# SCOTUS Voting Rights Blow. Black Officers Purged. Obama Center Attacked. State of Black America

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 23 Jun 2026, 3 h 02 min.

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[0:17] Speaker 1: Folks.
[0:17] Speaker 2: Today is Monday, June twenty six, twenty twenty six.
[0:20] Speaker 1: Coming up on Roland Martin on Filter Sorry.
[0:23] Speaker 2: June twenty second, twenty twenty six, Coming up in Rolling
[0:25] Speaker 2: Martin Unfiltered.
[0:26] Speaker 1: Streaming live on the Black Start Network.
[0:27] Speaker 2: I'm here in Columbus, Ohio, where I'll be participating in
[0:31] Speaker 2: the State of Black America with Congressman and Joyce Baty.
[0:34] Speaker 2: Will be carrying that live right here on the Black
[0:36] Speaker 2: Star Network. Breaking news Carmelo Anthony has a new legal team.
[0:41] Speaker 2: Will tell you all of those details of a group
[0:45] Speaker 2: of Texas black Texas lawyers who will be leading his
[0:48] Speaker 2: case as it goes to appeal. Also on today's show,
[0:52] Speaker 2: Secretary of Defense Pete Heckseth always talks about merit when
[0:56] Speaker 2: it comes to promotions, Yet why does he continue to
[0:59] Speaker 2: overrule the promotions of blacks to senior leadership position in
[1:03] Speaker 2: the military and promote inferior white leaders We'll talk about that.
[1:08] Speaker 2: Plus Supreme Court mix of ruling in a critical voting
[1:11] Speaker 2: rights case locks the break down. It's time to bring
[1:14] Speaker 2: the funk a Rolling Martin on Filcher on the Black
[1:16] Speaker 2: Side Network.
[1:17] Speaker 1: Let's go.
[1:19] Speaker 3: Whatever the he's it, whatever it is he's got the fine.
[1:25] Speaker 4: Now Wena believes he's right on time and is rolling.
[1:29] Speaker 5: Best believe he's going.
[1:32] Speaker 6: Is Loston news to politics with entertainment Justinos, He's.
[1:44] Speaker 5: It's rolling Monty.
[1:53] Speaker 7: He's boss, She's real.
[1:55] Speaker 8: Good question.
[1:56] Speaker 5: No, he's rolling.
[1:57] Speaker 2: Monte puzz breaking news out of Texas. There's a new
[2:23] Speaker 2: legal team that will be in charge of the appeal
[2:27] Speaker 2: for Kamala Anthony. Of course, he's a seventeen year old
[2:30] Speaker 2: black team who was found guilty of murder in the
[2:33] Speaker 2: case of stabbing Austin Metcalf and attract meet last year
[2:37] Speaker 2: in Collin County, Texas. He was convicted by a Texas
[2:40] Speaker 2: jury sentence on the same day of thirty five years
[2:43] Speaker 2: in prison. He had to serve at least seventeen years
[2:46] Speaker 2: before he is eligible for parole. This is what the
[2:49] Speaker 2: press Relief says. A team of leading appellate, civil rights
[2:52] Speaker 2: and criminal defense attorneys an nownce today it has taken
[2:56] Speaker 2: on the case of Kamala Anthony, who was recently sentenced
[2:58] Speaker 2: to thirty five years following his murder conviction the death
[3:01] Speaker 2: of Austin Metcalf. The team, serving pro bono will review
[3:05] Speaker 2: the trial record and pursue all available Avenues of appeal
[3:09] Speaker 2: leading the effort, Russell Wilson the Law Firm, A Law
[3:13] Speaker 2: Office of Russell Wilson the Second, Gary Blatsoe, the Blatsoe
[3:17] Speaker 2: Law Firm and President of the Texas NAACP, Michael Ware
[3:20] Speaker 2: Law Office of Michael Ware, Brooke Clues, Ben Crump Law,
[3:25] Speaker 2: Sean Deredea Deredia Law Firm, and Justin Moore Stafford Moore
[3:29] Speaker 2: as well.
[3:30] Speaker 1: Our appellate team has been retained following the.
[3:32] Speaker 2: Conviction to conduct a fresh, independent review of the trial record.
[3:36] Speaker 2: We recognize the profound law suffered by one young man's
[3:39] Speaker 2: family and the uncertainty facing another, and we extend our
[3:42] Speaker 2: respect to everyone whose lives have been forever changed by
[3:45] Speaker 2: these events. Our responsibility is to determine whether a legal
[3:49] Speaker 2: error occurred and to ensure that every issue supported by
[3:52] Speaker 2: the record is fully a vigorously presented on appeal. And
[3:55] Speaker 2: so it then goes on to actually list and detail
[3:58] Speaker 2: the bios of the.
[4:02] Speaker 1: Different attorneys.
[4:03] Speaker 2: Of course, a number of people have been highly critical
[4:06] Speaker 2: of Carmelo Anthony's attorney for how he conducted the case. So,
[4:10] Speaker 2: for instance, Carmelo Anthony did not testify in the trial,
[4:13] Speaker 2: but what really stood out is when they went to
[4:16] Speaker 2: the sentencing phase and the attorney only called one one witness,
[4:22] Speaker 2: Carmela Anthony's mother, and so he was literally convicted by
[4:26] Speaker 2: this jury. They deliberate it for less than three hours,
[4:29] Speaker 2: and then he was sentenced all in the same day.
[4:33] Speaker 2: And so there were a number of folks who were
[4:35] Speaker 2: highly critical of his frankly lackluster defense of.
[4:42] Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony.
[4:43] Speaker 2: And so this has been talked about for quite some
[4:46] Speaker 2: time in terms of what was going to be happening
[4:50] Speaker 2: in this case. I want to bring in my panel
[4:51] Speaker 2: right now. First of on my CONGO to being a
[4:53] Speaker 2: senior profacer Electric School of International Service, American University.
[4:57] Speaker 1: He is also author of.
[4:59] Speaker 2: Live About Black People, How to Combat Races out of
[5:02] Speaker 2: DC Control Room. Let me know when philma Anderson and
[5:06] Speaker 2: doctor Abus Jones Weaver have joined us on my CONGO.
[5:10] Speaker 1: I'll start with you.
[5:10] Speaker 2: I mean, this is obviously a significant development, uh, And
[5:14] Speaker 2: there's been lots of discussion after the fact, after the
[5:18] Speaker 2: fact regarding this.
[5:21] Speaker 1: Uh.
[5:21] Speaker 2: His attorney, his family has said that they were told
[5:24] Speaker 2: that they needed to hire a white lawyer. Well, we
[5:27] Speaker 2: see how that went.
[5:32] Speaker 1: I can hear you yes, on my Congo. Can you
[5:38] Speaker 1: hear me? I can hear I can hear on Congo?
[5:45] Speaker 1: Can you hear me? All right?
[5:48] Speaker 2: So clearly we're having some issues with O my Congo heman,
[5:50] Speaker 2: doctor ABIs Jones Weaver, can you hear me?
[5:53] Speaker 7: Here?
[5:53] Speaker 1: You okay? Sol, let me go to you.
[5:58] Speaker 2: So there were a lot of concerns obviously express of
[6:01] Speaker 2: his defense counsel in the aftermath of the conviction and
[6:04] Speaker 2: the sentence.
[6:06] Speaker 9: It certainly was and as you alluded to, a lot
[6:10] Speaker 9: of people concerned about the racial dynamics of this entire
[6:15] Speaker 9: unfortunately set up. I would describe it as not only
[6:19] Speaker 9: the defense attorney, but not one black person on the jury,
[6:26] Speaker 9: and it was it created a feeling, especially unfortunately with
[6:31] Speaker 9: your son of Texas on the history of Texas.
[6:34] Speaker 10: Knowing set up, frankly, I was concerned from the beginning.
[6:38] Speaker 9: I could in some way understand the uh also that
[6:44] Speaker 9: he got to have a white attorney in the sense
[6:47] Speaker 9: of you often you will see a strategy where, for example,
[6:50] Speaker 9: a man is accused of sexual assault assault, he's oftentimes
[6:54] Speaker 9: told to have a woman defend him.
[6:57] Speaker 10: Uh.
[6:58] Speaker 9: We saw that with the case where uh, you know
[7:01] Speaker 9: you have someone who is example, the previous case with
[7:06] Speaker 9: a young man who was shot in the back by
[7:08] Speaker 9: the Asian store owner.
[7:09] Speaker 10: He had a black This one's attorney.
[7:12] Speaker 9: Oftentimes the attorney, the defense attorney, is a strategy to
[7:16] Speaker 9: have that attorney match the victim to hopefully be a
[7:20] Speaker 9: little bit more sympathetic or the jury. But no matter
[7:24] Speaker 9: what the attorney was, it was clear that he would
[7:27] Speaker 9: rely know what the help was doing or on the
[7:31] Speaker 9: worst case interpretation, maybe there was some collusion to this
[7:36] Speaker 9: child even situation where he would be where he is
[7:41] Speaker 9: right now. So either way, at minimals, it seemed to
[7:44] Speaker 9: be horrible representation.
[7:48] Speaker 10: The jury definitely put him at the in from the beginning.
[7:51] Speaker 9: But I am hopeful now that there is an legal
[7:54] Speaker 9: team in place that and that there is more information
[7:58] Speaker 9: it seems like coming out about the that as we move.
[8:02] Speaker 10: Forward little bit a little bit, moser justice for him.
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[14:14] Speaker 2: talk about what the Supreme Court did today. A huge blow.
[14:17] Speaker 2: I told y'all about a case that started out of
[14:20] Speaker 2: Arkansas that was going to have serious ramifications when they
[14:24] Speaker 2: come to voting rights. Well, the Supreme Court declined to
[14:29] Speaker 2: hear a case challenging a lower court ruling that limits
[14:33] Speaker 2: who can enforce key voting rights protections. The decision leaves
[14:37] Speaker 2: in place a ruling that prevents voters and civil rights
[14:40] Speaker 2: groups from bringing certain voting discrimination lawsuits in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
[14:49] Speaker 2: North Dakota, and South Dakota.
[14:51] Speaker 1: Instead, those cases will largely have to be brought by
[14:54] Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, and we.
[14:56] Speaker 2: Know they absolutely are an anti black, anti voting rights
[15:02] Speaker 2: Department of Justice.
[15:04] Speaker 1: Of course, this.
[15:04] Speaker 2: Comes after the the Louisiana versus Kala case. Abas you know,
[15:09] Speaker 2: I kept warning people that this was a.
[15:11] Speaker 1: Case that was crucial.
[15:13] Speaker 2: People need to understand that means in this jurisdiction, that
[15:16] Speaker 2: means that the ac OU Black voters matter, any external
[15:21] Speaker 2: group NAACP Legal Defense Fund large three of the civil
[15:24] Speaker 2: rights under.
[15:24] Speaker 1: Law, any external group.
[15:26] Speaker 2: Cannot file a voter discrimination lawsuit. And by saying and
[15:31] Speaker 2: because because the people who who who supported this law said, well,
[15:35] Speaker 2: only the DOJ can bring about these cases, what we
[15:37] Speaker 2: clearly know we have right now in anti black Department
[15:41] Speaker 2: of Justice.
[15:42] Speaker 9: Absolutely we have. We don't have a Department of justice.
[15:45] Speaker 9: Let's just call a thing a thing. We have a
[15:47] Speaker 9: Department of Injustice.
[15:48] Speaker 1: That's what we have right now.
[15:50] Speaker 9: And so to go along as the match set with
[15:54] Speaker 9: the Department of Injustice, we have an unjust Supreme Court.
[15:57] Speaker 10: And so here we are in this moment where from.
[16:02] Speaker 1: Every angle the voting power of Black.
[16:06] Speaker 9: Keeople are completely being dismantled before our eyes. And what's
[16:11] Speaker 9: shocking to be is an agree to which we're not
[16:15] Speaker 9: really But aside from you, Roland, you are definitely given
[16:18] Speaker 9: this specific issue the attention and the focus and the
[16:23] Speaker 9: urgency that it deserves.
[16:25] Speaker 1: And it once again.
[16:25] Speaker 9: Shows how important this platform is because I have to
[16:29] Speaker 9: tell you when you look on mainstream media, when you
[16:31] Speaker 9: look on even on social media, just in terms of
[16:34] Speaker 9: the conversations that are going on there, this is an
[16:37] Speaker 9: issue that was a blip for a second following Calais
[16:41] Speaker 9: and now it's like it's completely.
[16:44] Speaker 10: Off the chart.
[16:45] Speaker 9: And while this is something that is no longer getting
[16:49] Speaker 9: all the headlines, it is something that definitely is still
[16:54] Speaker 9: a huge deficit for us as black people.
[16:57] Speaker 10: And the attacks just keep coming.
[17:00] Speaker 5: This is the latest one.
[17:01] Speaker 20: So one other round in the attack on black voting power,
[17:07] Speaker 20: one other round in the ability to dilute, diffuse, fracture
[17:12] Speaker 20: the black vote.
[17:13] Speaker 10: And to specifically say, under this administration and in.
[17:18] Speaker 9: This Department of Injustice, that we are to assume that
[17:23] Speaker 9: that institution would do anything to protect black voting rights
[17:28] Speaker 9: is an exercise and futility.
[17:31] Speaker 10: We know exactly what this is.
[17:32] Speaker 9: They're trying to undermine our voting power, and it's time
[17:35] Speaker 9: for us to speak up, get up, and do everything
[17:37] Speaker 9: that we can.
[17:37] Speaker 10: To protect it.
[17:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's and so listen.
[17:43] Speaker 2: As a result of the Supreme Court doing this none
[17:45] Speaker 2: granted it is limited to that particular part of the country,
[17:50] Speaker 2: do not be surprised to see right wing advocates avis
[17:54] Speaker 2: file similar lawsuits.
[17:56] Speaker 1: And you know where they're going to go.
[17:57] Speaker 2: First, the Fifth Circuit Court of a Peace that governs
[18:02] Speaker 2: most of your southern states.
[18:03] Speaker 1: And so you're going to see that fourth circuit.
[18:05] Speaker 2: So don't be surprised to see that's the next phase
[18:09] Speaker 2: where they do this to basically shut down external groups
[18:13] Speaker 2: from following these lawsuits in states where you have a
[18:16] Speaker 2: large amount of black people.
[18:18] Speaker 9: Absolutely, and this is another thing about this particular rule
[18:22] Speaker 9: in that it's just right.
[18:24] Speaker 10: They're not going to stop here. They're going to keep going.
[18:27] Speaker 9: And what we have seen in terms of the strategies
[18:30] Speaker 9: that the right has you so far, they have used
[18:34] Speaker 9: this strategy of pushing forward on various different, different different
[18:40] Speaker 9: lawsuits in order to undermine the power of a wide
[18:45] Speaker 9: variety of equal protection coverages. Right, and now we're talking
[18:49] Speaker 9: about voting rights. But what's really disturbing about this is,
[18:53] Speaker 9: you know, in the past, at least we've had the
[18:56] Speaker 9: ability to have those institutions that has historically have taken
[19:01] Speaker 9: up the mantle to fight for justice, to fight for
[19:04] Speaker 9: equal protection, to fight for our voting rights, to fight
[19:08] Speaker 9: for our rights to be treated equally.
[19:10] Speaker 10: In this nation.
[19:11] Speaker 9: To now undercut their ability to be able to fight
[19:15] Speaker 9: back is really the death blow here until we can
[19:19] Speaker 9: get this corrected. So one thing I will say this
[19:22] Speaker 9: once again highlights the absolute urgency of making sure that
[19:27] Speaker 9: we move forward in a way that overperforms not only
[19:31] Speaker 9: in the midterms, but we have to look forward to
[19:35] Speaker 9: the presidential elections, the House and the Senate because at
[19:38] Speaker 9: the end of the day, we need significant Supreme Court reform.
[19:43] Speaker 9: This needs to be the death nail in the Supreme
[19:46] Speaker 9: Court as it is currently constructed.
[19:49] Speaker 13: We need to move forward, and to me, one of the.
[19:52] Speaker 9: Non negotiables that I have to see for any presidential
[19:56] Speaker 9: candidate that I am going to vote for in the future,
[19:59] Speaker 9: that has to say one of the things that I'm
[20:02] Speaker 9: going to make sure we have happened at the very
[20:06] Speaker 9: top of my agenda with the next president's pie.
[20:09] Speaker 10: And make sure that we have Supreme important form.
[20:11] Speaker 9: And to make that happen, that person needs not only
[20:14] Speaker 9: the presidency.
[20:15] Speaker 10: They need the House and the Senate.
[20:18] Speaker 9: So we need to do all we can to get
[20:20] Speaker 9: back all the realms of power because until we do that,
[20:24] Speaker 9: something like this really undercuts our ability to be able to.
[20:27] Speaker 10: Fight back for our voting rights.
[20:31] Speaker 2: Well, and here's the deal here, and this is the
[20:33] Speaker 2: most important I keep saying, you can you cannot have
[20:38] Speaker 2: any reform of the Supreme Court.
[20:40] Speaker 1: If you do not get control of the House.
[20:43] Speaker 2: Democrats get control of the Senate and then get control
[20:46] Speaker 2: of the White House.
[20:47] Speaker 1: And so the elections are all a part of.
[20:50] Speaker 9: This, absolutely, And what most people on statistical yet most
[20:54] Speaker 9: people don't realize is that for the thirty plus years
[20:58] Speaker 9: in this nation, guys have only held both the House
[21:03] Speaker 9: and the Senate for a total of eight years out
[21:07] Speaker 9: of the past thirty years. I mean, it's very rare
[21:11] Speaker 9: that we have both the House and the Senate. You know,
[21:14] Speaker 9: we talk about we have all of these huge expectations.
[21:16] Speaker 9: I know people are talking about with the recent Obama's
[21:21] Speaker 9: Presidential Library opening, and there's this big obviously, this big
[21:24] Speaker 9: debate that's gone on ever since he's been in office,
[21:26] Speaker 9: what has he done for black people?
[21:27] Speaker 1: The reality is he only had the House.
[21:29] Speaker 10: And the Senate for two years out of eight years.
[21:32] Speaker 9: All Right, it's kind of hard to get shit done
[21:35] Speaker 9: if you do not have the Congress in addition to
[21:38] Speaker 9: the presidency. So we have to understand that it's important
[21:41] Speaker 9: to not only vote for president, it's important to make
[21:45] Speaker 9: sure that that president has the legislators that they need
[21:50] Speaker 9: in both houses of Congress in order to be able
[21:54] Speaker 9: to get through legislation and to make this happen.
[21:58] Speaker 10: As you mentioned, not enough to have the president. It's
[22:02] Speaker 10: not just enough to have the House. We need to
[22:03] Speaker 10: have the House.
[22:04] Speaker 9: We need to have the Senate by overwhelming margins because
[22:07] Speaker 9: we know how things are there in the Senate.
[22:10] Speaker 10: Uh, and so the rules are there.
[22:12] Speaker 21: So we need to make sure that we have all
[22:14] Speaker 21: of that together to be able to make sure that
[22:17] Speaker 21: we can make these huge changes that we need to
[22:20] Speaker 21: make in the next couple of years, because unless we do,
[22:24] Speaker 21: our owning rights can.
[22:25] Speaker 9: Be gone essentially in terms of its full power, at
[22:29] Speaker 9: least for another generation.
[22:33] Speaker 1: Folks that we have on the congo or filma. All right, okay,
[22:43] Speaker 1: all right, so let me do this share, let me
[22:44] Speaker 1: go to a break, we come back.
[22:46] Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about my pete heads at Jeni's emotions.
[22:50] Speaker 1: To more more black generals. Uh.
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[23:37] Speaker 2: If you're in Medicare or about to be, the system
[23:40] Speaker 2: is not set up to work for you. Too much
[23:42] Speaker 2: fine print, too many plans, and too many people making money.
[23:45] Speaker 1: Off of your confusion. And look, we're used to this.
[23:48] Speaker 2: We're no strangers to systems that don't have our best
[23:50] Speaker 2: interest at heart. But we don't have to accept it
[23:53] Speaker 2: when it comes to Medicare. That's why I'm telling you
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[24:01] Speaker 2: they're the only Medicare advisors that compare every plan nationwide,
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[24:16] Speaker 2: If you're already in the right one, they'll tell you
[24:18] Speaker 2: that too.
[24:19] Speaker 12: There are no games.
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[24:24] Speaker 2: average up eleven hundred dollars. It's twenty minutes and a
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[25:03] Speaker 1: This is Reggie rock Vify.
[25:04] Speaker 22: You're watching Willom Martin, unfiltered, uncut, unplugged, and undamned believable.
[25:20] Speaker 1: Holly Times.
[25:21] Speaker 2: If we told y'all the GFP has a war on
[25:24] Speaker 2: black people, and for that war is taking place at
[25:28] Speaker 2: the Department of Defense. Trump's calls it, the of course,
[25:31] Speaker 2: Department of War as BF. They can't change your name.
[25:34] Speaker 2: So check out this reporting that was done. So he'd
[25:38] Speaker 2: had said.
[25:39] Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense has been Now mind you remember.
[25:42] Speaker 2: It's unqualified white man followed and emily qualified African American
[25:47] Speaker 2: four star retired General Lloyd Houston. And so what he's
[25:50] Speaker 2: done is New York Times published a detailed story of
[25:54] Speaker 2: the former Fox News host lacking more African Americans. Internal
[26:00] Speaker 2: Pentagon studies have said that nearly one third of black
[26:03] Speaker 2: service members reported.
[26:05] Speaker 1: Racial discrimination in the administration. They don't give a damn
[26:09] Speaker 1: at all. They don't care at all. And so what
[26:12] Speaker 1: he's done is black beast promotions. And what now.
[26:17] Speaker 2: Remember he wrote a book complaining about diversity in the military,
[26:23] Speaker 2: and what he's done is he specifically targeted soldiers, okay,
[26:30] Speaker 2: who supported diversity. In his last case, a high ranking
[26:35] Speaker 2: African American. You had a review board that actually reviewed this.
[26:40] Speaker 2: A review board reviewed this, and they went through and
[26:42] Speaker 2: they said, Okay, this is who we're going to nominate.
[26:46] Speaker 2: He was ranked number one, this black soldier. Well, Pete
[26:49] Speaker 2: Heads said, no, that soldier supported diversity. So as a result,
[26:55] Speaker 2: I'm not gonna have promoted. And so what they did
[26:57] Speaker 2: is they chose the third rate person who was a
[27:00] Speaker 2: white man. This military is becoming more and more white
[27:04] Speaker 2: than Donald Trump. I told you all my book White Fear.
[27:07] Speaker 2: That's what this is about. This is all about attacking
[27:10] Speaker 2: black people. They do not want to see African Americans
[27:13] Speaker 2: promoted in this administration. In this country, there is undeniable
[27:18] Speaker 2: pure racism abas. Okay, all right, so we don't have avas. Okay, So, folks, again,
[27:31] Speaker 2: I saw this story and it was unbelievable.
[27:35] Speaker 1: It was unbelievable to see this. And we see this
[27:37] Speaker 1: going over and over and over again. Oh what happens.
[27:40] Speaker 2: What happens with this administration and how they're targeting black people,
[27:44] Speaker 2: and so they don't want to see advance spend.
[27:46] Speaker 1: They want to wipe out. And let me explain y'all
[27:48] Speaker 1: how this whole things work.
[27:49] Speaker 2: Okay, So if you're a four star general, okay, you
[27:53] Speaker 2: only serve a certain period of time. And so the
[27:56] Speaker 2: actions that they are taking are literally destroying. They are
[28:00] Speaker 2: destroying the advancement of African Americans and of women.
[28:06] Speaker 1: So what they're doing is advancing white men. Over and
[28:09] Speaker 1: over and over again. We keep seeing this. Okay, that's
[28:13] Speaker 1: what Donald Trump is all about, as the Peter hext
[28:15] Speaker 1: is all about.
[28:16] Speaker 2: And this shows you exactly how this administration, how they stand.
[28:20] Speaker 1: It is shameful, it is despicable, but it's par for
[28:23] Speaker 1: the course of who these.
[28:25] Speaker 2: Folks are and how they operate. And so it just
[28:28] Speaker 2: makes no sense whatsoever. And you're gonna see it again.
[28:32] Speaker 1: And so this is why.
[28:33] Speaker 2: This is why Listen, I'm here in Columbus, Ohio for
[28:36] Speaker 2: the Lincoln Theater, and so we're gonna be talking about
[28:38] Speaker 2: the state.
[28:38] Speaker 1: Of Black America and this is all a part of it.
[28:41] Speaker 2: You are seeing the wholesale attack on African Americans.
[28:45] Speaker 1: See, y'all need to understand. This is why I don't
[28:47] Speaker 1: have any time.
[28:48] Speaker 2: This is why I don't have any energy of to
[28:51] Speaker 2: spend on gossip and TMZ blade and stuff.
[28:54] Speaker 1: No, we are seeing Jim Crow two point.
[28:59] Speaker 2: Zero in our and I think another of us are
[29:02] Speaker 2: not responding and the way we should be responding. A
[29:05] Speaker 2: lot of us are not as pissed off as we
[29:07] Speaker 2: should be pissed off. Okay, I can't expand yet what
[29:11] Speaker 2: Donald Trump is doing with the reflecting pool and the allergy.
[29:16] Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, He's an idiot. Okay, awarded a
[29:18] Speaker 1: contract to his friend is corrupt. But these other actions
[29:23] Speaker 1: specifically speak to the impact on black people.
[29:27] Speaker 2: So we're talking about voting rights, We're talking about happening
[29:30] Speaker 2: in the military, We're talking about denying of grants.
[29:32] Speaker 1: I can go on and on and on.
[29:34] Speaker 2: This is what we're seeing. It's happened before our very
[29:37] Speaker 2: eyes and again, a lot of us are just sort
[29:40] Speaker 2: of just like moving along and not necessarily thinking it's
[29:43] Speaker 2: that big of a deal.
[29:45] Speaker 1: But the reality it is that big of a deal.
[29:47] Speaker 1: And I'm telling you you're gonna see more of this.
[29:50] Speaker 1: If we do not vote in massive.
[29:52] Speaker 2: Numbers come November and Republicans still control the House, they
[29:57] Speaker 2: still control the Senate, you can't have to do anything
[30:00] Speaker 2: the White House. Then guess what, it's gonna get worse.
[30:04] Speaker 2: It's gonna get worse. You're gonna see more of this
[30:07] Speaker 2: over and over and over again. We're talking about we're
[30:12] Speaker 2: talking about absolute, absolute, human favored.
[30:14] Speaker 1: Could you tell them bring that music down some?
[30:17] Speaker 2: Okay, So that's what folks, I'm telling you, that's what's
[30:20] Speaker 2: going on. What we are seeing right now is a
[30:24] Speaker 2: complete attack on everything black. They have looked at our
[30:30] Speaker 2: progress over the last sixty years, they looked at our
[30:34] Speaker 2: progress since we talked about from the civil rights movement,
[30:38] Speaker 2: and they are going after it all.
[30:41] Speaker 1: They are attacking it all. And if we don't respond
[30:45] Speaker 1: the way we should respond, we're gonna see more gangs laws.
[30:49] Speaker 1: And that means that.
[30:50] Speaker 2: Our children and our children's children are going to be
[30:53] Speaker 2: living in America. That is wider that it has less
[30:57] Speaker 2: power than this generation. That's simple cannot continue. It simply cannot.
[31:04] Speaker 2: Are folks going to we come back? People write them
[31:08] Speaker 2: late to rest today and we'll show you some of
[31:11] Speaker 2: that next time. I'm building on the Black Slide Network.
[31:17] Speaker 12: All right, folks, let me tell you about Chapter. Now.
[31:19] Speaker 2: If you're in Medicare or about to be, the system
[31:23] Speaker 2: is not set up to work for you. Too much fine,
[31:25] Speaker 2: too many plans, and too many people making money.
[31:28] Speaker 1: Off of your confusion. And look, we're used to this.
[31:30] Speaker 2: We're no strangers to systems that don't have our best
[31:33] Speaker 2: interests at heart. But we don't have to accept it
[31:36] Speaker 2: when it comes to Medicare. That's why I'm telling you
[31:38] Speaker 2: about Chapter. Their advisors are independent and honest. In fact,
[31:44] Speaker 2: they're the only Medicare advisors that compare every plan nationwide,
[31:49] Speaker 2: and they're focused on one thing, what works for you.
[31:55] Speaker 2: If there's a better plan out there, they'll find it.
[31:58] Speaker 12: If you're already in the right one, they'll tell you
[32:01] Speaker 12: that too.
[32:02] Speaker 1: There are no games.
[32:03] Speaker 2: Just last year, people who switched with Chapter saved an
[32:06] Speaker 2: average up eleven hundred dollars. It's twenty minutes and a
[32:10] Speaker 2: real person it's completely free. My parents actually have already
[32:15] Speaker 2: called Mom sent me a text. Folks, give Chapter a
[32:18] Speaker 2: call at seven two four two sixty four eight two
[32:21] Speaker 2: eight one seven two four two sixty four A two
[32:24] Speaker 2: eight one and connect with someone you can trust.
[32:27] Speaker 1: Folks.
[32:28] Speaker 2: These are the kind of services that we need for
[32:30] Speaker 2: our audience here at Roland Martin onn Filter and the
[32:33] Speaker 2: Blackstar Network so called Chapter right now seven two four
[32:37] Speaker 2: two sixty four eight two eight one.
[32:42] Speaker 6: With medicine and science under attack, I want to keep
[32:45] Speaker 6: you and your family informed and healthy.
[32:48] Speaker 4: I'm doctor Epity Hilton, and I knew at the age of.
[32:50] Speaker 6: Eight that I wanted to be a doctor, so I
[32:52] Speaker 6: studied hard and became the first African American female and
[32:55] Speaker 6: a sociologist hired at the Medical University.
[32:58] Speaker 2: Of South Carolina.
[32:59] Speaker 6: This is me in eighteen twenty four, and I always
[33:02] Speaker 6: say I was made into a doctor, but I was
[33:04] Speaker 6: born to be a mom. And as a new mom, wife's, sister, daughter,
[33:08] Speaker 6: and friend, I understand how frightening and medical crisis can be.
[33:13] Speaker 6: I care for individuals are some of the worst days
[33:15] Speaker 6: of their lives, and it's my mission to provide you
[33:18] Speaker 6: with a safe space to gain clarity on issues affecting
[33:21] Speaker 6: your mind bodies. So I recognize that there are health disparities,
[33:25] Speaker 6: particularly as it pertains the race, and I want to
[33:28] Speaker 6: help bridge the down between.
[33:30] Speaker 7: You and early your healthcare providers. Join me every.
[33:32] Speaker 6: Thursday or Second Opinion on the black Star Network, where
[33:36] Speaker 6: each week I'll invite est first from various medical fields
[33:39] Speaker 6: to share the latest helpers. We'll discuss topics such as
[33:42] Speaker 6: the vaccine, todate, mental and central health, medical bias, infertility, menopause,
[33:48] Speaker 6: andrew pause, nutrition and aging. Together with my medical colleagues,
[33:53] Speaker 6: we aim to provide you with.
[33:54] Speaker 4: A Second Opinion. Don't miss it Thursdays only on the
[33:58] Speaker 4: black Star Network.
[34:05] Speaker 15: If in this country right now, you have people get
[34:08] Speaker 15: up in the morning and the only thing they can
[34:10] Speaker 15: think about is how many people they can hurt, and
[34:13] Speaker 15: they've got the power.
[34:15] Speaker 13: That's the time for morning, for better or worse.
[34:17] Speaker 16: What makes America special, It's that legal system that's supposed
[34:21] Speaker 16: to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
[34:26] Speaker 17: We are at a point of a moral emergency. We
[34:30] Speaker 17: must raise a voice of outrage. We must raise a
[34:34] Speaker 17: voice of compassion.
[34:37] Speaker 1: And we must raise a voice of unity.
[34:41] Speaker 15: We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
[34:44] Speaker 15: We are in a crisis of civilization, a humans rights crisis,
[34:48] Speaker 15: and a crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've
[34:53] Speaker 15: been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
[34:58] Speaker 15: those that would hate, don't have the final say and
[35:02] Speaker 15: they don't ultimately win.
[35:07] Speaker 1: All Right, my name is Freddy Rix. I'm from Houston, Texas.
[35:10] Speaker 5: My name is Sharon Williams. I'm from Dallas, Texas.
[35:14] Speaker 22: Right now I'm rolling with Roland Martin, unfiltered, uncut, uncloved,
[35:19] Speaker 22: and undamned believable.
[35:30] Speaker 2: All right, folks, Time for Black Store Network. He allows
[35:32] Speaker 2: with Britney Noble.
[35:36] Speaker 23: But just one day before Maryland's primaries, a candidate running
[35:39] Speaker 23: for Maryland's House of Delegates is caught in a firestorm
[35:42] Speaker 23: over the fact that he's spent years.
[35:44] Speaker 13: Performing in blackface.
[35:45] Speaker 23: Republican Bobby al Jolsenberger is facing scrutiny over his decades
[35:49] Speaker 23: long career performing in blackface.
[35:51] Speaker 1: The some of the eight year old is one of five.
[35:53] Speaker 23: Republicans running for a seat representing an area east of Baltimore.
[35:56] Speaker 23: Berger said he's proud of his performances more than one
[36:00] Speaker 23: thousand black face shows impersonating Al Dolson, an entertainer who
[36:05] Speaker 23: performed in blackface in the nineteen thirties. Is that cost
[36:08] Speaker 23: him a job as a Baltimore police officer back in
[36:10] Speaker 23: the eighties, But Berger insists that his act was always
[36:13] Speaker 23: about entertainment and not racism, and now Alabama man is
[36:17] Speaker 23: now free after forty two years in prison for a
[36:19] Speaker 23: crime he always insisted he did not commit. Irvin Harris
[36:23] Speaker 23: has been sentenced to ninety nine years in prison after
[36:26] Speaker 23: being convicted of rape in nineteen seventy five, but that
[36:28] Speaker 23: conviction was overturned by a judge last week, signing new
[36:31] Speaker 23: scientific advances that had not existed at the time of
[36:34] Speaker 23: Harris's conviction. Harris's legal team has noted that he did
[36:38] Speaker 23: not match the physical description of the suspect's age, height,
[36:41] Speaker 23: or facial hair. While the attacker was described as speaking clearly,
[36:45] Speaker 23: Harris as a severe speech impediment. The perpetrator also drove
[36:49] Speaker 23: the victim around in a carry at evidence showed that
[36:51] Speaker 23: Harris could not.
[36:51] Speaker 5: Drive at all.
[36:53] Speaker 23: Furthermore, Harris had a severe contagious sexually transmitted disease at
[36:58] Speaker 23: the time, which the victim never contracted. A Georgia family
[37:03] Speaker 23: has filed a multi million dollar lass to the ledging
[37:06] Speaker 23: that their fifteen year old daughter died due to unreasonable
[37:09] Speaker 23: delays in ambulance service. In December of twenty twenty four,
[37:12] Speaker 23: fifteen year old Mandy Sylvester suffered a medical crisis during
[37:15] Speaker 23: volleyball practice. The Loss of the llegs that despite a
[37:18] Speaker 23: nine one one call requesting an ambulance, none was available
[37:22] Speaker 23: to respond. The first request was made at approximately six
[37:25] Speaker 23: oh nine pm. The family's attorney's alleged that they were
[37:27] Speaker 23: not informed of that shortage until a second nine one
[37:30] Speaker 23: one call, which was placed more than twenty minutes later. Ultimately,
[37:33] Speaker 23: Sylvester's mother was forced to drive her daughter to the
[37:36] Speaker 23: hospital herself, while the teene experienced seizures and other medical complications.
[37:40] Speaker 23: According to Georgia law, ambulance providers are required to request
[37:44] Speaker 23: mutual aid when their own resources are unavailable. Attorney Bin
[37:47] Speaker 23: Krump set the laws to the seeking accountability and justice
[37:50] Speaker 23: for Mandy. A Pennsylvania medical school is facing a federal
[37:55] Speaker 23: civil rights complaint over allegations that several scholarship programs discriminated
[38:00] Speaker 23: based on race. Thomas Jefferson University and at Sidney Kimmel
[38:04] Speaker 23: Medical College are accused of operating five scholarship programs that
[38:08] Speaker 23: unlawfully discriminate based on race, including one award to specifically
[38:13] Speaker 23: for BLACKMLE students, and then another that is set up
[38:16] Speaker 23: to be given to transgender or gender non conforming people
[38:20] Speaker 23: of color. The complaint is the latest action from the
[38:22] Speaker 23: Trump administration as an aggressive target so called the EI
[38:26] Speaker 23: programming and the man responsible for putting singers Whitney Houston,
[38:30] Speaker 23: Arita Franklin, and Alicia Keys on the map has died.
[38:34] Speaker 23: Music mogul Clive Davis spent six decades at the highest
[38:37] Speaker 23: levels of the music business, working with Jennifer Hudson, Earthwin
[38:40] Speaker 23: and fire Dion Warwick and a star studded list of artists.
[38:44] Speaker 23: He most recently was Chief creative Officer Sony Music Entertainment
[38:48] Speaker 23: and was a former headed label such as Columbia, Arista Records,
[38:51] Speaker 23: and Jay Record. Davis had recently been hospitalized with an
[38:55] Speaker 23: upper respiratory infection, and his family announced today that he
[38:59] Speaker 23: died at his home in New York City. He was
[39:01] Speaker 23: ninety four years old. Former Olympic golfer David Hearn is
[39:05] Speaker 23: facing criminal charges after taking fragments of paint that surfaced
[39:09] Speaker 23: in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The incident comes amid
[39:12] Speaker 23: controversy over the pool's thirteen million dollars renovation, part of
[39:15] Speaker 23: President Trump's efforts to improve the appearance. Despite the upgrades,
[39:19] Speaker 23: algae blooms spread rapidly, and this week large strips of
[39:23] Speaker 23: chunks of blue Fate paint begin appearing on the surface
[39:27] Speaker 23: of the water well. Hearn says he was detained for
[39:29] Speaker 23: five hours without being allowed a phone call after being
[39:33] Speaker 23: arrested on Friday. Hearn's next court appearance is scheduled for
[39:36] Speaker 23: July ninth, and he says that he hopes all charges
[39:39] Speaker 23: will be dismissed. Hearn also says he's received death threats
[39:43] Speaker 23: and believes that he is being made a political example
[39:46] Speaker 23: because of the attention surrounding the reflecting Pool controversy.
[39:54] Speaker 2: All right, folks, I'll be sure to catch out the
[39:56] Speaker 2: break down Britay Noble every day noon.
[39:58] Speaker 1: He should write here on the Blackstard Network.
[39:59] Speaker 2: He breakdown Brittany Noble noon Eastern on the Black Star Network. Folks, Folks, Folks,
[40:05] Speaker 2: Today in Atlanta, the Great Peobo Brice, and he was
[40:09] Speaker 2: laid to rest.
[40:09] Speaker 1: He died a couple weeks to go to the age
[40:11] Speaker 1: of seventy five for suffering of devastating stroke.
[40:15] Speaker 2: Many of his supporters and fans and colleagues met today
[40:19] Speaker 2: in Atlanta for his homegoing service. We streamed that on
[40:22] Speaker 2: the black Star Network. If you miss it, go to
[40:25] Speaker 2: our YouTube channel. We can also go to are actually
[40:27] Speaker 2: going to be streaming it after today's show. And so
[40:31] Speaker 2: one of the folks who longtime partner is Regina Bell,
[40:36] Speaker 2: the great collaborator. They performed together Baby Whinings of Rubens Studdar.
[40:41] Speaker 2: Brought the folks to tears with this singing as well.
[40:44] Speaker 2: Here as some of today's homegoing service.
[40:49] Speaker 19: Linton, some prayers, Kanya and the families, his children and friends.
[40:58] Speaker 19: It was an honor yeh to stand on stage with
[41:04] Speaker 19: with people. One of the things I loved about him
[41:07] Speaker 19: is because he he knew he was talented and he
[41:12] Speaker 19: knew he could out seeing anybody. Yeah, and I'm here
[41:19] Speaker 19: just to remind the family, to remind all of us
[41:25] Speaker 19: that God is faithful and he will prove his sense
[41:30] Speaker 19: faithful to the end.
[41:48] Speaker 1: I have tell you, dun knowed you can.
[41:56] Speaker 13: After done.
[41:59] Speaker 24: Now you can, Oh, don't you fear, don't be afraid don't.
[42:11] Speaker 24: Don't turn around later you've done all you can't mm hmmm, nap,
[42:27] Speaker 24: After you've done.
[42:28] Speaker 8: All you can.
[42:31] Speaker 13: Wrong God's word? You stay?
[42:40] Speaker 1: So tell me what.
[42:45] Speaker 7: Do you do.
[42:48] Speaker 24: When you've done all you can? Seem like it's never?
[42:57] Speaker 24: Tell me what do yourself?
[43:02] Speaker 13: When your friends turned away and you know.
[43:09] Speaker 25: So all?
[43:11] Speaker 1: Tell me how.
[43:14] Speaker 12: What do you give.
[43:16] Speaker 13: When you've given your all?
[43:20] Speaker 1: See that you can.
[43:22] Speaker 15: Make it.
[43:24] Speaker 26: Well?
[43:25] Speaker 1: You just stand?
[43:28] Speaker 24: Been there nothing left to do?
[43:32] Speaker 13: You just stand and watch the lot, see you through?
[43:40] Speaker 14: Have to you done?
[43:43] Speaker 27: Lord?
[43:44] Speaker 13: Can you just stand? O?
[43:49] Speaker 1: My mon?
[43:51] Speaker 28: Oh?
[43:52] Speaker 15: Tell me how.
[43:56] Speaker 1: How do you handle the guilt?
[43:58] Speaker 5: Tell your past?
[44:00] Speaker 13: Tell me how do you deal with the thing?
[44:05] Speaker 29: Tell me how can you smile when your heart has
[44:12] Speaker 29: been broken and feel with pain?
[44:18] Speaker 13: With pain? Tell me?
[44:20] Speaker 24: Why what do you give when you've given your art?
[44:27] Speaker 13: It seem like you can make it well?
[44:33] Speaker 24: You trust stand and deathnother left to do?
[44:40] Speaker 5: You just stand.
[44:43] Speaker 28: Watch the lot?
[44:45] Speaker 13: See you the rule?
[44:48] Speaker 1: Have tell you? Come?
[44:50] Speaker 13: Are you?
[44:52] Speaker 30: Can?
[44:53] Speaker 13: You just stand?
[44:58] Speaker 25: Be sure?
[45:01] Speaker 13: And she not in things or you don't.
[45:05] Speaker 8: Found it.
[45:08] Speaker 29: Just saying.
[45:12] Speaker 12: Me sure?
[45:14] Speaker 31: Because God had the purpose? Oh yeah, to eat, that's
[45:20] Speaker 31: the plan.
[45:21] Speaker 28: Show me walk?
[45:24] Speaker 31: Oh you've done you can't and you see it like
[45:31] Speaker 31: I can't make it.
[45:33] Speaker 1: Oh U s.
[45:39] Speaker 28: Stand she hoohead.
[45:45] Speaker 31: And you stand on agin words.
[45:48] Speaker 5: Oh you folks sue the.
[45:50] Speaker 28: So and you don't through the rain, she said, I
[45:57] Speaker 28: hurt up the herd to the ma.
[46:02] Speaker 8: To hold on.
[46:06] Speaker 31: And you don't give up though, she said, hold on,
[46:10] Speaker 31: hold and don't take dunk causey forrman and hey promised
[46:22] Speaker 31: to will piece is word, I say, you'll see is word.
[46:28] Speaker 31: O love my love of mother.
[46:32] Speaker 28: Oh, I need need of it.
[46:36] Speaker 31: I love him, I need him and need him. I
[46:39] Speaker 31: love him because you prather.
[46:43] Speaker 29: Have you done all?
[46:45] Speaker 31: You can't?
[46:50] Speaker 28: You just hold her head, help her because my.
[46:54] Speaker 29: Help coming from the Lord.
[46:56] Speaker 5: Say you've done?
[46:59] Speaker 13: Oh you you can.
[47:03] Speaker 1: Clean? Not understanding, but lean on this prames. Oh have.
[47:12] Speaker 15: You don't know?
[47:18] Speaker 1: You just swear your sudas and no he's going to
[47:22] Speaker 1: come to her.
[47:24] Speaker 32: Have to.
[47:26] Speaker 25: To know.
[47:27] Speaker 1: You can't.
[47:30] Speaker 18: You just stand?
[47:33] Speaker 13: Don't it up?
[47:34] Speaker 1: You stand?
[47:36] Speaker 31: Douget in you say, and a way on the way
[47:40] Speaker 31: to sway.
[47:44] Speaker 8: You just oh hollow you hallelujahs Hey, who go.
[48:00] Speaker 1: Folks. It was about two and a half hour service,
[48:02] Speaker 1: and so.
[48:02] Speaker 2: Like I said, we streamed all of it right here
[48:04] Speaker 2: on Rolling Unfiltered and the Black Starting Network, and so
[48:08] Speaker 2: is what's gonna happen.
[48:10] Speaker 1: So momentarily, as you see people are already of course.
[48:15] Speaker 2: Packing the crowd here, we're better start in a second
[48:18] Speaker 2: sitting down with mcongress and Jeorce Baby. And so this
[48:23] Speaker 2: is Black Daughter and Father Week here in Columbus. So
[48:27] Speaker 2: this event kicks it off. So we're gonna be just
[48:29] Speaker 2: having our discussion of the state of Black Americas. And
[48:31] Speaker 2: so we're gonna stream that live right here, Rollandard Unfiltered,
[48:35] Speaker 2: and so then after that is over, then we will
[48:39] Speaker 2: have the restream of the funeral service of Peabod Rice.
[48:43] Speaker 2: And also let me say that, of course, as we
[48:45] Speaker 2: know people Bryson passed away due to a shrow yesterday.
[48:50] Speaker 2: I happen to be in Baltimore. I'll share some of
[48:52] Speaker 2: the video tomorrow. I was in Baltimore yesterday. I stopped
[48:55] Speaker 2: by AFRA, which is of course the music festival at
[48:59] Speaker 2: Druid Hill Art in Baltimore. And the closure last night
[49:03] Speaker 2: was Uncle Charlie Wilson. Was the first time he had
[49:05] Speaker 2: performed in nine months.
[49:08] Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson suffered several strokes, as many as five strokes
[49:13] Speaker 1: and he almost died. Before the show, he and I
[49:16] Speaker 1: had an opportunity to talk and chat.
[49:19] Speaker 2: He talked about what he went through. He did an
[49:22] Speaker 2: interview with a big boy. He's available at YouTube, I believe.
[49:25] Speaker 2: He talked about his health struggles and what he was dealing.
[49:27] Speaker 1: With and he had to learn how to welcome him.
[49:30] Speaker 2: And so one of the reasons when you watch when
[49:33] Speaker 2: you see him in concert, he's seated at the piano.
[49:37] Speaker 1: Normally, Uncle Charlie is.
[49:38] Speaker 2: Dancing, he's moving, he's up, but because he is still
[49:43] Speaker 2: impacted by those strokes, it limits him.
[49:47] Speaker 1: But his voice is still as powerful as ever.
[49:50] Speaker 2: And so what we need to understand is that this
[49:53] Speaker 2: should be a gladarian call for me, but especially for
[49:57] Speaker 2: black men also black women. First of all, you know, listen,
[50:01] Speaker 2: men ain't even suffer strokes, but too often the men
[50:04] Speaker 2: are not paying attention to those health signs.
[50:08] Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson talked about how he really didn't understand what
[50:11] Speaker 1: was going on.
[50:11] Speaker 2: It was his wife who noticed all the changes and
[50:15] Speaker 2: she said, no, something is wrong, and that's how he
[50:18] Speaker 2: then went and got some help.
[50:20] Speaker 1: And so we need to make sure that all these
[50:24] Speaker 1: villas and his sisters that we are watching those signs.
[50:28] Speaker 2: High levels of stress, high pertension, diabetes, blood pressure, all
[50:33] Speaker 2: of those things impact the body when it comes to stroke.
[50:38] Speaker 2: And it's not a question of being look people of
[50:40] Speaker 2: Russey was seventy five. Le Charlie Wilson is in his
[50:43] Speaker 2: seventies as well. But do understand a number of years
[50:46] Speaker 2: ago a colleague of mine at Robert free Love it
[50:50] Speaker 2: was a coldermine at the Houston Defender. He was a
[50:54] Speaker 2: staff writer there. He died of a stroke at the
[50:56] Speaker 2: age of thirty nine. And so we had to recognize
[51:01] Speaker 2: how serious strokes are and how we are impacted. And
[51:05] Speaker 2: I dare say in the past few weeks I've known
[51:09] Speaker 2: of several indivities who have suffered from strokes, who have
[51:14] Speaker 2: been impacted.
[51:16] Speaker 1: Is change change your life.
[51:19] Speaker 2: Some survive again parts of their body paralyzed and who
[51:24] Speaker 2: died ricently, had an uncle eighty one years old passed
[51:28] Speaker 2: away suffered a stroke and so listen, it is a
[51:32] Speaker 2: huge issue.
[51:33] Speaker 1: And so we cannot advocate more for.
[51:36] Speaker 2: Our brothers and sisters, but especially our brothers to go
[51:40] Speaker 2: to the hospital to get checked out. Make sure that
[51:43] Speaker 2: you're getting your colon check next, you be getting your
[51:46] Speaker 2: annual check up.
[51:47] Speaker 1: All those things are important. It is incredibly important.
[51:51] Speaker 2: So these things are preventable, but we have to also
[51:56] Speaker 2: be extremely vigilant and diligent when it comes to our health.
[52:01] Speaker 2: It's not just about weight loss. It's also listen, there
[52:03] Speaker 2: are people who are in peak condition. In fact, that
[52:07] Speaker 2: was I thought there was a journalists there was a
[52:09] Speaker 2: long time editor Pathleve of art attack eighty sixty three
[52:13] Speaker 2: folks in their fifties. And so I need us to
[52:15] Speaker 2: understand that health is well. And again here you had
[52:20] Speaker 2: two prominent singers. And in fact I was before I
[52:23] Speaker 2: came here, looked me at a clip of Luther v
[52:27] Speaker 2: Andros And remember Luther Vandros suffered a massive stroke. And
[52:32] Speaker 2: so three major voices, people Bryce and Luther Vandros, Charlie Wilson,
[52:38] Speaker 2: two of them have passed away.
[52:41] Speaker 1: And Luther had his stroke. He died two years later.
[52:43] Speaker 2: People had his stroke, and then it was a couple
[52:47] Speaker 2: of days a couple of days later when he was
[52:49] Speaker 2: gone as well.
[52:50] Speaker 1: And so I certainly could do was just go out
[52:52] Speaker 1: to people.
[52:53] Speaker 2: Bryce's family and I really hope that we use this
[52:57] Speaker 2: opportunity to double check our health.
[53:00] Speaker 1: Folks.
[53:00] Speaker 2: We're bet to start this program here in Columbus. It's
[53:03] Speaker 2: the State of Black America. I've done this three times previously.
[53:07] Speaker 2: I'm going to be on stage with congs women, Joyce
[53:09] Speaker 2: stating it's a conversation you don't want to miss.
[53:12] Speaker 1: Because we'll talk first about what we are dealing with
[53:15] Speaker 1: in this country Ohio.
[53:17] Speaker 2: Critical US Senate race in this state, critical governor's race
[53:22] Speaker 2: in this state. And you've got maga folks who are
[53:25] Speaker 2: running in both positions, and so we really recognize what's
[53:29] Speaker 2: going on. So let's do this right here. Of course,
[53:32] Speaker 2: we're going to go to break and then we come back.
[53:35] Speaker 2: We'll be live from the Lincoln Theater here in Columbus, Ohio,
[53:38] Speaker 2: for the State of Black America conversation with myself with
[53:42] Speaker 2: Conn's women, Joyce Spaty appreciate we have some maybe technical issues.
[53:46] Speaker 2: I hate the fact that we could not get our
[53:48] Speaker 2: panel in full solimitate on a congo Filma Anderson as
[53:52] Speaker 2: well as aid doctor Aris Jones Weaver for joining us
[53:55] Speaker 2: as well. And so again we're for the next two hours,
[53:58] Speaker 2: State of Black America here in Columbia.
[54:00] Speaker 1: It's a conversation you don't want to miss.
[54:01] Speaker 2: I'm sure comes from the baby we have something to
[54:03] Speaker 2: say about suing Donald Trump over the JFK Center. Then,
[54:08] Speaker 2: of course when after this discussion, then we'll have the
[54:12] Speaker 2: restream of the homegoun service for the great pieble Vice.
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[58:28] Speaker 15: If in this country right now, you have people get
[58:31] Speaker 15: up in the morning and the only thing they can think.
[58:34] Speaker 13: About is how many people they can hurt, and they've
[58:36] Speaker 13: got the power. That's the time for morning, for better
[58:40] Speaker 13: or worse.
[58:40] Speaker 16: What makes America special, It's that legal system that's supposed
[58:44] Speaker 16: to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.
[58:49] Speaker 13: So we are at a.
[58:50] Speaker 17: Point of a moral emergency. We must raise a voice
[58:54] Speaker 17: of outrage. We must raise a voice of compassion, and.
[59:00] Speaker 15: We must raise a voice of unity. We are not
[59:04] Speaker 15: in a crisis of party versus party. We are in
[59:08] Speaker 15: a crisis of civilization, a humans rights crisis, and a
[59:12] Speaker 15: crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've been chosen
[59:18] Speaker 15: to make sure that those that would destroy, those that
[59:22] Speaker 15: would hate.
[59:23] Speaker 13: Don't have the final say, and they don't ultimately win.
[59:28] Speaker 12: Hey, what's up?
[59:29] Speaker 22: Get me in a place to be got kick touching
[59:31] Speaker 22: Mama's university creator and that could producer of Fat Tuesday's
[59:35] Speaker 22: air hip hop comedy. Right now, I'm rolling with Roland Martin, unfiltered, uncut, unplugged,
[59:42] Speaker 22: and undamned believable him.
[59:56] Speaker 11: Damn, I know, I know, I know.
[1:00:00] Speaker 13: Let's flip it, all right, thank you for your help.
[1:00:03] Speaker 13: I appreciate that congress Woman baby.
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: Setting me up for success.
[1:00:07] Speaker 11: All right, So listen, y'all, I want to take the
[1:00:09] Speaker 11: opportunity to share a couple of things before we actually
[1:00:12] Speaker 11: get deep into the agenda, which is going to be.
[1:00:14] Speaker 13: Powerful and amazing.
[1:00:15] Speaker 11: But I have some housekeeping things that I need to address,
[1:00:17] Speaker 11: including make sure that your phones are off because I
[1:00:19] Speaker 11: just heard one before it came out, and yep, calling
[1:00:22] Speaker 11: y'all out. And then the other part is I'm gonna
[1:00:25] Speaker 11: share some history, some background that I think is important
[1:00:28] Speaker 11: to kind of set the tone for tonight. And so
[1:00:31] Speaker 11: I'm going to start with who am I right, So
[1:00:33] Speaker 11: for those that know, my name is Kevin Lloyd. I
[1:00:35] Speaker 11: am the founder of Columbus Black dot com and the
[1:00:37] Speaker 11: co founder of Mile.
[1:00:38] Speaker 13: Will stands to Make Your Life Entertaining, and.
[1:00:40] Speaker 11: Columbus Black dot Com has been around for twenty years.
[1:00:43] Speaker 11: We've been a vehicle to provide information to our community
[1:00:46] Speaker 11: and help support to get the word out and connect
[1:00:48] Speaker 11: people to commerce and culture and be a part of
[1:00:51] Speaker 11: events like this, and that's very important.
[1:00:53] Speaker 13: For our community and we want to continue to do
[1:00:56] Speaker 13: that and have another twenty years.
[1:00:58] Speaker 11: The other side is mild Mile stands from make your
[1:01:01] Speaker 11: Life Entertaining and this is an event technology platform. So
[1:01:04] Speaker 11: all of you that registered for tonight's event, you didn't
[1:01:06] Speaker 11: do it through event.
[1:01:07] Speaker 15: Right.
[1:01:08] Speaker 13: You didn't do it through Ticketmaster.
[1:01:10] Speaker 11: You did it through a black owned platform that was
[1:01:13] Speaker 11: founded in Columbus, Ohio.
[1:01:16] Speaker 13: Right, And that's pretty amazing because.
[1:01:20] Speaker 11: Of the fact that we talk about how we should
[1:01:22] Speaker 11: work together, how we should pourt each other, and that's
[1:01:25] Speaker 11: exactly what we're doing right here in our city and
[1:01:28] Speaker 11: so really proud of that. My wife Chevy will be
[1:01:30] Speaker 11: hearing a little bit, but she was the visionary behind
[1:01:32] Speaker 11: MILD and it's definitely expanded over the last twelve years
[1:01:35] Speaker 11: to a point that we actually do things outside of Columbus, right,
[1:01:39] Speaker 11: And so.
[1:01:39] Speaker 13: We had the honor of having MILD as.
[1:01:42] Speaker 11: A platform utilized for the World Cup as well as
[1:01:45] Speaker 11: for the Super Bowl. And there's a lot of cool
[1:01:49] Speaker 11: things we do, but it's nothing more important than when
[1:01:51] Speaker 11: we come home right here to Central Ohio and we're
[1:01:54] Speaker 11: utilized by organizations like the Ohio Black Expo. When Cherry
[1:01:58] Speaker 11: and bush hamil to come together and say, hey, we
[1:02:00] Speaker 11: want to use a black owned platform because we want
[1:02:02] Speaker 11: to represent our businesses all throughout and now they utilize us,
[1:02:06] Speaker 11: and they've done.
[1:02:06] Speaker 13: That for the last couple of years.
[1:02:08] Speaker 11: When we work with Npac Columbus and I happen to
[1:02:10] Speaker 11: be a proud member CAPITALPHA Side Attorney Incorporated.
[1:02:13] Speaker 1: Yo to the noops YO.
[1:02:15] Speaker 11: And I got to get it out there now because
[1:02:16] Speaker 11: when Rowland gets on stage, you already know it's gonna
[1:02:18] Speaker 11: be out for Alpha Alpha, right, we already know.
[1:02:21] Speaker 13: So I got to do what I gotta do now.
[1:02:22] Speaker 11: And we know the Deltas are gonna go crazy when
[1:02:24] Speaker 11: Congress Women made comes up. So I got to get
[1:02:26] Speaker 11: my shout out.
[1:02:27] Speaker 2: And so I share that.
[1:02:28] Speaker 1: Because locally though, the support is.
[1:02:31] Speaker 11: So important, Like people don't understand how important it is
[1:02:34] Speaker 11: to get support at home right here, and so we
[1:02:37] Speaker 11: really appreciate those opportunities. There's another company, it's each Chop
[1:02:41] Speaker 11: Capital owned by Carrington Carter, and they are an in
[1:02:45] Speaker 11: real estate investment company. They use us for their investment
[1:02:47] Speaker 11: investment meetings that take place around the country, including MARTA's vineyard.
[1:02:51] Speaker 13: This upcome in August. And last but not least, Jewel Woods.
[1:02:55] Speaker 11: And I'm gonna get into how we even got here,
[1:02:58] Speaker 11: but Jewel Woods has been a major advocate for both
[1:03:01] Speaker 11: Columbus Black dot Com and for mile and this is
[1:03:04] Speaker 11: the epitome of how we can work together Like this
[1:03:06] Speaker 11: shows you and so ironically, my youngest daughter, Madison, and
[1:03:11] Speaker 11: his daughter, a queer, were friends, and that's how Julee
[1:03:14] Speaker 11: and I met. One thing led to another nest. We
[1:03:16] Speaker 11: talked about how we had a mutual interest in supporting
[1:03:19] Speaker 11: the black community, pulling our community together, working together and
[1:03:23] Speaker 11: helping to elevate not just hen Central Ohio, but abroad.
[1:03:27] Speaker 11: We'll realize we.
[1:03:27] Speaker 13: Should work together on certain things. And with his vision
[1:03:30] Speaker 13: behind a State of Black America and Black Girl Died Week,
[1:03:34] Speaker 13: it has been an amazing experience. I will tell you,
[1:03:38] Speaker 13: even though tonight will.
[1:03:39] Speaker 11: Be powerful, I've been tied to add I would say
[1:03:42] Speaker 11: hundreds of not thousands of events throughout my.
[1:03:45] Speaker 13: Time, and I would say.
[1:03:46] Speaker 11: The best event I've ever been to in my life
[1:03:48] Speaker 11: is the Black Father Daughter Dance. It is the most beautiful,
[1:03:53] Speaker 11: beautiful experience for those young ladies and their fathers in
[1:03:57] Speaker 11: that environment. And this is Jules's vision in what he's doing,
[1:04:01] Speaker 11: So I'm.
[1:04:02] Speaker 13: Excited to be a part of it.
[1:04:03] Speaker 11: So let's talk about jul just for a more moment,
[1:04:05] Speaker 11: because I felt like we needed to connect the dots,
[1:04:08] Speaker 11: and this is in regards to Malbehavioral Health, which is
[1:04:12] Speaker 11: the organization that's pulling this all together.
[1:04:14] Speaker 13: Met Behavior Health exists to educate.
[1:04:16] Speaker 11: Advocate, and bring attention to the profound mental, emotional, and
[1:04:19] Speaker 11: behavioral health needs of men and boys through research, training,
[1:04:23] Speaker 11: and direct practice. Founded by Jewel Woods, the organization serves individuals, organizations,
[1:04:29] Speaker 11: and helping professionals using a unique therapeutic approach known as
[1:04:33] Speaker 11: Masculinist therapy otherwise known as MT. And I have to
[1:04:38] Speaker 11: say this about Jule because he won't. Jew shows a
[1:04:41] Speaker 11: lot of humility, and he's very humble. But Jules is
[1:04:45] Speaker 11: the kind of brother also that spends his life pouring
[1:04:47] Speaker 11: into others every single day, y'all.
[1:04:50] Speaker 13: But what I'll tell you is, if.
[1:04:51] Speaker 11: You know a young black male, a grown black man,
[1:04:55] Speaker 11: or if it happens to be you yourself and life
[1:04:57] Speaker 11: has become overwhelming.
[1:04:59] Speaker 13: Especially she's from a mental health perspective.
[1:05:02] Speaker 11: I encourage you to reach out to him. We understand
[1:05:05] Speaker 11: the plight of what we're dealing with, not just now.
[1:05:08] Speaker 1: But historically, and it's a lot, and we need help, and.
[1:05:12] Speaker 11: There's nothing wrong with saying we need help, and we
[1:05:15] Speaker 11: have an amazing brother that does it every single day.
[1:05:19] Speaker 13: So let's not try to go through it alone. Let's
[1:05:21] Speaker 13: leverage the help that we have and we have the
[1:05:23] Speaker 13: professional expertise to do that.
[1:05:25] Speaker 11: Now, there's a few things I want to share about
[1:05:27] Speaker 11: how we got here with the State of Black America three.
[1:05:30] Speaker 13: Last year we had obviously the State of Black America two.
[1:05:33] Speaker 11: We want to give a shout out to those that
[1:05:35] Speaker 11: were involved last year because it takes a lot of leadership,
[1:05:38] Speaker 11: and what we did differently last year is we engaged
[1:05:40] Speaker 11: our faith based leaders from around central Ohio and that
[1:05:44] Speaker 11: was led by Bishop Timothy J. Clark, Reverend Joseph Stanley Jr.
[1:05:49] Speaker 11: Pastor Mike Young, and Pastor Derek Holmes. We also had
[1:05:52] Speaker 11: some representation from the Ohio Black Legislative Carcus Foundation.
[1:05:55] Speaker 13: With President Chayla L. Davis, and we have Representative Don.
[1:05:59] Speaker 11: Tavish Jones, who's always always out and involved in the community.
[1:06:03] Speaker 11: And then we had Michael D.
[1:06:04] Speaker 8: Cole.
[1:06:05] Speaker 11: Those were the leaders that really helped us have a
[1:06:08] Speaker 11: monumental and impactful conversation last year, and now we're.
[1:06:12] Speaker 13: Going to have that happen all over again for year three.
[1:06:17] Speaker 13: Something that's important before we go on is you'll notice, if.
[1:06:20] Speaker 11: You didn't earlier on the screen, there was a little
[1:06:23] Speaker 11: QR code down in the corner and.
[1:06:25] Speaker 13: It was bubbling around a little bit.
[1:06:27] Speaker 11: You also may receive the handout when you came in
[1:06:29] Speaker 11: and has a QR code on it, and that QR code.
[1:06:33] Speaker 13: Is set up and it's set up for the support.
[1:06:36] Speaker 11: Through donations for the blacks On Network. In Roland Martin,
[1:06:41] Speaker 11: we believe that black on media is very imperative to
[1:06:44] Speaker 11: us in our community and we need to be able
[1:06:47] Speaker 11: to have a voice.
[1:06:49] Speaker 1: On our behalf.
[1:06:50] Speaker 13: So if your minds, your heart, your spirit.
[1:06:53] Speaker 11: Definitely your pockets feel at some point that you want
[1:06:55] Speaker 11: to contribute, you can scan the QR code and you
[1:06:59] Speaker 11: can donate. Now, what I learned from Roland last year,
[1:07:02] Speaker 11: besides a lot of really powerful information, was that everybody
[1:07:05] Speaker 11: does not.
[1:07:05] Speaker 13: Know how to use a QR code. And he said, no, no, no,
[1:07:09] Speaker 13: show them how to do it and start from the beginning.
[1:07:12] Speaker 11: And I said, no, they know how to do it.
[1:07:14] Speaker 13: He said, no, no, no, show.
[1:07:16] Speaker 11: Them how to do it so very quickly and easily. Y'all,
[1:07:19] Speaker 11: I'm gonna just walk through the steps, so I won't
[1:07:20] Speaker 11: show you.
[1:07:21] Speaker 13: But if you pull out your phone right go to
[1:07:25] Speaker 13: your camera.
[1:07:26] Speaker 11: When you go to your camera, you're gonna be able
[1:07:28] Speaker 11: to see the QR code on the screen.
[1:07:30] Speaker 1: Don't take a.
[1:07:31] Speaker 11: Picture of it, all right, unless you want it for later.
[1:07:36] Speaker 11: So what you do is you wait and then the
[1:07:38] Speaker 11: link is going to pop up. When you see the
[1:07:39] Speaker 11: little bubble with the link, you tap the link, it'll
[1:07:41] Speaker 11: take you to the page and you can make the donation,
[1:07:43] Speaker 11: all right. And so that's how we use the QR codes, right.
[1:07:47] Speaker 11: So you'll have that a couple of different times throughout
[1:07:49] Speaker 11: the show tonight or the event tonight, and so that's
[1:07:52] Speaker 11: how we'll use that, all right. Now, I am literally
[1:07:55] Speaker 11: about to wrap up right here, y'all, and that means
[1:07:57] Speaker 11: that somebody else is about to take the stage, and
[1:08:00] Speaker 11: so I want to make sure i'll give.
[1:08:02] Speaker 13: The proper introduction.
[1:08:03] Speaker 11: I told you about Male Behavioral Health, but I didn't
[1:08:05] Speaker 11: tell you everything about Jewel besides.
[1:08:07] Speaker 13: Him being a really great brother.
[1:08:09] Speaker 11: Jewel Woods is the founder and clinical director of Male
[1:08:12] Speaker 11: Behavioral Health and the Center for Men and Boys. He
[1:08:16] Speaker 11: is a licensed independent social worker with supervision designation and
[1:08:19] Speaker 11: brings over twenty years of advocacy experience working with and
[1:08:23] Speaker 11: on behalf of diverse individuals and communities. Jewel holds a
[1:08:28] Speaker 11: Master of Arts and Sociology and a master's degree in
[1:08:30] Speaker 11: Social Work. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member
[1:08:35] Speaker 11: at the University of Michigan School.
[1:08:39] Speaker 1: Of Social Work. We gonna give him some.
[1:08:42] Speaker 11: Grace, y'all stayed up north. Yep, We're gonna give him
[1:08:45] Speaker 11: some grace. And that's where he teaches graduate level courses.
[1:08:49] Speaker 13: Now, keep in mind, this brother's on a road. He's here,
[1:08:52] Speaker 13: he's all over the.
[1:08:53] Speaker 11: State, and he goes up there, won't name the state,
[1:08:56] Speaker 11: comes back down here to home.
[1:08:58] Speaker 13: He's very busy, y'all.
[1:09:00] Speaker 11: A former Forward Foundation New Voices fellow, Jewe was also
[1:09:04] Speaker 11: selected for the University of Chicago Minority Scholar Program and
[1:09:08] Speaker 11: was a participant in the Fragile Family Study Training Workshop.
[1:09:11] Speaker 13: At Columbia University.
[1:09:13] Speaker 11: As a season therapist and respected speaker, Jewe has presented
[1:09:17] Speaker 11: at the United Nations and delivered talks at colleges and
[1:09:20] Speaker 11: universities across the United States and internationally. He is an
[1:09:24] Speaker 11: author and gender analyst whose perspectives of men and boys
[1:09:28] Speaker 11: in the American society have been featured on national television, radio.
[1:09:32] Speaker 13: Programs, and news outlets.
[1:09:34] Speaker 11: His writings appear in both academic and popular media, including
[1:09:38] Speaker 11: Psychology Today, Miss Magazine, Essence, Ebony, The Huffington Post, the
[1:09:43] Speaker 11: Dallas Morning News, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Philadelphia Enquirer.
[1:09:49] Speaker 13: Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome the founder of
[1:09:52] Speaker 13: now Behavior Health, Inc.
[1:09:55] Speaker 11: My friend and brother Juwe.
[1:10:02] Speaker 13: You all know how much I dislike that.
[1:10:08] Speaker 25: Honestly, no, seriously, So much of what I do actually
[1:10:12] Speaker 25: is to be silent behind. So I'm a therapist, right,
[1:10:16] Speaker 25: So what I do is I traffic in secrets, and
[1:10:21] Speaker 25: for the most part, it is one of my greatest
[1:10:23] Speaker 25: honors and pleasures is to have men pour into me
[1:10:26] Speaker 25: and tell me things that they have not told anybody else.
[1:10:29] Speaker 25: And so for me, it's always important to kind of
[1:10:31] Speaker 25: be in the background. With that being said, though, this
[1:10:36] Speaker 25: does provide an opportunity for me to know, at least
[1:10:38] Speaker 25: foreground a question, which is why are we here. For
[1:10:41] Speaker 25: some of you, you might be here because you like
[1:10:43] Speaker 25: to be around black excellence.
[1:10:45] Speaker 13: For some of you, you might be here because you
[1:10:47] Speaker 13: say that.
[1:10:48] Speaker 25: Even though I don't know the answers to the question,
[1:10:51] Speaker 25: I am absolutely committed to being a parted solution.
[1:10:54] Speaker 13: Some of you might just be here to see Roland
[1:10:56] Speaker 13: and Congresswoman Joyce Baty, which is cool. But let me
[1:10:59] Speaker 13: just I'll tell you why I'm here.
[1:11:01] Speaker 25: I am here because several years ago, as Kevin mentioned,
[1:11:05] Speaker 25: it became really important for me to kind of figure
[1:11:07] Speaker 25: out a way to highlight what black men do every
[1:11:11] Speaker 25: day that oftentimes that just does not get the sort
[1:11:14] Speaker 25: of attention it needs, which is to show up and
[1:11:17] Speaker 25: show out for their families and their communities.
[1:11:20] Speaker 13: And the reality is that we can't face half.
[1:11:22] Speaker 25: The things that we're going to be talking about tonight
[1:11:24] Speaker 25: if our communities and particularly our families is not strong.
[1:11:26] Speaker 13: And so it was really important for me to kind.
[1:11:28] Speaker 25: Of create this week that we now know as Black
[1:11:30] Speaker 25: Girl Dad Week. So I want to say two things,
[1:11:33] Speaker 25: and then I want to invite up some of our
[1:11:35] Speaker 25: community partners, because it's really important for you to know
[1:11:37] Speaker 25: that this is a week, right, it's not just about
[1:11:40] Speaker 25: a dance, and it's not even just about State.
[1:11:42] Speaker 13: Of Black America.
[1:11:43] Speaker 25: It's about the week long series of events designed to
[1:11:46] Speaker 25: actually do some good community mental health. So I'm ask
[1:11:49] Speaker 25: doctor Price to come up, Brother Jasper to come up,
[1:11:53] Speaker 25: and Pastor Julius to come up, and I'll mention a
[1:11:57] Speaker 25: little bit about the week, and I want them to
[1:11:59] Speaker 25: say what their role is because it's really important, and
[1:12:02] Speaker 25: then we'll get.
[1:12:03] Speaker 13: Into the conversation. So this is Monday Politics Night, Right,
[1:12:07] Speaker 13: we get an opportunity to talk about the state of
[1:12:09] Speaker 13: Black America. But Tuesday through Thursday, we are actually doing.
[1:12:14] Speaker 25: A three part series on marriage and family therapy in
[1:12:16] Speaker 25: the black community.
[1:12:18] Speaker 18: Now, why is that important?
[1:12:21] Speaker 25: We can talk about black love all the time.
[1:12:23] Speaker 13: And if you don't know, good people do get divorced.
[1:12:26] Speaker 15: Did y'all know that, right?
[1:12:28] Speaker 25: Did you know that everybody that's bad don't work out?
[1:12:30] Speaker 11: Right?
[1:12:31] Speaker 25: So the reality is the question becomes not not if,
[1:12:36] Speaker 25: but when people struggle, when particularly men and boys struggle
[1:12:41] Speaker 25: with trying to communicate, trying to talk about their needs,
[1:12:44] Speaker 25: the question becomes what sort of support there is? So
[1:12:47] Speaker 25: I have had the fortune of walking through a supporting.
[1:12:49] Speaker 13: Man at various stages. And so we're doing three.
[1:12:52] Speaker 25: Part First is before divorce, hopefully that's the longest thing.
[1:12:56] Speaker 25: Second is during divorce, and the third is after divorce.
[1:12:58] Speaker 25: So Tuesday divorce, Wednesday during divorce, Thursday after divorce. Each
[1:13:04] Speaker 25: of those are very different stages in people's relationship. You agree,
[1:13:08] Speaker 25: each of those stages require different levels of support, and
[1:13:11] Speaker 25: I can talk about that.
[1:13:12] Speaker 13: So what I want to do right now is just to.
[1:13:13] Speaker 25: Bring doctor Price and she's co facilitating part three and
[1:13:18] Speaker 25: she can see a little bit worried about that as well.
[1:13:26] Speaker 33: Not really tall enough for this podium.
[1:13:30] Speaker 1: I am doctor Angela Price.
[1:13:31] Speaker 33: I am the owner and founder of prices Right Counseling
[1:13:35] Speaker 33: and Consultation. Right is spelled ryte Realizing your true essence,
[1:13:41] Speaker 33: and that is ideally what comes after divorce. It is
[1:13:44] Speaker 33: a major shift of major transition, and you're going through
[1:13:48] Speaker 33: the process of grieving and also likely having to take
[1:13:51] Speaker 33: care of little people or big people, depending what phase.
[1:13:55] Speaker 24: Of life that you're in.
[1:13:56] Speaker 33: So you're trying to navigate all of these things at once,
[1:13:58] Speaker 33: and it's okay to do support and it's okay to
[1:14:00] Speaker 33: ask for help. So Thursday I'm going to be talking,
[1:14:05] Speaker 33: but I'm really hoping it's going to be a conversation
[1:14:07] Speaker 33: of how we can support each other, whether it's through family, friends, religion,
[1:14:14] Speaker 33: how we can support each other, and how we can
[1:14:15] Speaker 33: start to have those conversations so that people don't have
[1:14:18] Speaker 33: to go through it in a silo.
[1:14:25] Speaker 11: Okay, So that's.
[1:14:26] Speaker 13: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
[1:14:28] Speaker 18: Right.
[1:14:29] Speaker 13: I am super excited to talk about.
[1:14:31] Speaker 25: Friday though, right now.
[1:14:32] Speaker 13: And Friday is a call to Men special focus on ending.
[1:14:37] Speaker 25: Domestic violence in the Black community. Now you might I
[1:14:40] Speaker 25: hears a man's and all that sort of stuff in there,
[1:14:43] Speaker 25: But let me just say something really important. Two things
[1:14:46] Speaker 25: you will never get from me, and that is calling
[1:14:50] Speaker 25: out black men, not because for example, I don't, you know,
[1:14:54] Speaker 25: believe in minimizing. I don't understand domestic violence and all
[1:14:58] Speaker 25: that sort of stuff. In fact, what you might not
[1:14:59] Speaker 25: know as well before my history and mental health. I
[1:15:03] Speaker 25: did ten years where I ran BAT intervention programs in
[1:15:05] Speaker 25: prisons and.
[1:15:06] Speaker 13: Jails, so I know that front and back.
[1:15:09] Speaker 11: The question becomes, how do we call in black men
[1:15:13] Speaker 11: and other men to this movement. The reality is that
[1:15:16] Speaker 11: only a small fraction of people are involved in domestic violence,
[1:15:19] Speaker 11: but it's more than enough, and we need to get
[1:15:22] Speaker 11: more men into this movement to end domestic violence.
[1:15:24] Speaker 13: In the black community.
[1:15:25] Speaker 11: You agree, all right?
[1:15:27] Speaker 25: So with that being said, I have two gentlemen to
[1:15:30] Speaker 25: talk about why they actually have chosen to actually be
[1:15:34] Speaker 25: a part of this movement.
[1:15:35] Speaker 13: This just doesn't start today, but I certainly.
[1:15:38] Speaker 25: Would invite everybody to our Call to Men event on Friday.
[1:15:41] Speaker 13: And at this time I'm.
[1:15:42] Speaker 25: Asked Pastor Julius Lancaster to talk about why he chose
[1:15:45] Speaker 25: to host that event.
[1:15:51] Speaker 30: Good evening, Everyone look at your neighbor really quick and
[1:15:54] Speaker 30: tell them that they're in the right place at.
[1:15:56] Speaker 13: The right time.
[1:16:00] Speaker 30: My name is Pastor Julius, and I have the luxury
[1:16:03] Speaker 30: of pastor.
[1:16:03] Speaker 13: In three one four Church here in Columbus, Ohio.
[1:16:07] Speaker 30: And one of the things that I've realized after my
[1:16:10] Speaker 30: good brother Juli and I had conversation is just how
[1:16:13] Speaker 30: serious domestic violence has become in our community.
[1:16:16] Speaker 13: The reality is is that over the last several years, over.
[1:16:20] Speaker 30: One hundred and fifty percent it has risen in our community.
[1:16:25] Speaker 13: Family.
[1:16:25] Speaker 30: That means that we've got work to do, amen, And
[1:16:28] Speaker 30: so I'm excited to host this. We started a movement
[1:16:32] Speaker 30: entitled Mentality at our church three one four Church, and
[1:16:35] Speaker 30: we're going to host this event simply because we believe
[1:16:38] Speaker 30: that good men have to be a part of the solution.
[1:16:42] Speaker 30: We have to make sure that we're protecting the women.
[1:16:45] Speaker 30: We have to make sure that we realize not only
[1:16:47] Speaker 30: can we quote statistics, but the reality is is that
[1:16:50] Speaker 30: those statistics are our mothers, those statistics are our sisters,
[1:16:55] Speaker 30: those statistics.
[1:16:56] Speaker 13: Are our daughters and we have to make sure that
[1:16:59] Speaker 13: we are there.
[1:17:00] Speaker 30: For them because they've supported us for so long. Black
[1:17:03] Speaker 30: women have Amen, they've got cars and their names for us,
[1:17:11] Speaker 30: They've come on, they fought for us, They've stood up
[1:17:15] Speaker 30: for us over the years, and at least.
[1:17:19] Speaker 13: We can stand up for them now. Amen. So we
[1:17:22] Speaker 13: want to invite you all out.
[1:17:23] Speaker 30: To three point four Church this coming Friday, June twenty
[1:17:26] Speaker 30: sixth a call to men, Columbus Black men against.
[1:17:37] Speaker 13: Wait for you to be a part of this conversation. Amen.
[1:17:44] Speaker 25: Okay, And I'm super super excited about this because this
[1:17:47] Speaker 25: is evidence of the work already. Roland has always challenged
[1:17:52] Speaker 25: us and in some ways kind of cracked jokes when
[1:17:54] Speaker 25: we've had this event when he looked out in the
[1:17:55] Speaker 25: audience and he saw all these beautiful old folks, all right,
[1:17:58] Speaker 25: and his question was that where as a young people.
[1:18:01] Speaker 25: So clearly part of what we have to do moving
[1:18:03] Speaker 25: forward in every aspect is to actually get more young
[1:18:06] Speaker 25: men involved. And so I'm excited to actually, uh, if
[1:18:09] Speaker 25: y'all don't see all those beautiful young men over there,
[1:18:12] Speaker 25: that's from.
[1:18:12] Speaker 13: The IMBUTU Leadership Institute.
[1:18:15] Speaker 8: This is our next.
[1:18:46] Speaker 1: Great day.
[1:18:47] Speaker 8: Family.
[1:18:47] Speaker 13: How's everybody doing today.
[1:18:50] Speaker 26: Awesome, y'all looking great. When George said old folks, everybody looked.
[1:18:56] Speaker 11: To the right and look to the left, trying to
[1:18:58] Speaker 11: figure out who he was talking of.
[1:19:02] Speaker 13: But super excited about.
[1:19:04] Speaker 29: Being in this space.
[1:19:06] Speaker 26: We don't take for granted the moments and the opportunities
[1:19:11] Speaker 26: that we get to get our young people in front
[1:19:14] Speaker 26: of those who have trailed blazes and continue to figure
[1:19:17] Speaker 26: out how to solve the solutions and the problems and
[1:19:22] Speaker 26: the issues that are going on in our community. We
[1:19:26] Speaker 26: have an amazing group, as Brother Joel mentioned in the
[1:19:29] Speaker 26: back there, and from all different types of backgrounds, connected
[1:19:33] Speaker 26: to all different types of experiences, carrying a whole bunch
[1:19:37] Speaker 26: of trauma, but coming together in them Buntu Leadership Institute
[1:19:43] Speaker 26: to be able to unfold that, to deal with that,
[1:19:46] Speaker 26: to see themselves as the solution. And so we're excited
[1:19:52] Speaker 26: about being in this space because, as Brother Jewels said,
[1:19:55] Speaker 26: they'll be fathers, they'll be husbands of your daughters. There
[1:20:03] Speaker 26: will be men in the community who will lead our community.
[1:20:08] Speaker 1: So it's yes, you can clap for that.
[1:20:10] Speaker 26: Yes, So I'm extremely proud and grateful to be a
[1:20:17] Speaker 26: part of this work that we're doing. We're currently at
[1:20:20] Speaker 26: Ohio State University running on BUNSU Leadership Institute, exposing them
[1:20:25] Speaker 26: to collegen career pathways.
[1:20:28] Speaker 13: We're leveraging esports.
[1:20:30] Speaker 26: And cybersecurity and artificial intelligence and all the things that
[1:20:34] Speaker 26: a lot of times they don't get in our school
[1:20:36] Speaker 26: buildings to expose them to the opportunities to see themselves as.
[1:20:41] Speaker 13: The leaders that they are.
[1:20:43] Speaker 26: And so as we talk about domestic violence and we
[1:20:45] Speaker 26: talk about the things that happen in our communities that
[1:20:49] Speaker 26: find our way to really put us in a situation
[1:20:53] Speaker 26: where we need healing, we have to start with our
[1:20:57] Speaker 26: young people. We have to focus on them, and we
[1:21:00] Speaker 26: have to make.
[1:21:00] Speaker 1: Sure that it is a priority.
[1:21:03] Speaker 13: And so we're bringing these.
[1:21:04] Speaker 26: Amazing, beautiful black young men into the space to have conversation,
[1:21:09] Speaker 26: to see other male leaders in the space, to see
[1:21:12] Speaker 26: fathers and husbands and leaders in the space doing this work.
[1:21:16] Speaker 13: So we're thankful and we're grateful.
[1:21:18] Speaker 1: God bless you in peace.
[1:21:27] Speaker 25: Okay, all right, moving all along. So let me just
[1:21:30] Speaker 25: say real quickly just about that, because it really is
[1:21:33] Speaker 25: a kind of a button. What we're saying is that
[1:21:35] Speaker 25: if you have a fatherhood program, a mentorship program, a
[1:21:39] Speaker 25: rights a passage program, if you're an athletic coach. We
[1:21:43] Speaker 25: can no longer talk about raising good men without talking
[1:21:47] Speaker 25: about the safety.
[1:21:47] Speaker 13: And security of women and girls.
[1:21:49] Speaker 25: Okay, that has to be about our conception of manhood.
[1:21:52] Speaker 15: Right.
[1:21:53] Speaker 25: We can't do those things and then create unsafe families, environments,
[1:21:57] Speaker 25: or relationships. So that's what we're calling men and boys
[1:22:00] Speaker 25: into in our black community.
[1:22:02] Speaker 13: So so excited about that.
[1:22:03] Speaker 25: So at this particular time, is that good. That's a
[1:22:06] Speaker 25: good message, that's a good movement.
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: Absolutely so.
[1:22:09] Speaker 25: Right now, we are going to go and have a
[1:22:11] Speaker 25: wonderful performance by Dancily Performance Academy, also affectionately known as Deppa.
[1:22:19] Speaker 13: Do I need to.
[1:23:27] Speaker 34: Stelish dada.
[1:25:23] Speaker 8: As the engage up?
[1:26:04] Speaker 25: Give it up for these young people, Steppa Dancingly Performance Academy.
[1:26:12] Speaker 2: Really start to do with it.
[1:26:14] Speaker 25: All right, we're gonna be doing some house cleaning on
[1:26:18] Speaker 25: the quick. So in two seconds, I'm actually direct your
[1:26:21] Speaker 25: attention to the screen. As I mentioned to you, one
[1:26:25] Speaker 25: of the really important things that we're doing this week
[1:26:28] Speaker 25: is it's a call to men, and the reality is
[1:26:31] Speaker 25: part of what we have an opportunity to do is
[1:26:33] Speaker 25: we talk about ending domestic bonus in the black community
[1:26:37] Speaker 25: is to really destroy some myths. You know, one of
[1:26:40] Speaker 25: the most important myths or kind of sustaining miss out
[1:26:43] Speaker 25: there is that if you're a person doing work with
[1:26:45] Speaker 25: men and boys, that somehow you're not doing work for
[1:26:48] Speaker 25: women and girls. And somehow, if you're doing work focused
[1:26:51] Speaker 25: on women and girls, that you're somehow not interested in
[1:26:54] Speaker 25: what's happening to men and boys. So we are absolutely
[1:26:57] Speaker 25: interested in committed to destroying that myth, and one of
[1:27:00] Speaker 25: the ways in which we are excited to do that
[1:27:02] Speaker 25: is to start an annual tradition of offering two awards
[1:27:06] Speaker 25: for people who represent this balance, the balance of focusing
[1:27:11] Speaker 25: not just on one gender but on both genders. So
[1:27:15] Speaker 25: in one second, we'll be looking at a video, and
[1:27:18] Speaker 25: I think the first video is going to be our
[1:27:20] Speaker 25: Tony Porter Award, first annual. Here we go, it's coming.
[1:27:33] Speaker 1: Bell Hooks Award.
[1:27:35] Speaker 13: Well, well, you bail Hooks first inn.
[1:27:38] Speaker 35: This award recognizes a woman who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, advocacy,
[1:27:44] Speaker 35: and long standing commitment to supporting women and girls while
[1:27:48] Speaker 35: also championing the humanity, healing.
[1:27:51] Speaker 1: Growth, and development of black men and black boys.
[1:27:58] Speaker 36: Named in honor of the groundbreaking scholar, author, feminist, and
[1:28:02] Speaker 36: cultural critic Bell Hooks. This award reflects courageous leadership rooted
[1:28:07] Speaker 36: in love, accountability, truth telling, healing, and community transformation. Belle
[1:28:16] Speaker 36: Hooks consistently challenged communities to think deeply about race, gender trauma, relationships,
[1:28:23] Speaker 36: and liberation, while emphasizing the importance of partnership, compassion, and
[1:28:29] Speaker 36: collective healing. The Bell Hooks Award honors women who advocate
[1:28:36] Speaker 36: fiercely for women and girls, support the healthy development of
[1:28:40] Speaker 36: black men and black boys, promote healing, dialogue, accountability, and
[1:28:46] Speaker 36: community empowerment, lead with courage, integrity, empathy, and vision, help
[1:28:54] Speaker 36: create healthier relationships, families, and communities.
[1:29:00] Speaker 37: And the winner is Ashley Glass, Founder Black Women Cultivating Change,
[1:29:14] Speaker 37: Doctor Selia Williamson, Executive Director of Human Trafficking and Social Justice,
[1:29:20] Speaker 37: Congresswoman Joyce Fati.
[1:29:26] Speaker 25: Okay, we might hold on for Congresswoman's award a little
[1:29:31] Speaker 25: bit later on because we have a surprise for her.
[1:29:33] Speaker 25: But let me just bring up one of the persons
[1:29:36] Speaker 25: who's here today. Doctor Selah Willialson could not make it,
[1:29:39] Speaker 25: but I am super excited that one of our community
[1:29:42] Speaker 25: partners from across the state. If I haven't told you,
[1:29:44] Speaker 25: we male behavior Health Works throughout the state.
[1:29:46] Speaker 13: So at this particular time, I'd like to bring.
[1:29:48] Speaker 25: Ashley Glass to accept her award. Ashley Glass is a
[1:29:53] Speaker 25: devoted mother of three daughters and proudly identifies as a
[1:29:57] Speaker 25: health equity catalyst and create with a strong passion for advocacy.
[1:30:02] Speaker 25: Ashley is deeply committed to improving access to mental maternal
[1:30:04] Speaker 25: health services within the black community. She possesses a natural
[1:30:09] Speaker 25: talent for critical thinking, building meaningful connections, and elevating voices.
[1:30:13] Speaker 25: She is the founder of Black Woman Cultivating Change, and
[1:30:15] Speaker 25: not for profit organization dedicated reducing stigma around mental health.
[1:30:19] Speaker 25: If you look at it, they have about three thousand
[1:30:21] Speaker 25: folks in Cincinnati, so do doing great work. In addition
[1:30:25] Speaker 25: to her advocacy and leadership, actually is a creative storyteller
[1:30:28] Speaker 25: and has produced three impactful documentaries that amplify community voices
[1:30:32] Speaker 25: and highlight health disparities. So thank you and help me
[1:30:36] Speaker 25: welcome Ashley Glass for receiving the first annual Bell Hooks Award.
[1:30:43] Speaker 13: Thank you favorite for similar system.
[1:30:45] Speaker 5: All right, I guess anything.
[1:30:49] Speaker 25: Any works with a few words.
[1:30:50] Speaker 5: Okay, just want to thank Jewel so much.
[1:30:53] Speaker 38: So I just wanted to share a little bit about
[1:30:55] Speaker 38: how we connected. So Jewel was going around the state
[1:30:58] Speaker 38: doing listening sessions for a black suicide and I connected
[1:31:01] Speaker 38: with him with that. And just admire your passion, your authenticity,
[1:31:06] Speaker 38: your tenacity, or just the willingness you are to build
[1:31:13] Speaker 38: trust and amplify the voices of the black community.
[1:31:17] Speaker 5: And just want to say thank you.
[1:31:18] Speaker 38: From the bottom of my heart for all the work
[1:31:20] Speaker 38: that you do. I know it's not an easy job,
[1:31:22] Speaker 38: but just want to thank you for everything that you do.
[1:31:24] Speaker 25: So all right, good, okay, Gopa, that's cheesy, all right,
[1:31:32] Speaker 25: thank you congress woman.
[1:31:34] Speaker 13: Baby, you go save you.
[1:31:34] Speaker 25: Its okay, all right, we got something special for you now.
[1:31:37] Speaker 25: Next is the Tony Porter Ward. We're actually moving through
[1:31:39] Speaker 25: this Tony porter Ward video should be coming up.
[1:31:45] Speaker 11: There you go.
[1:31:47] Speaker 13: First annual Tony Porter Award.
[1:31:52] Speaker 3: This award recognizes a man who has demonstrated outstanding leadership,
[1:31:58] Speaker 3: commitment and add invocacy on behalf of women, girls, families,
[1:32:04] Speaker 3: and communities, while also supporting the healthy, emotional, relational, and
[1:32:10] Speaker 3: community development of Black men and black boys. Named in
[1:32:17] Speaker 3: honor of internationally recognized educator, activist, and co founder of
[1:32:22] Speaker 3: a Call to Men, this award celebrates leaders who embody, courage, accountability, integrity,
[1:32:30] Speaker 3: emotional wellness, and a commitment to ending violence while promoting
[1:32:35] Speaker 3: healthier forms of masculinity and gender justice. The Tony Porter
[1:32:43] Speaker 3: Award honors men who advocate for the protection and empowerment
[1:32:48] Speaker 3: of women and girls, challenge violence, abuse, sexism, and harmful masculinity.
[1:32:56] Speaker 3: Lead with humility, compassion, accountability, and integrity.
[1:33:03] Speaker 1: And the winner is.
[1:33:09] Speaker 25: County Administrator Kenneth Wilson and Shawn Hard, Executive Director of
[1:33:17] Speaker 25: Involved at Shawn is not here tonight, but the County Administrator,
[1:33:22] Speaker 25: Kenneth Wilson is here. If you could come up and
[1:33:24] Speaker 25: accept this ward, did you see all those.
[1:33:26] Speaker 13: Qualities for this thing?
[1:33:28] Speaker 25: Compassionate, integrity, commitment, love for black men, love for Black
[1:33:34] Speaker 25: women and girls.
[1:33:35] Speaker 1: We are so excited to offer this award.
[1:33:37] Speaker 25: Kenneth Wilson was appointed County Administrator in January twenty fifteen.
[1:33:41] Speaker 25: As a County Administrator, the highest unelected post in the
[1:33:44] Speaker 25: county government, mister Wilson leeds fifteen county agencies with more
[1:33:47] Speaker 25: than fourteen one hundred employees. He oversees the county's annual
[1:33:51] Speaker 25: two point two billion dollar budgeting process for thirty five agencies.
[1:33:55] Speaker 25: He owes a Master's of Public Administration from the Ohio
[1:33:59] Speaker 25: University the bachel of Arts from James Madison College at
[1:34:02] Speaker 25: Michigan State University. Mister Wilson serves as a national member
[1:34:06] Speaker 25: for a National Forum for Black Public Administrators, Board of Directors,
[1:34:09] Speaker 25: KAPA for PSIDE, Columbus Alumni Chapter, Board of Directors, Executive Committee,
[1:34:13] Speaker 25: immediate past President of National Association County Administrators, and serves
[1:34:17] Speaker 25: as an active member for International City Council. And you
[1:34:19] Speaker 25: can see the brother has all types agrees. So what
[1:34:22] Speaker 25: we're most interested in is honoring him in this way
[1:34:25] Speaker 25: for leading this sort of vision of what it means
[1:34:28] Speaker 25: to work together in our community. So let's thank mister
[1:34:31] Speaker 25: Wilson for all he's done and so excited to give
[1:34:33] Speaker 25: him this award.
[1:34:39] Speaker 7: I don't know better you'd like to said, work from
[1:34:41] Speaker 7: what the relations.
[1:34:48] Speaker 1: All right, I'll be brief.
[1:34:50] Speaker 13: Thank you all.
[1:34:52] Speaker 1: Thank you doctor Woods for the work.
[1:34:54] Speaker 39: That you do bringing attention to healthy relationships. Black girl
[1:34:59] Speaker 39: dad is extremely important. I stand here as the father
[1:35:04] Speaker 39: of to adult young ladies, but I'm still gonna be
[1:35:07] Speaker 39: a black girl dad for life.
[1:35:09] Speaker 1: It's something i can't retire from.
[1:35:12] Speaker 39: I'm dedicated to my family, my wife sitting there reci
[1:35:18] Speaker 39: is my reason why I stand here right now trying
[1:35:22] Speaker 39: to do positive things and relationships are hard, so we
[1:35:26] Speaker 39: need people like you, doctor Woods, giving people the tools
[1:35:30] Speaker 39: for healthy relationships. Mentorship is very important. In my final words,
[1:35:35] Speaker 39: that's been some very positive male role models that I've
[1:35:39] Speaker 39: been blessed to be around very early in my career
[1:35:43] Speaker 39: here in Franklin County of Columbus, and their big reason.
[1:35:46] Speaker 1: Why I'm here.
[1:35:47] Speaker 39: I stand here as well, and I want.
[1:35:49] Speaker 1: To thank those whose shoulders I stood on.
[1:35:51] Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[1:35:54] Speaker 10: All right, thank you brother.
[1:35:55] Speaker 25: All right, all right, you'll ready for rolling in Congress
[1:35:57] Speaker 25: with me?
[1:35:58] Speaker 13: Joyce baby.
[1:36:00] Speaker 25: All right, Well, let me just apologize because this happens
[1:36:04] Speaker 25: all the time and I always have to tell people
[1:36:06] Speaker 25: that the only doctor in my household is actually my
[1:36:09] Speaker 25: wife who's over there, so I will have the PhD eventually,
[1:36:14] Speaker 25: but the reality is she's the only doctor in the
[1:36:17] Speaker 25: household as of now. So at this particular time, I
[1:36:19] Speaker 25: want to invite a special guest to well. Actually, were
[1:36:25] Speaker 25: going to introduce Roland first, so if Representative Dontavius Jails
[1:36:29] Speaker 25: would come to the stage, we're going to introduce our panelists.
[1:36:33] Speaker 25: Then we'll be getting right into the fireside chat.
[1:36:46] Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, how y'all doing today? Good evening, everybody,
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: how y'all doing today?
[1:36:52] Speaker 12: If you can do me the first the.
[1:36:54] Speaker 40: First five seconds of my time, if we can congratulate
[1:36:57] Speaker 40: and honor doctor Woods and the Mill Behavior Health for
[1:37:00] Speaker 40: this fantastic event we about to have again, I think.
[1:37:04] Speaker 1: You can do a little bit better than that, y'all.
[1:37:12] Speaker 40: It is truly my honor and my privilege to introduce
[1:37:16] Speaker 40: one of the most influential and truly great voices of
[1:37:21] Speaker 40: American journalism and black media today, Roland S.
[1:37:26] Speaker 1: Martin.
[1:37:33] Speaker 40: First off, let me just say, don't let this life's
[1:37:35] Speaker 40: blues fool you. I'm a proud member of Alpha by
[1:37:38] Speaker 40: Alpha Attorney, Incorporated. So he's a dear brother of mine
[1:37:42] Speaker 40: and truly just an award winning journalist, a political commentator,
[1:37:47] Speaker 40: an author, and media entrepreneur, and he has built a
[1:37:50] Speaker 40: career at the intersections of news, social justice, and unapologetic
[1:37:56] Speaker 40: truth telling on behalf of Black America. Martin is the
[1:38:01] Speaker 40: founder and host of the Roland Martin Unfiltered, a pioneering
[1:38:06] Speaker 40: daily digital news show that delivers in depth reporting and
[1:38:10] Speaker 40: analysis on politics, culture, and economic empowerment and truly from
[1:38:16] Speaker 40: the black perspective. He has previously served as commentator for CNN,
[1:38:21] Speaker 40: appeared regularly on programs.
[1:38:23] Speaker 1: Such as The Situation Room, AC three sixty.
[1:38:26] Speaker 40: And was the host and managing editor of TV one's
[1:38:29] Speaker 40: News one Now and The Washington March with Roland Martin.
[1:38:33] Speaker 1: I think that deserved ron on Paul Shaw.
[1:38:40] Speaker 40: Across prints, television, radio, digital platforms. Martin has interviewed US presidents,
[1:38:47] Speaker 40: global leaders, civil rights icons, and culture figures, consistently centering
[1:38:54] Speaker 40: our issues around voting rights, criminal justice, reform, economic equity,
[1:38:58] Speaker 40: and media representation. And as a former executive editor of
[1:39:02] Speaker 40: the historic Chicago Defender and longtime senior analysis for the Time.
[1:39:07] Speaker 1: Joiner Morning Show, y'all remember that, y'all? I remember that.
[1:39:10] Speaker 40: He has been repeatedly named one of the most influential
[1:39:15] Speaker 40: African Americans in the nation by outlets including Ebony Jet
[1:39:21] Speaker 40: and The Route. I just want to say, on a
[1:39:23] Speaker 40: personal front, before I was elected, he actually came to
[1:39:27] Speaker 40: the State House and I never forget.
[1:39:30] Speaker 1: He was wearing almost the same suit I was wearing.
[1:39:33] Speaker 40: And I thought he was as cool as black man
[1:39:35] Speaker 40: in a room, and he spoke unapologetically about the issues
[1:39:39] Speaker 40: facing black America, but centered on holding elected officials accountable
[1:39:45] Speaker 40: to do the right thing. That's the thing that I
[1:39:50] Speaker 40: love about him the most, and I stand on his
[1:39:53] Speaker 40: shoulders and the shoulders of Obviously, congress Woman Joyce Baty
[1:39:56] Speaker 40: are fearless icon of our own and Columbus.
[1:40:02] Speaker 1: So. Roland Martin is the author of several books.
[1:40:06] Speaker 40: Including Speak Brother, a Black Man's View of America, Listening
[1:40:10] Speaker 40: to the Spirit within the first Black President, Barack Obama
[1:40:15] Speaker 40: Rolled to the White House, and White Fear. How the
[1:40:18] Speaker 40: browning of America is making white folks lose their minds.
[1:40:22] Speaker 40: Save that truth.
[1:40:23] Speaker 1: Y'all.
[1:40:23] Speaker 40: Come on, so please join me with the loudest applause
[1:40:28] Speaker 40: you can and welcoming a trailblazer for independent black media,
[1:40:32] Speaker 40: a powerful champion for democracy, economic empowerment. Roland as Martin
[1:40:37] Speaker 40: to the State of Black America.
[1:40:39] Speaker 13: Let's go.
[1:40:40] Speaker 1: Let's go.
[1:40:53] Speaker 25: Now, we have a surprise for Congresswoman Joyce Baty. We
[1:40:56] Speaker 25: have a special person who's going to introduce her. That's
[1:41:01] Speaker 25: coming up. He looks so handsome, just to let you know,
[1:41:04] Speaker 25: so as he walks on the stage, I want you
[1:41:07] Speaker 25: all to give a big round of applause to her
[1:41:11] Speaker 25: grandson congresswoman grandson.
[1:41:29] Speaker 1: I'm Spencer, and.
[1:41:32] Speaker 41: Good evening everyone. My name is Spencer, and I have
[1:41:36] Speaker 41: a very special job today. I got to introduce my grandma,
[1:41:40] Speaker 41: Congresswoman Joyce baby. Now.
[1:41:42] Speaker 1: A lot of people know her as a congresswoman.
[1:41:45] Speaker 41: They know she represents Ohio's third congressional district in the
[1:41:49] Speaker 41: United States House of Representatives. They know she has worked
[1:41:53] Speaker 41: for many years to help people stand up for fairness,
[1:41:56] Speaker 41: support small businesses, protect voting rights, and make sure more
[1:42:00] Speaker 41: people have opportunities.
[1:42:02] Speaker 1: She has also made history.
[1:42:04] Speaker 41: She was also the first woman to serve as a
[1:42:07] Speaker 41: Democratic leader in the Ohio House of Representatives, and she
[1:42:11] Speaker 41: later became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. But I
[1:42:15] Speaker 41: know her as my grandma, and being her grandson means something.
[1:42:19] Speaker 41: Means I know something else about her. She cares deeply
[1:42:23] Speaker 41: about people, She works very hard, and she is not
[1:42:27] Speaker 41: afraid to speak up when something matters. She has been
[1:42:30] Speaker 41: a leader in Ohio and in Congress. So please join
[1:42:34] Speaker 41: me in welcoming someone I am very proud to call
[1:42:37] Speaker 41: my grandma, Congresswoman Joyce Baty.
[1:43:08] Speaker 25: Thank you so excellent.
[1:43:11] Speaker 1: Din he do well?
[1:43:13] Speaker 25: All right, all right, that's excellent. I don't think I
[1:43:16] Speaker 25: should be in the middle. I think you should be
[1:43:18] Speaker 25: in the middle. Okay, all right, just telling me what
[1:43:23] Speaker 25: to do. All right, thank you all for your patience.
[1:43:28] Speaker 25: I know this is what you've been waiting for such
[1:43:31] Speaker 25: a long day. I had to write my questions down,
[1:43:33] Speaker 25: so bear with me. First and foremost, Congresswoman, Baby, we
[1:43:37] Speaker 25: missed you last year. I am so glad that you're here,
[1:43:41] Speaker 25: so glad you're in good health. So the last time,
[1:43:44] Speaker 25: it's been two years since you were here, I want
[1:43:47] Speaker 25: to just broaden it out and just ask the questions
[1:43:50] Speaker 25: when you think about the current state of democracy, what
[1:43:52] Speaker 25: are some of the greatest challenges of threats facing black
[1:43:54] Speaker 25: political participation and representation today in your mind?
[1:43:58] Speaker 42: Well, first of all, let me just say thank you,
[1:44:00] Speaker 42: and I'm glad I am healthy and here this year.
[1:44:03] Speaker 5: But you mess me up with my grandson. So let
[1:44:06] Speaker 5: me just say Spencer, thank you, thank you.
[1:44:10] Speaker 15: I love you.
[1:44:11] Speaker 5: And that is what this program does for young black boys.
[1:44:16] Speaker 42: And he is a young black man, and he has
[1:44:20] Speaker 42: gentlemen skills, and he practices with my granddaughter Leah, who
[1:44:25] Speaker 42: is also here, So.
[1:44:26] Speaker 5: You can help black boys and black girls at the
[1:44:31] Speaker 5: same time. Well, well, first of all.
[1:44:33] Speaker 42: Let me just say thank you, and it's always a
[1:44:35] Speaker 42: pleasure to.
[1:44:36] Speaker 5: Be here with my good friend Roland Martin.
[1:44:39] Speaker 42: When I think about where we are now and I
[1:44:42] Speaker 42: think about the world we're in in this democracy, I
[1:44:46] Speaker 42: go straight to voting rights, and later I will connect
[1:44:50] Speaker 42: it to everything that you stand for and everything this
[1:44:54] Speaker 42: community needs. But let me just say to you something
[1:44:58] Speaker 42: I know you know, but worth repeat. It is so
[1:45:01] Speaker 42: much more sophisticated. It's no more counting jellybings in a jar,
[1:45:07] Speaker 42: poll taxes and literacy tests. Now they are coming at us,
[1:45:12] Speaker 42: and I'm going to say in three ways quickly. First,
[1:45:16] Speaker 42: they're trying to make sure they dilute our representation.
[1:45:20] Speaker 5: And that's what they've been doing in lawsuits across.
[1:45:23] Speaker 42: The country, whether it was Louisiana versus Cali taking away
[1:45:27] Speaker 42: Section two of the voting rights, whether it was then
[1:45:32] Speaker 42: making sure that people couldn't get registered by intimidation and bullying,
[1:45:37] Speaker 42: which we just saw here in Ohio or in Cleveland.
[1:45:41] Speaker 42: The FBI under this administration raided a satellite voting registration
[1:45:49] Speaker 42: office in Cleveland, and right here in this community, came
[1:45:54] Speaker 42: to the home of our directors and tried to intimidate them.
[1:45:58] Speaker 42: But they were lucky that the director's husband is a
[1:46:02] Speaker 42: brilliant young lawyer, Kyle Strickland, and so he knew better
[1:46:08] Speaker 42: to let them intimidate him.
[1:46:10] Speaker 5: But most people wouldn't.
[1:46:11] Speaker 42: And then you get to the other thing that they're doing,
[1:46:15] Speaker 42: and that's jerrymandering and registrea king so we can no
[1:46:20] Speaker 42: longer have representation. Two years ago, through a lawsuit in Louisiana,
[1:46:27] Speaker 42: we went from one to two members of Congress, two
[1:46:31] Speaker 42: because we needed it.
[1:46:32] Speaker 5: Louisiana is made up of.
[1:46:35] Speaker 42: Thirty percent of the voting electorate are black volks. So
[1:46:41] Speaker 42: we got too and just as easy as we got it, Juel,
[1:46:45] Speaker 42: they just took it away.
[1:46:46] Speaker 5: A week ago.
[1:46:48] Speaker 42: And Cleo Fields, who came to Congress twenty eight years
[1:46:51] Speaker 42: ago at the age of twenty eight, then the same
[1:46:55] Speaker 42: thing happened four years later.
[1:46:57] Speaker 5: He left Congress to come back.
[1:47:00] Speaker 42: Still under sixty years of age, in serving one term,
[1:47:04] Speaker 42: and they've done away with his seat. A black man,
[1:47:08] Speaker 42: I could go to Alabama, I could go more, but
[1:47:09] Speaker 42: I'm gonna just do Alabama. Terry Sewell, who has been
[1:47:13] Speaker 42: the single black represent representative in Congress from Alabama, fought hard.
[1:47:20] Speaker 42: We got Jamari figures, black man, lawyer, young scholarly. They
[1:47:27] Speaker 42: just made his district twenty nine or thirty percent Democrat,
[1:47:32] Speaker 42: so it would be difficult in the South for him
[1:47:34] Speaker 42: to win.
[1:47:34] Speaker 5: And we could go on.
[1:47:35] Speaker 42: We could talk about South Carolina, we could talk about Cleaver.
[1:47:39] Speaker 42: And just three days ago in Georgia, we have five
[1:47:43] Speaker 42: representatives from our caucus. They're taking away three of the seats, yes,
[1:47:50] Speaker 42: black seeds.
[1:47:51] Speaker 5: So the target is on us. And so that's what
[1:47:55] Speaker 5: we're dealing with.
[1:47:56] Speaker 42: So we have to make sure that we make sure
[1:48:00] Speaker 42: that people across the United States understand how important it.
[1:48:05] Speaker 5: Is to get registered and to vote. To get registered
[1:48:10] Speaker 5: and to vote. Voting is not a necessary to anything.
[1:48:15] Speaker 42: It is mandatory for us to speed up our game because.
[1:48:19] Speaker 5: Here's what we know right here in this community.
[1:48:22] Speaker 1: I don't have a.
[1:48:22] Speaker 42: Black district, so Ohio also could be a target. And
[1:48:27] Speaker 42: when I ran for the United States Congress, but for
[1:48:31] Speaker 42: the black folks voting for me, which at that time
[1:48:33] Speaker 42: was only about eighteen percent, and thank you, because I
[1:48:37] Speaker 42: think I got all eighteen percent thanks to you all,
[1:48:42] Speaker 42: and I was able.
[1:48:43] Speaker 5: To win by a very small margin. But it was
[1:48:47] Speaker 5: early vote.
[1:48:48] Speaker 42: It was black folks understanding that in this great state
[1:48:51] Speaker 42: of Ohio, where we always said you have to go
[1:48:55] Speaker 42: through Ohio for the presidency.
[1:48:58] Speaker 5: Well think about this.
[1:49:00] Speaker 42: To my being elected in this great state, we had
[1:49:04] Speaker 42: only had one black person, and each one of the
[1:49:09] Speaker 42: three of them had been from Cleveland, Ohio coming north.
[1:49:13] Speaker 5: We had never coming south.
[1:49:15] Speaker 42: We had never had black representation in Ohio but.
[1:49:19] Speaker 5: For one person.
[1:49:21] Speaker 42: And when you think it started with Loose Stoakes, Stephanie
[1:49:23] Speaker 42: Tubbs Jones, Marsha Fudge, and Sean Tale Brown, all from Cleveland,
[1:49:28] Speaker 42: which was eighty eight percent black, they won because when
[1:49:32] Speaker 42: black people.
[1:49:33] Speaker 5: Vote, we won, we win.
[1:49:36] Speaker 42: And so we're part of history here in the capital
[1:49:40] Speaker 42: city and we can't afford to lose this by not
[1:49:44] Speaker 42: getting registered and not.
[1:49:46] Speaker 2: Voting anything you want to ask to that question, Bro,
[1:49:50] Speaker 2: So always glad to be here back in Columbus. Always
[1:49:55] Speaker 2: good to be with Colliss, Woman Joyce Staty, and so
[1:49:58] Speaker 2: I surely appreciate coming back. Also, I'm a firm believer
[1:50:04] Speaker 2: about speaking outside of the room. And so just like
[1:50:07] Speaker 2: in previous years, you should be putting your social media
[1:50:13] Speaker 2: texting folks if they're not here, they can actually watch this.
[1:50:17] Speaker 2: Just simply go to my YouTube channel. Our blackstud Network
[1:50:21] Speaker 2: app One of the reasons why owning is so important
[1:50:27] Speaker 2: is you don't have to ask permission. And one of
[1:50:32] Speaker 2: the things that you know we did the all Roads
[1:50:34] Speaker 2: lead to the South, March and Montgomery. There have been
[1:50:38] Speaker 2: other actions taking place. If you go to Freedom Summer
[1:50:41] Speaker 2: twenty twenty six dot com, we were there.
[1:50:44] Speaker 1: We actually broadcast them there.
[1:50:46] Speaker 2: And streaming to fifty other platforms because we wanted a
[1:50:49] Speaker 2: maximum reach. And so we're doing the same thing here.
[1:50:53] Speaker 2: And that's important because we should not look at this
[1:51:00] Speaker 2: should I look at this as an event to just
[1:51:03] Speaker 2: come and listen. Reverend doctor Bishop Barbara and I always
[1:51:08] Speaker 2: talk about this here. These really should be operating as
[1:51:11] Speaker 2: what we call teach ins or citizenship education training. If
[1:51:16] Speaker 2: anyone understands the history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
[1:51:21] Speaker 2: Everyone talks about doctor King Ralph Abernathy, but the reality
[1:51:25] Speaker 2: is you could not even join SCLC unless you actually
[1:51:31] Speaker 2: went through the citizenship education program of doctor Dorothy Cotton.
[1:51:37] Speaker 2: That is critically important because they actually did full assessments.
[1:51:41] Speaker 2: Did you fully understand nonviolence? Did you understand what they
[1:51:45] Speaker 2: were working on? And I believe one of the greatest
[1:51:49] Speaker 2: problems that we have today all across this country pick
[1:51:52] Speaker 2: a state, pick a city, pick a community, is that
[1:51:55] Speaker 2: we have completely abandoned and abdicated.
[1:52:01] Speaker 1: Education. And what I mean by that is political education.
[1:52:04] Speaker 2: Political education ties to economic education, it ties to a
[1:52:09] Speaker 2: social it all goes together. And so the reality is
[1:52:13] Speaker 2: we sit here today at this event as black people
[1:52:20] Speaker 2: worse off than a year ago. And I believe that
[1:52:25] Speaker 2: too many of us are walking around as if we
[1:52:31] Speaker 2: are in a zombie movie, believing that things really haven't
[1:52:39] Speaker 2: changed much, when the reality is, you've had eight hundred
[1:52:44] Speaker 2: thousand African Americans unemployed. In the last year, you saw
[1:52:49] Speaker 2: black unemployment dramatically increase. It went up to seven point
[1:52:54] Speaker 2: two seven point three percent under the twice impeached, criminally
[1:52:58] Speaker 2: convicted con man in chief.
[1:53:04] Speaker 1: Last month they went down to.
[1:53:05] Speaker 2: Six point six percent only because a lot of black
[1:53:08] Speaker 2: folks checked out of the labor market. Remember, black unemployment
[1:53:13] Speaker 2: was at its lowest in recorded history under Biden Harris
[1:53:17] Speaker 2: at four point eight percent. So you go from four
[1:53:19] Speaker 2: point eight percent under Biden Harris to hot seven point three,
[1:53:23] Speaker 2: but now six point six. But it's going to go
[1:53:25] Speaker 2: back up. You have that two but you also have
[1:53:29] Speaker 2: you have had a complete effort. And I've been yelling
[1:53:33] Speaker 2: and screaming this and it just keeps coming true. To
[1:53:36] Speaker 2: defund Black America, you have a direct attack on the
[1:53:41] Speaker 2: entire and imed been understand the entire black infrastructure slash ecosystem.
[1:53:49] Speaker 2: If you look at what's going on, this is not
[1:53:52] Speaker 2: just Washington, DC, it states as well.
[1:53:55] Speaker 1: It's counties, it's cities.
[1:53:58] Speaker 2: They are attacking political, they're attacking economic, they're attacking social,
[1:54:05] Speaker 2: they're attacking education because they literally are pissed off at
[1:54:12] Speaker 2: the nineteen sixty four Voting Civil Rights Act, nineteen sixty
[1:54:16] Speaker 2: five Voting Rights Act, nineteen sixty eight Fair Housing Act.
[1:54:20] Speaker 1: But you've got to go back further.
[1:54:21] Speaker 2: They are ticked off of the three reconstruction Amendments, the thirteenth, fourteenth,
[1:54:25] Speaker 2: and fifteenth Amendment. So we have to recognize that we
[1:54:30] Speaker 2: have an extreme court, not a Supreme Court. And just
[1:54:36] Speaker 2: to understand again how crazy this is. You heard congress
[1:54:40] Speaker 2: Woman Baby talk about the Louisiana vers. Khaley decision. This
[1:54:43] Speaker 2: is what is so insane. This is literally the same
[1:54:47] Speaker 2: extreme court that ruled that Louisiana racially discriminated against black
[1:54:54] Speaker 2: people to create the seat. They literally rule that Alabama race,
[1:54:59] Speaker 2: the disc terminated, the Alabama legislature comes back, defies, the
[1:55:04] Speaker 2: court refuses to draw. It draws a racially discriminatory map,
[1:55:11] Speaker 2: and then says, let's see if let's go back and
[1:55:14] Speaker 2: get one more shot, And they did.
[1:55:17] Speaker 1: That happened today.
[1:55:19] Speaker 2: The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a
[1:55:23] Speaker 2: lower court ruling that came out of Arkansas. And I've
[1:55:26] Speaker 2: been warning folk the last three years this case was
[1:55:29] Speaker 2: coming that they are now. The lawsuit said only the
[1:55:33] Speaker 2: Department of Justice can file discriminatory lawsuits again when it
[1:55:38] Speaker 2: comes to voting rights. So that was a That lawsuit
[1:55:41] Speaker 2: was designed to prevent the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lawyer's
[1:55:46] Speaker 2: Committee for Civil Rights under Law, ACLU, Black Voters Matter,
[1:55:51] Speaker 2: or any group from filing lawsuit. Conservative Court ruled in
[1:55:55] Speaker 2: their favor. Conservative Appeals Court ruled in their favor. Supreme
[1:55:59] Speaker 2: Court just allowed. Lord is saying so in those eight
[1:56:01] Speaker 2: states in luck Missouri is one of them, the visa
[1:56:05] Speaker 2: not populous states of African Americans in these eight states,
[1:56:09] Speaker 2: then the only folk who can file a lawsuit is
[1:56:12] Speaker 2: Trump's Department of Justice. Do not be shocked to see
[1:56:17] Speaker 2: that exact same lawsuit filed.
[1:56:20] Speaker 1: In the fourth circuit, the fifth circuit, that's going to
[1:56:23] Speaker 1: hit all of them. And so we have to understand this.
[1:56:25] Speaker 2: Under Biden Harris, the last year ten billion dollars in
[1:56:29] Speaker 2: federal contracts only two percent, but it was the highest
[1:56:32] Speaker 2: amount ever. Under Trump, that numbers already down to one
[1:56:36] Speaker 2: point two percent. They want to wipe out I have
[1:56:39] Speaker 2: talked to black contractors, folks who have done amazing work,
[1:56:44] Speaker 2: contracts frozen. Not only that, the attack against DEI has
[1:56:48] Speaker 2: completely altered every black nonprofit in America. Some have seen
[1:56:56] Speaker 2: the eradication of up to eighty ninety percent of their funding.
[1:57:01] Speaker 1: The black folks who worked in those corporate offices no
[1:57:04] Speaker 1: longer are there. They've been gutted and wiped out.
[1:57:08] Speaker 2: Corporations today are completely afraid to fund black events because
[1:57:13] Speaker 2: the Trump administration is so devious and so evil that
[1:57:18] Speaker 2: us just take telecommunications companies his FCC. They literally look
[1:57:22] Speaker 2: at the list of all the things that these companies
[1:57:25] Speaker 2: are sponsoring, and if they see black, Latino, if they
[1:57:30] Speaker 2: see Asian, if they see female, they say, you got
[1:57:33] Speaker 2: to cut all that out, or we're not.
[1:57:35] Speaker 1: Going to improve your mergers.
[1:57:36] Speaker 2: We're not going to improve your acquisitions that's Brendan Carter,
[1:57:39] Speaker 2: FCC chair.
[1:57:40] Speaker 1: So you've never had an American history.
[1:57:45] Speaker 2: We're an occupant of the Oval Office because I will
[1:57:47] Speaker 2: never ever give him the title of president.
[1:57:54] Speaker 1: You have never ever had an occupant.
[1:57:57] Speaker 2: Of the Oval Office use the power of the office
[1:58:02] Speaker 2: to attack the mean, degrade, and target corporations, law firms, nonprofits.
[1:58:09] Speaker 2: This entire national ecosystem is afraid of this man. And
[1:58:15] Speaker 2: the problem is we have too many people who are
[1:58:19] Speaker 2: afraid to challenge him, afraid to call him out.
[1:58:24] Speaker 1: And we know he can't stand.
[1:58:26] Speaker 2: Her because because because out of all those damn people
[1:58:35] Speaker 2: sitting on the board of the Kennedy Center.
[1:58:43] Speaker 1: On one than file.
[1:58:49] Speaker 2: One, and they are so childish that if you drive
[1:58:59] Speaker 2: by the Entity Center, they have a massive tart covering
[1:59:04] Speaker 2: up the name because he's so mad, had to take
[1:59:08] Speaker 2: his name off the building. We need to understand the
[1:59:13] Speaker 2: level of evil. And the last thing I'll say this here,
[1:59:16] Speaker 2: The New York Times.
[1:59:17] Speaker 1: Just reported Pete hex Seth is so racist.
[1:59:22] Speaker 2: He is so racist that he is personally removing black generals,
[1:59:31] Speaker 2: women generals from being promoted because he said they supported diversity.
[1:59:38] Speaker 2: He just removed a black man from being appointed. And
[1:59:43] Speaker 2: the review board picked his brother number one and chose
[1:59:48] Speaker 2: a white man who was number three. But they have
[1:59:52] Speaker 2: the audacity to talk about merit. We need to realize
[1:59:57] Speaker 2: that this is Jim Crow two point zero right now,
[2:00:01] Speaker 2: and too many of us are not acting like it.
[2:00:06] Speaker 25: You know, I'm actually feeling like I just want to
[2:00:07] Speaker 25: get out of the way and let this conversations.
[2:00:09] Speaker 42: But I told you to throw them questions out right,
[2:00:13] Speaker 42: So Congress No, I'm gonna make some comments to say
[2:00:15] Speaker 42: thanks so one hundred percent.
[2:00:17] Speaker 25: So congress woman, please feel free to, you know, sort
[2:00:19] Speaker 25: of add on to that. But I'm specifically interested, since
[2:00:22] Speaker 25: rolland with national anything in Ohio that makes you want
[2:00:25] Speaker 25: to talk about the specific challenges and opportunities you mentioned,
[2:00:29] Speaker 25: for example, what happened in Cleveland.
[2:00:30] Speaker 13: Is there anything that you see.
[2:00:32] Speaker 25: That specifically might be something we need to pay attention
[2:00:35] Speaker 25: to about what will be happening here in Ohio moving forward,
[2:00:39] Speaker 25: specifically in the next two.
[2:00:40] Speaker 13: Or three years.
[2:00:41] Speaker 42: I think if we go back to what Roland says,
[2:00:43] Speaker 42: it all relates to Ohio. When you look at let
[2:00:47] Speaker 42: me thread the needle for you. The reason is important
[2:00:51] Speaker 42: for us to register and vote because you get the
[2:00:55] Speaker 42: outcomes of.
[2:00:56] Speaker 5: Who you elect.
[2:00:58] Speaker 42: And so when you want to talk about our black
[2:01:00] Speaker 42: little boys and girls, and them telling them that they
[2:01:04] Speaker 42: can't read books, books like Amanda Gordon, Tony Morrison, First
[2:01:10] Speaker 42: Lady Michelle Obama, because they don't want them to have
[2:01:14] Speaker 42: the hope or the knowledge of seeing that they can
[2:01:17] Speaker 42: be what we know they can be.
[2:01:20] Speaker 5: If you want to.
[2:01:20] Speaker 42: Talk about health care, but for President Obama, we would
[2:01:26] Speaker 42: not have had the Affordable Care Act. Young college kids
[2:01:29] Speaker 42: wouldn't have been able to stay on their parents' insurance
[2:01:32] Speaker 42: over twenty six and everybody in this auditorium wouldn't have
[2:01:37] Speaker 42: been insured.
[2:01:38] Speaker 5: Because we've all had a pre existing condition.
[2:01:40] Speaker 42: If you've had a coal your tonsils out, stitches a baby,
[2:01:45] Speaker 42: everyone has had a pre existing So it's important when
[2:01:48] Speaker 42: you think about education, health care, mental health, when you
[2:01:52] Speaker 42: talk about wealth and economics, it's all on who you elect.
[2:01:58] Speaker 5: And if you elect people because they're popular or.
[2:02:01] Speaker 42: They give you a great speech, then you're getting what
[2:02:04] Speaker 42: you deserve. You have to have somebody that's gonna give
[2:02:06] Speaker 42: you hope, somebody who is unapologetically black and not afraid
[2:02:11] Speaker 42: to say it, but someone.
[2:02:13] Speaker 5: Who can dance and walk in every room.
[2:02:16] Speaker 42: Because let me tell you, I left Columbus, Ohio, went
[2:02:19] Speaker 42: to Washington, d C. To fly to Montgomery, to Birmingham.
[2:02:26] Speaker 5: To be with you in Selma.
[2:02:28] Speaker 42: And let me tell you why it's important. Because we
[2:02:31] Speaker 42: control the federal budget and when we have dollars, whether
[2:02:35] Speaker 42: there are they are through the DNC, whether they're through
[2:02:39] Speaker 42: the d Triple C, it's important for you to lect
[2:02:42] Speaker 42: people who understand that we need people like Roland Martin
[2:02:47] Speaker 42: to be able to get funds and then don't talk
[2:02:50] Speaker 42: about it if you think if somebody says, oh, they
[2:02:52] Speaker 42: gave rolling ten million dollars which he didn't get and
[2:02:57] Speaker 42: should have, then we not get.
[2:03:00] Speaker 5: Should not be saying that's too much. So this is
[2:03:05] Speaker 5: what I want you to stop doing.
[2:03:08] Speaker 42: If a brother has a salary that seems like a
[2:03:11] Speaker 42: lot and he got it, you are to be saying
[2:03:13] Speaker 42: thank God, because little Spencer can now get.
[2:03:17] Speaker 5: Twice that much.
[2:03:19] Speaker 42: Dr Angela Price can be able for her program to
[2:03:23] Speaker 42: get three times that much.
[2:03:26] Speaker 5: And it is so important for us to understand our history.
[2:03:30] Speaker 42: We went to Selma because it was important for us
[2:03:33] Speaker 42: to be there for the voting rights. It was important
[2:03:36] Speaker 42: for us to be there because of John R. Lewis's
[2:03:40] Speaker 42: voting rights Act. It's important for us to know what
[2:03:45] Speaker 42: we're fighting for in Ohio, because if we lose in
[2:03:48] Speaker 42: Ohio and we lose in the Midwest, we'll lose in
[2:03:51] Speaker 42: the West, and we'll lose in the South. We have
[2:03:54] Speaker 42: to go back and do what I call old school
[2:03:57] Speaker 42: new school, old school.
[2:04:00] Speaker 5: We have to march. You can't talk about this too hot.
[2:04:03] Speaker 42: People walked for miles and suits and ties and dresses
[2:04:09] Speaker 42: and hats and purses so you could sit you behind
[2:04:13] Speaker 42: in the Lincoln Theater and so you could elect me
[2:04:17] Speaker 42: to go to Congress.
[2:04:18] Speaker 5: So we have to speak truth to power and we
[2:04:22] Speaker 5: have to not be afraid. But we also have to
[2:04:24] Speaker 5: have hope. And that's what my lawsuit was about. Now
[2:04:28] Speaker 5: let me just tell you. I know you know your history,
[2:04:32] Speaker 5: so you know who Ruby Bridges is.
[2:04:35] Speaker 42: When I walked into that meeting, which was not held
[2:04:39] Speaker 42: at the Kennedy Center, and I had vowed that I
[2:04:42] Speaker 42: would not go to the White House ever again while
[2:04:45] Speaker 42: he was president. But today he changed the meeting to
[2:04:49] Speaker 42: the White House so it could be on his turf.
[2:04:52] Speaker 42: Forty one board members showed up and no one was
[2:04:56] Speaker 42: in that room that looked like me and ladies sitting
[2:05:00] Speaker 42: next to me. She said, oh, I'm sure you're angry
[2:05:03] Speaker 42: because they we had filed the first of three lawsuits,
[2:05:07] Speaker 42: and we won on.
[2:05:08] Speaker 5: The first lawsuit. The first lawsuit I.
[2:05:11] Speaker 42: Went in with security, sat in the middle sea, and
[2:05:16] Speaker 42: the man chairing the meeting said, by the federal court's ruling,
[2:05:21] Speaker 42: she has to have equal time.
[2:05:22] Speaker 5: To speak, she has to be allowed.
[2:05:25] Speaker 1: To dissent if she wants to.
[2:05:29] Speaker 5: But we didn't ask for me to vote because we
[2:05:31] Speaker 5: knew we would lose on that. We knew they.
[2:05:33] Speaker 42: Would all vote against me voting because they had muted
[2:05:36] Speaker 42: my microphone.
[2:05:38] Speaker 5: They picked the wrong sister for that.
[2:05:41] Speaker 42: They picked the wrong sister to mute me and tell
[2:05:45] Speaker 42: me I couldn't speak.
[2:05:47] Speaker 5: And that was the first lawsuit. So make a long
[2:05:50] Speaker 5: story short, it did take courage.
[2:05:53] Speaker 42: But I thought about Rosa Parks who got arrested. I
[2:05:57] Speaker 42: thought about Fanny Louhimer, who gave her life. I thought
[2:06:01] Speaker 42: about that nine year old Ruby Bridges.
[2:06:04] Speaker 5: And when my turn came, I did what my.
[2:06:06] Speaker 42: Communication director sitting, They're gonna tell me, straighten up.
[2:06:10] Speaker 5: Your posture, throw your back.
[2:06:12] Speaker 42: Back and your head up and look him in the
[2:06:14] Speaker 42: eye and say truth to power.
[2:06:17] Speaker 5: And I was so proud that I was the only
[2:06:20] Speaker 5: person to say this is wrong, because it's unlawful.
[2:06:24] Speaker 42: We cannot let people do things that are illegal, because
[2:06:28] Speaker 42: if any of these brothers and sisters go and do
[2:06:30] Speaker 42: anything illegal.
[2:06:31] Speaker 5: You know what the consequences are.
[2:06:34] Speaker 42: And so we want on that lawsuit we filed then
[2:06:38] Speaker 42: to take his name down.
[2:06:41] Speaker 5: Four hours I sat in that.
[2:06:43] Speaker 42: Courtroom with six attorneys, and let me just tell you,
[2:06:47] Speaker 42: the day we got the verdict from the federal Judge
[2:06:50] Speaker 42: Cooper that we had won that case, it was feeling
[2:06:55] Speaker 42: like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and everybody else
[2:06:59] Speaker 42: that I thought that fought for us, because I was
[2:07:02] Speaker 42: fighting for you.
[2:07:03] Speaker 5: I was fighting for the Lincoln Center. I was fighting
[2:07:06] Speaker 5: for the Martin Luther Kings Performing Arts Center.
[2:07:09] Speaker 42: In every black performer, every family, every little black kid
[2:07:14] Speaker 42: that walked into the Kennedy Center, for every black performer
[2:07:18] Speaker 42: that that man said was irrelevant, not talented, and he
[2:07:23] Speaker 42: never had them, people like Glady's Knight, people like Aretha Franklin,
[2:07:29] Speaker 42: Patty LaBelle, Smokey Robinson, and the list goes on and on.
[2:07:34] Speaker 42: And so I spent thirteen hours standing in front of
[2:07:39] Speaker 42: the Kennedy Center and at four o'clock am. I looked
[2:07:42] Speaker 42: at my watch and the letters to his name came down.
[2:07:48] Speaker 43: The only, the only member of Congress in the history
[2:07:55] Speaker 43: of the Congress to sue a sitting president and win.
[2:08:03] Speaker 5: That is the courage and the hope I give to you.
[2:08:07] Speaker 42: That is the power that we can have if we
[2:08:11] Speaker 42: educate our little black boys and girls.
[2:08:15] Speaker 5: And I want to say thank you to Roland. Roland
[2:08:18] Speaker 5: is a dear friend.
[2:08:20] Speaker 42: Roland has had me in his studio, which is amazing,
[2:08:24] Speaker 42: by the way, and we have covered things when others
[2:08:28] Speaker 42: were there standing.
[2:08:30] Speaker 5: With that man that's in the Oval office.
[2:08:33] Speaker 42: We were in Roland's off studio educating the American people.
[2:08:39] Speaker 5: So I want to say thank you to you, Ju.
[2:08:41] Speaker 42: For having the confidence and the courage to let us
[2:08:46] Speaker 42: speak truth to power.
[2:08:47] Speaker 1: There's something.
[2:08:49] Speaker 2: So this is there's something that a college woman said
[2:08:52] Speaker 2: that everyone here you need to really understand.
[2:08:58] Speaker 1: The role that you play.
[2:09:00] Speaker 2: She said, quote by federal decree, which means that was
[2:09:05] Speaker 2: a federal judge even though she is a member of Congress.
[2:09:12] Speaker 2: She's in the House. House members don't have a say.
[2:09:19] Speaker 2: And who becomes a federal judge. That's the Senate President's
[2:09:25] Speaker 2: appoint Senate confirms or denies. So you ask the question, Ohio,
[2:09:34] Speaker 2: you've got a Senate election. So to understand, you have
[2:09:42] Speaker 2: the two oldest individuals sitting in the Supreme Court are
[2:09:47] Speaker 2: Sam Alito and Uncle Clarence Thomas.
[2:09:55] Speaker 1: But I need you to follow me here. If if
[2:09:59] Speaker 1: I either one of them.
[2:10:00] Speaker 2: Chooses not to retire, not by November, but by January,
[2:10:07] Speaker 2: because you got to understand, election could happen November, Democrats
[2:10:11] Speaker 2: could take back the House and or the Senate. One
[2:10:15] Speaker 2: of them can retire, and I can guarantee you they
[2:10:17] Speaker 2: will move for a confirmation at immediately, meaning in November
[2:10:22] Speaker 2: or December, before the new Congress comes in. But let's
[2:10:25] Speaker 2: say they don't retire. It that means that Democrats can
[2:10:29] Speaker 2: control the Senate and then they can determine if there's
[2:10:32] Speaker 2: even a hearing. I dare say that Democrats should have
[2:10:36] Speaker 2: the guts if one of them decides to step down
[2:10:38] Speaker 2: or one of them passes away to say the Republicans,
[2:10:41] Speaker 2: we ain't gonna hold it. We're gonna do the same
[2:10:43] Speaker 2: thing y'all did. That's so bon Mayrick Garland. But I
[2:10:47] Speaker 2: need but again, you have a gubernatorial race. You've got
[2:10:54] Speaker 2: on the Republican side, vivek Ramaswami, who do not give it,
[2:10:58] Speaker 2: who don't give it? Themn by black people, by the way,
[2:11:01] Speaker 2: by the way, by the way, understand he should be
[2:11:04] Speaker 2: thinking black people because the only way him or his
[2:11:08] Speaker 2: ancestors could come into the country was because of the
[2:11:12] Speaker 2: US fighting to change immigration laws.
[2:11:14] Speaker 1: But follow me here. He has already said he.
[2:11:17] Speaker 2: Wants to shut down Central State University. So I need
[2:11:22] Speaker 2: you to understand, needs you to understand it's not just
[2:11:28] Speaker 2: your vote, but the question is and I'm gonna go
[2:11:30] Speaker 2: back to what you said when you said when you ran,
[2:11:32] Speaker 2: you said you got all eighteen percent.
[2:11:34] Speaker 1: I need you to understand also why we're losing two
[2:11:38] Speaker 1: thousand and eight.
[2:11:39] Speaker 2: Twenty twelve, you had massive black turnout the election of Obama.
[2:11:44] Speaker 2: The twenty twelve election was the first time in American
[2:11:47] Speaker 2: history by percentage, more black people voted than white people,
[2:11:53] Speaker 2: first time in history. I'm trying to the reason my
[2:11:56] Speaker 2: book is white fear because they not only saw that,
[2:12:00] Speaker 2: they also saw the changing in the terms of the demographics.
[2:12:05] Speaker 2: They'll be the minority by twenty forty three. So you
[2:12:07] Speaker 2: have to understand. The problem is since twenty twelve, our
[2:12:12] Speaker 2: numbers have gone down, down, down, down.
[2:12:17] Speaker 1: It went up in twenty twenty only.
[2:12:20] Speaker 2: Because because it was COVID they expanded access to the ballot.
[2:12:25] Speaker 1: It goes down in twenty twenty four. So what does
[2:12:28] Speaker 1: that mean? What does it mean? It means that we.
[2:12:30] Speaker 2: Simply are not voting our number harrow Washing Congressman Harold
[2:12:35] Speaker 2: Washington was elected to the first Black mayor of Chicago
[2:12:37] Speaker 2: because eighty five percent of all eligible black voters voted.
[2:12:47] Speaker 2: There were some precincts by noon one hundred percent had
[2:12:52] Speaker 2: already voted. They literally like, can we go home while
[2:12:56] Speaker 2: we still open? And they said no, by the load,
[2:12:58] Speaker 2: you got to stay open.
[2:13:00] Speaker 1: Why is that important? Because we have to look at numbers.
[2:13:05] Speaker 2: We have a look at what's turnout, not percentage, turnout,
[2:13:10] Speaker 2: raw numbers. So when I was here in twenty twenty four,
[2:13:13] Speaker 2: I was in Cincinnati and we were at and I've
[2:13:15] Speaker 2: been telling us the D nine other places. So I'm
[2:13:17] Speaker 2: at a black On restaurant because remember we travel, we
[2:13:19] Speaker 2: only go support black on restaurants. And I'm in the restaurant.
[2:13:24] Speaker 2: A brother comes up to me. He's an Alpha. He said, hey, man,
[2:13:26] Speaker 2: we're gonna be at the Bengals game tomorrow doing voter registration.
[2:13:28] Speaker 2: I said why, He said, what do you mean. I said, okay,
[2:13:32] Speaker 2: you're going to be doing in the parking lot doing
[2:13:34] Speaker 2: voter registration. I said, you're gonna be out there four
[2:13:37] Speaker 2: or five hours. How many people are you actually going
[2:13:40] Speaker 2: to see? He goes, I don't understand. I said, this
[2:13:43] Speaker 2: is what you need to do. You need to go
[2:13:45] Speaker 2: to the Board of Elections. You can go on the website.
[2:13:47] Speaker 2: You need to pull the five or ten largest black
[2:13:52] Speaker 2: voting precincts in Cincinnati. Then look at the last state
[2:13:56] Speaker 2: election in the federal election to see how many people
[2:14:00] Speaker 2: each precinct were eligible to register, eligible to vote. Then
[2:14:04] Speaker 2: look at how many were registered, then look at how
[2:14:06] Speaker 2: many actually voted. That's your low hanging fruit. And then
[2:14:10] Speaker 2: what you do is go to door to door in
[2:14:12] Speaker 2: that precinct. I said, the amount of time you're spending
[2:14:15] Speaker 2: at a game means nothing. You could literally be impacting
[2:14:19] Speaker 2: two three, four hundred in these precincts. The reason Trump
[2:14:23] Speaker 2: controls the House is they won the House in those
[2:14:28] Speaker 2: races by a total of seven thousand votes. See, we
[2:14:34] Speaker 2: keep thinking this is no, no, seven thousand. They had
[2:14:39] Speaker 2: what a one or two seat majority. Seven thousand votes
[2:14:42] Speaker 2: was the difference in them controlling the House. When you
[2:14:45] Speaker 2: start looking at numbers, a black woman would be would
[2:14:48] Speaker 2: be the Supreme Court justice in North Carolina, Sherry Beasley,
[2:14:53] Speaker 2: if she had gotten four hundred and two votes, she
[2:14:56] Speaker 2: lost by four hundred and one votes.
[2:14:59] Speaker 1: You just had an election in Florida.
[2:15:01] Speaker 2: Democrat was an elected mayor in one of the cities
[2:15:03] Speaker 2: there one by about twelve votes. What you're seeing across
[2:15:08] Speaker 2: the Virginia I think in twenty eighteen there was an
[2:15:11] Speaker 2: actual tie between the two candidates.
[2:15:14] Speaker 1: The name had to be pulled out of a hat.
[2:15:17] Speaker 2: And not only do that determine who won, that also
[2:15:20] Speaker 2: determine who controlled the Senate. So that pulling them out
[2:15:24] Speaker 2: of the hat control the entire who control the legislature.
[2:15:28] Speaker 1: So why is that important? We're not voting our capacity?
[2:15:33] Speaker 1: Who votes the most. If you're sixty five or older,
[2:15:35] Speaker 1: raise your hand.
[2:15:37] Speaker 2: You are the highest voted. You turn out more than
[2:15:40] Speaker 2: anybody else. If you're fifty five to sixty four, raise.
[2:15:43] Speaker 1: Your hand, you're number two.
[2:15:46] Speaker 2: If you're forty five to fifty four, raise your hand,
[2:15:51] Speaker 2: you're number three. If you are thirty five to forty four, raise.
[2:15:56] Speaker 1: Your hand all right, And now I want you'all. I
[2:15:59] Speaker 1: want I want y'all. Turn lights up.
[2:16:00] Speaker 2: Please, no no no no no no no no no
[2:16:02] Speaker 2: no no follow me here, follow me here again. Sixty
[2:16:06] Speaker 2: five plus raise your hand.
[2:16:08] Speaker 1: Okay.
[2:16:10] Speaker 2: Fifty five to sixty four raise your hand. Forty five
[2:16:14] Speaker 2: to fifty four raise your hand. Thirty five to forty
[2:16:18] Speaker 2: four raise your hand, all right, no, no, hold on,
[2:16:22] Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, lo up, hold up, fall on,
[2:16:23] Speaker 2: going somewhere.
[2:16:25] Speaker 1: Twenty eight to thirty four raise your.
[2:16:28] Speaker 2: Hand, okay, hold up, hold up, wait wait wait wait
[2:16:33] Speaker 2: eighteen to.
[2:16:34] Speaker 1: Twenty seven raise your hand. All right. So here's the
[2:16:37] Speaker 1: here's here's why I just did that.
[2:16:40] Speaker 2: You just witness how I started at sixty five plus
[2:16:46] Speaker 2: more hands went up, and as we went down, fewer
[2:16:50] Speaker 2: hands went up. That's actually the voter turnout there. It
[2:16:54] Speaker 2: is so the issue that we have right now. In
[2:16:58] Speaker 2: numerous places, we're not voting our capacity. We're leaving ten, twelve, fifteen, eighteen,
[2:17:05] Speaker 2: twenty thirty, forty one hundred thousand votes at home. Georgia
[2:17:10] Speaker 2: had an incubitory election a couple of years ago.
[2:17:13] Speaker 1: Nine hundred thousand to.
[2:17:14] Speaker 2: One point one million black folks did not vote. Six
[2:17:16] Speaker 2: hundred and sixteen thousand in North Carolina did not vote.
[2:17:19] Speaker 2: So our issue is we have power that's untapped. We
[2:17:26] Speaker 2: have power that we're not accessing. And what we're doing
[2:17:30] Speaker 2: is we're waiting for somebody else to go do the
[2:17:32] Speaker 2: work when that is not how we're going to change this.
[2:17:37] Speaker 1: And so we have the ability.
[2:17:39] Speaker 2: What should be happening now this is June, You've got July, August, September.
[2:17:45] Speaker 2: You should be in what I call the inform, educate.
[2:17:48] Speaker 1: Enlightened, and empower stage.
[2:17:50] Speaker 2: There should be every week somewhere in Columbus of politics
[2:17:55] Speaker 2: one oh one at a church, at a community group.
[2:17:58] Speaker 2: Then you find out what's the voter registration deadlines. Now
[2:18:02] Speaker 2: you focus on that now once the deadline hits, when
[2:18:05] Speaker 2: this early voting start, and then when it's the election. Now,
[2:18:09] Speaker 2: how do you just do the same thing in Montgomery?
[2:18:11] Speaker 2: Look at our vast resources. How many churches and community
[2:18:14] Speaker 2: groups have buses in vans.
[2:18:17] Speaker 1: No, we're gonna take folks to the.
[2:18:18] Speaker 2: Poll when that's all school' all right? So I need
[2:18:23] Speaker 2: us to get out of this idea that this is
[2:18:29] Speaker 2: voter mobilization. This by itself is not voter mobilization. You
[2:18:35] Speaker 2: have to actually talk to people. If a person says,
[2:18:38] Speaker 2: man ain't voting. This is real simple. This is all
[2:18:42] Speaker 2: you have to say is no, no, I'm gonna telling
[2:18:44] Speaker 2: If somebody said that stuff don't matter, it's not impacting
[2:18:47] Speaker 2: my life, you have to say, I want you to understand.
[2:18:52] Speaker 2: Your birth certificate is a government document. Your public high
[2:18:55] Speaker 2: school diplomp, your immanization shots, those are government documents. You
[2:18:59] Speaker 2: want to public school, your diploma of the public document.
[2:19:03] Speaker 2: If you went to a state college, that's a government document.
[2:19:06] Speaker 2: When you got married, that's a government document. When you
[2:19:09] Speaker 2: get divorced, that's a government document. When you die, your
[2:19:13] Speaker 2: birth your death certificate is a government document. So we
[2:19:15] Speaker 2: have to get people to understand government touches every facet
[2:19:18] Speaker 2: of your life. But we have to ask them what
[2:19:21] Speaker 2: are the three things you care about and then walk
[2:19:23] Speaker 2: them through. We have to be connecting the dots in
[2:19:28] Speaker 2: order to educate folk. So we are assuming people know
[2:19:32] Speaker 2: they how many times consworn She's heard it man, the
[2:19:35] Speaker 2: CBC man, they don't do a damn thing, not even
[2:19:40] Speaker 2: understanding that a CBC member can be sitting on a
[2:19:44] Speaker 2: committee and literally can remove a line in a.
[2:19:49] Speaker 1: Bill that can completely alter the bill.
[2:19:52] Speaker 2: So the point if you're not present then or if
[2:19:55] Speaker 2: they change these seats and you've got a Republican sitting in.
[2:19:58] Speaker 1: There, then you don't have some nobody gonna hold up.
[2:20:01] Speaker 2: You can't do that if they if Democrats get controlled,
[2:20:04] Speaker 2: and this is not a Democrat Republican thing, this is
[2:20:06] Speaker 2: a black thing.
[2:20:07] Speaker 1: See.
[2:20:08] Speaker 2: The political system is a delivery system. So you have
[2:20:12] Speaker 2: to decide who can deliver more things to me, them
[2:20:16] Speaker 2: or them. If they are anti black, meaning Republicans, they
[2:20:20] Speaker 2: surely not gonna deliver anything to me. So this is
[2:20:22] Speaker 2: a delivery system. I'm gonna vote for the Democrat, but
[2:20:25] Speaker 2: then hold them account. Wants to bring back what I
[2:20:27] Speaker 2: asked for. So when congress Woman and baby Democrats control
[2:20:30] Speaker 2: the House, she now sits over the committee on how
[2:20:34] Speaker 2: Financial Services that will be dealing with banks. So she's
[2:20:38] Speaker 2: now questioning how see see so folk me to understand
[2:20:42] Speaker 2: and it's not that Ohio.
[2:20:44] Speaker 5: She's now challenging them the.
[2:20:46] Speaker 2: National banking policy, the national housing policy.
[2:20:52] Speaker 1: In every facet.
[2:20:53] Speaker 2: She can sit here and say Bank of America, JP, Morgan, Chase,
[2:20:58] Speaker 2: Well Spargo, what is we're spending on external law firms,
[2:21:02] Speaker 2: on external accounting firms? What are your contracting not just
[2:21:06] Speaker 2: board members? What's your black on media advertising? That's how
[2:21:09] Speaker 2: expansive it is. So we need to understand what political
[2:21:14] Speaker 2: power actually does for us.
[2:21:16] Speaker 42: Let me just jump in here because this is amazing
[2:21:19] Speaker 42: to bring it back to you with Ohio and I
[2:21:22] Speaker 42: just happened to have this, had no idea we were
[2:21:24] Speaker 42: gonna go this way. So we used to have funds
[2:21:28] Speaker 42: that came back to the community set aside dollars. They
[2:21:32] Speaker 42: didn't like that Democrats were in charge. We brought them back,
[2:21:36] Speaker 42: but we were smart. We called them community projects. So, Jule,
[2:21:40] Speaker 42: to answer your question and to back up what Roland
[2:21:44] Speaker 42: just said, I'm sitting as a chair.
[2:21:47] Speaker 5: Of a committee.
[2:21:48] Speaker 42: I'm chair of the Congressional Black Caucus now, the first
[2:21:51] Speaker 42: to be chair America.
[2:21:53] Speaker 5: So what happens? All politics are local.
[2:21:56] Speaker 42: So we have elgin Ward Yams and the James Ashburn right.
[2:22:03] Speaker 5: Three million dollars.
[2:22:05] Speaker 42: I got in a line item for them that never
[2:22:09] Speaker 42: received moneys before.
[2:22:10] Speaker 2: Hold up even meaning you inserted exit into the bill
[2:22:16] Speaker 2: for Ohio and Columbus Ohio. It gets better.
[2:22:22] Speaker 42: Black man runs Columbus Metropolitan Housing one million dollars in
[2:22:28] Speaker 42: community the family Health Center with doctor Mohammet and Jackie Woodard,
[2:22:34] Speaker 42: black people leading it.
[2:22:36] Speaker 5: Three quarters of a million dollars mental health.
[2:22:40] Speaker 42: To our local mental Health with Erica Clark one million dollars,
[2:22:46] Speaker 42: Ohio Health to Karen Morrison one million dollars for mammograms.
[2:22:52] Speaker 42: I got more than twenty million dollars for Columbus, Ohio.
[2:22:57] Speaker 42: They're attacking a black mayor in Whitehall, Michael Bivens, So
[2:23:02] Speaker 42: last week I got him two point.
[2:23:05] Speaker 1: Five million dollars.
[2:23:08] Speaker 42: That's what it means when you vote and you educate
[2:23:13] Speaker 42: your community.
[2:23:15] Speaker 5: And this is stuff. It's not It's like you said, it's.
[2:23:17] Speaker 42: Not about me bragging, but you put me there, and
[2:23:21] Speaker 42: you have to make sure when you put people there,
[2:23:23] Speaker 42: they can't say, oh, we can't raise right money or
[2:23:25] Speaker 42: we can't do Anybody tells you that, don't vote for him.
[2:23:28] Speaker 5: And you tell him I told you.
[2:23:30] Speaker 42: So, because we are at the most critical point in
[2:23:34] Speaker 42: our lives and it is so important that we come together.
[2:23:39] Speaker 5: I couldn't do a lot of the stuff without Roland. Mark.
[2:23:42] Speaker 5: I'll call Roland where should I be? What should I say?
[2:23:46] Speaker 5: You have to be able to connect. I'll call Jule
[2:23:48] Speaker 5: and I'll say, Okay, what are you working on. Now,
[2:23:51] Speaker 5: who are your sponsors? Can I help?
[2:23:54] Speaker 42: Can we figure this out? And that's what you can
[2:23:57] Speaker 42: do when you're educated about the numbers in the facts.
[2:24:01] Speaker 2: All right, So Joel, Joel, Joel, letting you go with
[2:24:05] Speaker 2: this question. Come on, I told you so again again.
[2:24:08] Speaker 2: We're connecting dots. We're connecting dots. If expand what she
[2:24:14] Speaker 2: just said now to when you have a US senator
[2:24:18] Speaker 2: for the whole state.
[2:24:19] Speaker 1: The reason HBCUs and.
[2:24:22] Speaker 2: I'm gonna pull up Central States number in a minute.
[2:24:24] Speaker 2: The reason HBCUs got seventeen billion under Biden Harris b
[2:24:32] Speaker 2: with the b the most in history is because of
[2:24:37] Speaker 2: a brother from Virginia.
[2:24:40] Speaker 1: I shared.
[2:24:41] Speaker 2: Listen who chaired the subcommittee. I need you all to
[2:24:44] Speaker 2: hear me. Because he's a Democrat. He became the chair
[2:24:51] Speaker 2: when the Republicans control it. She's the ranking member, meaning
[2:24:55] Speaker 2: you and a minority. So here's Bobby Scott sitting here
[2:24:59] Speaker 2: as the subcommittee chair. Bobby Scott, I'm seeing the money
[2:25:03] Speaker 2: coming and so folks like man, why they ain't saying nothing.
[2:25:08] Speaker 2: So Bobby, he's an alpha I call corents from Scott.
[2:25:11] Speaker 2: He's like Roland. I love to come on, but I
[2:25:14] Speaker 2: don't want nobody to know.
[2:25:16] Speaker 11: That's right.
[2:25:17] Speaker 1: He said, Listen, we may.
[2:25:20] Speaker 2: Not be in control of the House after November. I'm
[2:25:23] Speaker 2: trying to shovel as much money as I can.
[2:25:25] Speaker 1: You're supposed to be saying this. I'm telling this is
[2:25:27] Speaker 1: a com Yeah. No, no, no, he's no, he's come
[2:25:29] Speaker 1: on the show. We talked about it.
[2:25:31] Speaker 2: But he literally said, but again, he said, I've shoveled
[2:25:35] Speaker 2: so much money.
[2:25:36] Speaker 1: And again, folks don't know.
[2:25:38] Speaker 2: They see Clyde Burne, they see Congresom Maxine Waters.
[2:25:42] Speaker 1: I don't realize he's the.
[2:25:43] Speaker 2: Chair of subcommittee that's where a seventeen billion came from.
[2:25:47] Speaker 2: And so by being over the committees, and so when
[2:25:49] Speaker 2: we talk about state of Black America, power, political capital,
[2:25:53] Speaker 2: and then I know it's some simple Simon Negroes out
[2:25:56] Speaker 2: there who are gonna say, man, I'm silky, y'all talk
[2:25:59] Speaker 2: about all this government stuff of do for self.
[2:26:02] Speaker 1: Doe for self. Let me be clear.
[2:26:04] Speaker 2: When the twice in peach Full went to Saudi Arabia,
[2:26:09] Speaker 2: forty listen, forty two American CEOs went with him.
[2:26:17] Speaker 5: There you go.
[2:26:18] Speaker 2: So if you think that government no, no, no, no,
[2:26:23] Speaker 2: corporate America US, this government law firms use government.
[2:26:29] Speaker 1: They understand that government can drive.
[2:26:32] Speaker 2: The Saudia Investment Fund, it can drive the sovereign wealth
[2:26:36] Speaker 2: funds across the world. They understand that tach capital gains,
[2:26:41] Speaker 2: tax policy, all those things.
[2:26:43] Speaker 1: And so how silly do we look.
[2:26:46] Speaker 2: Saying, nah, man, we ain't doing that government thing.
[2:26:49] Speaker 1: We gonna do for self.
[2:26:50] Speaker 2: When the richest corporations and Elon Musk became a trillionaire
[2:26:56] Speaker 2: because of government, he got thirty eight billion dollars in
[2:27:02] Speaker 2: tax subsidies, and we sit in here saying, while y'all
[2:27:06] Speaker 2: sitting here talking about government, that's how he became a trillionaire.
[2:27:10] Speaker 1: That's how apple.
[2:27:11] Speaker 2: So how stupid do we look not maximizing the government
[2:27:16] Speaker 2: the way they are.
[2:27:18] Speaker 1: That's called playing chess and not playing checker.
[2:27:22] Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
[2:27:24] Speaker 25: So listen, we're running out of time, and what I
[2:27:28] Speaker 25: want to do is actually just create some space for
[2:27:31] Speaker 25: community questions and answers. And while we actually have brother
[2:27:36] Speaker 25: Teddy put himself in a position just to allow the
[2:27:39] Speaker 25: community to ask a couple questions, I'm gonna let Roland
[2:27:41] Speaker 25: and congress Woman Baby maybe say some final words, but
[2:27:45] Speaker 25: just on this last piece, because the one thing that
[2:27:47] Speaker 25: you just mentioned, is you know, how do we get
[2:27:49] Speaker 25: folks out of thinking a certain way.
[2:27:51] Speaker 1: It also just has to do.
[2:27:52] Speaker 13: With the sort of narratives, like the narrative.
[2:27:54] Speaker 25: Of oh, what does it mean to have blackfaces and
[2:27:58] Speaker 25: high places?
[2:28:00] Speaker 13: What do we want black faces and low places?
[2:28:02] Speaker 25: So what I want us to actually talk about is
[2:28:04] Speaker 25: just you know, wrapping up some comments, is what would
[2:28:06] Speaker 25: you say, for example, to those young because you gave
[2:28:09] Speaker 25: the age categories, those are fourteen to eighteen year old
[2:28:12] Speaker 25: black males. So for both of you, what message of hope,
[2:28:16] Speaker 25: what message of urgency, and what message of action would
[2:28:20] Speaker 25: you conclude on before we go to the community asses,
[2:28:24] Speaker 25: But specifically for some young folks who might be caught
[2:28:27] Speaker 25: up in some of these questions and things that we
[2:28:29] Speaker 25: just need to get out in terms of myths about
[2:28:32] Speaker 25: political participation.
[2:28:33] Speaker 42: Well, I think you have to understand that we now
[2:28:37] Speaker 42: have some of the youngest brothers in Congress that we've
[2:28:41] Speaker 42: had in the history. And it's important because while Bobby
[2:28:44] Speaker 42: Scott has been there for a while, he is a
[2:28:47] Speaker 42: black man, he is a scholar, and he will have
[2:28:51] Speaker 42: a gavel, which means he will put more money not
[2:28:54] Speaker 42: only into HBCUs, but into public schools, so you can
[2:28:59] Speaker 42: have pro whether you go to college or you're in
[2:29:02] Speaker 42: the workforce. You have to think about the war, and
[2:29:06] Speaker 42: you might not be thinking about that like when I
[2:29:08] Speaker 42: was your age and the generation for our young boys
[2:29:11] Speaker 42: who had to go to Vietnam, who had.
[2:29:13] Speaker 5: To go to World War two and fight.
[2:29:16] Speaker 42: This president has put one hundred and thirty two billion dollars.
[2:29:22] Speaker 5: Already in the war with Iran. And when you think.
[2:29:26] Speaker 42: About somebody in this room or in their family went
[2:29:30] Speaker 42: to bed hungry last night.
[2:29:32] Speaker 5: Someone went to the grocery store and put half the
[2:29:34] Speaker 5: things in their cart back. Someone pulled up to the.
[2:29:38] Speaker 42: Gasoline station and got ten dollars versus fifty dollars worth
[2:29:42] Speaker 42: of gas that's in this room. And so I'm saying
[2:29:46] Speaker 42: to you stay in school, get your education. I'm saying
[2:29:51] Speaker 42: to you, go to college if you can and want to,
[2:29:54] Speaker 42: and if not, get a skill.
[2:29:57] Speaker 5: I pay more for my plumber and my electrician.
[2:30:00] Speaker 1: That I pay for people who have degrees.
[2:30:04] Speaker 42: So it is not necessary for you to go to college,
[2:30:08] Speaker 42: but it is necessary for you to do something. Let
[2:30:13] Speaker 42: me just say this, A black man from Mississippi, Benny Thompson,
[2:30:17] Speaker 42: will have a gavel over Homeland Security to.
[2:30:21] Speaker 5: Protect you and to collect the good police officers who
[2:30:25] Speaker 5: protect us.
[2:30:26] Speaker 42: Then when you think about Maxine Waters, and I'm second
[2:30:30] Speaker 42: chair to her, we will rule the Federal Reserve where
[2:30:33] Speaker 42: they tried to get rid of Lisa Cook.
[2:30:36] Speaker 5: When you think about this little black girl to these black.
[2:30:40] Speaker 42: Boys, I'm sitting in the United States Congress been to
[2:30:43] Speaker 42: more than thirty two countries flown on Air Force one,
[2:30:47] Speaker 42: more than I can count.
[2:30:49] Speaker 5: I would have never thought that possible, But someone sat
[2:30:53] Speaker 5: on a stage and said to me, to act free
[2:30:58] Speaker 5: is to be free.
[2:31:00] Speaker 42: And so I want you to be free because freedom
[2:31:05] Speaker 42: is what you're here today learning about.
[2:31:08] Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say to you very simple. This could
[2:31:11] Speaker 2: mean you, or it could be your classmates. There's somebody
[2:31:15] Speaker 2: who is going to school every day and they've maybe
[2:31:19] Speaker 2: had one meal a day. And before you talk mentioned
[2:31:23] Speaker 2: the child cut. So I know other state governors have
[2:31:26] Speaker 2: been turning down federal money. This headline says. This is
[2:31:30] Speaker 2: April tenth, twenty twenty six. As Ohio Summer Meal program
[2:31:34] Speaker 2: see increase use, federal cuts make it harder to fight
[2:31:37] Speaker 2: child hunger, says Some sites provide up to ten days
[2:31:41] Speaker 2: of meals per child every two weeks, and bulk items
[2:31:44] Speaker 2: like bread and milk are available at some sites as well.
[2:31:47] Speaker 2: So to understand, again, we spend billions of dollars on
[2:31:53] Speaker 2: new sports stadiums, but then don't want to feed people.
[2:31:57] Speaker 2: So if you are at high schoo student, junior high,
[2:32:01] Speaker 2: elementary school, college, understand that that federal SNAP program is
[2:32:07] Speaker 2: providing food. You may have a classmate, and I heard
[2:32:11] Speaker 2: this from directly from teachers. You may have a classmate
[2:32:14] Speaker 2: who is completely unruly, who is out of control. We
[2:32:18] Speaker 2: never factor in here, or she could be hungry. So
[2:32:22] Speaker 2: when you have these politicians stand up in these grandiose
[2:32:27] Speaker 2: terms to talk about or we're gonna cut SNAP benefits,
[2:32:30] Speaker 2: they're literally saying we're gonna not provide food to people,
[2:32:36] Speaker 2: and then they throw out waste fraud in abuse, when
[2:32:39] Speaker 2: the greatest waste fraud in abuse is in the Pentagon,
[2:32:41] Speaker 2: not in the food program. So what I want you
[2:32:43] Speaker 2: to understand is that the fight that's happening today, I'm
[2:32:47] Speaker 2: fifty seven, I'll be fifty eight in November. The fight
[2:32:50] Speaker 2: today I'm not fighting for me. I'm literally fighting for
[2:32:54] Speaker 2: my nine nieces and for nephews. This is a battle
[2:32:58] Speaker 2: for the future of Black America. And I'm telling every
[2:33:02] Speaker 2: single one of you, and I'll be very specific, Republicans
[2:33:06] Speaker 2: today and there are a few good ones, not many,
[2:33:09] Speaker 2: but Republicans are there across the board do not care
[2:33:14] Speaker 2: about the future of Black America.
[2:33:17] Speaker 1: This is a war we are in. We have generals
[2:33:21] Speaker 1: who are providing battle plans. In this war, we need
[2:33:25] Speaker 1: foot soldiers.
[2:33:27] Speaker 2: And as I look at every single one of you,
[2:33:29] Speaker 2: there were kids your age who were there in Birmingham who.
[2:33:34] Speaker 1: Had those fire hoses and dogs turn on them.
[2:33:38] Speaker 2: There were kids who marched in some who march other places.
[2:33:41] Speaker 2: This is a war where we need everybody on the battlefield.
[2:33:47] Speaker 42: Let me just say one quick thing that's important to
[2:33:50] Speaker 42: Ohio based on what you said and how important it
[2:33:53] Speaker 42: is to vote, and how important it is as young
[2:33:57] Speaker 42: folks for you to vote. A black woman, a young
[2:34:00] Speaker 42: black woman younger than you from Ohio is the number
[2:34:06] Speaker 42: one person running to have the gabble in the chair
[2:34:10] Speaker 42: of Agriculture, Congresswoman Chantel Brown because of listening to people
[2:34:15] Speaker 42: like us.
[2:34:16] Speaker 5: She has the courage. Now she is not next in line.
[2:34:21] Speaker 42: But what I've been telling people, don't let anyone say
[2:34:24] Speaker 42: to you, as young black men, you have to wait.
[2:34:27] Speaker 5: The time is now.
[2:34:29] Speaker 1: Don't have to wait.
[2:34:30] Speaker 2: An agriculture is the second large federal budget.
[2:34:34] Speaker 42: Budget, and that is where SNAP falls under. It also
[2:34:39] Speaker 42: controls that they told me that I shouldn't be voting.
[2:34:42] Speaker 42: I eat cheerios all day long.
[2:34:45] Speaker 2: A bill came up an honeynut okay.
[2:34:51] Speaker 42: A bill came up that said poor kids should not
[2:34:55] Speaker 42: be able to have cereal.
[2:34:58] Speaker 5: And then we had a thing that we we're gonna
[2:35:00] Speaker 5: pay for the boxes of chickens that they can give
[2:35:02] Speaker 5: you out you get a two pack. We put that
[2:35:05] Speaker 5: on the SNAP.
[2:35:06] Speaker 42: Every person on the other side of the owl voted
[2:35:10] Speaker 42: against it. Said poor people don't need to be getting
[2:35:12] Speaker 42: snacks because they come from restaurants. I am telling you
[2:35:15] Speaker 42: we are dealing with those kinds of things.
[2:35:18] Speaker 5: And that's why it's important for people to get registered
[2:35:22] Speaker 5: to vote and.
[2:35:23] Speaker 42: To support this program last thing, because he's not gonna
[2:35:26] Speaker 42: ask for it. You know, everybody in here has fifty
[2:35:30] Speaker 42: cents or a dollar or something. When we have programs
[2:35:33] Speaker 42: like this, we are to have community sponsorships where we
[2:35:36] Speaker 42: say we're gonna come in.
[2:35:37] Speaker 5: Here, you get to come in here. We are to
[2:35:39] Speaker 5: anty up five dollars ten dollars and let it go.
[2:35:42] Speaker 42: It's not going to him, it's going to that corner
[2:35:45] Speaker 42: over there. It's going to that corner over there. We
[2:35:48] Speaker 42: have to start paying our way, and that could be
[2:35:52] Speaker 42: a quarter, it can be a dollar.
[2:35:54] Speaker 5: Because most of the people that raise money.
[2:35:57] Speaker 42: Through Act Blue for us, they give two, two and
[2:36:00] Speaker 42: three and five dollars.
[2:36:02] Speaker 5: So I'm just saying thank you for being here, thank you.
[2:36:05] Speaker 42: For supporting us, thank you for getting registered to vote.
[2:36:09] Speaker 5: And you know, I got to give up my tagline.
[2:36:11] Speaker 5: I'm Congresswoman Joyce.
[2:36:13] Speaker 1: Baden, and I prove this message.
[2:36:16] Speaker 13: Let's hear you.
[2:36:19] Speaker 11: Thank you.
[2:36:22] Speaker 25: So I appreciate your time, your patience, and reality is
[2:36:27] Speaker 25: we don't have as much time for community actions. But
[2:36:29] Speaker 25: let me just say two things. One, Roland has been
[2:36:32] Speaker 25: kind enough to come back here year after year in
[2:36:35] Speaker 25: part because we support this fearlessness that you know, there's
[2:36:39] Speaker 25: a common thread with these two people on this stage right,
[2:36:42] Speaker 25: and we need to support him. So the donations that
[2:36:45] Speaker 25: we're asking for are actually for the Black Star Network
[2:36:49] Speaker 25: and for Roland Martin, so not for male behavioral health.
[2:36:51] Speaker 25: So please scan the QR code, please donate to Blackstar
[2:36:56] Speaker 25: Network at this particular time, we go take questions, and
[2:37:00] Speaker 25: I'm going to ask you to make a quick comment
[2:37:02] Speaker 25: thirty seconds question or a comment, not you know, a dissertation.
[2:37:07] Speaker 25: And if you go along, I've asked Brother Domie to
[2:37:09] Speaker 25: hit you with some nice little interruption music which will be.
[2:37:15] Speaker 1: All right. So if you go a little bit longer,
[2:37:17] Speaker 1: you go get hit with that.
[2:37:18] Speaker 5: So we got brother Teddy.
[2:37:20] Speaker 1: Yes said all right. We got Mother Sherry Smith.
[2:37:23] Speaker 13: From Columbus, Ohio.
[2:37:24] Speaker 25: Y'all give it up for Mother Sherry Smith right here.
[2:37:27] Speaker 25: All right, she's been standing waiting on you, congress woman.
[2:37:30] Speaker 1: All right, mother shearry, Okay, thank you.
[2:37:33] Speaker 27: I'm a volunteer with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and OOC
[2:37:38] Speaker 27: is the organization that was attacked in Cleveland. Our organization
[2:37:44] Speaker 27: has been fighting for black folks to get registered to vote,
[2:37:49] Speaker 27: and I am proud to work with them as a
[2:37:52] Speaker 27: retired volunteer. The other thing is we have started a
[2:37:56] Speaker 27: group here part of OOC called parents You're Not for
[2:38:00] Speaker 27: Public Schools?
[2:38:01] Speaker 1: We call it pups. For sure.
[2:38:03] Speaker 27: I have been beaking, I can't even say it louder,
[2:38:07] Speaker 27: begging people.
[2:38:09] Speaker 1: To please get involved, please help.
[2:38:12] Speaker 27: We're trying to help make sure that public schools continue
[2:38:15] Speaker 27: to get funded or hire legislators. Mainly Republicans have snatched
[2:38:20] Speaker 27: fifty million dollars from Columbus City schools, which are mainly
[2:38:25] Speaker 27: black and brown children. I have to thank you, Representative baby.
[2:38:30] Speaker 27: You have been doing so much over the years, and
[2:38:33] Speaker 27: I'm so proud of you. But I am asking our
[2:38:36] Speaker 27: community to do more.
[2:38:38] Speaker 1: I can't thank you. Wait wait, wait, wait, mess your question. Yes, sir,
[2:38:43] Speaker 1: how many people are in your organization?
[2:38:46] Speaker 27: In terms of the total organization, as I said, I'm
[2:38:49] Speaker 27: a volunteer, I got it. But in terms of like
[2:38:52] Speaker 27: our Parents United Group here, I run the East I'm
[2:38:56] Speaker 27: doing the East side. Just I'm gonna say right now, it's.
[2:39:00] Speaker 1: About twelve people.
[2:39:01] Speaker 2: Okay, hold up, hold up, okay. So I want you
[2:39:04] Speaker 2: your next meeting. I want you to ask those twelve, yes, sir,
[2:39:08] Speaker 2: to each personally to bring two to the next meeting.
[2:39:13] Speaker 1: And we've been doing that right. But follow me here,
[2:39:16] Speaker 1: follow me here.
[2:39:17] Speaker 2: Yes, what we're doing is we're hoping folks show up. Yes,
[2:39:20] Speaker 2: if you do that or a period of two to
[2:39:22] Speaker 2: three months, you will go from twelve to forty eight
[2:39:25] Speaker 2: to sixty. This is about a collective action, and so
[2:39:30] Speaker 2: that's how we have. That's how we also have to
[2:39:32] Speaker 2: be moving and operating in terms of challenging folks to say, hey,
[2:39:36] Speaker 2: all I want you to do is to bring two people.
[2:39:38] Speaker 1: Now here's the deal.
[2:39:39] Speaker 2: If those twelve don't bring two people, that means they're
[2:39:43] Speaker 2: not serious about advancing the agenda. So challenge those twelve
[2:39:49] Speaker 2: to bring two to your next meeting, and then you're
[2:39:51] Speaker 2: going to see how you're going to multiply your folks
[2:39:53] Speaker 2: who all joining.
[2:39:54] Speaker 5: Let me just say this to you, thank you.
[2:39:57] Speaker 42: Last week in Juel Attendant, we brought Prentice Hanian from OOC,
[2:40:03] Speaker 42: Kyle Strickland, and we brought a group of people into my.
[2:40:07] Speaker 5: Office so we could educate people. Many people didn't even
[2:40:11] Speaker 5: know about OOC. So to Rowland's part, you can.
[2:40:16] Speaker 42: Ask us to help, but you've got to educate more
[2:40:19] Speaker 42: people about who you are so they'll know to help.
[2:40:22] Speaker 11: Thank you, thank you.
[2:40:24] Speaker 25: Questions, and we're going to ask it be more of
[2:40:26] Speaker 25: a question than a statement about a number of different things.
[2:40:30] Speaker 1: So David, David, hold of Mike, Hold of Mike.
[2:40:32] Speaker 18: You got it?
[2:40:33] Speaker 1: Hold of Mike? All right? We gotta give very much.
[2:40:35] Speaker 26: A woman Leticia Hall no excuse me, counsel woman leticiaanall.
[2:40:41] Speaker 1: Hi, get him the mic, get him the mic, put
[2:40:44] Speaker 1: your hands down.
[2:40:47] Speaker 13: There we go.
[2:40:47] Speaker 5: All right?
[2:40:48] Speaker 44: LETICIAANAW counsel woman in Woodmer, Ohio, near Cleveland, Sorrow Rowland.
[2:40:54] Speaker 44: I thank you all, I thank you for being here
[2:40:58] Speaker 44: in Kyoga County May fifth, at twenty two percent voter
[2:41:01] Speaker 44: turnout in Woodmere, I live one square mile fifty five
[2:41:05] Speaker 44: percent African American, where there is high voter registration but
[2:41:09] Speaker 44: low voter propensity. What are three two or three strategies
[2:41:15] Speaker 44: to improve voting with those black voters who have low
[2:41:20] Speaker 44: voter propensity and other major areas where money is not
[2:41:24] Speaker 44: an issue?
[2:41:24] Speaker 1: First, have you pulled the data?
[2:41:27] Speaker 25: Yes?
[2:41:27] Speaker 1: Okay?
[2:41:28] Speaker 2: Second of all, what are the institutions in those individual precincts?
[2:41:32] Speaker 42: And third, do you have a coordinated campaign that's going
[2:41:36] Speaker 42: toward sites and going old school knocking on doors with registration?
[2:41:42] Speaker 2: So if you have church partners, ask that church to say,
[2:41:45] Speaker 2: I want you to draw a point twenty five mile
[2:41:48] Speaker 2: radius around your church, and I want those folks to
[2:41:52] Speaker 2: knock on those specific doors and so and then you
[2:41:55] Speaker 2: have to be tracking that. So you're tracking how many
[2:41:58] Speaker 2: doors knocked, how many times they've been touched. Bishop Barbara said,
[2:42:03] Speaker 2: Republicans touch their voters twelve times, Democrats touch their voters
[2:42:11] Speaker 2: four times. That right, there is the difference in terms
[2:42:15] Speaker 2: of because you got to be able to touch them.
[2:42:17] Speaker 1: So take your group, take your group, whatever your.
[2:42:21] Speaker 2: Organizing group is, and now plot your map to say
[2:42:25] Speaker 2: we're going to hit these are them of doors, these streets,
[2:42:28] Speaker 2: these blocks, these precincts in order to be able to
[2:42:32] Speaker 2: drive that number up.
[2:42:33] Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you.
[2:42:34] Speaker 25: Just a couple more questions. I apologize. We want to
[2:42:36] Speaker 25: be respectful of people's time.
[2:42:38] Speaker 11: So next, all right, we got this young man right here,
[2:42:41] Speaker 11: mister Michael Stevens Fraser.
[2:42:43] Speaker 13: Mister Michael Stephens Fraser.
[2:42:44] Speaker 32: All right, I'm here with the Boom Too Summer Institute,
[2:42:48] Speaker 32: and we are currently looking at some one hundred acres
[2:42:52] Speaker 32: of land because we wanted to be the first to
[2:42:55] Speaker 32: establish a all men's boarding.
[2:42:58] Speaker 1: School in the state of Ohio. And my question to
[2:43:00] Speaker 1: you is what are some ways where we could.
[2:43:03] Speaker 32: Get the community to kind of back up and truly
[2:43:05] Speaker 32: support this so we can allow this to come into fruition.
[2:43:08] Speaker 2: You say, looking at one hundred acres of land, many
[2:43:10] Speaker 2: you're looking to acquire?
[2:43:11] Speaker 1: Yes, have you established what the price is I believe
[2:43:14] Speaker 1: that we're.
[2:43:15] Speaker 32: In the works of talking about pricing and just getting
[2:43:17] Speaker 32: everything established overall.
[2:43:18] Speaker 1: Gotcha.
[2:43:19] Speaker 2: So the next thing is you should be looking at
[2:43:21] Speaker 2: doing a community investment fund to actually acquire that.
[2:43:25] Speaker 1: You've got massive You've.
[2:43:26] Speaker 2: Got massive platforms out there, whether it's GoFundMe or other
[2:43:30] Speaker 2: platforms where you can actually raise capital to actually do that.
[2:43:34] Speaker 2: We complain about gentrification, but we got to realize that
[2:43:38] Speaker 2: land is available. We simply aren't pulling our resources together.
[2:43:42] Speaker 2: And so if you first establish what the cost of
[2:43:44] Speaker 2: the acquisition is going to be and then begin to
[2:43:47] Speaker 2: put that together driving that website, I wouldn't be surprised
[2:43:51] Speaker 2: at all that you would get support from around the country.
[2:43:53] Speaker 2: But you have to put that together and then put
[2:43:55] Speaker 2: that on that site and now give people an opportunity
[2:43:59] Speaker 2: to be able to invest in your vision.
[2:44:01] Speaker 1: That's to me what a lot of people are doing
[2:44:03] Speaker 1: right now.
[2:44:04] Speaker 13: Understood.
[2:44:04] Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
[2:44:06] Speaker 25: Last question, All right, unfortunately, last question, mister Tequille Lowry.
[2:44:12] Speaker 1: First, I just want to thank you Joel Woods.
[2:44:15] Speaker 13: I remember that name. I remember you too.
[2:44:17] Speaker 45: Thank you for your counsel and your information. And also
[2:44:22] Speaker 45: thank you Congresswoman Baby for your representation. Thank you Roland
[2:44:26] Speaker 45: Martin for your information that you brought to the black community.
[2:44:30] Speaker 45: I want to know what can we do with regards
[2:44:34] Speaker 45: to what those is done to decimate the Black women
[2:44:37] Speaker 45: that have been in the workforce working for.
[2:44:40] Speaker 13: The federal government.
[2:44:41] Speaker 45: How do we reverse some of this damage that has
[2:44:43] Speaker 45: been done to our community in the short two years
[2:44:46] Speaker 45: that this man's been in office. Can this be undone
[2:44:49] Speaker 45: or are we looking at a fifty year generational fight.
[2:44:53] Speaker 42: It can definitely be undone. And it's going to go
[2:44:55] Speaker 42: back to the first thing. You can only get people
[2:44:59] Speaker 42: out of office if you register and you vote. And
[2:45:02] Speaker 42: history is at a time of repeating itself. There's no
[2:45:06] Speaker 42: way that we should not take back the House. Will
[2:45:08] Speaker 42: have the first black man to be Speaker of the House,
[2:45:12] Speaker 42: the third most powerful person.
[2:45:14] Speaker 5: In this country. How King Jeffries.
[2:45:16] Speaker 42: If we do what Roland and others have said and
[2:45:19] Speaker 42: we take back the Senate, Ohio will make that difference.
[2:45:23] Speaker 5: And the way it works is two years from.
[2:45:26] Speaker 42: Then we will have a presidential election and if we then,
[2:45:31] Speaker 42: as history tells us, it should be a Democrat, we
[2:45:35] Speaker 42: will then have a different administration who will restore everything
[2:45:40] Speaker 42: that's done.
[2:45:41] Speaker 5: Our first executive orders will undo.
[2:45:44] Speaker 42: And put back in what Biden put in after the
[2:45:49] Speaker 42: first presidency. He took away diversity and inclusion. He took
[2:45:53] Speaker 42: away everything that we had for black people. Corporate America
[2:45:58] Speaker 42: bought into it because they were a front, and so
[2:46:01] Speaker 42: we can definitely undo it. It has happened before and
[2:46:06] Speaker 42: it will happen again.
[2:46:07] Speaker 2: Vote So I need you, I need you to go
[2:46:11] Speaker 2: micro to macro. What happens is we keep thinking macro
[2:46:17] Speaker 2: as opposed to going micro. What I mean by that
[2:46:20] Speaker 2: is people coming to me all the time and they say, man,
[2:46:23] Speaker 2: who's going to run in twenty twenty eight? I said,
[2:46:24] Speaker 2: I'm not thinking about twenty twenty eight. I said, I'm
[2:46:28] Speaker 2: not thinking about it. Two days after the election, Black
[2:46:32] Speaker 2: people were mortified, were angry and upset. The Vice president
[2:46:36] Speaker 2: Kamala Harris loss. I totally understood, but I was already
[2:46:40] Speaker 2: over it. And people were like, dude, how are you
[2:46:42] Speaker 2: over I said, because the election is over. My focus
[2:46:45] Speaker 2: was already on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Then it
[2:46:50] Speaker 2: was on the Louisiana constitutional ballot initiative. Then it was
[2:46:53] Speaker 2: on the Louisiana mayorly election. So I'm always looking at
[2:46:57] Speaker 2: what's next, So you've already had your primaries in Ohio, Ohio,
[2:47:02] Speaker 2: So the question now becomes Ramaswami acting.
[2:47:07] Speaker 1: Okay, no wait wait hold up, but here's the deal.
[2:47:10] Speaker 2: If you say acting, then the next thing is, okay acting,
[2:47:15] Speaker 2: what is your plan of action for black people?
[2:47:18] Speaker 42: Two?
[2:47:19] Speaker 2: What is your what is your strategy? What is going
[2:47:22] Speaker 2: to your investment going to be? Because who was the
[2:47:26] Speaker 2: dude who was a congressman of Ohio who totally ignored
[2:47:28] Speaker 2: black folks.
[2:47:29] Speaker 1: When he ran for the Senate? Was his name? Yeah?
[2:47:32] Speaker 1: Tim Ryan.
[2:47:33] Speaker 2: That's why I listen and I personally text him and said,
[2:47:37] Speaker 2: are you going to go to the Cincinnati Music Festival
[2:47:40] Speaker 2: to recruit? He never responded, That's why I got his
[2:47:42] Speaker 2: ass whooped. So no, no, no, but but but again, though,
[2:47:46] Speaker 2: we have to be extremely strategic, Sharett Brown. I was
[2:47:51] Speaker 2: talking this campaign last time. They never actually followed through
[2:47:54] Speaker 2: about bringing my show here and doing some things that
[2:47:57] Speaker 2: will weerforce in central state. And then now on the
[2:47:59] Speaker 2: elect he's running around and did because you did d
[2:48:02] Speaker 2: out of black vote, same thing, So we have to
[2:48:05] Speaker 2: be asking those questions.
[2:48:06] Speaker 1: So what are the next races?
[2:48:07] Speaker 2: And then once November, so you might say, hey, you
[2:48:10] Speaker 2: know what, I'm good in Ohio, but you know you
[2:48:12] Speaker 2: can also volunteer the phone bank to call another state.
[2:48:16] Speaker 2: And so if you're talking about the United States Senate,
[2:48:18] Speaker 2: you're looking at in terms of what the targets are.
[2:48:21] Speaker 2: Ohio is one of those targets, and so you got
[2:48:26] Speaker 2: to be maximizing. So the goal is Democrats goals to
[2:48:29] Speaker 2: hold Georgia, when North Carolina with Roy Cooper win Ohio,
[2:48:35] Speaker 2: even though you got a crazy Canada in Maine, but
[2:48:39] Speaker 2: he's voting probably different from Susan Collins. You got potential
[2:48:42] Speaker 2: in Iowa and Alaska, and then you go in Texas
[2:48:45] Speaker 2: or some other states. Well, Ohio is one of the
[2:48:48] Speaker 2: top four, and you got Michigan to hold. So Ohio
[2:48:51] Speaker 2: is one of the top states. To take Ohio and Ohio,
[2:48:54] Speaker 2: North Carolina and Maine. Now you look at the House,
[2:48:58] Speaker 2: and so the goal is to take either the House and.
[2:49:00] Speaker 1: Or the Senate. You can't take the White House.
[2:49:03] Speaker 2: The election is not until twenty twenty eight, so you
[2:49:05] Speaker 2: focus on what you can take. And so the right
[2:49:09] Speaker 2: now the focus is take the Senate, take the House,
[2:49:12] Speaker 2: take the governor's mansion. Because if you take the governor's mansion,
[2:49:16] Speaker 2: then you have the ability to stop a lot of
[2:49:18] Speaker 2: the things that the legislature.
[2:49:20] Speaker 1: Legislature is doing.
[2:49:22] Speaker 2: Now you start looking at your state Senate and your
[2:49:24] Speaker 2: state House races. Again, we're expending wasted energy talking about
[2:49:30] Speaker 2: who's going to run.
[2:49:31] Speaker 26: In twenty eight.
[2:49:32] Speaker 2: And if you're not mobilizing and organizing for twenty six,
[2:49:36] Speaker 2: then you're ignoring what's gonna be happening next. So focus
[2:49:40] Speaker 2: on what's right in front of you.
[2:49:43] Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you.
[2:49:44] Speaker 25: So at this particular point we were about to wind down.
[2:49:47] Speaker 13: I appreciate it.
[2:49:48] Speaker 25: This is where we would have had a sort of
[2:49:50] Speaker 25: call to action. And again one of the reasons why
[2:49:53] Speaker 25: brother Rowland has been kind enough to keep coming back
[2:49:55] Speaker 25: to Columbus because I keep convincing him or at least
[2:49:58] Speaker 25: making an argument that Columbus, this is going to be different.
[2:50:00] Speaker 25: So literally, for the last five to six months, we
[2:50:03] Speaker 25: have been working on this civic education program that he's
[2:50:06] Speaker 25: been challenging in US, and we wanted to launch it tonight.
[2:50:09] Speaker 25: So you'll get that invitation shortly because we had some
[2:50:12] Speaker 25: technical difficulties.
[2:50:13] Speaker 1: So at this time I'm actually.
[2:50:14] Speaker 25: Let these beautiful people sort of close us out before
[2:50:18] Speaker 25: I let them close out and have the final word.
[2:50:19] Speaker 25: I'll also mention that Rowland will be happy to sign
[2:50:23] Speaker 25: a couple books before he leaves us. I'm going to
[2:50:26] Speaker 25: actually ask you all again to donate before you leave.
[2:50:29] Speaker 25: And I'm also going to remind everybody that this is
[2:50:31] Speaker 25: an entire week right Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday marriage and
[2:50:36] Speaker 25: family therapy in the Black community, Friday, a call to Men,
[2:50:40] Speaker 25: Saturday Black Excuse me, Black Father Daughter Dance, and Sunday
[2:50:43] Speaker 25: Black Love and Date Night. Look at all the sort
[2:50:45] Speaker 25: of participating restaurants and stuff that are doing that. So
[2:50:49] Speaker 25: at this particular time, I just want to give Congressman
[2:50:52] Speaker 25: Beaty and Roland Martin opportunities.
[2:50:53] Speaker 1: Sort of some final thoughts to close us out. As
[2:50:58] Speaker 1: we walk out, you know you're going first ofp it.
[2:51:01] Speaker 1: I don't know why you keep down by you. My guess,
[2:51:03] Speaker 1: go ahead, go first. Let me just say very rare alpha.
[2:51:08] Speaker 2: Let anybody go after us, but go right ahead, go ahead.
[2:51:12] Speaker 42: Well, you know, Delta, sigma, theta, sororities in the house.
[2:51:16] Speaker 1: So yeah, wearing your pink.
[2:51:19] Speaker 5: Deltas can wear any color as you and blue there're
[2:51:22] Speaker 5: go here.
[2:51:22] Speaker 2: They're going in blue, and alphas can wear all of
[2:51:25] Speaker 2: the colors.
[2:51:26] Speaker 1: Go.
[2:51:27] Speaker 42: Let me just say to the audience the two most
[2:51:29] Speaker 42: important words I can say, and that's thank you. You've
[2:51:33] Speaker 42: been a great audience, You've been a great supporter. So
[2:51:37] Speaker 42: we're gonna ask you to donate. And everything must continue
[2:51:41] Speaker 42: to go back to getting people registered and voting, because
[2:51:45] Speaker 42: that is the single most important thing we can do.
[2:51:49] Speaker 42: History tells us that if you go back to sixty four,
[2:51:53] Speaker 42: sixty five, sixty eight, if we go to nineteen seventy
[2:51:57] Speaker 42: two when we were in the Midwest and Gary, Indiana,
[2:52:00] Speaker 42: that was the largest at that time gathering of black
[2:52:04] Speaker 42: folks to make sure that we got black folks elected,
[2:52:08] Speaker 42: people like Senator Herschel Craig that's sitting here, that's.
[2:52:11] Speaker 5: Been a fighter in this community.
[2:52:14] Speaker 42: It is so important for us to do that because
[2:52:18] Speaker 42: at that time you had great leaders who came together,
[2:52:21] Speaker 42: and it's a.
[2:52:22] Speaker 5: History you should read about, because you had prominent leaders.
[2:52:26] Speaker 42: From Jesse Jackson and Shirley Chisholm, the first female, by
[2:52:30] Speaker 42: the way, to run for president as a serious candidate,
[2:52:36] Speaker 42: the only female as founder of the powerful Congressional Black Caucus,
[2:52:41] Speaker 42: which was founded the year before that, and all of
[2:52:45] Speaker 42: that was set by the stage because we had had
[2:52:48] Speaker 42: prominent leaders like Martin Luther King in nineteen sixty eight,
[2:52:53] Speaker 42: died Malcolm before him in nineteen sixty five. And I
[2:52:57] Speaker 42: tell you this because young people, we need to know
[2:53:00] Speaker 42: our history. So when you feel that you're hopeless, when
[2:53:04] Speaker 42: you read our history and you see what black people did,
[2:53:09] Speaker 42: not for themselves, but for us so we could have
[2:53:13] Speaker 42: a better life. Right now, all of that with this
[2:53:16] Speaker 42: administration is trying to take us backwards.
[2:53:20] Speaker 5: They're making woke a bad word. They're saying, get rid
[2:53:23] Speaker 5: of everything that was woke. Well, the opposite of woke
[2:53:26] Speaker 5: is asleep. So thank god that we are woke.
[2:53:30] Speaker 1: Thank God that we are.
[2:53:32] Speaker 42: Black, and thank god that diversity, equity and inclusion is
[2:53:36] Speaker 42: not about a handout. And thank god that we have
[2:53:40] Speaker 42: talked about boys and girls, men and women coming together,
[2:53:45] Speaker 42: because my liberation is not a competition.
[2:53:49] Speaker 5: We have to be in this together. And that's the
[2:53:52] Speaker 5: only thing that I asked you to remember.
[2:53:55] Speaker 42: To stand together, to stand united, and to stand.
[2:53:59] Speaker 5: On the show of so many people who died for
[2:54:02] Speaker 5: me and you to be here, and a change is
[2:54:06] Speaker 5: gonna come.
[2:54:07] Speaker 42: A change is gonna come because we are stronger together.
[2:54:12] Speaker 5: And I want you to remember that. So my message
[2:54:15] Speaker 5: is one of hope.
[2:54:20] Speaker 9: Powerful.
[2:54:22] Speaker 2: April third, nineteen sixty eight, at Mason Temple and Memphis,
[2:54:26] Speaker 2: Doctor King gave his last sermon, and in that sermon,
[2:54:30] Speaker 2: he said that black people collect black people individually are
[2:54:36] Speaker 2: some of the poorest in America. He said, yet collectively
[2:54:40] Speaker 2: we represent one of the largest economies in the world.
[2:54:45] Speaker 2: I want you to understand that that dichotomy poorest individually
[2:54:49] Speaker 2: one of the largest economies in the world. The United
[2:54:53] Speaker 2: States economy is a thirty trillion dollar economy, China is
[2:54:57] Speaker 2: nineteen trillion dollars. If you look at the wealth of
[2:55:01] Speaker 2: African Americans, our wealth exceeds most African nations in terms
[2:55:07] Speaker 2: of the gross domestic product.
[2:55:09] Speaker 1: But the question is how do we then move as
[2:55:13] Speaker 1: a collective.
[2:55:15] Speaker 2: I'm working on a book that will be dropped in February,
[2:55:17] Speaker 2: and I'm talking about this or Doctor King, in this book,
[2:55:20] Speaker 2: where do we go from here?
[2:55:21] Speaker 1: A chaos and community? He said.
[2:55:23] Speaker 2: There were four institutions that were primed to liberate Black America.
[2:55:26] Speaker 1: Negro church, Negro press.
[2:55:28] Speaker 2: Negro fraternities and sororities, and Negro professional and business organizations.
[2:55:32] Speaker 1: He said.
[2:55:33] Speaker 2: He said, yet none of them have collectively given their
[2:55:35] Speaker 2: all to liberate Black America. Where we are today is
[2:55:40] Speaker 2: that too many of us are fixated on being entertained.
[2:55:49] Speaker 2: When someone comes to you and they said, man preach
[2:55:52] Speaker 2: a man, he preached a sermon.
[2:55:55] Speaker 1: I want you to ask them what was the scripture?
[2:56:01] Speaker 2: If they only tell you about the hoop part of
[2:56:06] Speaker 2: the speech, that's the feel good part. But the basis
[2:56:11] Speaker 2: of the sermon is the scripture. If you can't name
[2:56:16] Speaker 2: the scripture and the points, then you didn't really pay
[2:56:20] Speaker 2: attention to the sermon.
[2:56:21] Speaker 1: You were entertained by the hoop.
[2:56:25] Speaker 2: So where we are now is that when we have
[2:56:28] Speaker 2: these gatherings, we come, we gather, we take selfies, we
[2:56:33] Speaker 2: post videos, and we say, man, it was a great conversation.
[2:56:38] Speaker 2: But how many of us then say when what am
[2:56:43] Speaker 2: I going to do tomorrow to do the work? You
[2:56:46] Speaker 2: heard me earlier say that we have generals, but we
[2:56:51] Speaker 2: don't have enough truths. I always think about Nhemiah. Niemiah
[2:56:57] Speaker 2: wept when he learned that the wall had crumbed. And
[2:57:01] Speaker 2: then when the king said, go check on your people,
[2:57:03] Speaker 2: Theomiyas surveyed the wall. Niomiyah surveys the wall, he comes
[2:57:08] Speaker 2: up with a plan of action.
[2:57:10] Speaker 1: To rebuild the wall.
[2:57:12] Speaker 2: But the critical part is that he goes to the people,
[2:57:15] Speaker 2: and then the people said, let us rebuild. What's happening
[2:57:21] Speaker 2: is that today we are asking the Neamiyahs to come
[2:57:26] Speaker 2: up with the plan and for them to rebuild. We
[2:57:29] Speaker 2: are not accepting the us part. And so then when
[2:57:33] Speaker 2: you keep reading that, you see that there were haters.
[2:57:36] Speaker 2: Hater said, y'all can't build that wall. That's hater said,
[2:57:40] Speaker 2: y'all can't register low propensity voters. Y'all can't raise money
[2:57:45] Speaker 2: together to pay for this. Y'all not gonna be able
[2:57:48] Speaker 2: to do nothing to raise the money for the hundred acres.
[2:57:51] Speaker 2: Namiyah said, ignore the haters. Keep building. Then as you
[2:57:56] Speaker 2: begin to make progress, and all of a sudden, the
[2:57:58] Speaker 2: hater said, oh no, we got to stop you from proceeding.
[2:58:02] Speaker 2: Let's be clear, they are going to be some black
[2:58:06] Speaker 2: haters trying to stop what we're talking about. Those black
[2:58:11] Speaker 2: haters will be Democrat or Republican. Those black haters will
[2:58:15] Speaker 2: be male or female, it does not matter. And so
[2:58:18] Speaker 2: Niama said, keep one hand on your weapon, but keep building.
[2:58:21] Speaker 1: With the other hand.
[2:58:23] Speaker 2: The beauty of that and other people talk about the Amiah.
[2:58:26] Speaker 2: They get excited because they've all got rebuilt. Now I
[2:58:29] Speaker 2: get excited because the book lists the names of the
[2:58:33] Speaker 2: people that built the wall. What I'm saying to you
[2:58:38] Speaker 2: is this here. If we come back twenty thirty years
[2:58:41] Speaker 2: from now, and the conversation in Columbus and the conversation
[2:58:46] Speaker 2: is Ohio is about what Fanny lou Hamer did, what
[2:58:51] Speaker 2: Doctor King did, what Carl Stokes did, what Lewis Stokes did,
[2:58:56] Speaker 2: what Marcia Fudge did, what Joyce Batty did, And your
[2:59:01] Speaker 2: names are not mentioned.
[2:59:02] Speaker 1: That means that you didn't do any work.
[2:59:06] Speaker 2: The challenge for this generation is whether or not your
[2:59:11] Speaker 2: names today will be called tomorrow or will people tomorrow
[2:59:16] Speaker 2: completely skip over this generation? Too many of us are
[2:59:22] Speaker 2: not committed to the work. We want the attention, we
[2:59:27] Speaker 2: want the acclaim, we want all of that, but none
[2:59:31] Speaker 2: of that stuff happens without.
[2:59:34] Speaker 1: The work, your homework.
[2:59:36] Speaker 2: Your challenge now is what am I individually going to
[2:59:42] Speaker 2: do leaving here when I go back to my sorority,
[2:59:45] Speaker 2: my fraternity, my men's group, or whatever group I'm in,
[2:59:49] Speaker 2: How am I going to grab them and say you
[2:59:51] Speaker 2: in this, okay, what you're gonna do and what you're
[2:59:54] Speaker 2: gonna do what are you gonna do.
[2:59:56] Speaker 1: Because that's the only way this thing's happen. One person
[3:00:00] Speaker 1: can't do it all.
[3:00:01] Speaker 2: Every person in this room has the ability to completely
[3:00:07] Speaker 2: change the future direction of this city, in this state,
[3:00:12] Speaker 2: in this country. But if you come back to this
[3:00:17] Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven and you do a personal annual report,
[3:00:22] Speaker 2: and you look back and say, man, I didn't do
[3:00:25] Speaker 2: anything in the last three hundred and sixty four days,
[3:00:29] Speaker 2: you are the damn problem.
[3:00:33] Speaker 25: All right, you're excited about doing your personal and your
[3:00:37] Speaker 25: report for twenty twenty seven.
[3:00:40] Speaker 1: All right, we want to thank you all for coming out.
[3:00:43] Speaker 1: As I mentioned, there'll.
[3:00:44] Speaker 25: Be just a limited number of books available for signing
[3:00:47] Speaker 25: and purchase for those folks interested in getting that. We're
[3:00:51] Speaker 25: asking you to go out that door. Last round of
[3:00:54] Speaker 25: applause for Roland Martin, Congressroom and Joyce Baty.
[3:00:57] Speaker 1: Thank you all for coming out.
[3:00:58] Speaker 25: We'll see you at all the other events throughout Black Girl,
[3:01:02] Speaker 25: Dad Week, Dommy go ahead and hit him up and
[3:01:05] Speaker 25: hold on one second. Congress Woman joins, baby, we want
[3:01:08] Speaker 25: to congress Woman.
[3:01:09] Speaker 1: Congresswoman.
[3:01:10] Speaker 13: Congress Woman, she can't hear me.
[3:01:11] Speaker 25: All right, We just want to give you this ward
[3:01:16] Speaker 25: brother again. This was the Bell Hook's Award, showing this
[3:01:20] Speaker 25: love for both black men and black women and.
[3:01:23] Speaker 13: Let me put this down and get a hook.
[3:01:51] Speaker 1: We thank you all for coming, We thank you all
[3:01:55] Speaker 1: for comment. Like you said, you can go right over
[3:01:57] Speaker 1: there and get you mister hard and Martin.
[3:02:01] Speaker 8: Make sure you.
[3:02:02] Speaker 13: Stay the people in your community
[3:02:08] Speaker 34: H

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