00:00What do you tell those folks who didn't believe that their vote counted in this year's presidential
00:10election?
00:11Yeah, that's a tough one.
00:12Obviously, it is so incredibly important to vote.
00:14I have friends of mine, I have a friend of mine who literally didn't leave the house
00:17since Tuesday.
00:18He was so upset about this election.
00:20And then I had my 10-year-old niece who went to bed thinking that she was going to wake
00:24up to the first woman president of the United States after only having known an African-American
00:29election as the president and woke up and said, you know, Donald Trump won.
00:33Mommy, do we have to move, you know, and was very serious in that.
00:37And so I think that the conversation that we have to have with our children is about the
00:41importance of voting, the importance of being involved in this political process and the
00:44fact that, you know, we're black women, we're black people.
00:47We're going to get through this.
00:48We're going to get through it.
00:49But this is a time to really get up and start fighting even more.
00:52So how do we hold him accountable?
00:53He's our new president-elect, whether we like it or not as a country.
00:56Now what's the next step?
00:58Sure.
00:59That's true.
01:00The hashtag not my president is definitely, you know, out there.
01:02But the fact is, is that, you know, January 20th, he will be elected as the president of
01:07the United States.
01:08And so we have a responsibility to stay connected and stay involved.
01:11I, of course, want to encourage everybody to be part of their local Urban League.
01:15So I'm the head of the New York Urban League.
01:17There are 94 Urban League affiliates around the country, whether it's Urban League, whether
01:20it's Black Lives Matter, whether it's the NAACP, whether it's your local, you know,
01:25church or mosque.
01:26But we want to have people to be involved.
01:29And that's the most important thing, finding out who your local elected leaders are, making
01:33sure who your district attorney is.
01:34The district attorney is so important because they're the ones that make the decision about
01:37whether they're going to charge a little 12-year-old Jamar with something or else they're going
01:41to let it go.
01:41Right.
01:42Right.
01:43So it's so important for us to be involved at the very, very local basic level because
01:46all of that feeds up to the presidency.
01:49And so I think that that's the thing that I wanted to focus on the most is get involved.
01:52This is the time to get off your couch.
01:54And those times when you said, oh, I want to mentor somebody or I want to be involved in
01:58somebody's campaign or I want to be involved at the community board, the school board, whatever
02:01level, this is your time.
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