# GOP Agenda COLLAPSES Again. Fairfax NAACP Demands Action On Discrimination. We The People Coalition.

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 2 Jul 2026, 2 h 01 min.

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7.1.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: GOP Agenda COLLAPSES Again. Fairfax NAACP Demands Action On Discrimination. We The People Coalition. _ 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* _ LIVE from New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the We the People Coalition Gospel Concert and Panel, which will begin at 6:30. We will broadcast the event live, exclusively on the Black Star Network. First, let's take a look at what's coming up on Roland Martin Unfiltered. For the second straight week, House Speaker Mike Johnson had to scrap the GOP's scheduled agenda before leaving Capitol Hill for the holiday weekend. Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson will join us to discuss what's been happening in the House and this week's Supreme Court decisions. Fairfax County, Virginia, schools face ongoing challenges with racial, disability, and gender discrimination, prompting the Fairfax County NAACP to demand stronger oversight, clearer reporting, and timely resolution of complaints. We'll talk to the organization's First Vice President about their recommendations to the school board. 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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[0:02] Speaker 1: Hey folks to that's Wednesday, July first, twenty twenty six,
[0:05] Speaker 1: coming up on filter streaming on the Black Star Network.
[0:08] Speaker 1: I'm here at a new Mount Islet Baptist Church at
[0:12] Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale where the we, the people, the discussion be
[0:15] Speaker 1: taking place. About thirty minutes out be on that panel.
[0:17] Speaker 1: We'll be streaming and lied right here on the Black
[0:19] Speaker 1: Star Network. Republicans continue to go put Ousebrivers on vacation.
[0:24] Speaker 1: Hank Cotsh Hank Johnson Georgia will join us to talk
[0:27] Speaker 1: about why Republicans are failing in their agenda for this country. Also,
[0:32] Speaker 1: Fairfax County Schools based ongoing challenges with racial disability and
[0:36] Speaker 1: gender discrimination, prompting the fair Fact County NAACP, the band's
[0:40] Speaker 1: stronger oversight, will be joined by one of their leaders.
[0:44] Speaker 1: Lots of talk about as we cover, it's impending midterm
[0:50] Speaker 1: elections that will determine the future course of this country.
[0:53] Speaker 1: It's time to bring the funk On'm rollerd bart Don
[0:55] Speaker 1: Filcher on the Blackstard Network.
[0:56] Speaker 2: Let's go scot whatever the theis it, whatever.
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[1:32] Speaker 2: He's bookcase breast. She's real good question.
[1:35] Speaker 4: No, he's rolling.
[1:36] Speaker 3: Montee.
[2:01] Speaker 1: We are alive here in for Floridale, Florida, at New
[2:04] Speaker 1: Mount Islet Baptist Church where the second We the People
[2:08] Speaker 1: conversation will be taking place. Earlier this month or last
[2:12] Speaker 1: last month. I was actually in Dallas for a conversation.
[2:15] Speaker 1: So as you see, people are already gathering here for
[2:18] Speaker 1: this conversation for former Los Angrews Lakers, Great Norm Nixon
[2:22] Speaker 1: is going to be moderating the conversation. I will be
[2:25] Speaker 1: on the panel, and so that'll be starting in less
[2:28] Speaker 1: than thirty minutes, and so we'll be streaming that of
[2:31] Speaker 1: course right here on the Black Start Network. Midterm elections
[2:34] Speaker 1: are coming up and it's a crucial, crucial time when
[2:37] Speaker 1: it comes to the agenda for Black America, and what
[2:40] Speaker 1: we are seeing is an anti black agenda from today's
[2:43] Speaker 1: back of Republican Party and led by in the House
[2:47] Speaker 1: by Speaker Mike Johnson, they continue to assault African Americans
[2:51] Speaker 1: in every particular area. Joining us right now is Congressmanhank
[2:54] Speaker 1: Johnson of Georgia. Congressman glad to have you back on
[2:57] Speaker 1: Roland Martin unfiltered. I have been making this point since
[3:01] Speaker 1: last year that this is an effort to defund Black America.
[3:04] Speaker 1: And when you look at what this administration is doing,
[3:06] Speaker 1: when you look at what these Republicans of the House
[3:08] Speaker 1: and the Senate are doing, it is an absolute attack
[3:11] Speaker 1: on Black America.
[3:14] Speaker 5: Yeah, they are celebrating their one year anniversary of the
[3:19] Speaker 5: Big Ugly Bill this week. That bill knocks millions.
[3:25] Speaker 4: Of people off of healthcare roles.
[3:28] Speaker 5: Via Affordable Care Act Obamacare tax premiums, premiums, tax credits
[3:35] Speaker 5: that they cut, and so insurance is less suffordable.
[3:40] Speaker 4: Now twenty four million, well not.
[3:42] Speaker 5: Twenty four million, about ten million people have lost their
[3:45] Speaker 5: insurance under Obamacare. They've cut Medicaid and Medicare by.
[3:51] Speaker 4: The tune of about a trillion dollars.
[3:53] Speaker 5: They've cut snap benefits, and of course it's not just
[3:56] Speaker 5: black people who reap those fits, it's white people also,
[4:03] Speaker 5: but as proportionately they're trying to hurt black people economically.
[4:08] Speaker 5: They want us to die and then on top of that,
[4:12] Speaker 5: they're trying to do everything they can in the United
[4:15] Speaker 5: States Supreme Court to keep us from voting. They want
[4:20] Speaker 5: to be able to suppress our votes at will, and
[4:26] Speaker 5: they're giving the executive the power to fire employees, all
[4:32] Speaker 5: federal employees, about three million federal employees that are now
[4:37] Speaker 5: subject to being fired at will. If they don't do
[4:41] Speaker 5: what Trump tells them to do, they are now subject
[4:45] Speaker 5: to being fired. This is at the hand of the
[4:48] Speaker 5: United States Supreme Court, which the Republican Party built to
[4:52] Speaker 5: take action and do things judicially that they can't do legislatively.
[4:57] Speaker 4: So we are.
[4:58] Speaker 5: Seeing the court destroying our democracy and establishing or re establishing,
[5:06] Speaker 5: or establishing in its absence of plutocracy where rich people
[5:12] Speaker 5: rule the day and all of the black people, all
[5:16] Speaker 5: of the people of color, get crumbs off the table.
[5:23] Speaker 1: Well, on that particular point, you talked about the loss
[5:25] Speaker 1: of healthcare, where we begin to break down losses in
[5:28] Speaker 1: so many areas. It also, of course, look what's happening
[5:31] Speaker 1: with black farmers, Look what's happening in education, how they're
[5:34] Speaker 1: removing the civil rights over cycling the Department of Education,
[5:37] Speaker 1: going to other areas, and so what we are seeing
[5:41] Speaker 1: is just completely mayhem coming from this administration, and they
[5:45] Speaker 1: are attacking anything. They're looking at grants, they're looking at
[5:49] Speaker 1: even corporations that fun black initiatives. They're targeting those things
[5:53] Speaker 1: as well. And so we are seeing Black America impact
[5:58] Speaker 1: and loss of jobs, nonprofits being impacted. Black contracts of
[6:02] Speaker 1: the federal government are down as well. This is an
[6:04] Speaker 1: all out assault on black folks.
[6:08] Speaker 4: Yes, it is. We have lost so many jobs.
[6:12] Speaker 5: You know, Trump used to talk about how good he
[6:15] Speaker 5: had been to black folks in terms of job creation.
[6:18] Speaker 5: It was lies then, but now we're losing jobs under Trump.
[6:25] Speaker 5: Instead of him creating jobs or his administrator in creating jobs,
[6:30] Speaker 5: they're losing jobs, and Black folks are disproportionately losing those jobs.
[6:36] Speaker 5: And A You've got the correct it's a GOP war
[6:43] Speaker 5: on Black America. And if we don't stand up and
[6:48] Speaker 5: fight back, we're going to be back in the cotton fields.
[6:52] Speaker 5: And when I talk about fighting back, I'm not talking
[6:54] Speaker 5: about taking up arms.
[6:56] Speaker 4: I'm talking about taking it to the.
[6:59] Speaker 5: Streets in protest and also by exercising our precious right
[7:03] Speaker 5: to vote. We're gonna have to get out in November
[7:08] Speaker 5: and vote like John Lewis said, like our lives depend
[7:11] Speaker 5: on it, because our lives do depend on it this time.
[7:15] Speaker 5: If we allow Repubs to remain in control of the
[7:20] Speaker 5: House and the Senate, of both of those branches of
[7:25] Speaker 5: the legislature, then we're in for an expedited Trump movement
[7:34] Speaker 5: to win the war on Black America.
[7:37] Speaker 4: I mean, we are.
[7:39] Speaker 5: We are not far from having this democracy dismantled with
[7:45] Speaker 5: no rights to people black and white. But we all
[7:50] Speaker 5: know that when when white folks, when society catches a cold,
[7:55] Speaker 5: black folks catch pneumonia, we know that it's going.
[7:58] Speaker 4: To be worse. Even the poorest white will.
[8:03] Speaker 5: Feel that and does feel to this day, many of
[8:06] Speaker 5: them that they're better than the most accomplished black person.
[8:12] Speaker 5: In fact, they resent folks like Barack Obama because they
[8:16] Speaker 5: believe that he was given a hand up, he was
[8:19] Speaker 5: given something, he was put in the line ahead of them,
[8:23] Speaker 5: and so you know, we have so much and he
[8:26] Speaker 5: was able to excel at their expense, and so we
[8:30] Speaker 5: have so much ignorance that is being perpetuated by algorithms
[8:36] Speaker 5: online and messaging going at people, causing them to even
[8:42] Speaker 5: act against their own economic interest. I mean, Trump has
[8:46] Speaker 5: made two billion dollars this year.
[8:52] Speaker 4: Year isn't even over with.
[8:54] Speaker 5: And yet you know, prices for gas, for energy, for grocery, is,
[9:00] Speaker 5: for rent, for house notes, all of the essentials that
[9:05] Speaker 5: regular ordinary people need, black and white prices going up.
[9:10] Speaker 5: Life is becoming left portable is getting very tight. People
[9:15] Speaker 5: are just making it day to day, trying to choose
[9:19] Speaker 5: between putting food on the table or gas in the car.
[9:24] Speaker 6: I mean, those are decisions that are making, or whether
[9:27] Speaker 6: or not to buy food and leave the medicine on
[9:31] Speaker 6: the counter at the pharmacy because you can't afford vote.
[9:37] Speaker 5: So many people are suffering that way. But meanwhile they're voting.
[9:42] Speaker 5: They continue to be in the in the pocket book
[9:48] Speaker 5: in the trance of Donald Trump, who's soaking them all
[9:53] Speaker 5: the way to the bank. He's getting richer, they're getting poorer,
[9:56] Speaker 5: and they still support it to do to get our
[10:00] Speaker 5: folks out.
[10:01] Speaker 1: You mean, the way, the last question for you, and
[10:06] Speaker 1: that is, you know you last night in Colorado you
[10:11] Speaker 1: had an incumbent Democrat lose to Democrats Social America, and
[10:15] Speaker 1: you get all these Democrats who are up in arms,
[10:18] Speaker 1: and what I keep saying is you're focused on the
[10:21] Speaker 1: wrong thing. What you should be focusing on what are
[10:25] Speaker 1: these people saying that is attracting voters to You should
[10:30] Speaker 1: be saying, how are they organizing and mobilizing and motivating
[10:34] Speaker 1: their voters to turn out at the end of the day.
[10:37] Speaker 1: I don't listen.
[10:38] Speaker 7: If you're a Democrat, you shouldn't care how you.
[10:40] Speaker 1: Get to too eighteen because you need to eighteen in
[10:44] Speaker 1: order to take control of the House, and in order
[10:47] Speaker 1: for how King jeffries that the Democrat lead to become
[10:51] Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. And so what are you saying
[10:53] Speaker 1: to your fellow Democrats who are angry at upseting the
[10:57] Speaker 1: incumbents you know are losing. I've made the point, no
[11:01] Speaker 1: seat is guaranteed. No one owns a seat. Your job
[11:04] Speaker 1: is to run for it. Your job is to organize
[11:07] Speaker 1: and mobilize. But I think in this moment, what Democrats
[11:10] Speaker 1: should be saying is how are these folks speaking to
[11:13] Speaker 1: their voters and how are they getting them to turnout
[11:16] Speaker 1: at the end of the day. You need to turn
[11:18] Speaker 1: You need turnout in November in order to win.
[11:23] Speaker 4: Well.
[11:23] Speaker 5: You know a lot of people, particularly the younger that
[11:26] Speaker 5: they get, are so upset about the genocide that has
[11:31] Speaker 5: been perpetuated and perpetrated against the Palestinian people by the
[11:36] Speaker 5: Israeli government, and they don't want their tax dollars going
[11:42] Speaker 5: to fund genocide.
[11:44] Speaker 4: And so that's been a.
[11:46] Speaker 5: Powerful lever that people who call themselves Democratic Socialists of America.
[11:55] Speaker 5: That's one of the things that they have been united
[11:58] Speaker 5: about is into the side in Gaza, and they're also
[12:02] Speaker 5: about medicare for all. They are not communists. They just
[12:06] Speaker 5: want to see pain in a prosperous America. They want
[12:11] Speaker 5: to see a sharing of the fruits of their labor.
[12:14] Speaker 5: They understand that their labor is productive. Productivity rates are
[12:20] Speaker 5: through the roof, but yet wages remaintagnant and the rich
[12:24] Speaker 5: get richer. The super billionaires get super more billions. We
[12:29] Speaker 5: even now have a trillionaire. So the money is being
[12:32] Speaker 5: concentrated at the top. The Democratic Socialists of America are
[12:37] Speaker 5: arguing and advocating for policies that spread the wealth that
[12:44] Speaker 5: is being generated among those who are actually working to
[12:49] Speaker 5: generate that wealth. And so they're working for ferr tax
[12:53] Speaker 5: code one where the rich have to pay their fair
[12:56] Speaker 5: share of the tax code. Look at the sees that
[13:00] Speaker 5: they're being at that they are advocating. These are policies
[13:03] Speaker 5: that are popular for people black and white. And so
[13:09] Speaker 5: people don't want to see business as usual. They want
[13:13] Speaker 5: to see dramatic change. They want a change our United
[13:17] Speaker 5: States Supreme Court. They want court reform, they want term
[13:21] Speaker 5: limits on Supreme Court justices. They want to expand the
[13:26] Speaker 5: court to get rid of this extreme right wing hyper
[13:32] Speaker 5: partisans in Supreme Court. They want to see a court
[13:35] Speaker 5: with that binds itself to a code of ethics, just
[13:40] Speaker 5: like everyone else. And so when you talk in ways
[13:44] Speaker 5: that attract people, people then are motivated to vote. And
[13:49] Speaker 5: so that's why I have to applaud those who the incoming.
[13:54] Speaker 5: You know, of course I love my dear colleagues who
[13:58] Speaker 5: won't be coming back next year.
[14:00] Speaker 4: But I'm looking forward also to.
[14:04] Speaker 5: These new fresh voices coming in to help move us
[14:08] Speaker 5: in a progressive way that helps people survive in this
[14:15] Speaker 5: rapidly becoming putocracy.
[14:20] Speaker 1: All right, tomhank Johnston, Georgia.
[14:22] Speaker 7: Well she'll appreciate it.
[14:23] Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Thank you.
[14:28] Speaker 1: All Right, folks, we told you about what's happening in
[14:29] Speaker 1: Fairfax County with the NAACP is demanding more accountability when
[14:34] Speaker 1: it comes to issue deal with the race as well
[14:38] Speaker 1: with disability, and so let's quickly go to our next guest.
[14:43] Speaker 1: Mira Donaldson. MIRRAA. Donaldson joins us right now, first Vice
[14:47] Speaker 1: President of the Fairfax County NAACP er glad.
[14:50] Speaker 7: To have you here.
[14:51] Speaker 1: Walk us through what exactly discrimination are y'all. I'm sorry,
[14:57] Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Evelyn Spain that joins us right now, saying,
[15:00] Speaker 1: first Vice President Fairfacet County INABACP Edwin, walk us through
[15:04] Speaker 1: what are y'all alleging is taking place in Fairfax County.
[15:10] Speaker 8: Thank you, mister Martin. But first, before I begin, I
[15:14] Speaker 8: want to express my first President's condolences. She cannot join,
[15:21] Speaker 8: she is on her way out of town. What we
[15:24] Speaker 8: are experiencing here in Fairfax County.
[15:27] Speaker 1: At a couple of the public schools is.
[15:30] Speaker 8: Anti black bias and inequitable treatment of our black children
[15:38] Speaker 8: who are currently enrolled in middle school, throughout middle school
[15:42] Speaker 8: and high school throughout Fairfax County.
[15:47] Speaker 1: So what are exactly okay, So what are they actually facing?
[15:50] Speaker 1: What are they what are they dealing with?
[15:53] Speaker 8: Okay, So what we're dealing with, thank you for the question.
[15:56] Speaker 8: What we're dealing with is we've had a parent to
[15:59] Speaker 8: come men and expressed to us the discrimination that her
[16:05] Speaker 8: son has uh experience. He's been He's had water poured
[16:11] Speaker 8: on his head, He's had a banana handed to him
[16:15] Speaker 8: and called a monkey, He's been called the inward out loud,
[16:20] Speaker 8: repeatedly in front of staff, and according to the parent,
[16:26] Speaker 8: the staff did nothing to reprimand those students who were
[16:31] Speaker 8: harassing him or discriminated against him.
[16:34] Speaker 1: And this has happened, is this is this?
[16:37] Speaker 7: Is this one student?
[16:39] Speaker 1: Multiple students have you are multiple?
[16:46] Speaker 8: There are multiple occurrences. But that was just one specific
[16:50] Speaker 8: experience from one parent, But there have been multiple occasions
[16:54] Speaker 8: of students who have come forth and expressed that they
[16:57] Speaker 8: have been uh experiencing anti black bias.
[17:01] Speaker 1: Yes, so have Okay, have y'all been in touch with
[17:05] Speaker 1: the school board, school board president, school board members, what
[17:09] Speaker 1: conversations have been taking place?
[17:12] Speaker 2: So we had thank you for that.
[17:14] Speaker 8: We had a forum with the superintendent of Fairfax County
[17:17] Speaker 8: Public Schools. We are working in collaboration with the schools
[17:23] Speaker 8: with NAACP. There is a website that parents can go
[17:28] Speaker 8: to to There's an online program that they can reach
[17:34] Speaker 8: out to and express the concerns that they have. But
[17:38] Speaker 8: NAACP we want to be able to work collectively collaboratively
[17:43] Speaker 8: with them to make sure that these concerns, issues that
[17:47] Speaker 8: the parents and students are bringing forth are being addressed
[17:51] Speaker 8: on a timely basis.
[17:54] Speaker 1: All right, then, what's early keep us abreast of what
[17:58] Speaker 1: takes place there in FAIRFESTI evon, We appreciate it.
[18:01] Speaker 7: Thanks you a lot.
[18:03] Speaker 8: Thank you so much, mister Martin.
[18:04] Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, folks, So we're going to go
[18:08] Speaker 1: to break, we come back. We'll be back here at
[18:11] Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for this we the people conversation.
[18:15] Speaker 1: We're talking about what's happening in this country today. We
[18:17] Speaker 1: talking about voting rights, We're talking about civil rights. We
[18:19] Speaker 1: talking about what's happening in African Americans and what is
[18:22] Speaker 1: going to be our focus in this mid term elections.
[18:25] Speaker 1: This is a huge important state Democrats are trying to
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[18:33] Speaker 1: You have Ronda Sanders who is term limited and so
[18:36] Speaker 1: that's the case. You has Senate race, and so Florida
[18:39] Speaker 1: is one of those crucial states Democrats are looking to
[18:43] Speaker 1: to retake control of the Senate. You also, of course
[18:47] Speaker 1: have the Jered Mandering here, decimated black power here and
[18:51] Speaker 1: so we'll be discussing that as well. So lost the breakdown.
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[22:31] Speaker 12: a relationship that we have to have.
[22:34] Speaker 2: We're often afraid of it and don't like to talk
[22:36] Speaker 2: about it.
[22:36] Speaker 1: That's right.
[22:37] Speaker 12: We're talking about our.
[22:38] Speaker 2: Relationship with money. And here's the thing.
[22:42] Speaker 12: Our relationship with money oftentimes determines whether we have it
[22:46] Speaker 12: or not. Balancing your relationship with your pocketbook. That's next,
[22:50] Speaker 12: on a balanced life with me, doctor Jackie. Here at
[22:53] Speaker 12: Blackstar Network.
[22:56] Speaker 13: A decade of love, joy and power. Voters Matter is
[23:00] Speaker 13: ten years old and we are just getting started. This
[23:03] Speaker 13: is love with the purpose. This is black joy and motion.
[23:08] Speaker 13: This is on stoppable power across campuses, neighborhoods, back roads.
[23:16] Speaker 3: Let go.
[23:17] Speaker 13: We show up not just to vote, but to be seen,
[23:21] Speaker 13: to be heard, to belong. We ride together, we organize together.
[23:27] Speaker 13: We remind each other that our voices matter because they
[23:31] Speaker 13: always have. Black Voters Matter is about more than balance.
[23:35] Speaker 13: It's about housing and healthcare, clean water and living wages, education,
[23:42] Speaker 13: reproductive freedom, and dignity. It's about turning pain into action,
[23:49] Speaker 13: turning belief into movement, turning community into power.
[23:54] Speaker 4: We don't wait to be invited.
[23:56] Speaker 13: We bring the energy, We bring the love, bring the people.
[24:03] Speaker 13: Because when black communities come together, you don't just survive,
[24:06] Speaker 13: we thrive. This is our change, hatters, this is our history. Moves,
[24:16] Speaker 13: we organize, we build, we with.
[24:25] Speaker 14: That's your boy earthquake, you know, giving Roland Martin something
[24:28] Speaker 14: to do because you know you don't know what to do.
[24:30] Speaker 14: You're from Texas. Ain't his fault.
[25:02] Speaker 7: So we.
[25:10] Speaker 3: Pay the bases. He pas the port a way, So
[25:16] Speaker 3: let the more take this.
[25:24] Speaker 15: Said?
[25:25] Speaker 1: What is this head?
[25:27] Speaker 3: Says he?
[25:32] Speaker 1: The pos.
[25:36] Speaker 3: Says the one.
[25:43] Speaker 16: You about the way of wanting the money as.
[25:49] Speaker 3: The day is but a sa person this lessen the blessing.
[26:22] Speaker 3: Listen this listen. Listen, listen, listen. It was cool. Must
[27:01] Speaker 3: listen listen.
[27:17] Speaker 17: Oh we were there, no boys cover?
[27:44] Speaker 18: I say this.
[27:52] Speaker 3: Mess why this sermon? Listen, It's time this sermon.
[28:23] Speaker 16: This be servants, this misser, this servant, he's as servant nothing.
[28:36] Speaker 3: He's as.
[28:40] Speaker 16: This pass this pssten no.
[28:52] Speaker 3: Listen, never gonna hat.
[29:19] Speaker 1: Also, I need y'all to give it up for brother
[29:21] Speaker 1: Kenny Smith, the director of Celebrated.
[29:26] Speaker 15: Here had to do my dolargy.
[29:29] Speaker 3: Listen.
[29:30] Speaker 19: I am blessed, extremely excited and honored to be able
[29:34] Speaker 19: to bring to you our first speaker, a deeply committed,
[29:38] Speaker 19: committed man of God, and my brother, doctor Marcus C.
[29:42] Speaker 3: Davison.
[29:44] Speaker 4: Y'all give it up.
[29:47] Speaker 15: That's all I can get for doctor.
[29:54] Speaker 3: And the first lady.
[29:55] Speaker 1: If I get this.
[30:01] Speaker 2: Good evening, good evening business, the day that the Lord
[30:07] Speaker 2: has made, let us rejoice it, be glad in it, Amen, man.
[30:14] Speaker 15: Ow good, the Lord is. I want to take a
[30:15] Speaker 15: moment to say thank you for being here tonight. Indeed,
[30:18] Speaker 15: it is a blessing and and the privilege.
[30:20] Speaker 20: I want to take a moment to think the listeners
[30:24] Speaker 20: who are watching the Roland Martin Show right now, We're
[30:27] Speaker 20: mentally grateful for your virtual presence, but I am grateful
[30:30] Speaker 20: for you who are physically in the room tonight.
[30:34] Speaker 15: And let's give it up for the Age Healthcare.
[30:36] Speaker 20: Foundation, all of their team, their CEO, their leadership. We
[30:43] Speaker 20: are grateful for our own doctor Osgood and my code
[30:50] Speaker 20: for making this possibility.
[30:53] Speaker 15: We believe in community.
[30:56] Speaker 20: And I wanted missus Davis and my wife to come
[30:59] Speaker 20: up because though you see all of this happening, she's
[31:03] Speaker 20: been the staff is alone with.
[31:05] Speaker 15: Our assistant pastor specifically her.
[31:08] Speaker 20: Because I heard about it, I said, oh that's great,
[31:11] Speaker 20: but that's about all I knew that it was great.
[31:13] Speaker 15: That was on his way. So it's good to have
[31:15] Speaker 15: great people around you.
[31:17] Speaker 20: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to
[31:19] Speaker 20: our choir for blessing us tonight. So I look forward
[31:23] Speaker 20: to the conversation and the times in which you were living.
[31:27] Speaker 20: We need to have these types of conversations to help
[31:29] Speaker 20: us really navigate the space where people of change, where
[31:33] Speaker 20: people that make a difference. And I am thankful for
[31:36] Speaker 20: you being here tonight so that you too can be
[31:39] Speaker 20: a part of the change and make a difference.
[31:40] Speaker 15: God bless you. I love him this absolute and nothing
[31:43] Speaker 15: you can do it back.
[31:52] Speaker 21: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you giving it
[31:54] Speaker 21: a up again for doctor Davidson and first Lady of
[31:57] Speaker 21: Rocty Davison.
[31:59] Speaker 22: Now, as I said earlier tonight, it's not about the
[32:05] Speaker 22: conversation or the concert. It's about showing up for ourselves.
[32:11] Speaker 22: And we got some other people that showed up for us.
[32:14] Speaker 22: So I'm gonna actually grab my phone make sure y'all
[32:17] Speaker 22: get none of this guy's accolades wrong, because if I do,
[32:22] Speaker 22: it's a problem.
[32:24] Speaker 15: I got to see doctor Oscar that later.
[32:28] Speaker 23: So listen.
[32:29] Speaker 22: Not only is he a champion on and off the court,
[32:32] Speaker 22: he's a philanthropist, He's a community activist and he's an
[32:36] Speaker 22: amazing brother.
[32:37] Speaker 3: Mister Norm Nixon is.
[32:39] Speaker 23: Going to take you through the rest of the program.
[32:42] Speaker 2: He's taking us to the next stage.
[32:43] Speaker 23: He's going to engage the panelists.
[32:45] Speaker 1: I'd like to bring him to the stage right now,
[32:48] Speaker 1: Norm Nixon, y'all give.
[32:49] Speaker 21: It up again for normal, good evening, good evening, a
[33:05] Speaker 21: late afternoon. He took out his phone so he wouldn't
[33:09] Speaker 21: mess up none of my accolades.
[33:11] Speaker 23: So I love that great introduction right there. You didn't
[33:16] Speaker 23: forget anything.
[33:18] Speaker 21: I've been going around the country for this last year
[33:21] Speaker 21: with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and uh, I just want to
[33:24] Speaker 21: say again thank you because they do so much in
[33:27] Speaker 21: the community. They host things like this, that advocacy, They
[33:31] Speaker 21: provide housing, food, you name it.
[33:34] Speaker 23: They do a medicine. They're in communities that need to help.
[33:38] Speaker 21: So again I want to thank the Aid's Healthcare Foundation,
[33:41] Speaker 21: miss the Need and your whole crew here. I want
[33:45] Speaker 21: to I want to thank about out of That's for
[33:49] Speaker 21: church for hosting this here. And reverend Reverend did something
[33:55] Speaker 21: that was really interesting. You know, he brought his wife
[33:57] Speaker 21: up first and foremost. Like they say, happy wife, happy life,
[34:03] Speaker 21: So I live by that and most of you guys
[34:05] Speaker 21: know my wife, Mss Debbie Allen. So I got a
[34:08] Speaker 21: little I got a fire wooing at the house too, man.
[34:14] Speaker 21: So today we're just gonna have a conversation. We just
[34:17] Speaker 21: think these type of conversations are just important for us
[34:19] Speaker 21: to have. And it's interesting that these things are done
[34:23] Speaker 21: in churches. We've done them in churches around the city
[34:26] Speaker 21: because it all started in churches. Advocacy started in churches.
[34:31] Speaker 21: This is where all our leaders came from. If you
[34:33] Speaker 21: want to get down to music, all our singers came
[34:36] Speaker 21: out of the church.
[34:36] Speaker 23: This was the place where we could meet. It was
[34:38] Speaker 23: a safe haven.
[34:39] Speaker 21: It was a place that you can come to and
[34:42] Speaker 21: you know, regards to what's going on in your life,
[34:45] Speaker 21: you have a place where you can go where you
[34:46] Speaker 21: know someone's gonna reach out and help you, regardless of
[34:49] Speaker 21: what your situation is. I see it all the time.
[34:52] Speaker 21: I'm in California. Now, I'm not regular in the church there,
[34:55] Speaker 21: but I know when I go home, my cousins drive.
[34:57] Speaker 23: The church buses.
[34:58] Speaker 21: My stepfather knew when he was sick he was gonna
[35:01] Speaker 21: get hot meals two or three times a week.
[35:03] Speaker 23: They were gonna come check on him. They was gonna
[35:05] Speaker 23: make sure he was all right, And.
[35:06] Speaker 21: That's what churches are. And I think it's important now
[35:10] Speaker 21: that we get back to this. It's interesting that this
[35:13] Speaker 21: is where we are right now. We're back in churches
[35:16] Speaker 21: because it's all start here. So tonight we're gonna just
[35:20] Speaker 21: just have a conversation. These things have been learning experiences
[35:23] Speaker 21: for me as well. Every time I do one, I
[35:25] Speaker 21: learned so much about voting, voting rights and advocacy. And
[35:30] Speaker 21: so I'm gonna bring up a panel people and we're
[35:32] Speaker 21: just gonna have a conversation, a conversation that I think
[35:36] Speaker 21: we all need to hear. It's great to share information.
[35:40] Speaker 21: Information is power. Information is power. So you're gonna hear
[35:44] Speaker 21: a lot of stuff today, a lot of information. But
[35:47] Speaker 21: it's just not about hearing this information. It's about what
[35:50] Speaker 21: you do after you get this information, or you're gonna
[35:53] Speaker 21: become an advocate, are you gonna do something?
[35:55] Speaker 23: So it's about that.
[35:56] Speaker 21: So I'm gonna bring this panel up and really I'm
[35:59] Speaker 21: just let it go and see where it goes organically.
[36:02] Speaker 21: I don't have to do anything because we got some
[36:04] Speaker 21: people that's gonna talk to you, and I don't think
[36:06] Speaker 21: I have to do very much, which is great for me.
[36:08] Speaker 21: I can listen as well. So the first person I
[36:11] Speaker 21: bring up is missus Tracy Jones.
[36:14] Speaker 1: Miss all of you should know her.
[36:21] Speaker 21: Tracey is a Sir Southern Bureau Chief AHF. She's been
[36:26] Speaker 21: here for many years in this community. And as I said,
[36:31] Speaker 21: food drives.
[36:32] Speaker 23: Clothing, conversations.
[36:35] Speaker 21: If you need help, this is a place you can
[36:36] Speaker 21: go get help in Tracy's spear hair and all that
[36:38] Speaker 21: right here in your city. I went by the office
[36:41] Speaker 21: today and it was incredible to see the work that
[36:43] Speaker 21: they do. The second person I bring up is somebody
[36:46] Speaker 21: that really don't need an introduction. He might be somewhere
[36:50] Speaker 21: filming right now, because you know, you guys gonna go
[36:52] Speaker 21: on this show at sometimes.
[36:54] Speaker 23: And I know you've seen Roland Martin out here, a
[36:56] Speaker 23: general that speaks truth to power all the time time.
[37:00] Speaker 1: A Peabody Ward winner and hosts Roland Jones on Filter.
[37:09] Speaker 23: So we got rolling.
[37:14] Speaker 21: And the last person I'm gonna bring up on this
[37:16] Speaker 21: stage is someone I've just been sitting in the back
[37:18] Speaker 21: talking to for the last forty five minutes and I'm
[37:20] Speaker 21: already in love with I love her, and I know
[37:23] Speaker 21: you guys have someone that's represent you in the state
[37:25] Speaker 21: House and represent your church. I like to bring up
[37:30] Speaker 21: Senator Doctor. Come on, come on up here, Rusty Ow.
[37:38] Speaker 23: It's good someone that grew up right here in this community.
[37:43] Speaker 21: And it's been interesting to me because I ran into
[37:47] Speaker 21: some other guys around here today because I didn't realize
[37:51] Speaker 21: they watched the Lakers.
[37:53] Speaker 23: Here for Lauderdale. I ran through a brother that works here.
[37:56] Speaker 23: They talked about it, and he wore my number.
[37:59] Speaker 21: He was a guy that said he got caught out
[38:01] Speaker 21: in these streets, didn't really pursue his basketball dreams, but
[38:04] Speaker 21: he turned his life around, and I saw him here
[38:06] Speaker 21: with some of your kids today. God works in mysterious ways,
[38:10] Speaker 21: right good way.
[38:12] Speaker 23: Its not mysterious.
[38:13] Speaker 15: We just say good ways.
[38:15] Speaker 23: So I'm going to try to get this conversation started.
[38:21] Speaker 23: Get my stuff out of the way.
[38:24] Speaker 2: What started this off.
[38:27] Speaker 21: I'll let miss Tracy started off because she's she's your
[38:30] Speaker 21: local person, and I just let Tracy just talk a little.
[38:33] Speaker 1: Bit about.
[38:35] Speaker 21: Advocacy, about getting kids involved, and what do you see
[38:40] Speaker 21: of some important things that our children need to talk
[38:43] Speaker 21: about and understand. Because you deal with your son all
[38:47] Speaker 21: his friends all the time. So I'll let you get
[38:49] Speaker 21: this conversation started.
[38:52] Speaker 2: Absolutely thank you, thank you all for having us, Pastor
[38:55] Speaker 2: and first Lady. We couldn't be any more appreciative place.
[39:01] Speaker 2: So we're really grateful to be here. I first have
[39:06] Speaker 2: to make sure that I mentioned the importance I'm gonna
[39:10] Speaker 2: answer your question nor but the importance of women in
[39:14] Speaker 2: this movement. As I look around this room and I
[39:17] Speaker 2: look at doctor Osgood, and I look at my board chair,
[39:20] Speaker 2: doctor Curly, who's here in the audience with me, and
[39:23] Speaker 2: the female leadership Marissa and Nachavi and Anita Castill, powerful
[39:29] Speaker 2: women that are doing amazing work. First of all, all
[39:32] Speaker 2: the women in the audience, raise your hand up, Raise
[39:34] Speaker 2: your hand up, keep your hand up. If you voted
[39:40] Speaker 2: in the last election, right, we are the backbone of
[39:47] Speaker 2: elections for the democracy of this country. And that said,
[39:58] Speaker 2: now we have a charge to make sure that our children,
[40:02] Speaker 2: our nieces, our nephews, our husbands get out in both
[40:08] Speaker 2: As norm was mentioning, I'm so passionate about this election
[40:11] Speaker 2: because I think this is and I'm sure mister Martin
[40:14] Speaker 2: or or echo there's along with the Senator, this is
[40:17] Speaker 2: the most important one of our lives. This is the
[40:20] Speaker 2: most important one of our lives. I mean, this is
[40:22] Speaker 2: even more important than Obama because they are literally literally
[40:27] Speaker 2: trying to drag us back. And the key to this election,
[40:31] Speaker 2: in my opinion, humble as it may be, is gonna be.
[40:34] Speaker 1: Our young people.
[40:36] Speaker 2: We have got to energize now. And what norm is
[40:43] Speaker 2: speaking of my actually he will hate that I say
[40:45] Speaker 2: that my son is in an audience. I talk to
[40:48] Speaker 2: him on a regular basis as well as his friends
[40:50] Speaker 2: about what is it gonna take to get y'all to
[40:52] Speaker 2: the post, What is it gonna take to make sure
[40:54] Speaker 2: that you register, because we have got to get them
[40:57] Speaker 2: to realize that this is the election action that makes
[41:01] Speaker 2: or breaks their lives for the next ten years. So
[41:09] Speaker 2: that is the conversation that we're going to infuse through
[41:12] Speaker 2: the rest of this conversation. And I'm praying, I'm prayerful
[41:16] Speaker 2: that we're going to hear for the young people in
[41:18] Speaker 2: the room. When the question and answer period comes up,
[41:21] Speaker 2: tell us what you need so that we can make
[41:23] Speaker 2: sure that we provided so you can get there.
[41:26] Speaker 21: Thank you, all right, doctor Oscar we were talking back.
[41:31] Speaker 21: I'm from Georgia, so you know Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi.
[41:37] Speaker 23: Were all the same we go through the same thing.
[41:39] Speaker 21: We talked about, what is it Amendment in four? Amendment
[41:44] Speaker 21: four about feelings having an opportunity to vote, So they
[41:47] Speaker 21: gave them the right to vote, they took the right
[41:49] Speaker 21: back from them. And so what's important for this order
[41:54] Speaker 21: is to know about getting out the vote and just
[41:57] Speaker 21: tell us some of the things historically that have happened
[41:59] Speaker 21: in Florida and why it's important to have someone like
[42:01] Speaker 21: you represent them in the Senate.
[42:05] Speaker 2: So in Florida, it continues to be an attack on
[42:10] Speaker 2: voting rights for black people when we look at Amendment
[42:15] Speaker 2: for where we overwhelmingly voted to have rights restored automatically
[42:21] Speaker 2: for people that had felony convictions. What the state legislators
[42:25] Speaker 2: did is they came back and they put in all
[42:27] Speaker 2: these barriers that they had to pay these fees and
[42:30] Speaker 2: pay these fines first. They continue to use different measures
[42:34] Speaker 2: to do these different poll taxes. In the last legislative
[42:39] Speaker 2: session in twenty twenty five, Florida passed this on Save Act.
[42:44] Speaker 2: Trump didn't get it passed in DC, but we passed.
[42:46] Speaker 1: It in Florida.
[42:47] Speaker 2: So now when you go to get your driver's license
[42:50] Speaker 2: updated expires. That changes your driver's license number. You got
[42:53] Speaker 2: to go to the Supervisor of Election to make sure
[42:56] Speaker 2: it matches. It just continues to be burier at the
[42:59] Speaker 2: burier we see this major attack on vote by mail
[43:03] Speaker 2: and I'm trying to figure out. In twenty twenty, we
[43:06] Speaker 2: touted how Florida was the best vote by mail ballots,
[43:11] Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it's a bad thing now.
[43:14] Speaker 2: So we have a lot of these tricks and games
[43:16] Speaker 2: to make us think things that we have been successful at,
[43:19] Speaker 2: we have been winning, are bad. If you run for office,
[43:23] Speaker 2: any elected official in here will tell you when those
[43:26] Speaker 2: ballots drop at seven o'clock, when the Supervisor of Election
[43:31] Speaker 2: drops those vote by mail ballots, you know if you're
[43:35] Speaker 2: winning or sweating bullets, because if you far enough ahead,
[43:39] Speaker 2: nobody can catch up with the vote by mail ballots.
[43:42] Speaker 2: If you struggling, then you got a long night. So
[43:45] Speaker 2: we have to be smart. That's why I love this
[43:47] Speaker 2: church because we continue to routinely have different forms to
[43:52] Speaker 2: educate the voters on the budget, the different laws, the
[43:55] Speaker 2: different things that are going on. Our pastor has a
[43:57] Speaker 2: vision and a commitment for social justice. We are a
[44:00] Speaker 2: liberation theology church. So our faith says that we have
[44:04] Speaker 2: to fight against injustice not only in church but in
[44:08] Speaker 2: the community as well. And we just have constant bad
[44:12] Speaker 2: laws coming forth in Florida where we have a super
[44:16] Speaker 2: majority on the other side to make it very hard
[44:20] Speaker 2: and difficult for people of color to vote.
[44:24] Speaker 23: Yes, thank you well.
[44:25] Speaker 21: They have that majority in Washington, DC as well.
[44:29] Speaker 23: So Roland talk about where all of this started, like
[44:35] Speaker 23: Shelby and Holder and historically.
[44:38] Speaker 21: Where it all started, and how it's affecting what's happening today.
[44:43] Speaker 1: Watch your stuff before that. So certainly glad to be here,
[44:46] Speaker 1: glad to see everyone here. If you understand the political dynamics,
[44:52] Speaker 1: what we have to recognize is that if you take
[44:55] Speaker 1: the sixty four Civil Rights Act, sixty five Voting Rights Act,
[44:58] Speaker 1: sixty eight Fair Housing Act, that was really the first
[45:03] Speaker 1: time America practiced democracy. What took place before that that
[45:07] Speaker 1: wasn't democracy. But ever since then there were forces that
[45:12] Speaker 1: were absolutely angry that that happened.
[45:15] Speaker 7: And so when you look at the Federalist Society, when
[45:17] Speaker 7: you look at.
[45:18] Speaker 1: The Heritage Foundation, all of those organizations were born out
[45:23] Speaker 1: of their anger at the Supreme Court decision in Brown
[45:26] Speaker 1: versus Board of Education one and two, and then they
[45:29] Speaker 1: were angry with those federal judges that enforced Brown vers
[45:33] Speaker 1: Board of Education.
[45:34] Speaker 7: So their strategy was, we need to seize the courts.
[45:40] Speaker 7: We have to understand the math.
[45:43] Speaker 1: The last time a Democrat president appointed a Chief Justice
[45:49] Speaker 1: of the US Supreme Court was nineteen forty six. That
[45:56] Speaker 1: was a year before my parents were born. So I need,
[46:00] Speaker 1: I need us to understand. So my parents are seventy nine.
[46:05] Speaker 1: In their lifetime, a Democratic president has never appointed a
[46:12] Speaker 1: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
[46:15] Speaker 7: If you look at.
[46:18] Speaker 1: Our lifetime and you look at who has controlled the court,
[46:23] Speaker 1: and I understanding.
[46:24] Speaker 23: We often talk.
[46:25] Speaker 1: About that there are three branches of government and their coequal.
[46:29] Speaker 7: That's simply not true.
[46:31] Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is the final arbiter, and we've been losing.
[46:38] Speaker 7: And when we lose at the.
[46:39] Speaker 1: Ballot box, we lose in the state House, we lose
[46:43] Speaker 1: in the US Capitol, and then people are upset because
[46:48] Speaker 1: what they're locking in. They are locking in power and
[46:51] Speaker 1: control for the next fifty to one hundred years. In
[46:54] Speaker 1: my book White Fear, I call this in two thousand
[46:57] Speaker 1: and nine, and I just got to be honest. All
[47:00] Speaker 1: of our people were so excited to see a black
[47:04] Speaker 1: president and a black first family. But when the inauguration
[47:09] Speaker 1: parade was over, we saved and everybody else left, and
[47:14] Speaker 1: we were just so hyped and excited without realizing that
[47:18] Speaker 1: that election caused them to say, oh, the Browning of
[47:22] Speaker 1: America is really happening. Now, Nah, we're not going to
[47:24] Speaker 1: have this. And they have been a hell bent to
[47:27] Speaker 1: destroy Black America and there's an absolute attack on Black
[47:31] Speaker 1: America to defund Black America, and Black America has to
[47:35] Speaker 1: wake up.
[47:36] Speaker 21: Well, we can say that, we can say, we can
[47:42] Speaker 21: say the answer to Obama was Trump, and.
[47:45] Speaker 23: It started a tea party. But you had something to
[47:47] Speaker 23: say about that.
[47:48] Speaker 1: So to add what.
[47:49] Speaker 2: Roda was saying, in Florida, we are doing even more
[47:52] Speaker 2: bregious things because if you remember, in twenty ten, we
[47:55] Speaker 2: passed the Fair District Act that clearly says that we
[47:59] Speaker 2: cannot jerrymander districts. We can't draw districts to favor a
[48:04] Speaker 2: political party or an incumbent, we can't dilute votes of minorities.
[48:10] Speaker 2: And we just had redistricting and we violated our own
[48:14] Speaker 2: constitutional amendment in Florida. When I got elected first to
[48:18] Speaker 2: the Senate, I was elected to Senate District thirty three.
[48:22] Speaker 2: Redistricting had just happened. It changed the Senate district thirty two.
[48:27] Speaker 2: Nobody sound the alarm because it wasn't big and obvious.
[48:31] Speaker 2: But what they did is they took out ten percent
[48:34] Speaker 2: of the black people in Pumpino and cracked them into
[48:38] Speaker 2: another district that diluted their voting power. So where districts
[48:42] Speaker 2: were fifty percent black their borderline and now forty percent.
[48:46] Speaker 2: And they just keep chipping away and chipping away and
[48:48] Speaker 2: chipping away. So we're not even following our own constitution.
[48:52] Speaker 2: I'm hoping some of these lawyers out there listening tonight
[48:54] Speaker 2: will start filing some more lawsuits against the state.
[48:57] Speaker 1: Well, the problem is you can file lawsuits, but when
[48:59] Speaker 1: you have to go before the very court, the only way, guys,
[49:03] Speaker 1: this is not hard. The only way to stop this
[49:07] Speaker 1: assault is at the ballot box. There is no other way.
[49:12] Speaker 1: You can't. Again, remember, our civil rights were a result
[49:16] Speaker 1: of federal legislation.
[49:18] Speaker 7: I'm sorry federal rulers because they.
[49:20] Speaker 1: Were making those based upon the Constitution, and so they said, oh,
[49:25] Speaker 1: we saw what happen, and so they said, we're going
[49:27] Speaker 1: to now flood the system with conservative federal judges to
[49:31] Speaker 1: rule against those very things. But what they cannot control,
[49:35] Speaker 1: they can't control voting, they can't control turnout. And so, yes,
[49:39] Speaker 1: are they putting in obstacles one hundred percent?
[49:41] Speaker 7: Do they want to make it harder? Yes.
[49:43] Speaker 1: Paul Wyrick, who's a founder of the Heritage Foundation, a
[49:47] Speaker 1: founder of Moral Majority, gave a speech in Dallas in
[49:50] Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one when he said, and we played a
[49:53] Speaker 1: clip on my show numerous times, we don't want everyone
[49:57] Speaker 1: to vote. Republicans in America are on the record as
[50:00] Speaker 1: saying if everyone votes, we lose.
[50:05] Speaker 7: So that's why they want to restrict.
[50:06] Speaker 1: Mailing, voting drop boxes, they want to change polling locations,
[50:11] Speaker 1: they want voter ID and so, although you have all
[50:14] Speaker 1: these obstacles, but this generation has to decide is does
[50:19] Speaker 1: this generation have the same intestinal fortitude as.
[50:24] Speaker 7: The previous one.
[50:25] Speaker 1: When I hear and again, this is no attack on
[50:27] Speaker 1: young people, I'm the state. In fact, when I hear
[50:30] Speaker 1: folks today say we're not our ancestors, I say, you're right,
[50:35] Speaker 1: you're not all right.
[50:42] Speaker 21: I'm gonna give it back to I'm gonna give it
[50:44] Speaker 21: back to Tracy for a minute, because Tracy, you have
[50:46] Speaker 21: your hand impulse own the young people part of that's true,
[50:51] Speaker 21: but there's some debate about what some of the young
[50:54] Speaker 21: people what do Why are some of the young people
[50:56] Speaker 21: is not participating in the process of.
[50:59] Speaker 15: What do they feel?
[51:02] Speaker 2: It has been a very interesting conversation with with eighteen
[51:08] Speaker 2: year olds, primarily eighteen year olds. I'm a little bit younger,
[51:12] Speaker 2: and they say, surprisingly, I am going to vote, but
[51:17] Speaker 2: they're voting for something. You have to give them something
[51:20] Speaker 2: to vote for. One person said, I'm voting because my
[51:25] Speaker 2: ancestors couldn't. I'm voting because my family members came. Like,
[51:30] Speaker 2: you gotta give them a reason. It is not enough
[51:33] Speaker 2: to say to them you should do this because it's
[51:36] Speaker 2: for your future. They've got time to worry about their future.
[51:39] Speaker 2: Their future is right now, so you need to appeal
[51:42] Speaker 2: to what they care about now. They say when you say, well,
[51:46] Speaker 2: why aren't you going to vote, They're like, it don't
[51:47] Speaker 2: make no difference. Show me where it makes a difference.
[51:51] Speaker 2: And you got to be able to have an.
[51:53] Speaker 1: Answer on ready.
[51:55] Speaker 3: They gave them to you.
[51:56] Speaker 2: Y'all gotta have an answer on ready. Don't just say
[51:59] Speaker 2: you supposed to I'm supposed to do a lot of stuff.
[52:03] Speaker 2: Give me an answer, Give me a reason, Give me
[52:06] Speaker 2: an issue, Give me somebody young. They tell me, I'm
[52:09] Speaker 2: so sick of y'all old farts come in and sit in,
[52:12] Speaker 2: get up and give it to somebody else. Well, we
[52:16] Speaker 2: need them to run, but then we persecute them. When
[52:19] Speaker 2: these young people try to run, you pull out a
[52:21] Speaker 2: video from when they were sixteen years old smoking a
[52:24] Speaker 2: joint or whatever. They want to know that you got
[52:28] Speaker 2: stay back. If they're gonna be on of local elections,
[52:32] Speaker 2: let's not persecute them, protect them, put fences around them. Because,
[52:36] Speaker 2: like Roland said, our ancestors were not saints. They just
[52:41] Speaker 2: believed in what was important. Let's get this done.
[52:45] Speaker 1: But understand this, you're norm If you look at the
[52:47] Speaker 1: historical data. The historical data is very simple. Sixty five
[52:51] Speaker 1: plus has always voted at a higher rate.
[52:54] Speaker 7: Than any of the group.
[52:55] Speaker 1: The second group is fifty five to sixty four, The
[52:58] Speaker 1: third group is forty five. After fifty four, the further
[53:01] Speaker 1: you go down, you're gonna see voting participation drop. That's
[53:06] Speaker 1: just I mean, that is historical data going back of
[53:11] Speaker 1: five six decades. But we have the reason we have
[53:14] Speaker 1: to reverse that is because what we have to do
[53:18] Speaker 1: is explain the folks that a decision that is made
[53:22] Speaker 1: today has multi, multi generational impact.
[53:28] Speaker 7: And so when I hear, for I remember.
[53:31] Speaker 1: Doing the George Floyd protest, there was a brother who said,
[53:36] Speaker 1: I'm going to protest the politics that ain't gonna change nothing.
[53:41] Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go out here and protest. Protesting and
[53:46] Speaker 1: not voting means you went for a walk. It literally
[53:54] Speaker 1: has zero impact. And to Tracy's point, what we have
[53:59] Speaker 1: to do is we have to be connecting the dots
[54:02] Speaker 1: the fair.
[54:03] Speaker 7: We also have to understand language.
[54:05] Speaker 1: Terrence Woodberry of Hit Strategies does a lot of public
[54:09] Speaker 1: opinion research where he.
[54:13] Speaker 7: Studies and they call focus groups.
[54:15] Speaker 1: We have to understand language and how language and what
[54:19] Speaker 1: you say and what's the one hears his data show,
[54:22] Speaker 1: and we had an item on the show and this
[54:23] Speaker 1: was in twenty and twenty two that when you use
[54:27] Speaker 1: the phrase voter suppression, a voter eighteen to thirty five
[54:34] Speaker 1: immediately thinks civil rights movement. Now that may sound crazy,
[54:42] Speaker 1: but that's what they hear. Now when you say though
[54:47] Speaker 1: that they are closing polling locations, identify with that. So
[54:51] Speaker 1: part of this thing is what language do we use
[54:55] Speaker 1: when I travel this country and I run into people
[54:57] Speaker 1: in airports and convenience stores and on the street, and
[55:01] Speaker 1: to the point where somebody says, man, this stuff is crazy.
[55:06] Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. This brother Quinton, who
[55:08] Speaker 1: was helping me get my rental card at the Miami Airport,
[55:11] Speaker 1: He's like, man, what do we do? I always do
[55:13] Speaker 1: this here? Give me the what are the three most
[55:15] Speaker 1: important things you care about? And then when they say that,
[55:19] Speaker 1: when they say, man, those folks in DC, that's the
[55:21] Speaker 1: impact in my life, then I'm going to connect public
[55:25] Speaker 1: policy to the three things they said to DC, Florida
[55:30] Speaker 1: State House, County, City school Board.
[55:34] Speaker 7: And so we have to do that because most people say.
[55:38] Speaker 1: Man, I ain't got no time government has. That don't
[55:41] Speaker 1: mean nothing in my life, without realizing that there literally
[55:45] Speaker 1: is nothing nothing in our.
[55:48] Speaker 7: Lives that government does not touch.
[55:51] Speaker 1: This church could not open unless it passed a building inspection.
[55:58] Speaker 1: That's governes. You can walk through so many things it's government.
[56:04] Speaker 1: There are speed bumps on the street. You can't just
[56:08] Speaker 1: walk outside and pour some concrete because you tie the
[56:12] Speaker 1: folks steed up and down your street. Government gives you
[56:16] Speaker 1: the authority to even put up a speed bump, A stoplight,
[56:20] Speaker 1: a stop sign, a crossing guard.
[56:23] Speaker 7: And so we have to make it plain to people.
[56:26] Speaker 1: Joe Madison, my dear brother, God rested, so he would
[56:29] Speaker 1: always say, we got to put it where the goats
[56:31] Speaker 1: can get it, and we got to make it that plane.
[56:34] Speaker 1: I think what we often do is we're speaking at
[56:37] Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet and not where the goats can get it.
[56:40] Speaker 7: But we got to also make it personal.
[56:43] Speaker 1: Tradition to understand that if you do not exercise your ballot,
[56:48] Speaker 1: exercize your vote, trust me, somebody else will.
[56:51] Speaker 18: Okay.
[56:52] Speaker 21: Senator takes me to a question, why is it important
[56:55] Speaker 21: to vote down ballot?
[56:58] Speaker 23: A lot of us look at elections.
[57:00] Speaker 21: We don't think about city council, who's running our libraries,
[57:07] Speaker 21: just local county positions. And the second thing I want
[57:11] Speaker 21: you to touch on is what is the church doing
[57:15] Speaker 21: to engage the younger people and bring them in to
[57:18] Speaker 21: help them understand why it's important for them to be
[57:20] Speaker 21: involved in the process.
[57:23] Speaker 2: So it's important to vote down ballot because you have
[57:27] Speaker 2: the federal government. They give a lot of fund into
[57:30] Speaker 2: the state. We give some of it to the cities
[57:33] Speaker 2: when we want to from the state, and then the
[57:36] Speaker 2: cities make decisions as to how they use it in
[57:39] Speaker 2: our communities. So we have this other problem now in
[57:43] Speaker 2: Brobert County where so many people are registered NPA, which
[57:47] Speaker 2: means they don't vote in the primary election. A lot
[57:51] Speaker 2: of our school board races, our city races, there are
[57:54] Speaker 2: a lot of races that are determined in the primary election.
[57:58] Speaker 2: So Embrower, there was a power shift in Brower. We
[58:04] Speaker 2: came out of the twenty twenty election with the black sheriff,
[58:08] Speaker 2: black supervisor of election, black public defender, black state attorney,
[58:13] Speaker 2: black paper court, and we've been under attack every since then.
[58:18] Speaker 2: When we have our city commission meetings, we show up,
[58:21] Speaker 2: we actively. We don't understand the budget, we don't understand
[58:25] Speaker 2: how money is moving. It's our money, but we don't
[58:28] Speaker 2: engage to participate. And then people come in, they take
[58:33] Speaker 2: pictures with us, We get in the lounge, they talk
[58:36] Speaker 2: about it, how gullible we are for pictures, and then
[58:39] Speaker 2: they go vote and make our life a nightmare. So
[58:42] Speaker 2: we can't afford to just vote top ballot. We have
[58:46] Speaker 2: to vote in every election down the ballot. So our
[58:50] Speaker 2: church has a social justice movement. We continue to do
[58:55] Speaker 2: workshops and information. We have a summer camp that has
[58:59] Speaker 2: a set component that we're trying to engage young people.
[59:04] Speaker 2: We often try to find young people. I'm a major
[59:07] Speaker 2: advocate for young people running for political office, and I
[59:10] Speaker 2: try to help them as much as I can to
[59:13] Speaker 2: go talk to other young people. But I think a
[59:15] Speaker 2: lot of it is misinformation. I don't think we as
[59:19] Speaker 2: elected officials over the years, have done a good enough
[59:23] Speaker 2: job explaining the process and how government works to people.
[59:29] Speaker 2: So they think you just go to Tallahassee and you
[59:31] Speaker 2: make things happen, and then they get mad at you
[59:34] Speaker 2: when it don't happen. But as elected officials, we have
[59:37] Speaker 2: to talk to the people explain the process. We have
[59:40] Speaker 2: to engage the clergy that's talking a large audience of
[59:43] Speaker 2: people every Sunday and give them information. I think the
[59:47] Speaker 2: lack of information. You know, there's some of us that
[59:49] Speaker 2: are very astute about the political process, but we got
[59:53] Speaker 2: to do a better job making the person under the
[59:56] Speaker 2: tree more astute about the political process.
[59:59] Speaker 1: Which which means that you have to intribu is that
[1:00:03] Speaker 1: what you described actually has to be weekly. What I
[1:00:08] Speaker 1: mean by that is it's a basic understanding of returning
[1:00:11] Speaker 1: to civics. Any if you studied the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
[1:00:15] Speaker 1: You could not join doctor King's SCLC unless you went
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: through Dorothy Cotton's Citizenship Education training.
[1:00:25] Speaker 7: You literally could not join.
[1:00:27] Speaker 1: You cannot participate in a march unless you went through
[1:00:30] Speaker 1: the training. And so if you think about what took
[1:00:33] Speaker 1: place in the Black freedom movement when they pulled black
[1:00:36] Speaker 1: kids out of school protesting a racial discrimination, they didn't
[1:00:40] Speaker 1: let them stay home.
[1:00:41] Speaker 7: They had freedom schools.
[1:00:43] Speaker 1: Well, the freedom school concept is still being taught Mary
[1:00:47] Speaker 1: wright Element's children defensive und they still do. They actually
[1:00:50] Speaker 1: do this every summer at Alan Tayley's former a ranch
[1:00:55] Speaker 1: there in Tennessee. What should be happening and again from
[1:01:00] Speaker 1: me in television with a phrase called back timing. So
[1:01:02] Speaker 1: when you think about television show, we don't build a
[1:01:05] Speaker 1: show from zero to sixty. We build a show from
[1:01:08] Speaker 1: sixty to zero. So we know right now what the
[1:01:12] Speaker 1: date election is, the first Tuesday in November. We know
[1:01:15] Speaker 1: that this is July first, so we only have five months.
[1:01:19] Speaker 1: So what should be happening all across this state in
[1:01:25] Speaker 1: cities and counties is that every week there should be
[1:01:27] Speaker 1: a citizenship education discussion. And the thing is that it
[1:01:33] Speaker 1: needs to be streamed because here's.
[1:01:35] Speaker 7: The other piece. We often get mad man, why the
[1:01:38] Speaker 7: thirty people here?
[1:01:39] Speaker 1: But if I'm streaming something, I could be reaching thousands
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: because the information is now flowing out.
[1:01:45] Speaker 7: That's first.
[1:01:46] Speaker 1: What also then has to happen is we have to
[1:01:49] Speaker 1: stop saying vote, vote is the end of a process.
[1:01:53] Speaker 1: I can't vote.
[1:01:54] Speaker 7: Unless I'm registered.
[1:01:55] Speaker 1: I can't register unless the une explained to me why
[1:01:58] Speaker 1: I'm registered. But then we also have to operate with data,
[1:02:01] Speaker 1: and too often we are operating with emotion and our data.
[1:02:06] Speaker 1: And so if I'm when I think about when Andrew
[1:02:08] Speaker 1: Gillham lost as governor of Florida, the Tallahassee Democrat printed
[1:02:13] Speaker 1: the top fourteen fifteen counties in the state would turn out.
[1:02:18] Speaker 1: You didn't get to a blue county until number eleven.
[1:02:23] Speaker 7: It was fifty seven percent.
[1:02:25] Speaker 1: Red counties were turning out at seventy six, seventy eight,
[1:02:30] Speaker 1: and sixty percent. So what should be happening is in
[1:02:34] Speaker 1: this city, in this county in other places, go to
[1:02:38] Speaker 1: the Board of Elections public data and literally pull the
[1:02:41] Speaker 1: precinct numbers. And you can pull the precinct data to
[1:02:44] Speaker 1: see how many people in this precinct are registered and
[1:02:50] Speaker 1: how many voted, and you should check two stats, check
[1:02:53] Speaker 1: the goobernatorial if the pressure that your.
[1:02:55] Speaker 7: Election and the last midterm election and so.
[1:03:00] Speaker 1: And when I was in Ohio, I ran to a
[1:03:01] Speaker 1: brother who's in Alpha and he said, brother Market and
[1:03:04] Speaker 1: he said, man, we're we're doing voter registration at the
[1:03:07] Speaker 1: Bengals game tomorrow. I said why, He's like, what do
[1:03:10] Speaker 1: you mean? I said, how many people are you likely
[1:03:12] Speaker 1: gonna touch at the Bengals game? But if you go
[1:03:15] Speaker 1: pull the data and then you can actually see it
[1:03:18] Speaker 1: shows you who voted who didn't, you can literally say,
[1:03:21] Speaker 1: on this Saturday, we're gonna hit this precinct, We're gonna
[1:03:24] Speaker 1: knock on these doors, and we're gonna communicate with these people.
[1:03:28] Speaker 1: I said, if you do that over five, six, seven,
[1:03:31] Speaker 1: eight weekends, you're gonna touch more people than you were
[1:03:34] Speaker 1: the Bengals game. So we are expending a lot of
[1:03:38] Speaker 1: wasted energy. D nine, Prince all Mason, Eastern Start Links,
[1:03:43] Speaker 1: all of our groups. We have all this capacity, but
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: I think we're wasting our capacity. We're not working smart.
[1:03:49] Speaker 1: We're doing a whole bunch of busy work. And I'm
[1:03:51] Speaker 1: and listen, I'm a life member of Alpha. I said
[1:03:54] Speaker 1: this to Alpha's I've said the Akas and Deltas and
[1:03:56] Speaker 1: Kappas and Omega's and all the d nine, but also
[1:03:59] Speaker 1: said the Prince Hall Mason, I said, we have to
[1:04:01] Speaker 1: begin to say, wait a minute, why if the Akas
[1:04:05] Speaker 1: are doing a GOTV and the devil is doing a
[1:04:08] Speaker 1: separate one, well, then that makes no sense. First of all,
[1:04:13] Speaker 1: do it together, but then do it based upon the data.
[1:04:17] Speaker 1: Go where the low hanging fruit is. Because when you
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: do that, now you can see the result. That's what
[1:04:24] Speaker 1: we're not doing. And so we have to begin to
[1:04:26] Speaker 1: stop operating in our silos. Because understand, the Republicans control
[1:04:32] Speaker 1: the House by a total I need you to understand
[1:04:37] Speaker 1: a total of seven thousand votes. Seven thousand was the
[1:04:43] Speaker 1: difference between them winning the House and Democrats winning the
[1:04:48] Speaker 1: House seven thousand in several races. Sherry Beasley would be
[1:04:54] Speaker 1: the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Has
[1:04:57] Speaker 1: she not lost in twenty eighteen by four one hundred
[1:05:01] Speaker 1: and one votes And you had more than four hundred
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: thousand African Americans who did not vote. You had nine
[1:05:11] Speaker 1: hundred thousand Black people who did not vote in the
[1:05:14] Speaker 1: last guglatory election in Georgia. And so when you look,
[1:05:18] Speaker 1: so the capacity is there, the votes are actually there.
[1:05:23] Speaker 1: We simply you're not tapping them to drive them to
[1:05:26] Speaker 1: the post.
[1:05:27] Speaker 23: So what I'm hearing is there has to be a plan,
[1:05:30] Speaker 23: There has to be some.
[1:05:31] Speaker 21: Work involved that people have to get out and it's
[1:05:34] Speaker 21: time for us to do the work again.
[1:05:36] Speaker 23: I mean, it's interesting to think that since we're to.
[1:05:39] Speaker 1: Church, you y'all need biblical go to Nehemiah. That it's
[1:05:44] Speaker 1: literally right there.
[1:05:45] Speaker 7: Niamiah came up with a plan of action, went to
[1:05:47] Speaker 7: the people, what a scripture say.
[1:05:49] Speaker 1: The people said, let us reveal we are not integrating
[1:05:55] Speaker 1: the people in our rebuilding efforts. Our groups are trying
[1:05:59] Speaker 1: to do it themselves. And the people say, we never
[1:06:02] Speaker 1: see y'all. We got to talk to the people.
[1:06:03] Speaker 23: So two things plan and then we have to work together.
[1:06:07] Speaker 21: All right, I'm gonna jump over it to you again, Tracy.
[1:06:11] Speaker 23: AHF is an organization.
[1:06:13] Speaker 21: When you think, you just think about AIDS care and
[1:06:16] Speaker 21: you just that's bautally what comes to mind.
[1:06:18] Speaker 23: But I've been working with you guys for a while,
[1:06:20] Speaker 23: and I know you guys in every area of our
[1:06:24] Speaker 23: lives and communities that need to work.
[1:06:26] Speaker 21: Why do you guys think it's important it's important to
[1:06:29] Speaker 21: do things like this and to be out in the community,
[1:06:33] Speaker 21: communities advocating for things other than just our health.
[1:06:37] Speaker 23: Why is that important for your organization?
[1:06:40] Speaker 2: Thank you for the question, Norman. First of all, as
[1:06:43] Speaker 2: Healthcare Foundation is a public health organization. I think sometimes
[1:06:48] Speaker 2: you know, you grow up with names. You know, everybody
[1:06:51] Speaker 2: in here got a nickname. I'm sure that they regret
[1:06:54] Speaker 2: that they family call them when it ain't nobody looking
[1:06:56] Speaker 2: you'd be like, don't call me down in public. HF
[1:06:59] Speaker 2: is an eighth service organiza, y'all good, But where we
[1:07:06] Speaker 2: are a public health organization because we know that every
[1:07:10] Speaker 2: part of your life affects how you function in the world.
[1:07:15] Speaker 2: You know, if your health is good and your mental
[1:07:18] Speaker 2: health is good, you're going to be better in community,
[1:07:21] Speaker 2: and you're going to be better for your family and
[1:07:23] Speaker 2: those that you love. So HF tries to look at
[1:07:26] Speaker 2: those things that are pertinent to make people's lives better. Housing.
[1:07:32] Speaker 2: If you're living out on the street.
[1:07:34] Speaker 3: My.
[1:07:36] Speaker 2: My CEO says all the time, it is unconscionable that
[1:07:41] Speaker 2: we walk past people living on the street. We walk
[1:07:45] Speaker 2: past them. We've gotten so numb to it that it's
[1:07:48] Speaker 2: okay for you to be a homeless person. So you know,
[1:07:54] Speaker 2: one of the things I love about my child, I
[1:07:56] Speaker 2: don't care where we are, I don't care.
[1:07:58] Speaker 1: Who it is.
[1:07:59] Speaker 2: If we walk past, he gonna pull a dollar out
[1:08:01] Speaker 2: of his clocket. I'll be like, give everybody a dollar,
[1:08:05] Speaker 2: But for him, that's the least that you can do.
[1:08:08] Speaker 2: It's the least that we can do for our brothers
[1:08:10] Speaker 2: to make sure that they have a home that is
[1:08:13] Speaker 2: not rad infested, that is.
[1:08:14] Speaker 1: Not roach infested. We care about food.
[1:08:17] Speaker 2: We want you to have healthy food. If you are
[1:08:19] Speaker 2: a person who has to take medication, you need healthy food,
[1:08:23] Speaker 2: and a can of beans ain't gonna do that, So
[1:08:25] Speaker 2: we give away free food. We look at STDs holistically.
[1:08:30] Speaker 1: We're human beings.
[1:08:31] Speaker 2: Human beings do things sometimes that put them in jeopardy.
[1:08:35] Speaker 2: But we're going to treat you with dignity and wholeness
[1:08:38] Speaker 2: and give you all the information we can to make
[1:08:41] Speaker 2: sure that you can take care of yourself and your family.
[1:08:44] Speaker 23: How do we do that.
[1:08:45] Speaker 2: We have billboards that we put around the city. One
[1:08:48] Speaker 2: of the things that just really shudders me is that
[1:08:51] Speaker 2: the silence around STDs and HIV is so quiet. You
[1:08:56] Speaker 2: see billboards everywhere most of time. Now when you see billboards,
[1:08:59] Speaker 2: the probably you can attribute them to a healthcare foundation
[1:09:02] Speaker 2: because we know that communication is key. We know that
[1:09:06] Speaker 2: the young people are in their phones twenty four to seven,
[1:09:09] Speaker 2: so we need to get in that phone. We need
[1:09:11] Speaker 2: to be able to share information about how to protect
[1:09:14] Speaker 2: yourself on a daily basis, a weekly basis, a yearly basis.
[1:09:18] Speaker 2: We do events like this one. Kiki Share is amazing.
[1:09:23] Speaker 1: We love her right.
[1:09:24] Speaker 2: Kiki Share is an advocate for community, So we look
[1:09:27] Speaker 2: to people who are advocates to come and share their
[1:09:31] Speaker 2: message and to share our message. So we're a holistic organization.
[1:09:34] Speaker 2: We're in fifty one countries and seventeen cities. If I
[1:09:38] Speaker 2: get that right, If not, look it up or somebody
[1:09:39] Speaker 2: tell me I'm wrong, and we are. We have doctor Curly.
[1:09:44] Speaker 2: How many patients do we have in.
[1:09:45] Speaker 1: Care right now?
[1:09:48] Speaker 2: Three million plus and growing.
[1:09:51] Speaker 1: But Norman, you need to understand public policy. The Trump
[1:09:55] Speaker 1: budget proposes a one point five billion dollar cut to
[1:09:59] Speaker 1: domestic HIV prevention, going from more than one billion to
[1:10:04] Speaker 1: only two hundred and twenty million.
[1:10:06] Speaker 7: They've had the.
[1:10:07] Speaker 1: Massive cuts in USAID, probably.
[1:10:11] Speaker 7: The most successful program of President George W.
[1:10:14] Speaker 1: Bush was pep far that huge, huge difference in slowing
[1:10:23] Speaker 1: down preventing HIV AIDS.
[1:10:25] Speaker 7: In the continent of Africa. Elon Musk.
[1:10:28] Speaker 1: Donald Trump wiped that out and it's going to We
[1:10:31] Speaker 1: already see the study show that because of what Dolge
[1:10:34] Speaker 1: has done, anywhere from six to twenty million people have died.
[1:10:39] Speaker 7: These are so called pro life folk.
[1:10:41] Speaker 1: Six to twenty many people have died, and they estimate
[1:10:44] Speaker 1: those numbers are going to explode over the next several
[1:10:47] Speaker 1: years because of what they've done with HIV AIDS. So
[1:10:50] Speaker 1: and understand, a nonprofit can only do so much, and
[1:10:55] Speaker 1: what they've done is they've wiped out so much funding
[1:10:59] Speaker 1: in the NGO space, in the nonprofit space. We're talking
[1:11:05] Speaker 1: grants for black maternal health care, we're talking sick of sell,
[1:11:10] Speaker 1: we're talking cancer.
[1:11:12] Speaker 7: We can go down the line.
[1:11:14] Speaker 1: And then you take that and then now you put
[1:11:17] Speaker 1: on top of that the anti DEI impact. You literally
[1:11:22] Speaker 1: have corporations because this is the first time you've ever
[1:11:24] Speaker 1: seen the accapane of the Oval Office penalize companies and
[1:11:28] Speaker 1: they are literally, I mean people, y'all to understand, they
[1:11:31] Speaker 1: are literally going through every company's ledger to see all
[1:11:36] Speaker 1: the things that they sponsor, and if they see black,
[1:11:40] Speaker 1: you got to toss it out, Latino out, Asian American out,
[1:11:44] Speaker 1: gay out, women out. And so you have never seen
[1:11:50] Speaker 1: this level in terms of a wholesale attack on.
[1:11:56] Speaker 7: Interest.
[1:11:56] Speaker 1: And so our black nonprofits are struggling. I know some
[1:12:00] Speaker 1: black nonprofits that have seen eighty to ninety percent of
[1:12:05] Speaker 1: its funding wiped out. The International African American Museum in Charleston.
[1:12:10] Speaker 1: They have a six and a half million dollars shortfall.
[1:12:13] Speaker 1: Their entire staff, they're going on furlough, and corporations are
[1:12:17] Speaker 1: telling and I have to see you on the show.
[1:12:19] Speaker 1: Told her if y'all could just hold on for two
[1:12:22] Speaker 1: more years, and that's hoping a Democrat wins in twenty eight.
[1:12:27] Speaker 1: So we have to understand the level of attack is
[1:12:32] Speaker 1: so deep and so pervasive, and it's targeted. It is
[1:12:38] Speaker 1: absolutely an a tech an anti black agenda, and too
[1:12:42] Speaker 1: many of us are sleep walking through this and not
[1:12:45] Speaker 1: understanding how they are hitting it. And what he does
[1:12:48] Speaker 1: the Santis does in Florida, Abbott does in Texas, Ivy
[1:12:52] Speaker 1: does in Alabama, Tate Reeves does in Mississippi, Lee does
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: in Tennessee. And it happens in South Carolina, in North Carolina,
[1:13:02] Speaker 1: and so we are seeing this in Our response has
[1:13:05] Speaker 1: to be this has to be the largest Black voter
[1:13:10] Speaker 1: mobilization since the nineteen sixty five forty Hites aut.
[1:13:16] Speaker 2: So I just want to add the Age health Care
[1:13:18] Speaker 2: Foundation because our church has had a twenty three year
[1:13:22] Speaker 2: relationship with Age Healthcare Foundation and we are very proud
[1:13:26] Speaker 2: of that relationship. I remember when we were doing our
[1:13:29] Speaker 2: Angels of Hope ministry and we was looking to do
[1:13:33] Speaker 2: HIV education in our community. In US black church vote
[1:13:37] Speaker 2: one talking about it. We didn't want to hear about it.
[1:13:40] Speaker 2: An Age Self Care Foundation help us bring Magic Johnson
[1:13:44] Speaker 2: and that made a shift in the community where people
[1:13:47] Speaker 2: became more open to that. So we've continued to partner
[1:13:51] Speaker 2: with Age health Care Foundation. We've had our shop don
[1:13:55] Speaker 2: Yolanda Adams, We've done marches. I participated in an Dobba
[1:14:00] Speaker 2: and Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa with Age Healthcare Foundation.
[1:14:06] Speaker 2: What she didn't say is that Age Healthcare Foundation also
[1:14:10] Speaker 2: has resources. Now. They made me a little nervous this
[1:14:12] Speaker 2: legislative session because we started the session with the Department
[1:14:17] Speaker 2: of Health giving us a budget that did not include
[1:14:20] Speaker 2: the funding for ADEM that's our age drug assistance program.
[1:14:25] Speaker 2: Most people that take that medicine can't afford it. The
[1:14:28] Speaker 2: state government has to supplement it. So the Department of
[1:14:31] Speaker 2: Health gives us a budget and there's no money in
[1:14:35] Speaker 2: the budget for that item. So if you don't have
[1:14:39] Speaker 2: people like myself and other people that understand ADEP that's
[1:14:42] Speaker 2: going to go in there and say, oh, we're finn
[1:14:44] Speaker 2: kill a whole bunch of people the state and the
[1:14:46] Speaker 2: murder people to sound the alarm as to why important
[1:14:50] Speaker 2: that we have to have that money in the budget.
[1:14:52] Speaker 2: Aide health Care Foundation sponsored people and advocates to come
[1:14:57] Speaker 2: to talenthase to They also file the loss food. That
[1:15:00] Speaker 2: made me a little nervous because you know, when you
[1:15:02] Speaker 2: sued the Centenius, he gonna retaliate against you. So as
[1:15:05] Speaker 2: time went on, all their contracts got canceled. But we're
[1:15:09] Speaker 2: working on that. But we ended up doing the legislay lession.
[1:15:12] Speaker 2: The only budget we passed during our regular time was
[1:15:16] Speaker 2: the money to restore adapt and it was a non
[1:15:19] Speaker 2: part of some movement. The budget that we just passed
[1:15:23] Speaker 2: fully funds the ad APP program. And I'm saying how
[1:15:27] Speaker 2: important these things is because if people don't have access
[1:15:30] Speaker 2: to their medication, a lot of people are working. You know,
[1:15:33] Speaker 2: people that have HIV now they're busy living, not busy dying.
[1:15:37] Speaker 2: But these cuts that Roland is talking about, it's major.
[1:15:41] Speaker 2: The all Big brutal bill took away a lot of
[1:15:44] Speaker 2: funding for basic services. So we don't have the funding
[1:15:48] Speaker 2: in the state. So when they say sending appropriation or
[1:15:52] Speaker 2: come to us to get the money, we've already had
[1:15:54] Speaker 2: economists tell us if we don't cut, we're gonna be
[1:15:58] Speaker 2: in a deficit in five years. That's why you've been
[1:16:01] Speaker 2: seeing the budget that descended in the House gave to
[1:16:03] Speaker 2: the governor. He cut it by another one point six
[1:16:07] Speaker 2: million dollars. And it's important that you have representation and
[1:16:11] Speaker 2: people that's gonna talk across party lines. I don't care
[1:16:15] Speaker 2: if they Democrat, they Republican, NPA, they gonna nobody Black
[1:16:19] Speaker 2: people in Brower County. If I got to meet them
[1:16:21] Speaker 2: in the park from now at they car, if I
[1:16:23] Speaker 2: got to call on one am in the morning, I'm
[1:16:26] Speaker 2: gonna be there raising my voice fighting for the people
[1:16:28] Speaker 2: in this county. So I had a good appropriation season
[1:16:31] Speaker 2: this year because I got on a lot of people nerved.
[1:16:34] Speaker 2: They don't want me texting them and calling them. If
[1:16:36] Speaker 2: I'm up at one of them, everybody gonna.
[1:16:38] Speaker 1: Be up at one end. But y'all need to understand,
[1:16:42] Speaker 1: and this is this is a pet peeve of mine,
[1:16:45] Speaker 1: and it doesn't This doesn't mean that every black lawmaker
[1:16:49] Speaker 1: is doing what they're supposed to do, but we do
[1:16:52] Speaker 1: ourselves with disservice. When I listened to people say, man,
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: the CBC ain't nothing. They ain't done nothing. The black
[1:17:00] Speaker 1: lawmakers haven't done anything. Here's what folk don't understand. Just
[1:17:04] Speaker 1: because you may not pass a lot of bills doesn't
[1:17:09] Speaker 1: mean you don't have impact. People don't really understand and
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: she can attach to it. A member could literally add
[1:17:19] Speaker 1: one word to a bill or remove something that can
[1:17:23] Speaker 1: completely change it.
[1:17:25] Speaker 7: And so we have to be far more sophisticated when.
[1:17:29] Speaker 1: We are attacking our own saying they're not doing this,
[1:17:33] Speaker 1: not doing that.
[1:17:33] Speaker 7: I'm a firm believer in holding folk accountable.
[1:17:35] Speaker 1: Look, it's some CDC members that don't like me, and
[1:17:38] Speaker 1: that's because I hold everybody accountable. But we also have
[1:17:42] Speaker 1: to recognize that our black lawmakers are doing things on
[1:17:47] Speaker 1: our behalf that white lawmakers will never do. And so
[1:17:52] Speaker 1: we got to be very careful with our language when
[1:17:55] Speaker 1: we say, and that's when I hear the phrase with
[1:17:58] Speaker 1: the Black Caucus ain't doing nothing.
[1:18:00] Speaker 7: Then when people say, well.
[1:18:02] Speaker 1: I ain't seen nothing from Democrats in sixty years, that's
[1:18:04] Speaker 1: a lie. But it doesn't mean that we don't demand
[1:18:07] Speaker 1: more every election. We should be demanding more, that's the
[1:18:10] Speaker 1: whole point.
[1:18:11] Speaker 7: Everybody else is doing it.
[1:18:13] Speaker 1: But when we are attacking the very folk who are
[1:18:17] Speaker 1: representing our interest, we're doing ourselves a disservice and we're
[1:18:22] Speaker 1: actually aiding and abandoning them because they absolutely would love
[1:18:27] Speaker 1: to take her out. They would love to take out
[1:18:30] Speaker 1: other cities they are attacking. Look right now, Louisiannaver's Kalay decision,
[1:18:34] Speaker 1: that decision could lead to the wiping out of nineteen
[1:18:37] Speaker 1: congression of Black Haukers members, y'all almost a third. That's
[1:18:41] Speaker 1: going to wipe out state senators, state reps. You're already
[1:18:44] Speaker 1: seeing the Mississippi Supreme Court that decision is wiping out
[1:18:48] Speaker 1: black representation.
[1:18:50] Speaker 7: And so we need to understand the level of attack
[1:18:53] Speaker 7: and how sophisticated it is.
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: If I could.
[1:18:59] Speaker 2: Thank you for opening the door, I cannot say enough
[1:19:03] Speaker 2: good words about what the advocates in Florida did to
[1:19:09] Speaker 2: help us get ADAP restored.
[1:19:12] Speaker 11: I cannot.
[1:19:17] Speaker 2: It's you know, my CEO, his name is Michael Weinstein.
[1:19:21] Speaker 2: He came to me and we are lucky enough to
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: have a mobilization team full time of folks that work
[1:19:27] Speaker 2: on advocacy issues. A lot of them are in the
[1:19:29] Speaker 2: corner over there, that are.
[1:19:31] Speaker 1: From all up and down the Southern seaboard.
[1:19:34] Speaker 2: And when I tell you, they are relentless, and you.
[1:19:37] Speaker 1: Do not want them to show up to your door.
[1:19:40] Speaker 1: It is not a good time when they do.
[1:19:42] Speaker 2: We are blessed to be able to do that work,
[1:19:45] Speaker 2: and we do it underneath the moniker of what we
[1:19:48] Speaker 2: call Black Black Leadership Age Crisis Coalition. We are lucky
[1:19:53] Speaker 2: enough to have a CEO that believes in for us,
[1:19:56] Speaker 2: by us, and that group of people a lot of
[1:20:00] Speaker 2: you are part of. In addition to our mobilization team,
[1:20:04] Speaker 2: war de Santas out.
[1:20:08] Speaker 23: So yeah, so this is what we're gonna do.
[1:20:14] Speaker 1: Call the action.
[1:20:16] Speaker 21: One quick statement from everybody to call to action for
[1:20:19] Speaker 21: this group. Then we'll take maybe one or two questions.
[1:20:22] Speaker 21: But because I think everybody is ready for some soul music,
[1:20:26] Speaker 21: some spiritual music. We got to get to the soul.
[1:20:29] Speaker 23: So call the action.
[1:20:31] Speaker 1: What will you tell this group they.
[1:20:33] Speaker 23: Need to do collectively, not individually right now?
[1:20:39] Speaker 21: What what can they do individually collectively right now?
[1:20:43] Speaker 2: So right now, we need to be very aggressive about
[1:20:46] Speaker 2: requesting those vote by mail ballox. We need to have
[1:20:49] Speaker 2: a voting plan. We don't know what's going to happen
[1:20:52] Speaker 2: at the poll. You know, in tallahasse we have our
[1:20:54] Speaker 2: own election police and we never got a job description
[1:20:58] Speaker 2: for them. But we need to request those vote by
[1:21:00] Speaker 2: mail ballance. You need to make sure you're registered. You
[1:21:03] Speaker 2: need to check your status. If you haven't voted in
[1:21:05] Speaker 2: the last two years. You can't wait till the last minute.
[1:21:09] Speaker 2: If you don't vote, it's going to be extremely consequential.
[1:21:14] Speaker 2: We can't go back and fix it. I know Joe
[1:21:17] Speaker 2: Scott always say this election is the most important election.
[1:21:21] Speaker 2: When I see what's happening to elderly people with snap benefits,
[1:21:24] Speaker 2: Medicaid and all the games that's being played in Tallahassee.
[1:21:28] Speaker 2: We have to show up at the polls and fight
[1:21:31] Speaker 2: for our community like we've never fought for it before.
[1:21:34] Speaker 23: I'm gonna say someone to tell men of this.
[1:21:38] Speaker 21: For those of you who are not registered, she has
[1:21:40] Speaker 21: somebody outside that will register you right now tonight to
[1:21:43] Speaker 21: vote before you leave, to help you.
[1:21:45] Speaker 23: With your identification.
[1:21:47] Speaker 21: So somebody's outside, so there would be no excuses.
[1:21:51] Speaker 1: Roland understand how much untapped power we have. So first
[1:21:58] Speaker 1: and foremost, as an end of every individual should say,
[1:22:03] Speaker 1: I am going to personally identify and ten people who
[1:22:11] Speaker 1: are not registered and make that commitment to say between
[1:22:14] Speaker 1: now and the end of registration, you're gonna get them registered.
[1:22:18] Speaker 1: But after that period ends, then your next piece has
[1:22:21] Speaker 1: to be how do I now get them to the polls?
[1:22:25] Speaker 1: And so we should be looking at our churches and
[1:22:29] Speaker 1: creating the same frankly black uber system that they did
[1:22:34] Speaker 1: in Montgomery to be able to say we're gonna drive
[1:22:37] Speaker 1: hold to the pole. No, no, you can call, We're
[1:22:39] Speaker 1: gonna pick you up and take you there. Because what
[1:22:42] Speaker 1: we're doing is we're hoping people show up. But if
[1:22:46] Speaker 1: you all of a sudden can begin to track how
[1:22:49] Speaker 1: many people are signing up to get taken to the polls,
[1:22:54] Speaker 1: then you have a much better indication of what turnout
[1:22:57] Speaker 1: is going to be. And at last point there stop
[1:23:02] Speaker 1: having events where you don't collect data. I'm gonna say this.
[1:23:07] Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say this right now, and again, this
[1:23:08] Speaker 1: is not an attack. So do we have was it collected?
[1:23:14] Speaker 1: It was the data collected of every person that is
[1:23:18] Speaker 1: attending tonight. They registered, okay, did you get name, address,
[1:23:27] Speaker 1: zip code, sale, email? Okay. The reason you should always
[1:23:34] Speaker 1: be doing that, Bishop William Barber, now to talk about
[1:23:36] Speaker 1: this all the time, is that what happens is we
[1:23:38] Speaker 1: have numerous gatherings, we have town halls, we have rallies,
[1:23:42] Speaker 1: we have protests, but we're not collecting data. So we
[1:23:45] Speaker 1: don't even know who's there. So when the event is over,
[1:23:49] Speaker 1: then we need to be able to take the data,
[1:23:51] Speaker 1: parse it.
[1:23:52] Speaker 7: And say this is how many people came from.
[1:23:53] Speaker 1: This zip code, this zip code, this zip code, And
[1:23:56] Speaker 1: so now we need them to show up at the
[1:23:58] Speaker 1: council meeting or the school board meeting or the state capital.
[1:24:01] Speaker 1: We already have the data and now we can hit
[1:24:04] Speaker 1: them as opposed to now trying to reconvene to get
[1:24:08] Speaker 1: them to come out.
[1:24:09] Speaker 7: And so we have to be moving and operating that
[1:24:12] Speaker 7: way in.
[1:24:12] Speaker 1: Order to drive our people to be able to drive
[1:24:16] Speaker 1: our agenda.
[1:24:24] Speaker 2: One of the things that I got from young people,
[1:24:27] Speaker 2: and it was something that hit me like a ton
[1:24:29] Speaker 2: of bricks, is that each and every one of us
[1:24:32] Speaker 2: in the room has a brand. You know, we think
[1:24:35] Speaker 2: of influencers, and we think of the Real Housewives or
[1:24:39] Speaker 2: whatever you want you watch. Everybody in the room has
[1:24:45] Speaker 2: a brand. And because you are a brand, you know,
[1:24:52] Speaker 2: we spend a lot of time, even the older for
[1:24:55] Speaker 2: the most seasoned folks like me. I know a lot
[1:24:58] Speaker 2: of folks looking at TikTok, a lot of folks looking
[1:25:00] Speaker 2: at Instagram, whatever it look at. Use your platform to
[1:25:06] Speaker 2: make sure that where you stand because we think about
[1:25:09] Speaker 2: you know, I'm not a big I'm not a basketball player,
[1:25:14] Speaker 2: I'm not a journalist, you know, or I'm not a politician.
[1:25:16] Speaker 2: I'm just meet but you are incredibly important to everybody.
[1:25:23] Speaker 2: If you weren't important, they wouldn't be trying to take
[1:25:26] Speaker 2: your vote, they wouldn't be trying to take your life,
[1:25:30] Speaker 2: they wouldn't be trying to minimize you. You are important.
[1:25:36] Speaker 1: So use your platform.
[1:25:38] Speaker 2: Tell people you know you did you vote today? Hey,
[1:25:42] Speaker 2: good morning, love, did you vote today? Use your social
[1:25:45] Speaker 2: media from your standpoint, from your place in the universe
[1:25:50] Speaker 2: to tell everybody the importance of what you think.
[1:25:53] Speaker 7: And norm norm real quick.
[1:25:54] Speaker 1: So you take the church, if the church comes, if
[1:25:57] Speaker 1: the church, this church says, we've already designed the graphics,
[1:26:03] Speaker 1: we've already typed the texts. All you gotta do is
[1:26:08] Speaker 1: download it, copying and paste and share. The point the
[1:26:11] Speaker 1: tracys just made is so crucial. You may we've got
[1:26:14] Speaker 1: two million YouTube subscribers. You may not have two million,
[1:26:18] Speaker 1: but if you take the collective number of people, you do.
[1:26:21] Speaker 1: And yes, young folks are on TikTok and Instagram, but
[1:26:25] Speaker 1: the largest platform.
[1:26:27] Speaker 7: Is still Facebook.
[1:26:28] Speaker 1: And so again, if we're sharing the same information. See,
[1:26:32] Speaker 1: I just don't believe in doing extra work. If you
[1:26:35] Speaker 1: say we've got these four or five graphics already designed,
[1:26:39] Speaker 1: these are the means that show cuts by Florida Republicans
[1:26:46] Speaker 1: us by the Scantis. Now share that on all your
[1:26:49] Speaker 1: social media platforms. All you doing is copy and pasting.
[1:26:53] Speaker 1: And so that's how you also maximize the collective and
[1:26:57] Speaker 1: out the individual.
[1:26:58] Speaker 23: Okay, so this.
[1:27:01] Speaker 21: Get your hand, We're gonna we're gonna open it up
[1:27:06] Speaker 21: for a couple of questions. But this would be my
[1:27:08] Speaker 21: my one thing. I say, so, Reverend, this is what
[1:27:11] Speaker 21: I say here today. I would pay for two buses
[1:27:15] Speaker 21: to take people to vote. So if you guys talk
[1:27:18] Speaker 21: to neither, I'll pay for your first two buses to
[1:27:22] Speaker 21: bus people to vote, so they know how to get
[1:27:24] Speaker 21: in touch with me.
[1:27:25] Speaker 23: So the first two buses.
[1:27:27] Speaker 15: Will be on me to take people out to vote.
[1:27:29] Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold you to that. I'm Ana carp at
[1:27:31] Speaker 2: one am in the morning.
[1:27:32] Speaker 3: I know you will. No, no, no, I'm gonna pretty
[1:27:35] Speaker 3: heavy on you.
[1:27:35] Speaker 23: I'm pretty heavy on y'all.
[1:27:36] Speaker 1: Better make sure it's the large bus, not the small bus.
[1:27:42] Speaker 2: See y'all gonna specify the small buses.
[1:27:46] Speaker 1: No, they have different buses.
[1:27:49] Speaker 3: Heart of the lines bus.
[1:27:51] Speaker 2: You got all these witnesses before the law that you
[1:27:54] Speaker 2: said too, they sure ain't got bus got air conditioning.
[1:27:57] Speaker 3: I just said all of that. But two buses schools
[1:28:02] Speaker 3: almost never a school buses. No, no, no, this mount
[1:28:06] Speaker 3: out of my baby.
[1:28:07] Speaker 23: We don't want you guys, got it out of you
[1:28:10] Speaker 23: send your kids on them? You send your kids on
[1:28:13] Speaker 23: school bus. Okay, we get an a conditioned school bus. Okay,
[1:28:18] Speaker 23: make sure and make.
[1:28:19] Speaker 7: Sure it's a black owned bus company.
[1:28:22] Speaker 15: Absolutely.
[1:28:26] Speaker 23: That's the second thing.
[1:28:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the part of the way we operate here.
[1:28:29] Speaker 2: At new monolog incredible. We we already did.
[1:28:33] Speaker 23: We got to get some questions. We got to get
[1:28:34] Speaker 23: those stage. They want to hear a concert.
[1:28:36] Speaker 3: Okay, they will bring microphones.
[1:28:38] Speaker 23: To you, so if you have some questions, there's some
[1:28:41] Speaker 23: MIC's out in the audience. So if you have a
[1:28:43] Speaker 23: couple of questions before we shut this.
[1:28:44] Speaker 1: Down, holding my crohone, baby, you hold the microphone.
[1:28:50] Speaker 7: Don't y'all touch the microphone.
[1:28:53] Speaker 23: She got it.
[1:28:56] Speaker 2: I understand before it and I'm the Texas mobilizer. My
[1:29:00] Speaker 2: question is why do we wait until the last day
[1:29:05] Speaker 2: to go get in line to vote when at those
[1:29:08] Speaker 2: days early vote, like in Texas, the Lieutenant governor shut
[1:29:13] Speaker 2: down the early voting because there was so many people
[1:29:16] Speaker 2: left to vote. So why do we wait until the
[1:29:21] Speaker 2: very last day? People? We gotta get better because most
[1:29:25] Speaker 2: of those people that got turned away they look like us.
[1:29:28] Speaker 1: So Bishop Barbara literally said we were talking this the
[1:29:31] Speaker 1: other day. He said that we're going to organize marches.
[1:29:35] Speaker 1: Organize marches to the polls. The data shows the reason
[1:29:40] Speaker 1: they targeted black people in North Carolina. The data showed
[1:29:43] Speaker 1: that seventy percent of African Americans in North Carolina voted
[1:29:49] Speaker 1: in the first two weeks of early voting, as other
[1:29:51] Speaker 1: Republicans targeted. So we have to change actually our mobilization
[1:29:56] Speaker 1: to early voting. See again, we keep hoping folks show up.
[1:30:01] Speaker 1: Our messaging has to change to drive early.
[1:30:04] Speaker 23: I'll say this too, and I think they did it
[1:30:06] Speaker 23: here in Florida. You used to have fourteen days.
[1:30:08] Speaker 7: Now it's eight days.
[1:30:09] Speaker 21: And then they say you can't vote this Sunday before
[1:30:12] Speaker 21: the election, So rev your job. You got to get
[1:30:15] Speaker 21: them there before that Sunday, but early to make sure
[1:30:19] Speaker 21: they vote.
[1:30:20] Speaker 2: And so in Browder County we have an incredible Supervisor
[1:30:24] Speaker 2: of Election by the name of mister Joe Scott, and
[1:30:28] Speaker 2: he reads and pushes the rules. So we will have
[1:30:32] Speaker 2: additional early voting sites. This voting sitele although they cut
[1:30:36] Speaker 2: the days, you will have more sites that you can
[1:30:39] Speaker 2: do early voting. If you request those vote by mail
[1:30:42] Speaker 2: ballots and you don't want to mail them, you can
[1:30:44] Speaker 2: take them to one of those early voting sites and
[1:30:47] Speaker 2: drop them off. And mister Scott does an excellent job.
[1:30:51] Speaker 2: He's all over everywhere sharing the information, but he will
[1:30:54] Speaker 2: have that information out about these early voting sites and
[1:30:58] Speaker 2: additional ones that he's added. And again if you're not
[1:31:01] Speaker 2: registered to vote, he has his staff out in the lobby.
[1:31:03] Speaker 2: If you need to check your voting status, you change
[1:31:06] Speaker 2: your driver's license numbers. Do not leave here tonight without
[1:31:10] Speaker 2: taking this action, because you put it off, you're not
[1:31:12] Speaker 2: going to do it.
[1:31:13] Speaker 1: And even if you think that you're registered, double check
[1:31:17] Speaker 1: if you had an address change because again we get
[1:31:20] Speaker 1: people assume on that particular point and that's where they
[1:31:24] Speaker 1: get caught.
[1:31:25] Speaker 7: And remember when they.
[1:31:27] Speaker 1: Say it's all right, you can fill up provisional ballot. No,
[1:31:30] Speaker 1: the provisional ballots are only counted when it comes to
[1:31:35] Speaker 1: a certain margin.
[1:31:36] Speaker 7: Don't fall for provisional ballot.
[1:31:38] Speaker 1: Double check. I register the vote every year. Y'all.
[1:31:41] Speaker 7: Ain't messing my stuff up in Texas.
[1:31:43] Speaker 1: So as like you, I don't want to hear no, no, no,
[1:31:46] Speaker 1: because again, you also may have been removed from the
[1:31:49] Speaker 1: ballot and you didn't realize it.
[1:31:52] Speaker 23: And you can check outside. You can check outside. Nor
[1:31:56] Speaker 23: excuse for this orders, you can check outside.
[1:31:58] Speaker 24: Question.
[1:32:00] Speaker 12: Hello, okay, Hi, my name is Brionna Brunette, and my
[1:32:03] Speaker 12: question to you all is what platforms do you individually
[1:32:07] Speaker 12: utilize for accurate political information?
[1:32:09] Speaker 2: I think we often hear fake news is easy.
[1:32:12] Speaker 25: Rolling model, un filter what you're talking about. It's the
[1:32:15] Speaker 25: only wrong you should be watching. You got that right,
[1:32:24] Speaker 25: She don't ask what platform I listening to me?
[1:32:30] Speaker 2: And I will also add that your elected officials often
[1:32:34] Speaker 2: have times have accurate information. There's a lot of stuff
[1:32:37] Speaker 2: on social media that's just not true. It didn't happen,
[1:32:42] Speaker 2: it's just spinning. But whoever you vote for, you should
[1:32:46] Speaker 2: be able to get factual information from them. They should
[1:32:49] Speaker 2: be sending you e blast, they should be posting on
[1:32:52] Speaker 2: social media. That is your connection for questions and accurate information.
[1:32:57] Speaker 1: And let me just help you. We break the sub
[1:33:01] Speaker 1: So understand somebody, no one is watching, very few people
[1:33:05] Speaker 1: watching the full two hour show.
[1:33:07] Speaker 7: What you can do and this is this is again
[1:33:09] Speaker 7: how you use the collective drive information. This is what
[1:33:12] Speaker 7: I was talking about. The graphics of the means.
[1:33:14] Speaker 1: What you can do is download those clips and then
[1:33:18] Speaker 1: reshare I am very I mean, I don't play that.
[1:33:22] Speaker 7: If you lie, you're gonna get busted.
[1:33:25] Speaker 1: H and so and there's and this this is not
[1:33:27] Speaker 1: being Eric and Nakaki, but literally there is nobody else
[1:33:32] Speaker 1: that does a five day week show.
[1:33:34] Speaker 7: That specifically centers black people.
[1:33:36] Speaker 1: And so we are completely about those facts. And part
[1:33:41] Speaker 1: of the problem is and understanding we are targeted for misinformation.
[1:33:45] Speaker 1: In the twenty twenty election, twenty sixteen twenty twenty, when
[1:33:49] Speaker 1: they discussed the largest Black Lives Matter Facebook page was
[1:33:54] Speaker 1: a Russian troll farm. We have to understand that Iran,
[1:34:00] Speaker 1: North Korea, China, Russia, they know how to drive misinformation.
[1:34:07] Speaker 1: So a lot of the people you're communicating with on
[1:34:09] Speaker 1: social media, those are bots. Those are not real, and
[1:34:13] Speaker 1: so we have to listen to credible sources and then
[1:34:17] Speaker 1: reshare that information to drive our people and infiltrate the algorithm.
[1:34:23] Speaker 1: Because the algorithm is designed for you to own, is
[1:34:26] Speaker 1: designed to drive.
[1:34:27] Speaker 7: You with range.
[1:34:29] Speaker 1: We have to reverse that and then we have to
[1:34:31] Speaker 1: completely flood it with real credible information.
[1:34:35] Speaker 2: Yeah, if I could, y'all tell me. In Florida, if
[1:34:39] Speaker 2: you see a puddle of water and you stick your
[1:34:42] Speaker 2: hand in it, you should expect the gator to be
[1:34:44] Speaker 2: in it. If you looking on social media, you should
[1:34:47] Speaker 2: expect to be targeted with misinformation. So make sure, especially
[1:34:51] Speaker 2: to young folks, make sure you look at multiple sources.
[1:34:55] Speaker 2: I tell young people that all the time trusted sources
[1:34:58] Speaker 2: you find them. That's fine. But use multiple sources. Just
[1:35:04] Speaker 2: don't look at one.
[1:35:06] Speaker 15: Just real quickly. We want to Rowland's points that you
[1:35:10] Speaker 15: all enough.
[1:35:11] Speaker 7: We collected the data.
[1:35:12] Speaker 4: That's why we were asking you to register.
[1:35:15] Speaker 24: It wasn't just to make sure you were here in
[1:35:16] Speaker 24: the room, but so that they can then be used
[1:35:18] Speaker 24: for mobilization and for making sure that we do the
[1:35:21] Speaker 24: work that we need to do to work with the
[1:35:24] Speaker 24: faith and institutions here to get folks to the post
[1:35:26] Speaker 24: to see what the resources are needed.
[1:35:30] Speaker 2: And no, I'm gonna battle Sea blesses.
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: That's right, You've got that.
[1:35:35] Speaker 26: Good evening everyone, Doctor osgood everyone on the panel.
[1:35:40] Speaker 2: Mister Martin, definitely I watch your show.
[1:35:42] Speaker 26: I just wanted to say I'm grateful to be here
[1:35:44] Speaker 26: today in regards to everything that is taking place here
[1:35:47] Speaker 26: in Brower County as I'm an advocate for mental health
[1:35:50] Speaker 26: for juveniles in Broer County Youth and Family.
[1:35:52] Speaker 2: Support Services as well.
[1:35:54] Speaker 1: As a community health worker.
[1:35:55] Speaker 26: So what I've experienced here in Brober County is that
[1:35:58] Speaker 26: there's a reincar serration rate so high in Brower County,
[1:36:03] Speaker 26: and I'm trying to see how this is why the
[1:36:05] Speaker 26: voting process is important as well to try and alleviate
[1:36:08] Speaker 26: a lot of the process when it comes to our
[1:36:10] Speaker 26: youth getting into some of the habits of meeting certain
[1:36:14] Speaker 26: friends and under certain criteria when it comes to Maslow's
[1:36:18] Speaker 26: hierarchy of needs as to why when it comes to
[1:36:20] Speaker 26: our food and our nutritionous services that's being limited in
[1:36:25] Speaker 26: Brower County, our kids find themselves trying to meet their
[1:36:28] Speaker 26: needs on their own, meeting with certain friends, and they're
[1:36:31] Speaker 26: getting themselves into a lot of trouble. And so as
[1:36:33] Speaker 26: we hear the conversation that was recently had about the prison,
[1:36:39] Speaker 26: the prison taking our children and reincarcerating them and putting
[1:36:44] Speaker 26: them in the prison to get that I forget how
[1:36:46] Speaker 26: the gentlemen put it, but basically making our children turn
[1:36:49] Speaker 26: into the new prison inmates.
[1:36:51] Speaker 7: To actually work for the prison.
[1:36:53] Speaker 26: And so that's one thing that I think that needs
[1:36:56] Speaker 26: to be spoken about as far as the voting process
[1:36:59] Speaker 26: as well when it comes to our community in Broadwick County,
[1:37:01] Speaker 26: because we're thinking that they're just kids and they're getting
[1:37:04] Speaker 26: into trouble. But it's another way that we can go
[1:37:06] Speaker 26: about it because they use Maslows hi y'all car Knees
[1:37:09] Speaker 26: and the juvenile justice system to actually keep our kids reincarcerating.
[1:37:14] Speaker 2: You know, if I can just one of my projects
[1:37:17] Speaker 2: that I've been working on for four years, there is
[1:37:20] Speaker 2: a deplorable Browot County Juvenile Detention Center when our kids
[1:37:25] Speaker 2: are arrested where they keep them right over here off
[1:37:28] Speaker 2: of five ninety five when you're going around to the trirail.
[1:37:32] Speaker 2: So one of my appropriations this year is I got
[1:37:34] Speaker 2: twenty million dollars to tear that place down and rebuild it.
[1:37:39] Speaker 2: If you put anybody in that place, it's gonna make
[1:37:42] Speaker 2: them an animal.
[1:37:42] Speaker 1: Who just stated it? So it's county that state.
[1:37:47] Speaker 2: The county runs it, but we have the jurishdiction over it,
[1:37:50] Speaker 2: and it's up to us when we take these kids
[1:37:53] Speaker 2: in custody that we really integrate them into society, that
[1:37:56] Speaker 2: we don't put them in deplorable discussing facilities like their animals.
[1:38:01] Speaker 2: Then they get out of all form.
[1:38:03] Speaker 1: So if the if the county runs it, who in
[1:38:06] Speaker 1: the county runs it? The state run, the state run
[1:38:13] Speaker 1: the state runs facility, not the got out.
[1:38:16] Speaker 2: It's under our jurisdiction.
[1:38:18] Speaker 1: And many people don't know that.
[1:38:20] Speaker 2: When the kids get locked up, we just say they're
[1:38:22] Speaker 2: bad and we just let them go be locked up.
[1:38:25] Speaker 2: We have to pay attention to what's going on with
[1:38:27] Speaker 2: our babies. How many of them are being tried as adults,
[1:38:31] Speaker 2: how many of them are be in re arrested for
[1:38:33] Speaker 2: just behavior problems, not criminal problems. And these are real,
[1:38:38] Speaker 2: live issues that we are dealing with. I'm not going
[1:38:41] Speaker 2: to rest until I get that facility rebuild. I wouldn't
[1:38:45] Speaker 2: want any kid in such deployable place as that place.
[1:38:48] Speaker 7: Shit, that's what down, that's what down ballot matters the most.
[1:38:52] Speaker 1: If this is where see we vote, are the highest
[1:38:54] Speaker 1: of presidential the governor than the United States Center. What
[1:38:58] Speaker 1: we understand is people progressions finally.
[1:39:02] Speaker 7: Learn this in the last ten to twelve years.
[1:39:06] Speaker 1: Anytime we had discussions of mass incarceration, folks were going
[1:39:09] Speaker 1: to DC or to the state capitol, not realizing that
[1:39:13] Speaker 1: the most important person and it comes to mass incarceration
[1:39:18] Speaker 1: is the district attorney.
[1:39:20] Speaker 7: The second most important is huge.
[1:39:24] Speaker 1: And so if you have judicial candidates that have an
[1:39:28] Speaker 1: alternative of senency initiatives and DA's who understand that that's
[1:39:32] Speaker 1: the case, and so we have to be mindful of that.
[1:39:36] Speaker 1: If you care about mass incarceration, whoever is the district
[1:39:40] Speaker 1: attorney that is the most critical person because they decide
[1:39:44] Speaker 1: whether to prosecute, what sentences were, what charges to go after,
[1:39:49] Speaker 1: and then even if they're convicted, what sentences they recommend.
[1:39:52] Speaker 1: And a lot of us don't vote in those races,
[1:39:55] Speaker 1: and then we're wondering why the problem stays the same.
[1:39:59] Speaker 2: We have a program at as Healthcare Foundation called Food
[1:40:03] Speaker 2: for Health. We actually distribute fresh food on a daily
[1:40:07] Speaker 2: basis out of our location at seven hundred southeast. So
[1:40:13] Speaker 2: please come visit us if you are in the need
[1:40:15] Speaker 2: of food.
[1:40:15] Speaker 4: It's called food for Health.
[1:40:17] Speaker 2: Do y'all have the capacity to distribute that food on
[1:40:20] Speaker 2: SIS trunk? Because I got a location on CIS Trunk.
[1:40:22] Speaker 2: I can help y'all get rid of some more food there.
[1:40:26] Speaker 1: Give us a call.
[1:40:27] Speaker 2: You can find us on the website.
[1:40:28] Speaker 23: All right, you networking? Networking? This is networking.
[1:40:33] Speaker 2: Yes, good evening.
[1:40:36] Speaker 1: I am a proud put your hand down, We got you.
[1:40:42] Speaker 2: I'm a proud member about all that Baptist Church active member.
[1:40:49] Speaker 7: Can you move right in front of her mouse? If
[1:40:50] Speaker 7: you're here there, we go.
[1:40:56] Speaker 1: Right right in front, like right in front anyway.
[1:41:05] Speaker 27: I am a problemmember man all Abaptist Church, A problem
[1:41:08] Speaker 27: member of.
[1:41:11] Speaker 2: The monolive.
[1:41:15] Speaker 27: Hospitality ministry and one of the reasons I has to
[1:41:20] Speaker 27: stand up.
[1:41:21] Speaker 2: But also very active.
[1:41:26] Speaker 27: Activities here at this that actually promotes voting. If you
[1:41:33] Speaker 27: look at your fan, there is information there about the
[1:41:40] Speaker 27: primary election AUGU eighteen, twenty twenty six and the deadline
[1:41:46] Speaker 27: for voters registration and party changes in July of twenty
[1:41:52] Speaker 27: twenty six. July twentyth, twenty twenty six. Early voting periods
[1:41:59] Speaker 27: all this a through off the sixteenth general election is
[1:42:04] Speaker 27: November three. The deadline for the new voter registration's October fifth,
[1:42:10] Speaker 27: twenty twenty sixth early budding period October nineteenth through November.
[1:42:14] Speaker 4: So here's what you do.
[1:42:16] Speaker 7: Okay, who has a fan? Raise your hand. No, no, no, no, no,
[1:42:19] Speaker 7: it's real simple. Take your phone out, take a picture,
[1:42:24] Speaker 7: take a picture of your fan. Post that on all
[1:42:29] Speaker 7: your social media.
[1:42:33] Speaker 1: God, you gotta be a matter of fact, I gotta
[1:42:36] Speaker 1: you bring me a fan, y'all to say, hard, no,
[1:42:40] Speaker 1: that's not Portorkal, bring me a fan.
[1:42:43] Speaker 3: See.
[1:42:44] Speaker 7: Part of the problem is when we do. When we
[1:42:46] Speaker 7: get in instructions, we wait, and.
[1:42:48] Speaker 1: Then when we get home and we forget, and then
[1:42:51] Speaker 1: it's like, man, oh my god, God, I forgot and the.
[1:42:53] Speaker 28: Deadline has passed. All right, go on this fort you
[1:42:55] Speaker 28: try to take this picture. I'm here to inform everybody
[1:43:04] Speaker 28: that the Supervisor.
[1:43:05] Speaker 29: Of Election has a new resource that we can all use,
[1:43:09] Speaker 29: and that resource is a QR code. So if you
[1:43:13] Speaker 29: want to verify if your registration is legit, and if
[1:43:19] Speaker 29: you have a question, you're talking to a young person
[1:43:22] Speaker 29: in your community, and you just show them, take out yourself,
[1:43:26] Speaker 29: phone them and let them they can absolutely register while
[1:43:31] Speaker 29: they're riding your bicycle down Systrun. Okay, simply by using
[1:43:36] Speaker 29: a QR code. That is a resource which is available
[1:43:39] Speaker 29: twenty four to seven, and you can verify. Don't disqualify yourself.
[1:43:45] Speaker 1: We have a lot of people.
[1:43:47] Speaker 29: The first thing they say, Hey, I got time on
[1:43:49] Speaker 29: the book. Don't It's not your responsibility to police that
[1:43:55] Speaker 29: a character is with the supervisor.
[1:43:58] Speaker 2: I have one in my car.
[1:44:00] Speaker 1: I did not go to your car.
[1:44:01] Speaker 3: I'll come back. Go to your problem.
[1:44:04] Speaker 1: Go to your car.
[1:44:05] Speaker 19: It's not a problem.
[1:44:05] Speaker 1: You can't have a QR code in your car. And
[1:44:08] Speaker 1: tell us had a QR code and you ain't.
[1:44:10] Speaker 3: Got it, Well, well you hit a mine.
[1:44:12] Speaker 1: Phone back, Oh, let's door.
[1:44:15] Speaker 25: Is the way of the fan is the same QR
[1:44:18] Speaker 25: cod There you go, all right, then we got it?
[1:44:22] Speaker 29: Okay, then all right, Well I just want to inform
[1:44:25] Speaker 29: a lot of people because I don't hear it come
[1:44:28] Speaker 29: up in conversation enough.
[1:44:30] Speaker 15: I seriously, I.
[1:44:31] Speaker 1: Don't hear it come up enough.
[1:44:33] Speaker 7: And we have a lot of the see in your
[1:44:34] Speaker 7: QR code.
[1:44:35] Speaker 1: Word to go ahead, please, I advise.
[1:44:55] Speaker 23: Uh, Well, good evening.
[1:44:57] Speaker 30: I'm they'll hold this former Mayor Brown Connie, Canada, the
[1:45:00] Speaker 30: US Congress.
[1:45:00] Speaker 1: This's at twenty.
[1:45:05] Speaker 30: And thank you, umon Olive Baptist Church, Dr Oscar, Doctor.
[1:45:12] Speaker 1: Davis, give her a great round of applause. Pierless, this
[1:45:15] Speaker 1: is what we must do and do more off. The
[1:45:20] Speaker 1: question I have is thoughts on voting by mail.
[1:45:24] Speaker 21: I think it's in my mind, the easiest, the best
[1:45:28] Speaker 21: way to do it if you turn it in on time.
[1:45:31] Speaker 1: That's one.
[1:45:32] Speaker 15: Dr osgood, thank you for the twenty million dollars.
[1:45:36] Speaker 30: I sat on the Juvenile Justice Board with President Marshall
[1:45:40] Speaker 30: Allison of the NAACP for all the time I was
[1:45:43] Speaker 30: at the county, and we fought hard to get the
[1:45:45] Speaker 30: state to do what was right.
[1:45:47] Speaker 15: It's great that you did it finally, and in terms
[1:45:49] Speaker 15: of our young people. Being in Castley.
[1:45:52] Speaker 4: I was able to pass the.
[1:45:54] Speaker 30: Juvenile Justice restaurers and juvenile at civil.
[1:45:57] Speaker 23: Cization program in Brown County.
[1:46:00] Speaker 1: But here's a challenge.
[1:46:01] Speaker 30: The police department are not utilizing that tool.
[1:46:05] Speaker 2: That tool for minor offensive offensive is.
[1:46:08] Speaker 30: That a child get a young person gets a ticket,
[1:46:10] Speaker 30: a citation, they go to a program.
[1:46:13] Speaker 21: Run by Brown County and they don't have a record
[1:46:15] Speaker 21: once they complete it.
[1:46:17] Speaker 30: So I would record you talk to your city police
[1:46:20] Speaker 30: departments and put it to make sure that they're doing.
[1:46:24] Speaker 2: What's right for children.
[1:46:25] Speaker 15: Coconut creaking dating for the tool that most likely not
[1:46:29] Speaker 15: utilize that program. Please, thank you so much for all
[1:46:32] Speaker 15: you do here.
[1:46:37] Speaker 21: Well, I'll say this, we're talking about youth and corporate incarceration.
[1:46:41] Speaker 23: I mean that's a little deeper than just being targeted.
[1:46:45] Speaker 15: That means opportunities.
[1:46:46] Speaker 21: That mean our school systems, school boards we have to
[1:46:50] Speaker 21: vote down ballot, create opportunities for our young kids. Support
[1:46:55] Speaker 21: each other's businesses in this room, supporting each other's businesses.
[1:47:00] Speaker 21: It's a lot that goes into why kids get in
[1:47:03] Speaker 21: trouble and while we're incarcerated at such a higher rate,
[1:47:08] Speaker 21: But there are things that we all can do like
[1:47:10] Speaker 21: I said, show them, support, create programs like you have
[1:47:13] Speaker 21: in this church. But we have to support our youth.
[1:47:17] Speaker 21: That another question about two more questions. I think we're
[1:47:20] Speaker 21: gonna how much?
[1:47:23] Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead, good editing everyone, Thank you Rod for
[1:47:26] Speaker 2: being here. Appreciate it. My question is contractions with your voting.
[1:47:30] Speaker 16: I just received an.
[1:47:31] Speaker 2: Email six days ago.
[1:47:33] Speaker 18: Hi Kurtina, your vote by mail request has expired.
[1:47:37] Speaker 2: But it does not tell me when I have to
[1:47:40] Speaker 2: do it.
[1:47:40] Speaker 18: All it says is now now the dates on the fan,
[1:47:45] Speaker 18: the our codes. Why is it telling us what date
[1:47:49] Speaker 18: that we need to get in and to have this
[1:47:51] Speaker 18: done by?
[1:47:54] Speaker 2: So if this expired the time you saw that word,
[1:47:57] Speaker 2: you should have responded. You can go to row up
[1:47:59] Speaker 2: votes dot gov and renew it. We don't have time.
[1:48:03] Speaker 2: If you get emails saying anything with your votedness is
[1:48:07] Speaker 2: inspired and it's not appropriate or correct, you need to
[1:48:11] Speaker 2: address it right then. Right there. We must be in
[1:48:15] Speaker 2: a sense of urgency to make sure that when it
[1:48:18] Speaker 2: comes time to vote, we are eligible to vote. So
[1:48:21] Speaker 2: that notice, what's to inform you? Because Florida we have
[1:48:25] Speaker 2: our own laws. Now, you used to could request your
[1:48:27] Speaker 2: vote by mail ballot and you just would get it.
[1:48:30] Speaker 2: So now you have to request it every election cycle.
[1:48:34] Speaker 2: And because mister Joe Scott is our supervisor of Election,
[1:48:37] Speaker 2: he's now notifying people who have not re requested your
[1:48:42] Speaker 2: vote by mail ballot, So we have to respond to
[1:48:44] Speaker 2: his notification by requesting that vote by mail ballot and
[1:48:48] Speaker 2: we do that to night. You can do it right
[1:48:50] Speaker 2: on your phone. You can sit down and if you
[1:48:52] Speaker 2: don't want to use secure our code, you can go
[1:48:54] Speaker 2: to ww brow votes dot gov vote by mail and
[1:48:58] Speaker 2: it'll take you through the price. That's it gonna take
[1:49:00] Speaker 2: you like three minutes. Or you can go out front
[1:49:04] Speaker 2: to the front. Yes, if you need some hands on
[1:49:06] Speaker 2: and Benji Williams is out there, you can actually walk
[1:49:08] Speaker 2: out there right now before the line is you gonna
[1:49:11] Speaker 2: have somebody escort her out there. Mister Benji Williams is
[1:49:14] Speaker 2: out there and he can get you and get you
[1:49:16] Speaker 2: in and out before a line even get out the desk.
[1:49:20] Speaker 21: And they were counting on you're not being proactive. So
[1:49:22] Speaker 21: we're gonna take three more questions and that's gonna be.
[1:49:27] Speaker 4: Testing.
[1:49:28] Speaker 2: I'm rememberend Henry E.
[1:49:29] Speaker 24: Green the third.
[1:49:30] Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Mount Herminami Church.
[1:49:32] Speaker 15: The other church on this block.
[1:49:34] Speaker 31: I consider myself to be an affiliate member of Mount Olive.
[1:49:37] Speaker 7: I love it over here and we praised God Florida Pastor.
[1:49:43] Speaker 31: One of the down valid issues that I think is
[1:49:46] Speaker 31: very important to all of us in Florida that we
[1:49:48] Speaker 31: should be having intergenerational discussions about is the property tax issue.
[1:49:54] Speaker 31: There are a lot of discussions.
[1:49:56] Speaker 32: Not being had, and we fall out on the Democrat
[1:49:59] Speaker 32: Republic inside.
[1:50:01] Speaker 2: We fall out as to.
[1:50:03] Speaker 31: Whether the validity of the Divine nine and all these
[1:50:06] Speaker 31: other things people renouncing.
[1:50:08] Speaker 32: But the property tax will affect all of us, and
[1:50:11] Speaker 32: definitely it will put an impact on whether millennials and
[1:50:15] Speaker 32: Gen Z has the opportunity to buy homes and whether we.
[1:50:18] Speaker 2: Have the services that property taxes cover.
[1:50:21] Speaker 31: And so this church has been very good about educating
[1:50:24] Speaker 31: people on that, but our discussions need to involve everybody
[1:50:28] Speaker 31: about how that will affect us.
[1:50:29] Speaker 2: Important to pass the trade. On September second, we will
[1:50:32] Speaker 2: host the property tax form here with Mighty here, our
[1:50:37] Speaker 2: property appraiser, to give us factual information. I will be
[1:50:40] Speaker 2: going diligively through the ballod amendment and I'm going to
[1:50:44] Speaker 2: challenge you to get me some young people to participate
[1:50:46] Speaker 2: and now I want you to just come and I
[1:50:48] Speaker 2: want you to bring the whole Mont honor because you
[1:50:49] Speaker 2: do that, My mala. We welcome everybody here, but we
[1:50:52] Speaker 2: continue to do those forms and have those discussions. And
[1:50:56] Speaker 2: we are our community church. Our church is a beacon
[1:51:00] Speaker 2: of light in this community. We respect all the churches.
[1:51:02] Speaker 2: Our passor has charged us to work with all the churches.
[1:51:05] Speaker 2: So if you're not a member of this church, you're
[1:51:08] Speaker 2: welcome to come here any time. You know, you come
[1:51:11] Speaker 2: on Sunday, you hear that preacher, you're gonna stay.
[1:51:14] Speaker 18: But we are as to open.
[1:51:16] Speaker 2: To you for you to come here and get this
[1:51:18] Speaker 2: information or invited us to come to your church. We
[1:51:21] Speaker 2: want to share this information. This property tax issue, we
[1:51:24] Speaker 2: can't get into it tonight, but it's gonna be so
[1:51:27] Speaker 2: critical that we understand what we're voting, that we understand
[1:51:31] Speaker 2: the trick in the ballot language that was passed in Tallahasse.
[1:51:35] Speaker 2: You're not duped into making a vote that's going to
[1:51:38] Speaker 2: cost you.
[1:51:39] Speaker 15: Is a consequence later on, ohkay, good e, thank you.
[1:51:47] Speaker 33: Her name is Bobby Henry, publisher of the West Side.
[1:51:49] Speaker 33: Is that and that's Browler County. My thoughts not necessarily
[1:51:58] Speaker 33: a question. But Roland, you you mentioned the fact that
[1:52:03] Speaker 33: when you when you go on Facebook or use other
[1:52:06] Speaker 33: social media, you're you're you're.
[1:52:08] Speaker 15: Probably dealing with something that's not real. So my my
[1:52:11] Speaker 15: focus is to remind you to.
[1:52:13] Speaker 30: Use your trusted owned media, black people owned media, not
[1:52:19] Speaker 30: just newspapers.
[1:52:20] Speaker 33: We do podcasts, we do we have the capability of
[1:52:23] Speaker 33: of doing all that, so please support it. I could
[1:52:26] Speaker 33: go another way and talk about AHL, but I won't
[1:52:31] Speaker 33: because sometimes we put out.
[1:52:33] Speaker 1: Misinformation and we use.
[1:52:37] Speaker 7: Media and pay for some other media.
[1:52:40] Speaker 33: And to the brother who says something about writing down
[1:52:43] Speaker 33: Ciss Trump and you on your bicycle using the phone
[1:52:46] Speaker 33: to do something, man, you'll kill somebody.
[1:52:48] Speaker 16: Don't do that quick quick putting out misinformation.
[1:52:51] Speaker 24: This is this is a serious and I said.
[1:52:53] Speaker 1: But I will say this. I will say this at
[1:52:56] Speaker 1: least be said to a body said uh and and
[1:52:59] Speaker 1: I and I really need.
[1:53:01] Speaker 7: I really need our folks to understand.
[1:53:05] Speaker 1: We are facing, uh A, a crisis in Black America
[1:53:12] Speaker 1: in that we have lost so many black owned media
[1:53:17] Speaker 1: institutions that we will rule a day when we have
[1:53:22] Speaker 1: to ask somebody else to tell our story. And and
[1:53:27] Speaker 1: and and let me be real clear a lot of
[1:53:30] Speaker 1: us also got to confront our issues when it comes
[1:53:33] Speaker 1: to white validation, that there are many of us. I
[1:53:37] Speaker 1: ain't got a problem saying it that many of us
[1:53:41] Speaker 1: who will run and this include elected officials, this includes
[1:53:46] Speaker 1: CEOs and others.
[1:53:47] Speaker 7: Uh, we will run the CNN and MS.
[1:53:50] Speaker 1: Now we will watch them and then beg them to
[1:53:54] Speaker 1: cover us, and they don't show up. If you are
[1:53:58] Speaker 1: not subscribing to your low black newspaper, if you are
[1:54:02] Speaker 1: not ensuring that institutions are advertising with black owned media, understand,
[1:54:09] Speaker 1: that's how that's how we survive and thrive. You Also,
[1:54:13] Speaker 1: what I have been saying to black elected officials is
[1:54:16] Speaker 1: they got to be far more aggressive in demanding that
[1:54:21] Speaker 1: the party spends money with black on media because you
[1:54:24] Speaker 1: have to understand, you're gonna see anywhere from nine to
[1:54:29] Speaker 1: twelve billion dollars spent.
[1:54:34] Speaker 7: By November, and when you look at the numbers.
[1:54:38] Speaker 1: Black owed media gets anywhere from point five to one
[1:54:42] Speaker 1: percent of those billions. And so all the media companies Comcast, Disney, Sinclair,
[1:54:50] Speaker 1: next Star, iHeart, Cumulus, Artissey, all those companies, they bank
[1:54:56] Speaker 1: on their profits going up during the election year and
[1:54:59] Speaker 1: the and we're left to give in giving a crumb,
[1:55:03] Speaker 1: and then we're supposed to act like it's a meal.
[1:55:06] Speaker 1: And so that's another piece there where we have to
[1:55:08] Speaker 1: recognize the last point. Black preachers in this room. Your preacher,
[1:55:13] Speaker 1: stand up, You a preacher, stand up.
[1:55:17] Speaker 2: Do not.
[1:55:20] Speaker 1: Do not let a politician come into your pulpit. If
[1:55:27] Speaker 1: they are paying white staffers but asking black folks to volunteer.
[1:55:34] Speaker 1: We cannot operate as share poppers, killing the soil while
[1:55:41] Speaker 1: other folks get paid, and then when they lose, we
[1:55:45] Speaker 1: get blamed for our turnout. We have to understand that
[1:55:48] Speaker 1: politics is also a business, and there are folk who
[1:55:52] Speaker 1: are becoming millionaires from politics, and they do not look
[1:55:56] Speaker 1: like us billionaires.
[1:56:03] Speaker 29: So believe.
[1:56:05] Speaker 2: And all you all my brothers and sisters here, I
[1:56:08] Speaker 2: just have a comment. We were for see we're talking
[1:56:11] Speaker 2: about absentee ballots. Yes they're great.
[1:56:15] Speaker 1: Yes we need to not sit on them.
[1:56:19] Speaker 2: Wait at the last day, because I'm the one I
[1:56:21] Speaker 2: receive them. I'm not here representing the United States post Serve,
[1:56:23] Speaker 2: but I do work for the United States Postal Service.
[1:56:25] Speaker 2: I do receive them. So two things we must sign
[1:56:28] Speaker 2: the back of the voters your apit ballot. It's two signatures.
[1:56:32] Speaker 34: One at the top, we want to print your name,
[1:56:34] Speaker 34: and one at the bottom you're gonna sign your name
[1:56:36] Speaker 34: your signature, and then two do not wait on the
[1:56:39] Speaker 34: last day of a lesson to turn in your absentee ballot.
[1:56:43] Speaker 2: Yes, we do our best to get those ballots to
[1:56:47] Speaker 2: the to the sites. But if you get an early ballot,
[1:56:50] Speaker 2: go ahead and fill it out. Help your seasoned seniors to.
[1:56:53] Speaker 34: Help fill those ballots out. Do not wait on the
[1:56:56] Speaker 34: last day to mail them out. Put them in your mailbox.
[1:56:58] Speaker 34: And then at two number one, like I said, I
[1:57:00] Speaker 34: don't have signatures on them, and then you wait on
[1:57:01] Speaker 34: the last day to turn in. So that's my comments.
[1:57:04] Speaker 1: Does the law here allow you to do that? In
[1:57:07] Speaker 1: the original I'm saying some states are different in terms
[1:57:10] Speaker 1: of who is allowed to help.
[1:57:11] Speaker 7: You feel an abstay doll out.
[1:57:13] Speaker 2: So now you're not supposed to be helping people. You
[1:57:16] Speaker 2: can kind of instruct them and guide them, and you're
[1:57:19] Speaker 2: only allowed to pick up two ballots from your immediate family.
[1:57:24] Speaker 2: The laws here are horrific. So if you're not a
[1:57:26] Speaker 2: third party voters registration organization and you're helping people register
[1:57:31] Speaker 2: to vote, your organization can be fined anywhere from fifty
[1:57:34] Speaker 2: thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. So we want to encourage,
[1:57:38] Speaker 2: we want to do what we need to do to
[1:57:40] Speaker 2: help people. But those laws are there for a reason,
[1:57:44] Speaker 2: and you have Again, I'm gonna go back to the
[1:57:46] Speaker 2: election police that as a legislator, I still haven't gotten.
[1:57:49] Speaker 15: A job description.
[1:57:51] Speaker 2: They got money for uniforms. I don't know if their
[1:57:53] Speaker 2: uniform is a suit of something to identify them. But
[1:57:56] Speaker 2: they're out in the community, they're out at the polls,
[1:57:59] Speaker 2: they're coming and talking to you. You have no reason
[1:58:02] Speaker 2: who they are. So make sure that you are clear
[1:58:04] Speaker 2: on the laws. We continue to educate, talk about those laws.
[1:58:08] Speaker 2: If you have a question, reach out so we can
[1:58:10] Speaker 2: have answer. But what she's saying about that signature is
[1:58:13] Speaker 2: important because if you don't have those two signatures, then
[1:58:17] Speaker 2: they cannot count your vote and you don't have time
[1:58:21] Speaker 2: to go.
[1:58:21] Speaker 1: Sign it or to curate.
[1:58:23] Speaker 15: All.
[1:58:24] Speaker 23: Right, last questions for real right here.
[1:58:27] Speaker 15: Thank you very much, door.
[1:58:29] Speaker 23: I give honor to this ministry for doing such a
[1:58:32] Speaker 23: fantastic job. My name is John Wiggins.
[1:58:35] Speaker 22: I'm the president of the brand new independent television network
[1:58:39] Speaker 22: here in South Florida.
[1:58:42] Speaker 29: But what's Paul Beach Staholm said, WDFL eighteen.
[1:58:48] Speaker 19: Download it on your app now, because we are going
[1:58:51] Speaker 19: to be unapologetically black, old and operator.
[1:58:58] Speaker 23: We want to if the message out of Senator Arms good.
[1:59:05] Speaker 24: We want to get the message out so South Florida
[1:59:10] Speaker 24: dominates this lesson.
[1:59:11] Speaker 3: Thinky Roland.
[1:59:12] Speaker 4: I love you, brother, You're doing a fantastic job.
[1:59:15] Speaker 2: I listened to you. I want you on my network too.
[1:59:20] Speaker 2: All right, first side, let's give.
[1:59:24] Speaker 1: It Sean and she in the words of Frank Lucas
[1:59:34] Speaker 1: An America Gayson, I'm gonna get that money.
[1:59:38] Speaker 3: Oh, shameless club.
[1:59:39] Speaker 23: Shameless club, say hey, hey.
[1:59:42] Speaker 21: Listen up, hold up, hold up, hold up, We're gonna
[1:59:45] Speaker 21: really cut this off.
[1:59:46] Speaker 3: First.
[1:59:47] Speaker 21: I think they want to give a big shout out
[1:59:48] Speaker 21: to West Side Casette for their support.
[1:59:51] Speaker 3: I think people look at the back.
[1:59:53] Speaker 2: Side of your patriots you're seeing on there.
[1:59:56] Speaker 21: But I'm gonna protect the brother a little bit.
[1:59:59] Speaker 23: He didn't mean if you to take that literally rocher
[2:00:01] Speaker 23: bike and you know, fill it out. He was just
[2:00:04] Speaker 23: he didn't mean it literally.
[2:00:05] Speaker 2: Who wasn't gonna kill anybody.
[2:00:09] Speaker 1: Let's give it depend on a round of applause.
[2:00:11] Speaker 2: I thought that it was hard.
[2:00:12] Speaker 29: I'm information.
[2:00:16] Speaker 16: I'd expect I expect this precinct, this church to turn
[2:00:22] Speaker 16: it out because.
[2:00:22] Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna bring ten people.
[2:00:24] Speaker 23: I'm gonna pay for two buses.
[2:00:27] Speaker 1: Yeah, buses.
[2:00:28] Speaker 3: We're acting this, big busses.
[2:00:30] Speaker 23: We're acting this, and everybody's gonna bring ten people.
[2:00:36] Speaker 2: Rolling is gonna go out back and sign some books.
[2:00:39] Speaker 1: He brought his book.
[2:00:40] Speaker 23: Another shameless plug.
[2:00:41] Speaker 1: But it's okay, it's cool. It's Rolling Martin his book.
[2:00:44] Speaker 23: After the concert, so he got to stay for the concert.
[2:00:46] Speaker 1: Now after the concert, so please.
[2:00:49] Speaker 23: Stick around, do some enough for a second. We're gonna
[2:00:51] Speaker 23: have a great concert.
[2:00:52] Speaker 15: But let's give it.
[2:00:53] Speaker 1: Let's give this pan on a gray hand.
[2:00:58] Speaker 23: As I said, I learned something every time I do it.
[2:01:01] Speaker 23: And again, thank you guys.
[2:01:02] Speaker 15: For having me down.
[2:01:03] Speaker 21: It's always my pleasure to come come around and host
[2:01:06] Speaker 21: these things. It's such a great learning experience. Now I'm
[2:01:09] Speaker 21: gonna turn it back over.

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