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Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League, discusses the Five-point empowerment agenda · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: His name was Mark Marial. He's a president and CEO
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  Speaker 1: of the National Urban League. The National Urban League is
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  Speaker 1: the nation's largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization,
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  Speaker 1: markets a leading voice on the national stage in the
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  Speaker 1: battle for jobs, education, housing, and voting rights equity. With NATI,
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  Speaker 1: National Urban League affiliates across the country, serving three hundred communities,
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  Speaker 1: they addressed at all education, jobs, health, housing and voting
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  Speaker 1: coming and the gets way and we're about the uh
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  Speaker 1: president vice president elected about to change the world in
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  Speaker 1: this month. Tell me about this and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: today I was on a on a call with members
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  Speaker 1: of the president lex team talking about COVID, talking about
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  Speaker 1: racial justice and also talking about this insurrection that just
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  Speaker 1: took place at the Capitol. So these are very demanding,
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  Speaker 1: tough and difficult times. But I think uh there's great
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  Speaker 1: anticipation for the coming of the Biden administration UH and
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  Speaker 1: the exiting of the Trump administration. But what we've seen
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  Speaker 1: over the last week is nothing short of distressing, repulsive,
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  Speaker 1: ob noxious, and criminal. Yes, now, when you say all
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  Speaker 1: these things, let's let's go back a little bit. When
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  Speaker 1: President Obama warned his first term he had control of
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  Speaker 1: the House and the Senate, but he still was blocked.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Biden has control of the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: When the Senate to vote, we've broken by our Vice
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  Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris. Do you feel he will be able
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  Speaker 1: to do things versus and we know the racism think
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  Speaker 1: he can do things. I think he's gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: number one, get off to a fast start, an immediate start, UH,
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of the momentum and the consensus and
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  Speaker 1: the coalition he's built. Number two, he's gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: continue to be visible UH and and and talking to
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  Speaker 1: the people about the transformation and change and his vision
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  Speaker 1: for the country and how the steps he takes further
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  Speaker 1: that vision. UH. And then I think number three, UH,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to have to continue to reach out to
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  Speaker 1: wide numbers of people UH to engage with them across
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  Speaker 1: the board. I don't think he can be a Rose
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  Speaker 1: Garden president. I think he's got to get out and about,
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  Speaker 1: even in the midst of COVID to the best that
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  Speaker 1: he can to engage with people. So I think he
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  Speaker 1: has a shot. Now he's gonna have to keep Democrats
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  Speaker 1: unified in the House, in the Senate and trying to
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  Speaker 1: pick up some Republican support, which is not easy given
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  Speaker 1: the times in which we live. But I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a great ideal of anticipation. Look, Donald Trump is leaving
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  Speaker 1: behind a recession, and not to be partisan or political,
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  Speaker 1: He's the third Republican president in a row to leave
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  Speaker 1: a recession behind. He leaves job losses, deep economic pain.
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  Speaker 1: George Bush the second left job losses in deep economic
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  Speaker 1: pain and a great recession. You go all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to the nineties. George Bush, the first left a
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  Speaker 1: recession that Clinton had to address when he took office. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about what role with the National Irvan League,
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  Speaker 1: you the president CEO on that. What role do you
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  Speaker 1: play on all this. We play the role of being
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  Speaker 1: a legislative advocate and a policy advocate. We play the
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  Speaker 1: role of being an advocate for what the black community
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  Speaker 1: and communities of color and urban communities want and need.
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  Speaker 1: We also play the role in helping to mobilize the
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  Speaker 1: public in favor of those things we think that are
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  Speaker 1: good and in opposition to those things we think are bad.
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  Speaker 1: And we also play a crucial role we execute policy.
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  Speaker 1: No one does it better. No one has a stronger
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  Speaker 1: track record than we do when it comes to after
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  Speaker 1: school program for you, when it comes to home buyer
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  Speaker 1: education programs of people who want to become home buyers,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to workforce development and helping people get jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Are working now as we've done for the last fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years in the small business space. We execute policy from
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  Speaker 1: a nonprofit civil rights platform through the network of ninety
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  Speaker 1: League affiliates. I've got ninety of the most talented individuals,
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  Speaker 1: men and women across the nation who run, who manage,
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  Speaker 1: lead our programs in our advocacy at the national at
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  Speaker 1: the national level, at the local level. I should say
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  Speaker 1: so that is the role we have going to play
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  Speaker 1: UH today. I was in a meeting with the Buying
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  Speaker 1: Transition team last week. Several meetings. A week before that,
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  Speaker 1: me ask you this mark you know we've talked to
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  Speaker 1: me when your book Gumbo Coalition came out and I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was one of the fantastic books, and it
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  Speaker 1: was all about diversity, it was all about bringing people together,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a five point playing in that book.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that book and what because my whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is that I would tell people a good read to
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  Speaker 1: good read, a good lesson is a good lesson. That
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  Speaker 1: book had plenty of great lessons in it. Talk about
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  Speaker 1: that book for a minute. So I just want to book.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Central to that book where Shan is the
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  Speaker 1: idea when a new administration starts, they've got to have
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  Speaker 1: a solid plan and get off on the good foot
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  Speaker 1: and get off on the fast foot. And nothing is
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  Speaker 1: more important at the very beginning when a new administration's popularity,
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  Speaker 1: their support, UH, their their credibility is usually the highest
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  Speaker 1: at the very beginning. That book also talks about what
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  Speaker 1: you do in the face of emergencies. The insurrection was
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  Speaker 1: an emergency, and emergencies can paralyze leaders, paralyzed governments, paralyzed businesses.
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  Speaker 1: How you have to respond to the emergency. You have
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  Speaker 1: to put the interests of people and their safety at
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  Speaker 1: the front of an emergency, and so you can't be paralyzed.
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  Speaker 1: So we tell these lessons uh, and we tell the
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  Speaker 1: lessons of of of working together in collaboration and unity
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  Speaker 1: in this environment. For us to work together as a
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  Speaker 1: nation in these times, we must cut out the cancer
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  Speaker 1: of racism. If we can't get beyond racism and hate,
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  Speaker 1: building strong coalitions is going to ever be more difficult.
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  Speaker 1: Did Donald Trump do anything good during these four years
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  Speaker 1: as a president? Look, the First Step Act, which was
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  Speaker 1: a modest, if you will, but an important step that
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  Speaker 1: positively impacted several thousand people, uh, is something that Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump signed through Jared Kushness supported. It wasn't perfect, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't go far enough, but it did take a step
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. Donald Trump took more credit for
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  Speaker 1: that than he deserved because that original bill was a
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  Speaker 1: bill of Congressman Hakim Jeffries, a bill that Congressman said
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  Speaker 1: Richmond supported, a bill that uh, many many others in
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  Speaker 1: the Congress had pushed for years. Donald Trump kind of
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  Speaker 1: jumped on board late, and yeah, his support helped push
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  Speaker 1: it over the finish line. So I was single. That
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  Speaker 1: is one piece of legislation, But everything else he did,
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  Speaker 1: his rhetoric, his tone, his lack of diversity, and his appointments.
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  Speaker 1: This insurrection, his racial rhetoric sort of take away his
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  Speaker 1: legacy his legacy has damaged. His legacy is spoiled. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see how I can draw any other conclusion except
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  Speaker 1: that he's the worst president in modern American history. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's sad because the fact that um, he played
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  Speaker 1: on everybody's witnesses, he played on fear. He was a bully. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's used social media? Is that bully? Being that I'm
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  Speaker 1: based in Georgia, I got to see it firsthand. I
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  Speaker 1: got to see what he did with the Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State Rassenberger, the Governor Gabrielle Stirling, and then you saw
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  Speaker 1: out of that of Phoenix, Roles, Stacy Abrams tell us
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  Speaker 1: about it in Rockfael Warnock and last Bottoms and hank Onsen,
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  Speaker 1: and I could continue to the leaders and uh in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: the great Ambassador Andrew Young is a moral voice. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know Roll Georgia rose in the spirit Mark Luther King,
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit Maynard Jackson, in the spirit of Andy Young.
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  Speaker 1: That coalition came together for us, off, for Warnock, and
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  Speaker 1: for Biden. It was a powerful thing and it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it will always be remembered because it tipped the balance,
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  Speaker 1: gentle balance, and gave power to the Democrats at a
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  Speaker 1: time when doing it is so important to the future
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  Speaker 1: of the country. Should we be should we feel good now?
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  Speaker 1: Should we feel there is a voice in the White
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  Speaker 1: House that would listen? I think we should feel that
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  Speaker 1: there's now an opportunity to be optimistic. Yes, And I
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  Speaker 1: say an opportunity to be optimistic, because amidst all this pain,
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  Speaker 1: amidst all these potential foreclosures, an evictions, amidst the threats
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  Speaker 1: of violence that are being if you will communicated on
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  Speaker 1: the internet, Uh, I can't celebrate. I can't spike the ball,
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  Speaker 1: I can't pop any champagne. It's not time for a
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  Speaker 1: traditional celebration. It is time. It is time for us
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  Speaker 1: to cast our eyes on the future and begin to
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  Speaker 1: work and keep our sleeves rolled up and continue, continue
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  Speaker 1: to plow, continue to wreck, and continue to row, continue
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  Speaker 1: to work. You know, you crossed the stage as a
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  Speaker 1: mayor in the city of New Orleans at a very
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  Speaker 1: early age mark and just to see the journey and
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  Speaker 1: how many times you came into Steve Harvard mornings You're
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  Speaker 1: talking and having passion. What I'm like, what I love
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  Speaker 1: about you is that you've seen change and you create
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  Speaker 1: a change. Talk went there early journey when you first
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  Speaker 1: handed official boards as a mayor, and I got elected
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  Speaker 1: amidst the crisis in my old city, almost five murders
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  Speaker 1: a year, a broken economy, no program for youth, and
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  Speaker 1: and it was I was motivated by cause, the cause
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  Speaker 1: to fix and change and revive a place that I
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  Speaker 1: loved and cherished, my beloved hometown of New Orleans. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we built a team of young people, old people,
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  Speaker 1: black people, white people, Hispanics and agents. We built a
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  Speaker 1: team of people and just got down to being about
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  Speaker 1: the business. Politics was not a beginning north end. Politics
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  Speaker 1: was simply a means to make change in the lives
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  Speaker 1: of people. So I had that incredible opportunity as a
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  Speaker 1: man in my mid thirties to lead New Orleans, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly a tremendous opportunity now for the last seventeen years
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  Speaker 1: to need this historic civil rights organization. Well, I hope
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  Speaker 1: you understand why I got you on this call. Listen
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  Speaker 1: what you said when you came in thirty six years
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  Speaker 1: of age in New Orleans. Civil unrests, murders, economy was
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  Speaker 1: out of control. There was no direction, I said, um,
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  Speaker 1: I told my stlf I said, I talked about I said,
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  Speaker 1: because he's the king of the gobble coalition. He's a
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  Speaker 1: companion of understanding that people need to work together to
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  Speaker 1: win together. And when I when I talk about when
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  Speaker 1: we see basically when I look at the Biden ticket,
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  Speaker 1: it's a go guble coalition. You have Bidenden has put together.
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  Speaker 1: Biden just put together a gumbo Lord Austin Marshall Fudge.
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  Speaker 1: How the ever Sarah Pete blew the jedge. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, you know, he's put together a ticket as
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  Speaker 1: varied and diverses any or rather an administration, Uh so
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  Speaker 1: far that is various diverses any in American history. When
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the empowering communities and changing lives,
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  Speaker 1: that point empowerment agenda that you have out there, because
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  Speaker 1: my whole thing about the National Urban League is that
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  Speaker 1: there's a plan there. When you got there, there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a plan. In your book. You talk about that, and
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  Speaker 1: we have to focus. We focus on five areas. We
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  Speaker 1: focus on five areas, and we focus on programs, policy
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  Speaker 1: and thought leadership. And we're very focused on the areas
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  Speaker 1: that we focus on. We focus on education, right, we
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  Speaker 1: focus on jobs, We focus on housing, health, We focus
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  Speaker 1: on UH justice issues, and when we focus on those issues,
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  Speaker 1: every organization needs to focus. You can't be an ambulance chaser. Now,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta be the ambulance, right, but you can't
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  Speaker 1: chase ambulances and civil rights and be effective. You gotta
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: respond to crisis, but you gotta have a solid, proactive
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  Speaker 1: plan and not to the national really does. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we serve almost two million people. Yeah, that's why we've
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  Speaker 1: got this dynamic network of ninety affiliates across the nation
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  Speaker 1: with talented men and women doing the important work of
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  Speaker 1: the Air Belief movement. That's why we have UH sustained
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  Speaker 1: ourselves and survived now for a hundred and ten years. Well, well, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: I know I didn't. I can't keep you long. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to appreciate you with Sean. Let's do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your leadership, appreciate your voice, appreciate your friendship, and
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the chance to be on with you for another
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