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00:00:42WELCOME TO WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL.
00:00:45MY NAME IS RANDY HOLLERITH. I'M THE DEAN OF THE CATHEDRAL.
00:00:49AND AS ALWAYS, IT IS AN HONOR AND A PLEASURE AND A JOY TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
00:00:53A SPECIAL WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU IN THE NAVE AND A SPECIAL
00:00:57WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE JOINING US ONLINE THIS EVENING
00:01:01FOR THIS SPECIAL PROGRAM.
00:01:03TONIGHT'S CONVERSATION IS PART
00:01:05OF AN ONGOING SERIES OF PROGRAMS UNDER THE BANNER WE CALL A
00:01:10BETTER WAY. PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE
00:01:13CIVIL DISCOURSE AND THE VALUES
00:01:15OF JUSTICE AND INTEGRITY,
00:01:18DIGNITY AND TRUTH TELLING.
00:01:21THEY ARE PROGRAMS INTENDED TO
00:01:23LIFT UP IMPORTANT VOICES IN OUR
00:01:26CULTURE AND IMPORTANT VOICES
00:01:28WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. WE SPONSOR THESE EVENTS BECAUSE
00:01:32WE BELIEVE THERE IS A BETTER WAY
00:01:34TO LIVE TOGETHER AS AMERICANS.
00:01:36A BETTER WAY TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER.
00:01:39A BETTER WAY TO DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER, AND A BETTER WAY TO
00:01:45FIND A PATH FORWARD TOGETHER IN
00:01:47WAYS THAT PROTECT THE INTEGRITY
00:01:50OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
00:01:53SO THIS EVENING, GUIDING OUR DISCUSSION, 1 OR 2 OF THE
00:01:56CATHEDRAL'S OWN.
00:01:59THE FIRST IS THE REVEREND DR. KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, WHO IS THE
00:02:03VISITING PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY AT HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL.
00:02:05AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE CANON
00:02:08THEOLOGIAN OF WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL.
00:02:12KELLY IS A LEADING SCHOLAR IN
00:02:14WOMAN THEOLOGY AND RACIAL JUSTICE.
00:02:18AND THEN THE REVEREND DR. LEONARD HAMLIN, WHO SERVES AS
00:02:21THE CATHEDRAL'S CANON MISSIONER AND MINISTER OF EQUITY AND
00:02:26INCLUSION, WHO, AMONG OTHER THINGS, LEADS OUR OUTREACH AND
00:02:29RACIAL JUSTICE MINISTRIES HERE
00:02:32AT THE CATHEDRAL.
00:02:34WE'RE GRATEFUL TO HAVE BOTH OF THEM GUIDING THE CONVERSATION
00:02:38THIS EVENING. OUR SPECIAL GUEST NEEDS LITTLE
00:02:41OR NO INTRODUCTION. BUT I'M GOING TO DO SOME ANYWAY.
00:02:45THE REVEREND DR. RAPHAEL WARNOCK
00:02:49REPRESENTS GEORGIA IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND SERVES AS
00:02:51SENIOR PASTOR OF THE HISTORIC EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH IN
00:02:56ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THE CHURCH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
00:02:59SENATOR WARNOCK HOLDS DEGREES
00:03:02FROM MOREHOUSE COLLEGE AND UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
00:03:06AND HE IS THE AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS
00:03:09BOOKS, INCLUDING THE DIVIDED
00:03:11MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH A WAY
00:03:13OUT OF NO WAY. AND, OF COURSE, HIS MOST RECENT
00:03:18BOOK, THE CROOKED PLACES MADE STRAIGHT REFLECTIONS ON THE
00:03:22MORAL MEANING OF AMERICA. WE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE ALL
00:03:26THREE OF THEM WITH US TONIGHT. SO WOULD YOU JOIN ME IN
00:03:29WELCOMING THEM TO THE PLATFORM.
00:04:04GOOD EVENING. THERE IS MUCH TO COVER THIS
00:04:07EVENING, SO WE WANT TO JUMP
00:04:11RIGHT IN. AND I WANT TO BEGIN FIRST BY
00:04:15THANKING SENATOR WARNOCK FOR
00:04:17BEING WITH US ON THIS EVENING.
00:04:20WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR MINISTRY.
00:04:24WE THANK YOU FOR THIS BOOK THAT
00:04:28YOU HAVE GRACED US WITH AGAIN.
00:04:31AND, OF COURSE, WE THANK YOU FOR
00:04:35YOUR COMMITMENT TO THIS COUNTRY
00:04:37AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE.
00:04:39I WANT TO BEGIN THIS
00:04:41CONVERSATION BY FIRST TURNING IT
00:04:44OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE, CANNON
00:04:47HAMLIN, WHO WILL BEGIN AS TO
00:04:50HELP US DIG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO YOUR BOOK.
00:04:54AND SO I'LL TURN OVER THE FIRST COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TO YOU. CAN OF HIM.
00:04:57I'M JOINING RIGHT AWAY TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
00:05:00THIS IS FOR YOU COMING BACK,
00:05:03BEING AT THE CATHEDRAL AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HAD AN
00:05:07OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THE BOOK
00:05:10YET, AS YOU WILL FIND, THERE'S SO MUCH IN HERE.
00:05:12OF COURSE, I HAVE THE BOOK WITH
00:05:16ME TONIGHT AND I ALMOST HAVE TO SMILE AT THE NUMBER OF FLAGS
00:05:18THAT I HAVE IN THIS BOOK FOR THE
00:05:20POINTS THAT WE WANT TO COVER FOR THIS EVENING.
00:05:23BUT AS WE'RE HERE ON JUNETEENTH
00:05:26ON THIS EVENING, WE'RE HERE
00:05:28TONIGHT DISCUSSING SO MANY ISSUES HERE AT THE CATHEDRAL.
00:05:32THE PREFACE OF YOUR BOOK BEGINS
00:05:35WITH YOU SPEAKING TO A DIVERSE
00:05:38CROWD WITH DIFFERENT THOUGHTS
00:05:40AND PROVIDING A VISION THAT
00:05:44REALLY CAME ACROSS SO STRONGLY
00:05:47TO HELP US SET THE STAGE NOT
00:05:49ONLY FOR A GREAT CATHEDRAL, BUT
00:05:51A GRAND CATHEDRAL OF THIS DAY. MARCHESE.
00:05:54WE WANT TO BEGIN IN THAT PLACE OF VISION AND HOPE BECAUSE YOU
00:05:58LIFT UP SO MUCH OF THAT. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU SAW
00:06:01THEN AND WHAT CONTINUES TO DRIVE YOU?
00:06:04IN A MOMENT LIKE THIS?
00:06:08WELL, HELLO, EVERYBODY.
00:06:09GOOD EVENING, FOLKS.
00:06:15HAPPY, HAPPY JUNETEENTH, EVERYBODY.
00:06:19THIS IS OUR DAY. AND I DO MEAN I MEAN EVERYBODY.
00:06:23THIS IS OUR DAY.
00:06:25SO WONDERFUL TO BE BACK HERE AT
00:06:29THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL.
00:06:33AND MY THANKS TO CANON KELLY
00:06:38BROWN DOUGLAS, WHOM I'VE KNOWN FOR YEARS. WE'RE BOTH UNION SEMINARY
00:06:42GRADUATE. AND GREAT TO SEE YOU, CANON
00:06:46HAMLIN AND ALSO DEAN HOLLERITH.
00:06:48MY LOVE AND REGARDS TO BISHOP BUDDY, IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE BACK
00:06:52HERE SO THE BOOK, AS YOU POINT
00:06:55OUT, ACTUALLY BEGINS WITH ME
00:06:58STANDING IN THAT PULPIT.
00:07:01I WAS HERE FOR THE VERY FIRST
00:07:05OFFICIAL JUNE 18TH CEREMONY IN
00:07:11JUNE OF 2023 AT I HAD THE HONOR,
00:07:15ACTUALLY, OF STANDING RIGHT THERE. SOMEONE SENT ME THE PICTURE TODAY.
00:07:18I WAS STANDING RIGHT BEHIND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
00:07:21JOE BIDEN, AS HE SIGNED JUNETEENTH, JUNETEENTH INTO LAW.
00:07:27AND WAS HE A PREACHING THAT SUNDAY MORNING.
00:07:38AND I RATHER ENJOY IT BEING
00:07:42HERE. IT MEANT A LOT TO ME.
00:07:45DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
00:07:49MY PREDECESSOR AT EBONY'S A
00:07:51BAPTIST CHURCH, PREACHED HIS
00:07:55LAST SUNDAY MORNING SERMON HERE,
00:07:59WAS FOCUSED ON REMAINING AWAKE
00:08:03THROUGH A REVOLUTION.
00:08:06IT WAS A WAKE UP CALL.
00:08:08AND I REMEMBER I REMEMBER BEING
00:08:10HERE ON JUNETEENTH OF 2023, A
00:08:15BAPTIST PREACHER PREACHING TO THIS CONGREGATION THAT ON MOST
00:08:18SUNDAY MORNINGS, THIS FIELD, MOSTLY WITH EPISCOPALIANS, WE
00:08:22LOVINGLY CALL YOU TO FROZEN
00:08:27CHOSEN. AND.
00:08:31SO WE COULD GET THROUGH THAT SERMON. I REMINDED THE FOLKS THAT
00:08:35MORNING THAT IN MY CHURCH ON AUBURN AVENUE AND SIMILAR
00:08:41CHURCHES. MY CONGREGANTS DO NOT SIT
00:08:46SILENTLY LISTENING TO THE PREACHER. THEY TALK BACK TO ME WHILE I'M
00:08:51TALKING. THEY SAY, AMEN.
00:08:54AND THEY LIKE WHAT I'M SAYING. HERE YOU GO.
00:08:58AND AND IF IF THEY AGREE WITH WHAT I'M SAYING. BUT IT'S TOUGH.
00:09:02IT'S A CHALLENGING THING.
00:09:03THEY SAY HAVE MERCY.
00:09:07NOW, IF YOU SAY HAVE MERCY, THAT MEANS YOU'RE NOT A PART OF THE
00:09:11TRADITION IS ONE WORD. HAVE MERCY.
00:09:15AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I'M SAYING.
00:09:17BUT YOU KNOW, I'M YOUR BROTHER ANYWAY. WE JUST TRY TO GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER.
00:09:21I REMINDED THE CONGREGATION THAT MORNING JUST SAY, LORD, HELP.
00:09:25I GOT A FEELING A LOT OF US ARE SAYING, LORD, HELP RIGHT ABOUT
00:09:29NOW IN OUR COUNTRY. LORD, EVERYBODY'S SAYING, LORD, HELP.
00:09:33LORD, HELP.
00:09:36BUT IT'S A GRAND TRADITION.
00:09:38IT'S CALL AND RESPONSE COMES OUT
00:09:40OF THE BLACK CHURCH.
00:09:44AND BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SO ON
00:09:47EDGE THESE DAYS, READY TO
00:09:49RESPOND WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE.
00:09:51LET ME HASTEN TO SAY THAT WHEN WE SAY THE BLACK CHURCH, WE HAVE
00:09:55NEVER MEANT ANYTHING RACIALLY
00:09:57EXCLUSIVE ABOUT THAT.
00:09:59THE BLACK CHURCH EMERGED AS
00:10:02RESPONDING TO RACISM, DECLARING THAT OF ONE BLOOD.
00:10:05GOD HAS MADE ALL NATIONS TO DWELL UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
00:10:09HOLDING VIGIL FOR A LARGER VISION WHERE WE WOULD EMBRACE
00:10:13EACH OTHER'S HUMANITY AND REFUSING TO ACCEPT SEGREGATION
00:10:17IN GOD'S HOUSE. IT IS THE ANTISLAVERY CHURCH.
00:10:20IT IS THE FREEDOM CHURCH.
00:10:22AND IN THAT CHURCH, WHEN THE PREACHERS PREACHING, THEY TALK
00:10:25BACK, CALL IN RESPONSE.
00:10:26AND SO THE BOOK IS MY CALL.
00:10:30BUT I HOPE TO SUMMONS OUT OF
00:10:36THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING AND READING A RESPONSE.
00:10:40DEMOCRACY IS A VERB, AND WE ALL
00:10:43HAVE TO BE ENGAGED AND ACTIVE. AND AND SO IN THIS MOMENT, AS WE
00:10:47APPROACH THE COUNTRY'S 250
00:10:49ANNIVERSARY, THIS REALLY IS MY LOVE LETTER TO AMERICA.
00:10:53I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. I'M NOT ABOUT TO GIVE IT OVER TO
00:10:56THE DEMAGOGUES WHO ARE TRYING TO
00:10:58DIVIDE US IN THIS MOMENT.
00:11:07I AM NOT ABOUT TO GIVE IT OVER TO THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO
00:11:10WEAPONIZE DESPAIR AND CONVINCE
00:11:12US THAT THEY'VE ALREADY WON.
00:11:16AMERICA, AS I SAY IN THE
00:11:18INTRODUCTION, IS LIKE A GRAND
00:11:22CATHEDRAL. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BUILD A CATHEDRAL.
00:11:26THIS IS NOT A POP UP, YOU KNOW.
00:11:30NO, NO SHADE ON CONTEMPORARY CHURCHES. BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THIS IS
00:11:34NOT THIS IS NOT A WAREHOUSE. THIS IT TAKES IT TAKES A WHILE
00:11:37TO BUILD SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
00:11:41DECADES THROUGH FLUCTUATIONS IN THE ECONOMY. AND THE AMAZING THING IS THE
00:11:45FOLKS WHO SIGN UP TO BUILD A CATHEDRAL KNOW THAT THEY WILL
00:11:49LIKELY NOT SEE ITS COMPLETION,
00:11:51AND YET THEY COMMIT TO THAT WORK
00:11:53OF BUILDING SOMETHING INTRICATE,
00:11:56ORNATE, COMPLICATED AND
00:11:58BEAUTIFUL, KNOWING THAT THAT
00:12:00MAJESTIC MARVEL AND ITS PROMISE
00:12:02WILL BE PASSED ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION.
00:12:05AMERICA IS A GRAND CATHEDRAL,
00:12:08250 YEARS IN THE MAKING.
00:12:10AND IT IS OUR ROLE AND OUR WORK
00:12:14AND AT THIS MOMENT, TO KEEP BUILDING THAT CATHEDRAL BRICK BY
00:12:18BRICK. AND THAT'S THE CONVERSATION I HOPE TO SPARK. YEAH.
00:12:24SO.
00:12:28THANK YOU, SENATOR WARNOCK. AND I WANT TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
00:12:31AND IN FACT, IN YOUR BOOK, YOU
00:12:35TALK ABOUT, AS YOU JUST SAID,
00:12:37AMERICA, AS A GRAND CATHEDRAL,
00:12:41UNFINISHED. AND SO IT IS AN UNFINISHED, IF
00:12:44YOU WILL, DEMOCRACY. HERE WE ARE ON JUNETEENTH,
00:12:50TALKING ABOUT THE EMANCIPATION
00:12:52OF THE ENSLAVED.
00:12:54BUT IT'S AN UNFINISHED STRUGGLE TOWARD FREEDOM.
00:12:57EMANCIPATED, BUT NOT FREE.
00:12:59SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A DEMOCRACY, AS YOU DISCUSS IN
00:13:02YOUR BOOK THAT IS ON THE WAY RIGHT.
00:13:05AND SO I WANT TO DIG INTO THAT A
00:13:07LITTLE BIT AND ESPECIALLY AS YOU SPEAK IN YOUR BOOK ABOUT VOTING
00:13:11RIGHTS ACTS. AND WE SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW
00:13:14WITH THE RETRENCHMENT ON THE
00:13:16VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.
00:13:20HOW DO WE MOVE IN THIS COUNTRY
00:13:24BEYOND ON THE SORT OF CULTURAL,
00:13:27SOCIAL, POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
00:13:29THAT SEES OUR DEMOCRACY SEE AS A
00:13:32SORT OF SOME ZERO GAME? RIGHT.
00:13:36THAT IF OTHERS GAIN, THAT MEANS
00:13:40SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO LOSE. AS YOU DISCUSS IN YOUR BOOK WITH
00:13:43THAT OR PEOPLE CAN'T SEE THAT
00:13:46EQUITY AND EQUALITY DOESN'T MEAN
00:13:51THAT SOMEONE HAS TO BE ON THE BOTTOM AND SOMEONE LOSES.
00:13:53AND SO WE'RE IN THIS MOMENT WHERE IT SEEMS THAT THERE IS
00:13:58THIS COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS WILL PREVAILING NARRATIVE THAT
00:14:03IS SOMEONE ELSE COMES UP, THEN I'M GOING TO LOSE.
00:14:05SO YOU HAVE THIS KIND OF GRIEVANCE AND WE CAN CALL IT A
00:14:09WHITE GRIEVANCE ABOUT WHAT'S BEING LOST.
00:14:12HOW DO WE MOVE BEYOND THAT SO THAT WE GET BACK ON THE ROAD TOWARD THE DEMOCRACY THAT YOU'RE
00:14:17TALKING ABOUT? YEAH. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:14:20AND AS YOU DESCRIBE IT AND WE THINK ABOUT IT AT THE ROOT IS
00:14:27FEAR.
00:14:30FEAR AND DEMAGOGUES.
00:14:34TRAFFIC IN FEAR. THE FEAR MAY ALREADY BE THERE,
00:14:36BUT THEY LIKE TO AMPLIFY IT.
00:14:38AND THEN THEY LEVERAGE IT IN
00:14:42ORDER TO DOMINATE ALL OF US.
00:14:46BUT I REMAIN HOPEFUL.
00:14:48THE SCRIPTURE SAYS PERFECT LOVE
00:14:52CASTS OUT ALL FEAR.
00:14:54I LOVE THAT THAT THAT THE OPPOSITE OF FEAR IS LOVE.
00:15:00AND JUSTICE IS WHAT?
00:15:04LOVE LOOKS LIKE IN PUBLIC.
00:15:06AND SO I'M CALLING US TO LOVE.
00:15:09I'M CALLING US TO RECOGNIZE THE
00:15:13COVENANT THAT WE HAVE WITH ONE
00:15:14ANOTHER AS AN AMERICAN PEOPLE.
00:15:18AND THEY ARE THOSE WHO ARE
00:15:19TRYING TO CONVINCE US THAT WE
00:15:22DON'T HAVE ENOUGH.
00:15:25AND AND THAT'S WHY I CHARACTERIZE AS WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW AS A
00:15:30SPIRITUAL CRISIS. THIS IS NOT YOUR POLITICIAN'S
00:15:34BOOK. YOU SHOULD GET A CHANCE, HOPEFULLY, TO READ IT.
00:15:38I'M SPEAKING AS UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM GEORGIA, BUT I'M A
00:15:41PASTOR WHO'S IN THE SENATE AND
00:15:44PART OF PART OF WHAT DRIVES ME
00:15:47IS THE RECOGNITION THAT THE
00:15:51PREDICTABLE PARTIZAN LANGUAGE OF
00:15:52OUR POLITICS IS REALLY TOO PUNY
00:15:55A VOCABULARY FOR WHAT AILS US
00:15:58RIGHT NOW. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE
00:16:03WITNESSED OVER DECADES ALL OF US
00:16:08A A YAWNING CHASM, A GROWING
00:16:14DIVIDE BETWEEN WHAT ORDINARY EVERYDAY PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE ABLE
00:16:17TO REASONABLE TO EXPECT FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT AND WHAT
00:16:21GOVERNMENT DELIVERS LIKE WE'RE
00:16:27FRUSTRATED. WE'RE FRUSTRATED WITH GROWING
00:16:30WEALTH INEQUALITY.
00:16:31WORKERS ARE WORKING HARDER AND
00:16:35HARDER, AND THEY'RE SEEING LESS AND LESS FOR THE WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING.
00:16:39PEOPLE ARE INSECURE. THEY'RE UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE
00:16:43FUTURE. AND ALL OF THAT NOW IS ON
00:16:46STEROIDS BECAUSE OF INNOVATION,
00:16:49WHICH YOU CAN'T STOP. YOU CAN'T PUT IT BACK IN THE BAG.
00:16:53SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WRESTLE WITH THE PROMISES AND
00:16:56THE PERILS OF A BUT ALL OF THESE
00:17:02THINGS CREATE A SENSE OF
00:17:04UNCERTAINTY AND INSECURITY. WE WITNESSED WHAT HAS HAPPENED
00:17:08IN MIDDLE AMERICA. WHAT WE YOU KNOW, THE RUST BELT,
00:17:12THE DECLINE OF INDUSTRIAL
00:17:14AMERICA AND THE MOVEMENT INTO A
00:17:17SERVICE ECONOMY, ALL OF THESE CHANGES MAKE PEOPLE FEEL
00:17:21INSECURE AND THEY'RE THERE'S
00:17:23ALWAYS SOME DEMAGOGUE WHO WANTS TO STEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT.
00:17:29AND SAY, SEE, THE REASON WHY YOU DON'T HAVE THIS OR THAT IS
00:17:33BECAUSE OF THEM.
00:17:37IT'S AN OLD GAME. IT'S AMAZING. IT WORKS OVER AND OVER.
00:17:40IT WORKS EVERY TIME ALMOST. BUT IT'S IT'S AN OLD GAME.
00:17:44YOU'VE SEEN IT BEFORE. SO WHAT?
00:17:46I'M TRYING TO HELP US TO SEE IS
00:17:49THAT WE SUFFER NOT FROM A
00:17:50POVERTY OF RESOURCES, BUT A
00:17:55POVERTY OF MORAL IMAGINATION AND
00:17:58MORAL COURAGE. THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE SUFFER FROM.
00:18:03WE WE WE REALLY DO HAVE ENOUGH.
00:18:08AND THEN THE PLACES WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH, WE CAN HAVE ENOUGH.
00:18:12WE HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL TO HAVE
00:18:17ENOUGH.
00:18:19AND ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT
00:18:22THE THE THE CONVERSATION AROUND
00:18:27SCARCITY ALWAYS EMERGES WHEN
00:18:30YOU'RE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING
00:18:32FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE AND I, I
00:18:37DIDN'T HEAR ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT SCARCITY WHEN THE
00:18:41PRESIDENT DRAGGED US INTO THIS
00:18:43ILLEGAL WAR OF CHOICE IN IRAN.
00:18:47I HEAR HE TALKED.
00:18:51WE SPENT AT LEAST AT LEAST.
00:18:55$1 BILLION A DAY OVER THE LAST
00:18:58109 DAYS, AT LEAST.
00:19:00WE'VE DEPLETED OUR MUNITIONS.
00:19:03HE'S DRIVEN UP THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR.
00:19:07AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO END UP
00:19:11ABOUT WHERE WE WERE BEFORE HE STARTED.
00:19:13ARGUABLY A LITTLE BIT WORSE OFF
00:19:15IN TERMS OF OUR SECURE CITIES.
00:19:18ONE OTHER EXAMPLE.
00:19:24ICE IS LARGER BECAUSE OF THE
00:19:29FUNDING THAT THEY DID. THE IN THE ONE BIG UGLY BILL, YOU REMEMBER, THEY CALLED IT
00:19:34BEAUTIFUL ICE IS LARGER THAN THE
00:19:39MARINE ONES.
00:19:41ICE IS LARGER THAN ALL OF THE
00:19:43FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
00:19:47COMBINED, IS LARGER THAN THE DEA
00:19:49DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, ATF,
00:19:52ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS,
00:19:54THE U.S. MARSHALS.
00:19:58I'M LEAVING OUT SOMEBODY. BUT THIS IS LARGER THAN ALL OF
00:20:00THEM COMBINED. AND THE OTHER NIGHT I WAS UP ALL
00:20:05NIGHT VOTING, TRYING TO CONVINCE
00:20:07MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES THAT
00:20:09ICE DIDN'T NEED ANOTHER $7
00:20:13BILLION FOR AN UNACCOUNTABLE
00:20:15PAIR OF MILITARY AGENCY FOR THAT FOR THAT FOR THE MONEY THAT THEY
00:20:18GAVE TO ICE THE OTHER NIGHT.
00:20:20$70 BILLION, YOU COULD FUND
00:20:24PRE-K ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY
00:20:26FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
00:20:29WE SUFFER SO THAT SO THAT SO
00:20:33THAT YOUNG SO THAT MOMS AND DADDIES CAN GO TO WORK AND THEIR
00:20:37CHILDREN CAN GET THE EDUCATION THAT THEY NEED WHEN THEY'RE
00:20:40YOUNG BECAUSE 3 TO 4 YEAR OLDS, THAT'S WHERE ALL THE POWER IS.
00:20:43I HATE TO TELL YOU, WE DON'T WE
00:20:46ACT LIKE CHILD CARE IS AN AND PRESCHOOL IS SOME LUXURY.
00:20:50I HATE TO TELL YOU, BECAUSE THIS
00:20:52CONGREGATION IS FILLED WITH SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE.
00:20:54YOU WILL NEVER BE AS SMART AS
00:20:57YOU WERE WHEN YOU WERE THREE.
00:21:00AND IF WE WERE SMART, WE WOULD INVEST IN THREE YEAR OLDS.
00:21:04BUT INSTEAD, WE GAVE $70 BILLION
00:21:07TO AN UNACCOUNTABLE PARAMILITARY FORCE.
00:21:09WE SUFFERED NOT FROM A POVERTY
00:21:11OF RESOURCES, BUT MORAL IMAGINATION.
00:21:15AND MORAL COURAGE. YES.
00:21:19LET ME WE'LL FOLLOW UP JUST ON
00:21:22THAT AND THEN TURN IT BACK OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE.
00:21:26SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, AS YOU TALK ABOUT THE
00:21:28MONEY THAT IS NOW GOING TO ICE
00:21:32AND AND THE THE WAR AND OTHER THINGS IS THE IMPACT.
00:21:36AND YOU DISCUSS IT IN YOUR BOOK
00:21:39OF WHAT YOU CALL DARK MONEY.
00:21:41BUT WHAT WE KNOW IN THIS WHAT'S
00:21:44SUPPOSED TO BE A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY FOLLOWING THE WILL OF
00:21:47THE PEOPLE, WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT
00:21:49BIG BUSINESS ELITE, AN ELITE
00:21:55FEW, AN ELITE MONEYED FEW HAVE A
00:21:57GREAT IMPACT ON THE POLICIES IN
00:22:02THIS COUNTRY, HAVE A GREAT
00:22:04IMPACT ON WHAT GOES ON IN
00:22:06CONGRESS, HOW CAN WE, AS
00:22:11ORDINARY PEOPLE IN A NATION THAT'S SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE
00:22:14WILL OF THE PEOPLE, HOW CAN WE
00:22:15BEGIN TO HAVE AN IMPACT IN WHEN
00:22:21WE ARE COMPETING WITH WHAT YOU
00:22:23TERM DARK MONEY AND AND AND ALSO
00:22:26NOT SO DARK MONEY BUSINESS AND
00:22:30OTHER ELITE, MONEYED, POWERFUL
00:22:33PEOPLE. SO.
00:22:41THE ROBERTS COURT IN MY VIEW
00:22:46OVER THE COURSE OVER THE LAST
00:22:48SEVERAL YEARS HAS DONE A LOT OF
00:22:53DAMAGE TO OUR ELECTIONS SYSTEM
00:22:58THAT DIDN'T SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T GET EVERYTHING RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, SOMETHING, RIGHT?
00:23:01I MEAN, THEY GOT SOME THINGS RIGHT ON ON A WHOLE RANGE OF ISSUES, BUT THEY'VE DONE A LOT
00:23:05OF DAMAGE.
00:23:09AND ONE OF THOSE INFLECTION
00:23:10POINTS WAS CITIZENS UNITED.
00:23:17WHICH BASICALLY SAY A CORPORATION IS A HUMAN BEINGS
00:23:20AND THEY ARE PEOPLE, TOO. THAT'S RIGHT. AND THEY OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO
00:23:24HAVE AS MUCH SPEECH IN THE
00:23:28DEMOCRACY THAT AS THEY THAT THEY CAN AFFORD.
00:23:31SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DOES?
00:23:34THAT SQUEEZES THE VOICES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR
00:23:39DEMOCRACY. AND THERE'S A REASON WHY WE YOU
00:23:42KNOW, WE'VE WITNESSED THIS
00:23:44CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH AT THE
00:23:46TOP FOR DECADES.
00:23:48AND LET'S LET'S LET'S LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
00:23:52LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT THAT. BECAUSE IT'S GROWING WEALTH INEQUALITY THAT I'M TALKING
00:23:57ABOUT THAT AFFECTS BLACK PEOPLE, WHITE PEOPLE, RED, YELLOW AND
00:23:59BROWN PEOPLE. IT HAS HAPPENED OVER DECADES AND
00:24:03IT HAS HAPPENED OVER REPUBLICAN
00:24:06AND DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS.
00:24:10SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN WORKING.
00:24:12SO I WAS PROUD OF THE FACT THAT.
00:24:18YOU KNOW, I WON IN GEORGIA FIVE TIMES.
00:24:21I'M NOT BRAGGING. I'M JUST TESTIFYING.
00:24:25WE TESTIFY IN THE BLACK RIGHT.
00:24:31AND LESS THAN THREE YEARS TO ELECTIONS, FIVE TIMES MY NAME
00:24:34WAS ON THE ON THE BALLOT.
00:24:37BUT BECAUSE I WON, WE FLIPPED
00:24:40THE SENATE.
00:24:42AND BECAUSE WE FLIPPED THE SENATE.
00:24:46HOLD ON. I'M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS. WE FLIPPED THE SENATE.
00:24:50WE HAD A TRIFECTA.
00:24:53AND BECAUSE DEMS HAD A TRIFECTA,
00:24:56AMONG THINGS WE WERE ABLE TO DO
00:24:58IS WE PASSED A LAW THAT GAVE
00:25:04MEDICARE THE ABILITY FOR THE
00:25:08FIRST TIME TO NEGOTIATE THE
00:25:12PRICE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WITH BIG PHARMA.
00:25:15SO MEDICARE IS, YOU.
00:25:19WE TALK ABOUT GOVERNMENT. I LOVE WHEN FOLKS SAY, OH, WE WE
00:25:23SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT. LIKE THE GOVERNMENT IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN US. IT'S OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE
00:25:27PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE. RIGHT. SO MEDICARE IS AND THEY COULDN'T
00:25:30EVEN NEGOTIATE ON YOUR BEHALF. SO JUST THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:25:34I'M TALKING ABOUT THE IMPACT OF DARK MONEY, THE FACT THAT WE HAD
00:25:38TO PASS A LAW SO THAT SO THAT THE PERSON WHO'S BUYING
00:25:41SOMETHING IN THIS CASE, IN THIS
00:25:42CASE MEDICARE HERE, CAN FINALLY
00:25:46ARGUE ABOUT THE PRICE IN A
00:25:48CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY TODAY. I THINK IN A CAPITALISTIC
00:25:52SOCIETY, THE BUYER OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO HAGGLE A BIT AND PUSH
00:25:56BACK SUPPLY AND DEMAND. ADAM SMITH, YOU KNOW, WE READ THAT STUFF, RIGHT?
00:26:00WE I THINK I KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.
00:26:03WE HAD TO PASS A LAW SO MEDICARE
00:26:04COULD NEGOTIATE AND THEN AFTER
00:26:09WE PASSED A LAW, IT COVERED ONLY
00:26:15TEN DRUGS AND WE HAD TO WAIT FOUR YEARS.
00:26:18IT BEFORE IT CAME INTO EFFECT. WE PASSED IT IN 22.
00:26:21IT BECAME EFFECTIVE THIS YEAR.
00:26:24SO YOU HAD TO PASS A LAW SO THAT
00:26:28YOU COULD DO WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO, NEGOTIATE TO WHEN
00:26:31YOU PASSED A LAW. TRUST ME, I DON'T I'M NOT POOR
00:26:34IN COLD WATER ON THAT LAW. I'M GLAD WE PASSED IT.
00:26:38IT'S GOING TO SAVE A LOT OF LIVES. AND THOSE PARTICULAR TEN DRUGS
00:26:40ARE CENTRAL. I MEAN, THERE'S A REASON THEY
00:26:43WILL HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT ONLY TEN DRUGS. AND THEN NUMBER THREE, YOU HAD
00:26:47TO WAIT FOUR YEARS UNTIL IT COMES INTO EFFECT. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
00:26:50THAT TELLS YOU THAT EVEN AS WE GOT THIS DONE AND IT WAS A BIG
00:26:53DEAL, THAT'S A LOT OF CONCESSION.
00:26:56AND THE BIG PHARMA. AND SO WHETHER YOU'RE TALKING
00:27:00ABOUT BIG PHARMA OR BIG OIL AND
00:27:02GAS, AS WE ARE, ARE HAMSTRUNG IN
00:27:07OUR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO THE
00:27:09CLIMATE CRISIS WITH THE
00:27:12EMERGENCY AND THE URGENCY THAT IT REQUIRES.
00:27:15OR WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GUN
00:27:19LOBBY, ALL OF THESE INTERESTS
00:27:23ARE TAKING OVER THE PEOPLE'S VOICES.
00:27:26AND SO I SEE IT AS MY JOB IN THE SENATE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M
00:27:30FOCUSED ON AS AS A PASTOR IN THE
00:27:33SENATE IS I'M FIGHTING TO GET
00:27:35THE PEOPLE, THEIR VOICES BACK,
00:27:37WHETHER IT'S FIGHTING DARK MONEY.
00:27:43FOR FIGHTING, GERRYMANDERING,
00:27:45ALL OF THESE GAMES THAT THEY'RE PLAYING. I'M TRYING TO GET THE PEOPLE'S
00:27:49VOICE BACK BECAUSE I BELIEVE
00:27:53THAT A VOTE IS A KIND OF PRAYER
00:27:56FOR THE WORLD WE DESIRE FOR OURSELVES AND OUR CHILDREN. AND OUR PRAYERS ARE STRONGER
00:28:00WHEN WE CAN PRAY TOGETHER. AND SO I'M TRYING TO GET YOUR
00:28:03VOICE BACK, BUT YOU HAVE TO JOIN ME IN THAT FIGHT.
00:28:06AND WE DON'T WAIT TILL NOVEMBER. WE HAVE TO STAND UP RIGHT NOW.
00:28:10I WAS IN GEORGIA.
00:28:12IT'S HARD FOR ME TO KEEP UP WITH MY OWN SCHEDULE.
00:28:15SOMETIMES I WAS IN GEORGIA.
00:28:17I THINK WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY,
00:28:20WHERE THE GOVERNOR CONVENED THE
00:28:23STATE LEGISLATURE AND THEY WERE
00:28:25THREATENING TO DO IN GEORGIA WHAT THEY'RE DOING IN THESE
00:28:28OTHER STATES AND TENNESSEE AND
00:28:30ALABAMA AND LOUISIANA.
00:28:32AND THEY WERE GOING TO REDRAW THE LINES.
00:28:36NOW, THEY CALLED THEM IN THE
00:28:38SPECIAL SESSION TO JEREMY
00:28:40MANDEL, BLACK CONGRESS MEMBERS
00:28:43OUT OF THEIR SEATS COME 2028, THEY COULD HAVE CALLED THE
00:28:48LEGISLATURE IN THE SESSION TO EXPAND MEDICAID. WE GOT 500,000 PEOPLE IN GEORGIA
00:28:52IN THE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE GAP TO DEAL WITH THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ISSUE.
00:28:56NO, THE POLITICIANS COME BACK IN THE SESSION TO PLAY WITH THE LIES.
00:28:59THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE FOLKS STOOD UP. THEY HEARD ABOUT IT.
00:29:02THEY MADE NOISE ABOUT IT, AND
00:29:04THEY GOT SO NERVOUS THEY CANCELED IT AND THEY SAID, NOW
00:29:07WE BETTER NOT DO THAT.
00:29:12SO STAND UP. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
00:29:15IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE AS AS YOU SPEAK ABOUT STANDING UP AND YOU
00:29:18TALKED ABOUT BEING A PASTOR IN THE SENATE.
00:29:23ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE CATHEDRAL OFTEN HOLDS UP IS THAT
00:29:26WE OCCUPY THIS SPACE. THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE
00:29:30CIVIC AND THE SACRED, OBVIOUSLY
00:29:33BEING A PASTOR, BEING IN THE
00:29:35SENATE, THERE ARE MANY WHO ARE EXCITED THIS EVENING BECAUSE
00:29:38THERE'S SOMETHING YOU SEE YOUR
00:29:40FAITH IS IMPACTING THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.
00:29:44HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE INTERSECTION THAT YOU HAVE TO
00:29:47LIVE IN AND BRINGING ALL THIS TOGETHER? BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY
00:29:51THAT CAN COMPARTMENTALIZE, SAYS EVERYTHING. AND YOU'RE EITHER ONE OR NOT,
00:29:55BUT NOT THE WHOLE YOU'RE THIS GROUP OR THAT GROUP, AND YOU'RE
00:29:59TALKING ABOUT BRINGING UNITY TO ALL OF THIS. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THAT
00:30:02PERSONALLY YOURSELF, AND HOW WOULD IT BE HELPFUL FOR EVERYBODY ELSE TO SEE,
00:30:06ESPECIALLY NOW WHEN WE'RE
00:30:09WRESTLING OVER WHAT DOES IT EVEN
00:30:11MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN NOW?
00:30:13AND CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND ALL OF THE OTHER TOPICS THAT ARE
00:30:17THERE. HOW DOES THAT WORK FOR YOU?
00:30:21SO LET ME BE VERY CLEAR.
00:30:23I BELIEVE FIRMLY AND STRONGLY IN
00:30:27THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
00:30:39I WILL DEFEND THAT PRINCIPLE AS
00:30:40STRONGLY AS ANYBODY, NOT JUST TO
00:30:43PROTECT THE STATE FROM THE CHURCH.
00:30:46I'M TRYING TO PROTECT THE CHURCH
00:30:48FROM THE STATE.
00:30:53AND I'M TRYING TO PROTECT ALL OF
00:30:55US FOR FROM ANY KIND OF
00:31:01RELIGIOUS IN OUR CASE, BECAUSE IT IS THE DOMINANT FAITH AND
00:31:04THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WITNESSING.
00:31:06CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM.
00:31:09CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM, IN MY VIEW, IS THE OPPOSITE OF
00:31:13CHRISTIAN FAITH.
00:31:16IT IS.
00:31:21IN ITS NATIONALIST EMPHASIS THAT
00:31:27MY DEFINITION IS A RELIGION THAT
00:31:28IS TRIBAL, IS LEANING IN THE
00:31:32TRIBALISM. IT IS IT IS CHRISTIAN FAITH AS
00:31:35AS IDENTITY AND DRAWING LINES
00:31:37AND WHO'S IN AND WHO'S OUT.
00:31:43LOVE IS AT THE CENTER OF MY VIEW OF THE FAITH. MY FAITH IS NOT A WEAPON.
00:31:46IT'S A BRIDGE.
00:31:48AND SO.
00:31:52I HAVE AN OBLIGATION, IT SEEMS
00:31:54TO ME, BOTH AS A CITIZEN AND A
00:32:00CHRISTIAN, TO MAKE SURE THAT MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS WHO ARE
00:32:04JEWISH OR WHO ARE MUSLIMS OR
00:32:08SIKHS OR WHO CLAIM NO PARTICULAR
00:32:11FAITH TRADITION AT ALL, THAT THEY ARE PROTECTED AND THEY HAVE
00:32:15A RIGHT TO BE WHO THEY ARE. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE IN
00:32:18THIS KIND OF DEMOCRACY.
00:32:22THAT WE WE GOT TO HAVE EACH
00:32:26OTHER'S BACK AND I WAS WONDERING
00:32:31WHERE ALL THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
00:32:33PEOPLE WERE WHEN SECRETARY HICKS
00:32:37HAVE DECIDED THAT WITHOUT A THEOLOGY DEGREE, HE KNOWS
00:32:41WESTERN RELIGION. IT WAS NOT.
00:32:44I MEAN, WHO DIED AND MADE HIM THE CANON.
00:32:50OF OR THE POPE.
00:32:52I FORGOT HIM AT EPISCOPAL
00:32:55CHURCH, BUT YOU'LL TAKE THAT.
00:33:00YOU ARE SO SO LET ME LET ME.
00:33:03SO THAT SAID.
00:33:06WHAT I DO BRING FROM MY FAITH TO
00:33:08MY WORK IS MY VALUES, RIGHT?
00:33:11NOT THE CREEDS.
00:33:13THE VALUES, BUT THEY HAVE VALUES
00:33:16THAT I THINK ARE RESONANT IN ALL OF THE GREAT FAITH TRADITIONS
00:33:19AND PEOPLE WHO CLAIM NO FAITH AT ALL. BUT ARE PEOPLE OF MORAL COURAGE.
00:33:23IT'S LOVE IS JUSTICE, IS TRUTH TELLING IS COMPASSION.
00:33:28IT'S EMPATHY. THE ABILITY TO LOOK INTO THE
00:33:30EYES OF THE OTHER AND SEE A
00:33:36GLIMPSE OF YOUR OWN HUMANITY. THIS BOOK IS CENTERED AROUND
00:33:40ISAIAH THE CROOKED PLACES MADE STRAIGHT.
00:33:43IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT ALREADY. AMAZON.COM.
00:33:46I'M JUST KIDDING. UM. I'M KIDDING.
00:33:49Y'ALL LIGHTEN UP. YOU KNOW, SAY, HAVE MERCY OR
00:33:53SOMETHING TO ME.
00:33:59OH. I DON'T TAKE MY CREEDS TO MY WORK.
00:34:02I TAKE MY VALUES AND THAT'S WHAT
00:34:07INFORMS MY WORK EVERY DAY. THERE'S. THERE'S A PASSAGE IN ISAIAH THAT
00:34:13TALKS ABOUT THE WOLF LYING DOWN
00:34:15NEXT TO THE LAMB.
00:34:18AND THEN IT ENDS BY SAYING AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM.
00:34:21AND SO IDYLLIC THAT I'M LIKE, WHAT IS ISAIAH TALKING ABOUT?
00:34:25HERE'S HOW I READ THE PASSAGE THESE DAYS.
00:34:29THE THING THAT EVEN MORTAL
00:34:31ENEMIES HAVE IN IN COMMON IS
00:34:34THAT WE ALL LOVE OUR CHILDREN.
00:34:38PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES MAIM YOUR CONFLICT IN THE WORLD.
00:34:42PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THAT CONFLICT LOVE THEIR CHILDREN.
00:34:45WHEN WE FIND SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T LOVE THEIR CHILDREN,
00:34:49THAT'S A RARE THING. AND YOU'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE
00:34:51LOVE OUR CHILDREN.
00:34:54I, I THINK THAT IF WE THAT THE
00:34:57MORAL LEAP THAT WE'VE GOT TO MAKE IN OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE
00:35:01THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE US THAT OUR NEIGHBOR IS THE PROBLEM.
00:35:05YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN. RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU LOVE YOUR
00:35:09CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, YOUR NIECES, YOUR NEPHEWS, YOUR
00:35:13GODCHILDREN. WE ALL GOT CHILDREN ONE WAY OR
00:35:15THE OTHER. THE MORAL LEAP THAT WE HAVE TO
00:35:20MAKE IS THE ABILITY TO LOOK INTO
00:35:23THE EYES OF OTHER PEOPLE'S
00:35:26CHILDREN AND SEE OUR OWN.
00:35:28AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD
00:35:31THEM CENTER THE CHILDREN.
00:35:37AND TRY TO FIGHT FOR A WORLD
00:35:41WHERE EVERY CHILD HAS A CHANCE.
00:35:46AND THAT'S HOW MY FAITH WORKS. THANK YOU.
00:35:50SO I'M GOING TO PICK UP WITH THE
00:35:52CHILDREN AND AND INDEED, YOU DO
00:35:55CENTER THAT IN YOUR BOOK AND YOU
00:35:57CENTER AS YOU POINT OUT, THAT
00:36:00EVERY GREAT FAITH TRADITION HAS
00:36:03SOME VERSION OF THE GOLDEN RULE, RIGHT?
00:36:05DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU AND REALLY
00:36:09APPRECIATE THAT PROPHETIC VOICE
00:36:11THAT COMES THROUGH, THROUGH YOUR BOOK.
00:36:14BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THE
00:36:16CHILDREN IN THIS NEXT GENERATION, RIGHT?
00:36:18WHAT GENERATION Z? I GUESS IT IS 18 TO 25.
00:36:22AND WHAT WE KNOW AND ALL OF THE
00:36:27RECENT SURVEYS, THE MOST RECENT SURVEY THAT WAS ISSUED DAY
00:36:29BEFORE LAST, EVEN BY PUBLIC
00:36:33RELIGION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE,
00:36:34IS THAT THAT GENERATION HAS
00:36:38BECOME DISENGAGED AND
00:36:41DISAFFECTED AND DON'T SEE THIS
00:36:45VISION, THIS HOPE AND OUR
00:36:47DEMOCRACY AS OTHER GENERATIONS
00:36:51DO. AND ONE OF THE REASONS PEOPLE
00:36:53POINT OUT IS THAT THEY HAVE COME
00:36:55OF AGE DURING A TIME WHEN OUR
00:36:59DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN AT THREAT AND
00:37:04WHEN OUR DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN, IF YOU WILL, AND DECLINE AND
00:37:08PERHAPS WHERE THE ASPIRATION TOWARD THE KIND OF WORLD THAT
00:37:12YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HAS
00:37:14INDEED BEEN HARDER TO FIND THAN AT OTHER TIMES.
00:37:17SO YOU HAVE THIS GENERATION OF
00:37:2018 TO ABOUT 26 YEAR OLDS OR OR
00:37:23OLDER, LITTLE OLDER THAT ARE NOT AS ENGAGED. WHAT DO WE SAY TO THEM?
00:37:27HOW DO WE GET THEM REENGAGED AND
00:37:29HOW DO WE BEGIN TO HELP THEM TO
00:37:35EXPAND THEIR MORAL IMAGINATION AS YOU SPEAK ABOUT THAT CAN
00:37:39UNDERSTAND AND JUSTICE BEYOND
00:37:42THE REALITY OF INJUSTICE THAT MASQUERADES AS JUSTICE IN OUR
00:37:46CURRENT REALITY? YEAH, YEAH.
00:37:48I THINK THEY ARE ALIENATES.
00:37:51AND AS YOU DESCRIBE IT, THEY'RE BEING DISAFFECTED.
00:37:55I THINK THEIR ISSUE IS, IS WITH
00:37:57THE INSTITUTIONS THEY ARE AND ALL AMERICANS.
00:38:01IF YOU LOOK AT THE SURVEYS, ARE
00:38:04STRUGGLING WITH INSTITUTIONS.
00:38:08THERE'S A TRUST GAP WITH THE
00:38:10BANKING SYSTEM.
00:38:14I DON'T KNOW WHAT CONGRESS IS.
00:38:16POLL RATINGS ARE SOMEWHERE
00:38:18AROUND THE SAME AS A ROOT CANAL.
00:38:25AND ACTUALLY, THAT'S TRUE.
00:38:27IT'S ACTUALLY IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE.
00:38:33AND WITH HOUSES OF WORSHIP.
00:38:38I LOVE IT WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE SAY TO ME, I DON'T BELIEVE IN
00:38:42ORGANIZED RELIGION. I TELL THEM WE'RE GOOD. YOU SHOULD BE A BAPTIST BECAUSE
00:38:45WE NOT THAT ORGANIZED THIS.
00:38:50YOU ALL ORGANIZED. WE'RE NOT THAT ORGANIZED.
00:38:56BUT EVERY EVERY GREAT MOVEMENT
00:39:01THAT WE'VE HAD IN THIS COUNTRY
00:39:03HAS BEEN CHILDREN. YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AT THE CENTER OF IT.
00:39:07I MEAN, THAT MOVEMENT IN
00:39:09BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, I MEAN,
00:39:11THAT WAS A THAT WAS A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE MOVEMENT BECAUSE
00:39:15IT STARTED WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS. AND THEN BEFORE YOU KNEW IT,
00:39:19HIGH SCHOOL KIDS WERE LEAVING THE SCHOOLS AND THEN MIDDLE
00:39:22SCHOOL AND SOME ELEMENTARY
00:39:24SCHOOL AGE KIDS WERE AT THE
00:39:26CENTER OF IT.
00:39:31AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LEADER OF THAT MOVEMENT, I THINK WE
00:39:36FORGET HOW YOUNG DR. KING WAS.
00:39:39SO DO WE HAVE TO GET THAT BAD AGAIN TO REIGNITE THE YOUNG? WE GOT?
00:39:44WE GOT TO GIVE FIRE, THOUGH. YEAH, I HAVE GREAT HOPE IN YOUNG PEOPLE. I DO.
00:39:48AND I THINK WE GOT TO GIVE THEM
00:39:52SPACE TO FIND THEIR VOICE.
00:39:54I THINK THEY ARE ENGAGING
00:39:56TECHNOLOGY AND ALL OF THAT, BUT I DO THINK WE HAVE TO HELP THEM
00:40:00TO TO SEE THAT A POST IS IS NOT
00:40:06ACTIVISM. YOU KNOW, JUST PUT SOMETHING ON
00:40:08FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM AND
00:40:12DEFINITELY DON'T DON'T TWEET AND THEN FAIL TO VOTE.
00:40:16BUT NOBODY NOBODY COUNTS TWEETS.
00:40:20ALL RIGHT. NO TWEET. IF YOU DON'T VOTE.
00:40:26HM. SO WE HAVE TO STAY ENGAGED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE.
00:40:30UM, I SEE THAT LIGHT IN THEIR EYES.
00:40:32AND I ALSO THINK THAT THEY ARE DEEPLY INTERESTED IN THINGS.
00:40:36SPIRIT WORLD. AGAIN, IT'S THE INSTITUTIONS THAT THEY WRESTLE WITH. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOUNG
00:40:41PEOPLE I THINK AND I DON'T THINK THIS GENERATION IS UNIQUE IN THAT REGARD.
00:40:45ONE THING THE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE
00:40:47VERY, VERY LITTLE PATIENCE FOR IS HYPOCRISY.
00:40:49WELL, YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, WE ALL GOT SOME
00:40:53CONTRADICTIONS, SO YOU GOT TO HELP THEM WITH THAT. EVERYBODY'S GOT SOME
00:40:57CONTRADICTION, BUT THEY THEY
00:40:58HAVE LESS PATIENCE FOR A
00:41:02CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT YOU SAY AND WHAT YOU DO, BETWEEN
00:41:05YOUR DEEDS AND YOUR CREEDS AND
00:41:09THEY'RE GOING TO HOLD US, GOING TO HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE. I CAN TELL YOU THAT IN THE
00:41:12CHURCH, SOMETIMES WE WANT THEM TO COME, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO CHANGE ANYTHING.
00:41:15WE WANT TO INTEGRATE THEM INTO OUR THING. AND THAT'S A CONTRADICTION.
00:41:18YOU GOT TO YOU GOT IT. THEY GOT TO BE ABLE TO SHAPE IT IF YOU WANT THEM TO BE A PART OF IT.
00:41:22THEY HAVE TO SHAPE IT ALSO.
00:41:25AND I JUST TRY TO REMEMBER MY
00:41:30OWN YOUTH AND HOW I BEGAN TO
00:41:36FIND MY VOICE. PEOPLE CREATED SPACE FOR ME TO DO THAT.
00:41:39YOU KNOW, I THINK FINDING A
00:41:42VOICE OR YOU'RE HELPING MANY TO THINK ABOUT THEIR VOICE THIS
00:41:46EVENING, HOW WE'RE USING OUR VOICE ON THIS JUNETEENTH. OF COURSE, WE HAVE THESE WINDOWS
00:41:50THAT ARE HERE AT THE CATHEDRAL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THEM
00:41:53AND NOW AND FOREVER WINDOWS THAT TALK ABOUT, OF COURSE, FAITH AND
00:41:57THE JOURNEY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
00:41:59JOURNEY WHERE THERE'S A
00:42:01COLLECTIVE ACTION THAT TAKES PLACE, YOUNG AND OLD, BRINGING
00:42:05EVERYONE TOGETHER WITH THIS
00:42:07UNITY, LOOKING AT THAT NOW,
00:42:10THERE ARE MANY WHO WILL STRUGGLE, AS YOU TALK ABOUT
00:42:12TWEETING WITH IMPALE SESSIONS. WE WANT TO SEE IT HAPPEN
00:42:16QUICKLY. WE WANT TO SEE IT HAPPEN.
00:42:19AND THERE'S THAT GREAT QUESTION THAT WE KNOW COMES OUT OF OUR
00:42:23VOICES THAT ASK HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO WAIT?
00:42:25BUT YOU TALK IN YOUR BOOK ABOUT THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF THIS
00:42:31PROCESS. HOW DO WE HANDLE THESE EBBS AND FLOWS AND HOW TO TALK A LITTLE
00:42:34BIT ABOUT HOW YOU SEE THOSE? WELL, THERE ARE MOMENTS IN THE
00:42:38HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY WHERE THE
00:42:42DEMOCRACY EXPANDS AND THERE ARE
00:42:46MOMENTS WHEN IT CONTRACTS.
00:42:51AND I, I BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY.
00:42:54LET ME SAY THAT I BELIEVE IS THE
00:42:57BEST WE GOT.
00:43:03AND. YOU KNOW, AND PART OF IT IS
00:43:06BECAUSE I HAVE A ROBUST VIEW OF
00:43:09SIN, PARTICULARLY THE SINFULNESS
00:43:12OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN POWER.
00:43:15REINHOLD NIEBUHR SAID THAT
00:43:19HUMANKIND'S CAPTURE, CHASTITY
00:43:23FOR GOODNESS MAKES DEMOCRACY AC
00:43:30POSSIBLE AND OUR CAPACITY FOR
00:43:36INJUSTICE MAKES DEMOCRACY
00:43:42NECESSARY.
00:43:44AND I DON'T YOU KNOW, NOW'S A GOOD TIME FOR US TO WITNESS THE
00:43:48POWER AND THE REALITY OF OF THAT.
00:43:52SO THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN IT EXPANDS THAT MOMENT WHEN IT
00:43:56CONTRACTS. WOMEN GET IN THEIR VOICES IN THE 1920S, FOR THE FIRST TIME ABLE
00:44:00TO VOTE IS EXPANDING.
00:44:0215TH AMENDMENT TOOK IT TOOK 100 YEARS TO GET THERE.
00:44:04AND JUNETEENTH.
00:44:08FOLLOWING LINCOLN'S A EMANCIPATION PROGRESSED.
00:44:10I MEAN PROCLAMATION IS AN
00:44:16EXPANSION MOMENT. WE'RE IN A MOMENT OF CONTRACTION.
00:44:19THEY'RE TRYING TO THEY'RE SQUEEZING THE DEMOCRACY.
00:44:24BUT ANYBODY WHO'S GIVEN BIRTH
00:44:27CAN TELL YOU THAT CONTRACTIONS
00:44:29ARE NECESSARY FOR NEW BIRTH.
00:44:31AND I THINK OUT OF THIS MOMENT, IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO
00:44:37REALLY IMAGINE THE DEMOCRACY. SO LET ME LET ME QUOTE THE VERSE
00:44:40THAT'S AT THE HEART OF THE BOOK. WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LITTLE
00:44:44WHILE. I HAVEN'T MENTIONED IT, BUT THE WHOLE BOOK IS CENTERED AROUND
00:44:48ISAIAH CHAPTER 40, VERSES FOUR AND FIVE.
00:44:51THE PEOPLE ARE IN EXILE AND THEY ARE THOSE WHO WANT TO RETURN.
00:44:54LIKE WHEN ARE WE GOING TO RETURN? AND IN A REAL SENSE, AS IT SAYS,
00:44:58WE NEED TO DO MORE THAN RETURN TO THE LAND.
00:45:00WE NEED TO REIMAGINE THE LAND.
00:45:02AND SO IN POETIC AND PROPHETIC
00:45:05VOICE, HE LAYS OUT THIS VISION,
00:45:07WHAT I CALL A MORAL TOPOGRAPHY,
00:45:10AND I LAY IT OUT FOR OUR COUNTRY, HE SAYS. EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED
00:45:14AND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS SHALL BE MADE LOW.
00:45:16I USE THAT TO TALK ABOUT EQUITY.
00:45:18AND THEN HE SAYS, THE CROOKED PLACES SHALL BE MADE STRAIGHT.
00:45:24INTEGRITY. THE REASON WHY WE'VE GOT SO MANY LOW PLACES IS BECAUSE THERE ARE
00:45:27TOO MANY CROOKED PLACES.
00:45:31AND THEN HE SAYS THAT THE ROUGH PLACES SHALL BE MADE SMOOTH. THERE IS POSSIBILITY WE CAN
00:45:34BUILD SOMETHING NEW AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE REVEALED.
00:45:37AND AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER. I THINK THAT THE ONLY WAY WE CAN
00:45:41SEE WHAT GOD IS UP TO IS FOR US TO GET TOGETHER.
00:45:45AND SO IT IS A MOMENT OF
00:45:51REIMAGINING. WE NEED TO REIMAGINE WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
00:45:54SO WE HAVE TO THANK YOU.
00:45:59CAN I COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE IS YOU TALK ABOUT AND YOU
00:46:04YOU MENTIONED THE EXPANSION AND THE CONTRACTION IN YOUR BOOK.
00:46:07BUT AND YOU ALSO NOT A BUT AND
00:46:10YOU ALSO TALK ABOUT THAT IN AND
00:46:14IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT, WHICH IS
00:46:17WHEN THOSE WHO ARE SORT OF ON
00:46:19THE BOTTOM BEGAN TO RISE UP THEN
00:46:23YOU SEE WE CAN CALL THAT CONTRACTION OR WE CAN CALL THAT
00:46:27BACKLASH. WE THINK THAT'S RIGHT. WE CAN CALL THAT BACKLASH. RIGHT.
00:46:30AND SO AS YOU AS WE SAW AFTER
00:46:36RECONSTRUCTION, THE BACKLASH, AS
00:46:37WE SAW AFTER THE 60 CIVIL RIGHTS
00:46:41MOVEMENT, AS WE HAVE SEEN AFTER
00:46:45A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE,
00:46:47WE SAW HOW DO WE PREVENT THIS SORT OF SISYPHEAN ROLE?
00:46:51THE ROCK UP THE HILL AND THEN IT
00:46:53ROLLS BACK DOWN AND SO THAT WE
00:46:56ARE ARE WE MOVE? HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD IN THIS
00:47:00DEMOCRACY OR HAVE WE DECIDED THE LIMITS OF OUR DEMOCRACY?
00:47:07YEAH. NO, THAT THAT THAT IS THAT IS
00:47:09THE STORY OF THIS GRAND
00:47:13CATHEDRAL OF DEMOCRACY.
00:47:15AND WE TELL OURSELVES A SIMPLE
00:47:19STORY, BUT AS COMPLICATED AS YOU
00:47:22POINT OUT, IS HARD WORK.
00:47:27AND, YEAH, WE'VE DEALT WITH THIS BACKLASH TIME AND TIME AGAIN
00:47:30RIGHT AFTER RECONSTRUCTION,
00:47:33RIGHT AFTER HAVING A BLACK FAMILY IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
00:47:37SOME FOLKS SAY THAT'S JUST TOO MUCH.
00:47:40WE JUST HAVE TO DECIDE AND WE
00:47:46HAVE TO BUILD WHAT DR. KING AND
00:47:50OTHERS SO EFFECTIVELY BUILT. BUT BUT IN A NEW MOMENT AND IN A
00:47:53NEW WAY, WE'VE GOT TO BUILD A
00:47:56MULTIRACIAL, RACIAL, MULTI
00:47:59GENERATION, MORE MULTI-RELIGIOUS
00:48:02COALITION OF CONSCIENCE THAT
00:48:07BELIEVES, THAT BELIEVES, AS AS I
00:48:09DO, BELIEVES DEEPLY IN THE
00:48:12AMERICAN COVENANT, E PLURIBUS
00:48:16UNUM, OUT OF MANY ONE, WE
00:48:19LITERALLY HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION
00:48:21RIGHT NOW THAT IS WAGING WAR AGAINST THE VERY IDEA OF
00:48:25DIVERSITY. THAT'S RIGHT. IT BROKE MY HEART TO SEE A
00:48:30SECRET THEORY OF DEFENSE STAND
00:48:34BEFORE A BUNCH OF CADETS AS THEY
00:48:34WERE GRADUATING AND LITERALLY
00:48:39PUTTING FORTH SOME VERY UNINFORMED AND SPECIOUS,
00:48:45CHILDISH ARGUMENT THAT NO, IT'S UNITY.
00:48:48IT'S NOT DIVERSITY. I MEAN, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE HIM
00:48:52TO THINK OF THAT?
00:48:53IT'S REALLY IT'S RIDICULOUS.
00:48:56IT'S UNITY, NOT DIVERSITY. DIVERSITY.
00:48:59THE IDEA OF OF DIVERSITY.
00:49:02AND WE'VE HAD TO FIGHT TO GET THERE.
00:49:05THAT'S BUILT INTO THE CAKE.
00:49:09THAT'S WHAT THE PROJECT IS.
00:49:11AND IT IS THE REASON YOU FIGHT
00:49:14FOR UNITY IS TO SAY WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT, BUT WE'RE GOING TO
00:49:17FIND A WAY TO BE TOGETHER, EVEN
00:49:18THOUGH WE'RE DIFFERENT AND WHAT
00:49:22IS HE TALKING ABOUT? SO I THINK WE JUST HAVE TO
00:49:27RECOMMIT OURSELVES TO THIS IS
00:49:30HARD WORK. I THINK WE NEED TO ROLL UP OUR
00:49:33SLEEVES AND KNOW THAT SOME OF THIS WORK IS GOING TO BE WITH US. AND WE'VE GOT SOME OF WE'RE
00:49:37GOING TO PASS ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION. BUT I JUST I JUST REFUSE TO GIVE
00:49:40IN TO THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO
00:49:42WEAPONIZE DESPAIR.
00:49:44WHEN I WAS A KID GROWING UP, I
00:49:48WOULD SPEND MY PART OF MY SUMMERS DOWN IN WAYCROSS,
00:49:52GEORGIA. I GO AND SEE MY GRANDMOTHER IN WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS.
00:49:56IS WAY ACROSS GEORGIA.
00:50:00AND I WAS I WAS IN MY I WAS WITH
00:50:05MY GRANDMOTHER ONE DAY, AND SHE WAS MOVING AROUND IN HER GARDEN.
00:50:10AND SHE LOOKED UP.
00:50:12I LOOKED UP AND WE SAW A SNAKE.
00:50:16IN THE GARDEN. I THINK I READ THAT STORY SOMEWHERE, BUT SERIOUS.
00:50:20THERE WAS A SNAKE AND MY
00:50:22GRANDMOTHER LOOSENED THE BROOKS.
00:50:25SHE WAS COMPLETELY UNFAZED.
00:50:27SHE JUST REACHED TO GRAB AN AX.
00:50:30YOU KNOW, SHE'S YOU KNOW, BEFORE
00:50:33YOU KNOW WHAT.
00:50:36CHOP THE SNAKES HEAD OFF.
00:50:38YEAH, I AM SIX, SEVEN YEAR OLD KID.
00:50:42I'M. I'M ALREADY FREAKED OUT THAT I SEE THE SNAKE AND THEN SHE CHOPS
00:50:45HIS HEAD OFF AND WHEN SHE CHOPPED HIS HEAD OFF, IT BECOMES
00:50:49EVEN MORE ANIMATED.
00:50:52IT'S MOVING VIOLENTLY AT THAT POINT.
00:50:55IT'S AN ALL OF IT'S WILD
00:50:58GESTICULATIONS, I'M AFRAID, BECAUSE IT SEEMS EVEN MORE
00:51:03MENACING NOW. AFTER SHE CHOPPED THE HEAD OFF.
00:51:05I WAS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND
00:51:07THAT THE SNAKE WAS MOVING SO
00:51:09AGGRESSIVELY, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS
00:51:12LIVING, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS
00:51:17DYING.
00:51:19YEAH, WE WE WE ARE WITNESSING
00:51:24THE DEATH OF THE OLD ORDER. THEY.
00:51:27THEY KNOW IT.
00:51:31THEY KNOW IT.
00:51:36THEY. THEY ARE TRYING TO. THEY, THEY ARE OUTSIDE.
00:51:40THEY TRY TO THEY ACT LIKE THIS
00:51:42IDEA, THE AMERICAN IDEA ITSELF IS RADICAL.
00:51:46THAT WELL, IT IS RADICAL IN THE IN THE BEST SENSE OF RADICAL,
00:51:49WHICH LITERALLY MEANS TO GET TO THE ROOT OF SOMETHING. BUT THEY ACT LIKE THEY THEY ARE
00:51:53THE ONES WHO ARE EXTREME AND
00:51:57INCREASING. LEE THEY ARE OUT OF STEP WITH WHERE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE,
00:51:59AND PARTICULARLY THOSE 18 TO 25
00:52:02YEAR OLDS THAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING. AND SO AS YOU WITNESS ALL THIS
00:52:07GERRYMANDER DURING AND THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH HAS 2 OR 3,
00:52:11AT LEAST 2 OR 3 IN MY VIEW,
00:52:15POLITICAL HACKS ON THE COURT.
00:52:20THEY THEY THEY ARE TRYING TO
00:52:24HERE'S THE PROBLEM THEY'RE TRYING TO SOLVE.
00:52:27THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW
00:52:29THE MINORITY CAN DOMINATE THE
00:52:35MAJORITY. YEAH. SO THAT'S WHY YOU ENGAGE IN GERRYMANDERING.
00:52:39THAT'S WHY THAT'S WHY YOU HOBBLE
00:52:43SECTION FIVE AND SECTION TWO OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. THAT'S WHY YOU TRY TO PASS THE
00:52:47SAVE THAT WHICH WOULD DISPROPORTIONATELY HURT MARRIED
00:52:50WOMEN BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT WOMEN HAVE SEEN WHAT THEY'VE DONE WITH REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
00:52:54AND THAT WOMEN OF FAITH, WOMEN
00:52:56ON THE LEFT AND WOMEN ON THE RIGHT ARE NOT HAPPY WITH WHAT
00:53:00THEY'RE DOING. AND SO I DON'T WANT YOU TO
00:53:04BECOME DISCOURAGED IF YOU DON'T GET ANYTHING ELSE ON ON THIS
00:53:07FRIDAY NIGHT. I WANT YOU TO KEEP FIGHTING THE
00:53:11GOOD FIGHT. THAT BEAST IS DYING.
00:53:13AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT, IT KNOWS IT. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S MOVING SO
00:53:17WILDLY AND AGGRESSIVELY IN THIS MOMENT.
00:53:20AND OUR JOB IS TO STAND UP, DO
00:53:22LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER'S. SENATE OR NOT.
00:53:26YES. NONVIOLENT ONLY.
00:53:28OF COURSE NOT.
00:53:31AND I SAY WE DO SAY AMEN AND I
00:53:34SAY AMEN TO THAT. BUT SO, SENATOR WARNOCK, BEFORE
00:53:38WE GO TO GETTING QUESTIONS FROM
00:53:40THE AUDIENCE, JUST ONE MORE QUESTION.
00:53:42I CAN'T SIT HERE AS A BLACK
00:53:47WOMAN AND NOT RAISE THIS
00:53:50QUESTION FOR THE 92%, AS WE LIKE
00:53:51TO SAY, THE 92% OF BLACK WOMEN
00:53:56WHO CAME OUT AND VOTED AND BLACK
00:53:58WOMEN WE KNOW ARE ALL WAYS
00:54:01HISTORICALLY HAVE BEEN IN THE
00:54:05FOREFRONT OF TRYING TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.
00:54:11WE. SO LET ME GET THIS QUESTION.
00:54:15BUT WE FIND OURSELVES IN A
00:54:19CULTURE AND IN A TIME WHERE
00:54:22BLACK WOMEN ARE BEING ATTACKED,
00:54:24NOT JUST VERBALLY, BUT IN TERMS
00:54:28OF THEIR ECONOMIC REALITIES,
00:54:31THEIR POLITICAL REALITIES, ETC.,
00:54:33THERE IS BLACK WOMEN HAVE BEEN
00:54:37DISPROPORTION RECENTLY UNEMPLOYED BY THIS CURRENT REGIME, OVER 300 AND SOME
00:54:41THOUSAND BLACK WOMEN HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS. RIGHT.
00:54:45AND OF COURSE, WE SAW LAST WEEK
00:54:47THE WAY IN WHICH OUR FORMER
00:54:51FIRST LADY WAS AS A DEGRADED
00:54:56ANTI-HUMAN DIES, INSULTED.
00:54:56AND YET WE DID NOT HEAR THE KIND
00:55:02OF RESPONSE OR PUSH BACK, NOT SIMPLY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT
00:55:05FROM OUR OTHER LEADERS.
00:55:08WHAT ARE WE HOW HOW DO WE DEAL WITH WHAT SOME OF US CALL THE MISOGYNY WAR?
00:55:12HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THIS KIND OF
00:55:17DISRESPECT FOR THE VERY PEOPLE
00:55:20WHO ARE TRYING TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY?
00:55:23THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE QUESTION.
00:55:26WHERE WOULD I BE?
00:55:28WERE NOT FOR BLACK WOMEN.
00:55:30OH, MY GOODNESS.
00:55:38I MEAN, AT EVERY TURN IN MY LIFE, EVERY SINGLE TURN,
00:55:42STARTING WITH BIRTH, OBVIOUSLY. BUT BUT, BUT YOUNG. EVERY TURN.
00:55:46BROTHERS ARE OKAY. BUT BROTHERS, A LEAVE YOUR HAND.
00:55:51YOU. SAY, MAN. RIGHT? YO, YO, YO.
00:55:55NO, IT'S YOU. I SAW BLACK WOMEN WERE 92. YOU SAY?
00:55:59I DIDN'T SAY NOTHING TO YOU. YOU GOT TO HAVE YOU GOT TO HAVE SOME SISTERS.
00:56:03BUT WE'RE HERE TOGETHER. ALL OF US. ALL OF US.
00:56:06I WAS ASKED ABOUT THIS THE OTHER NIGHT.
00:56:09I WAS ON LORENZO DONALD'S SHOW, AND HE ASKED ME ABOUT IT.
00:56:14AND I WILL SAY AGAIN THAT THAT
00:56:17IT WAS DEEPLY HURTFUL AND AND
00:56:24EXHAUSTING. TO HEAR THAT POISON SEEPING YET
00:56:30AGAIN. FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
00:56:32I MEAN, THEY WERE HAVING THEIR
00:56:35PARTY, WHATEVER IT WAS THEY WERE DOING.
00:56:37YOU YOU KNOW. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST HAVE YOUR
00:56:42PARTY, WHY YOU GOT TO DRAG BLACK
00:56:44WOMEN IN THIS LIKE THEY THEY
00:56:48WERE AND.
00:56:52I THOUGHT ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA.
00:56:56YOU AND I BEEN IN HER PRESENCE.
00:56:58SHE'S DIGNIFIED, ELEGANT, FULL
00:57:01OF GRACE.
00:57:10AND WEREN'T WE LUCKY TO HAVE HER
00:57:14AS FIRST LADY FOR EIGHT YEARS.
00:57:23AND AND FOR THAT THE FACT THAT
00:57:25THIS GUY WHO I'D NEVER SEEN HIM
00:57:28BEFORE US, I DON'T KNOW HIS NAME.
00:57:30I'M NOT TRYING TO LEARN IT.
00:57:34HE FELT EMBOLDENED TO SAY THAT
00:57:39BECAUSE OF A PERMISSION
00:57:39STRUCTURE IN THIS ADMINISTRATION.
00:57:43SO YOU CAN'T SAY, I DON'T CARE WHAT HIS NAME IS, BECAUSE IN A
00:57:47SENSE IS MUCH BIGGER THAN HIM. HE FELT EMBOLDENED TO SAY THAT.
00:57:53AND THE PRESIDENT WAS THERE.
00:57:58HE HADN'T SAID ANYTHING.
00:58:02THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS THERE.
00:58:04HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING AT.
00:58:09AND HE IS ALSO ON A BOOK TOUR
00:58:11THIS WEEK TALKING ABOUT HIS
00:58:16FAITH. SO I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT KIND
00:58:19OF FAITH DOES J.D. VANCE HAVE
00:58:21WHEN THE HUMAN DIGNITY, WHEN THE
00:58:28HUMAN DIGNITY OF MICHELLE OBAMA
00:58:30CAN BE SO ASSAULTED IN SUCH A
00:58:32VICIOUS WAY AND HE SAY NOTHING
00:58:35ABOUT IT.
00:58:39SOMEBODY OUGHT TO ASK HIM ABOUT IT.
00:58:43I MEAN, HE WAS SITTING RIGHT
00:58:44THERE AND THIS THIS I DEAR THAT
00:58:49BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T REALLY
00:58:52PEOPLE AND BLACK WOMEN AREN'T REALLY WOMEN.
00:58:55IT HARKENS TO THE BACK TO THE
00:58:57UGLIEST DAYS IN THIS COUNTRY IS
00:59:00ALL THE MEANS. IT'S ALL OF THE TROPES.
00:59:04LIKE IT WAS JUST ONE SENTENCE. BUT I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND
00:59:07THERE WAS A LOT PACKED IN THAT.
00:59:12AND THERE'S BEEN IT'S BEEN
00:59:16CRICKETS THAT THE KING SAID
00:59:18SILENCE IS BETRAYAL. SO.
00:59:22SO WE'VE GOT TO STAND UP, RESPOND TO IT.
00:59:25WE'VE GOT A CENTER, THE MOST
00:59:29MARGINALIZED MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
00:59:31AND WE GOT TO RECOGNIZE THAT.
00:59:37YOU KNOW, IF THE REST OF THE COUNTRY HAD VOTED THE WAY BLACK
00:59:41WOMEN VOTED, WE WOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
00:59:44I MEAN.
00:59:48WE WOULDN'T.
00:59:52SO SO I'M GOING TO KEEP ON
00:59:55FIGHTING AND I KNOW THAT THAT
01:00:00BLACK WOMEN, I KNOW THE POWER OF
01:00:04BLACK WOMEN. YEAH, I. LET ME LET ME CLOSE YOUR
01:00:08QUESTION IN THIS WAY.
01:00:10SO SO I DO THIS.
01:00:14I DO THIS JOB BECAUSE EVERY NOW
01:00:16AND THEN YOU GET TO DO SOMETHING
01:00:18AMAZING LIKE CAP THE COST OF INSULIN.
01:00:21MY BILL FOR $35 PER MONTH FOR
01:00:25SENIORS SO THEY COULD AFFORD THEIR INSULIN. THAT SAVES PEOPLE'S LIVES.
01:00:29BUT THERE WAS A MOMENT THAT WAS
01:00:32SO SPECIAL TO ME BECAUSE I GOT
01:00:37ELECTED AND THAT'S WHY I PUT UP
01:00:39WITH POLITICS.
01:00:41I KNEW IT WAS A BIG DEAL FOR ME TO RUN FOR THE SENATE, BUT I
01:00:45DIDN'T KNOW HOW BIG OF A DEAL IT WAS GOING TO BE AND WHAT IT
01:00:48WOULD MEAN FOR THE COUNTRY. SO I HOPE IN THIS IN THE SILENT
01:00:52PLACES OF YOUR OWN PRAYER LIFE
01:00:54THAT YOU WILL BE LISTENING TO WHAT HOWARD THURMAN CALLED THE
01:00:58SOUND OF THE GENUINE, THAT YOU'LL BE LISTENING TO HOW GOD
01:01:01IS CALLING YOU IN THIS MOMENT AS PEOPLE OF FAITH.
01:01:03SO SO I DECIDED TO DO A CRAZY THING WITH MY LIFE, RUN FOR THE
01:01:07SENATE. I WENT BOARD WITH BEING A PASTOR. I WAS JUST TRYING TO RESPOND TO
01:01:11THE CALL AND HAD I NOT RESPOND
01:01:15TO THAT. EVEN WITH JOE BIDEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HAD I NOT GOTTEN ELECTED
01:01:19AND GEORGIA, MY PARTNER, JON OSSOFF, AND I, MY BROTHER FROM
01:01:23ANOTHER MOTHER, HAD WE NOT
01:01:25FLIPPED THE SENATE.
01:01:28HAD WE NOT FLIPPED THE SENATE, A
01:01:31BLACK WOMAN NAME ANDREW BROWN,
01:01:34JACKSON WOULD NOT BE SITTING ON
01:01:35THE SUPREME COURT.
01:01:44SO THE DAY WE CAN BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT
01:01:47HER UP IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE MAJORITY.
01:01:51SHE WOULD NOT BE SITTING ON THE COURT. SHE'S QUALIFIED. SHE'S QUALIFIED.
01:01:54AND ANYBODY ELSE PRETTY MUCH SHE'S EVER BEEN QUALIFIED TO BE
01:01:59THERE.
01:02:01THE DAY WE CONFIRMED HER SENATE,
01:02:05BOOKER AND I WERE STANDING NEAR
01:02:09THE CHAIR OF THE PRESIDING OFFICER WAITING ON THE VOTE TO
01:02:14OPEN, AND THE CHAMBER WAS FULL, WHICH IS A RARE THING.
01:02:16USUALLY WHEN NO ONE'S IN THE CHAMBER. BUT EVERYBODY WAS IN THE
01:02:20CHAMBER. WE WERE GETTING READY FOR THIS
01:02:22HISTORIC VOTE AND WHILE WE WERE
01:02:25STANDING THERE, CORY BOOKER AND I WERE TALKING TO THE PERSON
01:02:29SITTING IN THE CHAIR, AND THAT
01:02:35WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE
01:02:37UNITED STATES, KAMALA HARRIS.
01:02:42AND SHE SAID SHE TURNED TO US
01:02:45AND SHE SAID, HEY, GUYS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS QUITE A MOMENT.
01:02:48AND WE SAID, YES, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, IT REALLY IS.
01:02:52SHE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALL OUGHT TO DO?
01:02:55YOU KNOW, SHE'S TALKING TO US. WE'RE ALL FRIENDS.
01:02:59SHE SAID, YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS
01:03:02MOMENT AND WRITE A LETTER TO A
01:03:08YOUNG WOMAN OR A YOUNG GIRL WHO
01:03:10COMES TO YOUR MIND RIGHT NOW.
01:03:12SHE MADE THAT AS A SUGGESTION.
01:03:16THE WAY BLACK WOMEN MAKES
01:03:21SUGGESTIONS.
01:03:25AND THEN SHE HANDED EACH OF US A
01:03:28SHEET OF PAPER.
01:03:34BECAUSE MY WHOLE LIFE I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING BLACK WOMEN'S
01:03:39SUGGESTIONS. WELL, I DIDN'T WAIT ANY SIDEWAYS
01:03:41ANY TIME WITH I DON'T KNOW.
01:03:43I DON'T KNOW WHAT CORY DID WITH HIS.
01:03:46BUT I SAT DOWN AND I, I, I WROTE
01:03:47A LETTER BECAUSE THE ONLY JOB I
01:03:53LOVE BETTER THAN BEING GEORGIA'S UNITED STATES SENATOR AND
01:03:55EBENEZER PASTOR IS BEING CHLOE
01:03:59AND CALEB'S DAD.
01:04:01AND SO I WROTE A LETTER TO MY MY.
01:04:06THEN FIVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND
01:04:12I WROTE IT IN THE LETTER.
01:04:14DEAR CHLOE TODAY WE CONFIRMED TO
01:04:20THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
01:04:24CURTAINS, YOU BROWN JACKSON. IN THE LONG HISTORY OF OUR
01:04:30NATION, SHE IS THE FIRST SUPREME
01:04:30COURT JUSTICE WHO LOOKS LIKE YOU
01:04:36WITH HAIR LIKE YOURS.
01:04:43AS WE WERE WAITING TO CONFIRM
01:04:47HER, A FRIEND OF MINE, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
01:04:51SUGGESTED THAT I WRITE THIS LETTER.
01:04:55SHE'S THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
01:04:57WHO ALSO LOOKS LIKE YOU.
01:04:59I WRITE THIS LETTER TO SAY TO
01:05:05YOU, MY DAUGHTER, THAT IN
01:05:07AMERICA, YOU CAN BECOME ANYTHING.
01:05:10YOU SET YOUR HEAD AND YOUR HEART
01:05:11TO DO.
01:05:18LOVE, DAD. THAT WAS MY LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER.
01:05:22I WAS SO INSPIRED THAT I COULDN'T WAIT TO MAIL IT TO.
01:05:25I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET HOME FOR THE WEEKEND.
01:05:28I CALLED HER UP ON FACE TIME AND I READ THE LETTER.
01:05:33SHE'S FIVE YEARS OLD.
01:05:35SHE LISTENED TO THE LETTER.
01:05:37SHE WAS NOT IMPRESSED.
01:05:41SHE SAID, CAN I GO OUTSIDE NOW.
01:05:47SHE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT LETTER WAS ABOUT, BUT I HAVE
01:05:50PRESERVED IT, FRAMED IT AND I'VE
01:05:54SAT IT ON HER DRESSER IN HER
01:05:55ROOM AND I THOUGHT IN THE YEARS
01:06:00SINCE THEN, IN THE MONTHS AND IN THE YEARS SINCE THEN, THAT IN A
01:06:05REAL SENSE, THE WORK OF OF
01:06:11LEADERSHIP, THE WORK OF PUBLIC
01:06:13POLICY, THE WORK OF PASTORAL CARE AND THE WORK OF BEING A
01:06:16GOOD CITIZEN, THE WORK OF BEING
01:06:19A GOOD CITIZEN IS A LETTER TO
01:06:23ALL OF OUR CHILDREN, AND WE OUGHT TO ASK OURSELVES WHAT WE
01:06:27WANT THAT LETTER TO SAY. I WANT MY LETTER TO SAY THAT IN
01:06:29THIS MORAL MOMENT IN AMERICA, I DIDN'T FLINCH THAT EVEN WHEN I
01:06:33HAD TO BEAT BACK THE SHADOWS OF
01:06:37DESPAIR AND LABOR ASSIDUOUSLY TO MAKE SURE THAT I DIDN'T GIVE IN
01:06:41TO THE PRESSURE ON MYSELF, I GOT UP EVERY MORNING, I PUT MY SHOES ON.
01:06:44I ROLLED UP MY SLEEVES, AND I FOUGHT FOR THE AMERICAN PROMISE
01:06:48FOR EVERY GIRL, FOR EVERY BOY, FOR EVERY CHILD OF GOD.
01:06:52THANK YOU.
01:06:59I THINK.
01:07:01ARE THERE QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE?
01:07:04I THINK MARGARET WILL COME WITH A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. I THINK WE HAVE TIME FOR A
01:07:08COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
01:07:20THANK YOU. OKAY.
01:07:24WE HAVE A QUESTION.
01:07:28LET'S SEE.
01:07:34WELL, JUNETEENTH, LET'S START WITH THE JUNETEENTH QUESTION, SINCE IT IS JUNETEENTH,
01:07:38JUNETEENTH REMINDS US THAT FREEDOM CAN BE LEGALLY
01:07:41PROCLAIMED BEFORE IT IS FULLY EXPERIENCED.
01:07:43THIS QUESTIONER SAYS, WHAT
01:07:45UNFINISHED DIMENSIONS OF FREEDOM
01:07:48CONCERN YOU MOST TODAY?
01:07:50OH, HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE.
01:07:56NO, IT'S A WONDERFUL INSIGHT. YOU KNOW SOMEONE YOU KNOW,
01:07:59PATRICK HENRY, THE GREAT PATRIOT, SAID, GIVE ME LIBERTY
01:08:02OR GIVE ME DEATH.
01:08:04AND SOMEONE ASKED, I WONDER WHAT PATRICK HENRY WOULD HAVE SAID
01:08:07HAD HIS SLAVES.
01:08:08THEY HAD ME TO.
01:08:13BUT OUR WHITE SISTERS AND BROTHERS LANDED HERE.
01:08:16THEY HAD AN IDEA OF WHAT FREEDOM WAS.
01:08:20THOMAS JEFFERSON LAYS IT OUT.
01:08:23BUT HE'S A SLAVEHOLDER.
01:08:27BLACK FOLK HAD TO ENGAGE EACH
01:08:29AND SAY, YOU PUT THIS THING ON PAPER. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT IT.
01:08:33I LOVE IT THAT IN THIS TOWN
01:08:36YOU'VE GOT THOMAS JEFFERSON'S
01:08:41MEMORIAL AND ACROSS FROM HIS
01:08:45MEMORIAL IS A BLACK BAPTIST PREACHER WHO NEVER SERVED AS
01:08:49PRESIDENT. AND HE'S LOOKING AT THOMAS JEFFERSON. HE'S STANDING THERE.
01:08:52HE'S GOT HIS ARMS FOLDED.
01:08:57AS IF TO SAY TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, DID YOU MEAN WHAT YOU
01:08:59SAID WHEN SAVAGE SAID, LET'S
01:09:05EXPAND THIS VISION OF WHAT DEMOCRACY IS?
01:09:07WOMEN STOOD UP IN THE 1920S, SAID, ME TOO.
01:09:11LET'S EXPAND THIS VISION. MEMBERS OF THE LGBT Q COMMUNITY
01:09:14SAID, WE TO HAVE HUMAN DIGNITY
01:09:18AND ALL OF US HAVE TO BE AT THE TABLE.
01:09:20PEOPLE OF VARIOUS FAITH TRADITIONS. SO I'M JUST SAYING THAT THE
01:09:24DEMOCRACY GETS BETTER WHEN EVERYBODY'S SITTING AT THE TABLE
01:09:27BECAUSE EACH OF US HAS SOME BLIND SPOTS.
01:09:31THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT I DON'T GET BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT
01:09:33IT'S LIKE TO WALK AROUND IN A WOMAN'S BODY, EVEN JUST A SENSE
01:09:36OF VULNERABLE ALITY ISSUES AROUND SAFETY THAT WOMEN
01:09:40INHERENTLY FEEL THAT'S DIFFERENT. AND WE NEED ALL OF THOSE
01:09:45INSIGHTS IN ORDER TO GET THE DEMOCRACY BE BETTER.
01:09:48SO LET ME JUST SAY AN ANSWER TO
01:09:51THAT QUESTION THAT I TACKLE SIX ISSUES IN THE BOOK, AND I
01:09:54ENCOURAGE US AS A AS AN AMERICAN
01:09:56PEOPLE TO HAVE A CONVERSE SATION ABOUT THEM.
01:09:59AND THERE ARE ISSUES AROUND WHICH WE HAVE THESE FEARS,
01:10:03DEBATES, BUT THEY'RE BIG ISSUES AND THEY'RE ALSO ISSUES THAT
01:10:06I'VE WORKED ON FOR YEARS. NUMBER ONE, I DEAL WITH VOTING
01:10:10RIGHTS BECAUSE VOTING RIGHTS FOR ME IS THE WHOLE THING.
01:10:13AND TWO, I DEAL WITH DARK MONEY, WHICH AGAIN, DEALS WITH THE
01:10:18DEMOCRACY. SEE VOTING RANKS, DEALING WITH DARK MONEY, DEALING WITH
01:10:22GERRYMANDERING, SUPPRESSING OF VOTES, PURGING VOTES, ALL OF
01:10:24THESE TRICKS.
01:10:27I START THERE BECAUSE DEMOCRACY IS NOT JUST ONE ISSUE IS THE
01:10:32FRAMEWORK IN WHICH WE GET THE
01:10:34FIGHT FOR PROGRESS ON ALL THE
01:10:37OTHER ISSUES AND THEN DEAL WITH POVERTY.
01:10:40DR. KING'S LAST BIG PUSH WAS POVERTY.
01:10:44POVERTY IS ITS OWN VIOLENCE.
01:10:46IT'S ITS OWN VIOLENCE. AND THERE'S WORK WE CAN DO THERE.
01:10:49I TALK ABOUT THINGS WE DID AROUND THAT EXPANDED CHILD TAX CREDIT, SOME OTHER THINGS WE
01:10:54COULD DO. BUT I ALSO TALK ABOUT MASS
01:10:58INCARCERATION IN OUR COUNTRY.
01:11:00THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
01:11:02THE LAND OF THE FREE IS STILL THE MASS INCARCERATION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.
01:11:07DID YOU KNOW WE WE INCARCERATE MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY NATION ON
01:11:10THE PLANET. WE INCARCERATE A GREATER
01:11:14PERCENTAGE OF OUR PEOPLE THAN ANY NATION ON THE PLANET.
01:11:17AND SO IT IS A VESTIGE OF AN OLD
01:11:22DOMINATION SYSTEM. I NEED MORE TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT.
01:11:25BUT ALL OF THE FREEDOMS AROUND
01:11:27WHICH DR. KING AND OTHERS FOUGHT
01:11:29FIGHTING FOR THE FREEDOM TO
01:11:31VOTE, FIGHTING AGAINST HOUSING DISCRIMINATION, JOB
01:11:35DISCRIMINATION. WHEN YOU GET CAUGHT INTO THE
01:11:38TENTACLES OF THAT SYSTEM, WHICH
01:11:40IS MASSIVE AND DISPROPORTION TO
01:11:44IT IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES, WHEN YOU GET PULLED INTO THAT SYSTEM, NONVIOLENT
01:11:48DRUG RELATED OFFENSES, MARIJUANA
01:11:53CHARGES, PEOPLE ARE LOCKED UP AND THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE
01:11:56MILLIONAIRES BECAUSE OF CANNABIS.
01:11:59ONCE YOU ONCE YOU GET THAT EX
01:12:01FELON ON YOUR ON YOUR RECORD,
01:12:05EVEN WHEN YOU CIRCULATE OUT, IS A PERMANENT SENTENCE.
01:12:08JOB DISCRIMINATION, LEGAL
01:12:10HOUSING DISCRIMINATION, LEGAL
01:12:14AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE WORKED ON FOR YEARS.
01:12:17AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT THAT CHAPTER IN THE BOOK.
01:12:20WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF WORK TO DO IN TERMS OF THE AMERICAN
01:12:24CARCERAL STATE. AND PART OF THE REASON PART OF
01:12:26THE REASON I HAVE BEEN DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THESE DETENTION
01:12:30CENTERS THAT THEY'RE BUILDING UP
01:12:32IN THIS DRACONIAN APPROACH TO
01:12:37IMMIGRATION. I'VE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT WHAT IT
01:12:38MEANS FOR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, BUT I KNOW THAT IF THEY COME FOR
01:12:42THAT COMMUNITY, THEY'RE GOING TO COME FOR ANOTHER. YOU BUILD OUT. IF YOU BUILD A DOG THAT BIG,
01:12:46IT'S GOT TO EAT. AND SO I TALK ABOUT THAT.
01:12:50I DEAL WITH THE GUN VIOLENCE
01:12:52ISSUE, BY THE WAY, A FOX NEWS POLL.
01:12:55AND THAT'S THE ONLY TIME YOU'LL HEAR ME SAY THIS.
01:12:58A FOX NEWS POLL SAID THAT 87% OF
01:13:02AMERICANS BELIEVE THERE OUGHT TO BE SOME UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND
01:13:06CHECKS, AND YET WE CAN'T GET IT DONE, CAN'T GET A VOTE ON IT IN
01:13:08THE SENATE BECAUSE OF THE
01:13:12OUTSIZE IMPACT OF MONEY IN OUR
01:13:18POLITICS. AND THEN I END WITH CLIMATE CHANGE. IF YOU DON'T HAVE CLEAN WATER
01:13:21AND CLEAN AIR, YOU'RE NOT FREE. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES
01:13:24I'M DEALING WITH IN THAT BOOK. THANK YOU.
01:13:29I. I THINK THIS BRINGS US I SEE OUR
01:13:32TIME IS FLASHING AND BRINGS US TO THE END.
01:13:36BUT IN MANY, MANY RESPECTS, IT
01:13:38BRINGS US TO THE BEGINNING, I THINK.
01:13:41AND YOU YOU LEAVE US WITH A
01:13:45CHALLENGE AND YOU LEAVE US WITH HOPE.
01:13:49ONE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WAS, WHAT IS YOUR SOURCE OF HOPE?
01:13:52AND I WANTED TO TAKE THE LIBERTY
01:13:55TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION IN A
01:13:58DIFFERENT WAY AND SAYING THAT
01:14:00HAVING PERSONS LIKE YOURSELF WHO
01:14:02ARE IN CONGRESS THAT WILL HEAR
01:14:04AND TAKE THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
01:14:08TO CONGRESS AND FIGHT FOR THOSE WHO ARE ON THE UNDERSIDE OF OUR
01:14:13DEMOCRACY, THAT BECOMES OUR SOURCE OF HOPE.
01:14:15AND SO WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY, AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR BOOK.
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