WEBVTT 00:30.764 --> 00:33.033 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% This Spring tensions boiled over nationwide in 00:33.133 --> 00:35.335 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a way they haven't in years. Following the video 00:35.435 --> 00:37.804 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% released in early May of the death of Ahmaud Arbury, 00:37.904 --> 00:40.407 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a black Georgia man who was hunted down and 00:40.507 --> 00:43.343 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% killed by three white men. And weeks later, the video 00:43.443 --> 00:46.012 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% showing the death of George Floyd, a black man 00:46.112 --> 00:47.680 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% who was killed while handcuffed in police 00:47.781 --> 00:50.583 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% custody by an officer who knelt on his neck for 00:50.683 --> 00:53.186 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% nearly nine minutes. Protests erupted in 00:53.286 --> 00:55.822 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% streets across the world and in South Carolina, 00:55.922 --> 00:58.324 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% with people of all races, many protesting for the 00:58.425 --> 01:00.927 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% first time, sickened by seeing such racial 01:01.027 --> 01:03.930 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% injustice happening over and over, something that 01:04.030 --> 01:05.865 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% without the video evidence wouldn't garner 01:05.965 --> 01:09.669 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% much attention at all. Talking to my friends in 01:09.769 --> 01:11.938 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the majority community who have called me and 01:12.038 --> 01:16.543 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% texted me saying what can I do? What they keep telling me is 01:16.643 --> 01:21.181 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% that the image, the video of George Floyd 01:21.281 --> 01:26.086 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% really asking for his mother at the end, 01:26.186 --> 01:29.989 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% was hard to watch. And for the first time, 01:30.090 --> 01:33.059 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% they saw something they had never 01:33.159 --> 01:36.796 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% seen before. And they wanted to do something. 01:36.896 --> 01:40.867 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And my short answer is, silence is not an answer. 01:40.967 --> 01:43.036 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% It's not an approach and I'm thankful that 01:43.136 --> 01:45.138 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% they are calling and asking for ways to 01:45.238 --> 01:48.708 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% make a difference. It's recognizing that you have the 01:48.808 --> 01:51.611 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% power to be intentional about the change that is necessary. 01:51.711 --> 01:54.914 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% And if you use that power for change, it will happen. 01:55.014 --> 01:57.183 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Thousands turned out across South Carolina 01:57.283 --> 02:00.186 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% on May 30th, just days after Floyd's death. 02:00.286 --> 02:02.555 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Despite pockets of unrest that day they 02:02.655 --> 02:04.891 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% have remained peaceful and ongoing as people marched 02:04.991 --> 02:07.093 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on the statehouse calling for policy action. 02:07.193 --> 02:09.028 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% People marched in Charleston, leading to the 02:09.129 --> 02:11.564 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% removal of the statue of a racist forefather, 02:11.664 --> 02:14.367 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% John C. Calhoun. Thousands rallied in Clemson, 02:14.467 --> 02:16.302 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% leading the university's Board to rename it Honors 02:16.402 --> 02:18.304 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% College and push to remove the name 02:18.404 --> 02:20.373 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% of Ben Tillman from a building. An action 02:20.473 --> 02:22.008 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that the Heritage Act is prohibiting many 02:22.108 --> 02:24.844 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% communities across the state from doing. Despite 02:24.944 --> 02:27.147 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the ongoing pandemic, which by itself has 02:27.247 --> 02:29.115 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% highlighted the glaring inequalities of our 02:29.215 --> 02:32.285 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% society, the movement has galvanized a nation and a 02:32.385 --> 02:35.321 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% state to continue pushing for change, equality 02:35.421 --> 02:38.057 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and equity, as more and more people realize and 02:38.158 --> 02:39.993 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% learn of the problems people of color 02:40.093 --> 02:42.762 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% face every day, in a country founded on the principle 02:42.862 --> 02:44.597 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that all are created equal. 02:49.102 --> 02:51.371 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Welcome to Palmetto Perspectives and this 02:51.471 --> 02:53.673 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% very important conversation on racial 02:53.773 --> 02:57.343 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% injustices. I'm Thelisha Eaddy. In light of the killings 02:57.443 --> 02:59.946 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor and other 03:00.046 --> 03:03.082 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% unarmed Black Americans, we've assembled a panel 03:03.183 --> 03:04.617 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% of leaders from the African American 03:04.717 --> 03:07.120 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% community to discuss these killings. the 03:07.220 --> 03:10.190 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% subsequent protests and pathways to overcoming 03:10.290 --> 03:13.092 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% these tragedies and creating real change in 03:13.193 --> 03:15.929 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% our society. Now we recognize that 03:16.029 --> 03:18.598 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% tonight's conversation is just a part of a much 03:18.698 --> 03:21.868 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% larger and difficult one but we want to do our 03:21.968 --> 03:25.071 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% part and start by asking questions and listening. 03:25.171 --> 03:28.241 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% We want to invite you, our viewers and listeners to 03:28.341 --> 03:30.510 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% join us in this conversation. And you can 03:30.610 --> 03:33.613 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% do that by commenting by way of our Facebook page 03:33.713 --> 03:37.817 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% at South Carolina ETV or South Carolina Public Radio. 03:37.917 --> 03:40.119 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Adrienne Farewell is our Assistant General 03:40.220 --> 03:42.622 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Manager, she will be taking your comments live 03:42.722 --> 03:45.491 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on air. We've also assembled a panel of 03:45.592 --> 03:48.261 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% stakeholders by way of ZOOM to join in this 03:48.361 --> 03:51.331 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% conversation as well. We thank you for your part 03:51.431 --> 03:54.534 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% in tonight's discussion. And joining us in studio, 03:54.634 --> 03:58.071 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% social distanced, of course, are State Representative, 03:58.171 --> 04:01.074 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Marvin Pendarvis. He represents district 113, 04:01.174 --> 04:02.976 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% including Charleston and Dorchester 04:03.076 --> 04:05.678 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% counties. Recently elected to his third term, 04:05.778 --> 04:08.414 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% representative Pendarvis worked to improve public 04:08.514 --> 04:11.384 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% health care, child care, education among many 04:11.484 --> 04:14.420 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% others. Lyric Swinton is a recent graduate of the 04:14.520 --> 04:17.423 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% University of South Carolina and an Associate 04:17.523 --> 04:20.560 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% at CityBright L.L.C. in Columbia. 04:20.660 --> 04:23.296 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We have artist and musician, Benny Starr. 04:23.396 --> 04:25.698 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% He's known for infusing political and social 04:25.798 --> 04:28.568 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% consciousness in his work. He made history not 04:28.668 --> 04:30.837 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% that long ago 2019 as the 04:30.937 --> 04:33.640 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% first rapper to perform at the Spoleto 04:33.740 --> 04:37.210 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Festival USA Finale. Chanda Jefferson is at 04:37.310 --> 04:39.846 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% 2020 South Carolina teacher of the 04:39.946 --> 04:42.749 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% year. She focused her career on seeking 04:42.849 --> 04:45.885 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% innovative ideas and strategies to positively 04:45.985 --> 04:47.920 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% impact the lives of students. 04:48.021 --> 04:50.890 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% And Dr Roslyn Clark Artis is President 04:50.990 --> 04:54.727 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% of Benedict College, one of our state's eight HBCUs 04:54.827 --> 04:57.130 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% historically black college or universities. 04:57.230 --> 04:59.632 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% She is Benedict's first female president. 04:59.732 --> 05:02.035 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Thank you all very much for being here. 05:02.135 --> 05:04.304 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% We appreciate your time and your insights 05:04.404 --> 05:06.806 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% this evening. But first, 05:06.906 --> 05:10.677 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I want to start tonight's conversation with a 05:10.777 --> 05:15.281 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% simple question. How are you doing? 05:15.381 --> 05:17.650 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% If you are on social media, you know 05:17.750 --> 05:20.586 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% that you probably scrolled past that question several times 05:20.687 --> 05:24.357 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% since May 25th. How did those 8 05:24.457 --> 05:28.428 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% minutes 46 seconds impact you? And tonight how 05:28.528 --> 05:31.431 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% are you doing? We'll start with you a representative. 05:31.531 --> 05:36.235 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% Well, one, thank you for or assembling this panel and 05:36.336 --> 05:38.604 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the opportunity to sit here with many people 05:38.705 --> 05:40.873 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% who are doing some things in our state. 05:40.973 --> 05:44.277 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% If you would ask me that question three weeks ago, maybe 05:44.377 --> 05:47.413 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% even two and a half weeks ago, I would have 05:47.513 --> 05:49.982 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% said not well, because I wasn't well. 05:50.083 --> 05:52.285 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% As a black man, a black husband, 05:52.385 --> 05:57.924 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% a black father, a black son as someone who has seen the 05:58.024 --> 06:02.829 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% injustices waged on our people for some time and 06:02.929 --> 06:07.066 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have that done a bit of studying, I was frustrated 06:07.166 --> 06:12.538 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% because I felt helpless, in many sense because as 06:12.638 --> 06:15.375 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a an elected official I try to really wrestle 06:15.475 --> 06:18.144 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% with how I can come up with creative solutions 06:18.244 --> 06:21.514 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to try to address these issues. And then a lot of 06:21.614 --> 06:24.050 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% it is we continue to see this time 06:24.150 --> 06:28.321 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% and time again and it's falling on deaf ears. We seem 06:28.421 --> 06:32.191 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% to not be able to break through for society to understand 06:32.291 --> 06:35.661 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that there is a real issue that's plaguing our 06:35.762 --> 06:39.332 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% country. And we have to dig at the root of it. 06:39.432 --> 06:42.335 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% But I'm better now. I'm better because 06:42.435 --> 06:46.472 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I've seen that this moment has turned into a 06:46.572 --> 06:49.675 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% movement. And I you know - that obviously there's a 06:49.776 --> 06:54.180 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% lot to be seen but if we continue to sustain 06:54.280 --> 06:57.150 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the energy that we have and use it in 06:57.250 --> 07:00.620 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a way where people are recognizing that there is 07:00.720 --> 07:03.790 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% an issue and are working towards dismantling the 07:03.890 --> 07:07.226 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% institutions of racism and injustice and 07:07.326 --> 07:10.530 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% inequity that exists, then we'll get to where 07:10.630 --> 07:13.032 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% we need to be. And so I'm better 07:13.132 --> 07:15.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I'm not, you know, 100% just because 07:15.168 --> 07:18.504 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% there's a lot that has to be done. And I know 07:18.604 --> 07:21.474 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I have a role in that process, but it's 07:21.574 --> 07:23.976 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% certainly just dealing with the emotions from 07:24.076 --> 07:26.312 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a personal level and then also professionally. 07:26.412 --> 07:28.881 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Because I know that I feel a special 07:28.981 --> 07:31.617 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% sense of obligation but to be at the forefront 07:31.717 --> 07:33.820 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% and trying to do something about this. 07:33.920 --> 07:36.055 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Lyric, you just graduated from university. 07:36.155 --> 07:38.357 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Congratulations! Thank you. The whole world is at your 07:38.458 --> 07:40.460 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% fingertips. You're just starting your adult life 07:40.560 --> 07:44.831 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% kind of sort of. How are you? I'll say when I first saw 07:44.931 --> 07:47.333 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the video, when it first came out, I obviously 07:47.433 --> 07:50.169 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% felt nothing. I think we've become 07:50.269 --> 07:53.339 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% so desensitized. I'm 22 years old. 07:53.439 --> 07:56.809 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% And so, I look back. I was in middle school. I think 07:56.909 --> 07:59.078 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% just starting middle school when Trayvon Martin got killed. 07:59.178 --> 08:02.114 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So for people who are my age and are my demographic, 08:02.215 --> 08:04.383 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% violence towards black people is literally all we know. 08:04.484 --> 08:06.819 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We've been watching black bodies die on 08:06.919 --> 08:09.856 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% camera since we got social media at our 08:09.956 --> 08:12.492 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% fingertips. I'm in generation Z. 08:12.592 --> 08:15.695 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So we are the generation that knows social media like 08:15.795 --> 08:18.965 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% the back of our hands. And so all we know is these 08:19.065 --> 08:21.334 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% videos. I watched Eric Garner say I can't 08:21.434 --> 08:25.037 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% breathe. So, we've become so desensitized to 08:25.137 --> 08:28.875 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% it all. And it's a very numbing feeling. As for how I'm 08:28.975 --> 08:33.346 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% doing, I would say that it gets very overwhelming 08:33.446 --> 08:36.182 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% because you want to do something. 08:36.282 --> 08:38.784 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% You always want to something and even, you're doing 08:38.885 --> 08:41.487 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a lot and you still feel like you're doing enough. 08:41.587 --> 08:44.290 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And it also comes to a point to where you wonder 08:44.390 --> 08:47.493 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% does any of the things that you're doing matter. 08:47.593 --> 08:51.330 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Does your degree actually matter? Does 08:51.430 --> 08:54.166 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% being in elected office, does it matter? All the 08:54.267 --> 08:56.302 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% accolades and awards and things that you can 08:56.402 --> 08:58.037 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% accumulate. Because, at the end of the day, 08:58.137 --> 09:00.740 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you're still Black. You'll still be judged by 09:00.840 --> 09:02.575 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the color of your skin, rather than the 09:02.675 --> 09:05.044 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% content of your character. And being black is something 09:05.144 --> 09:07.313 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% you can't talented 10th your way 09:07.413 --> 09:11.417 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% out of. So, a lot of times, I feel very defeated. 09:11.517 --> 09:13.152 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And that's how I felt initially, when a 09:13.252 --> 09:15.488 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% lot of these things started happening but like 09:15.588 --> 09:18.591 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Representative Pendarvis said, I feel better now. I feel 09:18.691 --> 09:22.128 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% inspired by I will say people in my 09:22.228 --> 09:25.531 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% community. The marches in Columbia where I grew 09:25.631 --> 09:28.401 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% up and where I live now. I feel 09:28.501 --> 09:31.437 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% inspired by the people who are actively making 09:31.537 --> 09:33.573 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the change. I feel inspired by the young 09:33.673 --> 09:35.808 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% people I see on social media making a difference 09:35.908 --> 09:37.843 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and I feel inspired in the work that I 09:37.944 --> 09:41.914 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% do every day going towards equity for all. 09:42.014 --> 09:45.585 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% So, in the midst of all this chaos, as disappointed as 09:45.685 --> 09:48.154 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I may be that we haven't made all the strides I 09:48.254 --> 09:52.024 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% would like, I'm very encouraged by the amount 09:52.124 --> 09:55.294 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% of people who are diligent in making sure 09:55.394 --> 10:00.566 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that one day that equity true in a true and 10:00.666 --> 10:04.837 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% inclusive society will one day be possible. 10:04.937 --> 10:08.608 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% Benny, what about you? 10:08.708 --> 10:12.478 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% To be very honest It's in flux. 10:12.578 --> 10:15.681 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% One day, things might be pretty good. And the 10:15.781 --> 10:20.987 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% next day not so good. It's - I remember when 10:21.087 --> 10:25.024 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Instagram, I remember seeing Michael Brown 10:25.124 --> 10:28.094 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on Instagram back when Instagram could only do 10:28.194 --> 10:31.697 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% 15 second videos. And I remember me and my 10:31.797 --> 10:33.799 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% two of my closest friends, three Michael's friends 10:33.899 --> 10:37.670 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% we were all at a house for a cook out. 10:37.770 --> 10:40.906 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% We were having a cookout. 10:41.007 --> 10:44.877 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And you start seeing the hashtag Ferguson, Ferguson. 10:44.977 --> 10:47.113 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And back then it was only 15 second videos on 10:47.213 --> 10:50.049 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Instagram. So we were watching the reporter 10:50.149 --> 10:52.451 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% from St Louis cover the story watching people 10:52.551 --> 10:55.821 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% tweet live trying to track the 10:55.921 --> 11:00.526 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% hashtag. And I I've seen so many 11:00.626 --> 11:03.496 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% different videos over the years and to be honest 11:03.596 --> 11:05.431 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% with you, I haven't watched the complete 11:05.531 --> 11:08.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% video. I can't really watch. I can't really 11:08.467 --> 11:09.869 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5% watch it. 11:13.906 --> 11:16.075 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% In the midst of COVID-19 11:16.175 --> 11:18.811 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% and so much of the uncertainty and the 11:18.911 --> 11:20.613 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% what we do know about it and how 11:20.713 --> 11:23.082 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% disproportionately impacted black 11:23.182 --> 11:26.218 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% communities. And you're worried about your family. 11:26.318 --> 11:28.287 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% You're worried about essential workers, who are in your 11:28.387 --> 11:30.122 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% family. You're worried about people you know. 11:30.222 --> 11:33.025 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% You're worried about the elders. I'm worried about myself. 11:33.125 --> 11:37.063 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% You know. How do I stay safe as safe as possible, 11:37.163 --> 11:39.532 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% With life seemingly coming to a halt in 11:39.632 --> 11:43.669 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% a lot of ways? And then the uprising happens 11:43.769 --> 11:46.072 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% at this time right now, which is partially 11:46.172 --> 11:47.973 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% up I believe. It's one of the reasons 11:48.074 --> 11:49.809 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% why a lot of people were tuned in 11:49.909 --> 11:53.079 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% like they've been tuned in, because a lot of things that 11:53.179 --> 11:56.649 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% stopped for a while. But seeing the uprising and seeing 11:56.749 --> 11:59.919 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the people, seeing black women's voices get lifted 12:00.019 --> 12:03.823 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% up, seeing activists out there pushing the issues 12:03.923 --> 12:06.292 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% not letting things slide, 12:06.392 --> 12:09.161 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% being very unrelenting, it is inspiring. So trying 12:09.261 --> 12:12.031 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to find that balance from day to day and tap 12:12.131 --> 12:16.435 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% into some form of joy, stay grounded. Do the 12:16.535 --> 12:19.638 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% things that you can do. Learning for me to 12:19.739 --> 12:22.341 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% control the things that I control and be 12:22.441 --> 12:26.278 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on call whenever I'm needed. 12:26.378 --> 12:28.981 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% It's a day to day process for me now. 12:29.081 --> 12:32.184 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% A day to day process. Chanda, what about you? 12:32.284 --> 12:35.421 align:left position:37.5%,start line:0% size:62.5% Well, when I heard about it 12:35.521 --> 12:39.792 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the video, I felt like I was just recovering from 12:39.892 --> 12:44.296 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Ahmaud Arbury and what happened with him. And 12:44.396 --> 12:48.367 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% that was a very emotional time for me. I even, you 12:48.467 --> 12:51.537 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% know utilized my platform to voice, you know, to voice 12:51.637 --> 12:55.975 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% that this is wrong on so many levels. So I couldn't even 12:56.075 --> 12:59.712 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% watch the video of George Floyd because I 12:59.812 --> 13:03.549 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% know it just triggers so many emotions and trauma 13:03.649 --> 13:08.053 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for myself. And when I finally, you know, did 13:08.154 --> 13:11.423 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% watch it, I just thought about, you 13:11.524 --> 13:14.760 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% know, all the black man that are in my family, you 13:14.860 --> 13:16.762 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% know that it could have been them. 13:16.862 --> 13:19.632 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Not only that, I thought about my students, because 13:19.732 --> 13:22.234 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I'm a teacher, because not only are they dealing 13:22.334 --> 13:25.004 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% with the trauma and everything from 13:25.104 --> 13:28.474 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% COVID-19 while they're at home, you know, a lot of 13:28.574 --> 13:31.377 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the students that I work with as well are dealing 13:31.477 --> 13:34.680 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% with the trauma from social injustice and I 13:34.780 --> 13:37.216 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% was you know worried about them. And it just, you 13:37.316 --> 13:41.353 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% know, pretty much broke my heart 13:41.453 --> 13:43.889 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% to see this happening, you know, all of this happen 13:43.989 --> 13:47.626 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% at the same time. And then also 13:47.726 --> 13:50.629 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% having to continue to go on with your life as well. 13:50.729 --> 13:53.966 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Because, you know, we had to be on ZOOM calls, 13:54.066 --> 13:57.503 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% and virtual meetings and things like that. 13:57.603 --> 14:00.206 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I feel like, you know, it's hard to put up that smile 14:00.306 --> 14:03.042 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on your face and just carry on as - like 14:03.142 --> 14:06.078 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% things were normal. I'm knowing all the pain 14:06.178 --> 14:08.681 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that I was feeling because of 14:08.781 --> 14:12.318 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% what happened to George Floyd, so. Today, you 14:12.418 --> 14:15.421 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% know, I feel better but I'm still going back 14:15.521 --> 14:18.624 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and forth because you know this is a major 14:18.724 --> 14:23.028 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% issue. But it brings me joy and I'm hopeful 14:23.128 --> 14:25.497 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% because I feel like so many more people are 14:25.598 --> 14:28.267 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% speaking out and Dr Martin Luther King Jr 14:28.367 --> 14:31.637 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% said 'When our lives begin to end, if we're silent 14:31.737 --> 14:36.075 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% about things that matter.' So, I feel like 14:36.175 --> 14:37.910 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that it's important right now that people 14:38.010 --> 14:41.714 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% begin to speak out. But, I feel like I'm healing 14:41.814 --> 14:45.017 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% going forward but it's just a lot of work to 14:45.117 --> 14:48.754 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% be done in this area. Thank you. Dr Artis, like 14:48.854 --> 14:52.558 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Chanda, you oversee flocks of young people who will 14:52.658 --> 14:57.229 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% soon enter into of the real world. 14:57.329 --> 14:59.365 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I watched videos of you interacting with 14:59.465 --> 15:02.101 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% your students. I was very moved by one 15:02.201 --> 15:05.237 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% particular report. And it was like a family. 15:05.337 --> 15:08.374 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% How are you doing, knowing that 15:08.474 --> 15:12.077 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% so many of the people like your students are 15:12.177 --> 15:17.616 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% are faced with such a hard outcomes sometimes? 15:17.716 --> 15:22.054 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% So in this moment, as I sit here and listen to 15:22.154 --> 15:24.924 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the people assembled, I feel affirmed, because 15:25.024 --> 15:28.661 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I see pieces of my reaction in each of them. 15:28.761 --> 15:31.563 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% As a leader, I felt powerless. My students are 15:31.664 --> 15:34.300 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% separated from the campus. My ability to bring them 15:34.400 --> 15:36.602 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% together and help them walk through this pain 15:36.702 --> 15:39.238 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and think through this and come up with a 15:39.338 --> 15:42.174 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% response and help the heal was very 15:42.274 --> 15:44.476 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% limited, because they were dispersed across the 15:44.576 --> 15:47.146 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% country. And, so I felt really lost and 15:47.246 --> 15:49.915 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% rudderless and not able to take care my babies, 15:50.015 --> 15:52.351 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% because they were separate and apart. 15:52.451 --> 15:55.287 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% The sort of numbness that Lyric mentioned, we've 15:55.387 --> 15:58.223 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% seen this before. I wish I could say I was shocked. 15:58.324 --> 16:00.526 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I wish I could say I was horrified, but we've seen 16:00.626 --> 16:04.263 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% this before. And so when I think of my students, 16:04.363 --> 16:09.101 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I think about seeing it, does impose trauma. Right? 16:09.201 --> 16:11.070 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And the fact that they're desensitized to it, 16:11.170 --> 16:12.972 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% doesn't mean they're not being harmed or 16:13.072 --> 16:15.074 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% traumatized. It means that we're going to have to 16:15.174 --> 16:17.409 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% unpack that when they come back. And so I began 16:17.509 --> 16:19.478 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to think about what that means for us, when 16:19.578 --> 16:21.580 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% our students come back to campus and the brokenness 16:21.680 --> 16:23.382 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% and the pain that they're going to 16:23.482 --> 16:27.419 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% bring back with them. And then as we think about how we find 16:27.519 --> 16:30.656 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% joy, I saw those students. I saw them in the video 16:30.756 --> 16:34.026 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% footage of demonstrations and protests all over the 16:34.126 --> 16:37.162 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% country. And I became excited and joyful and I 16:37.262 --> 16:40.232 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% initially was sending out messages sort of trying 16:40.332 --> 16:44.203 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to calm them. Do not be - Do not participate - 16:44.303 --> 16:46.739 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% like calm down! I worry for your safety. You know we 16:46.839 --> 16:48.707 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% know sometimes black boys survive the ride to 16:48.807 --> 16:50.943 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% jail. We know that our kids will be arrested at 16:51.043 --> 16:53.379 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a higher rate if they're peacefully protesting. 16:53.479 --> 16:56.015 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We know that there were agitators there, trying 16:56.115 --> 16:57.816 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to create circumstances where students would be 16:57.916 --> 17:00.419 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% much more likely to be harmed or incarcerated. 17:00.519 --> 17:02.554 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And so I was talking to them and saying 17:02.654 --> 17:04.423 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you know calm down. We are kings and queens. 17:04.523 --> 17:06.592 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We will conduct ourselves appropriately. But you 17:06.692 --> 17:10.162 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% know what? They taught me. They showed me. 17:10.262 --> 17:13.265 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% They stood tall and they lifted their voices and 17:13.365 --> 17:15.901 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% they stood there. And they would not be moved and 17:16.001 --> 17:19.405 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% because of them I am encouraged I learned from them. 17:19.505 --> 17:21.840 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% You know, we're the elders now. And so to 17:21.940 --> 17:24.043 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% watch them lift their voices and be heard 17:24.143 --> 17:27.079 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% despite our admonitions to kind of calm down, 17:27.179 --> 17:29.214 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% really taught me some things. I learned from 17:29.314 --> 17:32.351 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% them as much as I hope they learned from me. And so 17:32.451 --> 17:34.720 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% I look forward to welcoming back to campus 17:34.820 --> 17:36.922 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% and really helping to unpack and think through what 17:37.022 --> 17:39.158 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% our next steps are as a people. It's an 17:39.258 --> 17:42.561 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% exciting time. It's a painful and difficult time. 17:42.661 --> 17:44.963 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% But the hope that's on the horizon, the 17:45.064 --> 17:47.266 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% conversations that are being had that I don't 17:47.366 --> 17:50.302 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% ever recall being had by people who don't look 17:50.402 --> 17:52.471 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% like us. Right. The phone calls that are 17:52.571 --> 17:56.341 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% coming in saying what can we do? I am upset. I stand with you 17:56.442 --> 17:58.744 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and want to make change really are incredibly 17:58.844 --> 18:00.679 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% encouraging. And I think we're really at the 18:00.779 --> 18:03.449 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% precipice of something amazing in South Carolina 18:03.549 --> 18:06.118 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and across the country. Thank you all for sharing. 18:06.218 --> 18:09.188 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I think it's very telling that we have to ask that 18:09.288 --> 18:11.256 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% question or to remind people to ask that 18:11.356 --> 18:13.258 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% question. I think is an indicator that 18:13.358 --> 18:16.295 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% we've been seeing too much of this when you 18:16.395 --> 18:18.397 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have to ask someone how they are doing. 18:18.497 --> 18:20.933 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% It's an indicator that there's something wrong. Many of 18:21.033 --> 18:23.569 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you are watching via social media Facebook and 18:23.669 --> 18:25.904 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% ZOOM. And Adrienne is taking your comments. 18:26.004 --> 18:29.575 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% What are we hearing online? So I have a question for the 18:29.675 --> 18:32.578 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% panel here. That I believe is one that many 18:32.678 --> 18:35.514 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% people ask. And so I'd really like for us to 18:35.614 --> 18:38.684 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% unpack your response to this particular 18:38.784 --> 18:41.386 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% comment, more so than a question. So we have 18:41.487 --> 18:43.689 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a viewer. People that believe they are being 18:43.789 --> 18:47.392 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% oppressed need to work at their lives. Got educated. 18:47.493 --> 18:50.596 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Get educated so that you can rise above poverty. 18:50.696 --> 18:54.032 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Being black has its privileges. As a minority, 18:54.133 --> 18:56.602 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% there are quotas for employment in university 18:56.702 --> 19:00.772 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% enrollment. White people don't get that handicap. 19:00.873 --> 19:04.376 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Violence and tearing down history shows ignorance. 19:06.411 --> 19:11.350 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% So how do you respond? How do you unpack that and respond to 19:11.450 --> 19:14.086 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a level of - Because I can't tell if this 19:14.186 --> 19:17.856 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% is a question or a comment. How do we respond to that? 19:17.956 --> 19:20.859 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So, that's a comment. Right. That's an opinion 19:20.959 --> 19:23.962 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% and we can debate how informed that opinion 19:24.062 --> 19:27.199 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% might be. The reality is there was a young 19:27.299 --> 19:29.134 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% woman on social media. Again young people have 19:29.234 --> 19:31.937 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% taught us a lot in this process. And she 19:32.037 --> 19:34.473 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% articulated the current struggle in the context 19:34.573 --> 19:37.209 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% of the game of Monopoly. Some of you may 19:37.309 --> 19:40.145 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% have seen it. 400 rounds of Monopoly. And I'm 19:40.245 --> 19:43.182 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% not allowed to play. Round and around the board 19:43.282 --> 19:45.918 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% we go, I can't acquire property. I can't build a 19:46.018 --> 19:48.520 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% Monopoly. I can't participate in anything I 19:48.620 --> 19:51.390 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% might earn, grow or build. I have to give to my 19:51.490 --> 19:55.327 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% opponent for 400 rounds. For 50 more rounds, you 19:55.427 --> 19:57.262 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% let me in the game and I 19:57.362 --> 19:59.498 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% get to participate, but if I begin 19:59.598 --> 20:02.367 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% to accumulate property and build something, you burn it down. 20:02.467 --> 20:05.771 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Rosewood, Tulsa - Right? If you didn't like 20:05.871 --> 20:09.041 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% how I was playing the game, you tore up the game. 20:09.141 --> 20:11.810 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% You burned down my game. 20:11.910 --> 20:15.480 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% You took away my Monopoly money. And then after that, you said, 20:15.581 --> 20:18.150 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% 'Well, it's 451, you can play now. 20:18.250 --> 20:21.620 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Catch up.' You have monopolies. 20:21.720 --> 20:24.122 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% You have hotels. You have properties. You have 20:24.223 --> 20:26.291 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% accumulated wealth, generational wealth and 20:26.391 --> 20:28.794 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% you look at me and you say, 20:28.894 --> 20:33.098 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% 'Catch up! What's your problem? What's your problem? 20:33.198 --> 20:36.702 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I think that really amplified what this looks 20:36.802 --> 20:39.404 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% like for people of color in this country. 20:39.504 --> 20:42.341 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% 400 years of not being able to play in the 20:42.441 --> 20:45.811 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% game 50 more years, 65 more years of 20:45.911 --> 20:48.480 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% having limited ability to play in the game and 20:48.580 --> 20:51.483 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% again recognizing that if you begin to win they 20:51.583 --> 20:54.052 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% will take it away from you. And now you look 20:54.152 --> 20:56.888 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% at me and say, 'What's your problem? What's wrong with 20:56.989 --> 21:00.025 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you that you can't catch up?' Well, I don't know. 21:00.125 --> 21:00.692 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5% Why don't 21:00.792 --> 21:02.094 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% you give me what 21:02.194 --> 21:03.695 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% you've acquired for 465 years 21:03.795 --> 21:04.997 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% and let's see how 21:05.097 --> 21:06.898 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% you do in a fair game. 21:06.999 --> 21:07.933 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% I think we 21:08.033 --> 21:09.034 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% have to think about 21:09.134 --> 21:10.969 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% things in their proper context. And 21:11.069 --> 21:12.904 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% I thought that was really a 21:13.005 --> 21:15.307 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% perfect analogy for how people of color feel. 21:15.407 --> 21:16.975 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% So this notion that an African 21:17.075 --> 21:18.844 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% American would be given an opportunity to 21:18.944 --> 21:20.312 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% go to college, it 21:20.412 --> 21:21.480 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% does not disenfranchise you. 21:21.580 --> 21:22.681 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% It enriches you. 21:22.781 --> 21:24.549 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Now you have an opportunity to study besides someone 21:24.650 --> 21:27.386 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% with a different perspective and perhaps grow your own. Expand 21:27.486 --> 21:30.055 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% your own way of thinking. You should be grateful that 21:30.155 --> 21:31.990 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% those opportunities exist and we have an 21:32.090 --> 21:35.093 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% opportunity to have a more broad, a more diverse, 21:35.193 --> 21:37.262 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% a more inclusive educational opportunity 21:37.362 --> 21:39.531 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for everybody. That's not a set aside. That's an 21:39.631 --> 21:42.968 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% opportunity and you should be grateful for it. 21:43.068 --> 21:46.004 align:left position:37.5%,start line:93.33% size:62.5% Chanda. 21:46.104 --> 21:49.141 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Just kind of piggy backing a little bit off of 21:49.241 --> 21:52.210 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that, I think about you know even in the midst of 21:52.311 --> 21:54.646 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% African Americans being able to go to 21:54.746 --> 21:56.181 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% college, we know, like looking at statistics, 21:56.281 --> 21:59.951 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% there's still an extreme wealth gap. So African Americans can 22:00.052 --> 22:02.821 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% graduate college but it's still sometimes harder 22:02.921 --> 22:06.091 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% for them to advance and move up the economic ladder. 22:06.191 --> 22:08.293 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% So, we need to look at things 22:08.393 --> 22:09.261 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% like that as well. 22:11.663 --> 22:14.566 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% I think that comment 22:14.666 --> 22:16.935 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% reeks of a certain kind of privilege. 22:17.035 --> 22:21.206 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% And a certain type of ignorance of history. 22:21.306 --> 22:23.809 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% We were once, one time considered 22:23.909 --> 22:24.976 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% chattel. Yes. 22:25.077 --> 22:26.211 align:left position:37.5%,start line:0% size:62.5% Property. 22:29.514 --> 22:31.450 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% After that 22:31.550 --> 22:34.553 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% when we were freed, we were emancipated. 22:34.653 --> 22:38.290 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Still not given anything to begin to 22:38.390 --> 22:42.027 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% restore to make us whole. And one of the talking points 22:42.127 --> 22:44.262 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that I continue to hear for people who 22:44.363 --> 22:46.264 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% may have that, who may have that 22:46.365 --> 22:49.334 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% belief system is that black people don't work hard. 22:49.434 --> 22:52.037 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I would argue that black people work the hardest. 22:52.137 --> 22:53.905 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Because I look at the things that 22:54.005 --> 22:55.974 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% black people have been able to accomplish with 22:56.074 --> 22:58.443 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% all the obstacles that are in front of us, 22:58.543 --> 23:01.179 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% that have been in front of us. Historically, right now, 23:01.279 --> 23:04.750 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% still, a part of a system that is in many ways 23:04.850 --> 23:07.185 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% still built on our exploitation, 23:07.285 --> 23:09.855 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% built on exploiting our labor, built on not seeing 23:09.955 --> 23:13.492 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% us as equal, built on our incarceration, having our 23:13.592 --> 23:15.360 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% communities policed a certain way, stripping us 23:15.460 --> 23:18.063 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% of our land, putting our families, 23:18.163 --> 23:20.198 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% putting children in areas where they're growing up 23:20.298 --> 23:22.534 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% where the air quality isn't good. 23:22.634 --> 23:25.537 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% All these things, hiring practices, housing 23:25.637 --> 23:28.507 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% insecurity, homelessness. We're in the midst of a 23:28.607 --> 23:30.575 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% global pandemic right now. We're really looking at 23:30.675 --> 23:32.511 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the statistics and what it's telling us 23:32.611 --> 23:35.981 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% about a disproportionate impact on black people, that's 23:36.081 --> 23:38.250 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% added on top of the disparities that already 23:38.350 --> 23:40.118 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% exist in health care for black people. 23:40.218 --> 23:43.255 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Now we even get to look at the trauma and 23:43.355 --> 23:46.158 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% the stress and the science that we know now. 23:46.258 --> 23:48.293 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We're learning about trauma and stress and how 23:48.393 --> 23:51.797 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% we hold it in our bodies and how it affects our health, 23:51.897 --> 23:55.834 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% in the stroke belt, in the South. So to hear one say. 23:55.934 --> 23:58.837 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% You know. If we just work hard and focus on 23:58.937 --> 24:02.174 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% ourselves that we can somehow pull ourselves up 24:02.274 --> 24:03.708 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% out of the boot straps, 24:03.809 --> 24:06.011 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% by the bootstraps in a country that we basically 24:06.111 --> 24:11.183 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% built without our labor for free, because we have these 24:11.283 --> 24:15.187 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% quotas. Many of these quotas 24:15.287 --> 24:17.489 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% I'm assuming that some of what they may 24:17.589 --> 24:21.860 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% be referring to is with colleges. 24:21.960 --> 24:23.995 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% The term escapes me right now. Affirmative 24:24.095 --> 24:26.164 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Action. Affirmative Action, which we know even now by 24:26.264 --> 24:29.067 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the data that white women benefit from the most. 24:29.167 --> 24:31.736 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So it reeks of a certain type of ignorance. 24:31.837 --> 24:35.740 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I think of history, data, what's going on right now and I 24:35.841 --> 24:38.810 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% think this is a time when people before they should 24:38.910 --> 24:41.346 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% say things like that, it's a timeless to listen. 24:41.446 --> 24:46.318 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Because listening is a form of leadership too. 24:46.418 --> 24:49.287 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I saw a tweet, the other day and it talked about 24:49.387 --> 24:51.189 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% how in a lot of predominately African 24:51.289 --> 24:52.958 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% American high schools, you see more military 24:53.058 --> 24:54.526 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% recruiters than college recruiters. 24:54.626 --> 24:59.097 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% The idea of college isn't presented to a lot of black 24:59.197 --> 25:01.666 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% students in the first place. Black students are 25:01.766 --> 25:04.002 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% told in middle school, college isn't for everybody 25:04.102 --> 25:05.604 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% White kids don't hear that 25:05.704 --> 25:09.007 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% until their senior year of high school when it's almost 25:09.107 --> 25:11.142 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% basically over. Like you basically failed every 25:11.243 --> 25:13.411 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% test in the book. Black students are told in 25:13.512 --> 25:15.547 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% middle school that, 'You know, college isn't for 25:15.647 --> 25:17.916 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% everybody. You don't have to do this. Like, you know. 25:18.016 --> 25:20.318 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Maybe, it's just not for you.' Not college isn't for 25:20.418 --> 25:22.787 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% everyone, but the option is taken out of your 25:22.888 --> 25:24.823 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% hands before you can even process that there 25:24.923 --> 25:27.359 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% was an option in the first place. And I think a 25:27.459 --> 25:31.796 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% lot of times, once you make it to college, if you're able 25:31.897 --> 25:34.833 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to go to an institution, everybody's experience is 25:34.933 --> 25:37.536 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% not the same. You still can't play in every game. 25:37.636 --> 25:41.172 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So you can't go and study abroad like your 25:41.273 --> 25:43.608 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% peers because you don't have funds laying around 25:43.708 --> 25:45.677 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% just to be able you know to take a 25:45.777 --> 25:48.813 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% flight and take a semester off, because that's not doable 25:48.914 --> 25:51.316 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% for a lot of students. There's only but so many of 25:51.416 --> 25:53.518 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% those minority based scholarships that are even going 25:53.618 --> 25:56.488 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% around to try to even the playing field for people 25:56.588 --> 25:59.891 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to be able to have those experiences. And let's just be 25:59.991 --> 26:03.295 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% honest. A college degree itself, by itself, is no 26:03.395 --> 26:06.965 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% longer enough. What really gets you across the line 26:07.065 --> 26:09.034 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% after you graduate is those internship 26:09.134 --> 26:11.703 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% opportunities. Those co-op experiences. And many black 26:11.803 --> 26:13.271 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% students cannot participate because they 26:13.371 --> 26:15.507 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% can't afford to work unpaid internships. 26:15.607 --> 26:19.077 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% And that's just the sad truth. And it doesn't mean 26:19.177 --> 26:21.146 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that black students are lazy. That means that they 26:21.246 --> 26:23.648 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% were working three or four jobs to keep 26:23.748 --> 26:26.952 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% themselves a float, while they were working and 26:27.052 --> 26:28.753 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% paying their way through schools. And they probably 26:28.853 --> 26:30.956 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have families that they have to account for as 26:31.056 --> 26:34.059 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% well. It's not a single story. And I think that a 26:34.159 --> 26:35.860 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% lot of times, we think that the black 26:35.961 --> 26:38.129 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% experience is a monolith and it's not. It doesn't mean 26:38.229 --> 26:40.198 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that black students are lazy. They have more to 26:40.298 --> 26:43.368 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% think about. They have more priorities that no 26:43.468 --> 26:46.771 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% student, no one between the age of 17 and 26:46.871 --> 26:48.773 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% 22 should ever have to deal with those 26:48.873 --> 26:50.041 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% things, but black students deal 26:50.141 --> 26:54.379 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% with them absolutely every day. So, the idea that black 26:54.479 --> 26:56.548 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% students are just profiting off of a 26:56.648 --> 26:58.917 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% system and meeting a quota, 26:59.017 --> 27:01.953 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% every black person you see is a miracle, every 27:02.053 --> 27:03.955 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% black person you see in a leadership position 27:04.055 --> 27:07.092 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% with a college degree and that survived past all the odds, 27:07.192 --> 27:09.828 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% is an absolute miracle, because that means that 27:09.928 --> 27:12.464 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you survived in a system that was built to break 27:12.564 --> 27:15.066 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you and that you weren't meant to thrive in. 27:15.166 --> 27:17.802 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Anyway. So that's just how I feel about those 27:17.902 --> 27:19.938 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% comments. I think they're out of touch 27:20.038 --> 27:22.907 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% and I think that they don't see the 27:23.008 --> 27:27.178 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% holistic story of the black experience. 27:27.278 --> 27:29.814 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Okay. Representative. Yeah. When I hear comments like that 27:29.914 --> 27:33.752 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% it's frustrating. It's ignorant and it 27:33.852 --> 27:38.189 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% really tries to legitimize so much of 27:38.289 --> 27:40.959 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% what's led us to this place to begin with which 27:41.059 --> 27:43.995 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% is an ignorance of the real issues. Dr. King said in 27:44.095 --> 27:46.631 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% his last speech in Memphis that you know we 27:46.731 --> 27:50.468 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% need to keep the issues where they are and that 27:50.568 --> 27:53.772 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% kind of comment is dangerous for a number of 27:53.872 --> 27:55.840 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% reasons but one that you mentioned, Benny, when you 27:55.940 --> 27:59.944 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% talk about that mindset being in positions of 28:00.045 --> 28:02.447 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% influence and in positions where you deal with 28:02.547 --> 28:06.951 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% hiring and in places, in the classroom or you know, 28:07.052 --> 28:08.987 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% whether it's on the collegiate level or 28:09.087 --> 28:11.890 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% the secondary level where we 28:11.990 --> 28:17.462 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have to understand that while we've, we've 28:17.562 --> 28:20.532 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% certainly gotten to a place where there is a 28:20.632 --> 28:23.368 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% reckoning and an understanding of so 28:23.468 --> 28:27.105 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% much of the, the institutional and 28:27.205 --> 28:30.308 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% structural racism that is, has plagued our 28:30.408 --> 28:33.545 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% people, that there are a number of people and 28:33.645 --> 28:37.182 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% there is this, this sentiment out there that 28:37.282 --> 28:41.453 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that, that tries to legitimize the 28:41.553 --> 28:46.024 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% oppressor and continue to suggest that we haven't 28:46.124 --> 28:48.660 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% done things, that we, that what we're 28:48.760 --> 28:51.596 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% asking for is too much. That, 28:51.696 --> 28:53.998 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you know we've arrived and that could be 28:54.099 --> 28:57.068 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% very dangerous when we look at the kind of 28:57.168 --> 28:59.437 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% society that we're trying to raise children in, the 28:59.537 --> 29:01.506 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% kind of place that we want to conduct ourselves 29:01.606 --> 29:04.709 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% in a professional level and so it is we have to 29:04.809 --> 29:06.778 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% be careful and 29:06.878 --> 29:09.147 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% one, calling out those kinds of comments for 29:09.247 --> 29:12.550 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% what they are and also trying to educate people 29:12.650 --> 29:15.620 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% because as it's been said before there is a 29:15.720 --> 29:18.656 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% lot that goes into the Black experience and 29:18.757 --> 29:20.959 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% it's just not by happenstance and then we 29:21.059 --> 29:25.096 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have to be careful about trying to legitimize so 29:25.196 --> 29:28.366 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% much of the oppression of our people and 29:28.466 --> 29:30.468 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% understanding that kind of comment is 29:30.568 --> 29:33.004 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% ignorant. Thank you. You have another social media 29:33.104 --> 29:35.640 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% comment? We have a question from Zoom that I 29:35.740 --> 29:37.675 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% think I'm just going to point directly to the 29:37.776 --> 29:40.545 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% representative on because this piggy backs on 29:40.645 --> 29:42.280 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% something you just said. What are the 29:42.380 --> 29:45.216 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% mental effects? What's the mental impact of living as an 29:45.316 --> 29:48.586 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% African American in this society? How does this 29:48.686 --> 29:52.624 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% affect your mental state? Yeah, well I mean there's, 29:52.724 --> 29:55.393 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% there's so many sayings about living, 29:55.493 --> 29:58.630 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% being Black in America right now and many 29:58.730 --> 30:00.865 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% since, you know so many folks say is the biggest 30:00.965 --> 30:03.735 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% blessing the biggest curse in many 30:03.835 --> 30:05.703 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% ways. Curse in the sense that there 30:05.804 --> 30:08.573 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% is this constant target but blessings because as a 30:08.673 --> 30:11.209 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% people were very unique and remarkable and 30:11.309 --> 30:14.445 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% have created so many things that 30:14.546 --> 30:17.849 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% really make this world thrive. But, the 30:17.949 --> 30:21.052 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% mental state for me 30:21.152 --> 30:25.023 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I constantly wrestle with this because I'm always 30:25.123 --> 30:28.193 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% trying to make sure that I'm in a good place 30:28.293 --> 30:32.730 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% mentally and understanding the 30:32.831 --> 30:35.733 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% greater moment, especially with the larger 30:35.834 --> 30:37.936 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% personal responsibilities that I have now as a 30:38.036 --> 30:42.807 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% father and also you know being careful not to 30:42.907 --> 30:47.712 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% internalize it so much to where it could be harmful. 30:47.812 --> 30:52.984 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% So, the best thing that I could say for me is a lot 30:53.084 --> 30:56.354 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% of my mental state goes towards harnessing this 30:56.454 --> 31:00.325 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% energy, this frustration, this anger and really 31:00.425 --> 31:05.363 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% looking at what I can do in my role and how I can use 31:05.463 --> 31:07.432 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that to push for the kind of 31:07.532 --> 31:11.269 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% change that we need to see, to have the conversations that 31:11.369 --> 31:14.639 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% must be had and to engage people in ways that they 31:14.739 --> 31:18.676 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% haven't been before. And so I 31:18.776 --> 31:21.679 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% as Black men, as Black people we're constantly 31:21.779 --> 31:24.949 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% wrestling with how we process these, these 31:25.049 --> 31:27.819 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% traumas, because it does have a mental effect 31:27.919 --> 31:30.822 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on us. And historically, we haven't always been 31:30.922 --> 31:34.292 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% good about dealing with that, that impact 31:34.392 --> 31:36.594 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and talking with people and trying to engage 31:36.694 --> 31:40.131 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% one another and so really it's the time for us to 31:40.231 --> 31:42.367 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% really have those conversations. I know that 31:42.467 --> 31:44.736 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I have and in really digging deep within and thinking 31:44.836 --> 31:47.772 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% about how we can utilize our respective roles to 31:47.872 --> 31:50.241 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% really amplify our voices together and really push 31:50.341 --> 31:52.644 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for the kind of change that we need to see. 31:52.744 --> 31:54.812 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% The moment is here and we must meet the moment. 31:54.913 --> 31:57.348 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% Thank you. We've watched and many of 31:57.448 --> 32:00.885 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% us participated in recent protests for the fair and 32:00.985 --> 32:03.755 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% just treatment of African Americans, of all people, 32:03.855 --> 32:06.157 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% but if we take a look back through the years, 32:06.257 --> 32:09.894 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% we will see familiar images and hear familiar sounds. 32:09.994 --> 32:12.630 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% From the South Carolina ETV archives, we see that 32:12.730 --> 32:15.199 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% obtaining these simple civil rights, fair and 32:15.300 --> 32:17.368 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% just treatment, is something Black South 32:17.468 --> 32:21.072 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Carolinians have fought for, for decades. 32:22.807 --> 32:29.714 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! 32:32.917 --> 32:36.120 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% South Carolina has a long history of protesting for 32:36.220 --> 32:40.692 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% civil rights, some peaceful, some deadly; from 32:40.792 --> 32:43.761 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% The Friendship Nine to The Orangeburg Massacre, but 32:43.861 --> 32:46.764 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% in the 1950's, one Columbia woman, Sarah 32:46.864 --> 32:50.201 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Mae Flemming, led the way for the country. 32:50.301 --> 32:52.971 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% She was leaving work one day. She was a maid, a 32:53.071 --> 32:54.639 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% house worker in a predominantly, White, 32:54.739 --> 32:57.141 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% suburban area here in Columbia, South Carolina. 32:57.241 --> 33:00.578 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% And when she got off from work she wanted to catch this 33:00.678 --> 33:02.246 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% particular route that would get her home 33:02.347 --> 33:05.416 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% quicker. And when she got on a bus the driver of 33:05.516 --> 33:07.785 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the bus explained that there were no available 33:07.885 --> 33:10.755 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% seats and there were some available seats in the front. 33:10.855 --> 33:13.057 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% So, she took her seat and after asking 33:13.157 --> 33:17.528 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% her to move and she did not, he then got up and hit 33:17.628 --> 33:22.166 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% her in the stomach and from there, sought legal 33:22.266 --> 33:25.370 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% counsel which propelled really the Civil Rights 33:25.470 --> 33:28.940 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Movement as we know today. Her case actually was 33:29.040 --> 33:32.877 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the blueprint for Rosa Parks. 33:32.977 --> 33:35.747 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Five years later in Rock Hill, the actions of a 33:35.847 --> 33:38.216 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% group of college students, started what would become 33:38.316 --> 33:42.787 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% known as The Jail No Bail Movement in 1961 33:42.887 --> 33:46.124 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% They became known as The Friendship Nine. 33:46.224 --> 33:47.759 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% We had two worlds here, 33:47.859 --> 33:50.495 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a black and white world. At that time, 33:50.595 --> 33:53.931 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you know, things was stagnated. 33:54.032 --> 33:58.569 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% We had certain places we could go, we couldn't go, so we felt 33:58.669 --> 34:01.439 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% the urge to join in with the sit in, the movement 34:01.539 --> 34:05.109 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that started in North Carolina and to try to 34:05.209 --> 34:07.211 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% make a change and make a difference in our 34:07.311 --> 34:10.181 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% hometown. We established 34:10.281 --> 34:13.785 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Jail No Bail. And see, before that, it comes stagnated 34:13.885 --> 34:15.620 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% 'cause every time you go to jail the 34:15.720 --> 34:18.790 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% people had to bail you out and it was costing the 34:18.890 --> 34:23.294 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% people of Rock Hill money so when we went to jail, 34:23.394 --> 34:26.364 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% then the state and the city and the county had 34:26.464 --> 34:30.935 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% to take care of us, so that reversed it and that kind of, 34:31.035 --> 34:33.571 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% that made a big difference in the 34:33.671 --> 34:37.608 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% movement because people say, if we go to jail it'll make a 34:37.708 --> 34:40.978 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% difference and that started, that really started 34:41.079 --> 34:48.019 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the ball rolling and change was coming about. 34:48.119 --> 34:50.655 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And eight years later in Orangeburg, civil 34:50.755 --> 34:53.257 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% rights activists and Denmark native Cleveland 34:53.357 --> 34:56.060 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Sellers was the only person jailed during the 34:56.160 --> 34:59.797 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Orangeburg Massacre. He knew then as he knows now 34:59.897 --> 35:03.835 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that change comes from the next generation. 35:03.935 --> 35:08.239 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I like to think that period of our history, the 35:08.339 --> 35:11.609 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% 1960's was a significant period in 35:11.709 --> 35:16.280 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% terms of changing America to live up to its 35:16.380 --> 35:20.818 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% constitutional provisions to all citizens and 35:20.918 --> 35:23.788 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% we also were able to step onto the stages of 35:23.888 --> 35:27.325 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% history and show that students young people can 35:27.425 --> 35:31.295 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% be engaged, women can be engaged, all folk can be 35:31.395 --> 35:36.234 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% engaged and that we have to continue to 35:36.334 --> 35:40.104 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% try to motivate young people to write their own 35:40.204 --> 35:43.241 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% legacy for that generation 35:43.341 --> 35:46.711 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% in the sands. And as we've seen over the past 35:46.811 --> 35:49.447 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% few months many young people the next 35:49.547 --> 35:52.950 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% generation are stepping out to change the future 35:53.050 --> 35:55.987 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% of racial injustices throughout the state and 35:56.087 --> 35:57.922 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% the country. 36:01.759 --> 36:03.995 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Familiar images, familiar 36:04.095 --> 36:06.364 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% images, familiar sounds. Before we start to talk 36:06.464 --> 36:08.966 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% about this round of protests we go back to 36:09.066 --> 36:10.368 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Adrienne because we have more comments 36:10.468 --> 36:12.303 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% and questions from our viewers and listeners 36:12.403 --> 36:15.773 align:left position:37.5%,start line:0% size:62.5% online. Excellent. So for those 36:15.873 --> 36:18.743 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% who don't know exactly what it is, why 36:18.843 --> 36:22.446 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% we're here we have also a panel assembled on Zoom, 36:22.547 --> 36:26.050 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% so they are also sending in questions. So, I've got 36:26.150 --> 36:28.553 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% a question for the group. As leaders in education, 36:28.653 --> 36:32.757 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% politics and community, what advice are you, we 36:32.857 --> 36:36.160 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% providing to the masses regarding policy and the 36:36.260 --> 36:39.730 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% importance of policy as we move forward with dealing 36:39.830 --> 36:43.234 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% with social injustice, criminal reform, political 36:43.334 --> 36:46.504 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% unrest? Dr. Artis, I'd start with 36:46.604 --> 36:49.373 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% you. so I think we have an 36:49.473 --> 36:51.576 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% obligation to educate our young people to give them 36:51.676 --> 36:53.644 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the tools in their tool box to be effective 36:53.744 --> 36:56.214 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% advocates for issues that impact equity in access 36:56.314 --> 37:00.251 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% in this country and so for me that means helping 37:00.351 --> 37:03.087 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% them think about economic equity, right. We spend our 37:03.187 --> 37:06.123 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% money in communities and with people who invest in 37:06.224 --> 37:09.026 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% our communities and so thinking about how we 37:09.126 --> 37:11.696 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% build wealth and create businesses so our small 37:11.796 --> 37:13.898 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% business development center right functions in 37:13.998 --> 37:15.866 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that regard to assist small minority owned 37:15.967 --> 37:18.102 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% businesses and growing and building capacities. 37:18.202 --> 37:20.271 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So I think that's one critical element. 37:20.371 --> 37:23.140 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I think from a policy standpoint our young people have to 37:23.241 --> 37:25.977 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% be engaged. The only way things change is through 37:26.077 --> 37:29.413 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% legislation and policy and so being educated 37:29.513 --> 37:32.850 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% advocates of what the intended and unintended 37:32.950 --> 37:36.887 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% consequences of policies and legal changes are. I 37:36.988 --> 37:39.056 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% came to South Carolina from Florida. 37:39.156 --> 37:41.592 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% There was a standard ground law in Florida that many 37:41.692 --> 37:44.762 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% people of color voted for. Sounded like a really good idea 37:44.862 --> 37:47.832 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% until you really dig into the implications you are 37:47.932 --> 37:51.035 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% effectively giving someone a license to kill. 37:51.135 --> 37:53.838 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% But no one saw that in the early stages of stand 37:53.938 --> 37:56.007 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% your ground and so I think teaching our young 37:56.107 --> 37:59.810 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% people to be effective advocates means teaching 37:59.910 --> 38:01.712 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% them to read carefully and to find 38:01.812 --> 38:04.448 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% meaning and to understand and push back and ask questions. 38:04.548 --> 38:06.817 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Find your voice and do not be afraid to ask 38:06.917 --> 38:08.853 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% questions. Our elected officials are accountable 38:08.953 --> 38:11.489 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to us to some extent and we have to 38:11.589 --> 38:14.191 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% hold them accountable as the electorate and so voting, 38:14.292 --> 38:15.926 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% working through our economic prosperity 38:16.027 --> 38:18.329 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% issues and helping to build wealth and 38:18.429 --> 38:23.100 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% of course educated democracy is our goal. 38:23.200 --> 38:27.772 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Anyone else take that question? Yeah. 38:27.872 --> 38:30.308 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I think that it is important for once 38:30.408 --> 38:34.979 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% again our young people to start exploring policy as well and 38:35.079 --> 38:37.481 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% even our teachers. This year you know serving 38:37.581 --> 38:39.650 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% as teacher of the year sometimes we're 38:39.750 --> 38:42.586 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% often focused on you know our classroom but you know 38:42.687 --> 38:44.889 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% serving in this role I was able to see 38:44.989 --> 38:48.693 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% how the policy at the state level affects the 38:48.793 --> 38:51.762 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the funding and even you know thinking back to 38:51.862 --> 38:54.231 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% like the school district how our discipline 38:54.332 --> 38:58.035 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% policies, how that affects the proportion of African 38:58.135 --> 39:01.539 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% American males that are expelled from school and 39:01.639 --> 39:04.542 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% just exploring those policies and 39:04.642 --> 39:08.913 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% examining them to see which ones are 39:09.013 --> 39:12.016 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% injust or unjust, that are oppressive and take an 39:12.116 --> 39:15.586 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% action to, to change those policies so I think we 39:15.686 --> 39:19.724 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% should take a strong or a good look at those 39:19.824 --> 39:22.993 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% policies. Examine them and see which ones that we 39:23.094 --> 39:25.429 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% need to take action to change to make 39:25.529 --> 39:29.266 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% them more equitable for all people. Representative I think 39:29.367 --> 39:32.203 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% you were following up with that. Yeah, so a 39:32.303 --> 39:36.173 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% few things. One, if we learned 39:36.273 --> 39:39.710 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% anything from the video is that so much of the 39:39.810 --> 39:42.346 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% social movements for that kind of change that 39:42.446 --> 39:45.716 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% we've seen in this country, were started by young people 39:45.816 --> 39:49.353 align:left position:25%,start line:93.33% size:75% and that's one of 39:49.453 --> 39:51.555 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% the things that encourages me. I'm 39:51.655 --> 39:55.092 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% young I'm thirty and so being able to see the 39:55.192 --> 39:57.728 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% next generation rise up, find our voice and 39:57.828 --> 39:59.663 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% understand our role, but I have to 39:59.764 --> 40:02.366 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Artis in that 40:02.466 --> 40:05.803 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% with my advice to people who are looking 40:05.903 --> 40:07.805 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to push for the kind of changes. 40:07.905 --> 40:12.376 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% It is your obligation. This moment has taught me 40:12.476 --> 40:14.712 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% with the global pandemic that we're 40:14.812 --> 40:17.381 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% experiencing and the pandemic of systemic 40:17.481 --> 40:22.987 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% racism is that so many of the issues that have long 40:23.087 --> 40:25.890 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% existed are now being exacerbated and 40:25.990 --> 40:28.793 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% brought to the forefront, issues like the 40:28.893 --> 40:31.762 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% disparities in health care, the economic 40:31.862 --> 40:35.166 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% injustices that exist in our communities, 40:35.266 --> 40:38.235 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% those are, you know, the inequities in education, 40:38.335 --> 40:40.738 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the education system, those are the things that 40:40.838 --> 40:43.607 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have long existed and so the moment is right for 40:43.707 --> 40:47.678 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% us to really understand our powered voice and push 40:47.778 --> 40:50.414 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for the kind of change. I serve in a body that passes 40:50.514 --> 40:53.717 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% legislation and I can tell you and I tell young 40:53.818 --> 40:56.654 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% people all the time is that so much of 40:56.754 --> 41:01.425 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% what moves is what people 41:01.525 --> 41:05.596 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% support in large sum and the ones that get 41:05.696 --> 41:08.432 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the kind of momentum behind it that's 41:08.532 --> 41:10.734 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% going to be necessary to effectuate that changes 41:10.835 --> 41:12.970 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% so for the young people watching, the ones 41:13.070 --> 41:16.006 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that are on ZOOM, I would just encourage you 41:16.106 --> 41:18.642 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% to understand the critical moment that we 41:18.742 --> 41:21.979 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% are in our country and to really be vocal 41:22.079 --> 41:24.381 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% about the kind of changes that have 41:24.482 --> 41:26.484 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to happen within our criminal justice 41:26.584 --> 41:29.220 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% system, education system, the economic system, it's 41:29.320 --> 41:32.022 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% important and really continue to 41:32.122 --> 41:35.092 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% hold elected officials accountable to that 41:35.192 --> 41:38.128 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% kind of change. Don't let up. Keep this 41:38.229 --> 41:41.031 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% same energy that we're seeing and sustain 41:41.131 --> 41:43.834 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% it long term because I assure you we'll see 41:43.934 --> 41:46.871 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the kind of change that we need to see. 41:46.971 --> 41:49.673 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Absolutely. I think that it's really 41:49.773 --> 41:53.878 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% important to be intentional about knowing 41:53.978 --> 41:57.214 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that in this time it feels like you can only do 41:57.314 --> 41:59.817 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% one thing at one time so you can either March 41:59.917 --> 42:02.920 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% or you can vote or all those things but protest 42:03.020 --> 42:06.323 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% and policy cannot be exclusive. Protest makes 42:06.423 --> 42:10.694 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% policy possible. So for young people, it's important, 42:10.794 --> 42:13.230 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I self I have to remind myself of this a lot, you 42:13.330 --> 42:15.733 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have to make your anger means something. Just 42:15.833 --> 42:18.269 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% being mad, being on Twitter and letting the 42:18.369 --> 42:20.604 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Twitter fingers move, it feels good in the 42:20.704 --> 42:23.374 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% moment but what does that actually do? So, you 42:23.474 --> 42:25.442 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have to make the anger means something. 42:25.543 --> 42:27.344 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Congressman Clyburn said at the Faith for. 42:27.444 --> 42:30.814 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Black Lives March here in Columbia something so 42:30.915 --> 42:33.617 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% powerful: a March without an agenda is just a 42:33.717 --> 42:36.687 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% parade. And so it's important 42:36.787 --> 42:40.157 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that you have something to go behind it. Know 42:40.257 --> 42:42.927 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% who you are aiming your anger at, know who are 42:43.027 --> 42:45.629 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% those people in charge that can directly make 42:45.729 --> 42:49.199 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that change happen for you and if you get the 42:49.300 --> 42:51.368 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% perfect scenario that you want and you get in that 42:51.468 --> 42:53.103 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% legislators space or you get in that mayor 42:53.203 --> 42:55.139 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% space for you get that governor or president's 42:55.239 --> 42:57.875 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% face that, and if they say, I'll give you anything 42:57.975 --> 43:00.244 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you want, if you don't have a list then you're 43:00.344 --> 43:02.680 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% out of luck. So it's really important that you 43:02.780 --> 43:04.982 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% know exactly what you're looking for; What do you 43:05.082 --> 43:07.184 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% want to be changed? What are the policies 43:07.284 --> 43:10.888 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% currently? How can you make them better? And so 43:10.988 --> 43:13.624 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% protest and policy cannot be exclusive. What you're 43:13.724 --> 43:15.259 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% doing on social media and what you're 43:15.359 --> 43:18.128 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% doing at these marches can not just stand on its own. 43:18.228 --> 43:20.898 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% You need to vote. That's absolutely important but you 43:20.998 --> 43:23.867 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% also need to be putting pressure in other ways as 43:23.968 --> 43:26.003 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% well so it can't be exclusive. All these 43:26.103 --> 43:28.138 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% things work together and 43:28.238 --> 43:31.976 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% we have to think, we are trying to dismantle a 43:32.076 --> 43:34.144 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% system has been around for four hundred years. 43:34.244 --> 43:36.080 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% There's no one method that's going to 43:36.180 --> 43:39.383 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% make it all go away. And so it's going to take all of 43:39.483 --> 43:41.518 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% us is going to take all these different methods 43:41.619 --> 43:45.689 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I'm going step by step and to bring this 43:45.789 --> 43:47.825 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% systematic oppression down, so it can't be 43:47.925 --> 43:50.594 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% exclusive. We need all hands on deck. And we can 43:50.694 --> 43:52.930 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% take one more. Benny I wanted to hear from you 43:53.030 --> 43:55.499 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% because I can tell you had something, something 43:55.599 --> 43:58.335 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you want to add. Yeah, I think especially in South 43:58.435 --> 44:01.739 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Carolina we have like such a rich history, 44:01.839 --> 44:04.708 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% right and I think history often times have 44:04.808 --> 44:08.012 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% been told one way, so I think engaging with 44:08.112 --> 44:11.682 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% our history because the historical informs what 44:11.782 --> 44:14.385 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% is happening now what will happen. So a lot of 44:14.485 --> 44:16.620 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% people I've seen young people with the energy 44:16.720 --> 44:18.122 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and I'm seeing young people starting 44:18.222 --> 44:20.290 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% things like book clubs, I'm seeing young people 44:20.391 --> 44:23.027 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% engage with local politics in certain ways 44:23.127 --> 44:25.896 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% that where they're pouring through local policies, 44:25.996 --> 44:28.732 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% local ordinances, they're figuring out, 44:28.832 --> 44:32.169 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% who do I go to get results pertaining this 44:32.269 --> 44:34.838 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% very issue? And they're multi tasking because they're 44:34.938 --> 44:37.141 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% doing that on a national level, we're understanding 44:37.241 --> 44:39.043 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the judiciary, we're understanding executive 44:39.143 --> 44:41.045 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% branch, we're understanding the legislative branch 44:41.145 --> 44:43.380 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% because mind you, in South Carolina public school I 44:43.480 --> 44:46.150 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% only had Government and Economics one four point 44:46.250 --> 44:50.587 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% five weeks of the nine weeks you know and I wonder 44:50.688 --> 44:52.523 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I sat back and thought to myself at one point 44:52.623 --> 44:54.491 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I'm learning Math and English and Reading 44:54.591 --> 44:57.027 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% every year but my junior year, four point five weeks 44:57.127 --> 44:59.630 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Government, four point five weeks, Economics. So 44:59.730 --> 45:01.732 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% what I would say is I love to see young 45:01.832 --> 45:04.168 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% people and I do agree that young people are 45:04.268 --> 45:05.869 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% going to shape this movement and they 45:05.969 --> 45:08.305 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% continue to shape the movement. The more that we 45:08.405 --> 45:12.176 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% continue to engage with history and know where we came from, 45:12.276 --> 45:14.344 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% understand the strategies, the multitude 45:14.445 --> 45:17.081 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% of strategies, what worked what didn't work, what 45:17.181 --> 45:19.483 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% could be tweaked, how we can approach it, what we 45:19.583 --> 45:22.252 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% should be questioning, how much power and who has 45:22.352 --> 45:25.022 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that power, we should be questioning. I think those 45:25.122 --> 45:26.990 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% things are really, really important because when we 45:27.091 --> 45:29.026 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% start to talk about economic systems much 45:29.126 --> 45:31.929 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% like the ones we have or political systems, 45:32.029 --> 45:35.232 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the questioning of those things can get us closer 45:35.332 --> 45:37.601 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to where we're trying to be, who has too much power, 45:37.701 --> 45:40.204 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% as it pertains to the police, this proliferation 45:40.304 --> 45:43.040 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% of police power, the militarization of the 45:43.140 --> 45:45.242 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% police, the surveillance that we're constantly 45:45.342 --> 45:48.612 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% under, the proliferation of incarceration 45:48.712 --> 45:50.047 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% especially disproportionately with 45:50.147 --> 45:53.217 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Black men and Black women, all these things have to 45:53.317 --> 45:55.953 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% be challenged and if we say, if we already see 45:56.053 --> 45:57.988 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% ground and say well. 'No, no, no,!' 45:58.088 --> 45:59.690 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% 'We can't imagine that. We can't 45:59.790 --> 46:01.892 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% imagine a world without police.' 46:01.992 --> 46:04.428 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I think we're already kinda shooting ourselves in the foot. 46:04.528 --> 46:07.264 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Because at one point people would say we can't 46:07.364 --> 46:10.601 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% imagine a world without enslaved people. 46:10.701 --> 46:13.070 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% So we should challenge everything 46:13.170 --> 46:15.072 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% And that way we allow the young people 46:15.172 --> 46:17.074 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% to be creative. We allow them to be the 46:17.174 --> 46:20.244 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% creators they are. We allow them to be the leaders that they are. 46:20.344 --> 46:23.313 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We pull power back to the young people to demand 46:23.413 --> 46:25.716 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the type a more just society that we all need 46:25.816 --> 46:27.951 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to live in 'cause much like I tell my 46:28.051 --> 46:32.122 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% parents all the time, y'all did y'all thing, 46:32.222 --> 46:35.626 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% right? Y'all nearing 60. This baton that y'all are 46:35.726 --> 46:37.761 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% passing to me you think about this, 46:37.861 --> 46:39.763 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% if I'm not doing well, who's going to 46:39.863 --> 46:42.199 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% look out for you all when you all become elderly? 46:42.299 --> 46:44.134 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% If my little brother, my little sister, that 46:44.234 --> 46:46.003 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% next young generation if they're not doing well, 46:46.103 --> 46:48.038 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% if they are part of the school to 46:48.138 --> 46:49.373 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% prison pipeline, if they're being 46:49.473 --> 46:52.176 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% incarcerated at disproportionate rates, if we're constantly 46:52.276 --> 46:57.748 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% living this police, extremely over policed environment 46:57.848 --> 47:00.584 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% how can we be able to build a more just society 47:00.684 --> 47:03.320 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that we all know that we need one that is built on 47:03.420 --> 47:06.056 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% exploitation and a centralization of power 47:06.156 --> 47:09.626 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% so engage with your history, engage with local 47:09.726 --> 47:12.229 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% politics, state level politics, national 47:12.329 --> 47:15.098 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% politics and question everything. 47:15.199 --> 47:18.168 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I, I wanted to go back to something you said the 47:18.268 --> 47:21.705 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% time is now. What stood out to me 47:21.805 --> 47:24.842 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% that kind of separates what we saw this, these 47:24.942 --> 47:27.978 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% past weeks with what we saw in the video is that 47:28.078 --> 47:29.847 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% this protest look a little different. We see a 47:29.947 --> 47:33.317 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% broad coalition. First of all, we had several days 47:33.417 --> 47:37.855 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% of consistent loyal 47:37.955 --> 47:41.358 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% demonstrations. I think in the past when we had in 47:41.458 --> 47:43.193 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the aftermath of a shooting of an unarmed 47:43.293 --> 47:45.495 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Black person there was maybe one day of protest 47:45.596 --> 47:49.766 align:left position:37.5%,start line:86.67% size:62.5% we had continual demonstrations 47:49.867 --> 47:51.869 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% not just in the place where it happened but 47:51.969 --> 47:54.538 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% across the country, across the world. We have this 47:54.638 --> 47:59.376 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% broad coalition and a lot that we heard 47:59.476 --> 48:01.912 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% from people are what can we do? What are your 48:02.012 --> 48:04.047 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% thoughts on that? I think this moment is 48:04.147 --> 48:07.217 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% different. I don't think we've ever 48:07.317 --> 48:13.490 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% seen the rainbow of colors 48:13.590 --> 48:15.792 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% from people of all different walks of life 48:15.893 --> 48:19.696 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and levels of life. What are your what's your 48:19.796 --> 48:24.334 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% message to Americans watching and listening 48:24.434 --> 48:26.536 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for how we can move forward? How we take the 48:26.637 --> 48:29.606 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% energy from the protests that we saw and move forward? 48:29.706 --> 48:32.376 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% Yeah, so much of it's already been said. I 48:32.476 --> 48:35.779 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I like you have been encouraged by other broad 48:35.879 --> 48:37.881 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% coalition as you put it of people that are out 48:37.981 --> 48:41.318 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% protesting and I think at one point there was a 48:41.418 --> 48:44.922 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% confirmed at least thirty straight days of some 48:45.022 --> 48:47.157 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% kind of demonstration across the country 48:47.257 --> 48:50.260 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% somewhere and I'm sure that number is 48:50.360 --> 48:52.996 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% greater if you look at the totality, so I've been 48:53.096 --> 48:55.999 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% encouraged by what I've seen and a lot of what 48:56.099 --> 48:58.468 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% we've seen as far that broad coalition is in 48:58.568 --> 49:02.406 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% this sense one you have to understand the 49:02.506 --> 49:04.708 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% leaders of this as we've already mentioned the 49:04.808 --> 49:06.643 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% young people that are that are out front kind 49:06.743 --> 49:09.446 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% of leading the charge and when you think about that 49:09.546 --> 49:12.549 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you can start to think about that this 49:12.649 --> 49:15.986 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% generation that in many respects aren't 49:16.086 --> 49:18.855 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% like their parents and in kind of dare to think 49:18.956 --> 49:22.459 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% differently you know want to be more inclusive, are 49:22.559 --> 49:25.162 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% more willing and apt to engage in those 49:25.262 --> 49:27.464 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% kinds of conversations and want to question 49:27.564 --> 49:30.233 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% things and say well you know we were taught 49:30.334 --> 49:33.170 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% this but why is that? You know, why do I 49:33.270 --> 49:35.605 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have to harbor those views and maybe I need 49:35.706 --> 49:38.375 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to think independently and so the 49:38.475 --> 49:41.878 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% thing that I'll tell Americans as we look at, 49:41.979 --> 49:45.549 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you know, Black and White is as we look to move 49:45.649 --> 49:48.986 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% forward is really think about what we want 49:49.086 --> 49:51.955 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to learn from this moment. One of the 49:52.055 --> 49:54.391 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% things that touch me the most and I'll tell you 49:54.491 --> 49:57.094 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% a little story to kind of make that the point a little 49:57.194 --> 50:00.397 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% clearer. Right after the protests and I 50:00.497 --> 50:03.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% demonstrated in my home town downtown Charleston 50:03.600 --> 50:06.636 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% and right afterward one of my coworkers at my law 50:06.737 --> 50:09.740 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% firm send me a pretty lengthy email. It was very 50:09.840 --> 50:12.009 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% touching. In fact, so touching it took me about 50:12.109 --> 50:13.844 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% twenty four hours to respond because I 50:13.944 --> 50:16.813 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% really wanted to process all that she said 50:16.913 --> 50:20.150 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and she's a White woman and she had been moved so 50:20.250 --> 50:22.786 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% much about the movement to the point 50:22.886 --> 50:25.155 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% where she felt compelled to reach out to me but 50:25.255 --> 50:28.325 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% also say something because she had grown up 50:28.425 --> 50:31.361 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% in a culture where she really didn't have the 50:31.461 --> 50:33.697 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% opportunity to interact with Black people and have 50:33.797 --> 50:35.999 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% those conversations and she wanted to extend the 50:36.099 --> 50:38.535 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% olive branch and say hey, I want to talk with 50:38.635 --> 50:41.371 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you about these issues. I see your vocal on social 50:41.471 --> 50:43.473 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% media, I see you're in the legislature 50:43.573 --> 50:46.143 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% advocating for these issues and I want you 50:46.243 --> 50:47.944 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% to know that I really hear you 50:48.045 --> 50:50.714 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% and I want to engage with you in a conversation, and that meant 50:50.814 --> 50:53.917 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a lot to me and I think and I say that because 50:54.017 --> 50:56.620 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that's really what it's going to take for us to 50:56.720 --> 50:59.856 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% turn a corner and to not let this moment 50:59.956 --> 51:03.026 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% just be just that and that died down and we're 51:03.126 --> 51:05.662 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% back here in July of 2021 51:05.762 --> 51:07.931 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% thinking about what could have been. We have to 51:08.031 --> 51:10.767 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% harness this energy. I mean we really have to 51:10.867 --> 51:14.004 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% look at it as a an inflection point in our 51:14.104 --> 51:18.642 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% country's history and looking at ways to be 51:18.742 --> 51:22.446 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% able to address these issues. I told 51:22.546 --> 51:25.482 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the folks who were protesting for my 51:25.582 --> 51:27.884 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Black brothers and sisters I would encourage 51:27.984 --> 51:31.588 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% us to continue to work towards dismantling this 51:31.688 --> 51:35.392 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% institution, to work towards trying to call 51:35.492 --> 51:37.894 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% out injustice and bring light to issues 51:37.994 --> 51:40.630 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% that are important and to engage in the process on 51:40.730 --> 51:43.500 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the local level the state level. To to my White 51:43.600 --> 51:45.502 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% brothers and sisters I would encourage you have 51:45.602 --> 51:48.305 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% to be vocal you have to, you know, someone said to 51:48.405 --> 51:51.108 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% me you have a choice to be racist or anti-racism. It's 51:51.208 --> 51:54.077 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% not just enough to say I'm not racist or not 51:54.177 --> 51:57.280 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% complicit I have to be active in weeding out the 51:57.380 --> 52:00.450 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% injustices and really having those 52:00.550 --> 52:02.486 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% uncomfortable conversations and 52:02.586 --> 52:04.554 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% being willing to be vocal about these important 52:04.654 --> 52:06.790 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% issues. That is, that's what is going to take. 52:06.890 --> 52:09.659 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% That's not easy work. It's not comfortable work 52:09.759 --> 52:12.729 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% but it's necessary work in and as we turn this 52:12.829 --> 52:16.166 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% corner you know we get to this awakening and 52:16.266 --> 52:18.201 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% understanding that that's what it's going to take 52:18.301 --> 52:20.237 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for us to really move then I think we'll start 52:20.337 --> 52:22.606 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to see that change but we have to recognize 52:22.706 --> 52:25.375 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% this is a marathon. As Lyric said you know this is 52:25.475 --> 52:27.611 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% four hundred plus years in the making. It's gonna 52:27.711 --> 52:29.880 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% take some time to unravel and unpack all of this 52:29.980 --> 52:32.616 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% but we have to begin and we have to show and 52:32.716 --> 52:35.585 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% demonstrates the kind of energy that's going to 52:35.685 --> 52:38.955 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% lead us to really undoing it like it has to. 52:39.055 --> 52:40.857 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% We have another comment from social media that we 52:40.957 --> 52:43.560 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% want to get to. We do and I'm going to pitch this 52:43.660 --> 52:46.329 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% one to Chanda because we want to make sure to get 52:46.429 --> 52:49.166 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% final comments in. There're a number of women on the 52:49.266 --> 52:51.535 align:left position:37.5%,start line:0% size:62.5% panel. What are your thoughts 52:51.635 --> 52:53.970 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% about the space that Breonna Taylor and the 52:54.070 --> 52:57.507 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% experiences of other Black women takes up or 52:57.607 --> 53:00.443 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% is allowed to in conversations on race and 53:00.544 --> 53:06.016 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% police brutality? Well, when I think about 53:06.116 --> 53:09.653 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% the Breonna Taylor incident I, that was just 53:09.753 --> 53:12.889 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% heartbreaking and I think about you know being a 53:12.989 --> 53:15.425 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% Black woman, a woman of color or women of color 53:15.525 --> 53:18.628 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% holding the position that I did this year 53:18.728 --> 53:21.698 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% and some of the spaces that I walked into 53:21.798 --> 53:26.603 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% like legislators and things like that like 53:26.703 --> 53:31.041 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% sometimes, because of my, we 53:31.141 --> 53:35.145 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% tend to I tend to suppress my voice but 53:35.245 --> 53:37.080 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% just basically encouraging women of 53:37.180 --> 53:40.217 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% color that you know your voice matters in every 53:40.317 --> 53:44.120 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% arena whether it's legislation and education 53:44.221 --> 53:46.856 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% you're powerful you're strong so just continuing 53:46.957 --> 53:49.025 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to affirm them and encourage a woman of 53:49.125 --> 53:51.728 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% color to use their voices and speak out against 53:51.828 --> 53:57.267 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% these issues of injustice, police brutality and just 53:57.367 --> 53:59.269 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% be leaders in our community as well and be 53:59.369 --> 54:02.906 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% a role not models for the younger generation that's 54:03.006 --> 54:06.176 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% coming forward. Thank you for that. We 54:06.276 --> 54:08.345 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% told you that tonight's conversation was just a 54:08.445 --> 54:10.680 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% part of a longer conversation it's just 54:10.780 --> 54:14.284 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the beginning so sixty minutes goes by fast but 54:14.384 --> 54:16.486 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I would like to get final thoughts from each 54:16.586 --> 54:19.489 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% of you about 30 seconds your final thoughts, now just 54:19.589 --> 54:21.591 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% put it like that I won't try to frame it. 54:21.691 --> 54:23.693 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% Your final thoughts for this evening. I remained 54:23.793 --> 54:27.030 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% encouraged but we must continue to push we must 54:27.130 --> 54:28.965 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% continue to lift our voices we must continue 54:29.065 --> 54:31.201 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% to advocate for the change that we seek we 54:31.301 --> 54:33.403 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% welcome our partnerships, our friends, people of 54:33.503 --> 54:36.373 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% color, people who are not of color to join with us 54:36.473 --> 54:37.941 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and changing the world and creating a 54:38.041 --> 54:39.576 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% better world for our children and our 54:39.676 --> 54:43.413 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% children's children. Thank you. I think that it's important 54:43.513 --> 54:45.982 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% now more than ever that we continue to have a 54:46.082 --> 54:49.519 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% courageous conversations and that everybody seeks 54:49.619 --> 54:52.222 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% an understanding our Black brothers and 54:52.322 --> 54:54.758 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% sisters, White brothers and sisters about on the 54:54.858 --> 54:58.628 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% importance of anti-racism and studying and sharing 54:58.728 --> 55:01.765 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% that and just fighting to tear down 55:01.865 --> 55:05.068 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% these policies that are injust 55:05.168 --> 55:07.604 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and change and take action against some of 55:07.704 --> 55:09.873 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% the things that you know we know that just aren't 55:09.973 --> 55:12.542 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% right so just fighting for equity and equality 55:12.642 --> 55:15.712 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% for all people in this nation. 55:15.812 --> 55:18.815 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% I echo their sentiments finding that way to stay 55:18.915 --> 55:22.952 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% encouraged, doing the work, engaging with our history 55:23.053 --> 55:25.655 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% and understanding in a way that you know white 55:25.755 --> 55:28.625 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% supremacy has engaged and merge itself to 55:28.725 --> 55:31.161 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the hip of our current economic system, 55:31.261 --> 55:33.763 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% listening to activists who out there 55:33.863 --> 55:36.933 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% being very courageous at all times, the White folks who 55:37.033 --> 55:39.836 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% have been woken up by this, welcome to this, to 55:39.936 --> 55:42.105 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% this fight. Go to your churches, go to your 55:42.205 --> 55:45.075 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% homeowners associations, go to your events and 55:45.175 --> 55:48.211 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% question the history of all those things, question 55:48.311 --> 55:50.380 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% who isn't there question why, question your 55:50.480 --> 55:53.650 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% privilege, continue to do the work and 55:53.750 --> 55:56.720 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% it's a marathon. I just want Black 55:56.820 --> 55:59.556 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% people to know how powerful we are not just 55:59.656 --> 56:02.492 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% the legislators in leadership but our 56:02.592 --> 56:05.362 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% churches, our barber shops, our hair salons every 56:05.462 --> 56:07.897 align:left position:0%,start line:0% size:100% part of our culture. We are so powerful and I want us 56:07.997 --> 56:10.166 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% to stay encouraged and know that we truly are 56:10.266 --> 56:13.136 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% beautiful as a people and our experiences are valid 56:13.236 --> 56:15.839 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% and they matter and to White people who may be 56:15.939 --> 56:20.043 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% new to this fight, it's important. Don't get tired. 56:20.143 --> 56:23.546 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I know it's a lot, seeing on social media and in the 56:23.646 --> 56:25.348 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% midst of COVID, it might seem like it's 56:25.448 --> 56:27.117 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% the only thing on the news but these 56:27.217 --> 56:29.219 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% are realities that Black people have to face every single 56:29.319 --> 56:33.022 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% day of their lives so even when things go quote, unquote back 56:33.123 --> 56:35.725 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% normal once COVID is hopefully behind us one day it's important 56:35.825 --> 56:38.027 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% keep these conversations going even when it's not 56:38.128 --> 56:40.296 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% on the news or not or your Twitter feed every 56:40.397 --> 56:43.066 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% day to continue to keep justice at the forefront 56:43.166 --> 56:46.803 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% of your minds. Representative. For me while we're 56:46.903 --> 56:50.473 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% not enslaved by chains and shackles anymore in 56:50.573 --> 56:53.176 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% many instances we're enslaved by the institutions 56:53.276 --> 56:56.045 align:left position:25%,start line:0% size:75% that continue to marginalize us, so I would 56:56.146 --> 56:59.182 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% just end with my favorite quote from Assata Shakur, 56:59.282 --> 57:01.918 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% which is "It is our duty to fight for our freedom. 57:02.018 --> 57:04.888 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% It is our duty to win. We must love each other and 57:04.988 --> 57:07.891 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% protect each other and we have nothing to lose but 57:07.991 --> 57:10.460 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% our chains." Thank you all for your 57:10.560 --> 57:12.529 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% insights this evening we greatly appreciate your 57:12.629 --> 57:15.899 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% time and thank you for joining us this evening 57:15.999 --> 57:18.501 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% and starting this very important conversation 57:18.601 --> 57:20.637 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% there is much more to be had if you've noticed 57:20.737 --> 57:22.572 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% they were no members of law enforcement here, 57:22.672 --> 57:24.641 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% there were no counselors here to talk about the 57:24.741 --> 57:26.543 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% trauma that flows through generations for 57:26.643 --> 57:28.778 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% households, this is just the beginning and we 57:28.878 --> 57:31.381 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% thank you very, very much. We also want to thank 57:31.481 --> 57:34.284 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% our online audience and our stakeholders taking 57:34.384 --> 57:36.686 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% part via Zoom. We appreciate your time and 57:36.786 --> 57:39.923 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% your insights as well. For more on our coverage of 57:40.023 --> 57:43.293 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% racial injustices visit SouthCarolinaETV.org/racematters 57:43.393 --> 57:47.464 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% For all of us here at 57:47.564 --> 57:50.633 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% South Carolina Public Radio and South Carolina ETV. 57:50.733 --> 57:52.902 align:left position:12.5%,start line:0% size:87.5% I'm Thelisha Eaddy. Good night.