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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News this hour. Doug Davis. Coming up, We speak
with a black Philadelphia City councilman who was standing behind
a resolution he championed to create a public hearing on
what black descendants of American slavery truly need by way
of an Office of Freeman affair. The resolution is historical
and Philly Counselman Curtis Jones Junior will be joining us
in moments about his bold step in fighting for equality

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and equity for black Philadelphians. That's next, but first, here's
bin News now.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
President Trump is blaming radical left rhetoric for a deadly
shooting at a Texas ice facility. One person was killed
and two others critically hurt before the gunman took his
own life.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
The radical left is causing the problem.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
They're out of control. Trump also singled out black Texas
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, accusing Democrats of fueling hate and energizing
the right. Former Vice President Kamala Harris stopped in New
York on her one hundred and Seven Days book tour,
reflecting on her brief twenty twenty four presidential campaign. Her
remarks were interrupted by pro Palestinian protesters. Harris says she

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understands the crisis in Gaza, calling it heartbreaking, but noted
she is not in a position to act since she's
no longer in office. And Sean Diddy Coombs is asking
for leniency ahead of his October third sentencing in his
sex trafficking case. His lawyers want no more than fourteen months,
which would mean released when time served. He faces up
to ten years after being convicted of transporting women for prostitution.

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I'm Amber Payton with BIN News, Now back to you, Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, thank you. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has always been a
city of first and African American. City Councilman Curtis Jones
Junior is trying to make history again. He's backing a
resolution that calls for a public hearing on what's needed
to support black Americans whose lineage traces back to slavery.
It's called the American Freedman's Resolution, and it could open
the door for the city's first American Freeman Affairs Bureau

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to write their wrongs in harms. Mister Jones, welcome to
BN News this hour. What are you an activist? Sabona
Hagen's whose spearheaded this effort up against when the hearings
come to light, what we've.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Agreed to do was take some of the sting off
of the delivery. So that's number one, and just present
the facts.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
He picked the right one in the sense that so
I got real, real liberal folks that are really you know,
they put the L in liberal right. Then I got
the other side of my colleagues that put the C
in conservative right. I like to consider myself the adult
at the table right, not too gold. But when I

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move out on something, being the second most senior member
of this body right out of seventeen, they listen which
way is Jones going? So I try to be deliberate
and intentional, not jumping out on foolishness.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
So some critics say reparations is just you know, I mean,
we all know what people say about it. Black folks
say it's just a political talk. It will never happen.
Conservatives say, will never give you your money bag. What
do you say to those who question the legitimacy of
an Office of Freemen's Affair and Reparations itself.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Unless you DEEI erasing the across Atlantic migration and enslaving
of an entire people, Unless you're going to just play
roots backwards and give it a happy ending. You have
to acknowledge that there was a wrong. That's number one.
Number two, it is intergenerational that has impacts today that

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we have TSD from Slaver Reed right, And it is
a real thing that it is not by coincidence that
we suffer from more mental health stuff, more prenatal care stuff,
that we are the people in the lowest rung of
economic of realization in this country. All of these bad

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things just happened because we black war. Was it institutional racism?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Calson and Curtis Jones Jr. We're going to keep following this,
particularly when the hearings come about. We want to see
how things go in real time. Appreciate you, sir, stand form,
stay connected and subscribe, follow bin News this Hour wherever
you get your podcast. I'm look Davis for the Black
Information Network.