Paint The Polls Black guest Lynae Vanee discuss why it's important to learn from young people .
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00:00There is air that keeps fanning the flames of young people getting ignited,
00:04wanting to be out there and wanting to be involved.
00:06So it's been very interesting to see a lot of young people take the lead.
00:09A lot of young people have voices larger than mine.
00:12You know, I think I get coined as like a voice that can speak directly to Gen Z.
00:16I'm a millennial, so I just try my best to make things as like down to earth
00:20as I possibly can to bring everybody to the table.
00:22But young people are really out here, radicalized in a way that I never expected
00:27to see, and I kind of bring up an example quite often.
00:30When I was a high school teacher, my kids used to ask me,
00:33did I ever think there could be another civil rights movement?
00:35And I would tell them no.
00:36I would tell them that I think that as a community, we are too individualized.
00:41We are too siloed and separated to understand one another's needs enough
00:44to come to the table.
00:46But I never expected to see anything like what I'm seeing right now.
00:49So my hat goes off to young people, and I'm just grateful to be in community
00:52with young people and learning from them as well in this work because I have
00:56degrees in psychology and African-American studies.
00:58And if you had asked me when I started this in 2020, I would not have assumed
01:02I'd be anywhere near politics.
01:04But that's kind of the last thing I'll say to answer this question.
01:07It is my love for Black history and my deep study of it that revealed to me
01:12that Black history does not exist without Black political action.
01:15Every single thing that we've done from the agency of enslaved people
01:18to outright televised revolutions and movements have all been political acts.
01:25So, yeah, it only makes sense that we're here.