Deante’ Kyle
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That was back when Ohio was a battleground state.
And if you won Ohio, you won the election.
Um, I could have gotten this big promotion of like organizing, like managing a bunch of people who would organize big budget, all this stuff.
Or I could be a sole person organizing black people in the state.
And the campaign was like, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta take this promotion.
And I was like, I'm going to go organize black people.
In eight months, we were able to go increase Black voter turnout from 2008 to 2012 by 4%.
That doesn't happen.
But you know why I was able to do that?
Is because I had minimal resources.
But you know where else I had minimal resources?
When I was a teacher.
It was like, okay...
My kids have to pass this test.
I don't have a copy machine to make copies.
Who's going to make copies for me?
Oh, there's another teacher down there.