00:00I think what us athletes can do to provide I guess like because we we are Americans and I think
00:07the
00:07fact that all of us have such unique stories and backgrounds that is kind of what it's all about
00:13and we could we get to share stories on the big stage it's I don't know we had a super
00:17diverse
00:18team and like I was proud that I could represent who I was on the big stage on behalf of
00:25like
00:25the Americans that could relate to me I don't know I think it's all about just sharing stories and
00:31having people feel for you and like more empathy needs to happen for sure what are some things
00:39that you've done or some ways you've participated in American democracy yeah I mean like also protests
00:46I mean I was no student protest organizer or nothing but um like yeah me and my family we
00:52go to protest and my best friend um uh their family is also really involved with politics
00:57uh sometimes we'll call like our policy makers we'd write like little letters I remember when we were
01:04kids we would do this a lot but yeah mostly protest donations to like little stuff here and there
01:09what are things that you've protested or what are things you've called your congressperson about yeah
01:14what are issues that you a lot of climate stuff but mostly like like election things black lives
01:22matter like stoppage and hate ice protests and yeah a ton of a ton of that stuff
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