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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's been another busy news week and we like to
review the major stories of the week here on the
Black Information Network. Today, we are joined by Black Information
Network news anchors Morgan Would and Bree Wood to discuss
this week's major stories. This is the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast and I'm your host, ramses Jah. All right,
Morgan and Bree, welcome back to the show. Have you
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guys been.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, ramses I'm doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, yes, doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm doing great? And we have a lot to talk about.
An interesting week of course, so yes, folks waiting. First
big story, the former President of the United States, Donald
Trump turned himself into an Atlanta jail, was booked, and
he had his mug shot released. I know the internet
is going crazy. I'd love to hear your thoughts. So
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let's start with you, Bree, give us a bit more,
and then Morgan will follow up with you.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, what an ordeal that was.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
First of all, like you said, he was booked at
a jail in Atlanta on charges that he illegally schemed
to overturn the twenty twenty election in Georgia. Right, So
the mugshot of Trump, they basically said he looked like
he's scowling. That was the commentary across social media after
it was released.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But he was wearing a navy suit and a red tie.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And you know, the mugshot instantly became part of his
legacy as he is facing these criminal charges in four
American cities while seeking to reclaim the White House. None
of this disqualifies him from running for president, by the way,
So Trump was released on two hundred thousand dollars bond
and he's he headed back to the airport for his
return flight home to New Jersey, and he told reporters
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that he did nothing wrong, of course, and that he
should be able to challenge an election. Also, Trump's campaign
used the mug shot to solicit contributions on a fundraising
site that he made a post on x the website
that is formerly known as Twitter for the first time
since January eighth, twenty twenty one. And so his visit
to Atlanta is being compared to his previous surrenders in
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other cities, saying that it was different because it took
place at night and it required him to visit a
problem plagued jail, which was the other thing that many
of our Black Atlantic friends, we're talking about. He was
at Race Street. Yeah, Race Street Jail. I guess that's
like really in the hood there, but they were saying
that it was there rather than a courthouse. And it
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also is like unlike other cities. You know, his booking
info was taken and he had a mugshot, which he's
never had before. So that's what most people were kind
of shocked about that he actually had to take a
mug shot.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Sure, so they think.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They're going to use that now for merchandise of course,
and he's going to turn it into a positive.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Make that's some money for his campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Mean, that's textbook, textbook Morgan, let's get your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Absolutely, just to piggyback on a few of Breeze points,
I think they're already in the process of using that
mug shot for merchandise. I've seen it on T shirts
and mugs or just all kinds of different merch apparently
for around the fee of forty seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
With the words never surrender underneath. Yeah, so I'm not.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Right, Well, yeah so that was that was in fact
what happened. Yes, And to your point, Brie, Rice Street
is apparently notorious for you know, like you said, being
a problem, uh, correctional facility. And I just love the
fact that Atlanta, the city of Atlanta, will make anything
into a party. There was an event flyer circulating, uh
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that said, welcome to Rice Street where they photoshop Trump
wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Real good for women and two hundred dollars bottles by
the way, at the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Party that really happens.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That was really, this is a real thing.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Atlanta takes nothing serious and I'm you know, I'm kind
of here for it, but on on on the facts. Uh,
he is he Like you said, it did add to
his legacy, brie h. He is the first and only
president who have a mugshot taken and it is the
fourth criminal case that has been brought against him this year.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So sure you'll see what's happening.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
A lot of his followers are, you know, trying to
figure out whether or not he's going to be able
to be tried before the election or if this is
something that's going to happen after. But I will say,
as a young thug fan, I'm a little bit disappointed that,
you know, he was able to just get in and
get out while thugger is still sitting there waiting on
a durid.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But I'm not gonna get too much.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Into that free wise sale, free thug. I'm with you,
I get it. You know, there's there's a little bit
more to this that feels it feels a little different
from his other issues, his other court issues that he's
dealing with around the country. Obviously, being fingerprinted and actually
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having a mug shot released is unprecedented. But on top
of that, you know, and we talked about kind of
his his playbook, how he likes to try to intimidate
people and try to you know, find out any sort
of dirt, whether it's real or imaginary, and pedal that
dirt to the masses to discredit the people that are
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prosecuting him. That sort of thing. That's that's what he does.
But his former National security advisor, a guy named John Bolton,
made a couple of points that I thought were interesting.
First off, he said that, you know, he looked like
a thug in his mugshot, which, you know, I'm kind
of glad he said that, because I push back against
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the narrative that thugs look like let's say young thug
for instance, you know, it's so funny because that's kind
of right on the nose, but that a thug doesn't
necessarily need to be someone with a beanie or you know,
ski mask or some sort of hoodlum looking sort of person.
You know, a thug can look like anybody who has
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like a thug. And so, you know, I kind of
appreciate him saying that the former president looked like a
thug in his mugshot. But then he went on to
say that he probably made that face. Effectually, what he
communicated was that he probably made that face to try
to intimidate the judge and the prosecutors. So there's there's
a side of social media that's looking at this photograph
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that's saying, Okay, he's angry and he's ready to fight.
And then you know, to you know, I follow a
Hollywood writer named Jamara Taylor. She writes for like The
Boondocks and Blackish, Saved by the Bell, a bunch of
TV shows in Hollywood, and she also happens to be
my older sister. But she said, ooh, he mad mad,
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And that's you know, kind of the consensus of the
other side of social media, which is like, oh, yeah,
he's really angry about it. So again, unprecedented and just
a wild story. And you know, we'll obviously follow this
this story as it continues so unfold. Moving on, you
know what, Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Okay, I'm sorry now, I was just going to bring
up one other point that the director of the Black
Voices for Trump is still in jail. He is the
only one that did not have a bond. I'm talking
about Harrison Floyd. And he was the first MAGA ally
to be booked behind bars in this whole fraud case.
And so he is the former director of Black Voices
for Trump, and I just thought that was interesting that
he's the only one that does not have a bond.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And talking about nineteen right, nineteen or so co defendants
in the one first of.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Nineteen one black man and he is still sitting up
in there. So interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, you know, he's got some bed bugs to keep
them company. Moving on. The twenty twenty four Republican Party
presidential debates took place this week minus Donald Trump, as
we now know. So for those of us that missed it,
let's let's discuss some of the highlights. Morgan, We'll start
with you this time.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Oh my gosh, I'm overwhelmed. Yeah, so they talked about
a lot, climate change, abortion, bands, and education. I mean,
you know, the list goes on Ukraine and and and
and and.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So much more. Of course, you know, crime.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
But what was fascinating to me is how they seemingly
went in on viv Vivic Remaswamy. I'm gonna say they
went in on him, and you know, and his lack
of experience and just he became I guess a target
in the in in the midst of all of what
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was going on. So, uh, just to let me see
narrow it down, there was a Senator Tim Scott, Nikki Haley,
uh Remaswami, Uh, former Vice President Mike Pence we had
helped me out, yes, Governoran DeSantis, and Chris Christie. So
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uh yeah, it was a it was an interesting debate,
to say the least. Donald Trump, his uh you know,
topic of him and his indictments came up.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It came up.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And the interesting fact that has me choked up right
now is that a lot of the people standing on
that stage would basically indicated that they would support him
or you know, basically they don't have a problem with
him being the nominee, the front runner even though he
wasn't there, So I'm like, he's dealing with all of
this and not to get back on Trump, but that
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was the thing that just kind of hung me up.
They had a lot to say, but I'm just.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very, very strange to see where
Republican leadership is these days. Red, Let's get your.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thoughts, you know, a vec Ramaswami.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He is thirty eight years old, he's an entrepreneur, and
he's got a lot of opinions on what he would
do and what should be going on, and they're basically
just calling him he's a kid on the playground right now.
They're not even taking him seriously. Yeah, but you know,
he made some points. But it was funny one person
and remark that he sounded like I think it was
Governor Chris Christy that said, sound like I'm listening to
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chat GPT here when you're talking. But of course, like
Morgan pointed out, they focused on the economy, abortion, crime,
climate change, and Trump's role in the party even as
he is under all of this scrutiny right now, and
the debate also highlighted the potential risk for Trump for
him not showing up and all the candidates defending Mike
Pence's decision to certify the election results of January sixth,
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they were praising him as vice president. It doesn't seem
like Vice President Pence, former Vice President Pence has much
steam behind his campaign right now. And Tim Scott, this
was really supposed to be his breakout moment. He is
the only black candidate that qualified to be on that stage.
And you know, he made points, but you know, he
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focused a lot on how he was raised and growing
up poor and now he was raised by a single mother,
which is an extremely important point, But it seems that
he leans on that in everything he discusses and doesn't
focus so much on the broader issues that black people
are dealing with that we were kind of hoping he
would dive into. So it seems like he's more leaning
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on his upbringing and being the nice guy who's going
to be stern but still nice. And remember, I was
raised by a single mom, so I understand the struggle.
But it's like we just kind of wanted more for him.
This was supposed to energize his campaign, and I think
it fell a little bit flat for me. But you know,
we'll see how far he goes, but we've got doctor
Cornell West that still has his hat in the ring.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Of course he didn't qualify.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Then you have the Black Republican Larry Elder, who is
a radio veteran and also a best selling author. So
I mean, he's got his hat in the ring. And
he did a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club that
caught a little buzz where he was just coming straight
at it, you know, giving facts about certain things, and
he said, but nobody wants to hear that though. So
Tim Scott was the representative and he was kind of
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well disappointing.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Some of the facts, you know, I saw that Breakfast
Club interview. Some of the facts are really just a
well chronicled narrative. They're not necessar necessarily facts, especially the
one that black men are not good fathers. This is
something that is now well documented for the better part
of a decade that according to the Center for Disease
Control and really every major reputable institution that reports on
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data that is procured by the United States government, it
actually shows that black men are the best fathers of
all and the issues that do affect black fatherlessness are
largely the result of systemic racism. Over policing, mass incarceration,
and things like that, not because there's something in our nature.
But the fact is that Black men are no more
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or less likely to leave their children than any other
race of people. We just have the narrative that's been
chronicled and well documented since I want to say, maybe
the fifties, sixties, somewhere in there, that when people were
trying to determine what the causes for black wealth inequality were,
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and what they looked at was really the legacy of
the Depression era where black couples remained unmarried so that
black mothers could qualify for more assistance for the family.
And that legacy has continued more or less in black communities.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that black children grow up
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without their fathers. In fact, based on the data, black
men are the best fathers of all that's including Latino,
white and others. And so that is a well chronicled narrative,
but not necessarily fact. So I wanted to make sure
I mentioned that as far as the rest of the
people on the stage, on the actual stage, it's important
to point out that Ramaswami he out and out called
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climate change a hoax. His direct quote is I'm the
only person on the stage who is in and paid for,
so I can say this, The climate change agenda is
a hoax. And I made an episode of One More
Thing about this because I live in a part of
the country where we're able to see the effects of
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climate change in less than one lifetime, and the climate
change that the right suggest is cyclical. Even if that
were the case and that was the time that we
were living in right now, it wouldn't happen as quickly
as it's happening. And so the other thing that we
can point to is human interference. But a person like
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that that doesn't live in an environment where you can
actually see the effects of it, they can't trust their
own apertures into their reality. They're looking at data that
supports a position that allows them to ascend the ranks
of power and politics, or they look at data that
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supports a position that they really sincerely want to believe.
And I think that he is a sincere person in
his beliefs. They're just very very wrong, excuse me, and
very dangerous. As you mentioned, six of the eight people
on the stage said that they would still support Donald
Trump if he was convicted and also the Republican nominee,
which in my opinion, makes me question, It makes me
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very concerned if I'm honest for Republican leadership, because there's
a lot of people who are the values that they
espouse are Republican values, full stop. You know, that doesn't
make them bad people. They just feel that there should
be a different approach, maybe a more hard nosed approach
to certain things. They're more about themselves, each man for himself.
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Some people are eat or beaten, and some people are
live and let live, and that's not the worst thing
in the world. But the leadership of that party has
allowed and cultivated, indeed, a culture of let's follow a man,
not let's follow these values that the already stands for.
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And I think that that's reflected in six of the
eight people that are also running for the office of
President of the United States raising their hands saying they
would continue to support Donald Trump. You mentioned Tim Scott,
the only black candidate on the stage. He was kind
of more of the same. He's saying that the Department
of Justice was weaponized against Trump, and most of these
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people don't really deal with the reality of the situation.
They don't go through line by line. Okay, here's what
Trump is convicted of. Okay, we heard the phone call.
That phone call is was the beginning and end of
everything for me. I heard him say it. We all
heard him say it. And they're even that plausible deniability
that Trump often hides behind when he says find me, well,
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I forget the number, but find me this many votes.
To me, that is out and out election interference. That
was his voice. We heard it when he did it,
you know. And so for Tim Scott to say, well,
the Department of Justice was weaponized against Donald Trump, and
he's a man that I would one hundred percent believe
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that if the opposite were true, if this were true
about Obama, you know, he would say, well, absolutely, we
need to get him. We heard him say it on
the phone call, you know what I mean? It to
me feels like the line that they're writing isn't based
on their values. It's based on like a cult like mentality.
And so Tim Scott then and there immediately ceases to
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be a viable candidate for the office of President of
the United States of America. And then finally Mike Pence
was a big blah Most of them were, but you know,
the only person that I forget her name, but the
only person that really seemed like she had a degree
of competency on the stage was Nicki Haley. Nicki Haley. Yes,
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and again I one thousand percent disagree with her politics,
but if she was functioning in a leadership capacity, at
least I could see it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And many people felt that way.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I was reading reactions to the debate, and a lot
of people felt that she came away a lot stronger
than they were expecting her to be. Okay, good, and
she now no, she made a way bigger impression than
anybody was expecting.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Black Information Network news anchors Morgan Wood and Breewood are
here with us discussing this week's major stories. Okay, a
new study came out suggesting that black children are eleven
times more likely to die from guns than white children.
This is something that we unfortunately have to talk about. So, Bri,
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you have the unenviable task of starting us off.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah, these are devastating numbers. And it's a study from
the American Academy of Pediatrics. So researchers from this study
examined data on US pediatric firearm debts and disparities from
the years twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, and they
found that firearms are now the leading cause of death
among children and adolescents, surpassing car accidents. So, according to
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the study, forty one point six percent, that is the
increase in the total firearm death rate from twenty eighteen
to twenty twenty one, and black children were the ones
that were disproportionately impacted by that rise. And among the
children who died by firearms in twenty twenty one, forty
nine point nine percent were black, and the black kids
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make up over sixty seven percent of firearm homicides, and
white children accounted for seventy eight point four percent of
firearm suicides. So I thought those numbers were extremely interesting
as well. Firearm purchases have skyrocketed, especially during the pandemic,
which may account for the increase in the gun violence
according to them, But about thirty million children in the
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US are living in households that have guns right now,
and especially in states that are like Southern states, the
gun toting states, they're not looking to change their policies
on gun ownership or how you get it, how you
obtain a gun. It's really kind of easy to get
a gun right now still even with people petitioning for change,
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and we've seen the shootings that have happened. I think
it's something over four hundred now for the year in
America and we're in August, and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Are sorry, Morgan? I'd like to get your thoughts as well.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, so I can speak from a local standpoint at
least here in DC, the DMV area DC, Maryland, Virginia,
there has definitely been a surge in violence, gun violence,
and violence amongst kids.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
We're talking children, teenagers.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Our state's attorney in Prince George's County, Ayisha brave Boy,
recently expressed a statement and where she actually talked about
drill music and how that's relative to violence.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I mean, we've heard this conversation before.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
She said, we are very concerned about this particular form
of rap music that not only celebrates violence, but it
also directs violence. And she went on to say that
she further emphasized the gravity of the situation, stating that
whether you're talking about things you have done, violent acts
or things that have happened, or things you intend to
do that causes other people to react, to react, excuse me,
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and it causes homicide, shootings, or other acts of violence
that can actually occur. She was referencing a recent incident
that happened here that actually went nationwide. A fourteen year
old rapper by the name of Baby K who is
currently locked up. He is, he's locked up for attempting
to murder a student on a school bus.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He walked on a school bus with two other guys and.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
A gun and luckily in that situation, that gun jammed
so that student, I mean he and they did end
up pistol whipping that kid and he you know, survived
and that was the uh, you know, the positive out
of the situation.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But just days later he was.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Accused of shooting and killing his own so called accomplices, sister.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
So it's just terrible.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
And here in d C, more than four hundred and
fifty people have died so far this year from gun violence.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Twelve of them have been children.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
And that's in DC, and that's not counting the numbers
in Maryland or Virginia. That's not counting the numbers nationwide.
That's not counting children who have just simply been hit
or grazed. It's too much, it really is. And so
I don't know if it's just the music or if
it's you know, just the the the laws and the
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gun reform that needs to happen, but you know, definitely
something needs to happen. It is and I'm seeing it
in areas that you know, we're not used to seeing it. Absolutely,
it's tragic.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So I think it's I think it's more telling than
anything to read that the firearms are the leading cause
of death among children and adolescents. That that shows that
it's bigger than music, you know, because we're talking about children,
all children. So when we're looking at white children accounting
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for almost eighty percent of suicides and black children accounting
for sixty seven percent of homicides, you could look at
two totally different causes for that, and two totally different
causes for those racial spikes. But the fact is, the
common thread is that there's guns involved, and everybody wants
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to triple and quadruple and ken tupple down on the
Second Amendment. But the Second Amendment applied to a musket
so that the country could organize a militia if the
state wanted to take you know, there's a different set
of there was a different reality back then. It wasn't
so everybody could keep blicks in their dresser drawer in
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their bedroom and that kids could get to it in
their own lives or you know, take them to school
or whatever. And I think that just again, the larger culture,
the larger gun culture, feeds into the music culture, feeds
into the the depression culture. I'm guessing. I mean, I'm
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not a white child. I have never been a white child,
and I've never raised a white child, and it's heartbreaking
to know that white children are that's a heavy number.
Eighty percent. Yeah, firearm suicides. What a grisly way to
end the child's life, for them to take their own life.
But yeah, we need different leadership, is you know, and
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I worry that we won't get it. You know, after
Sandy Hook when my older son was little, nothing changed
after that. I don't want to harp, but I do
know that we need some leadership, someone that can look
at this and say, Okay, we have to do something
radical because these numbers, this is not who we are,
or at least not who we should be.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
It won't happen until Republicans can come to a decision,
because the legislation gets put there, the Democrats bring it
to the table, and then it'll pass the House, then
it gets to the Senate and guess what, it blows up. Yeah,
and that's because they cannot agree on the terms and
they cannot agree.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So until you change that will never have a solution.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah. And the and the and the sad reality is
that that that doctor King was pushing back against that filibuster.
You know what I mean, Like, we're the country that
we can be, you know, is right on the other
side of something that is seemingly very simple, and uh,
it's we have we have to get there. That's our
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that's our only choice. So I agree, let's let's end
on a high if we can record breaking Shakari Richardson
wins one hundred meter championship. She is the best in
the world. Morgan, you know a little bit about sports,
certainly more than I do. Why don't you bring us
up to speed here and then we will follow up
with you.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Now, you weren't doing that pun.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
There was no pun intended when you said let's end
on a high and you were talking about Sha Carrie Richardson.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Right, No, okay, hang on, hang on, take it is
it Sha Carrie? Because that's what I want to say.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It's Sha Carrie.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I thought that what I thought everywhere?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, you got it right.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'm like, I know what she.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Can It's been pronounced both ways in the media. I
will say that's good. Depending on who you're watching. They've said, like.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Recorded a bunch of times saying it's Shakari. I'm like,
I know it's should carry her drake say it, you know,
but anyway, all right, my bad should carry my bad.
Shake Carrie, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, so no pun intended. Let's end on a high note.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
So, yeah, this is Sha Carrie Richardson is back on
top after you know, the whole doping allegations or you know,
she's a positive for THHC back in twenty twenty one,
and she said you wanted to take responsibility, responsibility for
her actions.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
She did, in fact do that.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
She took some time off, she trained hard, and now
she is back on top of the American Sprinner is
officially the fastest woman in the world, winning the world
title at the one hundred.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Meters race in Budapest.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So she's the first American to do that since Tory
Bowie back in twenty seventeen and she It's just amazing
to see her back on top. It's so funny because
she was just before the race, when she was qualifying,
she spoke to NBC and she said, I'm not worried
about the world anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I've seen the world be my friend. I've seen the
world turn on me at the end of the day.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I've always been with me. God has always been with me.
So being on this scale now it's my time. And
I just love that for her. And then you know,
before she had the qualifier or she raced in those
qualifying matches to get to Worlds, she did this whole
routine of like where she kind of like stripped off
her old orange wig and you know, she revealed her braids,
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basically knew me, new race, knew Sha Carrie. And it's
just great to see her in this space. Is It's
definitely nice to see her in the space.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
So now she I believe she I'm not sure, Okay,
so she's still hopeful. So yes, she will be.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I'm not sure this because I'm not That's one thing
I don't know about all whether or not if this
qualifies her for the Olympics the.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Next Olympic, well, we're obviously we're gonna keep tabs on her.
I know, I'm not really into sports, hence not knowing
how to say it names all the time, but obviously
she's she's a big deal. And ever since she kind
of came under fire for the marijuana thing, I believe
her mom passed or someone in her family passed.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
It was her biological mother that she was dealing with
the death of her.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Right, So ever since then, she's kind of been on
the radar for more than just kind of being a
good athlete. She's just kind of more of a pop
culture figure. And so my belief is that we'll continue
to to follow her story. Breed, let's get your thoughts
before we wrap things up here.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah, and so in winning the women's one hundred meter title,
you know, she beat two of the fastest Jamaican women
on the planets, and that would be Shrika Jackson and
Shelley Anne Fraser Price, and they finished second and third.
And so it's funny because when the cameras cut to them,
they were covering their mouths as they were speaking, but
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you could tell they were laughing and joking, and they
were asking her, you know how long it's been you
know how long it's been to an American won this race.
She's like because of you, because of you, Like everybody
wanted it to hate each other so bad, and when
you get online and look at social media, it's always
the Jamaicans versus black people when it comes to these races,
and it's like, can we just be happy for everybody?
It's like, yes, she won, that doesn't mean that, you know,
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Shelley Ane Fraser, Price and Sharika Jackson are not still
super fast. Oh well, we gonna get them at the Olympics, Okay,
And if you do, that's great, but if you don't,
that's also great. Yeah, because we're still rooting for Shakari.
So it's like, I just want people to stop with
the rivalry. But you know, you can't tell people that
in sports.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I and not something that I ever deal of.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, but she did.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Say she was very proud of herself, and one thing
I do appreciate is her thanking her supporters and piggyback
up piggybacking on what Morgan said about her saying she
didn't care about the world of the media anymore. She
was appreciative of the people who did not stop supporting
her after the whole Tokyo disqualification thing, and who didn't
stop believing in her. She even bypassed white media and
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went and spoke directly to the black media only when
she won that race, and we saw that, she said
she walked past and said no thank you, no thank you,
no thank you, right to the black gentleman who was
waiting with the mic.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
So that was interesting as well.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
But you know, she said that she wants to inspire
other people who face challenges in their lives, and she
is doing just that.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
All right. I love it, all right. Well, like I said,
we'll keep we'll keep tabs on her, and uh, you know,
that's some black girl magic if I ever saw it.
So shout out to Shakerri for smoking them on and
off the track. I suppose to quote Drake with that
in mind, we'll leave it right there, Okay. I'd like
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to thank you both as always very much for your insight.
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podcast
It's been another busy news week and we like to
review the major stories of the week here on the
Black Information Network. Today, we are joined by Black Information
Network news anchors Morgan Would and Bree Wood to discuss
this week's major stories. This is the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast and I'm your host, ramses Jah. All right,
Morgan and Bree, welcome back to the show. Have you
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guys been.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey, ramses I'm doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yes, yes, doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm doing great? And we have a lot to talk about.
An interesting week of course, so yes, folks waiting. First
big story, the former President of the United States, Donald
Trump turned himself into an Atlanta jail, was booked, and
he had his mug shot released. I know the internet
is going crazy. I'd love to hear your thoughts. So
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let's start with you, Bree, give us a bit more,
and then Morgan will follow up with you.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, what an ordeal that was.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
First of all, like you said, he was booked at
a jail in Atlanta on charges that he illegally schemed
to overturn the twenty twenty election in Georgia. Right, So
the mugshot of Trump, they basically said he looked like
he's scowling. That was the commentary across social media after
it was released.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But he was wearing a navy suit and a red tie.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And you know, the mugshot instantly became part of his
legacy as he is facing these criminal charges in four
American cities while seeking to reclaim the White House. None
of this disqualifies him from running for president, by the way,
So Trump was released on two hundred thousand dollars bond
and he's he headed back to the airport for his
return flight home to New Jersey, and he told reporters
(01:38):
that he did nothing wrong, of course, and that he
should be able to challenge an election. Also, Trump's campaign
used the mug shot to solicit contributions on a fundraising
site that he made a post on x the website
that is formerly known as Twitter for the first time
since January eighth, twenty twenty one. And so his visit
to Atlanta is being compared to his previous surrenders in
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other cities, saying that it was different because it took
place at night and it required him to visit a
problem plagued jail, which was the other thing that many
of our Black Atlantic friends, we're talking about. He was
at Race Street. Yeah, Race Street Jail. I guess that's
like really in the hood there, but they were saying
that it was there rather than a courthouse. And it
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also is like unlike other cities. You know, his booking
info was taken and he had a mugshot, which he's
never had before. So that's what most people were kind
of shocked about that he actually had to take a
mug shot.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Sure, so they think.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They're going to use that now for merchandise of course,
and he's going to turn it into a positive.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Make that's some money for his campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Mean, that's textbook, textbook Morgan, let's get your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Absolutely, just to piggyback on a few of Breeze points,
I think they're already in the process of using that
mug shot for merchandise. I've seen it on T shirts
and mugs or just all kinds of different merch apparently
for around the fee of forty seven dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
With the words never surrender underneath. Yeah, so I'm not.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Right, Well, yeah so that was that was in fact
what happened. Yes, And to your point, Brie, Rice Street
is apparently notorious for you know, like you said, being
a problem, uh, correctional facility. And I just love the
fact that Atlanta, the city of Atlanta, will make anything
into a party. There was an event flyer circulating, uh
(03:31):
that said, welcome to Rice Street where they photoshop Trump
wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Real good for women and two hundred dollars bottles by
the way, at the.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Party that really happens.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That was really, this is a real thing.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Atlanta takes nothing serious and I'm you know, I'm kind
of here for it, but on on on the facts. Uh,
he is he Like you said, it did add to
his legacy, brie h. He is the first and only
president who have a mugshot taken and it is the
fourth criminal case that has been brought against him this year.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So sure you'll see what's happening.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
A lot of his followers are, you know, trying to
figure out whether or not he's going to be able
to be tried before the election or if this is
something that's going to happen after. But I will say,
as a young thug fan, I'm a little bit disappointed that,
you know, he was able to just get in and
get out while thugger is still sitting there waiting on
a durid.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But I'm not gonna get too much.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Into that free wise sale, free thug. I'm with you,
I get it. You know, there's there's a little bit
more to this that feels it feels a little different
from his other issues, his other court issues that he's
dealing with around the country. Obviously, being fingerprinted and actually
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having a mug shot released is unprecedented. But on top
of that, you know, and we talked about kind of
his his playbook, how he likes to try to intimidate
people and try to you know, find out any sort
of dirt, whether it's real or imaginary, and pedal that
dirt to the masses to discredit the people that are
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prosecuting him. That sort of thing. That's that's what he does.
But his former National security advisor, a guy named John Bolton,
made a couple of points that I thought were interesting.
First off, he said that, you know, he looked like
a thug in his mugshot, which, you know, I'm kind
of glad he said that, because I push back against
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the narrative that thugs look like let's say young thug
for instance, you know, it's so funny because that's kind
of right on the nose, but that a thug doesn't
necessarily need to be someone with a beanie or you know,
ski mask or some sort of hoodlum looking sort of person.
You know, a thug can look like anybody who has
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like a thug. And so, you know, I kind of
appreciate him saying that the former president looked like a
thug in his mugshot. But then he went on to
say that he probably made that face. Effectually, what he
communicated was that he probably made that face to try
to intimidate the judge and the prosecutors. So there's there's
a side of social media that's looking at this photograph
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that's saying, Okay, he's angry and he's ready to fight.
And then you know, to you know, I follow a
Hollywood writer named Jamara Taylor. She writes for like The
Boondocks and Blackish, Saved by the Bell, a bunch of
TV shows in Hollywood, and she also happens to be
my older sister. But she said, ooh, he mad mad,
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And that's you know, kind of the consensus of the
other side of social media, which is like, oh, yeah,
he's really angry about it. So again, unprecedented and just
a wild story. And you know, we'll obviously follow this
this story as it continues so unfold. Moving on, you
know what, Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Okay, I'm sorry now, I was just going to bring
up one other point that the director of the Black
Voices for Trump is still in jail. He is the
only one that did not have a bond. I'm talking
about Harrison Floyd. And he was the first MAGA ally
to be booked behind bars in this whole fraud case.
And so he is the former director of Black Voices
for Trump, and I just thought that was interesting that
he's the only one that does not have a bond.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And talking about nineteen right, nineteen or so co defendants
in the one first of.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Nineteen one black man and he is still sitting up
in there. So interesting.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, you know, he's got some bed bugs to keep
them company. Moving on. The twenty twenty four Republican Party
presidential debates took place this week minus Donald Trump, as
we now know. So for those of us that missed it,
let's let's discuss some of the highlights. Morgan, We'll start
with you this time.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Oh my gosh, I'm overwhelmed. Yeah, so they talked about
a lot, climate change, abortion, bands, and education. I mean,
you know, the list goes on Ukraine and and and
and and.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So much more. Of course, you know, crime.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
But what was fascinating to me is how they seemingly
went in on viv Vivic Remaswamy. I'm gonna say they
went in on him, and you know, and his lack
of experience and just he became I guess a target
in the in in the midst of all of what
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was going on. So, uh, just to let me see
narrow it down, there was a Senator Tim Scott, Nikki Haley,
uh Remaswami, Uh, former Vice President Mike Pence we had
helped me out, yes, Governoran DeSantis, and Chris Christie. So
(08:55):
uh yeah, it was a it was an interesting debate,
to say the least. Donald Trump, his uh you know,
topic of him and his indictments came up.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It came up.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And the interesting fact that has me choked up right
now is that a lot of the people standing on
that stage would basically indicated that they would support him
or you know, basically they don't have a problem with
him being the nominee, the front runner even though he
wasn't there, So I'm like, he's dealing with all of
this and not to get back on Trump, but that
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was the thing that just kind of hung me up.
They had a lot to say, but I'm just.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very, very strange to see where
Republican leadership is these days. Red, Let's get your.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thoughts, you know, a vec Ramaswami.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He is thirty eight years old, he's an entrepreneur, and
he's got a lot of opinions on what he would
do and what should be going on, and they're basically
just calling him he's a kid on the playground right now.
They're not even taking him seriously. Yeah, but you know,
he made some points. But it was funny one person
and remark that he sounded like I think it was
Governor Chris Christy that said, sound like I'm listening to
(10:04):
chat GPT here when you're talking. But of course, like
Morgan pointed out, they focused on the economy, abortion, crime,
climate change, and Trump's role in the party even as
he is under all of this scrutiny right now, and
the debate also highlighted the potential risk for Trump for
him not showing up and all the candidates defending Mike
Pence's decision to certify the election results of January sixth,
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they were praising him as vice president. It doesn't seem
like Vice President Pence, former Vice President Pence has much
steam behind his campaign right now. And Tim Scott, this
was really supposed to be his breakout moment. He is
the only black candidate that qualified to be on that stage.
And you know, he made points, but you know, he
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focused a lot on how he was raised and growing
up poor and now he was raised by a single mother,
which is an extremely important point, But it seems that
he leans on that in everything he discusses and doesn't
focus so much on the broader issues that black people
are dealing with that we were kind of hoping he
would dive into. So it seems like he's more leaning
(11:08):
on his upbringing and being the nice guy who's going
to be stern but still nice. And remember, I was
raised by a single mom, so I understand the struggle.
But it's like we just kind of wanted more for him.
This was supposed to energize his campaign, and I think
it fell a little bit flat for me. But you know,
we'll see how far he goes, but we've got doctor
Cornell West that still has his hat in the ring.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Of course he didn't qualify.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Then you have the Black Republican Larry Elder, who is
a radio veteran and also a best selling author. So
I mean, he's got his hat in the ring. And
he did a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club that
caught a little buzz where he was just coming straight
at it, you know, giving facts about certain things, and
he said, but nobody wants to hear that though. So
Tim Scott was the representative and he was kind of
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well disappointing.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Some of the facts, you know, I saw that Breakfast
Club interview. Some of the facts are really just a
well chronicled narrative. They're not necessar necessarily facts, especially the
one that black men are not good fathers. This is
something that is now well documented for the better part
of a decade that according to the Center for Disease
Control and really every major reputable institution that reports on
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data that is procured by the United States government, it
actually shows that black men are the best fathers of
all and the issues that do affect black fatherlessness are
largely the result of systemic racism. Over policing, mass incarceration,
and things like that, not because there's something in our nature.
But the fact is that Black men are no more
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or less likely to leave their children than any other
race of people. We just have the narrative that's been
chronicled and well documented since I want to say, maybe
the fifties, sixties, somewhere in there, that when people were
trying to determine what the causes for black wealth inequality were,
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and what they looked at was really the legacy of
the Depression era where black couples remained unmarried so that
black mothers could qualify for more assistance for the family.
And that legacy has continued more or less in black communities.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that black children grow up
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without their fathers. In fact, based on the data, black
men are the best fathers of all that's including Latino,
white and others. And so that is a well chronicled narrative,
but not necessarily fact. So I wanted to make sure
I mentioned that as far as the rest of the
people on the stage, on the actual stage, it's important
to point out that Ramaswami he out and out called
(13:54):
climate change a hoax. His direct quote is I'm the
only person on the stage who is in and paid for,
so I can say this, The climate change agenda is
a hoax. And I made an episode of One More
Thing about this because I live in a part of
the country where we're able to see the effects of
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climate change in less than one lifetime, and the climate
change that the right suggest is cyclical. Even if that
were the case and that was the time that we
were living in right now, it wouldn't happen as quickly
as it's happening. And so the other thing that we
can point to is human interference. But a person like
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that that doesn't live in an environment where you can
actually see the effects of it, they can't trust their
own apertures into their reality. They're looking at data that
supports a position that allows them to ascend the ranks
of power and politics, or they look at data that
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supports a position that they really sincerely want to believe.
And I think that he is a sincere person in
his beliefs. They're just very very wrong, excuse me, and
very dangerous. As you mentioned, six of the eight people
on the stage said that they would still support Donald
Trump if he was convicted and also the Republican nominee,
which in my opinion, makes me question, It makes me
(15:19):
very concerned if I'm honest for Republican leadership, because there's
a lot of people who are the values that they
espouse are Republican values, full stop. You know, that doesn't
make them bad people. They just feel that there should
be a different approach, maybe a more hard nosed approach
to certain things. They're more about themselves, each man for himself.
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Some people are eat or beaten, and some people are
live and let live, and that's not the worst thing
in the world. But the leadership of that party has
allowed and cultivated, indeed, a culture of let's follow a man,
not let's follow these values that the already stands for.
(16:01):
And I think that that's reflected in six of the
eight people that are also running for the office of
President of the United States raising their hands saying they
would continue to support Donald Trump. You mentioned Tim Scott,
the only black candidate on the stage. He was kind
of more of the same. He's saying that the Department
of Justice was weaponized against Trump, and most of these
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people don't really deal with the reality of the situation.
They don't go through line by line. Okay, here's what
Trump is convicted of. Okay, we heard the phone call.
That phone call is was the beginning and end of
everything for me. I heard him say it. We all
heard him say it. And they're even that plausible deniability
that Trump often hides behind when he says find me, well,
(16:43):
I forget the number, but find me this many votes.
To me, that is out and out election interference. That
was his voice. We heard it when he did it,
you know. And so for Tim Scott to say, well,
the Department of Justice was weaponized against Donald Trump, and
he's a man that I would one hundred percent believe
(17:04):
that if the opposite were true, if this were true
about Obama, you know, he would say, well, absolutely, we
need to get him. We heard him say it on
the phone call, you know what I mean? It to
me feels like the line that they're writing isn't based
on their values. It's based on like a cult like mentality.
And so Tim Scott then and there immediately ceases to
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be a viable candidate for the office of President of
the United States of America. And then finally Mike Pence
was a big blah Most of them were, but you know,
the only person that I forget her name, but the
only person that really seemed like she had a degree
of competency on the stage was Nicki Haley. Nicki Haley. Yes,
(17:47):
and again I one thousand percent disagree with her politics,
but if she was functioning in a leadership capacity, at
least I could see it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And many people felt that way.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I was reading reactions to the debate, and a lot
of people felt that she came away a lot stronger
than they were expecting her to be. Okay, good, and
she now no, she made a way bigger impression than
anybody was expecting.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Black Information Network news anchors Morgan Wood and Breewood are
here with us discussing this week's major stories. Okay, a
new study came out suggesting that black children are eleven
times more likely to die from guns than white children.
This is something that we unfortunately have to talk about. So, Bri,
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you have the unenviable task of starting us off.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Yeah, these are devastating numbers. And it's a study from
the American Academy of Pediatrics. So researchers from this study
examined data on US pediatric firearm debts and disparities from
the years twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, and they
found that firearms are now the leading cause of death
among children and adolescents, surpassing car accidents. So, according to
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the study, forty one point six percent, that is the
increase in the total firearm death rate from twenty eighteen
to twenty twenty one, and black children were the ones
that were disproportionately impacted by that rise. And among the
children who died by firearms in twenty twenty one, forty
nine point nine percent were black, and the black kids
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make up over sixty seven percent of firearm homicides, and
white children accounted for seventy eight point four percent of
firearm suicides. So I thought those numbers were extremely interesting
as well. Firearm purchases have skyrocketed, especially during the pandemic,
which may account for the increase in the gun violence
according to them, But about thirty million children in the
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US are living in households that have guns right now,
and especially in states that are like Southern states, the
gun toting states, they're not looking to change their policies
on gun ownership or how you get it, how you
obtain a gun. It's really kind of easy to get
a gun right now still even with people petitioning for change,
(20:04):
and we've seen the shootings that have happened. I think
it's something over four hundred now for the year in
America and we're in August, and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Are sorry, Morgan? I'd like to get your thoughts as well.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, so I can speak from a local standpoint at
least here in DC, the DMV area DC, Maryland, Virginia,
there has definitely been a surge in violence, gun violence,
and violence amongst kids.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
We're talking children, teenagers.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Our state's attorney in Prince George's County, Ayisha brave Boy,
recently expressed a statement and where she actually talked about
drill music and how that's relative to violence.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I mean, we've heard this conversation before.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
She said, we are very concerned about this particular form
of rap music that not only celebrates violence, but it
also directs violence. And she went on to say that
she further emphasized the gravity of the situation, stating that
whether you're talking about things you have done, violent acts
or things that have happened, or things you intend to
do that causes other people to react, to react, excuse me,
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and it causes homicide, shootings, or other acts of violence
that can actually occur. She was referencing a recent incident
that happened here that actually went nationwide. A fourteen year
old rapper by the name of Baby K who is
currently locked up. He is, he's locked up for attempting
to murder a student on a school bus.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
He walked on a school bus with two other guys and.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
A gun and luckily in that situation, that gun jammed
so that student, I mean he and they did end
up pistol whipping that kid and he you know, survived
and that was the uh, you know, the positive out
of the situation.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But just days later he was.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Accused of shooting and killing his own so called accomplices, sister.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
So it's just terrible.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
And here in d C, more than four hundred and
fifty people have died so far this year from gun violence.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Twelve of them have been children.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
And that's in DC, and that's not counting the numbers
in Maryland or Virginia. That's not counting the numbers nationwide.
That's not counting children who have just simply been hit
or grazed. It's too much, it really is. And so
I don't know if it's just the music or if
it's you know, just the the the laws and the
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gun reform that needs to happen, but you know, definitely
something needs to happen. It is and I'm seeing it
in areas that you know, we're not used to seeing it. Absolutely,
it's tragic.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So I think it's I think it's more telling than
anything to read that the firearms are the leading cause
of death among children and adolescents. That that shows that
it's bigger than music, you know, because we're talking about children,
all children. So when we're looking at white children accounting
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for almost eighty percent of suicides and black children accounting
for sixty seven percent of homicides, you could look at
two totally different causes for that, and two totally different
causes for those racial spikes. But the fact is, the
common thread is that there's guns involved, and everybody wants
(23:26):
to triple and quadruple and ken tupple down on the
Second Amendment. But the Second Amendment applied to a musket
so that the country could organize a militia if the
state wanted to take you know, there's a different set
of there was a different reality back then. It wasn't
so everybody could keep blicks in their dresser drawer in
(23:46):
their bedroom and that kids could get to it in
their own lives or you know, take them to school
or whatever. And I think that just again, the larger culture,
the larger gun culture, feeds into the music culture, feeds
into the the depression culture. I'm guessing. I mean, I'm
(24:07):
not a white child. I have never been a white child,
and I've never raised a white child, and it's heartbreaking
to know that white children are that's a heavy number.
Eighty percent. Yeah, firearm suicides. What a grisly way to
end the child's life, for them to take their own life.
But yeah, we need different leadership, is you know, and
(24:30):
I worry that we won't get it. You know, after
Sandy Hook when my older son was little, nothing changed
after that. I don't want to harp, but I do
know that we need some leadership, someone that can look
at this and say, Okay, we have to do something
radical because these numbers, this is not who we are,
or at least not who we should be.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
It won't happen until Republicans can come to a decision,
because the legislation gets put there, the Democrats bring it
to the table, and then it'll pass the House, then
it gets to the Senate and guess what, it blows up. Yeah,
and that's because they cannot agree on the terms and
they cannot agree.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
So until you change that will never have a solution.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah. And the and the and the sad reality is
that that that doctor King was pushing back against that filibuster.
You know what I mean, Like, we're the country that
we can be, you know, is right on the other
side of something that is seemingly very simple, and uh,
it's we have we have to get there. That's our
(25:33):
that's our only choice. So I agree, let's let's end
on a high if we can record breaking Shakari Richardson
wins one hundred meter championship. She is the best in
the world. Morgan, you know a little bit about sports,
certainly more than I do. Why don't you bring us
up to speed here and then we will follow up
with you.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Now, you weren't doing that pun.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
There was no pun intended when you said let's end
on a high and you were talking about Sha Carrie Richardson.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Right, No, okay, hang on, hang on, take it is
it Sha Carrie? Because that's what I want to say.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It's Sha Carrie.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I thought that what I thought everywhere?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, you got it right.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'm like, I know what she.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Can It's been pronounced both ways in the media. I
will say that's good. Depending on who you're watching. They've said, like.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Recorded a bunch of times saying it's Shakari. I'm like,
I know it's should carry her drake say it, you know,
but anyway, all right, my bad should carry my bad.
Shake Carrie, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, so no pun intended. Let's end on a high note.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
So, yeah, this is Sha Carrie Richardson is back on
top after you know, the whole doping allegations or you know,
she's a positive for THHC back in twenty twenty one,
and she said you wanted to take responsibility, responsibility for
her actions.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
She did, in fact do that.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
She took some time off, she trained hard, and now
she is back on top of the American Sprinner is
officially the fastest woman in the world, winning the world
title at the one hundred.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Meters race in Budapest.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So she's the first American to do that since Tory
Bowie back in twenty seventeen and she It's just amazing
to see her back on top. It's so funny because
she was just before the race, when she was qualifying,
she spoke to NBC and she said, I'm not worried
about the world anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I've seen the world be my friend. I've seen the
world turn on me at the end of the day.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I've always been with me. God has always been with me.
So being on this scale now it's my time. And
I just love that for her. And then you know,
before she had the qualifier or she raced in those
qualifying matches to get to Worlds, she did this whole
routine of like where she kind of like stripped off
her old orange wig and you know, she revealed her braids,
(27:49):
basically knew me, new race, knew Sha Carrie. And it's
just great to see her in this space. Is It's
definitely nice to see her in the space.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
So now she I believe she I'm not sure, Okay,
so she's still hopeful. So yes, she will be.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I'm not sure this because I'm not That's one thing
I don't know about all whether or not if this
qualifies her for the Olympics the.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Next Olympic, well, we're obviously we're gonna keep tabs on her.
I know, I'm not really into sports, hence not knowing
how to say it names all the time, but obviously
she's she's a big deal. And ever since she kind
of came under fire for the marijuana thing, I believe
her mom passed or someone in her family passed.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
It was her biological mother that she was dealing with
the death of her.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Right, So ever since then, she's kind of been on
the radar for more than just kind of being a
good athlete. She's just kind of more of a pop
culture figure. And so my belief is that we'll continue
to to follow her story. Breed, let's get your thoughts
before we wrap things up here.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah, and so in winning the women's one hundred meter title,
you know, she beat two of the fastest Jamaican women
on the planets, and that would be Shrika Jackson and
Shelley Anne Fraser Price, and they finished second and third.
And so it's funny because when the cameras cut to them,
they were covering their mouths as they were speaking, but
(29:25):
you could tell they were laughing and joking, and they
were asking her, you know how long it's been you
know how long it's been to an American won this race.
She's like because of you, because of you, Like everybody
wanted it to hate each other so bad, and when
you get online and look at social media, it's always
the Jamaicans versus black people when it comes to these races,
and it's like, can we just be happy for everybody?
It's like, yes, she won, that doesn't mean that, you know,
(29:48):
Shelley Ane Fraser, Price and Sharika Jackson are not still
super fast. Oh well, we gonna get them at the Olympics, Okay,
And if you do, that's great, but if you don't,
that's also great. Yeah, because we're still rooting for Shakari.
So it's like, I just want people to stop with
the rivalry. But you know, you can't tell people that
in sports.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I and not something that I ever deal of.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, but she did.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Say she was very proud of herself, and one thing
I do appreciate is her thanking her supporters and piggyback
up piggybacking on what Morgan said about her saying she
didn't care about the world of the media anymore. She
was appreciative of the people who did not stop supporting
her after the whole Tokyo disqualification thing, and who didn't
stop believing in her. She even bypassed white media and
(30:34):
went and spoke directly to the black media only when
she won that race, and we saw that, she said
she walked past and said no thank you, no thank you,
no thank you, right to the black gentleman who was
waiting with the mic.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
So that was interesting as well.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
But you know, she said that she wants to inspire
other people who face challenges in their lives, and she
is doing just that.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
All right. I love it, all right. Well, like I said,
we'll keep we'll keep tabs on her, and uh, you know,
that's some black girl magic if I ever saw it.
So shout out to Shakerri for smoking them on and
off the track. I suppose to quote Drake with that
in mind, we'll leave it right there, Okay. I'd like
(31:13):
to thank you both as always very much for your insight.
Once again, Today's Gut or Black Information Network news anchors
Morgan Wood and Bree Would. This has been a production
of the Black Information Network. Today's show was produced by
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