Peggy Flanagan and Tashia Arnold: "Our ancestors believed in this day."
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for Women of Color to learn about the current state of women in politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible people changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us |
| 0:39.0 | and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get |
| 0:44.8 | your podcast. Welcome back, Brown Girls. Ashanti here, the founder of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics, and this is the first of three episodes highlighting amazing indigenous women in honor a Native American Heritage Month. |
| 1:03.6 | This episode, we will hear from Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and to Shia Arnold with the Center for Native American Youth. |
| 1:11.2 | Lieutenant Governor Flanagan is currently the only Native woman serving in statewide elected office. |
| 1:16.4 | She got her cert at the local level in the Minnesota State House, where she championed women and people of color. |
| 1:22.6 | As lieutenant governor, she has continued her focus on ensuring that Minnesota's underserved populations are not |
| 1:28.7 | left behind. |
| 1:33.1 | Lieutenant Governor, thank you so much for joining us today. How are you? I'm doing |
| 1:37.5 | really well. Thanks so much for having me. Wonderful. So I do want to dive right in. You served your career in the state house and then you ran for statewide office. I was one of those many people that watch your race and awe and just amazement at how fabulous you are. But when we look at the numbers, there are 91 women serving a statewide office across the U.S., and you're currently the |
| 2:01.9 | only Native women serving out of those 91. What are some of the barriers that you think |
| 2:07.2 | we need to break to see more Native women in elected office? Well, I think one of the things |
| 2:12.2 | that I want to emphasize is that Native women have been leading since time immemorial. Amen. You know, |
| 2:20.7 | and Native women and Native Americans as a whole are far too underrepresented local state |
| 2:27.0 | and federal governments. But I think as we see the success of Congress, and Teresa Davids, |
| 2:37.0 | Congresswoman Deb Holland, as well as more and more Native women who are running for office in historic numbers in this past election. |
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