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00:00you can't expect to be served unless you RSVP, right?

00:03So if I have a wedding and I send you an invitation

00:07and I tell you RSVP to my wedding

00:10and let me know your food preference, right?

00:12If you don't RSVP, I have no intentions on serving you.

00:16I gave you an invitation.

00:17Or if you have allergies

00:18and you don't put the allergies there.

00:19Right, I cannot serve you.

00:21So I say the same thing when it comes to voting

00:24is that people would say like,

00:25oh, black people don't vote or young people don't vote.

00:28And so I tell my audience when people are like,

00:30oh, my vote doesn't matter or I'm not gonna vote.

00:32And I'm like, okay.

00:33So then I don't wanna hear you talk about

00:35what a candidate is doing for black people

00:37or doing for your community because you did not RSVP.

00:41So they don't expect you to show up.

00:43So they're not gonna serve you.

00:45The way that we RSVP to being served,

00:48to having the issues that we are most concerned

00:51about being addressed is by voting.

00:54They look at those numbers, right?

00:55When we watch the news today,

00:58whether it's a controversy or it's something good,

01:01we hear oftentimes of news reporters and journalists

01:06announcing someone's voting record, right?

01:08That is on record.

01:10They know how you vote.

01:11They know when you vote, how often you're voting right

01:14and what you are voting for.

01:15That is your RSVP.

01:17That is your key for these candidates to say,

01:20oh, these are the issues I need to be concerned about

01:22because I don't give a darn how much you gerrymander

01:24and how much you redline or do what you gonna do.

01:27The numbers are going to be there.

01:29It's okay.

01:30It's okay.

01:31It's okay.

01:32It's okay.

01:33It's okay.

WATCH: Paint the Polls Black - A.B. Burns-Tucker Talks Voting

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