# SCOTUS VRA Ruling. Landry Recall Push. Fox Wants Michelle Obama to Defend Melania. GOP War on Blacks

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 6 May 2026, 2 h 38 min.

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5.5.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: SCOTUS VRA Ruling. Landry Recall Push. Fox Wants Michelle Obama to Defend Melania. GOP War on Black America The Supreme Court has issued an emergency order allowing Republicans in Louisiana to redraw the state's congressional map. Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal will explain what this means. Additionally, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is facing a recall petition after he suspended the state's U.S. House primary election, which has already seen over 40,000 absentee ballots submitted. I will be speaking with the executive director of Win With Black Men about tonight's urgent call regarding voting rights. In Tennessee, lawmakers are in a special session to redraw congressional districts, effectively violating the law. Florida Democrats have filed a lawsuit against the congressional map that Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law. Bishop William Barber will join us to discuss the GOP's war on Black Americans and its impact on the working poor. In tonight's Black Star Network Marketplace, we will feature a revolutionary product for women's period care. 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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[12:52] Speaker 6: In foxes too isay May fifth, twenty twenty six, coming
[13:19] Speaker 6: up of roland markin unfilter streaming live on the Blackstar Network.
[13:23] Speaker 6: This Supreme Court, this right wing Supreme Court, is so
[13:28] Speaker 6: overtly partisan. They are doing the work of the Republican Party.
[13:34] Speaker 6: Wait until I tell you what they just did when
[13:38] Speaker 6: it comes to the Congression of Maps in Louisiana. Will
[13:40] Speaker 6: be joined by Justice correspondent Ellie Mittel Folks. I'll be
[13:44] Speaker 6: speaking with the Executi Directory of Women with Black Men
[13:46] Speaker 6: about tonight's urgent call regarding voting rights Tennessee. There's a
[13:50] Speaker 6: law that says no Jared mannering in the middle of
[13:55] Speaker 6: the process. They're gonna have just Republicans. They are going
[13:58] Speaker 6: to change the law. I met with the protesters at
[14:01] Speaker 6: the state capital today. Law democrats have found a lawsuit
[14:04] Speaker 6: against the Congression math that Governor Rodnal Sanders has signed
[14:07] Speaker 6: into law. Also in Alabama, protests there as they are
[14:11] Speaker 6: trying to get rid of two black congressional districts. Also,
[14:15] Speaker 6: Bishop William Barber will join up to discuss the GP's
[14:18] Speaker 6: war on Black America and tonight's Black stud Network Marketplace segment.
[14:22] Speaker 6: We will feature revolutionary product for women's period care. It's
[14:25] Speaker 6: time to bring the fuck Roland marked unfilter on the
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[14:28] Speaker 5: Let's go whatever that sold it, whatever it is. He's
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[14:44] Speaker 14: Loston host to politics for the entertainment just Bucks, He's.
[14:56] Speaker 12: It's Rosen, He's She's built the question.
[15:08] Speaker 11: No, he's rule.
[15:23] Speaker 6: Shaw Supreme Court too. Just as John Roberts says he
[15:25] Speaker 6: doesn't like it when people look at the Supreme Court
[15:29] Speaker 6: as being two partisans, saying that people have to respect
[15:33] Speaker 6: the court. Well, what they did last night makes it
[15:36] Speaker 6: perfectly clear that we should have no respect for this
[15:40] Speaker 6: hardcore right wing conservative court. Yeah, the Court allowed a
[15:47] Speaker 6: recent ruling last week that we can accrucial part of
[15:50] Speaker 6: the Voter Rights Act to take effects more than usual.
[15:53] Speaker 6: This procedural decision comes shortly after the Court rule that
[15:57] Speaker 6: and evalidated Louisiana's congressional map. It diminished action to the
[16:00] Speaker 6: Voting Rights Act. Typically, the Court waits thirty two days
[16:02] Speaker 6: before officially issuing its judgment to the lower court. No,
[16:06] Speaker 6: they said, we're not even going to wait a week.
[16:09] Speaker 6: Last week, Louisiana's requestion of the court expired the process,
[16:13] Speaker 6: emphasizing the urgent need to redraw its congressional maps. On Monday,
[16:17] Speaker 6: the Supreme Court granted the requests. In fact, Supreme Court
[16:20] Speaker 6: Justice Elit Samuel Ledos tow to take pot shots at
[16:23] Speaker 6: Supreme Court Justice Katandi Brown Jackson, Yeah, the black vowels
[16:28] Speaker 6: in the Kalay case. He filed an emotion asking the
[16:30] Speaker 6: Supreme Court to recall the judgment, stating, if they intend
[16:33] Speaker 6: to file for a motion for reconsideration, Ellie Mischiable Justice
[16:37] Speaker 6: correspondent with the Nation, Jess right now. So, Ellie, for
[16:40] Speaker 6: people who don't know, explain to them something called the
[16:45] Speaker 6: per sale decision or the per sale doctrine, if.
[16:49] Speaker 15: You will, Yeah, the percel principle. It's prely simple. It
[16:54] Speaker 15: states that you cannot change the structure of the rules,
[16:57] Speaker 15: the time, place, and manner anything about the election. It
[17:01] Speaker 15: says that you can't change those rules too close to
[17:05] Speaker 15: the upcoming election.
[17:06] Speaker 6: Ah, too close, too close to the upcoming election. I'm sorry. Louisiana,
[17:14] Speaker 6: their election already started, forty two thousand people had already voted.
[17:21] Speaker 6: The governor says, no, we're gonna postpone that and we're
[17:25] Speaker 6: gonna redraw the lines. And Samlely Alito said this is
[17:29] Speaker 6: so important, they must be allowed to do so. But Ellie, Uh,
[17:34] Speaker 6: wasn't it three or four years ago when the Louisiana
[17:41] Speaker 6: maps were declared unconstitution as in the same Supreme Court
[17:44] Speaker 6: said stop puld up, it's too soon. But that was
[17:49] Speaker 6: five and a half months before. I mean remember vividly,
[17:53] Speaker 6: and they said, no, no, five and a half months
[17:55] Speaker 6: is too soon. The legend already started this one.
[18:00] Speaker 5: You're absolutely right. And the case was called Alan v. Milligan.
[18:03] Speaker 15: It was in Alabama, and Alabama had these racist maps.
[18:07] Speaker 15: These racist maps were so racist that even the racists
[18:11] Speaker 15: on the Supreme Court was just like, oh, that's that's
[18:13] Speaker 15: a bit too far. But they decided the case in
[18:16] Speaker 15: February of twenty twenty two. And at that point, these conservatives,
[18:20] Speaker 15: including Brett Kavanaugh, said that February twenty twenty two was
[18:25] Speaker 15: too close to the November twenty twenty two midterms, and
[18:28] Speaker 15: they invoked the per Cel principle. So they forced Alabama
[18:32] Speaker 15: to have an election under unconstitutionally racist maps because they
[18:37] Speaker 15: only ruled the maps racist in February and the election
[18:40] Speaker 15: was in November. So that's the Percel principle when it
[18:43] Speaker 15: comes to restoring black voting rights. But when it comes
[18:47] Speaker 15: to taking black voting whites away, apparently it doesn't matter.
[18:50] Speaker 15: Apparently May May in twenty twenty six headed the November
[18:55] Speaker 15: twenty sixth, twenty twenty six midterm elections. That's that's not
[18:59] Speaker 15: close enough the election to invoke this principle. So the
[19:02] Speaker 15: hypocrisy from these justice justices is pretty evident. You were
[19:07] Speaker 15: saying that the decision regarded the a normal thirty two
[19:12] Speaker 15: day waiting period to reconsider. The reason why Louisiana wanted
[19:16] Speaker 15: them to get rid of that period is so they
[19:18] Speaker 15: get fast tracked so they could move as fast as
[19:20] Speaker 15: possible to take away black voting rights again. Kataji Brown
[19:24] Speaker 15: Jackson in the past twenty five years found only two
[19:28] Speaker 15: situations in which the court even considered getting rid of
[19:31] Speaker 15: their waiting period, and they didn't in either of those times.
[19:35] Speaker 15: That's what Jackson wrote in her dissent. So the idea
[19:38] Speaker 15: of what they're doing is pretty obvious. But Roland, you
[19:41] Speaker 15: said one thing that that I guess I kind of
[19:43] Speaker 15: disagree with you. You were saying that it really shows
[19:47] Speaker 15: how partisan this court is, how they're really going after
[19:51] Speaker 15: Democrats and trying to help Republicans win the election. That's true,
[19:55] Speaker 15: but this doesn't show just their partisanship. This shows their
[19:59] Speaker 15: de abiding racism. This is a purely racist decision because
[20:05] Speaker 15: what you see happening in Louisiana and Tennessee, which you're
[20:08] Speaker 15: going to talk about later in the show, in all
[20:10] Speaker 15: of these southern states.
[20:11] Speaker 5: Roland, they are trying to eliminate.
[20:15] Speaker 15: The Congressional Black Caucus. They are trying to eradicate the
[20:19] Speaker 15: Congressional Black Caucus. There are sixty seven members of the
[20:22] Speaker 15: Compressional sixty seven black people serving in Congress. Most of
[20:26] Speaker 15: them represent districts in the South, and those are the
[20:29] Speaker 15: districts they're trying to take away. To the point that
[20:32] Speaker 15: when we talk about these gerrymandering maps, these new maps, Roland,
[20:36] Speaker 15: they are leaving white Democratic districts alone. They are not
[20:42] Speaker 15: splitting up because you know, we all think that like,
[20:45] Speaker 15: the only Democrats in the South are black, and they ain't.
[20:47] Speaker 15: There are some wipes of good conscience in the South
[20:51] Speaker 15: who vote for the Democratic Party.
[20:53] Speaker 5: Their neighborhoods are untouched.
[20:54] Speaker 15: They're not cracking and packing the white Democratic neighborhoods in Louisiana,
[21:00] Speaker 15: in Texas and Tennessee. They're only going after the black ones.
[21:05] Speaker 15: And so I just don't want people to even for
[21:08] Speaker 15: a second miss that this isn't just political. This isn't
[21:13] Speaker 15: just oh no doubt to be liberal, Republican, be Democrat.
[21:17] Speaker 15: This is white v black. Oh oh, absolutely white supremacists
[21:21] Speaker 15: coming for our very right to participate in democratic self government.
[21:26] Speaker 5: And they are winning.
[21:27] Speaker 6: And see the things that I need people to understand
[21:30] Speaker 6: this is from talking points, ma'amo. Go to my Ipan anthony.
[21:32] Speaker 6: They call this Alitos Alabama pickle. They said it in
[21:35] Speaker 6: order to not look stupid. Samuel Alito had to differentiate
[21:38] Speaker 6: the courts twenty twenty three decision in Alan v. Milligan
[21:42] Speaker 6: from Klay, despite the fact that they are virtually the same.
[21:45] Speaker 6: I need people to understand that this exact same Supreme
[21:49] Speaker 6: Court agreed with the lower court that Alabama needed to
[21:53] Speaker 6: create a second congressional district because black voters were frankly
[21:59] Speaker 6: being chief. The same Supreme Court ruled in the exact
[22:04] Speaker 6: same second seat in Louisiana that it needed to be done.
[22:10] Speaker 6: And the Republicans went out and said, fine, we're gonna
[22:12] Speaker 6: draws the black district. And then they said, okay, so
[22:14] Speaker 6: now we're gonna draw the black district, and then now
[22:18] Speaker 6: we're gonna take the same district, same seat that they
[22:21] Speaker 6: made us draw, and now we're gonna sue to get
[22:25] Speaker 6: it completely overturned. In Alito and Clarence Thomas and Roberts
[22:29] Speaker 6: and gor sic and was the woman's calling, Kevin Haugh
[22:34] Speaker 6: and Barra went, oh, yeah, you know what, you're absolutely right,
[22:38] Speaker 6: as if the Alabama decision that they made and the
[22:42] Speaker 6: Louisiana decision that they made never existed.
[22:46] Speaker 5: Yep, yep, that's what happened.
[22:48] Speaker 15: To remember what the linigans in this the people suing
[22:51] Speaker 15: on behalf of the racists in Louisiana were a group
[22:55] Speaker 15: of white voters who were arguing that they had a
[22:58] Speaker 15: constitutional right to over representation. And I never want people
[23:04] Speaker 15: to miss that white people said that they were being
[23:06] Speaker 15: discriminated in Louisiana because of the second majority minority district
[23:11] Speaker 15: in Louisiana that that was discriminating against white rights, even
[23:15] Speaker 15: though white folks only make up sixty percent of the
[23:17] Speaker 15: population of Louisiana.
[23:19] Speaker 5: The white folks there.
[23:20] Speaker 15: Were arguing that they had a constitutional right to more
[23:24] Speaker 15: representation than they deserve.
[23:26] Speaker 5: Right, whenever we talk about jerry mandamin, whenever we.
[23:28] Speaker 15: Talk about voter representation, you never have black people asking
[23:32] Speaker 15: for more than we deserve. You never had black people
[23:35] Speaker 15: asking to be over represented. We just want to be
[23:38] Speaker 15: counted fairly. But these white folks, they literally are going
[23:41] Speaker 15: to the Supreme Court and winning at the Supreme Court
[23:44] Speaker 15: are an argument that is based on over representation. Now,
[23:47] Speaker 15: in terms of the hypocrisy of the Supreme Court justices,
[23:50] Speaker 15: I'll give sam Alito this. He dissented in the case
[23:53] Speaker 15: that you just brought up. He dissented in al and Milligan.
[23:56] Speaker 15: Alita is actually not the one that flipped.
[23:58] Speaker 12: He O.
[23:58] Speaker 15: He's always hated us, as has Clarence Thomas, as has
[24:02] Speaker 15: Neil Gorsich. The people who flipped were media Darling, John Roberts.
[24:06] Speaker 15: It is John Roberts. I was honestly surprised. Roland when
[24:10] Speaker 15: this decision came out, not the ruling. I knew the
[24:12] Speaker 15: Supreme Court was going to do racism, but I was
[24:14] Speaker 15: surprised that Roberts let Alito write it as opposed to
[24:18] Speaker 15: taking his prerogative as Chief Justice to write that decision.
[24:22] Speaker 15: Because it was a coward move from John Roberts. Because
[24:26] Speaker 15: John Roberts is the person that said Alabama's map was
[24:30] Speaker 15: unconstitutional back in twenty twenty two, and now in the
[24:34] Speaker 15: carbon copy, exact same situation, John Roberts has changed his mind. Well,
[24:38] Speaker 15: he owed it to people to explain to people why
[24:41] Speaker 15: he changed his mind. What was different John, What's the
[24:45] Speaker 15: new thing that happened? And he punked out, He punked
[24:48] Speaker 15: out like a little coward, and he gave it to
[24:50] Speaker 15: his rabbit attack dog Sam Alito to write the most
[24:53] Speaker 15: awful decision that leader could think of.
[24:55] Speaker 5: And Robins just.
[24:56] Speaker 15: Signed his name on it. But he never explained why
[24:58] Speaker 15: he changed his mind. He was a coward punk moved
[25:00] Speaker 15: from Roberts. But again, this is this is this Supreme Court.
[25:04] Speaker 15: When I was on your show in twenty twenty one,
[25:07] Speaker 15: in twenty twenty two begging the Biden administration to do
[25:10] Speaker 15: something about court expansion, to expand the number of justices
[25:14] Speaker 15: on the Supreme Court.
[25:15] Speaker 5: This is why, this is what I was screaming about.
[25:19] Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Eli, I'm sorry, Eli, I'm sorry, Elie.
[25:23] Speaker 6: You were screaming for Biden the Democrats to do what
[25:26] Speaker 6: the Republicans in Utah did whether Utah Supreme Court ruled
[25:31] Speaker 6: against them and created a Democrat congressional district, and the
[25:35] Speaker 6: Republicans said, oh damn this, We're adding Utah State Supreme
[25:40] Speaker 6: Court justices, and the legislature approved it, governors side into law.
[25:46] Speaker 15: I was begging the Democrats to protect the Voting Rights Act,
[25:50] Speaker 15: if for no reason other reason than that of self preservation.
[25:53] Speaker 15: Right for no, if you can't do the do it
[25:56] Speaker 15: on the moral grounds and you can't do it on
[25:58] Speaker 15: the legal grounds, do it for self preservation, Democrats.
[26:01] Speaker 5: But they didn't.
[26:01] Speaker 15: I was begging them to pass the John Lewis Voting
[26:04] Speaker 15: Rights Act, which would have restored a lot of the
[26:07] Speaker 15: previous issues with the Voting Rights Act of the Republicans
[26:10] Speaker 15: had taken away. But oh, we can't kill the followbusters,
[26:12] Speaker 15: So what can we do, Joe Manchin.
[26:15] Speaker 5: Was the answer that you got. And so now, to
[26:18] Speaker 5: quote al Gore. We are living in a time of consequences.
[26:22] Speaker 15: This is what happens when you let racist Republicans control
[26:26] Speaker 15: the Supreme Court. And what that consequence is going to
[26:30] Speaker 15: be is the attempted eradication of the Congressional Black Caucus.
[26:34] Speaker 15: But I don't want to leave people just with doom
[26:36] Speaker 15: and bloom.
[26:37] Speaker 5: Although I have.
[26:40] Speaker 15: I don't have a lot of hope at this moment.
[26:43] Speaker 15: I don't want to leave people with only that. Understand
[26:47] Speaker 15: all of these gerrymanders, all of these maps, they're based
[26:51] Speaker 15: on a previous idea of voter turnout. They're based on
[26:55] Speaker 15: a previous idea of black voter turnout. They're based on
[26:58] Speaker 15: a previous idea of Latino voter turnout, and they're based
[27:01] Speaker 15: on an.
[27:01] Speaker 5: Idea of white voter turnout.
[27:04] Speaker 15: If black people, Latino people, and whites of good conscious
[27:08] Speaker 15: overwhelmingly turnout like Obama two thousand and eight numbers turnout,
[27:14] Speaker 15: all of these maps fail them. All of these maps
[27:17] Speaker 15: heel because what they're to make the maps, because you
[27:19] Speaker 15: can't completely erase the people to make a majority minority
[27:24] Speaker 15: district safe for a white Republican. What you have to
[27:27] Speaker 15: do is not only is get you know, just fifty
[27:30] Speaker 15: percent plus one into that majority minority district. You also
[27:34] Speaker 15: have to weaken previously strong Republican districts to make the
[27:39] Speaker 15: numbers work LA, and you overwhelmingly turn out Yep, you blow.
[27:44] Speaker 5: Up all of their calculations. It is the only way
[27:47] Speaker 5: at this point.
[27:48] Speaker 6: And that's why what I call this what it is,
[27:52] Speaker 6: it is a is a GOP war on Black America.
[27:56] Speaker 6: I said last night, this should be freedom Summer twenty
[27:59] Speaker 6: twenty six. I walk people through this graphic that I
[28:04] Speaker 6: walked through that what happened. The numbers do not lie.
[28:07] Speaker 6: The numbers are very clear when and the reason Republicans
[28:10] Speaker 6: are pissed off is because of what happened two thousand
[28:14] Speaker 6: and eight, Anthony, go b iPad, y'all. It's right here.
[28:17] Speaker 6: You see right there two thousand and eight, twenty twelve.
[28:21] Speaker 6: The black line that's black people. The blue line it's
[28:26] Speaker 6: white people. Two thousand and eight too, So y'all the number,
[28:30] Speaker 6: I'm sorry, the blue line is black. Uh, the black
[28:33] Speaker 6: line is white. And you see right here two thousand
[28:36] Speaker 6: and eight, twenty twelve, where you have black people outvoted
[28:40] Speaker 6: white people. Now here's a deal. They pissed up Latinos
[28:44] Speaker 6: Latinos are way down here. Latinos were under forty or
[28:48] Speaker 6: fifty percent in two thousand and eight, the exceeded fifty
[28:51] Speaker 6: percent in twenty twenty, went back down to twenty twenty four.
[28:56] Speaker 6: And what I have been saying, point blank, Ellie, is
[28:59] Speaker 6: that it's right here, this graphic right here. White is black,
[29:04] Speaker 6: Black is blue. If black people turn out in massive numbers,
[29:09] Speaker 6: oh they're screwed because you have to move people. If
[29:13] Speaker 6: the South Carolina wants to get rid of Clyburn's district,
[29:16] Speaker 6: you gotta figure out what to do with a lot
[29:19] Speaker 6: of black people. If you and Mississippi and you want
[29:22] Speaker 6: to get rid of Congress and Bennie Thompson's district and
[29:25] Speaker 6: make it GOP, you're gonna have to get rid of
[29:28] Speaker 6: forty percent of black people in the state. If you
[29:32] Speaker 6: are in Tennessee and you say, oh, we're gonna split Tennessee,
[29:37] Speaker 6: split Memphis like we did Nashville, well those black people
[29:42] Speaker 6: they're gonna go in somebody else's district. And again we
[29:46] Speaker 6: can torpedo them at every turn. So this is what
[29:50] Speaker 6: I'm saying mass voter registration. This is what I am
[29:54] Speaker 6: saying every single week, in every single city. In every
[29:59] Speaker 6: single southern state, there should be town halls, voter citizenship training,
[30:05] Speaker 6: walking people through the issues and get them to understand
[30:09] Speaker 6: that we can kick their asses at the ballot box.
[30:12] Speaker 6: And it also means in North Carolina, re elect Anita
[30:16] Speaker 6: Earls to the North Clown Supreme Court. And in twenty
[30:19] Speaker 6: twenty eight, when those three Republicans are up on the ballot,
[30:23] Speaker 6: take all three of them out at the ballot box.
[30:25] Speaker 6: It means Georgia. It means Georgia on May nineteenth. Having
[30:32] Speaker 6: those two candidates we had one on last night. One
[30:36] Speaker 6: name is Miracle, one name is Jena. Elect them to
[30:39] Speaker 6: the Georgia Supreme Court. Yo, this is warfare, Ellie, and
[30:43] Speaker 6: people got to be on warfare footing.
[30:46] Speaker 15: It's the only way. I cannot emphasize enough. There is
[30:50] Speaker 15: no more legal recourse. The Supreme Court is showing the
[30:55] Speaker 15: ass all right. They are here to bring the hammer
[31:00] Speaker 15: of white supremacy. There are no more lawsuits. There's there,
[31:03] Speaker 15: there's there, there's no more that.
[31:06] Speaker 4: That's that.
[31:07] Speaker 15: That avenue is functionally closed. And frankly, there are no
[31:12] Speaker 15: more candidates. Right like you're you you We can talk
[31:15] Speaker 15: all the time you want in the off years, about
[31:18] Speaker 15: how we need these candidates and that candidates and better
[31:20] Speaker 15: candidates and better man and it doesn't matter at this point.
[31:23] Speaker 15: All that matters is turnout. And one of the reasons
[31:26] Speaker 15: why they jerrymander districts is that they know that people
[31:30] Speaker 15: will look at the district they're in and feel like
[31:32] Speaker 15: it's hopeless, feel like there's no point, feel like there's
[31:35] Speaker 15: no reason to go out and vote because how can
[31:36] Speaker 15: you possibly overcome such a such a large white majority.
[31:41] Speaker 15: But you gotta remember, lots of white folks don't work
[31:43] Speaker 15: vote either, right, And if you if you have a
[31:46] Speaker 15: better turnout per capita than they do, and you bring friends,
[31:51] Speaker 15: white friends along, and you bring latino and a a
[31:54] Speaker 15: p I friends along.
[31:56] Speaker 5: Like that, that is how you do it. And that's
[31:58] Speaker 5: the only way left and the lasting I'll.
[32:00] Speaker 15: Say this, as bad as it is shaping up for
[32:04] Speaker 15: twenty twenty six in terms of voter suppression, please understand
[32:09] Speaker 15: twenty twenty six is gonna end up being our last
[32:13] Speaker 15: best chance for voter representation because all of these jerrymanders,
[32:18] Speaker 15: it's only gonna get worse in twenty twenty eight, and
[32:20] Speaker 15: it's only gonna get worse in twenty thirty after the
[32:24] Speaker 15: next census, when they have a normal redistricting under the
[32:28] Speaker 15: twenty thirty census will be the first census where they
[32:31] Speaker 15: will be able to do normal redistricting without the restrictions
[32:35] Speaker 15: of the Voting Rights Act.
[32:37] Speaker 5: So it only gets worse from here.
[32:41] Speaker 15: If you can't win here, if you can't win now,
[32:44] Speaker 15: if you can't win in twenty twenty six, it only
[32:47] Speaker 15: gets worse going forward.
[32:48] Speaker 6: And Ellie, this is also why finally you have folks
[32:52] Speaker 6: waking up. Democrats in New York. You have to run
[32:56] Speaker 6: the table Democrats in Illinois, run the table to that
[33:00] Speaker 6: asshole Senate president in Maryland. Get your ass in gear
[33:05] Speaker 6: and stop protecting that one Republican seat because they don't
[33:08] Speaker 6: give a damn about one Democratic seat. In other states
[33:12] Speaker 6: it means California, Yeah, go for a fifty two to
[33:16] Speaker 6: zero map.
[33:17] Speaker 3: That's what you do.
[33:20] Speaker 5: Yep.
[33:21] Speaker 15: It's absolute hardball. You cannot unilatterally disarmed. I know that
[33:26] Speaker 15: lots of people on my side of the aisle.
[33:28] Speaker 5: Oh, Jerry Mannering, it's solf icky and real.
[33:30] Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
[33:31] Speaker 5: It doesn't matter anymore.
[33:33] Speaker 15: Like what they did in Virginia is exactly what you
[33:36] Speaker 15: have to do in all of these other states where
[33:38] Speaker 15: Democrats do have control in Michigan, Like, as you say,
[33:41] Speaker 15: democrats have to run the table in the states that
[33:44] Speaker 15: still allow black voices to be heard, and then you
[33:48] Speaker 15: need overwhelming turnout in states where the black voice is suppressed.
[33:54] Speaker 15: And that's and that's your shot. That there is but
[33:57] Speaker 15: one play now and that's the play.
[34:00] Speaker 6: Yep, that's it, Ellie Misstil Justice correspondent. We still appreciate it, man, thanks.
[34:04] Speaker 5: A lot, Thank you so much for having me.
[34:07] Speaker 6: All Right, folks, if you want to understand how shameful
[34:10] Speaker 6: to speakable these people are, let's this sufficient from Georgia.
[34:15] Speaker 6: We're on Newsmax. And he literally said that, I know
[34:19] Speaker 6: there's an election going on. I know people are casting balance. Oh,
[34:23] Speaker 6: by the way, early voting has already started in Georgia.
[34:27] Speaker 6: The election is in fourteen days, it's in two weeks.
[34:30] Speaker 6: But Cornson Buddy Carter said, I don't care. We should
[34:35] Speaker 6: just stop the election and change the maps.
[34:39] Speaker 16: And I'm glad that Tennessee and Alabama are redrawing their districts,
[34:43] Speaker 16: and I think that Georgia should do the same thing. Yes,
[34:46] Speaker 16: we have started early voting, and yes it would be inconvenient,
[34:51] Speaker 16: but at the same time, it's never too late to.
[34:53] Speaker 6: Do the right thing. And the right thing is for
[34:56] Speaker 6: the governor and.
[34:57] Speaker 16: For the legislature to call a special session and to
[35:00] Speaker 16: read districts so that Georgians will be represented by people
[35:04] Speaker 16: who represent their values. We shouldn't have to suffer through
[35:07] Speaker 16: the next two years just because it's inconvenient to do
[35:11] Speaker 16: it now. We need to suspend the House races and
[35:14] Speaker 16: we need to go ahead and read districts so that
[35:16] Speaker 16: the Georgians would be represented in the next two years
[35:19] Speaker 16: by people who represent their values.
[35:22] Speaker 17: Yeah, if you could just even take a moment and
[35:24] Speaker 17: kind of, you know, walk our audience through, how might
[35:27] Speaker 17: redissertain really impact the balance of power between Democrats and
[35:31] Speaker 17: Republicans in the state of Georgia.
[35:33] Speaker 5: Well, I could.
[35:34] Speaker 16: We could potentially pick up two to three seats in
[35:37] Speaker 16: the state of Georgia. And that's important because that could
[35:40] Speaker 16: impact the national majority. It actually could be the difference
[35:46] Speaker 16: between us going back as Republicans in the majority in
[35:49] Speaker 16: the House and going back in the minority. And that's important.
[35:54] Speaker 16: It's important that Georgia do this. As I say, it's
[35:57] Speaker 16: never too late to do the right thing. And the
[35:58] Speaker 16: right thing is to go ahead and readdistrict so that
[36:02] Speaker 16: Georgians will be represented by people who represent their values.
[36:06] Speaker 5: Georgia is a republican state. We need to remember that.
[36:09] Speaker 6: Yeah, and I exactly Georgia is a republican state. As
[36:16] Speaker 6: if Democrats don't exist. Oh, by the way, as if
[36:20] Speaker 6: your two United States senators right now are not Democrats.
[36:24] Speaker 6: Randon Bryant's entrepreneur, author, speaker, creator of the Truth in Game,
[36:27] Speaker 6: joining us from DC that Thestapa Santego I Leaf, former
[36:29] Speaker 6: Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice of the EPA, Also from DC.
[36:32] Speaker 6: Nicole Robinson, political law attorney and strategists, also from d C.
[36:36] Speaker 6: Let they have all three of you here, staff, I'll
[36:37] Speaker 6: start with you. I keep saying it. This means war,
[36:44] Speaker 6: and this means all hands on deck. This is why
[36:47] Speaker 6: House Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffries, this is why he dropped
[36:50] Speaker 6: twenty million dollars in Virginia. This is why he is
[36:54] Speaker 6: funding the effort in New York State as well. Democrats
[36:57] Speaker 6: have got to stop playing this wonderful, nice cute let's
[37:01] Speaker 6: all get along. No, no, this is called being bumpy
[37:04] Speaker 6: Johnson ruthless.
[37:07] Speaker 10: Yeah, most definitely you know, we actually break this down,
[37:10] Speaker 10: this is about the erasure of black power. Every time
[37:13] Speaker 10: that we begin to make some strides, then they start
[37:16] Speaker 10: to implement these types of things. If you look at
[37:18] Speaker 10: the Congressional Black Caucus that Ellie had raised there just
[37:21] Speaker 10: a moment ago, you know, we've got some of the
[37:24] Speaker 10: highest numbers that we've had in a long time. You
[37:27] Speaker 10: know that of folks who are representing our communities, and
[37:30] Speaker 10: that power translates into being able to make sure our
[37:34] Speaker 10: air and our water is protected. That you know that
[37:37] Speaker 10: we're making sure the care and housing and transportation is
[37:40] Speaker 10: affordable and accessible. So folks really have to understand why
[37:43] Speaker 10: this is so incredibly important. So when they do the
[37:46] Speaker 10: jerry mandred, what they're doing is they're, you know, trying
[37:49] Speaker 10: to take away the small amount of power that we
[37:51] Speaker 10: have and the resources that are tied to that. And
[37:54] Speaker 10: that's why when you talk about this current war that's
[37:58] Speaker 10: going on, it's so incredibly important to actually not only
[38:00] Speaker 10: pay attention, but get engaged because you are literally making
[38:04] Speaker 10: a determination of what your future will look like and
[38:06] Speaker 10: does your vote have any power to actually help move
[38:10] Speaker 10: in the right direction.
[38:12] Speaker 6: Absolutely, And when I look at this here, you know,
[38:15] Speaker 6: randon we talk about DEI. I mean this supreme course says, hey,
[38:20] Speaker 6: we want power for white people. This is why I
[38:22] Speaker 6: wrote my book White Fear. I said, how the browning
[38:24] Speaker 6: of Americas making white folks lose their minds. I warn
[38:27] Speaker 6: everybody of this. I warn that these people are going
[38:31] Speaker 6: to cement white power. And this is exactly what they're
[38:35] Speaker 6: trying to do today, right.
[38:39] Speaker 18: You know, when people talk about racism, they really try
[38:42] Speaker 18: to minimize it to someone calling us the N word,
[38:45] Speaker 18: are being rude to us in the store, and I
[38:47] Speaker 18: want people to understand that this is real racism. This
[38:52] Speaker 18: is how they wipe us out and bring us to
[38:55] Speaker 18: our knees, and that is by going at the top.
[38:58] Speaker 18: They have sematically gone through every program that was designed
[39:04] Speaker 18: to give us some rights, some you know, it wasn't
[39:07] Speaker 18: all the way fair in this country. So they immediately
[39:11] Speaker 18: attacked DEI diversity equity inclusion to ensure that white people
[39:17] Speaker 18: would be the ones that were essentially only included and
[39:20] Speaker 18: treated fairly and paid fairly in jobs.
[39:23] Speaker 5: Although DEI helped white women more than anybody.
[39:27] Speaker 18: Now they have the EEOC encouraging white men to declare
[39:31] Speaker 18: that there's reverse discrimination going on because in their minds.
[39:35] Speaker 18: Although they control most of the money and power in
[39:38] Speaker 18: this country, when there's something that they don't have, they
[39:42] Speaker 18: really believe white supremacy makes them believe that they are
[39:46] Speaker 18: due and owed everything.
[39:47] Speaker 5: And now with this voting, what they're saying is that we.
[39:50] Speaker 18: Don't want black people to have a voice whatsoever in
[39:53] Speaker 18: this country. We don't want them to be able to
[39:55] Speaker 18: vote for their rights in their interest. It's not as
[39:58] Speaker 18: if we can trust them to speak for us, or
[40:01] Speaker 18: care for us, or put us, you know, in.
[40:04] Speaker 5: A good form.
[40:05] Speaker 18: So we are in trouble people, and you know, and
[40:09] Speaker 18: I hate to again, you know, scare people, but we
[40:13] Speaker 18: should be frightened to the point where we're doing something
[40:17] Speaker 18: because this is a straight up attack on us, on
[40:22] Speaker 18: our rights and our liberties and all the way that
[40:25] Speaker 18: we could live going forward in this country.
[40:29] Speaker 6: Nicole, this is about scaring people. It's called stating facts, exactly.
[40:34] Speaker 5: And I want people to keep remembering and keep hearing the.
[40:37] Speaker 19: Words white supremacy, because that's exactly what this is. Sometimes
[40:42] Speaker 19: white supremacy doesn't look like a hood or a burning
[40:44] Speaker 19: cross or a news. Sometimes it looks like a six
[40:47] Speaker 19: to three Supreme Court ruling. Sometimes it looks like redrawing
[40:51] Speaker 19: a map. But I also want us to remember that
[40:54] Speaker 19: black people have fought back every single time that white
[40:58] Speaker 19: supremacists tried to sign us, whether that be after Jim Crow, after.
[41:03] Speaker 5: Reconstruction, we have fought and we can fight this again.
[41:06] Speaker 20: In November, and even before November.
[41:08] Speaker 19: We need our legislators to come back and come out
[41:11] Speaker 19: and start redrawing maps just.
[41:13] Speaker 20: Like the Republicans are doing. We have to start fighting now,
[41:16] Speaker 20: educating ourselves now now, and geting on the front.
[41:20] Speaker 6: Lines absolutely, and folks just need to understand what does
[41:27] Speaker 6: that play? And this thing is real now, Folks in
[41:31] Speaker 6: Louisiana and the days filing the suspension of louisianas used
[41:34] Speaker 6: House primaries, Governor Jeff Landry is facing increasing backlash from voters.
[41:38] Speaker 6: On Monday, Louisiana Secretary of State's office confirmed that it
[41:41] Speaker 6: has received a petition to recall Landry. The petition begins
[41:44] Speaker 6: one hundred and eighty day window for organizers to collect
[41:46] Speaker 6: the necessary voting signatures. The petition was filed by bat
[41:49] Speaker 6: Ruge residents Marlon Gabullian Heels and Caitlin Stepter and covers
[41:55] Speaker 6: all sixty four parishes Supporters of the recall claim it
[41:58] Speaker 6: is motivated what they describe as a pattern of actions
[42:01] Speaker 6: and statements that undermine fair representation. Since it is a
[42:04] Speaker 6: statewide recall effort, Louisiana law mandates the signatures from twenty
[42:07] Speaker 6: percent of registered voters must be collected. That means about
[42:10] Speaker 6: six hundred thousand signatures. They have until October thirty first
[42:15] Speaker 6: to actually to collect all of those signatures. Now, what
[42:19] Speaker 6: we have seen is a number of people immediately began
[42:23] Speaker 6: to move and take action. When with Black Women on
[42:26] Speaker 6: Sunday had some eight thousand sisters who are on a
[42:29] Speaker 6: call talking about what are the next steps today We're
[42:33] Speaker 6: going to show you a bit later. Black Clergy hold
[42:35] Speaker 6: a news conference where they talked about what their strategy is. Tonight,
[42:40] Speaker 6: When with Black Men will be having a call, an
[42:43] Speaker 6: emergency call to respond to what is happening. Joining us
[42:46] Speaker 6: right now is Kalil Thompson, the executive director When with
[42:48] Speaker 6: Black Men. Glad to have you here. So you already
[42:53] Speaker 6: got folks who are signing up. What is going to
[42:56] Speaker 6: be the call to action tonight?
[42:59] Speaker 21: First, thank you for having me on. I appreciate a
[43:01] Speaker 21: big brother. So the call to actually needs to organize
[43:04] Speaker 21: on the ground. I think we have been. We were
[43:07] Speaker 21: all tired at the end of twenty twenty four. We
[43:09] Speaker 21: ran through the ticket tape and we thought we did
[43:12] Speaker 21: everything that we could as a black community, the single
[43:15] Speaker 21: largest voting block on the Democratic side where black women.
[43:18] Speaker 21: Second to that were black men, and I think we
[43:20] Speaker 21: felt that we carried democracy on our shoulders and we
[43:22] Speaker 21: just didn't see the result turn out the way that
[43:24] Speaker 21: we wanted. Not that any of us were complacent in
[43:27] Speaker 21: twenty twenty five and we were preparing for this decision,
[43:30] Speaker 21: but I think it's woken up a lot of community members,
[43:34] Speaker 21: armshair activists who were there to get engaged and get
[43:37] Speaker 21: in this fight. So the action is to show up
[43:40] Speaker 21: in your state houses, participate in the legislative process so
[43:45] Speaker 21: as they are redistricting. If there is a member in
[43:48] Speaker 21: your state Senate or your state House or your state
[43:51] Speaker 21: Assembly that you can contact, call, knock on their door,
[43:54] Speaker 21: be in their offices, let them know how you feel,
[43:57] Speaker 21: and pressure them to understand that this is white supremacy
[44:01] Speaker 21: at its best.
[44:03] Speaker 5: We need you to do it.
[44:04] Speaker 21: Then we need to turn this summer into an amazing
[44:06] Speaker 21: opportunity to engage anyone from the age of seventeen to
[44:11] Speaker 21: one hundred and five, as many African Americans that we
[44:14] Speaker 21: can get to understand that, knocking on doors, talking to
[44:17] Speaker 21: our community members, reaching each other at our fish fries,
[44:20] Speaker 21: our family reunions, anything that we can do to make
[44:24] Speaker 21: sure that not only are you registered, but you're constantly,
[44:27] Speaker 21: unfortunately going to have to check the voter registration roles
[44:29] Speaker 21: in your community to make sure that you haven't been
[44:31] Speaker 21: purged or removed, and then partnering up and tripling your vote.
[44:35] Speaker 21: By that, I mean finding three other people in your
[44:38] Speaker 21: community that can hop in the car and go with
[44:40] Speaker 21: you to vote, either in early voting and on election
[44:43] Speaker 21: day or vote by mail if it's still allowed in
[44:46] Speaker 21: your jurisdiction. So we need to make sure that this
[44:48] Speaker 21: summer we are galvanizing all of our efforts so that
[44:51] Speaker 21: everyone in our community is participating.
[44:54] Speaker 6: I disagree. I think people work complacent. I think too
[44:57] Speaker 6: many people. After the twenty twenty f election, I kept hearing,
[45:01] Speaker 6: oh my goodness, I'm tired, We've done so much, and
[45:03] Speaker 6: I was like, bullshit, I'm sorry, I'm like, this is
[45:06] Speaker 6: what's happening. He got inaugurated that they were executing Project
[45:10] Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, we're seeing massive cuts left and right.
[45:13] Speaker 6: We knew the Louisiana versus Colley decision was coming down,
[45:15] Speaker 6: and I was sitting here saying, y'all, y'all better get
[45:18] Speaker 6: ready for the fight ahead. And I think that was
[45:21] Speaker 6: a problem. I think too many of us, too many
[45:24] Speaker 6: people took all of twenty twenty five off, and now
[45:27] Speaker 6: they're waking up, going, oh my god, what's happening? And
[45:29] Speaker 6: I'm like, what are you talking about. We were yelling
[45:32] Speaker 6: and screaming that this was going to happen. It was
[45:35] Speaker 6: coming down. Now people are now trying to move. And
[45:39] Speaker 6: I'll be perfect, I'll be perfectly honest. It was too
[45:42] Speaker 6: many black organizations sitting there on our asses in twenty
[45:45] Speaker 6: twenty five and not preparing people for twenty twenty six.
[45:49] Speaker 6: Now we gotta play catch up.
[45:52] Speaker 21: Well, let me let me.
[45:53] Speaker 5: Push back this a little bit.
[45:54] Speaker 21: I think some men have sat on the sidelines because
[45:56] Speaker 21: that two billion dollars that went out the door in
[45:58] Speaker 21: twenty twenty four didn't make its way back.
[46:00] Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, I get that. I get the
[46:03] Speaker 6: two billion dollars from the campaign, but guess what, there
[46:06] Speaker 6: were other campaigns and what I'm saying is it was
[46:10] Speaker 6: a mistake. And what I'm saying is when I look
[46:12] Speaker 6: at the history of black people, history of black people
[46:15] Speaker 6: after elections, when we've had losses and we've had wins,
[46:19] Speaker 6: we still got to go to work. And so plus
[46:22] Speaker 6: a lot of people weren't sitting here going all, my goodness, Hey,
[46:25] Speaker 6: a lot of money from the campaign wasn't going into
[46:28] Speaker 6: black communities. No, what I was yelling and others were saying,
[46:31] Speaker 6: we have to protect black interests. And again, this to
[46:34] Speaker 6: me was a critical mistake of black leadership. There were
[46:39] Speaker 6: people who were just like, oh, my good I don't
[46:40] Speaker 6: know what to do. I don't know what to do.
[46:42] Speaker 6: I mean, look, it took Democrats in Congress nine months
[46:46] Speaker 6: to figure out a coherent message. And so I just
[46:50] Speaker 6: think that this is a perfect example where black leadership
[46:54] Speaker 6: has to understand when lose or draw, we stay active.
[46:59] Speaker 6: It's a three sixty five, seven day a week game
[47:03] Speaker 6: that we have to be focused on. And people were saying,
[47:06] Speaker 6: I want to do something, where do I go? And Khalil,
[47:08] Speaker 6: I'm just being straight up. A lot of black groups
[47:12] Speaker 6: took off the year and people were saying, what do
[47:15] Speaker 6: I do now? Theyre now have to get activated, and
[47:19] Speaker 6: now we have to rush. It's now May. We got June, July, August, September, October.
[47:25] Speaker 6: For the less, we got five months. That's what I'm saying.
[47:28] Speaker 6: That's on black leadership.
[47:32] Speaker 3: I can't disagree with you.
[47:33] Speaker 21: I know I got dismade and disheartened when all came
[47:36] Speaker 21: around last year, and I lived back, continued our calls,
[47:40] Speaker 21: but almost as only as much as we could and
[47:42] Speaker 21: the team that we had here. I don't disagree with
[47:45] Speaker 21: you on getting engaged over these next five months. So
[47:48] Speaker 21: you know, I'm one hundred percent in it with you.
[47:50] Speaker 21: Whether it's registering black men in communities, it doesn't matter
[47:54] Speaker 21: what side of the isle you on like in terms
[47:55] Speaker 21: of fraternity, non fraternity, blue collar, white collar, or no collar.
[47:59] Speaker 21: We're asking you to get out and show up in
[48:02] Speaker 21: your communities. So for me, and I'm taking heed from you,
[48:07] Speaker 21: our calls at women black men are going to be
[48:08] Speaker 21: every Sunday. Every Sunday at seven pm, we are going
[48:11] Speaker 21: to be galvanizing at least for an hour, bringing black
[48:14] Speaker 21: men together, sharing information, whether that's data from polling or
[48:17] Speaker 21: focus coups, whether that's Terrence Woodberry or Cornell Belcher or
[48:23] Speaker 21: others bringing information to us, or if that's Cameron Trimble
[48:27] Speaker 21: and Terrence Green providing what's happening on the digital other
[48:31] Speaker 21: paid media side, or organizers like Kiliff Albright and Quinton
[48:34] Speaker 21: James as well providing inside of what's happening on the ground.
[48:38] Speaker 21: We're also going to be highlighting black men who are
[48:40] Speaker 21: running for office. So tonight on our call, we have
[48:43] Speaker 21: hopefully Charles Booker is gonna enjoin running for US Senate
[48:45] Speaker 21: out of Kentucky. We've got Will Coloone, he's running for
[48:48] Speaker 21: usn out of Mississippi. We've got Chris Jones, who is
[48:53] Speaker 21: the Democratic nominee in Arkansas, Mike Blake who's running for
[48:57] Speaker 21: office in New York for congressional office in New York,
[49:00] Speaker 21: and then Robert White who's also running in DC. We've
[49:03] Speaker 21: got a couple of gubernatorial candidates out of Georgia, Jason
[49:07] Speaker 21: Stevez and Michael Thurman. And then there's a couple of
[49:10] Speaker 21: gubernatorial candidates coming out of Alabama, pastor Will Boyd, and
[49:15] Speaker 21: I'm blanking on the second one. So our opportunities to
[49:18] Speaker 21: make sure we're highlighting there's a dynamic brother who's running
[49:21] Speaker 21: for US in South Dakota so we want to make
[49:23] Speaker 21: sure the information is getting to the people and then
[49:25] Speaker 21: working to make sure we're organizing on the ground.
[49:28] Speaker 9: And so our summer.
[49:29] Speaker 21: Activities are going to be making sure we have civic
[49:31] Speaker 21: engagement programs running not only throughout the South, but in
[49:34] Speaker 21: communities that we want to do our work in. So
[49:37] Speaker 21: we're looking for partners, and we're looking for people who
[49:39] Speaker 21: are ready to step up, take on the mantle and
[49:41] Speaker 21: shoulder this burden and get the work done.
[49:42] Speaker 6: Yeah, well, also needs to happen.
[49:44] Speaker 3: He is.
[49:44] Speaker 6: You can have people on a call, but we also
[49:47] Speaker 6: have to look at critical states and when and when
[49:50] Speaker 6: and when I look at the map, when I look
[49:52] Speaker 6: at first of all, they're trying to gut every black
[49:54] Speaker 6: seat all across the South, and so people are fighting
[49:58] Speaker 6: on that front. The other front of this here when
[50:00] Speaker 6: you look at the United States Senate, who's gonna be
[50:02] Speaker 6: able to control the Senate? And I keep saying to
[50:04] Speaker 6: all these those simple simon yahoos, look y'all are nonpartisan.
[50:07] Speaker 6: That's fine, But here's the fact of the matter. Is
[50:09] Speaker 6: this here the Republican Party, there's a war on Black
[50:13] Speaker 6: America and control room. I don't understand why my graphic
[50:15] Speaker 6: is not on the damn screen like it was last night.
[50:18] Speaker 6: There's a war on Black America. That's what's going on
[50:20] Speaker 6: right now and what needs to be happening. Our people
[50:24] Speaker 6: need to be locked and loaded one hundred percent to
[50:27] Speaker 6: understand we ain't getting Jack from the Republican Party. I
[50:30] Speaker 6: may have Michael Harriet on a little bit later. With
[50:33] Speaker 6: Michael Harritt, we're gonna walk through Protect tween twenty five
[50:36] Speaker 6: and all of its anti blackness. And so I need
[50:38] Speaker 6: us to understand that the only pathway for black people
[50:41] Speaker 6: is Democratic Party. You can't say it, but I can
[50:44] Speaker 6: say it based upon the actions right now. I mean,
[50:48] Speaker 6: everybody listen to me. Right now, there's only one party
[50:51] Speaker 6: that is trying to decimate black political power. That's Republicans
[50:55] Speaker 6: in South Carolina, in Tennessee, in North Carolina, in South Carolina, Georgia,
[51:00] Speaker 6: in Florida, in Mississippi, in Alabama, in Texas, in Arkansas,
[51:06] Speaker 6: all throughout the South. That's what they're doing. And so
[51:09] Speaker 6: some of y'all can listen to Umar Johnson, and y'all
[51:12] Speaker 6: can listen with some of these other people. You can
[51:14] Speaker 6: listen to Steven A. Smith talk about all I wish
[51:16] Speaker 6: all of us with both were Republican. But the party
[51:19] Speaker 6: that is attacking everything black is the Republican Party. They
[51:24] Speaker 6: are the enemy of Black America.
[51:29] Speaker 3: You got no pushback from me.
[51:31] Speaker 21: I know our organization is nonpartiesan, but I vote Democrat
[51:34] Speaker 21: every single time I go into the ballot.
[51:36] Speaker 5: Does that mean it's perfect?
[51:37] Speaker 3: No?
[51:38] Speaker 21: Does that mean I want to hold them accountable? I
[51:39] Speaker 21: think you said something really tremendous at the beginning of
[51:42] Speaker 21: the segment where we lean back.
[51:44] Speaker 5: I don't.
[51:44] Speaker 21: I'm gonna hold as I said in twenty twenty four,
[51:46] Speaker 21: this is a job interview for that people are applying for.
[51:49] Speaker 21: And if you're not meeting the grade and you're not
[51:51] Speaker 21: doing the work, then we've got to replace you and
[51:52] Speaker 21: find somebody else who will get the job done.
[51:55] Speaker 3: But we shouldn't row out.
[51:56] Speaker 21: The baby with the bath water and make sure we're
[51:59] Speaker 21: trying to find all these new brand of candidates. I
[52:01] Speaker 21: think there are amazing people who are running for office
[52:03] Speaker 21: right now, but we've got to make sure that they're
[52:05] Speaker 21: protecting and motivating our interest and believing in what's best
[52:09] Speaker 21: for the black community. I disagree with all of those
[52:12] Speaker 21: who say my vote doesn't matter. My daughter has less
[52:15] Speaker 21: rights than her mother did. She has less rights than
[52:18] Speaker 21: her grandmother does or did when she was her age.
[52:22] Speaker 21: That is an amazing feat to say. So, I want
[52:26] Speaker 21: people to understand this isn't hyperbolic, This isn't you know,
[52:29] Speaker 21: as we've said over the last couple of election cycles,
[52:31] Speaker 21: the most important election, this truly is the most important
[52:35] Speaker 21: election in your lifetime. If you do not go out
[52:39] Speaker 21: and vote, you have set a clear message to the
[52:41] Speaker 21: six y three decision on the Supreme Court that it
[52:43] Speaker 21: says that vote, they don't really vote, So it really
[52:46] Speaker 21: doesn't matter. They can gerrymander us all that they want.
[52:49] Speaker 21: They can make out these districts. We have zero representation.
[52:53] Speaker 21: And so the people that you want to have fixing
[52:56] Speaker 21: your potholes or your streets, making legislation that may or
[53:00] Speaker 21: may not have data centers, come into your communities, that
[53:03] Speaker 21: have good education for your children, that have free childcare,
[53:07] Speaker 21: all of that starts to go away if you do
[53:09] Speaker 21: not participate in the political process.
[53:12] Speaker 6: All right, So tonight's call starts at what time.
[53:16] Speaker 5: Eight thirty pm Eastern?
[53:18] Speaker 21: Go to wind with black Men dot org join the
[53:20] Speaker 21: Tuesday Call, or you can scan the QR code right
[53:23] Speaker 21: on your screen. Right now again eight thirty pm Eastern,
[53:26] Speaker 21: we are going to go to eleven o'clock Eastern tonight.
[53:29] Speaker 21: We are going to break down Louisiana versus Calai. We
[53:32] Speaker 21: have a dynamic brother from the Legal Defense Fund, we
[53:35] Speaker 21: have a few of our civil rights leaders.
[53:38] Speaker 3: We've got some folks.
[53:39] Speaker 5: My son, the General out.
[53:40] Speaker 21: Of New York is going to be on Isaiah Martin.
[53:42] Speaker 21: We've got candidates who are running. And then we've got
[53:45] Speaker 21: brothers on the ground. Emil Washington is in Louisiana in
[53:48] Speaker 21: Baton Rouge right now. We've got Mayor Randall Woodfin and
[53:52] Speaker 21: others who are going to be calling from Alabama as
[53:55] Speaker 21: they're in their state legislature. We're working to get Justin
[53:58] Speaker 21: Pearson on in Tennessee. We have justin Love State presented
[54:04] Speaker 21: Justin Love in Tennessee that's going to join us as well.
[54:07] Speaker 21: And then I think we are going over to I'm
[54:09] Speaker 21: leaving out one more state, but we're gonna hear from
[54:11] Speaker 21: folks on the ground doing the work, okay and really
[54:15] Speaker 21: leading the efforts.
[54:16] Speaker 6: All right, clud Thompson, well Sally appreciate it. Thanks a lot,
[54:19] Speaker 6: Thanks brother, folks. To the next hour, we're gonna hear
[54:21] Speaker 6: from Bishop William Barber. Go to my website, my iPad Anthony.
[54:25] Speaker 6: We talked about this last night, what Bishop Barber is doing.
[54:27] Speaker 6: They're gonna be holding a national virtual training. He's calling
[54:30] Speaker 6: on black men and black women who want to be
[54:32] Speaker 6: trained to organize the mobilized with black voters. If you
[54:34] Speaker 6: go to Blackstar network dot com, click this particular link here,
[54:38] Speaker 6: we'll take you to this page and then you'll be
[54:40] Speaker 6: able to actually click the Black Men Civic Engagement link
[54:43] Speaker 6: right there to actually sign up. Now if you also, now,
[54:47] Speaker 6: if you don't want to do that, listen, this is
[54:49] Speaker 6: the QR code. Just point your fiend to the phone
[54:52] Speaker 6: to the screen. This is the cure code, will take
[54:54] Speaker 6: you right to the page. Again. We started this by
[54:57] Speaker 6: initially calling for one thousand hourphus. We've almost at our goal.
[55:00] Speaker 6: Then we expanded that to other black men. Then a
[55:03] Speaker 6: lot of a bunch of sisters with emailing, so we
[55:04] Speaker 6: added sisters as well. This is about training people to
[55:07] Speaker 6: organize and mobilize. It's one thing to say, oh my goodness,
[55:11] Speaker 6: we need people out there doing the work, but you
[55:12] Speaker 6: gotta be trained in doing the work. It's come back
[55:15] Speaker 6: to my panel Nicole, I want to start with you. Listen,
[55:19] Speaker 6: I'm being straight up. I was pissed off last year.
[55:21] Speaker 6: I think black leadership sat on their asses. I thought
[55:24] Speaker 6: too many black organizations were quiet. I thought they were
[55:27] Speaker 6: having internal conversations. I thought there were too many black people,
[55:30] Speaker 6: especially in millennials and gen Z and Jen Alpha, who
[55:33] Speaker 6: was sitting there going, oh my god, I'm tired. Oh
[55:35] Speaker 6: my god, I'm tired. It's just we had to do
[55:38] Speaker 6: so much work. And I'm like, they sound like a
[55:41] Speaker 6: bunch of whiny asses. And yeah, and I said it
[55:43] Speaker 6: then and I'll say it now because we were yelling
[55:46] Speaker 6: and screaming on this show every single damn day. Yo,
[55:50] Speaker 6: y'all need to see what is coming. And too many
[55:53] Speaker 6: black folks took it easy and they said, we're gonna
[55:56] Speaker 6: sit this one out. We're gonna see what we will.
[55:59] Speaker 6: Let y'all what y'all do. And I was sitting there going,
[56:01] Speaker 6: hell no, because I knew who was on the menu,
[56:04] Speaker 6: and it was black people who was on the menu.
[56:09] Speaker 3: Exactly.
[56:10] Speaker 19: And we knew that even before President Trump was elected.
[56:13] Speaker 19: Kamala Harris tried to warn us about Project Tween twenty
[56:16] Speaker 19: five so many times, but nobody took it seriously. In fact,
[56:20] Speaker 19: black voters turned out for President Trump, and then after
[56:23] Speaker 19: he started delivering on Project tween twenty five, people want
[56:26] Speaker 19: to start acting surprise.
[56:27] Speaker 5: Like we didn't know that was going to happen.
[56:29] Speaker 19: And it's unfortunate too, because once we saw that federal
[56:32] Speaker 19: workers were starting to get fired, that he was launching
[56:34] Speaker 19: all of these executive orders against d E and I
[56:37] Speaker 19: that should have at least should have been the starting
[56:40] Speaker 19: point for people to get activated and recognize that something
[56:42] Speaker 19: worse was going to happen.
[56:44] Speaker 5: But it took us up until this point, up.
[56:46] Speaker 19: Until the Supreme Court said that black votes don't matter
[56:49] Speaker 19: for people to start paying attention.
[56:52] Speaker 20: But I mean, my hope for the future is.
[56:54] Speaker 19: That people stay activated and they don't get distracted by
[56:57] Speaker 19: shootings and discussions about ballrooms and all the other things
[57:00] Speaker 19: that Trump is trying to distract us with, and that
[57:02] Speaker 19: we stay mobilized and get ready.
[57:05] Speaker 20: For this fight in November.
[57:06] Speaker 6: And Randy, here's the deal. What I kept saying to
[57:08] Speaker 6: people is I don't want to hear this crap. They're like, oh, man,
[57:11] Speaker 6: you should be going there.
[57:12] Speaker 1: Uh.
[57:13] Speaker 6: And then and then you also had too many negroes
[57:15] Speaker 6: who man, they calling me a shield, you should say,
[57:18] Speaker 6: may go tell them to kiss your ass. I mean
[57:20] Speaker 6: politics is politics, And when you look at the map
[57:23] Speaker 6: is real simple. There are there are There are two
[57:25] Speaker 6: parties in Congress, Democrats and Republicans. There are two United
[57:28] Speaker 6: States Senators who are registered independence and knew what they do.
[57:31] Speaker 6: They caucus with the Democrat. So I'm like, I'm not
[57:33] Speaker 6: sitting here having this philosophical uh discussion about oh, because
[57:39] Speaker 6: guess what I ain't seeing Jill Stott issue a goddamn
[57:43] Speaker 6: statement after the Supreme Court decision with the VR. We
[57:46] Speaker 6: ain't seeing high ass. And so this is what I'm
[57:48] Speaker 6: talking about. This is listen when I say this is war,
[57:52] Speaker 6: this is war. What these people want to do they
[57:55] Speaker 6: want to lock in white power for the next fifty
[57:58] Speaker 6: to one hundred years. And I need a gen Z
[58:01] Speaker 6: and a Jen Alpha to understand they want to put
[58:05] Speaker 6: They want Alito and Thomas to retire this year so
[58:08] Speaker 6: they can replace them with a Supreme Court justice who's
[58:11] Speaker 6: forty or forty two years Clarence Thomas. This week will
[58:15] Speaker 6: has hit the mark as the second longest serving Supreme
[58:18] Speaker 6: Court justice in American history. He was appointed when I
[58:23] Speaker 6: was in college, and so folk need to understand this
[58:28] Speaker 6: ain't no game. They know what they're doing, and they
[58:32] Speaker 6: are trying to say, yeah, we're gonna lock y'all out
[58:35] Speaker 6: for another one hundred years. Damn what y'all accomplished the
[58:38] Speaker 6: last sixty.
[58:41] Speaker 18: Right, you know, It's like people in the middle of
[58:44] Speaker 18: a gunfight when I have a conversation about the legality
[58:47] Speaker 18: of guns.
[58:48] Speaker 5: We're in the fight.
[58:49] Speaker 18: They're shooting us right now, So we cannot have a
[58:52] Speaker 18: philosophical conversation about guns.
[58:54] Speaker 5: Maybe after we get through this and we survive.
[58:57] Speaker 18: And so that is what's been happening right now, is
[59:00] Speaker 18: that you have these detractors who are saying, I don't
[59:02] Speaker 18: believe in the two party system, and you know, people
[59:06] Speaker 18: like Jill Stein, who we only hear from once every
[59:08] Speaker 18: four years.
[59:09] Speaker 5: Like where is she? She doesn't show up whatsoever, And
[59:12] Speaker 5: they want to have these conversations.
[59:14] Speaker 18: And I always tell people, we have to function as
[59:17] Speaker 18: it exists right now, and there are two parties that
[59:19] Speaker 18: have a chance of winning. And let me tell you
[59:21] Speaker 18: which one, as we keep saying, is not attacking purposefully,
[59:25] Speaker 18: strategically and unfortunately, very effectively black people.
[59:30] Speaker 5: We've got to get on it.
[59:31] Speaker 18: And when you talk about the Supreme Court, I don't
[59:33] Speaker 18: think people understand are hopefully they're seeing right now sadly,
[59:38] Speaker 18: the power that the.
[59:39] Speaker 5: Supreme Court has.
[59:40] Speaker 18: And it's not every four year thing. I think they're
[59:43] Speaker 18: in their an average of twenty eight years. They're there
[59:45] Speaker 18: a long time, and so when they're in there, they
[59:49] Speaker 18: completely set up the way we live. Since in this
[59:52] Speaker 18: short time and what I would call Trump's Supreme Court,
[59:57] Speaker 18: women have lost their rights.
[59:58] Speaker 5: Black people have lost they're right.
[1:00:00] Speaker 18: Anyone who considers themselves an immigrant have lost rights. It
[1:00:05] Speaker 18: has been set up essentially to give white men all
[1:00:11] Speaker 18: the power in the world that they already didn't have,
[1:00:14] Speaker 18: right because they were suffering that they already did not right.
[1:00:18] Speaker 13: It is a yes.
[1:00:21] Speaker 6: Well, the thing for me mustaf is this year it's
[1:00:25] Speaker 6: a lot of black organizations who all of a sudden
[1:00:27] Speaker 6: are sending out fundraising emails. I ain't having them on
[1:00:32] Speaker 6: the show. My old deal is if you ain't been
[1:00:36] Speaker 6: out here doing work I'm talking about on the groundwork,
[1:00:39] Speaker 6: I'm sorry, don't come talk to me right now. And
[1:00:42] Speaker 6: this is my problem, this is the problem that I
[1:00:44] Speaker 6: have been talking about, and matter of fact, the book
[1:00:46] Speaker 6: that I'm working on speaks to this black people. I
[1:00:49] Speaker 6: heard it all across the country. I've heard this across
[1:00:53] Speaker 6: the country the last twenty years, but I really heard
[1:00:56] Speaker 6: it last year. Yo, ro what we're gonna do, What
[1:00:58] Speaker 6: we're gonna do, what's the plane? How we're gonna fight back?
[1:01:01] Speaker 6: Who's leading? Where our organizational leaders, and many of them
[1:01:05] Speaker 6: were silent as hell, Scared to protest, scared to say anything,
[1:01:10] Speaker 6: Scared to do anything because they might lose their corporate
[1:01:13] Speaker 6: funding to the folks who will hold it on to
[1:01:15] Speaker 6: their DEI money. It was like, I ain't saying nothing.
[1:01:18] Speaker 6: I ain't gonna say nothing. We're gonna lose them chicks.
[1:01:20] Speaker 6: That's what was going on there. And now all of
[1:01:22] Speaker 6: a sudden, we're about to see a third of the
[1:01:25] Speaker 6: congression of Black Caucus wiped out, No, almost half the
[1:01:28] Speaker 6: coression of Black Caucus wiped out. We're about to see
[1:01:30] Speaker 6: state legislators, county commissioner, city council of school board members,
[1:01:33] Speaker 6: you name it wiped out. And so I'm going, oh, now,
[1:01:36] Speaker 6: y'all want to get involved? What have I been saying
[1:01:38] Speaker 6: for the longest. We gotta be sitting here informing, educating, enlightening,
[1:01:42] Speaker 6: and empowering our voters every single day. You don't wait
[1:01:46] Speaker 6: till November. You do it the year before, and you
[1:01:48] Speaker 6: do it the whole year, and then come January. Between
[1:01:51] Speaker 6: January and the primary, you again have a strategy there.
[1:01:55] Speaker 6: Then you're getting them. Then you're getting them registered. And
[1:01:58] Speaker 6: then once you get them registered, when is the lastinated registered?
[1:02:01] Speaker 6: And then when his early voting started? How do we
[1:02:03] Speaker 6: get them to the polls? How are we driving them there?
[1:02:05] Speaker 6: Let's call a strategy. I'm like, lit's stop waiting and
[1:02:08] Speaker 6: hoping and see here shows up. Black people have been
[1:02:11] Speaker 6: saying where are leaders and where's the plan? And too
[1:02:15] Speaker 6: many folks been sitting, they ass down, chilling, popping their fans,
[1:02:19] Speaker 6: what are fans at? And doing boots on the ground
[1:02:21] Speaker 6: as opposed to doing the real work.
[1:02:25] Speaker 10: Well, you know, we've often utilized the quote that all
[1:02:28] Speaker 10: skin folks and kidfolk, and sometimes they actually are the
[1:02:32] Speaker 10: ones that are in leadership inside of many of our organizations.
[1:02:35] Speaker 22: So we need to be very honest about that. We
[1:02:38] Speaker 22: need to also be very honest.
[1:02:40] Speaker 10: You know, we got a whole lot of people who
[1:02:41] Speaker 10: like to talk a good game, but when it comes
[1:02:43] Speaker 10: time to doing the work, they don't show up. They're
[1:02:46] Speaker 10: not at protests, they're not at strategy meetings. You know,
[1:02:49] Speaker 10: they're busy having corporate conversations. And yes, I understand you
[1:02:52] Speaker 10: got to keep the lights on in your organizations, but
[1:02:54] Speaker 10: your organization's got to be doing something to make sure
[1:02:57] Speaker 10: that it is protecting and uplifting black folks. And if not,
[1:03:00] Speaker 10: then we don't need your organization or we don't need
[1:03:02] Speaker 10: your leadership in this moment. Let's be very clear that
[1:03:06] Speaker 10: what we see currently going on is not something that
[1:03:09] Speaker 10: just started over the last few years. You can go
[1:03:11] Speaker 10: all the way back to New Gingridge and those folks
[1:03:14] Speaker 10: and the strategies that they were putting in place to
[1:03:16] Speaker 10: be able to revamp the government, to make sure that
[1:03:20] Speaker 10: various laws that were part of the social safety net
[1:03:23] Speaker 10: were weakened.
[1:03:24] Speaker 22: And you're seeing all that play out now. So we
[1:03:27] Speaker 22: have to get engaged.
[1:03:29] Speaker 10: We have to make sure, as we've talked about since
[1:03:31] Speaker 10: the first day I came on this show, that we
[1:03:33] Speaker 10: have to make sure that we're understanding the power that
[1:03:35] Speaker 10: exists inside of the courts and making sure that we
[1:03:37] Speaker 10: are making sure that there are judges who are there
[1:03:40] Speaker 10: who will make sure there's real equality and how the
[1:03:43] Speaker 10: law is being implemented and how it is being evaluated.
[1:03:47] Speaker 10: We got to make sure that there are folks are
[1:03:50] Speaker 10: sitting in these seats of power inside of governments from
[1:03:52] Speaker 10: the local level all the way up to the federal level,
[1:03:54] Speaker 10: who have control over grants and contracts that they're coming
[1:03:57] Speaker 10: back to our communities. We got to make sure sure
[1:04:00] Speaker 10: that folks can actually afford a house, that folks can
[1:04:02] Speaker 10: make sure that they're eating clean and save food, that
[1:04:05] Speaker 10: they breathe clean air. All these things are a part
[1:04:08] Speaker 10: of the strategy that we have to be supportive of
[1:04:11] Speaker 10: and if somebody wants our vote, that they're willing to
[1:04:13] Speaker 10: stand up for along with make sure that you're protecting
[1:04:15] Speaker 10: voting rights and a number of other types of things.
[1:04:18] Speaker 10: But that means that people got to get up off
[1:04:20] Speaker 10: the couch every day. Folks got to get up off
[1:04:22] Speaker 10: the couch. The folks who are leading our organizations got
[1:04:25] Speaker 10: to get up off the couch. Because you can't lean
[1:04:28] Speaker 10: back and ever make progress. You can only make progress
[1:04:31] Speaker 10: when you lean forward.
[1:04:33] Speaker 6: Absolutely all right, y'all. So it's been very interesting last night.
[1:04:37] Speaker 6: We talked about some comments Steven asbith Bade on Cam
[1:04:40] Speaker 6: Newton's podcast saying that he wished that black people would
[1:04:44] Speaker 6: all vote Republican. Let me play that again for you.
[1:04:48] Speaker 23: I wish for one election that every black person would
[1:04:54] Speaker 23: vote Republican.
[1:04:57] Speaker 6: How can you say that, I said, It's simple.
[1:05:02] Speaker 23: Since nineteen sixty four, the black people, black folks, we
[1:05:06] Speaker 23: have been giving our vote to the Democratic Party at
[1:05:09] Speaker 23: an exorbitant rate. Therefore, they know they got our vote
[1:05:13] Speaker 23: and they don't have to cater to us as much
[1:05:15] Speaker 23: as we need them to. The Republicans know they'll never
[1:05:18] Speaker 23: get our vote, so they don't give a damn about us,
[1:05:22] Speaker 23: and as a result, we're the only community in America
[1:05:24] Speaker 23: devoid of representation, which is why we're considered disenfranchised.
[1:05:29] Speaker 6: I'm tired of that.
[1:05:30] Speaker 23: What I want is to put ourselves as a community
[1:05:35] Speaker 23: in a position where both parties have to work to
[1:05:39] Speaker 23: get our vote.
[1:05:40] Speaker 9: Can I ask you this, do you think you covering
[1:05:43] Speaker 9: politics like you cover politics in.
[1:05:46] Speaker 3: The words of your mans?
[1:05:48] Speaker 6: Is that good for business?
[1:05:49] Speaker 3: Your business? It has the.
[1:05:53] Speaker 6: Steven A. Swiss said, we're the only group the voter representation.
[1:05:58] Speaker 6: That's a lie. I literally have no idea what the
[1:06:00] Speaker 6: hell he's talking about. Like, literally, is Governor Wes Moore
[1:06:08] Speaker 6: not black in Maryland is Don Scott. The Speaker of
[1:06:13] Speaker 6: the House of Virginia not black is Louise Lucas. The
[1:06:16] Speaker 6: Senate pro tem not black is Lieutenant governor of Illinois
[1:06:19] Speaker 6: not black. You've got fifty members of the Congresion of
[1:06:22] Speaker 6: Black Caucus in Congress. You have Vice President Kamala Harrison.
[1:06:25] Speaker 3: Is she not black?
[1:06:27] Speaker 6: We can go on and on and on. You've got
[1:06:29] Speaker 6: lieutenant governor right now in Michigan. You've got a black
[1:06:32] Speaker 6: attorney general in Nevada, a black attorney general in Maryland,
[1:06:37] Speaker 6: a black attorney general in Massachusetts, a black attorney general
[1:06:41] Speaker 6: in New York State, a black attorney general in Illinois.
[1:06:45] Speaker 6: What the hell is he talking about? We are devoided representation. Now.
[1:06:51] Speaker 6: If you're saying that there are four black Republicans, yeah,
[1:06:54] Speaker 6: but guess what, all four of them gonna be gone
[1:06:55] Speaker 6: come January. But this is what I this is why.
[1:07:00] Speaker 6: So we have Michael Harriett found on the country band
[1:07:02] Speaker 6: camp on last night. We brought him back tonight because
[1:07:05] Speaker 6: I saw Umar Johnson, I saw see these other black
[1:07:08] Speaker 6: conservits like that's right, Steve Day's right, Stephen Ay right,
[1:07:11] Speaker 6: because this notion is that, oh that if we voted Republican.
[1:07:19] Speaker 6: If we voted Republican, then they would listen to us
[1:07:25] Speaker 6: and start doing what we desire. I find that to
[1:07:29] Speaker 6: be nonsensical. So I called Michael and I said, Michael,
[1:07:36] Speaker 6: let's actually walk people through what the Republicans said they
[1:07:41] Speaker 6: were going to do to black people in twenty twenty four.
[1:07:45] Speaker 6: Matter of fact, not even twenty twenty four, because Jonathans,
[1:07:48] Speaker 6: Wayne and Axios dropped the story in twenty twenty one.
[1:07:51] Speaker 6: They were preparing product twenty twenty five, so they started
[1:07:54] Speaker 6: twenty twenty one. So Michael Harrett joins us right now.
[1:07:57] Speaker 6: So Michael, let's go ahead and get started. So since
[1:08:00] Speaker 6: all of these people are saying, yay, Stephen A is
[1:08:03] Speaker 6: rioting if only, if only we could vote Republican, they're
[1:08:06] Speaker 6: gonna start listening to us. Michael, please illuminate for people
[1:08:11] Speaker 6: and remind people what Republicans actually said that they were
[1:08:17] Speaker 6: going to do if they regained power as it relates
[1:08:22] Speaker 6: to black people.
[1:08:26] Speaker 24: So the first thing we have to know is that
[1:08:30] Speaker 24: from the beginning, even before twenty twenty, the Republicans had
[1:08:34] Speaker 24: a dream. Their biggest dream was to repeal the Voting
[1:08:37] Speaker 24: Rights Act. That's why John Roberts was a Supreme Court nominee.
[1:08:42] Speaker 24: That's how he got on the Supreme Court. That was
[1:08:45] Speaker 24: his mission to repeal the Voting Rights Act. In twenty thirteen,
[1:08:50] Speaker 24: I interviewed the gentleman who was the Congress the counsulman
[1:08:55] Speaker 24: who they were trying to get out of his county seat,
[1:08:59] Speaker 24: and that became Shelby versus Holder, right, And that was
[1:09:05] Speaker 24: their first step, right, That was the first step to
[1:09:08] Speaker 24: eliminating the Voting Rights Act. When Trump got elected and
[1:09:13] Speaker 24: when Trump ran in twenty twenty one, what did he promise? Right?
[1:09:17] Speaker 5: He was going to get rid of affirmative Action. He
[1:09:20] Speaker 5: was going to, you know, bring back what was.
[1:09:24] Speaker 24: Called the National Origins Formula, which was essentially a race
[1:09:28] Speaker 24: based quota system for immigration. He promised all of this
[1:09:33] Speaker 24: black stuff. And apparently in two thousand twenty steven A.
[1:09:40] Speaker 24: Smith thought that's who he was voted for. And it's
[1:09:43] Speaker 24: important to know that I went and attended a lecture
[1:09:46] Speaker 24: at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in twenty thirteen, and
[1:09:49] Speaker 24: Stephen A.
[1:09:50] Speaker 5: Smith was saying the same stuff.
[1:09:51] Speaker 16: Right.
[1:09:52] Speaker 5: So if Stephen A.
[1:09:53] Speaker 24: Smith had his wish, every black person in America would
[1:09:56] Speaker 24: have voted for Donald Trump.
[1:09:58] Speaker 5: Right, that's what you begin with.
[1:10:00] Speaker 24: Every black person in America would have empowered this white
[1:10:03] Speaker 24: nationalist that we wanted.
[1:10:06] Speaker 5: And when Donald Trump was kicked out of.
[1:10:11] Speaker 24: Office by Joe Biden, he went even further right, Steve
[1:10:15] Speaker 24: Natesmith said, that's what we would have we should have
[1:10:17] Speaker 24: voted for. But what did he say he was going
[1:10:19] Speaker 24: to do. He said he was going to get rid
[1:10:21] Speaker 24: of DEI. He said he was going to get rid
[1:10:23] Speaker 24: of Affirmative Action. He said he was going to get
[1:10:25] Speaker 24: do get rid of all of this what he called
[1:10:28] Speaker 24: divisive rhetoric about teaching black history. He said, we weren't
[1:10:32] Speaker 24: going to be talking about race. He said he was
[1:10:35] Speaker 24: going to make give drug dealers the death.
[1:10:39] Speaker 5: Penalty, right.
[1:10:40] Speaker 24: He said he was going to create these camps for
[1:10:43] Speaker 24: homeless people. He said he was going to repeal every
[1:10:47] Speaker 24: equality that we had in the housing sector. Right, and
[1:10:53] Speaker 24: on the first day in office he did it. Here's
[1:10:56] Speaker 24: the thing that we have to understand, right, you know,
[1:10:58] Speaker 24: I know, we said, people like Lumar Johnson and Steven A.
[1:11:02] Speaker 24: Smith who don't know history, like to think that we
[1:11:04] Speaker 24: started voting republican in the Civil Rights era.
[1:11:08] Speaker 5: But that's not true.
[1:11:10] Speaker 24: As you showed from the data I sent you last night.
[1:11:13] Speaker 24: It began way before that because black people identified with
[1:11:17] Speaker 24: the Republican Party in the nineteen thirties, but when it came.
[1:11:20] Speaker 5: To president, they voted for FDR. Why did they do that? Well,
[1:11:24] Speaker 5: in nineteen forty one, FDR.
[1:11:30] Speaker 24: Asked Mary McLeod un to get her the smartest black
[1:11:34] Speaker 24: people he could find. One of them, a Harvard University
[1:11:38] Speaker 24: professor named Rayford Logan, vote the Executive Order AD eight
[1:11:43] Speaker 24: h two that desegregated the defense industry. That caused the
[1:11:47] Speaker 24: great vibration. Right, And so because we got the president
[1:11:52] Speaker 24: to do what we wanted, we identified as Republican but
[1:11:55] Speaker 24: voted for a Democratic president.
[1:11:58] Speaker 5: That began the move move toward the Democratic Party.
[1:12:01] Speaker 24: And black people did not necessarily flock toward the Democratic Party.
[1:12:06] Speaker 5: What happened was.
[1:12:07] Speaker 24: White people flopped away from the Democratic Party when they
[1:12:12] Speaker 24: began giving us our voting rights.
[1:12:16] Speaker 5: It started with the desegregation of the military.
[1:12:19] Speaker 6: So, Michael, you're saying, Michael, you're saying that when black
[1:12:22] Speaker 6: people just like into a neighborhood, when black people start
[1:12:26] Speaker 6: going to a party, white people run the other.
[1:12:29] Speaker 24: Way, right, And and that's when So again, if you
[1:12:34] Speaker 24: look at the data. We voted for president after for
[1:12:38] Speaker 24: a Democratic president. After FDR, white people began flocking away
[1:12:44] Speaker 24: from the Democratic president. And when George McGovern ran because
[1:12:49] Speaker 24: he ran on all of these racist dog whistles, right,
[1:12:52] Speaker 24: and then no.
[1:12:53] Speaker 6: No, no, no, I'm sorry, George Wallace ran under racist
[1:12:58] Speaker 6: dog whistles. You said, George mcgoverny, go ahead, I'm.
[1:13:01] Speaker 24: Sorry, I'm sorry, and George Wallace ran toward the on
[1:13:05] Speaker 24: the racist dog Wilson. Remember, the first thing strom Thurman
[1:13:10] Speaker 24: did when he switched from the Democratic Party to the
[1:13:12] Speaker 24: Republican Party is what we know now.
[1:13:14] Speaker 5: He went to the FBI at office and said that
[1:13:18] Speaker 5: I want you to open a case against this man
[1:13:21] Speaker 5: named Martin Luther King Junior. That's why they sent Martin
[1:13:25] Speaker 5: Luther King that letter telling him to kill himself. Stephen A.
[1:13:30] Speaker 25: Smith wants us to vote for that party, right, it's
[1:13:34] Speaker 25: absolutely insane, aside from the lack of logic, that we
[1:13:38] Speaker 25: shouldn't give our votes to the Democratic Party, but we
[1:13:41] Speaker 25: should give our votes to Republican Party who has demonstrated
[1:13:45] Speaker 25: their opposition to our progress.
[1:13:47] Speaker 5: It doesn't make any historical sense.
[1:13:51] Speaker 6: So when we talk about so to your point, when
[1:13:54] Speaker 6: you talk about because you mentioned housing, and again, this
[1:13:58] Speaker 6: is what I need. All these people, all these people
[1:14:02] Speaker 6: who keep saying, uh yeah, we vote Republican, then they
[1:14:07] Speaker 6: gonna listen to us, and you just lay our housing.
[1:14:09] Speaker 6: Go to my iPad. Pro Publica did a story, Donald
[1:14:12] Speaker 6: Trump shut down. Go to my iPad. Go to my iPad.
[1:14:19] Speaker 6: Donald Trump shut down an investigation of Pro Publica. A
[1:14:24] Speaker 6: propaker did a story. It was a hood investigation of
[1:14:27] Speaker 6: racism among the Dallas Hoa. Donald Trump said, Nah, we
[1:14:32] Speaker 6: ain't doing that. Black people in Cancer Alley, Louisi and
[1:14:37] Speaker 6: Louisiana were protesting and we're suing. We're suing what was
[1:14:41] Speaker 6: taking place there where they were dying because the Patrick
[1:14:44] Speaker 6: chemical plants. Donald Trump pulled out of that lawsuit, saying
[1:14:49] Speaker 6: it was a DEI lawsuit. Lownes County, Alabama, black people
[1:14:53] Speaker 6: had sewage that was flooding into their homes in backyards,
[1:14:57] Speaker 6: and the Biden has administration negotiated settlement. Donald Trump saying,
[1:15:01] Speaker 6: now that's a DEI settlement. We walked through numerous times
[1:15:06] Speaker 6: where Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans have completely shut things down,
[1:15:12] Speaker 6: discrimination cases, education Department, They pretty much wiped out civil
[1:15:18] Speaker 6: rights offices they're not investigating anything the Department of Justice,
[1:15:22] Speaker 6: they're not investigating any police officers of wrongdoing. So I'm
[1:15:26] Speaker 6: just trying to understand, Michael, where these people are coming
[1:15:30] Speaker 6: from when they think that Republicans are going to all
[1:15:34] Speaker 6: of a sudden start embracing a black agenda.
[1:15:39] Speaker 24: Right when, first of all, to what you said, right,
[1:15:42] Speaker 24: you know, I wrote about I read the entire Project
[1:15:46] Speaker 24: twenty twenty five. One of the things that Project twenty
[1:15:49] Speaker 24: twenty five said, and it's broken down by federal agents, right,
[1:15:53] Speaker 24: And what Project twenty twenty five proposed was that he
[1:15:56] Speaker 24: get rid of the Office of Civil Rights every federal agency.
[1:16:01] Speaker 24: People don't know that there's an Office of Civil Rights,
[1:16:03] Speaker 24: not just in dh DJ but in the HHS. Well,
[1:16:07] Speaker 24: all of that is reflected in his twenty twenty seven budget.
[1:16:11] Speaker 24: We published a report today that went line by line
[1:16:15] Speaker 24: through his latest federal budget that he's proposing for twenty
[1:16:18] Speaker 24: twenty seven.
[1:16:19] Speaker 5: He wants to get rid of the DHS Office of.
[1:16:23] Speaker 24: Civil Rights, Right, he wants to get rid of he
[1:16:25] Speaker 24: wants to build make Alcatraz, and to spend one hundred
[1:16:30] Speaker 24: one point seven billion dollars to remake Alcatraz into what
[1:16:34] Speaker 24: is essentially a concentration camp.
[1:16:36] Speaker 3: Right.
[1:16:36] Speaker 5: He wants to defund black farmers.
[1:16:39] Speaker 24: Right, there was a grant that gave three hundred million
[1:16:43] Speaker 24: dollars to black farmers who are at risk of losing
[1:16:46] Speaker 24: their land. He has already proposed in his budget to
[1:16:50] Speaker 24: get rid of that program, and he wants to get
[1:16:52] Speaker 24: rid of forty nine of those fifty grands. Well, who
[1:16:56] Speaker 24: you know got the fiftieth of those grants?
[1:16:59] Speaker 5: A white man profit organization. Right.
[1:17:01] Speaker 24: And so what we have to understand is not just
[1:17:05] Speaker 24: like the rhetoric of this slick talking sophistry that Stephen A.
[1:17:09] Speaker 24: Smith likes to put on YouTube, right, but we have
[1:17:11] Speaker 24: to understand what the fats are.
[1:17:14] Speaker 3: Right.
[1:17:14] Speaker 24: If those people, if the Republican Party, that white nationalist Party,
[1:17:19] Speaker 24: actually wanted to compete.
[1:17:20] Speaker 5: For our vote, they could have done it.
[1:17:23] Speaker 24: They talked all last campaign season about how they're going
[1:17:26] Speaker 24: to attract black men, but they didn't demonstrate it with
[1:17:30] Speaker 24: any actual policies, right, it.
[1:17:33] Speaker 5: Was just something that they said.
[1:17:34] Speaker 24: And so we have to understand the difference between people
[1:17:38] Speaker 24: who just talk about things on the internet, like Steven A. Smith,
[1:17:42] Speaker 24: who is a great entertainer, and someone who's actually studied
[1:17:49] Speaker 24: and don't think that they're smarter than my grandmama and
[1:17:52] Speaker 24: our ancestors and all of the black people who ever lived,
[1:17:56] Speaker 24: who vote the policies and study the issues and didn't
[1:17:59] Speaker 24: go on ESPN and talk about sports and the cowboys,
[1:18:03] Speaker 24: but actually new history and politics and things that only
[1:18:08] Speaker 24: appear in books.
[1:18:09] Speaker 6: And see, my thing is this year to me, this
[1:18:11] Speaker 6: segment is not even about Steven. And I just use
[1:18:13] Speaker 6: this clip. But see it's a lot of these people
[1:18:15] Speaker 6: who say the same thing. So are you're a liberal slave?
[1:18:19] Speaker 6: You're on the plantation. We ain't gotten nothing from Democrats
[1:18:22] Speaker 6: in sixty years. They haven't gotten We've done nothing nothing.
[1:18:25] Speaker 6: It's like, I mean, they can and I sit here
[1:18:28] Speaker 6: and go, okay, can y'all please tell me the five
[1:18:33] Speaker 6: issues on a black agenda that Democrats don't support a
[1:18:39] Speaker 6: Republicans do support, they never are able to do so.
[1:18:44] Speaker 6: So what happens, Michael, is that these are the phrases Steven,
[1:18:48] Speaker 6: they use one of them, they pay us lip service? Okay,
[1:18:52] Speaker 6: what does that mean? Or they ain't done nothing for us?
[1:18:57] Speaker 6: But Michael, here's the crazy thing. It ain't Black people
[1:19:01] Speaker 6: what have been non critical of Democrats. It ain't like
[1:19:04] Speaker 6: we ain't said, y'all ain't doing enough. Like that's what's
[1:19:07] Speaker 6: so stupid. I ain't running to nobody Black saying, you know, Roland,
[1:19:12] Speaker 6: they've done enough. They have been absolutely amazing. No, the
[1:19:16] Speaker 6: point of politics is to always ask for more. But
[1:19:21] Speaker 6: what gets me is the other side. They ain't done
[1:19:24] Speaker 6: a damn thing.
[1:19:28] Speaker 5: That's the anti intellectual straw man that they built.
[1:19:31] Speaker 3: Right.
[1:19:31] Speaker 24: They say, well, the Democrats don't give us exactly what
[1:19:34] Speaker 24: we want, so you know, they must not be for
[1:19:38] Speaker 24: black people. We should leave that party. Right when politics
[1:19:41] Speaker 24: nobody ever gets what they want, right. Like, the anti
[1:19:45] Speaker 24: intellectual part of that is the assumption that black people
[1:19:48] Speaker 24: are one hundred percent satisfied with the Democratic Party. When
[1:19:53] Speaker 24: you know, and I know that we have criticisms of
[1:19:56] Speaker 24: the Democratic Party. They chase after white moderates, right, they
[1:20:00] Speaker 24: sometimes do they pay pay.
[1:20:01] Speaker 5: Us lip service.
[1:20:02] Speaker 24: They don't know how to reach black voters, right, and
[1:20:06] Speaker 24: that those are valid criticisms.
[1:20:08] Speaker 5: Right.
[1:20:08] Speaker 24: But just because your house ain't exactly like you want it, right, Like,
[1:20:13] Speaker 24: if you got a leak in the roof, you don't
[1:20:16] Speaker 24: burn the house down and say, man, we gotta move right,
[1:20:19] Speaker 24: you try to fix it from.
[1:20:21] Speaker 5: Inside the house.
[1:20:22] Speaker 24: And that's what black people have done to the only
[1:20:25] Speaker 24: political representation that they really have a chance at electing
[1:20:30] Speaker 24: in a two party system.
[1:20:32] Speaker 6: I reference this the other day, and it was always
[1:20:38] Speaker 6: interesting to me. And again, I like to deal in facts.
[1:20:46] Speaker 6: I ain't dealing with emotion. I ain't dealing with drama.
[1:20:50] Speaker 6: I'm not dealing with people who just sort of just
[1:20:51] Speaker 6: throw bs out there. And the first time Trump was there,
[1:20:57] Speaker 6: I was very clear. One of the first things that
[1:21:01] Speaker 6: Republicans did was they overturned and Trump signed into law.
[1:21:07] Speaker 6: They overturned what Obama did to stop discrimination in auto lending.
[1:21:16] Speaker 6: And this was this actually happened, y'all. I'm looking for
[1:21:21] Speaker 6: it last night and I finally found it. This happened
[1:21:24] Speaker 6: on the floor of the United States House. And this
[1:21:28] Speaker 6: is actually where Reclaim my Time originated. I need you
[1:21:34] Speaker 6: to listen.
[1:21:36] Speaker 24: Make sure that we're making America great every day and
[1:21:39] Speaker 24: every way, and the best way to do that is
[1:21:41] Speaker 24: to stop talking about discrimination and start talking about the
[1:21:44] Speaker 24: nation we're coming together.
[1:21:45] Speaker 6: As a people.
[1:21:46] Speaker 5: In spite of what you say. Thank you, gentlemen, I
[1:21:49] Speaker 5: yield back.
[1:21:49] Speaker 8: Gentlemen's time has expired. Members are reminder to address their
[1:21:53] Speaker 8: remarks to the Chair the gentleman from Texas Reserves. Generalad
[1:21:56] Speaker 8: from California, Thank you.
[1:21:58] Speaker 5: Very much the gentlemen.
[1:22:00] Speaker 6: Mister Kelly, please do not leave, because.
[1:22:03] Speaker 26: I want you to know that I am more offended
[1:22:06] Speaker 26: as an African American woman than you will ever be.
[1:22:09] Speaker 26: And this business about making America great again, it is
[1:22:12] Speaker 26: your president that's dividing this country. And don't talk to
[1:22:16] Speaker 26: me about the fact that we don't understand.
[1:22:19] Speaker 6: What happens on the automobive.
[1:22:20] Speaker 3: No.
[1:22:20] Speaker 9: I will not yell.
[1:22:21] Speaker 6: No, I will not yell. Okay, don't tell me that
[1:22:24] Speaker 6: we don't understand.
[1:22:25] Speaker 26: That's the attitude that's been given towards women's time and
[1:22:29] Speaker 26: time again.
[1:22:30] Speaker 5: General Lady will suspend.
[1:22:32] Speaker 8: The chair wishes to remind all members that they are
[1:22:35] Speaker 8: to address their remarks to the chair that lady will chair.
[1:22:38] Speaker 26: But don't stop me in the middle when you didn't
[1:22:40] Speaker 26: stop him in the middle, And so I shall continue.
[1:22:43] Speaker 26: Don't you dare talk to me like that and think
[1:22:46] Speaker 26: that somehow women don't understand what goes on on the
[1:22:50] Speaker 26: floor of automobile Dealers.
[1:22:52] Speaker 8: Minded to direct her remarks to the chair, the Generalaty will.
[1:22:56] Speaker 6: Continue that I will continue to do that.
[1:22:59] Speaker 26: However, I don't appreciate that you did not interrupt him
[1:23:03] Speaker 26: when he was making those outrageous remarks about him knowing
[1:23:06] Speaker 26: more about discrimination than I know about discrimination. I resent that,
[1:23:12] Speaker 26: and I resent the remark about making America great again.
[1:23:15] Speaker 26: He's down here making a speech for this dishonorable president
[1:23:18] Speaker 26: of the United States of America, having said that I
[1:23:21] Speaker 26: reserved the balance of my time at No.
[1:23:23] Speaker 6: I do not yield, not.
[1:23:25] Speaker 27: One second to you, not one second, not one second
[1:23:29] Speaker 27: to you.
[1:23:31] Speaker 6: So here's a question, Michael, Why in the hell, when I,
[1:23:36] Speaker 6: as a black man, give my vote to a party
[1:23:41] Speaker 6: that wants to get rid of laws that fight discrimination
[1:23:47] Speaker 6: in auto lending? Why the hell would I do that?
[1:23:50] Speaker 6: Why the hell after ten black people were gunned down
[1:23:54] Speaker 6: by a white supremacist at a grocery store in Buffalo,
[1:23:59] Speaker 6: New York. Why and Jamal Bowen, then congressman, introduces a
[1:24:04] Speaker 6: resolution condemnic white supremacy, and not one Republican supported it,
[1:24:09] Speaker 6: Why in the hell would I give them my vote?
[1:24:14] Speaker 24: Well, here's a better question, Roland. When they were arguing
[1:24:18] Speaker 24: about that right, that Obama era policy, how did that
[1:24:23] Speaker 24: get into law? If the Democratic Party only pays us
[1:24:28] Speaker 24: lip service? When Trump repealed forty eight Obama era policies
[1:24:34] Speaker 24: on his first date as president. How did those policies
[1:24:37] Speaker 24: get into effect if the Democratic Party only pays us
[1:24:41] Speaker 24: lift service?
[1:24:42] Speaker 5: When he repealed Executive.
[1:24:44] Speaker 28: Order eighty eight h two, which is written by a
[1:24:47] Speaker 28: black man, how did it get into law if the
[1:24:50] Speaker 28: Party only pays us lift service. If the Party only
[1:24:53] Speaker 28: paid us lift service, then how did Obama file suit
[1:24:58] Speaker 28: his dt fiul tu it gets every major lending institution
[1:25:02] Speaker 28: for discrimination in America. If they only paid us lip service,
[1:25:06] Speaker 28: then how did we get the.
[1:25:09] Speaker 24: Dear colleague letter on the department from the Department of
[1:25:13] Speaker 24: Education warning school districts that hey, We're going to ssue
[1:25:16] Speaker 24: you if you keep disproportionately punishing black kids. Like if
[1:25:20] Speaker 24: they only pay us lip service, if they don't do
[1:25:21] Speaker 24: anything for black people, why do they got to repeal
[1:25:24] Speaker 24: the laws?
[1:25:24] Speaker 9: Right?
[1:25:24] Speaker 3: Like?
[1:25:24] Speaker 24: Where did the laws magically come from? If the party
[1:25:28] Speaker 24: only pays us lip service.
[1:25:30] Speaker 6: Yeah, And the other thing is this here? This is
[1:25:33] Speaker 6: what I would love it again. I would love for
[1:25:36] Speaker 6: Stephen A or Umar or any black conservative what's that
[1:25:41] Speaker 6: silly negro, Vince Ellison, whatever his name is. I would
[1:25:44] Speaker 6: love for any of them. I would love for any
[1:25:47] Speaker 6: of them to explain to me, how is it that
[1:25:52] Speaker 6: black owned businesses received ten billion dollars in federal contracts
[1:26:01] Speaker 6: in the last year of Biden Harris, And let it
[1:26:04] Speaker 6: be real clear, that's two percent. And I ain't happy
[1:26:09] Speaker 6: at all about two percent, but it was ten billion,
[1:26:13] Speaker 6: and it was a record number. We're now down to
[1:26:16] Speaker 6: one point two percent under Trump. So again, why would I,
[1:26:22] Speaker 6: as a black man give my vote to a party
[1:26:28] Speaker 6: that does not want black people to get contracts? Why
[1:26:34] Speaker 6: would I do that?
[1:26:37] Speaker 24: Well, not just don't doesn't want black people to get contracts.
[1:26:42] Speaker 24: They repealed the legislation and the executive orders that allowed black.
[1:26:48] Speaker 5: People to get contracts.
[1:26:49] Speaker 24: They repealed the legislation that again created the biggest demographic
[1:26:55] Speaker 24: shift in American history, that came from Executive Order ADYOO two,
[1:27:00] Speaker 24: which is gone down.
[1:27:01] Speaker 3: Right.
[1:27:01] Speaker 24: They repealed the Affirmative Action Executive Order, which was written
[1:27:06] Speaker 24: by Hobart Taylor Jr.
[1:27:08] Speaker 5: A black man. Right, they're repealing the.
[1:27:11] Speaker 24: The executive orders and the legislation that we created, and
[1:27:16] Speaker 24: we are expected to vote for those people. Like, the
[1:27:21] Speaker 24: only thing that it explains it, right, is that Steve Like,
[1:27:26] Speaker 24: there's only one word to explain it that's created by
[1:27:28] Speaker 24: the generation after mind. They gotta be ops man, right,
[1:27:32] Speaker 24: they are opponents. They are our opposition. They do they
[1:27:37] Speaker 24: want us to vote for people who oppose us. There's
[1:27:40] Speaker 24: only one logical explanation that they are our ops.
[1:27:46] Speaker 6: And let me just get it, y'all, stay right there
[1:27:54] Speaker 6: in my studio.
[1:27:57] Speaker 19: I have.
[1:27:58] Speaker 6: I'm gonna need you to put this back on the
[1:28:00] Speaker 6: wall when I'm done in my still give me go wide,
[1:28:04] Speaker 6: go wide.
[1:28:05] Speaker 5: I know exactly what you're getting. Go wie, come on,
[1:28:09] Speaker 5: go wide.
[1:28:10] Speaker 6: Y'all got three cameras right here, switch to a wide shot.
[1:28:13] Speaker 6: What were doing?
[1:28:15] Speaker 3: Okay?
[1:28:15] Speaker 6: I don't understand why the camera nott why anyway? So y'all,
[1:28:18] Speaker 6: thank you. That's the shot I wanted. Please, Now, y'all,
[1:28:25] Speaker 6: this is the poster from Nate Parker's The Birth of
[1:28:30] Speaker 6: a Nation. And when I saw this poster, I said, Nate,
[1:28:36] Speaker 6: you got to send me an autograph copy so I
[1:28:40] Speaker 6: could put this in my studio. And y'all, y'all notice
[1:28:44] Speaker 6: in this poster the noose around his neck is a
[1:28:51] Speaker 6: US flag that, Michael to me, is the equivalent of
[1:28:57] Speaker 6: us giving our vote to the Reportublican Party. We are
[1:29:01] Speaker 6: voluntarily lynching our sales. We are voluntarily screwing our sales.
[1:29:08] Speaker 6: I was sitting the ONYX Impact put together a report
[1:29:15] Speaker 6: dealing with dealing with the budget, dealing with It's called
[1:29:21] Speaker 6: the Blackout Report, and go to my iPad you see
[1:29:24] Speaker 6: it right here. So we've lost some three point four
[1:29:28] Speaker 6: billion dollars in federal grants, five hundred and ninety one
[1:29:32] Speaker 6: black books banned, and across twenty one states, we've been
[1:29:36] Speaker 6: wiped out thousands of jobs because maga's been targeting black people, y'all.
[1:29:44] Speaker 6: That's a noose around the next of black people. So, Michael,
[1:29:49] Speaker 6: it would literally be black suicide to say, oh, let's
[1:29:57] Speaker 6: give all of our black votes to the Republicans because
[1:30:00] Speaker 6: they might begin to love us.
[1:30:05] Speaker 3: Right.
[1:30:05] Speaker 24: It's what they're suggesting is that there is someone who's
[1:30:09] Speaker 24: been stalking us and trying to kill us, and they
[1:30:13] Speaker 24: haven't completed their mission.
[1:30:15] Speaker 5: And what Stephen A.
[1:30:16] Speaker 24: Smith wants us to do is just give them more bullets,
[1:30:20] Speaker 24: right Like, that's what he wants to give them, the
[1:30:24] Speaker 24: people who have been trying to kill us politically, to
[1:30:27] Speaker 24: kill our rights legislatively, to give them more bullets because
[1:30:33] Speaker 24: somehow that would make them not shoot us or stop
[1:30:38] Speaker 24: shooting at us.
[1:30:39] Speaker 5: It doesn't make logical sense.
[1:30:41] Speaker 6: It doesn't make logical sense, and there's no way in
[1:30:45] Speaker 6: hell I would tell anybody that should happen. Michael Harriet,
[1:30:49] Speaker 6: Contraband Camp go to my iPad, y'all. Please read this
[1:30:52] Speaker 6: piece on contraband Camp, a wish list for white supremacy.
[1:30:57] Speaker 6: Seven ways Trump's twenty twenty seven budget will hurt Black America.
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[1:31:19] Speaker 6: we are losing Black on media left and right. It
[1:31:22] Speaker 6: ain't a lot of folks doing the work that we do.
[1:31:24] Speaker 6: So what we do here at Blackstar Network, what we do,
[1:31:27] Speaker 6: or what Contraband Camp does, and so we got to
[1:31:29] Speaker 6: be supporting black on media and all that we do. Michael,
[1:31:32] Speaker 6: we appreciate it.
[1:31:32] Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, Thanks for having me.
[1:31:35] Speaker 6: I'm going back to my panel here. I mean movest out,
[1:31:37] Speaker 6: But we got to be some damn fools to sit
[1:31:40] Speaker 6: here and listen to these yahoos say some of the
[1:31:43] Speaker 6: most ridiculous things when again, I don't wake up a Democrat.
[1:31:50] Speaker 6: Let me real clear, I have never in my life
[1:31:53] Speaker 6: self call myself a Democrat, a Republican, or even an independent.
[1:31:59] Speaker 6: I call myself black, and I would be outside of
[1:32:03] Speaker 6: my damn mind if I decide to say, yeah, let
[1:32:06] Speaker 6: me go ahead and stand with the people who are
[1:32:09] Speaker 6: doing all they can to screw over black folk all
[1:32:13] Speaker 6: across this country.
[1:32:16] Speaker 22: Yeah, I mean, I'm right there with you.
[1:32:17] Speaker 10: I always say I vote for who cares about my
[1:32:19] Speaker 10: community and willing to make sure the words are translated
[1:32:23] Speaker 10: into real action.
[1:32:24] Speaker 6: Oh Stapah, you are a bent time this right here.
[1:32:31] Speaker 6: You are a bienttime environmentalist. Why in the hell would you,
[1:32:37] Speaker 6: as a big time environmentalist, as a black man, black
[1:32:42] Speaker 6: man and environmentalist, give your vote to a party that
[1:32:48] Speaker 6: stands against everything you believe in as an environmentalist.
[1:32:54] Speaker 22: I wouldn't. Everybody knows that I stand on that all
[1:32:58] Speaker 22: the time, you know.
[1:32:59] Speaker 10: I was just want to say that many of these
[1:33:01] Speaker 10: folks who you have identified today, who are asking people
[1:33:05] Speaker 10: to give consideration and voting for the Republican Party, I
[1:33:08] Speaker 10: would ask them to actually go with myself or a
[1:33:10] Speaker 10: number of.
[1:33:10] Speaker 22: Other folks to real communities who are actually barely hanging on.
[1:33:15] Speaker 10: In many instances, their lives have been shortened because of
[1:33:19] Speaker 10: the impacts that are going on inside of their communities,
[1:33:21] Speaker 10: the poison that's being pumped into their veins, into their lungs,
[1:33:25] Speaker 10: into their bodies, into the babies that are coming into
[1:33:29] Speaker 10: this next generation.
[1:33:31] Speaker 22: And that's the thing that always just baffles me, is that.
[1:33:34] Speaker 10: We get people who come on TV, who come on
[1:33:37] Speaker 10: these platforms who've never spent any time in community and
[1:33:41] Speaker 10: seeing exactly what is going on where people are getting cancers,
[1:33:44] Speaker 10: and they're getting liver and kidney diseases and all these
[1:33:47] Speaker 10: different types of things that are.
[1:33:48] Speaker 22: Currently going on.
[1:33:50] Speaker 10: And that's why I say that I give my vote
[1:33:53] Speaker 10: to somebody who's willing to actually work on those issues,
[1:33:55] Speaker 10: somebody who's willing to put the dollars back into community
[1:33:59] Speaker 10: where we've been under the resource for decades upon decades.
[1:34:03] Speaker 10: And that's what we have to get to is because
[1:34:05] Speaker 10: these people will make these broad statements, but they don't
[1:34:07] Speaker 10: talk about Black maternal health and what's actually going on
[1:34:10] Speaker 10: in our communities. And who's been willing to make the
[1:34:13] Speaker 10: funding that's necessary for us to begin to make some
[1:34:16] Speaker 10: gains in that area. They don't talk about what's going
[1:34:19] Speaker 10: on with black farmers and how we have less and
[1:34:21] Speaker 10: less land and that means we get less and less
[1:34:23] Speaker 10: fresh food. They don't talk about what's going on in
[1:34:25] Speaker 10: the grocery store because they're so far removed from what's
[1:34:29] Speaker 10: actually going on in black community. That's why I say
[1:34:32] Speaker 10: you have to earn my vote, and that means that
[1:34:35] Speaker 10: you have to put real action with the words that
[1:34:37] Speaker 10: are coming out of your mouth.
[1:34:39] Speaker 6: Nicole, you are a lawyer. Why in the hell would you,
[1:34:42] Speaker 6: as a lawyer, give your vote to a party who
[1:34:47] Speaker 6: right now won't prosecute a single cop for wrongdoing. You
[1:34:55] Speaker 6: had a jury in Los Angeles convict a former deputy
[1:35:00] Speaker 6: sheriff of beating a woman who was recording, and Donald
[1:35:06] Speaker 6: Trump's US attorney came in did a post conviction plea
[1:35:10] Speaker 6: deal took it from a feligy to a misdemeanor. When
[1:35:14] Speaker 6: Donald Trump got sworn in, one of the first things
[1:35:16] Speaker 6: that he did was give a pardon to two cops
[1:35:20] Speaker 6: in DC who chased down a black kid who was
[1:35:23] Speaker 6: killed and they were chasing him unnecessarily. They were convicted
[1:35:29] Speaker 6: by jewelry. Donald Trump pardoned them. Donald Trump has attacked
[1:35:33] Speaker 6: law firms that have opposed him and then tried to
[1:35:37] Speaker 6: force him to sign awful deals. Why would you, as
[1:35:41] Speaker 6: a black attorney, vote for those fools.
[1:35:45] Speaker 19: And this is the same party that's supposed to be
[1:35:48] Speaker 19: tough on crime and all about law and order. The
[1:35:51] Speaker 19: only time they care about crime and law and order
[1:35:53] Speaker 19: is when it's used to hurt black people. We see
[1:35:56] Speaker 19: this party advocating for the prison industrial complex, even if they.
[1:36:00] Speaker 5: Don't want to call it that. They want us in jail,
[1:36:02] Speaker 5: they want us in change, They want to bring back
[1:36:05] Speaker 5: Jim Crow, and.
[1:36:06] Speaker 19: Honestly, growling at this point, I think Steven A. Smith
[1:36:08] Speaker 19: might be a plant by the Trump administration or something,
[1:36:11] Speaker 19: because what is he talking about. I know that he
[1:36:14] Speaker 19: can outpoint to one Republican policy or one Republican candidate
[1:36:18] Speaker 19: that would do anything helpful.
[1:36:20] Speaker 20: For black people.
[1:36:22] Speaker 19: And this rhetoric is especially dangerous right now when we're
[1:36:25] Speaker 19: sitting here almost about to be back in Jim Crow
[1:36:27] Speaker 19: because of what the Supreme Court and Trump and his
[1:36:30] Speaker 19: clan members are doing.
[1:36:32] Speaker 5: So Stephen A.
[1:36:32] Speaker 19: Smith does not deserve a platform, and I hope cam
[1:36:35] Speaker 19: Newton also learns that he shouldn't have had him on
[1:36:37] Speaker 19: his platform either.
[1:36:38] Speaker 6: Randy, you're a shamed Randon. You have spent your career
[1:36:42] Speaker 6: trying to get more of us in corporate America, get
[1:36:46] Speaker 6: us promoted, get us on boards, get us on contract
[1:36:50] Speaker 6: Why in the hell would you, as a black woman
[1:36:53] Speaker 6: who has fought in the DEI space, give your vote
[1:36:58] Speaker 6: to a party that this spises diversity, equity inclusion, that
[1:37:03] Speaker 6: wants to have more white men in power, does not
[1:37:06] Speaker 6: want to see us get contracts. It does not want
[1:37:09] Speaker 6: to see us sitting on boards of directors. Why in
[1:37:12] Speaker 6: the hell would you do that?
[1:37:15] Speaker 5: I wouldn't. I would never.
[1:37:18] Speaker 18: They have been consistent with trying to block black people
[1:37:24] Speaker 18: from any positions of power. They have been consistent in
[1:37:29] Speaker 18: trying to ensure that we don't earn as much as them. Today,
[1:37:34] Speaker 18: we earn on a dollar a white man owns what
[1:37:38] Speaker 18: gets one dollar for one dollar, he earns a dollar,
[1:37:41] Speaker 18: whereas a black man will get eighty cents of that,
[1:37:44] Speaker 18: a black woman sixty something cents of that.
[1:37:46] Speaker 5: We don't even earn what they earn.
[1:37:48] Speaker 18: And what people need to understand is that's purposeful for
[1:37:52] Speaker 18: the doing these same exact jobs.
[1:37:54] Speaker 5: They have actively worked against us.
[1:37:57] Speaker 18: This is not a neutral party and then maybe the
[1:38:00] Speaker 18: Democrats do a little bit more. This is a party
[1:38:03] Speaker 18: that has dedicated themselves to actively ensuring that we can
[1:38:09] Speaker 18: barely function in this country.
[1:38:12] Speaker 5: It has been an absolute fight.
[1:38:14] Speaker 18: The reason why I stepped away from working in DEI
[1:38:18] Speaker 18: in the corporate in corporate Americas because it was so deflating,
[1:38:23] Speaker 18: because I was seeing what they were doing every day
[1:38:27] Speaker 18: to knock us down on our knees and make.
[1:38:29] Speaker 5: It where we are simply crawling.
[1:38:33] Speaker 18: And they point to people like Stephen A. Smith when
[1:38:36] Speaker 18: you talk about DEI is because they get that one
[1:38:40] Speaker 18: magical Negro right and they'll say, oh, we couldn't be
[1:38:43] Speaker 18: racist because look at who we hired, look at.
[1:38:46] Speaker 5: Who we've given a platform.
[1:38:47] Speaker 18: But it's always a person that speaks against us. They
[1:38:53] Speaker 18: speak against black people, which is why he has a platform.
[1:38:58] Speaker 18: Think about all the black journalists and newscasters who have
[1:39:03] Speaker 18: lost their jobs over the past year because they were
[1:39:08] Speaker 18: trying to speak truth to power, stating absolute facts.
[1:39:12] Speaker 5: They were let go.
[1:39:14] Speaker 18: So if you see someone who has a large platform
[1:39:18] Speaker 18: on a media platform that is owned by you know
[1:39:22] Speaker 18: who they're owned by, trust me, they're speaking not for
[1:39:25] Speaker 18: black people but against our interest.
[1:39:28] Speaker 6: Absolutely y'all for more than fifty years. Tennessee laws block
[1:39:32] Speaker 6: state lawmakers from redrawing congretual districts except every ten years
[1:39:35] Speaker 6: of the US census. But these maga folks, they're like, naw,
[1:39:39] Speaker 6: we're just going to change the law because they're trying
[1:39:42] Speaker 6: to kiss up to the twice at peace crimely committed
[1:39:44] Speaker 6: felon in cheap. Protests were taking place all today in
[1:39:47] Speaker 6: the state capitol in Tennessee, where a Republican government Bill
[1:39:50] Speaker 6: Lee called state lawmakers back to Nashville to ensure congressional
[1:39:54] Speaker 6: districts quote accurately reflect the will of Tennessee voters. That
[1:39:57] Speaker 6: minds you. What they want to do is they want
[1:39:59] Speaker 6: there's only one black congressional seed in Tennessee, that's in Memphis.
[1:40:03] Speaker 6: They want to destroy that. Yeah, seriously, listen to what
[1:40:07] Speaker 6: took place today in Tennessee.
[1:40:11] Speaker 18: Representation by the Congress of the United States.
[1:40:19] Speaker 11: Just change may not be changed.
[1:40:22] Speaker 22: Twain are breaking the law.
[1:40:27] Speaker 6: Of course, was there ever a doubt.
[1:40:33] Speaker 3: A bill that will break this law?
[1:40:36] Speaker 6: Can I see that.
[1:40:39] Speaker 20: Article on love power isn't in the.
[1:40:47] Speaker 11: Governments all the time?
[1:41:12] Speaker 22: They get to break them off.
[1:41:18] Speaker 6: So again, so again, folks, they got a law Republicans like,
[1:41:21] Speaker 6: oh hell, now, we're just gonna change the law. That's
[1:41:23] Speaker 6: what's going on, folks. We have to have mass mobilization,
[1:41:28] Speaker 6: mass action against these folks. That's what Bishop William Barbara,
[1:41:32] Speaker 6: the pairs of the Breach Poor People's Campaign, has been
[1:41:34] Speaker 6: talking about calling for a number of years. Bishop Barbara
[1:41:37] Speaker 6: joins us right now, Bishop, we've been laying out this
[1:41:41] Speaker 6: is an absolute war on Black America. Uh, you've been
[1:41:45] Speaker 6: talking about fusion politics. It was a lot of white
[1:41:47] Speaker 6: folks sitting there in Tennessee. This is where white folks
[1:41:50] Speaker 6: are conscious. Latinos Asian Americans, Native Americans need to understand, Hey,
[1:41:54] Speaker 6: it ain't just US Republicans in Florida. They wiping out
[1:41:58] Speaker 6: Latino districts. They wiping out with Tino voters. And so
[1:42:01] Speaker 6: if they think this is only us, they coming for
[1:42:05] Speaker 6: y'all too.
[1:42:07] Speaker 3: Look you better believe it.
[1:42:08] Speaker 9: For that tactic Roland that you just started reading the
[1:42:10] Speaker 9: Constitution is something we train people how to do in
[1:42:13] Speaker 9: the Poor People's Campaign. Repaired to the Beach. I saw
[1:42:15] Speaker 9: some of my folks there and it needs to be
[1:42:17] Speaker 9: even more diverse. But listen, we're in this battle. You're
[1:42:20] Speaker 9: not been talking about were in the battle for whether
[1:42:22] Speaker 9: we're going to have the ending and retrogression of the
[1:42:25] Speaker 9: second reconstruction or whether we're going to fight our way
[1:42:28] Speaker 9: into a third and they are intending on undoing the
[1:42:31] Speaker 9: second reconstruction. You know, let me just say a thing
[1:42:34] Speaker 9: by Steven and and I'm moving to the other you
[1:42:36] Speaker 9: and I how debate him and whoever anywhere any time.
[1:42:38] Speaker 9: That's just ignorant a lot of stuff he said, And
[1:42:40] Speaker 9: we need to debate him in a place where he
[1:42:42] Speaker 9: doesn't just get the hollow holla hollow, but actually has
[1:42:44] Speaker 9: to talk facts, because it is dangerous in this time
[1:42:47] Speaker 9: to be throwing out things that are not rooted in history.
[1:42:51] Speaker 3: Do you know in your audience that here are some.
[1:42:54] Speaker 9: Things that if we had not had a diverse Congress
[1:43:00] Speaker 9: cause of the Voting Rights Act, here are things that
[1:43:03] Speaker 9: would not have ever existed.
[1:43:05] Speaker 3: The American Rescue.
[1:43:06] Speaker 9: Plan that put one point nine trellion dollars in economic
[1:43:09] Speaker 9: relief to combat COVID would not have passed without a
[1:43:14] Speaker 9: diverse coalition. Infrastructure, investment in jobs one point two million, infrastructure.
[1:43:20] Speaker 9: When you talk about this is hurting black, white and
[1:43:22] Speaker 9: everybody when they want to roll back these laws, the
[1:43:25] Speaker 9: inf Inflation Reduction Act would not have passed. Chips and
[1:43:31] Speaker 9: Science Act that put fifty two pillion dollars in not
[1:43:35] Speaker 9: only semiconducts. I know it's a little technical, but in
[1:43:37] Speaker 9: research to make sure that our communities is not left behind,
[1:43:42] Speaker 9: would not have passed. The Affordable Care Act would not
[1:43:47] Speaker 9: have passed. All of these things passed, and many other
[1:43:51] Speaker 9: rolling only because of the gains of the Second Reconstruction,
[1:43:55] Speaker 9: and only because we had.
[1:43:56] Speaker 3: A diverse.
[1:43:58] Speaker 9: Congress where the Black Congressional Caucus was able to be
[1:44:03] Speaker 9: the conscience of the nation and vote and make sure
[1:44:06] Speaker 9: that things were done. Now here's one other thing. Those Maroland,
[1:44:11] Speaker 9: and you know we talk real. I think that right
[1:44:14] Speaker 9: now too. We have to have what we call the
[1:44:16] Speaker 9: AI moment in the Bible and Joshua. When Joshua lost
[1:44:20] Speaker 9: a battle, God said, check your camp out, boll it's
[1:44:24] Speaker 9: not your enemy, he said, you camp now. I'm gonna
[1:44:26] Speaker 9: say this, gonna get pissed off, but that's all right.
[1:44:30] Speaker 9: Anybody black or white in the congressional callers, civil right organization, whatever,
[1:44:36] Speaker 9: that did not join us in twenty twenty when we
[1:44:38] Speaker 9: said got demand that the only way we passed COVID relief,
[1:44:44] Speaker 9: particularly the corporation. Part of it is to read the
[1:44:48] Speaker 9: pastor John Lewis Voting Rights Act law and living rages simultaneously.
[1:44:54] Speaker 9: There were people that turned away from that, told people
[1:44:57] Speaker 9: not to mobilize, said we'll come back to but we'll
[1:45:00] Speaker 9: give Mansion what he wanted out of and see Manchin
[1:45:03] Speaker 9: promised us he was gonna do something, and we knew
[1:45:05] Speaker 9: it was a lie then, And there's got to be
[1:45:07] Speaker 9: some repenting. I'm not saying we're gonna beat up on
[1:45:09] Speaker 9: vote forever, but we got to own some of this
[1:45:12] Speaker 9: stuff is of our down't doing.
[1:45:15] Speaker 3: As well now.
[1:45:17] Speaker 9: Once we do that, Roland, we can't have no forty
[1:45:21] Speaker 9: five percent turnout no more in the black community, no more.
[1:45:26] Speaker 9: We just can't, and we can't have the remaining majority
[1:45:31] Speaker 9: black districts that are still existing. You have to run
[1:45:35] Speaker 9: like you are losing. You have to turn up the
[1:45:38] Speaker 9: vote and turn out the vote. We can't have sixty
[1:45:42] Speaker 9: or fifty percent of our people staying home never again.
[1:45:45] Speaker 3: We need ten years of massive.
[1:45:48] Speaker 9: Mobilization in the black community, and every politician that comes
[1:45:52] Speaker 9: in for us, particularly out of Democrats, we need to say,
[1:45:55] Speaker 9: if you get our votes and we give you a
[1:45:58] Speaker 9: majority in the House and in the center.
[1:46:00] Speaker 3: What are you going to do in the first fifty days?
[1:46:03] Speaker 3: Fifty days?
[1:46:04] Speaker 9: And the first thing has to be a brand new,
[1:46:08] Speaker 9: restored Voting Rights Act that fits this moment, and if necessary,
[1:46:13] Speaker 9: do what Franklin don No Roosevelt threatened to do, and
[1:46:16] Speaker 9: that is win the presidency and then expand the Supreme Court.
[1:46:20] Speaker 3: Otherwise were just whistling Dixie.
[1:46:23] Speaker 6: Yeah, I think what happened. And let's just be real clear, Bishop,
[1:46:29] Speaker 6: you had a whole bunch of civil rights groups who
[1:46:31] Speaker 6: were trying to play it safe, who were inside sitting
[1:46:34] Speaker 6: at the table, did not want to put external pressure
[1:46:38] Speaker 6: on Biden, Harris and on the Congress. And it was
[1:46:42] Speaker 6: like no, no, no, no, we good, were good. And
[1:46:44] Speaker 6: this is the mistakes that Democrats made with Roby Wade.
[1:46:47] Speaker 6: They've nominated it with the Voting Rights Act. They were like,
[1:46:50] Speaker 6: oh no, no, no, no, that's set a law. The
[1:46:53] Speaker 6: Supreme Court is not going to to roll those things back.
[1:46:58] Speaker 6: This Supreme with this Supreme's Court is say it is.
[1:47:02] Speaker 3: We the end.
[1:47:03] Speaker 6: Can't nobody tell us what to do. We got supreme
[1:47:07] Speaker 6: power and we about to use it the way we
[1:47:09] Speaker 6: see fit, and we will ignore our own president, do
[1:47:13] Speaker 6: what the hell we want to do to achieve the
[1:47:15] Speaker 6: outcome that we want to achieve, which is align with
[1:47:20] Speaker 6: a right wing conservative Republican party.
[1:47:23] Speaker 9: That's right because they know the demographics role and you've
[1:47:27] Speaker 9: talked about this are shifting so fast population wise. The
[1:47:31] Speaker 9: only way you can hold on the power in the
[1:47:34] Speaker 9: next ten to fifty years is to cheat. And this
[1:47:36] Speaker 9: has been something that's been going on. We could have
[1:47:39] Speaker 9: fixed the voting rights ever since June twenty fifth, twenty thirteen.
[1:47:46] Speaker 6: That was Obama. Obama was there.
[1:47:49] Speaker 9: That's right, that's exactly right. Obama, then Biden, then the
[1:47:53] Speaker 9: Congress you know, were and anybody, I don't care who
[1:47:59] Speaker 9: it is, congressional leader or whip who said the folks
[1:48:02] Speaker 9: hold off.
[1:48:03] Speaker 3: Back up.
[1:48:04] Speaker 9: I remember we went to Tennessee, put a thousand people
[1:48:07] Speaker 9: in front of Mansion's office and white and black to
[1:48:10] Speaker 9: challenge him to do what he promised.
[1:48:12] Speaker 3: John Lewis on.
[1:48:13] Speaker 9: His depth, John Lewis deathbed, and he told I vote, Oh,
[1:48:17] Speaker 9: I've been assured from other groups that I don't have
[1:48:21] Speaker 9: to go along with your pressure, and they're gonna be
[1:48:24] Speaker 9: okay with the vote on the COVID relief for corporations.
[1:48:28] Speaker 9: You know, he wanted something for his sludge plan or
[1:48:31] Speaker 9: something up in West Virginia, and then he promised he
[1:48:34] Speaker 9: would come back and vote for the Voting Rights Act,
[1:48:37] Speaker 9: and there was never a comeback because we never should
[1:48:39] Speaker 9: have let him off the hook after the twenty twenty election.
[1:48:43] Speaker 3: COVID relief, living.
[1:48:45] Speaker 9: Wages, and the Voting Rights Act should have been the
[1:48:49] Speaker 9: top three actions on the table and should have been
[1:48:52] Speaker 9: done in the first one hundred days of that new administration.
[1:48:56] Speaker 9: Now that we're not there, we've got to now go
[1:48:59] Speaker 9: back and have that. That's why you and I are
[1:49:01] Speaker 9: working to organize a thousand men, thousand men Alpha men,
[1:49:05] Speaker 9: and now we got they, Amy zign and others are
[1:49:08] Speaker 9: coming in who will engage in the kind of massive
[1:49:11] Speaker 9: mobilization because we have to make them pay. So that's
[1:49:15] Speaker 9: for instance, say they've cut right now some of the
[1:49:19] Speaker 9: Voting Rights Act. If we turn up our vote, we
[1:49:23] Speaker 9: can actually change some of the districts that are not
[1:49:27] Speaker 9: predominantly black districts, but we can make it so they
[1:49:30] Speaker 9: can't win in certain areas and we'll have to answer
[1:49:33] Speaker 9: to the power of the black vote. But we can't
[1:49:35] Speaker 9: do it with just forty five percent of people turning out.
[1:49:38] Speaker 3: Come on, y'all.
[1:49:39] Speaker 9: We have to have a turnout like they had in
[1:49:41] Speaker 9: in South Africa when Mandela was running for president. You
[1:49:45] Speaker 9: remember that roller absolutely around the building. Everybody's standing in
[1:49:50] Speaker 9: lying for hours in the hot sun. That's the fight,
[1:49:53] Speaker 9: that's the battle.
[1:49:54] Speaker 3: That we're in. Now.
[1:49:55] Speaker 6: Well, we don't even have to we don't even have
[1:49:57] Speaker 6: to go there. When I was in Mound, Mississippi on Friday,
[1:50:02] Speaker 6: and that was a photo, I took a photo of it,
[1:50:06] Speaker 6: and that was a photo that they had and it
[1:50:09] Speaker 6: was a voter event. It was a voter event in
[1:50:13] Speaker 6: nineteen fifty four, I think, And they said they we
[1:50:16] Speaker 6: say that was a near riot as people were clamoring
[1:50:20] Speaker 6: for a voter registration called a near riot. I talked
[1:50:25] Speaker 6: about when I went to the Natural Civil Rights Museum
[1:50:27] Speaker 6: in Memphis and there's a sign and I thought, I
[1:50:30] Speaker 6: took a picture of them and try to find it
[1:50:31] Speaker 6: where a young sister said, all I want and for
[1:50:36] Speaker 6: all y'all, all y'all black people doing all these extravagant
[1:50:39] Speaker 6: ass prom stuff. This is what it said. All I
[1:50:43] Speaker 6: want for my eighteenth birthday is a voter registration card.
[1:50:48] Speaker 6: That's what We got to get back to.
[1:50:51] Speaker 3: That's right that you and and we're voting for our lives.
[1:50:55] Speaker 9: You've been saying it, I know Rachel Mattall put it
[1:50:58] Speaker 9: up there last night, but you've been saying it for years.
[1:51:00] Speaker 9: We are in a battle, We're in a war. You
[1:51:03] Speaker 9: got the vote for your life. You actually have to
[1:51:06] Speaker 9: get you know, pissed off God. I think God gets
[1:51:10] Speaker 9: pissed off it injustice when I read the Bible. You
[1:51:12] Speaker 9: got to get pissed off that these folk literally went
[1:51:15] Speaker 9: down to our parents' grades and just desecrated them, just
[1:51:20] Speaker 9: desecrate them.
[1:51:21] Speaker 3: But even that's not enough.
[1:51:23] Speaker 9: You know, I heard your brother talking earlier when we
[1:51:27] Speaker 9: talk about what's happening in our community, the number of
[1:51:30] Speaker 9: people that are dying because of lack of health care,
[1:51:33] Speaker 9: dying because of polity, dying because of lack of living wages.
[1:51:36] Speaker 9: And you have a party that has just gone all
[1:51:39] Speaker 9: out maga and saying they're going to do everything to
[1:51:41] Speaker 9: make that worse, not make it better. There comes a
[1:51:46] Speaker 9: time that self preservation has to be the first law
[1:51:51] Speaker 9: of nature. Self preservation has to be the first law
[1:51:55] Speaker 9: of nature. And we are in that battle, in that
[1:51:57] Speaker 9: war right now.
[1:51:59] Speaker 6: You talked about out of the effort. We have it
[1:52:02] Speaker 6: up on Blackstar Network dot com. Y'all if y'all go
[1:52:05] Speaker 6: to Blackstardnetwork dot com and you see it right here.
[1:52:08] Speaker 6: Bishop William Barber's looking for black men and women who
[1:52:10] Speaker 6: want to be trained to organize and mobilize black voters.
[1:52:14] Speaker 6: That's gonna take place in June. Bishop, explain to people
[1:52:19] Speaker 6: why they have to be trained to do what we're
[1:52:24] Speaker 6: talking about.
[1:52:26] Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not just getting up roland and doing a
[1:52:30] Speaker 9: cute speech. It's not just getting up having a voter
[1:52:33] Speaker 9: around and said y'all go vote. It's not using Trump
[1:52:37] Speaker 9: and and trans Thomas's punchlines. I've been watching some preaching lately,
[1:52:42] Speaker 9: and I'm a preacher, so I can talk about it,
[1:52:44] Speaker 9: and brothers and sisters, I get, I get the punchline.
[1:52:47] Speaker 9: But if you're not organizing, if you're not organizing your
[1:52:51] Speaker 9: church and then two miles around your church and then
[1:52:53] Speaker 9: five miles around there, two miles, if you're not really
[1:52:56] Speaker 9: doing micro organizing, really un standing the power of the vote.
[1:53:02] Speaker 9: There are places rolling that. And this is why you
[1:53:04] Speaker 9: have to be trained. Where out of say eight hundred
[1:53:08] Speaker 9: thousand black people didn't vote just ten percent of that
[1:53:12] Speaker 9: would change everything. But you have to know that, and
[1:53:15] Speaker 9: you have to be trained in that. You have to
[1:53:17] Speaker 9: know how to use the technology. You have to know
[1:53:19] Speaker 9: where to knock and where to go. You have to
[1:53:22] Speaker 9: know that the data.
[1:53:23] Speaker 3: Do you know that nineteen million poor and low.
[1:53:26] Speaker 9: Wage voters that voted for Biden has didn't turn out
[1:53:29] Speaker 9: for Kamala hands And regardless of why it is, you
[1:53:32] Speaker 9: we have to know that and know where they are.
[1:53:34] Speaker 9: And so that's why on that weekend, the weekend of
[1:53:37] Speaker 9: January twelfth, and you know that's the weekend that.
[1:53:39] Speaker 6: Mega June twelfth, ginge weite jewel worthy.
[1:53:42] Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
[1:53:45] Speaker 9: But what people also failed to remember is that weekend
[1:53:49] Speaker 9: was a scared they wanted to kill three people. It
[1:53:52] Speaker 9: was a brother in Louisiana. It was Bernard Offia who
[1:53:55] Speaker 9: just died. And MEGA efforts they got Mega. There was
[1:53:59] Speaker 9: a gold and that day in nineteen sixty three to
[1:54:03] Speaker 9: take out the young civil rights leadership. And right now
[1:54:07] Speaker 9: we are in a battle to take out all the
[1:54:10] Speaker 9: power that.
[1:54:10] Speaker 3: That leadership won. And so what we're saying is on
[1:54:13] Speaker 3: that day and on the.
[1:54:14] Speaker 9: Same day that Johnson Kennedy announced it was going to
[1:54:17] Speaker 9: fight for the Civil Rights Act.
[1:54:19] Speaker 3: We have to grab that moment because we are not.
[1:54:23] Speaker 9: We're watching the undoing and folk have to be strategically
[1:54:28] Speaker 9: trained on how to use the technology, how to do
[1:54:31] Speaker 9: door knocking, how to be strategic, how to work the percentages.
[1:54:37] Speaker 9: It's not always about we're just going to get one
[1:54:39] Speaker 9: hundred percent of the people to vote.
[1:54:41] Speaker 3: That's not how you do it. You really need to
[1:54:43] Speaker 3: be technical. Friends. I can tell you right now Roland.
[1:54:47] Speaker 9: In North Carolina, we need eighteen hundred and thirty votes
[1:54:51] Speaker 9: per counting to overcome the margin of victory that Trump
[1:54:56] Speaker 9: had in twenty twenty four. That's the kind of speci
[1:55:00] Speaker 9: eficited that we have to have and then go after
[1:55:03] Speaker 9: where we can find those votes.
[1:55:04] Speaker 6: Well, to your point, Isaac Hayes, the third post of
[1:55:07] Speaker 6: this little social a couple of days ago. When you
[1:55:09] Speaker 6: talk about data, you see it right here, he said,
[1:55:12] Speaker 6: Eligible black Jordan's who didn't vote twenty eighteen governors race
[1:55:16] Speaker 6: decided about fifty four thousand, twenty three votes nine hundred
[1:55:19] Speaker 6: thousand and one point one million Black folks. Eligible black
[1:55:21] Speaker 6: folks didn't vote in twenty twenty two one hundred and
[1:55:24] Speaker 6: ninety one thousand. He said that we show up, we win.
[1:55:27] Speaker 6: Same thing. Twenty twenty four, North Carolina, some six hundred
[1:55:31] Speaker 6: thousand black folks didn't show up. And I keep saying
[1:55:34] Speaker 6: the number the floor for black people should be seventy percent.
[1:55:37] Speaker 6: That's the floor, not forty five, not fifty two. Not
[1:55:41] Speaker 6: excited because it's fifty five seventy percent. Otherwise we're gonna
[1:55:46] Speaker 6: just be sitting there winding the complaining when they just
[1:55:48] Speaker 6: run the table and let me be.
[1:55:51] Speaker 3: The first that I know.
[1:55:52] Speaker 9: Somebody said, reb barba, I just saw North Carolina.
[1:55:54] Speaker 3: You ought to do you exactly right.
[1:55:56] Speaker 9: That's one of the reasons why I'm saying I can't
[1:55:59] Speaker 9: be out here going everywhere else roller.
[1:56:02] Speaker 3: And not stay in my own home state.
[1:56:04] Speaker 9: I'm saying to every preacher, everybody preacher that wants to
[1:56:06] Speaker 9: do big national speeches, if you're not organizing your church,
[1:56:11] Speaker 9: then you have no credibility to do that. If you're
[1:56:13] Speaker 9: not organizing your community, you have no credibility to do that.
[1:56:16] Speaker 9: So it is time for us to take these numbers,
[1:56:19] Speaker 9: and as you said, not just say if we show up,
[1:56:22] Speaker 9: we win, then talk about how we show up. How
[1:56:25] Speaker 9: do we turn to loose every van every bus, every person,
[1:56:30] Speaker 9: use every phone, every cell phone.
[1:56:32] Speaker 3: You know. I used to say it like this roller.
[1:56:34] Speaker 9: If Harriet Tubman could get seven hundred people out of
[1:56:36] Speaker 9: slavery and she never had anything, email, blackstock, network, cell phone, called,
[1:56:42] Speaker 9: none of that. If she could do that, then we
[1:56:45] Speaker 9: must do more. So I wrote this to you the
[1:56:47] Speaker 9: other day, and I want to say it on the AD.
[1:56:49] Speaker 9: What I believe is time past time to act like
[1:56:54] Speaker 9: we're in a war, a battle against forces of racism
[1:56:58] Speaker 9: and injustice and a saritarianism all at the same time.
[1:57:03] Speaker 9: Emails with no call to action, Tweets with no truth telling,
[1:57:08] Speaker 9: and movement directives, marches with no clear agenda and clear
[1:57:13] Speaker 9: goals and strategies after the march, sermons speeches would catchy
[1:57:18] Speaker 9: phraseology but no follow up and no follow through that
[1:57:22] Speaker 9: turn words into deeds, macro talk without micro organizing. Politicians
[1:57:29] Speaker 9: who offer criticism of what Trump has done in his
[1:57:32] Speaker 9: first one hundred and twenty days but no clear agenda
[1:57:35] Speaker 9: of what they will do in their first fifty days
[1:57:38] Speaker 9: have no place in this battle. Now we're in a
[1:57:43] Speaker 9: different moment, y'all, and with everybody's got to straighten up
[1:57:47] Speaker 9: and fly right.
[1:57:48] Speaker 6: Folks, do be a favor if y'all want to be
[1:57:51] Speaker 6: organ if you only training, organizing and mobilizing getting a
[1:57:53] Speaker 6: vote out, we ain't paying lip service. This ain't just
[1:57:56] Speaker 6: a whole pontificating. This is about real training. Up throm thirteenth.
[1:58:01] Speaker 6: Go to Blackstar network dot com. Click the link. You'll
[1:58:04] Speaker 6: see it right there. You go down there. When you go,
[1:58:06] Speaker 6: when you scroll down, you're gonna click that link right here,
[1:58:09] Speaker 6: it's gonna take you to a form. We put my
[1:58:12] Speaker 6: email out earlier. We don't have to now. This is
[1:58:14] Speaker 6: the contact form. Your name, your date of birth, your address,
[1:58:18] Speaker 6: your email, your mobile phone, sign up for email dates,
[1:58:22] Speaker 6: text messages. We still are Trump, We still are organizing Alpha's.
[1:58:25] Speaker 6: That's for a specific reason, y'all. If you a member,
[1:58:28] Speaker 6: just click that box right there and click submit. Because
[1:58:31] Speaker 6: last point, Bishop, and this is what gets on my
[1:58:34] Speaker 6: nerves when I and I remember Rever Jackson and I
[1:58:37] Speaker 6: had it out once in Chicago because he had a
[1:58:40] Speaker 6: rally and they were not collecting data. The problem I
[1:58:43] Speaker 6: have is when I see these folks have rallies and
[1:58:46] Speaker 6: events and all this stuff, and I'm like, y'alln't even
[1:58:50] Speaker 6: know who's here. How are you not collecting data. How
[1:58:54] Speaker 6: you gonna move to people after the protests to go
[1:58:56] Speaker 6: to the city Hall chamber or to stay legislature chamber
[1:58:59] Speaker 6: or the Congress. If you don't know who the heck
[1:59:01] Speaker 6: showed up at your event, you gotta be collecting data
[1:59:05] Speaker 6: to follow up with people always.
[1:59:08] Speaker 3: That's why rolling.
[1:59:09] Speaker 9: As you said, you can go to Breach Repairers dot
[1:59:11] Speaker 9: org and click there. We're collecting this data. And on
[1:59:15] Speaker 9: May eleventh, at five o'clock in Washington, d C. We're
[1:59:19] Speaker 9: having a morrowl Money. We've been doing Morow Money for
[1:59:21] Speaker 9: several weeks now writing front the White House. Yep, Butmorrow
[1:59:24] Speaker 9: Monday for peace and non violence. But we're connecting the
[1:59:28] Speaker 9: violence of the war in Iraq Iran to the violence
[1:59:32] Speaker 9: of voting rights denial. That's violence too. A poverty is violence,
[1:59:37] Speaker 9: denying people living wages violence. And we're going to be
[1:59:39] Speaker 9: connecting data. And we are asking for several thousand people
[1:59:44] Speaker 9: to come in the street right in front of the
[1:59:46] Speaker 9: White House, starting at Black Lives Matter and right in
[1:59:48] Speaker 9: front of the White House. We don't have thousands online.
[1:59:51] Speaker 9: We're gathering data. We're inviting people in and by the way,
[1:59:54] Speaker 9: rolling these trainings. Some of it will be in person,
[1:59:56] Speaker 9: but most of it will be online, So there's no excuse, right,
[1:59:59] Speaker 9: right of training we're going to do. It's not for
[2:00:02] Speaker 9: you to do it for the paths of the breach,
[2:00:05] Speaker 9: but to turn you loose in your own community, yep,
[2:00:08] Speaker 9: to turn groups of loose in their own community.
[2:00:11] Speaker 3: That's what has to happen. Now.
[2:00:12] Speaker 9: This is not about building any one person's kingdom. This
[2:00:16] Speaker 9: is about us engaging this battle that we're in now
[2:00:19] Speaker 9: to stop the erosion of everything that our four parents want,
[2:00:23] Speaker 9: but also push forward into the things that are yet
[2:00:27] Speaker 9: to be one and one of them is doc. We've
[2:00:29] Speaker 9: got to get our lawyers to figure out a way
[2:00:31] Speaker 9: to do a voting rights act that can never be.
[2:00:34] Speaker 3: Undone like this ever.
[2:00:35] Speaker 9: Again, that's right, that's part of what has to be
[2:00:37] Speaker 9: on an agenda in the coming and after we do
[2:00:40] Speaker 9: the election.
[2:00:40] Speaker 6: Indeed, bish, will you Barbro, I appreciate it, Thanks a lot,
[2:00:44] Speaker 6: Thank you, my brother. All right, then, y'all, I saw
[2:00:48] Speaker 6: this the other day and I figured my Today's panel
[2:00:52] Speaker 6: would really decide to weigh in on this. And y'all
[2:00:56] Speaker 6: already know I can't even deal with the lion on
[2:01:00] Speaker 6: Fox News and the sheer stupidity on Fox News and
[2:01:03] Speaker 6: the most ignorant stuff on Fox News. But they said
[2:01:07] Speaker 6: something that made no sense to me whatsoever. They were
[2:01:11] Speaker 6: talking about Jimmy Kimo and his joke about Milania being
[2:01:15] Speaker 6: a widow world what Ana and Trump lost his mind?
[2:01:19] Speaker 6: Listen to what this food Emily Compandano whatever the hell
[2:01:22] Speaker 6: her name is, Compo Crazy actually said, y'all, she must
[2:01:29] Speaker 6: be high.
[2:01:31] Speaker 29: And my second observation is, I would really appreciate if
[2:01:35] Speaker 29: any former first Lady would release a statement and just
[2:01:37] Speaker 29: say I stand in support of this first Lady because
[2:01:41] Speaker 29: that absence of commentary in the way of many. Michelle
[2:01:44] Speaker 29: Obama is on her podcast all the time, We've heard
[2:01:47] Speaker 29: her thoughts on a lot of things. Can she just
[2:01:49] Speaker 29: spare one sentence in support of this first lady who
[2:01:52] Speaker 29: has been through so much, who has a target on
[2:01:54] Speaker 29: her in the public square and out. It is horrifyingly
[2:01:57] Speaker 29: atrocious how she has been treated. I would love for
[2:02:00] Speaker 29: there to be some support.
[2:02:02] Speaker 6: Coming out of her mouth.
[2:02:09] Speaker 5: Run that by me.
[2:02:10] Speaker 29: Again, observation is, I would really appreciate if any former
[2:02:16] Speaker 29: first Lady would release a statement and just say I
[2:02:19] Speaker 29: stand in support of this first Lady, because that absence
[2:02:22] Speaker 29: of commentary in the way of many. Michelle Obama is
[2:02:25] Speaker 29: on her podcast all the time. We've heard her thoughts
[2:02:27] Speaker 29: on a lot of things. Can she just spare one
[2:02:30] Speaker 29: sentence in support of this first lady who has been
[2:02:33] Speaker 29: through so much, who has a target on her in
[2:02:35] Speaker 29: the public square and out. It is horrifyingly atrocious how
[2:02:38] Speaker 29: she has been treated. I would love for there to
[2:02:41] Speaker 29: be some support coming.
[2:02:42] Speaker 6: Out of her mouth. Randon, did I see two black
[2:02:47] Speaker 6: people sitting on that couch? Harris trifling as Faulkner in
[2:02:55] Speaker 6: Charles Payne not an agreeing Do you recall Milania saying
[2:03:05] Speaker 6: anything when Trump posted a video displaying Michelle and Barak
[2:03:12] Speaker 6: as monkeys. I don't recall Milannia saying to her twice
[2:03:20] Speaker 6: in Peach crimly convicted pooping in his pants, husband, take
[2:03:26] Speaker 6: that crap down. So these ignorant ass fools, they have
[2:03:32] Speaker 6: the audacity to say that Michelle needs to come to
[2:03:36] Speaker 6: the defense of Milania.
[2:03:43] Speaker 18: I don't even see how they got the word, how
[2:03:45] Speaker 18: she got the words out of her mouth, like the
[2:03:47] Speaker 18: absolute ad audacity is just stunning. This is a woman
[2:03:52] Speaker 18: who has watched her husband rip apart and didn't agree everybody.
[2:03:58] Speaker 18: I can't even say just black people. The man attacks everybody,
[2:04:01] Speaker 18: but specifically. It hasn't been a month that the man
[2:04:05] Speaker 18: posted a video depicting former President of Barack Obambi and
[2:04:11] Speaker 18: Michelle as monkeys.
[2:04:13] Speaker 5: And did she speak up?
[2:04:15] Speaker 18: And let me just say that the first Lady said
[2:04:17] Speaker 18: that her platform was going to be anti bullying, which
[2:04:21] Speaker 18: is a joke considering her husband is the Billies's biggest
[2:04:24] Speaker 18: bully that has ever walked this earth.
[2:04:27] Speaker 5: I mean, it seems as if.
[2:04:31] Speaker 18: These are people who always speak about Christianity and they
[2:04:34] Speaker 18: only expect black folks to be Christians like we are,
[2:04:37] Speaker 18: the ones who are supposed to smile and accept terrible treatment,
[2:04:42] Speaker 18: as they seem to accept and actually embrace the horrific
[2:04:47] Speaker 18: treatment of that their leader puts on everybody else.
[2:04:51] Speaker 5: I mean, it's unbelievable. It's absolutely unbelieving. She had the
[2:04:54] Speaker 5: audacity to say that. I don't see how she didn't
[2:04:57] Speaker 5: fall out.
[2:04:57] Speaker 20: I could, Yeah, people.
[2:05:00] Speaker 6: Nine the call Nicole, I'm gonna go old school. I
[2:05:05] Speaker 6: don't know what these folks say they time bout cap.
[2:05:08] Speaker 6: I don't use that I'm gonna down, use that I'm
[2:05:11] Speaker 6: gonna go old school. She had the gall to let
[2:05:18] Speaker 6: that come out of her mouth, and they lived to
[2:05:20] Speaker 6: nad n Ass. It's like mm hm oh yeah.
[2:05:27] Speaker 5: The audacity.
[2:05:28] Speaker 20: If that's one thing they're gonna have, it's audacity.
[2:05:30] Speaker 19: And we know Michelle Obama doesn't owe Millennia Trump anything.
[2:05:35] Speaker 19: They're lucky that Michelle Obama doesn't come out swinging against them.
[2:05:39] Speaker 19: But as we know, Michelle Obama said, when they go low,
[2:05:41] Speaker 19: we go high. But she ain't about to go that high. Okay,
[2:05:45] Speaker 19: this has been an administration, administration that has dehumanized her
[2:05:48] Speaker 19: and her husband. Long before Trump even came into office,
[2:05:52] Speaker 19: he was questioning whether or not they were born in America.
[2:05:55] Speaker 19: I mean, the list goes on and on and on
[2:05:58] Speaker 19: about how they have this expected Michelle Obama, and then
[2:06:02] Speaker 19: he got the nerve to ask her to stand up
[2:06:04] Speaker 19: and say something.
[2:06:06] Speaker 6: Musta for I'm gonna go one more. That child had
[2:06:10] Speaker 6: the caucassidy to let that come out of her mouth.
[2:06:17] Speaker 6: And it's amazing how they want black folk to stand up,
[2:06:22] Speaker 6: support and show compassion when Malania ain't said a damn
[2:06:27] Speaker 6: word about the vicious attacks. And let me remind everybody
[2:06:32] Speaker 6: watching and listening that Malania Trump sorry ass is a birtha.
[2:06:40] Speaker 6: Malania Trump was on Jeorge Behar's Headline News show with
[2:06:46] Speaker 6: that birth of nonsense. Oh, I ain't no way in
[2:06:49] Speaker 6: hell Michelle Obama should say a damn thing coming to
[2:06:54] Speaker 6: the aid of the fence. Let Malania talk, but she
[2:06:57] Speaker 6: can't because she can barely speak English.
[2:07:02] Speaker 22: You gotta be with caucassidy.
[2:07:03] Speaker 30: You know that's my word. I wrote a poem about it. Yeah,
[2:07:08] Speaker 30: my auntie would say, you don't lost your damn mind.
[2:07:11] Speaker 30: It's just crazy. I don't know what is going on
[2:07:14] Speaker 30: in that studio. They either got some gummies going on
[2:07:16] Speaker 30: in there, or or some dark liquor or something that's.
[2:07:20] Speaker 31: Going on, because first Lady Michelle Obama has been so
[2:07:24] Speaker 31: gracious with her time when in the spotlight, and I
[2:07:28] Speaker 31: mean they were just vicious about her looks, about her intellect,
[2:07:34] Speaker 31: about so many things that were completely false, and so
[2:07:38] Speaker 31: for her to say something in this moment makes no
[2:07:41] Speaker 31: sense whatsoever, nor should she, as all the other panelists.
[2:07:44] Speaker 3: Have said, but it is.
[2:07:46] Speaker 10: You know, it's sort of par for the course for
[2:07:48] Speaker 10: these folks because once again, privilege makes you think that
[2:07:52] Speaker 10: you can say and do anything to everyone else. But
[2:07:55] Speaker 10: then they are supposed to come to your defense because.
[2:07:58] Speaker 22: Of some God given right. So I'm glad that there's
[2:08:02] Speaker 22: silence there.
[2:08:03] Speaker 10: The first lady continues to be gracious, and she should
[2:08:06] Speaker 10: not even, you know, dip her toe into this poison
[2:08:09] Speaker 10: pool that they have.
[2:08:13] Speaker 1: This is me.
[2:08:18] Speaker 6: Portraying Michelle Obama. Huh m hm uh it's somebody talking.
[2:08:29] Speaker 6: I'm you talking. Huh y'all, y'all talk to me to
[2:08:36] Speaker 6: say what about her? What's for lunch?
[2:08:42] Speaker 11: Mhm?
[2:08:43] Speaker 6: That's how I respond Fox News, Emily, you got your
[2:08:47] Speaker 6: damn mind? How how dare y'all? How dare y'all sit
[2:08:51] Speaker 6: here and say that, especially with all the trash that
[2:08:55] Speaker 6: is emanated from Harris Faulkner's mouth about the Obama's You're
[2:08:59] Speaker 6: gonna get your monkey ass down too. Oh. I know
[2:09:02] Speaker 6: y'all might say, ooh, you call Harris fonnk a monkey. No,
[2:09:04] Speaker 6: that's a Robin Harris line. Okay, So just because any
[2:09:07] Speaker 6: of y'all, if y'all ain't seen Baby's kids, hair's Faultner,
[2:09:10] Speaker 6: you're gonna sit her ass down too, because she sounded
[2:09:13] Speaker 6: like a damn fool sitting there. Uh key k in
[2:09:16] Speaker 6: with Emily saying, oh yeah, she should defend Malani. Hell. Now,
[2:09:20] Speaker 6: Milanie ain't said a damn thing, but the attacks on
[2:09:23] Speaker 6: Michelle Obama, their attacks on morocc Obama, the attacks on
[2:09:26] Speaker 6: all the other black folk. She let her crazy. First
[2:09:29] Speaker 6: of all, she ain't even in the White House. They
[2:09:31] Speaker 6: gotta pay her to show up. So why don't y'all
[2:09:33] Speaker 6: talk about that? Yeah, y'all, damn mind man, Let me
[2:09:37] Speaker 6: go to a damn commercial break for I cut these
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[2:10:13] Speaker 14: With medicine and science under attack. I want to keep
[2:10:16] Speaker 14: you and your family informed and healthy. I'm doctor Ebity Hilton,
[2:10:20] Speaker 14: and I knew at the age of.
[2:10:21] Speaker 5: Eight that I wanted to be a doctor.
[2:10:23] Speaker 14: So I studied hard and became the first African American
[2:10:26] Speaker 14: female and sociologist hired at the Medical University of South
[2:10:30] Speaker 14: Carolina since.
[2:10:31] Speaker 3: It's opening in eighteen twenty four.
[2:10:33] Speaker 14: And I always say I was made into a doctor,
[2:10:35] Speaker 14: but I was born to be a mom. And as
[2:10:38] Speaker 14: a new mom, wife's, sister, daughter, and friend, I understand
[2:10:41] Speaker 14: how frightening a medical crisis can be.
[2:10:44] Speaker 5: I care for.
[2:10:45] Speaker 14: Individuals on some of the worst days of their lives,
[2:10:47] Speaker 14: and it's my mission to provide you with a safe
[2:10:50] Speaker 14: space and gain clarity on issues affecting your mind body.
[2:10:53] Speaker 14: And so I recognize that there are health disparities, particularly
[2:10:58] Speaker 14: as a certain series, and I want to help bridge
[2:11:00] Speaker 14: it down between you any your healthcare providers.
[2:11:03] Speaker 5: Join me every.
[2:11:04] Speaker 13: Thursday or Second Opinion on the Black Star Network.
[2:11:07] Speaker 14: For each week, I'll invite guests friends from various medical
[2:11:10] Speaker 14: fields to share the latest helps.
[2:11:12] Speaker 32: We'll discuss topics such as the vacteam tobate, mental and
[2:11:15] Speaker 32: central health, medical bias, infertility, menopause, andrew pause, nutrition and
[2:11:21] Speaker 32: aging together with my medical colleagues, we aim to provide
[2:11:25] Speaker 32: you with a second opinion.
[2:11:27] Speaker 12: Don't miss it Thursdays only on the Blackstar Network.
[2:11:35] Speaker 3: How you doing it?
[2:11:36] Speaker 6: I'm Mark Curry and you're watching the black Star Network.
[2:11:39] Speaker 6: That's why I got these glass long for that black
[2:11:41] Speaker 6: Star is bright. All right, y'all? Women having the period,
[2:12:10] Speaker 6: it's a reality for women seeking greater comfort and mobility
[2:12:13] Speaker 6: during the cycle. Finding the right product can make all
[2:12:15] Speaker 6: the difference in their daily lives. Today's segment, our Guests
[2:12:20] Speaker 6: is transforming period care with a more convenient and eco
[2:12:23] Speaker 6: friendly minstrual product. Honor is a period a pair of
[2:12:26] Speaker 6: brand that offers patent reusable underwear featuring a flexible absorbacy
[2:12:31] Speaker 6: system allowing users to swap liners throughout the day. Cecilia
[2:12:34] Speaker 6: town Scott, founder of Honor, joins us right now, Cecilia,
[2:12:38] Speaker 6: glad to have you here. And so all right, we
[2:12:41] Speaker 6: always ask owners what led them to this h and
[2:12:45] Speaker 6: for you, was it just not finding proper products?
[2:12:49] Speaker 5: Yeah?
[2:12:50] Speaker 13: And thank you so much for allowing me to be here.
[2:12:52] Speaker 5: Roland.
[2:12:53] Speaker 33: Yeah, so I now I work as an attorney, but
[2:12:56] Speaker 33: before I did that, I worked in Chicago public schools
[2:12:59] Speaker 33: and you know, wanting to have a more eco friendly
[2:13:03] Speaker 33: period we all know the earth is on fire, and
[2:13:06] Speaker 33: using traditional period panties, the liner for them is sewn
[2:13:11] Speaker 33: into them.
[2:13:12] Speaker 13: And so imagine what that's like.
[2:13:13] Speaker 33: You have your period pannies, You work in a high school,
[2:13:17] Speaker 33: you have four minutes between classes?
[2:13:19] Speaker 5: What are you going to do? Right?
[2:13:21] Speaker 33: And we're Fromtion, We're big. I'm in Chicago, So in
[2:13:23] Speaker 33: the middle, in the middle of the winter, that's having
[2:13:26] Speaker 33: to take take off pants, possibly leggings, remove the underwear,
[2:13:31] Speaker 33: put on a new pair of underwear, and try to
[2:13:33] Speaker 33: make it back to class.
[2:13:34] Speaker 5: Like it was just too much.
[2:13:36] Speaker 33: And so I learned sewing from my mother, So I've
[2:13:39] Speaker 33: always known how to sew entrepreneurship from both my parents,
[2:13:42] Speaker 33: and so just kind of start thinking like, Okay, how
[2:13:45] Speaker 33: can we do this better?
[2:13:46] Speaker 13: Right, Like there's a lot of brands out there, but
[2:13:49] Speaker 13: with everything.
[2:13:49] Speaker 33: Else in the market, we're kind of marinating in our
[2:13:51] Speaker 33: own magic all day, and I just felt like we
[2:13:54] Speaker 33: could do better.
[2:13:54] Speaker 5: And so Honor was born.
[2:13:56] Speaker 6: So you were mainly thinking of young women who were
[2:13:58] Speaker 6: in middle school, high high school who have these issues
[2:14:02] Speaker 6: where they are at school all day.
[2:14:06] Speaker 20: Middle school, in high school.
[2:14:07] Speaker 33: But honestly, grown women as well, postpartum women as well,
[2:14:12] Speaker 33: women with bladder leaks as well. Right, Like, there are
[2:14:15] Speaker 33: actually a number of groups of women who have issues
[2:14:19] Speaker 33: with either period, blood or something leaking. Right, and literally
[2:14:24] Speaker 33: we got the patent because everything else on the market
[2:14:27] Speaker 33: only comes as one unit. There's literally nothing else on
[2:14:30] Speaker 33: the market where the absorbancy is removable. And so with
[2:14:33] Speaker 33: honor you get one brief but every package comes with
[2:14:35] Speaker 33: two liners, so you can you know, period into it
[2:14:38] Speaker 33: or bladder leak into it, and then when you need
[2:14:41] Speaker 33: to freshen up, you can remove the liner, put in
[2:14:44] Speaker 33: a fresh dry liner, and go on about your day.
[2:14:46] Speaker 33: And so you know, I say, with everybody else, you're
[2:14:49] Speaker 33: one and done, but with.
[2:14:50] Speaker 13: Us you kind of get two uses.
[2:14:52] Speaker 6: Wow, and y'all got the patent as well.
[2:14:54] Speaker 12: We got the patent.
[2:14:55] Speaker 6: Yes, okay, questions from the panel.
[2:14:58] Speaker 34: Rando you first, Well, first, let me thank you for
[2:15:02] Speaker 34: honoring women by even concentrating on something that has been needed,
[2:15:06] Speaker 34: because we know that the way this world is set up,
[2:15:10] Speaker 34: a lot of times we don't get the.
[2:15:12] Speaker 5: Products that we need to function. So thank you for that.
[2:15:17] Speaker 3: I wanted to.
[2:15:17] Speaker 18: Ask you and you just mentioned that this is not
[2:15:19] Speaker 18: just for younger women, but older women as well, And
[2:15:25] Speaker 18: I wanted to ask you, like, where can we people
[2:15:27] Speaker 18: buy your I know we can buy it here, but
[2:15:28] Speaker 18: are you going to have it in retail stores as well?
[2:15:33] Speaker 33: Yes, thank you, thank you. So right now you can
[2:15:37] Speaker 33: buy it here. You can also buy it on our
[2:15:39] Speaker 33: website we on your Flow dot com. We are absolutely
[2:15:42] Speaker 33: kind of working and praying to get it in retail stores.
[2:15:45] Speaker 33: We had it on Walmart dot com and so you know,
[2:15:48] Speaker 33: we're continuing to work on that, but definitely trying to
[2:15:51] Speaker 33: expand the number of places where the product is offered.
[2:15:55] Speaker 13: But right now it is offered with Roland Martin and
[2:15:58] Speaker 13: on we on your Flow dot com.
[2:16:01] Speaker 6: All right, cool, So yeah, so shot black Start Network
[2:16:03] Speaker 6: dot com. So while y'all watching this segment, y'all can
[2:16:05] Speaker 6: go to shop Blackstardnetwork dot com. Nicole, go, hold up,
[2:16:12] Speaker 6: can hear you you're mute? Your mute? All right? Okay,
[2:16:23] Speaker 6: all right, we'll figure it out. Let me go to
[2:16:24] Speaker 6: the stop for them connect to the co.
[2:16:27] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[2:16:28] Speaker 10: Well, it's great to hear you talk about eco friendly
[2:16:30] Speaker 10: and you know, I work a lot with chemicals and
[2:16:33] Speaker 10: I know how impactful they can be to the body,
[2:16:36] Speaker 10: and I remember the days of toxic shock syndrome. Can
[2:16:39] Speaker 10: you talk a little bit about how yours are eco
[2:16:42] Speaker 10: friendly and how they are healthier and safer.
[2:16:46] Speaker 33: Absolutely, thank you so much for that question. So that
[2:16:49] Speaker 33: was actually it took us a while to get.
[2:16:51] Speaker 13: Our final product ready and that was a big part
[2:16:53] Speaker 13: of it.
[2:16:54] Speaker 33: So a huge conversation in period where especially in the
[2:16:58] Speaker 33: one time used products is p fas is. These are
[2:17:03] Speaker 33: basically forever chemicals that are found in literally everything, and
[2:17:07] Speaker 33: so when we that was actually one of the questions
[2:17:10] Speaker 33: that we asked our manufacturer when we were trying to
[2:17:12] Speaker 33: figure out like where we you know, getting the fabrics
[2:17:15] Speaker 33: and who's going to make it for us?
[2:17:16] Speaker 13: You know, do your products have p.
[2:17:19] Speaker 5: Fas is in them?
[2:17:20] Speaker 33: And our manufacturer kind of sent us their certificate it says,
[2:17:22] Speaker 33: you know, like we do not have those those chemicals
[2:17:25] Speaker 33: in the products that we're using. Because part of the
[2:17:28] Speaker 33: research and kind of what got us to the name
[2:17:31] Speaker 33: we started off as honor your Flow because when you
[2:17:34] Speaker 33: do the research about menstruation, you find out that you
[2:17:37] Speaker 33: may bleed for you know, three to seven days, but
[2:17:40] Speaker 33: what actually impacts how you experience your period is what
[2:17:44] Speaker 33: you're doing for the rest of the month, So the
[2:17:47] Speaker 33: products that you're putting on your body, the chemicals that
[2:17:49] Speaker 33: you're being exposed to, your diet, your exercise, like all
[2:17:52] Speaker 33: those sort of things.
[2:17:53] Speaker 13: So we actually made the product with.
[2:17:56] Speaker 33: That in mind, you know, to not have all of
[2:17:59] Speaker 33: those chemicals that are in the one time use products.
[2:18:03] Speaker 33: There's always you know, there's some things that most products
[2:18:06] Speaker 33: have to kind of be sprayed with, you know, because
[2:18:08] Speaker 33: they're being shipped and things of that sort. But we
[2:18:12] Speaker 33: did take special care to make sure that our products
[2:18:15] Speaker 33: do not have the PFASs that are in one time
[2:18:17] Speaker 33: used products.
[2:18:18] Speaker 13: Because of the way that it can affect your body.
[2:18:20] Speaker 33: And just again, a lot of the stuff that's out
[2:18:23] Speaker 33: in the market was not made by us, not made
[2:18:26] Speaker 33: for us, not made with our health in mind. And
[2:18:28] Speaker 33: so I'm a big thing for us is kind of
[2:18:31] Speaker 33: when we make products for ourselves, we do it better, right,
[2:18:34] Speaker 33: And so.
[2:18:35] Speaker 13: That was a big part of the brand.
[2:18:37] Speaker 6: I think we got the coldes audio straight in the
[2:18:38] Speaker 6: cod Yes I'm bad.
[2:18:40] Speaker 20: So I think this product is so incredible.
[2:18:42] Speaker 19: And I was wondering if you could talk a little
[2:18:44] Speaker 19: bit more about accessibility because I know a lot of
[2:18:47] Speaker 19: women live in areas where they can't easily access the
[2:18:49] Speaker 19: CBS or Walgreens to get the products that they need.
[2:18:52] Speaker 19: But if they have something that they can use multiple times,
[2:18:55] Speaker 19: you know, that might make things a little bit easier.
[2:18:57] Speaker 33: So can we talk about that, sure, So that's another
[2:19:02] Speaker 33: big part I think you know, and we're just so
[2:19:04] Speaker 33: thankful for while we got the patent, because a big
[2:19:06] Speaker 33: accessibility piece here is the fact that you can remove
[2:19:10] Speaker 33: the liner. Uh, that you can remove the liner when
[2:19:13] Speaker 33: you're wearing it. I know you talked about accessibility as
[2:19:16] Speaker 33: far as location, but I also want to talk about
[2:19:18] Speaker 33: accessibility as far as ability right for folks who might
[2:19:23] Speaker 33: be wheelchair bound or just might have issues putting their
[2:19:27] Speaker 33: pants on and off. Something where you can remove the
[2:19:30] Speaker 33: liner is going to allow that group of people to
[2:19:34] Speaker 33: access a sustainable period And then to you know, the
[2:19:37] Speaker 33: actual point that you made my apologies for Right now,
[2:19:41] Speaker 33: we are offered the product is offered on our website,
[2:19:44] Speaker 33: so even if you don't have a CBS that is
[2:19:46] Speaker 33: near you, we ship everywhere.
[2:19:48] Speaker 13: We ship definitely everywhere in the US, we have shipped overseas.
[2:19:52] Speaker 33: We are willing to shift any and everywhere because accessibility
[2:19:56] Speaker 33: when it comes to period products is such a huge thing.
[2:19:59] Speaker 33: Uh that taps on the reusable part of it as well. Right, Like,
[2:20:03] Speaker 33: if you can't get to a CBS very often, but
[2:20:05] Speaker 33: you have these period candies that you can wash over
[2:20:08] Speaker 33: and over and over again, and literally all pieces of
[2:20:11] Speaker 33: our product that's from the brief to the liner, to
[2:20:14] Speaker 33: the waterproof wetbag, all of that comes with it.
[2:20:16] Speaker 13: You can throw the whole thing in the washer, in
[2:20:18] Speaker 13: the dryer and it lasts for years.
[2:20:22] Speaker 6: So folks, ladies, mothers, aunts, cousins, sisters, wives, you name it,
[2:20:30] Speaker 6: and of course men, you can also buy products as
[2:20:32] Speaker 6: well for the women in your family. Go to shop
[2:20:34] Speaker 6: black Stundnetwork dot com. The product is called Honor. Go
[2:20:37] Speaker 6: to shop black Studnetwork dot com. This is the website.
[2:20:40] Speaker 6: If you go there, you can check out the products
[2:20:42] Speaker 6: as we speak. Please support this black owned company. Great
[2:20:46] Speaker 6: product and great job, Cecilia. We appreciate it.
[2:20:49] Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, Thank you so much. Thank you for
[2:20:51] Speaker 5: having me.
[2:20:52] Speaker 6: All Right, a couple of things to close out the show. First,
[2:20:55] Speaker 6: I saw this story, y'all three weeks ago, and I
[2:20:58] Speaker 6: really tried my best to Are some white people just
[2:21:06] Speaker 6: so stressed that they can't avoid black people just minding
[2:21:14] Speaker 6: their own damn business. A group of black women are
[2:21:19] Speaker 6: in a park. They just working out, They are just
[2:21:24] Speaker 6: minding their own black business. They are just having themselves
[2:21:29] Speaker 6: a good time, trying to get their bodies in shape.
[2:21:32] Speaker 6: And this ignorant ass Karen decide to bring her trifling
[2:21:38] Speaker 6: ass over to mess with them. Go ahead, PRIs play.
[2:21:48] Speaker 5: Do she own the park?
[2:21:49] Speaker 7: Okay?
[2:21:50] Speaker 18: That's whyn't charge anybody?
[2:21:51] Speaker 19: Just find you.
[2:21:52] Speaker 5: But I don't know.
[2:21:54] Speaker 13: That's for my stuff that they're using.
[2:21:56] Speaker 5: That's where it pays for. So manyo, got in a business.
[2:21:58] Speaker 5: Take your asshole, I mean, do you want.
[2:22:19] Speaker 6: What is a problem, Nicole. I'm telling you Donald Trump
[2:22:31] Speaker 6: gonna get some white folks ass what I mean this
[2:22:35] Speaker 6: idea that you think you just own the park and
[2:22:40] Speaker 6: you just can roll up and question the folks. I
[2:22:43] Speaker 6: have been to numerous parks, not one time that I go.
[2:22:48] Speaker 6: They don't look like they belong here. It's a part
[2:22:51] Speaker 6: girl gonna sit your plane, Jane ass down. She should
[2:22:56] Speaker 6: she should take her ass shopping.
[2:23:00] Speaker 20: Because a stir she had anyway.
[2:23:02] Speaker 19: Anyway, you know, not only do they think that they
[2:23:04] Speaker 19: own parks and streets, they think they own the whole
[2:23:07] Speaker 19: world that anywhere where black people are existing with joy
[2:23:11] Speaker 19: and happiness that they need to try to come and
[2:23:13] Speaker 19: shut it down.
[2:23:14] Speaker 5: But we are not taking that. We never have and
[2:23:16] Speaker 5: we never will.
[2:23:17] Speaker 20: So that's why she got turned away and roasted.
[2:23:20] Speaker 19: Because she thought because she had the caucasidy, like we
[2:23:22] Speaker 19: talked about earlier, they hate this years even exist.
[2:23:25] Speaker 20: So I'm not surprised by this.
[2:23:28] Speaker 6: I mean, I just I sit here, Randy, and it's
[2:23:35] Speaker 6: like in moments like this, that's where you want to
[2:23:37] Speaker 6: have that radio Rahen boombox. Well her ass start talking,
[2:23:41] Speaker 6: you just turn it up and drown her silly ass out.
[2:23:49] Speaker 5: You know, we talk about it all the time.
[2:23:51] Speaker 18: I'm fine white women in particular to be obsessed with us.
[2:23:57] Speaker 5: All of us have the experience of being out maybe
[2:23:59] Speaker 5: not apart, but a restaurant.
[2:24:01] Speaker 18: Or anywhere, and they are just even if they don't
[2:24:04] Speaker 18: say something, because some of them have a little bit
[2:24:06] Speaker 18: of sense, but they are paying attention, like can't even
[2:24:11] Speaker 18: help themselves from staring.
[2:24:12] Speaker 5: So yes, they are obsessed.
[2:24:14] Speaker 18: And I know one thing that drives me crazy is
[2:24:16] Speaker 18: they're always threatening to call the police or something like they're.
[2:24:20] Speaker 5: Right, it's just like that.
[2:24:24] Speaker 18: There should be laws that protect us, right taxpayers from
[2:24:30] Speaker 18: white women using the police as their personal security because
[2:24:34] Speaker 18: they call for frivolous things just to exert their control
[2:24:37] Speaker 18: over black people gets on my nerves.
[2:24:43] Speaker 6: I think, Mustapo, we are going to have to we
[2:24:48] Speaker 6: got to pull that scene from Friday, uh with Chris Tucks.
[2:24:53] Speaker 6: We just don't have to see there and teach every
[2:24:56] Speaker 6: black person this here, move your little silly ass on. See,
[2:25:02] Speaker 6: I'm not even I'm not addressing these people like we
[2:25:09] Speaker 6: didn't even That was a forty four second sound bite
[2:25:13] Speaker 6: that Sucker lasted by forty two seconds too long.
[2:25:21] Speaker 10: Well, I mean they try and play with us, right
[2:25:24] Speaker 10: because historically they've been able to play with us. They've
[2:25:26] Speaker 10: been able to they lose to be laws that you
[2:25:29] Speaker 10: couldn't go into certain parks, you know, and they would
[2:25:32] Speaker 10: come and arrest us.
[2:25:33] Speaker 22: But that's not the reality anymore.
[2:25:35] Speaker 10: And people need to understand that this is twenty twenty
[2:25:38] Speaker 10: six and not nineteen fifty six.
[2:25:40] Speaker 22: The other part of it is, let's just be honest. Also,
[2:25:42] Speaker 22: there's a lot of jealousy. There's jealousy against black women.
[2:25:46] Speaker 22: You know, those sisters is out there keeping it tight,
[2:25:48] Speaker 22: keeping it right, and you know, enjoying the sun. And
[2:25:52] Speaker 22: as was said, earlier, embracing their joy, and for some
[2:25:55] Speaker 22: folks that can be triggering because in many instances there
[2:25:58] Speaker 22: are other folks across our country who are not happy.
[2:26:01] Speaker 10: They're not happy with themselves, so they often want to
[2:26:03] Speaker 10: take it out on folks who are so you know,
[2:26:07] Speaker 10: I would say we should pray for folks, but they
[2:26:09] Speaker 10: need to pray for themselves because the darkness that's inside
[2:26:13] Speaker 10: of them continues to come out, and sometimes that darkness
[2:26:16] Speaker 10: will cost you absolutely.
[2:26:19] Speaker 6: So these people, they they ooh, they just gets as
[2:26:24] Speaker 6: a folk back in. They say, y'all working my nerves.
[2:26:30] Speaker 6: You work in my last black nerve. Nicole will style
[2:26:33] Speaker 6: for and Randy, I appreciate y'all being today's japound. Think
[2:26:36] Speaker 6: it so very much again, see y'all next week, y'all
[2:26:39] Speaker 6: this time a Black stud Network headlines of Brittey.
[2:26:41] Speaker 35: Noble, a Louisiana Fifth Circuit Appeals Court ruling lots of
[2:26:50] Speaker 35: newly elected Calvin Duncan from taking office again. On Monday,
[2:26:53] Speaker 35: Duncan arrived at Orleans Parish Criminal Court for his first
[2:26:56] Speaker 35: day in office as a new clerk of Criminal Court,
[2:26:59] Speaker 35: but was only able to serve for a few hours.
[2:27:03] Speaker 35: A federal judge temporarily suspended the previous ruling that cleared
[2:27:07] Speaker 35: the way for Duncan to take office. On Sunday, Judge
[2:27:09] Speaker 35: John Gravel's temporarily shruck down a new state law that
[2:27:14] Speaker 35: was signed by Governor Jeff Landry to eliminate the office
[2:27:18] Speaker 35: of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Clerk. In his ruling,
[2:27:22] Speaker 35: he said that the new law was unconstitutional and disenfranchised voters.
[2:27:27] Speaker 13: Duncan, and exonerated prisoner.
[2:27:29] Speaker 35: Turned lawyer, won the hotly contested November election by a
[2:27:32] Speaker 35: wide margin against incumbent Clerk Darren Lambert.
[2:27:37] Speaker 3: Well.
[2:27:37] Speaker 35: Black mega influencer named Craig Long, who recently posed with
[2:27:41] Speaker 35: the President Donald Trump at the UFC event, has been
[2:27:43] Speaker 35: arrested in Florida as part of a multi day human
[2:27:46] Speaker 35: trafficking sting. The forty one year old is the owner
[2:27:49] Speaker 35: of Craig Long Fitness in Tampa and is a self
[2:27:52] Speaker 35: described MAGA and social media influencer. Police have accused him
[2:27:56] Speaker 35: of seeking the services of a prostitute. The multi agency
[2:28:00] Speaker 35: operation target at both those seeking to exploit minors and
[2:28:03] Speaker 35: the individuals soliciting prostitutes. Long was among two hundred and
[2:28:06] Speaker 35: sixty six arrested including January sixth, writer Ryan Gates and
[2:28:11] Speaker 35: two men who allegedly brought children along to their illegal
[2:28:15] Speaker 35: meetups in Polk County, Florida.
[2:28:17] Speaker 20: Pope County Sheriff Grady Judge did not hold back at.
[2:28:20] Speaker 13: Some of the people caught in the state.
[2:28:23] Speaker 35: A significant development for historically black colleges and universities is
[2:28:27] Speaker 35: underway as fifteen hbtus have come together to strengthen their
[2:28:31] Speaker 35: collective research capabilities, secure funding.
[2:28:34] Speaker 13: And enhance their national impact.
[2:28:36] Speaker 35: This coalition, called the Association of HBCU Research Institutions, includes
[2:28:41] Speaker 35: prominent institutions such as Howard University, Morgan State University, and
[2:28:45] Speaker 35: Florida A and M University. Together, they aimed to promote
[2:28:48] Speaker 35: research led by black scholars. The Association of American Universities,
[2:28:53] Speaker 35: Harvard University the Legacy of Slavery Initiative in the Harvard
[2:28:58] Speaker 35: University Office of the Vice pro for Research support this initiative.
[2:29:03] Speaker 35: This partnership includes a three year, one million dollar grant
[2:29:06] Speaker 35: designed to expand research capacity and resources. Leaders of the
[2:29:10] Speaker 35: initiative emphasize the importance of addressing disparities. Their goals include
[2:29:15] Speaker 35: strengthening faculty recruitment, investing in necessary infrastructure, and tackling pressing
[2:29:20] Speaker 35: issues such as health disparities and economic inequality that affect
[2:29:25] Speaker 35: our community well. The Indiana Black Expo is making a
[2:29:29] Speaker 35: significant change to its Circle City Classic event by replacing
[2:29:33] Speaker 35: the traditional HBCU football game with high school games. IBE
[2:29:37] Speaker 35: CEO Alice Wantson explains that the shift aims to enhance
[2:29:41] Speaker 35: revenue streams and ensure sustainability by reducing costs and increasing flexibility.
[2:29:46] Speaker 35: This change will take effect later this year and will
[2:29:48] Speaker 35: feature two premier boy high school football games and two
[2:29:52] Speaker 35: girls high school flag football matchups, all hosted at Lucas
[2:29:56] Speaker 35: Oil Stadium and keeping with the events signature traditions, activity
[2:30:00] Speaker 35: will include the Battle of the Bands, the Miss Circles
[2:30:03] Speaker 35: City Classic Coornation, and the Classic Parade, and also the Fall.
[2:30:07] Speaker 13: Beest community event.
[2:30:08] Speaker 35: The Circle City Classic and Summer Celebration has served as
[2:30:11] Speaker 35: the organization's primary fundraisers and In Florida, an eighteen year
[2:30:17] Speaker 35: old who was making history as the youngest graduate from
[2:30:19] Speaker 35: Florida State University's College of Nursing program, Demitria Coli, earned
[2:30:24] Speaker 35: her degree after.
[2:30:26] Speaker 13: An impressive academic journey.
[2:30:27] Speaker 35: Her father, Demetria, as a science teacher, homeschoolder and by
[2:30:31] Speaker 35: the age of fifteen, she had already earned her associate
[2:30:34] Speaker 35: degree from Tallahassee Community College, becoming the youngest graduate in
[2:30:38] Speaker 35: that school's history. Her educational path was accelerated from the beginning.
[2:30:42] Speaker 35: She graduated high school and college simultaneously, and then completed
[2:30:47] Speaker 35: her prerequisites at Florida and M University before enrolling at
[2:30:51] Speaker 35: Florida State University.
[2:30:52] Speaker 5: Now she is.
[2:30:53] Speaker 35: Following in the footsteps of her mom, Alicia, a nurse
[2:30:56] Speaker 35: who sadly passed away from a variant cancer in twenty twenty,
[2:30:59] Speaker 35: but the met was just thirteen years old. But now
[2:31:02] Speaker 35: she is channeling that loss and to purpose. During her
[2:31:06] Speaker 35: time at FSU, she gained experience training at Tallahassee Memorial
[2:31:10] Speaker 35: Health Care, and she now plans to work as a
[2:31:13] Speaker 35: Neo Native intensive care unit nurse.
[2:31:17] Speaker 5: We wish her well. Roland got to you.
[2:31:20] Speaker 6: All right, folks, being sure tune in to the breakdown
[2:31:22] Speaker 6: Briathy Noble everyday, noon eastern right here in the Blackstar Network.
[2:31:25] Speaker 6: Again the Noble everyday noon eastern on the Black Star Network.
[2:31:29] Speaker 6: Y'all last story here Today a group of bishops joined
[2:31:36] Speaker 6: together to announce a national initiative to focus on the
[2:31:41] Speaker 6: election as well as social justice. Today in Chicago, led
[2:31:46] Speaker 6: by a Bishop of Byron Brade of Apostolic Church of God,
[2:31:49] Speaker 6: the National me go and to read this for you,
[2:31:53] Speaker 6: the National Faith and Justice Council made their announcement. Their
[2:31:57] Speaker 6: goal is this newly formed coalition. Their goal is to
[2:32:00] Speaker 6: feature presiding bishops representatives of the various churches too committed
[2:32:04] Speaker 6: to serving as a unified, moral, spiritual and civic voice
[2:32:07] Speaker 6: during a time of growing social fragmentations, civic instability, and
[2:32:10] Speaker 6: community distress. Here's some of the communists we livestream this event.
[2:32:14] Speaker 6: Here's some of what Bishop Brazier had to say today.
[2:32:18] Speaker 5: Today has not simply been a conversation.
[2:32:22] Speaker 27: It really has been a declaration, a declaration that faith
[2:32:26] Speaker 27: leadership in this nation is still strong, a declaration that
[2:32:30] Speaker 27: unity across denominations is not only possible, it is necessary,
[2:32:36] Speaker 27: and a declaration that the Church still has a vital
[2:32:39] Speaker 27: role to play in shaping the moral, spiritual and civic
[2:32:43] Speaker 27: direction of our communities. We have affirmed something that is
[2:32:50] Speaker 27: not just powerful, but extraordinary, unified unit, united faith leadership
[2:32:58] Speaker 27: that will create in a community, organized people will create
[2:33:03] Speaker 27: transformation and the Church will guide the process as the
[2:33:08] Speaker 27: change agent for justice and restoration. But let us be
[2:33:13] Speaker 27: clear what has been shared today but must now be activated.
[2:33:19] Speaker 27: This moment requires more than agreement. It requires alignment with
[2:33:23] Speaker 27: faith leaders, pastors, congregations, stakeholders, and partners. It requires structure,
[2:33:31] Speaker 27: and it requires movement. The National Faith and Justice Council
[2:33:36] Speaker 27: is not simply an idea. It is an apparatus, an organized,
[2:33:41] Speaker 27: discipline and intentional framework designed to mobilize leaders, congregations, and
[2:33:47] Speaker 27: communities across this nation. Our first mobilization will be in
[2:33:53] Speaker 27: voter registration and voter turnout. We must understand that we
[2:33:59] Speaker 27: do not participate when others try to decide for us,
[2:34:05] Speaker 27: but when we are organized, informed, and unified, we will
[2:34:09] Speaker 27: shape outcomes of generations to come.
[2:34:12] Speaker 3: This is not about politics. This is about responsibility. This
[2:34:17] Speaker 3: is about stewardship.
[2:34:18] Speaker 27: This is about the future of our communities and the
[2:34:21] Speaker 27: generations still yet to come. The Declaration of Freedom reminds
[2:34:26] Speaker 27: us that we are not powerless, but we are positioned,
[2:34:31] Speaker 27: and we live this moment with clarity. We will educate,
[2:34:35] Speaker 27: we will organize, we will mobilize, and we will sustain
[2:34:41] Speaker 27: to the people of faith.
[2:34:43] Speaker 3: Together, we will walk.
[2:34:45] Speaker 27: We will not walk away from this moment, and I
[2:34:49] Speaker 27: just want to take the time to thank each and
[2:34:51] Speaker 27: every one of the participants, to thank them for their commitment,
[2:34:56] Speaker 27: and to thank them for standing together.
[2:34:59] Speaker 3: For together, we will move forward.
[2:35:04] Speaker 6: All right, folks. Hey, tomorrow's Rollingmart unfiltered. We're going to
[2:35:08] Speaker 6: show you an interview I did when I was in
[2:35:10] Speaker 6: Tulsa with the Want Anniversary with former Oklahoma State Representative
[2:35:14] Speaker 6: Donald Ross. While I was there, he's a huge fan
[2:35:17] Speaker 6: of mine. I did an interview with him. He gave
[2:35:19] Speaker 6: me a copy autograph copy of his book. He was
[2:35:23] Speaker 6: the one who set up the Tulsa race a right commission,
[2:35:26] Speaker 6: also left effort to take down the Confederate flag of Oklahoma.
[2:35:29] Speaker 6: He passed away today. His daughter called me, his son
[2:35:33] Speaker 6: sent me a text, and so tomorrow I'll run for
[2:35:36] Speaker 6: you the interview that I did with him, and we
[2:35:38] Speaker 6: were in Tulsa several years ago. Folks, that is it
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