WEBVTT - Faded… None of These Candidates! 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.640 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeart Radio in 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:10.280 partnership with Reason Choice Media. What's up, everybody, Welcome home, 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.840 y'all to the fifth episode of Native Land Pod. 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.520 Per se Yes. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:21.040 Day here the birth day. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.880 I'm forty five, y'all get it good? Thank you good? 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.680 Can I tell y'all, I didn't know it was middle aged? 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:33.960 You're choosing violence? 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:36.159 I give you permission. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.440 I didn't know it was middle aged. I didn't know forty. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.360 Received it really no middle as. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.839 We don't put you in your trump here. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.120 I know forty five is bad. It started out bad, 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:51.480 so it's gonna end up good. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.160 You get second chances, third. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.160 You know that is true. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:57.000 That's true. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.400 Well anyway, Quarius seasons. So thank y'all because this is 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.280 my birthday gift here being with you all. I'll tell 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.319 our listeners after this, we're all going to go eat 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:07.880 stuff our faces. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.600 Yes, we get there. It depends on if we decide 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.360 to fill a bust to this pot or not. Okay, 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.160 can we go along on this pod? 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:16.480 We do. We don't know how to stop talking. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.680 We will have so much interesting things to say that 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.119 it's a lot happening in the media. Yes, yes, well 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.520 we think are interesting, Yes, exactly. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.480 The listener may or may not, who knows well. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:33.039 The numbers say they do. Thank y'all for rolling with us. 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.480 As you know on Nata Lampid, we give it to 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.320 you straight, no chaser, And so I want to let 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.759 you guys know, we are going. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.200 To be talking about a lot on this episode. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.800 We're going to we had a primary this week, two 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.960 primaries on Nevada and Nevada. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:55.320 Forgive me all the folks in Nevada on the West coast, right, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.600 let's the a Ryan go never let us this is 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.560 the West Coast Nevada, Nevada in South Carolina. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.600 So we'll get into that immigration. Every time we talk 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.240 about immigration, I feel like it's a flood of comments. Yeah, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.320 people feel away and people, I will tell you, people 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.040 have been coming after me like Tiffany, you have no 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:14.480 idea what you're talking about, and let me tell you 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:15.679 what's happening in Chicago. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:15.880 And New York. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:16.720 And I heard y'all. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.919 So we're gonna get into that again today. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.080 In shall we gonna we want to come rod to 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.760 your city, invite us. We're also going to get into 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.280 something that we talked about doing on this podcast is 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.919 talking about some of these state bills that are happening 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.560 because a lot of people don't pay attention and a 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.120 lot of these state these laws that are passed to 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.239 the state legislature become federal law. So we're going to 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.600 start paying attention to that as well. We're going to 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.840 y'all know what's happening Sunday. Yes, the NFL, So we're 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:45.919 gonna talk about. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:46.680 That Super Bowl. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.360 Yes, and angel I know you read a really interesting 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.880 report from Mackenzie. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:51.960 We're going to get into that. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.040 And I just want to take a moment and thank 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.680 you guys because of the response to Andrew's testimony last week. Andrew, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.800 I know you stay on social media, we all need to, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.359 but it was overwhelming. There were so many people just 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.200 showing you all the love of my brothers. So his 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.760 testimony was so harrowing and so much. We're going to 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.240 play the second half of his testimony, so I want 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.040 you guys to really stick around and listen to that 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:21.440 because after going through such turmoil and personal crisis and 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.000 and surviving that so teers to you. Then the Lord 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:30.280 send another challenger away and you survived that, but getting 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.440 into the trial, I think that is super, super important, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.480 So you guys please be sure to stick around for that. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.160 So we allowed to get to get into this podcast. Yeah, well, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:47.000 let's get right into it. I think we have to 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.240 kick it off with the primaries this week, the primary 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.680 South Carolina and Nevada. So I think why it's important 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.520 for us to talk about this is these two states 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.560 have the highest population of people of when it comes 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:01.480 to primary state. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.240 So far in the yeah, oh no period. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.040 Yeah, for primary states. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:05.360 Yeah. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.040 So South Carolina has a large not the largest, but 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.280 a very large black population, and Nevada has a very 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.360 large Latino population, black population, indigenous population. Right, big labor 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.279 community there because of all the casinos. Labor obviously plays 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.600 an outsize role in politics. So we got to get 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.000 into it. I will be honest with you guys, I 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.839 was not paying attention. Well, I wanted to take a 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.279 break from it all. I wanted to like focus on myself, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:34.000 you know. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:35.320 Yeah. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.400 Yeah, so I felt a little ease being out of 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.240 the news. So Angela actually updated me this morning. Angela, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.719 please tell me the results of the Nevada Nevada primier. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.320 Well, I will say the Biden heres campaign pushed out 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.719 some results this morning talking about there were there was 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.360 a ninety percent of the twenty twenty turnout in this 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.000 year's primary South Carolina. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.960 No, this is in Nevada, Novada. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.320 Yes, and I think that I'm a little concerned because 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.599 I know you said, Andrews said, I wouldn't have shown 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:09.200 up at all. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.800 Maybe, yeah, but I think that. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.320 You know, we just need to be aware of these numbers, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.200 particularly as it relates to people of color. However, I 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.800 feel like the big news in Nevada is that Nicki 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.719 Haley opted out of the caucuses and into the primary. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.240 She says she didn't compete. Her campaign says she didn't compete. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.680 But let me tell you who did compete. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.039 Wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait, So that the 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.719 viewers understanding completely, Donald Trump chose the caucuses over the primaries, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.560 and therefore was not a name on the ballot. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.440 Yes, okay, okay, yes, So because you can only pick 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:48.159 the primary or the caucuses. Yes, so Nicki Haley chose 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.880 the ballot, she chose the primary, and there was another 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.279 choice on the ballot that Donald Trump did push. So 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.400 there was a ghost of Donald Trump on the ballot. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.120 It was not any of these candidates. Wait, but do 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.200 you mean like none of the other candidates are on there. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:01.840 Or a choice. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.560 There was a choice that said, and I quote, not 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.960 any of these candidates, Haley. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.240 Any option B is none of y'all. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.320 Do y'all want to know who won? 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:16.320 I have a feeling any of these candidates. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.680 I'm sorry, can you imagine? 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.400 So the campaign is trying heard it, but they needed 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.960 to hear that. Here's the thing, Nikki Haley has to 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.520 be embarrassed. Her campaign has to be mortified. But they 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.240 said they putting it all on the line of South Carolina. So, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.440 of course South Carolina primaries this weekend were just the 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.039 Democrats this past weekend. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.760 The Republicans are coming up on the twenty four. So yeah, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:44.520 so we'll see. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.800 Well, as you were saying this, our producer, Nick is 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.640 a spellar producer. He actually has the winner of the 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.800 GOP primary caucus on the line. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.480 Please help me welcome. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:07:01.720 None of these candidates. Thank you for joining us. About 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.000 your good feats. I'm sorry about your victory. Give us 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:09.680 your remarks on your stellar victory in Nevada. All right, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.880 that you heard it here first, folks, we have the 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.560 GOP winner of the Nevada primary with those really riveting, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.280 compelling remarks, I say, all right, can we just I 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:20.480 know we got to move on, but I want to 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.920 talk about South Carolina because some people were taking that 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.640 and saying, oh, it wasn't a big turnout, and you know, 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.680 black voters aren't turning out. I get so tired of 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.560 hearing that that that trope. Did you guys have any 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:33.760 thoughts on that or are we done with that? 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.080 Well, black voters weren't turning out for the Republican primary, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:36.640 of course not. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.840 But true Republican primary, that's not. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:44.440 Yet I understand. But my point is is in a 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.360 non contested presidential election, right, a lot of people don't 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.240 take time to go out to the polls to just 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.680 reconfirm what we already know, which is Biden and Harris 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.120 will be the nominees for Democrats. So to me, I 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:58.679 don't think we ought to overread that. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.400 I agree. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.720 Thing I'll tell you guys is our dear sister Latasha Brown, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.040 who's been doing work all over the south South Carolina. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:08.920 I'm not gonna forget about you, brother. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.120 I just say our sister because she's but yes, and 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.080 Cliff Albright and April I love them. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.040 I will say this. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.840 They said that there was an increase in black voter 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.520 turnout in South Carolina. So even though the numbers were down, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.320 I tell you, did I see an increase in black 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.400 voter turnout on his ballot count was Dean Phillips. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.160 Well, I thought you was gonna say, Jim Scott. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.280 But you know what, Jim Scott is competing in the 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.000 Republican primary, competing. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:36.360 He's still on the ballot. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.640 He's still on the ballot. I think he was. He wasn't. No, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.040 he was on the He's on the ballot in Nevada. 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.360 They can't take you. I don't think they could take 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.000 you off. We gotta check and none of that. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.959 And not even so he got beat by nobody either not. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.679 Again, yes, okay, yeah, that Mike. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.040 But the thing is the one who's still in the race. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.880 Nikki Hayley got beat by one of these kids. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:02.600 President, none of these candidates. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.080 Might you want to run? None of them? 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:06.439 Right? 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.040 Exactly, change your name legally, Nemorda. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:17.600 I know for your birthday, for your birthday, it's name that's. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:18.240 An Obama Carter. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.520 All right, everybody, we got a lot more show coming 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.160 up when we come back after this break. We're going 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.199 to get into immigration. You guys have a lot to 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:37.280 say about immigration. Okay, I'm eager for this next topic 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.760 because immigration. We've talked about this a few times on 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.360 the show, and so many of you guys listening way 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.560 in on this immigration thing. And look, I want to say, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.440 I've heard everybody from Chicago and New York say, you 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.880 don't know, you don't know, you don't know. You guys 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.480 know where Angela and I are in our girl group, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.319 our group chat, and so in our co ed chat. Actually, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:58.760 I think this came up in our co ed chat 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.000 and we were talking about immigration. And this is how 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.160 I know we have our finger on the pulse of 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.199 the community because you guys, your questions are always very 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.160 consistent with what we talk about. And so I want 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.200 to kick us off with a viewer question. Who's gonna 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.120 get us right into this conversation. So let's rode off 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.120 your question and we'll talk about it on the other side. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.920 Good day, Navy Land. My name is Valentine and I 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.040 live in Hinesvith, Georgia. My question is what do you 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.960 think about what fifty cent did over the weekend when 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.720 he did a tweet me personally, I have a problem 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.160 with that because if you're gonna tweet something like that. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.840 Tweet all the other stuff too, Tweet what the House 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.920 Republicans doing right now. That's not working with the Democratic 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:46.960 Party about making some kind of bill to control the border. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.880 He's not education's people. I do believe people like that. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.400 The rappers, they're not. They have a platform, but they're 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.880 not really educating the people like they should. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:56.960 Then more what you think. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.679 All right, I have a lot of thoughts on this. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.719 I'm gonna kick it to y'all. Well, I have a. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:08.080 Challenging time when first, let me just say, rappers are 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.240 tax paying citizens and they have a right to weigh 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.320 in on everything. So I really don't appreciate this, not 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.720 from the viewer, but sometimes from society. There's this attitude 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.000 of shut up and dribble, you know, stick to sports, 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.720 stick to music. And these people probably pay more taxes 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.439 than some of the people suggesting these things. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.240 So he has a right to weigh in. Fair fair enough. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.520 But I think the bigger point that I would say 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.600 for people who hear these kind of remarks because somebody 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.240 read a paper for the first time in six months, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.800 they're not an expert on something. Because someone is doing 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.720 kind of this like hashtag news following. They're not an expert. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.520 This is one person's opinion, and so when you hear this, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:51.080 I would invite everybody fine the solid resource yourself because 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:56.559 fifty doesn't work on immigration issues at all. But I 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.199 think the bigger issue that this gets into. I think 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.360 that what the viewer is trying to suggest is there 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.120 are other issues happening. One of the conversations we were 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.280 having is in the black community. Are there are some 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.800 members of the black community who are being anti immigrants 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.480 or is it a fight over resources? 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:20.240 Yeah, Tiff, I agree with you that any tax paying citizen, 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.839 anyone that is watching what's happening in this country has 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.480 a right to appine on it. Even young folks who 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.240 don't aren't working, or are elders who may not be working, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.360 they have a right to appine on what's happening. I 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:36.440 think the challenge is that when we think about the 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:41.400 haves and the have nots, oftentimes folks who look like 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.559 us find ourselves on the have not side like most 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.400 other people of color, right, And I think that the 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.960 concern I have is the haves get to escape with 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.000 you know, blemish free, like there's nothing on them about 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.679 this and that is what is troubling to me. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.160 So fifty cent. He actually didn't just have an opinion. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.160 He raised a question, Eric Adams, tell me what's going 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.000 on with these cards? 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.880 So, well, les's we should say what the cards are. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.480 Yes, so there is a pilot program in place in 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:19.360 New York and yes, and it's also family. Yes, And 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.439 it is a card that is essentially like Snap Benefits 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:28.400 but for migrant community members. Why there were thousands of 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.000 meals being thrown away every day because folks are like, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.520 I don't want this nasty food, like I want something else. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.240 So these cards can be used at the local bodega 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.160 and grocery store so that they can cook the things 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.000 that they actually want to eat. Now, folks looking at 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.280 this can say, well, what about us? We actually have 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.439 SNAP Benefits for low income under resource families all throughout 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:52.079 the country through federal programming. But this particular program also 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.360 works with a black owned business that I can't remember 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.760 the name of right now, but I do want to 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.080 play Eric Adams sound in response to this. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.360 I responding to fifty fifty cent, Oh yeah, let's let's 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.040 let's hear that. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.559 This was a small policy shift that we're doing on 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.760 a pilot project with five hundred people. If this is successful, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.560 we're going to expand it even more so that we 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.440 can bring down we got to bring down the course 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.240 twenty percent. We want to bring down a course, and 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.320 their team are doing their job. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.240 So I told. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.520 Fifty to hit me up. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.520 I would love to explain it to him so that 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.160 he can go out and do another tweet of saying, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.480 you know what, Eric is just a smart manager, and 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.360 now we understand why he was elected by the people 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.440 of this city of New York. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:43.160 I love it. Wow, so asked Ari Melburn Tips former colleague, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.520 my former corleague as well, to explain what happened. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.480 He's become a rapper whisper. But also we. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.760 Think that we can we can give you a run 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.320 for your money on that, Ari, And so to this end, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.960 we hope that now it is clearer to fifty cent 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.800 you know what is going on, not just to him, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.720 but he was bold enough to ask the question. A 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.040 lot of people with these questions all over the country 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:06.960 about where is mine? 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.640 Yeah, well, I think that's kind of the thing Andrew right, Like, so, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.160 I I do look at our comments, even the comments 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.720 left on Native lamppod on one, thank you everybody for 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.800 following Native Lampod on all of your platforms at Native Lampod. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.040 But a lot of those comments are actually to meet 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.480 anti immigrant. So I think there are two conversations. One 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.400 is what about us, which I think is always Angela's point, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:30.600 because Angela, you know, you. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.360 Were quick to say, hey, no, no, no, no no. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.120 These are people who are also suffering, who are saying 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.560 we you know, it looks like some people are leapfrogging 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.440 over us, and we need our resources too. Then there's 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.880 another bucket of people who are saying, I don't want 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.680 these people here. They are replacing the black population. They're 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.000 gonna outnumber us, you know, by a certain year, we're 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.120 going to be the minorities. And they already the Latino 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.320 population already eclipses the black population in terms of eligible voters, 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.360 not registered voters, but eligible voters. And there are people 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.960 who feel a way about that. That to me is 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.280 anti immigrant. And that is also very similar to what 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.000 certain pockets of the white population feel about people of 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.120 color becoming the dominant population in twenty forty four. I 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.600 don't like to hear us talk like that. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.440 You know what, I think, so real quick on this one. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.600 Eric Adams did mention in his response that this is cheaper. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.440 He said, we have a goal of the twenty percent. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.880 We want to cut the budget on this about twenty percent. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.960 But it is cheaper than what they are spending right now. 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.080 Here in America, we don't tend to just let people 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.240 languish on the street hungry without having some shelter available 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.800 for them to get food. If there isn't permanent overnight 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.840 housing for folks of. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.080 It, they can't because actually mayors, as you know, would 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.040 be liable for it. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:49.440 You have to have a solution. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.080 Of course, every well the community would demand one. They'd say, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.240 we're tied of these folks laying out on the street. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.440 Absolutely, they're saying, you're putting these people in our neighborhood, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:16:59.960 you're closing down. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.640 So there is an expectation that we will tend to 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.159 the problem one way or another. And what Mayor Adams 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:08.879 is saying, he didn't have the luxury of being a 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.800 derelict on this. These are issues that are confronting his city, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.600 his community, his constituents, and he wants to address somebody 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.480 wants to do it, and frankly, a more cost effective 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.080 and cost efficient way. That's what they are piloting. And 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:25.520 the way I used to think about it when I 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.000 was a mayor was you're gonna pay one way or another. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.520 You can pay the smart way in advance, so you 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.159 can wait and take it up on the back end. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.040 And then you're dealing with incarceration rates, and you're dealing 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.960 with arrests, and you're dealing with police dividing their time 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.320 between dealing with homeless folks versus real crimes that are 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.520 taking place in communities. So these are the kinds of 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.600 decisions that are being made, and we should not pretend 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.080 that some portion of money wouldn't be going this way anyway. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.160 He's only trying to say, let's do it, and let's 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.760 do it in a cost efficient and effective way that 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.679 also happens to feed people that. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.679 Also use a black owned business. And to this point, 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.879 you were brought up in ti immigrant sentiment. If we 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.480 did get a question about the border, there's a contingency 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.960 that's still saying build that wall, Like, meanwhile, what wall, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.000 Let's roll that question. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:09.520 Good morning, family. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.680 This is big cousin Will Almighty from Saint Louis, Missouri, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.760 and my question is with all the talk of the border, 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.080 securing the border, closing the border, border, remain me open. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:24.320 Why is it America? Don't solve the real problem, the 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.880 reason people are running and escaping their lands to come 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.479 to America. I believe that will solve the problem. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.600 Right, Okay? Can I just birthday? 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:46.800 I love this, big cousin, Will, Almighty school day. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.920 I just want to I want to know what side 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.399 of you are. You don't get to decide. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:19:07.120 I guess I gotta be doing color complex. We're trying 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.280 to bring the black and brown community together here, you're 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:10.159 trying to separate this. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:12.640 Here. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:14.000 High five you too? 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:20.800 Okay, Wow, Wow, anyway, wow, big cousin Will. I love 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.960 this question because we kind of got into this last 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.439 week because a lot of these policies come from the 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.119 United States meddling in Central America. But you worked on 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.440 the hill, so I really want to hear your perspective 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:31.800 on this. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.240 I know we were going along. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.720 So this is my very brief synapsis synopsis. What I 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.000 would tell you is that right now, just like we 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.440 talked about last week, Joe Biden has introduced a set 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:48.200 of border principles, told the the gop led Republican a 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.760 House to get a bill to him. The Senate is 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.240 agreed on set bill, then the Republican said, actually, we 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.080 just want to vote on standalone aid for Israel and 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.640 what have you. Meanwhile, there's still no solve for this. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.720 So yes, there a border bill needs to be done. Yes, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.560 we need a more humane immigration system. Yes, we need 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.439