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Speaker 2: Welcome Home.

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Speaker 3: This is Angela Rye with Tiffany Cross and Andrew Gillham.

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Speaker 3: You are tuned into this week's mini pod.

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Speaker 4: Are well, Hiday.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we're in the middle of recording. You face signed me.

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Speaker 5: We love you, Jay, you can face us anytime.

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Speaker 3: Welcome home, Jay, Welcome home j I'm trying to dismiss

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Speaker 3: the bride. Okay, speaking of rights and speaking of crises,

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Speaker 3: picking up facetimed in crises.

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Speaker 5: Mayor Adams, Mayor Eric Adams of New.

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Speaker 3: York City recently appeared on The Breakfast Club and he

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Speaker 3: has something to say about migrant rights.

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Speaker 5: And I want to know if you all think there's.

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Speaker 3: Any truth to the profile of dei mayors also known

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Speaker 3: as black mayors when.

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Speaker 2: Looking at known as mayors.

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Speaker 3: Okay, carry on, when looking at the migrant crisis in

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Speaker 3: these United States.

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Speaker 5: We are going to play this clip and discuss.

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Speaker 6: Check out what they're doing. They're doing it to New York,

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Speaker 6: They're doing it to Chicago, They're doing it to Los Angeles,

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Speaker 6: They're doing it to Houston. What is the same in

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Speaker 6: all those cities? All black mans all black mans, and

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Speaker 6: so with we're saying same thing that I'm going through here.

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Speaker 6: My brother Johnson is going through, my sister bass is

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Speaker 6: going through, my brother Turner is going through. So our

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Speaker 6: folks are what they wanted to happen, Governor Appen wanted

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Speaker 6: to happen.

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Speaker 5: We're going to turn these of cities against their mayors.

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Speaker 6: We're going to create this environment where they're all going

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Speaker 6: to go against their maths. Go google what they doing

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Speaker 6: to my brother in Chicago, Go google what they doing

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Speaker 6: to sister baths. So this cities have now turned against

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Speaker 6: these black mayors that are making real change for the

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Speaker 6: first time over police. And they're using this to say, Okay,

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Speaker 6: these black mans are not competent, they can't run their cities.

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Speaker 6: They're getting everything to the migrs and the simum seekers.

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Speaker 6: This was a perfectly executed plan that we are buying

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Speaker 6: into make black mans look batter from and when we're

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Speaker 6: doing just the opposite.

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Speaker 5: I love this moment.

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Speaker 3: You all know that I was raised by an activist

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Speaker 3: and an educator. My dad is on the activism side,

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Speaker 3: and we constantly were talking about the ways in which

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Speaker 3: the government from the Fedes on down worked diligently to

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Speaker 3: try to dismantle black leadership, black power. We understand that

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Speaker 3: by virtue of bussing migrants from the border they're crossing

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Speaker 3: into the states, they step into to the north, there's

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Speaker 3: already something going on there. It's already something afoot. He

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Speaker 3: talked about mayors Johnson, Turner, Bass and at Hughes. Of

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Speaker 3: course it's Adams. Is there something to this? Andrew, you

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Speaker 3: are a mayor we talk about all the time, tiff

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Speaker 3: your conspiracy theorist with me every now and then. Yours

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Speaker 3: comes with data, So there might be some data you

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Speaker 3: can run to on this point.

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Speaker 5: But I just I'm very curious about this.

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Speaker 1: Well, I do you want to say that they also

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Speaker 1: bust migrants to the Vineyard, which has a different municipality,

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Speaker 1: And I do not believe has anyone black and power there.

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Speaker 2: Except it's also thou synonymous with the vacation home of

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama, right exactly.

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Speaker 1: It's like the vacation home for the quote unquote liberals

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Speaker 1: that they might say, and I shouldn't say, there's not

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Speaker 1: anyone black and power there.

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Speaker 4: I just don't know.

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Speaker 1: They have a very different way the way they divide

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Speaker 1: up who's responsible for the towns. I would be remiss

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Speaker 1: if I didn't say that. I definitely disagree with Mayor

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Speaker 1: Adams on a lot of political issues, but on this

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Speaker 1: one I take his point that, you know, Andrew, you

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Speaker 1: told us a story not too long ago that about

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Speaker 1: Ron Desanders who went to get migrants from Texas just

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Speaker 1: to bust them as a political stunt. I'm always moved

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Speaker 1: to the humanity of these kind of discussions. I think

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Speaker 1: about the people who risk life and limb and put

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Speaker 1: their children at risk to get to these shores because

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Speaker 1: they were in search of better opportunity, because they were

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Speaker 1: literally not just in search of opportunity, but literally trying

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Speaker 1: to save their own lives. Some of these states, particularly

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Speaker 1: in South America, the policies that are running them out

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Speaker 1: fleeing because their lives are threatened. So it's always baffling

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Speaker 1: to me. The party who self identifies as pro life,

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Speaker 1: we of course know that's not true, but they self

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Speaker 1: identify as pro life. We'll see these people and look

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Speaker 1: at them in disgust and want to essentially, you know,

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Speaker 1: I hope that something changes.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 1: So it is stress on cities with limited resources. I

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Speaker 1: completely understand. We've heard a lot from people who say, no,

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Speaker 1: they are taking resources away from us.

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Speaker 4: I hear you.

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Speaker 1: I understand that, But I just there's something about this

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Speaker 1: we can find our way to say, yes, it's unfair

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, but we want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: all human life is respected and valued and you have

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Speaker 1: food and shelter. I hope that we can get to

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Speaker 1: a place of that position in this country.

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Speaker 2: And I think if we were to evaluate what these

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Speaker 2: mayors are doing in response to the migrant crisis that

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Speaker 2: has literally been dropped on their doorstep intentionally for political stunts,

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Speaker 2: almost in all cases you'd see that they are extending

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Speaker 2: the humanitarian arm of their cities, right. But what they're

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Speaker 2: also being then faced with are these caricatures of them

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Speaker 2: that basically say, this is a city run amuck, this

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Speaker 2: is a lawless place, this is a mayor who can't

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Speaker 2: handle big responsibilities. And I agree with Mayor Adams and

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Speaker 2: have been on the side of it myself where individual

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Speaker 2: mayors have been targeted and there there is no there

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Speaker 2: is no coincidence whatsoever around what is shared between them all.

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Speaker 2: There's no coincidence whatsoever. But but I also say the

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Speaker 2: next step of this, by extension, they are attempting to

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Speaker 2: assign lawlessness, on governability, lack of leadership to the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 2: We for for a lot of these folks who come

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Speaker 2: after them on the right, on the hard right, on

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Speaker 2: these Fox shows. What they're what they're showing is is

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Speaker 2: that this is what will become of America if we

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Speaker 2: allow Democrats to take control. Yeah, they're there, they want

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Speaker 2: to be taken over every street, you know, a rapist

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Speaker 2: these people are in charge. So they're playing on Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're playing on two two aspects of the boogeyman. If

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Speaker 2: in respect to us, it is yes, the the lawlessness.

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Speaker 2: How many times that we've seen ourselves in images, uh,

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Speaker 2: and and in prison, you know, attire. So they're they're lawless.

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Speaker 2: They can't uphold the law because they don't follow it themselves.

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Speaker 2: And then there is the caricature of black folks as

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Speaker 2: the biggest recipients of the welfare state. The they want

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Speaker 2: everything for free. They don't work for what they earn.

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Speaker 2: The de I mayor, he's a mayor, but he didn't

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Speaker 2: earn it the right way. He's not the most qualified.

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Speaker 2: He's the he's he's he's just d e I, which

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Speaker 2: I as in doing your rundown. I said, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's synonymous for me, closer to the N word than

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Speaker 2: it's the polite, the most polite way. These folks are

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Speaker 2: being able to incorporate that into their into their.

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Speaker 5: When we take their definition.

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Speaker 2: When we take their definition right, when we take that

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Speaker 2: where we accept their definite, that's what they mean it for.

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Speaker 2: So I just I agree with Mayor Adams, and I

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Speaker 2: think it's a layer beyond. I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 2: it is by itself exclusively about black mayors. I think

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Speaker 2: it is because of the tropes that they've spent decades

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Speaker 2: you see a black man walking toward you. Why you

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Speaker 2: to switch sides of the street that you're walking on.

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Speaker 2: They're playing on a long history of investment in defining

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Speaker 2: who we are, who they want people to think we are,

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Speaker 2: and now they're attaching that to the Democratic Party for

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Speaker 2: the power shift here. They believe we shouldn't have power,

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Speaker 2: and if we have power, this is what it will

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Speaker 3: All right, y'all, we're going to take a quick break,

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Speaker 5: More coming up after the break. You know.

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Speaker 3: The other part of this that I think is interesting

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Speaker 3: that may end up costing uppers of fifty three million

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Speaker 3: dollars with Mobility Capital Finance. They provided debit cards to

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Speaker 5: The food that was given to them was nast them.

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Speaker 3: It gives them an opportunity to go get food from

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Speaker 5: Okay, twelve dollars a day isn't much, we know that, and.

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Speaker 2: Not just place they like, right, these are culturally.

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Speaker 5: Of them. Yeah, they can spend it on food.

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Speaker 2: They can get it anyway they want. But the a

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Speaker 2: lot of food was going to waste because this isn't

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Speaker 2: stuff that they were eating, yeah where they were coming from.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they were in that Wait, there was a

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Speaker 3: lot of food waste that was happening. This was another opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Mobility Capital Finance is actually a black owned business. So

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Speaker 3: they're getting this huge opportunity to and I'm not saying

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Speaker 3: that it's not a handout, but a huge opportunity to

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Speaker 3: solve a really important crisis from the humanity standpoint.

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Speaker 5: Topcius you talked about. And so this is one of those.

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Speaker 3: Moments where a mayor who very much ran on lot

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Speaker 3: order I don't always agree with Eric Adams either. When

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Speaker 3: he talked about being targeted, I understood exactly what he meant.

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Speaker 3: This is someone who's like, Okay, I see this happening,

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Speaker 3: this isn't right. I'm going to try to solve for it.

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Speaker 3: And they're still trying to make you look like you're irresponsible.

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Speaker 3: You're still they're still trying to make you look like

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Speaker 3: you can't manage your city. They're still trying to make

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Speaker 3: you look like when migrants come in, there goes the neighborhood,

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Speaker 3: which is a trope that we also understand and have experienced,

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Speaker 3: is going from one group of people of color to another.

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Speaker 5: And I wonder when it all stops.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't think it does stop.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it. I don't think it stops over

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Speaker 2: race by itself. I think the only way it stops

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Speaker 2: is if we somehow had a realignment of what power

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, for I'm not convinced that

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Speaker 2: has power and who risks losing power. It is this

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Speaker 2: is how I've always had it because I've built and

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Speaker 4: Together, but like no, ain't no room here, you got

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Speaker 1: What do you say to those shops like y'all have

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Speaker 2: Comment is, well, the first thing we don't tell them

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Speaker 5: But is the job?

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Speaker 1: It's not like it's a job with like six figure

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Speaker 2: But it is one that they feel that they could

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Speaker 1: Is it though I know how they feel, is it

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Speaker 2: If I'll put it this way, it almost doesn't matter

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Speaker 5: But also be pray it could be.

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Speaker 3: But but it also is their living experience what he's saying,

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Speaker 3: And the part of it is this, you have a job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they made a way for you and they're

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Speaker 4: That is how white folks have felt. It is anybody

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Speaker 2: But we all know that more than one thing can

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Speaker 2: using the instructions he wrote, we will not. He didn't

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Speaker 3: If I'm getting snap benefits in my s, benefits don't

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Speaker 5: I don't want to overgeneralize.

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Speaker 3: we need to investigate what this is. I don't know

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Speaker 5: I did because it's a DEI contract.

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Speaker 4: Just don't want us to participate it.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't want to suit to either. That's alonger

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Speaker 2: I but what is important here.

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Speaker 3: It was just about to say you got to talk

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Speaker 2: People from South georgiad you want to is that? And

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Speaker 2: again nobody will receive it. But what Mayor Adams did

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Speaker 2: he's doing it in a culturally sensitive way. He's addressing

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Speaker 2: And I think it is my Meslow's hierarchy of needs,

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Speaker 5: Think that doesn't see anything.

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Speaker 2: This is food shelters, safety, security, and if you come

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Speaker 2: against any of that. For me and mine, there are

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Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question before we close out?

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Speaker 1: Often I read the comment sometimes on our YouTube or

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Speaker 1: social media, my comments. My people email me to my website.

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Speaker 1: specifically Andrew. I think people feel I know this is

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Speaker 4: Andrew, you've left us with the scantis, and you know, like.

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Speaker 1: Somehow you're like, I don't want to be governor, guys,

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Speaker 1: never mind, you know, but people are saying to count

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Speaker 1: all the votes, right, But people they feel away, and

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Speaker 1: And when I hear you week after week on this podcast,

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Speaker 1: I do wonder, do you think you'll ever run for

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, but I do know this.

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Speaker 2: think I'm on purpose and on mission, on God's mission

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Speaker 2: And I don't mean to I'm turning the table over

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Speaker 2: It's hard that you know, I wouldn't know what to

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Speaker 2: who draw that conclusion. I'm saying, it ain't that complicated.

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Speaker 2: It's as simple as I'm a priority. I'm a living, human,

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Speaker 2: And the government has the ability to do that part

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Speaker 2: and to help you do your part. But but if

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Speaker 2: we keep checking out who holds them accountable, those marbles

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Speaker 3: When we need all the marbles to weigh in on

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Speaker 5: On social media, because guess what we ought.

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Speaker 1: To Well, I ask a lot of people want to

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Speaker 4: The comments I asked for you, Yes, you got the answer.

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Speaker 5: You got the answer. Thanks for listening, y'all.

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