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January 20, 2025 • 35 mins

News anchor Amber Payton joins Podcast Hosts Ramses Ja and Q Ward on today's podcast to review the major news stories of the past weekend.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here 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 we feel you should know about the
ones we are talking about today, So stay tuned for
our weekend recap featuring Bi N Senior Editor and news
anchor Amber Peyton.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast. I'm your
host ramses Jah and I'm your host q Ward.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, Amber Peyton, welcome back to the show. Today,
of all days, how are you feeling.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm feeling great on this MLK day. How are you feeling?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh? I like that energy. That's special. God sent you
to us today because we needed it.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
This MLK Day. Indeed, it is listen. Let nothing overshadow
the great.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
DoD No, we were not.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, I like that. Well, we got some other news
to get to besides that. But I think that we
will do this show as a testament to what Black
Peace people have been able to accomplish as a result
of Doctor King's efforts. So all the news stories that
we will cover will indirectly shine a light on doctor

(01:09):
King's efforts. So we'll dedicate Today's show to him.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But first up, absolutely, we.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Are going to talk about TikTok. I'll share a bit
from CBS. TikTok began restoring service to users in the
United States following a temporary and voluntary shutdown that lasted
less than a day. The company said Sunday that it
was in the process of reinstating access after President elect
Donald Trump vowed to try to pause the ban by

(01:34):
executive order on his first day in office. And I
believe he did this as a result of a social
media post. In any event, the article goes on quote,
we thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and
assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties,
providing TikTok to over one hundred and seventy million Americans,
and allowing over seven million small businesses to thrive.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's the end of the quote, TikTok said in his STI.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
The quote goes on to say, it's a strong stand
for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will
work with President Trump on a long term solution that
keeps TikTok in the United States. TikTok app owner Byte
Dance voluntarily shut down service in the US just hours
before a Sunday deadline, cutting off access to tens of
millions of users, after the Supreme Court upheld a law

(02:23):
that effectively banded over concerns about its ties to China.
The law, passed by Congress last year gave TikTok's Chinese
parent company, byte Dance until January nineteenth to divest from
TikToker be cut off from US app stores and hosting services.
TikTok said a sale wasn't possible and challenged the law
in court, but it was rejected by a unanimous Supreme
Court on Friday. Trump said on Sunday, posted to social

(02:48):
media that he would restore TikTok, first writing save TikTok
in all capital letters, and then vowing to issue an
executive order on Monday to extend the period of time
before the law takes effect. He said there would be
no liability for companies that helped keep TikTok from going
dark before the order went into effect.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
And this is a quote.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Americans deserve to see our exciting inauguration on Monday, as
well as other events and conversations, he wrote. He goes
on to say I would like the United States to
have a fifty percent ownership position in a joint venture.
By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands,
and allow it to stay up. Without us approval, there

(03:28):
is no TikTok.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
With our approval.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's worth hundreds of billions of dollars maybe trillions unquote.
So that was a lot, but I wanted to make
sure everyone had the backstory for our you know, users
that listeners rather that are not users of TikTok. So
I know that was a bit of a whirlwind. But
talk to us a bit amber, you know, give us
some color here.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, I mean, let's take the backstory back to twenty
twenty when he signed.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
The bill that let.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
This. He's not a hero. I think I'm just at
a loss for words. It's he did this, and to
then what come back and make it look like he's
saved the day. You ruined the day for the people

(04:18):
that are addicted to social media that lost it for
sixteen hours. You you ruined it to begin with. You
didn't save anything. And I'm not understanding why he's being
praised or why like you just gave us the backstory,
why we're not looking just a little bit further, do
we not remember how much he hated TikTok?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
No I remember?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
See the thing is I think, well, you know what,
I'm going to let you continue.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But that's an excellent question. Well then, Q, how about
you man, I'm laughing.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
To prevent from flipping things over in the studio, namingly
this table. It's he signed an executive order to ban TikTok,
and then, as most of us predicted, he swoops in
to save TikTok and he does all of it in

(05:16):
front of us. And this is the thing that has
troubled me the most about Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
He's not slick.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Worst, he doesn't even try to be because he realizes
he doesn't have to be. He gets to set the
fire in front of us, Like he gets to walk
in front of the camera, pose with the lighter in
the can of gasoline for it, like pose for a
second to make sure they see him turn around, set
the building on fire. And then he like just goes
off camera. He doesn't even go like to hide somewhere.

(05:47):
He just steps off camera, puts the fireman uniform on it,
and then gets back in front of the camera and
like poses yes, and then he doesn't even put the
fire out. He just poses with the waterholes while someone
else does it. But the picture on the front of
the paper the next day as him standing there with
the waterholes. Trump saves, you know, children from burning building

(06:11):
is the headline. And even though we saw everything that
happened on camera, seventy million people steal chant and pump
their fists and wear their fight Fight Fight shirts and
their MAGA hats and cheer the hero, Donald Trump for
putting the fire out and saving the children from the
burning building.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I would like to add one thing right here that's
from the article that we read.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
This is the first part of Donald Trump's quote. Okay,
in terms of saving TikTok right, oh wow? And remember
this is this is on his social media platform. So
this isn't from the offices of you know, Donald J.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Trump.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
This isn't this is on social media. It's like Hillary
Clinton back in twenty sixteen, was like, do we really
want a president that tweets our national policy?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Like is that the way?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
You know?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Is this the world do one living? Of course that
was years ago and now we're.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Here, but it's still so bizarre for a person like
me that grew up in a time where the lines
of communication from a president were.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Uh formal and less. Yeah, before you heard from the
projected to whims, you.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Saw the White House Press Secretary standing in front of
you first, in front of the presidential seal, because you
knew something.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
With all of the circumstance that comes along with that,
now it wasn't just a random plud.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
He might shoot you a text. Yeah, it's a wild thing.
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
And I think that this makes your point, Q and
also yours Amber. The first part of what he says
is Americans deserve to see our exciting inauguration on Monday.
So again, what's in it for Trump? Does he get
a bigger viewership if TikTok is live. I know that

(08:08):
number one hundred and seventy million Americans was enticing to him.
And you know, I'm sure this has been his plan
the whole time. You know, I'm going to set the
building on fire to put the fire out right. So
I don't think it was this, but the fact that
even in this moment, he's still like, you know what,
this this inauguration, people need to see it. Let's get
TikTok back and let's do it. At this time frame,

(08:30):
so that it just he feels like such a selfish.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
I think what He also realized that a segment of
his base, really most of his base, celebrates his business acumen,
so he also gets to look like the master businessman
who strong armed TikTok into divesting into the US. And
now you know, our country, and then he phrases it
that way, our country will own half of it. He

(08:56):
really means it's him and this one of the people, yeah,
you know, him and or one of his friends will
own half of it. They're not going to give some
of these billions to us. They're not even going to
give some of these billions to the people that voted
for him. That would be so SIMI and his friends
will profit substantially from this, just like the grifting he's
doing with his meme coin, his watches, his sneakers, his calendars,

(09:19):
his NFTs, and his Bibles.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah oh I forgot about those.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah well I didn't. Unlike the rest of America, I
don't have a short memory.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
All right.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Speaking of people with short memories, let's go to the
Grillo rapper. Nelly is reacting to backlash against his decision
to perform at Donald Trump's twenty twenty five inauguration. In
a recent YouTube interview on Willie D Live, the fifty
year old rapper explained he had no dilemma.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I like that about performing. Quote.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
I'm not political. I'm clueless on a lot of things
when it get down to it, Nelly said, explaining that
he's not telling people who to vote for or with
his decision to perform, so sorry who to vote for
with his decision to perform. He goes on to say,
do your own homework. I didn't know that I had
to agree with your political choices, Nelly said. I thought
it was the things you do, not the things you

(10:13):
say should be done. If you follow what I do,
this shouldn't even be an argument. Trump's the president.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
He won.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
This isn't a campaign. The rapper, who was born on
a military base, explained that he comes from a military
family and has performed for you as troops numerous times before.
He compared their service, which is a political and not
tied to any party, to his choice to perform for Trump.
If these people can give their life for the office,
Nelly can perform, he said. He goes on to say,

(10:41):
I'm not doing this for money. I'm doing this because
it's an honor. I respect the office. In twenty sixteen,
Trump famously mocked hip hop as talking or singing after
jay Z and Beyonce performed at a Hillary Clinton rally.
This is a quote from Trump. The language is so bad.
And as they were singing singing right? Was it talking

(11:03):
or singing right? But the language was so bad? Trump said, so, Amber,
you know your your first thoughts on this one, and
then you know we'll go from there.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
I suppose my first thought, excuse my literacy. All money
ain't good money. You have to have some morals and
some values. Yes he's the president. Yes he won because
some of the people that we look in the face
every day that were screaming support for Kamala went and
voted for this man privately. But there's ninety two percent

(11:37):
of us that have some morals and some values and
did not want to see him back in office. But
all it took was a few dollars for this man
who doesn't like your music, he doesn't like what you
do or the market people create.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
He doesn't like you.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
He told us to go back to Africa. I'm never
going to forget that. And so when you think of that,
And I know he knows that, we all know that,
we all heard that. But you still you get up
there and it's a celebration. You are celebrating him returning
to office. Where are your morals? And over some money?
And this morning now your wife is getting the backlash

(12:17):
for it. Ashanti is now paying the price. There are
fan pages that are removing themselves from social media because
her husband is in support of Donald Trump. And it
makes me question, were you one of the eight percent
that went and voted for him.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
We all wanted to be a political when we're making
this obviously unpopular decision. We want to remove the man
from it. It's not about the man, it's about the office.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
The same with her and with other celebrities that performed
at the Crypto Ball. That wasn't about Trump, that was
about Crypto.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
No. I saw the invitation. He says, Trump's name real
big on them.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
It's celebrating the crypto president, Donald Trump. And this idea
that I can go perform for him, but it doesn't
mean anything political is insane to say and Nelly presenting
it as some honor to perform for Donald Trump. I'm like,
were you so honored that you did it for free
because you still be silly, But then I could at

(13:19):
least believe you, like you're misinformed and you're silly, but
at least you mean what you say. But we know
you didn't do it for free. We know you got
paid to do it, and that's why you did it
hard stop and ramses And I know a lot about
having to turn money down because it goes against our sensibility,
as our principles and who we are as men, period.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
So this is not a hypothetical for me. Well, I
wouldn't have no.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
I know for sure what I wouldn't have done, because
in two very very high profile situations where we could
have profited enormously, we said no because we got to
look our people in the face after that. And I'm
disappointed in a lot of people right now. And you know,
my man from Saint Louis has definitely been added to

(14:05):
that list.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, here's one of the things that I think that
at least for me, helps me make heads or tails of.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
All this. And this is kind of my.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
I'll kind of explain how I make my decisions and
how I expect other people to make theirs. This last
election First off, let's go back even further in the past,
call it eight ten years. There has been something that

(14:42):
has developed in this country, particularly in black culture, starting
with you know, the around the time of the Me
Too movement and of course through the protest of twenty
twenty up until today, believe black women, Trust black women,
listen to black women, and support black women, protect black women.

(15:03):
Right now, For everybody that said that, I and maybe
they didn't all mean it, but I did. I understood
the assignment, and I feel like I've always been on
this path, but any.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Corrections that needed.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
To be made were definitely made along the way in
these past call it ten years. When I look at
the exit polls, when I see ninety two percent of
Black women, again, we're listening to black women, We're believing
black women, We're supporting black women, we're protecting black women.

(15:46):
Right when I see ninety two percent of Black women
voted for Kamala Harris, which doesn't mean that eight percent
voted for Donald Trump, because there were third party candidates
and there were a lot of black women who were like, look,
this is a vote for the current administration, which is
you know, actively helping Israel in the middle East and

(16:07):
I would never vote for Donald Trump, so let me
vote third party. So you know there is over ninety
two percent that did not vote for Donald Trump. So
to me, that is a neares makes no difference one
rejection of Donald Trump by black women. Okay, if you're
with me so far, I'll stick the landing. My guess

(16:34):
is that black women fingers crossed. My guess. My hope
and I and I believe that this we will see
this reality. But my guess is that black women will
be here longer than Donald Trump. And for a person

(16:54):
like Nelly, who has to come back down that long road,
for a person like Snoop Dogg, that's.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
To come back down that long street.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
For person likes old your boy, Rick Ross and all
the rest in Waka Flaka and Amber Rose and all
them people, right, they got to come back down that
long street. For every single conservative person who feels like, okay,
the DEI stuff and this and the that and the other,

(17:24):
that's a long road. Black women are the mothers of humanity.
The first homo sapien sapien was born of a black woman. Indeed,
the first homo sapien sapien was a black woman. Genetically speaking,
so all of us owe our very existence to black women.

(17:47):
That's a long road, indeed, and that's going that road
is going to outlast Donald Trump. So everybody in this
moment that feels like they up and they got an
excuse that is ignoring the.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Data that says clearly what black.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Women are on. I think that they are going to
have to come to terms with that. There is going
to be their moment of reckoning. And I don't think
that black women, generally speaking, have short memories.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
So we finished see.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Vin senior editor and news anchor, and for Paging is
here with us discussing the weekends major stories. All right,
next up from news Week, more of the same. Donald
Trump has demanded the Federal Bureau of an Investigation preserve
and retain all records relating to its Office of Diversity

(18:37):
and Inclusion after it emerged the government agency closed the
office late last year. The closure comes just before Trump
enters the White House, with the FBI being the first
government agency to make such a move. The President elect
is vowed to crack down on diversity, equity, and inclusion
initiatives during his second term as president. A number of
corporate organizations have also stopped their diversity programs in recent

(19:00):
months and pressure from conservatives. Responding to the announcement, Trump
posted on True Social we demand that the FBI preserve
and retain all records, documents, and information on the now
closing DEI office never should have been open, and if
it was, should have been closed long ago. Why is
it that they're closing one day before the inauguration of

(19:20):
a new administration. The real reason is corruption? And he
put corruption in of course capital letters on his social
media platform True Social. So Amber, let's go to you first,
your thoughts here.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
They gave you what you wanted. Look, why are you complaining?
You want us, you want everyone to do away with DEI.
They did away with DEI. They gave you what you wanted.
Why are you still complaining that? That's my only thought.
What do you think that they're hiding from you? They

(19:54):
did exactly what you asked them to do. It really
seems that simple? Is it not that simple?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
It's just that.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Him and all of his supporters, Amber, there is no
such thing as them getting what they want. Like they
won the election, right, the big ten foot Trump signs
are still in their yards. You're wearing their maga hats
more to like rub it in people's faces, like it's
never really about what they say, it's about ever. They
are bullies and they are evil, and they are mean.

(20:27):
Every opportunity they get to be just that they will.
So even when he gets exactly what he asks for,
he'll flip that into something corrupt and wrong. Right the agency,
before you're even the president, you're still a private citizen.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
How are you.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
You're making demands already that people better listen to, and
then they do and you're like, well, why did you listen?
You must be corrupt, Which that's actually a good line
of thinking. If you listen to Donald Trump and you're
doing what he orders you to do, you that might
that might check out, even though that's not what he means.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
He's such a petulant child.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
And you know, we have these discussions about people that
support or defend or make excuses for him, and they
tout out all these things that are factually incorrect, but
that they've been told are true, so they.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Just believe it.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
And I always, as Amber said, try to make it
more simple.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Right. I talk about my children, I talk about my life.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
I talk about how things are more dangerous, less safe,
and more volatile for people who look like us. And
in those moments I expect people to become human again
and be like, oh, man, you're right. Nope, there comes
another MAGA talking point. And when you're looking at people
that you know and talking to people you know, and
you use yourself and your children as the example and

(21:50):
they're retort as a MAGA talking point, it's far scarier.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Than people realize.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Man, People that are normally sensible, pragmatic people are either
being fooled or everybody's eye like Snoop, like Nelly, like
all of these corporations, is on the money.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
I can profit from this. I can.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
I can financially benefit from this. So that's enough. I
can get to the bag.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Then it's enough.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
I don't care what happens in the wake of it.
And it's that's the part that's the most scary and
most uncomfortable to me.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, I don't know that there's much more I can
add to that, but I want to just kind of
circle back here, because again a number of corporate organizations
have stopped their diversity programs in recent months amid pressure
from conservatives. You know, we've covered a lot of that
on this show. Of course, we've covered some of that

(22:45):
on Civic Cipher and on our social media platforms and
so forth. You know, the Walmarts and you know, I
can't even think of all the other McDonald's. And yeah, exactly,
they're they're doing way with their DEI programs. And again,
black women are going to be here a lot longer
than Donald Trump. So you do this song and dance

(23:06):
for four years at the expense of your relationship with
black women forever. If you can make a business case
that that's the right choice, I'm all for it, but
I doubt that it is. Finally, this from euronews dot com.
Thousands of people from around the United States were rallying

(23:27):
in the nation's capital Saturday for women's reproductive rights and
other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming
Trump administration. Mark was a reprisal of the original Women's
March days before President elect Donald Trump's second inauguration in
twenty seventeen, eight years after the first historic Women's March.
At the end sorry at the start of Trump's first term,

(23:48):
Marcher said they were caught off guard by Trump's victory,
and we're determined now to show support. Remained strong for
women's access to abortion or transgender people, for combating climate
change and other Issuesrand died and reorganized. The rally has
a new name, the People's March, as a means to
broaden support, especially during a reflective moment for progressives organizing

(24:08):
after Trump's decisive win in November this year. The march
was expected to be about one tenth the size of
the first one and came amid a restrained moment of
reflection as many progressive voters navigate feelings of exhaustion, disappointment,
and despair after Harris's loss. So Amber, Uh, that article

(24:32):
that was a that was a tough one for me
to read because I'm like, hey, I get it, but
you know your your your thoughts on it.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I think it's more of kind of what you just mentioned.
And I know that it wasn't just black women that
were out there. It's a little bit of everyone that
Trump dislikes. Body has to do it. That that's it.
Someone has to do it. I know a lot of

(25:06):
people that were out there at that march, A lot
of people, and some of them are uh almost sexual,
some of them are homosexual. Uh, most of them are black.
And I know one of my friends that no one

(25:30):
else is fighting for her. So that's why she went, Uh,
someone has to go.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
It is.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
It is very sad. It's she feels alone and she's scared,
but someone has to fight for them, and so they
showed up for themselves.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Heartbreaking. M hm, you anything here? Exhaustion, it's appointment and despair.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Sums up how I felt the day after the day
after that, day after that, and you know, still trying
to climb out of feeling that way. It's not enough
people are outraged, right enough people are disappointed and exhausted
and feel despair. But not enough people are angry. Not

(26:25):
enough people see this as a real existential threat. Not
enough people are really grasping the gravity of what just happened.
And the interesting thing about an election is that it ends,
but the result doesn't trigger anything for a couple of months.
So I think what happened is okay? Do one and
everybody in the immediate aftermath felt it, And then day

(26:48):
by day looked.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Around and it dissipated.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Oh, it still looks and feels normal, right, And people
forgot today's the day. People forgot, you know, it was
still forthcoming. People forgot that he hadn't been inaugurated yet.
People forgot that his term hadn't started yet, and he's like, yeah,
he won, but you know, life is life and politics

(27:14):
or politics, and I don't really get into that. Ugh
this time, the apathetic, unplugged, tuned out political view will
not save you from the country and the world you
have to now live in.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
You know, Priority one.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Excusing a bunch of admitted criminals, kicking out a bunch
of immigrants in search of a better life. And people
have made the decision that, well, he's just getting rid
of the criminals. He's just getting rid of the illegals.
As if you wear that on your pocket square when

(27:59):
you go out outside, as if Mexican citizen looks different
than Mexican undocumented, as if Haitian looks different than Nigerian
to people who have decided they hate them both, as

(28:21):
if every aspect of what makes the country that we
live in at least decent. Right, once upon a time,
racist people having to pretend in public that they weren't
was a good thing. Once upon a time, you know,
evil people having to pretend they were decent was a

(28:41):
good thing. A second maga term, a second maga victory
has embolded and empowered the worst of us to act
exactly how they act in private amongst each other, out
loud and in front of us. So again, I employ
you picture my daughter, even if you don't know me.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Just think little girl.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Has to now grow up, go to school and try
to function in the society. Encouraged to hate her, given
permission to hate her, and treat her accordingly, with clearly
no accountability, no consequence, no repercussion. You can storm the

(29:26):
US capital as long as as long as your hat
says make America great again, you're good. You can shoot
and kill people that look like Ramsens and Q. You
can forcefully kidnap and deport people who look like my daughter,
And as long as you waving that MAGA flag, it's okay.

(29:53):
Except I people who look like me and people who
I care about have to live with that real reality
have to be the victims and the people who are
under the boot of that reality. And you want me
to think everything is going to be okay, because at
least my bitcoin gonna be up, at least my company's

(30:15):
next contract it's gonna be popping. At least Trump about
to turn the economy around Okay, now we got to
stop because at least the first two things I said
were true, at least financially, you will be straight if
you're in bed with them as a corporation, as a
private citizen. If you poor, now you're about to be

(30:36):
more poor because the data does not track with all
of you who think Republicans are good for the economy.
Just look at the history of the United States, right,
And once upon a time, the parties wore different badges, right,
the Republican Party and the Democratic Party kind of switched
roles at one point.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
So just let's just.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
Say a conservative, conservative and liberal regressive. Everything that has
ever happened to further the causes of black people in
this country has been by one political group. Maybe once
upon a time they were called Republicans, but the Republicans,
as you know, were the ones fighting for slavery.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
I just want to make that clear, right.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
So progressive liberal politicians, because we've decided that all politicians
are bad. Our political system is not one that fully
serves its people.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
That's a fact, right.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
The constituents that vote for these people do not get
everything they ask for because too many politicians get to Washington,
DC and realize they'll benefit either way. There's somebody that
will get them some bread if they make this decision.
There's a different organization or corporation that will give them
some bread if they make the opposite decision. So it's
a koind of how does anything get done. So politics
as usual would be politicians going to DC to serve

(31:51):
their own best interest.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
This isn't that.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
We have a group of politicians now that are actively
working against our interests, and that is a different dynamic.
So it is hard to continue to pretend that everything
is okay because unfortunately Amber and Qan Ramses were too informed.
We actually know better, and the propaganda and the fake news,

(32:16):
as the new president would call.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
It, doesn't fool us.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
We actually know what's going on, and trying to get
people that we know and care about to understand that
I got a little bit more information than you and
that this thing could be a lot worse than you think.
It's hard when you admittedly people are struggling and they
need someone to place the blame on, and the Republicans
have conveniently made it easy to just point the finger

(32:43):
at whoever's in office when you're not doing well. It's
their fault, sure, but they're not the savior. They're going
to make things far worse, even for our Palestinian brothers
and sisters who could not cast a vote for the
current administration.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I get it, but you have to see what's coming.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
And out of his own mouth know that it's going
to be way worse, and that it breaks my heart
that people were forced to make this or that decision
with the livelihood of their own people on the line,
and not see that one choice was going to be
a far worse outcome for the people that they care
the most about.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
It. It's a.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
It's a hard place for me to be mentally, and
I cannot pretend that I've been okay since the day
of the election. I won't even say the day after.
I think I text you in the middle of the
day when I could feel it. I saw it, like,
oh no, this thing is not going to go well.
And now we have the president elect talking about how
good Elon Musk is with those voice those vote counting computers,

(33:45):
like they don't even pretend to not be corrupted anymore
because they understand there's no consequence. Thirty four felony convictions
stormed the Capitol insurrectionist still gets to run for president,
which is crazy, but wins and still gets inaugurating and
gets to run this country. A blatant, outright trader, a

(34:08):
blatant outright criminal, and him and his followers are parading
in the streets.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Man, it's a it's a tough one. Man.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
It's interesting that Nelly Nelly can go and perform for mister,
you know, grab him by the P word, you know
what I'm saying, and somehow make it.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
He's got a wife, he's got a mom. I'm sure
you have family members that are women. And yeah, mister,
grab him by the it's who you're going to celebrate.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
What the truth is. Like I said, you got a
long road to walk back down, all of y'all, So
I guess we'll leave it right there. I don't forget.
These and more stories can be found at b I
nnews dot com. Doct to thank you very much, as
always for your time and insight. Once again, today's guest

(34:56):
is b I N Senior Editor and news anchor Amber Payton.
This has been a production of the Black Information Network.
Today's show is produced by Chris Thompson. Have some thoughts
you'd like to share, use the red microphone talkback feature
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Speaker 4 (35:16):
Social media, I am Qward on all social media as well.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
And join us tomorrow as we share our news with
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