November 11, 2024 • 19 mins
Malik gives his thoughts on the results and aftermath of the 2024 United States Presidential Election.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My league bus has all the knowledge you want. My
league bus has here a knowledge you need. Yeah, they
have all the books that.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The whole wild world one up read Malague. But welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, Bringing a world together with books.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Culture and community.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf,
Bringing a world together with one book at a time. Well,
this election show enough didn't bring the world together, and
I don't anticipate it will. This country is divided at
its core, and now they Trump won the election.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
All day long, every major.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
News station is trying to dissect the outcome of this
last election twenty twenty four. Trump won by a landslide.
He had a coalition of black, Hispanic Whites, women enough
to not only win the electoral college, but when by
(01:06):
millions of votes the popular vote, which hasn't happened for
a Republican in quite some time.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This was a blowout.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A landslide, an electoral college landslide, and a popular vote
which gives him what they call a mandate or some
type of clarity on the policies that he want to
bring forth. But let me say illusion of inclusion. Everybody
dissecting that. I'm not a politician. I don't like to
(01:35):
talk politics. I don't like to talk with religion. It
dividsesed people. I'm trying to bring people together, one book
at a time. But this election, a lot of people
want to say it was he wanted because of racism
and that, which which means that in this country out
of three hundred something, meaning he probably is going to
get over eighty million votes when they finished counting, you're
(01:58):
telling me that a one third of this country is
flat out racist.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know. Listen, America is a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Of things, but it has changed over the decades in
the right direction, in the sense that blacks are twenty
five percent more likely to be more wealthier in this country,
become millionaires or what have you than any other place
on this planet. That says a lot about the changes.
Is it perfect? No?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
God has problems, Yes, And I think a lot of
the problems is because and I'm black and I'm a
black man.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I believe that do for yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're supposed to do for yourself what you can do,
rather than depending on somebody. I think there's a lot
of things that we can do as black people, independent
of the government of America to change our condition and
reality and make things prosperous and better.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Instead of complaining what the government does not do.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I open Elik books why to do something about the
lifeack of information, the lack of love of self, us
looking at ourselves and disrespecting our own self, our own community.
Because I believe how you view yourself as direct relationship
on how you treat yourself and your community and those
around you. So I didn't complain about it. I did
(03:17):
something about it. No more excuses. There are a lot
of things we can do. It's the sky falling. No,
we have survived worse. Whatever you think about Trump, bottom
line is this, we have survived worse. There have been
white supremists like George Washington Thomas Jender have been president
and they were enslavers and owned slaves. So we have
(03:42):
gotten through that, which says a lot about how we
can get through this. Whatever you might think of Trump,
whatever the percentage of Hispanics, women and Blacks that voted
him in. You know, I'm been in the book business
for a long time, and I know women can rule
the world. Why because we've had net Fa Teeny Claire Pacha,
(04:05):
These were giants ancient times. They have had women in Europe.
There have been queens and have ruled Queen Mary of
Britain or Queen Elizabeth from Britain. So there have been
women that have ruled great empires, great nations such as Britain,
(04:26):
Ancient Egypt, and all throughout Europe. So women can rule,
and women are very intelligent and they're very smart. I
don't think that Trump won because of.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
His him being who he is in him.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He won because of a lot of people are feeling
the economy.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
He won because a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Don't want boys competing or men competing against girls. There
are a lot of other issues that people need to address. Listen, Usually,
if you're in the center, you typically appeal to most people.
Extreme views do not get the majority of the people.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He's about to get more.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
He's more popular now, He's gotten more votes than he
did four years ago in twenty sixteen. Why we need
to study that for to hear all this rhetoric and
the Democratic Party they don't want to look in the
mirror and address some of their policies, and the way
they campaign is, you know, they don't want to see
(05:35):
what's on the handwriting that's on the wall. It's a
lot of people in this country don't like the direction
that's going in. They don't like the policies of the
present leader. That's the bottom line, and the people spoke,
and that's why. You know, I don't like the high
guys present. I don't like going in and having to
(05:55):
pay the kind of money I gotta pay for for
I don't like the inflation that's going on. I don't
like the fact that my sales is down a certain
percentage because the economy are you know, people are holding
on to their moneyes and so the retail industry is down.
Why because there's no growth, Americans spending more money than
(06:17):
it's taken in and therefore there has created a problem
with people not having disposable income. So the bottom line is,
enough people voted to bring President Trump back to deal
with inflation, to deal with wars around the world, to
(06:39):
deal with the problems that are plaguing America. And you know,
they didn't feel that Kamala Harris had the ability to
do what to address the issues that are before us,
and so enough people voted against her.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And now they want to dissect this.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What did Trump do to attract large numbers of blacks,
particularly black men, large number of Hispanic men and Hispanics
in general, and large numbers of course white men.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Of course he.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Gonna win the day on that right. But he also
got a strong percentage of white women. So what is
it about Trump that he appealed to that element?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I want to read something somebody sent me. They sent
me this.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What so many failed to understand is that MAGA is
not about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
MAGA is about America.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We the people were searching for someone, anyone willing to
fight corruption and preserve freedom.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We found that in Donald Trump. He's our voice. You see.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's not a cult, it's a revolution. Make America great again. Now,
someone sent that to me because I asked them what
was it about Donald Trump that Americans like?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And someone sent that to me, so I wanted to read.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Those are not my words, Those are the words of
somebody who sent me this paragraph that they found.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I guess this is circulating all over social media. So
the mac of movement is not about Donald Trump. It's
it is a movement though.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's the thing, because he's gotten stronger over the years
and not weaker.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And he's been convicted he's been.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Spoken ninety eight percent of all the negative media or
ninety eight percent of the media coverage on Trump. They
say it's negative. So the thing is, what isn't it
about him that appeals to these people? And someone wrote
this paragraph that sent it to me that I just read.
So because I don't know, I don't know what's making
(08:51):
him for I don't know what's causing black men, Hispanic men,
enough white women to vote.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Because a typical politician would.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Be, you know, thrown out of office or never been
able to be elected with the things that Donald Trump
says and does. But they say that's a window of.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Why racism exists.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Now, I do feel that there's certain things that Trump
has said and did that has like peeled the layers
of America back and expose some certain things on the
inside because he's taking on some of the greatest enemies
that have plagged black progress in America. Now you don't
(09:36):
have to agree with this, but the Corntail program that
was designed to undermine black organizations was started by the FBI,
and it undermined black leaders, black organizations. Now you see
Trump fighting the FBI, you see Trump fighting the CIA,
(09:57):
you see Trump fighting like I said, corruption in.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The government or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
A lot of our black organizations were destroyed and.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The law was used to undermine them.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And the same way they're persecuting Donald Trump is the
way they persecuted a lot of black leaders in the
black organizations. And they have books out and they called
Corntail pro the FBI pro on Black Leadership, Black organization.
These are real books and these documents have come out
(10:32):
and been placing the book to show you know, the attack.
They went after Martin Luther King and did certain things
by trying to get him, by spying on him illegally
and trying to use that to undermine him. So this
corntail pro, this covert operation, is clandestine operation that the FBI,
(10:54):
the CIA users was doing that towards black organizations, black leaders.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Now it's a term they call it. They call it lawfare.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And a lot of blacks believe that and whites, you know,
believe that the lawfair against Trump. Blackfired because people in
underserved community know what that feels like knowing because a
lot of Blacks feel the Black Panther Party was targeted
this way lawfare, that the Nation of Islam as an
(11:30):
organization was targeted this way that the NAACP was targeted
this way.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
A lot of the Urban League.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
These are strong organizations that have helped many Black people.
They have different ideologies, but a lot of black people
have benefited from these organizations, and a lot of blacks
feel that lawfair was used against these organizations to undermine
and to create division amongst black people, because black people
(12:02):
don't always all think alike, but we all share a
common denominator which we live mostly in underserved communities, lack
of resources, liquor stores on every corner, and a lot
of crime and drugs gained.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Violence, all of that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So most Blacks live in that environment and a lot
of these organizations attempted to try to make a difference
in these communities, to lift up Black people and change
their lives by getting them to do for themselves and
to love themselves and to stand up and resist against
(12:43):
oppression and Jim Crow and all the corruption and discrimination
and racism that was in America. Martin Luther King, a
lot of people involved in the movement where doctor King
would targeted by the cointail program. So this is a
(13:05):
program that and I've come across information where because bookstores
are located throughout America and their meeting places and places
that people go to get information that they that bookstores
were monitored and documented because these are places where seminars, workshops,
(13:27):
information and things like that. So there's documents how they
monitor bookstores all across this nation. And these are some
of the things that and I remember back in the day,
I used to get calls at the store where people.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And I see scrolling some of the social media right
now that.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Some people are targeted at bookstore all because they want
to promote a voice for black people.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I say, leak books, given voice to the voiceless. You know,
a lot of.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
These books wasn't on the shelves of major bookstores. See
so instead of talking about and complained about it, Malik
opened up stores in order to give a voice to
a voiceless.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So the Balbin Hills location.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is all black and brown, lat Black and Latino Children's
bookstore in Westville. Kov Semar's our general store dealing with
a dought alway to children with children or one hundred
percent of our future, because I believe that it's a
lot of trauma in our communities because of how you
see yourself. How you view yourself is how you think
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about yourself. And you have to love yourself, to be
yourself and to do for yourself and to be a
successful in America. So you know, all I'm saying is, yes,
America has come a long way. But how can a
person whom twenty four to seven, seven days week, the
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media lambasted Trump as a racist, as a convicted feeling,
and yet he won the president of the United States.
He carried the Senate and the House of represented my understanding,
and won the electoral College and as a blowout in
one by landslide, you know, And this hasn't happened because
(15:24):
the Republican Party has always labeled a sacred gated racist party.
Yet how can someone like this win? That needs to
be studied and examined because the question is has America
ever changed?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, I'm not sure. For a long time I thought that,
I'm not sure. I think a lot of people have
conservative views and they hide it how they feel. You know,
you got a clan in a suit and you got
a clan in a white T shirt. They both have
the same objective, white supremacy over every other culture and race. Now,
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and what steps are they willing to tape depends on
the group and their ideology. But white people did not
build this nation for it to be turned over to
minorities and other groups. And they're gonna fight to the
death to keep this nation under white power, under white control.
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And so, like I said, I don't know how he won,
but he won, and he won by a land slide.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So that's my podcast for this week.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Let me tell you this, I got some extraordinary events
coming up because life goes on, and I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Let what happened.
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Well, guess what, find.
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Joy where you at. Focus on the things you're good at.
Certain that you can't control, you can't control, but hey,
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you know, lifting up the black joy even in the
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My league bus has all the knowledge you want. My
league bus has here a knowledge you need. Yeah, they
have all the books that.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The whole wild world one up read Malague. But welcome, Welcome,
Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, Bringing a world together with books.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Culture and community.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshelf,
Bringing a world together with one book at a time. Well,
this election show enough didn't bring the world together, and
I don't anticipate it will. This country is divided at
its core, and now they Trump won the election.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
All day long, every major.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
News station is trying to dissect the outcome of this
last election twenty twenty four. Trump won by a landslide.
He had a coalition of black, Hispanic Whites, women enough
to not only win the electoral college, but when by
(01:06):
millions of votes the popular vote, which hasn't happened for
a Republican in quite some time.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
This was a blowout.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A landslide, an electoral college landslide, and a popular vote
which gives him what they call a mandate or some
type of clarity on the policies that he want to
bring forth. But let me say illusion of inclusion. Everybody
dissecting that. I'm not a politician. I don't like to
(01:35):
talk politics. I don't like to talk with religion. It
dividsesed people. I'm trying to bring people together, one book
at a time. But this election, a lot of people
want to say it was he wanted because of racism
and that, which which means that in this country out
of three hundred something, meaning he probably is going to
get over eighty million votes when they finished counting, you're
(01:58):
telling me that a one third of this country is
flat out racist.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know. Listen, America is a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Of things, but it has changed over the decades in
the right direction, in the sense that blacks are twenty
five percent more likely to be more wealthier in this country,
become millionaires or what have you than any other place
on this planet. That says a lot about the changes.
Is it perfect? No?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
God has problems, Yes, And I think a lot of
the problems is because and I'm black and I'm a
black man.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I believe that do for yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You're supposed to do for yourself what you can do,
rather than depending on somebody. I think there's a lot
of things that we can do as black people, independent
of the government of America to change our condition and
reality and make things prosperous and better.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Instead of complaining what the government does not do.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I open Elik books why to do something about the
lifeack of information, the lack of love of self, us
looking at ourselves and disrespecting our own self, our own community.
Because I believe how you view yourself as direct relationship
on how you treat yourself and your community and those
around you. So I didn't complain about it. I did
(03:17):
something about it. No more excuses. There are a lot
of things we can do. It's the sky falling. No,
we have survived worse. Whatever you think about Trump, bottom
line is this, we have survived worse. There have been
white supremists like George Washington Thomas Jender have been president
and they were enslavers and owned slaves. So we have
(03:42):
gotten through that, which says a lot about how we
can get through this. Whatever you might think of Trump,
whatever the percentage of Hispanics, women and Blacks that voted
him in. You know, I'm been in the book business
for a long time, and I know women can rule
the world. Why because we've had net Fa Teeny Claire Pacha,
(04:05):
These were giants ancient times. They have had women in Europe.
There have been queens and have ruled Queen Mary of
Britain or Queen Elizabeth from Britain. So there have been
women that have ruled great empires, great nations such as Britain,
(04:26):
Ancient Egypt, and all throughout Europe. So women can rule,
and women are very intelligent and they're very smart. I
don't think that Trump won because of.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
His him being who he is in him.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
He won because of a lot of people are feeling
the economy.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
He won because a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Don't want boys competing or men competing against girls. There
are a lot of other issues that people need to address. Listen, Usually,
if you're in the center, you typically appeal to most people.
Extreme views do not get the majority of the people.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
He's about to get more.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
He's more popular now, He's gotten more votes than he
did four years ago in twenty sixteen. Why we need
to study that for to hear all this rhetoric and
the Democratic Party they don't want to look in the
mirror and address some of their policies, and the way
they campaign is, you know, they don't want to see
(05:35):
what's on the handwriting that's on the wall. It's a
lot of people in this country don't like the direction
that's going in. They don't like the policies of the
present leader. That's the bottom line, and the people spoke,
and that's why. You know, I don't like the high
guys present. I don't like going in and having to
(05:55):
pay the kind of money I gotta pay for for
I don't like the inflation that's going on. I don't
like the fact that my sales is down a certain
percentage because the economy are you know, people are holding
on to their moneyes and so the retail industry is down.
Why because there's no growth, Americans spending more money than
(06:17):
it's taken in and therefore there has created a problem
with people not having disposable income. So the bottom line is,
enough people voted to bring President Trump back to deal
with inflation, to deal with wars around the world, to
(06:39):
deal with the problems that are plaguing America. And you know,
they didn't feel that Kamala Harris had the ability to
do what to address the issues that are before us,
and so enough people voted against her.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And now they want to dissect this.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What did Trump do to attract large numbers of blacks,
particularly black men, large number of Hispanic men and Hispanics
in general, and large numbers of course white men.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Of course he.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Gonna win the day on that right. But he also
got a strong percentage of white women. So what is
it about Trump that he appealed to that element?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I want to read something somebody sent me. They sent
me this.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What so many failed to understand is that MAGA is
not about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
MAGA is about America.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We the people were searching for someone, anyone willing to
fight corruption and preserve freedom.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
We found that in Donald Trump. He's our voice. You see.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's not a cult, it's a revolution. Make America great again. Now,
someone sent that to me because I asked them what
was it about Donald Trump that Americans like?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And someone sent that to me, so I wanted to read.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Those are not my words, Those are the words of
somebody who sent me this paragraph that they found.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I guess this is circulating all over social media. So
the mac of movement is not about Donald Trump. It's
it is a movement though.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's the thing, because he's gotten stronger over the years
and not weaker.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And he's been convicted he's been.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Spoken ninety eight percent of all the negative media or
ninety eight percent of the media coverage on Trump. They
say it's negative. So the thing is, what isn't it
about him that appeals to these people? And someone wrote
this paragraph that sent it to me that I just read.
So because I don't know, I don't know what's making
(08:51):
him for I don't know what's causing black men, Hispanic men,
enough white women to vote.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Because a typical politician would.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Be, you know, thrown out of office or never been
able to be elected with the things that Donald Trump
says and does. But they say that's a window of.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Why racism exists.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Now, I do feel that there's certain things that Trump
has said and did that has like peeled the layers
of America back and expose some certain things on the
inside because he's taking on some of the greatest enemies
that have plagged black progress in America. Now you don't
(09:36):
have to agree with this, but the Corntail program that
was designed to undermine black organizations was started by the FBI,
and it undermined black leaders, black organizations. Now you see
Trump fighting the FBI, you see Trump fighting the CIA,
(09:57):
you see Trump fighting like I said, corruption in.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The government or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
A lot of our black organizations were destroyed and.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The law was used to undermine them.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And the same way they're persecuting Donald Trump is the
way they persecuted a lot of black leaders in the
black organizations. And they have books out and they called
Corntail pro the FBI pro on Black Leadership, Black organization.
These are real books and these documents have come out
(10:32):
and been placing the book to show you know, the attack.
They went after Martin Luther King and did certain things
by trying to get him, by spying on him illegally
and trying to use that to undermine him. So this
corntail pro, this covert operation, is clandestine operation that the FBI,
(10:54):
the CIA users was doing that towards black organizations, black leaders.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Now it's a term they call it. They call it lawfare.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And a lot of blacks believe that and whites, you know,
believe that the lawfair against Trump. Blackfired because people in
underserved community know what that feels like knowing because a
lot of Blacks feel the Black Panther Party was targeted
this way lawfare, that the Nation of Islam as an
(11:30):
organization was targeted this way that the NAACP was targeted
this way.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
A lot of the Urban League.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
These are strong organizations that have helped many Black people.
They have different ideologies, but a lot of black people
have benefited from these organizations, and a lot of blacks
feel that lawfair was used against these organizations to undermine
and to create division amongst black people, because black people
(12:02):
don't always all think alike, but we all share a
common denominator which we live mostly in underserved communities, lack
of resources, liquor stores on every corner, and a lot
of crime and drugs gained.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Violence, all of that.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So most Blacks live in that environment and a lot
of these organizations attempted to try to make a difference
in these communities, to lift up Black people and change
their lives by getting them to do for themselves and
to love themselves and to stand up and resist against
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oppression and Jim Crow and all the corruption and discrimination
and racism that was in America. Martin Luther King, a
lot of people involved in the movement where doctor King
would targeted by the cointail program. So this is a
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program that and I've come across information where because bookstores
are located throughout America and their meeting places and places
that people go to get information that they that bookstores
were monitored and documented because these are places where seminars, workshops,
(13:27):
information and things like that. So there's documents how they
monitor bookstores all across this nation. And these are some
of the things that and I remember back in the day,
I used to get calls at the store where people.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And I see scrolling some of the social media right
now that.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Some people are targeted at bookstore all because they want
to promote a voice for black people.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I say, leak books, given voice to the voiceless. You know,
a lot of.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
These books wasn't on the shelves of major bookstores. See
so instead of talking about and complained about it, Malik
opened up stores in order to give a voice to
a voiceless.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So the Balbin Hills location.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is all black and brown, lat Black and Latino Children's
bookstore in Westville. Kov Semar's our general store dealing with
a dought alway to children with children or one hundred
percent of our future, because I believe that it's a
lot of trauma in our communities because of how you
see yourself. How you view yourself is how you think
(14:39):
about yourself. And you have to love yourself, to be
yourself and to do for yourself and to be a
successful in America. So you know, all I'm saying is, yes,
America has come a long way. But how can a
person whom twenty four to seven, seven days week, the
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media lambasted Trump as a racist, as a convicted feeling,
and yet he won the president of the United States.
He carried the Senate and the House of represented my understanding,
and won the electoral College and as a blowout in
one by landslide, you know, And this hasn't happened because
(15:24):
the Republican Party has always labeled a sacred gated racist party.
Yet how can someone like this win? That needs to
be studied and examined because the question is has America
ever changed?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
You know?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, I'm not sure. For a long time I thought that,
I'm not sure. I think a lot of people have
conservative views and they hide it how they feel. You know,
you got a clan in a suit and you got
a clan in a white T shirt. They both have
the same objective, white supremacy over every other culture and race. Now,
(16:09):
and what steps are they willing to tape depends on
the group and their ideology. But white people did not
build this nation for it to be turned over to
minorities and other groups. And they're gonna fight to the
death to keep this nation under white power, under white control.
(16:29):
And so, like I said, I don't know how he won,
but he won, and he won by a land slide.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So that's my podcast for this week.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Let me tell you this, I got some extraordinary events
coming up because life goes on, and I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Let what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
A lot of people are dummy down and upset and
feeling a certain way.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, guess what, find.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Joy where you at. Focus on the things you're good at.
Certain that you can't control, you can't control, but hey,
you gotta live and you gotta move forward. So at
Malik Books, we got p J more than five time
Grammy winner at Malik Books doing a fireside chat and
book talk, music and books.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
And guess what all you gotta do is register.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Now we're hoping you buy the book, which is Saturday
night Sunday morning, his new book that's coming out, and
he's gonna be at Elik Books to talk about his
book and perform. So I need you to go ahead
Saturday night Sunday morning is the book. Go ahead and
go to bleakbooks dot com. We have it on our
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website and RSVP for the event. Listen, this is gonna
be a brotherhood and a sisterhood.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We're gonna find joy. We're gonna lift up our voice.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We're gonna have some music, and we're gonna talk about,
you know, lifting up the black joy even in the
midst of this time. All right, So go to our
milik books dot com and R three P for our
upcoming events.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But PJ.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Morten November fourteenth, six pm at Milik Books West phild
Kovie Shiner.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's going down.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You know, he's a five time Grammy winner and a
lot of y'all know this new song again. I found
look I found Listen, I'm talking off the top. I
can't even recall this. I found you. I think it's
called that's one of his songs. If you don't know,
it's a new hit, it's beautiful, it's a ballot.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He's a you know, he's out. He's born and raised
out of New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
And you already know. They know how to play, they
know how to sing, and they know how to. So
come on through for some soul for and all you
gotta do is register. Come on out when when we got.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
The books, we gonna head the books.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If you want a photo op, we want to sign book,
you gotta come on through. The book is about to
drop this Tuesday. But hey, he's at Malak Books on Thursday,
November fourteenth, six pm.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Come through.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Thanks for listening to Malik's Bookshelf, where topics on the
shelf are books, culture, and community.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check
out my instagram at Malak Books. See you next time
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