Day 7 Shutdown Chaos, Schumer Health Plan, Trump Threatens Pay, Bondi Hearing Fire, Kyren Lacy Case

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Speaker 1 (00:17):
The Fresh Tuesday, October seven, twenty twenty five, coming up
on Rolling Ufilter, the streaming live in the Blackstar Network,
day seven of the governments shutdown. We were here from
sending the Minari leader Chuck Schumer about the Democrats' plan
to hold the line for American health care. Also twice
in Peach criminally convicted Fella and in Chief Donald con
Trump and saying furlough or federal workers aren't guaranteed back pay.

(00:38):
Airports are seeing major delays. Will be joined by California
Comes Women Sidney cum Lager Dove about all of the
drama today, folks in the heat to hear you on
Capitol Hill. Trans General Pam Bondi testified regarding to the
Department of Justice. We say Injustice will show you some
of the heated exchanges, especially with Illinois Senator Dick Durbitt.
The Louisiana NAACP is calling for accountability in the Kyrid

(01:00):
and Lacy case. State police have also released body camera
footage that they say shows and Lacey was rightfully blamed
for the fatal crash. We'll talk to another candidate who's
running for mayor of New Orleans Plus in our shot
Black Start Network Marketplace segment will feature fashionable scrubs specifically
for healthcare professionals, and doctor Steve Perry will talk about

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Both Today several the governments shut down today A houseman
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of efforts to reopen the government. The shutdown is disrupting
air travel nationwide. Staffing shortages have led to significant lays
at airports. Now for a little federal employees may not
get back paid the government reopens. Joined us right now

(02:47):
as California Ngsswoman Sydney cum Lugger Doe, glad to have
you back on the show. Lots of drama at the bird,
big airport, people on planes, and there were no air
traffic controllers. How the hell's that happened.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I don't know how that happens, but it's happening because
we're a day seven of a government shutdown, completely preventable
by Donald J. Trump and his Republican cronies. I have
to tell you I have toured air traffic control towers.
These folks have highly stressful jobs. They are under resource, understaff.
They need all of our support. So I'm not offended

(03:22):
that they said we can't do this, but it does
show you how important, how pervasive government services are, and
why Republicans need to come back to the negotiating table
with us because we don't want planes dropping out of
the air, do we.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
One of the things that you know, we talk about
this whole deal here and I keep hearing this, and
I asked this question of the Cenata Shumer as well.
People are sitting here saying, hey, if Democrats, if you're
going to swing, swing, don't don't don't cave, don't buckle,
and force these people to confront the issue of healthcare.
And the polling numbers show I'm a more people are

(04:00):
blaming the Republicans for this, and they also want those subsidies.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Absolutely. So you know, we've been to this rodeo before,
and Democrats were upset that Chuck Schumer wasn't riding with
his house set. You know where I come from. That's
what you gotta do. You gotta ride with your set.
So Democrats in the House said, we are not voting
for a clean cr because it is not clean. It
is dirty. It is doubling down on the healthcare cuts

(04:28):
that we saw in the big Ugly bill. So we
are voting no. Now, if you want to cancel the cuts,
then you know we're here for this. But they're not
willing to do that, and so here we are. I
have to say that Medicaid, Medicare is on the table.
People are already getting letters from their insurance companies telling
them that their premiums are going to double, deductibles, copays

(04:50):
are going to double. Donald Trump, because he's so nasty,
has already cut Wick and Snap food assistance for hundreds
of thousands of mothers with their new hungry babies. I've
got thirty two thousand mothers and new babies in my
district that don't have Wick or Snap because Donald Trump
just decided to be extra cruel while we are in

(05:12):
this government shutdown. And when you can have Marjorie Taylor
Green post and say, hey, Mike Johnson, let's start negotiating
with Democrats because even my kids insurance is gonna double,
then that's when you know that they are full of
you know what.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
So look, we saw last night the vote. We saw
the vote in the Senate, the fifth vote there as well.
And you've got Trump and you've got his people who
are kind of like, you know what, who gives it them?
Let him starve. You've got Russell Vott wants to do
what he wants to do. You've got crazy, deranged white
supremacist Stephen Miller as well. I think the only way

(05:55):
this works is also, I think what Democrats have to
be doing. I get Paul Titians showing up doing media
as well, but they also have to be putting a
face on this, putting out there. Doctor Wish and William
Barber always talks about show impacted people. I think that's
also critically important, so people understand that when we talk

(06:16):
about you know, you know, your government shut down, furloughed workers,
people not working, those are individuals those are families as
well who are being impacted.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Absolutely Roland. We know that federal workers, many of them
are living paycheck to paycheck, and they're showing up every
day to help us. I think about Sandy. Sandy's a
constituent of mine. She actually helps families manage through their Medicare.
I had to call Sandy for my dad. I was
so grateful that she was able to answer my call
and help me navigate the Medicare system for my dad.

(06:49):
Oh my god, if Sandy's furloughed or not able to
work and help other families like mine. I think about
so many students who are on GI bills who now
are letters saying that you know, they're not going to
get their benefits. I'm thinking about so many of the
mothers that I see in the doula classes in my district,
you know, who have to deal with the potential of

(07:11):
maternity wards closing because the hospitals don't have the money
to keep the doors open. I think about the thousands
of folks that I saw last week that are working
at Saint John's Community Healthcare Clinic. It's a clinic that
services you know, a lot of La County ten million
people roll in and A. Their jobs are in jeopardy

(07:32):
if reimbursements stop and be thinking about all the folks
that are not able to go to them anymore because
they are looking at their health care cuts, at the
health care cuts happening, or healthcare costs doubling. These are
families that look like yours and mine. I've been to
the wick offices. I've seen the mothers with the new babies,

(07:53):
the young mothers with the new babies, and they're trying
to get you know, diapers, and they're trying to get
baby formula. What have they done to deserve this?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
What do you say to the person who says, you
know what, this doesn't affect me. I'm unbothered.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
You should get bothered. A. If you're a Christian, you
should be bothered. B. Three fourths of ACA Obamacare Medicaid
enrollees are in red states that Trump won. So this
isn't just about, you know, hurting Democrats, It's about hurting Americans.
You are impacted even if you're not on any of

(08:34):
these healthcare services by the government, because your premiums are
still going to go up because the insurance companies are
going to have to raise your rates to cover for
what they're not getting because the government has shut down
and because these cuts are coming. You know, I'm not
on any of those services, but the doctors that I
see get reimbursed because of the patients that are on

(08:55):
Medicaid or medical in California or Medicare, and I want
to go to see But if my doctor has to
shut their doors because of all of this nonsense coming
from you know, the Trump administration, then we all hurt.
And let's not forget we're also talking about jobs, hundreds
of thousands of jobs that are in peril, and then
we could go on about how Donald Trump is continuing

(09:17):
to attack black people. That's a whole other conversation. But
everyone's impacted by this. On top of the tariffs, the
cost of living going up, you know, and your insurance
costs doubling. So they need to negotiate with us, and
they know they need to, but they also don't know
how to eat humble pie and come out of this
hole they've dug for themselves and figure out when it's

(09:37):
time to start fighting for the American people rather than
bowing down to Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Do want to ask you about farmers. We have seen
a lot of the red state farmers whining, complaining about
how they are losing money and how they're getting screwed
because of tears. And it's hard to say, but I
literally say the hell with them. I'm sorry. If you
were in Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, if you are

(10:09):
in Ohio, all those states in Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas,
they all voted for Trump. So when they vote, they

(10:33):
voted for this. And so what's crazy to me is
they want Democrats. Oh, they want Democrats to bail them out.
They want Democrats to stand with them. And I'm gonna
be honest, y'allre not gonna get rewarded. These folks aren't
gonna remember that. I remember the first teamless Bill of Obama.

(10:53):
He saved the assets of Elkhart, Indiana, numerous those towns
in Indiana for stimulus. Did they support him? Nope, Nope,
they did not. And so to me, I, hey, this
is where hashtag we tried to tell you, y'all go
talk to them, because that's your savior, that's your cult leader.

(11:17):
He screwed you, not only this time, but he did
you last time? Did y'all forget?

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah, this is the find out phase. I'll tell how
you Roland. I had a strange experience. I had someone
from Mississippi come to my office and a businessman has
an investment, has a plant in Brazil. You know, Brazil's
being hit hard with these terroriffs because Donald Trump is
riding with Bolsonaro, you know, rather than the entire country

(11:48):
of Brazil. Makes absolutely no sense. And the man from
Mississippi said, well, can you help because I know you're
on foreign affairs and these tariffs are terrible. And I said,
you know, I think you voted for him, so I
don't understand why now you're complaining and if these are
going to hurt you so much, these tariffs, I don't
know why you're talking to your why you're not talking

(12:09):
to your representatives from Mississippi. What do they have to say?
And he said, well, the Republicans, you know, it was crickets.
They didn't have anything to say to him. So he
was coming to a Democrat and you know, we had
a real honest conversation about that and the farmers rolland
you know, now Donald Trump is saying, oh, We're going
to give some money back to the farmers. But you

(12:31):
wouldn't have to do that if you were not tariff
if you hadn't put these tariffs out there, which are
actually only impacting and hurting American consumers and producers. So
in fact, Donald Trump is saying, I'm just going to
give your money back to you rather than giving you
any additional help. A. And then be real talk. Is
this money actually going to go to local, real farmers,

(12:52):
people that were thinking about, like the guy and the
overall's milk and the cows, or is it going to
go to these big agro businesses, and if that money
is not going to help the small people that we're
talking about, so they need to have real conversations about
what's really going on and how this money is continuing
to be stolen from the coffers of the taxpayers, you know,

(13:12):
our coffers, and really sort of shuttled into the bank
accounts of the super super super rich at the expense
of everyone else. And everyone else has to ask themselves
why do they continue to want Democrats to bail them
out when they keep voting against their own self interests.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yep, I'm with them, Go talk to new people. Go
talk to Cynia Hyatt Smith, go talk to Marshall, Go
talk to your people. Go talk to them and see
what they can do, because that's who you keep voting for.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
That's what I told him. He was so sad. He
looked at me, and he looked at me. He was
so sad.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
And that's what I just keep thinking about it, right,
And I just think I was like, it's like, I'm sorry,
you're not going to sit here and voter gets your interest,
but then you want Democrats to your bail your ass out,
and you want to keep rewarding them, and then I
love here. Oh well, we didn't vote for this, yeah,
Actually it came with it. It came with it, yeah,

(14:07):
and it all came together in one package. It's not like,
oh no, no, I voted for this, not that. Yes,
you voted for all of it.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
You voted for all the twenty twenty five and it
was in there and everyone kept telling you about it, okay.
And they do have a section in there about what
they're going to do to farmers, about how they're going
to erode the USDA, about how they're not going to
give subsidies, about how they want to shut down with
small farmers and make everything you know go to the
super big agro businesses. They talked about all that they
want your food to be more expensive, they want it

(14:35):
to be less fresh, and they're not looking out for you.
So at the end of the day, folks decided to
vote for Donald Trump because they were afraid of voting
for a black woman. And now here we are in
the find out phase and everything that she predicted would
come true is happening in real time, and folks are
running to Democrats saying, will you save us?

Speaker 7 (14:55):
Now?

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Obviously we're fighting the good fight for the American people,
but we have to shave you to help you see
the error of your ways and to let you know
that no one can stomach this long term, this chaos
to the Constitution, to our democracy, to our rights. It's
unsustainable and it's also unnecessary. This man has never said

(15:15):
he loves this country. And we have the most incompetent, unqualified, racist,
and bigoted cabinet in the history of this country and
I'm even including reconstruction days. So we have to continue
to talk about that. We have to continue to talk
about why is speed hexast saying diversity isn't our strength

(15:37):
and then yelling at folks because of their weight when
we are making ourselves less safe with allies abroad. You know,
why are we letting Donald Trump say crazy things about
tariffs in this economy and not actually trying to figure
out how to look out for the American people? Why
is Donald Trump actually lying and saying that he's going to,

(15:58):
you know, not provide back pay. The government isn't going
to give federal workers back pay for being furlough. That's illegal.
So we have to push back on him. And corporate
media has to be part of this pushback too.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well, well, we know they've sold out for Donald Trump.
So I mean that that ain't happening, that that ain't
gonna happen. They, oh, I will be at I believe
in shade. They called me King petty for a reason,
so I'm absolutely about throwing shade towards them. All Right,

(16:32):
Collins's woman, I appreciate it, Thanks a lot.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Always good to see you.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Rowland, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. All Right, folks,
send it my Minori leader Chuck Schumer got a chance
to talk to him. We had last time he was
on the show was five years ago, we caught up
talking about this government shut down and the expectations people
have for Democrats. Here's our conversation, Senator Schumer. Glad to
have you here. It's been a while since we had you,

(16:56):
but glad to see you. First off, And I've been
around the country a lot the last couple of weeks.
And what people have been asking me, they say it
very simple. Are the Democrats going to cave? How strong
are y'all going to stay in the shutdown?

Speaker 8 (17:11):
Well, look, they've tried five times to force us to
vote on their partisan bill that doesn't do a thing
to help people's health care, and we have stayed strong.
And the reason is very simple, Roland. This bill, the
Republicans have done such damage to the healthcare in America,

(17:32):
in America for people in so many ways, by a
trillion dollars of cuts in Medicaid, the most we've ever seen,
by refusing to extend the ACA tax credits next year,
which will cause the average Americans premium to rise nine
hundred dollars a month. How does the average working family
pay nine hundred dollars a month? And by the way,
if you're older, you pay even more. A couple making

(17:54):
eighty thousand bucks and who is fifty five years old
couple will pay twenty five thousand. So the American people understand,
we've been working for three months talking about this, that
we have an obligation to make their health care better.
Rural hospitals are closing, families are struggling. Nursing homes are
telling their patients that they have to leave because there's

(18:18):
no money. There's no Medicaid money, and vital research that
helps us cure cancer and deals with issues like Alzheimer's
and diabetes gone. And so this is very, very bad
for America, and Democrats are fighting strong, fighting hard, fighting
united We have our senators every day. This week we

(18:40):
were on I think we had eighty five different appearances
on various media shows. We're letting America know how bad
this is, and we're letting them know that the Republicans
want to take away their health care so they can
give tax breaks to the billionaires. And that message is resonating.
So our caucus is.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Strong, absolutely. And look, one of the other issues that
we're seeing, we were seeing these farmers out here talking
about how they are being impacted by these terrorfs as well,
you know, and I make looks at it. It's a
whole bunch of these folks complaining in red states. They
voted for Trump, and they said, we didn't vote for this,
and I'm like, so this is all a part of
the same thing. His policies are negatively impacting the American people.

(19:22):
And you know, these farmers they want Democrats to helpfully
bail them out. And I'm sitting there, going go talk
to the people you voted for.

Speaker 9 (19:29):
You got it? You know?

Speaker 8 (19:30):
He said, the number one thing in facing America is
just higher costs. Higher costs for groceries, higher costs for electricity,
higher costs for health care, higher costs for calls, buying
a furniture or formula for the babies. And that's the
number one issue. On day one, Trump said, I'll get
your costs down. Well, they're not up and up and

(19:51):
up because of healthcare, because of tariffs, because of what
he's done with electric rates, because he's done so many
bad things. And you're right, people who voted for Trump
are now realizing how bad he is. On extending these
ABA tax credits, you know, which raise people's rates nine
hundred one thousand dollars fifty five percent of the people

(20:11):
who voted for Trump Roland want us to extend those
credits because they want them, they need them, they can't
live without it. And you know, it's this is not
just money, it's life and death. It's estimated that if
his health care cuts go through, fifty one thousand people
will die this year at least. That's a horrible thing.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I mean, I had someone who's a panets on
our show whose sister whose cousin died and really died
for poverty, lack of health care. Also when it came
to you know, not being able to have a proper nutrition.
And this is where you know, I've been very aggressive
and challenging these so called conservative evangelicals claiming they love Jesus,

(20:55):
but it's amazing how they vote against the policies that
Jesus would have supported.

Speaker 8 (21:00):
And the bottom line here is that we are fighting
this fight tooth and nail, and we're doing a lot
better than people think. You know, everyone thought, oh, boy,
Trump will win, he'll blame the Democrats for the shutdown. Well,
first they're causing the shutdown by not even negotiating with us.
The bill that Johnson sent over, he sent over a
bill that had no democratic input, and he said take

(21:23):
it or leave it. And can you believe this? When
a government shutdown, he sent the House members home. So
the House members are getting paid and not working, but
our federal workers are working and getting not paid. It's
the exact contradiction. And so the American people know that
it's the Republicans causing this shutdown, and the Trump voters

(21:44):
know that the Republicans causing this shutdown. And it's not
over just a political fight, as I said, it's life
and death. It's people's healthcare. I know a mom who's
a mom whose daughter has cancer and is now she's
getting treatment and they cut that off because it's from Medicaid.
What is that I'm going to do?

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I got to ask you this here. I've been granted
you got some twenty twenty five races coming up, but
a lot of people already talking about twenty twenty six
Senate races. And we saw in North Carolina more than
six hundred thousand black voters who did not vote in
twenty twenty four, more than a million in Georgia, Texas,
largest group of black voters in the country. And you
got a Senate race there as well, And I got

(22:25):
to tell you straight. One of the great issues that
I the concerns that I have, and I'm being very
frank are too many frankly democratic, white Democratic strategists who
are playing black people small. And when I looked at
the Mandela Barnes race, I looked at the race in
North Carolina as well. Too often, what I'm hearing is
that now the same thing happened with in the Texas race.

(22:50):
That and I was, you hit a candidate who was
sitting here, a Congressman Colin already who wasn't They were
not targeting African Americans at all. This is a huge
issue that needs to be addressed. The investment in the
time and ted to spit on black voters. I don't
think you're going to have a shot at winning seats
in twenty two and six where you have a lot

(23:10):
of black voters if these same strategies keep playing the
same game, are you and others talking to them say
they've got to change how they are targets key Democratic voters,
especially black guests.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
We have Corey Booker as head of RSCC, and he
is focused on bringing in black voter not black voters only,
but black consultants, black influencers, and people who reach out
to the community. All too often Democrats missed that. We
have Raffael Warnock, who's active in our DSCC Democratic Senate

(23:44):
Campaign Committee doing the same. We have a woman who's
from the community, Jessica Henry, who's in charge of giving
out a lot of these contracts. And I'll give you one
other interesting thing. It's related to what you say, but
not direct. We have a chance to elect the first
African American US Senator in Mississippi in a very long time.
This man, Scott Column was nominated to be the first

(24:10):
African American judge in Mississippi federal judge in one hundred years,
and the incumbent woman in Senate, Hyde Smith, yet locked
him in the blue slip. He's running and we're going
all out. I have Derek Jackson or the NAACP working
for Marrow of the ACLU working, We're all working there.

(24:31):
And if people are listening from Mississippi or friends and
relatives in Mississippi, we can win this seat. But will
only win it, as you say, by reaching out to
the community from people who know the community.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
Well.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
I'm glad to hear that because that's one of my
biggest issues to whether it was Sherry Beasley or Colin
Allred or Val Dimmings in some of the other races.
It was driving me crazy as I was talking directly
with their campaigns and was getting very little feedback. And
so again that's a lot of people are paying attention
to and we've seen the black voter drop, especially with
black men, and there has to be a very specific,

(25:07):
targeted effort to reach African Americans. It's a lot different
than what we see in the past decade, to be honest,
no question, we're going to do it, all right, Santa Schumber,
appreciate it. I know you're busy and look forward to
having you back on the show.

Speaker 8 (25:21):
I look forward to coming backs and take care and
good health bro.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right, likewise, thanks a lot. Of course, we're going
to go to break, we come back. We wanna chat
with my panel about that conversation you watching Rolling Unfiltered
on the Black Star Network.

Speaker 11 (25:48):
Said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are a threat,
so they erased them. After the Supreme Court gutted the
Voting Rights Act in twenty thirteen, Republican legislatures moved fast
new voter id laws, polling place shutdowns, purges of black
voters from the rolls. Trump's Justice Department didn't stop it.

(26:08):
They joined in. In twenty eighteen. Is DOJ backed Ohio's
voter purge system, a scheme that disproportionately erased Black voters.
Their goal erase black votes and political power.

Speaker 8 (26:21):
Yeah, that happened.

Speaker 11 (26:23):
These are the kinds of stories that we cover every
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Speaker 9 (26:45):
If in this country right now, you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing they can
think about is how many people they can hurt, and
they've got the power, that's the time.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
For morning, for better or worse.

Speaker 12 (26:58):
What makes America special, It's legal system that's supposed to protect.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
We are at a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 13 (27:10):
We must raise a voice of outrage, We must raise
a voice of compassion, and we must raise a voice
of unity.

Speaker 14 (27:21):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization. A humans rights
crisis and a crisis of democracy itself. And guess what,
You've been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have the final say and

(27:42):
they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 9 (27:45):
Oh, I'm Bishop TV Jakes and you're watching.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
Roland Martin Unfiltered.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
All right, folks, let's bring in my panel Dot Mustaphosago
lead former senior advisor for a bron Mode, just as
the ePAT of DC, Randy Bryant, entrepreneur, author, speaker, creator
of the Truth in Game, also the DC J Richardson,
civil rights attorney out of Los Angeles. Glad to have
all three of you on the show. Mustaff I'll start
with you. You heard what Senator Suma they had to
say and also representative of that. Look, Democrats got no

(28:22):
choice but to fight, and they cannot afford to buckle
at all.

Speaker 12 (28:30):
No, they can't give one inch because we understand that
the Republican Party never does. They actually continue to take
and take and take. So they've got to stand up.
They've got to make sure that they hold in this
moment because people are actually counting on them, because since
they are not in control of either of the three
branches of government.

Speaker 6 (28:48):
This is their moment.

Speaker 15 (28:49):
This is their moment to actually show folks that they
are serious and.

Speaker 12 (28:53):
That the vote that they are trying to garner from
them actually will be well protected. So in this moment,
we will see in Democrats, I actually make sure that
they have a spine, If they make sure that they
stand up for working class folks across our country and
our most vulnerable communities, the truth will be in the
putting as they.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Say, what has to happen here, Randy, they have to
stay on the offensive every single day. He talked about,
you know different media hits. Listen, it has to be
around the clock, beginning at five am, going until midnight.
They got to be hitting on all just pounding away

(29:34):
at Republicans.

Speaker 16 (29:37):
They do, to be honest, I haven't heard enough from
Democrats right now.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
I would like to see more of them in the news.

Speaker 16 (29:44):
I feel as if the Republicans have become so professional
at line that the rhetoric that the Democrats are responsible
for the shutdown is taking hold, And so I really
do I'm like you, I want to see them around
the clock talking. And something you mentioned earlier, let American
people talk show how this shutdown is affecting everyone. I've

(30:08):
seen a lot of news about what's happening with the airlines,
but people are also already being affected just on their
day to day lives. So I think we need to
highlight that and make it where there's relatable stories, show
the humanity of what's happening behind these votes.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
And they have to have to stay strong with this vote.

Speaker 16 (30:27):
I've never seen a bully conquered by giving up or
giving it.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
And Joe, listen, the air traffic controls. It's an issue,
and you got to highlight stuff like that because the
stuff that impacts regular ordinary people, that to me, has
to happen.

Speaker 17 (30:47):
Right for sure.

Speaker 13 (30:49):
You know, let people understand that Bourbank airpoint yesterday there
were no air traffic controllers at some point, and so
that's a very practical way that this shut down is
going to affect people.

Speaker 17 (31:02):
Let these healthcare premiums hit.

Speaker 13 (31:05):
This is right about the time where the word folks
are getting noticed of what their new premiums are going
to be, and they're double to triple in some cases,
in more cases than there ought to be.

Speaker 17 (31:14):
Let that hit, Let that sink in.

Speaker 13 (31:17):
Let that be the narrative so that people understand the
practical effect right now of what it is that's going on,
and then they become more much more clear, all the
more clear and understandable what the Democrats here are fighting for.

Speaker 17 (31:29):
Because I'm going to tell you this, if they follow
and the.

Speaker 13 (31:32):
Premiums go up two to three times, the Republicans are
going to find a way to blame the Democrats for it. Now,
this whole thing got passed with no Democratic support, the
big beautiful bill and whatnot, and that's what actually did it.
But it doesn't matter what's truth and what's not true anymore.
Republicans will seize a narrative in a second make up information,

(31:54):
but you can't make up the fact that somebody doesn't
have something that they are used to being able to have,
whether it's the ability to pay for their health care,
of the ability to go to work, earn a check
every two weeks.

Speaker 17 (32:08):
This first partial check ought to be hitting this week.

Speaker 13 (32:11):
Where people are going to be missing money, and they
need to continue to hammer on that narrative and say
this is why that is happening, and this whole oh,
you know, you better bring us back or we're gonna
get rid of jobs. You've been getting rid of job
since January twentieth. Let folks know that this is what

(32:31):
they do, and this is what they'll continue to do,
and this is why we're fighting.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well stop for the point I raised with Sender Schumer
regarding these twenty twenty six races. I'm dead serious. These
white Democratic strategies have been screwing up when it comes
to reaching the black folks black vote. The advice they've
been giving these black candidates has been absolutely awful, and
Schumer and others had better get the message because they're
going to continue to get their asses kicked if they

(32:58):
are abysmal when it comes to reaching out to black voters,
and that means spending money on advertising, spending time resources.
The game plan they've been running before is just idiotic.
It don't work anymore.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
It most definitely doesn't work.

Speaker 12 (33:14):
You know, there's a quote that I was raised on
and says, don't tell me you love me, but show
me you love me. Because every time folks get in
front of cameras, you know, they say one thing.

Speaker 15 (33:25):
But when it comes to making those.

Speaker 12 (33:27):
Smart decisions about not just engaging with black voters, but
making sure the infrastructure is there. And part of that
infrastructure is actually the business side of the equation and
making sure that you're hiring black consultants, that you are
hiring those folks who can actually help to move the needle.

Speaker 15 (33:45):
So I'm past the rhetoric. I don't want to hear that.
I want to make.

Speaker 12 (33:49):
Sure that those dollars are coming back to our communities
for the folks who have the expertise, who know how
to reach us, who know.

Speaker 15 (33:56):
The issues inside and out. And if you're not serious
about that, then you're not serious about our vote.

Speaker 17 (34:02):
And that's exactly.

Speaker 15 (34:03):
Where many people who I'm talking to actually feel.

Speaker 12 (34:06):
So if you want our vote, then show us that
you love us by your actions.

Speaker 16 (34:12):
Rannie, you know, it just seems to me that you know,
you know, I was a DEI person, and so of
course I have to go back to this. I don't
understand why they think people who have never really engaged
with the black community probably have not even had a
black friend, because three out of four white people do
not have a black friend. That's been proven that how

(34:34):
those people would, you know, map out a plan to
reach black people. I don't understand why they would think
that those people would know what our concerns are. And
so it's insane to me that it wouldn't be illogical
to them that they would have to have diversity, they
would have to have black people on staff to you know,
talk about how.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
They're going to reach black people. It just seems common sense.

Speaker 16 (34:57):
There is no way that we can stick with the old,
old pattern of hiring these all white consulting firms to
reach out to a very diverse country. And they need
to wake up to what this country is now and
what the people need.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
And Joe, I'm gonna keep lighting as something about it.

Speaker 13 (35:15):
Yeah, And this time around the Republic is that the
Republicans at state right, It's been at stake and being
chipped away at for quite some time, and we all
need to collectively and individually hammer them and say what
are you doing? I'm from LA, but today I'm gonna
be from Missouri, So you got to show me what
are you actually doing?

Speaker 17 (35:35):
How are you addressing this?

Speaker 13 (35:37):
Let me holler at all of you moderate Democrats that
decide to jump on the anti woke train. Let me
holler at all y'all, okay, and let me know, so,
so what are you doing?

Speaker 17 (35:47):
And why am I voting for you? And why am
I not supporting you getting primary You need.

Speaker 13 (35:52):
To show it to it's because the fact of the
matter is the black vote is the reason why Democrats
have one office when they have particularly in the presidential side,
et cetera, in the last forty fifty years. So you
better show me something because otherwise you're gonna have a
serious problem.

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Speaker 19 (37:19):
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Speaker 21 (39:26):
Folks.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
We talk about education of this country. We know it
abtlualtely matters and what we have seen have been highly
successful with charter schools that frankly should get an opportunity
and my estimation to do more. But what happens when
you have politicians who are hell bent on stopping that
from happening. That's what happened. That's what doctor Steve Perri

(39:48):
is dealing with with his charter school network. He is
battling in the state of Connecticut. E joneses right now, Steve,
glad to have you back on the show. Explain to
people what the heck is going on there with you
trying to educate more of our children.

Speaker 22 (40:05):
Thank you so much, Roland. I deeply appreciate this opportunity.
Got me at a truck stop. I'm coming back from
my schools in Harlem and the Bronx, going back to Connecticut.
But the state is breaking the law. Literally, the State
Department of Education, through the Commissioner, is breaking the law.
The law clearly states that the General Assembly provides money

(40:31):
to the State Board of Education, and the State Board
of Education is supposed to disperse those funds as you've
seen any other requests for proposals. The State Board of
Education put out a request for proposals in twenty twenty two.
They said they want to see who could operate more
charter schools in the state of Connecticut. We put in

(40:52):
a request for proposal. We answer to the request proposal.
We were chosen as the number one school, the number
one school, but through some backdoor dealings in skullduggery, they
thought that they were taking capital prep out of the budget,
but in fact it wasn't the General Assembly's right to
do so. The only people who could take us away

(41:12):
in this situation was the actual Board of Education, and
right now, through some very disappointing behavior by the state's
commissioner that's Charlene Russell Tucker and quite frankly their attorney
named man by name Mike McKeon, they've decided to take

(41:35):
away the opportunity that we've earned. So we're the number
one applicant and roll and check this out. Our school
is one hundred percent black in Latin and Bridgeport one
hundred percent. We had the number one high school in
the state of Connecticut for preparing children for four year colleges.
So we had the number one application and we have

(41:58):
the number one performing high school by way of preparing
children for college. So we got justification on top of justification.
They've broken the law, and they know they've broken the law,
and I have the receipts to show that they have.
So tomorrow there is a public hearing in Connecticut again
where they're going to announce that they didn't break the law.

(42:19):
So here's something really interesting, Roland, the state Department of
Education's attorney, his name is Mike McKeon, wrote a letter
in part with the Governor's office. They didn't mention that
it was he who had written the letter. He used
that as the foundation for his judgment to say that
he in his role now as the State Education's Department's attorney,

(42:44):
has decided that he didn't break the law. So he
said that he didn't break the law. And we're asking
the state Board of Education to say enough is enough.
This school deserves to open the school. The school would
serve all children. What the problem in Connecticut, like so
many other states, is there's such a disparity between the

(43:05):
performance of black children and white children. And this particular town,
this is this time called Middletown, connected my actual hometown, Roling.
So the percentage of black children are reading below grade
level half is I mean twice is that of white
is I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
So I'm confused here. You're number one, So this isn't
like the number four or five ranked saying hey, this
is unfair, You're number one. What the hell is the rationale?
And this is See, this is what I have always said,

(43:40):
and I've been very clear, and when I launch school Choices,
the Black Choice, I said point black that if there
are traditional public schools that are killing it, study replicated,
if there are charter schools killing it, they should have
an opportunity to expand. If there are traditional schools that suck,

(44:06):
gotta go. And if they're charter schools that suck, they
gotta go. So what I don't understand is and go
to my iPad. Charlene Russell Tucker, the Education cutry. That's
a black woman. So this black woman is fighting a
charter school that is successfully educating black and Latino.

Speaker 22 (44:31):
Kids because the here's where it gets really goofy Rowland.
So the state senator from one of the towns that
this school would draw from is a woman by name
of jan Hakkadell. That's important to understand. Jan Hakkadell is

(44:54):
a state senator and the president of the state's Teachers
uneral I want to repeat that again. You just can't
make this stuff up. Jan Hakkadal is the president of
the States Teachers' Union and she's also a state senator,
and she went into the budget with the Senate pro
Tem Marty Looni, and they decided that they were going

(45:17):
to pull Capital Prep out of the budget. But here's
the problem, Roland. They don't have the authority to do so.
The law says that the General Assembly gives the money
to the State Board of Education, who then offers grants.
And if there's two or more schools, one or more
schools approved in the same year but they're waiting funding
and there's not enough money, then the State Board of

(45:38):
Education is supposed to select which school is funded first.
We're the number one applicant. We're number one, and we're
number one in terms of our in our other school,
in terms of overall performance in preparation for college. In fact, Roland,
our school in Bridgeport, Capital Prep Harbor, one hundred percent
of our children have been accepted to four year colleges,
not just for the past ten years from that school,

(46:00):
but they're already that school already had one hundred percent
acceptance at the end of August. So you have a
school founded by black and Latin people, that's serving black
and Latin people, that's outperforming the wealthiest whitest schools in
the state and some of the wealthiest whites schools in
the United States of America. And Charlne Russell Tucker, a
woman who does not who's never worked in a K

(46:21):
twelve school, never, She is not a certified teacher, she's
not a certified administration. She has no certifications ever, nothing.
So she has allowed herself to be put out there
as a puppet of the teachers union. Now here's the
second part. Is the vice chair of the State Board
of Education, a woman by the name of Aaron Binham.

(46:43):
She's also a local president of the teaching union. So
you have a state senator president of the teachers union.
You have the board co chair who's the president of
a local teachers union, combining to create a logjam. And
here's where the problem lies. Throling actually break in the law.
It's not even whether you like me or don't like me,

(47:04):
or you like our schools or you don't like our schools,
you like charge school you don't like charter schools. The
law clearly states that the State General Assembly gives money
to the state Board of Education to disperse for grants
for charter schools now Roland. You've seen requests for proposals
or RFPs all over the country. Right, They're scored, Right,
that's what they do. Right, A department puts out an RFP,

(47:29):
either the highest score or the lowest bidder is awarded
the contract. It's just simple. That's what should happen here.
But it's not what is happening. And for them, the
most important thing to happen is for them to keep
this under wraps so people don't see. They the last
thing that Russell Tucker wants.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
And right now.

Speaker 22 (47:53):
Even the governor holdand I'm fighting the governor, says a
Democratic governor, a black woman who's the state legislator, I
mean state commissioner, and I'm fighting them.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
So you so you mentioned commission So you mentioned Charlene
Russell Tucker, who was the person you said was a
vice who was the number two hold up?

Speaker 22 (48:14):
So so the vice chair is a woman by the
name of Aaron Bynham. Aaron Bynham was watched this rolling.
Aaron Bynam was the Teachers Union president and Maridon, Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Aaron Benham so go to my iPad. This right here
is Aaron Benham, y'all, this is who she is. This
is her right here.

Speaker 9 (48:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
And in the in the in the in the state
rep you're talking about, Uh, this is her right here.
Jan Hakkadell, the deputy majority leader.

Speaker 22 (48:45):
Both teachers Union's presidents, both from Meriden. You know who
else is from Mariden? The former secretary of education. And
so these people together are working not the secretary, former secretary.
But I'm saying that they're all from the same town.

(49:05):
They're being allowed to stop a school. But more important
than stopping at school, more important than stopping in school,
they're breaking the law. It's just that simple. So we
said to Rowland, I'm going to tell you the whole truth.
So back in last fall, we found out that they
were breaking the law. So I called the commissioner. I
called her, and Roland she has said to me, you

(49:27):
know you've done these things too with people. People say, hey, Roland,
you ever got a problem me, you just call me,
Just call me, don't go around me. So I called her.
I said, hey, Commissioner, Russell Tucker, I just want to
point something out to you. I think y'all broke the law.
And she said, well, what are you talking about. I said,
it says here that the State Board of Education is
supposed to select with school's fund at first, not the
General Assembly. You're the State Board of Education, so you're

(49:51):
supposed to choose, not the General Assembly. She said, we've
never done it that way before. I said, sis, look,
think you should say that too many more times because
you really are breaking the law and I don't want
that to happen for you. So she says, well, you know,
no one's ever said this to me, no one's ever
shown me, and we've never done it this way. I said, says, listen,

(50:12):
here's what I'm saying to you. Please, let's we have
a really elegant solution. The money's in the budget. It's
really easy to solve this problem. Just put us on
the on the board agenda, follow the law, and approve
the school. Because the school's already been selected as the
number one applicant. So you already did that. You picked
us number one, You sent us over to the General
Assembly as number one. They did some backdoor stuff, said

(50:35):
that they're not going to fund us, but they put
money in there for a charter school, which has to
go to the number one school, regardless of what they say.
It has to go to the number one school. She said,
you know what I got you. Let's let's let's see
what we can do. I'll work with you. I got
the text messages to prove it, like you do. I
keep the text messages right. And so when I when
we start talking again, she got a whole new attitude.

(50:58):
What we found we did a full She had been
talking to those two the jan Hakkadel, the state senator
and union president like we have the ployer, we have
the She was communicating with them, yep, that one right there,
and we know that she was communicating with another person
as a union shield. His name is Matt Lesser, and

(51:19):
the two of them got a ratings by the teachers Union.
And the last thing they want is my black behind
opened another school in this state. They don't care that
we're educating children. They don't care that we're taking children
who are two, three, four, five grade levels behind and
putting them in college by the time they're seniors. They
don't care about that. What they care about is they
want to stop me in particular, for us in general,

(51:43):
even if it means they're going to stop creating opportunities
for children. Let me tell you something Roland that Aaron Binam,
the vice chair, said, So, we were in a meeting recently.
We're in a hearing recently, and she said to me,
she said, what happens if the kids don't want to
go to college?

Speaker 1 (52:03):
I said, you hold one second. You said, hold on,
hold on State. You said they would talking with Matt Lesser,
another state senator. Yeah, Matt, yeah, okay, all right, go
to my pet. Go to my pet.

Speaker 22 (52:12):
All right, Matt Lesser, I'm gonna tell you, sir, about
males at seven. But she said, well, what if they
don't want to go to college? I said, the name
of the school is Capital Territory School, like we're a
prep school. If we were a votech school, then you
would ask that question. I said, But what you don't
ask is the wealthy white schools whetheror not the kids
don't want to go to college. This is the mindset, brother,
They don't care about our children. This is straight garden variety, embarrassing,

(52:37):
grotesque politics. Matt Lesser, who you see right there, started
to claim that he was Latin in order to get
into the black and Puerto Rican Parkers. We can't make this.
I just can't make it all speak fault your vulture.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Question. Yeah, really question from the panel, Joe. I'll start
with you.

Speaker 13 (52:55):
Well, brother, you know, I appreciate what you're doing, You've
been doing it a long time. But talk about if
you can is if this is something that you often
see the folks that are supposed to be you know,
when it comes to this, it seems to me it's
important to make the point.

Speaker 17 (53:14):
That this is not necessarily just a democratic republican thing.

Speaker 13 (53:17):
Anyone whose establishment and is entitled, can you know, try
to muscle out someone who's earned a place, who's earned
a right. We know what you've done from a career standpoint,
we know what you've done in other places.

Speaker 17 (53:33):
And then you come in.

Speaker 13 (53:34):
Number one and the quote liberals, the quote you know,
pro teacher union folks are trying to rub you out.

Speaker 17 (53:41):
Is this something that you see often?

Speaker 22 (53:43):
And what does this say about just the challenges that
you face in terms of delivering this incredible service of
high expectation and high achievement to black and brown children.
The single most consistent stickle to us to our operation

(54:04):
is the Democratic Party, most specifically liberals, and it doesn't
matter what color. It just doesn't. It just doesn't. And
now let's be clear, I'm not saying that the Republicans
are on our side. I'm just telling you that in
a state where the governor is a Democrat, where the

(54:26):
state senators from this district are Democrats, and where we
have proven ourselves, I didn't say this Roland earlier. Capitol
Prep and Bridgeport serves one hundred percent of Black and
Latin children, but I didn't tell you it's almost seventy
percent poor. We're one of the poorest blackest schools in
the state, and we are preparing children for college at

(54:50):
a rate higher than every other high school in the
entire state. That's not my opinion. That's based upon the
state's own assessment. That's them. I didn't say that that's them.
I couldn't say it if it was. So it's called
next gen data, and so they put together all the
parts that means our kids are taking college passes while

(55:11):
still in high school. We have an eighth grader taking
college passes who're thirteen years old. So one of the
hardest parts about this Roland is when I talk to
the children and I say to them, just like so
many black fathers, do you gotta be twice as good?
And then they say back to me, but doctor Perry,
we're number one. What happens even when you're number one

(55:35):
and people are supposed to be on your side, don't
share the support, because that's really what's happening here. It's
so important that we understand. I'm not coming with hands
saying please, will you give us a shot? We've been
sending kids to college at a rate of one hundred
percent for twenty years. People act like that's a thing,

(55:57):
Like that ain't no thing. One hundred percent of our
Latin children graduated from high school last year. Ninety seven
percent of our Black children graduated in four years last year.
This is from our school in Bridgeport. And one hundred
percent of our special needs children graduated, and all of
those were accepted to four year colleges, every single one.

(56:17):
So if all the black children, all the Latin children,
and all the special needs kids had gone to one
of our schools, all of them would have graduated last year.
Explain to me how anybody could call themselves an educator
or even somebody who cares about black and lives children
and stand in the way of any one who's doing that,
anyone at all. Show me an example, like, how can
you dare say that you care about our children, yet

(56:38):
you're standing in the way of a proven commodity. Proven
We're not some project that you need to take a
look at. We're in the game. And for the record,
there's no long line of people who want to do
this work. There's no long line as a teacher shortage.
So you know, Dan what there's a founder shortage.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Stay before I go to Randy with a question, you
said that you're also fighting the governor. Go to my
iPad Anthony Governor ned Lamont, explain that.

Speaker 22 (57:10):
Governor ned Lamont has, for reasons that are beyond my comprehension,
allowed himself to be put in the middle of something.
He really ain't got no problem, no no business stand
He's going to struggle right now to win his re
election campaign. Is not someone who has deep connections to
the black community, not at all. And we're right now

(57:32):
organizing black people from the biggest cities in the state,
black pastors, black mom's parents, and community leaders. He doesn't
need to smoke, he really doesn't. He's he's gonna face
even in his party, a very likely uh primary, and

(57:53):
he is not. He's a very very wealthy man and
he was able to self fund his campaign. But in
this state that claims to be blue, I look Ryan
and see a whole bunch of Trump signs. I mean
they're everywhere. So why would he jump in the middle.
So what he's allowed himself to do is to weigh
in on something that he didn't need to weigh in on.
He said, Basically, he's gonna laugh at this one. While

(58:17):
the law says what it says. What they're attempting to
do is to quote a former state legislator who had
an opinion that never made his way to the law,
like just floor debate. Just so they're saying that the
floor debate means god more than the actual voting party law.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
All Right, so here's I'm running out of time. I
got the candidate for New Ones Marror, coming up next,
Randy Gustafa. Quick question, quick answer, Randy, go.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
Doctor Perry, just thank you for all that you do
to help our kid.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Quick question, quick question. I need a quick question.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
My guess is waiting.

Speaker 16 (58:50):
What's one thing that people can do is.

Speaker 22 (58:53):
To fort you and reach out, reach out to the governor, says,
thank you so much. Reach out to the governor and
tell them our people go. Let me just trying to
open a school. They open more weed spots than they
do school. We just want to school. They can keep
opening their weed spots.

Speaker 12 (59:08):
Ull staffa, doctor, Perry, what's your formula for success?

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Love?

Speaker 22 (59:17):
We love our kids as our own. They mean everything
to us. And the people who don't love our children
don't get to work with them for very long. But
we love our kids. It really is that something we
genuinely from our soul love our tools.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
So, folks, these are the folks who's Steve name, go
to my iPad. Governor ned Lamont, the kinetic governor. Come on,
Governor ned Lamont, also State Senator Matt Lesser. You have
here this board vice chair Aaron Benham. You also have

(59:52):
the the Secretary of the board, but also commis to
their Shirley Russell Tucker, and then of course you have
State Senator in Hakkadel. We're going to be putting calls
into all of them, inviting them come on the show
to explain all of this. Steve Perry, I appreciate it. Man,
Thanks a bunch. What time is this form tomorrow?

Speaker 22 (01:00:10):
So We're going to be there for thirty in North
Haven Fanatic Group.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
So that the forum starts at four thirty.

Speaker 22 (01:00:17):
Yeah it does, sir, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
So let us know if it will stay. They're going
to be live streaming that so we can grab that stream.
Thank you, I appreciate it. Thanks a bunch folks. Gotta
go to break. We come back. We'll chat with another
one of the candidates running for mayor of New Orleans
election in Saturday. That's next. Roller Markin unfulched with the
Blackshold Network.

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Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
It's your boy Earthquake, you know, giving Roland Martin something
to do because you know you don't know what to
do from Texas, ain't his fault. Folks, Saturday is the
major election in New Orleans and there are number of
candidates who are running. It has been an extremely an

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extremely active early voting period, as you've seen a lot
of folks turning out for in early voting. But again
now it all comes down to who can turned the
voters out on Saturday. Yesterday we featured City Council Member
Oliver Tallas. He is one of the top three canidates
who's running. City Council Vice President Helena Marino also there,

(01:02:11):
but Louisiana State satam Or Royce the Plus is also
in the top three. He joins us right now, I'm
glad to have you on the show. First and foremost,
what is your main priority if you are elected mayor
of New Orleans?

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
Thank you for having me Roland.

Speaker 26 (01:02:26):
My main priority is to keep New Orleandians in New Orleans.
We've lost over twenty thousand people over the past four
years in New Orleans roll and that's one of the
top and the greatest loss of population that any other
city has seen in the country in that amount of time.
So we have to keep people here because people are
packing up their bags and people are leaving the city.

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So if we continue on this trend, we won't have
the city that we know and that we love. So
it's about prioritizing the people who are here, and while
we can still have all of the festivals and the
events to keep people coming from around the world, the
people who live here, who pay taxes here, who are
from here, don't need to feel secondary to visitors and tourists.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Okay, between you want to keep them there, How how do.

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
You do housing?

Speaker 6 (01:03:11):
Housing, housing affordability. So my plan over the course of
ten years rolling is.

Speaker 26 (01:03:15):
To develop and preserve forty thousand affordable units. The reason
I say forty thousand is the experts tell us that
we actually need forty seven thousand. So they say, Roy,
stop saying forty thousand is too ambitious, it's too bold.
I said, no, we have to do it because as
you and I are having this conversation, thirty thousand are
being squeezed out of the city.

Speaker 6 (01:03:34):
The cost of living is too high.

Speaker 26 (01:03:35):
So I want to develop and preserve forty thousand units
over the course of ten years.

Speaker 6 (01:03:40):
We put a plan in place. I'm going to hire
the position to create.

Speaker 26 (01:03:43):
The office of the Chief Housing Officer that will facilitate
what we just passed, which is a Housing Trust Fund
to go towards affordable housing. We're going to have roughly
twenty million dollars annually to leverage to put towards affordable
housing investments.

Speaker 6 (01:04:00):
That's critical.

Speaker 26 (01:04:01):
Rolling we have to deal with the issue also of
homeowners insurance.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
I want to.

Speaker 26 (01:04:05):
Create a local fortified roof program to supplement the state
program because what we're going to do in Oileans Parish
is if we get more people with fortified roofs that
can withstand hurricane force wins, that can also help bring
down home owners insurance for people across this city.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
So housing is number one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Priority obviously, but in order to have housing, you gotta
have a job. And so how you look how you
look to the other piece, how you're looking to grow
the economic base of New Orleans when frankly, you're so
depend upon two things petro chemical as well as tourism.

Speaker 26 (01:04:41):
Yeah, so we're not as depending on petro chemical as
we once were. In fact, New Orleans lost significantly back
in the eighties during the oil bus But as you're
you're right, it's been primarily tourism. I'm a believer that
we have to play up our strengths Roland and two
strengths that we have.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
Number one is.

Speaker 26 (01:04:57):
The fact that we are a port city. We were
built alongside the river. We are a maritime city. So
the Port of New Orleans also presents a tremendous opportunity. Currently,
there is an investment underway that will create it's a
two billion dollar investment for the expansion of the container
terminal project. That will be jobs for distribution, warehousing, logistics

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jobs on average that pay eighty thousand dollars. We look
at Jefferson Parish, we look at Saint Tamney Parish. Both
just got Amazon distribution hubs. Amazon distribution hubs and other
businesses like that can go in places like New Orleans
East that desperately needs and deserves economic investment.

Speaker 6 (01:05:39):
That's a strength that we already have.

Speaker 26 (01:05:41):
We don't have to go out and attract new industries
because it's already here.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
We just have to lean in and grow it.

Speaker 26 (01:05:46):
Also, healthcare, I talk a lot about the redevelopment of
Charity Hospital. You know, rolling since Hurricane Katrina, Charity Hospital.

Speaker 6 (01:05:53):
Has not been touched.

Speaker 26 (01:05:55):
But we have what's called the bio district that can
redevelop and reimagine downtown a lot more investment there in
healthcare jobs, biotech jobs, bio engineering jobs. That's a prime
opportunity and those are the strengths that we have to
play up, and then we can lean into other industries
like aerospace. We see Alabama and Mississippi benefiting from investments

(01:06:17):
in aerospace. But port expansion as well as healthcare are
two industries that I think we can really grow in.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I asked Counsel Thomas the same question. I'll ask you,
how do you deal with the reality of corruption. You're
dealing with the mayor right now who has been indicted.
You've had previous mayors that have been indicted gone to prison,
You've had council members. Counselvan Thomas was involved in the
bribery situation. You know, how what do you say to
the public when it comes to the need to trust

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that people who are elected are not going to sell
them out for personal interest.

Speaker 26 (01:06:56):
You know, building and regaining trust is at the forefront
of what we all have to do as elected leaders.
When we go out to the community, when we go
out to a church, when we go out there and
ask people to vote for us, we are asking for
that trust and as you have pointed out, unfortunately there
have been one too many instances of where that trust

(01:07:19):
has been broken. What I will do as mayor is
ensure that I'm transparent. I will ensure that I never
over promise, and if there's something that I can't do,
I will be honest and I can accept the criticism.
But it's important that we protect that trust because you
know how it's impacted vote to turn out a lot

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of our people don't vote because they just they don't
trust the leadership. So I recognize that and I'm sensitive
to that, and a large part of why I'm running
and why I chose public service is because I want
to restore a sense of nobility to public service. I
want to restore some faith in the leadership that people
send to work on their behalf.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
Question from my panel much stop for you first?

Speaker 12 (01:08:05):
Yeah, Well, thank you for joining the show. I've lived
in New Orleans before, I've worked in New Orleans. There's
about a twenty five year life expectancy difference between zip codes.
I'm curious how you will help to make sure that
that no longer is the reality.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
Well, you've been doing great work over the years.

Speaker 26 (01:08:24):
Mustapa When I was at Howard University School of Law.
I founded the Howard Energy and Environmental Law Society in
large part because of the work that I saw that
was being done at the Environmental Protection Agency and seeing
how different neighborhoods were being impacted by environmental racism and
environmental injustices that have historically impacted our communities, and we

(01:08:47):
saw that happen in that being unveiled in the rawest
way during Hurricane Katrina.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
I believe that if we go to the communities.

Speaker 26 (01:08:57):
And we're closest to the problems with the problems exist
in our communities, and we focus on addressing those needs,
that's how we can best solve the problem. And the
inequity gaps I'm sorry with the equity gaps that exist
in New Orleans only have grown over the past several years.
So I believe it's important to be proximate to the

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problems when you talk about life expectancy. We have children
in our community that are dealing with intergenerational trauma.

Speaker 6 (01:09:26):
We still have food deserts throughout our community.

Speaker 26 (01:09:29):
We still have one of the worst maternal mortality rates
in the country throughout the state of Louisiana.

Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
But that's also pronounced in places like New Orleans.

Speaker 26 (01:09:40):
But I will prioritize the city's Department of Health and
ensuring that we are always equity focused and equity driven
and employing best practices so that our people who are
suffering the most get the most attention.

Speaker 16 (01:09:55):
Randy, we've seen that the numbers are higher than normal
when it comes to early voter turnout this year, which
is great. What are you going to do in the
next week to ensure that people show up at the
polls on election day?

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Because the two aren't always correlated.

Speaker 26 (01:10:15):
Yeah, they're not always correlated, but I think it's a
great indication that people are ready for change, that people
want new leadership, people want a different style of leadership.
So my plan is to be as visible as I can,
encouraging everyone to vote. What I always say is obviously
I want people to vote for me, but I want
people to just to vote understanding that this is their voice,
this is their right. That don't give it away, right,

(01:10:38):
keep the enthusiasm. Before I came on the show, I
was out in the in the hot sun, waving signs
in the middle of traffic. You know, I want people
to understand that that that the change starts with them showing.

Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Up at the at the ballot box. We also have.

Speaker 26 (01:10:56):
A Charter amendment that's on the ballot in addition to
the election. In the city council election, we have what's
called the Second Chance Amendment that will protect individuals who
return home from prison who've served their time to ensure
that they're not discriminated against for housing, employment.

Speaker 6 (01:11:15):
And education.

Speaker 26 (01:11:16):
So we want people to be aware and educated about
all these things that are on the ballot, and the
fact that we have more than double of the turnout
for early voting that we had eight years ago is
a clear sign that people are excited and they're ready
to change. And we're going to work from sun up
to sundown, even after sundown to remind people of the
need to continue to show up and vote.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
Joe, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:11:40):
So the mayors are on the front lines as it
pertains to a relationship with the federal government. Ideally they
would be a positive relationship. There's a lot of opportunity
for collaboration, etc. Moving towards common goals. But you know
what we're dealing with in Washington and what mayors are seeing.
Tell me how you would deal with.

Speaker 10 (01:12:03):
Washington d C.

Speaker 17 (01:12:05):
Stepping in areas.

Speaker 27 (01:12:06):
That they shouldn't, trying to provoke and and and pull
things down on cities that are inconsistent with the city's growth,
with the city's health, et cetera.

Speaker 17 (01:12:18):
To take us through that and and and what you
what you'd see.

Speaker 6 (01:12:20):
There, Thank you.

Speaker 26 (01:12:23):
So I currently serve in the Louisiana Senate and the
Louisiana Legislature is basically a microcosm, and it's it's very
similar to what we're seeing up in Washington in terms
of the this this current administration and the MAGA agenda.

Speaker 6 (01:12:41):
Is it's fully uh in play.

Speaker 26 (01:12:44):
So I've had to navigate a very hostile climate and
stand up and defend the city of New Orleans, protect
the city of New Orleans, advocate on behalf of the
City of New Orleans what we see and play out
throughout the country in majority black cities, cities that have
black leadership, cities that are majority Democrat right here in
the City of New Orleans. You'all probably aware that the

(01:13:08):
governor requested one thousand troops Federal Guard troops to be
deployed throughout Louisiana, but only in New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
or Shreveport, So what I would say to the governor,
and what I have said to the governor, and what
I will say to the President, is that we welcome support.
We want support, but the way that we want support

(01:13:29):
is you ask us how we can best serve our communities.
Los Angeles spent one hundred and twenty million dollars on
federal troops. Do you know what we can do with
that kind of money? Investing in New Orleans Recreation Department,
investing into the housing developments that I'm trying to talk
about that I'm talking about, investing into economic development and
job opportunities for young people.

Speaker 6 (01:13:50):
We know how to solve crime in.

Speaker 26 (01:13:51):
Our communities, and while we've had a recent spike over
the past few days, crime is down in the city
of New Orleans. But we know that this is a
larger play that has nothing to do with crime.

Speaker 6 (01:14:01):
It's about power.

Speaker 26 (01:14:02):
It's about trying to show force of military militarization in cities.
We want to employ community policing throughout the city of
New Orleans so that the people in New Orleans know
who's patrolling their their their neighborhoods, not unnamed.

Speaker 6 (01:14:18):
Federal guards that are patrolling the neighborhoods.

Speaker 26 (01:14:21):
So I would want to concede to have that conversation
with this administration, but unfortunately is going in the direction
that it shouldn't be, and I'll have to stand up
and defend my city.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
All ask this here. You've got your current and former
Member of Congress Cedric Richmond Troy Carter. Both of them
are endorsing Helen Moreno. And so I've heard from people
to say, hey, uh, that that black politics in New
Orleans are split. Uh. Some say, hey, who cares? We
don't we don't necessarily need a black mayor of New Orleans.

(01:14:56):
What do you say to folks who say that, who will?

Speaker 11 (01:14:59):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Others believe that it's critically important to continue black leadership
as the mayor of New Orleans.

Speaker 26 (01:15:06):
Well, the first thing is that I'll say everybody has
a right to endorse who they want to endorse. But
of the list of people that you name, they don't
speak for the entire black community. So let me say
that there, and I'm proud to say that I have
a ton of black leadership support from Congressman Cleio Fields,
strong strongly endorsed from Congressman Fields. I have the endorsement
of former mayor Sydney Bedollomy. I have the endorsement of

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the first black Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court,
Burnett Johnson, who I used to work for and is
my mentor. But outside of that, I'm proud to say
that I have a plethora of endorsements from black leadership
in the city of New Orleans. As it relates to
the conversation around whether or not the city needs a

(01:15:50):
black leader. Look, let me be clear, the city of
New Orleans is still majority black, and during these times
where we're seeing attacks on black leadership, I think it's
important to point out that representation still matters. Now, do
I think somebody should be elected mayor just because they're black.
Absolutely not. But I do believe when you have qualified,
competent black leadership, we should be always working to promote

(01:16:13):
that and identify that, and identify and promote that in
cities that are majority black. I think it's important. And
with that said, everybody has their choice, but I think
in these times we need to be cognizant of what
is going on throughout this country.

Speaker 6 (01:16:28):
And you know, people fought for us to have.

Speaker 26 (01:16:30):
This representation and it's something that I take very seriously,
and I'm proud to have the support of many, many,
many black leaders in this city. And ultimately it's going
to be the support of the majority of the people
of New Orleans that I'm seeking, not just black leadership,
but all the voters of New Orleans.

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
I'm seeking their support.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
All right, Center roachter Plessis, We appreciate it. The luck
on Tarday.

Speaker 6 (01:16:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
All right, folks, going to break, I'll be right back.
Unpil Blackstar Network. We'll talk about uh, the case out
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standout of Cayrine Lacy. UH with NAACP there wants action
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Speaker 11 (01:17:41):
He said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are
a threat, so they erasedly. After the Supreme Court gutted
the Voting Rights Act in twenty thirteen, Republican legislatures moved
fast new voter id laws, polling place shutdowns, purges of
black voters from the rolls. Trump's Justice Department didn't stop it.

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They joined in. In twenty eighteen, is DOJ backed Ohio's
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Speaker 9 (01:18:42):
If in this country right now, you have people get
up into morning and the only thing they can think
about is how many people they can hurt, and they've
got the power, that's the time for morning.

Speaker 6 (01:18:53):
For better or worse.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
What makes America special, It's that legal system that's supposed
to protect.

Speaker 4 (01:18:59):
Minority from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 28 (01:19:02):
We are at a point of a moral emergency.

Speaker 17 (01:19:07):
We must raise a voice of outrage.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
We must raise a voice of compassion, and we must.

Speaker 8 (01:19:14):
Raise a voice of unity.

Speaker 14 (01:19:17):
We are not in a crisis of party versus party.
We are in a crisis of civilization, a humans rights crisis,
and a crisis of democracy itself. And guess what, You've
been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have the final say and

(01:19:39):
they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 21 (01:19:42):
Hey, what's up, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
It's God be the funniest dude on the planet, and you're.

Speaker 7 (01:19:47):
Watching Roland Martin unfiltered.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Louis he gonna State police? They are pushing back on
allegations from the attorney of the late Kyraon Lacy that
he was not close to the accident where he was charged.
They have this is what they this is. First of all,
put this video out because on Friday, his attorney said
that Kyra Lacy had nothing to do with this. Folks

(01:20:17):
have been calling for a local federal investigation as well,
and the footage. Troopers claim all evidence points to Lacey's
reckless driving and a green Dodge charger as the trigger
for the chain reaction that killed seventy eight year old
Herman Hall. Investigators also noted Lacy called a personal injury
attorney less than ten minutes after the crash. Here's a
bodycam video released by the state Police from the crash scene.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
I said, great artus up a weapons and certain days
some of them through.

Speaker 13 (01:21:03):
What are you having your hand?

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Show your hands?

Speaker 9 (01:21:12):
Reason too would be advised.

Speaker 22 (01:21:13):
We got total roadblockage in l A twenty. That's one point.

Speaker 15 (01:21:24):
Have you hit a chance?

Speaker 12 (01:21:25):
Can you? If I called him injury?

Speaker 17 (01:21:35):
Another?

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
First thing to turn it didn't he had getting on?

Speaker 10 (01:21:40):
Did is the three charger flying that way?

Speaker 22 (01:21:41):
A green charger going that way?

Speaker 10 (01:21:43):
That was a green charger.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
That was a green charger caused all this h y
t A, he calls all of He went to ps
Way by this green the green charger collided with these cars.

Speaker 21 (01:21:54):
He right, he went, he went right, grew up.

Speaker 22 (01:21:57):
Okay, he was right now and she had no choice.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
What's how the injuries?

Speaker 21 (01:22:05):
What broken?

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Yeah? I'm not.

Speaker 9 (01:22:16):
I just hold him not to move.

Speaker 29 (01:22:17):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 22 (01:22:20):
You said something about the green charge or what?

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Who told you something?

Speaker 21 (01:22:23):
About the green charge. I'm gonna like this. Okay, so.

Speaker 22 (01:22:27):
What did you see happened?

Speaker 9 (01:22:28):
He went to passing.

Speaker 29 (01:22:30):
I'll say you when uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
He went to pass cars back there you beg there around.

Speaker 30 (01:22:38):
Around the curve, right, okay, hey, he come down right
when he calmed.

Speaker 1 (01:22:42):
Down, I got this.

Speaker 31 (01:22:44):
He had his brother that was that he was taking
to the murcery room at the hospital or something like that,
came over something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
I got his numb all. So to verify this doing,
because he was the car that was in front of her.

Speaker 31 (01:22:55):
When that great charger came, he went callge this whole
big tracks for everybody went to hiding bracescause the charger,
I get the miss done the gold truck head on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
So he jammed on breaks.

Speaker 21 (01:23:05):
She was coming down.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
They was going that way.

Speaker 21 (01:23:08):
When I saw which way was the charger on the
charge charge going this way?

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Going this way?

Speaker 21 (01:23:13):
She was coming this way. Okay, it was going this
way also breaks.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
She went to dodge missus and that's when.

Speaker 6 (01:23:20):
That's when he came on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
I was like, his over the little side, come over here,
which the team will you driving?

Speaker 21 (01:23:29):
So the charger, I guess passed you up the charge
of d line.

Speaker 19 (01:23:32):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
It was cars behind me because I'm gonna taking my time.

Speaker 22 (01:23:34):
Something and the charge of passed out.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
It was passing all the charge and everybody and almost
had this one head on.

Speaker 21 (01:23:41):
It was a gold truck.

Speaker 9 (01:23:42):
I got his number right here.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
That's why I think he's number his name.

Speaker 22 (01:23:44):
I'm gonna set the gold truck had on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Yeah, this is numbering. Oh no, no name truck.

Speaker 21 (01:23:50):
So the gold truck what where is what did gold
truck do? The gold truck right here.

Speaker 22 (01:23:54):
The gold truck slams, brams on breaks stop the charger.

Speaker 21 (01:23:58):
The charges swears back in a cut.

Speaker 31 (01:24:00):
Somebody else off whoever was behind them, okay, but then
they slim they was no the charger.

Speaker 21 (01:24:06):
He tore it in in front of them. They slammed
on brakes and by this time he slips through right okay.
As he slips through.

Speaker 31 (01:24:16):
She's coming. She had the ram the back of him.
Doumb the gold truck. Thats se, I'm gonna set the
back of this was mister truckhead No here he was missed.

Speaker 21 (01:24:27):
Okay.

Speaker 31 (01:24:28):
So the truck, mister he slammed on his gold trump
is right up that he slams on his.

Speaker 27 (01:24:36):
Brakes to avoid the charger this car because that car
I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 22 (01:24:41):
So what is this car that just swerves out the
way to avoid boy?

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Because I was watching it too.

Speaker 12 (01:24:48):
She turned up instead of going forward the posts turn okay,
so she turned this way and then this car was
just coming.

Speaker 6 (01:24:54):
I got you, I got you, and then Georgia.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
Think it was gonna show.

Speaker 9 (01:25:03):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
That's a good.

Speaker 31 (01:25:09):
Okay, and see what happened to charge that stop is
a green charger, A charger when you've.

Speaker 6 (01:25:15):
Seen what happened, he almost see me because he came
right here.

Speaker 31 (01:25:20):
He's the only one that he was the only ones
that they jumped out of the trade. Everybody around go
the way he jumped out of trap in east here and.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
We do down the road.

Speaker 29 (01:25:26):
Okay, okay, I know it's hurting right now, but do
you think you could just tell me briefly what happened?

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Do you remember that just a little the chuk.

Speaker 29 (01:25:39):
Stopping them breaks the car.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Was trying to pass the other car I was trying
to dodge.

Speaker 21 (01:25:46):
Coming around.

Speaker 22 (01:25:47):
Okay, do you remember how fast you were going?

Speaker 21 (01:25:51):
Okay?

Speaker 22 (01:25:52):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
Las. His family attorney released separate surveyllans Foot, arguing it
proves Lacey wasn't responsible for the wreck and was nearly
eighty feet from the crash at the moment of impact.
The Louisiana NAACP released a statement that reached in part
of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP is calling
for the immediate resignation of Colonel Robert Hodges following his

(01:26:17):
public attempt to justify the actions surrounding the death of
Kyra and Lacy. The NAACP is urging citizens across Louisiana
to stand with them in demanding accountability from state leadership.
Members of the public are encouraged to contact Governor Jeff
Landry and Attorney General Liz Morrell to voice their concerns
and support for to support this call for change. Michael
McClanahan is the president of the NAACP. Matt Rugie joins

(01:26:41):
us right now, Michael, glad to have you here. So okay,
So now we have conflicting video. We have the attorney
releasing the video on Friday. Now we have the state
police releasing this video today. Your assessment, well, you know they.

Speaker 10 (01:26:58):
Should have You know, police is the chief law enforcement officer.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
In the state.

Speaker 28 (01:27:04):
They premire law for us from the agency. Why didn't
they least released this earlier. Why didn't they do their
due diligence because we have we're suspicions of the state
police when they issue anything anyway.

Speaker 10 (01:27:17):
You know, we still have fresh in our minds the runner.

Speaker 28 (01:27:19):
Ring matter, Aaron Bowman matter, and other matters like that
in which they did slack the police work.

Speaker 10 (01:27:25):
And so when you have a.

Speaker 28 (01:27:27):
Death like this here in the traffic accident and you
have so many moving pieces, they should have done due
diligence to let us know what was going on, but
they didn't. Now they're trying to backtrack and cover their
their their their their tracks, but.

Speaker 17 (01:27:42):
It's too late now.

Speaker 10 (01:27:44):
Suspect suspect police work.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
All right, So again for y'all what now?

Speaker 28 (01:27:53):
Well, you know, we believe that if they have hidden
stuff initially that they got some more evidence that they're
trying to hide.

Speaker 10 (01:28:02):
You know, they don't want to let let it be
seen that they did slap the.

Speaker 28 (01:28:06):
Police work, and that we will be forever questioning their
abilities and their sinsanity and their truthfulness. And so uh,
if they don't do that, we believe that you have
to start with the heads, the top people.

Speaker 10 (01:28:21):
You know, because the people at the body is only
good as the leadership they sound like it is pissed.
Excuse me, bad leadership.

Speaker 20 (01:28:29):
So all the way down the.

Speaker 28 (01:28:30):
Change to command, at least at the very top three
levels need to be uh need to be uh be
to be fired, need to resign.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Have y'all heard from uh the A G from the
Governor's office, anyone?

Speaker 10 (01:28:44):
No, I haven't, I haven't I have a person.

Speaker 28 (01:28:47):
No one's contacted the NA A, C B or or
my leadership throughout this throughout this region here all.

Speaker 1 (01:28:54):
Right then, and have any response so far from again
the attorney for the family as a result of this
new video being dropped, Well.

Speaker 28 (01:29:07):
Well no, but what has happened, Roland, is that, you know,
we've started to get information started to come in based
upon just that one statement we made. We've gotten some
information that was not privy to anyone, as I believe earlier.
And I'm you know, it's almost seems though this case happened,
this action happened a few months ago, this accent happened.

Speaker 10 (01:29:28):
A few minutes ago, some while ago. And so to get.

Speaker 28 (01:29:31):
Information that we got coming in, clearly somebody hasn't done
their due diligence, and so.

Speaker 10 (01:29:37):
This is a wake up call. This is a wake
up call for people in the state of Louisiana. If
you want justice, if you want to be heard, you
have to bring what you got to the forefront.

Speaker 28 (01:29:48):
And so we're doing that now because we're gonna uncover
the truth and the matter.

Speaker 10 (01:29:54):
We're gonna determine.

Speaker 28 (01:29:55):
We're gonna find out what happened and what should have
happened in this particular case so that we could have
eliminated some grief at one of both.

Speaker 10 (01:30:04):
Ends in this matter.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
All right, then, well, Michael, we appreciate it, uh, and
we'll see certainly see how this story, how this develops out.

Speaker 10 (01:30:13):
Appreciate you, Roland, Thank you always for your for your time,
and you know we we really appreciate you. This weekend, man,
I see you. I've got more calls. Man, I've got
uh e for Halloween to Thanksgiving. So thank you brother.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Well glad to hear that, uh and glad we had
a soda audience on Saturday there bat.

Speaker 10 (01:30:30):
Route most DEEVI. Appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
Stay strong, all right, thank you very much. All right,
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Speaker 21 (01:31:54):
Folks.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
I've seen some crazy ass police video. This is one
of the craziest. Was from Leon County, Florida. So, y'all,
a deputy hold on a deputy. This dude is pumping
gas and while he's pumping gas, a deputy is driving
by and all of a sudden rolls up on him,

(01:32:18):
pulls his gun out because he said if the guy
had a weapon, but it was the gas pump. This
took place at a circle k in Tallahassee. Y'all watch this.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
I said, great, we have a weapons and seven then row.

Speaker 10 (01:32:44):
You don't worry about stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
What do you have in your hand? Show your hands? Okay,
stand in the car, okay, turn around, play your hands,
mind your back.

Speaker 21 (01:33:12):
What are you doing a filling up gas?

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
Can you understand you're holding it like this like it's
a pistol?

Speaker 14 (01:33:17):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
No, I was showing that it's cut the pump on. Okay,
but that's not what it looks like to the motoring
public on the roadway.

Speaker 21 (01:33:25):
I was just showing that. I was just showing that
the dan and let her know gate the gas.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
You have your idea on you?

Speaker 6 (01:33:32):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
Can I turn around that?

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Huh?

Speaker 9 (01:33:39):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
But you understand you're holding it like this and it
looks like a handgum.

Speaker 14 (01:33:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
No, I'm I'm trying to let a know the public
gas brok why you what the fuck?

Speaker 21 (01:33:50):
You just what.

Speaker 18 (01:34:00):
You can see?

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
It said?

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
There's an individual who had something that looks like a
gun in his hand and got out like bluer through.

Speaker 22 (01:34:29):
Me.

Speaker 29 (01:34:29):
I'll tell you, Wow, I'll get your back. You know
I'm gonna get it at some.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
On Yeah, chair someone that later together.

Speaker 9 (01:34:49):
That I'm down a corner.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
Look at this ship.

Speaker 17 (01:34:58):
Let me tell you about the moment I.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Get till out they you on seven something party eight
seven man.

Speaker 15 (01:35:07):
This got gun on it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:13):
Because I held up the thing to.

Speaker 17 (01:35:14):
Let him know I needed to pump.

Speaker 10 (01:35:16):
Ye ain't got camera far.

Speaker 29 (01:35:20):
Seven pads and that what the head?

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
What did?

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
I'm sure there's cavern.

Speaker 23 (01:35:28):
I ain't.

Speaker 15 (01:35:30):
I ain't did ship and I ain't be entertained.

Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
I want to go.

Speaker 22 (01:35:32):
I'm got nothing to say to you.

Speaker 21 (01:35:33):
Know what you did?

Speaker 10 (01:35:34):
I ain't.

Speaker 22 (01:35:34):
I don't got no right from wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
It looks like I was holding the gun.

Speaker 17 (01:35:38):
You don't look like no groan.

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
You see this pitt right here swinging.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
I didn't see that, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:35:43):
You saw what you wanted to see.

Speaker 29 (01:35:44):
You saw motherfucker with tattoos.

Speaker 17 (01:35:46):
Why would I be holding the gun like this right here?

Speaker 23 (01:35:49):
Who?

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
Man?

Speaker 29 (01:35:50):
You saw what you wanted to see?

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
You proke?

Speaker 15 (01:35:58):
Hey, how you know it's three?

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
Any?

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Fuck you for any fuck?

Speaker 14 (01:36:06):
I know what?

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Think you?

Speaker 4 (01:36:15):
I got you?

Speaker 17 (01:36:17):
He's you gotta.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
A hey? How you doing?

Speaker 12 (01:36:54):
Hey?

Speaker 29 (01:36:55):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
So I'm drummed on the road and he's got something
black in his hand and he's moving it like it's
a pistol. So I pulled in to investigate what was
going on?

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
That's all, oh yeah, because the pump wasn't his pump.

Speaker 7 (01:37:07):
Went home and he was with me that the pump.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
Wasn't the police officer Alabama. Yeah, just the guy had
something in his hand looked like a gun, and I
was like, what are we doing?

Speaker 12 (01:37:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:37:17):
I noticed were coming up. Okay, so you saw it
with the thing in his hand.

Speaker 6 (01:37:22):
I saw the swamp in his hand.

Speaker 22 (01:37:23):
Yeah, his gas pump.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
His pump wasn't working, and he was.

Speaker 15 (01:37:27):
Doing He was sick with me that that that that
that the pump, the gas wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
On the pump.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Is he causing a promise you sort?

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
No, he coming here every day faithfully after work. He
come in here and get gas.

Speaker 15 (01:37:42):
Hey, I don't want to hold the gas again, thought
the gas over the gas?

Speaker 22 (01:37:46):
Hey, what's your name?

Speaker 15 (01:37:48):
You're trying to take?

Speaker 10 (01:37:49):
But y'all get kept computure.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Good thing he did?

Speaker 10 (01:37:52):
What did I have?

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:37:54):
True?

Speaker 6 (01:37:58):
Yeah, j K yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
A W A U W U W E R D
A E R D n H in front.

Speaker 6 (01:38:10):
Of just saying with it's th Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
You work for who?

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
I'm for sure for sure in Alabama? Yeah, p R
I T C H A R D. Yeah, he's fellow
better some of the locals we got. Yeah, so what
did you see when he pulled back, he was just
hold this guess, pump up like this.

Speaker 6 (01:38:35):
I don't know what he had in his hand.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
He just kind of lays them it up.

Speaker 6 (01:38:37):
I don't know if he's trying to straighten it out.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Okay, you see one person, I know a lot of people.

Speaker 10 (01:38:47):
Yeah, all right, you have a good.

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
Despite the mistake, the man did not receive an apology
from the officer, who got into his car and drove away.
The Leon County Sheriff's officers stated that it will review
the incident for potential training purposes or for or their actions. However,
there's been no information regarding any possible disablter reaction against
the officer involved. Joe dude could have been shot. I mean,

(01:39:11):
I mean, well, if you drive by, they're like you
had a gun. How about the Joe ass? How about
your ass roll up and let me get a better look.
You literally jump out of your car, gun already pulled.
That's crazy.

Speaker 17 (01:39:27):
This is this is all of us.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
Man.

Speaker 17 (01:39:29):
Listen, you know how many of us gone to the
gas station.

Speaker 13 (01:39:34):
You're gonna go get you some gatorade and get you
some Frito's or something, and you pull up in there,
give them a twenty and say put the rest on
number four.

Speaker 17 (01:39:43):
Right, you know, you feel me. Then you go out
to the car and you.

Speaker 13 (01:39:47):
You know, you you pull the thing out and you
press the button and it's not resetting, and you're still
holding it. You're not putting it back inn you're holding
it and you're gone like this, you're going and so
so it's not in the in the in the in
the car tank, you know.

Speaker 10 (01:40:08):
And it's not.

Speaker 13 (01:40:09):
Because you've already pulled it out because you expected it
to start.

Speaker 17 (01:40:13):
And if that's the difference.

Speaker 13 (01:40:14):
Between somebody getting shot and somebody not getting shot, listen,
we've got a serious, serious problem.

Speaker 17 (01:40:22):
It would have been very.

Speaker 10 (01:40:23):
Easy for this guy.

Speaker 13 (01:40:24):
I mean, the guy was the guy was right. He
was tatted up for a second day. I thought he
could have been a brother. But now looks like he's
a white cat and everything else.

Speaker 17 (01:40:31):
And he totally off. He said, you know what you saw,
what you wanted to see, you.

Speaker 10 (01:40:35):
Know what I mean?

Speaker 13 (01:40:36):
And what do we do when folks are so uptight?
You know, people can be uptight, but police with guns
and badges and societies, you know, benefit of the doubt,
they can't get it wrong because when they get it wrong,
people die, and then it's kind of like this, oh,
you know, too bad, so sad kind of thing. He

(01:40:58):
cannot miss like that because all of us do that.
That could be any of you trying to stay out
of trouble. But you're gonna get some gas on the
way home. It's not even your option to have the
gas pump done by the people that work there anymore.

Speaker 17 (01:41:12):
That doesn't happen in but one or two states. What
do I do when I'm there?

Speaker 10 (01:41:17):
Now?

Speaker 13 (01:41:17):
Give me a hoodie, right, you know, because I'm coming
back from working out, or make me look less than
having a suit on or what I'm wearing right now,
and then they might be putting something on.

Speaker 17 (01:41:29):
Me to sof and watch.

Speaker 21 (01:41:30):
Y'all.

Speaker 13 (01:41:31):
You've got to do something about this, because people, police officers,
folks with guns and training apparently purportedly cannot make these
types of mistakes.

Speaker 17 (01:41:41):
And I'm right there with him.

Speaker 13 (01:41:43):
He had the right to be mad as heck, because
I don't need that kind of grief cops rolling up
on me. He goes to the gas station every day,
you know what I mean. So you know, that might've
been a good question to ask on the front end.
Figured out on the front end drive by and see, Okay,
the guy's just he's got the gas pump trying to

(01:42:04):
get the gas pump to work. It's crazy, though, man,
you know, just.

Speaker 1 (01:42:11):
It just I'm sitting here, dude is just him pumping
and he's just getting their attention and move stopped. The
cops like, oh he got a gun.

Speaker 12 (01:42:25):
Well, you know what I've heard about driving wild black
but never gasing wild white, which must be South, you know, Joe,
I mean, Joe hit it on the head. He laid
it all out for you. But you know, we're talking
about profiling, right. Profiling is part psychological. It is about
a type that you have in your mind that is

(01:42:47):
less than that is more likely to have committed a crime.
So that's the dynamic that continues to play out and
until we change.

Speaker 33 (01:42:55):
That through pressure on police unions and police forces to
actually do the additional work to be able to Yeah,
I understand that you have a job to do, but
as Joe said, it is a job where you're literally
holding someone's life in your hand because you have your.

Speaker 8 (01:43:13):
Finger on the trigger.

Speaker 15 (01:43:15):
So I'm glad that this gentleman did not get shot.

Speaker 12 (01:43:19):
I'm glad that we are having a conversation about profiling
and understanding that folks who come from vulnerable and marginalized
communities are the ones who often are the ones.

Speaker 15 (01:43:29):
That end up falling victim.

Speaker 12 (01:43:31):
And you know, I just pray that nobody else loses
their life because a law enforcement officer profiled them and
didn't see their humanity before they pulled the trigger or
caused bodily harm.

Speaker 1 (01:43:45):
That's insane, Randy, because of these my man is like,
I could have been shot getting gas.

Speaker 16 (01:43:54):
Right right, and because they walk around with guns. We
need to stop being so easy on these cops and
giving them multiple chances. In my opinion, that cop does
not need to be a cup any further one. I mean,
he's a little too jittering, the fact that he is thinking,
the man, you know, the guys just getting gassed, what
people do every day. But then it was how he

(01:44:16):
acted after the incident. He was trying to build a
case to to to justify his terrible decision making and
his own jitteriness. You saw how he was asking the
other cop, well, what did you see? And then he
asked the clerk, what does he ever cause you any problems?
Just trying to find a way to create a case

(01:44:37):
against this man who was doing nothing but trying to
get gas.

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
And we all know that if the white tagged guy
had been a brother, it could have been way worse.
Let's just keep it real. We talked about profile.

Speaker 30 (01:44:50):
Yeah, you don't need to be a I didn't understand
why he was asking a dude for his ID, Like,
why the hell I gotta give you hot you it's
a gas pump?

Speaker 21 (01:45:04):
Why got it?

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
I'm telling you, yo, when I say these cops are tripping,
these cops are tripping, and they they yeah, they tripping, y'all.
They tripping. All right, let me go to this break.
I'll be right back, rolland unfilter on the backside Network.

Speaker 18 (01:45:23):
As next on the Black Table with me Craig Carra
Madison a reminder that there is always more to a
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(01:45:46):
more troubling picture than most of us realize.

Speaker 19 (01:45:49):
What we need to do is bring this issue front
and center to the table, because the alternative is that
we'll just go down slow, which is there's no way
to go down.

Speaker 18 (01:46:01):
Master historian and educator doctor Gerald Horn joins us again
and we take a deep dive into the truths behind
the headlines of the day and how we might be
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All right then, so you're calling these premium scrubs, okay,
So why are they premium scrubs?

Speaker 32 (01:49:23):
Well, Number one, it's the fabric. I took a long
time to figure out what I wanted. I researched fabric
for a very long time. It's ninety seven percent cotton,
three percent spandex okay, And it's also in microbial, which
means that it limits the amount of bugs you bring home.
It's moisture that's quite helpful, yes, and moisture working. And

(01:49:44):
I actually have made designs to fit you so much better.
Women with curves, men with curves, or say curves, you know,
scrubs are just not comfortable.

Speaker 7 (01:49:56):
They were just made boxy and they were ill fitting.
They didn't compliment you. And I completely believe that if
you look good, you feel good, you definitely treat your
patience the way they deserve to be treated. And that's
the mission that I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
On all right now that you also were you also
testing with other people, you know, were you also getting
their advice in council as well in terms of the
fit and how things should be.

Speaker 32 (01:50:24):
Yes, for years, I've tested the fit, I've tested the fabric,
and I listen to what my customers are looking for.

Speaker 7 (01:50:32):
They want a lot of pockets. They want something that's
flattering that covers them.

Speaker 32 (01:50:36):
Because a lot of scrubs when you raise your arms
up or when you bend down, you show the crack
of your bottom.

Speaker 7 (01:50:41):
My scrubs don't do that.

Speaker 32 (01:50:42):
I've actually made adjustments in the waistband to make it
come up a little bit higher, so it keeps you
covered while you're working.

Speaker 1 (01:50:49):
Okay, And so as you were going through this here
and so as we pull these out here, these are
so these are so like sweatpaint in terms of in
terms of it, well, in terms of just I'm talking
about in terms of how they're being made, how they're
being I'm feeling material because even a lot of the

(01:51:12):
sweatpants have actually changed the material that they've actually changed
to make them a lot different uh. And and I
can definitely tell uh the look. I play lots of golf,
so the moisture wicker I can easily pick up on that.
Mm hmm yep, yeah, mm hmm.

Speaker 21 (01:51:34):
So how many colors you got?

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
We have.

Speaker 17 (01:51:37):
All right now?

Speaker 32 (01:51:38):
We have six colors burgundy, black, and gray. We have
some blue, purple, and a limited amount of white right now?

Speaker 1 (01:51:44):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (01:51:45):
Uh?

Speaker 21 (01:51:45):
And how have they have they thus been received?

Speaker 32 (01:51:51):
I've been getting nothing but great compliments, repeat customers, and
I'm getting requests to make different things that I'm gonna
be working on, and I'm eager to see what's to come.

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
Okay, all right, Dan, let's see here questions from my panel. Randy,
what you got?

Speaker 16 (01:52:11):
So let me ask you that, do you usually the
medical professionals buy their own scrubs or do hospitals and doctors'
offices supply them? Because I'm wondering, are you selling directly
to the consumer are you selling to businesses?

Speaker 21 (01:52:25):
So it's both.

Speaker 32 (01:52:26):
Currently, I sell online and I'm working on getting contracts
with hospitals, nursing schools, and regular schools, and that's what
I'm working on. So yes, sometimes hospitals will supply the scrubs.
Or you just need to purchase it on your own,
and also looking to work with the government as well.

Speaker 1 (01:52:46):
Thank you, we'll stop them.

Speaker 12 (01:52:50):
Doctor Nikki. Congratulations. The question I have is about tariffs
and how will you navigate that or are there already
impacts since your product is made from both cotton and
poly Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:53:04):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 32 (01:53:05):
They're made from ninety seven percent cotton and three percent spandex.
I actually have stock on hand right now, so I
currently have not really been hit by the terrorists as yet.

Speaker 7 (01:53:18):
Once I do make my next order, I'll.

Speaker 22 (01:53:22):
Be able to see what.

Speaker 7 (01:53:24):
Changes will need to be played.

Speaker 21 (01:53:26):
But my goal is to not to.

Speaker 7 (01:53:29):
Raise the product price at all. My goal is to
keep it.

Speaker 32 (01:53:31):
Where it is as easy as as much as possible,
you know, because I know times as hard right now,
and I also want my customers to be happy as well.
So once we make our next order, I'll be able
to tell what the changes are, but I do anticipate
some minor changes.

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
Yes, gotcha, Joe.

Speaker 17 (01:53:55):
Doctor Dickie.

Speaker 13 (01:53:55):
There will seem to be a gaping hole in the
market for you to do this, and I congratulate you
on doing it.

Speaker 17 (01:54:02):
This has surprise you at all. I mean people all
shapes and sizes do work that requires wearing scrubs?

Speaker 13 (01:54:11):
Does it surprise you that this is just something that
somebody hasn't done or that's underdone in any event where
you know it would really strike a chord like it has,
sounds like it has. But is it a bit of
a surprise to you that this lane is available or
are you seeing this type of thing online?

Speaker 7 (01:54:31):
I what surprised when I started the business.

Speaker 32 (01:54:34):
Yes, but I do see that people are making some
changes now because the fit is definitely important.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
You know, not.

Speaker 4 (01:54:42):
Everybody is slim and.

Speaker 7 (01:54:45):
You know tiny.

Speaker 32 (01:54:47):
You know, we got to accommodate. Majority of the people
are plus size. And let's be realistic. If you are
making scrubs for the majority of the people and it
doesn't fit them, they're not really going to feel comforta
bull in their skin, and they're not gonna feel good
about wearing your scrubs either.

Speaker 7 (01:55:05):
So I had that problem.

Speaker 32 (01:55:07):
You know, I hated the way I looked in my
scrubs and it really did affect the way that I
treated my patients. So I was having a conversation with
my mom back in two thousand and nine and I'm like, ma,
I really can't stand the way these scrubs fit.

Speaker 7 (01:55:20):
And you know my mom, who's an entrepreneur herself, God
rest her soul. I miss her daily. She was like, well,
why don't you make your own scrubs? And I'm like, yeah,
why not? And that's how it started.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
Sizes, what are your sizes?

Speaker 7 (01:55:37):
Extra small, def excel and our pants come in short, regular.

Speaker 1 (01:55:41):
And long extra smalls. A little bitty people.

Speaker 32 (01:55:46):
Yeah, we do have some anty bitty people who have
curves too. We can't leave them out, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:55:50):
Well, well the reason I say love itty bitty people.
So my niece is working. I think she's in a
nursing program, she's some kind of medical program. So h
so she'll be rocking these scrubs and so I'm quite
sure she'll be checking about. And so last question here,

(01:56:12):
so you have your name only here, Morgan Taylor scrubs.
Are you able to have personalized scrub where people can
put their name on their own name on it.

Speaker 32 (01:56:20):
Yes, I have an embroiderer who is ready to do
whatever anybody requests.

Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
Yes, okay, all right, then well cool cool cool. Well,
first of all, again, folks, if you're looking for these scrubs,
go to shop Blackstar network dot com shop Blackstar Network
dot com. You can go there now you can see
all the products that are on there. You know, this
is where we have all of our black owned products
and so you definitely can check it out if you're

(01:56:48):
looking for these scrubs. And so no matter what area
you are in the medical profession, please you can do that.
So so first of all, this is pretty cool. Congratulations
on it, and uh and good.

Speaker 21 (01:57:01):
Luck with it.

Speaker 7 (01:57:03):
Thank you so much, thank you for this opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:57:06):
Appreciate it all right then thanks a bunch and so
uh we are glad to hear it. So that is
uh uh it for us. I do have one more thing.
Let me see here, get the videos see here running
so uh you know, it's always things happening. So remember
so my niece, this is one of my other love nieces.

(01:57:28):
First of all, this was the day so she was
so we were in Houston in July. Let me turn
the audio up so I can hear exactly what transpired
in this here. So check this out.

Speaker 21 (01:57:39):
Stop second on this niece, and.

Speaker 1 (01:57:49):
This is what it looks like. You're through the bar.

Speaker 22 (01:57:51):
Examine, like.

Speaker 1 (01:57:57):
Stop, it looks like when you take the you take
the bar exam in three days. And so my niece
Chloy Marshall passed the bar on her first time. Uh,
it's so congratulations, and so that means now, yeah, she
not gotta pay for stuff. So that free ride is over, y'all.
Uh so, see, Joe, that's how it goes. See Joe, listen,

(01:58:20):
when you're in law school and you studying, but now
you don't pass, ain't no free ride, Joe, Ain't no
more free rides.

Speaker 21 (01:58:30):
I'm on with it.

Speaker 13 (01:58:31):
You then past and jump on in the world. Congratulations
to her. But here's the part where she gets to
kick in praise the little.

Speaker 1 (01:58:39):
Oh absolutely absolutely so she can't play that. She no
longer can play that. Uh that look that look and
look and little I'm in school card, Randy, it's done.
It's over. We had to deal with your ass going
to high school, undergrad in law school.

Speaker 21 (01:58:56):
M that's it. You got a pony up.

Speaker 4 (01:59:00):
Well, congratulations to her, and I'm sorry I disagree with you.
I think that you all still need to help her out.
You know, she's gonna be.

Speaker 21 (01:59:07):
A lost show, damn mine.

Speaker 4 (01:59:12):
You know I'm gonna argue for the systems.

Speaker 1 (01:59:13):
What the hell we what the hell we gotta help
he out within the now, well which partner your ass? Miss?
She passed, but she got She is a lawyer, a
licensed lawyer, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:59:28):
But you know she's starting out, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
Hell no, I'm sorry, show a lost show damn mine noah,
hell no.

Speaker 21 (01:59:37):
Now I moves off.

Speaker 1 (01:59:38):
And see now, now you've gotta contribute to the family dinners.
Now you gotta put money in. I see that free
ride is over.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
With the price?

Speaker 1 (01:59:49):
Yes, like like, hey, with a family gathering and we
send your ass to the store to go get some
ice and some other stuff. You w ain't giving you money?
Win cash happened? You now got to pay up?

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
Yeah, well, she gotta cover.

Speaker 6 (02:00:02):
She gotta cover that again.

Speaker 15 (02:00:04):
Shout out to black excellence.

Speaker 12 (02:00:05):
We really need to highlight when these young people are
just doing amazing things.

Speaker 15 (02:00:10):
And I'm sure she's gonna contribute to the family.

Speaker 1 (02:00:12):
Because you damn right, she gonna contribute to the family.
And then if she don't, the choke hold, y'all will
be happening again. So don't think for a second, just
cause see this this, this this was gonna look like
y'all when she don't pay up. Oh yeah, I'm I'm
that's right, it's gonna be. It's gonna Anthony when you
please to come on, dog? What you doing? Wake up?

(02:00:34):
Thank y'all. I pointed to the bed, So lett y'all
know you don't pay up. This was gonna happen. I
was right, that's right.

Speaker 21 (02:00:41):
I'm a choke hold.

Speaker 1 (02:00:43):
It's gonna be a choke hold. I'm snatching money. I'm
snatching money.

Speaker 17 (02:00:48):
Just get along.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
Hell no, oh, hell no. I am the I am
the family enforcer. See everybody else soft right? Mm hmmm.
I jack kids, I jack jack kids and young adults.
Everybody get jacked. You gotta run, You gotta run that gauntlet.

(02:01:13):
You gotta run it, all right? Did so? Uh yeah,
So Cloge, congratulations, But now you're paying up. I'm just saying.
I'm just saying, now you're paying up, all right, Joe
Randy with style for I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, folks.
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