Chris Rabb
speaker
372 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Chris Rabb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'll allow it, but that's the only way I'm bringing Black people into workforce.
And that's the reason we still have the tip minimum wage.
So millions of white people who are earning a poverty wage, particularly white women, are being victimized because of white racism generations later.
So our fates are intertwined.
But we have to lift these stories up and show that we indeed have more in common than what divides us.
And that's the way forward.
Well, that's all there is.
A lot of the members have a critical subset of Black voters.
Not all of them are majority Black, but the ones that are are the ones, and particularly in the South, are the ones who are most at risk.
They represent generally folks where there's a higher level of poverty than in suburban districts and so forth.
How do we fund our campaigns and elections, right?
If they do not come from wealth, and I'm sure the Congressional Black Caucus has far less wealth than the average white member of Congress, ridiculously less would be my guess.
Where are they getting their money from?
If they can't raise it from regular voters, constituents, family members in that area, in that district, they need to raise money to get reelected because this is how our system is.
So the lowest hanging fruit, you know, is the lobbyists and, you know, the PACs.
And I'm not saying it's right, but I don't know if you've ever had to spend 35 hours in a windowless room dialing for dollars.
It sucks.
um it's really really hard it's much easier to take a bigger check and do the work and be out there in community so it's easy for us to say oh well these folks are sellouts and they're taking money from the devil but the reality is we're all on the grid we are all complicit to a greater or lesser extent if we had changed the structural way that elections are had and campaigns are funded you're going to see a lot more ideological compatibility with folks
in Congress and that means that they'll be able to vote better and be better public advocates because they will be untethered from corporate interests that you and I agree are so toxic to our participatory democracy.
So we need to get past the personalities and the individuals and dis-individuate this problem and talk about the systemic issues.
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