# SCOTUS Rejects Black Rastafarian. Voting Rights Purge Blocked. Police Kill 1-Year-Old

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 24 Jun 2026, 2 h 18 min.

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6.23.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: SCOTUS Rejects Black Rastafarian. Voting Rights Purge Blocked. Police Kill 1-Year-Old _ For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (724) 264-8281 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/roland *Paid Partnership* _ The Supreme Court rules 6-3 against a Black Rastafarian man in Louisiana who had sued prison officials after they forcibly shaved off his dreadlocks, in what he said was a clear violation of his religious rights. Elie Mystal joins us to break down the latest from the high court. The MAGA Attack on voting rights faces a crucial setback as a federal judge intervenes to stop states from using software developed by immigration enforcement to review their voter rolls, which voting rights groups say would have resulted in unconstitutional voter purges. The family of Kohen Wiley, the one-year-old black boy shot and killed by police in a Walmart parking lot in Mississippi has announced funeral services will be held this coming weekend. The announcement comes as civil rights attorney Ben Crump demands video evidence in the case and has ordered an independent autopsy of the boy. The Senate passed a new, bi-partisan housing bill which makes it easier to construct new homes and helps ensure they can be purchased by families, not corporations. With the legislation now headed to the House of Representatives, the president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers will join us to analyze what impact these measures could have for black homeowners nationwide. In Ohio, a police officer has been placed on leave after bystander and body camera video show him kneeling on top of a 15-year-old girl following an altercation at a Juneteenth Festival last weekend. We'll show you that video and let you decide for yourself. And in the latest installment of Crazy Ass White People -- a black man and his family tried to go fishing in Florida last weekend, only to have a white couple show up, demand they move and then start calling them the n-word. Wait until you see this video. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[5:18] Speaker 12: up in Rolling Martin down Filter streaming live on the
[5:20] Speaker 12: Blackstar Network. Supreme Court says no to Russafarians locks in prison.
[5:26] Speaker 12: The Nation Justice correspondent Ellie Mistel will join us to
[5:29] Speaker 12: break it all down. The mag attack on voting rights
[5:31] Speaker 12: faces a crucial setback as a federal judge stops states
[5:35] Speaker 12: from using software developed by Immigration Enforcement to.
[5:38] Speaker 13: Review their voter rolls.
[5:40] Speaker 12: Funeral services where one year old black boy killed by
[5:42] Speaker 12: police in Mississippi have been set and the family attorney
[5:45] Speaker 12: Ben Crump is calling for an independent autopsy. The Senate
[5:49] Speaker 12: passed a nubio targeting Wall Street buying single family homes.
[5:52] Speaker 12: The president the Natural Association of Real Estate Brokers will
[5:55] Speaker 12: join us.
[5:56] Speaker 13: Plus.
[5:56] Speaker 12: An Ohio cop has been placed on leave after a
[5:59] Speaker 12: bystander and body camera video shows him nearly on top
[6:03] Speaker 12: of a fifteen year old girl following an altercation at
[6:06] Speaker 12: a June teen festival over the weekend. In the latest
[6:08] Speaker 12: installment of crazy ass racist white people, a black man
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[7:06] Speaker 12: He's you would think this extreme court, which loves religious freedom,
[7:24] Speaker 12: would side with the Rastafarian when it comes to his
[7:28] Speaker 12: locks in prison.
[7:29] Speaker 13: Well, nope, that's not what happened.
[7:31] Speaker 12: They rejected a lawsuit filed by this form prison in
[7:34] Speaker 12: Louisiana who said the state officials violated his religious rights
[7:38] Speaker 12: when they shave off his dreadlocks. David at Landor, devout Rastafarian,
[7:43] Speaker 12: had taken what is known as the Nazi righte vial
[7:46] Speaker 12: and for twenty years had allowed his hair to grow.
[7:48] Speaker 12: For four months into his five months prison sentence, guards
[7:52] Speaker 12: at a new facility handcuffed him to a chair and
[7:55] Speaker 12: shaved his head, despite the fact that he provided them
[8:00] Speaker 12: with proof of his right to religious accommodations. Landor a
[8:05] Speaker 12: tempted to sue the prison Wharton and the guards, but
[8:07] Speaker 12: both A federal judge dismissed the case, saying that Landor
[8:11] Speaker 12: was not entitled to sue individual state officials for violating
[8:15] Speaker 12: its religious rights. An Appill's court upheld that ruling, and
[8:18] Speaker 12: Landor pursued the case of the Supreme Court. We're in
[8:20] Speaker 12: a sixty three vote.
[8:22] Speaker 13: They said, Sorry, ain't gonna happen. Now. What might surprise you.
[8:26] Speaker 12: The Trump administration had backed Landor in a dispute arguing
[8:30] Speaker 12: that prohibiting incarcerated people from suing for monetary damages from
[8:35] Speaker 12: government officials who violated their rights would undermine religious liberties.
[8:39] Speaker 12: And the Supreme Court decision is a rare loss for
[8:41] Speaker 12: a plaintiff was arguing that his religious liberties have been violated.
[8:45] Speaker 12: Elie Mischil Justice, corresponding for the Nation, Joseph Right. Now,
[8:48] Speaker 12: Ellie explained this here because again, this extreme court is always.
[8:53] Speaker 13: Religious liberties, religious freedom, religious.
[8:55] Speaker 12: Freedom, and this is kind of like, yeah, we're gonna
[8:57] Speaker 12: give a damn about this Rostafarian.
[9:00] Speaker 4: Yeah, Roland, I hate this case. I think this is
[9:02] Speaker 4: going to go down as one of the worst cases
[9:04] Speaker 4: in this term. And that's with me understanding all the
[9:07] Speaker 4: other horrible things the Supreme Court is about to do.
[9:10] Speaker 4: You said it exactly right. The Supreme Court has a
[9:12] Speaker 4: tradition of upholding religious liberty cases. It turns out that
[9:16] Speaker 4: as long as you claim Jesus makes you a bigot,
[9:20] Speaker 4: the Supreme Court's on your side. The Supreme Court wants
[9:22] Speaker 4: to hear that case. But when it turns out that
[9:25] Speaker 4: you claim that you have a religious right to not
[9:27] Speaker 4: bother anybody to not be bigoted to anybody to not
[9:31] Speaker 4: refuse to bake anybody a cake, to just grow your hair. No,
[9:35] Speaker 4: the Supreme Court doesn't want to hear that. As you
[9:38] Speaker 4: pointed out, this is not the Supreme Court overturning the
[9:42] Speaker 4: constitutional right for free exercise of religion. This is not
[9:47] Speaker 4: the Supreme Court even disagreeing that Landor's religious rights were violated,
[9:55] Speaker 4: which of course they can't because, as you pointed out,
[9:58] Speaker 4: Landor went to prison with a court case specifically proving
[10:03] Speaker 4: to the officers that he had a right to keep
[10:05] Speaker 4: their hair. And you know what the officers did. They
[10:08] Speaker 4: ripped the court case up, threw it in the trash
[10:11] Speaker 4: before they handcuffed him, and forcibly shaved his head. Right,
[10:16] Speaker 4: So like that was the horrific experience that Landor experienced
[10:19] Speaker 4: after he got in prison. And he was only in
[10:21] Speaker 4: prison for five months on a drug possession charge. This
[10:24] Speaker 4: was during the last three weeks of his sentence that
[10:27] Speaker 4: they shaved his twenty year long hair growth. So after
[10:32] Speaker 4: he gets out of prison, he sues under a congressional statue.
[10:36] Speaker 4: Congress has passed the law it's called the Religious land
[10:40] Speaker 4: Us blah blah blah blah Act, saying that prison correctionals
[10:44] Speaker 4: officers have to respect people's First Amendment rights to religious liberty.
[10:48] Speaker 4: Congress passed the law that gives people more protection than
[10:53] Speaker 4: the Constitution, all right, and that is the law that
[10:56] Speaker 4: the Supreme Court said, Yeah, no, we don't care. Now, Christian,
[11:00] Speaker 4: but you're not the right kind of Christian, and so
[11:03] Speaker 4: we don't care. And so they threw out an entire
[11:06] Speaker 4: congressional law. That's why the Trump administration was on the
[11:09] Speaker 4: side of the Rastafarian. It's not because the Trump administration
[11:12] Speaker 4: suddenly like came to Jesus and realized that all religions
[11:15] Speaker 4: should be treated equally.
[11:16] Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
[11:17] Speaker 4: What the Trump administration was saying is that we have
[11:19] Speaker 4: a federal law here that is supposed to protect this
[11:22] Speaker 4: guy that the courts are overlooking. And the Supreme Court
[11:26] Speaker 4: went against the Trump administration and against Congress by throwing
[11:30] Speaker 4: out this law. So then you have to ask why, right,
[11:33] Speaker 4: then you have to ask why this as we keep saying,
[11:37] Speaker 4: this religious court, this crysto fascist court, when you look
[11:41] Speaker 4: at some of their rulings, this court that always seems
[11:44] Speaker 4: to find a right to Christians to do whatever they want,
[11:48] Speaker 4: especially if what they want to do is embarrass and
[11:50] Speaker 4: humiliate gay people. Why did the court overturn this specific
[11:55] Speaker 4: religious law? And when you dig into it, and this
[11:58] Speaker 4: is pointed out by Anjie Brown Jackson in her dissense,
[12:02] Speaker 4: she was the one who really elucidated this. What turns
[12:07] Speaker 4: out is that the way the court, the grounds on
[12:11] Speaker 4: which the Court decided the ruling, it was about the
[12:13] Speaker 4: spending Clause to the Constitution.
[12:16] Speaker 17: Right.
[12:16] Speaker 4: The spending clause says that if you take money from
[12:19] Speaker 4: the federal government, which lots of people do, then you
[12:23] Speaker 4: have to abide by certain rules, regulations, responsibilities from the
[12:28] Speaker 4: federal government that might in fact be over and above
[12:31] Speaker 4: what's required by the Constitution.
[12:33] Speaker 18: Right.
[12:33] Speaker 4: And it's that particular power that the Supreme Court Neil
[12:38] Speaker 4: Gorsich six to three, was trying to undercut. He was
[12:41] Speaker 4: saying that the spending Clause is not to be understood
[12:44] Speaker 4: as like a normal law passed by Congress. It's more
[12:48] Speaker 4: of a contract, and if you don't agree to be
[12:52] Speaker 4: part of the contract, then you can't be hurt under
[12:54] Speaker 4: the spending clause, which means in plain English that Neil
[12:57] Speaker 4: Gorsich says that in order to be held accountable to
[13:01] Speaker 4: laws passed under this power, you have to agree to
[13:05] Speaker 4: be sued Roland. Do you know any other laws that
[13:08] Speaker 4: are that you have to agree to follow them or
[13:11] Speaker 4: else they don't apply. Apparently now we have a whole
[13:14] Speaker 4: new category of laws that only apply if you personally
[13:19] Speaker 4: agree that they should apply to you. So now we
[13:21] Speaker 4: look at what other what other laws are passed under
[13:26] Speaker 4: the Congress's powers under the spending clause. And I have
[13:30] Speaker 4: a couple. It's Title six of the Civil Rights Act,
[13:34] Speaker 4: which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, that is
[13:37] Speaker 4: passed under the spending clause. It's Title nine of the
[13:40] Speaker 4: Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex,
[13:43] Speaker 4: that's under the spending clause. It's the Americans with Disabilities Act.
[13:49] Speaker 4: All of the enforcement mechanisms of the Americans of Disabilities
[13:52] Speaker 4: Act are passed unpursuant to Congress's power under the spending clause.
[13:58] Speaker 4: So when you cut the spending clause, you are taking
[14:01] Speaker 4: a direct shot at civil rights laws, anti discrimination laws,
[14:07] Speaker 4: and Americans with the Americans with Disabilities Act. You're taking
[14:12] Speaker 4: a direct shot at those laws. And that's why the
[14:15] Speaker 4: Supreme Court decided that this Christian, this black Christian, maybe
[14:19] Speaker 4: doesn't get the First Amendment protections that everybody else does.
[14:23] Speaker 12: We are consistently trying to explain to this audience that
[14:28] Speaker 12: what you are witnessing from this extreme court is a
[14:32] Speaker 12: direct attack on Black America. I'm calling it a GOP
[14:38] Speaker 12: war on Black America. I have been yelling and screaming
[14:42] Speaker 12: that what their aim is, it is just to completely
[14:46] Speaker 12: eradicate and destroy the entire civil rights, economic rights, social
[14:54] Speaker 12: justice infrastructure the Black America has benefited from, albeit not greatly,
[15:00] Speaker 12: but still benefited from the last sixty years. And they
[15:03] Speaker 12: want to further go back and eradicate, frankly, the reconstruction Amendments, thirteenth, fourteenth,
[15:09] Speaker 12: and fifteenth Amendment. And so what they are doing is
[15:13] Speaker 12: they are methodically going after the entire infrastructure. And I
[15:19] Speaker 12: need Black America to understand that this is a ten
[15:25] Speaker 12: alarm fire.
[15:26] Speaker 5: This is.
[15:29] Speaker 12: If you want to talk about how heightened folks should be,
[15:33] Speaker 12: this is it. This is not just ah Man, that's
[15:36] Speaker 12: just some little ruling. No, they know exactly what they're
[15:40] Speaker 12: doing here.
[15:41] Speaker 13: Ellie.
[15:42] Speaker 4: Now, I think I've heard you say Roland on this
[15:44] Speaker 4: program that it's not that it's a deconstruction agenda, right,
[15:49] Speaker 4: that it is truly that the Republican Party has decided
[15:53] Speaker 4: that America made a horribly wrong turn in nineteen sixty four.
[15:57] Speaker 4: I mean, they really think that America made a whole
[16:00] Speaker 4: horribly wrong turn in eighteen sixty five when Lee gave
[16:03] Speaker 4: up after getting his ass kicked. But specifically, they think
[16:07] Speaker 4: that America made a horribly wrong turn after nineteen sixty four.
[16:11] Speaker 4: And they're trying to deconstruct, point by point, legal foundation
[16:15] Speaker 4: by legal foundation, the entirety of the civil rights movement,
[16:20] Speaker 4: including specifically now the Civil Rights Act, and that has
[16:23] Speaker 4: been that has been on display. It's primary day where
[16:26] Speaker 4: I live in New York. It's primary day here, and
[16:29] Speaker 4: I often have to explain to Democrats or or only
[16:34] Speaker 4: sometimes voters, what the difference between the two parties is, right, Like,
[16:39] Speaker 4: what's the big what's the big difference between Democrats and Republicans?
[16:42] Speaker 4: And look, I can spend half an hour on the
[16:44] Speaker 4: show talking about my issues with Democrats, but one of
[16:48] Speaker 4: the things that Democrats are not trying to do is
[16:51] Speaker 4: deconstruct the Civil Rights Er. They might not protect it
[16:54] Speaker 4: as much as we want them to, they might not
[16:56] Speaker 4: be able to advance it as much as they should.
[17:00] Speaker 4: They might ignore it when they shouldn't, but they're not
[17:03] Speaker 4: trying to rip it out by the studs.
[17:05] Speaker 5: And that is what the.
[17:06] Speaker 4: Republican Party is doing, and that is what they will
[17:10] Speaker 4: continue to do as long as we allow Republicans to
[17:13] Speaker 4: control the Supreme Court. As you pointed out, rolling this
[17:16] Speaker 4: was a decision against the Trump administration. It's not going
[17:19] Speaker 4: to get reported like that because everybody just assumes, well,
[17:21] Speaker 4: there's no way that Trump likes Rostafarians, and there's not, right,
[17:25] Speaker 4: So it's not going to get It's not one of
[17:28] Speaker 4: Trump's big ticket items, right, It's not as important to
[17:30] Speaker 4: Trump asys I don't know, ballroom. So it's not going
[17:32] Speaker 4: to get reported as as a loss for the for
[17:36] Speaker 4: the Trump administration and the way that people think about it.
[17:38] Speaker 4: But this is a direct loss for the Trump administration.
[17:41] Speaker 4: The Trump administration wanted to protect this law, wanted to
[17:44] Speaker 4: protect religious freedom as passed by Congress. Didn't want this fight.
[17:49] Speaker 4: This is something that the Supreme Court did on its
[17:51] Speaker 4: own volition when they and again they didn't even have
[17:54] Speaker 4: to because, as you pointed out, for the Fifth Circuit,
[17:58] Speaker 4: the Lower Court of Appeals in the Louisiana Louisiana, those
[18:02] Speaker 4: go up to the lower court called the Fifth Circuit.
[18:05] Speaker 4: The Fifth Circuit is the most conservative court in the world, actually,
[18:10] Speaker 4: and the Fifth Circuit already threw land Worth's claim out.
[18:13] Speaker 4: They were already against the Rostafarian right. So for the
[18:16] Speaker 4: Supreme Court to take this case just to affirm what
[18:20] Speaker 4: the lower court already had in place. They did it
[18:23] Speaker 4: for a reason. They didn't have to take the case.
[18:26] Speaker 4: They did it specifically to start to lay that door,
[18:29] Speaker 4: start to crack that foundation on which the entire Civil
[18:33] Speaker 4: Rights Act is built.
[18:35] Speaker 12: Yesterday we discussed this here and it's the same thing
[18:40] Speaker 12: in this Arkansas United versus Thurston. This is from Scota's blog,
[18:44] Speaker 12: where they said the Court had been asked to decide
[18:46] Speaker 12: whether private individuals can enforce Section two or eight of
[18:50] Speaker 12: the Voting Rights Act, which allows voters to receive help
[18:52] Speaker 12: if they are blind, disabled, or cannot read or write.
[18:55] Speaker 12: It arises as part of a challenge to a state
[18:58] Speaker 12: law that bars anyone other than election if it's from
[19:00] Speaker 12: helping more than six voters. I have been yelling and
[19:06] Speaker 12: screaming for people to understand this particular case, and Supreme
[19:10] Speaker 12: Court refused to hear the challenge.
[19:11] Speaker 13: And really, what this is about. This is about again.
[19:15] Speaker 13: People need to understand.
[19:16] Speaker 12: It's setting the groundwork what this extreme court and the
[19:20] Speaker 12: right wing doesn't want to do. They do not want
[19:24] Speaker 12: they do not want third party groups suing when it
[19:28] Speaker 12: comes to voting discrimination. This is targeting the ac ou
[19:33] Speaker 12: NAACP Legal Defense Fund laws, community facilis under law, Black
[19:37] Speaker 12: voters matter, any group that is engaged in litigation. They
[19:42] Speaker 12: argue that only this, They argue that only the DOJ
[19:46] Speaker 12: can actually sue, no one else.
[19:49] Speaker 13: This is going to be expanded as well. This is
[19:54] Speaker 13: a trojan horse case.
[19:56] Speaker 4: People need to understand that cutting off the right to
[19:58] Speaker 4: sue is the same as letting the person get away
[20:02] Speaker 4: with it scott free right. Cutting off the right to
[20:05] Speaker 4: hold a person liable for a violation means that violations
[20:10] Speaker 4: don't matter. Right if there is no enforcement mechanism. If
[20:15] Speaker 4: somebody violates your rights, if somebody steals your car, if
[20:18] Speaker 4: somebody punches you in the face and there's nothing you
[20:21] Speaker 4: can do to them, then there is no law against
[20:26] Speaker 4: violating your rights or stealing your car or punching in
[20:28] Speaker 4: the face.
[20:29] Speaker 13: Right.
[20:29] Speaker 4: If there's nothing that you can actually do to hold
[20:32] Speaker 4: them accountable for their acts, then their acts are unaccountable,
[20:36] Speaker 4: and so one of the and it's happening in the
[20:38] Speaker 4: Rossaveran case. It's the same thing where they're just saying, again,
[20:41] Speaker 4: the guy's rights were violated, but there's no person for
[20:46] Speaker 4: him to sue. There's no real there's no legal redress
[20:49] Speaker 4: for that violation. So it means that they get away
[20:52] Speaker 4: with it. It means that the correctionals officials in Louisiana
[20:55] Speaker 4: get away with it. Under the case you're talking about,
[20:57] Speaker 4: if people are denied their right to vote on account disability,
[21:00] Speaker 4: it means that they get away with it. So when
[21:03] Speaker 4: the Supreme Court cuts off the right to sue, they
[21:05] Speaker 4: are truly making it impossible to hold people who commit
[21:10] Speaker 4: crimes or legal acts or constitutional violations from being held accountable.
[21:15] Speaker 4: And it's as simple as that. And the only way
[21:20] Speaker 4: to fix that is to fix the Supreme Court, because
[21:24] Speaker 4: the Supreme Court gets to decide who has the right
[21:27] Speaker 4: to sue or not.
[21:28] Speaker 19: Again, in the case that I'm talking about, Congress passed
[21:32] Speaker 19: the whole ass law saying that you have the right
[21:35] Speaker 19: to sue the correctional officers if they violate your constitutional right,
[21:39] Speaker 19: and the Supreme Court just they're no different than the
[21:42] Speaker 19: actual officers that shaved off Landor's hair.
[21:45] Speaker 4: They looked at that law from Congress, they ripped it up,
[21:48] Speaker 4: they threw it in the trash, and then they laughed
[21:51] Speaker 4: about it like that. That's where we are. And so
[21:53] Speaker 4: until you reform and repopulate the Supreme Court, you don't
[21:59] Speaker 4: have the ability to protect your rights even if those
[22:04] Speaker 4: rights are written down in legislation or statute.
[22:08] Speaker 13: And what we will we will.
[22:09] Speaker 12: We also need people to understand is that if you
[22:13] Speaker 12: believe that the extreme Court needs to be reformed, that
[22:17] Speaker 12: can only happen with Democrats taking control of the House,
[22:23] Speaker 12: taking control of the Senate, and taking control of the
[22:26] Speaker 12: White House. You can't touch the White House until twenty
[22:29] Speaker 12: twenty eight, but you can impact the Senate right now
[22:33] Speaker 12: in November. You can impact the Senate in the House
[22:36] Speaker 12: again in November twenty twenty eight. What I keep telling people,
[22:40] Speaker 12: and I was in Columbus, Ohio last night with Congressman
[22:42] Speaker 12: and Joyce Baty for a State of Black American discussion
[22:45] Speaker 12: there for the third year in a row, and I'm like, guys,
[22:47] Speaker 12: this is real simple. Everything we're talking about. If you
[22:52] Speaker 12: were angry about this extreme Court, if you are angry
[22:55] Speaker 12: about what DOGE has done. If you're angry that eight
[22:57] Speaker 12: hundred thousand black men and women lost their job and
[23:00] Speaker 12: black unemployment has gone up.
[23:02] Speaker 13: If you're angry.
[23:03] Speaker 12: About the attacks on Deive, you're angry about cuts to
[23:07] Speaker 12: black maternal health and all the research dollars in the
[23:11] Speaker 12: grant dollars. If you're angry that we have seen a
[23:14] Speaker 12: significant drop in black owned businesses getting federal contracts, well,
[23:18] Speaker 12: the only dawn way for you to stop that is
[23:22] Speaker 12: maximizing your vote. There is no other way there literally,
[23:26] Speaker 12: and let me just say it again and l I
[23:27] Speaker 12: when you just speak to this, I mean, people don't understand.
[23:30] Speaker 13: There is no other way. There's no other.
[23:33] Speaker 12: Thing that's sitting out there that has it been tapped
[23:37] Speaker 12: or touched that is going to change this.
[23:40] Speaker 13: The only way this changes is by voting.
[23:50] Speaker 8: Right.
[23:50] Speaker 4: There's nothing that I'm talking about, there's nothing that we
[23:54] Speaker 4: ever talk about that can't be changed by voting right now.
[24:00] Speaker 4: When I say that, I know that a lot of people,
[24:02] Speaker 4: especially people were watching your program roll in. You got
[24:06] Speaker 4: some intelligent viewers. Your people vote right. People who are
[24:10] Speaker 4: watching you are people who are switched on and engage
[24:13] Speaker 4: and for the most part they do vote right, And
[24:16] Speaker 4: so I am certainly one of those people who've Again
[24:19] Speaker 4: its primary day. I went out earlier today and voted
[24:21] Speaker 4: in my Democratic primary. I'm one of those people who
[24:24] Speaker 4: votes all the time and rarely sees the changes that
[24:28] Speaker 4: I demand with my vote. Right, And so that leads
[24:31] Speaker 4: to this sense that like, oh, voting doesn't matter, and
[24:34] Speaker 4: that is the wrong conclusion to take. Right, It's not
[24:38] Speaker 4: that voting doesn't matter, It's that voting isn't enough. Voting
[24:43] Speaker 4: is the start of the process. Voting is the least
[24:47] Speaker 4: common denominator When you think, what's the least I can do,
[24:51] Speaker 4: the very least you can do is vote. If you
[24:55] Speaker 4: want to see change, you have to vote, and right,
[24:58] Speaker 4: you have to do your b basic duty. You have
[25:00] Speaker 4: to do the basic, least common denominator thing, and then
[25:04] Speaker 4: you have to go above and beyond and demand the
[25:06] Speaker 4: change that you seek. So when it comes to Supreme Court,
[25:10] Speaker 4: I like to say, like, look, I can scream at
[25:12] Speaker 4: Hockeing Jefferies until I'm booming the face, right, I can
[25:15] Speaker 4: scream at Chuck Schumer until I'm blue in the face
[25:18] Speaker 4: about court reform. They're not going to listen to me.
[25:21] Speaker 4: They will listen to all y'all. They will listen. If
[25:24] Speaker 4: everybody is screaming at them about court reform, well, then
[25:27] Speaker 4: guess what. The Democrats will adopt court reform. And we
[25:30] Speaker 4: know this works because it works for the Republicans. Once
[25:34] Speaker 4: all the Republicans, once all the Republican voters start screaming
[25:37] Speaker 4: about a thing, the Republicans snap to attention and start
[25:41] Speaker 4: doing whatever it is. They're crazy toothless Yoko, people demand
[25:46] Speaker 4: that they do. And so those people on the Republican side,
[25:49] Speaker 4: they not only vote, they can plain. You know how
[25:52] Speaker 4: Obama said, don't boo vote. I disagree with Obama on that.
[25:57] Speaker 4: Do both, do both vote and then boo. Don't just
[26:02] Speaker 4: boo and not vote, vote and then boo because it's
[26:05] Speaker 4: the booing that actually inspired. Oh, you're not going to
[26:08] Speaker 4: get this vote next time if you don't do what
[26:10] Speaker 4: we're booming about. That's that's the that's the both and
[26:14] Speaker 4: solution to these problems.
[26:17] Speaker 12: Absolutely, Ellie, Is there any is there any other major
[26:21] Speaker 12: theme we're looking out for with these decisions coming down?
[26:24] Speaker 13: Sure?
[26:24] Speaker 4: Sure, sure, we're in the last twelve days of the term.
[26:27] Speaker 4: Usually the Supreme Court wraps it all up by July
[26:29] Speaker 4: fourth weekend. I expect them to do the same. So
[26:32] Speaker 4: in the next three or four next week, we'll probably
[26:35] Speaker 4: get another ten or so decisions, the big ones that
[26:38] Speaker 4: everybody is looking for. The big one that everybody's looking
[26:40] Speaker 4: for is their birthright decision, birthright citizenship decision, that should
[26:46] Speaker 4: be coming down within the week. I've got two other
[26:49] Speaker 4: cases that I'm really concerned about, and I think that,
[26:52] Speaker 4: you know, I don't want to get a egg on
[26:53] Speaker 4: my face. I'm so hopeful that birthright citizenship goes the
[26:57] Speaker 4: right way. There are two other huge cases that I'm
[26:59] Speaker 4: looking at that I do not think will go well.
[27:01] Speaker 4: One is he Cox. It's about trans athletes and their rights.
[27:06] Speaker 4: I think the Court is going to continue its crusade
[27:09] Speaker 4: to eradicate trans people and especially trans children. And then
[27:13] Speaker 4: I'm also waiting for the temporary protectic status cases involving
[27:17] Speaker 4: Haitian immigrants with the which the Trump administration by FIAT
[27:21] Speaker 4: just decided shouldn't exist anymore. Well, wait, I'm waiting to
[27:25] Speaker 4: see if the Supreme Court goes along with him. They
[27:28] Speaker 4: probably will, but I'm still waiting for that decision too.
[27:32] Speaker 12: I just remember this one thing I got to ask
[27:34] Speaker 12: you did you see this story out of Texas where
[27:38] Speaker 12: they are handing out the Guardian roll the store. They're
[27:40] Speaker 12: handing out fifty year prison sentences for people who are
[27:44] Speaker 12: protesting at an ICE facility under the terrorism clause.
[27:50] Speaker 13: What the hell?
[27:53] Speaker 4: On my website the Nation, Dick Geppart, you're old, You're
[27:58] Speaker 4: old like me. You remember Richard Geppart, Right, Dick keep
[28:00] Speaker 4: yep yep. Buda Missouri, right, Adam Missouri, Adam Missouri. He
[28:05] Speaker 4: wrote an article for my magazine in the Nation where
[28:08] Speaker 4: he called what's happening a rolling coup. And if you
[28:12] Speaker 4: remember anything about Dick Geppart, he was not a rabble rouser, right,
[28:15] Speaker 4: He was not a firebrand guy. He was not prone
[28:18] Speaker 4: to hyperbole. And Dick Geppart is out here calling what
[28:21] Speaker 4: the Trump is doing, specifically with these ISRs, a rolling coup.
[28:24] Speaker 5: It is it is.
[28:26] Speaker 4: It is the imposition of fascism on our world. We
[28:30] Speaker 4: live in a world where January sixth, domestic white domestic
[28:33] Speaker 4: terror terrorists got pardoned after attacking the capital and smearing their.
[28:39] Speaker 5: Poop on it.
[28:41] Speaker 4: And yet we have people and when we say antipha
[28:45] Speaker 4: or whatever they call it, there's no actual the government
[28:50] Speaker 4: isn't even defining what organization they're part of, what Antipha means,
[28:56] Speaker 4: who the They don't got no capo of Antifa, They
[29:00] Speaker 4: no organizational structure. They're just saying, if you protest your
[29:03] Speaker 4: Antifa and Antipha is a terrorist organization and so we
[29:06] Speaker 4: can charge you under terrorism statutes without actually proving that
[29:10] Speaker 4: a Antipha exists, how it's structured, or obviously what terrorism
[29:18] Speaker 4: they are promoting. So it is, it is. It is
[29:21] Speaker 4: a cue. It is is fascism on our streets. And
[29:25] Speaker 4: we're in a situation where if there is ever a
[29:27] Speaker 4: democratic president again, democratic president will have to pardon those people.
[29:31] Speaker 4: I mean like it'll it'll have to be a first
[29:34] Speaker 4: one hundred days priority for that president to pardon these
[29:37] Speaker 4: people who are now being unfairly prosecuted under trumped up
[29:41] Speaker 4: terrorism charges based on no evidence of being in any
[29:45] Speaker 4: kind of international conspiracy.
[29:48] Speaker 12: It is absolutely insane, Elliot, mister justice correspondent with a
[29:52] Speaker 12: nation which she'll appreciate it. Man, thanks a lot, thanks
[29:54] Speaker 12: so much for having me go Ghana. Uh, folks, Yeah,
[29:58] Speaker 12: I know how I feel about the world because I
[30:00] Speaker 12: ain't watching nothing. I ain't watching I ain't watching now one,
[30:03] Speaker 12: one game, one nothing. I'm like, I ain't watching soccer.
[30:06] Speaker 12: But hey, if y'all, if that's your thing, knock yourself out.
[30:10] Speaker 12: So I'll just look at I'll look at the colorful outfits.
[30:12] Speaker 12: All right, y'all, let me.
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[31:48] Speaker 12: Stay right there, all right, folks, Let's bring in my
[31:56] Speaker 12: panel today. Glad to have them here. Joining us the
[32:00] Speaker 12: Mustapha Atago I leave forms the UN Advisor for Environmental.
[32:03] Speaker 13: Justice at the EPA out of DC.
[32:06] Speaker 12: Joe Richardson, Silver Ro's attorney, joining us with La Clil Thompson,
[32:09] Speaker 12: Executive Director, Win with Blackman Dot Org from DC. Mustapha
[32:13] Speaker 12: I'll start with you don't want to read from something.
[32:16] Speaker 12: First of all, in that sixty three Landor decision, the
[32:20] Speaker 12: dissenting justices so on and Soda Mayor Lena Kagan Justice
[32:24] Speaker 12: Kataji Brown Jackson, they wanted the decision will leave prisoners
[32:28] Speaker 12: like Landor who suffer violations of the religious rights while incarcerated.
[32:32] Speaker 13: Remy this. This is what she wrote, quote, encroachments.
[32:36] Speaker 12: On prisoner's statutory rights are likely to happen with fair frequency,
[32:40] Speaker 12: as state empowered prison officials will have little incentive to
[32:44] Speaker 12: abide by federal law, even if it is handed to
[32:47] Speaker 12: them on a piece of paper.
[32:49] Speaker 13: And that's just the fact.
[32:50] Speaker 12: We see this also with how Donald Trump and his
[32:53] Speaker 12: cronies are operating. They're like, we don't give a damn,
[32:55] Speaker 12: We're flooding the law. And so this extreme court has
[32:58] Speaker 12: basically said to these prison guards, does it matter that
[33:03] Speaker 12: person's fedal rights?
[33:04] Speaker 13: Do whatever the hell you want to do.
[33:08] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[33:09] Speaker 21: Well, you know, first of all, we should say, for
[33:10] Speaker 21: those who don't know or follow the Rastafarian religion, that
[33:14] Speaker 21: our locks are sacred covenant with God. And that's the
[33:17] Speaker 21: way that Rastafarians see that. So that's why it's so
[33:21] Speaker 21: incredibly important for those protections to be in place, because
[33:25] Speaker 21: when it's taken away, it is also breaking that covenant
[33:28] Speaker 21: with God. Now, in relationship to the Supreme Court's decision today,
[33:33] Speaker 21: you know, it's nothing new, right, We continue to see
[33:36] Speaker 21: this narrowing of the ability to challenge racial discrimination. We
[33:40] Speaker 21: continue to see it, you know, in relationship to the court,
[33:43] Speaker 21: and whether it is around education or the environment, around voting,
[33:47] Speaker 21: around housing, around employment, we continue to see, you know,
[33:51] Speaker 21: I used to say the narrowing, now I say it
[33:53] Speaker 21: is the strangling of civil rights laws because they literally
[33:56] Speaker 21: want to take the life out of the remaining as
[34:00] Speaker 21: sets of civil rights laws that we have to keep
[34:02] Speaker 21: us safe. But we continue to see this court, this
[34:06] Speaker 21: extreme court, to continue to take those away. And of
[34:09] Speaker 21: course those who dissented, they were exactly correct and how
[34:13] Speaker 21: they are framing this out, and we have to pay attention.
[34:16] Speaker 21: And that's why, you know, I'm so glad to hear
[34:19] Speaker 21: both Ellie and you talking about why we have to vote.
[34:22] Speaker 21: And it's not just one election, it is multiple elections
[34:25] Speaker 21: if you seriously want to change the dynamics of the
[34:27] Speaker 21: court and the lower courts as well. So we just
[34:31] Speaker 21: have to make a decision if we truly want to
[34:33] Speaker 21: stand up and protect ourselves and those who are you know,
[34:38] Speaker 21: dealing with racial discrimination and other forms of discrimination inside
[34:41] Speaker 21: of this country. Because you know, the alarm has already
[34:45] Speaker 21: been sounded. We have to decide if not only ourselves,
[34:48] Speaker 21: but those folks who call themselves allies are going to
[34:51] Speaker 21: show up to vote and to continue to raise our
[34:54] Speaker 21: voices and put a spotlight on what's going on.
[34:57] Speaker 12: The thing to me that is crazy here, Joe, and
[35:00] Speaker 12: what the people are saying is that, hey, we really
[35:04] Speaker 12: only care about a white theocracy. We really care about
[35:08] Speaker 12: white Christian nationalism, not anybody else's religion.
[35:15] Speaker 22: Yeah, you know, you thought maybe we had a chance
[35:18] Speaker 22: between the Trump administration supporting this and this being about religion, right,
[35:23] Speaker 22: this would seem to be consistent with what they say, Oh,
[35:26] Speaker 22: religious freedom, We're all for that, We're all for you
[35:30] Speaker 22: expressing yourself religiously. And even when the Trump Administration's on
[35:34] Speaker 22: our side, apparently the Supreme Court still undoes it.
[35:37] Speaker 5: And so while a lot of.
[35:41] Speaker 22: People may look at us sitting here on Roland Martin unfiltered, saying, man,
[35:47] Speaker 22: these cats are really out to undo.
[35:50] Speaker 8: Black folks to the point of not even following.
[35:54] Speaker 9: Their own rules.
[35:55] Speaker 22: And we seem out there, and we seem radical, we
[35:58] Speaker 22: seem filling the blank, whatever it might be. But what
[36:00] Speaker 22: else can you come up with if they are breaking
[36:04] Speaker 22: their own rules pertaining to religious freedom. Typically, there's not
[36:10] Speaker 22: a narrowing of religious freedom. There's an expansion of religious freedom.
[36:15] Speaker 8: And what do you do, to Ellie's point, what do
[36:18] Speaker 8: you do if you can't.
[36:20] Speaker 22: Sue the person that's responsible for breaking what is a
[36:25] Speaker 22: federal law.
[36:27] Speaker 8: They've got no reason to follow the law at this point.
[36:31] Speaker 22: And so you continue on and on and we you know,
[36:35] Speaker 22: you sound like a broken record, a Roland, But it's
[36:37] Speaker 22: a pretty good record, and it's a hit because it's
[36:41] Speaker 22: telling the truth about what's happening to us here. There's
[36:45] Speaker 22: no reason for this inconsistency. There's no reason for the
[36:48] Speaker 22: other ones either. But there's really no issue and no
[36:51] Speaker 22: reason for this inconsistency when even the Trump administration supported
[36:56] Speaker 22: a support supported the uphole of religious rights as dictated
[37:02] Speaker 22: by Congress. The question for the Supreme Court is not
[37:05] Speaker 22: even whether or not they like it. It's never about
[37:08] Speaker 22: whether or not they like it. But if the legislature
[37:11] Speaker 22: has already moved in a particular situation, and someone being
[37:15] Speaker 22: a Rastafarian does not impinge or infringe on any other
[37:20] Speaker 22: person's rights, then why on earth would you overturn it.
[37:25] Speaker 22: There's no good reason other than to say, this is
[37:28] Speaker 22: another way that this Republican out of the box, way
[37:36] Speaker 22: out of the stable, and all the way down the
[37:39] Speaker 22: field of Supreme Court. This is another way that they're
[37:43] Speaker 22: trying to undermine black folks to the extent that we
[37:47] Speaker 22: can't even follow it.
[37:47] Speaker 8: We don't even know what the rules are. You can't
[37:50] Speaker 8: play a game if you don't know the rules.
[37:52] Speaker 12: And the problem that we in the point that I
[37:54] Speaker 12: made very simply to Eliot, is that the only way,
[37:57] Speaker 12: the only way to switch courses, to change what is
[38:02] Speaker 12: going on, is for there to be a massive response
[38:07] Speaker 12: at the ballot box.
[38:08] Speaker 13: Now we know who we target on this show.
[38:11] Speaker 12: Like I said, I was in Columbus last night, I'm
[38:13] Speaker 12: gonna be in Fort Lauderdale next week. We're gonna be
[38:17] Speaker 12: in Richmond, Virginia for the Democrats Commonwealth gala on Saturday.
[38:23] Speaker 12: And I'm saying over and over and over again, the
[38:25] Speaker 12: only way that happens you have to have a massive turnout.
[38:28] Speaker 12: And the reality is if you're progressive, if you're Democrats,
[38:32] Speaker 12: you're going to have to put time and money resources
[38:37] Speaker 12: on the ground to turn people out. You cannot assume
[38:40] Speaker 12: folks are going to turnout. You cannot assume that all
[38:43] Speaker 12: these people are really upset with affordability, with this extreme court,
[38:47] Speaker 12: the really lipsit with these things, they are going to
[38:49] Speaker 12: turn out. No, the only way this thing changes is
[38:53] Speaker 12: if people again go hard to the ballot box. That
[38:59] Speaker 12: means getting informed today, that means registering, and that means
[39:03] Speaker 12: getting close to the polls in November.
[39:06] Speaker 23: I couldn't agree with you more. You know, we are
[39:08] Speaker 23: a partner in this work. I was on with you
[39:11] Speaker 23: and Reverend Barbara that helps it. Hosted a training. I
[39:13] Speaker 23: don't know if it was last week or the weekend before,
[39:15] Speaker 23: but was on and got trained on the texting program
[39:18] Speaker 23: that you're going to have letus use and other brothers
[39:20] Speaker 23: from around the country that signed up. I think this
[39:22] Speaker 23: is the moment, but we all sho be clear about
[39:24] Speaker 23: history and context. We know the evangelical right has been
[39:28] Speaker 23: moving over the last two to three decades to come
[39:30] Speaker 23: to a place where they want us to return back
[39:32] Speaker 23: to this nineteen fifties era, taking us back sixty one
[39:36] Speaker 23: years prior to the Voting Rights Act, and that's where
[39:38] Speaker 23: they really want to turn. But they're in this conflict
[39:41] Speaker 23: right now because the Trump administration isn't necessarily align on
[39:44] Speaker 23: all the things that they want, and so when we're
[39:46] Speaker 23: talking about religious freedom, it seems to be a cherry
[39:49] Speaker 23: picking of what they really are supporting. And then we're
[39:53] Speaker 23: also noticing that in this particular case, it's only against us.
[39:58] Speaker 23: We're not trying to make it about race. Well, all
[40:00] Speaker 23: of you brothers would love to just wake up, live
[40:02] Speaker 23: and be Americans in America and going about your day,
[40:05] Speaker 23: make money and raise your family. And so in order
[40:08] Speaker 23: to do that, Roland, you said that in the previous segment,
[40:11] Speaker 23: the most powerful tool that we have is our vote.
[40:13] Speaker 23: What I have heard today in Maryland, in Utah and
[40:17] Speaker 23: New York is that some brothers that ask me, well,
[40:19] Speaker 23: what's the point. I'm really frustrated. I'm not seeing a
[40:22] Speaker 23: government that represents me. And you have the power to
[40:25] Speaker 23: change what that government looks like, what that judge looks like,
[40:29] Speaker 23: what your click of the courts, your school board. You
[40:33] Speaker 23: have that power today and so many and I know
[40:35] Speaker 23: this may not seem like it connects. I wish it would,
[40:38] Speaker 23: but so many foughts so that you could freely go
[40:40] Speaker 23: in and vote no matter when you want, whether it's
[40:43] Speaker 23: by mail early or.
[40:44] Speaker 5: In person on election day.
[40:46] Speaker 23: And the fact that there's got to be so much
[40:48] Speaker 23: is troubling, but that's my own intellectual cross to bear,
[40:51] Speaker 23: and I'm with you. We need supporters, So yes, we
[40:54] Speaker 23: need folks on the left, on the progressive and anybody
[40:56] Speaker 23: else that wants to support our work and get behind us.
[40:59] Speaker 23: But we also need ourselves. I know you're doing work.
[41:02] Speaker 23: We're doing work over here at Women Black Men. We
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[46:02] Speaker 12: No a set back for Donald Trump's administration and his
[46:05] Speaker 12: attacks on Black America and the right to vote is
[46:07] Speaker 12: the federal judge ruled that its proposed voter eligibility verification system,
[46:13] Speaker 12: known as the SAVE is unlawful. SAVE as a government
[46:17] Speaker 12: program operated by US Citizenship and Immigration Services that was
[46:21] Speaker 12: originally designed to help state and federal agencies verify foreign
[46:24] Speaker 12: born individuals for benefits, but at the urging of the
[46:27] Speaker 12: White House, several states have been using the system to
[46:30] Speaker 12: review their voter rules, raising concerns about privacy and voter access.
[46:35] Speaker 12: Critics have documented cases in which foreign born Americans were
[46:39] Speaker 12: mistakingly flagged as non citizens. In a seventy five page ruling,
[46:44] Speaker 12: US District Judge Sparkle Suanan wrote, all in all, the
[46:49] Speaker 12: federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of
[46:53] Speaker 12: American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right
[46:57] Speaker 12: to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens. Joe,
[47:03] Speaker 12: It's no surprise because all Donald Trump and his maggots
[47:07] Speaker 12: have done is completely defy the law, ignore the law,
[47:11] Speaker 12: and ignore the rights of Americans who they don't like.
[47:18] Speaker 22: Yeah, I mean, and this quote say that you know,
[47:21] Speaker 22: was basically enhanced, shall we say, by Elon Musk and
[47:28] Speaker 22: everyone else, to basically go through a back door at
[47:31] Speaker 22: purging voter rolls and niggas just say oops, my.
[47:34] Speaker 8: Bad, sorry again.
[47:38] Speaker 22: You cannot ignore the fact that these guys' biggest line
[47:42] Speaker 22: of defense is keeping people from voting.
[47:47] Speaker 8: And the reason they do that is that they know
[47:50] Speaker 8: that if everybody voted, they would lose.
[47:53] Speaker 22: They're unpopular, their policies are unpopular, and they are out numbered, Okay,
[48:00] Speaker 22: longly the inevitable in terms of the state of them
[48:04] Speaker 22: being outnumbered actually showing up in every election of consequence,
[48:08] Speaker 22: and they're doing everything they can to turn back the
[48:11] Speaker 22: hands of time and to bring us back to the
[48:14] Speaker 22: nineteenth century.
[48:15] Speaker 8: And so the other thing that I'll know, Roland is
[48:18] Speaker 8: that with these lower courts, we don't tend to have
[48:20] Speaker 8: as many problems as we do with the Supreme Court.
[48:22] Speaker 22: You've got a whole lot of constitutional folks, both appointed
[48:26] Speaker 22: by Republicans and Democrats.
[48:27] Speaker 8: That know with what they smell is a rat.
[48:30] Speaker 22: They know that something in the milk's not white. This
[48:33] Speaker 22: is what they're doing with the Safe Act. They're using
[48:36] Speaker 22: this to try to purge the voter roles. When it
[48:40] Speaker 22: comes down to it, there's nothing legal about it. It's
[48:43] Speaker 22: totally illegal, and once again, it's to disenfranchise people that
[48:48] Speaker 22: aren't going to vote the way that they do and
[48:51] Speaker 22: the way that they would want them to, particularly black people.
[48:54] Speaker 22: It is another attack on black people. And I am
[48:57] Speaker 22: glad this judge got it right.
[49:01] Speaker 13: Khalil.
[49:03] Speaker 5: Look, I watched, we all were watching. Most of us
[49:07] Speaker 5: were watching the Knicks play.
[49:08] Speaker 23: In the NBA Finals, and we you know, whether it's
[49:10] Speaker 23: Nixon four or Nixon five, we were excited about the game.
[49:14] Speaker 23: If those referees were trying hard to make sure it
[49:17] Speaker 23: was a game seven and missing fouls or calling fouls,
[49:21] Speaker 23: we would be in the uproar. No one fights this
[49:24] Speaker 23: hard to deny you access to something that is constitutionally
[49:28] Speaker 23: provided for you if they weren't in fear of what
[49:31] Speaker 23: you would do.
[49:31] Speaker 5: So just imagine that setting in now.
[49:33] Speaker 23: Once you come to terms with that, and you want
[49:36] Speaker 23: to see an awesome game that's done in four or five,
[49:39] Speaker 23: why aren't you then taking advantage of all that you
[49:41] Speaker 23: can to participate in this voting process? And so, like,
[49:44] Speaker 23: I think it's critical that not only are you getting
[49:47] Speaker 23: registered to vote, but you're doing three things.
[49:49] Speaker 5: You're checking your.
[49:50] Speaker 23: Voter registration status on a consistent basis. You can go
[49:53] Speaker 23: to Women Black Men dot org on our C four side.
[49:57] Speaker 23: You can check your voter registration status there. I know
[50:00] Speaker 23: rolland and with Reverend Barber, there's a way that you
[50:03] Speaker 23: can check your voter assitution status or get registered to vote.
[50:05] Speaker 23: But then once you've done it, and that you're now
[50:07] Speaker 23: your responsibility to find three friends in your community and
[50:11] Speaker 23: make sure they're also registered to vote.
[50:13] Speaker 5: Then make a voting plan.
[50:15] Speaker 23: Whether you're gonna vote early, you're gonna vote by mail,
[50:17] Speaker 23: you're gonna do dropbox, you're gonna vote in person. On
[50:19] Speaker 23: election debt is thinking about how you can weep this in.
[50:23] Speaker 23: I love that me and my daughter. Just last week
[50:25] Speaker 23: we were able to vote together. She now knows all
[50:27] Speaker 23: the people that are running because she sees here's all
[50:29] Speaker 23: the tv ads in the house.
[50:30] Speaker 5: And here's me. Talk about it.
[50:32] Speaker 23: But make it fun. This shouldn't be a task or
[50:34] Speaker 23: a sure. This is a right that's bestowed upon us
[50:38] Speaker 23: in in America and we need to exercise it. And
[50:40] Speaker 23: so check your status, make sure you're registered, Take three
[50:43] Speaker 23: friends and make a voting plan, and make sure you
[50:45] Speaker 23: get out and the vote.
[50:47] Speaker 13: Absolutely Mustafa.
[50:50] Speaker 21: I mean everything that Joe and Khalil just shared is
[50:53] Speaker 21: so incredibly important. I mean, people got to understand that
[50:56] Speaker 21: your vote is a flex. It's your opportunity to flex.
[50:59] Speaker 21: It's your opportunity to say the things that I don't
[51:01] Speaker 21: like that are going on my community. I'm going to
[51:04] Speaker 21: make sure that I have the ability to change that
[51:06] Speaker 21: through the individuals who are asking for my vote. But
[51:09] Speaker 21: you also got understanding we've got the great purge. Joe
[51:12] Speaker 21: just talked about purge or the great erasure because this
[51:15] Speaker 21: is all intentional, right. The intentionality of it is that
[51:19] Speaker 21: people understand that if they can erase individual's ability to
[51:24] Speaker 21: be able to participate in the civic process fully, then
[51:27] Speaker 21: they can also mess with the money because they understand
[51:31] Speaker 21: that that is linked to your vote. The individuals who
[51:33] Speaker 21: are sitting in office will make a decision around housing
[51:36] Speaker 21: and education and the environment and a number of other
[51:38] Speaker 21: things that we talk about. So we got to understand
[51:41] Speaker 21: it the power that we have in relationship to voting
[51:45] Speaker 21: and why people are so focused, hyper focused on being
[51:51] Speaker 21: able to chip away at our ability to be able
[51:53] Speaker 21: to fully utilize our vote. So, as I often say,
[51:57] Speaker 21: and my grandmothers share with me, you have power unless
[51:59] Speaker 21: you get it away. There's power in our vote, and
[52:02] Speaker 21: there's power also in the hands of others who are
[52:04] Speaker 21: trying to take away that vote. So we have to
[52:06] Speaker 21: make sure that we end up on the positive side
[52:09] Speaker 21: of that equation and not the folks who are trying
[52:11] Speaker 21: to make sure that we no longer exist in a
[52:13] Speaker 21: way that is human and in a way that is
[52:16] Speaker 21: supposed to be American.
[52:18] Speaker 12: Indeed, folks, let's go to Mississippi, where funeral services haven't
[52:23] Speaker 12: announced for Cohen Wyde, the one year old boy shot
[52:27] Speaker 12: to kill by cops earlier this month after police responded
[52:31] Speaker 12: to a call about someone alleging shoplifting diapers from a
[52:34] Speaker 12: Walmart going as mother and another woman. We're in a
[52:36] Speaker 12: vehicle leaving the walmart when police arrive. While officials have
[52:39] Speaker 12: claimed the vehicle drove it officers, the family witnesses have
[52:42] Speaker 12: insisted it was driving away when an officer opened fire.
[52:46] Speaker 12: The boys' family announced earlier today that his visitation will
[52:49] Speaker 12: be held Friday, following by funeral services on Saturday at
[52:52] Speaker 12: two pm at the Hosanna Family Worship Center in Pope, Mississippi.
[52:56] Speaker 12: The announcement comes just one day after the family and
[52:59] Speaker 12: their attorney Crump, held a news conference in which they
[53:02] Speaker 12: again call for all body camera, dashboard camera and surveillan's
[53:06] Speaker 12: video to be released and announced that they will commission
[53:09] Speaker 12: an independent autopsy.
[53:13] Speaker 25: Now, before you hear from one of our community activists,
[53:21] Speaker 25: we're gonna have you hear from baby Cohen's mother, who
[53:29] Speaker 25: is still one week later, still.
[53:34] Speaker 6: Having nightmares and having panic attacks over this tragedy. Obviously, nothing.
[53:50] Speaker 25: Can compare to her mother losing their child, especially been
[53:57] Speaker 25: shot while the baby is in her arms. Good, So
[54:03] Speaker 25: she is doing her best to try to keep it
[54:08] Speaker 25: together through all the confusion and saw all of.
[54:12] Speaker 6: The mental anguish. So you all keep her in prayer
[54:19] Speaker 6: keep standing up and loving on.
[54:21] Speaker 25: Her, so she knows that she's not alone in trying
[54:25] Speaker 25: to get to the truth and get to justice. Y'all
[54:30] Speaker 25: stand to your feed unless child, justice for baby Coat,
[54:34] Speaker 25: and so she knows she's not alone.
[54:37] Speaker 5: Justice for baby Car, justice for baby.
[54:41] Speaker 16: Cough, Justice for baby Cough.
[54:48] Speaker 25: Thank you, Felicie. We gonna stay it because I don't
[54:51] Speaker 25: know if the our standards is it?
[54:55] Speaker 5: Okay?
[54:55] Speaker 6: If she stands here, can y'all see her?
[54:57] Speaker 13: Ok Okay?
[55:00] Speaker 6: Say what's on your heart?
[55:02] Speaker 3: Hey?
[55:02] Speaker 26: Everyone, my name is Bealici o' wiley.
[55:05] Speaker 3: I'm the mother of baby Cohen. I watched my.
[55:08] Speaker 26: Baby take his first bro and I watched my baby
[55:11] Speaker 26: take his last bro. I'm still in the disbelief about
[55:18] Speaker 26: the traumatizing event that in currently took my one and
[55:21] Speaker 26: only child, Baby col I asked that you keep my
[55:24] Speaker 26: family in your prayers and justice for baby coll, justice.
[55:29] Speaker 10: For baby Coin, justice for baby Car, justice for baby Car.
[55:40] Speaker 13: The thing here is that in that particular town.
[55:45] Speaker 12: Khalil, folks that are not playing, they pretty much shut
[55:48] Speaker 12: down the Walmart there, boycotting every single day until they
[55:52] Speaker 12: get interest.
[55:54] Speaker 23: Yet in this case, and I don't know all the
[55:57] Speaker 23: intricate details, but we're watching a baby's life was lost
[56:01] Speaker 23: over and I was looking it up between thirty and
[56:04] Speaker 23: sixty dollars. Now, obviously the officers didn't know that going in,
[56:07] Speaker 23: But let's do some due diligence and say, hey, what
[56:10] Speaker 23: is You're here to protect and serve and that's the individual,
[56:13] Speaker 23: not just the property. And so why didn't we take
[56:16] Speaker 23: the extra step of saying, let's figure out what's going on.
[56:19] Speaker 23: You are behind a deadly weapon, and my mother and
[56:23] Speaker 23: her child and family are leaving the scene of chaos
[56:27] Speaker 23: to get safe. Why isn't then the thought process, how
[56:30] Speaker 23: can I protect the community that I'm there in serving
[56:32] Speaker 23: first as opposed to I am there to teach these
[56:36] Speaker 23: people a lesson, which I believe was probably the case
[56:38] Speaker 23: in this particular circumstance, as I've seen in some instances
[56:42] Speaker 23: with some of these officers.
[56:43] Speaker 2: And so.
[56:45] Speaker 5: My heart goes out as a parent.
[56:47] Speaker 23: I know my daughter is right now about to spend
[56:49] Speaker 23: some time with her cousins over the summer, over the
[56:52] Speaker 23: week this summer, and I'm worried, as any parent would
[56:56] Speaker 23: be as you watch your child go off. I don't
[56:58] Speaker 23: know how I would survive if I never saw her again.
[57:02] Speaker 23: So my heart aches seeing that young mother having to
[57:07] Speaker 23: carry this burden, but I am hopeful to see a
[57:09] Speaker 23: community that is rallying around her. We need to show up,
[57:13] Speaker 23: just like in South Carolina at the gas station and
[57:16] Speaker 23: in other places.
[57:17] Speaker 5: It's unfortunate that we have to do this, but it's
[57:19] Speaker 5: what we need to do to.
[57:20] Speaker 23: Let communities know you're not going to come in, open
[57:23] Speaker 23: up a shop, set up shop in our communities, treat
[57:26] Speaker 23: us with disrespect, and then continue to watch us spend
[57:29] Speaker 23: our dollars there. So I'm empowered to see the community
[57:32] Speaker 23: standing up and letting business know that if you want
[57:35] Speaker 23: to be here, you're going to treat us with the respect.
[57:36] Speaker 5: That we deserve.
[57:38] Speaker 13: Absolutely, Joe.
[57:42] Speaker 8: As we've talked before, the civil rights movement was successful
[57:46] Speaker 8: because it.
[57:46] Speaker 22: Had an economic component, and often that's the beginning of
[57:49] Speaker 22: the conversation, even as we ask for justice, if things
[57:53] Speaker 22: are business as usual in that town, as it pertains
[57:57] Speaker 22: to the flow of economic prosperity as.
[58:01] Speaker 8: It were, and allowing the walmarts of the world and the.
[58:03] Speaker 22: Places especial as this to stay open and us to
[58:07] Speaker 22: continue to conduct ourselves as if nothing happened to us
[58:11] Speaker 22: there is.
[58:12] Speaker 8: You know, listen, it's already a risk being a police officer.
[58:16] Speaker 22: I'm not saying that it's hard, it's easy, and I'm
[58:19] Speaker 22: not saying that there aren't good people that are trying
[58:21] Speaker 22: to do it.
[58:22] Speaker 8: I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say
[58:23] Speaker 8: most are good people.
[58:25] Speaker 22: But that being said, they would have to think through
[58:28] Speaker 22: this situation before they actually pulled the gun.
[58:32] Speaker 8: A lot of times people will pull a gun.
[58:34] Speaker 22: Just because they can, if they believe they will be
[58:37] Speaker 22: ultimately legal, just legally justified in doing so to the
[58:40] Speaker 22: point where it doesn't compromise their freedom and really paying
[58:44] Speaker 22: out a lawsuit becomes the cost of doing business. But
[58:46] Speaker 22: what can we do to actually change the conduct. Hopefully
[58:50] Speaker 22: they're paying attention now, even if it's because of the
[58:53] Speaker 22: economic reason, and then hopefully that can progress to a
[58:57] Speaker 22: better discussion about what actually happened, justice and accountability related
[59:01] Speaker 22: to it, and where we go forward.
[59:03] Speaker 21: Dava, I mean, we have to understand the psychology. In
[59:08] Speaker 21: many places across this country. We are seen as sacrificable people.
[59:13] Speaker 21: We are seen as individuals who are light can be extinguished,
[59:17] Speaker 21: even when it is a child. What is the mentality
[59:20] Speaker 21: of an officer that shoots into a car. Now you
[59:24] Speaker 21: had the video coverage that was inside the store, so
[59:28] Speaker 21: you would have been able to see if somebody you
[59:30] Speaker 21: know was shoplifting. Then you can also capture the plate
[59:34] Speaker 21: of the car, and you can let another time go
[59:37] Speaker 21: and if there's reason for someone to be arrested, arrest
[59:41] Speaker 21: them at that time. But because we are seen as sacrificable,
[59:45] Speaker 21: people feel that they can take the ultimate set of
[59:47] Speaker 21: actions in a moment, not realizing or maybe realizing that
[59:52] Speaker 21: you literally could take someone's life. And we've seen that
[59:55] Speaker 21: happen now with this young baby.
[59:57] Speaker 4: So we've got to.
[59:57] Speaker 21: Understand that there's so much work that has to have
[1:00:00] Speaker 21: across this country so that people begin to see us
[1:00:03] Speaker 21: in a different way. That's one side of the equation.
[1:00:05] Speaker 21: The other side of the equation is the economic aspect
[1:00:08] Speaker 21: of saying that we are no longer going to fund
[1:00:11] Speaker 21: our oppression, we are no longer going to allow you
[1:00:13] Speaker 21: to just do anything, and we're going to continue to
[1:00:15] Speaker 21: give us that we're going to give you our dollars.
[1:00:18] Speaker 21: And of course the third part is is that we
[1:00:20] Speaker 21: are going to make sure that we prosecute you to
[1:00:22] Speaker 21: the fullest extent of the law. When you take our life,
[1:00:26] Speaker 21: whether it's through civil suits or through other types of suits.
[1:00:31] Speaker 12: Folks in Ohio video of a teen girl being arrested
[1:00:35] Speaker 12: after a June teen celebration has been sparking outraged. The
[1:00:38] Speaker 12: community was angry after seeing a video shot by bystander
[1:00:43] Speaker 12: that shows a black fifteen year old girl being arrested
[1:00:46] Speaker 12: by several area police officers, with one officer neely on
[1:00:50] Speaker 12: her neck while the girl was being handcuffed. Now police
[1:00:53] Speaker 12: have released some of the footage from the officer's body cameras.
[1:00:56] Speaker 13: At beginning of the June.
[1:00:57] Speaker 12: Teen festival, after police bike patrollers into a call about
[1:01:00] Speaker 12: a group of teenagers arguing with several adults and if
[1:01:03] Speaker 12: an organizer has said that he does not believe the
[1:01:06] Speaker 12: teens were part of the Juneteenth event, but rather had
[1:01:09] Speaker 12: shown up after the festival. The video shows officers talking
[1:01:13] Speaker 12: with the individual's attentions escalate. Soon you'll see officers take
[1:01:16] Speaker 12: the teen girl to the ground to detain her. Police
[1:01:18] Speaker 12: have said two miners until adults were charged in connection
[1:01:21] Speaker 12: with the incident, and attorney for one of the arrested
[1:01:24] Speaker 12: adults said that his client had attempted to intervene because
[1:01:27] Speaker 12: he believed the officers' actions were excessive. On Monday, Police
[1:01:31] Speaker 12: Chief James Well said he was personally reviewing the case.
[1:01:34] Speaker 12: It issued the following statement. There Police Department is aware
[1:01:38] Speaker 12: of the public interests and the video circulating on social
[1:01:41] Speaker 12: media regarding arrests made by officers in Eli Square four
[1:01:45] Speaker 12: to ten Browd Street on Saturday, June twenty, twenty twenty six.
[1:01:49] Speaker 12: As Chief of Police, I understand that any incident involving
[1:01:51] Speaker 12: the use of forced by police officers raises important questions
[1:01:54] Speaker 12: within our community. The Real Police Department is committed to transparency, accountability,
[1:01:59] Speaker 12: and maintain the public's trust. The arrests made during this
[1:02:02] Speaker 12: incident were based upon information available to officers, ever seen
[1:02:06] Speaker 12: and remain under review through the criminal justice process.
[1:02:09] Speaker 13: Additionally, as with any use.
[1:02:11] Speaker 12: Of force by a personnel, the actions of our officers
[1:02:14] Speaker 12: will be thoroughly reviewed in accordance with department policy and
[1:02:17] Speaker 12: established procedures. I have personally begin reviewing the available information,
[1:02:21] Speaker 12: including body one camera footage, reports and other evidence related
[1:02:24] Speaker 12: to this incident. While it would be inappropriate to draw
[1:02:27] Speaker 12: conclusions before that review is complete, I can assure the
[1:02:30] Speaker 12: community if we hold our officers to the highest professional
[1:02:33] Speaker 12: standards and will carefully examine all aspects of these events.
[1:02:37] Speaker 12: The videos currently circulating online capture only portions of the incident.
[1:02:41] Speaker 12: Body one camera footage, and other evidence often provide additional
[1:02:44] Speaker 12: contexts there's not immediately visible in short video clips. The
[1:02:48] Speaker 12: Department intends to release additional information, including body one camera footage,
[1:02:52] Speaker 12: legally and procedurally.
[1:02:53] Speaker 13: Appropriate to do so.
[1:02:54] Speaker 12: We ask the public to allow investigators the opportunity to
[1:02:57] Speaker 12: complete a thorough review before reaching inclusions. Our commitment is
[1:03:01] Speaker 12: to provide accurate information, maintain transparency, and ensure accountability while
[1:03:06] Speaker 12: respecting the integrity of the investigative process. At this time,
[1:03:10] Speaker 12: it is my understanding that no serious injuries were reported
[1:03:13] Speaker 12: as a result of this incident.
[1:03:16] Speaker 5: Let's roll to take.
[1:03:25] Speaker 4: Yes, stop.
[1:03:38] Speaker 16: Stop, Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying, you know what, you're
[1:04:40] Speaker 16: under rust. Don't go under the rust. You're not blaming
[1:04:43] Speaker 16: you under rust. Don't glam me like that. You don't
[1:04:48] Speaker 16: blow about that. You're over so far forget him.
[1:04:55] Speaker 3: I want.
[1:04:59] Speaker 12: You all right, folks again, that was the the bodycam
[1:05:06] Speaker 12: footage that was actually released. Uh that you also had
[1:05:10] Speaker 12: a bia steering the video that was circulated on social media.
[1:05:13] Speaker 13: Go ahead and roll it here. This biastay in the
[1:05:15] Speaker 13: video that was going on social media. Uh and so
[1:05:19] Speaker 13: and so again. So that was that was happening there.
[1:05:23] Speaker 12: Now keep in mind again once you begin to see uh,
[1:05:29] Speaker 12: but that bodycam footage that uh that went out, this
[1:05:33] Speaker 12: was first. This is what was so, this was what
[1:05:36] Speaker 12: was going across on social media. Then the release of
[1:05:41] Speaker 12: the bodycam footage, and that's when the police chief of
[1:05:43] Speaker 12: releasing update to say the officer was involved had been
[1:05:46] Speaker 12: placed on paid leave. Again, we see these things happen
[1:05:52] Speaker 12: over and over and over again. Mustafa Khalil and Joe
[1:05:55] Speaker 12: uh and Joe bomb line is what it speaks to.
[1:05:57] Speaker 12: It speaks to the reality of how police go situations.
[1:06:00] Speaker 12: They don't de escalate situations. And then you see the
[1:06:04] Speaker 12: cop kneeling on the back of this teenage girl.
[1:06:09] Speaker 22: Yeah, I mean, it could have been Jones Floyd all
[1:06:10] Speaker 22: over again. And maybe, you know, we are fortunate that
[1:06:18] Speaker 22: there was enough of a stir while what was going on,
[1:06:20] Speaker 22: what was going on that perhaps, who knows, it may
[1:06:24] Speaker 22: have ended up saving her life. But the problem that
[1:06:26] Speaker 22: we have fundamentally, we keep coming back to this is
[1:06:30] Speaker 22: that you cannot make withdrawals of goodwill in the community unless.
[1:06:34] Speaker 8: You have deposits.
[1:06:35] Speaker 22: And what they just did was they undermined any deposits
[1:06:40] Speaker 22: they may have had.
[1:06:42] Speaker 8: So again, now you have distrust.
[1:06:44] Speaker 22: Now you have people that don't want to talk to
[1:06:45] Speaker 22: the police, that don't want to connect to the police.
[1:06:47] Speaker 8: Excuse me, don't want to be truthful to the police.
[1:06:50] Speaker 8: The police are seen as an enemy.
[1:06:52] Speaker 22: Whether it's fair or not. It's real, okay, and it
[1:06:56] Speaker 22: did not have to go this way. Police have to
[1:06:59] Speaker 22: know to de escalate. You're protecting and serving even the
[1:07:03] Speaker 22: people you're arresting. There's no exception for unless unless you
[1:07:07] Speaker 22: arrest the police are not in business and wearing them uniforms,
[1:07:11] Speaker 22: with them guns and them badgines.
[1:07:13] Speaker 8: To deal with nice people.
[1:07:14] Speaker 5: Okay, So you know we got to go.
[1:07:17] Speaker 22: You're missing me with all this extra sympathy for police,
[1:07:20] Speaker 22: because they actually have to be police, and they have
[1:07:22] Speaker 22: to go above and beyond, and they have to make
[1:07:24] Speaker 22: good decisions, and they have to have some discretion and
[1:07:28] Speaker 22: some discernment and some nuance to be able to deal
[1:07:31] Speaker 22: with situations that keeps everyone safe and that gives the
[1:07:34] Speaker 22: posits that can be withdrawn.
[1:07:36] Speaker 8: Later I'll we talk on if they actually have to
[1:07:38] Speaker 8: do their job.
[1:07:39] Speaker 22: In a way that saves lives and that preserves people,
[1:07:43] Speaker 22: and that engenders trust.
[1:07:44] Speaker 5: That's what we have.
[1:07:46] Speaker 8: If you don't want to do that, then maybe you
[1:07:48] Speaker 8: shouldn't be a police officer.
[1:07:52] Speaker 12: It's unfortunately on topic that we have to continue to
[1:07:55] Speaker 12: see these things. And then you saw the man who
[1:07:57] Speaker 12: was trying to sit here and calm things down. The
[1:07:59] Speaker 12: cops end up art him and he's like yo, Like man, what.
[1:08:02] Speaker 4: Are you doing?
[1:08:05] Speaker 21: The black men are supposed to show off for black
[1:08:07] Speaker 21: women and girls. We should never allow a situation that
[1:08:11] Speaker 21: we don't, you know, engage, whether it is a forceful
[1:08:15] Speaker 21: conversation or other types of actions, because how do you
[1:08:18] Speaker 21: look yourself in the mirror the next day, how do
[1:08:22] Speaker 21: you look in your daughter's eyes or your mother's eyes
[1:08:24] Speaker 21: knowing that you could have at least, you know, done
[1:08:27] Speaker 21: something in that moment. That's one part. The other part
[1:08:30] Speaker 21: is Chief Welsh I believe was his name. He was
[1:08:33] Speaker 21: incorrect in saying that there was no damage that was inflicted,
[1:08:36] Speaker 21: because there is a mental health damage that this young
[1:08:39] Speaker 21: lady now the trauma of going through this situation. So
[1:08:43] Speaker 21: we need to be very clear. Just because you may
[1:08:45] Speaker 21: not have a scar, a physical scar, that does not
[1:08:48] Speaker 21: mean that there is not a mental scar that will
[1:08:50] Speaker 21: follow her, and then tying it into what Joe said,
[1:08:53] Speaker 21: there is also a mental scar that happens inside of
[1:08:56] Speaker 21: the community because once again we can no longer trust
[1:09:00] Speaker 21: people who are supposed to be protecting and serving. So
[1:09:04] Speaker 21: we've got that dynamic that's going as well. The third
[1:09:06] Speaker 21: part and last thing that I'll say is that there's
[1:09:09] Speaker 21: you know, when the chief was saying that there's going
[1:09:11] Speaker 21: to be this formal investigation and that folks should just
[1:09:14] Speaker 21: be patient until those results come out.
[1:09:17] Speaker 4: We have no problem with a.
[1:09:19] Speaker 21: Formal investigation, but that does not mean that we should
[1:09:21] Speaker 21: not continue to keep a spotlight on what's going on
[1:09:24] Speaker 21: and to make sure that there's pressure because at a
[1:09:27] Speaker 21: minimal there is something inside of that particular police force
[1:09:31] Speaker 21: that needs to be addressed and how they handle these situations.
[1:09:35] Speaker 21: So yes, we'll wait and see what the results are,
[1:09:38] Speaker 21: but we should continue to speak out. We should continue
[1:09:40] Speaker 21: to put a spotlight on it and then tie it
[1:09:43] Speaker 21: to what is going on across the country in relationship
[1:09:46] Speaker 21: to police actions and police brutality and how those need
[1:09:50] Speaker 21: to be addressed.
[1:09:51] Speaker 23: Calil, you know, I appreciate that you went to Joe
[1:09:55] Speaker 23: and Mustapa first, because the anger and the frustration was
[1:09:58] Speaker 23: welling up in me as we were watching in that video,
[1:10:00] Speaker 23: clipping that you know, I like to talk about my
[1:10:02] Speaker 23: nine year old daughter and CEO, who runs my life
[1:10:05] Speaker 23: and is my pride and joy. What I saw in
[1:10:07] Speaker 23: that video, and I know I probably can't curse, and
[1:10:09] Speaker 23: I'm gonna try to contain my rage, but was that
[1:10:13] Speaker 23: they didn't see a young girl. They didn't see their daughter,
[1:10:15] Speaker 23: they didn't see a child, they didn't see someone that
[1:10:17] Speaker 23: they were there to serve and take care of. So
[1:10:19] Speaker 23: I appreciate Joan, I felt his rage at the end
[1:10:22] Speaker 23: of his remarks, and I appreciate him stuff as well.
[1:10:24] Speaker 5: But I now bump that man, this is ridiculous.
[1:10:28] Speaker 23: Like time and time again, we see black children just
[1:10:30] Speaker 23: trying to be children white just children just growing up, existing, living,
[1:10:38] Speaker 23: waking up every day and just breathing in the fact
[1:10:41] Speaker 23: that they can't do that with the freedom that is
[1:10:44] Speaker 23: given to so many others that don't look like them.
[1:10:46] Speaker 23: It's frustrating in so many other ways. But what I
[1:10:50] Speaker 23: saw in the officers as before they took her to
[1:10:53] Speaker 23: the ground, the way they were grasping the back of
[1:10:54] Speaker 23: her neck, the way that they were holding her arms,
[1:10:57] Speaker 23: and then the cop when he put his knee on
[1:10:59] Speaker 23: her neck, which is a tactic that was learned by
[1:11:02] Speaker 23: other countries who are also funding through their pack some
[1:11:05] Speaker 23: of the candidates who are running for office tonight. So
[1:11:08] Speaker 23: I am I may not be as eloquent in my
[1:11:10] Speaker 23: words as mostappan Joe, but as a parent, as a
[1:11:13] Speaker 23: black girl, dad, as a father, I am enraged to
[1:11:18] Speaker 23: see by both of these.
[1:11:20] Speaker 5: That the loss of seeing a human being, seeing a child.
[1:11:25] Speaker 23: That is not a threat, that all they want to
[1:11:27] Speaker 23: do is live, is lost on in both cases of
[1:11:30] Speaker 23: these officers that they just did not care.
[1:11:33] Speaker 5: They didn't see their children, and.
[1:11:35] Speaker 23: Then they went home and they kissed their children to bed,
[1:11:37] Speaker 23: and I'm assuming that it was very little to them
[1:11:40] Speaker 23: what it meant and the loss of the lives and
[1:11:42] Speaker 23: the trauma that it was caused.
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[1:13:44] Speaker 12: There's a massive housing crisis in this country, and Congress
[1:13:48] Speaker 12: is now finally trying to do something about it. On
[1:13:52] Speaker 12: Senate passed on Monday, bipartisan bill that will, they say,
[1:13:56] Speaker 12: lower housing costs, called the twenty first Century Road to Housing,
[1:14:00] Speaker 12: is aimed to make it easier for homeowners first to
[1:14:05] Speaker 12: construct new homes by providing funding and grant programs to
[1:14:08] Speaker 12: cut through government red tape. One section of the bill,
[1:14:11] Speaker 12: called Homes or for People Now Corporations, restricts large Wall
[1:14:15] Speaker 12: Street institutional investors from bidding against families to buy single
[1:14:19] Speaker 12: family homes. Republicans are touting the bill as a huge
[1:14:23] Speaker 12: victory in an effort to calm voter frustrations ahead of
[1:14:26] Speaker 12: the midterm elections in November. The bill, negotiated by Republican
[1:14:30] Speaker 12: Senator Tim Scott and Democrat Elizabeth Warren, and now here
[1:14:33] Speaker 12: to the House for a vote later this week. Where
[1:14:35] Speaker 12: comes from the Maxine Waters is among those champing its
[1:14:38] Speaker 12: version of the bill. Joining us down is the president
[1:14:44] Speaker 12: of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Ashley Thomas.
[1:14:50] Speaker 13: Ashley got glad to have you here. We have covered.
[1:14:53] Speaker 12: This story of this housing crisis for a long time.
[1:14:57] Speaker 12: Housing has been one of the areas that I have
[1:15:00] Speaker 12: always focused on in my career. In fact, I often
[1:15:06] Speaker 12: talk about this particular graphic right here that to understand
[1:15:13] Speaker 12: where we are now in this.
[1:15:17] Speaker 13: Economy is the problem.
[1:15:20] Speaker 12: Is that when we look at the period of two
[1:15:24] Speaker 12: thousand ten to two thousand and nine, folks at home.
[1:15:30] Speaker 12: You see it right here, this graphic six point nine million.
[1:15:35] Speaker 12: That's when we had the Of course, in two thousand
[1:15:38] Speaker 12: and eight, two thousand and nine, we had the home
[1:15:40] Speaker 12: foreclosure crisis, so we built eight eight million fewer homes
[1:15:47] Speaker 12: the next decade from what took place, I'm sorry, two
[1:15:50] Speaker 12: thousand to two thousand and nine, two thousand and two
[1:15:52] Speaker 12: thousand and nine, fourteen point five six million homes. You
[1:15:56] Speaker 12: see it drops to six point nine in the next decade.
[1:16:00] Speaker 12: That was because of the home foreclosure crisis again two
[1:16:02] Speaker 12: thousand and seven, two thousand and eight two thousand and nine,
[1:16:05] Speaker 12: and so then we have sold in ten, twenty nineteen,
[1:16:10] Speaker 12: and then twenty twenty to present day. We haven't caught up. Now,
[1:16:14] Speaker 12: anybody look at that number, six four nine million. The
[1:16:16] Speaker 12: last time we built that few homes was nineteen forty
[1:16:21] Speaker 12: nineteen forty nine, and Ashley, what happened after that? A
[1:16:25] Speaker 12: federal housing law was passed to spur home construction.
[1:16:34] Speaker 5: Correct.
[1:16:34] Speaker 27: You know, if we go back and look at nineteen
[1:16:36] Speaker 27: thirty four, that's when we started talking about FHA. For
[1:16:39] Speaker 27: the first thirty five years, we were not a part
[1:16:41] Speaker 27: of it. So this bill, you know, although we support it,
[1:16:44] Speaker 27: we stand behind it. We think supply is definitely going
[1:16:47] Speaker 27: to come to the marketplace at some point and be
[1:16:50] Speaker 27: able to ease home prices. However, this is about access
[1:16:53] Speaker 27: for the black community. We need access. You know, we
[1:16:56] Speaker 27: are fourteen percent of the population. We only receive eight
[1:16:59] Speaker 27: percent of the mortgages. So supplies not an issue when
[1:17:01] Speaker 27: we're talking specifically about our community.
[1:17:05] Speaker 12: And looking at this obviously providing assistance to those building homes,
[1:17:10] Speaker 12: but let's speak to this the targeting of blocking these investors,
[1:17:15] Speaker 12: these corporate investors, using algorithms and being able to offer
[1:17:20] Speaker 12: cash deals even before homes even go on the market.
[1:17:24] Speaker 12: Do you believe that if the House passes the bill
[1:17:27] Speaker 12: and then it gets signed into law, that is actually
[1:17:30] Speaker 12: going to quell that from happening, because some estimates that
[1:17:34] Speaker 12: Wall Street could be owning up as a forty percent
[1:17:37] Speaker 12: of all single family homes by the end of this decade.
[1:17:41] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[1:17:41] Speaker 27: The unfortunate part is this a decade too late, right,
[1:17:45] Speaker 27: But we have to start from somewhere. I think if
[1:17:46] Speaker 27: you go back and look at the housing prices ten
[1:17:48] Speaker 27: years ago, we will probably have doubled since then, and then.
[1:17:52] Speaker 5: Some markets tripled.
[1:17:54] Speaker 27: The city of Atlanta, for example, you know, over half
[1:17:57] Speaker 27: of the properties were by by investors. So this is
[1:17:59] Speaker 27: definitely something that we need. Investors are going to look
[1:18:02] Speaker 27: at properties that have the highest upside. Where is that
[1:18:04] Speaker 27: at black communities? And so this is something that we've
[1:18:07] Speaker 27: been fighting for for ten years. We're glad it's here
[1:18:10] Speaker 27: little late, but is that but moving forward it should
[1:18:13] Speaker 27: be able to help us out.
[1:18:14] Speaker 13: A lot questions from the panel will stop.
[1:18:17] Speaker 21: For you first and well, brother, it's good to see.
[1:18:20] Speaker 21: Thank you for everything that you do.
[1:18:21] Speaker 13: You know.
[1:18:22] Speaker 21: A part of this conversation is also the fact that
[1:18:26] Speaker 21: housing prices are consistently outpacing the amount of money that folks,
[1:18:31] Speaker 21: you know, are able to bring home. How do we
[1:18:33] Speaker 21: balance that out to make sure that we can meet
[1:18:35] Speaker 21: the needs that are out there.
[1:18:38] Speaker 27: You know, And I think that's a great point, because
[1:18:39] Speaker 27: what the bill doesn't tackle is debt, So it doesn't
[1:18:42] Speaker 27: tackle student loans, it doesn't tackle inequities and income, it
[1:18:46] Speaker 27: doesn't tackle all of the barriers that surround access for
[1:18:49] Speaker 27: us in generational wealth building. So I think, you know,
[1:18:52] Speaker 27: this will bring supply. I think there's a phase two
[1:18:55] Speaker 27: that we definitely have to stay tied to and make
[1:18:59] Speaker 27: sure that, you know, we can start tackling.
[1:19:01] Speaker 4: Those other issues.
[1:19:02] Speaker 27: But right now, this bill is strictly about supply that
[1:19:05] Speaker 27: has the investor, which we really like. It does have
[1:19:08] Speaker 27: some components in there about appraisal in terms of consumers
[1:19:11] Speaker 27: being able to dispute an appraisal bias situation, so we're
[1:19:15] Speaker 27: excited about that as well. But you know, overall, this
[1:19:18] Speaker 27: is a great starting point. I do believe that the
[1:19:19] Speaker 27: bar is very low, and so it's up to us
[1:19:23] Speaker 27: to raise the bar.
[1:19:25] Speaker 28: Joe, thank you very very much, sir, for what you
[1:19:31] Speaker 28: speculating a little bit I wonder if you have some thoughts,
[1:19:34] Speaker 28: because there's a little bit of surprise, right that this
[1:19:36] Speaker 28: got passed with so much bipartisan support.
[1:19:40] Speaker 22: Any speculation on why other than the acknowledging that we
[1:19:43] Speaker 22: have quite a problem and it's a big problem. And
[1:19:47] Speaker 22: more to the point, are there some things that we
[1:19:50] Speaker 22: can pull out of the fact that this got done?
[1:19:52] Speaker 22: Are there some particular tendencies or particular bills that we
[1:19:56] Speaker 22: can ring the right way to engage the same because
[1:20:00] Speaker 22: we might not have to send.
[1:20:01] Speaker 8: It in the house next year. We'd love to, but
[1:20:05] Speaker 8: we might not. So what's going to keep us moving forward?
[1:20:08] Speaker 8: Something we can take out of this? We're just talking
[1:20:11] Speaker 8: out loud. It's just us talking to us, folks.
[1:20:13] Speaker 22: Is there's something that we can take out of this
[1:20:16] Speaker 22: that strikes the right cored with people on both sides
[1:20:19] Speaker 22: of the eyems so that those additional things that need
[1:20:23] Speaker 22: to happen to be more comprehensive and be more all
[1:20:27] Speaker 22: encompassing about tackling this problem at every area can occur.
[1:20:32] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[1:20:33] Speaker 27: No, So I think this is very unique because housing
[1:20:36] Speaker 27: home ownership, that's not a part of an issue, right,
[1:20:39] Speaker 27: that's an American issue.
[1:20:41] Speaker 4: You know, we believe in the American dream.
[1:20:43] Speaker 5: In terms of home ownership.
[1:20:44] Speaker 27: So I really think that this is probably one of
[1:20:46] Speaker 27: the few topics that would come out of Congress, that
[1:20:49] Speaker 27: would come out of Washington as we move forward. So,
[1:20:52] Speaker 27: you know, I think it's just something that voters. This
[1:20:54] Speaker 27: is probably the right time. We have elections that have
[1:20:57] Speaker 27: been going on. We obviously have November coming up, and
[1:21:00] Speaker 27: everyone has been impacted by the housing shortage. So even
[1:21:03] Speaker 27: if you are in an affluent community, it's the conversation
[1:21:07] Speaker 27: there is affordability, even in first time home buyers, it's affordability.
[1:21:11] Speaker 27: So I think it's just reaching every corner of America
[1:21:14] Speaker 27: into The timing is just right to that point.
[1:21:17] Speaker 12: It pass eighty five to five, and you had lawmakers
[1:21:19] Speaker 12: who were difficult for them to get in because of
[1:21:22] Speaker 12: the bad weather to happen in DC on Monday.
[1:21:25] Speaker 5: Khalil Brother curious.
[1:21:29] Speaker 23: The average as that I'm tracking here is between your
[1:21:31] Speaker 23: late thirties and forties right now, and you're able to
[1:21:34] Speaker 23: purchase a home. I know, for me, I am fearful,
[1:21:37] Speaker 23: not because I don't think I can take care of it,
[1:21:39] Speaker 23: but what if something going to happen. It's just me
[1:21:41] Speaker 23: and my daughter and so what are you seeing for
[1:21:44] Speaker 23: people in our community that may have that latent fear
[1:21:48] Speaker 23: of owning a home, where stepping on that next path
[1:21:52] Speaker 23: for them because of the turbulent times. How are you
[1:21:54] Speaker 23: then guiding them through this uncertainty to make sure that
[1:21:58] Speaker 23: they can still see home ownership as an option as
[1:22:01] Speaker 23: a passway to sustainable middle class for themselves.
[1:22:04] Speaker 27: Yeah, no, absolutely, so I think when we start looking
[1:22:07] Speaker 27: at home ownership, I'm very pleased because you know, there's
[1:22:11] Speaker 27: been studies that stated the millennials and other generations are
[1:22:16] Speaker 27: very much wanting to own a home.
[1:22:17] Speaker 8: So that's positive.
[1:22:19] Speaker 5: Now we have to look at home prices, right.
[1:22:21] Speaker 27: We talked to previous generations that bought homes in the seventies,
[1:22:24] Speaker 27: they said, you know what my interest rate was thirteen percent? Well,
[1:22:27] Speaker 27: you bought a seventy thousand dollars home or forty five
[1:22:30] Speaker 27: thousand dollars home. Today those homes are averaging six hundred
[1:22:33] Speaker 27: and eight hundred thousand, depending on where you are. And
[1:22:35] Speaker 27: so we have to continue as practitioners in the business
[1:22:38] Speaker 27: to do a great job on finding new products, accessibility,
[1:22:41] Speaker 27: how people can afford better, afford a product, afford a mortgage.
[1:22:45] Speaker 4: And so that's really what we're focusing on is what
[1:22:48] Speaker 4: is the next step for that.
[1:22:50] Speaker 27: But you know, I think obviously home ownership is probably
[1:22:53] Speaker 27: still one of the greatest wealth builders, generational wealth builders
[1:22:57] Speaker 27: and families, and so we're going to continue to push
[1:22:59] Speaker 27: that for.
[1:23:01] Speaker 13: All Right, thank you.
[1:23:03] Speaker 12: If folks want to get more information to reach all
[1:23:07] Speaker 12: for assistance, where do they go?
[1:23:09] Speaker 4: So, you know, and let me just add this one point.
[1:23:12] Speaker 27: I think because we talked about the struggles with home ownership,
[1:23:15] Speaker 27: we also have to talk about some of the struggles
[1:23:17] Speaker 27: that black brokers have been facing. You know, a lot
[1:23:20] Speaker 27: of times you'll do business with people that look like you.
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[1:23:34] Speaker 12: I appreciate you early, Okay, I appreciate it as thanks
[1:23:37] Speaker 12: a lot, Thank you, folks. Time for Black Start network
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[1:24:30] Speaker 29: black Pede as the Dutch version of Santa Claus by
[1:24:33] Speaker 29: painting their faces black and donning an afro wig and
[1:24:37] Speaker 29: big red lips. While the mother, Dafayne Hawkins, says that
[1:24:40] Speaker 29: the school district officials failed to protect their sons for
[1:24:43] Speaker 29: months of severe racial harassment despite repeated complaints, and former
[1:24:49] Speaker 29: Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin was a no show in court
[1:24:52] Speaker 29: again for a hearing related to an ongoing legal battle
[1:24:56] Speaker 29: involving his adopted black son, Jonah, and his judge, Angela
[1:25:00] Speaker 29: Johnson was visibly fed up. Bevin's son Jonah is seeking
[1:25:04] Speaker 29: child support from Bevin and his estranged wife Glenna, claiming
[1:25:08] Speaker 29: that he was abused and abandoned at a violent youth
[1:25:12] Speaker 29: facility in Jamaica.
[1:25:14] Speaker 15: He was seventeen at that time.
[1:25:16] Speaker 29: Matt Bevin had been held in contempt of court and
[1:25:19] Speaker 29: a judge recently issued a warrant for his arrest for
[1:25:22] Speaker 29: failing to appear and not producing required financial statements.
[1:25:26] Speaker 15: On Monday, a judge denied his attorney's.
[1:25:29] Speaker 29: Request for more time to gather the documents. She said
[1:25:32] Speaker 29: this is standard protocol in child support cases and said
[1:25:35] Speaker 29: Bevin is dragging his feet. Judge Johnson said this case
[1:25:39] Speaker 29: has been going on for more than a year and
[1:25:41] Speaker 29: they keep hitting the same roadblock when Bevin's financial documents,
[1:25:46] Speaker 29: and she said the court receives half turnover information or
[1:25:50] Speaker 29: completely redacted reports. Bevan's lawyer said he believes that the
[1:25:54] Speaker 29: situation unfairly targets the former governor. In addition to being
[1:25:57] Speaker 29: ordered to serve sixty days in.
[1:25:59] Speaker 15: Jail, be us also pay a five hundred dollars fine.
[1:26:03] Speaker 29: And former Dalton, Illinois Mayor Tiffany Hinyard has secured a
[1:26:06] Speaker 29: major legal win against her former landlord after a judge
[1:26:10] Speaker 29: ruled in her favor in a dispute over a rental
[1:26:13] Speaker 29: property well. The landlord claims that Hindrid and Canal Woods
[1:26:17] Speaker 29: owe nearly ten thousand dollars in unpaid rent and other costs.
[1:26:21] Speaker 29: A judge ruled a Monday that Hindyard's name was not
[1:26:23] Speaker 29: properly signed on the lease and that Hindyrid's Social Security
[1:26:26] Speaker 29: number was willfully exposed by the landlord and documents. As
[1:26:30] Speaker 29: a result, Hinyard is entitled to one thousand dollars from
[1:26:33] Speaker 29: the landlord to offset the costs of an ID protection service,
[1:26:37] Speaker 29: in addition to five hundred dollars in attorney fees. No Woods, however,
[1:26:41] Speaker 29: is still on the hook for much of the unpaid rent,
[1:26:43] Speaker 29: but the judge ruling that he still owes the landlord.
[1:26:46] Speaker 15: More than seven thousand dollars.
[1:26:49] Speaker 29: A Texas woman who lost her job after a viral
[1:26:52] Speaker 29: video showed her confronting two Muslim woman in an HB
[1:26:55] Speaker 29: grocery store is gaining overwhelming support online. Day should Killpack
[1:27:00] Speaker 29: was fired from her position as a massage therapist after
[1:27:03] Speaker 29: footage of her herding hurling racially charged insults at the
[1:27:07] Speaker 29: two women spread across social media. In the video recorded
[1:27:11] Speaker 29: June nineteenth, she has seen in her work uniform making
[1:27:14] Speaker 29: comments to the woman one who was wearing a hajib
[1:27:19] Speaker 29: about their faith and presence in the United States, sparking
[1:27:22] Speaker 29: widespread backlash. Kilpatrick could be heard calling Islam a terrorist
[1:27:27] Speaker 29: organization and repeatedly telling them to go back to their
[1:27:30] Speaker 29: Islamic country, but while many condemned her actions, others have.
[1:27:34] Speaker 15: Rallied behind her.
[1:27:36] Speaker 29: A fundraiser has been launched following her termination and has
[1:27:39] Speaker 29: raised more than one hundred and sixty three thousand dollars,
[1:27:42] Speaker 29: with supporters arguing she is being punished for expressing her views.
[1:27:46] Speaker 29: The growing donation total has fueled heated debates online, with
[1:27:49] Speaker 29: critics questioning why her anti Muslim remarks is being financially rewarded. Also,
[1:27:56] Speaker 29: movie mogul Tyler Perry mail assault, a key user, Mario Rodriguez,
[1:28:01] Speaker 29: has filed new claims accusing him of avoiding a mandatory
[1:28:04] Speaker 29: deposition which may ask questions about his personal sexuality.
[1:28:08] Speaker 15: Rodriguez, who filed the lawsuit.
[1:28:10] Speaker 29: In December of twenty twenty five, accuses Perry of unwanted
[1:28:13] Speaker 29: sexual advances and assaults well. Perry denied these charges, as
[1:28:17] Speaker 29: well as being labeled that the suit is a money grab.
[1:28:20] Speaker 29: Rodriguez reportedly is asking the judge to issue a no
[1:28:23] Speaker 29: compromise deposition for the filmmaker, compelling him to attend a
[1:28:27] Speaker 29: deposition claiming Perry failed to appear for multiple scheduled dates
[1:28:31] Speaker 29: since April. According to Rodriguez, Perry has demanded that both
[1:28:35] Speaker 29: sides signed a legally binding document that shields Perry from
[1:28:40] Speaker 29: any questions regarding his sexual orientation. Perry has accused the
[1:28:44] Speaker 29: defendants questioning of him of being unnecessary. However, Rodriguez and
[1:28:48] Speaker 29: his team insists that Perry's sexuality is critical to the
[1:28:52] Speaker 29: seventy seven million dollar civil lawsuit. Rodriguez had a small
[1:28:57] Speaker 29: role in Perry's twenty sixteen film called boot Medea Halloween,
[1:29:02] Speaker 29: and the federal judge has blocked the Trump administration backed
[1:29:06] Speaker 29: effort tied to the Make America Healthy Again agenda that
[1:29:10] Speaker 29: would have stopped SNAP recipients in multiple states from using
[1:29:13] Speaker 29: food benefits to buy items such as candy, soda, and
[1:29:16] Speaker 29: sugary drinks. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that
[1:29:21] Speaker 29: the Executive branch does not have the authority to redefine
[1:29:25] Speaker 29: which counts as food under the SNAP benefits program.
[1:29:29] Speaker 15: What what Congress does?
[1:29:30] Speaker 29: The ruling effects restrictions that had been approved in twenty
[1:29:33] Speaker 29: three different states that had been prompted as part of
[1:29:36] Speaker 29: the Trump administrations Make America Healthy Again push, which argued
[1:29:41] Speaker 29: that taxpayer funded food assistants should encourage healthier eating and
[1:29:45] Speaker 29: reduce purchases of sugary.
[1:29:47] Speaker 15: Or low nutrition products.
[1:29:49] Speaker 29: SNAP recipients who challenge the new rule argued bands would
[1:29:53] Speaker 29: create confusion at stores, stigmatize low income shoppers, and make
[1:29:57] Speaker 29: it harder for families to use their benefits.
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[1:32:16] Speaker 14: Hello, I'm Jamia Peugh.
[1:32:18] Speaker 26: I am from Coastville, Pennsylvania, just an hour right outside
[1:32:21] Speaker 26: of Philadelphia.
[1:32:22] Speaker 9: My name is Jasmine Pugh.
[1:32:23] Speaker 5: I'm also from Coastal Pennsylvania.
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[1:32:27] Speaker 13: Stay right here, Hey, y'all.
[1:32:37] Speaker 12: We do our best just to just be black folks,
[1:32:40] Speaker 12: and we just want to mind our own business.
[1:32:43] Speaker 13: We just want to be able to just live well.
[1:32:47] Speaker 12: A black man in Florida Jensen Beach Brothers just trying
[1:32:52] Speaker 12: to fish, all right. Then here he is trying to
[1:32:56] Speaker 12: do just fish and a racist white man comes up
[1:33:00] Speaker 12: with his racist becky at Jensen Beach Florida and just
[1:33:04] Speaker 12: start accosting the brother. He posted this to his social media.
[1:33:07] Speaker 12: It took place over the weekend.
[1:33:09] Speaker 13: Uh and again the man and his family were just
[1:33:11] Speaker 13: trying to fish. Watch this.
[1:33:17] Speaker 30: You just came from right there, right.
[1:33:18] Speaker 4: You just walked over here, and you just decided you wanted.
[1:33:21] Speaker 30: To come give me a fucking problem today, right?
[1:33:23] Speaker 4: Why I was talking to you if you're not together,
[1:33:25] Speaker 4: but it doesn't matter. But why did you come over here?
[1:33:28] Speaker 31: Did you not see that guy over there up in
[1:33:31] Speaker 31: that post right there tell us to come over here?
[1:33:33] Speaker 31: Did you not see him come over to us and
[1:33:35] Speaker 31: tell us this is where we had to d Did
[1:33:38] Speaker 31: you see the guy come out of that boost right there?
[1:33:44] Speaker 31: Could I know you?
[1:33:45] Speaker 16: And I don't know why you came.
[1:33:46] Speaker 11: Up to me like that.
[1:33:47] Speaker 16: He told you to be right there.
[1:33:49] Speaker 21: That's common sense, basic humanity.
[1:33:53] Speaker 15: If you don't go even though you're allowed to write
[1:33:56] Speaker 15: where there's.
[1:33:56] Speaker 30: If I'm allowed to, I'm allowed to. The kids gonna
[1:33:58] Speaker 30: run wherever they want to run. If I'm allowed to
[1:34:00] Speaker 30: do something, I'm allowed to do something.
[1:34:02] Speaker 16: Don't come over here trying to police people. That's where
[1:34:05] Speaker 16: he tell me I need to be.
[1:34:06] Speaker 4: If this is where he told me, I need to be.
[1:34:08] Speaker 5: That's where I'm at.
[1:34:09] Speaker 4: And then you decided that you.
[1:34:11] Speaker 30: Will go police even more and come over here.
[1:34:13] Speaker 4: And say, you know what, I don't like where you're at.
[1:34:15] Speaker 11: I want you to move right I think this is
[1:34:17] Speaker 11: a poor choice for you.
[1:34:19] Speaker 4: This is a poor choice for you.
[1:34:20] Speaker 21: Buddy, No, because he didn't tell you and got no clue.
[1:34:22] Speaker 4: He didn't tell you, you got no clue.
[1:34:24] Speaker 30: I'll tell you how to have your choice.
[1:34:25] Speaker 4: He didn't tell me how to come right here.
[1:34:27] Speaker 31: You want to walk with me over here, right here,
[1:34:28] Speaker 31: to this post, right here?
[1:34:29] Speaker 5: You want to walk me over there right now?
[1:34:30] Speaker 16: He didn't say there you want to say further than
[1:34:32] Speaker 16: with that post?
[1:34:33] Speaker 3: Right now?
[1:34:33] Speaker 5: I just talked to you.
[1:34:34] Speaker 4: You want to go, He did not want to say.
[1:34:36] Speaker 6: He didn't go.
[1:34:37] Speaker 13: You just talk to Let's go.
[1:34:37] Speaker 4: Let's go go get him, Go get him.
[1:34:39] Speaker 16: He said, you want to get him.
[1:34:40] Speaker 13: So let's go.
[1:34:42] Speaker 16: Oh, let's walk on there.
[1:34:44] Speaker 24: I don't want to walk over there.
[1:34:45] Speaker 4: I want you to go walk over there.
[1:34:47] Speaker 16: I want you to walk over here.
[1:34:48] Speaker 30: He told us where to be, So if he when
[1:34:51] Speaker 30: that sent you over here, he s is your badge?
[1:34:53] Speaker 4: He said, how are you?
[1:34:55] Speaker 11: Where's your badge? I'm fire departments. Where's your badge?
[1:34:58] Speaker 4: You got no fucking pockets?
[1:35:00] Speaker 30: You're talking about your the fire department.
[1:35:02] Speaker 13: This is the fucking beach.
[1:35:03] Speaker 16: This is not a fire, that's right.
[1:35:05] Speaker 17: So what he said so.
[1:35:08] Speaker 4: If he wanted you to come over here follow me?
[1:35:10] Speaker 4: So you did it on your own for.
[1:35:12] Speaker 30: No reason because you ain't got nothing else to do today.
[1:35:16] Speaker 21: Because I don't want people to get hurt here.
[1:35:18] Speaker 30: Guess what if this is where somebody told us fishing
[1:35:21] Speaker 30: is allowed, then maybe they shouldn't be here. Maybe you
[1:35:24] Speaker 30: should talk to the little kids that's running back and forth?
[1:35:26] Speaker 6: Are you doing that?
[1:35:27] Speaker 16: Yeah?
[1:35:27] Speaker 21: That makes common sense.
[1:35:28] Speaker 30: That makes a lot of sense, don't it. Because the
[1:35:30] Speaker 30: guy told us where we were allowed to fishes, did
[1:35:33] Speaker 30: you not that that.
[1:35:35] Speaker 16: Means you could go down another miles here?
[1:35:38] Speaker 13: I know you can.
[1:35:39] Speaker 24: Why don't you go about your business? Why don't you
[1:35:41] Speaker 24: go about your business? Why don't you go about your business?
[1:35:45] Speaker 24: I'm going for go about your business. Do whatever it
[1:35:48] Speaker 24: is you were doing before you came over to me.
[1:35:50] Speaker 24: Go about your business, Go about your What you say?
[1:35:53] Speaker 16: What I hear you?
[1:35:55] Speaker 4: You said?
[1:35:55] Speaker 13: What say it again?
[1:35:57] Speaker 4: What you say? Niggas you said? Niggas an you niggas.
[1:36:01] Speaker 4: Niggas are going to be niggas.
[1:36:03] Speaker 13: Niggas are.
[1:36:09] Speaker 30: Percent that's what you're saying, right camera.
[1:36:11] Speaker 15: I got you, I got you, I got you, I
[1:36:17] Speaker 15: got you, I got you.
[1:36:25] Speaker 12: The brothers told where to fish and racist Kien and
[1:36:30] Speaker 12: Becky they don't like it, so they are costed.
[1:36:33] Speaker 13: Brother. I mean, this is what we talk.
[1:36:35] Speaker 12: About all the time Mostafa, that the stress that black
[1:36:39] Speaker 12: people have to deal with. We can't even just go
[1:36:43] Speaker 12: We're going to the beast to chill. I don't even
[1:36:46] Speaker 12: like fishing, but brothers just going to relax and fish
[1:36:50] Speaker 12: and damn now he Now they're stressed downs, all heightened
[1:36:55] Speaker 12: because two flat out races rolled over there.
[1:37:01] Speaker 4: You know, there's a term for that.
[1:37:02] Speaker 21: It's called weathering and relationship to the stressors that the
[1:37:05] Speaker 21: black community has to deal with. So let's just be
[1:37:08] Speaker 21: clear that, you know, when we raise these things there,
[1:37:11] Speaker 21: you know there is scientific evidence that's behind them. The
[1:37:14] Speaker 21: other part you got to remember is throughout the South,
[1:37:16] Speaker 21: and I hate just saying the South. So this is
[1:37:19] Speaker 21: not the only location, but there were literally laws in
[1:37:22] Speaker 21: place not that long ago that blocked us from beaches,
[1:37:25] Speaker 21: blocked us from waterways, blocked us from being able to
[1:37:28] Speaker 21: fish in lakes and rivers and streams. I know it
[1:37:32] Speaker 21: sounds incredible that that could possibly be happening, but those
[1:37:37] Speaker 21: were laws that were literally on the books that people
[1:37:40] Speaker 21: used to be able to stop us from being able
[1:37:43] Speaker 21: to take advantage of nature and take advantage of all
[1:37:46] Speaker 21: these natural things that are supposed to be less stressful,
[1:37:51] Speaker 21: an opportunity to reconnect with nature and maybe reconnect with
[1:37:55] Speaker 21: God for some people. So when you have these individuals
[1:37:58] Speaker 21: who are expressed seeing their privilege, you know it is
[1:38:02] Speaker 21: rooted in something. So I don't want folks to think
[1:38:05] Speaker 21: that this there's no roots to this. Now the question becomes,
[1:38:08] Speaker 21: how do we rip those roots out of the ground
[1:38:11] Speaker 21: so that the next sets of generations don't have to
[1:38:13] Speaker 21: deal with these types of situations.
[1:38:16] Speaker 5: Joe, you know, they were lucky that.
[1:38:24] Speaker 8: This brother had a.
[1:38:27] Speaker 22: Kind of calm head, because that could have come out
[1:38:32] Speaker 22: way differently because they.
[1:38:35] Speaker 8: Weren't particularly physically imposing.
[1:38:38] Speaker 22: They were on the old side, on the decreptive side,
[1:38:41] Speaker 22: on the on the sagging side, with all due respect,
[1:38:44] Speaker 22: and something could have happened, which I wouldn't necessarily tell
[1:38:49] Speaker 22: the brother was justified that, but I would understand, Okay,
[1:38:54] Speaker 22: and so this is what we have to deal with
[1:38:57] Speaker 22: all the time. This brother's just out trying to go
[1:38:59] Speaker 22: fishing for them, those particular people no badges. The guy
[1:39:06] Speaker 22: said he was part of the fire department. I guess
[1:39:08] Speaker 22: he was wearing the fire department's speed up. Somebody need
[1:39:11] Speaker 22: to tell him that he don't need to be wearing
[1:39:13] Speaker 22: the fire department.
[1:39:13] Speaker 8: Speed up at his age.
[1:39:16] Speaker 22: Somehow, some way, they were so sure they were entitled
[1:39:20] Speaker 22: enough to tell this brother he shouldn't be standing where
[1:39:23] Speaker 22: he was standing. They're lucky he didn't react a different way.
[1:39:28] Speaker 22: And this is why we're talking about what we're talking about.
[1:39:31] Speaker 22: It would never occur to me to go and tell
[1:39:35] Speaker 22: somebody else they shouldn't be standing where they're standing if
[1:39:39] Speaker 22: there's no threat to my safety whatsoever. They just decided
[1:39:44] Speaker 22: they go out of the way and make things right
[1:39:46] Speaker 22: with the world by telling his brother after he'd been
[1:39:49] Speaker 22: told by apparently the people that are supposed to know
[1:39:52] Speaker 22: where he's supposed to be standing off fishing.
[1:39:55] Speaker 8: They are lucky they didn't get hurt.
[1:39:58] Speaker 23: Ghil We oftentimes we're asked what is the definition of
[1:40:04] Speaker 23: white privilege. We are asked to, you know, brothers and
[1:40:08] Speaker 23: sisters on the other side are those that are not
[1:40:09] Speaker 23: ours and not in solidarity.
[1:40:11] Speaker 5: Well, I don't understand what it means.
[1:40:12] Speaker 23: You have a beach, like the background is way long,
[1:40:16] Speaker 23: you can see the horizon almost that it curves around
[1:40:19] Speaker 23: that arc.
[1:40:20] Speaker 5: You got all that land and in this.
[1:40:23] Speaker 23: One section, as you said, this brother just want to come.
[1:40:26] Speaker 5: Relax your shoulders. Fish is his thing just to do.
[1:40:30] Speaker 5: But your privilege entitles you enough that you're going to
[1:40:33] Speaker 5: walk up to him and you're.
[1:40:35] Speaker 23: Not in uniform, you're not representing the fire department in
[1:40:37] Speaker 23: that moment, but you're going to tell him, no, I don't.
[1:40:40] Speaker 5: Want you to be there. He I think he even
[1:40:42] Speaker 5: said he could go five miles down.
[1:40:45] Speaker 23: The audacity of their privilege is that I don't even
[1:40:50] Speaker 23: want you around me where I can see you. I
[1:40:52] Speaker 23: want you to own a public beach and have it
[1:40:55] Speaker 23: be my own little private area where we don't have
[1:40:58] Speaker 23: to interact with you. And so I know you didn't
[1:41:01] Speaker 23: do this on purpose, but the rage from every clip
[1:41:04] Speaker 23: is boiling over. And these are the microaggressions that we
[1:41:08] Speaker 23: try to tell our friends and others who are not
[1:41:12] Speaker 23: black in the movement that are so frustrating to live with.
[1:41:15] Speaker 23: Every single day. I can imagine, like all of you,
[1:41:20] Speaker 23: there is a tightness in my chest right now. I'm
[1:41:22] Speaker 23: still thinking about the young girl that got taken down
[1:41:24] Speaker 23: to the ground, the baby, the one year old whose
[1:41:27] Speaker 23: life is no longer with us, who was shot in
[1:41:29] Speaker 23: a car by a police officer, and the trauma that
[1:41:34] Speaker 23: this does. And I'm sure Mustopa cans speak about it,
[1:41:37] Speaker 23: because I've heard him talk about it more to us,
[1:41:39] Speaker 23: not only in a mental way, but in a physical
[1:41:41] Speaker 23: way that gets manifested.
[1:41:43] Speaker 5: Over time is draining. And so I mean, I know
[1:41:47] Speaker 5: I'm not being.
[1:41:48] Speaker 23: As eloquent as I can, but I am I'm beyond
[1:41:50] Speaker 23: frustrated that we just can't live.
[1:41:53] Speaker 5: That's all we want to do is live.
[1:41:56] Speaker 12: All we want to do is live, and they just
[1:41:59] Speaker 12: won't leave us the hell alone. I don't understand what
[1:42:05] Speaker 12: the problem is, and so just continues. And so we've
[1:42:08] Speaker 12: got there some other videos like that, and we'll have
[1:42:11] Speaker 12: another one tomorrow. But I'm telling you is just and
[1:42:13] Speaker 12: these are just crazy ass racist white people black man
[1:42:17] Speaker 12: try and just fish, just trying to soak up the
[1:42:20] Speaker 12: ocean and the waves and relax. And you got to
[1:42:23] Speaker 12: show your ass and trust me, their identities will be
[1:42:28] Speaker 12: probably coming alive and next day or two, so we'll
[1:42:31] Speaker 12: tell you exactly who they are once they are revealed.
[1:42:34] Speaker 12: Going to a break, we'll be right back rolling unfilters
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[1:44:03] Speaker 23: I'm Russell o'l Honoree Litender Gerald United States sorrow retired
[1:44:07] Speaker 23: and you're watching rurald Martin.
[1:44:09] Speaker 5: I'm felt a folks.
[1:44:21] Speaker 13: Listen.
[1:44:22] Speaker 12: The Republicans continue to be hammered on the economy. They
[1:44:26] Speaker 12: control the House, the controller sit in the control the
[1:44:28] Speaker 12: White House dog Trump's apprower ratings continue to fall through
[1:44:32] Speaker 12: the floor. House dem Credit leader Hakim Jeffries is pressure
[1:44:35] Speaker 12: the case continuously, making it clear that affordability is going
[1:44:39] Speaker 12: to be the issue Democrats will be running on in November.
[1:44:42] Speaker 13: Here is today's event. He Hill and Capitol Hill, every one.
[1:44:51] Speaker 10: Donald Shep and Republicans have plunged America into a reckless
[1:44:56] Speaker 10: and costly war of choice that has been a disaster.
[1:44:59] Speaker 10: Ho Democrats have opposed this war from the very beginning
[1:45:05] Speaker 10: because we believe that taxpayer dollars should be used to
[1:45:08] Speaker 10: make life more affordable for the American people, not get
[1:45:14] Speaker 10: us involved in another reckless, endless foreign adventure that actually
[1:45:21] Speaker 10: has made our country weaker relative to Iran than the
[1:45:28] Speaker 10: position that we were in before Donald Trump started this war,
[1:45:33] Speaker 10: and Iran, unfortunately is now stronger and the American people
[1:45:38] Speaker 10: have been forced to pay the price, including as a
[1:45:42] Speaker 10: result of the higher gas prices and higher food prices
[1:45:47] Speaker 10: that can be directly attributed to the Trump Republican reckless
[1:45:52] Speaker 10: war of choice in Iran.
[1:45:56] Speaker 5: We're thankful.
[1:45:58] Speaker 10: That earlier today, led by Senate Democrats, the Senate passed
[1:46:05] Speaker 10: our War Powers Resolution demanding that Trump and Republicans in
[1:46:13] Speaker 10: is reckless and costly war of choice in Iran once
[1:46:17] Speaker 10: and for all. And the bottom line is that we
[1:46:21] Speaker 10: shouldn't spend another dime.
[1:46:25] Speaker 11: Of taxpayer dollars.
[1:46:28] Speaker 5: On operation.
[1:46:31] Speaker 10: Epic failure that has been a disaster for the national
[1:46:38] Speaker 10: security and the economic interests of the American people.
[1:46:43] Speaker 18: Questions in two swing seats, the second district remain in
[1:46:48] Speaker 18: the twice second in California, the Detribacy endorsed.
[1:46:51] Speaker 8: The Democratic canon who did not advance the general.
[1:46:54] Speaker 18: Is this making you reevaluate how the detriblcy blaze in
[1:46:57] Speaker 18: the destined primaries at all.
[1:46:58] Speaker 10: No, I have full faith and confidence the d t
[1:47:00] Speaker 10: p C. Susan Delbany has done a tremendous job. And
[1:47:04] Speaker 10: we're going to take back control of the House of
[1:47:05] Speaker 10: Representatives in November.
[1:47:08] Speaker 12: All right, folks, So you heard Jeffrey. They're talking about
[1:47:12] Speaker 12: the war in Iran. We've already spent up thirty billion dollars.
[1:47:18] Speaker 12: Now they are going to Congress saying they need another
[1:47:20] Speaker 12: eighty billion dollars. But the Senate also took action where
[1:47:25] Speaker 12: they actually voted to reign in Donald Trump's powers when
[1:47:31] Speaker 12: it comes to the war in war in Iran. This
[1:47:35] Speaker 12: is a peace to give me one second from the
[1:47:39] Speaker 12: New York Times, the headline is Senate votes to check
[1:47:42] Speaker 12: Trump's war powers, rebuking him on Iran, and a few
[1:47:47] Speaker 12: Republicans actually joined Democrats in this. The measure instructs Trump
[1:47:53] Speaker 12: to halt military operations against Iran or seek congressional authorization. Now,
[1:47:58] Speaker 12: the vote was fifty to forty eight, and you had
[1:48:00] Speaker 12: several Republicans, as the article lays out, who actually joined Democrats,
[1:48:06] Speaker 12: and so you'll see here it was Senator John Federman
[1:48:09] Speaker 12: of Pennsylvania. He was a lone Democrat to vote against
[1:48:12] Speaker 12: this resolution. Kentucky Senator Ran Paul, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski,
[1:48:18] Speaker 12: Maine Senator Susan Collins, and Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy all
[1:48:23] Speaker 12: broke with the Republicans supporting the measure. You had a
[1:48:26] Speaker 12: couple of folks who were absent, including Mitchell O'Connell who
[1:48:30] Speaker 12: has been hospitalized. But right here first, in what you
[1:48:34] Speaker 12: see right here, what you see right here, Khalil, when
[1:48:38] Speaker 12: you look at the numbers here, voted with it. So
[1:48:41] Speaker 12: Cassidy lost his primary, so he doesn't owe Trump a
[1:48:45] Speaker 12: damn thing. Susan Collins is actually in a tough re
[1:48:49] Speaker 12: election battle, and so we see how she voted. And
[1:48:53] Speaker 12: Murkowski has increasingly opposed different things with Trump, and of
[1:48:57] Speaker 12: course Ran Paul as well. And you know this is
[1:49:01] Speaker 12: one of those where hell, if you were Tom Tillis
[1:49:03] Speaker 12: and John Cornyn, you should also have told Trump go
[1:49:06] Speaker 12: to hell. Now the question what happens next, because you know,
[1:49:10] Speaker 12: what's the power of the House has to move as well.
[1:49:13] Speaker 12: But this is significant where these Republicans are realizing that
[1:49:18] Speaker 12: this war in Iran is going to be a potent
[1:49:20] Speaker 12: issue at the ballot box because it's a lot of
[1:49:23] Speaker 12: conservatives who believe Trump when he said no new wars.
[1:49:27] Speaker 5: Khalil, Well, not only this, what you're seeing is that
[1:49:32] Speaker 5: the emperor has no clothes.
[1:49:34] Speaker 23: Time and time again in the second year, Republicans are
[1:49:38] Speaker 23: saying this is a bridge too far.
[1:49:40] Speaker 5: When they wanted to erode what they believe.
[1:49:43] Speaker 23: To be food stamps and subsidies for average, everyday Americans.
[1:49:48] Speaker 5: And they wanted to chip away at that, the prejudice
[1:49:50] Speaker 5: and the.
[1:49:50] Speaker 23: Privilege of white America was like, oh, we're going to
[1:49:52] Speaker 23: do that, that's going to affect black and brown communities.
[1:49:55] Speaker 23: Oh but wait now, all your constituents are starting to
[1:49:57] Speaker 23: call you in these rust belt these Middle American states saying, well, whoa, whoa, whoa,
[1:50:04] Speaker 23: I need my subsidies as a constituent. And so they
[1:50:08] Speaker 23: forgot that it's not just all black and brown people
[1:50:10] Speaker 23: that were on these And I think what we're seeing
[1:50:13] Speaker 23: is we can continuously fine fifteen billion dollars to repair
[1:50:17] Speaker 23: the reflecting pool, three hundred billion dollars to give to Iran,
[1:50:21] Speaker 23: which is pales in comparison to the JCPOA and what
[1:50:26] Speaker 23: Obama had come up with under his administration in holding
[1:50:29] Speaker 23: I ran accountable, and now we can't figure out how
[1:50:33] Speaker 23: average everyday Americans are going to afford gas, which gas
[1:50:37] Speaker 23: prices were killing us for that, and they still are.
[1:50:39] Speaker 23: They're just starting to come down. But each week it's
[1:50:42] Speaker 23: been oh, we got a deal, Oh we got a memory,
[1:50:44] Speaker 23: random moment understanding, Oh we have this. I think Republicans
[1:50:47] Speaker 23: are starting to realize we don't have to continue to
[1:50:49] Speaker 23: go along with this hook line and sinker because we
[1:50:52] Speaker 23: know that our constituents back home. We're seeing it in
[1:50:55] Speaker 23: primaries right now. Democrats are showing up and Republicans are like, hey,
[1:51:00] Speaker 23: I don't know if I can get behind you. So again, register,
[1:51:05] Speaker 23: check your voter registration, get three friends to do the same,
[1:51:08] Speaker 23: make a plan, make it fun, go vote.
[1:51:11] Speaker 12: The thing here mustava because they even know he's lying.
[1:51:14] Speaker 12: This is another New York Times piece. Trump is making
[1:51:17] Speaker 12: big claims about the Iron Talks. Iran Kip's contradicting him.
[1:51:20] Speaker 12: He's a liar, he's lying, he's lied, repeated, war's over it. No,
[1:51:24] Speaker 12: it's not tred to her moves is open.
[1:51:26] Speaker 13: No, it's not. We got a deal. No we don't.
[1:51:29] Speaker 13: I mean it's just he's a liar, but.
[1:51:33] Speaker 21: We all know that the facts you know that are
[1:51:35] Speaker 21: laid out definitely confirmed that. Here's the deeper thing. He
[1:51:40] Speaker 21: now has a lifeline, right, so he should grab hold
[1:51:43] Speaker 21: of this lifeline because you know, he's stuck in a
[1:51:46] Speaker 21: situation where we should never have found ourselves in. We
[1:51:49] Speaker 21: should have never went into this war, especially with Americans
[1:51:54] Speaker 21: struggling and all the things that Khalil laid out in
[1:51:57] Speaker 21: so many other folks. So he now has an eye
[1:52:00] Speaker 21: opportunity to actually get out of the quagmire that is
[1:52:03] Speaker 21: there and be able to be able to hopefully help
[1:52:07] Speaker 21: folks to heal and then be able to move forward.
[1:52:09] Speaker 21: But they'll probably find a way to mess this up
[1:52:12] Speaker 21: because you know they never should have been there. Of course,
[1:52:15] Speaker 21: you should always go to Congress to get approval before
[1:52:18] Speaker 21: you go into some type of a warlike situation, but
[1:52:23] Speaker 21: of course they don't follow the rules. They feel that
[1:52:25] Speaker 21: they don't have to. Everybody else should, but not them.
[1:52:28] Speaker 21: So now we find ourselves in this moment. So, yes,
[1:52:31] Speaker 21: he is a very untruthful person. Yes, folks have to
[1:52:34] Speaker 21: continually call out all the untruthfulness that goes on.
[1:52:39] Speaker 8: But if he doesn't.
[1:52:40] Speaker 21: Grab hold of this, then he's going to find himself,
[1:52:43] Speaker 21: you know, falling even further in the polls. He's going
[1:52:46] Speaker 21: to continue to damage his party, and you know, hopefully
[1:52:50] Speaker 21: there'll be a good course correction in November if they
[1:52:54] Speaker 21: do continue to hold on to these sort of antiquated
[1:52:58] Speaker 21: ways of thinking about how you engage with folks across
[1:53:01] Speaker 21: our country.
[1:53:03] Speaker 8: Joe, you don't need another eighty ninety billion dollars.
[1:53:08] Speaker 22: If the war is getting an end. This is you know,
[1:53:13] Speaker 22: it's easy to kind of see through what's going on here.
[1:53:16] Speaker 22: They talked about rezime change didn't happen. The Sun took over,
[1:53:20] Speaker 22: and the sun it is more hardcore than Daddy was.
[1:53:23] Speaker 22: They talked about the straight being open and everybody being
[1:53:28] Speaker 22: able to get through safely with no problems and no issues.
[1:53:31] Speaker 8: That's not happening.
[1:53:32] Speaker 22: They talked about destroying Iran's nuclear capability. Hasn't happened, and
[1:53:38] Speaker 22: their nuclear capability is not deterred in any demonstrably significant
[1:53:45] Speaker 22: way that would have justified what it is that went
[1:53:48] Speaker 22: on here. So this is a failure by any measure,
[1:53:52] Speaker 22: and we're paying for it on the top. It ain't
[1:53:54] Speaker 22: like it was free. We just took a spin and
[1:53:55] Speaker 22: we're like, oh, you.
[1:53:56] Speaker 8: Know, we're okay.
[1:53:57] Speaker 22: No, no, no, no, this is all messed up. And
[1:54:01] Speaker 22: but I hope is that people remember it. You know,
[1:54:05] Speaker 22: remember what this did to prices. Remember how this connects
[1:54:08] Speaker 22: to Trump's failure to deliver on his larger promises keeping
[1:54:12] Speaker 22: us out of war and getting prices down.
[1:54:13] Speaker 5: He didn't either.
[1:54:14] Speaker 22: He did exactly the opposet and so hopefully people just
[1:54:18] Speaker 22: don't forget it.
[1:54:21] Speaker 12: The man is a flat out liar. And to all
[1:54:24] Speaker 12: your Republicans, we tried to tell you going to break.
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[1:55:24] Speaker 13: And look, we're used to this.
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[1:56:22] Speaker 5: Folks.
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[1:57:01] Speaker 12: Well, folks, earlier we were telling you about the housing bill. Well,
[1:57:03] Speaker 12: the House has now passed uh that particular bill. Uh again,
[1:57:08] Speaker 12: it passed uh on the Senate on Monday eighty five
[1:57:12] Speaker 12: to five. The bill passed the House three fifty eight
[1:57:15] Speaker 12: to thirty two. Uh, and so it ends uh various
[1:57:20] Speaker 12: uh sparring between both and so now the bill uh
[1:57:23] Speaker 12: goes to UH Donald Trump to be signed.
[1:57:26] Speaker 2: Uh.
[1:57:26] Speaker 12: And the goals to improve the housing stock in this country. Alright, folks, Uh,
[1:57:30] Speaker 12: let's talk about our marketplace segment now.
[1:57:33] Speaker 2: Uh.
[1:57:33] Speaker 13: How many people really pay attention to their socks? Do
[1:57:36] Speaker 13: they just throw 'em on?
[1:57:37] Speaker 12: But the reality is taking care of your feet are
[1:57:39] Speaker 12: critically important and uh our uh next guests.
[1:57:43] Speaker 6: Uh.
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[1:58:04] Speaker 12: glad to have you here.
[1:58:06] Speaker 13: So, all right, socks, why where did this come from?
[1:58:11] Speaker 12: Where did this idea? Socks are everywhere? Why did you
[1:58:16] Speaker 12: decide to create your own sock brand?
[1:58:20] Speaker 6: Yes?
[1:58:20] Speaker 17: Well, first, thank you for having me first and foremost.
[1:58:22] Speaker 17: But honestly, I was an army engineer officer and there
[1:58:26] Speaker 17: was a lot of jumping out of planes and there
[1:58:29] Speaker 17: was you know, hiking, running, There was sixty miles a day,
[1:58:32] Speaker 17: twenty miles a day.
[1:58:33] Speaker 9: It was just constantly on my feet. And I was
[1:58:36] Speaker 9: having a lot of issues myself.
[1:58:37] Speaker 17: So I had blisters, planning, fasciitis, shin splints, and I
[1:58:40] Speaker 17: ended up having two aco reconstructs. Eventually I ended up
[1:58:44] Speaker 17: having a dispersed in my back, and then I had
[1:58:46] Speaker 17: some achilles injuries and the.
[1:58:48] Speaker 9: Doctor told me was all derived from my feet.
[1:58:50] Speaker 17: So that being said, my soldiers were having the same issues,
[1:58:53] Speaker 17: and I just wanted to fix it for myself and
[1:58:55] Speaker 17: then my soldiers.
[1:58:55] Speaker 12: So all right, So that was a lot of jumping
[1:58:58] Speaker 12: on kinds of something we were doing. But what role
[1:59:00] Speaker 12: did the socks play in all of that?
[1:59:04] Speaker 13: Yeah?
[1:59:04] Speaker 17: So I was spending about two hundred dollars a month
[1:59:06] Speaker 17: on socks and I was like, this is absolutely ridiculous.
[1:59:08] Speaker 17: And then I was getting a bunch of boots, and
[1:59:11] Speaker 17: then it was just too.
[1:59:12] Speaker 9: Much on my feet.
[1:59:13] Speaker 17: So eventually I just I was deployed to Korea at
[1:59:15] Speaker 17: the time, so I decided to just look up how
[1:59:19] Speaker 17: to make socks and engineer socks, and that's exactly how
[1:59:21] Speaker 17: it happened, just off of Google Search.
[1:59:24] Speaker 13: So we see how y'all engineers think.
[1:59:26] Speaker 12: Okay, So, so as you were thinking about again your
[1:59:30] Speaker 12: own style of socks, and we see, come on show.
[1:59:32] Speaker 12: We see different colors with different things. No, no, say yo,
[1:59:36] Speaker 12: come on show the socks, y'all. Yeah, well we know
[1:59:40] Speaker 12: what she looks like. We got her live show the socks.
[1:59:43] Speaker 13: Thank you?
[1:59:44] Speaker 12: All right, So we see the colors and everything, But
[1:59:47] Speaker 12: but what what makes these different in terms of the
[1:59:51] Speaker 12: construction of the socks that that make your feet better
[1:59:56] Speaker 12: or feel better?
[1:59:57] Speaker 3: Yeah?
[1:59:57] Speaker 17: Absolutely, So long story to show you here. I think
[2:00:00] Speaker 17: it's probably easier to show you that it is to
[2:00:02] Speaker 17: kind of put it on the screen. But it was
[2:00:05] Speaker 17: essentially offering everything that everybody says they offer and actually
[2:00:09] Speaker 17: putting it in the sock. So for me, it was
[2:00:11] Speaker 17: always had issues with my pinky toe, rubbing on the
[2:00:14] Speaker 17: on the pek.
[2:00:23] Speaker 9: Exactly, so the pinky toe and then the achilles area
[2:00:26] Speaker 9: those were like hot spots for me.
[2:00:27] Speaker 17: And then being in boots all day, it was always
[2:00:31] Speaker 17: slide down the leg and we get kind of scratched
[2:00:33] Speaker 17: up in the in the in the boots. So it's
[2:00:34] Speaker 17: fixing that, so ensuring that it didn't have a slit
[2:00:37] Speaker 17: rib and then adding compression level. So I think what's
[2:00:40] Speaker 17: often overlooked is one people think compression socks and they
[2:00:43] Speaker 17: automatically think medical and black socks.
[2:00:46] Speaker 9: That doesn't have to taste, you know, compliance isn't there.
[2:00:49] Speaker 17: So being able to create the everyday compression sock and
[2:00:52] Speaker 17: use sports compression technology instead and put a couple of
[2:00:55] Speaker 17: patents behind it and be able to help.
[2:00:57] Speaker 9: People every day and stand all day on their feet.
[2:00:59] Speaker 5: Okay, So I.
[2:01:02] Speaker 12: I play uh, I play a lot of golf, uh,
[2:01:06] Speaker 12: and I like to walk playing golf. How how are
[2:01:10] Speaker 12: these socks helped with that?
[2:01:13] Speaker 17: That's exactly who they're made for for Definitely on the
[2:01:16] Speaker 17: golf course. I'm a big golfer myself. I'm a lefty.
[2:01:19] Speaker 12: Same, I'm a lefty. What's your handicap?
[2:01:25] Speaker 9: Sit it again?
[2:01:26] Speaker 13: What's your what's your golf handicap?
[2:01:29] Speaker 9: Oh, I just like the driving range, to be honest
[2:01:31] Speaker 9: with you, I just like to just like the driver range.
[2:01:34] Speaker 12: Uh No, you gotta go on the course. Got driant range.
[2:01:40] Speaker 12: That's nice, but you gotta go play.
[2:01:43] Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not very good. I'll be honest with you.
[2:01:45] Speaker 9: That's I'm better at the range.
[2:01:48] Speaker 13: Oh lord? Okay, all right, so now when you come back.
[2:01:51] Speaker 17: To when you come back to Texas, out look, we'll
[2:01:53] Speaker 17: play a game and spend all day.
[2:01:55] Speaker 9: Were in Texas, Dallas?
[2:01:58] Speaker 13: Okay?
[2:01:58] Speaker 12: Oh yeah, no sweat, listen, I play, I play all
[2:02:01] Speaker 12: over so it doesn't matter. Look, I got to set
[2:02:04] Speaker 12: the golf clubs in Dallas, a set in the Houston,
[2:02:06] Speaker 12: plus a set here.
[2:02:08] Speaker 13: So I'm always ready to play.
[2:02:09] Speaker 9: Stay you're ready.
[2:02:10] Speaker 5: We got you.
[2:02:10] Speaker 9: So I get the clubs and then we'll you know,
[2:02:12] Speaker 9: get the socks will make Yeah.
[2:02:13] Speaker 12: So so, so is it with these socks? Is it
[2:02:17] Speaker 12: a question I'm padding? Is it turns up? And we
[2:02:20] Speaker 12: talk about compression?
[2:02:22] Speaker 5: How you know?
[2:02:23] Speaker 13: You know, you know, how does that work? If you're
[2:02:25] Speaker 13: going to be again on around four four and a
[2:02:28] Speaker 13: half five hours.
[2:02:30] Speaker 9: Yeah, So I'm going to show you here.
[2:02:31] Speaker 17: You can see it's a little bit thicker than the
[2:02:33] Speaker 17: average sock, so we added an extra layer of protection
[2:02:36] Speaker 17: here on the bottom, so it adds a layer between
[2:02:38] Speaker 17: you and the ground, so it gives you that extra
[2:02:40] Speaker 17: cushion for all day support.
[2:02:41] Speaker 9: And then additionally we added here in the back in
[2:02:44] Speaker 9: the heel.
[2:02:44] Speaker 17: We added something called energy return, so that when your
[2:02:47] Speaker 17: foot hits the ground, it actually absorbs the shot and
[2:02:49] Speaker 17: it allows you to spend a little bit longer on your.
[2:02:51] Speaker 9: Feet and recover a bit faster.
[2:02:53] Speaker 17: So we say that you know, average eight to twelve
[2:02:56] Speaker 17: hours a day that you can wear the socks, and
[2:02:58] Speaker 17: then afterwards you you can recover a little bit faster
[2:03:01] Speaker 17: because if you've had that extra layer protection between you
[2:03:03] Speaker 17: and the ground.
[2:03:04] Speaker 12: Cool questions from the panels here, I don't see anybody
[2:03:08] Speaker 12: that's panels who's very athletic.
[2:03:10] Speaker 13: Uh So let me see, let me go to the joe.
[2:03:17] Speaker 5: You know you wrong for that.
[2:03:19] Speaker 8: So anyway, I'm not very good at golf either, so
[2:03:25] Speaker 8: you know, we could just be not good.
[2:03:28] Speaker 4: Still be still people.
[2:03:29] Speaker 8: Too, all right, But I got the question that I've got,
[2:03:33] Speaker 8: you know, the middle Age.
[2:03:36] Speaker 22: Fly overseas long black compression socks, Okay, that I wear
[2:03:40] Speaker 22: on the plane. However, are these socks that I would
[2:03:44] Speaker 22: wear on the plane, or you're gonna make some ones
[2:03:48] Speaker 22: that we can wear on the plane for those of
[2:03:50] Speaker 22: us that aren't that athletic, like Rowland.
[2:03:52] Speaker 12: Said, first of all, clearly, not that clearly, not that clearly,
[2:03:56] Speaker 12: clearly not that athletic, not that colorful, don't have a swagger.
[2:04:01] Speaker 4: But go ahead, yes, yes, you.
[2:04:10] Speaker 9: To answer your question.
[2:04:11] Speaker 17: Yes, we're actually we're in a lot of we're actually
[2:04:14] Speaker 17: launching nationally in the airport space. So we're currently in
[2:04:18] Speaker 17: DFW Airport. You can find us in CEE nineteen and
[2:04:21] Speaker 17: the Univision stores. But we're currently rolling out nationally and
[2:04:25] Speaker 17: we'll have our socks and sodomore airports. But yes, they
[2:04:28] Speaker 17: are made for people who spend all day on their feet,
[2:04:30] Speaker 17: whether that's flying, walking, sitting. But we've created something that's
[2:04:34] Speaker 17: able to be worn for very various different demographics and
[2:04:39] Speaker 17: be able to wear it all day. So yes, absolutely
[2:04:41] Speaker 17: you can wear it in flight. And they're way better
[2:04:43] Speaker 17: than those black ones that you have. Now, just throw
[2:04:45] Speaker 17: them away and then you'll love me forever.
[2:04:48] Speaker 13: I got you'll do that, Khalil.
[2:04:52] Speaker 23: I heard you said you're in Texas, But you made
[2:04:55] Speaker 23: a commander's version, like I just need do you haven't
[2:04:58] Speaker 23: Burgundy and.
[2:04:59] Speaker 12: Gold Well, I don't about to give a ship by
[2:05:01] Speaker 12: no commanders, nobody, nobody.
[2:05:05] Speaker 9: You have to be honest, you know, I'm agree with that.
[2:05:08] Speaker 9: I don't think anybody cares about the commander and I
[2:05:10] Speaker 9: don't give it a damn.
[2:05:11] Speaker 13: And I don't give a damn by the cowboys.
[2:05:16] Speaker 5: We damn too, We damn.
[2:05:18] Speaker 12: She don't care about the commander's Go ask a real
[2:05:21] Speaker 12: damn question.
[2:05:23] Speaker 5: So the technology that you have at at the heel,
[2:05:26] Speaker 5: is there actually.
[2:05:27] Speaker 23: Like a cushion in the sock so that when I
[2:05:29] Speaker 23: am coming down from the gym or I'm turning on
[2:05:33] Speaker 23: my heel to tell when I'm making my golf swing,
[2:05:36] Speaker 23: so as I say, we're not athletic, Is there an
[2:05:38] Speaker 23: actual cushion in the heel.
[2:05:39] Speaker 3: Of the of the sock.
[2:05:41] Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
[2:05:42] Speaker 9: You can actually see it here. You can see it
[2:05:45] Speaker 9: right here in the fabric.
[2:05:46] Speaker 17: But funny story, the reason that that I added that
[2:05:49] Speaker 17: is because we were hiking for like twelve hours, for
[2:05:54] Speaker 17: twelve hours or one hundred miles and it was just
[2:05:56] Speaker 17: too much. So I added that later in there, and
[2:05:59] Speaker 17: there a lot of athletes use it like volleyball athletes.
[2:06:01] Speaker 17: We've heard some testimonials where they've been able to prevent
[2:06:04] Speaker 17: ankle springs. We've also had some testimonials for people who
[2:06:09] Speaker 17: had type two diabetes and been able to kind of
[2:06:12] Speaker 17: lower their hypertension and theireropathy.
[2:06:14] Speaker 9: So yes, yes, absolutely all right, but.
[2:06:19] Speaker 21: Thank you, hell no, well paying congratulations on the success
[2:06:28] Speaker 21: that you've had so far. I'm a runner and so
[2:06:32] Speaker 21: breatheability is really important, especially when you're putting in a
[2:06:35] Speaker 21: number of miles. Can you talk a little bit about
[2:06:38] Speaker 21: for those folks who I heard you talk about hiking,
[2:06:41] Speaker 21: but you know, for runners, it's important not only our shoes,
[2:06:45] Speaker 21: but also the socks and other things that are part
[2:06:47] Speaker 21: of that process.
[2:06:50] Speaker 27: Yeah.
[2:06:50] Speaker 9: I like to say that, you know, the sock is
[2:06:52] Speaker 9: always overlooked, and it always will be.
[2:06:54] Speaker 17: Everybody immediate legos first to the shoe and they're like, oh,
[2:06:56] Speaker 17: I had to have the perfect running shoe, when oftentimes
[2:06:59] Speaker 17: it's the block that truly matters, which you'll see in
[2:07:02] Speaker 17: a lot of runners. We work with a lot of
[2:07:04] Speaker 17: ultra ultra marathonersath triathletes, triathlon, just just a plethora of
[2:07:10] Speaker 17: different runners.
[2:07:12] Speaker 9: Five ks, ten k's big.
[2:07:14] Speaker 17: Races in terms of like Boston Marathon, and we have
[2:07:17] Speaker 17: great testimonials. We have some hard critics out there, so
[2:07:19] Speaker 17: I had to get it right to be completely honest
[2:07:21] Speaker 17: with you. But that being said, we've noticed that a
[2:07:26] Speaker 17: lot of runners are been switching from polyester and wool
[2:07:29] Speaker 17: to our socks.
[2:07:30] Speaker 9: We use cotton. They just breathe better and they long last,
[2:07:33] Speaker 9: they last longer, So on average, what we've heard.
[2:07:35] Speaker 17: I've only been in business five years and what we
[2:07:37] Speaker 17: hear is our socks last five years.
[2:07:39] Speaker 9: So that's you know, I love to hear that. But
[2:07:42] Speaker 9: we have a lot of runners that tend to.
[2:07:44] Speaker 17: Love them, and they say that they breathe really well
[2:07:45] Speaker 17: and they were able to recover faster because of that
[2:07:48] Speaker 17: cushioned bottom.
[2:07:51] Speaker 12: Yeah, and so folks, if you want to check out
[2:07:54] Speaker 12: the socks, go right go to sick Fit, go to
[2:07:57] Speaker 12: shop Blackstuddnetwork dot com. You see right there all the
[2:08:01] Speaker 12: different colors of socks, the different style socks. You do
[2:08:04] Speaker 12: not see any damn commander's socks and you won't so
[2:08:09] Speaker 12: again to shop Blackstar Network dot com. Shop Blackstar Network
[2:08:14] Speaker 12: dot com. So so all of these are so all right,
[2:08:17] Speaker 12: So do you have any that are footies and if not,
[2:08:22] Speaker 12: why why this particular link just curious.
[2:08:27] Speaker 9: We do, We do have some ankle socks. We have
[2:08:29] Speaker 9: ankle no sho.
[2:08:31] Speaker 17: Typically our best sellers are the crew we're moving back
[2:08:34] Speaker 17: into that crew space.
[2:08:36] Speaker 9: We kind of moved away from it a couple of
[2:08:37] Speaker 9: years ago.
[2:08:38] Speaker 17: Now it's super popular and everyone's bringing it back, So
[2:08:41] Speaker 17: we're really heavy in the cruise space right now. But
[2:08:43] Speaker 17: we absolutely do. I personally like a quartersock. That's my favorite,
[2:08:46] Speaker 17: just a white sock.
[2:08:48] Speaker 5: But yeah, I ain't a fan.
[2:08:52] Speaker 13: First of all.
[2:08:53] Speaker 12: The only reason I've even wearing that style recently because
[2:08:56] Speaker 12: I injured my left ankle and I actually been wearing
[2:08:59] Speaker 12: a brace on it when I play golf.
[2:09:01] Speaker 2: Uh.
[2:09:02] Speaker 13: The doc told me, Uh, I'm sorry, Clil, what were
[2:09:05] Speaker 13: you doing?
[2:09:11] Speaker 12: See Clil, See Clil, let me explain something to you, Khalil,
[2:09:15] Speaker 12: I had see see, let me explain something to you,
[2:09:18] Speaker 12: because see, I don't think some of y'all realize I
[2:09:20] Speaker 12: pay attention to everything, so you might think I was
[2:09:23] Speaker 12: asking her a question. Uh, and you sitting here, say
[2:09:27] Speaker 12: you're trying to sit here and run your damn mouth,
[2:09:30] Speaker 12: and you and you thought you thought you could sit
[2:09:34] Speaker 12: here and be a smart ass while I was asking
[2:09:38] Speaker 12: her a question, and.
[2:09:39] Speaker 13: I would not see what you were doing.
[2:09:43] Speaker 12: And so I don't think you understand who you talking to, Khalil,
[2:09:47] Speaker 12: because again I see everything, and so I just gonna
[2:09:51] Speaker 12: just want to show the folks at home. So let
[2:09:52] Speaker 12: me tell you all. Let me let me teach Khalil
[2:09:55] Speaker 12: a lesson why you shouldn't that way. I'm gonna teach
[2:10:00] Speaker 12: Khalil a lesson. See why you should never ever play
[2:10:03] Speaker 12: games with uncle Roro, because I see and hear every
[2:10:07] Speaker 12: damn thing. So just so y'all know, Anthony, go ahead
[2:10:11] Speaker 12: and go hold on, don't take the shot yet. Let
[2:10:13] Speaker 12: me see if I can, Okay, I just want to
[2:10:16] Speaker 12: go ahead and show him. So, Khalil, do you see
[2:10:20] Speaker 12: this here? This is a monitor that I look at
[2:10:26] Speaker 12: and as you see this right here is the preview monitor.
[2:10:31] Speaker 12: This is the program monitor. And then down here I
[2:10:36] Speaker 12: have one panel list, two panelists, three panelists. That's for
[2:10:42] Speaker 12: a fourth panelist. This box here is in case Peyton,
[2:10:46] Speaker 12: we lose the video signal, we go to a still shot.
[2:10:49] Speaker 12: This is shot Blackstar Network, the website. This is my
[2:10:53] Speaker 12: iPad right here, This is and so, and this is
[2:10:57] Speaker 12: actually my iPad and this is me on another signal.
[2:11:00] Speaker 12: So as you see, I see every damn thing. So
[2:11:04] Speaker 12: the next time you try to sit here uh in
[2:11:07] Speaker 12: motion and make and make a face while I'm live,
[2:11:11] Speaker 12: I will bust your ass because I can see what
[2:11:14] Speaker 12: you're doing.
[2:11:18] Speaker 5: There we go, yeah, there you go.
[2:11:22] Speaker 13: So again I am not the one to mess with
[2:11:26] Speaker 13: when it comes to the show.
[2:11:28] Speaker 12: So, as I was saying, when the non golfer interrupted
[2:11:34] Speaker 12: me with his antics, peyton again uh so uh, I
[2:11:42] Speaker 12: actually injured the left ankle, so I'm wearing a brace
[2:11:44] Speaker 12: and so I have to wear that higher sock and
[2:11:47] Speaker 12: then roll it on top of the brais. Doc told
[2:11:51] Speaker 12: me he didn't want me playing golf. I like, say, bruh,
[2:11:53] Speaker 12: I'm just letting you know that's gonna happen. So you
[2:11:57] Speaker 12: just gonna have to do what you can.
[2:11:58] Speaker 5: Be good.
[2:11:59] Speaker 13: We got you.
[2:12:00] Speaker 17: You just got to put on our socks. Actually, it's
[2:12:01] Speaker 17: funny enough we uh. I think it's been the coolest
[2:12:04] Speaker 17: part for me and the best experience is being able
[2:12:06] Speaker 17: to work with so many different doctors.
[2:12:07] Speaker 4: We work with.
[2:12:08] Speaker 17: Podiatris, chiropractors, indocinologists, just a plethora of different doctors and
[2:12:14] Speaker 17: we're actually going through a park a pilot right now
[2:12:16] Speaker 17: with one of the hospitals where we're seeing if our
[2:12:19] Speaker 17: socks actually improved the kidney function. So it's been very
[2:12:22] Speaker 17: eye opening to kind of see all the doctors and
[2:12:26] Speaker 17: all the data and just kind of all these case
[2:12:28] Speaker 17: studies being built all across the sock.
[2:12:30] Speaker 9: So it's been very interesting to see, you know, a
[2:12:33] Speaker 9: sock would take me this far.
[2:12:35] Speaker 13: So y'all, So y'all sent some socks.
[2:12:39] Speaker 12: They have not arrived yet, uh, and so I can't
[2:12:42] Speaker 12: wait to when they arrived, I'm not sure what the
[2:12:46] Speaker 12: heck happened.
[2:12:47] Speaker 2: Uh.
[2:12:47] Speaker 12: So they our folks looked all around for the package,
[2:12:52] Speaker 12: and so I can't wait to test test the socks out.
[2:12:55] Speaker 12: But folks watching, do me a favor. Go to shop
[2:12:57] Speaker 12: blackstud network dot com shop blackstud Network. When you support
[2:13:02] Speaker 12: Peyton Socks Sick Fit, you're supporting this show as well,
[2:13:06] Speaker 12: and so go to the website and get your sick
[2:13:09] Speaker 12: Sick Fit socks today. Peyton, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot,
[2:13:13] Speaker 12: and get the health of the driving range. Take cares
[2:13:15] Speaker 12: of the course. Okay, you gotta graduate. You gotta graduate.
[2:13:20] Speaker 12: Going from the driving range to the course.
[2:13:23] Speaker 9: Fair enough coming to Texas, so we're gonna have a
[2:13:25] Speaker 9: great time.
[2:13:25] Speaker 12: Oh listen, I'm always I'm always ready to play, and
[2:13:28] Speaker 12: I'll be happy to take some sick fit money on
[2:13:32] Speaker 12: the golf course. All right, I appreciate it. Thanks a
[2:13:36] Speaker 12: bunch folks. I appreciate it. Thanks a bunch.
[2:13:39] Speaker 13: That is it for us.
[2:13:41] Speaker 12: Let me think Musta for Let me think Joe uh
[2:13:44] Speaker 12: and let me think smart ass Khalil, who got busted
[2:13:47] Speaker 12: sitting here. Yes I understand, I am king petty. Yes
[2:13:50] Speaker 12: I will absolutely bust you out on the show. So
[2:13:54] Speaker 12: Khalil decided to get baptized today and now he knows better.
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