Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: MSNBC Symone Sanders made history when she became the youngest national press secretary on record for Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign. While interviewing for the position, the senator asked her what she wanted to do, and she responded, “I would like to be the national press secretary.” He laughed in response and asked her if she had any prior experience in cable news. Less than a week later, she had the job.
Symone: Thank you. I can’t wait. We will have to have you on. For one of our culture and lifestyle segments, I definitely want to have you.Lindsay: I’m so excited to talk. I don’t even know how long we’ve known each other. It’s been a while now, but I’m so excited to talk to you about your new show and everything because it’s so incredible to see you continuously excel and do the most amazing things.
Lindsay: I love that. You’ve had all of this experience. When you became the youngest presidential press secretary on record, what was the experience actually like to do that, to know that you were the youngest, to carry the weight of that as a Black woman? Lindsay: It’s extremely exhausting. I was going to ask you. I’ve seen that TikTok. They’ve probably been serving it to me on purpose because they know what I’m thinking about how Black women have been saying, “I don’t want to be just considered the strong Black woman anymore.” How do you feel about that narrative? Does it feel like we have to continue to be strong? Even watching the Supreme Court hearings, I’m like, “She is so overqualified.
I signed up to do a job. I’m committed to it. I’m excited about it. I’m excited about the opportunity because there’s nobody that looks like me on TV. There’s nobody with my experience, my background, and my perspective. I want to open up and bring the perspectives of other people beyond the Beltway. So that is why I think this is so important, but I have boundaries. That means I get days off.
Symone: Reclaiming America is as much about democracy as it is about the we. So I talk about it in my book. I talk about that, in the preamble to the Constitution, “We the people in order to form a more perfect union,” the we was not talking to you or I, Lindsay. The we only spoke to old, rich, white men and, over time, that we has expanded to include women, to include people of color, to include differently abled people, to include the LGBTQ+ community. The we is just ever expanding.
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