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A man who needs no introduction. The Black Information Network
is committed to bringing you up to the date news
stories that are relevant, informative, and inspiring. 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. Welcome to your midweek memo on the Black
(00:20):
Information Network Daily Podcast with me your host, Rams's job
all Right? First up from Billboard. Following Donald Trump's twenty
twenty four presidential election victory, Uncle Luke took to Instagram
live and blasted the Latinos who cast their vote for Trump.
For NBC News's exit polls, Trump earned forty five percent
(00:41):
of the Latino vote, while Harris held fifty one percent,
which is a thirteen point uptick for the twice impeached
president elect compared to the twenty twenty election. It's also
a record high for a Republican presidential nominee, as Trump
toppled George W. Bush's forty four percent in the two
thousand and four election. Quote, all y'all who didn't vote
(01:02):
for Kamala, y'all stupid, blank gonna get deported, y'all having
marches and blank already we are not going out there
to march. This is according to Luke himself, goes want
to say, quote, black people are not going to march
for you. I'm sorry, we will not be marching. It's
no more such thing as black and brown people. It's black.
(01:23):
We will not be marching with you. Unquote. So Uncle Luke,
this is what I don't want to see. This is
what I don't like. I know there's people who feel
angry and they want to lash out and blame somebody,
(01:44):
and I understand that, but this will never be the
right way to topple white supremacist institutions. This will never
be the right way to move forward together as a country.
This is not the right way to behave as human beings.
(02:09):
My belief will always be that we are better together,
we are stronger together. And when you look at things
like this, I think that what you're seeing is how
gullible human beings are. Because there are black people that
voted for Donald Trump too. Most Black people voted for
(02:30):
Kamala Harris. There are Latinos voted for Donald Trump, most
of them voted for Kamala Harris. And human beings almost sapiens.
Sapiens are just as susceptible to fear mongering, just as
(02:52):
given to paranoia, just as dupable as the next man,
regardless of race, culture, you name it. That this is
a part of humanity and for us to turn our
back on Latinos in mass is silly. It's flat silly.
(03:14):
We have much more in common and there's much more
that we can accomplish together. And what Uncle LUKEA is
doing here, like the truth is, if you're eligible to vote,
you're not going to get deported. It's it's the wrong approach,
(03:34):
top to bottom. But I recognize that he's not alone
in saying this, and so you know, for everyone who's
listening to me, if I'm able to push back against
divisive rhetoric like this, I will do so. You know
my you know, my advice, I suppose is just ignore
(03:57):
people that try to further divide us, or that lean
into the division that's already been being sewed in this country. Again,
I'm not mad at Uncle Luke. I understand the frustration.
I understand the desire to try to put the blame
at somebody's feet. But even if a couple of more
points from Latino's Latino men in particular ended up in
(04:23):
Kamala Harris's basket to put the overall Latino vote at
its historic levels to where Uncle Luke would not have
an issue with them, Kamala Harris still would have lost.
So again looking for someone to blame. They weren't the
deciding factor. There was a number of factors, so they
weren't exclusively the deciding factor. Based on historic rates, they
(04:48):
got again a one point increase from the two thousand
and four numbers, And if one more percentage of Latino
men had voted for Kamala Harris in this election, it
wouldn't have made it difference. So to now suggest that
they are the reason and that they are on their
own and when historically, again we've accomplished more together. I'm
from California. I just think that this type of language
(05:14):
in rhetorica silly. Once again, moving on from CNN, a
group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside of Community
Theater performance of the Diary of Anne Frank in Livingston County, Michigan,
in a display of anti semitism. Several masked men showed
up waving Nazi flags and reportedly shouting anti Semitic and
racist slurs outside the American Legion Post one forty one
(05:38):
and Howell on Saturday. During the play, according to CNN
affiliate WXYZ, quote, people were shocked, they were appalled. Army
veteran Bobby Bright told WXYZ goes on to say everything
you would expect, right, said many of the seventy five
people who watched the play were afraid to leave the
building and had to be escorted to their cars. Quote.
(06:00):
Nobody in America should feel like that, he said. Demonstrators
are also seen in the nearby town of Fowlerville, according
to eyewitnesses. So what you're saying here is the Trump effect.
You know, for those who are listening that, did you
know vote for Donald Trump. You know, Donald Trump doesn't
(06:21):
just come with stimmy checks. Donald Trump just doesn't come
with whatever it is that you think that he promised you.
This Donald Trump effect on the political arena the one
that has worked for this country. I mean not for
(06:44):
everyone in this country, but it's worked. There has been
progress for a very long time. And you know, it's
trickled all the way down to the common folk. People
that feel emboldened they got their guy back in office
and can do this stuff again. I didn't forget that
this was happening under his first time as president, and
(07:07):
the lasting impact that his presidency will have now that
he's been elected again will not just erode the legislation
that has provided for the advancement of our people in
many ways, but it will erode the societal fabric, the
(07:28):
common decency that we have enjoyed in my lifetime. I
wasn't born during Jim Crow, I wasn't born with the
same restrictions. But I'll die with more restrictions than I
was born with. Sure my children will too. That's the
Donald Trump effect. And you know clearly it doesn't stop
(07:52):
at black folks, because we're seeing the Nazi flags outside
of you know, the Diary Van Frank performances in small
town Michigan. And I can guarantee that if Donald Trump
had not been elected, that this would not happen. This
will not be happening. That is the Trump effect. This
(08:15):
is your midweek memo on the Black Information Network Daily
Podcast with me your host ramses Ja. All right. Next
from CNN, a liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential
candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonya
Soda Mayor while Democrats still cling to power. Bakari Seller's,
a CNN commentator and former state lawmaker in South Carolina,
(08:37):
was adamant on social media that progressives need to ramp
up pressure on Soda Mayor, seventy year old Type one diabetic,
to step aside, even as she resists the effort. Quote
Soda Mayor needs to resign. The court is currently sixty three.
A resignation would limit Trump's ability to make it seven
to two. It's silly to believe there is no difference,
(08:58):
Sellers wrote on X quote the Senate can confirm in
ten weeks see Amy Coney Barrett. You have very good
previously vetted candidates Robert Wilkins, Michelle Childs, and yes, Kamala Harris,
though she likely doesn't get mansions vote, the party pundit said,
(09:19):
Democrats enjoy control over the White House and Senate until
early January. It's unclear whether Harris, sixty would be receptive
to the notion of her serving as a justice. Presidents
often nominate individuals to the country's highest court who have
actual experience serving as a judge, though that's not always
the case. Some progressives have previously mused about former President
(09:40):
Barack Obama serving on the top court. Quote, I don't
want Justice Soto Mayor to be another Ruth Bader Ginsburg
in terms of staying too long, Sellers told CNN last week,
referring to the late justice whose death paved the way
for a GOP replacement. So I'm not mad at this idea.
There is a significant amount of people in this country
(10:02):
who championed Kamala Harris's presidency and a lot of people
who maybe they couldn't see her as a president because
of her stance on Israel, her stance on any number
of issues, but could easily see her in the court.
(10:24):
And that would make a lot of people happy. That
would bring some relief, and that would show some strength
on behalf of the Democrats. And you know there's other
ideas too. You know, Joe Biden could step aside, and
of course she would be the president and we would
get to live in that reality since we're doomed to
(10:45):
live in the reality where Donald Trump is president again.
You know, anything would be nice to see rather than
just letting what is happening now run out the clock
until you know the next admits Ministration takes power. But
I'm not mad at this idea. It'd be interesting to
see how far it goes. But you know, I'm not
(11:05):
holding my breath all right. Finally, from the Black Information Network,
Harriet Tubman, a revered abolitionist who led a group of
Union soldiers during the Civil War, was posthumously honored as
a general roughly one hundred and sixty years after her service.
A Monday, November eleventh, Tubman sorry was posthumously named a
one star brigadier general in Maryland's National Guard during a
(11:27):
special Veterans Day ceremony at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
State Park. Her the Associated Press quote, today we celebrate
a soldier and a person who earned the title of
veteran Governor, Wes Moore said in a statement, Goes Hones say,
today we celebrate one of the greatest authors of the
American story. In eighteen forty nine, Tubman escaped slavery and
settled in Philadelphia. He then established the Underground Railroad, helping
(11:50):
lead other enslaved black people to freedom. Tubman went on
to serve as a scout, spy and nurse for the
Union Army during the Civil War. The abolitionist once guided
one hundred and fifty Black soldiers on a gunboat raid
in South Carolina. More applauded Tubman for her dedication to
helping others achieve freedom. Quote she knew that in order
to do the work, that meant she had to go
(12:12):
into the lion's den. She knew that leadership means you
have to be willing to do what you're asking others
to do. This again, according to More, during Monday ceremony,
a reading of Tubman's official order occurred before a symbolic
penning by her great great great grand niece Tina Wyatt.
(12:32):
Quote on Harriet was one of those veterans. Informally, she
gave up any rights that she had obtained for herself
to be able to fight for others. She is a
selfless person. This according to Tina Wyatt. So I'm ending
on a high there. I like that story. You know,
it's it's it's well overdue, long overdue, but it's not nothing.
(12:58):
And it's unfortunate that she didn't get to receive all
her flowers during her lifetime. But you know, there are
still people on the ground, and there will still be
people on the ground regardless of what administration is in
the White House. Who can honor and celebrate black history
because it's necessary. If it wasn't for things like this,
(13:21):
we may not even know the name Harriet Tubman or
indeed how she helped the United States stay the United States.
And you know this was during the Civil War, of course,
but we are not the Confederate States of America. So
I'm glad for a good news like this, especially in
this time. So we'll leave it right there. This has
(13:43):
been a production of the Black Information Network. Today's show
was produced by Chris Thompson. Have some thoughts you'd like
to share, use the red microphone talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. While you're there, be sure to hit subscribe
and download all of our episodes. I am your host,
Rams's Jaw on Also Media and join us tomorrow as
we share our news with our voice from our perspective
(14:05):
right here on the Black Information Network Daily Podcast
A man who needs no introduction. The Black Information Network
is committed to bringing you up to the date news
stories that are relevant, informative, and inspiring. 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. Welcome to your midweek memo on the Black
(00:20):
Information Network Daily Podcast with me your host, Rams's job
all Right? First up from Billboard. Following Donald Trump's twenty
twenty four presidential election victory, Uncle Luke took to Instagram
live and blasted the Latinos who cast their vote for Trump.
For NBC News's exit polls, Trump earned forty five percent
(00:41):
of the Latino vote, while Harris held fifty one percent,
which is a thirteen point uptick for the twice impeached
president elect compared to the twenty twenty election. It's also
a record high for a Republican presidential nominee, as Trump
toppled George W. Bush's forty four percent in the two
thousand and four election. Quote, all y'all who didn't vote
(01:02):
for Kamala, y'all stupid, blank gonna get deported, y'all having
marches and blank already we are not going out there
to march. This is according to Luke himself, goes want
to say, quote, black people are not going to march
for you. I'm sorry, we will not be marching. It's
no more such thing as black and brown people. It's black.
(01:23):
We will not be marching with you. Unquote. So Uncle Luke,
this is what I don't want to see. This is
what I don't like. I know there's people who feel
angry and they want to lash out and blame somebody,
(01:44):
and I understand that, but this will never be the
right way to topple white supremacist institutions. This will never
be the right way to move forward together as a country.
This is not the right way to behave as human beings.
(02:09):
My belief will always be that we are better together,
we are stronger together. And when you look at things
like this, I think that what you're seeing is how
gullible human beings are. Because there are black people that
voted for Donald Trump too. Most Black people voted for
(02:30):
Kamala Harris. There are Latinos voted for Donald Trump, most
of them voted for Kamala Harris. And human beings almost sapiens.
Sapiens are just as susceptible to fear mongering, just as
(02:52):
given to paranoia, just as dupable as the next man,
regardless of race, culture, you name it. That this is
a part of humanity and for us to turn our
back on Latinos in mass is silly. It's flat silly.
(03:14):
We have much more in common and there's much more
that we can accomplish together. And what Uncle LUKEA is
doing here, like the truth is, if you're eligible to vote,
you're not going to get deported. It's it's the wrong approach,
(03:34):
top to bottom. But I recognize that he's not alone
in saying this, and so you know, for everyone who's
listening to me, if I'm able to push back against
divisive rhetoric like this, I will do so. You know
my you know, my advice, I suppose is just ignore
(03:57):
people that try to further divide us, or that lean
into the division that's already been being sewed in this country. Again,
I'm not mad at Uncle Luke. I understand the frustration.
I understand the desire to try to put the blame
at somebody's feet. But even if a couple of more
points from Latino's Latino men in particular ended up in
(04:23):
Kamala Harris's basket to put the overall Latino vote at
its historic levels to where Uncle Luke would not have
an issue with them, Kamala Harris still would have lost.
So again looking for someone to blame. They weren't the
deciding factor. There was a number of factors, so they
weren't exclusively the deciding factor. Based on historic rates, they
(04:48):
got again a one point increase from the two thousand
and four numbers, And if one more percentage of Latino
men had voted for Kamala Harris in this election, it
wouldn't have made it difference. So to now suggest that
they are the reason and that they are on their
own and when historically, again we've accomplished more together. I'm
from California. I just think that this type of language
(05:14):
in rhetorica silly. Once again, moving on from CNN, a
group of people carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside of Community
Theater performance of the Diary of Anne Frank in Livingston County, Michigan,
in a display of anti semitism. Several masked men showed
up waving Nazi flags and reportedly shouting anti Semitic and
racist slurs outside the American Legion Post one forty one
(05:38):
and Howell on Saturday. During the play, according to CNN
affiliate WXYZ, quote, people were shocked, they were appalled. Army
veteran Bobby Bright told WXYZ goes on to say everything
you would expect, right, said many of the seventy five
people who watched the play were afraid to leave the
building and had to be escorted to their cars. Quote.
(06:00):
Nobody in America should feel like that, he said. Demonstrators
are also seen in the nearby town of Fowlerville, according
to eyewitnesses. So what you're saying here is the Trump effect.
You know, for those who are listening that, did you
know vote for Donald Trump. You know, Donald Trump doesn't
(06:21):
just come with stimmy checks. Donald Trump just doesn't come
with whatever it is that you think that he promised you.
This Donald Trump effect on the political arena the one
that has worked for this country. I mean not for
(06:44):
everyone in this country, but it's worked. There has been
progress for a very long time. And you know, it's
trickled all the way down to the common folk. People
that feel emboldened they got their guy back in office
and can do this stuff again. I didn't forget that
this was happening under his first time as president, and
(07:07):
the lasting impact that his presidency will have now that
he's been elected again will not just erode the legislation
that has provided for the advancement of our people in
many ways, but it will erode the societal fabric, the
(07:28):
common decency that we have enjoyed in my lifetime. I
wasn't born during Jim Crow, I wasn't born with the
same restrictions. But I'll die with more restrictions than I
was born with. Sure my children will too. That's the
Donald Trump effect. And you know clearly it doesn't stop
(07:52):
at black folks, because we're seeing the Nazi flags outside
of you know, the Diary Van Frank performances in small
town Michigan. And I can guarantee that if Donald Trump
had not been elected, that this would not happen. This
will not be happening. That is the Trump effect. This
(08:15):
is your midweek memo on the Black Information Network Daily
Podcast with me your host ramses Ja. All right. Next
from CNN, a liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential
candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonya
Soda Mayor while Democrats still cling to power. Bakari Seller's,
a CNN commentator and former state lawmaker in South Carolina,
(08:37):
was adamant on social media that progressives need to ramp
up pressure on Soda Mayor, seventy year old Type one diabetic,
to step aside, even as she resists the effort. Quote
Soda Mayor needs to resign. The court is currently sixty three.
A resignation would limit Trump's ability to make it seven
to two. It's silly to believe there is no difference,
(08:58):
Sellers wrote on X quote the Senate can confirm in
ten weeks see Amy Coney Barrett. You have very good
previously vetted candidates Robert Wilkins, Michelle Childs, and yes, Kamala Harris,
though she likely doesn't get mansions vote, the party pundit said,
(09:19):
Democrats enjoy control over the White House and Senate until
early January. It's unclear whether Harris, sixty would be receptive
to the notion of her serving as a justice. Presidents
often nominate individuals to the country's highest court who have
actual experience serving as a judge, though that's not always
the case. Some progressives have previously mused about former President
(09:40):
Barack Obama serving on the top court. Quote, I don't
want Justice Soto Mayor to be another Ruth Bader Ginsburg
in terms of staying too long, Sellers told CNN last week,
referring to the late justice whose death paved the way
for a GOP replacement. So I'm not mad at this idea.
There is a significant amount of people in this country
(10:02):
who championed Kamala Harris's presidency and a lot of people
who maybe they couldn't see her as a president because
of her stance on Israel, her stance on any number
of issues, but could easily see her in the court.
(10:24):
And that would make a lot of people happy. That
would bring some relief, and that would show some strength
on behalf of the Democrats. And you know there's other
ideas too. You know, Joe Biden could step aside, and
of course she would be the president and we would
get to live in that reality since we're doomed to
(10:45):
live in the reality where Donald Trump is president again.
You know, anything would be nice to see rather than
just letting what is happening now run out the clock
until you know the next admits Ministration takes power. But
I'm not mad at this idea. It'd be interesting to
see how far it goes. But you know, I'm not
(11:05):
holding my breath all right. Finally, from the Black Information Network,
Harriet Tubman, a revered abolitionist who led a group of
Union soldiers during the Civil War, was posthumously honored as
a general roughly one hundred and sixty years after her service.
A Monday, November eleventh, Tubman sorry was posthumously named a
one star brigadier general in Maryland's National Guard during a
(11:27):
special Veterans Day ceremony at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
State Park. Her the Associated Press quote, today we celebrate
a soldier and a person who earned the title of
veteran Governor, Wes Moore said in a statement, Goes Hones say,
today we celebrate one of the greatest authors of the
American story. In eighteen forty nine, Tubman escaped slavery and
settled in Philadelphia. He then established the Underground Railroad, helping
(11:50):
lead other enslaved black people to freedom. Tubman went on
to serve as a scout, spy and nurse for the
Union Army during the Civil War. The abolitionist once guided
one hundred and fifty Black soldiers on a gunboat raid
in South Carolina. More applauded Tubman for her dedication to
helping others achieve freedom. Quote she knew that in order
to do the work, that meant she had to go
(12:12):
into the lion's den. She knew that leadership means you
have to be willing to do what you're asking others
to do. This again, according to More, during Monday ceremony,
a reading of Tubman's official order occurred before a symbolic
penning by her great great great grand niece Tina Wyatt.
(12:32):
Quote on Harriet was one of those veterans. Informally, she
gave up any rights that she had obtained for herself
to be able to fight for others. She is a
selfless person. This according to Tina Wyatt. So I'm ending
on a high there. I like that story. You know,
it's it's it's well overdue, long overdue, but it's not nothing.
(12:58):
And it's unfortunate that she didn't get to receive all
her flowers during her lifetime. But you know, there are
still people on the ground, and there will still be
people on the ground regardless of what administration is in
the White House. Who can honor and celebrate black history
because it's necessary. If it wasn't for things like this,
(13:21):
we may not even know the name Harriet Tubman or
indeed how she helped the United States stay the United States.
And you know this was during the Civil War, of course,
but we are not the Confederate States of America. So
I'm glad for a good news like this, especially in
this time. So we'll leave it right there. This has
(13:43):
been a production of the Black Information Network. Today's show
was produced by Chris Thompson. Have some thoughts you'd like
to share, use the red microphone talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. While you're there, be sure to hit subscribe
and download all of our episodes. I am your host,
Rams's Jaw on Also Media and join us tomorrow as
we share our news with our voice from our perspective
(14:05):
right here on the Black Information Network Daily Podcast
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