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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to our special series Distinguished Ladies of the NCNW
here on the Black Information Network. Recently, myself, Ramsay's Jah
and q Ward made our way to Baltimore for the
sixty first Annual Convention of the National Council of Negro Women,
and we're able to have some meaningful conversations with some
of the most powerful and influential Black women in America.
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We discuss politics, education, healthcare, economics, and everything in between.
So sit back and enjoy today's episode of the Distinguished
Ladies of the NCNW here on the Black Information Network. So,
as promised, we are here on the ground, day one
for the National Council Negro Women in Baltimore, Maryland, and
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our reception has been magnificent. There is so much love
and so much energy, and so much excitement in the room,
and so many powerful figures, and we are fortunate enough
right now to be able to talk with one such individual.
So right now we are joined by doctor Daly, who
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is the immediate past President and Board Chair of the
NCNW and the sixteenth president of Delta Sigma Theta. So
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, thank you so very much.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I think we have some things to talk about So.
First off, I think so, I think so.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So come here with two handsome, very talented, young blocky
man who bless you Mom from Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Indeed, indeed, indeed, so for folks that haven't been able
to make it out and folks that are listening around
the country, talk to us a little bit about the
theme of this year's convention and what you're hoping people
will take away from their experience here on the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh well, the theme is our Voice, and it's our
collective voice, because Missus Lethun wanted us all to gather
as organizations for a collective voice. So right now it's
our voice, and our voice should be out there. And
with that collective power, I just I'm also cheer of
the affiliates. I'm cheer of all of the organizations. And
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I just sleft them and twenty one of them met
so they could all see each other and know each other.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So it's the power of the collective power.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And that's what Missus Bethune had in mind, the collective
power to get our voices out there for the goals.
And so together we must speak. If we are going
to impact the future. Right now, we need to impact
the present you know what it is today, you don't
know quite what it is, but you paid the way
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for the future. So it's the collective power of our
voices and that's carrying out what Missus Bethune wanted the
organization of organizations to be.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So the timing of this convention being so close to
the election. Oh and you have an affiliate member at
the top of the ticket as a candidate for president
in the United States, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
a graduate of Howard University, and someone who comes from
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the same affiliate organizations that this council represents. What does
that feel like as a black woman leader in our
community watching someone who comes from your same ilk in
this position leading up to the election.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's hard to describe the feeling because it's a feeling
we thought we would never have, just like we thought
we would never have President Obama in our lifetime. Yes,
and it's a rekindling of that spirit for us, a rekindling.
But to have a black woman when people don't have
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black women heads and more more black women are getting
to be university presidents now than ever before. But it's
also saying that our collective power helping that, yes, our
collective power is moving, that we're in this movement for that,
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and what a day it will be for all of
the little black children, boys and girls, all of children
of color.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They don't have to be African American children of color
across this country. If on November Fifer we should come
out to be victorious.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
What that would mean for people in terms of what
they can do and what they can be because we've
been suppressed too long. Sure, Sure, and even though we
have freedoms, people walk around feeling that they're they can't
get this, they can't get that, they can't move up.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, so let's talk a little bit about some of
the issues that are particularly important in black communities around
the country in your estimation, in other words, what's at
stake during this election season?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, first of all, a stake a crazy man to
be in charge, and I wouldn't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's a stake for me. That's I really feel that.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And to me, safety and freedom and saneness and being
able to live in a country where we are free,
you know, as free as.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We can be.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Everything I hear is that everything might be taken away
from us and people will be deported and.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Anything will happen.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So I'm looking for something that's logical and sane and
the freedom of our.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Country and the freedom of this world, and that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Somebody doesn't jump across and get us in.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Trouble across the world, in wars.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And whatever else without approval and going through the process
I'm looking for. I'm looking for a country in which
we can have peace. I'm looking at a country where
education will be respected and the Department of Education will
not be demolished. I'm looking for freedom where university will
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have freedom to design the programs in their schools, and
right now they're taking it out in terms of the universities.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm looking for health care.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I'm looking for I'm looking for respecting terms of all generations,
intergenerational aspects of it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, I'm looking for childcare for people so people can
go to work, and.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm looking for people who can make some money. When
everybody's working, you don't have crime. When everybody's working, you
don't have crime.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
If my voice didn't matter, people wouldn't be trying so
hard to silence me, And if my vote didn't matter,
they wouldn't work so hard to take it away.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you know why I'm voting this November because I
know they don't want me to.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
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Speaker 4 (07:17):
Our voice, our power, our future together together. The message
that you want to leave with us, the message you
want to leave with the listener from this convention, and
what you'd like to see us do moving forward again,
as we are on the eve of this election, what's
the messaging that you want to stay with us?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
As we leave this I want every person who is
eighteen years older or older to make sure he or she.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Is casting a ballot somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's a message every single person, no matter if they're
from eighteen up to one hundred and twelve, I want
them casting ballot, casting a ballot because we have the
freedom right now. I don't know what to be in
the future, we have the freedom right now to cast
a ballot and that is a great freedom.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
That is a great freedom.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So somebody that has insight, some insight at least into
the past of this organization, the NCNW and is indeed
on the ground right now in this present moment. Help
us understand what your best case scenario for the future
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of Black women in America looks like. If everyone does
take this action, if everyone goes and votes, what are
we going to gain? What could we gain in our future?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well, we could gain respect for black women and for
black men.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I'll take that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I'll take that every day of the week.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Some of the other things that you mentioned, non and
I and I just just briefly if you if you
care to. We talked about health care. We talked about
health care, some of the things that we talk about,
police reform, some of the things that are connected. You
mentioned childcare. You mentioned employment opportunities and how those collectively
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create economic advancement opportunities and it lowers crime rates. Right,
So maybe maybe things like that, that that sort of interwoven,
interconnected future where everything brings our collective well being a
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little bit higher. This is what I'm gathering on the
ground here. You know, everyone seems to be so focused
on that future that's just around the corner. We need
to stay vigilant we need to vote. We need to
get the crazy man out of the way. This is
kind of what I'm hearing around here. So your thoughts
on what tomorrow could bring.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well, thank you just about summarized said uh uh uh.
We are talking about collective power here. We shouldn't just
have collective power when we go away from here, we
should exercise that collective power.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
The collective power shouldn't be just for the boat right now.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We should carry that through.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And one of the strength was everybody knew there was
a civil rights movement. Everybody through the country knew there
was a civil rights movement.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We need to restlerect that whatever we call it, whatever
name we call it, we need to wrestle act that.
So everybody's involved in. Everybody know this movement that's going on.
So from here we need a movement going. We need
a movement going, not a program.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I'm almost speechless because you would have thought she was
with us having this conversation before. We've talked amongst ourselves
about the need for us to all come together, and
the benefits of the civil rights movement is that we
had a north star that we could all point to.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And you hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
We need a movement like that to collaise around so
that we could have a singular objective. I'm speechless, rams
just like that's what I needed to hear, something that
I want to take with me when I leave here
and back into the communities that we touch after this conference.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
And I know that we're we can't keep you as
long as we'd like to, but I do appreciate that
because one of the things that I think is critically
important is that people don't simply vote out of fear
of what could go wrong, but rather some people would
be motivated by what possibilities tomorrow could hold. And for
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those people who come from a history of activism, a
history of uplifting black people, black women, specifically, those people
who have I've been able to envision what a prosperous
black future could look like and how it could indeed
impact other communities. It was very important to hear that
coming from you. So I thank you for that. Off
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the kettle, take the lid off the kettle.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Okay, Amen to that, Okay, Amen to that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Well, I'll tell you what We'll let you get back
to it. I know that we can't keep you as
long as we'd like. Thank you so much for your time,
and thank you for being our guest once again. Yesterday
she has been doctor Daily, the immediate past president and
board chair of the NCNW, and the sixteenth president of
Delta Sigma Data. Thank you so much. Be sure to
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