WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:270000 00:00:00.940 --> 00:00:03.170 You know the name of the man I'm talking about 00:00:03.170 --> 00:00:05.169 but he doesn't know your name. 00:00:05.169 --> 00:00:06.870 He doesn't see you in the hospital bed 00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:07.950 or in the checkout line 00:00:07.950 --> 00:00:10.050 or at the safety drills in your classroom. 00:00:10.050 --> 00:00:11.727 He doesn't see you at all. 00:00:13.250 --> 00:00:14.870 How many times are we gonna reelect politicians 00:00:14.870 --> 00:00:17.980 who don't laugh at our jokes, who don't sing at our churches 00:00:17.980 --> 00:00:19.560 or who wouldn't call to show us support 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:21.710 when we get laid off or get in a car wreck? 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:26.470 He doesn't need hope or faith, he's got money and power. 00:00:26.470 --> 00:00:28.580 And the more power he's won in Washington, 00:00:28.580 --> 00:00:30.840 the more we've lost in Kentucky. 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:32.580 His millionaire friends mine our land, 00:00:32.580 --> 00:00:35.340 our labor without paying a living wage. 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:38.253 He denies climate change and he denies us a future. 00:00:39.310 --> 00:00:41.510 And this man knows more than anybody 00:00:41.510 --> 00:00:43.620 how to work the system in Washington. 00:00:43.620 --> 00:00:47.580 He's the architect. But he's done nothing for Kentucky. 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:49.950 Because he's not your neighbor. 00:00:49.950 --> 00:00:51.780 He's not your brother. 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:53.730 He ain't even from here. 00:00:53.730 --> 00:00:55.590 I grew up in the West End of Louisville, 00:00:55.590 --> 00:00:59.240 I live in 40203, the poorest zip code in the state. 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:00.860 And growing up, I remember 00:01:00.860 --> 00:01:02.930 so often my mom would go without eating dinner 00:01:02.930 --> 00:01:04.950 just to save food for me. 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:07.810 But I still went to school hungry and tired sometimes. 00:01:07.810 --> 00:01:11.490 I lived that. And I knew it didn't have to be that way. 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:13.610 'Cause I had faith that things could get better. 00:01:13.610 --> 00:01:16.040 I had faith because I saw my grandparents 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.150 opening up their homes to foster care, 00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:20.800 I saw my neighbors fighting back on the picket line 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:23.170 and I saw my uncle become an advocate 00:01:23.170 --> 00:01:25.200 after my cousin was murdered. 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:29.140 Teachers, students, union leaders, we're all believers. 00:01:29.140 --> 00:01:32.240 And my mom always told me that, if you have faith, 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:34.490 just the size of a mustard seed, 00:01:34.490 --> 00:01:37.613 you can speak to a mountain and that mountain has to move. 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:43.107 I'm not the alternative to Mitch McConnell, we are. 00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:45.510 This isn't the type of deal 00:01:45.510 --> 00:01:47.490 where someone can just run for office 00:01:47.490 --> 00:01:49.920 or someone can just ask for your vote. 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.100 Nah, I'm asking for that kind of perseverance 00:01:52.100 --> 00:01:53.980 you only find in Kentucky. 00:01:53.980 --> 00:01:56.600 I'm asking us to build that kind of community 00:01:56.600 --> 00:01:58.880 you only find in Kentucky. 00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:00.520 Kentucky needs a movement 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:03.150 and we need to start talking about our dreams again. 00:02:03.150 --> 00:02:04.720 We need a Green New Deal 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:06.540 to create thousands of good jobs 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:07.840 right here in the Commonwealth 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.840 to help us do what we do best, take care of one another. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.640 We can guarantee new jobs for teachers and nurses, 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:16.550 build new hospitals and schools 00:02:16.550 --> 00:02:19.910 and we can win Medicare for All so that nobody has to die 00:02:19.910 --> 00:02:22.270 because they don't have money in their pocket. 00:02:22.270 --> 00:02:26.218 We can win real democracy in Washington and the workplace. 00:02:26.218 --> 00:02:28.940 And when we win, we show that something new 00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:30.713 is happening in Kentucky. 00:02:30.713 --> 00:02:33.053 'Cause we're not a joke, we're not a tragedy. 00:02:33.997 --> 00:02:36.108 I know Kentucky is the future 00:02:36.108 --> 00:02:38.193 and America should follow our lead.