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Frontrunners and Representation
00:07:41
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| All the frontrunners for the Democratic Party are white people. | |
| Does it bother you guys? | |
| Yes. | |
| Does that bother you? | |
| Yes. | |
| It's disappointing. | |
| I hope that at the very least we can be good allies. | |
| Does that bother you? | |
| Does it concern you? | |
| Yeah, it is. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I would like the society. | |
| I would like some representation. | |
| It would be preferable not to have them all be white. | |
| So I don't know if you guys have noticed, but all of the Democratic frontrunners are white. | |
| We're here at the Women's March in Washington, D.C. on MLK weekend to see if these women will judge people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. | |
| I have a dream that one day this nation will arise up and live out of the true meaning of its dream. | |
| So the Democratic frontrunners are all white. | |
| How does that make you feel? | |
| Not very well, but I like that they're women, but I would like to see more women of color in there. | |
| I mean, it's difficult, especially because things start with younger generations. | |
| So when you're younger and you're looking into office or anything in general, if you don't see people that look like you, it's going to be difficult to want to go on ahead and feel as though you can do the same exact thing. | |
| So then it goes back to eco-representation. | |
| What do you guys think about how all the Democratic frontrunners are white? | |
| Does that bother you? | |
| Does it concern you? | |
| Yeah, it is. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I would like the society. | |
| I need to see some representation. | |
| How do you guys feel that all the frontrunner of the Democrats are white? | |
| Well, it is a challenge. | |
| Let's hope we can get a woman in office. | |
| Will it be okay if it's just a white woman? | |
| Well, that's what. | |
| Those are the choices we have at the moment. | |
| Are you disappointed with the choices that they're all white? | |
| I am kind of disappointed, but I see, you know, a couple of women, a couple of women in there, so that's, I'm satisfied with that. | |
| All the frontrunners for the Democrats are white. | |
| Do you think that's okay? | |
| I wish it wasn't that way. | |
| I wish there were more choices. | |
| I feel sorry that it seems to come down to money and raising money in order to remain a candidate and to stay on the, what do you call it, where the debate circuit. | |
| You know, when Kamala Harris had to step down and it's all because of money that made me feel sad. | |
| Like I feel like that should be changed. | |
| Okay. | |
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| The frontrunners for the Democratic Party are all white. | |
| What do you think about that? | |
| Well, I mean, of course you want more diversity in anything that you do. | |
| So it would be preferable not to have them all be white, but that's kind of where we find ourselves. | |
| Unfortunately. | |
| Unfortunately. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Because like it's wrong to like judge someone based on the color of their skin, right? | |
| It is wrong to judge someone based on the color of their skin for sure. | |
| And so I have this, like I truly believe that we need more diversity, but I also think we need to have more inclusion. | |
| And I think until we can bring that inclusion in, it's really hard to have it be more diverse. | |
| The frontrunners of the Democratic Party, they're all white. | |
| Does that bother you? | |
| Yes. | |
| Why? | |
| Because I think we need more diverse voices being heard. | |
| And I think that white people have done just a bang-up job of screwing stuff up. | |
| And maybe we should hear more. | |
| They gave you the right to vote. | |
| They did. | |
| I like your signs. | |
| Thank you. | |
| What's that mean? | |
| Like, when we look at it, when we read it, what does it mean to you? | |
| Should stop appropriating black culture, especially without credit. | |
| I feel like as black women, we set a lot of trends, whether it's politically, socially, fashionably, and other cultures, specifically white women, tend to copy it and say, oh, there's like a trend on TikTok now, like, give it back, may I have it back? | |
| And it was never theirs to begin with. | |
| So, just acknowledging the origins of most of pop culture, essentially. | |
| All the frontrunners for the Democratic Party are white people. | |
| Does it bother you guys? | |
| Yes, and unfortunately, it's expected for me. | |
| Especially after Kamala dropped out, I kind of just figured that it was just downhill from there, to be honest. | |
| I don't even know who to vote for because all of them are white? | |
| No, just because I'm not sure. | |
| I mean, the last debate didn't do enough for me. | |
| I will say that out of all of them, I'm a Warren fan, but I'm still not sure. | |
| And I know it's a huge problem that the first states to vote in the primaries are the ones that are predominantly white, so it's not necessarily representative of a lot of the stuff that we want to see in the White House. | |
| Also, most of their political teams are white, so there isn't even representation there of the organizers and the people out on the field doing half the job for the candidates themselves. | |
| Do you think it's wrong to judge people and their ability to do things on the color of their skin, though? | |
| No, no, absolutely not. | |
| So, I think that gets lost a lot. | |
| Excuse me. | |
| I'm shocked because if I like, you think it's okay to judge people based on the color of their skin? | |
| No, that was my question. | |
| Oh, that was my last question. | |
| Okay, okay, that was my question. | |
| It's not it, because I've heard this argument before that we should only vote for people in office based on the color of their skin. | |
| Yes, that is what I disagree with. | |
| Okay, does it bother you guys? | |
| Yes. | |
| I noticed your sign says, respect women of color. | |
| What do you think about the fact that all the Democratic frontrunners are white? | |
| It's disappointing. | |
| I hope that at the very least we can be good allies. | |
| I think maybe the system is not doing right if we are not hearing the voices of so many Democratic constituents that whether it's the mechanism by how you get on the debates, the money or the engagement or whatever, we're obviously missing something. | |
| So, at the very least, I hope that the remaining candidates do more than pay lip service to the commitment to our communities of color. | |
| So, if I were disappointed to say at an all-black Congress one day, if I said, that's disappointing that they're all black, would that be? | |
| I guess it depends on where you're coming from. | |
| If you felt like there was a perspective that was going to be missed because of this, then perhaps not. | |
| I think that we're not really at risk for traditional white perspectives not being heard. | |
| So, that's a different angle. | |
| So, when we look at the Democratic frontrunners, they're all white. | |
| Is that bothersome to you? | |
| No! | |
| I mean, like, it is what it is because it did start off a lot more colorful, multicultural, a lot more, you know, and then just the restrictions on what you have to do to get to the caucuses and to the debates just limited those that didn't have the funds, really. | |
| Yeah, so I've talked to a lot of people here today that said it does bother them because it's white voices. | |
| There's not enough diversity. | |
| I get that. | |
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Bigger Fish to Fry
00:00:54
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| I get that. | |
| I totally get that. | |
| I'm half Latino, so I totally get that. | |
| But at the same time, I think we can't be caddy about it. | |
| We can't be I want to make sure he wasn't needing to get through. | |
| I think we just can't be fighting about that. | |
| Like, I feel like we just, this is time to unite. | |
| So, yes, they're all white right now, but like, there's a more, there's a bigger fish to fry. | |
| And so, I don't think we can get caught up on that. | |
| I do think it's something that should be addressed and is important. | |
| But I don't think we should, like, you know, divide. | |
| It's not, because we won't conquer if we're not. | |
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