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Gary Chambers Jr On Backwards American Policies, Taking Back Legislative Power, US Senate Run + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club. Morning.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's DJ Envy Angel Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are
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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club because our special guests joining us today,
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Speaker 1: Brother Gary Chambers Junior, Welcome back, Brother, Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all having me running for US Senate in Louisiana. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to have you on, man, just because Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 1: what the hell is happening? Man, It's why, it's why,
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Speaker 1: you know, I can't tell if it's twenty twenty two
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Speaker 1: or eighteen seventy three. Wow. The logic of the Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court today, I think is comparative to the Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds. How do we get Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: justices the US Senate? They voting to prove these people
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Speaker 1: and they send them there. And these folks have worked
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Speaker 1: for fifty years to get to this point. And I
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Speaker 1: think that a lot of us thought it was a
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Speaker 1: game that our rites could be stripped away. But this
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Speaker 1: is step one. And to every black or brown person
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Speaker 1: in America, if white men will take the rights of
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Speaker 1: their own women and daughters from them, what's about you?
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Speaker 1: That's right? Let's talk about that big picture of you,
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Speaker 1: because today it is ro versus way. But like you said,
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Speaker 1: this is just the beginning. So so what are your
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Speaker 1: thoughts on just the Supreme Court overall and what it
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Speaker 1: is they could potentially do. I think I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: to the solution first. The solution is we have to
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Speaker 1: pack the court. Yea. There's a lot of folks who
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Speaker 1: are talking about not doing so, but that is the answer.
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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court was not always the numbers that it is.
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Speaker 1: Look in the history book and read the reality is
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Speaker 1: gay rights, voting rights, policing in America. There was just
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Speaker 1: a ruling on Miranda rights like the Supreme Court too,
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Speaker 1: there's a ruling about gun rights at the same time
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Speaker 1: that they are stripping away women's rights, they're expanding gun
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Speaker 1: rights while people are having a gun violence epidemic as
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Speaker 1: well as mass shootings in this country. And so I
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Speaker 1: think that we are headed backwards. Even the congresswoman making
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Speaker 1: the statement the other night thanking President Trump for protecting
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Speaker 1: white life right and then saying that it wasn't That
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Speaker 1: wasn't what she was saying. Yeah, she knew what she
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Speaker 1: was and everybody shared when they heard white life too.
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Speaker 1: The mind thought and said what it was prepared to say.
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Speaker 1: Inside it came out. It just slipped out. And so
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Speaker 1: you know, you could walk it back all you want to,
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Speaker 1: but this is the reality we're dealing with. And when
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Speaker 1: you talk about packing the courts, who has the authority
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Speaker 1: to do that? Because Joe Biden, they're saying, is reluctant
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Speaker 1: and does not want to the Supreme Court. I mean
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Speaker 1: the Senate and the President together. If the Senate decides
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Speaker 1: that they want to change legislation to expand the court,
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Speaker 1: the President has to approve that um and if Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden doesn't want to do that, then he shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: the president. So what can people do? Because we talked
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Speaker 1: about they said, you know, everybody heard what happened over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Everybody goes vote, vote, but for the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years, they say that we had record number
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Speaker 1: of minorities come out and vote. So what can people do?
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Speaker 1: So let me let me me quantify that. We vote
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Speaker 1: for the president, but when it comes to legislative seats,
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Speaker 1: we sit on our tail. The senator that I'm running against,
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Speaker 1: John Kennedy, and I sent these numbers to Charletmage an
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Speaker 1: other day. He was elected in twenty eighteen, Twenty six
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Speaker 1: percent of black voters in New Orleans showed up, thirty
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Speaker 1: six percent of black voters in Baton Rouge showed up,
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Speaker 1: twenty six percent of black voters in shre Reports showed up.
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Speaker 1: He won with five hundred and thirty six thousand votes,
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Speaker 1: and they're nine hundred thousand registered black voters in the
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Speaker 1: state of Louisiana. If black folks alone had showed up,
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Speaker 1: John Kennedy wouldn't be in the US Senate. That's another
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Speaker 1: number that we have that helps us to pass all
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Speaker 1: of these things. You can't just have fifty votes when
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Speaker 1: you got two US Senators who are voting against you
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Speaker 1: consistently in Kristen Cinema and Joe Manchin, and you need
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Speaker 1: to expand the Martins. The solution is Charles Booker in Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: The solution is Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin. It's me in Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: it is Big John in Pennsylvania. Right there are people
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Speaker 1: who are running right now who share the same values,
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Speaker 1: have the same conviction, and they're not moderate Democrats. They
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Speaker 1: believe that when you get power, you do something with
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Speaker 1: the power that you're given. That's what's going on in
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Speaker 1: Louisiana with Roe versus Way, because I know now it's
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Speaker 1: a state by state decision. So we have one of
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Speaker 1: the worst laws in the country. As it relates to this.
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Speaker 1: We only had three abortion clinics in the entire state,
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Speaker 1: one one in Batteries, one in New Orleans, and one
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Speaker 1: in Shreveport. All three of them instantly closed because we
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Speaker 1: had a trigger law signed into law by a moderate Democrat. Okay,
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Speaker 1: in Louisiana, we don't have a single woman currently in
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Speaker 1: the state Senate that is pro choice, black or white.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy, Okay. So when you when you process that,
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Speaker 1: it is because the masses of us stay home and
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Speaker 1: let them a minority of us decide who represents the
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Speaker 1: majority of us. And so that's the problem in Louisiana.
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Speaker 1: So women in Louisiana have no reproductive rights at this point.
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Speaker 1: And who does that affect the most when it comes
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Speaker 1: to women in Louisiana. Just to break that down, that
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Speaker 1: that affects black people, black women the most, it affects
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Speaker 1: brown women, it affects poor people across the board. Louisiana
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Speaker 1: is the fiftieth rank state in the nation. So we
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Speaker 1: have a huge poor population of black and white people.
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Speaker 1: It will affect them the most because if you have
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Speaker 1: somebody who's in New Iberia Louisiana who gets pregnant and
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to have that baby, that person now has
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Speaker 1: to go to New Mexico or Illinois are the closest
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Speaker 1: places that they can go. If I can't afford three
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Speaker 1: fifty four hundred dollars for a procedure in my state,
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Speaker 1: how do I afford eight hundred dollars plane ticket of
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Speaker 1: three hundred dollars hotel room? And there I have to do.
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Speaker 1: And you're not gonna go by yourself. Somebody has to
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Speaker 1: come with you, so that person has to get a flight. Also,
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Speaker 1: it becomes an impossible situation for women in our state
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Speaker 1: and to men, Okay, you should be concerned. Okay, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of men who have unprotected sex in this country.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna go after contraceptives. They've already said this. Clarence
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Speaker 1: Thomas has already said that he believes that they should
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Speaker 1: look at what we do as far as money on contraceptors,
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Speaker 1: and then not to mention people who don't have the
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Speaker 1: money to travel, they may try to find another means
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Speaker 1: of having an abortion that would be illegal and also unsafe.
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Speaker 1: I watched this documentary the James on HBO Max recently
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Speaker 1: about abortion procedures in Chicago before Rove Wade, and there
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Speaker 1: were terrible things that women went through. And I encourage
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Speaker 1: everybody to go watch it because there's a perspective that
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Speaker 1: we just don't know, especially as men, the emotional capacity
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Speaker 1: of how women were treated, women having to do sexual
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Speaker 1: favors in order to have a procedure. I'm a father
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Speaker 1: of a twelve year old daughter, all right. I want
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Speaker 1: my daughter to grow up to have the ability to
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Speaker 1: make whatever decisions in her life she chooses to make.
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Speaker 1: That it would be the same if I had a son. Right,
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Speaker 1: America has not afforded that. And the reality is Black
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Speaker 1: people have only had their rights since the sixties, and
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Speaker 1: women have only have their rights in this country since
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Speaker 1: the seventies. So when we say that all of these
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Speaker 1: sexists and racist things are ages ago, No, that Rovie
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Speaker 1: Wade passed twelve years before I was born, right, right,
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Speaker 1: that's that's not a massive amount of time. My father
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Speaker 1: was born without all of his constitutional rights, right, that's
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Speaker 1: not that's not slavery. That's that's that impacts our lifetime.
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Speaker 1: And I am the first generation in my family born
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Speaker 1: with all my rights while America tells us, oh, this
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Speaker 1: is the greatest country on earth since when exactly? That's why,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the problem with God's like President Biden right,
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Speaker 1: they would leave in the Institution of America so much.
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Speaker 1: But he's a s great white male. It's always worked
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Speaker 1: for him since the founding, since the constitution. You know,
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Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas gave a speech about what is the fourth
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Speaker 1: did July to the slave? What is the fourth of
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Speaker 1: July to the neigh where we're going into enstance weekend?
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Speaker 1: Fourth of July weekend next weekend? What do we have
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Speaker 1: to celebrate about America today? Gas prices high as hell?
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Speaker 1: Bratt read milk your energy bill. You're taking away people's rights,
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Speaker 1: You're building an unjust government and then telling us to
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Speaker 1: be excited about it. Nah, I'm not with it. You know,
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Speaker 1: you said something earlier about using power, and I asked
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Speaker 1: you this this weekend. But you know, we know elections
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Speaker 1: have consequences, but I want to know what consequences. Consequences
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Speaker 1: worse Republicans who get in office and abuse power, or
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Speaker 1: democrats we put in office who don't use that power
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Speaker 1: to protect us from that abuse. In my eyes, there's
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Speaker 1: no difference between the two. If you're not helping advance
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Speaker 1: the cause of people, the people that you represent, you're
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Speaker 1: no different than the devil that we're fighting. That's why
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Speaker 1: we have to be intentional about putting a demand on
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Speaker 1: people upfront and then making sure that there's the accountability measures.
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Speaker 1: If you elect the president, but you don't elect the
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Speaker 1: House and the Senate that's gonna check that president, I
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Speaker 1: don't care if they end your party or out of
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Speaker 1: your party, you're never going to accomplish anything. I don't
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Speaker 1: believe in blind political loyalty. I just don't believe in it.
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Speaker 1: You give somebody a vote, and then you hold them
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Speaker 1: accountable after you give them that vote, and then if
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Speaker 1: you don't do what you say you're gonna do, we
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Speaker 1: don't reelect you. The other problem is we have too
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Speaker 1: many elected officials who have stayed too long. Their ideology
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Speaker 1: and their view of the world is different than that
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Speaker 1: of us, and we have to inherit their decisions right.
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Speaker 1: Some of them are gonna be gone in ten fifteen years,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be here for the next fifty years dealing
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Speaker 1: with decisions that they made today. And what I would
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Speaker 1: hope they would do is consider retiring. I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: call out any of our favorite black or white older
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Speaker 1: politicians that have been there since the eighties or the nineties,
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Speaker 1: but how long you gonna stay? And the second question
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Speaker 1: is how long we gonna vote on them? Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: at some point we have to be accountable to ourselves
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Speaker 1: that if I'm giving you numbers saying that in the
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Speaker 1: Senate race, twenty six percent of black voters in New
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Speaker 1: Orleans showed up, we gave him the election. We gave
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Speaker 1: it to him. Now, and let me say this, we
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Speaker 1: gave it to him in part because the state party
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Speaker 1: in Louisiana gave us a white Democrat that black voters
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Speaker 1: did not want to vote for all. So that's a
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Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Democrat, a moderate white Democrat that
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Speaker 1: black folks had no relationship with. There's a moderate white
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Speaker 1: Democrat that black folks have no relationship running against me? Right,
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Speaker 1: what will the party do? Because the country is on
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Speaker 1: the line at this point, we don't have time to
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Speaker 1: play these games. And see, that's what boses me too.
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Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, if we know we have these moderate
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Speaker 1: white Democrats or these blue dog Democrats that they call them,
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Speaker 1: why not call them out, like why not say, look, look,
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Speaker 1: we don't want y'all supporting him, We want y'all supporting
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Speaker 1: this person because this person is going to actually get
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Speaker 1: into the Senate, get into the House, and you know,
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Speaker 1: vote to make change. Well, folks like myself do do
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Speaker 1: that consistently. We've run against them to try to put
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Speaker 1: them out of office. We have to we have to
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Speaker 1: have the resources. There are people challenging these people all
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Speaker 1: over the country. We're not raising the money that the
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Speaker 1: establishment Democrats are raising. We need to see the people
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Speaker 1: who are making all this noise right now about caring
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Speaker 1: about this issue, showing up for us and hosting fundraisers
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Speaker 1: in galvanizing voters, because the candidates that are out here
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Speaker 1: championing these causes cannot win without the resources. Charles Booker
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Speaker 1: will not be victorious in Kentucky if he doesn't get
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Speaker 1: every black influencer in the state of Kentucky to step
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Speaker 1: up and have his back in a meaningful way to
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Speaker 1: add concerts registered voters. Right to add clubs registered voters
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Speaker 1: because brothers and sisters. That's going to the club. When
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Speaker 1: you leave a club, if you're not thinking about the
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Speaker 1: consequences of your decisions that night, you no longer have
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Speaker 1: the right to get the procedures or a plan be
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Speaker 1: peel in certain states, has it been difficult for you
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Speaker 1: to get influential people in Louisiana to galvanize for you. No,
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Speaker 1: because we work really hard at it. We are aggressive
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Speaker 1: at going after the influences in our state and were
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Speaker 1: grateful for their support. But I know that we could
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Speaker 1: have more, and we could have more people who you
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Speaker 1: don't have to understand it all to recognize that we're
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Speaker 1: in a bad place. And what you have the capacity
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Speaker 1: to do is raise money and influence people. And it's
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Speaker 1: that simple. What we need the people who have influence
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Speaker 1: to do is raise money and influence people so that
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Speaker 1: those of us who understand the policies and that you
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Speaker 1: have seen consistently go out there and do the work
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Speaker 1: going there and do it. Because a zebra does not
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Speaker 1: change his stripes. If you have somebody who as a
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Speaker 1: candidate was not out there fighting for your rights before,
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Speaker 1: you never saw him at a protest, You never saw
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Speaker 1: him advocating for certain things. Why do you expect them
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Speaker 1: to do that when they become an elected official. They
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Speaker 1: also talk about expanding the gun laws. Break that down
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Speaker 1: for people that don't know well. So what the Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court did was basically say that states don't have the
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Speaker 1: capacity to our restrict whether or not somebody can conceal carry,
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Speaker 1: that people can have a right to bear arms wherever
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Speaker 1: they are in this country. That you can restrict certain
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Speaker 1: locations like churches and schools, and that that should be
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Speaker 1: looked at. But Clarence Thomas even suggested we have to
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Speaker 1: be careful when we look at what we're examining there.
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Speaker 1: I posted a tweet the other day that I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to find out where's the trade option for Thomas because
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Speaker 1: I'm tired of him. You know, how do we get
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Speaker 1: rid of this guy? And we get rid of him
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Speaker 1: by making sure that the next time there's a vacancy
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Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court, that there's a democratic majority there
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Speaker 1: that passes somebody forward. That's going to be about justice, right, Um,
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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. They won't live forever, but do
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Speaker 1: we have the mechanisms of power when theyre when it's
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Speaker 1: time to make their change. But even when we have
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Speaker 1: the mechanisms of fire, we don't use them. For example,
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Speaker 1: you know, um RBG should have stepped down, she should
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Speaker 1: have retired, and they should have There's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people who love to talk about Ruth bade Againsberg, And
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Speaker 1: I don't even like giving her the RBG title because
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Speaker 1: you know that that that puts a lot of stink
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Speaker 1: on her name that I don't have revolution. She stayed
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Speaker 1: on the court for selfish reasons, in my opinion, and
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Speaker 1: nobody wants to say that did she do some great
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Speaker 1: things while she was on the court. Yeah, but the
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Speaker 1: broke clock can be right twice a day. That and
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Speaker 1: when when Mitch McConnell blocked you know, Obama's picking two
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Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen and saying it was too close to
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Speaker 1: the election, why didn't they push back? Why did this
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Speaker 1: allowed themselves? Now they did. They did push back when
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Speaker 1: Obama was obed up the right to a point of justice. Now,
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Speaker 1: the deal is, Republicans show you what to do when
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Speaker 1: they get powers, that when they get power, they are
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Speaker 1: not playing by the rules. This whole notion that we
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Speaker 1: were not in the filibuster, if Republicans were there today
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Speaker 1: and they wanted to do something. They are going to
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Speaker 1: break the rule of the filibuster, and they're gonna pass
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Speaker 1: it because at the end of the day, it's a
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Speaker 1: stupid rule anyway, And the filibuster wasn't even always there.
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Speaker 1: You know, these are things that we don't know in history,
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Speaker 1: and they don't teach us that these are rules that
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Speaker 1: were devised in order to make sure that they made
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Speaker 1: the process more difficult for people like you and I
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Speaker 1: to have rights. Listen, we know why Joe mans is
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Speaker 1: not going to vote to get rid of the filibuster,
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Speaker 1: because he's just Democratic name only. But why wouldn't you know,
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden want to do things like expanding the court.
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Speaker 1: Why isn't he calling for the filibusters? I think, and
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Speaker 1: this is in fairness to the president. He's an old
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Speaker 1: white man who went to the Senate in his thirties,
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Speaker 1: right in the seventies, and spent his entire adulthood growing
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Speaker 1: up among these people who he refers too, and that's
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Speaker 1: his lived experience. We cannot rob him of his lived experience.
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Speaker 1: What we have to decide is we don't want people
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Speaker 1: with that lived experience, or you know, he has a
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Speaker 1: right to believe what he believes. We have a right
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Speaker 1: to not vote for him. If you will not change
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Speaker 1: to the will of the people. It is our will
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Speaker 1: by our vote. And if we don't want, if we
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Speaker 1: don't want what we see, then he needs to be
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Speaker 1: challenged in twenty twenty four, he needs to be primary
15:25
Speaker 1: when it comes to these January six hearings that we've
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Speaker 1: been watching, what can potentially happen to Donald Trump? Do
15:32
Speaker 1: you think anything will happen at all? Do you think
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Speaker 1: he'll run for president again? I think Trump will possibly
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Speaker 1: run for president again. And I don't think that they're
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Speaker 1: gonna do Trump anything. Man. They already said it. What
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Speaker 1: does it to some degree America, White America is going
15:47
Speaker 1: to say, how does it benefit us to arrest a
15:50
Speaker 1: former president of this country? That is just going to
15:53
Speaker 1: be their logic that there is no gain for us
15:56
Speaker 1: in arresting him. For somebody who commits a crime that
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Speaker 1: should be arrested no matter what your job is. Yeah,
16:01
Speaker 1: but we know the rules ain't faying America. You never
16:03
Speaker 1: have been. So what Jamie Raskin said yesterday, he said
16:06
Speaker 1: that charges for Trump are others are not a principal interest.
16:10
Speaker 1: He said, we want the American people that know the truth,
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Speaker 1: so a coup can never happen in this country again.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, how is it not gonna happen again?
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Speaker 1: If you don't hold the people accountable cars be able
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Speaker 1: to run for president again, He's gonna run for president again.
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Speaker 1: At minimum, it shouldn't even be allowed. I think that
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Speaker 1: we have to recognize that in the hierarchy of rich
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Speaker 1: billionaires and rich white folks in America that they're just
16:36
Speaker 1: they played by different rules and if we want those
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Speaker 1: rules to change, our powers there so we just have
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Speaker 1: to you tolize, what do you tell somebody who voted
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Speaker 1: for Biden? They feel like Biden did absolutely positively nothing,
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Speaker 1: nothing that he agreed, nothing that he said he was
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Speaker 1: gonna do. Now, I don't think Biden's gonna run again.
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Speaker 1: Maybe will, maybe wasn't, But then you have Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: running again. So what do you tell those people? Now?
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Speaker 1: I would tell them that even on his worst day,
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Speaker 1: he's better than the other garbage that we had, and
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Speaker 1: that if you want better, that the generations before us
17:07
Speaker 1: had to put in work to elect better leaders to
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Speaker 1: do this is the work. This this whole logic that
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Speaker 1: things are just going to magically change is bs. They
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Speaker 1: never have. We have to be committed to saying that
17:18
Speaker 1: we want to see change happen and doing the work
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Speaker 1: we have to elect people on the local level, the
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Speaker 1: state level, and the federal level, and the legislative powers
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Speaker 1: is where we really have the most of a deficit,
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Speaker 1: I believe, and if we pay attention. We always pay
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Speaker 1: attention to the executives, the mayor, the governor, the president.
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Speaker 1: But the people who control the levels of power are
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Speaker 1: your congress people, your senators, your city council people, and
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Speaker 1: we just we stay out of those races acts. Ask
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Speaker 1: the next person who comes on your show, who is
17:48
Speaker 1: their city council member, school board member, state rep, state senator,
17:52
Speaker 1: Ask them do they know him. I can tell you
17:54
Speaker 1: my school board members Darius Lands. I can tell you
17:56
Speaker 1: that my House members Edmond Jordan. I can tell you
17:58
Speaker 1: that my senator is bad. I can tell you that
18:00
Speaker 1: my congress person is h Carter. I can tell you
18:05
Speaker 1: every elected official from the from the lowest local level
18:08
Speaker 1: all the way up to the highest. And if you
18:10
Speaker 1: don't know that, that is a part of the problem.
18:13
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I wanted to have you.
18:14
Speaker 1: You up here because you know, I look and I
18:16
Speaker 1: see these established establishment Democrats. They never seem to support
18:20
Speaker 1: the change agents, right, whether it's Nina Turner, whether it's yourself,
18:24
Speaker 1: like when I when I even ask about you, like, oh,
18:27
Speaker 1: they can't win. Well, why I can't win if you
18:30
Speaker 1: don't help me? Exactly if if if I'm telling you
18:34
Speaker 1: that that this man won with five hundred and thirty
18:36
Speaker 1: six thousand votes, that there are nine hundred thousand registered
18:39
Speaker 1: black voters in Louisiana, one point two million eligible black voters,
18:43
Speaker 1: and thirty percent of white voters in our state consistently
18:46
Speaker 1: vote for Democrats. And we have a Democrat elected as governor.
18:49
Speaker 1: How come somebody black can't do it right because we
18:52
Speaker 1: don't have ten million dollars. Because the Democrat that's elected
18:55
Speaker 1: in my state statewide, the difference between him. There was
18:58
Speaker 1: a sister named gwyn Collins green Up that ran for
19:00
Speaker 1: Secretary of State in Louisiana. She got forty one percent
19:03
Speaker 1: of the vote. She had nine thousand dollars in the bank.
19:05
Speaker 1: In the same year John bell Ed was won the
19:07
Speaker 1: governor's race, he had ten million dollars. That's the difference.
19:12
Speaker 1: The money gives you the ability. These pens, these shirts,
19:15
Speaker 1: these mailers, these commercials, they're not free. And the consultants
19:19
Speaker 1: in the staff that you see you have to pay
19:20
Speaker 1: for the gas, you have to pay for the everything
19:23
Speaker 1: that you see is a cost to you know. And
19:26
Speaker 1: so for those of us who want to see it
19:28
Speaker 1: happen this resource, is it not for me to get rich.
19:31
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, most of those who are running for
19:33
Speaker 1: office really championing they're not winning financially. They are fighting
19:37
Speaker 1: for something bigger than them to get to a point
19:40
Speaker 1: to help all of us. And what we have to
19:42
Speaker 1: recognize is if they're gonna make that sacrifice, what's the
19:44
Speaker 1: sacrifice that we're gonna make. Did you get a lot
19:47
Speaker 1: of backlash for you promo that was in support of
19:50
Speaker 1: two A rates? I thought it was right on the money.
19:52
Speaker 1: We didn't. We didn't get a lot of negative feedback.
19:54
Speaker 1: We didn't get a lot of national exposure to it.
19:57
Speaker 1: And I think that we didn't get anil of national
19:59
Speaker 1: exposures because we cut straight to the issue. I am
20:02
Speaker 1: a When Buffalo happened, I didn't really know how to
20:06
Speaker 1: respond to that because I have a seventy six year
20:08
Speaker 1: old mother and a twelve year old daughter, right that
20:12
Speaker 1: my daughter goes to the grocery store my mother all
20:14
Speaker 1: the time. She goes to the grocery store with her
20:16
Speaker 1: mother all the time. And when I watched that video
20:18
Speaker 1: and I saw this white dude walk in the store,
20:20
Speaker 1: shoot these folks, see this white guy. The white guy screams,
20:24
Speaker 1: he said, Oh, I'm sorry, don't shoot him to walk
20:26
Speaker 1: out the door. Right, How do I feel safe when
20:29
Speaker 1: my mama going to the store. Yeah, nigga written on
20:31
Speaker 1: his gun on the gun. Right. So we made a
20:35
Speaker 1: video shooting clansmen to respond to that, and we were
20:38
Speaker 1: going to release it the day after you've already happened.
20:41
Speaker 1: But then you've already happened, and we said, well, we
20:43
Speaker 1: can't drop a video with me shooting the clansmen under
20:46
Speaker 1: those circumstances. And so then we retooled and we did
20:49
Speaker 1: a school shooter video. But I could not address gun
20:53
Speaker 1: rights in America without addressing what happened in Buffalo. And
20:56
Speaker 1: I'm a gun owner, and I know that millions of
20:59
Speaker 1: people in this country a gun owners. In Louisiana, since
21:02
Speaker 1: two thousand, six million guns have been sold in our state. Okay,
21:06
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get guns away from people this logic
21:09
Speaker 1: that we should just get rid of guns. There are
21:11
Speaker 1: too many guns in America. There are more guns than people.
21:13
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get away with guns, get rid of guns.
21:16
Speaker 1: What you can do is have sensible legislation and a
21:19
Speaker 1: process to own a gun that is that makes it
21:22
Speaker 1: secure and understands who owns this weapon. And at least
21:25
Speaker 1: we say we try to make sure that responsible people
21:28
Speaker 1: have guns. And so if there's a choice between my
21:31
Speaker 1: mother going home, my daughter going home, and me going home,
21:34
Speaker 1: and are you me and my family going home? And
21:37
Speaker 1: I think that any American has the right to protect
21:39
Speaker 1: and defend their family. But do I believe that people
21:42
Speaker 1: need the ability to kill dozens of people in seconds? No,
21:45
Speaker 1: So I was gonna ask you, so, what are your
21:47
Speaker 1: thoughts on semi automatic weapons and rifles and long guns.
21:50
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what my thoughts are on it, because
21:52
Speaker 1: there are too many of them out here for us
21:53
Speaker 1: to get rid of them. And I think that we
21:55
Speaker 1: need to be realistic with ourselves about that. I think
22:00
Speaker 1: that we need to have a process to owning any
22:03
Speaker 1: type of weapon in this country. I think that that
22:05
Speaker 1: is realistic legislation. I think that we can talk idealistic
22:09
Speaker 1: policy and we can talk about what we can actually
22:12
Speaker 1: get done. And what we can actually get done is
22:14
Speaker 1: a process of making sure and even it's logic that
22:16
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old should be able to get these guns, No,
22:19
Speaker 1: they shouldn't. You can join the military if you're eighteen. Yeah,
22:22
Speaker 1: but you get training when you join the military, right,
22:24
Speaker 1: and so if you're gonna use a weapon in the
22:26
Speaker 1: confines of a job, that you're trained to use it in. Cool.
22:29
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't think an eighteen ye
22:30
Speaker 1: old should have a gun. These are sensible things. Or
22:33
Speaker 1: do you think about the gun safety build that Biden
22:35
Speaker 1: just signed it in the law? What do you think
22:36
Speaker 1: about them? Like that napkin right there, it's a little
22:39
Speaker 1: piece of paper. You know, it's not meaningful. It's to
22:43
Speaker 1: say that they did something. I think the red flag
22:47
Speaker 1: incentives are actually have the potential to be beneficial. But
22:50
Speaker 1: if you ask any of the organizations that are really
22:52
Speaker 1: doing gun rights legista policy work, they would tell you
22:56
Speaker 1: that they would prefer much much more. Yeah, I don't
22:58
Speaker 1: agree with nothing that says. By a part of days,
23:01
Speaker 1: if Bill Cassidy is on the thing, who's a senator
23:04
Speaker 1: from the other senator from Louisiana. Ain't nothing in it
23:07
Speaker 1: coming out there good for black folk, Okay, Ain't nothing
23:11
Speaker 1: good in it coming out there that's sensible in this
23:13
Speaker 1: country because he does not care, yeah, you know, and
23:16
Speaker 1: so telling me that he's a part of it, He's
23:18
Speaker 1: only gonna be a part of it if he thinks
23:19
Speaker 1: that it's beneficial for the community that he represents. I
23:22
Speaker 1: think it's safe to say that the Republican Party is
23:24
Speaker 1: just the party of white supremacists. It's the clan, that's it.
23:26
Speaker 1: It's the clans. Herschel Walker running in Georgia is just
23:31
Speaker 1: a black, black faced clan member, that's it. If you
23:35
Speaker 1: are a part of the Republican Party listening to the
23:37
Speaker 1: things that they are saying right now. And here's the
23:39
Speaker 1: other thing. The top ten states in America, seven out
23:44
Speaker 1: of ten of them are ran by either Democratic governors
23:46
Speaker 1: or Democratic legislatures. The top bottoms, the top lowest states
23:51
Speaker 1: in America are either seven out of the ten of
23:54
Speaker 1: them are Republican legislatures or Republican governors. So you don't
23:58
Speaker 1: even have to ask my opinion. Republican policies are failing.
24:01
Speaker 1: Look at the Deep South, Louisiana. Mississippi is almost completely
24:04
Speaker 1: ran by Republicans in our state legislature as well as
24:08
Speaker 1: the governorship. In Mississippi, we have a Democrat governor, but
24:11
Speaker 1: we have a supermajority in the legislature and Republicans and
24:14
Speaker 1: we rank fifty and forty nine. So if Republican policies
24:18
Speaker 1: are successful, why aren't they working in Louisiana in Mississippi?
24:21
Speaker 1: Why are we failing? Why are the number one through
24:24
Speaker 1: three states in this country run by Democrats? Why are
24:27
Speaker 1: the bottom three states run by Republicans? Now? How can
24:32
Speaker 1: people support you if they don't know? How can they
24:34
Speaker 1: support you if they don't live in Louisiana and they
24:36
Speaker 1: just want to support you as as financially whatever they
24:38
Speaker 1: can do, How can they support you? They can go
24:40
Speaker 1: to Chambers for Louisiana dot Com to make a contribution.
24:43
Speaker 1: We need contributions. The end of the quarters coming up.
24:45
Speaker 1: We want to be as strong as possible as we
24:48
Speaker 1: come to this end of the quarter, we need folks
24:50
Speaker 1: to phone bank for us. Toward the end of this summer,
24:53
Speaker 1: we're gonna start phone banking heavily. You can call from
24:55
Speaker 1: anywhere in this country. You can make calls for us.
24:57
Speaker 1: So you can sign up at Chambers for Louisiana dot
25:00
Speaker 1: com to volunteer. There's a take action tab you can
25:02
Speaker 1: click for that. There's a donate tab you can click
25:04
Speaker 1: for the contributions, and then leaning on the Democratic Party
25:09
Speaker 1: to step up for us, the national Party and the
25:12
Speaker 1: state party in Louisiana. We're the only person with the
25:15
Speaker 1: shot as sending John Kennedy home in this race. We
25:18
Speaker 1: have proven that we can build a national conversation from
25:20
Speaker 1: the worst rank state in this country, and we need
25:23
Speaker 1: them to get off their ass and do something. What
25:25
Speaker 1: do you say to people who say Gary Chambers does
25:27
Speaker 1: not have a chance of victory, I'd say they lying,
25:29
Speaker 1: And how do you know they? In my last race,
25:33
Speaker 1: I missed it by fifteen hundred votes. Okay, if you
25:37
Speaker 1: add up all the other people who ran in the
25:39
Speaker 1: race that I said for six months, for the ninety
25:41
Speaker 1: days we were in the special election, I said none
25:44
Speaker 1: of them could win. The amount of votes of those
25:47
Speaker 1: people was the amount of votes I needed to make
25:49
Speaker 1: it too the runoff. Wow, and you did mention. The
25:51
Speaker 1: Essence Festival is coming up this weekend, so are you
25:54
Speaker 1: doing anything? We have an event Saturday at the Jazz Market.
25:57
Speaker 1: We're gonna drop out flyer to they Teacher Campbell's actually
26:01
Speaker 1: gonna be hosting a day party with us at Essence Festival.
26:04
Speaker 1: It's Saturday, so that's gonna be a great thing. We
26:06
Speaker 1: want to just connect with people, make sure folks are
26:09
Speaker 1: registered to vote, and then just enjoy the culture of
26:11
Speaker 1: our state, in our city. And we want you to
26:12
Speaker 1: come to Louisiana. We want more of you to move
26:14
Speaker 1: to the South Saturday with Saturday at the Jazz Market
26:18
Speaker 1: in the Saturday. I love it, man, because you know,
26:21
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't understand how when you see
26:23
Speaker 1: people like that Joe mentions the cinemas, why Democrats aren't
26:27
Speaker 1: speaking out against them, And I don't understand why they're
26:29
Speaker 1: not supporting people like yourself, actual change agents. I think
26:33
Speaker 1: we have the capacity in the culture to send them
26:36
Speaker 1: all home. We just have to organize to make it happen.
26:39
Speaker 1: We are the most powerful weapon in this country. We
26:42
Speaker 1: show it consistently. Every business in this country is trying
26:46
Speaker 1: to figure out how do they capitalize off of us.
26:49
Speaker 1: We need to figure out how we mobilize that to
26:51
Speaker 1: make the change we want to see happen. For all
26:52
Speaker 1: of us. And when black people are good in this country,
26:54
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be good. That's right. Gary Chambers Junior, we
26:59
Speaker 1: appreciate you for in us and we'll see this weekend
27:01
Speaker 1: out in the New Orleans. Thank y'all. All right, it's
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Speaker 1: a breakfast club, Go Morning,