Crooked Coffee: Let Us Shine

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ms. Livvy’s heroic efforts to protect voting rights have come at a cost. Her health has suffered, and she’s tired. But she knows there’s more work to do, especially with the November election on the very near horizon. In our final episode from Georgia, we’re diving into why your vote matters, why it’s a fundamental right, and the key ingredient to sustaining the fight for voting rights: joy. Learn more at benjerry.com/vote and get involved with Black Voters Matter here.

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0:00.0	This is Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:07.2	I'm Ashley C. Ford.
0:09.3	Today, this little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.
0:16.2	This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. This little light of mine I'm going to let shine. This little light of mine
0:24.4	I'm going to let
0:26.6	it shine. Let it shine.
0:29.5	Let it shine.
0:31.1	Let it shine.
0:33.0	Let us shine.
0:34.7	Let's get into it.
1:07.8	Music Let us shine. Let's get into it. That beautiful voice belonged to Latasha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund.
1:12.0	Now that was my grandmother's favorite song. That was also Fannie Lou Hamas's favorite song. And I'm so serious about this that every single person that's listened to this
1:17.1	podcast, this is our moment. This is the moment that the world needs light. This is the moment for
1:23.0	us to stand in that light and be that light because it's in darkness where you see the light.
1:27.5	I often talk about, you know, this woman named Harriet Tubman that some people may have heard of.
1:33.4	And, you know, the story is that Harriet Tubman followed the North Star to freedom, that she fixated on this point in the sky.
1:40.6	That was something greater that she could actually get to, that she could see, but she was led by that light, that little light. And it led her to some place that she had never been before, right? And so while some people see the night as a space to be fearful of, there were some folks, including my ancestors, that saw the night as an opportunity. That was an opportunity for some of us. We were like, oh, we're going to ride out. We're going to ride out, right? We're going to be this light, right?
2:04.5	Because we can follow this star. And so in this moment of American political history,
2:09.3	this is the moment for you to lean in, not to pull back. This is the moment that the night time has
2:14.6	befallen us, and that's why we need the stars to illuminate the sky.
2:19.6	Latasha and BVM are spreading that light by fighting back against the trauma of voter suppression.
2:26.3	Ultimately, this process of people's time being wasted, feeling like they're not treated as they should be treated. That's really traumatic.
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