00:00I believe Joe is right when he says that this election is a fight for the soul of America.
00:07This is a moment in time where we have to look in a mirror and ask ourselves, who are
00:11we?
00:13And I think we all know we are better than this.
00:18We are better than this.
00:30How do I describe myself?
00:45I describe myself as a proud American.
00:56My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley, back in the civil rights movement.
01:03And you know, I joke, me and my sister joke, we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults
01:06who spent full time marching and shouting.
01:20Our mother was the kind of parent who, if you ever came home complaining about something,
01:26the first thing she'd do is look at you and say, so what are you going to do about it?
01:32So I decided to run for president of the United States.
01:50There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate
01:55her public schools, and she was bused to school every day.
02:00And that little girl was me.
02:13I had this one leotard, long sleeves, and then we did, we sewed fringe down the bottom
02:19of the arm, the sleeve.
02:34Back in the day, I'd go down to the National Mall to protest the United States investment
02:41in apartheid South Africa.
02:44And I interned in the United States Senate.
02:47I chaired the Economic Society, I was on the Howard debate team, and I pledged my dear
02:53sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
03:22In my career, the conventional wisdom was that people were either soft on crime or tough
03:53Our justice system needs drastic repair.
03:57Early intervention leaves room in our prisons for the violent criminals who should be there.
04:02I did it in San Francisco.
04:04As Attorney General, I can do it across California.
04:22There is work that we have done there, there's work that we have done around racial profiling,
04:40and in particular implicit bias and racial bias in the criminal justice system, and in
04:44particular in law enforcement that needs to be addressed.
05:02That's not my question.
05:03Not my question.
05:04I will repeat.
05:05Excuse me, I'm asking the questions.
05:08Hold ourselves to.
05:09Can you please answer the question?
05:10Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male
05:16body?
05:19I'm not thinking of any right now, Senator.
05:40The future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices
05:52to fight for our American values.
05:55That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
06:10On the issue of, and in the conversation with Vice President Biden, it was through the lens
06:22of that, which is that these segregationists pushed policies and really built their careers
06:30and reputations off of policies that were about segregation of the races in our country.
06:36And it had real consequence.
06:37The policy perspective that was opposed to busing had real consequence.
06:43I was that little girl, and there are many others around the country who were those little
06:48girls and boys who were bused.
07:07It should not require a maiming or torture in order for us to recognize a lynching when
07:28we see it and recognize it by federal law and call it what it is, which is that it is
07:32a crime that should be punishable with accountability and consequence.
07:52So that's what this election is about.
07:55It's about saying we know we matter.
07:58We know the powers with the people.
08:00Yes, we have not achieved the ideals of our country yet.
08:03We all know that too.
08:06But we know that if we stop fighting, we will never get there.
08:10And so we fight.
08:12That is the strength of who we are as a nation.
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