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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A man who needs no introduction.
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Welcome to your midweek memo on the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast with Me Rams's jaw and I am q Ward.
All right, first step This from the Black Information Network.
President Donald Trump has ordered a pause on domestic and
foreign federal aid in apparent effort to stop the government
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from funding causes and activities that don't align with his
conservative agenda. According to a memo sent on Monday by
Matthew jay Vaith, the acting director of the White House
Office of Management and Budget, the federal aid freeze will
affect activities in conflict with the string of executive orders
Trump has signed since taking office last week. Per NBC News, well,
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federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation
or disbursement of all federal financial assistants and other relevant
agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders,
including but not limited to financial assistance for foreign aid
non governmental organizations, DEI, woke, gender ideology, and the Green
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New Deal that said, so, yeah, man, more of the same.
You know, Donald Trumpy is doing exactly what he wanted
to do, what he wants to do. There's I guess
there's nothing that's off limits to him. And you know,
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this obviously runs a lot deeper than many people know of,
certainly people that don't depend on these You know, this
was a little scary to me when I first came
across it, but then of course I felt like, yeah,
that makes sense that he's able to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I know that. You know, you kind of had a
little more to say on it when you came across
it too.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You know, there's a really interesting thing happening, and it's
far beyond I told you. So we're watching them manipulate language.
We're watching them co op terms that traditionally had a
positive connotation to him and turned them into pejoratives like
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woke and DEI. And they know whatever they label woke
or DEI, that that dog whistle will translate to black.
I think they've done the same thing with the term
civil rights yea where tons of people that benefit from
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affirmative action and DEI and civil rights uh and and woke,
you know, which we turned into a term simply meaning aware, educated, enlightened.
And as they've turned all these things into bad words,
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they can cast them on anything they want to get
rid of, and they know that they're mostly racist base.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Will be okay with it, even if it affects them negatively.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
You wouldn't happen to know the percentage of white Americans
that voted for Donald Trump, would you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know that it was more than voted for Kamala
Harris by a large margin, but I don't know it
off off top of my head. I can find it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Let me see. Well, I don't know that we need it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'd just like to imagine that the more than twenty million,
you know, low income white Americans that benefit from some
of these programs that are frozen or canceled or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I'd be willing to wager.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
That some of those people, a lot of those people
even have magaflags in their yards and in their windows
and on their trucks. And it's just really sad to
watch people be manipulated and played against themselves right out
in the open, right out in front of everyone, and
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you and I have talked several times about this idea
of you know, f around and find out, and again,
I wish that was something that we could laugh at
like I see some people doing, because unfortunately we also
have to find out. Yeah, and that part is just
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really really unfair and really unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know. I just looked it up.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's whites voted for Trump fifty seven percent to forty
one percent going for Harris. And I think that that
is sort of interesting because of this next part. So
watch this. I'm going to share this. This is also
from the Black Information Network. Several organizations and agencies that
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depend on the Federal Health Department for funds say they've
been locked out of an online system for tracking and
depositing money amid President Donald Trump's funding freeze. State Medicaid
programs cited that they were unable to log onto the
Payment Management Services web portal, which is run by the
Department of Health and Human Services. Per CBS News, the
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future of other programs that rely on federal funding, including
the National School Lunch Program, which reimburses schools for meals
they serve children, and Meals on Wheels, a nonprofit organization
that delivers roughly two hundred and fifty meals to seniors
each year could also be in danger due to the freeze.
And so these are like daily programs. This isn't like
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a monthly thing. This isn't you know, something that's you know,
you get a disbursement every ninety days. I'm understanding these
you know, these things run pretty regularly. And yeah, it's
it's disrupting the lives of actual people in terms of
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like how they eat. And this is seniors and this
is children. And you know, there are more seniors in
this country that are white. There are more children in
this country that are white. There are more poor children
that are white in this country than there are poor
black children as a percentage, that's not the case, but
certainly as a number. And so yeah, man, all these
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people that voted for Donald Trump are also in the
crosshairs because in order to like as to your point, Q,
to disrupt you know, the woke or black as the
dog whistle would serve them, they have to also disrupt
all these things that affect you know, white people too.
And so white folks voted for this and we're a
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part of the find out, but so are they. And
it's interesting he has a very heavy handed approach to,
you know, again achieving his conservative agenda. And that heavy
handed approach does not just include the people that we
know Donald Trump stands opposed to the progress that Donald
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Trump stands opposed to. It also includes the very people
that voted for him. And that's again that the only
word I can say is it's interesting, because it's not surprising.
It's just kind of sad that, you know, this is
who he is when he's got all the levers of government,
when he's unhinged and off the leash, and this is
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the way that he wants to rewrite the American story.
And so we're just here to watch for now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So, yeah, you said sad, and it's so much worse
than that. Yeah, and you said conservative agenda, And it's
really a zmophobic, racist, specific.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Like it's it's pretty disgusting. It's it's just way beyond sad.
I think you and I, you know, talked about one
of the lawmakers yesterday suggesting some of those kids who
will suffer from the loss of these types of programs
should just get a job. So imagine our elementary school
children having to clock in after they get out of homeroom,
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whor you know, arts and crafts so they can afford
a lunchable. Like, it's a really disgusting display of only
caring about themselves.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
That we have to just endure.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, they take vacations, they cut funding for us, and
then they take vacations and go play golf and like
they really don't even pretend to care about their constituents.
It's a really really sad well you know sad you
use that word. Uh, it's a really disgusting thing to
watch happen. Man, Yeah, let's go with that, all right.
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Next up, this from the Lack of Information Network. The
Tennessee Federation of Republican Women is facing backlash for using
Adolph Hitler to promote a reading list for children. The
reading list, obtained by Chattanooga Times Free Press, cites Hitler
as an example of his leadership while encouraging parents to
train youth through literacy. Dated March twenty twenty four, The
Growing Up American Patriots through Literacy list can be found
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on the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women's website. Quote how
do we make the changes necessary? Proverbs twenty two and
six teaches us that if we train up a child,
then the way he should go, even when he is old,
he will not depart from it, the group wrote on
its reading list before citing the Nazi leader quote, Hitler
and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the
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way to change a country was through the training of
its youth, to get them while they are young.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So, yeah, man, it's interesting times, it's sad times, it's
disgusting times to you you know, a term from from
earlier in the conversation that you know, once upon a time,
the quiet part was the quiet part, and now they're
saying the quiet part out loud, and you know it's there.
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These people are from Tennessee, and Tennessee is has some
really really backwards parts to it. You know, I've been
to Tennessee. You know, respectfully, there's some backwards parts to
the Tennise. There's a backward parts everywhere. But you know,
to go so far is to suggest that Hitler is
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the example that you want to use when you're trying
to establish intelligent you know leaders, or you know, like
there's so many intelligent leaders throughout history, and the Hitler
is the name that you quote. It just shows that, Yeah,
the quiet part is no longer the quiet part in
my estimation, And I know you felt kind of similar
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when you read this one.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hitler as the example of good leadership that our children
should model themselves after. Like what's happening? What twilight zone
are we in? And as much as I would like
to be surprised by something like this, we are, we're
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learning more by the day that the Venn diagram between
white Christian nationalism and Nazis is just a.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Circle like that, like it's they They're.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
They're sharing all the same values, the same playbook, the
same rhetoric, the same literature.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Literally, like have they no shame?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And I asked that question as if I didn't know
the answer already. Of course they don't.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
This is your midweek memo on the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast with your hosts Rams's Jaw and q Ward.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
All Right.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Next up from the Black Information Network. During a segment
of his primetime show on Thursday, Jesse Waters took aim
at former Vice President Kamala Harris and former second Gentleman
Doug im Off after they were caught grocery shopping at
ninety nine Rage Markets Asian grocery store in Westwood California.
Waters first blasted the former vice president for launching a
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blog to ask for money amid the clothes of the
Biden Harris administration.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Kamala says she wasn't going to go quietly, but she's
been as quiet as a mime. Water said, Mamala just
launched a blog, though, and we clicked on it, and
she wants our email address so she can ask us
for money.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The Fox News host then ranted about Harris and m
off grocery shopping, showing images of their recent trip to
the store. Quote and she needs it because grocery prices
are ridiculous. She just found out about inflation, Water said,
and goes on to say the New York Post caught
her grocery shopping with Dougie Fresh. What kind of husband
goes grocery shopping with his wife? He added, Yeah, man,
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So I don't know what else there is to gain there.
You know, those guys are up. This guy, of course,
for those that don't watch Fox News, is the replacement
for Tucker car Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'll get tripped up with that guy's name. So he's
just a far right view holding news pundit.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That you know, says things to upset people, and he's
said something that's upset people, you know, And for him
to go as far as to suggest that a husband
grocery shopping with his wife is somehow odd or strange
or whatever it, I think it really helps paint the
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picture of exactly the type of America that people like
him think should be normal, where there are roles like
like gender roles that go as far as who can
go grocery shopping or can you go as a couple,
And it's just kind of like, I have to go
grocery shopping today.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I do. And so I'm like, I wonder what these people, like,
where do they get this from?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
So we know that he is a provocateur, That's the
word I was looking for, you know, says disgusting and
mean spirited things to enrage people.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
To.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Polarize, you know, to be polarizing. But I love how
they paint this as some type of scandal. You know,
multiple times they were caught grocery shopping, as if there's
as if they were hiding or sneaking, and they were
discovered doing this nefarious thing. And you know, and every
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relationship I've ever been in, we grocery shop together. I
don't even understand what we're talking about here. Yeah, but
it points to what you said.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
This new.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You said the word for me on a recent show.
Is it ma'm mannas sphere? Yeah, yeah, it's new, like
hyper masculine women need to stay in the kitchen and
an apron type of masculinity or manhood if you will.
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You know, every husband goes grocery shopping with their wife,
at least everyone that I know. Like, I don't understand
how this was even well, I want to say I
don't understand, but once again I do.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
They are.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
They can take normal things and make them disgusting and
disgusting things and make them normal. Right, There's some scandal
involved in this husband and wife grocery shopping, but no
scandal involved with the Department of Defense cheating on his
wife with the married woman who's now his wife, who
he slept with someone else and was accused of sexual
assault and settled out saying that it was what's the term,
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saying that he it was consensual, which just means that
he cheated on the new wife as well. So, but
that's normal. Let's make him the director of the Department
Offense or the Secretary of Defense and paint him as
a Christian with all these values, and he you know,
thanked the Lord Jesus and his and his you know
speech after his appointment. Sure, but Kamalan Doug grocery shopping
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is the scandal of the century, like man, these people, Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Is very, very weird, and you know, we're here to
push back on that. I never want that to be normalized.
I know that, Like I understand, like you can't always
make a trip to the grocery store as a tandem,
you know what I mean, and so sometimes it might
be one partner or the other, but doing anything with
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your wife should be normal. And the fact that they
want to change this is you know, I just I
have to draw the line somewhere and pushback and this
is that's just the silliest thing. Unfortunately, some of his followers,
some of his viewers, I should say, pushed back against
that too, just because again they're trying to make as
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you mentioned, like these they're trying to normalize this like strange,
odd ideology, and they're trying to take kind of normalcy
and make it feel strange and odd and peculiar. And
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we can't like, of course, we cannot control you know,
for the next few years. We cannot control funding going
to meals on wheels or lunch, school, lunch programs, anything
that's under you know, Donald Trump's control. That's for him
and really the courts, because there is some pushback for
from Democrats to decide what's possible. But in terms of
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people like Jesse Waters manipulating our reality to somehow suggest
that we can't go grocery shopping with our wives or
somehow like you mentioned paint, you know, people that no
longer hold public office as like scandalous for going to
the grocery store something that everyone does is you know,
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at a point we have to draw lines. So let's
not let someone like him alter our reality. For our
final story today. This from the Black Information Network. Snoop
Dogg seemingly responded to backlash he received from performing at
a Donald Trump inauguration event. On Sunday, January twenty six,
Snoop Dogg took to Instagram to tell his followers he's
still one hundred percent black amid the hate the rapper
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is catching from the community. Quote It's Sunday man, I
got gospel in my heart right now. He said it
an Instagram video. It goes on to say, for all
that hate, I'm going to answer with love. Y'all can't
hate enough on me. I love too much. Get your
life right, stop worrying about mine. I'm cool, I'm together.
Still a black man.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Still.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Snoop faced widespread backlash, of course, for his decision to
perform at the Trump event. Social media users also called
out Snoop changing his stance after he previously called black
artists who performed at Trump inauguration events jigaboos. So I'm
gonna let you go first here because you know, we
we had this conversation, but I know that there's there's
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a lot to cover.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
You know, we've we've reached this point. And I think
it's always been the case. It's just now it seems
far more prevalent because it's always been a way to
dangle a carrot in front of some people and get
them to perform against their own best interest. You know,
we've all we've always seen people flatly sell out. And
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that's what that's what it means. Like quite literally, you
can give some I want enough money to show up
and pander and perform and laugh and joke and celebrate
with their oppressor, and Snoop then gaslights us and to
being the bad guys for holding him accountable for something
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that he said was wrong. Yeah, something that he vehemently
disagreed with in the first Trump term, right, something that,
like you said, Jigaboo was the nicest thing he said
about black artists that would go and perform for Trump.
So when he does it, of course it's okay because
just like Nellie, no matter what they tell you, there
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was a dollar amount involved. It wouldn't make sense otherwise
to just want to go party with a person like
him and proving that there's sadly for some people, always
a number, always a price, and to go over there
after like tearing down you know, most notably Chrissette Michelle,
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a black female artist who performed for Trump and really
blackballed herself after that. I don't know that we've heard
from her at all since then. For Snoop to do it,
after being the most heavy handed person that spoke out
against doing that, to do it himself and then tell
people don't worry about me, as if everyone else is
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wrong and he didn't do anything wrong, it's just so
in this case.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Unfair man.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You've been Uncle Snoop to so many people in the
culture for so long. So many of us been riding
with Snoop since his debut album and since he's ever
actually you know, have seen Snoop, Yeah, since before his
debut album, and we've seen Snoop as kind of an
ambassador for us.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
To the world. We were all proud.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Watching Snoop kind of represent us as a culture, the
Olympics and just all over, you know, cross branding himself
with some of the largest brands in the history of
the world. And then he sells us out and we're
not allowed to be upset, so he gaslights us and
to being the ones who are tripping and somehow overstepping
into minding his business. It's a really it would be
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funny if it wasn't so gross.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yeah. Yeah, I ended up finding out that his reason
for doing this, well, this is my assumption based on
what I put together. But Donald Trump, somehow or other
ended up pardoning Snoops, one of Snoop's friends or one
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of snoops people from death Row. And this might have
been toward the end of Donald Trump's first administration. So
of course, when Donald Trump first was elected. Is when
Snoop made that video so called that you know, twenty
seventeen ish calling you know, anybody that performed for Trump jigaboos.
That's back in twenty seventeen, you know, in twenty twenty one,
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is when Snoop's person, his friend or whatever was pardon
This is my assumption because that would be the timing
of how these things came out. But and that kind
of softened snoop stance on Donald Trump. But I think
to your point, Q, when you look at something that
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affects you personally instead of looking at something that affects
your people, your community, you know, then I think that
you have sold out. And Snoop is it has been
an excellent ambassador for Black Americans for decades now. You know,
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you could make the argument that people like you know,
you and I, you know, we we make enough money.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
To take care of our families.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
We obviously have you know, a couple of really large
platforms to.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Share our ideas and our thoughts with people.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And you know, there are certainly black people that have
you know, tougher lives.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But if we just looked at ourselves and didn't look at.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
The reality of our people, we would be sellouts too,
and I refuse.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I refuse to have my story go that way, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Like I've said it before on the show, I feel
like the reason that I'm here is not only because
of hard work, because I believe many people work hard.
I believe that the reason I'm here is not only
because of tenacity and intelligence and all that. I think
that a lot of people have those qualities. I believe
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that the reason that I'm here is because of luck.
You know, there were some people that decided to move
me out of Compton, California in the late eighties and
the early nineties, and so I didn't grow up there.
I grew up somewhere else, and then a series of
fortunate events and chance meetings with people that led me
on this path to where I am today. And not
everybody is so lucky. And when you look at the
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reality of life for a lot of folks, some people
have access to.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Environments where luck is a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Prevalent, and many people come from environments and they're indeed
stuck in environments where there's not a lot in the
way of luck.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Is there's a great deal of hopelessness there.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I know that because I come from such an environment
and I know that you know that as well. And
to lose sight of that or something that affects one
person or two people, or me and my friends or whatever,
and turn your back essentially on all of your people,
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that feels cheap and cowardly. And you know, far far
be it for me to tear down another black man.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I try my best not to do that, is what
I'll say. But I will say that Snoop Dogg lost
a lot of cool points for me, and I don't
think that that's hate. I will not let him redefine
this criticism as hating on him. You know, I love Snoop.
He was wrong for this one, and that's that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, it's I mean, it'd be like standing next to
someone's abuser that you no abuse them with your arm
around him because they did you a favor, right, you
know what I mean? Like, yeah, you're you're allowed to
be upset with that. You know there's there shouldn't be
a favor he could do that makes you forget all
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the wrong that he's done against all of us. So yeah,
you know, here we are, here we are, and we'll
leave it right here don't forget.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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