# GOP Redistricting War Targets Black Districts. Justin Pearson Clash Erupts. Calif Gov Race

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 8 May 2026, 2 h 13 min.

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5.7.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: GOP Redistricting War Targets Black Districts. Justin Pearson Clash Erupts in Tennessee. Calif Gov Race The GOP is at war with Black America, and right now, the battlefield is redistricting. In Alabama, the state House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow for a new special primary if the Supreme Court permits the state to reuse its 2023 redistricting plan. I will speak with a state lawmaker about what's happening there. In Tennessee, the Republican-led legislature has approved a new congressional map that dismantles the state's only majority-Black district. State Representative Justin Pearson had a heated exchange with Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers after the redistricting vote at the state Capitol. He, along with two other lawmakers, will join us. Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be here to discuss his gubernatorial campaign. 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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[13:42] Speaker 3: In Today's Thursday, May seven, twenty twenty six, coming up
[14:41] Speaker 3: a rolland markin unfilter streaming live on the Black Start Network.
[14:44] Speaker 3: The glp's war on Black americ continues. Tonessee Republican Governor
[14:48] Speaker 3: Bill Lee signs into law the new map that wipes
[14:53] Speaker 3: out the black district in Memphis. We'll talk with a
[14:56] Speaker 3: number of folks, including State Represident Justin Jones, to burn
[15:00] Speaker 3: a Confederate flag in the state capitol. We have lots
[15:03] Speaker 3: to talk about. We'll also talk with leaders in Alabama,
[15:06] Speaker 3: where Republicans are trying to do the same. What we're
[15:09] Speaker 3: seeing is the rise of the Confederacy again. For my
[15:14] Speaker 3: LA Mayor Antonio Blo Riosa, we'll be here to discuss
[15:16] Speaker 3: his run for California governor. Also, we'll feature another candidate
[15:20] Speaker 3: running for Jordia's Supreme Court. Lots to break down as
[15:23] Speaker 3: we lay out this Republican war on Black America, folks,
[15:27] Speaker 3: and it's time for us to be engaged. It's time
[15:30] Speaker 3: for us to understand that this is a declaration of
[15:33] Speaker 3: war on black people. It's time to bring the punk
[15:35] Speaker 3: on roller button, on filcher, on the Black stud network.
[15:37] Speaker 3: Let's go.
[15:39] Speaker 11: Pet what got believes he's right on time and best
[15:51] Speaker 11: believe he's going.
[15:54] Speaker 9: Thus to politics with entertainment.
[15:58] Speaker 11: Justa keeps. It's rolling, he's books. She's reeled the question.
[16:18] Speaker 3: No, he's rolling, folks. Moments ago, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
[16:51] Speaker 3: actually signed into law the new map in UH Tennessee,
[16:56] Speaker 3: wiping out the long time black congressional district there in
[17:00] Speaker 3: the city of Memphis. They have split Shelby County into
[17:03] Speaker 3: three separate congressional districts, National into four districts. We will
[17:07] Speaker 3: be talking with state representing Justin Jones. It was an
[17:10] Speaker 3: absolute pandemonium on the floor as lawmakers protested vigorously against
[17:15] Speaker 3: these white conservative Republicans doing the bidding of Donald Trump,
[17:20] Speaker 3: just wiping out black political power. That's what's going on.
[17:23] Speaker 3: Republicans in Alabama voting today to redraw the states congressional map.
[17:27] Speaker 3: Despite again, despite the fact that voting for this year's
[17:31] Speaker 3: midterms has already begun, the state is still awaiting word
[17:34] Speaker 3: from the Supreme Court on whether the district thing can
[17:36] Speaker 3: move forward. But under the Pan Plaster to Pan plan
[17:39] Speaker 3: passed today, the state would revert to a twenty twenty
[17:42] Speaker 3: three map that would imperil the seats of both Alabama's
[17:46] Speaker 3: black members of Congress, Congress Missal Marti Figures and Congresswoman
[17:50] Speaker 3: Terry Seul move target the states two Black district. It's
[17:53] Speaker 3: just the latest effort by Republicans to again destroy black
[17:57] Speaker 3: political power since the Supreme Court rule weakening the Voting
[18:00] Speaker 3: Rights Act. Joining us right now, folks to talk about
[18:04] Speaker 3: this here Alabama State Representative Kelvin Datrick, glad to have
[18:07] Speaker 3: you here, Representative, that you listen. The protests have been
[18:10] Speaker 3: taking place in Alabama, in Tennessee, in Florida, in many places.
[18:14] Speaker 3: And the bottom line here is what we're looking at
[18:17] Speaker 3: is this is white conservative Republicans wanted to destroy black power.
[18:21] Speaker 3: We're talking about Alabama, that is the home of the
[18:25] Speaker 3: battle for voting rights. You think about Bloody Sunday, we
[18:28] Speaker 3: talk about Selma, We think about what happened in Birmingham,
[18:32] Speaker 3: also was called Bombingham. Black people shed blood for this
[18:36] Speaker 3: right to vote and for representation, and these white conservative
[18:40] Speaker 3: Republicans want to destroy all of that. This is absolutely
[18:44] Speaker 3: the rise of the Confederacy two point zero.
[18:48] Speaker 12: Well, Roland, I mean pretty much you're in capsider and
[18:50] Speaker 12: everything for us right now. We know that, you know,
[18:54] Speaker 12: while the immediate target is District two, which Representative Marii
[18:58] Speaker 12: figures now occupy, the lieutenant governor and others have been
[19:03] Speaker 12: just transparent and they've said we want all seven seats.
[19:06] Speaker 3: They have said it.
[19:07] Speaker 12: They have been intentional about communicating that to everyone else.
[19:10] Speaker 12: This is not even they're not even trying to hide
[19:12] Speaker 12: their you know, throw a rock and hide their hands.
[19:14] Speaker 12: This is their plan, their strategy to dilute black voting
[19:17] Speaker 12: power in the South. And they're you know, Alabama's ground
[19:20] Speaker 12: zero for it has been for a very long time.
[19:23] Speaker 12: You perfectly capture what happened in the Alabama legislature. And
[19:28] Speaker 12: so you know, we've got a couple of days, you know,
[19:29] Speaker 12: we got one day left tomorrow, and they're going to
[19:31] Speaker 12: force the rebuild. That would be a what if kind
[19:34] Speaker 12: of situation because it only comes into the play if
[19:38] Speaker 12: the Supreme Court grants an emergency in junction relieving the
[19:41] Speaker 12: State of Alabama from an agreement they made to not
[19:44] Speaker 12: challenge these districts until twenty thirty, but they're going ahead
[19:47] Speaker 12: with it anyway. The governor called us into a special
[19:50] Speaker 12: session on Friday. We had to be there on Monday,
[19:52] Speaker 12: and you know, we've had hundreds of thousands of Alabamas
[19:55] Speaker 12: showing up at the Alabama State Capitol to make their
[19:58] Speaker 12: voices heard, to let them know. This is not American,
[20:01] Speaker 12: this is not democracy.
[20:03] Speaker 3: And what is shameful here is that this same Supreme
[20:06] Speaker 3: Court ruled to create the second Congression, that second district.
[20:11] Speaker 12: The same court they did and as a matter of fact,
[20:17] Speaker 12: Justice Alito specifically said in the Louisiana versus Calay case
[20:21] Speaker 12: that the Alabama ruley is not overturned.
[20:24] Speaker 8: It is not overturned.
[20:26] Speaker 12: Still, our governors called us in a special session so
[20:29] Speaker 12: that these maps could be in place, just in case
[20:32] Speaker 12: the Supreme Court changes their minds from what they did
[20:35] Speaker 12: just you know, less than a week ago. So it's
[20:37] Speaker 12: really a kind of a It is an abusive power.
[20:39] Speaker 12: It is an overreach for by Republicans in the state
[20:41] Speaker 12: to go after black voting power. It is not a
[20:45] Speaker 12: Republican Democrat attack. It is an attack against black voting
[20:49] Speaker 12: power in the state of Alabama.
[20:51] Speaker 3: And it's no different than what's happening in Tennessee, No, sir.
[20:56] Speaker 12: And so you know, Alabama's been a testing ground for
[20:59] Speaker 12: a very long time for everything from Project twenty twenty
[21:02] Speaker 12: five to other strategies that the far right has tried
[21:05] Speaker 12: to employ across America, you know. And it's sad because
[21:11] Speaker 12: when you walk down the halls from my office to
[21:14] Speaker 12: the chambers, you'll see pictures of every set of legislators
[21:18] Speaker 12: that have represented the Alabama, the state of Alabama, the legislature.
[21:21] Speaker 12: And so you'll see these pictures and through the years
[21:24] Speaker 12: they got wider and event eventually got a few more women,
[21:27] Speaker 12: and finually got a few more African Americans. It is
[21:30] Speaker 12: as if this legislature and this governor wants our pictures
[21:33] Speaker 12: to look not like twenty twenty six, but instead of
[21:35] Speaker 12: like nineteen sixty three.
[21:37] Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's exactly what is going on here. And we're
[21:42] Speaker 3: seeing this play out over and over and over again.
[21:44] Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, I have been saying to black people,
[21:47] Speaker 3: this is a declaration of war. What we should see
[21:51] Speaker 3: is the largest black voter mobilization efforts as the Voter
[21:55] Speaker 3: Rights Act was passed in nineteen sixty five, as well
[21:58] Speaker 3: as since the president's election of Obama in two thousand
[22:01] Speaker 3: and eight. The only way to battle this, the only
[22:03] Speaker 3: way to beat them is to destroy them. Crush them
[22:07] Speaker 3: at the ballot box. We must overwhelm the ballot box.
[22:10] Speaker 3: That means not sixty five percent or seventy percent of
[22:13] Speaker 3: elderb black vote turnout, No, it needs to be eighty
[22:16] Speaker 3: eighty five, ninety ninety five percent. They must feel the
[22:19] Speaker 3: wrath of black voters at the ballot box.
[22:23] Speaker 12: We are fortunate in Alabama that we have tremendous minority
[22:26] Speaker 12: leaders in the Senate with Body Singleton and in the
[22:29] Speaker 12: House with Anthony Daniels, And today Leader Daniels talked about
[22:32] Speaker 12: that there between six hundred and eight hundred thousand registered
[22:36] Speaker 12: black voters in the state who do not vote, so
[22:38] Speaker 12: that we're not even talking about unregistered voters. We're talking
[22:40] Speaker 12: about folks who are on the rolls, who can just
[22:42] Speaker 12: show up and cast that vote and send a message
[22:44] Speaker 12: to Montgomery into DC that we are going to fight
[22:47] Speaker 12: for our voting rights in the state of Alabama. And
[22:50] Speaker 12: so we've already started. We started talking about that today
[22:53] Speaker 12: we have a primary on May nineteenth, that one of
[22:56] Speaker 12: the bills would actually throw out votes that have already
[22:58] Speaker 12: been cast via as and tee, you know, for the march,
[23:02] Speaker 12: for the May nineteenth primary, and then in November. We
[23:04] Speaker 12: got to make it happen. We've got to make it happen, man.
[23:07] Speaker 12: I know we turn out folks to the Magic City
[23:09] Speaker 12: Classic at the end of the month in October, but
[23:11] Speaker 12: the next week is even more important. Our folks have
[23:14] Speaker 12: to show up at the primary at the general election
[23:18] Speaker 12: in November.
[23:18] Speaker 8: It has to happen.
[23:19] Speaker 12: That is the only way we can make our voices heard.
[23:23] Speaker 3: Again. The thing that I've made perfectly clear, this is
[23:26] Speaker 3: a moment to play games. This is a moment to
[23:29] Speaker 3: sit here, just be all outside dancing doing those things.
[23:32] Speaker 3: We need to need to understand what they're doing right
[23:34] Speaker 3: now is they want to destroy black political power for
[23:38] Speaker 3: the next one to two generations. This is this is
[23:41] Speaker 3: no different than what southern racist Dixiecrats did after Reconstruction
[23:46] Speaker 3: when they could not stand black political power. Same thing
[23:50] Speaker 3: is happening right now, and people need to understand it's
[23:53] Speaker 3: not going to stop at congressional seats. It's going to
[23:56] Speaker 3: then go to state Senate seats, state rep seats, townishimissioners,
[24:00] Speaker 3: judicial seat, city Council, school Board. These people will not
[24:05] Speaker 3: slow down. They must be stopped.
[24:08] Speaker 12: They will make metropol they will make cities like Birmingham metropolitan.
[24:11] Speaker 12: They're gonna out to try to make it a metropolitan
[24:13] Speaker 12: government governance to to dilute that African American power of people.
[24:18] Speaker 12: Folks like our great mayor around the wolfing here in Birmingham,
[24:21] Speaker 12: and what we're calling on every African American institution, the
[24:25] Speaker 12: Black Church, Divine nine HBCUs, Eastern Stars, every everybody. We
[24:31] Speaker 12: got gotta gotta come together. We don't have a choice.
[24:34] Speaker 12: This is a this is a seminal moment for African
[24:36] Speaker 12: Americans in terms of our our democratic voice, in terms
[24:40] Speaker 12: of our our electoral power.
[24:43] Speaker 3: We have to come together. And I'll tell you this too.
[24:46] Speaker 12: One thing that's been reassuring is that we have seen
[24:49] Speaker 12: white allies show up here. When we had a bus
[24:52] Speaker 12: take off from Birmingham going to Montgomery on on Monday, folks,
[24:56] Speaker 12: white folks showed up supporting us at the State House.
[25:00] Speaker 12: What is the ultimate challenge Roland is that they have
[25:03] Speaker 12: black voters work with working class white folks to send
[25:07] Speaker 12: a message to DC about that we have these same
[25:10] Speaker 12: opportunities and values that we share amongst those two groups.
[25:14] Speaker 12: They want to divide us and keep us separate, so
[25:16] Speaker 12: we cannot have the kind of impact that we want
[25:19] Speaker 12: to have. But we will not be deterred. We are
[25:21] Speaker 12: determined and we are going to fight all the way
[25:23] Speaker 12: to the end.
[25:24] Speaker 3: We're going to need those white allies to wake the
[25:25] Speaker 3: hell up, to register their people, talk to their folks.
[25:29] Speaker 3: And again what I have been saying is every single
[25:32] Speaker 3: week in every city, in every Southern state, there should
[25:35] Speaker 3: be a citizenship training class teaching people, informing, educating them,
[25:39] Speaker 3: and liking them what what's going on, Because again, these
[25:42] Speaker 3: people are not going to stop. They are angry with
[25:46] Speaker 3: the success of black people in the last sixty years.
[25:48] Speaker 3: They are pisched off with what happened after the death
[25:51] Speaker 3: of George Floyd, the murder of George Floyd with Black
[25:53] Speaker 3: Lives Matter and what and I laid out my book
[25:55] Speaker 3: White Fear, how the browning of Americans making white folks
[25:57] Speaker 3: lose their minds. This is the moment for this generation
[26:01] Speaker 3: to rise up and stand up. And so that's what
[26:03] Speaker 3: really is at stake. Will this generation have the audacity
[26:08] Speaker 3: and the guts and the gall then the previous generation
[26:12] Speaker 3: who we often celebrate. Well.
[26:15] Speaker 12: I mean, if you look back at the sixties, right
[26:16] Speaker 12: here in Birmingham, we have folks like Tall Paul and Shelling,
[26:19] Speaker 12: the Playboy on the radio, sending messages to get us organized.
[26:23] Speaker 12: We have all the tools in our hands. Man, everybody
[26:25] Speaker 12: got it in their hands. We can get directly to everybody,
[26:28] Speaker 12: send a message, communicate back and forth, track.
[26:31] Speaker 3: Where folks are.
[26:32] Speaker 12: We can know folks that voted that day. If they're
[26:34] Speaker 12: not voted that day, send them a message. Hey, text
[26:36] Speaker 12: me if you need to ride, text me your mama
[26:38] Speaker 12: needs somebody to pick her up. We have all the
[26:41] Speaker 12: tools in our hands. We don't have any excuses anymore.
[26:43] Speaker 12: We are motivated. They have shown us you know that, Hey,
[26:46] Speaker 12: they're going to do whatever they need to do because
[26:49] Speaker 12: it is simply about power. It's not about what's fair anymore.
[26:53] Speaker 12: It is about we want more, and so they have
[26:56] Speaker 12: made that decision. And right now in the state of Alabama,
[26:59] Speaker 12: it's playing out in front of our eyes. And you know,
[27:02] Speaker 12: our elders are calling us to do what they did.
[27:04] Speaker 3: In D and D Representative Kelvin Natchell, we still appreciate it.
[27:07] Speaker 3: Thanks a bunch, Keep up the fight in Alabama, folks,
[27:11] Speaker 3: surely when I'm talking with Representing Justin Jones of Tennessee
[27:14] Speaker 3: about what he has been involved in. Folks, it has
[27:17] Speaker 3: been crazy day in Tennessee, massive protests that have been
[27:21] Speaker 3: going on there as well, people going to the state
[27:24] Speaker 3: capitol expressing their displeasure. Want to bring in my panel
[27:27] Speaker 3: right now, Doctor Greg Carr, Department of AFROC American Studies
[27:30] Speaker 3: at Howard University out of Washington, d C. Cameron Trimble's
[27:33] Speaker 3: CEO Hip Politics Media from a White House senior advisor.
[27:36] Speaker 3: The DC is the borough g DEI, a consultant and
[27:39] Speaker 3: deployment specialist were joining us shortly from DC as well. Greg,
[27:42] Speaker 3: I want to start with you. This here is a
[27:44] Speaker 3: photo but took someone's shot today in Tennessee. This was
[27:48] Speaker 3: the sergeant at arms blocking State Representative Justin Pearson from
[27:53] Speaker 3: entering a committee about withdrawing maps for the district he represents.
[27:58] Speaker 3: This is bull honor. This is the thugs that we
[28:03] Speaker 3: saw in the sixties with their fire hoses, with their
[28:06] Speaker 3: dogs as well. And again I'll say this here, Greg
[28:10] Speaker 3: and I got a problem saying it. Okay, black radio
[28:13] Speaker 3: syndicated radio shows. I don't care whether we're talking to
[28:16] Speaker 3: Steve already, Ricky Smiley, Dial Hugley, Breakfast Club, Dede McGuire,
[28:21] Speaker 3: Erica Campbell, all these shows. This is no time for
[28:25] Speaker 3: gossip in games. This is a mobilization time. This is
[28:29] Speaker 3: an actual declaration of war.
[28:31] Speaker 6: This is a call to arms.
[28:35] Speaker 3: It is Roland.
[28:36] Speaker 8: You've been signing this alarm for a long time. I've
[28:39] Speaker 8: protested when student Bady President Snsee State. We from Marshall's
[28:43] Speaker 8: halls and protested. I respect, I admired that hillbilly who
[28:47] Speaker 8: was blocking Representative Pearson. I embrace him because it's going
[28:52] Speaker 8: to take that to wake us from our lethargy, from
[28:56] Speaker 8: the decline in voter participation, and we will break there
[29:00] Speaker 8: political backs when we get involved. What do you say
[29:03] Speaker 8: all the time, when we vote our numbers, we win.
[29:05] Speaker 3: Yep.
[29:06] Speaker 8: Alabama is anywhere from a quarter to a third black.
[29:09] Speaker 8: That includes a number of registered voters over a million
[29:12] Speaker 8: and a third people in Alabama of African descent. We
[29:16] Speaker 8: don't need all the white people. We don't need a
[29:17] Speaker 8: majority of the white people. We probably don't even need
[29:21] Speaker 8: a third of the white people. If everybody gets off
[29:24] Speaker 8: the bench and gets into the game, we will break
[29:26] Speaker 8: the back of the White Nationalist Party in the state
[29:29] Speaker 8: of Alabama, my mama's home state, and Representative Dasha is
[29:33] Speaker 8: absolutely correct. We saw it happening in Nashville, my hometown.
[29:38] Speaker 8: When they call it metropolitan, they put in the front
[29:40] Speaker 8: of it. DC hill Billies hate, they hate state government
[29:44] Speaker 8: and federal government until they're not in control. There's a
[29:47] Speaker 8: very simple solution to this, and I'm actually very optimistic.
[29:52] Speaker 8: You talked about Carl Rove. You know, Karl Rove said
[29:54] Speaker 8: the other day about Louisiana, they black people should embrace it.
[29:56] Speaker 8: I'm with him. Karl Rove's a white supremacist. He's also
[29:59] Speaker 8: very right, and he's also very devious, and I agree
[30:01] Speaker 8: with him one hundred percent. If we vote our numbers,
[30:04] Speaker 8: these Hillbillies would have dummy mandered, because when you split
[30:08] Speaker 8: up our districts, we've got to go somewhere. Now, this
[30:10] Speaker 8: is gonna probably whip. It's also going to wake up
[30:13] Speaker 8: the black elected officials who've gotten a little comfortable thinking
[30:16] Speaker 8: that somehow, how you look represents our interests. If you've
[30:20] Speaker 8: got a district where you shoved fiften or fifteen percent
[30:24] Speaker 8: more black people in it, you got to talk to us.
[30:26] Speaker 8: If we show up and vote. So I think this
[30:28] Speaker 8: is the beginning of a glorious moment in this country.
[30:30] Speaker 8: But we break the back of white supremacy by ignoring
[30:32] Speaker 8: the idea that we somehow have the same objectives as
[30:35] Speaker 8: these hillbilities. There are open enemies, and they're open enemies
[30:38] Speaker 8: of our common humanity. There is no United States of America.
[30:41] Speaker 8: There's white supremacy and its enemies. That's the redrawing of
[30:44] Speaker 8: the map. I embrace it. I'm here for it.
[30:46] Speaker 3: Rodan Cameron. Bottom line is when I look at the numbers,
[30:51] Speaker 3: when I look at millennials Gen Z and Jen Alpha,
[30:54] Speaker 3: they adopt that they're bigger than baby boomers in Gen
[30:57] Speaker 3: X and they don't have to rise up. When you
[31:00] Speaker 3: look at the voting numbers eighteen to thirty five, lowest
[31:03] Speaker 3: turnout folks, they better understand what these folks are doing.
[31:07] Speaker 3: They want to control the politics for that generation for
[31:10] Speaker 3: the next fifty twoe hundred years.
[31:15] Speaker 8: Yes, rolling in.
[31:18] Speaker 13: This is a seminal time in our history, in our
[31:22] Speaker 13: current and in where we are currently with voting. So
[31:25] Speaker 13: many people have been trying to reach and like, how
[31:28] Speaker 13: do I get young voters to turn out?
[31:29] Speaker 3: Well?
[31:30] Speaker 13: First of all, as you mentioned, it's both millennial and
[31:32] Speaker 13: gen Z. Millennials are now in their mid thirties, so
[31:35] Speaker 13: they're no longer young. They're having their own families, they're
[31:38] Speaker 13: starting their job and their careers, and this is an
[31:40] Speaker 13: opportunity for us to engage them daily.
[31:44] Speaker 8: What gives me pause in what makes it?
[31:47] Speaker 13: While we have a great opportunity, as doctor Carr says,
[31:50] Speaker 13: and we should embrace it. We are in a different
[31:53] Speaker 13: time than the sixties and seventies. We've been satiated.
[31:57] Speaker 3: It's been the.
[31:58] Speaker 13: Mass distraction that is social that is pop culture, that
[32:02] Speaker 13: is reality TV. So many different things are pulling us
[32:04] Speaker 13: away from what's really right in front of us. And
[32:08] Speaker 13: what I challenge, not just elected officials, but organizations with
[32:13] Speaker 13: the parents and our grandparents and everyone's generation, is not
[32:16] Speaker 13: to admonish this next generation, but to.
[32:18] Speaker 8: Encourage and to encourage, educate and mobilize.
[32:22] Speaker 13: And whether you've got to convince them, whether you got
[32:25] Speaker 13: to bribe them and say, hey, I'll help you out
[32:28] Speaker 13: with one thing or another, if I make sure you
[32:30] Speaker 13: go out and register and make sure you go out
[32:32] Speaker 13: and exercise your vote, or you drag them to the polls.
[32:35] Speaker 13: Those numbers look good on paper, but we have to
[32:38] Speaker 13: do a job across the board. I love what you
[32:40] Speaker 13: said earlier about making sure we get some of this
[32:43] Speaker 13: syndicated radio. Make sure we're getting all of our content creators, talkers.
[32:48] Speaker 13: People really need to be on this because we are
[32:52] Speaker 13: now in a place where our phones, all these different
[32:55] Speaker 13: things that can distract us daily can kind of lull
[32:58] Speaker 13: us to sleep and in. And also, last thing I
[33:01] Speaker 13: would say is you're doing such a great job of
[33:03] Speaker 13: talking about this every single day, but mass media has
[33:07] Speaker 13: moved on from this. Mass media and mainstream media is
[33:11] Speaker 13: consistently suppressing this conversation. So we can't look there to
[33:16] Speaker 13: hope that everybody just knows what's happening. This is an
[33:20] Speaker 13: all out effort from our entire community. Well, I not
[33:23] Speaker 13: sure that we all vote.
[33:24] Speaker 3: Well, I don't waste my time with the hell mass
[33:26] Speaker 3: media is doing because they don't give a damn by
[33:28] Speaker 3: black people anyway. I want to go to my next guest.
[33:31] Speaker 3: Right now, State Representative Justin Pearson joins us. Right now,
[33:35] Speaker 3: we also are joined by Representative Parkinson. Glad to have
[33:39] Speaker 3: both of you here represented. Pearson, glad to get you here.
[33:43] Speaker 3: I showed that photo earlier you went face to face
[33:47] Speaker 3: with state troopers and others there today that were protests
[33:51] Speaker 3: taking place. People were on the floor. Now you have
[33:55] Speaker 3: that racist speak of the House who now is saying,
[33:57] Speaker 3: oh that they may now put sanctions on people who
[34:01] Speaker 3: protested on this floor. Guys rolled the video. They're protesting
[34:04] Speaker 3: happening all in the state capitol. People outside, people are
[34:08] Speaker 3: making a clear also, Represented Pearson, this just saying the
[34:11] Speaker 3: NAACP has already filed their lawsuit against Tennessee as a
[34:15] Speaker 3: result of the actions of Governor Bill Lee signing this
[34:18] Speaker 3: bill into law.
[34:23] Speaker 14: Minutes, these maps are racist.
[34:26] Speaker 3: Tool reresent Pierson, Come on, Represented Peerson, go ahead, yeap.
[34:34] Speaker 15: What we're dealing with right now is white supremacy at
[34:37] Speaker 15: it's zenith. They are literally rigging and stealing elections and
[34:41] Speaker 15: stealing congressional seats because they cannot win otherwise. At the
[34:45] Speaker 15: behest of the President after the Cali decision of the
[34:48] Speaker 15: Supreme Court, and then he decided to tell our governor
[34:51] Speaker 15: and a lady who's running for governor that they need
[34:53] Speaker 15: to steal our only majority black district in the entire state,
[34:58] Speaker 15: which is in Memphis and Shelby County, where I currently
[35:00] Speaker 15: serve as a state representative and where I'm also running
[35:03] Speaker 15: to serve in the US Congress for District nine. These
[35:06] Speaker 15: things are not incidental or accidental. They've been building up
[35:09] Speaker 15: to it over a long period of time, whether it
[35:11] Speaker 15: be Shelby County Beholder, where they gutted Section five of
[35:14] Speaker 15: the Voter Rights Act, to now gutting Section two, where
[35:17] Speaker 15: we were able to use the courts as a way
[35:20] Speaker 15: to ensure that our representation, our voices were being taken
[35:23] Speaker 15: away systematically and now surgically, they have cut our district
[35:27] Speaker 15: into three proportionally nearly to the percentage of thirty three
[35:32] Speaker 15: percent of Black folks in each of those districts in
[35:35] Speaker 15: order to dilute our voice, to dilute our vote, and
[35:37] Speaker 15: to take away our political power over and you mentioned this,
[35:40] Speaker 15: but over the next several months and a couple of years,
[35:43] Speaker 15: we are going to see the largest purge of black
[35:45] Speaker 15: people in elected office since the end of reconstruction. Because
[35:50] Speaker 15: right now they're coming for congressional districts, but next they
[35:53] Speaker 15: will be coming for our state House seats and our
[35:55] Speaker 15: state Senate seats.
[35:56] Speaker 16: And let me talk particularly about the South.
[35:57] Speaker 15: Here in the South in particular, there are twelve to
[36:01] Speaker 15: twenty US congressional seats that we might be on the
[36:04] Speaker 15: verge of losing. There are two hundred state House and
[36:07] Speaker 15: state Senate seats that we will likely lose due to
[36:10] Speaker 15: the response and the white lash by white supremacists who
[36:14] Speaker 15: are in these positions of power. And so yes, we
[36:16] Speaker 15: must vote, and also we must build power that sustains
[36:19] Speaker 15: us for the long haul and share a vision for
[36:22] Speaker 15: our country. Share a vision for the South where there's
[36:25] Speaker 15: healthcare access, there's opportunity and education, there isn't environmental racism
[36:30] Speaker 15: and degradation. And that black folks who are in positions
[36:32] Speaker 15: of power, that we use these positions not just to
[36:35] Speaker 15: push yes and no on buttons, but to build power
[36:38] Speaker 15: in the communities where.
[36:39] Speaker 16: We are serving. But this is the fight of our
[36:42] Speaker 16: life and everyone has to be engaged in it.
[36:45] Speaker 3: Represent the practison. Listen, do all members of the black
[36:51] Speaker 3: legislature now realize what's going on? I know we've had
[36:54] Speaker 3: You've had folks, you know, back and forth, and you
[36:57] Speaker 3: know some folks like, hey, you know, how do we
[36:58] Speaker 3: deal with the other side? But the Republicans have made
[37:01] Speaker 3: it perfectly clear they don't give a damn about a
[37:04] Speaker 3: single black voice in the legislature and they damn sure,
[37:06] Speaker 3: don't give a damn but a white Democratic voice there.
[37:10] Speaker 3: You know, today was actually a remarkable day.
[37:13] Speaker 17: Today we saw a unification from not just all of
[37:17] Speaker 17: the black members of the Tennessee Black Caucus, but also
[37:21] Speaker 17: the other members of the Democratic caucuses you know, are
[37:24] Speaker 17: white members as well, you know, on both sides, both
[37:27] Speaker 17: in the House, both in the Senate. You know, everyone
[37:30] Speaker 17: you know did their thing and did it to the
[37:34] Speaker 17: max and really really showed out and showed a force
[37:38] Speaker 17: of unity that I hadn't seen in.
[37:39] Speaker 3: A long time. All Right, so what's next? I mean, listen,
[37:44] Speaker 3: you know, I think I think, frankly, you kept take
[37:49] Speaker 3: it lining down. I think it has to be maximum
[37:52] Speaker 3: pressure and shut the state capitol down. I mean to
[37:56] Speaker 3: a grinding halt. It cannot be from this point, for
[38:00] Speaker 3: it cannot be business as usual in the state capital
[38:04] Speaker 3: of Tennessee. I agree that you're going to say to
[38:08] Speaker 3: my no, no, no, Parson, you go first, And I
[38:11] Speaker 3: got another question for Pere to go ahead.
[38:12] Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I agree with you.
[38:14] Speaker 17: I think what we're seeing is, uh, these white folks
[38:18] Speaker 17: have have deployed the nuclear option, and I think what
[38:21] Speaker 17: we're seeing also is the response to uh, the ever
[38:26] Speaker 17: changing landscape of America and the desperation that is coming
[38:31] Speaker 17: from these individuals to keep themselves in power.
[38:34] Speaker 8: And so it's almost like you you're putting.
[38:36] Speaker 17: A cat in the corner when you're trying to give
[38:38] Speaker 17: a cat a bath, and they're scratching and clawing, you know,
[38:41] Speaker 17: to uh, you know, get away from you.
[38:43] Speaker 8: And I think that is what we're seeing.
[38:45] Speaker 17: And just as they pulled the nuclear option, it is
[38:48] Speaker 17: important for us to pull the nuclear option as well.
[38:50] Speaker 17: And that's why today I mentioned and talked about succeeding
[38:54] Speaker 17: we need to start having that conversation about secession from
[38:59] Speaker 17: this date of Tennessee. We are in an abusive relationship
[39:02] Speaker 17: with the state of Tennessee when it comes to mephics Tennessee.
[39:05] Speaker 17: And so how long do we stay in that abusive
[39:08] Speaker 17: relationship before we get the hell out of it? And
[39:10] Speaker 17: I think that there should be some real conversation and
[39:15] Speaker 17: some real resources that are put forth so that we
[39:18] Speaker 17: can start having, you know, some type of strategy or
[39:23] Speaker 17: plan to get our ass out of this abusive relationship with.
[39:27] Speaker 3: These white representative peerson. You, of course, were challenging Congress
[39:30] Speaker 3: and Steve Cohen for that seat that they're in Memphis
[39:33] Speaker 3: now with this action here that wipes it out, are
[39:37] Speaker 3: you now recalibrating? Are you now looking at one of
[39:39] Speaker 3: those Shelby counties now split into three districts? Are you
[39:43] Speaker 3: now looking at running for one of those three?
[39:47] Speaker 16: So, first of all, we're definitely still running for Congress.
[39:50] Speaker 15: We are really grateful to the NAACP, Christ and Clark
[39:53] Speaker 15: and Derk Johnson there for the emergency losses that they filed,
[39:57] Speaker 15: but also am going to be filing a lawsuit pretty
[40:00] Speaker 15: soon here once the governor signs this paper as a plaintiff,
[40:04] Speaker 15: because this is unfair. We've spent millions of dollars into
[40:09] Speaker 15: this race to serve District nine in the way it
[40:12] Speaker 15: was constructed, and our constituents of seven hundred and fifty
[40:15] Speaker 15: thousand people had an anticipation of what was going to
[40:18] Speaker 15: be on their ballot and that was taken from them.
[40:20] Speaker 16: So we're going to fight tooth and nail for the
[40:25] Speaker 16: district to remain the way that it is.
[40:26] Speaker 15: And also I'm still running for Congress, and we're going
[40:29] Speaker 15: to make sure that the issues of economic opportunity, making
[40:32] Speaker 15: sure we expand access to healthcare, make sure that we
[40:35] Speaker 15: invest in our veterans, protect our environment in the gun
[40:38] Speaker 15: violence e pandemic become and still remain the top issues
[40:42] Speaker 15: across the state of Tennessee. Whether you're in a rural area,
[40:45] Speaker 15: whether you're in a suburban area, whether you're in a
[40:47] Speaker 15: more urban area.
[40:48] Speaker 16: Those are the things that people want.
[40:49] Speaker 15: They want a life that's more affordable, they want more
[40:51] Speaker 15: access to opportunity, and they're tied to billionaires stealing from
[40:55] Speaker 15: working class people.
[40:56] Speaker 3: Well, I also I think it's time for a black
[40:58] Speaker 3: football for black football players until University of Tennessee. Thanks
[41:02] Speaker 3: for no things. I mean, this is where everything is
[41:05] Speaker 3: on the table, and if it is business as usual
[41:09] Speaker 3: represented Pearson, these folks are going to continue to screw us.
[41:12] Speaker 3: These white lawmakers in Tennessee must feel the pain. They
[41:16] Speaker 3: must feel the economic pain, and the people who stand
[41:19] Speaker 3: with them must feel the economic pain as well. It
[41:22] Speaker 3: was doctor King who gave that sermon on April third,
[41:24] Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight, at Mason Temple in Memphis, talking about
[41:28] Speaker 3: the need to redistribute the pain having economic withdrawal, and
[41:35] Speaker 3: so it's abundantly what they're doing. They do not care.
[41:38] Speaker 3: They do that, and so they are going to do
[41:40] Speaker 3: whatever they want to do. And if we are responding
[41:44] Speaker 3: like it's business as usual, well then that's basically consent.
[41:48] Speaker 3: And this is also where I keep saying every week
[41:51] Speaker 3: in every city in Tennessee, there should be citizenship training
[41:55] Speaker 3: classes taking place. There should be mass voter mobilization taking place,
[42:00] Speaker 3: because the only way to stop these people is to
[42:02] Speaker 3: crush them at the ballot box. Represent a piercing you first.
[42:06] Speaker 16: Yeah, no, that's absolutely correct. This is not a business
[42:08] Speaker 16: as usual moment.
[42:09] Speaker 15: Our organization, mobilization, activation has to be real, and it
[42:12] Speaker 15: has to be succinct and has to be coordinated. We
[42:15] Speaker 15: saw this week really what that's supposed to look like
[42:17] Speaker 15: from Memphis, for all Tennessee, for all Organized Tennessee, the
[42:20] Speaker 15: Equity Alliance, all of the state legislators, turk votes. No,
[42:23] Speaker 15: I'm going to forget several, but we are working collaboratively
[42:27] Speaker 15: to determine how we continue to build power moving forward
[42:29] Speaker 15: on the C three side and on the C four side,
[42:32] Speaker 15: because this is not business as usual. This is the moment,
[42:34] Speaker 15: the inflection point in our democracy. And if we don't
[42:37] Speaker 15: build power, if we don't register voters, but also if
[42:40] Speaker 15: we don't turn voters out because we always register people,
[42:43] Speaker 15: but we have to make sure they actually get to
[42:45] Speaker 15: the polls. Then we are going to continue to see
[42:47] Speaker 15: our vote be taken for granted and not have the
[42:50] Speaker 15: effect that we needed to have at the state level,
[42:52] Speaker 15: at the local level in these mayor races. And I
[42:55] Speaker 15: do also agree that for we who are currently serving
[42:58] Speaker 15: in these positions, we can't go into session thinking the
[43:01] Speaker 15: same way we've thought in the past. I think there
[43:03] Speaker 15: has been way too much capitulation, way too much silence,
[43:06] Speaker 15: way too much you know, aiming for bipartisanship, when in effect,
[43:10] Speaker 15: what we have ended up doing is given away our
[43:12] Speaker 15: leverage to fight against some of these racist attacks in
[43:14] Speaker 15: our community and on our communities.
[43:17] Speaker 16: And so yeah, this is not business as usual.
[43:19] Speaker 15: We got to help also, our brothers, sisters and siblings
[43:21] Speaker 15: in Mississippi, Alabama, all the other places were we're likely
[43:24] Speaker 15: to see this happen. And we have one of our
[43:26] Speaker 15: senator sisters standing on her desk holding an entire sheet
[43:31] Speaker 15: that said, you know, no Jim Crow two point zero.
[43:33] Speaker 15: Every senator protesting in the front of the Senate, every
[43:37] Speaker 15: House member in the front of the House protesting like this.
[43:41] Speaker 16: Is the moment that is required.
[43:43] Speaker 15: Nobody can be on the sidelines. And if you're in
[43:45] Speaker 15: these positions, you need to say something and do something.
[43:47] Speaker 15: Every mayor should be at their state capital defending their seats.
[43:51] Speaker 15: Every county mayor, every city mayor. Like the silence and
[43:55] Speaker 15: the press releases like that's over with, And the congressman
[43:59] Speaker 15: who's distre going to be impacted should also be protesting
[44:03] Speaker 15: when these folks are trying to take these seats away.
[44:05] Speaker 16: Not just coming to the committee here is you need
[44:06] Speaker 16: to be at the protest.
[44:07] Speaker 15: You need to be at the rally defending and fighting
[44:10] Speaker 15: for our democracy as people are fighting for you to
[44:12] Speaker 15: be able to serve, particularly black members of the congressional
[44:15] Speaker 15: Black haukus whose seats are being taken away. This is
[44:17] Speaker 15: not a time for praying and just hoping that things
[44:22] Speaker 15: are going to get better. You've got to be actively
[44:25] Speaker 15: engaged with an organization that is resisting the tyranny of
[44:28] Speaker 15: white supremacy in our.
[44:29] Speaker 3: Nation right now, Rebjid of Parkerson, you find comment.
[44:34] Speaker 17: Yeah, I want to make sure that everyone understands just
[44:37] Speaker 17: you know how ironic this is is that you know
[44:39] Speaker 17: Memphis is the biggest contributor to the state coffers when
[44:42] Speaker 17: it comes to tax dollars and tax resources, and to
[44:46] Speaker 17: see them us being abused basically by this Tennessee legislature
[44:53] Speaker 17: when we actually subsidize the majority, probably eighty percent of
[44:59] Speaker 17: their district in these rural areas because they're broke, they're poor.
[45:02] Speaker 17: And that's why I keep on coming back to this.
[45:04] Speaker 17: You know, if Memphis and Nashville were to leave the
[45:07] Speaker 17: state of Tennessee, it would probably be one of the
[45:10] Speaker 17: wealthiest Democratic states in the Union, and Tennessee would be
[45:15] Speaker 17: one of the poorest, probably poorer than West Virginia. And
[45:18] Speaker 17: so I'm saying this, you know, we should move in
[45:21] Speaker 17: that nuclear option. Also, you know, understanding our position in
[45:25] Speaker 17: the state and how much money we generate for this state,
[45:28] Speaker 17: and we should use that economic leverage to ensure that
[45:33] Speaker 17: we are treated properly. I agree with my colleague just Pierson.
[45:36] Speaker 17: You know that everybody should be involved, but we need
[45:39] Speaker 17: everybody in their gift in different places in the movement.
[45:44] Speaker 17: Everyone is not going to be on the line's protesting.
[45:46] Speaker 17: Some people will be strategizing, some people will be fundraising,
[45:50] Speaker 17: some people will be contributing funds, you know, and so
[45:53] Speaker 17: we need to utilize and leverage everyone in the capacity
[45:57] Speaker 17: that we are able to utilize them.
[45:59] Speaker 3: But it should be all hands on deck. Represent the Parkersan,
[46:02] Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Represent Justin Pearson, I appreciate it as well.
[46:04] Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Thank you. We're gonna be joining the
[46:13] Speaker 3: second my Representative Justin Jones roller video where he was
[46:16] Speaker 3: burning a Confederate flag. Uh, they were, they were in
[46:19] Speaker 3: the capitol, first of all, they were, they were in
[46:20] Speaker 3: the capitol day and this is what he did. He
[46:23] Speaker 3: had this, uh, this Confederate flag inside of the torch
[46:26] Speaker 3: it uh and uh, come on, pull audio up, guys,
[46:29] Speaker 3: thank you so right, but pull the audio. I'll talk
[46:35] Speaker 3: over it. So what you see right here? Uh, and
[46:38] Speaker 3: you see folks cheering, and you see, of course you
[46:39] Speaker 3: see these Tennessee State troopers.
[46:41] Speaker 2: Uh.
[46:42] Speaker 3: There also was an altercation between Represented Justin Pearson and
[46:45] Speaker 3: one of these Tennessee State troopers when uh, they would
[46:49] Speaker 3: be escorted out and words were changed. Do you'll have
[46:51] Speaker 3: that video if you all got the video Justin No,
[46:57] Speaker 3: the video Justin Pearson and the confrontation with this is
[47:00] Speaker 3: not not his speech, the confrontation with Tennessee State trooper.
[47:04] Speaker 3: Do you have that video? All right. So uh so again, folks,
[47:13] Speaker 3: you had protests that were going on. This right here,
[47:17] Speaker 3: y'all is some of the video right here. Go to
[47:19] Speaker 3: my pad. Come on, he's wrong with you.
[47:39] Speaker 2: He's wrong with you.
[47:44] Speaker 3: A lot of a lot again at a lot of
[47:49] Speaker 3: anger that was going on there. And again, uh the
[47:52] Speaker 3: reaction all justified by what is taking place jong us
[47:56] Speaker 3: right now. Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones represented Jon Glad
[48:00] Speaker 3: to have you here again. Today is a day that
[48:03] Speaker 3: will live in infamy. This is the rise of the
[48:06] Speaker 3: Confederacy two point zero. And that's exactly what There was
[48:10] Speaker 3: a time, of course, during that period where you had
[48:13] Speaker 3: radical Republicans who were fighting Southern Dixiecrats who wanted to
[48:18] Speaker 3: keep black folks in slavery, and they were passing various bills.
[48:23] Speaker 3: Now what you have are Republicans in twenty twenty six
[48:26] Speaker 3: who are standing with those Southern Dixiecrats in the eighteen
[48:30] Speaker 3: hundreds to deprive African Americans of power. I posted this
[48:35] Speaker 3: on my social media. I mentioned it yesterday this year.
[48:38] Speaker 3: Is a poster from Nate Parker's The Birth of a
[48:40] Speaker 3: Nation where the American flag is a noose around his
[48:45] Speaker 3: neck and what I said in social media is very simple.
[48:47] Speaker 3: What these Republicans are doing. They want to choke black
[48:50] Speaker 3: political power, they want to suppress it, they want to
[48:52] Speaker 3: get rid of it. And that's exactly what is happening
[48:55] Speaker 3: right now in Tennessee, in Alabama, in Mississippi. It's already
[48:59] Speaker 3: had happen in Texas, it's happening in Florida. They probably
[49:04] Speaker 3: they're not going to do it right now, but they
[49:05] Speaker 3: probably were do in twenty twenty eight in South Carolina.
[49:09] Speaker 3: And this must the only response that we can give
[49:12] Speaker 3: is a massive voter mobilization to take these people out
[49:15] Speaker 3: at the ballot box.
[49:17] Speaker 8: I mean, that's exactly a Brother Rowland.
[49:19] Speaker 5: You know, I walked in today in twenty twenty six,
[49:23] Speaker 5: and I walked out of this capital in pre nineteen
[49:26] Speaker 5: sixty five. We are in a battle, in a war
[49:28] Speaker 5: against folks who want to take us backwards in history.
[49:31] Speaker 5: Today we saw the Capital Clan rally. You know that
[49:34] Speaker 5: they've taken off their white hoods, but yet they still
[49:36] Speaker 5: have the same agenda. The Grand Wizard Speare Cameron Sexton,
[49:38] Speaker 5: Governor Bill Lee, who want to bring us back to
[49:40] Speaker 5: a time where black folks had no political representation, bring
[49:43] Speaker 5: us back to a time where we had crosses burning
[49:45] Speaker 5: in their yard for simply trying to exercise our democratic rights.
[49:48] Speaker 5: And so this is racial tear. It's not about political
[49:51] Speaker 5: tip for tatus they want to make. It's about racial control,
[49:53] Speaker 5: racial subjugation. It's about saying that you black folks are
[49:56] Speaker 5: not worthy of being treated as equal members in our democracy.
[49:59] Speaker 6: And we saw what happens to day was that we
[50:00] Speaker 6: cannot just sit around and be quiet.
[50:02] Speaker 5: That history of judge is not by what we don't do,
[50:06] Speaker 5: but by how bold we act, by the moral.
[50:09] Speaker 6: Clarity we bring to this moment, by the boldness we
[50:11] Speaker 6: bring to this moment.
[50:11] Speaker 5: And so I burned that Confederate flag because we need
[50:13] Speaker 5: to burn down the system of Jim Crow and the
[50:16] Speaker 5: new confederacies that they're trying to bring about, not just
[50:17] Speaker 5: in Tennessee, but in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
[50:20] Speaker 8: They have a southern strategy.
[50:21] Speaker 5: We have to have our own southern to fetch strategy
[50:23] Speaker 5: to say that if they come for one of us,
[50:24] Speaker 5: they're coming for all of us, and we need to
[50:25] Speaker 5: disrupt business as usual.
[50:27] Speaker 8: We need to be bold, we need to be unapologetic.
[50:29] Speaker 5: We don't need to be here trying to make friends
[50:30] Speaker 5: with these white races, talking about, you know, we want
[50:32] Speaker 5: to have Kumbaya and be decorum. They didn't have the
[50:35] Speaker 5: korum today when they spit on the graves of our
[50:37] Speaker 5: martyrs Faanau, like Jimmy Lee Jackson, and our martyrs like
[50:41] Speaker 5: those three young man Andrew Cheney Goodman who were killed
[50:44] Speaker 5: during Freedom Summer.
[50:45] Speaker 8: They didn't have any decorum when they.
[50:46] Speaker 5: Were spitting on the graves of those who, in their
[50:48] Speaker 5: days in jail, sales and knights of bombs are trying
[50:50] Speaker 5: to renser to vote and spin on the Voting Rights Act,
[50:52] Speaker 5: the crown jewell of the civil rights movement. So why
[50:54] Speaker 5: would we have the quorum when this white supremacist rally
[50:56] Speaker 5: was telling all of us that we're basically the end
[50:58] Speaker 5: word in Tennessee and that we don't have any rights
[51:00] Speaker 5: that the white men has to respect.
[51:01] Speaker 6: That's what they told us today.
[51:03] Speaker 3: Yeah, and like I say, and let me be really,
[51:06] Speaker 3: I'll go ahead and say it. Some of your black
[51:10] Speaker 3: colleagues have been trashing you and representing the Pierson of
[51:15] Speaker 3: the last few years, saying that y'all were doing too much,
[51:17] Speaker 3: that y'all should be playing the goal on to get
[51:19] Speaker 3: along game. Wonder what those same black folks in intensi
[51:22] Speaker 3: legilature are saying right now after what happened today.
[51:26] Speaker 5: I mean, it's interesting that people played political games with
[51:28] Speaker 5: folks who looked them in their face today and said
[51:31] Speaker 5: you don't deserve representation. You know, these same folks who
[51:33] Speaker 5: they call friend came to the capital today and took
[51:35] Speaker 5: away the voice of the only black majority district in
[51:38] Speaker 5: the state. And so now we must recognize with moral
[51:41] Speaker 5: clarity that we must not confuse proximity to power, getting
[51:44] Speaker 5: invited to the governor's house, getting invited to go play
[51:46] Speaker 5: golf with these Republicans with actually building power for our communities.
[51:49] Speaker 8: You know, even with the.
[51:50] Speaker 5: Strategy that we saw in the special session, there was
[51:52] Speaker 5: some timidity. But I think what we must lean into
[51:55] Speaker 5: is we must lean into the reality that we are
[51:57] Speaker 5: in a battle that our children gonna look at how
[52:00] Speaker 5: we fight in this moment, and we have to fight.
[52:02] Speaker 5: You know, I think so many people are going to
[52:06] Speaker 5: wake up one day and say, how do we end
[52:08] Speaker 5: up in a system? You know, it's not new for us.
[52:10] Speaker 5: Between the end of eighteen hundreds and the nineteen sixties,
[52:13] Speaker 5: there were no black representatives in the South after we
[52:16] Speaker 5: had you know, reconstruction. There was a time where they
[52:19] Speaker 5: all were eliminated, and we will get back to that
[52:21] Speaker 5: time if we don't fight right now.
[52:22] Speaker 6: That is not an alarmists mentality.
[52:23] Speaker 5: That is the realistic trajectory of where we're headed in
[52:26] Speaker 5: America right now, that we will not have multi racial
[52:28] Speaker 5: democracy in the South.
[52:29] Speaker 8: But they are trying to build a confederacy.
[52:30] Speaker 5: And I burned that flag because we beat these fools before,
[52:33] Speaker 5: we beat these these these you know, vile racists before,
[52:36] Speaker 5: and we must fight them now with everything we have.
[52:39] Speaker 5: And it's going to be in this capital building, but
[52:40] Speaker 5: now it's also going to be in the streets. It's
[52:41] Speaker 5: going to be going across the South because what they're
[52:43] Speaker 5: counting on is the fact that Tennessee is the lowest
[52:46] Speaker 5: state for voter turnout.
[52:47] Speaker 8: So that's what they're hoping.
[52:48] Speaker 5: And I hope that just like after the dread Scott decision,
[52:50] Speaker 5: Frederick Douglas had, let that decision not you know, depress us,
[52:53] Speaker 5: but let it inflame our resistance in rebellion. Let it
[52:55] Speaker 5: embolden us to fight even harder and with more you know,
[52:59] Speaker 5: vitality against the sin that is slavery. In this nation,
[53:04] Speaker 5: and so I hope that people feel that fire, because
[53:06] Speaker 5: there's only two ways that change comes about Roland. Either
[53:08] Speaker 5: people see the light or they feel the fire. And
[53:10] Speaker 5: they did not see the light today. So it's time
[53:12] Speaker 5: for them to feel the fire of our movement and
[53:14] Speaker 5: of our power. And we need to burn down this
[53:16] Speaker 5: new confederacy and build something new that is rooted in
[53:18] Speaker 5: human rights and human dignity and multi racial democracy.
[53:22] Speaker 3: There's a lot to work to do, and a bomb
[53:24] Speaker 3: line is I've said, at point blank, this is a war.
[53:27] Speaker 3: They have declared war, and we must be we must
[53:31] Speaker 3: respond accordingly to this real quick. If I can get
[53:37] Speaker 3: quick questions from my panel, I've got my next guest
[53:40] Speaker 3: who is waiting. I need quick questions for my panel.
[53:43] Speaker 3: Cameron go.
[53:45] Speaker 8: Yes, representative in Tennessee. What are our efforts and what
[53:50] Speaker 8: are the most immediate efforts.
[53:52] Speaker 13: That you want to make sure that all folks know,
[53:55] Speaker 13: not just black folks, everybody around the country. If we're
[53:57] Speaker 13: not in Tennessee, how we can be supportive of this movement.
[54:01] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[54:02] Speaker 5: I think the first thing that we must tell the
[54:04] Speaker 5: nation is that and you know at this moment is
[54:06] Speaker 5: it is crystal clear that the South is the front
[54:08] Speaker 5: line of our democracy, and so we need to invest here.
[54:10] Speaker 5: You know, so many people are like, why don't you
[54:12] Speaker 5: all just leave the South? Do they not realize that
[54:14] Speaker 5: the majority of black folks in this nation live in
[54:15] Speaker 5: the South, and that we can build political power here
[54:18] Speaker 5: if there's investment from these national orgs, not just you know,
[54:20] Speaker 5: once every blue moon, but if there's consistent infrastructure building.
[54:23] Speaker 6: And so you know, in Tennessee we have the lowest
[54:25] Speaker 6: voter turnout.
[54:26] Speaker 5: One in five Black tennessee is cannot vote because the
[54:27] Speaker 5: FELA needed this enfranchisement. There are tactics that we must
[54:30] Speaker 5: do to expand the franchise. These new maps are counting
[54:33] Speaker 5: on people not turning out. They're counting on you know,
[54:36] Speaker 5: this depressingly low voter turnout. So how do we how
[54:38] Speaker 5: do we beat them at their own game and combat
[54:41] Speaker 5: that by having the massive, you know, the most massive
[54:44] Speaker 5: voter registration, mobilization and empowerment drive that we've seen since
[54:48] Speaker 5: nineteen sixty four with Freedom Summer. We need to have
[54:50] Speaker 5: a freedom Summer here in Tennessee. And so that, you know,
[54:52] Speaker 5: we need support, we need resources here. You know, we're
[54:55] Speaker 5: not a swing state quote unquote, but we need to
[54:58] Speaker 5: show them that we're going to be a state that
[54:59] Speaker 5: will swing back on you. If you kick us when
[55:01] Speaker 5: we're down, we will hit back, and we will fight
[55:03] Speaker 5: back with everything we have.
[55:04] Speaker 6: And that's what we have to do in this moment.
[55:05] Speaker 3: Greg thank you, Roland, thank you.
[55:09] Speaker 8: Represented Piers. And I'm sure you familiar with doctor du
[55:11] Speaker 8: Boyce's nineteen forty six speech at Columbia, South Carolina behold
[55:14] Speaker 8: the land where you said the future of our races
[55:17] Speaker 8: in the South. With that in mind, how long before
[55:20] Speaker 8: this overreach becomes a dummy mander? In other words, if
[55:23] Speaker 8: we were to vote our numbers in Tennessee, would this
[55:26] Speaker 8: strategy backfire? Splitting mephis into three districts, splitting Nashville, my
[55:29] Speaker 8: hometown into four if we turned out in those jerrymander districts,
[55:34] Speaker 8: in your estimation, what would happen in terms of the
[55:37] Speaker 8: political contests in those jerrymandered districts if we voted our numbers?
[55:43] Speaker 5: You know, looking at the political leanings of these new districts,
[55:46] Speaker 5: I think the lowest political Republican district is a plus
[55:49] Speaker 5: twenty Republican district, and so they're counting on folks not
[55:52] Speaker 5: turning out.
[55:53] Speaker 6: They're counting on folks not using their power.
[55:54] Speaker 5: I think if we turned out in numbers that were unexpected,
[55:57] Speaker 5: like we saw in two thousand and eight, whe we
[55:58] Speaker 5: had a fifty one percent youth voter turned out, the
[56:00] Speaker 5: largest black voter turnout we've seen it in a generation.
[56:03] Speaker 5: I think it would send shock waves and that it would,
[56:05] Speaker 5: you know, counteract this attempt to have a power grab
[56:09] Speaker 5: and rig the maps.
[56:09] Speaker 8: I think we have to out.
[56:11] Speaker 5: Organize them, and I think that there is a way
[56:14] Speaker 5: to do that if we are strategic and work together.
[56:16] Speaker 5: But we must challenge this dividing Hanker strategy.
[56:18] Speaker 3: We must.
[56:19] Speaker 5: This is the time for us to come together as
[56:21] Speaker 5: a movement, to put pull our resources, to have folks
[56:23] Speaker 5: who have that legal strategy but also who have that
[56:25] Speaker 5: mobilization strategy here on the ground, and I think that
[56:28] Speaker 5: we can counteract it. I hope that we see this
[56:30] Speaker 5: not just in Tennessee though. We need a Southern solidarity
[56:32] Speaker 5: strategy standing. It was just on a phone call with
[56:34] Speaker 5: folks in Louisiana. We need to be connected with folks
[56:36] Speaker 5: in Alabama, and how do we coordinate amongst the South
[56:38] Speaker 5: and say that you have a Southern strategy but we
[56:40] Speaker 5: also have a Southern strategy, and ours is one that
[56:43] Speaker 5: is about multiracial democracy and about challenging the tear of
[56:46] Speaker 5: white supremacy. And so I think that's what we have
[56:48] Speaker 5: to look at doing, and it's going to be have
[56:50] Speaker 5: to be multi generational too. You know, we have amazing
[56:52] Speaker 5: elders who've been in this work. I was just you know,
[56:54] Speaker 5: been in touch with Mss Diane Nash, one of my elders.
[56:57] Speaker 5: But we need to have this intergenerational conversation about what
[57:00] Speaker 5: we do in this moment and how do we pull
[57:02] Speaker 5: together that wisdom with.
[57:04] Speaker 6: The urgency and the energy that some of these newer
[57:06] Speaker 6: groups are bringing in this moment.
[57:08] Speaker 3: Representing Justin Jones, I certainly appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
[57:12] Speaker 3: Thank you. All Right, folks, let's talk about what's happening
[57:15] Speaker 3: in California. They have any goodiatorial rais taking place. There
[57:18] Speaker 3: is a jungle primary, meaning the top two folks who
[57:22] Speaker 3: get the most votes go on to the general election.
[57:24] Speaker 3: That was a debate the other night, and one of
[57:27] Speaker 3: the leading candidates, a Republican is minute member was in
[57:32] Speaker 3: a minute member of the oath Keepers. Yeah, that came
[57:35] Speaker 3: up during the debate when He was challenged by former
[57:38] Speaker 3: LA Mary Antonio Vila Rigosa row it.
[57:41] Speaker 4: Sorry.
[57:41] Speaker 10: You know you're an oath keeper. We all know that,
[57:44] Speaker 10: and I'm very proud of it. Well, I'm very proud
[57:46] Speaker 10: of you. And guess what you're going to swear an
[57:48] Speaker 10: oath and you swore an oath. You should know what
[57:50] Speaker 10: you were swearing and very proud.
[57:52] Speaker 3: Of defending it.
[57:53] Speaker 18: Don't think an oath keeper is qualified to be god.
[57:57] Speaker 3: I don't think you know what an oath keeper.
[58:00] Speaker 8: Let me answer the question.
[58:03] Speaker 18: I said, if an undocumented person committed murder, they should
[58:08] Speaker 18: be held accountable, they should go to jail. And you
[58:12] Speaker 18: keep on saying that sanctuary prevents violent criminals.
[58:15] Speaker 8: From now, I didn't.
[58:16] Speaker 3: I said it prevents criminals. I said it prevents criminals.
[58:19] Speaker 3: Don't buy for fact.
[58:21] Speaker 18: As I said earlier, thousands have been turned over since
[58:25] Speaker 18: twenty nineteen.
[58:26] Speaker 3: Obviously not enough.
[58:27] Speaker 8: Steve Hilton, let me be clear.
[58:29] Speaker 18: You know, I know you're recently arrived to California, but
[58:33] Speaker 18: if you've read the Bay Area Institute the Youth Seemer
[58:36] Speaker 18: said study immigrants, if we took them all out, including
[58:40] Speaker 18: the undocumented, it would be a two hundred and seventy
[58:43] Speaker 18: four billion.
[58:44] Speaker 19: Dollar hit to uncle, just to follow up on what
[58:48] Speaker 19: you were just saying there, and you said you're a
[58:49] Speaker 19: proud oath Keeper.
[58:51] Speaker 20: Are you referring to.
[58:51] Speaker 10: The group I've sworn an oath three times to defend
[58:55] Speaker 10: my constitution. Yes, And everybody that wants to like again
[59:00] Speaker 10: lie and emotionally get all spun up about the Oathkeeper organization.
[59:05] Speaker 10: I just would before you do that, and I know
[59:07] Speaker 10: none of you have. I want you to go read
[59:09] Speaker 10: the mission statement of the Oathkeeper mission statement.
[59:12] Speaker 18: And they saw them on CNN attacking the capital.
[59:14] Speaker 10: And the ACLU. I saw a politician molesting kids. Does
[59:17] Speaker 10: that mean you molest kids? What exactly? Don't pull those
[59:21] Speaker 10: stupid statements out and expecting your outkeeper.
[59:25] Speaker 7: You have no reason there is not solified.
[59:27] Speaker 3: To be governor of California.
[59:29] Speaker 10: I am extremely proud of swearing an oath to defend
[59:32] Speaker 10: my constitution against politicians like this.
[59:35] Speaker 3: The olth Keepers. First of all, joining us right now
[59:37] Speaker 3: is Antonio Vla Ricosa, may of the oath Keepers, far
[59:42] Speaker 3: right wing extremist group anti government. So you got somebody
[59:46] Speaker 3: running for governor who is proud to be a part
[59:48] Speaker 3: of an anti government organization that's also racist.
[59:54] Speaker 4: The sheriff of Riverside County, who can't say that these
[1:00:00] Speaker 4: people attacked the capital.
[1:00:02] Speaker 21: They beat up cops, some died, And he's proud to
[1:00:08] Speaker 21: be an oathkeeper.
[1:00:12] Speaker 3: And not only that, the leader of the Old Keepers,
[1:00:15] Speaker 3: Stuart Rhodes, somebody who was convicted, who Trump partnered, he
[1:00:21] Speaker 3: was convicted of sedition. Is he saying that he's proud
[1:00:25] Speaker 3: to be associated with that person?
[1:00:29] Speaker 8: Clearly? Clearly, Roland.
[1:00:31] Speaker 4: Look, and by the way, let me just say something
[1:00:33] Speaker 4: for the House of Representative Member Justin Jones. I love
[1:00:39] Speaker 4: the young leadership, new generation of leadership. Everything he said
[1:00:46] Speaker 4: made a lot of sense to me. I hope that
[1:00:51] Speaker 4: people listen to him. I've said for a while now
[1:00:56] Speaker 4: I'm running for governor at a time when Donald Trump
[1:01:01] Speaker 4: represents the biggest threat to our democracy.
[1:01:04] Speaker 8: These immigration raids.
[1:01:06] Speaker 4: Are a brutal example of that. We need to use
[1:01:11] Speaker 4: the ballot box and the courts, but we need to.
[1:01:14] Speaker 3: Build a movement.
[1:01:14] Speaker 21: And Justin was right about that.
[1:01:17] Speaker 4: I'm here today because there's a Civil Rights Act and
[1:01:19] Speaker 4: a voting Rights Act that gave me the opportunity to
[1:01:22] Speaker 4: break a couple of glass ceilings. Now, Roland, you've heard
[1:01:25] Speaker 4: me say that before. And we've got to protect our
[1:01:29] Speaker 4: voting rights. We got to protect our democracy against extremists.
[1:01:34] Speaker 4: And yes, Sheriff Bianco is an extremist. He represents the
[1:01:41] Speaker 4: worst of what we've seen in our body politic people
[1:01:46] Speaker 4: that think it's okay to attack the capital after they
[1:01:50] Speaker 4: lose an election, a party that can't say that Donald
[1:01:55] Speaker 4: Trump lost the twenty twenty election, and one that can't
[1:01:59] Speaker 4: quit anything he does, whether it's the war in Iran,
[1:02:04] Speaker 4: or these nasty, ugly raids, or the voting rights challenges
[1:02:10] Speaker 4: that are happening with Jerry Mandarin across the South and
[1:02:14] Speaker 4: the nation.
[1:02:16] Speaker 3: Let's talk about this race. Obviously, there are a number
[1:02:18] Speaker 3: of people involved. Former Congressman Eric Swallwell, he dropped out
[1:02:21] Speaker 3: of this race.
[1:02:22] Speaker 2: Uh.
[1:02:23] Speaker 3: And when we look at polling data, it is it
[1:02:27] Speaker 3: is all over the place. And what it is showing
[1:02:31] Speaker 3: is that you have, course, a lot of different polls
[1:02:34] Speaker 3: are showing either Steve Hilton Republican uh this uh, this
[1:02:40] Speaker 3: share of here. But you also have on the Democratic
[1:02:43] Speaker 3: side of pulling at the top, Butserah as well as
[1:02:47] Speaker 3: as well as Tom Steyer. Then of course you have
[1:02:51] Speaker 3: yourself running. You have former congress Woman Katie Porter. A
[1:02:54] Speaker 3: lot of people are saying, hey, more Democrats need to
[1:02:57] Speaker 3: drop out because this is could allow two Republicans to
[1:03:02] Speaker 3: be in the top spot, freezing Democrats out. What do
[1:03:05] Speaker 3: you say to that, Well, first of all, two or
[1:03:09] Speaker 3: three already have.
[1:03:11] Speaker 8: That's one two.
[1:03:14] Speaker 3: Look.
[1:03:15] Speaker 4: We saw in the last Senate race, a US Senate race,
[1:03:18] Speaker 4: it was one Republican and one Democrat. We saw that
[1:03:21] Speaker 4: in the last governor's race as well. There will be
[1:03:24] Speaker 4: a Republican in this race. They all vote.
[1:03:28] Speaker 21: Party, vote for their tribe.
[1:03:31] Speaker 4: That Republican looks like it's going to be Hilton, but
[1:03:35] Speaker 4: it could be either one, and there will be a
[1:03:37] Speaker 4: Democrat in this race. The fact is there's not going
[1:03:42] Speaker 4: to be two Republicans. The chance of that is the
[1:03:47] Speaker 4: experts is said, is somewhere around eight percent or so.
[1:03:51] Speaker 8: It's not likely.
[1:03:52] Speaker 4: There's actually more of a likelihood that it could be
[1:03:55] Speaker 4: two Democrats. But I do think it'll be a Republican
[1:03:57] Speaker 4: and a Democrat.
[1:03:59] Speaker 3: And I do know this.
[1:04:01] Speaker 21: Twenty six percent of the electric is undecided.
[1:04:05] Speaker 4: They're almost all Democrats, a good portion of them from
[1:04:09] Speaker 4: Los Angeles and you know, Latino and.
[1:04:12] Speaker 21: Of color, and so that's my base historically both Latino
[1:04:17] Speaker 21: and African American.
[1:04:19] Speaker 4: And so I've said, you know, we're going to see
[1:04:24] Speaker 4: this through at least until we have a better idea about.
[1:04:29] Speaker 21: Where that undecided vote was going.
[1:04:32] Speaker 3: The issue. The issue you have though, is that the
[1:04:34] Speaker 3: primary is June two. One survey USA Pole has you
[1:04:40] Speaker 3: at five percent. You've got a lot of ground to
[1:04:44] Speaker 3: make up. Again, polling is not voting. What what what
[1:04:48] Speaker 3: are you going to do? What is your campaign going
[1:04:50] Speaker 3: to do to pick up another ten fifteen percent to
[1:04:55] Speaker 3: put you in the top two positions.
[1:04:58] Speaker 21: Well, first of all, it's not just what the campaign's
[1:05:02] Speaker 21: going to do to put me in the position.
[1:05:05] Speaker 4: Look, I've said for some time now, this issue of
[1:05:09] Speaker 4: affordability is real, and it's particularly we're the fourth largest
[1:05:13] Speaker 4: economy in the world with the highest poverty rate, along
[1:05:17] Speaker 4: with Louisiana and the United States. The fact is that
[1:05:21] Speaker 4: that affordability issue is disproportionately hurting Latinos and African Americans
[1:05:28] Speaker 4: in this state. And what I've said is it's Sacramento
[1:05:31] Speaker 4: policies that got us here, just wrong headed policies that
[1:05:36] Speaker 4: had made it impossible to build homes, impossible to invest
[1:05:41] Speaker 4: in infrastructure, you know, gas prices the highest.
[1:05:45] Speaker 21: Country two dollars a gallon higher than the rest of
[1:05:48] Speaker 21: the country.
[1:05:50] Speaker 8: Effect of moving the party to a smarter place. You know,
[1:05:54] Speaker 8: we're twenty five.
[1:05:55] Speaker 4: Percent Republican, forty percent voted for the most right wing
[1:05:59] Speaker 4: guy that we've ever had in the White House, and
[1:06:02] Speaker 4: forty eight percent said they're open to a Republican last
[1:06:06] Speaker 4: November a Republican candidate for governor. So what I've said is,
[1:06:10] Speaker 4: we've got to get our house in order. We've got
[1:06:13] Speaker 4: to speak truth to power. And you know, my candidacy
[1:06:17] Speaker 4: has had that effect. But look, at some point we'll
[1:06:23] Speaker 4: make a decision. We're not making that decision today, but
[1:06:28] Speaker 4: I can. I'm the only one in this race that
[1:06:32] Speaker 4: came out of the Civil rights that understands that we've
[1:06:37] Speaker 4: got to win working families again. We're losing them in
[1:06:42] Speaker 4: big nuns and we can't just be a party of
[1:06:47] Speaker 4: affluent white people that have, you know, a college education.
[1:06:52] Speaker 7: What I said.
[1:06:54] Speaker 4: When Democrats were saying that the economy was doing well
[1:06:59] Speaker 4: and that inflations down, I said, you know, people don't
[1:07:03] Speaker 4: understand the difference between the cost of living, and so
[1:07:07] Speaker 4: that they know this, they can't afford rent.
[1:07:10] Speaker 21: They can't afford gas, and they can't buy home anymore.
[1:07:13] Speaker 4: And so I think we've got to speak to those issues.
[1:07:18] Speaker 4: I have and have been willing to challenge, even my friends.
[1:07:22] Speaker 3: All right, Tonio Vila Ragosa, glad to have you on
[1:07:25] Speaker 3: the show. I sutinly appreciate you joining us. Good luck
[1:07:28] Speaker 3: for the remain of this campaign.
[1:07:31] Speaker 4: Roland, It's always heard that I could be on the show.
[1:07:34] Speaker 4: I said I had something else, but I wanted to
[1:07:38] Speaker 4: be on the show.
[1:07:39] Speaker 3: I slutly appreciate it. Thanks a lot. We'll go to
[1:07:43] Speaker 3: my panel right now. Let me start with you, Zabora,
[1:07:45] Speaker 3: and that is this. Listen, this is a crowded race.
[1:07:48] Speaker 3: And when you talk about folks, folks who are running again,
[1:07:53] Speaker 3: you've got you know, two Republicans who are who are
[1:07:57] Speaker 3: at the top there Steve Hilton, but you've got Tom Steier,
[1:08:02] Speaker 3: You've got Villa oric Gosa, You've got Katie Porter, you've
[1:08:06] Speaker 3: got Xavier Bussera, you've got Tony Thurman, you've got Matt Mahon.
[1:08:11] Speaker 3: And so those Democrats are splitting up the Democrat vote.
[1:08:15] Speaker 3: And I mean, you would think in a bluestate like California,
[1:08:18] Speaker 3: you would have two Democrat cannons at the top. Something's
[1:08:22] Speaker 3: gonna have to give some more folks are gonna have
[1:08:24] Speaker 3: to drop.
[1:08:24] Speaker 22: Out of these different democratics. They're split the vote and
[1:08:32] Speaker 22: they're not thinking about the needs of the community, you know.
[1:08:36] Speaker 22: Listening to him, I'm like, Okay, you understand that affordability
[1:08:40] Speaker 22: is the issue, but you've had an opportunity to impact
[1:08:42] Speaker 22: those things.
[1:08:43] Speaker 8: What are we going to do.
[1:08:44] Speaker 22: How do you really get the message to the people
[1:08:46] Speaker 22: they really care about it. How do we get people
[1:08:48] Speaker 22: out of their homes and out to vote for the premieries?
[1:08:52] Speaker 22: That's super important. We can just keep looking at it
[1:08:54] Speaker 22: like we're going to focus on these things that we've
[1:08:57] Speaker 22: always done, and those things are not working today. Politics
[1:09:00] Speaker 22: are different today. People are young, people have families, people
[1:09:04] Speaker 22: are trying to survive, and you have to think about
[1:09:07] Speaker 22: what are their needs and how do we really meet
[1:09:09] Speaker 22: their needs and get them out from their homes to vote,
[1:09:12] Speaker 22: and if they're not educated, or if you're not coming
[1:09:14] Speaker 22: into the communities and really showing what's the real plan.
[1:09:18] Speaker 22: We've heard enough talk from the politicians. We have enough
[1:09:21] Speaker 22: of you doing the political thing and y'all can't even
[1:09:24] Speaker 22: agree as a party like who needs to drop out
[1:09:27] Speaker 22: and who should stay so that we can really make
[1:09:30] Speaker 22: this successful. It's like we can't be arrogant and think
[1:09:33] Speaker 22: just because this is a democratic place that you're gonna
[1:09:38] Speaker 22: win anyway. No, these are people with real needs. Affordability
[1:09:42] Speaker 22: is an issue. However, my everyday life, how I get
[1:09:46] Speaker 22: to work, how I take care of my family, those
[1:09:48] Speaker 22: things are important to me. And if your policies are
[1:09:51] Speaker 22: not matching that, I don't know where we're seeing. If
[1:09:54] Speaker 22: you have ten all these people running and they are
[1:09:58] Speaker 22: kind of going at each other instead of really coming
[1:10:00] Speaker 22: together and coming over with a plan that really impacts
[1:10:02] Speaker 22: the people in the community.
[1:10:04] Speaker 3: Greg there's a lot of Canas also running on the
[1:10:07] Speaker 3: Democratic side for governor of Georgia. But in California it's different.
[1:10:13] Speaker 3: It's a jungle primary. And yeah, I think over the
[1:10:16] Speaker 3: next couple of weeks it's gonna be some folks gonna
[1:10:18] Speaker 3: make a serious decision whether they continue. Bottom line is here.
[1:10:22] Speaker 3: If you're polling below ten percent, you have no shot
[1:10:25] Speaker 3: being in the top. It's gonna be difficult for Villa Rogosa.
[1:10:27] Speaker 3: But Mayhan, even Katie Porter, listen, she was leading this
[1:10:30] Speaker 3: race until that video of her yelling at a stafford
[1:10:33] Speaker 3: came out. She's still trying to rebound rebound from that,
[1:10:36] Speaker 3: and he got a lot of Democrats who are moving
[1:10:38] Speaker 3: towards Xavier Proserra, the former Secretary of Health and Human
[1:10:41] Speaker 3: Services under President Joe Biden.
[1:10:44] Speaker 8: Yes, sir, and I think Bessira is the Democrat a
[1:10:48] Speaker 8: front runner probably will be one of the two people.
[1:10:52] Speaker 8: We'll see if the billionaire, if the billionaire stire can
[1:10:56] Speaker 8: buy his way into the time to we know what
[1:11:00] Speaker 8: happens near the end. This is when we're seeing here
[1:11:03] Speaker 8: in the district of Columbia, with the flood of advertisements
[1:11:05] Speaker 8: for the mayor's race here in the district, the bombardment
[1:11:09] Speaker 8: will now come. The White Nationalist Party has its representative,
[1:11:14] Speaker 8: Hilton Fox News commentator, which is of course qualifies him
[1:11:18] Speaker 8: for the racists in California who will turn out. The
[1:11:21] Speaker 8: objective is to keep him out of the top two. Certainly,
[1:11:25] Speaker 8: Mayor Villa Garrosso would be a solid choice, as you say,
[1:11:30] Speaker 8: he unless something really untoward happens, He's not going to
[1:11:34] Speaker 8: be in the top two. As far as I've seen
[1:11:36] Speaker 8: in terms of the polls I've looked at, looks like
[1:11:40] Speaker 8: anybody's cracking a fifth of the people polled some eighteen
[1:11:44] Speaker 8: to twenty percent for front runners, although as you say,
[1:11:47] Speaker 8: we've seen this with Secretary Ofsera, he has now begin
[1:11:50] Speaker 8: to perhaps surge over twenty percent. Is for us highest
[1:11:53] Speaker 8: twenty four percent, so the pieces I've seen. But finally,
[1:11:57] Speaker 8: the implosion of the Katie Porter polling numbers speaks to
[1:12:02] Speaker 8: a very difficult thing that we have to wrestle with
[1:12:04] Speaker 8: in this country, and that is the vapid decision making
[1:12:09] Speaker 8: process for too many voters in this country. Young and Staffords, Sure,
[1:12:13] Speaker 8: that's an issue, but if affordability is an issue, how
[1:12:16] Speaker 8: in the hell does that become an issue that causes
[1:12:19] Speaker 8: your numbers to create unless you're living in an idiocracy.
[1:12:23] Speaker 3: We have to be serious.
[1:12:24] Speaker 8: Now, this is a theme that throughout this show, as
[1:12:26] Speaker 8: you've talked to representatives from Alabama and Tennessee. It's time
[1:12:30] Speaker 8: to be smart. That is a disturbing thing for us.
[1:12:33] Speaker 8: It's just send sock ways for But I'd be surprised
[1:12:35] Speaker 8: if Sarah does not emerge in the jungle primary. But
[1:12:39] Speaker 8: we've got to be careful because California is a wild card.
[1:12:42] Speaker 8: After all, they did put a damn movie actor in
[1:12:45] Speaker 8: as the governor. Of the state not too long ago,
[1:12:48] Speaker 8: and so anything I think can happen in the state, and.
[1:12:50] Speaker 3: Then you've got an an idiot reality, a failed reality,
[1:12:53] Speaker 3: start running from mayor and leading in some ways a
[1:12:56] Speaker 3: mayor of Los Angeles. It's chose to go, y'all crazy
[1:12:59] Speaker 3: to see is camera.
[1:13:01] Speaker 13: Yeah, we have to be careful because California is our
[1:13:05] Speaker 13: last stronghold, is our biggest stronghold. Is did the Democratic
[1:13:08] Speaker 13: Party just giving its size and opportunity, and especially as
[1:13:12] Speaker 13: what we just talked about in the previous segment of
[1:13:16] Speaker 13: the rapid reshaping and what I really think is the
[1:13:20] Speaker 13: illegal redistricting across this country by Republican legislature, that California
[1:13:27] Speaker 13: gives us an opportunity to do that and win some
[1:13:30] Speaker 13: of those seats back. But if we don't have a
[1:13:32] Speaker 13: Democratic governor, that's off the table, and then who knows
[1:13:37] Speaker 13: how far that puts us back. So I'm really hoping
[1:13:40] Speaker 13: that both not just the voters of Californias, but that
[1:13:43] Speaker 13: all of those folks that are running really look in
[1:13:46] Speaker 13: the mirror, really look at the polls, really look at
[1:13:48] Speaker 13: their opportunity, and do the right thing. And everybody claims
[1:13:53] Speaker 13: this is more about more bigger than themselves, and they're
[1:13:57] Speaker 13: doing this for not only for Californias, but for the entry.
[1:14:01] Speaker 13: Then some of those folks do need to drop out,
[1:14:03] Speaker 13: but it also need to be asked what is their
[1:14:05] Speaker 13: plan to utilize California and if they're going to be
[1:14:08] Speaker 13: able to redraw those maps in California.
[1:14:11] Speaker 3: Folks got to go to break we come back. We're
[1:14:14] Speaker 3: going to show you what Representative Justin Pearson had to
[1:14:17] Speaker 3: say today on the floor of the House in Tennessee.
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[1:19:22] Speaker 3: As I said earlier, shortly after Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
[1:19:25] Speaker 3: signed these new maps into law that wiped out the
[1:19:29] Speaker 3: majority of black congressional district there in Memphis, the Tennessee
[1:19:32] Speaker 3: Conference of the NAACP filed this lawsuit against the state
[1:19:37] Speaker 3: of Mississippi. They were seeking an emergency petition for declaratory
[1:19:40] Speaker 3: judgment and injunctive relief.
[1:19:42] Speaker 8: Uh.
[1:19:43] Speaker 3: And what you'll see right here, there's they're suing against
[1:19:46] Speaker 3: the Tennessee, the governor, the General Assembly as well regarding
[1:19:51] Speaker 3: this and said their attorney's Isaac Connor Uh. Today Ectra
[1:19:55] Speaker 3: table A Van Turner, Christian Clark, Mayosha Brayton, Anthony Ashen
[1:19:59] Speaker 3: Uh and in lays out exactly what the purpose of
[1:20:02] Speaker 3: the lawsuit is. Earlier today, Representative Justin Pearson, on we
[1:20:06] Speaker 3: talked to the last hour, gave a powerful speech on
[1:20:09] Speaker 3: the floor of the Tennessee Legislature. This is what he
[1:20:11] Speaker 3: had to say.
[1:20:17] Speaker 14: These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the
[1:20:21] Speaker 14: behest of the most powerful white supremacists in the United
[1:20:24] Speaker 14: States of America, Donald J.
[1:20:27] Speaker 8: Trump. Memphis is the most beautiful place on the planet.
[1:20:31] Speaker 14: It's the place that raised me, my brothers, my parents,
[1:20:35] Speaker 14: my grandmothers, and where my ancestors bones rest. And what
[1:20:39] Speaker 14: you are doing today is eviscerating the only black majority
[1:20:45] Speaker 14: congressional district in our state. Because we are majority black.
[1:20:51] Speaker 14: We are here because this Republican.
[1:20:53] Speaker 23: Party has to seek to steal elections and seats, because
[1:20:58] Speaker 23: the President and the party have refused to address the pain,
[1:21:02] Speaker 23: the suffering, and the struggling of everyday Tennesseans.
[1:21:07] Speaker 14: This is about attacking, targeting, and cracking District nine into
[1:21:12] Speaker 14: pieces for more political and racial dominance and white supremacy
[1:21:18] Speaker 14: in the state of Tennessee. And we need to realize
[1:21:21] Speaker 14: that the Calaid decision that you all are basing your
[1:21:24] Speaker 14: decisions off of that the Voting Rights Act, that that
[1:21:28] Speaker 14: Voting Rights.
[1:21:29] Speaker 8: Act was paid in blood. It was not just a
[1:21:34] Speaker 8: parchment of paper signed into law. It was paid in blood.
[1:21:38] Speaker 14: On the Edmund Pettis Bridge, paid in blood by Meger ever,
[1:21:43] Speaker 14: paid in blood by Fanny Leuhaimer.
[1:21:46] Speaker 3: Has been paid in blood year over year.
[1:21:48] Speaker 14: Time after time, assassination after assassination, lynching after lynching, so
[1:21:55] Speaker 14: that more people might be able to ascertain access to
[1:21:59] Speaker 14: this costitutional, democratic.
[1:22:01] Speaker 24: Republic experiment that is currently being gutted and seeking to
[1:22:07] Speaker 24: be gutted by this Chamber, by this House, this Senate,
[1:22:11] Speaker 24: in this state.
[1:22:13] Speaker 14: What is happening here is immoral and wrong. And I
[1:22:19] Speaker 14: was reading my Bible early this morning, asking God why
[1:22:26] Speaker 14: this is happening. Why again does it seem that white
[1:22:31] Speaker 14: supremacy is seeming to gain, Why again does it seem
[1:22:36] Speaker 14: like the pillars of pain that we have felt and
[1:22:39] Speaker 14: experienced for over four hundred years in this country continue
[1:22:43] Speaker 14: to rise again and whispered in the words of this
[1:22:48] Speaker 14: Bible and in the words of those ancestors that have
[1:22:52] Speaker 14: gone before us, as just these simple words, We're still here.
[1:22:58] Speaker 3: We are still here.
[1:23:00] Speaker 14: This nation, this state has legislated and legalized the worst
[1:23:05] Speaker 14: things in humanity, including our enslavement, and we are still
[1:23:11] Speaker 14: here right in this country. Where as one black woman said,
[1:23:14] Speaker 14: your clancestors enslaved us, denied us of our rights, called
[1:23:19] Speaker 14: us three fifths of a person, and yet we.
[1:23:22] Speaker 25: Are still here.
[1:23:23] Speaker 26: You put us on cotton plantations and tobacco plantations. You
[1:23:28] Speaker 26: denied our human rights and our right to exist as
[1:23:31] Speaker 26: children of God, and we are still here.
[1:23:35] Speaker 8: You destroyed Tulsa, You're killed and lynched black folks on
[1:23:40] Speaker 8: Popula Tree.
[1:23:40] Speaker 24: Shelby County, Tennessee, had the most lynchings of anywhere in
[1:23:44] Speaker 24: this state where you're taking this district, and we are
[1:23:47] Speaker 24: still here.
[1:23:49] Speaker 14: You've had three strikes, lulls, mass inconceration.
[1:23:52] Speaker 6: Denied us of who we.
[1:23:53] Speaker 3: Are, and we are still here.
[1:23:56] Speaker 25: And today you will take the only majority black disc
[1:24:00] Speaker 25: from us. But I want you to know, and I
[1:24:02] Speaker 25: want my nephew sons in the future to know, no
[1:24:05] Speaker 25: matter what you do, no.
[1:24:07] Speaker 24: Matter how much you try and break ups and make us.
[1:24:10] Speaker 14: Been and make us quit, We're still.
[1:24:21] Speaker 3: The boy. This is how shameful they are. In addition
[1:24:23] Speaker 3: to passing these maps, they've also removed a state requirement
[1:24:27] Speaker 3: for election commissioners to tell voters when polling places have
[1:24:32] Speaker 3: changed when new lines are redrawn.
[1:24:39] Speaker 8: You know that is very.
[1:24:41] Speaker 22: That's so powerful is is We're still here. We are
[1:24:47] Speaker 22: still the people that have to stand up. We are
[1:24:50] Speaker 22: still the people that are gonna have to really understand.
[1:24:55] Speaker 22: I think we can't keep sitting on our hands and
[1:24:58] Speaker 22: not doing nothing. That that young man says so many
[1:25:01] Speaker 22: powerful things. That is just a call to action to everybody.
[1:25:05] Speaker 6: To know that this is a war.
[1:25:08] Speaker 22: We can sit here and not understand that everything is
[1:25:12] Speaker 22: on the line, from being detained to just protesting to
[1:25:19] Speaker 22: showing how such a young person can show up and
[1:25:22] Speaker 22: showing how the history behind the city of Memphis and
[1:25:27] Speaker 22: all of the things that make them move they are
[1:25:30] Speaker 22: we have to stand up. We have to be able
[1:25:32] Speaker 22: to really come together and see that we got to
[1:25:36] Speaker 22: get out and we got to vote. We have to
[1:25:38] Speaker 22: show our power in these places where they think they
[1:25:41] Speaker 22: are being able.
[1:25:42] Speaker 8: To steal the black vote.
[1:25:44] Speaker 3: We got to.
[1:25:45] Speaker 22: Energize and motivate our voters to be organized, to be
[1:25:49] Speaker 22: at the community gatherings and to just show up to
[1:25:52] Speaker 22: not allow them to destroy the history and the work
[1:25:56] Speaker 22: that our ansistors have did for us so long.
[1:26:02] Speaker 3: What this is about right now, it is a war, Cameron,
[1:26:08] Speaker 3: And there's nothing else that we can see about this.
[1:26:11] Speaker 3: And I'm telling you right now, every blue state since
[1:26:14] Speaker 3: Tennessee has done this year must simply say, fine, we're
[1:26:18] Speaker 3: gonna wipe all Republican seats off the map. And that
[1:26:21] Speaker 3: means the Senate President in Maryland, Maryland need to get
[1:26:24] Speaker 3: off his ass and stop blocking what they should have
[1:26:27] Speaker 3: done there.
[1:26:31] Speaker 13: Yes, it's unfortunate that we are here, but we can't
[1:26:36] Speaker 13: play by a rule book that the other side literally.
[1:26:40] Speaker 8: Doesn't even acknowledge exists.
[1:26:43] Speaker 13: This isn't a time for us as people, for us
[1:26:46] Speaker 13: as leaders, for the media, for everyone to call to
[1:26:49] Speaker 13: task every single elected official if you voted for you,
[1:26:54] Speaker 13: and we're seeing what's happening all around the country and
[1:26:57] Speaker 13: understanding that our power as black folks, that our power
[1:27:01] Speaker 13: is minorities shut just our power as Americans is being
[1:27:05] Speaker 13: taken and stripped away. From us, and we voted a
[1:27:09] Speaker 13: Democrat into governor, we voted someone into those state legislature seats,
[1:27:14] Speaker 13: and they're not willing to fight back. We need to
[1:27:17] Speaker 13: understand that, hey, you're on the menu too this fall,
[1:27:21] Speaker 13: because this is something where we will look up and
[1:27:24] Speaker 13: try to play the nice role. We might have been
[1:27:27] Speaker 13: trying to play by an old set of rules.
[1:27:30] Speaker 8: And we will have no power.
[1:27:31] Speaker 13: It won't just be black folks, it'll be anybody who
[1:27:33] Speaker 13: just believes in general democracy will not have power.
[1:27:37] Speaker 8: So if you're not on their side, you're not going
[1:27:41] Speaker 8: to have any representations.
[1:27:42] Speaker 13: So this is an opportunity and a time where we
[1:27:45] Speaker 13: must demand the most from everyone we put into office.
[1:27:58] Speaker 3: This is the coward the center President, Bill Ferguson. And
[1:28:01] Speaker 3: there were also some other senators who were cowards there
[1:28:04] Speaker 3: as well. They refused to wipe out that seat you had.
[1:28:08] Speaker 3: Governor Wes Moore got thank you, can we please? Yeah,
[1:28:13] Speaker 3: Governor Wes Moore who said, hey, we draw the maps
[1:28:15] Speaker 3: and I'm sorry. Democrats are gonna have to get some
[1:28:17] Speaker 3: guts and be as ruthless as these damn Republicans are.
[1:28:24] Speaker 8: It's true, Bill Ferguson, I don't know a whole lot
[1:28:26] Speaker 8: about him. I know his top campaign donors. If you
[1:28:30] Speaker 8: look at Open Secrets, the top donor says NA to
[1:28:35] Speaker 8: the tune of about twenty thousand dollars. Right after that
[1:28:38] Speaker 8: is med Star. I don't know if this is the
[1:28:40] Speaker 8: people who own him in terms of his donor base.
[1:28:43] Speaker 8: I don't know that if he's a just a soft
[1:28:46] Speaker 8: white nationalist or because he's Baltimore City, of course, but
[1:28:50] Speaker 8: or it could very well be with that someone majority
[1:28:53] Speaker 8: he thinks that a complete suite would lead to a
[1:28:57] Speaker 8: dummy Mander, potential dummy Mander. I mean, it could be
[1:28:59] Speaker 8: some kind of nations of the three. But one thing
[1:29:01] Speaker 8: is for sure. The reason, as you say, is stupid.
[1:29:05] Speaker 8: What appears on its face as stupid. The idea that
[1:29:08] Speaker 8: you shift these precincts and don't tell people has in
[1:29:12] Speaker 8: fact been enshrined in current Supreme Court jurisprudence by the
[1:29:19] Speaker 8: white nationalist majority on the Supreme Court in the twenty
[1:29:22] Speaker 8: twenty one Brenovitch versus DNC case and Arizona, which, of course,
[1:29:25] Speaker 8: as you remember and talked about at the time, the
[1:29:28] Speaker 8: idea that if you show up at the wrong precinct,
[1:29:30] Speaker 8: they give you a provisional ballot and they don't have
[1:29:32] Speaker 8: to count it. This is what Alito, a purebred racist,
[1:29:37] Speaker 8: and his little racist crew, John Roberts and others. John Roberts,
[1:29:40] Speaker 8: of course, who has had a kind of almost erotic
[1:29:44] Speaker 8: desire to turn overturn the idea of one person, one
[1:29:48] Speaker 8: vote backed in the Brnovich case. So this is all
[1:29:50] Speaker 8: part of a strategic plan, and that leads me to
[1:29:53] Speaker 8: really the observation I want to make, as we heard
[1:29:54] Speaker 8: a very moving testimony there by Representative Pearson, that of
[1:30:00] Speaker 8: energy has to be supported, has to be surrounded by,
[1:30:05] Speaker 8: has to in fact be led by some very strategic
[1:30:10] Speaker 8: and necessary as Representative Jones said, coordinated effort. This is
[1:30:15] Speaker 8: a war, but one side not only has people, they
[1:30:19] Speaker 8: have a military intelligence division, they have a coordinated effort.
[1:30:23] Speaker 8: The other side has feeling emotion, some trying to attempt
[1:30:27] Speaker 8: to generate some data, but it's not coordinated. So that
[1:30:30] Speaker 8: Britavish decision from twenty twenty one. Absolutely if you don't
[1:30:34] Speaker 8: understand how ALEC works, if you don't understand how these
[1:30:36] Speaker 8: donor based billionaire think tanks work, then you don't know
[1:30:39] Speaker 8: that they are all coordinated. So what's going on in
[1:30:41] Speaker 8: Tennessee has already been vetted, gamed out, everything from the
[1:30:45] Speaker 8: federal government data. Isn't just probably twenty twenty five that
[1:30:48] Speaker 8: will a nasty, racist piece of work. Russell vote is
[1:30:50] Speaker 8: never stopped working. And they're all coordinated. You can't beat
[1:30:54] Speaker 8: them with an appeal to emotion and a speech. It's
[1:30:57] Speaker 8: necessary to generate enthusiasm. And but we need the NAACP,
[1:31:02] Speaker 8: we need Black Futures Lab, we need everybody to coordinate efforts,
[1:31:06] Speaker 8: and then we need them to come to the Black
[1:31:09] Speaker 8: Star Network and help people understand in translatable action how
[1:31:14] Speaker 8: this coordinated effort must now translate into action. Otherwise those
[1:31:18] Speaker 8: speeches get us amped, and then we go and turn
[1:31:21] Speaker 8: on the game to see whether Victor woman Yama can
[1:31:23] Speaker 8: win his first chip. We got to stop that. But
[1:31:26] Speaker 8: it's going to require us getting our coordinated intelligence game
[1:31:29] Speaker 8: together in this war, because appeals to emotion leave us
[1:31:32] Speaker 8: exhausted at.
[1:31:33] Speaker 3: The end of the day.
[1:31:34] Speaker 8: And while they're important, they are not sufficient when you
[1:31:37] Speaker 8: don't have a plane and greg.
[1:31:39] Speaker 3: Then we've got this idiot Chief Justice John Roberts who
[1:31:43] Speaker 3: does an interview saying that Supreme Court is not political,
[1:31:47] Speaker 3: and he said Supreme Court Justices are not political actors.
[1:31:53] Speaker 3: I think at a very basic level, people think we're
[1:31:55] Speaker 3: making policy decisions. We're saying we think this is how
[1:31:58] Speaker 3: things should be as opposed to with the law pro
[1:32:00] Speaker 3: I think they view us as purely political actors, which
[1:32:03] Speaker 3: I don't think is an accurate understanding of what we do.
[1:32:05] Speaker 3: He's full of shit. They absolutely are political actors. Just
[1:32:09] Speaker 3: last week Clarence Thomas talked complained about in progressives, Samuel
[1:32:16] Speaker 3: Alito was flying flags linked to January sixth. Folks, you
[1:32:20] Speaker 3: damn right. They are political actors. And Roberts from when
[1:32:23] Speaker 3: he was working in the DJ he wanted to destroy
[1:32:26] Speaker 3: the Voting Rights Act and he now has gotten his wish.
[1:32:30] Speaker 3: Chief Justice John Roberts has shut the fuck up.
[1:32:35] Speaker 2: Broll.
[1:32:35] Speaker 8: Let me say this very quickly. I like it, and
[1:32:38] Speaker 8: I tell you why. These are not men. These are cowards,
[1:32:43] Speaker 8: Sam Alito, as you said that upside down distressed flag flying,
[1:32:48] Speaker 8: and when pressed about it, this piece of a man
[1:32:51] Speaker 8: took both hands, grabbed his racist wife by the collar,
[1:32:56] Speaker 8: and threw her under the bus.
[1:32:58] Speaker 16: These are not men.
[1:33:00] Speaker 8: Roberts cannot be us, says a couple of new books out,
[1:33:03] Speaker 8: actually one of them on Sam Malito is called revenge
[1:33:05] Speaker 8: for the Sixties. They've traced sam Alito to the time
[1:33:09] Speaker 8: he was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He had a
[1:33:11] Speaker 8: racist since he was a little boy. But when pressed,
[1:33:14] Speaker 8: as we saw this week, with the order expediting what
[1:33:17] Speaker 8: is usually a month long process of returning a case
[1:33:21] Speaker 8: to the lower courts, they accelerated this week and katanji
[1:33:24] Speaker 8: on Yaka Brown Jackson came for him in her objections
[1:33:29] Speaker 8: and he snapped back at her. You see what happens
[1:33:31] Speaker 8: when you call a racist out is they lose the
[1:33:34] Speaker 8: veneer and they drop down to their reality. I want
[1:33:38] Speaker 8: John Roberts to keep keep doing that, and here's our response.
[1:33:40] Speaker 8: It has to be the response that you just gave,
[1:33:42] Speaker 8: mister Roberts. Sir, Chief Justice Roberts, you are a purebred
[1:33:45] Speaker 8: liar and you're a piece of a man because you
[1:33:48] Speaker 8: can't say with your full chest the desire of your
[1:33:50] Speaker 8: whole heart, since you were helping your mentor Justice Renquist,
[1:33:56] Speaker 8: got harassed voters in Arizona, since you ran down there
[1:33:59] Speaker 8: to Florida during Bush versus Gore as a council to
[1:34:02] Speaker 8: steal that state and give your Lord and Master George W.
[1:34:05] Speaker 8: Bush the presidency, and in return he gave you the
[1:34:08] Speaker 8: Chief Justice. You are a piece of a man. And
[1:34:13] Speaker 8: so when you continue to talk that way, call the
[1:34:15] Speaker 8: thing a thing, they drop all the pretenses. I love
[1:34:18] Speaker 8: when John Roberts does that because he's he's a little
[1:34:21] Speaker 8: nervous now because they've caught the car. And as we said,
[1:34:24] Speaker 8: listen man, when with Representative Parkinson says secession, does that
[1:34:29] Speaker 8: sound familiar? That almost sounds like South Carolina in the
[1:34:32] Speaker 8: eighteen sixties. There is going to be a civil war
[1:34:35] Speaker 8: in this country, except we don't have It doesn't have
[1:34:38] Speaker 8: to be a shooting war. What if you said, Roland,
[1:34:40] Speaker 8: if we voughte our numbers, we went and in those
[1:34:42] Speaker 8: moments when somebody says something like that, we say, excuse me, sir,
[1:34:45] Speaker 8: could you say it with your full chest? Otherwise I'm
[1:34:47] Speaker 8: going to say, not only you're a liar, you're a
[1:34:49] Speaker 8: piece of a man. Let's just continue keep talking like that.
[1:34:52] Speaker 3: I love it. See Cameron, this is why did people
[1:34:56] Speaker 3: to understand you got some Usnate races taking place this
[1:35:00] Speaker 3: year Maine, Iowa, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Alaska, Kentucky,
[1:35:12] Speaker 3: South Dakota and Democrats could take control of the Senate. Now.
[1:35:18] Speaker 3: They don't need fifty one, they need fifty three because
[1:35:22] Speaker 3: you know Fetterman is going to support Republicans. And here's
[1:35:25] Speaker 3: my whole point. If Alito and Thomas do not retire
[1:35:28] Speaker 3: between now and the election, or now, when the new,
[1:35:32] Speaker 3: when the new, when the new between now and then
[1:35:34] Speaker 3: when the new sen this worn in. I'm telling you
[1:35:36] Speaker 3: right now, if anything happens to any Supreme Court justice,
[1:35:40] Speaker 3: Democrats should say, we ain't doing a damn thing until
[1:35:43] Speaker 3: the next election. They should they should say, that's what
[1:35:47] Speaker 3: y'all did with McConnell when Obama uh picked Merrick Garland.
[1:35:51] Speaker 3: We're gonna do the same thing. So to all the
[1:35:53] Speaker 3: folks who are voting, this is why you got to
[1:35:56] Speaker 3: have a mass turnout, because if you can the Senate
[1:36:00] Speaker 3: from the Republicans, that means they cannot appoint any more
[1:36:05] Speaker 3: Supreme Court justices unless Democrats approve, exactly.
[1:36:10] Speaker 13: And the other thing that was there is how they
[1:36:13] Speaker 13: rammed How they rammed that last one right before Biden
[1:36:17] Speaker 13: took office, even after the knowing that Trump had already
[1:36:21] Speaker 13: lost the election. So again this goes back to them.
[1:36:24] Speaker 13: They're not playing by any rule book that we seem
[1:36:28] Speaker 13: to still be beholden to. I do understand the the
[1:36:31] Speaker 13: the ideas that this should not be a full race
[1:36:36] Speaker 13: to the bottom. But unfortunately, when Michelle Obama said they
[1:36:40] Speaker 13: go high, when they go low, we should go high,
[1:36:42] Speaker 13: we are going to have to go lower.
[1:36:44] Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no no no no no
[1:36:45] Speaker 3: no no no, no, no, no, no no. This is
[1:36:48] Speaker 3: not this no no, no camera. This is not a
[1:36:51] Speaker 3: race to the bottom. This is a race to two eighteen.
[1:36:55] Speaker 3: It is not a race to the bottom. This is
[1:36:57] Speaker 3: about power. This may how do you get to too
[1:37:01] Speaker 3: eighteen and however you need to get to too eighteen.
[1:37:04] Speaker 3: You get to too eighteen. So we gotta stop saying that,
[1:37:09] Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is Jared mannering stuff again. Look
[1:37:12] Speaker 3: that ship has sailed. They have made it clear they
[1:37:17] Speaker 3: want to submit a Republican majority. They want as many
[1:37:21] Speaker 3: Republican House members as possible. This is about stopping them.
[1:37:28] Speaker 13: You're right, and I think the Senate is our best play.
[1:37:32] Speaker 13: I think the fact that they don't they think they're
[1:37:35] Speaker 13: just gonna win the Senate and we don't realize that.
[1:37:38] Speaker 13: We need to make sure we're educating voters and let
[1:37:41] Speaker 13: them know that no matter what's going on with this redistricting,
[1:37:44] Speaker 13: we still have the power to win these seats. We
[1:37:47] Speaker 13: need to be overly investing. And this is me speaking
[1:37:50] Speaker 13: to the donor class. This is me speaking to grassroos fundraisers.
[1:37:54] Speaker 13: This is me speaking to those like, Hey, if there's
[1:37:56] Speaker 13: no Senate election in your state, you need to know
[1:37:58] Speaker 13: how can I drive down Mississippi, Kentucky, South Dakota. Can
[1:38:02] Speaker 13: I get over to some of these North Carolina? Can
[1:38:04] Speaker 13: I get to these states in Georgia to ensure that
[1:38:07] Speaker 13: we are Can I get up to Maine?
[1:38:09] Speaker 3: Yep?
[1:38:09] Speaker 13: Can we need to get up there and even put
[1:38:12] Speaker 13: our hands and put and knock on these doors, make
[1:38:15] Speaker 13: sure people turn out and consistently make sure we're fully
[1:38:18] Speaker 13: registered in all of these various states, because you know,
[1:38:21] Speaker 13: what they're also trying to do is suppress our vote,
[1:38:23] Speaker 13: kick as many of us off the rolls as possible.
[1:38:26] Speaker 13: Anything they can do to live, steaton, shield, lie, steal
[1:38:30] Speaker 13: and cheat their way to these to hopefully win. But
[1:38:35] Speaker 13: to your point, yes, this is about two eighteen. This
[1:38:37] Speaker 13: is about getting the fifty three in the US Senate
[1:38:39] Speaker 13: the more.
[1:38:41] Speaker 22: Definitely, at this stage in the game, we have to
[1:38:45] Speaker 22: think about how these things are impacting our regular people.
[1:38:49] Speaker 8: We need to make sure that we are getting on
[1:38:53] Speaker 8: the ground.
[1:38:55] Speaker 22: We need to listen to our young democrats in these
[1:38:57] Speaker 22: communities that are already on the Too many times when
[1:39:01] Speaker 22: we are working at voting polls and trying to work
[1:39:04] Speaker 22: these elections, they're not listening to the people that are
[1:39:07] Speaker 22: in these communities. You can't keep doing it the way
[1:39:10] Speaker 22: you've did it of the past. You can't keep listening
[1:39:13] Speaker 22: to these individuals that are in democratic parties that are
[1:39:17] Speaker 22: really upholding white supremacy standards, just like the Revoveans.
[1:39:22] Speaker 8: We need to get our people in positions so that
[1:39:25] Speaker 8: we can have the votes. This is laf late stage.
[1:39:28] Speaker 22: Capitalism, and they are worried about the money like we
[1:39:32] Speaker 22: need to hit them where it hurts.
[1:39:34] Speaker 6: Make sure our work.
[1:39:36] Speaker 22: Economic power is being inforced, our voting power is being enforced,
[1:39:41] Speaker 22: and our voices.
[1:39:42] Speaker 3: Are not silent.
[1:39:42] Speaker 22: We can't just keep acting like that Supreme Court is
[1:39:47] Speaker 22: stacked against everyone's human rights.
[1:39:51] Speaker 8: It's political.
[1:39:52] Speaker 22: It's no way that you can't say it's not in
[1:39:54] Speaker 22: alignment with a political party. Everything about that Supreme Court
[1:39:58] Speaker 22: and the decisions that they're making, how they're impacting women's rights,
[1:40:03] Speaker 22: Black American rights, ye, immigrant rights, and our national security
[1:40:09] Speaker 22: Americans looking like a joke internationally. We gotta do something
[1:40:13] Speaker 22: we can't. We gotta hold these people accountable. And I
[1:40:17] Speaker 22: watched firsthand doing a Kamala Harris campaign being actively involved,
[1:40:24] Speaker 22: and they are not listening to people that are working
[1:40:27] Speaker 22: these elections during primaries on what to do.
[1:40:30] Speaker 6: You're not going into the communities.
[1:40:32] Speaker 8: That will vote.
[1:40:33] Speaker 22: You have millennials, we're in our forties, we are ready
[1:40:39] Speaker 22: to do something different. And half the people are the
[1:40:42] Speaker 22: people that would have just got on the bus and
[1:40:44] Speaker 22: stayed on the bus during the Rosa Parks era because
[1:40:47] Speaker 22: they don't they're too comfortable with their comfort.
[1:40:51] Speaker 3: Well, well it's real simple. This is no time for
[1:40:53] Speaker 3: anybody being comfortable. I gotta go to break, we come back.
[1:40:56] Speaker 3: We've been talking about the Georgia Supreme Court race, y'all.
[1:41:00] Speaker 3: The primary in Georgia is May nineteenth, But the Supreme
[1:41:03] Speaker 3: Court race, that's not the primary. That's for all the marbles.
[1:41:07] Speaker 3: We'll talk to one of the candidates running there next
[1:41:11] Speaker 3: right here on Rolling Martin Unfiltered on the Blackstar Network.
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[1:41:53] Speaker 3: A couple of days ago, Isaac Hayes, a third posted
[1:41:56] Speaker 3: this on social media. Talked about Georgia, said elgible Black
[1:42:01] Speaker 3: Georgia's did not vote twenty eighteen in the governor's race,
[1:42:05] Speaker 3: it was decided by fifty four thousand, seven hundred and
[1:42:08] Speaker 3: twenty three votes. In twenty twenty two, the governor's race
[1:42:11] Speaker 3: was decided by one hundred ninety one thousand, five hundred
[1:42:14] Speaker 3: and eighty one vote. That means anywhere from nine hundred
[1:42:17] Speaker 3: thousand to one point one million African Americans did not
[1:42:21] Speaker 3: vote in Georgia. Now why is that important? Because three
[1:42:27] Speaker 3: state Supreme Court seats are up for election on May nineteen.
[1:42:30] Speaker 3: Two of the races are contested. Earlier this week, I
[1:42:33] Speaker 3: talked to Miracle Ranking, former president of the Georgia Association
[1:42:37] Speaker 3: of Black Women Attorneys, who's running against sitting Justice Charlie Bethel.
[1:42:41] Speaker 3: And the other contested race, Former State Senator Jen Jurden
[1:42:45] Speaker 3: is jounning against incumbent Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren. Now, an
[1:42:49] Speaker 3: incumbent has not lost a race in one hundred years.
[1:42:53] Speaker 3: You may say why, Well, because Georgia has this weird
[1:42:57] Speaker 3: quirk that if a Supreme Court justice resigns, the election
[1:43:02] Speaker 3: is canceled. It's the dumbest thing ever heard of my life.
[1:43:07] Speaker 3: And so Jim joins us right now, Jen, glad to
[1:43:09] Speaker 3: have you here. I wanted to show that graphic right
[1:43:13] Speaker 3: there because I've been laying out this GOP war with
[1:43:18] Speaker 3: Black America. I've been talking about the targeting of black voters.
[1:43:22] Speaker 3: We see what's happening with congressional seats and they're going
[1:43:24] Speaker 3: to go for state Senate, state rep, county commissioner, all
[1:43:27] Speaker 3: the way down. And the reality is, look, you want
[1:43:32] Speaker 3: appeal to all voters, but if you if there's a
[1:43:34] Speaker 3: massive black turnout come May nineteenth. We saw with the
[1:43:38] Speaker 3: Public Service Commission where two Democrats one that is that
[1:43:41] Speaker 3: means that you and miracle y'all win.
[1:43:46] Speaker 27: Absolutely. And to be quite frank, we have seen that
[1:43:50] Speaker 27: it's been unprecedented to this point. I have to tell you,
[1:43:54] Speaker 27: each day I check the numbers, it's been thirty four
[1:43:56] Speaker 27: to thirty five percent black voter turnout. And Democrats as
[1:44:02] Speaker 27: a whole have been running about ten percent over Republican turnout.
[1:44:08] Speaker 27: And usually it's the opposite, so usually Democrats are about
[1:44:11] Speaker 27: forty five percent and then Republicans are about fifty five percent.
[1:44:15] Speaker 27: So right now we have just been crushing it. And
[1:44:18] Speaker 27: it is because a black voter turnout and people really
[1:44:22] Speaker 27: understanding what's at what's at stake in this election. And
[1:44:27] Speaker 27: I think obviously the Supreme Court has helped us unfortunately
[1:44:31] Speaker 27: by their decision in the Cala case last week and
[1:44:34] Speaker 27: when they basically just gutted the Voting Rights Act that
[1:44:37] Speaker 27: is going to impact every single voter in the state,
[1:44:42] Speaker 27: but more significantly, every black voter in the state.
[1:44:46] Speaker 3: And I want to stay right there because you said
[1:44:48] Speaker 3: the Supreme Court decision, and I have been yelling and
[1:44:51] Speaker 3: screaming for more than twenty years that people need to
[1:44:54] Speaker 3: understand that there are state supreme courts and the reality
[1:44:58] Speaker 3: is that state Supreme courts can also stop a lot
[1:45:01] Speaker 3: of this crazy stuff that is happening because they have
[1:45:04] Speaker 3: the final authority. The federal Supreme Court does not rule
[1:45:08] Speaker 3: on everything. There's a thing called states rights. And so
[1:45:12] Speaker 3: when you have a more progressive state supreme court, we
[1:45:15] Speaker 3: said this would happened in Wisconsin. It's now five to two.
[1:45:17] Speaker 3: Granted there is they're partisan, North Carolina, they're partisan. Georgia
[1:45:22] Speaker 3: non partisan. But the reality is it has been a
[1:45:25] Speaker 3: largely a conservative Supreme Court in Georgia. Issuing those rulings, y'all,
[1:45:31] Speaker 3: to win, you begin to change the balance of power
[1:45:34] Speaker 3: on the state Supreme court.
[1:45:37] Speaker 20: Absolutely so.
[1:45:38] Speaker 27: Look and in Wisconsin, you know, and I'll correct you,
[1:45:42] Speaker 27: it's actually a nonpartisan race, just like Georgia. And they
[1:45:46] Speaker 27: have it in the spring too.
[1:45:47] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[1:45:47] Speaker 3: Now, I remember, right, I meant to do this here.
[1:45:51] Speaker 3: I meant to say it was I meant to do
[1:45:54] Speaker 3: this here. It was nonpartisan, but it was clear where
[1:45:59] Speaker 3: the money will were appealing to in that particular state.
[1:46:02] Speaker 27: Go ahead, no, but but that's what we're trying to
[1:46:06] Speaker 27: do here too, to be quite frank, because for so
[1:46:09] Speaker 27: long people have not challenged the incumbents. They you know,
[1:46:14] Speaker 27: everybody's been like, oh, well, we're just going to act
[1:46:17] Speaker 27: like we're impartial, and look, we're so fair and don't
[1:46:20] Speaker 27: worry about it, but the issues are too important and
[1:46:24] Speaker 27: right now with the US Supreme Court basically gutting fundamental
[1:46:28] Speaker 27: rights left and right, and those decisions now coming back
[1:46:33] Speaker 27: down to the state supreme courts, and in particular in Georgia,
[1:46:36] Speaker 27: whether you're talking about the fundamental rights with respect to
[1:46:40] Speaker 27: do women have autonomy over their bodies, whether you're talking
[1:46:43] Speaker 27: about voting rights right and election challenges, all of that
[1:46:50] Speaker 27: is going to go up to the state Supreme Court.
[1:46:52] Speaker 27: And so you know, we used to run to the
[1:46:54] Speaker 27: federal courts to protect our rights, especially in the Southern states.
[1:46:59] Speaker 27: Right that was where we could go. We cannot go
[1:47:01] Speaker 27: there anymore. And so now it is so incredibly important
[1:47:06] Speaker 27: for people to understand that who sits on these state
[1:47:09] Speaker 27: supreme courts really are going to impact their everyday lives,
[1:47:13] Speaker 27: what this state looks like, and what rights that they're
[1:47:16] Speaker 27: actually going to be able to enjoy now in going forward.
[1:47:19] Speaker 3: A lot of folks when we talk about Georgia, they
[1:47:21] Speaker 3: spend so much time there in Atlanta. Totally understand Fulton County,
[1:47:27] Speaker 3: but how much time have you been spending in Albany
[1:47:31] Speaker 3: and Jonesboro, in Savannah in other parts because rural Georgia.
[1:47:35] Speaker 3: If you look at the numbers the way Republicans have
[1:47:38] Speaker 3: won in Georgia, they ran up huge majorities in rural
[1:47:43] Speaker 3: Georgia and all those little small counties that offset what
[1:47:47] Speaker 3: was happening in Fulton County, in Gwinnett County, in those places.
[1:47:51] Speaker 3: And so what has been your strategy as you have
[1:47:54] Speaker 3: been traveling around the state trying to get folk to vote.
[1:48:00] Speaker 27: I'm originally from South Georgia, I've lived in all Benny,
[1:48:04] Speaker 27: I've lived pretty much everywhere around the state, and in
[1:48:08] Speaker 27: terms of the areas of Georgia where they tend to
[1:48:12] Speaker 27: be a lot more Republican, my strategy has always been
[1:48:17] Speaker 27: to lose less in those places. So you go to
[1:48:20] Speaker 27: those communities, you talk to people, right, because that's what
[1:48:23] Speaker 27: we've been missing. If folks are just turning into Fox
[1:48:28] Speaker 27: News or whatever, they get a really skewed view of politics,
[1:48:36] Speaker 27: of people's positions of what's actually happening in the real world.
[1:48:41] Speaker 27: So a lot of times you go into these communities
[1:48:43] Speaker 27: that you know you're not going to win, but by God,
[1:48:46] Speaker 27: you can lose less, and that's what you do. You
[1:48:50] Speaker 27: add up all of that in terms of losing less.
[1:48:53] Speaker 27: And then you go into the communities that actually support you.
[1:48:56] Speaker 27: You talk to people, you let them know what your
[1:48:58] Speaker 27: values are and what you care about well, and then
[1:49:00] Speaker 27: you try to run the table there. And then you know,
[1:49:04] Speaker 27: when you're talking about a fifty to fifty state that
[1:49:06] Speaker 27: is so incredibly important, you can't leave anybody out of
[1:49:10] Speaker 27: the conversation. But you have to be realistic about, you know,
[1:49:14] Speaker 27: who shares your values, but also you have to be
[1:49:17] Speaker 27: realistic about the communities that you can go into and
[1:49:20] Speaker 27: maybe just pick a few people off IBus leave.
[1:49:23] Speaker 3: Supreme Court businesses rule on cases that come afore them.
[1:49:26] Speaker 3: So it's a little hard to sort of lay out
[1:49:29] Speaker 3: what a vision is, what's one getting elected? What are
[1:49:32] Speaker 3: you telling voters, especially black voters, why they should vote
[1:49:35] Speaker 3: for you for a Supreme Court?
[1:49:38] Speaker 27: So it is hard because we're not supposed to talk
[1:49:40] Speaker 27: about anything that would be construed as prejudging a case.
[1:49:46] Speaker 27: But what I'd like to do is I like to
[1:49:48] Speaker 27: point folks to my legal career. For twenty five years,
[1:49:51] Speaker 27: I've represented individuals. I've sued the state a number of
[1:49:55] Speaker 27: times and including the current governor, sue the Georgia Department
[1:49:59] Speaker 27: of Correction.
[1:50:01] Speaker 20: You know when the state.
[1:50:03] Speaker 27: When there's overreach and they hurt people, then they need
[1:50:06] Speaker 27: to be called on the carpet, right, And that's what
[1:50:08] Speaker 27: I've done in my career, and then as a state senator,
[1:50:11] Speaker 27: I've really you know, I've been in the fight for
[1:50:13] Speaker 27: a while, but you know, I try to point to
[1:50:18] Speaker 27: kind of past, but also to talk about what my
[1:50:21] Speaker 27: values are because I may not be able to tell
[1:50:23] Speaker 27: you how I'm going to rule on something, but I
[1:50:25] Speaker 27: can tell you that I believe that women have a
[1:50:29] Speaker 27: fundamental right to make decisions about their body. I have
[1:50:33] Speaker 27: a core belief in terms of voting rights and that
[1:50:36] Speaker 27: anyone who is legally able to cast a ballot should
[1:50:40] Speaker 27: be able to. And so when you talk about that
[1:50:43] Speaker 27: with folks and tell them what your personal beliefs are,
[1:50:46] Speaker 27: understanding that that's not about prejudging a case, then they
[1:50:50] Speaker 27: get a better sense of who you are and what
[1:50:53] Speaker 27: kind of justice you're going to be on the Supreme Court.
[1:50:56] Speaker 3: Absolutely, so early voting in is happening right now, May fifteenth.
[1:51:04] Speaker 27: That's right, it's going. And look, turnout's been incredible. Like
[1:51:08] Speaker 27: I said, I check it every day. We are we're
[1:51:11] Speaker 27: killing it every day.
[1:51:12] Speaker 20: But we have got to keep that up and we
[1:51:15] Speaker 20: have to you know, I was, I was.
[1:51:18] Speaker 27: Outside of UPS facility today greeting workers coming in, you know,
[1:51:23] Speaker 27: when they were going on shift and coming off shift,
[1:51:26] Speaker 27: and just trying to talk to everybody about just how
[1:51:29] Speaker 27: important this election is. And I had a few folks
[1:51:31] Speaker 27: tell me that, you know, I just don't vote, and
[1:51:34] Speaker 27: I'm like, you can't do that. It is so incredibly important,
[1:51:39] Speaker 27: especially when the margins, you know, they're going to be
[1:51:42] Speaker 27: so close that it is going to make a difference
[1:51:45] Speaker 27: in this election if people get out and actually vote.
[1:51:49] Speaker 3: Absolutely, our folks have Jim Jordan. Folks, this is how
[1:51:52] Speaker 3: you can reach her. A pullographic. Go please pull a
[1:51:55] Speaker 3: graphic up? Think you Nope? The graphic how to reach her?
[1:51:58] Speaker 3: The graphic, how to reach the graphic, how to reach
[1:52:02] Speaker 3: her is right there in your graphic box. No, that's
[1:52:06] Speaker 3: my iPad. Okay, all right, okay, thank you. That's how
[1:52:11] Speaker 3: you can reach your my God. All right, So Facebook, Instagram,
[1:52:16] Speaker 3: and for the website. Now come to my iPad. Now
[1:52:19] Speaker 3: this is her website, folks. Go to the website. Jen
[1:52:23] Speaker 3: at j e n for Georgia dot com. Folks, I'm
[1:52:26] Speaker 3: telling you, Supreme Court races are critically important, and I
[1:52:30] Speaker 3: need black folks. I do not want fifty to fifty
[1:52:33] Speaker 3: five sixty percent turnout. It needs to need seventy eighty ninety.
[1:52:36] Speaker 3: I keep saying, overwhelm the ballot box. That's what we
[1:52:40] Speaker 3: must do. Jenu, we appreciate it.
[1:52:41] Speaker 8: Thanks a lot, Thank you so much.
[1:52:44] Speaker 3: All right, good luck. Let's go back to my panel here.
[1:52:50] Speaker 3: I mean we cannot express enough. I'll start with you,
[1:52:53] Speaker 3: Greg that people have gotta understand. I mean, they gotta
[1:52:58] Speaker 3: understand Supreme court races. We just can't at lives, no
[1:53:03] Speaker 3: big deal. These are the folks who are the final
[1:53:06] Speaker 3: arbors of the law in the state. We are seeing
[1:53:09] Speaker 3: on federal level what happens when you get those type
[1:53:12] Speaker 3: of justices. Georgia Black folks in Georgia should be crashing
[1:53:17] Speaker 3: the polls.
[1:53:20] Speaker 8: Absolutely, And this is the beautiful thing about it. This
[1:53:24] Speaker 8: isn't a democracy. I wish we would stop saying that,
[1:53:27] Speaker 8: because I think when we say that we mean something different.
[1:53:31] Speaker 8: If you look at the history of the word democracy,
[1:53:33] Speaker 8: going our way back to the Greeks, you will find
[1:53:35] Speaker 8: that it's not as useful a term as people, I
[1:53:37] Speaker 8: think think it is. But what we're really talking about
[1:53:40] Speaker 8: is what you said earlier, Roland. We're talking about power.
[1:53:44] Speaker 8: How do we get to two eighteen, As you said,
[1:53:45] Speaker 8: when you talk about the federal legislature, and in the
[1:53:47] Speaker 8: case of the states, these state constitutions are the authority
[1:53:51] Speaker 8: that white nationally sees on when it's to their benefit,
[1:53:55] Speaker 8: and when it's not to their benefit, they switch to
[1:53:57] Speaker 8: the federal courts. And in Georgia is absolutely a test
[1:54:01] Speaker 8: case in this. We know that it was the Georgia
[1:54:02] Speaker 8: Supreme Court. I think it was a six' three ruling
[1:54:05] Speaker 8: that backed blocking the ability of the state to go
[1:54:09] Speaker 8: After Boso Donald John crump for his white nationalist attempt
[1:54:14] Speaker 8: to overthrow the results of the twenty twenty election In.
[1:54:18] Speaker 8: Georgia we know that this goes back and. FORTH i
[1:54:21] Speaker 8: bring this up for this. Reason we've seen That Eric
[1:54:23] Speaker 8: holder and The Democracy defenders, program part of The Redistricting,
[1:54:27] Speaker 8: commission has endorsed these candidates ranking In. Jordan we see
[1:54:31] Speaker 8: that those who are wont to enshrine or to reinforce
[1:54:34] Speaker 8: a woman's right to choose what do her body have
[1:54:36] Speaker 8: endorsed them as. Well but as you, said and this
[1:54:39] Speaker 8: is the, key as you, said it isn't a quirk
[1:54:43] Speaker 8: in The georgia state. Law it is an absolute white
[1:54:46] Speaker 8: nationalist fail safe to say that if a judge, resigns
[1:54:51] Speaker 8: then the election is canceled or. Suspended and guess what.
[1:54:54] Speaker 8: Happens then the seat does not go. Vacant the governor
[1:54:58] Speaker 8: gets to replace the. Person so what they've said is
[1:55:01] Speaker 8: if you negroes do show up and, vote we will
[1:55:05] Speaker 8: then resign and say that the governor can't report in a.
[1:55:10] Speaker 8: Placement we've seen. This Justice Keith blackwell announced In february
[1:55:14] Speaker 8: there was twenty twenty one that he would resign In,
[1:55:17] Speaker 8: november weeks before his term was due to. End he
[1:55:20] Speaker 8: was supposed to face two challengers in The may, primary
[1:55:23] Speaker 8: but when he announced his plans to step, down five
[1:55:26] Speaker 8: months after voters were set to weigh, in state officials
[1:55:30] Speaker 8: said the election should be postponed until twenty twenty. Two blackwell,
[1:55:34] Speaker 8: begged he begged the governor to repoint his, replacement and
[1:55:40] Speaker 8: when the, Governor, kemp wouldn't do It december twenty twenty,
[1:55:43] Speaker 8: Four blackwell killed. Itself see this is the high stakes
[1:55:47] Speaker 8: we're talking about right. Now so this is what it
[1:55:49] Speaker 8: comes down. To you gotta show up and. Vote if
[1:55:52] Speaker 8: they try that resign and appoint. Thing then you got
[1:55:56] Speaker 8: to trigger the third of the three branches of, government
[1:55:59] Speaker 8: got to get the lawyer's line. Up and by the,
[1:56:01] Speaker 8: way Both rankin And jordan have sued to keep sealed
[1:56:06] Speaker 8: an inquiry at The Judicial Qualifications committee In. Georgia it's
[1:56:10] Speaker 8: unclear why because the records are, sealed but we do
[1:56:13] Speaker 8: know that that quote Unquote Ethics Investigation committee in the
[1:56:16] Speaker 8: past has been up to some high jinks with candidates
[1:56:20] Speaker 8: that essentsibly they wouldn't like as white. Nationalists but you've
[1:56:23] Speaker 8: got to vote to trigger the other chicadury so that
[1:56:27] Speaker 8: the lawyers have to get off the. Bench and then
[1:56:29] Speaker 8: of course the, governor the governor Of, georgia we're coming for, you,
[1:56:33] Speaker 8: baby because, governors, senators all those state wide, offices as
[1:56:36] Speaker 8: we saw The Public Utilities, commission they are not. Jerrymandered
[1:56:39] Speaker 8: the governor might get off the. BENCH i really do
[1:56:41] Speaker 8: Think roland that what they're doing at this, juncture in this,
[1:56:44] Speaker 8: desperation they are pushing this to a point where people
[1:56:49] Speaker 8: will get out and. Vote if for another reason then
[1:56:51] Speaker 8: people generally don't like unless you're white. Nationalists they don't
[1:56:55] Speaker 8: like the question of being unfair and This Georgia Supreme
[1:56:58] Speaker 8: court election is, PIVOTAL i, think do you, KNOW i
[1:57:01] Speaker 8: think it's eight of nine on the current court are
[1:57:05] Speaker 8: selected by white nationalist voters or governor. Appointments so these
[1:57:08] Speaker 8: two seats won't flip, it but it get it closer
[1:57:10] Speaker 8: to being.
[1:57:11] Speaker 3: Flipped, Absolutely i'm gonna have that for. You the war go.
[1:57:16] Speaker 22: Ahead we know that The Supreme court is super important
[1:57:22] Speaker 22: when you look at disparities and how the judges may
[1:57:25] Speaker 22: not write the, laws but they decide how those laws.
[1:57:28] Speaker 6: Really affect real.
[1:57:29] Speaker 22: People if those disparities are, documented of ignoring them and
[1:57:35] Speaker 22: the judicial interpretation really like it don't make them, disappear
[1:57:40] Speaker 22: but it really preserves those. Things so we have to
[1:57:45] Speaker 22: make sure that we're getting out and.
[1:57:46] Speaker 8: Voting like people already.
[1:57:48] Speaker 22: Don't trust the criminal justice, system so we know that
[1:57:51] Speaker 22: black and brown individuals are getting convicted way. Higher so
[1:57:55] Speaker 22: by us not getting out and, vote we are really
[1:57:58] Speaker 22: making those disparities. Increase it's our responsibility to get out
[1:58:03] Speaker 22: vote for people that we can at least try, to
[1:58:06] Speaker 22: like you, said even that balance to where we can
[1:58:09] Speaker 22: bring it up and have more people on The Supreme
[1:58:12] Speaker 22: court that could represent decisions that really are beneficial to
[1:58:16] Speaker 22: us and that are reducing some of those. Disparities we
[1:58:19] Speaker 22: can change the laws without having the right people in,
[1:58:22] Speaker 22: place and we can't have the right people in place
[1:58:24] Speaker 22: without our people that.
[1:58:27] Speaker 8: Are, vote that are registered to.
[1:58:29] Speaker 6: Vote one point one million of you did not. Vote
[1:58:32] Speaker 6: you got to get out there and.
[1:58:33] Speaker 8: Vote you got to get out.
[1:58:34] Speaker 6: There and understand that these courts are being.
[1:58:36] Speaker 22: Sacked they're playing dirty, games using tricky, words tricky, themes
[1:58:42] Speaker 22: just to get the right people in place so that
[1:58:45] Speaker 22: your rights are study trampled, over study not being up
[1:58:50] Speaker 22: hell the way they should.
[1:58:51] Speaker 8: Be so we got to get out of.
[1:58:52] Speaker 22: Vote we got to educate, people and we got to
[1:58:54] Speaker 22: understand that These Supreme court. Justices we wouldn't be in
[1:58:58] Speaker 22: a position that we are in if we had More
[1:59:00] Speaker 22: Supreme court justices because people got out and voted in
[1:59:03] Speaker 22: the primiers.
[1:59:04] Speaker 3: And The greg's. Points, yes eight of the Non Supreme
[1:59:08] Speaker 3: court justices were appointed by A republican. Governor that's how
[1:59:13] Speaker 3: they've been able to control because they do not want. Elections. Cameron,
[1:59:20] Speaker 3: yeah this is also about.
[1:59:24] Speaker 13: For this, election especially In, georgia where there's going to
[1:59:27] Speaker 13: be top of the ticket governor's. Race there's an attorney
[1:59:30] Speaker 13: general's race To senate and so. Forth we can't let
[1:59:33] Speaker 13: people just, say, OH i only care about the, governor
[1:59:37] Speaker 13: maybe Us, senate but they need to be voting down.
[1:59:40] Speaker 13: Ballot and one thing you hear often when we're on the,
[1:59:45] Speaker 13: ground it's, like, oh it's no saying one difference to the.
[1:59:48] Speaker 13: Other we need to fight back against that. Ignorance we
[1:59:51] Speaker 13: need to fight back against. That Like i'm not here
[1:59:54] Speaker 13: to say The Democratic party is, perfect but there is
[1:59:56] Speaker 13: a clear differentiation between one party that is literally trying
[2:00:00] Speaker 13: to take us back To Jim crow and beyond one
[2:00:04] Speaker 13: party that is clearly trying to, disenfranchise one party that
[2:00:07] Speaker 13: is doing everything it can to kick people off the,
[2:00:10] Speaker 13: rolls and one party that at least is giving at
[2:00:14] Speaker 13: least giving some lip service and giving some focus to
[2:00:17] Speaker 13: try to at least represent us and represent people in
[2:00:20] Speaker 13: the right. Way SO i think we have a fight against,
[2:00:23] Speaker 13: us AND i love the fact that Again, roland we're
[2:00:27] Speaker 13: calling out we need high black voter, turnout.
[2:00:29] Speaker 8: Especially in a state Like.
[2:00:30] Speaker 13: Georgia definitely we need to juice those numbers In Metro,
[2:00:34] Speaker 13: atlanta but in the makings in The columbuses and The,
[2:00:37] Speaker 13: savannahs all.
[2:00:38] Speaker 8: Throughout black voters everywhere need to come.
[2:00:41] Speaker 13: Out and the biggest, thing also biggest thing also in
[2:00:44] Speaker 13: addition to knowing if you're knowing your status and really
[2:00:47] Speaker 13: checking to make sure you're still on the rolls and
[2:00:49] Speaker 13: make sure you're still. Registered we can't be intimidated by
[2:00:53] Speaker 13: THE ice and all the other tactics that we know
[2:00:56] Speaker 13: they're going to pull, out all the tricks they're going
[2:00:58] Speaker 13: to pull out to try to, Intimidate like this is
[2:01:00] Speaker 13: something that is going to look again to the sixties
[2:01:03] Speaker 13: and fifties and so. Forth they're going to try to
[2:01:06] Speaker 13: set up and intimidation tactics throughout the. Country so this
[2:01:12] Speaker 13: is something we're. Voting it's our last. Choice it's our last,
[2:01:19] Speaker 13: choice and we have to impress that upon every single,
[2:01:22] Speaker 13: person every single.
[2:01:24] Speaker 8: PERSON i don't care what the excuse.
[2:01:25] Speaker 3: Is, WELL i think it's nuts when somebody, says, OH
[2:01:30] Speaker 3: i don't vote because guess what politics is doing you.
[2:01:35] Speaker 3: Folks this news dropped. Yesterday Charlotte mayor Vy, lyles six
[2:01:41] Speaker 3: months after she won, reelection says she's going to resign In.
[2:01:45] Speaker 3: June she'll be resigning On june. Thirtieth she did not
[2:01:49] Speaker 3: give a, reason she's the city's second longest. Mayor she
[2:01:52] Speaker 3: won a fifth term In, november and not sure. Why
[2:01:58] Speaker 3: she's seventy three years. Old not sure if it's about.
[2:02:00] Speaker 3: Health according to this story, Here allows has only attended
[2:02:04] Speaker 3: two city council zoning meetings the last eighteen, months and
[2:02:07] Speaker 3: so some people have questioned what's going on. Again her
[2:02:11] Speaker 3: resignation will be effective On june, thirtieth and so Longtime
[2:02:15] Speaker 3: Charlotte mayer Longtime charlott mayor Of viylyiles resigning as mayor
[2:02:22] Speaker 3: and of course be effective On june. Thirtieth Tafa Blackstell,
[2:02:26] Speaker 3: Network Het Lazbertain noble.
[2:02:30] Speaker 19: And atlanta judge says The Justice department can keep election
[2:02:33] Speaker 19: ballots from the twenty twenty election that we're seized during
[2:02:36] Speaker 19: AN fbi search In. January wednesday's ruling represents a rare
[2:02:40] Speaker 19: victory For President Donald trump's, administration which is pursuing claims
[2:02:44] Speaker 19: a widespread voter fraud despite those claims being widely. Discredited
[2:02:49] Speaker 19: JUDGE Jp bully Rejected Fulton county's requests for the return
[2:02:54] Speaker 19: of the original copies of the ceased.
[2:02:55] Speaker 20: Materials as a result of this, ruling.
[2:02:58] Speaker 19: THE fbi will keep more than six hundred boxes of
[2:03:01] Speaker 19: twenty twenty, ballots while it investigates whether election records were
[2:03:05] Speaker 19: improperly retained or if residents Of Fulton, county which includes most.
[2:03:09] Speaker 20: Of, atlanta were denied a fair.
[2:03:11] Speaker 19: Election lawyers For Fulton county argued that THE fbi search
[2:03:15] Speaker 19: of the county's election hub was based on faulty and
[2:03:19] Speaker 19: discredited evidence in violated constitutional. Protections in Northeast, houston residents
[2:03:25] Speaker 19: say bulldozers are tearing through what they believe is the
[2:03:28] Speaker 19: final resting place of thirty to forty black, souls many
[2:03:32] Speaker 19: believed to be connected to formally enslave people who came From.
[2:03:36] Speaker 20: Virginia this, month.
[2:03:37] Speaker 19: Bulldozers have been clearing land in The Rosewood estates area
[2:03:42] Speaker 19: that's now The Glenwood manor, subdivision and some graves reportedly
[2:03:46] Speaker 19: included above ground, vaults and over the, years the trees
[2:03:49] Speaker 19: and heavy overgrowth covered parts of that.
[2:03:52] Speaker 20: Cemetery the land was later listed.
[2:03:54] Speaker 19: And marketed as vacant commercial, property move that advocates say
[2:04:00] Speaker 19: ignored the very reality that this was sacred. Ground historic
[2:04:04] Speaker 19: black cemeteries were often unrecorded or, ignored leading to the
[2:04:08] Speaker 19: development over the, sites and community activist groups such As
[2:04:12] Speaker 19: Project respect worked to restore and protect sites like. THIS
[2:04:17] Speaker 19: a new study reveals that ethnic studies courses can significantly
[2:04:22] Speaker 19: enhance student, success particularly for black And latino. Students published
[2:04:26] Speaker 19: in The American Educational Research, journal the research followed over
[2:04:30] Speaker 19: twenty four thousand students in The San Francisco Unified School
[2:04:34] Speaker 19: district from twenty eight to twenty twenty. Three it was
[2:04:37] Speaker 19: Titled Cultural relevant At, scale The effects of An Ethnic
[2:04:41] Speaker 19: Study's expansion On Academic outcomes And this study investigated the
[2:04:45] Speaker 19: effects of expanding ethnic studies courses throughout the district by examining,
[2:04:49] Speaker 19: grades course completion, rates and then also college. Readiness so
[2:04:54] Speaker 19: researchers discovered that students who enrolled in ethnic studies classes
[2:04:59] Speaker 19: achieved higher or less likely to fail courses and demonstrated
[2:05:03] Speaker 19: greater overall academic. Engagement, additionally there was a twenty seven
[2:05:08] Speaker 19: percent reduction in course failures and a fifteen percent increase
[2:05:12] Speaker 19: in the number of students meaning THE gpa requirement for
[2:05:15] Speaker 19: admission to The university Of california.
[2:05:17] Speaker 20: System the most.
[2:05:18] Speaker 19: Significant improvements were Among black And latino, students male students
[2:05:23] Speaker 19: and also.
[2:05:23] Speaker 20: Those who had previously faced academic.
[2:05:26] Speaker 19: Challenges well no black woman has ever held a majority
[2:05:31] Speaker 19: ownership stake in The Major League baseball, franchise but that
[2:05:34] Speaker 19: could soon change Because Kawanza, jones an, entrepreneur, philanthropists and,
[2:05:39] Speaker 19: singer is reportedly working to finalize a nearly four billion
[2:05:43] Speaker 19: dollar deal to purchase.
[2:05:45] Speaker 20: The San Diego.
[2:05:45] Speaker 19: Padres last, weekend the family of the Late padres Owner
[2:05:49] Speaker 19: Peter seddler announced that they had reached an agreement to
[2:05:53] Speaker 19: sell the team to an investor group led By jones
[2:05:55] Speaker 19: and her, Husband Jose, feliciano who was a co founder
[2:05:59] Speaker 19: of the prime equity firm Clear Lake. Capital if the
[2:06:03] Speaker 19: deal is, Approved jones would make history as the first
[2:06:06] Speaker 19: black woman to hold the majority ownership's take in THE
[2:06:08] Speaker 19: NLB mlb, franchise and, additionally her husband would be the
[2:06:13] Speaker 19: first majority owner Of Puerto rican descent for the. League
[2:06:17] Speaker 19: the deal still requires approval from Thirty Major League baseball
[2:06:21] Speaker 19: owners during the league's regularly scheduled meeting that will be In.
[2:06:26] Speaker 19: June it will also need to undergo review by The
[2:06:29] Speaker 19: security And Exchange commission and receive sign off from The
[2:06:33] Speaker 19: city Of San.
[2:06:33] Speaker 20: Diego we'll keep you posted.
[2:06:35] Speaker 19: Well The United states And iran appear to be moving
[2:06:39] Speaker 19: towards a short term agreement in the ongoing.
[2:06:42] Speaker 20: Conflict iranian officials have stated.
[2:06:45] Speaker 19: That they are considering a fourteen point proposal put forth
[2:06:48] Speaker 19: by THE us to end the. Fighting President Donald trump
[2:06:51] Speaker 19: has Warned irand of increased bombings if the deal is not,
[2:06:55] Speaker 19: reached and that includes the reopening of the Crucial strait
[2:06:58] Speaker 19: of her moves to national. Shipping as many are, aware
[2:07:02] Speaker 19: the two month conflict has led to the closure of
[2:07:05] Speaker 19: The strait Of, hormus a vital oil route affecting global,
[2:07:08] Speaker 19: markets and On, wednesday THE us military fired upon It
[2:07:11] Speaker 19: iranian oil tanker that was trying to breach The american.
[2:07:15] Speaker 20: Blockade of The iran's.
[2:07:17] Speaker 19: Ports, Well trump said on social media that the war
[2:07:20] Speaker 19: could soon end and that the oil and natural gas
[2:07:24] Speaker 19: shipments could, resume but still he emphasized that this is
[2:07:27] Speaker 19: contingent Upon iran accepting an, agreement and he did not
[2:07:31] Speaker 19: specify any details about that.
[2:07:33] Speaker 3: Agreement Roland all, right, folks if you want to catch
[2:07:38] Speaker 3: out The breakdown With Britain noble every, day Watch Noon
[2:07:40] Speaker 3: eastern right here in The Blackstar Network New eastern every
[2:07:43] Speaker 3: Day The breakdown With Britney. Noble let me thank us The,
[2:07:46] Speaker 3: Bora cameron And greg for being on today's. PANEL i
[2:07:49] Speaker 3: certainly appreciate. It thank you so very, much. Folks Tomorrow
[2:07:54] Speaker 3: i'll be broadcasting From, houston Where i'll be two Pm,
[2:07:58] Speaker 3: central three Pm. Eastern i'll be presenting four of my,
[2:08:02] Speaker 3: scholarships my annual scholarships At Jack Kids High, school my alma.
[2:08:05] Speaker 3: Mater uh and so to be for communications students and
[2:08:08] Speaker 3: to be for the non communication. Side to look forward
[2:08:12] Speaker 3: to being, There so be. There, then of COURSE i
[2:08:14] Speaker 3: have to go To satanville On. Saturday my niece has
[2:08:19] Speaker 3: graduated from The university Of Texas Law. School Uh SO
[2:08:22] Speaker 3: i will be, there y'all, Know and, YES i plan
[2:08:25] Speaker 3: on wearing a. MAROON i would be wearing something maroon
[2:08:29] Speaker 3: to the. Graduation SO i guarantee you that it's going to.
[2:08:32] Speaker 3: Happen Uh, so y'all know HOW i feel about SO
[2:08:35] Speaker 3: I austin was my first place WHERE i worked out of.
[2:08:38] Speaker 3: College uh and it was always great Because texas a
[2:08:40] Speaker 3: and then was kicking the longhorns ass and so it
[2:08:43] Speaker 3: was a joyous occasion for. Me Uh, so, yeah So
[2:08:47] Speaker 3: i'll Be i'll be there for her law school graduation On,
[2:08:51] Speaker 3: saturday all, right y'all be sure to do this. Here
[2:08:54] Speaker 3: support the work that Redue John I'll Brina Funk Fan. Club.
[2:08:58] Speaker 3: Listen we're out here doing the work talking about this,
[2:09:01] Speaker 3: war THE gop war On Black, america empowering, people educating,
[2:09:05] Speaker 3: people and, Listen i'm telling you right, now it ain't
[2:09:08] Speaker 3: even a. Conversation there's nobody else in black on media
[2:09:11] Speaker 3: doing we're. DOING i know a bunch of y'all was
[2:09:13] Speaker 3: sitting here posting clips Of Rachel, mattout who all of
[2:09:17] Speaker 3: a sudden folks talked about the impact on black, Folks
[2:09:20] Speaker 3: And i'm sitting there going Even Rachel mattout ain't doing
[2:09:23] Speaker 3: what we're doing with the number of guests that we
[2:09:25] Speaker 3: have talking about what's happening on the. Ground so this
[2:09:28] Speaker 3: is Why black on media. Batters this is why we
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