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Perseverance: "Gumbo Coalition" documentary explores the resurgence of white supremacy. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: success stories and start living your own. My guest is
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  Speaker 1: author of the book entitled Gumbo Coalition. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: show to discuss the documentary Gumbo Coalition, which is currently
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  Speaker 1: a streaming on HBO Max. Please Welcome to Money Making
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  Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass. He's the President and CEO of National Urban League,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Morio. Mark, how are you doing.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Rashan Man, thank you for having me. Good good day.
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  Speaker 2: And to all of your listeners and viewers out there,
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  Speaker 2: let me just say, appreciate the chance to be with you,
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  Speaker 2: and congratulations on what you're doing to bring to bring
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  Speaker 2: truth about progress. Thank you to people in the community.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, before we even get it to Goumbago Coalition, I
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  Speaker 1: said your title President CEO of the Urban National Urban League,
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  Speaker 1: Explain to everybody who don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: What is the National Urban League? So the National Urban
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  Speaker 2: League is one of the nation's historic civil rights organizations.
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  Speaker 2: We go back to nineteen ten, so we're one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fourteen years young. We are a network of ninety
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  Speaker 2: two community based organizations across the nation Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: and the Twin Cities New Orleans, Atlanta and I can
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  Speaker 2: continue to go all right, but we're a unique historic
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  Speaker 2: civil rights organization. We focus on economic empowerment. We focus
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  Speaker 2: on bringing programs like job training, job placement, home buyer education,
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  Speaker 2: small business advancement, health equity, civic engagement to local communities
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  Speaker 2: across the nation. And then we're a national voice with
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  Speaker 2: other civil rights organizations, be it the NAACP of the
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  Speaker 2: National Action Network, of the Black Women's Roundtable, or the
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  Speaker 2: National Council of Negro Women, Lawyers Committee Leadership Conference LDF,
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  Speaker 2: and all of the above, because we work in coalition
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  Speaker 2: on issues that impact our community, so we are a
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  Speaker 2: force in local communities. We zent black people, not only
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  Speaker 2: black people, but primarily black people, and we don't purport
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  Speaker 2: to speak for all black people, but we speak for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of black people absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So with that being said, the attack of DEI and
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  Speaker 1: we know DEI doesn't just support black people, but it
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  Speaker 1: tends to slant it in that direction. We know it
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  Speaker 1: impacts white women. So talk about your organization and what
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  Speaker 1: it does to curb the attack of DEI and also
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  Speaker 1: expound to people what is DEI.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked that question because to understand it,
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  Speaker 2: you got to go back sixty years ago. When the
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  Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four passed. It banned
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  Speaker 2: discrimination and employment. It banned discrimination in public accommodations, hotels, restaurants,
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  Speaker 2: movie theaters, and the like. Band segregation. At that point
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty four, black people only held for the
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  Speaker 2: most part menial positions in the economy, and we had
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  Speaker 2: a class of black people who were professionals and business owners,
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  Speaker 2: but they only could serve black people. That was the
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  Speaker 2: economy of nineteen sixty four. Doors were opened white women.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly right, latinos Asians, Indigenous Americans, and African Americans
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  Speaker 2: walked through doors that had been historically closed. And that
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  Speaker 2: change is what and the way and the implementation of
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  Speaker 2: that change is what people now sometimes called D E
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  Speaker 2: and I. What is d E and I rashon equal opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: That's what It is. A level playing field, opportunities for jobs,
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  Speaker 2: whether they be in white college jobs, in factor, in government,
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  Speaker 2: anywhere in America. It is about access and a level
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  Speaker 2: playing field. The attacks on D E and I have
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  Speaker 2: to be understood for what they are. They are the
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  Speaker 2: old segregationist mentality rearing its ugly head again. No ifs
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  Speaker 2: ands or butts about it. They can wash it, they
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  Speaker 2: can try to clean it, they can wrap it in
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  Speaker 2: swaddling clothes or fancy investments, but it is nothing but
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  Speaker 2: an effort to turn the clock back. So we in
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  Speaker 2: coalition with many others, are pushing back. We're pushing back
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  Speaker 2: in the courts we're pushing back in the streets. We're
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  Speaker 2: pushing back in corporate boardrooms, in state legislatures and city
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  Speaker 2: councils to protect that progress that we've made in that
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  Speaker 2: progress is not enough, that progress doesn't go far enough.
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  Speaker 2: But we are not going to allowed and our When
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  Speaker 2: we had the State of Black America, I said not
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  Speaker 2: on our watch, right and when I say on our watch,
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  Speaker 2: not on the watch of our generation. Can we allow
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  Speaker 2: the gains, the progress, the change in America to be
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  Speaker 2: reversed because we don't fight back, because we sleep, because
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  Speaker 2: we're complacent.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you know when I'm speaking to Mark Morayo, he's
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  Speaker 1: the president's CEO of the National Urban League, but also
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  Speaker 1: in this book noted Gumble Coalition as well as the documentary,
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  Speaker 1: he's the former mayor of New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Also in the documentary he features his mom, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is a brilliant relationship because to hear her speak
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  Speaker 1: and then see how active she is, to see that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have an you didn't have an option there, sir,
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  Speaker 1: between your dad and between your mom, you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: an option.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, my mom and dad, my mother God bless hers
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  Speaker 2: ninety one. My father of course has been deceased from
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  Speaker 2: now over thirty years. But they were civil rights warriors,
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  Speaker 2: and it was instilled into us the pride of being black.
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  Speaker 2: It was instilled in us the responsibility to fight for
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  Speaker 2: the underdog and those locked out and left out, and
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  Speaker 2: it was part of how we were raised. And in
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  Speaker 2: that sense, my mother in the documentary reminds us several
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  Speaker 2: times that these attacks of today feel like the attacks
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  Speaker 2: of the nineteen fifties and sixties. And she's repeatedly said,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen this in a long time. And as
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  Speaker 2: she has told me in numerous private conversations, she says,
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  Speaker 2: do something. You all have to do something. You have
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  Speaker 2: to organize, you have to fight, you have to make alliances,
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  Speaker 2: and you have to fight with intelligence and with passion. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: my mom is is not only my mom, but a
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  Speaker 2: role model and a confidant and a mentor and a friend.
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  Speaker 1: We you know, it's a beautiful to you just staying
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  Speaker 1: there because when I'm of course, you know, I met
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  Speaker 1: you and I met on the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: You came on the show, yeh, And it was the
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  Speaker 1: interview by Steve Harvey, and that's when we first met.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you came back on my show, Money
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  Speaker 1: Made coming masterclassed promoting your book Gumbo Coalition, and it's
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  Speaker 1: about your ability to bring diverse individuals into your platform
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  Speaker 1: to make a better city of New Orleans. Am I correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? And we yeah? And New Orleans is a city
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  Speaker 2: majority African American city, but a very very uh diverse
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  Speaker 2: in dynamic city. And the challenge of leadership in a
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  Speaker 2: city like New Orleans, in a lot of cities, is
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  Speaker 2: you got to bring a lot of people to the
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  Speaker 2: table in order to build a force to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we worked hard to do. I had
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  Speaker 2: an open door policy. I spoke to people, even people
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  Speaker 2: I didn't agree with. But when it was time to decide,
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  Speaker 2: the buck stopped with me and we made the decisions
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  Speaker 2: that were necessary. And we decided that I was not
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  Speaker 2: going to treat those who had not supported me as
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  Speaker 2: automatic enemies. Some people didn't support me, I said, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to work with me on fair terms, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you can be a part of this coalition. And so
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  Speaker 2: we had you know, everybody in that coalition, and we
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  Speaker 2: named it the Gumbo Coalition because Gumbo's got all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of ingredients in it, and our leadership coalition had great
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  Speaker 2: ingredients in it, and people I think responded to that
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  Speaker 2: because it gave them something to be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: Make no mistake about it. You know, equity was at
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  Speaker 2: the center. Inclusion was a guiding principle. We moved the
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  Speaker 2: city forward. We gave black people an opportunity to participate
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  Speaker 2: in the economy like never before. We bought the Essence
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  Speaker 2: Festival to town. We had Super Bowls, we bought the
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  Speaker 2: NBA to town. We add a ten thousand new homeowners.
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  Speaker 2: It was an important period. But what I tell people
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  Speaker 2: is we really worked hard to get everybody pushing in
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  Speaker 2: the same direction. And that's a hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy to do, and they are always going
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  Speaker 2: to be people who are outside, people who are outlives.
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  Speaker 2: But a big tent and a big coalition at the
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  Speaker 2: Urban League, we're trying to make sure that as a
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  Speaker 2: historic organization, we're not trapped in yesterday. So we've made
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  Speaker 2: several initiatives that are designed to bring young people the
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  Speaker 2: national urbanly young professionals. Our college initiative called the Black
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  Speaker 2: Executive Exchange or the Business Executive Exchange Program. We are
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  Speaker 2: working hard because we have to have everyone in the movement.
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  Speaker 2: Commons says it well in the song Glory. I love
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  Speaker 2: the line. It takes the wisdom of the elders and
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  Speaker 2: young people's energy, and we can't function simply on an
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  Speaker 2: individualistic platform.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you know, it's beautif. First of all, I want
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  Speaker 1: to remind everybody if they don't know, that his dad
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  Speaker 1: was the former mayor of New Orleans and it was
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful thing that's mentioned in the book Gumbo Coulish
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  Speaker 1: if you care to buy the book or find a
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  Speaker 1: book in the library and read up on a book.
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  Speaker 1: He made that transition and followed in his father's footstep,
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  Speaker 1: and his mom was along the way. Now, now let's
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  Speaker 1: go to what I saw with my wife on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 1: It was not of the book per se, same title,
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  Speaker 1: but explained to us the difference.
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  Speaker 2: So in the documentary, me and my partner in the
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  Speaker 2: documentary is a Latinas sister by the name of Janet McGee,
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  Speaker 2: a strong civil rights leader. She leads Unidos US. It's
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  Speaker 2: the largest civil rights organization that focuses on the Latino community.
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  Speaker 2: And we've worked together for you know, a long time
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of different things, and in this documentary,
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to showcase how we work together. We wanted
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  Speaker 2: to showcase cooperation and a collaboration between African Americans and Latinos.
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  Speaker 2: And then underneath it, there's some important stories. The work
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  Speaker 2: of the Urban League in the Greater Metropolitan Saint Louis area,
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  Speaker 2: of the Saint Louis Urban Leagues Save our Son's Program,
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  Speaker 2: which grew out of the tragic murder of Michael Brown
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  Speaker 2: in Ferguson. Janet's underlying story was her advocacy on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of a family that had been separated by harsh immigration policies,
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  Speaker 2: and so those were followed so people could see that
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  Speaker 2: in the work that we do, we might be at rallies,
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  Speaker 2: we might be testifying before Congress, but we're working with
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  Speaker 2: individuals and families and young men and young women on
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  Speaker 2: day to day challenges across the nation. I wanted people
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  Speaker 2: to see the success of an Urban League re entry program,
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  Speaker 2: which is in Saint Louis, just one example of many
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  Speaker 2: programs similar to that that we run all across the nation.
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  Speaker 2: Janet wanted people to see the pain of an intact
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  Speaker 2: family being yanked a part because the husband was deported
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  Speaker 2: right or set up for deported because he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the right papers in hand or the right papers at
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  Speaker 2: the right time in hand. So all of that, But
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  Speaker 2: we also focus on Charlottesville. We also focus on the
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen and the twenty twenty election, and we focus on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the white supremacy movement, the white nationalist movement,
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  Speaker 2: which is tearing the nation apart, and it's manifesting itself
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  Speaker 2: in attacks on d E and I, on voter suppression,
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  Speaker 2: on book bands and alike. And we wanted people to
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  Speaker 2: see we have to have a coalition of black people
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  Speaker 2: and white people, and Latinos and Asians and Indigenous Americans,
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  Speaker 2: people of all religions Jews, Gentiles, Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Hindus,
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  Speaker 2: people that may not be in an organized of formal religion,
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  Speaker 2: all genders and gender identities regard we have to build
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  Speaker 2: that is focused on democracy, on economic conclusion, on leveling
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  Speaker 2: the playing field, and on a just and equitable future.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you know it's really important that. Let me break
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  Speaker 1: down a little more detail. When the Save His Sons,
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  Speaker 1: Save Our Son's program, they feature a young man named
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  Speaker 1: Bradley Cobb. Oh yeah, brilliant storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: Really at the very beginning when he's introduced.
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  Speaker 1: You say, just took the wrong fork in the row.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. Bradley Cobb did the wrong fork in the
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  Speaker 1: rod because I always tell people in life, you always
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  Speaker 1: come to a fork. You know, it's the direction you choose.
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  Speaker 1: Can't plan your future, but that doesn't mean you can't
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  Speaker 1: turn that fork around. That's the Bradley Cobb story. When
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about the Janet story that was featured, that's
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  Speaker 1: missus Rose Escobar and her husband was snatched and sent
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  Speaker 1: back to El Salvador. So we see that try and
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  Speaker 1: play out with the kids and realized that you can
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  Speaker 1: make these laws politicals put their effect everyday people. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe that resonated with me as a viewer. I
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  Speaker 1: was compelled to want to know more post story, more
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  Speaker 1: changes more because that probably frustrates you, doesn't it. Mark
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  Speaker 1: that you know, there are not enough post stories about
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  Speaker 1: the Bradley Cobbs or the Rose Escabars.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, Sean like you, I'm sure I grew
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  Speaker 2: up with a lot of Bradley Cobbs. Yes, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys in my neighborhood may have taken the wrong
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  Speaker 2: path for a moment or two. Some took a wrong
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  Speaker 2: path and have paid a long, long, long, long sentence
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  Speaker 2: for taking them wrong. What I think we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: say is we cannot throw people away because a person
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  Speaker 2: takes a fork. In the word brother Cobb, you can
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  Speaker 2: tell by listening to him, the brother is brilliant, He's smart,
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  Speaker 2: but he also understood, Hey, I did make a bad move.
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  Speaker 2: I've paid for it, and I'm going to try to
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  Speaker 2: come correct. I'm going to work on a pathway that
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  Speaker 2: is going to allow me to live a productive life.
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  Speaker 2: And the good thing about saying ourselves is that most
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  Speaker 2: of the young the young men in the program, and
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  Speaker 2: they were a medium term. I mean, these were not
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  Speaker 2: people who did on wan or two years with people
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  Speaker 2: doing eight, nine, ten, twelve years in the penitentiary in Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: That most of them were able. And as a scene
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  Speaker 2: in the in the documentary were able to come correct
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  Speaker 2: and we lost one or two people who repeat they
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  Speaker 2: were recipedists, and it goes what we're trying to do
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  Speaker 2: is demonstrate not perfection, because there's no perfection, but we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to demonstrate his progress. That's true and why we
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  Speaker 2: have to invest in people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know the beauty of this gumble Coalition which
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  Speaker 1: is streaming on HBO Max right now, you can watch it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Mark Morial, the president CEO of the
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  Speaker 1: National Urban League. I felt the way you told the story,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the George Floyd is in there, the impact
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  Speaker 1: of America, Donald Trump of course is in there. His
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  Speaker 1: mom is in there because I think the reason I
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  Speaker 1: bring up his mom because I believe you got to
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  Speaker 1: have history and one thing you don't want to know
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking to somebody who is history, and that
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  Speaker 1: is his mom. She can see when history is repeating
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  Speaker 1: itself and you should listen to people who've been there.
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  Speaker 1: That That's what I felt. The inclusion of your mom, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: was very important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the documentarian sat down with my mom
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  Speaker 2: and then said we have to talk to her as
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  Speaker 2: much as possible. And you know, my mom raised five children.
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  Speaker 2: She was an accomplished activist and professional in her own right.
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  Speaker 2: Started out as about my mom. When she was a
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  Speaker 2: young woman, she and her friends tried to join the
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  Speaker 2: League of Women Voters in New Orleans and they were
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to join because they were black women. They
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  Speaker 2: went and started their own organization called the Louisiana League
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  Speaker 2: of Good Government, which was a black women's civic association,
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  Speaker 2: which had about a thirty to thirty five year life.
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  Speaker 2: But when I thought about it, think of the sheer
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  Speaker 2: determination of these women, Black women, many of them teachers,
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  Speaker 2: in their late twenties and early thirties, in the waning
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  Speaker 2: days of segregation, around the Civil Rights movement, Civil Rights Act,
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  Speaker 2: Voters Act, having the gall and the gumption and the
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  Speaker 2: drive and the determination to create their own entity. And
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  Speaker 2: so what they ended up doing. And I remember this
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  Speaker 2: as a boy. She said, after the Civil Rights the
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  Speaker 2: Voting Rights Act passed, we had to go into communities
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  Speaker 2: and neighborhoods and teach people about voting, how to vote,
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  Speaker 2: where to vote, how to get registered, how to evaluate candidates.
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  Speaker 2: She said, that was the work we did. We did
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  Speaker 2: it in public housing, we did it in neighborhoods, we
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  Speaker 2: did it in churches. So you know, as a little boy,
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  Speaker 2: I remember running all around with my mom. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: didn't like it, going to various activities right at various churches,
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  Speaker 2: in public housing, and you felt like, I'm being separated
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  Speaker 2: from my friends. I want to just hang out with
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  Speaker 2: my friends. But it was such an experience of exposure
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  Speaker 2: for me to learn about how activism really worked. In
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  Speaker 2: those days. You had so many people doing so many
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  Speaker 2: things because they were part of a movement. Right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as we wrapped this meeting up, let's interview up. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: because yes, we went all the way up to the insurrection,
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  Speaker 1: which was January sixth. Let's talk today. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about politics. I'm talking about America Day. We kind of
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it with being under attack, deis HBCUs being under attack.
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  Speaker 1: You still reside in the city of New Orleans. Gumbo coalition,
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  Speaker 1: this is all about diversity. I think that's all. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Cuban was saying, you want to reach out and get everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a Gumbo coalition. And he said Mark Cuban,
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  Speaker 1: who is the owner of the Dallas math Vergs or
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  Speaker 1: he sold the team, but he still is the operation
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  Speaker 1: lead with the average maverickers saying by having DEI, that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes corporations and America successful. When by having Gumbo coalition,
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  Speaker 1: which is about diversity, which is inclusion, makes America great,
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  Speaker 1: not saying so I see d I and Gumbo colicious
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  Speaker 2: Mark Cuban's right. Many are right. Many embrace the fact
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  Speaker 2: that if you look at the American future without all
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  Speaker 2: of the human talent that we have participating to the
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  Speaker 2: fullest and having an opportunity to participate in and enjoy
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  Speaker 2: American prosperity, the nation will not move forward. This, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Rashwan is really as it's a battle in a fight
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  Speaker 2: between the past and the future. People who think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to what it used to be like
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  Speaker 2: know when it used to be people talking about the fifties,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a third of the population, fifty percent of
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  Speaker 2: the population women in African Americans were completely excluded. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I like to watch old shows. I was watching some
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  Speaker 2: old television shows on and I looked at it and
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  Speaker 2: I said, every single actor on this show is white
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  Speaker 2: men and no women. Then no African Americans. Then I
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  Speaker 2: look at the credits, the scroll of credits after the show,
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  Speaker 2: I said, even the makeup artists and a war robe
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  Speaker 2: consultants are men. That was America of the nineteen fifties,
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  Speaker 2: in the nineteen sixties. So you and in fact had
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  Speaker 2: you know, twenty five thirty maybe thirty five to forty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the population that had one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 2: the power and the responsibility. So this is not to
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  Speaker 2: say black men, white men should not be included. That
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  Speaker 2: is not what this is about. It's about saying that
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  Speaker 2: everyone needs to be included in decision making in high
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  Speaker 2: level positions, and everyone is qualified, everyone has innate ability
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  Speaker 2: to participate, and we got to affirm that principle. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what the Gumbo Coalition is all about. When you
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  Speaker 2: put all of these flavors in gumbo with shot and
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  Speaker 2: you put it in a little spice, you can't beat it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You know from Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know that you know the uh, the
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  Speaker 1: Gumbo coalition that's streaming right now current on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 2: It's been the streaming for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to bring light to the correlation, also
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  Speaker 1: bring back our relation. Let you know that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: only an advocate of your brand and what you represent
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  Speaker 1: the National Urban League that anytime, Like I said, this
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  Speaker 2: Here what you've built in, what you are building to
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