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Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, all right, welcome home, y'all. This is episode seventy four.

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Speaker 3: Dang, it's episode seventy four.

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Speaker 1: Already we are I know right, we know no anyway.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Native Land Pod, Episode seventy four. I am

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Speaker 1: here with my beautiful, wonderful co host Angela Ry. I

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Speaker 1: was trying to beg her to be in New York

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Speaker 1: with me today, but she is running all over trying

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Speaker 1: to save the country. We are not.

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Speaker 4: I got time to save this count.

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Speaker 3: You are absolutely what are you trying to save us?

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Speaker 5: People?

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Speaker 3: You had to save us?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 4: You got me?

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Speaker 1: Yes, and we I think disproportionally uphold democracy in this country.

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Speaker 3: So we thank you for your service. And then where's

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Speaker 3: our other co hosts? Where's Andrew?

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Speaker 4: Andrew?

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Speaker 3: Where are you?

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Speaker 6: What's up? Angela, Tiffany, my man Roro, thank you brother

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Speaker 6: for me. That's where I am. Well, not a lot

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Speaker 6: of guests, and if you can, that's NATURALI are those

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Speaker 6: amazing twin rockets that are so symbolic of being a nacess.

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Speaker 5: I can't be with y'all on the show today Live

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Speaker 5: because I am Saparoni in my twins fifth grade overnight

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Speaker 5: field trip and Angela tiv Ro.

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Speaker 7: You know, there was not gonna be an overnight trip

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Speaker 7: with my daughter that I wasn't gonna be on.

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Speaker 5: So there it is.

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Speaker 8: This is where we're at.

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Speaker 6: I'm Michealle and I'll see you have a good show, y'all.

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Speaker 3: A man, where are the kids?

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Speaker 1: They're around?

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Speaker 4: I thought that they were. I wanted to see my

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Speaker 4: niece and nephew. Where was Caroline and Jackson Andrew? I

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Speaker 4: want to see you, Well, you want to skimp out

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Speaker 4: for work? I want to see my nephew and my niece.

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Speaker 1: May So what are we talking about today?

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Speaker 3: What you got Angela?

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Speaker 4: So? I want to talk about something that we began

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Speaker 4: to discuss on the song, which is why white folks

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Speaker 4: are so scared of black history. We're seeing that with

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Speaker 4: the executive order on the Smithsonian Complex as well as

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Speaker 4: with what happened with the National Park Service website. So

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about that and how we fight back.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Well, I want to get into there

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Speaker 1: was a report that came out about the dirty black

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Speaker 1: men at HBCUs. But it's really across all higher education,

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Speaker 1: so I want to get into that. So you guys say,

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Speaker 1: stay tuned for that.

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Speaker 4: But as you heard from Andrew, Wait you know what else, tip,

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Speaker 4: we also need to talk about Maba. It's make America

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Speaker 4: broke again with the tariffs. Yes, so we gotta get

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Speaker 4: I just start calling them maba though Maba.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just came up with something Maba. Let's choose

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Speaker 1: introduce that to the lexicon. Yes, we gotta get we.

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Speaker 3: Get an introduction.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Andrew spoiled it, but we are joined by the

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Speaker 1: amazing Roland Martin today and Angela.

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Speaker 5: I know you look like you were at an Atlanta

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Speaker 5: bruntch spot with that background, So that's where you at.

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Speaker 4: So I'm in Seattle. This is where I always record,

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Speaker 4: and that just demonstrates you don't watch our show. Maybe

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Speaker 4: you'll watch today.

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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe you got no levity because the point was

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Speaker 5: like the wall the.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm clear, I'm clear, but at the same time,

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Speaker 4: so to break up some of this, what I do

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Speaker 4: want to say is, in addition to hosting Roland Martin Unfiltered,

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Speaker 4: Roland has also launched an app for the Black Star

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Speaker 4: Network has a channel, YouTube channel killing it for many

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Speaker 4: of us. Roland is where we started doing TV. And

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Speaker 4: Roland has been a lifelong journalist, literally reporting on breaking

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Speaker 4: still his passion to this day. So we are very

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Speaker 4: thankful for your contributions to the culture, to facts in

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Speaker 4: fact checking, to debunking all of the it's out here

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Speaker 4: and just making sure that black people feel like there's hope,

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Speaker 4: knowing what the path forward could be and how we

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Speaker 4: and thank you for all of the mini pathways and

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Speaker 5: We're very grateful, appreciate it. Thank you so very much. Yes,

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Speaker 5: this and this, you know, it's one of those things

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Speaker 5: we talk about. This week to April ninth is the

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Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty seventh birthday of the Great Paul Robeson,

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Speaker 5: one of our alpha man but we rarely ever mentioned

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Speaker 5: him when we talk about civil rights activists, warriors, freedom fighters,

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Speaker 5: and he truly is one of those folks. And also

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Speaker 5: this week in Black History, yesterday as sorry. April eighth.

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Speaker 5: April eighth was the day Hank Aaron broke the Major

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Speaker 5: League record. We often talk about Jet April fifteen being

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Speaker 5: Jackie Robinson, but I think we should make April eighth

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Speaker 5: an annual Hank Aaron Daton god risk of the souls

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Speaker 1: I love that role. Thank you for all that black history.

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Speaker 1: You are a walk in black history.

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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's get it. Let's get into it.

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Speaker 3: So let's kick off the show. Welcome Home, y'all.

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Speaker 1: All right, One thing I want to talk about that's

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Speaker 1: been heavy on my heart, and Angela you touched on

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Speaker 1: this in your solo pod this week, and that is

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Speaker 1: the Blacksonian. I am very concerned about this administration setting

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Speaker 1: their sights on the Blacksonian. We won't get too deep

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Speaker 1: into it because I want to encourage everybody. Please watch

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Speaker 1: angela solo pod because she did you know, the National

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Speaker 1: Parks and Walks you through it. But I just want

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Speaker 1: to say, I'm willing to lay my body down in

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Speaker 1: You know, the Board of Regents met this week. I

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Speaker 1: think it was reported that jd Vance was there.

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Speaker 3: But I am not.

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Speaker 1: He didn't go good. That is good news because we

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Speaker 1: don't want him at the Border Regions meeting. But what

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Speaker 1: is the latest with that? What do people listening need

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Speaker 1: to be concerned about and what can we do to

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Speaker 1: save this wonderful institution. When I say the Blacksnian for

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Speaker 1: our listeners who may not know, of course, talking about

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Speaker 1: the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the

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Speaker 1: one hundred plus year long project. It is our piece

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Speaker 1: So I'm very concerned, But Angela give.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just want to say that I think it's

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Speaker 4: really important for people to understand, especially for our diverse

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Speaker 4: attack on NMAHC. It is also an attack on all

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Speaker 4: what we're up against right now with this executive order

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Speaker 4: that Donald Trump introduced on March twenty seventh is that attack.

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Speaker 4: They talk about woken doctrination. There are terms that they

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Speaker 4: use as points of question that have been resolved when

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Speaker 4: we shouldn't be doing that right. And so, what I

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Speaker 4: ultimately what this gets down to is can they destroy

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Speaker 4: stop saying things like racism still exists the places where

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Speaker 4: think where we are. You can certainly lay your body

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Speaker 4: We need to fight for all of that. They're even

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Speaker 4: saying that the Martin Luther King Monument, because it's on

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Speaker 4: why wouldn't they do this here? Is it doesn't matter

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Speaker 4: Should we be telling people to become members of the Smithsonian?

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Speaker 4: want to hear from you Row, what do you think

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Speaker 5: So I think I think what folks have to understand

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Speaker 5: That is one. As you said, Credit twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 5: lay all of this out. What you have here, All

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Speaker 5: theory twenty twenty three, they attack WOKE twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 5: they attack DEI. All by design, it is to completely

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Speaker 4: I was like, this, what is this word? This word?

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Speaker 4: The culmination of decades long work. There is a reason

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Speaker 5: No, it's not.

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Speaker 4: Y'all know when it's time for me to rest, because

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Speaker 3: Yes, but you got to rest before that. We know

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Speaker 4: Like the gospel song. I don't feel no waste time

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Speaker 1: I just want to say you a frat brother. Doctor

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Speaker 5: But we cannot continue to ask baby boomers who are

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Speaker 4: there are some folks that are like, I'm about that money, Maine.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about. Like at all, at all times,

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Speaker 4: I only want to talk about what my economics look like.

439
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Speaker 4: Don't necessarily understand how the politics of things impact your economics.

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Speaker 4: For example, I know we're gonna hit tariffs. That has

441
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Speaker 4: everything to do with your economics, you know, micro and macro.

442
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Speaker 4: We have folks that only want to focus on breathe.

443
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Speaker 4: I want you to be with me in this bread,

444
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Speaker 4: to be in your soft girl era. That's nice, bitch.

445
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Speaker 4: I can't wait to arrive. And also this soft girl

446
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Speaker 4: got some tough fights, right. So there are these things

447
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Speaker 4: and I'm not dogging any of those intersections. What I'm

448
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Speaker 4: daring you to believe is that so long as we

449
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Speaker 4: exist in a democracy, we still have to hold up

450
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Speaker 4: the pillars up that thing or work constructively to dismantle

451
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Speaker 4: the thing. And the thing that I think is so

452
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Speaker 4: important is we have a lot of ideas and too

453
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Speaker 4: many of us do not get in the streets. Don't

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Speaker 4: go dough or door row. To your point, even if

455
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Speaker 4: they're not asking you to go vote, how are you feeling?

456
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Speaker 4: What issues are you having? Where do you need relief?

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Speaker 9: Like?

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Speaker 4: That's part of what we want to do with the

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Speaker 4: State of the People tour. We have been talking a

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Speaker 4: lot and not listening at all. We have not asked

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Speaker 4: people what their most basic needs are, and we've been

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Speaker 4: sending them to the government that now is telling you

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Speaker 4: to hell with what you paid into. We actually aren't

464
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Speaker 4: going to provide your most basic needs. So we're getting

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Speaker 4: back down to the basics of what African culture has

466
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Speaker 4: always taught us, and that is to look out for self.

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Speaker 4: That does not mean that you should relinquish your responsibility

468
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Speaker 4: to a system that is supposed to be there to

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Speaker 4: serve you, particularly when you pay into that system. But

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Speaker 4: it does mean that we are no longer in a

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Speaker 4: position to rely on this thing to meet our most

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Speaker 4: basic needs, despite the fact that it should.

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Speaker 3: If it doesn't, what do we do?

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Speaker 4: And that is where we need to be right now.

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Speaker 5: When I travel the nation and people go, man, bro,

476
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Speaker 5: what we gonna do? This is literally what I say,

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Speaker 5: And this is what Ella Baker says. This is literally

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Speaker 5: what I'd say to every person. What are the three

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Speaker 5: things you care about?

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Speaker 4: That's good?

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Speaker 5: They go what you meaning? I said, what are the

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Speaker 5: three things? Is you care about it? And then look

483
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Speaker 5: at me, They're like economics, okay, what about economics? See

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Speaker 5: I'm forcing the drill down. What do you go? Education? Okay?

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Speaker 5: So a guy was like education, I said, are your parent? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you got a kid in school? Yes? But great? Told

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Speaker 5: me the grade?

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Speaker 3: I said, you're in a ptaight, No, you get to

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Speaker 3: them school board meetings too.

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Speaker 5: I said, can you explain, I said, I said, I

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Speaker 5: need you to explain to me. How do you care

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Speaker 5: about the education of your child? But you're not in

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Speaker 5: the PTA, but you want somebody else to be advocating

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Speaker 5: for the changes in your school and your district. I said,

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to. And then what ends up happening is

496
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Speaker 5: I'm forcing them to have to buy into the game.

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Speaker 5: What we like to do is we like to sit here.

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Speaker 5: And somebody posted the video yesterday of an uncle going

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Speaker 5: off on his son and his nephew who are both

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Speaker 5: seventeen because they can't spell, and he's going off on them. No,

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Speaker 5: I'm going off on his ass because how could you

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Speaker 5: be the dad of a son and the uncle of

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Speaker 5: a son and seventeen years went by and your punk

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Speaker 5: ass don't know they can't spell. See, I can't make

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Speaker 5: demands of somebody else if I'm not doing it myself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but ro let me ask you this though.

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Speaker 4: So there are two things that you raise it I

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Speaker 4: think are important for us to wrestle with even from

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Speaker 4: And this is where me and Tiff normally fight the

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Speaker 4: compassion and empathy side of this, right, So somebody says,

511
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Speaker 4: You're like, well, you should be at these meetings. Some

512
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Speaker 4: of our folks feel like they are so unheard and

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Speaker 4: so invisible, then it won't matter if they show up

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Speaker 4: to that. So how do we get them to a

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Speaker 4: point where they feel like that matters. The other thing

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Speaker 4: you said was we need to buy in. I'm trying

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Speaker 4: to get them to buy into the game. The second

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Speaker 4: part of my question is should can we be buying

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Speaker 4: into the game or should we be advocating to change

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Speaker 4: the rules so the game works for us?

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Speaker 5: Okay, so the first thing. First thing, so because I'm

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Speaker 5: a fundamentlyle believer of going micro macro not macro micro.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so.

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Speaker 5: I if I am concerned about education, I've raised my

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Speaker 5: wife and I raised six of my nieces. We're driving

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Speaker 5: in the car. When we in the car alonger than

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Speaker 5: fifteen minutes, y'all gott to be reading the book. Oh

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Speaker 5: you got to read out loud because I need to

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Speaker 5: hear you pronounce words. Okay, So that's micro that's in

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Speaker 5: in my house now. When a teacher said something to

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Speaker 5: my niece about one of her ptraits, and all of

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Speaker 5: a sudden, my niece, Embert was now questioning things. She

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Speaker 5: never question stuff. We were like, hollo, what her spirit

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Speaker 5: has changed? But what the hell happened? Oh, we went

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Speaker 5: to school, got that teacher removed. Then it was like okay,

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Speaker 5: then we're going to the school board. So it was

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Speaker 5: level level, level, all right. So that's one. The second

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Speaker 5: piece is if I want to change something. Doctor King

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Speaker 5: said this is April third, nineteen sixty eight speech Black

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Speaker 5: people individually are poor at Mason Temple, the last sermon

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Speaker 5: he gave. He said, black people individually are poor, collectively wealthy.

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Speaker 5: You as an individual have limited power. You as a

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Speaker 5: collective have a lot more power. We have to be

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Speaker 5: willing to say. And when I say collective, collective doesn't

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Speaker 5: mean well. We called a meeting and we invited one

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Speaker 5: hundred people. At eight showed up. Well, guess what, talk

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Speaker 5: to the eight. Tell the eight to bring one person

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Speaker 5: next month. Now we got sixteen. We have to get

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Speaker 5: people to understand that you do have power. But you

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Speaker 5: have power if you begin to say, let me work

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Speaker 5: and talk with others in my own neighborhood, I just

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Speaker 5: I believe house street, block, neighborhood, city state as opposed

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Speaker 5: to top down right. Doctor King was like so I

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Speaker 5: need everybody watching you can do something, but stop trying

555
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Speaker 5: to change five things. I need to pick one thing

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Speaker 5: you care about and say I'm gonna work on that

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Speaker 5: one thing and start there. But I need you to

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Speaker 5: start somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me just say I think you know because

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Speaker 1: we've been highly critical of younger people and people in general,

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Speaker 1: and I look, I don't want the audience to think

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Speaker 1: this is criticism. It is a call to arms, a

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Speaker 1: call to action, and I just want to acknowledge that

564
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Speaker 1: never like the times of the Montgomery bus boycott were different.

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Speaker 1: That's not excusing young people like I echo everything Angela

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Speaker 1: and Roe have said, but there has never been a

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Speaker 1: time in global history where we have had this much

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Speaker 1: access to so much information at our fingertips. And I've

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Speaker 1: said here before, we are asking people to care about

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Speaker 1: everything and they wind up caring about nothing. So what

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Speaker 1: the level of discipline that this takes is to filter

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Speaker 1: your feed, not just your social media feed, but filter

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Speaker 1: your time and what you're doing. Another thing I say

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Speaker 1: all the time is everybody saying what I would have

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Speaker 1: been doing during the Civil rights movement. Whatever you're doing

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Speaker 1: is what you're doing that that's what you would have

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Speaker 1: been doing during the Civil rights movement. So you have

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Speaker 1: to be intentional and think about how history will remember

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Speaker 1: you in this time roll you talked about you. I

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Speaker 1: know I'm saying the original pivot.

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Speaker 4: TI if I want you to answer this because Roland

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Speaker 4: used as an example his response to his nieces and

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Speaker 4: how they got the teacher or his niece and how

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Speaker 4: they got the teacher removed. There's somebody at home who's

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Speaker 4: gonna hear that and say, but that's Roland Martin, right,

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Speaker 4: that that is someone who they feel like they have

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Speaker 4: to respond to. I want us to just appeal back

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Speaker 4: a layer on what it means to be empowered, even

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Speaker 4: if you're not Roland Martin going.

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Speaker 5: To the school. You know I did it because my

591
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Speaker 5: mama and daddy did it, and they weren't Roland Martin.

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Speaker 5: My mama and daddy. My mama and daddy. Daddy worked

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Speaker 5: for Amtrek, mama worked at the insurance company. Claims. They

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Speaker 5: weren't on television, they were on radio, but they cared

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Speaker 5: about their children. I witnessed them pushing teachers. I witnessed

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Speaker 5: I remember one teacher called the house and she was

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Speaker 5: complaining about you know me in the classroom. My dad

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Speaker 5: was like, I'm sorry, is it your job to run

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Speaker 5: your classroom? And so so I witnessed that. All I'm

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Speaker 5: saying is if we care about something, and this.

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Speaker 4: Is not even forgetting your row, I just paused one second,

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Speaker 4: because this is what I want. I'm trying to get

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Speaker 4: us to think of. There are points of privilege that

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Speaker 4: we have. You were raised in a two parent household

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Speaker 4: with parents who were acting, and that's not bad, that's great.

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Speaker 4: Two parent household, parents who were active in politics, active

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Speaker 4: in your schooling, had jobs that were keeping the lights on. Right,

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Speaker 4: that's not everybody's testimony. I simply right, similar background, but

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Speaker 4: also went to pub I mean private school first through

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Speaker 4: twelfth grade, and then went back for law school. So like,

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Speaker 4: that's not our experiences aren't everybody's experience? So tick For

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Speaker 4: the person who comes from a different set of circumstances,

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Speaker 4: where can they call on their power if they didn't

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Speaker 4: see it at home, if they don't see it in

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Speaker 4: their community.

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Speaker 3: Where do they go?

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Speaker 5: What do they do?

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Speaker 4: How do they respond?

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate you drawing that distinction and that difference,

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Speaker 1: because it is a point of privilege to you know,

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Speaker 1: the way that some people grew up. I'll quote Alice

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Speaker 1: Walker here and just say, the most common way people

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Speaker 1: give up their power is by thinking they don't have

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Speaker 1: any and even as an individual, you have power. I

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Speaker 1: left home when I was sixteen years old, and I look,

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Speaker 1: let me just say, I had an issue with our

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Speaker 1: forever flow, this our beautiful, wonderful first Lady Michelle Obama.

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Speaker 1: But she gave a speech to Baltimore students and she

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Speaker 1: was essentially saying like, yeah, the schools may be a problem,

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Speaker 1: teachers may be a problem, but it's still up to you.

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Speaker 3: You have to make change.

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Speaker 1: And I remember at the time thinking, well, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of a challenging thing to tell students, you know, who

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Speaker 1: are suffering from every pinpoint in their life and they're

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Speaker 1: navigating a very challenging system. To bypass this system that

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Speaker 1: you don't even understand as a child, fix it and

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Speaker 1: then somehow be successful. Or when you go into classrooms

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Speaker 1: and you say you can be anything you want, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are literally asking, no, but how do

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Speaker 1: I get.

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Speaker 3: From here to there?

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Speaker 1: What do I wake up tomorrow and do I did

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Speaker 1: a talk with Colin Kaepernick, and he I asked him

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Speaker 1: this question about investing. You know, like what you know

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Speaker 1: you're saying this, you have access to all these funders,

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Speaker 1: Like what is the person who has a great idea

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Speaker 1: who doesn't have anything?

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Speaker 3: And he said you can literally say in the.

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Speaker 1: Chat GPT, how do I and fill in the blank,

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Speaker 1: how do I protest? How do I influence a law?

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Speaker 1: How do I participate in the city council meeting? When

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Speaker 1: is the next city council meeting? When is the next

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Speaker 1: school board meeting? So I would say to Roland's point,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is that you care about, you do have

655
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Speaker 1: some power. What I suggest on this show before if

656
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Speaker 1: you and this is not necessarily for people under eighteen,

657
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Speaker 1: this is for adults and young adults, you will be

658
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Speaker 1: surprised if you get the next time y'all talking about

659
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Speaker 1: having the cookout or just gathering folks. You get twenty

660
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Speaker 1: people in your house, you can get a member of Congress.

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Speaker 1: You get twenty people in your house. You can get

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Speaker 1: somebody running for the states in it. You get twenty

663
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Speaker 1: people in your house, you can get a council member.

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Speaker 1: They want to go where the people are, and you say,

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Speaker 1: I have people here who want to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: That is organizing. That is again, grassroots doesn't mean that

667
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Speaker 1: you have to be poor. Grassroots means I'm organizing in

668
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Speaker 1: my neighborhood and you can gather people, come up with

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Speaker 1: your list of demands.

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Speaker 5: And that's why right there, right there, because that's what

671
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Speaker 5: when when I talk about privileged you parents, this really

672
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Speaker 5: a bunch of those folk who joined my parents with

673
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Speaker 5: Civic Club. They were single parents. But this zib basic.

674
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Speaker 5: I want to make this thick again, folks, this is

675
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Speaker 5: very basic because this is literally how the Civic Club started.

676
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Speaker 5: If you were in your neighborhood and you said, man,

677
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Speaker 5: I'm sick and tired of all this damn litter in

678
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Speaker 5: my neighborhood. Okay, you talking to your neighbor and y'all go, man,

679
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 5: it's a damn shame we got all this litter. All right,

680
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Speaker 5: The two of you say, we're gonna ask five six

681
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Speaker 5: other people. Are you stick of the same thing. Yeah,

682
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 5: next Saturday, we're gonna do a street clean up. We

683
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 5: don't have to ask permission, we don't have to call

684
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Speaker 5: the city, the state, the federal government. We're gonna get

685
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Speaker 5: some trash bags. We're gonna clean this street up. Now

686
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Speaker 5: you may sit here and say, okay, what the hell's

687
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Speaker 5: that got to do with anything? Because what then happens

688
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 5: is somebody says, well, man, next month, we should clean

689
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Speaker 5: up two streets, we should do four streets. What happened

690
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Speaker 5: with my parents, well they it started, That's exactly how

691
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Speaker 5: it started. Then they were like, well, man, what we

692
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Speaker 5: do by these overgrown uh these overgrown lots, these empty

693
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Speaker 5: empty houses. Well who okay, well we don't own the house. Boom.

694
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Speaker 5: They okay, somebod with the city. That's that's how they

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Speaker 5: got a cut. Then it was like, well, how do

696
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Speaker 5: we get rid of these uh these uh, these potential

697
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Speaker 5: crack houses. How do you now begin to uh mark

698
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Speaker 5: abandoned buildings? Then that thing begin to go. Then they

699
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Speaker 5: begin to go. Then they went, well, you know what,

700
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Speaker 5: we need some new streets, and we need some new

701
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Speaker 5: street lights, and we need this, that and the other.

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Speaker 5: Ask the city council person. It's a body election boom election.

703
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Speaker 5: So guess what happened? Part get refurbished, new streets, new

704
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Speaker 5: lights system, but it's started with trash. Yeah. All I'm

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Speaker 5: saying for people is there are things that we can

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Speaker 5: do to begin to affect change that doesn't require permission

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Speaker 5: from anybody. It requires somebody saying, man, we need to

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Speaker 5: change this. And that's what I am simply saying. More

709
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Speaker 5: of us need to say what do I care about?

710
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Speaker 5: To change this and stop waiting for somebody to come

711
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Speaker 5: with the fix. You literally are the fix.

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Speaker 1: Well, I would just I would just add to that

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Speaker 1: that I think first before we even get to that,

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Speaker 1: there are some people that simply must believe. We have

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Speaker 1: to give people something to believe in. And there are

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Speaker 1: lots of people, yes, but some people are but ro

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Speaker 1: my point is that there are not. Sometimes people don't

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Speaker 1: even have the spirit to hate trash. Some people say

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Speaker 1: I hadn't seen that piece of trash or all this

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Speaker 1: trash in my neighborhood. Right, that's just background to me.

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Speaker 1: We have to give people the power to tap into

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Speaker 1: their imagination. What does democracy look like? If you get

723
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Speaker 1: to shape it, if you get to draw it, if

724
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Speaker 1: you need to speak it. Now, there are some levels,

725
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Speaker 1: you know, there are levels to it. There are some

726
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Speaker 1: people who already believe and they just need, you know, direction,

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Speaker 1: but there are there is an underbelly I think of

728
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Speaker 1: society that has that's apathetic and has just backed out.

729
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Speaker 1: I dig right, I'm agreeing with you. We have to

730
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Speaker 1: give people something to care about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we remind them of what it was.

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Speaker 4: I was so interested when Rowan you were saying you

733
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Speaker 4: asked people what are the things they care about? I'm like, Oh,

734
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Speaker 4: I want to hear all those answers. And also I'm

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Speaker 4: just I was thinking tip when you were talking about

736
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Speaker 4: Colin saying you can say this in chat GPT. Some

737
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Speaker 4: people don't have phones that can get to chat GPT,

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Speaker 4: and that's the only electronic device they have. We got

739
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Speaker 4: pep black folks throughout the South who don't have access

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Speaker 4: to broadband internet, and this MF in the White House

741
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Speaker 4: is cutting access even more. So we literally have to

742
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Speaker 4: in this moment. I would stretch us to say, let

743
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Speaker 4: us keep thinking about solutions that aren't through the lens

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Speaker 4: of our default, which normally is the blind spot of

745
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Speaker 4: our points of privilege, whatever they may be, Like, how

746
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Speaker 4: do we go and get the least of these?

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Speaker 9: You know?

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Speaker 4: Like, what are those ways? I don't have the answer,

749
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Speaker 4: but I do want us to think about it.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a question for the audience, and I

751
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Speaker 1: would love for the audience, y'all drop us a line,

752
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: drop us a comment on YouTube, on our Instagram wherever

753
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: you follow us, and let us know your thoughts there all. Right,

754
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Speaker 1: on the other side of this break, we're going to

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Speaker 1: get into Maba. That's right, We're getting into these tariffs.

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Speaker 6: Broll.

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Speaker 1: You made a really good point about young people taking

758
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Speaker 1: out making withdraws and not making deposits. And I want

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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit because some of us gonna

760
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Speaker 1: have some overdraws coming up soon with these tariffs, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, you know, it's been

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Speaker 1: kind of blanketed on the walls of cable news in

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Speaker 1: their coverage, but just for quickly for our folks to

764
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Speaker 1: know tarriffs are. They're basically attacks brought in a place

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Speaker 1: on foreign goods that are brought into the country, and

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Speaker 1: it's usually attacks based on the value of whatever you

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Speaker 1: are importing into the United States. I'm gonna talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about this on the other side, but first

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Speaker 1: we have a very unique and special correspondent. We have

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Speaker 1: pulled her video because she does a great job of

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Speaker 1: breaking this down. Angela found this video and send it

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Speaker 1: to me and I loved it. So let's take a

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Speaker 1: listen to her and then we'll pick back up on

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Speaker 1: the other side.

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Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome back.

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Speaker 8: A lot of you all have said, Rashanda, you're not

777
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Speaker 8: a mixing spoon, but you stay sterring things up, and

778
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Speaker 8: to that, I say thank you. Today we're here to

779
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Speaker 8: discuss something that has a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of you all confused, but I'm here to help.

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Speaker 5: It's really very simple.

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Speaker 4: Let's check it forard Ah.

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Speaker 8: The word of the day is terriff, taff, terriff. A

784
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Speaker 8: lot of you all are confused on exactly what this

785
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Speaker 8: word means. Teriff equals tax. It is a tax imposed

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Speaker 8: by the government on goods and services imported from other countries.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 8: America is a country, so it's Canada and Mexico. They

789
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Speaker 8: are all in North America, but they are different countries. Okay,

790
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Speaker 8: all right. We also have countries outside of North America,

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Speaker 8: like China, where we get ninety nine point nine percent

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Speaker 8: of our items.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you all are confused on a lot of things.

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Speaker 5: We have big.

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Speaker 8: Items like cars, computers, iPhones, houses over here that need

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Speaker 8: to be built. Okay, those things are made up of

797
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 8: smaller things that we get from other countries. Okay, And

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Speaker 8: you're wondering who's gonna pay this tax? The answer is

799
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Speaker 8: you right, because everything's gonna go up.

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Speaker 4: This is what is happening, all right.

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Speaker 8: Do you all know that on a highway when there's

802
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Speaker 8: an accident, it slows down everybody. Many people are injured,

803
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Speaker 8: some people die, and then you get up there and

804
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 8: find out that somebody was playing chicken with a mat truck.

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Speaker 8: That is what America is doing with these other countries,

806
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Speaker 8: and it's affecting all of us. The stock is down

807
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Speaker 8: because people are scared to purchase items.

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Speaker 3: They want to save money.

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Speaker 8: Okay, they understand that everything's gonna go up because of this.

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Speaker 8: Do y'all understand what I'm saying. Big things are made

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Speaker 8: of small things. We get many small things that you

812
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 8: all don't even think about from various different places. Okay,

813
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Speaker 8: this is a terror.

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Speaker 5: Sad with me.

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Speaker 4: Terror is a tax, and we will pay for it.

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Speaker 4: Pay attention.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, all right.

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Speaker 1: So she got such a great job that I just

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Speaker 1: I want to give a little bit of context though,

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Speaker 1: because this really will directly hit your pocketbook, is if

821
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Speaker 1: it hasn't already. This really is about tensions with China.

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Speaker 1: China is our biggest trading partner, and this is Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Like our wonderful reporter just said there, this is Donald

824
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Speaker 1: Trump playing a game of chicken, and China has said verbatim,

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Speaker 1: China has said, look, we ain't trouble makers, but we

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Speaker 1: will not flinch when trouble comes our way. Now, I

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Speaker 1: want you all to understand why this impacts you. China

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Speaker 1: is integral for things that we use here, like smartphones, computers,

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Speaker 1: lengthium ion batteries, toys, video games, even things like screws

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Speaker 1: and other certain kind of batteries. We have been having

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Speaker 1: tension with China for a long time. At root of

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Speaker 1: that tension is trade, of course, which is where these

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Speaker 1: terrats come from. The status of Taiwan, which is established

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Speaker 1: as an independent nation, and there's beef around that Beijing's

835
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Speaker 1: claim to the South China seed. This is a huge

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Speaker 1: point of contingent for the US and the ongoing US

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Speaker 1: push against growing Chinese influence in the Indo Pacific region.

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Speaker 1: These terrarists will not just impact the Asian economies, They're

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Speaker 1: going to hit us directly. China and the US are

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Speaker 1: trading partners. They're our biggest trading partner. We imported four

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight billion dollars worth of goods from

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Speaker 1: China last year. The US exported to China one hundred

843
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Speaker 1: and forty three billion dollars in twenty twenty four. Our

844
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: foreign policy hawks here have been warning and sound the

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Speaker 1: alarm on China. But I want you all to understand

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Speaker 1: that what happens globally impacts what happens here domestically. If

847
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Speaker 1: this is a standoff, if China is saying knock, give

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Speaker 1: you buck, and Donald Trump is saying, well, I'm I'm

849
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Speaker 1: ready to knock, I don't know where this goes. What

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Speaker 1: I do know is who will pay the cost, and

851
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: that is us, the consumer. If we were to manufacture

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00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: smartphones here, they would cost around thirty five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: We have some of the cleanest, nice, nicest working conditions

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Speaker 1: here in the country. CEOs will find a way to

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Speaker 1: pass that cost on to the consumer. We will not

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Speaker 1: have it even Laura, Lauren, what did you say?

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Speaker 9: You?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Sam here, take and see ya and squeeze it in. Lauren,

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Speaker 3: is our ept over.

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Speaker 1: I went to buy a new microphone.

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Speaker 9: This is last Thursday, April third, and it cost me

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Speaker 9: sixty dollars more than it would have had it gone

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Speaker 9: in a week a week before. It's from Germany, so

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Speaker 9: it's our European affected.

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Speaker 1: Wow, tariff tax?

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Speaker 3: So how much was it total?

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Speaker 9: You don't even want to know. It's embarrassing forty dollars.

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Speaker 9: Oh my god, that's the obviously first world production problems.

870
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 3: But that gives an example.

871
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, no no no, let's let's

872
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 5: don't here. Here's what I think we have to understand.

873
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 3: Bro, you're not about getting take head, are you.

874
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 5: No? No, no, no, no, no, not no. It's a

875
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 5: it's a money. The United States economy is thirty trillion

876
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 5: dollars a year. Economy is nineteen trillion dollars a year.

877
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 5: United States is the largest economy in the world. But

878
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 5: seventy percent of the United States economy is consumer spending.

879
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 5: Seventy percent. Why is that important? Because when you talk

880
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,919
Speaker 5: about and this is where Americans have to start having

881
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 5: a real conversation with themselves. What is Walmart's phrase, low

882
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 5: loo prices? We love cheap goods. The reality is companies

883
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 5: love maximizing profits. You want cheap goods, Wan maximize profit.

884
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 5: I gotta produce things places where I don't pay them

885
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 5: a living wage. We have to understand exactly what this

886
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 5: economy is now. Frankly, I believe what Trump is doing

887
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 5: with tears is inside of trading. I believe what's going

888
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 5: on is that. And we saw this. Madre Taylor Green

889
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 5: made some purchases right before the tars were announced. I

890
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:41,479
Speaker 5: believe that they're a group of people who are stock

891
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 5: market tanks. They can swoop in grab significant portions of

892
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 5: these companies at lower prices. Look, what's already happened. Trump goes, Oh,

893
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 5: I'm kicking these tears in. How many times is he

894
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 5: now back down? He's now backed down again? Oh, I'm

895
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 5: gonna wait ninety days. So we went through multiple days

896
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 5: of stock market dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping, which means stocks

897
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 5: are now cheaper. If you get a stock that was

898
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 5: one hundred bucks and it's now seventy dollars, hell, I

899
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 5: could buy that seventy. I could buy that one hundred.

900
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 5: What did Lauryn just say, I bought a microphone this

901
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 5: week higher than I got it last week. Well, the

902
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 5: stocks now their Lord, these people are playing in an

903
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 5: economic game. This is an administration that's about oligarchs, billionaires,

904
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 5: the look give a damn bout working class people and

905
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 5: all these idiots. And I'm gonna call them idiots who

906
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 5: voted for Trump who were running around going, oh, he's

907
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 5: a Christian.

908
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 4: I just love him.

909
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 5: That man does not care. He does not care what

910
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 5: I've seen one of the videos. They're like, I love me.

911
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,919
Speaker 5: He's a drump. That man is a Christian. He cared

912
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 5: about us working people. No he don't. He wouldn't let

913
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 5: y'all ass walk through one of his hotels. This is

914
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 5: about the raping and pillaging of the economy and the

915
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 5: people who say, well, oh yeah, I saw this clip

916
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 5: Fox and Friends, Lawrence Jone, Oh man, you know and

917
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 5: all these people you care about the regular people? No,

918
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 5: he don't. These people are Trump is the is the

919
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 5: vehicle by which they are deriving benefit elon the contracts

920
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 5: do slash stuff of the right has does to do

921
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 5: with the working people. And this is a byproduct of

922
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 5: what happens when what we say earlier, we check out,

923
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 5: we sit on the couch, and now it's like, oh

924
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 5: my god, what the hell's happening? Because they took advantage

925
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 5: of American appath.

926
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 3: We're headed towards that.

927
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 5: What's going on right now?

928
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 4: What you say, I roller skates.

929
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like all the lights are flashing like this,

930
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: and you know, I take your point role about the stocks,

931
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of my challenges too, about

932
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: the media. They talk about the economy as though it's

933
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: the markets, you.

934
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 5: Know, and that is not Well, that's because it's it's sports.

935
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 5: You gonna remember. You gotta understand. You gotta stand sports America.

936
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: I do I understand sports more.

937
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 3: Oh lord, real quick, let me.

938
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 4: Just ask Tip, Tip. Are you excited about the final four?

939
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 6: Uh?

940
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 4: The n cua A Championship results.

941
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 3: I'm so excited about that. I I have so many

942
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 3: thoughts on it.

943
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 4: Hold on, now we go on their next row. Who

944
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 4: won the girls game?

945
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: First of all, the road to get there for the

946
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: women and the men was everywhere you went. People were

947
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: talking about it. So I don't have to say who won,

948
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: because the audience obviously knows who won. But I just

949
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: want to say, they played their hearts out. Okay, I

950
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: watched both teams. Both teams, the women played their hearts

951
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: out and the men played their hearts out. So congratulations

952
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: to the and I'm so excited for you guys. I

953
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: talked to us about Angela.

954
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 5: As you know, that sounds like in college where you

955
00:50:55,400 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 5: had to have a word, a word minimum or a

956
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 5: page mineral paper, and then you ain't had nothing to say,

957
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 5: so you start adjusting the margins and the type and

958
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 5: the font.

959
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 4: Yes we do, Yes, we do. Connecticut beat our girl Houston.

960
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 3: No, no, it's the other way around.

961
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 4: Tip Houston lost to the University of Florida, and we

962
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 4: know that Roe is not happy about that. I actually

963
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 4: was rooting for the black coach to just soay. You know,

964
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 4: Calvin used to coach at Washington State. Kelvin I'm sorry,

965
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 4: used to coach at Washington State, and he is the

966
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 4: oldest coach to have ever made it to a championship game.

967
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 4: So it's said that he.

968
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:44,879
Speaker 5: Didn't even on a man's side.

969
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 4: On an on the men's side, yes, Connecticut side.

970
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 6: I was died.

971
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 5: So yeah, the Connecticut coach. When they won, he became

972
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 5: the oldest coach to ever win a championship on the

973
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:56,439
Speaker 5: women's side.

974
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 4: I was going to say, you won a dozen, now

975
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 4: twelve didn't, So I brought up sports.

976
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 5: This is what you have to understand when it comes

977
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 5: to economy. It's stock marks up. Stock mark is up,

978
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 5: sock park is up, sock marks up. That's how That's

979
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 5: how they had the conversation. I remember when I was

980
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,400
Speaker 5: at CNN and I would go on these business shows

981
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 5: and alivil she would invite me on the show. And

982
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 5: why Ali liked to invite me because I talked like

983
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 5: a regular person and they would be sitting here and

984
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 5: I'm like, y'all, no, don't nobody talk about stuff like

985
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 5: the way y'all do. So that whole thing is designed

986
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 5: seeing BC Bloomberg, Fox, business is designed to go. It's up,

987
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,720
Speaker 5: up and up and up, as opposed to talking about

988
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 5: what's actually really happening, what's going on here, that's that's

989
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 5: not what they're is about cheerleading. It's about cheerleading. And

990
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 5: you're not gonna see any of these business shows put

991
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 5: on the table. What the hell is this being deliberate?

992
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 5: What is going on here? And so we have to

993
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 5: understand these people are playing an economic game at a

994
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 5: level that's far above the average person. When you've got

995
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 5: the average family, you know, when you look at the

996
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,439
Speaker 5: median average income of an individual plus is a family.

997
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 5: These folks are playing the point two percent at the

998
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 5: top and so and they're using the rest of folks

999
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 5: as pawns. And the problem economically is people, Oh Trump's

1000
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 5: a great businessman, ignoring bankruptcies, ignoring people who he still

1001
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 5: owes money. Hell, he's trying to do a ninety million

1002
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 5: dollar military parade. He actually still owes Washington, d C.

1003
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 5: For that ridiculous fireworks display when he was in that

1004
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:36,919
Speaker 5: last time.

1005
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: So a military pray that happens to fall on his

1006
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: seventy ninth birthday, by the way.

1007
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 5: So they bought into the height. And if there's one thing,

1008
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 5: and I hate to give them any credit, but the

1009
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 5: reality is this here, which is a lesson democrats have

1010
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 5: to learn. And we're seeing this, even with the deportations,

1011
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 5: all that sort of stuff like that, they are produced.

1012
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 5: He is his This administration is being produced like a

1013
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 5: television show. And what they are doing is they are

1014
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 5: established the establishing and creating a narrative. Tim Read, the

1015
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 5: great actor director, had a meeting with Bill Paley when

1016
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 5: he was a show Frank's read and Payley was asking

1017
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 5: him about his show, and he said, what's your propaganda, folks,

1018
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 5: Tim goes, I'm making art. He says, no, young man,

1019
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 5: every television show is propaganda. That's what they're doing. So

1020
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 5: where democrats have to understand Christy Nolan playing dress up,

1021
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 5: this is on a television production because we are now

1022
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 5: in a social media media driven world. And if I

1023
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 5: give you the impression that I'm acting, you think I'm

1024
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 5: doing a great job. Well, all this is tied together. Unfortunately.

1025
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, well this show is no propaganda. So we're gonna

1026
00:54:55,320 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: take a quick break and come right back. So it

1027
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: was a piece in the Times this week about the

1028
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: dirt of black men. They a lot of people like

1029
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 1: picked it out and said it's HBCUs, but it's really

1030
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,959
Speaker 1: across all higher ed But black men account for twenty

1031
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: six percent of students at HBCUs and this is down

1032
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: from an already low percentage point at thirty eight percent

1033
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six. And this is according to the

1034
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: American Institute for Boys and Men. Take a listen. We

1035
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: have some sound from the assistant provos from Howard University

1036
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: who helps put this in context.

1037
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 7: The campus experiences is significantly impacted by the imbalance. Right

1038
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:48,800
Speaker 7: at every educational institution, we want a diversity of experience,

1039
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 7: and so when you don't have as many males in

1040
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 7: a classroom, that diversity of experience is significantly impacted. It

1041
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 7: even gets even more scary when we trace it forward, right,

1042
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 7: I think We're dealing with some really unique statistics right now.

1043
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 7: Black males, as we will dive deeper into this in

1044
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 7: a moment, are graduating at a much lower rate than

1045
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:08,959
Speaker 7: black female.

1046
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:10,479
Speaker 5: And that's across all college, across all.

1047
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 7: Colleges, not just HBCUs. And so this drop in the

1048
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 7: past decade has been seen more drastically. But the reality is,

1049
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 7: this is not a Howard problem. This is not an

1050
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 7: HBCU problem, This is not a PW Eye problem. This

1051
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 7: is an American education problem.

1052
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: So that was Calvin Hadley, He's the assistant provost at

1053
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 1: the beloved Howard University. For all the Howard people watching, HU,

1054
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: I'll let y'all fill in the you know part, But

1055
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: you know ro We brought in this segment listening to

1056
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 1: the men of Morehouse welcome in the incoming class at

1057
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,399
Speaker 1: Morehouse College. And I appreciate Calvin Hadley making that point

1058
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,399
Speaker 1: that this is not just HBCUs, this is across the board.

1059
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: This is a bigger problem.

1060
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts?

1061
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: What do you make of this?

1062
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 5: Earlier I said micro macro, macro micro. So I'm gonna

1063
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 5: use this pit. This is college. College is the end

1064
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 5: of the education process. To understand why it's low here,

1065
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 5: I now got to go high school, middle school, elementary school,

1066
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 5: which means when you roll back and you begin to

1067
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 5: look at education rates, you look at scores, when you

1068
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 5: look at reading and math scores. When I earlier also

1069
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 5: say when I criticized that father's video social media when

1070
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 5: he was mad at his son and his nephew who

1071
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 5: they couldn't spell, that's right there the problem. You cannot

1072
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 5: begin to assess the issue when they're high school seniors.

1073
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 5: You got to go back even further. And so we

1074
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 5: have a system, we have a community. So you have

1075
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 5: a system problem, and we got a community problem. We

1076
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 5: got a system problem, a community problem, and a family problem.

1077
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 5: I just got to be see too often, Let's just

1078
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 5: be real clear. A lot of times as black folks,

1079
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 5: we don't want to admit we got a family problem,

1080
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 5: but we do. And so we have to now begin

1081
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 5: to look at this as an eighteen year issue. What

1082
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 5: is happening? Pay through twelve? But as Jeffrey Canna said,

1083
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 5: we got to happening. What's what happened when that kid

1084
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 5: is in the womb, The average black child is actually

1085
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 5: coming out of the womb, is already behind the average

1086
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 5: white child because of pre day don't care. So what

1087
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 5: we have to recognize is that even even down what

1088
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 5: we talk about, so what is going on elementary, middle high,

1089
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 5: what's happening when you're the lack of black male teachers?

1090
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 5: How do you now begin to change that conversation as well?

1091
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 5: One of the reasons, and I've had a lot of

1092
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 5: black people getting mad at me, They're like, man, why

1093
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 5: do you support school choice? I say, I support school

1094
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 5: choice because if there is a system that allows black

1095
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 5: people to be in control of the school, in control

1096
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 5: of the contracts, in the control of the hiring, damn,

1097
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 5: I want us to control it because if that school

1098
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 5: is not doing the business. Shawn Hardener here in Washington, DC,

1099
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 5: brother was a public school teacher. And again, whatever your

1100
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 5: position on charge, it doesn't matter. But he was a

1101
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 5: public school teacher and black boys were failing in this school.

1102
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 5: Sean decided to start his own black male charter school

1103
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 5: the same black boys that were failing in this school

1104
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 5: or were succeeding in his school. What I say is

1105
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 5: public schools go to his school and say, what the

1106
00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 5: hell are y'all doing to take boys who were failing here?

1107
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 5: For succeeding here. If you do not confront this issue, elementary,

1108
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 5: middle school, high school, college is going to be the

1109
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 5: end result. The second piece is America, and I'm not

1110
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 5: talking about let's steer all of our black boys to trades.

1111
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 5: But we also have to recognize that whether you black, White, Latino, Asian,

1112
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 5: not everybody is trying to go to for year institutions.

1113
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 5: There are also two year schools. Sixty five percent of

1114
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 5: all jobs in America, sixty five percent can be trained

1115
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 5: in community colleges. And so how do we now begin

1116
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 5: to say I need you having a skill set? We

1117
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 5: had trades in the schools in the sixties, all of

1118
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 5: a sudden in the seventies they were there as well.

1119
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 5: A lot of black parents were like, Yo, why are

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01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 5: y'all pushing our kids into these trades as opposed to colleges. Well,

1121
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 5: then happens, trades came out of the schools. So we

1122
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 5: have a lot of people who are book smart, who

1123
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 5: can pass tests, but can you get to have no

1124
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 5: skill set? So we have to have a complete change

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Speaker 5: with education. When we talk about college and we talk

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Speaker 5: about technical skills. Kenny King College in Chicago Community College,

1127
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 5: my wife had worked there com Ed created a nine

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01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 5: month training program. This is what the people who climbed

1129
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,120
Speaker 5: the power that climbed the polls in the power lines.

1130
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 5: If you completed that nine month training program and got

1131
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 5: hired by com Ed, starting salary was eighty five to

1132
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 5: ninety thousand dollars.

1133
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Speaker 1: Well, the power is fifty easily exceeds fifty thousand dollars

1134
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: a year.

1135
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Speaker 8: Right.

1136
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 5: So the point I'm making is when we look at

1137
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 5: these type of stories who's in four year schools, we

1138
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 5: also have to look at the shift in this country

1139
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 5: on how education frankly is becoming so expensive, is keeping

1140
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 5: people from coming out and not I said Howard, but

1141
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 5: even at public institutions, the TU issue is lower. It's

1142
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 5: economically bad for people and they're like, I can't take

1143
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 5: on that fifty sixty to seventy eighty thousand dollars a death.

1144
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 5: So it's a multi pronged issue. But for our community,

1145
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 5: bomb Line elementary school, middle school, high school, our boys

1146
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 5: are not doing well and we've got to confront that

1147
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 5: problem when they are K especially K through nine, because

1148
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 5: by time they get to high school, in many cases,

1149
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 5: educationally it's a wrap.

1150
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: But you know, Angela, I was thinking.

1151
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 3: Point role.

1152
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: It's all those issues you just name, but also the

1153
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: lack of cultural competency in our school system, the you know,

1154
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: prison school to prison pipeline, the way that our you know,

1155
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: young boys are over policed essentially in every part of

1156
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: their lives. Just the I don't know, it's like this

1157
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,919
Speaker 1: trail we create. And then I think about these young

1158
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: women on college campuses, and there are so many of

1159
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: them and so few black men, and you think, what

1160
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: impact does this have on partnering for them in the

1161
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: future if they want to have families in fact, right exactly,

1162
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: and so then what you have is the erosion of

1163
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: the black family. You see a lot of women getting

1164
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: what they call spike degrees, you know, like there's nobody there,

1165
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna, you know, keep pursuing education.

1166
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 3: And people do that anyway because they want to.

1167
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: But there are some women who say, you know, after

1168
01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: a breakup, I did this, And then you have, you know,

1169
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: this tiny percentage of men who are graduating school who

1170
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: you know, I'm the shiz now because there's a whole

1171
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: lot of youths and not a lot of mes, And

1172
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just see this really impacting our

1173
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: society in an adverse way. I don't know what advice

1174
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,439
Speaker 1: to even offer for this, because I see your point

1175
01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 1: roll with the pipeline, But then I think about the

1176
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: current landscape and what some of these young women will

1177
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Speaker 1: be facing.

1178
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but I think what is important for

1179
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 4: us to remember in this moment is again the same

1180
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:25,919
Speaker 4: kind of conversation we were having earlier around the disastrous

1181
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 4: impact of what they're doing in the piecemeal destruction of

1182
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:34,360
Speaker 4: African American culture, in black culture and black spaces where

1183
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 4: that have traditionally been safe for us, that were designed

1184
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 4: to ensure that we could advance, whether they put a

1185
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 4: barrier in place or not. And so them going after

1186
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 4: affirmative action and going after equity programs and going after

1187
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 4: DEI is what is leading to this. So again, just

1188
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 4: because it was renamed DEI around a diversity, equity inclusion,

1189
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 4: around the murder that we all witness for nine mens

1190
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 4: in thirty seconds on camera of George Floyd, does not

1191
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 4: mean that black people haven't been striving for equitable outcomes

1192
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 4: for centuries.

1193
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 5: Right.

1194
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 4: The father of affirmative action is a black man. Was

1195
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 4: a black man named doctor Arthur Fletcher. He was a Republican.

1196
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,479
Speaker 4: There was a time when even the Voting Rights Act

1197
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 4: was a bipartisan bill, even introduced by John Sinson Brenner

1198
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 4: from Wisconsin when he was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

1199
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Speaker 4: What has happened, arguably even more so since Barack Obama

1200
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 4: was elected, is they were like, Okay, we wanted y'all

1201
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 4: to overcome, but not overcome us. You know, we wanted

1202
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 4: we wanted, we wanted you all to be on you know,

1203
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 4: good footing, but not equal footing. We wanted to maintain,

1204
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:48,640
Speaker 4: maintain we could be in similar spaces, but keep that

1205
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 4: unequal even if we don't continue down the road of

1206
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 4: a plus versus Ferguson. Now they're trying to take us

1207
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 4: back to a plusy versus Ferguson era around accommodations, around access,

1208
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 4: around board of directors, participation, around c suite executives. They

1209
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 4: do not want us in equitable spaces. They do not

1210
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 4: want us in leadership. And so what we have to

1211
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 4: understand is that it is all up to us. And

1212
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 4: so when Roland is asking people on the ground, what

1213
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 4: are the three things that you care about, what we

1214
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 4: have to understand is that whatever it is that we

1215
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:29,520
Speaker 4: care about from clean drinking water to property taxes that

1216
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 4: result in a good school for our kids. Whether it

1217
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 4: is how much we pay in taxes, whether it is

1218
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 4: whether or not we live in a food desert or not,

1219
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 4: it is all impacted by policy and politics. So at

1220
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 4: some point we have to understand that our participation is

1221
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 4: required if we want to see our circumstances change.

1222
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 5: And be careful with language, Be very careful with language.

1223
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 5: There are a lot of black people, and I've heard this.

1224
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 5: I'm the chat on my show man. To hell with

1225
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 5: this DEI white women were benefiting anyway, Okay, all right,

1226
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 5: the DEI jobs that were created, yes, seventy five percent,

1227
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 5: almost eighty percent with white folks. Hotly get it. Let's

1228
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 5: take contracts. Last year, more than seven hundred billion dollars

1229
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 5: was spent on the federal government white in the MWBE

1230
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 5: category AN or the Women Business Enterprise w shuld WW

1231
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 5: for white women. White women dominated the category. In the

1232
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 5: black space, we got less than two percent, but it

1233
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 5: was a record ten billion. Now follow me right here.

1234
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 5: Let's let's break that party. A lot of our people go,

1235
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 5: see that's some bullshit. We got less than two percent, correct,

1236
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 5: but it was a record ten billion. So what now happens?

1237
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 5: We talked about DEDI man, I ain't defending DEI well

1238
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 5: in Wisconsin because of the band eight hundred thousand dollars

1239
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 5: in scholarships for minority students wiped out. In Minnesota, a

1240
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 5: program for to recruit and incentivize more black teachers now gone.

1241
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 5: So I totally do I have white women benefited more

1242
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 5: from a firm action. Absolutely, that is fundamentally correct. But

1243
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 5: what I am not going to do is agree with

1244
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 5: the erasure of programs that have benefited black people and

1245
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 5: I want to build upon that. Then somebody will tell me, yeah,

1246
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 5: that's just the black elites, that's just well, the reality

1247
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 5: is there are a whole host of people who benefit

1248
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 5: from programs in place. I am not interested in seeing

1249
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 5: progress go away and say well, we can get it

1250
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 5: back when we know how real hard that is. The

1251
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 5: fact of the matter is, when it comes to this

1252
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 5: education piece, if you eradicate the programs that are about

1253
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 5: creating more black male teachers, that number is going to decrease.

1254
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 5: If you get rid of these programs about providing or

1255
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 5: incentivizing programs for black kids and who are special needs

1256
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 5: or in other areas that's going to decrease, and so

1257
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:23,600
Speaker 5: we need to be very careful, very careful when we

1258
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 5: start aligning with white conservatives whose agenda they agenda ain't

1259
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:36,240
Speaker 5: got nothing to do with. Ohio, we fix the problem.

1260
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 5: Oh no, it should be color blind. Colorblind. Well, I

1261
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 5: had a state center from Texas on Gudieras who challenge

1262
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 5: a white Republican anti DEI bil He said, I'm sorry,

1263
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 5: He said, we have one hundred and forty plus executive

1264
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 5: directors of agencies in Texas, two Latino men, two black men,

1265
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 5: ten white women, and one hundred and twenty white men.

1266
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 5: He said, in a state that's sixty one percent minord right.

1267
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 5: He said, Oh, you're trying to tell me you can't

1268
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:10,600
Speaker 5: find them. So we and I hear this all the time, anglativity,

1269
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,560
Speaker 5: We are speaking of our stuff. Not realize it that

1270
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:18,840
Speaker 5: we're actually aiding our own demise because they go see

1271
01:09:19,080 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 5: so and so said that, so and so said it,

1272
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 5: They said, hell with this DEI stuff. The programs that

1273
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 5: benefit us are actually wrapped up in those same and

1274
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:30,720
Speaker 5: that same umbrella. And it's the problem because when they

1275
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 5: go away, it's going to be hell trying to get

1276
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 5: it back. Yeah.

1277
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: Well, ro I hope people paid attention because you dropped

1278
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: a lot of gyms today and I know that we

1279
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:45,519
Speaker 1: have kept you a long time. So it's time, boys

1280
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: and girls to get to our CTAs. I love that

1281
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: you kind of gave one roll on. I feel like

1282
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: everything you said on this podcast has been a CTA.

1283
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 1: But pay attention to DEI. I'll go first with my

1284
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: CTA and then I'll pass the mic. I c t

1285
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: A is. Please, don't be coming around here talking about

1286
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: sports being a farewether sports fan. If you didn't even

1287
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 1: watch the nuble A, the n C Double A.

1288
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:11,679
Speaker 4: Final, I got.

1289
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:15,800
Speaker 1: Championships, Like, if you ain't watched with the rest of us,

1290
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: don't be out here talking about the teams.

1291
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 4: Okay, congratulations championship.

1292
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: Well, the NAACP, I happen to know there are members

1293
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: of the NAACP who love the n C Double A

1294
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: and so I just got them confused. But my point is,

1295
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Speaker 1: congratulations to the two champions for the women. The on

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Speaker 1: the women's side, Connecticut. Okay, on the men's side, it

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01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 1: was Houston was defeated by the Gators, by the Florida Gators.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna talk about sports. Please come correct

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01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: and know what you know. That's you know, That's all

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: I got.

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01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 4: And when you come to Seattle, Sis, I'm going to

1303
01:10:56,479 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 4: have you come to see Mama Oparade. Please because in

1304
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 4: Eddie Rice's house, like it's not an option, like you

1305
01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:07,320
Speaker 4: watch it sports. The only thing I won't fool with

1306
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,479
Speaker 4: him on is watching the Mariners, especially not now Mariners.

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 4: Y'all really need some damn help. But yeah, you're gonna

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01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:17,800
Speaker 4: have to come watch eddie ros game. He plays the

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01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 4: entire game, well I think he no, he coaches and

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01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 4: he's playing the whole game, so he's worn out like

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01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:26,080
Speaker 4: he is.

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01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 3: He's like, what you're doing past the ball? He jump in?

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01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 4: He I mean he literally. Yeah, So Bro, you could

1314
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 4: come to, but Tiffany's to come so that she learns.

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01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 3: I've been pressing.

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01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: I would want Papa Ride hit me up. I would

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01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: love to come watch a game with you. We have

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01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: a lot of things we could do together.

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01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:47,639
Speaker 4: So yeah, she wants to be high with my dad

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01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 4: to she wanted to.

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01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 3: Put you out there.

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01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,759
Speaker 5: Poppar Ride is a sports drop squad.

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01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 4: He does it for glaucoma.

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01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 3: Smells okay, Well I'm gonna do this squad.

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01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, well we're excited about that. Roland sounds like

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01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 4: he's signing up for a training too. And with that,

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01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 4: my CTA is this, It's very simple. Save Act is

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01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 4: supposed to get voted on this week. Please make sure

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01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 4: you call these members who are silly birds who think

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01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 4: that this's a good idea to prevent a woman from

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01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 4: utilizing her birth certificate if it has a different last

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01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,559
Speaker 4: name on it from her marriage license and now therefore

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01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 4: her driver's license, she would be prohibited from voting in

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01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 4: some instances. We don't want to give that type of

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01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 4: discretion to states or fed these fans, because these fans

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01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 4: move a little different. Also, I want you, guys, since

1337
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 4: you like to petition your government and call two zero

1338
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 4: two two two four three one two one to reach

1339
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 4: your members. I also want you to blow up Roland Martin.

1340
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 4: And here's why Roland is running a great program. Roland

1341
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 4: is we call him big Row Row Row. Often he

1342
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,639
Speaker 4: can be a little stubborn. And Roland has not yet

1343
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 4: signed up to participate on the State of the People

1344
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:57,560
Speaker 4: Power tour. So I want you to text him. I

1345
01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 4: want you to email him.

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01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 3: I want you to be in I'm not done.

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01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 4: I'm not done. On his YouTube comments. I want you,

1348
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 4: in his Instagram comments, I want him. Every time he's

1349
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 4: saying something.

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 3: Be like Roland, where you at? Why you not do

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01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 3: the State of the People paratry?

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01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:12,680
Speaker 5: Yet?

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01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 4: Rowland's gonna tell you it's very expensive to move his team.

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01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 4: And he was supposed to check dates. Let me tell y'all,

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01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:21,599
Speaker 4: he was checking dates three weeks ago. We've been having

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01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,599
Speaker 4: this conversation for three weeks. So go ahead and tell

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01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 4: Roland that he's missing out. And since he likes to

1358
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 4: talk to black people on the ground, you want to

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01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:29,120
Speaker 4: see him in your city.

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01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 3: Below his ass up.

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01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: That's the best CTA. What you got ro what's your hat?

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01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 6: To do?

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01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 5: Something?

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01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 3: Smart phone scrolling? I don't know what he about to do.

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01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 4: He's trying to pull a receipt. He gonna end up

1366
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 4: wrong with his feelings, hurts.

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01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:45,599
Speaker 1: And whatever received you pulled, have a call to action.

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01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 4: It's gonna be wrong. Whatever it is is gonna be wrong.

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01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 4: He's gonna see that. He told me he was gonna

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01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:54,240
Speaker 4: check his schedule and he would hit me back tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Remember well, no actually hit you back. First of all, now,

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01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 5: first of bar, First of all, let's be real clear, y'all.

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01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 5: Angela sent me a text on Monday, March twenty fourth,

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01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:13,680
Speaker 5: at seven thirty four pm. Okay, tweet with regards to

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01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 5: the tour. My response was what tour? She asked me

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01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 5: to sign up to something. I'm like, what tour? Then

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01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 5: she tells me the tour and Roland says on c

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01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 5: date she sent me the dates. Roland responds to Angela,

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01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 5: most of these dates are week days and I have

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01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 5: to do my show.

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01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 4: Do your show from anywhere else?

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01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 5: Any costs for me to bring my team on the road,

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01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 5: So see, costs.

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01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 3: Are real and raise money. You raise money for your

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01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 3: show for folks.

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Speaker 5: Who are in Raleigh, North Carolina. Roland will be broadcasting

1387
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 5: from Raleigh a Saint Augustine's town Hall on Friday, April eleventh.

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01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:04,840
Speaker 5: I'm doing this without Angela's permission. Is we take the

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01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 5: show on the ground. We do these things.

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Speaker 4: Ignore you guys. Remember my call to action investing. We want.

1391
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 3: Programs in coalition with black.

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01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 5: I'm trying to I'm trying to tell you when you're

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01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 5: moving six people around, it ain't that simple. But but you,

1394
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 5: but you are, You're more than You're more than willing

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01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 5: to say checking money order to peel box five seven

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01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 5: one ninety six Washington d C to zero zero three

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01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 5: seven that zero one ninety six. You can also course

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01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 5: to help pay for Angela wanted me to be on

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01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 5: this tour. You can get our shirt to don't blead

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01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 5: me and vote for black women at Blackstart Network dot com.

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01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,640
Speaker 5: Here's here's my call to action. Uh and it is

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01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 5: really basic and fundamental, and it's really repeated what I

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01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:55,639
Speaker 5: said earlier.

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01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,519
Speaker 4: And all the aren't during the week, by the way,

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01:15:58,520 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 4: because you like.

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01:16:00,920 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 5: Eighty five percent of them are doing the venture. So okay,

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01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 5: all right, so don't make me have to go back

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01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:09,560
Speaker 5: to the text. Okay, So here's my Here is my

1409
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 5: call to action, which I laid out earlier. A lot

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01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:14,839
Speaker 5: of you are despondent, a lot of you are depressed,

1411
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 5: a lot of you are still grieving. I don't know

1412
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:20,719
Speaker 5: my show's ROLLERD unfiltered, so let me just go ahead

1413
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,760
Speaker 5: and see it. Get the OVERD. Vice President Kamala Hair

1414
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 5: has lost on November fifth, WHOA wow, I was focused.

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01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 5: I was focused. I was focused on the Wisconsin State

1416
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 5: Supreme Court race. On November eighth, black people turned out

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01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,759
Speaker 5: thirty seven percent of the early votes in Louisiana defeated

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01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 5: those four MAGA constitutional amendments. Sharratte Jones lost the mayor's

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01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 5: race in Saint Louis significant black population. She lost. Her

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01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 5: opponent got sixty four percent of the vote. We didn't

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01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 5: turn out. There's a mayor's race in New Orleans and

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01:16:56,360 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 5: the black candidate covert will not win. That you've got

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01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 5: good latorial race is happening if the Virginia, if they

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01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 5: hold a House, Don Scott becomes maintained Speaker of the House,

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01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:10,400
Speaker 5: first black speaker. I need people to be focused on

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01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 5: what's next. Stop talking about twenty twenty eight, Stop talking

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01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 5: about twenty twenty six, focus on what's happening in twenty

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01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 5: twenty five, and then build twenty twenty six. But we

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01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 5: as black people, if we vote at seventy percent of

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01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 5: our capacity Angela's point, we win and now we can

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01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 5: impact policy. But y'all, everything you care about, economics, education,

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01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 5: health care, at all, it all has a direct tie

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01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 5: into politics. So the vote absolutely matters. But when the

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01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,479
Speaker 5: voter is over, I need you to still be engaged

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01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 5: and go into those city council meeting and school board meetings.

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01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 5: We need black people in the process. The couch cannot

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01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 5: be an option.

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01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:57,599
Speaker 4: Love that Role, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Thank you, y'all.

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01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 5: Blow Rolling up, blow don't ahead, blow me up? Thank you?

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01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 9: You know.

1441
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 4: Make sure you tune into Roland Martin Unfiltered every day.

1442
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 4: If you guys miss the show, he is nine times

1443
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 4: out of ten still live.

1444
01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 5: On x or on another platform live. We restream it.

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01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 4: But yes, okay, but it's it's called live on the platform.

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01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 4: Relax man, anyway, make sure that you tune in.

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01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 5: Rolling You work your people too hard. It's three am.

1448
01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 5: I'm like, we're not awake, rolling down.

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01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 4: I'm trying to tell the people anyway. It will show

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01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 4: up live. Just make sure you catch this restream. The

1451
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:40,839
Speaker 4: broadcast all the things, very informative, always has great panelists

1452
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 4: and guests. Make sure that you tune in. And one

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01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 4: of my favorite things about Role, even though y'all we

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01:18:45,520 --> 01:18:48,800
Speaker 4: really do fight like family, my favorite thing about him

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01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:52,680
Speaker 4: is that he will absolutely always be standing up for

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01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:55,680
Speaker 4: black folks even when it's unpopular. So Rollerie, thank you

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01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 4: for your commitment to the culture, even when it's hard

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01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 4: and you have something you're supposed to read on the way.

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01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,600
Speaker 1: I just wanted to thank you also because, as y'all know,

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01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:09,280
Speaker 1: wrote saved us during our live UH coverage of the

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Speaker 1: d n C.

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01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:11,880
Speaker 3: Yes, Angela and I have talked about this.

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01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:15,600
Speaker 1: We truly love you, Row, and I really respect and

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01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 1: admire what you have built and all that you have

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01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:20,639
Speaker 1: mentioned the culture, like Angela said, and it is something

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01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,600
Speaker 1: to know that the day that you joined the ancestors

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01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 1: because Roe is always telling us who.

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01:19:25,080 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 3: Joined, don't kill.

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01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 1: But this is what I say, the day that you

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01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 1: join the ancestors role, there will be millions of people

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01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:43,719
Speaker 1: who can say they will have a Roland Martin story

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01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 1: they learned about something to throw and the same way

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01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 1: that you broadcast all these funerals of people like you

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01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:54,439
Speaker 1: will have that same love many years from now. I

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01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:55,360
Speaker 1: wish we had an organ.

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01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say stores down. That's how I

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01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:05,840
Speaker 4: was just ready to say a true scorpio fashion role.

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01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 4: I think one of the most the most telling lessons

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01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 4: from what Tip just shared is one thing we can

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01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:12,800
Speaker 4: learn to do as a as a people is to

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01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,120
Speaker 4: give people their flowers, their credit, their just due, and

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01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 4: our gratitude while they are living.

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01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 3: So we are so grateful that she joined us a

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01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:22,680
Speaker 3: lot because I was.

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Speaker 4: Any.

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01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes somebody drives me crazy, you know, I always think,

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01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 1: what if they're not here? You know, like, imagine this

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01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: is the last time you'll see that person.

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01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 3: Worse, This is worse than the gators.

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01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 5: What does she think?

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01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 3: The sports rollers on my nerves?

1492
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 4: Now, if this Negro drop dead right now, have it

1493
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 4: on my nerves, Not on my nerves.

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01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to pour love into you, Ro. That's

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01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 3: my only point. I want people to know what we just.

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01:20:54,720 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 4: Call to say we love you, and we mean it.

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01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,760
Speaker 3: From the bottom of.

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01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:14,360
Speaker 5: Api. I appreciate it.

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01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 7: And the.

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Speaker 5: Next time I do this, I'm gonna have me a

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01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 5: flower wall behind me.

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01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 3: Oh that's a good idea role. Let me give you

1503
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 3: your flowers. Hold on, let me take you in.

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01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: To literally give a role while Angela give it roller flowers.

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01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: I just want to remind y'all who are listening, please, please,

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01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,639
Speaker 1: please be sure to subscribe to a native lampid.

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01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 3: We are we across the hundred thousand. This is a subscriber.

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01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:42,679
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, that flaccid flower that Angela's waving for those

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Speaker 1: cross two hundred thousand a lot, so we're trying to

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Speaker 1: be like then it took. Yeah, we were trying to

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Speaker 1: get roller Martin numbers. Here you go, there, you go round.

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Speaker 1: You got some flowers and are you looking?

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Speaker 4: Be sure?

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Speaker 5: Please?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: So for the folks who are not watching this, I

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Speaker 3: I want to make sure that you all know.

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Speaker 1: New episodes of Native Land drop every Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: we grow up, we'll be able to have our own

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Speaker 1: little native Lamb pod studio like Roland Martin unfiltered.

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Speaker 4: You just need to give us a little office. He

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Speaker 4: just needs to give us at give me over the car.

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Speaker 4: You better come on this tour. You better look at

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Speaker 4: the weekend days to come. They have these people blow

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Speaker 4: you up. I'm gonna have melon money. I'm just trying

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Speaker 4: to have everybody call you. I'm have Judy car, I

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Speaker 4: have everybody call you. You're about to get blown up today.

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Speaker 1: I'm about to just squad. I'm have my meal if

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Speaker 1: I have mal deliver there. Don't that man, I'm living there.

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Speaker 4: It's like the white people do.

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Speaker 5: What are you talking?

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Speaker 1: Exactly?

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Speaker 3: I discovered I discovered the studio Roomeme bro.

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Speaker 4: If you know that that video that show on social

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Speaker 4: all the time when a white lady comes off, she

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Speaker 4: goes surprise, surprise, surprise.

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Speaker 5: You y'all gonna have a surprise. Security is gonna be like,

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Speaker 5: I don't see your name on him.

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Speaker 1: I for gotten to tell y'all. There are five hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy two days left until mid term elections, and

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Speaker 1: let us hope and pray that we actually have fair

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Speaker 1: elections when it comes time for mid terms Native Lamp

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining the Natives, attentional with the info

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Speaker 2: and all of the latest Roy gillim and cross connected

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Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the patients, reason for your choices cleared,

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Speaker 2: so grateful it took the execute roles for serve, defend

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Speaker 2: and protect the truth even in past, and welcome home

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Speaker 2: to all of the Natives.

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Speaker 8: We thank you