Why You Should Care About Politics (w/ BLAYD)

My Name is dawn and you get vitamin D from the Sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life and I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me, because if you want to be better and you want to do better, then you're going to have to be able to see better. So join me on this journey of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest Assad I was on instagram and I

came across this video of Mel Robbins. I'm not sure if you're familiar with her, but Um, she's a speaker, inspirational thought leader and she she made a comment and it really stuck with me. She said in life you either change your dreams or they'll haunt you, and I was like, well, what does she mean by that? Now I understand the whole process of having a dream and going after it, but she said that if you have something that was placed in your mind, in your heart,

it will forever sit inside of this account. I'm using the word account. She said ahead and you'll be seventy something years old, or however up there in age. You are realizing that you've never done it, you never get the chance of yourself and you will always be left of what would have happened if I had done it, what would have happened if I had taken the chance? You know, always say that we all special offers, here for a limited time. We're here for a good time

and not a long time. I don't know what it is that you want, I don't know what it is that you're going after, but, uh, I think you should do it. And if it's hard, it's uncomfortable, that's good. That means you're growing, that means that you're changing. Heck, I was thinking about it earlier this morning as I was at the quover city stairs and I said, God dog, I do not feel like doing this, but I made

a promise to myself. I said, you know, when I go to the stairs, I'm gonna go up and down at least four times, but I did not want to do it. Why? Because I was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna COMFORT AND BE TIRED. I just don't feel like being out of breath, I don't feel like sweating. But I said on do you want to be great? Because I said, well, if you want to be great, you're gonna have to do things that great people do,

and great people do things that everyday people don't do. Now, in order to be great, in order to change in this process, I literally have to contort my body, move my body in a way that it transforms. And I said to myself, I said, well, if I can keep this promise to myself, if I can go against my greatest opponent, which is me, what can I not do? So I say to you, what can you not do? You are your greatest competition. You know your strengths and

your weaknesses. So when you're looking at whatever it is that you want, how to like, that dream, that aspiration, that things that seems insurmountable, I'm here to tell you that you're worth it. I'm here to tell you that you're worth taking a chance on, because it may seem a challenging to go after it now, but imagine the day that it has to come after you. Just food for thought. Go out there and drink big and then

get after it. Dreams don't work unless you do. Get your right in Mandy, right with me and get excited about my mic's on Jeremia. How do we sound? Do we sound good? I know we're looking good because I'm looking at Y'all and I'm like, Jeez, just this beautiful meling it all around me. You all like what I would come on and be like just talk girl, just say something, say something. You know I love when people affirming, affirm me and feed me. So this is giving me

everything I need right now. I got you on the second Oh man, listen, Hey, it's vitamin D with the one day. You know, I'm all about in the business and making dreams come true, and I have a special group of individuals in here with me. Have you heard of the organization blade? It's entitled the Black Los Angeles Young Democrats and, uh, they're here because they're talking about what they're doing in the city, how we're talking about making change and also we have a very important election

coming up. Congresswoman Karen Bass is running and we need not to talk about anyone else because we need to get her elected. So we're gonna talk about this organization, what they're doing, and also this all some event that's coming around and tied the sneaker ball. So, without further ado, Jeremy, do you have a round of applause? Just give a round of a fause for these beautiful people. Yes, it's an applause. Um. So the people are hearing laughter and

those who are watching and send your beautiful faces. Can you, guys, just go around and introduce and tell us who you are? We need you to get you in your face. You'RE gonna have to pass it. Jar Mike, can you hear him? Okay, alright, cool. I'm Jelanni Hendricks, president of Blade. Thanks for having me. Okay, L Hawaari, treasurer of Blade. All about that money? Okay, what a cash set. Hi Everybody, my name is Cheyenne

Smith and I'm the vice president. Vice Vice President, Dr d and they just let me come along with him, is the chair of the host committee of the Black Los Angeles Sneaker Ball. Don't let her play, you Damn Loq, like you like the mayor of like l a mass about to be the next. I want to let you out of time. That's best part of me. But M guys, thank you so much for being here. I have been saying for the longest. I was telling D for like wow month. I was like, Yo, I want to get involved.

I was like, I want to get involved with Congress. From Karen Bass, I was like, I just need to how do I do it? Like, what's the first step? So she started peeling off information and talking about Blake. But for anyone that doesn't know, who wants to talk about what your organization is? Yeah, alright, the president is here. Put the MIC up. Got You. So we at l a County Wide Dem club. We're the Premier Young Democratic

Club in the State of California. Majority the of us are activists, organizers and what we aim to do is a bridge the gap between grassroots initiatives and politics. We want to make sure young folks are engaged into into the political system and also build leadership development pipeline for young Black Angelinos to get into politics, whether they want

to run for office one day. Being Chief of staff, communications fundraised a lot of elements of politics that young black folks should tap into, but they don't really have that platform. So that's why I wanted to become a board member. I became a board member about three years ago. I've been a president for almost two years and on October seven we have in our first annual sneaker ball and it's going to be the political event of a year. So make sure you're there with your fly sneakers. But

I'm talking about this. We gotta go. We gotta keep in the state of the second Hald because that's we're

gonna talk about the first. Okay, so that's what we have blade about, and I think it's so important because I think sometimes I feel like some people look at politics and I'm like, oh, that's not for me or Oh, I don't understand, but not realize and how it affects our every day life and how something you may say I don't care about the law or the law is not on my side, but not realizing some of your basic rights can be affected whether or not you choose to vote or not to vote. What was that? Now?

Blade started in twelve right, so we're going on the tenth anniversary. Is Anybody here from the inception? No. Why did you guys get involved? Like what what attracted you, because I feel like this. If you we're gonna talk to the people, I need to know about you, because if you're interested, what made you get into it, I can just keep it real. Come Onenne, madam VP, let's say like what's super okay, but but I think that was super dope about the Black Lass Angeles Young Democrats,

and particularly answering your question. It's just that, like you realize once you're involved, you realize like you could make the decisions, and I think for so long African Americans have been siloed into this one space, like, oh, we can only be used for our vote. But it's more than just voting. Like you see, people actually will power,

build power and use that power black people. And so I think that what's important about getting involved with the black loss and its young Democrats are even just getting involved in the politics is like you're no longer just an outsider being affected by the decisions being made, like

you're a key player in the decisions being made. And I believe that if more of US continue to be involved in our own way, like everybody doesn't have to be the president, everybody don't have to join blade, but it's really about finding where you engage in moth engage the most. Where us an art you know, in the art space, in the political organizing space and the volunteer community base space, wherever. It's just like you have to show up. It's not even like people like, Oh yeah,

show up for your community. But some people like what community like, if you really want to be honest, like some people don't feel a sense of community, but when you start being around people who do, who look like you, like I have one, we look like ourselves, actually debating, like what of us are gonna wear? I was like my car. So I was like, no, I pull up to these meetings with the baby hares to let them

know you. Sometimes I intentionally put them just so you can know, and I think that you know it's just Hella important for us to continue to take up space, like we talked about that, like in a mental health space. You talk about it like you know entertainment a lot, but like people don't have to make the rules for you, because people always talking about they want to be saying, but hello, are you gonna have to show up and you gotta actually pull up, like we can't just be

twitter fingers. We can't be social media advocates like that works. If something is about to get canceled, somebody responds. But like, imagine all the people who send or like the tweet or shared it, you know, share to their story. Imagine if that same amount of people sent, you know, sign the petition or sent the you know, sent the emails like Oh, we're flooding staffer's office. Is, you know, two thou and emails coming through like what, what's what's up?

Like what do we need to change? And I feel like what's dope about blade is like we like I'm from here, like I'm from Um, I can't, you almost said again. Check. I'm like, okay, but now I'm from south central and born the raising. My grandfather was born in south they say south L A, but like in south central. So I think it's important to let people know like you could be from here and and have influence but still look like yourself. Like if I need to put on the full stool, I will, and I

love it. It It looks good, but I'm mostly gonna pull up how I look. And I think that's super dope about blade and that's why people are attracted to blade, because we just like fly, fly as hell. We like we are full selves, but like when we we're gonna hit you with the all the information. We're gonna tell you which bill it is, who's WHO's gonna vote for, who's not gonna vote for, it, votes we need, just wing, how much money we need to get behind this candidate.

We're gonna do all of that. Yeah, that's why I feel like blade, especially under Gilanies leadership, we've really been changing the game. Like what you've been doing. Tell me some of the ghost stuff you've been doing. One of the accomplishments. Let's go brag on it, man, we've done a lot. Put that money to your mode, if I got you so. I think one of one of the things that, you know, I envisioned for blade was to

be different from other dim clubs. Do Events, not necessarily meetings, but things that are going to actually draw young people to come, because a lot of the folks that I, you know, came, came across to that we're in these dim clubs and these circles. Right, they want to be politicians.

They they they majored in political science. Right. I wanted to bring regular folks from crishawn Slawson to get connected to what we were doing because I knew their voices and what they brought to the table actually change the way we do politics. It's a new day. We're in young people, Young Progressive Folks, are getting elected like Isaac Brian, our former board member. You look at someone like eunieces Hernandez,

who just got elected in the city council Um. You know, it's definitely a shift in politics and I wanted to play a role in leading that shift. So everything that we do is for the people. Were a community driven them club. I think that Um gives us a different flavor Um. We've had a lot of events. We actually had a friends giving event in November where we honored and recognized young folks doing the work. Young activists write a lot of these events. You know they they're promoting

or celebrating folks that are in the grasstops. Right, but what about the folks in the grassroots, with the kids, you know, on the front lines of the movement doing the work? Let's highlight their work. So who are some of the people that you awarded? Like what kind of work were they doing? Um Ahead, I would say, I would just say somebody Um really dope, Latania Ward, who's doing healing circles with gang members in Los Angeles, kind

like she um. She's somebody who spent a lot of her life in prison and really wanted to come back and really think about how to utilize a lot of these um kind of like healing modalities that are usually used from a perspective of white folks. She was like no, we're gonna WE'RE gonna turn that into black folks like. We're gonna make it really about what black people really need to be able to heal, because we have so much trauma from the moment that we've stopped here exactly.

And and it was dope, because that friends giving Deepa together these beautiful flowers. So we really honored like in a way that you know, like you give people flowers while they here. We talked about that a line. So all these young people who are doing this great work, a lot of times they're just doing it, they're grinding, they're not necessarily doing it for the recognition, and for us, we were like no, we're recognizing our folks. Were really

bringing them to the table. We're gonna show them off Um and really get them involved and we're l a county. So we wasn't just showing off the folks in South Central, which is important, and we was in Pasadena. We have folks from Long Beach, we have folks from Compton Um, from everywhere to like really showcase like these are aren't people doing this work and we gotta make sure that they're uplifted in a real way, and that's a beautiful thing, like just to be seen and to know that you

are heard. And I feel like, no matter in any space, no matter what we're doing, that's the key. I mean that's why we are making sure that we get congressman, Congresswoman Caring Bat's elected, because she's somebody that can see us, that looks like us, who can understand us. That's one thing that I feel when we talk about diversity, because all these companies right now are talking about the diversity inclusion. They want to talk about real stories and things that matter. Well, hello,

who are the people behind there telling the stories? Can I understand you, because there are things that I cannot be said, that just are felt. You know, it's just like a rhythm and which you move to. And if we're dancing to a different tune, what are we doing? Yeah, and that's why I think it's important that we infiltrate these spaces. And so one thing that I learned that the power is just like the black L A young Democrats. Will we do specifically is, like we take up space

in different areas. Like I'm in comms like these, gonna fundraise. Is gonna be Treasury, but also a deep organizers. Glyn does everything, so breaking out comes, you're doing all the communication.

That's just my thing, like personally, like when my personal like my personal life is like stories matter and that, like we have been all under the influence that people who are wider or richer have the are like get to lead and frame the narrative and we have the we have the benefit and we just respond to that. But I feel like if you put the people who are experiencing the issue closest to the solution, those voices, those narratives, those stories, then people starts feeling seen and heard.

And so my thing, Cheyenne thing, is always in the message, the talking points, the look, the brand of politics, because when people were not politics but of community organizing or base building or whatever it is that we're trying to change, because if people could see themselves in the marketing and the advertising, even when you talk to them like Oh, why you want to come to the sneaker balls, like that's the biggest blackest political social event, and because you

have to see yourselves matter. I don't mean to like go backwards in the conversation, but when you asked like why,

why I joined blade, it was that simple. Blade was black, Um and I work in political spaces statewide, academia, and everybody's white or everybody's old, and here you have black young people doing dope things and mobilizing, uh political, doing the work, you know what I'm saying, and that's not happening uh anywhere that I am so once you day hit me up, it was easy, like Oh, yeah, we're the black Los Angeles Young Democrats. I didn't know what that meant, but it was some black young folks and

I was with it and here we are. So what do you think? You think people are scared? Why don't? Why don't you think more people of Color, minorities, are involved in politics for real? Like, what what do you think it is? They don't feel like nothing's gonna Change. But you know, are things changing? Because I think, because I mean we'll look at things, we'll vote on things, people talk about things and they'll say, hey, we're gonna do this, and sometimes they'll say, well, such and such

as an office and nothing happened. Then another person get

offers and then all that happens. But things take time, right. Yeah, and I think that one thing that we like the big misses that like no one took civics classes, like and growing up in L A U S D, like, if I didn't take AP government and politics, I wouldn't have known like sort of like how things work, you know, and I think that a lot of people don't believe in the system because the system wasn't meant to for us to thrive, right, and so even politics, we have

to fight our way into that system. You know, we have to fight for the right to vote, we have to fight to be the first thing. We continue, you know, to be the first, and so I feel like, when Gilanni mentions, one of our ways is to build platforms where people who wouldn't traditionally engage in the politics, you know, are engaged because when you break things down to the most like basic level and say, like, if you do this, this can happen, you know, but you don't have to

do it by yourself. Other people are here, and so I think that a lot of people aren't in the politics because right now we're just in a very polarized world, like politics like it. You know, we're gonna be reading think pieces for the next twenty years on, like the twenties right, like just around between like the political, social you know, instagram, like all these things that have affected people's decision making, and I think people are you know,

you have two different sides. Some people this is inspiring them to get into politics because they're like, what the I don't know if I curse, but what's happening? Yeah, like, you know, it's like they're like what the Hell is going on? And then other people are like man, fun that, like that's too much. These things don't care about us, these white people just want our money. You know, you have some people who are even black people, don't understand

the process. Like just because I voted for something in one doesn't mean that the problem is gonna get solved in one. So now you gotta have it like, I don't know, making this up like a task for you. Gotta get the money has to be allocated. Then they got to hire the group of people to implement it and then they got to do a first phase of

listening rounds and it's gonna take about three years. Like the Metro is just not coming down cur that's just been happening for four years and people like when is it ever gonna be over? But you know, folks don't know that l a county is invested into transportation. So for the next time I want to talk about because I didn't realize, like eve been talking about the public like with the bus there, the employees are down eight

hundred or whatever. So the guy was explaining to me, because I'm like so the bus just may come and may not come. He's like, well, depending on if anyone's sick, they usually have pi five people, you know, on deck. No one's there. So if someone calls in sick or can't show up, that's a whole other forty five minutes. So if we're talking about up level in L A and making sure that people have jobs, how can they get to the point where they can have jobs? Then, furthermore,

if we're raising taxes, where's the money going? Where's it going? That? That's the question. People people in power to make the decisions right. If change is hired, she's gonna hire people who look like her, from her community, who often don't have these opportunities, for all of our decision makers historically don't look like us. And the people who are up top right now, the grass tops, Um, it's just not

enough of us. So we we gotta elect people, because if you don't got to see that at the table, were on the menu. You know for real and listen and I think that it's it's just more. And when people say, Oh, you have to have people who look like us, like why? Because, like Nigga, I'm from. I took the bus from commercial in Manchester to university high school on Santa Monica and Barrington. Then I took a bus to my school dance class at when Lula Washington

was on Peko. Then I want here. So when they're asking when, so if I'm on a task force, for instance, for Metro and like, I can give experience based off of I can give insight based off of experience and what's happening. You have people who are sharing ideologies and theories based off the things they've never expend what they could. And we're talking about real life with real people in real estates exactly. And that's the difference between like, Oh,

what does it matter, nothing's gonna Change. Like you don't know that one black person in that room ane the outcome from this not happened or this happening. And I could think of like one tangible thing. I think of like a benefit that black people don't know. It has to do with representation. Is, you know, how a lot of black people now have more daycares, right, but a lot of that came out of Holly and Sydney's leadership

at crystal stairs l a that allowed more. I don't have I don't even know the technical terms anymore because they happened so long ago. But Holly Mitchell, who's our current second district supervisor, and Um Senator Com lagger, who's our state senator, you know, they both lad crystal stairs and crystal stairs is like the leading, you know, child development agency in California. And so what they did was

they allowed vouchers. You know, they realized people aren't getting childcare because of money, right, like so they have vouchers. So now you could take, you know, your child to your Auntie's official you know baby, you know, babysitting, you know, childcare, daycare, because of the because black women who understand what other

black women and other Latino women are experiencing. I'm not saying that's the only reason, because obviously there are a lot of factors like social, economic and all these things, which is based on a lot of displacement when it comes down. So it's a triple down to fact. So people are like, well, I don't know what these policies

do for me. It's just like well, Shirley Webberg, like you know, you have people who are in office who are allowing, allowing, not allowing, but entrepreneurship is easier because of certain people being in office. You know, the creative and economy was invested in because of our previous supervisor. Really saw that. It was like l a county is a, you know, a creative economy. What does that look like? How do we change the county arts commission to now

official department in L A county? So now my friend, my good friend, just got a fifty grant my homegirl, my homegirl, to to change her dance to her dance program that she has through her nonprofit that she just started, is now at Audubon middle school. So now they got

all these kids. I grew up near Autubon on crenshaw and Martin Luther King, and so it's like that's important because people don't know that like one person being in the room, one black person, to black people, a group of young black people who are using their political influence, are giving their personal experiences and expertise on what they think the outcome should be and how that trickles down into people having access to funding, people being able to

have their own childcare centers, people being able to afford local childcare centers, the childcare tax credit, like the things that we're benefiting that people think, oh well, when Donald Trump I was in office we got that like yeah, and against because it passed when Obama was like that's gonna happen overnight. But the problem is, and I'll stop after this, but the problem is in politics people forget about the marketing right, like we get we we we

we follow what we see. So we on Instagram, we see all the cool ship or whatever. But like, imagine if there was more people doing the work who took the marketing and branding aspects of it and told people was actually going on. And that's why you're seeing Tiktok girl a lot right now, because people are being very using the marketing and I said, a lot of opinionated pieces and talk. I don't have about here. Politics is

not very accessible. Um, if you're not in the crowd, you really don't know what's going on and people don't realize there's commissions, there's boards that have a lot of influence on what type of decisions a lot of these politicians, elected officials, make right. But like people like us, like Cheyenne like like, they need to be in these positions because, like she mentioned, right you have one or two black folks that can steer the conversation right, you can start

looking at things from an equity perspective. Historically, that's you know, that's a lot from decision makers, from these types of

high offices. They just don't know exactly. So we want to, you know, make people aware and make make things accessible, and I think you got we gotta make sure that put mic over, we gotta make sure that once our people are at the table, once our folks are in office, that we're holding them accountable, and a part of that is breaking it down so that it is accessible, it's marketing it so that we people know, like, Oh, this is about to be, you know, on the table and

we need to make sure that folk for voting this way and it's only going from like I want to know, how do I find out right, and I'll say it's folks like Cheyenne who really understand communications in a way that, like, it really becomes accessible. And you asked earlier why did we join blade? Like Gilani called me, like it was the calls and I got multiple calls before I even, you know, went to the first meeting I ever did.

It was Gilanni. Bro You're coming through, like it's that level of organizing, that level of really bringing our folks together to really say, like you could be here too, you gotta be here, we need you here, like why you so? Why is it about? It to you? I feel like I really from, like to come from a community where, you know, we deserve let's talk about what it was telling me. What does this mean? You can say all day, but what have you been through? Like, okay,

why should I believe? I feel like going to high school where it's all of us are black and Brown. All of us, like every single one of us, is black and Brown, but how many of us actually got to college? How many of us actually when I got to college? Why? Everybody Look White and I've never seen these many white people in one place before like that. Don't make no sense. Like all of my all of my homies in high school, why didn't we get to

make it out? Why did why am I the only person I know that went to Harvard other than the motherfucker's I met at Harvard. You know what I mean? Like, I feel like it's the it's the levels of being able to understand, like we don't get the quality resources that our folks need, and that's why we gotta be at the table. That's why we gotta make sure that we're fighting for those things, because a lot of times

they don't. They don't say like, oh no, no, they're telling us like now, you're smart, ain't, you're smart, D that's why you're getting here, that's why you end up where you're going. No, that's not why all of us are smart. All of us are. We pull up because when you're in these spaces, you realize you see people from the Labor I think about like Michelle read. I just like love Michelle read. She is just like hard.

She's like an old uh in the older generation. I don't want to say she's a she's yeah, and but she's not. You know, like in these typical spaces, you gotta pull up and you know what people think? I have your suit, I have this. No, Michelle read in her older generation self. She wears her purple hair and she and she, and she'll be on a zoom call in her house dress and her bonnet and be like send it up, send it up, yes, my favorite assembly man. So why we don't have this? And so you realize

it's not necessarily about look, the look. It's about pulling up, because the loud look, you know, incorporate. It's like the big the best marketer wins. Will the loudest person wins in politics, like the people who make the noise and the people who have the most money. And I think it's important. Like you know, even when we think about Karen's campaign, it's like, yeah, Rick Caruso has a lot

of money, but like, we get the most money. If you have all this money to put behind your campaign, why couldn't you build all these um facilities and things like that for the homeless? Because why is the money coming but more partantly, if you have the money and you're saying, Hey, I'm for the community, I'm for the people, why did it take now for your campaign? Why weren't you just doing it before? They're not doing it. It's it's a law and and it's power and and he

or she who makes the laws hold the power. So that's why we have to go vote. I just looked down. I got traylon Martin Tattoo. Don't know him, changed my life his story, but reality is I'll show y'all in the second. But if legislation wasn't past, that stand your ground couldn't be a law, that young black man would be alive today. Brianna Taylor would be alive today if legislation didn't pass for no knock warrants. So our lives are literally on the ballot, you know. So like we're

voting because if not, we will die. Like there. We are an endangered species as black folks, and so the only way that we can, can weaponize ourselves right now without getting pistols and becoming militant like Malcolm X, is to show up to the polls, is to organize and do the grassroots work, and I think that's why you start to see all these activations and campaigns and getting people to vote and people being more active. It's George Floyd isn't the first black man that's been gunned down

by a police officer. This has been happened. But people tired. And guess what's happening? Black people are running for office. Black women buying larger running for office right now, and research shows when black women run for office, they win. Well, black women do anything. Everybody, everybody, and so let me. So when we talk about communications, I feel like that's the premise of everything right now. WHO's talking? WHO's listening?

And as we think about communication, like we find that people just have things to say, but it is about who's listening. So, with that being said, are you against desirability when it comes to politics, like, is there a way that you have to show up in order for people to listen? You know what I really feel like, in politics, particularly, the realest person will win. People, like, what does it mean to be real? Because people we're not trying to tell their business people say people in

politics are here to lie in skin. Look at Ath. I'm not this. I know she's not a black woman, but look at AOC right. Yeah, no millennial has ever been elected to the congressional level. Why people won't that real? Why do people love Cardi B? Because she really like, you know, that's what the authenticity is going to with,

exactly and so and so. That's why I feel like we even think about like the roles in politics, while we need more consultants, like, if somebody likes people's image, then like you need to be an image consultant or a PR for a politician because, like, some of them have their heads so down that all they care about is the legislation and you realize you don't win votes based off of just your track record people. You know, with people, we gotta this has to be a poppy.

It's a popularity context to your charisma matters. But I feel like with communications, but we will start seeing more of especially now, since younger people are just like shifting the narrative and millennials, Engene Z, is that you're gonna start seeing and more authentic home grown people, unless people who are just indoctrinated running for office. And I think that it's not just about being in office because, like for me, people love saying when you're gonna run for office.

Never I'm just a little too ghetto, a little too incorrect. I want to be right on the outside, because influence is not always just from being an elected official. Like you get to make the final vote, and so you need the person who's who can move in the room the best way, but your team around you and the organizations that you're connected with are really where you're getting,

where they're where they're getting, like their issue cuts. You know, where they're realizing, like what do people care about the most? And I think that was super dope. Now that, even though it's super polarizes that people care about you realize

people actually do care. They probably have too many opinions on these things, and I think it's the hard job we have, not just as the black l a young DEM's, but I would say that the California Democratic Party or just people who just don't want to be under like a certain title, is that, like you gotta do the work, but you gotta appeal to the masses at the same time, and I think that that's what we do fun it's like, Oh yeah, we got a DJ, but did you vote?

Oh yeah, we got a DJ. We're talking about one seven. Oh, what's a seven girl. Did you know that a B stands for assembly bill, like and then girls. So there twelve, D and seventeen one. Let me tell you what it goes on. Let me saying how this go, like, you have to be real until like I made that up. I don't have no idea whatthing I probably read it

earlier today. But what I'm saying is, like we got to start making the message as clear, succinct, as simple as possible people could relate and talk to me like you're talking to me. Don't talk to me like I

mean you know. You know I'm somebody else, and so I think that that's what's super dope about what we offer as a black loss Angeles Young Democrats is like we really show up as our full seals, and our full seals was being about that work at the same time, like, and that's what a lot of other and I'm not trying to share at the party. I ain't see you there. Okay, authentic sales. That's her authentic se she will be gone. will be gone. Work from home is work from anywhere.

ADDS to something that Shayan said right like me and my homeboys are. OUR MOTTO IS WE'RE gonna have respect in the streets and in the boardroom, and I think that's what makes us dynamic. Right, this board Um people like a o c right, you can be able to navigate and multiple sectors, multiple spaces and still get the point across. They will get the message across and I

think that's why KB is dynamic as well. Right, people don't know kb was an organizing activist in the eighties in south central right in the in the heart and the peak of the crack cocaine epidemic. They just see the KB the Congress to congresswoman. But I think that's the type of leadership we need in Los Angeles and that's also the type of leadership with cultivating here at Blake. Come on, and then when you when you in blade,

like you just don't leave the way you came. Yes, more networks, better jobs, a actumen like shout out to our previous board members who have like like rolls like in so many different places that like I don't want to just name three out of like so many, because I got called out like Oh, there's more board members in those three. was like, well, were you? What you doing?

Big Deal. It's a big deal that one of our former board members is now in the California Assembly, like Isaac Bryan, you know, like that's exactly, like that's huge, like, you know, somebody gets around of applause to that. That's my dream. Wow. So let me ask you this. What is this whole thing about? Because we're talking about the communication, making sure we're sure we show up as our authentic selves. What does the ask a black millennial campaign about? Okay,

so ask a black Omenio. Ask a black millennial campaign is we started off very strong. It's like what, what do y'all, he gets, care about? Like seriously, what do you care about? Because those of us, because you have to remember, like those of us who are in this space, like we could be some armes, like I mean, we still have our own free minds and we think what we think or whatever. But, like, we know, we're slightly

aware of what's going on. Like you know when everybody when the shade room posts like California is not gonna have no more cars, gas cars, it's like yeah, well, we voted on that two years ago. What's your think? Somebody found the headline and posted it and went viral. But, you know, ask a black millennials like, well, what do you care about all these? So, because what happens is is that the most popular topic ends up going to

push the furthest right. So it's like everybody can say, Oh, we all want reparations, and I mean I do, but like the average about people are like, well, I remember. Here's a perfect example. I remember working in the consulting heart righting someone and we were doing some having the conversations with developers and they were talking about like, yeah, we're gonna do housing with with no parking spots because

millennials don't want to drive. I said, excuse me, I was so glad I was in the room and I would I was in the room to be a note taker, not necessarily. I was like the assistant, not like the person talking about. I was just like asking milleny. I just want to let you know that it's not that

we don't want to drive. We want to be able to afford cars in L A. We want to afford the cars and we're using uber because it's the only option that we have, not because we just want to live a carless life in Los Angeles, Not New York. You know, it's not even just cars. The registration in L A is crazy. I just got a seven hundred dollar bill. Like you know, I'm a doctor now, so I can pay anybody about our commuter. That's a lot of money. Like, I come from nonprofit and what we

were playing our employees. Nobody can't afford seven hundred dollar registration on top of a car note, on top of this housing. The rent is astronomical in this city. It's it's and this is why, again, we gotta get people in places that can change that. Right legislation can help subsidize some of these issues that specifically are affecting us as black people. Yeah, and we have to understand and housing right now, it's definitely number one. Yeah, and that's

why they ask a black millennial. Campaign was super important, because nobody was asking black millennials when people like, Oh, millennials don't want to do this, millennials don't want to do that. It's like those are white millennials. Now the conversations on Gen Z, because you know, the Tiktok really like talk. No, it did. I mean, I don't Tiok. No,

I don't go to Tiktok. I definitely read the white papers and just F Y, I google lost of their searching due to Tiktok, because the younger generation searches for information on how to do stuff and where to find stuff on Tiktok and not Google. So it's like I don't have Tiktok, but I know how it works, I know it's functionalities and because I'm a communicator, it's important for me to know, because I felt like you're defending

yourself about being on Tiktok. No, no, no no, no, I'm just I'm just saying part of part of getting to people is knowing how they how they respond, and I think that that's what super dope about ask a black millennials that nobody was asking black millennials. It was always like, oh, millennials are looking for this, millennials aren't getting married because

of this, millennials, are the divorce ris going down? It's like that those are not black people's experiences, and so that was our initial touch point when we first started a board, to start gauging conversations and maybe we might resurface that another time. It was really important for us for at least the first three months. Is just like start listening to people, because the people who were making

the decisions on the younger generation. It was not they was not talking, it was not hidden for what we was experiencing. Oh, you guys don't want a car, you guys don't want to drive. It's like, no, I need some money, I want to all right, all right, we may not be riding the gbag that, yeah, but we're gonna take a little break and we come back. We need to talk about this black l a sneaker ball

that blade is doing. We also want to talk to some people that saying, Hey, I want to get into politics, what do I need to do, and anything else in between, and how we need to get congresswoman Cameron Bass can't be elected. It's for you. Okay, guys, we're gonna be right back. Hole tight. That's it behind the curve and what's happening. Beautiful people, and you're done intoviting with Don Jay.

It's just important for us to like create, like keep the culture of like what blade is, because like that's what's important. Like what's important is that people know there's always going to be this space that like I'm in. I like politics is. I don't want people making rules for me. I always got in trouble. So we're back y'all, in case you wondering, because she ain't going off and she said something. This was just verson no, this is no, no, but I want you to talk about why are you

talking about the politics? That was a good part between its fine, but oh yeah, I had to catch those politics, because it's like I always got in trouble because, like, who made that rule? I remember getting so trouble when I was a second grade exactly. She signs so far nervous. Said, who made that rule? Can you hear me now? So I used to get in trouble, like who made that rule? I remember asking somebody who said who, who made that rule? Like why, like any know, they asked, like when young

black person, a girl or you know girl. You know, they say, you keep on asking why? Why are you so difficult? Why are you so disruptive? You know, all those things, but it's just like, imagine, imagine if I didn't meet my eighth grade teacher, who said a year leader, like you talk, you talk a lot, but you can saying some stuff, and so like. And who really cultivated my leaderships, because I realized that's the first thing I do what I meet people. I'm like, I talk a lot,

you know your truth. I never thought I would be in a dam club, let alone a president. Um, you know, organizing activism straight up on some alpam x tips. Um. But why not me? Why not us? And if you know American history, we shift the culture and everything exactly. So we're gonna do it in politics, you know as well. And when I went to my first blade event, you know, I never thought I'll have a place in the party.

I never thought, you know, what I had to say or would matter, or like, Oh, you're gonna try to like kick me out of here right. But then, you know, the last President Charity, shout out to charity, like she showed me you could be your authentic self, young black end in politics. And and then I was like okay, I'm so like, how do I get on the board?

But yeah, ten years ago, like if you would have asked me, Oh, you know, you want to be a part of the party, you want to do this, I would have looked at you crazy, like I had a Um, probably a tinue. I shouldn't be saying that. A year, ten year like time period, I didn't vote at all because I was just so disengaged with the political sted. I I was in college. Thank God for College, Um. But, but no, I didn't vote. And then and, but, you know, fast forward. You know, I'M THE PRESIDENT OF A dim

club and I say that. I'm saying all this because that's how important blade is and other groups are right folks that thought they would never do something right. When you can see yourself in it, it's different. You believe it. I hope that that's what we're doing, like for this board. I want that's what I want our legacy to be

like blade got me into politics. It made me feel like I had a place, that my voice mattered and not, you know, not only was your verse her, but like it was important, because anybody can talk, anybody can be heard. But like, it's what you're saying is having you wait. You know what I'm saying. It's a comp what's behind it? Right, and that's what that's what we're building here. Shout out.

You know, you leaned into that Mike. I didn't. I just leaned no, no, but I was just thinking, just thinking, even like the fact that we're doing a black ball. I know we're not there yet. Like I'm like, you know,

like the fact that young people have a space. That is being like we're really thinking about how are we doing this beyond just the political like straight up, like we're gonna talk about something like, like Shanne talked about, what really engages folks, what really brings people in right, and I think the sneaker ball really takes it to the next level in terms of young folks even who are like, okay, I can't pay that, but like I'm gonna Volunteer, I'M gonna come learn from y'all. I love

what Y'all are doing. We went to a table and event, a barbecue with the mgas hills students and I could tell they were like into it, like okay, we see what y'all doing. Right, and Enne will always like she got the message in on point, on point every time. But like really thinking of about what is it that are gonna bring young people to the table? That wouldn't necessarily like you talked about from the beginning. So many of us think it ain't gonna Change. What, like, what

what are you talking about? Like, why would I get why should I get involved? But I feel like a part of it is you got to create that that opening, and I think in in a in a big way, the sneaker ball. We feel it's really gonna do that. Right. It's our tenth anniversary and we really are thinking about how do we set up this legacy for the next ten years, for the next the next board that she ane was talking about. That really takes this to the next level. Alright, Dr d, what's up? You the chair?

We're talking about the L A sneaker ball. This is huge. Oh, it's it's gonna be evolved. So right, you know she's seeing the event. So you know what's gonna be crazy, but hit the Neil, you know. So what's happening in October seven? October seven. Where is it gonna be located? We're gonna be a band devices. It's a black old art gallery in west at West Adams has been super gentrified. So the fact that a black man was able to

buy this our gallery, we have to show up and support. Actually, all of our blade events we are very intentional with our dollars. We always support black businesses. So, Um, you're gonna YOU'RE gonna be dressed up, we're gonna be fly.

I know you see us today, we're looking at Hella casually like a person, like the everyday people you know yeah, you know, but we're gonna, we're gonna put on our suits, we're gonna, we're gonna put on our cocktail dresses, but, you know, but then we're gonna put on our kicks. You know, sneaker culture is is real. I just tried to get these off white air forces and they like two thousand dollars now, and so somebody show up with those, are gonna be mad. But now we're gonna it's it's

gonna be amazing. Back I said. I said off white. You know, we said black. Shout out the virgil rest in peace. You know, it's gonna be a super dope event and what we're really trying to do is do it big like, because we're black, like we deserve the best of the best and this event is gonna be Premier. We got premier sponsors. I'm like, we can announce a fuel and we'RE gonna announce some big ones. So I don't forget everybody, but we have amazing sponsors. First of all,

shout out to Isaac Bryant. He's hosting our V I P reception. So v I P tickets. We got Tin Tin Wine Bar Inglewood sponsoring that. So if your V I p. You know, we're gonna be sipping some Veno. We got the L A rams are super bowl champions are sponsoring the event like. So we really are making waves, Um, and doing this in a way that democratic clubs have not done this before. A lot of our fundraising before

it's been on membership based. Right, we need members, but in order to do this good work, in order to support and get black folks selected, we need resources and we need dollars, and so we've been asking our black counterparts and partners, hey, support this event. We young black folks really out here trying to do the work and, Um, it's been crazy. We still got some fundraising to do. So what are we doing, Y'all? We we are reaching out to sponsors. We got crazy different levels. Oh my

bachelor like. Well, I gave you a lot. were honoring congresswoman Kar Bass. Yeah, shout out to KB and the reason is, and I think it's important that we tell the story. I don't think we hit that that ten years ago, Blade was actually the idea was founded and Karen Bass's living room shut the front door, and that is exactly why it was no better person that we honored on our tenure anniversary elected and she would definitely be elected, uh, and so we're super excited. You know,

we wouldn't have done it without her. In fact, we changed the date. We was like no, this, this Karen, Karen Bass, must be there, she must be president and we must honor this this moment. I love that. So we keep saying we gotta GET KB elected. Right. Why is the election on November eight so important, like for Real, for especially? We talked about minorities. Now I'm sure that I could probably throw it to each one of you guys and tell me how we can affect your family. So,

d how does this election affect you? and Ot, it's you know, for me, that's that's not even about me. and Ot is bigger than but I'm just saying we gotta get on a personal level of how this can affect because this is how people gonna relate to it. I'm in crenshaw right, so I live in high park and the reality is the resources are not in high park that need to be there. Right. We have gang violence. I'm in the sixties, rest in peace and Nipsey, uh, drugs.

It's a beautiful community. We're just under resources, and so we need someone like Karen Bass who understands this community. Community coalition is just down the street on crenshaw over my rather, who understands the community that we live in and the needs of our community. And so when I see kb, I know she sees me. This is why this is important, and she understands me and she understands the needs of not only me but my friends, my cousins,

my aunts, my uncles, are families, the youth. More importantly, Um and KB always rides and shows up. I remember being young. I'm a little older and Karen BASSTOBN, so you're a little older. But, but, but kb always showed up for me. She's always answered my call Um and and saw something in me even then that I didn't see in myself as a young person. And she's still doing that. Is Heading up her her young folks getting out the vote and doing that work and show. For me,

it's about the future. Like I think I'm gonna be good anywhere. I just told them I'm good on any m OK boulevard. What I'm saying. But some people in our community are hurting and we go back to housing. I live downtown for a little bit, about a year homelessness is crazy and Covid nineteen has further, further exasperated these issues. And when you go on ski road you

see us. It's crazy. It saddens me. It sickens me, and I'm not going to even mention the opponent, but the only person who can help playing this up a scaring bass. Absolutely, She's the only one. Absolutely the Um, you know, when you asked like Y K B Y, now I have like two. And then also, why the election? Why the elected? Well, you know. Well, why the election?

So I'll take it on like a macro level. So the Los Angeles l a county, municipality, and then L A, their their budgets and the municipality, like how they governed, the amount of people their government are bigger than some states right. And so you think about how Progressive California is. When things happen in L A, they happened in l a county. When things happen in l a county, they happen in California. When things happen in California, it puts

a wave across the country and that's a fact. And so that's why we are, we have been so progressive for so long. Mean Women's rights, climate change, I mean like we we can do better at mass incarceration. We can definitely do better there. Um, the housing market, of course, but just in general. When you think about I think about when I went to grambling, I got I study politics because the difference between living in L A and Gramblin Louisiana. Yeah, I went to HBC, though, about to

be so lit. It was under resourced, like legit. That's why it was because there was no resource. All you can do is that fun because I'm talking about my talk about my school. You come on how that's like, okay, but I say, what I was is, when you have a black woman in charge of one of the biggest municipalities, the biggest budgets that are bigger than most states, you then have someone who can yield power with the history of coalition building, and I think that's important for people

to like know. And and so I can't stand people. Okay, let me start say that, because that's really because I don't want to judge people and where they are and like politics, but I don't like when people base their full opinion on someone over a series of commercials you saw during your Super Bowl. Say, I say the loudest commercial is always what we don't want, because that means they have the most money, and money is never on the side of people. And so I think that is

super important. For a black woman who has a history of building coalition, who's from the city. She went to Hamilton's high school. Okay, she graduated from Hamiltons High School, like I remember going up there after Ching Games to see my little boo in high school. Like someone who graduated from Hamilton's, who built a nonprofit off of like

I started my nonprofit after trading on. Martin died her with the civil uprisings, um the political of the uprisings, with, you know, I don't want to call him riots, but to me they were riots. But, like you know, with all the things that were happening after ridney king and so, like her, her one idea of like what was happening in her community has now employed my own friends, been lasting over twenty five years and hasn't had to make

a huge impact. And when you think about the issues that we're experiencing, yet everybody, everybody is wearing on the same topics right, like everybody's running on crime. Crime. Now, how homelessness, Housing, the economic workforce, but really, like, do you have a history of building coalition to actually get ship done? And I think that that's one of the

biggest differences between KB and everyone else. Like, yeah, AOC is the more Popular Congress woman, and I'm not I mean, I'm not saying she don't get it done, but I know it's like Karen Bass's track record is huge, like she's known for getting ship done, and she is a black woman who can get ship done, but she's from here. She's not, you know, an outsider who's, you know, being a political operative to use moving someone else's interests. And

you gotta have people who look like you. Come on, done, you have to. And a black woman. Come on, a black woman. We didn't let the others try already. Hast ever woman. She'll be the first ever woman. Man. Yeah, listen, that's using that line. When you see kb, you see me. Yeah, catch it, you pass it on to shout it. So what's up? Why? Why? Why is it important to you? Like, is it affectual family? I'll say I remember the first time I met Congress member Karen Bass and we were talking.

My whole career and every like my passion has always been about young people, and I remember she was, she was sitting there, she was doing a little training and she was talking about the like when she started community coalition over thirty years ago and people were like, you know, like like really writing off young people. It was the last generation. It was really young people that were on

the streets, that were like the mass in carceration. That's when it really started in terms of right like the crack o Kane epidemic and folks really the resources being taken out, right, reagonomics, like all these things that were really happening, and I think I remember her saying it so vividly. She was like, you know, like people wrote

off all these young people. She was like, but if you think about these young people in gangs, especially the gang leaders, if you think about the folks who are selling these drugs, like they entrepreneurs, like we need to bring them into these organizations because if we think about what they really can contribute, if we really like water that right and really help them grow in a way that really thinks about how do we build up their leadership so that they could do good for our community

in a way that they're not allowed to, in the way that they don't really get, like they don't see right, and I remember thinking, like that's what I want to do, like that's how I want to like contribute in a real way. And I think that's who she is. And when I think about like my younger sister, I'm thirty four, she's thirty three, like she spent fifteen years of her life on the street selling drugs before she was like all right, I'm ready to like change up, and she was.

She gonna surpass all of us, like I'm talking about my accolades. She way better than me, right, but it's because nobody watered her right, like she didn't have that. And so I think about how do we get a chance to really, like, really take the time to build up our young people? And so, being now, being on her campaign, it's like you only see people like Obama, people like Bernie who really like saw the young people and said the young people need to go out and vote.

Usually they write off young people. They don't care about they vote. They vote is so minuscule to them because young people aren't raising their voices because they don't think they could change it. Like you said, when you see the young people that are involved right now, they are so excited. We got a little kickback going on on set on Sunday at the beach. These young people are like kick back for caring, BASS KB, for KB, like these are them, like I'm just, I'm just over here,

I'm just over here and suppartment. But it's like it's like super dope. They got lottle fire going on and they're registering go to vote. They're telling people they got the little you know, they do this little mysterious thing. So they got a picture and then they got the date of the election where, you know, on a t shirt. They got selling merge. They're gonna do the little tie Tye with the Merg like. It's all young people that really can spread the word to other young people. What?

I don't care. Well, you know what, I still on care. So whatever. They can only speak to each other. I can't tell them. I can't tell them what. What makes them want to go out and vote? It's them right. Like, for one girl, she got this cute little video. She made a hundred and sixty five thousand views and she just started like three weeks ago and she and it's

because young people can speak to other young people. It was some like pose like the first black mayor or some something like the first female black mayor, and I'm like, young people, that speaks to that fire. It's how they did it. Like you know what I mean. I'm like, I would never think to pose like them. You know. And so, so you, you're working on KP's campaign right now. What with her? She's amazing. She's so amazing today that

she had a couple of interviews. Everybody was like. I was like, but, like, you know, what what De said is so real. Like today I was like, I can't look at her because I about my croptop. Yeah, we're showing our baby hairs. I'm like trying to hide. She looks straight at me. She said, how are you doing? You know what I mean, like, but like, like, like, not like how are you doing? How you doing? How are you doing? She was like how are you doing today?

Like I was even like, you know, like, and I feel like that is who she is, like she's so down on earth. She's really about us, about the people, and that that to me speaks volumes. He kills you right there. That's what's up, man. I think they summed it up, but the thing I'll add is, well, this is history in the making. This is the first woman mayor black woman mayor. We have the opportunity to make history.

People are gonna look at this time and say, wow, we got a black woman elected in the second largest city in America, maybe the most influential, influential city in America. Um. But personally, for me this is about my future. You, I'm a father. I want to make sure my kids grew up in a safe l a was safe to me. Resources for all of us right, quality education, good transportation, clean air, all of that. Um. And that's that's what it is for me. It's about the future generations. Like

it's on the line. We are literally at a cross a cross roads. This, this election, can probably impact the next ten or twenty years of Los Angeles. We have the Olympics coming. GENTRIFICATION is rampant. Um. Speaking of m OK, I just moved m OK boulevard, so I know what's going on in the streets. I see it firsthand every day. Um, and I think Karen Bass is the person for the job, person for the job. And when you say implications, I think the implications are going to be far beyond twenty years.

And here's why. If the person if, when Karen Bass Becomes Mayor Um, the coalition that's gonna be built full in the coalition. And when I said coalition, I'm saying like, not just bringing together people that sit at the table and just to pretend right, when you really collect the voices, when, when you're historically an organizer, you never not, you never

stop organizing. And so when, as a community organizer, your biggest thing is building relationships with people, and so Karen Bass has built an insurmountable amount of relationships with people experiencing the issues. And so if Karen Bass is what's on the line is when the Olympics come, you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna clean the city up and kick our assets. Not Not me, but you know they're gonna kick our asses out, because they need to

the Olympics. The Olympics, the Olympics. The reason why these Metros, all these things are happening because we have to have the capacity. We have to have the capacity to house and to transport million, hundred thousands of people from across the country. And so what does that mean? It means said the world. What does that mean? Like, okay, well,

what does Karen Bass have to do with that. We don't have someone who leads with the perspective of African, American, Latino and underserved, marginalized indigenous communities, like saying like hey, that is going to displace them. Hey, that doesn't are the job. ARE THEY gonna get? What's their percentage of the job's gonna get? Like anybody who can speak to what our needs are and can build coalition around it.

You have the opposite, which is the opponent who is more about money and not about people, who will be who was willing and I believe, will clear our asses out, scared role like literally will clear our assets out and those people will just get displaced because it's about what optics, the optics, what it looks like, what it looks like, and nobody wants, and I don't want. I don't want people come into L A and and you know what we're experiencing now in our streets. But you need someone

who is a trusted leader who can do that. And I think the biggest thing that we have the debunk. When people are like, well, Karen Bass doesn't care about black people, it's like what, because this other guy is going to take pictures with these over here taking pictures with people without their permission. But this woman has been doing the work for thirty years. So sometimes I keep it real. People. I say, listen, Karen Bass is. If, like if I was on my ship and I ran

for mayor in ten years, like that's what it's. It's us, it's the people who started here and went and something about the Olympics real quick. I just want to just point this out. If you look at what happened when the Olympics came to Brazil, right, that's the blackest in the western hemisphere, right, crazy the Olympics. You know, I'm glad they chose L A, but there's bad things that a lot of people get displaced, Um, human trafficking, a lot of stuff and if you think about it, right

for this Olympics, they had to prepare right. So they built the so far stadium in Inglewood, which is the last black enclave of Los Angeles County. They're also building arena right down the street for the clippers, right over there by USC they got a new stadium for the for the soccer team. Those are all for the Olympics. They're going to be utilizing all of those spaces to form all of that, but they're building these spaces in the last black communities in Los Angeles County. Who holds

the land holds the power. That's back to the land. That's what it's all about period. So Black, black Los Angeles has a lot on the line, particularly for this for this election. Wow. And you need someone who cares about black people making the decisions. And the thing is, it's like she's, and that's the dope part about her. Why she's such a good, uh, I don't want to say politician, but she's a good, you know, leader, community leader. Is that, you know, it's just because she's a black woman.

That's why they say when black women lead, they leave for everyone, because though she comes from our perspective, she still can build coalitions, continues to build coalitions. She gets people from every community behind her, every community like background, that all of that, and it's real people, and that's a rare issue because, let me tell you, there's a lot of people I'd missed with you know and blade, blade,

I mean I've always been a little radical. So, you know, they helped me understand, like you know, some things and I think that that's the thing that I hate the most of them. Like, okayp don't care about black people, she don't be over here. And I remember somebody saying she needs to be at this event. It's tomorrow, and they said Rick Cruiz is gonna be there and it's gonna look good for her. I remember responding, Karen Bass is in d C. People has also been fighting and

you had to fight trump. She's our chair of our Congressional Black Caucus. And even deeper than that, like people don't realize, when you become the mayor you can a whole two person staff. So when somebody who's black and a woman, that means that staff is gonna be representative of the mosaic of our city of L a. Our Commissions are appointments right white men are like of city appoint appointments right now. All of this can begin to

shift when you have that person in in office. I can guarantee her opponent is not looking to hire black folks astoundingly, or hire or appoint UH black folks to commission. So I don't even understand how we're still talking about it. So clear get your ass to the polls and vote. If somebody was just wondering, well, how can I get a deep dive on KV? where? Where can we get the information? What can we get a one sheet? All I know DOT com. Yeah, caring backs, Dot Com, and

then I'm gonna shot us out. Blade is also doing a voter guide that we're coming out soon. We don't have that date. Follow us on social media. Show with our handles, because I mess up. Black L A young dems. We're partnering with the Community Coalition Action Fund. So if you are unsure, once you get your ballot, our voice, hopefully it is representative of your voice. Take a look at that voting guy. If not, hit one of us up on our social media. We got you, M okay,

at a new day. That's why you get okay, okay, I get it. But I will also say, like, outside of going, you know what, I keep on saying these things I don't like because, like I'm going, there's just one person who just gets on my nerves and I'm not gonna say their name, but it's just like yeah, I'm not gonna say I can't because I can't. But like they continue to like bash black elected officials and I remember I always like, you know, the comments like well,

have you reached out to their office? Have you called them? Well, why would I call them? Like they know what they know what's up. They need to call me. It's like, Nigga, what like a billion people tagging me and you think your one tag from your small follower account is gonna growner attention. But guess what? And that's what the that's what we need to tell that's what people need to understand. The email and the phone call is gonna go further

than the tag on instagram. So the emails and the phone actually work because people who people pick up the phone, because people who about their business pick up the phone, or because people feel like wait, so you can pull off. Okay, okay, address three, six zero one south Librea Avenue, on the corner of Obama and Librea. And if you want to reach out directly to the campaign, you can email me shot day at Karen Bass Dot Com. As a D E. I respond to every email. I connect you to the

right people. I don't play no games. Crazy you feel like you have a problem, like hey, I don't feel seen in this in this legislation, I don't feel seen in this policy. Brief, why did you say that about criminal justice? I thought we were trying to reform. I don't like that, like that's what you're that's what you should be saying to your elected officials, like I don't

see my self. What can we do? Or here's a proposed solution, and and and see, and sometimes we gotta realize like we're thinking about what we're experienced and we're not thinking about the other eight million people in the constituency. You're feeling the same thing, but you have to be willing to share your concerns and even, potentially, what your solutions are, and not think that these elected officials are

bigger than you. Then you know, like we have this thing in our society like, Oh, it's a celebrity, it's elected official, like these are this is an elected official right here next to me, like look at this, the Homie, and it's just like and this is Dr Dean, and it's just like, O yeah, we're cool, but okay, so, Dr Da, let me talk to you about this. So what's with your people? Man? Why y'all woe on this, like what's going on? And she tells me and I'm like,

I don't like that. So we might not agree when it comes to the ballot on that issue, but you have to be willing to share your grievances and your concerns about the things that you want to change in your community and be willing to tell them to the people who can make the decision. You going on twitter and making threads about it or being agitational on your stories or doing all those things like yeah, your friends Donna think it's cute, like you right, a man fleck them.

They don't ever care about us. But it's just like these same people are over. You're doing community sessions, public information sessions, asking people to come meet with them, tell them to come to the office, giving their email addresses, but you don't want to have the conversation to these people in person because you're afraid of being of the outcome.

And so I think that people are afraid of the potential of what's possible, and I think that that is a reason why politics gets a little scary, because it's like, Dang with, what else am I gonna Complain About? I think KB is the type to welcome that type of energy too. She wants to know, hey, man, this bill is whack or it could be stronger. She welcomes it. I've heard her say, like I hope you know you hold me accountable once. I am the man. I've heard her say it in person. Um. So I think it's

gonna be more accessible, like we talked about earlier. Right, people, she's going to create a team, create an environment, have a staff. Right, that I understands. She's an organizer. She's gonna hire people with organizing backgrounds like that's something that's integrated in the culture. So you're gonna be able to come through all up, interact with people and even if you can't get directly to her, you don't have people on the front line there for you to make sure

that message get directly to her. On October seven, anybody and everybody who is an elected official with color who was doing the work for black folks in the community will be in the room. Karen Bass, congresswoman, Karen Bass, most definitely will be in the room. We will be in the room. So pull up sneaker ball to let me give you that link to get your links. So it's B I t dot L Y slash black L A sneaker ball, the bast capital. The L A is capital,

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what I'm saying. Like you're paying. You're not only paying to be with the biggest, you know, the biggest political black players out here and the young, you know, as far as the black of young dens, but if you feel like you never got access to some elective like you should pay. That the politics and this is a network. This is where you need to be. I'm telling you. October second device is done. Jay Is the MC. Let's go.

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