Symone Sanders has something to say — and now she’ll speak for Kamala Harris

Capehart

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sanders, who will be Harris's senior adviser and chief spokeswoman, discusses working for the Bernie Sanders and then Biden campaigns and the incident that inspired the title of her book, “No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America.”

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Kapart and this is Cape Up.
0:07.0	No, you shut up, speaking truth to power and reclaiming America is a memoir by Simone Sanders.
0:14.0	When we met up for a virtual conversation at the 92nd Street Y in September,
0:18.0	Sanders was a senior advisor to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.
0:23.0	Come January 20th, she'll be senior advisor and chief
0:27.2	spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris.
0:30.0	Quite the journey for the young black woman from Omaha, Nebraska, who became well known as the National Press Secretary for Senator Bernie Sanders, no relation, during his 2016 presidential campaign.
0:42.8	We talk all about it and about the incident that inspired the title of her book.
0:47.3	I'm not about to let anybody tell me to shut up on national television.
0:49.9	I don't care where I am and what I'm doing.
0:52.1	Get to know Simone Sanders and the lessons she's already learned
0:55.6	that she wants young people, especially young women of color,
0:58.5	to know right now. out. and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 92nd Street Wise virtual event
1:19.1	Simone Sanders in conversation about her book, No, you shut up speaking truth to power and
1:28.4	reclaiming America Simone Sanders. Welcome to the 92nd Street why.
1:33.8	Thank you, Jonathan.
1:35.0	I'm glad to be here.
1:35.8	You know, I thought I'd do this in my little couch
1:37.9	situation today because every time I'm at the 92nd Street
1:41.4	why, I just feel like it is a comfy, like setting, where we really settle in and have good meaty conversation.
1:49.5	So I tried to create that environment here today.
1:52.3	All right, well let's let's have that meaty conversation.
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