money to begin with. so if i don t have any money, and you re telling me i have to have money to get money, that s what the policy is basically telling us. this feels like exactly the thing you were just talking about. the 30,000 feet thing. you re problem is such a good one. when you re making policy, sometimes what you need is proximity to and intimacy, and a an awareness of thousand it s going to affect those communities. and the question is, who in the obama administration is going to have that kind of knowledge. in theory, you would think they would. but the larger issue of what hbcu s are facing is an even bigger threat is diversity of tell me more about that. well, the hbcus are facing this serious crisis, and the loan program is part of it, but the larger problem is that we
puts my gender in front of my actual job. and i think it s blatantly obvious i m a woman and i ve never approached of it as being a handicap to anything that i have to do. if anything, it s a bonus, you know? and yet, right, we know from tribe, right? so some time ago, we know from tribe that it is industry rule number 4,080 company people are shady. are shady. are they particularly shady for women? i don t think i ever went through a lot, dealing with large record companies. i was raised in a very indy record household. my parents are both jazz musicians and my mom started her own record company in the 80s, which was, you know, a crazy thing to be doing and a crazy thing for a woman in jazz to be doing. and when i started releasing records, it was immediately just the feeling that you had to do it independently. so i never really went to labels in search of a deal or saying,
that get involved, but will leaderships have to start raising money or keep other republicans out? which was a problem for the democrat s years ago, and that kind of a few phenomenon right now. but the problem what we heard about in that politico story, is they actually had a seminar entitled this. that s the problem. it s absolutely true. you do tutor any candidate, how to run against a woman, how to run against someone older, how to run against an incumbent versus someone who s never run for office. so i expect to see all of that. but, again, these gaffes are by who they re putting up as candidates. so that s more important. this is the thing, though. it s not just these kind of fringe candidates who hold these extreme fuse and are saying these kind of distasteful things that fall on dead ears. house republicans pushed a bill that would basically severely limit the rape exception that was in the hyde amendment, that basically would say, that would only count as rape if you reporte
feet, there s a structural racism in play. but go back in history, it wass wassenn t an institutional thing. it was a handful of real estate developers in the room who said, you know what, people are scared of black folks, so if we sell them, we ll make a lot of money. and it becomes institutionalized over time. and so when you look at it from 30,000 feet, we call it structural racism. but what keeps it in place and keeps it going is the individual decisions of 350 million people who failed to do the right thing a few dozen times a day. this is i want to underline this, because i think your point about housing is so critical here. so we re looking at a recent study on the question of housing discrimination, and so this is recent. like, this is not this is not 1940, this is not 1950. and this recent study, in fact, shows that there is substantial discrimination against minority renters, right, where, in fact,
dangerous thing, where it s not hard for a republican to do it. i think it goes much deeper than that, this which role are you trying to play? and what you have with the president and most of the democrats, to this date, they didn t lose that many votes from the original 30-some that oppose the aca, when it was first passed, it was a small caucus of demes and there are still those caucuses that are critical. but at the larger perspective, you have a president and most of the democratic party that is the chef. they are cooking, okay? and the republican party are all restaurant critics, okay? and they re coming along and they re saying, i want a little bit more here with the herbs and the spice and this appetizer was too salty. and that s fine, and there s a certain number of people that will read restaurant reviews, but there s a lot more people that want to go to restaurants, even when the food is not perfect and every dish that comes out isn t exactly what you. but as a political