Adrianne Shropshire on BlackPAC

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Adrianne Shropshire is executive director of BlackPAC and the affiliated nonpartisan Black Progressive Action Coalition. She is a leader in developing model integrated voter engagement programs that build voter power over multiple election cycles. She discusses her career arc from beginning as a community organizer in South Los Angeles during the 1992 riots. Adrianne also dives into what Vice President Kamala Harris could be facing from the right wing. Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Adrianne Shropshire Producer: Clifford Augustin Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.8	And welcome to another episode of a car sales podcast today we today we have I'm you know I always talk about how smart my guest are I literally think I have the smartest guest of any podcast and I think they need to stop selling podcast mics because too many people have a podcast but that's neither here nor there I am
0:53.8	digressing but I literally have one of the smartest and brightest political
0:58.2	minds and just minds in general and American politics and many people don't even
1:02.3	know her name but none other than Adrian Shropshire. How are you today?
1:07.5	I'm well. I feel like you know we're on the upswing here.
1:18.4	We'll get to that because I feel like we're in the middle of a tipsy-turvy roller coaster. We just happen to be at the top of it right now and hopefully, hopefully we are just going to ride that thing on in and no more dips.
1:24.4	But before we started, I always ask all my guess the same first question because people like to hear your
1:28.9	background, but walk us through the arc of your career and how you ended up in the place where you are doing the
1:33.6	work that you're doing. So I started out as a community organizer here in South Los Angeles in the aftermath of the uprising in
1:49.6	1992. I had been working for a local city council member, you know, learning as much as I could about
1:58.0	how our government works and how local politics works. And the uprising happened after the verdicts that acquitted for police officers for beating Rodney King.
2:10.7	And our district was the heart of the uprising.
2:15.0	And in the aftermath, one of the things that I thought was, you know, I'm learning a lot here in city government, but I actually think that I would be better off doing
2:28.5	organizing and engaging our community and part of that was because of the energy that we saw in the aftermath of the
2:34.3	uprising. People were very clear about what they did not want in terms of
2:38.7	rebuilding South LA. They were clear about what needed to happen.
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