#RolandMartinUnfiltered - 'I'm Not Going Nowhere': Rep. Rashida Tlaib Responds To Trump's 'Go Back' Attack At NAACP Convention

Episode Date: July 23, 2019

During the NAACP Convention's Open Plenary Session, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib offered a rousing speech for the NAACP delegates. Rep. Tlaib took a moment to address Donald Trump's "go back" attack saying, "I'm no going nowhere — not until I impeach this president!" ✅ Subscribe to the #RolandMartin YouTube channel https://t.co/uzqJjYOukP ✅ Join the #RolandMartinUnfiltered #BringTheFunk Fan Club to support fact-based independent journalism http://ow.ly/VRyC30nKjpY Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I want to welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome the incredible NWACP to Detroit. My home where I was born and raised. I want you to know in every corner, I always tell people in Washington DC, in every corner there is a reminder of a movement. If it's the labor rights movement, the civil rights movement, every corner is a reminder to demand justice, opportunity in every corner of Detroit. I'm a daughter of Detroit. I tell people this all the time. When I'm feeling so weak and so defeated in Washington, D.C.,

and thinking how do we get people away from feeling oppressed, when the plane lands in the metro airport, I feel like everything's going to be okay. Everything's going to be all right. So when you chose Detroit for your national conference, this is exactly where you need to be because we're going to birth yet another movement right here at Cobo. I'm so blessed because it wasn't just my mother. If you know anything about our incredible city, it wasn't just my mother who raised me. It was also the mothers down the block.

Where my mother, when sometimes the immigrant mother with her accent would just be whispering, this black mother would tell her, no, no, no, speak up. Speak up, raise your head and speak up. That's what is so rooted in who I am and why I continue to speak up. It is an honor to represent the 13th Congressional District. One of the stories that never gets told is that I got elected in a predominantly non-Muslim community. I got elected in a predominantly black community, elected the first Muslim woman, one of the first Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress.

That story is never told, that you all did, that you all made history. I'm also incredibly proud that I have, I have, and we have it in the 13th Congressional District, the Western Wayne NAACP chapter. Where are they? They were elected. There's Gina. They were elected the number one, I think, the number one best chapter in all of the state of Michigan. And, yes, they come from the 13th Congressional District. So I want to thank the incredible Western Wayne NAACP chapter.

This morning I want to talk about where we go from here. The corporate assault on our families is real. We all know it. And it's driven by a hate agenda. A really dangerous ideology that's about othering people. Dehumanizing others. And we have to continue to fight back. I know all of you have seen and experienced injustices personally. Right now, many families do not have access to clean and affordable water. Literally throughout some of my schools, the drinking fountains are closed down. Imagine that for one minute.

We know that too many people are forced to work multiple jobs just to put food on their table. And so many families, so many communities have been disseminated due to mass incarceration and the continued criminalization of our black and brown folks. There is no coincidence that we hear from climate scientists today about the need to take action against climate change while we're going through such devastating heat wave. We also know that here in Detroit and the surrounding communities, we know that what it means to let corporate polluters just strip of the communities of resources and pump toxins into our air, into our water. Folks, we need bold action for the issues riddling our communities across this country. And yeah, people are going to say this is too bold, too radical, too far left to reject it.

That's how they discredit movements like this. But I got to tell you, when Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ran and she said kids cannot learn because they're hungry. Kids cannot learn in school because they're hungry. We need free lunches in schools. People thought that was radical. People thought that was impossible. But what do we have today? Free lunches for kids in schools. So I reject the labeling that things are too bold.

Because I'll tell you, they're gaslighting us. This was supposed to be done years ago. We were supposed to increase the $15 to minimum wage to $15 years ago. We were supposed to do something about our air years ago. We were supposed to push back against the fact that now corporations have been able to get around discrimination of folks. Because they have to show intentional discrimination, not disparate impact. All of that is so tied to the big fight that we have ahead of us. But I also want you to know, it isn't done in the halls of Congress.

Grace Lee Boggs, an activist here in Detroit, would say to people, the movement of the civil rights, the movement to get women's rights, wasn't done because somebody introduced a bill. It was done because the folks in the streets demanded it, because of actions that were outside of the halls of the Congress and outside of the White House. It was done because all of you demanded us to do it. So recently I introduced the Boost Act. This legislation completely repeals the GOP tax scam that is only helping wealthy individuals, the rich, the corporations. And do you know what I did with that money?

Do you know what I said? We're going to go ahead and put it into the pockets of folks like everyday Americans. If you make less than $100,000, you're going to get up to $6,000 in your pocket. And if you make less than $50,000, you're going to get $3,000. That's what we do with our public dollars. We give it back to the people, the people that earned it. So give it back to the people, the people that earned it. So the Boost Act may not be a salary, as some people defer it, but it is a signal that we've gone too far in providing for

corporations and the rich and those on top and have not taken care of our everyday folks, our neighbors, who are literally $400 away, an emergency, $400 emergency away from getting into the cycle of poverty. I'm also introducing Justice for All Civil Rights Act. And let me tell you, right now, and I see it in my district, I have the third poorest congressional district. And yes, I'm an attorney and I worked in non-profit organizations fighting against not only the previous governor, who literally polluted and allowed the poisoning of children in Flint because of corporate profit. I can tell you justice for all, Civil Rights Act will transform our country.

Because today corporations and even those in the public sector have gotten away and have gotten really sly about saying I'm not intentionally discriminating. No, no, no, that's not what I'm doing. Because the courts, ladies and gentlemen, the courts have watered down the Civil Rights Act. And saying we can't, disparate impact is not enough. What I mean by that is, and for folks that know this, driver's license responsibility fee in Michigan was where if you looked at it, it disproportionately hurt African Americans in Michigan were targeted by driver's license responsibility fee.

But we could improve intentional discrimination. It took us two years to show the pattern. Justice for all civil Rights Act said no. We're going to say if the impact of the policy in itself is discriminatory on the ground, that is enough to say you are violating our civil rights, you are discriminating against us. For those in Michigan, for all of us in Michigan, and this is hard for many of you that might not even live here and know this, but I know it's high in other states, but auto insurance. We know that there's discriminatory

practices done in auto insurance industry. They are basing our rates on our credit scores, marital status, education level. Come on now. That is code for I know exactly who you're targeting. And we have to end it. So I'm so proud that Congresswoman Watson Coleman and myself, she's from New Jersey, we introduced legislation. Yes, we introduced legislation in saying no more non-driving factors. It should be based on whether or not we're safe drivers, based on the make or model of our car, whatever it is.

It should not be based on non-discriminatory factors. And let me tell you, here in Michigan, no joke, somebody with driving under the influence violation with a decent credit score, okay credit score, is paying less than somebody with not a great credit score but a hell of a lot better driving record is literally paying, that person is paying 300% more than the person drinking while driving. I mean, see, that's what's happening.

So Justice for All Civil Rights Act is important, because if we don't get that piece of legislation out, we at least can get them in the courts. We must get back to the original view of the Civil Rights Act and ensure that all marginalized communities have the protections they need under the law to combat discrimination, both in the private and the public sector. We need bold action, folks. And I know what's happening out there. There's all of this young women, and it's beyond just the four of us. The squad is all of you.

And I can tell you, you are all the squad. Trust me. If you support equity, you support justice, you are one of us. But let me tell you, this is the largest incoming class since Watergate, ironically. And the most diverse. But I don't mean just by color and make and all these other things that they want to label us as.

Some of us, this is the first time we've ever had health insurance. One of my colleagues, until she became a United States Congresswoman. Another woman is a survivor of domestic violence. Some of us are hit hard with college debt. I have another woman who literally, Congresswoman Lucy McBeth, lost her only son to gun violence. And she ran on that and won a district that was a Republican district. So no, being bold, taking bold action doesn't mean we lose. It's what we're saying here is when we fight, we win.

That's how we fight. We fight by taking these kinds of actions and not saying, oh, is this strategically the right thing? No. Is it the right thing? Is it going to provide justice for all? And that's what I want to leave you all with. People said, Rashida, this is not your time. I said, well, when is my time? I didn't know there was a line.

This is a new era of the Civil Rights Movement. And until people like us in this room run for office and get on the inside and push back, we're not going to win. So not only in the streets, not only with legislation, but also you run for office. That's how you fight and win. Thank you so much. A lot of times, big economic forces show up in our lives in small ways. Four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.

Small but important ways from tech billionaires to the bond market to yeah, banana pudding. If it's happening in business, our new podcast is on it. I'm Max Chaston. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. So listen to everybody's business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sometimes as dads, I think we're too hard on ourselves. We get down on ourselves on not being able to, you know, we're the providers, but we also have to learn to take care of ourselves. A wrap-away, you got to pray for yourself as well as for everybody else, but never forget yourself. Self-love made me a better dad because I realized

my worth. Never stop being a dad. That's dedication. Find out more at fatherhood.gov. Brought to you by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council. I know a lot of cops. They get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English.

I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war. This year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports. This kind of starts that a little bit, man. We met them at their homes. We met them at the recording studios. Stories matter and it brings a face to it.

It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast.