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A Black voter engagement video project: Kwasi Stampley, A musician, student, and grocery store employee discusses life in Milwaukee during the pandemic and why he votes. Music: That’s What I Believe (instrumental) by K-STAMP.
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00:00So I'm in my second year of college right now and I'm studying music at
00:04Berklee College of Music. I'm a dual major student so I'm doing music business
00:08and contemporary writing and production. College is, it's pitched to us in high
00:12school as the moment where you find yourself, the place where you build
00:16lifelong connections and where you really grow into your own, but I'm at home
00:21just chilling on the computer. So it's a downsizing in terms of idealism, but in
00:26reality it's the same experience in terms of education. I work at a grocery
00:30store, it's a co-op, so it's like okay mandatory masks, if you're gonna touch
00:34food you have to wear gloves, you have to wash your hands, customers have to wear
00:38masks, but then when I got here I could see like people were like oh like get
00:42away from me, don't get too close. So I was like okay everyone's starting to get
00:46the fear and the frenzy in them, so like as an employee just staying calm and
00:50collected was just what they taught us and that helped. Like the real truth is
00:54that compassion, community, unity, and just communication are like good for
01:00people's souls. So that's kind of like why I vote because it's like even if my
01:05vote is just like one vote, as a person if I walk in the spirit of my vote of like
01:10this is what I believe, like I am giving what I believe to the country.
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