president can vote to change the rules and end the filibuster and allow for a fair vote on the senate floor regarding voting rights. that s what we have to do. it s within our per view. we just have to have the willingness to act. that willingness is not there, from your neck of the woods in alabama, responded to for sinema when she said, we have more to lose by killing the filibuster than we have to gain. his response, without the expletive is who the blank is we. because we do not have more to lose. so how do we bring those senators along and explain to them that we have been battling this level of white supremacy for a long time and by not protecting voting rights, they will ultimately be hurt as well. exactly. the filibuster came about during segregation. it was meant in many ways to block a progressive legislation that dealt with anti-discriminatory laws. and so, this very fact that we
me too era has changes expectations. so you have a lot of women who bought into the conditions we live under, but then there s a majority of women who feel like it could be a lot better. it doesn t have to be this way. so their dissatisfaction after me too, it s really grounded in the fact that the world could be better. when i saw those numbers, 72% of republican women are satisfied. that s wild. i don t know that i believe they truly is. chrissy, i want to ask you. i m not trying to sound like c. delores tucker here, but i feel like there s some level of normalizing misogyny. i look at entertainment and hear some of the lyrics in these songs and look at the imagery we see and it does feel like there s a lot of animus towards women. and a lot of disrespect towards our lived experience and physical person. how do we get ahead of that? i think that kind of teaches younger folks a lesson on how
neighborhoods where i grew up, you didn t think to report police. you know, sometimes you get accepted that this was a violent encounter, that police just had the right to do. it s a level of demoralization i can t even explain. so if that s the case, how does this vote for future relationship between police and communities when people are afraid to call the police because those are sometimes the people who hurt you? absolutely. i think there is there are law enforcement groups actually that say we need to reform qualified immunity for this very reason, that this legal protection is sending the message that justice sotomayor says sends a message that police can shoot first and think later. the decisions that you see every day coming out of this dream court and lower courts denying protections to people whose rights have clearly been violated sends a message that people s rights don t matter and i think that beyond the injustices to the individuals who are named in those cases and
for me, i wonder, like we ve been dealing with this for so long. what is the biggest challenge with creating this pipeline? i know the joint center, shoutout to spencer overton. i don t know you guys have been on this issue for a long time. what s the biggest challenge with pairing qualified people of color, what s the biggest challenge connecting them with these offices? there are several factors that contribute to a lack of diversity on capitol hill, especially among top positions. if we look at the low composition, that insular culture that exists on capitol hill as well as the lack of prioritization in hiring when it comes to including staffers of color in retaining and promoting them to these higher level positions. yeah. and arlene, you bring up like dr. brencen just referenced, about the low compensation of staffers on capitol hill. you know, there was a article in
rubbing it in from the standpoint of the minority saying well, we were slaves and mistreated. i understand that. what the hell do you want me to do about it? i m sorry. i wasn t there. i m 50 years old. i wasn t there. oh, girl. i mean, the disrespect and then the level of ignorance. a lot of people don t give a damn about this man s feelings about this. that person is in a position of power to make decisions, i mean, how, especially in the place of mississippi, how do you overcome that spirit and level of ignorance? i mean, it s infuriating in a lot of ways because it s a major dismissal of our history, your identity. of this country s history and identity. i can t even talk about how he chooses to separate these