# Houston MBE Program Struck Down. Confederate School Names Removed. Trump 2026 Election Plot

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 12 Aug 2026, 2 h 03 min.

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8.11.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Houston MBE Program Struck Down. Confederate School Names Removed. Trump Threatens Election Emergency Build credit fast and get your first month for just a dollar at getkikoff.com/unfiltered today. Thanks to Kikoff for sponsoring us! A judge strikes down a program designed to help minority business owners in Texas leaving entrepreneurs uncertain of their future. We'll have City County Council Member Willie Davis on to talk about the new ruling and what this means moving forward. Florida Rep. Angie Nixon joins us to talk about her campaign ahead of the August 18 primaries. The Progressive Democrat is on the front lines of resistance against Governor Ron DeSantis as she fights for a seat in the U.S. Senate. And her newfound surge in support has spectators wondering if she can win the primary election. A new report in Iowa questions the true safety of having resource officers in the state's school after troubling numbers show that black children are disproportionately detained during behavioral disruptions. We'll talk to Iowa of ACLU's Veronica Fowler about the data and what ACLU next step will be. Martin's Children's Book will be on to discuss how it's helping children grow their minds in math, reading, and boosting self confidence in and out of the classroom. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[1:42] Speaker 7: Today's Tuesday, August eleven, twenty twenty six, coming got a
[1:45] Speaker 7: rolling Martin on Filter streaming live on the Blackstar Network.
[1:47] Speaker 7: I'm live here in Atlanta. A major major decision out
[1:52] Speaker 7: of Texas. A judge is struck down US said Minority
[1:56] Speaker 7: in Business Enterprise program that is going to have a
[1:59] Speaker 7: devastating act on black owned businesses in the city of Houston.
[2:02] Speaker 2: Will talk to a city council member there.
[2:05] Speaker 7: Florida Representative Angie Nixon is running for the United States Senate.
[2:09] Speaker 7: Will talk to her on today's show. Also, we're watching
[2:13] Speaker 7: the election in Wisconsin. Will dsay not a huge win
[2:17] Speaker 7: there with Francesca Hong leaving the.
[2:20] Speaker 2: Polls in that raise.
[2:21] Speaker 7: A new report in Iowa questioned the true safety of
[2:24] Speaker 7: having resource officers in the state's school off a troubling
[2:27] Speaker 7: number of black children are disproportionally detained. We'll talk to
[2:32] Speaker 7: someone with the Iowa ac LU. Also, Martin's children's book
[2:36] Speaker 7: would be on to discuss how it's helping children grow
[2:39] Speaker 7: their minds in math, reading, and boosting their self esteem
[2:43] Speaker 7: in the classroom. Plus, we'll talk the latest politics, including
[2:49] Speaker 7: the latest stupid stuff that Donald Trump has said, insulting Samallions.
[2:54] Speaker 2: No shot there. It is time to bring the funk.
[2:57] Speaker 2: Roland Martin on filcher of the Black Star Network. Let's go.
[3:01] Speaker 8: He's got whatever the bis he's lolling, whatever it is,
[3:05] Speaker 8: he's got to stop the fact the fine and when
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[3:12] Speaker 9: Best believe he's going from his Loston news to politics
[3:18] Speaker 9: with entertainment.
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[3:23] Speaker 7: It's some row.
[3:27] Speaker 8: Yeah, it's rolling Monte, Yeah, rolling with Rodin.
[3:36] Speaker 9: He's book he spress, she's real. The question, No, he's
[3:40] Speaker 9: rolling Martin.
[3:50] Speaker 2: Martin folks.
[4:23] Speaker 7: In Texas, a federal judges struck down the race portions
[4:26] Speaker 7: of the Houston Minority in Business Enterprise Program of ruling
[4:30] Speaker 7: that it is unconstitutional and violates the equal protection clause
[4:34] Speaker 7: of the Fourteenth Amendment. The city announced that they will
[4:36] Speaker 7: no longer recognize what a minister the program's MBE certification.
[4:42] Speaker 2: On July twenty eighth, US District Judge.
[4:44] Speaker 7: David Hitner ruled a permanent injunction blocks the city from
[4:48] Speaker 7: using racial preferences when awarding public contracts. The case was
[4:52] Speaker 7: brought forward by two white landscape business owners in Spring, Texas,
[4:57] Speaker 7: who sued the city in twenty twenty three after being
[5:01] Speaker 7: denied certification in Houston City Council. I remember at Large
[5:04] Speaker 7: Willie Davis joins us right now, counsel, but they was
[5:07] Speaker 7: glad to have you here. So here we got two
[5:09] Speaker 7: white men who tried to file under the NBE sort
[5:14] Speaker 7: of okay, all right then, so sorry folks, So we
[5:18] Speaker 7: don't have the councilman just yet.
[5:21] Speaker 2: And so let me just let me do this here.
[5:25] Speaker 7: So y'all let me know we have the councilman, but
[5:28] Speaker 7: you know what, continue the conversation then they let me
[5:31] Speaker 7: know when he comes on. So I have been warning
[5:34] Speaker 7: y'all about this. So here's what these white folks, these
[5:38] Speaker 7: right wingers have been doing. And Ed Bloom from Houston
[5:41] Speaker 7: has been targeting many of these programs using the fourteenth Amendment,
[5:46] Speaker 7: using the Civil Rights Act of eighteen sixty using all
[5:50] Speaker 7: of these different eighteen sixty six against black folks.
[5:53] Speaker 2: And so what you had.
[5:55] Speaker 7: The same thing happened in Tennessee where a white woman
[5:59] Speaker 7: sued the federal eight A program, saying that she couldn't
[6:04] Speaker 7: qualify for the eight A program because she wasn't a minority,
[6:08] Speaker 7: and so therefore a federal judge there overruled that program.
[6:12] Speaker 2: Now here's what's crazy.
[6:13] Speaker 7: That same white woman qualified for a federal program as
[6:18] Speaker 7: a woman, but she wanted to stop the program for
[6:22] Speaker 7: black folks in others. And so what these white men
[6:26] Speaker 7: are doing. They're saying, oh, we should be able to
[6:31] Speaker 7: qualify as a minority business and so oh so, because
[6:35] Speaker 7: they won't allow us to apply, then well you should
[6:41] Speaker 7: rule the program ineligible. In fact, two white men in
[6:47] Speaker 7: Indiana sued the federal DBE program and in going to court,
[6:54] Speaker 7: the Trump administration announced, yeah, our goal is to actually
[6:59] Speaker 7: end the federal dB program, which is a thirty seven
[7:02] Speaker 7: billion dollar federal program.
[7:06] Speaker 2: This is what Project twenty twenty five is all about.
[7:09] Speaker 7: This is what the right wing is all about what
[7:11] Speaker 7: they want to do is they want to shut down
[7:14] Speaker 7: the economic opportunities that have been provided for African Americans
[7:19] Speaker 7: and others all across this country. And so they have
[7:22] Speaker 7: been targeting city of Houston. I remember when Bob Lanier
[7:26] Speaker 7: was the mayor of my hometown in Houston, and they
[7:29] Speaker 7: had a ballot initiative and they got mad because they
[7:32] Speaker 7: tried to submit some ballot language that was jacked up,
[7:36] Speaker 7: and boblin it was like nine, no, nine, y'all ain't
[7:38] Speaker 7: doing that, and so they rewrote the language, pissed them off.
[7:41] Speaker 7: It actually passed. And so this is what they had
[7:43] Speaker 7: been doing. And so what you're seeing, you were seeing
[7:47] Speaker 7: these attacks towards African Americans all across the country. They
[7:52] Speaker 7: are attacking these programs on the federal level, on the county,
[7:56] Speaker 7: on the state level, on the county level, on the
[7:59] Speaker 7: city level, in the school districts they're in Texas. In fact,
[8:03] Speaker 7: there was a HUB program historically underutilized businesses on the
[8:07] Speaker 7: state level that was put in place by Texas Governor
[8:10] Speaker 7: George W. Bush Republican, Well Maga Republican Greg Abbott.
[8:16] Speaker 2: What did he do this year? Wiped out the HOOD program.
[8:21] Speaker 2: So if we look at the federal program.
[8:23] Speaker 7: In the last year of Biden, Harris, black owned businesses
[8:27] Speaker 7: received about ten billion dollars in federal contracts. Ten billion dollars.
[8:34] Speaker 7: That's only two percent, y'all, of all contracts, but it
[8:38] Speaker 7: was a record number.
[8:40] Speaker 2: Well, Trump comes in.
[8:43] Speaker 7: Whacking contracts, not looking at mbs, then also slowing contracts
[8:50] Speaker 7: down getting rid of him.
[8:52] Speaker 2: So what was two percent is down to one point
[8:56] Speaker 2: two percent.
[8:57] Speaker 7: That means that's almost a fire billion dollar loss on
[9:02] Speaker 7: the federal level. And so when you've heard me talk
[9:05] Speaker 7: about this, I need y'all to understand that we are
[9:09] Speaker 7: literally talking about billions upon billions upon billions of dollars
[9:16] Speaker 7: that will be taken out of Black communities. And what
[9:21] Speaker 7: these white maga folks. They don't want ninety percent of
[9:26] Speaker 7: the contracts. They don't want ninety five percent of the contracts.
[9:34] Speaker 7: They don't want ninety eight percent of the contracts.
[9:39] Speaker 2: They want all of it.
[9:43] Speaker 7: And I've challenged white women, and I've challenged them for
[9:47] Speaker 7: years saying why is it? And whenever we have these
[9:50] Speaker 7: battles of a contract, y'all, white women are real silent
[9:54] Speaker 7: when you are the greatest beneficiaries Affirmative action programs. I
[9:58] Speaker 7: want to bring in my panel right now as we
[10:00] Speaker 7: wait for the counselman to come on, let me bring
[10:03] Speaker 7: in doctor Mustapha Santiago, a lead former Senior Advisor for
[10:06] Speaker 7: Environmental Justice at the EPA from out of DC. Randy Bryant, entrepreneur, author, speaker, Washington, DC.
[10:12] Speaker 7: I mean, people really need to understand Mustafa and why
[10:17] Speaker 7: we have been calling this a GOP war on Black America.
[10:20] Speaker 7: That they are targeting the entire black infrastructure. They are
[10:28] Speaker 7: targeting economics, they're targeting health, they're targeting academics, they're targeting social.
[10:37] Speaker 2: Justice, they're targeting all of it.
[10:39] Speaker 7: What the right wing, with the white white wing, what
[10:42] Speaker 7: the white right wing in America wants to do. They
[10:46] Speaker 7: want to absolutely cripple any future Black progress.
[10:55] Speaker 10: Those elements that you just mentioned are the pillars, right,
[10:57] Speaker 10: They are the foundationunderneath of our community, so that you know,
[11:02] Speaker 10: we have the things that are necessary to be able
[11:05] Speaker 10: to live healthy and sustainable lives, to be able to
[11:08] Speaker 10: you know, send our kids to college, to be able
[11:11] Speaker 10: to save a few dollars, all the things that every
[11:14] Speaker 10: American says that they want to do. But unfortunately, there
[11:17] Speaker 10: have been laws over the years that have stopped us
[11:19] Speaker 10: from being able to fully participate. When they see us
[11:23] Speaker 10: beginning to make some progress, even incremental progress, they automatically
[11:28] Speaker 10: go into a strategic attack mode, beginning to you know,
[11:32] Speaker 10: dismantle the various laws that have been there, not to
[11:36] Speaker 10: actually give us an upper hand, but to give us
[11:38] Speaker 10: an opportunity to be able to participate. You know, they
[11:42] Speaker 10: look at the incredible things that Maynor Jackson did in Atlanta.
[11:45] Speaker 10: When Maynor came in, I think it was in the
[11:47] Speaker 10: early seventies. You know, less than one percent of the
[11:50] Speaker 10: contracts were going to black contractors, even though you had
[11:53] Speaker 10: a black city. And by the time he got done
[11:55] Speaker 10: implementing you know, very positive, well thought out steps, it
[11:59] Speaker 10: was to about thirty four percent.
[12:01] Speaker 6: When you look at Marion Barry, the exact same thing.
[12:04] Speaker 10: Because they understood that contracting played a critical role that
[12:08] Speaker 10: helped to build wealth in our country, helped to begin
[12:10] Speaker 10: to shrink the wealth gap that has existed for centuries
[12:14] Speaker 10: in America. It also helped to begin to heal our country.
[12:18] Speaker 10: But they want to rip the wound back open once again,
[12:22] Speaker 10: reach inside and pull out anything that's of value and
[12:26] Speaker 10: take it for themselves.
[12:28] Speaker 6: So, you know, that's what exactly is going on.
[12:30] Speaker 10: That's why we talk for a year and a half
[12:33] Speaker 10: about Project twenty twenty five agenda, one of the other
[12:37] Speaker 10: agendas that was out there. So you know we are
[12:40] Speaker 10: now where we are. That's why our vote matters. That's
[12:42] Speaker 10: why we got to get engaged in the civic process,
[12:45] Speaker 10: because you've got to have the judges who are there
[12:47] Speaker 10: who are going to do the right thing and understand
[12:49] Speaker 10: not only what's happening in this moment, but also the
[12:51] Speaker 10: history that brought us here.
[12:55] Speaker 7: Randy, Again, we see the attacks on DEI. This is
[13:01] Speaker 7: all about attacking black folks economically.
[13:06] Speaker 2: And I've been yelling and screaming this. I can tell you, Randy.
[13:11] Speaker 7: I remember in twenty twenty three, I was at the
[13:15] Speaker 7: NAACP Image Awards and I was sitting on this DEI panel,
[13:19] Speaker 7: and man, I was straight going off, and people look
[13:24] Speaker 7: at me like, oh, man, you being too vocal about this.
[13:27] Speaker 2: I'm like, I need y'all to wake the hell up.
[13:30] Speaker 2: This is happening. It is happening.
[13:34] Speaker 7: And I sat there, Randy, and I listened to these
[13:37] Speaker 7: silly ass simple Simon Negroes complain about Vice President Kamala
[13:42] Speaker 7: Harris shame doing enough, shame doing enough. And I'm going, Yo,
[13:48] Speaker 7: I'm not happy about getting two percent of federal contracts,
[13:51] Speaker 7: but it was a record ten billion dollars. And I said,
[13:54] Speaker 7: the last thing that I want to see is that
[13:56] Speaker 7: number go down. Well, guess what the number is going down.
[13:58] Speaker 7: So I hope all of people people who says she
[14:01] Speaker 7: wasn't doing enough and she wasn't doing this, I hope
[14:03] Speaker 7: they're happy.
[14:04] Speaker 2: Because here's the problem, Randy.
[14:06] Speaker 7: If you go from two percent down to one point
[14:09] Speaker 7: two percent in two years, that means that by the
[14:13] Speaker 7: time Trump's term is up, we're going.
[14:16] Speaker 2: To be down to point eight point five percent.
[14:19] Speaker 7: So you're talking about going from ten billion dollars down
[14:23] Speaker 7: to maybe two point five billion dollars. And that means
[14:26] Speaker 7: it's gonna take a hell of a long time to
[14:29] Speaker 7: get back to ten billion dollars.
[14:32] Speaker 2: And what does that mean.
[14:33] Speaker 7: That means black owned businesses have to lay off staff.
[14:38] Speaker 7: That means that those families that work of those companies.
[14:41] Speaker 7: That means their houses are being impacted, their kids in
[14:44] Speaker 7: schools being impacted. And so that means that you're gonna
[14:47] Speaker 7: see a drop in blacks tithing to churches. You're gonna
[14:50] Speaker 7: see a drop in African Americans supporting HBCUs, supporting charitable giving,
[14:56] Speaker 7: and so there is a tremendous downflow, and a tremendous
[15:02] Speaker 7: with this downflow, the same economic downflow.
[15:05] Speaker 2: You're going to see billions being.
[15:08] Speaker 7: Washed out of Black America because of decisions like this.
[15:14] Speaker 9: Exactly right.
[15:15] Speaker 11: I believe that what people don't understand is that sometimes
[15:18] Speaker 11: the war is between two candidates, and you may think
[15:21] Speaker 11: this candidate did not do enough or won't do enough.
[15:24] Speaker 11: What I don't think people understand what Project twenty twenty
[15:27] Speaker 11: five is is a It is a plan for waging
[15:30] Speaker 11: a war to completely cripple the Black community. And the
[15:34] Speaker 11: Black community has historically gotten to places of middle class
[15:40] Speaker 11: and upper middle class through government and through the government contracting.
[15:44] Speaker 11: So it was very strategic for them to have Doge
[15:47] Speaker 11: come in and gut the government and cut government jobs
[15:51] Speaker 11: because that they knew was going to specifically hurt us.
[15:55] Speaker 9: And it has also with the government contracts.
[15:58] Speaker 11: You realize that, you know, while we're around fourteen percent
[16:01] Speaker 11: of the population, we only ever had three percent of
[16:04] Speaker 11: employer based businesses already. And so they created these programs
[16:09] Speaker 11: like the NBA and the wee to.
[16:10] Speaker 9: Get those numbers up.
[16:12] Speaker 11: And still even with those programs, we're getting about nine
[16:15] Speaker 11: percent of the government contracts that were available to us
[16:19] Speaker 11: even with the programs. So now without them, just like
[16:24] Speaker 11: you said we're getting, we're gonna get far fewer.
[16:27] Speaker 9: If anything, I personally, you know, being based in Washington,
[16:30] Speaker 9: d C.
[16:30] Speaker 11: Have several friends who have lost close to seventy five
[16:34] Speaker 11: percent of their businesses. What also that we need to
[16:38] Speaker 11: note is that black businesses, black business owners tend to
[16:42] Speaker 11: employ black employees more frequently in at higher rates, so
[16:47] Speaker 11: all of those employees.
[16:48] Speaker 9: Definitely are impacted.
[16:50] Speaker 11: If you walk around the city now, I mean this
[16:52] Speaker 11: of course is everywhere, but if you walk around the
[16:54] Speaker 11: city now, the restaurants aren't fully more people are not
[16:57] Speaker 11: going out because they can't. What people need to realize
[17:01] Speaker 11: is that this is absolutely purposeful. Is trying to completely
[17:05] Speaker 11: cripple black economics so we can have so we can
[17:09] Speaker 11: barely figure out how to make it day to day.
[17:12] Speaker 9: And so I wish people, you know, had heeded the warnings.
[17:16] Speaker 11: Because we are under a targeted, well planned out attack
[17:22] Speaker 11: to bring us to our knees, and sadly it is working.
[17:28] Speaker 7: Counselan David Jones is right now, Counts been glad to
[17:30] Speaker 7: have you here. Obviously, this decision by the federal judge
[17:35] Speaker 7: in Texas is a devastating decision for black owned businesses
[17:39] Speaker 7: on top of the decision by the state to dismantle
[17:44] Speaker 7: the Texas Hub program. I mean, this is this is
[17:48] Speaker 7: not going to bode well for black owned businesses in
[17:51] Speaker 7: Houston and.
[17:52] Speaker 2: In Texas well. Thank you Roland.
[17:59] Speaker 5: Yes, I am certainly a look at disappointed and that's
[18:05] Speaker 5: what I said a little bit, but should say much
[18:08] Speaker 5: disappointed because this is more than just something that is
[18:17] Speaker 5: hurting black but it's gonna hurt a lot of small
[18:26] Speaker 5: business people and the effect and I'm thinking that grateful
[18:35] Speaker 5: that our mayorag is going to feel it and so so,
[18:42] Speaker 5: based upon what's going on, we at Council in Houston,
[18:48] Speaker 5: we're gonna have a good look at this going forward
[18:53] Speaker 5: and to make sure across the board.
[18:57] Speaker 2: Doughtys are represents and they get a fair.
[19:01] Speaker 5: Chance of creativity in in the business world. Now, we
[19:07] Speaker 5: had a great director, our MW E.
[19:14] Speaker 2: Who came under some scrutiny.
[19:17] Speaker 5: From other minorities because the way our program was written
[19:23] Speaker 5: and the way that she was going to solve some
[19:26] Speaker 5: of the current from other minorities. And so we went
[19:30] Speaker 5: through that process and we thought we had gotten cleared,
[19:35] Speaker 5: and then once they got the court, the judge voted
[19:39] Speaker 5: in favor.
[19:41] Speaker 2: Of the planet, which which was very Here's so, here's so,
[19:47] Speaker 2: here's the issue.
[19:50] Speaker 7: You in the city council now, frankly, have to be
[19:55] Speaker 7: get more creative. And I remember when there was a
[19:58] Speaker 7: Hopwood decision in Texas where they sued and they could
[20:03] Speaker 7: not use race when it came to admissions.
[20:05] Speaker 2: And one of the things that Texas.
[20:07] Speaker 7: State Center, Royce West, he got with these these rural Republicans, uh,
[20:12] Speaker 7: and that's when they came up with the top ten
[20:14] Speaker 7: percent rule.
[20:17] Speaker 2: And all of that. And so listen, there are different
[20:21] Speaker 2: things that that y'all can do.
[20:23] Speaker 7: You can look at census tracks, you can you can
[20:26] Speaker 7: look at favoring different.
[20:27] Speaker 2: Things along those lines.
[20:29] Speaker 7: And so are are y'all meeting and having those conversations
[20:33] Speaker 7: on how you can find race neutral ways, ways to
[20:37] Speaker 7: ensure that black businesses and others are still able to
[20:41] Speaker 7: compete for city contracts.
[20:45] Speaker 9: Good question.
[20:46] Speaker 5: Rosan owur director has got a plan and the mayor
[20:51] Speaker 5: and they're working on it as we see it has
[20:55] Speaker 5: not been really as yet the counsel, but I'm sure
[21:00] Speaker 5: within the next week we will so that we can
[21:04] Speaker 5: be sure that everybody represented and that we can have
[21:12] Speaker 5: a strong case, because because I do believe that this
[21:16] Speaker 5: can be overturned, you know, the matter about how to
[21:20] Speaker 5: put it together and the way it's presented, that it
[21:25] Speaker 5: can be overturned. Now in the meantime, let me tell
[21:30] Speaker 5: you Roland and you Estodian, is what I'm pushing. Last year,
[21:36] Speaker 5: I did what was called a financially composing and that
[21:41] Speaker 5: composium was was made up of small businesses and bankers
[21:48] Speaker 5: and when they get down to the dollars, the auto said,
[21:52] Speaker 5: I was sitting. Municipalities don't have all of the money.
[21:57] Speaker 5: Our county government don't have all the money, but the
[22:02] Speaker 5: banks have the money. And what we also discover rolling
[22:07] Speaker 5: in most of our cities, red lining goes on.
[22:12] Speaker 2: And the Community Reinvestment ache.
[22:15] Speaker 5: In nineteen seventy six have to protect our communities are
[22:22] Speaker 5: the fact that some people red line and we need
[22:26] Speaker 5: to correct that. So I'm already along with whatever the
[22:31] Speaker 5: mayor and our director rolls out. I'm getting ready to
[22:35] Speaker 5: have my second one annual financial and we had over
[22:41] Speaker 5: three hundred and fifty super registers for the first time
[22:44] Speaker 5: last year. So there are solutions, and I'm not saying
[22:50] Speaker 5: give up your give but when I am said we
[22:55] Speaker 5: need every June in the tour.
[22:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, well I absolutely agree with that.
[23:01] Speaker 7: Counselan David listen, we'll wait to see what that proposal
[23:05] Speaker 7: is that goes to the mayyor of the city Council.
[23:07] Speaker 7: Will be paying close attention. We still appreciate it. Thanks
[23:09] Speaker 7: a lot, Thank you, my friend. All right again, I'm
[23:15] Speaker 7: just trying to warn people to understand what's going on here.
[23:18] Speaker 7: We are facing a situation where all across this country,
[23:22] Speaker 7: especially obviously on a federal level, but in these red
[23:25] Speaker 7: states where African Americans are going to be targeting and y'all,
[23:29] Speaker 7: they're going after it all.
[23:31] Speaker 2: They're going after the money.
[23:33] Speaker 7: And so if you start taking away billions of dollars
[23:35] Speaker 7: in contracts, you're going to be impacting not just those business.
[23:38] Speaker 2: Owners but their employees.
[23:40] Speaker 7: You're going to be impacting the black law firms they use,
[23:42] Speaker 7: the black accounting firms that they use. The downflow is
[23:47] Speaker 7: going to lead to a washout of the black community.
[23:51] Speaker 7: And this is why we keep making the point voting
[23:54] Speaker 7: matters because when you have your volte at the table,
[23:59] Speaker 7: then you are a able to impact the policy in
[24:01] Speaker 7: a different way. And so we're gonna keep We're gonna
[24:04] Speaker 7: keep hammering that, keep letting people understand that because they
[24:08] Speaker 7: need to realize how serious this is.
[24:10] Speaker 2: Gotta go to a break.
[24:11] Speaker 7: I'py right back rolling unfiltered with the Black Saw Network.
[24:18] Speaker 7: All right, folks, let me begin persha for a second.
[24:20] Speaker 7: My mom had questions about her Medicare. So she called Chapter,
[24:24] Speaker 7: a Medicare advisory company, and she texts me right after saying,
[24:28] Speaker 7: it's a great benefit. It was easy, A real person
[24:30] Speaker 7: walked her through the whole thing. And now she understands
[24:33] Speaker 7: better what's going on because also it's not just her.
[24:36] Speaker 7: Woman in Yonkers wrote in saying the process was so simple,
[24:39] Speaker 7: the enrollment was easy, and she was so glad she called.
[24:43] Speaker 7: And there's Maryland, ninety years old in Florida, living on
[24:45] Speaker 7: Social Security. Her premium climbed every single year north of
[24:49] Speaker 7: four hundred dollars. It's a month for coverage she could
[24:52] Speaker 7: barely afford anymore.
[24:53] Speaker 2: So what if she do?
[24:54] Speaker 7: She called Chapter if they found her the same top
[24:57] Speaker 7: tier coverage for hundreds of dollars less ninety years old,
[25:02] Speaker 7: and finally somebody in her corner. I hear stories like
[25:05] Speaker 7: that again and again from our community. The Medicare system
[25:08] Speaker 7: was not built to work for you. Too much fine print,
[25:11] Speaker 7: too many plans you had. Chapters advisors are independent and honest.
[25:14] Speaker 7: The only Medicare advisors that compare every plan nationwide. They're
[25:19] Speaker 7: focused on one thing, what actually works for you. If
[25:22] Speaker 7: you're already in the right plan, they'll tell you no
[25:24] Speaker 7: games and people who switched to a chapter saved and
[25:28] Speaker 7: the average of eleven one hundred dollars a year all Texas.
[25:31] Speaker 2: Twenty minutes.
[25:31] Speaker 7: You talk to a real person and it's completely free help.
[25:35] Speaker 7: So called chapter at seven two four two sixty four
[25:38] Speaker 7: eight two eight one seven two four two sixty four
[25:42] Speaker 7: eight two eight one.
[25:43] Speaker 2: That's chapter.
[25:46] Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question.
[25:48] Speaker 12: Why do so many people seem to think they know
[25:50] Speaker 12: black men so well, but they think we want what
[25:52] Speaker 12: they think we need help. They even tried to tell
[25:54] Speaker 12: us why and how we vote out and never had
[25:56] Speaker 12: a conversation with us, never asked us how we.
[25:59] Speaker 3: Felt us joy, what makes us angry? What makes us scared?
[26:02] Speaker 11: How do we live?
[26:03] Speaker 3: That's what this show is about no translation because we
[26:07] Speaker 3: don't need anybody speaking for us.
[26:09] Speaker 12: We can speak for ourselves. This will be a show
[26:10] Speaker 12: where we bring brothers on that you don't see on.
[26:12] Speaker 3: Every other talk show.
[26:13] Speaker 12: Nope, Brothers that are doing work in local communities with
[26:16] Speaker 12: black men, for black communities. We're going to hear each
[26:20] Speaker 12: other and try to understand so perhaps we can move
[26:23] Speaker 12: forward together. No translations because we don't need anybody speaking
[26:26] Speaker 12: for us, Nope, but we need as each other no translation.
[26:30] Speaker 12: Right here on the Black Star Network.
[26:31] Speaker 2: Check it out.
[26:37] Speaker 7: It's your boy Earthquake, you know, giving Roland Martin something
[26:40] Speaker 7: to do because you know you don't know what to do.
[26:42] Speaker 2: You're from Texas, Ain't it's fault.
[26:55] Speaker 3: Folks.
[26:56] Speaker 7: In Virginia, a federal judge has ordered the Shenandock County
[26:59] Speaker 7: school Board moved Confederate names from two public schools. Judge
[27:03] Speaker 7: Michael Urbanski ruled on August sixth that restoring the names
[27:06] Speaker 7: of Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby in twenty twenty four
[27:10] Speaker 7: violated the Fourteenth Amendment and the Equal Educational Opportunities Act
[27:14] Speaker 7: by discriminating against black students and perpetuating segregation. The ruling
[27:18] Speaker 7: sided with the Virginia NAACP in his lawsuit against a
[27:22] Speaker 7: county school boards renstatement of Confederate military names. The board
[27:27] Speaker 7: is now ordered to change the school's monikers again. In Virginia,
[27:31] Speaker 7: ANDAACP filed a lawsuit on behalf of six students and
[27:34] Speaker 7: their parents in June twenty twenty four after the school
[27:37] Speaker 7: board voted five to one to change Mountain View High
[27:40] Speaker 7: School back to Stonewall Jackson High and Honeyrod Elementary back
[27:45] Speaker 7: to Ashby Lee Elementary, which combines the name of Robert E.
[27:48] Speaker 7: Lee and Turner Ashby a Confederate cavalry officer.
[27:52] Speaker 2: I mean, Randy, what is this show?
[27:56] Speaker 7: This goes to show you that these white races, they
[28:00] Speaker 7: are so in love with the Confederacy and they are Republican.
[28:04] Speaker 2: They love the Confederacy so much, and so they change
[28:07] Speaker 2: a name.
[28:08] Speaker 7: This was in the wake, of course, the death of
[28:09] Speaker 7: George Floyd and then Truck gets elected.
[28:11] Speaker 2: They're like, hey, let's go back to the racist names.
[28:17] Speaker 11: They're pitiful the fact that they are still hanging on
[28:20] Speaker 11: to these so called heroes of theirs.
[28:23] Speaker 9: And they lost the war. That's what I'll go get like,
[28:28] Speaker 9: how are you.
[28:28] Speaker 11: Celebrating someone who lost the war, but they cannot let
[28:32] Speaker 11: it go, and they're just absolutely sad.
[28:36] Speaker 9: And they see this new racist in charge.
[28:38] Speaker 11: As their opportunity to now honor their supposed heroes and
[28:45] Speaker 11: and and celebrate the time that they wish they could have.
[28:49] Speaker 11: I mean it very much tells you how they see
[28:51] Speaker 11: black people and what and how they want us to be,
[28:55] Speaker 11: how they don't want us to have freedom.
[28:56] Speaker 9: People need to see that as a symbol for how
[29:00] Speaker 9: exactly how what they want for us and don't want
[29:02] Speaker 9: for us.
[29:05] Speaker 7: You know, Mustafa, we're always making this point and you're
[29:08] Speaker 7: listening to these people talking about.
[29:09] Speaker 2: Well, it's history. We can't forget our history.
[29:12] Speaker 7: No, what these white maga folks want to do is
[29:16] Speaker 7: they want to celebrate the racist. They want our schools
[29:19] Speaker 7: to still be monuments. And the judge is right, you
[29:22] Speaker 7: damn skippy. If you're a black student, hell, you don't
[29:26] Speaker 7: want to sit here and say, oh yeah, I'm a
[29:28] Speaker 7: Stonewall Jackson graduate, knowing full well that Stonewall Jackson wanted
[29:33] Speaker 7: to make sure that black folks remained in chains. You
[29:36] Speaker 7: don't see in Germany them having schools named after Hitler
[29:41] Speaker 7: and other Nazi war criminals. There's a reason for that.
[29:44] Speaker 7: But in America they love them some white domestic terrorists
[29:49] Speaker 7: who were again the wrong side of the Civil War.
[29:53] Speaker 10: Well, everything that you just said. You know what's really
[29:56] Speaker 10: interesting that when it comes to our children, they don't.
[29:59] Speaker 6: Have a problem with trauma.
[30:01] Speaker 13: Right.
[30:01] Speaker 10: They'll allow our children to, as you said, go to
[30:04] Speaker 10: those schools, be taught in those schools, look up and
[30:07] Speaker 10: see the sign, the name on the side of the building,
[30:11] Speaker 10: and have to reflect on that. But when it comes
[30:14] Speaker 10: to their children, you could have a few words in
[30:16] Speaker 10: a book and they have a problem with that. They
[30:19] Speaker 10: have a problem with history when it comes to the
[30:22] Speaker 10: truthfulness of history. That kind of really lays it out
[30:25] Speaker 10: for everyone. So I always think that it's very ironic
[30:28] Speaker 10: that they're willing to traumatize our students, but they're not
[30:31] Speaker 10: allowing that same type of openness to be a part
[30:35] Speaker 10: of a process when it comes to their own children.
[30:40] Speaker 7: Yeah, it's because I mean, listen, it's because you know,
[30:43] Speaker 7: they love their white races and they want to celebrate them,
[30:47] Speaker 7: and they want us to see they even have to
[30:49] Speaker 7: deal with their crap when it comes to that. And
[30:53] Speaker 7: this is just where I'm like, I'm sorry, you know,
[30:56] Speaker 7: we have to fight back. And I'm sure there are
[30:57] Speaker 7: people were saying, well, be I don't understand why you
[30:59] Speaker 7: make it a big deal, you know, out of the names.
[31:02] Speaker 2: But yeah, damn that.
[31:03] Speaker 7: I mean, forget Stonewall Jackson. He was a white domestic terrorist.
[31:06] Speaker 7: So was Robert E.
[31:07] Speaker 4: Lee.
[31:08] Speaker 2: I don't care a damn that. Oh my god.
[31:10] Speaker 7: Listen, see here's the one that cracks me up. You
[31:14] Speaker 7: listen to these people who go, oh my goodness. I mean,
[31:17] Speaker 7: Robert E. Lee was an amazing general, which is why
[31:21] Speaker 7: Pete Hicks had had his portrait restored in the dining
[31:25] Speaker 7: hall at West Point.
[31:27] Speaker 2: But guess what, even.
[31:30] Speaker 7: According to Patton Randy Ramo was one of history's greatest generals,
[31:39] Speaker 7: I don't see the Germans still celebrating Ramo as been
[31:43] Speaker 7: an amazing military mind.
[31:47] Speaker 2: Right.
[31:47] Speaker 9: But the Germans have openly dealt with the Holocaust.
[31:51] Speaker 11: They have claimed responsibility, they have admitted that it was wrong.
[31:55] Speaker 11: They say all the time, never again. They teach the
[31:58] Speaker 11: accurate history in their schools. America can't seem to do that.
[32:04] Speaker 11: America would like to act as if none.
[32:07] Speaker 9: Of it really happened.
[32:08] Speaker 4: And what happened.
[32:09] Speaker 11: They are always changing what the Civil War was about.
[32:12] Speaker 11: They are always recreating history. This is why we see
[32:16] Speaker 11: how they are daily trying to take down exhibits at
[32:21] Speaker 11: museums because they don't want to have the real history,
[32:25] Speaker 11: much less deal with it, much less own it, much
[32:28] Speaker 11: less pay reparations. They have come up with their whole
[32:32] Speaker 11: fantasy like it's a movie, and they are living by that,
[32:36] Speaker 11: whereas Germany has taken a completely different approach.
[32:42] Speaker 10: Mostava, it's about hate, it's about evil, it's about power.
[32:48] Speaker 6: That's what this is all about.
[32:49] Speaker 10: You know, this current party has just anchored itself to hate,
[32:55] Speaker 10: and they expect hate to be a leverage point. They
[32:59] Speaker 10: expect hate to be an opportunity for them to rewrite
[33:03] Speaker 10: history and to do it in a way that glorifies
[33:07] Speaker 10: things that never happened and to whitewash other things.
[33:11] Speaker 6: So you know, that's the hate side of the equation
[33:13] Speaker 6: that's going on there.
[33:15] Speaker 10: The power side of the equation is they figure that
[33:17] Speaker 10: they now have a moment, so they are trying to
[33:20] Speaker 10: do everything that they've always wanted to do, whether right
[33:23] Speaker 10: or wrong. The evil aspect of it is is that
[33:26] Speaker 10: you often have people who say who say that they
[33:30] Speaker 10: you know, believe.
[33:32] Speaker 6: In God, they believe in you know, a higher power.
[33:35] Speaker 10: They know what the words were that were written down
[33:37] Speaker 10: in the respective books that are out there, but yet
[33:41] Speaker 10: they refuse to follow any of those tenets in a
[33:44] Speaker 10: way that is actually uplifting, in a way that is healing,
[33:47] Speaker 10: in a way that actually would help to bring this
[33:50] Speaker 10: country together because we so have so much work that
[33:52] Speaker 10: we still need to do. But that's not a part
[33:54] Speaker 10: of their agenda. You know, they're putting on the full
[33:57] Speaker 10: court press. They continue to throw these hail mary's and luckily,
[34:01] Speaker 10: in many instances, the courts continue to knock them down.
[34:05] Speaker 6: But that's not enough.
[34:06] Speaker 10: We have got to really open our minds. We have
[34:09] Speaker 10: got to make sure that we're understanding the game that
[34:11] Speaker 10: is being played out in front of us, and we
[34:14] Speaker 10: have to decide if we're just going to allow it
[34:16] Speaker 10: to happen or if we are going to utilize our
[34:19] Speaker 10: power to make things change, because we have a responsibility
[34:23] Speaker 10: to our children to actually make sure that they are
[34:26] Speaker 10: in a safer environment and an environment that is nurturing
[34:29] Speaker 10: and an environment that is telling the truth. And if
[34:32] Speaker 10: we don't, then it is our fault for the things
[34:35] Speaker 10: that we see will play out.
[34:39] Speaker 7: Well, I'm going to say this again for the thousandth
[34:42] Speaker 7: time Randing and for the people who are watching and listening,
[34:47] Speaker 7: elections has its consequences and so who you elect to
[34:51] Speaker 7: the school board determines actions taken by the school board.
[34:57] Speaker 11: Absolutely, it is you know, we don't think about We
[35:00] Speaker 11: always think about the presidential elections and we forget about
[35:04] Speaker 11: all the elections and how much they matter.
[35:06] Speaker 9: I was thinking about that when you look at the qualifications.
[35:10] Speaker 11: To be a coroner in Mississippi because of all the
[35:12] Speaker 11: tragedies been happy there, and that's an elected person and
[35:15] Speaker 11: they only have to have a high school diploma, so
[35:18] Speaker 11: right there, elections matter. We see what happens with our
[35:21] Speaker 11: schools and how they try to change policies that can
[35:25] Speaker 11: psychologically destroy a child because they don't think about our kids,
[35:30] Speaker 11: and they decide, oftentimes with the curriculum is going to be,
[35:34] Speaker 11: what books can and cannot be in the libraries and
[35:37] Speaker 11: the names of the school. So it is absolutely vital
[35:41] Speaker 11: that everyone decides to play a part and not just vote,
[35:46] Speaker 11: but also run.
[35:48] Speaker 9: You know, we really need to challenge white mediocrity.
[35:51] Speaker 11: They are very comfortable running for positions with no extra qualifications.
[35:56] Speaker 9: It's not as if they're in some way doing better
[35:59] Speaker 9: than we are. Are We just I don't think realize
[36:02] Speaker 9: about working the system.
[36:03] Speaker 11: They they take these positions because they absolutely work the system.
[36:07] Speaker 11: And so you know what I've been trying to tell
[36:09] Speaker 11: people is I know that we're very frustrated with the
[36:12] Speaker 11: system right now, but while we're trying to make changes
[36:16] Speaker 11: to the system, we also need to work within the
[36:19] Speaker 11: system to have as much power as we possibly can have.
[36:24] Speaker 9: And let me just get a shout out to the
[36:26] Speaker 9: people as well. Yeah, I was, I really appreciate the challenge.
[36:33] Speaker 3: You cannot.
[36:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's real simple.
[36:37] Speaker 7: You can't complain about a process and then check out
[36:39] Speaker 7: of a process.
[36:41] Speaker 2: No, I simply cannot happen. Uh, We're going to go
[36:44] Speaker 2: to a break.
[36:44] Speaker 7: We come back and to talk to a Florida State Representative,
[36:47] Speaker 7: Angie Nixon, who of course is running from the United
[36:49] Speaker 7: States Senate into that primary is coming up this month.
[36:53] Speaker 7: But before we go, folks, got this read for you.
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[39:20] Speaker 14: All right, folks, let me begin persha for a second.
[39:22] Speaker 7: My mom had questions about her Medicare, so she called
[39:25] Speaker 7: Chapter a Medicare advisory company, and she texts me right
[39:29] Speaker 7: after saying it's a great benefit. It was easy, a
[39:32] Speaker 7: real person who walked her through the whole thing. And
[39:34] Speaker 7: now she understands better what's going on, because also it's
[39:37] Speaker 7: not just her. Woman in Yonkers wrote in saying the
[39:40] Speaker 7: process was so simple, the enrollment was easy, and she
[39:43] Speaker 7: was so glad she called. Then there's Maryland, ninety years
[39:46] Speaker 7: old in Florida, living on Social Security. Her premium climbed
[39:50] Speaker 7: every single year north of four hundred dollars a month
[39:53] Speaker 7: for coverage she could barely afford any more.
[39:55] Speaker 2: So what does she do?
[39:56] Speaker 7: She called Chapter if they found her the same top
[39:59] Speaker 7: tier average for hundreds of dollars less ninety years old,
[40:04] Speaker 7: and finally, somebody in her corner. I hear stories like
[40:07] Speaker 7: that again and again from our community. The Medicare system
[40:10] Speaker 7: was not built to work for you. Too much fine print,
[40:13] Speaker 7: too many plans you had. Chapters advisors are independent and honest,
[40:16] Speaker 7: the only Medicare advisors that compare every plan nationwide.
[40:20] Speaker 14: They're focused on one thing, what actually works for you.
[40:24] Speaker 7: If you're already in the right plan, they'll tell you
[40:26] Speaker 7: no games, and people who switched to a Chapter saved
[40:30] Speaker 7: an average of eleven one hundred dollars a year all Texas.
[40:33] Speaker 7: Twenty minutes. You talk to a real person and it's
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[40:40] Speaker 7: two sixty four eight two eight one seven two four
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[40:45] Speaker 2: That's chapter.
[40:48] Speaker 14: Pay pretending to be Roling Martin. You ain't got to
[40:51] Speaker 14: work black and gold every damn place.
[40:53] Speaker 2: Okay, ooh, I'm going out for ya. All right, you're
[40:56] Speaker 2: fifty eight years old.
[40:57] Speaker 11: It's over when you are now watching Roland Martin on filtered, uncut, unplugged,
[41:02] Speaker 11: and undamned believable.
[41:11] Speaker 3: Fars.
[41:11] Speaker 7: One week from today, voters in Florida go to the
[41:15] Speaker 7: polls to vote in their respective Democratic and Republican primaries.
[41:19] Speaker 7: In the United States Senate primary, forest the representative Angie Nixon.
[41:24] Speaker 7: She wants to be the next the Democratic nominee for
[41:26] Speaker 7: the United States Senate. She is running against alex Vinman.
[41:30] Speaker 7: He has raised a ton of money and so she
[41:34] Speaker 7: is up aget an avalanche. Of course, they're running for
[41:36] Speaker 7: the seat currently held by Republican Ashley Moody, who was
[41:40] Speaker 7: appointed to that particular job.
[41:42] Speaker 2: Democratic Progress the Democratic.
[41:43] Speaker 7: Progressive caucuse of Florida's supporting Nixon over her opponent, high
[41:47] Speaker 7: profile retired Colonel alex Venman. Nixon, of course, has spent
[41:50] Speaker 7: six years in the state House opposing Verna Brown the
[41:53] Speaker 7: Santasus anti Black agenda. She also staged in May sit
[41:57] Speaker 7: in at the santass office protesting the GEOPS. These met
[42:00] Speaker 7: mid decade gere mandering process. As a result, she was
[42:04] Speaker 7: charged with two misdemeaners that she's fighting in court. However,
[42:07] Speaker 7: that has not stopped her nor those who believe in
[42:09] Speaker 7: her race. She joins us right now represented nix Thing,
[42:12] Speaker 7: glad to have you here first and foremost you heard me.
[42:16] Speaker 7: Just say, listen, you're being outraged by the end of
[42:19] Speaker 7: the day of the person with the most votes actually wins.
[42:23] Speaker 7: How are you countering the avalanche of money that is
[42:26] Speaker 7: going towards your opponent?
[42:28] Speaker 2: What are you doing? For sure?
[42:30] Speaker 4: So thank you for having me.
[42:33] Speaker 15: I am countering it by going out and knocking on doors,
[42:37] Speaker 15: having conversations and doing what I've always done. I am
[42:42] Speaker 15: a community organizer and I have built a large coalition
[42:48] Speaker 15: of folks all across the state of Florida, and we
[42:52] Speaker 15: know how to wind right and so we're talking about
[42:55] Speaker 15: the issues and we're meeting people where they are. Unfortunately,
[42:59] Speaker 15: my opponent is acting like a politician right now. I
[43:03] Speaker 15: don't consider myself a politician. I consider myself a community
[43:07] Speaker 15: servant and someone who just really cares about people.
[43:12] Speaker 4: He's not showing up at events, he's refusing to debate.
[43:16] Speaker 15: He is running away from questions literally on camera, and
[43:21] Speaker 15: that is showing up at the polls. A recent independent
[43:24] Speaker 15: poll came out and show that I have the strongest possibility.
[43:29] Speaker 15: I'm the strongest Democratic candidate that could take on Ashley
[43:33] Speaker 15: Moody this November.
[43:35] Speaker 4: And that's because I always show up, gotcha.
[43:41] Speaker 7: So what are the issues that you were highlighting? What
[43:45] Speaker 7: is getting your tension of Florida voters?
[43:47] Speaker 2: What are you focused on?
[43:49] Speaker 15: Yeah, so, as I travel all across the state of Florida,
[43:52] Speaker 15: I hear the same thing, right. It is people can
[43:56] Speaker 15: no longer afford to be alive. Right, folks are working
[44:00] Speaker 15: harder than ever with nothing to show for it. And
[44:04] Speaker 15: so one of the major issues though is medical debt
[44:08] Speaker 15: and people not being able to afford health care. You know,
[44:14] Speaker 15: we have the largest amount of folks who are on
[44:17] Speaker 15: the ACA roles here in the state of Florida. And
[44:19] Speaker 15: when unelected Ashley Moody decided to vote to end the
[44:24] Speaker 15: ACA subsidies, they knocked off about three hundred thousand people
[44:28] Speaker 15: off the ACA rolls, and it also jacked up healthcare
[44:32] Speaker 15: premium costs all across the country, and so folks are
[44:35] Speaker 15: really really hurting here in the state of Florida. And
[44:38] Speaker 15: it's very unfortunate because health care is a right, and
[44:41] Speaker 15: so that's one of the major issues. Also, this housing
[44:45] Speaker 15: crisis that we're currently living in.
[44:47] Speaker 4: Here in the state of Florida.
[44:48] Speaker 15: We are the least affordable place to live in in
[44:50] Speaker 15: the country right now, eighteen percent over the national average.
[44:53] Speaker 15: As it pertains to renters, we're over three hundred percent
[44:58] Speaker 15: as it pertains to property insurance.
[45:01] Speaker 4: And it's just so unaffordable.
[45:03] Speaker 15: And of course, you know, we have these working family
[45:06] Speaker 15: taxes on us that were put on us by Donald Trump, right,
[45:09] Speaker 15: who decided to put these tariffs on us and give
[45:13] Speaker 15: away these these tax breaks to the rich with his
[45:18] Speaker 15: big b at his big BS bill. I don't call
[45:21] Speaker 15: it beautiful as he isbs. And so it's really causing
[45:25] Speaker 15: people to struggle right now.
[45:30] Speaker 2: You mentioned affordability housing there.
[45:32] Speaker 7: I mean Ronda Santa's spit several years touting, oh, everybody's
[45:37] Speaker 7: moving to Florida. The facts show that in the case
[45:41] Speaker 7: they're leaving Florida because the costs are outrageous the housing,
[45:45] Speaker 7: but also when it comes to insurance.
[45:49] Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, they're definitely leaving because of insurance.
[45:52] Speaker 4: Right, I believe in a fully funded public option.
[45:55] Speaker 15: Why are we allowing these companies to give a lot
[46:00] Speaker 15: of money their profits to shareholders when they oftentimes deny
[46:05] Speaker 15: claims and they have been known to leave Florida after
[46:09] Speaker 15: major storms, and so we need to make sure that
[46:13] Speaker 15: we have a backstop with the federal government and.
[46:18] Speaker 4: Holding these insurance companies accountable.
[46:20] Speaker 15: Look, a lot of these issues are happening because people
[46:24] Speaker 15: like Ashley Moody.
[46:25] Speaker 4: The Donald Trumps of the world.
[46:27] Speaker 15: They're only beholding to their campaign donors, and that's what
[46:30] Speaker 15: the problem is. They continue to pass legislation to allow
[46:34] Speaker 15: them to get richer, and everyday people are just.
[46:38] Speaker 4: Continuing to struggle.
[46:39] Speaker 15: They're being exploited on the job because these companies don't
[46:43] Speaker 15: want to pay them living wages.
[46:45] Speaker 4: And I really want to work to put an end
[46:47] Speaker 4: to that.
[46:51] Speaker 2: Questions when the panel will stop of you first.
[46:55] Speaker 10: The representatives, good to see you. You had mentioned a
[46:58] Speaker 10: number of different things that folks in Florida are facing.
[47:01] Speaker 10: I've been blessed to be able to work in a
[47:03] Speaker 10: number of different locations, the climate crisis. You know, right
[47:06] Speaker 10: now we're in the middle of hurricane season. There are
[47:09] Speaker 10: a number of different things that are impact in Florida.
[47:12] Speaker 10: If you're elected, what will you do to help folks
[47:16] Speaker 10: to be better protected there in the state of Florida.
[47:20] Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. So we definitely won't be spending money.
[47:23] Speaker 15: I wan't allow them to spend money that is dedicated
[47:26] Speaker 15: to ensuring we have a quality infrastructure on expensive political
[47:32] Speaker 15: stunts like Alligator Alcatraz.
[47:34] Speaker 4: That's number one. They used a lot of.
[47:36] Speaker 15: Our money that was supposed to go towards building out
[47:39] Speaker 15: the infrastructure, providing resources for people in case of a
[47:43] Speaker 15: natural disaster.
[47:44] Speaker 4: They used it to pad the coffers.
[47:48] Speaker 15: Of their campaign downers with no big contracts. They literally
[47:52] Speaker 15: spent only over two hundred million dollars on porta potties, right,
[47:58] Speaker 15: that's a whole lot of you know, and it's so
[48:01] Speaker 15: very unfortunate, and so I want to make sure that
[48:05] Speaker 15: we are sending money back to Florida.
[48:07] Speaker 4: To make sure people have good infrastructure. There's a lot of.
[48:10] Speaker 15: Flooding that takes place here all across the state of Florida,
[48:14] Speaker 15: and we have people like Ryan DeSantis and these oftentimes
[48:18] Speaker 15: these Republican governors and things like that, they have not
[48:22] Speaker 15: done what they needed to ensure that Floridians have a
[48:25] Speaker 15: decent infrastructure and time of natural disaster, to make sure
[48:29] Speaker 15: that they are hardening the utility systems across the state
[48:34] Speaker 15: of Florida. And so those are some of the things
[48:36] Speaker 15: that I want to do, make sure we're drawing down
[48:38] Speaker 15: money to prepare people in times of natural disasters.
[48:45] Speaker 4: Randy, thanks so much for being here.
[48:48] Speaker 11: I know for someone to be motivated to do what
[48:51] Speaker 11: you're doing takes great sacrifice.
[48:53] Speaker 9: And I'd like to know what is your hope for Florida?
[48:55] Speaker 9: What is your vision?
[48:58] Speaker 4: Yeah, so my hope for Florida is the people.
[49:02] Speaker 15: Right, I believe that hard working, everyday people should get
[49:05] Speaker 15: to shape what our communities look like and what our
[49:08] Speaker 15: economies look like. Right now, the people that are shaping
[49:12] Speaker 15: what our economies and community look like are these corrupt
[49:16] Speaker 15: corporations and these huge, these really really big billionaires, right,
[49:22] Speaker 15: these greedy billionaires. It makes no sense to me that
[49:25] Speaker 15: we've produced the world's first trillionaire, and meanwhile, we have
[49:29] Speaker 15: veterans that are living on the streets. Meanwhile, we have
[49:33] Speaker 15: educators that are calling my office because they can't afford
[49:36] Speaker 15: to live in this state and they're living in their cars.
[49:40] Speaker 15: And so my vision for this next two hundred and
[49:42] Speaker 15: fifty years is actually to build a new vision right,
[49:46] Speaker 15: one where every family has stability, and one where every
[49:50] Speaker 15: worker has dignity, and one where every young person has
[49:54] Speaker 15: the opportunity to reach the true American dream. And what
[49:57] Speaker 15: that looks like is passing common Since legislation like Medicare
[50:01] Speaker 15: for all healthcare is a right, we should not be
[50:05] Speaker 15: allowing people to deny life saving medical procedures or medicine
[50:11] Speaker 15: because it's hurting someone's bottom line. Right, we need to
[50:15] Speaker 15: make sure that we're passing things like universal childcare so
[50:19] Speaker 15: that we can ensure that parents have the opportunity to
[50:23] Speaker 15: get to work and children have a strong foundation. And
[50:27] Speaker 15: also definitely ending for profit prisons. Why are we incentivizing
[50:32] Speaker 15: people to not actually educate our children the way that
[50:36] Speaker 15: they should be educated and ushering them into the school
[50:39] Speaker 15: to prison pipeline so that they can make more money
[50:41] Speaker 15: off of them when they are incarcerated.
[50:44] Speaker 4: And so I want to put the power back in
[50:47] Speaker 4: the hands of the people.
[50:49] Speaker 15: The people should be determining the direction of our country,
[50:53] Speaker 15: and not just a select few, I mean the majority
[50:56] Speaker 15: of people, hard working, everyday people. And I'm excited about
[51:02] Speaker 15: this people powered campaign. We have so many folks that
[51:06] Speaker 15: are out knocking on doors and making phone calls, and
[51:09] Speaker 15: we've done that with very little money. You know, it's
[51:12] Speaker 15: just shameful how much money it costs to run campaigns
[51:15] Speaker 15: right now. And it's shameful that the establishment is not
[51:19] Speaker 15: supporting a black woman who has put her body, in
[51:24] Speaker 15: her life on the line for you know, our democratic
[51:27] Speaker 15: principles which are to help benefit and improve the lives
[51:31] Speaker 15: of working families here in our state and in our country.
[51:36] Speaker 15: And I'm gonna keep pushing, right, I'm gonna fight for
[51:41] Speaker 15: my state. I love my state, and I'm critical of
[51:44] Speaker 15: my state and my country and even the party because
[51:47] Speaker 15: I love it and I want it to be better.
[51:49] Speaker 4: But we really need to get money.
[51:51] Speaker 15: Out of politics and actually allow you know, construction workers
[51:58] Speaker 15: and janitors to have the same amount of financial influence
[52:02] Speaker 15: that billionaires can have. And so those are a few
[52:04] Speaker 15: of the things that I'm supportive of. And also knowing
[52:07] Speaker 15: that nearly eight hundred thousand people black people lost their jobs, right,
[52:11] Speaker 15: and so we really need to have a black agenda,
[52:15] Speaker 15: one that actually helps benefit black people.
[52:18] Speaker 4: The fact that our.
[52:20] Speaker 15: Wage gaps are still so huge as it relates to
[52:24] Speaker 15: black folks and white folks in this country, knowing that
[52:29] Speaker 15: our net worths are not not as high as other
[52:35] Speaker 15: minority groups. And so those are some of the things
[52:38] Speaker 15: that I definitely want to address when I become the
[52:40] Speaker 15: next United States Center here here in the state of Florida.
[52:44] Speaker 7: All right, then, all right, Representative Mustapha, you have another question.
[52:53] Speaker 6: No, No, that was fantastic.
[52:57] Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate, y'all.
[52:58] Speaker 2: I would.
[53:01] Speaker 15: Yeah, I would love everyone to make sure they follow
[53:03] Speaker 15: me on social media. Angie for fl go to Angie
[53:07] Speaker 15: Nixon dot com. Join join our people Power campaign. Our
[53:10] Speaker 15: average campaign donation is under thirty dollars. Look, we have
[53:14] Speaker 15: what it takes to win. As I stated, the most
[53:17] Speaker 15: recent independent poll show that we're the strongest candidate to
[53:20] Speaker 15: be able to unsee Ashley Moody. We literally have Republicans
[53:24] Speaker 15: and NPAs that have changed their party affiliation to vote
[53:27] Speaker 15: for me in this primary. They're knocking on doors, they're
[53:30] Speaker 15: donating to our campaign. Let's change the trajectory of our country, y'all.
[53:35] Speaker 4: Let's do this. I'm super excited. One more week, Roland,
[53:38] Speaker 4: one more week.
[53:41] Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely Angre Dixon will surely appreciate it.
[53:44] Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Thank you.
[53:49] Speaker 2: All right, folks, gotta go to break.
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[54:42] Speaker 7: All right, folks, let megein persha for a second. My
[54:45] Speaker 7: mom had questions about her Medicare. So she called Chapter,
[54:48] Speaker 7: a Medicare advisory company, and she texts me right after
[54:51] Speaker 7: saying it's a great benefit. It was easy, a real
[54:54] Speaker 7: person to walk her through the whole thing. And now
[54:56] Speaker 7: she understands better what's going on because also it's not
[54:59] Speaker 7: just her. Woman in Yonkers wrote in saying the process
[55:03] Speaker 7: was so simple, the enrollment was easy, and she was
[55:05] Speaker 7: so glad she called. And there's Maryland, ninety years old
[55:08] Speaker 7: in Florida, living on Social Security. Her premium climbed every
[55:12] Speaker 7: single year north of four hundred dollars a month for
[55:15] Speaker 7: coverage she could barely afford anymore.
[55:17] Speaker 2: So what does she do?
[55:18] Speaker 7: She called Chapter if they found her the same top
[55:21] Speaker 7: toier coverage for hundreds of dollars less ninety years old,
[55:25] Speaker 7: and finally somebody in her corner. I hear stories like
[55:29] Speaker 7: that again and again from our community. The Medicare system
[55:32] Speaker 7: was not built to work for you. Too much fine print,
[55:35] Speaker 7: too many plans you had. Chapters advisors are independent and honest.
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[56:07] Speaker 2: That's chapter.
[56:09] Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. Why do so many
[56:11] Speaker 3: people seem to let me ask you a question? Why
[56:14] Speaker 3: do so many people.
[56:15] Speaker 12: Seem to think they know black men so well but
[56:17] Speaker 12: they think we want what they think we need. Hell,
[56:19] Speaker 12: they even tried to tell us why and how we
[56:21] Speaker 12: both help. They've never had a conversation with us, never
[56:24] Speaker 12: asked us how we felt.
[56:25] Speaker 3: Brings us joy, what makes us angry? What makes us scared?
[56:29] Speaker 3: How do we live? That's what this show is about.
[56:32] Speaker 3: No translation, because we don't need anybody speaking for us.
[56:35] Speaker 3: We can speak for ourselves. This will be a show
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[56:38] Speaker 3: every other talk show. Nope, brothers that.
[56:40] Speaker 12: Are doing work in local communities with black men, for
[56:44] Speaker 12: black communities. We're going to hear each other and try
[56:47] Speaker 12: to understand, so perhaps we can move forward together.
[56:50] Speaker 3: No translation, because we don't need anybody speaking for us.
[56:53] Speaker 3: What we need as each other. No translation. Right here
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[57:02] Speaker 11: Day.
[57:02] Speaker 9: I'm Tasha Cobbs and U are watch Roland Martin unfiltered.
[57:06] Speaker 6: So you need a love filter. I need something blow
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[57:16] Speaker 2: Got it follows.
[57:24] Speaker 7: The federal jo on Tuesday blocked the US Postal Service
[57:27] Speaker 7: from implementing part of Donald Trump's executive order or aim
[57:30] Speaker 7: at tightening rules for melon voting ahead of the November
[57:34] Speaker 7: midterm elections.
[57:35] Speaker 2: Of course, that's going to determine who controls Congress.
[57:37] Speaker 7: US District Judge in Dearrah Tawanny and Boston expanded on
[57:42] Speaker 7: an earlier order she issued in June that prevented the
[57:44] Speaker 7: Trump administration from implementing the policy in twenty three mostly
[57:48] Speaker 7: Democratic led states. The judge's latest ruling blocks the Postal
[57:52] Speaker 7: Service from carrying out Trump's directives anywhere in the country,
[57:56] Speaker 7: and June Tailwana's really only blocked USPS from implementing the
[58:00] Speaker 7: policy in those twenty three states. Several voting rights groups
[58:03] Speaker 7: had urged the judge to go further, asking her to
[58:06] Speaker 7: prevent the Postal Service from implementing the policy nationwide. On
[58:09] Speaker 7: the Trump's orders of the USPS will be required to
[58:12] Speaker 7: compile lists of those of voters from states and deliver
[58:16] Speaker 7: absentee ballots only to people on those lists. The order
[58:20] Speaker 7: also calls for states to provide voter lists and adopt
[58:23] Speaker 7: new ballot for spouting procedures before the Postal Service would
[58:27] Speaker 7: make deliveries. Now already, Donald Trump, he's going to cheat
[58:31] Speaker 7: as much.
[58:31] Speaker 2: As he can. He's going to the election.
[58:34] Speaker 7: Here he is a fall interview where he literally talks
[58:37] Speaker 7: about enacting emergency procedures ahead of the election.
[58:46] Speaker 16: Thank you, so let me put an idea in your head, okay,
[58:50] Speaker 16: because it's so hard to get the Senate to do
[58:52] Speaker 16: anything now they're on recess. They don't get anything done
[58:56] Speaker 16: if they never get to Save America Act done. The
[59:00] Speaker 16: right to declare a national security emergency for elections, and
[59:05] Speaker 16: the Supreme Court ruled in nineteen eighty three under Reagan
[59:09] Speaker 16: that I n S. Versus Shata that if you declare
[59:12] Speaker 16: a national security emergency as the president of the United States,
[59:15] Speaker 16: they can't challenge it. It can only be overturned by
[59:19] Speaker 16: a two thirds vote of both houses of Congress. So
[59:22] Speaker 16: if you do this in the next month, we will
[59:25] Speaker 16: get photo ID proof of citizenship and a limit to
[59:30] Speaker 16: mail in ballots. And all right, we'll leave it at that.
[59:36] Speaker 16: So let me let me finish with a couple.
[59:41] Speaker 2: These people are in the same mustafa.
[59:46] Speaker 10: There's they're dastardly. Let me say it that way. I
[59:51] Speaker 10: think that's a better way of describing what's going on.
[59:55] Speaker 10: Because they have an agenda, they have a plan, and
[59:59] Speaker 10: they're going to continue to to try and implement it.
[1:00:01] Speaker 10: They try and go around the courts. At first, they
[1:00:03] Speaker 10: thought they would be able to manipulate the courts because
[1:00:05] Speaker 10: they had a number of folks that they got.
[1:00:07] Speaker 6: Into key positions, and that didn't work.
[1:00:10] Speaker 10: Then they try to utilize executive orders to be able
[1:00:13] Speaker 10: to once again go around common sense sets of actions
[1:00:18] Speaker 10: and to move forward with their agenda, and that really
[1:00:21] Speaker 10: hasn't also worked at the level that they thought it would,
[1:00:24] Speaker 10: although there have been some instances when they've been able
[1:00:28] Speaker 10: to do some very destructive things through executive orders. And
[1:00:32] Speaker 10: so now you know, they're looking for another set of
[1:00:36] Speaker 10: opportunities to be able to move forward with real voter
[1:00:39] Speaker 10: suppression or expanded voter suppression, stripping away people's abilities to
[1:00:45] Speaker 10: be able to fully participate in the civic process. So
[1:00:49] Speaker 10: that's why I say, you know, these are well thought out,
[1:00:53] Speaker 10: diabolical sets of actions. But I don't think that it's
[1:00:57] Speaker 10: coming from a place of not having them knowledge and
[1:01:00] Speaker 10: information of what you're doing. I think they've just chosen
[1:01:04] Speaker 10: to be able to do whatever they think they want
[1:01:07] Speaker 10: to do. Well, I think what they fail to forget
[1:01:10] Speaker 10: is that, you know, people are watching them, and there
[1:01:14] Speaker 10: are going to be repercussions for many of these actions
[1:01:17] Speaker 10: that they've done. So yes, on the federal level, a
[1:01:20] Speaker 10: president is protected, but there can be state charges that
[1:01:24] Speaker 10: are brought forward if folks decide to do that. So
[1:01:26] Speaker 10: I would be very careful with, you know, some of
[1:01:30] Speaker 10: the steps that they're taking, and some of the folks
[1:01:32] Speaker 10: who work for him that are willing to go out
[1:01:34] Speaker 10: on a line. So yeah, he can pardon you on
[1:01:36] Speaker 10: federal charges, but he cannot stop state charges, Randy.
[1:01:43] Speaker 9: And they're not even trying to hide it.
[1:01:45] Speaker 11: I mean, they just admitted their plan right there on
[1:01:48] Speaker 11: national TV, where it's been pretty obvious what they're trying
[1:01:51] Speaker 11: to do.
[1:01:51] Speaker 9: They do want to declare a national state emergency.
[1:01:54] Speaker 11: They do want to make it where an election of
[1:01:57] Speaker 11: free and fair election cannot happen. They do want to
[1:02:00] Speaker 11: ensure that this leader, I want to call it, that
[1:02:05] Speaker 11: is in office for another four years. I mean, I
[1:02:08] Speaker 11: don't think that they're even trying to be shy about it,
[1:02:11] Speaker 11: and they're just being bold about it. We can only
[1:02:15] Speaker 11: hope that fewer and fewer people follow him blindly, because
[1:02:21] Speaker 11: I think people are kind of getting, hopefully getting.
[1:02:24] Speaker 9: Somewhat sick of him. But they don't even try to
[1:02:26] Speaker 9: hide their cheating anymore.
[1:02:27] Speaker 11: I mean, they're just the level of audacity continues to
[1:02:31] Speaker 11: shock me, although I should not shock me anymore of
[1:02:34] Speaker 11: what he's doing.
[1:02:35] Speaker 9: But they want to do everything they can.
[1:02:37] Speaker 11: With the mail in voting, friends, they're hitting us at
[1:02:39] Speaker 11: all sides to ensure that this man gets in again,
[1:02:42] Speaker 11: I believe.
[1:02:44] Speaker 9: So with the mail in voting, they know how.
[1:02:45] Speaker 11: Many people are absolutely dependent on mail in voting and
[1:02:50] Speaker 11: what that would do. And it's striking to me how
[1:02:52] Speaker 11: he tries to say that he's so pro military it
[1:02:55] Speaker 11: would definitely affect their ability to vote. Of course, people
[1:02:59] Speaker 11: who are disabled, vets people with disabilities help people are
[1:03:02] Speaker 11: elderly people who work off ours.
[1:03:04] Speaker 9: But that's what he wants.
[1:03:05] Speaker 11: He wants to disfry franchise as many of us as
[1:03:08] Speaker 11: he possibly can so he can win, and that is
[1:03:11] Speaker 11: the only way that he could win.
[1:03:16] Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, folks, let's go to Iowa.
[1:03:19] Speaker 7: The American Civil Liberties Union have released a thirty seven
[1:03:22] Speaker 7: page report titled Rethinking School Safety in Iowa The Harms
[1:03:27] Speaker 7: of School Resource Officers. The report arguments at school resource
[1:03:31] Speaker 7: officers do not make school savory, but instead disproportionately harm
[1:03:34] Speaker 7: black students and students with disabilities by funneling them into
[1:03:38] Speaker 7: the justice system for minor behavioral issues. Let's talk about
[1:03:43] Speaker 7: this right now with the Veronica Filers. She's the director
[1:03:47] Speaker 7: of communications for the ACOU in Iowa. Ver Uncle had
[1:03:50] Speaker 7: to have you here, and so looking at this report,
[1:03:53] Speaker 7: how bad is it?
[1:03:55] Speaker 17: Well, it's bad. We had found that black We basically
[1:04:01] Speaker 17: did a lot of open records requests to schools in
[1:04:04] Speaker 17: Iowa that had school resource officers. We looked at federal
[1:04:07] Speaker 17: data from the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights,
[1:04:12] Speaker 17: and we also looked at a host of studies about
[1:04:16] Speaker 17: school discipline and racial disparities in schools. So this was
[1:04:20] Speaker 17: a year long project and very thoroughly researched, and we
[1:04:25] Speaker 17: found numbers that basically reflect some other very disturbing national trends.
[1:04:31] Speaker 17: Black students in Iowa were arrested at three point seven
[1:04:34] Speaker 17: times nearly four times the rate of other students, even
[1:04:39] Speaker 17: though studies that we cite show that they do not
[1:04:41] Speaker 17: misbehave at a higher rate than other students. And then,
[1:04:44] Speaker 17: of course you also mentioned students with disabilities. They were
[1:04:47] Speaker 17: either referred or arrested at two point three times the rate.
[1:04:53] Speaker 4: Of students without disabilities.
[1:04:55] Speaker 17: And so this is obviously disturbing because students are supposed
[1:04:58] Speaker 17: to get equal treatment and RULs and these numbers suggest
[1:05:01] Speaker 17: that they are not.
[1:05:08] Speaker 2: This report was done at the behast of whom.
[1:05:13] Speaker 17: Us there have been. The ACLU has long been concerned
[1:05:18] Speaker 17: about the rule of school resource officers, and the national
[1:05:22] Speaker 17: offices and different state offices have done their own data
[1:05:26] Speaker 17: collection and analysis and advocacy, and we decided that it
[1:05:31] Speaker 17: was time for us to look at the situation in Iowa.
[1:05:34] Speaker 17: You know, in Iowa we only have four percent of
[1:05:36] Speaker 17: the population that's black, and so these numbers are especially
[1:05:40] Speaker 17: concerning because it suggests that black kids are in some
[1:05:47] Speaker 17: ways being targeted or not treated equally, and that's not
[1:05:51] Speaker 17: really the goal of anyone.
[1:05:56] Speaker 2: Questions for the panel. Rand to you first, thank you
[1:05:59] Speaker 2: for this.
[1:06:00] Speaker 9: Work that you're doing.
[1:06:01] Speaker 11: I recognize how valuable it is, and I'm just going
[1:06:03] Speaker 11: to be honest about my frustration.
[1:06:05] Speaker 4: My first job out.
[1:06:06] Speaker 11: Of graduate school was at a high school English teacher
[1:06:09] Speaker 11: and these, I mean, study after study has been conducted
[1:06:15] Speaker 11: coming up with the same information right in Iowa, but
[1:06:19] Speaker 11: it's all across the country, and we've known this. What
[1:06:22] Speaker 11: is it going to take for the change to actually happen?
[1:06:26] Speaker 11: It seems like the information, yes, that's great, nice, but.
[1:06:29] Speaker 9: Then we still have the resource officers. The resource officers are.
[1:06:33] Speaker 11: More in schools where you know children black children are
[1:06:38] Speaker 11: you know we are. Our kids have always been disciplined more,
[1:06:41] Speaker 11: starting in kindergarten, and every study has always shown that
[1:06:47] Speaker 11: the minute that a child touches has any interaction with
[1:06:50] Speaker 11: the justice system. It's almost like a self fulfilling prophecy, right,
[1:06:55] Speaker 11: and so, but nothing is ever done, it's ever done.
[1:06:57] Speaker 9: So what are the plans? Are there any plans to
[1:06:59] Speaker 9: actually do something with this information?
[1:07:02] Speaker 17: Mm hmmm, Well, I mean I absolutely agree, and I
[1:07:05] Speaker 17: wish I could say a study like this is going
[1:07:08] Speaker 17: to change everybody's minds and we are going to get
[1:07:10] Speaker 17: overnight action, and that's not the case. But what I
[1:07:13] Speaker 17: do think happens is the more studies that come out
[1:07:16] Speaker 17: like this, the more it's demonstrated, the more schools are
[1:07:20] Speaker 17: likely to listen and take action. You know, we've had
[1:07:23] Speaker 17: a couple encouraging situations. Right after George Floyd des Moines,
[1:07:28] Speaker 17: which is the largest school district by far in the state,
[1:07:31] Speaker 17: reconsidered its SRO program and got rid of SROs. That's
[1:07:35] Speaker 17: a hopeful sign. Also in Ames, Iowa, where that's the
[1:07:40] Speaker 17: home of Iowa State University, they also decided to look
[1:07:45] Speaker 17: at the stats, and in fact, one of the school
[1:07:47] Speaker 17: board members was a sociology professor who had done work
[1:07:50] Speaker 17: on racial disparities, and she sat down and really looked
[1:07:53] Speaker 17: at the numbers, and as she said that, the tears
[1:07:55] Speaker 17: started coming down her face because she could see how
[1:07:58] Speaker 17: clear the inequity were. And she was a leading force
[1:08:02] Speaker 17: in leading the school board to get rid of their
[1:08:05] Speaker 17: SORO programs. So we are hopeful that there will be
[1:08:09] Speaker 17: other districts that will take action. But it sometimes people
[1:08:14] Speaker 17: have certain preconceived notions about SROs. They have the reasons
[1:08:18] Speaker 17: that they might like soros.
[1:08:19] Speaker 4: They often say, oh, our soro is wonderful.
[1:08:23] Speaker 17: URSRO would never ever treat students differently based on their
[1:08:27] Speaker 17: color or their ability level. But that is a statistical
[1:08:30] Speaker 17: sampling of one.
[1:08:32] Speaker 4: Sometimes it takes hard numbers like this.
[1:08:34] Speaker 17: And we also listed district by district what the racial
[1:08:39] Speaker 17: disparities were, and some districts fared less well than others,
[1:08:43] Speaker 17: in fact, strikingly Waterloo, Iowa, which is the home of
[1:08:47] Speaker 17: Nicole Hannah Jones, who of course led the Amazing sixteen
[1:08:51] Speaker 17: nineteen project.
[1:08:53] Speaker 4: And her school.
[1:08:56] Speaker 17: Of the schools that turned in data, because some didn't
[1:08:59] Speaker 17: even really turn into liable data to the federal government,
[1:09:01] Speaker 17: which is a problem in of itself, but Waterloo, Iowa,
[1:09:05] Speaker 17: their student population is twenty seven percent, and yet black
[1:09:10] Speaker 17: students accounted for forty three percent of the arrests. And
[1:09:16] Speaker 17: it's just so disheartening because you know, if you've listened
[1:09:19] Speaker 17: to that amazing or read that amazing series, things aren't
[1:09:25] Speaker 17: changing the way we would like right.
[1:09:28] Speaker 7: Well, of course not, which is why we do what
[1:09:31] Speaker 7: we do here, because this is what happens when the
[1:09:36] Speaker 7: folks don't want to do the right thing, so appreciate it.
[1:09:40] Speaker 7: Thank you so very much for joining us, and keep
[1:09:43] Speaker 7: the fight.
[1:09:45] Speaker 4: Thank you.
[1:09:48] Speaker 2: All right then, all right, y'all.
[1:09:50] Speaker 7: You know what, I really try my best not to
[1:09:54] Speaker 7: not to show you just the stupid ass and I
[1:09:57] Speaker 7: stus of Donald Trump. But when I listen, but when
[1:10:03] Speaker 7: I listen to this nutcase, and when I think.
[1:10:10] Speaker 2: About how these right wing.
[1:10:14] Speaker 7: Trolls responded when Hillary Clinton said deplorables, and then when
[1:10:19] Speaker 7: Joe Biden called them.
[1:10:21] Speaker 2: Whatever helly called them, they just lost their mind. They
[1:10:23] Speaker 2: just lost their damn mind. Y'all, listen to this.
[1:10:29] Speaker 7: Pathetic individual as he talks about Somali immigrants.
[1:10:39] Speaker 13: As these are people that have been not successful. They
[1:10:43] Speaker 13: are people that have been in many cases failures. They
[1:10:46] Speaker 13: come from other failed countries and they come here and
[1:10:48] Speaker 13: they tell us how to run our country. They come from.
[1:10:53] Speaker 6: Places like I won't mention.
[1:10:54] Speaker 13: Because I don't want to get myself into a controversy,
[1:10:57] Speaker 13: but they come from countries that are great. It come
[1:11:01] Speaker 13: from let's say, as an example, Somalia. They come in
[1:11:05] Speaker 13: and then they tell us how our constitution, how our
[1:11:08] Speaker 13: declaration of independence, how it works. It doesn't work that way,
[1:11:13] Speaker 13: and they're not smart, they have no aptitude, they have
[1:11:19] Speaker 13: nothing going and they're telling us how to run our country.
[1:11:22] Speaker 13: And I just don't think it's going to happen.
[1:11:24] Speaker 6: I think that they start off Now, I may.
[1:11:26] Speaker 2: Be wrong, says a dumb ass Randy who can't even.
[1:11:33] Speaker 9: Read is that he's ever been to.
[1:11:40] Speaker 11: I mean, just to hear that jackass speak it burns
[1:11:44] Speaker 11: me up every time. And then I don't know if
[1:11:46] Speaker 11: people are picking up what he's trying.
[1:11:48] Speaker 9: To put down.
[1:11:49] Speaker 11: But to say that an entire group of people don't
[1:11:52] Speaker 11: have aptitude and are intelligence is eugenics.
[1:11:56] Speaker 9: I mean, it's eugenics.
[1:11:57] Speaker 11: It is the foundation of white supremacist bullshit. It is
[1:12:03] Speaker 11: the I'm sorry, I'm usually that I'm so fired up.
[1:12:07] Speaker 11: But to say an entire group of people it's not intelligent. Now,
[1:12:12] Speaker 11: who could come out of their mouth and say that,
[1:12:13] Speaker 11: and to think that as the leader of this country
[1:12:15] Speaker 11: and think that.
[1:12:16] Speaker 9: It's okay, this man, I mean, we are looking at to.
[1:12:21] Speaker 11: Me that the times of Germany and how people could
[1:12:24] Speaker 11: support that is even disgusting.
[1:12:27] Speaker 9: Now more I'm such I'm disgusted by the people who.
[1:12:30] Speaker 11: Follow this man because and the fact that he's so
[1:12:33] Speaker 11: unintelligent that he could barely put together a sentence. And
[1:12:37] Speaker 11: this is the reason why his followers like him, because
[1:12:40] Speaker 11: he doesn't speak past a third grade level, so they
[1:12:42] Speaker 11: can understand what he says.
[1:12:48] Speaker 7: Pure on adult racism mustapha he is, That's who he is.
[1:12:56] Speaker 7: How he feels about African nations, It's clear, and that
[1:13:00] Speaker 7: that's all this is.
[1:13:00] Speaker 2: This man is an absolute racist, a bigot, but.
[1:13:06] Speaker 10: He knows it selves right, so he knows that there's
[1:13:09] Speaker 10: a base that feed off of that. America unfortunately, has
[1:13:14] Speaker 10: always wanted to look at others and we all understand
[1:13:18] Speaker 10: the other ism as less than so he understands how
[1:13:22] Speaker 10: to play to an audience. But let's let's let's break
[1:13:24] Speaker 10: it down. So he said that these were uneducated people.
[1:13:27] Speaker 10: I've spent time in numerous countries across Africa. In Somalia,
[1:13:32] Speaker 10: people speak multiple languages. How many languages does Donald Trump speak?
[1:13:37] Speaker 10: And he doesn't even speak his own things.
[1:13:41] Speaker 11: Right?
[1:13:42] Speaker 2: Very well? Better he better could speak English and he
[1:13:45] Speaker 2: speaks stupid.
[1:13:47] Speaker 10: Right, So you know, so one for some aliens, uh
[1:13:51] Speaker 10: at zero for Donald Trump when.
[1:13:54] Speaker 6: We talk about Africa.
[1:13:56] Speaker 10: Everybody who watches this show understands the extraction that has
[1:13:59] Speaker 10: taken place multiple countries there. You can look at their
[1:14:02] Speaker 10: fishing industry where people crossover borders and illegally take I
[1:14:07] Speaker 10: think they've lost over three hundred million dollars a year
[1:14:10] Speaker 10: in illegal fishing.
[1:14:11] Speaker 6: That's going on.
[1:14:13] Speaker 10: And you can go down the list if you look
[1:14:15] Speaker 10: at their forest and how they have also been plundered.
[1:14:20] Speaker 10: It's one thing after another, but they never bring that
[1:14:23] Speaker 10: into the conversation. When we talk about the infrastructure that's
[1:14:27] Speaker 10: in a country, the lack of economic stability that may exist,
[1:14:31] Speaker 10: they don't talk about the destabilization that not only our
[1:14:35] Speaker 10: country but other countries have played a role in. So
[1:14:38] Speaker 10: he really has no truth to stand on. But truth
[1:14:41] Speaker 10: is not something that he cares about. And when immigrants
[1:14:45] Speaker 10: come to this country, we know they work extremely hard
[1:14:47] Speaker 10: because they know that they have to. But that doesn't
[1:14:51] Speaker 10: matter to him because he wants to paint them as
[1:14:53] Speaker 10: less than. But there's no one who comes to this
[1:14:55] Speaker 10: country from Africa, or no one who is indigenous of
[1:14:58] Speaker 10: Black Americans who are indigenous to this country who have
[1:15:02] Speaker 10: not superseded all of the hurdles that have been put
[1:15:05] Speaker 10: in front of them. He's never had one. He was
[1:15:08] Speaker 10: born with a silver spoon. His father was a racist.
[1:15:11] Speaker 10: He's bringing forward racist ideals and he's trying to contribute
[1:15:15] Speaker 10: completely destabilize America because he knows that the twenty first
[1:15:18] Speaker 10: century is a browning of America and he fears that.
[1:15:23] Speaker 10: But we'll continue to move on and to those brothers
[1:15:26] Speaker 10: and sisters from Somalia, continue to do what you do.
[1:15:32] Speaker 2: Well.
[1:15:32] Speaker 7: He also is a moral degenerate. I mean, you know,
[1:15:35] Speaker 7: you're pathetic individual. When Hunter Biden talks about how his
[1:15:39] Speaker 7: dad's prostate cancer is spreading and this food, Trump makes
[1:15:44] Speaker 7: fun of that, he is a vile, despicable human being.
[1:15:47] Speaker 7: All Right, y'all got to go to break we come back.
[1:15:53] Speaker 7: I'm really trying hard not to label this generation of
[1:16:00] Speaker 7: students completely soft, but I saw this story that to me,
[1:16:08] Speaker 7: I think it's dumb and stupid when it comes to
[1:16:12] Speaker 7: colleges and grades. I will explain when we come back.
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[1:18:15] Speaker 18: This week on the other side of change in black life,
[1:18:18] Speaker 18: black death, and a country that was never built for us.
[1:18:21] Speaker 11: As we are talking about eighteen year old Nolan Wells,
[1:18:24] Speaker 11: his family searched for answers, and the way that our
[1:18:27] Speaker 11: own trauma is showing up in how we are reacting
[1:18:30] Speaker 11: to the need.
[1:18:31] Speaker 7: Where was Nolan in the ninety minutes between when you're
[1:18:33] Speaker 7: claiming you.
[1:18:34] Speaker 9: Last saw him and when you actually left the island?
[1:18:36] Speaker 2: Because ninety minutes is a lot of time.
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[1:19:42] Speaker 7: So I saw this story in the New York Times
[1:19:46] Speaker 7: and I, okay, let me just reach all the headline.
[1:19:54] Speaker 7: To improve student mental health, University of Michigan in eases grading.
[1:20:02] Speaker 7: The university will make first semester grades pass or fail
[1:20:07] Speaker 7: to encourage students to try different classes and lessen fears
[1:20:12] Speaker 7: of what a low grade could mean. It says the
[1:20:16] Speaker 7: University of Michigan replace traditional letter grades for some first
[1:20:19] Speaker 7: semester freshmen with a pass fail style grade to more gently.
[1:20:24] Speaker 2: Ease new students into academic life.
[1:20:27] Speaker 7: The plan will go into effect in the fall of
[1:20:29] Speaker 7: twenty twenty seven at the university's College of Literature, Science
[1:20:33] Speaker 7: and the Arts. Is intended to relieve pressure on freshmen,
[1:20:38] Speaker 7: help them start strong, encurbe the mental health crisis unfolding
[1:20:43] Speaker 7: among college age individuals.
[1:20:46] Speaker 2: The university said in a state Okay, I am I
[1:21:04] Speaker 2: am very cognizant.
[1:21:10] Speaker 7: Of the issue of mental health. I understand pressures the
[1:21:19] Speaker 7: students face and high school and college to get.
[1:21:24] Speaker 2: Top grades, but how weak of a country can we
[1:21:35] Speaker 2: be when we choose to aid.
[1:21:44] Speaker 7: Weak minded individuals. This sort of rings This sounds like
[1:21:52] Speaker 7: participation trophy stuff for me. See, I think what you're
[1:21:59] Speaker 7: dealing with it is you've got.
[1:22:03] Speaker 2: These students.
[1:22:07] Speaker 7: Who come from high school and a lot of them
[1:22:10] Speaker 7: actually think they're smart.
[1:22:12] Speaker 2: Then they get to college and they realize they're so smart.
[1:22:18] Speaker 2: And the problem I really have with this Ustafa.
[1:22:24] Speaker 7: Is because for somebody who hires people, I will be honest.
[1:22:34] Speaker 7: I see soft college graduates. I see people who have
[1:22:39] Speaker 7: not been challenged. I see people who have not been pressured.
[1:22:44] Speaker 7: I see people who have not had to go through
[1:22:54] Speaker 7: hell to get to achieve their dreams.
[1:23:00] Speaker 14: For the universe is.
[1:23:01] Speaker 2: Say, oh, it's so fragile. It's so fragile, so we
[1:23:08] Speaker 2: understand it's rough. So we're not going to No, you're
[1:23:14] Speaker 2: either past or field. It's not going to be an A.
[1:23:16] Speaker 2: It's not going to be a B. She's not gonna
[1:23:18] Speaker 2: be a C. It's not going to be a d's
[1:23:20] Speaker 2: not going to be an LF. You passor field. I'm sorry,
[1:23:23] Speaker 2: this is stupid.
[1:23:27] Speaker 14: This is just dumb to me.
[1:23:29] Speaker 7: Why do we sit here and play this soft game, Mustafa,
[1:23:36] Speaker 7: it's called earning it?
[1:23:40] Speaker 10: Well, you do have to earn it. I mean all
[1:23:41] Speaker 10: of us came up that way, you know. But it's
[1:23:45] Speaker 10: a new day, right, So I think we have to
[1:23:47] Speaker 10: ask the questions. One, are we making our students? Are
[1:23:51] Speaker 10: we helping our students to be competitive with the rest
[1:23:53] Speaker 10: of the world, because now jobs, you know, you got
[1:23:57] Speaker 10: lots of different folks who competing for the same jobs
[1:24:01] Speaker 10: that are out there. The second question I would have
[1:24:03] Speaker 10: to ask and helping to prepare our students is we
[1:24:07] Speaker 10: have an emerging, developing twenty first century economy, and are
[1:24:11] Speaker 10: we helping them to be in a position to be
[1:24:14] Speaker 10: able to actually not just participate, but to compete also
[1:24:18] Speaker 10: in what this new economy is actually going to ask
[1:24:21] Speaker 10: of folks. The third thing is is that you know,
[1:24:24] Speaker 10: for some folks, you know, my parents and others, you know,
[1:24:28] Speaker 10: trying to be able to go to school, to be
[1:24:30] Speaker 10: able to go to college, there are a whole lot
[1:24:32] Speaker 10: of things that you had to be able to navigate.
[1:24:34] Speaker 10: Not only did you have to be prepared academically, but
[1:24:37] Speaker 10: you also had to deal with all of the you know,
[1:24:40] Speaker 10: bigotry and racism that was also a part of that.
[1:24:43] Speaker 10: And even though some of that still exist in a
[1:24:46] Speaker 10: smaller way, it's nothing that others had to go through.
[1:24:50] Speaker 10: Nor do you know, whether it's my parents, my grandparents,
[1:24:54] Speaker 10: or all of our parents, they probably never would want
[1:24:57] Speaker 10: students of color to have to go through some of
[1:24:59] Speaker 10: the things that they went through.
[1:25:00] Speaker 6: The other thing that I'll say, Roland, is.
[1:25:02] Speaker 3: That this is not new.
[1:25:03] Speaker 10: Oh if you look at a couple of the Ivy
[1:25:06] Speaker 10: League schools, some of them, that's the way their grading
[1:25:09] Speaker 10: system works as well. So I think, you know, we
[1:25:12] Speaker 10: just got to, you know, ask the question, is it
[1:25:15] Speaker 10: really helping students to be prepared for the things that
[1:25:17] Speaker 10: they're going to face, the sets of opportunities that are
[1:25:20] Speaker 10: in front of them, and then you know, people start
[1:25:23] Speaker 10: to make some decisions. Some of those online schools that
[1:25:25] Speaker 10: are really big now they follow very similar model also.
[1:25:29] Speaker 10: So that's why I bring into our conversation that we're
[1:25:31] Speaker 10: dealing with a whole new set of educational sets of requirements.
[1:25:39] Speaker 7: Randy, let me be clear, I was not a great
[1:25:43] Speaker 7: classroom student college.
[1:25:45] Speaker 2: You know why.
[1:25:47] Speaker 7: Because I knew it was bs follow me what I'm saying.
[1:25:52] Speaker 7: I knew at the age of fourteen I was going
[1:25:54] Speaker 7: to be a dronist, and I knew.
[1:25:57] Speaker 2: What it required to be a dronist.
[1:26:00] Speaker 7: And so the work that I put in outside of
[1:26:04] Speaker 7: the classroom is why I was able to excel so
[1:26:08] Speaker 7: quickly in my first three years in the business. I
[1:26:12] Speaker 7: in essence created my own curriculum outside of the classroom. Okay,
[1:26:18] Speaker 7: And I remember, I remember having a conversation with It
[1:26:21] Speaker 7: was an English lit professor and man, it was a
[1:26:26] Speaker 7: Tuesday Thursday class. It was like eight fifteen to nine thirty,
[1:26:30] Speaker 7: and I was always late. So I remember one day Randy,
[1:26:35] Speaker 7: he gave us our test back and he.
[1:26:37] Speaker 2: Said, mister Martin, I want to see you of the class.
[1:26:40] Speaker 2: And said okay.
[1:26:42] Speaker 7: So he proceeds to sit here and tell me you
[1:26:45] Speaker 7: come to my class late. You didn't do well the test,
[1:26:51] Speaker 7: you didn't do well assignments. When he got done, Randy,
[1:26:56] Speaker 7: I said, hey, bro, I'm gonna be straight up on
[1:27:00] Speaker 7: I don't give a damn about this class.
[1:27:04] Speaker 2: And he was he was like, excuse me, I said,
[1:27:09] Speaker 2: I don't.
[1:27:10] Speaker 7: Give a damn about this class. I said, Man, let
[1:27:13] Speaker 7: me tell you something. I work, I know, I said,
[1:27:17] Speaker 7: I work at the local newspaper, I said, And if
[1:27:23] Speaker 7: I got a if I got a choice between reading
[1:27:29] Speaker 7: your one hundred pages and working late at the paper,
[1:27:34] Speaker 7: say I ain't reading one hundred pages, I said, So, man,
[1:27:38] Speaker 7: let me be real clear.
[1:27:40] Speaker 2: I don't need an A your class.
[1:27:43] Speaker 14: I don't need a B in your class.
[1:27:45] Speaker 2: I don't need a CEO class.
[1:27:48] Speaker 4: All I need is a D.
[1:27:50] Speaker 5: I said.
[1:27:51] Speaker 7: I am not going to expend a lot of energy
[1:27:55] Speaker 7: trying to get an AD or a bill your class when.
[1:27:59] Speaker 14: It's not going to have any relevance on my career.
[1:28:02] Speaker 7: I said, Ain't nobody going to ask me for some
[1:28:06] Speaker 7: college transcripts? They're not, I said, So I'm a spend
[1:28:11] Speaker 7: as little time as I can on your stuff, and
[1:28:16] Speaker 7: a maximum amount of time at the newspaper, the TV station, and.
[1:28:20] Speaker 2: The radio station.
[1:28:21] Speaker 7: Somebody a kep in YouTube saying line you lie, you
[1:28:25] Speaker 7: a damn lie.
[1:28:27] Speaker 2: Tell about I'm lying. I ain't lying. That's exactly what
[1:28:30] Speaker 2: I said. And I said, I made a dni damn class.
[1:28:35] Speaker 2: So as asked the next semesod of like, say dog,
[1:28:37] Speaker 2: what up?
[1:28:38] Speaker 7: Because I understood I was only there rang to get
[1:28:42] Speaker 7: a sheet of paper. But the point I'm making is
[1:28:46] Speaker 7: I don't believe this helps a student. I believe there
[1:28:51] Speaker 7: is something about aptitude to understand your familiarity with the topic.
[1:28:59] Speaker 2: So and again.
[1:29:00] Speaker 7: Now I made a different decision, But I'm just simply
[1:29:03] Speaker 7: saying that if you're now my journalism classes, yo, I
[1:29:07] Speaker 7: was hardcore straight.
[1:29:09] Speaker 2: When it came to hell, Yeah, I wanted the A
[1:29:11] Speaker 2: and those classes.
[1:29:13] Speaker 7: But what this is doing, Randing, this is creating a
[1:29:18] Speaker 7: soft generation to be even softer.
[1:29:23] Speaker 11: Well, one, I absolutely believe you did it. How could
[1:29:25] Speaker 11: anyone question about you being outspoken? That should never be
[1:29:30] Speaker 11: a right?
[1:29:31] Speaker 2: I did.
[1:29:32] Speaker 9: But But two, let me this is some white people
[1:29:35] Speaker 9: stuff to me, Roland. That's the way I see it.
[1:29:37] Speaker 11: I mean, University of Michigan is five percent, has five
[1:29:39] Speaker 11: percent of us that attended like forty five percent of
[1:29:43] Speaker 11: white people, and then Asian, American and international students.
[1:29:47] Speaker 9: And as a person who you know, lived.
[1:29:50] Speaker 11: In California and really started to understand the whole California
[1:29:55] Speaker 11: college system, there are always moves being made to ensure
[1:30:00] Speaker 11: that white students are successful.
[1:30:03] Speaker 9: The rules, just like rules.
[1:30:04] Speaker 11: Are changed to you know, keep us out of the game,
[1:30:08] Speaker 11: are unsuccessful. Also, rules are changed to help.
[1:30:11] Speaker 9: White students be successful.
[1:30:12] Speaker 11: And if you look at a lot of the white students,
[1:30:16] Speaker 11: particularly kids who are a legacy, that get into Ivy
[1:30:18] Speaker 11: League schools, that get into schools like University in Michigan,
[1:30:21] Speaker 11: they are there oftentimes because of legacy, because of people
[1:30:25] Speaker 11: that they know, you know, because of family legacy, and
[1:30:30] Speaker 11: they're not prepared really to go to school.
[1:30:32] Speaker 9: They have been pampered just the same way as they're
[1:30:35] Speaker 9: pampering these students.
[1:30:36] Speaker 11: Now, my guess, I'm just just I'm just telling you
[1:30:39] Speaker 11: what I think, and my experience has shown me, is
[1:30:41] Speaker 11: that those international students, about those twenty twenty percent of
[1:30:44] Speaker 11: international students and the Asian students are whooping their asses
[1:30:48] Speaker 11: and and and they're they are they are tearing them
[1:30:51] Speaker 11: up and messing up the whole the whole grading system occurs.
[1:30:56] Speaker 9: And those white professors and white.
[1:30:58] Speaker 11: People like, how do we fix this so our kids
[1:31:00] Speaker 11: are successful and they still look good and they go
[1:31:03] Speaker 11: to systems like this. I promise you that from what
[1:31:07] Speaker 11: I've seen, it something that has something to do with this.
[1:31:10] Speaker 11: This is some white people's stuff. And I promise you
[1:31:12] Speaker 11: they change the rules to ensure that those students look
[1:31:15] Speaker 11: successful even when they're not, because they were already solved.
[1:31:19] Speaker 4: And this just gives them the pair to continue to.
[1:31:23] Speaker 9: Be soft and look at it that way, because it's
[1:31:25] Speaker 9: not for our kids.
[1:31:26] Speaker 11: And I promise you that there will never be a
[1:31:28] Speaker 11: school that has a high population of black and brown
[1:31:31] Speaker 11: students that attend that will do that.
[1:31:33] Speaker 9: And you know, no HBCU is.
[1:31:35] Speaker 4: Going to do that.
[1:31:36] Speaker 9: But for these kids, they're going to make it look give.
[1:31:40] Speaker 11: Them the opportunity to look as successful as they possibly can.
[1:31:44] Speaker 4: No doubt in my mind.
[1:31:46] Speaker 7: See the problem, the problem I have moved out for
[1:31:50] Speaker 7: is that I'm not looking at those students solely in
[1:31:53] Speaker 7: the classroom. I'm looking at what's going to happen when
[1:31:58] Speaker 7: they leave college.
[1:32:00] Speaker 9: And I'm telling you I've.
[1:32:02] Speaker 2: Had to deal with this.
[1:32:04] Speaker 7: I've had to deal with students I've hired, not focused,
[1:32:14] Speaker 7: not motivated, don't apply to their craft, don't study their craft,
[1:32:20] Speaker 7: and if don't, oh my god, I mean it's an
[1:32:24] Speaker 7: r workday. You're asking me to work nine hours? Am
[1:32:28] Speaker 7: I gonna get over time? I mean, I'm I mean,
[1:32:32] Speaker 7: I'm see. I mean, I've had to deal with soft
[1:32:35] Speaker 7: people work and they no longer work for.
[1:32:39] Speaker 14: Me, and I'm telling you, we are.
[1:32:43] Speaker 7: Not producing students with resiliency. We're not producing folks are tough.
[1:32:49] Speaker 7: It's like, oh my god, he yelled at me.
[1:32:53] Speaker 2: Man, take your ass to CNN or MS NOW or
[1:32:56] Speaker 2: Fox and see if you screw.
[1:32:58] Speaker 7: Up, if you don't have that video or you don't
[1:33:00] Speaker 7: have that damn graphic.
[1:33:02] Speaker 2: Watch how you get cussed out.
[1:33:04] Speaker 7: And he's supposed to be like, oh no, my god,
[1:33:07] Speaker 7: this is this workplace environment is toxic because they yelled
[1:33:11] Speaker 7: at me, Man, Matt, listen, what I'm saying is you
[1:33:17] Speaker 7: got to if you're going to have people survive in
[1:33:22] Speaker 7: the workforce. Man, they got the toughen the hell up.
[1:33:25] Speaker 7: And I'm sorry this year that was so concerned about
[1:33:30] Speaker 7: the mental health now and Mustafa, No, I don't think
[1:33:33] Speaker 7: you make things easier for people to deal with mental health.
[1:33:38] Speaker 7: I think what you do is you have to walk
[1:33:41] Speaker 7: folks through it and say, hey, the reason we have
[1:33:44] Speaker 7: this is because this will determine who cuts it and
[1:33:48] Speaker 7: who does it. It's really about it's really about shredding.
[1:33:53] Speaker 7: It's really about being able to say, hey, can you.
[1:33:56] Speaker 2: Tough it out? Hey, I'm gonna get this last one.
[1:34:00] Speaker 7: This was pretty funny. So we're in college. I'm a sophomore.
[1:34:04] Speaker 7: My sister's a freshman rough first first year. She was
[1:34:09] Speaker 7: used to all these great grades.
[1:34:11] Speaker 12: And so.
[1:34:13] Speaker 2: She had to write a letter, you know, to scholastic probation.
[1:34:18] Speaker 2: I was like, that's it, girl, come here. So we
[1:34:22] Speaker 2: went to the library. I grabbed that paper. Yeah, I
[1:34:27] Speaker 2: started typing.
[1:34:29] Speaker 7: Man, the fiction that was flying off of my fingers
[1:34:35] Speaker 7: was beautiful.
[1:34:37] Speaker 2: It was beautiful, y'all. I was flowing, man. I finished
[1:34:42] Speaker 2: that zooit plod type writer headed. My sister read that letter.
[1:34:48] Speaker 14: Memorize it.
[1:34:49] Speaker 2: I said, read it six seven times. Memorize it and
[1:34:52] Speaker 2: take it in. You good, You're gonna stay in school. Hey.
[1:34:57] Speaker 7: It was about can you figure out a way to survive?
[1:35:01] Speaker 7: And that's all I'm saying is that's what we have
[1:35:04] Speaker 7: to be. College has to be toughening people up with stappa,
[1:35:09] Speaker 7: not making it softer.
[1:35:11] Speaker 2: Go ahead, that's just me.
[1:35:14] Speaker 10: Yeah, no, no, no, I feel what you're saying, and
[1:35:15] Speaker 10: I appreciate your langs and hughes moment there. I mean,
[1:35:20] Speaker 10: college is supposed to prepare you for the future, right,
[1:35:22] Speaker 10: but people use that often, but I think that it
[1:35:27] Speaker 10: actually starts way before then. And hopefully you have parents
[1:35:31] Speaker 10: who are making you strong and helping to prepare you
[1:35:33] Speaker 10: for what the world is going to throw at you.
[1:35:36] Speaker 10: So I think for me personally, you know, with my folks,
[1:35:41] Speaker 10: you know, you start that work early on on the
[1:35:43] Speaker 10: mental health side of the equation. Also that a lot
[1:35:46] Speaker 10: of that goes back to home also and how you're
[1:35:48] Speaker 10: raised and how you're taught to deal with situations. And
[1:35:50] Speaker 10: that doesn't mean there are all kinds of mental health
[1:35:54] Speaker 10: impacts that happen, and I totally get that, but a
[1:35:57] Speaker 10: lot of that stuff begins there. So you know, then
[1:35:59] Speaker 10: fast affording you know, to college. You know, for most folks,
[1:36:04] Speaker 10: unless you come from a privileged situation, you know, the
[1:36:07] Speaker 10: money that you borrowed or that someone paid for you
[1:36:09] Speaker 10: to be there took a lot. So you know, you
[1:36:13] Speaker 10: got to take advantage of that opportunity and you got
[1:36:16] Speaker 10: to pour everything that you can't into it. But I
[1:36:17] Speaker 10: also want to say, you know, a lot of times
[1:36:19] Speaker 10: for folks in their first year of college, especially that
[1:36:21] Speaker 10: first semester, you know, they're trying to figure some things out.
[1:36:25] Speaker 10: Some folks never been away from home, some folks didn't
[1:36:27] Speaker 10: have good study habits. Now that is not really acceptable.
[1:36:30] Speaker 10: But that's just the reality of what's going on.
[1:36:32] Speaker 3: So I think we got to.
[1:36:33] Speaker 10: Take all that into sotality and understanding, you know how
[1:36:37] Speaker 10: we make strong young men and women to be prepared
[1:36:41] Speaker 10: for what, you know, what to do next.
[1:36:43] Speaker 6: So that's where I land on it.
[1:36:45] Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, I'm just Randy.
[1:36:48] Speaker 7: Somebody in the chat room, Uh, they were talking about
[1:36:54] Speaker 7: they just want to say it. Man, my paryent wouldn't
[1:36:57] Speaker 7: let me bring home nothing anything less to a's and b's.
[1:37:01] Speaker 2: Man, let me tell y'all something, Randy.
[1:37:04] Speaker 7: I had an editor, he was an assistant magic editor
[1:37:07] Speaker 7: of the Austin American Statesman, and he said, point blank,
[1:37:11] Speaker 7: he said, show me a four point oh journalism student
[1:37:17] Speaker 7: who ain't got no experience, and showed me a two
[1:37:20] Speaker 7: point five who's got experienced and got clips. He said,
[1:37:25] Speaker 7: the four point oh ain't got a chance.
[1:37:28] Speaker 11: Listen.
[1:37:29] Speaker 2: I get people who go to law school. I get.
[1:37:31] Speaker 7: Listen, my niece at the University of Texas Law School,
[1:37:35] Speaker 7: they have a thing called Chancellor's it's the highest grade
[1:37:38] Speaker 7: point average students. She's the first African American in UT
[1:37:41] Speaker 7: law school history to be one of those chancellors. That's great. Listen,
[1:37:46] Speaker 7: that's fine if you're gonna law or doctor or whatever.
[1:37:50] Speaker 7: But hey, I'm a firm believer. Learn if you figure
[1:37:54] Speaker 7: out what industry you're trying to go in, and you.
[1:37:57] Speaker 2: Better figure out.
[1:37:58] Speaker 7: How to be successful in that industry and figure out
[1:38:02] Speaker 7: that skill set for that industry. And listen, if that
[1:38:06] Speaker 7: classroom stuff ain't applying, look you just do whatever you
[1:38:09] Speaker 7: gotta do, Randy, to get that sheet of paper and
[1:38:12] Speaker 7: get out. But I believe you building your skills set
[1:38:15] Speaker 7: for your career, because listen, it ain't no Listen all
[1:38:19] Speaker 7: y'all out there with your magnekum loudy and you assume
[1:38:23] Speaker 7: cool loudy and all your.
[1:38:25] Speaker 2: Ropes and all that stuff.
[1:38:27] Speaker 7: That shit don't mean nothing right now when it comes
[1:38:30] Speaker 7: to your bank account and when it come to your job.
[1:38:33] Speaker 2: That's cute to have it.
[1:38:34] Speaker 7: Then, and listen als Salama lakam with lacum salaam, congratulations
[1:38:40] Speaker 7: all that stuff when you got it then, But I
[1:38:43] Speaker 7: saw right there, Randy, listen, that stuff ain't gonna mean
[1:38:46] Speaker 7: the hill of beans.
[1:38:47] Speaker 2: So y'all go ahead and do all that. I'm trying
[1:38:49] Speaker 2: to get these skills so I can get paid. Right.
[1:38:55] Speaker 11: I definitely think people need to look at their career
[1:38:57] Speaker 11: path and figure out what's the best way to go.
[1:39:00] Speaker 11: Those grades do matter if you know you want to
[1:39:02] Speaker 11: go to graduate school or a professional school, so then
[1:39:06] Speaker 11: the grades matter. But if they don't, I believe skills
[1:39:08] Speaker 11: do matter the most. I have a dear friend whose
[1:39:11] Speaker 11: daughter just started college this Sunday. She moved into Bethune
[1:39:14] Speaker 11: Cookman and she was debating about schools and didn't get
[1:39:18] Speaker 11: into her first choice school. And someone said to her,
[1:39:21] Speaker 11: you know, I wanted to be a physical therapist and
[1:39:23] Speaker 11: my primary school didn't let me in. And she said,
[1:39:26] Speaker 11: so I went to another school, and she said, guess what,
[1:39:29] Speaker 11: I've been a physical therapist for twenty five years. So
[1:39:33] Speaker 11: at the end of the day, no one does ask
[1:39:35] Speaker 11: you what your GPA was, except, like I said, if
[1:39:37] Speaker 11: you want to go on to school. No one really
[1:39:39] Speaker 11: cares if you know, graduated Summa cum latte or a
[1:39:42] Speaker 11: thank you laudie most of the time. So you do
[1:39:45] Speaker 11: need to ensure that you are focusing on getting those
[1:39:49] Speaker 11: skills as well.
[1:39:52] Speaker 7: And again, listen, if your scholarship requires a certain GPA,
[1:39:56] Speaker 7: I totally understand, and so you do what you've got
[1:39:59] Speaker 7: to to do.
[1:40:01] Speaker 2: But I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you right now.
[1:40:03] Speaker 7: I just think that that that that college teaches, College
[1:40:09] Speaker 7: exposes a whole lot of who you are as a person.
[1:40:13] Speaker 7: College being to your point, Mustafa, being away from home,
[1:40:17] Speaker 7: you have to learn how to get your ass up yourself,
[1:40:20] Speaker 7: Mama and daddy and then coming in the room telling you, hey,
[1:40:23] Speaker 7: get up, get dressed, got to go to school because
[1:40:25] Speaker 7: the school bus is coming. No, you got to do
[1:40:27] Speaker 7: it yourself. You gotta figure out your food. So if
[1:40:29] Speaker 7: you at the dorm or you in an apartment, you
[1:40:31] Speaker 7: got to figure out College is. College is going beyond
[1:40:35] Speaker 7: the classroom. It's teaching you a whole lot about yourself.
[1:40:39] Speaker 7: Are you co dependent? And what are you learning? And
[1:40:42] Speaker 7: so I just think that when we start this whole deal,
[1:40:46] Speaker 7: oh my goodness, folks in their mental health, it's meant
[1:40:49] Speaker 7: to challenge you. It's meant for to to to to
[1:40:54] Speaker 7: really press you. And I'm gonna leave yall with this one.
[1:40:57] Speaker 7: I had a journalism class. I was just telling this
[1:41:01] Speaker 7: to the students last night in the National Association of
[1:41:04] Speaker 7: Black Journalists student projects, and they asked me to address
[1:41:09] Speaker 7: the TV folks, and I remember Mustafa and Randy.
[1:41:13] Speaker 2: I'm in the class.
[1:41:14] Speaker 7: And so when it was test day, what you would
[1:41:16] Speaker 7: do is you would go to this class and they
[1:41:18] Speaker 7: would hand you a sheet of paper with a set
[1:41:21] Speaker 7: of facts, and you had to write a story based
[1:41:25] Speaker 7: upon the set of facts that they gave you. So
[1:41:28] Speaker 7: I came to class fifteen minutes late and I left
[1:41:32] Speaker 7: fifteen minutes early. It was a fifteen minute class, so
[1:41:36] Speaker 7: I did my assignment in twenty minutes. And so when
[1:41:39] Speaker 7: they came back and gave us the score, fession.
[1:41:42] Speaker 2: Said, I need to see you have the class. I
[1:41:44] Speaker 2: was like, all right, So I think I made an
[1:41:46] Speaker 2: eighty four or eighty six.
[1:41:48] Speaker 7: And she said, now, mister Martin, if you had not
[1:41:52] Speaker 7: come late, and you have not left early, and had
[1:41:55] Speaker 7: you applied yourself, you could have made an a hon this.
[1:41:59] Speaker 7: And I said, ma'am, let's be real clear, I do
[1:42:03] Speaker 7: not care about your aid.
[1:42:07] Speaker 2: And she was like, excuse me.
[1:42:08] Speaker 7: I said, I want you to understand something. When I graduate,
[1:42:13] Speaker 7: I'm gonna have to write a story on deadline in
[1:42:17] Speaker 7: twenty minutes. And if I do not train my brain
[1:42:22] Speaker 7: today to take a set of facts and be able
[1:42:26] Speaker 7: to whip that story around, I'm not gonna be successful.
[1:42:29] Speaker 2: When I get out of here. So here's what's gonna happen.
[1:42:32] Speaker 2: You gonna tell me.
[1:42:36] Speaker 7: How I made a eighty six, I said, So the
[1:42:39] Speaker 7: next assignment, I'm gonna come in here fifteen minutes late
[1:42:43] Speaker 7: and I'm gonna leave fifteen minutes early. But it ain't
[1:42:46] Speaker 7: gonna be an eighty six. So the point there was,
[1:42:51] Speaker 7: I was I was preparing myself for life after school
[1:42:57] Speaker 7: while I was in school, and I wanted tough professors.
[1:43:03] Speaker 2: I wanted journalism professors who were tough, who.
[1:43:06] Speaker 7: Were kicking my ass because I did not want to
[1:43:09] Speaker 7: be mediocre. And that's all I'm saying. If you want
[1:43:13] Speaker 7: to be great, you know what, it's the great coaches,
[1:43:18] Speaker 7: It's the great mentors who put the screws to you
[1:43:22] Speaker 7: because they see greatness. And I'm just saying, let's not
[1:43:25] Speaker 7: make this thing easy.
[1:43:26] Speaker 2: Quick break will be right back. Boland Martin, unfiltered on
[1:43:29] Speaker 2: the Black Study.
[1:43:29] Speaker 14: Now, all right, folks, let me begin perseda for a second.
[1:43:37] Speaker 7: My mom had questions about her medicare, so she called
[1:43:40] Speaker 7: Chapter a Medicare advisory company, and she texts me right
[1:43:43] Speaker 7: after saying, it's a great benefit.
[1:43:45] Speaker 2: It was easy, A real person who walked her through
[1:43:47] Speaker 2: the whole thing.
[1:43:48] Speaker 7: And now she understands better what's going on because also
[1:43:51] Speaker 7: it's not just her woman and Yonkers wrote in saying
[1:43:54] Speaker 7: the process was so simple, the enrollment was easy, and
[1:43:57] Speaker 7: she was so glad she called. And there's marya ninety
[1:44:00] Speaker 7: years old in Florida living on Social Security. Her premium
[1:44:04] Speaker 7: climbed every single year north of four hundred dollars a
[1:44:07] Speaker 7: month for coverage she could barely afford anymore.
[1:44:10] Speaker 2: So what if she do?
[1:44:11] Speaker 14: She called Chapter?
[1:44:12] Speaker 7: If they found her the same top tier coverage for
[1:44:15] Speaker 7: hundreds of dollars less ninety years old, and finally somebody
[1:44:19] Speaker 7: in her corner. I hear stories like that again and
[1:44:22] Speaker 7: again from our community. The Medicare system was not built
[1:44:25] Speaker 7: to work for you. Too much fine print, too many
[1:44:28] Speaker 7: plans you had. Chapters advisors are independent and honest. The
[1:44:31] Speaker 7: only Medicare advisors that compare every plan nationwide. They're focused
[1:44:35] Speaker 7: on one thing, what actually works for you. If you're
[1:44:38] Speaker 7: already in the right plan, they'll tell you no games,
[1:44:42] Speaker 7: and people who switched to a Chapter saved an average
[1:44:44] Speaker 7: of eleven one hundred dollars a year all Texas. Twenty minutes,
[1:44:48] Speaker 7: you talk to a real person and it is completely
[1:44:50] Speaker 7: free help so called chapter at seven two four two
[1:44:54] Speaker 7: sixty four eight two eight one seven two four two
[1:44:57] Speaker 7: sixty four eight two eight one.
[1:44:59] Speaker 19: That's chapters.
[1:45:29] Speaker 7: According to the Anti e KC Foundations Kids Count Data
[1:45:32] Speaker 7: book report, black children face significant proficiency gaps in reading math.
[1:45:37] Speaker 2: Nationwide.
[1:45:38] Speaker 7: Report says roughly eighty five percent of black fourth graders
[1:45:41] Speaker 7: read below grade levels. Martin's children's books addresses that issue
[1:45:46] Speaker 7: by offering books that support early literacy and math, as
[1:45:50] Speaker 7: well as workbooks, while providing diverse stories that help with
[1:45:54] Speaker 7: emotional awareness and social skills. Author Latashia Martin joins us
[1:45:58] Speaker 7: right now, Latasha mar And how you doing?
[1:46:02] Speaker 4: How are you doing, mister Roland Martin.
[1:46:04] Speaker 18: I am so excited to be here. I have been
[1:46:07] Speaker 18: watching you for years. I am just so honored to
[1:46:11] Speaker 18: be on your show tonight.
[1:46:14] Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Before I ask you, first of all,
[1:46:16] Speaker 2: where are you from? Which Martins are you from?
[1:46:21] Speaker 5: Well?
[1:46:21] Speaker 18: Martin is my husband's last name, and we're at Homestead
[1:46:24] Speaker 18: of Florida.
[1:46:27] Speaker 2: All right? Where his people from?
[1:46:31] Speaker 18: Tron Goo's Richmond Heights, South Florida.
[1:46:37] Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well I don't know, I don't know.
[1:46:40] Speaker 2: I don't have any Martins that I know who are
[1:46:42] Speaker 2: in Florida.
[1:46:43] Speaker 7: My folks came from East Texas and so, but I'm
[1:46:47] Speaker 7: sure somewhere up in there there's some sort of connection there.
[1:46:50] Speaker 7: So let's get right into it, all right. We were
[1:46:53] Speaker 7: just talking about obviously, we were talking about college. We
[1:46:55] Speaker 7: were talking about you know, this whole past past, great thing,
[1:46:59] Speaker 7: but the reality is.
[1:47:01] Speaker 2: Really the need to learn.
[1:47:03] Speaker 7: The build knowledge in elementary school in middle school is
[1:47:08] Speaker 7: so important because it positions you for high school. And
[1:47:12] Speaker 7: so walk us through your books. How do you help
[1:47:17] Speaker 7: with that literacy?
[1:47:18] Speaker 2: What is it teaching? And where does this all start?
[1:47:22] Speaker 18: Okay, Well, first, I am a veteran elementary school teacher.
[1:47:26] Speaker 18: I've been teaching for twenty years in South Florida. If
[1:47:30] Speaker 18: TAK kindergarten, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade. So
[1:47:34] Speaker 18: those are definitely the critical years where, especially for third
[1:47:37] Speaker 18: graders in Florida, that they do have that fast testing
[1:47:41] Speaker 18: that they need to pass in order to be promoted
[1:47:43] Speaker 18: to the fourth grade. So that's what I've been working
[1:47:45] Speaker 18: on for the last ten to twelve years. I've been
[1:47:48] Speaker 18: working solely with third and fourth grade students to help
[1:47:52] Speaker 18: them with their comprehension. So when our schools went to
[1:47:57] Speaker 18: COVID Break which was twenty twenty, and that's when I
[1:48:01] Speaker 18: started building my business.
[1:48:03] Speaker 6: I had time at home.
[1:48:05] Speaker 18: I've always enjoyed reading, so my passion was always reading, comprehension, literacy,
[1:48:12] Speaker 18: exploring different genres. So from that and extension that I
[1:48:17] Speaker 18: had at home, I created my business and my love
[1:48:21] Speaker 18: of reading fostered my growth of my company. I have
[1:48:27] Speaker 18: published six children books. I am an independent children's book
[1:48:30] Speaker 18: author and I've published children's books first. I started with
[1:48:34] Speaker 18: books that related to my sons. I have two of
[1:48:36] Speaker 18: their older children now a twenty year old and a
[1:48:39] Speaker 18: sixteen year old, but I used them for my first book,
[1:48:42] Speaker 18: Black Boy bu I wanted to create a book where
[1:48:45] Speaker 18: my children can see themselves in their books. So as
[1:48:49] Speaker 18: a teacher, there are not a lot of stories that
[1:48:51] Speaker 18: include African American characters, so that was definitely one of
[1:48:55] Speaker 18: my first goals was to create characters that look like
[1:48:58] Speaker 18: my children. They were my they're also the characters in
[1:49:02] Speaker 18: my story. So my first book was Black Boy Be You,
[1:49:06] Speaker 18: which was just affirmations, teaching them that you know you
[1:49:09] Speaker 18: love yourself, you have hairstyles that look like the characters
[1:49:12] Speaker 18: in the story, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
[1:49:15] Speaker 18: They can see the name Isaiah and know a family member,
[1:49:19] Speaker 18: of friend or their name is Isaiah. So it's building
[1:49:22] Speaker 18: the love of literacy with a connection to your community.
[1:49:27] Speaker 18: So from that growth, I have included a Black Girl
[1:49:32] Speaker 18: Be You, which is a positive affirmation for young girls.
[1:49:35] Speaker 18: And then I went to focusing on my early literacy,
[1:49:38] Speaker 18: which I noticed that the students which you were talking
[1:49:41] Speaker 18: about before, especially with the universities, that you know, everybody's
[1:49:44] Speaker 18: kind of, you know, kind of pushing them along. So
[1:49:48] Speaker 18: my goal was to create stories that help children at
[1:49:52] Speaker 18: the early age. So I have surrounded by numbers, which
[1:49:54] Speaker 18: is helping children understand that numbers are everywhere. So it's
[1:49:58] Speaker 18: taken the connection from your neighborhood to school and making
[1:50:02] Speaker 18: everything go with what they understand and that they're working on.
[1:50:07] Speaker 18: So as in understanding that I'm not just counting in school,
[1:50:11] Speaker 18: I also can see when I go outside, I can
[1:50:14] Speaker 18: count the number of steps.
[1:50:16] Speaker 3: I can.
[1:50:17] Speaker 18: Practice the same vocabulary, understanding how my digit and my
[1:50:22] Speaker 18: word formed me. And from there I increased it to
[1:50:26] Speaker 18: my latest one, which is the Polite Parade, which is
[1:50:29] Speaker 18: something that you know a lot of elementary school teachers
[1:50:32] Speaker 18: happened working on which is manners. Unfortunately, something lately is
[1:50:36] Speaker 18: that you know a lot of our kids struggle with
[1:50:38] Speaker 18: interacting positively with one another. So I wrote a story
[1:50:42] Speaker 18: that talks about, you know, the polite way to interact
[1:50:44] Speaker 18: with each other.
[1:50:46] Speaker 6: Please, thank you.
[1:50:48] Speaker 2: May I have this?
[1:50:51] Speaker 18: So those are some of the Those are some of
[1:50:53] Speaker 18: the words that we don't hear definitely in our school.
[1:50:55] Speaker 18: So it's something I wanted to bring back to seek
[1:50:59] Speaker 18: care that interact with your same everyday life, but you
[1:51:05] Speaker 18: can relate to them. Can I see myself in the
[1:51:08] Speaker 18: story and still learn at the same time. So that's
[1:51:11] Speaker 18: always been my goal. And along with my children's books.
[1:51:16] Speaker 18: You know, people love to read, but they also like
[1:51:18] Speaker 18: to take it and practice those same skills. So with
[1:51:21] Speaker 18: my reading books, I made companion work books and coloring
[1:51:24] Speaker 18: books for children so they can take it with them.
[1:51:27] Speaker 6: Practice.
[1:51:28] Speaker 18: Handwriting is also a big thing. I don't know about
[1:51:31] Speaker 18: universities because even you know, with the computers, they they
[1:51:34] Speaker 18: stopped with the handwriting. So that's a big thing for
[1:51:37] Speaker 18: a lot of children also. So my goal is to
[1:51:41] Speaker 18: go back to the old school ways of teaching.
[1:51:46] Speaker 2: Let's questions from my panel, Randy, your.
[1:51:49] Speaker 9: First, I'm so excited to see your books.
[1:51:55] Speaker 11: I'm a former English major and English teacher, so I
[1:51:57] Speaker 11: really believe that we need to work on literais. See
[1:52:00] Speaker 11: what do you think makes your book special where kids
[1:52:03] Speaker 11: want to engage with them?
[1:52:06] Speaker 18: Well, what I really do I enjoy about my books
[1:52:08] Speaker 18: is that I love bright colors. So definitely with younger students,
[1:52:12] Speaker 18: they need things that pop out to them. So it's
[1:52:15] Speaker 18: not just the words, it's the images also, can they
[1:52:20] Speaker 18: love to when they open up a book, it has
[1:52:23] Speaker 18: to be bright colors that jump out to them. So
[1:52:25] Speaker 18: that's always my first goal. Bright colors, and then the wording.
[1:52:30] Speaker 9: Within my book.
[1:52:31] Speaker 18: There's some that are like in black letters and there's
[1:52:33] Speaker 18: some that are in color letters. So I have different
[1:52:36] Speaker 18: things within my stories that attract students. And it's not
[1:52:40] Speaker 18: just reading. There's also questions within a lot of my books,
[1:52:43] Speaker 18: So interact with the students while they're reading, especially what's
[1:52:46] Speaker 18: surrounded by numbers. It asks them how many do you
[1:52:49] Speaker 18: see in this picture? How many cars are there? So
[1:52:51] Speaker 18: it's just adding a different level to just reading a book.
[1:52:57] Speaker 2: Thank you, move stop up.
[1:53:03] Speaker 10: Yeah, Well congratulations Ms Martin. I have two questions for you. Actually,
[1:53:07] Speaker 10: the first one is about the evolution of your books
[1:53:11] Speaker 10: and the students who have been reading them. Could you
[1:53:14] Speaker 10: share with us sort of how some of the students
[1:53:17] Speaker 10: maybe who you stayed in contact with, you know, sort
[1:53:21] Speaker 10: of their their evolution with your books.
[1:53:25] Speaker 18: Well, yeah, so my first book was Black Boy bu
[1:53:28] Speaker 18: so that one's definitely a big hit as a time
[1:53:30] Speaker 18: of you know, self empowerment for young boys. And then
[1:53:35] Speaker 18: they wanted to know, you know, was there more that
[1:53:38] Speaker 18: I was writing about young boys, because there's not a
[1:53:40] Speaker 18: lot of books about African American boys. We might see
[1:53:43] Speaker 18: more girl books, but my first couple of books definitely
[1:53:46] Speaker 18: focused on the young boys. So they wanted to see
[1:53:49] Speaker 18: something else that related to them. So I included us
[1:53:52] Speaker 18: Surrounded by Numbers, where my characters, my main characters are
[1:53:57] Speaker 18: young men. And then also in my stories, a lot
[1:54:01] Speaker 18: of the readers wanted to have additional to that relate
[1:54:06] Speaker 18: to their younger siblings. So not just like a third grader,
[1:54:09] Speaker 18: you have something also that my kindergarten can relate to.
[1:54:12] Speaker 18: So then I expanded my collection of stories to ABC's
[1:54:16] Speaker 18: of Kindergarten where it helps parents get their kids ready
[1:54:21] Speaker 18: for the first day of kindergarten, and also learn about
[1:54:25] Speaker 18: the alphabet, phonics, en rhyme, and words. So I listened
[1:54:28] Speaker 18: to customers and readers and what they were looking for next,
[1:54:31] Speaker 18: and that helped me to create my next set of books.
[1:54:36] Speaker 6: My second question really quickly. Illustration is so incredibly important
[1:54:40] Speaker 6: when it comes to children's folks.
[1:54:41] Speaker 10: Do you do the illustration? Do you hire other black
[1:54:45] Speaker 10: folks who do the illustration? How does that process work?
[1:54:48] Speaker 18: Okay, I am definitely not an illustrator. I enjoyed writing
[1:54:54] Speaker 18: the story, so I did outsource my illustrations for my characters.
[1:54:59] Speaker 18: What I use are pictures of my children when they
[1:55:02] Speaker 18: were young. So I sent illustrators a picture of my
[1:55:05] Speaker 18: kids and I said, can you please draw them? And
[1:55:08] Speaker 18: then I was able to choose the best illustrator that
[1:55:11] Speaker 18: came with the images that I enjoyed the most. I
[1:55:14] Speaker 18: had the most detail because within my books, I enjoy
[1:55:16] Speaker 18: a lot of detail within the background in my books.
[1:55:20] Speaker 18: My illustrators are overseas, so it's a little an extra
[1:55:26] Speaker 18: step that I have to do with my illustrations, speaking
[1:55:29] Speaker 18: to the mckinnim to understand what I'm looking for. But
[1:55:33] Speaker 18: it's it's still a struggle with illustrators here in the
[1:55:37] Speaker 18: United States to definitely get someone that has everything that
[1:55:42] Speaker 18: I'm looking for.
[1:55:44] Speaker 7: Thank you, all right, then, folks, Martin's children's books to
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[1:56:02] Speaker 2: He was really appreciated.
[1:56:03] Speaker 9: Thanks a lot, but thank you for having me.
[1:56:09] Speaker 2: All right, good luck, all.
[1:56:11] Speaker 7: Right, folks, let me give you an update on the
[1:56:13] Speaker 7: story out of Illinois. Remember the government that guy who
[1:56:17] Speaker 7: that had issues at the pool well. The property owner
[1:56:20] Speaker 7: the apartment complex has released a statement saying that it
[1:56:24] Speaker 7: was not discrimination. You might remember where Leo Sullivan said
[1:56:29] Speaker 7: that he was approached by a couple of white women
[1:56:31] Speaker 7: when it came at demanding he show his ID. The
[1:56:34] Speaker 7: property owner says this in a statement at art Living.
[1:56:37] Speaker 7: We're deeply upset about the extinctive misinformation being shared on
[1:56:40] Speaker 7: social media about our company and the doxne of our
[1:56:44] Speaker 7: innocent employees. Our company has a long history of serving
[1:56:47] Speaker 7: diverse communities, and we probably employ individuals of many racial
[1:56:50] Speaker 7: and ethnic backgrounds.
[1:56:52] Speaker 2: We do not condone or talerate.
[1:56:53] Speaker 7: Discrimination of any kind, and to falsely portray this incident
[1:56:57] Speaker 7: as discrimination is reckless and harmful to our condens in
[1:57:00] Speaker 7: our community. Prior to mister Leo Sullivan's state, he acknowledged
[1:57:03] Speaker 7: the requiring to obtain a pool pass at the front
[1:57:06] Speaker 7: desk before entering the pool area. The CCTV footage shows
[1:57:10] Speaker 7: that he and four other unrelated individuals at the pool
[1:57:13] Speaker 7: were all asked to show an ID or their pool
[1:57:15] Speaker 7: pass as required to ensure the security of our tenants
[1:57:18] Speaker 7: and guests. Our employees simply followed established property policies that
[1:57:22] Speaker 7: are applied equally to all residents and guests. Since mister
[1:57:26] Speaker 7: Sullivan never checked in with the front desk upon his arrival,
[1:57:29] Speaker 7: never obtained a pool pass, falsely identified himself as a tenant,
[1:57:33] Speaker 7: and never provided idal and plot, the asked staff had
[1:57:36] Speaker 7: no way to identify him as a guest, so.
[1:57:37] Speaker 2: Authorities were called to help resolve the situation. Now, Leo
[1:57:41] Speaker 2: Sullivan is not public.
[1:57:42] Speaker 7: To responded to the statement from Arden's Living. All right, folks,
[1:57:47] Speaker 7: that is it for us. We were watching election results
[1:57:52] Speaker 7: that are happening in South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Minnesota and
[1:57:56] Speaker 7: of the states, so we'll have that for you tomorrow
[1:57:58] Speaker 7: as well. Control Room letting know when y'all have downloaded
[1:58:01] Speaker 7: those photos essential. Today we had our board meeting for
[1:58:05] Speaker 7: the National Association of Black Journalists and my alpha brother
[1:58:09] Speaker 7: former un Am Bacheldor also former congressman, former mayor, a
[1:58:16] Speaker 7: longtime lieutenant too, Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior, AM
[1:58:19] Speaker 7: Bachelor Andrew Young addressed our group and so it was
[1:58:24] Speaker 7: great to see him. Andrew Young, what ninety four years old.
[1:58:28] Speaker 7: Let me tell y'all that mine is as sharp as ever,
[1:58:32] Speaker 7: and so it was great to see him, great to
[1:58:34] Speaker 7: hear him. We were here forty two years ago in
[1:58:38] Speaker 7: nineteen eighty four when Ambachelor Andrew Young addressed the convention.
[1:58:43] Speaker 7: When I was chatting with him, we took a picture
[1:58:45] Speaker 7: surrounded by Alpha brothers. We took a picture with him,
[1:58:48] Speaker 7: and it was hilarious because he said, when I just
[1:58:51] Speaker 7: spoke to NABJ in nineteen eighty four, there were five
[1:58:55] Speaker 7: hundred journalists who were in the room. Folks, convention kicks
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[1:59:09] Speaker 2: far we've come.
[1:59:11] Speaker 7: That's the photo right there of Abbassa Young with all
[1:59:15] Speaker 7: the alphas.
[1:59:16] Speaker 2: You see him right there.
[1:59:17] Speaker 7: The next photo is, well, you should show where he
[1:59:20] Speaker 7: was in the when he was addressing us in our
[1:59:23] Speaker 7: board meeting, and so it was absolutely great to have him.
[1:59:27] Speaker 7: Always great to see him and so always doing his things.
[1:59:30] Speaker 7: So we surely appreciate our good brother folks. That's it
[1:59:34] Speaker 7: for me again. We kick off the convention tomorrow. Lots
[1:59:38] Speaker 7: of things happening here in Atlanta. We got a number
[1:59:40] Speaker 7: of people who are coming through here, sender John osof
[1:59:42] Speaker 7: House Democratic leader Hoking Jeffries. I believe George's glubatory candidate,
[1:59:48] Speaker 7: Keisha Lan's Bottoms and other folks are going to be here,
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[2:00:26] Speaker 2: So although we're here in.
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