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... how to be secure in myself when everybody had an opinion.

Um, though there were some really tough times in there.

Um, and tough because, like, we were being assaulted by our government every day and being tear-gassed and pepper sprayed and running for our lives, and, you know, I would be up for 20 hours at a time every single day, and we're bailing people out of jail, and we're protecting teachers who are determined to tell their young people the truth, but who are being under threat of being fired because they're doing so.

Like, it was, it was a wild time.

Sometimes I, I can't believe I lived through it.

Um, and yet there are so many people around the world who've lived through and are living through worse.

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I mean, putting their energy into.

absolutely i'm so grateful for this conversation katie and the way that you keep the most important things at the forefront always no matter the platform we know we can rely on you for that so thank you so much for the space to chat with you today listen like you said black voters matter and organizations like the naacp legal defense fund the national coalition on black civic participation they called together a coalition of over 275 Black-led, but multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith organizations to say enough is enough, to say no more.

And what's really clear about this moment is that yes, Calais was a tipping point for many people, But our first action as a coalition, we called it All Roads Lead to the South in Montgomery, Alabama and Selma, Alabama back in May.

And nearly 7,000 people came out to both of those cities and millions more engaged digitally.

There were 50 satellite marches all across the country because people recognize that the attempt to erase voting rights And the attempt to delete black representation in Congress and in state houses and in local chambers of government is an attack on all of our democracy.

So that is why a multi-ethnic coalition came together to fight this.

We heard from elected officials.

It is most certainly the time for these groups to come together to coalesce behind one unified message of equality.

I mean, putting their energy into.

Absolutely.

I'm so grateful for this conversation, Katie, and the way that you keep the most important things at the forefront always, no matter the platform.

We know we can rely on you for that.

So thank you so much for the space to chat with you today.

Listen, like you said, Black Voters Matter and organizations like the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, they called together a coalition of over 275 Black-led, but multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith organizations to say enough is enough, to say no more.

And what's really clear about this moment is that yes, Calais was a tipping point for many people, But our first action as a coalition, we called it All Roads Lead to the South in Montgomery, Alabama and Selma, Alabama back in May.

It is most certainly the time for these groups to come together to coalesce behind one unified message of equality.

This is about getting involved with your local organizations, who will prepare you for the moments like we're seeing in Minnesota."

I'm so glad you asked that.

There are a million hot takes in this moment, right? I tend to not be in the mood for hot takes when people need to get active.

One of the hot takes we keep saying is, "Wow, I can't believe the revolution is happening in Minnesota," right? Like, I thought that was just a place, you know, like, you know, like, people are nice, they go sledding, right? It's m- you know, Midwestern charm.

The other hot take that I see a bunch of people giving is, "Well, they built the infrastructure in 2020." Both of those things are incorrect.

[chuckles] Number one, Minnesota itself is an Indigenous word.

Indigenous people on the land that is now called Minnesota have been resisting for hundreds of years.

So if you're b- if you're talking about that, you're talking about us, and until we're talking about the right thing, we can't solve the right thing.