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Speaker 3: I want to talk about our conversation at Carnegie Hall
Speaker 3: with Robert Smith. We'll do the full Carnegie Hall recap
Speaker 3: later on. Yeah, but A, I mean, it's always a
Speaker 3: pleasure whenever you get to speak to Robert Smith.
Speaker 4: Great guy.
Speaker 3: We had a conversation with Robert Smith and Paul Judge
Speaker 3: at Carnegie Hall on my birthday, ironically enough, and we
Speaker 3: spoke on stage for about forty five minutes and then
Speaker 3: we had a conversation off stage. And one of the
Speaker 3: things that he's very passionate about, and he's actually spoke
Speaker 3: about this on when he came out in Easia as well,
Speaker 3: is the HBCU broadband issue. And this is something that
Speaker 3: I don't think a lot of people are fully aware of.
Speaker 3: And we actually put a tweet about it, and we
Speaker 3: put it up and it got a lot of traction.
Speaker 3: So just want to kind of cover that because this
Speaker 3: is actually a pretty time sensitive news event that I
Speaker 3: think deserves attention. So this year, the Bidy administration and
Speaker 3: state governments are spending sixty five billion dollars on broadband infrastructure.
Speaker 3: So they have an infrastructure project to upgrade America's broadband system.
Speaker 3: It's the largest investment in our lifetimes when it comes
Speaker 3: to you know, broadband infrastructure. So here's here's the thing.
Speaker 3: This is why it's important. I believe there is one
Speaker 3: hundred and one HBCUs, and those HBCUs, those one hundred
Speaker 3: and one schools produced fifty percent of all black engineers,
Speaker 3: fifty percent of all black attorneys, and eighty five percent
Speaker 3: of all black doctors. So the majority of our black
Speaker 3: professionals are coming from HBCUs. So the HBCUs are important, right,
Speaker 3: But here's the problem. Only eighty two but eighty two
Speaker 3: percent of HBCUs existing broadband deserts. So we talk about
Speaker 3: food deserts a lot, but we haven't really spoken a
Speaker 3: lot about broadband deserts. Whereas it's hard for people like
Speaker 3: you know, we live in New York, or if you
Speaker 3: go to La or Atlanta, it's hard for people to
Speaker 3: fully understand, like there's really broadband deserts in America. But
Speaker 3: when you go to a lot of these HBCUs, they're
Speaker 3: in Mississippi or Alabama, or Louisiana or rural parts.
Speaker 4: Of Texas Carolina.
Speaker 3: These are rural communities where they don't have the same
Speaker 3: internet power or broadband access that we have the luxury
Speaker 3: of having in New York, in Miami, in LA and
Speaker 3: San Francisco, different things in that nature. So that's a
Speaker 3: major issue because that prevents not only the students, but
Speaker 3: also communities because it's said that half of the black
Speaker 3: people that live in America live around seventy HBCUs, So
Speaker 3: half of the black population lives close to seventy HBCUs.
Speaker 3: So the PCUS not having broadband access is not only
Speaker 3: bad for HBC use students, but it's also bad for
Speaker 3: the communities. So now you see it's bigger than just
Speaker 3: a college issue. It's a Black American issue, it's an
Speaker 3: American issue, but it affects so many there's so many
Speaker 3: different ripples that go into play here. So Deloitte did
Speaker 3: a study and they said that even increasing the broadband
Speaker 3: penetration pause by ten percent would have created more than
Speaker 3: eight hundred thousand jobs from twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: And McKinsey found that closing the broadband gap was one
Speaker 3: of the solutions to add more than three hundred billion
Speaker 3: dollars to the economy to actively black consumers. So this
Speaker 3: is something that's extremely important because so you have to
Speaker 3: have you have to put a proposal to be thought
Speaker 3: about to get the money right. So it's one plan
Speaker 3: costs four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, So seventy plans
Speaker 3: for the HBCUs were cost around thirty million dollars.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, there's a couple of parts to it, right.
Speaker 5: So the first part is that the federal government is
Speaker 5: going to release the funds to the state. The states
Speaker 5: have the right to disperse the money to people who
Speaker 5: have submitted plans, and so one of the things that
Speaker 5: and when we spoke to Robert about this, one of
Speaker 5: the things he did was took the initiative to create
Speaker 5: a plan, and so he created a plan around an
Speaker 5: HBCU and the total cost of it, you're right, was
Speaker 5: four hundred and thirty thousand dollars to create not a
Speaker 5: broadband desert, but have active broadband inside of a HBCU,
Speaker 5: which in turn gave broadband access to the community surrounding
Speaker 5: at HBCU.
Speaker 3: Going So, it's extremely important because the funds I believe
Speaker 3: are going to be dispersed starting in June.
Speaker 5: The plans have to be submitted by June. The funds
Speaker 5: will be dispers by the end of this year.
Speaker 3: So it's time sensors. Long story short, it's time sensor.
Speaker 3: It's extremely time sensitive. And if this doesn't happen, who's
Speaker 3: to say when this is going to be done again.
Speaker 3: So this is this is very important. This is very
Speaker 3: important because there's no way to survive in this in
Speaker 3: this economy without having proper Internet access. From an educational standpoint,
Speaker 3: like it's hard to learn, it's hard to communicate, it's hard,
Speaker 3: Like it's hard to get a job, especially now. A
Speaker 3: lot of jobs are remote, right, but you can't really
Speaker 3: have a functional job remote if you don't have high
Speaker 3: Internet access. So there's so many different things why this
Speaker 3: why this issue is important, and this is something that
Speaker 3: elective of elected officials should be held accountable for making
Speaker 3: sure this happens not only on the state level, but
Speaker 3: on the presidential level as well, President Biden and the
Speaker 3: whole administration. This is something that needs to be talked
Speaker 3: about a lot on a national Black Caucus, to Republicans,
Speaker 3: to Democrats, to everybody. This isn't a partisan issue. It's
Speaker 3: just an issue that just needs to be done. So
Speaker 3: regardless of what your political affiliations are, politics does play
Speaker 3: a part. And you can't just brush it off to say, well,
Speaker 3: politics aren't important, because they kind of are important. Because
Speaker 3: this is an extremely important issue and this is solely
Speaker 3: a political issue, Like the politicians are going to decide
Speaker 3: this issue. So this goes back to my whole philosophy
Speaker 3: on voting is important. It's just a matter of a
Speaker 3: strategy put in place. Just voting blindly for somebody. No,
Speaker 3: that's not the best way to go about it, having
Speaker 3: super packs, holding people account.
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Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 3: Well, picking and choosing strategically who you put in office
Speaker 3: so they can uphold the agenda that that's part of
Speaker 3: the political process. That's important, and that's something that we
Speaker 3: have inn We've done a good job as far as
Speaker 3: just voting, but that really hasn't made too much progress
Speaker 3: because we haven't put the economic power behind it, we
Speaker 3: haven't put the pressure behind it, we haven't put those
Speaker 3: have to go hand in hand with voting. It's not
Speaker 3: good enough just to vote. You got to have political
Speaker 3: plan and action and money behind the votes to make
Speaker 3: the politicians do what's important. And you have to be aware.
Speaker 3: That's another thing. A lot of people don't even know
Speaker 3: what this even exists, or they might not even know why.
Speaker 3: So hopefully now after explaining it, you not only know why,
Speaker 3: you know it exists, but you also know why it's important.
Speaker 4: And I mean, it poses the real question. Right, let's
Speaker 4: get it even more context to it.
Speaker 6: Right, So, if there's seventy HBCUs with fifty percent of
Speaker 6: the African American population living in proximity to them, if
Speaker 6: we did that right, if it took four hundred and
Speaker 6: thirty thousand for one school, if we did it for
Speaker 6: all seventy, the toll is somewhere around thirty one.
Speaker 4: Million, thirty million, thirty thirty one million.
Speaker 5: We're talking about an infrastructure bill that was passed for
Speaker 5: sixty five billion.
Speaker 4: Thirty million is always going.
Speaker 2: To and we won't even talk about how much.
Speaker 5: We're talking about bridges, tunnels, infrastructure. Broadband thirty million can
Speaker 5: provide adequate access to the Internet for half of the
Speaker 5: African American population thirty million dollars. So think about that right, Like,
Speaker 5: think about what life would look like if there was
Speaker 5: no broadbrand, Like and they pose a question where early
Speaker 5: allegion exists, No, how how can we exist?
Speaker 4: Put out the internet?
Speaker 5: Right, we wouldn't have access to this, But imagine what
Speaker 5: that does for communities now that have access. Right, if
Speaker 5: we want to have the best, how can we compete
Speaker 5: if we don't even have the resources to act adequately, research, develop, learn,
Speaker 5: teach without.
Speaker 4: Having the infrastructure.
Speaker 5: Thirty million is a I mean, it sounds like a
Speaker 5: lot of money when you're talking about a bill that's
Speaker 5: going to be thirty two billion is going to be
Speaker 5: put towards you know, internet infrastructure is this is a
Speaker 5: small small, small small feet the fact that we don't
Speaker 5: know about it, and there's no excuse, right, we're telling
Speaker 5: people about it.
Speaker 4: We're making people aware of it.
Speaker 5: We had people when we put up the post acts
Speaker 5: what is broadband, which furthermore tells us like, yo, we
Speaker 5: have like when we say like we're far behind, like
Speaker 5: we need to be on top of these things. This
Speaker 5: is something like you said, this doesn't happen every decade
Speaker 5: or every three decades.
Speaker 4: This is a once in a lifetime thing.
Speaker 5: And to not have us as a priority and as
Speaker 5: part of this infrastructure bill is a travesy. If we
Speaker 5: don't do something, who knows, Right, when Robert Smith was
Speaker 5: on stage and he was talking about the Fourth Industrial
Speaker 5: Revolution happening, this is going to be a major pillar
Speaker 5: in it, right, because yeah, they can pass this bill now,
Speaker 5: but what happens is they disperse this money over five, ten, fifteen,
Speaker 5: twenty years. And if you're not in any of those
Speaker 5: plans over the next five, ten, fifteen, twenty years, where's
Speaker 5: our community.
Speaker 4: What happens about HBCUs.
Speaker 5: What happens to our best and brightest and most intelligent
Speaker 5: from our community, what happens to them? That's what's on
Speaker 5: the line here. And so like it's a serious issue
Speaker 5: and it's something we can do.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: We put the link up to where you can write
Speaker 5: to and where you can submit plans, and it's done
Speaker 5: right like his team, they've done it.
Speaker 4: It's a proven thing that works. So we got to
Speaker 4: take action.
Speaker 7: My first thought is if we don't get this money,
Speaker 7: that's an act of intellectual terrorism. My second thought is
Speaker 7: what does it cost to repair the water supply issue
Speaker 7: in Flint? So when we're talking about these topics, and
Speaker 7: this is why, like us, taking action is really key.
Speaker 7: The water desert, the food desert issue that it exists
Speaker 7: in broad band, healthcare, issues that exist in our communities.
Speaker 7: It's a travesty man like for thirty million dollars to
Speaker 7: not go to our communities but billions be shipped to
Speaker 7: Ukraine other nations. I think it's a it's heartbreaking. So
Speaker 7: whatever we can do to make sure that we get
Speaker 7: this money, please, let's do it. I feel like our
Speaker 7: communities are being actively attacked and very secret and quiet ways.
Speaker 2: This is heartbreaking. This is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so so yeah, so you know, anything that we
Speaker 3: can do. I mean, we have a platform. So as
Speaker 3: a as a media outlets, our job not just to educate,
Speaker 3: but to also spread awareness and news is extremely important.
Speaker 3: So we get to you know, that's the good thing
Speaker 3: with being a media company. You get to curate whatever
Speaker 3: you want to talk about. So if the vast majority
Speaker 3: of people are not talking about it, then we have
Speaker 3: an opportunity to talk about it and hopefully, you know,
Speaker 3: people will take action from learning about it and you know,
Speaker 3: learn more about it and see raise more awareness, spread
Speaker 3: it on your platforms and hopefully it becomes a trickle
Speaker 3: down in fact, because it's important, and like Ian said,
Speaker 3: you know, millions of dollars gets sent to Ukraine and
Speaker 3: God blessed. But ultimately, we have to find a way
Speaker 3: to make sure that American citizens are sufficiently taken care
Speaker 3: of because if not, it's only gonna be bad for
Speaker 3: the country. That's what I'm saying. It's not it's not
Speaker 3: a black issue. If if we if black people don't
Speaker 3: have broadband access, if HBCU people don't have broadband access,
Speaker 3: that is going to lead to the fall of America.
Speaker 3: Because you're some of the brightest minds out of this
Speaker 3: new age. You're you're limiting your pool of talent. So
Speaker 3: it's not something that it's not something that just just
Speaker 3: affects black people.
Speaker 4: It affects all people.
Speaker 3: So this is something that you know is important, and
Speaker 3: you know, glad we got a chance to highlight it.
Speaker 3: And uh, like I said, I'm gonna tell the rest
Speaker 3: of the Robert Smith's story later on, but that one
Speaker 3: in particular, I thought was uh important to talk about. Midshell,
Speaker 3: my graduates from my school being force backdrop drop.
Speaker 4: Mike drop backdrop drop.
Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous micro criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
Speaker 1: border and families.
Speaker 2: Will be protected. Sponsored by the United States Department of
Speaker 2: Homeland Security,