July 8, 2026 • 36 mins
As conversations about the next election cycle begin again, Knowa De Baraso tackles one of the most debated—and uncomfortable—questions in American politics: Are Black voters being taken for granted?
In this episode of Now You Know, Knowa examines the policies, history, and messaging surrounding the Democratic Party's relationship with Black Americans, while challenging narratives that have gained traction in recent election cycles. Through a deep dive into issues like criminal justice, economic opportunity, healthcare, voting behavior, and the wrongful execution of Marcellus Williams, Knowa argues that political decisions have real-life consequences—and that facts matter more than viral talking points.
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Now you Know and Noada Brosso is a production of
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and Noaday Brosso is a production of iHeartMedia and partnership
with Reason Choice Media. Many So, something was on my
mind this week. I was thinking about everything during the
twenty twenty four election, and we have a midterm coming up,
meaning we got to have these conversations again, these conversations
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that may seem uncomfortable when you first start to have them,
and then they kind of become more familiar to you.
This could be deemed uncomfortable by white Liberals or black Democrats,
or white Republicans and black Republicans, but there's a conversation
that needs to be had. And this is gonna sound
bad for the first ten seconds, and I'm gonna say it.
Why this is being said. Are black voters and black
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men and black voters in general being taken granted, taken
for granted by the Democratic Party. That is something that
deeply bothers me. Now, the idea that somehow Democrats are
not transactional with black votes are something I don't think
even Democrats enforce enough. I mean, you really have to
look at it from a research perspective, how much, just purely,
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how much Democrats have done for black people. And if
you know me, you know I do not speak for
the establishment. I do not speak for those who asked
me to speak for them. I am saying this straight up.
The Democrats have done tremendous things for black people. I
don't know if you saw my recent Breakfast Club interview,
but if you did, go ahead and look at that.
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If you did not, go ahead and look at that,
I should say we talked about all that Joe Biden
and Democrats before him did for black people. Now, I
don't want to sound like a broken record, so I'm
not gonna get into what I said there. Want to
hear that, go listen to the Breakfast Club, my interview
with them, or on Netflix, et cetera. YouTube. And so
I want to be I want to say something that
I haven't said before, which is that if you really
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look at policy, not feelings, policy, and we're gonna get
see the reason why this is even a conversation in
the first place, folks. The reason why this is a
conversation in the first place is because I honestly cannot
put a pin to it. I don't want to say
this happened in twenty sixteen when it really happened all
the way back in nineteen eighties. I want to be correct.
I want to be foundationally correct when I say that,
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Here's what I noticed. Me Noah, I noticed that sometime
in twenty sixteen, and it started trending. It really started
to come back in twenty twenty four. Thought leaders like
Canna Selwins or Charlie Kirk or whoever it may be.
At this talking point, they would go around saying, and
Donald Trump would go around saying, because he's a billionaire
and everyone liked him, which was, you have been voting
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Democrat for your entire life. Oh, I hate it. It's
making me madgest to say it. You have been voting
Democrat your entire life. And look at your community, and
look at the black community, and look at your city,
and tell me, try to give a Republican a chance.
It was something like that. I don't know if we're
able to roll a clip to where you guys will
hear it, but they'll say their talking point was you've
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been voting Democrat. Basically was you've been voting Democrat your
entire life. Why not give something else, a chance that
was the most destructive like this is the Project twenty
twenty five level destruction that happened during in twenty twenty
four politics. And the reason why this is resurfacing is
because of what Project twenty twenty five brought back to politics,
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which was manipulation of black voters. So, without me sounding
like a talking head for any one party, I want
to ask a question. And I don't know how many
Republican listeners I have. If you're here, welcome, thank you
for listening. If you feel up to it, leave me
a review. But anyway, it brings me to say, we
can even treat this as a quol is is that
what party supports ending cash bail? Yeah? Who? What party
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supports ending cash bail? What party supports abolishing the death
penalty which disproportionately affects black men and not I was
gonna say in Pover's communities, but really in all communities
middle class black men, U industrial black men, urban black men.
This impacts us, all right? Who supports getting rid of
the death penalty? Because last time I checked, there is
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not Let me back away from this mic, So y'all
don't think I'm yelling at y'all, there is not a
single Republican that supports abolishing the death penalty. Right, the
Party of Christianity does not support abolishing the death penalty.
Find that interesting? I sure do. Guess with the guess
the party that supports abolishing death penalty. This is the
open book test. By the way, the party that supports
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abolising the death penalty is the Democrats. And guess who
this bothers me? Because Democrats do not give them self
enough credit. Right Oftentimes I notice Democrats surrogates and Democrat politicians,
they're kind of scared to say, look at all we've
done for you, But that's what you have to do. Right.
Let's say you get a gift for somebody. Right, Let's
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say you get a gift for somebody. Typically you would
and go around to bringing that in their face every day. Right,
But if you are a major you're the if you're
the oldest political party in the land, right and you
need black votes, what do you do? You don't act humble,
You don't act humble. You don't act humble. You say,
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look what we've done as a party. You're not flashy
for that, you're not crazy for that, You're not narcissistic
for that. There's nothing wrong with saying, look what you've done,
Look what I've done for black people. You're not glitzy
for doing that. You're not over promoting yourself. Democrats, wake up.
You've got to tell these people what's going on. So
I want to go back to this. I want to
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go back to how we even got here. Right, we
see people, all Republicans all over the country manipulating black people.
Let's go to a community like Saint Louis, Missouri. Now, well,
one in five residents of Saint Louis, Missouri lives in poverty.
I'm say the again. One in five people in Missouri
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lives below the poverty line. The poverty rate in Missouri
is twenty percent. I mean in Saint Louis twenty percent.
So you look at that, right and say Democrats are failing. Right, right,
you'll look at that and say Democrats are failing Saint Louis.
But I want to look into something, right, Let's go
deeper into this idea that we need to fire local
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Democratic politicians because of a state failure. Right now, let's
look something else up is let's look this up together, guys.
We can both type it is Missouri doing anything about it,
because while they're taking away reproductive freedoms, right, they're not
doing anything to address Saint Louis povery rate. Now, and
let me tell you, guys how local politics works. Let
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me tell you guys, how local politics works. Local politicians
get the blame for ad free things. So we see
that poverty rate in Missouri, right, we see the poverty
rate in Missouri, and we say, oh, that is so bad.
That means every local democratic politician, which are which local
politicians in major cities are mainly black, if you want
to talk about that, right, And you see that people
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are blaming black Democratic politicians for city failures. But it
brings me to ask this, while Missouri is trying to
ban buying snacks and candy on food stamps or snap
or whatever Wick or something, while they're doing that, they
could be making sure that people are getting those cards
to get out of poverty, to lift themselves out of
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poverty for however long they're on those programs. So while
I see people like Candice Ollans say, look at Detroit,
look at Chicago. We can we're gonna talk about Chicago
in a minute. Look at these great cities that are
foundationally wonderful cities, and look how they're treated, Look how
they're managed. Meanwhile, the state of Michigan, the state of Missouri,
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the state, what is the state doing about this? And
when we're seeing major, predominantly black cities being gas lit,
we have to look. We have to look up and
see who the governor of Missouri is, right, the governor
of Missouri that let the black man. Oh, we can
talk about that. Marcellus Williams. He was put to death
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for a crime he did not commit. Let's talk about
Marcellus Williams. Here's why it is so important, and this
is so serious to me, folks. Now in Missouri, they
had an election in two thousand and twenty four. We
can pull this up together. Missouri twenty twenty four governor.
I never knew how to say that word. Let's just
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say governor. Election. I've struggled to say that since twenty
twenty two. Now the current governor of Missouri right beat
the Democratic nominee for governor of Missouri, with the Democratic
nominee receiving thirty eight percent of the vote, him getting
fifty nine percent. Now we know about black people, we
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know about middle class Folks, we know about rural America.
We know about these groups. Right, All of those groups
have one thing in common. They want life to be
better for themselves and their families and the people that
come after them. Right, this is a real conversation, y'all.
So let me dig into it. In Missouri, they had
an election in twenty twenty four, right, like every state
has an election, this normal stuff, right, except the Republican
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won fifty nine percent of the vote. That's not a
little amount. The Democrat got thirty eight percent. See, that's sorry. Right,
And then we look at a consequence to that, and
then we can also pull up the governor race before
before twenty twenty four. Right, The last governor election they
had was in twenty twenty right, during a big thing
where everyone was getting out to vote. Joe Biden won
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by the biggest landslide that we've seen, when Mike Parson
won with fifty seven percent of the vote and a
Cole Galloway got forty percent of the vote. Right now,
let's go to Marcellus Williams. Now, this is a very
serious topic, folks. I want you to get ready, Marcellus.
And this is not a theory. This is not a myth.
You guys know, I don't do theories. I don't do
conspiracy theories. I do do misinformation. Marcellus Williams is a
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black man who for more than twenty years stayed in
jail for a crime he knowingly did not commit. Now,
I'm not the one to come out and defend people
when they could have done the crime and we just
don't think they did, or the streets is saying they
didn't do it. Meanwhile, we have this person named marcel
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I want to talk about this. Say his name, Marcellus Williams.
For twenty years, Marcellus Williams lived under a death sentence
for a crime he did not commit. And then we
look into it, we can read this whole story. Shout
out to the Innocent Project for showing me a little
bit about this Marcellus Williams. I saw this play out
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on social media the night I was there on so
social media the night Marcellus Williams was executed. And I've
never spoken about this situation, but the amount of misinformation
provokes a serious conversation like this, So let's get right
into it. Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on September
twenty fourth, despite evidence of his innocence, the state of
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Missouri executed an innocent person. His name is Marcellus Williams.
In case I haven't said it enough, he served twenty
four years. Twenty four years for a crime that he
did not commit. Now, this is not a theory that
he didn't commit it. He not family saw him saying
he didn't commit it. He ain't hooked me up one
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time with some stuff so I can say he didn't
commit it. This is known, This is a fact. This
is real life, folks. No DNA evidence linked him to
the crime, and according to the Saint Louis County Prosecutor
prosecuting Attorney, they acknowledged the errors made by the trial
prosecutors included mishandling of a murder weapon, excluding black perspective jurors,
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and violation of the constitution contributing to a wrongful conviction.
Mister Marcellus Williams conviction was first degree murder, robbery, and burglary.
This incident took place on August eleventh, nineteen ninety eight.
Convicted in two thousand and one. I am scared. I
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am scared for the black men that are saying they're
being manipulated for the Democratic Party. You won't know why
because had they had elected a Democrat. I don't want
to sound like this guy that's just promoting a political
party and using personal stories to talk about that or whatever,
because there are people who do that and they don't
do it right. But last time I checked, right, we
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just did the research on this. We looked right, we
looked together, and people this up one more time so
I make sure, yeah, I'm right right. I was there
the Knights that Marcellus Williams was being executed. I was
on social media the night I was seeing it play out.
I was seeing people are they gonna say? Are they?
Is the governor gonna do anything? Now, let's talk about
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the governor. Let's talk about the governor. You wanta talk
about the governor, we can talk about the governor. The
governor of Missouri had the option to remove him from
death row after being showed that he did not commit
the crime. Guess what the governor didn't do. Let's talk
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about it. What do you think the Republican governor of Missouri?
What do you think he did not do? What do
you think he didn't do? He didn't do anything about it.
He let it sit. He said, I'm good, he said,
I'm straight. He said, this has nothing to do with me.
Mike Parson actively cleared the path actually for the state
to execute Marcellus Williams. He dissolved an independent investigative board,
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lifting a prior stay of conviction, repeatedly denying requests for clemency. Now,
another name I want you to say, beside from Marcellus Williams,
is Mike Parson. Because Mike Parson, who was elected last
time I checked, he was elected in twenty eighteen to
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be the governor of Missouri. And that election in which
he won against Nicole Galloway, she got forty percent, he
got fifty seven. So this person won by seventeen percent
of the vote. Now, let's say it together what I've
been meaning to say this whole time. Had a Democrat
had won that election, Marcellus Williams would be alive right now.
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Had that Republican governor not have been in office, Marcellus
Williams would have his life right now. Had Mike Parson,
the Republican, not have won that election, Marcellus Williams will
be telling his story right now. So it's one thing
right for a government not to do anything for a
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majority black city or a heavily populated black city, But
it's another thing when they are actively ki black folks.
So let's bring this back to the topic of conversation.
Is the Republican Party better for black people than the
Democratic Party? You tell me now that we just read
this story together. Right after Mike Parson got a signature,
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a petition from over a million citizens, and a letter
from seventy faith leaders, he didn't do anything. He let
him die. In fact, he paved the way for him
to die. Now let's go back to here, right, he
did not back. Now, this goes into another conversation of
what democrats we elect. Wesley Bell, who is now a
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congressman who defeated Democratic socials progressive Corey Bush. Saint Louis prosecutor.
Wesley Bell, who was the prosecutor in this case, was
actively fighting to vacate the conviction due to constitutional errors
and contaminated trial evidence. So let's pull up some profiles
up here. Folk, Let's do it, guys, let's do it.
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Wesley Bell is a fifty one year old black Democrat.
Mike Parson, I don't know how old Mike Parson. Is
he not prominent like that? But he's seventy. Right, we
have a fifty one year old Democrat and a seventy
year old Republican. One's on a local level, the local
stuff that Candicell's is complaining about, saying that they're doing
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a poor job. He's on the local level. Mike Parson's
on the state level. Guess which one had the black
man KILLO? Guess which one had the black man fought
to the end to make sure this person kept their life.
And that is your answer on how the Democrats are
treating black people locally and statewide versus how Republicans are
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treating black people locally and statewide. And if you want
to do more research on Marcellus Williams, you can go
free to do so. Folks were on here telling the truth,
so you cannot miss this. Please come back after this
short break, We're back. Let's do this. Another aspect I
kind of wanted to look into on this topic is
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there will be another episode about this. But the situation
that happened in Texas, let me tell you guys a story.
So in Texas, they had James Tallerico and jas Min
Crockett in a primary in which James Talerico said, Hey,
jas mccrockett, are you gonna run? She said she didn't
think so, and so he ran and then she decided
to run, and they butted heads and they ran against
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each other. Everyone expected jas mccrockett when she didn't, right,
And so we looked at that election and we said, hey,
we didn't get who I wanted to nominate. And now
I don't know. And I'm seeing stuff on social media
saying they don't know if they're gonna vote, they don't
know if they if they're gonna support James Talerico actively. Now,
James Tallerico might not be the nominee you picked right.
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He may not be who you saw was most qualified.
He may not share your story. But after seeing stories
like Marcellus Williams, to see how Democrats are treating black
people in this day and age versus how Republicans are
treating black people this day in age, I always encourage
you to be mindful. It may not be the Democratic
nominee that you want, but it's much better than the
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Republican Pivoting from this topic, this individual primary, when we
see people do things like like how do I want
to frame this the right way? When we see people hmm,
when we see people be incredibly vocal about other things,
then stuff that directly impacts their life, it bothers me.
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So for example, right, Angela Rai, we were on a
panel and she said, she said, if this was the
Kendrick Lamar concert, you guys would be lined up. If
this was the Beyonce concert, you guys would be lined up.
This was Playboy Cardi, you guys would be lined up.
So not only am I encouraging black people to vote
in record numbers for Democrats. Again, no one asked me
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to say this. I want to be very clear that
no one asked me to say this. This is not
anything promotional. Not only am I encouraging black people to
get out in record numbers for Democrats, I am encouraging
us to fill up the block. Right, Let's say there's
a block party and there's gonna be a Kendrick Lamar
concert after. I want us to be lined up like
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that because any one of you guys, any one of
you guys that are lined up, could be Marcellus Williams.
I know we moved on from that, but anybody in
that line. Could be a Marcellus Williams who was wrongly
convicted and killed by a Republican governor, tried to be
saved by the democratic local politician but didn't work. That
could be you, right, You just have no idea. A
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lot of people think it's funny or they sound better
when they say, I'm not interested in politics, but politics
is inevitably is so interested in you, so interested in you,
and so Another aspect of this Black People's Democratic Party
thing is something I've talked about again on the bar.
This was a very open conversation we had, similar to
one on the Breakfast Club. Was the fact that was
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the fact that Democrats fought for Let me say this right,
because it's not my talking point. That's their nonsense. They're
saying that Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats fought for slavery. Okay,
let's say that right. Democrats fought for slavery. Democrats fought
for slavery, Republicans fought to have slaves freed. We can't
even say Republicans freed the slaves, which is tap dance
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and shucking and driving and shoe shining as it is
to say that any one white political party freed any
slave alone by itself. It is wild to insinuate that,
but we can move past that and just say that, right, well,
they don't know about the party switch. There was a
major party. It's called the mid century party switch, which,
again everything I say is easily fact checkable. You can
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google this yourself, right and do your own research, your
own due diligence to make sure I'm not lying to you,
and you can look up the mid century party switch,
in which the ideologies shifted. You can almost say that
we're seeing something like that today right where ideologies are
sure it's shifting. Republicans are like, do we like the
death penalty because we're Christians, right? Or do we like
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the death penalty? Republicans are saying, oh, we're pro business,
but we don't want to raise the minimum wage. That's
another aspect in which people are not talking now, But
we don't have to get into that right now because
it's about very specific topic. We're seeing stuff like that
is that people don't understand that the party switched. So
right now you're zero and two. I'm too. By the way,
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I'm not trying to argue with you because there's no
one on here with me. You're just listening. I'm not
trying to be argumentative. I'm literally just telling you have
nothing on me right now. You have nothing to disprove
what I'm saying is true. If you want to say,
if you want to have a discussion, tag me on
social media. We can try and see about that. But
I have seen nothing, and I mean nothing to show
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me that the Republican Party cares more about black people.
Let's look at our recent nominees. We nominated Barack Obama,
black man. We nominated Hillary Clinton, who were not going
to get into it, but who everyone blamed for laws
that effective blackren had nothing to do with it. Right.
This is another piece of misinformation, foreign policy disputes, foreign
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policy debates. All that nonsense happened during the twenty sixteen
election resulted in DEI being taken right away. Three hundred
thousand black women. Let's have a conversation with black women.
Three hundred thousand black women were out of the workforce
following the DEI initiative that was taken away under the
Supreme Court rule. Who appointed the judges? Donald Trump and
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Republicans before him? What would it? Who was the opponent?
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, who would not have appointed those judges.
Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clint would have appointed left leaning judges.
I don't know the best way to say. I'm just
saying like that, and DEI would not have been stripped. Boom.
That easy, it's that easy to look at politics. Then
we go to twenty twenty Joe Biden, Right, he won,
he won. We gave him a chance, right, White voters,
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Hispanic voters, Asian voters, black voters, we gave him a chance. Right,
we did it. And out of that, you got sixteen
million dollars invested HBCUs, You got the reparations toward black farmers,
you got record number invested in black owned business, head
start programs, everything right, you got things that we have
fought that Martin Luther King would have fought, the ancestors
would have fought for. Right. Then you go to twenty
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twenty four when Kamala Harris released an Opportunity agenda focused
on black men. Black men said, Hey, we don't feel seen.
We want policy. We don't want talking points, we don't
want social media posts, we don't want trends, we don't
want TikTok. We want policy. So Kamala Harris said bet
let's do it. Challenge accepted, right, And here's what she released.
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Let's read through it together. I've known about this since
it came out, the day it came out, the hour
it came out, before it came out, even if you
want to go there. The Opportunity Agenda focused on black men.
This list outlines tools to build wealth, support families, and
remove historic barriers. Let's get into it. Forgivable business loans.
One million fully forgivable loans up to twenty thousand dollars
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for black. It's gonna sound obnoxious and loud, but black.
Twenty thousand dollars to black entrepreneurs. And then here's what
would happen. The Supreme Court would have said it's unfair
to others, and this and that twenty thousand dollars to
bligity black entrepreneurs to start or grow businesses. One more time,
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a million fully forgivable loans up to twenty thousand dollars
for black entrepreneurs. Next, clear regulations. Oh my god, could
you imagine America and Black America if we had gotten this.
But let's talk about it. Clear regulations to protect black
men and other I want to say this so clearly
clear regulation to protect black men and other investors in cryptocurrency.
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We're talking generational wealth, health business initiatives, can everything. Let's
get right into it. Do y'all not know how good
that sounds right now? When all we have is what
we have now? Right, look in the mirror. This is
the conversation with black people. Let's have a look in
the mirror. Let's have a real conversation. Clear regulation to
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protect black men and other investors in cryptocurrency would be
really good right now. Next, National Health Equity initiative, research
and funding for health conditions that disproportionately affect Black men,
such as sickle cell, prostate cancer, and diabetes. If you
watch Everybody Hayes Purse, or if you watch any black sitcom,
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you will see the father, in some case the mother
have disease like diabetes, right, sickle cell. This from my
non black viewers, right, y'all. We I don't know if
you guys seen this, but in every piece of black media,
someone is gonna have diabetes or sickle cell. The father
is fighting for his life, going to work every day
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with sickle cell. The father is working hard with sickle cell.
You're seeing this right, and we can to have major investments,
first time research into these things. But no, we'll move
on to the next one and then we'll go to
Morrow's story. Cannabis legislation national legalization of recreational marijuana to
create economic opportunity for Black Americans in the legal cannabis industry. Y'all,
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this language is even right. They're not saying, they're saying
for Black Americans. Now, look, you want to know what
I heard in that argument. One time, I said, they
want to legalize marijuana. That's one other things. He said, Oh,
so they don't want black people to smoke. No, if
you read into this legislation, national legalization of recreational marijuana
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to create economic opportunities for Black Americans in the cannabis industry,
they're not saying so black people can enjoy themselves. They're
not saying so black people can take a load off.
They're saying for Black Americans to advance in this new industry,
education and mentorship, extended pipelines for black men to become
teachers and mentors, and partnering with HBCUs. I'm jumping in
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the chair, y'all. You want to know why, Because I
didn't know anything about politics before having a black teacher.
So when they're saying right, when they're saying there are
pipelines for black that when Kamala Harris, the twenty twenty
four Democratic nominee who raised a billion dollars to run
for president, was saying she did not need this, she
did not need to say this. But in that policy
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was extended pipelines for black men to become teachers, mentors.
In partnership with hbcs, we could have had black teachers.
We could have had a million fully forgivable loans, grants,
even you could say regulates to protect black man and
others in cryptocurrency industry, research for sickle cell project, cancer
and diabetes, and a new industry for US to compete in,
which is cannabis. Now, y'all, I don't know about you,
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but I ain't really see none of that in Donald
Trump's legislation and policy. Another key point is that I've
mainly heard from black people that Kamala Harris didn't have policy. Now,
I heard from someone that said, okay, you can name
all of or on Mom Donnie's policy, which is make
buses fast and free, which is all that stuff, right.
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The reason I can't name the reason why most people
I could do it, But the reason why most people
cannot name Kamala Harri's policy off the bat is because
it goes deeper than fast and free. It goes deeper
than make this quick. It makes deep. It goes deeper
than removing this. It goes deeper than make this free.
This is real policy, which is why when she was
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in office this actually happened. I bet that fast and
free stuff ain't really happening. But anyway, we move on.
That's messy anyway. Next, what I go to say right
is that the opportunity provided two black people under Democratic
presidents are unmatched. I'm not bothered when people say that
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Democrats don't do anything for black people and that Republicans
are better for black people because I work for the
Democratic Party or because I'm doing this for Democratic Party. No,
it is because it's the truth. And if you go
on common Mala Harris twitter page, I see a tweet
right here black men deserve a president who cares about
making their lives better. That got twenty seven thousand likes
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and forty one thousand comments. Do you want to know
where though forty one thousand comments came from that came
from angry people who didn't like this, who said, Kamala Harris,
this is why you don't have my vote. And on
the same token, they're saying she doesn't have their vote
on behalf of giving you policy. Meanwhile, we're debating if
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she even deserves our vote. So it's like your grandmother, right,
Your grandmother gives you cookies, big cookies, freshly baked cookies
over your cousin, right, and your cousin says, that's not fair.
I don't want to be here anymore. I'm gonna leave.
And in the same hand, you're saying should I leave? Like,
(29:53):
are you kidding me? Now? This is not to say
black people didn't do our black jobs during the twenty
twenty four election, not to say that at all we
showed up. We showed up and showed out. But the
fact of the matter is is that we shouldn't even
be having debates about this. There's black groups that are
still debating if they even want to support Democrats in
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the twenty twenty four presidential election. There are pro black
organizations that support the only white candidate in the race
for Georgia governor in the Democratic side because he's a
former Republican.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'm perturbed. I'm perturbed. I want you to do something.
In our community. We like to talk about redlining. We
like to talk about the past and president, quite frankly,
of redlining. Now, I want you to go to Donald
Trump's Twitter account. I want you to type in I'm
sure it's not gonna come up because Elon's search bar
(30:45):
really sucks on Twitter. I want you to go on
Twitter or social media, or you can just Google it,
and I want you to put Donald Trump redlining and
see if he's ever tweeted about redlining. You know what,
You're gonna see nothing. I want you to I want
you to do that. We're not going to do it
because I already seen this, right, But we have a mismatch.
We have an imbalance. There's a better word I'm missing,
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but we have an imbalance. Joe Biden. Now, let's do
Joe Biden. Right, Let's do that. We did Donald Trump.
He never posted about redlining, but let's do Joe Biden.
Joe Biden tweeted in twenty twenty in the election he won,
he said there was a systemic racism not just in
our law enforcement, but in our housing, education, in everything
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we do, and we have to work hard to end it.
Guess who was in the comments. It wasn't as bad
as Kamala Harrod's comments. We guess it was in the comments.
People being mad, people saying redlining doesn't exist, people saying
redlining ain't a thing, people saying redlining is old, people
say I don't really care. Meanwhile, we're still having debates
about whether or not we're even gonna vote for the guy.
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Another tweet, institutional racism no longer exists. It's president of
before it. Change that helps put an end to it.
If you look at that video, he's talking about the
history of redlining. We're gonna go to his presidential account.
This is after he won. I'm sorry. Not only is
this after he won, This is in twenty twenty. This
is recent. This is recent. He had nothing. Not only
is he tweeting this from his campaign account, this is
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the presidential account. This is where we talk policy. Joe
Biden archive says in the past, highways and redlining have
been used to disconnect communities from opportunity and reenforce segregation.
I don't want to make new history. Oh, we talk
in policy and money. We talk in money, We talk
of money. I didn't even see this. That's why I
announced three billion dollars to reconnect and rebuild communities across
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forty states. Usually, y'all, y'all know how I do this.
I rip up my notes and I slam my computer.
But I'm not gonna do that right now, but that
is typically what I do. When I read a tweet
like that, I see people express their anger with the
Democratic Party, and then I see stuff like this, let's
have a close to this, right, because black voters are
so loyal and so loyal to the Democratic Party. Republicans
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come in and say, hey, y'all, he don't really like y'all. Ooh,
and black people say, wait, what what do you mean?
And then they make up misinformation. They go on your
social media, they tell you, they even argue in your
face that black people don't need specific policy, and then
sometimes we end up believing it. Sometimes we end up
believing it, and that's what happens, and that's how we
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get into situations like we are now. That's how we
get here in the first place. Right, So, no, black
voters are not being taken advantage by the Democratic Party.
Black Democrats have advanced like sixteen billion dollars in HBCU's
expanded healthcare infrastructure, Katanji Brown Jackson's all the Supreme Court
in criminal justice. We went into all of this right
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and it brings me home, and it brings me to
ask you, and this is something you can ponder on.
What has Republicans done for black people? Don't give me
that they freed the slaves because we already talked about that.
Rewind this episode if you need to, Let's talk about it.
Tell me comment, review, leave a review with it. Twag
me on social media. I know if my dms are open,
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but you can do that too. Let me know what
have Republicans done for black people? Let me know if
you can do a forty minute, thirty minute episode on
what Republicans have done for black people. You know what
I want to see Candice Owens do. Since she's gone
around everywhere saying that Republicans are so great for black people,
I want her to do a thirty minute episode and
everything Republicans have done. That's my challenge. I want any
of these black Republicans to do a thirty minute episode
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on what Republicans have done for black people. And with that,
I think my listeners of all backgrounds and all ethnicities,
for listening to this and for the for accepting and folks,
I want to leave you with this, do not take
my word for it. Google all of this stuff. Thank
you so much for listening. Please leave a review if
you learn something, and follow me on social media at
Noah Deve Barasso.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Thank you a man that.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
By that.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
But okay, but but but
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But
Now you Know and Noada Brosso is a production of
iHeartMedia and partnership with Reason Choice Media. Now you Know
(00:21):
and Noaday Brosso is a production of iHeartMedia and partnership
with Reason Choice Media. Many So, something was on my
mind this week. I was thinking about everything during the
twenty twenty four election, and we have a midterm coming up,
meaning we got to have these conversations again, these conversations
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that may seem uncomfortable when you first start to have them,
and then they kind of become more familiar to you.
This could be deemed uncomfortable by white Liberals or black Democrats,
or white Republicans and black Republicans, but there's a conversation
that needs to be had. And this is gonna sound
bad for the first ten seconds, and I'm gonna say it.
Why this is being said. Are black voters and black
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men and black voters in general being taken granted, taken
for granted by the Democratic Party. That is something that
deeply bothers me. Now, the idea that somehow Democrats are
not transactional with black votes are something I don't think
even Democrats enforce enough. I mean, you really have to
look at it from a research perspective, how much, just purely,
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how much Democrats have done for black people. And if
you know me, you know I do not speak for
the establishment. I do not speak for those who asked
me to speak for them. I am saying this straight up.
The Democrats have done tremendous things for black people. I
don't know if you saw my recent Breakfast Club interview,
but if you did, go ahead and look at that.
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If you did not, go ahead and look at that,
I should say we talked about all that Joe Biden
and Democrats before him did for black people. Now, I
don't want to sound like a broken record, so I'm
not gonna get into what I said there. Want to
hear that, go listen to the Breakfast Club, my interview
with them, or on Netflix, et cetera. YouTube. And so
I want to be I want to say something that
I haven't said before, which is that if you really
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look at policy, not feelings, policy, and we're gonna get
see the reason why this is even a conversation in
the first place, folks. The reason why this is a
conversation in the first place is because I honestly cannot
put a pin to it. I don't want to say
this happened in twenty sixteen when it really happened all
the way back in nineteen eighties. I want to be correct.
I want to be foundationally correct when I say that,
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Here's what I noticed. Me Noah, I noticed that sometime
in twenty sixteen, and it started trending. It really started
to come back in twenty twenty four. Thought leaders like
Canna Selwins or Charlie Kirk or whoever it may be.
At this talking point, they would go around saying, and
Donald Trump would go around saying, because he's a billionaire
and everyone liked him, which was, you have been voting
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Democrat for your entire life. Oh, I hate it. It's
making me madgest to say it. You have been voting
Democrat your entire life. And look at your community, and
look at the black community, and look at your city,
and tell me, try to give a Republican a chance.
It was something like that. I don't know if we're
able to roll a clip to where you guys will
hear it, but they'll say their talking point was you've
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been voting Democrat. Basically was you've been voting Democrat your
entire life. Why not give something else, a chance that
was the most destructive like this is the Project twenty
twenty five level destruction that happened during in twenty twenty
four politics. And the reason why this is resurfacing is
because of what Project twenty twenty five brought back to politics,
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which was manipulation of black voters. So, without me sounding
like a talking head for any one party, I want
to ask a question. And I don't know how many
Republican listeners I have. If you're here, welcome, thank you
for listening. If you feel up to it, leave me
a review. But anyway, it brings me to say, we
can even treat this as a quol is is that
what party supports ending cash bail? Yeah? Who? What party
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supports ending cash bail? What party supports abolishing the death
penalty which disproportionately affects black men and not I was
gonna say in Pover's communities, but really in all communities
middle class black men, U industrial black men, urban black men.
This impacts us, all right? Who supports getting rid of
the death penalty? Because last time I checked, there is
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not Let me back away from this mic, So y'all
don't think I'm yelling at y'all, there is not a
single Republican that supports abolishing the death penalty. Right, the
Party of Christianity does not support abolishing the death penalty.
Find that interesting? I sure do. Guess with the guess
the party that supports abolishing death penalty. This is the
open book test. By the way, the party that supports
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abolising the death penalty is the Democrats. And guess who
this bothers me? Because Democrats do not give them self
enough credit. Right Oftentimes I notice Democrats surrogates and Democrat politicians,
they're kind of scared to say, look at all we've
done for you, But that's what you have to do. Right.
Let's say you get a gift for somebody. Right, Let's
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say you get a gift for somebody. Typically you would
and go around to bringing that in their face every day. Right,
But if you are a major you're the if you're
the oldest political party in the land, right and you
need black votes, what do you do? You don't act humble,
You don't act humble. You don't act humble. You say,
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look what we've done as a party. You're not flashy
for that, you're not crazy for that, You're not narcissistic
for that. There's nothing wrong with saying, look what you've done,
Look what I've done for black people. You're not glitzy
for doing that. You're not over promoting yourself. Democrats, wake up.
You've got to tell these people what's going on. So
I want to go back to this. I want to
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go back to how we even got here. Right, we
see people, all Republicans all over the country manipulating black people.
Let's go to a community like Saint Louis, Missouri. Now, well,
one in five residents of Saint Louis, Missouri lives in poverty.
I'm say the again. One in five people in Missouri
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lives below the poverty line. The poverty rate in Missouri
is twenty percent. I mean in Saint Louis twenty percent.
So you look at that, right and say Democrats are failing. Right, right,
you'll look at that and say Democrats are failing Saint Louis.
But I want to look into something, right, Let's go
deeper into this idea that we need to fire local
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Democratic politicians because of a state failure. Right now, let's
look something else up is let's look this up together, guys.
We can both type it is Missouri doing anything about it,
because while they're taking away reproductive freedoms, right, they're not
doing anything to address Saint Louis povery rate. Now, and
let me tell you, guys how local politics works. Let
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me tell you guys, how local politics works. Local politicians
get the blame for ad free things. So we see
that poverty rate in Missouri, right, we see the poverty
rate in Missouri, and we say, oh, that is so bad.
That means every local democratic politician, which are which local
politicians in major cities are mainly black, if you want
to talk about that, right, And you see that people
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are blaming black Democratic politicians for city failures. But it
brings me to ask this, while Missouri is trying to
ban buying snacks and candy on food stamps or snap
or whatever Wick or something, while they're doing that, they
could be making sure that people are getting those cards
to get out of poverty, to lift themselves out of
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poverty for however long they're on those programs. So while
I see people like Candice Ollans say, look at Detroit,
look at Chicago. We can we're gonna talk about Chicago
in a minute. Look at these great cities that are
foundationally wonderful cities, and look how they're treated, Look how
they're managed. Meanwhile, the state of Michigan, the state of Missouri,
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the state, what is the state doing about this? And
when we're seeing major, predominantly black cities being gas lit,
we have to look. We have to look up and
see who the governor of Missouri is, right, the governor
of Missouri that let the black man. Oh, we can
talk about that. Marcellus Williams. He was put to death
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for a crime he did not commit. Let's talk about
Marcellus Williams. Here's why it is so important, and this
is so serious to me, folks. Now in Missouri, they
had an election in two thousand and twenty four. We
can pull this up together. Missouri twenty twenty four governor.
I never knew how to say that word. Let's just
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say governor. Election. I've struggled to say that since twenty
twenty two. Now the current governor of Missouri right beat
the Democratic nominee for governor of Missouri, with the Democratic
nominee receiving thirty eight percent of the vote, him getting
fifty nine percent. Now we know about black people, we
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know about middle class Folks, we know about rural America.
We know about these groups. Right, All of those groups
have one thing in common. They want life to be
better for themselves and their families and the people that
come after them. Right, this is a real conversation, y'all.
So let me dig into it. In Missouri, they had
an election in twenty twenty four, right, like every state
has an election, this normal stuff, right, except the Republican
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won fifty nine percent of the vote. That's not a
little amount. The Democrat got thirty eight percent. See, that's sorry. Right,
And then we look at a consequence to that, and
then we can also pull up the governor race before
before twenty twenty four. Right, The last governor election they
had was in twenty twenty right, during a big thing
where everyone was getting out to vote. Joe Biden won
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by the biggest landslide that we've seen, when Mike Parson
won with fifty seven percent of the vote and a
Cole Galloway got forty percent of the vote. Right now,
let's go to Marcellus Williams. Now, this is a very
serious topic, folks. I want you to get ready, Marcellus.
And this is not a theory. This is not a myth.
You guys know, I don't do theories. I don't do
conspiracy theories. I do do misinformation. Marcellus Williams is a
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black man who for more than twenty years stayed in
jail for a crime he knowingly did not commit. Now,
I'm not the one to come out and defend people
when they could have done the crime and we just
don't think they did, or the streets is saying they
didn't do it. Meanwhile, we have this person named marcel
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I want to talk about this. Say his name, Marcellus Williams.
For twenty years, Marcellus Williams lived under a death sentence
for a crime he did not commit. And then we
look into it, we can read this whole story. Shout
out to the Innocent Project for showing me a little
bit about this Marcellus Williams. I saw this play out
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on social media the night I was there on so
social media the night Marcellus Williams was executed. And I've
never spoken about this situation, but the amount of misinformation
provokes a serious conversation like this, So let's get right
into it. Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on September
twenty fourth, despite evidence of his innocence, the state of
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Missouri executed an innocent person. His name is Marcellus Williams.
In case I haven't said it enough, he served twenty
four years. Twenty four years for a crime that he
did not commit. Now, this is not a theory that
he didn't commit it. He not family saw him saying
he didn't commit it. He ain't hooked me up one
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time with some stuff so I can say he didn't
commit it. This is known, This is a fact. This
is real life, folks. No DNA evidence linked him to
the crime, and according to the Saint Louis County Prosecutor
prosecuting Attorney, they acknowledged the errors made by the trial
prosecutors included mishandling of a murder weapon, excluding black perspective jurors,
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and violation of the constitution contributing to a wrongful conviction.
Mister Marcellus Williams conviction was first degree murder, robbery, and burglary.
This incident took place on August eleventh, nineteen ninety eight.
Convicted in two thousand and one. I am scared. I
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am scared for the black men that are saying they're
being manipulated for the Democratic Party. You won't know why
because had they had elected a Democrat. I don't want
to sound like this guy that's just promoting a political
party and using personal stories to talk about that or whatever,
because there are people who do that and they don't
do it right. But last time I checked, right, we
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just did the research on this. We looked right, we
looked together, and people this up one more time so
I make sure, yeah, I'm right right. I was there
the Knights that Marcellus Williams was being executed. I was
on social media the night I was seeing it play out.
I was seeing people are they gonna say? Are they?
Is the governor gonna do anything? Now, let's talk about
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the governor. Let's talk about the governor. You wanta talk
about the governor, we can talk about the governor. The
governor of Missouri had the option to remove him from
death row after being showed that he did not commit
the crime. Guess what the governor didn't do. Let's talk
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about it. What do you think the Republican governor of Missouri?
What do you think he did not do? What do
you think he didn't do? He didn't do anything about it.
He let it sit. He said, I'm good, he said,
I'm straight. He said, this has nothing to do with me.
Mike Parson actively cleared the path actually for the state
to execute Marcellus Williams. He dissolved an independent investigative board,
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lifting a prior stay of conviction, repeatedly denying requests for clemency. Now,
another name I want you to say, beside from Marcellus Williams,
is Mike Parson. Because Mike Parson, who was elected last
time I checked, he was elected in twenty eighteen to
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be the governor of Missouri. And that election in which
he won against Nicole Galloway, she got forty percent, he
got fifty seven. So this person won by seventeen percent
of the vote. Now, let's say it together what I've
been meaning to say this whole time. Had a Democrat
had won that election, Marcellus Williams would be alive right now.
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Had that Republican governor not have been in office, Marcellus
Williams would have his life right now. Had Mike Parson,
the Republican, not have won that election, Marcellus Williams will
be telling his story right now. So it's one thing
right for a government not to do anything for a
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majority black city or a heavily populated black city, But
it's another thing when they are actively ki black folks.
So let's bring this back to the topic of conversation.
Is the Republican Party better for black people than the
Democratic Party? You tell me now that we just read
this story together. Right after Mike Parson got a signature,
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a petition from over a million citizens, and a letter
from seventy faith leaders, he didn't do anything. He let
him die. In fact, he paved the way for him
to die. Now let's go back to here, right, he
did not back. Now, this goes into another conversation of
what democrats we elect. Wesley Bell, who is now a
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congressman who defeated Democratic socials progressive Corey Bush. Saint Louis prosecutor.
Wesley Bell, who was the prosecutor in this case, was
actively fighting to vacate the conviction due to constitutional errors
and contaminated trial evidence. So let's pull up some profiles
up here. Folk, Let's do it, guys, let's do it.
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Wesley Bell is a fifty one year old black Democrat.
Mike Parson, I don't know how old Mike Parson. Is
he not prominent like that? But he's seventy. Right, we
have a fifty one year old Democrat and a seventy
year old Republican. One's on a local level, the local
stuff that Candicell's is complaining about, saying that they're doing
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a poor job. He's on the local level. Mike Parson's
on the state level. Guess which one had the black
man KILLO? Guess which one had the black man fought
to the end to make sure this person kept their life.
And that is your answer on how the Democrats are
treating black people locally and statewide versus how Republicans are
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treating black people locally and statewide. And if you want
to do more research on Marcellus Williams, you can go
free to do so. Folks were on here telling the truth,
so you cannot miss this. Please come back after this
short break, We're back. Let's do this. Another aspect I
kind of wanted to look into on this topic is
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there will be another episode about this. But the situation
that happened in Texas, let me tell you guys a story.
So in Texas, they had James Tallerico and jas Min
Crockett in a primary in which James Talerico said, Hey,
jas mccrockett, are you gonna run? She said she didn't
think so, and so he ran and then she decided
to run, and they butted heads and they ran against
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each other. Everyone expected jas mccrockett when she didn't, right,
And so we looked at that election and we said, hey,
we didn't get who I wanted to nominate. And now
I don't know. And I'm seeing stuff on social media
saying they don't know if they're gonna vote, they don't
know if they if they're gonna support James Talerico actively. Now,
James Tallerico might not be the nominee you picked right.
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He may not be who you saw was most qualified.
He may not share your story. But after seeing stories
like Marcellus Williams, to see how Democrats are treating black
people in this day and age versus how Republicans are
treating black people this day in age, I always encourage
you to be mindful. It may not be the Democratic
nominee that you want, but it's much better than the
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Republican Pivoting from this topic, this individual primary, when we
see people do things like like how do I want
to frame this the right way? When we see people hmm,
when we see people be incredibly vocal about other things,
then stuff that directly impacts their life, it bothers me.
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So for example, right, Angela Rai, we were on a
panel and she said, she said, if this was the
Kendrick Lamar concert, you guys would be lined up. If
this was the Beyonce concert, you guys would be lined up.
This was Playboy Cardi, you guys would be lined up.
So not only am I encouraging black people to vote
in record numbers for Democrats. Again, no one asked me
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to say this. I want to be very clear that
no one asked me to say this. This is not
anything promotional. Not only am I encouraging black people to
get out in record numbers for Democrats, I am encouraging
us to fill up the block. Right, Let's say there's
a block party and there's gonna be a Kendrick Lamar
concert after. I want us to be lined up like
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that because any one of you guys, any one of
you guys that are lined up, could be Marcellus Williams.
I know we moved on from that, but anybody in
that line. Could be a Marcellus Williams who was wrongly
convicted and killed by a Republican governor, tried to be
saved by the democratic local politician but didn't work. That
could be you, right, You just have no idea. A
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lot of people think it's funny or they sound better
when they say, I'm not interested in politics, but politics
is inevitably is so interested in you, so interested in you,
and so Another aspect of this Black People's Democratic Party
thing is something I've talked about again on the bar.
This was a very open conversation we had, similar to
one on the Breakfast Club. Was the fact that was
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the fact that Democrats fought for Let me say this right,
because it's not my talking point. That's their nonsense. They're
saying that Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats fought for slavery. Okay,
let's say that right. Democrats fought for slavery. Democrats fought
for slavery, Republicans fought to have slaves freed. We can't
even say Republicans freed the slaves, which is tap dance
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and shucking and driving and shoe shining as it is
to say that any one white political party freed any
slave alone by itself. It is wild to insinuate that,
but we can move past that and just say that, right, well,
they don't know about the party switch. There was a
major party. It's called the mid century party switch, which,
again everything I say is easily fact checkable. You can
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google this yourself, right and do your own research, your
own due diligence to make sure I'm not lying to you,
and you can look up the mid century party switch,
in which the ideologies shifted. You can almost say that
we're seeing something like that today right where ideologies are
sure it's shifting. Republicans are like, do we like the
death penalty because we're Christians, right? Or do we like
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the death penalty? Republicans are saying, oh, we're pro business,
but we don't want to raise the minimum wage. That's
another aspect in which people are not talking now, But
we don't have to get into that right now because
it's about very specific topic. We're seeing stuff like that
is that people don't understand that the party switched. So
right now you're zero and two. I'm too. By the way,
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I'm not trying to argue with you because there's no
one on here with me. You're just listening. I'm not
trying to be argumentative. I'm literally just telling you have
nothing on me right now. You have nothing to disprove
what I'm saying is true. If you want to say,
if you want to have a discussion, tag me on
social media. We can try and see about that. But
I have seen nothing, and I mean nothing to show
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me that the Republican Party cares more about black people.
Let's look at our recent nominees. We nominated Barack Obama,
black man. We nominated Hillary Clinton, who were not going
to get into it, but who everyone blamed for laws
that effective blackren had nothing to do with it. Right.
This is another piece of misinformation, foreign policy disputes, foreign
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policy debates. All that nonsense happened during the twenty sixteen
election resulted in DEI being taken right away. Three hundred
thousand black women. Let's have a conversation with black women.
Three hundred thousand black women were out of the workforce
following the DEI initiative that was taken away under the
Supreme Court rule. Who appointed the judges? Donald Trump and
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Republicans before him? What would it? Who was the opponent?
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, who would not have appointed those judges.
Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clint would have appointed left leaning judges.
I don't know the best way to say. I'm just
saying like that, and DEI would not have been stripped. Boom.
That easy, it's that easy to look at politics. Then
we go to twenty twenty Joe Biden, Right, he won,
he won. We gave him a chance, right, White voters,
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Hispanic voters, Asian voters, black voters, we gave him a chance. Right,
we did it. And out of that, you got sixteen
million dollars invested HBCUs, You got the reparations toward black farmers,
you got record number invested in black owned business, head
start programs, everything right, you got things that we have
fought that Martin Luther King would have fought, the ancestors
would have fought for. Right. Then you go to twenty
(23:13):
twenty four when Kamala Harris released an Opportunity agenda focused
on black men. Black men said, Hey, we don't feel seen.
We want policy. We don't want talking points, we don't
want social media posts, we don't want trends, we don't
want TikTok. We want policy. So Kamala Harris said bet
let's do it. Challenge accepted, right, And here's what she released.
(23:35):
Let's read through it together. I've known about this since
it came out, the day it came out, the hour
it came out, before it came out, even if you
want to go there. The Opportunity Agenda focused on black men.
This list outlines tools to build wealth, support families, and
remove historic barriers. Let's get into it. Forgivable business loans.
One million fully forgivable loans up to twenty thousand dollars
(23:58):
for black. It's gonna sound obnoxious and loud, but black.
Twenty thousand dollars to black entrepreneurs. And then here's what
would happen. The Supreme Court would have said it's unfair
to others, and this and that twenty thousand dollars to
bligity black entrepreneurs to start or grow businesses. One more time,
(24:20):
a million fully forgivable loans up to twenty thousand dollars
for black entrepreneurs. Next, clear regulations. Oh my god, could
you imagine America and Black America if we had gotten this.
But let's talk about it. Clear regulations to protect black
men and other I want to say this so clearly
clear regulation to protect black men and other investors in cryptocurrency.
(24:44):
We're talking generational wealth, health business initiatives, can everything. Let's
get right into it. Do y'all not know how good
that sounds right now? When all we have is what
we have now? Right, look in the mirror. This is
the conversation with black people. Let's have a look in
the mirror. Let's have a real conversation. Clear regulation to
(25:06):
protect black men and other investors in cryptocurrency would be
really good right now. Next, National Health Equity initiative, research
and funding for health conditions that disproportionately affect Black men,
such as sickle cell, prostate cancer, and diabetes. If you
watch Everybody Hayes Purse, or if you watch any black sitcom,
(25:28):
you will see the father, in some case the mother
have disease like diabetes, right, sickle cell. This from my
non black viewers, right, y'all. We I don't know if
you guys seen this, but in every piece of black media,
someone is gonna have diabetes or sickle cell. The father
is fighting for his life, going to work every day
(25:49):
with sickle cell. The father is working hard with sickle cell.
You're seeing this right, and we can to have major investments,
first time research into these things. But no, we'll move
on to the next one and then we'll go to
Morrow's story. Cannabis legislation national legalization of recreational marijuana to
create economic opportunity for Black Americans in the legal cannabis industry. Y'all,
(26:13):
this language is even right. They're not saying, they're saying
for Black Americans. Now, look, you want to know what
I heard in that argument. One time, I said, they
want to legalize marijuana. That's one other things. He said, Oh,
so they don't want black people to smoke. No, if
you read into this legislation, national legalization of recreational marijuana
(26:34):
to create economic opportunities for Black Americans in the cannabis industry,
they're not saying so black people can enjoy themselves. They're
not saying so black people can take a load off.
They're saying for Black Americans to advance in this new industry,
education and mentorship, extended pipelines for black men to become
teachers and mentors, and partnering with HBCUs. I'm jumping in
(26:57):
the chair, y'all. You want to know why, Because I
didn't know anything about politics before having a black teacher.
So when they're saying right, when they're saying there are
pipelines for black that when Kamala Harris, the twenty twenty
four Democratic nominee who raised a billion dollars to run
for president, was saying she did not need this, she
did not need to say this. But in that policy
(27:20):
was extended pipelines for black men to become teachers, mentors.
In partnership with hbcs, we could have had black teachers.
We could have had a million fully forgivable loans, grants,
even you could say regulates to protect black man and
others in cryptocurrency industry, research for sickle cell project, cancer
and diabetes, and a new industry for US to compete in,
which is cannabis. Now, y'all, I don't know about you,
(27:45):
but I ain't really see none of that in Donald
Trump's legislation and policy. Another key point is that I've
mainly heard from black people that Kamala Harris didn't have policy. Now,
I heard from someone that said, okay, you can name
all of or on Mom Donnie's policy, which is make
buses fast and free, which is all that stuff, right.
(28:07):
The reason I can't name the reason why most people
I could do it, But the reason why most people
cannot name Kamala Harri's policy off the bat is because
it goes deeper than fast and free. It goes deeper
than make this quick. It makes deep. It goes deeper
than removing this. It goes deeper than make this free.
This is real policy, which is why when she was
(28:27):
in office this actually happened. I bet that fast and
free stuff ain't really happening. But anyway, we move on.
That's messy anyway. Next, what I go to say right
is that the opportunity provided two black people under Democratic
presidents are unmatched. I'm not bothered when people say that
(28:47):
Democrats don't do anything for black people and that Republicans
are better for black people because I work for the
Democratic Party or because I'm doing this for Democratic Party. No,
it is because it's the truth. And if you go
on common Mala Harris twitter page, I see a tweet
right here black men deserve a president who cares about
making their lives better. That got twenty seven thousand likes
(29:08):
and forty one thousand comments. Do you want to know
where though forty one thousand comments came from that came
from angry people who didn't like this, who said, Kamala Harris,
this is why you don't have my vote. And on
the same token, they're saying she doesn't have their vote
on behalf of giving you policy. Meanwhile, we're debating if
(29:31):
she even deserves our vote. So it's like your grandmother, right,
Your grandmother gives you cookies, big cookies, freshly baked cookies
over your cousin, right, and your cousin says, that's not fair.
I don't want to be here anymore. I'm gonna leave.
And in the same hand, you're saying should I leave? Like,
(29:53):
are you kidding me? Now? This is not to say
black people didn't do our black jobs during the twenty
twenty four election, not to say that at all we
showed up. We showed up and showed out. But the
fact of the matter is is that we shouldn't even
be having debates about this. There's black groups that are
still debating if they even want to support Democrats in
(30:13):
the twenty twenty four presidential election. There are pro black
organizations that support the only white candidate in the race
for Georgia governor in the Democratic side because he's a
former Republican.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I'm perturbed. I'm perturbed. I want you to do something.
In our community. We like to talk about redlining. We
like to talk about the past and president, quite frankly,
of redlining. Now, I want you to go to Donald
Trump's Twitter account. I want you to type in I'm
sure it's not gonna come up because Elon's search bar
(30:45):
really sucks on Twitter. I want you to go on
Twitter or social media, or you can just Google it,
and I want you to put Donald Trump redlining and
see if he's ever tweeted about redlining. You know what,
You're gonna see nothing. I want you to I want
you to do that. We're not going to do it
because I already seen this, right, But we have a mismatch.
We have an imbalance. There's a better word I'm missing,
(31:06):
but we have an imbalance. Joe Biden. Now, let's do
Joe Biden. Right, Let's do that. We did Donald Trump.
He never posted about redlining, but let's do Joe Biden.
Joe Biden tweeted in twenty twenty in the election he won,
he said there was a systemic racism not just in
our law enforcement, but in our housing, education, in everything
(31:26):
we do, and we have to work hard to end it.
Guess who was in the comments. It wasn't as bad
as Kamala Harrod's comments. We guess it was in the comments.
People being mad, people saying redlining doesn't exist, people saying
redlining ain't a thing, people saying redlining is old, people
say I don't really care. Meanwhile, we're still having debates
about whether or not we're even gonna vote for the guy.
(31:46):
Another tweet, institutional racism no longer exists. It's president of
before it. Change that helps put an end to it.
If you look at that video, he's talking about the
history of redlining. We're gonna go to his presidential account.
This is after he won. I'm sorry. Not only is
this after he won, This is in twenty twenty. This
is recent. This is recent. He had nothing. Not only
is he tweeting this from his campaign account, this is
(32:08):
the presidential account. This is where we talk policy. Joe
Biden archive says in the past, highways and redlining have
been used to disconnect communities from opportunity and reenforce segregation.
I don't want to make new history. Oh, we talk
in policy and money. We talk in money, We talk
of money. I didn't even see this. That's why I
announced three billion dollars to reconnect and rebuild communities across
(32:32):
forty states. Usually, y'all, y'all know how I do this.
I rip up my notes and I slam my computer.
But I'm not gonna do that right now, but that
is typically what I do. When I read a tweet
like that, I see people express their anger with the
Democratic Party, and then I see stuff like this, let's
have a close to this, right, because black voters are
so loyal and so loyal to the Democratic Party. Republicans
(32:55):
come in and say, hey, y'all, he don't really like y'all. Ooh,
and black people say, wait, what what do you mean?
And then they make up misinformation. They go on your
social media, they tell you, they even argue in your
face that black people don't need specific policy, and then
sometimes we end up believing it. Sometimes we end up
believing it, and that's what happens, and that's how we
(33:17):
get into situations like we are now. That's how we
get here in the first place. Right, So, no, black
voters are not being taken advantage by the Democratic Party.
Black Democrats have advanced like sixteen billion dollars in HBCU's
expanded healthcare infrastructure, Katanji Brown Jackson's all the Supreme Court
in criminal justice. We went into all of this right
(33:40):
and it brings me home, and it brings me to
ask you, and this is something you can ponder on.
What has Republicans done for black people? Don't give me
that they freed the slaves because we already talked about that.
Rewind this episode if you need to, Let's talk about it.
Tell me comment, review, leave a review with it. Twag
me on social media. I know if my dms are open,
(34:01):
but you can do that too. Let me know what
have Republicans done for black people? Let me know if
you can do a forty minute, thirty minute episode on
what Republicans have done for black people. You know what
I want to see Candice Owens do. Since she's gone
around everywhere saying that Republicans are so great for black people,
I want her to do a thirty minute episode and
everything Republicans have done. That's my challenge. I want any
of these black Republicans to do a thirty minute episode
(34:22):
on what Republicans have done for black people. And with that,
I think my listeners of all backgrounds and all ethnicities,
for listening to this and for the for accepting and folks,
I want to leave you with this, do not take
my word for it. Google all of this stuff. Thank
you so much for listening. Please leave a review if
you learn something, and follow me on social media at
Noah Deve Barasso.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Thank you a man that.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
By that.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
But okay, but but but
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But
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