Cori Bush Is THE FUTURE for Missouri | The JAAM x Cori Bush

We are very excited to sit down and have a conversation because we, uh, covered a little bit of the race that was going on- Yeah ... at the mic last week.

Last week.

Yeah.

Yep.

We talked a little bit about, um, the stakes of it.

We've been seeing nationwide that there's been a increasing wave of progressive candidates- Mm-hmm ... of people in general who are not scared to talk about the genocide in Gaza, who aren't scared to talk about universal healthcare, policies and stuff that we've been kinda all wanting for a long time, um, our generation as well.

Uh, and I feel like it's very cool getting opportunities like this because it's kinda like you don't see many representat- uh, representatives from the younger generation getting to talk to people.

Mm-hmm.

And let alone, there's also people trying to push things about a generational divide.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I wanted to try to- Gen Z and all that ... have this conversation with you, Cori, to find that common ground and to also g- just kinda talk about who you are and, and the importance of what's going on down in Missouri.

So, um- Okay ... we can hop right into it.

I wanted to start, take us a little bit back to 2014- Yeah ... and your organizing background.

So 2014 was Michael Brown, um, unfortunately.

We've been dealing...

It's crazy how things more, the more things change, the more things stay the same.

Yeah.

We're gathered also after a week or two or three of continuous deaths- Yeah ... um, within our community.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, so I wanted to get your perspective on, like, what got you into the work that you're deciding to do now when it comes to elected office, and, uh, what...

Take us back to that time in 2014.

Why did that moment in particular, um, help push you to this path?

So in 2014, I was, uh, working as a registered nurse.