America Ferrera Is Talking ‘Bout a Cultural Revolution

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This was a rollercoaster of a week—but before there was a white nationalist coup, there was a major, momentous Senate victory in Georgia. How did it happen? And how can we do it again, and again? Host Brittany Packnett Cunningham unpacks those questions with writer, producer and activist America Ferrera, who helped rally the Latinx vote with her new organization She Se Puede. They get into everything from “the Black-Brown alliance” to how the former Ugly Betty star is helping to bring through other creative Latinx voices. And of course, Brittany brings us the latest Untrending news. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, it's Brittany.
0:14.3	Oh, look it's still happy new year over here, okay?
0:19.0	Because can't no insurrection is take our joy.
0:21.1	This Georgia win,, baby, we are going to shine the light today. So remember back in
0:29.8	November when the Miss Latasha Brown, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter was with us here on
0:35.7	undistracted. The decision is not up to the political parties the real decision is
0:40.8	up to us the answer is not outside of us the answer is us and when we show up in our
0:46.6	agency and our power we're going to see this entire country this entire nation of change
0:52.4	including the politics.
0:54.0	Well, well,
0:56.0	well, Latasha and all her friends in Georgia came back to show us
1:01.0	just how true that is. And y'all, black voters used a runoff system that was
1:09.4	literally built to disenfranchise them to do it. I am feeling every fuel there is
1:17.3	Reverend Raphael Warnock and John Ossif, a black man and a Jewish man, will be senators from a former Confederate state.
1:27.2	And then to top it all off, Kamla Harris, the MVP herself, will be the tie-breaking Senate vote.
1:33.1	I can't wait because every vote is going to be delicious.
1:37.8	We have black voters and black organizers
1:40.2	and multiracial coalitions of freedom fighters to thank for this, and not just with our words, but with our work.
1:47.0	And the work is honestly going to have to be tireless, y'all, because whenever oppressed people stand upright to abuse, the blowback is 10 times worse.
1:57.2	I am very sure GOP voter suppression is about to be like at an all-time high. But here's the gospel. There's a Latasha and
2:07.4	a Stacy Abrams and a Stephanie Young and a Cliff Albright and a Jessica Jessica Bird and a Fair Fight and a Black Voters
2:15.0	Madet and a New Georgia project in every single state.
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