13: You're plain people go to the park and do what
[3:35:29] Speaker 13: everybody else does in the park without having a police call.
[3:35:32] Speaker 31: No, And none of that changed, and.
[3:35:35] Speaker 13: Yet and still we saved your asses from four more
[3:35:39] Speaker 13: years of bullshit. Basically, so, yes, America, you're welcome. You're welcome.
[3:35:47] Speaker 29: Now where are my reparations?
[3:35:48] Speaker 14: Damn it?
[3:35:51] Speaker 7: What time y'all leaving.
[3:35:52] Speaker 28: I've literally just packed meself.
[3:35:54] Speaker 17: Okay, you moving like me because you're being resentful to
[3:35:57] Speaker 17: those I have got an information that there is a
[3:36:04] Speaker 17: hit list. We're one of the names anybody google Black
[3:36:08] Speaker 17: Goes Matter.
[3:36:09] Speaker 7: I mean, I mean it's me and Cliff.
[3:36:11] Speaker 17: We talked to the FBI and there is some credibility
[3:36:14] Speaker 17: with it, so out of an abundance of caution, if
[3:36:17] Speaker 17: we've made a decision to relocate for a couple of days.
[3:36:24] Speaker 7: I'm actually really emotional about this. I'm really mad, to
[3:36:27] Speaker 7: be honest, because I won't leave my house.
[3:36:29] Speaker 31: It's my house.
[3:36:30] Speaker 17: I'm like, I'm working all fucking you have been waiting
[3:36:32] Speaker 17: to sleep.
[3:36:33] Speaker 7: In my bed in my house.
[3:36:35] Speaker 17: But anyway, I'm gonna be obedient, not to a person,
[3:36:38] Speaker 17: but the what the what I know is being called
[3:36:41] Speaker 17: in this moment. What's being called in this moment is
[3:36:43] Speaker 17: to protect myself and my family.
[3:36:46] Speaker 21: So and once again, here we are.
[3:36:49] Speaker 20: It's not just black folks in general, but as black
[3:36:51] Speaker 20: organizers in this country where even our moment of celebration
[3:36:54] Speaker 20: gets interrupted, right, even our period to exhale gets interrupted.
[3:36:58] Speaker 21: We got to take a deep breath.
[3:37:00] Speaker 2: Right, This is part of why they do what they do.
[3:37:02] Speaker 20: There's a segment of them that really do it just
[3:37:04] Speaker 20: because they want to hurt, they want to kill. But
[3:37:07] Speaker 20: even going back to the original domestic terrorism, the KKK,
[3:37:10] Speaker 20: part of its purpose has always been to cause concern,
[3:37:13] Speaker 20: to cause somebody to even think, do I need to
[3:37:16] Speaker 20: be doing this work, to make folks just be like,
[3:37:18] Speaker 20: I'm gona just live a normal life. I'm gonna just
[3:37:20] Speaker 20: deal with whatever racism. Un Let somebody else into all.
[3:37:23] Speaker 2: That serial school.
[3:37:25] Speaker 32: Okay, that's what I want to see.
[3:37:27] Speaker 33: I've sued small racist counties for police brutality and to
[3:37:30] Speaker 33: pose these same officers that I'm accusing of being abusive
[3:37:33] Speaker 33: to black people and then having to leave that community
[3:37:36] Speaker 33: and go home in the middle of the night, you know,
[3:37:39] Speaker 33: by myself.
[3:37:41] Speaker 32: So you know, it comes with the territory.
[3:37:44] Speaker 33: You know, it takes courage, but you also have to
[3:37:47] Speaker 33: be intelligent.
[3:37:49] Speaker 32: So that's what we're trying to do.
[3:37:53] Speaker 7: I mean, I'm from the South.
[3:37:54] Speaker 17: Whenever there's progress is always back. Lest Right after Reconstruction,
[3:37:59] Speaker 17: there were three hundred blacke folks who were elected a
[3:38:01] Speaker 17: public office.
[3:38:02] Speaker 7: A white mile killed seventy of them overnight.
[3:38:05] Speaker 17: So I ain't gotta just hear the word to know
[3:38:07] Speaker 17: that I gotta be cautious.
[3:38:13] Speaker 7: Much can much, can't much.
[3:38:16] Speaker 18: You're sleeping

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