Trump Renames Confederate Bases, $45M Dictator Parade, Travel Ban Protests & AI for Black Community

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, folks all as well. Today is June eleven, twenty
twenty five, coming up on Rolling Unfultured Streaming live on
the Black Star Network. Well, guess what the twice impeach
crimely convicted felon in chief Donald Trump. He continues to
do his nonsense. So he's now saying he's going to

(00:39):
restore the Confederate names to military bases across the country.
That's what white supremacist Stewart or so folks, Washington, DC
is preparing for Donald Trump's birthday celebration. Oh, it's supposed
to be about ter effifty, the anniversary the US Army.
It's probably gonna cost anywhere for twenty five to forty
five million dollars in das See. But is he going

(01:01):
to reimburse DC. He didn't do it last time. You
know it's not going to happen. Also, College's Woman, Sheila
Sheervilis McCormick joins us to discuss the growing condemnations of
Trump's sweepee new travel band and the impact on immigrants
in this Country's plus Democratic leaders Hacking Jeffers and Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
They pleave House Republicans to do the right thing and
vote no on the GOP tax scam.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Known as the Big Beautiful Bill. Plus in New Jersey,
a federal grand jury Indet's Democratic Congresswoman Lamonica maciv and
federal chartists sending from a clash outside of a federal
detention center last month in Newark, and tonight's tech talk
will discuss AI workshops, how they get benefit of the
black community, and how the Trump cuts have impacted this program.

(01:50):
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
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Speaker 4 (02:03):
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Speaker 3 (02:07):
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it's rollden Monte. Yeah, he's bookcase Chrest, she's real.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Good question.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
No, he's rolled in Monte.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
A tragedy of having an idiot in sixteen hundred Pennsylvania
Avenue means that we have crazy, ridiculous, insane public policy.
What we're seeing take place in this country with the
attack on immigrants and migrants shows you how shameful and
despicable Donald Trump and the Republican Party is.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
The problem is that what you're seeing in Los Angeles
is caused by them, was caused by crazy, deranged Overzelia's
ICE agents. And we don't even know if they have
an ICE agents because they're hiding their faces and refusing
to show ID. They are literally grabbing people off the street,
not even providing warrants, sharing no information with their families.

(03:33):
There are people who have been taken, who have been
who have been put behind bars, and they family members
have no idea what has happened to them. That should
not be happening in this country. But I need people
to understand what we are seeing take place right now
in Los Angeles. They want to do all across the country.

(03:57):
Don't be mistaken by what you're seeing. They are coming
to your city. They are going to be in Florida,
They're going to be in Texas, and you're going to
see these things happen over and over and over again.
So just be prepared for this now. He also, of course,
has moved forward with his travel band. Remember the first

(04:19):
time it was a Muslim travel ban. Now he's targeting
twelve predominantly African and Middle Eastern nations from entering the
United States. That's what we're seeing from this full Last night,
California Governor Gavin Newsom gave a televised address. He spoke
for nearly ten minutes talking about the shameful actions of

(04:41):
Donald Trump. This is what the governor of the fourth
laard's economy in the world had to say.

Speaker 7 (04:47):
This past weekend, federal agents conducted large scale workplace raids
in and around Los Angeles. Those raids continue as I speak.
California is no stranger to immigration enforcement, but instead ofocusing
on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records and people with
final deportation orders, the strategy both parties have long supported

(05:09):
this administration is pushing mass deportations indiscriminately, targeting hard working
immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk. Donald Trump,
without consulting California law enforcement leaders, commandeered two thousand of
our state's National Guard members to deploy on our streets

(05:29):
illegally and for no reason. This brazen abuse of power
by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
He again chose escalation.

Speaker 7 (05:40):
He chose more force. He chose theatrics over public safety.
He federalized another two thousand Guard members. He deployed more
than seven hundred active US Marines. Today, we sought an
emergency court order to stop the use of the American
military to engage in law enforcement activities across Los Angeles.

(06:01):
This isn't just about protests here in Los Angeles. When
Donald Trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the National Guard,
he made that order apply to every state in this nation.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
This is about all of us. This is about you.

Speaker 7 (06:17):
California maybe first, but it clearly will not end here.
Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under
assault before our.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Eyes, folks. Congress Woman and Sheila Chirplus of McCormick, Democrat
from Florida, joins us right now. She's a member of
the House Committee on Homeland Security. Glad to have you here.
What do you make of just this crazy is coming
from this man.

Speaker 8 (06:45):
I think it's a lot of propaganda and a lot
of distractions that's very harmful to all Americans. We have
to understand that when they implement these policies, they don't
actually give you due process so you can actually prove
to them what is your status. They just go after
who whoever they're profiling today, they're profiling Hispanic people. They're
also looking at black people who they believe are Haitian.

(07:07):
But then the truth is they don't give you an
opportunity to prove that you're actually really here. So I
think everybody should be very alert and very aware that
the implementation and the propaganda behind this, and be clear
when I say the propaganda behind this. There's no need
to have such a gross showing a force. There is
no need to have the national Guard, there is no

(07:27):
need to be tackling people shooting rubber bullets. None of
this is called for. This is just to intimidate us
from standing up and protesting about what is right, which
is everybody has an opportunity, it should have due process,
and we shouldn't just be targeting people and snatching them
off the streets.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, the reality is there is a need and for Trump,
for Steven Miller, for Tom Holman, it is the need
to treat this life like a television show. That is
what they are doing. What their whole goal is. They
want to show how tough they are, how brads they are.

(08:08):
The reality is that President Obama, President Biden, they deported
millions of people from this country, but they want to
make a show of this, and so having a show
of force is what they are all about.

Speaker 8 (08:25):
Absolutely, I think it's definitely to intimidate, and we have
to understand why they want to intimidate us. They want
to intimidate us so we can be pushed into submission
and to rubber stamp whatever their agenda is. But let's
also be clear that there are people who are in
this party who do want a culture war, and they
are actually pushing us closer and closer to that where

(08:46):
they actually said, hey, the enemy is going to be
black and brown people. The enemy are Haitian people. And
the truth is, if you look at this total band
that they're instituting, Haiti has no reason to have a
total band. There's never been any kind of data that
supports that Haiti has ever been violent towards the United
States or any other country, or even supports that there's

(09:07):
ever been any kind of national security threats. So this
is just pretextual and when you want to really look
into it and see the racism that's behind it. Cuba
has been designated as a country that's a terrorist country,
but they have a partial band, whereas Haiti has a
full blown ban and it's never had any data to
support such a thing. The second thing they talk about

(09:28):
is overstay the truth is the only oversay you have
when it has with Haitian people or when the TPS
has been extended.

Speaker 9 (09:35):
So there really is.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
No basis for them to actually institute a total ban.
But this goes right back to the culture where they're
trying to institute. This goes right back to the discriminatory
policies when it comes to foreign affairs, and it comes
back to intimidating and threatening people of color to stand
down and be quiet.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
More of the conversations conversation is like, with your fellow
Republicans on this committee, what are they saying?

Speaker 8 (10:07):
Well, I think they are really scared to say anything,
to be honest with you, because especially in Florida. So
my committee is Foreign Affairs, and in Foreign Affairs we
do have Salasar who lives in South Florida and she's
actually one of the ranking members from the chairwoman for
Western Hemisphere. And when it comes to this, you know,
her whole community is Haitian, Cuban, Venezuelan, and so everybody's

(10:27):
up in arms and When I talk to the people
in the community, they all feel betrayed, especially by their
Republican counterparts who represent them. And mind you, these are
the people who were dancing around the place talking about,
oh my god, I'm gonna.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
Vote for Trump.

Speaker 8 (10:40):
Well, oh my god, guess what, he's coming to deport you.
He's coming after you. And so right now, when they
should be standing up and defending them, they.

Speaker 9 (10:48):
Are cowering back and trying to be silent.

Speaker 8 (10:51):
But they're going to be held to task because the
whole community is outraged. All of South Florida, every community
is outraged.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Can you make that point again about the Republicans who
stood with him, who now say this is not what
we voted for.

Speaker 8 (11:12):
It actually is what they voted for. And you know,
I remember the videos. We saw them everywhere all throughout
the comedians dancing and praising Trump and saying they're gonna
dance for Trump, They're gonna vote for Trump.

Speaker 9 (11:22):
But Trump turned.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
Around and actually targeting them. He's targeting them more than
anybody else. The Venezuelan community, the Cuban community. Now, these
were top Trump supporters and for some reason they thought
he was gonna go after everyone else. But not them,
And it makes you wonder who was the other people
you thought he was gonna go after when he talked
about immigrants, did you not realize you also was an immigrant,

(11:45):
just like everybody else who's living in South Florida. And
that's where we have to actually hold everybody to task.
When he had this propaganda, when he was saying all
these statements about immigrants being criminals, being violent, when he
was making statements about Haitians eating cats and dogs, which
of it was true, they were silent. They were silent,
but they were very outspoken in supporting him. And now

(12:05):
that he's filling all these detention centers with all the
Hispanic people, the Cuban of the Venezuelans, now we see
them pushing back.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
And I want to give you an example.

Speaker 8 (12:14):
In twenty twenty one, I actually started visiting detention centers
and when I visited, it was fifty to fifty fifty
percent black, fifty percent Hispanic. When I visited this time,
it was only eight percent black and the rest of
the ninety two percent were Hispanic, which make it very
clear that he's been targeting and going after Hispanic people.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I want to bring in my panel right now, Joy
Cheney is founder of Joy Strategies out of Washington, d DC.
Joe Richardson is civil rights attorney out of Los Angeles.
Rebecca carrollos executive vice president Fairy Election Center out of Washington,
d C. Rebecca will start with you, so what.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Do we do? A lot of us are watching what's happening.
There are many people or are going to the streets,
but also understanding the streets aren't necessarily safe if doing
that type of direct protest. What should ordinary Americans do
in this moment as we're watching the rise of tyranny,
as we're seeing authoritarianism, as we're seeing very unconstitutional acts

(13:18):
being carried out by the president.

Speaker 8 (13:22):
Well, what I've been telling everybody is that there really
is a war going on out there, and everyone needs
to be on the front line. And the reason why
I say that is because there's so called poor implementation
or total disregard. There's a reason why Americans are being
picked up also and being sent out of the country
with a total disregard.

Speaker 9 (13:41):
If you think you're safe, you are not.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
But we do have a responsibility to get up and
start fighting now because today it's immigrants, it's a warren immigrants.

Speaker 9 (13:49):
Tomorrow, it's going to be us. It's going to be
Americans who they're coming after.

Speaker 8 (13:52):
And if you understand how these kind of totalitarian regimes work,
they work on fear, intimidation, actually pursuing you, having these
gross showings of force. So I tell everybody to get
on the front lines right now, fight uplift your voice
and say we're not having it.

Speaker 9 (14:09):
And the good thing.

Speaker 8 (14:10):
About it, when we have pushed back on this administration,
they have backed around, they have back down. You know,
we say the whole week, say tackle because they do
back down. So this is the time when we push
forward and say we're not going to stand for this
and we're not going to allow America to turn into this.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
Joe, appreciate what you're doing. Congresswoman.

Speaker 10 (14:35):
I would ask, is there anything that you think the
Democrats should be doing more or doing better as it
pertains to keeping up the fight here in Congress.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
I think we just have to be more aggressive in
the community. We've been doing a good job I think
in Congress fighting and pushing and pushing, but everybody has
to be on the same page. And unfortunately, I think
some people think that this immigration issue is not their issue.

Speaker 9 (15:03):
But it is everybody's issues, because.

Speaker 8 (15:05):
The truth is, at night, we're all watching this and
everyone is terrified and everyone is disgusted. So when we
all start talking in unison and saying this is not tolerable,
this is not world leadership, and this is not making
America great, then everybody will understand that the fight is
ours and this is not just for a certain group.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, you're absolutely right regarding that. Joy.

Speaker 11 (15:38):
Well, first of all, I think I'm having bandwidth issues,
so I hope you can hear me. One of the
things I think Democrats are going to have to reconcile
is the fact that polling shows that many Americans are
concerned with illegal immigration, and while they're not supportive of
lack of due process, they are generally supportive of deportations.

(16:00):
Can you reconcile that in your messaging as a Democrat?

Speaker 8 (16:05):
Well, I think it's very clear that we could talk
about being in the United States as legal status, which
we all agree. You know, you need to be legal.
We don't really want people coming here illegal. But when
you see people being tear gassed, when you see people
being shot with rubber bullets, when you see Americans coming
out there and protesting of having the National Guard out there.
These are grotesque uses of force, and these are Americans

(16:28):
who are protesting. That's what it becomes unacceptable. This is
no longer an issue of illegality. This is an issue
of is this how we treat Americans? Is this how
we even treat people who are who are foreigners or
who in this country? Because we have to distinguish the two.
Many of these people are legally here, they're just targeting them.

(16:49):
They're intentionally going to graduations with their parents, are there
to watch their kids graduating and grabbing them. Not saying hey,
we want to see you in court, but you're grabbing
them in graduation. At some point we have to say
that this is inhumane and this isn't right tearing families
apart in public. There's nobody right now who's watching this
who wants this, And I think if we're silent, people

(17:11):
are gonna grow even more and more frustrated with our
party because this does not look like America.

Speaker 9 (17:17):
This should not be America.

Speaker 8 (17:19):
When I'm watching these videos, I had to ask myself,
are we in a third world country?

Speaker 9 (17:24):
What country is this?

Speaker 8 (17:25):
Because this doesn't look like America and it eerily reminds
me of January sixth, where they were allowed to kind
of break into our buildings and try to fight and
overturn and try to hang Nancy Pelosi. And so we're
losing control every single day. Every day, everybody's watching this
and they're upset. So I think we need to be
clear about what this is. Should this activity be happening

(17:47):
in America, Should we be going after Americans who are protesting?

Speaker 9 (17:50):
And do we even value our First Amendment rights?

Speaker 1 (17:57):
Lastly, on that point, you've got Donald Trump threatening people
saying that if they're a protest at his birthday military parade,
it is not a celebration of the two hundred and
fifty years of the US Army. It's really all about
him that he says, protests we met with a major force.

(18:17):
This man does not believe in the First Amendment.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (18:23):
I think it's becoming clearer and clearer that there's people
who he respects, which we've already knew that he had
respect for authoritarian leaders, that now he is acting like it.
And this is when as Americans we're defining ourselves for
the next decade. Do we believe in the right that
you shouldn't be able to protest because you're going to
be met with force.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (18:43):
That is not democracy.

Speaker 8 (18:44):
When you're silencing the media, when you're silencing people, when
you're silencing protests, when you're silencing any opposition, that is
what you call a dictatorship. Dictatorship, one on one, that's
what this is. So I think every American must be
engaged right now. Every American must know what you're looking at.
And I think that's why some people are actually being

(19:05):
a little bit on the sideline because America really hasn't
seen a dictator.

Speaker 9 (19:09):
I've seen a dictator. I've heard about dictators.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
My mother still has PTSD from growing up in Haiti,
where she saw dictators target children, target protesters, and also
target the media. And once they're able to silence everyone,
that's when they actually start attacking the people more aggressively.

Speaker 9 (19:26):
And that's what we have to stop.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
All Right, Dan Gosh, Sally, appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
Thank you so very much, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
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M M M M, folks. Yesterday the twice in Peach

(22:49):
criminally committed fellon the achieved. Donald Trump was in North
Carolina at Fort Bragg speaking before American troops. Normally, when
a person who occupies noble offers is speaking to American troops.
They don't give partisan speeches because the military is not partisan.
Yet yesterday that's exactly what he did. He had these

(23:10):
troops jeering at the media assembled. It was a gross speech.
What was really shameful was this idiot talking about restoring
the names of Confederate domestic terrorists to military bases. Now,
keep in mind what happened here. Congress passed the law

(23:33):
getting rid of these names, saying we don't want military
bases named after Confederate white domestic terrorists. Well, Republicans didn't
like that. Donald Trump really didn't like that. So he's
been held bent on saying, oh, we need to reverse that.
Listen to this for a little breaking news.

Speaker 22 (23:52):
We are also going to be restoring the names to
Fort Pickett, Ford Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Brucker, Fort Polk,
Fort ap Hill, and Fort Robert E.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Lee.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
We want a lot of battles.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Out of those forts. It's no time to change.

Speaker 22 (24:18):
And I'm superstitious, you know, I like to keep it going, right,
I'm very superstitious.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
We want to keep it going. So that's a big story.
We just announced that today to you for the first time.
They said, what didn't you wait till Saturday said, I
can't wait. I got to talk to my friends here today.
This is a record crowd.

Speaker 23 (24:36):
You know, you never you never had a crowd this big.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's an honor.

Speaker 22 (24:40):
You think this crowd would have showed up for Biden.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I don't think so. I don't think. I don't think so.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Yeah, you are wrong,
and you're shameful and despicable. Well, let me tell you
what they're doing. They're not reverting back to the Confederate names.
What these rate just did was go find other soldiers

(25:04):
that had the same last name as the Confederate folk
and then renaming it after them. These people literally are stupid.
Joy They're stupid.

Speaker 11 (25:18):
They're stupid, and they're also very racist. That is what's
happening here. And I'm gonna be honest with you. What
was most concerning wasn't Donald Trump. It were the collapse
and the cheers and the jeers from the audience. We
have a problem here, and it's not just Donald Trump.
We spend so much time on him, but the fact

(25:38):
of the matter is we have a racist populace.

Speaker 21 (25:43):
I don't think they're the majority of people, but there
is a.

Speaker 11 (25:49):
Defining number of people out there who are bigoted against
racial and ethnic minorities, against women. They're misogynists and sexist
towards and of course sexual orientation minorities as well. And
as a nation, we're going to have to talk about that.
Why is that? Why has that been allowed to take hold?

(26:10):
You know, I'm sure you know some of us have.
You know, there's some blame in terms of the way
we communicate with people. I think the folks have been
left behind, which makes them privy and pray to this
type of thinking. But a lot of the racism and
bigotry that we falsely thought has subsided was really just
line dormant. It is a cancer, and we need to

(26:32):
be talking about that in our churches and in our
personal relationships. You know, for those of us who have
relationships with Republicans, our neighbors, we need to be who
are these people, where are they? Where does it come from?
And whose onus is it to fix it? And I
think it's white American zone is So we need to

(26:53):
figure out that part because these people are going to
be there once we get rid of Donald Trump in
four years and neutralize him politically in two and I
believe we will do that. We still have a populace
of people who will be dormant again. That's a problem, Rebecca.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
These people have not been left behind. They want to
go back to where it was. Let's be real clear.
They ain't been left behind anywhere. They don't like where
we are going.

Speaker 12 (27:27):
You know.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
The interesting thing is the rank of all of the
military is extremely diverse, is overwhelmingly black and brown. And
so even though we saw mainly we saw it visually
look like all white people behind Trump, white military folks
behind Trump when he made that announcement, these people are
gonna fafo. They're gonna f around and find out. You
can't just show up to a base talking that stuff

(27:51):
and don't think that you're not gonna get handled. So
he could say what he wants to say. He can
try to be cute and clever by reverting to those
last names that represent racist Confederate traders to this country.
He could do all those things. Every president has the
ability to name and rename different military installations. At the

(28:12):
end of the day, though, all of these people who
think that they're Trump, they think that they're big and bad,
people are going to reach the breaking point in this
country where the normal everyday racist can't go up to
black people and say these things, They're going to find
out real fast. And so what I'm concerned with, at

(28:33):
what I'm very concerned with in our country is that
the temperature is steadily being turned up. And to what
point is this president willing to keep turning the temperature up?
What is it that he wants. Does he want a
full out civil war, does he want to incite violence,
does he want to have some type of coup? Does
he want to have worse happening in this country? Because

(28:56):
people are tired, you know, to just even just everyday
life is so hard now, It's very expensive for people,
and people are feeling that. And I am really curious
to what end is Trump willing to go because I
don't think the population in this country is willing to
go down the path that he wants to take this

(29:17):
country down.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Joe, Yeah, I think you will reach a breaking point.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
He's not very thoughtful in terms of what it is
that he's trying to do. You know, Divide and conquer
can only go so far, particularly when fundamentally, at the
end of the day, you are in the process of
being outnumbered if you're not outnumbered already, can you, to
Rebecca's point, keep turning the heat up.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
Eventually you can turn the heat.

Speaker 10 (29:45):
Up and everything around it is going to burn everything
around it. There's going to be pressure, and there'll be
people going back and forth.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
There will be people that aren't you know that, that aren't.

Speaker 10 (29:57):
Enamored with the Republican Party, or maybe they aren't enamored
with the press for a different host of reasons.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
But a lot of it, I.

Speaker 10 (30:05):
Believe, will eventually come bearing down on him and bearing
down on them, and so they really do have to
decide how much they want to go through and what
it is that they're trying to do. And ultimately, you're
cutting off your nose to spite your face when you're
just turning people against each other and you think, you know,
it's interesting, something is happening here. Donald Trump thinks that

(30:29):
with what he's doing, he'll always be say, we say,
politically safe, right.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
And at the same time, people that support.

Speaker 10 (30:36):
The president while ignoring what he does that's unconstitutional, that's unseemly,
that's illegal, etc.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
They think they'll always be safe, right.

Speaker 10 (30:46):
And so interestingly, I think that all of the players
in this thing are going to become very, very surprised
because ultimately they'll figure out the thing that they either
actively participated in, actively made happen, or looked at with
a crime of old mission for lack of a better term,
are allowed to happen, ultimately comes back and bites them.

(31:08):
And that's what I think everybody on that side of
things will eventually have in common.

Speaker 21 (31:13):
Roland, can I get in again?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Bum lying it?

Speaker 11 (31:17):
Okay, I want to believe Joe and Rebecca, but I'm
gonna be honest with you. I'm thinking this is like
nineteen thirties Germany. I think a lot of these folks
who we think are going to reach a breaking.

Speaker 21 (31:32):
Point might not.

Speaker 11 (31:33):
I hope they will. I pray that they will. I
will be working towards making sure that they do. But
I think a lot of these folks are willing to
go along just to say that they aren't wrong. Are
willing to go along to protect their own safety. This
is why he's cutting off every path to safety. The
encroachment on the law and him approaching what he's going

(31:57):
to do to American citizens are meant to frighten us.
And there are people who are thinking, who's gonna stop him.
The stupid Democrats who are engaging in a reelection right now. No,
an internal politics, No, not them. Who's going to stop them?
You got military people who seem to be aligned with Trump.
Who's going to stop them? Everyone is silent, including our

(32:20):
former presidents. We have got to do something otherwise we
are going to find ourselves in a Nazi Germany regime.
We are not there yet, but we can get there.
And we cannot afford to think the American.

Speaker 21 (32:34):
People are going to come to their sce got it.
They have not done sold folks.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
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and the future.

Speaker 25 (33:55):
N genius saying that my uncle Virginius, my brother was
a Jeene, my neighbor was a Jane.

Speaker 26 (34:02):
I think we ought to drill that in ourselves and
move ahead rather than believing.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
That I got it.

Speaker 24 (34:08):
That's next on the Black Table here on the Black Star.

Speaker 18 (34:12):
Network this week, on the Other Side of Change, we.

Speaker 20 (34:18):
Are here talking about the unfortunate case of a thirty year
old Adriana Smith, who was diagnosed and pronounced as brain
dead at nine weeks pregnant and is being kept alive
by the state to carry this pregnancy out of the
term without any input from her family. It's a really
horrowing example of the lack of Bosio's economy. We have
in a close real world and we're going to dream bigger.

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Join us on the other side of change, only on
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Speaker 6 (34:48):
Bruce Smith, creator and executive producer.

Speaker 27 (34:50):
Of The Proud Family, Louder and Prouder in Washington, Roland Martini.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Folks Some Sad News. Ananda Lewis, who of course many
knew as AMTV DJ. She also hosted BT's Team Summit.
She has passed away at the age of fifty two
with a battle with cancer. She revealed in October of
twenty twenty four that she was suffering from stage for

(35:24):
breast cancer. Now she openly talked about avoiding getting mammogram
and then when diagnosed, she chose to use She chose
to go the route of alternative medicine as opposed to
the traditional routes. Well as a result that cancer spread

(35:46):
and she is now dead at the age of fifty two.
Had the opportunity to meet Ananda a couple of times.
She was an amazing sister, extremely focused in media. Remember
she had an syndicated television show, so many people you know,
watched her slew to her. But you know, Rebecca folks

(36:09):
were just shocked and stunned. And she later admitted it
was a massive, massive mistake to ignore this thing that
was going inside of her. And after she was diagnosed
with stage four, she implored people to women to get checked,
to get mammograms, things that she didn't do. And so

(36:29):
it was it was heartbreaking to see this story of
her choosing not to deal with it, and then by
not dealing with it and ignoring it, her cancer spread.
Now she's dead at the age of fifty two.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
To get a yearly mammogram even though the quote unquote
recommendation now is, oh, you don't have to go yearly.
But guess what, there isn't any medical doctor who was
not real view board who made that recommendation. So if
you talk to your primary care doctor, if you talk
to radiologists, they will tell you they are encouraging people

(37:09):
every single year. And also black men also need to
go in as well because black men can also get
breast cancer. Because it's the breast tissue. You don't have
to be a biological woman in order to get breast cancer.
Go every year. Some of the guidance says, okay, you

(37:30):
go your first time at age forty, especially if you
don't have a family history. Well, guess what. The number
of black folks who are getting diagnosed with breast cancer
do not have a family history of breast cancer. So
make sure you're doing the preventive care. Many insurance companies
will pay for you to get an annual mammogram. When

(37:52):
my mom used to get it, it used to hurt
a lot more, but technology has an increased You could
get three D mammograms if you don't have insurance. So
there are many community organizations that has a free mammogram
mobile that will go throughout the community, will show up
to different events, your local library. But please get tested.
I know that we have all sorts of crazy people

(38:14):
in this administration who are trying to say that science
doesn't matter. It does matter. This is the difference between
life and death. I can't tell you what to do
once you get tested. I can't tell you what treatment
to observe, but get tested.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Her sister, Luxury Emori announced on her Facebook Patriot passing.
She says she's free in his heavily arms and then
a series of broken hearts. Lord rest her soul. And
I'm reading several stories here saying what's really crazy here.

(38:55):
Her sister's a physician. Ananda was diagnosed in two thousand.
In twenty with breast cancer, and again she gave interviews
talking about how she literally ignored it. She ignored it,
did not want to deal with it, and then chose
to go the route of alternative medicine, and clearly that
did not result in her being saved.

Speaker 11 (39:19):
Yeah, so you know, many people have an experience with cancer.
I'm not alone, but I am a cancer survivor thyroid cancer.
You can't see it, but my scar is on my
neck and I am a survivor and I had a
great outcome. Many of us don't give it screened and
we don't checked because we are afraid of a bad outcome.
But with cancer, as with many diseases, the earlier you

(39:42):
found out, the better the outcome. And most people have
successful outcomes and live the fullness of their lives. Please
don't be ignorant. What you don't know can hurt you.
You must go get screened.

Speaker 21 (39:56):
Not just for breast cancer.

Speaker 11 (39:58):
If you're a man breast, but as so press state
cancer and for all other types of cancer, and having
a primary care physician is central to that, central to that,
and the other thing you have to do is make
sure your politics aligned with your health. The big beautiful
buildings out there looking to cut Medicaid, looking to cut
off funding the planned parenthood where many people get their

(40:20):
mammograms done for free or heavily discounted rates, and of
course with Medicaid, many people can get those screenings done
who need that kind of care, and that was that
kind of insurance. So make sure that you are caring
for yourself, both health wise and also policy wise.

Speaker 21 (40:40):
Your life depends on it. It's a real.

Speaker 11 (40:43):
Shame that she was not able to live and survive this,
and the world is robbed. But at least she was
honest about it and sharing the mistake that she made.
Herbal teas will not do it, let me repeat, and
that's to the people in my family who believe that fullestness.

Speaker 21 (41:00):
Tribal teas won't do it.

Speaker 11 (41:02):
But that doesn't mean you have to have the most
invasive process. What you need to do is go to
a primary care position and let your position guide you
in consultation with other medical professionals and you can get
a second opinion.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
There was a story that aired excuse me the ran
at Essence dot com. I'm going to control room. If
y'all could pull it up on your end, I'm sending
it to you right now. It was in the January
February issue Essence magazine where she wrote she wrote a
particular piece and she talked about being in the shower

(41:44):
in December twenty eighteen feeling them up in her breast,
and then she talked about and then going in in
twenty nineteen and then been revealing to her exactly what
was going on, and it was a very fast moving,
aggressive form. And then what she said is she said

(42:04):
that she chose to take a different route. She said,
I dove into the research and learned that environmental and
lifestyle factors influenced ninety percent of what causes cancer. So
I stopped drinking alcohol, I stopped consuming sugar. I did
a cleanse to get the build up of toxins in
my body out. I began to shift the way I

(42:25):
managed stress. My goal was to do things that supported
my body's ability to continue to be whole enough to
heal instead of instead of destroying it up front. I
also couldn't figure out how to fit the double misectomy,
the full chemotherapy, and potentially the radiation they were telling
me to have into my already overwhelmed life, when importantly

(42:48):
these methods went against what I believed was right for
my body. She talked about doing high doses of vitamin C,
followed by hyperbaric chamber sessions, exercise, energy work, prayer, and
diet changes, all while managing the stress of ending a
tenure relationship with the man I loved my son's father.

(43:12):
And then she talked about in January twenty what took
place that COVID hits all these different things, And so
again she talks about all these things. She says I did,
like cryo libation, FDA approved procedure that injects gas into
the tumor to kill cancer cells by freezing them. I

(43:32):
did genetically targeted fractionated chemotherapy. I so started acupuncture to
help bring my red blood cells back up when KEMO
would drop them too low. I tried a cutting edge
drug that boosts the local immune system and the tumbor.
I've ben did alpharesis, where they pulled my body, pulled
my blood out pint by pint, cleaned it of toxins,

(43:54):
filtered it, and put it back into my body. All
these things were part of a layered approach was attacking
the body from a lot of different directions to be
truly effective to attack it the same way. When I
left Arizona in December, I had gone down from stage
three to stage two. The cancer was out of my
left node and the tumor significantly reduced. And so then

(44:16):
she talks about, you know what this all meant and
in terms of how it changed here. But the reality
is those things simply did not work, Joe.

Speaker 10 (44:29):
It did not And the fact of the matter is
that lump in her breast canceled everything else she was
thinking about doing.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
I loved Ananda because.

Speaker 10 (44:37):
When you pay attention to the talk show space, those
of us that patted ourselves after our senior hall, we
saw who got talk shows, We saw who was hosting shells.
And of course I watched Ananda from BT to MTV
to her own shell. And I'll tell you a personal story.
When I was sixteen years old, I started to have

(45:00):
blood discharges and I didn't know why, and I was
scared and I didn't go to the doctor, and when
I went to the doctor, I wasn't completely honest, and
so it took me a year to finally get the
colonoscopy based on my admitted symptoms, and I was diagnosed

(45:21):
with ulsterrative colitis.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
Look it up.

Speaker 10 (45:23):
A lot of people know about Crohn's disease. Crons is
from the rooter to the tutor, as it were, the colon.
When the colon itself is inflame, it's ulcera to colitis.
I've been having colonosopy since i was sixteen years old
because I'm.

Speaker 6 (45:36):
At higher risk for cancer.

Speaker 10 (45:38):
Fortunately, as they go, I've had a quote easier ride,
never too severe medication, and no surgeries. But that being said,
there are so many men. Let me talk to the fellas.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Now.

Speaker 10 (45:54):
We talked to the ladies quite a bit about breast cancer.
Let me talk to the fellas about their man who
not letting them get their prostate check, their mana not
letting them get a kolonosopy.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Once they turn forty five or.

Speaker 10 (46:04):
Fifty, colon cancer, you are going to be able to
resolve ninety percent.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
Of the time if you catch it early.

Speaker 10 (46:12):
Because of my reality, my reality is not oh you know,
I don't want to go to colonosity. Whether or not
I'm gonna go, my question is whether it's going to
be profifile or whether it's going to be demrol because
profifile is a much better drug and a lot easier.
I ain't talking about it in a Michael Jackson kind
of way, but it's very easy to recover from it.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
I've accepted that as my reality.

Speaker 10 (46:33):
My wife did her first koloniosoky this week because she's
at the age for it. Unfortunately, everything was fine, but
we've got to do the things that allow us to
deal with.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
Preventative right.

Speaker 10 (46:44):
All of the things that are I that was talking
about doing, we're doing, We're leaving stress, and all those others.
All of that's fantastic, But once there's a lump in
your breast, that doesn't mean that you don't test.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
That doesn't mean that you don't do the things that
you need to do.

Speaker 10 (46:55):
And I'm not standing adjudgtment of her or anyone else,
but I'm particularly talking to the men, because a lot
of time, our manlihood tells us not.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
To do these things.

Speaker 10 (47:05):
I had an uncle who is very dear to me,
my uncle Rodney, who the heart hurts me. He knew
he was sick, but didn't want to get biops. He
didn't want to get tested, and by the time he
finally got tested, he had cancer.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
All over him.

Speaker 10 (47:15):
Sometimes we decide to do it the way that we
want to do it, which I guess is fine and
good and well.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
But you have family, you have people that love you,
have people that care about you.

Speaker 10 (47:25):
I'm staying in judgment of anyone, but what I would
say is I want people to be encouraged to go
and check the boxes that they need to check. Those
of us that believe in heaven, we're not in any
hurry to get there because we will be there.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
Eternally, So why cut it off, you know what I mean.

Speaker 10 (47:40):
Let's do the things that we can so that we
can have the most quality of life we possibly can.
You know, cut back on the hamhocks in the port right,
some of those types of things. But for whatever you do,
if there's a lump, if there's something, if there's a problem,
if there's a blood discharge, go get tested. I was
fifteen years old and it took me a year to go.
So who is it that's out there that's not getting

(48:02):
a test? Because they've told themselves that they couldn't. They
told themselves that they wouldn't, or that they you know,
if it's not one thing, it's another.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah. Maybe.

Speaker 10 (48:09):
So if you don't get tested when you know you
have a symptom, do what you need to do.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Man.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
Let's do what we can to live as long as
we can.

Speaker 10 (48:18):
And particularly as it pertains to things that are potentially
avoidable altogether or.

Speaker 6 (48:23):
Maybe very very curable when caught early.

Speaker 10 (48:26):
Let's do that work because we've got people here that
rely on us and care for us, and we got
to care for each other.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Connect this young.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
So yeah, yeah, modern disease requires moderate medicine. On this show,
we talked about policy. We talk about environmental racism. We
talk about how in black communities across this country there
are higher rates of cancer because there are there are
electric and utility transformers in our neighborhoods. We talked about

(48:58):
how in South Myphs Elon musk Ai and data centers
housed there and that increases the rates of cancer. We
talk about in parts of Houston, we talk about in
parts of Baton Rouge in New Orleans and Fishermen's Paradise
where there is an increase of petrochemicals that leads to diseases.

(49:20):
So we're seeing a lot of new diseases that our
ancestors didn't have to deal with one thousand, two thousand,
three thousand years ago. And so while I understand going
the holistic route for our everyday life to keep ourselves
every day healthy, but when we have these specific modern
diseases that are caused by policies, are caused by greed

(49:42):
and corruption in this world, it's going to require modern
medicine to fight back because our herbs can't catch up
to what's happening. When we are seeing a lot of
these manufactured and I won't say that one when we're
seeing all these new diseases that are associated with modernity,
with posts and ust row in a post industrial society.

(50:03):
So that's just food for thoughts. I see some people
in the comments saying, hey, there's holistic routes. Yes, do
that for everyday life, do that for everyday stress management,
do that for the common code. But it's time for
us to yes, yes, but it is it is time
for us now to have that understanding. For those of

(50:24):
those of us who are of faith, pray over your
medicine my mother in particular, she died prematurely. Had there
been more cultural competence around her health team, had she
actually followed some of the protocol, I very much believe
she would be alive today. Taking medication, going to the
doctor is not a testament of your faith. Take the

(50:46):
pill when you need to, take that thrill, and you
pray over it.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
But at the end of the day it faith with
our works is dead.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Yes, but these modern diseases require modern medicine.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Talk within your family, guard folkshop. All right, folks, gotta
go to break, we come back, We come back. More
of what's happening in this country. Lots more to talk about.
The second hour of the show You're watching Well with
Mark Unfultuate on the Black Star Network. Back at on.

Speaker 24 (51:18):
Next on the Black Table with me Greg Carr. An
hour of Living History was doctor Richard Maria Kelsey, thinker, builder, author,
rich life and shares his incomparable wisdom about our past,
present and future.

Speaker 25 (51:38):
I'm n genius saying that my uncle was Virginia's my
brother was a genius.

Speaker 26 (51:43):
My neighbor was a genius. I think we ought to
drill that in ourselves and move ahead rather than believing.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
That I got it.

Speaker 24 (51:51):
That's next on the Black Table here on the Black.

Speaker 6 (51:54):
Star Network.

Speaker 18 (51:59):
This week, on the other side of Change, we are
here talking about the unfortunate case a thirty year old
Adriana Smith who was diagnosed and pronounced as brain dead
at nine yeeks pregnant and is being kept.

Speaker 20 (52:11):
Alive by the state to carry this pregnancy out of
the term without any input from her family. It's a
really horrowing example of the lack of Vosli autonomy we
have in a.

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Speaker 1 (54:09):
Folks. In New Jersey congress woman has been indicted by
a federal grand jury as a result of a confrontation
outside of an ice detention facility last month in New Jersey.
Lamonica MacIver, who represents New Jersey and to the members
of Congress along with New Mayor Ros Baraka. They were
visiting Delaney Hall to conduct federal oversight of the ten

(54:33):
thousand bad Detention Center. During their visit, of scuffle the
law enforcement took out took place, resulting in the saw
charges against Macivy and Baraka's arrest for misdemeana trespessing charges charges.
Now they dropped the charges against Baraka. New Jersey used
attorney Elena Hobb opposted this on social media about mc
iver's indictment, saying, today at federal grand jury ceedy in

(54:53):
New Jersey return to three county indictment charging US Representative
of Lomonica MacIver forcibly impeding and interfery with federal law
enforcement officers. This indictment has a maximum penalty of eight
years for count one, additional maximum penalty of eight years
for count two, and a maximum penalty of one year
in prison for count three. As I've stated in the past,
is my constitutional obligation as a chief federal law enforcement

(55:17):
officer for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners
are protected when executing their duties. While people are free
to express their views for or against particular policies. They
must not do so in a manner that endangerous law
enforcement in the communities those officers serve. Today's decision about
the grand jury is the next step any process that
my office will pursue to a just in Maka I

(55:38):
have released her own statement and she said the facts
of this case with Perrew, I was simply doing my
job and will expose these proceedings for what they are,
a raising attempt at political intimidation. The indictment I no
longer justified. The indictment I no longer justify than the
original charges and as an effort by Trump's administration to

(55:59):
dodge on the ability for the chaos, Ice calls and
scared me out of doing the work I was left
to do. But it won't work. I will not be intimidated.
The faces are on the faces are on my side.
I will be entering a plea of not guilty. I'm
grateful for the support of our community, and I look
forward to the day in court. I mean, this is
sheerly the pure silliness joe on the part of Trump.

(56:21):
But what they want to do is they want to
intimidate a member of Congress from doing their oversight duty,
and they've been blocking doors, shutting members out all across
the country.

Speaker 10 (56:31):
Yeah, take her, make an example out of her. They
don't go after Baraka, but they go after her instead.
The other day, Maxine Wiers was trying to get in
and do oversight and see some of the people that
had been detained. Door was closed in her face. And
so I appreciate the stand that she's taking. She's just
trying to do her job.

Speaker 6 (56:51):
See. You know in the world where you get.

Speaker 10 (56:54):
Discretion or you get to decide, you're a prosecutor, you're
an officer of the court.

Speaker 6 (56:59):
You have to decide what.

Speaker 10 (57:00):
It is that's responsible to do in the name of
protecting and and doing right by the people in the
in the job you have, in the authority you've been invested.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
Nobody can stand back and say that.

Speaker 10 (57:16):
Morally or even legally, that this community is going to
be better off for this congresswoman being prosecuted for a
situation that she frankly didn't create at all, and there's
no good that would actually.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
Come from it.

Speaker 10 (57:33):
And hopefully this allows people to become awakened, even all
the more awakened about what it is that we're facing.
The whole idea that the government would be weaponized in
order to intimidate congress people and people that are duly
elected by people, directly elected by people to do the

(57:54):
business of the people, and that includes oversight in situations
such is this. It's absolutely inceensing, but it would be
more incensing if people don't react to it, become more
aware and dare I say woke, so that we can
go and continue to do the things that we need

(58:15):
to do in terms of finding back, in terms of
letting folks know, letting the government, even our government, even
our leaders of our government, know that the weaponization of
the government and the name of doing the business of the.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
People is a moral It's illegal, and it won't be tolerated.

Speaker 29 (58:35):
Joy.

Speaker 11 (58:37):
I mean, I think the facts here when you see
the video, when you see that she was trying to
protect others, really that she was there doing her political
elected duty or sworn duty on behalf of the citizens
of New Jersey. I think when you see that, you
know we're going to have a jury that is extremely
empathetic towards her seeing.

Speaker 21 (58:57):
This as a political prosecution.

Speaker 11 (59:00):
So much of what Trump did was accused himself of
having a political prosecution This is the definition textbook of
a political prosecution.

Speaker 21 (59:08):
This woman, absolutely, because we can see it, is not
fighting back.

Speaker 11 (59:12):
What she's trying to do is to protect herself from
assault and harm in a melee right where lots of
things got thrown around and none of them were intentional,
you know, but it was because you know, this was
a crisis that had been created by the.

Speaker 21 (59:28):
Officers, not by her. She was doing her job. And
I think that she's going to get more donations because
of this.

Speaker 11 (59:36):
She's going to get more political you know, not notoriety,
but fame because of this. She's going to have an
elevated platform because of this, and this will work in
her favor. The fact of the matter is, right now,
there's almost no bad like being in jail is the
sign of you doing something right.

Speaker 21 (59:59):
She was in the way and that's why she got
targeted here, and we need to be in the way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
We will be rewarded for this, Rebecca.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
Look, I think this whole thing is disgusting. This is
they want to create a chilling effect. Like I talked
about earlier, how far is this president willing to go
If they are now jailing or imprisoning, if they are
charging their indicting members of Congress, then what does that
mean for ordinary every day people who are a member
of Congress. So at this point, the American people are

(01:00:32):
going to have to figure out. Okay, so what do
we do for some folks? You know, I need our
white counterparts to use their white privilege and they need
to be the ones on the front line and show
up and use their white privilege, because I'll be very
curious if the Trump administration is willing to jail thousands
of white people. I kind of think he's not willing
to do that. But we but black people have been

(01:00:54):
in this fight. We are tired, but we're still willing
to fight. But I need more white people to show
up at the front line. So they keep saying, oh,
black people, y'all have been sitting on the sideline since November.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Not really.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
I think some of us have been resting. But white
people need to be at the front lines of this fight.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Mm hm, all right, I agree with that. But but
but what the question is, what the real question is
whether they're going to step up and see this as
being their issue. Going to a quick break, we'll be
right back a little Black Still Network.

Speaker 21 (01:01:31):
This week on a balanced life.

Speaker 16 (01:01:33):
We're talking about single father parenting, you got it, faith,
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single parent father spending time with your kid, whether it's
a son or daughter, Whether you ask for it, plan
for it, or by tragedy or accident, you step into
the role.

Speaker 17 (01:01:51):
I didn't take it as a woe is me moment
or like what am I going to do? Is like
as a matter of fact, I looked at it, I
rolled up my sleeves, and I said, hey, whatever it takes.

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That's all This.

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Week on a Balanced Life with Dr Jackson here on
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here talking about the unfortunate case of thirty year old
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at nine weeks pregnant and is being kept alive by
the state to carry this pregnancy outs for the term
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Speaker 19 (01:02:27):
It's a really horing example of the lack of logly autonomy.

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We begin tonight with the people who are really running
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Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Often wrong and misleading about a lot of things, but
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Speaker 24 (01:03:50):
Next on the Black Table with me Greg Carr, an
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Speaker 25 (01:04:09):
And the future Virginia's saying that my uncle was Virginia's,
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Speaker 26 (01:04:17):
I think we ought to drill that in ourselves and
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That I got it.

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That's next on the Black Table here on the Black
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Speaker 13 (01:04:29):
My name is Lena Charles and I'm from Apa Lusis, Louisiana.

Speaker 21 (01:04:34):
Yes, that is Zonical capital.

Speaker 22 (01:04:37):
Of the World.

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My name is Margaret Chappel.

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I'm from Dallas, Texas. Represented the Urban Trivia Games.

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He's me Sherry Sheper And.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
You know what you wytch Roland Martin on Unfiltered Sener,
Jack Schumer House Leader how Kim Jefferies joined for daily
joint news conference condemning the Republicans what they call gop
scam Bill. Here's what Jefferys had.

Speaker 27 (01:05:04):
To say, not in a privilege to be joined today
by Leader Chuck Schumer We've been working closely with Leader
Schumer and Senate Democrats in a unified way to stop
the Republicans One Big Ugly Bill from ever becoming law.

(01:05:24):
Later on today, on the House floor, Republicans will have
an opportunity to stop the GOP tax scam and address
the concerns that have been raised by dozens of House
Republicans with respect to the damage that the One Big
Ugly Bill will do to everyday Americans. The GOP tax

(01:05:49):
scam represents the largest assault on healthcare in American history.
More than sixteen million Americans will lose access to healthcare
in the United States of America as a result of
the One Big Ugly Bill. Hospitals will close, nursing homes
will shut down, and people will die because they'll lose

(01:06:12):
access to the medical care that they need. Tens of
millions of additional Americans will pay higher premiums, co pays,
and deductibles. There are more than a dozen House Republicans
who have indicated that they don't support cutting Medicaid for

(01:06:33):
the people.

Speaker 6 (01:06:34):
That they represent.

Speaker 27 (01:06:36):
Those House Republicans have a chance to stop this bill
from even being sent over to the United States Senate
by voting no on the rule. Today, other House Republicans
have indicated that they don't support the cuts to the
clean energy tax credits that have generated jobs and economic

(01:07:01):
opportunity in their communities. Yet somehow, mysteriously they voted for
the one Big Ugly bill a few weeks ago. But
now these House Republicans have the ability to stop the
GLP tax scam from being sent over to the United

(01:07:22):
States Senate. It's strange to me that you have Republicans
who voted for a bill that they apparently dislike and
then publicly send a letter to their Senate Republican colleagues
to say, stop these provisions from ever becoming law. I mean,

(01:07:47):
that's the height of irresponsibility. Vote yes and then hope
for the best. No, you have a job to do
in the House of Representatives, and now you have a
second chance to actually stop this one big ugly bill
and the provisions that you disagree with, whether that's the
cuts to Medicaid or the cuts to clean energy tax credits,

(01:08:14):
or the prohibition against regulating artificial intelligence across all fifty states,
or the aggressive overreach that many Republicans have complained about
in terms of trying to strip away the ability of
federal courts to issue contempt orders against an out of

(01:08:35):
control executive branch. Every single one of those Republicans, dozens
of them, now have an opportunity to actually act responsibly,
vote know against the rule that will be on the
floor of the House, and stop the GLP tax scam
from even going over to the United States Senate. I'm

(01:08:58):
thankful again for the leadership and presence of Chuck Schumer.
It's now my honor to yield to him.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Thank you.

Speaker 30 (01:09:05):
It's great to be back here in the House, and
I want to thank Kakim for the great job he
has done and constantly does against this big.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Ugly bill.

Speaker 30 (01:09:14):
Now, as Republican congress members went home after voting for
the bill, they got a huge amount of flat because
the more the public knows about this bill, the.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Less they like it.

Speaker 30 (01:09:24):
And so many of them said, well, I didn't like
that part, I didn't like this part.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
I didn't even read the bill.

Speaker 30 (01:09:29):
Some of them say, well, now is their opportunity to
make the changes that they told their constituencies that they
don't like in the bill. The bottom line is, what
is a congress member's core power embodied in the Constitution
the power to vote, and they are to exercise that

(01:09:50):
power to vote this afternoon because it's a unique opportunity
to change this bill. If it's because they didn't technically
provide the right bill to pass the Senate, it had
us to be sent back to the House. And if

(01:10:12):
even a handful of Republicans vote know this afternoon on
the rule, they will have that opportunity. They will have
the opportunity to change the vicious cuts on Medicaid that
hurt so many, that will close rural hospitals in many
of their districts. They have the opportunity to restore the

(01:10:32):
tax credits on clean energy because if they don't, it's
going to affect their districts. At least in the Senate,
seventy percent seventy five percent of the clean energy projects
are in Republican states, and I imagine it's not that
dissimilar in terms of districts. If they want to stop
the vicious cuts to snap, if they want to prevent

(01:10:55):
the billionaires from getting taxers whatever. They went home and
told people they didn't like them, said they didn't even
read the bill, and many of them whispered to each other,
we didn't know this was in the bill, particularly on
the energy tax credits, which was done at the dark
of night, because Chip Roy and his right wing Texans
just have a religious hatred of clean energy.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
So now's the time.

Speaker 30 (01:11:19):
This is a golden opportunity. If they really mean what
they say and they want to change the bill, this
is their golden opportunity. Don't throw the key away, don't
shrug your shoulders a second time and.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Say, well, there were things I liked in the bill
and didn't like. This is the chance to change it.

Speaker 30 (01:11:39):
And I say, and we say to every Republican congress member,
this vote shows if you're real when you said you
want to scale back clean energy, when you said you
don't like the Medicaid cuts, when you said the snap
cuts are too deep, when you said the court's powers
of contempt should not be taken away. If you're real

(01:12:00):
about it, if you're not just bsing your constituents, vote no,
and then you have an opportunity to change the bill.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
Rebecca, do you believe that how this presentation resonates? Is
there a different way that Democrats should be highlighting the crazy, nonsensical,
outlandish things in this bill?

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
Yes, I mean no, one's really going to be moved
by anything that Chuck Schumer says at this point, Right,
that's not that's not compelling TV, it's not compelling news.
They have to take this fight out to the public.
They need to show up in districts and they need
to go through and list this is the community hospital

(01:12:45):
that will be shut down if this bill passes. This
is They need to go line by line, like show
up to Tennessee. As much as Marsha Blackburn always used
to talk about, Oh, how all the great things that
ten Care is doing, talk about how ten Care it's
going to be undermined. It's going to be decimated. And
I think it's over half of kids in Tennessee use

(01:13:08):
ten Care aka Tennessee's Medicaid. Talk about it, call it out.
But just like whatever it is that the Minority leader
was trying to do to me, that's not effective. Like
I'm gonna be honest, even listening to Chuck Schumer, I
kind of tuned out what he said, Like I heard
him talking, but then I didn't even really focus. And
I'm someone who is locked in to these public policy issues.

(01:13:33):
Democrats have to figure out what its soul is as
a party.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
Right the reason why a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Of Americans are saying that they don't see a big
difference between Republicans and Democrats. It's not just the policy
issues of whether or not you're for Trump or it's
against Trump. It's even how they talk about it. It's
the framework, because at the end of the day, I
think Chuck Schumer is more concerned about some of the
corporate interests that made back him then actually delivering good

(01:14:01):
policy for the American people in meaningful ways that the
American people can easily digest.

Speaker 6 (01:14:06):
Like this wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:07):
It even captured me, Joe.

Speaker 10 (01:14:13):
The thing that's good about Republicans is that they talk
in third grade language, and we got to get better
at speaking the people in a way that meets them
where they are. Now, you know, we can have this
whole discussion. Oh my god, we shouldn't have to talk.
You know that love would be that simple note. You
can speak in complete sentences, You not undermine anybody's intelligence

(01:14:35):
and talking away this revelatory for people that know a
little bit more than a little bit further along somehow,
some way. The travesty here is that people don't seem
to understand that Democrats actually most programs that they come
to rely on most things that they have in their
lives that are any good for working class people came

(01:14:57):
from democrats almost always and are the ones.

Speaker 6 (01:15:00):
On the right side of that. So how do we
translate that to people?

Speaker 10 (01:15:04):
And this is an example, this big beautiful bill that
they're actually giving you something that's do and telling you
that it's ice cream. They're saying, oh, no, we're not
cutting medicaid. We're just changing the requirements so that we
kill waste. No, you're cutting medicaid. You're cutting it. Okay,
you are cutting it. How do we make sure that

(01:15:25):
we get that to people in precise language so that
they stop voting against their own interests. That's the big
challenge because we look I don't know if we look
too much like them, or we look too different from them,
or whatever it is. I don't even know if I
haven't figured out. But we've got to speak in precise,

(01:15:46):
everyday language. We can have a discussion some other time.
I had a discussion with Pee Aguilar about this, like
it's Shumer's still the guy. I mean, you know, it's
an open question as to whether I mean, he still
seems to be the guy.

Speaker 6 (01:15:59):
But there's open question as to whether he ought to be.

Speaker 10 (01:16:02):
And so we have to talk about this and make
sure we break this down to people in a way
that they can understand and give them something that they
can get behind, so that there's less smoking mirrors, and
so that what is being portrayed is truly the reality
that we are the good guys as pertained to a
policy a policy standpoint, and that should really be coming across.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Joy.

Speaker 11 (01:16:30):
All right, look, all that is fine, but this is
about legislative time.

Speaker 5 (01:16:35):
This is legislation.

Speaker 21 (01:16:37):
We need groups who are on the ground.

Speaker 11 (01:16:40):
It's great that they are protesting, that's wonderful, but we
need them to pick up the phone, get on their email.

Speaker 21 (01:16:47):
And write their members. If they are a member of
a citizen in that.

Speaker 11 (01:16:53):
District, they need to call their member of Congress, especially
the Republicans, but so the Democrats. If you want to
help Chuck Schumer, if you want to help Hockeen, Jeffries,
you have to give incentive to the members of Congress
that they are trying to appeal to.

Speaker 21 (01:17:11):
I agree it look pretty feckless.

Speaker 11 (01:17:14):
I agree that you know, we can ask questions about
do we have the right leadership for this time?

Speaker 21 (01:17:19):
That is not what is an issue right now.

Speaker 11 (01:17:22):
What we need are enough people calling I've ben Aicent,
the chief of staff.

Speaker 21 (01:17:27):
What we care about is.

Speaker 11 (01:17:28):
How many people thought enough of this issue to call
in and to make their voices known.

Speaker 21 (01:17:37):
That's how they're measuring it.

Speaker 11 (01:17:38):
How many people are concerned about rural houspittles closing. How
many people are concerned about the fact the work requirements
we already know this from when they've been implemented in
other states, actually costs more than they saved and kick
people off the rolls.

Speaker 21 (01:17:54):
They do not do what you might think they do.
How many people know.

Speaker 11 (01:17:59):
That people will kicked off Medicaid, but it will be
more difficult for women to get the maternal.

Speaker 21 (01:18:04):
Health that they need. How many people know that.

Speaker 11 (01:18:06):
That's our focus, along with all of the other problems
in the bill that are not healthcare related.

Speaker 21 (01:18:12):
This bill kills people, and it does it so that
it can give tax.

Speaker 11 (01:18:18):
Breaks to the wealthiest Americans to an oligarchy that is
undermining our democracy.

Speaker 21 (01:18:24):
Those are the basic facts. Well, but you got to
get on the phone. You have to do that. If
you're not doing that, you are doing shiting.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Want to hear about it, right, all right, folks, So
one second we come back. We're going to talk about
aa A program stem Cell AI program out of Georgia
being greatly impacted by cutting the federal aid. You're watching
Rollend Martin nine Pilto on the Black Sun Network.

Speaker 16 (01:18:53):
This week on a Balanced Life with Doctor Jackie, we're
talking faith, family, fatherhood, and the pathway to reentry. Most
of us, in some way, shape, form or fashion, have
had someone in our lives, whether it was a grandfather,
a father, an uncle, a brother or cousin who has
been incarcerated or justice impacted. What does that look like

(01:19:15):
in rebuilding family and relationships? What does it look like
for us to be able to have substantive conversations, come
to the table, love on each other while at the
same time get it all out in the open so
that we can begin a new journey together.

Speaker 31 (01:19:30):
You know, the last thing you want is in the
midst of trying to piece your life back together, for
home to not be a comfortable place.

Speaker 16 (01:19:38):
That's all next on a Balance Life with Doctor Jackie
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On our next skipt well the boler of a.

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Woman who identified the overlow bag syndrome and now she's
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In major department stores.

Speaker 15 (01:20:13):
And I was just struggling with two or three bags
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and I said, you know what, there are a lot
of women that have carrying two or three bags.

Speaker 13 (01:20:24):
That's right here on Gift Wealthy only on black Star Network.

Speaker 18 (01:20:32):
here talking about the unfortunate case a thirty year old
Adriana Smith who was diagnosed and pronounced as brain dead
at nine yeks pregnant and is being kept alive by
the state to carry this pregnancy out the term without
any input from her family.

Speaker 20 (01:20:50):
It's a really hiring example of the lack of motherly
autonomy we have in a close row world.

Speaker 19 (01:20:54):
And we're going to dream bigger. Join us on the
Other Side of Change, only on the Blackstar Network.

Speaker 24 (01:21:04):
Next on the Black Table with me Greg Carr an
hour of Living History was doctor Richard Maria Kelsey, Thinker Builder,
author and one of the most important and impactful elders
in the African American community. He reflects on his full
and rich life and shares his incomparable wisdom about our past, present,
and future.

Speaker 25 (01:21:23):
I'm Vigenius's saying that my uncle was Virginius, my brother
was a Jenius, my neighbor was a genius. I think
we ought to drill that in ourselves and move ahead
rather than believing that.

Speaker 26 (01:21:36):
I got it.

Speaker 24 (01:21:37):
That's next on the Black Table here on the Black
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Hello, we're the Credit Fixes. I'm doctor Nada Hadgis and
I'm doctor Terrence Ferguson, and you're tuned into.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Roland Martin unfiltered. All right, Aaron i Q was talking

(01:22:08):
about artificial intelligence and how we need to know how
these things work. But the question is where do you
go to actually learn this stuff. Well, in Georgia, they
have an initiative to teach young folks in their parents
with regards to AI. But one of the issues they
were facing resources custom federal grants has impacted a program

(01:22:29):
in Georgia. Joining us now is Valerie Mackew, the CEO
of right Now Solutions. Of course, Andrea Curry, the director
of Westside Worst Career Rise. Glad to have both of
you here. Valerie, first, tell us what is this program?
Who are you helping? Sure?

Speaker 21 (01:22:47):
This program is to.

Speaker 32 (01:22:48):
Help upscale folks.

Speaker 23 (01:22:49):
In the community of Atlanta that would like to have
a technology careers.

Speaker 32 (01:22:54):
It would specialize in artificial.

Speaker 23 (01:22:55):
Intelligence because it is in high demand, employers needed all
the time. So there's an eight week boot camp sort
of speak, where we have people come in, they learn.

Speaker 32 (01:23:06):
More AR tools. It's not just one tool, so we'd.

Speaker 23 (01:23:09):
Like to look at it as vendor agnostic, so they
learn several differs, different types with their Microsoft, Google, IBM,
all the tools that makes them very marketable in this field.
And for this particular program is for our youth. It's
from eighteen to twenty four. We have some programs focused
on everyone. This particular program, we wanted to focus on

(01:23:30):
our youth, the ones that may or may not have
gone to college, to give them an opportunity to start
your careers.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
And hello, So cass Andrea, I'm sorry, go ahead, No, no,
I go ahead, I'm sorry, jump ahead there, go ahead, Nope.
So let's talk about this program. First of all, how
long has this been going on? How many students have

(01:23:59):
you helped.

Speaker 23 (01:24:01):
Yes, Okay, so this particular program stuck. I'm sorry, sondre Gohea.

Speaker 6 (01:24:07):
No go ahead, go ahead, okay.

Speaker 16 (01:24:10):
So I'm Calesandria, and I am grateful to be here
first of all, but I work for an organization called
Career Rise and we are intermediary here in Atlanta that
really work with a number of organizations, resources, workforce providers,
and employers all for the purpose of helping job seekers

(01:24:33):
get access to training programs and employment that help them
with their economic mobility. And so what I do is
I oversee operations at west Side Works, which is a
west Side resource center that have a number of different
phenomenal career support service resources and training programs. And Valerie

(01:24:55):
and her team are one of those providers that support
us with that training train to Place model. And so
that AI program was implemented really because we know that
technology is ever changing and we have to do all
that we can to help our young people and all
job seekers maintain relevance to the current day market and

(01:25:20):
the needs and the shifts in the in our workforce.
And so this training program is the very first implementation
at Whatsie Works for this year, and it's focused on
youth and engaging them in opportunities and pipeline opportunities to
go into technology career pathways. So while it's the first
time that we're doing this, we have a pretty we

(01:25:43):
have a youth program initiative that focuses on multiple different tracks,
and there's about eighty youth that we've engaged through those
various tracks. But I think we have just about a
little under twenty five that have started this particular program.

Speaker 23 (01:25:57):
With that, now, I just want to add, over time,
we have trained approximately two thousand people in various areas
including cloud engineering, web project management tools, salesforce service now

(01:26:18):
all these tools. Westside Works has also been in business
for very long, quite a while now, and they've had
I don't know, a couple of thousand go through various programs.
But the artificial intelligence program being hot and heavy, new
employers said they needed a new one, and so this
is what we're giving them.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
All right, So obviously these programs cost money. Of course, Andrea,
we've had, you know, a lot of cuts take place
coming out of the federal government. And so how these
cuts impacted this program and how much money do you
need to fund this program? And does a plan of

(01:27:00):
action to raise that.

Speaker 16 (01:27:03):
Yeah, so I will say that, you know, we have
had a lot of shifts, as you mentioned, in government
funding and just funding in general, across all of the
different pathways that typical nonprofits access funding, whether it's through
philanthropic organizations, private funders, and sponsors. Because when the government

(01:27:27):
shifts occurred, a lot of those funding sources really hunkered
down to support their anchor partners and organizations, and so
you didn't see a lot of fruitful offerings to new
partnerships flourishing as of now. So we really have considered
it particularly a slow down in funding opportunities that we

(01:27:48):
typically would anticipate to support operational operations for nonprofits, specifically
our workforce efforts at Whatside Works. So our partnership with
White Down Solutions and this particular AI program careerized. We're
a funders collaborative and one of our larger funding sources

(01:28:10):
is the Arthur and Blank Foundation, which probably supported the
initial grants that supported with the implementation of this program. However,
really helping this program see its way through to the
end really requires multiple diverse funding sources to really support to.

Speaker 12 (01:28:31):
Fill in those gaps.

Speaker 16 (01:28:32):
So we currently val can share a little bit more
about what that particular gap is for this particular program,
but across all of our program pathways, we're seeing about
a million dollars in a funding gap. One of our
largest funding opportunities that was going to be through a
government particular program was about a one point two million

(01:28:53):
dollar gifts that we were hoping to receive, and that
funding was rescinded just it was offered and then receiving.
So we are quickly, you know, putting our boots on
the ground and hoping to hunker down with getting support
and leveraging other resources to continue these programs that we're

(01:29:14):
offering to youth and all of the job seekers across
Metro Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
So Valie, how are you reaching out to the public
for them to support this funding shortfall.

Speaker 23 (01:29:26):
So we have some employer partners that we have talked to,
we have individual funders. As she mentioned, we have a shortfall.
So essentially these programs are free to the participants.

Speaker 32 (01:29:39):
We do not want to charge the people in the community.

Speaker 23 (01:29:42):
We agree that these programs would be free to the participants.
But this particular program is about eight thousand dollars per
person to have this expertise and give them everything they need,
the tools, the access to the tools they need to
learn your certification and so forth. Also, I want to
mention as a part of this, it's a holistic program.
We think about this from a family perspective. So we

(01:30:05):
also have programs for parents. We mentioned this is for
eighteen to twenty four, but there are adults that are
trying to help their children decide where they want to
go in their career that guide us to this point.
So we have programs for parents that also costs money.
We're doing things with the parents, like helping them not
on the level of becoming AI certificate AI consultants, but

(01:30:27):
rather how do they.

Speaker 32 (01:30:28):
Utilize AI in everyday life?

Speaker 23 (01:30:30):
How do they utilize the AI to create healthy recipes
for their family, How do they use AI to send
emails to the superintendent or the principle if their child
needs help at school to make sure that they're heard
in the school system. If they have younger children and
bring us to the younger children. We have pop up
programs for them around career discovery, like what does it

(01:30:52):
take to be a civil engineer, what does it take
to be a technologist, what does it take to be
a media company, what is it take to have those
careers they may not think of. So this program is
not just for artificial intelligence. In this cohort, we talk
about this one of the most because it is actually
the most expensive one to run. It's the most comprehensive.

(01:31:12):
But we didn't forget about the younger students that may
be in high school trying to figure out what their
next step is. Nor do we forget about the parents
that we need to help them decide how they can
help their kids and give them the support systems that
they need. How do they have cybersecurity in their home?
Different programs like that. All in all, these programs cost

(01:31:33):
three hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars to run. We
have garnered a one hundred thousand dollars already, so we
started with some funding. We mentioned Westside Works already had
a program and they work with several venders right now.

Speaker 32 (01:31:50):
Solutions is one of them.

Speaker 23 (01:31:52):
Right now, Solutions offers the programs that I just mentioned,
but they have other programs that they run too. So
the author Blank's Foundation has started us on our way.
Last year we planned this last year. We started last year.
We kind of knew we would be coming into this
funding this year. We anticipated the funding this year, but unfortunately,

(01:32:12):
after planning and after all of the things we did, that.

Speaker 32 (01:32:15):
Funding, like she said, was rescinded in May.

Speaker 23 (01:32:20):
We actually got most people got their letters midnight that
the funding was going to be rescinded.

Speaker 32 (01:32:27):
So we had to figure out other ways.

Speaker 23 (01:32:28):
And so we're asking people, Hey, it costs eight thousand
dollars for suiting, can you change a life? Can you
do eight thousand dollars to change a life? One scholarship
is eight thousand, and then we have sponsorship opportunities where
if you can do five scholarships, we will list you
as a sponsor as helping so the community can see
your company actually making that huge impact.

Speaker 32 (01:32:50):
But individuals can make that huge impact too, So.

Speaker 23 (01:32:53):
We're reaching out to our employer partners, we're reaching out
to our corporations. We were reaching out to individuals to
see how they would like to help change your life.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
So if a person out there wants to help, where
do they go?

Speaker 32 (01:33:09):
So we have a donation page.

Speaker 12 (01:33:14):
No, we definitely have a donation page.

Speaker 16 (01:33:16):
Thank you Valerie. On our career Rise site. You can
visit w w W career rise Atlanta dot org. Donate now, today,
and we also have a specific donation site that we
can share with you and post on our social We
have it posted on our social media pages as well.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
What is what is the site?

Speaker 16 (01:33:45):
So, career Rise Atlanta dot org is our website and
there's a link there to the donation button. But yes,
there's a link on our website to the but.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
And so so it's career wise Atlanta on one second
on one one one what well, hold one second one second?
You said career Wise Atlanta dot r G.

Speaker 16 (01:34:13):
Yes, career Rise Atlanta dot O r G. And there's
able place that says donates, and also we.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
Have hold on one second, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on one second.
Control room, Can y'all pull that website up? Control room?
Can y'all pull that website up? Please?

Speaker 28 (01:34:36):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Okay, because I want to be so folks can actually
see it. So career Wise Atlanta dot r G.

Speaker 16 (01:34:50):
Yes, and Atlanta is spilled all the way out. So
career c A R E E R R I S
E A E C L A n c A dot org.

Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
All right, so folks, this is the page again. There's
a donut button there, donate button there so you want
to support the initiative, please do so, And so again
go to career wise Atlanta dot org. Uh and a
career rise dot Atlanta org. So folks check that out.

(01:35:29):
And again we were talking about again the AI programs
is one thing to just to say what we need,
but again it's a different thing when you actually have
to learn how to how to do these things. And
so again pull up again, folks, So go to career
rise dot org. Then your career wise Atlanta dot org.

(01:35:51):
Then you will see the donate button where all the
folks watching can assist. All right, so appreciate it. Thanks
a bunch of good luck.

Speaker 11 (01:36:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 32 (01:36:01):
We really appreciate the time you gave us here. I
appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
Roland. Yes, folks will be right back. Roland Mark unfiltered
on the Black stud.

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Roland Martin Unfiltered.

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Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
Hm. All right, folks, welcome back to the show that
you know, when these things happen, you know, be we
try to have some care and compassion for people who
are being impacted by these ice raids and what Trump
is doing. But if you are a Latino for Trump,

(01:38:17):
I literally don't care what happens to you. I'm just
gonna go ahead and say it. I don't I'm sorry.
Remember remember the viral video and brothers, like it's above me. Now,
that's really the position that I'm taking.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
I have zero compassion, zero concern, zero empathy for.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
Anybody who is a Latino for Trump's supporter and your
ass now in trouble. Here's what I mean. Have have
y'all seen this story of Cuban activists Hector Luis Valdez Kocho.

(01:39:17):
He found that Latinos for Trump and he rallied voters
for Trump in Florida. His ass is now sitting in
the ice attention facility and likely it's gonna get deported
back to Cuba. Now. Florida Center e Lana Garcia also

(01:39:38):
Latinos for Trump. Blasting these roundups is intolerable, inhumane and
wrong and this is not fair, Rebecca h I all
I have for them are thoughts in.

Speaker 5 (01:39:55):
Prins, thoughts, prayer, salutations. I mean, you hate to see it,
but not really, I mean, like, what are we doing here?
You know, this is so bizarre for people to think, oh,
it's gonna be everybody else but me. They supported a

(01:40:15):
strong man, and now they're understanding what is a strong man?
And it's not Hector.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
I just I'm Joe. I can't.

Speaker 33 (01:40:30):
I mean I'm trying right now be christ Like, but
I'm not like Jesus.

Speaker 5 (01:40:41):
Wasn't Petty didn't Jesus taught from behind at the.

Speaker 1 (01:40:47):
Church hashtag hashtag we tried to tell you Joe, Joe,
I've got nothing for him. I just don't. Sorry.

Speaker 10 (01:41:00):
Here's here's here's where I split it up. I'm still
a Christian guy and try to be christ Like. I
come up short all the time, and I'll tell people
when I do. And that being said, it has some
compassion for the families of people, the families that are
connected to stupid people that make stupid decisions. Yeah, on

(01:41:21):
some level, that being said, that doesn't mean that I
get to save you from every consequence.

Speaker 6 (01:41:27):
Right, you know, I really got free. Let's talk about
being free and what that What freedom really means.

Speaker 10 (01:41:33):
Freedom really means that you can't always save people from
their stupidity.

Speaker 6 (01:41:37):
That's what that means. So listen, I'm gonna try to
help you know.

Speaker 10 (01:41:41):
I'm assuming people are already you know, getting getting calls about,
you know, people in different situations or whatever else. Even
I'm not really an immigration guy, but on some level
in my world, we have to prioritize.

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
Not only talking about legal world. Just in social you know,
social circles or.

Speaker 10 (01:42:00):
Whatever, you have to prioritize people that did what they
could to help themselves. People make mistakes all the time.
But this right here is walking into the street when
you know that a car is coming and you think
that somehow you're going to evade it, like you're going
to walk through it or something like this is ghosts
to you to go to whisper or something. No, this

(01:42:20):
was going to happen. You could see that this was
going to happen. And so therefore what that means is
that into the prioritation, prioritization of my responsibilities and my priorities,
I don't trip as much as I would now. I still,
you know, am concerned about some of the larger constitutional
implications doing things without due process, et cetera. And we'll

(01:42:43):
be there on that front. That being said, there's twenty
four hours in a day. I need about eight of
it to sleep, and I'm going to And I'm not
as sympathetic as I could be for those that saw
something coming or knew or should have known, we say,
in the law, and still voted for him anyway. Uh,

(01:43:04):
And hey, that's where I need help pray for me.

Speaker 21 (01:43:13):
I want to associate myself with Jill. Don't you speak
for me.

Speaker 9 (01:43:22):
I struggle here.

Speaker 21 (01:43:23):
I want to be empathetic and I am, but they
made a.

Speaker 1 (01:43:27):
Huge I just no, no, no, no, I just want
you all to know this, this is my position with Hector.
I'm just letting you. I'm just letting y'all know.

Speaker 13 (01:43:44):
I ain't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
Matter of fact, if I could get my eyemask, this
is me with Hector. If if my two phones were
ringing and Hector was calling, uh, it'll be all do
not disturb, right, go ahead, Joey, I'm go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:44:06):
I just.

Speaker 21 (01:44:08):
It's not just Hector.

Speaker 11 (01:44:10):
There's some Haitians in Florida who made a bad choice
as well, and we see what's happening to them. There
are some people who felt like we're different from African
Americans and then you know whatever, and they went a
different way everybody after.

Speaker 21 (01:44:28):
Round, and they're going to find out.

Speaker 11 (01:44:31):
And while I certainly am going to help where I can,
I'm going to start with you know, African Americans first.
With you know, I just have to because resources are limited,
resources are limited, and like Joe, like Rebecca, I got
a focus where you know where my energies are both

(01:44:52):
respected and welcomed and deserved.

Speaker 21 (01:44:57):
But anything that might still out to the rest of us,
we have to prioritize that. So to the extent that's true.

Speaker 11 (01:45:04):
Absolutely, And let me just say to all protesters, no
matter where you are, and I know this is controversial.

Speaker 21 (01:45:12):
But your goal is to convince.

Speaker 11 (01:45:16):
Americans to be with you, fly the American flag at
your protests.

Speaker 21 (01:45:22):
Don't fly the Mexican flag. Make sure that you are.
I'm unfortunately you're gonna have to look at what we did.

Speaker 34 (01:45:29):
Oh hell no, no, no, no, damn that, damn that
damn that joy No, hell no joy.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
If they don't punk asses, flu the Confederate flag and
the Trump flag on January sixth, hey, fly your Mexican flag,
Fly your Venezuelan flag, fly your Costa Rican flag.

Speaker 35 (01:45:52):
Damn them, no, no, I.

Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
Have no interest in appeasing these castes. If you a Haitian,
fly your Haitian flag. If you are from Bermuda, fly
your Bermutan flag. If you are from Soudan, if you
are from Chad, if you were from the Congo, if
you are from Sierra Leon, you're from any of these countries,

(01:46:17):
fly your flag because guess what them goddamn Irish folks
show fly they flag. We don't say shit on Saint
Patrick's Day. No, hell no, I'm not a season these racists. No,
I ain't appeasing these damn racist I don't care. I
ain't a peasing. Listen. They don't even like the Puerto Rico.

(01:46:40):
They don't even like see no, no, no, see see
y'all talking about optics. They don't give a death. Let
me tell you something. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 35 (01:46:50):
Every every protester, every protester could be dripped in American
hat shirt, T shirt, underwear, socks, shoes.

Speaker 1 (01:47:04):
Jeans, and they will still deport they as that don't
mean a damn Listen, these foods are sending it back. No, no,
you no. Let me tell you something right now. You
can't convince them, see joy. That's what I'm trying to
get you, just say, damn respectability politics. You cannot convince

(01:47:26):
them because they don't care. They are sending back Afghans
who helped us win in Afghanistan. They are sitting it.
They don't care. That's what we get to understand. Donald
Trump and MAGA doesn't care. They don't care.

Speaker 21 (01:47:46):
You're not trying to convince Trump and Mega you're trying to.

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
Make Okay, well, who are you trying to convince?

Speaker 21 (01:47:52):
You're trying to convince. They already monsters of Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
They raided joy they raided in elementary school graduation, They
raided an elementary school graduation. Guess what they are? They
already monsters they are, but not.

Speaker 11 (01:48:13):
But we want Americans, some of whom are Democrats, some
of whom are moderates, who don't support much of the
way that these are being carried out, but who support
the sentiment they believe that you are if you are
here illegally, you should not be here.

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
I was just in a.

Speaker 21 (01:48:30):
Studio on Monday and someone was telling me this.

Speaker 11 (01:48:35):
Who supports the our cause, who supports immigrants, but who
feels like they shouldn't be here. Guys, this is a
real sentiment. We got to stop believing that everyone feels
the way that we do.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
They don't.

Speaker 24 (01:48:48):
No, no, no, no, no, no no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:48:50):
Let me real clear. I understand sentiment. No, I understand sentiment.
I'm real clear. Where listen, I got a whole book
on this is called white fear. I understand sentiment. Okay,
So this taking a damping the d with the sentiment.
What I'm trying to explain you is you, I don't

(01:49:11):
care what if every single person in Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Philadelphia,
what protests are taking place, if every single one of
them was waiving an American flag, if all if they
were sitting singing God Bless America and America the beautiful

(01:49:35):
and the star Spangled banner. Do you know what the
Maga Republic's gonna say, Send the ass is back.

Speaker 21 (01:49:43):
You're right, I'm not time, that's what.

Speaker 1 (01:49:45):
They're gonna say. So so I'm not I'm not.

Speaker 11 (01:49:49):
Trippings and our family members who are looking at them
and saying, you know what, I really hate what I'm seeing.
But we want to help them remove the button by
making sure we are bringing people along with us, and
that we are saying what's happening here is in humane
and this is wrong. And no matter how you feel

(01:50:10):
about whether people said Joey.

Speaker 1 (01:50:11):
It don't matter, Joy Joy, they fired bullets there, Joy,
They're firing rubber bullets at journalists. They don't give a shit,
they don't care them. I'm telling you, right, these people
this matter. It's well guess what, Okay, well, well, well,

(01:50:34):
hell up, hold up, Okay, So what you're saying is
moderates are going you know what, I would be on
the same page with you if only they weren't flying
those Mexican flags. Hell no, they ain't saying that.

Speaker 11 (01:50:49):
No, but I do think what it says is is
that you want to be here, and so how do
we create an image?

Speaker 21 (01:50:56):
This is a TV show. We've said that a couple
of times.

Speaker 11 (01:51:00):
You have got to create a TV show that appeals
to the people watching in the audience.

Speaker 21 (01:51:05):
And if you don't believe that, they keep doing what
you're doing. But I think that they're going to have to.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
I'm confused write a movement what we did.

Speaker 21 (01:51:14):
Otherwise, you have to be strategic and you have to
know to your audience and what we're trying to do.

Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
So no, no, no, no, no, no, we know the audience.

Speaker 21 (01:51:23):
We differently in the midterms.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
Okay, So I'm confused. Wow, this is where I'm confused, then, Rebecca,
Because these same folk go to Mexican restaurants. These same
folk love them some salca when they get chipped suca
and guacamole when they go to restaurants. The same folk

(01:51:51):
love dancing the salsa music. These same folk love them
some glory Estefan, they love see again. Said the point
I'm making here is you there is nothing that you
can do. You cannot you cannot put a suit on,

(01:52:13):
put a tie on. You can't be quiet, you can't
be It doesn't matter where we are. Right now, these
white folks are saying, we want all y'all gone. I
have played that clip from The Under Shepherd when the
Matt Damon character says, when Joe Petty said, we Italians

(01:52:37):
got this, the Jews got this, the black folks he
didn't say black, he said the N word. They got this,
The Irish got the homeland. He said, what do you
people have? And Matt Damon said, we got the United
States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.
That's so there's nothing you can't go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:53:03):
So I'm listening to Joy's argument, and yes, Joy, I
saw those talking points too. So tonight I'm in Montgomery, Alabama.

Speaker 6 (01:53:11):
I'm not too far.

Speaker 5 (01:53:12):
You know, it's less than an hour way where the
Pettis Bridge is. If John Lewis had the flag draped
around him rather than his church foes and his church
hardbottom shoes going cross that bridge. The outcome would have
been the same. The dogs still would have been sicked
like a god.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
Is ass whooped? What a god is ass whooped? It
would have wiped the blood in the American flag.

Speaker 5 (01:53:37):
One thing that was interesting is that when we saw
the fights and we saw Bullo O'Connors sick the dogs
across Alabama, one thing that we noticed is that when
it played on the nightly news, it was an effort
to appeal to those white folks in the North, so
they really understood that this is America. This is what's

(01:54:00):
happening in America. Now, where I disagree with you Joy
here is that it's not the Democrats or the moderates
that I think this has to play out for as
we go into the twenty twenty six elections. But it's
for those who opted not to vote. It's for those
who decide that they weren't going to be a part
of the political process in twenty twenty four. So as

(01:54:22):
they're seeing these American cities, they're seeing that the National Guard,
against the will of the governor, is being called up
by the president and it's taking over American streets. Those
are the types of folks that we need to get
activated and for them to say, you know what, this
is not okay, I'm actually going to use my voice
here and I'm going to register my vote and I'm

(01:54:43):
actually going to vote here. It's not the moderate Democrats.
Because if you're a moderate Democrat and you're watching this
and you go into the twenty twenty six election cycles saying,
you know, van Democratic Party really hasn't convinced me that
there's something wrong that's going on, then that's a whole
different thing. But for those who have opted to not vote,

(01:55:05):
not be a part of the electoral political process, it's
those people think this is going to play out towards
and it's those people who I think are going to
vote against the current regime in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:55:21):
Joe, you went to weigh in.

Speaker 10 (01:55:24):
Yeah, I mean, I'll briefly say, to kind of sum
it all up, I think you do have to leave
if you can an olive branch, as it pertains the
potential for convincing some people, whether it's the moderns and Democrats,
whether it's the people that aren't voting, you really have
to still make that presentation, even though we have reason

(01:55:44):
it would seem for us to be pessimistic about that.

Speaker 6 (01:55:48):
Because I think that if people vote the way that.

Speaker 10 (01:55:50):
They're supposed to, and that's why I leank toward people
that aren't voting, these elections won't be close.

Speaker 6 (01:55:56):
And so we really have to do that the best
way we can.

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
Joy Jeorgy. So here's the thing for me, it's a
whole bunch of these latinos down in South Texas along
the border flying they had Mexican flags, but they standing
with Trump. So again, and I've seen the arguments. Look

(01:56:26):
at them, look at them. How dare they fly their flags?
The reason I take the issue with this is because
in this country, that's literally how white folks have been.
You don't like it, go back to where you came from. Well,
for us that the United States, that's how they operate.

(01:56:47):
But them saying white folks don't never take their ass
back to Germany or Europe. So again, I get the
whole I get what people say. I just wish they
would just fly the American flag. I guarantee you right now,
if they all flew the American flag, them same folks,

(01:57:09):
they're not gonna change their sentiment. They're not they gonna
find some other damn excuse. Look at how they're addressed.
Oh my god, look how loud they are. Oh my goodness,
Why must they block traffic? They just go skip to
the next thing. This is just one and the litany
of things that they want to whine and complain about.

Speaker 21 (01:57:31):
Go ahead, You're probably right.

Speaker 11 (01:57:35):
We're talking about everything that you can do to make
sure that when the narrative is being created, you are
making the other side look worse than you are. And
I think Donald Trump is doing a great job at that.
There's gonna have to be more guys. Look at Chipoling.
The American people are not where we think they are

(01:57:57):
on it. I hope it changes. I hope that if
you do care about this issue, that you are calling
in to your member of Congress. Really that's the only
thing that matters. It's actually not what we see on
TV and not what we see on the streets.

Speaker 21 (01:58:10):
You actually have to call in if.

Speaker 11 (01:58:11):
You care about these issues, don't let what you see.
Got to hit up your White House switchboard. You got
to hit out your Member of Congress switchboard. They have
to believe this is going to cost them something. You
have to be at the town halls, etc. That's the
only thing that matters. That said, if you are a protester,
I do think you have to be careful and strategic

(01:58:32):
about the way you are prepresented. And that is especially true.
I'm glad they Rebecca brought up Bloody Sunday. One of
the reasons we were successful is that America saw what
happened there and they responded.

Speaker 21 (01:58:47):
Because it was so terrible, they wouldn't so part of that.

Speaker 11 (01:58:52):
And we saw protesters who were non violent who were attacked.

Speaker 21 (01:58:56):
That was strategic in and of itself.

Speaker 11 (01:58:59):
So you know, Ronaruther King and everyone there, they were strategic,
these protesters.

Speaker 21 (01:59:04):
I encouraged them to be strategic as well. That's all
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:59:09):
Yeah, but yeah, but but but but there's a there
is a there's a difference between there's a huge difference
between folks trying to get the right to vote and
dressing up, being presented, being presentable, being nice, and you're
dealing with Jim Crow folk in the South. It's a
difference between.

Speaker 6 (01:59:30):
That and then.

Speaker 1 (01:59:34):
You a parent, and you at an elementary school graduation
and ice rolls in and parents flee leaving crying kids
at an elementary school graduation It's a difference when so

(01:59:54):
called ICE agents en mask showing no ideas, roll up
to school saying, oh, the parents have given us permission
to do a wellness check on their children, and the
parents have given us permission to take their kids out
of school, straight as lying to the principal. The principal

(02:00:19):
won't let them in. Then what happens is they then
ICE people say yeah, they with us, but they're not
really are ICE agents? Right? So what's going on here
when these funds when there are people, no hold up,

(02:00:44):
When they're people who are following the legal process and
are showing up for appointments and are being snatched on
their way to their they're following the legal process. When

(02:01:04):
you got racists like Christopher Rufo who literally who literally
literally literally posted this on his substack. This is what
a flag don't mean nothing. Christopher Rufo posted this. I

(02:01:26):
read fish yesterday and I need to read it right now.
This is the same white conservative who let the whole
crt and anti woke, anti DEI. He said at the
same time, as we saw demonstrated in Portland, Oregon during
the George Floyd riots, the agencies should dispatch unmarked vans

(02:01:49):
to follow key agitators and quote this is what he says,
and snatched them from the streets. Bring all the panel
up and snatched them from the streets while the media
are not looking. Says the most effective.

Speaker 36 (02:02:06):
Riot control is to take movement leaders off the field
and filtrate their networks, disrupt the flow of.

Speaker 1 (02:02:18):
Funding, and roll them up in federal investigations. He denying
the left train protest leaders now will create a strong
precedent for the rest of the president's term. Rebecca, that

(02:02:39):
is what one of their so called thought leaders literally
rolled out. This ain't this ain't got nothing to do
with flags. These people, they are calling to snatch people
off the streets. Marked that Trump is saying that he
is going to sin European citizens to Guantanamo Bay and

(02:03:05):
will not tell their home country where they're located. Go ahead, So, Roland, I'm.

Speaker 5 (02:03:13):
In the movement space. I lead a national organization. A
lot of the conversation that especially other leaders of color
are having is about personal safety, safety of our staff.
I personally know movement leaders, whether it's state leaders, local leaders,
or national leaders who now have security detail like this

(02:03:37):
is a very real conversation. Even as people are going
in and out of the country, discussing, Okay, do I
take my laptop, do I take my cell phone? Do
I disable the biometrics on my devices just in case
that when I'm crossing back into the United States, I'm
detained and they're searching through my personal or work items.

(02:04:01):
This is a very real conversation. This is the conversation
even across philanthropy on the progressive side, talking about what
does it look like to provide rapid support, security support,
emergency support for those who are leading during this time,
and so you know, it's it's very real, it's very serious.
This is also what we keep using words like authoritarianism

(02:04:24):
and totalitarianism and fascism. So another way of telling the audience,
if we are a quote unquote nation of laws, if
we have a constitution, if we're saying that people have
the right to vote the way they want to vote,
they have the right to speak out the way they
want to speak out, they have the right to protest,
they have all these First Amendment rights, which is the

(02:04:44):
ultimate this the ultimate set of rights when we talk
about First Amendment rights in this country, This president, this
regime is saying that they're going to disregard it. They're
saying it's not important. They're saying that they're above the law.
And and last year the Supreme Court said, well, the
president could do whatever he wants to do because he

(02:05:05):
is the president. So these are very troubling times. This
isn't just something that I'm even saying in abstract. This
is something having to live it out, having to talk
to my staff and to make sure that they're not scared,
make sure that their families aren't scared. So earlier when
I was saying it's time for white people to use
their white bodies and their white privilege, this is what

(02:05:26):
I'm talking about. Because if you are black, if you
are brown, if you are perceived as an other in
this country, they would deport you too. Let's not act
like black Americans can't quote unquote be deported in this regime.
That's next, That's what's happening. The whole point of this
is to silence people, to scare them, to stun them,

(02:05:47):
so then he could spend the next three years doing
things that will permanently impact and permanently harm this country.

Speaker 1 (02:06:00):
Final comment from Joe. Final coming from Jordian. We are done.

Speaker 10 (02:06:05):
We just have to make sense of everything that's going on,
and if it doesn't make sense, we have to make
sense of what it is.

Speaker 5 (02:06:13):
That we do.

Speaker 10 (02:06:14):
We do have to be strategic about taking care of ourselves,
about taking care of each other. A lot of these
things have come to many of our minds, everything from.

Speaker 6 (02:06:26):
Concealed carry permits on down.

Speaker 10 (02:06:28):
I mean, it is really on right now, the things
that are going on and the things that we're thinking about.
And at the same time, I think there is a
way to do both. Yeah, we're in different places. It
pertains to as it pertains to what the government seems
to want to do, as it pertains to what the
president seems to want to do. At the same time,
I say that there is convincing to be had, convincing

(02:06:50):
to be made so that people that are inclined to
vote the right way still need to be brought out
to vote. We still need to be very, very aggressive
about creating opportunities to vote about understanding and moving targets
and that keep getting made and the barriers that keep
getting removed.

Speaker 6 (02:07:09):
We need people in entertainment with big money to help
us with voter things.

Speaker 10 (02:07:15):
If it has to do with making sure people can
get to the polls that they have voter ideas, and
that's what it is that they need to have. We
can no longer not vote, not participate because of the
barriers that are put up when we have the numbers.

Speaker 6 (02:07:30):
So whatever gets us there, that's what I support. Whatever
gets us there, participating, belonging.

Speaker 10 (02:07:37):
And watching, watching out for each other so that when
something's amiss we know right away and therefore we can respond.

Speaker 21 (02:07:49):
Joy I agree completely with what Joe and Rebecca has said. Really,
this is the power.

Speaker 11 (02:07:54):
This is a time of strategy. If you are a
leader of an organization to get clear valt and you
need to be able to say no to some things
because that's not your lane, and you need to say
yes to something so that you can focus. You need
to be focused on what you need to do in
order to convince the decision makers that you need to
convince whatever that looks like for you.

Speaker 21 (02:08:15):
You need to be able to do that and to
zero in and focus on that.

Speaker 11 (02:08:19):
We are getting way too distracted with every comment and
every issue that comes about.

Speaker 21 (02:08:25):
It is not important. Clear out the.

Speaker 11 (02:08:29):
Shiny red objects, sparkly objects, and focus on that which
you can change and who you need in order to
achieve that change.

Speaker 21 (02:08:38):
That's our only goal.

Speaker 29 (02:08:39):
Now.

Speaker 21 (02:08:40):
The feeling part, if you are a leader, the feeling
part is what should drive you to be more strategic.

Speaker 11 (02:08:46):
So that's for our civil rights leaders, that's for our
women's rights leaders, that's for the Democratic Party and any
Republicans who want to be with us as well.

Speaker 21 (02:08:55):
If you don't like what you are seeing, this is.

Speaker 11 (02:08:57):
The time to be strategic, not just be impassioned, but
to be smart. That's where we are going right now
because the stakes, not are for all of us, are high,
but there are certain people. Mistakes are the highest four
and if we care about them.

Speaker 21 (02:09:14):
We have to be smart.

Speaker 1 (02:09:19):
Folks. Of what we are facing are thugs. That's what
they are. They are thugs. If people are responding to
thugs in the way they feel its best to get
their attention, that is what is happening. So let me
thank you, Joe, Let me thank Joe, let me think
Rebecca us really appreciate it. Thank you so very much, folks.
That is it for me. We broadcast a lot from Memphis,

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