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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A man who needs no introduction.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Black Information Network is committed to bringing you up
to the date news stories that are relevant, informative, and inspiring.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And while news stories are always being updated and others
are breaking, we understand that you need to be in
the know all week long.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
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 up, this from the Black Information Network.
McDonald's has joined a list of major companies that are
rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion commitments following the
Supreme Court ending affirmative action and college admissions. On Monday,
(00:41):
January sixth, McDonald's announced that it was retiring specific goals
for achieving diversity at senior leadership levels per The Hill,
The fast food chain is also ending a program that
encourages suppliers to develop diversity training and increase diversity in
leadership positions. The move comes after McDonald's announce in twenty
twenty one that executive bonuses would be tied to meeting
(01:03):
DEI goals. The company had also launched an allyship through
Accountability policy, which aimed to fill thirty five percent of
US leadership roles with underrepresented groups and forty five percent
of leadership roles with women by twenty twenty five, and
a letter to its employees and franchises, McDonald's executives noted
that thirty percent of US leaders are from underrepresented groups
(01:25):
and it had reached gender pay equity at all levels.
So it starts. Well, I guess it had already started.
But McDonald's is I guess the latest to fall. In fact,
I haven't heard too many people holding the line. I
know Costco is still kind of holding the line with
(01:47):
their DEI policies, but everyone else seems to be kind
of subjected to the whims of whoever's in charge, as
opposed to subjected to the their morality in terms of
what they believe is right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, I think what you're learning is that there is
no morality. It was always we'll do this if we
have to, And as soon as the idea that they
didn't have to came into play, a lot of these corporations.
I was going to say, awe, but a lot of
these corporations are voluntarily ending these programs. It's not being
demanded of them by shareholders, it's not being forced upon them.
(02:26):
It's like, oh, it's not even in vogue to do
that anymore. Okay, let's stop. Like it's not there's no
external pressures. Yet they're getting out ahead of it. They
can't wait to stop doing these programs. And you know,
companies like Costco and Target are more than just holding
(02:47):
the line, cause holding the line would just be flying
under the radar and just not saying anything, continuing to
do what we've been doing, but not saying anything. These
companies are actually publicly reminding us that hey, we still
think this is important and we're going to continue you
to do it. So I'll go spend a couple more
cent or a couple more dollars at Target versus going
to Walmart because Walmart has aggressively made it known that
(03:09):
they are no longer participating in this DEI thing, because
it's somehow turned into a pejorative.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, well, you know, uh, it's it's it's really easy
for people to put together some pretty language to suggest
that they are restructuring their policies and their practices so
that they can avoid legal repercussions or to avoid any
(03:42):
sort of lawsuits or anything like that. And it's it's
it's a whole different type of energy when people are like, yo,
I wish you would try to assume me. Let's get it.
You know, we stand by our policies. There is a
right for our business. This helps our bottom line, This
is the way business functions, and this is what we
want to see. And you know, it's uh, it's time
(04:12):
for me to really lean into what it is that
I learned in college so that I can have my
guiding light through this time, because this is a very
uh troubling and disturbing period for me.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What I did, I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry, I
thought you were.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What I did learn, uh, which is what I'm leaning
on now, is that when I was in school, I
went to business school. You know, I have a master's
with me in uh in business. And so one of
the things that they beat into our heads is that
having a.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Diverse workforce.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Is uh a sure far away to have a more
successful business. And by leaning into diversity as a as
a company, as a as a fiscal endeavor, you illuminate
blind spots and you are able to better penetrate additional markets.
(05:19):
And so my hope is that the things that I
learned proved to be true beyond a shadow of a
doubt that diversity on its own without political uh uh
support and and and supplementation, I suppose will after this
(05:43):
period of turmoil, rise to the level that I believe
that society will recognize that it is irrefutable that we
are stronger together. And that's all I have to believe
in right now. So that's all I got left.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
What I learned in the school of the United States
of America is that racism and white supremacist capitalism is
more important than data. It's more important than patriotism. It's
more important than religion. It's more important than preserving one's
self interest. It's more important than everything. Because what you
(06:28):
learned in business school is true. All the data supports
what you said. That's not made up, that's not anecdotal.
More diverse workplaces, more diverse companies, have more success, have
higher profits. Right, and in the name of doing what's right,
it's even in your own best business interest to do it.
It's not just because you're a benevolent person who always
(06:50):
believes in doing the right thing. This is actually worse.
We'll do the wrong thing. We'll do things that hurt
our business to uphol hold this system of white supremacy.
These these companies, some of them performative. We always talk
about the black square. You can performatively pretend to participate
(07:10):
in uplifting other people and never actually doing anything. These
people are coming out and making statements and putting out
press releases so that people know that they aren't doing it, like, wow,
let us make sure that people know that we are
not subscribing to that DEI nonsense. When they could just
be quiet or continue to pretend like they always have, or.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Change the name of it and still hit the same goals.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well no, no, no, but but you're missing it. They wouldn't
change the same goals because they don't want.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
They if they wanted to. That's that's what I was
going with that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, that I mean, but that's the point I'm making.
They so clearly don't want to that they're screaming to everyone, Hey,
we just want to make sure you guys know that
we are not doing that and wow. This next story
from bin Meta is dropping its fact checking systems on
Facebook and Instagram and adopting a community notes model similar
(08:13):
to Elon musk X. On Tuesday, January seventh, Meta CEO
Mark Zuckerberg shared a video message on Facebook and Instagram
announcing that his social media platform will drop their fact
checking systems because it led to too many mistakes and
too much censorship, and it's too politically biased. He said,
(08:36):
I quote, it's time to get back to our roots
around free expression on Facebook and Instagram. The recent elections
also feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again
prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to our
roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policy, and
(08:57):
restoring free expression on our platforms. Continued Meta will first
quote get rid of fact checkers and replace them with
community notes similar to X. Starting in the US, after
Trump first got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media
wrote NonStop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
(09:17):
Zuckerberg said in his video message, quote we tried in
good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters
of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too
politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created,
especially in the US end quote ramses.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I mean, you know, you remember that meme where there's
a dog sitting in the kitchen and the whole house
is on fire and the dog sits there and he's like,
this is fine, Everything is fine's had a moment like that.
(10:03):
We're like, yeah, this this may as well happen, you know. Uh.
The first thing I'm gonna say is shout out to
fan base. Shout out to Isaac Hayes, a third somebody
black who is trying to create a black social media
space for black people to own and to participate in
(10:27):
and to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Escape the forces of these billionaires who do the bidding
of whichever political party is in control, or often enough conservatives.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
They're just conservative people. A conservative agenda would bolster their
businesses in their personal lives, and we are subject to
the whims of these people if we continue to engage
in their platforms. Mark Zucker deciding that free speech is
now again prioritized. If it looks anything like X and
(11:07):
people are able to use the N word again and
all that kind of nonsense and stuff, and people can
get off lies and whatever, then it just becomes a
huge popularity contest. Not necessarily who is factual. You know,
you can get more fact checkers to fact check the
fact checkers if you so choose, You can have unbiased
you know, or non political. Uh, fact checkers, you could,
(11:29):
there's other things you could do, but to get rid
of the side or the guardrails rather is it just
turns everything back into a popularity contest. And right now,
we know racism is popular, We know that divisiveness is popular.
We know that you know, Donald Trump, he won the
popular vote literally, and so that is unfavorable if you
(11:52):
are a person not born a straight Christian white male
who is healthy in this society. And you know who
is a straight Christian white male who was born healthy,
Mark Zuckerberg. So doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But I mean, even if he's not, it's in his
best interest to align with them. And the idea that
you need fact checkers to check the fact checkers because
the fact checkers are too political. Like the word fact
checker by definition is not political. They're just checking the facts.
(12:27):
The thing that you said, sir, was untrue, that's not political.
Just because the person that's the people that are telling
the most lies just so happen to be conservative, doesn't
mean that the person calling them not on the lies
is politicized. You know, the in our current political arena,
one side has come to power under the guise of
(12:48):
conservative values and American values. But in reality they've done
nothing but intentionally lie to us, intentionally misinform us and Cohn,
and steal from us, from their own constituents and from
those who oppose them like us. So being fact checked
is now political because it's directly in conflict to what
(13:09):
the rich and powerful want. They want to be able to.
You know, people like Zuckerberg and his billionaire friends want
to be able to move around and speak without being
fact checked. During the presidential the base, they got upset
about being fact checked. How dare you call us out
for lying to the people? I remember that, right, So
there are political agenda stagnates when they're fact checked. They
(13:31):
want to be corrupt, they want to be dishonest, they
want to cheat, and they want to lie. So that's
why fact checkers are political.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
This is your midweek Memo on the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast with your hosts Rams's Jaw and q Ward.
All right, Next up, this from the Black Information Network.
Zoe Saldana nabbed her first win at the Golden Globes
on Sunday, January fifth, the eighty second annual Golden Globes,
hosted by comedian Nicki Glazer recognized the Best in Film
(14:01):
and Television at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Several
black stars were nominated for awards ahead of the ceremony.
Included Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and Gladiator Towos, Denzel Washington, Zndeia,
ao Idy Berry, Jamie Fox, Kin, Ta Brunson, Donald Glover,
Coleman Domingo also earned nods from the Golden Globes. Viola
(14:24):
Davis received the CISIL B Demil Award at a separate
gala prior to the ceremony. However, Saldana was the only
black actor to take home an award. On Sunday, the
Amelia Perez star won her first Golden Globe for her
supporting role in the film. So, you know, shout out
to Uh, there's always al Donna. You know, it's always
(14:45):
nice when when a black woman emerges victorious. I wish
there was.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
More, but yeah, I think the reason why this story
stood out to me is because we still have these
moments like this where we're the first or the only
black person in a space, and I think people would
come to the conclusion that we participate at a lower rate,
or that we are just by nature not as talented
(15:13):
as our counterparts, and we know that's ridiculous, so it
should sound and feel ridiculous every time you hear the
first black two or the only black two, like it's
we should be past that. But you know, again, in
twenty twenty five, we still have to highlight things like
this where there's one black person celebrated at all. Okay,
(15:35):
this last story is from CNN. US Olympic sprinter Fred
Curley was arrested and stun gunned during a confrontation with
police officers in Miami, Florida, on Thursday night, and is
now facing charges of battery, resisting officers, and disorderly conduct,
according to authorities. Police later released body camera footage of
(15:56):
the incident. It shows Curly, who won a bronze medal
in the men's one hundred meters at the twenty twenty
four Paris Olympics, approached by police officers. One officer raises
a hand that pushes sideways against Curly's chest. Curly bats
the hand away before an arm pushes Curly and an
altercation starts. It is impossible to hear what is being said,
(16:16):
as there is no sound on the video. Until the
physical confrontation begins. Several officers push Curly to the ground
and the struggle and one appears to hit him multiple times.
In the arrest record, police say two officers lost their
footing and fail on their back end that Curly fell
on top of one of them. An officer then deploys
a dark firing stunt gun on Curly, who falls to
(16:38):
the ground after being hit. There's an interesting thing that
happens and has happened in my whole life while watching
the Olympics. The Olympics, as most people know, is a
athletic representation and competition of every nation in the world.
(17:01):
And as you would imagine, most African nations have African people,
black African people, Most European nations have white European people.
Most Asian nations have Asian people from Asian countries represented
in each team. And then Great Britain and the United
(17:25):
States of America have gold, silver, and bronze medal championship
athletes that look just like Ramses and Q and our
daughters and our sisters and our mothers and our aunts
and our cousins, and our colleagues and our coworkers, And
(17:47):
that always stands out to me that this country that
straightforwardly hates us, not every person in the country, but
the country itself for its entirety. And now again and
stereo surround sound four K amplification has always hated and
worked against us, sends us to represent it to the world.
(18:13):
That's crazy so that it can be victorious. And athletics
and entertainment are the only areas of American life where
victory and success outweigh racism. For a long time, football
teams that were the best or thought of as the best,
(18:35):
would lose because of racism. The black players on teams
that would let black players play would win. Eventually, even
those racist schools and institutions and teams are like, yo,
we got to let some black players play so we
can win. Not because they're men, not because we should
respect them, not becas, not because they're equals, but so
(18:57):
we can be successful. And sports and entertainment are really
the only areas in American culture where success and profit
outweigh racism, which is why those areas are so heavily
dominated by black people because we're allowed to participate. That's
an interesting a US Olympian medallist. The story plays out
(19:24):
the same as if he was just a young black
man in Miami, because you don't wear your American flag
in your medal when you go out into the streets.
Just like members of our military, when you return home
after representing this country, fighting for this country, giving your life, blood,
sweat and tears for this country, when you get back
to this.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Country, country still be country, and.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You still ramses, you're still a.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, Well, I don't know. I don't know what comes
next with this story. But you know, if there's any
sort of like lawsuits or you know, anything, other details
are still coming out on it. But obviously this and
all the rest of these stories are going to keep
paying attention to and you know, we'll leave it right here,
(20:13):
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A man who needs no introduction.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Black Information Network is committed to bringing you up
to the date news stories that are relevant, informative, and inspiring.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And while news stories are always being updated and others
are breaking, we understand that you need to be in
the know all week long.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
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 up, this from the Black Information Network.
McDonald's has joined a list of major companies that are
rolling back its diversity, equity and inclusion commitments following the
Supreme Court ending affirmative action and college admissions. On Monday,
(00:41):
January sixth, McDonald's announced that it was retiring specific goals
for achieving diversity at senior leadership levels per The Hill,
The fast food chain is also ending a program that
encourages suppliers to develop diversity training and increase diversity in
leadership positions. The move comes after McDonald's announce in twenty
twenty one that executive bonuses would be tied to meeting
(01:03):
DEI goals. The company had also launched an allyship through
Accountability policy, which aimed to fill thirty five percent of
US leadership roles with underrepresented groups and forty five percent
of leadership roles with women by twenty twenty five, and
a letter to its employees and franchises, McDonald's executives noted
that thirty percent of US leaders are from underrepresented groups
(01:25):
and it had reached gender pay equity at all levels.
So it starts. Well, I guess it had already started.
But McDonald's is I guess the latest to fall. In fact,
I haven't heard too many people holding the line. I
know Costco is still kind of holding the line with
(01:47):
their DEI policies, but everyone else seems to be kind
of subjected to the whims of whoever's in charge, as
opposed to subjected to the their morality in terms of
what they believe is right.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, I think what you're learning is that there is
no morality. It was always we'll do this if we
have to, And as soon as the idea that they
didn't have to came into play, a lot of these corporations.
I was going to say, awe, but a lot of
these corporations are voluntarily ending these programs. It's not being
demanded of them by shareholders, it's not being forced upon them.
(02:26):
It's like, oh, it's not even in vogue to do
that anymore. Okay, let's stop. Like it's not there's no
external pressures. Yet they're getting out ahead of it. They
can't wait to stop doing these programs. And you know,
companies like Costco and Target are more than just holding
(02:47):
the line, cause holding the line would just be flying
under the radar and just not saying anything, continuing to
do what we've been doing, but not saying anything. These
companies are actually publicly reminding us that hey, we still
think this is important and we're going to continue you
to do it. So I'll go spend a couple more
cent or a couple more dollars at Target versus going
to Walmart because Walmart has aggressively made it known that
(03:09):
they are no longer participating in this DEI thing, because
it's somehow turned into a pejorative.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, well, you know, uh, it's it's it's really easy
for people to put together some pretty language to suggest
that they are restructuring their policies and their practices so
that they can avoid legal repercussions or to avoid any
(03:42):
sort of lawsuits or anything like that. And it's it's
it's a whole different type of energy when people are like, yo,
I wish you would try to assume me. Let's get it.
You know, we stand by our policies. There is a
right for our business. This helps our bottom line, This
is the way business functions, and this is what we
want to see. And you know, it's uh, it's time
(04:12):
for me to really lean into what it is that
I learned in college so that I can have my
guiding light through this time, because this is a very
uh troubling and disturbing period for me.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What I did, I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry, I
thought you were.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What I did learn, uh, which is what I'm leaning
on now, is that when I was in school, I
went to business school. You know, I have a master's
with me in uh in business. And so one of
the things that they beat into our heads is that
having a.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Diverse workforce.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Is uh a sure far away to have a more
successful business. And by leaning into diversity as a as
a company, as a as a fiscal endeavor, you illuminate
blind spots and you are able to better penetrate additional markets.
(05:19):
And so my hope is that the things that I
learned proved to be true beyond a shadow of a
doubt that diversity on its own without political uh uh
support and and and supplementation, I suppose will after this
(05:43):
period of turmoil, rise to the level that I believe
that society will recognize that it is irrefutable that we
are stronger together. And that's all I have to believe
in right now. So that's all I got left.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
What I learned in the school of the United States
of America is that racism and white supremacist capitalism is
more important than data. It's more important than patriotism. It's
more important than religion. It's more important than preserving one's
self interest. It's more important than everything. Because what you
(06:28):
learned in business school is true. All the data supports
what you said. That's not made up, that's not anecdotal.
More diverse workplaces, more diverse companies, have more success, have
higher profits. Right, and in the name of doing what's right,
it's even in your own best business interest to do it.
It's not just because you're a benevolent person who always
(06:50):
believes in doing the right thing. This is actually worse.
We'll do the wrong thing. We'll do things that hurt
our business to uphol hold this system of white supremacy.
These these companies, some of them performative. We always talk
about the black square. You can performatively pretend to participate
(07:10):
in uplifting other people and never actually doing anything. These
people are coming out and making statements and putting out
press releases so that people know that they aren't doing it, like, wow,
let us make sure that people know that we are
not subscribing to that DEI nonsense. When they could just
be quiet or continue to pretend like they always have, or.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Change the name of it and still hit the same goals.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well no, no, no, but but you're missing it. They wouldn't
change the same goals because they don't want.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
They if they wanted to. That's that's what I was
going with that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, that I mean, but that's the point I'm making.
They so clearly don't want to that they're screaming to everyone, Hey,
we just want to make sure you guys know that
we are not doing that and wow. This next story
from bin Meta is dropping its fact checking systems on
Facebook and Instagram and adopting a community notes model similar
(08:13):
to Elon musk X. On Tuesday, January seventh, Meta CEO
Mark Zuckerberg shared a video message on Facebook and Instagram
announcing that his social media platform will drop their fact
checking systems because it led to too many mistakes and
too much censorship, and it's too politically biased. He said,
(08:36):
I quote, it's time to get back to our roots
around free expression on Facebook and Instagram. The recent elections
also feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again
prioritizing speech. So we're going to get back to our
roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policy, and
(08:57):
restoring free expression on our platforms. Continued Meta will first
quote get rid of fact checkers and replace them with
community notes similar to X. Starting in the US, after
Trump first got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy media
wrote NonStop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
(09:17):
Zuckerberg said in his video message, quote we tried in
good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters
of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too
politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created,
especially in the US end quote ramses.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I mean, you know, you remember that meme where there's
a dog sitting in the kitchen and the whole house
is on fire and the dog sits there and he's like,
this is fine, Everything is fine's had a moment like that.
(10:03):
We're like, yeah, this this may as well happen, you know. Uh.
The first thing I'm gonna say is shout out to
fan base. Shout out to Isaac Hayes, a third somebody
black who is trying to create a black social media
space for black people to own and to participate in
(10:27):
and to.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Escape the forces of these billionaires who do the bidding
of whichever political party is in control, or often enough conservatives.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
They're just conservative people. A conservative agenda would bolster their
businesses in their personal lives, and we are subject to
the whims of these people if we continue to engage
in their platforms. Mark Zucker deciding that free speech is
now again prioritized. If it looks anything like X and
(11:07):
people are able to use the N word again and
all that kind of nonsense and stuff, and people can
get off lies and whatever, then it just becomes a
huge popularity contest. Not necessarily who is factual. You know,
you can get more fact checkers to fact check the
fact checkers if you so choose, You can have unbiased
you know, or non political. Uh, fact checkers, you could,
(11:29):
there's other things you could do, but to get rid
of the side or the guardrails rather is it just
turns everything back into a popularity contest. And right now,
we know racism is popular, We know that divisiveness is popular.
We know that you know, Donald Trump, he won the
popular vote literally, and so that is unfavorable if you
(11:52):
are a person not born a straight Christian white male
who is healthy in this society. And you know who
is a straight Christian white male who was born healthy,
Mark Zuckerberg. So doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But I mean, even if he's not, it's in his
best interest to align with them. And the idea that
you need fact checkers to check the fact checkers because
the fact checkers are too political. Like the word fact
checker by definition is not political. They're just checking the facts.
(12:27):
The thing that you said, sir, was untrue, that's not political.
Just because the person that's the people that are telling
the most lies just so happen to be conservative, doesn't
mean that the person calling them not on the lies
is politicized. You know, the in our current political arena,
one side has come to power under the guise of
(12:48):
conservative values and American values. But in reality they've done
nothing but intentionally lie to us, intentionally misinform us and Cohn,
and steal from us, from their own constituents and from
those who oppose them like us. So being fact checked
is now political because it's directly in conflict to what
(13:09):
the rich and powerful want. They want to be able to.
You know, people like Zuckerberg and his billionaire friends want
to be able to move around and speak without being
fact checked. During the presidential the base, they got upset
about being fact checked. How dare you call us out
for lying to the people? I remember that, right, So
there are political agenda stagnates when they're fact checked. They
(13:31):
want to be corrupt, they want to be dishonest, they
want to cheat, and they want to lie. So that's
why fact checkers are political.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
This is your midweek Memo on the Black Information Network
Daily Podcast with your hosts Rams's Jaw and q Ward.
All right, Next up, this from the Black Information Network.
Zoe Saldana nabbed her first win at the Golden Globes
on Sunday, January fifth, the eighty second annual Golden Globes,
hosted by comedian Nicki Glazer recognized the Best in Film
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and Television at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Several
black stars were nominated for awards ahead of the ceremony.
Included Wicked star Cynthia Erivo and Gladiator Towos, Denzel Washington, Zndeia,
ao Idy Berry, Jamie Fox, Kin, Ta Brunson, Donald Glover,
Coleman Domingo also earned nods from the Golden Globes. Viola
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Davis received the CISIL B Demil Award at a separate
gala prior to the ceremony. However, Saldana was the only
black actor to take home an award. On Sunday, the
Amelia Perez star won her first Golden Globe for her
supporting role in the film. So, you know, shout out
to Uh, there's always al Donna. You know, it's always
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nice when when a black woman emerges victorious. I wish
there was.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
More, but yeah, I think the reason why this story
stood out to me is because we still have these
moments like this where we're the first or the only
black person in a space, and I think people would
come to the conclusion that we participate at a lower rate,
or that we are just by nature not as talented
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as our counterparts, and we know that's ridiculous, so it
should sound and feel ridiculous every time you hear the
first black two or the only black two, like it's
we should be past that. But you know, again, in
twenty twenty five, we still have to highlight things like
this where there's one black person celebrated at all. Okay,
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this last story is from CNN. US Olympic sprinter Fred
Curley was arrested and stun gunned during a confrontation with
police officers in Miami, Florida, on Thursday night, and is
now facing charges of battery, resisting officers, and disorderly conduct,
according to authorities. Police later released body camera footage of
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the incident. It shows Curly, who won a bronze medal
in the men's one hundred meters at the twenty twenty
four Paris Olympics, approached by police officers. One officer raises
a hand that pushes sideways against Curly's chest. Curly bats
the hand away before an arm pushes Curly and an
altercation starts. It is impossible to hear what is being said,
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as there is no sound on the video. Until the
physical confrontation begins. Several officers push Curly to the ground
and the struggle and one appears to hit him multiple times.
In the arrest record, police say two officers lost their
footing and fail on their back end that Curly fell
on top of one of them. An officer then deploys
a dark firing stunt gun on Curly, who falls to
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the ground after being hit. There's an interesting thing that
happens and has happened in my whole life while watching
the Olympics. The Olympics, as most people know, is a
athletic representation and competition of every nation in the world.
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And as you would imagine, most African nations have African people,
black African people, Most European nations have white European people.
Most Asian nations have Asian people from Asian countries represented
in each team. And then Great Britain and the United
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States of America have gold, silver, and bronze medal championship
athletes that look just like Ramses and Q and our
daughters and our sisters and our mothers and our aunts
and our cousins, and our colleagues and our coworkers, And
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that always stands out to me that this country that
straightforwardly hates us, not every person in the country, but
the country itself for its entirety. And now again and
stereo surround sound four K amplification has always hated and
worked against us, sends us to represent it to the world.
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That's crazy so that it can be victorious. And athletics
and entertainment are the only areas of American life where
victory and success outweigh racism. For a long time, football
teams that were the best or thought of as the best,
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would lose because of racism. The black players on teams
that would let black players play would win. Eventually, even
those racist schools and institutions and teams are like, yo,
we got to let some black players play so we
can win. Not because they're men, not because we should
respect them, not becas, not because they're equals, but so
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we can be successful. And sports and entertainment are really
the only areas in American culture where success and profit
outweigh racism, which is why those areas are so heavily
dominated by black people because we're allowed to participate. That's
an interesting a US Olympian medallist. The story plays out
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the same as if he was just a young black
man in Miami, because you don't wear your American flag
in your medal when you go out into the streets.
Just like members of our military, when you return home
after representing this country, fighting for this country, giving your life, blood,
sweat and tears for this country, when you get back
to this.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Country, country still be country, and.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You still ramses, you're still a.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, Well, I don't know. I don't know what comes
next with this story. But you know, if there's any
sort of like lawsuits or you know, anything, other details
are still coming out on it. But obviously this and
all the rest of these stories are going to keep
paying attention to and you know, we'll leave it right here,
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don't forget. These and other news stories can be found
at binnews dot com. This has been a production of
the Black Information Network. Today's show is produced by Chris Thompson.
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Speaker 1 (20:35):
I am Qward on all social media as well.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And join us tomorrow as we share our news with
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