And joining me now is Justice Gibbs. He's state legislature down in Mississippi, born and raised, a lifelong resident of Jackson, Mississippi, and part of our continuing series to elevate new voices. And Justice Gibbs joins me now. Justice, nice to meet you. Great to be here, man.

Great to be here. And so glad that you're allowing Mississippi to let his voice be heard.

Well, a good look. One of my favorite bosses ever, as a man named Mandy Lack, and he's been the guy who helped with

Mississippi today. I think he lives in Jackson

these days. So you may have see him or come across him every now and then. And he is, he has an

interesting story of what got his ancestors to Mississippi. It's, it's an unusual one. Jewish immigrants

who end up making clothes for the Confederacy. They didn't know any. They were just immigrants. And it was a job. They had no idea. You know, it was one of those things. And it's something the more he learned about that. It just made him want to invest more and spend more time there. So, but justice, give me your origin story. Give us the, uh, how did you politics? What was the motivation? What was the, everybody always says one reason. Like, I'm getting in. I want to solve this problem. I want to do this. What was that for you? Yeah, it was kind of multifaceted for me. I first say that I grew up in a family of public servants. My father, I was a circuit judge when I was born. My mother

served in the legislature for about six years prior to running for a circuit judge herself. So,

you know, a lot of the kitchen table conversations that we had always sort of, you know,

revolved around politics or policy or what was going on in our city and our state and in our country. And, you know, revolved around politics or policy or what was going on in our city and our state and

in our country. And, you know, growing up, you know, going to my high school, serving in the

student council, something that was a real natural knack for me. But when I came home at the

graduating from Howard University attending law school, I noticed something very interesting, which was, you know, this sort of criticism that is directed to young people about, you know, not exercising the rights of vote, not, you know, helping either political party, you know, with their margins.

And what I really recognize is that there is just

such an empty void with young leadership on all levels, city, county, state. And I wanted to be a

part of changing that. So at age 27, decided to run for an open seat in my area. And that's really how I got involved.

You know, it's interesting. I feel like there's quite a few in people in your generation in

Mississippi who've decided to, quote, not wait their turn, right? And try to beat, go,

go challenge the establishment a little bit, particularly on the Democratic side, because I think there's been some, what have you guys been doing? Right. You know, we're still in the same place. You know, have it made the progress that I think people think should be made. There was a new mayor of Jackson not that long ago. And so sort of the same mindset.

So I do feel as if whether you're, whether we call you older Gen Z or younger millennial,

where do you feel like you fall in that?

A younger millennial.

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