Welcome to Democracy Isha.

And I'm Danielle Moody Mills.

I've always dreamed of stepping foot on Greenland and saying,

This is America.

It'll never happen. And Danielle,

I want you to know something. You're electable. And you're electable. Look, I wanted to say that because it feels like in 2019, electable is code suddenly for white man. It's not a code, Toray. They

actually have said it. It's just, it's not a code to write they actually have said it it's just it's not a

code i mean there's a tremendous amount of fear among black and brown people that this election is so

important that we cannot risk it with a woman or a black person we have to put up a white man to get

white men to vote for him this doesn't make sense to me look we already have six children that have died in U.S. custody, right?

We already have brown men and women, undocumented migrants that are being hoarded into cells, right?

That are being farmed out to work.

It is flashbacks, I think, for black Americans that are just like, if we lose this

election, that could be us. What is stopping that from being us? And so while, you know, on our last show,

we're screaming at the 47 percent that are standing by Biden, I'm actually starting to be able to

wrap my mind around the fear that is prompting black people to make a decision that I don't think is in our best interest, but one that I'm starting to understand.

I understand the fear. I respect the fear. I don't want Trump to be reelected any more than any person in this country.

I just don't think that the answer then is to appease white

people with a candidate they might like rather than a candidate that black and brown people will

love and that enough progressives will get behind. And I just, I again reject the notion that a woman, uh, and especially a black woman

cannot win. Today we want to focus on Elizabeth Warren. I reject the notion that she can't win.

I reject the notion that it has to be a white man. I honestly think that electability was a

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