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Kasim Reed

lines on the record: 61
first: 2017-03-06
most recent: 2017-03-06
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And leaders ignore fights that have to be fought at your peril. So you can have a civil rights icon, a person who literally bled to make America great, get a cheap shot and not have the community stand up and say that that's unacceptable. And I think to the extent that we play this turn the other cheap game, we're going to continue to see the kind of results that we saw at the presidential level where we want to govern and they want to win. We want to serve and they want to win. And so I'm not going to be one who sits on the sideline while their brutality and force allows them to get control of the apparatus of government and do the awful things that we're seeing them do.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Has coming in for some of that. Any city that he's bashing, I think, really is, it's just beyond dog whistle politics. It's a way to say folks in cities are they. And I think that it's a tactic. And so we responded to that tactic. But, you know, the country's economy is being driven by cities like ours, cities like cities like Chicago and Atlanta. So we addressed it really hard because, as you know, David, and as I've learned from you, there are some fights which have to be fought.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I defended a person who's a national hero and I defended my city. I mean, there are a couple of things. One, I knew that President Trump had tried to invest $350 million in Atlanta for a Trump tower in two thousand seven and two thousand eight that went belly up and so he said the city was terrific then before the property was foreclosed on for the Trump development and since that time crime was thirty points lower the city had AA plus credit rating it had more cash reserves than it had in forty years it was the third largest concentration of Fortune five hundred businesses so there were all there was all of this data that was overwhelming that speaks to the fact that the city of Atlanta it sits at the center of the ninth largest metro in America with a GDP dispigger than twenty eight states and I think that I think Mr Trump continues to take shots at cities to encourage his base which is nine city century so it really doesn't whether it's whether he's talking about Atlanta”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Said, if you can't come to a dinner for doctor King, you probably can't do business with Coca-Cola. So I can just cite examples after examples where In my city we have worked at it with all of the warts and I think it's the reason that Atlanta has five presidential medal of freedom winners, two of whom were awarded by President Obama, Dr. CT Vivian Reverend Joseph Laurie, Ambassador Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis, Hank Aaron. I think that there's something going on there.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was the economic engine of the southeast before New York Capital and National Capital Investment after seeing the way Atlanta had managed its issues around race relations? You had Bull Connor and George Wallace in one state when Birmingham had a robust steel industry, and you had Mayor Hartsfield and you had Ivan Allen, who testified in favor of the Civil Rights Act and ended his career in a governor named Carl Sanders and then a governor named Jimmy Carter. So the country was looking where it was going to play an investment role in the southeast. And so I think the fact that we worked at it really hard, the chairman of Coca-Cola, when Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize, that was the first integrated dinner that we had. But that's because Robert W.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you work at it. I think that you take an approach where you know that all problems are not necessarily solvable. I mean, there's a big divide here. I mean, there is a sense in many of our communities in America where we like a problem-solved plant flag approach. And I think in some instances that's just not the right approach. In some instances, you actually know that you've got a really tough problem certainly around issues of race and class. But something does come about when you work at it. You might not be able to plant the flag and say problem solved, but I do believe that there is something at working at trying to get along, working through hard issues, and I think in Atlanta and the South, that's really the reason that Atlanta is what it is today in the mind of America and economically. Birmingham.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have, but you know, back then we didn't have a choice. My mother had all four of us in church on Sunday whether we wanted to or not. My dad somehow frequently got to avoid that. But the four of us, we were in church no matter what. And so that formed me. And then we had a really terrific pastor. And Ben Hill was a very prompt, was and is a very prominent church, so everyone used to come through. And so that's where I met Ambassador Andrew Young, and that's when I decided I was going to be mayor.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I was about eight or nine years old and it became something that folks that I enjoyed doing and the folks in the church responded to. But you know it was that first feeling of I really liked this and my mother I mean I don't think that there's anything that's more compelling than the pride of your mother and your father and so for me being in a family of four boys and being the youngest that was that was a moment that I remember for the rest of my life I remember my mom's face when I would get up as a young boy and leave children's church”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what, David? I think it was essential to it because I went to Ben Hill United Methodist Church and we had a section of the church that was called Children's Church. And so that was when all of the children twelve and down would be called to the pulpit and we had a sermon for them. And so my pastor was a man named Cornelius Henderson. He had me do that sermon.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, immediately. My mother was up visiting my father who was working on a federal program at the time and she missed him, came up and then delivered me, drove. So that's how I was born in Plainfield and then went back home.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was born in 1969, and my father candidly was considering converting to Islam because his heart was broken. My dad had been active in the civil rights movement in South Carolina as a young man at Claflin College, and he was very angry when I was born. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, and doctor King had all been killed, and he had seen it. And so my other brothers are named Carleton Tracy and Charles, which are pretty traditional names, but my brothers middle name is Tracy Fitzgerald, which is just a sign of his affection for President John F. Kennedy. So it was the moment he was considering becoming a Muslim. He did not, but that's how I got the name Mohammed Kassin despite the fact that I've been a Methodist all of my life. And it did cause a bit of tension in my parents. Real family tension.”
2017-03-06 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 127 - Kasim Reed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source