1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Just shot seven twenty two. But the bove Care City 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Cork station, it's Monday, It's that time I always look 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: forward to this time. It's the smither Bank former Vice 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: mayor of the City of since St. Christophers Smithman, Welcome back, Christopher, 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: my friend. It's always a pleasure to have you on 6 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: the morning show. 7 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: Oh thank you for having me on. You know, it's 8 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: been a real tough week since the last time I've 9 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: been on because of the violence, you know, in the 10 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati, if I'm right, eleven people shot, three 11 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: dead since I've been on the radio the last time. 12 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 2: And that does not include Brian Thomas, the mass shooting 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: that happened the day before. So we're talking twenty people 14 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 2: shots right over an eight day period of time, pretty easily, 15 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 2: and four homicides or three three deaths, three deaths. And 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: what's so about the violence is you see whether it's 17 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: Madisonville or Otr or Avondale. Because I hear the top 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: of the hour young woman was shot in the neck. 19 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: Just you hear a deafening silence from our city leaders. 20 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: It's almost as if they just know these are the 21 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 2: things that are going to happen. It's not normal, Brian 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: Thomas for twenty people from the mass shooting, then the 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 2: eleven people's different areas of our fifty two neighborhoods shot 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: between the last time I was on the radio and today, 25 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 2: and all of those victims as I can see them, 26 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 2: are all Black Americans as I can see them, right, 27 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: I don't believe this. And maybe the FOP president will 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 2: call in and there was a different victim, but I 29 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: don't believe that out of those shootings there was a 30 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: white victim, and most of I could probably project that 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: the people who were doing the shooting were also Black Americans. 32 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: How can we have that kind of level of violence 33 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: happening in our city and have a tone death mayor 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 2: and nine members of council and an administration. I know 35 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: that right in front of the city Hall there's a 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 2: mural that says black lives Matter, right. I know that 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: they project that they care, right, But when they're passing 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: resolutions about what's going on in Israel and what's going 39 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: on in Iran or whatever they're doing about what's going 40 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 2: on in the world, when you see this level of violence, 41 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 2: meaning I don't want to downplay, my heart goes out 42 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 2: to all seven servicemen and women who lost their lives 43 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: in this conflict that we're in, right, but we had, 44 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 2: we're going to have just as many or more murders, right, 45 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 2: most likely in the city of Cincinnati this year, most 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 2: likely than the entire conflict in Iran of US citizens, 47 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: meaning there might be seventy or eighty murders in Cincinnati 48 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 2: this year, right, I would predict that they're not going 49 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: to be seventy or eighty servicemen or women in this conflict. 50 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: And every death and every life is it matters. I'm 51 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 2: not downplaying any of the death I'm saying that we 52 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: are in a war in our city streets, and we 53 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: do not have a council or a mayor or any 54 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: body in this city administration that seems to care or 55 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 2: are willing to put together a plan that they're willing 56 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 2: to be held accountable to to our public, no press conferences. 57 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 2: Know nothing is just another black person, male or female, 58 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 2: dead in one of our fifty two neighborhoods. And yes, 59 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 2: it really insenses me that I don't hear anything from 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 2: the leadership in the City of Cincinnati. I don't want 61 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 2: to hear them ever come forth with black lives matter 62 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: because they don't. To them, they do not care, right. 63 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 2: All they care about are what are the kind of 64 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 2: photo ops we have to have? And if that doesn't 65 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: suit them, the politicians are not going to show up. 66 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: If they can't use the death in some kind of 67 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: way to project something that's related to them politically, they're 68 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 2: not going to say a thing about it. 69 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: Right there, the answer the question, I think, Chrisy, you 70 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: hit it out of the park on that osbring Christopher 71 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: Smitheman back seven twenty six fifty five kr CD Talk 72 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: station and me giving you a st seven thirty fifty 73 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: five KERCD talk station, Brian Thomas with Christopher's Smitheman, who 74 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: what we call the Smith event every Monday beginning at 75 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: seven to twenty. Christopher Smitheman, my friend, what else is 76 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: on your mind today? Are we going to continue with 77 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: team along the deafening silence from council about the outrageous 78 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: crime going on within the city of Cincinnati. 79 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to switch a little bit. But what 80 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:25,919 Speaker 2: I want to do is put a bow on this 81 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: so that you're listening audience, they understand that I might 82 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about as it relates to the politicians, 83 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 2: having been the vice mayor, having been the chair of 84 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 2: Law and Public Safety for the City of Cincinnati. Remember 85 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 2: when there was an attack in the in the middle 86 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 2: of downtown where you had members of council holding press 87 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 2: conferences all over the place saying they wanted somebody right arrested. 88 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 2: That that incident shows you that when they want to 89 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 2: come out, when they want to make announcements about things, 90 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: when they're dealing with violence, they can't. The question is 91 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,239 Speaker 2: why aren't they as active on this as they were 92 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: on the Holly incident when she was knocked out right, 93 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 2: I'm trying to make sure you see how you said, mmm, 94 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: you felt that right? They were everywhere, they held three 95 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: press conferences. They were demanding this and demanding that. I'm saying, 96 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: we had a mass shooting of nine. You know, we've 97 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: got almost eleven people shot since the last time I've 98 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: been on the radio, three dead across our fifty two neighborhoods, 99 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 2: which which is an absolute tragedy, and my heart goes 100 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 2: out to all of their families. But I'm asking why 101 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: do they not have press conferences today on that? Because 102 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 2: they we could not get rid of them off of 103 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 2: our TV when it was related to the incident in 104 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 2: the fight that occurred in downtown. 105 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: Since because the one in downtown sinsidety, the resulting in 106 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: Holly getting that beatdown beat down on video. By the way, 107 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: she's going to be on the program I'm coming up 108 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: after the top of the hour news at eight to 109 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: ZHO five. Because it made national news. Everyone was looking 110 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: at the city of Cincinnati and watching those videos going, 111 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: oh my god, in Heaven, look at how terrible that is. 112 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: Those people are getting brutally beaten and don't seem to 113 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: have really done anything. Oh look there's Holly rendering aid 114 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: to one of the victims. Oh my god, she got 115 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: cold cocked in the face by a man or three 116 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: times their side. You can't hide from that. They were 117 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: forced to come out and have to address it. And 118 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: yet any given weekend or week as the case, maybe 119 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: we get loving people shot too, a few people stab, 120 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: some of them dead. That's not worthy of national attention. 121 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: That's just business as usual at least crime and usual 122 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: in the city of Cincinnati. 123 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 2: I think you drew it very beautifully there. And at 124 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: the cherry on the top is when we had a 125 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 2: judge put a fifty thousand dollars lon right on a 126 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 2: guy who shot nine people at one time, one in 127 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: critical condition, who happens to be an African American males judge, 128 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 2: and nobody understood it. And that's why the ATF that's 129 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: why the FBI, that's why the US Attorney for the 130 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 2: United States of America said they were going to file federally, 131 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 2: and listen, dude, you're not going anywhere because if he had, 132 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: if that, if that, if the US Attorney had not 133 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 2: done that, they knew that the person who had done 134 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 2: a mass shooting would have walked out of the door 135 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: the next day. And so that's what's so crazy about 136 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: this many The last time I was on the on 137 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 2: the show, I didn't know that there was going to 138 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 2: be a fifty thousand dollar bard. I hadn't discussed it 139 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: because it wasn't out there right. That happened after I 140 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: got off the radio on Monday of last week. So 141 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 2: the cherry on top of all of this is we 142 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: have a judicial system that seems not to care about 143 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 2: black people or white people who illegally have guns that 144 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 2: are shooting people in our neighborhood. They're willing to put 145 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: these crazy bonds on them and just say, hey, you 146 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: can go back home. That puts terror in those neighborhoods 147 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: because we know who the shooters are. And so somebody 148 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: shoots nine people and grandma sees them walking down the 149 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 2: street the next day. What do you think that does 150 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 2: to the community, Brian Thoms. 151 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: Not a positive look there, Christopher Smithing. And do you 152 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: think a judge like I guess, I'm trying to contemplate 153 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,119 Speaker 1: the idea that this individual might represent a greater harm 154 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: to the black community. Should a judge say, I'm a 155 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: black man, judge, I am concerned about the black community. Therefore, 156 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put one hundred thousand dollars bond on this 157 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: guy because he may very well go back home where 158 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: he lives, let's say, hypothetically in a black community, But 159 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: if he lived in a white community, I'm gonna only 160 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: put a fifty thousand dollars. But that would be a 161 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: racist at Christopher, And honestly, I'm trying to struggle with 162 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: the idea that that might happen that way. 163 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 2: I'm just saying, a mass shooting of nine people where 164 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: the victims were screaming out for justice, everybody there, you know, 165 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 2: the super super super supermajority of people there that were there, 166 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: but this year had just there to have a good turn. 167 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 2: Yeah right, and somebody has spraying bullet into the crowd. 168 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 2: The terror of that is insane, just the terror of it. 169 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 2: People are gonna need counseling after something like that. I 170 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 2: just was shocked by the bond and I was glad 171 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 2: that there was an adult in the room the federal 172 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: government that said no, no, no, you're not going anywhere 173 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 2: when I know we're going to go to break And 174 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 2: what I want to talk about, I'm going to tea 175 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 2: it up is the Jesse Jackson funeral because there are 176 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 2: things that happen there that the family has been speaking 177 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 2: about publicly, but the news is not covering, and that 178 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 2: is their concern about their funeral of their father. Jesse 179 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 2: Jackson Junior turned into a political rally, which is something 180 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 2: he articulated to them prior to his father's service. Please 181 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 2: don't come here with your political speeches. And if you 182 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 2: heard what Jesse Jackson Jr. Said, because you're listening, audience 183 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: might not know this because it's not being reported. He said, 184 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: none of the three former presidents who spoke at my 185 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 2: father's funeral, knew him person at all. 186 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: Right, and Trump, and Trump was not one of them. 187 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: You got Biden, you got Obama, you got Clinton. Donald 188 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: Trump wasn't there. And yet Jesse Jackson Jory slammed the 189 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: other three that or we'll get to that with Christopher 190 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: Smith Maman coming up next. I want you to experience 191 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: comfort and reliability because I want you to rely on 192 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: Zimmer heating and air conditioning. Which deep talk station seven 193 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: forty here fifty five K see the talk station Ron 194 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: Thomas with Christopher Smith Aman what we call the Smith Event. 195 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: Jane wanted to pivot over to the Jesse Jackson funeral, 196 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: the memorial, that service that was being done. I would 197 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: say the crowd there, Christopher, from my observations in the 198 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: video that I saw a largely or at least predominantly 199 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: black crowd. I thought one of the more interesting elements 200 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: before you get to the Jesse Jackson Junior slamming the 201 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: three former presidents that were there, Biden, Obama, and Clinton. 202 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: Biden I think kind of stepped with it. Speaking to 203 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: a group of largely black people. He told the crowd 204 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: he was a hell of a lot smarter than most 205 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: of you. Wow. Wow, I don't think he has any 206 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: self awareness, Christopher. But go ahead and your comments, sir. 207 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 2: I just you know, I've been watching, trying to watch 208 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 2: MSNBC and CNN just to see if they were going 209 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 2: to illuminate what Jesse Jackson Junior's reflections were about his 210 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 2: father's memorial, and they haven't. And so what you see 211 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 2: is this what I want to call this blackout of information. 212 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: You know, in politics and on our news stations, is 213 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 2: not just what they talk about, it's what they don't 214 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: talk about. And so most people are a lot of 215 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 2: people listening this morning might not know that Jesse Jackson 216 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 2: Junior had some very pointed comments about the politicians that 217 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 2: spoke at his father's funeral. He said, I told them 218 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 2: before they were coming, don't make my father's funeral about politics. 219 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 2: He also stated that the three presidents who spoke never 220 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: knew his father, and he said that his father spent 221 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: a lifetime really fighting against the politicians and their public policies. 222 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 2: These are these are this is what he's he's communicating, 223 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 2: and he's speaking on behalf of the entire family and 224 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 2: his mom. He acknowledged his mother, who was there somewhere 225 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 2: in his remarks, and what he was basically saying here 226 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 2: is and he said, it doesn't matter whether you're a 227 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 2: Republican or a Democrat or an independent. You know, my 228 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 2: father was about public policy, not about your party and 229 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 2: what you've done here, which he wasn't disappointed, But what 230 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 2: he was articulating is you came and made a political 231 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: rally out of my father's memorial and out of our pain, 232 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 2: suffering and death of our father. Remember, this is a 233 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 2: man who was a grandfather, who was a father who 234 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 2: we loved, right, who fought injustices in America. We thought 235 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: you were going to come and tell his story, not 236 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 2: tell your story. And so I think it was a 237 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: very pointed comment, and it was a kee off of 238 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 2: what a lot of politicians do. And I have to 239 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 2: tell you it meant a lot to me in this 240 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 2: sense because I buried a spouse and I wouldn't want 241 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 2: anybody you were there. I wouldn't want anybody coming and 242 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 2: being political at my wife's funeral. It's not the time, 243 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 2: it's not the place. Right. The governor spoke at Pamela's funeral, 244 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: he didn't make it about politics at all. And so 245 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 2: my point is that the family has set a message 246 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 2: this week that it seems like the news is under 247 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 2: reporting that he was very concerned about them turning his 248 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 2: father's funeral into their own personal political rally, which he 249 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 2: did not like. 250 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. Quote, but these ongoing services are welcome to all Democrat, Republican, 251 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: liberal and conservative, right wing, left wing because his life 252 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 1: is broad enough to cover the full spectrum of what 253 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: it means to be an American. I'm glad he went up. 254 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: He stood up and said that that's not really something 255 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: I would have expected out of Jesse Jackson Jr. 256 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 2: Well, the point is that he saying, I'm here, He's 257 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: a grieving son, and he's saying, listen, guys, this wasn't 258 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: the time or place for you to come and make 259 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 2: your political speeches. I'm uncomfortable with it. And Democrats are 260 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 2: so used to going to African American churches listen and 261 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 2: giving these types of political speeches at the end of 262 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: the service, and so many Black Americans are tired of it. 263 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 2: I know I'm tired of it. Speaking for myself, I'm 264 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 2: tired of politicians showing up to our Black churches during 265 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: election time saying I want your vote, I need your vote, 266 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 2: I need your support. But when you and I are 267 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: talking about eleven people shot and nine shot on the 268 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: Sunday in a mass shooting prior to last Monday, and 269 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: you hear really nothing of substance coming from the nine 270 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 2: members of council, the mayor, or the city administration. But 271 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 2: the Democratic Party uses Jesse Jackson in Senior's funeral for 272 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: a platform for them to make political pronouncements. So many 273 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 2: Black Americans are tired of it. And that is what 274 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 2: you're starting to see. You're hearing Black Americans saying, we 275 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 2: want public policy. We don't care what your political affiliation is. 276 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: We want you to deliver on what you said you 277 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 2: were going to do. And black Democrats and white Democrats 278 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 2: are not used to this discussion that we're having. In 279 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: any time a Black American starts standing up for their 280 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 2: own political independence, all of a sudden, we're not black anymore, 281 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: as Biden said, So all of a sudden, when you 282 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 2: get a mind of your own, all of a sudden, 283 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 2: you're not black. You're an Uncle Tom, you're a sellout. 284 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 2: How could you not just vote for a Democrat because 285 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: I don't like that Democrat. I don't like what that 286 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 2: Democrat has done. 287 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: And the ever growing rising tide of people who otherwise 288 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: are Democrat leaning standing up and saying, quit insulting black 289 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: people by telling us we're too dumb to get a 290 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: photo ID. I mean, just one other tangent corollary. I 291 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: am so pleased to hear that more and more. I've 292 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: been saying it here on the fifty five Krissey Morning Show, 293 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: expressing insult on behalf of my black friends, Like, how 294 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: on the hell can you insult an entire race of 295 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: people telling them they can't get a driver's license? They 296 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: do it every damn day. You and I have talked 297 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: about that here on the terms of the NAACP voting. 298 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you got to be a member and show 299 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: a photo ID in order to cast a vote for 300 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: president of the NAACP. Clearly you can manage that. So 301 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: a welcome, welcome, growing cry about stop saying that you 302 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: are insulting people. 303 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 2: Well, what you're really hearing. And my father said this 304 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 2: to me when I was elected the first time, and 305 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 2: I think I've told you this privately, but he asked 306 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: me to come to his study. He said one thing 307 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: to me. He said, look, son, I do not want 308 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 2: you to hide your intelligence and What he was saying 309 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 2: is I grew up and I was born in the 310 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 2: nineteen thirties, where when you were African American, if you 311 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: had the answer and there was somebody right there, you 312 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 2: couldn't upstagiums. You had to act as if you didn't 313 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 2: know the answer. Well, my father, with a doctorate in 314 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 2: organic chemistry from Howard University, a wonderful HBCU, was saying 315 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 2: to me, Look, the real fight, the real fight, Christopher, 316 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: is not hiding your intelligence, being comfortable in your own skin. 317 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 2: If you know the answer to the math problem, say it. 318 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 2: If you ever understand the politics, say it. What you're 319 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 2: seeing is a new generation of African Americans who are 320 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 2: not their parents. We love our parents. We appreciate everything 321 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: they did. Everything Jessie Jackson had to sacrifice, walking through 322 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 2: back doors, people assassinated in the sixties, standing right next 323 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 2: to him, we appreciate the work that he did. When 324 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 2: he was singing, we shall overcome. But now we're in 325 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: a new air, an error, where we are outside of 326 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: some of this we shall overcome. And it's about economic empowerment. 327 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: It's about owning things. It's about knowing who to vote for, 328 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 2: not being tied to a up litical party. And what 329 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: you're seeing is my generation is starting to take over 330 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: because my mother's generation and Jesse Jackson's generation, and bless 331 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,479 Speaker 2: all of their hearts are starting to pass away. And 332 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 2: so now as Jesse Jackson Junior is standing there, he's saying, 333 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 2: I'm not my father, right, I'm his son, and I 334 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 2: understand America and the fabrics, and I understand the all 335 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 2: of this, all of the great progress we've made in 336 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 2: this country. And what I want to hear you talking 337 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 2: about now is public policy that helps our community, not 338 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 2: just here up here dancing and shuffling and saying, oh, 339 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 2: I just want your vote because I'm a Democrat and 340 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 2: I really don't have any answers to any of your 341 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 2: serious problems. I just say I'm I'm a Democrat, and 342 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 2: I want you to vote for me. I'm saying in 343 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 2: Jesse Jackson Junior's comments to your to your listening audience, 344 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 2: it was and it was a very important speech that 345 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 2: he gave, and he would it was a lightning rod 346 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,360 Speaker 2: speech to the Democratic Party. Don't come here with your 347 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 2: madness anymore, and you're not gonna pimp out my dad 348 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 2: and his death and our family for your political advantage. 349 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 2: You did something that was bad and I'm going to 350 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 2: tell the whole world about it. 351 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: Amen appreciate you bringing that topic to the fifty five 352 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: KC Morning show listening audience because you're right, with the 353 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: exception of a notable handful of conservative media outlets, you're 354 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: not hearing this anyplace else. So Christopher got you to 355 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: thank for pointing out what was a brilliant point made 356 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: by Jesse Jackson Junior. God bless you, Christopher Smithman. I 357 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on so much for having me on. 358 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 2: People can follow me on my X page at Boat Smitherman. 359 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 2: I'll see you next Monday. 360 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: I'll look forward to it. Christopher, have a great week 361 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: between now and then.