# NC Omnibus Bill, Voting Restrictions. GA Special Session. Trump UFC Fight Backlash. Brit Actor

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 16 Jun 2026, 2 h 34 min.

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[0:06] Speaker 1: Today's Monday, June fifteen, twenty twenty six, coming up on
[0:09] Speaker 1: rolland Unfilter streaming live on the Blackstar Network. The battle
[0:12] Speaker 1: for voting rights continues in North Carolina. On a late
[0:15] Speaker 1: Friday night, Republicans released a massive omnibus bill packed with
[0:19] Speaker 1: voter suppression provisions, including a ban on efforts to encourage
[0:22] Speaker 1: voter turnout, even not allowing politicians to encourage people to vote.
[0:27] Speaker 1: We'll talk to the North CAROLLUNCE that representative about their
[0:30] Speaker 1: latest attack. Georgia lawmakers have set the return of the
[0:33] Speaker 1: state capital for a special session this week to change
[0:36] Speaker 1: the congressional maps in that state. Texas Freedom Summer two
[0:40] Speaker 1: point zero is kicking off this week. We'll talk to
[0:42] Speaker 1: the director about the initiative, which aims to mobilize black voters.
[0:46] Speaker 1: Also will chat with Color Changes Cheekle Campaigns about delivering
[0:49] Speaker 1: thousands of petitioning signatures directly to AT and T headquarters
[0:52] Speaker 1: in Dallas, demanding the immediate reinstatement of DEI programs. The
[0:56] Speaker 1: company dismantled following a pressure campaign from CC chair Brendan Carr.
[1:02] Speaker 1: The White House. UFC event took a turn when one
[1:04] Speaker 1: of the fighters insulted former First Lady Michelle Obama and
[1:07] Speaker 1: it was an absolute shit show the whole program. After that,
[1:11] Speaker 1: David O Yellow O's apologized after he made some comments
[1:15] Speaker 1: regarding how he prepares for a Southern accent. Also, it's
[1:20] Speaker 1: a part of this whole debate whether black British actors
[1:22] Speaker 1: are taking roles from African American actors. It's an old
[1:25] Speaker 1: conversation and my god, I wish would absolutely end. Also,
[1:29] Speaker 1: folks on today's show, Bishop William Barber just completely his
[1:33] Speaker 1: moral Monday's campaign. Just down the Street will show you
[1:36] Speaker 1: what took place out there as well. It's time to
[1:38] Speaker 1: bring the funk a rolling unfiltered with the Black stud Network.
[1:41] Speaker 2: Let's go whatever got the.
[1:54] Speaker 3: Best.
[1:54] Speaker 2: Believe he's known Loston News to politics with entertainment. Just
[2:01] Speaker 2: bo case, He's it's Rollden, He's Spress, she's real.
[2:20] Speaker 4: Good question, No, he's rolling.
[2:44] Speaker 1: The Republican war on Black America continues and ground zero
[2:48] Speaker 1: has been North Carolina for more than a decade. Late
[2:50] Speaker 1: Friday night, North Carolina Republican leaders dropped in unannounced thirty
[2:54] Speaker 1: six page omnibus bill stuff with new voter restrictions and
[2:58] Speaker 1: election changes. Some of the despicable prisions all designed to
[3:03] Speaker 1: restrict voting, including total ban on encouraging voter turnout. State
[3:08] Speaker 1: and county board members are prohibited from any public statement
[3:12] Speaker 1: quote encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election. It
[3:17] Speaker 1: grants the Republican state auditor total discretion to audit all machines,
[3:21] Speaker 1: county offices, and personnel involved in any election. Reduces campaign
[3:27] Speaker 1: finance transparency. The bill significantly raises a dollar threasholds for
[3:31] Speaker 1: required reporting of dark money contributions or media expenditures, waving
[3:36] Speaker 1: reporting for the rest. It requires voters to register with
[3:39] Speaker 1: a political party a full year before voting in that
[3:43] Speaker 1: party's primary election, up from ninety days. Total ban on
[3:48] Speaker 1: any ranked choice voting in any primary or general election statewide,
[3:53] Speaker 1: and it strips some oversees voters of their eligibility to
[3:57] Speaker 1: vote in any state election. Particles changes up to twenty
[4:01] Speaker 1: five professional staff at the State Ward of Elections have
[4:04] Speaker 1: been will be changed from career civil staff to part
[4:07] Speaker 1: of of the political appointees. Joining me now is North
[4:10] Speaker 1: Carolina State Representative Amber Baker represented. Baker glad to have
[4:13] Speaker 1: you here. This is an unbelievably shameful bill to say
[4:18] Speaker 1: that you can't even encourage people to vote. Is absolutely
[4:23] Speaker 1: a violation of the First Amendment.
[4:27] Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, Roland. You know, we in North Carolina, unlike
[4:34] Speaker 5: what's happening around arrest of America. Is you know, our
[4:40] Speaker 5: constituents and voters are struggling with higher costs with utility
[4:45] Speaker 5: bills and rising gas costs, and the cost of feeding
[4:50] Speaker 5: families and the lack of workforce housing. And yet the
[4:56] Speaker 5: Republicans are choosing to focus on election law changes and
[5:03] Speaker 5: so close to the November elections. And additionally, you know
[5:10] Speaker 5: this is not new for them, that they have a
[5:12] Speaker 5: track record of trying to change election laws not too
[5:19] Speaker 5: far from our general elections.
[5:25] Speaker 1: Again, for folks who don't know, in November twenty twenty four,
[5:29] Speaker 1: Democrats retained the governor's mansion, Democrats won lieutenant governor's race,
[5:35] Speaker 1: Democrats won the Attorney General's race, and also I believe
[5:39] Speaker 1: the Secretary of States race correct.
[5:42] Speaker 6: Correct.
[5:42] Speaker 1: So what Republicans did was they stripped the authority over
[5:46] Speaker 1: State Board of Elections from the government Secretary of State
[5:49] Speaker 1: and gave it to the state auditor. And this is
[5:51] Speaker 1: what Republicans have done when they have had a super
[5:55] Speaker 1: majority in the legislature. And these are the actions that
[5:58] Speaker 1: they have taken repeatedly over the last fifteen years.
[6:04] Speaker 5: And they're also in lock sync what we're seeing in
[6:07] Speaker 5: terms of trying to get access to our voters social
[6:11] Speaker 5: security numbers, which you know has nothing to do with
[6:14] Speaker 5: people's ability to vote. They also are continuing to suppress
[6:20] Speaker 5: the voters in terms of access. So, as you mentioned
[6:25] Speaker 5: at the top, people who are known who work and
[6:32] Speaker 5: serve overseas, but who have their base as North Carolina
[6:37] Speaker 5: but have never actually lived in North Carolina, which is
[6:39] Speaker 5: legal because they are a military in the military, these
[6:43] Speaker 5: folks are in jeopardy of losing their ability to vote
[6:46] Speaker 5: as well.
[6:47] Speaker 1: Okay, so right now where does this stand? Do if
[6:52] Speaker 1: I'm correct, they no longer have the super majority, correct?
[6:56] Speaker 5: Correct? We have it by one vote. Are able to
[7:03] Speaker 5: sustain a governor's veto if Governor Stein chooses to veto
[7:06] Speaker 5: this bill by one vote, but as you know, that
[7:11] Speaker 5: can be problematic, So we have to make sure that
[7:14] Speaker 5: we hold all of our votes well.
[7:16] Speaker 1: And they continuation and you and what people don't realize
[7:20] Speaker 1: is you had three Democrats who lost in the primary
[7:24] Speaker 1: and they're pissed off and they could be problematic in
[7:28] Speaker 1: terms of holding that holding that veto.
[7:30] Speaker 5: Absolutely and one of those members is also on the
[7:33] Speaker 5: Elections Law Committee, which our service the shadow chair for,
[7:37] Speaker 5: and so we are scheduled to officially hear the bill
[7:41] Speaker 5: in Election Law and Reform in the morning. And there's
[7:45] Speaker 5: not enough Democrats on that committee to kill it in committee,
[7:52] Speaker 5: but we still want to show a united front and
[7:56] Speaker 5: right now we're unsure where the Republicans stand on this.
[8:00] Speaker 5: We've offered a series of amendments to make a really
[8:03] Speaker 5: horrible bill less horrible, and so we will begin the
[8:10] Speaker 5: process of moving the bill from failing to eventually.
[8:15] Speaker 7: Seeing it land on the floor.
[8:17] Speaker 1: It's amazing how this just continues and Republicans want to
[8:23] Speaker 1: just they don't want everyone to vote. That's what this
[8:26] Speaker 1: is all about. And this bill they dropped is absolutely shocking, stunning,
[8:31] Speaker 1: but it's par for the course for the people who
[8:34] Speaker 1: a federal judge, federal panel of federal judge rule. We're
[8:38] Speaker 1: at a laserl like precision of targeting of black voters.
[8:41] Speaker 1: These people have been doing all they can to stop
[8:44] Speaker 1: people from voting in North Carolina and especially black people.
[8:48] Speaker 5: Yeah, you know our maps are you know they are
[8:52] Speaker 5: jerrymandered to the HILP. So at this point they really
[8:59] Speaker 5: can't jered mandert any father, although they could. But now
[9:05] Speaker 5: what they're doing is we've created the maps that we want, which,
[9:09] Speaker 5: by the way, you know, the Speaker pro Tem and
[9:13] Speaker 5: the Senate lost his seat even with those jerry mander seats.
[9:18] Speaker 5: But now they're suppressing the vote with these with these provisions.
[9:24] Speaker 5: And the really ironic thing about this is one of
[9:28] Speaker 5: the bill's sponsors is Sarah Stevens, and she is running
[9:33] Speaker 5: against Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, and so this is
[9:37] Speaker 5: her bill. And so she is scheduled to resign her
[9:41] Speaker 5: position as of noon tomorrow, so she will not be
[9:46] Speaker 5: able to vote on this bill. But it'll be interesting
[9:49] Speaker 5: to see if she shows up in committee to speak
[9:51] Speaker 5: on the bill, but she probably will not because she
[9:55] Speaker 5: does not want people to know that she's the author
[9:59] Speaker 5: of this mess.
[10:00] Speaker 7: What a name, Sarah Stevens.
[10:03] Speaker 1: Sarah Stevens, Well, I tell you right now. You know,
[10:09] Speaker 1: people need just to understand what's going on here, and
[10:13] Speaker 1: we're seeing these actions all over the country. So y'all
[10:18] Speaker 1: can pick you up the fight. We certainly appreciate it.
[10:21] Speaker 7: We will keep up the fight.
[10:22] Speaker 5: And the other person on that bill sponsor for people
[10:25] Speaker 5: to keep a close out because he is in a
[10:27] Speaker 5: flippable seed is John blust Out of Guilford.
[10:31] Speaker 1: John and the last name B l U S T.
[10:35] Speaker 1: Got it okay, And he.
[10:37] Speaker 5: Was on the floor a couple of weeks ago talking
[10:40] Speaker 5: about how America has gotten a bad rep for slavery
[10:46] Speaker 5: and how in some ways we're responsible for the demolishment
[10:52] Speaker 5: of slavery, but America doesn't get enough credit for that.
[10:55] Speaker 5: So that is the shenanigans that we're dealing with.
[11:00] Speaker 1: It's crazy, all right, versent A Bakery, appreciate it.
[11:02] Speaker 7: Thanks a lot, Thank you, sir.
[11:05] Speaker 1: Now folks also keep in mind later this weekend, Georgia
[11:09] Speaker 1: lawmakers will return for a special session to consider moving
[11:12] Speaker 1: away from QR code printed ballots used to talate votes.
[11:16] Speaker 1: This comes after Governor Brian Kim called the special session
[11:19] Speaker 1: to redraw congressional maps for the twenty twenty eight elections
[11:22] Speaker 1: and address concerns run on the state's touchscreen voting machines.
[11:26] Speaker 1: Voting rights advocates have raised concerns that the machines may
[11:29] Speaker 1: be vulnerable to hacking, and argue that voters cannot fully
[11:33] Speaker 1: verify that their ballots are accurately recorded. If lawmakers do
[11:36] Speaker 1: not resolve their issues soon, election officials warned that the
[11:39] Speaker 1: state could face confusion and potentially litigation ahead of a
[11:42] Speaker 1: special election to field a US House seats scheduled for July.
[11:46] Speaker 1: But the big thing they're also the changing of their
[11:49] Speaker 1: maps twenty twenty eight. Georgia wants to wipe out at
[11:53] Speaker 1: least two black congressional seats. Let's go to my panel
[11:56] Speaker 1: of joining US today is doctor amaconggo to being a
[12:00] Speaker 1: senior professor Electoral School of International Service, American University. He
[12:05] Speaker 1: joins US right now from Washington, d C. He also
[12:08] Speaker 1: is author of the book Lies About Black People, How
[12:11] Speaker 1: to Combat Racist Dejlanna Jonson's Texas state represented and lawyer
[12:14] Speaker 1: from Houston. Doctor Derrek Jackson, State represented from Georgia from Atlantic.
[12:19] Speaker 1: Glad to have all three of you here. I'll start
[12:22] Speaker 1: with you, Derek. What's happening in Georgia again? They are
[12:27] Speaker 1: targeting black people. This is an attack on black people.
[12:30] Speaker 1: And what you see in North Carolina, they absolutely are
[12:33] Speaker 1: scared to death. A massive voter turnout. Republicans lost the
[12:37] Speaker 1: top four positions in the state. You've got a US
[12:40] Speaker 1: Senate seat that is up for grabs. You've got to
[12:43] Speaker 1: need an earl's seat on the Supreme Court. If she
[12:46] Speaker 1: retains her seat, it will be five to two Republicans.
[12:49] Speaker 1: Three of their seats are up in twenty twenty eight.
[12:52] Speaker 1: That's what all this is about.
[12:55] Speaker 7: You're absolutely right, Roland.
[12:57] Speaker 8: I mean, this is about trying to to diminish black
[13:03] Speaker 8: voters power.
[13:04] Speaker 7: I mean, think about it.
[13:05] Speaker 9: They're going after Sanford Bishop See, he's been there for
[13:10] Speaker 9: thirty years. They also want to go after the late
[13:15] Speaker 9: Congressman David Scott See.
[13:17] Speaker 7: And so we see what they're trying to do. Number One,
[13:22] Speaker 7: they keep trying to.
[13:23] Speaker 9: Use what happened in Louisiana, that court case in Louisiana
[13:27] Speaker 9: that has nothing to do with Georgia.
[13:29] Speaker 7: George is not mentioned in that case. Roland has absolutely
[13:33] Speaker 7: nothing to do with Georgia.
[13:36] Speaker 6: So it's wrong.
[13:37] Speaker 9: What they're trying to do is illegal. Because they're also saying, well,
[13:41] Speaker 9: we have a legal right.
[13:42] Speaker 7: No it's not. We're not supposed to be here rolling
[13:45] Speaker 7: till twenty thirty.
[13:47] Speaker 9: And so we don't even have current census data to
[13:51] Speaker 9: read district and redraw these maps. And so the last
[13:55] Speaker 9: and I appreciate you're having, my dear sister from North Carolina,
[14:01] Speaker 9: this threat around where we are. We have what our
[14:06] Speaker 9: ancestors did not have Roland because when back when they
[14:10] Speaker 9: created the Voter and Rice Act, they didn't have not
[14:13] Speaker 9: one black person in Congress, not one black person.
[14:16] Speaker 7: In the state legislature, not one, not one.
[14:21] Speaker 9: And so they're trying to roll back the clock from
[14:24] Speaker 9: nineteen sixty four, nineteen sixty five to where we are
[14:27] Speaker 9: in twenty twenty six, and so we cannot allow for
[14:29] Speaker 9: this to happen. Our special session will start on June seventeenth.
[14:33] Speaker 9: We're asking everyone.
[14:35] Speaker 7: Near, in near, in far to show up and be
[14:39] Speaker 7: that voice we need to. This is not just about Georgia.
[14:43] Speaker 9: This is about the South from Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
[14:50] Speaker 9: South Carolina, North Carolina, and so we're asking everyone to
[14:54] Speaker 9: show up on June seventeen.
[14:56] Speaker 7: Programs such as yours. We got to bring more visibility.
[14:58] Speaker 9: To this because but they're trying to say they have
[15:01] Speaker 9: the right and we all know it's very wrong.
[15:05] Speaker 1: Julanda, I'll go to you again. You have been part
[15:08] Speaker 1: of these battles in Texas and it is absolutely Republican
[15:11] Speaker 1: war on Black America.
[15:13] Speaker 10: It's well, they're trying to take us back to even
[15:16] Speaker 10: before Jim Crow. But the bottom line is Trump controls
[15:18] Speaker 10: us the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court made it easier
[15:22] Speaker 10: for them to disenfranchise us. And what you can see
[15:25] Speaker 10: is Trump knows he's really messing up, as do his allies.
[15:28] Speaker 10: So they have really lost their minds and they are desperate,
[15:32] Speaker 10: and they're trying in every state where they have somebody
[15:35] Speaker 10: Republican who can do something to literally change the rules
[15:38] Speaker 10: and confuse people before it's time for them to vote.
[15:40] Speaker 10: And quite frankly, with the racist Jerry Mandarin, where they've
[15:43] Speaker 10: cracked and they've packed us. In other words, they've taken
[15:46] Speaker 10: Black people where we were concentrated and could control the
[15:49] Speaker 10: outcome of an election and divided us up to weaken
[15:54] Speaker 10: our concentration. So the only way for us to overcome
[15:58] Speaker 10: this is to go out and vote in these special
[16:00] Speaker 10: elections during November like we've never voted before, because this
[16:04] Speaker 10: literally is going to determine how far we are able
[16:08] Speaker 10: to go in the future and whether we will continue
[16:11] Speaker 10: to have rights, because our kids have less rights than
[16:13] Speaker 10: we do for sure, And so that's what the cale
[16:17] Speaker 10: case in Louisiana was. It was so that the Republicans
[16:20] Speaker 10: can do exactly this because the Supreme Court has no legitimacy.
[16:24] Speaker 10: It is absolutely the the I guess, the voting piece
[16:28] Speaker 10: for the president and to it's my understanding that this
[16:32] Speaker 10: just came out on Friday, what's to day Monday, So
[16:35] Speaker 10: people have to be working to try to figure out
[16:36] Speaker 10: how to stop this. But the only way again for
[16:39] Speaker 10: them to be able to stop anything in Georgia is
[16:43] Speaker 10: to go out and vote. And I know we're not
[16:46] Speaker 10: talking about like them saying you can't tell anybody when
[16:50] Speaker 10: to vote. That violates the First Amendment first and foremost.
[16:53] Speaker 10: So I think that people need to tell them anyway
[16:56] Speaker 10: when it's time to vote at all day, every day,
[16:59] Speaker 10: clearing calls and black newspaper in black media on here,
[17:03] Speaker 10: rolling and everywhere else, so that black people know when
[17:05] Speaker 10: it's time for them to go vote, because we will
[17:07] Speaker 10: be worse than Jim Crow if this is able to
[17:11] Speaker 10: go forward. And it's unacceptable, it's unconstitutional, it's illegal. We
[17:15] Speaker 10: are under attack and we better start fighting back because
[17:19] Speaker 10: if we don't, they're going to drag us back into slavery.
[17:21] Speaker 1: Oh my congo. I've been saying over and over and
[17:24] Speaker 1: over again for years. The only way to stop these
[17:27] Speaker 1: people at the ballot box, and that requires a massive,
[17:31] Speaker 1: massive voter black voter.
[17:33] Speaker 7: Turnout, absolutely and without the vote, we're nothing.
[17:39] Speaker 11: I'm going to add another piece set is not as
[17:42] Speaker 11: important as voting, but it's like one A or part
[17:45] Speaker 11: two that letter that the CBC wrote to these companies.
[17:50] Speaker 11: We have to continue to demand that these companies answer
[17:54] Speaker 11: and let them know that there's going to be real
[17:55] Speaker 11: consequences if they do not. They got their money that
[17:59] Speaker 11: they're given to the ball room. Some of them sponsored
[18:01] Speaker 11: usc bouts that happen over the weekend. I know we'll
[18:04] Speaker 11: get to that later. And some of these and all
[18:06] Speaker 11: of these politicians in these states are being funded by
[18:09] Speaker 11: somebody as well, and that's another area that we need
[18:12] Speaker 11: to do more to speak up on to let some
[18:14] Speaker 11: of these companies know that we can really start to
[18:16] Speaker 11: if we've really come together and get organized, we can
[18:18] Speaker 11: shut them down as well. So the political piece, the
[18:21] Speaker 11: voting piece, is number one first and foremost. We all
[18:23] Speaker 11: have said that here, but there are other ways that
[18:26] Speaker 11: we can be strategic about it. And the same way
[18:28] Speaker 11: that you talk every week about our black dollars and
[18:30] Speaker 11: the power.
[18:30] Speaker 7: That we have in our community.
[18:32] Speaker 11: And the same way that the CBC wrote that letter
[18:35] Speaker 11: saying hey, you organizations got to speak up.
[18:37] Speaker 7: We need to put more pressure on them.
[18:38] Speaker 11: My ci Angela Ry doing a video about that last
[18:40] Speaker 11: week where she was like, people are cowering out. They're
[18:43] Speaker 11: speaking up, they just want to protect They're not speaking up.
[18:45] Speaker 11: They just want to protect their checks. And I feel
[18:47] Speaker 11: like those folks need to be called out too. But
[18:49] Speaker 11: we have to follow up more with these companies because
[18:51] Speaker 11: I think that that's a key component they're skating by
[18:54] Speaker 11: right now while they're helping Trump and Magna do everything
[18:57] Speaker 11: that they want to do.
[18:58] Speaker 7: They need more pressure right now.
[19:02] Speaker 1: As the phrase says, pressure bus pipes, and that is
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[21:00] Speaker 1: Donald Trump literally turned the White House into a trailer park.
[21:07] Speaker 1: UFC had their so called UFC two fifty fight. That
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[21:43] Speaker 1: for adding basketball goals to the White House tennis court.
[21:48] Speaker 1: These fools had this ring erected, and it took more
[21:52] Speaker 1: than a month to actually have it erected, and it
[21:56] Speaker 1: was somewhat delayed by storms in the Nation's Capitol. I
[21:58] Speaker 1: wish it was delayed completely. This was Now keep in
[22:01] Speaker 1: mind Donald Trump is an investor in UFC parent company.
[22:05] Speaker 1: This was streamed on Paramount Plus. It was streaming on
[22:09] Speaker 1: the US Army Twitter channel, So the federal government was
[22:11] Speaker 1: streaming a a max of a for profit company, a
[22:16] Speaker 1: private company utilizing public property. This was pathetic. And of course,
[22:23] Speaker 1: after this idiot Josh Hokit, who at his way in
[22:27] Speaker 1: showed up drunk spitting on himself. It's no shock after
[22:32] Speaker 1: praising God, he would insult former First Lady Michelle Obama.
[22:38] Speaker 1: Shout out to Trump for having the balls to put
[22:40] Speaker 1: some shit like this on. And if I'm gonna say anything,
[22:46] Speaker 1: there's only one person more incredible than the incredible Holy
[22:51] Speaker 1: and that's why Lord is Savior, Jesus Christ.
[22:56] Speaker 7: Now listen, alex I want to shama on your mama.
[23:08] Speaker 14: And lastly, Mochellebama is a man, am I right America.
[23:19] Speaker 1: So he insults from a First Lady Michelle Obama. Joe
[23:22] Speaker 1: Rogan says nothing. He's smiling the whole time. All y'all
[23:27] Speaker 1: black people who watch and listen to Joe Rogan, you
[23:31] Speaker 1: should be ashamed of yourself for that. That's what that
[23:35] Speaker 1: was all about. And Donald Trump said nothing, did nothing,
[23:39] Speaker 1: and so did the leader of the UFC Dana White,
[23:42] Speaker 1: who sat ringside next to Donald Trump at the Post
[23:47] Speaker 1: News conference. Did Dana White address this issue, No, didn't
[23:52] Speaker 1: say a word. Now, he had an interview late Sunday
[23:55] Speaker 1: night with Time Magazine. He said, quote, I understand if
[23:59] Speaker 1: the Obama's are public figures, but I'm completely against saying
[24:02] Speaker 1: nasty and false things about people's families. Everyone knows my
[24:07] Speaker 1: position on free speech, but I hate that kind of nonsense.
[24:11] Speaker 1: So why don't you get your punk ass in the
[24:13] Speaker 1: ring and say that. Why didn't you say it during
[24:16] Speaker 1: the broadcast? Oh, maybe it's because you slap your wife
[24:21] Speaker 1: around and you don't mind in women being insulted. And
[24:25] Speaker 1: remember when that idiot at Fox News, Emily Compatno said
[24:29] Speaker 1: last month, you know that's you know, totally dim witted
[24:32] Speaker 1: host of Fox's out number. Remember when she got upset
[24:36] Speaker 1: in why doesn't Michelle Obama stand up and defend Malonia Trump?
[24:44] Speaker 15: And my second observation is, I would really appreciate if
[24:47] Speaker 15: any former first Lady would release a statement and just
[24:50] Speaker 15: say I stand and support as this first lady, because
[24:53] Speaker 15: that absence of commentary in the way of many. Michelle
[24:56] Speaker 15: Obama is on her podcast all the time We've heard
[24:59] Speaker 15: her thoughts on a lot of things. Can she just
[25:01] Speaker 15: spare one sentence in support of this first lady who
[25:04] Speaker 15: has been through so much, who has a target on
[25:07] Speaker 15: her in the public square and out. It is horrifyingly
[25:10] Speaker 15: atrocious how she has been treated. I would love for
[25:12] Speaker 15: there to be some support coming out of her mouth.
[25:16] Speaker 1: Wow. Do any of y'all Have any of y'all seen
[25:22] Speaker 1: Milania Trump's statement today condemning what that idiots said about
[25:27] Speaker 1: Michelle Obama? Nope, matter of fact, I'm sitting here and
[25:33] Speaker 1: I'm going through I don't recall out Numbered saying anything today.
[25:38] Speaker 1: Now I don't watch that trash, but yeah, I don't
[25:43] Speaker 1: see anything. So it's amazing how selective they are in
[25:47] Speaker 1: defending attacks on first ladies. It goes to show exactly
[25:53] Speaker 1: who these people are. For him to say that and
[25:58] Speaker 1: for Dana White not the same thing, it goes to
[26:02] Speaker 1: show you who they are. Well see him punk When
[26:06] Speaker 1: he was asked would he show up at that particular fight,
[26:11] Speaker 1: he was very clear.
[26:14] Speaker 7: A lot's been made on this White House trip?
[26:17] Speaker 6: What do you what do you make?
[26:18] Speaker 16: Would you accept a trip to the White House if invited?
[26:20] Speaker 17: Interesting question Number one, I would not be invited. Number two, No,
[26:25] Speaker 17: I would not go just no reason too. No, I'm
[26:29] Speaker 17: not David Duke invites me over for you know tacos.
[26:32] Speaker 17: I'm not going to David Duke's house, you know what
[26:34] Speaker 17: I mean? Like, come on, let's call it. Call it
[26:38] Speaker 17: like I see it. You know, racist is a racist.
[26:40] Speaker 17: I don't care if you're in the White House or
[26:42] Speaker 17: you know, you live down the street for me, Like,
[26:45] Speaker 17: I'm not hanging out with you.
[26:46] Speaker 1: Ah say, that's what happens when you have integrity. Sean
[26:50] Speaker 1: Strickland UOC champion and American was not invited to this
[26:56] Speaker 1: big celebration, He went on went on social media said
[27:00] Speaker 1: it was because of his prior criticism of a state
[27:03] Speaker 1: of Israel. Well, he showed up anyway to the big
[27:08] Speaker 1: part of their head out at at at the limp
[27:11] Speaker 1: Lips and so check this roll of video.
[27:16] Speaker 7: Everybody relaxed, RelA, cool, cool.
[27:19] Speaker 1: We gotta make it the stages so we don't die.
[27:21] Speaker 16: Be cool.
[27:22] Speaker 6: You charge my dog.
[27:24] Speaker 7: There's any races on on life.
[27:32] Speaker 4: Where's the stage out?
[27:33] Speaker 1: It's over there.
[27:33] Speaker 16: It's over there, right to the stage, and.
[27:35] Speaker 10: We're gonna just rally this monment right here.
[27:44] Speaker 7: Long.
[27:44] Speaker 1: I got you couple.
[27:59] Speaker 9: Got to like.
[28:03] Speaker 7: That gets back shout, oh ship.
[28:12] Speaker 6: Right, get back things I did you do that? You don't?
[28:19] Speaker 1: I mistand to to to to to al right, guys
[29:15] Speaker 1: to be cross rolling another video.
[29:36] Speaker 12: Now, I cannot believe that brow.
[29:41] Speaker 1: Of You're gonna love them the middleweight sh Okay, here's
[29:50] Speaker 1: another video watch the cops.
[29:56] Speaker 12: Hello, Alla Zaib, you know I cannot believe that Brown
[30:22] Speaker 12: locked up the middle eight.
[30:23] Speaker 7: Appreciate I am breaking all. I'm pretty sure.
[30:29] Speaker 1: So let me explain something, y'all. It wasn't ticketed at
[30:36] Speaker 1: the fan deal open to the public. Strickland shows up.
[30:41] Speaker 1: Oh they said, nah uh you critical of Israel, which
[30:46] Speaker 1: means Trump you gotta go. I guess Dana White doesn't
[30:50] Speaker 1: really believe in free speech, does he. It's come by
[30:54] Speaker 1: panel get their thoughts on the pathetic display of ignorance
[31:00] Speaker 1: that we saw this this weekend on the Congo.
[31:03] Speaker 11: You first, man, you know, it really ties into my
[31:08] Speaker 11: last segment, you know, comment about the first of all,
[31:11] Speaker 11: the White House in the entire administration just being for sale.
[31:14] Speaker 7: And I talked about the sponsorship.
[31:17] Speaker 11: Yes, you talked about Trump being invested in this and
[31:20] Speaker 11: he's talking about you know, leaving it up there. And
[31:23] Speaker 11: the fact that of matter is that this is a
[31:24] Speaker 11: fundamentally violent man who believes in violent demonstrations, and this
[31:29] Speaker 11: is why we got the insurrection.
[31:30] Speaker 7: Two A was a fan of.
[31:31] Speaker 11: This is why when Rob Reiner was killed, he was
[31:34] Speaker 11: talking about I didn't really like him. He is just
[31:36] Speaker 11: a violent man and gets off on violence. And he
[31:38] Speaker 11: threw all this party taxpayers dollars just to get there
[31:41] Speaker 11: and fall asleep. And one thing that's not being talked
[31:44] Speaker 11: about enough is the way that the military was utilized
[31:48] Speaker 11: and disrespected.
[31:49] Speaker 7: In order to be there, the.
[31:50] Speaker 11: Military that we're called, you had to have a certain
[31:52] Speaker 11: height and weight requirement and waste requirement as well. When
[31:56] Speaker 11: you see somebody who has a certain I know, representative,
[32:00] Speaker 11: you knows is better than I do. You know, when
[32:02] Speaker 11: you have a certain type of recognition, you're supposed to
[32:04] Speaker 11: get saluted when you're walking down And so you know
[32:07] Speaker 11: these soldiers who are walking down with these martial arts fighters,
[32:11] Speaker 11: and people thought that the military was saluting these martial
[32:13] Speaker 11: arts fighters, but they were saluting, you know, the members
[32:17] Speaker 11: of the armed forces who escorting them down there.
[32:20] Speaker 7: So it was just disrespectful.
[32:21] Speaker 11: He disrespected our military and cost the taxpayers millions of
[32:25] Speaker 11: dollars all for what all of this, and then they
[32:28] Speaker 11: have that racist remark at the end.
[32:30] Speaker 7: This shows exactly who they are.
[32:31] Speaker 11: Just like the commentator said or the guy you showed,
[32:34] Speaker 11: I'm not going to go and hang out with a race.
[32:36] Speaker 7: I'm just not going to do that.
[32:37] Speaker 11: And we don't have enough people who have that type
[32:39] Speaker 11: of gumption to be able to call that out. And lastly,
[32:42] Speaker 11: Joe Rogan, you're a coward.
[32:46] Speaker 1: And there's no way in hell I would have attended
[32:49] Speaker 1: that crap, and some black folks I know who did
[32:53] Speaker 1: and that's pathetic as well. Jilanda, your thoughts about the
[32:58] Speaker 1: just ridiculous and utter a display and a waste of
[33:01] Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars. Security alone, Washington d C Is gonna have
[33:05] Speaker 1: to get paid back about twelve million dollars as a result.
[33:08] Speaker 1: That's what it's going to cost taxpayers for that crap
[33:12] Speaker 1: that took place two blocks from here. You know you're
[33:19] Speaker 1: on mute.
[33:23] Speaker 10: I don't know why, but I'm sorry about that.
[33:25] Speaker 1: You hit them because you hear me, you hit your
[33:28] Speaker 1: mute button.
[33:30] Speaker 10: I don't believe so. But let's let's get back to
[33:33] Speaker 10: this to say that it's ignorant, it's super nice. It's racist.
[33:38] Speaker 10: Call us fade's fade, That's what it is. Number Two,
[33:41] Speaker 10: it is obvious that Donald Trump and Republicans and white
[33:46] Speaker 10: men especially are terrified of Black women because they know
[33:50] Speaker 10: that we are the most qualified of anyone, which is
[33:53] Speaker 10: why they are always coming for us, and they're going
[33:56] Speaker 10: to continue to come for us because we know exactly
[33:59] Speaker 10: how to get them, how to stop them. That's the
[34:02] Speaker 10: second thing I'll say. The third thing I'll say is, look,
[34:05] Speaker 10: the little man they showed was like five seven. He's
[34:07] Speaker 10: a freaking lily Putian is what he is. So these
[34:10] Speaker 10: are a lot of men with little things and they're
[34:12] Speaker 10: trying to make up up for it with their big words.
[34:16] Speaker 10: And I'll also tell you, while on Earth, would Michelle Obama,
[34:20] Speaker 10: with very many letters behind her name, be defending Milania Trump,
[34:24] Speaker 10: who's never defended Michelle Obama. And Michelle Obama never had
[34:28] Speaker 10: to take her clothes off and never had to strip
[34:30] Speaker 10: for nobody, and never had to take no naked pictures
[34:33] Speaker 10: and to be able to come up in this world,
[34:35] Speaker 10: and Milania Trump has. And so Milania Trump is a
[34:39] Speaker 10: I guess, pretty face. If you like him looking like that,
[34:42] Speaker 10: and that's how she got to where it is she is.
[34:44] Speaker 10: But you know what, they're going to keep coming after
[34:46] Speaker 10: President Obama and Michelle Obama because they don't have anything
[34:49] Speaker 10: better to do and they have nothing substantive to criticize
[34:52] Speaker 10: us for. And the fact that Donald Trump gets to
[34:55] Speaker 10: comingo private funds with public funds is illegal. And when
[35:00] Speaker 10: he gets out of office, we need to go after
[35:02] Speaker 10: him and put him under the jail, which is exactly
[35:05] Speaker 10: where he deserves to be. And we need to cancel
[35:09] Speaker 10: every black person that was at that event. And black
[35:12] Speaker 10: people do not need to watch WWF or whatever the
[35:16] Speaker 10: hell it is because it's racist as well.
[35:21] Speaker 1: I'll tell you this here. This was altered in photoshop
[35:26] Speaker 1: on social media. That was not the shirt that Sean
[35:29] Speaker 1: Strickland was wearing. But hey, it's also true Trump is
[35:34] Speaker 1: in the Epstein files.
[35:35] Speaker 8: Derek, you know this is grounds for impeachment, then just
[35:41] Speaker 8: start there. This is grounds for impeachment. They need the
[35:45] Speaker 8: Congress need to do their job and start this impeachment
[35:49] Speaker 8: process right now.
[35:51] Speaker 9: I read something earlier today Roland that this individual that's
[35:58] Speaker 9: occupying the Oval office he's.
[36:00] Speaker 7: Been in for his second term, has enriched his family
[36:03] Speaker 7: three point four billion dollars. Now, a lot of folks
[36:07] Speaker 7: will ask, well, how does that so, Well, this is
[36:11] Speaker 7: a great example pay per view. He's part of that.
[36:14] Speaker 7: He got some of those dollars. But I just want to.
[36:19] Speaker 9: Address the military piece as one that served this country
[36:22] Speaker 9: for twenty two years. I just posted on the late
[36:26] Speaker 9: great Brigader General Charles McGee. He's the last of the
[36:30] Speaker 9: Tuskegee Airmen. He was one hundred and two served this country.
[36:36] Speaker 7: And when I watched those twelve jets that was part
[36:40] Speaker 7: of this process. This is not a five million dollar jet.
[36:46] Speaker 9: Those jets each cost closely fifty million dollars apiece. So
[36:51] Speaker 9: when you start talking about the misuse and abuse of
[36:54] Speaker 9: our military personnel, those who served, those who no longer serve,
[36:59] Speaker 9: those who will.
[36:59] Speaker 7: Retire, and they serve this country.
[37:04] Speaker 9: Some of them gave their last breath, and you got
[37:07] Speaker 9: the person that's referred to as the commander in chief.
[37:10] Speaker 7: This is grounds for impeachment. And there were also three
[37:13] Speaker 7: brawls that took place on the ground of this rose garden.
[37:17] Speaker 7: They didn't want to talk about that. Needs fights broke out,
[37:21] Speaker 7: and so we.
[37:21] Speaker 9: Just got to make sure that this most despicable and disgusting.
[37:26] Speaker 9: While they keep talking about the celebration of America in
[37:29] Speaker 9: the last two hundred fifty years.
[37:31] Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to talk about the triumph, but we
[37:33] Speaker 7: got to talk about the tragedy too.
[37:35] Speaker 9: But you to talk about those who serve this country.
[37:38] Speaker 9: And it's just despicable that this person that referred to
[37:41] Speaker 9: himself as a commander in chief treated this country and
[37:45] Speaker 9: continued to treat this country in the most demeaning way,
[37:48] Speaker 9: and then last one not leaves.
[37:49] Speaker 7: You know, Malcolm Ax said the best.
[37:51] Speaker 9: He said, the most disrespected person in America is a
[37:54] Speaker 9: black woman.
[37:55] Speaker 7: The most unprotected person in America is a black onoe.
[37:57] Speaker 7: The most neglected person in a because a black woman.
[38:01] Speaker 7: So for him to come out and.
[38:04] Speaker 9: To say what he said about Michelle Obama, the one
[38:06] Speaker 9: that occupied that over that White House for eight years,
[38:11] Speaker 9: scandal free, and there's no response to it. There's no
[38:17] Speaker 9: response from the current first lady that's there. And so,
[38:21] Speaker 9: I you know, I'm just I'm just I'm beside myself
[38:25] Speaker 9: right now, Roland, because it's incredulous to me. Mm hm,
[38:32] Speaker 9: it's incredulous to me.
[38:33] Speaker 6: Yep.
[38:34] Speaker 1: Well, and don't what else country too, well, don't don't forget.
[38:39] Speaker 1: Don't don't forget. This is what another UFC fighter, Bryce Mitchell,
[38:42] Speaker 1: what he said last week when he was asked about
[38:47] Speaker 1: this pathetic event that was staged at the White House.
[38:50] Speaker 1: And again they kept saying that, oh, you've seen it's
[38:52] Speaker 1: covering all cars. No, no, no, taxpayers also funding some
[38:55] Speaker 1: stuff as well.
[38:56] Speaker 18: Go I'm gonna I'm gonna economic it's major. I love
[39:01] Speaker 18: studying politics on the political side of things, not the
[39:04] Speaker 18: UFC's business.
[39:06] Speaker 1: That is.
[39:07] Speaker 18: Of course they're going to say yes to it. But
[39:09] Speaker 18: what I think personally is that our government is desecrating
[39:14] Speaker 18: its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is
[39:19] Speaker 18: to protect and serve the people and really should be
[39:22] Speaker 18: as minimal as possible. And when you're when you're doing
[39:26] Speaker 18: all of this stuff, hosting sportings events, it's really outside
[39:30] Speaker 18: of what the goal of the government was intended to
[39:33] Speaker 18: be because our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation.
[39:37] Speaker 18: And like I said, I'm not criticizing the UFC. I
[39:40] Speaker 18: love Dana, I love Hunter, I love Sean Mick, I
[39:44] Speaker 18: love all of them. And it's a it's an amazing thing,
[39:47] Speaker 18: it's a once in a lifetime thing. But the government
[39:50] Speaker 18: should never be hosting sporting events because there's more room
[39:54] Speaker 18: for corruption, and we already have a corrupted government. And
[39:58] Speaker 18: so that's my thoughts on it is that the government
[40:00] Speaker 18: is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.
[40:05] Speaker 1: Yeah, he absolutely spoke truth there, see, which I understand.
[40:09] Speaker 1: You're also dealing with just complete hypocrites and idiots on
[40:13] Speaker 1: the right. Glenn Beck at one time who said that
[40:18] Speaker 1: it would be an abomination, there's no way in the
[40:20] Speaker 1: world that he could ever support Donald Trump. Oh and
[40:24] Speaker 1: then he turned into the second biggest Trump ask Kischer
[40:27] Speaker 1: behind South Carolina Center Lindsey Graham. This is the same
[40:31] Speaker 1: person who just who decried, who just trashed President Barack
[40:37] Speaker 1: Obama for sitting down and doing interviews with YouTube creators.
[40:42] Speaker 1: This is how he felt about the UFC fight at
[40:46] Speaker 1: the White House.
[40:48] Speaker 19: So when I saw a cage match on the lawn
[40:50] Speaker 19: where the president decides the question of war in peace,
[40:53] Speaker 19: the historian in me kind of flinches a little bit. However,
[40:58] Speaker 19: it was the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the
[41:00] Speaker 19: United States of America. If you can't throw a party
[41:03] Speaker 19: at two hundred and fifty, when can you, Okay, a
[41:07] Speaker 19: celebration is not a decadence, and it is not anesthesia.
[41:14] Speaker 16: Joy is not decline. So which was it going to be?
[41:21] Speaker 19: Remembrance, joyous and entertainment. Are we rome handing out a
[41:28] Speaker 19: circus or are we a free people throwing a festival
[41:31] Speaker 19: that we have every right to throw.
[41:34] Speaker 16: I watched it last night, and it was super clear,
[41:37] Speaker 16: at least to me.
[41:38] Speaker 19: I don't know if you saw it, it was so
[41:40] Speaker 19: well worth watching, even if you don't like UFC and
[41:45] Speaker 19: the fight or whatever. I mean, I prefer boxing myself,
[41:50] Speaker 19: and I don't like.
[41:50] Speaker 16: It when they're down on the ground and they just
[41:52] Speaker 16: keep wailing on each other.
[41:53] Speaker 19: But it was okay, But it was remarkable all of
[41:58] Speaker 19: the videos that they were put in between the way
[42:01] Speaker 19: this whole thing was staged.
[42:03] Speaker 16: I mean, just the flyover. Do we have the audio
[42:06] Speaker 16: of the flyover?
[42:08] Speaker 6: Yeah?
[42:09] Speaker 1: Glenn Beck is truly an idiot. I debated that full
[42:12] Speaker 1: a couple of times. A CNN destroyed his ass and
[42:15] Speaker 1: he told them I will never go on with him again.
[42:19] Speaker 1: He told he's a total whimp. That's who he is. Okay,
[42:23] Speaker 1: and forget the fact that I'm telling y'all right now
[42:27] Speaker 1: without a doubt. Then if Obama chose to do this.
[42:31] Speaker 1: If Biden chose to do this, David about to say
[42:35] Speaker 1: David Duke Glenn sort of acts like Glenn Beck, sort
[42:38] Speaker 1: of acts like him, Glenn Beck, all the right wing
[42:41] Speaker 1: Fox News, they would be beside themselves. They would be
[42:47] Speaker 1: beyond angry at any of this going on. The fiscal
[42:51] Speaker 1: conservatives be running a monk. This is a waste of
[42:55] Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars. But it also was partisan. At the little
[42:59] Speaker 1: Fan Fast thing, whatever they had on the mall, they
[43:02] Speaker 1: were literally running loops of commercials for Turning Point USA.
[43:08] Speaker 1: This was not about America two and fifteth anniversary. This
[43:13] Speaker 1: was a birthday party for Donald Trump, pure and simple.
[43:17] Speaker 1: And it was utilizing public property the White House. It
[43:21] Speaker 1: was utilizing your money to do so. And it goes
[43:25] Speaker 1: to show you who these people are. They are corrupt,
[43:30] Speaker 1: they are evil, they are despicable, and those three words
[43:35] Speaker 1: completely define the Donald Trump administration and Donald Trump himself.
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[45:58] Speaker 1: the Trump a illustration if they cannot rewrite history just
[46:01] Speaker 1: because they don't like it. US District Judge Angel Kelly
[46:04] Speaker 1: ordered the administration to reinstall National Park signs and exhibits
[46:08] Speaker 1: about slavery and climate chains that were previously taken down.
[46:12] Speaker 1: In Mars twenty twenty five, the twice in Peach criminally
[46:14] Speaker 1: convicted fellow and in chief Donald the con Trump signed
[46:17] Speaker 1: an executive order directing agencies to remove materials that portray
[46:20] Speaker 1: the US as inherently racist, calling them quote a false
[46:24] Speaker 1: revision of history. Nah, no, it's not. However, the plaintiffs
[46:27] Speaker 1: argue the policy was unlawfully adopted and resulted the censorship
[46:31] Speaker 1: of historically accurate information. Judge Kelly ordered the exhibits reinstatement
[46:35] Speaker 1: within twenty one days and blocked any further removals while
[46:39] Speaker 1: the lawsuit continues. Now, speaking of removal, Congzolman Joyce Baty
[46:44] Speaker 1: is doing a dance after she kicked butt and forcing
[46:49] Speaker 1: Donald Trump to remove his name from the Kennedy Center.
[46:54] Speaker 1: They was crazy. We talked about this the other day,
[46:57] Speaker 1: and they have been so insane trying to defend the
[47:01] Speaker 1: crack that crap that they did, trying to defend the
[47:05] Speaker 1: sheer stupidity of his name being on there. And they
[47:10] Speaker 1: were even foully emergency motions late Friday to keep his
[47:15] Speaker 1: name on uh and so Colors woman Baby, it was
[47:19] Speaker 1: so funny. She put out this funny video of her
[47:24] Speaker 1: in the uh this is right here, this boomerang of
[47:28] Speaker 1: her POV when you Protect the Kennedy Center, And of
[47:34] Speaker 1: course she was playing Y M C a Donald Trump's
[47:39] Speaker 1: favorite little dance song. And yeah, guess what, she kicked
[47:43] Speaker 1: his ass in court and just another example of Jelanda
[47:47] Speaker 1: of Donald Trump getting his ass whooped by another black woman.
[47:53] Speaker 10: I mean, that's what we do, Roland, That's what we do.
[47:56] Speaker 10: And the hilarious thing is that is that day that
[48:00] Speaker 10: Donald Trump always does that. He thinks it's so cool.
[48:04] Speaker 10: I actually was scared about how accurate she was. I
[48:07] Speaker 10: was wondering if maybe she didn't have.
[48:10] Speaker 6: Rhythm.
[48:10] Speaker 10: But she's a delta, so she probably does have rhythm.
[48:13] Speaker 1: But in any case, really, are you gonna be that Patty?
[48:15] Speaker 1: You're gonna be that Patty?
[48:17] Speaker 16: Wow?
[48:19] Speaker 10: In any case, look, I love.
[48:21] Speaker 1: I mean, do I need to bring up Trick Daddy
[48:24] Speaker 1: the AK convention?
[48:26] Speaker 3: You know what?
[48:27] Speaker 1: Stop that?
[48:28] Speaker 7: Stop that.
[48:29] Speaker 10: I don't know why he did that.
[48:30] Speaker 6: You got Patty.
[48:34] Speaker 10: So in any case, all I have to say is this,
[48:37] Speaker 10: I'm actually pleasantly surprised that the courts that the Supremes
[48:42] Speaker 10: haven't changed it because the Supreme Court literally has thrown
[48:46] Speaker 10: away the Constitution and basically have become the rubber stamps
[48:49] Speaker 10: of Donald Trump. So I'm trying to figure out what
[48:52] Speaker 10: it is that Trump can do that the Supremes will
[48:55] Speaker 10: stop him from doing it. So I'm holding my fingers
[48:58] Speaker 10: that it's not gonna go anywhere else. But there was
[49:01] Speaker 10: no way I was ever going to the Kennedy Center
[49:03] Speaker 10: as long as Trump's name was on it. So I
[49:05] Speaker 10: want to thank Congresswoman Baby for doing that, because she
[49:09] Speaker 10: really did give us something to hope for, and she
[49:13] Speaker 10: really is trying to preserve you know, what there is.
[49:16] Speaker 10: But more people need to be like her. More people
[49:18] Speaker 10: need to be courageous enough to just sue him and
[49:21] Speaker 10: put him in his place. But I'm quite frankly liking
[49:25] Speaker 10: all these butt whoopings that Trump is taken right now,
[49:28] Speaker 10: and hopefully black women will continue to whoop him in
[49:32] Speaker 10: court for what's good for America.
[49:37] Speaker 1: I think it's just hilarious. And he was just so
[49:41] Speaker 1: upset in his filings. Derek like this ex official member, Well,
[49:46] Speaker 1: she showed you what happens when you remember and went
[49:51] Speaker 1: to court and guess what name is in the dumpster?
[49:57] Speaker 7: You know this is very clear facts versus police to
[50:00] Speaker 7: call whitewashing.
[50:01] Speaker 9: I mean, slavery happened, and so I'm happy that the
[50:06] Speaker 9: judge did the right thing by saying, let's reinstall the
[50:10] Speaker 9: slavery exhibits.
[50:12] Speaker 7: It's part of this two hundred and fifty year story
[50:15] Speaker 7: that folks want to tell right now.
[50:17] Speaker 9: It wasn't all about roses and violence and happy blue skies.
[50:23] Speaker 7: Slavery happened in this country.
[50:26] Speaker 9: And so they got to stop trying to ban books
[50:29] Speaker 9: in whitewash history, and let's call it what it is.
[50:32] Speaker 9: It's part of the collective heritage of this country. They
[50:35] Speaker 9: started this roland. They took our ancestor from an unknown
[50:40] Speaker 9: from a known country and brought them to an unknown land.
[50:43] Speaker 6: They started this.
[50:44] Speaker 7: So you gotta tell a part of the story then last.
[50:46] Speaker 6: Them, not lead.
[50:47] Speaker 7: You can't just continue to talk about our contributions and
[50:53] Speaker 7: exclude us.
[50:55] Speaker 9: You can't talk about Abraham Lincoln and not talk about
[50:57] Speaker 9: Frederick Douglas.
[51:00] Speaker 7: Possible.
[51:01] Speaker 9: If you're gonna talk about Abraham Leak, you got to
[51:03] Speaker 9: talk about Frederick Dougs. And so we got to make
[51:06] Speaker 9: sure this collective story is being told so that way
[51:09] Speaker 9: the present and more importantly, the future, understands what we've
[51:14] Speaker 9: done individually and collectively for this country on the Congo.
[51:20] Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, I certified one hundred percent both of what
[51:24] Speaker 11: our representatives said here. One of the problems that I'm having, however,
[51:28] Speaker 11: is that Mark Eliah said this, you know, the attorney.
[51:30] Speaker 7: He said, when people go.
[51:32] Speaker 11: To court, the judges assume that everybody who's coming to
[51:35] Speaker 11: the court is a good faith actor.
[51:37] Speaker 7: And he said, for years, the courts have for.
[51:40] Speaker 11: Too long been looking at Trump and his administration as
[51:43] Speaker 11: good faith actors, and so they continually give his administration
[51:47] Speaker 11: so much leeway. It's such a problem. It's such a
[51:50] Speaker 11: problem for me that these cases take forever. I mean,
[51:53] Speaker 11: he should have never been able to get the name
[51:55] Speaker 11: up there on the first place. But they understand how
[51:58] Speaker 11: slow the process works. But these courts need to understand
[52:01] Speaker 11: that they're dealing with somebody who was not a good
[52:03] Speaker 11: faith actor, and they need to be able to figure
[52:05] Speaker 11: out a way to respond more quickly. Because whether we're
[52:08] Speaker 11: talking about the name on the Kennedy Center, whether we're
[52:11] Speaker 11: talking about these these things that he's taken down from
[52:13] Speaker 11: national parks, we can run down so many issues that
[52:17] Speaker 11: by the time they finally get around the blocking some
[52:19] Speaker 11: of these things, the damage has already been done. And
[52:21] Speaker 11: in some instances it's cost people lives, the deportations.
[52:24] Speaker 6: And the light.
[52:25] Speaker 11: But really, at the end of the day, I'm so
[52:27] Speaker 11: happy for for what Representative Bady has done because I
[52:30] Speaker 11: remember when the decisions were made and they said, oh,
[52:33] Speaker 11: it's a unanimous vote, and all of us are like, yo,
[52:35] Speaker 11: baby's on, she's there, what's happening? How comes she ain't
[52:38] Speaker 11: saying nothing. She was like, yo, I was muted, like
[52:41] Speaker 11: they were literally muting me. But now they can't mute
[52:43] Speaker 11: it because she has had the last laugh and it's
[52:45] Speaker 11: the last laugh for America.
[52:50] Speaker 1: Well again, I think you have to fight ignorant, and
[52:54] Speaker 1: you have to fight hard every single day. That is
[52:57] Speaker 1: absolutely required, especially when you do deal with this nutcase
[53:02] Speaker 1: sitting in the Oval office. All right, folks, we're going
[53:04] Speaker 1: to talk about in the next hour how America wants
[53:10] Speaker 1: to forget its history. I'm a player comment from this
[53:15] Speaker 1: right wing nutcase so called comedian I don't know what
[53:18] Speaker 1: the hell he is, Adam Corolla and actually speaks to that.
[53:21] Speaker 1: We'll also talk about the efforts to mobilize voters, especially
[53:25] Speaker 1: black voters in Texas with a freedom Summer. And so
[53:29] Speaker 1: it's a lot we're going to break down right here
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[55:03] Speaker 1: believable him. This week is a kickoff for Texas Freedom
[55:14] Speaker 1: Summer two point zero. The nineteen sixties Freedom Summer was
[55:17] Speaker 1: a movement in which students mobilized for voting rights, converging
[55:20] Speaker 1: in Mississippi and Alabama with the challenge efforts to suppress
[55:23] Speaker 1: the black vote. Well the Black Faith Coalitions leading the
[55:26] Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Texas Freedom Summer, Reverend doctor Danielle Ayers,
[55:29] Speaker 1: the co director of the Black Faith Coalition, joined us
[55:31] Speaker 1: right now. Danielle, we had y along before you had
[55:35] Speaker 1: your first gathering that was in Beaumont. How did that
[55:39] Speaker 1: gathering go? And what's next?
[55:42] Speaker 20: Yeah, So thank you so much Roman for having me
[55:44] Speaker 20: on again. I want to give a shout out to
[55:46] Speaker 20: my co labor at Reverend Andwin Robinson, who I wanted
[55:50] Speaker 20: to be on with me on tonight because I wanted
[55:51] Speaker 20: Inyboty to meet him.
[55:53] Speaker 4: He is certainly working very hard to make this happen.
[55:55] Speaker 20: Beaumont went well, right, We hit quite a few cluragy,
[55:58] Speaker 20: We had some local activists there and so it really
[56:02] Speaker 20: talked about what does it mean for us to mobilize
[56:04] Speaker 20: voters locally that we might be able to expend that
[56:07] Speaker 20: throughout the state, and so it went very well. In fact,
[56:10] Speaker 20: we had someone from West Texas and Ablene to drive
[56:13] Speaker 20: to Beaumont and because of that, they now want us
[56:16] Speaker 20: to come to Abilene.
[56:17] Speaker 4: So we'll be headed to Abilene in August.
[56:19] Speaker 20: But our first two day Freedom Summer will take place
[56:22] Speaker 20: in Houston on July twenty fourth and twenty fifth, So
[56:26] Speaker 20: you know, we have three Freedom Summer two day events,
[56:29] Speaker 20: so it's really like is one experience, two days, three locations.
[56:34] Speaker 20: The Friday night is going to be designed really to
[56:36] Speaker 20: pull in definitely some of our younger folks to get
[56:39] Speaker 20: connected and engaged through live music. We're going to keep
[56:42] Speaker 20: back and just have some black joy, but also have
[56:45] Speaker 20: some message in our music to encourage our young folks
[56:49] Speaker 20: to come back the next day to go through mass
[56:51] Speaker 20: training on Saturday as well as folks at large.
[56:54] Speaker 4: Right, it's for our.
[56:54] Speaker 20: Faith communities in particular, but certainly anybody from community who
[56:58] Speaker 20: wants to come to be trained on AVA can see
[57:00] Speaker 20: in policy how you can learn how to not only
[57:02] Speaker 20: retister people to vote yourself, but also how we do
[57:05] Speaker 20: more than redistry. But how do we turn people out
[57:07] Speaker 20: and get them to the polls? And beyond getting people
[57:10] Speaker 20: to the polls on election day, how do we stay
[57:13] Speaker 20: engaged in Texas so that as a Texas legislator opens
[57:16] Speaker 20: up in twenty twenty seven, we are equipped and empowered
[57:19] Speaker 20: and we're building our state power, particularly independent black power,
[57:23] Speaker 20: in order to change the systems here in the state
[57:25] Speaker 20: of Texas.
[57:26] Speaker 4: So Boman went will headed to I believe we.
[57:28] Speaker 20: We're looking at Freedom Summer in Houston, Austin and then
[57:32] Speaker 20: closing out in Dallas September eighteenth and nineteen.
[57:35] Speaker 1: So what how are you in m in terms of
[57:38] Speaker 1: data collection? Because the reality is having events is one thing,
[57:42] Speaker 1: but you want to be able to track people. How
[57:44] Speaker 1: are you doing that? How are you being able to say, hey,
[57:47] Speaker 1: after after all guests, how many people did we touch?
[57:51] Speaker 1: Do we have names and phone numbers and emails and
[57:54] Speaker 1: social media things like that.
[57:56] Speaker 20: Certainly, everything that we do, whether it's Freedom Summer or
[57:59] Speaker 20: just gathering people for training, we collect everyone's data. Not
[58:02] Speaker 20: only do we collect your name, your contact info, we
[58:05] Speaker 20: also collect what are some of the skills and talents
[58:08] Speaker 20: that you have because we also believe that this is
[58:10] Speaker 20: also a form of if you will reciprocity right we're
[58:14] Speaker 20: coming with we know you also have something to offer.
[58:16] Speaker 4: So it's also about not collecting.
[58:18] Speaker 20: The data, but collecting that data in a very intentional
[58:20] Speaker 20: way to keep people connected.
[58:22] Speaker 4: So we're not being transactional that we.
[58:24] Speaker 20: Really are talking about how do we transform through mobilizing
[58:27] Speaker 20: and organizing our people for long term change while we're
[58:31] Speaker 20: looking at this more short work between now and midterm elections.
[58:34] Speaker 20: So we're constantly collecting data and also continue to reach
[58:37] Speaker 20: out to the folks after the event is over to
[58:40] Speaker 20: keep up.
[58:40] Speaker 4: And I'll say another thing that we're doing here in
[58:42] Speaker 4: North Texas. On June twenty.
[58:45] Speaker 20: Seventh, in Dallas County in particular, we're going to be
[58:47] Speaker 20: hosting a voter deputy Deputy Registrar training Because in many ways,
[58:51] Speaker 20: you want people to be empowered to not just tell
[58:54] Speaker 20: people to go vote. But if someone you're just talking to, family, union,
[58:57] Speaker 20: family gathering, just hanging out with friends and someone it's
[59:00] Speaker 20: not registered, you can pull out that car and register
[59:02] Speaker 20: them right on the spot to make sure they're registered
[59:04] Speaker 20: to vote.
[59:05] Speaker 1: And so that so hold up, so let's stop. Let's
[59:07] Speaker 1: stop right there. Okay, that's taking place on what day.
[59:13] Speaker 20: June twenty seventh, Saturday, June twenty seventh from twelve.
[59:17] Speaker 1: So I'm going to so I'm going to give you
[59:18] Speaker 1: a night. I'm going to give you a suggestion that
[59:21] Speaker 1: I think you should do this on June twenty eighth.
[59:23] Speaker 1: So this took place in Chicago when then State Center
[59:28] Speaker 1: James Meeks was contemplating running for governor. What he did
[59:34] Speaker 1: was he had the exact same thing you're talking about
[59:38] Speaker 1: right after church. And so what they did was it
[59:42] Speaker 1: was the largest number of people who were deputized as
[59:47] Speaker 1: voter registrars in Illinois history. And so what he did
[59:53] Speaker 1: was they promoted that, they said, hey, come to church
[59:55] Speaker 1: at the end of church they were going to so
[59:58] Speaker 1: they very had that very thing and then then that's
[1:00:02] Speaker 1: what they did. So what I would suggest is, hey,
[1:00:07] Speaker 1: in five, eight, ten, whatever. The maturchies across the country
[1:00:10] Speaker 1: through the exact same thing, and then you can able
[1:00:12] Speaker 1: to say, hey, we actually deputize eight thousand, ten thousand,
[1:00:17] Speaker 1: twenty thousand people. It was amazing when they did that.
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: Salem Baptist Church, the House of Hope, the facility holds
[1:00:25] Speaker 1: ten thousand people. It's the second largest church's second largest,
[1:00:29] Speaker 1: second lardest building in Illinois behind the United Center. And
[1:00:33] Speaker 1: that's how they did that. And so I would recommend
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: adding that and you between now and at June twenty eighth,
[1:00:42] Speaker 1: educating those preachers, explaining people why what that actually means,
[1:00:47] Speaker 1: and say hey, y'all just stick around. I don't know
[1:00:49] Speaker 1: how long the training is, is an hour or two hours,
[1:00:51] Speaker 1: but stick around after church. And then now, as opposed
[1:00:55] Speaker 1: to hoping folk show up on Saturday, they already interpeuse
[1:00:58] Speaker 1: on Sunday.
[1:01:00] Speaker 4: Right, No, absolutely, and we can do that as well.
[1:01:04] Speaker 20: This twenty seventh training is really is targeted towards the
[1:01:07] Speaker 20: larger community at large, folks who may or may not
[1:01:10] Speaker 20: go to church, but we want them to be connected
[1:01:12] Speaker 20: with us.
[1:01:13] Speaker 4: But I like that, and that's very doable, and we.
[1:01:16] Speaker 20: Can certainly put that on the calendar reach out to
[1:01:18] Speaker 20: the other churches that we work with in the Dallas
[1:01:19] Speaker 20: metro Place area to do the same thing on a Sunday.
[1:01:23] Speaker 1: Well, I would take it. I would make it, make
[1:01:25] Speaker 1: it the whole state, and they identify your key churches
[1:01:29] Speaker 1: in five to ten markets and certainly reach out reach
[1:01:32] Speaker 1: out to Reverend James Meets to talk about how they
[1:01:34] Speaker 1: actually did it there in Chicago. Questions from our panel
[1:01:38] Speaker 1: on the Congo start with you, thank you so much
[1:01:43] Speaker 1: for what you're doing.
[1:01:44] Speaker 11: This is this effort is so important. I really wanted
[1:01:47] Speaker 11: to dig a little deeper on the young people. If
[1:01:50] Speaker 11: people talk so much about young people are not engaged,
[1:01:53] Speaker 11: You're not caring. Go to these voter registration events, it's
[1:01:56] Speaker 11: mostly older people. What are you seeing from the young
[1:01:59] Speaker 11: people right now? Are people just making up stories about
[1:02:02] Speaker 11: our youth?
[1:02:04] Speaker 4: Well, two things.
[1:02:05] Speaker 20: Number one, the youth that we are engaged with want
[1:02:07] Speaker 20: to be connected, engaged, and some of them just don't
[1:02:09] Speaker 20: know how and where to connect. And so for us,
[1:02:12] Speaker 20: the Friday is geared toward at least having music the
[1:02:16] Speaker 20: arts as a way of connecting with our young people
[1:02:18] Speaker 20: and then having conversations with them and inviting them to
[1:02:21] Speaker 20: come back and to dig a little deeper and get
[1:02:23] Speaker 20: connected based on hopefully the arts will bring them into
[1:02:26] Speaker 20: the space, and then if we're good and we're able
[1:02:28] Speaker 20: to connect with them, they could say, oh I get
[1:02:30] Speaker 20: it now, see I'm connecting dots.
[1:02:31] Speaker 4: Let me show up on Saturday to get involved.
[1:02:34] Speaker 20: But also for our youth that are sixth grade through
[1:02:36] Speaker 20: twelfth grade, we have the Chosen Defense Fund who were
[1:02:39] Speaker 20: doing a separate youth organizing training because we want to
[1:02:42] Speaker 20: also catch them even younger right to get them connected
[1:02:45] Speaker 20: and engaged, to understand that no matter what they do
[1:02:47] Speaker 20: in life by way of professional life or etc. That
[1:02:51] Speaker 20: they understand their civic responsibility regardless of which way they go.
[1:02:56] Speaker 20: So we're super excited about that portion of it, but
[1:02:58] Speaker 20: it's beyond. I want to be clear that Free on
[1:03:00] Speaker 20: Summer two point zero is we're going to lean into
[1:03:02] Speaker 20: to do broad reach, but we're also constantly working to
[1:03:05] Speaker 20: do all of those also, the smaller gatherings that are
[1:03:08] Speaker 20: more intimate where you have an opportunity to really get
[1:03:10] Speaker 20: to know people, answer questions, talk to them, and connect
[1:03:14] Speaker 20: their problems to the policy, but also more than that,
[1:03:17] Speaker 20: to show them they already have power. And how do
[1:03:20] Speaker 20: we then pull all this power together to have a
[1:03:23] Speaker 20: consensus agenda as we go into the ninetieth Texas Legislative.
[1:03:26] Speaker 4: Session, because that is our north star at this moment.
[1:03:29] Speaker 20: It's how do we listen to the people on the
[1:03:31] Speaker 20: ground at these engagements to find out what is important
[1:03:34] Speaker 20: to you, what's most important to you, and how do
[1:03:36] Speaker 20: we translate that into a real policy and laws here
[1:03:39] Speaker 20: in the state of Texas as much as we can,
[1:03:41] Speaker 20: from the ground up at your municipal level all the
[1:03:44] Speaker 20: way to the state level.
[1:03:45] Speaker 10: Jolanda, Hey, so uh, pastor doctor Ayers, nice to see
[1:03:52] Speaker 10: you again. We were just having now when you spoke
[1:03:55] Speaker 10: with us at the Texas Legislative Black August I say
[1:03:58] Speaker 10: that to say this, I think history is important and
[1:04:02] Speaker 10: what I want to know from you. We know that
[1:04:05] Speaker 10: Freedom Summer in sixty four is what ignited the Voting
[1:04:10] Speaker 10: Rights Act.
[1:04:11] Speaker 1: We know that.
[1:04:12] Speaker 10: We know that it was led by young people, including
[1:04:16] Speaker 10: people from Snick, who wanted to inspire young people who
[1:04:19] Speaker 10: wanted to make a difference. My question to you is
[1:04:22] Speaker 10: during Freedom Summer, I know we're gonna have music, because
[1:04:25] Speaker 10: you can always get some kids to go to a concert.
[1:04:28] Speaker 10: Are you going to have some connect the dots where
[1:04:30] Speaker 10: you explain to the kids, because I believe that imitation
[1:04:34] Speaker 10: is the highest form of flattery, and so you are
[1:04:37] Speaker 10: imitating what was very successful in sixty four. Are you
[1:04:41] Speaker 10: going to explain to them the connection so that they
[1:04:44] Speaker 10: can feel a part of history if they want to
[1:04:46] Speaker 10: be there? Because I know as I was reading about
[1:04:49] Speaker 10: the civil rights movement, which I wasn't alive yet in
[1:04:53] Speaker 10: nineteen sixty four, and I always said if this war
[1:04:57] Speaker 10: going on when I was alive, I know I would
[1:05:00] Speaker 10: be there. Are you going to do that connection for
[1:05:02] Speaker 10: the young people so that they can see that they
[1:05:04] Speaker 10: can actually make a difference.
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:05:07] Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's the whole point of Friday. It is the music,
[1:05:09] Speaker 4: but throughout the evening.
[1:05:11] Speaker 20: That is going to be very intentional to have breaks
[1:05:13] Speaker 20: to then talk about why we're hearing what's happening over
[1:05:16] Speaker 20: the weekend, because it's not two events, right, it's Friday
[1:05:18] Speaker 20: and Saturday, and Friday is just a way of pulling us.
[1:05:22] Speaker 4: In as community.
[1:05:23] Speaker 20: But yes, we absolutely having the run a show how
[1:05:25] Speaker 20: we're going to throughout the evening connect those dots for
[1:05:28] Speaker 20: folks with the hope so that would inspire them then
[1:05:31] Speaker 20: to come the next day to get the necessary knowledge,
[1:05:33] Speaker 20: skills and training to do the work. We're talking about
[1:05:36] Speaker 20: not just voter registration, turn out of education, but cultural
[1:05:39] Speaker 20: civic literacy and beyond the moment of freedom summer, we
[1:05:42] Speaker 20: have to also think, you know, ahead, beyond that moment
[1:05:45] Speaker 20: and to your point, young people, let that movement. But
[1:05:48] Speaker 20: I also think about Saint lou Hamer, who was a.
[1:05:50] Speaker 4: Middle aged black woman who work with the students.
[1:05:53] Speaker 20: Right that was her, that was her entry points and
[1:05:56] Speaker 20: to that movement, though she already had it in her
[1:05:59] Speaker 20: a well develed theologists understanding of human rights. Like she's
[1:06:03] Speaker 20: more than just a voting rights activists or civil rights activist,
[1:06:06] Speaker 20: she was a human rights activist. So I think connecting
[1:06:09] Speaker 20: those thoughts in us understanding that it's not one generation
[1:06:12] Speaker 20: over another, but it's all of us coming together, because
[1:06:15] Speaker 20: it's going to take all of us bringing our wisdom,
[1:06:17] Speaker 20: my knowledge, and our skill sets to this moment.
[1:06:20] Speaker 4: And we're going to meet this moment now and beyond.
[1:06:23] Speaker 1: So I'm gonna add one cop caveat, and I understand
[1:06:29] Speaker 1: what Julanda just said, but I'm going to add this caveat,
[1:06:33] Speaker 1: and that is I would not spend lots of time
[1:06:38] Speaker 1: on freedom summer in the sixties. Here's why. Terrence Woodberry
[1:06:44] Speaker 1: of Hitch Strategies has done a ton of focus groups,
[1:06:50] Speaker 1: and really I remember the conversations he and I had
[1:06:54] Speaker 1: going back to two thousand and twenty, so now we're
[1:06:58] Speaker 1: talking six years. And what's very interesting he said, based
[1:07:03] Speaker 1: upon his focus group data, and I'll connect you with
[1:07:07] Speaker 1: Terrence because I think this is really important, Danielle to
[1:07:10] Speaker 1: be using the right language. What he said is that
[1:07:15] Speaker 1: when you're talking to an eighteen to thirty five demo,
[1:07:18] Speaker 1: if you use the phrase voter suppression, they instinctively think
[1:07:24] Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, so they literally don't identify it. Now,
[1:07:29] Speaker 1: it's interesting that we use it all the time, but
[1:07:32] Speaker 1: that when they hear it they think something totally different.
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: His public his focus groups have said that when people
[1:07:42] Speaker 1: talk about man people die for the right to vote,
[1:07:45] Speaker 1: it does not connect with them at all. So I
[1:07:49] Speaker 1: think it's important. Jelanda is right, we absolutely have to
[1:07:53] Speaker 1: connect with eighteen thirty five, really eighteen forty four, which
[1:07:56] Speaker 1: is the lowest voting demo and the highest voting is
[1:07:59] Speaker 1: forty five plus US. But I do think it's really
[1:08:02] Speaker 1: important as we're segmenting segmenting artists, making sure that we
[1:08:07] Speaker 1: have based upon those those those focus groups have the
[1:08:13] Speaker 1: right language that connects with them, and that we're not
[1:08:17] Speaker 1: using language that doesn't connect with them. You know, because
[1:08:20] Speaker 1: it was fascinating when he told me about those public
[1:08:23] Speaker 1: those polls, uh, And I was like wow, I mean
[1:08:26] Speaker 1: he literally said vote. He said that it's in the data.
[1:08:29] Speaker 1: If you say voter suppression, it doesn't move them. But
[1:08:33] Speaker 1: he said if you tell, if you say they're shutting
[1:08:37] Speaker 1: down polling locations, that moves them. It was very interesting
[1:08:42] Speaker 1: what he said. So I'll be sure that that he uh,
[1:08:45] Speaker 1: that gets the information to you. So you can have that, Derek,
[1:08:47] Speaker 1: go ahead.
[1:08:49] Speaker 9: You know, Texas holds the largest raw number of Black
[1:08:54] Speaker 9: eligible voters of any state in this country. My question
[1:09:01] Speaker 9: is simply the number of eligible voters and those who
[1:09:07] Speaker 9: actually show up on voting day.
[1:09:10] Speaker 7: There's a huge gap.
[1:09:12] Speaker 9: I mean the Black Church, HBCUs, Black fraternities and sororities
[1:09:18] Speaker 9: to deny, we do a phenomenal job registering, but right
[1:09:24] Speaker 9: now I'm just using Georgia as an example.
[1:09:27] Speaker 1: Actually, I disagree on I disagree on the funmal apartment.
[1:09:30] Speaker 1: Go right ahead.
[1:09:32] Speaker 9: I mean, we have thirty three percent thirty three percent
[1:09:35] Speaker 9: of black population in Georgia.
[1:09:38] Speaker 1: But right now in this.
[1:09:40] Speaker 9: Special election, only six point six percent turnout six point
[1:09:46] Speaker 9: six thirty three percent. And so what can we do
[1:09:51] Speaker 9: other than having nice rallies and parties and bringing out
[1:09:55] Speaker 9: the tis and everybody.
[1:09:57] Speaker 7: We got to close that gap between six point six
[1:09:59] Speaker 7: per and thirty three percent?
[1:10:02] Speaker 1: Yeah, did Danielle? Go ahead? So let me say that.
[1:10:06] Speaker 1: So let me yes.
[1:10:08] Speaker 4: So we have the largest we have a very large
[1:10:10] Speaker 4: number of elgiboters in Texas.
[1:10:12] Speaker 20: So part of what we're what I'm saying beyond freedom
[1:10:15] Speaker 20: summer Right and some of the stuff we already have done,
[1:10:17] Speaker 20: we work with like Black Voters, matters and others who
[1:10:19] Speaker 20: give us a data to say, in this particular precinct
[1:10:22] Speaker 20: there was low voter turnout. Here are some very targeted
[1:10:25] Speaker 20: ways you need to do text, phone banking, lit.
[1:10:28] Speaker 4: Drops, et cetera.
[1:10:29] Speaker 20: So for us, our strategy is going to be looking
[1:10:32] Speaker 20: at those numbers, work with those organizations that provide that
[1:10:34] Speaker 20: data to do targeted type of turnout, and organizing in
[1:10:38] Speaker 20: those specific precincts in areas with the hopes of making
[1:10:41] Speaker 20: sure that we can then increase that by those outreach efforts,
[1:10:45] Speaker 20: and I'll just say that it's no, it's not about
[1:10:47] Speaker 20: rally but the rallies are something that pulls people in,
[1:10:50] Speaker 20: but you have to have something beyond that moment, which
[1:10:53] Speaker 20: is why we collect data then to invite them out
[1:10:55] Speaker 20: to something even smaller, more engaging, or our way of
[1:10:58] Speaker 20: looking at where people are to be able to then
[1:11:00] Speaker 20: target those areas to make sure it's not just one
[1:11:03] Speaker 20: touch but multiple touches, because I also think we do
[1:11:06] Speaker 20: a lot to touch people want and say, you know,
[1:11:08] Speaker 20: go vote early, vote starts on this day, hang up,
[1:11:11] Speaker 20: go to the next collar. But some kind of way
[1:11:13] Speaker 20: we have more than one touch so people can feel
[1:11:15] Speaker 20: like they are a part, really a part of.
[1:11:17] Speaker 4: This political ecosystem.
[1:11:19] Speaker 20: And I think we have to do more training and
[1:11:21] Speaker 20: educating around that as well, that it's not just voter
[1:11:23] Speaker 20: engagement that's critically important, but beyond that that, we have
[1:11:26] Speaker 20: to understand that that impacts other things in the political ecosystem,
[1:11:30] Speaker 20: whether that's policy, whether that's you know, people who are
[1:11:33] Speaker 20: pointed to federal judges to judge positions, et cetera. So
[1:11:37] Speaker 20: I think it's a whole program that needs to happen
[1:11:41] Speaker 20: beyond voting, but to answer your question, how we plan
[1:11:43] Speaker 20: to do it would be to work with those orgs
[1:11:45] Speaker 20: that give us that data to know where do we
[1:11:47] Speaker 20: target our efforts. And then how many times do we
[1:11:50] Speaker 20: feel we need to have touches in connecting with people
[1:11:52] Speaker 20: so they can go up to the polls and vote.
[1:11:54] Speaker 4: And again, I think you have to do something beyond
[1:11:56] Speaker 4: getting them to the polls in November. They have to
[1:11:59] Speaker 4: feel like they're part is something to keep doing the work.
[1:12:01] Speaker 20: So we're not always talking about lover turned now, We're
[1:12:04] Speaker 20: not always talking about what do we do to make
[1:12:06] Speaker 20: sure people go.
[1:12:07] Speaker 4: To the polls and vote?
[1:12:09] Speaker 1: She nailed it, and see Derek, And I'm just gonna
[1:12:12] Speaker 1: say this here and listen. You know what, having a
[1:12:16] Speaker 1: concert that's great, doing big rallies, that's wonderful. But as
[1:12:23] Speaker 1: somebody who has covered those, I'll be perfectly honest with you,
[1:12:31] Speaker 1: I think how they are done is a complete waste
[1:12:34] Speaker 1: of time and money. They are now imagine this. Imagine
[1:12:41] Speaker 1: if you had a concert and the concert wasn't in
[1:12:47] Speaker 1: the evening, the concert wasn't in the early afternoon. Imagine
[1:12:53] Speaker 1: if your concert was at nine or ten am and
[1:12:58] Speaker 1: you said we're going to gather rally and then when
[1:13:03] Speaker 1: the concert's over, we're going to blockwalk. See the model
[1:13:09] Speaker 1: that you're talking about. And this is why I believe
[1:13:12] Speaker 1: the old model has been failing is because, and I've
[1:13:17] Speaker 1: watched this. I watched the massive rallies with Vice President
[1:13:21] Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. We covered many of those. I'm sorry, I
[1:13:25] Speaker 1: just think they perfect example, the night before the election,
[1:13:30] Speaker 1: the o'bseen amount of money they spent on the rally
[1:13:35] Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and the simultaneous rallies in the other cities
[1:13:40] Speaker 1: and states, to me was absolutely stupid. Imagine if the
[1:13:45] Speaker 1: money spent on those rallies was put on the ground
[1:13:50] Speaker 1: for the final seventy two hours of the election or
[1:13:54] Speaker 1: the previous two weeks when you had early voting. And
[1:13:57] Speaker 1: to me, that's where we're missing. Dan Yelle is a
[1:14:00] Speaker 1: one hundred percent correct. In twenty twenty four hours in
[1:14:03] Speaker 1: Cincinnati and I stopped at the black restaurant because whenever
[1:14:06] Speaker 1: we travel we support black owned restaurants. And I ran
[1:14:10] Speaker 1: to a frat brother of ours and he said, brother,
[1:14:14] Speaker 1: we're going to do a voter registration at the Bengals game.
[1:14:20] Speaker 1: I said, why y'all doing that? He said, what do
[1:14:22] Speaker 1: you mean, I said, why would you waste three, four
[1:14:27] Speaker 1: or five hours to go do voter registration of the
[1:14:30] Speaker 1: Bengals game? How many people are you going to come
[1:14:33] Speaker 1: through there? Who are likely not registered? I said, does
[1:14:38] Speaker 1: it that make sense? Brother, to go down to the
[1:14:41] Speaker 1: Voter of Elections and get the last election information on
[1:14:47] Speaker 1: the top ten, fifteen, twenty black precincts and then pour
[1:14:53] Speaker 1: over that data and then say, okay, this weekend we're
[1:14:58] Speaker 1: going to canvash door to door in this precinct. And
[1:15:02] Speaker 1: he said we can do that. I said, yes, the
[1:15:07] Speaker 1: data is public, you can do that. And see, Danielle,
[1:15:11] Speaker 1: that's what I mean. I just think that what's happening
[1:15:14] Speaker 1: is we've got too many of our established groups. So
[1:15:19] Speaker 1: I'm talking D nine, Prince all Mason, Eastern Star Links,
[1:15:23] Speaker 1: church groups and others who are trying to let's just
[1:15:28] Speaker 1: get it everybody excited and then hope they turn out.
[1:15:32] Speaker 1: So we're going macro, hoping it impacts micro. I argue,
[1:15:38] Speaker 1: we got to go micro that then results in macro.
[1:15:42] Speaker 1: So if I can look at data and say, hmm,
[1:15:45] Speaker 1: there are six hundred registered people in this predominantly black precinct,
[1:15:51] Speaker 1: Now what are how many people actually live in this precinct.
[1:15:55] Speaker 1: So in the voter registration phase, which is really now
[1:15:59] Speaker 1: between the dead line, yo, we might need to tap
[1:16:03] Speaker 1: let's say the eleven one hundred total eligible people who
[1:16:07] Speaker 1: can vote wall and six hundred registered. We got to
[1:16:10] Speaker 1: go get as many of those five hundred as possible.
[1:16:13] Speaker 1: And once we get them registered, we then have to
[1:16:15] Speaker 1: double back and now retouch them two, three, four times
[1:16:21] Speaker 1: before election day to make sure they turn out. And
[1:16:24] Speaker 1: that's how we should be taking our groups and say hey,
[1:16:27] Speaker 1: don't go to a football stadium and spend your time, No,
[1:16:33] Speaker 1: take your ten twelve, fifteen to twenty thirty fifty one hundred,
[1:16:37] Speaker 1: two hundred members and descend on a black precinct.
[1:16:45] Speaker 4: Yeah right, I think it's out well.
[1:16:46] Speaker 20: When you talk about building power cross Texas, it has
[1:16:49] Speaker 20: to be from the ground up, right, So we have
[1:16:51] Speaker 20: to make sure that we are touching people at the
[1:16:54] Speaker 20: very ground level. To your point that the micro approaches
[1:16:58] Speaker 20: where we're going to have to go now and beyond.
[1:17:00] Speaker 20: I will continue to say that we need to think
[1:17:02] Speaker 20: beyond mid terms, you know, to twenty eight and beyond.
[1:17:06] Speaker 4: Right, So you're absolutely right, and that's our goal and
[1:17:09] Speaker 4: that's our program. And that's our plan of action.
[1:17:12] Speaker 1: All right, then, first of all, if people are interested,
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: where should they go to get information?
[1:17:16] Speaker 20: They should go to Black Faith Coalition on Instagram is
[1:17:19] Speaker 20: where we have all of our contact information everything regarding
[1:17:22] Speaker 20: Freedom Summer and also the other work that we're doing
[1:17:24] Speaker 20: to mobilize around the state of Texas and these smaller
[1:17:27] Speaker 20: groups where we're building justice hubs across the state of Texas.
[1:17:32] Speaker 1: All right then, all right, Danielle we Jill appreciate it.
[1:17:34] Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, thank you. All right then, all right, folks,
[1:17:38] Speaker 1: I'm going to take a break. We're going to talk
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[1:20:06] Speaker 22: New York had a supermarket. Twelve hundred potential jurors were
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[1:20:42] Speaker 22: He walked into the top supermarket to carry out a
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[1:22:10] Speaker 22: three days prior to her death, Michelle had been in
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[1:22:16] Speaker 22: six months facing misdemeanor charges. The judge dismissed the charges
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[1:22:24] Speaker 1: After her release.
[1:22:25] Speaker 22: On February twenty seventh, she was transferred to ICE and
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[1:26:29] Speaker 1: Roland Martin unfiltered. Seven months ago, AT and T announced
[1:26:39] Speaker 1: they were ending their DEI initiative. Why well to have
[1:26:43] Speaker 1: a one billion dollar acquisition go through and be approved
[1:26:47] Speaker 1: by the Federal Communications Commission under Brendan car To FCC chair,
[1:26:51] Speaker 1: He's made clear he won't approve any acquisition, any mergers
[1:26:55] Speaker 1: unless companies get rid of DEI. Well. Color of Change,
[1:27:00] Speaker 1: the largest online racial justice organization in the United States,
[1:27:03] Speaker 1: along with his partners, have delivered thousands of petitions signatures
[1:27:07] Speaker 1: directly to A and T headquarters in Dallas. They are
[1:27:10] Speaker 1: demanding the company reinstate DEI programs. This action marks the
[1:27:15] Speaker 1: beginning of Color of Changes June teenth Week of Action,
[1:27:17] Speaker 1: a six day series of events taking place from June
[1:27:20] Speaker 1: fifteenth to twentieth in Dallas, Memphis, Baltimore, DC, and through
[1:27:24] Speaker 1: virtual programming nationwide. Color Changes chiefs of Chief of Campaigns
[1:27:27] Speaker 1: Amanda Halliwell joined us now man, glad to have you
[1:27:30] Speaker 1: here on rolland Martin unfiltered. Okay, how many petitions have
[1:27:33] Speaker 1: been and signatures have been delivered.
[1:27:36] Speaker 23: We delivered over well over four thousand signatures, and so
[1:27:39] Speaker 23: it was very significant that we came out there to
[1:27:42] Speaker 23: headquarters to deliver those signatures because a lot of folks
[1:27:45] Speaker 23: had a reaction to what AT and T is trying
[1:27:48] Speaker 23: to do.
[1:27:49] Speaker 1: Okay, so four thousand signatures, that's one thing. Okay, but
[1:27:54] Speaker 1: what next and what do you want them to do?
[1:27:57] Speaker 1: Is there any other action being directed at AT and T.
[1:28:01] Speaker 1: Are you pushing people to have a massive social media
[1:28:04] Speaker 1: campaign using a hashtag on a particular day to target
[1:28:09] Speaker 1: all of their social media accounts?
[1:28:12] Speaker 7: Well, you know we as we want.
[1:28:13] Speaker 23: You to target social media accounts.
[1:28:14] Speaker 4: But let's just talk about it.
[1:28:15] Speaker 23: You know, AT and T chose compliance over courage, and
[1:28:19] Speaker 23: what we have is very forced, very specific demands, which
[1:28:22] Speaker 23: is reinstate all DEI programs and teams publicly reject cars
[1:28:27] Speaker 23: pressure campaign by name, restore transparency around hiring and equity,
[1:28:32] Speaker 23: and meet with Color Change and our coalition partners.
[1:28:34] Speaker 10: To discuss how you can move forward.
[1:28:36] Speaker 23: You know, AT and T has black workers, they have
[1:28:39] Speaker 23: black consumers, they have a lot of the black dollar
[1:28:42] Speaker 23: when we come to telecoms, and so we want to
[1:28:45] Speaker 23: make sure that folks understand their power. So yes, we
[1:28:47] Speaker 23: can do an online campaign and pressure them, but we
[1:28:50] Speaker 23: actually need people to do continuous calls and continuous signing
[1:28:53] Speaker 23: the petitions, and we will keep delivering them to let
[1:28:56] Speaker 23: them know that we will not stand for this. Right.
[1:28:58] Speaker 1: Well, what I mean by dad is again, so so
[1:29:00] Speaker 1: what exactly though, is the campaign beyond delivering petitions?
[1:29:04] Speaker 3: Uh?
[1:29:05] Speaker 1: And so are you talking or have y'all provided your
[1:29:08] Speaker 1: two kit to download memes that show AT and T's
[1:29:11] Speaker 1: black market share for UH, for internet, for cell phone service,
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: all these different companies that they own.
[1:29:18] Speaker 3: Uh?
[1:29:19] Speaker 1: Will these graphics also show the AT and T board
[1:29:22] Speaker 1: of directors? Are you talking directly with their black board
[1:29:25] Speaker 1: members and others? So give us a sense of again
[1:29:28] Speaker 1: how expansive this campaign is.
[1:29:31] Speaker 23: Yeah, absolutely, and so we plan on releasing a social
[1:29:34] Speaker 23: kit towards the end of the week. What we were
[1:29:37] Speaker 23: really trying to do was actually make this the first
[1:29:39] Speaker 23: step of calling someone out publicly. You know, in the past,
[1:29:42] Speaker 23: what we've done about these corporate mergers. Rolling back to
[1:29:44] Speaker 23: de I, we pulled a full we pulled out a
[1:29:46] Speaker 23: full page ad in the New York Times, and then
[1:29:49] Speaker 23: we called out goldmansach gives in the Times Square on
[1:29:52] Speaker 23: a billboard. And so what we're trying to do is
[1:29:54] Speaker 23: first educate the public and make it more visual for
[1:29:56] Speaker 23: people to understand what is that state at stake. It's
[1:29:58] Speaker 23: not just communication and meet and how you receive information,
[1:30:01] Speaker 23: it's also your civil rights. And then what we're trying
[1:30:04] Speaker 23: to do is actually we will be writing letters directly
[1:30:06] Speaker 23: to leads, just like you said, blackboard members, even black
[1:30:09] Speaker 23: celebrities that actually support at and t ors sponsored by them.
[1:30:13] Speaker 23: We had conscious lead with us on the bus who
[1:30:15] Speaker 23: came and helped us deliver those petitions. And so what
[1:30:19] Speaker 23: we're really doing is trying to you know, gain that
[1:30:22] Speaker 23: cultivate that wave of education and people understand, and then
[1:30:24] Speaker 23: we're going to move them to the next level of
[1:30:26] Speaker 23: calling them out writing letters and also trying to figure
[1:30:29] Speaker 23: out ways that they can use different telecom services.
[1:30:31] Speaker 1: So when you say the education, what are the components
[1:30:35] Speaker 1: of the education, because you're right, folks have to understand
[1:30:40] Speaker 1: what they're protesting before they actually say yeah, I'm gonna
[1:30:44] Speaker 1: go ahead and do this. And how long does that
[1:30:46] Speaker 1: education plan to be or so is it an intensive
[1:30:51] Speaker 1: effort over a two to four week six week strategy
[1:30:54] Speaker 1: and then it goes into the next phase. Give me
[1:30:56] Speaker 1: a sense of what that is.
[1:30:58] Speaker 23: You know, it's going to be an intensive effort for
[1:31:00] Speaker 23: actually more than three months. And this is part of
[1:31:01] Speaker 23: a bigger campaign that we call our Black Corporate Accountability Agenda.
[1:31:06] Speaker 23: We're releasing a website where we tell where all the
[1:31:08] Speaker 23: dollars are going from these corporations, what they're supporting, if
[1:31:11] Speaker 23: they're supporting like Steven Miller's nonprofit, which is also racist,
[1:31:15] Speaker 23: if they're you know, actually funding Trump endorsed candidates during
[1:31:19] Speaker 23: this election season. And we're really trying to make people
[1:31:22] Speaker 23: understand also about DAFTS, which is don'or advise giving like
[1:31:25] Speaker 23: what they're doing with SPLC. So we're trying to paint
[1:31:28] Speaker 23: this bigger picture that AT and T is just not
[1:31:30] Speaker 23: an anomaly. It is part of a bigger move of
[1:31:32] Speaker 23: how they actually roll us back to you know, Jim
[1:31:35] Speaker 23: Croway's using financial means.
[1:31:37] Speaker 1: Is that website live.
[1:31:40] Speaker 23: The website's not live yet.
[1:31:41] Speaker 7: We're getting it.
[1:31:41] Speaker 23: We're getting it ready, so we will actually release at
[1:31:44] Speaker 23: the end of the week. We'll try to get our
[1:31:45] Speaker 23: social kid out around AT and T and a bunch
[1:31:47] Speaker 23: of other corporate accountability pressures that we're doing, and we
[1:31:50] Speaker 23: hope to have it live within the next two months.
[1:31:52] Speaker 23: One full database of all the corporations before.
[1:31:54] Speaker 1: I go to my panel with questions. When we targeted,
[1:31:58] Speaker 1: seeing as Jeff Zucker for having no direct black execs,
[1:32:03] Speaker 1: I actually ran that campaign with NABJ and this is
[1:32:06] Speaker 1: one of the things that we did. We came up
[1:32:08] Speaker 1: with eight to ten different graphics such as this that
[1:32:13] Speaker 1: gave people a clear idea of what we were talking about.
[1:32:17] Speaker 1: And and what that then did was people were like,
[1:32:20] Speaker 1: oh my goodness, and just the graphic alone told people
[1:32:23] Speaker 1: exactly what was going on. And then and then and
[1:32:27] Speaker 1: then one of the things that we did, because some
[1:32:29] Speaker 1: folks said, hey, let's get a letter and have people say,
[1:32:31] Speaker 1: I'm like, no, what I wanted was I wanted each
[1:32:34] Speaker 1: individual groups to announce that they were standing with us
[1:32:38] Speaker 1: uh and they and then that became a news story
[1:32:41] Speaker 1: every single time. So Alphas dropped their letter first, Delta's
[1:32:44] Speaker 1: dropped their letter next, and we wrote it out that
[1:32:46] Speaker 1: way that's it. So and it was like drum beat
[1:32:49] Speaker 1: story after story, and they became media attention and you know,
[1:32:54] Speaker 1: they had they had to point five black executives in
[1:32:56] Speaker 1: a two month period. Because when they pointed one, I
[1:32:58] Speaker 1: was like they satisfied any point, another one not satisfied,
[1:33:02] Speaker 1: and it was and then but people what was grazed
[1:33:04] Speaker 1: that people needed to really to walk people through to understand,
[1:33:10] Speaker 1: like this is specifically what we're talking about, because I
[1:33:13] Speaker 1: think the issue that I have today, Amanda, a lot
[1:33:16] Speaker 1: of our folks are operating on emotion when we are
[1:33:19] Speaker 1: see these things, but we don't have lots of information
[1:33:23] Speaker 1: that we're basing on, and so the emotion dissipates real quick.
[1:33:28] Speaker 1: It's different when they've been educated, right, And so.
[1:33:32] Speaker 23: We're trying to explain to what Brendan Carr's role is
[1:33:35] Speaker 23: that how the FCC is making people capitulate to Trump
[1:33:38] Speaker 23: for billions and deals with Spectrum, right, they're actually asking
[1:33:42] Speaker 23: us to sacrifice black and brown folks and folks in
[1:33:45] Speaker 23: the margins in order for them to get a corporate mergerer.
[1:33:47] Speaker 23: And really what they're doing is also, as you know
[1:33:49] Speaker 23: as an independent journalist, they're consolidating media so they can
[1:33:52] Speaker 23: have one voice and only share one view of what
[1:33:56] Speaker 23: they want people to understand and read. And so we're
[1:33:58] Speaker 23: trying to take them through this that Brendan Carr is
[1:34:01] Speaker 23: the villain in this. He's the one that's forcing all
[1:34:03] Speaker 23: these companies. But these companies don't have to actually agree
[1:34:06] Speaker 23: to them. They can stand up and fight themselves. They're
[1:34:09] Speaker 23: choosing not to because they rather have profit over saving people.
[1:34:12] Speaker 1: There you go questions for the panel. Let's start with Omicongo.
[1:34:18] Speaker 7: I think that this work that you're doing is so powerful.
[1:34:21] Speaker 11: I was wondering are there any conversations about possibly partnering
[1:34:26] Speaker 11: with the CBC. We talked about earlier in the show,
[1:34:28] Speaker 11: the letter of they write written the corporations as well,
[1:34:30] Speaker 11: demanding more.
[1:34:31] Speaker 7: It seems like from the political side to what.
[1:34:33] Speaker 11: You're doing as an organization, it could be a powerful collaboration.
[1:34:38] Speaker 23: It could absolutely be, And we're totally open. We've had
[1:34:41] Speaker 23: conversations with them about our work. We were just with
[1:34:43] Speaker 23: represent represented Vayana Presley talking about black unemployment at the
[1:34:47] Speaker 23: Hill and had a whole press conference and did some
[1:34:50] Speaker 23: advocacy around there.
[1:34:51] Speaker 7: With our members and so for me, this only gets bigger.
[1:34:54] Speaker 23: This was just a tease of what we're trying to
[1:34:56] Speaker 23: actually build for folks YLANDA.
[1:34:59] Speaker 1: You're there in Texas in Dallas, of course, at and
[1:35:01] Speaker 1: T is right there in North Texas.
[1:35:04] Speaker 10: Uh and and AT and T lobbyists are right here
[1:35:07] Speaker 10: in Houston and everywhere else with the legislature. Yes they
[1:35:10] Speaker 10: are so now as my little minds working, here's what
[1:35:14] Speaker 10: I'm going to do. And then I'll ask you if
[1:35:15] Speaker 10: you are asking people to do the same thing. My
[1:35:18] Speaker 10: law office has AT and T. They carry the Wi Fi,
[1:35:21] Speaker 10: they carry my phone. I can change companies. Are you
[1:35:24] Speaker 10: asking people to boycott? Right, I'm gonna have I'm going
[1:35:29] Speaker 10: to write a letter to AT and T myself as
[1:35:31] Speaker 10: an elected official and a separate letter as a business
[1:35:34] Speaker 10: owner who uses AT and T because we can take
[1:35:37] Speaker 10: our money and go elsewhere. So it's that.
[1:35:39] Speaker 4: Ask, absolutely, that isn't ask.
[1:35:42] Speaker 23: And we're really you know, boycott, divests, whatever it takes,
[1:35:45] Speaker 23: take your money back, find better, cheaper. We're just trying
[1:35:48] Speaker 23: to get people into this movement, right. You know, we
[1:35:50] Speaker 23: saw what the beginning of Target did. We see where
[1:35:53] Speaker 23: Target is now. And you can show that when we
[1:35:55] Speaker 23: take the black dollar from you, it does impact you.
[1:35:58] Speaker 10: And so we need to do this more and.
[1:36:00] Speaker 23: More and show people that they can stand up with corporations.
[1:36:02] Speaker 23: We don't always just have to wait for the government
[1:36:04] Speaker 23: to regulate people.
[1:36:04] Speaker 1: But do you want to Oh but Amanda, do you
[1:36:07] Speaker 1: want though for that part of it? Do you want
[1:36:12] Speaker 1: that to wait? And finally, what I mean by that
[1:36:15] Speaker 1: is imagine if it it is okay AA, T and
[1:36:20] Speaker 1: T and I'm just I'm just I'm going by the
[1:36:23] Speaker 1: model of Reverend Lee on Sullivan and an operation bread Basket,
[1:36:28] Speaker 1: where there was a very clearly defined period in strategy
[1:36:32] Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, if you say, okay, listen,
[1:36:34] Speaker 1: we want to meet with AT. You're laid out, want
[1:36:36] Speaker 1: to meet with AT and T. It's like AT and
[1:36:38] Speaker 1: T if y'all don't move, then on first Monday in August,
[1:36:43] Speaker 1: we're gonna call that a cut off AT and T week. Now,
[1:36:46] Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, then it's in mass It's
[1:36:49] Speaker 1: it's ten thousand, it's twenty thousand, it's thirty thousand customer
[1:36:52] Speaker 1: switch and now only you have a number that tells
[1:36:55] Speaker 1: a story. Is that sort of how you're thinking with
[1:36:58] Speaker 1: that strategy as a poet to folks just doing it haphazard?
[1:37:03] Speaker 23: Yeah, we wanted actually more strategic. But also you know, listen,
[1:37:06] Speaker 23: we're not giving them too much time to respond because
[1:37:08] Speaker 23: they had plenty of time to respond, and so what
[1:37:11] Speaker 23: we will do is probably do what you exactly what
[1:37:13] Speaker 23: you said, which is called a national moment for people
[1:37:16] Speaker 23: to take action and divest their dollars from AT and T.
[1:37:19] Speaker 7: Derek, Amanda, great seeing you again and appreciate the work
[1:37:24] Speaker 7: that Derek. You know, my question is around.
[1:37:30] Speaker 9: Pleasures versus versus actual deliverables, right, because in twenty twenty,
[1:37:35] Speaker 9: for example, we had the fortune one thousand companies came
[1:37:39] Speaker 9: out with all these pledges after George Floyd, and I
[1:37:42] Speaker 9: think the number was like sixty seven almost eighty billion dollars.
[1:37:47] Speaker 1: It was anywhere. It was in Riere for forty two
[1:37:48] Speaker 1: one hundred billion.
[1:37:50] Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a huge.
[1:37:51] Speaker 9: It was ridiculous, right, All these corporations were doing all
[1:37:54] Speaker 9: these pledges because George Floyd was.
[1:37:57] Speaker 7: A global movement. I just google.
[1:38:02] Speaker 9: Less than one percent of companies actually delivered on their pledges.
[1:38:08] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like.
[1:38:10] Speaker 7: Less than one percent.
[1:38:11] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because that was because that was no tracking,
[1:38:13] Speaker 1: There was no accountability and the imperfect and to be
[1:38:18] Speaker 1: perfectly on a first of all, understand color of changes
[1:38:20] Speaker 1: not accept corporate donations. And part of the problem is
[1:38:23] Speaker 1: that the civil rights groups that normally would track that
[1:38:25] Speaker 1: stuff they depend on corporate donations and didn't do the tracking.
[1:38:30] Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, I.
[1:38:31] Speaker 7: Mean so I guess your question.
[1:38:33] Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, no, you're right, but I guess but in
[1:38:38] Speaker 9: your ass, I guess My question is are you will
[1:38:41] Speaker 9: you be satisfied corporations saying okay, Amanda color change, we
[1:38:47] Speaker 9: hear you on your ass and here's our pledge, or
[1:38:51] Speaker 9: are you looking for something more concrete? So, and I
[1:38:54] Speaker 9: just used the George for example, Well, are you looking
[1:38:56] Speaker 9: for something more concrete from AT and T versus a
[1:39:00] Speaker 9: simple pledge to say we conducted a meeting, did the
[1:39:04] Speaker 9: photo op and seeing you on your way?
[1:39:07] Speaker 4: Yeah, no, we do not need that.
[1:39:08] Speaker 23: We made very specific demands from them that they need
[1:39:11] Speaker 23: to actually you know, reinstate their DEI policies, also make
[1:39:16] Speaker 23: sure that they're no longer capitulating with Brendan Carr and
[1:39:19] Speaker 23: the SEC. And even if they have to break this
[1:39:21] Speaker 23: agreement right and you know, sacrifice the billions in order
[1:39:25] Speaker 23: to actually save people. And so it's not that we can't.
[1:39:29] Speaker 7: Go with the pledge. The pledges only go so far.
[1:39:31] Speaker 23: We need folks to actually take real action and really
[1:39:33] Speaker 23: to give you better perspective.
[1:39:35] Speaker 7: Since the rollback of DEI.
[1:39:37] Speaker 23: We've seen almost you know, close to over five hundred
[1:39:40] Speaker 23: thousand Black women lose their jobs in this country. Right
[1:39:43] Speaker 23: the rollback of DEI, we can directly connect to the
[1:39:46] Speaker 23: fact that this is why black unemployment is increasing in
[1:39:48] Speaker 23: this country. These folks are using us, as you know,
[1:39:52] Speaker 23: as sacrificial lambs for their corporate greed.
[1:39:55] Speaker 1: Out at five hundred thousand black men in four hundred
[1:39:57] Speaker 1: thousand plus thousand black men. So that's one of the
[1:40:00] Speaker 1: reasons why unemployment went to seven point two percent, although
[1:40:03] Speaker 1: it dropped to six point six percent six point six
[1:40:05] Speaker 1: percent last month, that's because many folks stop actually looking
[1:40:09] Speaker 1: for a job. So it's impacted Black men and Black
[1:40:12] Speaker 1: women and a whole lot of folk in corporate America.
[1:40:15] Speaker 1: And the reality is we talk about the slashing of DEI,
[1:40:19] Speaker 1: it's a lot of folks who are black in that area.
[1:40:21] Speaker 1: And the other impact is this here about those folks
[1:40:24] Speaker 1: don't going to be in those positions. A significant number
[1:40:28] Speaker 1: of black nonprofits and black organizations and black events across
[1:40:32] Speaker 1: the country have had funding completely cut. Some organizations have
[1:40:38] Speaker 1: seen an eighty percent decline in support. We just had
[1:40:42] Speaker 1: the International African American Museum on the show on Friday.
[1:40:45] Speaker 1: They got to have a furlough to make up a
[1:40:47] Speaker 1: six and a half million dollar deficit. And that's largely
[1:40:50] Speaker 1: because corporate support has evaporated for that museum in Charleston.
[1:40:55] Speaker 1: And so this is all a result of these companies
[1:40:59] Speaker 1: running away from DEI because because what the Trump folks
[1:41:03] Speaker 1: are doing, I need people listening to understand. They are
[1:41:07] Speaker 1: literally going through the list of every single event that
[1:41:13] Speaker 1: these companies are sponsoring, and if they see black, Latino, Asian, American,
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: Native American women, gay, they are striking that because Brendan
[1:41:28] Speaker 1: Carr and people don't understand why does Brendan Carr at
[1:41:31] Speaker 1: and T Because ATT is telecommunications company the FCC oversees
[1:41:36] Speaker 1: those businesses. And he said, if y'all, I mean, I
[1:41:40] Speaker 1: know of another company that literally said to black Women's
[1:41:44] Speaker 1: Expo in Chicago, we would love to sponsor y'all. Can
[1:41:46] Speaker 1: y'all take black out your name and just call it
[1:41:49] Speaker 1: Women's Expo. So that's that's what's happening. So I need
[1:41:53] Speaker 1: people watching to understand one of the reasons many of
[1:41:57] Speaker 1: your nonprofits are having smaller gala, are having smaller programming.
[1:42:02] Speaker 1: I can tell you right now, I'm on the board
[1:42:04] Speaker 1: of National Association of Black Journalists. We are under eight
[1:42:08] Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars this year for our convention, and we
[1:42:14] Speaker 1: saw a drastic drop last year in Cleveland. This year
[1:42:17] Speaker 1: when Atlanta all because of DEI and a company saying, hey,
[1:42:21] Speaker 1: we can't sponsor anything because black is in your name.
[1:42:24] Speaker 1: And that's what's going on with Donald Trump and MAGA.
[1:42:27] Speaker 1: Amanda final comment, You know, we don't have.
[1:42:30] Speaker 23: A Department of Justice. We have a bunch of thugs
[1:42:32] Speaker 23: in the Department of Justice. We don't have inspector generals.
[1:42:35] Speaker 23: And so we as citizens of this country, as voters,
[1:42:37] Speaker 23: as tax players, have to take control of this moment
[1:42:40] Speaker 23: and make sure these corporations understand that you need us,
[1:42:43] Speaker 23: your stakeholders need our dollars in order to make sure
[1:42:45] Speaker 23: they're profitable. And we need to actually stick to that
[1:42:48] Speaker 23: and make sure people understand that we no longer stand
[1:42:50] Speaker 23: for this absolutely.
[1:42:53] Speaker 1: And I keep telling y'all, I've been telling y'all this
[1:42:56] Speaker 1: is all the effort to completely defund Black America. That
[1:43:00] Speaker 1: is the aim, Amanda Hallowell. We appreciate it, thanks a lot,
[1:43:04] Speaker 1: Thank you so much, folks. Actor David Yellowell has apologized
[1:43:08] Speaker 1: for comments he made on a podcast as it related
[1:43:11] Speaker 1: to being a black actor, and he was talking about
[1:43:15] Speaker 1: this whole back and forth over the issue of black
[1:43:19] Speaker 1: I mean the whole issue of first of all black
[1:43:23] Speaker 1: actors and British actors, and it was just all this
[1:43:26] Speaker 1: sort of nonsense back and forth. And this has been
[1:43:29] Speaker 1: a raging debate, you know, folks. Of course we're talking
[1:43:33] Speaker 1: about this skit that Drewski did talking about the same thing.
[1:43:38] Speaker 1: And first of all, and again it's nothing new. This
[1:43:41] Speaker 1: is not new. What you're seeing here this actual debate
[1:43:45] Speaker 1: is that the first time we've seen it. Because I'm
[1:43:48] Speaker 1: going to show you a clip to explain that, and
[1:43:51] Speaker 1: so let's pull up the let me see here. This
[1:43:57] Speaker 1: is what David posted to play this skit. In the
[1:44:00] Speaker 1: second I just want to show you. I want to
[1:44:03] Speaker 1: show you the go to my iPad please because I
[1:44:07] Speaker 1: want this to be larger. He said. I wanted to
[1:44:09] Speaker 1: apologize unreservedly to all those who were rightly offended by
[1:44:14] Speaker 1: my comments on the one fifty four Africa podcast regarding
[1:44:17] Speaker 1: southern accents. It was the wrong thing to say and
[1:44:20] Speaker 1: it is not how I feel. I have nothing but
[1:44:22] Speaker 1: deep respect and great love for black people of all kinds,
[1:44:26] Speaker 1: especially those from the American South. Reducing a dialect born
[1:44:30] Speaker 1: from the richest and resilience of black Southern culture to
[1:44:33] Speaker 1: anything less was careless and wrong. All I truly care
[1:44:36] Speaker 1: about is lifting up my black brothers and sisters from
[1:44:39] Speaker 1: all places through my work and my words. Please forgive
[1:44:42] Speaker 1: my failure to do that in this instance. Signed David
[1:44:44] Speaker 1: oh Yellowell. This was the portion of the interview with
[1:44:49] Speaker 1: one fifty four Africa that people were incensed with.
[1:44:56] Speaker 24: How about Southern.
[1:44:59] Speaker 16: Southerner?
[1:45:00] Speaker 25: Well, if I'm being a Southerner, well, you know what,
[1:45:05] Speaker 25: you know, what happens to Southerner is if you take
[1:45:07] Speaker 25: if you take the night, if you take the Nigerian
[1:45:09] Speaker 25: accent like this and you slow it down, you put
[1:45:13] Speaker 25: a lot of slavery in there, and then you start to,
[1:45:17] Speaker 25: uh put a little bit of subservience in it. This
[1:45:21] Speaker 25: is what starts to happen to the Nigerian accent.
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: It goes.
[1:45:28] Speaker 25: Because literally literally, if you're down here and you start
[1:45:31] Speaker 25: to speed it up and then you start to take
[1:45:33] Speaker 25: all the thing out of it, then before you know it,
[1:45:35] Speaker 25: you talk it like this.
[1:45:37] Speaker 24: Now we are free, Now free, we are released.
[1:45:40] Speaker 6: Hey, transition You see that.
[1:45:48] Speaker 1: Usually no, no, no accent, no the way you just
[1:45:52] Speaker 1: did that whole thing.
[1:45:53] Speaker 10: Go ahead clean you know when you no, I gotta
[1:45:56] Speaker 10: stay lane on that.
[1:45:57] Speaker 1: Okay a black dude from Mala easy now, Okay. So
[1:46:03] Speaker 1: so what Yellow Girl was doing was talking about how
[1:46:08] Speaker 1: he works through uh these various dialects. That that's that's
[1:46:12] Speaker 1: what he was talking about.
[1:46:13] Speaker 26: Uh.
[1:46:14] Speaker 1: And part of that conversation was to the aftermath of
[1:46:18] Speaker 1: the Drewski skit that went a viral where he was
[1:46:24] Speaker 1: really talking about this whole thing between about British actors,
[1:46:28] Speaker 1: britt black Brits taking the jobs of black Americans in movies.
[1:46:37] Speaker 24: Stop talking like that.
[1:46:38] Speaker 6: You ain't big city my saying collection, I'm going with
[1:46:41] Speaker 6: it without you.
[1:46:42] Speaker 27: Rudy stopped talking about that.
[1:46:52] Speaker 1: I need more American slave. Okay.
[1:46:55] Speaker 16: I struggled.
[1:46:56] Speaker 27: Yeah, the struggle I sold, like the dialogue, like the
[1:47:00] Speaker 27: yes see, this row was sort of a bit shaky.
[1:47:04] Speaker 27: I got a little bit of my comfort zone, you know,
[1:47:06] Speaker 27: during the filming of this role, in this character, I
[1:47:09] Speaker 27: felt oppressed, like an American slave, like a lot of struggle.
[1:47:12] Speaker 4: I studied the art a fantastic Tanna on the red carpet. Tonight,
[1:47:17] Speaker 4: I'm just arriving. We have Sampson Dubray the American Guild
[1:47:20] Speaker 4: of Woods. Samson, you look great tonight. How hard was
[1:47:24] Speaker 4: it for you to change your accent as a little.
[1:47:26] Speaker 16: Boy from Manchester?
[1:47:27] Speaker 27: I think I struggled a bit with the dialect, right,
[1:47:30] Speaker 27: but to really get into character for this quite astonishing
[1:47:33] Speaker 27: rod that I took on to say the least, I
[1:47:36] Speaker 27: put it all on the line.
[1:47:38] Speaker 6: All right.
[1:47:38] Speaker 1: So like on Twitter, that's got four to six million views.
[1:47:42] Speaker 1: On other platforms as well, it's got millions upon millions
[1:47:45] Speaker 1: of views. And this is not a new conversation. You've
[1:47:48] Speaker 1: had other other Hollywood actors, African Americans too, plaining about
[1:47:53] Speaker 1: the same thing. Samuel Jackson once talked about this year
[1:47:56] Speaker 1: and others said, well, you know, they're cheaper than African Americans.
[1:48:00] Speaker 1: And then you have the folks out there, a lot
[1:48:02] Speaker 1: of Ados folks, a lot of foundational Black American people
[1:48:05] Speaker 1: who are angry, like, how dare these folks be taking
[1:48:08] Speaker 1: our roles? Folks were angry angry when David Kleoa played
[1:48:12] Speaker 1: Fred Hampton in the movie Judas in the Black Messiah.
[1:48:17] Speaker 1: Of course, of course, oh yellow O played REVERENDR. Martin
[1:48:19] Speaker 1: Luther King junior in the movie Selma your Cynthia Revo
[1:48:23] Speaker 1: who played Harriet Tutman. She would tell Ega four who
[1:48:27] Speaker 1: was in twelve Years a slave dampson, Idris was in Snowfall,
[1:48:33] Speaker 1: and we could talk about Idris l but on and
[1:48:37] Speaker 1: on and on. But this is not new. It's literally
[1:48:40] Speaker 1: not a new conversation. Almost a decade ago I talked
[1:48:45] Speaker 1: to David Drum David Harewood. David Harewood start on Homeland.
[1:48:49] Speaker 1: He starred as the head of the CIA on Homeland.
[1:48:53] Speaker 1: He is a British actor, and we talked about the
[1:48:57] Speaker 1: reality of racism that African American actors face in the
[1:49:02] Speaker 1: United States and black British actors face in the UK.
[1:49:11] Speaker 1: The problems faced by black actors now we are the
[1:49:15] Speaker 1: same as the problems faced by black actors in the US.
[1:49:20] Speaker 1: You've previously done in interviews when you talked about the
[1:49:23] Speaker 1: difficulty of landing roles in your home country. So talk
[1:49:27] Speaker 1: about that because we see Idris Elbow, we see other
[1:49:30] Speaker 1: folks out there who are who are getting various roles.
[1:49:33] Speaker 1: But what you what America with African Americans face in
[1:49:36] Speaker 1: Hollywood here you say you you faced the exact same
[1:49:39] Speaker 1: thing in the UK. Yes we do.
[1:49:43] Speaker 24: And obviously I think the business is much bigger here,
[1:49:45] Speaker 24: so there's a lot more opportunity that which is why
[1:49:48] Speaker 24: many uh not just black Bricks, but many Brits tend
[1:49:52] Speaker 24: to find that they have to leave England to kind
[1:49:55] Speaker 24: of seek better roles, more complex roles here in America.
[1:50:01] Speaker 24: I mean I, for one, I've been trying to get
[1:50:02] Speaker 24: here for i'd say about five or six years, and
[1:50:08] Speaker 24: every time I come here, I'm just staggered by the
[1:50:10] Speaker 24: just the amount of work there is here, the amount
[1:50:12] Speaker 24: of the amount of characters that are to play, and
[1:50:15] Speaker 24: it's it's a it's a great draw for British actors,
[1:50:19] Speaker 24: and it's just it's just very difficult to get those
[1:50:23] Speaker 24: more complex roles in the UK because I think sometimes
[1:50:27] Speaker 24: a little bit too dimensional or even one dimensional, and
[1:50:32] Speaker 24: I just find that the characters here are just just
[1:50:34] Speaker 24: a bit more rounded and more grounded.
[1:50:37] Speaker 1: There's a very interesting story about the origins of your
[1:50:40] Speaker 1: last name, Hair, would so share it with our audience.
[1:50:44] Speaker 24: Yes, well, the Harewood name came from the Barbados, the
[1:50:55] Speaker 24: the lord Lord Lord Hartwood. I say Harewood, but for
[1:50:59] Speaker 24: some people say Harwood, and Lord Harwood was was a
[1:51:04] Speaker 24: a very very wealthy plantation owner in in Barbados, and
[1:51:12] Speaker 24: the abolition of the slave the abolition of the slave trade,
[1:51:17] Speaker 24: all the slaves on the property would take the last
[1:51:20] Speaker 24: name of your owner, as it were, And so that's
[1:51:27] Speaker 24: where the Harewood name came into. Kind of my family
[1:51:33] Speaker 24: a great great great grandfather who was called George Harewood.
[1:51:39] Speaker 4: And.
[1:51:41] Speaker 24: So that's where that's where the name came into the family.
[1:51:44] Speaker 1: So the yahook of a failure unions.
[1:51:49] Speaker 24: We do we try to in fact, in fact, what
[1:51:51] Speaker 24: what they did is in this documentary is they put
[1:51:53] Speaker 24: an advert in the paper and it was basically saying,
[1:51:58] Speaker 24: with all the Hairwoods in Barbados, we all meet in
[1:52:02] Speaker 24: this beach bar. And it was staggering because about fifty
[1:52:06] Speaker 24: people turned up and none of them kind of we
[1:52:09] Speaker 24: didn't know each other, but because we all had the
[1:52:12] Speaker 24: name Harewood, we were all basically we all realize that basically,
[1:52:16] Speaker 24: somehow there was a connection there between us all. And
[1:52:21] Speaker 24: we showed them pictures of this fabulous house in Leeds
[1:52:25] Speaker 24: called Harewood House, Hardwood House, and you know, many of
[1:52:29] Speaker 24: them thought they could make a claim for it because
[1:52:30] Speaker 24: obviously their ancestors must have worked extremely hard to build you.
[1:52:35] Speaker 1: So, folks, that was thirteen years ago. So I just
[1:52:40] Speaker 1: want folks to understand this is not a new debate.
[1:52:46] Speaker 1: The issue that I have is with this here is
[1:52:49] Speaker 1: that so many people are caught up in this. Oh
[1:52:55] Speaker 1: they're taking our roles. Oh we're not making their roles,
[1:53:01] Speaker 1: and they start going back and forth without understanding that.
[1:53:06] Speaker 1: And we've said this beforehand. This is all based upon
[1:53:09] Speaker 1: where the boat dropped folks off. What makes no sense
[1:53:16] Speaker 1: is that when you think about W. E. B. Dub
[1:53:21] Speaker 1: Du Boyce, when you think about Paul Rosen, these were
[1:53:26] Speaker 1: Pan Africanists. These were folks who were trying to get
[1:53:31] Speaker 1: black folks and others to realize the African diaspora, that
[1:53:37] Speaker 1: it was broader than just what was taking place here.
[1:53:40] Speaker 1: That you had Jim Crow here in the United States,
[1:53:45] Speaker 1: but then you had the exporting of Jim Crow abroad.
[1:53:50] Speaker 1: Earlier today, while working out, I was watching a documentary
[1:53:55] Speaker 1: called The Harlem Hill Fighters, was done by Robin Roberts
[1:53:58] Speaker 1: Production Company. You can see it on that flit, and
[1:54:02] Speaker 1: it examines this regiment that served the longest in World
[1:54:08] Speaker 1: War One, one hundred and ninety one days, three thousand troops.
[1:54:11] Speaker 1: They suffered the most losses in World War One of
[1:54:15] Speaker 1: American troops. Nearly half of the Harlem Hell Fighters the
[1:54:20] Speaker 1: three on sixty ninth they died in World War One.
[1:54:25] Speaker 1: But it tells the story of Harry Johnson, Henry Johnson,
[1:54:30] Speaker 1: I'm sorry, who was the first hero, American hero in
[1:54:35] Speaker 1: that war, A man who literally took on and killed
[1:54:38] Speaker 1: anywhere from twenty five to forty Germans. When American media
[1:54:44] Speaker 1: was told his story, it spread like wildfire across the
[1:54:47] Speaker 1: United States and he was held as a hero. That
[1:54:54] Speaker 1: was in That was in nineteen eighteen, but it wasn't
[1:54:58] Speaker 1: until twenty fifteen the President Barack Obama where he was
[1:55:03] Speaker 1: awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor. Here's a and in fact,
[1:55:11] Speaker 1: what's so crazy is the Harlem Hell Fighters were not
[1:55:16] Speaker 1: fighting under America. The Harlem Hell Fighters were fighting under
[1:55:24] Speaker 1: the banner of France. Yes, under the French, and the
[1:55:30] Speaker 1: French awarded the Harlem Hell Fighters their most coveted military award,
[1:55:38] Speaker 1: their highest honor. So if you want to understand our history,
[1:55:46] Speaker 1: then what you have to recognize is that black folks
[1:55:52] Speaker 1: have been dealing with this as well. In fact, if
[1:55:56] Speaker 1: you want to understand this reality and it tells that
[1:55:59] Speaker 1: the story they talked about the Leonard memo. This was
[1:56:03] Speaker 1: a memo that was written by the lead of American
[1:56:06] Speaker 1: expeditionary force who sent the memo to the French telling
[1:56:12] Speaker 1: them how they should treat the black soldiers because they
[1:56:16] Speaker 1: did not want the black soldiers to get too much
[1:56:21] Speaker 1: into their feelings. They wanted them to disrespect the black soldiers.
[1:56:29] Speaker 1: They wanted Jim Crow to rule the day. They wanted
[1:56:36] Speaker 1: to protect the notion that white soldiers were better than
[1:56:42] Speaker 1: black soldiers. The reality is the black soldiers were better.
[1:56:49] Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three, an army base in Louisiana was named
[1:56:54] Speaker 1: after Henry Johnson. The races in the White House. The
[1:57:02] Speaker 1: races in the White House changed that back was called
[1:57:05] Speaker 1: Fort Polk, named after the Confederate the name after this
[1:57:09] Speaker 1: brother who was the first American hero in World War One,
[1:57:14] Speaker 1: and they changed the name to this other general named Polk.
[1:57:18] Speaker 1: That's what you're dealing with, the racist that you have
[1:57:20] Speaker 1: in the Pentagon with Pete hex Seth, and of course
[1:57:24] Speaker 1: two blocks away in the White House with Donald Trump.
[1:57:27] Speaker 1: So you may ask why am I saying all of this, Well,
[1:57:31] Speaker 1: I'm saying this because you've had folk like Ropes and
[1:57:36] Speaker 1: Dubois and others who understood imperialism, colonialism, who understood how
[1:57:42] Speaker 1: Africans were being disenfranchised, who understood how they are being treated,
[1:57:47] Speaker 1: who understood the marginalization of black people worldwide, not just
[1:57:53] Speaker 1: in the United States. So the question really is why
[1:57:59] Speaker 1: are we.
[1:58:01] Speaker 16: Why are we.
[1:58:03] Speaker 1: Getting caught up in their bs? Why are black folks
[1:58:10] Speaker 1: getting caught up in the bs of white supremacy and
[1:58:13] Speaker 1: fighting black brothers and sisters from England. And it's not
[1:58:19] Speaker 1: like they're taking quote all the roles, which really is nonsense.
[1:58:26] Speaker 1: See if you're black, if you're an African American, black
[1:58:30] Speaker 1: American saying well, why are they taking all the roles? Well, see,
[1:58:35] Speaker 1: you're asking the wrong question. What you should be asking
[1:58:38] Speaker 1: is why are there not more roles? See you falling
[1:58:45] Speaker 1: for the crab in a barrow, And that's what's going
[1:58:48] Speaker 1: on right here. We are falling for that. To me,
[1:58:51] Speaker 1: it was stupid to watch people condemn Cynthia or Rivo
[1:58:56] Speaker 1: because she played Harriet. There are people who were critical
[1:58:59] Speaker 1: of previous comp that she made about African Americans. Fine,
[1:59:03] Speaker 1: criticize her, but I also need African Americans to understand something.
[1:59:09] Speaker 1: This is really for the folks who ain't got a passport.
[1:59:13] Speaker 1: Do y'all understand that America's greatest export are movies, television
[1:59:20] Speaker 1: and music. So I want you to imagine twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties,
[1:59:36] Speaker 1: two thousand, twenty twenty American movies being shown across the world.
[1:59:45] Speaker 1: What do you think the representation of black people was
[1:59:48] Speaker 1: and is? Do you understand that Django Unchained really was
[1:59:55] Speaker 1: the movie that taught Hollywood that a quote black film
[2:00:02] Speaker 1: could work overseas even though two thirds of the world
[2:00:06] Speaker 1: are people of color. Do you understand that that she
[2:00:09] Speaker 1: would tell Egia for movie Twelve Years of Slave, which
[2:00:13] Speaker 1: was about an American slave, They literally changed the poster
[2:00:21] Speaker 1: overseas and they took She would tell ega for off
[2:00:26] Speaker 1: of the poster and put Brad Pitt on the poster
[2:00:32] Speaker 1: to market it to white audiences over the overseas. Dot
[2:00:36] Speaker 1: remember the movies Couples Retreat. It was Couple's Retreat in America.
[2:00:42] Speaker 1: All of the couples were on the poster when it
[2:00:45] Speaker 1: went overseas. The two black characters faise On Love was
[2:00:50] Speaker 1: one of them, was not on the poster. That's the
[2:00:54] Speaker 1: game that Hollywood has played. So what we have to
[2:00:57] Speaker 1: recognize is that when Brits or Africans, or Caribbeans or
[2:01:02] Speaker 1: black people from other countries, when they come to the
[2:01:06] Speaker 1: United States and have a perception of who we are,
[2:01:11] Speaker 1: that is also based upon what has been fed to
[2:01:16] Speaker 1: them for decades from white America. This is what happens
[2:01:24] Speaker 1: when you understand history. This is what happens when you
[2:01:29] Speaker 1: understand what it takes place. Robert Abbott found a Chicago defender.
[2:01:37] Speaker 1: He was a rich man. He would travel the world
[2:01:40] Speaker 1: every year. He was going to hotels in other parts
[2:01:43] Speaker 1: of the world and that Americans own, and they would
[2:01:46] Speaker 1: not let him stay there. And he caused a major stink.
[2:01:49] Speaker 1: You know why, because those white folks were bringing Jim
[2:01:52] Speaker 1: Crow to those countries, y'all. It's right here in this
[2:01:59] Speaker 1: Leonard memo. In this Lenard memo, they literally were demanding
[2:02:06] Speaker 1: that the French military institute Jim Crow because they felt
[2:02:11] Speaker 1: black soldiers were going to be too uppity because the
[2:02:15] Speaker 1: French were respecting them as human beings. So what do
[2:02:23] Speaker 1: I say all of this? And by the way, you
[2:02:27] Speaker 1: need to go watch the Harlem hell fighters. By the way,
[2:02:29] Speaker 1: you should go watch the WB du Bois documentary that's
[2:02:32] Speaker 1: on PBS to get an understanding of his thinking when
[2:02:35] Speaker 1: it came to Pan Africanism. I'm saying all of this
[2:02:38] Speaker 1: because we should stop this nonsense of listening to these
[2:02:44] Speaker 1: idiots who yell you are tether, you are tether wowow.
[2:02:47] Speaker 1: I know them fools because I once stated, and I
[2:02:50] Speaker 1: have no problem saying it, that my maternal paternal ancestors
[2:02:54] Speaker 1: migrated from Haiti. These same dumbasses, these FBA people, or
[2:02:59] Speaker 1: you are telling you a tether. No, I was born
[2:03:01] Speaker 1: in Houston. In fact, Riverside Hospital is celebrating the black
[2:03:07] Speaker 1: folks that were born in that hospital on Friday on Juneteenth.
[2:03:12] Speaker 1: That that is happening. My mom and daddy was born,
[2:03:15] Speaker 1: were born in Houston. My grandparents are born in Louisiana.
[2:03:20] Speaker 1: And I'm like, do y'all ignore my maternal maternal line,
[2:03:26] Speaker 1: my paternal maternal and paternal line. So if I got
[2:03:30] Speaker 1: four grandparents and one line migrated from Haiti, the other
[2:03:35] Speaker 1: three don't come. See that's the stupid that we're getting into.
[2:03:38] Speaker 1: We got black folks who're sitting there going, yeah, I'm fba, FBA,
[2:03:41] Speaker 1: you ain't real and So you know what's amazing to
[2:03:44] Speaker 1: me when I listen to people who say that them
[2:03:47] Speaker 1: black prits taking our job. I wonder what these negroes
[2:03:53] Speaker 1: today saying that would have said to the to Shirley
[2:03:56] Speaker 1: Chisholm's face when she became the first black woman ever
[2:04:03] Speaker 1: elected to Congress. Ever, I wonder what these simple simons
[2:04:14] Speaker 1: would say to Sidney Poitier from the Bahamas. I wonder
[2:04:19] Speaker 1: what they would say to freedom fighter Harry Belafonte Jamaica.
[2:04:27] Speaker 1: I wonder what these same simple simons would say the
[2:04:38] Speaker 1: stokely Carmichael also known as Kwame Terray where his folks from?
[2:04:51] Speaker 1: If I'm correct, Barbados, y'all, we can find a whole
[2:04:56] Speaker 1: line of black people who were fighting for freedom who
[2:05:06] Speaker 1: were not born here. Colin Powell, Mama Dad, immigrants, Egg Holder,
[2:05:17] Speaker 1: Mama Dad, immigrants, y'all. We can do this all day.
[2:05:23] Speaker 28: So, this, to me.
[2:05:27] Speaker 1: Is a stupid ass conversation about who's taking jobs. What
[2:05:34] Speaker 1: we should be saying, as African Americans, well black bridth
[2:05:39] Speaker 1: should be saying, is expand the opportunities. Expand the jobs.
[2:05:46] Speaker 1: Don't limit us to a few roles. Don't have the
[2:05:50] Speaker 1: same Black people vying for the same roles. That's what
[2:05:54] Speaker 1: we should be saying. We should not be playing these
[2:05:58] Speaker 1: simple crabs in the barrel games, because all that does
[2:06:04] Speaker 1: is let white supremacists and white nationalists in Hollywood off
[2:06:09] Speaker 1: the hook. Thoughts for my panel, Derek.
[2:06:13] Speaker 29: You first, you know, rolland uh, I agree with you.
[2:06:22] Speaker 29: You know, when you think about those who say, for example,
[2:06:28] Speaker 29: women are not leaders, I mean we got one. My
[2:06:32] Speaker 29: dear sister does on the panel with us. I mean,
[2:06:34] Speaker 29: she's doing the work in Texas. But for those who.
[2:06:38] Speaker 9: Feed this into our communities, right, and I always respond
[2:06:44] Speaker 9: to them in the manner in what you did. I said, well,
[2:06:46] Speaker 9: have you seen the movie called Women King? It just
[2:06:49] Speaker 9: came out what three or four years ago?
[2:06:52] Speaker 1: That as a leaders directed by Jeena Prince by Wood.
[2:06:59] Speaker 9: That's right, I said, have you seen the movie? They said, oh,
[2:07:02] Speaker 9: that's that's back back then, dere I said, okay, what
[2:07:05] Speaker 9: about six Triple eight? Have you seen that movie? See
[2:07:10] Speaker 9: for that movie? And my memory serves me correct. That
[2:07:13] Speaker 9: was back in the World War two.
[2:07:15] Speaker 1: Yeah, world War two. That was directed by directed by
[2:07:18] Speaker 1: talent pairs starting and carry Washington is on Netflix.
[2:07:21] Speaker 7: That's exactly right.
[2:07:22] Speaker 9: And so then you know, Glory tuskegeearman. We can as
[2:07:26] Speaker 9: you stated, my dear brother, we can play this game
[2:07:29] Speaker 9: all day. We cannot feed into their white supremacist.
[2:07:35] Speaker 7: To their water.
[2:07:36] Speaker 1: We can't.
[2:07:36] Speaker 7: We got to stop this because.
[2:07:39] Speaker 9: When you think about it, my last point is this
[2:07:42] Speaker 9: roller because if we start to fight amongst each other,
[2:07:47] Speaker 9: because see, they realized a long time ago when I
[2:07:50] Speaker 9: was the first time I read the Willie Lynch letter,
[2:07:54] Speaker 9: the whole essence of the Willie Lynch Letter was to
[2:07:56] Speaker 9: make sure that the phil Neigro and the House Negro
[2:07:59] Speaker 9: would never because our greatest strength is unity, and so
[2:08:04] Speaker 9: this is a way for them to continue to divide
[2:08:07] Speaker 9: and conquer us and by us fighting against ourselves because
[2:08:10] Speaker 9: once we realize that unity rolling, we're unstoppable.
[2:08:14] Speaker 1: Well, and even though the will Niche letter was not real,
[2:08:17] Speaker 1: it certainly has real life implications. Stokely Carmichael commet Terray.
[2:08:22] Speaker 1: This family was Trendad and Tobago. I also find it
[2:08:26] Speaker 1: real interesting how these simple simons who love talking all
[2:08:29] Speaker 1: this nonsense about do for self and stuff like that,
[2:08:34] Speaker 1: love to tout Marcus Garbagejealanda who was from Jamaica. I'm
[2:08:40] Speaker 1: just saying I just it's just it shows just the
[2:08:43] Speaker 1: stupidity of some people.
[2:08:45] Speaker 10: Go ahead, but it's like you said, Roland, we all
[2:08:49] Speaker 10: came from the same continent. It's just where the slave
[2:08:52] Speaker 10: ship stopped first. And you know they understand that united
[2:08:58] Speaker 10: we stand and divided we fought, so they pit us
[2:09:00] Speaker 10: all against each other. And what I've actually started doing
[2:09:04] Speaker 10: now that I'm older, because I just believe that taking
[2:09:08] Speaker 10: money out of people with money's pocket is what works,
[2:09:11] Speaker 10: and I mean boycotting. I literally don't watch shows that
[2:09:16] Speaker 10: don't have black people on them. I don't even if
[2:09:20] Speaker 10: they're popular, because that's my way to protest. And if
[2:09:23] Speaker 10: we look around, like if you live in Houston or
[2:09:25] Speaker 10: Dallas or places where you see black folks and you
[2:09:28] Speaker 10: look at TV shows that literally have no black people
[2:09:31] Speaker 10: on it, like, again, why are we upset that people
[2:09:33] Speaker 10: are going where the work is? But why wouldn't we boycott?
[2:09:38] Speaker 10: I just don't think that as much money as black
[2:09:40] Speaker 10: people spend, regardless of where we come from as a race,
[2:09:47] Speaker 10: that we can control things if we decided to put
[2:09:50] Speaker 10: our money where our anger is, and that is what
[2:09:53] Speaker 10: I believe that we need to do. So I actually
[2:09:56] Speaker 10: was watching that one fifty four because I just think
[2:10:00] Speaker 10: it's interesting because the guys that are that are over
[2:10:03] Speaker 10: that show are both African and they have different perspectives
[2:10:07] Speaker 10: on things, and the other guys like lead black people alone.
[2:10:09] Speaker 10: So of course I watch whatever he does because he
[2:10:12] Speaker 10: puts great stuff on on social media. But my point
[2:10:15] Speaker 10: is we need to fight the same enemy, because we
[2:10:19] Speaker 10: all have the same enemy regardless of where we're from,
[2:10:22] Speaker 10: and we should bend our dollars and show people what
[2:10:28] Speaker 10: we approve of and what we don't approve of. And
[2:10:30] Speaker 10: so I think that's a way that we can show
[2:10:33] Speaker 10: white media, which is exactly Roland. Why you did what
[2:10:36] Speaker 10: you did when you left the places where everybody wanted
[2:10:39] Speaker 10: to be and created a foundation for other black people
[2:10:44] Speaker 10: to start their own networks, because the white media is
[2:10:48] Speaker 10: a white media, and why are we mad when white.
[2:10:50] Speaker 1: Po Well, actually, well, I remember I never I was
[2:10:54] Speaker 1: with black media before as we're seeing in. I never
[2:10:57] Speaker 1: left black media than you. When seeing in ended, when
[2:11:01] Speaker 1: CNN ended, I expanded what I was doing black media.
[2:11:05] Speaker 1: Then when the black media opportunities ended with the Tom
[2:11:08] Speaker 1: Jona Morning Show, Radio one and TV one, then I
[2:11:13] Speaker 1: started this. So it ended in white media and Black
[2:11:17] Speaker 1: on media, and the reality is you don't have a
[2:11:19] Speaker 1: black You have no black news shows on TV one
[2:11:23] Speaker 1: or Cleo TV, which they own. You've got no black
[2:11:26] Speaker 1: news shows on B E T Where they got they
[2:11:28] Speaker 1: got that monthly magazine. I don't even if they still
[2:11:30] Speaker 1: even do it in BT, not even black owned Paramount
[2:11:34] Speaker 1: David Ellison, right winger owns B E T H. And
[2:11:38] Speaker 1: we can go down the line how many black on
[2:11:40] Speaker 1: media aren't there as well? On the Congo. The thing
[2:11:43] Speaker 1: here again, it amazes me when these people enter these
[2:11:46] Speaker 1: stupid conversations and they're talking about, yeah, where you from,
[2:11:50] Speaker 1: where your mama from, where your daddy from? And they
[2:11:52] Speaker 1: the same ones quote Malcolm Mexican, his mama was from Grenada,
[2:11:55] Speaker 1: So I guess Malcolm X is a tether. I mean,
[2:11:58] Speaker 1: this is just how reus this discussion is. Again, we
[2:12:03] Speaker 1: should not be arguing over minuscule role for black bridge
[2:12:08] Speaker 1: and African Americans. We should be saying, is we want
[2:12:12] Speaker 1: more of the pie Hollywood?
[2:12:17] Speaker 11: Yeah, And I would argue also creating our own pis
[2:12:20] Speaker 11: like like on the network we're talking about right now,
[2:12:22] Speaker 11: And I think about like Ryan Coo Coogler, I think
[2:12:25] Speaker 11: about like centers, and I think about Black Panther, like,
[2:12:27] Speaker 11: look how pan African those two movies were, you know,
[2:12:30] Speaker 11: and that was one of us, you know, at the
[2:12:31] Speaker 11: center putting that together. There are so many great opportunities
[2:12:34] Speaker 11: for collaboration. I think, like you know, when Cynthia Rivo,
[2:12:37] Speaker 11: you know, makes the comments like she made, these are
[2:12:39] Speaker 11: opportunities for conversations so we can build as opposed to
[2:12:43] Speaker 11: tearing people down. One of the things that we have
[2:12:45] Speaker 11: to also understand is that this conversation about Hollywood hiring
[2:12:49] Speaker 11: non you know, Black American actors, is that, yeah, there's
[2:12:52] Speaker 11: this mindset of British people make better actors.
[2:12:54] Speaker 7: But as we all know, this is happening across industries.
[2:12:58] Speaker 11: A lot of corporations hiring non African Americans and so
[2:13:02] Speaker 11: they can still have their black numbers. Some of these
[2:13:05] Speaker 11: colleges and universities are doing the same things, and so
[2:13:08] Speaker 11: we can go across multiple industries where they're intentionally not
[2:13:11] Speaker 11: bringing in Black Americans and bringing other Black people from
[2:13:14] Speaker 11: the diaspora. That's not a reason for us in the
[2:13:16] Speaker 11: diaspora to be against each other. That's a reason for
[2:13:19] Speaker 11: like you're saying, to call them out and continue to
[2:13:22] Speaker 11: build together. If we can do the work to understand
[2:13:25] Speaker 11: that this has been an international effort. Doctor King spent
[2:13:29] Speaker 11: time on the continent, right, so it's just like if
[2:13:31] Speaker 11: we can understand that, then we would understand how the
[2:13:34] Speaker 11: system works. I mean, even Lee Daniels with Daniel Oi
[2:13:37] Speaker 11: Lowell said, you know, I hired him because African Americans
[2:13:40] Speaker 11: come with too much baggage, right, and so these are
[2:13:43] Speaker 11: opportunities for conversation as black people. There are more of
[2:13:46] Speaker 11: us across the world as black and brown people. We
[2:13:49] Speaker 11: need to come together and stop tearing as each other
[2:13:52] Speaker 11: apart because Hollywood does keep giving prominent African American roles
[2:13:55] Speaker 11: like you know, Whitney Houston and stuff to non Black
[2:13:58] Speaker 11: American actors. But that's an opportunity for us to build
[2:14:01] Speaker 11: together and not tear each other down. We have to
[2:14:04] Speaker 11: come together as Pan Africanists and build this global network
[2:14:07] Speaker 11: because we are a global majority.
[2:14:09] Speaker 6: All right.
[2:14:10] Speaker 1: Then onm A. Congo, Jelonda and Derek, I shurely appreciate it.
[2:14:12] Speaker 1: Thank you so very much for joining us on today's show.
[2:14:16] Speaker 1: Folks are Earlier this afternoon, Bishop William Barber and Repairs
[2:14:21] Speaker 1: of the Breach had their moral mondays just two blocks
[2:14:24] Speaker 1: away from us, in front of Lafayette Park, in front
[2:14:27] Speaker 1: of the White House. Here is some of what Bishop
[2:14:30] Speaker 1: Barbara had to say.
[2:14:32] Speaker 3: Well speaking today, to come and stand shoulder to shoulder,
[2:14:37] Speaker 3: and in a moment our national leader for our prophetic
[2:14:42] Speaker 3: counsel will come and introduce them. As we are talking
[2:14:47] Speaker 3: to thousands upon thousands of people online.
[2:14:54] Speaker 6: And many of you who are here.
[2:14:57] Speaker 3: Because of some of the actions of today, it is
[2:15:00] Speaker 3: necessary for me to reshape the narrative and take a
[2:15:06] Speaker 3: little time to clear some things up. I want you
[2:15:10] Speaker 3: to hear this family and here it well. We are
[2:15:15] Speaker 3: standing here today, on this Tomorrow, Monday, because there is
[2:15:19] Speaker 3: a profound, weeping sickness in the soul of our nation statecraft.
[2:15:28] Speaker 3: We've gathered at this public pull pit rally because we
[2:15:31] Speaker 3: must confront boldly the tragic, shortsighted and morally bankrupt decisions
[2:15:41] Speaker 3: that trade it the sacred promise of peace for the
[2:15:45] Speaker 3: hollow theater of political vanity. We must understand why we
[2:15:50] Speaker 3: are building a public poor pit today. Oh yes, we've
[2:15:54] Speaker 3: got to take our fature out of the buildings of
[2:15:57] Speaker 3: the church. The poor pit cannot be behind stained glass
[2:16:02] Speaker 3: windows in this season. The poor pit cannot be confined
[2:16:06] Speaker 3: to the safe boundaries of the sanctuary. Too. Many of
[2:16:10] Speaker 3: our leaders want to choreographed holiness. They want to ster
[2:16:14] Speaker 3: all comfortable religion. The judges a person's entire walk of
[2:16:19] Speaker 3: faith simply by the height of their steeple, the layout
[2:16:23] Speaker 3: of their sanctuary, or the sweetness of their Sunday morning hymns.
[2:16:28] Speaker 3: But we hear the word of the Lord today. God
[2:16:31] Speaker 3: despises that kind of hollow performance. God turns his back
[2:16:36] Speaker 3: on a faith that sings beautifully on Sunday but then
[2:16:40] Speaker 3: votes to crush the vulnerable on Monday. We need a
[2:16:43] Speaker 3: public pull pit right out here on the pavement to
[2:16:47] Speaker 3: counter this toxic falsehood of religious nationalism. This unholy movement
[2:16:54] Speaker 3: attempts to hijack the Cross, replace authentic morrow focus with
[2:16:59] Speaker 3: the flag, and twist the Gospel into a weapon of control.
[2:17:05] Speaker 3: Then they try to sanitize history. They try to lift
[2:17:09] Speaker 3: up the founding fathers as if they were perfect icons
[2:17:12] Speaker 3: of morality. But let's tell the truth in the open
[2:17:15] Speaker 3: air today. Those founders were flawed, slave holding men who
[2:17:20] Speaker 3: wrote about liberty while keeping their brothers and sisters in chains.
[2:17:25] Speaker 3: And we refuse to worship a national myth when the
[2:17:29] Speaker 3: state uses its power to manipulate chaos and then try
[2:17:33] Speaker 3: to call it holy. The church and people of faith
[2:17:37] Speaker 3: must bring its message directly to the palace gates. And
[2:17:42] Speaker 3: we denounced politicians who legislate poverty by day, as Revendella
[2:17:47] Speaker 3: and Barbara said, and then pretend to.
[2:17:49] Speaker 6: Pray at night.
[2:17:51] Speaker 3: We get bused to millions of low income workers and
[2:17:55] Speaker 3: disabled individuals and struggling families whose existence is threatened by
[2:18:01] Speaker 3: an Unholdly bring this mica of unholy alliance between political
[2:18:06] Speaker 3: power and corporate realp Look again at Jeremiah in the
[2:18:11] Speaker 3: twenty second chapter, Bishop, the word of God did not
[2:18:14] Speaker 3: come to the temple priest in private.
[2:18:17] Speaker 6: The word came directly to the gates of the King's palace.
[2:18:20] Speaker 3: Jeremiah stood right there in the public square and cried out,
[2:18:25] Speaker 3: execute justice and righteousness, deliver the spoil out of the
[2:18:28] Speaker 3: hand of the oppression.
[2:18:31] Speaker 6: Stop doing wrong to the immigrant and the fatherless and.
[2:18:34] Speaker 3: The widows, and stop shedding innocent blood. What if Jeremiah's
[2:18:40] Speaker 3: agenda were our policy today, it would look like an
[2:18:44] Speaker 3: immediate haught to foreign policy aggression. It would mean an
[2:18:48] Speaker 3: absolute end to state sanctioned violence. It would mean protecting immigrants,
[2:18:53] Speaker 3: the refuge, and the stranger at the border. Jeremiah's exegesis
[2:18:58] Speaker 3: is clear for us today. A government loses its moral
[2:19:02] Speaker 3: authority when it sheds innocent blood to feed its own ego,
[2:19:08] Speaker 3: and when rulers build their palaces on the backs of
[2:19:11] Speaker 3: the poor, the public, poor pit must break the silence.
[2:19:16] Speaker 3: Look at the record and look at the truth. A
[2:19:20] Speaker 3: few years ago, a historic covenant was made. It was
[2:19:24] Speaker 3: called the Iran Nuclear Agreement. It was a patient, diplomatic
[2:19:29] Speaker 3: shield build to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass
[2:19:34] Speaker 3: destruction without firing a single shot, or dropping a single bomb,
[2:19:40] Speaker 3: or shearding a single drop of precious human But it
[2:19:43] Speaker 3: wasn't perfect, but it was better. But then came a
[2:19:48] Speaker 3: spirit of arrogance, a leadership blinded by malice and intoxicated
[2:19:54] Speaker 3: by the desire to undo the past. The Trump administration
[2:19:58] Speaker 3: unilaterally tore that peace covenant. They broke our nation's word
[2:20:03] Speaker 3: on the global stage. They marched us to the precipice
[2:20:08] Speaker 3: of an unnecessary war of choice, rattling sabers, escalating tensions,
[2:20:14] Speaker 3: putting millions of innocent souls in imminent, terrifying danger. Let
[2:20:19] Speaker 3: us speak the raw, unvarnished truth. Today, this arrogance did
[2:20:24] Speaker 3: not stop at breaking covenants. It escalated into an apocalyptic madness.
[2:20:31] Speaker 3: A leader threatened to unleash the ultimate war crime against
[2:20:36] Speaker 3: the Almighty itself, the complete utter destruction of an entire
[2:20:42] Speaker 3: ancient civilization, to threaten the total annihilation of millions of
[2:20:47] Speaker 3: God's children.
[2:20:49] Speaker 6: This is not state craft. It is blasphemy.
[2:20:53] Speaker 3: It is an act of supreme moral depravaty that dares
[2:20:58] Speaker 3: to play God with the of humanity. But oh, thank
[2:21:02] Speaker 3: God that the conscious of some could not be silenced.
[2:21:07] Speaker 3: Right now, I want to thank God for those generals,
[2:21:09] Speaker 3: those leaders in uniform that said.
[2:21:11] Speaker 1: No, we will not do it.
[2:21:13] Speaker 3: I don't know how many it was, but think about
[2:21:16] Speaker 3: the gravity of that moment. We were standing on the
[2:21:19] Speaker 3: very brink of the end, and if it had not
[2:21:22] Speaker 3: been for those who chose moral sanity over blind obedience,
[2:21:27] Speaker 3: the world could have been set a blade.
[2:21:30] Speaker 1: Folks being caught up with some of the folks who
[2:21:32] Speaker 1: were out there to day, and this is why they
[2:21:34] Speaker 1: said they are there every Monday. Protesting is a part
[2:21:38] Speaker 1: of more moneys here in Washington, DC.
[2:21:40] Speaker 30: It's so important to continue to raise a prophetic voice
[2:21:43] Speaker 30: in the name of our faith, because so many things
[2:21:46] Speaker 30: are going.
[2:21:46] Speaker 6: Wrong in this country. People do not have adequate.
[2:21:49] Speaker 30: Health care, and this war with Iran is irresponsible and unnecessary,
[2:21:53] Speaker 30: and so many horrible things have been done by this
[2:21:55] Speaker 30: administration that are contrary to the will of the American people.
[2:22:00] Speaker 13: To bring attention to the issues that our nation is facing,
[2:22:06] Speaker 13: and we bring it here dreamed in Jeremiah twenty two
[2:22:10] Speaker 13: that says, go down to the palace, the King's palace.
[2:22:13] Speaker 5: So it's not about sending an email or sending it betweet.
[2:22:16] Speaker 7: As we say, we come here to make.
[2:22:19] Speaker 13: Our voices known, to make this a public fullmit, to
[2:22:23] Speaker 13: preach about the issues that are impacting our people that
[2:22:26] Speaker 13: have been a result of bad policies by our government.
[2:22:31] Speaker 13: And that's why we came to preach to them, so
[2:22:34] Speaker 13: that they may hear the word of God and that
[2:22:38] Speaker 13: their consciousness will be arrested by the Holy Spirit to
[2:22:42] Speaker 13: do what is right, to do what is just, and
[2:22:44] Speaker 13: that is what God requires of us. That we love
[2:22:47] Speaker 13: mercy and we act justly, and that we walk comely
[2:22:51] Speaker 13: with our God.
[2:22:53] Speaker 21: The consistency helps people find us, helps people know we're
[2:22:58] Speaker 21: going to be here. It reminds the folk that we're
[2:23:00] Speaker 21: trying to talk to, whether they just be the local
[2:23:02] Speaker 21: folks hanging out or the folks in the house behind
[2:23:04] Speaker 21: us here, that we're going to keep coming back. It's
[2:23:06] Speaker 21: not about once and done. We stand here, we say
[2:23:10] Speaker 21: a few words, and then we go home. It's that
[2:23:11] Speaker 21: we're going to be back, and we're gonna be back
[2:23:12] Speaker 21: next week, and we're gonna be back the week after
[2:23:14] Speaker 21: that and the week after that, and we're going to
[2:23:15] Speaker 21: keep coming back with a moral message and a reason
[2:23:19] Speaker 21: to defend each other and to defend this democracy and
[2:23:23] Speaker 21: to defend justice and fairness week after week after week.
[2:23:28] Speaker 28: It's important to keep our focus on the ethical choices
[2:23:34] Speaker 28: that this federal government is forcing.
[2:23:36] Speaker 2: Us to make, and we have to make sure that
[2:23:40] Speaker 2: we are walking in the right path.
[2:23:43] Speaker 31: We have to bring the attention to what is happening
[2:23:46] Speaker 31: in this right house, in state houses across, the attack
[2:23:51] Speaker 31: on voting rise, the attack on the poor. And then
[2:23:53] Speaker 31: we're understanding that it's a trillion dollar, trillion dollar budget.
[2:23:57] Speaker 13: For this war that we're in and started with the
[2:24:01] Speaker 13: world Mondays and sort of Peggy at the Supreme Court
[2:24:06] Speaker 13: and the ones that are here that.
[2:24:07] Speaker 4: Started Holy Week.
[2:24:08] Speaker 26: It's just the discipline of coming out together on uh.
[2:24:15] Speaker 32: Sort in a way that I think makes a difference
[2:24:18] Speaker 32: for our sort of showing up together.
[2:24:22] Speaker 22: I believe it's important that we show that we show
[2:24:24] Speaker 22: that we care enough to keep showing up over and
[2:24:27] Speaker 22: over and they will go away.
[2:24:30] Speaker 33: So it's important to me because I believe in jobs
[2:24:38] Speaker 33: things that are happening in the world. It's not what
[2:24:43] Speaker 33: God created to be. God created us to live as
[2:24:48] Speaker 33: one in unity, peace and harmony.
[2:24:53] Speaker 14: And he would be highly upset.
[2:24:56] Speaker 7: Well, he is highly upset.
[2:24:58] Speaker 20: With those that are not a body by his work
[2:25:02] Speaker 20: and his words is true.
[2:25:04] Speaker 32: The importance is really about the message that consistency makes.
[2:25:10] Speaker 32: I live here in d C, just outside the city
[2:25:15] Speaker 32: line in Silver Spring, which is this street, sixteenth Street,
[2:25:18] Speaker 32: and so coming down here every week for me as
[2:25:21] Speaker 32: a local is very important because it says this is
[2:25:25] Speaker 32: something that's powerful to us. And to have people from
[2:25:27] Speaker 32: outside this area who aren't just coming here for a
[2:25:30] Speaker 32: one time showy event, but come week after week and
[2:25:34] Speaker 32: well over a year, Moral Mondays now have been happening
[2:25:38] Speaker 32: here in d C. That is a commitment to who
[2:25:40] Speaker 32: we are. That's not just about using us as a backdrop.
[2:25:43] Speaker 32: And I think that's really really critical to any success
[2:25:48] Speaker 32: of a movement that happens here in DC, that local
[2:25:52] Speaker 32: people in d C, as well as in Maryland and
[2:25:55] Speaker 32: Virginia and people from across the country across the world,
[2:25:58] Speaker 32: that we're in solidarity with one another and we're fighting together.
[2:26:01] Speaker 34: This is critical right now because we are five months
[2:26:05] Speaker 34: away from a huge election and people need to be
[2:26:08] Speaker 34: able to vote based on the real facts of what
[2:26:13] Speaker 34: policies HA meant for poor and low wage people, and
[2:26:16] Speaker 34: so Moral Mondays is pointing out to people that a
[2:26:19] Speaker 34: whole series of policies have been passed by this White House,
[2:26:24] Speaker 34: by this Congress that hurt poor and low wage people,
[2:26:28] Speaker 34: starting a year ago with what we called the Big
[2:26:32] Speaker 34: Ugly Bill. They called it the One Big Beautiful Bill,
[2:26:35] Speaker 34: but it was a bill that.
[2:26:36] Speaker 6: Slash money for food.
[2:26:38] Speaker 34: Assistance, for medicaid, even for billionaires taxes, and poured that
[2:26:45] Speaker 34: money into the war economy and into detention centers, terrible
[2:26:49] Speaker 34: for poor.
[2:26:49] Speaker 6: And low wage people.
[2:26:51] Speaker 34: People need to vote against that and vote for people
[2:26:54] Speaker 34: who will pass policies that are good for foreign low
[2:26:58] Speaker 34: wage people.
[2:26:59] Speaker 28: Moral money needs to happen every Monday so that more
[2:27:03] Speaker 28: and more people can become involved to see what's happening,
[2:27:08] Speaker 28: and for us to keep up the message that policy
[2:27:11] Speaker 28: violence cannot continue to occur and that we need.
[2:27:15] Speaker 33: To stop the war.
[2:27:17] Speaker 26: I just followed up the barber along the way about
[2:27:21] Speaker 26: his bands with justice.
[2:27:23] Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that.
[2:27:26] Speaker 26: You try to find a way to do something, to
[2:27:28] Speaker 26: stand for what you believe in. Showing up seems to
[2:27:32] Speaker 26: be something that you should do. I like the foundation
[2:27:37] Speaker 26: of the message that we're standing on prophetic words, on
[2:27:41] Speaker 26: our beliefs, and so it's the least that I can do.
[2:27:46] Speaker 26: I think that.
[2:27:48] Speaker 35: The way people are being treated under this administration is immoral.
[2:27:56] Speaker 35: Take the detention centers. Most people wouldn't try the dogs
[2:28:01] Speaker 35: their dogs. The way they're treating people. If you look
[2:28:05] Speaker 35: at that family detention center in Texas, doesn't seem to
[2:28:10] Speaker 35: be any outdoor places for children to play and get exercise,
[2:28:16] Speaker 35: and now they're buying up warehouses to put people.
[2:28:21] Speaker 4: I mean, how are moral?
[2:28:23] Speaker 35: The first and greatest commandment is to love God with all.
[2:28:27] Speaker 4: Your heart, all your mind, and all your soul.
[2:28:30] Speaker 35: The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself.
[2:28:36] Speaker 4: And I absolutely believe that, and this is part of
[2:28:41] Speaker 4: loving my neighbor.
[2:28:43] Speaker 36: Well, it's importune to have morel Mondays every week because
[2:28:46] Speaker 36: it keeps policies, issues and things that people should be
[2:28:49] Speaker 36: paying attention to more relevant every single week. I feel
[2:28:52] Speaker 36: like everyone has a general idea of what's going on
[2:28:55] Speaker 36: wrong in the world, but Moral Monday keeps it relevant
[2:28:58] Speaker 36: every single week.
[2:28:58] Speaker 37: And that's why some were taking think the consistency is
[2:29:01] Speaker 37: important to let this administration, to let those that are
[2:29:06] Speaker 37: seeking to roll back right for all people, to let
[2:29:09] Speaker 37: them know there's a moral threat and moral consciousness that
[2:29:12] Speaker 37: will not be silent and that will forever find its
[2:29:16] Speaker 37: way into the public square, into the public space, and
[2:29:20] Speaker 37: to uplift the consciousness of.
[2:29:23] Speaker 26: The country, because this administration has lost their moral compass and.
[2:29:30] Speaker 1: We need to find it and we need to all
[2:29:33] Speaker 1: We need to show them that the people.
[2:29:35] Speaker 5: Don't agree befoere this country is going, and that we
[2:29:38] Speaker 5: want to change.
[2:29:40] Speaker 1: We need to be.
[2:29:42] Speaker 21: Unrelenting in the in the public witness for an alternative
[2:29:47] Speaker 21: to the cruelty and the meanness.
[2:29:50] Speaker 10: Of politics as it's says, it's being played here now.
[2:29:55] Speaker 37: So to have the voice as the words of the
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[2:30:05] Speaker 7: We don't hear enough of this and we don't see enough.
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[2:30:09] Speaker 23: I think it's important toute every week because it's a
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[2:30:13] Speaker 10: That changes are happening and that we're not getting back off.
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[2:31:42] Speaker 1: it's gonna be happening in Harlem. On Saturday. What's happening
[2:31:46] Speaker 1: in Harlem. There's gonna be a massive rally. When we fight,
[2:31:50] Speaker 1: we win. This is the aftermath of all roads lead
[2:31:53] Speaker 1: to the South action taking place there in New York
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[2:32:00] Speaker 1: this June tenth weekend. Also, we had information tomorrow for
[2:32:04] Speaker 1: a really taking place in Georgia on Thursday, leading up
[2:32:08] Speaker 1: to the event, of course, the Georgia Legislative session. This,
[2:32:14] Speaker 1: of course, it's June tenth week You see me in
[2:32:16] Speaker 1: rocking my first June teen shirt. I'm gonna have one
[2:32:19] Speaker 1: every single day this week we celebrate Juneteenth, and we'll
[2:32:23] Speaker 1: have more details so we can walk people through it.
[2:32:26] Speaker 1: I think too many people, too many people are not
[2:32:30] Speaker 1: fully understanding what June tenth is about. It ain't just
[2:32:33] Speaker 1: about concerts, it's not just about partying. It also has
[2:32:36] Speaker 1: a purpose, and so we're gonna talk about that as well.
[2:32:38] Speaker 1: All right, y'all, that is it for me. I appreciate
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