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Fighting Back Against Trump
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Done with the Skywalker hardware and then back to from two with the cupola again with some of the coolest views. | |
| And again, that cupola is the large domed window on the top side of Dragon. | ||
| We've had it covered in the shots that we've seen of Dragon because we closed the nose cone prior to re-entry. | ||
| But that cupola is the largest window ever flown in space, which has enabled a lot of these great views for our crew and photos and videos that they've been sharing with us. | ||
| Yeah, and I can't wait to see more. | ||
| I know that they've been taking some really awesome video and cinematography with the experience of especially Yannika on board. | ||
| And a great view there. | ||
| Dragon getting very close to being lifted onto our recovery vessel Shannon. | ||
| And we continue our live coverage in New York. | ||
| We're going to hear from the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Yvette Clark, at the National Action Network Convention. | ||
| That was kind of weak, y'all. | ||
| Can a sister get a clap up in here? | ||
| Brooklyn's always in the house. | ||
| Good afternoon, y'all. | ||
| First of all, let me thank Jennifer Jones Austin for that wonderful introduction. | ||
| When your neighbor introduces you, it's always very special. | ||
| As has been stated, I am Congresswoman Yvette D. Clark, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus for the 119th session of Congress and proud representative of New York's 9th Congressional District, located in central and southwest Brooklyn. | ||
| It is an honor to be here with you all today for the National Action Network's annual legislative conference. | ||
| I want to thank, of course, our beloved Reverend Al Sharpton. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And the National Action Board of Directors for their tireless leadership and for organizing this year's convention right here in New York City. | ||
| Being a light in dark times, I cannot think of a group of leaders, activists, and changemakers who better exemplify the theme of this year's convention. | ||
| That I want to add to this year's theme is: what side are you on? | ||
| Whose side are you on? | ||
| It is critical that as we are gathered in this moment, given what we're up against, that we center ourselves, that we dig deep into our DNA, that we recognize the moment we're in, and that we gird ourselves for the battle ahead. | ||
| Whose side are you on? | ||
| These are truly dark times, and our communities are concerned about the mounting threat of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicans in Washington. | ||
| Today, the nation we live in, the system of governance known as democracy, access to economic opportunities, fundamental freedoms, and access to the ballot box are all under attack in many unprecedented ways. | ||
| Just think about what has transpired over the past few months. | ||
| In just 74 days, 74 days, y'all, of the Trump administration, we have seen attacks on the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship, an illegal federal funding freeze, attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion, our workforce, civil servants. | ||
| We've seen the GOP tax scam and billions of dollars in proposed cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, and the beginning of a tariff war. | ||
| We've seen Donald Trump hand over the keys of the government and our private information to a corrupt billionaire South African Elon Musk. | ||
| And we've seen Donald Trump sign an executive order to illegally take away power from the states to change how federal elections are administered across the country while openly musing with the idea of running for a third term in office. | ||
| We cannot overstate the gravity of the moment that we're in. | ||
| We cannot overstate the impact that Donald Trump's executive actions and policies will have on black communities. | ||
| In particular, the mass firings and attacks on diversity in the federal government, an assault on black workers. | ||
| One in five civil servants are black. | ||
| For decades, federal jobs have provided a pathway to the middle class for many black Americans in the face of discrimination in the private sector. | ||
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Y'all know your parents told you. | |
| Get educated, get a good government job. | ||
| Hello? | ||
| The purge of the federal workforce is an attack on black jobs and an attempt to kick us out of the middle class. | ||
| Cutting billions of dollars from Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP is truly just, it's a matter of life and death. | ||
| These cuts will leave millions of black children, black families, black seniors and people with disabilities vulnerable and without a lifeline. | ||
| And the attacks on the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship, show all the direction Republicans would like to take our country. | ||
| We are at the bullseye, the bullseye of what's taking place. | ||
| According to some estimates, the Trump administration has begun implementation of nearly 45% of Project 2025. | ||
| Now, we talked about this last time we were here. | ||
| We talked about it in the media. | ||
| We talked about it in the communities. | ||
| We talked about it across this country. | ||
| And here is what we were talking about. | ||
| They are actually trying to implement it with a Republican trifecta, a supermajority, a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court. | ||
| The headwinds against us are strong, but we, we are stronger. | ||
| We are by no means powerless to fight back. | ||
| Whose side are you on? | ||
| You gotta ask yourself that question. | ||
| Under the leadership of Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, assistant leader, assistant leader Joe Nagoose, and the Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group, the CBC and the House Democrats are fighting back in Congress, 61 strong. | ||
| Four senators for the first time in history. | ||
| Two black women serving in United States Senate. | ||
| I don't know if y'all got a chance to see Brother Corey Booker take down that old record set by Storm Thurman. | ||
| You know, this is about whose side are you on? | ||
| The CBC and House Democrats are fighting back in Congress. | ||
| We are fighting in the courts, and we are fighting in our communities. | ||
| Right now, there are more than 100 active pieces of legislation against Trump's executive orders, many of which are gaining ground in the courts. | ||
| The CBC began the 119th Congress with 62 members, the largest membership in our nation's history. | ||
| From Oregon to Connecticut. | ||
| From Rhode Island to California. | ||
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From Colorado to New York. | |
| The CBC is standing strong. | ||
| Our strength and our unity are our greatest assets. | ||
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Let me repeat that. | |
| Our strength, our strength, and our unity are our greatest assets because of the work of leaders like Leader Jeffrey and the CBC, | ||
| Reverend Sharpton, and so many others who are organizing across this nation. | ||
| We have held strong against the slim majority and MAGA extremism. | ||
| The CBC will always stand firm against efforts to roll back our rights and strip away our fundamental freedoms. | ||
| We will stand firm against efforts to demonize diversity and cut off access to economic opportunities in our communities. | ||
| We will stand firm against efforts to suppress the power of our votes or deny black voters fair and equal representation at the ballot box. | ||
| And we will stand firm against any effort to make our communities less safe and less prosperous. | ||
| Whose side are you on? | ||
| We cannot afford to play footseat with folk who say they're about the movement, but a weak need when it comes to stand up in the movement. | ||
| In partnership with the National Action Network, we will continue fighting because we know that allowing Donald Trump to take us backward is simply not an option. | ||
| simply not an option. | ||
| We are here today because blood was shed. | ||
| We are here today in the beautiful Sheraton Hotel because sacrifices were made. | ||
| We are here today because our ancestors survived the Middle Passage. | ||
| We are here today because they survived Jim Crow, lynching, hanging. | ||
| the strongest of the strong and therefore much is required of us. | ||
| In partnership with the National Action Network, we will fight. | ||
| We will be more determined than ever to win on behalf of the communities that we are privileged to serve each day. | ||
| But let me say something. | ||
| You cannot just elect individuals to go to Washington, D.C., do the work that we do in the legislature, and not be educating our people on the ground. | ||
| Our folks consume way too much propaganda. | ||
| Our people are being inundated with false narratives, with misinformation. | ||
| You know, I come out of Brooklyn where we had the black power movement. | ||
| We had a struggle for public education. | ||
| And in that moment, parents, neighbors, communities stood together to make sure to hold the public school system accountable. | ||
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Preparing Our Children
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| And when the school system pushed back, when the racism reared its ugly head, our folk were determined to educate their children anyhow. | ||
| They started independent educational programs. | ||
| They brought teachers into the church house. | ||
| They did everything in terms of sacrificing time and treasure to make sure that a wholesome community of children were raised. | ||
| Can we sacrifice and make that happen for our children today? | ||
| That's weak, y'all. | ||
| Can we sacrifice and make that happen for our children today? | ||
| They can't just be sitting on TikTok. | ||
| They can't just be listening to any old influencer. | ||
| They have to be influenced by our lived experience, our struggle, and how we got over. | ||
| They have to be undergirded with the strength and an understanding of who they are, to whom they belong, and the power that they have. | ||
| We have to strengthen them so they don't consume this propaganda, believe it as gospel, and undermine their own development. | ||
| That is what their adversaries are working so hard at right now. | ||
| Our children need to know what they say, they have a war on woke, they have a war on them. | ||
| Our children need to know that when they say DE and I is not the way that society will be ordered, that they will disrupt and say, I am DE and I and I am a part of this society and I will take my rightful place in this society. | ||
| And so as we undergird ourselves, because understand that this is not a moment, this is a movement. | ||
| This is not an episode. | ||
| This is an epic. | ||
| We are part of a journey of liberation. | ||
| And we cannot stop, we will not stop, we cannot stop until we are free. | ||
| They will use every manner of wickedness, of wretchedness, to undermine us. | ||
| They're making us believe that everything in this society is built on your wealth. | ||
| Understand that our people came from no wealth at all, that their labor was exploited for hundreds of years and continues to this day. | ||
| In the midst of that, we stand strong in our humanity. | ||
| We stand strong in understanding that our liberation is non-negotiable. | ||
| And so let us prepare ourselves. | ||
| This is a battle of epic proportion. | ||
| Do not minimize what we are dealing with. | ||
| The level of vitriol, the ongoing assault, The shedding of the workforce, | ||
| the implementation of tariffs have real time, real time implications for how we will live in this country. | ||
| Let us be disruptive. | ||
| Let us be creative. | ||
| Let us use all of the talent, the skill, and the expertise that we have. | ||
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Let us educate. | |
| Do not just agree to be agreeable. | ||
| Understand that we have been demonized throughout the history of this nation. | ||
| However, history would not be complete in this nation were it not for our sacrifices, for our talent, for our creativity, for our power to move mountains in the midst of adversity. | ||
| Let us tap into our DNA. | ||
| Let us ask whose side are you on? | ||
| Let us remember that in the midst of this, we will come out victorious. | ||
| We will chart a path forward that ensures our communities have more access to economic opportunities, a path that protects our sacred right to vote, a path that provides access to health care and affordable housing, a path that keeps our communities safe. | ||
| What are we going to say to our children and grandchildren in the day after? | ||
| Do you have a vision for an America that looks so different from anything we have ever experienced before? | ||
| In the victory, in the victory, our society must be a reflection of the best of who we are and what we have to contribute to our society. | ||
| Together, we see our communities, we will see our communities through this storm. | ||
| And I believe, I firmly believe, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus believe that working together, there are better times ahead. | ||
| Come on y'all, come on y'all, come on y'all, better times ahead. | ||
| Come on, y'all. | ||
| Come on, y'all. | ||
| We will make it so. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| God keep you. | ||
| Stay strong. | ||
| Stay safe. | ||
| Stay healthy. | ||
| see you on the battlefield. | ||
| Give another hand, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congresswoman Yvette Clark. | ||
| There are many People that are given many adjectives, descriptions that don't deserve them. | ||
| And then there are many that are not given the right descriptions that do deserve them. | ||
| We have seen in our lifetime someone who's been a trailblazer and that has literally changed politics in the South, which therefore meant politics for this nation. | ||
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Stacey Abrams: Seed of Change
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| Their trailblazing campaign around voter rights, voter registration, literally put people in the U.S. Senate. | ||
| Literally. | ||
| Her mere presence is what gave the momentum that when we all went to Joe Biden, he put a black woman on the ticket. | ||
| Had this woman not did what she did, we could not have gotten what we got. | ||
| And if she had not done what she did, those two Democratic senators from Georgia couldn't have possibly been elected. | ||
| But she planted the seed. | ||
| And too many of us like to pick the flowers like the flowers got there by themselves. | ||
| But if you don't remember the seed, you won't be able to duplicate the flowers. | ||
| And that's why I ask every year for her to come. | ||
| And I think something that she wants herself. | ||
| I saw Shirley Chisholm, who I was her youth director, never get her due. | ||
| I'm determined that this sister's got to get her due and we're going to make sure she gets it. | ||
| The one and only political leader of this country from the ground up from the state of Georgia, Stacey Abrams. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Reverend Al. | ||
| I was in D.C. yesterday. | ||
| I was supposed to be in D.C. today, but when Al Sharpton tells you where you're supposed to be, you know that's where you're going to be. | ||
| So it is always my honor, and it is forever a pleasure to be here with Nan. | ||
| The name alone is why I like being here. | ||
| It's not just about action. | ||
| This is the national, recognizing we are linked together. | ||
| This is a network recognizing we have to work together. | ||
| And in the middle of it all is the action that says we're not going to wait for change to come. | ||
| We will make it so. | ||
| The National Action Network of 2025. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| As Reverend Al has pointed out, I've spent a little bit of time working in the South. | ||
| I remind folks I was born in Wisconsin, yay, Wisconsin, and their good job this way. | ||
| Only lived there for three years, just long enough to understand cold and cheese curds. | ||
| moved back to Mississippi where my family is from, grew up in Mississippi and then came of age in Georgia. | ||
| My roots are planted in the South. | ||
| But I recognize that the work we do in the South has to go everywhere. | ||
| Because if we can solve the challenges, if we can face the ignominies, if we can understand the intentions, then we don't only serve ourselves, we serve the nation that we love and the world we belong to. | ||
| That if we can tackle the injustices and the iniquities, the infirmities and the indignities, then we have the ability to change the future for everyone. | ||
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Tyranny's Rise
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And so I am of the South. | |
| I like to say I'm a daughter of the South, but I'm also a student of history. | ||
| I'm a student who has gone to Spelman College and the University of Texas and Yale Law School, but I've also read widely and listened closely and understood that what we are facing now, we have already seen before. | ||
| There is nothing new under the sun as Ecclesiastes told us. | ||
| There are those who say that we repeat history, but no, it just rhymes. | ||
| And sometimes it's a bit off-key. | ||
| But what we are facing in this country today, we have seen before. | ||
| We have seen tyranny on the rise before. | ||
| We have seen autocracy take hold before. | ||
| We have seen this nation on the verge of collapse, not because we don't know right, but because we are silent. | ||
| I was reading a couple of days ago an op-ed that was in the Washington Post that reminded me of how close we have been before to what we are facing now. | ||
| President, World War I, and we asked a general who decided that there were certain communications. | ||
| There were newspapers and magazines that told the truth, and so he declared them unmailable. | ||
| He banned them from being sent around the country at a time where radio and TV weren't prolific enough to cover the gaps in information. | ||
| Because if you want to weaken a people, you make sure they don't know what's going on. | ||
| They then started cherry-picking the people they liked and didn't like. | ||
| They were arresting and abducting and deporting because it was easier to make people silent than to hold themselves accountable. | ||
| And this was at the behest of the leader of the free world. | ||
| If we fast forward to today, we have to understand that we are on the verge of tyranny again. | ||
| This is not something that might be. | ||
| This is something that is becoming. | ||
| There's an extraordinary professor at Princeton University, Kim Schnimple, and she has this chart of the 10 signs of autocracy, the script that they follow. | ||
| And what she has explained is that we have to update our understanding. | ||
| We have to know that tyranny doesn't look the way it did in the 1950s and 60s when juntas and military personnel would come in and raise a community to the ground and take over the places of power. | ||
| Today, tyranny starts with elections. | ||
| It just happens that sometimes the free and fair election is the last one that you see for a while. | ||
| Because if we look at what happened in Turkey, what happened in India, what happened in Hungary, what happened in Russia, that began with elections. | ||
| Bolsonaro got elected. | ||
| Maduro got elected. | ||
| Tyranny no longer requires the invective of overthrow. | ||
| The problem is we invite them in. | ||
| And once they hold power, they have a very clear path to tyranny. | ||
| They begin by making certain that the branches of government get broken at the root. | ||
| You see, you make certain your legislative branch is complicit in all that you do. | ||
| And you weaken your judiciary until they can't stop you from what you want to do. | ||
| You issue executive orders that have the sound of law but not the effect of law. | ||
| But when you're in charge of the law, it's hard to make you stop. | ||
| And you make sure that you hold your power because, well, you appoint loyalists, you appoint sycophants, you appoint the inept to take over positions of power. | ||
| You put them in charge of the military, in charge of the judiciary. | ||
| You put them in charge of national secrets that they whisper on a text message. | ||
| You put them in charge. | ||
| You put them in charge of the health of a people while they pretend that disease doesn't kill. | ||
| You put the inept and the loyalist in power because if you can stop it at the top, you can freeze progress where it is. | ||
| So you have made complicit the legislative and you have made inert the judiciary. | ||
| You have now issued your edicts and you've put in place your flunkies to make it so. | ||
| And then your next step is to make sure that the people can't rise up because they don't know what's real. | ||
| And so you start to kick the associated press out of events so they can't tell the truth and you surround yourself with an echo chamber that only tells the propaganda you want heard. | ||
| You threaten those who would tell the truth about who you are to those who have the right to tell you we don't want you here anymore. | ||
| And when you've taken control of the media, then you come after the place where we find ourselves today. | ||
| Because you got to blame someone for your failings. | ||
| When you fail to deliver on your economic promises, it's got to be somebody's fault. | ||
| So you pick on transgender children trying to play kickball. | ||
| When you are passing a $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest people in human history, you've got to blame black veterans who got a little bit of money to start a business. | ||
| When you do not know how to save the lives of the people you are called to serve, you blame a disabled person for needing a little bit of help. | ||
| You see, you demonize those who are marginalized because they're hard to pick out of the lineup. | ||
| And so you take the big problems and the big mistakes and you take your failures and you blame it on those who are the least able to defend themselves. | ||
| You make the vulnerable the targets so they don't pay attention to you. | ||
| That is where we are today. | ||
| And that is why I am here to talk to you about DEI. | ||
| Diversity, equity, and inclusion has been the subject of more executive orders than anything else that this administration has declared wrong. | ||
| And you got to ask yourself, DEI, why is that the thing that you believe is the source of all ill? | ||
| Why are you willing to strip the Naval Academy of the story of Jackie Robinson? | ||
| Why are you afraid of the name Enola Gay, a woman whose name was just painted on the side of a plane? | ||
| Why are you willing to erase the history of the code talkers, the Native Americans who helped us win the great wars? | ||
| You attack DEI because you are attacking those who tell the truth about who we are. | ||
| You see, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI isn't new. | ||
| It is 249 years old, and I can prove it. | ||
| Because when this nation was created, when our founding documents were written, we said that we were going to be a nation for all people, and it has taken us 249 years to try to make that so, and it's been working. | ||
| You see, we got the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. | ||
| We got the 19th Amendment. | ||
| But we also got Title I education because in the 1960s, if you were poor or black or disabled, you weren't getting the education you were entitled to. | ||
| And so we created a department of education that made sure that no matter where you began, there was a pathway for you to get somewhere else. | ||
| And they are coming after education because education is part of DEI. | ||
| They are coming after the economy of the United States of America. | ||
| They are dismantling the Minority Development Business Agency. | ||
| But let's think about this. | ||
| The Minority Development Business Agency has been around since the 1960s, trying to provide a little bit of equity. | ||
| And in a nation that spends almost a trillion dollars in federal contracts, 94% of those dollars don't go to minority-owned businesses. | ||
| People of color comprise more than 40% of the population, and yet we are reduced to 6% of the opportunity. | ||
| And you think that's the danger that we face? | ||
| They come after our right to vote. | ||
| When there is an executive order that tells us that elections will no longer be free and fair in this country unless you can provide documentation you were legally denied, then what we see is that DEI is terrifying to them. | ||
| Because education, what you know, the economy, what you do, and elections, who is in power. | ||
| That is how we have made America the country that it is, and that is what terrifies them every single day. | ||
| DEI is not dead. | ||
| DEI is working, and that's why they're terrified. | ||
| But the problem is we are falling into the trap that they set for us. | ||
| Because if you want somebody to lose what they have, you convince them that they didn't want it in the first place. | ||
| You start by delegitimizing what they say and what they know and who they are. | ||
| You start by taking the language that they use and using it against them. | ||
| You convince them that if this guy doesn't like it, then it must be wrong. | ||
| It's what bullies have done since time immemorial, at least since the third grade. | ||
| You take somebody's name and you turn it into an epithet. | ||
| You take somebody's truth and you turn it into a lie and they start to convince themselves that maybe they didn't mean it. | ||
| But let's see what they're talking about because DEI is very simple. | ||
| It's diversity, meaning all people, regardless of race or religion, national origin or sexual orientation. | ||
| It is about all people belonging in this place, in this space that we call a nation, and on this earth that we call a world. | ||
| And they are telling us that they don't believe in diversity. | ||
| Well, we should believe them. | ||
| Then they tell us that they don't want equity, that equity is somehow unjust. | ||
| Well, why is fairness unjust? | ||
| What they are saying is that equity is wrong. | ||
| Well, the opposite of equity is inequity. | ||
| And we've tried that one. | ||
| We fought wars over that one. | ||
| We've passed constitutional amendments over that one. | ||
| We have the Americans with Disabilities Act over that one. | ||
| We have the Family Medical Leave Act over that one. | ||
| We have labor unions over that one. | ||
| Equity works, and that's why they're terrified of it. | ||
| And then there is the great sin of inclusion, as they see it. | ||
| Because if you are willing to include everyone, then that means no one is going to get ahead without somebody else tagging along. | ||
| But when your mindset is one of scarcity, then you are terrified of other people having more. | ||
| So when we hear ourselves saying, well, we can't say DEI because they don't like it, I say, I don't care. | ||
| Because their system is to begin by demonizing our language and then they move to litigating away our rights. | ||
| That is why they are going after and firing all of our civil servants because if you can gut the government, then you can make the government what you wanted it to be in the first place. | ||
| If you fire our civil servants who are less than the population would demand, we had 225 million people in this country and 2 million federal workers in 1980. | ||
| We are now in 2025 with 330 million people and we've added exactly 400,000 more people. | ||
| And so when they are gutting government and telling us that it's because we have too many federal workers, the math ain't math in. | ||
| But what they want us to believe is that they are doing something for our good. | ||
| They are not out for our good. | ||
| They are out for themselves. | ||
| And so we have to recognize that they begin by demonizing our language and litigating away our rights so they can legislate their permanent power. | ||
| And they are doing it because they don't intend to ever give up control again. | ||
| This is an existential fight, and we've got to treat it as such. | ||
| This is not business as usual. | ||
| This is not the normal course of disagreement. | ||
| This is about whether or not we make it to 250 years as a nation. | ||
| And we've got work to do. | ||
| And National Action Network, I'm here to give you your assignment. | ||
| Our first job is to speak up, say, speak up. | ||
| We have to use DEI everywhere we can and not the, we should call it diversity, equity, and inclusion so people know what we're talking about. | ||
| But then we call it DEI because it makes them mad. | ||
| We call it DEI because it is ours. | ||
| We have let them steal our language. | ||
| They have stolen our words. | ||
| They have stolen our concepts. | ||
| They have stolen our values. | ||
| And we do not win unless we are willing to speak up and take it back. | ||
| So say, speak up. | ||
| We have to talk about DEI everywhere and not with an apology and not by ducking our heads and saying, well, we should call it something else. | ||
| The thing is, they can narrow our language and that's how they narrow our minds. | ||
| We must talk about the underlying and the underpinnings of DEI because civil rights matter. | ||
| Human rights matter. | ||
| Access matters. | ||
| And the best way you can talk about it is to say that DEI is our right. | ||
| That these values are our foundation. | ||
| So we've got to speak up. | ||
| So say speak up. | ||
| And next, we have to speak out, say, speak out. | ||
| We've got to stop talking to each other. | ||
| The problem is we will say amen to each other as long as the choir keeps singing. | ||
| But when we are out in the public, we are suddenly, I don't know if y'all remember the little frog. | ||
| The little frog in the cartoon who could dance and sing until somebody was looking. | ||
| That's how we've been about our rights. | ||
| We are good talking about it to each other, but the minute we're in front of somebody who might not agree, we suddenly lose. | ||
| We are Michigan J Frog. | ||
| We can't remember the words or the moves. | ||
| But we've got a responsibility to speak out, say, speak out. | ||
| That means when you are in that bank and they are telling you why they can't give you that loan, you need to speak out and ask them exactly what is wrong. | ||
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Speak Out First
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What law are they looking at that says you can't have that loan? | |
| When a veteran is let from their job because they are told that they are no longer allowed to be hired because of DEI, if you can serve our country, we can serve you. | ||
| That is DEI. | ||
| When a transgender child is told that they are a problem, you tell me how a child wanting to be with their friends is a threat to national security. | ||
| We have to speak out and not just to each other, but to those who don't want to hear us. | ||
| It doesn't matter if we're telling folks who agree with us. | ||
| We've got to speak out, say, speak out. | ||
| We've got to tell our truth on social media when we see a lie. | ||
| Don't repeat the lie, just tell the truth. | ||
| And don't wait until you have a follower count that makes you happy. | ||
| Tell the truth to get your follower count to follow. | ||
| We've got to speak out and tell the stories of how our lives were changed, how the inequities of this nation were cured by folks like the congresspeople we have sent from around this country, but also by mayors and city council members, but more importantly, by citizens who refuse to be silent. | ||
| We have to speak out and demand our rights because they will not give them to us. | ||
| So we're going to first do what? | ||
| We're going to speak up first. | ||
| Say, we're going to speak up, and then we're going to speak out. | ||
| And last, we're going to stand firm, say, stand firm. | ||
| We have watched companies cower in the face of threat. | ||
| We watched Target forget everything they told us in 2020. | ||
| And 5 million people have said, we heard you and we're going somewhere else. | ||
| We saw Costco say, we said it and we meant it. | ||
| And 7.7 million people have shown up saying, we're going to put our money where our mouths are. | ||
| We work for companies that are trying to have their cake and eat it too to demand that they, to say out loud, well, they're done with diversity, but they still need you to buy their things, work in their companies, and support their visions. | ||
| We have to stand firm, say, stand firm. | ||
| We have to demand that the leaders that we elect do the job we demanded them to do. | ||
| And if we have to show up and remind them that we need to show up, not just in Congress, but we've got mayors who need to be reminded that they have elected office too. | ||
| We've got city council members who say, well, that's not my job. | ||
| Well, if you are an elected official, it is your job to protect your people. | ||
| We've got zoning board meetings that we should be attending. | ||
| We have to start from the bottom up because they are going to crush us from the top down. | ||
| So if we don't build our firmament and stand firm on it, we will not win, but we can win. | ||
| We will win because if we speak up, say speak up. | ||
| If we speak out, say speak out. | ||
| If we stand firm, say stand firm. | ||
| Then we will remind them that we are the foundation of this nation, that we built this nation, that we are this nation, that this is our nation, and that together we will defend this nation. | ||
| We will do what we must because we have no other choice. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Good afternoon, everyone. | ||
| Let's give that last panel one more round. | ||
| We're going to break away now from the National Action Network here in Washington, D.C. | ||
| The Senate's in session debating the 70-page GOP 2025 budget proposal. | ||
| And we have Senator Ben Ray Lujan on the floor. | ||
| The budget proposal would raise the U.S. debt limit by $5 trillion to avoid a financial default this summer. | ||
| It would make the tax cuts passed under President Trump's first term permanent. | ||
| Democratic leader Schumer indicated that he and his party would not allow for a streamlined process. | ||
| Senate rules allow for unlimited amendment votes, which is what we'll see today and into the evening. | ||
| Called a vote around this is expected to last into the wee hours of Saturday and could extend into the weekend, ending with a final vote. | ||
| This is our live coverage. | ||
| You can continue watching it over on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| What else are you going to get? | ||
| Saturdays, watch American History TV's 10-week series, First 100 Days. | ||
| We explore the early months of presidential administrations with historians and authors and through the C-SPAN archives. | ||
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| This Saturday, the first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency. | ||
| In 2009, he became the first African-American president and set a record inaugural crowd of close to 2 million people. | ||
| After near collapse of the American economy, President Obama signed a nearly $800 billion economic stimulus plan and a bill on fair pay. | ||