April 29, 2024 • 34 mins
BIN News Anchor Amber Payton talks with Host Ramses Ja about the biggest stories from the past weekend
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're at the Black Information Network, we know how important
it is for you to start your week off energized, engaged,
and enlightened. There are always major stories that break over
the weekend and week feel you should know about the
ones we are talking about today, So stay tuned for
our weekend recap featuring bi in news anchor Amber Payton.
This is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast and I
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am your host Rams' job, all right, the one, the only,
Amber Peyton, Welcome back to the show. How are you.
I don't even have to ask how you're doing? I
know you're doing fantastic today. I heard some great news
about the goings on in your world. Please update our
audience and you know me because I'd love to hear
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it straight from the source.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, well, I'm the assignment editor now for our AM
team on BIMs. I'm curating everything that we hear, you know,
in the actually the evening, so to run all the evenings.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I am excited.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's called growth. Man loved it and it
couldn't have happened to a better person, a more qualified person.
I'm really excited for you and I'm looking forward to
the personal touch that you bring to our senior editor
team or our editing period. I guess because you're the
senior editor. So anyway, just a fantastic move. I'm really
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excited for you, and I'm really proud that this happened
to you. Couldn't have happened to a better person. Anyway.
Let's give to people what they came for. Let's talk
about the goings on over this past weekend. First up
from nbcnews dot com, a teenage gunman owneded ten people
when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out
during a private event at a Florida party Venu. Authorities
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said a security guard tackled and disarmed the shooter almost immediately,
and a second guard handcuffed him until sheriff's deputies arrived.
According to an arrest report from the Seminole County Sheriff's office,
a sixteen year old suspect was arrested in the Florida
case on Sunday and taken to a juvenile detention center.
Sorry He was charged with attempted homicide, firing a weapon
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in a public place, using a firearm during a felony,
and illegal possession of a firearm by a minor. The
shooting happened during a crowded late night event at Cabana
Live in Sandford, about twenty miles north of Orlando. Witnesses
told law enforcement the shooting started after a fistfight broke out.
Someone who wasn't involved in the melee drew a handgun
and began firing toward a crowd of people. The arrest
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reports said security guard standing near the gunman wrestled him
to the ground and disarmed him. So I know that
this has been something we've been talking about. Here. Give
us your thoughts on this story and how it's developed
so far.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So my first thought.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I always love giving you my initial thought after I
read the story, and it has something to do with
the story. But then I'm looking at the bigger picture.
We are so focused on what I consider to be
miniscule things like shutting down to TikTok, which I'm sure
that you know they have valid reasons, But we're so
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focused on that that a teen opened fire. A teenager
had a gun in his hand and he's so angry
that he opened fire and he shot ten people, Like,
why are we not focusing on the mental health of
the children. Why are we not focusing on gun reform.
I hear a lot. I hear a lot about gun reform,
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but then I don't see any action. I heard a
lot about them wanting to get rid of TikTok, and
I see the action very quickly, very swift action.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Where's the action behind that?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you know, there's this is a sad story, and
I know that there's a lot of reasons that we
get to this point over and over again in this
country where we have to come to terms with these
mass shooting type events. The short is that there's money
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in politics. There's a lot of money in politics. There's
very powerful lobbyists and lobbies and you know, special interests
in our politics. And you know, the founding fathers of
this country, they just kind of backed us into a
really weird corner. Once upon a time, the right to
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bear arms was so that people could arm themselves against
a tyrannical government. And the arms that they were referring
to were muskets, you know, enough to defend a home,
you know, and you know, fire reload, fire reload, that
sort of thing. Right at the time when this law
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was you know, put into place, and so the essence
of the law is now kind of null and void
because a tyrannical government can obliterate your neighborhood, your city
from the stratosphere with a drone. It's not the same
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the government there's not going to send troops arm troops
to your house to fight you that way. You know,
it's not even the same thing. And then obviously the
muskets are no longer the preferred you know, arms of
the masses. Now they're rifles. They're automatic, right, there's handguns
that can even a handgun, an automatic handgun can let off,
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you know, more devastating, destructive and lethal power than a
team of muskets could, you know, back when you know,
the Bill of Rights was drafted. And so we're living
in a different world. And because of the money in
politics and the special interests and really smart people who
are motivated by fear often enough, but money as well,
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there's no real incentive for them to change things because
the people that are making money in the way the
money's moving just kind of works to keep the powerful
people in positions of power. We all know that. But
the result of it is that situations like this happen
with some frequency. Now, I don't know anything about the
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race of the student. I don't know anything about the
background outside of the articles that have been reported, and
since they're miners, we might not get those details. But
you know, this is not the traditional mass shooting type
of event that we are accustomed to seeing, you know,
with a person that has an automatic rifle going into
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a public place for the purpose of just hurting people.
This is from what we're hearing in response to a fight.
But it's still a mass shooting event, regardless of the race,
regardless of the motivation, and the approach to dealing with
it is largely the same as you mentioned mental health
and accounting for the mental health of not just our children,
but especially our children, but really all of the citizens
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of this country. And you know, when when people have
mental health problems and access to firearms, they were going
to hurt themselves or they're going to hurt other people.
And that's what we're seeing over and over again. So
I think you're absolutely right. This is just a sad
way to start off, you know, the week, but it's
definitely something that we have to report. So so there
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you have it. In other news, this from the Hill
demonstrators are protesting media coverage of the Israel Hamas War.
At this year's White House Correspondence Association dinner attended by
President Biden, top government officials and journalists who cover them,
protesters are criticizing President Biden's administration's handling of the Israel
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Hamas war and mainstream media is coverage of the conflict,
chance of free free Palestine, and calls for a ceasefire
can be heard near the Washington Hilton where the dinner
takes place, according to videos posted on social media. So
this is another thing. This one's kind of a special
one for us, you know, where working and as journalists
and in the media space, you know, talk to us
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a bit about this one.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It is a special one for us because and I
hear this often right that the media sometimes picks and chooses,
you know, what stories to report, or they'll censor the news.
I personally don't I think over you know here at
b I N I think we report all of the news.
I try to report all of the news as as
an actor. But you do see it. It is true.
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Now you have these these protesters who are wanting to
essentially get rid of Israel, while we're funding Israel and
they're not getting any answers they're not getting any responses.
The only thing that they're seeing is that we're they're
seeing our continued support of Israel, and they're so no
one speaking to them. And I think that just kind
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of goes back to what I originally said. You know,
we're focused on all of.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
This over here.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
There's a whole war going on, yeah, and we're not
addressing it. And I think that if we addressed it,
you know, maybe that would not silence the protesters, but
maybe they wouldn't want to interrupt the correspondence dinner.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You know, maybe you know, we just have to talk
to them.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But the media does.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The media drives all of this, and so I think
it just it really comes down to us being trusted
a source. I don't think that they're viewing all media
as a trusted source right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, and and and for good reason, you know, especially
the traditional outlets. You know, one of the things that
that people have with these uh White House correspondence dinner
is that it puts the media shoulder to shoulder with
the people they're supposed to be critical of, the people
they're supposed to be covering, and then they get all chummy.
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As you mentioned, they report this and they underreport that,
you know, and it it a lot of people feel
like it interferes with their capacity to provide fair and
unbalanced news and reporting for the benefit of you know,
citizens and their readers and their consumers of the media product.
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And so you know, that's one thing, you know, for me,
and I've been very honest about this on this show,
I do have a bias. I am a biased individual.
I live a biased life. I am a black man.
I walk in that blackness, I experience the world as
a black man, and I have the sensitivities of a
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black man. And I cannot offer you a perspective or
an opinion that does not account for that. I don't
believe that it is if we're talking about social things,
social things in this country's it is not possible for
me to divorce my blackness and my maleness from my perspective. Now,
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if we're talking about humanity as a whole, I'm a
human first, you know, I maintain I'm a human being first,
and all men are my brothers, all women are my sisters.
But you know, when it comes to the types of
things that we cover, there is is a bias here.
But my reporting, in my reporting of the news. I
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do my best to let everyone know, you know, this
is who I am, this is how I report things.
But also, you know, provide. If I can't provide a
direct interview, I will provide, you know, a statement or
something from the opposing side or the side that I
may not be fully in alignment with, because it is
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important for people to feel like you don't have an
agenda with respect to their opinion of what it is
you're talking about. In other words, people know that I
have an agenda, not a bias, but an agenda. I
want you to feel the way that I feel. Right
people feel that way. My belief is that my words
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will come across inauthentic. I feel like I'm hiding something
for them. And so what I do is I like
to put everything on the table. Here's what everything is,
Here's what I have found to be more significant for
more of the people or involved more of the time,
or whatever my take is, and here's the why, and
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here's what they think in response to that. And now
you know what I know, right, And this is kind
of how I learned to cover things. I'm not a
trained journalist. I'm a I'm a DJ and I'm a
radio personality from a hip hop background, but you know,
in this space, that feels like the most authentic form
of you know, of reporting that I can provide. And
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so with that in mind, I will say that I,
you know, for our newer listeners that may not know this,
I am absolutely a protester. I was on the street
at my college campus here. This might have been two
or three days ago, at the encampment, you know, where
the tints were and the signs. I made a sign,
you know, the Free Palestine, you know, was walking around,
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and you know, on this very show, I talked to
pro Israel supporters, and I talked to you know, pro
Palestinian you know, journalists and reporters as well, and I
try to have conversations that get to the bottom of
everything that we need to know about. But you know,
insofar as I rams is the black man as concerned,
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I feel like my sympathies lie more with the Palestinians
and the Jews, because there was a lot of Jewish
people out at my most recent protest, and indeed all
of the protests I go to. My sensitivities do not
lie with the nation state of Palestine. At this point,
initially yes, and when they've taken it too far, you know,
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I was watching a video. Out of all the videos
I've seen of body parts getting picked out of rubble
over the past, however long of these children and bow
tie shoes and toys and arms and stuff. I saw.
It was a post from NBC. I shared it on
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my social media. Might have been taken down now, but
it was from NBC. It was a little girl. She
was born. Her mother, father, brothers, and sisters. They had
all been killed in an airstrike and they had to
cut her from her pregnant mother. She was a little
girl that was just a newborn with all the newborn
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stuff all over her body, and they were carrying her
trying to save her. And she lived for about a week.
It's hard for premature babies to live without their mother.
She lived for about a week and then there was
another video that came out. I might have been yesterday,
and she was not able to get enough oxygen and
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she succumbed. So she had a very short week as
an orphan on this planet. And her I believe it
might have been her grandmother was weeping inconsolably because the
last and when you think about how devastating a bomb is,
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how it just eradicates bloodlines indiscriminated. And then you think
about the narrative, Well, Hamas shouldn't have done all of
this stuff in the beginning, and then you know, that
story goes all the way back one hundred years and
there's this, you know, and I get everyone has their perspective,
but this is a very sad story and I'm more
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inclined to side with the protesters not the journalists. So
a shout out to the protesters. I salute you. B
I N Senior editor and news anchor Amber Payton is
here with us discussing the weekends major stories. All right.
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Next up from The Washington Examiner, Governor Brian Kemp, the
Republican from Georgia, has signed a bill into law that
aims to restrict any person under the age of sixteen's
social media usage. The Georgia bill will require those under
sixteen to obtain parental consent before they can access social
media company services. The platforms will decide how they obtain
parental consent. The Protecting George's Children on Social Media Act
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will require the Georgia Department of Education and local boards
to quote adopt policies on social media, cyber bullying, and
internet usage. Unquote. This is a statement from the governor. Quote,
we cannot continue to sit by and do nothing as
young Georgian's develop addictions and disorder and suffer at the
hands of online antagonists. Unquote. This is from Kemp, and
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he said this when he signed the bill on Tuesday.
He added that the primary aim of the bill is
to prevent cyber bullying and to nullify the negative mental
health effects social media can have on the youth. So
here's something. Here's at least someone. You know, I'm not
a big fan of this guy, but you know some things,
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you know, at least in principle, I get what he's
trying to do. You know, young people, their brains may
not be developed, their self images, self kind of you know,
they're especially vulnerable. Maybe this is a sensible thing, so
you know, credit where it's due. I don't hate these folks,
so you know, you give us your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I'm one thousand percent in support of it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So when I think of sixteen year old me, social
media was barely a thing back then, right, but the
only platform that I can remember that I was on
at sixteen, I believe was MySpace, and my mom was
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very strict about how often I could be up there,
so never on a school night. It was really only Saturdays,
and she limited my time to maybe thirty minutes. You
can't be exposed to too much in thirty minutes on
my space, right. But now when I look at this
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younger the younger generation, now that they have all of
these options. They have Snapchat, they have X they have Facebook,
they have Instagram, and on these platforms, it's not the
content up there is not appropriate for a twelve year old,
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not all the time, yeah, you know. And so I
don't think that I always call them these babies, and
I say it like I'm eighty years old. But these
young children, I don't think that they should have to
be exposed to everything that's going on in the world,
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or maybe even some of the things that they don't have.
A lot like X has no you can post whatever
on X and they don't take it down even if
it's X rated, and and there's no.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Consent needed you're eighteen or over. There's none of that.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Kids should just be kids, because if they get on
social media and they see the they see the videos
that we were just talking about of babies and elderly
and you know, protesters and not to say that they
will it is and then and it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Can be stressing.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
And we're already talking about protecting and preserving their mental health.
Social media is not good for anybody's mental health. I'm
being honest with you, Like I even I have to
take it in doses. So I'm I am okay with
letting a kid be a kid, go outside and touch
some grass, go to.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The park with your friends.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Social media and I think this one and is under sixteen,
I believe. Yeah, So when I think of a ten
year old to twelve year old a fourteen year old, no,
they shouldn't. They shouldn't be on social media. It's a
cool play sometimes, but it's a cruel place sometimes too.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's another.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Way for them to get bullied on social media, and
we hear about that all the time too. Yeah, if
we're talking about protecting their mental health, one way to
do that, like you say, your credit when it's due,
one way to do that is to limit their access
to social media. Did it for me and I think
I turned out okay.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, you know, I feel like there's one of the
things that I did is COVID. I taught my son
because you know, they were going to school on the laptops.
Taught my son how to read. That was me and
him as he was five years old. It was kindergarten.
He was didn't even know. You just sat there and
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that was it. You know, it wasn't really engaging. So
I'm his father taught him how to read. A year
after that, he doesn't know how to ride a bike.
I'm his father. Teach him how to ride a bike.
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So you know, now we have the capacity to get
outside and touch some grass quote unquote, you know, right,
but you know I'm his father, you know what I mean.
I taught him how to cook. He washes his own clothes,
he wakes himself up in the morning, he rides his
bike to school and from school. You know, I'm raising
a child that is going to have a real life,
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right But man, it is still tough to get away
from those screens. You know what I did, because he
comes home, he does his homework and then it's YouTube.
Wants to be on YouTube and watch Minecraft care you
know all that. You know, anyone that has a younger
kid knows what I'm talking about. Yes, so I says, Okay, Son,
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you know, we play instruments in this house. You know
music guy. So, Son, I'm gonna go buy you a guitar.
You're gonna learn to play the guitar. If you're gonna
be on YouTube, you're gonna watch YouTube guitar tutorials. You're
gonna give me thirty minutes every day playing your guitar,
and then you can watch the rest of your stuff.
So I love restricting, so so thank you. So what
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we've done here is I should say what I've done here,
but he and I what we've done is we've restricted
the amount of you know, I call it social media
content because he does follows. He subscribes to these content creators.
They do Fortnite, they do you know whatever else. The
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guys that scream at their TV while they're playing a
video game, those guys, right, So we just restrict the content.
He has some of it at you know sometime and
the rest of it. It's going to be constructive for him.
And I think that for people that are not able
to be as involved as I am with my son,
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I have a you know, I make enough money to
be able to raise my sons. You know, and for
people that aren't in the same position, you know, having
restrictions like this, I think it's at least it's not nothing. So,
you know, I'm not a fan of the politics in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Utah,
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you know, but they all have similar measures on the
books saying that, hey, we need to do something about this,
and you know, again credit, where's do. We'll see how
it goes. I'm not fully bought in. It might backfire,
might be the worst thing in the world, but I
think in principle and what in its essence, what it's
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trying to do is protect people. And you know, they
still have enough time to you know, between sixteen and
eighteen to get involved on TikTok or whatever platforms, get
politically engaged, understand enough of the politics, when their mind
is a little bit more mature, and then by the
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time they're old enough to vote, they will have tapped
into their silos and be able to decide what the
what is. And so it's not like you can't do
it until your eighteen is you know, sixteen is that
is good? Yeah, that's good and you're your Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
When we're talking about giving credit, when it's where it's
to do.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Got to give credit to you too, because you aren't
just you know, cutting his access from social media. You
embraced it. And I've said this to you before, like
we live in a world now where AI is becoming
a thing.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You can either.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Not become a thing with it. Because that's one thing
that I say all the time. You know, the world
is going to continue to grow. Technology will continue.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
To grow grow. Either grow with it or you get
left behind.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And so I think that it's amazing that you are
embracing it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But for his good, that is amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's there. And you know, I'm not write many books
over here. It's just having the time. And this is
this is one of the things that I want to
offer to our audience is that you know, having time.
I think that a lot of people's natural impulses and
inclinations would be to spend that time. If you have
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children with your children. You know, if if you think
about the final moments of your life, what is the
most important person you could be with hang out, hang
out with whatever, Then you start to whittle down who's
really who really matters to you. And when you think
about the people that will come to your funeral. My
sons are going to carry my coffin, and so they'll
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be the last people to hold me above this earth.
So you know, they're very important to me, and I
happen to have enough time and resources to be able
to spend time with them. And I realize that that's
not true across the board. Everybody's working to get to
the point where they have their time back so that
they can spend their time the way that they want
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and not have to worry about whether or not they
have a roof in the capacity to provide for their children.
And so I don't want my story to make anyone
feel like they're not doing right by their kids or
anything like that. You know, kids are very resilient, and
as long as they feel loved frequently enough, I think
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that we're going to be okay. But I think that
everyone on some level is striving for the same reality
that I've been fortunate enough to be able to lean
into my older son, I was still working, I didn't
get to spend the same type of time with him
I do now worse. But he's now, he's eighteen, so
we're going to go buy him his prom tucks. I
think tomorrow night. So you know, it just looks a
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little different now, but you know, we got to the
point where we can do things like that. He's going
to take the corvette and with his date and do
his thing. So you know, have fun, son, enjoy yourself.
Be great. All right, Our final story and we'll let
everyone get back to their lives. Comes from Fox nine
dot com. The Minnesota Supreme Court put an end to
the practice of using the odor of marijuana as a
justification to search stopped vehicles late last year when it
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ruled that the smell of marijuana alone is no longer
enough to search someone's car. After that ruling, the Fox
nine investigators analyzed police video, evidence files and court records
that highlight how policing is fundamentally changing in Minnesota. Law
enforcement training programs are already adapting, and at least one
instructor predicts it will lead to fewer vehicle searches. So
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this is something that I know a lot of activists
and protesters really were looking to have implemented. And Minnesota
is about as progressive of a place in terms of
their politics as I've heard in recent years, of course,
and so I think that this is a fantastic thing.
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Let's get your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So I think it is too. And so so here's
the thing. You know, there are certain stories where I
feel like I have limited opinions on because I've not
been exposed to it, you know, and so, but so
I can't really speak from experience, but I can say that,
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you know, it makes it.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I think this is a good move for Minnesota. I'll
say that.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Well, But so when I say I haven't been exposed
to it, I haven't been in a situation where I've
never been pulled over before.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I've that's not been an experience that I can really
speak that I can speak too. So I'm not always
comfortable speaking on it because I can't relate.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I've read the stories.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I know that when it comes to marijuana, which is
also something that I've never experienced, I know that when
it comes to marijuana, you know, every everybody just somehow,
whether you're smoking it or.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Or you know edibles or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Just from what I've seen on social media, I know
that I people say, you know, that's that's just another excuse,
right to go in their car and to find something
to get them one. So you know, I think this
is a good move from Minnesota, and I'll just leave my.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No, it's okay. I got something for you. I think
you might like this. So I have never in my
life drink alcohol. I have never in my life smoked anything,
a cigarette, nothing, I've never done a drug. I'm not
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even really a big fan of life the drugs that
the doctors give you after you have a surgery or something.
And I'm generally pretty healthy, so I don't have to.
But if I have a headache, I'm gonna drink some
water and lay down. I don't need to take nothing it.
You know, my body's designed to fix itself, So this
is me, right. I've never put anything in my body
that could be considered like a mind altering or anything
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like that. Q, my co host on Civic Cipher, same thing,
same exact thing, never drank alcohol in his life, never
did a drug, smoked any none of that. Right. I
think on some level we both knew that we were
black at at a young age, and that, you know,
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the consequences of living a full life are more. They're
harsh when you live a full black life. So so
Q and I were on a road trip. We're coming
back from Florida where in Mississippi we get pulled over,
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neither one of us in a brand new car. Bye,
by the way, we went there to buy a Porsche.
He bought a Porsche for his woman, and we're driving
it back. We get pulled over in the middle of
the night on a country road somewhere the outskirts of Mississippi. Right,
(31:27):
get pulled over for really no reason. There was no reason,
but they pulled us over immediately could tell that we
were not under the influence of anything. It was a
little swerve thing, you know how they have the lines
in the road that the mixed noise, like the rumble strips,
so you know when you're changing like a song or something,
and the car might drift a bait, but only for
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a second, right, So they pull you over, pull you
out of the car, or they pull you over and
they say, hey, have you been drinking anything like that? Nope, nope, sorry,
we were just doing this. No one's hurts the middle.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Of the night.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
There no one even out here, mistake, you know, but
police are like, oh, well, why don't you step out
of the car. Well, clearly I'm not inebriated, And that's
the reason that you chose to investigate this right not inebriated.
You can see that. You can hear it in my voice.
I'm very coherent. My passenger rams, this is coherent. Pull
(32:20):
us out of the car long and the short of
it is, we're on the side of the road for hours.
They bring out the drug dogs, they sniff the car,
they take the car park on the side of the road.
They're looking for the drugs. Neither one of us has
ever touched a drug in our lives. Now, imagine if
I happened to have I don't know, something in my
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car that might not have been as legal in the
state of Mississippi as it would have been in Alabama
or Georgia, where we were coming from that day. Or
imagine if I had a you know, I've been agitated
enough too and frustrated enough to you know, demand my
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dignity and then they escalated, you know, or whatever. You know,
we've seen how these things you don't have to be
doing anything wrong. So that's why I'm trying to tiptoe
around this. But now imagine if I don't know, I
have a something that I purchased and it happened to
be stolen and now they have a reason to arrest
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me and interrogate me and see what else I'm on
the hook for. Right, So this is more. This maneuver
in Minnesota and soda is more of a response to
the over policing of black people and black bodies. It's
not fair. Now, now watch this. If I had been
a sixty five year old white man traveling with my
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wife in our new car, you know, on on the outside,
would they have gotten drug dogs and had his handcuffed
and bent over the front of police cars. No, of course,
not right. So the over policing of black bodies is
what this is a response to. I say kudos to Minnesota.
I say everybody should do it. You know, marijuana has
never heard anybody, and all it's done negatively is put
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black people in prison. So that's that. We'll leave it
right there. Don't forget These and more stories can be
found to behaynews dot com. I'd like to thank you
as always for your time, your insight, your brilliance, and
your perspective. Once again, today's guest is and senior editor
congratulations again and news anchor Amber Payton. This has been
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on the Black Information Network Daily Podcast
You're at the Black Information Network, we know how important
it is for you to start your week off energized, engaged,
and enlightened. There are always major stories that break over
the weekend and week feel you should know about the
ones we are talking about today, So stay tuned for
our weekend recap featuring bi in news anchor Amber Payton.
This is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast and I
(00:21):
am your host Rams' job, all right, the one, the only,
Amber Peyton, Welcome back to the show. How are you.
I don't even have to ask how you're doing? I
know you're doing fantastic today. I heard some great news
about the goings on in your world. Please update our
audience and you know me because I'd love to hear
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it straight from the source.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, well, I'm the assignment editor now for our AM
team on BIMs. I'm curating everything that we hear, you know,
in the actually the evening, so to run all the evenings.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I am excited.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's called growth. Man loved it and it
couldn't have happened to a better person, a more qualified person.
I'm really excited for you and I'm looking forward to
the personal touch that you bring to our senior editor
team or our editing period. I guess because you're the
senior editor. So anyway, just a fantastic move. I'm really
(01:21):
excited for you, and I'm really proud that this happened
to you. Couldn't have happened to a better person. Anyway.
Let's give to people what they came for. Let's talk
about the goings on over this past weekend. First up
from nbcnews dot com, a teenage gunman owneded ten people
when he opened fire early Sunday after fighting broke out
during a private event at a Florida party Venu. Authorities
(01:44):
said a security guard tackled and disarmed the shooter almost immediately,
and a second guard handcuffed him until sheriff's deputies arrived.
According to an arrest report from the Seminole County Sheriff's office,
a sixteen year old suspect was arrested in the Florida
case on Sunday and taken to a juvenile detention center.
Sorry He was charged with attempted homicide, firing a weapon
(02:06):
in a public place, using a firearm during a felony,
and illegal possession of a firearm by a minor. The
shooting happened during a crowded late night event at Cabana
Live in Sandford, about twenty miles north of Orlando. Witnesses
told law enforcement the shooting started after a fistfight broke out.
Someone who wasn't involved in the melee drew a handgun
and began firing toward a crowd of people. The arrest
(02:27):
reports said security guard standing near the gunman wrestled him
to the ground and disarmed him. So I know that
this has been something we've been talking about. Here. Give
us your thoughts on this story and how it's developed
so far.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So my first thought.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I always love giving you my initial thought after I
read the story, and it has something to do with
the story. But then I'm looking at the bigger picture.
We are so focused on what I consider to be
miniscule things like shutting down to TikTok, which I'm sure
that you know they have valid reasons, But we're so
(03:02):
focused on that that a teen opened fire. A teenager
had a gun in his hand and he's so angry
that he opened fire and he shot ten people, Like,
why are we not focusing on the mental health of
the children. Why are we not focusing on gun reform.
I hear a lot. I hear a lot about gun reform,
(03:24):
but then I don't see any action. I heard a
lot about them wanting to get rid of TikTok, and
I see the action very quickly, very swift action.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Where's the action behind that?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you know, there's this is a sad story, and
I know that there's a lot of reasons that we
get to this point over and over again in this
country where we have to come to terms with these
mass shooting type events. The short is that there's money
(03:56):
in politics. There's a lot of money in politics. There's
very powerful lobbyists and lobbies and you know, special interests
in our politics. And you know, the founding fathers of
this country, they just kind of backed us into a
really weird corner. Once upon a time, the right to
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bear arms was so that people could arm themselves against
a tyrannical government. And the arms that they were referring
to were muskets, you know, enough to defend a home,
you know, and you know, fire reload, fire reload, that
sort of thing. Right at the time when this law
(04:42):
was you know, put into place, and so the essence
of the law is now kind of null and void
because a tyrannical government can obliterate your neighborhood, your city
from the stratosphere with a drone. It's not the same
(05:05):
the government there's not going to send troops arm troops
to your house to fight you that way. You know,
it's not even the same thing. And then obviously the
muskets are no longer the preferred you know, arms of
the masses. Now they're rifles. They're automatic, right, there's handguns
that can even a handgun, an automatic handgun can let off,
(05:29):
you know, more devastating, destructive and lethal power than a
team of muskets could, you know, back when you know,
the Bill of Rights was drafted. And so we're living
in a different world. And because of the money in
politics and the special interests and really smart people who
are motivated by fear often enough, but money as well,
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there's no real incentive for them to change things because
the people that are making money in the way the
money's moving just kind of works to keep the powerful
people in positions of power. We all know that. But
the result of it is that situations like this happen
with some frequency. Now, I don't know anything about the
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race of the student. I don't know anything about the
background outside of the articles that have been reported, and
since they're miners, we might not get those details. But
you know, this is not the traditional mass shooting type
of event that we are accustomed to seeing, you know,
with a person that has an automatic rifle going into
(06:37):
a public place for the purpose of just hurting people.
This is from what we're hearing in response to a fight.
But it's still a mass shooting event, regardless of the race,
regardless of the motivation, and the approach to dealing with
it is largely the same as you mentioned mental health
and accounting for the mental health of not just our children,
but especially our children, but really all of the citizens
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of this country. And you know, when when people have
mental health problems and access to firearms, they were going
to hurt themselves or they're going to hurt other people.
And that's what we're seeing over and over again. So
I think you're absolutely right. This is just a sad
way to start off, you know, the week, but it's
definitely something that we have to report. So so there
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you have it. In other news, this from the Hill
demonstrators are protesting media coverage of the Israel Hamas War.
At this year's White House Correspondence Association dinner attended by
President Biden, top government officials and journalists who cover them,
protesters are criticizing President Biden's administration's handling of the Israel
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Hamas war and mainstream media is coverage of the conflict,
chance of free free Palestine, and calls for a ceasefire
can be heard near the Washington Hilton where the dinner
takes place, according to videos posted on social media. So
this is another thing. This one's kind of a special
one for us, you know, where working and as journalists
and in the media space, you know, talk to us
(08:03):
a bit about this one.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It is a special one for us because and I
hear this often right that the media sometimes picks and chooses,
you know, what stories to report, or they'll censor the news.
I personally don't I think over you know here at
b I N I think we report all of the news.
I try to report all of the news as as
an actor. But you do see it. It is true.
(08:29):
Now you have these these protesters who are wanting to
essentially get rid of Israel, while we're funding Israel and
they're not getting any answers they're not getting any responses.
The only thing that they're seeing is that we're they're
seeing our continued support of Israel, and they're so no
one speaking to them. And I think that just kind
(08:51):
of goes back to what I originally said. You know,
we're focused on all of.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
This over here.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
There's a whole war going on, yeah, and we're not
addressing it. And I think that if we addressed it,
you know, maybe that would not silence the protesters, but
maybe they wouldn't want to interrupt the correspondence dinner.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You know, maybe you know, we just have to talk
to them.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But the media does.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The media drives all of this, and so I think
it just it really comes down to us being trusted
a source. I don't think that they're viewing all media
as a trusted source right.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, and and and for good reason, you know, especially
the traditional outlets. You know, one of the things that
that people have with these uh White House correspondence dinner
is that it puts the media shoulder to shoulder with
the people they're supposed to be critical of, the people
they're supposed to be covering, and then they get all chummy.
(09:47):
As you mentioned, they report this and they underreport that,
you know, and it it a lot of people feel
like it interferes with their capacity to provide fair and
unbalanced news and reporting for the benefit of you know,
citizens and their readers and their consumers of the media product.
(10:08):
And so you know, that's one thing, you know, for me,
and I've been very honest about this on this show,
I do have a bias. I am a biased individual.
I live a biased life. I am a black man.
I walk in that blackness, I experience the world as
a black man, and I have the sensitivities of a
(10:28):
black man. And I cannot offer you a perspective or
an opinion that does not account for that. I don't
believe that it is if we're talking about social things,
social things in this country's it is not possible for
me to divorce my blackness and my maleness from my perspective. Now,
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if we're talking about humanity as a whole, I'm a
human first, you know, I maintain I'm a human being first,
and all men are my brothers, all women are my sisters.
But you know, when it comes to the types of
things that we cover, there is is a bias here.
But my reporting, in my reporting of the news. I
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do my best to let everyone know, you know, this
is who I am, this is how I report things.
But also, you know, provide. If I can't provide a
direct interview, I will provide, you know, a statement or
something from the opposing side or the side that I
may not be fully in alignment with, because it is
(11:35):
important for people to feel like you don't have an
agenda with respect to their opinion of what it is
you're talking about. In other words, people know that I
have an agenda, not a bias, but an agenda. I
want you to feel the way that I feel. Right
people feel that way. My belief is that my words
(11:56):
will come across inauthentic. I feel like I'm hiding something
for them. And so what I do is I like
to put everything on the table. Here's what everything is,
Here's what I have found to be more significant for
more of the people or involved more of the time,
or whatever my take is, and here's the why, and
(12:16):
here's what they think in response to that. And now
you know what I know, right, And this is kind
of how I learned to cover things. I'm not a
trained journalist. I'm a I'm a DJ and I'm a
radio personality from a hip hop background, but you know,
in this space, that feels like the most authentic form
of you know, of reporting that I can provide. And
(12:39):
so with that in mind, I will say that I,
you know, for our newer listeners that may not know this,
I am absolutely a protester. I was on the street
at my college campus here. This might have been two
or three days ago, at the encampment, you know, where
the tints were and the signs. I made a sign,
you know, the Free Palestine, you know, was walking around,
(13:01):
and you know, on this very show, I talked to
pro Israel supporters, and I talked to you know, pro
Palestinian you know, journalists and reporters as well, and I
try to have conversations that get to the bottom of
everything that we need to know about. But you know,
insofar as I rams is the black man as concerned,
(13:22):
I feel like my sympathies lie more with the Palestinians
and the Jews, because there was a lot of Jewish
people out at my most recent protest, and indeed all
of the protests I go to. My sensitivities do not
lie with the nation state of Palestine. At this point,
initially yes, and when they've taken it too far, you know,
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I was watching a video. Out of all the videos
I've seen of body parts getting picked out of rubble
over the past, however long of these children and bow
tie shoes and toys and arms and stuff. I saw.
It was a post from NBC. I shared it on
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my social media. Might have been taken down now, but
it was from NBC. It was a little girl. She
was born. Her mother, father, brothers, and sisters. They had
all been killed in an airstrike and they had to
cut her from her pregnant mother. She was a little
girl that was just a newborn with all the newborn
(14:27):
stuff all over her body, and they were carrying her
trying to save her. And she lived for about a week.
It's hard for premature babies to live without their mother.
She lived for about a week and then there was
another video that came out. I might have been yesterday,
and she was not able to get enough oxygen and
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she succumbed. So she had a very short week as
an orphan on this planet. And her I believe it
might have been her grandmother was weeping inconsolably because the
last and when you think about how devastating a bomb is,
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how it just eradicates bloodlines indiscriminated. And then you think
about the narrative, Well, Hamas shouldn't have done all of
this stuff in the beginning, and then you know, that
story goes all the way back one hundred years and
there's this, you know, and I get everyone has their perspective,
but this is a very sad story and I'm more
(15:30):
inclined to side with the protesters not the journalists. So
a shout out to the protesters. I salute you. B
I N Senior editor and news anchor Amber Payton is
here with us discussing the weekends major stories. All right.
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Next up from The Washington Examiner, Governor Brian Kemp, the
Republican from Georgia, has signed a bill into law that
aims to restrict any person under the age of sixteen's
social media usage. The Georgia bill will require those under
sixteen to obtain parental consent before they can access social
media company services. The platforms will decide how they obtain
parental consent. The Protecting George's Children on Social Media Act
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will require the Georgia Department of Education and local boards
to quote adopt policies on social media, cyber bullying, and
internet usage. Unquote. This is a statement from the governor. Quote,
we cannot continue to sit by and do nothing as
young Georgian's develop addictions and disorder and suffer at the
hands of online antagonists. Unquote. This is from Kemp, and
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he said this when he signed the bill on Tuesday.
He added that the primary aim of the bill is
to prevent cyber bullying and to nullify the negative mental
health effects social media can have on the youth. So
here's something. Here's at least someone. You know, I'm not
a big fan of this guy, but you know some things,
(16:58):
you know, at least in principle, I get what he's
trying to do. You know, young people, their brains may
not be developed, their self images, self kind of you know,
they're especially vulnerable. Maybe this is a sensible thing, so
you know, credit where it's due. I don't hate these folks,
so you know, you give us your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I'm one thousand percent in support of it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
So when I think of sixteen year old me, social
media was barely a thing back then, right, but the
only platform that I can remember that I was on
at sixteen, I believe was MySpace, and my mom was
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very strict about how often I could be up there,
so never on a school night. It was really only Saturdays,
and she limited my time to maybe thirty minutes. You
can't be exposed to too much in thirty minutes on
my space, right. But now when I look at this
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younger the younger generation, now that they have all of
these options. They have Snapchat, they have X they have Facebook,
they have Instagram, and on these platforms, it's not the
content up there is not appropriate for a twelve year old,
(18:25):
not all the time, yeah, you know. And so I
don't think that I always call them these babies, and
I say it like I'm eighty years old. But these
young children, I don't think that they should have to
be exposed to everything that's going on in the world,
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or maybe even some of the things that they don't have.
A lot like X has no you can post whatever
on X and they don't take it down even if
it's X rated, and and there's no.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Consent needed you're eighteen or over. There's none of that.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Kids should just be kids, because if they get on
social media and they see the they see the videos
that we were just talking about of babies and elderly
and you know, protesters and not to say that they
will it is and then and it.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Can be stressing.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
And we're already talking about protecting and preserving their mental health.
Social media is not good for anybody's mental health. I'm
being honest with you, Like I even I have to
take it in doses. So I'm I am okay with
letting a kid be a kid, go outside and touch
some grass, go to.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The park with your friends.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Social media and I think this one and is under sixteen,
I believe. Yeah, So when I think of a ten
year old to twelve year old a fourteen year old, no,
they shouldn't. They shouldn't be on social media. It's a
cool play sometimes, but it's a cruel place sometimes too.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's another.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Way for them to get bullied on social media, and
we hear about that all the time too. Yeah, if
we're talking about protecting their mental health, one way to
do that, like you say, your credit when it's due,
one way to do that is to limit their access
to social media. Did it for me and I think
I turned out okay.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, you know, I feel like there's one of the
things that I did is COVID. I taught my son
because you know, they were going to school on the laptops.
Taught my son how to read. That was me and
him as he was five years old. It was kindergarten.
He was didn't even know. You just sat there and
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that was it. You know, it wasn't really engaging. So
I'm his father taught him how to read. A year
after that, he doesn't know how to ride a bike.
I'm his father. Teach him how to ride a bike.
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So you know, now we have the capacity to get
outside and touch some grass quote unquote, you know, right,
but you know I'm his father, you know what I mean.
I taught him how to cook. He washes his own clothes,
he wakes himself up in the morning, he rides his
bike to school and from school. You know, I'm raising
a child that is going to have a real life,
(21:42):
right But man, it is still tough to get away
from those screens. You know what I did, because he
comes home, he does his homework and then it's YouTube.
Wants to be on YouTube and watch Minecraft care you
know all that. You know, anyone that has a younger
kid knows what I'm talking about. Yes, so I says, Okay, Son,
(22:06):
you know, we play instruments in this house. You know
music guy. So, Son, I'm gonna go buy you a guitar.
You're gonna learn to play the guitar. If you're gonna
be on YouTube, you're gonna watch YouTube guitar tutorials. You're
gonna give me thirty minutes every day playing your guitar,
and then you can watch the rest of your stuff.
So I love restricting, so so thank you. So what
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we've done here is I should say what I've done here,
but he and I what we've done is we've restricted
the amount of you know, I call it social media
content because he does follows. He subscribes to these content creators.
They do Fortnite, they do you know whatever else. The
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guys that scream at their TV while they're playing a
video game, those guys, right, So we just restrict the content.
He has some of it at you know sometime and
the rest of it. It's going to be constructive for him.
And I think that for people that are not able
to be as involved as I am with my son,
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I have a you know, I make enough money to
be able to raise my sons. You know, and for
people that aren't in the same position, you know, having
restrictions like this, I think it's at least it's not nothing. So,
you know, I'm not a fan of the politics in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Utah,
(23:33):
you know, but they all have similar measures on the
books saying that, hey, we need to do something about this,
and you know, again credit, where's do. We'll see how
it goes. I'm not fully bought in. It might backfire,
might be the worst thing in the world, but I
think in principle and what in its essence, what it's
(23:54):
trying to do is protect people. And you know, they
still have enough time to you know, between sixteen and
eighteen to get involved on TikTok or whatever platforms, get
politically engaged, understand enough of the politics, when their mind
is a little bit more mature, and then by the
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time they're old enough to vote, they will have tapped
into their silos and be able to decide what the
what is. And so it's not like you can't do
it until your eighteen is you know, sixteen is that
is good? Yeah, that's good and you're your Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
When we're talking about giving credit, when it's where it's
to do.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Got to give credit to you too, because you aren't
just you know, cutting his access from social media. You
embraced it. And I've said this to you before, like
we live in a world now where AI is becoming
a thing.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
You can either.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Not become a thing with it. Because that's one thing
that I say all the time. You know, the world
is going to continue to grow. Technology will continue.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
To grow grow. Either grow with it or you get
left behind.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And so I think that it's amazing that you are
embracing it.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But for his good, that is amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's there. And you know, I'm not write many books
over here. It's just having the time. And this is
this is one of the things that I want to
offer to our audience is that you know, having time.
I think that a lot of people's natural impulses and
inclinations would be to spend that time. If you have
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children with your children. You know, if if you think
about the final moments of your life, what is the
most important person you could be with hang out, hang
out with whatever, Then you start to whittle down who's
really who really matters to you. And when you think
about the people that will come to your funeral. My
sons are going to carry my coffin, and so they'll
(25:55):
be the last people to hold me above this earth.
So you know, they're very important to me, and I
happen to have enough time and resources to be able
to spend time with them. And I realize that that's
not true across the board. Everybody's working to get to
the point where they have their time back so that
they can spend their time the way that they want
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and not have to worry about whether or not they
have a roof in the capacity to provide for their children.
And so I don't want my story to make anyone
feel like they're not doing right by their kids or
anything like that. You know, kids are very resilient, and
as long as they feel loved frequently enough, I think
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that we're going to be okay. But I think that
everyone on some level is striving for the same reality
that I've been fortunate enough to be able to lean
into my older son, I was still working, I didn't
get to spend the same type of time with him
I do now worse. But he's now, he's eighteen, so
we're going to go buy him his prom tucks. I
think tomorrow night. So you know, it just looks a
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little different now, but you know, we got to the
point where we can do things like that. He's going
to take the corvette and with his date and do
his thing. So you know, have fun, son, enjoy yourself.
Be great. All right, Our final story and we'll let
everyone get back to their lives. Comes from Fox nine
dot com. The Minnesota Supreme Court put an end to
the practice of using the odor of marijuana as a
justification to search stopped vehicles late last year when it
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ruled that the smell of marijuana alone is no longer
enough to search someone's car. After that ruling, the Fox
nine investigators analyzed police video, evidence files and court records
that highlight how policing is fundamentally changing in Minnesota. Law
enforcement training programs are already adapting, and at least one
instructor predicts it will lead to fewer vehicle searches. So
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this is something that I know a lot of activists
and protesters really were looking to have implemented. And Minnesota
is about as progressive of a place in terms of
their politics as I've heard in recent years, of course,
and so I think that this is a fantastic thing.
(28:04):
Let's get your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So I think it is too. And so so here's
the thing. You know, there are certain stories where I
feel like I have limited opinions on because I've not
been exposed to it, you know, and so, but so
I can't really speak from experience, but I can say that,
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you know, it makes it.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I think this is a good move for Minnesota. I'll
say that.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Well, But so when I say I haven't been exposed
to it, I haven't been in a situation where I've
never been pulled over before.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I've that's not been an experience that I can really
speak that I can speak too. So I'm not always
comfortable speaking on it because I can't relate.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I've read the stories.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
I know that when it comes to marijuana, which is
also something that I've never experienced, I know that when
it comes to marijuana, you know, every everybody just somehow,
whether you're smoking it or.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Or you know edibles or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Just from what I've seen on social media, I know
that I people say, you know, that's that's just another excuse,
right to go in their car and to find something
to get them one. So you know, I think this
is a good move from Minnesota, and I'll just leave my.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No, it's okay. I got something for you. I think
you might like this. So I have never in my
life drink alcohol. I have never in my life smoked anything,
a cigarette, nothing, I've never done a drug. I'm not
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even really a big fan of life the drugs that
the doctors give you after you have a surgery or something.
And I'm generally pretty healthy, so I don't have to.
But if I have a headache, I'm gonna drink some
water and lay down. I don't need to take nothing it.
You know, my body's designed to fix itself, So this
is me, right. I've never put anything in my body
that could be considered like a mind altering or anything
(30:23):
like that. Q, my co host on Civic Cipher, same thing,
same exact thing, never drank alcohol in his life, never
did a drug, smoked any none of that. Right. I
think on some level we both knew that we were
black at at a young age, and that, you know,
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the consequences of living a full life are more. They're
harsh when you live a full black life. So so
Q and I were on a road trip. We're coming
back from Florida where in Mississippi we get pulled over,
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neither one of us in a brand new car. Bye,
by the way, we went there to buy a Porsche.
He bought a Porsche for his woman, and we're driving
it back. We get pulled over in the middle of
the night on a country road somewhere the outskirts of Mississippi. Right,
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get pulled over for really no reason. There was no reason,
but they pulled us over immediately could tell that we
were not under the influence of anything. It was a
little swerve thing, you know how they have the lines
in the road that the mixed noise, like the rumble strips,
so you know when you're changing like a song or something,
and the car might drift a bait, but only for
(31:47):
a second, right, So they pull you over, pull you
out of the car, or they pull you over and
they say, hey, have you been drinking anything like that? Nope, nope, sorry,
we were just doing this. No one's hurts the middle.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Of the night.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
There no one even out here, mistake, you know, but
police are like, oh, well, why don't you step out
of the car. Well, clearly I'm not inebriated, And that's
the reason that you chose to investigate this right not inebriated.
You can see that. You can hear it in my voice.
I'm very coherent. My passenger rams, this is coherent. Pull
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us out of the car long and the short of
it is, we're on the side of the road for hours.
They bring out the drug dogs, they sniff the car,
they take the car park on the side of the road.
They're looking for the drugs. Neither one of us has
ever touched a drug in our lives. Now, imagine if
I happened to have I don't know, something in my
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car that might not have been as legal in the
state of Mississippi as it would have been in Alabama
or Georgia, where we were coming from that day. Or
imagine if I had a you know, I've been agitated
enough too and frustrated enough to you know, demand my
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dignity and then they escalated, you know, or whatever. You know,
we've seen how these things you don't have to be
doing anything wrong. So that's why I'm trying to tiptoe
around this. But now imagine if I don't know, I
have a something that I purchased and it happened to
be stolen and now they have a reason to arrest
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me and interrogate me and see what else I'm on
the hook for. Right, So this is more. This maneuver
in Minnesota and soda is more of a response to
the over policing of black people and black bodies. It's
not fair. Now, now watch this. If I had been
a sixty five year old white man traveling with my
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wife in our new car, you know, on on the outside,
would they have gotten drug dogs and had his handcuffed
and bent over the front of police cars. No, of course,
not right. So the over policing of black bodies is
what this is a response to. I say kudos to Minnesota.
I say everybody should do it. You know, marijuana has
never heard anybody, and all it's done negatively is put
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black people in prison. So that's that. We'll leave it
right there. Don't forget These and more stories can be
found to behaynews dot com. I'd like to thank you
as always for your time, your insight, your brilliance, and
your perspective. Once again, today's guest is and senior editor
congratulations again and news anchor Amber Payton. This has been
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