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Speaker 2: The whole wild world one up read Malague. But welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, Bringing a world together with books.
Speaker 1: Culture and community.
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf,
Speaker 2: Bringing a world together with one book at a time. Well,
Speaker 2: this election show enough didn't bring the world together, and
Speaker 2: I don't anticipate it will. This country is divided at
Speaker 2: its core, and now they Trump won the election.
Speaker 1: All day long, every major.
Speaker 2: News station is trying to dissect the outcome of this
Speaker 2: last election twenty twenty four. Trump won by a landslide.
Speaker 2: He had a coalition of black, Hispanic Whites, women enough
Speaker 2: to not only win the electoral college, but when by
Speaker 2: millions of votes the popular vote, which hasn't happened for
Speaker 2: a Republican in quite some time.
Speaker 1: This was a blowout.
Speaker 2: A landslide, an electoral college landslide, and a popular vote
Speaker 2: which gives him what they call a mandate or some
Speaker 2: type of clarity on the policies that he want to
Speaker 2: bring forth. But let me say illusion of inclusion. Everybody
Speaker 2: dissecting that. I'm not a politician. I don't like to
Speaker 2: talk politics. I don't like to talk with religion. It
Speaker 2: dividsesed people. I'm trying to bring people together, one book
Speaker 2: at a time. But this election, a lot of people
Speaker 2: want to say it was he wanted because of racism
Speaker 2: and that, which which means that in this country out
Speaker 2: of three hundred something, meaning he probably is going to
Speaker 2: get over eighty million votes when they finished counting, you're
Speaker 2: telling me that a one third of this country is
Speaker 2: flat out racist.
Speaker 1: You know. Listen, America is a lot.
Speaker 2: Of things, but it has changed over the decades in
Speaker 2: the right direction, in the sense that blacks are twenty
Speaker 2: five percent more likely to be more wealthier in this country,
Speaker 2: become millionaires or what have you than any other place
Speaker 2: on this planet. That says a lot about the changes.
Speaker 2: Is it perfect? No?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: God has problems, Yes, And I think a lot of
Speaker 2: the problems is because and I'm black and I'm a
Speaker 2: black man.
Speaker 1: I believe that do for yourself.
Speaker 2: You're supposed to do for yourself what you can do,
Speaker 2: rather than depending on somebody. I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: of things that we can do as black people, independent
Speaker 2: of the government of America to change our condition and
Speaker 2: reality and make things prosperous and better.
Speaker 1: Instead of complaining what the government does not do.
Speaker 2: I open Elik books why to do something about the
Speaker 2: lifeack of information, the lack of love of self, us
Speaker 2: looking at ourselves and disrespecting our own self, our own community.
Speaker 2: Because I believe how you view yourself as direct relationship
Speaker 2: on how you treat yourself and your community and those
Speaker 2: around you. So I didn't complain about it. I did
Speaker 2: something about it. No more excuses. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of things we can do. It's the sky falling. No,
Speaker 2: we have survived worse. Whatever you think about Trump, bottom
Speaker 2: line is this, we have survived worse. There have been
Speaker 2: white supremists like George Washington Thomas Jender have been president
Speaker 2: and they were enslavers and owned slaves. So we have
Speaker 2: gotten through that, which says a lot about how we
Speaker 2: can get through this. Whatever you might think of Trump,
Speaker 2: whatever the percentage of Hispanics, women and Blacks that voted
Speaker 2: him in. You know, I'm been in the book business
Speaker 2: for a long time, and I know women can rule
Speaker 2: the world. Why because we've had net Fa Teeny Claire Pacha,
Speaker 2: These were giants ancient times. They have had women in Europe.
Speaker 2: There have been queens and have ruled Queen Mary of
Speaker 2: Britain or Queen Elizabeth from Britain. So there have been
Speaker 2: women that have ruled great empires, great nations such as Britain,
Speaker 2: Ancient Egypt, and all throughout Europe. So women can rule,
Speaker 2: and women are very intelligent and they're very smart. I
Speaker 2: don't think that Trump won because of.
Speaker 1: His him being who he is in him.
Speaker 2: He won because of a lot of people are feeling
Speaker 2: the economy.
Speaker 1: He won because a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Don't want boys competing or men competing against girls. There
Speaker 2: are a lot of other issues that people need to address. Listen, Usually,
Speaker 2: if you're in the center, you typically appeal to most people.
Speaker 2: Extreme views do not get the majority of the people.
Speaker 1: He's about to get more.
Speaker 2: He's more popular now, He's gotten more votes than he
Speaker 2: did four years ago in twenty sixteen. Why we need
Speaker 2: to study that for to hear all this rhetoric and
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party they don't want to look in the
Speaker 2: mirror and address some of their policies, and the way
Speaker 2: they campaign is, you know, they don't want to see
Speaker 2: what's on the handwriting that's on the wall. It's a
Speaker 2: lot of people in this country don't like the direction
Speaker 2: that's going in. They don't like the policies of the
Speaker 2: present leader. That's the bottom line, and the people spoke,
Speaker 2: and that's why. You know, I don't like the high
Speaker 2: guys present. I don't like going in and having to
Speaker 2: pay the kind of money I gotta pay for for
Speaker 2: I don't like the inflation that's going on. I don't
Speaker 2: like the fact that my sales is down a certain
Speaker 2: percentage because the economy are you know, people are holding
Speaker 2: on to their moneyes and so the retail industry is down.
Speaker 2: Why because there's no growth, Americans spending more money than
Speaker 2: it's taken in and therefore there has created a problem
Speaker 2: with people not having disposable income. So the bottom line is,
Speaker 2: enough people voted to bring President Trump back to deal
Speaker 2: with inflation, to deal with wars around the world, to
Speaker 2: deal with the problems that are plaguing America. And you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't feel that Kamala Harris had the ability to
Speaker 2: do what to address the issues that are before us,
Speaker 2: and so enough people voted against her.
Speaker 1: And now they want to dissect this.
Speaker 2: What did Trump do to attract large numbers of blacks,
Speaker 2: particularly black men, large number of Hispanic men and Hispanics
Speaker 2: in general, and large numbers of course white men.
Speaker 1: Of course he.
Speaker 2: Gonna win the day on that right. But he also
Speaker 2: got a strong percentage of white women. So what is
Speaker 2: it about Trump that he appealed to that element?
Speaker 1: I want to read something somebody sent me. They sent
Speaker 1: me this.
Speaker 2: What so many failed to understand is that MAGA is
Speaker 2: not about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: MAGA is about America.
Speaker 2: We the people were searching for someone, anyone willing to
Speaker 2: fight corruption and preserve freedom.
Speaker 1: We found that in Donald Trump. He's our voice. You see.
Speaker 2: It's not a cult, it's a revolution. Make America great again. Now,
Speaker 2: someone sent that to me because I asked them what
Speaker 2: was it about Donald Trump that Americans like?
Speaker 1: And someone sent that to me, so I wanted to read.
Speaker 2: Those are not my words, Those are the words of
Speaker 2: somebody who sent me this paragraph that they found.
Speaker 1: I guess this is circulating all over social media. So
Speaker 1: the mac of movement is not about Donald Trump. It's
Speaker 1: it is a movement though.
Speaker 2: That's the thing, because he's gotten stronger over the years
Speaker 2: and not weaker.
Speaker 1: And he's been convicted he's been.
Speaker 2: Spoken ninety eight percent of all the negative media or
Speaker 2: ninety eight percent of the media coverage on Trump. They
Speaker 2: say it's negative. So the thing is, what isn't it
Speaker 2: about him that appeals to these people? And someone wrote
Speaker 2: this paragraph that sent it to me that I just read.
Speaker 2: So because I don't know, I don't know what's making
Speaker 2: him for I don't know what's causing black men, Hispanic men,
Speaker 2: enough white women to vote.
Speaker 1: Because a typical politician would.
Speaker 2: Be, you know, thrown out of office or never been
Speaker 2: able to be elected with the things that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: says and does. But they say that's a window of.
Speaker 1: Why racism exists.
Speaker 2: Now, I do feel that there's certain things that Trump
Speaker 2: has said and did that has like peeled the layers
Speaker 2: of America back and expose some certain things on the
Speaker 2: inside because he's taking on some of the greatest enemies
Speaker 2: that have plagged black progress in America. Now you don't
Speaker 2: have to agree with this, but the Corntail program that
Speaker 2: was designed to undermine black organizations was started by the FBI,
Speaker 2: and it undermined black leaders, black organizations. Now you see
Speaker 2: Trump fighting the FBI, you see Trump fighting the CIA,
Speaker 2: you see Trump fighting like I said, corruption in.
Speaker 1: The government or whatever.
Speaker 2: A lot of our black organizations were destroyed and.
Speaker 1: The law was used to undermine them.
Speaker 2: And the same way they're persecuting Donald Trump is the
Speaker 2: way they persecuted a lot of black leaders in the
Speaker 2: black organizations. And they have books out and they called
Speaker 2: Corntail pro the FBI pro on Black Leadership, Black organization.
Speaker 2: These are real books and these documents have come out
Speaker 2: and been placing the book to show you know, the attack.
Speaker 2: They went after Martin Luther King and did certain things
Speaker 2: by trying to get him, by spying on him illegally
Speaker 2: and trying to use that to undermine him. So this
Speaker 2: corntail pro, this covert operation, is clandestine operation that the FBI,
Speaker 2: the CIA users was doing that towards black organizations, black leaders.
Speaker 1: Now it's a term they call it. They call it lawfare.
Speaker 2: And a lot of blacks believe that and whites, you know,
Speaker 2: believe that the lawfair against Trump. Blackfired because people in
Speaker 2: underserved community know what that feels like knowing because a
Speaker 2: lot of Blacks feel the Black Panther Party was targeted
Speaker 2: this way lawfare, that the Nation of Islam as an
Speaker 2: organization was targeted this way that the NAACP was targeted
Speaker 2: this way.
Speaker 1: A lot of the Urban League.
Speaker 2: These are strong organizations that have helped many Black people.
Speaker 2: They have different ideologies, but a lot of black people
Speaker 2: have benefited from these organizations, and a lot of blacks
Speaker 2: feel that lawfair was used against these organizations to undermine
Speaker 2: and to create division amongst black people, because black people
Speaker 2: don't always all think alike, but we all share a
Speaker 2: common denominator which we live mostly in underserved communities, lack
Speaker 2: of resources, liquor stores on every corner, and a lot
Speaker 2: of crime and drugs gained.
Speaker 1: Violence, all of that.
Speaker 2: So most Blacks live in that environment and a lot
Speaker 2: of these organizations attempted to try to make a difference
Speaker 2: in these communities, to lift up Black people and change
Speaker 2: their lives by getting them to do for themselves and
Speaker 2: to love themselves and to stand up and resist against
Speaker 2: oppression and Jim Crow and all the corruption and discrimination
Speaker 2: and racism that was in America. Martin Luther King, a
Speaker 2: lot of people involved in the movement where doctor King
Speaker 2: would targeted by the cointail program. So this is a
Speaker 2: program that and I've come across information where because bookstores
Speaker 2: are located throughout America and their meeting places and places
Speaker 2: that people go to get information that they that bookstores
Speaker 2: were monitored and documented because these are places where seminars, workshops,
Speaker 2: information and things like that. So there's documents how they
Speaker 2: monitor bookstores all across this nation. And these are some
Speaker 2: of the things that and I remember back in the day,
Speaker 2: I used to get calls at the store where people.
Speaker 1: And I see scrolling some of the social media right
Speaker 1: now that.
Speaker 2: Some people are targeted at bookstore all because they want
Speaker 2: to promote a voice for black people.
Speaker 1: I say, leak books, given voice to the voiceless. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of.
Speaker 2: These books wasn't on the shelves of major bookstores. See
Speaker 2: so instead of talking about and complained about it, Malik
Speaker 2: opened up stores in order to give a voice to
Speaker 2: a voiceless.
Speaker 1: So the Balbin Hills location.
Speaker 2: Is all black and brown, lat Black and Latino Children's
Speaker 2: bookstore in Westville. Kov Semar's our general store dealing with
Speaker 2: a dought alway to children with children or one hundred
Speaker 2: percent of our future, because I believe that it's a
Speaker 2: lot of trauma in our communities because of how you
Speaker 2: see yourself. How you view yourself is how you think
Speaker 2: about yourself. And you have to love yourself, to be
Speaker 2: yourself and to do for yourself and to be a
Speaker 2: successful in America. So you know, all I'm saying is, yes,
Speaker 2: America has come a long way. But how can a
Speaker 2: person whom twenty four to seven, seven days week, the
Speaker 2: media lambasted Trump as a racist, as a convicted feeling,
Speaker 2: and yet he won the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: He carried the Senate and the House of represented my understanding,
Speaker 2: and won the electoral College and as a blowout in
Speaker 2: one by landslide, you know, And this hasn't happened because
Speaker 2: the Republican Party has always labeled a sacred gated racist party.
Speaker 2: Yet how can someone like this win? That needs to
Speaker 2: be studied and examined because the question is has America
Speaker 2: ever changed?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure. For a long time I thought that,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I think a lot of people have
Speaker 2: conservative views and they hide it how they feel. You know,
Speaker 2: you got a clan in a suit and you got
Speaker 2: a clan in a white T shirt. They both have
Speaker 2: the same objective, white supremacy over every other culture and race. Now,
Speaker 2: and what steps are they willing to tape depends on
Speaker 2: the group and their ideology. But white people did not
Speaker 2: build this nation for it to be turned over to
Speaker 2: minorities and other groups. And they're gonna fight to the
Speaker 2: death to keep this nation under white power, under white control.
Speaker 2: And so, like I said, I don't know how he won,
Speaker 2: but he won, and he won by a land slide.
Speaker 1: So that's my podcast for this week.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, I got some extraordinary events
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Speaker 1: Let what happened.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are dummy down and upset and
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Speaker 1: Well, guess what, find.
Speaker 2: Joy where you at. Focus on the things you're good at.
Speaker 2: Certain that you can't control, you can't control, but hey,
Speaker 2: you gotta live and you gotta move forward. So at
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Speaker 1: We're gonna find joy. We're gonna lift up our voice.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have some music, and we're gonna talk about,
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