A lot of times people try to act like Democrats are the Antichrist. And so then I'm like, mm-mm, I'm not, I'm like, my daddy's a preacher, go look him up, you know, and so I think that it

allows me to engage in the conversations and really be a good

representation for what actually a lot of black folk are. I mean when you think

about politics and advocacy in general so much of it was born out of

Black Church and it really is centered to the core of who we are. It's how we were able to get so much. I mean when you

think about the leaders, whether you're talking about Martin Luther King who

comes from more of the traditional Baptist background, or whether you're talking about Malcolm X, who comes from the Muslim faith.

It always, for black folks, somehow our leadership came. always for

moving us forward.

For black folks, somehow our leadership came directly out of the church

for moving us forward.

And I don't ever want that to be lost at all.

Hello, welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host Chris Hayes. You know Congress doesn't make a lot of headlines these days unless something's going sideways I think I would say and partly that's the news media. There's a expression we have in the news media. We don't cover the plans that land

We tend to focus on you know disaster and conflict

Also this Congress particularly the House, has been historically unproductive.

There's a whole bunch of kind of objective metrics you could use and it's been one of the least

productive Congresses in a very, very long time in terms of moving legislation.

It's also a Congress where there's a very razor-thin Republican majority,

and the defining feature of that majority has been dysfunction,

factional infighting, multiple ballots to elect the speaker Kevin McCarthy

the first time and then deposing that speaker and then an interregnum

in which no one can get the votes and now Mike Johnson and threats against Mike Johnson

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