00:00Speak to us a little bit about that, not only black women galvanizing, but knowing that black
00:06women are the backbone of the Democratic Party, just how, again, black women are saving the day,
00:12black women are coming in and saying like, hey, there's a fight here and we're going to get
00:16behind that. Speak to a little bit about black women's role in delivering and moving this through.
00:22Well, black women are more than the backbone of the Democratic Party. They're the heart,
00:25they're the soul and they're the brainpower of the Democratic Party. And I think that that has
00:29to be recognized. It has no more been seen than what we saw in a matter of organizing yesterday.
00:36And I can't underscore that enough because the moment that it hit Twitter, the moment that it
00:41hit social media, that the president was going to be stepping aside, that he was going to step aside
00:47and he had also thrown his support behind his vice president. Black women across the country united
00:52so quickly. It was like the Avengers coming together and states across this across this great land.
00:58And they decided, hey, we're going to do this call, but we're not only going to do a call, we're going to
01:01fundraise. It mattered because one of the essential points that many of us have watched over the past
01:07few weeks in how several members of the House, the Senate, as well as some of the money class decided
01:12that they no longer wanted Joe Biden. One of the first things that they did was reach to turn off the
01:17spigot for fundraising. So black women said, you know what, we're going to prove to Democratic elites
01:22and the fundraising community that we can not only prove truth to power and canvassing and advocacy,
01:27but we can also bring our dollars to the table. So they have it. They have amassed that level of
01:33support in record time. In addition to pulling together people across battleground states, going
01:38into community. There are people who had t-shirts printed with Harris on it today who are riding on
01:44trade. You see, they were ready today. I think that it really matters because we've seen them
01:51come out and be surrogates, be spokespeople. They rolled up their sleeves and they were ready
01:55immediately. As soon as, you know, as quick as you can press send on a tweet, black women were
02:00organized and ready to get the ground, hit the ground running in protection of our democracy.
02:04I think they've watched the anti-DEI policies. They've watched the attacks on black scholarships.
02:09They've watched the anti-CRT, the book bans. They've watched the removal of black history from
02:14our classrooms. They've watched our communities be targeted and they are ready and willing to fight
02:20against that. They know the threat of project 2025. They are out here telling people from urban
02:25centers to rural areas, what that actually means for them and what is at stake up to and including
02:31eradication of things like access to doctors, access to healthcare. And we already know what
02:36the maternal mortality rates look like for black women in particular. We know what it looks like
02:41when you don't have access to women's reproductive rights. Those are things that have helped to
02:45galvanize black women, but have also brought them together in terms of their advocacy potential.
02:50And I think they're working to put the democratic party on notice to say that we will not be forgotten.
02:54These are some of the same black women who, what is it? 1400, 1500 signed onto a letter just a few days ago
03:00reiterating their support of a Biden Harris ticket. And once Biden decided that he was going to pass
03:05the torch, they immediately aligned around a Harris ticket. We still don't know who that VP
03:09is going to be, but we do know what a black job is. And a black job was vice president and a black job
03:15in 2024 is also going to be president. And I, on that point right there, you bring up a really
03:20important point, right? There has been a section of black men who have felt forgotten about by the
03:25democratic party and many who have, um, you know, pushed their allegiance behind a former president
03:30Trump. So speak to how this is also galvanizing black men, because we're seeing that not only
03:36excitement, but also that organizing taking place with them as well.
