Speaker 1: And a black woman shall lead them. Broadcasting from the
Speaker 1: Hip Hop Weekly Studios, I'd like to welcome you to
Speaker 1: another episode of Civic Cipher.
Speaker 2: I am your host, ramses Job.
Speaker 3: He is ramses Jah. I am q Ward. You are
Speaker 3: listening to another episode, another week, another journey Pacific CYC
Speaker 3: from DD.
Speaker 2: You are stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about this week, in
Speaker 1: particular the black women making headlines for holding people's feet
Speaker 1: to the fire, making history, pointing out the fraudulent and
Speaker 1: nonsensical behaviors on the part of our elected officials.
Speaker 2: Accountability, assumption mountability, yeah, yeah, all of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: We have to shout out these people that are keeping
Speaker 1: a little bit of common sense in the political arena
Speaker 1: on our behalf. And once again we are applauding black
Speaker 1: women for again leading us through this troubled time, troubling time.
Speaker 1: We're also going to spend some time talking about some
Speaker 1: online comments. Now, we normally wouldn't respond to online trolls,
Speaker 1: you know, this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But some of these people bring up.
Speaker 1: Talking points that we feel you might encounter in your life,
Speaker 1: and so by taking them from our comments section and
Speaker 1: responding to them here, we might give you again some fuel,
Speaker 1: some ammunition to tools right exactly to engage with people
Speaker 1: who sincerely feel that way, or at least have been
Speaker 1: taught to make these sorts of comments when black people
Speaker 1: are affirming our lives mattering or how dare you or
Speaker 1: you know, trying to make a way for ourselves or
Speaker 1: whatever the case is. So we got that in a
Speaker 1: whole lot more for you to stick around for. So
Speaker 1: please stay tuned with us. But first and foremost going
Speaker 1: to do like we always do at this time and
Speaker 1: discuss some ebony excellence.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm reading from afro Tech. Meet the black
Speaker 1: teen genius with a higher IQ than Bill Gates and
Speaker 1: Albert Einstein. British teenager Romani Wilfrid aced his IQ test.
Speaker 1: According to BBC, Wilfrid scored higher than scientist Albert Einstein,
Speaker 1: Bill Gates and physicist Stephen Hawking at age eleven by
Speaker 1: achieving a one hundred and sixty two. The young student
Speaker 1: who studies at a comprehensive school in East London, is
Speaker 1: considered a genius and the smartest boy in England's capital.
Speaker 1: Signs of his exceptional brilliance appeared when he was a child,
Speaker 1: reports the University Herald.
Speaker 2: In preschool, Wilfred.
Speaker 1: Was able to read and write, and at ten he
Speaker 1: wrote a justice theory paper that won him prestigious honors.
Speaker 1: It's that excellence that caught the attention of MENSA, a
Speaker 1: high IQ society that quote welcomes people from every walk
Speaker 1: of life whose IQ is in the top two percent
Speaker 1: of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other's
Speaker 1: company and participating in a wide range of social and
Speaker 1: cultural activities.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: I always remember driving him to nursery and he was
Speaker 1: telling me about something he'd seen on the news and
Speaker 1: it was a very political subject. His mom and the
Speaker 1: Wilfrid told BBC later on that afternoon, I saw the
Speaker 1: optic on TV and thought, my two and a half
Speaker 1: year old has just been talking to me.
Speaker 2: About this in the car. It was just bizarre.
Speaker 1: You got to take a look at this guy again.
Speaker 1: His name is Ramannie Wilfrid. He looks like a kid
Speaker 1: and his smile is just beautiful and again, a higher
Speaker 1: IQ than Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein is incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's check out the black face of genius and
Speaker 1: reshape how we think about that. All right, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about some black women. I know you're not
Speaker 1: going to object to that, so I won't even ask you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Actually I insist. Okay, let's do it. On
Speaker 2: this show.
Speaker 1: Over the years, we have really stressed the importance of
Speaker 1: valuing black women, all black women. You know, we espouse
Speaker 1: in particular older like praying church women from the type
Speaker 1: of women that we know from our youth.
Speaker 2: That's Q and myself.
Speaker 1: Those are the people that we go to if we
Speaker 1: need someone to say a prayer for us or or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, imagine this type of person. It's we've
Speaker 1: said on the show many times that that's as close
Speaker 1: to God as we will ever be on this earth.
Speaker 1: And this show was actually founded the source of inspiration
Speaker 1: that kind of led to this show was a group
Speaker 1: of black women here in Arizona where we live in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: They were protesting in twenty twenty and they were just
Speaker 1: these powerful, brilliant magnetic forces. And you know, we're radio
Speaker 1: people and we're DJs, you and me, Q, but these
Speaker 1: people that were on the streets protesting, they were doing
Speaker 1: the hard work, the social justice work, the work that
Speaker 1: didn't come with you know, magazine covers and billboards and
Speaker 1: TV appearances and DJing at the Sons Arena. Q was
Speaker 1: the son of Phoenix Sun's Arena DJ. So they weren't
Speaker 1: celebrated in the same way we were, but they were
Speaker 1: doing very meaningful work and they were kind of holding
Speaker 1: up the world that we were enjoying, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: These black women that were ultimately ended up on the
Speaker 1: streets protesting and guiding all the people that came out
Speaker 1: to support in twenty twenty and so ever since then,
Speaker 1: we've done our best to give microphones to black women. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: to support black women, to.
Speaker 2: Protect we have to forgive me. But we have.
Speaker 1: To put the story that keeps coming up about you know,
Speaker 1: your friend that is trying to get some venture capital
Speaker 1: money for black women.
Speaker 3: We have to talk about that at some point, We
Speaker 3: absolutely have to, but that we can get arian on
Speaker 3: the show. Yeah, my friend from high school, founder of
Speaker 3: the Fearless Fund, who's under attacked by legislators and just
Speaker 3: call it what it is, racist who don't want her
Speaker 3: to help women of color.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, for those of the follow us
Speaker 1: on social media, you'll know exactly what you was talking about.
Speaker 1: But you know, when I say protect black women, I
Speaker 1: mean we create opportunities to air these stories on the
Speaker 1: radio and for those of download the podcast as well.
Speaker 1: So all of these things are part and parcel to
Speaker 1: the gig here. Well, we want to show you how
Speaker 1: putting your trust in black women would be well placed.
Speaker 1: Listening to black women gives you the most authentic insight
Speaker 1: into where we stand, and it inspires the path toward
Speaker 1: how excellent we can be as a society. You may
Speaker 1: know that black women are often last on the list
Speaker 1: for this that, or they get the worst outcomes when
Speaker 1: it comes to this or that, or healthcare or anything,
Speaker 1: pick a thing, it doesn't matter. Black women suffer most
Speaker 1: on almost every metric that we value and that we
Speaker 1: track in the society. So that's the place where you're
Speaker 1: going to find the best aperture into our realist, most
Speaker 1: authentic understanding of humanity and how we value that.
Speaker 2: So we're going to do that today.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about some black women who are
Speaker 1: leading us as a country, standing up for us. I
Speaker 1: want to play a clip. This first clip is Shalanda Young.
Speaker 1: So let's get that one.
Speaker 4: Going taking the smallest amount of spending, do nothing about
Speaker 4: taxes for the rich, and they want to cut the
Speaker 4: smallest amount of spending and then come and say we're
Speaker 4: doing too much for headstart in childcare and cancer research,
Speaker 4: because that's what we're talking about. You cannot get on
Speaker 4: a better fiscal path by going after these domestic programs.
Speaker 4: They're the smallest portion of our budget. It ain't going
Speaker 4: to happen. That's not serious fiscal conversation. Even cutting it
Speaker 4: thirty percent doesn't put you on a better fiscal path.
Speaker 4: So let's just get real. This president's committed to governing,
Speaker 4: committed to doing the right thing. This is who the
Speaker 4: Republican Conference elected to be their speaker. He hass to
Speaker 4: work with us on the budget deal. We did that.
Speaker 4: We find ourselves here. There are no negotiations left to
Speaker 4: have on a forty seventh day bill. OH Speaker Kevin
Speaker 4: McCarthy says that he's not going to take a salary
Speaker 4: during a shutdown. Was the president plan to pause his salary? Also, look,
Speaker 4: I'm glad that the Speaker has made that statement. By
Speaker 4: the way, members of Congress have to get paid constitutionally,
Speaker 4: so maybe he'll put it in a sock drawer. I
Speaker 4: don't know that they have to get paid during a shutdown.
Speaker 4: That's theater. That is theater. I will tell you, the
Speaker 4: guy who picks up the trash in my office won't
Speaker 4: get a pay check. That's real, and that's what makes
Speaker 4: me angry.
Speaker 1: So obviously, she's referring to the once looming government shut
Speaker 1: down that the Republicans at the last minute. I think
Speaker 1: they passed like a forty five day funding bill or
Speaker 1: something like that in Congress. But I think that her
Speaker 1: words are extremely potent and really drive people's attention to
Speaker 1: the issues at hand.
Speaker 3: I just wish more people could hear them right. The
Speaker 3: way that our country has started to consume information is
Speaker 3: very very partisan, very very divided, and very very in
Speaker 3: some cases, like she said, theatrical and fictition. So words
Speaker 3: like hers, they won't run that clip on Fox News
Speaker 3: where a lot of people who would need to hear
Speaker 3: that go to get their information right. Because the things
Speaker 3: that she's saying, she's not being salacious or angry, or
Speaker 3: she's just saying real truth. They're trying to cut money
Speaker 3: from head start from head start helped the least of us,
Speaker 3: but they won't even mention, you know, the tax cuts
Speaker 3: for billionaires, like these big, huge chunks of money that
Speaker 3: really could have some fiscal redirection for us. They don't
Speaker 3: want to touch any of that money because it's them
Speaker 3: and their constituents that benefit from the people that vote
Speaker 3: for them, and the people that they quote unquote represent
Speaker 3: would benefit from a better plan the type of things
Speaker 3: that she's talking about. But that base won't even listen
Speaker 3: to those words, no matter how true they are. And
Speaker 3: that's the path that we're on that scares me the most.
Speaker 1: So this is why we needed to make sure that
Speaker 1: we were sharing this content with you today so that
Speaker 1: you know about her. I want to read a bit
Speaker 1: from Angela Rai was another black woman, but she posted
Speaker 1: about the clip you just heard, and it gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit of context and background on to who
Speaker 1: Shilanda Young is. So Angelai posted and a black woman
Speaker 1: shall lead them. Another crisis averted for now. My good
Speaker 1: friend Shilanda Young has been teaching us about dollars and
Speaker 1: cents since our Capitol Hill days. She's now taken her
Speaker 1: incredible gifts and talents to the Office of Management and
Speaker 1: Budget as its director. So in that clip you may
Speaker 1: not have seen it, but in that clip she was
Speaker 1: speaking from the White House. This post goes on to say, Shilanda,
Speaker 1: your dedication keeping the government open and ensuring the most
Speaker 1: vulnerable among us are never forgotten is truly appreciated.
Speaker 3: Okay, one black woman once again, Shilanda Young, director of
Speaker 3: the United States Office of Management and Budget.
Speaker 1: Boom, All right, now, let's talk about a clip you
Speaker 1: may have seen, because it actually did Aaron Fox News
Speaker 1: and a bunch of other.
Speaker 2: News sources as well.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm going to paint the picture for you before
Speaker 1: we actually brow that clip.
Speaker 2: Actually know what you're right, You're right. Let's let's let's
Speaker 2: do the clip first.
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play the clip.
Speaker 5: That'sify of what crime they believe the President of the
Speaker 5: United States has committed. But when we start talking about
Speaker 5: things that look like evidence, they want to act like
Speaker 5: they blind.
Speaker 6: They don't know what this is.
Speaker 5: These are our national secrets?
Speaker 4: Looks like in this.
Speaker 5: This looks like more evidence of our national secrets. Say
Speaker 5: on the stage at Mari Lago, when we're talking about
Speaker 5: somebody that's committed high crimes. It's at least indictments. Let's say,
Speaker 5: thirty two counts related to unauthorized retention of national security secrets,
Speaker 5: seven counts related to obstructing the investigation, three false statements,
Speaker 5: one count of conspiracy to the fraud of the United States,
Speaker 5: sposifying business records, conspiracy to the faud of the United States,
Speaker 5: two counts related to efforts to obstruct the vote certification proceedings,
Speaker 5: one count of conspiracy to violate civil rights, twenty three
Speaker 5: counts related to forgery or false document statements, eight counts
Speaker 5: related to solictening. And I could go on because he's
Speaker 5: got ninety one count spended right now. But I will
Speaker 5: tell you what the President has been guilty of. He
Speaker 5: has unfortunately been guilty of loving his child unconditionally. And
Speaker 5: that is the only evidence that they have brought forward.
Speaker 5: And honestly, I hope and pray that my parents love
Speaker 5: me half as much as he loves his child. Until
Speaker 5: they find some evidence, we need to get back to
Speaker 5: the people's work, which means keeping this government open so
Speaker 5: that people don't go hungry in the streets of the
Speaker 5: United States. And I will yield.
Speaker 2: I will yield.
Speaker 1: Okay, so again, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett reminding the Republicans that
Speaker 1: put forth the articles of impeachment against Joe Biden that
Speaker 1: they were baseless, that they had no proof, and that
Speaker 1: this whole thing was silly.
Speaker 2: Once again, theater theater.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me read this all right, So, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,
Speaker 1: representing Texas as a Democrat, didn't mince words during the
Speaker 1: recent GOP led impeachment hearing into President Biden. Crockett criticized
Speaker 1: House Republicans for their laser focus on Hunter Biden huh
Speaker 1: his alleged foreign dealings while sidelining what she termed as
Speaker 1: Trump's shady business dealings with the Chinese government. In other words,
Speaker 1: they're trying to zero in on Joe Biden's son while
Speaker 1: looking past Trump's actual dealings with the Chinese government.
Speaker 2: Amongst other things. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Crockett presented a detailed fact sheet from the Congressional Integrity
Speaker 1: Project shedding light on Trump's financial entanglements with China. She
Speaker 1: lamited that the GOP seemed fixated on Hunter Biden rather
Speaker 1: than addressing the allegations against the president directly. Expressing her dismay,
Speaker 1: Crockett highlighted the absence of tangible evidence pointing to a
Speaker 1: crime committed by the president. Expert witnesses called by Republicans
Speaker 1: during the hearing echoed the sentiment, stating that the current
Speaker 1: evidence wasn't sufficient for an impeachment. In a fiery moment,
Speaker 1: Crockett suggested that the GOP appeared to be turning a
Speaker 1: blind eye to critical evidence. While referencing documents reportedly discovered
Speaker 1: in Trump's Marlago bathroom. She went on to enumerate the
Speaker 1: various indictments and courts currently facing Trump, underscoring the gravity
Speaker 1: of the allegations. Addressing the emotional aspect, Crockett emphasized that
Speaker 1: the president's true guilt lies in his unconditional love for
Speaker 1: his child. She employed for a return to the people's work,
Speaker 1: emphasizing the urgency of keeping the government operational to prevent
Speaker 1: hardships for citizens. Again, so this is just prior to
Speaker 1: the extension and forty five days or you know whatever,
Speaker 1: but gives you an idea hold that thought, because I
Speaker 1: want to play the AOC clip, and I know that
Speaker 1: AOC is Puerto Rican, but we claim them too, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna let her have a moment.
Speaker 3: Woman, Yeah, first and foremost, and then she's a woman
Speaker 3: of color. So the fact that she's Puerto Rican is
Speaker 3: not oh no, I'm disqualified or no, no way does
Speaker 3: that separate her from us.
Speaker 1: Listen, if we wanted to get like genetic witted, I
Speaker 1: can show you just how black she is too. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna hear from aoc our sister, So
Speaker 1: run that one.
Speaker 6: Mister Charlie, I have a simple question for you in
Speaker 6: your testimon today, are you presenting any first hand witness
Speaker 6: account of crimes committed by the President of the United States.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
Speaker 6: No, you are not O'Connor. You are the second Republican
Speaker 6: witness here today. Have you, in your testimony presented any
Speaker 6: first hand witness account of crimes committed by the President
Speaker 6: of the United States? Thank you now, mister Dubinski. As
Speaker 6: the third and final Republican witness in this hearing, have you,
Speaker 6: in your testimony presented any first hand witness account of
Speaker 6: crimes committed by the President of the United States? I
Speaker 6: have not, And Professor Gerhardt, given that you are the
Speaker 6: minority witness, I assume the same.
Speaker 2: Correct, I'm not a fact witness. Correct, Thank you so
Speaker 2: real quick.
Speaker 1: That shows just how right Jasmine Crockett was. But AOC
Speaker 1: was just straight to the point. Do you guys have
Speaker 1: anything here? And the benefit to you, our listener, and
Speaker 1: to the American people is that we get to see
Speaker 1: the hypocrisy and as Q keeps mentioning the theater behind
Speaker 1: this whole thing, please go ahead.
Speaker 3: I mean, first and foremost, you think at the end
Speaker 3: of that video it'd be a mic drop, but it's not.
Speaker 3: And that's the infuriating part. I mean, we spoke about
Speaker 3: this on several shows before. Why so many people have
Speaker 3: just become completely disenfranchised and have kind of tapped out
Speaker 3: of our political process because so much of it is
Speaker 3: political theater, so much of it is propaganda, so much
Speaker 3: of it is blatant lies and hypocrisy. And the trouble
Speaker 3: with that is that those of us that are infuriated
Speaker 3: by this, we quit and don't participate. Those who are
Speaker 3: very very much entertained and made happy by this type
Speaker 3: of positioning, by this type of propaganda, they participate fully
Speaker 3: so they continue to get the results that they want, ironically,
Speaker 3: not even results that benefit them, just results that they
Speaker 3: can feel happy about because they share the position of
Speaker 3: those that they're voting for with regards to white supremacy, racism, xenophobia, bigotry.
Speaker 3: They share those positions, so they delight and people that
Speaker 3: they think think like them having some success and being
Speaker 3: able to, you know, pump their fists and say we
Speaker 3: got we got one.
Speaker 2: Over on you.
Speaker 3: And then those people go back to work and do
Speaker 3: nothing for them and just continue to make life more
Speaker 3: and more difficult for those of us who are just
Speaker 3: baseline decent, decent citizens of this country. It's really really discouraging,
Speaker 3: really really infuriating. You know, I try to keep light,
Speaker 3: but you've seen how upset I get about this because
Speaker 3: it's a cycle that seems to not stop.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 1: Leave it to qu to break it down, man, you're
Speaker 1: really good at that. So we're talking about black women
Speaker 1: leading us through this troubling time.
Speaker 2: So let's let it ride.
Speaker 1: Uh, we wouldn't be doing our jobs if we didn't,
Speaker 1: shout out. Letitia James, the New York City Attorney General,
Speaker 1: she's got Trump on the road. Her and the judge
Speaker 1: looks like you know, they have, you know, for his
Speaker 1: fraud fraud case fraud.
Speaker 2: Civil case, civil broad case. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Actually, let me just read this, Okay. It's comes from CNN.
Speaker 1: NYC Attorney General Letitia James accuses Trump and two of
Speaker 1: his adult sons and the Trump organization as well as
Speaker 1: top executives so fraudulently value in real estate properties to
Speaker 1: attain more favorable loan and insurance terms and tax benefits.
Speaker 1: And it seems like it's going well for her right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when you'll hear this episode or what
Speaker 1: the outcomes will be, if if there will be any
Speaker 1: other outcomes besides this, but right now we have to,
Speaker 1: you know, give credit where it's due. She's doing her job,
Speaker 1: she's unafraid, and she's getting attacked constantly by Trump.
Speaker 3: The really interesting part, Rams, is that the Party of
Speaker 3: Law and Order because all about it until it's aimed
Speaker 3: at them, and then they just call it all corrupt,
Speaker 3: all the scam, all the fraud, right the whole Blue
Speaker 3: Lives Matter movement, the whole you know, justice for All
Speaker 3: movement that they that they you know, parade and pairrot
Speaker 3: when it comes time for true accountability and for the
Speaker 3: law to be not turned on them, but just used
Speaker 3: the way that it should be. Then it's all bs.
Speaker 3: You know, this judge is somehow a Democratic puppet and
Speaker 3: all of the charges are made.
Speaker 2: Up and Trump like victims right.
Speaker 3: Threatened violence against these people, and his followers, as we've seen,
Speaker 3: will carry out those charges that he makes on a
Speaker 3: microphone in public on purpose. So we have to be
Speaker 3: very careful and we have to somehow remain legit man
Speaker 3: and kind of get back involved in the political process
Speaker 3: in this country because we swept over.
Speaker 2: If we don't absolutely.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to mention one more person. She hasn't
Speaker 1: yet fully blossomed, but she's she's past the starting line.
Speaker 1: Right now. I'm going to read a bit from La
Speaker 1: Times before we move on. Butler becomes the first out
Speaker 1: gay person of color to serve in the Senate and
Speaker 1: the first out LGBTQ plus person to represent California in
Speaker 1: the Chamber. Lafonza Butler is a California's newest Senator. Following
Speaker 1: historic swearing in ceremony with Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday
Speaker 1: afternoon in the US Capital flank by California Senator Alex
Speaker 1: Padia and Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Butler raised her
Speaker 1: right hand to take the oath of office. The Senate
Speaker 1: chamber reerpted in and applause as Butler signed her name.
Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shook her hand as Butler
Speaker 1: walked off the Senate floor. Governor Gavin Newsom tap Butler
Speaker 1: on Sunday to replace the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, so
Speaker 1: we got to shout her out as well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely