1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: with Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome home, everybody. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: Quite literally, today, I am at my parents' home because 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: for some reason, my power is out. I believe it's 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: because it's the last and evil days and the wind 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: definitely blew the power out. So I'm coming to you 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: live for my parents and for those of you who 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: have been asking. My mom is doing really well. She 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: had her first treatment, chemo treatment yesterday and she is thriving. 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: That is a strong lady, So continue to keep her 11 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: in your prayers and your thoughts. Today we are talking 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: about something that is really really important. I know for 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: so many people in this country, particularly Black folks, it 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: is so important that we talk about something that a 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: lot of us were raised with. So there's a saying 16 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: in the black community that we have to be we 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: would have to work twice as hard and we have 18 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: to be twice as good. So for a lot of us, 19 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: this DEI conversation is particularly triggering because it's something that 20 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: we grew up knowing that we actually couldn't be not 21 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: as good as and couldn't not compete and couldn't put 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: our best before we had to. So when people talk 23 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: about DEI, which is diversity, equity and inclusion, and the 24 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: weaponization of that, that's something that is particularly triggering to 25 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: a lot of us. There are some examples of that 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: this week that I really want to get into because 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: if there was ever an administration that had people who 28 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: were not as qualified, it is absolutely this one. So 29 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: we're going to get into that, and I really want 30 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: to talk about that through the lens of the myths 31 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 1: of meritocracy. So that's where I wanted to be today. 32 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: So the first thing is I really wanted to just 33 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: take a step back and talk about this argument around merit. 34 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: You're hearing a lot of people in the ecosystem talking 35 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: about what it means to, you know, earn you spot 36 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: and to not get a handout, and you know, people 37 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: have to work hard. And there's this reverse discrimination happening 38 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: against white Anglo Saxon Christian men, and when you look 39 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: at what Donald Trump is putting into place for civil 40 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: rights protections, you might think that is true. However, it 41 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: is obviously blatantly false. There's not a lot of reverse 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: discrimination happening around here, y'all, And just in a matter 43 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: of weeks, he's almost even in Black History Month, taken 44 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: us back to plus e versus Ferguson times, which is 45 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: essentially not separate but equal, which is what the Supreme 46 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: Court rule. But it's actually separate and vastly unequal. So 47 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: that's where we are right now, and I really want 48 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: us to lean into that through the lens of some 49 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's most recent appointments. So again meritis idea 50 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: that you earn your position, that if you work hard, 51 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: your work will speak for itself and the doors will 52 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: open to you. Well, what does it mean when racism 53 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: stands in that door? Or what does it mean when 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: somebody's connections daddy's connections, I don't know, like Fred Trump 55 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, or somebody's trust fund makes the way 56 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: for you or your mom or daddy made a call 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: on your behalf. And in full disclosure, there are instances 58 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: where my parents have made calls on my behalf, and 59 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: I know that's the point of privilege. That's not a 60 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: moment where I earn something. That's a moment where those 61 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: connections come into play. When we think about legacy admissions 62 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: in college, that is about having some connections that's about 63 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 1: your parents working hard and being able to open a 64 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: door for you. I think parents opening doors is not 65 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: necessarily bad. But when you are literally taking opportunities from 66 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: people who are overwhelmingly qualified and deserve to be in 67 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,839 Speaker 1: those positions, we're talking about something different. We're not talking 68 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: about legacy admissions here today. We are not talking about 69 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,839 Speaker 1: folks of color who have earned their positions but get 70 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: blanketed as DEI because they've demonized it. We're actually talking 71 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: about folks who are beneficial of white supremacy and the 72 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: systems that follow it. Caset indpoint. So, just last week, 73 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump decided to fire a four star Air Force 74 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: general by the name of Charles C. Q. Brown. He 75 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: served as the chairman for the Joint chiefs of Staff. 76 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: It is a pretty important role for those of you 77 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: who don't know. The Joint chiefs of Staff is the 78 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: primary advisor to the President of the United States, the 79 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and to the 80 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: Secretary Secretary of Defense. So this person has to have 81 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: a working knowledge of how military systems work, particularly uniform personnel. 82 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: It is a very very important role. Well, it just 83 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: so happens that up until the end of last week, 84 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: we had a black man who was serving as the 85 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: second ever black man Joint chiefs of Staff chairman. He 86 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: had forty years of service. I'm going to just tell 87 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: you some highlights from his bio and forty years of 88 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: service he served. He went to Texas Tech, served as 89 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: a US Air Force fighter. He was a command pilot 90 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 1: with more than thirty one hundred flight hours, and he 91 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: was serving in this capacity since twenty twenty. Well, what 92 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: happened is he was apparently too woke for them, right. 93 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: They think anything that is race conscious is woke. They 94 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 1: think that anything that pays attention to race in our 95 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: diversity is problematic because for whatever reason, we should be 96 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: ambiguous and not really care because somehow race is weaponized 97 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: when we just highlight race to them. So they decided 98 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: to fire this four star Air Force general and replace 99 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: him with a man named John kin They call him 100 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: John raising Kane. He's a lieutenant general. And for those 101 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: of our our military officers know that these are a 102 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: military person I'll know that there is a difference between 103 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: a general and a lieutenant general. So just our phase value, 104 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: here's the face. Here's the face, just off phase value alone. 105 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: Our general outranks the lieutenant general. So lieutenant general uh 106 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: cain is what's so funny? Is you guys, I'm looking 107 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: at this. This is hilarious. So on the actual official website, 108 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: oh my god, it says Lieutenant Lieutenant General John D. 109 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: Kin and then it just skips down to Lieutenant Lieutenant 110 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: General Dan Kane. I'm assuming he goes by Dan Kane, 111 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: but we know is he goes by raising Kine. I 112 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: think they have a typo on this site. I wonder 113 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: what the real DEI is because they got typos on 114 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: this site, they better get it right. This man is 115 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: a three star right, he's a three star general. He 116 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: worked at the CIA as the Associate Director for Military Affairs. 117 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: He was most recently the Director of Special Programs and 118 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 1: the Department Special Sorry in the Department of Defense Special 119 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: Access Program Central Office, and he served as a Principal 120 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: staff Assistant an advisor to the Secretary of Defense there. 121 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: This man has now been promoted to the Joint Chiefs 122 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: of Staff Chairman. Now what I think is interesting here 123 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: is while he's more qualified than your Secretary of Defense, 124 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: Pete heg Sath, and he advises Pete Heath which I 125 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: think you can determine in terms of rank, that means 126 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: Pete hex Seth outranks him. Right. What is interesting about 127 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: this is that they are constantly making merit arguments and 128 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: claiming that DEI or diversity, Equity and Inclusion means that 129 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: somebody got a door opened for them that was not 130 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: deserved on qualifications, just on face value. You guys can 131 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: go and look at these biles yourselves online on the 132 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: official military websites to see what they're talking about. CQ 133 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: Brown outranks and is more qualified than John D. Game. Okay, 134 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: so that's the first thing that I wanted to talk about. 135 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: The second thing is the FBI. So, and this is 136 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: important because again a lot of us have fallen into 137 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: these traps around DEI meaning that folks didn't earn it. Now, 138 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: there are people who didn't earn it, and I'm going 139 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: to get into that with this FBI nomination. But it's 140 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: not black people. Like you can't look at somebody that's 141 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: a person in college just be like, oh, you didn't 142 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: earn it because you black sid in this role. That's ridiculous. 143 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: Like you should look at people's bios, their resumes, their qualification, 144 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: their gifts their talents and make a decision from that way. 145 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: But now we're finding ourselves on the defense trying to 146 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: prove that we belong when that's not ours to prove. 147 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: You need to prove while we don't belong. And instead 148 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: what's happening is a lot of corporations, company schools, universities, 149 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: federal government agencies are taking a page out of Donald 150 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: Trump's playbook and dismantling programs that are serving people well 151 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: and are balancing the skills of justice that have not 152 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: been balanced for so long in this country. They're still 153 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: not so even while I'm talking to you about this 154 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: military rank and joint chiefs of staff chairmen and getting 155 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: ready to get into FBI, these are entities that many 156 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: of my peers, me included, don't necessarily love. Like I'm not, 157 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: you know, an FBI champion. I'm not about to go 158 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: cut an FBI ad or do a billboard. But what 159 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: I can say to you is it's important for us 160 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: to understand that there should still be qualified folks working 161 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: on the nation's behalf in national security entities. So the 162 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: FBI cash Bettel was narrowly nominated last week. As you 163 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: all know well there's another guy. You guys probably are 164 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: like Dan Bogino, Dan Bongino, his name sounds familiar. Well, 165 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: it's not because he's this high ranking officer in the 166 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,239 Speaker 1: intel community. It's not because he served so many presidents 167 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: in the past. Although he has served some presidents. I 168 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: will give him that as the form of a secret 169 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: service officer, including for a president Barack Obama. But you 170 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: probably know his name because he's a popular podcaster. This 171 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: popular podcaster is your deputy director for the FBI. Now 172 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: here's why that is astounding. The deputy director of the 173 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: FBI has traditionally been a position that was reserved for 174 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: a career official. What does that mean? So in the 175 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: United States government, there's something called appointed officials, and of 176 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: course there are elected officials, but there are appointed officials 177 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: in the administration who work under the president and vice 178 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: president appointed, and then there are career career service are 179 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: folks who have engaged in work for the government, not 180 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: as a part of any partisan any party. So it's 181 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: not a partisan, no partisan affiliation. They are doing this 182 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: in service to the American public, doing this on behalf 183 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: of their country, regardless of who is at the top 184 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: of the ticket. Or who regardless of who the president is. 185 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 1: So normally the FBI hires someone in that role, that 186 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: is that has had a career of serving in an 187 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: intel capacity, serving in the FBI, etc. So Don Mangino 188 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: has Dan Bongino. By the way, I got caught up 189 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:52,080 Speaker 1: in Madon's and Madan's today. Dan Bongino is someone who 190 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: has called the FBI irredeemably corrupt. He has no experience 191 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: as an officer in intel other than being a other 192 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: than being a Secret Service Agency agent, which doesn't in 193 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: and of itself mean you're not qualified. But it is 194 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: remarkable and unprecedented. That's the word that you're gonna hear 195 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: thrown around a lot. For those of us that remember 196 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was elected in twenty sixteen, that's where 197 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: we said all the time. Now he said unprecedented, like 198 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: unpresident the president. But I'm saying unpress sedented because they're 199 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: doing a lot of things that are not normal. So 200 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: this is someone who is a media personality, he's a 201 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,239 Speaker 1: former Secret Service agent. He does not have any experience 202 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: with the FBI, and they're putting him in here after 203 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 1: saying that the thing is, you know, irredeemably corrupt. I'm 204 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: sure there are many of us who hear that language 205 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: and aren't alarmed by it. But I think what's remarkable 206 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: is he doesn't have any experience to determine where the 207 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: corruption comes from, what system needs to be dismantled, what 208 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: system needs to be looked into. What you know, who 209 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: can be the real watchdog for the FBI? That probably 210 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: ain't Dan's role. And speaking of watchdogs, this is a 211 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: also the administration that has gotten rid of a lot 212 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: of inspector generals. I think there are at least ten 213 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: now that are gone, so they don't want any watchdogs. Nonetheless, 214 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: he is the deputy director of the FBI now, he 215 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: does not have to be Senate confirmed. This is an 216 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: appointment that Donald Trump can just make, and their responsibility 217 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: is to supervise domestic and international operations with no FBI experience. 218 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: So my question for you all today really is for 219 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: us to consider who really didn't earn it? What does 220 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: it really mean to dismantle DEI it sounds like we 221 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: should be this mantling these same tired systems that put 222 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: white men. Although I think y'all, don't you kind of 223 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: think Dan is I think Dan is a brother. I 224 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: think he might be black, which would make this even 225 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: worse because now they're putting them in a position that 226 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: he don't have no business in to be Like, see, 227 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: black people didn't earn it. Y'all picked him. Okay, we 228 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: didn't pick him, But I just want to say I 229 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: think that what is remarkable here is that we have 230 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: this opportunity to really examine who really didn't earn it 231 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: and when we say these things, when you compare resumes, 232 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: and what is typical, and why it isn't the best 233 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: national security interests of the country to have someone who 234 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: understands how those systems work, particularly when you're engaging in 235 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: operations with foreign adversaries or people who are on domestic 236 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: soil trying to compromise our national security. If you have 237 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: no experience in doing that, what are we talking about, 238 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: Like y'all see, I wouldn't earn it if y'all hired 239 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: me to go run engineering at Google. That's not my expertise. 240 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: You can't just put plug and play any white guy 241 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: to fill a role of influence in this government and 242 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: not expect for that thing to completely break. And then 243 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: that begs the question, maybe they know after all that 244 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: they didn't earn it, and they're totally fine with breaking 245 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: systems because they don't want the system to be here anyway. 246 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: And if they've anointed Donald Trump as king, we end 247 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: up right where we started. So I think that is 248 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: which is this is an unprecedented time. I think what 249 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: we have to acknowledge is that the weaponization of diversity, equity, 250 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: and inclusion is a method to distract us from what 251 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: really is going on. And what really is going on 252 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump is trying to give favors back to 253 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: people who carried his water doing this during this election, 254 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: even if that means putting the entire country in harm's way. 255 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: If that isn't didn't earn it, I don't know what 256 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: is that is the opposite of meritocracy. The face of 257 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: meritocracy and black excellence for the rest of his Black 258 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: History Month and the rest it is black here is 259 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: gonna be Charles c. Q. Brown. The face of didn't 260 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: earn it is gonna be Pete Hackseth. It's gonna be 261 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: Dan Bongino, and it's gonna be Dan not don Kine, 262 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: a lieutenant general that replaced a general for no reason. 263 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: He I promoted with no experience having done the same 264 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: things that Charles c Q Brown has done. And Charles 265 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: c q Brown was beloved. So that's all I got today. 266 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: I talked a long time. Let me see what these 267 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: questions are. Somebody said, was Joy Anne fired as a 268 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: part of DEI reform? You know, I'm gonna tell you this. 269 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: I think that nobody black on mainstream television right now 270 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: is safe. I think that a lot of people are 271 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: made concessions to Donald Trump and his policies, trying to 272 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: ensure that they don't get fined. Because he's technically the 273 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 1: new FCC chairman. He has decided that he is going 274 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: to run the FCC, the FTC, and the SEC. Okay 275 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: if in order for him to run the Federal Communications Mission, 276 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: he's going to make sure that there's nobody that's criticizing 277 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: him on air. And I think that we are going 278 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: to see many of these systems begin to unravel. I 279 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: think that Joy Read was one of his biggest threats. 280 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: How do I know that because as soon as he 281 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: learned that Joy was no longer at MSNBC, his response 282 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 1: was finally, which means that Joy was on his radar. 283 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: And so what we have to be aware of is 284 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: as people take out black folks and Latino folks, and 285 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: Asian folks and women and indigenous folks, as they take 286 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: folks out under the auspices of we want to play safe, 287 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: we want to make sure our business is successful. What 288 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: they need to know is they're actually undermining their business. 289 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: What they need to know is they're actually putting Americans 290 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: in harms way. What they need to know is they're 291 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: actually putting folks in the international, our greater global community 292 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: in harm's way because there's nobody there to tell their stories. Now, 293 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something that might be unpopular. We 294 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: started turning TV off, TV off because we know that 295 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: these media conglomerates don't want to tell these stories. That's 296 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: why it's important for you to tune in to podcasts 297 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: like ours. I know Joy's gonna be dropping soon something soon. 298 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: You need to tune into Joyce show on what she 299 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: does next. Check her out on substack on all social 300 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 1: media platforms right now, it's important to listen to shows 301 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: like Roland's Brittany. So many other people, Aaron, our friend, Aaron, 302 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: so many other people who are doing amazing, amazing work 303 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: informing you raw and unfiltered, because now, in order to 304 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: be on mainstream media, you're gonna have to make some concessions, 305 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: and they haven't maybe some of them haven't had to 306 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: make them yet, but they are going to have to 307 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: make them soon. And that, my friends, is what is 308 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: going to put us in very very precarious positions and 309 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,360 Speaker 1: in harm's way. So we've got to pay attention to this. 310 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: It's not DEI that they're trying to dismantle. It's not 311 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: even just the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four 312 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: that they're trying to dismantle. What they're doing is trying 313 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: to dismantle the fourteenth Amendment, which gives us all equal 314 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: protection under the law. That's the thing that black folks 315 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: could lean up against after slavery to say that we 316 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: are indeed free and we are somebody we are in 317 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: fact citizens, despite what they said in the dread Scott ruling. 318 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 1: Those are the things that we have to know. So 319 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: as they try to dial us back, not even just 320 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: to Jim Crow, but to before Jim Crow, we have 321 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: to pay attention. We have to call a thing a thing, 322 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 1: and we've got to make sure that we're given accurate information, 323 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: and we'll do that by any means necessary, no matter 324 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: what he tries to take out. So it may be 325 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: a little scary, but we're going to keep pushing. And 326 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: on that note, that's all I have for you all today. 327 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 1: Thank you all for your questions. I'll answer some other 328 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: ones online. Make sure you tune in on Thursday. That's 329 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 1: our main show, Native Lampod where we always give it 330 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: to your real the best we got. We'd be fighting 331 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: in there, but it's so good and we love to 332 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: hear you ask questions in your comments, make sure you're 333 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:15,719 Speaker 1: sending those in. And lastly, my good brother Andrew Gillum 334 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 1: started his solo pods yesterday on Monday. It went very 335 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: very well. He's talking to y'all about how to make 336 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: sure that we're organizing for the fascist regime that we 337 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 1: are now living in. You've got to watch that show. 338 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 1: Get organized, organize your communities. We don't know how long 339 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: we'll have social media systems. We don't know how long 340 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: we'll be able to upload on YouTube. We don't know 341 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: how long the power y'all to power grid got attacked 342 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: in my neighborhood today. We don't know how long we're 343 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: gonna have these things so make sure you're organizing people, 344 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: human bodies, getting phone numbers, develop a phone tree, your churches, 345 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: your other places of worship, your friend groups, get organized 346 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: so we don't find ourselves isolated. Okay, we can make it. 347 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: And take it from a true soldier. It's not me, 348 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: it's Mama Rah. She looked at the care today and 349 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: she said, cancer ain't got nothing on me, and neither 350 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 1: does this fascist. Let's go, y'all, Welcome home. Native Lampard 351 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. 352 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, 353 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.