# Suspicious July 4 Death Of Black Teen. Black Students Strip Searched. Trump Blocks Bias Cases

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 7 Jul 2026, 2 h 06 min.

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7.6.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Teen's Shocking July 4 Death. Black Families Sue Over Strip Searches. Trump Blocks Bias Cases _ For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (724) 264-8281 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/roland *Paid Partnership* _ Download the Kalshi app and use code Soccer10 to get $10 when you trade $10. You can also sign up at kalshi.com/r/soccer10, which auto-applies the code at checkout. Kalshi. Trade What's Next _ An 18-year-old Mississippi black boy ends up dead after a Fourth of July weekend in the Gulf Coast. We'll bring you the latest in the Nolan Wells case. Seven black families in Mississippi are suing their local school district, saying their children were unconstitutionally strip-searched. The former Jackson, Mississippi, mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges. The Louisiana Supreme Court pauses the legal case against the state attorney general in the ongoing battle sparked by the election of a black, formerly incarcerated court clerk. The Trump administration continues to block discrimination cases from moving forward as part of its war on black America. A racist MAGA commentator questioned the contributions of Black women in American history. I have a little Black history lesson. And a white North Carolina pastor is getting applause and criticism for his sermon rejecting Christian Nationalism. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[1:00] Speaker 1: July sixth, twenty twenty six, coming up on Roland Martin
[1:02] Speaker 1: nonfiltered streaming live on the Black Start Network. Three Stories
[1:05] Speaker 1: Out of Mississippi. An eighteen year old black team goes
[1:10] Speaker 1: out on a vote with a group of white friends
[1:14] Speaker 1: on the fourth of July weekend. They all return home.
[1:17] Speaker 1: He does not. His body has been found. Will tell
[1:20] Speaker 1: you about what's happening in the Nolan Wells case. Also,
[1:23] Speaker 1: seven black families in Mississippi are assuming their local school
[1:27] Speaker 1: districts and their children were on constitutionally strip search. Also
[1:32] Speaker 1: more guilty please in a federal corruption case in Mississippi,
[1:37] Speaker 1: the former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chuque La Mumba, as
[1:41] Speaker 1: well as a city council member, have pled guilty to
[1:44] Speaker 1: federal bribery charges. This is after last week with the
[1:47] Speaker 1: district attorney also pled guilty to charges. In Louisiana, the
[1:52] Speaker 1: Supreme Court pauses a legal case against the state attorney
[1:55] Speaker 1: general in the ongoing battle spark of the election of
[1:58] Speaker 1: a black, formerly incarcerated court clerk in New Orleans. The
[2:02] Speaker 1: Trump administration continues to block discrimination cases for moving forward
[2:05] Speaker 1: as part of its war on Black America, and a
[2:08] Speaker 1: racist MAGA commentator questioned the contributions of black women in
[2:12] Speaker 1: American history, all we have to teach is as a lesson. Plus,
[2:18] Speaker 1: racism continues for the Trump administration. They're now targeting the
[2:21] Speaker 1: Smithsonian Institution. And of course Peter Hek Seth continues to
[2:26] Speaker 1: attack black veterans. Plus a white North Carolina pastor is
[2:31] Speaker 1: getting applause and criticism for his sermon sermon saying America
[2:37] Speaker 1: is not a Christian nation. Wait till we show you.
[2:40] Speaker 1: It's time to bring the phone. I'm rolling on filter
[2:43] Speaker 1: on a Blackstar network. Let's go whatever best believe.
[2:56] Speaker 4: He's sen.
[3:00] Speaker 6: To news, to politics with entertainment just cakes he sold.
[3:11] Speaker 7: It's strollen.
[3:20] Speaker 3: He's spoon spress, she's real. Good question, No, he's rolling
[3:24] Speaker 3: the margin.
[3:37] Speaker 1: The family of a black team in Mississippi they want
[3:39] Speaker 1: answers as to why their son is dead, and the
[3:43] Speaker 1: group of white friends he went out with on the
[3:45] Speaker 1: July weekend all returned home safely. A park ranger found
[3:50] Speaker 1: the body of eighteen year old Nolan Wells on the
[3:53] Speaker 1: coast of Horn Island on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi
[3:56] Speaker 1: this morning. Nolan's mother, Christine Wansley, confirmed the fire of
[4:00] Speaker 1: her son on Facebook, asking that everyone give her and
[4:03] Speaker 1: her family time to grieve. Nolan was the recent graduate
[4:06] Speaker 1: of Ocean Springs High School and a football player at
[4:09] Speaker 1: Southwest Mississippi Community College. He was last seen with three
[4:13] Speaker 1: of his friends on the island at around three pm
[4:15] Speaker 1: local time on Saturday before he went missing. Authorities have
[4:20] Speaker 1: not released details about what led to Nolan's disappearance. The
[4:23] Speaker 1: circumstances surrounding his death remain under investigation. Now what happened
[4:27] Speaker 1: was his cell phone was found, but he was missing,
[4:32] Speaker 1: and his friends could not articulate as to what happened,
[4:36] Speaker 1: When did they last see him, and so again, lots
[4:41] Speaker 1: of questions are being raised here. The family sent out
[4:46] Speaker 1: notices over the weekend. They were demanding for folks to
[4:51] Speaker 1: assist them with finding their son. And again no one
[4:56] Speaker 1: could say what happened, and they kept asking the questions. Again,
[5:03] Speaker 1: his friends, his white friends, they all they all came back.
[5:09] Speaker 1: But Nolan actually actually died. He was His mother reported
[5:15] Speaker 1: him missing late Saturday night, and the friends, of course
[5:19] Speaker 1: went out on a small boat for Independence Day and
[5:24] Speaker 1: he was again did not come home. And so again
[5:29] Speaker 1: the question, now, Biggs, what happened, What happened? Did this
[5:33] Speaker 1: happen on the boat? Were they on land? What's going on?
[5:36] Speaker 1: I want to bring on my panel right now, doctor
[5:39] Speaker 1: Amy Congo to being a senior profeceral Electoral Schools in
[5:41] Speaker 1: the National Service, American University, author of lies about Black people,
[5:44] Speaker 1: how to combat racist He joins us from Washington. D C.
[5:48] Speaker 1: Fella Anderson, creator of the Public Opinion Court, author Shut
[5:51] Speaker 1: Up and Prosecute, joining us from Dallas, represented Jealanda Jones,
[5:54] Speaker 1: Texas state representative lawyer out of Houston. Let to have
[5:57] Speaker 1: all three of you here. Lots of questions obviously are
[6:01] Speaker 1: being raised here, Gelanda, what happened in this case? And again,
[6:07] Speaker 1: what's strange? Is he comes up missing the other teams? Okay,
[6:12] Speaker 1: what information did they give? If you're going out, you
[6:17] Speaker 1: kind of know what someone else is doing, unless they
[6:20] Speaker 1: decide to just go off on their own. And that's
[6:23] Speaker 1: what people are saying, What the hell, what the hell
[6:26] Speaker 1: is going on? What took place here?
[6:30] Speaker 5: Well, of course Roland, I mean, four kids left, three white,
[6:34] Speaker 5: one black.
[6:35] Speaker 4: The black kid didn't come back with him.
[6:36] Speaker 5: They were on a boat to get there, so when
[6:38] Speaker 5: they were coming back, they knew he wasn't there. Why
[6:40] Speaker 5: would you leave? Why wouldn't you go figure out what happened?
[6:43] Speaker 5: And you know, it just doesn't smell right to me.
[6:46] Speaker 5: But you know, so many black parents try to put
[6:50] Speaker 5: their kids in a better situation, or so they think.
[6:53] Speaker 4: And they put them with white people.
[6:55] Speaker 5: I mean, and I don't want to say I hate
[6:57] Speaker 5: to say it, because we hear the story over and
[6:59] Speaker 5: over and over again, and they don't know what happened.
[7:01] Speaker 5: Of course, they know what happened, so the police need
[7:04] Speaker 5: to be interrogating them to find out what's going on
[7:07] Speaker 5: and what happened to Nolan.
[7:08] Speaker 4: And I pray for his mom.
[7:09] Speaker 5: I pray for his family who would expect that their
[7:13] Speaker 5: son would go away with quote unquote friends and not
[7:16] Speaker 5: come back, and when he's found, he's dead. So I
[7:19] Speaker 5: suspect at the time that the kids have been back
[7:22] Speaker 5: without him, they've been coming up with the same story.
[7:25] Speaker 5: I suspect their parents have probably already contacted lawyers and
[7:28] Speaker 5: they're trying to cya you know what that means, cover
[7:31] Speaker 5: their asses. But we hear this story over and over
[7:34] Speaker 5: and over again. And black people think that integration was great.
[7:38] Speaker 4: It wasn't.
[7:39] Speaker 5: In twenty twenty six, we see that a black kid
[7:42] Speaker 5: is not safe when he goes out with his white
[7:44] Speaker 5: friends on an island. And I mean, now the black
[7:47] Speaker 5: parents need to pay attention.
[7:48] Speaker 1: Again again, we do not, we do not. Here's well again,
[7:52] Speaker 1: this was a photo that was posted and the family
[7:57] Speaker 1: shared photos all over the weekend in terms of looking
[8:01] Speaker 1: for him. Uh so we don't know, We don not
[8:06] Speaker 1: one second. We don't want one one second. One second. Okay, okay,
[8:10] Speaker 1: we do not know what happened all we We do
[8:13] Speaker 1: know that at one point he was separated from his
[8:16] Speaker 1: cell phone. They went to this this island they went to.
[8:21] Speaker 1: Uh Filma was a remote island that was only accessible
[8:25] Speaker 1: by boat. Uh and so and so again over the weekend.
[8:31] Speaker 1: I saw a number of social media posts on Saturday.
[8:35] Speaker 1: On Sunday, folks calling for national media pay attention to
[8:39] Speaker 1: this story.
[8:40] Speaker 8: Uh.
[8:40] Speaker 1: Again, speculation is one thing, facts is another is another thing. Uh.
[8:45] Speaker 1: And unfortunately for this family, they now have to bury
[8:50] Speaker 1: their son after his body was found this morning. Well,
[8:56] Speaker 1: one one second with John that one second and I'm
[8:59] Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna come, just hold on.
[9:02] Speaker 7: What we do know is that this friendship with these
[9:07] Speaker 7: young boys have been going on for years. We do
[9:10] Speaker 7: know for a fact that they have been on the
[9:12] Speaker 7: water several times with Nolan and he's happened to make
[9:16] Speaker 7: it back every single time. But this time, what we
[9:20] Speaker 7: do know is that there is a timeline. The timeline
[9:23] Speaker 7: starts around three PM when there was an allegation that
[9:28] Speaker 7: they could not locate him. There was another timeline that
[9:31] Speaker 7: set around four PM that was still trying to actively
[9:36] Speaker 7: search for him. But there's another allegation that around seven
[9:39] Speaker 7: pm that's when it was notified to the pearents after
[9:43] Speaker 7: they made it back with his phone. So in the intrum,
[9:46] Speaker 7: if those allegations are true based on the timeline, what
[9:50] Speaker 7: was going on in the intrum of those three hours,
[9:52] Speaker 7: what I can tell you is that they have lost
[9:55] Speaker 7: valuable evidence at this point because what we did see
[9:58] Speaker 7: is those young men on that boat drinking underage, which
[10:01] Speaker 7: is a crime in the state of Mississippi. What we
[10:04] Speaker 7: do know, based off of the timeline that now we
[10:08] Speaker 7: cannot collect urine samples to see how intoxicated these young
[10:12] Speaker 7: men were. We can't collect any statements from them at
[10:17] Speaker 7: the time of this happened to actually get a factual,
[10:20] Speaker 7: accurate account of what they recalled based on where Nolan
[10:25] Speaker 7: was and where they last saw him. So now it's
[10:28] Speaker 7: going to be upon the parents to get independent everything.
[10:31] Speaker 7: They need their own civil rights attorney, they need their
[10:34] Speaker 7: own trial advocate, they need their own expert that won
[10:39] Speaker 7: an independent autopsy done not with the state solely because
[10:44] Speaker 7: it's too many questions that need to be answered. They're
[10:48] Speaker 7: going to need a forensic phone specialist in order to
[10:50] Speaker 7: determine what was going on with them phones, who made contact,
[10:54] Speaker 7: who was talked to after the fact, what was the
[10:57] Speaker 7: last contact with Nolan based off of cell phones. It's
[11:01] Speaker 7: going to be a lot, but it's some valuable time
[11:03] Speaker 7: that has been lost. But what we can say for
[11:06] Speaker 7: a fact is that they've been out on their water
[11:08] Speaker 7: before with Nolan, and he's made it back every single time.
[11:11] Speaker 1: So this is on my congo. This is from Capitol B.
[11:17] Speaker 1: They reported Wells was last seen on July fourth on
[11:20] Speaker 1: the island where he was hanging out with a group
[11:23] Speaker 1: of friends. The friends return home, but no one has
[11:26] Speaker 1: come forward with any information about what happened to him.
[11:31] Speaker 1: Later in their story, they say there's been no official
[11:37] Speaker 1: reports or additional information from those who were present about
[11:42] Speaker 1: what happened. That right there raises a serious red flag
[11:47] Speaker 1: on my congo. In order to understand, because if you
[11:52] Speaker 1: had a friend and you go out, this is very simple.
[11:55] Speaker 1: Did he fall overboard y'all? Did y'all search for the body?
[11:59] Speaker 1: Did they at the island? Did all of you get
[12:02] Speaker 1: off and go on the island? Were y'all together? Did
[12:05] Speaker 1: you go separate ways? Did he run into someone there
[12:09] Speaker 1: he knew and then he left with them? All those
[12:12] Speaker 1: are the kind of questions that those friends are going
[12:15] Speaker 1: to have to answer to authorities.
[12:20] Speaker 9: And these are the types of questions they should have
[12:22] Speaker 9: immediately told the parents if they were going, if they
[12:25] Speaker 9: were being honest and upfront about what's going on, and
[12:28] Speaker 9: I know that you know this case is immediately becoming racialized,
[12:31] Speaker 9: you know, for obvious reasons. This also makes me think
[12:35] Speaker 9: roll and we covered it here twenty twenty two with
[12:37] Speaker 9: jan Kuala Robinson. I believe she was from North Carolina
[12:40] Speaker 9: who went to Mexico with her friends and they were all.
[12:43] Speaker 3: Black, and you know, and did it come back and
[12:44] Speaker 3: then the.
[12:44] Speaker 9: Video appeared of her being beaten and the like, and
[12:47] Speaker 9: so we really have to has been said here, We
[12:51] Speaker 9: really have to pay attention to what thema was saying
[12:52] Speaker 9: about all of the valuable time that was lost, because
[12:55] Speaker 9: there's no way in hell I'm leaving with my friends
[12:57] Speaker 9: to go somewhere and they all don't come back with me,
[13:00] Speaker 9: and I'm not saying anything, I'm not talking to parents,
[13:03] Speaker 9: I'm not coming home without them. So just the fact
[13:06] Speaker 9: that these so called friends left this person in whatever way,
[13:10] Speaker 9: shape or form, that automatically brings suspicion. And from what
[13:14] Speaker 9: we understand, given the fact that their parents have been
[13:17] Speaker 9: putting out the word to help find their child, it
[13:19] Speaker 9: doesn't seem like these other kids came back saying anything.
[13:23] Speaker 9: And that's the other part that leads to suspicion, you know,
[13:26] Speaker 9: and all of us who got kids in this area
[13:28] Speaker 9: and this age, whether it's our own kids, nieces, nephews, whatever,
[13:31] Speaker 9: kids in the community, cousins, it hurts at a deeper level.
[13:34] Speaker 9: It hurts at a deeper level. And giving everything that's
[13:36] Speaker 9: going on in this country, of course we're going to
[13:38] Speaker 9: expect things, you know, racially, but at the end of
[13:40] Speaker 9: the day, parents lost their child under suspicious circumstances and
[13:45] Speaker 9: there are people who know the answers who are not
[13:47] Speaker 9: talking right now, and that is unacceptable. And as more
[13:50] Speaker 9: information comes out about this, the Black family, the Wells family,
[13:54] Speaker 9: I'm also hoping that people are looking at ways to
[13:56] Speaker 9: support them to get them everything that Thelma talked about
[13:59] Speaker 9: they may need, particularly as he lays the financial resources
[14:02] Speaker 9: to get those things accomplished.
[14:04] Speaker 1: So this is from wlox dot com, the local TV
[14:10] Speaker 1: station there. The United Cajun Navy is a rapid response
[14:14] Speaker 1: team when it comes to cases like this, and this
[14:18] Speaker 1: was one of a quote from Brian Trasher. He said,
[14:21] Speaker 1: there were some people that thought he might have wandered
[14:24] Speaker 1: off to the middle of the island, maybe into that lake.
[14:29] Speaker 1: We'd sent people up there today and if he was barefoot,
[14:33] Speaker 1: there's no way he made it up there. There's cactuses
[14:36] Speaker 1: and a lot of thorny brush. He would not have
[14:39] Speaker 1: been comfortable being able to make it to the middle
[14:41] Speaker 1: of the island. He probably would have turned around and
[14:44] Speaker 1: went to the beach. And this was the story that
[14:48] Speaker 1: they reported as it was going on, and the Sheriff's
[14:55] Speaker 1: department was asking for additional information as well. And again,
[15:06] Speaker 1: as I sort of see this story, you know, I
[15:11] Speaker 1: do wonder, I do wonder, Gelanda, what type of investigation
[15:16] Speaker 1: was happening immediately? Did authorities did they see the story
[15:25] Speaker 1: of these other individuals as being sketchy because if you
[15:29] Speaker 1: look at that description, you're going to this remote island
[15:33] Speaker 1: to that point, if you're barefoot or whatever, you're not
[15:36] Speaker 1: walking around the island. And then so it's just obviously
[15:41] Speaker 1: there are a lot more questions that people have, and
[15:46] Speaker 1: Velma is right as for this attorney, they absolutely, indeed
[15:50] Speaker 1: a very strong legal advocate right now demanding those answers
[15:57] Speaker 1: to ensure if there's a proper investigation and conducted.
[16:02] Speaker 5: Thirty years as a thirty year trial lawyer, criminal defense lawyer.
[16:06] Speaker 4: Roland.
[16:07] Speaker 5: Let me be clear, one fact we know is that
[16:10] Speaker 5: four kids went, three kids came back, right, So yes,
[16:13] Speaker 5: of course I want to know what time do you
[16:15] Speaker 5: go missing, what time do they call the police and
[16:17] Speaker 5: let the police know that there was a problem. But
[16:19] Speaker 5: at the end of the day, like Thelma said, yeah,
[16:21] Speaker 5: we need to know those things.
[16:23] Speaker 4: But I find it.
[16:24] Speaker 5: Curious that those kids haven't said anything, or if they have,
[16:27] Speaker 5: no one has said anything about it. And I would
[16:31] Speaker 5: be super surprised if those kids' parents hadn't already lawyered
[16:37] Speaker 5: up with them so that they can get their story straight.
[16:40] Speaker 5: Nothing about this sounds right. I don't care if they've
[16:42] Speaker 5: traveled a whole bunch of times and made it back
[16:45] Speaker 5: this time is really all that matters because Nolan is dead,
[16:48] Speaker 5: so and they are going to.
[16:50] Speaker 4: Need financial resources.
[16:52] Speaker 5: Medical, having your own independent autopsy done is important, Having
[16:55] Speaker 5: forensic experts is it's important, and it's expensive.
[16:59] Speaker 4: All of these things are expensive.
[17:01] Speaker 5: Having a really good lawyer, it's really expensive having a team,
[17:05] Speaker 5: because trust me, the state's going to have a team,
[17:07] Speaker 5: and I suspect these three kids as parents will have
[17:10] Speaker 5: lawyers to protect them. So nothing about this smells right.
[17:15] Speaker 5: Nothing about it. If it were me, I would have
[17:18] Speaker 5: never come back on that boat without my friend. I
[17:20] Speaker 5: would have stayed there. I would have helped look for
[17:23] Speaker 5: my friend. I would have called the police. That's what
[17:25] Speaker 5: I would have done. So the appearance that their friends
[17:27] Speaker 5: and there's a nice pretty picture of the black kid
[17:30] Speaker 5: with the three white kids. I think it looked like
[17:32] Speaker 5: they were there was fishing. None of that matters because
[17:35] Speaker 5: no one is dead.
[17:36] Speaker 1: Well that that that photo was what was posted and
[17:40] Speaker 1: so that was the last that was the last known
[17:42] Speaker 1: photo of them being out. And so that's one of
[17:45] Speaker 1: the reasons why that that that photo was gone out.
[17:49] Speaker 1: And so again I really do hope that in terms
[17:55] Speaker 1: of when we talk about, uh, the gramifications, they absolutely
[18:01] Speaker 1: need their own advocate. Now the other issues is here
[18:04] Speaker 1: and I already ask control and go I need to
[18:06] Speaker 1: verify for me. So one of the stories said that
[18:09] Speaker 1: there are a number of go fund me campaigns that
[18:12] Speaker 1: have been up that were not authorized by the family.
[18:15] Speaker 1: So no, do not show that. I want to make
[18:17] Speaker 1: sure that what we are showing has been authorized by
[18:21] Speaker 1: the family. Okay, all right, got it, all right? So,
[18:26] Speaker 1: uh this go fund me account, uh, Nolan Wells's mother
[18:30] Speaker 1: posted on her Facebook page. Uh, this is the this
[18:34] Speaker 1: is the official go fundme uh that they that they
[18:38] Speaker 1: have put up and so this is and so again, uh,
[18:43] Speaker 1: you know when these things happen, you know, folks just
[18:46] Speaker 1: jump out, you know, on their own. But this you
[18:49] Speaker 1: see in loving memory of Nolan Xavier Wells. Uh, this
[18:53] Speaker 1: is the one second. So I want to pull up
[18:58] Speaker 1: I want to pull it up a mud. So the
[19:01] Speaker 1: family is seeking approximately actually, so do this here, so
[19:09] Speaker 1: switch to my iPad. So the family is seeking, as
[19:12] Speaker 1: you see right here, twelve thousand dollars. They're gonna need
[19:17] Speaker 1: more than that. I can tell you that right now.
[19:20] Speaker 1: So far twenty five and thirteen dollars thirty donations has
[19:24] Speaker 1: been raised. So if you're interested, what you do is
[19:28] Speaker 1: so just so you know, this is what the page
[19:30] Speaker 1: looks like in loving memory of Nolan Xavier Wells. And
[19:34] Speaker 1: so that's what you should be that just so you know,
[19:38] Speaker 1: and it's right here, Aleyah Dennis is you see the
[19:44] Speaker 1: information right here as well, So just so just so
[19:48] Speaker 1: you know you have the correct information in terms of
[19:51] Speaker 1: you want to support this family, and you see all
[19:54] Speaker 1: the information right here. All right, folks, let me go
[19:58] Speaker 1: to a quick break. We come back more on rollerd
[20:00] Speaker 1: Martin Unfiltered. We'll talk about a case out of Mississippi.
[20:04] Speaker 1: Where the families are demanding answers why their children were
[20:08] Speaker 1: strip search and looking for vapes. And also the popular
[20:13] Speaker 1: former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, a young brother, the son
[20:17] Speaker 1: of a former mayor, Choki La Mumba, please guilty to
[20:21] Speaker 1: federal corruption charges. We'll explain all of that when we
[20:24] Speaker 1: come back on Roller Martin Unfiltered on the Black Study Network.
[20:29] Speaker 2: All right, folks, let me tell you about Chapter.
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[20:37] Speaker 1: fine print, too many plans, and too many people making
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[22:09] Speaker 1: Seven black families are suing the Attalas County School District
[22:12] Speaker 1: in Mississippi, alleging school officials and officers unlawfully stripped search
[22:16] Speaker 1: students during a vape search. According to the federal lawsuit
[22:20] Speaker 1: file June fifteenth, seven black male students were accused of
[22:24] Speaker 1: bringing vapes to McAdams High School on February tenth. One
[22:28] Speaker 1: by one, the students were taken to the restroom in
[22:31] Speaker 1: order to remove their clothing and submit to the searches.
[22:35] Speaker 1: The Sioux claims the students did not consent and were
[22:38] Speaker 1: threatened with suspension if they refused. The school found no vapes.
[22:43] Speaker 1: The families say the school district violated the children's fourth
[22:47] Speaker 1: and fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as the Mississippi Tort
[22:50] Speaker 1: Claims Act, noting that the school had a vape detection
[22:54] Speaker 1: wand available. They're suing for compensatory damages, attorney's fees, and
[22:59] Speaker 1: a complete overhaul of the district student search, and the
[23:02] Speaker 1: termination of the administration and the officers involved. The school
[23:06] Speaker 1: district has declined to comment on the lawsuit because it
[23:09] Speaker 1: is currently in the discovery phase. These things often happen,
[23:16] Speaker 1: Thelma and listen. Even though there are students, students still
[23:21] Speaker 1: have rights. I remember being in middle school, uh, and
[23:25] Speaker 1: I always had bloodshot eyes. We lived literally right next
[23:28] Speaker 1: door to the ship channel and so in Houston, and
[23:32] Speaker 1: so the chemical chemical plants and all this sort of
[23:34] Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I remember mssus Hart English teacher
[23:40] Speaker 1: actually having the school officer checked my pocket. Now, the
[23:44] Speaker 1: problem is that was a Latino guy, and both of
[23:47] Speaker 1: us both had curly hair, so he grabbed both of
[23:50] Speaker 1: us and as of the empty our pocket. Sfice to say.
[23:53] Speaker 1: When I got home he told my dad what happened.
[23:57] Speaker 1: He immediately called the Prince of mister Brossard and said,
[24:00] Speaker 1: let me be clear that teacher does not apologize. You'll
[24:03] Speaker 1: be seeing me twenty four hours from now in your office.
[24:07] Speaker 1: She did personally apologize for that. But what this family
[24:12] Speaker 1: is laying out these were multiple students.
[24:20] Speaker 7: What I remember about being in school was the fact
[24:24] Speaker 7: that they were called my parents anytime that they needed
[24:28] Speaker 7: to contact them to get permission to do what they
[24:31] Speaker 7: needed to do. So the fact that schools are now
[24:34] Speaker 7: leaning on violating due process, like since when are you
[24:39] Speaker 7: coming in to strip search without having reasonable suspicion or
[24:45] Speaker 7: probable cause. Now I know of occasions where individuals have
[24:49] Speaker 7: been searched because they were dealing things that they should
[24:52] Speaker 7: not have been dealing, and they had equivalently made sure
[24:58] Speaker 7: that they had the information necessary to do so. But
[25:01] Speaker 7: in this particular matter, why they didn't call the parents?
[25:04] Speaker 7: That's my biggest question. If you're on a strip search,
[25:08] Speaker 7: not one, but multiple children from different households, what is
[25:12] Speaker 7: the legitimate reason? What did you need? What purpose there?
[25:17] Speaker 7: And I don't believe they're going to be able to
[25:20] Speaker 7: identify a purpose, a need, any urgency that would trump
[25:26] Speaker 7: there from being required to call their parents. And that
[25:30] Speaker 7: is very concerning that they're going to start doing this.
[25:32] Speaker 7: We already see what ICE is doing. But to do
[25:35] Speaker 7: this on this level and think that you were not
[25:37] Speaker 7: going to have repercussions and families are not going to
[25:40] Speaker 7: buck back and take you to court, that to me
[25:44] Speaker 7: is very telling that they wasn't afraid of what could
[25:47] Speaker 7: happen legally, and they did it anyway.
[25:50] Speaker 1: So Jelanna, the question that people, obviously parents and should
[25:54] Speaker 1: want to know is if a school official or security
[26:01] Speaker 1: or a police officer, if they demand that a student
[26:08] Speaker 1: into their pockets or be searched, does that student have
[26:12] Speaker 1: the right to say, no, you cannot search my body,
[26:16] Speaker 1: nor am I going to take my clothes off? Does
[26:19] Speaker 1: that student have that?
[26:20] Speaker 4: Yes?
[26:22] Speaker 5: Yes, The Fourth Amendment doesn't stop at the school door.
[26:26] Speaker 5: The Fourth Amendment protects you at school. Most schools have
[26:30] Speaker 5: a student handbook and it tells you what the rules are,
[26:32] Speaker 5: so I would encourage all parents to go look at that.
[26:35] Speaker 5: But you have to give articulable facts to show that
[26:40] Speaker 5: you have a right to search. The Fourth Amendment protects
[26:42] Speaker 5: you from unreasonable search and seizure and making these kids
[26:46] Speaker 5: get bucket naked for whatever reason.
[26:48] Speaker 4: I mean, if they had articulable facts that allowed them
[26:54] Speaker 4: to get a search warrant.
[26:55] Speaker 5: They could have done that. However, you don't get to
[26:57] Speaker 5: do that to kids. At a minimum, they should have
[27:00] Speaker 5: called the kids parents so that the parents can be there,
[27:03] Speaker 5: because you have a right. Let's say the kids did
[27:05] Speaker 5: do it, although I'm not I don't believe they did.
[27:07] Speaker 5: They didn't find any vapes. You have a right not
[27:11] Speaker 5: to incriminate yourself. You have a right not to talk
[27:13] Speaker 5: to the police. You have a right not to allow
[27:15] Speaker 5: the police to search you.
[27:16] Speaker 4: The Constitution guarantees that.
[27:18] Speaker 5: So I'm troubled about this, and I think at the
[27:22] Speaker 5: end of the day that the parents will win the
[27:24] Speaker 5: lawsuit because you don't have less rights just because you're
[27:28] Speaker 5: less than eighteen.
[27:32] Speaker 1: Ohmcongo.
[27:35] Speaker 9: Yeah, in all of my years you know, now teaching
[27:38] Speaker 9: at the university level, but before the university that top
[27:41] Speaker 9: cad to twelve for a number of years, and in
[27:43] Speaker 9: all of whether Massachusetts, Maryland, there can't be a state
[27:47] Speaker 9: where something like this can just be allowed easily in
[27:50] Speaker 9: terms of making these students strip search for something they
[27:52] Speaker 9: ultimately didn't find. You're supposed to call the parents. Parents
[27:56] Speaker 9: are supposed to be brought down those shore. They're not
[27:58] Speaker 9: supposed to be held in the office until parents can
[28:01] Speaker 9: be consulted and told whatever potential offenses they are.
[28:06] Speaker 3: And again there's other things.
[28:08] Speaker 9: That will come out as relates to this case, but
[28:10] Speaker 9: it just reflects rolling, you know, an overall climate in
[28:13] Speaker 9: this country of people feeling like they can do whatever
[28:16] Speaker 9: they want to children, and you know, to our children
[28:19] Speaker 9: in particular as well. And I believe that this happens
[28:22] Speaker 9: more often than not. I believe that more families that
[28:24] Speaker 9: this is happening to dyl's don't have various resources to
[28:27] Speaker 9: be able to get their stories out there. But this
[28:30] Speaker 9: is a story that should also just like our first story,
[28:32] Speaker 9: first stories is deeper, of course, but these types of
[28:35] Speaker 9: stories should receive national attention.
[28:37] Speaker 3: The types of things that they do in.
[28:39] Speaker 9: Our schools, these school sro old school resource officers, the
[28:42] Speaker 9: way they manhandle our kids for just talking back or
[28:46] Speaker 9: quote unquote talking back, slamming them against death, handcuffing them.
[28:50] Speaker 9: You know, this is in line with that and the
[28:52] Speaker 9: fact that they didn't find anything. Why were these particular
[28:56] Speaker 9: children and again these are children, why were they singled out?
[28:59] Speaker 3: And so when we see what's.
[29:00] Speaker 9: Happening here, I'm hoping that you know, representative about Jelaanda
[29:03] Speaker 9: is correct, that the parents will be successful because schools
[29:07] Speaker 9: need to be put on blast that they cannot just
[29:09] Speaker 9: treat our children like this and just to threaten them
[29:12] Speaker 9: with suspension if they don't strip and lose their dignity
[29:15] Speaker 9: in front of these individuals.
[29:17] Speaker 3: That's all you got to me.
[29:18] Speaker 9: That shows that you don't really have a strong case anyway,
[29:20] Speaker 9: because if you had a real strong case, you'd be
[29:22] Speaker 9: calling in law enforcement to arrest these kids for holding
[29:25] Speaker 9: something that was illegal. But all they had was suspension,
[29:28] Speaker 9: and they do these kids into going for this, and
[29:29] Speaker 9: that's not cool.
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[34:52] Speaker 1: Supporters of former Jackson mayor of missus Chopi La Mumba,
[34:56] Speaker 1: they were in tears today when he stood before a
[35:00] Speaker 1: federal judge and pled guilty to conspiracy, one week before
[35:04] Speaker 1: a federal bribery trial was set to begin in that court.
[35:08] Speaker 1: The change in plea came one week after former Hines
[35:10] Speaker 1: County DA Jody Owens pled guilty to conspiracy. Ex City
[35:15] Speaker 1: Councilman Aaron Banks is also scheduled to plead guilty as well.
[35:20] Speaker 1: That's to a conspiracy charge. US District Judge Dan Jordan
[35:23] Speaker 1: told Lamumba that a conspiracy conviction could mean he may
[35:26] Speaker 1: lose his right to vote, whole public office, or possess
[35:30] Speaker 1: a firearm. Lamoma, Owens, and Banks were indicted in October
[35:33] Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. After twenty twenty two federal FBI undercover
[35:38] Speaker 1: operation which agents posed as real estate developers interested in
[35:42] Speaker 1: a downtown Jassion convention center hotel project. The undercover agents
[35:46] Speaker 1: offered bribes in exchange for help from city government officials
[35:50] Speaker 1: and Owens to move the project forward through. The three
[35:53] Speaker 1: men were scheduled to stand trial on July thirteenth in
[35:56] Speaker 1: federal court. Lamoma served as mayor of the capitalist city
[35:59] Speaker 1: for eight years years before losing re election in twenty
[36:01] Speaker 1: twenty five. He also is the son of former mayor
[36:07] Speaker 1: Namesake as Well, who died before he officially took office.
[36:11] Speaker 1: Now this is a Mississippi today dot org and and
[36:15] Speaker 1: understand what took place here? They write here that in
[36:19] Speaker 1: the indictment, prosecutors alleged that Lamumba accepted fifty thousand dollars
[36:22] Speaker 1: in campaign donations in exchange for assisting the developers and
[36:26] Speaker 1: obtaining the city's blessings. The indictment alleges that while Lamuma
[36:30] Speaker 1: was on a yacht off the coast of Florida, he
[36:33] Speaker 1: discussed the payment Owens was going to give him on
[36:36] Speaker 1: behalf of the developers. Then he placed a call asking
[36:39] Speaker 1: a city employee to shorten the bid window for the
[36:43] Speaker 1: hotel development. Lamumba described his action as ministerial at best,
[36:48] Speaker 1: according to court documents, thus got in line with how
[36:50] Speaker 1: federal law and the courts have defined an official action
[36:53] Speaker 1: a public official must take as part of a quit
[36:56] Speaker 1: pro quoll Now. Two others also pled guilty. Former City
[37:00] Speaker 1: council member and Julie Lee Owens's cousin and associate, Sharik
[37:05] Speaker 1: Marv Smith, pled to acting as a go between for
[37:08] Speaker 1: the DA with both Lamoomba and Banks. Now and then
[37:15] Speaker 1: this article says here. Unlike his co defindist, Banks did
[37:18] Speaker 1: not agree to the government's best offer. The assistant US
[37:20] Speaker 1: Attorney and prosecuting in the case, Dave Folcher, told the
[37:23] Speaker 1: judge Banks's previous offer would have required him to cooperate
[37:26] Speaker 1: with the federal government, difference as court appointed lawyer Carlos
[37:29] Speaker 1: Tenner described as only technical. Banks made the decision to
[37:33] Speaker 1: plead after Owens took the plea agreement last week. The
[37:36] Speaker 1: courtroom was standing room only for Lamuma's plea. His head
[37:39] Speaker 1: was bowed as Fulcher read out the facts, and he
[37:42] Speaker 1: said the government would have proven at trial. US District
[37:45] Speaker 1: Judge Daniel P. Jordan the Third asked the former mayor
[37:48] Speaker 1: if he agreed with the facts the prosecutor described, I
[37:51] Speaker 1: accept the facts that he just said. Lamuma responded. The
[37:54] Speaker 1: judge paused and reiterated his question. I agreed. La Mumba said, This,
[38:01] Speaker 1: of course, is a shocking development for so many people.
[38:04] Speaker 1: We had Bill Lamumba on this show many times on
[38:08] Speaker 1: a variety of issues, whether it was a water project,
[38:11] Speaker 1: whether it was there for the Swax Championship game.
[38:15] Speaker 12: Uh.
[38:15] Speaker 1: He was again one of a group of young black,
[38:21] Speaker 1: young black mayors who was trying to revive a city. Uh.
[38:26] Speaker 1: And you know one of the things that he said,
[38:28] Speaker 1: he wanted to make Jackson, Mississippi, one of the most
[38:31] Speaker 1: radical cities in the country.
[38:34] Speaker 5: Uh.
[38:34] Speaker 1: So a lot of people had high hopes for for
[38:38] Speaker 1: his administration. UH and Sonann what you found here is
[38:43] Speaker 1: a in Jackson, the d eight two aides city council member,
[38:48] Speaker 1: and now the former mayor all pleading guilty. Now, his
[38:53] Speaker 1: lawyers from the National Conference of Black Lawyers defended his legacy.
[38:57] Speaker 1: UH And they say they made it clear that these
[39:00] Speaker 1: type of things have often we have federal government, they've
[39:03] Speaker 1: used these types of stings to bring down black elected
[39:06] Speaker 1: officials all across the country. That's something that we've seen,
[39:13] Speaker 1: and not just African Americans. I remember, uh. In fact,
[39:17] Speaker 1: again I'm a native of Houston. I remember history. Uh.
[39:20] Speaker 1: Latino Ben Rays was a long time city council member
[39:24] Speaker 1: went to federal prison involving exact same thing regarding a
[39:28] Speaker 1: convention center hotel the city was building. And so we've
[39:32] Speaker 1: seen these things take place on in Congo. I want
[39:34] Speaker 1: to go to you first, certainly a sad development and
[39:39] Speaker 1: so many people in Jackson and as as this story
[39:42] Speaker 1: here says folks, folks were in tears after he actually
[39:48] Speaker 1: pled guilty.
[39:52] Speaker 3: Yeah, sad.
[39:52] Speaker 9: I mean I've watched him often on your show and
[39:56] Speaker 9: for many of us, you know, across this country.
[39:58] Speaker 3: He was a rising star. And so given how we
[40:00] Speaker 3: were feeling, you know.
[40:01] Speaker 9: Outside of Mississippi, I can only imagine how the people
[40:05] Speaker 9: there who supported him and had his back this entire
[40:08] Speaker 9: time we're feeling, you know, leaving in tears, packing the room,
[40:10] Speaker 9: still supporting him in every way, shape and form. And
[40:13] Speaker 9: I know that there are some people who are thinking
[40:15] Speaker 9: about everything going on with this Trump administration and all
[40:18] Speaker 9: the corruption they get away with, fouling the open. But
[40:20] Speaker 9: the fact that the matter is, we get held to
[40:22] Speaker 9: a different standard. And if you're doing things that are
[40:24] Speaker 9: breaking the law, people are going to come for you
[40:26] Speaker 9: and they're going to put a higher level.
[40:30] Speaker 3: Of scrutiny on us.
[40:31] Speaker 9: And so it's really important that if we're if we're
[40:34] Speaker 9: in office, that we hold things up to the highest standards.
[40:37] Speaker 9: And I just really feel for what's going to happen to,
[40:39] Speaker 9: you know, his family as relates to this, But it's
[40:42] Speaker 9: just it's just really unfortunate to see somebody who was
[40:45] Speaker 9: a rising star in politics and people felt like he was,
[40:48] Speaker 9: you know, doing a lot to represent the city go
[40:52] Speaker 9: down in this particular fashion.
[40:53] Speaker 1: Thelma, y'all knew.
[41:05] Speaker 7: For me, this does not put a sting on what
[41:08] Speaker 7: he has contributed to Jackson, Mississippi. And I would like
[41:12] Speaker 7: to recall people's attention to they still haven't brought any
[41:16] Speaker 7: kind of investigation of charges against Brett Farr, who has
[41:20] Speaker 7: had allegations of bribery in a wel welfare fraud thing
[41:25] Speaker 7: that still has not seen a day of light. We
[41:27] Speaker 7: have a president that is a convicted felon. We have
[41:31] Speaker 7: them committing fraud day in and day out, and of
[41:34] Speaker 7: course that going to put the light on an African
[41:36] Speaker 7: American man who's rising in the ranks of the political world.
[41:41] Speaker 7: And yes, we do have to put guardrails up when
[41:44] Speaker 7: we are in these positions because we are the number
[41:48] Speaker 7: one target instead of the ones that are close in
[41:51] Speaker 7: proximity to their privilege that they're going to come after. Hence,
[41:55] Speaker 7: they still have not done anything to Brett Farv And
[41:58] Speaker 7: it is clear on his face what we saw what
[42:01] Speaker 7: was being done in Mississippi. So pay attention to the
[42:07] Speaker 7: links that they're going to go through to try to
[42:09] Speaker 7: ruin his legacy. But for me, his legacy and what
[42:12] Speaker 7: he contributed to Jackson Mississippi is going to stand for
[42:16] Speaker 7: the stand beyond the test of this unfortunate situation for him.
[42:23] Speaker 5: So I'll say, as a black elected official, we can't
[42:26] Speaker 5: do that. And what we've done is going to wipe out.
[42:32] Speaker 5: It's going to be wiped out based on these allegations.
[42:34] Speaker 5: And I'll say this, I remember a guy who supported
[42:37] Speaker 5: me for one race, and when I ran for something else,
[42:41] Speaker 5: he said, look, and the maximum you could contribute, and
[42:43] Speaker 5: that particular race was five thousand dollars per person. And
[42:46] Speaker 5: they were like, I'll give you five thousand dollars and
[42:48] Speaker 5: I can get five more people to give you five
[42:50] Speaker 5: thousand dollars so I can raise you thirty thousand dollars.
[42:52] Speaker 4: All you have to do is vote on X.
[42:55] Speaker 5: I was like hell to the now, I said, I
[42:58] Speaker 5: blocked y'all said, and who are the other people?
[43:00] Speaker 4: Because I want to make sure I don't want to
[43:01] Speaker 4: take any money from them?
[43:03] Speaker 5: And then I blocked him because here's what's going to happen.
[43:06] Speaker 5: The second you do anything illegal, they have you. They're
[43:09] Speaker 5: always going to have it over your head that they
[43:11] Speaker 5: can use that. And trust me, if people are doing
[43:14] Speaker 5: bad with you, they're doing bad with other people. And
[43:16] Speaker 5: if they get in trouble, the first thing they're going
[43:18] Speaker 5: to do is they're going to hand you up on
[43:20] Speaker 5: a silver platter. If I had money, I would bet
[43:23] Speaker 5: that something happened that got the people who offered the
[43:25] Speaker 5: bribe in the first place, and they handed up more
[43:28] Speaker 5: important people. So yes, I feel terrible that he was
[43:33] Speaker 5: up and coming in young. But what's done in the
[43:36] Speaker 5: dark will most assuredly come to the light with black folks.
[43:39] Speaker 5: And I remember Roland what you said about Benny Rayes,
[43:43] Speaker 5: but it wasn't just Benning. They went after black people too.
[43:45] Speaker 5: If you will recall right, So they didn't go after
[43:48] Speaker 5: any white people. They went after the black people and
[43:50] Speaker 5: the brown people. So for those of us who think,
[43:52] Speaker 5: once we make it to a certain level, once we
[43:54] Speaker 5: make so much money, once we have a certain kind
[43:56] Speaker 5: of job, that color doesn't matter, the first thing they
[44:00] Speaker 5: see is we're black, and the first thing they're going
[44:02] Speaker 5: to do is try to knock us off of our
[44:04] Speaker 5: high horse. So I'm sad for the people in Jackson, Mississippi.
[44:07] Speaker 5: I'm sad that it took down all those elected officials.
[44:10] Speaker 5: But that's a warning to those of us who are elected,
[44:12] Speaker 5: don't do that stuff. So they come back and get
[44:14] Speaker 5: us for that. Roland, I can't hear you.
[44:22] Speaker 1: Of corruption, Donald Trump. Get an interview with Joe Kernan
[44:25] Speaker 1: of CNBC, and if you want to hear someone admit
[44:29] Speaker 1: to a crime, listen to Donald Trump talking about his
[44:35] Speaker 1: children benefiting from insider trading.
[44:41] Speaker 12: I feel abandoned in a way from my kids because
[44:43] Speaker 12: every time my kids do, if they invest in a stock,
[44:46] Speaker 12: or if they go and do a building, anything they
[44:48] Speaker 12: do because the presidency is so powerful, so big everything.
[44:54] Speaker 12: If they buy a cupcaked company, well, the energy to
[44:58] Speaker 12: make the cupcakes is you know, sort of like, how's
[45:03] Speaker 12: my energy policy?
[45:04] Speaker 1: So therefore you have a conflict almost anything they do.
[45:08] Speaker 12: If they want to buy a truck, if they want
[45:10] Speaker 12: to buy you know, if they buy an energy efficient truck,
[45:13] Speaker 12: they have inside information.
[45:16] Speaker 3: So it's pretty tough in that sense.
[45:22] Speaker 1: No, you're an idiot and you're a liar. What the
[45:26] Speaker 1: real issue is the thievery of you and your children,
[45:33] Speaker 1: such as your children getting equity in a defense company
[45:38] Speaker 1: and give that company getting a six hundred million dollar
[45:41] Speaker 1: loan from the Defense Department. And Peter Navarro in your
[45:45] Speaker 1: White House calling the Department of Defense saying give them
[45:50] Speaker 1: a loan. That is what we're talking about. And in fact,
[45:54] Speaker 1: if y'all want to again understand again how corrupt Donald
[45:58] Speaker 1: Trump is. Had a news conference today where he basically said,
[46:03] Speaker 1: you know what, I'm letting these crypto people off the
[46:06] Speaker 1: hook from being investigated.
[46:09] Speaker 8: But he has no idea what crypto is. He had no,
[46:12] Speaker 8: he didn't have it too. But they were very violently
[46:15] Speaker 8: against it. They were putting people in jail. That what
[46:18] Speaker 8: they were doing to the crypto was horrible. It's amazing
[46:21] Speaker 8: it survived. That onslaught. It was a weaponization of government
[46:26] Speaker 8: so when I went very much for it, and I
[46:30] Speaker 8: must have gotten I think I got one hundred percent
[46:32] Speaker 8: of the vote. But what happened is I think it
[46:34] Speaker 8: was one hundred million people. It's a big industry and
[46:38] Speaker 8: that means some pretty good things. But what happened is
[46:40] Speaker 8: Biden then after he was getting killed, he was down
[46:44] Speaker 8: so much. All of a sudden they became pro crypto,
[46:48] Speaker 8: and their head of the SEC was horrible, unlike Paul,
[46:52] Speaker 8: who's really good. No, I mean, he's the best man
[46:55] Speaker 8: for the job. Everybody wanted them, but he was horrible
[46:59] Speaker 8: what he was doing to They were putting people in jail.
[47:02] Speaker 8: You know that better than anybody. Good people, great, prestigious people.
[47:06] Speaker 8: They were putting them in jail, And I said, you
[47:09] Speaker 8: gotta be kidding. And they were trying to destroy the industry. Okay, ready,
[47:14] Speaker 8: so now I'm killing Biden. I'm winning by so much,
[47:17] Speaker 8: and all of a sudden he becomes totally pro crypto.
[47:21] Speaker 8: They dropped all investigations of everybody. They allowed people to
[47:25] Speaker 8: come out of jail, and every time I see a
[47:29] Speaker 8: crypto guy that where they dropped an investigation, I said,
[47:33] Speaker 8: you're lucky. I'm precedent because.
[47:35] Speaker 1: They you know, I don't know if you know.
[47:37] Speaker 8: The Biden administration became totally pro Crypto that last couple
[47:42] Speaker 8: of months because they were getting killed because Crypto has
[47:45] Speaker 8: a tremendous audience.
[47:47] Speaker 1: Okay, y'all, that was a straight line there as well. No,
[47:51] Speaker 1: they're being investigated because they were doing potentially illegal things.
[47:57] Speaker 1: Donald Trump has partnered more individuals who have been convicted
[48:01] Speaker 1: of fraud stealing from people, and he is allowing them
[48:06] Speaker 1: not only to get the pardon, but also to keep
[48:08] Speaker 1: their ill gotten gains. Now you remember when the right
[48:12] Speaker 1: went after Hunter Biden alleging that he was profiting from
[48:16] Speaker 1: his dad being the vice president. Well, Hunter Biden decided
[48:20] Speaker 1: to take to Twitter and this is what he actually posted.
[48:25] Speaker 1: He said, two hundred and fifty years ago, wedeclared independence
[48:28] Speaker 1: from a king who ran the colonies as a family business.
[48:32] Speaker 1: In just eighteen months, the Trumps had made King George
[48:35] Speaker 1: look like an amateur. A six hundred and twenty million
[48:38] Speaker 1: dollar Pentagon loan, the largest in program history, to accompany
[48:42] Speaker 1: Don Junior's firm bought into three months ago an Air
[48:47] Speaker 1: Force drone contract to a startup The Prince LANs took
[48:50] Speaker 1: public through a golf course company they own, a piece
[48:55] Speaker 1: of the Army's largest drone motor order ever, to a
[49:00] Speaker 1: company where Don Junior sits on the board and holds
[49:04] Speaker 1: millions in stock, a twenty four million dollar Pentagon Robotics
[49:09] Speaker 1: contract to the company that employs Eric as chief strategy advisor.
[49:15] Speaker 1: A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth
[49:20] Speaker 1: in Kazistan, backed by one point six billion dollars in
[49:25] Speaker 1: US government support. Jarret's fund seated with two billion dollars
[49:30] Speaker 1: from the Saudi crown prints now six point two billion,
[49:34] Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of it foreign money from golf governments,
[49:39] Speaker 1: over one hundred and ten million dollars in fees collected
[49:43] Speaker 1: from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with
[49:48] Speaker 1: the governments that pay him two point three billion dollars.
[49:52] Speaker 1: From crypto ventures their father regulates, more than a million
[49:56] Speaker 1: people bought in and lost another two point three billiding
[49:59] Speaker 1: they actually lost three point eight billion. The money didn't grow,
[50:02] Speaker 1: It simply moved from the subject's pockets to the crown's coffers.
[50:07] Speaker 1: And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF
[50:10] Speaker 1: rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to
[50:13] Speaker 1: your front door. The government's own estimate is three point
[50:17] Speaker 1: three million home gun deliveries a year. Don Junior sits
[50:22] Speaker 1: on the board of the online gun megastore built to
[50:26] Speaker 1: cash in. He holds three hundred thousand shares. And that's
[50:30] Speaker 1: only the fraction they've allowed us to see. Not one
[50:33] Speaker 1: subpoena served, not one search executed. Why hide anything when
[50:38] Speaker 1: you own? The investigators me They searched a laptop for
[50:43] Speaker 1: six years, federal prosecutors, grand juries, subpoena power, congressional hearings.
[50:49] Speaker 1: They found nothing. I made about two hundred thousand dollars
[50:53] Speaker 1: a year selling paintings when my dad was president, and
[50:57] Speaker 1: they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry. For
[51:01] Speaker 1: six years, they've asked, where's Hunter? What about the laptop?
[51:05] Speaker 1: Wrong questions? The right one is two hundred and fifty
[51:08] Speaker 1: years old? Does America belong to a family? They've given
[51:11] Speaker 1: their answer, Long Live the King. Oh what Hunter didn't
[51:16] Speaker 1: mention was cuttered giving the United States a four hundred
[51:22] Speaker 1: million dollar luxury jet that then government. The government took that,
[51:28] Speaker 1: retrofitted it with all the security and other features for
[51:34] Speaker 1: a president, probably six hundred million to a billion dollars
[51:40] Speaker 1: in upgrades. Oh and Donald Trump signed a deal that
[51:45] Speaker 1: when he leaves the White House, the plane goes to
[51:49] Speaker 1: his library foundation. Y'all know, show the plane. Come on,
[51:55] Speaker 1: y'all know what's gonna happen. He's gonna sit here and
[51:59] Speaker 1: use that plane as his private plane. We all know
[52:04] Speaker 1: that Omikongo, this is the grifter or in cheap this
[52:08] Speaker 1: is the thug in cheap. He literally is the most
[52:12] Speaker 1: corrupt occupant of the Oval office in American history.
[52:20] Speaker 9: One of his children said that they want to be
[52:22] Speaker 9: the richest family in the history of the world, and
[52:25] Speaker 9: they are using the presidency to do that in every way,
[52:28] Speaker 9: shape or form. The fact of the matter is is
[52:30] Speaker 9: that Donald Trump and one of his other sons said
[52:34] Speaker 9: that basically they could have done a lot of this
[52:35] Speaker 9: stuff in the first administration, but they were too cautious.
[52:38] Speaker 9: But then they realized that nobody cared and that they
[52:40] Speaker 9: were never going to get in trouble. So they are
[52:42] Speaker 9: having a free fra all right now, as it relates,
[52:44] Speaker 9: are taking advantage of everything the country has to offer.
[52:46] Speaker 9: Whether we're talking about, like you said, the crypto, whether
[52:48] Speaker 9: they're talking about the drones, whether we're talking about the
[52:50] Speaker 9: military contracts. It's all being done out in the open,
[52:53] Speaker 9: I mean, and we compare this to what Lamumba's done.
[52:57] Speaker 9: And look at all of this, and one group that
[52:59] Speaker 9: didn't get mentioned in this conversation and everything that you read,
[53:02] Speaker 9: well Steve Whitkoff and what he's doing with his sons
[53:04] Speaker 9: as well as well as what's happening with Trump's sons
[53:08] Speaker 9: in laws, the other ones, not Jared, but the other ones.
[53:10] Speaker 9: And so this is an open grift. And their justification
[53:14] Speaker 9: when people say, well, you all went after Hunter Biden,
[53:16] Speaker 9: their justification is, well, we're doing all of this in
[53:19] Speaker 9: the open. We are being as transparent as possible. Number one,
[53:22] Speaker 9: they're not being as transparent as possible, so they're lying
[53:24] Speaker 9: about that. But they created the infrastructure that had somebody
[53:28] Speaker 9: become the first trillionaire in the world history, while hundreds
[53:31] Speaker 9: of thousands of people are dying across the world after
[53:33] Speaker 9: USA was gutted and shuttered down. And now they are
[53:37] Speaker 9: out there and oh they were Kafaghetti Vandka and the
[53:40] Speaker 9: island that they're trying to have with Croatia, right, and
[53:43] Speaker 9: so every single day they are doing it and we
[53:46] Speaker 9: just have to ask the question Roland, when are enough
[53:48] Speaker 9: American people going to rise up? And one of the
[53:50] Speaker 9: reasons I feel enough Americans are not rising up because
[53:53] Speaker 9: too many are still comfortable. As long as they have
[53:55] Speaker 9: somebody who's doing worse than them, as long as they
[53:58] Speaker 9: got people who are quote unquote Eeleegal being arrested, as
[54:01] Speaker 9: long as they got these dei quote unquote walk programs
[54:04] Speaker 9: being thrown, They'll let Trump do whatever he wants as
[54:06] Speaker 9: long as somebody else stays below them. And that's the
[54:09] Speaker 9: other part of this American sham and grift.
[54:12] Speaker 1: You know what was interesting a film or there were
[54:15] Speaker 1: even some folks on the Fox News talking about how man,
[54:20] Speaker 1: how unseemly this is.
[54:23] Speaker 13: Now.
[54:24] Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal did have this story here. Trump
[54:27] Speaker 1: wants a new Air Force one in his presidential library.
[54:30] Speaker 1: It's not a done deal. That's see. His plan faces
[54:33] Speaker 1: some obstacles, but he doesn't want this plane to be
[54:39] Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not going You gotta remember it his
[54:42] Speaker 1: plane he called Trump for whatever the hell he called it. Okay,
[54:46] Speaker 1: it's an old, raggedy plane, Okay, that constant, decently repaired. No,
[54:51] Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants to use this one. Ain't no way
[54:54] Speaker 1: in hell He's gonna put a shiny new object that's
[54:59] Speaker 1: a luxury plane inside of a building. No, he wants
[55:02] Speaker 1: to use this as his personal aircraft. We all know
[55:05] Speaker 1: what this thug wants to do.
[55:09] Speaker 7: You're right, thug in charge. And that's what he's been
[55:13] Speaker 7: the entire presidency that he's occupied this office, whether he
[55:18] Speaker 7: got in rightfully or not. He's also was that same
[55:22] Speaker 7: way before he left office. And to think about the
[55:27] Speaker 7: way that he wants to maneuver and the way that
[55:30] Speaker 7: he's continuing to play in Americans faces is comical because
[55:36] Speaker 7: they allowed it. They saw this happening, and for him
[55:40] Speaker 7: to now be utilizing this measure to backdoor this plane,
[55:45] Speaker 7: we can see that coming like we saw that coming
[55:48] Speaker 7: with their behavior from the minute they implemented and integrated
[55:53] Speaker 7: Project twenty twenty five. This was already set in stone.
[55:57] Speaker 7: We are just now being forced to go through the
[55:59] Speaker 7: process them. And he understands with that old plane, he
[56:03] Speaker 7: got too many skeletons on the old plane, That old
[56:06] Speaker 7: plane is attached to too many young bodies that now
[56:10] Speaker 7: he wants to utilize a new plane in order to
[56:13] Speaker 7: continue to perpetuate behaviors that are criminal in nature. And
[56:18] Speaker 7: I would say this plan. Devil's advocate Joe Biden could
[56:23] Speaker 7: have also utilized the right resources in order to make
[56:29] Speaker 7: sure that his son was being properly treated throughout this process,
[56:34] Speaker 7: because it wasn't. And you want to say, I want
[56:36] Speaker 7: to keep my hands off, but there's a way that
[56:39] Speaker 7: you utilize your office in the right way to make
[56:43] Speaker 7: sure justice is being handed down accordingly. And I also
[56:47] Speaker 7: blamed Joe Biden for knowing that he was not fit
[56:49] Speaker 7: to continue to try to run for office anyway. That
[56:52] Speaker 7: gave us a delay in making sure that we have
[56:56] Speaker 7: the right candidate that could ultimately this individual coming into office.
[57:02] Speaker 7: So when we're looking at the whole lens of the
[57:05] Speaker 7: whole breakdown of what Hunter Biden put you gotta add
[57:09] Speaker 7: your daddy because if your daddy would have put things
[57:13] Speaker 7: in place, and he wouldn't have been holding on to
[57:16] Speaker 7: a position that he knew that he was not fit
[57:19] Speaker 7: to serve, some of these things could have been prevented.
[57:22] Speaker 7: Would it have all been prevented? No, But we're here now.
[57:25] Speaker 7: We can't complain because we are stuck until people get
[57:29] Speaker 7: the understanding that we got to vote this person out.
[57:31] Speaker 7: We had to vote like our lives depend on it.
[57:36] Speaker 1: The reality is we are looking at a somebody who
[57:41] Speaker 1: is trying to rape and pillage the federal government of
[57:45] Speaker 1: Julanda and the real culprits of all. This is the
[57:51] Speaker 1: extreme court when they ruled that frankly, that anything a
[57:56] Speaker 1: president does it's legal, that they cannot be prosecut it. Oh,
[58:01] Speaker 1: Donald Trump was like, we about to clean up. We
[58:05] Speaker 1: know they were straight thieven the first time. Now they
[58:09] Speaker 1: don't even give a damn. They are literally stealing stuff
[58:12] Speaker 1: off the walls while folk are looking and filming. They
[58:16] Speaker 1: don't care. They don't care at all.
[58:20] Speaker 4: Well, Roland, why should they kiss?
[58:22] Speaker 5: First of all, you say they trying to do it,
[58:24] Speaker 5: I respectfully submit to you they are no.
[58:25] Speaker 1: No, I just say they're trying. They are doing it.
[58:28] Speaker 1: They are sitting here just like yo, we gonna snatch
[58:30] Speaker 1: everything we can. And I estimated this. So this is
[58:35] Speaker 1: a Wall Street Journal article. They said crypto bets in
[58:37] Speaker 1: real estate deals inside Trump's two billion dollar a year.
[58:40] Speaker 1: I absolutely believe by the time this thug walks out
[58:45] Speaker 1: of the Oval office, he will have he will have
[58:51] Speaker 1: personally guaranteed himself ten to fifteen billion.
[58:56] Speaker 4: Dollars, not a doubt in my mind. Roland. But here's
[58:59] Speaker 4: the deal.
[59:00] Speaker 5: Once Trump got elected, and once he controlled the Supremes,
[59:06] Speaker 5: whatever he wanted to do, he could do. And you know,
[59:09] Speaker 5: I struggle, right because the only way to stop this
[59:12] Speaker 5: is to not for him to have ever gotten in
[59:14] Speaker 5: the office. And the only way to stop it in
[59:16] Speaker 5: the future is to vote like we've never voted before
[59:19] Speaker 5: in the midterms and get rid of the people that
[59:21] Speaker 5: enable him, because he can't do it if he doesn't
[59:23] Speaker 5: have a Congress that passes this stuff, and if he
[59:26] Speaker 5: doesn't have a Senate that passes this stuff, so he
[59:29] Speaker 5: can't do it alone.
[59:30] Speaker 4: So you've got to get rid of them.
[59:32] Speaker 5: Except for I don't want to place all of the
[59:34] Speaker 5: blame on the people that aren't going out to vote,
[59:36] Speaker 5: because people right now are.
[59:38] Speaker 4: In a triage life. Right now, things are really bad.
[59:42] Speaker 4: They can't find jobs.
[59:43] Speaker 5: So the thing that they're worried about most is not
[59:45] Speaker 5: always politics. And so should they be worried about politics, absolutely, Roland.
[59:50] Speaker 5: But if you can't pay your bills and you're trying
[59:51] Speaker 5: to figure out how you're gonna pay for daycare or
[59:54] Speaker 5: how you're gonna pay for food, or how you're gonna
[59:56] Speaker 5: get gas money, you're not worried about other things because.
[1:00:00] Speaker 1: Well, but my whole deal though, is I mean, I'm
[1:00:03] Speaker 1: not gonna play devil was avact. I'm just gonna cut
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: right to it.
[1:00:05] Speaker 2: Damn it.
[1:00:06] Speaker 1: They should because the reality is the United States economy
[1:00:10] Speaker 1: coming out of COVID two thousand and twenty and twenty
[1:00:13] Speaker 1: one has the fat hat the top economic recovery of
[1:00:18] Speaker 1: any industrialized nation in the country. The country was on
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: an upper trajectory when Biden Harris was there that would
[1:00:26] Speaker 1: have continued. The reality is Trump comes in stars all that.
[1:00:30] Speaker 1: The folks who did vote have to accept the responsibility
[1:00:34] Speaker 1: because they bought into his bullshit, and now you have
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: even more of them every day, like, oh my god,
[1:00:39] Speaker 1: I should have done it. Wait a minute, Wait, wait
[1:00:42] Speaker 1: a minute. And then the people who were trashing Harris
[1:00:45] Speaker 1: were stupid because well the Indians who said, well, she's
[1:00:49] Speaker 1: the same as Donald Trump, and then those who stated
[1:00:51] Speaker 1: the home So the reason folk had better pay attention
[1:00:55] Speaker 1: because if they don't like what's happening right now economically,
[1:00:59] Speaker 1: they could have done something about it, but they didn't.
[1:01:03] Speaker 4: I understand that, Roland.
[1:01:04] Speaker 5: But you know something, before I got elected and understood
[1:01:07] Speaker 5: what was going on in politics.
[1:01:08] Speaker 4: I didn't understand how to connect the dots. That's just real.
[1:01:12] Speaker 5: And so what we're gonna have to do in twenty
[1:01:14] Speaker 5: twenty six is to actually spend money to explain to
[1:01:18] Speaker 5: people how the dots are connected. Because you think people
[1:01:21] Speaker 5: that are struggling to pay their bills and just stay
[1:01:24] Speaker 5: alive understand the connectivity of politics.
[1:01:27] Speaker 4: They don't.
[1:01:27] Speaker 5: So I'm not saying that all the things you just
[1:01:29] Speaker 5: said are not true. They absolutely are. But we have
[1:01:33] Speaker 5: got to let them know how to connect those dots
[1:01:36] Speaker 5: because if we do not wipe out the Republicans figuratively speaking,
[1:01:41] Speaker 5: in the midterms of twenty twenty six, Trump will continue
[1:01:45] Speaker 5: with his thievery.
[1:01:46] Speaker 4: And then when twenty twenty eight.
[1:01:47] Speaker 5: Rolls around, we better make sure that we have built
[1:01:50] Speaker 5: the infrastructure, which is a whole other conversation for another
[1:01:53] Speaker 5: day in the black community, so that in twenty twenty
[1:01:56] Speaker 5: eight we're able to get somebody in the White House
[1:02:00] Speaker 5: who is not a Republican, who is not going to
[1:02:02] Speaker 5: destroy us, so that we can try to put this
[1:02:04] Speaker 5: country back on track to where at least people have
[1:02:08] Speaker 5: a chance to achieve, you know, prosperity and be able
[1:02:12] Speaker 5: to pay for basic things living wage and all of
[1:02:13] Speaker 5: those types of things. So I'm going to say that
[1:02:16] Speaker 5: again the second Trump won. Trump didn't give a damn
[1:02:19] Speaker 5: whether the supremes we're going to do stuff in his favor.
[1:02:23] Speaker 4: He was going to try it anyway.
[1:02:25] Speaker 5: He was going to have a whole bunch of people
[1:02:26] Speaker 5: around the country file lawsuits so that they would get
[1:02:28] Speaker 5: up to the Supremes because he had a majority on
[1:02:31] Speaker 5: Supremes before he got there. And that's what's going to
[1:02:34] Speaker 5: happen in the future if we don't understand this. But
[1:02:37] Speaker 5: I'm going to say this fourth, third time, we better
[1:02:40] Speaker 5: connect the dots so that they can understand the the
[1:02:45] Speaker 5: necessity and the danger of what it is going forward.
[1:02:48] Speaker 5: And we'll say this, a Democratic party better invest in
[1:02:51] Speaker 5: black infratry.
[1:02:52] Speaker 1: So here's the cools. I mean, I've been saying, I've
[1:02:56] Speaker 1: been saying on this show. I mean for a very
[1:03:00] Speaker 1: long time. It is about connecting the dots, connecting the dots.
[1:03:04] Speaker 1: But what I am saying is for people because I
[1:03:07] Speaker 1: encountered people who say, you know what, you know, that
[1:03:10] Speaker 1: stuff doesn't it doesn't impact me whatsever I'm like, No,
[1:03:13] Speaker 1: it does. It impacts you every single every single day.
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: You better recognize it. Now, let's talk about this here, y'all.
[1:03:20] Speaker 1: So normally, normally in Washington, d C. Fourth of July
[1:03:25] Speaker 1: there is a massive, massive fireworks show, I mean massive,
[1:03:31] Speaker 1: and it's always quite spectacular and it has done quite well.
[1:03:37] Speaker 1: In fact, just just show y'all something this. This was
[1:03:40] Speaker 1: four years ago, and this was the fireworks display that
[1:03:44] Speaker 1: took place in Washington, D C. It's nearly twenty minutes.
[1:03:49] Speaker 1: I mean, it is just unbelievable in anybody who in
[1:03:55] Speaker 1: the nation's capital, they normally, they normally understand. And you know,
[1:04:01] Speaker 1: this is right here. You look at this right here,
[1:04:04] Speaker 1: This is you know, the fireworks display, you know, some
[1:04:07] Speaker 1: thirteen minutes in and you see, I mean, it is
[1:04:10] Speaker 1: just more and more and more. Well, the narcissist, narcissist
[1:04:15] Speaker 1: in chief decided that he wanted the absolute greatest, most unbelievable, fantastical,
[1:04:25] Speaker 1: the biggest, the boldest, the baddest fireworks display ever. I mean,
[1:04:30] Speaker 1: he said, no, we want it to be just insane.
[1:04:36] Speaker 1: Let's just blow it out of the water. And so
[1:04:41] Speaker 1: and so they ordered up I mean a massive, a
[1:04:44] Speaker 1: massive amount of fireworks and it was just stuff was
[1:04:50] Speaker 1: just exploding and going off. And you know, they had
[1:04:53] Speaker 1: massive storms that came through DC and things were things
[1:04:59] Speaker 1: were certainly rough. But but and then Trump they want
[1:05:04] Speaker 1: to cancel this whole his old speech. He's like, no,
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: I'm still speaking. So we're on eleven o'clock at night.
[1:05:09] Speaker 1: Uh and uh and so so so. So look at
[1:05:12] Speaker 1: this shop now, y'all want to see a mess. Look
[1:05:15] Speaker 1: at this mess right here. Okay, look at that mess. Okay,
[1:05:22] Speaker 1: Now you might ask, okay, I don't understand what happened. Well,
[1:05:28] Speaker 1: here's why. The dumb ass ordered so many fireworks that
[1:05:34] Speaker 1: they actually overwhelmed it all. He again, this is how
[1:05:41] Speaker 1: stupid he is. This is how it looked else. Come on,
[1:05:51] Speaker 1: all you seeing is smoke? What the this is what see?
[1:06:17] Speaker 1: Folks were Oh oh, as a matter of fact, this
[1:06:21] Speaker 1: this one here, this is what happened. Also during the
[1:06:25] Speaker 1: fireworks display that also happened right there. Uh he always
[1:06:31] Speaker 1: talked about sleepy Joe. Yeah, yeah, we see that one
[1:06:35] Speaker 1: right there. Thelm A The thing right here, Let the
[1:06:40] Speaker 1: experts do what they do when you over anybody who
[1:06:44] Speaker 1: understands fireworks. It's all about timing. It's all about certain
[1:06:48] Speaker 1: explosions air. Do you know what happened. It was so
[1:06:52] Speaker 1: bad on that on July fourth, Washington, d C. Had
[1:06:58] Speaker 1: the worst air quality of any city in the world
[1:07:04] Speaker 1: on that night because of this dumb ass is firework display.
[1:07:14] Speaker 4: Jesus, I can't.
[1:07:17] Speaker 3: I have no words.
[1:07:19] Speaker 7: I have no words, I have no understanding. I don't
[1:07:22] Speaker 7: know what universe we are on where this is normal.
[1:07:26] Speaker 7: This is not normal, like even an elementary student knows
[1:07:33] Speaker 7: and how could do this is better than him? It's
[1:07:35] Speaker 7: like where, what is going on?
[1:07:39] Speaker 4: What is happening?
[1:07:40] Speaker 7: Like it's almost to the fact that he's going to
[1:07:44] Speaker 7: overwhelm the actual ecosystem and now we probably have some
[1:07:51] Speaker 7: long standing damage because of what this Butcher's it's very simple.
[1:07:55] Speaker 7: The instructions are very simple. They could have went on
[1:07:58] Speaker 7: chat GPT and got the instruction.
[1:08:00] Speaker 1: Of course, no, they do this every year. They do this.
[1:08:04] Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. But no, mister, I want
[1:08:07] Speaker 1: to be the biggest, the boldest. I wanted to be
[1:08:10] Speaker 1: the largest. Fight. Just use all of it on the congo.
[1:08:15] Speaker 1: Dumb ass. This is what it ends up looking like.
[1:08:19] Speaker 1: It looks like shit. You can't see anything.
[1:08:23] Speaker 7: See nothing.
[1:08:25] Speaker 3: I can't I can't.
[1:08:27] Speaker 9: I mean, look, this is my first time actually seeing
[1:08:30] Speaker 9: the video of the display. I heard about it, and
[1:08:33] Speaker 9: a lot of people were like they were staying as
[1:08:35] Speaker 9: far away from DC as possible. And the way that
[1:08:37] Speaker 9: this put this whole cloud across DC, you know, I
[1:08:40] Speaker 9: really find myself concerned for folks who are in the
[1:08:43] Speaker 9: in the poorer parts of DC, you know, the southeast,
[1:08:46] Speaker 9: you know, parts of Northeast in the like, because this
[1:08:48] Speaker 9: really blanketed the city in a way that was destructive.
[1:08:51] Speaker 3: But this is what Trump does.
[1:08:53] Speaker 9: We got this, We got the pool with the algae,
[1:08:55] Speaker 9: hired a company called Greenwater to literally make greenwater come
[1:08:58] Speaker 9: out of the reflection, followed the algae in and like
[1:09:01] Speaker 9: you got the claw down there in front of the
[1:09:03] Speaker 9: White House, and now you got a whole smoke boffer
[1:09:06] Speaker 9: the whole city. Like you said, the worst air quality
[1:09:09] Speaker 9: in the entire world on the night of July fourth,
[1:09:11] Speaker 9: on our two hundred and fifty eeth anniversary. And we've
[1:09:14] Speaker 9: all traveled, we've all been in places where the air
[1:09:16] Speaker 9: quality was terrible, and it was worse than the worst
[1:09:20] Speaker 9: we've experienced.
[1:09:21] Speaker 3: And thank Trump for that.
[1:09:22] Speaker 9: And I wonder who got the kickback who you know,
[1:09:24] Speaker 9: what favorite company off is got this on the backside.
[1:09:27] Speaker 3: He is polluting DC, he's destroying DC, he's.
[1:09:31] Speaker 9: Vandalizing DC, and he's ultimately jeopardizing our health quality with
[1:09:36] Speaker 9: stunts like this, and it's disgusting.
[1:09:39] Speaker 1: I mean, he is, OK. So this is give me
[1:09:43] Speaker 1: one second. So this is a Washington Post story here Jalanda.
[1:09:47] Speaker 1: It said the amount of fine particulate matter reached level
[1:09:51] Speaker 1: scene during past independence they celebrations, but stayed high through
[1:09:56] Speaker 1: Sunday morning. According to the EPA, A quality in Washington
[1:10:01] Speaker 1: d C remain at unhealthy levels for more than ten
[1:10:06] Speaker 1: hours after the forty minute firework show over the National Mall.
[1:10:10] Speaker 1: According to data from air now, a website maintained by
[1:10:13] Speaker 1: the Environmental Protection Agency reporting air quality measurements from physical sensors.
[1:10:20] Speaker 1: Now they said that okay, these things happen, but they
[1:10:24] Speaker 1: stayed high through Sunday morning, compared to more rapid drops
[1:10:28] Speaker 1: in previous years. And it said PM two point five
[1:10:33] Speaker 1: refers to particles so small that when breathing in, they
[1:10:36] Speaker 1: enter the bloodstream and lungs. Like, what, this is what
[1:10:43] Speaker 1: happens when you're so stupid, You're just like just blought
[1:10:46] Speaker 1: all up. So he doesn't care, He doesn't give a
[1:10:49] Speaker 1: damn about the people in DC and breathing the air. No,
[1:10:54] Speaker 1: he wanted his egos stroked with this big so I
[1:10:59] Speaker 1: had the biggest, the biggest ever. Yeah, okay, where to go?
[1:11:04] Speaker 4: I mean Roland?
[1:11:05] Speaker 1: So why?
[1:11:06] Speaker 5: First of all, I'm shocked that people are shocked that
[1:11:10] Speaker 5: Trump does the dumb shit that he does. I mean,
[1:11:12] Speaker 5: he's shown us before he got re elected in twenty
[1:11:16] Speaker 5: twenty four. I mean that he is an idiot. He
[1:11:21] Speaker 5: is like white supremacy at its worst. He has the
[1:11:24] Speaker 5: biggest Napoleonic syndrome that I've ever seen in my life.
[1:11:28] Speaker 5: He is a little man, notwithstanding the fact that he's obese.
[1:11:32] Speaker 4: But I know what's.
[1:11:33] Speaker 5: Little on him just because of how he works, Because
[1:11:35] Speaker 5: people like that always want to peel on the fire
[1:11:38] Speaker 5: hydrants the most. That is exactly who he is. And
[1:11:42] Speaker 5: so why would he care about DC anyway? It's full
[1:11:46] Speaker 5: of black people. We've heard what he said, we know
[1:11:50] Speaker 5: how he treats DC.
[1:11:52] Speaker 4: Do you think that.
[1:11:54] Speaker 5: Donald Trump cares at all about the air quality for
[1:11:58] Speaker 5: black people in DC?
[1:12:00] Speaker 4: He does not.
[1:12:00] Speaker 1: He don't care about the air quality.
[1:12:03] Speaker 2: He don't care about the air quality.
[1:12:04] Speaker 1: He don't care about the air quality. And when he
[1:12:06] Speaker 1: passing gas in the Oval office.
[1:12:09] Speaker 4: He sure doesn't, but everybody else is dying.
[1:12:11] Speaker 1: We know that's or when he's sitting there soiling the
[1:12:14] Speaker 1: diaper that he wears.
[1:12:16] Speaker 4: Exactly, and he's think in his rank.
[1:12:19] Speaker 5: But my point is this, we need to you know,
[1:12:23] Speaker 5: we had to put up with him for the next
[1:12:24] Speaker 5: two years and then we need to get.
[1:12:26] Speaker 4: Republicans out of there.
[1:12:28] Speaker 5: But again, why we are we surprised that Donald Trump
[1:12:32] Speaker 5: only worries about just making people.
[1:12:35] Speaker 4: Believe it be the best.
[1:12:36] Speaker 1: I mean, Obama's still different in his mind, well, in fact,
[1:12:40] Speaker 1: in fact, in fact, in fact, if you want to
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: know if he again, uh, we know for a fact
[1:12:48] Speaker 1: that this is truly one of the most despicable human
[1:12:55] Speaker 1: beings ever.
[1:12:57] Speaker 13: Uh.
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: He has no regard for anything, but he really is
[1:13:02] Speaker 1: a despicable individual. I don't know if y'all saw this,
[1:13:08] Speaker 1: but he's always being racist, and so he decided to
[1:13:14] Speaker 1: post this on truth social a photo of the Obama's
[1:13:20] Speaker 1: waving with yes we can bolm Obama and some writing
[1:13:27] Speaker 1: in Arabic O my congo. This is what racists do.
[1:13:35] Speaker 3: Exactly.
[1:13:36] Speaker 9: And when people are talking about why has Trump not
[1:13:40] Speaker 9: condemned those white nationalists who are on the mall, who
[1:13:44] Speaker 9: are down in Union Station or riding the trains fronting
[1:13:46] Speaker 9: that black girl, and people haven't heard anything from the
[1:13:49] Speaker 9: White House.
[1:13:49] Speaker 3: But what people are not saying on these shows that
[1:13:51] Speaker 3: I'm watching is because he is them. He is the racist.
[1:13:55] Speaker 3: He is the.
[1:13:56] Speaker 9: Racist in chief, and he's going to put up racist
[1:13:58] Speaker 9: imagery like that graffiti on a plane, I mean seriously,
[1:14:02] Speaker 9: as well as with the Arabic He is giving everybody
[1:14:05] Speaker 9: who has any type of racist sentiment all of the
[1:14:09] Speaker 9: red meat that they want.
[1:14:10] Speaker 3: And the fact that people are in this out for
[1:14:12] Speaker 3: what it is.
[1:14:13] Speaker 9: They'll say things like bizarre or crazy or a late
[1:14:17] Speaker 9: night text ran call it what it is, like you said,
[1:14:20] Speaker 9: this is racist, This Islama phobic. This is the guy
[1:14:22] Speaker 9: who can't slay Barack Obama without throwing who's saying in
[1:14:25] Speaker 9: the middle to try to drum up some type of
[1:14:26] Speaker 9: Islamophobic hate towards him, And he's not going to stop
[1:14:29] Speaker 9: doing this. Same guy who posted them as monkeys as well,
[1:14:32] Speaker 9: he is not going to stop doing this. But it
[1:14:34] Speaker 9: doesn't mean that people have to continue to cower them
[1:14:37] Speaker 9: and not call it out. People talk about, oh, we
[1:14:39] Speaker 9: got a young Nazi problem with MAGA and all of that.
[1:14:41] Speaker 9: No one starts on the top and works its way down.
[1:14:44] Speaker 9: They have found their home with this individual. These guys
[1:14:46] Speaker 9: have wanted to build a call forever their white supremacist structure.
[1:14:51] Speaker 9: All they needed was someone to unify them, and he
[1:14:53] Speaker 9: is that guy. That image is racist, period, bottom line.
[1:14:57] Speaker 9: And this is the first show that I've watch today
[1:15:00] Speaker 9: or you know been on that actually called it that.
[1:15:03] Speaker 9: And that is part of the problem, the inability to
[1:15:05] Speaker 9: continually call this out for what it is.
[1:15:08] Speaker 1: So when the storms hit DC on Saturday, did y'all
[1:15:11] Speaker 1: see the video of all of these white folks retreating
[1:15:14] Speaker 1: to the Smithsonian Museum of National American History and Culture?
[1:15:18] Speaker 1: Come on rolling video? So here they are, they're trying
[1:15:22] Speaker 1: to escape the storms, so they escape into that hollow
[1:15:28] Speaker 1: round and they should have taken the time to actually
[1:15:31] Speaker 1: go look at some of the damn exhibits because they
[1:15:34] Speaker 1: would have seen about their support of this racist individual. Well,
[1:15:38] Speaker 1: the Trump White House the next day put out this report,
[1:15:42] Speaker 1: a one hundred and sixty plus page report called Saving
[1:15:46] Speaker 1: America's History, How ideological capture at the Smithsonian Institution's National
[1:15:51] Speaker 1: Museum of American History erasist our heritage. And what they
[1:15:55] Speaker 1: did in this report is just go through this whole thing,
[1:15:58] Speaker 1: laying out how, oh my goodness, how these folks are
[1:16:03] Speaker 1: are just wrong. Uh. They sit here and they trashed
[1:16:08] Speaker 1: the Smithsonian, calling the leaders having extreme activism. Uh and
[1:16:16] Speaker 1: and in this, in this here give me one said.
[1:16:20] Speaker 1: The report argues that the museum leaders have moved the
[1:16:23] Speaker 1: institution away from historical scholarship and towards social justice advocacy,
[1:16:28] Speaker 1: saying in the museum now presents American history largely through
[1:16:32] Speaker 1: themes of racism, oppression, inequality. See see what Trump wants
[1:16:37] Speaker 1: is he wants truly whitewashed history. What he wants is
[1:16:43] Speaker 1: no white folks is just great. They were just wonderful.
[1:16:46] Speaker 1: Uh and and all of that.
[1:16:48] Speaker 2: Uh.
[1:16:48] Speaker 1: In fact, this is what it concludes in the report.
[1:16:52] Speaker 1: We must be committed to restoring truth, insanity, and how
[1:16:56] Speaker 1: American history is presented and taught. President Trump's executive Order
[1:17:00] Speaker 1: of March twenty twenty five knows that the Smithsonian's effort
[1:17:04] Speaker 1: to rewrite history deepened societal divides and fosters a sense
[1:17:08] Speaker 1: of national shame disregarding the progress America has made and
[1:17:12] Speaker 1: the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe
[1:17:16] Speaker 1: as a result, to restore the truth of America's story.
[1:17:19] Speaker 1: As in regards to the Smithsonian Institution, Executive Order one four
[1:17:23] Speaker 1: to two five three directs the Vice President as Region
[1:17:26] Speaker 1: of the Smithsonian to work with the Assistant to the
[1:17:29] Speaker 1: President for Domestic Policy quote to remove improper ideology from
[1:17:34] Speaker 1: such properties, and shall recommend to the President any additional
[1:17:38] Speaker 1: actions necessary to fully effectuate such policies, and with the
[1:17:42] Speaker 1: Director of the Office of Management and Budget to quote
[1:17:44] Speaker 1: prohibit expenditure on exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values,
[1:17:50] Speaker 1: divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies
[1:17:54] Speaker 1: inconsistent with federal law and policy. Let's be real clear.
[1:18:00] Speaker 1: Let's be real clear on the Congo. Lonnie Bunch is
[1:18:04] Speaker 1: in trouble as a leader Smithsonian. They want to wipe
[1:18:07] Speaker 1: the leadership out. They're going to strip these museums of
[1:18:12] Speaker 1: the real history of this country. And what they want
[1:18:16] Speaker 1: to continue is the white version, the white racist version
[1:18:20] Speaker 1: of American history that completely strips away. They hate us
[1:18:25] Speaker 1: things that they actually did.
[1:18:29] Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean Trump one point, oh visited the museum.
[1:18:31] Speaker 9: You know Lonnie Bunch's African American Museum. You know, you know,
[1:18:35] Speaker 9: lone a bunch showed him around and they're like, but
[1:18:36] Speaker 9: now this is Trump two point zero, completely unhinged with
[1:18:39] Speaker 9: for all his racism. Of course he had the racism
[1:18:41] Speaker 9: and Trump one point zero, but now he's un hinge,
[1:18:43] Speaker 9: and yes, he's absolutely coming for him. This is a
[1:18:45] Speaker 9: man who feels like after the Slaughter case the Supreme Court,
[1:18:48] Speaker 9: that he can get rid of anybody in the executive
[1:18:50] Speaker 9: branch of who he wants and anybody else anywhere, And
[1:18:53] Speaker 9: why not take an advantage to turn the Smithsonian into
[1:18:56] Speaker 9: the white story that you want to be told about
[1:18:59] Speaker 9: America if you went that way. I didn't go, but
[1:19:02] Speaker 9: we saw the stories. You know, have the great quote
[1:19:04] Speaker 9: unquote Great American State Fair, like some of these tents
[1:19:06] Speaker 9: that represent in certain states like North Carolina, like they
[1:19:09] Speaker 9: had Confederate.
[1:19:10] Speaker 3: Flags in there.
[1:19:11] Speaker 9: You know, you had these guys again who I talked about,
[1:19:13] Speaker 9: you know, the white nationalists walking around with Confederate flags.
[1:19:15] Speaker 3: So if you walk, if you go into.
[1:19:17] Speaker 9: The Smithsonian and you see all the beautiful infrastructure there,
[1:19:20] Speaker 9: and you see all of the museums, and you say,
[1:19:21] Speaker 9: I have an opportunity to really tell the story of
[1:19:24] Speaker 9: America the way I wanted to be told, to celebrate
[1:19:26] Speaker 9: the white nationalism. You're going to take every advantage and
[1:19:29] Speaker 9: opportunity to do that, and you're going to target to
[1:19:31] Speaker 9: people who have made the Smithsonian as popular as has
[1:19:34] Speaker 9: been the Lawni Bunch. But if it's success at a museum,
[1:19:36] Speaker 9: then that the African American History Museum made the entire
[1:19:39] Speaker 9: Smithsonian once he became in charge of it, extremely well,
[1:19:43] Speaker 9: more popular than it was before.
[1:19:45] Speaker 3: But Trump can't have that.
[1:19:46] Speaker 9: And so Trump passed the seas this narrative and he's
[1:19:48] Speaker 9: going to use jad Evans to do that. And yes,
[1:19:50] Speaker 9: Lonnie Bunch and everybody who was part of his his organization,
[1:19:55] Speaker 9: they need to be all noticed right now because they're
[1:19:56] Speaker 9: coming for them next.
[1:20:00] Speaker 1: Islama.
[1:20:02] Speaker 5: You know, you know, I'm extremely bothered, and I almost
[1:20:06] Speaker 5: say this, how you going to scream erase black history
[1:20:09] Speaker 5: and then hide inside black history?
[1:20:11] Speaker 4: But that's another story for another day.
[1:20:14] Speaker 5: We know that Donald Trump is going to try to
[1:20:16] Speaker 5: erase everything that is black, which people say racism. I
[1:20:21] Speaker 5: say anti blackism, because that's what it is. I believe
[1:20:25] Speaker 5: that we need to call a thing a thing and
[1:20:27] Speaker 5: a less than and two he leaves office, then we're
[1:20:31] Speaker 5: going to have these problems because the Supreme Court is
[1:20:34] Speaker 5: stacked against us, and so what we need we can't
[1:20:37] Speaker 5: fight right now, right because Trump has the power in
[1:20:40] Speaker 5: the courts, because somebody's going to sue.
[1:20:43] Speaker 4: We need to be preparing Roland for the midterms and.
[1:20:46] Speaker 5: The twenty twenty eight election, because only then can we
[1:20:50] Speaker 5: do something about it. So the question is going to
[1:20:53] Speaker 5: be what are the Democrats going to do to connect
[1:20:57] Speaker 5: the dots, as we talked about before, And we cannot
[1:21:00] Speaker 5: expect for Trump who wishes he were Barack whusein Obama
[1:21:04] Speaker 5: because and because Barack whosein Obama is living rent free
[1:21:08] Speaker 5: inside of President Trump said, we can't be distracted by
[1:21:11] Speaker 5: that he's going to do that.
[1:21:13] Speaker 4: We need to be focused on what we need.
[1:21:15] Speaker 5: To do to get us out to vote like we've
[1:21:18] Speaker 5: never voted before in the midterms, and like we've never
[1:21:21] Speaker 5: voted before in.
[1:21:22] Speaker 4: Twenty twenty eight. And the Democratic Party is a huge
[1:21:26] Speaker 4: part of that. And they better.
[1:21:27] Speaker 5: Spend money on infrastructure to get us out, and I
[1:21:30] Speaker 5: mean black infrastructure. Otherwise this country is going to go
[1:21:34] Speaker 5: to hell faster in a handbasket if we don't do
[1:21:37] Speaker 5: it now.
[1:21:40] Speaker 1: It's when we look at what worth these people are doing.
[1:21:46] Speaker 1: Thelma again, this is absolutely what was laid out in
[1:21:51] Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five. They want a white view, a
[1:21:56] Speaker 1: white Christian view of this country. That's that's what they want,
[1:22:01] Speaker 1: a white, right wing, radical Christian view of America. And
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: they just hate facts. They just hate them.
[1:22:13] Speaker 7: Not only do they just hate them, but we know
[1:22:16] Speaker 7: that this president is equally obsessed with the thought of
[1:22:21] Speaker 7: taking down anything that may have an inkling of the
[1:22:25] Speaker 7: Obama's attached to it. And to me, when I saw
[1:22:29] Speaker 7: the individuals that are very mediocre in their entire existence
[1:22:35] Speaker 7: running for cover in the African American Museum, that is
[1:22:38] Speaker 7: what they've done their entire life. They have run to
[1:22:42] Speaker 7: African Americans to cover for their lack thereof When they
[1:22:46] Speaker 7: wake up in the morning, they know that they're not better.
[1:22:49] Speaker 7: They know that they are reducing the actual value of
[1:22:54] Speaker 7: this country and how they actually think they act, they
[1:22:57] Speaker 7: more it's made. It actually drives down the value of
[1:23:01] Speaker 7: our country with what this administration is doing. That's why
[1:23:05] Speaker 7: we are the laughing stock of the country. So when
[1:23:07] Speaker 7: people come to me and say, oh, what can we do,
[1:23:10] Speaker 7: they're upset. I'm like, well, we can't do anything right
[1:23:13] Speaker 7: now but prepare and utilize our real estate for what's coming,
[1:23:17] Speaker 7: what the future looks like, so that we can prevent
[1:23:20] Speaker 7: this from happening in the future. One thing that people
[1:23:23] Speaker 7: understand about this country, this country doesn't have its flavor
[1:23:27] Speaker 7: without African Americans. This country does not have its inventions
[1:23:31] Speaker 7: without African Americans. This country does not operate or move
[1:23:36] Speaker 7: in the way that it moves without African Americans. And
[1:23:39] Speaker 7: he cannot wrap his head around that because he is
[1:23:42] Speaker 7: no greater than who he actually believes himself to be.
[1:23:46] Speaker 7: Is actually worse in his own mind, and he wakes
[1:23:49] Speaker 7: up every morning trying to compensate for his lack thereof
[1:23:52] Speaker 7: and his compensation is trying to tear down everything African
[1:23:56] Speaker 7: Americans built on their backs because he will never be
[1:23:59] Speaker 7: That's that's why doing it now, because he has access
[1:24:02] Speaker 7: and power. But we have to focus on what the
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[1:24:11] Speaker 1: Is going to. A quick breat we come back. A
[1:24:15] Speaker 1: white pastor makes it plain when it comes to white
[1:24:19] Speaker 1: Christian nationalism, you do not want to miss that next
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[1:25:52] Speaker 4: My name is Selena Charles and I'm from Apais, Louisiana. Yes,
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[1:26:03] Speaker 4: I'm from Dallas, Texas represented the.
[1:26:05] Speaker 1: Urban Trivia game.
[1:26:06] Speaker 7: Is me serie vra and you know what.
[1:26:07] Speaker 1: You watch Roland Martin on Unfilter. But wes As Supreme
[1:26:20] Speaker 1: Court justices have paused legal proceedings against the state's Republican
[1:26:23] Speaker 1: Attorney General, Liz Morell, saying she raised what they call
[1:26:27] Speaker 1: a compelling argument. The decision comes after a New Orleans
[1:26:31] Speaker 1: grand jury and dieded Morell on sixteen counts, including intimidation
[1:26:35] Speaker 1: and Malfeasans. Prosecutors accused her of trying to intimidate New
[1:26:38] Speaker 1: Orleans officials who opposed a Republican back law restructuring the
[1:26:42] Speaker 1: city's court system. Morell's called the charters retaliatory, meritless and unconstitutional. Meanwhile,
[1:26:49] Speaker 1: Republican Governor Jeff Landria's players to part Morell, saying he
[1:26:52] Speaker 1: would not let her reputation be damaged by what he
[1:26:55] Speaker 1: called a kangaroo court. Well, then again, when you run
[1:26:59] Speaker 1: a king religiously, you're an expert on kangaroos, folks. In
[1:27:04] Speaker 1: the Occupant of the Oval Offices fourth of July speech,
[1:27:09] Speaker 1: Donald Trump claimed the depreation of independence says we are
[1:27:11] Speaker 1: all made in the image of one almighty God. No,
[1:27:17] Speaker 1: it doesn't. Clearly the dumb ass has never read it
[1:27:21] Speaker 1: like literally. It doesn't even say that we white. North
[1:27:24] Speaker 1: Carolina pastor Lauren Livingstone made it clear doing a sermon
[1:27:29] Speaker 1: on the Sunday that America needs to stop calling itself
[1:27:35] Speaker 1: a Christian nation, because he says that's not what America is.
[1:27:44] Speaker 13: There is no such thing as a liberal Christian. The
[1:27:49] Speaker 13: second thing is, there's no such thing as a conservative Christian.
[1:27:53] Speaker 13: A Christian is a Christian.
[1:27:56] Speaker 1: Here we go.
[1:27:57] Speaker 13: Just hang on it. I have said many times from
[1:28:03] Speaker 13: this side and this side and from right here, there
[1:28:06] Speaker 13: is no such thing as a black church, or white
[1:28:09] Speaker 13: Evangelical church or Hispanic church. You cannot put an adjective
[1:28:15] Speaker 13: in front of church or Christian. A Christian believes one
[1:28:20] Speaker 13: thing and the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the
[1:28:25] Speaker 13: God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whose son is Jesus,
[1:28:31] Speaker 13: who came to this world born of a virsion and
[1:28:34] Speaker 13: lived a holy, spotless life, and allowed wicked men to
[1:28:38] Speaker 13: nail him to a tree, and he bled to death,
[1:28:41] Speaker 13: and he paid for the sins of the whole world.
[1:28:44] Speaker 1: And he was buried, and on the third day he.
[1:28:46] Speaker 13: Got up out of the tomb and he walked out.
[1:28:49] Speaker 13: And after that he made a church, and he went
[1:28:51] Speaker 13: to heaven, and he's been interceding ever since, and he's
[1:28:54] Speaker 13: been blessing and filling with the spirit. And one day
[1:28:57] Speaker 13: he's coming back to meet us in the clouds.
[1:29:00] Speaker 1: Glory what he does.
[1:29:01] Speaker 9: We're all going to rise up.
[1:29:03] Speaker 1: Hallelujah to God.
[1:29:05] Speaker 13: We're gonna see him for ourselves and nobody else, Hallelujah.
[1:29:19] Speaker 13: Liberal and conservative is only in man made government and
[1:29:23] Speaker 13: man made religion. A true Christian walks according to scripture,
[1:29:36] Speaker 13: loves the Bible. It's not your interpretation of the Scripture.
[1:29:43] Speaker 13: It's not what they teach at Duke Divinity School or
[1:29:46] Speaker 13: ram A Bible College. They're both crazy. It has never
[1:30:00] Speaker 13: been a Christian nation. You don't live in one now
[1:30:11] Speaker 13: we had godly people get on boats and come over
[1:30:14] Speaker 13: here so they could worship godly people. We've had the
[1:30:19] Speaker 13: greatest Bible preachers in the fifteen sixteen, seventeen hundreds godly people.
[1:30:30] Speaker 13: Some of the people that constructed this country godly people.
[1:30:36] Speaker 13: But it has never been a Christian nation and never
[1:30:39] Speaker 13: will be. Listen, there never will be a Christian nation,
[1:30:46] Speaker 13: because after all this is over, there will be a kingdom,
[1:30:51] Speaker 13: the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[1:30:56] Speaker 1: And in that kingdom the Church.
[1:30:59] Speaker 13: Will rule and reign with Christ not only as his body,
[1:31:03] Speaker 13: but as his bride. For a nation to be Christian,
[1:31:08] Speaker 13: it would have to honor and serve, and glorify and
[1:31:12] Speaker 13: obey everything that the Bible teaches. So I just want
[1:31:18] Speaker 13: to say, just because we have scriptures on our monuments
[1:31:24] Speaker 13: and our buildings, and just because we acknowledge our Creator
[1:31:29] Speaker 13: in our creeds and constitution, does not make this a
[1:31:33] Speaker 13: Christian country. A Christian is one that's born from above
[1:31:40] Speaker 13: and abides in Christ. A Christian nation would be a
[1:31:42] Speaker 13: nation full of people who are born from above and
[1:31:47] Speaker 13: abide in Christ.
[1:31:49] Speaker 1: We're not a Christian nation.
[1:31:53] Speaker 13: You see, a Christian nation would not have killed and
[1:31:57] Speaker 13: displaced twenty million Native Americans who are still marginalized and
[1:32:10] Speaker 13: suffering greatly. A Christian nation would never have thought that
[1:32:18] Speaker 13: owning slaves were somehow pleasing to God and okay to do,
[1:32:28] Speaker 13: or that it lined up with scripture. Not only did
[1:32:33] Speaker 13: we practice it, but it was so important to us
[1:32:41] Speaker 13: that we split a nation, had a civil war, fought
[1:32:44] Speaker 13: against each other, and five hundred thousand Americans died because
[1:32:53] Speaker 13: some people wanted to own as property other people. More people,
[1:33:01] Speaker 13: More Americans died in the Civil.
[1:33:02] Speaker 1: War than any other war we've ever.
[1:33:06] Speaker 13: Fought in the history of this country, including World War Two.
[1:33:12] Speaker 1: HM Livingston course is a pastor of a church in Charlotte,
[1:33:18] Speaker 1: North Carolina. Uh, And that servant certainly got people talking
[1:33:26] Speaker 1: on social media. Central Church in Charlotte, North Carolina got
[1:33:30] Speaker 1: them going. And of course we know these these these
[1:33:34] Speaker 1: right wing folk, they don't want to hear that. Uh. Gelana.
[1:33:38] Speaker 1: He's the same pastor who called out folk buying that
[1:33:42] Speaker 1: Trump Bible that he did with Lee Greenwood that had
[1:33:45] Speaker 1: the Bible and the US Constitution and he said, I'm
[1:33:48] Speaker 1: sorry those two. He said, you should never have a
[1:33:50] Speaker 1: Bible as a US Constitution in it. Now Geelanna, you're
[1:34:01] Speaker 1: doing all that talking to your ass on mute.
[1:34:04] Speaker 4: I'm sorry, my bad.
[1:34:07] Speaker 1: Yeah, we know. At least you ain't got that fuzzy
[1:34:09] Speaker 1: ass stand microphone. This week, I learned my lesson.
[1:34:13] Speaker 5: All you got to do is tell me once, sir.
[1:34:15] Speaker 5: In any case, I'm gonna need you to find something
[1:34:17] Speaker 5: else to talk about.
[1:34:18] Speaker 4: But I digress.
[1:34:19] Speaker 1: I'm just glad you hit that butt, But go ahead.
[1:34:22] Speaker 5: I agree with everything that you just showed us that
[1:34:26] Speaker 5: he said, but I just want to make sure, as
[1:34:31] Speaker 5: the first black open les GBTQ plus person in the
[1:34:33] Speaker 5: Texas legislature, that his whole sermon was not on point,
[1:34:38] Speaker 5: but the part about us, that this country shouldn't have
[1:34:41] Speaker 5: been founded on slavery, that people shouldn't have been like
[1:34:45] Speaker 5: enslaving people, that the Civil War kill more people than anybody,
[1:34:48] Speaker 5: that's absolutely true. And that Christian nationalism is not Christianity.
[1:34:54] Speaker 5: That's true as well. So I'm glad we got it
[1:34:57] Speaker 5: from somebody who doesn't look like us, because people that
[1:35:00] Speaker 5: are buying into this Christian nationalism look just like him.
[1:35:04] Speaker 5: So maybe he's a person who needs to tell them that.
[1:35:08] Speaker 5: But so, but we cannot rely on him to solve
[1:35:12] Speaker 5: the ills that are happening to black people because of
[1:35:14] Speaker 5: Christian nationalism. We can just use him as an ally,
[1:35:18] Speaker 5: and I'll leave it at that, because there are other
[1:35:19] Speaker 5: things that he said that I absolutely do not agree
[1:35:22] Speaker 5: with you.
[1:35:22] Speaker 1: Well, we didn't play everything that he said. That's the
[1:35:24] Speaker 1: whole point. I know, we specific we specific we specifically
[1:35:27] Speaker 1: played that clip for that reason, and so and and
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: the reality is and so anyone could say that, all, well,
[1:35:37] Speaker 1: if I listened to this guy, I think he uh
[1:35:40] Speaker 1: likely is a conservative or Republican. Doesn't matter to me.
[1:35:43] Speaker 1: On my congo, this is what This is what these
[1:35:46] Speaker 1: white preachers should be saying talking to their white congregations
[1:35:51] Speaker 1: so they can understand that they're being bamboozled by a
[1:35:54] Speaker 1: whole bunch of fools, these fake as evangelicals. Ralph Reid
[1:35:58] Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago had his Faith in Freedom
[1:36:00] Speaker 1: conference here in DC. It was nothing on the agenda
[1:36:03] Speaker 1: about real faith, was no discussion about poor people. It
[1:36:07] Speaker 1: was a right wing political conference. O my congo, can
[1:36:17] Speaker 1: all of y'all please turn y'all microphones on? I oh,
[1:36:21] Speaker 1: y'all for it, Sam, I ain't gone or you yet?
[1:36:24] Speaker 1: Turn yours on? Right now?
[1:36:28] Speaker 3: I was just trying to have you know, this little
[1:36:29] Speaker 3: unity with Jilan.
[1:36:31] Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, okay, no, you forgot to hit the
[1:36:34] Speaker 1: damn button.
[1:36:37] Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's one of.
[1:36:38] Speaker 9: The reasons I have a lot of respect for for
[1:36:40] Speaker 9: refend Barber because in a lot of his interviews, he's
[1:36:42] Speaker 9: always talking about the fact that he's an evangelical and
[1:36:46] Speaker 9: that he's not seating this idea of evangel being evangelical
[1:36:49] Speaker 9: to these guys because they're not, and they're using Christianity
[1:36:52] Speaker 9: as some type of form of nationalism. And it's extremely
[1:36:55] Speaker 9: important that people who are you know, of the faith,
[1:36:58] Speaker 9: who are leaders, who are pasts, who are you know, preachers, reverence,
[1:37:02] Speaker 9: all of that type, that they call this out because
[1:37:05] Speaker 9: they have given Christianity over to these white racist nationalists
[1:37:10] Speaker 9: who have been using Christianity in the same way they
[1:37:12] Speaker 9: use other terminology like patriot and so on and so
[1:37:14] Speaker 9: forth to wrap themselves in the American flag. And they've
[1:37:17] Speaker 9: gotten away with it, and they've used Trump as their avatar,
[1:37:20] Speaker 9: even though he's the least Christian person in the history
[1:37:23] Speaker 9: of the world, definitely in the history of the United States,
[1:37:25] Speaker 9: because he was their avatar to the Supreme Court, to
[1:37:28] Speaker 9: ending Roe v.
[1:37:28] Speaker 3: Wade, etc.
[1:37:29] Speaker 2: Etc.
[1:37:30] Speaker 3: And so it's extremely important.
[1:37:32] Speaker 9: And one of the things I appreciate and looking at
[1:37:33] Speaker 9: is is his church, his congregation, it was diverse. That'saw,
[1:37:36] Speaker 9: white folks, black folks in there. It's extremely important that
[1:37:39] Speaker 9: people use the pulpa to call this out. And so
[1:37:42] Speaker 9: many churches have been afraid to speak out. But these
[1:37:45] Speaker 9: white evangelicals ain't afraid to get political about their quote
[1:37:48] Speaker 9: unquote Christianity, their their fate Christianity. And so people who
[1:37:52] Speaker 9: really feel like they represent the word in a particular
[1:37:55] Speaker 9: way and represent what's in that Bible, they absolutely need
[1:37:59] Speaker 9: to speak up because its been absolutely weaponized by Trump, Maga,
[1:38:03] Speaker 9: Heritage Foundation, and these folks in the Supreme Court as well.
[1:38:06] Speaker 1: We need more of thiss Thelma.
[1:38:11] Speaker 7: I agree with the sentiment of everyone on a panel
[1:38:15] Speaker 7: when we're talking about utilizing church, because we know churches
[1:38:20] Speaker 7: is where you go to get fueled with or refueled.
[1:38:23] Speaker 3: With the word.
[1:38:24] Speaker 7: So when I'm seeing a lot of churches not using
[1:38:29] Speaker 7: an opportunity to actually clear up the lies, because that's
[1:38:33] Speaker 7: essentially what's going on when we are talking about utilizing
[1:38:36] Speaker 7: your poolpit, not to clear up the lies that are
[1:38:40] Speaker 7: being told because what they essentially is doing is satisfying
[1:38:44] Speaker 7: the palette of individuals that want these things that are
[1:38:47] Speaker 7: happening in this country to continue to happen. They want
[1:38:49] Speaker 7: to believe that they can use their faith in order
[1:38:53] Speaker 7: to harm this country. So when I see a pastor
[1:38:58] Speaker 7: that is literally utilizing pulpit to correct the misstatements of
[1:39:04] Speaker 7: individuals using a Bible and they don't even know how
[1:39:06] Speaker 7: to use it right, you cannot sit down with these
[1:39:09] Speaker 7: individuals and have or build conversation with them about the
[1:39:12] Speaker 7: word because they use the word to weaponize. They don't
[1:39:15] Speaker 7: use the word to actually teach and live by what
[1:39:18] Speaker 7: the Word of God is. So I appreciate when I
[1:39:21] Speaker 7: see pastors that don't look like me utilizing their ability
[1:39:26] Speaker 7: to reach their congregation to correct, because if we don't
[1:39:31] Speaker 7: start correcting and we don't utilize the pulpits, even with
[1:39:34] Speaker 7: African Americans, you don't utilize your pulpit to reach, then
[1:39:39] Speaker 7: you are doing a disservice to the betterment of this
[1:39:42] Speaker 7: country and the betterment of what the Word of God says.
[1:39:45] Speaker 1: Well, you can always count on these right wingers and
[1:39:48] Speaker 1: their absolute racism, including serial plagiarists Benny Johnson now This
[1:39:57] Speaker 1: is a right winger who Donald Trump is fully embraced.
[1:40:01] Speaker 1: So he decided to attack Texas Congresswoman Jasmine and Crockett
[1:40:05] Speaker 1: on his podcast, The Bennie Show. That all started when
[1:40:08] Speaker 1: Crockett spoke about the contributions of black women in American
[1:40:11] Speaker 1: history ahead of the Fourth of July celebrations over the weekend.
[1:40:14] Speaker 1: This took place, of course, at the Essence Festival in
[1:40:17] Speaker 1: New Orleans. She called on people to celebrate black women
[1:40:20] Speaker 1: for their many sacrifices. Well, that didn't sit too well
[1:40:23] Speaker 1: with poor little Benny, who was just beside himself.
[1:40:30] Speaker 14: Jasmine Crockett says, America owes black women everything, everything, whether.
[1:40:36] Speaker 6: It's an invention that she made. This fourth of July,
[1:40:40] Speaker 6: I say, celebrate a black woman that you know, because
[1:40:43] Speaker 6: whether it's an invention that she made, whether it's the
[1:40:46] Speaker 6: very democracy that still hangs by a thread right now,
[1:40:50] Speaker 6: there is a black woman to thank for her contributions.
[1:40:53] Speaker 14: Really, oh interesting? What inventions.
[1:40:58] Speaker 1: Go?
[1:40:59] Speaker 14: I need to get back on. I like I need
[1:41:02] Speaker 14: to get back like in these little reporter lines. Okay, quick,
[1:41:05] Speaker 14: Jasmin Crockett, right now, name of invention from black women go?
[1:41:09] Speaker 14: You want to watch ahead explode on name invention. Go
[1:41:14] Speaker 14: a name I want to name? Okay, I need a
[1:41:16] Speaker 14: name of a single black woman that had something to
[1:41:18] Speaker 14: do with America's founding.
[1:41:19] Speaker 8: Go.
[1:41:22] Speaker 3: I mean.
[1:41:24] Speaker 14: I can think of like didn't Thomas Jefferson have like
[1:41:29] Speaker 14: like half his family like with out of wedlock with
[1:41:34] Speaker 14: the slaves?
[1:41:34] Speaker 13: I think?
[1:41:35] Speaker 1: Is that?
[1:41:36] Speaker 14: Isn't that historical?
[1:41:37] Speaker 4: Anyway?
[1:41:38] Speaker 14: That's like as close as I can get. That's as
[1:41:41] Speaker 14: close as I can get. I don't know, right, Like Okay,
[1:41:46] Speaker 14: Like Jasmin Crocket is the one who's making these absurd arguments,
[1:41:49] Speaker 14: So why don't you back them up? Like if you're
[1:41:51] Speaker 14: telling us to thank black women for inventions then and
[1:41:54] Speaker 14: for America's founding, name them. Why don't you you go first?
[1:41:58] Speaker 14: You name the blacklack women?
[1:42:01] Speaker 2: Dope?
[1:42:03] Speaker 1: I wish I was.
[1:42:04] Speaker 14: I don't know what she's at.
[1:42:05] Speaker 13: It looks like some.
[1:42:09] Speaker 14: Type of like conference, right, Like please, I need to
[1:42:12] Speaker 14: go work these like lines again, just so that I
[1:42:15] Speaker 14: can ask the follow up question American history based on
[1:42:22] Speaker 14: Jasmine Crockett, go, name one.
[1:42:33] Speaker 1: Well, we could certainly name who got paid by Russia
[1:42:37] Speaker 1: to advance their agenda, right, Benny, Now, CON's woman Crockett
[1:42:43] Speaker 1: speaking essence, This is what she said.
[1:42:48] Speaker 6: And when it comes to answering the question of what
[1:42:50] Speaker 6: America owes black women, the answer is everything. When we
[1:42:54] Speaker 6: think about the sacrifices that black women have made, from
[1:42:57] Speaker 6: the moment that we were stolen from our homelands and
[1:42:59] Speaker 6: trainransported into this country to the fact that black women
[1:43:03] Speaker 6: continue to stand as the backbone, specifically of the Democratic Party.
[1:43:08] Speaker 6: We know that black women are always the ones that
[1:43:11] Speaker 6: are doing the labor, but we are also the ones
[1:43:14] Speaker 6: that are always the.
[1:43:15] Speaker 7: First targets of any harm.
[1:43:17] Speaker 6: So this fourth of July, I say, celebrate a black
[1:43:21] Speaker 6: woman that you know, because whether it's an invention that
[1:43:24] Speaker 6: she made, or whether it's the very democracy that still
[1:43:27] Speaker 6: hangs by a thread right now, there is a black
[1:43:30] Speaker 6: woman to thank for her contributions.
[1:43:33] Speaker 1: Yeah. And unfortunately, when it comes to the racist in
[1:43:37] Speaker 1: this administration, they're very quick to actually remove things that
[1:43:43] Speaker 1: black women did, such as Pete Hegseth another action taken
[1:43:51] Speaker 1: by these idiots. And again they are very good at this.
[1:43:56] Speaker 1: So you know, the US Army, they had this page
[1:44:05] Speaker 1: that commemorated this sister Sarah keys Evans. Folks at Mother Jones.
[1:44:11] Speaker 1: Actually the folks said Mother Jones actually actually wrote this story,
[1:44:22] Speaker 1: and so this is what they said back in March.
[1:44:26] Speaker 1: This piece is written by Chashaity Hale. Back in March,
[1:44:31] Speaker 1: I wrote about the late Sarah Keys Evans, a black
[1:44:34] Speaker 1: veteran who played a key role in desegregated interstate travel
[1:44:38] Speaker 1: before the summer of nineteen fifty two. The twenty three
[1:44:41] Speaker 1: year old private first class had never ever taken part
[1:44:43] Speaker 1: in a civil rights protest, but after she was arrested
[1:44:46] Speaker 1: in jail overnight in her Women's Army Corps uniform were
[1:44:50] Speaker 1: refusing to give up her bus seat to a white marine.
[1:44:53] Speaker 1: Evans spent years fighting for justice through the courts, paving
[1:44:56] Speaker 1: the way Rosa Parks and the freedom writers. So she
[1:44:59] Speaker 1: talks about writing about them, it says. In twenty twenty,
[1:45:04] Speaker 1: nearly seventy years after evans arrest, Roll Note Rapids installed
[1:45:07] Speaker 1: a series of murals about the veterans fight for justice.
[1:45:12] Speaker 1: But guess what she says. Well, weeks after that first piece,
[1:45:15] Speaker 1: ran I received the tip and the Army had removed
[1:45:18] Speaker 1: an article about Keys Evans from its official website. Based
[1:45:21] Speaker 1: on screen shots captured by the Internet Archives wayback Machine,
[1:45:25] Speaker 1: The article by T. Anthony Ball, first published in February
[1:45:27] Speaker 1: twenty fourteen was taken down last July, at the height
[1:45:32] Speaker 1: of the second Trump administration's campaigns to scrubt black history
[1:45:35] Speaker 1: from public monuments, institutions, and records. It remains unavailable. It's
[1:45:42] Speaker 1: no shock. This is what they've been doing repeatedly, Thelma.
[1:45:46] Speaker 1: They have been removing black folks, women, Donald Trump, this
[1:45:53] Speaker 1: is this Donald Trump. Pete has seth and I keep
[1:45:55] Speaker 1: telling you, people keep telling everybody this warm black America.
[1:45:59] Speaker 1: What this is about is they want white It's right.
[1:46:04] Speaker 1: They want white men to be the heroes of everything
[1:46:08] Speaker 1: in this country.
[1:46:12] Speaker 7: They want white pedophiles to be the heroes of this country.
[1:46:15] Speaker 7: But that would never happen at the on the backs
[1:46:18] Speaker 7: of black women. And he see the thing about mediocre
[1:46:23] Speaker 7: white white men that don't get under my skin is
[1:46:27] Speaker 7: because you sat there and you are behind a mic
[1:46:29] Speaker 7: instead of in her face asking a question that you
[1:46:31] Speaker 7: knew she couldn't respond to. That's what mediocre white men
[1:46:35] Speaker 7: do because they know that they get in the face
[1:46:37] Speaker 7: of a black woman, we gonna tear them down thread
[1:46:40] Speaker 7: by thread, shred by shred, Oregon by organ And they
[1:46:43] Speaker 7: can't take that because when he talk about black women
[1:46:47] Speaker 7: and the substance and the quality that we add to
[1:46:50] Speaker 7: this country. We have been everything to this country. We
[1:46:53] Speaker 7: have been the ones that's raising the babies, the ones
[1:46:57] Speaker 7: that you all are utilizing for us to have your babies.
[1:47:01] Speaker 7: We have been everything to this country from inventions. I'm
[1:47:04] Speaker 7: an inventor. So when she says things like that, that's
[1:47:08] Speaker 7: a fact. When he says, it's not a fact, it's
[1:47:11] Speaker 7: an emotion because they want to be important when they
[1:47:15] Speaker 7: have reduced themselves based off of the existence of their hate.
[1:47:19] Speaker 7: And for the life of me, they were never changed.
[1:47:23] Speaker 7: We ain't worried about them changing. What we are worried
[1:47:26] Speaker 7: about is continuing the legacy and the lineage that we
[1:47:29] Speaker 7: have been blessed to have under unfortunate circumstances, and we're
[1:47:34] Speaker 7: going to continue to overcome in spite of mediocre white
[1:47:37] Speaker 7: men using a mic in order for them to ask
[1:47:40] Speaker 7: a question that they would never get a response to
[1:47:42] Speaker 7: because they don't qualify to sit in rooms or at
[1:47:45] Speaker 7: tables with us. So that's why he would never be
[1:47:48] Speaker 7: able to have a conversation with black women because he
[1:47:52] Speaker 7: doesn't qualify.
[1:47:54] Speaker 1: See folks like Benny Johnson, Matt Walsh still the same
[1:47:58] Speaker 1: Jelonda where they just again they think white as everything.
[1:48:02] Speaker 1: I mean, clearly Benny Johnson has no understanding of black people.
[1:48:06] Speaker 1: He doesn't know that. Sarah Bone improved the ironing board
[1:48:08] Speaker 1: in eighteen ninety two, designing a narrow curve board that
[1:48:11] Speaker 1: made pressing sleeves and fitted garments easier and more efficient.
[1:48:15] Speaker 1: Sarah Good invented the folding cabinet bed in eighteen eighty five,
[1:48:19] Speaker 1: a space saving piece of furniture that doubled as a desk,
[1:48:22] Speaker 1: helping small apartments maximize space. Or Ellen Egglinny created the
[1:48:26] Speaker 1: handcrafted clothes ringer in eighteen eighty eight, which improved laundry
[1:48:30] Speaker 1: efficiency before modern washing machines. How about Mary Beatrice Davidson
[1:48:35] Speaker 1: Kinner developed the sanitary belt in nineteen fifty six, a
[1:48:38] Speaker 1: precursor to modern minstrual products, improving comfort and hygiene for women.
[1:48:43] Speaker 1: Oh lot of d Newman pat and the hairbrush with
[1:48:45] Speaker 1: synthetics bristles in eighteen ninety eight, making grooming easier and
[1:48:49] Speaker 1: more hygienic. I mean, there's Marie Van Britton Brown inventing
[1:48:53] Speaker 1: the first home security system in nineteen sixty six, featuring
[1:48:56] Speaker 1: eight camera peopoles to a communication and remote control. Locke
[1:49:01] Speaker 1: lay in the foundation for modern CCTV systems. There's Miriam
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: Bigimot created the gong and signal chair in eighteen eighty eight,
[1:49:09] Speaker 1: allowing cated individuals to discreete these signal attendance, an early
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: precursor to call buttons in public spaces. Oh, Patricia, you have,
[1:49:16] Speaker 1: of course. Patricia Bath invented than laser laser FACO probe
[1:49:21] Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one, and laser device for a cataract
[1:49:23] Speaker 1: surgery that restores site more precisely in safety. And that's
[1:49:27] Speaker 1: Bessie Blount and Griffin develop a feeding device for injury
[1:49:30] Speaker 1: to disabled patients, enabling greater independence for amputees in those
[1:49:33] Speaker 1: with disabilities, or anima Ree Bailey creating a device for
[1:49:37] Speaker 1: more accurate blood pressure readings improving hypertension diagnosis. Or Mereland
[1:49:41] Speaker 1: Hughes gas in pianeered newborn screening for a sick of
[1:49:44] Speaker 1: Seale disease, helping prevent complications in affected infits. We can
[1:49:48] Speaker 1: go on and on and on. Marion Krogue contribute to
[1:49:51] Speaker 1: the development of voice over Internet protocol, enabling Internet based
[1:49:55] Speaker 1: calls and video conferencing platforms like Zoom and Google Meat
[1:49:58] Speaker 1: So Benny, the Blue Black Woman, help a technology that
[1:50:02] Speaker 1: allows you to do your show. Valerie Thomas invented the
[1:50:05] Speaker 1: illusion transmitter in nineteen eighty producing three dimensional images. Is
[1:50:09] Speaker 1: the mirrors influencing three D imaging and virtual reality technology.
[1:50:13] Speaker 1: Or doctor Gladys West who developed mathematical models of the
[1:50:15] Speaker 1: Earth that became the foundation for GPS technology. I'm sure, Benny,
[1:50:20] Speaker 1: you use ways or Google Maps. After Shirley Jackson contributed
[1:50:24] Speaker 1: to innovations and telecommunications including TOUCHTNE dialing, call wedding, and
[1:50:28] Speaker 1: theoretical foundations for call or ID. That was Marjorie Stuart Johner,
[1:50:32] Speaker 1: patent the permanent wave machine in nineteen twenty eight, revolutionizing
[1:50:36] Speaker 1: hairstyling and salon efficiency. Or Theora Stevens who improved the
[1:50:39] Speaker 1: curling iron, making it more accessible for black women's hairstyling needs.
[1:50:43] Speaker 1: Or that's Christina Jenkins who developed the soul in technique
[1:50:46] Speaker 1: of the nineteen fifties, laying the foundation for modern hair extensions.
[1:50:49] Speaker 1: We know Battam CG. Walker, who created haircare products for
[1:50:52] Speaker 1: African American women, becoming the first black female millionaire in
[1:50:55] Speaker 1: the country. We can go on and on and on, Bennie,
[1:50:58] Speaker 1: but Jelena. They don't care because for them, white is
[1:51:01] Speaker 1: the only thing that matters.
[1:51:04] Speaker 4: So yes, Roland, I absolutely agree with you.
[1:51:07] Speaker 5: So I was going to talk about ma'm crop, but
[1:51:09] Speaker 5: you did because that's the only reason that Benny gets.
[1:51:12] Speaker 4: To even do his show because of her. But I mean,
[1:51:15] Speaker 4: I can go back, Roland.
[1:51:17] Speaker 5: We can give thousands of black women who invented, but
[1:51:20] Speaker 5: let's talk about the black women that put their literal
[1:51:23] Speaker 5: breasts into white kids when as we raised them because
[1:51:26] Speaker 5: we knew they mommos couldn't do it. Let's talk about that.
[1:51:29] Speaker 5: Let's talk about hidden figures. Catherine Johnson and others who
[1:51:33] Speaker 5: got us on the moon. White men took credit for it,
[1:51:36] Speaker 5: but if it weren't for their meticulous brains that understood
[1:51:39] Speaker 5: math better than computers, we wouldn't.
[1:51:41] Speaker 4: Have landed on the moon.
[1:51:43] Speaker 5: We could go on and on and on and on
[1:51:45] Speaker 5: and on, but the best way to set these mediocre
[1:51:49] Speaker 5: white people up is to get them out of office
[1:51:52] Speaker 5: and get their leader Trump, get rid of him, get
[1:51:56] Speaker 5: rid of the Republicans. And I'm going to keep saying
[1:51:58] Speaker 5: this on your show. We want for them to change.
[1:52:01] Speaker 5: Trump is literally given carte blanche to white folks. Who
[1:52:05] Speaker 5: are racist to actually do in the public what.
[1:52:07] Speaker 4: They used to only think about.
[1:52:09] Speaker 5: So they can talk about us, they can lie on us,
[1:52:12] Speaker 5: they can say we didn't invent anything.
[1:52:15] Speaker 4: We know what the truth is.
[1:52:16] Speaker 5: We can't worry about that. We're not going to change
[1:52:18] Speaker 5: those idiot's minds. It doesn't matter how much truth we
[1:52:20] Speaker 5: give them. Again, just like they plan twenty twenty five
[1:52:25] Speaker 5: for fifty years, we need to start planning right here,
[1:52:29] Speaker 5: right now, what we're going to do in November to
[1:52:31] Speaker 5: get us out to vote and in twenty twenty eight
[1:52:34] Speaker 5: so we can try to get back to some sort
[1:52:36] Speaker 5: of America where at least we have a chance, and
[1:52:39] Speaker 5: we're back to trying to get the gains that black
[1:52:41] Speaker 5: people have earned and that this country and that this
[1:52:45] Speaker 5: country has actually been a bit from on the Congo.
[1:52:50] Speaker 9: This country was built on the womb of the black woman.
[1:52:54] Speaker 9: So we can tie all of the necessary conversations about
[1:52:57] Speaker 9: inventions and all of the names that you spent you shared,
[1:53:00] Speaker 9: but the country itself was built off the womb of
[1:53:03] Speaker 9: a black woman. And so my concern is with Benny
[1:53:07] Speaker 9: is ignorance. My bigger concern is with all of the
[1:53:10] Speaker 9: kids right now in schools, across the country that are
[1:53:13] Speaker 9: not getting this history.
[1:53:14] Speaker 3: All of us here. We didn't get this in our schools.
[1:53:17] Speaker 9: We got this from parents, family members, you know, Sunday
[1:53:21] Speaker 9: school programs and Black churches, and they're.
[1:53:23] Speaker 3: Like, you know, so we already didn't get enough.
[1:53:26] Speaker 9: And now we have a whole generation of people of
[1:53:28] Speaker 9: all racial backgrounds that, because of the actions of this
[1:53:30] Speaker 9: administration have no chance of getting histories like what we
[1:53:34] Speaker 9: just shared in like five seven minutes, and so they.
[1:53:37] Speaker 3: Are arrogant with this.
[1:53:38] Speaker 9: They are arrogant in their ignorance, and we have to
[1:53:41] Speaker 9: make sure that we're using programs like this. Y'all who
[1:53:43] Speaker 9: are watching tonight, y'all got to share this segment so
[1:53:46] Speaker 9: people can see the twelve or twenty I don't know
[1:53:48] Speaker 9: how many black women inventors that roll and ran down
[1:53:51] Speaker 9: the list of share people. So we can start getting
[1:53:54] Speaker 9: into the algorithm to make sure that we're showing the
[1:53:56] Speaker 9: truth to go against this ignorance that Bennie has put
[1:53:59] Speaker 9: out and at the whole Trump administration is putting out.
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[1:55:49] Speaker 1: By folks, SAT News out of Chicago. George Johnson, who
[1:55:59] Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four launched and hair care company with
[1:56:01] Speaker 1: his late wife Joan with two hundred and fifty bucks,
[1:56:04] Speaker 1: has passed away. He was ninety nine years old. A
[1:56:09] Speaker 1: native of Mississippi. They launched Johnson Product Johnson Products Company,
[1:56:14] Speaker 1: and you might remember old Trashene Afroshene. They were the
[1:56:18] Speaker 1: first sponsor of Soul Trained, the first black company, that
[1:56:24] Speaker 1: first black business to be listed and traded on the
[1:56:26] Speaker 1: American Stock Exchange. Truly a visionary leader who did amazing things.
[1:56:33] Speaker 1: Him and his wife and the family. Heritage still continues,
[1:56:37] Speaker 1: and when people talk about Chicago, they talk about, of
[1:56:41] Speaker 1: course George Johnson, talked about John H. Johnson, talking about
[1:56:45] Speaker 1: all of those African Americans coming out of that city
[1:56:48] Speaker 1: who did amazing things. Those folks who, of course, who
[1:56:51] Speaker 1: grew up in the seventies and eighties, remember the commercials.
[1:56:57] Speaker 1: They remember the products that we're also the spots in
[1:57:04] Speaker 1: when you were looking at Jet magazine and ebony and
[1:57:07] Speaker 1: seeing those products. But not only that, how black were
[1:57:10] Speaker 1: they that commercials were a black watch? Yeah, we stated
[1:57:19] Speaker 1: about you in school yesterday about how you were a
[1:57:21] Speaker 1: slave and how you took your own freedom and then
[1:57:23] Speaker 1: began to fight for freedom and dignity for all our people.
[1:57:26] Speaker 4: Say, but what did I forget?
[1:57:28] Speaker 1: Are you going to go out into the world with
[1:57:29] Speaker 1: your hair looking like that? Well, mister Douglas, you know
[1:57:32] Speaker 1: times have changed.
[1:57:33] Speaker 2: We wear the natural.
[1:57:34] Speaker 3: Now you call that a natural, that's a mess.
[1:57:39] Speaker 7: I've been watching the progress of our people, and I'm
[1:57:41] Speaker 7: quite familiar with the natural, and I'm also aware that
[1:57:44] Speaker 7: it is one as.
[1:57:44] Speaker 2: An outward expression of pride and dignity.
[1:57:47] Speaker 4: So haven't you forgotten?
[1:57:48] Speaker 1: Right, my afrochine comesy and hairspray machine.
[1:57:52] Speaker 3: You know, I candg.
[1:57:52] Speaker 1: This is getting my free together.
[1:57:54] Speaker 3: My sentiments almost exactly. Well, how's this, mister Douglas.
[1:58:03] Speaker 2: Mister Douglas, man Ain't nobody gonna believe that.
[1:58:11] Speaker 1: That was one of the spots that ran on a
[1:58:15] Speaker 1: soul train. They were extremely extremely popular.
[1:58:20] Speaker 13: Uh.
[1:58:20] Speaker 1: And again he was a major, major figure demanding equity
[1:58:27] Speaker 1: in the beauty business. Uh and uh we surely missed.
[1:58:32] Speaker 1: I mean, this is a U Gelanda Warner. We talk
[1:58:35] Speaker 1: about pioneers, the folks who paved the way. When you
[1:58:38] Speaker 1: think about Johnson products, we think about a coma CoA
[1:58:41] Speaker 1: trail with pro Line later moving that company uh to Dallas,
[1:58:44] Speaker 1: creator of the Jerry curl. Uh. It's what's so hard
[1:58:48] Speaker 1: to imagine is that, for instance, you take Ultra seen
[1:58:52] Speaker 1: any people know that you can barely find that uh
[1:58:56] Speaker 1: these days when you think about now how the haircare
[1:59:00] Speaker 1: industry for black folks being dominated by folks who don't
[1:59:03] Speaker 1: look like us, although we still spend billions every single year.
[1:59:07] Speaker 5: Well yeah, and look, I'll be the first one to
[1:59:10] Speaker 5: say I've got relaxes on my hair like Ultra. Say,
[1:59:14] Speaker 5: for a quick second, when I was in eighth grade,
[1:59:16] Speaker 5: I did wear a dairy curl.
[1:59:17] Speaker 4: I don't do it anymore.
[1:59:19] Speaker 5: So, yes, But I mean one of the problems I
[1:59:20] Speaker 5: even have now when trying to find products for my
[1:59:24] Speaker 5: black hair is finding products that work on black hair.
[1:59:29] Speaker 4: So everything is for white people. So I appreciate, well,
[1:59:31] Speaker 4: not everything, but many things.
[1:59:33] Speaker 5: So I appreciate black people who actually develop an event.
[1:59:38] Speaker 5: Since we were just talking about inventors products that work
[1:59:42] Speaker 5: with our hair texture because it's important, and our and
[1:59:45] Speaker 5: our skin color with makeup because it's important.
[1:59:47] Speaker 4: Because as a person who was.
[1:59:49] Speaker 5: On Survivor during the finale, they had a white person
[1:59:52] Speaker 5: doing my makeup with might make with Mike with white makeup,
[1:59:55] Speaker 5: and I looked.
[1:59:56] Speaker 4: A hot mess on the finale.
[1:59:58] Speaker 5: So it really is important that we we have people
[2:00:01] Speaker 5: that make these products for us and that are culturally
[2:00:04] Speaker 5: competent for us, because otherwise we look like a damn food.
[2:00:08] Speaker 1: Wasn't just Johnson products on the Congo. He also was
[2:00:12] Speaker 1: the founder of Independence Bank, a black bank there in Chicago,
[2:00:15] Speaker 1: because he understood it. He understood the black banks need
[2:00:18] Speaker 1: the capital.
[2:00:21] Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm just an entrepreneur on so many levels, and
[2:00:24] Speaker 9: I'm just wondering, Number one, where are their commercials like that?
[2:00:28] Speaker 9: You know nowadays? But we have to respect our entrepreneurs.
[2:00:31] Speaker 9: And I mean I can still smell you know that
[2:00:33] Speaker 9: that's the aff machine just from back in the day.
[2:00:35] Speaker 9: And these are our people who represented us in the
[2:00:39] Speaker 9: best way possible and they found an opportunity in our
[2:00:42] Speaker 9: communities to actually build our communities based on the products
[2:00:45] Speaker 9: and services that we need. So, whether it's the haircare products,
[2:00:48] Speaker 9: whether it's the banks, whatever it is, we have to
[2:00:51] Speaker 9: respect the.
[2:00:52] Speaker 3: Architects who did these things.
[2:00:53] Speaker 9: And there are black invenors out there now and black
[2:00:56] Speaker 9: organizations that are trying to get capital to build these
[2:00:58] Speaker 9: organized you know, they're companies and the like. But when
[2:01:01] Speaker 9: we see an architect such like of him back and
[2:01:04] Speaker 9: his wife back in those days, we have to give
[2:01:06] Speaker 9: extra respect.
[2:01:07] Speaker 1: Look at that.
[2:01:07] Speaker 3: I mean, that's just beautiful. We have to give extra
[2:01:10] Speaker 3: respect to what they did.
[2:01:12] Speaker 9: And so, you know, rest in peace to him and
[2:01:13] Speaker 9: his you know, ultra respect to his family for what
[2:01:16] Speaker 9: they did for our community.
[2:01:17] Speaker 3: I mean ultra in every sense of the word.
[2:01:20] Speaker 1: Fella.
[2:01:22] Speaker 7: I really love how his family was able to utilize
[2:01:28] Speaker 7: what we needed in order to build a foundation for
[2:01:32] Speaker 7: things that were more than just their products. If you
[2:01:35] Speaker 7: recalled getting your hair done in a beauty shop or
[2:01:39] Speaker 7: at home, that was quality time that we had based
[2:01:45] Speaker 7: off of products that they produced and they allowed for
[2:01:48] Speaker 7: us to buy by them invening and seeing a need
[2:01:52] Speaker 7: that we had that was not going to be fulfilled
[2:01:54] Speaker 7: by the others because they understood what we needed. So
[2:01:58] Speaker 7: when I think about the I think about the moments
[2:02:02] Speaker 7: where I'm sitting behind a chair and I can smell
[2:02:05] Speaker 7: the products being used in my hair, or I'm at
[2:02:09] Speaker 7: home and my mom is greasing my scalp as we
[2:02:11] Speaker 7: are having conversations. It wasn't just a product. It was
[2:02:15] Speaker 7: a product that also was bonding time for whether you
[2:02:19] Speaker 7: were in a beauty shop or whether you were at
[2:02:22] Speaker 7: home or where you with your girlfriend. Y'all were always
[2:02:25] Speaker 7: talking about these products, and they understood word of mouth
[2:02:29] Speaker 7: was one of their biggest assets. So you knew you
[2:02:32] Speaker 7: was going to go in the beauty shop, and you
[2:02:34] Speaker 7: knew you was going to be at home and see
[2:02:36] Speaker 7: these products. That's what I remember by this company and
[2:02:41] Speaker 7: mister Johnson because he left more than just a product.
[2:02:45] Speaker 7: He left an everlasting memory based off of using his products.
[2:02:49] Speaker 1: He also told his own story. This book is called
[2:02:53] Speaker 1: afro Schene and you see the pick on the cover here,
[2:02:56] Speaker 1: how I revolutionize an industry with the Golden Rule. From
[2:03:00] Speaker 1: Soul Train to Wall Street. Georgie Johnson founder of the
[2:03:03] Speaker 1: Johnson Products Company with the Hillary Beard folks. George Johnson
[2:03:07] Speaker 1: was ninety nine years old, so certainly Candoles is go
[2:03:11] Speaker 1: out to his family for an absolutely rich, rich legacy.
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[2:05:13] Speaker 1: That's right, that will compete with Twitter and threads. Trust me,
[2:05:16] Speaker 1: you don't want to miss that conversation, folks, that's it.
[2:05:20] Speaker 1: I certain appreciate you' all joining us. Thank you so
[2:05:22] Speaker 1: very much, and again shouting out Fort Valley State. Thanks
[2:05:25] Speaker 1: so very much, folks. I'll see all tomorrow right here
[2:05:28] Speaker 1: Roland marked unfiltered on the Black Star Network. How

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