"We Elect Partners, Not Saviors:" Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Brittney Cooper
UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham
The Meteor, Collective Media
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, I hope you've been findings of joy this week. |
| 0:09.0 | Now, y'all have heard me say it before, and if you are kind enough to keep listening you'll hear me |
| 0:14.1 | say it many many times everything and I do mean everything comes down to power |
| 0:22.1 | now I know, but my neurospicy brain does love a pattern or pattern if you're my grandma. |
| 0:29.0 | And every time I look up from history to the present day, I personally see one power struggle after another. |
| 0:37.0 | Someone is determined to keep their power by any means necessary because they've been taught they're entitled to it and someone else is |
| 0:43.9 | determined to find some of their own. Now I know my fellow pattern gals see this |
| 0:49.8 | one everywhere. White supremacist patriarchy protecting its power through lax gun laws and restrictive |
| 0:56.3 | abortion bans. Sheeto and couch boy holding desperately onto their whittling, dwindling, |
| 1:03.0 | every day disappearing power through digital |
| 1:05.0 | disinformation and sneaky little lawsuits |
| 1:08.0 | to undermine the election. |
| 1:10.0 | And of course, hip-hop mobiles, |
| 1:12.0 | using their dollars to silence survivors and hide their crimes. |
| 1:17.0 | Thankfully for some of them unsuccessfully. |
| 1:20.0 | All of those are struggles of power against those they see not as less than them |
| 1:25.8 | but as threats to them. But you know what that's good I want them to know we're threats. I want them to feel us coming and quake in fear. I want them to know that every single time we stand in our power, we are coming to tear their kingdoms of ego and |
| 1:47.0 | altars of supremacy down. |
| 1:48.9 | You should know that our power is divine and yours is weak. |
| 1:53.6 | That's because traditional power insists it's a force to hold over somebody. |
| 1:59.2 | The transformational power knows well that its function is to set somebody free. Your lies are built on |
| 2:05.9 | beds of sand and our truth has foundation and justice. I told y'all I'm obsessed |
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