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INTERVIEW: Naturi Naughton-Lewis & Maurice Mitchell Talk 'Working Families & Power Party,' Omari, 50 Cent + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning Breakfast Club Morning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody is the e J n Vy, Jess, Hilary Charlamagne,
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Speaker 2: the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Ess is on
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Speaker 2: maternity leave, so Laura LaRosa is filling in, and we
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Speaker 2: got some special guests in the building. We have the
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Speaker 2: Tory Norton and Maurice Mitchell.
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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 3: How y'all feeling welcome? Welcome to not in Lewis.
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Speaker 4: Don't forget I'm sorry, damn name Lewis.
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Speaker 1: How you're feeling the energy? Everything good, Thing's good.
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Speaker 3: I can't complain.
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Speaker 5: Bless blessed, so happy to be here. I know we're
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Speaker 5: less than a week until election day or something.
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Speaker 1: Man, a couple of days.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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Speaker 6: The Working Families Party. Maurice, you're the national directory. And
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Speaker 6: I remember Jill Stein brought y'all up when she was
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Speaker 6: here on the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Was that an accurate look?
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Speaker 5: I get excited when people have our names in their mouths, right,
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Speaker 5: because generally that means we're doing that work, were put
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Speaker 5: in work. And the Working Families Party, for those of
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Speaker 5: you that may not know what we do, where what
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Speaker 5: happens where everyday people come together, people who aren't picked
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Speaker 5: from the political establishment. We come together and we demand
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Speaker 5: a seat at the agenda setting table, right, because we're
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Speaker 5: talking about elections, but it's really about setting agendas and
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Speaker 5: building agendas. And so when people are looking they say like, well,
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Speaker 5: you know, I'm fed up with this party at that party.
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Speaker 1: We want something else where. That's something else.
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Speaker 5: And I like to say that we're a non delusional,
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Speaker 5: grassroots third party, right. And so what that means is,
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Speaker 5: you know, we cook what we have in the kitchen, right.
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Speaker 5: So I grew up working class, right, and you know
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Speaker 5: I can't always have money to buy a gourmet meal,
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Speaker 5: but I'll look what we have in the kitchen, I'll
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Speaker 5: make a gourmet meal.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: And so we run people as independent WFP people sometimes
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Speaker 5: when we can, if there's a path to win, Like,
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Speaker 5: for example, how many of you know who Tis James is?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely okay. What you may not know is that Attorney general,
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Speaker 1: that's right.
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Speaker 5: She started as an independent Working Families candidate in two
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Speaker 5: thousand and three and worked her way up to becoming
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Speaker 5: Attorney General.
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Speaker 1: She was a lawyer.
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Speaker 5: She was a public defender and a consumer protection lawyer,
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Speaker 5: and the political establishment wanted nothing to do with her,
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Speaker 5: the white establishment, the black establishment, the Democratic Party establishment,
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Speaker 5: and we joined forces with her, and historically we defeated
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Speaker 5: the Republicans and Democrats and got her elected as a
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Speaker 5: city council person. Right, not too far from here in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 5: She worked her way all the way up to become
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Speaker 5: Attorney General, which is historic. But what does she do
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Speaker 5: when she had that authority? She used it in order
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Speaker 5: to hold the powerful accountable. Right, So everybody talks about
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Speaker 5: the thirty four felonies, the thirty four felonies, holding this
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Speaker 5: man who always had a silver spoon in his mouth,
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Speaker 5: who used his power to make sure that black folks
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Speaker 5: couldn't rent in his homes. When he became president, often
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Speaker 5: used his powers to enrich him and his friends. He
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Speaker 5: never faced accountability. He finally faced accountability when an independent
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Speaker 5: black woman gave him that work. Brought to you in
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Speaker 5: part by the Working Families Party, right, And so I
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Speaker 5: remember I'm from New York. I remember in New York
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Speaker 5: when we had a Republican governor, a Republican mayor, Republicans
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Speaker 5: of the state Senate.
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Speaker 1: It was through the Working Families Party.
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Speaker 5: People talk about down ballot races, right, actually focusing on
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Speaker 5: down ballot races, so that in city council and in
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Speaker 5: state legislatures, we moved the establishment closer to the people
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Speaker 5: so we could deliver on a fifteen dollar minimum wage.
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Speaker 5: Now that's the floor. You hear a lot of Democrats
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Speaker 5: talking about a fifteen dollar minimum wage. They weren't talking
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Speaker 5: about that until we created the conditions to make that
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Speaker 5: the floor. So where the folks who are always going
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Speaker 5: to focus on the issues of everyday working people. And look,
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Speaker 5: there's a lot of people talking about third party approaches.
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Speaker 5: I'll just end with this. There is an approach that
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Speaker 5: believes that every four years you could run at the
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Speaker 5: top of the ticket a third party candidate for president
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Speaker 5: and then somehow that will create the conditions in order
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Speaker 5: for people to be able to get a little bit
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Speaker 5: more freedom. However, what we've seen is like, look nineteen
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Speaker 5: ninety two, what was that. That was when a billionaire
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Speaker 5: Ross Perrot put all of his money down right, so
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Speaker 5: he had all of the money in the world and
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Speaker 5: he couldn't break twenty percent. He got eighteen point nine percent.
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Speaker 5: That told us, as the Working Families Party, that the
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Speaker 5: top down third party approach isn't viable for working people.
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Speaker 5: But the bottom up approach that's viable. So we started
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Speaker 5: off in New York. We're now in twenty places, we're
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Speaker 5: in twenty states, and we're putting in that work. We
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Speaker 5: endorse close to one thousand down ballet candidates.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: So, President and I know we're going to talk about
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Speaker 5: a lot of this. We're going to talk about the pushback. Look,
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Speaker 5: people are talking about the president. That is really important,
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Speaker 5: But the president doesn't make the laws. Congress makes the laws,
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Speaker 5: city council makes the laws, State legislature makes the laws,
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Speaker 5: and so working families.
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Speaker 1: What we do often is when you have.
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Speaker 5: Especially Democrats who are corporate Democrats who have either they
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Speaker 5: forgotten their way or never had their way, and they're
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Speaker 5: more accountable to lobbyists and corporations. Well we're the force
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Speaker 5: that kicks them out and replaces them with working families
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Speaker 5: candidates through primaries, right, and we've delivered in terms of
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Speaker 5: like the concrete things that actually matter. So in Philadelphia, right,
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Speaker 5: we I mean, look, I'm sorry, we have so many receipts,
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Speaker 5: We have CVS long receipts, right, But it's important that
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Speaker 5: people know this. So in Philadelphia, this is a city
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Speaker 5: where Democrats and Republicans were on City Council, and we
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Speaker 5: kicked off the two Republicans and replaced them with Working
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Speaker 5: Families Party candidates Kendrick Brooks and Nicholas O'Rourke. Why is
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Speaker 5: that important? Kendra is from nice Town. You could still
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Speaker 5: go to Nice Town. She's right there. She's on City
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Speaker 5: Council because of this movement that we built, and when
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Speaker 5: she got on City Council, it was historic. She was
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Speaker 5: the first non Democrat or Republican to get on city council.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 5: And we were actually with Kendra a few days ago
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Speaker 5: putting in work in North Philly and West Philly.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: And the important thing about Kendra Brooks and why governance
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Speaker 5: is so important, is that when she was there, we
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Speaker 5: didn't just do a victory party because she got there.
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Speaker 5: She organized all the folks in city Council so that
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Speaker 5: during COVID in twenty twenty, when people were sheltering in
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Speaker 5: place and they couldn't draw an income and many people
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Speaker 5: were concerned about getting kicked out on the streets because
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Speaker 5: their landlords wanted rent, she created eviction diversion program in
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Speaker 5: Philly that was temporary. Fast forward to today, we've made
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Speaker 5: it permanent. And right now there's an affordability crisis. A
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Speaker 5: lot of working people, a lot of people are listening,
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Speaker 5: are struggling to figure out how they stay at home.
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Speaker 5: In Philadelphia, there's a forty one percent decrease in evictions
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Speaker 5: because of that policy brought to you by Kendrick Brooks
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Speaker 5: and the Working Families Party. So the Working Families Party
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Speaker 5: is about putting results down for everyday working people.
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Speaker 1: What got you involved with the Working Family Forwardyvitor.
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Speaker 7: Well, amen to everything, Mare, he said. What got me
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Speaker 7: involved is really just my passion for politics. I went
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Speaker 7: to seat in Hall for political science, and you know,
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Speaker 7: they reached out to me and my husband too, and
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Speaker 7: it was like, look, how can we get involved, And
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Speaker 7: really it was just a natural, I think, organic relationship.
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Speaker 7: I am really you know, big in Jersey, big in
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Speaker 7: my community, and then you know, doing things for the
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Speaker 7: pushback was how we kind of first initially connected. And
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Speaker 7: the pushback just made me honestly more aware of Project
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Speaker 7: twenty twenty five and how I needed to use my voice.
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Speaker 7: So we went to Philly. We've been canvassing, knocking on doors,
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Speaker 7: going to people, making sure that early voting is happening.
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Speaker 7: So really just getting involved was a natural, organic relationship.
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Speaker 7: And I'm glad that working Families is using the culture,
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Speaker 7: you know, because of I guess you know, influence that
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Speaker 7: we have. I wanted to get involved and it's been
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Speaker 7: making making a difference.
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Speaker 1: Well, y'all pushing for the VP, right, I don't have
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Speaker 1: your own candidate.
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Speaker 5: Oh so it's not so yeah, I want to be
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Speaker 5: I want to be clear. We're an independent third party
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Speaker 5: and look, we tell the people the truth.
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Speaker 1: So if we can't.
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Speaker 5: Find inside right, So if we can't find a path
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Speaker 5: to victory, right, Because one of the ways to just
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Speaker 5: to define a party is like parties organized winning. And
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Speaker 5: one way to evaluate a party is to ask what
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Speaker 5: is your path to victory and what is your strategy?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 5: Those are the questions you should be asking. If we
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Speaker 5: don't see a path to victory, we don't waste our
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Speaker 5: people's time, money and energy. We could not see a
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Speaker 5: way for us to run a candidate from the WFP
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Speaker 5: at the top of the ticket. Right, So what we
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Speaker 5: did it is a binary choice. Anybody that's telling you
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Speaker 5: that on Tuesday, anybody but Donald Trump or Kamala Harris
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Speaker 5: are gonna are gonna win that election? Are either lying
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Speaker 5: to you or they don't know the basics of civics
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Speaker 5: in this country. Right, So when we saw this binary party, No,
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, my job as an organizer was to
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Speaker 5: tell the truth, right, and this isn't directed at anybody
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Speaker 5: in particular.
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Speaker 1: This is just the truth.
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Speaker 5: Right between now an election day it will be it
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Speaker 5: is a binary choice either the VP or Donald Trump,
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Speaker 5: we'll get elected. And the thing that I want to
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Speaker 5: say and how it comes back to the pushback, because
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Speaker 5: the pushback is a project of our sister organization, Working
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Speaker 5: Family's Power. It's a public education right yeah, yeah, pun intended, right,
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Speaker 5: and it's designed because look, I'm want to go back
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Speaker 5: to the R and C. How many people remember the
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Speaker 5: R and C and remember seeing sister and Burrose on
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Speaker 5: stage right?
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Speaker 2: Of course?
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 5: The reason why that concerned me is that I think
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Speaker 5: we could all agree that she was able to establish herself,
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Speaker 5: she was able to feed her family, she was able
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Speaker 5: to become a celebrity through our culture.
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Speaker 1: Right could we all agreed that that's true? Okay? So
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Speaker 1: I'm a student of history.
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Speaker 5: I know that black culture has always been a force
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Speaker 5: to tell the truth, to speak truth to power, has
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Speaker 5: always played that role. And I also know that when
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Speaker 5: folks in our culture have had the ability, that had
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Speaker 5: the privilege to rise to the highest levels and been
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Speaker 5: able to establish themselves and celebrity and have a little
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Speaker 5: money in their pocket, that they always established they kept
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Speaker 5: that relationship between them and the streets everyday working class
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Speaker 5: black and brown people.
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Speaker 1: And so even though you could maybe vote for.
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Speaker 5: A candidate that will give you a tax cut and
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Speaker 5: benefit you because you're in a certain tax bracket, you
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Speaker 5: remember the people that brought you there. You remember your
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Speaker 5: aunties and uncles and cousins, and so there's a.
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Speaker 7: We kind of leave those people behind. Yes, the average American,
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Speaker 7: working American, the real people. And that's also again what
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Speaker 7: makes me so passionate about about the work of working
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Speaker 7: families and Maurice and his team. You know, it just
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Speaker 7: makes sense to reach back. Just like you said, you know,
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Speaker 7: I may have made it to a certain point, but
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Speaker 7: I still look at people from East Orange or from
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Speaker 7: certain inner cities North New Jersey and make sure that
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Speaker 7: they know we care and we see you. And that's
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Speaker 7: hopefully what will inspire people to vote for whoever you
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Speaker 7: feel like is going to bring the change that is needed.
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Speaker 7: But we all you know, I know how I feel,
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Speaker 7: and not just as a woman, as a black woman.
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Speaker 7: You know, I'm very excited to see, you know, America
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Speaker 7: do what they got.
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Speaker 1: To do exactly and embers.
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Speaker 5: What I was going to say is like the Torri
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Speaker 5: is on code right, and our artists have never violated
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Speaker 5: code the way that some artists are violating code right now.
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Speaker 1: You think he violated code.
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Speaker 5: Any anybody who came up through our culture benefits from
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Speaker 5: our culture that is now aligned with the extremeist billionaire
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Speaker 5: agenda of people who grew up in racist, white, authoritarian,
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Speaker 5: fascist South Africa like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and
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Speaker 5: then kme here as immigrants, and Elon Musk as an
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Speaker 5: undocumented immigrant star was able to basically invest in companies
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Speaker 5: and make all of this wealth in order to advance
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Speaker 5: his agenda. When you're rocking with them and you're not
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Speaker 5: rocking with an agenda that will put more money in
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Speaker 5: everyday working people's pockets, to me, that's a violation of code.
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Speaker 1: So absolutely it Look if the shoot.
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Speaker 6: Is seen it before, right, We've seen it before in history,
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Speaker 6: and we need to take a Sammy Davis Jr.
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Speaker 1: Richard Nixon and the Republic National Convention, and.
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Speaker 5: We need to call it out and we need to
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Speaker 5: re establish code, and part of that is re establishing
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Speaker 5: a connection. So it's it's not simply about an event
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Speaker 5: or anything else. So with the pushback, the artists are
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Speaker 5: using their platforms, people like Notori, and we've had other
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Speaker 5: artists in this conversation, you know, folks like Killer Mike
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Speaker 5: and Taraji p Henson and Tianna Taylor and Mano and Fabulous.
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Speaker 5: You know, it's like it's like the Avengers to dispel
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Speaker 5: misinformation and disinformation, right, because I have no problem how
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Speaker 5: you vote, as long as you're voting from the standpoint
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Speaker 5: of the facts.
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Speaker 1: And the forum and you're informed, right, And.
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Speaker 5: There's so much misinformation and disinformation that flat out lies
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Speaker 5: going out, we felt we needed to engage this project,
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Speaker 5: the pushback.
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Speaker 1: But back to your question, I feel like there's.
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Speaker 5: Three categories of people who are currently violating code, and
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Speaker 5: you have fifty cent on recently, right, Okay, And I
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Speaker 5: remember he said that they want to say this, No,
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Speaker 5: I want to bring it up because no, listen because look,
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Speaker 5: look he spilt the tea. They wanted to offer him
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Speaker 5: the bag three million dollars to his credit. He denied
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Speaker 5: the bag. He denied the bag, right, right. And so
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Speaker 5: there's three categories. People who have accepted the bag, which
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Speaker 5: means they don't believe any of this, right, they're willing
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Speaker 5: to swallow their pride and accept a white supremacist agenda
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Speaker 5: for the bag. Then there's people who actually believe in
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Speaker 5: the agenda and they're taking the bag. And I think
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Speaker 5: the third category to me is the saddest life. You're
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Speaker 5: not even getting the bag, and you're so thirsty for
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Speaker 5: their approval that you're willing to use your platform, use
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Speaker 5: your voice in order to advance the billionaire extremists agenda,
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Speaker 5: the Project twenty twenty five agenda, because like, elections are
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Speaker 5: not about oh, you know, the orange crazy man and
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Speaker 5: what he says and the black lady, right, elections are
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Speaker 5: about the future. Elections are about agendas, which is why
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Speaker 5: we're so focused on the public education around Project twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty five because on one side is the Project twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty five agenda.
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Speaker 1: And then there's been been.
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Speaker 5: People who said, like, well, I don't believe Donald Trump
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Speaker 5: read Project twenty twenty five exactly. That's the point of
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Speaker 5: Project twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: He asked you one question though, Yeah, so what about
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Speaker 2: those artist and note athletes that came from the same
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Speaker 2: place of our culture, right, that's right, made a lot
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Speaker 2: of money from our culture in a different tax bracket,
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Speaker 2: but say nothing. How do you look at those individuals
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Speaker 2: like though it is azili want to them that say
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Speaker 2: absolutely positively nothing? Well, is that the same thing as
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Speaker 2: is what you figure Amber Rose is doing.
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Speaker 5: I believe that neutrality in times of high contradictions and
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Speaker 5: neutralities and times when we need to speak the truth
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Speaker 5: supports the status quo. But I put folks who are
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Speaker 5: not speaking in a different category. I'm an organizer and
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Speaker 5: I can relate to that. So there's so much misinformation
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Speaker 5: and disinformation people actually don't know. So how are you
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Speaker 5: going to speak if you don't know?
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Speaker 1: It's my job. This is why I'm so happy to
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Speaker 1: be here.
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Speaker 5: It's my job as an organizer to be able to shame,
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Speaker 5: you know, speak the truth, as my mom says, speak
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Speaker 5: the truth and shame the devil. Right, So that those
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Speaker 5: artists and also they do they put a lot of
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Speaker 5: work in in order to intimidate people with platforms to
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Speaker 5: say shut up and dance. Shut up and sent shut
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Speaker 5: up and dribble, right, Matt Barnes is a part of
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Speaker 5: the conversation. So so what I say is, if you
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Speaker 5: are somebody with the platform and you're not speaking because
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Speaker 5: you don't know, it's your job to seek out organizations,
15:53
Speaker 5: seek out trusted messengers, seek out organizations like working Families party.
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Speaker 5: It's our job to reach out to you so that
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Speaker 5: you can have the information. Now, look, there are people
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Speaker 5: who are part of our culture who are black conservatives.
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Speaker 1: Those are that's a different category. Right.
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Speaker 5: There's always been conservatives in our culture who are part
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Speaker 5: of our culture, and they look at things a little
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Speaker 5: bit differently. But a lot of those folks, a lot
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Speaker 5: of those folks are too, are are looking with their
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Speaker 5: eyes and looking at what they're saying and doing, and
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Speaker 5: even though they have conservative leadings, are saying, oh, well,
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Speaker 5: what happened in Madison Square Guardian, that was the garden
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Speaker 5: that was a hate rally.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: So, simply because you might have a leaning in one
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Speaker 5: direction or a different direction, doesn't mean you can't see
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Speaker 5: with your eyes and listen with your ears what these
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Speaker 5: people are saying. I'm just saying when they say who
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Speaker 5: they are, believe that and look, if it was months ago,
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Speaker 5: I would feel a little bit different if it was
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Speaker 5: months ago. But we're within a week until this election,
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Speaker 5: and we're not too we're taping this from New York.
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Speaker 5: We're not too far away from what only be described
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Speaker 5: as a hate rally that took place at Masking Square Garden.
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Speaker 5: This isn't even a hard choice in terms of the contrast. Right, Look,
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Speaker 5: they came for everybody. They came for Latinos in jail.
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Speaker 5: They're specifying their hate now like Latinos in general, let's
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Speaker 5: focus on the Puerto Ricans. Oh, you knew we hate Palestinians,
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Speaker 5: but did you know we hate Palestinian toddlers? Right, this
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Speaker 5: is who they are. They're saying what they will do.
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Speaker 5: They printed their manual, which is why I'm so happy
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Speaker 5: that they put it online so you could download Project
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. Now it's up to us to get information.
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Speaker 5: I'm asking everybody, everybody vote, vote, But your job doesn't
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Speaker 5: just end there, you because voting is a team sport,
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Speaker 5: So go with other people. If you're able to vote early,
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Speaker 5: vote early, if you can mail in your ballot, mail
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Speaker 5: in your ballot, or on November fifth, go and vote
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Speaker 5: and bring people along. And then I'll also say we
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Speaker 5: have to reach as many people as possible, so, you know,
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Speaker 5: problems on the story because she was on these streets
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Speaker 5: right at early voting locations in Philly and.
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Speaker 3: The lines were crazy. In Philly. People want to be engaged.
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Speaker 7: People want to vote early because they know that there's
18:15
Speaker 7: gonna be some games that it will be played, you know,
18:18
Speaker 7: they try to yeah, and so we know that there's
18:21
Speaker 7: a lot of that happening, so we have to kind
18:23
Speaker 7: of be proactive and get to those polls early. And
18:26
Speaker 7: I was happy being in Philly just the other day
18:28
Speaker 7: and seeing so many people, you know, trying to figure out,
18:31
Speaker 7: first off, why is Tasha there. And I was like,
18:35
Speaker 7: I'm here because it's important to make sure your vote counts.
18:38
Speaker 7: And by them waking up and paying attention, it makes
18:42
Speaker 7: them know that they matter and that their voice matters.
18:45
Speaker 3: And one thing that Mas say.
18:47
Speaker 7: Made me think about even a quote with I think
18:49
Speaker 7: doctor King said, you know, a threat to injustice anywhere
18:52
Speaker 7: is a threat.
18:53
Speaker 1: To justice everywhere.
18:55
Speaker 7: So when you spoke about people who are neutral, you know,
18:58
Speaker 7: even though everyone doesn't have to to you know, have
19:00
Speaker 7: the same point of view. But if you are you know,
19:05
Speaker 7: complacent to injustice? How are you promoting justice? So that
19:11
Speaker 7: quietness or that neutrality might uh, you know, I guess
19:16
Speaker 7: fuel the fire for those who don't want to see justice,
19:19
Speaker 7: who don't want equality, who don't want women to have
19:22
Speaker 7: rights over their bodies, who don't want you know, working
19:25
Speaker 7: people to be able to make a living wage, people
19:30
Speaker 7: who don't want that. You're almost your neutrality is almost
19:33
Speaker 7: saying it's okay.
19:36
Speaker 8: Work wise though, because I know a lot of celebrities,
19:38
Speaker 8: even if they're going to go vote, they stay quiet
19:40
Speaker 8: because they don't want to mess up roles or have
19:43
Speaker 8: certain audiences not come out and see or whatever.
19:45
Speaker 3: Have you seen?
19:46
Speaker 8: Things pull back from you because you're not quiet and
19:48
Speaker 8: you're very upfront, and it's a very strong message that
19:50
Speaker 8: you guys are pushing workwise.
19:52
Speaker 3: Is anything changed or you lost opportunities because of that?
19:55
Speaker 6: Not?
19:55
Speaker 3: No, not, not really not.
19:57
Speaker 7: Not In this time in my life, I have an
19:59
Speaker 7: experien instead of anything I think people look at me
20:03
Speaker 7: or even the show that I was a part of
20:04
Speaker 7: and the work that I've done, I've always been a
20:06
Speaker 7: risk taker, to be honest, I mean, play Little Kim Hello.
20:11
Speaker 7: But I think from the beginning of my career, even
20:14
Speaker 7: post three or w you know, little Kim power. I
20:17
Speaker 7: don't think I'm afraid of what people might say or think.
20:21
Speaker 7: I'm more, I think, interested in the legacy that I
20:25
Speaker 7: leave behind. I'm more interested in how people will then
20:28
Speaker 7: be inspired by me taking a stand. I'm more interested
20:33
Speaker 7: in how when I'm gone, what did I leave behind.
20:36
Speaker 7: So I think, you know, obviously, Hollywood and there's always politics,
20:41
Speaker 7: and we do have to play the game.
20:43
Speaker 3: We all know that.
20:44
Speaker 7: But I think that people may even look to me
20:46
Speaker 7: to be that voice that they they may not have
20:49
Speaker 7: that microphone, so as I do. I think, you know,
20:52
Speaker 7: that's what I'm more empowered by. So Fortunately I'm able
20:55
Speaker 7: to work. Fortunately, you know, I can feed my family.
20:58
Speaker 7: But at the same time, I get to be who
21:00
Speaker 7: I truly am.
21:01
Speaker 1: You want to be in politics, I did.
21:03
Speaker 3: I did.
21:04
Speaker 7: I thought about, actually, you know, after being in the
21:08
Speaker 7: music business, I was kind of done with that for
21:10
Speaker 7: a while, and I wanted to be a lawyer. And
21:13
Speaker 7: then I thought about, you know, as a political science
21:16
Speaker 7: major at Seaton Hall University, I thought about pursuing a
21:18
Speaker 7: career in politics or lawmaking. I really wish that I
21:23
Speaker 7: could change policy as a as a young person, I
21:27
Speaker 7: remember thinking post three l W. I was eighteen years old,
21:31
Speaker 7: freshly out of the group, went to school, and I
21:34
Speaker 7: was like, if only there were policies to protect young artists.
21:38
Speaker 3: That's really what it was about for me.
21:40
Speaker 7: And political science was an avenue that I knew if
21:43
Speaker 7: I continued, and I actually was offered an internship at
21:47
Speaker 7: Capitol Hill. I actually used to sing for all the
21:49
Speaker 7: politicians in Jersey, the mayor, so you know, Sharp James
21:53
Speaker 7: and Nork and everyone really knew me. So for me,
21:56
Speaker 7: politicians and politics was somewhat you know, it had a
22:00
Speaker 7: synergy in my life.
22:01
Speaker 2: What's the one thing that you would change? You said,
22:03
Speaker 2: you know, do this to change things for artists. What's
22:04
Speaker 2: the one thing that you would change for those artists
22:06
Speaker 2: that you just was.
22:07
Speaker 1: Like, it's just not right.
22:09
Speaker 3: I think now some of that is changing.
22:11
Speaker 7: Back then, I wanted artists to have more autonomy, more power,
22:15
Speaker 7: more ownership. I think now one thing I would change
22:21
Speaker 7: more so as an actress or in Hollywood is ability
22:24
Speaker 7: to create our own projects without relying on other people's money.
22:29
Speaker 7: If we could get funding or if there was like
22:32
Speaker 7: an organization that specifically focused I mean there are, but
22:35
Speaker 7: specifically gave funding and opportunities to black people and black filmmakers,
22:40
Speaker 7: and there are a handful.
22:41
Speaker 3: But if we.
22:42
Speaker 7: Had a larger central hub, I would change this idea
22:48
Speaker 7: of needing approval but also not being able to create,
22:52
Speaker 7: not having ownership. So if we could make our work
22:54
Speaker 7: like an artist who sings. I was a recording artist
22:56
Speaker 7: and now I'm an actress. But if we could have
22:59
Speaker 7: more ownership and actual control over the narrative, because the
23:04
Speaker 7: stories are often told from another point of view and
23:07
Speaker 7: you just are plugged into it, you know, for the poster.
23:11
Speaker 3: But if we actually were.
23:12
Speaker 7: Behind the scenes and doing more in that category, I
23:15
Speaker 7: think that would make.
23:16
Speaker 3: Us way more powerful.
23:17
Speaker 6: That's more important now than ever before, especially with what
23:19
Speaker 6: you see they're doing in schools where they don't even
23:21
Speaker 6: want to teach you real history.
23:22
Speaker 1: So we won't tell our stories if we don't.
23:25
Speaker 7: Well, that's actually part of what me and Maurice we're
23:27
Speaker 7: just talking about Projects twenty twenty five is taking away
23:30
Speaker 7: you know, what is it? The woke agenda and they're
23:33
Speaker 7: afraid of teaching that, which is crazy to me because
23:37
Speaker 7: I think about my daughters seven years old. She's in
23:40
Speaker 7: second grade, and some of these things will affect her
23:44
Speaker 7: trajectory as a student in this you know, in this life.
23:47
Speaker 7: So I'm like, wait a minute, no, now it's on
23:49
Speaker 7: me as a parent. But it also should be a
23:53
Speaker 7: sense of accountability in our schools and our systems to
23:56
Speaker 7: make sure that they can't eliminate true American history. It's
23:59
Speaker 7: not just black history. This is American history. We built
24:02
Speaker 7: this country. We did a lot of the work on
24:05
Speaker 7: the backs of slaves and slavery, so let's not eradicate
24:09
Speaker 7: that and make it as if it didn't happen.
24:10
Speaker 3: That was one of the things we just said.
24:12
Speaker 1: That's right.
24:12
Speaker 5: And the thing about the way that that connects to
24:15
Speaker 5: Project twenty five, especially with artists, and it's this is
24:19
Speaker 5: a big manual. It's more than nine hundred pages, so
24:22
Speaker 5: they're coming for everybody, they're coming for artists, create they
24:25
Speaker 5: have a very creepy agenda. So you don't get into
24:29
Speaker 5: page five before they're talking about outlawing pornography and putting
24:34
Speaker 5: pornographers in jail, in prison. But I want to explain
24:37
Speaker 5: what that would actually do if you're an artist, right,
24:40
Speaker 5: So the line between art and pornography that is subjective, right,
24:45
Speaker 5: So what they want in terms of having artists have
24:47
Speaker 5: control and more power. They want to eliminate that. So
24:51
Speaker 5: from people who currently are making money on OnlyFans, to
24:54
Speaker 5: people who are content creators, to when you talk about
24:56
Speaker 5: edgy art, were often talking about our art black and brown.
25:00
Speaker 1: Folks hip hop.
25:01
Speaker 5: That's often we're pushing the boundaries right, and so they'll
25:04
Speaker 5: be in a position to say, hey, that video we
25:08
Speaker 5: listen to, they're already listening to our lyrics and we're
25:11
Speaker 5: getting caught up because our lyrics. They'll have more authority
25:13
Speaker 5: to do that and not just prevent it from happening,
25:16
Speaker 5: but also putting people behind bars. They say they want
25:19
Speaker 5: to put educators and librarians behind bars off of this
25:24
Speaker 5: trying to eliminate the woke agenda. And for us in here,
25:27
Speaker 5: we know when they say woke, it's not become code
25:30
Speaker 5: for the ND word. It's a way for them to
25:31
Speaker 5: be able to say what they want to say in
25:33
Speaker 5: a different way. So when they say they want to
25:36
Speaker 5: eliminate woke, they want to eliminate our history. And the
25:39
Speaker 5: reason why they want to eliminate black history is because
25:41
Speaker 5: it's American history. What happens when white children, black children
25:45
Speaker 5: Latino children learn actual American history and learn about the
25:51
Speaker 5: oppression of our history. They want to fight oppression as adults,
25:56
Speaker 5: and they don't want you to fight oppression because that
25:58
Speaker 5: means you're finding that the status quot These are people
26:01
Speaker 5: with an awful lot of power and money, and they're
26:04
Speaker 5: not comfortable with the power money they want they want more,
26:08
Speaker 5: and so it's about them having more power money and
26:10
Speaker 5: you having less power money. That's basically what the agenda is.
26:14
Speaker 5: And if you're if you're an artist, you should be concerned.
26:17
Speaker 5: If you're a parent, you should be concerned. If you're
26:20
Speaker 5: a black man, you should be concerned for a black man.
26:23
Speaker 5: Because this is the agenda about making national stop and frisk.
26:27
Speaker 5: They want that to be national. Right, So there's no
26:30
Speaker 5: city or state you could avoid the stop and frisk agenda.
26:33
Speaker 1: Right.
26:34
Speaker 5: How many of you know what qualified immunity is, absolutely right.
26:38
Speaker 5: So that's the law that emboldens police officers, so they
26:41
Speaker 5: know that if they shoot or kill us that they
26:44
Speaker 5: have protection, so they won't face any accountability.
26:47
Speaker 7: It's already hard to get them indicted or if it's
26:50
Speaker 7: something happens, you know, so imagine with qualified immunity, how
26:53
Speaker 7: that will affect so much.
26:54
Speaker 1: Why George exactly exactly?
26:57
Speaker 5: And there's there's one there's one candidate the way who
27:01
Speaker 5: actually was a part of George Floyd Policing Act. And
27:03
Speaker 5: to me, listen, I came through the Movement for Black Lives.
27:06
Speaker 5: So George Floyd is the Police Policing Act. To me,
27:10
Speaker 5: that is the floor, right. The Moment for Black Lives
27:13
Speaker 5: talks about the Breed Act. To me, that's the ceiling.
27:15
Speaker 1: Right.
27:15
Speaker 5: So there's there's one candidate that's talking about how do
27:18
Speaker 5: we get that passed. There's another candidate that's talking about
27:22
Speaker 5: day one I want to execute quote.
27:24
Speaker 1: Unquote drug dealers or who are the drug dealers?
27:27
Speaker 5: Like, if we have an honest conversation in our society,
27:30
Speaker 5: when our society thinks about drug dealers, who comes to mind.
27:33
Speaker 1: The pharmaceutical companies.
27:41
Speaker 5: Are they talking about the Sackler family, who are the
27:43
Speaker 5: greatest drug dealers in the history of this country? Right?
27:47
Speaker 5: Or are they talking about somebody else? Are they talking
27:50
Speaker 5: about black and brown people?
27:51
Speaker 4: Right?
27:52
Speaker 5: So when they say these things, we must believe them.
27:59
Speaker 6: Do you think that enough is well? First of all,
28:02
Speaker 6: y'all on the ground, y'all been on the ground, yep.
28:03
Speaker 6: What do you think is gonna happen to this?
28:06
Speaker 1: So I don't make predictions, right, but what I can you're.
28:08
Speaker 3: Excited, I'm excited.
28:09
Speaker 7: I feel inspired, excited and hopeful.
28:14
Speaker 4: It's fact.
28:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't listen when I'm so like. We do
28:20
Speaker 5: things online, but we're also outside, right, and so when
28:23
Speaker 5: I leave here, I'm going to be in Phoenix, I'm
28:25
Speaker 5: gonna be in Milwaukee, I'll be back in Philly, and
28:27
Speaker 5: we're with the people. And so I get nothing but
28:31
Speaker 5: excitement and joy from being with the people. Because if
28:34
Speaker 5: you're scrolling online and you're getting caught up in that
28:37
Speaker 5: misinformation and disinformation, part of that is to make you
28:40
Speaker 5: feel cynical. Yes, I like to say the cynicism is
28:44
Speaker 5: a political project of the far right and the status quo,
28:48
Speaker 5: because you'll just be like, oh man, we can't do nothing.
28:51
Speaker 7: As a matter anyway, I'm not as well just not.
28:53
Speaker 5: Vote exactly, But when you're actually outside and you knock
28:57
Speaker 5: on some doors. By the way, I want to encourage people, right,
29:00
Speaker 5: don't just vote. There's still an opportunity, And if I may,
29:04
Speaker 5: I'd like to shout out some opportunities for folks to
29:06
Speaker 5: be able to knock on doors. So if you're listening
29:08
Speaker 5: to this, text the word power pun intended, text the
29:13
Speaker 5: word power to three zero four zero three. If you
29:15
Speaker 5: text the word power to three zero four zero three
29:18
Speaker 5: wherever you are, you could volunteer to knock on doors,
29:21
Speaker 5: to have conversations with your neighbors, to do phone banks,
29:24
Speaker 5: to even text. Why because in the final days, it's
29:28
Speaker 5: not about what the politicians say. It's not about you know,
29:30
Speaker 5: I'm sure you're getting a lot of TV ads and
29:32
Speaker 5: digital ads and all that stuff. It's about what everyday
29:35
Speaker 5: people say to their neighbors. And you're an everyday person.
29:39
Speaker 5: They want you to believe the lie that you have
29:41
Speaker 5: no power when you're on these streets and you're seeing
29:44
Speaker 5: these long lines.
29:45
Speaker 3: Yep.
29:46
Speaker 1: And look, remember we saw that elder. Do you remember
29:48
Speaker 1: that elder? Right? And she.
29:51
Speaker 7: Was on the line and she said that she had
29:53
Speaker 7: been waiting I think, like I mean months. She said
29:56
Speaker 7: they were supposed to send her ballot, you know, in Philly.
29:59
Speaker 7: She kept applying and she sent it in. She called
30:01
Speaker 7: it was a lot of things that just weren't coming,
30:04
Speaker 7: and it didn't come in the mail. So she said,
30:05
Speaker 7: I knew I had to come on down here. And
30:07
Speaker 7: get here for early voting. And you know, she was
30:10
Speaker 7: an elderly woman, and so we made arrangement, you know,
30:13
Speaker 7: to try to get her in where she didn't have
30:15
Speaker 7: to wait on that line. But I was thinking to myself,
30:17
Speaker 7: my gosh, imagine some people don't have the ability to
30:20
Speaker 7: access the patience.
30:22
Speaker 8: My mom was selling strength she went to they changed
30:25
Speaker 8: the voting locations. A lot of people in our neighborhood
30:27
Speaker 8: they don't have like they can't just get in a
30:29
Speaker 8: car and drive somewhere.
30:29
Speaker 3: They're on public transportation.
30:31
Speaker 8: So she was saying that, like they were trying to
30:32
Speaker 8: figure out, like just making how to like everybody get
30:35
Speaker 8: together and go to this new location. But they never
30:37
Speaker 8: sent out the new location in the mail. So a
30:38
Speaker 8: lot of people don't even know you just gonna last
30:40
Speaker 8: minute go voting.
30:41
Speaker 3: They keep saying they're going to send it. And that's
30:43
Speaker 3: exactly what any did.
30:44
Speaker 8: Income But so you guys use power as the push.
30:47
Speaker 8: But how many times when you out with the people,
30:49
Speaker 8: they're like.
30:49
Speaker 3: Oh my godsha and that helped.
30:55
Speaker 1: That states you know, actually they yes, because.
31:01
Speaker 7: We have figured out a way to in New York.
31:04
Speaker 7: Uh former inmates ken vote. But it's so funny because yes,
31:08
Speaker 7: we were out just the other day and people, I
31:11
Speaker 7: think do feel like a little confused, shocked.
31:14
Speaker 3: Exciting seeing you.
31:15
Speaker 8: It was just like when you walked in, I was like, oh,
31:17
Speaker 8: look at Tasha, Like it's just hard.
31:18
Speaker 7: It's not funny because I know, and I'm always like, well,
31:21
Speaker 7: my name is Liturri like yeah, yeah, yeah, Butha. I'm
31:25
Speaker 7: gonna just put that in my middle name from now
31:27
Speaker 7: on because I But the beauty of that is that
31:31
Speaker 7: when you're a part of something, it's just like the wire,
31:34
Speaker 7: you know, and you look back at shows or even
31:36
Speaker 7: the sopranos or certain things when power has you know,
31:39
Speaker 7: I've been in the show for ten years and I'm
31:41
Speaker 7: still alive.
31:42
Speaker 3: I think I'm out of witness protection now. Actually yeah.
31:47
Speaker 3: But what I will say.
31:48
Speaker 7: Is that it does give a platform and also people
31:52
Speaker 7: to you know, just kind of wake up their senses
31:54
Speaker 7: a little bit and say, Okay, if this matters in
31:57
Speaker 7: this part of the culture, then it.
31:58
Speaker 3: Should matter to me.
32:00
Speaker 5: And it breaks the cynicism right because there's so many
32:02
Speaker 5: messages you don't matter, nobody cares when somebody as iconic
32:07
Speaker 5: as as Tasha is actually in your neighborhood impressing why
32:12
Speaker 5: you why you matter enough to vote while your vote
32:15
Speaker 5: matters in Philly or in in Wisconsin, in Milwaukee or
32:20
Speaker 5: any of these other places. It kind of breaks the
32:23
Speaker 5: lie of cynicism. So you get to have a real
32:24
Speaker 5: conversation about the issues.
32:26
Speaker 7: And also when I say and I also want to
32:30
Speaker 7: make sure people know me too, you know, when when
32:32
Speaker 7: you are a character, you want them to know in
32:34
Speaker 7: your real life this matters.
32:36
Speaker 3: So I'm Nuri. I always see you.
32:38
Speaker 7: Know, of course we play as Tasha, but I'm Theuri
32:41
Speaker 7: and Naturi cares. And Naturi was a straight A student,
32:43
Speaker 7: and Naturi went to school for political science. And Naturi
32:46
Speaker 7: has a family. I'm a mother, and I also, you know,
32:49
Speaker 7: had a pregnancy where I struggled with the thoughts of
32:53
Speaker 7: having an abortion in all honesty, and I know what
32:56
Speaker 7: so many women are dealing with and not being not
32:59
Speaker 7: you know, not wanting to feel judged. And I think
33:02
Speaker 7: that's a real thing.
33:03
Speaker 3: I'm old talking.
33:04
Speaker 6: I was born in nineteen seventy. The character is not
33:08
Speaker 6: bigger than thery than me.
33:16
Speaker 8: Yeah.
33:16
Speaker 7: I I feel like because I was a teenager has power.
33:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you'll have a grown grown.
33:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, for these young as they they late.
33:25
Speaker 7: But I appreciate you saying that because that's also why
33:29
Speaker 7: I do the work that I do, because it's not
33:30
Speaker 7: just about one avenue. Power is one thing, but I'm
33:33
Speaker 7: gonna do more things. I'm directing, I'm producing, you know,
33:36
Speaker 7: I'm I'm growing as an artist, but as really I
33:40
Speaker 7: think as a person, and I think my womanhood, my motherhood,
33:44
Speaker 7: my wifehood has allowed me to tap into these different
33:47
Speaker 7: areas in a way that is natural because I don't
33:50
Speaker 7: want other women, other mothers and other wives to feel
33:54
Speaker 7: that their voices aren't heard. So I'm stepping in his
33:56
Speaker 7: noturi for I.
33:57
Speaker 8: Have two questions for you. You say, and you don't
33:59
Speaker 8: have to talk about this if you're not comfortable. But
34:01
Speaker 8: you you just said that you struggled with the thoughts
34:03
Speaker 8: of abortion.
34:05
Speaker 3: Yes, why like, well, no, I just.
34:07
Speaker 7: I wasn't sure that I wanted to have my first child.
34:13
Speaker 3: I never really talked.
34:13
Speaker 7: About this, but essentially, I think that when I was
34:17
Speaker 7: shooting Power, I became pregnant. It was an unexpected pregnancy
34:21
Speaker 7: and I'm super blessed. My daughter Zeri is amazing and
34:23
Speaker 7: I'm so glad she's here. But in all honesty. I
34:27
Speaker 7: wrote and directed my first short film. It's called three
34:31
Speaker 7: to three, and it's about somewhat an experience that I
34:34
Speaker 7: had and also the mental anguish of making that choice.
34:38
Speaker 7: And I wanted to use film as a way to
34:42
Speaker 7: give women and people and there's men, you know. I
34:46
Speaker 7: have Burgundy Baker who stars in it, from the Shy John,
34:49
Speaker 7: Clarence Stewart, Venessa Bell Callaway, and this film Three to
34:52
Speaker 7: three just gives us a chance to look at the
34:55
Speaker 7: issue of abortion in not a politicized way, but in
34:58
Speaker 7: a human way deal with So my experience just made
35:02
Speaker 7: me realize, like even me, even though I was on
35:05
Speaker 7: a hit show this is season four and power was
35:08
Speaker 7: at its height, I didn't know if I could be
35:10
Speaker 7: a good mother, and I wasn't sure if I would
35:12
Speaker 7: be enough. I didn't know if I was gonna make
35:14
Speaker 7: enough money. I didn't know if the show was gonna
35:16
Speaker 7: get canceled, Like there were so many things. I didn't
35:18
Speaker 7: know if I was gonna get married, you know, and
35:19
Speaker 7: I didn't. I became a single mom very quickly, so
35:23
Speaker 7: you know, until I met my husband when my daughter
35:25
Speaker 7: is almost two.
35:26
Speaker 3: I wasn't really sure.
35:27
Speaker 7: So I'll just say that that's what I channeled those emotions,
35:31
Speaker 7: and that's also why women's rights and reproductive rights is
35:34
Speaker 7: so important to me at this time.
35:36
Speaker 3: So yeah, three.
35:37
Speaker 6: Three three, the ascended masters are right by your side,
35:40
Speaker 6: assisting you with whatever it is that you're focusing on.
35:43
Speaker 7: That's why three three three, And it's also just this interesting. Yeah,
35:47
Speaker 7: there's so much power in those numbers. And you'll see,
35:50
Speaker 7: like when you see my film, which would be out
35:53
Speaker 7: next year in festivals. But essentially it is completion and
35:57
Speaker 7: also what you focus on, it will come. So whatever
36:00
Speaker 7: your choice is, don't feel haunted by that and just
36:04
Speaker 7: be able to go forth and focus on the future.
36:06
Speaker 7: And that's what my feeling is about.
36:08
Speaker 8: And then my second question was you talked about earlier
36:11
Speaker 8: people wanting people to know you outside of power. Yeah,
36:13
Speaker 8: and when he brought a fifty earlier, you were like,
36:14
Speaker 8: oh my god, I didn't even want that to come up.
36:16
Speaker 1: And you knew that was coming up, but that a
36:19
Speaker 1: couple of days ago.
36:22
Speaker 8: You So you talk to Celia from TMZ and and
36:25
Speaker 8: that clip was everywhere. Yeah, your response to your response
36:29
Speaker 8: to fifty cent responding fifty and what he was saying
36:34
Speaker 8: up here about Omari and you basically saying like Omari
36:37
Speaker 8: was ghosts, Ghosts was power. So you didn't agree with
36:40
Speaker 8: what Fifty said up here that picked up everywhere, And
36:43
Speaker 8: did you you regret saying that?
36:45
Speaker 3: Is that while you were like, oh my.
36:46
Speaker 7: God, oh, I don't regret saying anything that I say
36:49
Speaker 7: in most cases. But I think that, you know, I
36:52
Speaker 7: was just being honest, you know, And and it's no
36:54
Speaker 7: no shade to fifty. He has his feelings and I
36:57
Speaker 7: don't know all of the issues that went down, like
37:00
Speaker 7: I said in that interview, but I think overall, I
37:02
Speaker 7: was just trying to express that, you know, power was
37:05
Speaker 7: something that started this whole journey of creating stars the
37:08
Speaker 7: stars at and I'm grateful for the opportunity in fifty
37:12
Speaker 7: and Courtney gave me that opportunity. So you know, at
37:14
Speaker 7: the end of the day, I know that there's politics
37:16
Speaker 7: involved in their positions as well. So I respect fifty,
37:19
Speaker 7: but I also have to honor what Omari Hardwick brought
37:24
Speaker 7: to the table. And all I said in that interview
37:26
Speaker 7: was that, you know, I feel like he is kind
37:29
Speaker 7: of a staple in the power world that we can
37:32
Speaker 7: never undervalue him either. So I just think that as people,
37:37
Speaker 7: particularly as black people, I'll just say this, as black people,
37:40
Speaker 7: we have to remember to be okay with valuing each
37:43
Speaker 7: other and really celebrate those moments when we get to
37:48
Speaker 7: a plateau or high moment in our careers.
37:51
Speaker 3: Even in your field.
37:52
Speaker 7: You know, you guys negotiate and do deals because you
37:55
Speaker 7: know you're worth and there's always going to be somebody
37:57
Speaker 7: who tells you, na, you're not worth, that you shouldn't
38:00
Speaker 7: and that's debatable, and that's not for me to say
38:02
Speaker 7: what money he should That's I'm not in anybody's you know, checks.
38:05
Speaker 7: I focus on my check. But know your power and
38:10
Speaker 7: also know your worth, and it's okay to push for
38:14
Speaker 7: you know what you feel your worth.
38:15
Speaker 1: That's all y'a. I want to ask.
38:16
Speaker 2: We had uh.
38:17
Speaker 7: Mitteraraji said the same thing, so this is you know,
38:19
Speaker 7: it's all relative.
38:20
Speaker 1: We had Mickey Gotton country singer.
38:22
Speaker 3: Oh yes, was she a member of three Yes?
38:26
Speaker 7: So I forgot that Mickey was the first member of
38:30
Speaker 7: three W until Adrian and I recently reunited and Adrian
38:36
Speaker 7: sent me a picture of them with Mickey and she
38:40
Speaker 7: was singing the National and I was like, oh my gosh,
38:42
Speaker 7: that's right, because they told me there was a country
38:44
Speaker 7: she was a girl. She wasn't a country artist then,
38:46
Speaker 7: but I think she lived somewhere and then she her
38:49
Speaker 7: parents pulled her out of the group, and I think
38:51
Speaker 7: that's how I wound up getting an audition for but
38:54
Speaker 7: I had forgot I was fifteen, So Adrine remembered and
38:58
Speaker 7: reminded me, and then I was like, I want to
39:00
Speaker 7: meet her when I mean, we've never met. She's so dope,
39:03
Speaker 7: her voice is crazy. But how I was thinking, like
39:06
Speaker 7: at that time, I was like, girl, you dodged a bullet.
39:08
Speaker 1: But because she has.
39:10
Speaker 3: Her own career.
39:11
Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, I think I'm
39:13
Speaker 7: happy that, you know, whatever happened with three W it
39:16
Speaker 7: was supposed to happen that way.
39:18
Speaker 3: And here I am too.
39:18
Speaker 8: How does the reunion field because now y'all both from moms.
39:21
Speaker 8: I know you guys, you haven't shared experience, and none
39:23
Speaker 8: of us will ever understand.
39:24
Speaker 3: Good and bad. Isn't it crazy?
39:27
Speaker 7: Me and agent talk about like we need to probably
39:29
Speaker 7: talk about this in a formal setting, but I'm very
39:31
Speaker 7: grateful that we are reunited. She's a mom, she's a wife,
39:35
Speaker 7: and I'm it's almost like that life brings us closer together.
39:39
Speaker 7: Although there was so much tension in that time period,
39:42
Speaker 7: we look back and actually say, oh, remember when that happened.
39:45
Speaker 7: Oh girl, like this is what I was thinking back then,
39:48
Speaker 7: and it actually brings us closer.
39:50
Speaker 3: I'm so happy for her now.
39:51
Speaker 7: I mean, we we actually invite each other to each
39:54
Speaker 7: other's homes and she was at my baby shower. It's
39:56
Speaker 7: just unbelievable that someone that you know, I didn't think
39:59
Speaker 7: I would ever speak to again is.
40:01
Speaker 3: Not my friend.
40:01
Speaker 1: Did y'all make any promises to each other? Y'all would
40:04
Speaker 1: never have.
40:07
Speaker 3: So messy child. Did y'all make any promise with.
40:12
Speaker 6: We did?
40:12
Speaker 5: Not?
40:13
Speaker 3: No more, no more, baby, I'm gonna do right.
40:16
Speaker 5: I'm not.
40:16
Speaker 8: No.
40:17
Speaker 7: We just continue to support each other and I don't
40:20
Speaker 7: talk to the promises.
40:21
Speaker 3: Lady, But that never happened.
40:25
Speaker 1: You know.
40:26
Speaker 7: God is good and look at what he's doing and
40:29
Speaker 7: in my life. So you just can never say never,
40:32
Speaker 7: so you can do it.
40:34
Speaker 6: God is good talking about you and Adrian, like you
40:37
Speaker 6: know you to never have any issues between each other.
40:45
Speaker 3: Really should like what I should.
40:50
Speaker 1: Throw this at him?
40:51
Speaker 8: I have the.
40:59
Speaker 1: God is really so, I wanted to ask Maurice.
41:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the biggest misconceptions because you said something
41:08
Speaker 6: earlier that was very important voting.
41:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to be an informable absolutely.
41:13
Speaker 6: One of the biggest things I hear people say is
41:15
Speaker 6: if you try to talk to him about policy, like
41:16
Speaker 6: what the economy was better, Oh, under you know Trump,
41:20
Speaker 6: and it's better under Republicans. I learned this in the
41:22
Speaker 6: last couple of months. That's just been a false narrative
41:24
Speaker 6: all of these years that.
41:26
Speaker 5: This is this is misinformation and disinformation. All right, So,
41:30
Speaker 5: first of all, Donald Trump inherited the Obama economy. Right,
41:37
Speaker 5: So whatever economy that you remember when Donald Trump came
41:41
Speaker 5: into office, that was the Obama economy, the Obama Obama economy.
41:44
Speaker 5: And look again, to me, the Obama economy is the floor.
41:48
Speaker 5: I'm with working families. I want an economy that that
41:52
Speaker 5: in many ways focuses directly on the interest of labor unions,
41:55
Speaker 5: in ways that we still are trying to get to.
41:57
Speaker 5: But the Obama economy was generating jobs month after month
42:00
Speaker 5: after month. So so he inherited that. And then people
42:05
Speaker 5: don't remember, but if you remember four years ago, we
42:08
Speaker 5: were under COVID, Right, millions of jobs were lost, right,
42:12
Speaker 5: people were sheltered in place, and some people say, like, well,
42:15
Speaker 5: you know that was COVID, but presidents will face untold crises.
42:20
Speaker 5: COVID happened to be his crisis. What happened when that
42:23
Speaker 5: man faced that crist he unraveled, talking about injecting bleach
42:27
Speaker 5: and and his own his own health officials say that
42:33
Speaker 5: hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. They didn't
42:35
Speaker 5: have to because the man couldn't keep it together. And
42:38
Speaker 5: so when Kamalin, Oh, yeah, I mean, but I want
42:42
Speaker 5: to talk about the trade wars, right, because the only
42:44
Speaker 5: thing that we hear this man talk about I'm going
42:46
Speaker 5: to get into that is tariffs and let me let
42:48
Speaker 5: me get into that. So so Biden and Harris inherited
42:53
Speaker 5: this economy that was a the the Trump COVID economy.
42:58
Speaker 5: And if we remember, I think some of us have
43:01
Speaker 5: suppressed that memory because it was so traumatic, right, we
43:03
Speaker 5: don't want to remember it. But so many of our
43:05
Speaker 5: neighbors died, More than a million people died, so many
43:08
Speaker 5: of our friends died, families, so many people are out
43:11
Speaker 5: of work, right, And then they were able to pass
43:15
Speaker 5: the Recovery Act, which which brought a lot of resources
43:18
Speaker 5: to state governments into local governments. People talk about the
43:21
Speaker 5: stimulus check there is a Biden Harris stimulus as well,
43:25
Speaker 5: and many many other policies which today right, and I
43:29
Speaker 5: want the economy to work for so many more people,
43:31
Speaker 5: and I'll get to that. But today this economy is
43:34
Speaker 5: making jobs, making jobs at manufacturing jobs, making union jobs, right,
43:40
Speaker 5: And so we have to actually tell the truth about
43:42
Speaker 5: what's happening.
43:43
Speaker 1: But let's talk.
43:44
Speaker 5: About On one side, there's one policy that's basically tarifs
43:49
Speaker 5: taris tariffs. And I almost feel bad for this man
43:53
Speaker 5: because he doesn't look, I'm not an economist, but he
43:56
Speaker 5: doesn't understand economics one on one, right, Economics one on
44:02
Speaker 5: one tariffs.
44:03
Speaker 1: Hurt everyday working people. Right. So it's like China doesn't
44:07
Speaker 1: pay the tariffs, You pay the tariffs. Right. So you're
44:10
Speaker 1: talking about.
44:11
Speaker 5: Two thousand percent tariffs that's going on. That is a
44:14
Speaker 5: tax on working people. So on one side, you're talking
44:17
Speaker 5: about a tax on working people. On another side, you're
44:21
Speaker 5: talking about what a six thousand dollars child tax credit, right,
44:24
Speaker 5: You're talking about twenty five thousand dollars assistance for home buyers.
44:30
Speaker 5: You're talking about fifty thousand dollars for people who have
44:33
Speaker 5: a dream or a hustle, or you know, they want
44:35
Speaker 5: to start a business, or maybe artists that want to
44:37
Speaker 5: start something entrepreneurs. Right, you're talking about policies that you
44:41
Speaker 5: could debate, but are focused on the interest of working people.
44:44
Speaker 5: With housing, you're talking about holding accountable who the largest
44:49
Speaker 5: corporations who are buying up these units. That that's one
44:53
Speaker 5: of the reasons why rental process. Yes, so a lot
44:56
Speaker 5: of these head funds are buying up these homes, that's
44:59
Speaker 5: why the prices are becoming so high. They're talking about
45:03
Speaker 5: holding them accountable.
45:04
Speaker 1: Right.
45:04
Speaker 5: So when you talk about the economy also, there's a
45:07
Speaker 5: lot of people who are saying that the American economy
45:10
Speaker 5: today right is one of the biggest, most robust economies
45:15
Speaker 5: in the world right today, and so we need to
45:18
Speaker 5: tell the truth. I would argue that we can do better, right,
45:22
Speaker 5: and we have to do better, which is why we
45:24
Speaker 5: build a Working Families Party, because we're not just interested
45:26
Speaker 5: in electing somebody and then going home. We want to
45:29
Speaker 5: fight for more. And in the richest country in the
45:32
Speaker 5: history of countries, there shouldn't even be homelessness. We shouldn't
45:35
Speaker 5: even be talking about how to people afford healthcare, and
45:38
Speaker 5: we know we don't believe any politician is going to
45:42
Speaker 5: get elected and then give that to us.
45:44
Speaker 1: We need to fight for that on the other side
45:46
Speaker 1: of this election.
45:46
Speaker 5: So first job number one is to vote and to
45:50
Speaker 5: vote out the Project twenty twenty five crew. And it's
45:53
Speaker 5: bigger than just Project twenty twenty five on the agenda.
45:56
Speaker 5: We got to push back on that. And then job
45:58
Speaker 5: number two after the elect and we need to stand
46:00
Speaker 5: on business in order to make sure that that this
46:03
Speaker 5: economy actually works us. Because we know the corporations are
46:06
Speaker 5: gonna want to be in people's airs. We need to
46:08
Speaker 5: be in the airs of these politicians as well. But
46:10
Speaker 5: the contrast is going to be clear, Honestly, y'all, it's
46:13
Speaker 5: not even a question at this point. I understand if
46:16
Speaker 5: months ago people had questions, right, and.
46:20
Speaker 1: But it's the problem.
46:21
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what the problem is, right. The
46:23
Speaker 2: problem is this, right, And this is what I realized
46:25
Speaker 2: the other day, Right, Yeah, a lot of people don't
46:27
Speaker 2: have the time to do the research to see if
46:30
Speaker 2: the things that they're researching is right.
46:31
Speaker 1: Right, And I'm absolutely absolutely.
46:34
Speaker 2: I'm watching the World series, right yeah, and they're playing
46:37
Speaker 2: ads and people don't know if those ads are really fake?
46:39
Speaker 1: Right, so's you're nine to five and you have two jobs.
46:42
Speaker 2: You come home, you say, you know what, I'm gonna
46:44
Speaker 2: turn on the World Series while I cook for my
46:45
Speaker 2: kids and you're watching these ads. You don't know what
46:47
Speaker 2: to believe in. Not absolutely, And most people don't know
46:50
Speaker 2: that a lot of those ads are full of shit, yes,
46:53
Speaker 2: or when they go online to look there's a lot
46:56
Speaker 2: of stuff that they're looking for.
46:57
Speaker 1: And I feel silly.
47:00
Speaker 2: One online a lot of the stuff that they're looking
47:12
Speaker 2: for is false. So how do people know what's real
47:15
Speaker 2: and what's not. I mean they put an ad with
47:16
Speaker 2: me and Charlemagne on it.
47:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that.
47:21
Speaker 8: When you saw it that you got your brother sold
47:22
Speaker 8: you out.
47:25
Speaker 7: Well, no, I was just like, this is crazy. And Charlemagne,
47:27
Speaker 7: I know how you know political. We did the movie
47:30
Speaker 7: eighty eight together, which was a political thriller about these
47:33
Speaker 7: very issues and the election and and just super packs.
47:36
Speaker 7: So it's funny because everything you said is so true,
47:39
Speaker 7: like they you know, you don't know, and people don't
47:42
Speaker 7: often have time. So what I want to say to
47:44
Speaker 7: add to what you said and Marie said, is that
47:46
Speaker 7: you know, we're just swiping through social media, and that's
47:49
Speaker 7: the only maybe quick in a hurry. It's like fast
47:53
Speaker 7: food and fast food, you know, you gotta just eat
47:57
Speaker 7: because you gotta eat. Sometimes you don't have time or
48:00
Speaker 7: you may not have the resource or the money to
48:02
Speaker 7: go get a real meal, so but you got to eat.
48:04
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna go ahead and get this burger were
48:06
Speaker 7: hopefully it is real meat. I don't know, but I'm
48:09
Speaker 7: digesting something that I'm not really sure is right or
48:12
Speaker 7: good for me and even true.
48:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, And that's why I encourage everybody, because I believe
48:17
Speaker 5: that the ultimate antiseptic to these lies.
48:21
Speaker 1: It's not just.
48:21
Speaker 5: Better information because we need better information, it's relationships, right,
48:25
Speaker 5: because if I have a if I have a trusted
48:27
Speaker 5: relationship with you and you're spouting this, I could be like, yo,
48:31
Speaker 5: all right, and be let me actually share with you
48:33
Speaker 5: what's up, and we could have a conversation because we
48:36
Speaker 5: trust each other. And you know, when we were in Philly,
48:39
Speaker 5: we had an amazing closed door conversation with working class
48:45
Speaker 5: black men and we were having real.
48:47
Speaker 7: Barbershop in a barbershop and just sat you know, my
48:49
Speaker 7: husband was really a part of that conversation and all
48:53
Speaker 7: these men sat and talked. I was really observing because
48:56
Speaker 7: you know, as a woman, I didn't want to be
48:58
Speaker 7: in that conversation because I don't know what black men.
49:01
Speaker 3: Struggles or what they're dealing with.
49:02
Speaker 7: But that was such a great thing that you know,
49:04
Speaker 7: you guys and working families organize because people do need
49:08
Speaker 7: to just sit and talk to each other.
49:09
Speaker 8: As a woman, what did you observe in that conversation
49:11
Speaker 8: that like a Kamala Harris and like, you know, her
49:14
Speaker 8: team is focusing on right now.
49:16
Speaker 7: Like you know, I think a lot of black men
49:18
Speaker 7: felt like, you know, don't just pick me up and
49:20
Speaker 7: use me now. Some people did feel, you know, even
49:23
Speaker 7: with Kamala Harris. You know, at the end of the day,
49:25
Speaker 7: some people are feeling like, oh, now y'all in both parties,
49:29
Speaker 7: now y'all want to focus on black men or now
49:31
Speaker 7: there's conversations about what.
49:33
Speaker 3: So there was a real you know, some people are frustrated.
49:36
Speaker 7: Some people are feeling you know, discouragions. Some people are
49:38
Speaker 7: like no, you know, they were educators and they were
49:40
Speaker 7: all talking and my husband talked about you know, the
49:42
Speaker 7: influence of the culture, and they talked about Kuavo and
49:45
Speaker 7: different people that are being utilized. But black men were
49:49
Speaker 7: feeling like, are we going to still matter when the
49:52
Speaker 7: election is over? So how do we organize ourselves? And
49:56
Speaker 7: I think they were talking amongst themselves about what can
49:59
Speaker 7: we do to make sure we're not just used as
50:02
Speaker 7: a tool.
50:02
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right because for far too long, when
50:05
Speaker 5: it comes time to vote the parties, they come to us.
50:10
Speaker 5: They come to us for somebody, They come to our
50:11
Speaker 5: culture for everything. They come to our culture to make money,
50:14
Speaker 5: to start brands, and to get and to get people
50:16
Speaker 5: into these polls, and the day after it's often crickets
50:20
Speaker 5: when it comes to our agenda, which is why we
50:22
Speaker 5: build organizations like the Working Families Party so we can
50:25
Speaker 5: hold them all accountable. Right, And so to me, I
50:28
Speaker 5: thought it was historic, and so props to VP Harris
50:32
Speaker 5: for having a platform specifically for black men.
50:35
Speaker 1: She didn't just create that after Barack Obama made those comics.
50:38
Speaker 1: We no, no, no, she's been doing that. I know
50:40
Speaker 1: that she's been working on it, right.
50:42
Speaker 7: But there's a narrative that it feels like it's just.
50:45
Speaker 3: And but that's not true.
50:46
Speaker 1: And that agenda to me is the floor.
50:48
Speaker 5: You know, props to black men bill, props to fill
50:51
Speaker 5: Agnear Black Men bill, and the nine bars. Right, there
50:54
Speaker 5: are all types of platforms for black men, right. So
50:58
Speaker 5: I'm happy that that that that happen. I think is
51:00
Speaker 5: historic to have a major candidate actually addressed our issues.
51:04
Speaker 1: That shows we have power, right.
51:06
Speaker 5: And also I want to dispel this misinformation that black
51:09
Speaker 5: men don't vote, or black men don't vote for or
51:12
Speaker 5: vote for black women, or somehow we could lose. The
51:15
Speaker 5: black men are engaged, right, Black men are very much engaged.
51:18
Speaker 5: There's one population of people who always vote on freedom
51:22
Speaker 5: more than anybody else. That's Black women, only rivaled by
51:25
Speaker 5: black men, right, And so we just need to dispel
51:28
Speaker 5: that all of this gender war stuff. Any information that's
51:32
Speaker 5: about dividing us in our community is information that is
51:36
Speaker 5: set upon by our enemies because they're afraid if we
51:40
Speaker 5: as black people come together. And then the other thing
51:42
Speaker 5: that they're afraid of is when working class Black people,
51:45
Speaker 5: Latino people, and working class white people and Native people
51:48
Speaker 5: and Asian people we all come together. That's the thing
51:51
Speaker 5: that they are definitely afraid of.
51:54
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, and that's exactly all.
51:56
Speaker 3: The leaders and even in the culture.
51:59
Speaker 7: If you can bring people together through music, through through
52:02
Speaker 7: the arts, or through you know what you're speaking, or
52:05
Speaker 7: your activism, and literally that transcends color lines, and then
52:09
Speaker 7: before you know it, you have so much power that
52:11
Speaker 7: they can't control you. Because essentially power is freedom, that's right,
52:15
Speaker 7: and without freedom, you know, that's where we all are
52:18
Speaker 7: fighting for. And that's why voting now matters, because we're
52:21
Speaker 7: fighting not just for power, we're fighting for freedom and
52:25
Speaker 7: that's what's important to us.
52:27
Speaker 1: That's right. How do you support your work? Mary? Okay?
52:30
Speaker 5: Well, there's so many ways and people can get involved
52:32
Speaker 5: right now. I know this show is for a lot
52:35
Speaker 5: of people's entertainment and education, but I'm an organizer, so
52:39
Speaker 5: I'm always going to have a call to action, and
52:42
Speaker 5: so don't see this simply as education as entertainment. See
52:45
Speaker 5: this as your call to action if you want to
52:47
Speaker 5: get in this work between now on election day, because
52:50
Speaker 5: we're still talking to voters, and we still need to
52:52
Speaker 5: talk to voters. It's true when you look at the polls,
52:54
Speaker 5: it's going to be close. Right, you can matter, and
52:57
Speaker 5: so I encourage everybody to text the word power pun
53:02
Speaker 5: intended the three zero four zero three power to three
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Speaker 5: zero four zero three. You could Workingfamilies dot org. You
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Speaker 5: can see our list of endorsed candidates. And by the way,
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Speaker 5: we're on these streets every single day, right, so we've
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Speaker 5: endorsed close to a thousand candidates. We do that every
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Speaker 5: single year. And so if you're interested, there are organizations
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Speaker 5: for you, and my role is to get you organized.
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Speaker 5: I would love for you to join the Working Families Party.
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Speaker 5: If we're for whatever.
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Speaker 7: Reason, you want to volunteer, go to the site.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, you could volunteer, you could get on board, and
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Speaker 5: if everything or anything I've said aligns with you, then congratulations,
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Speaker 5: you already are Working Families Party member. You might as
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Speaker 5: well make it official. Come on board and get this
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Speaker 5: work because we're going to be on the streets in
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Speaker 5: every major swing swing state. We're also for folks that
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Speaker 5: might not know this. In California and in New York,
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Speaker 5: there are swing districts, right, and so there are congressional districts.
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Speaker 5: This is an opportunity to be able to make a
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Speaker 5: difference there. And then if you vote in Connecticut and
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Speaker 5: New York, we have a ballot line and in New
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Speaker 5: York you could vote Rod d on the Working Families
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Speaker 5: Party line. You could vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls,
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Speaker 5: not on the Democratic Party line, but on road D
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Speaker 5: the Working Families party line. Why that's important is that
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Speaker 5: you could say yes, absolutely, I saw the hate rally
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Speaker 5: at Madison Square Garden. I understand the assignment. I don't
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Speaker 5: want to vote that man in I'm going to vote
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Speaker 5: for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls, but I care about
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Speaker 5: the fact that we need to focus our resources on
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Speaker 5: education and healthcare and not on wars abroad. Right, then
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Speaker 5: you can vote on the Working Families Party line, which
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Speaker 5: says this is my candidate choice, but this is also
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Speaker 5: the agenda I vote on, and in those states you
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Speaker 5: could do.
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Speaker 7: That policies that you believe in and making sure that
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Speaker 7: we take care of us at home and not just abroad.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 7: We need people to support us here in America in
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Speaker 7: these cities.
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Speaker 3: So sure, that's also why we do what we do.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And we can't put at the center these politicians
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Speaker 5: and their biographies, and there's which is like all good.
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Speaker 5: We have to put at the center our families, our children,
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Speaker 5: our communities and use that in order to determine what
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Speaker 5: chess move we make. I like to say that elections
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Speaker 5: and voting is not a love letter, right, So you
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Speaker 5: don't have the life folks. You don't have to love folks,
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Speaker 5: you don't have to trust folks in order to vote
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Speaker 5: your interest and in order to make that chess move.
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Speaker 5: So if you want to make that chess move with us,
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Speaker 5: I invite you to join Working Families, not Lewis.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you so much for joining us.
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Speaker 3: We appreciate it much.
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Speaker 1: It's the breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass up
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Speaker 1: in the morning. The Breakfast Club