1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning. 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club, yup, Charlamagne to God, Jess Hilarious. DJ 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 2: Nvy is not here right now, but we have a 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: very special guest man. He's an entrepreneur, he's an author. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: He's done people, Joe, Okay, alright, all right. He does 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: a little bit of everything. But happy to have you here, sir. 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: Great to be here, man. How are you great? I'm 8 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: doing great now. 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: Mister Dawn. I don'm gon keep you. I don't know you. 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: So who is done? People? 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: I am a real estate developer and entrepreneur. I'm from Washington, 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: d C. I grew up born and raised in DC 13 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: and part in Detroit. Started my company when I was 14 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: twenty three, and I built office buildings, and I built 15 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: hotels and condos around the country from Boston down to 16 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: Miami and then Los Angeles, San Francisco, in Vegas, and 17 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: right now I am trying to build what will be 18 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere called Affirmation Tower 19 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: right here in New York City. Out of all these skyscrapers, 20 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: not one of them is built by a black developer. 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: In fact, the reason I came to New York is 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: back in two thousand and nine or so, I was 23 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: having drinks with Reverend Sharpton at the Havana Club and 24 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: he looked out the window and he said, come over here, 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: what do you see? And I see all these tall buildings. 26 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: He said, well, what don't you see? And I don't know, 27 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: and he said, not one of them is owned by 28 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: one of us, So you need to do something about it. 29 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: So I came here, started a business here, and built 30 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: some buildings here, just finished a luxury condo building downtown 31 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 1: in Tribeca, and decided that I would build a building 32 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: that reflected economic empowerment for our people. And so I 33 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: call it Affirmation Tower. I partnered with two other black 34 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: developers because it needed to be black owned, so eighty 35 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: percent black owned, being built by a woman led, black 36 00:01:55,040 --> 00:02:03,639 Speaker 1: woman led contractor exactly, and that America promises us equal 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: access to economic opportunities. So this building is going to 38 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: reflect that that that the first skyscraper ought to be 39 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: the biggest and it ought to be the best. And 40 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 1: so we're also going to help Reverend Sharpton and those 41 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: who follow in the civil rights movement to have a legacy. 42 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: We're building a civil rights museum there that Reverend Sharpton 43 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: and his foundation will lead, and then we're going to 44 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: make it a symbol and an environment of economic opportunity 45 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: for people new hotels, apartments, condos, and also I'm building 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: forty percent affordable housing there too. 47 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: Yes, you know it's very important to note, and you 48 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 2: said it already, but I just want to say it 49 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: in a way people will really understand. You are the 50 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: most successful black real estate developer in American history, Right, 51 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 2: that's safe to say. 52 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I'm working on it every day, but 53 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 1: I'm working on trying to make it so that there's 54 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: you know that there's it's easier, and there's so many 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: more of me, And that's really you know, if I 56 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: ever have a legacy, it will be I'd like it 57 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: to be that there's many, many, many more people like 58 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: me who have had an opportunity to come out here 59 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: and be successful. 60 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: And you've been on Breakfast Club before, You've been on 61 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 2: Breakfast Club with with Miss Cheryl mckisseck, so this isn't 62 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: your first time. So I like when we get to 63 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: amplify people like you, simply because you know, a lot 64 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 2: of our audience, they know how to get money one 65 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: way right, and a lot of times that way is 66 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 2: entertainment athletes. Now everybody want to be an influencer nowadays. 67 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: So I love when we can sit down and have 68 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 2: conversations with people like you who've created real wealth and 69 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: haven't done any of those things. 70 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I you know, in fact, I was 71 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: an athlete in high school, but. 72 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: I don't believe that good enough. I don't believe that. 73 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: I'm a basketball player anymore. 74 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 2: Though. 75 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: I got to be about six fifty three when I 76 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: was twelve, and then it popped another entry. I realized 77 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: also that I can never make myself into Michael Jordan, 78 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: no matter how hard I worked, et cetera. But I 79 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: can make myself into one of the greatest business people around. 80 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: And that's what I tell people, young, middle aged old. 81 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: The thing about business and entrepreneurship is you can make 82 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: yourself better every day. You get better every day you 83 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 1: can work, and you can make yourself into a great entrepreneur. 84 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: And that's the beauty of this. And the real estate 85 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: business has an industry of low barriers. But if you 86 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: look at where the real estate business is, it's the 87 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: major cities around the country where the money is made 88 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: and who has a big influence about the politics of 89 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: major cities around the country US black people. So if 90 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: we could exercise our political power to create economic power, 91 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: we would change the plight of our people. And that's 92 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: what I try to do in our business. 93 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 2: Who planted that seed in you early on, the seed 94 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 2: of entrepreneurship. 95 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: My mother, you know, my mother probably, I mean, you know, 96 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: used to tell me that I wasn't cut out to 97 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: work for somebody else, and that I was, you know more, 98 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: you know, cut out to do something different, and that 99 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 1: you know that people who came before me bought her 100 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: hard so that I could have a shot and I'd 101 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: go out and take it. And she was actually then 102 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: when I quit college after my freshman year, she was 103 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: the only person in my family who actually really had 104 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: the confidence that I would actually make something out of 105 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: my life. So he dropped out as a freshman yep, 106 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: after my freshman year. 107 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 2: And what was what was you major in it? 108 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: I was going into pre med. I was in pre med, 109 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: so I was going to be a doctor. And after 110 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: my first year, I changed my mind. I didn't want 111 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: to go into medicine because I was going into it 112 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: for the wrong reason. For economic security. My mother and 113 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: I had our ups and downs, and she was in 114 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: the real estate business. So I learned entrepreneurship from her, 115 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: and I learned the headwinds that she faced, not just 116 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: as a black person, but as a black woman. I mean, 117 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: the headwinds that she confronted were tremendous, and so a 118 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: big part of what I wanted to do as a 119 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: business person is to create an environment so that people 120 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: like my mother got a fair chance and got an 121 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: opportunity when you had a talented person really work hard 122 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: that I would embrace that as a business and so 123 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: I want to create that kind of environment and knock 124 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: down some of those barriers that she confronted them that 125 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: my father and my grandparents didn't. So I felt I 126 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: could do that through business because I can use entrepreneurship 127 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: as a tool of transformation. I mean, we end up 128 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: building Affirmation Tower. It will be a transformative project in 129 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: so many different ways. I mean, it's been recognized by 130 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: our architectural digest as one of the most important buildings 131 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: of our generation, and in many other you know, organizations 132 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: and publications have recognized it because of what it stands for. 133 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: And I think that's what you know I've tried to do. 134 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: I've tried to build buildings and make money, but they 135 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: stand for something and they mean something. And so how 136 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: we build our buildings is much more important as to 137 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: what we build, because we try to build our buildings 138 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: where we're giving people who are super talented a chance. 139 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: And unfortunately that sounds very simplistic, but unfortunately in our economy, 140 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: in this country, everybody who deserves an opportunity doesn't get 141 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: a chance, especially when it comes to Black Americans. And 142 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: that's one of the things I'm concerned about is that 143 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: the politics have begun to move beyond us and uh 144 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: and we can't let that happen either. 145 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 2: What has been the biggest obstacle with affirmation time. 146 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: I think getting the Governor of New York to actually 147 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: make a decision to sell us a site. We have proposed. 148 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: It's a second time now. We have proposed you know, 149 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: a price and a project a couple of years ago, 150 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: and then Andrew Como had to leave office and so 151 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: Hoko came in, canceled it and then reissued a request 152 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: for proposals. We've done that and in that process, so 153 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: that's the biggest obstacle. You know, good news is is 154 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: that we've been able to raise the capital to do it. 155 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: It's a three billion dollar development and uh and so 156 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: I think that, you know, it should be a no 157 00:07:55,920 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: brainer in my view, because when we're very qualified team 158 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: with the resources to do it, but also New York 159 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: ows our people, a civil rights museum ows our people 160 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: economic opportunity. And how great would it be for young 161 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: boys and girls and young men and women to walk 162 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: into a skyscraper from not just New York but all 163 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: around the country when they come to New York and 164 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: go into that building and know it was built by 165 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,679 Speaker 1: people like them. And that's why we call it Affirmation Tower, 166 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: because this promise needs to be affirmed, this promise of 167 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: equality economically, this country needs to affirm it. And I 168 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: think that, you know, Governor hoche owes her election to 169 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: black voters. She had a tough race against Republican and 170 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: we carried her over the finish line. Now time to 171 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: acknowledge that we have a role in New York City's economy. 172 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 2: She listens. Governor Cathy listens. Hopefully she's hearing this right now. 173 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 2: You said something interesting. You say, do you feel like 174 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 2: politics is moving past black people? It's found on it. 175 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: Well, so if you think about this discussion about DEI 176 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: right now, let's rewind a moment. This country was built 177 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: with two hundred and forty nine years of free labor 178 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: from black people. Industries that had no economic viability were 179 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: built by us. That gave America the wind in its 180 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: sails to propel it to have the power economically to 181 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: be the greatest country in the world. Then another one 182 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: hundred years of extreme oppression. So finally, in late nineteen sixties, 183 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:43,559 Speaker 1: Richard Nixon created an Office of Minority Businesses and Minority Contracting, 184 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: and there were two beneficiaries, actually three Black Americans, Native 185 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: Americans which were then called American Indians, and Alaskans. That 186 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: was it because the country owed them and all of 187 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: us a debt Native Americans because they stole the land 188 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: from us and from them and put them in you know, 189 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: these these reservations and just decimated their culture. They just 190 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: they kidnapped us, our ancestors and brought them here. So 191 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: that's should have stopped there, and the country should have 192 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: done right by us by giving us giving our young 193 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: people better access to education, better health care, better opportunities 194 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: for economic opportunities, and access to home ownership and to 195 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: build wealth. And what happened is, over time this was 196 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: used as a political kind of patronage or carrot. So 197 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: it included Latinos, that included Asian Americans, other people who 198 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: volunteerly came here, just like the Irish and the Italians, 199 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: looking for a better life, and they got it here, 200 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: and they owe America a debt. America doesn't owe them 201 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: a debt. So to place them in the same status 202 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: when it comes to access to opportunity as black Americans 203 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: is in selling and offensive and it's hurt us. And 204 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 1: then think about this. In the wealth disparity in this 205 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: country between blacks and whites was greater in twenty eighteen 206 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: than it was in nineteen sixty eight when Doctor King 207 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: was killed. The income disparity was greater in twenty eighteen 208 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: than when Doctor King was assassinated in sixty eight. Home 209 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: ownership rates were higher for our people in nineteen sixty 210 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 1: eight in twenty eighteen. And then of course all of 211 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: these three statistics they're worse today. So we're not making progress. 212 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: And the Democratic Party has taken us for granted. They 213 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: believe that because we're black. Joe Biden sent it on 214 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: your program. Can't make up your mind between me and Trump? 215 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: You ain't black? 216 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 2: Who is he? 217 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,839 Speaker 1: He was determined who's black or not? You know it? 218 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: You know it's funny. I was at a performance last 219 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: night called forty four the Unofficial Story. 220 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 2: You were there. 221 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,719 Speaker 1: I was there and I took a brother who was 222 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: actually a Charles Payn who's on Fox, and he joined me, 223 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: and yeah. 224 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 2: I saw him. And I didn't talk to him, but 225 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 2: I saw him like wander in the back. I didn't 226 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: see you that. 227 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I was sitting right next. I came right 228 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: before the performance and took my wife and daughter. And 229 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: I mean, but that character of Joe Biden was right 230 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: on point. But the party has we've delivered. Joe Biden 231 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: would be in Delaware looking at the water as a 232 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: private citizens for black people. You know, Jim Clyburn in 233 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: the South Carolina orders saved him in the Democratic primary 234 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: and then we delivered the election to him, you know, 235 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: in the general election. And what is he doing for us? 236 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: You know that to start a business you need capital. 237 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: Normally that comes from venture capital, private equity. Our young guys, 238 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: young people, young boys and girls who were coming up 239 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 1: with these tech ideas. They need venture capital, aspiring real 240 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: estate entrepreneurs, they need capital. There's eighty seven trillion dollars 241 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: currently invested in venture capital and private equity in this country. 242 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: Eighty seven trillion out of that, less than one point 243 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: two five percent go to businesses started or run by 244 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: women and people of color combined. The statistic of how 245 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: much money black people get us access to that is 246 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: less than a quarter of one percent. But we represent 247 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 1: fourteen percent of this country's population. All you got to 248 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: do is look at the four four hundred three black people. Okay, 249 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: there should be I mean we were in a meritocracy, 250 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: right then we should be looking at somewhere of about 251 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: you know, and what is that we'd be fifty two 252 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: black people in the four to four hundred. So we 253 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: don't have a meritocracy because they keep our young people 254 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: illiterate when it comes to financial literacy. They don't teach 255 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: us skills in school. It's all kind of designed to 256 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: keep us where we are. They tell us about European history. 257 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: We got our kids have to waste their time when 258 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: listening to what happened or learning about what happened three 259 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: hundred years ago in Europe. And then don't tell them 260 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: who they are and where they came from. So I 261 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: think that we got to we gotta start practicing politics 262 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: like Henry Kissinger practice American foreign policy. Henry Kissinger said, 263 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: America has no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, just permanent interests. 264 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: And that's what we have to do. And our interest 265 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: is economics. We cannot keep carrying this disproportionate burden of poverty. 266 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: And then when somebody tries to fight to change it, 267 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: I mean Eric Adams trying, I mean trying to keep 268 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: our community safe, trying to provide economic opportunity, and then 269 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: gets overwhelmed with all these migrants and had the nerve 270 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: to complain about it. So he complained about it. And 271 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: then what happened. The Biden administration targets him for investigation 272 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: and goes and confiscates his you know, cell phone and 273 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: his iPad when he comes out of an event, and 274 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: that that's just sending a message. 275 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: Oh so you think that was directly related to him 276 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 2: complaining about the migrant situation. 277 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think challenging Biden. Wow, Because Biden's candidacy is 278 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: a week and so they can't afford to have anybody 279 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: step out against him, and I think they took their 280 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: shot at Eric because he was saying, wait a minute, 281 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: you're going to force me to take resources away from 282 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: people in New York who need it to take care 283 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: of these people. You won't let me put them to work, 284 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: and you won't stop them from coming here, and you 285 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: won't put up any money. It's destroying our city. And 286 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: he spoke out about it and ask for help. And 287 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: by the way, the most dependable place for Democrats is 288 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: California and New York. And now they're going to mess 289 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: that up because he said, okay, will help me, and 290 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: they wouldn't help them. And they, in fact, their response 291 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: was shortly thereafter, they you know, confiscated his you know, 292 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,359 Speaker 1: evident his cell phone and so forth, raided his campaign 293 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: finance person's house. I mean that's I mean, you can 294 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: subpoena that stuff. They did that to send a message 295 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: to him. 296 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 2: So you're so Biden weaponized the justice system against our 297 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 2: own Eric Adams, Jesus correct black man, who's who's leading 298 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 2: the city. 299 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: And remember he talked about running for People were talking 300 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: about him running for president when he first came in, remember, 301 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: and so they send I mean, they they they don't 302 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: want anyone to get out of line. And that's I mean, 303 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: the reality is, think about it. I just gave you 304 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: this statistic. Let me tell you another one. There's there's 305 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five asset managers who managed the 306 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: federal government's pension system, three black firms out of one 307 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five three and Biden's in there now. 308 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: And also he's got account for the nineteen ninety four 309 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: crime bill. I mean, I mean, he just mean, I mean, 310 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: you talk about what wrecked havoc on our young people 311 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: and our people overall and led to this mass incarceration 312 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: with that that built. 313 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 2: And eighty six mandatory minimum sentence in. 314 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: Two Yes, he was right about that, right avatory. 315 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: That's one thing that people forget. When he was here 316 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: in the whole you Ain't Black conversation, you know, I 317 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 2: started talking to him about the ninety four crime bill 318 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 2: and asking him did that lead to mass incarceration? And 319 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 2: he goes, no, it was the eighty six mandatory mean, 320 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 2: I'm sentisent And I'm like, well you we're ahead of 321 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 2: you taking a lead on that one too. Yes, So 322 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: he is absolutely one of the architects of mass incarceration. Yeah, 323 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 2: this is what it is. And I don't know why 324 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,919 Speaker 2: people get upset when we bring that truth. 325 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: Up, right, It's because they're scared because the Democrats know 326 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: they can't win. By the way, here's what they're afraid of. 327 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: Richard Nixon in nineteen sixty eight got twenty nine percent 328 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: of the black vote. I'm sorry, Richard Nixon nineteen sixty 329 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: let me get it right. Nineteen sixty got twenty nine 330 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: percent of the black vote against John Kennedy. Joe Biden's 331 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: not John Kennedy. Now. Donald Trump got eight percent first selection, 332 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: twelve percent the next one. He's polling in the twenties. 333 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: I think those numbers of people they're dismissing, I think 334 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: those numbers are real. 335 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 2: I think it'll be an uptake. I can't see twenty. 336 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: I just think that. I mean, I think people will 337 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: less likely vote, they may not vote at all. I 338 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: think the challenge is is what kind of compelling message 339 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: can this man give us to vote for him? Locked 340 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: us all up? I mean, I had a step brother 341 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: who spent most of his you know many I mean 342 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: many years in jail because he was sick, he had 343 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: a drug problem, and they weren't saying, hey, he's got 344 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,719 Speaker 1: an illness. They locked him up and when he you know, 345 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: when he after his third or fourth time, he was 346 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: in for a long time over a nothing kind of 347 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:45,679 Speaker 1: crime because he was a sick, sick man. And but people, 348 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: I mean, when it came to our people, it was 349 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: it was a crime. And now with these opioid issues 350 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: and so forth, right, it's a disease, always been a disease. 351 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: So I just think that the Democratic Party, how do 352 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: we let how do people serve in Congress? I mean 353 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: I chaired the Congression Black Caucus Foundation Board, and I 354 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: tried to get everybody to start focusing on economic reciprocity 355 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: like Kwasion Fume started when he was at the NAACP. 356 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: So the last four years of Obama's term, I chaired 357 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: the Congression Black Caucuss Foundation Board, which is the think 358 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: tank of the African American members of Congress, and to 359 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: get them to focus Let's leave some of these social 360 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: issues for a moment, let's focus on economics, and if 361 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: we can get our people in a better place economically, 362 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: then we move forward. But if you look at our system, 363 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: it is funded by those who want to keep the 364 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: status quo. And now you have this backlash against DEI. 365 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: Think about what's happening in the country. Now they're saying 366 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a good thing. Now, look, 367 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: I think it's too broad of a lens, and I 368 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: think it should be focused on Black Americans and Native Americans, period, 369 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: end of the story. And that's what it should be, 370 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: and we shouldn't the fact that our black politicians act 371 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: really allowed our chance of fairness or equity or reciprocity 372 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: to get diluted by including everybody who happened to be 373 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: you know, non white, and then many Latinos identify as 374 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: white anyway, So this country doesn't owe anybody a debt 375 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: other than Black Americans, the Native Americans. Everybody else owes 376 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,959 Speaker 1: the country a debt, and they got to pay it. 377 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: But the fact that they ignore it economically, it's a 378 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: big problem. 379 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 2: Frankly, you know John O'Brien, who I love, you know, 380 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,920 Speaker 2: he says that DEI is the only way for America 381 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 2: to continue to grow. So you have to teach black 382 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 2: people and brown people, you have to teach them financial 383 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 2: literacy because there's not enough educ what is it educated 384 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 2: college college educated white men to keep the GDP where 385 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 2: it needed to be in the future. So you're gonna 386 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 2: have to teach black and brown people those skill sets 387 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 2: to thrive in this economy. 388 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: I agree with John. John's a very good end of mind, 389 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: and I agree with him. However, I think that the 390 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: untapped resource in America are Black people. The most untapped 391 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: resource in America are black men. We are not utilized efficiently. 392 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: We are not given the skill set and the tools 393 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: to provide for our families and to help make our 394 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: country better. And so that's where I don't. I do not. 395 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: I no longer believe the DEI, and I never did, 396 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: frankly believe the DEI should be anything other than Black 397 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 1: Americans and Native Americans. And I think if we did that, 398 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: it's a case that you can present and stand in 399 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: any room and say, because no one's going to argue. 400 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: I gave a speech in front of CEOs and executives 401 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: over at you know, one of these things, at Harvard 402 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: Club or a banker club, one of these two and 403 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: I about a month ago, and I talked about this 404 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: and I said, let me tell us tell you something 405 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: that this country owes black Americans a debt and here's why. 406 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: And people afterwards came up to me, thanked me and agreed. 407 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: During the Q and A period, I mean, there was 408 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: an agreement there. But when you say that somebody just 409 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: volunteerily immigrated here eight years ago and they get to 410 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: cut in front of the line, two people push back 411 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: on that, and it looked there's racism in this country. 412 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: So no matter what we do, some people won't support it. 413 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: But this country needs black Americans to be in the 414 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: economic mainstream and send our people to college. But then, 415 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 1: you know, you think about it again. I hate to 416 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: bash Joe Biden, but look what he said at Morehouse. 417 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 2: I'm criticizing black people are afraid, criticized the Democrats. You're right. 418 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: He went to Morehouse College and gave this commencement address 419 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: after these young men worked for four years, busted their 420 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: butt to go and get an education, work hard, study hard, 421 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: and go out here with some sense of optimism, and 422 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: told them America wasn't there for him. And I said, 423 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: what the heck is he talking about. He's probably telling 424 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: the truth, unfortunately, but he's in charge, he's a president. 425 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, where's the right And I remember, 426 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: I remember Obama went there and gave it, gave a 427 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: commencement address, so I went and looked it up. He said, 428 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: no better time in America for you than now. It 429 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: ain't gonna be easy. The people who came before you 430 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: was hard for them, harder for them, and they were 431 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: able to get through it. You can. But it's about optimism. 432 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: But Biden tells people and the Democrats got to stop 433 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: telling us that Trump is so bad or the Republicans 434 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: are so bad. They should be saying, look what we've done. 435 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: We deserve another term because of what we have done 436 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: we've delivered. Not this person so bad or he's a 437 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: convicted felon, or this or that. It's about what they 438 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: have done. And they've shifted this narrative to being able 439 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: to sell their inferior product to us by saying that 440 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: the other products worse. 441 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 2: Don I say that all the time. I literally say 442 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 2: all the time. They have to stop focusing on talking 443 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 2: about how bad Donald Trump is. Then just tell us 444 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 2: about what you the good you've done. I get mad 445 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 2: at liberal media because liberal media will spend all day 446 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 2: on their programs, all day on their social media talking 447 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 2: about Trump. You're not changing nobody's mind about Trump. That 448 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 2: already supports Trump would tell me about the good that 449 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 2: the Biden administration has done, and then maybe black people 450 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 2: we won't be sitting around saying, well, what are they 451 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,719 Speaker 2: doing for us? What have they done? We know if 452 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 2: you tell. 453 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: Us, yeah, you're exactly right, and that they spend all 454 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: that time, If they could spend time educating the country 455 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: about the disparities and the obstacles that Black Americans go through, 456 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: there would be greater support for DEI. But what's happening 457 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: is they're like, they're going along with this stuff and 458 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: then just again vilifying Trump. And you can't. I mean, 459 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 1: if we're going to move forward, we got to expect 460 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: someone to say, hey, what they're doing for us? Right? 461 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: And I think that's where, you know, we are allowing 462 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: this to shape and we got a whole these black 463 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: politicians accountable to they're not Democrats first. They're black first. 464 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: And you know because before they were ever a Democrat, 465 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: they were black and they were elected by black people 466 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 1: to come to Washington to advocate for them or to 467 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: go into office and advocate for them. And one of 468 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: the few political leaders that I think is actually doing 469 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: that is Adams. I mean, Adams, you know, gave us 470 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: press conference of a couple of weeks ago and talked 471 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: about how chocolate his administration was. So they got and 472 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: they started criticizing him for that. So, I mean, we 473 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: need to demand better from ourselves. And it's not enough 474 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: by the way one of us gets successful. I mean, 475 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: my success would mean nothing if I didn't create an 476 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: environment of opportunity for other black people. I would be 477 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: worse than a white successful business. People shouldn't celebrate me 478 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: or any other business person based on us making some 479 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: money for ourselves. What have we done to impact our 480 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: community to move it forward? I mean, and we can't 481 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: just celebrate because hey, somebody made some money. That's not 482 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: what this is about. And we don't get that right 483 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: to say, hey, I'm successful, I'm gonna focus on my family. 484 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: I'm gonna focus on my business. We got a broader responsibility. 485 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 1: And if we start owning, if everybody owns up to 486 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: this and we hold people accountable, then you know, you know, 487 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: I think we make some progress. Look, people don't like 488 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I deal with this where these bankers and 489 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: these you know, these private equity funds and so forth 490 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,479 Speaker 1: don't like me and don't want to invest in our 491 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: projects because of what I say. But that's okay. I'm 492 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: not going to be silent about what I believe in. 493 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: And I think people need to do that and think 494 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: about the other communities that advocate for their people. Think 495 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: about Jewish Americans who are advocating for Israel right now. 496 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 1: They're not bashful about it, and there's no repercussions on 497 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: it either. But if we advocate for ourselves, if we 498 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: challenge a system, there are ramifications on us, and we 499 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: got to stop that. 500 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 2: What are the conversations like behind closed doors? Because I mean, 501 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 2: I know that you're active in politics. I'm sure that 502 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: you donated to a lot of campaigns. So when you're 503 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 2: having these conversations with these elected officials behind closed doors, 504 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 2: what are they saying back to you? 505 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: First, they say, most of them will say, wait a minute, Trump, 506 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: what are you going to do? You can't vote for Trump. 507 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: Trump's horrible, And I'm like, well, you're paying into the narrative. 508 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: What I'm telling you is that the Democrat leadership has 509 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: to come forward with doing things for our people, helping 510 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: us move forward, and it's not I mean, you can 511 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: no longer try to make us comfortable in poverty. I mean, 512 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: that's really what it is. It's just being comfortable in poverty. 513 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: It's like I say these I mean, I look at 514 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: I mean, what did Malcolm X say. Malcolm X said 515 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: that it wasn't the conservative white that he was worried 516 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,959 Speaker 1: about that would do us in. It was a white 517 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: liberal who would befriend us and convince us that they 518 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,120 Speaker 1: were our friends and get us to vote for them, and. 519 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 2: The boxing the wolf you get. 520 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, But also you got to think about how far 521 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: back we go, right, So in the nineteen sixties and 522 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: so forth. I mean, we were in the fifties, we 523 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: were treated so badly. Our parents and our grandparents were 524 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: treated so badly, So to be nice to us or 525 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: respectful or polite to us was such a big leap 526 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: based on what they were dealing with. But we're beyond 527 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: that now being nice to us and polite to us 528 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 1: and enough and we need want we got this. See see. 529 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,159 Speaker 1: I don't think Joe Biden believes that any of us 530 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: in this room have the same aspirations as our white counterparts, 531 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: and that we don't have the same aspirations for our 532 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: children as our white counterparts do. I think he believes 533 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: that our dreams have a ceiling to them and that 534 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: our ambitions are tapered, and that's where the problem is. 535 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: And I think this paternalistic approach to us is just wrong, 536 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: and I think we've got to start holding them accountable 537 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: and make them compete for our support by results. 538 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 2: To me, that is just plain common sense, and it 539 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 2: bugs me out when people don't see that. People will 540 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 2: come to me and be like, why are you so 541 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 2: critical of the Democrats? Why are you so critical of Biden? 542 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 2: And I'd be like, why aren't you Why aren't you, Like, 543 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 2: what are you seeing that I'm not seeing? 544 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, I think if you look at 545 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: Barack Obama, he was a transformative president because of who 546 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: he was and what he stood for, but he focused 547 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: a lot on trying to be president for everybody, and 548 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: so criticizing him I think was off limits publicly, and 549 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: so we would go to him or his people privately. 550 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: But Biden and others who followed, now's the time, Okay, 551 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: You've got to compete for our support, just like you 552 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: compete for everybody else. They go to these rich donors 553 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: and say, hey, we're gonna keep We're gonna protect carried 554 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: interest for private equity from don't worry. We're gonna maybe 555 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,719 Speaker 1: raise taxes a little bit. We're gonna protect carried interests. 556 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: And they keep giving them money, so they give and 557 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: take our votes make presidents. We got to use that 558 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: leverage and that power to get things to move our 559 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: community forward so that we no longer carry this burden 560 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: of disproportionate burden of poverty. We should not stop until 561 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,479 Speaker 1: we have fifty plus members of the four four hundred. 562 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: We should not stop, you know, until we are on 563 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: par with everybody else on income, net worth, and home ownership. 564 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: I mean, home ownership is where most Americans build their wealth. 565 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: Look at where we are. But we can't stop. And 566 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: also we can't the Democratic Party told us they made 567 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: a choice. They supported the teachers union over charter schools. 568 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: Charter schools better educate our young people. It's clear, it's 569 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: clear as day anywhere in the here in New York City. 570 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: You can look at Success Academy, you can look at 571 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: so many other places. So either the public school district 572 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: systems have to do better educating our kids, or they 573 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: got to compete for enrollment. But the teachers Union is 574 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: against that, and so the Democrats consistently sighed with him. 575 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: The only ones that stood up Como and Eric Adams. 576 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 2: Wow, you know who're voting for in November. 577 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't right now. I mean, it'd be 578 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: very hard for me to vote for Biden right now. 579 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: I really feel that he owes us an explanation and 580 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: he owes us some concrete. If he stepped up and said, 581 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to do this, this, this, this, this, and 582 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: I'm starting right now, start signing executive orders. Look at 583 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: all these executive orders he signs for everything. Else signs 584 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: some for us mandate that public employee pension systems that 585 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: benefit from tax exempt status have to invest their money 586 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: and manner in which it's reflective of population demographics or 587 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: the demographics of their pension beneficiary. Think about it, Many 588 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: of these government employees disproportionately are black, and can't he 589 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: get access to our own money. So if he did 590 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: things like that, then I could look differently. And I 591 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: really I need the Democratic Party overall. I've been a 592 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: lifelong Democrat. I need them to step up and start 593 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: fighting for us, and they're just not doing it and 594 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: fighting for us by proposing legislation in the Congress and proposing, 595 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: you know, legislation in these cities. Do you know that 596 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: black contracting in major cities in the US, like DC, 597 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: for example, Marion Barry in nineteen eighty made a requirement 598 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: that at least thirty five percent of all contracts went 599 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: to black owned businesses. You want to know what that 600 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: requirement is today? Twenty percent and it's local disadvantage businesses 601 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: twenty percent. Local disadvantaged business lost fifteen percent. Think about that. 602 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: And so if you look around the country, look at Detroit. 603 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: Who's rebuilding Detroit? Not black people, white people. Who's getting 604 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: the economic benefit? So these politicians can't keep doing this 605 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: to us and getting our vote. 606 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 2: Would you said, it'd be haffey to vote for Biden, 607 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 2: would be hafy to vote for Trump. 608 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: It would be hard for me to vote for Trump. 609 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: But I would do business with Trump if he were transit. 610 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump said I'm going to do this, this, and this, 611 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: then I would do that. What I'm doing right now 612 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: is I'm putting together a group of black business people 613 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: and we are going to ask to meet with President Biden, 614 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: and we're going to ask to meet with President Trump. 615 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: And we're going to have an agenda and We're going 616 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: to ask them to tell us where they stand on 617 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: this agenda and what they would do to move this 618 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: agenda forward, and then make an informed decision on what 619 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: we do. 620 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 2: So even with the history, well I about to say 621 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 2: even with the history of Trump, but I mean Biden 622 00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 2: had the history as well. 623 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean again, you know they I 624 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: was talking to somebody about Trump the other day and 625 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: they said, well, what about the Central Park five is 626 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: a horrible thing. I mean, and he was reaction very 627 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: quick to rush adjuster judgment and so forth. Is a 628 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: horrible thing. Joe Biden is responsible for five hundred thousand 629 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: black men in jail. 630 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 2: What about an attempting cool of the country. Are Trump 631 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,240 Speaker 2: saying I want to terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results? 632 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a disturbing thing. But these are words 633 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: and in reality, I mean words you know that only 634 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: gets implementative if our government, Congress and everything else went 635 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,919 Speaker 1: along with it. So I think the problem with him 636 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: is is he's erratic and by the way, and the 637 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: Democrats should be scared to death because the next Republican 638 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: is probably going to be a bit more measured and 639 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: a bit more you know, in control of themselves, and 640 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: they're going to have a message to our people because 641 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,359 Speaker 1: what's going to happen is they're seeing that we are 642 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: receptive and now that they see us as receptive, we're 643 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 1: not going to write us off. They'll start competing for 644 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: our vote, as they should. And so you know, I think, look, 645 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,799 Speaker 1: doctor King Senior, Martin Luther King Senior was a Republican. 646 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: The first Democrat he endorsed with John Kennedy in nineteen 647 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: sixty and that was because of some of the things 648 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: that Kennedy did during the Civil rights movement, and that 649 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,840 Speaker 1: was when there was a bit of a shift between 650 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 1: for black voters to go more Democratics. So we should 651 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,360 Speaker 1: be we should be just bipartisan. We should be again 652 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:36,760 Speaker 1: supporting those who support us. Our agenda is economic opportunity. 653 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,320 Speaker 1: If they're not locking up rich black men and women 654 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:47,040 Speaker 1: on a regular basis, they're they're not, you know, attacking 655 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 1: people in that way. So we have more economic power, 656 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: we can protect our own people, we can give environments 657 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,359 Speaker 1: of opportunity, and that's what that needs to happen. But 658 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: it has to happen fast. It's way overdue. 659 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 2: What do you say about conservatives who are you know, 660 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 2: gutting things, getting rid of things like the DEI programs 661 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 2: are attacking you know, affirmative action, you know type programs 662 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 2: like what would you say to that? 663 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: Well, I think that we gave them the opera Democrats 664 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,759 Speaker 1: served it up to them because again when I was 665 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,520 Speaker 1: they it's too broad. I mean it includes Asian Americans, 666 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: it includes Latino Americans. That it I mean, it includes 667 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: so many people who volunteerily immigrated to this country. 668 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,319 Speaker 2: But they're attacking it because it includes us. 669 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I think you got to put 670 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: it back to them. I think black people, we are 671 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: to fight for ourselves. Hey, this should only be for 672 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 1: US and Native Americans. That's what it was attended for. 673 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 1: This country only owes these US and Native Americans a debt. 674 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,800 Speaker 1: So let's close the EI to make it just reflective 675 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,919 Speaker 1: of that. This country did not do anything. It didn't 676 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: enslave Latinos, it didn't enslave Asians. I mean, this country 677 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,240 Speaker 1: owes Black Americans a debt for building it financially for free. 678 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 1: So if we so, I think the answer is we 679 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 1: got to narrow it back to what it belongs to 680 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 1: and then fight that fight, and that fight is winnable 681 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 1: and people will be persuadable. There's racist in this country 682 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: and they're anti Semitic people in this country, and that 683 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: will that will be for a long time, probably forever. 684 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 1: They're not going to persuade them, But I think there's 685 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: other people you can persuade based on the facts. And 686 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:26,240 Speaker 1: I wonder why these liberals have ignored our economic interest 687 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 1: and are they the ones who want to keep us, 688 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: you know, in a subordinate and subservient position, so that 689 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,960 Speaker 1: we're controllable, because that seems like it to me. They 690 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 1: want a controllable constituency, but they do nothing for us. 691 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,240 Speaker 1: I mean, everybody gets something, gay community got all these things. 692 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,719 Speaker 1: I mean, you look at it. They're fighting again on 693 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,799 Speaker 1: reproductive issues, right, I mean they're fighting on these other 694 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: east but when it comes to us, they're not willing 695 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,200 Speaker 1: to fight. They're just scaring us. Hey, Trump's are racist, 696 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: the Republicans are racist, and you don't have any choice 697 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,840 Speaker 1: but us, and we are not going to do anything 698 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: for you, but we're not gonna be racist, and we're 699 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: gonna be nice to you. That's not enough. 700 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 2: Don peebles, ladies and gentlemen. Don you want to give 701 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,240 Speaker 2: some information what he can follow you on Instagram, Twitter. 702 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 2: I don't think you owned it that much. 703 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,919 Speaker 1: No, I'm on Instagram, R D Peebles on Instagram and uh, 704 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 1: you know, and I'm on Twitter as well, Don Peebles, 705 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: but uh and I like to get people's thoughts because 706 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: I do, you know, I want. We need to be 707 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 1: working together and building our army about change that's right 708 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: and supporting you. I mean, the fact that you are 709 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: willing to say something that all of us should be 710 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,880 Speaker 1: saying is by criticizing inaction of our party, who hasn't 711 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: who we've delivered for, who hasn't delivered for us? I mean, 712 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 1: we got to all join in this because if we do, 713 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,160 Speaker 1: then they're gonna listen and we're gonna get results if 714 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 1: we And again this whole idea of dividing us, that's 715 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,400 Speaker 1: another thing kind of take away our power collectively. So 716 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: we work together here we can change in It's a 717 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:01,439 Speaker 1: great time to change things. 718 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,600 Speaker 2: I agree. It's don people, ladies and gentlemen, it's the 719 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 2: breakfast Club. 720 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming, brother, thank you for having me. 721 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,440 Speaker 2: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club